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NEW CLUBHOUSE FOR BOYS TO BE HIS ON UPTOWN PBIXCIPLEB FOR DOWNTOWN LADS-ATTRACTIVE ROOMS A FEATURE. The new Club, which laid the ef a new house Wednesday, Is designed to be distinctly original. Ti.e new building, which is to Hand at Avenue a and is to be. as nearly possible, a club for downtown boy" run on uptown It will be made a gathering ar -social, unrestrained and homelike. There will be fnr the older boys a smoking room and a poolroom.

with reading rooms and a fives court for both Juniors and seniors. The position taken by the club is that by this and similar institutions the saloon to be hit hard, and that therefore all legitimate liberty should be allowed, the idea of condescension and philanthropy being kept carefully In the barkground. The idea is not co much to teach manliness by "don'ts" 1 as to inspire a desire for wliat is wholesome by presenting it in attractive form. In working out this Ideal many Interesting experiments have already been made In the club's present restricted quarters, and many more will be taken up when the new building has been completed. As A AT THE CLUB, ST.

MARK'S PLACE AND AYEXUE A. It however, enough has been done to prove that the club la proceeding along right lines, and that ruccers on I large scale is only a question of opportunity. The. St. Mark's Place Boys' Club was founded In 3576 by graduated college men who.

without any olieap tentlmentality. desired to do good In world. The neighborhood of the club offered a fair for such effort. While not "tough." It was poor and dull. The ran wild In childhood, and fathered in saloons as soon they had money fPT.d.

There wan no other place- for them, unless they remained In a stuffy tenement house and ilstr'ird to the varied noises of families. When club opened they came in shoals, and have kept corning ever fince. At present the is at li'ghwater mark, and averages five hundred every No nor. could lie accommodated; in fart. Ilir vifit-r is inclined to think that the "accommodating" limit is reached some time before the number of boys, have come In The present quarters are divided between the who havr- a large room for and the Who have a smaller room for smoking, pool and a gymnasium is held In common.

7 In the Mm building the seniors and Juniors will carefully separated. The younger element may much noise as good to them without dignified nitrations of their rldtra in rniohinp rooms. The playroom Is to measure TO fwt square, and will be open to all restriction. Any youngster who Is tired the street may come In and make unlimited if he, choosrs. If he prefers quiet will be a place for him.

while a section of library Is for the Juniors. The seniors tnelr smokir.c room, their th.Mr section the. library and their reading room. Thrrc will a fives court and Innumerable hathf. Tiatural history museum 15 a novel tnost Interesting fact about it Is that the themselves will to great extent fill it up The club hat a Eunnifr camp on Plum Island, off L- lowpr end or Long Inlaid.

and collections of butterflies rr- mad-- there every year. One adventurous caught a live figures in the museum. end spurs on less distinguished of practical natural history to more heroic deeds. Interesting as re the details of ihe plans for the rew clubhouse, trey are less important than the. Mea of T.rnt which the boys.

Francis Tabor, an Er.glishman, who is the. superintendent or the club, hoJJs that his is the true democratic Ideal The boys are not hampered by many regu- Jations. and those which have been introduced hava crown from their own of what was right and proper. He endeavors to let the initiative come from them as far as possible. In this way laws grow out Of are Been to he reason.

able by the boys, and are consequently kept. Mr. Tabor says that the club smoothly and Justifies his theories. Crrtainly the seems to produce manly boys. Atother theory of the Boys' Is that the best wiy to preach against evils of JJrlnk and excessive smoking is to give the.

boys a tatte for and to cultivate thus a spirit of self-respect, which is pretty certain Us keep them from doing anytMr.g which will tend to their rhysica! deterioration. To carry out this part of club's work St. George's ground, in Hoboken. hsti been secured uv the directors for football every Saturday. In the morning the younger boys play, end In the afternoon of the seniors as can cor.if have their turn.

The game played is association football. For Rugby they have not the time to train properly, and they are not to situated that they can afford the luxury cf a day or two to recuperate anything go badly. Association football In less trying to the untrained player and le absolutely safe. The club to the York Athletic Association, and can bring together very fair team. For the laM few years the or the club have been a feature which has great Joy to the boys and the neighborhood.

The tinging Direct attention to the large and varied assortments of articles suitable for HOLIDAY GIFTS now being displayed, among which are ART OBJECTS, including Curio JEWELRY, comprising Brooches, and Music Cabinets, Bronzes, Rings, Link Buttons. Scarf Pins. Clocks and Clock Sets. Porce- Lorgnettes. Neck Chains.

Sil- Jains. Carved Ivories. Mima- ver Mesh-Purses, etc lures, etc FANCY ARTICLES and ART FINE LEATHER GOODS. Travel- Fancy Glove and ing Bags fitted with toilet Handkerchief Cases, Pin Cushnecessaries, Carnage and ions, Work Baskets. Scrap Chatelaine Bags.

Pocket Baskets and novelties in small Books, Card Cases. Jewel decorative pieces. Cases and Glove Boxes. STERLING SILVERWARE repre- STATIONERY ARTICLES. Desk renting various decorative arti- Sets.

Inkstands, Letter Scales. cles for the Buffet, also Silver Stationery Racks. Pen Trays. mounted Toilet and Desk Paper Knives, etc. "-Trt Ji lor Gilbert and Trial by Jury- acted, and a rather loss ambitious given entirely by boys under Whirtlngton.

setting forth the career of that hero of romance. There cantataa and th like on many chfef feature the Kiiging Is one of clubs chief .1 at nt the club feels Itself af especial importance John Peinlnir. who recently wrestled with a member of the seniors. As wrestling if one of the amusements in the gymnasium Peining work Intelligently appreciated, and the club turned out in force for the match. But their views on the subject of athletics are not now what they once were.

Now every boy the mott correct and sportsmanlike opinions and In careful in his contests tc respect the rights of others, the decision of the umpire and to observe, all the courtesies of 1 ml Ideal of liberty and self-government which The ideal of liberty am! self-governm-nt vhteh has been Mt before the for years will reign supreme In the, new club, but the boys are none the less carefully guided In right paths because of their freedom. Everything is meant to be a means to the end In view, which is always and consistently to teach habits of good citizenship and manly self. control. fOTR COVRADLX KILLED BY FAME fiHFLL. TITET HAD BEEN CLASSMATES AT SCHOOL AND COLLEGE AND LIE IN THE FAME GRAVE.

Columbia. S. C. Dec. 8 A remarkable coincidence of the second battle of Manassas Is narrated by a veteran, and the truth of the story is averred by many old in this State.

In the year 1833 Bishop Capers and the. Rev. MeSwafa. Whitford Smith and Duncan, of Virginia, each entered his eldest son at a boarding school at rokesbury. S.

C. This was a fitting school for the- Methodist College at Wofford. The four fathers were Methodist preachers and had been lifelong friends. The. boys remained in the school as classmates and roommates for two years, and then entered Wofford liege, standing respectively first.

second, third and fourth in a larse They continued be roommates for four years and until graduation, where their standing was relatively the same. The young men then entered a law office in Spartanburg, S. and studied under the same Chancellor. lien the war broke out they entered Captain Walker's company. Jenkins's rifle regiment.

They were messmates and. being nearly the height, stood together in battle. At the second battle of Manassas a shell from a Federal battery fell In the midst of Walker's company and exploded. Killing four comrades, but injuring no others 111 the command. They were' buried on the battlefield, ami the grave is marked by a.

granite crocs and Is inclosed with an iron fence. OKLAHOMA STATEHOOD. TILT, OF PKNATOR FAIRBANKS PROVIDING FOIt STATE. INCLUDING INDIAN TERRITORY. FAVORABUT KHGARDED.

GuthrK Dec. The announcement that the bill Introduced in the Senate on Wednesday by Senator Fairbanks calls for th" Joining of Oklahoma and Indian Territory in of separate Statehood for them, bear? out the hitherto unexpressed opinion of the Indiana Senator regarding Statehood for Oklahoma, and vastly relieves a number of Oklahoma residents who have held conversations with him. While tbe people of Oklahoma are somewhat averse to seeing State Institutions leave their control on the eve of the convening of the ture, which is empowered to legislate for public institutions, yet their to build one large State of two Territories overshadows neJfish motives. In thought that burden of taxation can be lightened by utilizing the wealth of the Indian Territory. It is pointed out that those mho favor separata Statehood have their eyes on the next Legislature.

At the last session of the Legislature a great effort was made to pass a bill locating public buildings. Had the bill passed then union with Indian Territory would now be Impossible, since there are towns In the latter as ambitious to secure institutions as Oklahoma towns. Speculation is now rife whether Delegate Klynn Is supporting the Fairbanks measure, he is unreservedly opposed to finglo Statehood. Politicians hold that a State made of Oklahoma and Indian Territory will be Democratic. The feature of the bill giving only two representatives to a State having population is denounced on the ground thai it is variance with the recognised Congress apportionment.

Adherence to this apportionment would entitle the new State to five, if not six. representatives, outside of the representation accorded. It is believed the South McAleMer convention will Indorse the Fairbanks measure. BY A FOWL. From The Chicago Record.

i The rtub tailed hen Mid "I am not Just spoiling for a. slugging match. But and worms 'round this here spot will find in come up to the scratch." B.JUiman&Co. NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY.

DECEMBER 0. 1900. FIGHTING THE SMALLPOX. HOW THE Vims IS OBTAINED BY THE HEALTH BOARD. calves on the perond floor of a stableat Sixteenth-st and fie East River have been supplying the virus with which the Health Department has hren to combat the present outbreak of smallpox In this city.

To procure the SJqM for the needle of the vaccinator, the calves nre inoculated, placed in stalls, and then, after a period of six days, the virus Is removed, diluted and stored in capillary tubes and in The process necessitates a force of a score or more of employes, under the supervision of an experienced bacteriologist. The "vaccine farm." as it is called, is at the eastern end of the second floor of Health Department stable, in East the ground floor of which is used to house its ambulances. At the first outbreak of the pestilence the "farm" consisted of only four calves, and the stock of virus on hand was found to be suf- f.clent for about one hundred thousand vaccinations. As tlir-rt- was no moan? of know ins, in how last thy might spread, or how many hundred thousand people it would be to vaccinate, nine more calves were Immediately recruited, increasing the little garrison to thirteen. IN THE OPERATORS' HANDS.

The newcomers irera then taken, one at a time, and to a table. The rough coat of hair was shavfd away from the groin of thanimal ana the vaccine poison was Injected into two long cuts. The calves after Inoculation were then placed In separate each with his head fastened as to be unable to tear open his wounds. At the end of days the calves v. ere taken from their and again strapped by one on the table.

The ha.l collected war. removed by what is termed a curette, cr small metallic Instrument closely resenibUni; an after dinner coffeo ipoon. 1 The virus was diluted to about one-quarter its strength with an admixture of glycerine and water. The resultant fluid was then poured Into glass capillary tubrs, each of which hoMs enough for vaccination, and also into glass vials, the smaller THE BTABLEfI WHERE THK INOCULATED CALTSfI ARE KEPT. LABORATORY FOR FILLING AND SEALING CAPILLARY TUBES AND FILLING VIALS.

of which hold enough for ten cases and the larger enough for fifty. One calf can supply enough virus for between ten thousand and thirty-five thousand vaccinations. After the ordeal the calf recovers rapidly. Its meat is said even to be improved by its experience, and in Europe such a calf brings a much higher price in the markets than his unlnoculated fellows. Since the attendants employed in the bovine laboratory are all immune, they need take no special precaution in the handling of the virus.

NO TIME WAS LOST. An alarm of fire from some highly inflammable tenement district could hardly have precipitated more activity and dispatch on the part of the Fire Department than did the discovery of smalipox occasion among the members of the Health Department. In case of either or smallpox- the chief danger Is from the spreading of the evil, and much depends on Immediate action. Fighting fire, however, is to require a simpler sort ot generally than the combating of a virulent contagion. In the former case the battle is more or less confined to the immediate neighborhood, whereas lv an outbreak of pestilence, because of the coming and going of people who may have been exposed to it, and the carelessness of the patient himself before the case has been called to the attention of the authorities, the whole city to a certain extent is endangered.

In telling yesterday with what system the Health Department is prepared to grapple with smallpox and how the present outbreak was met. Dr. Blauvelt. Superintendent of the Department of Contagious Diseases of. the Health Department, said to a Tribune reporter: moment a case of smallpox is reported to the Department physicians are immediately sent to the house with orders to vaccinate evfry one inside its The patient, if he be found suffeiing from the disease as reported, ts removed at once to North Brother Island for Isolation and treatment.

It matters not whether he be from a tenement house or a mansion, his case is dealt with in the same way. This was illustrated last week when a young man. whose home is in West and whose family is one of wealth and prominence, was taken to the island. "Cards are then sent to, the schools of the district with orders to admit no children from the infected house. The other children are examined, and, if not vaccinated recently, are at once inoculated against contagion.

Physicians from the Department also make a house to house canvass of the district, and vaccinate all who require it. The celerity with which this canvass can be accomplished is often greatly retarded by the petulance and stubbornness of many, who consider such action highhanded. "The Inmates of the infected house are kept under particular surveillance. After the place Is fumigated and every one vaccinated whose system is in need of such inoculation, these people are permitted to go and come, but only unde- the condition trat they report for examination to officers once every twenty-four hours. Nearly a score of men were set to work in the house to house canvass in the infected district at the first in five days had practically completed their task.

The district I had in mind is bounded by Sixty-seventhst. and CoJumbus-ave. and the North River." QUICK WORK WITH THE NEEDLE. A doctor at this moment came into the superintendent's office and carefully laid what he called his "tool bag" on a chair. "What success did you have to-day.

asked Dr. Blauvelt. "Capital, capital," was the answer. "I put 120 through the gamut In an hour. Each man had his arm bared and ready, and it took just thirty seconds to an arm.

They were the employes of a factory up on the West Side." Two special physicians are employed by the Department throughout the school year to vaccinate school children. One has the East Side for his district and the other the West Side. In the school district where the present contagion broke out this special officer had vaccinated all the pupils last June, so there remained only a few hundred to receive attention at the present time. JOEy R. SOPER REMOVED.

REFUSED TO OBEY THE AQUEDUCT COMMISSIONERS. IT is SAID. John R. Roper is no longer Superintendent of Construction at the new Croton dam, ing been removed by the Aqueduct Commissioners. The records la the Aqueduct Commissioners' office show that Mr.

Soper. on October 8 was Instructed to take Inspection charge of another part of the masonry work than that to which Im was assigned. according to the statement of Chief Engineer W. R. Hill, he refused to do.

Re was then asked to report to Division Engineer Charles S. Garven. He also failed do this, and left his work and di not return. The Comini-slomTF we-e Info tied of these facts. and offi-ial notification was to Soper to appear before them on December 4 and expUin.

(ii.l ri.it appear, and a resolution that he be from sen Ice was adapted. Tin: PIIIS'T CLOTH MARKET. Tall River, Dec. 8 Brokers report that business was very quiet In the local print cloth market during the week ending to-day, and that the sales amounted to pieces. All of the cloth was In the odd counts, as there was no demand for regulars at any price.

The total of sales did not mm up to the expectation of those who ive been looking for big Jumps since the ending of the election excitement, but those who stop to cnnsMrr the continued unsettled conditions in the market for raw material say that the week's transactions were satisfactory- The sales were nearly all t-pots. The demand was as strong as that of the previous week, but the. difference in prlces of spots and futures is too great to allow large contracts just now. Most of the sales were made early In the week, and the last few days found things extremely quiet. It is still the complaint of mill men that prices are much lower than they should be.

but so as the buyers appear to be as indifferent as they are to-day. It la hard to see what ground there Is for hoping for better quotations. To be sure, stocks in printers' hands are not large, nor are th -y accumulating, but at the same time goods are not moving freely anywheie. and there must be an advance all along the line before local mills get the business that is theirs when there is a good demand. It is reported that there has been a change for the better in the foreign markets, but that trade is so well divided up that any one place does not feel it to any extent.

The market is very steady, with prices for wide odds Inch, ti4 squares, at 4Vi cents. 33 Inch. 63 by at cents, and regulars on a 3'i cents basis. A VAC ATI OX FOR THE RET. J.

KLSXEDY. The Rev. J. D. Kennedy, rector of Bt.

Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church. Bedford-aye. and South Brooklyn, has received a four months' vacation. He- was dangerously ill during Easter. Although he was able to resume his work, his physicians nave ordered him to take a complete rest, in his absence the pulpit of Bt.

Mark's will be occupied la the mornings bjr the Rsv. Urlca FIR DEPARTMENT. jptv. ai cniion directed to collection of Rich Furs and Fur Skins shown, which includes Natural Black and Silver Fox Skins, Russian and Hudson Bay Sable and Chinchilla Broadtail, Persian Lamb and Alaska Sealskin Coati, Muffs, Boas. Collarettes and Storm Collars in various fashionable furs.

Fur? for Children. Fur Russ. Sle.gh Robes, etc DECORATIVE LINEN DEP'T. ifirjt Floor. Twelve Hundred Hand mide French Renaissance Pieces with Linen Centers.

Five Hundred Hand -made Cluny Lace Pieces with Linen Centers Five Hundred Irish Hand Embroidered Pieces. The above include ONE-THIRD to ONE-HALP Doylies, Center Pieces. Tea Cloths and Dresser THAN FORMER PRICES. SILK Advance Spring Styles of DEPARTMENT. SATJN pR NTED FOULARDS will shown First Poor.

On Monday, December 10th. HOUSE GOWN DEP'T. This department contains a particularly well assorted selection, including Copies and Adaptations of the Season's French Models, which are exclusive, beins made in workrooms on the premises. For Monday, December 10th: NEGLIGEES of Albatross, in Pink. Light Blue.

Lavender and White, elabo-afely trimmed with lace, $15.00 HOL'SE GOWNS of figured French Flannel several colon Lace and Velvet Ribbon trimmed. 58-75 ROBES Kimona shape of Eiderdown with border of Satin nbbon, $3.75 LOUNGING ROBES of Crepe Eiderdown, scalloped edge trimmed with Satin nbbon. M-S5 ORIENTAL DEPARTMENT. Rooms furnished in Oriental effects. Sketches, designs and submitted for Oriental Tents, Smoking Rooms.

Corners, etc. Special Offering for Monday, December 10th Fifty Urge pieces of Antique Embroideries including some unusual examples in color effects, Formerly 550.00 to $400.00, at $25.00 to $175.00 Fifty specimen pieces of Antiqur Persian Brasses i hand rought), intricately chased and filigreed, Formerly $16.00 to $100.00. at $8.50 to $50.00 Seventy Hand-Carved Folding Chairs, inlaid with Pearl. $3.85 Fifty Bombay Rosewood Tables, hand carved, $4.50 One Hundred Damascus Hanging made of hand wrought brass. Formerly $4-00 to 8.50, at $2.25 to $4.50 One Hundred French Gilt Lanterns, jewel studded, formerly $2.00 at $1.10.

Eighteenth Street, nineteenth Street and Sixth Jftcnue. Tmeey and In the evenings by the Rev. Edward Helm, of Canarsle. WAITED TWESTYTXtO YEARS ASD FTES. WOMAN HAS AN EX-ROUNDSMAN ARRESTED FOR BREACH OF PROMISE.

After waiting for twenty-two years for the man of her choice to fulfil his promise of marriage. Margaret M. Lynch yesterday caused the arrest of ex-Roundsman Thomas McCormlck. of the Harbor Police Squad. For thirty years McCormlcli did duty along the river front.

Now he Is retired on a pension and Intends to go back to Ireland to live. It was because he so expressed himself that Lynch had him arrested. Miss Lynch met htm in She was then seventeen years old and pretty. They had become engaged. Matters had gone along smoothly until 1888, and then McCormlck had gone to board with his sweetheart and her father, whose objection had been the only bar to matrimony.

Finally had come the day when the promise could be kept. In August. 1896, Miss Lynch's father had died. Miss Lynch had made ready, and the day had been finally set for December 22. 1896.

But her worst disappointment was to come. A day or two before the ceremony was to take place McCormlck had gone to her and said: "It's all off, Maggie; I'm too old to marry." A few days ago he was retired by the Police Board, and then came the alleged declaration that he was going to Ireland. Miss Lynch, fearful that he would get away from her, brought an action to recover damages In the City Court, and Judge Mc- Carthy signed the order of arrest. McCcrmlck was taken into custody by Deputy Sheriff "Dan" Terry yesterday morning. He furnished ball In the sum of $300.

Miss Lynch lives at No. 211 West One-hundred-and-forty-second-st. In her affidavit she says that McCormlck sixty-five years old and is in comfortable circumstances. McCormlck denounced his arrest as an outrage. He denied that he had ever become engaged to Miss Lynch.

DAXIEL DOODY TO GO OS TRIAL. CHARGED WITH PERJURT IN FAILING TO REMEMBER A CONVERSATION WITH FIELDING. Daniel Doody, the contractor, with whom It was alleged Robert TV. Fielding, formerly Deputy Commissioner of City Works of the city of Brooklyn, connived to defraud the city out of money, will be placed on trial to-morrow before Judge Kurd. In the County Court, on an Indictment for perjury.

On the trial of Fielding for the alleged offence in December. Doody testified that he did not remember having conversed with Fielding- in regard to certain persons who were going to bid for the work of grading New-ftrecht-ave. as his representatives. He also testified that he did not remember whether he had paid Fielding money from too mm received, from- city tor wort S.JUhnan&£tr, Fielding was acquitted. Doody, on his own testimony, was indicted for perjury.

District Attorney Clarke will conduct tho cution. He will contend that in testifying ho did not remember former testimony Doody I) si Ju rod himself, because he did remember when he issllflsil before the Grand Jury when Fielding's Indictment was secured, and three or four days before FlsM- Ing's trial remembered things he did not remember on the trial, and told them to the Distr torney. EARLY RL FOR THESE TEMPORARY SPANS WILL. COST JWO.OtXV IS ESTIMATED. On the Brooklyn side of the New East River Bridge the first of the four roller beds on which the saddles will rest was raised on Friday afternoon, and yesterday morning the first work undertaken was getting the second In position.

The roller beds weigh about twenty-seven tons each and are raised by means of heavy steel blocks and falls. William F. Leaman. the superintendent, said yesterday that he expected the four roller would be raised by to-morrow, and that work on the saddles would probably be begun on Tuesday Work on the footbridges will begin as soon as saddles are in position. The contractors already have on the ground a quantity of the material that will be used.

There will be four footbridges, each eight feet wide, connected together and supported by twelve cables of twisted wire rope, each rope being two and one-quarter inches in diameter. These ropes, which are already manufactured, will extend from one anchorage over both towers to (he other anchorage, and will be directly under the cables. The footDrtdges will be built in such a way to furnish the workmen a platform under th' cables from which the latter may be made. The flooring of the bridges will be so arranged as to permit the passage of the workmen and to enable them to handle the heavy castings and pieces for connecting the suspenders to the cable itself. As the cables will be strung by machinery, the work on them which the workmen will have to perform from the footbridges will be largely in adjusting the cable wires position and in binding the wires together.

The cost of these bridges, it Is will be JIOO.OuO. and on the completion of the cftblss they will be removed. RICE WILL PHOTOGRAPHED IN COURT. The will of William M. Rice.

in which Albert T. Patrick figures as chief beneficiary, was photographed In the Surrogate's Court yesterday, under the direction of K. J. Lederle. who also directed the photographing of the documents iv the Moltnoax case.

The order tor the photographing of the will was issued by Surrogate Fitzgerald on an application of Hornblower. Byrne. Miller Potter. Surrogate was represented by Probate Clerk Washburn. Isaac Sargent represented Lonsan.

Hardy. Patrick attorneys, and G. M. HaraJio represented Hornblower. Byrne.

Miller Porter Each page was photographed, the plates being 14 by 17 Inches, and the signatures to the document enlarg-d to four times tao sue of. Las 3.