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7' THE BROOKLYN CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1903. fitll. ANNA HOWARD SHO BIG C1MAW BALL SCENE OF EREAT BEAUTY. Lawyers Try tb Have HimTell of His Formlgj) Experience in Management of Street Rail- roads in 1 Other Cities. operation of ita railroad, direct your conceded ability and your public spirit toward the making of improvements tbat will go to the very heart of the trouble which afflicts you ns well as us.

Criticise, I say to these gentlemen, wliere-criticism is just, but hy not, even for diversion sake, make an occasional effort to uphold the band of the company's officials when they con-cedediy are in the right. I will not attempt to anticipate what our evidence will be. hut do expect to show that while the servb Jrimay at times have fallen short of wliatf if should have been, when this honorable board takes into consideration, as tho public should, the exhausted iower-boiise conditions of the company ami the systematic and sometimes wilful blocking of our track hy beary vehicles, that there has been at least justification for the so-called lack of cfficicut service. BOARD OF TREE DEMANDS IMPROVED CAR SERVICE Another South Brooklyn Board of Trade has laid plans to- force -improvement of transportation facilities 11 ffonled patrons by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. Members of the West End Board of Trade, at a meeting held last night, in Days Ilalk Fifty-fourth street and Third avenue, decided to begin a tight for lietter street-car service.

Individual members cited many incidents that had come tothclr notice, and in which the service given Routh Brooklynites was, in the opinion of the speakers, abomiu- ahlc. Regular Committee Will Act, Argument of the question closed when it was'decided to refer the to the regular Transportation Committor. This com-mlttee will investigate and. it is probable, a special committee will be named to prepare a formal complaint to be presented to the Rtate Railroad Commission. Annual report of the officer of the board were read and showed that in a number of wholesome improvements in the Eighth Ward and vicinity the board took the initiative or assisted in carrying to a successful, conclusion.

Committees (0 serve the ensuing year were named as follows: Railroads and Ferries John Parish, chairman; Harry R. Ray. T. D. Haggerty, Robert D.

Korby. Rev. D. Ackley. John S.

Sherman, N. J. Young. H.A. llanbury.

Health and Rtreet Cleaning D. B. Reaver, chairman; G. O. Hill, Dr.

R. C. Williams. Dr. W.

H. Shepherd, Dr. J. B. McQuillan; Ed w.

Edwards, Dr. Lewis. Schools William Senders, chairman; John Doddridge, Clarence Colvill, Andrew Mcllvary, D. B. Seavcr, Rev.

John Rile pera, Daniel Moynahan. Finance J. D. Coveney, chairman: C. E.

Hopkins, E. OCohnor, A. Hamilton, H. D. Hopkins, J.

E. Sullivan. Angus Nicholson. Street and Local Improvement John Beet, chairman; Charle Durling, W. K.

Putnam. J. W. Rands, Thomas Bowles, Monroe Steiner, Daniel Moynahan, Piers and Markets C. J.

Stevenat, chairman: W. A. Brodie, J. W. Cann, W.

S. Bartley, Oscar Abrams, John Allen, Ernest A. Horn-bin. Legislature William A. Doyle, chairman: C.

P. Seelman, William Sanders, H. A. Ilanliury. M.

A. Cummings, Dr. J. J. OConnell, Thomas L.

Dowling. "You knew this hearing waa going on and that this question waa the main one, Hoys not you taken, any pain to inform yourself? Yes. A few day ago I looked up the question as regard the elevated line." Were as many surface car run Jan. 3, 1003, a there were Jan. 3, 1002? I could not ay.

Dont yon know a a matter of general knnnledgn that you are running lesscar on the surface than formerly? "I think we ore. What waa the object of the Mr. Rheelian objected, claiming that it had not been proved that there was a reduction. Colonel Cole rilled that the objection wa technically correct, but that the question might be put hypothetically. The witness then answered: We took off a number of four-wheeled cars, and put on eight-wheeled one The new eats have a capacity about 40 percent, greater than the old pnes.

"To wbat extent has this been done? 1 dont koow.Wc hare purchased 255 large cars since last fall and they are all in operation now. 'What is the headway now as compared with 1901? I dont know what it was in 1901. I have been iuformed in some cases the headway has been lengthened and in others shortened. If you dont know such who does? Superintendent Smith." 1 "Doesnt he report to you 1 To my assistant." Ask About Capitalisation of Corn panics. What is the capitalization of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company? This question brought out strenuous objection front tho companys lawyers, who said that all the figures were in the published reports and thut GreaDlnger should not be asked about them.

The fact was elicited that tho stock of the company hud a par value of $43,000,000 and the bonds of $7,000,000. Judge Dailey gave up this line of questlcuiing'iinder a fire of objections and to other topics, Are the lines of the Coney Islaud and Brooklyn Railroad and the Van Brunt street line your only competitors? Those and the Long Island Railroad. Have you made personal Investigation of the condition of the stations and the cars and their operation? have done so occasionally. What system have you of investigating complaints? Every communication is acknowledged, and referred to (lie superintendent, who has it inquired into. What effort is made to effect remedies? Everything that can be done without hurting me one else more.

What about the present case? Cant you run more cars in the non-rush hours? Possibly on some lines. "Why not on all? 1 "It is not necessary. Business changes from day to day. Matinees and other attraction a)tcr the situation every day. Why dont you hare extra cars at the Bridge to take off the standing passengers on the packed cars?" Passenger Wont Change Cars at Bridge.

We have tried that, and it proved failure. We tried it twice on the Fulton ferry tracks. President Heins is trying it now on the DeKalb avenue line. It wont work. People wont change.

What are you doing to increase your power? "We are more than doubling onr capacity now. 'We are getting everything we can from the Edison Company now. We pay the company $20,000 a month for power. "What provision are you making for the new bridge?" When we get the added power wo can operate the Bridge. Wont it take yon any time to prepare? About fifteen or twenty minutes.

have the property and rights now. We wont run all lines over the Bridge." How long will it take you to procure 100 more cara? Four or five months. Now a to the loop. -Dont you think that your business would be benefited if Iho service yon give builds up the city and increases populatioa? But floesn the loop hurt East New York? Isn't property deteriorating in value there? Other sections are growing. Following President Greatsinger, Kif-ward W.

Ordway, of No. l.OtK) Dean sOOne nailed on to testify to the condition of tho servieo in non-rush hours, and Edward F. Linton, of East New York, to speak on' the. feeling about the loitp. Judge Dailey then rested his case for the manufacturer- Association.

Lawyer Sheehan at once opened, the defense, and at the conclusion of his speech was ready-to call officers of tho company as witnesses. It wa then 5 o'clock, however, and the hearing was adjourned for lb day. where in the civilized orld. The topographical condition of the borough, the fact that the great bulk of the people desire transportation In a limited number of hours, the vast mileage to lie covered in order to reach the place of destination of tho travelers, the fact that there is at present but one outlet for the people to Manhattan borough, all tend to make a satisfactory solution of the transportation problem most serious and difficult. It is easy to criticise public officials and Just as easy to criticise quasi public officials who arc engaged in the operation of street railway properties.

1 have known the time when puhlic opinion has been aroused uphold the arm of men who were striving for the right, I have seen the time whin public opinion would condemn io oblivion or exile men for standing by What they hoiieved to he right, and within a relatively short period of time fhis same public opinion has been known to change with reference to these men, and Instead of being met with condemnation Kind malediction, they bnvo been welcomed as era makers and public liene-f actors. I do not for a moment assert that all the. complaints that arc before Honorable Board arc baseless and unfounded. On the contrary, patient investigation, ithout passion or malice, and a solo desire to ascertain what will best conduce to he public good may result, and probably will result, in establishing- the fact that some of these complaints are proper and have good foundation for their support. if this investigation will result in the diyovery of defects that can ho remedied, or if the mature and uninflqmcd judgment of this hoard should bo that the service we ae giving to the public can be in any way improved, we are here to say that we will not only gladly remedy such defects, hut will cheerfully welcome such judgment, AVe realize that the Wat way of solving tlirediffienlt problems confronting us is by deserving the good opinion and securing the cordial, earnest support of the great mss nf the travefing public.

Wo want the Vitizens of this borough to understand that if they have just cause for grievance, the court of first resort where emit grievance should be Ward and set-tledif possible, is by a frank and manlv fixe Interchange of thought with the officers of this eompany. and I assure the public that all such requests properly made will be treated in a courteous? fulc and manly way. It will do no good, so far ns the management of this property is concerned, to extract from quasi judicial bodies utterances or condemnation that are traceable alone to an overwrought, ex-cited or artificially Inflamed clamor. There i nojimit to the number of complaints, silly and ridiculous if not malicious, circulated against this comimny by people who profess to have the interests of this community at heart. The fact is overlooked or ignored that we are the largest taxpayer in this community.

For instance, in the year ISP'S, the amaint of taxes for -State and local government levied against the Borough of Brooklyn is $17. .733,403.71. For the year 1902 the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system is asked to contribute to the support of the government, Rtate end municipal, taxes, direct and indirect, amounting to about $1,700,000, a sum equal to one-tenth of the total taxee levied in the entire borough, The fact is overlooked or purposely ignored that this company for years bad Pioneered the growth and- development of the outlying sections, of this community, thereby adding millions of dollars to the taxable property of this city. The fact is overlooked that nowhere within the realms of civilization under similar operating conditions can a man get as much as be does right here in Brooklyn for a fare of five cents. The fact is overlooked that since we acquired the elevated railroads we have expended from capital account alone for extension, betterment and improvement of the public service upwards of (fiTe millions of dollars.

The fact is overlooked that we are under contract to-day to pay within the next ten months upwards of six million of dollars cash for betterments and improvement to this property, all of which will make for the greater convenience and comfort of the traveling public. The men who are responsible for the management of this property eaiize that In addition to these enormous expenditures within tho next few year tens of millions of dollar should be expended in extension and development of this system If it I going to keep up with nn enlightened public demand. How it was possible for this eompany to acquire these enormous sums of money that will make the growth and development of thi city possible nuiess we are permitted to conduct the affairs of our corporation in such manner a to earn at least sufficient moner to psy the Interest on this new investment IIow is it possible for us to provide for hat should bean enormous and glorious development of ibis comflmnity unless by our earnings we ate able to induce capitalist to come in and give us the money edthout which 'this development never can otrur? And finally how is it possible for ns to so manage our property as to secure these desirable results both for you and for us unless wo are allowed some latitude at least in the detail of the management of this property? I warranted public condemnation, demagogical attack, uncalled for quasi judicial merances, will not relieve your sijua-tion, but will simply result in killing the goose that is isying the golden eggs for Brooklyn. Tan Brooklyn expand, grow anil develop except as thia railroad company make it possible by transit facilities for it to grow and develop? Can we grow and develop, and In fairness and good conscience can yon grow and develop, nolres ike broad gauged, liberal minded men of this community take matter into their own hinds and reverse the order of things, and instead of holding up to civilisation Brooklyn as a plague spot and a place not to he dwelt in, give ns credit at least for the little good we do. "With a aroused puhlic opinion such aa the representative of the various associations that have appeared before thia body could produce, we would soon find that the vffirtef thiw eempay- wemye-d ditional facilitica at the Brooklyn and New Tork ends of the Bridge, in conjunction with the reasonable regulation of heavy vehicle traffic, will result in the granting of right and the adoption of regulations that will permit this company, even during rush hours, to comfortably liamUe the enormous crowds requiring its service, "Gentlemen of the Manufacturers' Aso-cist ion With 11 due respect, instead of occupying your valuable time fighting phautoms, or trying to substitute, if you will, even with the bc-t of motive, your judgment for tbs judgment of the prnperlr a'leu'd officer of this company in the twenty-third Regiment Armory Crowded With Guests.

BEWILDERING DECORATIONS. Drill of, the Kalghta Templar and Guard Mount of Company Prominent Feature. From every point of vje- tho reception of I 'Union Comma ndcry. No. 14, Knight Templars, hy Company of the Twenty-third Regiment, last night; at tbo armory, Bedford and Atlantic avenues, was a groat success.

The large drill hall has perhaps never before been decorated so gorgeously and, profusely. While tho deonralinns in the armory have been finer in some particulars on regimental- occasions, those of last night were beautiful in their arrangement. Not a truss or eross-beani'of tho armory dome was to be seen. In lhtfentrrpftlie coding was tho blue field of the flag, on which wore stars that seemed to measure a foot from tip to tip. lb reality, each star-measured five feet iu length.

-c Radiating from tho blue field of stars acre folds of red and white bunting. Each wa ornamented along tho edge with a ruffle. In tho west end of tho drill hall was a rostrum, canopied with the national colors. At raclj. end stood two mailed figures bearing spears.

Practically, the armory of tho Twouty-third Regiment wag turned over last night for the famous annual hall of Clinton Commander-; technically, the reception wa tendered the members of the eom-mandery hy Company of the regiment. I'nder the gorgeous decorations hundreds thronged the armory floor. Every seat in the building was occupied. A dozen or more tents had been pitched upon the drill floor. Between the tents stood smsil green firs, adding greatly to tho general effect of tho scone.

Whilo there wore many handsome gowns worn hy the women present, the debutantes were few and far between. Assembly for guard-mount followed the musicians call at 8:20 and a guard-mount by Company E. Captain Henry Dewitt Hamilton, took place at 8:30 o'clock. Captain Hamilton acted as officer of the day. Lieutenant Wilsoq was in command of tho guard, while Lieutenant Stopford took the guard-mount.

First Sergeant Cook was acting sergeant major. The guard-monht was well executed and tho company turned out two platoons of twelve files each. Next in order was the reception of tho eminent commander and council officer of Clinton No. 14. Knights Templar, by the executive heads of Company E.

Like tho-e who followed these officers were received it the rostrum after having passed under the crossed swords of the member of the commandery. The sight made a slipring the member being attired in uniforms, ra trying side arms and each wearing a cap with a long waving white feather. Right Eminent William J. Maxwell, Grand Commander of tho Grand Commandery of the Rtate of New York aud associate officera wore then received by tbt military hosts. Afterwards a reception was tendered to the Right Eminent Daniel Demarest, Grand Commandery of the Grand Commandery of the State of New Jersey, and his associate officers.

Other dignitaries and their associates also wore received after passing under the upraised crossed swords of the Knights Templar. I'nder the direction of Trof. Thomas F. Shannon a brief concert1 was given by the Twenty-third Regiment Band. Drill Corpa the Feature.

An exhibition drilt by Clinton Comniand-erys drill corps was the feature-of the evening. Tor thia Rir Levi P. Case was the driilmaster. It was a drill most spectacular in ita nature. And, while the Knight Tinplar did not keep perfectly in atep, the movements and evolutions of a complicated nature which they weut through, as most creditable.

They formed a Maltese cross, the figure 8, a whole circle in columns of twos, a square and otbor gtusnelric.il figures. Spasms of applause were evoked hy their maneuver from the elite In the audience. Dancing followed, thtd continued up to au early hour of thi morning. The programme held twenty-four dances. Waltiea and two-steps predominated.

Many distinguished persons attended the reception and balk Among them were former Police Com mis si oner Colonel John X. Partridge, Major P. H. E. Ebstein, First Deputy Commissioner; former Sheriff Norman 8.

Dike. Major and Mr. Frederick A. Wells. Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs.

William A. Stoke. Mis Ida Morris, II. A. Plaehuiur.

Jr Mr. and Mm C. A. Moore. Police Captain Reynolds and wife.

Captain William Du Bois, Lieutenant andi Asdslant Inspector Robert G. Moran. Mr. and Mrs. Frauk G.

Spaulding, Among the sir knight present were: John E. Sparrow, E. commander; Charles A. Tonsof, generalissimo: Francis T. Burr, captain general; B.

V. Owen, senior warden; Wiltnon "Whilldin, junior warden; Alba 'W. Merrill, prelate; John H. Rowland. treasurer: John C.

Reid, recorder; A. E. Bose, standard-bearer; William B. Meobinick, sword-hearer; Alfred E. Ever-dell, warder; William Bamber, P.

director; Charle W. Bridge, armorer and captain of guard. Lester R. Henderson. George E.

Pcarcen and T. S. Colyer, third guard; R. H. Monoee, G.

Hassler and refer Harri. second guard; W. G. Han-son, Joseph M. Palmer and G.

Morrison, first guard: R. J. O. Pope and W. C.

Damron, color-hearers; W. F. Campbell, M. W. H.

Muchmore, M. and Geo. Drury. M. surgeon; Charle Cranford, purveyor; Willard Forshew, musical director; Godfrey Linckg, sentinel; George XbhuiMBi P- GVC 19iY; Georre alters, 1.

1D0-. and Chariea W. ilubbeli, P. 1903, trustee; A. H.

Topping, Andrew; Teek and W. 8. Hawxhnrst, Financial Committee. Other knights present, nearly all of whom were accompanied hy Indie, were: Eminent Sir William. Bamber, Eminent Rir J.

C. Reid. Eminent Rir John Sparrow; Right Eminent Rir George Nicholson, Eminent Sle Charles IV. Hnbhell, Eminent RiI. Carlisle louden.

Eminent Sir Charle G. Little, Rir Churle A. Toiser. Rir Fianiis T. Burr.

Rir John li. Rowland, Sir R. Judsen Kenworlhr, Rr Y. W. Owaot.

Rir 1 i'dioo htil Stw Argues for Thefr Rfght to Suffrage. STATUS IN OTHER Impropriety and Qnnlifientlona Ars the Points Considered in Her Disaonrae. The concluding address in the Brooklyn Institute series of The Position of Women- wns delivered at the Art Gallery last evening h.v the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, of Philadelphia, vice-president of the National American Woman's Suffrage Asaori-iiliun, mid of the Xiitinnii! Council of Women. She spoke on The Political Status of Women.

She was introduced by Mrs. Noab Hunt Chapman. nhne guest she was during he; short, slay in Brooklyn. Miss Shaw, who is English by birth, entered the ministry of thy Methodist Episcopal Church at Tar-ntowti-on-Hudsou ami afterward studied nt Boston Cnivetsity. where she received the degrees of B.

l. nnd M. D. She officiated for eight years in Boston as local preacher," lull ns ordination was refused her in the Mcthodi-t Episcopal Church she Imik "orders In the" Methodist Protestant -Church. In part her address wag as follows: It is a well established 'fact that froa the beginning of hietiyry womeu bare been held in ilitical subjection by Even when barbarism gave place to semi-civilization and law began to define the relation of political conditions h.v fixed rule thn subjection of wmpen was still sanctioned.

But as the progress pf the race developed toward centralized life into national existenie the territorial powers tbits parceled out under the feudal system liecams more concentrated and all political authority conceded h.v it came under (be control of a monarch. Coder Heel of Militarism. Through jmrensing demand for military control and protection and the increasing ambition of men to govern, women wem again gradually relegated to a subordinate plai-e in the Rtate, and Rome, the military ruler and law- maker of the world, formulated tbe tent of womans aubjeetion inth strongest and harshest terms. Canon'Taw, under the Christian regime, welded tho chains with which military authority had bound woman, nnd. declared ita inability to forgive Eves temptation of Adam, by con-, denining all women to suffer vicariously for her fault in the famous utterance of St.

Ambrose: Adam was beguiled by Eve, not Ev bv Adam, therefore it is just that woman should take as her ruler him whom ahe Incited to sin. that he may not fall a second time through female levity. "But the French Revolution startled tho world with the new declaration of the natural rights of man and everything in state and society was doomed to change. Still, neither it nor the American-Rerolution immediately affected the right of woman to greater freedom. On the contrary in France it deprived her of political powers before held.

"Out of tha conflicting political tangle we are able to unravel a few thread which show the trend of political progresg and tbe growth of justcr ideals. Ve naturally expect to fiud in newer countries aud nnder republican forms of government a large; degree of poiitiial freedom for both sexes, but it is not necessarily so. In France and some of the Republic of Routh America, women are wholly deprived of all political recognition in sererel monarchical countries, a in England and her colonies, they are accorded nearly equal powers with men. Least Progress in United Staten. In the Pnited States, with the exception of the four Slates, nil of whose citizens are politically equal, and in the ona Rtate to re women possess municipal suffrage.

we find the least where we should expect the greatest progress. The last half century h.is witnessed great ehanges and advance towards the larger liberty of women in nil civilized lands. To sum tip: in the- domain of local self-goverumeut women are admitted to the elective franchise in England and her colonic. Sweden. Iceland.

Finland, Russia, the State of Kansas, in the Pnited States, and the rural di-trict of Austria, Tru-sia, Saxony and Brunswick. They posstw school suffrage in Norway and in twenty-six States of the Pnited States; full suffrage in New Zealand, the Federated Stale of Australia, and ia Wyoming, Colorado, and Idaho. Eligibility to offiee is granted in many of the countrie where they vote and many of those where they do not possess the franchise, while in those where they possess full political equality they are eligiVln to all public office. Thi study demonstrate that woman- right to the suffrage, her admission to or exclusion from the" electorate, far from deieiiding on any legal or logical principle, is recognized as simply a matter of legislation which reaches different conclusion in different countries nnd changing conclusions at different time iu the same country. To prove the impropriety of women participating in public affair it would be necessary to show that the nntnre of government is such that participation in it would be injtiriou to the highest develop, meat of women, or else that the nature of women is such that her participation in public affairs would be injurious to the highest good of the state.

To do this it would be necessary to show that women are not interested in all tbe affairs of state, and that they do not pie the qualification of gooij citizen. Neither of these propositions i thie. for there is no concern of public life whiih doe not affect women equally with men. and there i no qualification of good citizenship pn-ftoksrsl by men, whkh wedo not find in women." HOT A GENTLEMAH A General Corbin turned the corner ef Fifteenth street at the other morning small boy who was running away from his mother buuied full into bun and was sent skitering to the gutter. There.

said the mother, now oe if yon hare done. You ran into that' He aint no -j-Mrmin. Tiril'd firs'l her. lie's a JEI ll." KtUMl Jcurcxt, Come here in morning and hare ii extract your ieetli FREE, without one hit of pain, by applying our new botanical divovery to the gums; Go home at night rejoicing with a Full 8et of New Teeth that fit you perfectly, cost only $3.00,. and are guaranteed for ten years.

EXAMINATION AND CON-RCLTATIQX FREE. Waterbnry Dental Parlors, BROOKLYN NEW YORK 54 W. 23d St. Opp Eden Muse 414-416 Fulton St. ii 24 dvr Abraham 4c Straup',) Hours.

8 to li. Sunday. 9 to 4, German, French and Swedish spoken. din. Sir H.

V. Sehnitzsp.in, Sir L. W. Spangehi, Rir Charle Crqnford, Sir H. D.

Hamilton. THE SOUTHERNS PALM LIMITED Eli Perkini Weaves Tale of Ita Influences on Human Dei-tiny. Well. gasped, brushing the snow from her gray-squirrel ermine-lined cloak, perhaps I'm not glad to rest in this dear old Southern's Palm Limited again! And. think of it, to-morrow well he sitting in tare and muslin under the orango groves of Florida!" "An I Sybil, what recollections it must bring hack to you! said Ethel, with her rosy cheks and dreamy eyes.

I should say 0, Ethel. Why. on this very train last winter I first met Tony and that jolly ernwd of Newporters with their golf sticks. And that flirtation with Tony commenced then Yes. and that flirtation extended ail the waj through Aiken, fh The Land of the Sky.

Savannah, with it moss-grown Buena Ventura, old San Augustine, to Paint Beach. And you were married there. Sybil? No. but I surrendered there! But how oulil I help it? sitting there in the orange groves, breathing the balmy air from the violet fields of Bermuda nnd Tony ail demotion and throwing roses and orange blossoms at me! And, just to think. Ethel, said Sybil, as the pink came hack to her cheek, thi i our bridal tour back to the oraugc groves again! bat shall we see.

Sybil? said Ethel, who wa taking her first trip. "Why. we Newporters call tliU the oridil train. Ethel, and when yon get" tired seeing the flirting beaux and belles you'll nee everything from these snow banka in Jersey to the sleepy alligators in tbe St. John.

Yon'll see tbe gilded dome of the Capitol and Teddy new White that old solemn Washington and beyond it the white pillars Of I-eeg old mansion on Arlington Height. Youll see battle field of Manama and Bull Run. Youll see Lynchburg and be within an honr'n drive of Appomattox, where Lee gave up bis sword to Grant. In "the Carolina you'll see the pi turesque darkey picking out tbe lst cotton, and then pas by Aiken In the Land of the Sky, down through Savannah into Brunswick, where you can ferry across to Jekyl Island, and then to old San Augustine with its new Ponce de Leon, and then And then, Sybil, broke in Ethel, lifting up her hand in delight, and then into the Royal Poincianit at Taira Beach, with its tennis gronuds and golf liuk among tho morning glories and violets and under the orange bjii-oius. "And then the yachting trip to he taken there.

Ethel. Aiken and Jekyl Hand are lovely, but a yachting trip on the St. Johu, with its Spanish mose and alligators. any! And then the hundred ref gallant ihtsmcn continued Sybil, enthusiastically, who tease yon to run over to the old Colonial at Nissan in the Bahamas, or over to More Castle, in Havana, where a dashing Spanish cavalier will fall in love with you if yon him, and then play fandagos and sing love songs under your window! When Ethel got back to New York Col. Johnson, her slow-coach lover, called, and the servant being ont, her little sister went to the door.

Is your sister Ethel in? asked the colonel. Yes. shes in." Is phe engaged? Yes, I think so; shes jut back from Florid on tbe Palm Limited. Well, are your father and mother in? Yes. they are in.

Are they encaged? Engaged! Why theyre married! Palm Limited again screamed the colonel "Dang me If they haTent all grit it! The next morning he wa headed for tbo Pennsylvania depot, running to catch a train out of town. The ticket iu his bat read Southern Railways Talm Beach Limited. YESTERDAY'S POLICE TRIALS. Patrolman William Donoher, of tbs Bergen street station, was charged yesterday before Deputy Police Commissioner Ebstein with failing to be on post. It wat brought out during the examination of the witnesses that a murder had been committed on the officer relieving point, and that tbe murderer bad escaped.

The officer in his own defence wall that be was attending to duty in another part of bis rl n4 that it was through no fault of huf thxr tbe man bird ic'd away. Tho Deputy Commissioner reserved his decision. Pstrolman James F. McLaughlin, of the Greenpoinf avenne station, lost fire day's pay for being off post for two hoonr. Patrolman Robert ITiotnpson, of the Klatbnh avenne station, when a-ked Vhnt he had to say to a charge of entering a saloon while in uniform, gare a an excuse that he was anxious to ascertain the name of a complainant in a lareenv case.

Three davs- pay. said the Commissioner. The next time stay on the out- wda. He Did Not Know If as Many Cars Are Operated Now as One Year Ago Sheehan's Speech. The testimony of President Orestfcinger, of the Brooklyn Rapid Tran.it Company, who was on Mod a witness by Judge Dailey, was the chief event of yesterday afternoon hearing, thoyJy the examination did not prore aa sensational aa was president said he-did' not know many facta about the workings of his company which he had been called to eluei-, dale.

The easo for the eomplaiuants wa brought to a elosc during the afternoon, and tho eompany opened Its side with a forkful speech by Attorney William C. Sheehan! Harris S. Burronghs, of No. 1110 Pacific street, an electrical engineer, waacalled In testify to the condition aud operation of the Kings County Elevated train. During the rush hour, he said, he practically never nag able to obtain a seat.

Tho traina ate usually held up on the fraeka near the Bridge for about six One morning it took him twelve minutes to' get from the Myrtle avenue stotion to the Bridge. Lack of power is no excuse on the said the witness. These trains are run by steam and heated by steam. Mr. Burrougha told of the poor lighting faelities, passengers being unable to read, while tbe-ianlps frequently drip oil on them.

The plal forma are often so crowded that the guards have to get on thedrain between the Wtiti General Syatem of Transfers. James Wilson, 'of Rheepshead Bay, described transit facilities from that place. His particular grievance was that no transfers- are given from (lie Marry avenue cars to those of the Flushing and Graham avenues line. In order to get to thut line, he said, passengers must go by the Kings County ears to the park and transfer to the Lorimer street' cars. Then the eompany requires a second transfer to Nostrand avenue cars at Jhc Penitentiary, though both lines continue oVcr identically the same tracks to Flushing avenue.

The remedy for these complaints, he said in closing, is unlimited transfer. Let the people change from line to line everywhere, and there wilt he lfttle trouble. Each person will find the best way tor himself, and each will go about his business." There was a marked detaonstration of approval from The attendants at the hearing when lliis statement was made. Henry Mumford, of No. -18 Quincy street, gave a number of specific instances of the crowding he had observed in the Jew weeks, and the infrequency of certain ears.

His testimony culled forth an amusing tilt between the counsel. At the close of his statement Counselor Sheehan said: Mr. Mumford, did I understand you to say that you are not in busiuess Yes. Well, it seem to me that you hare been pretty busy for the past few weeks." Ob, I could multiply these instances by a hundred. "I don't doubts'll.

I want 0nt to go on the records, interposed Judge Dailey to the Commission- stenographer. "The counsel for the company admit that hundreds of such case could he oiled." I admitted that pitiless could say them. said Lawyer Sheehan hastily. I won't accept the apology that way, answered Judge Dailey. William Hemstreet, who bn been an official court stenographer for thirty-two years, compared the Brooklyn lines with those of other cities.

The condition here, he said, had given Brooklyn a stigma throughout the I'nitod States. There is a fender which makes it impossible to rim over an object, he declared. The jerking of the ears by the motormen, lie said, waa absolutely unnecessary. "The poor city of Havana can give this City of Churches many points in the comfort nud decency of car service. Cross examination revealed the fact that the fender referred to is III use in Washington.

The witne had never seen It catch anyone who had been run Greatstnger Bring Lively Tilt. Judge Dailey next called for President Jacob L. Greatsiuger. who responded without hesitatiou. The liveliest contest of the bearing followed, tho company- lawyer bjecting to almost every question asked.

Mr. Grentsinger iewtified that he was pres-dent, of the companies concerned, that he ived at the Hotel MargAret, and waa a re-dent of Duluth before coming here. Up ad been engagegd in railroading for thir-j-two years, he said, having held almost 'very position. His last office was that of resilient of the Duluth and Iron Range liailroad, operating between those two oints. What is (he population of Duluth? isked Judge Dailey.

About io.OOO. about the size of one nf our vnrds. How many passengers did that ompanv 3 bis brought forth a vigoroim objection rotn Lawyer Sheehan. Judge Dailey ex-IsinH that he wa trying to ascertain tr. Greatsingerg experience and capacity or hi position.

Mr. Gretinger will dmit." said Chair-tan Cole, that he never had charge of such svsteiH aa thia before." The witness agreed. How many cara did yon roa? Another objection, which wa not us-uned. and Mr. Groatsinger answered: A bout fifty nr sixty: many do yon operate now?" About 1.100 surface cara and 300 ele-aU-il cars." "Are yon operating a many ear in a day twentr-four hour now a' you were a ir ago? aim was objected to, hut the was not upheld the chairman.

The Moose, however, was unable to answer, ring that he did not know. awyer Suggest That Ought to Know. "I'-nt It psrt of our duty to know No." TO STOP BLACK COAL SMOKE. Kenedy for It tad Flax ts Make Coal Last Are Bridge Department Iareatloas. .1 Bridge Commissioner Lindenthal has evi denty inspired the engineers of his department with some of bis own inveutive genius, for now one of them has come out with a scheme to do away with the black smoke that arises front soft coal.

Incidentally this solution is said to save about 23 per cent, of the fuel and it is in use in one of the Harlem shops of the Bridge IV-purtment. The solutioo is permanganate of potash and hot water and this is sprinkled on the coal before it is put intq the furnace, According to a report just received at tfie Bridge Department the Use of the solution does away with the thick smoke and add something to th heating qualities of the coal. It is understood that further experiments will be made and if they ail prove as successful as the first will probably be used iu all of the stations of the department. From the same department, which, of late, has become something in the nature of a chemical laboratory, comes new of a scheme that appeal to ail ho have to build the fire in the morning and watch it during the day. The scheme is to take eight tablespoonfuls of common salt and add them to one gallon of hot water.

Boil flic water for ten minutiw and set aside to cool. Then get a rubber ball and fill it with the solution. Next; go down io the coal bin and see if the janitor has left any real. If he has. fill a scuttle with it and carry to the kitchen.

Take the rubber hall and squirt the solution over the real, Being careful to distribute it evenly. Place some of the coal on tile fire and leave it there. If everything wniks well, the coal will last very much longer than tinsaltod real, aud will give out au intense heat. If the fire goes out build a fresh one. Tho engineering division of the department announces that all of the wreckage left from tho fire on the Williamsburg Bridge wa removed last Wednesday.

A1o that the waterproofing of the rabies on tho spans has been completed and likewise that the steel cover plate for the waterproofing are being put in place. The work on the suspended structure is going foi-ward satisfactorily, 130 men being nt work thereon, and the erection of steel work on (be Manhattan approach has been resumed. It is stated tbat work on the suspended structure should bow go forward rapidly. The report of the commission of expert engineer who are making test of the cable damaged in the fire is the end of this wec. THE WOES OF THE DARHSTABTS.

Anthony a well-to-do lawyer With offices in Long Island City and who live on Washington street, Richmond Hill, wa elmrged with abandonment before Magistrate Furlong In the Gates Avenue Cetn-1-yesterday by hi mtU Martipi. ef 114 Rchaffer street. Mr. Dnrnstndt told the court that she had been married twelve jear anti hid two childreV' nnd that she had sc is rated from her liusliaiul six yeara ago. She had her husband arrested for assault then.

She claimed tbat he was living with their former servant-girl. Darn-tadt awerred that hi wife was well enough provided for. I i-h supisirt for the children." said Mr. Dainstadl. Darn-tadt denied that ope of I be (hibtren was his.

1 he tnsgi-ttafe prod tV set the i-c do Dr ensbrsti a UWIER SKEEK4.1 KFEKJS RAIIROAD CGIffM'S SERVICE. Lawyer Rbeehsn addressed the' Commission yesterday afternoon in defense of the railroad -company, speaking at Irngth. 11a aald: Sheehan Speech. The Brooklyn lleighta Railroad Company is of approaching the solution of the difficult and perplexing qnee-Homj that have-been predated to this honorable hoard with a iwoad guage aud lilt-eral spirit and with the sole desire of giving to the puhlic the best possible transportation aervire under physical condition existing in tliia borough. do not assert that the management of this company is, ever has been, or ever will be such a to atify every individual citisen in the borough.

If siuh a system exists anywhere. It is unknown in railway hi-tory. The most efficient transportation men in this count rr igcee, and we aM know it to he true, put the tinn-pnrlatlpa prob lent of thi borough has no el anr-.