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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBEB 23, 1896. WILLIAM ADAMS' FUNERAL. COLLIDED WITH A COAL BARGE. MISCELLANEOUS. BROOKLYN RANKS THIRD CHAT OF TEE THEATEES.

supporters than his Brooklyn audiences when he has really "A Good Thing" to offer. Reports say that the play of that name which he wii; give at the Grand Opera house next week is not misnamed and. anyway, there Is always a certain amount of fun sure to ooze from tho wrinkles of tho comedian's plump and Jolly figure. We are to have a limited season of Italian opera in Brooklyn this winter in spite of the losses sustained on the season last year. Mr.

Murray and Mr. Grau, however, have modified their plans considerably as the result of that disastrous experiment. They will give only three nights and will offer a big star at each performance. That is tho announcement, though, in fact, Maurice Grau has so little faith In Brooklyn that he threatens privately to quit after the first night unless the sale is good. The dates selected are January 7, IS and 2S, and the stars who are to bu brought over are Molba.

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BUREAUS: New York bureau. Room 40. 72 74 Broadway; Paris bureau, 26 Rue Camlion; Washington bureau, 608 Fourteenth st; Information Bureau, Rooms 29 and 30. Eagle building. operas in which they will sing have not been decided as yet and will not be until Mr.

Murray Jiears something of the preferences of the people who aro likely to buy seats. He has a choice for the first night with Melba of "Traviata." "Faust" or aud Juliet" and will try and get at the preferences of his patrons as between the three if possible. What Calve will sing in depends upon the choice made for Melba. If Melba sings in either "Traviata" or "Romeo and Juliet" that will leave "Faust" free for Calve. She is very anxious to sing Marguerite, just to show Eames and Melba.

as well as the public, what she can do with the part, and her appearance in it is the only way in which a fillip of novelty can be given to the old opera. We have had Melba, Eames and pretty much everybody else as Marguerite, and Calve's impersonation would make an interesting night. "Romeo and Juliet" has never been sung here at all, and it is in many respects Molba's best opera, though sang "Traviata" surprisingly well in Xew York on Monday. It is probable that Eames will appear in "Lohengrin," in which she has made the greatest hit of the season. She will add "Aida" to her list of operas this winter and, if there were any possibility of Manager Grau sending that opera over here under any circumstances whatever, we might have her in that part, which she has never sung here.

Nothing better in the way of Christmas literature is to be found of its class than the Christmas number of the Dramatic Mirror, just issued. The Mirror has gone in more heavily for solid worth this year and has given less space to pictures of actors, which are more or less in the nature of advertisement. Barton Hill gives some interesting side lights on Edwin Booth, based 0:1 his long and intimate acquaintance. It is a notable fact that in all the intimate glimpses we get of this great actor through the people who knew him in times of professional trial noth ing petty or base crops out. He seems to have been singularly free from professional HEBREW ORPHAN ASYLUM.

The Passengers on the Ferryboat Columbia haken Up. A small Bizod panic ocourrod on board tho Wall stroot ferryboat Colnmbia at 5:15 yesterday afternoon, when a coal barge crashed into her in tho middlo of tho East river. There wore 500 passengers aboard, and the women screamed and rushed for lifo preservers. The Columbia was half way over on a trip to Brooklyn when a tug with two eoal barges in tow came down the rivor. It was dark and the tow was not seen until too late.

Tho pilot of the Columbia shouted to the hands on the bargOB to throw off the tow line, but his warning was not heard. The heavy hawser stretched over tho front of the ferryboat, struck tho men's cabin, strained a moment and then snapped. Then the barge crashed into the boat's side. The men's cabin was smashed and broken glass and splintered wood showered over the frightened passengers. After a short delay the'Columbia came over to Brooklyn with hor passengers, where she was laid up for repairs.

FALSE ENTRIES IN BANK BOOKS. Buffalo, N. December 23 Edwin J. Smith, formerly individual bookkeeper of tho Bank of Commerce, was arrested last evening by Detectives Hugh Kennedy and Matt O'Laughlin, on tho complaint of the receivers of the Bank of Commerce, who charged him with falsifying the books of the bank, effecting a practical embezzlement of between 82,500 nnd 53,000. The false entries covered a period of two years, and the last was made not long before tho bank closed its doors.

MUL" IS PENITENT. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Easle: It strikes me that the communications from "Mul" concerning Dr. Abbott lack, as criticisms, have not the dispassionateness which dlstln the dlealty ot disinterestedness. "Mul'a" leitters guishes true criticism from Ill natured fault finding; their tone Is so uniformly acrimonious that it is easy for the "Constant Reader" to anticipate what will be said over "Mul's" signature. "Mul" might give a much needed variety to the style of his letters If he would state the grounds for his posltlveness concerning the error of Dr.

Abbott's views. This might require more scholarship than "Mul" has attained to, but there is a book now before the public which It would be well for him to look into before he criticises students. I refer to Professor White's "History of the "Warfare of Science With Theology In Christendom." M. M. BURROUGHS, Brooklyn, December 21, 1S9G.

Whes Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, she gavo them Castoria. DIED.

BENNETT PEARL RUSSELL BENNETT, dearly beloved and only child of Eugene H. nnd Mamie Russell Bennett, aged 3 years 7 months and 23 days. Funeral from the residence of her grandfather, Thomas Bally, 73 Herrlman av, Jamaica, L. at 2 P. Saturday, December 26.

BERKINC At her residence, 427 Washington av, Brooklyn, Tuesday, December 22, PAULINE relict ot the late Charles H. Berking. Notice of funeral hereafter. (Newark, N. and San Francisco paper please copy.) BURKE Monday, December 21.

EDWARD McM. BURKE. Funeral from his late residence. Si Carroll st, on Thursday, at 2 o'clock. CARLIN On Tuesday, December 22, JANE CAR LIN, widow of the late Patrick H.

Carlin, aged 67 years and 7 months. Funeral from her daughter's residence, 72 Wood hull st, Thursday, at 2 P. M. prompt; thence to Holy Cross Cemetery. CLARK At his residence, 169 Hawthorne av, Yonkers, N.

on Monday, December 21, 1S96, JOHN CLARK, aged 61 years. Funeral from St. John's Episcopal Church, Thursday, December 2, at 2 o'clock P. M. Carriages will be at station on arrival of 1:10 train from Grand Central depot.

Interment at Woodlawn. DOXSEE At Islip, L. on Monday morning, December 21. ROBERT L. M.

DOXSEE. son of J. Harvey and Almira S. Doxsee, 27 years of age. Funeral services on Wednesday, 23d at the residence of his father, Islip.

1:30 P. M. HOPKINS On Tuesday. December 22, 1S96, PA MELIA HOPKINS, widow of the late Lansing E. Hopk'ins, In the S7th year of her age.

Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral services, at her late residence, 359 Cumberland st, Brooklyn, on Wednesday evening, 253 at 8 P. M. Interment at Hudson, N. Y. (Michigan papers please copy.) HUBBARD In Brooklyn, Wednesday, December 23, 1S96.

ELIAS A. HUBBARD. Notice of funeral hereafter. LOTHROP Suddenly. December 22, 1896.

ALBERT LOTHROP, youngest son of the late Wm. H. and Sarah Lothrop, also the grandson of John Anderson, aged 17 years and 1 month. Funeral services to be held Thursday evening, December 24, 7:30 o'clock, at his late residence, 115 North Oxford st. Friends arc invited to attend the funeral services.

Burial at the convenience of the family, Greenwood cemetery. MAGOUN On December 22, 1896, ROBERT T. MAGOUN. aged 22 years. Funeral services at his late residence, 265 Market st, December 23.

1S96, at 8:30 P. M. Relatives and friends are invited; take Union Elevated to Crescent st Station. MATTHEWMAN On Tuesday, December 22, 1896, RAE VIVIAN MATTIIEWMAN, beloved daughter of William H. and Ida I.

Matthew man, aged 4 months. Funeral service Thursday afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock, December 24, 1890, at 904 Jefferson av. MacDON ALD On Tuesday, December 22, 1890. at her residence. 3ES Cumberland st, JENNIE EDITH MacDONALD.

daughter of Daniel L. and the lato Esther S. MacDonald. Funeral private. Interment Greenwood.

McKENNA On Monday, December 21. JOHN son of ex Policeman John W. McKenna. Funeral from his late residence. 225 Bergen st, Thursday morning, December 24.

at 9:30 A. M. thence to St. James' Pro Cathedral. Jay st, near Chapel, where a solemn mass of requiem will bo offered for the repose of his soul.

Relatives and friends are invited tb attend. MORROW Suddenly, on December 22. CORNELIUS MORROW, in the Oath year of his age. Funeral from his late residence, 447A State st, near Third av, Brooklyn, Thursday, December 24, at 2 o'clock prompt. Friends Invited.

SHEA Entered into rest on Sunday, December 20, MARY CHARLOTTE NAYLE, widow of the late John W. Shea. Funeral from her late residence. 33 First place, Thursday morning, December 24, at thence to St. Stephen's R.

C. Church, Hicks st, corner Summit, where a requiem mass will be offered up for the repose of her soul. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend; kindly omit flowers. SKIRVING At his residence. 193 Van Buren st, December 22, JOHN H.

SKIRVING. aged 50 years. Services at his late residence Thursday evening at o'clock. Relatives, friends and members of Commonwealth Lodge No. 409, F.

and A. are invited to attend. Interment private. Kindly omit flowers. SKIRVING Commonwealth Lodge, No.

F. and A. M. You are requested to be present at a special communication, to be held In their room, Thursday evening, December 24, nt 7 o'clock, for the purpose of paying the last tribute of respect to our late Bro. JOHN H.

SKIRVING. E. J. CAMBPELL, Master, E. J.

CAMPBELL, Secretary. SMITH On Tuesday. December 22, 1896, MARY B. I SMITH, only daughter of the late Robert Dlngee and oldest daughter of Mrs. F.

L. PellertreaH. Funeral services on Thursday, December 24, 8 P. at her lato residence, 341 West Thirty first st. New York City.

WALLACE At his residence, 183 Congress st, this city, on Tuesday evening, December 22, WILLIAM WALLACE, M. In his 62d year. Funeral services will be held at St. Ann's Church on the Heights, Thursday, December 24, at 2 o'clock P. M.

Kindly omit flowers. WERNER On December 23, at 8:30 A. MORRIS W'EliXEIi, 56 years of age. from his late residence, 29 Second place, Brooklyn, Friday, December 25. art 9 A.

M. Flowers omitted. ZOLKBR At his residence. 291 Clinton st, on Tuesday, Decembor 22, 1S96, CHARLES beloved husband of Louisa Zolzer, aged 39 years 4 months. Relatives and friends, also, Master Plumbers' Association and Brooklyn Lodge.

D. O. aro invited to attend his funeral from the German Evangelical Lutheran Zlon's Church, on Sunday, December 27. at 1:30 P. M.

Large Attendance of Church, and Sunday School Representatives. The funeral service of the lato William AdamB was held in the old homestead of tho Adams family, Gates avonuo, last ovening, tho Kov. Dr. A. J.

F. Uehrends, pastor of the Central Congregational church, officiating. The mournerp included representations from the Central Congregational church, Nostrand avenue M. E. church, the Bedford bank, and the Sunday school union, in addition to quite a large number of relatives of Mr.

Adams. In his addreBS Dr. Behrendn said he had enjoyed some opportunities of association with Mr. Adams under circumstances which enabled him to know him in his general demeanor. Twice he had crossed the ocean in bin company and witnessed his efl'ortB to promote the happiness of others.

'1'be deck of a ship was a good olacc to discover the best qualities of a man. and there whilo mixing freely with men, all seeking to enjoy themselves, he found Mr. WILLIAM ADAMS. Adams a noble and a pure companion. Ho said Mr.

Adams' name was the fortieth on tho list of the Central church members who had taken their departure, exclusive of those who wero merely attendants upon the services, and children of the church families during tho present year. The usefulness of Mr. Adams in one church and in the Kunday school of another was a manifestation of the simplicity of his creed, which was to love and follow the Lord Jesus Christ. After an earnest prayer and the committal sentences the largo assemblage of mourners took a parting gianco at their friend's face as they passed out of tho house. Tho large number in attendance was a fine tribute to the esteem in which Mr.

Adams was held. The parlors, library and dining room and rooms upstairs wero filled. Among the company were Mr. and Mrs. Webster Wright, Mr.

nnd Mrs. Henry H. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Muns, Mrs.

David Adams, Robert Adams, Leon Adams, Miss Martha M. Wright, F. K. Rupprecht, Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Muns. Edward B. Muns, Misses Edna, Grace and Martha M. Muns, Orvil J. Victor, Mr.

and Mrs. John Campbell, Miss Lena Campbell Marston Campbell. Mrs. A. Vauderhoef.

Miss Martha May Vnndcrhoef, Dr. and Mrs. Henry T. Hotchkiss. A.

Klino. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson J. Gates, John C.

Kelley. Miss Ray. Robert G. Davisson, William P. Gill, Clarence Stanley, I.

N. Biedwright. Mr. and Mrs. J.

Orlando Harrison, Mr. ainl'Mrs. Charles A. Lent, John li. Morris, Warren P.

Boll, Edwin H. Cranip ton, Edward I. Walling. William Hcrries, Professor William L. Felter, Frank L.

Strickland, Eugene Blackford and the directors of the Bedford bank and teachers of tho Nostrand avenue Sunday school. Burial was in Greenwood cemetery thiB morning. PAKKHURST TALKS POLITICS. He Uses Plain Language in Reference to the Fight for the United States Senatorship. A dinner given in the New England Congregational church, South Ninth street, last evening, in celebration of forefathers' day, was very Euccessful.

Dinner was served at 6:30 and at o'clock the diners assembled in the church to hear a number of addresses. The principal address was made by Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst cf New York, who had something to say about the Republican candidates for United States senator. Dr.

Parkhurst began by saying that he had been glad to accept the invitation to come to Brooklyn in order to pay his respects to Dr. McElveen and to put the stamp of approval on the work already under way looking to the formation of a city vigilance league in this city. He proceeded: "With your permission I shall read from notes. There are some things I waint to say that are ol such a character as to need to be phrased with greater exactness than is quite possible in an impromptu address. Then there is also a certain security in having things down in black and white.

Unfortunately even that does not afford one absolute protection. Why even the printed psalms of David, the ten commandments and the sermon on the Mount could be twisted into monstrosities if cribbed and nicked by a man who went at them with a foul and lying iatention to make them appear monstrosities. There is no such thing as absolute security against a liar who is talented and experienced. What a world this would be if the perseverance of the saints were made out of such durable stuff as the perseverance of the sinners. You walk with a "reformer" this year and take sweet counsel with him and help him to compose civic resolutions and pro nunciamentos, and perhaps six months later he is hobnobbing and junketing or eating a "harmony dinner" with the very people over whom you and he had together gotten Into a condition of perspiring indignation.

This harmony dinner business I want to say a little more specifically seems to me one of the most ingenious devices of the devil for the confusion of what is distinct and for the sapping of the virility of au earnest cause. Imagine the Cavaliers an the Roundheads sitting down to a harmony dinner! Conceive of Praise God Barebones and a high churchman anaesthetizing their differences in a co partnership of mutual punch and terrapin! There is something queerly hideous in the mere suggestion. Of course there are differences that admit of composition, and a dinner table, if it is a good one, is admirably adapted to the purpose. But there are differences that are irreconcilable; there are differences that going beyond matters of policy reach down to a substratum of principle, and "harmony dinners" worked for the purpose of making the convives forget that there is any principle involved are an elegant way of playing traitor to realities thai are immutable and that soup aud champagne will not dissolve. "This is a critical era in the history of our The election to the seaatcrship of any man who ftas been politically or morally discredited will be put a premium upon chicanery and turpitude, nnd It will serve to teach your sons that dighway to political prefermon; is laid down in igr.jminy aad paved with guile.

Make yourself acquainted with lie In the cuse. Consul: nios cf the New Ycrk Sun, ami If. on inquiry e.t that office for :r.ie particular issuo Is just now the most interesting, 3 011 should run against a. paroxysm of moral del'ieaey t'liat will hesi to expose your pure mind to the possibility of taint, ccme to my house and I will show you a copy. But.

a1: any rate, make yourself master of the sl Sending to Wasli iag ton a large, pure man will make larger and purer the sens of every one of you. Sending to Washington a man history Is stuck full of p. Mi toil exclamation moral interrogations will tend 'to vrk deterioration in your beys and to lower A tone of moral virility throughout the entire commonwealth. On this day. memorial of a great day long gono by.

and of the moral giants whose right it is to exercise a superb imperialism over our loyalties, assert yourselves in the exigencies of the occasion. You may be but cue man or woman, but you are part or the city and part of the state and a fraction of the responsibility for the whole really belongs individually to you. If a man becomes a senator at Washington who will be a mortification to tho integrity and purity or Xew York and you have not in some way uttered your protest, do not go around grumbling about it after the thing is done, but chastise your own soul for having failed to do what you could to prevent its being done." INFANT SMOTHERED TO DEATH. Perry Phclan, a 3 months old infant, was found doad in bed this morning at 172 Berry street. Now York.

The child had been put to bed with his 3 year old brother. During tho night the elder child rollod over the infant and smothered it. IN THE MATTER OF PUBLIC SCHOOL ENROLLMENT. Comparative Statistics Showing the Relative Standing in Educational Matters of the Ten Largest Cities in the United States. (Special to the Eagle.) Washington, D.

Decembor 23 In a statistical table of the schools ot tho largest ten cities In the United States, Brooklyn ranks third in the proportion ot public school enrollment to population between tho ages of 5 and 21 years. Boston, the city of culture, as might be expected, heads the list with an average of 60 per cent, Baltimore coming next with 48 per cent, and Brooklyn third with 49 per cent. The figures show that there are in the 'schools of Brooklyn 290,000 pupils between the ages of 5 and 21. Of this number there are 34,000 In private and parochial schools, while there are enrolled In public schools 146,000. It is estimated that the number of children between the ages of 5 and 21 not in the Brooklyn schools, either public or private, is 115,596.

The report states that the value of property used for school purposes In Brooklyn is $7,953,000, while there is an annual expenditure for salaries for teachers and supervisors of the sum of $1,895,102. New York city has the largest enrollment In the public day schools, there being 227,932 pupils between the ages ol 5 and 21, in attendance at the schools in that city. The average dai'ly attendance, however, is but 167,634. Chicago has only 185,358 scholars enrolled in the public schools of that city. The public schools of Boston have such a high educational standing that the attendance at private and parochial schools there is very small, there being but 11,294 pupils at the latter classes of schools.

Boston's school buildings are al3o the costliest of any city in the United States, the value of her school property per capita of population between the ages of 5 and 21 being $81. This' Is nearly double that of the nearest city, New York, where the value of the school property per capita of the pupils is $42. Brooklyn is away down on the list in this respect, standing next to last, with a per capita value of $26. St. Louis is the only city below Brooklyn in this table, her per capita value being $21.

The over crowded condition of the New York city schools is shown by the fact that tho average number of pupils in attendance at each building in that city is 1,172, which is some 400 more than the average in Brooklyn, which is next on the list with an average 778. Boston has the fewest number of pupils for each building of any of the largest cities, her average being but 354. The Boston school teachers and supervisors are also the best paid, the average salary received by them being in New York the average is $677 and in Brooklyn it is $762. There were enrolled in the schools and colleges of the United States, both private and public, during the school year of 1893 4, 15,530,268 pupils and students, being an Increase of 446,638 over the preceding year. In addition to this there were some 400,000 persons enrolled in various special schools and Institutions, such as business colleges, trade schools and conservatories of music, schools of art and elocution, Indian schools, making a grand total of 16.000,000 persons who attended a school of some sort for a longer or shorter period during the year.

It is estimated that the number of different pupils enrolled in common schools, which Includes public, elementary and secondary, or high day schools, is 13,935,977, an increase of 425,000 over the previous year. This Is an unusual rate of growth, the average annual rate of Increase for the ten years ending with 1892 3, having been only about 286,000. The report says that this fact is worthy of note as occurring during a period of widespread business and speaks well Tor the people that have endeavored to make up for the loss occasioned by Irregular and uncertain wages, by sending to school not only the younger children at such times, but also their older children thrown out of occupation as wage earners. The average length of school term in the public schools for the year 1892 3 was 136 days. This was increased to 139 days in the following year, which is nearly ten days longer than in 1880.

The average number of days attended by each pupil enrolled, however, was only 91.6. or about two thirds of the time the schools were in session. There was an increase of 2,712 in the number of male teacher: and 2.2S5 in the number of female teachers. The percentage of male teachers, which is 32.2. shows an increase for the first time in a number of years, and is another item to be explained by the business depression, men having less reason to desert their calling of teacher and venture in more lucrative employments.

There is also an interesting chapter devoted to the public high schools in the United States. Reports were received from 3,946 of these institutions during the year. The state reporting the largest number of high schools was Ohio, with 402. Next came New York with 297 and then Illinois with 272. There were 289,274 secondary students in the public high schools, 117,202, or 40.45 per of whom were males and 172,072 being females.

The number colored students included in this number was 4,197. The number of elementary pupils in the 3,946 high schools of the United States is much larger than the number of secondary students in the same schools. There were 583,327 of these elementary pupils 282,702 males and 300, 627 females. The report also furnishes a number of tables showing the number of students pursuing the various courses of study. The high school study claiming the highest number of students is algebra, more than 56 per cent, of the whole number of pupils taking up this branch of study.

Forty four per cent, of th students include Latin in their course and but 3 per cent, take up Greek, while French is tudied by six per cent. The German language was studied by 34,000 students, or 11 per cent, of the whole number enrolled in the high schools. Geometry was studied by 27 per cent, of the students, while only 2 per cent, of them included trigonometry in their course. Twenty five per cent, of the students pursued the study of physics, while 10 per cent, received instruction In chemistry. The importance of historical study is admitted in all states, 36 per cent, of the pupils pursuing this branch.

DR. THOMPSON RECOVERING. He Will Resume His Duties With the New Tear. The Rev. Dr.

John Rhey Thompson, pastor of the Nostrand avenue M. E. church, who has been absent from his pulpit since the middle of August, will return to his work. It is now announced, on January 1 Dr. Thompson has been in the neighborhood of Boston for a long time, under treatment for nervous troubles, but he is now so fully recovered, it Is said, as to be in better health than he has been for years.

He has gained in flesh and strength and the Nostrand avenue people are rejoicing that he is so soon to be with them again. BROOKLYN CLUBS. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, N. December 23 The Riverside Social club of Brooklyn has just been incorporated with the secretary of state. Its trustees for the first year are Seeve rt A.

Nelson, Albert Erickscn, Olaf Jansen, Robert Anderson and Anton LIndgren. The Phil Seubert Social club of Brooklyn has also been incorporated, with the following trustees for the first year: August H. Zleg ier, Charles Rathenbach, Hermann Wild, George Ibert and William B. Moore. ROBERT M.

TAYLOR DROWNED. Captain David E. Taylor of 807 Eleventh street has received information from Brazos Santiago, of the death of hiR son, Robert M. Taylor, who was drowned on December li). The steam yacht ltova, of which the deceased was chief officer, left Brooklyn three weeks ago with a cruizing party.

Tho boat was anchored in the harbor of Brazos Santiago, when in attempting to take a pilot aboard tho sninll boat was capsized and Mr. Taylor was drowned. The deceased was 23 years old. THE SALVATION ARMY DINNER. Staff Captnin J.

C. Smith of the Salvation army aska nil frionds and sympathizers who intend aiding in tho preparations for tho froo dinner to bo given at Salvation Army hall to send their provisions or othor gifts to 221 Washington street or 62 Hicks stroot not later than Thursday afternoon. Turkeys and othor substantial provisions are still needed. A SEASON OF OPERA IN BROOKLYN, AFTER ALL. Mr.

Townsend's Talent for Writing Comedy Fanny Davenport's Soarabei for "Cleopatra" Will Otis Skinner Come Here Again? Why should not E. W. Townsend turn his i attention seriously to writing American com edies, plays which picture the sort of life which Richard Harding Davis and Mrs. Bur ton Harrison put into their stories? The vein of east side humor which he struck in "Chimmie Fadden" is capital for newspaper sketches, and is well enough for one play, but he can hardly nope to work it exten 1 sively on the stage. That material has been used over and over again by playwrights from Harrigan to George W.

Ryer, in his "Sunshine of Paradise Alley," and it is far harder to impart distinctive quality to a play dealing with a familiar field than it is to a story where the author's small literary nice ties serve to distinguish his work from that of ether men. One of the very best scenes in Mr. Townsend's play at the Montauk this week has not Chimmie Fadden or any of his east aide characters in it at all. It is the scene between Mr. Paul and Miss Fannie, where she refuses him.

It Is handled with a delicacy and written with a literary skill and a dramatic effectiveness which make the Bowery scene and the meeting in Mrs. Fad den's home seem coarse and bungled by comparison, in spite their humor. Distinction of dialogue, combined with naturalness when spoken by actors in evening dress, is one of the rarest offerings of the stage. For ten minutes or so Mr. Townsend achieves that combination in 'Chimmie Fadden," and the scene goes with keen appreciation on the part of audience.

which were not looking for anything of the sort. A society comedy is a very difficult thing to write well, but success In the trying field is correspondingly profitable, and it seems, from his tentative effort in that that Mr. Townsend has more gift for it than any of the younger playwrights. But if he tries it, let him think long and invent action whtch springs naturally from the characters whom ho expects to put into it, aud not take any old plot and cram his people into it anyhow. Plot is the artificial element in drama, and in these days of so much admirable effort the natural school, playgoers rebel at artificiality.

But of he will take time enough, Mr. Townsend ought to write us an American society comedy in the Dest sense of that term. Fanny Davenport's "Cleopatra" the latter part of this week promises to be more correctly if somewhat less gorgeously dressed that when she used to play the part. The faceting of gems is a modern art, and Cleopatra and the Queen of if they wished to enhance their charms with jewelry, had to content themselves with pearls or with gems cut with round surfaces. Miss Davenport's jewels are notoriously handsomer and more costly than any those of any actress on the stage, and she used to appear as Cleopatra with all her jewel cases emptied upon her clothes, a vision of splendor that neither Cleopatra nor Antony ever saw or dreamed of.

This year she will rely on Scarabel which are a legitimate and appropriate Egyptian decoration. Some of these are of agate adorned with turquoise and others or onyx and carnelian. The ages of these ornaments is naturally uncertain, and scarabei having been exhumed with Egyptian mummies, but Miss Davenport's press agent, who has become an Egyptologist in a way since these ornaments have been secured, has identified one old bracelet in particular with the dynasty of Merles II, ono of the earliest Egyptian rulers. At least if he has not done the work some antiquarian has done it for him and here Is what he says about it: The old bracelet has four scarabel curiously marked. There aro one each In the brooch and earrings ond sixteen in the necklace.

The last is believed to date from a period not remote from the time of the Ptolemies, but this is uncertain, as the remains from which it was taken were ex lnimed In upper Efrypt, some distance from the Kile, and there is some dispute as to their Identity. They were found by a youns French sa vnnt who. not content with retllllnpr old frrounrt. set out into new regions and was at last rewarded by the discovery of a collection of tombs and mausoleums, containing manv mummies, so richly attired and so profusely "bejeweled that there Is little doubt they were, when llvlns, people of very high rank. The rest of us remember well enough the gorgeous scenic sotting which Miss Davenport provided for "Cleopatra," and would be glad to welcome her presentation of the play for the sake of the tropical splendors witn which she invests it, even with the scarabel.

They are having fun in the "Brian Boru" company, which is finishing up its run at the Broadway theater and preparing to come to the Columbia. Jefferson de Angelis Monday night went into Richard Carroll's part. Jeff has not played anything with an Irish brogue for his fellow actors relieve the monotony of work In a long run where they know every line of text and bit of business by listening to his struggles with the new accent. On Monday it sounded suspiciously like the brogue of a pawnshop at times, but Mr. de Angel will be firm on his Tipperary pins before the week is out.

Beside Mr. de Angelis the opera has fairies, elfins, goblins and true Irish romance. It will be interesting to see whether Colonel Sinn gets Otis Skinner at the Montauk next season. The week before Christmas is a notoriously bad time for theaters, and Mr. Skinner's business was not such as he is accustomed to in the West.

He has had one other bad week In Brooklyn, and his manager during the last engagement declared his intention of shaking the dust of Brooklyn from his feet. Colonel Sinn watched the performances carefully and was satisfied, as were other expert judges, that Skinner was the coming Shakspearean actor. For that reason he was anxious to modify Manager Buckley's determination, feeling sure that under more favorable circumstances Brooklyn would show appreciation of the admirable presentations which the young actor makes of stage classics. If he receives encouragement from the patrons of his house which look like substantial patronage for the engagement he may De able to change the mind of tlte star and his manager. But at present Mr.

Skinner is looking toward the Golden Gate, where they know a good actor when they see him. and do not have to wait for the approval of either London or Xew York. He has an engagement at San Francisco in March, of which the first week is to be devoted to "A Soidier of Fortune," with "Hamlet," Saturday night, and t'he seccad to a handsome production of "Romeo and After that 'ae will tour the Pacific coast and nc; be back 'In the East before next fall. Ttie.n perhaps Colonel Sinn may induce him to consider one more visit to Brooklyn, though not unless he has something tangtble iu the way of a demand for seats. It is to be hoped that the Brooklyn friends of Emma Eames will seo this paragraph, else they may make a pilgrimage to Xew York this afternoon for nothing.

Mrs. Story ordinarily receives her friends a her hctel on Wednesdays, but she has to sing Marguerite in "Faust" to niglit for the first time this season and t'ae reception will be abandoned. A good many people remember tho senilis for make ups and odd character parts whtch E. M. Holland manlfes ted when he was In Palmer's stock company a dozen years ago, I and not a few of them will recall his charm I ing charucterlrutloa ot" the chief figure In I "Colonel Carter Cjrtersville." the some I wOat wandering but typically S.iut'aern which Augustus Thomas made from F.

Hop kinson Smith's novel of the same name. Mr. Holland has had that play condensed in to a one act curra.n raiser. gives many of Colonel Carter's epigrams, Including the famous one about canvas back duok a nd currant jelly, and preserves, the Southern flavor utiieVi was the chief charm ot the original work. This he will use at tho Park t'neater next week, with the play "A Superfluous Husband." by Clyde Fitch, a story of the Xew York life of to day, centering a'bout the husband cf a popular professional woman.

E. S. Willard has been liked in Brooklyn ever since he began to present his strong series of plays by Henry Arthur Jones here; indeed, Mr. Willard seems to have been able to secure the best of the remarkable output from Jones' uneven pen. "The Dancing Girl" is the only really good Jones play seen here not presented by Willard since "The Silver King" made the "dramatist widely known.

Xext week at the Montauk Mr. Willard will introduce his latest Jones' success. "The Rogue's Comedy." which Xew York has been crowding to see for the last few weeks at Wallack's. He will also give "The Professor's Love Story," tho first play of the novelist. J.

M. Barrie. which he introduced on a former visit, and that strong, fine drama, "The Middleman." That is a bill which will offer Brooklyn a week of the sturdiest dramatic pabulum. Peter F. Dailey, the comedian, lives out Bushrwick avenue way and he has no sturdier The great cures by Hood's Sarsaparilla esulfs aro the nroof of its great merit.

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25 cents. TO AID HEBEEW ORPHANS. PREPARATIONS FOR THE ANNUAL BALL NEARLY COMPLETE. It Will Be Held in the Academy ot Music on the Evening of January 20 Four Thousand Tickets Are Ready. Preparations for the fourteenth annual ball of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum society of tho City of Brooklyn, which is to be given on Wednesday evening, January 20.

are rapidly nearing completion and within the next few: weeks every final detail of the great charitable event will have been definitely settled. The ball will be held this time, as in tho past, in the Academy of Music, which is excellently adapted to such large assemblages, and present indications point to a larger attendance and consequently larger receipt than ever before in the organization's history. The Hebrew society's ball is one of tho great public events of the year, and upon, its success so much depends that it has assumed an importance gladly recognized by all who have the city's welfare seriously at heart. The asylum buildings which profit most by the ball are located in Ralph avenue, between Dean and Pacific streets. The officers of the society are: Moses May, president; Abraham Abraham, vice president; Hermaa Newman, treasurer; A.

J. Piddian, secretary; trustees, Morris Adler, Moses Edward Kaufman, Alois Lazansky, Henry May, Henry Roth, Lipman Arensberg, Samuel Goodstein, Isaac Levy, David Mayer, Frank Pentlarge, Ira Leo Bamberger, Michael Hesseberg, Moses Kessel, Michael Levy, Emil Louis Mayer. David W. Stein, Henry Block, Louis Israel, Samuel Klein, Julius Manheim, Leopold Michael, Benoit Wasserman. B.

Wasserman is the chairman of the committee of arrangements, and associatel with him on sub committees in charge of the ball are Mitchell May. chairman of the floor committee, and Michael Furst. chairman of tho press committee. This year's ball was held at the Academy on January 22 last. One of the most important items In tha ball's financial success is the souvenir book, which i.s gotten up for presentation to all who attend.

It will be much larger than that of any previous year, the indications being that it will be a volume of nearly two hun tlre.l pages. In it are to appear portraits in half tone of all the officers and! trustees of the along with pictures the asylum buildings and grounds. Much, information concerning the growth, progress and needs of the institution and hundreds of advertisements of large firms, both in Brooklyn and Xew York. The book alone is expected to realize, over all costs of publication, something like Three prizes have been offered to the three women who succeed in securing the greatest number of advertisements for it. The entire orchestra of the Academy will be floored over for dancing, thus insuring space for all who wish to take an active part in the evening's festivities, while the first threa rows of dress circle seats will be reserved for spectators at $1 each.

The decorations of the ballroom are to be lavish and beautiful. They will consist of combinations of (lags, greens and electric lights placed ingeniously about the building. The grand march is to begin promptly at 10:30 o'clock, and in it many of the city officials, headed by the mayor and justices of the supremo court, arc expected to participate. Before tho grand march theie will bo a concert by Professor Wechsler's band of fifty pieces and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum band of thirty six pieces, which will play alternately. On Saturday.

January 10, at noon, President Wasserman of the society will sell the boxes for the ball at public auction, in the asylum building. Over four thousand tickets have been printed this year, for sale at $5 each. At last year's ball over seventeen hundred people were present. A supper will be served, and in every respect the management has taken provision for the comfort and pleasure of its expected guests. The charity for whose benefit the ball is to be given is so worthy of recognition and hearty support that it cannot fail to secure very flattering encouragement from every direction.

FUNERAL OF THE GOLDSMITHS. Funeral services over the lemains of tho Goldsmith family. Aaron, Clothilde and their three children, who wero burned to death in a fire at their home. 51 East Fifty eighth street, New York, last Sunday took place this morning in the Temple Iiodolph Sholol. There wero a number of Beautiful floral offerings.

The remains wero placed in the five hearseg aud conveyed to Neboh cemetery. Long Island, THE SCOTCH OVERLOOKED. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Kaftle: I notice to day in your paper you give an account of Christmas in foreiRn lands. You write about England and Old Ireland, but do not mention anythlns about Scotland. Are you aware Scotland and Enslnnd are different countries? There is as much difference between the Scotch nnd EiiRlish as there is between the Irish and English.

Scotland is just as important as Ireland. Ensriand or ay other country. I think the I'rers miffht srivc a little more notice to the Scotch, as they play as important a part in the world as any nationality. G. F.

"WHITE. l' "0 Pacific street, December 20, 18. FIREMEN THANKED. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Easle: 1 wish through you to thank the firemen aad also the Salvage Corps No. 1 for the prompt and cleanly manner In which they extinguished the fire in my house on Saturday afternoon.

K. J. GRAVfiafc SZt Prosfoct place, December SQ, COMING EVENTS. Christmas festival of Phelps school, 314 East Thirty sixth street, New York, at 4:30 P. M.

today. Distribution of gifts to destitute children of Brooklyn at the Academy of Music at 9 o'clock, Friday morning, under the auspices of the Brooklyn Christmas Tree society. Christmas entertainment iat Branch Public School No. 42, Thursday momlns, December 24, at 9:30. Cantata.

"The Revolt of the Toys," at the New Utrecht Reformed church, Eighty fourth street and Eighteenth avenue, Thursday evening'. December 24. The Christmas entertainment of the girls' high school Thursday morning, December 24, at 9:30 o'clock. HOTEL ARRIVALS. Clarendon C.

Sellers. Sellers, Philadelphia, Mr. and Mrs. T. White, Boston, W.

P. Manaton. F. W. Courlls, New Haven, Conn.

C. A. Mann. Buffalo, N. Y.

Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Van Cleef.

Ithaca. N. Y. O. J.

Victor, H. .7. Fowler, James Goldenl New York; H. Ward, A. L.

Ackerrnan. J. H. 1 leach. Mr.

and Mrs. C. Luther, L. G. Bach, Brooklyn.

St. George Francis C. Bufflnton, Massachusetts; Henry W. Smith, Princeton, N. Mr.

and Mrs. J. Donovan, Brooklyn B. M. Bucklngton, U.

S. N. Katie McGillcuddy, Akron, O. J. H.

Dalits. H. D. Thompson, Princeton. N.

J. Mr. and Mrs. C. M.

Smith, M1ss Smith, Miss Hinngton. New York; A. K. Tingle. Wahhlngton; H.

S. Pattlson, Brooklyn; William Broderick, Jersey City; Leslie M. Daniels, Plalnfleld, N. J. KOLLO MASSE Y.

Impressive and simple was the wedding of Miss Fredoricka Sterling Massey, youngest daughter of the late Judge Frederick S. Massey, and J. Kosciusko Kollock of Portland, which wag celebrated last evening in the Second Presbyterian church, Clinton and iffenison streets. The Bev. Dr.

John It. Fox officiated. The bride, who has been living in New York recently, desired the wedding to take place in the Second Presbyterian church because of the association of her family with it, her grandfather having been for over half a century connected with the church and the other members of the family also having been attendants there. The church was not decorated with either flowers or foliage. At a few minutes past 8 o'clock tho bridal procession entered the church to the strains of the "Bridal Chorus" from ''Lohengrin." The brido, a slender, handuomo brunette of medium height, was very becomingly gowned in ivory satin, en traine, with trimming of chiffon and orange blosBoms, and wore a long tulle vail fastened with a wreath of orange blossoms.

She did not carry any flowers. Her only attendant was Miss Nellie Deckor of this city, who was attired in white satin with a girdlo of pals green and bodice covered with ombroidered chiffon with a touch of green in tho trimming. She carriod a bouquet of white roses and lilies of tho valloy. The best man was Dr. T.

W. Washburn of Boston, and the ushers were Frederick Kollock, brother of the groom H. L. Twitchell of New York, Bobert SaleB of Montclair, Goorge Hardy of this city and Frederick Thompson of New York. Owing to the bride's family being in mourning no roception followed the ceremony tcongratulations wereoxteudedby several friends at the church previous to the departure of the bridal party to Now York.

Tho bride and groom will leave at once for Portland, whore they will make their future home. A number of beautiful presents were received. The groom is a graduate of Amherst, connected with tho Son of tho devolution, and several college organizations and engaged in the practice of law. Among those present were: Sirs. M.

Louise Massey. mothor of tho brido, who wore a gown of violet velvet and diamond ornaments; Mrs. Goorge E. Crook, sister of tho bride, wearing a coBtume of pale lavender corded silk with girdlo of violet velvet; Mrs. Marcellus Massey, grandmother of tho bride; Bobert D.

Massey, Miss Kollock, Mrs. F. If. Clarke of New York. George E.

Crook, Mr. and Mrs. G. II. Reynolds, Mrs.

H. L. Dicier roan, Mr. and Mrs. J.

B. Itoynolds, Mrs. F. B. Anderson, Miss Lillian Anderson, Mr.

and Mrs. A. Bipley, Mrs. H. Bounlthoau, Master Harold Bounltheau, Miss Blanche Johnson Mrs.

K. Thompson of New York, Mr. and Mrs. J. H.

Biggs, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Bead, Mrs. S. Olmstead.

Mr. and Mrs. William S. Gould, MisB Irono Cole. McADOO NOT PRESENT To Talk to Brooklyn's Naval Militiamen.

Assistant Socretary of tho Navy McAdoo did not locturo before tho officers nnd seamen of tho Second naval battalion last night. One of his aids, Lieutenuut Commander B. H. Buckingham, appeared in his place, presented the assistant secretary's regrets and talked briefly to tho naval militiamen on tho duties that they would bo required to porform in case of war with a foreign nation. Tuey would bo particularly valuablo.

ho said, in the defense of tho seaports, in torpedo, mine work and Bignal work. He said the navy department was in entire sympathy with tho naval militia and would do for it everything possible. Captain Satterloo of Governor Morton's staff, who has boon reappointed by Uovornor elect Black, also spoke to the navallmilitinnion. He road a telegram from Mr. McAdoo in which he stated that as Secretary Horbort had loft Washington ho could not got away.

Commandor Church of tho battalion thanked tho speakers for their oourtosy and said that he hoped to hare 156 officers and mou by February 1, when the organization could bo mustered into the state service. vanity and modest and sweet to a degree that is rare indeed among frail mortals. Mr. Hill's sketch is one of the best that has been written. Georgia Cayvan writes entertainingly about "Theater Days in Japan" and many eminent actors and playwrights contribute their quota to the Interesting pages.

"A Fool for Fortune," which is proving the biggest hit 01 Crane's career, is the play he will give at the Montauk presently. At the Park theater last evening the following appeal was read during the performance, with the permission of Managers A. M. Palmer and Edwin Knowles: Mrs. Sittis's appeal for the Christmas tree, for the destitute children or Brooklyn: The time has now come when the Brooklyn Christmas Tree society must make Its annual appeal lor help from the puhllc.

The humhle desire to make a few destitute rhlidren happy rn Christmas day has now widened Into such generous proportions that we have every reason to hope not one outcast in the preat city of Brooklyn will he without Christmas cheer. As the tree yrows the more we need to nourish It. For the hundreds hitherto we have many thousands to provide for now. We need much. Without a generous response to this appeal the coming Christmas will short in Its supply of happiness.

Mrs. Sittlg Is not afraid that they will disappointed. She has never yet. In a slncle Instance, made a personal appeal In behalf of the Christmas Tree society to any one. no matter how busv or how exalted they may be.

and been denied. It must he that the macic of the undertaking lies hi the appeal to all man and womankind for the heirless little outcast at our very sates on that one day In all the year Contributions for the tree may be sent to Mrs. Frank Sl'ttis. the president, at her residence. Jefferson avenue, or can he left at the box otllee this evenlnc.

in care of Mr. Knowles, manager of the Park theater. The actors and actresses presenting "Dorcas" this week at the ParK theater are taking an active interest in the undertaking of Mrs. Sittig and the Christmas Tree society, and Miss Mario Millard, with others of tlie "Dorcas" company, will give vocal selections at the entertainment. Christmas morning, at the Academy of Music for the benefit of the little destitute children of Brooklyn.

Yc ung Hubermon will be the sol ois': e't SeidI society's al January 5, and will have a new programme. SOUND MONEY MEN Discuss Plans for Development 6f the Party in New York. A joint meeting of the Xew York members of the state committee, who were authorized to take steps to strengthen the sound money Democratic organization in New York county, and of the auxiliary committee of fifteen, appointed at the Hoffman house conference, was held in the Reform club, Xew York, last night. R. B.

Roosevelt was elected chairman. Francis M. Scott, H. de F. Baldwin, Samuel H.

Ordway, Maurice J. Power and James J. Quinlan were appointed a committee to draft and report to the joint committee a plan cf organization fcr the Xa tional Democratic party in Xew York county. There were present at the meeting: R. B.

Roosevelt, Wheeler H. Peckham. Franklin Bartlett, Samuel H. Ordway, Daniel P. Hays, James Byrne.

Edward F. McSweeney and Asa A. Ailing of the committee of fifteen, and Francis M. Scott, John De Witt Warner! J. A.

Heuneberry. Calvin Tompkins. Theodore Sutro. Daniel O'Connell. Robert Grier Monroe, H.

de F. Baldwin. Lawrence E. Sexton, Maurice J. Power and J.

J. Quinlan of the state committee. It was said that the plan of organization will be based on assembly districts, as it was the general opinion of the committee that the election district plan had proved a failure. STRUCK WITH A HATCHET. Georgo McGnire, 40 years old, of 296 West Houston street, Xew York, became involved in a quarrel with his brother Patrick last night and struck him on tho head with a hatchet.

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