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THE BROOKLYN DAHLY EAGLE SUNDAY, JULY 17, 1887. 6 who was at the time a patrolman in tho Eighth patronage and upon the policy of the Administra A CELEBEATED BUEGLAR. WALKS ABOUT THE CITY. stumped Brooklyn In many exciting campaigns for the straight Democratic tioket and Is a great favorite with "the boys" as well as tho chief. Ho was born In the City of New York, but oamo to Brooklyn QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

CorretpondenU $7uuld not feel disappoints Khm tkoir gxcs(ton ore not antwerei thi information tolioitei frequently require eorm'dVa rsstarch, for which amplt lime thould be allausti. The name and addrete of the icriter should accompany larging the race of his saw mill. Thoro Is, howovor, record of an earllor discovery, that of Sir Frauds Drake. "Hakluyt's Voyages," published la London In 1503 to 1599, contains tho report of Sir FranciB Drake's trip to California in 1577, in one paragraph of which ho says: "You cannot move the earth In this country without sooing 'shows' of gold and sllvor." lu "Andomon's Uiatory of Commerce," published in London 1760, and roprlntod il Dublin In 1790, reforonco Is mado to this fact In 1 controversy that was carried on in London about WOO to 1020, in which tlio advocates for tho prosecution of tho Northwost Pasaago urged as a reason that it was woll known that gold and ullvor exlatod in immense quantities In California or New Albion and New Mexico, and that It wo mako tho dlssoverj of tho passapfo we can fortify and hold It against Spain and bocomo thereby master of all those treasures. tion in keeDlne naval officers out of politics.

It says: "The foremen of departments alone shall pas upon the oualifloation of workmen." When a department needs eight men the foreman is ordered to put to work four men from Ne York and four from Brooklyn, unless there is special reason for including somoono from Now Jersey, or olsowhere. If a New York man is found to bo incompetent it is Intended that a New York man shall tako his place. But tho foremen aro often Influenced by Mr. Furey or McCartney, and so it happens once in awhile that one of the cltieB gets more than Its sharo of patronage. Mr.

Furey is an efflclont representa tive of this city's needs, and It is through his strict attention to business that Brooklyn contributes so many men to ail important work dono horo, Thebe is one patronage magnate who fre quents tho Navy Yard and It Is not Mr. Furey, In this Instance who Is delighted when a discharge takes plate, especially if his organization Buffors by it. Ho lately said to an offioer "Discharge all you please. Throw out all my men; that is what I like. The moro discharges you make tho more promises we can fulfill.

We can reward ao many more workers." That man had solved tho election paradox of putting fifty men in ten plncos. No less than a hundred Chinamen attend tbe various Sunday schools of Brooklyn. It Is only In recent yoars that the spiritual teaching of the Mon gollan has amounted to much. It was formerly tho habit to visit them In their laundries and while tho guileless John was placing a superior polish on a customer's shirt ho would permit tho visitor to read iho Bible or in other ways show how wicked was his life. I saw four Chinamen on Fulton street last Sunday.

They wero bound to a Sunday school on Lafavotto avenue and chattored like magpies. A Brooklynlte who for years has taken no little intor ost in tho temporal and spiritual education of the Chinese said to mo: "Up to a certain point it Is possible to teach Chinamen but ni further. Thoy aro apt to loarn, and, taken as a class, are much more intelligent than ignorant colored poo plo. I formerly had Chluamon in my class In church who could read and write quite fairly, al though they had studiod but six months. Yes, Uhinaman is vory apt to fall In love with a lady teacher, and somotlmos this passion results In dis aster, both to tho woood and wooer.

As some men turn to liquor for soinco whon in troublo Chlnamon look to opium and fan tan for consolation. Like Indians, I don't think that Mongolians will ovor be. come wholly Americanized." The honest citizen will find coolness and pleasure Uiis month in sitting iu tbe depths of ills cellar watching tho conduct of his gas motor. The Grlswold gas law wont into effect July 1, and tho gas iiill of August 1 will bo an interesting contemplation. The Brooklyn iiackmen aro far less fero clous thi.u their brethren in other citloi.

Thoy may bo no loss rapacious whon ouco tho victim is secured, but no olfort of thoiro to capture him is in the least ostentatious. They slmnly stand around until wititod. Ovor In New York the ferry and steamer liiudlues aro surrounded with howling mobs of drivers, and at the entrance to tho Oraud Central Depot ihey form an exceedingly unploasant gauntlet that can only be oscaped by way of tho elovated. In Saratoga I saw a brushing out a wide ro i line on tho station platform about fourteen Indies from tho edge. Uo told mo that the mark designed as a placo for the stopping of liackmon'a toes.

To stopover it is st jp Into Jail. If not restricted tholr rivalry would load to kidnapping travelors. One Bkooklynite has won success EI bridgo Streotor Brooks, recently aasociato editor of i(. Xirholas, is now tho lord of comformblo manor In Somervlllo, Mnss. A few week? ago he bade an affectionato farewell to his associates In the Century onice, who made him a present of an otching bofcro ho loft, and posted to Boston whom partnership was waiting for him In tlio publishing houso of 11.

Lothrop Co. Tho Thirty Club of Brooklyn, of which ho was organizer and ruling spirit, gave him another etching; still anothor camo from his nowspapor friends; Dr. Canfleld's Sunday school, that ho had taught and superintended for several years his father was a clorgyman mndo an important addition to his library, and from all sides camo congratulations on hie new fortune and rogrots at his doparture from old associates. Mr, Brooks' rise has boon rapid. 1 suppose ho makes no secret of the fact that ho was "hard up" uo longer ago than five or six years, but ho obtained a footing on tho magazines, his plays and storios for children took from the start, his advance on a local newspapor, whoso service ho entered as a pot boiling expodi ont, was swifter than that of anybody who served on its staff before, and promotion nftor his ongago mont by tho Century Company was likewise satis factory.

A handsome houso that he built ou Bush wick avenue, he occupiod for only a fow months before a larger flold for action was oponed to him, and he left it with reluctanco, but tho houso ho lives in now Is roomlor aud is a substantial man sion with amplo fireplaces pardon this Summer mention of thorn and with onlire rooms lined with bookcaBos. For the first time In his lifo he Iuib space enough for his books and ho Is using a good many now in preparing a history of tho Indians. Ho will contlnuo his studies in history dressed iu the form of fiction, for children, following In the tracit of his "Chlvalric Days'" and "Historic Boys," and soek ing as in those narrations to reproduce tho form and pressure of the times ho treats of, ratbor than to burdou tho young reader with dates aud statistics. Tlio honorary degree of Master of Arts has Just boon conferred on Mr. Brooks by Tufts College, Massa chusetts.

"I want to tell you a little story," said Park Commissioner Lyons on Friday. In the Spring of 1881 1 made a trip around tho world. At Hong Kong I took a stoamor, which stopped ot Saygon. The war botween tho French and Chinese was In progress and thoro was a groat hulabaloo ovor a victory that had Just boon won. While wo wore stopping there two Froucli priests came aboard.

Tboy wore going home. One of them had boen in tho intorior, where for fourtoen yoars ho had been teaching tho natives. Ho wore wooden shoos, his hair in tho Chinese atylo and had bocomo tbor ughly Celostialized. He was a vory clever lit tle fellow, and we formed quite an acquaintance. Ho used to read my books aud paper, aud one day Just boforo wo reached Liverpool I noticed that no possossod a number of books of hisown and ono pa por.

well, 1 iooKed over tho boots and finally toot up the papor. What do you think It was 1 It was copy of the Kagi.k. If I had unexpectedly been placed In possession of a volume of letters from my friends at homo It couldn't have pleased mo bottor. 1 road of tho death of a next door neighbor, a broth er of Qoorgo Copeland, of Qeaoral Jourdnn's res ignation and tho news political and otherwise. It was liko a breath from Brooklyn." How many Brooklynites appreciate tho dally work that Is bolug performed by the Society for the Provontion of Cruelty to Animals? Since tho appointment of Officer Glover as superintendent the Bocloty has largely increased Its field of usefulness.

I dropped In at tho headquarters, on Fulton streot, opposite Boorura placo, yestorday, and there saw Mr. Glover, who said: "Just now wo aro kept busy shootlug horses which, owing to tho heat or other causos, havo fallen In the streot Many of these are old and usoloss and It Is a kind act to put them out of their misory. Tho Brooklyn City, and in fact all local railroad oompanles, tako tbo best care of their horses. During tills kind of weather it is necessary to change tonms quite ofton and to water and at intervals to feed them. This is dono thoroughly, I can toll you.

Last Winter I had a Httlo trouble with a cortaln company owing to tho latter's determination to salt Its tracks. The mattor was settled amicably enough, howevor, boforo the last of tbo enow. No; I am of the opinion that oook and dog flghtora Havo of lato given Brooklyn a wldo bortb. On tbo wall yonder aro many ovidoncea of our manuor of dealing with that class of pooplo." One day last week I stumbled across a roller skating fiend. This individual's nnino is George W.

Anderson, and ho has recently signified his intention of making Brooklyn his home. Champ Ion Anderson, for be has earned this title by hard work, Is at present employed In a billiard room not far from the bridge. During my half hour's conversation with him, this was In part what ho said: Rollor skating is playod out In this part of tho country. Tho craze is still raging in Montreal, Molbourne and some Wostern Statos. Yes, skating is doad in Brooklyn and for tbe reason that it was overdone here.

I have beaten all tho so called champions and hold fifty six gold medals for superior skill and onduronce. I have managed tho Palace Rink in Clermont avonue and tho Brooklyn Rink in Bedford avenue, and havo, In fact, boon connected at different timoa with all tho prominent rinks throughout the oountry. At the hoight of the craze there wus money' In the business, but now" and without finishing the sentence my roller skatlug friend made a vicious lunge at a billiard ball, sending It flying across the room In tbo direction of the bartender. Rambler. Precinct, Now York, arrested Draper soveral times, and once was compelled to beat him over the head severely.

On this account Draper preferred charges against bim to the Police Commissioners, but the charges were not pressed. Although he had not seen him for nearly ten yoars Powers at once recognized Draper. The black whlsKored man was never Identified. He refused to give his name, and was put down as "John Doo." He would not make any statement whatever, and would glvo no Information that would tend to establish his identity. Hp would rather bo shot, be said, than to have his relatives learn that ho had been arrested.

Ho earnestly protested that he was Innocent and in Justice Somler's Court reluctantly said his name was John Wilbur. Mr. Plnkerton thought be was James Mills, of Chicago. The evidence that tho prisoners were Implicated In tbo Graham avonue robbery was ample to convict them and the police wore able to prove that thoy wore engaged in soveral other robberies that had previously occurred in Brooklyn. Among others was the robbery of silks, valued at $4,000 and $1,500 in money from Batterman's store, at Broadway and Ewen street, In the previous Juno.

A portion of tho silk found in the Patchen avenue houso, was subsequently Identified by Mr. Batterman. Some Jewelry found in the house was thought to have been stolen from Gunther's store on Fulton street, two years previously, but could not be positively identified. The robborles of Lewis' and Porter Thorburn's dry goods store wore also supposed to have boon the work of this gang. Among the property found In the burglar's house was a heavy combination lock.

Whore It was procured could not be discovered; but it was thought the men obtained It by some moans, fair or foul, in order to study tho construction of such locks and to discover, if possible, their weak points. Whore tho hoavy bolts which hold tho locks together passed through the blaok paint had boon scratched so as to reveal the brass underneath. Tho late Inspector Waddy said that the mon regretted very much that this lock had fallen Into the bands of the police. It lay upon his table as the prlsonors passed out on thoir way to the Jail and Porter turned and looked long and fondly at tho lock, with which be had ovidontly bad a close acquaintance. Tho arrest and breaking up of this gang ot burglars was ono of tho most important, If not tho most Important, that has occurred In tho history of the Brooklyn polico.

Both Cap tain Dunn and Captain Murphy wo tholr gold shields by their good work in this case aud sovoral patrolmou received promotion through their connection with it. I visited the house where the thieves wero captured while It was iu charge of the polico nud found it respondent wilh pior glasses, rich brie a brae and costly upholstory. Mrs. Porter, despito hor connections, was a woman of roflnoment and good breeding, if a well kept houso, oxtousivo library and musical Instruments are any Indication upon which to base an opinion. Summer outhousos wore built upon portions of tho grounds aud many flowering plants and trees wore in full bloom.

Out of ten rooms In tho building only one was unfurnished. The other two mon captured with Porter and Irving were not permitted to sleep in tbe house, and woro found asleop at the time of the arrest in one of tbo outhouses. Even to the kitchon Brussels carpets covored tho floors, and the parlor furniture was manufactured of rosowooi and black walnut. The seats ot tho chairs and sofas wero of red velvet and bluo satin. Massive mahogany pianos stood in each parlor, and a large hall iu tho center of the house led Into a great din lug room completely filled with walnut furniture.

The first man to enter the house when the descent waj made was Ofilcor William Mills. Ho found Porter, Irvlug and the female mombers of the fam ily seated around tho dining room table. Porter mude an altompt to escape. With one bound he left tho dluing room and ran upstairs. Gaining tho front room on tho second floor, he quickly opened one of the windows, but boforo he could climb out, the officer caught hold of his collar and wilh the as sistance of othor officers who had Juat arrivod, succeeded in pulling bim back into tbo room.

It required the united strength of four policemen to prevent bim oscapinj. The individual pedigrees of this gang will serve to show how Important to tho residents of this city, it was that their residence horo was brought to so sudden a close. Possibly Irving wa3 tho most conspicuous mem ber of tho household. Ho was a large, handsome man about 35 years of age, and was always dressed in becoming and well made garments. Ho was born iu New York, of Irish parents.

Tbe man's desperato character was well illustrated, in tho chances he took rjOToral years ago, of being hung for the mysterious Nathan murder, in Boud street, New York. He was in San Francisco, shortly aftor tho Jewish mlllloualrs waa murdered, and wishing to return to New York and being without funds, ho confessed" that ho was tho murderer iu order to obtain freo transportation to New York. Uo was released upon his arrival hero for lack of evidence to connect him with the crime, but ho took chances In claiming to bo the murderer, at the tlmo the crime was fresh In the minds of the pooplo and tho whole country was shocked with tho mysterious killing that many oldor criminal! would have shrunk from. Before leaving Now York for California Irving and four companions broko Into a large coffoo establishment on Furman street, in this city. Detoetive Edward McCarthy, a vory largo and powerful man and two officers ware detailed to capture Irving.

To enable his companions to es capo Irving took hold of tho deteetivo. The other mon started to leavo tho placo, but finding several ofllcors at tbe back door, returned aud opened fire on tbe offlcor. McCarthy took Irving up in his arms and used him as a protoctlon against tho thiovos' bullets. In this encounter Irving received six piatol balls In his body. Ho was In tbo City Hospital in a critical condition for several months afterward.

Aftor his rocovory ho dug his way out of Kaymoud streot Jail and oscaped. Yoars aftor ward, at the tlmo of the Patchen avonuo arrest, he also escapod from the same placo of confinement and took Porter with him. Porter, Irving's companion and friend, had boon his associate In crimo for many years. He was an Amorican and was born in this city, of Irish parents. While living ou Patchon avenue ho doclinod to notlco his poor relatives aud former associates.

He was a bolter looking man than Irving, although not as stoutly built. Ho had brown hair and mustache and vory sharp leaturos. His character was ably illustrated by ono of the ofllcors who arrested him In 78: "What ho wills to do, ho will daro," aald that offlciaL Irving was shor and killed la a Sixth avo nuo barroom quarrel a few years ago, and Porter is serving a sentence iu a Massachusetts prison. Of the othor two mou captured on tbo Patchen avonue grouuds, Drapor is in business of a sporting nature in New York City, and the man supposed to hnve beon John Mills, of Chicago, dlod rocontly In a Connecticut Jail. In March, 1870, tho iYijio l'orl; Sun publlshod a lengthy article, whioh endeavored to connoct tho murdor of Qoorgo Howard, tho bank burglar, whoso body was found In Do Mott's woods, tbreo miles from Yonkers, with Porter, Irving and Draper.

In September, 1878, Howard took tho house 861 Greene avenue aud assumed the name of Georgo Herbert. Ho was a first class bank burglar. His koen perception, matchless audacity, skillful mecbanical power, suave mannor aud intellectual ability marked bim a virtual chief, but ho mado no attempt to assert his claims. He was comparatively free from tho vices of burglars. An occasional gambler, ho frequented the Acadomy of Mublo more than faro banks.

His tastes were tosthotic He loved good music and was famlliur with solonco and literature. A favorlto with womon, there was nothing vulgar in his manner or conversation. He studiod the construction of locks and invented tools of groat value to burglars. Boforo taking tbe house in Green avonue. Howard took his wifo to tho Clinton House.

Thoy wore there for two weeks and made tho acquaintance of Sara Dorero and his altraetlvo wifo, who woro at tho timo mombors of the Park Thoator company. Bollovlng Howard a dotective, which he represented himaolf, and entirely unsuspicious ot his real cbaractor, tho comedian and his wife went to housokeeplug with him for awhile at 478 Fulton streot Devere occupied the second floor and Howard tho third. Tho apartments wore luxuriously furulshod aud tho Howards lived liko porsons of ample moans. Howard's nimo appoars lu Laln's Brooklyn Dl reotory for 1875 as George L. Howard, detective, 478 Fulton street.

Howard's wifo was a Phllodolphia girl, who knew nothing of her husband's real character uutll aftor tholr arrival In Brooklyn. While Howard lived at 478 Fulton street Mrs, Draper, the wifo of ono of tho Patcheu avonuo gang, was a frequent visitor to his house. She hud a fair complexion and a neat figure. Hor hair was light brown aud oyo3 light blue, large and expressive It Howard was enamored of hor ho lulled his wife's suspicions by decrying her beauty. Howard's ploaslng manners, howevor, mado an Impression upon Mrs.

Drapor and they became vory friendly, Porter also was at ono tlmo veryjonlousof Howard's attentions to Mrs. Portor, who, however, had tho reputation of bolng as true as steel to her husband. Whether Jealousy prompted Howard's murder or he was killod over tho distribution of spoila or what was the oauso of his bolng put out of tho way has never boon discovered. Ills murderers wero never unearthed and bis death will probably be included in tho mysteries of the age. W.

W. ft before he was able to talk, and so Is a good enough Brooklyn man as natives of this rapidly growing city go. He has been deputy superintendent and afterward superintendent of the Almshouse aunng a period of thirteen years. Since that time he has been a clerk in the County Treasurer's offlco anl was one of the accountants who wonted up the case against Stuart Mr. Burroughs began his career as a printer, working both at the case and the press.

Ho was a member of the Volunteer Fire Department from 1860 to 1869. Calm philosophy characterizes the con templatlon of the Democrats who aaslstod in the elimination of Secretary Tailmadee, of tho Board of Education, on Tuesday last. Ono of tho eminent ono3 said yesterday: "The cry that wo are injecting politics In the Board Is hardly true. To my mind we are taking it out Mr. Brown, the new secre tary, is in no sense the scheming politician Mr.

Tallmadge was. Ho will not be planing coups or giving up tho lists of teachers for caudidatos to mail appealing circulars to, nor will bis mind yearn for intrigue and universal control. Tallmadge Is a fine, diminutive Machlavolll. His re moval takes away a politician and puts in an un assuming, steady business man. Dn.

Harbison, of St. Johnlaud, telU me that the vagaries of the insane keep pace invaria bly with tho progress of sclentlfla advancement. The telephone had boon In popular uso but a Uttle time when madmen were brought to tho asylum who believed It to be the root of all their wobs. One man is forover called to answor the spiteful Jangle of Its tiny bell; others aro bound or pon etrated by its wires, and one poor wretch has sen tenced himself to sleeplessness because of a wild belief that the doctors have attached a wire to tho tympanums of his oars and so hoar his thoughts after dark. The electric light has had an oqually queer effect.

Thoro Is now a man at Flatbnsh who worried himself thoro with tho thought that all the oyes In the world nro to bo put out by its dazzling glare. The police caught him climbing up a Broadway lamp pole full of a desire to put it out, so that eyes might bo secure. Tho doctor Know but one instance in his life in tho mad world whore lunatics sharod each other's hallucinations. Thero wore tlireo men in Flatbush who formed a company that schemed to comer all tho ships in tho univors: and monopolize tho ocean carrying trade. Their plans wero workod out with grea'.

minuteness. This was a rare case. It Is tho inability of tho insauo to act in concert that lessons tho peril of their cases Ose by one Bbooklin's shanty towns nro passing away. Kespoetablo houses of brick and brown stone have driven them off the field and no occupy tholr places. The hills of Brooklyn are ho boing razed, tho hollows filled, the waate places built up and subdued to tho uses of a progressive community, and r.uo shanty dweller has lied before tho faco of this change as tho Indian has fled boforo civilization.

Alas for Jackson's Hollow Its glory belongs to tho past; its laud marks aro obliterated Duffy's cowoatch is no more; Mullioarn's duck pond has boon filled up and the choicest monuments of local archi tectural skill have boon swopt away by ruth less hands. Darby's Patch, which once formed tliochiof attraction of South Brooklyn, is as if it had no for boon. All sign of It has boon obliterated. Slab City sllil holds Its own in tho Twelfth Ward and wlil for five or six years yet till timoisfouuJ to alter the topography of tho locality. In Iho Eas; orn District tlio Green," and "Daugortown aro still in Ihoir prisilno vigor.

Lifo in tlio old Shanty town was a gay affair. Thoro was no rout to uo paid and tho city supplied almost all tho simple wauls of the Inhabitants. Dumping grounds for tho city's ash barrels wero always sloseat bund and a llttlo buirowiug in them was sufiiciont to sot up a newly married couple wilh all tho necessaries tor their board and sheet iron homo. Kitchon elothas, hatr, boots and fuel all camo from tho dump, which also afforded pasturage In tho shape of newspape 4 and rags for tho goats. Tho shanty dwellers woritod when t'ley felt liko it aud wore botlor than an oigUt hour law unto thomsolvos.

The government was a monarchy limited only by tho fistic prowess of tha king. Whatever may be said of the condition of tho higher forma of art, there can bo no doubt of tho lmprcvomont and cheapening of the more common varlolies. One cannot walk about the city without, constantly noticing this fact. Tho bllhi by whicii tho drama enrrios on ltd educational work, on dead walls, In barroom windows, tho illuminated advertisements oi various brands oi elgarottos and tobacco in tho cigar shops all of tboso show a finish and an accuracy unknown in such clrcum stancos a few years ago. It is worthy of re mark, also, that pictures of this sort aro much less objectionable than they woro not long since on tho score of Indcllcacv.

Any one who ramblos after soda water, vichy, acid phosphate or moro drastic romedlal agents, will soo many surprisingly good examples of this sort ot wotk. A well appointor drug store that has not a soul abovo proprietary medicines is a sort of plcturo gallery. Now, while theso productions belong to the chromo class, it is impossible to doubt thai in a measuro thoy stimulate and cultivate tho taste. Men, women and children who have no paintings or engravings at homo and never go to tho exhibitions cannot help getting some notion of form and color from thoso specimons of pictorial advertising. I never soo a youngster gazing at a shop window and often an older person for that matter without thinking that a certain process of art education is going on.

The neatness and accuracy of many of those dOBlgus are in refreshing contrast wllh tho shocking nowspapor cut which has como to bo tho fashion nowadays. For tho most part those villain ous illustrations are utterly misleading that is, they do not lllustrato at all. Wo might forgive their lack of voracity In some cases If thero wero any thing of beaut or gracof. fancy about them. But the opposite is the truth.

Thy are not only caricatures, but monstrous, hldeons caricatures. Anybody in whom therj is the faintest stirring of taste feels affronted when one of thoso things Is thrust boforo him. Thoro Is no doubt the pictorial newspapers are largely undoing the good work done by the shop windows. By the way, while Hartlngton has incurred a great deal of criticism, will anybody say that ho doserves to bo so abomina bly treated as he was by the third column of tho socond page of tho liroojfcijni Timet last Tuosday 7 Midway between these two schools of art 1b tho docoratlon of vans, trucks and wagons. It Is not bad as the pictorial newspapors and not so good as tho tobacco shops and saloon windows and drug stores.

If the furniture mover Is wise he will content himself with following in tho realistic foot stops ot Mr. W. D. llowolls and glvo us objocts of everyday life instead of surrendering himself to more ambitious strivings. A representation of the Father of bis Country at Mount Vernon, or even a reproduction of tho Hamilton Club's Lady Washington's Reception, If that should be triod next, 1b leas Judicious than a study ot yachts or steamboats.

Only lot the furniture mover not imagine that ho can deceive the small boy who knows anything about the East River by putting, for instance, tho name of tho Pilgrim on a bad drawing of the Bristol. Much that is written about tho Navy Yard patronage is all bosh. It it is bellovod that Secretary Whitney can spare tho time to tako personal interest in each of the several thousand employes in his department of the government credulity is abnormally dovolopod. Neither has any honest officer la tho Brooklyn yard any time to peer into tho political qualifications of his ordinary laborers. Boslde, mom of tho officers are Republicans in politics, who hold thoir offlcos not through political proferment but by right of promotion and naval rank.

In the first place, there are no written or printed orders from headquarters at Washington on the subject of patronage. It would seem superfluous to stato that If many had not obtained an erroneous idea to the contrary. But a special oral order promulgated by a Secrotary many years ago is still operative at the Brooklyn yard, and this declares that "tho number of men employed from Now York City and Brooklyn shall bo oqual," For in lnstance there aro 198 men employod In tho Construction and Repairs Department here. Blxty slx are from New York, the same number are Brook lynltes and the other one third is composed of men from Now Jersey, New York Stato, Long iBland and Connecticut But many of tho best workmen are old residents of Brooklyn and tbo late transfer of equipment manufacturing to Boston rondoring a big discharge of useless men noceBsnry here left the department with twenty threo men, eixteon of whom are Brookiynltos. However, as soon as tbo force Is Increased in this department, nine New Yorkers will bo appointed before any Brooklyn men aro taken.

But there is one written order signed by the present Secretary which boars directly upon His Attractive Homo on Patchen Avenue. Recollections of a Remarkable Brooklyn Police Case Mr. Lake and His Family Who They Keally Were A Piece of Deteotiye Work, The Tell tale Sledge Hammer. At the corner of Patchen avenue and Jeffer. son street a gold plate with tho number 152 in in laid silver used to mark tho placo stands on an eminence a two story frame cottage, literally sur roundod with grass grown lawns.

It Is situated on the line dividing tho Eastern and WoBtern districts of tho city, and as a suburban home in point of location can scarcely be oqualed. Yoars ago the site was purchased and the house erected as Summer residence by a retired merchant named Wade. In the center of a square block of ground SOO foot in dimensions the residence was originally doeply burled in bauks of shrubbery and flowers. and after Its completion It was commonly rumored that the owner bad refused an offer of $100,000 for his picturesque home. In 1877 tbe owner of the property, previous to a European trip, placed the houso and grounds in the hands of a land agent for rental, and it was not long In finding a tenant In tho family of George Lake, a Wall street broker.

On August 12, 1878, tbe house was raided by Acting Captain Dunn, of tbe Ninth sub I'reclnct, on Gates avenue, and Mr. Lako and his family, consisting of Mrs. Lake and her sister aud two gentlemen visitors, were lodged in the cells ot the Gates avenue Station House. Police vigilance had uneartbod gang of thieves, tho members of which with daring effrontery, had selected ono of the most desirable residences in the city for their nefarious calling. The publicity given the arrest made "Thieves' elegant home," as it was termod at tbe time, a marked spot, and so detracted from its value that until last May, for nearly ten years, with the exception of one or two temporary tenants, the building has boon unoccupied.

By a singular coincidence its tonaut has recently become a Catholic clergyman, whoso holy calling may servo to oleanso tho houso and grounds of the impurities and sins of its former occupant and placo it again on tho catalogue of Brooklyn's deslrablo home. 1 vividly recall the excitement and surprise at tending the arrest aud subsequent exposure of tho Patchen avonuo gang by tlio polico in August, 1S78, and Willi Captain Dunn and his officers visited the house and grouuilB tho day following tho raid. As I remarked, the houso was leased by Georgo Lake, a handaomo, portly man, doing business on Wall street, Now Yori, whoso intention was to use it for a Summer homo for his family. It was vory desirable. in view of being within coming and going distance of of his office.

Tho sum nomod for rental noarly $100 a mouth was no object, his ono desire being to place him iu daily communication with bis family during tho Summer, which would not be practicable at a longer distance from tho Motropolls. Ills wife, who accom pniilod hor husband when tbe arrangements wero mndo for tho leano ot tho property, was a strikingly prepossessing brunette of rofluod man nors, dressed becomingly in mourning garments of rich material. She easily duplicated tho good impression upon the mind of the agent mado by hor husband, and soon after tbo members of the now family were Installed in tbolr palatial residence. The building was refurnished with now household goods from top to bottom, and the lawns surround ing tho houso wero moasurod off into croquet grounds, and comfortable hammocks, suspondod on the front and roar porticos, gave the houso an appoaranco of easo and comfort which attracted tho atontion of passersby. On ploasant afternoons and evenings Mr.

and Mrs. Lake aud Mrs. Lako's sister, with the lattor's intended husband so tho neighbors woro luformod could be seen wltn croquet mallets on tho lawn aud their oxhuboranca of spirits and evident pleasure In each other's so ciety made thom lookod upon ss Indeed a happy family by their neighbors. Although thoy mado fow or no acquaintances among tho residents thereabout Mrs. Lako and her sister frequently pluckod ilowers from tho shrubbory around the houso and presented thom to pnsslng children, with whom the fomale portion of the family soon bo camo decided favorites.

They wero looked upon as model neighbors. Lavish in their expenditures and prompt in payment of all bills the Lako family easily found favor lu tho eyes of tbo storekeepers, and when the expose of the family relations aud connections followed tho husband's and reputed intended husband's arrest tho report was scarcely credited by the rosidonts of that portion of thocity, Evory precaution agalust a mistake had boen taken by Captalu Dunn's mon, however, and the facts could not be gainsaid. "Goorgo Lako" was the notorious bank burglar Billy Porter, a pal of Jimmle Hopo and without exception one of tho moat export safe breakers In the world. Tho slstor's intended husband was the no loss notorious "Johnnie" rving, a lifelong friend aud partner in crime ot Porior. Mrs.

Lako" was Porter's legal wifoaml the other woman was roally hor slstor in law and hor husband's natural Blstor. The women wore no accomplices in Portor'a aud Irving's crimes, al though thoy woro cognizant ot tholr evil doings and assisted materially In guttlug rid of the thloves' 111 gotteii gains. Tho arrest was remarkaoly woll manngod and roliocted much.crodlt upon the Brooklyn Polico Department. The Lako family's qulot and roiinod manners and mode of lifo had gained for its members the good will aud ostoem of thoir neighbors and a mistake in the identity of the people might havo caused a suit for heavy damages against the city. Suspicion was first aroused in tho minds of tho polico by the sight of Mr.

Lako purchasing a sledge hammer ono Saturday noon, ou Broadway, in tho Enstorn District. Detoctivo Murphy tho presont captain of tho Eighth Precinct followed the man after ho had mado the purohaso and saw him enter tho Lako homestead. Tho officer could not imnglno what a woll drossod man could want with such a tool and, furthermore, it soomod singular to tho Igllant office; that the wealthy Mr. Lake, whom ho subsequently recognized, did not dispatch a servant pon such a laborious mission iu tlio heat of tho. day.

This fact impressed the deteetivo os a vory siugular circumstance, but, in viow of the good character of tho Lake family it was not at the time givou more than a passing notice. A day or two later, howovor, Captain Dunn, who had never previously chauced to havo mot or soon any of tho male mombors of tho Lako family on alighting from a Hold avonuo car, at Jofforsou streot, saw Porter and Irvlug go into the Lake residence. He recognized tho bank burglars Immediately from tholr photographs at and at tho station houso directed his detective to wnteh the houBO. Directly in front of 152, and occupying the same position on tho opposite cornor of Patchon and Jofforson avouuos, Is St Stephen's Episcopal Church. Sltuatod on a bluff of ground removed soveral hundred foot from tho streot, It commands a full view of the opposito houso.

Concealed within thiB structure for Bovoral nights, at hour3 when all respoctablo poople had retired, Deteetivo Murphy saw soveral auspicious looking mou enter the building aftor midnight and the lights were kept burning in the house uutll the small hours of the morning. A robbery had recently taken place In Ibort's food and grain store on Graham avenue, within a short distance ot this neighborhood, and from tho nature of tho thoft the police concluded it was the work of experienced safe burglars. This fact, connooted with Porter and Irving'a history, was, in the minds of the polico, strong orldenco against tbe occupants of 152, It was finally determined to make a descent upon the house, and tho result was tbe capture of Billy Porter, Johnnie Irving and two other men, with over $600 In monoy, tho drawor of a sate, some torn checks, as woll as somo valuable ploces of silk. Jewelry, fco. The money, tho safe drawer and tbe chocks were Identified as having boon taken from tho store of Martin Iberts Son.

Tho four men woro locked up and tbo women found in tho bouse, Portor's wife and Bister and a servant girl, ware placed under polico Burvelllance. At Police Headquarters, boforo Acting 8uporlntondont Waddy, tho four mon wero visited by llobsrt Plnkorton and two New York detectives, who confirmed the previous ldentlllcailon of Porter and Irving, but tho other two burglars were not at first recognized. Thoy prosontod a striking contrast to Porter and Irving, who wero neatly drossod and had tho appearance and bearing ot gontlemen. Their companions, however, wore rough in appearance and clothing. One was tall, with black hair and whiskers, while the other's hair and beard were red.

At length Mr. Plnkerton partially rooognlzod tbe man with red hair, who had given the name of John Wilson, a3 Tom alias "Shang" Draper, at ono time king of the Now York panel thloves, also ono of tho Northampton Bank burglars, and for whom he hold a requisition from tho Govornor of Massachusetts. Whon Dotective Michael Powers saw this man he positively Identified him as the of panel thloves who yoars ago carried on extensive operations In tho Eighth Ward la Now York. Powers, 'Observations Gathered from All Sections of Brooklyn. BUeLanghlln the First and Last of His Line.

Paggett as Deacon White's Lieutenant. What is the Batter With the Sheriff? Why the Chromo is Not to be Despised Taking Politics Oat of Red Hook Lane. It is beoowho THB political fashion to ask Who will succeed ex Register McLaughlin. Nobody misunderstands the question. It does not mean that the Democratic loader has the least idea of an abdication, Or that the reins of power are likely to be taken from his hands by soma successful bidder for cpntroL The inquiry takes for granted first that Mr.

McLaughlin will pilot the party until he himself Is piloted Into another world, and secondly that, when he goes, conditions which now exist will bo substantially duplicated except to the extent that a scepter has fallen into other hands. This Is the customary phraseology: Who will succeed Mo Laughlln?" It is, as a sentence short, simple and direct, but oven a novice in loglo need not ba told what assumes. The unexpressed conclusion is that there will be another Democratic master of the situation. It Is not easy to quarrel with the notion that Hugh McLaughlin will keep tho tiller until he steers toward a harbor where the tariff on primaries Is absolutely prohibitive, and where caucusses, If thoy are held at all, are strictly ex ecutive so far as this world is concerned. He has survived fiercer storms than seam likely to arise again, and Instead of being a shattered wreck when the hurricane subsided has seemed to be more seaworthy than before.

Just when his foes have ox pectod to see him go down ho has floated like a duck on the surface of tho next wave, riding out the tempest as serenely as If nothing could exceed the delights of rocks ahead and there was absolute attraction In the tury of the deep. If for nothing more than the sako of argument may therefore bo assumed that there will bs no successor to Mo Laugblln while McLaughlin lives. To TAKE it fob granted that there will bo successor is entirely another matwr. Mr. MoLaugh iin holds wbat ho has br Inheritance.

He cku no mora bsquoath it than than ho can take it with him. No man could inherit It evon If his characteristics were precisely such as tho ex Resistor him self possossos. Personal acquaintance counts fur much In politics. Cloao and Intimate association with evory local Democrat of promlnonco cannot handed down In a last will and tostament. The tree of McLaughlin's authority is firmly planted but no other trunk ca live on Us toots whan tho tnivt able scythe of tlmj cuts it down.

That ho can have an (mmodlate successor Is as abjurd us say ins that a monarch of tho fores; can grow to maturity in twonty four hours One mind dominates another whon time and opportunity give It .1 chance to assert Its superiority; thoro is no surrogate's court in which a will devising immolate dominance can be probatod. By the exorcise if all his faculties tho Wllloughby streot potontate las arecled a structure whlon mounted brick by jrlok. It will pass away with Its archltoot. The man who tries to roar on Its site an edifies resembling it cannot borrow Aladdin's lamp. It cannot bedonebyanobodlontgenil iu tho night, and it cannot be done at all thu tho roseniblano will bo faultless.

Brooklyn would nave tp go Dae1 so village days to render oxaot uctiou possible. Some individual forco may i I'll tbo local Democratic destinies of the future, but no ono' knows better than Hugh McLaughlin that ho Is tho first and last of his lino. There is talk of ex So 1 Mnrtha as a coming autocrat Whatever Is said in this direction Jnvoivos a waste of breath which might be serviceable in other ways. Thoro la not tho leait reason for supposing that Mr. Murtha's lease ofllfjruus for a longer term of years than that of tho gentleman by whom he Is so highly estoomel.

Kelly had many lloutenants, but his shoos must have been of a most peculiar pattern, for no ono has triod them on. Hubert O. Thompson woro a pair something Ilk them for a little while, but Thompson's shojs haro fitted nobody else. Naturosmlled at Mr. Mu.th i on his birthday and fortune has regardod him pleasantly over since.

He is a successful man. No groat blunders are identified with his name. It Is doing him no injustice to rank him among tho active politicians. Ho bolougod to that order whon an Aldorman and managed to leavo the Common Council chamber with a repute for capacity and, what is far more to the purpose, purity. He is an expert navigator.

Whenother sloop? havo been laboring heavily ho has gons fairly boforo tho wiud, never trimming his sails so olosoly that thoy flapped idly for a moment and yet taking advantage evory inch of canvas. Ha has so Judiciously hooded tho admonition "GWa every man thlno ear, but few thy voice" that he Is very apt to find an audience whon ho ultimately uusoals his Hps. Courteous and capablo gentleman as he Is, however, ho has nouo of tho rugged material ot a Kelly or MoLaughlin. Something much beyond mors intelligence will be In demand before when the king is doad ltcunba said, long live tho king. There is a certain strength of fibre, a certain doggedness of determination, a certain bluntuess and hardness of temperam jut wanting lu Murtha's comparatively refined organism.

He may bum Wo and he may lor.d When tho ox Koglster Is gone, but ho will tako tue helm with no such sturdy grip. Wo are Juut i3 Ukoly to see another Stranahan as anothor McLaughlin and the Magician's wand will bo broken, not transferred, when ho dies. It ooouiibed to the Rambleb last week that the local army of disintegrated Republicans might find order and cohesion under tha adroit manipulation of Deacon Whit). It occurs to him this week that Daggett would maka a valuable second in command. The.

1 a little less than fairness In calling Wlilto adroit, and a little less than Justice in the term manipulation. On tho other hand, Daggett Is eminently worthy of tho phraseology. White is a man of larger purposos, of much more comprehensive mind, but Daggett bas an aptitude for detail not easily excelled. Tho ex Sheriff will never be set up as an example. The echoes ot the ugly things said about him are still ringing in many eare.

Perhaps the ease against him may be epitomized in a sentence: He Is not overscrupulous. There Is no sufficient answer to the charge; it is virtually admitted. Daggett Is not on trial now. Brooklyn understands htm woll enough, accepts him as a positive force, credits him with none of the finer sensibilities, and. on tho whole, may bo trusted to estimate him fairly.

Those who dabble In politics are not expected to be sensitive, and Daggott never masquerades for other than he is. Tho ex Sheriff and the Deacon are on the beat of terms. If the great operator undertakes to guide the Republican plow through the furrows of November he will have hi hands full Daggett could lighten a little of the handicap. Thero is no sign of falling energy about him. He seems to bs as full of steam as ever.

He lives and moves and has his being in a crisp and defiant atmosphere. When disaster and disaster followed fast and followed faster, he never winced beneath the spur and, to quote the language of the track, kept his stride to the last. To bs finical in politics is to be absurd. Daggott is an Influencing force. His courage is indomitable, his determination quite remarkable, his political perception more than usually acute, and a deluge not enough to dampen his ardor.

The ex Sheriff and the Deacon would make an admirable team, not because they are allko, but because they aro not The party cannot afford to waste material this year, especially of tho stripe Daggett can contribute. Ho needs no defender In the Rambler. Quite capable of hurrying to his own rescue, ho has more than once plucked the rose of safety from the neitl danger, and the Deacon would be sure of a formidable ally It ho called to bis assistance tho bold campaigner who snatched from Nerlns' grasp tho prize that Farley holds. There is something the matter with Sheriff Farley. He Is very thin and has lost his Jovial, wholesome laugh.

The life he has led since giving up his place in the Fire Department has not agreed with him at alL The rugged health which he enjoyed when the citizens put him in office by the magnificent vote which will always bear testimony to his popularity has disappeared and his face is thin and careworn. He very seldom appears among bis friends these days. The Sheriff cannot serve two consecutive terras, and therefore Mr. Far ley will havo to retire. It Is thought by some of bis friends that he will not re enter the Fire Department, but will go into business of some sort.

Martin Van Buron Burroughs, tho gonial and highly iapablo warden of Raymond street Jail, may possibly be the Democratic candidate. Burroughs is ono of tho vory best known men in the city among thoBo who have never held any elective office. He has every quettion. Notes The following addition to the Eaole's answor to your question last Sunday is commended by a correspondent: The origin of tho phrase "quico tho cheose" Is probably tbo Porslan and Ilindustanoo word "chlz" thing, for tho expression used to bo common among tho Anglo Indians, that is, My new Arab is tbe real chlz." It la easy to soe how, In Its transmit to our vernacular, "cblz" becomos "cheese." Some havo thought It a corruption of "la chose," French for tho thing." There Is also an old proverb, "Aftor choose comes nothlus," cheese being tho crown and completion of dinnor. This is ns Ukoly a solution to tho difficulty as any.

The following passage from Thackeray Is also to the point: "You look like a prince in it, Mr. pretty Iiachol said, coaxing bim with hor boady black eyes. "It is the cboaao," replied Mr. Luat. Yon and all the other correspondents referring to things that have appeared in the Eagle, should give the date, or as near tho date as pOBBiblo, whon asking questions.

Such a course simplifies research greatly and economizes timo. "Henry" We cannot possibly inform yon as to Dr. McGlynn's "future plans." It way be that be has plans for tbe luturo, and If he has bo would probably bo glad to revoal them to you. At present his occupation is mainly what Is callod burning tho bridges." "Miss Nellie P. White" The Eagle addressed a personal note to 127 Lexington avenue, which has boon returned by tho Post OQlco, "Not found." The gist of ther.otowas: "State about the dato and geuoral subject of the article referred to." It Is of some importance that correspondents furnish their real name and address.

E. We do not remember any time when any company sold gnB at $1 per 1,000 cubic feet in this city. "Gross Cut" If you will communicate with the gentleman whoso bonofltyou alluded to bo will probably be able to inform you. "Or. B.

The hospital for women and children you Inquire about is on Fulton streot, Just oast of Nostrand aveuuo (tho old Kodding Home stead). "Tolont" It would be impossible to say how long an oducation for the stage is. It must depend largely upon the pupil. It you will examine tho advertising columns of tho Eagle you will as certain where you can take lessons in French. To the.

Editor of the Brooklyn Ragle: Can you oblioo several readers bv statins mo ijaio or mo wrocK or tno steamship president, Whether aha was oroinir to Euronn or retiirninfT nmt. If possiolo, give tho names of tho passengers who were lost wisu ner a. a. Answer It is impossible to give the oxact dato of the loss of the steamship President, as no person survived to toll tho story; but it was undoubtedly lu March, sometime after tho 11th (1811), the date of her sailing from Now York for Liverpool. The Even ing Poet of that dato publishes a list of the passengers who wont out on tho President and, like her, wore never board from slnco.

The list Is as follows: F. C. Pleffol, New York; A. R. Waring, New York: Lieutenant Fltzroy Lennox, Brltlahr Amy; Mr.

Courtney, Tyrone Power (actor) and servant, England; C. A. D. Meisogaros, Philadelphia; C. J.

Adett, Buenos Ayros; Thomas Palmer, Baltimore; Dr. Turner, Cuba; T. Blancher, Cuba; John Kraser, New York; A. Van Loho, Amsterdam; A. 8.

Byrno, London; Mr. Thorndyke, Now York; W. W. Martin, England; E. B.

Howell and friend, New York; A. Livingston, Now York; Hev. G. G. Cookman, Washington, D.

C. D. Donchave, Scotland; B. Norrls and child, E. Barry, J.

C. Hoberts, Now York; J. Loo Wall and child, Master Nohring. Total, twenty sovon, two children and one servant. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Kagle While bathing at Eockaway Beach a few days ago I felt what Is callod the "under current" and renlized how helpless a person who could not swim would be if caught in this way.

I was told that 90 per cent, oi all drowning of swlmmors was duo to tho "under current." Can you give any explanation of this phenomenon? BitTHEK. Answer This question brings to the surfnto a topic which not Infrequently engages the attention of pooplo crossiug the ocean, as well as persons who bathe and swim at tho ocean aide. Thero is reason to believe that undercurrents exist in all or almo.it all parts of tho deep son: for never in any instance yet has tho doep sea lino ceased to run out, oven after tho plammot has roachod the bottom. If the lino bo hold fast in tbe boat, It invariably parts, showing, when two or three miles of It aro out, that the undercurrents aro swooping against the bight of it with what some soamon call "a swigging force" that no sounding lino has yot proved strong onough to withstand. Tho equilibrium of all tho sous Is preserved to a greater or less oxtenc by this system of currents and counter currents at and below tho surface Somo Interesting experiments upon the subjoct of submarine currents wero mado by Lloutonants Walsh and Lee, of tho Unltod States Navy, whilo carrying on observations in connection with tho wiud and current charts.

A block of wood was loadod to sinking weight, aud by moans of fishing Hoe let down to tho depth of from 100 to 500 fathoms at tho will of tho exporlmontor. A small barrel as a float, Just sufficient to keep tho block trom sinking further, was then tiod to tho line, and tho whole let go from tho boat. To uso thoir own expression, it was wonderful, indeed, to seo this barrol move off, against wind and sea and aurfaco 'current, at tho rato of ovor ono knot por hour, as was generally tho easo, and, on ono occasion, as much as a knot and throe quartera. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Would it be asking too much to beg you to print tho poem, "Tho Land Bovond tlio Soa," to which you alluded In your "Notes" last Sunday 7 I beard Dr. Treat read it, aud I am sure all your readers would thank you for it.

A L0VBR OF BEAUTY. Antwer Tho poom by Frederick William Faber, D. referred to by our correspondent. Is unquestionably sublime, and our readers will doubt less enjoy it. It is as follows: Tho land beyond tbo Seal When will life's task bo o'or? When shall wo reach that soft blue shore O'er the dark alrait whoso billows foam and roar Whon shall wo como to thee, Calm laud beyond tho Sea? Tho land boyond the Seal How close It orteu Booms, Whon flushod with evening's ponceful gleams Aud tlio wistful heart looks on tho strait and droams! It.

longs to Qy to thee, Calm laud boyond the Soa! Tho land beyond tho Seal Somotlmos distinct and near It grows upon tho oyo and oar, And tho gulf narrows to a threadlike more; Wo seom halfway to theo, Calm laud boyond tho Seal The land boyond tho 8oal Sometimes across the strait, Liko a drawbridso to a custlo gate, The slantiug sunbeams Uo, and aoom to wait Yor us to pass to thoo. Culm laud beyond tho Seal Tho land boyond tho Soa I Oh, how tho lapsing years, 'AHd our not uu8ubmiaslvo tears. Have homo, now singly, now In fleets, tho biers Of thoso wo lovo, to thoo, Calm lund boyond the Soa! The land boyond the Soal Hew dark our presont homo! By tho dull bench and sullen foam How wearily, how drearily, wo roam, With arms outsirotcbod to tbeo, Calm land boyond tho Soa! Tho land boyond tlio Sea! When will our toll bo dime? Slow footed yoars! moro swiftly run Into tho gold ot that unsotting sun! Homesick we ore for thoo, Calm land boyond tho Sea! The land beyond tho Soa! Why fadost thou In light? Why art Hum bolter seen toward night? Dear land I look always plain, look always bright, That wo may gazo on thee, Calm laud boyond tho Son I Tho land boyond tho Soa Sweet Is thlno endless rest, But sweoier far that Father's breast Upon thy shores eternally possoBst; For Josus rolgns o'er thee, Calm laud beyoud the Sua To the Editor of the Brooklyn Ragle; l'lea6e answer who discovered gold in California? Antwer Tho discovory of gold lu California which caused tho oxcltoment or 1811) and inter, was made by Captain John A. Suitor. Ho camo to Amorlca In 1834 from Baden whore ho was born iu 1808.

Ho became a trudor on tho Pacific coast, and founded tho settlement which is now tho City of Saoramonto. In 1318 gold was discovered on his property, while en To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Was there at any time a movement started In this city looking to tho establishment of a nnl voralty? If whon, and what was the result HlSTOKlctra Answer Yes, thoro was onco a proposition mado to have a unlvorsity in this city. At a social gather, fng held In tho Athenoum on Thursday evonlng, January 13, 185 1, tho Ilov. Dr. Botuuue made a motion providing for tho ostnblishmont of a university, which was socondod bp the Rov.

Dr. Vinton ana supported by tho Rov. Dr. Storrs. Dr.

Bothune said: Boston, with a population of loss than 30,000, founded Harvard. New Haven, with Bllll less, it Yale. Now York, with much lees population than Brooklyn, its Columbia. Princoton, too, had its seat of learning. And yot this city of 120,000 inhabit ants has not a library worthy of such a groat popu latlon.

Tho amount required for a university, Including the ground, would bo near Ono gontleman said ho would bo one of ouo hundred to subscribe tho amount neodod and Mr. J. Carson Brevoort said ho was willing to give a site, and to b9 "ono of tho 'ninety and nine 'to come back from tho wilderness." It is a suggestivo fact that the meeting at which tho proposition was of such a character that "It would not soon be effacod from tho memory of thoso presont," and that tbo great question, "Shall wo havo wator waa being publicly agitated. Wo havo got tho wator but not tha university. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Will you kindly answer tho following questions: What is the beat record for s.

standing lonir Jump; a standing high Jump; a running long Jump a running high Jump aud a bop, skip and a Jump? Also, what is tho best record for a milo walk, a niilo run and a run of 100 yards? A Constant Reader. Antwer Tho longest standing long Jump with, weights was by G. W. Hamilton, at Romeo, Octobor 3, 1S79, 22 14 feet 5i Inches; without weights, by M. II.

Johnson, Now York, September 4, 1881, 10 feet 10rf inches. Standing high Jump with woigbts, American, by T. F. Koarney, Brooklyn, Septembor 11,1886,5 feot bji Incbea; without weights, by W. Soron, Motthaven, May 29, 1880, 5 fool l.v inches.

Running long Jump, by John Howard, England, with weights, 5 lb. dumb bollB, 29 foot 7 Incbos; without weight, by M. W. Ford, Brooklyn, August 14, 1886, 23 feot 8 incbos. Huuulng high Jump without weights, by P.

Davin, Carrlek on Suir, Ireland, July 5, 1880, a foot 2 inches', with woights by T. F. Kearney, Brooklyn, September 11, 1880, 5 feet IIJ Inches. Running hop, step and Jump by Thomaj Burrows, Worcester, October 18, 1884, 43 feet 8 inches; standing hop, step and Jump by D. Andor son, Fort Eyomouth, England, July 21, 1805, 40 feet 2 inches.

A mile walk by W. Perkins, London, June 1, 1874, 6:23. A milo run by W. Qoorgo, London, August 23, 1886, Hun of 100 yarda by Georgo Seward, Amorican, turnpike road, Hammersmith, England, Septembor 30, 1844, 9 seconds. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: There appears to be a generally accepted conclusion that tho first Sunday school on record was that started by Robert Haikes about tho closo of tbo year 1781.

I think this has beon disputed, yot wo contiuuo to speak of it as a fact Can you onllghten your readers ou tho subject? SUrEKINTENPENT. Anetser Tho Eagle had occasion to answer a question on this subject, September 4, 1881, and again on Soptomber 23, 1883. Wo have no reason to change or modify tbo information communicate on the dates mentlonod, and reproduce the statement mado Rt tho latter dale. By this it will bo obsorved that Important and pralsworthy as waa the offort of Robert Raikes in 1781, it was ante dated by two enterprises, ono in Scotland and one in Amorlca. Tho first Sunday school In tho world, so far as has boen ascertained, was established In tho poriod between 1740 and 1747, at Ephrata, Lancaster County, by Ludwfg Hackon, a mombor of tho German Soventb Day Baptists.

In 1881 tha Rov. John Marshall Laug, D. miulsterof tbe Burony Parish Church, Glasgow, Scotland, addrossod a letter to tho London Times, In which he stated that Raikes "was anticipated in the good work (of starting Sunday schools) by tho Rov. John Burns, D. of tho Barony Parish, father of tho vonorablo Georgo Burns, of Womyss House, who almost Immodlatoly after entering upon his chargo In 177 1 or 1775 oponod a Sabbath night school in Calton, thon a part of his parish, and taught It blrusolf." The phrase "night school," used by Dr.

Laug in his lottor, is to be explained by the clrcumstauco that In Scottish cities and towns tho regular church sorvlces wero, as they are still, hold iu tho forenoon and afternoon of Sundays, and tho Sunday schools meet from 5 to 7 o'clock. In somo cases tho Sunday schools havo morning and orening sessions. PKOVIDLVG SEASIDE RECREATION For Business Women of Time and Ite.ioitrcet, A seashore cottage is situated ot Ocean Boach, N. and forms a most doligbtful Summer rosort for business womou and others who are In need of rest aud recreation, with but limited time to spare and insufficient moans to pay tho chargei asked at tbe usual resorts. It Is sltuatod immediately on tho seashore, built in tho most attractive mannor, with a numbor of piazzas and cozy little wludow balconies, and has ample facilities for tho enjoyment of surf bathing upon its own beach.

Everything Is providod for tho comfort and health ful onjoymout of tho visitors and at tho lowest cost to oach with which it Is thought possible to meet tho bare running oxponsos of tho cottage from day to day, aud this has beon fixed at a week, paya ble In advance. The stay of each visitor Is limited to two week, and two porsons are expoctod to occupy each room, so it is suggested that friends or acquaintances visit tho cottage at the samo tlmo. Thoro are bath housos connoctod with the cottaee, whloh can be usod without extra chargo, but each person must provide hor own bathing dross, and tbo occupants of oach room must koep their room in order. Ladie3 must go providod with clothing enough to last during their stay, but no largo trunks will bo rocolved. Reforoncos as to tbe respectability of tho visitor will bo required.

This is tho third season since tho cot tago was built aud visitors of the llrst yoar havo Bocurod rooms oach season slnco, and speak in tbe warmest praises of its doligbtful advantages. It is woll furulshod, having all tho comforts of a well appointed bouse, Is but a short distance from the depot, and roraalus opon until Septomber 15. Ono can havo no idea of the boauty, rofluod appoaranco and absolute comfort to be found at this houso until having mado it a visit. It is patronized by many of our school loaehors, artists, stenographers, sulosladios from our largo stores, and the tlmo is spent most delightfully In reading, music, fancy work, surf bathing aud resting. Ladies dosiriug to avail thomselvos of tho opportunity offered should apply at oneo In porson to the Sistors of St.

John, ut St. John's Hospital, Atiautlo avonuo, corner Albany. Here a picture of the houso can bo scon and all Information glvon. THINGS ONE DOESN'T LIKE TO HE1B. "No, Mr.

Smyth; but I will bo a sister to you." Good morning. I am Introducing a work Whloh should bo In evory library." "Sorrj', dear biy, but I can't let you hare tho amount, for I'm dead broke mysolf." Oharlos, It o'clock. Whore have you been umil this hour? Mr. Do Browne, your services Will not be required aftor Saturday noxt," "You want to marry my daughter, eh? Well, young man, what are your expectations? Horo is tho milliner's bill, Algy only J75." I say, Jenklus, I hoard a good story to day and, 1 must toll It to you." Oh, Altrod, what do you think I recolvod a lottor from doar mamma this morning and she's coming to spond a mouth with us." Whou will you bo ready to return, that $10, Robinson This Is tho fifth time I havo askod you for it." "If yo pluzo. eorr, Miss Heavyswoll tould mo to toll you she's not at home." "Aud fifthly, doar brethren "You aro a modorato drlukor, oh Now, my dear sir, lot mo direct your attention to a fow statistic" Lot Annela Tribunt.

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