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5 THE BBOOKLYK DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SATUBDAY, AUGUST 25, 1900. THE IRON AID STEEL TRADE. A Sound Body Which Means the Absence of Disease in Any Part, Cannot Exist Without Pure, Rich Blood THE DAILY EAGLE Is published every afternoon on the working days tho week and on SUNDAY MORNINGS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

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Advertisements for the week day editions of the Eagle will be received up to 12 o'clock, noon, at the main office, and at the branch ofllces until 11:80 A. M. "Wants" and other small advertisements intended for the Sunday edition should be delivered at the main office not later than 10:30 P. M. on Saturdays, and at the branch offices at or before 10 P.

M. Large or displayed advertisements for the Sunday edition must be sent to the main office by P. M. tho one stating that the American force at Peking was to be limited to 5,000 men, furnished material for a number of reports that the department intended to maintain a permanent army in China. As a matter of fact, nothing of the sort is contemplated.

The orders regarding the construction of the warehouses at Taku were issued on August 11, at the height of the Chinese troubles and when it looked as though the allied forces would have to spend an indefinite time in the enemy's country. With the subsequent developments the instructions were rescinded, and it has been practically determined not to build the storehouses. This decision has been backed up by a cablegram from General Chaffee, stating that if it were the wish of the department to maintain a force at Peking he could find ample accommodation for his men and supplies In the buildings at that place. The quartermaster at Taku had previously wired that he would need lumber for the construction of warehouses, and it was in accordance with this suggestion that the original orders were issued. Nothing is being done in this direction at present, the department waiting to hear further from General Chaffee.

Should Secretary Root decide that it is necessary to make elaborate preparations to house our men and stores in China It is likely that every foot of lumber required in the erection of the warehouses will have to be shipped from the United States. Building material is an exceedingly scarce commodity in China and all the writers who have treated of the northern part of the empire have warned commanders of military expeditions to expect no wood for building or fire purposes. The best that the country affords in that direction Is some bamboo shoots. In spite of the fact that the Philippines have forests of the most valuable kinds of wood none of it is available for building purposes. Most of the trees there are mahogany or other tough varieties which are wholly unsuited for construction.

Practically all the lumber used in Manila by the Army is shipped from the Pacific coast. There are several hundred national banks in various parts of the. country which are SHOW AT ALL THESE DAYS. JOIN TEE TRUSTS." TAMMANY HAUL AND HELP DOWN United States Turned Out in I 899 More Than One quarter of the World's Product PLANS OF WAR DEPARTMENT. May Not Winter Our Troops in China.

Delay in Furnishing Bank Notes. Eagle Bureau, 60S Fourteenth Street. Washington, August 25 The final and official figures, giving the iron and steel productions for 1S09, show that the United States not only produced more than one fourth of the total product of the world, but that we furnished almost twice as much of these metals as Germany, which is our nearest rival. The United States Geological Survey has prepared an elaborate report covering the Iron and steel trade for last year, and this report indicates that out of a total Iron ore production of 84,000,000 tons for the world the United States' output was 25,000,000 against 17,000,000 tons for Germany. Great Britain is now third in the list of big iron and steel producers, having been passed by Germany.

Her product last year amounted to 14,000,000 tons. The United States also have a clear lead In the manufacture of pig iron and steel, as well as in the production of those two metals. During the phenomenal year of 1899 the United States manufactured 13,000,000 tons of pig iron and 10,000,000 tons of steel. An interesting review is given in this report of the wonderful trade conditions of 1899, with special reference to the iron and steel Industries. In speaking of this matter the report says: "All in all the year 1899 wa3 the most prosperous in our history.

The mills and factories and workshops of the country were operated to their fullest capacity and our mining and lumber Industries were never so actively employed. This great activity gave increased business to the railroads and the transportation of both manufactured products and crude materials. Labor, both skilled and unskilled, had never been in greater demand in this country than in 1S99 and the first six months of 1900. The industrial prosperity was shared in to a greater degree by the iron trade than by any other leading industry and to an extent which produced in 1899 a boom of the first magnitude. Throughout April and the first half of May prices were practically stationary, but after the middle of May, to the surprise of almost everybody, they took a fresh start, advancing by leaps and bounds until October, a period of five months, when the advance in some lines was checked.

In November the boom practically ended. The prices which had been established at that time averaged an increase of over 100 per cent, upon the prices which had prevailed eleven months before. The remarkable character of the demand for iron and steel in 1899 is well illustrated in the large orders for cars and locomotives and steel rails that were placed in the single month of October of that year. The cars ordered in that month from car building companies exceeded about '350 locomotives were ordered from locomotive builders, and the orders for steel rails exceeded 500,000 tons. These orders were all for home railroads except a few locomotives." In explaining the reason for the tremendous boom of last fall, the report says that foreign competition was at no time a factor in determining prices or in bringing the boom to an end.

Europe needed all the Iron and steel that its manufacturers could supply, and prices for those products rose rapidly In all European markets. Tariff duties on iron and steel were lost sight of by American manufacturers. Prices of iron" and steel in American markets advanced in 1899 because the demand was greater than had ever been before, and because early in the year the impression became general, and was thereafter sedulously cultivated, that our capacity for the production of iron and steel was not equal to the country's wants. To the persistency with which this famine cry was repeated for at least six months of 1899 may be traced much of the excitement that prevailed in that year in our Iron and steel markets, the haste to place orders for future delivery never before having been equaled. And yet with few exceptions there was no scarcity of Iron or steel or of raw materials.

The production of iron and steel and of iron ore and coal and coke was of phenomenal magnitude. All the furnaces and rolling mills and steel works and foundries that were in operation at the beginning of the year or that could be placed in running condition were constantly employed. The report says that it is difficult to find a reason for the reaction early in 1900. One cause is that the enormous demand during the boom period, when orders for future delivery upon a rising market wero too freely placed, could not in tho nature of things be continued. Another cause is that the extraordinary demand for iron and steel greatly increased the country's productive capacity, and this led naturally to an increase of capacity beyond the country's wants and to lower prices.

The reaction in demand did not particularly affect the operations of the mills and furnaces during the first six months of the present year, as they were all or nearly all busily engaged in filling old orders or in meeting Immediate orders. It seriously affected the prospect for active business during the last six months of this year, however. With the 1st of July some furnaces that had been operated to the full extent of their capacity for a long time were banked, and many mills that had been running night and day since the beginning of the Loom were then closed. In commenting on the remarkable simultaneous increase in the demand for iron and steel both at home and abroad, the report says that there are a number of causes to account for this. The enlarged use of Iron and steel in shipbuilding is one cause; the Increasing use of steel in the construction of public buildings and private dwellings is another cause.

The magnitude of this latter uso has only been recently recognized. In the United States we have commenced to substitute steel cars for wooden cars on railroads. We are also now making our own tin plates. We are using heavier rails for our railroads than formerly. The various uses to which electricity has been applied in late years, the water supply of cities and all kinds of engineering enterprises have also greatly Increased the demnnd for iron and steel in all countries.

Lastly, a new era In railroad building has commenced in Russia, the United States and some other countries, the great Siberian enterprise of Russia alone calling for immense quantities of railroad material. Last year the United States built ninety one steel vessels, against sixty three iron and steel ships in the preceding year. The gross tonnage of the vessels built In 1899 was 131,379, against 62,266 tons for 1898. There has been a good deal of misunderstanding regarding the plans of the War Department for keeping May Not Winter our troops in China qu during the approaching winter. It has been Troops in China, stated that 5,000 troops are to be quartered at Peking, Taku or some other point, and that the erection of sheds and other buildings has been ordered for the accommodation of tho troops and supplies.

This is not strictly correct. Tho President decided the other day to retain about 5,000 men In China for the immediate present, and at tho same timo issued instructions that no other forces be landed at Taku. This was followed by the Issuance of orders diverting to Manila troops that are now en route to Nagasaki and which wore originally slated for service in China. Just as this decision was reached a belated newspaper dispatch came in from Manila, announcing that the War Department had Just concluded nrrango monts for tho construction of a series of ware and storo housos at Taltu or some neighboring point, and that extensive planB were being made for a wlntor camp for American troops. This story, together with The way to make your blood rich andpura is to take Hood's Sarsaparilla whenever there Is any indication of impurity, and continue its use until all impure taints are thoroughly expelled.

The signs of Impure blood are unmistakable pimples, eruptions, tired feeling," kidney troubles, nervousness, and many other ailments. Hood's Sarsaparilla cures all these troubles and restores sound health by purifying, enriching and vitalizing the blood, toning arid strengthening the digestive organs and invigorating every function of the body. Sar sap a rill a Is America's Greatest Medicine. A UN1QUE.PUNISHMENT Which the Martial Law of the Boers Prescribes for Those Who Sleep: on Post. The war correspondent of the London Dally News gives the following description of a penalty not inflicted by the martial law of the Boers: For sleeping on sentry duty the punishment is unique; it is a punishment born of long dwelling In the wilderness.

It Is of such a nature that no man who has once undergone it is calculated ever to forget. When a clear case is made out against a burgher by trial before his commandant the whole commando in laager is summoned to witness the criminal's reward. He is taken out beyond the lines to a spot where the sun shinea in all its unprotected fierceness. He is led to an anthill full of busy, wicked little crawlers; the top of the anthill i3 cut with a spade, leaving a honeycombed surface' for the sleepy one to stand upon (not much, fear of him sleeping while he is there); He is ordered to mount the hill and stand with feet close together. His rifle is placed in his hands, the butt resting between his toes, the muzzle clasped in both hands.

Two men are' told off to watch him. They are picked men. noted for their stern, unyielding sense of duty and love for the cause they fight for. These guards lie down in tho veldt twenty five yards away from the victim. They have their loaded Mausers with them and their orders are, if the prisoner lifts a leg, to put a bullet" into it; if he lifts an arm a bullet goes into that defaulting member; if he jumps down from his perch altogether the leaden messengers sent from both rifles will cancel all hi earthly obligations.

The sun shines down in savage mockery; It strikes upon the bare neck of the quivering wretch who dare not lift a hand to shift his hat to cover the blistering skin. It strikes in his eyes, and burns his lips until they swell and feel like bursting. The barrel of his rifle grows hotter and hotter until his fingers feel as If glued to a gridiron The very clothes upon his body burn the skin beneath. He feels desperate; he must shift one arm, for the anguish Is intolerable. He makes an almost Imperceptible movement of his shoulder, and glances toward his guards.

Tho man on his right front lays his pipe quickly in the grass and swiftly lifts his Mauser to his shoulder. The wretch on the ant heap closes his eyes with a groan and stands as still as a Japanese god carved out of jute wood. The guard lays down his rifle and picks up his pipe. The sun climbs higher and higher, until it gleams down straight into the aut heap; the scorching heat penetrates into the unprotected cells and enrages the dwellers inside. They swarm out full of fight, like an army lusting for battle.

Their home has been ravished of the' protection they had raised with half a lifetime ot labor, and in their puny way they want vengeance. They find a foe on top, a man ready to their wrath. They crawl into his scorched boots, over his baked feet guiltless of stockings; they chaTge up the legs, on which the trousers hang loosely, and aa they charge they bite, because they are out for "business, not for a picnic. The very stillness of their victim seems to enrage them. The first legion retires at full speed down into the ant heap again.

They have gone for recruits. In a few seconds up they come again, until the very top of the heap is alive with them. They climb over one another in their eagerness to get in their Individual moiety of revenge. Down Into the veld scboon, up the bare, hairy legs, over the hips, round the waist, over the lean ribs, along the spine, under the arms, round the neck, over the whole man, they go, as the Mongolian hordes will some day go over the Western world. And each one digs his tiny prongs into the smarting, burning, itching poor devil on top of their homestead.

He shifts a leg the hundredth part of an Inch. The guard on the left gives his bandolier a warning twist, and glances along the long brown barrel that nestles in the hollow of his left hand. The commandant comes out of the circle of burghers, looks at the victim, sees that the eyes are bloodshot and protruding far beyond the normal position. He is not a hard man, but he knew that the culDrit has endangered the lives and liberties of all. "You will remember this," he says, sternly; "you will not again sleep when it is your turn to watch." "Never, so help me, God!" gaspB the prisoner.

"Stand down then; you are free." Quicker than a swallow's flight are the movements of the liberated man. He drops his rifle with a gasp of relief, tears every stitch ot clothing from his body, throws the garments from him and pelts his veldschoon after them. Some sympathetic veteran who has possibly In earlier wars been through the ordeal himself, runs up with a drink of blessed water. He does not drink it; he pours it down his burning throat, then sits on the grass, drawing his breath in long, sobbing sighs, all the more terrible because they are tearless. From head to heel he Is covered with tiny red marks, just like a school boy who has had the measles; in three days there will not be a mark on him, but he won't forget them, all the same, not in thirty three years, or three hundred and thirty three, if he happens to have a memory of any kind at that period.

A BUSY MOUNTAIN. Captain J. T. Ellard of the Brazilian Pacific Railroad survey reports the result of his explorations in the volcanic regions of Ecuador, and mentions that the crater of Mount Sargay averages 60 cinder eruptions an hour, and that the explosions of smoke whirls are almost continuous. The liveliest volcano 61 the Old World, "ever snorting Stromboli," can barely equal that record, and has to pump up its lava to an elevation of only 2,800 feet, Mount Sargay rises 17,300 feet above the level of the Pacific.

Indianapolis Press. NOT AT ALL SWELL. Caller Your noxt dcor neighbors seem to be quite nice. Mrs. Upstart Hugh! They're very plain, common people.

Caller Really? Mrs. Upstart Yes; they pay spot cash for everything at the grocer's and butcher's, Philadelphia Press. 3u ureau Is Located at G3 RUE CA31BON And Boulevard Madeleine. American visitors are cordially invited to visit tho Eaglo Bureau. Accommodations in hotels and private houses secured free of charge.

Leading American Ifawspapera on File. Easle Branches alio London: Anglo Ametican Ex ohange, 3 Northumberland Ay. Lucerne: OMxleUea Verkahra Bureau. Vienna: xGrabeni3. CROKER "YOUNG MEN HAVE NO ETTING FAVORS COFFEY.

Red Hook Senator an Eight to Five Shot in the Coming Primaries. ANTIS WIND UP CAMPAIGN. Strong Language Used by Speakers in Their Attacks Upon the Enemy, Tho anti Coffeyites closed their speaking campaign in the Ninth Assembly District last night with an open air meeting at the corner of Hamilton avenue and Nelson street. Two trucks were placed end to end and draped with the national colors. On one of the trucks sat the speakers, and on another was located a somewhat noisy band.

A crowd of 300 listened to the oratory. Although it rained at times that did not seem to make much difference to the crowd, which was fairly appreciative. The orators talked on all the louder when the lightning flashed and the clouds poured. A string of Japanese lanterns and the occasional flash of a roman candle made the scene picturesque. The meeting was presided over by Michael Hampsey.

Senator Coffey's advocacy of Controllei Coler's nomination to the Governorship is evidently troubling the O'Donnell faction. Their speakers made it the butt of their attacks on the Senator last night, and they cited his remarks on the Controller's article on "Commercialism in Politics" to show that Coffey was inconsistent. It was stated over and over again that Coffey was a first class example of commercialism In politics himself. The fact that the Senator is supposed to be rich was brought up again and again to influence the audience against him. Another argument used was that Coffey had never done anything for the Twelfth Ward, and had allowed streets to go unpaved.

The principal charge against him, however, was that he had made no fight for political jobs which Willoughby street had at its disposal, and resigned from the patronage committee because he did not want "to pull other people's chestnuts out of the fire." Th hortinir nn the result of next Tuesday primarv is 8 to 5 in favor of Coffey, and his friends" are entirely confident of the result. The Senator has been doing a great deal of quiet personal work in the district, but has held few meetings. One of the fiercest attacks on Coffey last night was made by Lawyer Ralph K. Jacobs, who used some rather intemperate language. "I would like to reserve the discussion of national issues until later in the campaign.

The speakers to night have brought home to vou tho necessity of the Democratic parly carrying the state for William Jennings Bryan and anti imperialism. But in order to do this vou must first cast the traitors from the partv, and that is why I would like to devote niv attention this evening to Senator Coffey and his tricks to capture votes at the coming primary. "He comes before you with the name of Coler on his lips. In a local paper of August 12 is printed an Interview with Senator Coffey, in which he points out the inconsistency of" Controller Coler In attacking the New York Democrats for their commercialism in politics, and in not condemning the Kings County Democracy for the same reason. "Leaving out of consideration Senator Coffev's sudden conversion to the sacred cause' of consistency; leaving out of consideration his consistency toward William Jennings Bryan four years ago.

when he was afraid that his securities would depreciate in value If Bryan was elected, and his consistency in shouting 'Bryan, to day; leaving out of consideration his consistency toward Senator Hill a few years ago, when Coffey acknowledged that Hill was his greatest enemy, and his gloating over the fact that he refused to vote for him for United States Senator, and the consistency in his outward friendship for Hill to day; leaving out of consideration his consistency in sending delegates to a convention, and his refusing to stand by the nominations made by his own delegates, his consistency in using his utmost endeavors to defeat those nominations, and his consistency in now flying a banner with the words 'Regular Democracy' upon it; leaving out of consideration all these things. I would like to call your atttention to this man's effrontery in daring to mention the words 'commercialism In "If there Is one subject that Coffey should shrink from, if there is one subject ho should hide at the very mention of, that subject is 'Commercialism in and yet he dares to quarrel with the man whose very record was made through his cry against 'commercialism In "It was twenty three years ago when Coffey made his record as a political merchant. In 1877 ho ran for the office of supervlsor at large on the Republican ticket. Tho Eagle printed an editorial which stated that Coffey could not safely challenge the discussion which his candidacy provoked: that there had been placed in the possession ot that paper the proof that Coffey was a corrupt member of the Assembly and 'bartered his Influence and vote for a corrupt They pave him ono day to get off tho ticket, and Coffey got off, and for this ho occupies the unique position of being the only man in New York politics who could not run for an ofilce because of his 'commercialism In "It was Senator Coffey who put through tho Board of Aldermen tho resolution substituting trolley for horse cars: it was Senator Coffey who put through the same body the Nassau Railroad franchise. Do yo suppose that man with the record of 'bartering his Influence and vote for a corrupt consideration' would do this for the love of the corporation and the city? "Wherever you found railroad committee there you found Sonator Coffey.

He always had himself made a member of railroad committees and In the Board of Aldermen was for several years chairman of that committee: while In the Senate he sought membership in the railroad committee for himself and had Cain in the Assembly appointed on that committee. Why was this if it was not to he ready at any time to do a bit of political business at the old stand? "Senator Coffey voted for the bill giving the Railroad Commission authority over our city streets, removing the control over them from city authorities and transferring it to Albany; when you consider that ho says ho Is nn advocate for home rule for our city you must come to the conclusion that he voted for HOTEL ARRIVALS. The Plerrepont A. A. Stafford.

J. J. Brady, F. TJ. Whiting.

Brooklyn; M. J. Benson. New York; Mr. and Mrs.

C. Grldley, Boston; D. Mason, Philadelphia; D. Moore, New York. Hotel St.

George M. H. Smith, Brooklyn; K. O. Hill, New Jersey: Miss A.

J. Hazen, Mrs. J. 3. Haxen, Mrs.

R. Jackson, New York; T. Mc Brlden, Detroit; R. M. Louison, Pennsylvania; J.

K. Burton. Washington; F. McKiege, Broooklyn; Burden G. S.

SinCrled, Boston. Clarendon Mrs. Merrill, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. L.

J. Marsh, Philadelphia; A. R. Dillingham. Thirteenth United States Infantry: T.

Fox, H. D. Bergen, Brooklyn; Miss J. P. Gordon.

London, Ont. the Rev. H. J. Bruce, Satura.

India: Thomas J. Ford, Pittsburg; H. M. Reeve, Mattltuck, N. Y.

E. H. Pierce. Brooklyn George W. Clarke and daughter.

Chr. Anderson. Philadelphia; William P. Fuid. New York; G.

E. W. Glantzer, Rideewood, N. Ira Milllken. C.

M. Grown, B. Harding, H. A. Prinrile.

New York; J. A. Oussler, Wisconsin; Henry W. Thayer, Montclair. N.

Henry E. "Vlneing. Brooklyn; Frank T. Wells, Amltyvllle. N.

Y. L. B. Prohar, Massa pequa. L.

I. William Laverty. William Baker. Holyoke, Leo Myers, A. Straus, Brooklyn: Tt.

c. Mallaby, Sea Gate. N. Y. J.

II. Galyer, New York. INDORSED THE TICKET. At a meeting of the Seventh District Republican Association, Twentieth Ward, last night, resolutions were unanimously adopted Indorsing the nominations made at Philadelphia. NIGHT BLOOMING CERE ITS OPENS.

Many of the friends of Froelich brothers of 997 Bedford avenue were present at their residence on Thursday evening to witness the opening of the blossoms of a night blooming cereus, which reached perfection at that time. A DTJTCH CHRISTENING. The daughter recently born to Dr. and Mrs. George G.

Van Mater of 354 Macon street has, In accordance with the old Dutch fashion, been named Katryna, for the first ancestress In the colonies, who was the wife of Jan Joos ton Van Meteren, schepen of Wildwick in 1665. Dr. Van Mater is the son of George V. Van Mater and nephew of Police Magistrate Charles E. Teale.

CHILDREN'S DAY AT THE BEACH. Monday next will be children's day at Bergen Beach and it Is expected that there will be a great crush of juvenile folk at the popular resort in consequence. Tickets of admission have been distributed generously throughout the city and railroad transportation is being looked after by Charles T. Earl of 3 Putnam avenue. Cars will leave the' corner of Putnam avenue and Fulton street at 1:30 P.

M. and will return about 8:30 P. M. It is the fifth annual event for the children and like all previous affairs it Is calculated to be a success. THE DIFFERENCE.

Little EJmer (a thoughtful lad) Papa, what is the difference between a patriot and a politician? Professor Broadhead Why, the former does it for fun, and the latter for the money there Is In it Puck. It was Waoxeb ht Thursday Evening at St. Nicholas Garden and Mr. Kaltenbcrn conducted the orchestral numbers in a muslclanly manner. Leopold Winkler played the major Beethoven Concerto poetically and with perfect technic.

He was called out 5 times and as an encore played tho Brahms Scherzo. It was generally conceded toy the many musicians present that a better reading of this concerto could hardly have been rendered. Mr. Winkler played the Wlssner Concert Grand Piano, the magnificent round full tone of which was clearly heard In nil ports of tho large hall. Bomhess Confidential.

Our thirty years' experience enables us to g4ve thorough satisfaction. S. Goodsteln Son, Licensed Pawnbrokers, 279 Bridge st, near Johnson. ENGAGED. PRICE GREDINGER August 16, 1000.

MARTHA GREDINGER to HENRY CLAY PRICE, both of Brooklyn, N. Y. DIED. CLARK On Saturday, August 25, 1000. at his residence, 1,102 Bedford av, Brooklyn, ALLEN CLARK, in his SOth year.

Funeral services private. CORNELL At Ridgefleld. Friday, August 5, EMILY MEAD, wife of Samuel H. Cornell. Notice of funeral In Sunday morning papers.

DE WITT In Brooklyn. August 34, 1000, MARY G. DE WITT, widow of Benjamin De Witt, in the year of her age. Funeral from her late residence, 1S7 Jay st, on Sunday. August 26, at 2 P.

M. Friends are respectfully Invited to attend. (Newark papers please copy.) DUFFY On August 24, at County Westmeath, Ireland. Funeral from tho residence of her sister. Mrs.

Cunningham, 21 East Fourth st, Windsor Terrace. GIDDINGS On Friday. August 24. 1D00. at his residence, 314 State Bt, Brooklyn, N.

SILAS M. GIDDINGS. XPuneral services at St. Peter's Church, State at, on Monday. August 27, at 3:30 o'clock.

Interment private. 25 2 HARTMANN On Friday, August 24, 1000, FRANK HARTMANN, the beloved husband of Liable Bodens, aged 30 years and 6 months. Funeral sorvlces at his late residence, 221 Duf fleld st, Saturday, at 8 P. M. 24 2 HOEFFLING On Friday, August 24, CHARLES HOEFFLING, beloved husband of Emma Hoeffling.

Relatives and friends and members of Manual Lodge No. G3l, F. and A. M. Morning Star Council No.

6S0, R. A. Unity Republican Club, Twenty eighth Ward, are respectfully Invited to attend his funeral, from his late residence, 77 Cornelia st, on Monday, August 27, at 2 P. M. JACKSON On August 23.

1000, JOHN A. JACKSON, beloved husband of Catherine Jackson, nee McMorwmey. Funeral from 147 Concord st. Sunday at P. "I LAWRENCE On Thursday, August 23, at Orient, L.

JAMES A. LAWRENCE of 321 Decatur st. Brooklyn, aged 45 years. PATTERSON On Friday, August 24, EDGAR C. PATTERSON.

In the S4th year of his age. Funeral services at his lote residence, 255 De Kalb av, on Monday, August 27, at 4 P. M. Interment private. 25 2 JtORKE On Thursday, August 23, Mrs.

JAMES RORKE, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Mayhew, Bath Beach. Funeral Mcnday, August 27, at St. Flnbar's Church; a requiem mass will be offered for the repose of her soul at 9 M. 25 3 SEETH On Thursday, August 23, CATHARINA belovod daughter of Frederick and Margaret Seeth.

Funeral on Sunday, August 26, at 2:30 P. from her late residence, 707 DeKalb av. 24 2 THYOESON On August 23, In his S2d year, TERJE THYOESON. Funeral from the Norwegian Hospital, Forty sixth st and Fourth av, Brooklyn, on Sunday, August 2t, at 2 P. M.

Frlenfls are invited to attend. 24 2 Joseph Ellis and James Fox was a dead heat, and the young men agreed to run the race over at the John Carberry Association's outing on Labor Day. Sack race, won by Joseph Fox. A display of fireworks welcomed the homecoming of the association. The following are a few of those who were present: Frank Smith, Dave Klncaid.

Charles Gilder sleeve. John Curtain, Henry Young. Max Yongel. John Flanagan, John Reiser. Al Van Stondt, Ed Mobrmann, Jrlenry uegetman, reu i iuiey.

i Mommershelmer, Pat McGee. James Hurly. Will lam Bach. Jerry Sulivan, Thomas Page, John Taylor, Frank Sidmonds, S. Ernest, B.

Travis. P. Down. J. Carberry, Fred Harms.

John Coffee. James Monahan, J. F. Qulrm. J.

Kerrigan. Henry Poppe. Abe Springsteln. Frank Denig. Al Hawkin, M.

Ryan. James Fox, Joseph Fox. J. Hallmnn, H. Schildt.

Sam Weaver. John Taylor. W. Moran, Henrv Frevtag, Onofrio Santorsola, James Cooley. Alex Jansen, Henry Mangels, C.

Glllis, William Emkln. THE SAN JOSE SCALE. Twenty Additional Places Found Infested With the Insect. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Yesterday the employes of the Tree Planting and Fountain Society found twenty additional places infested with the San Jose scale. This ill Increase the number to over seventy.

It behooves the people who have trees infested with this scale to he very careful about the manner of their treatment. Although the first notice of the scale in Brooklyn was published in the Eagle of the 8th there are men going around offering remedies which they claim are certain destruction to the scale. The methods of treatment of this scale approved by the best entomologists will be given in the columns of the Eagle, so that the citizens may avoid Imposition and save their trees from greater injury. LEWIS COLLINS, Secretary of the Tree Planting and Fountain Society of Brooklyn. Brooklyn, August 25, 1900.

A FAITHFUL EXPERIMENTER "Who Failed to Successfully Imitate the Story Book Savages. "Hanged if I believe anybody ever made a fire by rubbing two sticks together, all travelers' yarns to the contrary notwithstanding," declared an enthusiastic local sportsman the other day. "I spent a couple of weeks with a camping party on the upper Red River, west of Winfield, last spring," he went on, "and one morning I got separated from the other boys, and it was night before I found my way back to our shack. I am an inveterate smoker, and when I filled up my pipe, after wandering around for aa hour or two, I was horrified to find that my match safe was empty. As soon as I made that discovery my desire for a smoke Increased about 500 per cent.

If I had had my gun along I could have started a blaze without trouble, but, unluckily, I had set out to do some fishing, and had no weapon but my hook and line. Naturally, the first thing that occurred to me was flint and steel, but I could't find any Hint, and then I happened to think of the old story about making fire with two pieces of wood. "Well, I won't tire you with details, but if ever a man gave an experiment a conscientious trial I did on this occasion. I picked up chunks of halt a dozen different kinds of wood, trimmed them down with my penknife and tried them all In various combinations, using one hard and one soft stick, exactly as the story books say the Indians do. But, although I rubbed until the pesky things were chafed nearly in two, I never succeeded in getting them even warm.

At last I remembered reading somewhere auout a scheme of the natives of Java, who are said to lay a flat piece of wood on the ground and twirl a small rod, top fashion, on its surface, by means of a cord. I soon made one of the machines, cutting up my suspenders for the string, and if you had seen me squatting there, see sawing the thing, you would have taken oath that I had lost my mind. At the end of half an hour I was red hot and the apparatuo was dead coid. The longer I twirled the colder it got. If I had kept on another half hour I believe I would have had a stick frappe.

But I had gone far enough to convince me that the man who wrote the story was a double barreled, back action, triple plated liar, and I yearned violently for his gore. I struck camp Just about dusk, and the first thing I did was to grab a coal from the fire and put it on my pipe. Later on I discovered four matches in the lining of my vest. I won't repeat my remarks, but rav friends asked me why I didn't talk that way In the woods. They say my language would have set fire to a piece of asbestos." New Orleans Times Democrat.

TOTJBISTS TO BE ENCOURAGED. Chief among the assets of Italian hotel keepers, merchants and railroads is the money left with them annually by tourists. This will aggregate about $75,000,000, and tho individuals named have just taken steps to cultivate tho traveling foreigner with the view of encouraging him to spend, still more. A congress has been held in Rome under the leadership of Signor Dl Ferrari, a former member of the Cabinet, who in his address to the delegates said: "We propose to organize all the forces of Italy which relate to the cultivation of this Chicago Chronicle. RIVALED IN SCOTLAND.

That famous illustration of procrastination, the State House in Albany, N. has a close rival in Scotland. For twenty years the great house of Lord Bute, on the island of the same name, has been In the process of construction, and is not finished yet. the chapol remaining to be completed. When It is finished, however, Mount Stuart, as the place is to bo called, will be one of the most gorgeous establishments in the world.

The entranco hall alone, with its great marble columns and floor, walls and celling in marble of every variety and hue, will have cost $500,000. Baltimore News. ONE OF ENGLAND'S LANDMARKS. The great estate of Mcmbland Hall, In England, and the seat of the late Lord Revel stoke, has changed hands again, and the lands, which formerly belonged to a banker peer, are now In the hands of William Cress well Gray, the great shipbuilder, who has laid out a large sum of money on the property. It Is a magnificent estate, which cost Lord Revelstoke more than $1,250,000.

It has been visited by royalty many times, and its marine drive of some nine miles In length Is of great beauty. Detroit Free Press. "You seem to be very muoh interested in that couple in the middle of tho floor." "Yes; you look at them and see if you can figure out which it Is that qan't dance." Chicago Record. this bill solely because It would bring the control over city streets nearer to him and his own political shop. "And in line with his friendship for corporations of any kind and description that wanted some bill put through.

Senator Coffey voted for the bill which sought to drive out of business tho mutual societies with death benefits to drive the members into the insurance companies to compel societies of which you are the members, the Royal Arcanum, the Foresters, the Catholic Knights of America, the Catholic Benevolent Legion and the Knights of Columbus to put up a bond of $100,000 or drive them out of business. This was Intended to benefit the large insurance companies. If you will examine his reason for voting for this bill you will find that Senator Coffey was merely continuing to introduce commercialism into his politics. "Yes, gentlemen, Senator Coffey was right in attacking Controller Coler for his Inconsistency. Controller Coler should not have stopped In New York; he should have brought his charges of commercialism In politics to Kings County and he should have begun with an investigation of Senator Coffey, and he would have found, as I said before, that his supposed ally was the only man who was compelled to get off a ticket because of his commercialism in politics." P.

.1. De Caatillon was introduced and said: "The Democracy of the old Twelfth Ward continues despite the. attempts of Senator Coffey to trade it off to the Republicans. You are aware that Senator Coffey bolted one of the regular nominees last fall; all of them, but one especially. The biggest hypocrite in the campaign of 1899 was Senator Coffey, for the man he pretended to oppose he told a week before the convention that he did not oppose him personally.

He was tried Dy a committee of five, who found evidence of his political treachery, and they ignominiously expelled hirn. He was eight years in the Board of Aldermen and came out a millionaire. I'd like to know how he did it." Mr. De Cantillon continued, saying that Coffey had no real love for Coler, that he had neglected the Twelfth Ward and had turned a deaf ear to office seekers. Mr.

De Cantillon himself said he loved the old ward, where he had spent his happiest days. He closed with an appeal to make O'Donnell leader. Mr. O'Donnell thon spoke and said that, after serving as a soldier In the ranks for thirty years, he had been called to take up arms against his old commander. No one had ever served Coffey better than he, the speaker said.

But Coffey had not done right and had been a traitor to the party and to the Twelfth Ward. Charles L. Slmpkins and ex Assemblyman James. McMahon also spoke. A circular has been sent out by the O'Donnell faction reciting many of the charges related above.

It says in addition: "Itecent events have proved that the interests of the Ninth Assembly District have not been properly looked after by Senator Coffey. Assemblyman Cafn and Alderman Hennessy. "Although elected to their respective offices by the votes of Democrats, they have shown themselves to bfi pliant tools of the Republican partv. Senator Coffey is better known at Albany for Ms support of Republican measures, and for his affiliation with Republicans, than for his support or Democratic measures, and his affiliation with Democrats. In Brooklyn, because of his refusal to support the Democratic ticket last year, and because of his willingness to sell out the Democratic voters of the Ninth Assembly District to the Hepublicans.

he is more popular among Republicans than all the Democrats put to gelh r. When the Republicans needed a vote to pasa the bill taking away from the Democratic surrogates of tho Democratic counties of New York. Kings and Erie, the authority to appoint tax inheritance appraisers, and vesting it with the controller of the state, that vote was supplied by Senator Coffey. When the Republicans a vote to pass the bill taking away from the Democratic Mayor of Greater New York the authority to appoint Democratic successors to the six Republican judges whose terms will expire next year, and electing them by Senatorial districts, that vote was supplied by Senator Coffey. When the Republicans needed a vote to pass the Commissioner of Records Bill, saddling 500,000 yearly on the tcxpayers of Brooklyn, to find places for Republican leaders who had fights in their districts, that vote was supplied Senator Coffey.

When the Republicans needed a vote to pass the bill making the offices of Sheriff Register and County Clerk of Kings salaried ofllces, instead of offices where the salary consisted of fern, a bill solely desired to hurt Democrats ami not in the inlerst. of public economy, that vote was supplied by Senator Coffey. When the Republicans needed a vote to pass the Charter Revision Bill, which was solely desired to curtail tiie power of tho Democratic officials ot the Creator New York in the matter of patronage and public improvements, that vote was supplied by Senator Coffey. When the Republicans needed a vote to pass a bill over Mayor Van Wyck's veto, that vote was supplied by Senator Coffey. "As for Assemblyman Cain, he has always taken good care to find out what Senator Coffey says and tines, and acts accordingly to perfection.

The same thing can be observed of Alderman Hennessy. The latter has been a brlllant representative in the Bonrd of Aldermen. "Since the Greater New York government was established Alderman Hennessy voted against tile resolution appropriating money to establish street cleaning system in Brooklyn. If that resolution was defeated, instead of having 1200 American citizens cleaning our streets for per (lay and spending their money here, we would have 1200 Italians cleaning them at $1.23 per day and sending their money abroad. He voted against the resolution appropriating $700, 000 for repaving in Rrnoklyn.

yet where is re pnving more badly needed than in the Twelfth Ward? We have 12 miles of cobblestones and not nn inch of asphalt. He voted against the resolution appropriating money for the new bridges across the East River. "Don't be deceived by Senator Coffey's talk about Controller Coler's nomination for governor. It is solely for the purpose of getting votes at the primary, and is scorned by the able and efficient Controller himself. In order to get a vote at the primary, the Senator would guarantee a cure for consumption, produce tho man that wrote the bordereau, find Charlie Hors, locate Captain treasure, tell you the secret of perpetual motion, and Introduce you to the "man that broke the bank at Monte "Help us to restore the Ninth Assembly district to a position that will reflect credit on the honest, respectable nnd industrious citizens who reside in It.

by voting for the inclosed ticket. We appeal to your reason, not to your prejudice; to your sense of right, not to your pocket: and with the belief that you prefer party regularity above patty treachery, manhood above money, and the Twelfth Ward above any one man, or set of men," WILLIAM FICK ASSOCIATION. The William Fick Association of the Eighteenth Assembly District, Twenty fourth Ward, had its first annual outing on Thursday to Guntliers' Locust Grove, Jamaica South. The main feature of the day was a game of baseball between the William Fick and Alex Jansen Associations. The William Fick Association won by a score of 4 to 3.

Other games of the day were as follows: Two hundred yard dash between Alex Jansen and William Fick, won by Jansen by a very close margin: One hundred yard dash, open to all, won by Joseph Fox. Ono hundred yard dash, open to all, won by Mr. Jansen. Ono mile run, open to all, won by Henry Young. Running broad jump, won by Jerry Sullivan.

One mile bicycle race, won by John Car bprry. Throwing the sixteen pound hammer, won by Joseph Quinn. Fat men's race, won by John Curtain. Thin men's race, won by Edward Mohr niann. The five mile running match race between still waiting to receive from the Treasury Department new bank notes that were ordered as a result of long Delay in Furnishing Bank Notes.

the passage of the gold currency law. That act became operative March 14, and although nine tenths ot the banks put in orders at once for the new currency authorized by the law only a portion of the orders have been filled. It was stated at the office of the Controller to day that all orders will not be filled for at least two months to come. The notes in question are mostly of the ten dollar denomination, although there are a number of twenties in the lot. The rush of orders for new bank notes was due to that part of the law requiring that no bank shall have more than one third of its total circulation in notes ot denominations less than ten dollars.

There were about one thousand banks whose circulation was made up wholly of five dollar notes, and all theso had their circulation at once cut off two thirds. Orders came to the Controller by the hundred for new ten dollar plates, and inside of twenty four hours the small corps of government engravers had enough work piled up to last six months more. The country was scoured for expert engravers and capable men could demand their own rates of compensation from the department. The force was worked night and day, but the progress was necessarily slow. In the meantime the various banks were sadly hampered and embarrassed by lack of money.

It is reported here that one institution failed simply because it could not get hold of the notes due it from the department. It was a remarkable state of affairs, for which no one was directly responsible. Plates have been furnished recently at the rate of fifteen a day, and It is announced that inside of two months the bureau will be up with its current work. A. B.

A. TRIED TO MOB ALEXANDER. Followers of Maguire in Brownsville Almost Break TJp a Political Gathering' Maguire's Sleeting. Brownsville was the scene of a riot last evening which at one stage looked almost serious. The cause of it was a political meeting held by the Happ faction of the Democratic Ward Association in Metropolitan Hall, 'Pitkin avenue and Watkins street.

The district is overwhelmingly in favor of Ma guiro, Happ's rival, and David Goldberg, a stanch follower of Magulre, leading a hundred men, several times interrupted Lawyer George Alexander, the speaker assigned there for the evening. But for the intervention of the pa lice Mr. Alexander would have been mobbed by the crowd. The meeting was called to order by Jacob Coam. The first speaker of the evening was Thomas O'Neil, who made an address cautioning the Happ followers to be watchful of the Maguire people on primary day.

Noyes F. Palmer was the next speaker, and then Mr. Alexander was introduced. He began an impassioned speech, in which he spoke of Mr. Maguire in anything but complimentary terms.

He was about half through when Goldberg entered with his followers. "What right have you got to call yourself a Democrat?" shouted Goldberg. Alexander made some remark which aroused Goldberg's ire, and the latter challenged the speaker to a joint debate. Alexander's answer was sarcastic, and he continued with his address. Goldberg and his followers uttered a series of cat calls and hurled questions at Alexander that forced him to stop again.

He asked them to be quiet, but that made them more noisy. He made another sarcastic remark, and Goldberg's followers rushed toward the platform. The meeting was thrown into an uproar. The Happ followers crowded around the platform and formed a wedge to protect Alexander from the Goldberg contingent. The latter made several assaults upon this wedge and had nearly succeeded in forcing their way through when the reserves of the Eastern parkway station arrived.

Goldberg and his followers were hustled out of the hall and Alexander, In a very nervous frame of mind, finished his speech. This scene somewhat spoiled the meeting, and there were scarcely two dozen people present when the meeting adjourned. Five hundred Democrats crowded in Bler mel's Hall, Central avenue and Cooper street, last evening. The occasion was a meeting ot the eight districts of the Twenty eighth Ward, which form a part of the Twenty first Assembly District. It was a meeting of the regular organization, which is being opposed by Louis L.

Happ. The principal speaker of the evening was the leader of the district, John Maguire. He said that it was impossible for him to comprehend on what grounds Happ could lay a claim to the leadership. He declared that Happ deserted Bryan In 1896 and openly favored the election of McKlnley. He aided in the defeat of the Democratic candidates for alderman and assemblyman last year, Mr.

Maguire declared, and was unfit to call himself a Democrat. Mr. Maguire said that he was confident that the regular organization would carry the district, and appealed to all those present who believed In Democratic unity and principles to do their duty at the polls next Tuesday. Otlrer speakers were James P. Sln nott and Varnum S.

Henderson. RATIFIED THE NOMINATIONS. A meeting of the Twentieth Assembly District Republican workers was hold last night at Och's Hall, Evergreen avenue and Cornelia street. The nominations ot McKlnley and Roosevelt were enthusiastically ratified and former Justice William Schnltz pan was indorsed for Senator. Secretary Sar torus made the speech naming Justice Schnltzpan.

and seconding speeches were made by David Towlc and Dr. Pendry. Other speeches pledged the heartiest support of tho district to all the candidates and the efforts of the organization to secure their election. The next meeting will be held at the same place on Thursday evening next. SWEDISH DEMOCRATIC CLUB.

Last night, at 443 Atlantic avenue, the Swedish Democratic Club of Kings County was organized. It Is the Intention to establish others from the central club, which chose these officers: President, C. A. Leaf; vice president, William Wcndel; secretary, Charles Nlcckels; treasurer, Otto Newman; executive committee, John Polen, Otto Jaeger and P. D.

Brattstrom. The club will meet every Friday night at St. Louis Hall,.