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33 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. STEW YORK, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1899. headed by George Pople, G. Howland Leavitt, D. L.

Van Nostrand, John Hepburn, David Master, Joseph Dykes, Harrison S. Moore, M. IS GENIUS NEGLECTED the present occupant's father. Only an acre I now remains of the original Bloodgood nursery. Among the features of this spot is a I pear tree more than sixty years old.

One of I the apple trees is the largest growth of Its PICTURESQUE PAST OF FLUSHING TOWN. work in lead is depicted. This noft metal doubtless lends Itself to sculptural treatment more readily than any olVitr. but unless It is protected fiom the weather and from the canes and umbrellas of the Philistines, it i likely to suffer. Constantin Meunler is another painter of labor, who does not idealize his subject, but like Millet and some others, tries to give the spirit of it.

though hits view point is rather pessimistic. A pictured ctiap tor is given to him. Decorative work in the French salons of this year is reviewed and illustrated, and so are some of the recent booka There are two fine views of the Court Theater in Vienna. The recent Rembrandt exhibition occasions the printing of half a dozen copies, of his etchings and there are Interesting papers on jewelry and the applied arts. C.

M. S. Bmninders at Every Corner of the Early Days of the Settlement and of Its Influence TJpon the City Life of To day Some Celebrated Men Who Received Their Primary Education and Training in the Schools Which They Have Made Famous iby Their Success in life A Few of, the Survivors of Earlier Days Homes of Prominent Residents of What Is Now a Select Section of New York City. erection at Murray Hill than at any previous period of its history. Another landmark of early Flushing, only less venerable than the colonial survivals previously described, is the present home of the Flushing Institute.

Away back in the twenties an association of public spirited citizens united in opening an establishment which has been a school ever since. It was then under the supervision of the Rev. William Muhlenberg, who some years later removed to Strat tonpert and there undertook the erection of a college. Unfortunately, before the completion of the project the disastrous panic of 1837 crippled so many of Mr. Muhlenberg's wealthy supporters that he was compelled to abandon the idea altogether.

Nothing now remains of the enterprise except the name of College Point, by which appelatton Strattonport was rechristened in memory of a project which unhappily ended in failure. After the retirement of Mr. Muhlenberg from the Flushing school. It passed under the direction of Dr. Schroeder.

who was in turn followed by the late Ezra Fairchild, who was succeeded upon his death by his son, E. A. Fairchild. As an indication of the sort of raw material developed at this academy and seminary, it may be observed that the graduate list includes the names of the lat9 Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Rev. Frederick B.

Carter, L. Bradford Prince, the Rev. George R. Van Do Water, Do Lanccy Nicoll, the Rev. Theodore L.

Cuy ler, D. and the Rev. Henry Evertson Cobb. When Father Knickerbocker added Flushing to his municipal domain he found that, as In the case of the crowd at the depot, his arrival had not been unexpected. Fifty five John E.

Keeler, John A. King, Walter B. Laurence, Fred N. Laurence, G. Howland Leavitt, Mrs.

G. H. Leavitt, Dr. J. Howard Lever, Mrs.

J. H. Lever, the Rev. H. H.

Mc Farland, David Master, E. L. Montgomery, Mrs. J. Moore, Joseph K.

Murray, Samuel B. Parsons, Henry A. Peck, Mrs. Fred A. Potts, L.

B. Prince, E. V. W. Rossiter, Edward E.

Sprague, Homer H. Stewart, Mrs. Clark Fisher, Mrs. C. A.

Willets and E. P. Willis. At the first meeting following the midsummer recess, which will be held to morrow evening, it is expected that the subscriptions will show a large increase. A wide and practical interest is felt in the library, and during the past year the building has been made much more attractive by liberal donations of tables and other furniture and choice plants, and also by the introduction of electric lights.

Next to the library public spirit in the Third Ward of Queens blossoms perennially in the Flushing Association, which does not allow its burning desire for the coming Black well's Island bridge to cool. It was organized In 1S95 and since Its birth has seen no interval of inaction. This useful engine of progressive citizenship is now officered as follows: President, Foster Crowell; vice presidents, Henry H. Bogert, John Holby Clarke and J. Wardell Wood; treasurer, D.

S. Sanborn; corresponding secretary, George S. Sweeney; recording secretary, Webster Pack. Among the members are H. A.

Boyd, James Bunting, L. M. Delamator, William Elm, M. T. Bogert, E.

M. Franklin, James T. Franklin, W. H. Lendrum, Foster Crowell, Charles H.

Garretson, James A. MacDonald, Joseph K. Murray, John T. Vandewater, J. H.

Montgomery. Robert Colgate, S. Vernon Mann, R. S. Vanderbilt, J.

C. Vandewater, T. J. Burnett, James A. Renwick, Howard A.

Sperry. John W. Weed, Charles A. Willetts, John C. Wilmerding, William T.

Wilcox, Robert I. Thayer, James W. Treadweil. D. S.

Jones, William T. James, Henry C. Howells, Samuel B. Parsons, T. W.

Powell, James H. Quinlan, John W. Crawford, C. C. Downing and other prominent Flushiogites.

This society is skirted by an influential and indefatigable feminine association known as the Good Citizenship League. Flushing's best society is fully represented in this club whose BROOKLYN BOY IN MANILA. Discharged From the Fourteenth Kegt ment. He Enlists in the Navy and Sees Service. a II a yes se is at SO Ray iiiond street, but present adddess is the Philippine Islands, may be said to have been in active servb under the stars and Stripes from the day the Fourteenth Regiment was called out.

with the possibility of field service in Hayes ia years of age and with the consent of bis uncde, who is his guardian, enlisted in Company of the Fourteenth Regiment. From the day that popular com left its armory until he was discharged en its return he went through all the trials with which the people of Brooklyn are al ready familiar. It was supposed then that he hal all he wanted of active service, but 1S9.S. he enlisted in the Navy (1 1 ot prtil'I Tor the Philip 1 in j's a member of the crow of the gun jnt Prin wiih which vessel he is yet, evidently happy and with more or less praise for 1 branch of the service. ilis uncle, Hayes, last week received his nephe v.

James, a package whb h. fontaiivd a Spanish and Cuban flag and a uor, whirh is int erecting from the observations made by its youthful writer, from whioh liberal extracts are taken. The loiter is dated C'avito. P. August 5, and after proper express ions of regard, re urns thanks for a package of books and Eagle.

i says: We v. re away from Man i la for three months and are gia! to get a rest. We cor i'' red the insurgent Par is at lloilo. She is a good prize an 1 got the Hags from in r. Tin fellows don't know how to fight, they do know jw to away as soon as they sec anyone coaiinir.

very one you meet is a niggf.r and I am gpttinir black myself, i hope there are enough soldiers coming over; we need the badly. 1 have a lot of prize money eojiing but don't krviw when I will g. i it. We have the champion bail nine lure; we lea' everything in sight, our comaiandcr. ('.

II. West, is the si in the land. Vie is a great fighter. I bad ii fight with our Pwede cook and put him. out in three is.

I saw a show in C'avito and it was the worst tbi.m that ever happened; worse than f'nncy Island. I hear that Isiand was bane that's too bad. I heard that my Pitricit Hayes, is In the on i Infantry M.ini.a and I aai going to him. "It take years to Ii these fellows. We could see the: front the ship at lloilo, and fi'jy made a goo.

I tint ii La ton '3 brigade took care of them. They ain't worth fighting Tor. They arc a lot of lazy, good 'or norhing niggers. 1 heard the Ilrooklyn's woa the piiinnnt; that's gnat. I urn saving up my money and getting per cent, interest on it I suppose I ewey will get a big time in New York.

he deserves it. It is very warm ro, and it rainn almost all the time. Tell the boys if they are going to enlist to i i in lhe Navy. wish I re going home, as I would like to be in old New York again. There is no place like it, a rid when I get home.

I will never leave it i'on't forge: to me the Eagle. "This is a bum place for certain and the Kov ought to send enough men on s'arf. to end things up. There is great jeal vy a ong the al of th' Army and you can't 't a irun to re enlist. They all a ant their dischars and want to go home.

lii.T" sriou. i at i.ast men nere ex Lie ut. (Junior toM ouiig Mayo a member of the went Lieutenant wre, a by th' 'irg the pi. i have nlr, 1., eti nnhlih 1 i'd two clipping from Manila 1 describ! utr a ball rcame between P'. ie't ard the Man the score beiJ to I in tavor of the Princvnm.

Anoth I int: rniii the A n.or ie an describes t4 ib hands of the native j. It reads as fol vs: I statement? r. by two of el pri. 'rs who enned from the in A u'hf the eri en imrlo v. nl Lav; ton took i "alaniba, be true, the.

tho Brooklyn Xavy Yard, and on the. II mm 4 f'; Jcrnes Hayes, A ir I ih Junliost Princeton at D. Gould, W. I. James, J.

H. Lever, F. P. Morris and E. V.

W. Rossiter, and upon its inauguration the following officers were elected: President, Joseph Dykes; vice president, E. V. W. Rossiter; directors, Edward Sprague, L.

H. Bullard, F. P. Morris, Israel J. Merritt.

D. L. Van Nostrand, G. Howland Leavitt, George Pople, C. A.

Willets and Thomas F. Tuohy. The post of cashier was assigned to Captain W. H. D.

Nimmo. Upon the retirement of Mr. Sprague last year his place on the board of directors was filled by the election of Leon Bardenheur to the vacancy. The bank building was erected at a cost of $30,000 and its deposits approximate $700,000. Flushing cemetery, which is bounded on the north by the Queens road, on the south and west by the Fresh Meadow road, and on the cast by the first cross road connecting the other two, comprises an area of seventy five acres.

It was first projected in 1853. when a farm of twenty five acres was purchased and the Cemetery Association was Incorporated in the year above mentioned. Twenty two years after its establishment an additional tract of fifty acres was acquired, thus making up a total of seventy five acres. A strong and continued local pride" has been felt in the cemetery from the outset, and the result Is apparont in the beauty of the grounds. To facilitate the watering of plants and flowers the system of the College Point water works was extended to all parts of the cemetery and a fountain erected by popular subscription.

The entire property has been carefully laid out and all the roadways are macadamized and guttered. Trees, ornaments, shubbery and rare plants give an attractive border to both sides of every driveway, while the sloping lawns present a multi colored spectacle of flowers throughout the summer months. At the present time the interments exceed 6.000. and among the granite and marble shafts that mark the last resting places of the departed are many monuments of considerable cost. To insure a proper care of the grounds in the future a perpetual fund has been created by a charge of 20 cents per square foot on all cemetery lots.

The moneys thus obtained are carefully invested and the interest accruing thereon is expended in the beautifying of the grounds and the cultivation of the grass and shrubbery of the lots. As a result of this policy the consequences of individual negligence are nowhere visible, and the memory of those who have joined the silent majority is kept green by a practical kind of attachment which does' not lessen or wither with time. By a second enlargement another extensive tract was recently purchased and Is undergoing a general plan of improvement on a scheme of development suggested by Frederick Ehrcnberg of the Central Park (Manhattan) staff of engineers. Along the slope on the south side of the cemetery the space has bene reserved for vaults, while the newly acquired tract is being sold on the open lawn system. During the past few years death has been somewhat active among Flushing's company of Nestors.

Despite this fact, however, quite a nurnber of these representatives of the past still remain as witnesses of the days that are gone. George Pople, who lives in retirement on Prince street, is 83 years old. He is unusually well preserved and finds much enjoyment in the evening of life. Mr. Pople was warden of the Episcopal Church for more than a quarter of a century, and at one time was president of the Savings Bank.

A contemporary and equal In point of age of Mr. Pople is James Areson, who for more than forty years has resided on Church street. No man in Flushing has a larger fund of reminiscences, which he is fond of relating to bis many friends. He recently remarked to C. H.

Garretson that he has picked cherries from the large tree on the Garretson premises annually for seventy years. Mr. Areson has been a nurseryman all his life, and so Is minutely acquainted with this phase of Flushing history. A third and highly distinguished Flushing ite, who wears the honors of S3 with ease, is Ihe Rev. Dr.

J. Carpenter Smith, rector emeritus of St. George's Episcopal Church. Dr. Smith celebrated the semi centennial of his ministry three years ago.

at which time a memorial window was placed in the church in honor of the anniversary. Last July he participated in the dedication of the chapel at Murray Hill, which as a compliment to the doctor was named St. John's Chapel. Among Flushing's notables there is none more distinguished than the snow haired Samuel B. Parsons, who in point of years follows close upon the trio already mentioned and is past 80.

While originally a nurseryman, and still retaining an Interest in the Casino Nurseries. Mr. Parsons has given his attention to other avocations, as will be evident from his prominence In the banking history of Flushing. A younger brother of Mr. Parsons, Robert, who was recently killed by a Long Island train, had passed the three score and ten mark at the time of his death.

Principal E. A. Fairchild of the Flushing Institute and his brother in law and associate, Professor A. P. Northrup.

are both past 70, and both display a vigor as' activity which give no sign of their yer A little more than a year ago Isaac odgood died at the age of 80. His partner In the grocery business, M. Clement, died a year earlier at nearly the same age. Mr. Bloodgood was a lineal descendant of Capfain Franz Bloetgoet, who died from wounds received in a skirmish with the Indians, and was burled in White stone.

Another descendant of the same ancestor is the former medical director of the navy yard, who was born in Sprlngvllle, N. Y. The doctor's father, James Bloodgood, who was born in Herkimer. N. In 1S01.

and died at Springville, N. In 1886, was the son of Gabe Bloodgood, who was born in Perth Am boy In 1773. and died in Otsego County in 1806. His father, William Bloodgood, who was a New York lawyer, and born in 1722, was the son of John Bloodgood of Flushing, who was born in that town In 1607 and died in Harlem. His father, who was born in Flushing In 1672, was the sonv of the emigrant Captain Franz Jansen Bloetgoet, who was born In Holland in 1631, and died in Flushing, November 29, 1676.

He came from New Amsterdam to Flushing In 165S, and a year later built the house in which C. H. Garretson, the druggist and nurseryman, now resides. He took an active part in the affairs of the colony, was military chief in 1674. and In this capacity met bis death in a skirmish with the Indians, as already stated.

Mr. Gar retson's mother was a lineal descendant of the emigrant and Inherited the historic abode of her ancestor. His father, Garrett R. Garretson. the nurseryman, died eleven years ago, at the age of 80.

Among the heirlooms treasured by the son is a superb specimen of what was known in colonial parlance as a sampler. This term designates a piece of needlework and the specimen in question Is a triumph of the art, the design being worked in silk upon a background of satin. For many years this legacy did not have the care which it deserved, and was stowed away in a drawer. When it came Into Mr. Garretson's possession he had the sampler handsomely framed and insured against further decay by a covering of glass.

It is 24x18 inches in size, and the design consists of the following legend: When I was VounK I Little Thought That We Must So Dearly nought flut Now P'xperlcnce TellB Me How If I Would Thrive Then I Mum How Anil Hend Unto Another Will That I Might Lenrn IJoth To Snell To Get My Liven With My Hnnds So That I MlKht Tic Free from Such Slavery Which Comes ly Want Of oUKe WIfery Mary Uwronrt, 1T33. The original Bloodgood house was 50x30. feet in size, which, a century ago, was enlarged by an addition. 70x30 feet In extent. Early In tho century a 25 foot was built by kind In the United States, and despite its antiquity bears abundant fruit.

Another arbor ial nestor, the original amber cherry tree, was planted In the eighteenth century by Daniel Bloodgood. It was so large that four boys with outstretched arms could scarcely span the trunk. Unfortunately this venerable inheritance was cut down last year, falling a victim to the march of improvement. A second cherry tree, inferior in age and size to Its giant fellow, is almost as old as the century, and Is the tree alluded to by Mr. Areson as the one from which he has gathered fruit for seventy years.

This property was also the spot on which the first cultivated strawberries were raised in 1S30. The Texido mansion is now occupied by the venerable Mrs. Elizabeth Texido, who is past 80, and her sister, Mrs. Matrazo, who is somewhat her junior. A well known Flush lnglte who carries and wears the honors of 75 years as easily as he does his coal, is John T.

Vandewater, the real estate broker. In addition to his other claims to consideration Mr. Van Do Water has the honor of being the father of Re Dr. George R. Van De Water, rector of St.

Andrew's Church. Harlem. Another son, Charles Livingston Van De Water, is a well known New York lawyer, while a third scion of sturdy stock, J. Carpenter Van De Water, is with a large Broadway house. A daughter.

Miss Ellen B. Van De Water, is head of the Ingleside School, New Milford, Conn. The elder Van De Water has resided continuously in Flushing for sixty years and is a native of Oyster Bay. Governor L. Bradford Prince of New Mexico, whose connection with the establishment of the Flushing Library has already been noted, recently visited his native heath and exprcssd his gratification at Flushing's rapid strides to the point of full urban development.

A year a.co Flushing counted seventeen octogenarians anions its residents, beside a considerable number who arc past 75. f'crtur Grove Cemetery, the colonial resting place of the dead, was established in 1690, and its old time interments include the remains of a Governor of North Carolina. Particular notice should be accorded the variety of architectural styles as shown in the houses at Ingleside, Flushing. Care has been exercised so as not to fall into the usual rut of letting one mind create too many of the same character of dwellings. At Ingleside we fee types from the boards of a dozen different and weil known architects, among whom are represented Albert Parfitt, Child DeGoll, John M.

Baker, John J. Pet tit. Mowbray Ufftnger, William A. Lambert. Benjamin Drlesler, John La Ferme and others.

This wide divergence in the use of design is one of the great charms of this wonderful development. There is none of that stilted sameness. The houses are all detached and combine artistic exteriors with comfortable, well planned and perfect interiors, suitable and acceptable to a very large scope of taste. BROOKLYN GOT ITS SHARE. Five Grand Officers of Knights of St.

John and Malta Chosen From This Borough. The Chapter General of tl Knights of St. John and Malta, whk he'd ils vveniy i'ourih annual convocation at Wilmington. last week, and comprised dkpalia from eacamp ments all over the United Stales, has done considerable honor to Brooklyn. Five of tee grand officers chosen were from this borough, and.

naturally, tilt Brooklyn delegates wore proud of their work. Tile most eminent grand commander chosen was Richard B. Treaty, who has he a resident of Brooklyn for fifty years, and has been in the music pul'lishiug busiaccs here for R. B. Treacy, Most Eminent Grand Ier.

of St. John anl Malta. twenty years. His conacetion with the Knights of St. John began May 12, 1SS7.

when he was one of the incorporator of Palestine I in 1S91. for meritorious conduct. This was encampment. He served as such subsequently tor two terms, and for nine terms was almoner of the encampment. Since 1S87 he has regularly attended the chapter general, excepting for two terms, but never sought office in it before.

Ho was elected Trom the floor, an honor never before secured by a member The cnt rubers of Palestine Kncampnient are naturally proud of the honor conferred on I them by this choice, and upon Sir Knight Treacy's return a dinner was Riven him by ilie members of the encampment, head, bv Sir I Knight W. A. Castle and Sir Knight A. C. Wheder.

Caleb Coggershall. chosen very nent grand almoner, is a nanve of this city I and for some time held a position unj lhe Commissioner of Public Works, lie for I yars been prelate of Coeur de Lion Kn nmy i merit and Is ronnrted ho nn. of th" Iwur Dr. C. P.

fJilderslecve, who was chns very eminent, medical examiner, has hi.lil the position for several terms. He is a cii 'niiur of Palestine Encampment, in winch he has been active for a of years. J. H. Burehell.

chosen very eminent attorney general. Is a member of Brooklyn I 'n ment, of which he was one or' the incorporators. This 'was the. first anipmoiit organized in Brooklyn, and from it grew many flourishing encampments. Mr.

Biirehell wan born In Brooklyn and has secured some reputation as a lawyer here. Two thirds of the representatives of the order were at the chapter general from Brooklyn, and It is natural that this bonrjtr!) should get the lion's share of offices. They were divided with Toronto, Canada; Buffalo, Wilmington, and Bradford, 1'a. The returning delegates speak highly of the reception at Wilmington. They had free transportation, a reception by the mayor anJ a banquet, at which the principal officials were present.

The session itself was productive of good. Tho endowment question was settled in favor of compulsory endowment by a small margin. The per capita tax will remain at so ei nis, and the past most eminent grand comma: 1. will continue to have a vole in the chapter general. All this proved a series of defeats for the Laud Strcat.on Hny wrd faction, run they accept It good naturedty nnel will work for the order during the coml year.

Millard F. Smith of this borough, 'who presiding officer, won praise from both ir. for his impartiality and his grasp of the eo vocation. The new board of directors will hp appointed for the chapter general about October. OVK BILL FOR AMMUNITION.

Our bill for ammunition during tho Spanish war was not one fifth as great as the amount expended annually by the British navy in practice. Forty five thousand dollars' worth of ammunition was fired at Montojo's flo.n in Manila Bay and $100,000 was expended in following up and destroying (Jcrvera'r; fleet. Kuch round fired by Dewey cost about and the average price of the rounds fired by Sampson was $14.25. These prices indicate the preponderance in the fights of small caliber guns Army and Navy Journal. A Painter's Contention That It Is Always Becognized Disbelief in Old Traditions Exhibitions Artistic Contents of This Month's Magazines.

An artist above all people, an artist ue clores that the tales of neglected genius are I humbug. "Come, now," said he. "C.n name a neglected genius? Oh, yes, you can give the names of some fellows who are hav ing a hard tiaie to be recognized, because they are beginning and haven't learned how to express But genius! Understand, that Is not mere facility, or fashion. It i.s the streng personal quality that makes. all art.

We talk Nature. Why. have no nature in our We have a basis of it, but we simply cannot represent it; we have to Interpret. If a man has no strength per stmality; ii he is a commonplace, colorless quality, lie is not and can not be a genius. The sole interest of a rk tjf art is in its disclosure of individuality the quality that makes me differ from you, and the quality that makes me see things in another way from that in which you see them.

It is tile human quality that gives value to all the arts. Now ir a cr.an is a genius he has got 1 to keep on working, lie cannot do anything oise. It is ail he knows how to do. His bent pulls him so hard in the one direction that any other sort of work is impossible him. If be is a genius his work will have originality au.l strength, and having those qualities, lie will force tile public to take hiai.

ile has to wait. itne it takes a long time to understand him. for we may have uinli) thinss tbat are wrong that his method woultl set as Me. But when he reaches full height, yt)U can rely oil it he will be seen. Lis sn.ee will stay.

lie ill Ik esteemed his death. The charlatan will make perhaps, but see ho.v short a time lie lasts, lie is and drtjps eul of sight in a few One mistake that i.s tnado in eaiciiatinK the place that a :mt.i mis, made r' himself i.s that ti: mging it by the llione he ir.u.:ee Nothing cultl be ii.eire ar tllieial as an est or more complete nonsense, from the proper joint of vicr UY hear, for example, si out the dreadful time' that had. All beish! Millet had much money, to be sure, but then he did no want it. He had what was belte the appreciation of his own fellows. Do you eal: it neglecting a mail when he used to win the medals in the exhibitions, right along, every year, and sold his pictures They diei not sell for such prices as tjioy bring r.o'.v.

because he did not ask such prices, lie lived in the country like a piasa.it, because lie preferred tt). His subjects were there; friends were there; he did not care for style. Why, then, sympathize with him us a neglected genius? If we all got as nearly what we want as he did. we should be lucky people, I can tell you. So long as mau el ea what It is right for him to do.

he is doing what he knows is right and what the worl.i will shortly realize was right. Scribner's for October has one of Maxfield Parri b's peculiar drawings for the cover: a woman picking grapes on a terrace that overlooks a medieval town. Of the several artist who have dUrejvered the water front tif hattan not New York, as the title has ii lle nry Mer'arler is the ir.iv.t original, tli'tmli it does not follow that his effects are the inr.s" hcaii'iful. The j. of this dis trict has been known to observers for i nt' 'u.

ami it is pleasant to find publish' re ami other people consenting to it. There i.s a rharui anei pe'ace cziness in Otcon Ii, oIVh figure of a ir.au bending over the iire his lonely room. The of the life of Mrs. lirew i.s illustrateel with a number pen trail ine Iu.iiisg one of F.d Forrest in Ills younger days, that make him dlfferont Irani ant! more engaging than the preud. yd with the Bowery hin tuft.

Of m.a. k. il interest are the tele.phot graphs taken by Dv.tght L. Elmendnrr, well known hereabout. This application of the teieseopt; to the cameu a enables eine to bring obji that are anywhere from a block twenty miles within apparently 1 of the instrument.

Olaeltcn i' pictures f.r the article on vaudeville' tr.oatera are? cketc'ny. pert and fit the subject, whip the? by F. I). Steele for a bank story, if not specially artistic or striking, are nipat iie't i The Water Club will he.ld its tenth annual exhibition in (he American Fine Art; Galleries from Sunday. November to Son day, vembcr 27.

Exhibits are to be received on October 24 and 2r. The club collects pictures. Original water colors and pastels anil miniatures, separately framed and not before shown in this city, will ho ac epttd. subject to approval by the jury. No picture can be sold Tor less than catalogue price a ol per cent, commission will be oh.

el all salev. Henry B. Sncll i.s president and William J. Whittemorc secretary. The Folts collection of old masters is on exhibition in tile oitl galleries of the Academy of De.

lgn. on Twenty third street, corner of tirlh avenue. The exhibition is made in aiii of an institute in Herkimer. N. and comprise eighty nine eanv.i.iej.

The October Harper contains interesting and instructive nhotograpbs from the ar.d Manila, with two striking and excellent drawings bv Louis I.oeb for a Jewish Fiery ley Zcugwiil. Mr. I.oeb's manner is constantly enlarging, yet he does not lose refinement in his breadth. Jerhn W. Alexander's portraits nnd othe pictures are described ami seven of his canvases are eooleil in black anei white.

It is not easy tr suggest color in them, but the pcculinr theatric lumination of "Isabella and the "Pot of Basil" and "Pandora" are I'trongly indicated, ami tile "Green Bow" hs almost the quality of a Velasquez. Mr. Thiil strup contributes to a couple of articles, but shows no actual inspiration, and the same i.s true of Mr. Smedlry. in illustrating Mr.

Howells' placid novel, has merely to represent people converging in chairs and conversing standing nt leas! he appears te find no more in Mr. Howells' work than that; so it may be said that he hardly illustrates the. tale, but rather draws figures that permit of being intrrler.ved with it. Mr. KMI.r.

win hp mi', inedines to dryness: Peter Veweil. vim ie always taint: I). W. ldon. who is tin o'v draftsman: Lucius I'iteeoek.

wl ose dra vire: swing nnd Harry 'erin. wh manner so). ion ti.ges, bu: who an ail uroui'd satisfying orafuronn. and ritiK. I ard and in llilneir the either ont ribi" e.r.s.

The Kcraniic S'ueJIei. in Syracuse, is not for Oetol with ti: and in incipnlly by women dcsoriidr.g im IMtistr:" wt I iv ate ilium 1 "in: 1n 1 rtishrv. m. plirh; s. kK ap it wit ionn puttL ry.

Thf Onnhpr f'rnttiry ha ii.n irtf trie nr rli. iru vi and lal rovrr. ri ird I Ifuitlsrapt. ror it lv pin i nt pnrrr.nt hy A 1 r. i look like ill 11: o' i .1 ffrr.pripp ell HaKf I'hilippD tr painicr: jin i ivil i picture by I.ouis oeb in whirh face ot tho dyim: CrnKt ir, in ih" while rays fjnm tbat sutrst th; (T'iSh; frn fi iruro.s in Roman drapery, nv superior a si' ipl" if? to and nt VTal enlitjivi vawi cl.

vi r'y tnaterl picturt'3 of IVMn its piopie ri I'Ynn and 1 rakf; sundry port rait hi hv article; a i ict'ir" of ft uthiir. bayou by hi Joseph v.b aniv Corn softly toiH'ii and 'ii fully drawn pieturrs for iw paper on Alrxandcr tho flrcat, sb nv invention and Htudy as well as art: srnmo spirit ed drawing by Oonrtp Varbin and H. V. Pipyamie. y.t i vo of tbe run of the Or: ffjTi an enura vim; by Timothy fnle a ft i Siddons port nil by La a pc nft pb' of work; a Dew y.

of ratber ff ra' ''by bi by Thomas F( t' i rt and sonic fl r' at pm nt by Stf ob of i he pronb in on1 of S' 'imns Mt ns' The fi rs: sale in thf Arr ri Art tfcis Fi'a will r.ot be tbat of pifturen. though some nbjecis of ait will be added, but of orchldf. The plants blonel to the lte I'rnfess'ir O. ('. of Yale ami eomprt.

273 varieties. rep riven ed in nearly 1 toO plants. The collection will ho seen on Tue day. and will be sold on tbe 7th and Sth instant The October number of tile MaRaxine of Art has frontispiece in color of a horse friskinn iuTi ss a meadow. Thrugh a tbree enlur pr.

t'le brush work and fl' of canvas art well represented. The picture is by Lucy Kemp Welch, the subject nf the leading article which Ml up trued after ot lw of her horse pictures. Miss Welch may one of these days be recognized the rival of sa II ni hcur. Sunje recent and ornamental Occasionally we find localities where bygone days of and associations have a prolonged guarantee of survival. Nowhere within the limits of the Long Island division of the metropolis is there a spot where the past will have a later sunset than in 'This fact gives the former town in all Its parts a primitive aspect.

Even In the newest suburban offshoots these visible reminders of yesterday are never wanting. Lofty and wide spreading trees which the oldest settler cannot remember as saplings, have escaped the ax and save incoming homeseekers from waiting half a generation for shade. Ambitious Ingleside is not alone in its eminence, but has an environment worthy of its high estate. One of Flushing's colonial families bore the name of Bowne, and the appellation Is preserved in Bowne Park, a section bounded on the north by Mitchell avenue, on the south by Broadway, on the east by Seventeenth street, and on the west by Murray This section has been one fourth built up with Queen Anne houses. Of the total number thirty were finished early in i the summer, and fifteen more are now ap preaching completion.

In studying a com munity we are always anxious to know how the houses look. Taking the Bowne Park structures as typical, it may bo remarked that the larger houses contain eleven rooms. On the first floor there is a parlor, sitting room, dining room, kitchen and butler's pantry, be side a wide front hall with an ornamental stairway. There is also a back stairway, which many people are coming to consider a necessity in a well planned house. Four bed rooms and a large bath room occupy the on the second floor, while two servants' I rooms are In the attic.

All the cellars have concrete floors and contain hot air furnaces large receptacles for coal. Each build ing plot must be 50x100 feet in size, and the distance between adjacent houses must be oO feet. The interior finishing of the houses Is in cypress and hard wood. In the parlors fiere are ornamental grates surmounted by artistic mantels. All the woodwork is finished in natural colors or is stained to suit taste of the purchaser.

The floors throughout the bouses are made of fine close wood and may be finished to be used for either carpets or rugs. Open plumbing is the style adopted in every house. Through out all Flushing the laying of water and gas malrs keeps pace with the building of homes, bo that every new dwelling 1s provided with ba.h these requisites of city life. One of the landmarks of this neighborhood 5s the old Bowne mansion, which is kept in ia good state of preservation. It was first erected in 1661, or two years later than the Bloodgate house.

Soon after its completion, the builder, John Bowne, was banished from nUia province for holding Quaker meetings on bis premises. This property, comprising an acre and half of ground, was purchased i eight years ago, by Cord Meyer, the projector and sponsor of Elmhurst. Returning from Bowne Park to old Flushing, the stroller passes through Murray Hill, another section which takes its name from an old time Flushing family. Two representatives of colonial now own and occupy adjacent residences on Broadway near Fourteenth street. William Murray, the retired nurseryman, and his brother.

Joseph K. Murray, the well known Manhattan lawyer, are passing the af ternoon of life beneath roofs which have shel tcred many Munays before them. Antique and colonial as they seem when viewed from the street, these dwellings present all the I touches of modernism within doors, where polished floors, highly decorated ceilings, spacious rooms and rich furniture, testify, to the solid position of their tenants'. Another brother and worthy scion of colonial stock, the late Edward Murray, died that the Union I might live during the Civil War. It Is to him and another youthful associate.

L. Brad ford Prince, now Governor of New Mexico, i that Flushing is indebted for its valuable public library. Mr. Murray conceived the idea early in 1858, and was vigorously supported by his since dis I tinguished co worker, who secured a large number of subscriptions nnrf th sociation was incorporated April 16, 1859. At that time it was located Id the old Town Hall, which stood in the park, but when the new Town Hall was built the library was moved Into the new edifice.

Two subsequent removals transported the collection successively to the Savings Bank Building and the John F. Rogers store. In the spring of 1891 the Baptist Church property, at the intersection Main street with Jamaica and Jaggar avenues, was purchased, and it has since been the home of the library. At the outset and lor many years it was conducted on a subscription basis, and books could bo drawn by members only. There came a time, however, when this plan which worked well at first, wholly failed.

Some twenty years ago the membership had dwindled to thirty six and the annual income was $72. To save the institution it was decided to make it a free library, from which anyone might draw books, with a volunteered payment of $2 a year by those who desired to become members and have the right to vote at meetings. Those paying $25 were I constituted life members. The adoption of this system opened a new era for the library which has since continued to grow and flourish. The first librarian was the late Captain Andrew Scott, who, tradition declares, was in the habit of binding at his own expense, all contributions of paper covered volumes.

The library building is a spacious one story frame structure and Its extended interior affords a convenient place for public meetings. Among the organizations which have long been In the habit of convening In the hall of the library are: The Flushing Association, the Ladies' Employment Society and others. Constant additions are being made to the collection of books, which now exceeds 6,000 volumes, classified as biography, fiction by authors, fl. tion by titles, general literature, history, juvenile literature, philosophy, theology, political works, poetry, science, art, public documents, voyages, travel and Works of reference. The circulation is 30,000 volumes annually.

Miss Eleanor Vanderhoer, the former librarian, was reoently succeeded by Miss Louise G. Hinsdale, who Is a graduate of the Drexel Library School of Philadelphia. She i3 assisted in her duties by Miss Hildegarde Swenson, Miss Gray, and Miss Marion J. Ver dery. It will be noted that "library" in a Flushing sense, Hi in the feminine gender.

Rising to the corporate plane, the interests of the Library Association are supervised by the following officers: President, William Elli man; secretary and treasurer, Walter L. Bogert; directors, Henry A. Bogert, Mrs. G. H.

Clements, poster Crowell, Mrs. E. A. Good rldge, Chester Huntington, Mrs. Chester Huntington, Miss Eliza Macdonald, John F.

Rogers and Miss F. E. Sprague. Among the life members are the following; J. W.

Barstow, H. A. Bogert, H. L. Bogert, Mrs.

H. L. Bogert, L. H. Bullard, James Bunting, Mrs.

W. E. Cock. William Elliman, William Ewbank, John M. Ewen, Warren Ewen, Ellas A.

Fairchild, the Rev. E. S. Fairchild, John Hea ton, Dr. J.

L. Hicks, Henry C. Howells, Vincent Howells, Miss Ilka Howells, Mrs. i I I years ago Flushing's first public wieider of the birch, DeWitt C. Tuttle, kept the young Idea In wholesome terror of his learning and authority in an old building which stood on ground now forming a part of Henry A.

Bo I gert's lawn on Garden street. This continued the sole temple of the three R's until 1848, when a second building was erected, at the corner of Washington and Union streets. It was a three story structure with twelve rooms and was occupied as a school house until 1S97, or for forty nine years. In 1870 a plot containing 12,000 square feet was purchased at the corner of Sanford and Union streets, and upon it a four story brick structure, containing more than a dozen class rooms, was erected. This was the high school, 'while the Washington Union street building was used tor the lower grades Of instruction.

Twenty years later, or nine years ago. the high school was enlarged and remodeled at a cost of $135, 000. Ail the grades were then removed to the new edifice, the Washington street building being given up to the school for colored children. In 1877 the high' school was placed un i der the control of the Regents of the Uni versity. Thorough instruction is given in botany, zoology, chemistry and physics as well as in other branches of a high school course.

At a special school meotinir in Julv. 1897. the sum of $102,500 was voted for four new schools. A modern $16,500 structure was erected on the site of the old Washington street school, which was torn down. The present edifice is known as the Washington School.

To accommodate the section north of Sanford avenue, the Jackson School was erected at a cost of $14,750. This is the only frame school structure and 11 the class rooms are on the first floor. Owing to the large and rapid growth of Murray Hill, a larger brick 1 structure was erected at a cost of $25,000 and i named the Jefferson School, which was erected on Whitcstone avenue, near Broadway, at a cost of $21,500. Since consolidation old Flushing Village has teen the educational 1 capital of Queens Borough, the headquarters of the Borough Board being located in the high school building, i Speaking in a strictly social sense and out side the pale of trade and Flushing has no generally recognized club, to I which everybody spelt with a large belongs. It's leading active spirits are split up in seta and coteries which move their several ways independently and regardless of each other.

Amongthe scattered go as you please factions are the" Niantic and Flushing Boat Clubs, the Flushing Fishing Club, the Mazeppa and Mcr cury Wheel Clubs and the Flushing Golf Club. jjescendn to particulars we may say that the Flushing Boat Club mostly composed of members who do their rowing on easy chairs or the stoop and dislike to exchange reminis cence and imagination for the damp reality. They have relinquished ail their actual water 1 privileges the newly formed Wabnetah Boat Club, which wari organized on the eleventh of May la.st and now has eighty members. The officers are as follows: Baron Blosveren; vice president, Leon S. Case; secretary, Thomas treasurer, E.

F. Crosher; captain, Thomas Cleary; first lieutenant, Nathaniel Vandcrverg; lieutenant, Harry Barron; third lieutenant. R. S. Cornell.

The club hcusc, which is a two story structure on the Newtown side of the creek, fras purchased from the now defunct Nereus Boat Club. Of the sHcteen boats housed in the structure, thirteen belong to the club and three to private owners, and with one exception the regattas of the Long Island Rowing Association, to which the Flushing Club belongs, have been neld on Flushing Bay. Previous to consolidation Flushing had half a dozen volunteer fire companies, which enlivened their labor as flame fighters by social jollifications at frequent intervals. With the advent of Greater New York, however, all this volunteer activity subsided into torpor, and the old boys no longer make merry as in the old company day.s. The wearing of the red shirt signalized the one general point of meeting of citizens of all classes and with the disappearance of this element of union social life of a general character Is banished into Inocuous desuetude.

It scarcely needs to be said that Flushing Is not without Its local branch of the Young Men's Christian Association. It was not. however, until that this branch was established, when Mars ton T. Bosert was elected president nnd John G. Thome general secretary.

Two years later Mr. Bojert was succeeded by John W. Crawford. The headquarters are located on Locust street, and active work is carried on during the winter months, when practical instruction In evening classes Is given in penmanship, bookkeeping, commercial arithmetic, stenography, etc. Ample provision is made for athletic sports throughout the summer, and the club house facilities include hot and cold baths as well as a boarding house register, employment bureau and correspondence room.

In its well conducted library and reading room there are upward of 1.200 volumes and some fifty newspapers and periodicals. Within this charmed circle of pleasure and instruction are game rooms, chess and checker clubij. pleasant reception rooms and a piano and suitable hall for meetings, concerts and recitals. The membership 200 and is steadily increasing. Flushing did not reach the banking stage until 1872, when the Flushing and Queens County Bank was organized by Samuel B.

Parsons, R. W. Leavitt, Morris Franklin and others. L. M.

Farrington was the cashier and the bank was located in the building at the corner of Broadway and Farrington street. This institution continued to flourish until 1888, when it was removed to Long Island City and rechristened the Queens County Bank. Upon its departure Samuel B. Parsons, E. A.

Mauriac, Walter B. Lawrence and L. Littlejohn organized the Flushing Bank, with a capital of $25,000, and occupied the building! on Broadway, near Prince street. Subsequently, the institution was removed to a new building on the corner of Main and New Locust streets. Three years after Its opening i Internal differences among the stockholders led to the formation of a rival institution, to which after Its formation all the stock of the old bank was sold.

Articles of incorporation, which were filed on October 12, 1891, limited the stock which could be held by any one shareholder. This financial enterprise was affairs are managed by the following officers: President, Mrs. G. A. Goodrich; vice presi dent, Mrs.

Alfred Post; recording secretary, Mrs. James; corresponding secretary, Miss Isabel Howells; treasurer, Mrs. Joseph Dykes. The membership roll approximates 200, the list including Miss Eliza McDonald. Miss Mary Lyles, Miss Treadweil, Mrs.

Helen Clarke, Mrs. Chester Huntington, Miss C. T. Gilman. Mrs.

Richmond, Mrs. Jacob and others. This club was first, organized in 1891 and its meet ings are held in the chapel of the Congrega tioaal Church. Of late there has grown up a strong desire that the club should have a home of Its own. To swell the building fund it is proposed to issue a calendar, and this idea will be fully discussed and put into exe cution at the next regular meeting in October.

From tils digression suggested by the un timely fate of Edward Murray, one of the two founders of the Flushing Library, we may revert to the former point and mention a few of those who have recently added their names to the select Bowne Park colony, a section to which no rent payers are admitted. Among the se latter day home buyers are John Cooper, proprietor of the Greenpoiut Pipe Works, whose house at the corner of Fifteenth and State streets is a $1,500 construction; J. W. Spear, the Grcenpoint furniture dealer who an 8 000 mansion at the corner of Broadway and 1'ilteentn street William Hopewell, superintendent cf the Matheson Dye Works, whose $7,000 residence stands on the corner of Sixteenth street and Broadway; Secretary Edward Clarry of the company just mentioned, whose abode at the corner of State and Fifteenth streets represents a building cost of SG.000; Charles Luff, the Wall street broker, whose $5,000 residence at the corner of Fourteenth street and Broad wa 13 nanasomely set oh uy mHiuy meinal i eter n.uier, ui Qry soous aeaIE1' Heights, whose house at Fifteentn street, be tween State street and Broadway, strikes the $5,500 cost mark; John Eagan, the Manhattan lumber dealer, of Eleventh avenue, and Twenty fourth street, whose $6,000 abode stands directly opposite the Ritter premises, and othere. The improving of Bowne Park and the results since accomplished reflects the wholesale and weil nigh limitless demand for Brooklyn and Queens suburban property.

Murray Hill, the half way house between old Flushing and Bowne Park, war, first projected ten years ago by Frederick W. Duncan, nephew of the late Austin Corbin. Subsequently, Mr. Duncan sold his entire interest in the suburb which is now controlled by a large number of individual owners. This substitution of many minds for one docij not, however, cause any departure or deterioration from the original plan, and the progress" of Murray Hill goes on in an undisturbed monotony of selectness.

Originally the tract which it covers was a part of tne Parsons Nuri nries, and seven years ago there was net a single house within its limits. Since that time its growth has been continuous and rapid. Among those who have selected this portion of the Flushing plateau as the location of their homes are the following: Captain George W. Schaefer, the real estate broker, residing at the corner of Botanic place and Amity street, in a handsome Queen Anne dwelling, surrounded by a spacious lawn, artistically laid out with trees and shrubbery: H. Bishop, the corset manufacturer, whose modern Queen Anne abode Is situated at 1 Boerum avenue; Henry Tinges, the mineral water manufacturer, who livcij at 36 Wilson avenue in a fine residence of the Queen Anne type; George Warfleld, the builder, owns and occupies another Queen Anne construction at 3 Wilson avenue; William Moore, the Flushing shoe dealer, whose attractive home Is situated at 16 Wilson avenue; Samuel McCreery, the retired truckman, who is passing the later yearn of his life in his large homestead surrounded by a tract of thirty acres; Arthur Silkworth, mas.tcr mechanic for the Consolidated Gas Company, Manhattan, whose Inviting abode, is at the corner of Ash street and Wilson avenue.

Among the recent arrivals in Murray Hill are Louis Engel, the diamond expert for the Franklin Company, Manhattan, 12 Botanic place; W. H. Dodge, the Flushing lumber dealer. 8 Botanic place; Robert Savage, with the American Bank Note Company, 447 Amity street; Harry Bailey, 107 Wilson avenue; Tbomae Todd, the Long Island City journalist, 4 Boerum avenue; Alexander Boyce, the Long Island machinery manufacturer, 451 Amity street; J. M.

Russell of the Newtown Towing Company, San ford and Central avenues; E. Richardson, the Murray Hill builder; Fred Lawrence, the druggist, corner Amity street and Boerum avenue; Huse grocers, corner of Madison and Boerum avenues, and A. Krup penbacher, the newsdealer, 127 Boerum More new houses are now in course of 'trace perpetrated upn the Americans who ere en by the Filipinos were of the hnrbnrou nature, and would possibly the months the lying, bigoted, ig Pnr n'T. cold fo stay at homes who rant ttrli of the, in treated Filipinos and of the bn practiced upon them bv the men of 'be Eighth Army (' rp. 'The cseat' Spardsh prisoners say that ih.

were brought from one city air 1 1vr bat ignorant natives couhj opportunity to come of tbe race who co d.r il of their rights, i'b" wore. en at these towns had previously inf' rrned by the rebel leaders that A 'Krrb ans enMunM the town it their praeMe" hi rage all the women 1 to 'bead the children. When the Amer i nrj pit oners enter a town in company v. i li their captor th. nieii and children ibr.

yton. at ihvni and struek them with The bodies of ih.se poor, half starved en. wh were hardy aide to craw along, wt re literally eovere 1 with bruises of all nnd tbat in the town between Tagulg it'd S. nta ('ru. 'even of these men died of mill ')ne of 'he Spanish ontlemen.

who was rr: rly a enp ain in th" Gtianlia Civil, bvs that the treatment which tbe Spanish prisoners "ivH was bad plough, but that wn i.o;hnig it: comparison ti the treai nt win li b. or A merlcan received. T'" Spanish prisoners could not bear ev. t.i io at the inhuman tortures Meh th' ti'Ti wen forced to tindery. i.

Tbi g' nibTi.a i ays that the rebels have no re in Ma'angan. an 1 that with the Atneii in po y.icn the towns abuig v.e. i nnd rb the jnke th" rebeU will nil all as rice and hsh are ib principal article of food, both of which they receive from the lake." Th i ex vrp: take from the ManUft American of Auk tun 2..