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7 THE BEOOiKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NE YOEK. SUNPAY, OCTOBEE 8, 1899. CbcDve Cctioi Day. EDUCATION AND CRIME. in population is certainly an indication of the good effects ot education.

These statistics are of value because they show the lal flotes. OCTOBER WEDDINGS. In the Avenue Congregational Church two weddings are scheduled to take place on the afternoon of October 25, within one hour of each other. The first will be that of Miss Flora Byrnes of 565 Madison street and Ernest Marvin Gilbert, and the second at 5 o'clock that of Miss Imogene Terry of Stuy vesant avenue and William Wright. are unfriendly" to him.

He was and te at the bottom of the unseemly and domineering Interference of the Appellate Division with the trial courts of New York County. The discrimination in the assigument of trial judges to duty Is justly laid to him and one of his associates. They assumed to say that certain judges were unfit while others were fit to sit In special term for motions. The worst of It You Cant Catch the Wind in a Net." Neither can you cure catarrh by local applications. It is a constitutional disease, and is cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla because it is a constitutional remedy.

It expels from the blood the impurity tvhich causes the disease, and rebuilds and repairs the inflamed membranes. REPUBLICANS III GURREMGYl Senator Aldrich Is in Favor Financial Legislation This Winter. of THE TIGHT MONEY Assistant Secretary Vanderlip Says Jl Events of Next Few Days Will Eavt Important Effect on Outlook. Eagle Paris Bureau. COS Fourteenth Street.

Washington, October 7 There seems to diversity of opinion among Republican statesmen in regard to the proposed currency iM be called upon to consider. While the majority: leading Republican Senators and represen tatives who have been in Washington for the past few weeks seem to favor the enactment: a measure such as that apreed upon at the AtlaTirff CAtv rnnfoppni'o ,1 ,1 itla tf nan nlark llA GUM that tVl.i nnpnMnc state of the whole community and not merely the number actually convicted and imprisoned. An interesting record has been made in Massachusetts regarding the relation of the Jail population to illiteracy. Massacbu setts gives more years of schooling on an i average to its population than any other state. It has been claimed that Massachu i setts overeducates its children.

I have heard this charge, but you b.ivc vmly to consider the average amount of schooling to each in habitant in order to see that the state does not overdo the matter of education. Massa chusetts gives about seven years of twt hun i dre'd days each, on an average, to each one of its pupils, but the average for the whole United States is only live years. The aver ave is not enough to take the pupil through i the course of study in the ordinary district i school. In 1850 there were S.761 persons in i the jails and prisons of Massachusetts, while in 18S5 thtf number had increased to nearly three times as many as in 1S50. This occasioned the remark that with the increase in education crime increased in a still greater degree.

An analysis of the crimes reported, however, showed that those against person and property had decreased during that period. Serious crimes had decreased 40 per while the offenses against order and decency being more vigilantly prosecuted produced the enormous increase in the total number. For example, in 1S50 there were 3.341 commitments for drunkenness, hut in 1S85 there were 18.701 commitments for this offense. The commitments for all other crimes than drunkenness in 1S50 amounted to one for each 183 inhabitants, and in 1885 one to each 244 inhabitants. This showing turned the tables on that class of sensational writers who deal with hysterical statistics.

Person and property have become more safe In Massachusetts in the past fifty years, but drunkenness is more dangerous to the drunkard." "What do you think of the statement that education gives young people a disgust for manual labor" "I do not think this charge is borne out by statistics. There is no country in the world in which young people are more ambitious to get into occupations In which they can earn a livelihood than the United States. In fact, the hunger for work is too great for the good of our youth. Again, those youths who get the greatest amount of schooling Turnlsh the most productive populations, as for instance, Massachusetts, with 'its seven years of schooling for each boy and girl, produces in manufacture, commerce and agriculture an aggregate of wealth per inhabitant which is nearly twice that of the average product of the na tion. In 1880 this product was from 70 to 80 cents per day for each inhabitant, while that for the country at large was only 40 cents.

Of course the educated person wishes to save his hands by the employment of machines, and Is not so willing to perform mere drudgery by hand when he can see! methods of performing it. by machines, but in the number ot hottrs that he works per day and in the in tonqitv wteh whloh avonlc Illiterate laborer. A man of education does one day work at his office and frequently does another day's work when he gets home for the evening. In regard lo the declaration that education for women gives them a dis i taste tor marriage with men of moderate means, and, therefore, increases the number of old maids. I can only say that I do not wonder that an educated woman is more particular about the kind of husband she gets than an illiterate.

Then again, a woman with an academic training can afford to be independent to a certain degree. In closing I would like to quote those words by famous English authorities on the general subject of education and crime. Sir George Kekewich, the head of the parliamentary school board for England and Wales, says: 'Every time I hear of a new school being opened I say to myself, there goes another Sir John Oorst, one of the parliamentary leaders, says: 'Every pound spent on the education of the young saves many pounds In the increased efficiency of the working population in the absence of the necessity for further jails and workhouses. A. B.

A. CONTEST FOR THE FLAG. This Table Shows the Number of the Schools Competing, With Amounts. The Eagle to day for the second time prints a table showing the schools that have contributed to the Dewey Fund, in the contest for the flags, with the amount from each and the number of subscribers. Each school is shown as it stands upon the Eagle's books.

If there are any corrections or any omissions, the Eagle, in order that the contest may be perfectly fair, will be glad to hear from any school that is not properly represented. The Eagle, in this contest, will present two nags, une win do given to tne scnooi con tributing to the Fund the largest amount of I a of of i I I i i 1 The people of London know several things. They are pronouncing Ambassador Choate's name as though It rhymed with "poet." Is not a poet a man of imagination with a tine kill in the handling of words, and did not Talleyrand say something about the use of language in diplomacy, and has it not been generally admitted that a diplomat plays more tricks with the imagination of others than any other ground and lofty verbal tumbler? Then why should not the Ambassador's name as well as his intellect rhyme with poet? The British may be slow, but they seem to be able to grasp a situation so good ao this one. They were on a Flatbush avenue car on the way homo from Dr. Slicer's lecture on Browning.

"New York is getting cultured, without any doubt," said the One in Black Trimmed with Red. "Yes," put in the One in Green. "Boston thinks that she is cultured, but she cannot equal New York." "That's so," the One in Purple admitted; "the Boston people talk more about it than we do; but New York has more culture." Then they all gave little grunts of complacent satisfaction. The One in Green, after a moment's silence, drew a long sigh. "But if that is what culture is I don't want to be cultured," she said.

"Oh, girls," giggled the one in Black, etc. "I told him I just adored his lecture on Kipling, but I had my fingers crossed." They got out at Eighth avenue and the last heard ihem was: "Did you see the hat she had on? It was a perfect fright." The collectors of Dowiana will find it difficult to get all there is. A fond mother in Springfield, 111., has named her girl baby Dewlana Dooley. No money could induce her to part with it to adorn a collection of mementoes of the Admiral. But "Dewiana" is certainly good.

Admirers of Mr. Dooley of Chicago may soon begin to call their babies Dooleylana. The Inveterate Writer of Nature Books is pending hia vacation in the White Mountains. He likes to get into the country in the To make me envious he has eent me a letter filled with forest leaves purple, gold, crimson, pale green, golden yellow and leaves of all the other gorgeous shades that they take on in ripening and he writes: "Dear Live Long Day How would you like athundred miles of this sort of thing? If not, how would you like to be the iceman? He owns everything up here. I climbed Greylock In one show squall and Mount Equinox in another and picked icicles off from the little ice plants in several And me In my summer underclothes and no overcoat.

In eplte of the gorgeous garments of the hills, there are some compensations in proximity to an overcoat and winter with a grate fire at which to toast your shins when you sit in your own easy chair and smoke the digestion aiding cigar. The Norwich Daily Sun, published in the bailiwick of Jotham Power Allds, says: "Phil Armour 1b aid to have voluntarily went before the Chicago tax board and bad his personal property assessment raised $1,500, 600." Thus does it appear that "trust magnates" have added a new terror to life. A man with power "to have voluntarily went" is one on whom Mr. Bryan should keep his eye. But, speaking of Jotham Allds, the Republican leader of the last Assembly, has what might be called a cheek of ormolu, io use a polite expression.

He attended a Democratic national convention and desired to have a place where he could see what was going on. The best place was the platform, to which nq one without a ticket was admitted, Allds marched up the steps and. as he was about to take his seat a eergeant at arms asked him for his ticket. "What do you mean, sir," thundered Allds. "Your ticket, sir.

Only those with tickets may sit here." "My ticket? Do I look like a man without a ticket? You ought to know better, sir, than to ask me for a ticket, sir. If I find you making so big a blunder again, sir, I e'nall have you discharged instantly." Allds remained on the platform. They are still running open trolley cars. A small boy who was in oue of them the other morning expressed the general senti ment of the passengers when he called out to a friend riding in the street beside him on a bicycle: "Hello, Bob. I'm going down town to day in a cold storage warehouse." Of all the signs displayed during the Dewey parade the most incongruous was that over the door of the Tombs prison in Center street.

It read: "Welcome, Dewey." A prominent Brooklyn ecclesiastic was asked the other day by the Colonel what he thought of the campaign which 'some of the ministers were planning for the winter, a campaign of daily prayer meetings and the like. "Well. I do not know just what to say about it," said the man. "I beiieve In piety, hut I have not much use for poisity. The goody goody people always remind me of the cynic's remark that heaven may have the best climate, but will have the best society." You have heard of the Irishman who saw a caue aeated chair for the first time and wondered at the Industry of the man 'who gathered all those holes and put straws around them? A 7 year old girl of Flatbush must be related to him for she told her mother the other day that she knew how to build a dam.

"I get a whole lot of water and then block it up," said she. When her mother smiled she insisted: "I get a brook and dig up a lot of mud from the bottom and block It up. Then, when it Is full I block up the other end so the water can't get out!" There is nothing like having a muscular wife. A drunken man was quibbling over the price of some fruit with an Atlantic avenue Italian and was becoming abusive and threatening. The Italian's wife came rushing out from the rear of the store, leaving a crying babe on the floor, and seized the man and save him a shaking which made his teeth rattle and brought him to his senses.

Then she went back to the babe and the drunken man ended the transaction with a chastened spirit. I would suggest that at the next meeting of the New Woman's Society there be a debate on the mission of woman as the protector of weak and downtrodden men. Dr. J. Paukeh Pmy's Manicure and Toilet Goods are the oldest and best; Eat.

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New York. Jessie Hotaud Mattebok, the well known contralto, is making a specialty this season in concert work of English ballads, and also of Scotch songs, through which she has already made quite a reputation. M0r.da.v3 and Thursdays at her studio, 300 Fulron st, are busy ones, as she has a large class uf pupils who are studying with her. Watek from the Mylea Standish Spring. Ginger Root from Jamaica and American Brains make Ginger Ale perfect.

Ask your grocer for it. Besnet. Ladles' Tailoring Establishment, formerly employed by Hackett McElgln, Si) Felix st, corner Lafayette av, Brooklyn. Article on Their Relations Causes Much Comment Writer Takes a Doleful View. AN EXCUSE FOR OLD MAIDS.

After Keceiving an Academic Course of Instruction They Do Not Want to Marry. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, October 7 Much comment has been occasioned by an article in a recent number of the North American Review, written by Rebecca Harding Davis, in which she makes Gome sharp and caustic remarks about the relations of education and crime. The writer takes a very doleful view of the matter and by reference to the number of persons in jail able to read and write attempts to prove that education has served to increase the amount of crime. She even goes' so far as to Intimate that the graded schools are breeding places for crime and explains the large number of old maids in New England and other portions of the country as the natural result of their disinclination to marry men of moderate means after haviug received an academic course of instruction.

The article is a forceful one and has caused widespread notice and criticism. While many people disagree with Mrs. Davis in her gloomy conclusions, no facts have been produced to disprove her contentions. Commissioner of Education Harris, however, is prepared to take issue with her, and in an interview with the Eagle correspondent today he presented an array of arguments and statistics on the opposite side. He believes that Mrs.

Davis has made her assertions without a fair and full consideration of all the features of the case and is not willing to admit that education helps to increase the total number of pickpockets, forgers or other criminals. When Commissioner Harris was asked to day what he had to say of the statement of Mrs. Davis that our graded schools are breeding houses' of crime, he replied: "If the statistics on both sides of this question are considered, I think most people will believe our schools do not swell the number of criminals of the country, but. on tho contrary, exert just the opposite tendency. Communities that send a very large part of their population into schools have a higher ideal as to what is considered lawful and decent behavior in public.

They are not content with punishing crimes against person and property, but often arrest persons for drunkenness and other vices. There was a time in Boston when a person seen in the streets smoking a cigar would be liable to arrest by a policeman. A multitude of penalties on the statute books, such as arrest for plucking a flower on the public common or crossing the grass from one gravel walk to another, increase the number of arrests every year, but' do not. necessarily imply an increase of serious crime. Counting: the persons in jail in the United States, it is found that the quota of the illiterate is nearly, or quite, eight times as much as the quota from and equal of persons who can read and write.

For instance, tho statistics of the Detroit jail for its first twenty five years show 40,388 commitals, of whom 11.6S6 could not write. In the total population of the state less than 5 per cent, were illiterates. Five per therefore, furnished 11. CM committals and the other 9j per cent, of the population furnished 28.652, In other words, the illiterates furnished eight times their quota of criminals for tho jail. The report of the Detroit Jail for 1SS7 contains the statistics on this subject." "How about the statement of Mrs.

Davis that the number of juvenile offenders In London was greatly increased after the establishment of the London free schools in 1870?" "i have before me," replied Commissioner Harris, "two articles cm this subject, one in the London School Board Chronicle for April Id, 189S. and the other in the London Schoolmaster, for November ti, 1897. The average daily number of persona in the jail in England and Wales are given for thirty four years and a study of them will reveal the true facts regarding the point touched by Davis. There was a marked decrease of crime from 1870 to 1894. The schools had scarce begun to have any effect upon the total iu 1S70, but in that year there were 128 in jail out of every 100,000 of the population.

Ten years later the 12S had decreased to 111 in each 10O.0O0 population and in 1890 this had fallen off nearly one half. Instead of 111 there were only 68 in prison out of a population of 100.000. It has heen stated that the school educates the but. does not affect the morals. Nearly ali ihe schools of this country and in England lay more stress on good behavior than they do upon learning lessons.

In fact, some schools with poor methods of instruction in spite of that do a great deal of good, because they teach children how to behave, in public. Hy insisting on regularity, punctuality, sllenc and industry in tile school room they secure a quality of self control on the part of the pupils which no other m'ans can accomplish, so well. I do no; find it strange, therefore, lhat. the effect of the school shows itself in the morals of the community still more than it does in the quickening of the intellect. People in England who are studying this matter scorn to think that the groat falling off of criminals in Ihe Jails, namely, from 12S in every 100,000 in 1880 to only lis in every 100,000 in 1S90, is due to the wholesome effect of the schools.

Quite extensive investigations were made In 1870 by the Bureau of Education on the same lines. The prisons and jails of seventeen states, fourteen of them being Western or Middle States, reported 110.388 Of these 27,081, or almost exactly 25 per cent, were illiterates. Attention being called to the fact that three fourths of the prisoners could read and write and had had some schooling, the same claim now put forth by Mrs. Davis was made that education promotes crime. Tho conclusion was drawn that the schools were 'breeding houses of But in this case the numerators were compared and the denominators neglected, for in the seventeen states the average illiteracy of the population was about 4 per cent.

This 4 per cent, of the population furnished 25 per cent of the criminals, and the 96 per cent, who could read and write furnished only 75 per cent. The illiterates, therefore, furnished more than six times their quota, while those who could read and write supplied one fifth less than their proper quota. Thus. 1,000 illiterates furnished on an average eight times as many prisoners as the same number who could read and write. It seems to me that, if the discipline of a common school which trains the pupil from day to day in the habit of self control and respact for tho rights of others, will not produce law abiding citizens nothing else is likely to accomplish it." "What would be the effect of school training 0:1 other evil habits outside of the list of school room virtues regularity, punctuality, silence, etc?" "Tho school impresses upon the pupil ihf constant necessity or considering the ideal of good behavior, and the boy in school for many months in the year acquires this as a habit; it becomes second nature.

Of course a person who has acquired the habit of regulating his conduct by an ideal must carry this habit Into the whole range of his life and modify It to some advantage. Education is far from ovii instincts, but on the contrary servos to suppress them. Onn of the English writers, to whom I referred, collected the police statistics as well as th" jail statistics, and found that In 1870. while there were 31,22" thieves In jail there wore r0.144 running at large, hut known to bo thieves by the police. These two items mak" a total ot 81.3G9, but in those in tail had decreased from 31.225 to 18.305.

and those reported as at large bad decreased to IS, making a total of .198 iu 1895, as against 81.369 in 1870. in tho meantime the population of England and Wales had increased from 23,000,000 to 30,000,000. This reduction by one half of the number of suspicious cases and In jail in tho face of a big increase The trial parts of the Supreme Court all resumed work last Monday. The number of jurors summoned to each part was sixty in stead ot seventy nve as iormeriy. rsut tne Special Commissioner of Jurors has done his work well the number will no doubt be reduced to fifty.

Thirty six jurors, or three panels, are enough for each part, and that number should easily be got out of fifty. If the Special Commissioner of Jurors has examined every person on the general panel, and stricken off all who are exempt or incompetent or not to be found, there can be no more wholesale returns of "not found" by the servers of jury summonses as heretofore. And that well known citizens who can be easily found will be returned as not found is not likely to be the case. An English barrister who visited the court3 in Kings county last week made some very interesting comments. He thought that some of the trials were very loosely conducted.

Pie wanted to know whether a judge here did not have the right to interpose and stop frivolous questions and waste of time by irrelevant natters unless the other side objected to them. Being told that he had he expressed himself at a loss to know why he does not do so. He seemed to think that some of the cases he listened to were drifting away from the judge for lack of his attention. He said that an English judge would not allow time to be wasted, and if a barrister indulged in irrelevancies, he would very soon bring him up with a round turn, and very likely address some sarcastic remark to him. An English judge considers it his duty to bear in mind those who are waiting to try cases, and not allow a case on trial to take more time than it is fairly entitled to, while others lose their time waiting.

In England the trial is by judge and jury. The Judge does not settle himself comfortably and let the case drift. He Is alert throughout and gives the jury the benefit of his legitimate help. His charge to the Jury Is not a mere essay on law. He has an cyo to the litigant behind the lawyer and to the doing of justice.

When informed that judges here had the same rights and duties in the trial ot causes as in England, the barrister could not understand why there should be such a difference between the trial methods of judges here and there. The American lawyer visiting the English courts is impressed with the smallness of their court rooms while the English barrister is impressed with the largeness of ours. One of our Kings County court rooms would make two, if not three, of the ordinary London court rooms. The Judge comes into court through a little door just hack of the bench, and seating himself surveys the small assemblage made up principally of those concerned in the case. English court rooms have no space for tramps to warm themselves and sleep.

Mr. Justice Barrett of the First Judicial Department having testified before the legislative investigating committee tnat litigants were forced to try their causes before referees in New York County at great expense because the calendars of the courts there are from two to three years in arrears, the Evening" Post calls attention to the fact that the trial, justices of the Supreme Court there do not sit 011 an average more than two or three hours a day, and suggests that if they would alt proper hours the calendars could be cleared and the business oi the courts done promptly. This is a subject in respect of which the judges in the First Judicial Department have not heard the last. Indeed, they are only hear ing the beginning of it. They are paid splen did salaries, the largest in this country, and their number is ample to do all the work with reasonable promptness.

If they do not sit a proper number of hours and do the work, they may be certain that the day of reckoning will come. The matter is now being much talked about, and the voice of discontent will grow into a roar in due time. Do not be under a delusion, gentlemen of the judiciary of New York County. Last year a justice of this Department who was holding court in New York County for a month held court until 5 o'clock in the afternoon. He was very promptly sent a polite admonition by the learned judges of the Appellate Division of the First Judicial Department that it was contrary to rules to do so: that he should not sit later than 4 o'clock.

Think of that. To start with, it vms none of their business how late a trial judge cboso to sit, but if they had any authority in the matter one might well think they would exercise it by having the trial courts sit from 10 to 5, and longer hours if necessary, in order to do tho work the public have a right to demand of them. The result of the investigation of the legislative committee into the assessments exacted of judicial candidates in the County of New York was a surprise to the bar and probably to people generally. From what was deemed authentic information and unmistakable indications it was supposed that such assessments had ranged from $10,000 to $23,000. But the evidence of the judges shows them not to have averaged $5,000 and never to have exceeded $10,000, while several candidates paid nothing.

Mf. Moss is a queer invest iBator. A striking Instance is the investigation of the proposed Ramapo water contract. Five sixths ot the people of this city believed from indications that seemed entirely sufficient that certain powerful individuals who control tho affairs of the city were interested in the Ramapo Company and back of the effort to get the city bound by a contract with that company. Mr.

Moss straightway gives these Individuals an opportunity to rehabilitate themselves by swearing before his committee that they had no interest In the company and knew nothing of the proposed contract. If he keeps on he will acquit every one who is trying to loot the city, though his committee presumably exists for a contrary purpose. There is an old franchise for a bridge from New York City across Blackwell's Island to Queens County. Many members of the bar know all about it. It has been exploited for many years.

The company owning it has a capital stock on paper of a few millions, as usual. Its bridge (also on paper) runs to a part of Queens County where there is only a small population. There seems an urgent movement of the city government to locate a bridge way tip there. One would naturally think that if another bridge is to bo built it would be located where the population is large and where bridges are needed. Right along side of the present bridge is where one seems to he most urgently needed.

A lawyer's advice to Mr. Moss is, now that he has gone to investigating bridge building, to simply bring out the particulars of the paper capital of the said Blackwell's Island Bridge Company and the official messages urging the building of a bridge up there by the city. People will then understand the situation and will wait to see the company bought out by the city. But of course even after that no bridge will be built way up there in our day. Do your work with the nicety and art of a lawyer Mr.

Moss. People see things quicker than you think. The failure ot Mr. Justice Barrett to secure a nomination from the combined Republicans and independents In New York County was for reasons that did not come to tho surface in the ne wspapers. Tho trial bench and bar is that it is openly said that such discrimination was made so as to enable certain Appellate Division judges to control the patronage of the trial judges, i.

the appointment of receivers, referees, etc. The reuult has been that a few very objectionable individuals who were given a monopoly of the patronage two certain appellate judges when they were trial judges have been perpetuated as leeches on litigants atid on the bar. Three appellate division judges refused to be parties to such business but it was carried by the other four, which included a county judge. The situation in which Dreyfus finds himself in respect of his recent conviction by the court martial is that he must abide by it un less new tacts come to light of sufficient grav ity to warrant the Cour de Cassation to set it aside. His former conviction was reversed and set aside by the Cour do Cassation upon new facts showing that Esterhazy and not Dreyfus wrote the memorandum or list called in French the bordereau, and was the culprit.

Nevertheless the new court martial on all the evidence found that Dreyfus and not Esterhazy was the culprit. It is now published that the German government is about to furnish documents to Dreyfus which will prove his innocence and enable him to have his conviction reversed and set aside. This does not seem likely to occur. The failure of the German and Italian governments to cause the evidence they are said to have of Dreyfus' innocence to be produced before the court martial left little doubt In many minds that Dreyfus was guilty. If they knew he was innocent and had the proof of it they never could have allowed him to go to his PATTEN FATTEN.

There was a pretty home wedding at 3 Spencer place last Monday, when Miss Minnie Patten was married to John Patten of Pittsburg, Pa. The bride was given away by her uncle, John Weekly, the' ceremony being performed by the Rev. Mr. Stecher. Miss Gertrude A.

Babcock of Philadelphia was maid of honor and A. Baker of Pittsburg was the best man. After the ceremony the bride and groom left for the South on a wedding trip. On their return they will reside at Pittsburg. PARLIAMENTARY DEBATING CLUB At the annual meeting of the Brooklyn Parliamentary Debating Club, held recently, the following were elected: President, Mrs.

S. B. Heyler; vice president, George B. Green; treasurer, Mr. Wales; recording secretary.

Miss Rogers; corresponding secretary. Miss Lonergan; executive committee, Mr. Darcy, Mr. Dalzell, Mrs. Dahl, Mr.

Standish and Dr. Charlotte Woolley. MISS LOCKITT'S WEDDING. Cards are out announcing the marriage of Mary Josephine Lockitt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

William Lockitt, to William Morehouse Patterson. The ceremony will take place at the Simpson M. E. Church on Tuesday evening, October IT. A reception will follow from 9 to 11 P.

at the home of the bride, 10 Seventh avenue. PARIS EASHIONS "UP TO DATE. From the Eagle Paris Bureau, 51, Rue Cambon. through the courtesy of Abraham Straus. Gown of black crepe de chine; Ilounce and sleeves of embroidered crepe de chine; waist accordion plaited, and belt of black satin.

ABOUT BROOKLYN PEOPLE. John F. Anderson, and (laughter of Pacific street returned from a three months' tour of Europe last week. Miss Lillian E. Tapscott of Prospect Heights, who recently returned from California, and her cousin.

Miss I.yddon of the Hill, have been visiting the lalter's brother in Oil City, and are now in Philadelphia attending the exposition, where thfy will remain several weeks. Miss Mamie Hardman entertained James Russell and Miss Maggie Fielding (of "Because She Loved Him So" Company) at dinner one day last week. Miss Ethel Van Alstyn James of Macon street has accepted a position at Dickinson Seminary, on the staff of piano instructors. Miss James is a brilliant young pianist, who is well known hi Brooklyn musical circles. MISS MILHAU TO GO ABROAD.

Miss Zella Milhau of 291 Henry street will I sail for Europe next Saturday. She will be abroad for a rather long stay and will visit many titled relatives in France. Miss Milhau is well known in local society and Is an artist of merit. She will sail on the Manltou. A.

D. MATTHEWS' VISIT. Mr. A. D.

Matthews, after many months' absence, was able to visit the store again on Saturday morning, October 7. much to the delight of the employes and his friends, and seemingly in perfect health. 3. COMING EVENTS. The opening I'ecei't inn nt" Miss Ruddy's privute dancing sohoul will I'" held at the Casino.

IjerKen lleaeh, on cvf. nlnK nt xt. A prnnifnad' rl and rt optlon will hp held at the 'I'lh evening, Oetoher 2:1. Alexander O. ilraidzakinn will Klvc a Shakspear ean recital the Cenlrfil I'n Kuyterlan Church on Wednesday evening.

The r' gulHr monthly meeting of the Brooklyn J3emocratic Club will he Iit id at 201 Montague street on Tuesday evc nlng at o'clock. The third annual outing and games of th Robert .1. Sutherland Association ot the Thirty first Wanl will bo held at Donnelly's tlrovp. College T'olnt. to mormw.

The steamer Kirlus will leave the bridge dock at 10 A. M. Professor Erank K. Hilling, lat? of the State University of Nebraska, will lecture on "The Ethics and Constitutionality of War" before the Brooklyn Philosophical Association, at the Loii Island Business College, Poutli Eighth stri ct. near Bcdt jrd avenue, tills afternoon at' 3 o'clock.

IS REVIEWING THE CONTBACT. Corporation Counsel Whalen did not coma down town to his office yesterday. When he went home on Friday he announced his intention of spending Saturday and Sunday reviewing the Rapid Transit contract. To morrow he will make a statement concerning it. STuniiOBJf coughs ar oonquerod if you succeed In stopping th Irritation In the throat.

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BUPSEXSCHUTT ACKERMAN" The engagement Is announced of Miss MAUDE B. ACKERMAN, daughter of Mrs. Cl.ira E. Ackerman. to Dr.

WILLIAM H. BUSSENSCHUTT, both of Brooklyn. BLAERIED. ATJGER HOUL.SON On Wednesday, October t. 1898, at St.

Ann's Church, Brooklyn Heights, by the Rev. Dr. Reese F. Alsop. ROSE LILLIAN HOULSON, of Rochester, to EDWARD VICTOR AUGER, of Brooklyn.

(Rochester papers please copy.) BARRY MOORE On Tuesday. October 3, 1899. at St. Michael's Monastery. West Hoboken, N.

by the Rev. Father Bertram. C. Miss EDNA MOORE of Brooklyn, N. to Mr.

FRANCIS BARRY of Staten Island. McCLAUGHRY BRADY On Wednesday, October 4, at the residence of the bride's mothr. 720 Sackett st, Brooklyn, by Rev. Charles Wing, pastor of Grace M. E.

Church. MARGARET ALICE BRADY to JAMES MoCLAUGHRY of Salem, N. Y. McKEACHlE CORNELL On Wednesday, October 4. at the residence of the bride, by the Rev.

W. C. P. Rhoades. JENNIE ADEL.LE CORNELL to SAMUEL STEVENSON MC KEACHIE.

hoth of Brooklyn. SHOYER LAMBERT On Wednesday evening. October 4. by the Rev. A.

H. Tuttle, of Newark, N. at the residence of the bride's parents, 2.16 Warren St. Brooklyn, HANNAH LAMBERT to FREDERICK THOMAS SHOYER, of Newark. N.

J. TOOMBS TA9SIE On October 4. 1895. in Brooklyn, by the Rev. R.

J. Kent. ROSCOE C. TOOMBS to MINNIE S. TASSIE.

WALSH RODDY At the Church of St. Charles Borromeo, on September 26. by the Rev. P. F.

Qualey. KATHERINE RODDY to WILLIAM J. WALSH. DIED. BEDELL On October B.

CHARLES W. BEDELL, in his 52d year. Funeral services at his late residence 80 Bond xt, Brooklyn, at 2 P. Sunday, October 8. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend tho funeral.

BRYANT Suddenly, on Friday. October 6. 1899, OSCAR SEABURY BRYANT, aged 60, husband of Sarah F. Manin. Funeral from his late residence, 35 Kosciusko st, Brooklyn, to day.

at 2:15 P. M. DELMAR An anniversary mass in memory of the late JOHN DELMAR. at St. Stanislaus' Church.

Fourteenth st and Sixth av, Monday, October 9, at 10 o'clock. Relatives and friends respectfully invited to attend. 7 2 PARLKV Wednesday. October 11, at o'clock A. a requiem mass (anniversary) for the repose of the soul of EDWARD FARLEY (late of 980 DeKalb av) will be celebrated at the Church of St.

John the Baptist, Willoughby and Lewis avs. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. GEERING On Thursday morning, HENRY, husband of Annio Geering, in the 39th year of his age. Relatives and friends and members of Greenwood Lodge No. 569, F.

and A. and John A. Logan Council No. 44. N.

P. are respectfully invited to attend the funeral on Sunday. October 8. at 2 P. from his late residence.

505 Tenth st. South Brooklyn. Interment In Greenwood." GRIMSTEAD On Friday, 'October 6. at her residence, 130 Macon st. Brooklyn, MARTHA GRIMSTEAD.

Funeral Monday. October 9, P. M. HERRMANN Second annual requiem mass for the repose of the soul of CATHERINE HERRMANN at St. Thomas Aquinas' Church, Flatbush.

on Monday. October 9. at 9 A. M. Relatives ami friends respectfully invited to attend.

JONES On Friday. October 6. MARY, the beloved wife of James Jones, native Ardah, County of Longford, Ireland. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend funeral from her late residence, 225 Pacific st. Sunday, at P.

M. EE. VAN On Saturday, October 7, ANDREW KEBXA.V, beloved husband of Julia Halpln and father of Ross C. and Walter F. Funeral on Tuesday, October 10.

at 2 P. M. from his late residence. 301 Baltic st. Interment in Calvary Cemetery.

Members of Fourteenth Regiment War Veterans, Rankin Post No. 10. G. A. and Branch 1S6.

C. K. of A. are in Vitbd. LODFWICK In this city, October 5.

1S99, EMMA LINDA OSBORN, wife of the late John 31. Lodewick, aged 9ti years. Funeral services at her late residence, 115 Park place, on Monday, October 9, at 3 o'clock P. M. Relatives and friends of the family are In vited.

6 2 McCARTY At St. Peter's Hospital, on October 6, IS39, JOHN McCARTY, late of 9 Ninety ninth st. Fort Hamilton. Funeral services at Hospital, on Monday, October 9, at 3:30 A. M.

Relatives and friends invited to attend. (Irish and California papers please copy.) McCL'LLOUGH On October 7. GEORGE STEWART, youngest son of James and Mary Mc Cullough, In the 19th year of his age. Funeral services at his late residence, 567 Carlton av, on Monday, October 9, at 8 P. M.

8 2 MEAGHER On Saturday. October 7, 1893, ABKIE, wife of the late James P. Meagher. Funeral from her late residence. 101 Butler st, on Tuesday, October 10, at 9:30 A.

M. thonce to St. Paul's It. c. Church, Court and Congress ats.

Relatives and friends are Invited to attend. 7.3 MEAGHER On Friday, Oetoher 6. 18S9, MARGARET beloved dauchter of the late Patrick and Bridget Meagher. Funeral Monday, October 9. at 9 o'clock, from her late residence, 270 South Second st; thence to the Church of Our Lady of Loretta, Powell st.

where a solemn mass of requiem will be offered for the repose of her soul. Relatives and friends invited. 6 3 PEARSON Friday, October 6, FRANK PEARSON, beloved husband of Charlotte Pearson and eldest son of Elizabeth and Wm. Pearson of Toronto. Funeral services at his late residence, 448 Bain bridge st, Brooklyn, Sunday afternoon, at 5 o'clock.

(Toronto papers please copy.) RICHARDSON On Thursday. October 5, at her residence, 575 Bergen st, HARRIETT C. widow of the late John M. Richardson. Funeral services at her late residence Sunday, October at 1 P.

M. Interment private. 7 2 ROBBINS On Saturday, October 7. LUELLA ItOBBINS, beloved nnd only daughter of Marvin and Ella M. Robbins.

Funeral services Monday evening, 8 o'clock, at her late residence. 577 Marks av. 2 SCHENCK On Thursday. Ouiober 5. 1899.

at his residence, 71 Reld av. HENRY SCHENCK. beloved husband of Elizabeth Schenck. Relatives and friends, also United States Council No. 1, N.

P. are invited to attend the funeral on Sunday, October 8, at 2 p. M. 6 2 SOMERS October 5, at East Windham, N. MAE SOMERS.

only daughter of D. M. and Hannah Somers. Funeral services at her late residence, 105 Hal sey st, Brooklyn, Sunday, October at 4:30 P. M.

7 2 WEST On Saturday, October 7, 1899, WILBERT GORDON WEST, In his 20th year. Funeral services at his late residence. 360 Greene av, on Sunday, October 8, at 3 P. M. Interment private.

WHEI.AN On Wednesday, October 1S93, at his residence, 213 Twenty plxth st, EDWARD WHELAN. beloved husband ot Margaret Whelan. Funeral on Sunday, October 8, at 2 P. M. 5 3 MILTON L.

REEVES. FUNERAL DIRECTOR and embalmer: office and parlors, corner Sumner nv and Madison st; open always: coaches, camp chairs to hire; lady attendant. Tele. 23' Bedford. form have gained many recruits during the past summer, it is nevertheless a fact that the friends of the measure will meet with' some opposition both in the Senate and tha'iS House.

The announcement made by Senator Aldrich of Rhode) Island, chairman of the Senate Committr on Finance, however, that Ji taoreti too passage or a currency reform bill means a great deal. His influence in the is second to none, and as chairman of the great committee; on finance he wields more power than any other Senator when it comes. i to financial legislation. Senator Chandler of New Hampshire, how ever, is still outspoken In oppusition To the Eagle correspondent the New Hamoshlra 'fe Senator said to day: "I shall most certainly vote against any proposition which has for its object the changing of the contract with Ihe public creditor, as written on tho face of the bonds. The gold standard cannot possibly be fixed more substantially than it is at present with the mints closed to further coinage of silver and gold in reality the main standard of values.

Those who insist ()n forcing new leg Islalion on this are tempting defeat next year. "it may ho that Iho Democrats will nominate Dryan in an, that, we shall have a walkover. If so. we can take up any load that those in control sec fit to Impose, and which the people will accept and will win out. But assuming that Presidential election Is to be close, it would bo a foolish thing to declare that wo do not want silver re monetized.

and that wo cannot get it re monetized by intenmt agreement, and that we do not want It i ornonotized even if we could secure such an agreement. It is a foolish business to take on unnecessary burdens before an important race. "We have tho gold standard now by law and because the mints cannot he opened to the coinage of more stiver until Congress passes a law to that crfo. l. which in all probability will ho a long time.

That Is enough. As the mints are closed, the silver dollar is just as good as the guhl dollar. "Both dollars have been kept at par. without legislation, and these conditions cannot be improved now. Beside.

I do not believe there is any popular demand for a currency bill. Of course, if wo arc to surrender the Republican party into the hands of II. H. Hanna and Grover Cleveland we might listen to some of the unreasoning demands. I think the Republicans had bettor run the part however." Do yoti think Ihere is anything In the platform declaration tho Republican party ion calling for this legM I "Absolutely nothing.

The platform is pledged to snrure bimetallism it" we ran Ret It. But it is no way to secure if by international acreement to declare that povernnient bonds shall be paid in Rnld or silver at the option of the holder when tho public creditor does not i ask fur it. I am enrtainly oppose 1 to a dccla ration changing the contract with ihe public creditor from thai which is written on the face of nur nonus The Tig lit Money Market. The Treasury uflVials. ri" 1 watching with somo concern the peculiar state or' the money market in Imdon and in r.hiH eon try.

As eistant Secretary YaiKierlip, in speaking of tbiis matter to the KaW correspondent to dav. i sb id thiit. the event.s of he next few days would doubtless have an important effect on I the outlook. "The tightness in money circles In New York," ne "has largely from I feelings of distrust on the part of bankers In the outside districts. Tho reports from London indicate war in the Transvaal, and this fact has also been an important consideration.

has dtirbei the slate of mind of people in the country districts who have drawn heavily on the New York banks iu order to be safe in the ev of hj vanh abroad. This has pia e. the Ne York banks in a rather tlbt position. Slnuld war develop In South Africa its effect would naturally bo sharply fell, in this country, as it would stop the output of Hold from the richest mines In 1 be Vhen Mr. Vanderlip was aslced whether or not the government would come to the relief of the banks hy making some exceptionable and unlooked for disbursements, he replied: arr keeping a clo.

a watch on the situation, but we will not do anything unless the situation lnvom considerably worse than it is now. It do not think there to bf serious I trouble, yet the situation is one full of ln I teres! nig i It is pointed out at tho department that the government, relieved the pressure somewhAt i last month hy anticipating the payment of i interest on the 1 per eent. bonds. This was not due until the 1st of October, yet it was i paid out early in September. Another thing that has caused some com ment here is tho slow rate at which gold im ports are eoming This is the period of i a the; for st'iticiiieuts to begin on acrount of balance of trade, yet in spite of the fact that this is largely in our favor, very litU I Pom DUR otHin Trif cxcoHS of received.

xports over Imports of mer chandise for the eighr months of the present I year amount to which not far short of the phenomenal i eiord of last year. With his big balauci in favor i of the Lnited States imports of gola have been remarkably light. The imports of this precious metal, both bullion and coin, i for the first eighr months the cuTent year have amounted to but ns rumpared i with Sllft.f0n.fni0 fur th" corresponding period of 1SHS. Treasury oITi' ials are hopeful that, the flow of gold will br ome s'mnger this un ruh. One explanation for tile stimll amouni coming over is probably to he found in the fact that American sv unties are bring offered in liquidation of this debt and these, of course.

would not appear in the imports. During th' past twenty five days of September the imports of gold Into New York were and the exports of gold therefrom l'T. MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT. Cards hav' been issued for the marriage of Miss Emma Corm'ia McKeaohie, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Guy R. of Linden Dou.evard. to James W. Morrell, i also of this rough. The wedding, which will he followed by a reeeption.

will take place Wednesday ev. ning. October IS. at the home Of 1 the bride's parents. money in proportion to its attendance.

Tho second flag will be given to the school having the largest number of contribu tors in proportion to its attendance. It will be noted that in the tables following the num her of subscribers in some of the schools is not given. The reason is that those schools sent in nothing further than the number of their school and the total amount, subscribed. No. of Nu.

of School. Prln, ipai. 1 Charles K. Ahliou 4 1 '1 Cliarle S. Ihokell 47 3 Iti Selle H.

White 7S! 11 4 Agnifs Kciiiy 1:..:.:: U'tiliani l. 7:::: c'. i f. W. Mitt Ml 7 Hwioti js.7 Sara J.

L'l'J I.J 11 i. roy l. wN 1.2.17 VI liine nk 1, 14 Harriet M. t'oitln 4:1:1 17 1 'usittk IS I Mwarc! Hush vi 'tl Ki K. IVirUins l.Oi.: Thnnia: I.

7iM til Mat. F. I :17, AlfreU 1 lv ..17 ST Ke A Miiitln It. iii.ra M. I'iiKlilan ..71 M.

K. Sloan 27, 2.i 40 anJ 00, Alije M. Ilist.T 41 Floyd it. 742 il' Crrneo (. Strachmi 1M 41 William A.

Ali'lrev 'ii AS KvHina 1.. I'i'Uy t'. AlIKUHtlL 1,. Ciiay KinmiL Fortune r.7 17. 7,4 Kmily H' ls It" Harriet 1,.

ItoKiie 1 7f, William S. Mills 12 M. cy 'filter Frietik F. llnrilitc; 1 SS AdvliiM S. 1..

v. R7 F.llu Kelly II. 07, John F. Harris Is Geors 117 till Louise M. 77 1(H) Mrs.

1 ha. lotto F. Shevillj H. St. v.

ns i 111 Kmilv Hl MKliltm 11 1 and 117i. Mrs. Mury .1. 1 1 HR ftcorfte Ryan l.lf.s 41: lit) Moses Beeke r. jr f.u Ttluntml Trulnln? Hitth School, fharles 1).

barklns 2 il St. John's Horn leon St. Ako h' K. C. Sunday school l.r.o; St.

Anne'H l'irochlal hrol St. Anthony' Pnroehla 1 School 2: 17. St. Paul's It. C.

Sunday School 2''. St. Peter's P. TS. Sunday School n.7.", St.

Francis Xnvler'n oil Packer Institute 217 41.3:: Urowne's nnslnesp College 10.47, CALLED ON THE MAYOR. Distinguished Japanese at the City Hall xesteraay. A delegation of Japanese visited the Mavor uay o.l uu Vj il inn 11 rfiiu njjfii uuariy an hour dLsrusBioR business relations between this country and Japan and the administration of Hit' ''Ity. The visitors vrrp four in number. Kate Otani.

president of tb Yokahama Chamber of Commerce, chairman of the central board of the Tea Traders' CnUd of Japan; K. Yama i moto, ehainnan of the Kobe Chamber of I'um meree; P.Knmira, soeretary of i he Kobe Chani bor of Commerce un i Kinoshin Watii. necro tarv to Mr. Otani. They have Jue t.

reached here overlan.l from their native lan. I and are bound for Phila 1 as delegates to tht International Commercial Consres.s to convene there next I Thursday in eonn ration with the National Kxnort Exhibition. Mi. Otani comes as th; ropreseiUiiiive of the Yokohama and Tokio of Commerce. I The visitors talked with Mayor Van Wyek, asking many questions about ihe ehy govern i ment.

in they appeared greatly in i ere ted. They said they had Iummi impressed with New York's many evidences of reat i nes. They manifested particular interest in i the administration of the Docks. Water and Fire and I'olire Departments. The method of 1 law making also excited their curiosity.

Tho visitors said they intended Roini; to Vashington after leaving Philadelphia and then to Europe, where they have other official engagements..