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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. STEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1899. 5 MISCELLANEOUS. tion. of a home for Admiral Dewey without LDD do considerable for himself in politics inside of a few years.

The president of a well known trust company is the authority for the statement that Coffey is worth over $1,000,000. Mr, Howe, the Republican candidate for Register, is making a cheap attempt to win popular favor by announcing that if elected he will devote the receipts of his office to charity. While it is true that he is promising to give away that which he does not possess, the election law, that provision which deals with the offering of bribes, bears directly upon his offer. But he does not mean what he says, and one who knows him remarks: "That offer is a bluff. If, by any sort of political miracle, he should be elected, he will claim that he can't make good his promise because of the election law.

Howe can't afford to forego salary or fees." To make his offer more effective, Mr. Howe should name the charitable societies among which he is prepared to divide the receipts of tho Register's office, and In making up the list he should pay no regard to the A. P. A. or the organizations antagonistic to that body.

Mr. Howe is said to favor a "speak easy" campaign MUL. SKETCH OF WARREN W. FOSTER, Nominated Last Night for Judge of the Court of General Sessions in Manhattan. Warren W.

Foster, who was nominated last night for Judge of the Court of General Sessions, was born at Riverside, Suffolk County, L. July 26, 1839. He is descended from ancestors who have lived on the eastern end of Long Island for more than two hundred years. One of his ancestors was General Nathaniel Woodhull, who bore a distinguished part in the French War that resulted in the conquest of Canada, as well as in the War of the Revolution. General Woodhull was also president of the Provincial Congress that met at White Plains, July 9, 1776, and ratified the Declaration of Independence that had been Warren W.

Foster, Democratic Candidate for JudKo of the Court of General Sessions. adopted by the Continental Congress four days earlier. During the Revolution, when the invasion of New York by the British was imminent, he was placed in command of the Long Island Militia, and during one of the forays of the enemy he was so seriously wounded that he died shortly afterward. The father of Warren W. Foster is Nathaniel W.

Foster, president of the Rivernead Savings Bank, president of the Suffolk County Historical Society and Treasurer of the Long Island Bible Society, one of the oldest Congregational bodies in the state. Mr. Foster received his earlier education in the public schools of Riverhead and Brooklyn, N. and after a preliminary course at Wil liston Seminary and a year at Williams' College, he entered Dartmouth College and was graduated with honors in the class of '81. Dartmouth conferred upon him the degrees of A.

B. and M. A. Two years later he was graduated from the Law School of Columbia College In the. class of '83, after passing a perfect examination, was admitted to the bar and has practiced law in this citv ever since.

His practice has been confined to no special field and he has engaged In many Important cases, civil and criminal. He is the acknowledged possessor of a wide and exact knowledge or corporate values and prospects. His relations with American and English managers have given him an established reputation for possessing expert knowledge of the laws relating to theatrical matters. He has frequently been called upon to act as referee, assignee and receiver, and in the discharge of his duties he has acquired in a marked degree, the confidence of the bench and the bar. When General James M.

Varnum resigned his membership in the Change of Grade Damage Commission, for the Twenty third and Twenty fourth Wards, to accept the appointment of Surrogate, Mr. Foster was appointed his successor by Mayor Van Wyck. The duties of this quasi judicial position were discharged by him to the entire satislaction of the public. In politics Mr. Foster has always been a pronounced Democrat and a member of the Tammany Hall organization of whose general committee he has been reading secretary for several years.

He has always lived In the district now known as the Twenty fiourth. He organized the Wyandot Club, the Tammany headquarters for that district, and after serving two years, as president, and declining an other renomination, he was elected a member of Its board of governors, a position which he still holds. He is chairman of the general committee of the Tammany Hall Democracy in the Twenty fourth District and for ten years has beeu cnairraan of the district campaign committee. fr ITnstpr Ir an active mnmher nf th Pel Upsllon Fraternity. He Is a master Mason and a member of the Democratic Club and of I WEBER IS OUT FOR NEU.

"Tony" Crawls' Out of the Deep Hole Into Which He Was Thrown Politically After He Had Stood by Mayor Ohapin in the Proposed Purchase of the Long Island Water Supply Company's System Gray McGar ry Family Quarrel. Deep gloom fell heavily upon local Repub llcan headquarters yesterday afternoon when It was announced that Timothy L. Woodruff's radiant personality had been transferred to Albany on a hurry call from Theodore Rooae velt. One explanation of the Lieutenant Governor's abrupt withdrawal from command of the local Republican forces is offered In the following statement made by one who has the proud distinction of the personal' ac quaintanceship with Roosevelt, Woodruff and. last, but not least of all, Thomas C.

Piatt: "Senator Piatt fully appreciates the fact that Woodruff has made a horrible mess of the Republican campaign in Kings County by placing a one year old Republican at the head of the county ticket, by appealing to voters, in the name of McKinley, to support Neu, by making the most ridiculous general appeal ever made to the citizens of any community. and by making public the fact that. Repub lican success In Kings County will make Woodruff a formidable candidate lor the Republican vice presidential nomination. Senator Piatt Is an adroit leader, who has grown gray in politics, and he was quick to see that the questions which Woodruff urged his followers to ask Independent voters have furnished the Democratic campaign committee with texts from which their stump speakers can preach effectively until the campaign closes. For the only ruthful answers that can be made to these questions listed in Mr.

Woodruff's Appeal must injure Republican candidates. Before the campaign opened. Piatt told Woodruff he must keep his mouth shut, and conduct a campaign of silence. The SeDator forgot to tell the Lieutenant Governor to look up his jar and send his typewriter to some rural retreat. The consequence is that the campaign has been made ridiculous.

The Senator thinks that Woodruff's absence from Brooklyn for a few days may give him time for serious reflection, and Dady, Atterbury and Sharkey time to put the campaign on its feet again, so to speak." A Mr. Addlebury, or Mr. Rattlebury. or some one with a name suggestive of a Water bury watch in action, is at present in chargs of Republican headquarters. Mr.

Rattlebury. or whatever his name may be, had a thrill I yesterday. That was when he received the Information, officially, that ex City Auditor "Tony" Weber had declared be would support Judge Neu. Mr. Atterbury's or Mr.

Rattle bury's first idea was to order an illumination of headquarters, but he finally decided to make an announcement to the press. And so the following statement appeared in the afternoon papers: "Ex City Auditor Anthony Weber ha3 come out for Judge Neu, and his advent is hailed with delight by the Republican leaders. Weber is one of the most influential of the German American Democrats of the city So ex City Auditor Tony Weber has out" for Judge Neu? Come out of what? He has come out of the deep hole into which he was thrown in the early 90s, because as the then City Auditor he had become offen sive to the public by reason of his official in dorsement of Mayor Alfred C. Chapln's effort to purchase for the city the Long Island Water Supply Company's plant. Why has Weber come out for Neu and is opposed to Walton, the Democratic candidate for Sheriff? Probably because William Walton, as a rep resentatlve of the Eagle, was the first re porter to make public the secret attempt ot Brooklyn officials to purchase the Long Island Water Supply Company's plant for the city.

That exposure of Mayor Chapln's attempt to "conduct municipal government under a blanket" prevented the consummation of the act intended. On the 19th of December, 1890, on the fourth page of the Eagle, the public received its first warning of Mayor Chapln's intentions in the Long Island Water Supply Company's case, in a news article headed: "HAS BEEN SOLD. "The Long Island Water Supply System to the City. "Arrangements Completed for the Transfer of the Property." In the body of the article which appeared under the foregoing heading it was said: "The negotiations have been conducted with the utmost secrecy. There was a secret meet ing of the Mayor, Controller and Auditor, with a representative of the company yesterday afternoon, when the whole matter was fully discussed." In another article Mr.

Walton wrote that the company wanted $750,000 for Its stock, and would ak the city to assume an indebtedness of $500,000. When Tony Weber became city auditor, further efforts were made to consummate the proposed purchase. Weber stood by Mayor Chapin in the matter, and Walton continued to faithfully report every move made in the matter by the Mayor and his official associates. Of course Weber against Walton. For Walton first exposed the effort to purchase, under a blanket, the Long Island Water Supply Company's plant, and Tony Weber's subsequent friendship for the scheme wound up tis political career.

Walton might have profited pecuniarily by closing his eyes to the secret conference, but he did not, and served hie paper and the public honestly and fearlessly. "Tony" Weber has pulled Hugh McLaughlin's bell more times than any dozen German Americans in Brooklyn. "Tony" failed or a renominatlon, and he disappeared from public view. Neu has become a Republican because he wants to be Sheriff. Weber has become a Republican perhaps because Neu has promised to make him a deputy sheriff.

Mr. Ratterbury, Atterbury or Rattlebury, as deputy chairman of the Republican Campaign Committee, is said to believe that Senator Coffey and a great army of Tenth and Twelfth Ward Democrats are going to vote the Republican County ticket and make a special effort in behalf of Mr. Howe, the Republican candidate for Register. Mr. Rattlebury is going to send Mr.

Howe's record as a Congressman, the record of his votes, in Congress, down to the Twelfth Ward in the hopes of aiding his candidacy. If he will send that record of votes to the writer of this column, will guarantee to aid in giving publicity to it. Republican machine leaders hope to divert attention from the widespread dissensions in the ranks of their party by magnifying some objections that have been mado to J. Mor rissey Gray's nomination. So far as I have been able to learn the chief objectors to Gray's nomination are Councilman McGarry and Senator Coffey.

Gray is McGarry's uncle. Gray defeated McGarry in a fight for leadership in the Tenth Ward, and now McGarry wants to get even with his uncle. And so picayune family quarrel has been made to appear as a political revolution. Senator Coffey's objection is not based upon any personal dislike for Gray. The Senator claims that the nomination for Register should havo gone to South Brooklyn.

Senator Coffey has steadily claimed for the last ten years that he has "not been able to Becure anything for South Brooklyn." Yet he has managed tp I mentioning tne Brooklyn Eagle. The only excuse we can offer for this omission, and this excuse ve freely admit to be Inadequate, 'is that the name of that excellent journal did not occur to the writer of the article during its composition. It is quite true, since the cagie reminds us of it, that tne Eagle la entitled to great credit for its exertions in behalf of a home for the Admiral In Washington. But it is not quite so clear that the Times Is entitled to the execration of all good men for not mentioning the Eagle whenever it has oc casion to mention the bouse. While reading tne Eagle Is one of the most entertaining and Instructive of occupations, still it seems hardly fair that every man should be, as the lawyers say, "charged with knowledge" of everything that may appear In the Eagle or that may at any time have appeared in it.

It that were really the case the Times would be a great offender. Because we recall, in tnis very matter of a home for the Admiral. that the Times made a proposition for the acquisition of such a dwelling, on lines more or rather less similar to those taken by the Eagle, actually without knowing that it had been anticipated in point of time. When it discovered that the Eagle had the priority it called attention to the project of the Eagle and "tendered its good to promote the same. It imagined that it was doing the decent if not the handsome thing and itfla pained to find that that is not the view of the Eagle.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man" is a maxim of the law. If it be equally a maxim of journalism that ignorance of the Brooklyn Eagle excuses no newspaper, then clearly the Times is inexcusable: but we do not think that article of newspaper ethics Is so completely established as the Eagle assumes. Another omission in the Times, which looks like an ordinary and conventional piece of newspaper behavior, appears to the Eagle, we are sorry to observe, as another evidence of deliberate villainy. This is the mention, in the news columns of the Times, of an editorial article in the Eagle merely as "an editorial in an afternoon newspaper." This mode of reference is, as all newspaper men know, "the regular thing. It seems to us, we admit, a rather silly and childish conven tion, but that it is a convention nobody "can deny.

We beg to assure our esteemed contemporary that there is no settled purpose on the part of this journal to ignore it, that the undesignlng villafn who forgot all about It when he was writing an article about the Dewey house was not the same undesignlng villain who described it as an afternoon newspaper, nor in collusion with him, and that it is not our purpose to pluck a single leaf from the wreath which encircles our es teemed contemporary's massive but sensitive brow. New York Times to day. The Abraham Straus engraving is char acterized by an elegance and correctness that can not be surpassed, yet their prices are much below those generally charged for such high class work. Upon application they will be pleased to submit samples and cive estimates for wedding invlta. tions.

announcements, visiting cards, coats of arms, crests, special Insignia or any other work in this Uie you desire. CA.8TORIA Bears the signature of Ciias. H. Fletcher. In UEe for more than thirty years, and The Kind You Have Always Bought.

MABBIED. BUTLER RHAME On Wednesday, October 11, at St. Mary's P. E. Church by the Rev.

W. Bellinger, CHARLOTTE MAUD RHAME of East Rockaway, L. to ALBERT H. BUT LER of Brooklyn. DUCKETT HILL On Wednesday, October 11, at St.

Peter'd Episcopal Church, by the Rev. Dr, Lindsay Parker, MINNIE DUNBAR, daughter of Sophie Dunbar and the late Henry G. Hill, to RICHARD BATTEE S. DUCKETT of Maryland. (Baltimore papers please copy.) FORD QUIN At Washington.

D. October 11, by the Rev. M. L. Poffenberger, BESS FILL MORE QUIS to WORTHIN'GTON CHAUX CEY FORD.

12 2 NICHOLS HALL At St. Peter's Church. on Wednesday, October 1J, 1899. by the Rev. Lindsay Parker, Ph.D..

ELIZABETH ELLA, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Bradshaw Hall, to Mr. JOHN WALTER NICHOLS. SHINTON CHITTICK Chi Tuesday evening.

Oc tober 10, at 313 Forty seventh st, Brooklyn, by the Rev. Robert W. Jones, pastor of the Fourth Av M. E. Church.

Mr. RICHARD SHINTON to Miss EMILY LEON TINE CHITTICK. TURNER CHAPMAN On Wednesday. October 11, 1899, at the home of the bride. Sands Point, L.

CHARLOTTE H. CHAPMAN to HENRY C. TURNER. DIED. BANFORD ROBERT BANFORD.

Jr. Funeral services Frtday evening, October 13, at 566 Lexington av, Brooklyn, at 8 o'clock. BUTTERFAS3 On Wednesday. October 11, 1899, PHILLIP BUTTERFASS. In his 62d year.

Funeral from his late residence, 415I, Carlton av, on Saturday, at 2 P. M. 12 2 CORRIGAN On Wednesday, October Jl. 1899, ETHEL GERTRUDE, daughter of Thomas and Jane Corrlgan, aged 12 years 9 months and 14 days. Funeral services Friday, October 13, at 2 o'clock P.

at 1,096 Prospect place, Brooklyn. CURRAN On October 10. 1S99. at 135 Cumberland st, after a brief illness, MARY, beloved wife of Denis Curran, aged 67 years. Friends are Invited to attend the funeral from her late resident? on Friday, 13th insc, at 9:30 A.

M. thence to Church of the Sacred Heart. Clermont av, near Park, where a solemn requiem will be celebrated. GOMER On Tuesday, October 10. 1SS9.

at Say ville, L. GEORGE GOMER. In the 46th year of his age, most dearly beloved husband of Emma L. Miller. Relatives and friends, also Copernicus Lodge No.

515, F. and A. M. trustees of German Hospital Society, trustees of Buehwlck Savings Bank, presidents of the Broadway Merchants' Association, Arlon Singing Society. Bushwick Club and Ladies' Aid Society of the German Hospital are respectfully invited to attend service, at his lute residence.

IS Varet st, Friday evening. October 13. at 8 o'clock. Funeral Saturday. 10 A.

M. Interment Evergreens. 12 2 HEAD Suddenly, LULU, wife of Robert Head. Funeral on Friday at 2 P. from 75 Jefferson street.

ME EH AN On October 11, ROSE MEEHAN. wife of the late Patrick Meehan, aged 66 years. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral from the residence of her son, James Meehan, 13t Cumberland st; thence to the Church of the Sacred Heart on Friday, October 13, a 9 A. M. 2 ME1SLAHN On Tuesday.

October 10. after a short illness. ALBERT MEISLAHN, in tho 77th year of his age. Funeral services will he held at his late residence, 399 Sackett st, on Thursday evening, the 12th at 8:30 o'clock. Relatives and friends respectfully Invited.

Interment private. 11 2 MITCHELL On Wednesday. October 11, d899 HARVEY MITCHELL. Funeral services at the residence of his son in law, De Witt C. Campbell.

460 Throop av, Brookly. Friday, October 13, at 8:30 P. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. 12 2 PATTERSON On Thursday, October 12, 1899, JANE wife of Edgar C. Patterson, In the 7Sth year of her age.

Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral services at her late residence. 255 DeKalb av, on Saturday, October 14, at 5 P. M. 12 2 PER A On October 11, at 8 A. CHARLES L.

PERA, aged 26 years, eldest son of Rafael and Irene Pera, at 231 Fifty second st. South Brooklyn. Interment private on Friday. RUSSELL On October 10, 1899, after a lingering illness. MARY aged 59, wife of George Russell.

Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral at her late residence, 366 Jay st, on Friday, October 13, at 2 o'clock P. M. 11 2 SUYDAM On Monday, October 9, THEODORE F. SUYDAM. in his 74th year.

Funeral services Thursday, October 12, at 8 o'clock P. at his late residence, 118 Cumberland st. io 3 TEALE On Wednesday morning, October 11, 1899, at the residence of her daughter. Mrs. Mary F.

Morro. 377 Van Buren at. MARY E. TEALE, widow of Thos. P.

Teale, in her 89th year. Funeral services on Friday evening, October 13, at o'clock. Relatives and friends are respectfully Invited. Interment private. 11 3 VAIL Suddenly, on October 10, 1899, at the residence of her son in law, F.

C. Dexter. Eleventh av and Eighty third Dyker Heights. Brooklyn. N.

SARAH widow of the late William M. Vail, in the 63d year of her age. Funeral on Friday, October 13, at Grace Church, corner Hicks st and Grace court, Brooklyn Heights, at 2 P. M. u2 WOLCOTT On Wednesday, October 11, 1899, MARY widow of the late Charles O.

Wci cott, aged 64 years and 8 months. Notice cf funeral hereafter. I a of minting is done at the cost of labor. At tho present time three varieties of coins are being turned out, 5, 10 and 20 colons; the value of a colon being about 46 cents. Although silver coins are named in the Costa Rican currency system, so far as is known none is actually in circulation and none has been coined at our mints.

The silver currency of the other Central and South American countries, however, circulate freely in Costa Rica and probably form their chief medium of exchange. "Here Is a sample of request which I receive very often," said Director of the Mint nuuei 13 10 uuy, piCK ing up a letter addressed to him. "This man wants permission to have struck off at Gold Quarters Are in Demand. one of our mints a few one, five, ten, twenty five and fifty cent pieces, mado of gold. He is willing to furnish tho bullion and pay whatever extra cost may be involved in having them coined.

He wants to use them for bangles on a bracelet or pin. are constantly ireffino i0tiDrC nt, and refuso them all. The law strictly prohibits tbe coinage of any money other than "I't unicaiiy aescriDca the statutes, and gold pennies and nickels are not mentioned in any of tho currency acts. There is also a large demand for gold dollars, which are now WOrth Si. 50 AS KllllVPTliro XTrtTla r.P 1 has been issued since the passage of the act of 1890, which discontinued its coinage." Only a small part of the next year's annual appropriation for coast defenses will have to be used In strengthening the submarine and torpedo system.

About the only money that General Wilson Submarine Defenses in Good Shape. will be called on to expend for this purpose will be in counteracting tbe effect of deterioration In material wrought by the passage of time. A few casements will have to be finished and some Junction boxes, cable lengths and other supplies will be required, but the bulk of the nxt annual appropriation will be devoted to building new guns and emplacements. It was stated at the War Department to day that so complete is the present system of topcdo and submarlno mine defense that within twenty four hours every important coast, city In the country could be rendered practically safe from attack by a hostile fleet. The engineer force of Manila will play an important part in the approaching fall campaign.

Never before has an American army gone into the field so thoroughly well equipped with engineers. General Wilson has shipped to Manila large quantities of engineering supplies, such as entrenching tools, picks, shovels, brush hooks for clearing away bushes and undergrowth, carpentering and blacksmithing outfits and a lot of other material for building bridges, pontoons and for overcoming such obstructions as shall be encountered. Collectors of American china are waiting with a good deal of Interest the arrival of a new set of china that Mrs. McKinley has ordered for the Whlt.j House. The china is to be of American Mew China for the "White House.

manufacture and will be made at Zanesville. O. Those who have seen the complete pieces say It is exceedingly beautiful and will compare favorablv with Lincoln, Hayes and Harrison sets. The design as approved by Mrs. McKinley is simple yet very decorative.

Tn the cente. of each plate will be the copyrighted design that appears on the Harrison plates the American eagle and shield and tfi? words Pluribus Unum." Around the border of the new plates will be placed the arms of the thirteen original states in colors. Some of the big collectors think that while this design will be very effective on the large pieces, it will not show up so well on the cups and small ware. The Harrison set was turned out by a firm in this city, and the contract permitted the maker to manufacture duplicate pieces of the original set. He took advantage of this and the result is that Harrison plates are scattered all over the country, and can be bought at his establishment now.

It Is understood that this permission will not be granted In the present case, and that only one set of the new china will be manufactured. The steward of the White House thinks that the McKinley china will be ready for use at the first diplomatic dinner given by the President this season. Minister Straus sends to the Stats Department some facts in regard to the unfortunate condition of the immigrant Jews, many of whom appear tn bo paupers. He has received a letter from Jews Moving to Palestine. Consul Merrill of Jerusalem on the subject.

"Tbo Turkish regulation," said Consul Merrill, "requiring Jews arriving at Yafa to 'eave the country again in thirty or ninety days if they come as visitors, has, I understand, boc agreed to by our government. There is no provision, how over, as to how these people arc? to be made to return. As the Turks do not accept the word nf the Immigrants on landing, a system of money pledges has been resorted to. This may be called or It. Is a money guaranty that the parties will carry out tbe requirement nf tbe Turkish government.

Unless they pay the guaranty, the immigrants have great trnubla in landing In many cases, the consul is appealed to, and rather than see them starve or sent back to the steamer, which would probably 'not receive them again, he gives his word as security that they will leave the country at tho expiration of the time specified. Respectable American Jews, coming here as bona fide travelers, encounter no more trouble than do Christian travelers. It Is the immigrant class, Russian or Polish Jews, who are suspected by the authorities here as likely to swell the ranks of the colonists." A. B. A.

DEMANDS JUSTICE FOR BOERS. Mass Meeting at Carnegie Hall Ex presses Sympathy for the South African Kepublic. I A masB meeting that filled Carnegie Hall to the limit of its capacity was held last night to express sympathy for and demand justice for the South African Republic In its controversy with England. Mayor Van Wyck presided and George W. Van Siolen acted as secretary.

The boxes were occupied by prominent citizens. Resolutions were adopted expressing the belief of the gathering that the attitude of Great Britain wa.s unwarranted, commending the expressed willingness of tbe Boers to consider the grievances of the Out landers and calling upon tho United States government to uie its good offices in the Interests of peace. Speeches were made by Bourko Cockran, Mayor Van Wyck and Tunis G. Bergen. Perry Belmont expressed regret for his Inability to attend, in the following letter: Gi urne W.

Van Sielcn. Ijpnr lr I rt'Kret extremely my Inability to ho present at the meeting to he hold WVilm May, Octnher 11. The principle of home rule l.s very ir tho per. pie of the States. Thl.s means the Internal HovcrelKtity of every lmle penflent ftate.

lniler this rule the citizen or subject a foreign country has the privilege ill cklzenhhlp until he lias, hy his own art. ni. ule himself a citizen or subject of the state Into which h.is enme. He has a rlKht to demanil In a ferelpn stitle only such khi1 treatment as his own (, nvernmenl can, unler treaty nt Inter naticniil law. IiihIs: upun In his behalf.

The Lnil Chief Justice of r.nt:hinl. when trytnK the nileson ratilers. charged the Jury that "the Queen's recoKnlzes the complete Independence and autonomy of the Smith African Republic, subject enly tn the res rlc Ions of the convention of 1VS4, to the efTect that the South African II. publlc should hnv no power to come into anv treaties without this country's consent." The Internal soverelitnty of the Transvaal was thus pretvoineed t'i tie complete. If that was koiM law In why not diiy? What w.

uld suv If I 'n iiind were to Insist that, because KnKllsh mi'ti owned a majcrlty of all New nr Colorado railways, industrial prnp rtleu and mines they should constitute a determlnlnK fact in the Kiivornmoni of those states. A different question would be presented should either stale refuse FnKllshmen rights recognized hy public law by reciprocity and by International pomitv. There are sabl to he thirty thousand or even fifty thousand outlan.lers recently arrived in the Canadian itold (leblf of the Yukon head wnters. Will they receive on demand representation and a ballot In the riomlnlnn parliament, as well as In the Irnral parliament of the northwest territories of Canada? The illspute In its last analysis is one of law. both sl'les professing to stand on written ncree ments.

the TrntiHvaa coneedlnK the rlKht of Interference from under the convention of ISM, EnKland claiming the rlxht to interfere under niore than one convention and International law. It is. th refore. a dispute pre eminently suitable for arbitration. Yours truly.

PERHY riEI.MONT. Furty EmlileniN. The Job Prlntinff Department of the EnftTle l.s supplied with the various party emblems, and can furnish political printing of every description with appropriate deslimti. i MISCELLANEOUS. FUR CLEANING increases as the season develops.

Just now Angora Collarettes and Muffs and Sheepskin Mats and Rugs. Later will come the Tiger and Bear Skins. ESTB 1819 482 Fulton St, near l.oocr'i. 1 1 77 FuitOn St, near Spencer Place, 168 Pierrepont St, corner pnlten. Telephone): ItiftttMnftt.

Send for BooklfU JH 2.1 Fred. Rooilu rnlt" FOR LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS. Five Million Dollars Available for Expenditure During the Next Fifteen Months. TRUNK SEWER FOR 30TH WARD. Controller Coler's Important Information Concerning City Finances Plana to Spend Twenty Millions.

I The Board of Public Improvements learned yesterday from the Controller that the city will bo able to devote $5,000,000 Within tha next fifteen months to local improvements. puyablo by assessments. This Information has been greatly desired, as practically no local improvements of this character havo been made since consolidation, and there are plans for over $20,000,000 ready and filed away. The residents of all the outlying boroughs have complained at the long and exasperating delay in local improvements, but to no avail. The financial conditions prevailing up to this fall necessitated the utmost econ omy in all public expenditure and precluded till idea of fresh bond issues for the time.

The Mayor and Controller agreed that the city must for a time go slow and discharge contracted liabilities before entering into new ones. Borough Presidents Grout and Haffen hava been particularly interested in the progress ot assessment work and tho condition of th street improvement fund. When the now leui estate assessments were confirmed they immediately began to seek information as to the probable date of the beginning of assess i ment work, and Mr. Grout recently succeed cd in getting the Board of Public Improve mmts. to ask for the desired Mr.

Colef said in his communication yester clay he thought the city would be in a posi tion to devote a maximum amount of U00 to the street improvement fund within the next fifteen mouths and he suggested that the authorize work in such quantities that this sum be equally distributed during this period. The city sells assessment bonds in amounts to supplement collections of assessments und keep the street Improvement fund intact. Regarding a second question put him, a I statement of the total amount of assessment work completed for which assessments have noi yet been levied, Mr. Color said his office did not have such information. He suggested, ho.vever, that it could be secured by getting the Board of Assessors to report upon all work certified to them, but not assessed, and the Commissioners of Highways and Sewers I to report all work within departments com piete.l, but not yet certified by them, to the Board of Assessors.

On President Grout's motion a resolution was adoptetl calling for the information as suggested by tte Controller. ir. Grout proposed then that the secretary send forward every month $350,000 qf work. I Objection was mado by the I'. esldent, who thought everything would he delayed.

He asked wbnt would be done where bigger con iinets were concerned, such as the Thirtieth Ward. Brooklyn, sewer, the estimated cost or vhich is $460,000. Mr. Grout withdrew the proposition. The board authorized the construction of a big truuk sewer In Brooklyn as an outlet for the Thirtieth Ward sewerage at an estimated cost of $460,000.

The sewer is to extend through Fort Hamilton avenue from Sixty second street to Sixtieth street; through street, from Fort Hamilton avenue in Fourteenth avenue, and through Fourteenth avenue, from Sixtieth street to Forty llrst street. The assessed value of real estate Included in the probable area of assessment Is estimated at $22,310,083. Commissioner or Sewers Kane will have specifications prepared without delay for this work and will prepare to advertise for con tracts for the work. The contracts must be approved by the Corporation Counsel as to form. The Municipal Assembly has no power In the matter.

The section authorized yesterday is not the complete sewer, but only the part which is to run through streets already opened. Opening proceedings are now being taken in regard to the other treets and when the streets are opened the remainder of the work will be authorized. The entire trunk sewer here is estimated to cost This sewer Is badly needed and has been urged repeatedly by the Thirtieth Ward Improvement Association and residents generally. The former on October wrote Borough President Grout requesting him to push tho improvement. In the letter it was stated that the ward comprises 5,404 acres of land, and is one of the most beautiful sections of the entire city.

The great growth is referred to and Is demonstrated by figures showing that the assessed valuation has risen from in ISM to $18,210,101 in 1899. The letter proceeds to describe the paucity of sewer improvements in the ward and the dangerous devices resorted to. cess pools, etc. Mr. Grout is urged to hasten the work that tha health of the entire section may not be further endangered, and the petitioners beg him to urge Its consideration before parks, repaying of streets or anything except that ing health.

President Cornelius Furguejson and Secretary Andrew F. Van Thun afgned the letter. Commissioner Kane has complete plans for the work completed and all required to be done now is to draw up specifications for the contracts. Another important Brooklyn sewer Improvement authorized wad that for repairs to eewera in Warren street, from Bond to Smith; la Smith street, from Warren street to Atlantlo avenue; In Hoyt street, from Warren to Pacific, and in Wyckoff istreet, from Smith to Court. The estimated cost is $18,000, to be paid out of the repairs fund.

This 1 3 not assessment work. A new sewer in Tenth avenue, between Twentieth and Fifteenth streets, to cost $5,000. was authorized. It Is to be paid for by assessments. On President Grout's motion the petition against the Ramapo water contract will be reprinted from last week'ri minutes, with the names of all the signers printed In full.

CAIN AND HENNESSY NAMED. Democratic Nominations in the Ninth Assembly District. The Ninth Assembly District Aldermanlo convention which adjourned on Saturday evening without transacting any business, reconvened last night at the Twelfth Ward Democratic Club. 130 Luqueer street. The session was a short one.

After George W. Phillip had called the delegates to order, James J. McKeown was elected temporary chairman and Martin Flanagan temporary secretary. Thea hoifa officers were made permanent. Mr.

Flanagan nominated John J. Cain for Assembly. All ten delegates voted for him and he was therefore declared to be the unanimous choice the convention. Matthew Stanley nominated Fretik Hennessy for Alderman. Again the vote was unanimous.

On motion of James F. Duffy a committee of two was appointed to notify Messrs. Cain and Hennessy of their nomination. The two selected were Jamee Downey and Matthew Stanley. Daniel Hlg gins moved that a committee of five be appointed to flllany vacancies on the ticket that might occur.

men were named by the chairman; Martin Flanlgan. Daniel Hlgglns, Matthew Stanley. James F. Duffy and William F. Donovan.

The convention adjourned. Pennsylvania Railroad. HERSONAIiLY TOUR TO THE UPPER SOOTH 4 LUTIAU, NATURAL BRIDGE, VIRGINIA HOT SPRINGS, RICHMOND AND WASHINGTON. October 19 to 28, 1899. BOUKD TRIP EATS $65 PBOM NEW YORK PROPORTIONATE RATES FROM OTHER POINTS.

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HUTCHINSON, J. R. WOOD, General Manager. General PaBsenger Agent. COMING EVENTS.

aeon win deliver a lecture on "Mu nicipal government' at the Union Missionary Institute. 131 "Waverly avenue, to morrow at 3:30 HOTEL ABKIVALS. Clarendon S. R. Harlow, Mr.

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ti. Jones, Jamesport; G. B. shinborner. Rochester; A.

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Smith Brooklyn; F. A. Keener, New York; Mr, and Mrs. H. Herbst, Mr.

and Mrs. J. Sanf ord Newburgh; Mr. and Mrs, William Canig. Mr.

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Mr. and Mrs. J. Marrion, Jamaica, L. F.

M. Schermerhorn, F. Schermerhorn, J. Schermerhorn, East Setauket, J. Brownley, G.

Loudlng, T. Dunn, Islip, Htggins. Mr. and Mrs. J.

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B. R. Douglass, New York; Mr and Mrs. P. Barrows, Wllllmantic.

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Captain Bishop S. N. H. Moody. F.

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L. Goodal. Philadelphia, James Skinner, Reading, Pa. William E. Buzby, Barnega; N.

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Caldwell. Harrison, Ind. HANDLING OF THE COLUMBIA Defended by a Man Who Believes That the Yacht Is Being Properly Sailed. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Relative to a recent editorial in the Eagle regarding the Columbia, I would like to that it seems to me that the article is written on the assumption that the Columbia has not been as well handled as the Shamrock in the attempts at races which have been held thus far. The: newspapers in describing the first race criticised Barr severely for standing close 4a to the Jersey shore on his work to windward on the homeward stretch.

A great deal was made of this point. The facts in the case are (and I know that correct, because I had my glass on the Shamrock during the whole of that particular beat) that the Shamrock when well tn in ward stood in on the starboard tack toward the Jersey shore and reached the shore befor the Columbia. When the Shamrock got well in under the shore she Btruck a tremendous slant of wind and for the only time in the whole race heeled over and seemed to be having all the wind she needed. The Columbia people doubtless saw this and followed her lead and also stood in shore, but considerably to windward. When they got there they ran Into a calm spot which no one could foresee, and then, although they had done what any yachtsman would do under similar circumstances, every wiseacre on the excursion boats blamed Barr for the position in which he had been placed.

The facts or the case are that every race so far has been held in the most uncertain winds, which were of varying directions and of varying force in different parts of the course, and it was absolutely luck whether or not any move would be successful It murt be remembered that Barr's manipulation, both at the start of the first race and on the way down to the outer mark were ISd not filled by anything that the Shamrock has done since. Further I have been told that the start in the Saturday race was a splendid exhibition of jockeying by Barr which the multiplicity of talent on Shamrock could not equal. I have heard during the summer a great lo wnetner or not it would be a good plan to have all the parties named in the Eagle's article on the Columbia and the consensus of opinion seems to be that in the past what mistakes have been made have arisen from differences of opinion between several advisers in the excitement of the race when there is no time to hold a coun Pll of war. Th ability of the gentlemen sailors who have had such tremendous experience in sailing large boats is underrated. Personally I cannot but feel that I would rather see the race conducted under the instruction and direction of amateurs than to see the sport develop into one where boats are built and manned by professionals only.

We have always been proud of our Corinthian sailors and the handling of Columbia at the present time is in line with that general feeling. When we have an actual wind and the conditions are such that the two boats will for once sail under exactly the same conditions, which they have not done as yet, it will be in my estimation time for critics to be outspoken In a condemnation of the Columbia G. E. I. New York, October 11, 18S3.

WOULD LEAP, BTJT ONLY LtTMBEBS The Dewey House and the Brooklyn Eagle A One Cent Basis. The Eagle calls attention to an article on the page next to this one. to day, on the de elrabillty of still further increasing the subscriptions for, the Dewey Home Fund. The reasons for that are timely and sound. The Eagle also takes pleasure in saying that the trticle appeared in the New York Times to day, to which due credit is given at the foot.

Our pleasure in this is greater because the Times succeeded in writing the entire article without mentioning that in the Eagle first appeared any appeal for the Dewey House Fund; that by the Eagle the national committee for that fund was appointed; that here the work was steadily carried ouo against many discouragements, one of them from the New York Timee, and that from the readers of the Eagle came more than one quarter of all tho money contributed. Our pleasure in mentioning the Times in connection with this subject, or witb any subject to which due credit should be given to that paper, Is increased by this assertion in that journal to day: "Some stir wae created in the Yacht Club last night by the appearance of an editorial in an afternoon newspaper yesterday." "The afternoon newspaper" was the Eagle. The Times republished most of the "editorial," but nowhere mentioned that it appeared in this paper. In to day's Times aleo appeared an editorial, saying that it (the Times) has had one year's experience of sale of itself at a cent apiece, and that the experiment has been decidedly successful. This also gives pleasure to the Eagle, though the habit of honest and polite credit seems to have been lost to our contemporary, since it struck a one cent baBis.

Brooklyn October 10. We observe with interest that our esteemed contemporary the Brooklyn Eagle la dissatisfied with the action of "this Journhl. It is quite true that this journal, as is alleged by Its erteemed contemporary, has "succeeded in Writing an entire article" about the acqulsl Assistant Postmaster General Heath Says This Was Intended as Part of McKinley's Policy. SEARCHLIGHTS FOR GEN. OTIS.

Signal Corps Work in Philippines Will Be Made Easier Slaking Money for Costa Sica. Eagle Bureau, 808 Fourteenth Street. Washington, October 12 No official of the administration is closer to the President than First Assistant Postmaster General "Perry S. Heath. He Is frequently called into consultation at the White House, and during the last presidential campaign was Senator Mark Han na's principal lieutenant.

Therefore, the following statement made by General Heath in an address delivered last night before the Michigan Republican Newspaper Association is significant. General Heath said: "In tho cloud of misrepresentation and calumny which our opponents have raised on this Philippine question they ignore the facts of history. They talk about the 'slaughter of innocent Filipinos who are begging for mercy and There is no slaughter of innocent Filipinos. Those whom our troops are encountering are armed rebels, seeking to destroy the authority of the United States in the territory which by the arbitrament of war and by the terms of the treaty of Paris passed under our control. There has never been a moment since Dewey Bteamed into Manila Bay and annihilated the Spanish fleet that Agulnaldo and his followers could not have had peace, protection and such share in the government as deserved.

But this did not satisfy them. President McKinley's instructions were that Agulnaldo should be given a commission in our army, and that he and those associated with him should be treated as our citizens. Yet this did not satisfy his cupidity. Possibly, he could not control hia men, who demanded that the City of Manila should be given up to plunder and our helpless prisoners should fall by the sword. When our soldiers restrained them they rebnlled and turned upon us the guns and ammunition with which we had supplied them.

From first to last, President McKinley has consulted with Admiral Dewey as to the situation in the Philippines, and in almost every case has been guided by his advice. He has appointed two commissions and exhausted every method of honorable adjustment. He stands to day as he has from the beginning, for peace first, and the settlement of the question of government afterward. A Just, a generous, a patriotic and an intelligent President has devised and executed our policy in the Philippines and he has been supported by a Congress possessing these attributes. We need have no apprehension or doubts as to the outcome, viewed from any point.

When order has beeo established, Congress will determine what kind of government shall be given to the Philippines. The wisdom of the policy of President McKinley and tbo Republican party will be fully vindicated before the opening of the campaign next year." Among the accessories which General Otis Is to employ during the coming fall in bring ing about the subjuga Warfare by Aid of Searchlight. tion of the Filipinos is a powerrul searchlight. The signal corps of the Army is to have charge of the use of this in trumcnt, which will be shipped this week to Manila from the supply station of the signal corps at Fort Myer, Va. Some months ago General Greely was Informed by his officers In the Philippines that they would be greatly aided in their work at night If provided with a search light.

General Greely promptly ordered one of the best lights manufactured, and it arrived at Fort Myer this week. It is now being Inspected and tested and will be Bhlpped on Friday or Saturday. It is to be mounted on a wagon and hauled from place to place when the signal corps men are operating at night. The candle power Is large, while an eighteen inch mirror magnifies the flame until it casts a heavy shaft of light over a very wide area. By the use of a clever device, a hood may be thrown over a portion of the light so that the natives will not be able to I see its rays and thus be furnished a fine tar get.

General Greely is somewhat in doubt as to how the search light will work, but as his men wanted it. he decided to give it a thorough trying out. The American signal corps men are noted for their progresslveness In Inventing new devices for use in warfare. The flying military telegraph was the product of the brains of our signal corps men. and it Is now a part of the equipment of both the German and English armies.

No nation has yet supplied its army with search lights for use during active operations and the outcome of this experiment will be awaited with some interest. The military automobiles have also arrived at Fort Myer and arc being put into shape for army work. The achievement of the British military authorities in mobilizing their reserve force of 2.1,000 men last woek must have been an Instructive spectacle for Adjutant General Cor bln and the other officials of the War De Bapid Handling of Foreign Troops. partment, who sat up nights for months last year trying to get into shape our volunteer army. Tho British.

In all probability, simply organized these 25,000 men as an object lesson to continental Europe, for it is the genera! op nloP abroad that Great Britain's weak direction. But Germany has develnned tbo system of quick mobilization to a finer point than any other nation. Inside of three days Germany can mass 3,000.000 soldiers on her frontier facing France. Every detail for this big concentration has been planned, arid every man concerned In the movement knows Just what he is expected to do. A study of the railroad syRtem of Germany will show that the roads there are all laid down upon strategical lines rather than for commercial or traveling advantages.

They all converge to points along the French and other borders. Even the working force engaged on the roads Is trained with a special view of service in case of war. Every switchman, coupler and brakeman has his duty to perform In the event of moving the army. Nine tenths of these employes formerly served In tho army or aro furloughed soldiers. Gemnnv's one thought is to improve her system of "military defense, and the main idea is rn nor fot scheme of quickly piling her men along tho uumi.

i line uetween mat country and France. Just now the emnlovps in fhp Phiinninhia mint are busy turning out a mass of curious looking coin. It is 1m TJncle Sam possible to find the Ts Onl nino TVTnTio head of Liberty or the ov, w. familiar Eagle on any for Other Nations. nf places are seen the curious coat of arms and seal of the Renuhlie of Costa Rica.

The federal authorities at tho Philadelphia mint are coining about $1,000,000 worth of "colons" for the Costa Rico government. This is the first time that we have performed this service for the Central Amer can republic, and all together we have turned out about $4,000,000 worth of money for them. That government has a modest little mint of Its own, but the expense of maintaining It is so great that its doors have been permanently closed. A mnt is a costly establishment when properly fitted up, and as the United States authorities are willing to lend the use of our facilities for a consideration, many Impecunious governments find it to their advantage to have their money manufactured hero. In years past we have furnished currency for Equador, Nicaragua and tho Hawaiian Islands.

The dies from which the coins for Costa Rica were struck off were made by our government experts at Philadelphia, the designs being provided, of course by the officials of the llttlo republic. When not in use these dies are stored In the vaults of the mint at Philadelphia. Uncle Sam doee this work for practically nothing. Wo furnish tho bullion for Costa Rica at its coining value, but as the difference between the value of gold bullion and gold coin is so slight there 13 very little profit in this. The actual work the National Liberal Club of London.

Mr. quickly rendezvousing her. soldiers. Foster was brought Into special prominence The accomplishment of last week was only during tbe Dewey celebration, the illness of exceeded by the wonderful way in which the General Daniel Butterfield. chairman of the 1 channel fleet was brought together last sum executive committee.

Imposing upon him as I mer Fifty eight vessels were assembled off secretary of the committee, a vast amount of i tne eastern coast of Great Britain within detail for the successful execution of which he twenty four hours' notice and at the same was personally thanked by Mayor Van Wyck time another fleet was headed in the same and Admiral Dewey. PAKIS FASHIONS TTP TO DATE. From the Eagle Paris Bureau. 53 Rue Cambon. through the courtesy of Abraham Straus.

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