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the: daily unicy: it.ooklyn. Friday, august 15. 1002. NEWS OF THE DAY BRIEFLY TOLD WOI.FK'S -M LS.NW (KBAZ. A prompt, reliable tntl harmia ramedy (op freckle Trice 60c.

pr bo. refund money If It failii to cure Frederick Loeier St Ce. jCHot Weather Vy f- Comfort 0. S. GEOIGS SIliilECS liEFGilT on the cut nixins iiipisim 1 Past Year the Most Prosperous in History for Building trades, Resulting in a Great Increase lathe Production of Buliding Brick Total Value of Buildings Erected in 1901 Amounted to Over 50 Per Cent.

More Than in the Preceeding Year New York City Leads in Total Value, While Chicago Occupies First In Regard to the Average 'Cost of? Structures Brick Advanced in Price as Well as in Output Ohii) Has the Ggeat- est Output in Pottery, FurnishinglAlmost Half of the Countrys Total Production of To be as comfortable as pos- i sible in the mer weather is a positive duty1, Dont suffer from sunburn, prickly heat, hives, insectbites.summercom-plaint or from any of the hot weather troubles. Use' ELECTROZONE Antiseptic Germicide Remedy. It Curas. Dm It Freely sad Keep Well H. STQRR, 350 7th Ave.

terday morning, burned out the two dining rooms attached to the Garden, did considerable damage to the kitchen and burned through the roof of the pavilion In which the dining rooms are located, before the firemen mastered It The damage is estimated at between $16,000 and 320,000. Detectives McFarland and Reardon, of the Ajfitl-Pollcy Society, went Into a cigar store at 432 Flret avenue yesterday' afternoon. I They say they purchased policy slips and then went Into a crowded room to see how they came out. When they thought they had enough evl-dence they grabbed two men, supposed to be the proprietors, and arrested them. At the East Twenty-second etreet station the two men said, they were William Todvln and George C.

Egan Patrolman John J. O'Connor, attached to the Thirty-second police precinct, received from Acting Secretary of the Treasury O. L. Spalding a gold medal, awarded by Congress (under act of Congress June 29. 1874), with a letter praising him for his heroism In rescuing from drowning on June 22, 1901, Miss Kate Crampton, a demented patient, who attempted eulclde by Jumping from the steamer Thomas J.

Brennan while being transferred to Blackwell's Island. In the Supreme Court yesterday Gustav Gebert, as guardian for his daughter, Elsa BUhofer, asked Justice Oreen-baum for counsel fees and alimony for his daughter pending the trial of a suit which Mrs. BUhoefer has 'brought against he? husband lor a legal separation on various grounds. Including lack of proper Mr-. Bayersdorfer appeared for Mre.

BUhoefer. Justice Greenbaum took the papers and reserved decision upon Mrs. Bllhoefer application. Patrick McCoy, 39 year old, a salesman, of 125 Bowery, died In the Hudson Street Hospital at oclock last night from a remarkable accident. He war trying to hurry across Greenwich stre-t at Battery place Monday evening during the storm when a bootblack ran against him.

The man and ther boot-black tried to dodge past each other whsn a Sixth avenue electrlo car switched around the corner and knocked both man and boy over. The boy was not badly hurt, but McCoy was internally injured and died. 1 1 1891 haa the annual production of manganese ores exceeded 16,000 long tons, which suggests that the domestic manganese Industry has not developed into one of Importance aa far as quantity Is concerned. The bulk of the supply still comes from foreign countries. The amount of manganese ores Imported In the United Statea during the year 1901 waa 905,722 long tons, valued at 91,486,572, or 38.97 per ton, as compared with Imports of 256,262 long tons, valued at 32,042,361 or 97,97 per ton.

In 1900. The United Statea Is the largest producer of steel In the world, and In the production of this steel a large amount of ferromanganese and apelgeleaen la used. In 1901 the foreign ferro and splegel were attractively low In price so that a number of the larger companies preferred to Import such manganese metal as might be required rather than to manufacture it. This will account for the fallng off In Imports of manganese ores In 1901. The principal' shippers to the United States In 1901 were Brazil, Russia, Cuba, Turkey, Chile and India, In the order named The Importation by custom districts shows that over half of the total foreign manganese ore was received at the port of Baltimore, and about one-seventh at Philadelphia.

The average domestic production for thirteen years waa 18,949 long tons, valued at 8125,778, and the average Imports In the same period amounted annually to 92,413 long tons, valued at 3858,627. Manganese ore to the amount of 21,627 long tons was Imported in the United State from Cuba In 190b and It Is probable that Cuba will continue to be an Important source of supply of manganese ores of the United States, The Russian Empire Is the largest contributor of manganesefcoreB, nearly all the world's butput being credited to that country. The greatest portion of this ore oomes from the Caucasus district, followed In order by South Russia and the Ural districts. The Imports Into the United States from Russia In 1901 amounted to 32,600 long tons; According to the latest obtainable figures the production of manganese ore for 1901 may be estimated for the most important producing countries as follows; Russia, 046,682 long tons; India, 130,670 long tons; Brazil, 95,710 long tons; Spain, 90,225 long tons; Germany, 68,269 long Turkey, 18,100 long tons; Chile, 31,477 long tons, and Cuba, 25,183 long tons, ANOTHER FIGHT THAT IS CALLED OFF. LOWELL, Aug.

16. The management of the Rlvervlew Club, Eat Dracut, announced last night that the bout between, Walcott and Bill Gardiner could not take place there. The reason given was that Chief Wade, of the District Police, said It would be a violation of the statutes. FIGHT III TAKE PUCE AT LOUISVILLE UNIONVILLE, Aug. was much excitement In the training quarters of Young Corbett last night when, the news was awaited from Johnny Corbett, who left for Saratoga yesterday to consult with Sam Harris and W.

L. Crowley and representatives from Louisville with reference to changing the time and place of the fight for tht feather-weight championship. At 10.16 word came by telephone from Saratoga from Corbett that the fight had been arranged to take place In Louisville Sept. 16, under the auspices of the Southern Athletic Club. Manager Corbett said he would not return here until Monday.

The young champion was considerably put out because of the change In the date. He said; "I have been training, of course, with the Idea that the fight would be held Aug. 29. This will make no difference, however. I Will be In first-class condition, I cannot tell, of course, what wt' be done about the training.

That will rest with my manager. We shall be here until Tuesday, at any rate, and may possibly stay here until within a few days of the fight, as this place Is very acceptable. The many local admirers of the young fighter were much disappointed In tht change of place, as they had hoped to see him In the ring. Young Corbett continued his training without change this morning. To-nlght he will appear In the Town Hall at an entertainment for the benefit of the local Sidewalk Association.

HAMILTON, Aug. 16. One of the most disastrous fires In the history of the city originated last night at 11 o'clock In the basement of the large dry goods and carpet store of T. V. Howell A Son, High street In a short time the Interior of the Howell Block was a mass of flames, and burned briskly until the fire communicated with the Second National Bank, burning out the rear second and third floors and the front third floor.

The Mehrun Block, next door, was also damaged, and the carpet store of Creighton Hooven was drenched with water. The Fire Department was unable to gain control over the fire for five hours, and It burned until 4 oclock. The damage to Howell will reach over Holbrook In the Mehrum Block, bank building, 330,000, with other smaller losses. The Fire Department was asked for assistance, and sent two engines, which arrived after the fire was under control. NEWPORT EXCURSION LIMITED.

BUT 750 PASSENGERS WILL BE TAKEN NEXT SUNDAY. GREENPORT, L. Aug. of the Long Island Railroad and the New York and Stonlngton line decided, td-day, to limit the excursion for next Sunday to Newport to 760, In order to carry all comfortably and ensure an enjoyable dap. Express trains from Flatbush avenue at 8 16 and foot of East Thirty-fourth street, Manhattan at 8:20 A.

M. bring the passengers here from New York, and the steamer Maine conveys them around the eastern point of Long-Island and down tht coast to Newport, at once the most delightful and successful trip of the season. The outing affords a sail through Gardiners Bay, Long Isl and Sound and Narragansett Bay, pass-Ing en route Shelter, Plum, Gardiners and Block Islands, Watch Hill and Bren-tons Reef light ship. Two hours are allowed at Newport, which Is left at 6' P. the party being due at New York and Brooklyn at 11:30.

A dollar table d'hote dinner and a la carte supper will be served, the lunch counter will give continuous 'performance, the Maine will carry an orchestra, and both train and steamer will accommodate bicycles Tickets at 31.60 (half, 31.26) go oil sale Friday, and will be redeemed should the excursion not be run. HALIFAX, N. 8., Aug. 16. The Hon.

J. I. Tarte, Canadian Minister of Public, Works, made a stirring Speech last night which was received with wild enthusiasm at the annual banquet of the Canadian Manufacturer' Assoclatjpn, He declared war on American transportation and American manufactures Canadians he must no longer see their markets slaughtered by American manufactures, and the great trade of the continent carried through American channels The remedy he proposed was Improvement of the Canadian waterways and a higher tariff. 'We have, he said, a route from Georgian Bay to Liverpool, 200 miles shorter than by way of New York. The Canadian Pacific Railroad and the Grand Trunk must work together to carry out this Ides 1 The Minister stated that Canada would soon have a fast Atlantlo 11ns and It will be the best that can be got.

YOUNG GERMAN OFFICER IN DISTRESS AND WANT. 1 This advertisement appeared yesterday In a morning newspaper: Young Man In distress, distinguished by Prince Henry during his stay here with framed photograph and autograph, offers same to anybody helping him to get position. BERNHARD, 8 Hudson street, Hoboken, N. J. The young man In distress Is Eberhard Bernhard Pavel, who says ha Is a second lieutenant In the Germarf army and that he has received the Order of the Red Eagle from the Kaiser.

He has been living In Hoboken since Prince Henry returned home. While the Prince was here Pavel was employed by one of the earvi emmpanlea to toka chars of 4he -s received and sent by the royal was for doing he i-jys, the picture, I to the odor awoke the owner, who phased the purglars out 1 The control of the Marine Biological Laboratory, at Woods Hole, ha been turned over to the Carnegie Institute there. Thla It Is said, is the first step toward the foundation of the finest Institution tn the world for this class ot work. Isolation of vicious women on an artificial Island In the lake beyond the four-mile prlb was the novel plan tor eradicating the social evil suggested by Dr. E.

Benjanjln Andrews, president of the Nebraska State Univversity at Chicago University. Representative 1 41 timer "and ex-Rep-resentatlve Hemphill, of South Carolina, had a fist encounter at Gafney yesterday. This Is the eame place where United States Senators McLaurin and Tillman had a spat and sent their resignations to the Governor Gen. Funston was in hi office at Army Headquarter In Denver yesterday for the first time tn more than a week. Two operations have been performed on hla hip for an abscess caused by a bullet wound received In Cuba, but he believes that he has been permanently relieved.

Ex-Gov. David B. Hill wrote an eulogy on the late James Arkgll, of Canajohalre, N. Senator Depew -cabled condolences from Paris. Telegrams were received from distinguished men all over the country, and during the by rial services business was entirely suspended.

No trace has yet been found of the Rev. Arthur R. Teal, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Katonah, N. disappeared Tuesday and late the same day sent a telegram to his wife from the Pennsylvania Railroad station In Jersey City saying that he bad gone to Alaska tn do mission work. The career of the Vesuvius as a dynamite cruiser is to be ended! Acting Secretary of the Navy Darling and the members of the Naval Board on Construction decided that the swift anl rakish craft, which was supposed to be capable of belching forth death and destruction should be declared to be unsuitable for the purpose for which she was built Forty-seven women In St.

Louis and vicinity would like to find Thomas Benton. Benton Is the foxy old widower who claimed to be a millionaire cattle man fro El Paso, Texas, Six widows have confessed that they wege engaged to marry Benton. Benton la 65 years, old. Some of the descriptions the women wrote of themselves read that their dispositions are gentle and knd. FOREIGN.

No Papal Consistory is likely to be held before November. Welsh miners voted 350,000 to aid the coal strikers In the United States. The United States training ship Saratoga sailed from Havre for Gibraltar yesterday. Tod Jockey And man of fashion, had an automobile sroashup at Trouvllle yesterday. The Woman Franchise bill has passed both houses' of the New South Wales Legislature.

Victor Hugo fetes began yesterday at Besancon, the poets birthplace, and will continue for several days. 1 It Is reported that the Russian authorities have refused to rellnquleh control of the New-Chwang-Shan-Hal-Kwan road. The work of demolishing Newgate Jail, the historic prison so long a feature of the city of London, was begun yesterday. it Is now denied that Carmendta Is dead. The report to that effect Is believed to have been a press agents yarn.

Many laborer have lost employment through the overproduction In the Potash Trust mine and factories In Prus-sla. The Vienna AAllgemelne Zeitung say the Kaiser' adviser ought to provide lightning conductors for the flashes from his mind. There Is a prospeqt of an early settlement of the controversy between the British and Chinese treaty commission Concerning inland navigation. Austin Chamberlain, who was recently appointed Postmaster-General, was today elected member of Parliament from East Worcestershire, unopposed. 1 Ixmbardo, the most notorious Italian brigand after Mussollno, has been surrounded by Italian troops on Mount A-promonte, in the Province of Reggto, ahd The British Medical Journal says It Is authorized to state that there le no truth whatever In the recent rumors that King Edward will undergo a second operation, 1 The official (estimate of the Hungarian wheat yield, based on returns up to Aug.

10, Is 166,200,000 bushels. An estimate made July 30 placed the crop at bushels. A London papers Swiss correspondent reports that a German tourist In the Tyrol, who wu found dead, was. murdered, and was a victim of an organized band of murderous bandits. The crops In Bombey, India, have been so badly Injured by the drouth that another famine Is feared.

Alreadv appeals tor help have been made by the Franciscan MliBlon at Maypur. Uapt Newman and his son Edward arrived at Falmouth, last night in the thlrty-elght-foot kerosene launch Ablel Abbot Low, In which they sailed from New York on July 9. 1 The British steamer Delano, Capt. Gray, from Rotterdam for Baltimore, with a cargo of Iron and general freight, went ashore this morning, in dense fog, at Seal Cove, near Cape Race. Australia's share of the contribution to the Imperial navy has been fixed at annually and New Zealands at $200,000.

A special arrangement Is con templated In the case of Canada. Retrenchment 'proposal on the rail roads In Victoria elicited a strike by the employes. They were quickly brought to term by a counter threat of a refusal on the part of ParllAment to consider the question at all. W. K.

Vanderbilt. who made the automobile record for a kilometer and a mile record, Aug. 5, on a road near Albi, Is taking several automobiles with him to the United Statea left for Ney York yesterday. Mrs." the motherof 'Gladva Deacon, who has been reported as the cause ot a dispute between the Kaiser Louis Testrut, 86 years old, a Norwegian. living In 818 Rapelyea street, em Jloyed as an oiler In the power house of he lnterurbnn Street Railway Company, Seventy-fourth street and East River, Manhattan, short-circuited the- current with his body and was killed Instantly yesterday.

Brooklyn's "for sale thief is now making his rounds In the Eastern District, and yesterday the police had 'a general alarm sent out for him. Mrs. Mary Kelsey, of 262 Marcy avenue, Is his latest victim. He called to see what she would ell her home for, and when he left, three diamond rings and several stick pins, valued at 3300, had disappeared. Cl The residents and property owners of Whltestons are almost unanimous for the extension ot the New York and Queens County trolley road from College Point to their village.

A citizens' meeting will be held this evening at Knab's Hall for the purpose of appointing a committee to wait upon the trolley road officials and learn what they propose to do for Whltestons and the neighboring villages. The Maspeth Hook and Ladder Company and Peconto Hook and Ladder Company, of Corona, have signified their Intention, If the Gale law is repealed or amended, whereby two of the city paid Fire Department firemen will be In charge of each volunteer fire company In Queens Borough, to retire In a body from the duties of volunteer firemen. A communication to this effect Is to be sent to Mayor Low, Controller Grout and Fire Commissioner Bturgls. MANHATTAN 'and BRONX. Mme.

Melba left New York yesterday for Vancouver, whence she Is to sail on Aug. 20 for Australia. She will return here in February to appear In concert and opera. That the "boom period of the automobile has arrived Is Indicated by the fact that 31,000,000 worth of French machines have Just been contracted for by a firm In this city. The Hubers Mussum people think that Hudson Langdon, lecturer at the museum, tyho has been missing since Tuesday last.

Is the man who committed suicide at Niagara Falls on Wednesday. The plasterers strike on the Wadlelgh High School, which has interfered with the plans of the Board of Education waa declared off yesterday. The strike arose out of a fight between two unions of painters. The Rev. Father Thomas J.

Ducey, of St Leo's Roman Catholic Church, has appealed to the police at the West Thirtieth street station to protect him from the army of beggars who surround hts house waiting to be fed. Morris Buck, alias King and Hamilton, was arraigned before Magistrate Cornell In the Jefferson Market Court, yesterday charged with fraudulent use of the malls. He a as at once turned over to the Federal authorities. A twelve-horse truck which was dragging a steel girder from Pier 3, North River, to the new Hanover Bank Building at Spruce and Nassau streets, blocked the Broadway street car track from about 8.15 to 9 o'clock last night Jhe Government has set out two new buoys to mark the new channel In the outer harbor that has' formed season. The old misleading buoys, ettH remain, and complaint js made that they are a constant source of danger.

At Bellevue Hospital 'thirteen persons were admitted yesterday to have their sanity tested. Of these ten were women. Eight were received Wednesday, of whom four were women, and eleven on Monday, of whom seven were women. Four men were Injured, two severely, by the collapse of a derrick on a building In course of construction, at Sixteenth street and Broadway. Clarence Callanan and Charles A.

8tevens, who were the most seriously hurt, were takeh to the New York Hospital. No confirmation could begotten to-day of the story that J. Plerpont Morgan Is the owner of the five panels painted by Fragonarde for the belvldere of the Comtesse du Barry at Louvencienne, which have long hung In the artist's house at Grasse, In Provence Several thousand dollars' worth of fins photographic lenses Imported from Germany are held up at the Appraisers Stores until the return from Europe of I F. Fischer, of the Board of General Appraisers, who Is now In Germany trying to learn their real market value. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Bronxvllle Division, have Issued a circular and scattered copies throughout the city calling Upon union men ot all trades to use their efforts toward having all carpenters and Joiners at work In the parks In The Bronx Join the union.

1 ,1 As the first step toward carylngout his plan to found a memorial to his mother by the establishment of the Winifred Masterson Burke Relief Foundation, John M. Burke yesterday caused to be recorded In the Register's office In Newark, N. deeds for a plot of ground In Central avenue, Orange. Eugene O'Rourke, the actor, wag locked up In the Tenderloin police station last night on a charge of disorderly conduct. ORourke had a row with a conductor on Broadway car.

Policeman Jones Interfered and ORourke threatened At the station O'Rourke asked that his friend Senator "Tim Sullivan be sent for. When the steamship Teutonic, wjtlch arrived yesterday, was two days out at sea a stowaway was discovered among the steerage passengers. He had slipped on board and managed to conceal himself. After the tickets had been taken up he mingled with the eteerrfgc passengers and was promptly on hand at meal time with the others. Assistant District Attorney Kreeel yesterday finished the examination of the Important witnesses relative-to the riot In front of the Hoe Co.s factory on Grand street at the funeral of Rabbi Joseph, and on the report, which It Is expected will be made to District Attorney Jerome to-day will depend the presentation of the fact to the Grand Jury.

The plans for a sixteen-story bachelor hotel, to be erected at Fifty-second street, just east of Fifth avenue, have been abandoned because the owners of the adjoining property at Fifty-second street and Fifth avenue have entered Into an agreement with Edward Holbrook, president of the Gorham Manufacturing Company, who owns the site, to restrict the property to private residences. Frederick Forster, One of the bicycle rldere who competed In the six-day contest held here last year, appeared before Magistrate Zeller In the Harlem Police Court yesterday as complainant against William Maarsen, 19 year old, who he le clerk and live at 439 East Eighty-eighth etreet, and who, Forster says, Induced him three months ago to cash a bad checklfor 319. Maarsen was held In 9500 ball. Fire, which started In the kitchen In the basement of Terrace Garden, In East Fifty-eighth etreet, near Lexington avenue. a few minutes bi tilt clock yes- and the Crown Prince, has protested against the published stories, and "Le Matin, Paris, has ceased running any more articles.

The Antarctic explorer, Borchgrevlnck le arranging at Christiania, Norway, for two ships to sail in 1903 on an 'expedition to the South Pole for the National Geographical Society at Washington, This expedition will utilize reindeer for the first time, It 1 said, in Antarctic exploration. It Is reported from Odessa that M. Mamontoff, the Russian Railway King, has projected the construction of a railway joining the existing Siberian Railway with Tashkent (Turkestan), Tomsk being the head of the new line, which may ultimately join the Arctic Ocean and the Persian Gulf by rail. Major-Gens. Henry C.

Corbin and Samuel B. Young and Brig -Gen. Leon--ard Wood, of the United State army, who are to be Emperor Williams guests at the autumn maneuvers, will be quartered with the Emperor other guest hi the hotel at Posen where the general staff 1 to have headquarters, and where the foreign generals and staff officers will dine together each evening, except when summoned to the Emperor table. THEY iUIMSTKTE SOUTHAMPTON, L. Aug.

1 considered a strong probability here, as the result of a meeting held at Memorial Hall yesterday, that the proposed Long Island State Park may be located to the north of this village, on the south shore of the Peconic Bay. The State Commissioner, J. Hi Ludlam, of Oyster Bay; Edward Thompson, of North port, and Eugene R. Smith, of blip, have returned to the village to gain further Information concerning the plot of five thousand acres, located as described, over which they drove on a previous visit, Prominent member ot the summer colony are deeply Interested in having the park come here. It Is planned to 1 make of It a reserve for game and wild 1 animals and a forest reserve.

Previous to the meeting the Co'mmlssioners were entertained at an elaborate luncheon at the Southampton Club. The dining room had been artistically made to suggest the purpose of the commission by having the decorations resemble a miniature forest, with trees and shrubbery and having various stuffed animals, foxes, opossums and the like, scattered about in life-like' positions. Commissioner Thompson made the significant admission that no site Of all those as yet offered near Southampton had shown Itself so well adapted as this for the park. A committee. Including some of the prominent summer residents here was appointed to cohfer further with the Com-miseloners.

Dr. George A. Dixon la chairman of this committee. Its other members are William B. Homblower, Charles R.

Fit. H. H. Post and Dr. T.

Gaillard Thomas. The principal matter left for settlement Is the price of the lanfl It Is proposed to use for park purposes EOF mmn estate i TRENTON, N. Aug. 15. General surprise came when there was filed to-' day with Secretary of State Dickinson the preliminary report of the executors of the estate of 'Pierre Lorillard.

the pllllonalre tobacco king. 1 Most Interesting were the Items against Lily A. Bonds, who is known as Mrs. Allien. On the death of Mr.

Lorillard, Mrs. Allien appeared ln his will as the beneficiary to the magnificent stable and estate of Rather than contest the bequest with the heir of Pierre Lorillard, Mr. Allien was understood to have deceived $250,000 as her share of the millionaires estate. As a matter of fact. It Is now ascertained that the handsome woman who was the millionaires companion during the last 1 days of his life received only little more than half of the sum mentioned.

I The executors, Pierre Lorillard, Jr, George D. Finlay and James F. Fielder, In the preliminary report filed yesterday, record In the disbursements the payment to Mrs. Allien, as a legacy of personal property at Rancocas, 966.925. Again to Mrs.

Allien as a legacy of horses tn England, 365,840," making total of $125,765. REPUBLIC. DESTROY ITSELF PARIS, Aug. 16. A member of tha Due D'Orlean political bureau, speaking for Manager Paul Bezlne, emphatically denies the statement made In the meeting of the Council of Ministers yesterday that the Congregational agitation is due to a Royalist plot.

The member said: "Our policy Is to let the Republlo destroy Itself. 1 GOULDS MAY REACH AN AGREEMENT WITH LABORERS. 1 1 PORT L. Thursday. Labor troubles 'among the army of workmen employed on Howard Gould eetate at Sand Point, three mllea north of this village, where Castle Gould In course of construction, are nearing an amicable settlement.

It la said. Next week the locked out men. who quit work several weeks ago, will probably be re- Instated. From what can 9 learned, J. Clark Udall, of 1 Union Square, Manhattan, the general contractor, has been willing to compromise from the first, but, according to report, Mr) Gould did not want labor agitators on the grounds, end since the expulsion of the union men has hnd detectives on guard by night and day to keen strangers from the premises.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. The year 1901 was one of the npost prosperous In the building trades, and the effect ot this prosperity Is shown In the great Increase In the building brick production and In the statistics of building operation, in the large cities, says Mr. Jefferson Middleton In Mineral Resources ot the United States, 1901, now' In press, tram 1 United States Geological Survey. Ot the fifty-five largest cities of the country, forty-two cities reported that the number of building permits (Issued in 1901 was 85,571, as compared with In 1900, a gain of 17,154, or 26.07 per cent.

The value of the buildings erecMI on these permits rose 'from 5241,616,180 In 1900, to 5372,173,631 In Hail, a gain of $130,667,046, or 64.09 per cent The average value of the buildings, assuming that one permit was Issued for each building, was 93,530 In 1900, and 94,349 In 1901. Although the city of New York was first In the value of Its buildings In 1901, with 5136,051,697, the number of permits was 1,066 less than In Philadelphia, where the value of the buildings was 929,619,710, and 1,605 more than In Chicago, where' the value of the buildings was 934,962,075. The average value of the hutldtngs erected In New York In 1901 was in Chicago It was 95, 776, and In Philadelphia1 98,388. The total value of the products of clay In the United States was 9110,211,687 In 1901, as compared with 996,212,845 in 1900, a gain of 918,999,242, or 14.55 per cent This Is one of the largest gains In the Industry recorded In this offloe. Of this total of 8110,211,587, 887,747,727, or T9.62 per cent represent the value of the products classified as brick and' tile, but really embracing all structural clay products, together with paving bricks and products used In drainage, and other clay products which It Is Impracticable to classify separately; and 822,468,860, or 20 38 per was the value of the pottery products.

The year 1901 was one of unprecedented activity In the building brick Industry, the total value of the brick used for this purpose being 961,048,653, as compared with 348,099,612 In 1900, an Increase of IX 44 per with 945,461,025 In 1899, and with 935,191,454 In 1898. The common brick product Increased In value from 835,621,514 1900, to 845,503,076 In 1901, a gain of 36,881,662, or 17.82 per cent Front brick Increased in production 21 87 per from 83,864.670 In 1900, to 84,709,737 In 1901..., Vitrified paving brick gained 15.11 per reaching a value of In 1901 The fire brick gained less than one-half of 1 per cent, the total being 89,870,421. The stove-lining Industry alone decreased, the loss being 839,170, or 8 47 per from 8462,541 in 1900, to 8423,371 In 1901, The seWer pipe product Increased 16.81 per, cent; terra cotta gained 41.95 per and the fire-proofing Industry hrnde a slight gain of 2.29 per cent, as compared with 1900. Pottery Increased In value from In 1900, to 322,463,860 In 1901, a gain of 32, 665290, or 13.46 per cent. The widespread character of this Industry is known, and Is Illustrated by the fact that every State and Territory, except Alaska, Is represented In the reports.

Hawaii appears for the first time. Ohio I still the leading State-in point of variety and value of clay goods made, producing to the value ot In 1901, or 19.68 per cent, of the total product of the country. Pennsylvania ranks next, with an output ot 815,321,742, or 13.90 per cent of the total, and Ndw Jersey comes third, with 311.681,870, or 10 60 per cent, of the total product. Illinois and New York rank fourth and fifth among the States, with 8.75 per cent, and 7.52 per cent, respectively of the total output The first three States produced 44.08 per cent of the total; the first five States produced 60.85 per cent of the total, and the first ten States over 74 per cent of the total output The total number of producers decreased from 6,475 In 1900, to 6,421 In 1901, a decrease resulting from the consolidation of producing firms. The quantity -of brick Increased from 7,140,622 thousands in 1900 to 8,038,579 thousands In 1901, and the average value per thousand Increased from 95.41 In 1900 to 36.66 In 1901.

The average value of the vitrified brick prof'ict per thousand Increased from 98.71 in 1900 to 39.06 In 1901. Ohio continues to lead in the pot-. tery Industry also, producing ware valued at 910,048,561 In 1901, or 44.78 per cent of the total nroduct of the country, a gain ot 81,476,238, or 17.21 per cent, over 1900. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York held second, third and fourth places respectively. New Jersey's product Increased from 95,263,661 in 1900 to In 1901, or 12 09 per Pennsylvania Increased from 31,390,873 In 1900 to 31.666,012 In 190b or 19.7 per cent.

The great oottery producing centres of Trenton, N. and East Liverpool, Ohio, pr.duced respectively In 1901 28 88 per cent and 28 62 per or combined, 47.30 per cent, of the total output of the whole The combined value of thetr product was 310,626,350. The gradual Increase In the percentage of domeetlc ware consumed continued through 190b when the home product was 71.39 per cent of the consumption, as compared with 69.37 per cent In 1900, 68 37 per cent In 1899, and 67.99 per cent In 1898. The net Imports of pottery In 1901 were valued at 39,004,232, which, added to the domestic product made a total consumption of 931,468,183, of which the Imports were 28 61 per cent the domestic product 71 39 per cent, 1 The total production of clay mined and sold unmanufactured, in 1901 amounted to 1,367,170 tons, of which 1,019,163 tons, cr 74.65 per were sold without preparation whatever after mining, and 348,007 tons were washed, ground, or prepared In some other manner. The average value per ton for all clay was 31.88, and the total value of the clay mined and sold was 32,676,932.

The total Value of all imports of clay and products of clay In 1901 was as compared with 88.912,078 In 1900. The total value of all clay wares exported from the United States In 1901 was as compared with In 1900. The total production of manganese ores In the United States during the year 1901 amounted to 11,996 long tons, valued at 9116,722, as compared with 11,711 long tons, valued at 1100,289, In 1900. The Increase of the production In 1901 was only 224 tons, or about 2 per but the average value per ton Increased from 38 52 In 1900 to 39.73 In 1901, or 8121 per ton. In 1901 eight States contributed to ths total, Alabama, Missouri and Utah be Ing added to the 1900 list.

Montand, a former producer, reported no ore mined. As In 1900, Virginia heads the list of production, Georgia being second and re tee combined prod-i cf i E'Stea amounted to I i c-rt. of total 0 I A negro in Tennessee Bold himself for 31.000. The personal taxes J. J.

Hill, the railroad magnate, have been raised 360.000. were fifteen heat prostrations tn Kansas City yesterday. President Roosevelt ha selected the Isthmian Canal Board. David B. Hill accepted an Invitation to speak with Bird S.

Coler at Oak Orchard on Aug. 21, The pAor children of Poughkeepsie enjoyed their annual outing at the expense of Russell Sage. Thompson, the suspected Bartholln-Mltchell murderer, made damaging admissions to the Chicago police. Brig -Gen. Frederick D.

Grant, now on duty In the Philippines, has been ordered home to command the Department of Texas. Summonses have been served on twenty-two fire Insurance companies In Chicago In the suit against the Insurance Trust. Thirty-two men and boys, It Is claimed, were shanghaied to the coal mines In Pennsylvania to take the places of the strikers. Mrs. Lucy L.

Howe, Of New York, was arrested at Babylon, L. yesterday afternoon and fined 35 for speeding her automobile. Gen. Felix Agnus, publisher of the Baltimore "American," has been sued for 3350 damages by the American Ice Company, A condemned negro murderer In Baltimore was married. to hie common law wife yesterday.

He le to be bung during September. i Mrs. Louisa Wells, aged 96 year, ono of the oldest women In Indiana, died at La Porte, yesterday. She waa born in Saratoga, N. Y.

E. A. Ttchenor will succeed Gen. Spaulding as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury about Oct. 1 and will reforjn the customs service.

The Seventh Missouri Congressional District Convention pledged ltaelf to Roosevelt tor 1904. Gov. Pealo was nominated for Congress. Mrs. T.

Suffern Taller, a daughter of Pierre Lorillard, obtained a decree of divorce In South Dakota, Desertion wag the ground of the plea. Davis and Meyers, the rival candidates for Governor In Arkansas, came to blow at Siloam Springs, last night. It Is feared there will be more trouble. The reported white race on Mlndano Island, In the Philippines, proves to be a myth. The llghter-hued people found here and there are merely descendant from Castilians.

it Edna Wilson, aged 12 year, daughter of Henry Wilson, of Newark, N. was drowned yesterday In Harris Creek, She was knocked overboard, by the' boom of a sailboat. 1 1 1 Charles M. Schwab, the steel magnate, has given a to tho Pennsylvania State College at Bello-font. Andrew Carnegie has given the organ for the same.

Street' fairs oy carnivals were prohibited by the Grand Lodge of the Order of Elks until Jan. The meeting of the Grand Council at Salt Lake City Waa concluded last night. Newark Authorities requested the Paterson, N. police to locate the mother of Frederick C. Lake, who committed eulclde in the former city Wednesday by taking carbolic acid.

After half century of faithful service to the Ursullne order, Sister Fiorina, formerly of New York, will be given the golden crown and her golden jubiln Friday at the Ursullne Convert. The report that ex-Gov. Alonzo B. Ccmel was' fnillng mentally are denounced as falsehoods by member of his family. They believe the report tn have been the work ot some enemy.

William' C. "Whitney team of carriage horses became frightened during the polo match at Saratoga yesterday and ran away, slightly damaging the outfit to which they were attached. Gen. and Mrs. Corbin left Washington yesterday for New York, prior to their departure for Germany.

XJen. Corbin, Gen. Young and the members pf their party will sail on Saturday foe Antwerp, Following the lead of J. J. Hill, all the railroads have restored grain rates tn Minnesota And tha Dakotas.

It Is said this In an attempt to stave off leglala' tlon adverse to the Northern Securities Company. Wlllet B. 'Weeks, son of John Weeks, of tbs Fourteenth Street Rnk, New York City, died at Montclair, N. yesterday. Thla Is the fourth death In the Weeks family in a comparatively short period.

Burglars operating In Mt. Vernon, after piling up a lot ot silverware In the house of Edward Tlpbtn, found a box of clears. They tach, lighted a weed and The contest for the famous Palma, Centennial teams representing the United States, Great Britain and Ireland, Canady, and possibly Australia, has been fixed for Sept. 13, and will be held at Ottawa under the auspices of the Canadian Rifle Team, that won the prize last year at Sea Glrb The first shoot for this trophy was decided in September, 1876, at Creedmoor, L. 1.

The shootlhg was done by teams of eight, i The American team scored 3,126 points and won. Ireland was second, with 3,104 points, Scotland had 8,063, Australia 8,062, and Canada finished in last hole with 2,823 points. The trophy remained In continuous possession of the Americans until last year. A week after that Interesting battle another contest took place at the same range between the American and Irish teams, but only lx. men on a side, and the former won out by 11 points.

The American team on that occasion included such experts at Dakin, Fulton, Farwell, Weber, i Allen and Rathbone. 1 The totals were 1,165 for the Americans, and .1,154 for the Irish, In the following year, 1877, the foreigners made a determined effort to capture the Palma. A combined team, made up of seven of the very best shots In England, Ireland and Scotland, under Sir Henry Halford, came ovei. to Creedmoor. Another two days' shooting took place under the same conditions as the, year before, the Americans scoring a' grand total of 3,334 points to 8,242 for the visitors.

The score made by the Americans broke all -records for a team of eight men shooting at those distances, 80L 900 and 1,000 yards. When Creedmoor was young, back In the 70s, American marksmen met those of Wimbledon and Dollymount, and scored a victory every time. The first of these International contests at Creedmoor took place In 1874. It was at 800, 900 and 1,000 yards, on old-fashioned targets, 12 feet wide and 6 feet high, with square 8-foot bullseyes. The visitors were the Irish team, headed by Rigby.

The Irish had von the Elchs Shield at the same distance the year before at Wimbledon, with a score that broke the record, and they believed they would have an easy time of It with the Americans, America being represented by such crackajacks as Judge GUdersleeve, Dakin, Fulton, Yale, Bodlne and Hepburn. It was a very close contest, but the American team won by the score of 934 to 931, The return match was shot at Dollymount, In Ireland, In June, 1875, and the Americans won by the score of 967 to 929 for the Irish. The American team was the same at the year before. With the single exception that Coleman took the place of Hepburn. American superiority was shown by repeated victories, and put an end to any international contests for may years.

The season for shooting mud hens, meadow hens and gallinule on Long Island opens to-morrow, and will not close until Dec, 21. The woodchuck season opened on the 1st of the month, and Included shooting on Robbins and Gardiners Islands, and will also close on Dec. 31. A the snipe shooting season comes to end on that day, also, Long Island gunners will have over four months steady- shooting from now on, and no doubt many a pleasant day's sport will they enjoy with the birds. 4 The next tournament under the management ipf the Interstate Association will take place on Aug.

27 and 28 at Haverhill, Mass. This great shoe manufacturing city Is situated thirty-two miles from Boston on the Merrlmac River, and Its history dates back to 1640. There will be ten events each day, fire at fifteen targets, 31 50 entrance, and fire at twenty targets, $2 entrance, all purses to be divided into four moneys under the Rose system, at the ratio of 6, 3, 2 and The Haverhill Gun Club, In whose Interest the tournament will be run, will give 350 In gold to the four high guns 320, 316, $10 and 16. Secretary of the Navy Moody Visited and lnreoted the torpedo-boat flotilla station an! War Coliris at Newport yes- tor.