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THE BBOOKLiYN I)AIIjY EAGLESTJKiDj THE BBOOKDLYTSF DAILY EAGLESTJKDAY, 1STOVEMBEB 22, 1896. 7 BEERBOHM TREE'S PLANS. DR. ABBOTT ANSWERED. MISS GIBB'S DEBUT.

MISCELLANEOUS. PASSING OF AMERICAN SHIPS, to this people fifty years ago, have needed no modification, but are still the stay of his own life and the subject matter of his preaching whatever modification of method he may have found It wise to adopt In the presentation of the truth. It is worth something in this age of unrest and Intellectual sensationalism to get from such a man such a statement." Dr. Storrs and Dr. Meredith have spoken In no uncertain tones, despite the strong personal esteem In which they hold Dr.

Abbott. And Dr. Behrends, another distinguished Congregationalism leaves no doubts as to where he stands. One Friday night, in the course of an eloquent tribute to Dr. Storrs' worth as a minister.

Dr. Behrends said to his congregation: "The Christian ministry is a serious vocation. Tho preacher speaks in behalf of God and to the ears of men and women who have immortal souls. Such a view of his calling will determine bis speech. It should be charged with the certainties of the divine revelation.

Speculative theories, doubtful statements, tentative hypotheses are foreign to the preacher's public vocation. It Is God and Christ who must speak through him. Never for one moment has Dr. Storrs wavered from the discharge of this simple duty. He has regarded preaching as serious work, in which he was simply an ambassador or messenger.

He has honored Paul's charge to Timothy, when the aged apostle charged the young minister to 'guard the deposit' and so to preach as to make men wise unto salvation. That is the best service which our Nestor has rendered to our Brooklyn Congregationalism and his fifty years of logic or fire are a solemn and impressive charge to the pastors of all our churches to cultivate silence on the uncertainties and to proclaim only the everlasting certainties." The Rev. Dr. John Fox of the Second Presbyterian church is another earnest clergyman who has entered his sturdy protest against the mutilation of the Bible, the Rev. Dr.

Charles Cuthbert Hall will make his position plain to all to day; on every side the mlnistry is rallying to the defense of the Bible. The voices of Roman Catholics are also heard In the storm of protest. In the Freeman's Journal the Rov. Dr. Lambert says in part: "Dr.

Abbott's agnostic attitude is the last logical word of the sixteenth century revolt against church authority. One step further is infidelity or atheism." THE DAILY EAGI Is published every after, noon on the working days of the week and on BUNDAI MORNINGS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 10 per year; $5 lor olx monthB; Jl per month: Ingle copies 3 cents; Sunday edition Jl.GO per fear; postage Included. BACK NUMBERS.

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Roma Grand Continental Hotel. Havana, Cuba. Will Produce a New Play called "Seats of the Mighty." Beerbohm Tree, the' actor, and his English company, numbering fifty members, wero among the passengers on board tho St. Louis yesterday. Mr.

Tree said that his plans had been somewhat changed. He will appear first in Washington and then play in New York. His American tour this time will last about three months. Mr. Tree intends to produce a new play called "Seats of the Mighty." It is a dramatization of Gilbert Parker's novel and Mr.

Parker accompanies Mr. Tree to this country to assist in arranging the play. Mr. Tree's manager is Fitzroy Gardner. Among the members of tho company is Mr.

Gerald du Maurler, son of the late George du Maurler, of "Trilby" fame. GIRLS ACQUITTED OF ARSON. Chicago, 111., November 21 After a sensational trial Mario and Nettie Cronin, formerly of Omaha, wero declared not guilty of argon to day by a jury in Judge Hutchinson's court. The young women were accused of setting firo to a building at 1,943 Court street, September1 6, in order to obtain the insurance, a Up to Pate Fcbrieby A choice selection of Winter models now on exhibition. Remodeling and repairing of old Fur Garments now at half price.

Redyeine Sealskin Jackets a specialty. A praotlcol furrier always in attendance. All furs boght of us stored free during Summer. Ebtatb or IIenbx Or raaMAS, Folton and Dufflold sts. No Ohwstmab and New Year'B table should be without a bottle of Da.

Sikoert'b Angostura BrTTEBS, the world renowned appetizer of exquisite flavor. Beware of imitations. Haib on the face, warts, moles, permanently destroyed, without pain, by tho Electric Needle. Physicians' Indorsement. Sittings, 81.

Mts. A. R. Ckans, Fulton st: near Loeser's. Best grades hard and free bnrning Coal for family use.

Try our No. 2 Nut Coal for small stoves, $3.23 per ton. Brand OH Fulton st; 310 Myrtle av. ENGAGED. SIBLETr WISWELL DORA CHBEVER WIS WELL, ot 257 Jefferson av, Brooklyn, to H.

HAVILAND SIBLEY. MARRIED. DUFFY AINSLIE On Wednesday. November 18, 1896, at the residence of the bride's sister, by the Rev. James H.

Darlington, EVELYN, daughter of James Alnslle, to FRANK EDWARD DUFFY, of New York. MOSS ROBERTS On Wednesday evening. November 18, 1896, at the residence of the pastor, Albert J. Lyman, of the South Congregational Church, ISABEL MARIE, daughter ot Mr. and Mrs.

Morris A. Roberts, to CHARLES MOSS, Jr. O'BRIEN O' NEIL On November 18, at St. Peter's Church, by the Rev. Father Duffy, ROSALLA O'NEIL to WILLIAM D.

O'BRIEN, all of Brooklyn. WILSON FARROW November 18, by the Rev. George E. Strowbrldge, at 481 Halsey st, HERBERT WILSON, Newport, R. to BLANCHE FARROW, of Brooklyn, N.

Y. DIED. BENNETT On Friday, November 20, BPHRAIM BENNETT, aged 80 years. Funeral Sunday. 2:30, froai son's house, 645 Franklin av.

BODBNHAUSEN Our beloved husband and father. CHAS. BODENHAUSEN, on the 21st of November, in his 67th year, after a long and painful illness. Funeral services will take place Tuesday, November 24, at 2 P. at the German Lutheran Zlon's Church, Locust st, nlnth Ward, Flatbush, L.

I. Members of the Kers wlll Post No. 149. G. A.

and of the One Hundred and Thirty ninth Regiment of the State of New York Volunteers arc Invited to attend. Private services at his late residence, 27 Vernon av, Flatbush, L. I. COOPER Suddenly, on Friday, November 20, WILLIAM A. in his 37th year.

Relatives and friends, also Brooklyn Lodge No. 288, F. and A. M. Esther Chapter No.

2, O. E. are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral services on Monday evening, 23d at 7 o'clock, at his late residence, 55 Lafayette av, corner Fulton 8t. Interment private. COOPER Brooklyn Lodge No.

2S8. F. and A. M. You are respectfully Invited to attend an emergent communication on Monday evening, 23d, at 7:30 o'clock, for the purpose of attending the funeral services of our late brother.

WILLIAM A. COOPER. CHARLES H. RYDER, Master. J.

A. Logan, Secretary. DEGNAN Suddenly. MARY DEGNAN, beloved wife ot Lawrence Degnan, in the 59th year of her ago. Relatives and friends are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, 95 Grand av, on Sunday, at 2:30 P.

M. FERGUSON SOPHIA, dearly beloved wife of James Ferguson, passed away November 19. Funeral from her late residence, 11 Palmetto st, Sunday, November 22, at 2:30 P. M. HARPER On October 23, 1S96.

at 356 Tompkins av. JOHN, son ot the late James and Mary Harper. A solemn memorial mass will be offered for his soul's rest on Monday, November 23, at 9 o'clock, at St. Paul's Church, Court and Congress sts. His friends are invited' to attend.

HUNECKE On FTiday, November 20, JOHANN HUNECKE, in Ills 46th year. Relatives and friends, also Brooklyn City Lodge. K. of and Blumenhelm Lodge, Druids, are invited to attend the funeral from his residence 287 Atlantic av, on Sunday, at 2 P. M.

ISRAEL At Port Au Prince, Haytl, November 17, 1896, ROBERT O. ISRAEL, aged 41. LOVEJOY On Friday, November 20. ARTHUR GILBERT, only son of Susan and Henry William Lovejoy. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral services at his late residence, 123 St.

Marks av, at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Interment private. MCDONALD On Friday, November 20, ANNIE F. D. MCDONALD.

Funeral Monday, November 23, at 9:30 A. from her late residence, 71 Woodhull st; thence to St. Stephen's Church, corner Hicks and Summit sts. Interment in Calvary Cemetery. (Connecticut papers please copy.

McGUIGAN After a lingering illness, ARTHUR J. McGUIGAN, beloved son ot Jane and the late Hugh McGuigan. Funeral from his lite residence, 190 Amity st, Sunday, November 22, at 2 P. M. NASH Entered into heavenly rest, on November 20.

MADELINE EDITH, infant daughter cf Thomas J. and Mary J. Nash. Funeral from her late residence, Graham st, on November 21, at P. M.

Interment private. McGRATH On Friday, November 20, 1896, at her residence, 257 Twelfth st. ROSE, beloved wife of Anthony McGrath. Funeral service at the Church of the Holy Family, Thirteenth st and Fourth av, on Monday. November 23, at 9:30 A.

M. Interment in Holy Cross Cemetery. MURPHY McQUADE Suddenly, on Thursday. November 19, MARY McQUADE. wife of Richard Murphy, at her residence, 37 Douglass st.

Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery on Sunday, November 22, at 3 P. M. RASQUIN On Friday. November 20, 1896. at the residence of his daughter, Mrs.

John J. Moog. 171 Clermont av. HENRY RASQUIN, In the 73d year of his age. Funeral private.

REYNOLDS On Friday, November 20, ELLA REYNOLDS, aged 4 years, daughter of Eugene J. and Ellen Reynolds. Funeral from residence of her parents, 240 Grand av, oji Sunduy, November 22. RUDIGTtR GREENE At the Steuben Sanitarium. HornellKvlUe, N.

November 18. 1S9C. In the lllB non ot U'e, CLARA RUDIGER GREENE, daughter of the late Max Rudlger oi Brooklyn and Amanda Crandall Rudlger, beloved wife of Frank L. Greene, principal of Grammar School No. 9.

Sterling place, corner Vanderbllt av, Brooklyn. WALLACE On November 19. 1S96. WILLIAM A. WALLACE, aged 31.

Funeral from his late residence. 317 Nostrand av. on Sunday, November 22. at 1 I'. M.

Relatives and friends are respectfully to attend. Veterans and active members of Company B. Thirteenth Regiment, N. G. S.

N. are respectfully Invited to attend. WELLS On Saturday, November 21, FLORENCE ROSE, dearly beloved and only daughter of Avery B. and Kaitlc L. Wells, aged 6 years and 5 months.

Funoral from her late residence, 5C. Qulncy st. on Monday. November 23. at 2 P.

M. A bud on earth to btoom In heaven. WILLETS On November 21, 1S9C, SARAH JANE WILLETS. Funeral from her late residence, 284 Nostrand av, Monday, November 23, at P. M.

Introduced to Society at a Reception on Friday. Miss Alice Huntington Gibb, daughter of Mr. Edward Gibb and granddaughter of John Gibb, was introduced into society on Friday at the residence of her mother, 212 Gates. avenue. The reception hours were from 4 to 7 P.

M. and In that time many of Brooklyn's well known society people called to congratulate the debutante. Miss Gibb appeared in Jwhite satin and tulle and carried a bouquet of violets and orchids. She was assisted In receiving by Mrs. W.

C. Bowers, Mrs. J. O. Borland, Mrs.

Walter Gibb, Mrs. William V. Hester, Bryan Alley, Miss Gibb. Miss Grace Kidder, the Misses Maxwell, Miss Mabel Judson, Miss Nannie Arnold, Mi3s Florence Suydam, Miss Anna Plnkerton, Miss Anna Cutter and Mrs. Richmond Gibb.

The house was tastefully decorated and the debutante was the recipient of many beautiful flowers. A cotillon followed in the evening, In which eighteen couples participated, Mr. Eugene Kimball leading. THE NAVAL MILITIA. A List of the Officers Appointed to Date.

From the office of the Naval Reserve association at the hall of records is given out the following list ofnppointment of officers of the Second Naval battalion, now being organized: Commander George Hurlbut Church, graduate United StaK Naval academy, cla.ss '67: four years' sea service In tho navy on the European and South Atlantic squadrons. Navlpa'tor Lieutenant Howard Patterson, principal. Nautical college. New York. Paymaster Lieutenant .1.

Adolph 'Mollenhauer, vice president Mollenhauer Sugar Refining company: owner ot steam yacht Telka. Surgeon Lieutenant and Surgeon John C. Mac Evltt. M. D.

surgeon St. Mary's General lspital. Assistant surgeon Lieutenant (Junior grade) and assistant surgeon George D. Barney. M.

formerly assistant surgeon on the schoolshlp St. Marys; member of the Thirteenth regiment. N. G. X.

Y. also ot the Third Eattery light artillery. Surgeon on staff St. John's hospital. Assistant paymaster Ensign and Assistant Paymaster A.

R. Pardlngton, three years Hartford City guard. Company First regiment, Connecticut national guard; one year non commis sloned staff. Fourteenth regiment. X.

G. X. Y. Lieutenant G. Ford, commanding First division graduate United States Xaval academy, class of 1881; two years in the navy and three years In the coast survey.

THE 0ITT WINS. SEVERAL IMPORTANT LAWSUITS DECIDED IN ITS FAVOR. Appellate Division Rulings in the Beetz Case McColgan's Action Against the Controller. Several cases of interest and importance have just been decided in favor of the City of Brooklyn, by the appellate division of the supreme court. One of these cases was the action brought by Charles Beetz, through a guardian, against the City of Brooklyn, for the sum of damages.

The facts were not disputed and are as follows: Certain building materials had been placed upon a public street where buildings were being erected. Among such materials was a quantity of lime in barrels. Some of this lime had leaked from the barrels and was lying loose on the street. The boy on whose behalf the suit was brought was playing with offier boys, and a suggestion was made that they build a house in a neighboring vacant lot. One of the boys gathered some of this lime in 3 toy wheelbarrow and carried it to the vacant lot away from the public street; the child who was injured held a tomato can with water In it while another boy poured some lime into the can, causing an explosion, which destroyed the sight of both eyes of the boy, Beetz.

At the trial term thiwtity by Assistant Corporation Counsel Alexander H. Van Cott, moved to dismiss the complaint on the opening statement of facts made by the plaintiff's counsel, which motion was granted. An appeal was taken to the appellate division and the judgment of the lower court was af firmed. The city claimed that it was nolj nauitr lui uamages causea oecause the lime was not on the public highway when the plaintiff was injured, and. further, because the fact that the lime was upon the highwav before the accident occurred was not the proximate cause, but that two efficient causes intervened without which the accident would not have happened, and that, therefore, the existence of the lime upon the street was a cause too remote to charge the city with responsibility.

This view was sustained by the cot. The decision of the appellate division in the case of the people ex rel. Edward McCol gan vs. George W. Palmer as controller of the City of Brooklyn was on appeal from on order made by Judge Smith directing the controller to pay over to the relator the amount of surplus arising on a tax sale of certain premiefl in the Eighth ward to one John IT.

Becker. Sale occurred on April 10. 1805. No notice of the sale had been served and r.o tax deed had been delivered. The order of Judge Smith was affirmed.

Justice Cullen writing tho opinion, upon condition, however, that the relator execute a proper release of all his Interest In the land to the tax buyer, which release should be delivered to the controller for the purchaser's benefit. This decision, with the condition impossed, Is practically in accord with an opinion furnished by the law department to the registrar of arrears in April of this year. In the case of the people ex rel the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad company against the beard of assessors, the court handed down a decision in the above proceeding affirming an order granted at special term, which gave leave to the relator to amend its petition by specifying We instances and extent of disproportionate valuation cf elevated railroad structures in the city. The Detition a Llnally framed fails to specify such instances mi. was luaue 10 striKe out Ihe allegation as to unequal and disproportionate assessments upen the ground that the allegation failed to comply with the provisions of section 250 of chapter 008 of the laws of 1S96.

This decision seems to settle the point that It Is necessary to specify In the petition for a writ cf certiorari the Instances of unequal assessments and to state the extent of such inequalities. Mr. Breckenridge, assistant corporation counsel appeared for the assessors. TICKETS IN BOOK FORM. New Issue by the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company.

A tasteful little book of passenger tickets has been issued by the Brooklyn Heights Railroad company, entitling holders thereof to transportation on any ot the lines controlled by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company. There are twenty tickets to each book and they are good over the lines of the Brooklyn City. Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn, Queons county and Suburban Railroad companies. The book of tickets is so convenient in size that it may be slipped Into a woman's purse or into a man's outside change pocket. By using It passengers are relieved from the necessity of fumbling in their pockets for change or for stray tickets, which not only get crumpled and torn but especially have a way of seeking the most remote recesses of a pocket.

The books are also useful for employers in sending employes on errands about the city. These books are on sale at the office of the company, 16S Montague trot orfl will ennn Vta rn. rn 1 uuu.i pui. atiit; in, otner convenient places throughout the city. The lines otf these companies reach al! parts of the city and most of the suburban places like Flushing.

Corona, Newtown. Maspeth, Richmond Hill, Jamaica. Glendalo, Clarenceville, Morris Park, Woodhaven, etc. AS TO POLITICAL "COLONELS." To tlie Editor ot thp Brooklyn EaKle: I see that your title bureau keeps on turning out these political colonels to the satlra of those who earned their spurs in the battle's front. Detail a reporter to go throush the list and eet the fighting foundation ot these larkles or their public denial of borroweti plumes.

JOHN" BUCHANAN. Brooklyn, November 21, ISM. ROJA DRAMATIC CORPS. Next Wednesday evening tho Eoja Dramatic oorpBof St.Mary's Li teraryjunion will tender an entertainment and receptionto the women who wero in tho cast of "She Stoops to Conquer," which was played by the Roja last month. The reception will be held at the club house, 210 Lor imp street.

The Rev. Drs. Storrs, Behrends and Meredith Stand by the Bible Earlier Beliefs of Plymouth's Pastor The World's Probation for Man Not final. In the minds of thinking members of this community who are outside of the pale of the church, a feeling of curiosity was excited when the Rev. Dr.

Lyman Abbott, in announcing his series of lectures on "Tho Bible as Literature" presented the Darwinian theory of evolution as a fact and expressed his disbelief In the story of creation as related In Genesis. There was a feeling of curiosity as to how Dr. Abbott's message would be received by the learned brethren of his cloth and their congregations. I have designedly used the word message, because in a sermon delivered on October 26 Dr. Abbott said in his pulpit, of the Darwinian theory: "The message of evolution is a profoundly religious message." The non churchmen to whom I have referred were anxious to know If Dr.

Abbott's "advanced views" were shared by the scholars of Brooklyn pulpits. If the great religious organizations of this city were Inclined to regard with favor the proposition to substitute in the place of Genesis the Darwinian theory of evolution with all its perplexing, unsolvable problems and mind staggering speculations; and were willing that tho first book of the Bible should be classed with the untrustworthy legendary lore of the Chaldeans, the Hindus and the Chinese, to be labeled: "A gathering together of the legends of the ancient time." Wo who are outside of the church were curious to know tho religious organizations of Brooklyn, dazzled by the splendor of Dr. Abbott's intellectuality, would accept him as a safe light to guide their uncertain steps, or turn to that other light which has shone with undlmmed glory throughout the dead centuries, over the ruins of mighty empires, the graves of philosophies, and the crumbling mausoleums of those who vainly sought to penetrate the great mysteries of creation that light which has illumined all the books of the Bible, that has outshone the flames from which the souls of martyrs ascended, that has guided the missionary through fire and blood and has Irradiated the faces of the dying on land and on sea, in the homes ol wealth and in hovels that celestial light of which John Henry Newman wrote with ineffable tenderness and sublime faith "Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom. Lead Thou me on. The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead Thou me on.

Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me." The answer to Dr. Abbott came quickly, and It is not the voice of approval. On Sunday Dr. Abbott stcod in his pulpit endeavoring with masterly skill to prove that one portion of the 'Bible Is "but a gathering together of the legends of the ancient time, rewritten with God and law and love written into them." And his hearers were left to conjecture as to whether any Pagan legend might not be rewritten with God written into it. In 'this way he sought to accomplish what he announced to be his purpose, "My object in this course of lectures is to make the reading of the Bible more Intelligent, and, therefore, the reverence for more Intelligent and deeper." By destroying the credibility of Genesis, he tropes to create a feeling of reverence for the Bible! The searcher for truth who may for the first time have entered a church last Sunday night, believing the Bible to be the foundation stone of Christianity, might well have but little respect or reverence for the book as a whole or in part, when informed at the outset of his imruLry that the very first book of the scripires was only a prehistoric legend rewritten.

Under the circumstances, It seems perfectly natural for Evangelist Moody to say: "Do you 'know of any man preaching against the Bible getting any converts? If you do I would like to hear it. People can't go around with a penknife In their hand cutting out those portions of the Bible they 't believe in. If they do what will tbey ave left? That Is like the story of a min ister who, while on a visit to one of the oldest pillars of his church, picked up and examined what seemed to be the remains of a Bible, only so much had been cut away that practically only the backs were left. 'What is said the minister. 'Oh, answered the man, that is what I call your Bible.

During tha many years I have heard you preach you have expressed doubt and disbelief against those sections of the Bible that I have out out and accordingly the little that remains is really your Bible." While Dr. Abbott was engaged in the work of destroying Genesis, another honored clergyman was testifying after fifty years of earnest, digniffSd and forceful service in the pulpit, to his faith in the Bible. Speaking of his younger days and riper years in the ministry, the Rev. Dr. Storrs said: "I wrote sermons then, and have many of them still, and I believe to day every one of the doctrines which I then felt it duty and privilege to present.

The evangelical scheme of truth, with its profound and majestic premises of the immaculate purity of God, of the perverse and rebelling will in man, of the Bible, as God's unique authoritative book for the world, with its matchless discoveries of atonement for sin, of regeneration by Ihe Divine Spirit, of repentance and faith as essential conditions of the life everlasting, of the relation of this life to the immortal experience to come, and of the assize beyond the grave, at which personal character shall finally appear and personal destinies be determined I hold this still with a faith that is not weakened by years, and that does not waver before any Observation and experience with tho study of Christian history have only confirmed the faith in which I began." And at another stage in his sermon he reaffirmed his faith, in these glowing words: "The Bible itself, interlocked as It is in all Its parts, receives its final demonstration as tho one Book of God for the world, from the discovery of the Christ pervading it all, in history, prophecy, song and symbol; in narrative, argument, foreshadowing of the future. It is the book in which He appears, through which He speaks and whose apparently frag 1 mentary or incidental pages take a luster from Him, like that of the common frayed threads of His Galilean raiment, when on the mount He appeared In His glory, and when not only 'His face did shine as the but even 'His raiment was white and As the impartial and unbiased observer contrasts the utterances of these two distinguished divines, he will not be long in arriving at the conclusion as to whose words are most likely to inspire a feeling of reverence for the Bible. And Dr. Storrs does not stand alone. Read the Rev.

Dr. Meredith's tribute to the eminent divine whom Dr. Behrends fitly terms "our Nestor of Brooklyn Congregationalism:" "The Congregatlonalists of this city have been reading the newspapers this week. They have read the grand sermon delivered1 in this church last Sunday morning. Thy have rejoiced with the church in the review ot Its history.

They have found food for joy in Its prosperity, and have sympathized with It in the losses occasioned by the departure of so many of Its members, but most valuable of all strengthening and steadying their walk they have read that declaration of the honored pastor that the doctrines of the gospel, as they were apprehended by Mm and preached Merchant Marine Succumbing to the 'Effects of Over Protection. PITIFUL SHOWING OF A DECADE Less Than 16 Per Cent, of Last Year's Exports Carried Under the American Flag and Only 9 Per Cent, of Imports Will Be Driven From the Sea in Twenty Years at the Present Rate of Decline. (Special to the Eagle.) Washington, D. November 21 In the fiscal year 1896 the imports of sea and lake borne merchandise into the United States amounted to 139,505, of which $117,299,074 was carried in American vessels. The exports of merchandise were valued at $821,475,813 and only $70,392,813 was sent out In vessels carrying the American flag.

Less than 16 per cent, of the imports and less than 9 per cent, of the exports were reported by American ships. If Imports and exports be added 11.98 per cent, was carried in shipping of the merchant marine of the United States. The tonnage of this marine in was 822,347 tons, a smaller figure than has been recorded since 1842. Not since the embargo of 1808 has tho percentage of merchandise values carried in American vessels been so low as In the two years 1895 and 1896. More than a century of navigation law framed upon a model of the seventeenth centurf has brought the shipping of the United States to a point hardly equalled in the history of an independent power Eave in a time ot war.

Protection, such as nootherlegitlmateindustryhas enjoyed, gives results which are almost alarming, for they show an incapacity to obtain even a share in the enormous advance made in shipbuilding in every commercial country of the world. In the light of history it would seem absurd to talk of further protecting the merchant marine of this country. It has been so smothered by protection as to rank as a survivor slowly wearing away and no longer possessing the power of recuperating the normal waste, much less of developing and increasing. The vital principal of a marine to day it its steam tonnage for the commerce of the world demands steam service. In 1894 there were293 steam vessels built in theUnitcd States of 83,720 tons, and In 1895 the number was 248 and the tonnage 69,753.

The average for each vessel in the two years was less than 300 tons. From this it may be judged how much went into the tonnage engaged in the foreign trade. The life saving service reported in 1895 that 442 vessels had been totally lost, comprising a tonnage of 133,404, a great part of which was American. If to itself the entire merchant marine of the United States engaged in the foreign trade would disappear from the ocean in less than twenty years. A better idea of protection so absolute as to involve prohibition and so destructive as to threaten annihilation could not be found.

Sewall's scheme of further Interference by the government becomes ridiculous and as dangerous to the remnants of our shipping as his sliver policy Is to the general business interests of the country. It is not, however, to demonstrate the selfishness of the scheme of the late free silver candidate for the vice presidency that these figures are quoted, but for the purpose of examining and placing in contrast the general details of tho cariage of imports and exports and to see whether there are any directions that promise an oportunlty of revival for our shipping or even a chance of holding hat is now possessed by this country. For fhls a comparison of conditions and 1896 will bo sufficient, as ten years will emphasize tendencies to increase or decline. In that period the value of the merchandise imports and exports covered by this inquiry rose from $1, 271,260,616 to $1,565,665,408 an increase of nearly $300,000,000. In 1886 the value carried in American vessels was $197,349,503, or 15.5 per cent, of the total; and in 1S96 this value was or 11.9 per cent.

Not only has the entire increase In value of an enlarged commerce passed our American shipping without advantage to it, but $10,000,000 in addition has passed to foreign shipping. With Europe the most intense competlon would be encountered and there is no occasion for surprise to find so small a part of the trade with Europe conducted in American vessels. Small as is the share lesG than 4 per cent, in 1S96 the imports Into the United States coming in cur shipping have grown, from $5,000,000 in 1886 to $22,600,000 in 1896. Such an increase promises much until It is seen that for every dollar American ship gained a foreign ship gained three. Not only do ships under foreign flag6 convey the larger share of our imports, but nearly all our exports to Europe, the per centage having remained almost unchanged in the ten years at 97.5 per cent.

The best customers for our products are their own carriers. Outside of the United Kingdom this may be due to as stringent navigation law6 as our own, as in Russia; or to special ability to conduct a carrying trade, as in the case of the Scandinavian nations. It must therefore be elsewhere than in Europe that the opportunities for American vessels are to be sought. In America, meaning both North and South America, these opportunities, ought to exist the highest degree. To mere geographical considerations, which place the moreimportant of these markets nearer the United States than to Europe must be added the spasmodic efforts of congress and the executive to confer artificial advantage on shipping in the form of bounties and subsidies or supposed concessions in trade under reciprocity agreements.

Yet the result is so remarkable that the figures will speak for themselves. The percentage carried In American vessels in the two years were: ISSii. 1S9S. Imports.Expor.'s. Imports.

Expons. Nortlh America 4S.1 .5 62 19.3 2S.3 South America 32.9 Only to Ecuador and Venezuela can the United States be said to hold so large a share of carrying trade as to be beyond competition, and with these two countries only $14, 900,000 in imports and exports was transacted less than 1 per cent, of the total. In the Canadian. Central American, West Indian and Mexican commerce the transport is shared almost exclusively with, foreign shipping. In everj' other direction ships bearing foreign flags enjoy by far the largest trade.

If our merchant marine cannot compete In countries near at hanoT it is hardly possible to expect it to be successful in the more distant continents of Asia and Africa. One sixth only of the Asiatic and one twelfth of the African commerce are carried in our vessels, and in eitner case the proportion is very much less than it was In 1S86. A gleam of comfort may be found in the returns of Hawaiian trade, where 82 per cent, is given to our shipping. Instructive as is this comparison, it makes r. sorry showing when set against the known ability of our people to manufacture and command in exchange the products ot the world.

To attribute this ability to tariff legislation is like saying that a child breathes because the law saj there shall be a certain cubic capacity of air to each pupil In the scriool room. Legislation C3n favor no more than It now does, without openly robbing some other interests, perhaps of greater importance to the country's economy, certainly of greater vitality. It could only take from a live and profitable industry to give alms to an interest nearly killed by over protection. MR. FOWLER'S LECTURES.

He Will Talk About Advertising as a Science. Much interest has been expressed in the addresses recently delivered in New York and elsewhere by Nathaniel C. Fowler, in relation to advertising matters. Mr. Fowler is thoroughly familiar with his subject as a science and his opinions and suggestions are always likely to prove valuable.

Before long he will inaugurate a series of popular lectures on this subject with which he is most conversant. Next month Mr. Fowler appears before the New York Young Men's Christian association and will initiate its members Into the science of making things public. Why such lectures should be interesting may be surmised from the fact that a conservative ostimates calculates that the business Interests of the world required an annual expenditure of $2,090,000,000 for advertising and printed matter. FOR FREEKINDERGARTENS.

Tho treasurer of the Brooklyn Free Kindergarten association has this week received from New York for the causo. Tho lotter containing it was signed "A Friond to Children." Distross is caused by that disagreeable disease, catarrh in the hend, which can be cured only by purifying the blood. Remember Sarsaparilla Is the best in fact the One True Blood Purifier. Mrtftrl'c Pi lie cure nausea, indigestion, UUU 3 rlllS hminnn. 9J5nto DAMAGE BY TROLLEY CURRENTS How They Injure Water and Gas Pipes in the City, RAPID RATE OF DESTRUCTION'.

A Wrought Iron Pipe Rnined in a Month How the Escaping of the Electricity May Be Prevented Two, Forms of the Trolley System That Are Free From the Annoyances Com plained Of. It has been known for some time that in many places in this city an action due to electricity has seriously injured the service pipes conveying water and gas from the so called mains to stores and dwellings. The electric current which causes the injury comes from the rails of the various trolley lines, so the injury done is most active and most apparent In the immediate vicinity of tho trolley lines, though not always limited to such neighborhood. The rate of destruction varies greatly in different places, for example, a new wrought iron water pipe ia Third avenuo was ruined In a month. In one part of Front street two or three sets of service pipes have been thus destroyed, the last set being rendered useless In ten months.

Although tha injury is caused by electricity from the trolley tracks, It by no means follows that proximity to these lines of travel insures destruction of underground pipes. Professor George W. Piympton, president of the late subway commission, has prepared a map showing the localities where the electrical conditions are such as to strongly indicate that wrought iron and lead pipes are being corroded with greater or less rapidity. A copy of the map accompanied the final report of the subway commission, recently submitted to the mayor, the map being constructed from the notes of an electrical survey made under the direction of the boards during the past summer. It was feared when the survey was begun it would Be found that the water mains had suffered injury, but cast iron of such quality as is used in the construction of our water pipes seem to be less sensitive to electrolytic corrosion than either wrought Iron or lead.

It would not be safe to affirm that the castMron mains are everywhere uninjured, but careful examination of the mains In many places of exceptional exposure reveals no advantage, and this In immediate proximity to wrought iron bolts and pipes in an advanced stage ot decay. It Is unfortunate that as yet no show! of means of preventing its extensive destruction has been applied. So long as trolley cars receive the electric current that drives them from an insulated wire or rail, and discharge the current into the rails resting oa the earth, just so long will some portion of that electric current find Its way to underground pipes and follow them In the direction of the power station from which the current originally started. On the return it will generally happen that the pipes will be more heavily charged than the track directly above them, and the electric current will leave the pipe to get to the rail. At this point the destruction of the pipe begins.

It is not unusual to find four holes in a service pipe that crosses the entire roadway, one hole for each, of the four rails under which the pipe runs. Conditions have been much Improved during: the past year along most of the trolley lines by the Joining of the separate lengths of the rails. This, by improving the path for the return'cur rent, lessens the amount escaping to the ground. Corrosion is thereby" rendered slower, but is not entirely prevented. If the service pipe were made of some non metallic material no damage to it would be experienced.

If the trolley roadbed could be insulated from the ground below a plan1 which a competent authority has lately de clared to be feasible then the escape of the) current to the region of the pipes might be prevented. But such a means of relief from the present exigency is, probably, too remote to be counted as of any value now, as it Implies reconstruction of the trolley roads over many miles of busy thoroughfare. Two other forms of trolley road are free from the annoyances which have been here described. One is the double trolley, which has a double system of overhead wires, and; the other is the underground trolley with carefully Insulated conductors in an underground conduit. Both of these methods are under trial elsewhere, but it is considered doubtful whether either of them would accommodate such traffic as the Brooklyn 6treet railways are called upon to provide for.

Moreover, the companies, the railroad companies, hold franchises for the single trolley system, which is the kind in use. The annoyance caused by electric corrosion is not limited to the expense and trouble of replacement of the pipes. The leakage from the gas pipes kills shade trees, endangers the public health and renders accumulations of explosive mixtures in cellars more than possible. People who own service pipes in the affected districts are not the only losers by electrolytic corrosion. The Edison Electric Light company is losing ite burled wires, the New York and N'ew Jersey Telephone company is suffering a loss from the destruction of the lead covering of its cable and the gas company Is obliged to replace its wrought iron distribution pipes.

These corporations, however, are fully aware of the situation and do not need the suggestions of this article, which Is written for those people who live within the affected districts and who may have been already subjected to expense for the removal of gas and water pipes thus rendered useless. No sure means for the prevention of this difficulty which could be considered generally practical can yet be pointed out. Connecting the exposed pipes by to the trolley tracks or to an overhead return wire leading back tn the station is a pallia, tlve method of tr'nient and adapted 'to certain localities, he final radical cure yet remains undiscovered. PEQUODNIA PLAYED EUCHRE. The Pequcdnia council Xo.

63, D. O. held its first progressive euchre party on Thursday evening. Mr. Simpson officiated as master of ceremonies.

The games started at o'clock, when there were about one hundred players assembled at the different tables. When the games closes the. prizes were distributed. The first prize, a handsome vase, for the woman winning nine games, the winner being Mrs. Payne.

The first prize for men, a box of cigars, went to Mr. Mofntt. The women's booby prize" fell to Mrs. Rellly. The men's boobv prize was won by Mr.

Wany. It was a package bearing the inscription, "By request of the committee winner must open parcel as soon as received. When opened it showed the following: "If I can't shine at the head, I can shine at the foot," and a box of shoe blacking. After the games were finished refreshment were served by the women of the council. Dancing then began and was kept up until well into the morning hours.

Among the guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Brooelo. William Spencer, Mrs. Burdlck, the Misses Burdick.

Mr. Moffit, Mrs L. Sandrlsser, Mrs. Ewlng, Mrs. Nolan.

Mrs. Payne. Mr. Ryan. Mr.

and Mrs. Wang. Mr. Townsend. Mrs.

C. Pier, P. Pier. Dr. McGllllgan, J.

Mo Gilllgan, Mrs. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Sllngerland, and Mr. and Mrs.

Lee. A EUCHRE PARTY. Mrs. .1. K.

Broadhurst gave a progressive enchre Friday evening at her residence, 105 Park place. Prizes were won by Mrs. Mrs. George Reaneau, H. Wright and Mr.

Bbame. After the euchre a pleasant tine itu spent in dancing. In the light of Dr. Abbott's recent pulpit utterances it may be of public Interest to state the beliefs which he gave expression to when installed as Henry Ward Beecher's successor. In addressing the Congregational council In Plymouth church January 16, 1S90, Dr.

Abbott said: "My theological views, as my Christian ex periences, all grow out of, first, the revolution wrought in my experience by Mr. Beecher's preaching of Christ as the revelation of a God of love, and, secondly, out of a lifelong study of Christ's character and teachings as simply narrated In the four gospels, as more fully and philosophically expounded by Paul in his letters. My faith in God rests on my faith in Christ as God manifest in the flesh not as God and man, but as God in man." Further along in his declaration of beliefs Dr. Abbott gave expressions to views which critics variously interpreted as beliefs in a purgatory, in annihilation and "evolutionary redempton" by the Atonement. He said: "My eschatology (doctrine of the last or final things, as death and the judgment) is all summed up In one faith Christ shall come to Judge the world.

The dogma of the decisive nature of this world's probation for every man I repudiate as unscriptural. "The hypothesis that Christ would be presented In another life to all who have not known him here I do not accept for lack of evidence to support it. I cannot offer to any man tho hope of future repentance, whether this side or the other side of the grave. But I refuse to believe that the accident df death transmutes God's mercy into wrath and makes repentance impossible and so closes the door of hope upon the soul forever. What may be the resources of God's mercy in the future I do not know and shrink from the dogmatism which attempts to define them.

The most awful fact of human life is the power of the human soul to accept God or reject Him as it will. "What God may do in the future to overcome the choice of evil I do not know; but I am sure that He will never violate the sacred freedom of the soul and so destroy man in seeming to save him and never attach other than darkness and death to persistent sin. But I am not less sure that His mercy endureth forever and that no soul will be left In the darkness which that mercy can call into light; that the end of Christ's redeeming work comes not until He delivers up the kingdom to God and the Father has all things put under His feet and is Himself subject unto Him that put all things undej Him that God may be in all; and that when that glad day comes the song of rejoicing will rise from every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea. If there are then any voices not joining in that choral of redeeming love I believe it will be because they are silent In that second death, from which there is no resurrection. Endless conscious sin I do not believe In.

I could endure the thought of endless suffering, but not of sin growing ever deeper, darker, more often. It has grown to me I believe It is unscriptural. "My faith in immortality also rests upon Christ upon His word. His resurrection. On this and on every other spiritual scene I more and more distrust the vaunted scientific method and more and more rest upon personal faith in the Christ of God bearing a witness confirmed by the experience of God in my own soul.

"And I more and more incline to believe that immortality is not the universal attribute of humanity that God alone has immortality; and we have it only as here or hereafter we may be made partakers of the divine nature. The two theories of life which seem to me to be contending in our age are the same which have ever been contending since the days of Paul the pagan and the Christian." It was this declaration in relation to immortality which the Eagle commented upon editorially as follows: "Tho theory of annihilation crops out clearly. 'I am more and more inclined to believe that Immortality is not the universal attribute of humanity that God alone hath immortality and we have it only as here or hereafter we are made partakers of the divine nature." "Paul asserts as positively that death is the wages of sin as that eternal life is the gift of God. but it is a question how far the theory of annihilation helps the matter, whether It is anything more than a way to avoid a disagreeable conclusion. There is also something of inconsistency in accepting this notion and yet insisting upon a merciful probation hereafter, for eternal death Is in itself in the nature of everlasting punishment.

Atonement, as the doctrine was once laid down, would scarcely be recognized in Dr. Abbott's evolutionary redemption." The Eagle said further: "Dr. McLeod of the Clinton avenue church was not prepared to accept Dr. Abbott's theological statement, did not shrink from saying so anil retired from the council on that ground." Here, I trust, I may be pardoned for interjecting a reference to myself. During the discussion begun by Dr.

Abbott some of hii friends, entirely misunderstanding the motives which prompted the writing of thesu letters, have deemed it a duty to charge me with unfairness, antagonism to the Founder of Christianity and other less serious offenses. Thse assaults have in no wise disturbed "Mul," anil were it not for the gravity of the under discussion might be regarded V.s grimly humorous. Yet the virulence of tiese assaults seems to reuder it necessary to. reiterate that the writer has not Intentionally or otherwise misrepresented Dr. Abbott.

And to those generous minds whose encourag lngraessages of appreciation have been conveyed to "Mul, "he herewith makes grateful acknowledgement. MUL. HOTEL ARRIVALS. Plenepont house J. F.

Preston, J. Hardman. J. S. Nelson.

Philadelphia; W. E. Winslow, London. Ont. Mr.

and Mrs. A. Kilmer, Brooklyn: G. A. Eskenbrach, Stamford, John Hobby.

H. W. Reeve, Brooklyn; R. D. A.

Thompson. New Haven; M. H. O'Brien. Baltimore; Miss L.

G. McCarty. Virginia; J. A. Sterry.

Mr. and Mrs. B. Elliott. G.

13. Corrlngton, Brooklyn; W. S. Ryan, Boston. SCALCHI TO SING.

Mmo. Scalchi vr ill sing to night at a sacred concert to be given in the Church of Our Lady of Victory, corner of Throop avenue and Mc Donongh street, the Rev. James J. Woods, pastor, under the direction of Paul Martin, organist. A quartet orchestra and grand chorus are among the other attractions offered.

EXHIBITION BILLIARDS. An exhibition of. billiard playing, fancy ehots, will be given next Wednesday night by Mr. Hoppe and his two little boys, at the Union League club. A like exhibition will also bo given by Edward McLaughlin, champion of the State of Pennsylvania.

The entertainment will be only for "members of the club and their immediate friends. CHRISTMAS TREE SOCIETY The next musicale of the Brooklyn Christmas Tree society will take place in the banqueting hall of the Clarendon hotel, bp Tuesday afternoon, from. 3 to 5 o'clock. Mrs. Charles M.

"Whitney, chairman of the musical committee, has secured the following artists to take part: Miss Maud Rolston, pianist; Mr. Fred Hoschlce, organist; Maurice McLoughlln, reader, and Mr. Olney, tenor. Messrs. Hoschke and Olney are connected with the choir of the Second Presbyterian church.

The other muslcales ot the society occur on' December 1, 8, 15 and 22. STYLES OF ARCHITECTURE. Professor Walter S. Perry, director of Ads arts at the Pratt institute, gave an informing and helpfu! lecture before the section on art education of the Brooklyn institute department of pedagogy on Friday on "The Essential Characteristics of Architectural Styles." Within the compass of an hour and a halt Mr. Perry succeeded In explaining In a wonderfully clear and lucid manner the evolution of the art of building, from the pair of rude stones set on end and topped by another of the savage, to the finished monu inents of the Greek.

Roman, Gothic and Renaissance architecture. The talk was illustrated by a set of views. MRS. SHARPENS GUESTS. Mrs.

J. S. Sharpe of GO Halsey street cn toratlned the Independent Ladies' Bowling club at a kaffeo klatsch at her home from 2 to 5 o'clock. The table decoration consisted of a center piece of la Prance roses and smilax. Tho plate flowers wero "single roses of the same variety.

The collation was well calculated to display the refined taste of tho hostess, who, with her accustomed hospitality, made the afternoon one of thorough enjoyment to her guests. Those present were: Mrs. Sharpe. president: Mrs. Hxnnler.

vice president: Miss Krnmer, treasurer; Mrs. Blohm secretary; Mrs. Dieden. Stuhly, Mrs. Mar quart, Mrs.

Altels, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Meis lshn, MrH. Vandruun, Mrs. Goll, Mm.

Kraentler, Mrs. Currlc and Miss Smith, 4 4.