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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE PICTURE- AND SPORTING SECTION PICTURE AND SPORTING SECTION NEW YORK CITY. TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1913. Rapid Progress Made on Brooklyn Botanic Garden Building WALKS and TALKS Governor Sulzer's Crusade for Direct Primaries By JULIUS CHAMBERS 1HE campaign for party pledges in this State has begun. Governor Sulzer is on the war path against individual boss dicta Part of the Group of Buildings in Brooklyn Botanic Garden, as They Appear as Present. URIN'O the last few weeks rapid progress has been made on the new laboratory and administration building and wing of The buildings now under construction represent less than a fifth of the buildings to be erected in the Botanic Garden.

The total cost of these buildings will be J200.000. Of this amount one-half has been appropriated. The laboratory and administration building Is 200 feet long, and is completion, and the plans have been drawn and bids advertised for the construction of a large palm house. A feature of the decorations of the laboratory building is the Inscription of the names of the most- prominent botanists of all ages, which appear upon the frieze and beneath the windows of the struc- A recent appropriation of S.lt.fln-O fnr grading and soil improvements to be used during the summer In improving the garden, and following the transfer of three acres of land adjoining th Museum Building, a part of this money will be use-d in grading this land and, milking an entrance to the Botanic Garden from the Eastern Parkway. secure tile for the roof.

This tile was being made in Dayton, 0., and the floods made It impossible to deliver the material. A temporary roof has been erected, however, and the interior work is being pushed. It is said that the buildings will be ready for occupancy not later than September. the conservatory of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The new buildings have been delayed more recently by failure to an artistic structure.

There will be four conservatories like the wing now nearing ture. Erasmus Players to Appear in the Musical Play" Galatea" most every dollar In the national treasury gone! It is practically empty. Only a few days ago I explained the methods by which the left by Gomez's predecessor were got rid of. "Absorbed" would be a better word! The Gomez administration took care of Its friends, much as did the series of Republican administrations at Washington. To pull Cuba out of the slough In which it ia now floundering will require sublime courage and much administrative ability.

Every American citizen will sincerely hope that Senor Menocal is equal to the task. If he is not, Cuba certainly will have to be "taken over" by the United States, however undesirable the heritage may be. Another revolution In Cuba oue of Cuba against herself is unthinkable! It cannot be tolerated by the nation that has "guaranteed" peace and prosperity on the Island. When that absorption comes, the vexed question about the Isle of Pines will disappear. Cuban-Americans with whom I have recently talked on this subject are not hopeful of Menocal's success.

They fear he will not display sufficient backbone to have all cbnspirators of the half-breed class promptly arrested, tried and, If found guilty, shot at an hour's notice. This, they insist. Is the only method by which open revolt can be prevented against any sincere government. Today will mark the beginning of an era of regeneration for Cuba, or the failure of a half-hearted effort at independent government of a people by themselves. Cuba's future is in the balance today! If disaster shall come to Menocal or some irreconcilable take his life the course of the so-called Cuban Republic is run.

Menocal has announced that he will ask American intervention at the first sign or serious revolution. He means what he says. Ignorance always has gone hand in hand with evil. The extremely radical first effort of the Bureau of Social Hygiene to tell the people of Greater New York the social conditions of the underworld cannot but be productive of good. Many of the revelations are startling to old police reporters, who thought they understood the conditions fairly well.

The book Is published by one of the most reputable companies In the metropolis and is the first of a series. It is for sale at all booksellers. If Anthony Comstock doesn't look out, his occupation will glide from under biui. The monks of Mount Athos, the celebrated promontory on the Aegean Sea that has again become Grecian, have had in their keeping the Byzantine robe and crown of the Eastern monarchs of Rome since the fall of Constantinople. They now offer them to King Constantine for his coronation, and the probability is that they will remain the property of the Grecian king.

The similarity of the names of the present king of Greece and the last Emperor of the East make this proceeding highly proper. Constantine XI II was he who va3 overthrown by Mohammed II In H53. These sacred relics of the Christiaij Emperor of Constantinople have been guarded by the monks with rare care for over' 530 years, the secret of their hiding place being transferred by word of month and possessed only by two custodians. The crown Is of beaten gold and weighs over fifty pounds. A lengthy talk was given some time ago on Mount Athos, one of the holiest places of the Christian world, outside Palestine.

tion. Every hour new recruits are rallying to his support. It is a significant battle that is about to be fought. It has for its predecessors and precedents the Ineffectual campaign of Governor Hughes and the thoroughly effective countrywide campaign of Colonel Roosevelt, undertaken to defeat the Republican bosses who had manipulated the Chicago convention after former Hanna methods. There may be some doubt whether the direct primary system will accomplish all that is expected; but the temporary end of the State convention is the one object aimed at and me problem of making nominations without such machinery will become highly interesting.

Resourceful as are the American people not to mention the politicians among them some method will develop by which the direct primary idea will work out satisfactorily. That may be. depended on. First, the bosses must be eliminated. They must be permanently retired! By no other means can the majority be free to express their opinion regarding candidates for office.

The twilight of the municipal. State and national boss is at haud. A distinguished pnyslclan of Brooklyn, Dr. J. Edwards Midgley, writes to say that ho saw in the Sun of May 13 a statement that I had advocated the use of crude petroleum as fuel for steamships over twenty years ago, and asks if the statement Is correct.

It is not only true, but I gave several years of vain effort to convincing the big shipbuilders of this country that the use oil was safe and practical. Charles H. Cramp laughed mo to scorn exactly as he did when I advised the employment of the turbine principle to steam. Ho had forty-odd reasons why neither one system nor the other would work. Today many fast transatlantic boats are using the turbine principle, and the girantio Olympic has installed oil burn-tng boilers that are expected to furnish most of the steam.

More than that, I suggested the use of the trolley system on the canajs. a use of the trolley principle that is sure to replace the slow and patient mule. In 1892, when editing a Manhattan newspaper, I printed a series of pictures, drawn under my direction, showing exactly how the trolley could he used on the New York canals and yet. when I passed through the Champlain-St. Lawrence system of waterways last fall to and from Quebec, I found the same old horses pulling the boats, as of yore.

What's the use? Renor Don Mario Garcia Mcnocal of the Cornell University class of 1SSS. and a member of the Delta Chi Chapter of D. K. E. (which founded at that University), will be inaugurated President of the Republic of Cuba today.

A bunch of Corncllians met yesterday and sent to this son of their alma mater a congratulatory cablegram. The opportunities of this comparatively young man are much the same as those of William Sulzer, Governor of New York. He Is confronted with a system of "graft" that equals nothing in this world except that existing under the present police regime In New York City. He finds al of way could be adequately protected from trespassers. It could be adopted.

It was dangerous to life nnd limb elsewhere. There were other workers in the same branch, but it was conceded that Mr. Field wa3 the leader. The third tail is now in successful operation and it is favored by operatives as the most satisfactory of all means of electrical propulsion for light service like that in the subways. Mr.

Field's influence on electrically propelled surface cars was very great, except on the overhead sy3tcm, and so it is hardly proper to call him th father of the trolley cor. Indeed, there Becm to be many fathers of the overhead system. If there is one who can be so designated it would seem to be F. J. Sprague, who certainly was a large influence in the adoption of these means of propulsion which have certainly worked an astounding revolution In the transportation of passengers on the street railroads of cities, and which in Inter years has been extended to the suburban districts.

It Is doubtful, however much overhead may be condemned, whether the latter mentioned extension could have taken place under a system of greater cost of Installment. Certainly, the third rail could not have been used on the opeu roads of the country districts. it''' POJLTYO WOOD HELEN MfiSCHMIDT the new scenery has been provided for A Smile A Second the new musical play, by Professor Eugene W. Harter. which is to be presented at the Academy of tJSiiMmm to lire production.

Professor Harter. who is the author of the play, has many compositions to ills credit. "Galatea," it is said, is the most pretentious play he has ever written. It is the first time a musical entertainment has been given by as the annual nlav. and promises to Music on the evening of June 7, promises to bo the most notable per ftfrmance ever given by students of Erasmus High School.

Seventy-five per-Eons will take part in the play, and all eclipse any previous effort. A special orchestra has been engaged for the FATHER OF THE TROLLEYS nnlv tmrt.tntViq for m'onulsive power. Making Money. Getting rich is the art of making whole lot of money. Any one who can make a great deal of money can be rich, just as well as not.

If any man makes tremendous amount of money and saves it and is not rich, it is his own fault. There are many ways of making a great deal of money. Any young man who desires to amass a fortune can do so TEPHEN DUDLEY FIELD, who was a really great inventor and master worker in the electrical field, and who died on Sunday uilds Chapel to Parents at Home for Aged That made it too expensive for practical purposes. In Buda-Pesth, Hungary, a conduit system had been Installed in which the wires were laid, but, the width of the slot, to give play to the connecting last, is credited by some of the writers by following the Oilyfeller plan. This rnrl from the floor of the car, was bo great that not only did the snow, ice and 1 plan is awfully simple, but, after you havo rain fall, but the refuse of the street fell, got it, what's the difference? The Oily- feller plan is merely to gain control of the entire oil output of the country.

Riches with being the father of the trolley cars. It is to be doubted whether he can be properly so characterized. The first cars to be moved by electricity that were practically successful with results that were satisfactoiy, were the overhead trolley cars, such as have been brought to perfection in Brooklyn and which may be seen on any street in our borough, on which rails are laid. With that system Mr. Field had litlle sympathy and little connection.

In the b'ginning of electrical propulsion there were many of tht workers In the electrical field who regarded it as crude and unsatisfactory. Even after its practicability had been abundantly shown on that thirteen miles of road in Richmond, Virginia, by Frank Sprague, their faces were set against It and they sought other means of electrical propulsion. For some time before the overhead trolley was introduced Thomas A. Edison had been experimenting with a form of electrical motor which it was hoped would displace the locomotive and to which a train of cars could be attached. A man of the name of Julian was working on a storage battery which should move a motor placed in each car and, indeed, was displaying a car so equipped on several of the roads of the State.

And Mr. Field was devoting his energies to the perfection of the conduit form. Edison produced a motor that did all that was required of It on the experimental railroad at Memlo Par. This motor generated its own electricity into the conduit to the extent that operation was interferred with. Mr.

Field favored the conduit system, but he quickly saw that the secret of success lay in the improvement of the connecting rod so developed that the slot in the conduit could be narrowed nnd the play of the connecting rod placed somewhere else than in the rod itself. This, after years of labor, he accomplished, and the results of his labors may be seen in the surface street cars, electrically propelled, in the streets of Manhattan. They are all operated under his device. By law, the overhead trolley wires are forbidden In Manhattan. When the public demand for the abandonment of horses as motive power became so great that it was heeded by the railroad authorities, cables were laid in conduits between the tracks.

But In operation these cables were far from satisfactory, for the grip would not always work with that precision necessary to the regular operation of the ear and speed was a diflieult thing to accomplish, while the cost was great. Mr. Field's device came at a time when it was sorely needed and was enthusiastically seized upon as a solution of the difficulties. follow quickly after this is accomplished. Try the Oilyfeller plan.

Go out as he did and get a half-Nelson hold on the oil supply of the United States, then when, noted economists sit up and burn the midnight oil trying to devise ways and means of putting you out of business you will have the consolation of knowing that they must pay you for the oil. There is a lot of midnight oil burned ia this country. Should you follow the Oilyfeller system the ways of making money are as numerous as the sands of the sea. When you sit on your front porch reading your Bible and sec an automobile go by, it will suggest an idea to you and you will raise the price of gasoline one cent a gallon. When you see two automobiles go by it will suggest another idea to you and yon will raise the price of gasoline two cents a gallon; three automobiles, three cents, and so on ad infinitum.

You can make eight or ten million dollars a day in this manner. When you are on the train and the conductor comes through with his lantern the lantern will suggest another way to make money. It will remind vcu to raise the price of kerosene a cent a gallon. When the brakeman comes through with his lantern it will remind you to raise the price of kerosene another cent. The Oilyfeller plan is one of the best we have heard of.

The first step, young man, is to gain control of the oil output of the entire countrv. After that the Group of buildings at Home for Aged Brown Memorial Chapel at right. This accomplished, Mr. Field turned his I Chapel will take place on Thursday even-? from dynamos carried on the motor attention to the solution of the third-rail problem. The third rail could not be memory of his fa'her and mother, who were active in Methodist Church work.

James N. Brown, the well-known trucks. But lis coat was prohibitive. That was what was the matter with the used on the surface of the streets, but liner, and not one of them would admit that he had any intentions whatever, so the deacon has put a sign on his front gate, "No Admittance Except on believes he will land the guilty party before very long. Deacon Pringle has asked several young men their intentions toward his daughter, Miss Amy Pringle, our popular mil In subways, on elevated roads aud.

In- youn. man 0f intelligence should be Julian idea. The leakage In every unit of a huudred was eight-tenths, leaving deed, on all other roads where the right nick UD a bit of dough. banker aud prominent Methodist, has erected at large cost a chapel as part of the beautiful group of build- ing, May 22. The act of dedication win be performed by Bishop Luther B.

Wilson, resident bishop of New York for the Methodist Church. Addresses will be made by the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadnian, pastor of Central Congregational Church; Tublic Works Commissioner Lewis H.

Pounds and William A. Premlergast, Controller of the City of New York. A notable musical programme has been prepared. It will be interpreted by Mrs. Carrie Teale-Swartz, violinist: Mrs.

Marie Bosse-Morrisi contralto, and George W. Ditz, tenor. At the piano as accompanists will be Mrs. Imogene Peck-Mable and Sanford Ashley Pette. The chapel has been fully described in these coumns.

Lutheran Pastors of Atlantic District Meet at Big Convention I. A I'rom ttic Hiikcyville Clarion. Hsnk Tumms says he can't see why they're fightin' so blamed hard for home rule in Ireland. The home rule around .1 his house is so strict that he dasssn't lay his pipe down on the parlor table and if he doesn't get up at 5 o'clock in the morning he doesn't pet no breakfast. Uncle Ezra Harkins says that bein' Turk ain't so bad in some ways.

They haven't yet introduced the dictagraph in that country. Rev. Hudnutt of the Hard Shell Church says he thinks his church has paid too much attention to the hea.hen abroad and not enough to the heathen right here at 1 1 ,1 uuiiic. iic iu uicui wcim ia sleep i.ur- v4 4 i in his sermon yesterday and he had to announce a hymn to drown out the noise. Our village constible is hot on the trail of the culpret who dropped a lead slug in the horseless pianner down at the C-clden Nugget buffet nd got tune for it.

He says the wave of crime in tHs village has got to step cr he will know- the reason why. He has got nine men in the calaboose on suspicion and as every one of them had fifteen or twenty slugs in his pocket when searched the constible i sb i i i i I i I' es II James N. Brown. lngs which form the Home for the Aged, Park place and New York avenue. The new chnpcl is on the right of the illustration herewith, showing the entire This illustration shows part of the group of Lutheran pastors who met in New York on the occasion of the annual convention of the Atlantic District.

Among the important matters transacted by the body was a 20 per cent, increase in the salaries of the missionaries and preparations to unite all the Lutheran forces in the The doctrinal paper was read by the Kcv. 1 Roesiner of Manhattan. The subject was: "The Miracle of the Chiystian Religion." The delegates numbered 300. group. The dedication of the Brown Memorial.