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VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN, BUT STAY IN Crooked Election. Laws Perpetuate That Party's Domination, Says D. 5. Lewis. FRAUDS ARE GROWING RAPIDLY.

WERE CONFINED AT FIRST TO THE BELT." But Success Has Made Conspirators Bolder-Same Set of Laws Now Used in Kentucky Useless Contests. The Hon. D. S. Lewis, formerly United 'States District Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, in visiting relatives, in Brooklyn.

Mr. Lewis, who in a son of the late United States Senator John F. Lewis, of Virginia, la at the present time and has been for number of years the owner and editor of the Spirit of the Valley, of Harrisonburg, the most Influential Republican newspaper in the State. Mr. Lewis was seen by al Times reporter who asked him to give him a statement for publication concerning the late election In that State.

He "The question is rather misleading, Inasmuch as the word 'election' in this connection. implies a choice by the voters, and all who are well informed as to Virginia polltics know that under our election laws, administered A8. they have been for nearly twenty years, elections which reflect the will of the majority are never had. These election laws are Intended to encourage and to render its detection Impossible. They are those which the late Senator Goebel, of Kentucky, took as models when he was preparing a set of election laws which would enable the party manipulating them to perpetuate itself in power no matter how large was the popular majority against It.

The Virginia election laws, as Senator Goebel well knew, had served for years to effectually smother the will of the majority, and so he copied these laws and had them passed through the Kentucky Legislature almost verbatim et literatim, and they seem to have accomplished as much for the Democrats of Kentucky as they had done and are still doing for the Virginia Democrats. "Virginia is a Republican State by a maJority of certainly not less than 25,000, but our election laws put it wholly in the power of the election officers to return such candidates as they see fit, no matter how great the majority against them may be. "In considering the political situation in Virginia, it is absolutely necessary for one to bear in mind this fact, and to fully realize that the returns as made by the election officers bear no relation to the actual vote cast, but reflect 'simply the will of the Democratic managers. Consequently, when It was announced, after the late election, that Mr. Andrew Jackson Montague, the Democratic candidate for Governor, was elected, and had defeated Col.

J. Hampton Hoge, the Republican candidate, by about 35,000 majority, nobody acquainted with the manner in which our so-called elections are held was decelved. The only thing certain about it was that Montague would be the de facto Governor of Virginia after the first' day of January next, 'but how the majority of the legal voters had actually cast their ballots -whether for or for Hoge- no one, except the Democratic manipulators, can tell. "These election laws show upon their face the intention of the Legislature to provide an easy way for the election officers to cheat without any possibility of proof against them sufficient to convict. If these laws had been entitled 'Laws for the Encouragement of Election Officers in the Perpetration of Frauds Upon Voters, and for the Effectual Prevention of the Detection and Punishment of Such the Intent to encourage fraud and its detection could not be made any plainer than it now is.

These laws were enacted at the instance of the of Democrats of those counties which are known as the 'Black -that is, of those countries which either have a majority of negroes or those in which the negro populadion is nearly as large as that of the white population. For the first few years after the enactment of these election laws, which made cheating both easy and safe, the frauds. were confined exclusively to the of 'Black but as time passed and the corruption and demoralization caused by the swindling which these laws encouraged became greater, these frauds spread to many the white counties, and at the present time there is not even one of the ten Congressional districts of the State which is altogether free from election frauds. Any wellInformed Democrat will tell you in private the conversation that the negro voters are swindied out of their votes in the negro counties, and that this swindling is, to use their own language, 'necessary to preserve our civili-. zation'-that is to say, that they propose to not resort to cheating under the election law, which necessitates perjury and forgery, rath than have any negro officer or any white only two officer who owes his election to negro voters.

on is estimated that at every election from 35,000 to 40,000 Republican voters are defrauded of their votes. are this state of affairs existing it seemnominate any candidates for fair useless to State officers, and our State Committee hesitated about calling a convention, but the rank and file seemed. to ardently desire a contest, 'and it was believed that this year would be good time to make the fight, as to Constitutional Convention which is now session at Richmond, is controlled entirely the Democrats and its action, as far as It gone, has been very obnoxious to the the people. In addition to this, Montague, when making his fight in his own party for the nomination for Governor, had posed as a reway, former and had denounced the frauds which were said those whom he denominated 'Ring. tion.

Democrats' had practised, so there was A great desire on the part of many Republicans test Mr. Montague's love of fair play when himself was' a candidate and dependent on It ballot-box manipulators for his success. to have said above, the Hon, Andrew that Jackson Montague made his fight for the his nomination inside of the Democralic party paid against the regular organization which he declared. to be tricky and corrupt. In makhis fight he soon proved that he was times about as astute as any of those politicians whom he had denounced as unprincipled will ringsters.

He captured in many countles the tution ring's machines and in others he built up ma- titled chines of his own, and while posing as a re- the former, who was down on all political ma- to chines, he proved quite as shrewd as and not whit more scrupulous, than the most declared of the so-called ringsters. new "The head and front of the machine Dem- ted ocrats was United States Senator Martin the Congressman Claude S. Swanson, one of brightest and most popular lieutenants, laws the candidate of that wing of the VirDemocrats, and the odds were largely him at the commencement of the cam- the Besides United States Senator Thom- "Of Martin, Mr. Swanson had the support of require Senator John W. Daniel: Before the Demo- Its Convention met at Norfolk, Montague captured so large a proportion of the del- these that Mr.

Swanson's name was not power placed before the nominating Mr. Montague was 'nominated by of acclamation. Not only Mr. Montaque's lowed actions prove that he was not 80 much of a submit in politics as he had been cracku1 up he by his admire.a and supporters, but in I chised I THE BROOKLYN TIMES, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1901. boldly "between one of his speeches he said ballot box of fraud and a ballot box norance, greatly prefer the former, view of the fact that he and all other gent men in Virginia knew that fraud absolutely necessary in order to elect a coratio State ticket, this bold announcement was of the utmost the Republican Convention held, Col.

J. Hampton Hoge was nominated, He In an eloquent orator and a logical strong debater and the voters of the were extremely anxious to hear the between the two parties discussed In debate between the respective candidates the Governorshop, but the Democratio Committee, an well as Mr. Montague, opposed to joint debates, not because did not think he 1a as good speaker Mr. Hoge 1, but because were unwilling to have the latter expose Inconsistences of their candidate and the claims made in the Democratio form. The Republicans secured one joint cussion between the candidates, but in to do so Col.

Hoge had to concede to Montague both the opening and the of the debate and after this discussion aver, nothing could induce Montague to Hoge again in debate. thing and the chief thing made this political contest Interesting. that a Constitutional Convention was in sion at Richmond, making new constitution. The convention was called by Democratio legislature and was entirely der the control of Democrata, and many the measures proposed in the convention were exceedingly unpopular. The Constitution, which la the one which present Democratic convention 18 down, was adopted in the year 1800 by a vention In which the Republicans had control and it in by far the best constitution the State of Virginia had.

It was Constitution which was the first to provide for a system of publie or free schools, however, is only one of Its many excellencies. Under the present Constitution, amended a few unimportant particulars, the people Virginia have lived for thirty -two years, It was adopted by a vote of largely over hundred thousand in its favor to less sixteen thousand against it and until last two or three years a large majority all parties considered it a good Constitution. "But in the last year or two the Democratic politicians of the South seemed bent rendering the Fifteenth Amendment to United States Constitution of no effect the Virginia Democratic leaders having ed in this movement, this convention called. Nearly every Democratic member the convention has declared, either in views or in public speeches, that their tion is to disfranchise practically the negro vote, while not disfranchising any the white voters. They say that it is not norance or thriftlessness at which they aiming, but that the future peace and curity of the people depend upon the ability of the Constitutional Convention, now Richmond, for the purpose of making new Convention, to disfranchise the negro without disfranchising any considerable number of white people.

The reason give is that the race prejudice against negroes is so strong that there will never any peace in Virginia as long as any considerable number of them have the right vote. In this connection they frankly knowledge that the frauds committed at ballot boxes in Virginia, in order to make negro vote of no effect, have already demoralized those persons who are election officers and who are the instruments by which Democratic managers have the election turns come in to suit their desires and their needs. Of course, these returns are necessary to Democratic supremacy and when reflects that every Democratic official in State, Executive, Legislative and Judicial, has to rely, elther directly or indirectly, upon fraud, It is easy to understand how demoralizing and how far reaching these fraudulent manipulations must necessarily be. "As proof that I have not exaggerated this phase of the situation, I quote one sentence from a speech made a few days ago In the Constitutional Convention' by Major W. A.

Anderson, a member from bridge County, and who is the man just chosen Attorney General on the Montague ticket. In speaking against the majority report of the Suffrage Committee, he said: "The virus of political disease had permeated the whole body politic under present conditions, and the suffrage plan was necessary as an escape from these "These people, or the best and wisest them are trying to escape from the results their own actions, but in doing so they are about to commit two- glaring blunders. First, they propose merely to shift the frauds instead of preventing them, and second, they propose to violate the fifteenth amendment of the United States Constitution, and are only hesitating because they differ as to the best way to circumvent that part of it so that the Supreme Court the United States will not be obliged to declare it unconstitutional. "While the result of the late election in Virginia was made to appear as a Demo cratie victory, yet all close observers know that but for the election law and the character of the men who were appointed as Judges and clerks to administer it. Hoge would have been the Governor-elect, and balance of the Republican ticket would have been chosen.

Even as it Was, the Republican gains were considerable, but they were all made in the white counties, where the Democratic election machine was made to operate up to its full capacity. "In the last Legislature the Republicans had four members-two Senators and members of the House of Delegates, but the fifth they have twenty-six, a gain of twenty-two members of the Legislature. All of these Republican members returned from the white sections, and if returns were made. from the Black Belt, the Republican majority in the State both on the State ticket and in the. Legislature would be large.

"It is said that the programme of the Montague wing of the party in is to try send Montague to the United States Senate, and let Joseph Willard, the Lieutenant-Governor-elect, who is a millionaire many times over, become the Governor of State. It is also a part of the political gossip that this was the understanding between Willard and Montague (who, by the are cousins), before elther of them nominated by the Norfolk ConvenWillard put up the money for Montague delegates to the and pretty nearly all that was spent in the canvass after the nominations were made. is said that securing the delegates prior the Convention was very expensive, and Willard was made to draw heavily on bank account. Whether he will be reor not by being made Governor remains to be seen. "One of the most significant signs of the is the fact that it now appears pretty certain that the members of the Convention not submit" the proposed new Constito all the voters, who are now ento vote, but will either proclaim it as fundamental law or will only submit.

It those who will be voters should the pronew Constitution become the fundamental law. So unpopular is the proposed Constitution that should it be submitto the same electorate which elected members of the Convention, it would be defeated in spite of the Democratic election and counting machines. Even with the electorate abridged, as is proposed by the Convention, there would be a probability of new Constitution being rejected. course good faith and honest dealing that the Convention should submit work to the same voters by whom the members of the Convention were chosen. If delegates in the have the to distr: achise 150,000 voters and to proclaim their work to 'be the supreme law the State, without the people being alto rote on the question or even to it to the remaining 200,000 voters, not ellowing the 150,000 who are 6 be distranto vote on the question, then it seems boldly "between of In intelli wAll Dem- was and State lanues Joint for State were they an they the refute platdim order Mr.

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Could scarcely walk at times, and would have to go to bed until I felt better. I was told by a physician that my complaint that 'the consent of the governed' has tainly ceased to be one of the cardinal points of Democratic faith, at least in Virginia. Common justice would seem to demand that the same electorate which chose the members as their agents to make a constitution should say by their ballots whether the work of these agents should be ratified. "I have not the election returns before me, which I regret, because I would like to show you how counties which had 400 or 500 majority of negro voters were returned as giving Bryan large majorities over McKinley, and Montague about the same maJorities over Hoge, and on the other hand how very many of those counties which have only a very few negro voters gave large majorities both for McKinley in 1900 and for Hoge in the late 'election. But I suppose I nave said enough." NAGLE MAD CLEAR THROUGH.

Explains the Attempt to Sell Dumping Boats, and Longs for Private Life. Commissioner Nagle, of the Department of Street Cleaning, was angry yesterday over the attack made upon him by the newspapers, for his actions with regard to the selling of three patent dumping boats built for the city during Col. Waring's term, at the cost of about $30,000 each. An Injunction was issued pending the sale Wednesday. Commissioner Nagle was asked yesterday what he had to say concerning the matter.

He said this: "The dumpers were built by Col. Waring's authority and. then It was discovered that they were too expensive to run. A royalty of $10 a day has to be paid for the patents for every day they are in use. Mr.

Meade, Col. Waring's own man, laid the dumpers up. They were laid up when I took office, and they have been laid up ever since. I thought if. those who wanted the scows thought them to be expensive, I would take their word for it.

I was criticised because. I did not sell them, and get some money for the city. And now I am criticized because I advertise them for sale. The fact is that the morning after election, when the proposal was first printed in the City Record, I had it stopped, for I knew that I would be here only about another month, and thought it better to leave the sale of the scows. to the new administration.

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V. BRIDGE COMMISSIONERS DISAGREE Some Favorable to Roebling's Request in Modified Form and Some Not. The members of the East River Bridge Commission yesterday afternoon resumed their discussion over the request of the John Roeblings Sons' Company, contractors for building of the steel structural work of the New East River Bridge, for an of the limit until next The Commission stand divided and are very decided in their position. President Lewis Nixon said that 1 he was in favor of a brief extension, say, several months, without exacting any penalty from the contractors. Commissioner Lane 0c- cupied a similar position.

Commissioner Boyle declared. irrevocably opposed to any time extension." GONE TO ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS. 6 The Rev. A. B.

MacLaurin, Formerly of Greenpoint, Has Commenced His Pastorate in New Jersey. The Rev. A. B. MacLaurin, former pastor of the Union Avenue Baptist Church, and since the formation of the Union Baptist Church, the financial manager of the Jennie Clarkson Home, removed to Atlantic Highlands, N.

on Tuesday, and has entered upon his duties. as pastor of the Baptist Church there. The clergyman accepted the one month ago. Greenpoint Y. M.

C. A. There was a large attendance at the Noble Street Presbyterian Church. Noble and Lorimer streets last evening, when the star course of entertainments arranged by the Greenpoint Young Men's Christian Association was opened. The Imperial Hand Bell Ringers occupied the centre programme and their efforts met with enthusiastie approval.

The other features of the Star course are as follows: December 12, J. Williams Macy: January 30, De Villiers, French illusionist: February 20, Guy Zenola McClaren: "March 13, The Old Homestead Quartet. Goose Didn't Stay for Raffle. Adam Merkert, a saloon keeper, at Lori mer street and Johnson avenue, drowned his sorrows in the flowing bowl last night because some one stole a goose from his store. It was to be raffled off, but when the time arrived for the contest it was found tha the goose had been taken away by some unknown person.

Merkert 'was driven to, drink by his loss and some time later he was in the Stagg Street Station on a charge of intoxication. He was taken to the. Manhattan Avenue Court this morning and Mag 1strate O'Rellly suspended sentence. Abrams' Jubilee Concert. A jubilee, concert and reception, under the direction of James H.

Abrams, will be given at Winter's Teutonia Hall, Harrison avenue and Bartlett street, on the evening of December 3, when the following talent will appear: Ray Wilson, Lulu Roberts, Billy Moore, Fannie Hubert, Joe Nettie Robertson and the Buckeye Comedy Quartet. There will also be a -buck dance contest between Lucy Wilson 'and Master Edward Carter, for the championship of the Eastern District. The entertainment will conclude with a farce entitled "The Wise Parson." have a very short' memory," said W11- lie Wishington, self: accusingly. would never think it from the stories you tell." answered Miss Cayenne, sweetly. -Washington Star.

I GRANT POST'S DINNER TO ASSOCIATE SOCIETY Corp. Tanner, Job Hedges, 'Alder- man Mcinnes and Truman J. Buckus Speak. COM. BRUSH TELLS STORIES.

JUDGE HEDGES UNIQUE LETTER TO SETH LOW. It Stated That He Did Not Desire Office- -Banquet at Montauk Club, AB Usual, a Pleasant Affair. The U. 8. Grant No.

327, the notable of G. A. R. organizations, gave public banquet to the members of its cate Society last night at the Club. The society, as is generally known, composed of well-known Brooklynites, are notable in official, professional, and commercial circles, and who are noted for their loyalty to the national I ernment.

The post honors them annually by banquet, and that of last night as successful as any ever given by the in the twelve years during which the tom has prevailed. The function began 7:30, and speechmaking at 9:30 o'clock, George A. Price acting as toastmaster. addressed the assemblage briefly, saying post had 327 comrades on the roll, and of the best citizens of Brooklyn in its sociate society, He then called upon mander George W. Brush to say a words.

The Commander made a facetious address, in which he referred to a number the members, telling good story each one. Alderman James H. McInnes congratulated the post upon having formed the sociate-society, as it enabled 100 BrooklynItes to obtain certificates of good reputation. He then said the recent election developed the fact that municipal government was a failure, and it showed that the people not lost control of their public affairs, had, on the contrary, determined to themselves with respect to them. Corp.

James Tanner then responded the toast, "The Members of Grant Post." He began his address by complimenting members of the society, whom, he said, ever stood ready to respond to calls of veterans. The speaker then spoke of members of the post who, he said, passed through the fearful holocaust the Civil War. In common with the who took part in the great conflict, rejoiced that they were born when were born. He referred to the that three times since 1861 had American President gone under 'under the bullet of an assassin. The speaker declared that the American people bound for their own protection and honor's sake to take such measures as might necessary to root out anarchy.

Capt. Earl W. Tanner, United States Army, a son of Corp. Tanner, who recently came from the Philippine Islands, sang Filipino version of "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching." Judge Job E. Hedges, of Manhattan, made one of his characteristic speeches, epigrammatic, witty, pathetic, solemn and eloquent by turns.

He spoke for twenty minutes, but he might have gone on for hours he chosen, 30 captivated. were his hearers by his utterances. He said in part: have been. honored by two invitations to Brooklyn. This is the first place.

that has 80 honored me. You sent a coach for me; no other organization ever did that. I have been taken' home in a carriage, but never before have I been taken to a dinner in one. I understand that Grant Post furnishes posttions. If I should pass the news around Manhattan you would have 40,000 Manhattanites moving to Brooklyn.

This nation saved oftener then any other nation on earth. We save it every four, years. Then we save the State every two years, and the city every odd year. We manage to save something every year. "Recently I became altruistic 'and wrote to Mr.

Low that he had nothing that I wanted. He answered that he was glad. Primarily this is a government of law and order, but actually it is a government of sentiment. No enlightened government can go on unless It is backed 'up by a decent, manly sentiment of its people. The functions of the Grand Armies of the Republic not end when Lee' surrendered.

They have done their share to the healthy, patriotic. spirit now prevailing. Free Institutions are not put to a test in times of war, but in times of peace. It is easy to establish a government, but hard to maintain it. The greatness of a government does not depend upon commerce or money, but upon the devotion of the every-day man to it, and the principles on which it is based.

Every man owes his government a contribution in the shape of honest, sincere service. The man who does not make some contribution honest, decent government is not only coward, but a traitor. (Applause.) "One of your comrades, Corporal Tanner, has spoken about stamping out anarchy by law. That cannot be done by law merely. a law to that end be passed it cannot be effect unless the honest sentiment of the.

people is behind it. If the people make up their minds to stamp out that social. horror known as anarchy they can stamp it out, and belleve they will do that before long. "The people, 'I take It, desire decent government. The recent Montest showed that.

indecency and dishonesty cannot prevail when decent and honest men resolve to crush them out. The men who tolerate Indecency and Indecent men are as bad as the men they Negative goodness' is worthless ag a municipal or a nation asset. The good citizen is the man who thinks a thing gives effect to that thought." President Truman J. Backus, of Packer Institute, made the closing address. The affair 'ended with the singing of "Auld Lang The members and guests present were Enoch Rutzler, Philip Clark, J.

H. WhittaCharles Gray, S. H. Frankenberg, W. S.

Frankenberg, William E. Phillips, Charles Teale, Judge-elect Fred E. Crane, E. B. Jordan, Congressman Henry Bristow, S.

V. White, Col. Nathaniel T. Sprague, Silas B. Dutcher, Edward H.

Driggs, Gen. George Wingate, Col. Henry W. Knight, Noah. William H.

Miller, Major George F. A. H. Frost, George W. Keeler, RegisJames R.

Howe, Bryan J. Reilly, C. W. Brainerd, George W. Baildon, Alderman Jas.

McInnes, Col. A. Price, Judge E. Hedges, Henry Birrell, Commander George W. Brush, James Tanner, Gen.

H. C. King, N. T. Thayer, J.

B. Davenport, Alexander Robb, James M. Fuller, Capt. E. W.

Tanner, U. S. Henry Allan Price, Edgar McDonald, Frederick W. Starr, R. T.

Starr, F. Hobron, the Rev. A. Stewart Walsh, Schondelmeler, M. Thomas CorriA.

C. Squier, H. R. Heath, Col. Andrew Baird, Col.

J. Henry Storey; Herman P. Smith, Willis McDonald, J. Frank McDonald, M. Bulwinkle, H.

H. Beadie, D. S. QuimG. W.

Smith, H. H. Beadle, W. Beadle, B. Haigh, William F.

Ellhu Dwight, Charles H. Dutcher, C. C. Knowlton, A. Barclay, Prof.

William L. Felter, Miller, Charles O. Grim, the Rev. A. Hobson, George B.

Forester, Charles Fuller, C. W. Hubbell, J. C. London, Walter B.

Atterbury, Andrew Jacobs, John Andrew: B. Rogers, H. Stoddard, D. H. Valentine.

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The Pianola does not mar nor injure the Piano in any way, People who are interested in music, and also our great virtuosi, are alike astonished at the rapid strides that are being made in the means for enjoying this art, and at the development of musical taste. Up to three years ago, or before the advent of the Pianola, the privilege of playing the piano was confined to the few born musicians and to those people who could afford the time and money necessary to learn. The better part of a lifetime was often the cost of training the fingers. To-day everybody has this privilege at once. There has been invented a mechanism to do the mechanical work heretofore dependent upon the fingers.

To produce music there are two essentials. First comes technique. Technique, musically, is striking the right notes at the right time in proper relation one to another. It is to accomplish this end that pianists have to devote the greater part of their time, simply to be able to make machines of their fingers; that 18. to make their fingers strike the right notes at the right time.

This part of music, and it is only one part, has been mastered by the Pianola. The other element necessary to music is expression. Expression is the soul of musio; it is the music itself. After one bras learned to finger a selection, he must then give his entire attention to expression; must learn to emphasize certain notes and chords and phrases. He should forget about fingering, and devote his entire attention to the proper expression of the composition; should put himself in the position of the composer, and find out if possible under what conditions the composition was written, and imagine himself in the atmosphere of the composer.

It is to this end that all pianists strive -this expression. "The mechanical or technical part of the music is performed perfectly with the Pianola, and the entire attention can be devoted to expression. It is a fact easily verified, and established by thousands of Pianola owners, that any one can play his piano with the aid of the Pianola, whether or not he knows one note from another; that he can play practically every selection ever written. It is further established by every musician of prominence in this country and Europe, that the Pianola-player can infuse into the rendition of the selection his own interpretation, as his thoughts or mood may dictate. The Pianola is an invaluable addition to the home.

PRICE $250. May be purchased by moderate monthly payments. The Aeolian 18 500 West Fulton 23d New Brooklyn, York. Williams, William H. English, Lieut.

Pattison, W. A. Anderson, Sergt. Vought, Private A. H.

Topping, Capt. Morse, Dr. Lawrence Coffin, R. H. A.

P. Blanchard, John H. Burtis, Irving Comes, Hubert G. Taylor, L. W.

John A. Quintard, Col. AlexS. Bacon, E. C.

Moffat, John A. Wm. F. Piel, Lieut. Morse, U.

S. Navy; Charles E. Keator, General Guide; L. H. Rogers, Right Guide; Col.

William H. Bennett, W. E. Gerard, Major A. K.

Sloan, William H. HIll, Gen. Alexander CaldJohn L. Baker; Capt. Miles O'Reilly, Calvert, Col.

F. M. Crafts, M. J. William T.

Crouch, D. L. Ruth, H. C. S.

Buell, John Cowan, H. A. George H. Ray, Richard M. Butt, J.

Mills, William A. King, I. Will, Schaufele, Thomas Murray, WillEddy, J. H. Downey, James Drew, Mott, G.

Cowle, Chief Engineer U. S. Birt F. Parsons, C. B.

French, C. M. J. B. Clark, A.

Lippitt, George W. Mater, W. W. Brodie, Michael Ma-1 Alderman Ernest A. Seebeck, Col.

Leonard Moody, Thomas J. LinThomas Morrison, W. 0. Cloyes, W. Jarman, William W.

White, Dr. J. J. William J. Tate, John Miller, Au.C.

Tate. Banquet Committee, which arranged function and carried it out successfully its details, consisted of Col. George Chairman; Past Commander John Col. Andrew D. Baird, Andrew Past Commander Heman P.

Smith, Marshall P. Davidson, Judge E. Teale, Ludwig Nissen and N. Thayer. MINOR CITY PLACES.

Appointments and Transfers Recently Announced by the Civil Service Commission. Among a lot of appointments announced by the Municipal Civil Service Commission, yesterday, are a number of drivers and street sweepers, seven in all, reinstated in the Department of Street Cleaning, in Manhattan. Last week Commissioner Percival S. Nagle laid off a lot of drivers and street sweepers on the ground of lack of work. The men reinstated are from Manhattan and the Bronx.

Another reinstatement, in the Department of Water Supply, was that of Frank F. Burke, of Foster's Meadow, L.I., stoker. The following men employed in the Brooklyn Department of Sewers have had their titles changed as Thomas Dougherty, Locust and Coney Island avenues, from laborer to driver; John R. Price, 9 Third street, from laborer to foreman; gasmaker's assistant to laborer, Daniel Mangan, Philip Savarese, Frank McCaffrey, Edward Dunne, John Murphy, John O'Brien, P. F.

ConIon, M. F. Burke, Terrence Owens, Henry O' Dougherty, Owen O'Nell, Charles Stein, James Murphy and Cornelius Foley. Appointments Disciplinary Training School, Elizabeth F. Christenson, seamstress, salary, $300 per annum; Department of Sewers, gasmaker's aseistants, Patrick Reilly, 188 Warren street; J.

H. Flannagan, 388 Lorimer street; Lewis Ennis, 103A Patchen avenue; B. B. Mullen, Manhattan avenue; J. J.

Doran, 389 Gold street; James Laughlin, $30 Manhattan avenue; John Brannigan, 38 Pacific street: Thomas Collins, 236 Sackett street; William Nixon, 88 Sedgwick street; John T. Brennan, 879 Dean street, at $2 per day each; and Dennis F. King, assistant foreman, wages, $3 per day. People nowadays want in a crisp, pithy style, notwithstanding. This RROOKLIN TIMES popular.

TO HAVE NEW BILLIARD TABLES. The Congress Club Meets and Arranges for Various Kinds of, Amusement. The Congress Club held its its semi-monthJ. B. Fisher recorded the proceedings.

After ly meeting last night in the club house, 596. Bedford avenue. President Dr. J. T.

a W. Kastendleck was in the chair, while Secretary the minutes of the previous meeting had, been read and approved, the Chairman of the Board of Governors reported favorably, upon eight applications for membership. Floyd Adams, Chairman of the Board If Trustees, stated that the Board had passed favorably upon the motion made by Dr. Truel, Chairman of the Pool and Billiard Committee, asking for new tables to replace the present ones now in use in the billiard rooms. Mr.

Adams stated that the Board of Trustees had arranged for three new tables at a cost of $700, and they would be placed in the club house in a few days. This seemed to meet with general, satisfaction among the members, most of whom are enthusiastic cuemen. Chairman Andrew Fisher, of the Entertainment Committee, moved that the committee be given the power to arrange for another stag, to be given on the night of December 26. On this night the members of the "Thoroughbreds" Burlesque Company will entertain the members by permission of F. B.

Carr, who is a member of the club. Mr. Carr kindly volunteered the services of the company, as well as the of his theatre on Grand street. Mr. Fisher further stated that Mr.

French, proprietor of Knickerbocker Hall, had volunteered to give the use of the hall to hold the stag. Mr. Fisher's motion was carried. A vote of thanks was also given to the colored comedians, Wilson and Abrams, who assisted voluntarily in amusing the gathering at the recent stag given at the club house. It was decided to attend divine service at St.

John's Church and President Kastendieck will wait upon the pastor, the Rev. 1 Dr. D. Downey, to that end. Treasurer Mander reported that the minstrel show given by the club in Knickerbocker Hall, a short time ago, netted $114.25 to the club, after all the expenses had been paid.

Verdict for Savage. In the' suit of Thomas H. Savage against the Brooklyn Heights Company to recover $5,000 for personal injuries, a jury in the Supreme Court yesterday before Justice Truman C. White, awarded a verdict for $250 to the plaintiff. who lives at 345 Classon avenue, was driving a horse along Myrtle avenue on April 26, 1900, when a car of the defendant company ran him down.

He sustained injuries to his elbow, knee and hip. The company made a general denial of the allegations. A Gentle Little Knock. "Ah, yes," sighed the very young poet, I'm dead I suppose people who neglect me now will make pilgrimages to my grave." "Why?" she make sure that the news is not too good to be true?" -Chicago Record-Herald. cratic had egates even ton, purist People judge your business.

by appearances. The BEST LIGHT indicates GOOD BUSINESS. Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Brooklyn. General Offices: 358-368 Pearl Street, their news served to them but giving aft the news la what Read IL has made the.