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keeping a note of so large a denomination at home was to enable him to offer it to the tax collector IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT THE LEFFERTS FAMILY. THE TALK OF NEW YORK. Jotfty Just followed the old eanom ot cutting off the half holiday as soon as cold weather begins. On Sixth avenue and on Third avenue thore were a good many shops olosed though not enough to prevent a busy traffic in those streets. The Jewish houses almost universally closed, and a big dry goods shop on Sixth avenue, whose owners are Hebrews, declares that it will dose at Saturday mid day all through the Winter.

As the Jews con aider Saturday a Sabbath this is only the natural sequence of their religious convictions, but there is great doubt expressed by their Christian brethren as to whether their conviotion will be able to hold out during the season, I heard a great deal of bitter complaint among the shop girls in the shops that had disregarded the law, and much energetic envy of their happier sisters who worked for Hebrews. They knew every shop that had olosed and had no words too strong with which te compare their own employers to those who observed tho law. Somo ot the employers who have ignored tho statute offer in excuse the ploa that the Saturday half holiday throughout the Summer has caused a great deal of drunkonness among the employes, so that on Monday they have been practically worthless, but there does not seem much in that argument, because if they only drink Saturday they would bo straight again b) Monday, or if thoy drink on Sunday, keeping them at work until Saturday night will not make them rofraln the next day, At all events such a plea does not hold good of the women and It seems hord that they cannot benefit by tho enaotments of the Legislature. They are invariably paid loss for the same amount of work that a man oan accomplish in tho same space of time and it would mako things more even if they wero allowed a lUtle extra holiday. With a number of women, however, they are better off in tho bitter weather In the warm Bhops and offices than In their bleak homos with only a haudful of fire and because of the severity of the atmosphere outsido, breathing air that has been exhausted of all Its oxygon and fetid with human exhalations.

There ar. every Summer a half dozen fresh air funds started in Now York to give women and children a breath of untainted ozone, but in reality the poor of New York need fresh air in Winter much more than they do In Summer, for then they liyo In little air tight spaces, whero the windows was nn occasion that exceeded anything since the SiegoofTroy. The new truck company for the Eastern District will probably be organized within a fortnight, assert tbo authorities at headquarters. It will be Truck 8 and will probably crowd Engine 18 out ot its present quarters. Foreman Whltford and his gallant men, howevor, wiU not lose In the eviction, as they will find the new house in Elm street a pleasant noma The annual ball of the Veteran Firemen will oo car on December 5, and already the committees aro at work arranging to make it an nnparallelod suo cess.

The money received from the ball will go to the Firemen's Widows' and Orphans' fund. Chief Nevins returned on Wednesday from the fifteenth annual convention of tho fire chiefs at Atlanta. He describes the convention a a very interesting one. The Brooklyn chlof engineer contributed to the Interest of the occasion by reading a paper entitled "Fire Boats: Their Advantages to Cities Having Water Fronts." The following quotation from his manuscript refers to the use that has been here made of this branch ot the fire service in Brooklyn The City of Brooklyn presents a feature that is most extraordinary. Although having a water front of over twelve miles, lined with immense sugar and oil refineries, warehouses and manufactories of all kinds, there is no street running along any portion of the water front, and the city itself does not possess any right to any portion of It except at the foot of such streets as have been opened to the river, and those are few.

Privato owners hove monopolized all of the water frontage. Between the river and the next adjoining streets ore erected the immense storehouses, refineries and other buildings, which are generally closed with gates to keep out Interlopers and which at night are difficult to open, as all the storehouse owners do not employ watchmen. In one port of the city, that lying immediately under Brooklyn Heights, there is nearly half a mile whero at night there is no access to the river front except through arches running under the warehouses and which are closed by Iron gates. In front of much of this river front property are Immense wooden piers covered by wooden grain and coal elevators, also tn all cases built of wood, and wooden ferry houses, the Fire laws of the city not preventing that style of building on the water front It will thus be seen that the City of Brooklyn presents a field where a fire boat must prove Invaluable. The river front of the city shows a marked contrast to that of the adjoining city, New York, where streets are between the buildings and the water, making a point where it would be almost impossible for a fire to cross from tho buildings to the shipping or in the opposite direction.

Since the organization of the present Brooklyn department, and previous to the Introduction of the fire boat, a number of disastrous fires had occurred, which, had we been in pos fl cations aha yearned to act Meg Herrllllei and Lady Maobath. Hackett undertook to help her and only succeeded In helping her to a doting old husband. His children objected, of course, but In vain, and the two lived happily enough for a few years, consoling themselves for this displeasure of his children by having one of their own, a One bouncing boy with his mother's black eyes and his father's rougish, good tempered comedy countenance. The old man had little to leave, but all of that went to his second family, which widened the broach botween them ana the first installment further than over. The widow who had only concealed her ambitions and not abandoned thorn during her husband's life, immediately after her husband's death mado hor preparations to appear as Lady ilacboth.

She hired the theater herself, engaged all the actors and extensively billed herself. "Nym Crinkle" happened to stroll in that night in one of bis satirical moods and the next morning tho town held its sides over his critique aud Mrs. Hackett was swop; off the stogo by a storm of laughter. She made another attempt in Brooklyn, but with no better success, apd ever slnco has been attempting to write her husband's life. A year or more ago ahe went about from one newspaper office to another with a lot of relics of the late husband, ondoavorlng through them to get into print, but unsuccessfully again.

She is a figure with a certain pathos as she sits in hor dim, old fashioned library, dark, gaunt, melancholy and massive, surrounded by a chaos of papers and books, among which she fumbles helplessly and formlessly id her long endeavor to compile a biography that no one win road. Sho works on, year after year, without method or dellnlte conception of her task, getting more and more ooufusod and helpless all the while. This fair is a perfect godaond to her. She finds in it a most wolcome outlet for her inchoate energies. Her table is a curious Jumble of relics of her husband, by whose reflected light sho has been trying to shine, but as his sun has gone down her moon cannot cat much of a shadow.

Thoro wero copies of his hook on Shakeeperlau characters, his prompt book In Falstaff, which was to be voted to the most popular actor; some trinkets, engravings, old letters apd a cameo given to Hackett's brother by Louis Napoleon when he was in this country. Hackett had a grea: desire to prove the excolleuco of his descent and hi3 brdther did actually succeed in making good his claim to somo title In abeyance in Holland. Behind all this odd rubbish stood the widow in rusty black, the very picture of an innocuous Medea, and the most striking nguro iu tho great room. The race3 have brought a great many well known faces back to town, for a day or two at least, though Delmonlco's is still the resort of the stranger and one sees only unfamiliar countenances there. There are a great many Englishmen and Canadians among them Just now, fresh skinned well dressod fellows, most of them.

when he called, as was the custom In thoso day As the collector could not change It, Rem got a delay in paying his taxes; but it is related of oue Samuel Doxy who should have been nanfod Ortho Instead of Samuel, because he was mighty sound in his methods on being appointed collector, prepared himself with the necessary change before calling on Rem, changed the $1,000 bill, and broke up the practice. It is said that after Doxy beat his little gamo Rem always had the change when the collector called. Ho died without descendants, leaving his property to his wife, which after her death became a legacy to be fought over in the courts. Leffert Lefferts, afterward known as the squire, was older than Barent He was on the 11th of Maroh, 1727. He lived at Bedford in a house erected in 1753, at the southwest corner of the Clove road and the King's highway, it belug in the anglo now formed by Bedford avenue and Herkimer street, and north of tho latter.

This house was ouly pulled down about 1881. He married Dorothy Cowenboveu and had soveu children, all of whom went away from Bedford, except Catharine, who was killed in 17:13 by the accidental discharge of a pistol; John L. and Leffert, Jr. Squire Lefferts was a man of oonsiderable importance lu his day. He was one of the three freehold era appointed to defend the patent of Brooklyn from 1750 to 1776; from 1761 to 1776 was town clerk; 1761 to 1777, one of tho assistant Justices, whence the title of "squire;" In 1765 CB of Highways.

In 1776 he was sent to the Provincial Congress, and, according to the Long Island Historical Society reports, "of the eleven elected to the Pro vlncial Congress from Kings none coutrlDuted more essential aid to the Revolutionary cause" than ho. In 1774 Squlro Leffert Lefferts bought from the Executors of Audrlose Bedford, for acres ot the south side of the Jamaica road, twenty three acres on the east side of Clove road and two lots of Bait meadows In Flatbush. It Is on a portion of the ten acres mentioned that the Brevoort house now stands. While Squire Lefferts was clerk he kept the office on the second floor of his residence at Bedford, and at the outbreak of the Revolution John Rapaljo was his deputy. During Squire Lefferts' absence, after the battle of Long Island, Rapalje, on pretense of moving thom to a safe place, carried away the records and took thom to England, and they wero novor recovered.

Rapalje having become an active his lands woro confiscated after the war. There seemed to be some question among active Revolutionary patriots as to the position of Squire Lefferts during the war. His bouse at Bedford, the ono torn down In 1881, was occupied by the BrltlsU general, Gray, as headquarters and Squlro Lefferts noted as an agent to estimate the valuo of supplies solzed by tho troops from the Long Island farmers. It was claimed by somo of the Whigs, or rebels against the English, that he did not manifest enough patriotism, as he did not leave his home and go to fight for American independence. Others, to the contrary, took the ground that not being a military man and havLng reached close to 50 years hecouldboof more service to the cause at home, while his active participation would only result in the confiscation of his property.

Long island was peculiarly situated. A good many of the Inhabitants were violent Torios, while many were Indifferent. After tho Battle of Long Island, or it might more properly be called of Brooklyn, the Island was occupied by the British and controlled by them until tho end of the war. A few had followed the American Army off the Island, but the majority, being left to the tender mercies of the British troops and their Tory neighbors, took the oath of allegiance. Their lot was not a happy one.

They wore harrassed, plundered, subject to the orders of tho military, their property at the disposition of the British officers, and they were compelled to go with their teams and forage for the troops. Hence It was claimed by his friends that Squire Lefferts could be of more service to the cause at homo than If ho had gone into the field, as he was thus enabled to act In the Interest of his neighbors, in seeing that they wero properly paid for the supplies seized, and it is also stated that ho paid large sums of money to tho secret agents of the Revolution in aid of the cause. Squire Lefferts died at Bedford on the 10th of uly, 1804, and left the homestead to his son, Leffert Lefferts, commonly known as the Judge. Squire Lefferts' son John L. was a farmer.

He resided for muny years in old Blom houso at Bedford. He married Sarah Cowenhoven, daughter of Rem Cowenhoven, his mother's brother. Hp had ton children, most of whom moved away. He had a Bon, Colonol James Lefferts, who livod in New York City and reared a family. His son Rem, a broker, lived In Bedford aud died without Issue.

His daughter Cornelia married Robert B. Lofforts, of New Utrecht. She resided lr; jji Tord and died without issue. Loffort Lefferts, or the Juugo, was born on the 12th of April, 1774, so that his infancy was spent amid the early days of the Revolutionary War and his early childhood while tho British occupied his father's houso. It Is said that when peace was declared and the English were about to leave the country he asked somo ot tho officers by whom he had been made a pet why they were leaving.

On being answered, "Because you Yankees have beaten us," he exclaimed: "Thoa why don't you fight it over again?" Judge Lefferts graduated at Columbia College In 1794, studied law with Judge Egbert Benson, was admitted to practice In the Court of Common Pleas and Supreme Court In 1798, was appointed clerk of the courts in 1801 and held that office uutil 1816, keeping the office in the old homestead at Bedford. In 1805 ho was a commissioner in chancery and in 1823 was made the first Judge of Kings County, which office he held until 1827. He was the first president of the Long Island Bank. He was the Federal candidate for Congress against John Lefferts, of Flatbush, tho Republican candidate, in 1813, and Federal candidate fos Senator iu 1315, but was defeated both times. Judge Lefferts married Maria Benson, daughter of his mother's sister.

He had but one child, Elizabeth Dorothea, who married James Carson Brevoort, and to whom descended, on his death lu 1847, the fine residence which ho built in 1838 on that part of tho Jamaica road now known as Brevoort place. This old mansion, now occupied toy the last representative of tho Lefferts family at Bedford, Is a handsome, substantially built brick structure, two stories high, situated in the center of the northern half of the grounds, which occupy the whole block between Bedford avenue and Bedford place, Brevoort placo aud Atlantic avenue. The main entrance 1b ou Brevoort place and is up broad stone stops to a portico about tweuty feet long, on which thoro are four massive stone pillars reaching as high as the roof of the house. Thero are also broad stoue steps leading to tho entrance on tho west side, aud a porch the whole longth of the building on the south. Entering from tho north sldo, the visitor Is admitted into a tiled hall, fifteen feet wide, which extends through to the south entrance.

This is intercepted by a hall running to the west entrance, in which Is the stairway. This floor Is divided Into parlors, library and dlnlngroom. The culinary department is in the basement, while the upper floor Is divided into commodious sleeping apartments. It was a handsome house when it was erected fifty years ago; It is a handsome house amid the advances and improvements of to day. II.

J. S. THE BRAHMA FOWLS. How a II artfoyd Man Introduced Tliei to American Barn Yard. In the year 1846, Hartford man, a Mr.

Chamberlain, saw on tho docks In New York on board of aq East Indlauman Just In from a long voyage, and In possession of a sailor somo fowls. They woro clearly of the Asiatic family, but different from tho Shanghans, Chlttagongs and Cochin Chinos, with which ho was familiar. So ho bought them and took them home. His business, however. Interfered with his bringing them before the public, so ho parted with them to Mr.

Virgil Cornish, thon of Hartford, subsequently of New Britain, who propagated them successfully until ho had a fine stock. Thoy woro not brought out until 1852 at a great poultry show In Boston, whore thoy recolved the name Brahma Pootra, because they had como from a port near the mouth of a river of that name. They were highly appreciated at onco, on account of their groat beauty, fine form and large size. They helped greatly to boom tho so called hon fever, which had been prevalent and was beginning to flag. One of their distinguishing peculiarities Is tho triple comb a central comb rather low set, and a small comb on each side of It and becoming one with it above tho base.

Somewhat similar c.ombs had been noticed occasionally In other breeds of Asiatio fowls, and the Malaya had a clumsy. Irregular triple comb, whlcti had been called a pea comb, for what reason It is rather hard to tell. The Brahmas all possess the comb described in a small and beautiful form, almost without exception, and this is called a pea oorab from its triple form. They exhibited from the very first that peouliar thoroughbred look whioh marks thoroughly well bred, pure blooded animals ot all kinds. American Agriculturist.

ossip leaned in the Engine Houses of the City. Quick Time In Reaching Fires Charity Suffers a Loss ChlerNevins and Flreboats Strange Features of the City's Water Front The Be twn of the Volunteers. Every notable fire revives the dormant faculties of the Individual who knows that the engine or the truck that answered to the first alarm was "twenty minutes" in getting to the fire. The much reiterated assertion of this multifarious individual came up for discussion under the head of Informal business at Headquarters the other day and one gentleman present offered to bet the individual, who also happened to be represented at the meeting, that there is not a spot within the city limits that cannot be reached by an engine company In ten minutes after the alarm has been sent Tho individual subsided and the bet was not taken. Deputy Commissioner Moore and Dlstrlot Engineer James Dalo afterward reviewed the subject and were in some doubt that the individual might not have ventured the wager on one point In tho city.

There Is an alarm box at the corner of Fifty fifth street and Third avenue. The engine that would respond to it on the first alarm Is distant at least a mile and a half. It is Engine 3, Fourth avenue and Nineteenth street. This is probably the longest pull auy engine In the city could be called upon to make ou tho first alarm. Tom, Dick and Harry, No.

l's horses, are sturdy animals and might make the distance, under advantageous circumstances, within the required time, but It would be a struggle such as one would hardly want to wager much upon. The bet which the individual did not accept was for $100, to go to any charitable institution in the city, and charity Is the only certain loser as the controversy resulted. Should it be necessary to send a truck in response to a call from Fifty fifth street and Third avenue, No. 1, lying at Van Brunt and Seabrlng streets, would have to respond. Discussing these two runs, District Engineer Dale remarked on the considerable growth of tho city in the vicinity of the Thirty ninth street Ferry and the need that there would be before long of more protection against fire in this far limit of South Brooklyn.

Speaking of time, tho district engineer said that on a call from South Ferry Engines 3, 5 aud 22 can reach the ferry in five minutes and this he had once testified to when on a witness stand. The work of rejuvenating Engine 5's hotrae Is completed, with the exception of painting the front. In the sumptuous drawlngroom upstairs a luxury neither possessed nor needed by any other engine house ta the city the visitors' registry book shows that tho number who have visited the house lately has been very large. From It one learns that James Hughes, James Shedden and Archibald Maclntre, of Saltcoats, Scotland, sailors on board the Clyde yacht Thistle, were gnesta of Captain Huestisone evening during the week. They spent an hour In the engine house, took an Interest in seeing the horses hitched and learning the other tricks ot the American Are department trade.

Private O'Brien, of Engine is away on va cation. There still hangs a vail of secrecy over the movements of Captain Huestls during his recent vacation, which the captain refuses to raise and Driver O'Noil sooms not to have seen behind. The captain says "be went East," but caught no fish. It may be his griof at his failure in the latter respect that causes him to preserve silence. There are two more members of No.

5 to retire for thoir ten doys' vacation before tho company will settle down to staying at home for another twelve months. In the 5's house, are pictures of old volunteer Engine Pacific 14, that once stood where 5's powerful Amoskeag now stands. Old Buglne Company No. 14 was the high toned company of the city. Its location near the homes of the wealthy class on the Heights brought Into lu ranks for volunteer service merchants, brokers, bank officials, Insurance agents, and, as the old list shows, men who from their positions ot loisure ranked only as gentlemen." In 1863 Pryor Rorke, who Is at present one of the members of the Veteran Firemen organization, was foreman of Pacific 14.

Among the thirty five members who composed the company at that time wore also Judge F. S. llassey, William A. Fowler and George Hardy. Judge Massey was tho flrstpresidont of the paid department.

The condition of District Engineer Denis Mc Groty during the Week has caused no little concern among his numerous friends in the Department. His Illness on Tuesday and Wednesday had reached a dangerous stage, but good care and a vigorous constitution carried him through this crisis and ho Is now believed to be on the road to recovery. District Engineer McGroty is a man well liked throughout the Department. He has a record as a volunteer fireman and also a vory honorable record in the regular and in the volunteer service In the army. In the paid Fire Department he workod himself up from driver to foreman and then to the responsible position he now occupies.

Captain Edward Fitzgerald, of Engine 14, called the writer's attention to an error In the types last week that placed him and eight other men at pres, ent in the fire service among the charter members of Engine 7. It should havo read Engine 9, of which District Engineer James Cunningham was foreman and present Foreman Connell was engineer. Thomas Sweeney is the last man in Engine 14 to tako his vacation. Ho is occupying himself In piscatorial sports on the lower part of tho island. William F.

Satterly roturned from Patterson to duty Wednesday, having spent a part of his vacation with friends in that city. Assistant Foreman Richard Cameron, of Engine 14, is very much luterostod In tho organization of the city's old volunteer firemen. He is a member of the volunteer association and also ono of the Veteran Firemen. He was a member of old Engine 11, whose house is still standing at the corner of Concord and Gold streets. A new La France engine is on its way from Elmira to make some engine eompany in the Brooklyn flr service happy.

It will be the third La France In tho department. John McGroven, of the Flro Department harness shops, is on his vacation. Tho first fow days ho spent studying German In Uoboken. He thon attended the Mineola fair. GustavFeut, formerly of Engine 18, but for the last three months on the retired list, died on Thursday night Ho had been connected with the Fire Department about two years.

Engine 12'b Amoskeag, which was smashed under tho follon walls at the burning of Palmer's cooperage has Just been returned from the manufactory at Manchester, whero It had been entirely overhauled. Foreman Walsh, of Engine 8, who is a brother of Judge Andrew Walsh, has Just returned from the northern part of the State where he passed his vacation. He differed from the traditional star tragedian In doing his walking when he started on his tour instead ot returning to the place of his family's residence on foot. He walked from this eity to Hudson on his way to Albany. Friday was tho day for paying the month's pon slons to the widows of deceased firemen and to those on the rotired list and was, consequently, a busy ono at headquarters.

Ex Foreman McDou ough received his first installment ot pension money. He is the first foreman in the department that has been retired for disabilities. Ho was a popular officer and earned his position by merit. No one grudges him the reward he now gets for his servtce. His pension of $62.50 a month half pay Is the largest pension paid.

There are forty seven names now on tho pension list and the sum paid In the majority of cases is 25 a month. Tho 200 fire chiefs that mot at Atlanta were given a grand reception by tho Citizens' Committee of that lively Southern metropolis. Among the festivities to celebrate their presence in town was a grand barbecue at which an ox was roasted on the coals. Tho chief engineers went to Kennesatf Mountain and climbed its steep sides to get a view of the country and see the ground on which a famous battle was fought. The Brooklyn ohiof brought home several old army bullets picked up on the mountain.

Others found pieces of muskets and other evidences ot the deadly conflict of a quarter of a century ago. The New York Fire Department has asked for $75,000 in its estimates for next year fqr new floating engines. Tho total sum asked by the Fire Commissioners of tho metropolis for running the department is $2,180,927. The reception to tho New York Veteran Fireman on their return from California attracted the Interest of Brooklyn volunteors as well as the 'Homo Guard" across the river. Foreman Klrk patrlck, of Engine 17, was among thoso in tho department who wore given leave of absenoe to Join in the celebration.

The Exempt and tho Volunteer organizations were on hand in full force, as it Especially What is Said of the Yachts and the Race. in Old and Aquatic Citizen's Recollections of the America Commodore Stevens and George Steers The Anti Poverty Fair. Southerners In the City Tho Half Holiday. In any attempt to transcribe the doings of flew York during the past weak, It Is impossible to avoid the subjeet of the International yacht races, though It would seem as If the indefatigable reporter, writing "on space," had exhausted all pos Blblelnformatlon, speculation or reminiscence about three yachts in their predecessors and the matter of navigation in general. Nothing, fcowover, has excited so intense and widespread an Interest In this city since the election of Cleveland, and to write a New York letter and ignoro this interest would be a little like the barnstormer's effort to present "Hamlet" while there was no one to take the part of the Danish prince.

I sailed the first race In company with an old New Yorker, a mom tier of tho New York Yacht Club, who has been an enthusiast on such subjects for more than thirty years, sails from this harbor to Halifax overy Summer, navigating his own pleasure craft along tho dangerous Atlantio coast by means of chart and compass, and who is, unlike the owners of most yaohts, a skilled navigator. He was in England at the time of the America's capture of the cup, and insists that nono of the published accounts of tho affair that have lately appeared in tho papers are at all correct. The uowspapors very generally Cave Insisted that the term, Queen's Cup," popularly applied to that ornate silver goblet, the Britishers have for so long desired to regain, is a misnomer; that the Queen had nothing to do with it. This, my old sea dog says, Is a mistake. 'When Steers built the America says "the English yachtsmen heard such wonderful tales of hr cleverness that they sent a man down to the coast of France to watch for her.

As soon as she appeared this fellow boarded her under the guise of a French pilot, and a3 he really know tho coast along there pretty well he brought her up to Havre. There he left her and hurried back to England Where he declared to his compatriots that she was not a sailing craft at all, that though he couldn't discover where it was she certainly had machinery ooncealed about her somewhere for sails never could bring boards through the water in that fash ion. He stuck to that absurd asserti'ji which had bo much effect that the America was not permitted to enter for the regular cup, but tho papers and tho fairer minded of the sportsmen raised so derisive a howl at thli that the Queen was persuaded to offer a special cup to be raced for by overy one who chose to enter. And that 1b why it is sailed, and rightly called, "The Quoen's Cup." Mr. D.

went on to describe some of tho scenes attending that groat victory which he witnessed from the IbIo of Wight. "The America beat tho Englishmen twice In that race," he said alio Jus; simply sauntered away from thorn from tho start without the slightest apparent effort, and by the Ylme she had reached the point where tho courso turns around tho Isle they were all out of sight. Just at that the tldo runs llko a mill race and it was coming out. The yacht stood off and on, made every effort to continue, and bothered about thore till the rest of the racing fleot overtook hor, by that time she got more leeway and managed to slip through, and in Bvo minutes was simply vanishing off tho horizon of the other fellows. Sho beat thera Just as bad to tho finish, and tho lookout from land, whe was shouting down points to the other fellows, who rood below, cried out that tho yacht was iu sight.

'Who's an American called out 'The answered tho lookout 'And next bellowed an Englishman. 'Nobody Is was the roply, and at that word a fellow from the States began to swear from puro Joy, and catching his neighbor's coat tails enthusiastically tore the garment in two, to the great satisfaction of both of them. Th6 London papers next day were corkers. They abused their own people In choicest Journalistic billingsgate. 'Tho thoy said, 'has shown us that our boats aro turned round wrong elde before.

That our stern post is where our bow ought to bo, and these Yankees have proved very conclusively that wo, a maritime people, don't know the first principles of boat The whole country oat crow, 1 can tell you, and that one day revolutionized the whole business of yacht building in England." Tho apparently unexplainablo mistakes of the English In tho matter of building boats Is ottrib utable to their tonnage and navigation laws. Tnolr whole effort was directed toward getting as much storage room as possible while evading as far as practicable the peculiar system of impost. Tho result was that all their craft were affected by this tendency, and their yacht had the full round bows Hid narrow keel that you And in their Ashing boats to day. As tho papers said, their boats were turned hind sldo before. 1 have heard a great deal In tho way of reminiscence about tho Amocica this week.

Iter desiguer, George Stoers, was protty badly treated it soems. StevoUB offerei him $30,000 for a boat that would lead In the yachting contests. Tho contract being that she was to win all three Of a cortaln series of races, Stevens threw her back on Steers' hands because she was defeated in one of them, though she had amply provod hor capacity and superiority to anything afloat. Steers was In a groat state, for he could not afford to own hor and was owing for the material of which she was built. He was so close proesud that he took an offor of 120,000, and only lound after the solo was completed that Stevens was the real purchaser, tho other man being his unacknowledged agent.

Steers had his opinion of such sharp procticos, but nevertheless took so keen an interest in his work that he consented to go over tn hor to England. Stevens was very high with him and never asked him Into the cabin. Ho lived In the forecastle during the the whole expedition. When tho Englishmen, however, found out that Steers was the man who bujJK tho boat "which had dofoated them, many more of their Invitations went to him than to tho man who merely owned it by dint of a score of thousands and some slippery work. Steers staid la the fore castlo but ho wont Irom there to dine on board the yachts of the richest and most exclusive nobles of England, and Stevens found hlmselfrather at a discount.

At least that is tho story as gtwn to me. People who can't stand tho motion of the water went to soe the race by land. They drove down In drags and on coaches to the Noverslnk Highlands from their cottages and villas all about and picnicked under the shadow of that lighthouse which looks from the water like an old.feudal castlo, but which oloss Inspection discovers to bo a hollow sham. The anti poverty people resorted, during tho week, to a fair. Their enomles had foretold a fair.

They declared that fairs wore the natuail expression of Romanism and that It could im be very long beforo tho members of the new crusade relapsed Into the classic method for raising money. Tho attempt in Madison Square Garden was, I am told, a financial success; all tho old methods usual at fairs worn trotted to the front, and Justified their survival by proving able seducers of the wandering small chango of the community. The ontrahce was only a dime, as was suitable, seeing they desired to attract persons who had found tho abolition of poverty a personal question. Once Inside, however, one had to duplicate that dime very often to enjoy to the full tho exhilarations of tho ontiro programme Tho young women who lent their charms to tho occasion by way of Impetus to trado seemed to have already solved tho problem by which their friends are still posed. They were arrayed for tho most part in purple and One linen.

1 oven saw one ot them In a velvet gown, who seemed to bo extremely prosperous and well fod. Indeed the people who need poverty abolished kept away apparently, for among all tho crowds present I saw very fow who did not oxhlbit an appearanco of comfort and conslderatllo content. Dr. McGlynn 's portrait was tho feature of the occasion, and that earnest partisan, in triumphant charge of a fac simple of tho ex priost's confessional, wroatnod with luxuriant garlands of paper llowera and exuberant testimonials of affection. She also dispensed cheap photographs of tho apostle of the now crilsade.tosether with pictures of Houry George, Dr.

Pentecost and various colored rollglous prints, such as aro usually found adorning the walls of the rooms occupied by pious servant girls. The funniest thing in tho whole extensive area of the garden was Mrs. Hackett and her table This lady Is the widow of Hackett, the comedian, whoso Falstaff was as famous aud unequaiod as Jefferson's Kip. The old man married early lu life and was the father of Recorder llackett and some two or three other children. Whan he was 00 ho nama across a big, raw boned, black eyed girl of 20, with a voice of tragic depth.

Naturally with these quail An Important Chapter in the History of Bedford. Its First Representative, Who Came Over In 1060 Jacobus and the Blom House A tang Line of Descendants. To undertake giving anything like a history of Bedford Corners without speaking of the Lef ferts family would be almost llko attempting to perform the play of Hamlet without the melancholy Dane In the title role, because, almost from its original Inception and for more than a hundrod years thereafter, It was known as the seat of tho Lefferts family, though, to bo strictly accurato, the Lefferts ancestor was not one of the original settlers, but purchased his land. Tho first representative of this family In this country was Laffert Pletorse van Hagowont, who migrated to this country from Holland In 1600. He settled at Flatbush, where he owned seventeen mor gen8 of laud, in 1675.

The name Laffert is said to mean loaf or bread giver; Pleterse, in accordance with the old Dutch custom of adding "so" or "sen," to signify "son of," meant "the son of Poter," while Hagewont," a village In North Holland, means "the prickly wood." We therefore have the name reduced to The breadglver, son of Peter, of the prickly wood." This old Loffort Pleteraen. or Peter Leffert, does not appear to have made himself prominent in any way except by being a constable in 1032, one of the assessors iu 1703, by acquiring a good deal of laud and by being tho father of fourteen children, the mother of whom was his good wife, Abigail, daughter of Alike Janse Van Nuyse, of New Amsterdam. On the 14th day of May, 1700, he purchased the property of Thomas Lambertse, at Bedford, and died in 1704. Out of his fourteen children, only two of whom wero girls, thus making a pretty good start for tho Leffert name in America, one settled at Bodford and became tho ancestor of that branch of tho family, and though his descendants grow in numbers, filling up and overflowing that hamlet and becoming numerous ill other States, thero is but descendants at the Bedford Corners to day ond even that one does not bear tho family name. Jacobus Lefferts, who was born January 9, 1C86, may hava inherited tho Lambert property from his father, as be was the only ono of Leffert Pleterse's children to settle at Bedford, or he may have come Into possession of Bedford land through his father in or Class Barnse Blom, of Flatbush, from whom his wife inherited property.

The change in the roads and the loss of records at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War ronder the tracing of the lines of these old localities rather difficult. Jacobus married Jannetje Blom and not only inherited land from his father, but became possessed of the Blom lands and also added to them by purchase. Thero was tho residence or Hostelry of Thomas Lambertse, which was acquired by Leffert Pleterse by purchase, which was located on the west side of the cartway in the south part of New Bedford. Thon there Was the Blom house, which seems to bo definitely located nearly opposite Arlington place, oh Fulton street, and there was another piece of land, containing tweuty acres, sold to Jacobus Lefferts on AprlH, 1753, by hi3 son in law, Hendrlck Fine, situate on the south Bide of the Kings highway and the west side of the Clove road, and seventy, four acres on the east sldo, for 760. It Is very hard to make a distinctiou in these several pieces of land without the old time records, which were carried to England and never recovered, by concluding that somo of them passed by sale from the Lefferts family and then back again.

Where was Fine's blacksmith shop? Whoro was Thomas Lambort's hostelry? Where was Jacobus Lefferts' house? Whoro was John By bon's brew house Where was the houso of Rom Remsen, father inlaw to Jacobus' son, Barent Lefferts 7 We can conjectnre and guess, but history answers with a big interrogation point We find that some of the property referred to was purchased by Loffort Pleterse, and that some, which was apparently the same, was subsequently bought from other parties by his son Jacobus. That part of Jacobus' land was bought In later years by his son Leffert commonly called "Squire Lefferts'' and again purchased by tha squire's sou, Leffert Lofforts, Jr. known as Judge Lefferts ffom outside parties. Tho exact location of the residence of Jacobus Lefferts Is uncertain. It may have been In what was known as the Blom house, as he came Into possession of his father In law's property, or it may have been at one of several other localities In the immediate neighborhood, as the Lefferts possessions, previous to the Revolution, appeared to Include, at one time or another, all the land on both sides of tho King's highway from what is now Arlington placo to Classon avenne.

The Blom house stood on tho south side of the King's highway, a little west ot south trom the Junction of Fulton street and Arlington place. It was destroyed over a hundred years ago and rebuilt by Charles Turnbull, an officer In the American Army, in 1787. Tho latter house still stands and Is owned by John Bently. It does not face squarely upon Fulton street, but at a slight angle from it, which shows the difference to the line of Fulton street and the old Brooklyn and Jamaica turnpike at this point. This house is built in the substantial mauner that houses were put up a hundred years ago.

It is only one aud a half stories, the half being in a high Dutch roof with dormer windows. The front entrance admits one to a very wide hall in which is a broad stairway leading to tho second floor. On the right or west side of this hall are two large parlors with an arch between and doors on the Bide iuto the yard. On tho other side of the hall Is a room with book cases built in the wall, evidently Intended for a library; next, without communication between, is a small room usod as a china closet, which opens Into a good sized room where the large fire place Is, now occupied by a range. Of course thoro have been changes and modifications during the century the house has stood thore, so that the present Interior arrangements only give an Idea of how tho house used to be.

Tho upper floor is out up tntb small rooms wlthilow ceilings, occasioned by the form of the roof. Beforo Jacobus died on September 25, 1754, he and his good wife, Jannetje, raised eight children, of whom four wore located at Bedford. Abigail married Lambert Suydam, who commanded a troop of horse In 1749 and was uncle to that doughty soldier, Captain Lambert Suydam, who was a familiar figure in the early days of the Revolutionary War. Eliza, another daughter of Jacobus, marrlod Hendrlck Fine, blacksmith, of Bedford. They left no descendants.

The other two children who remained at Bedford were Leffert and Barent. Whon Jacobus Lefferts died ho devised bis Bedford real estate to Barent, his Brooklyn land to Loffort and bis property In Bushwlok to his son Nicholas. Barent Lefferts, who was born on the ISth of November, 1730, married Phebo, or Femotje, daughter of Rem Remsen, of Bedford. He lived at the houso of his father iu law, which was probably what Is now the back building of the Rem Lefferts house, now standing on the corner of Arlington place and Fulton street, or In a house which stood on the King's highway, what is now tho block between Fulton street and Brevoort place, wost of Bedford avenue. He was a farmer, but was a lieutenant in the focal militia.

In November, 1776, he signed the declaration against England and took part as a member Of tho Provincial Congress. After the Battle of Long iBland, along with his neighbors, he took the oath of allegiance to Groat Britain, but In November, 1783, he promptly came forward and united with his neighbors In an address to George Washington, congratulating him oa "tho glorious and ever memorable ora of the sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America." He died in 1819, leaving six children, four daughters andtwOBOns. The daughters went olaowhere; ono son, Jacobus, died young and unmarriod, and it Is his tombstone which now stops the gap in the fence behind W. Palne's barn; and Bom inherited the old llemsou place, corner of Arlington placo and Fulton street, and In 1836 built the fine houso on it which still stands there. Rem was tjpm November 12, 1770.

and lived an odd kind of life until September 4, 1855. Ho marrlod twice, first Cornelia Remsen, of Flatlands, and second Maria Brower, of Brooklyn, but had no children by either. He was an eccentrlo Individual, and many queer stories aro told ot him. It la said that he kept at homo for a long time a $1,000 bill of tho Long Island Bank, of which his cousin, Leffert Lefferts, was the president, and would call at the bank when he was short of funds to obtain a dts count in preference to parting with the bill, even though the fact of his having the bill In his posses sloa was known to the bank officers. His object la are kept shut, and tho air, beside Being breathed over and over again by four or five pairs of lungs.

Is burned up by tho heat of an air tight stove. The inmates have never been taught the iact that It is easier to heat frosh air than fou.1 and that oxygen in the lungs helps more to warm the body thon the combustion of carbon, so they sleep iu this same air and live iu it day by day, and the children who do notlifive to go to the fresh air of the streets to work have the hardest time of It These little things are pitiable sights sometimes when que happens across them Iu a foul, ill smelling tenement room. Cheeks as white as chalk, with all the Mood that should be In them settled In their noses and dry, scarlet lips, eyes dull and heavy and a constant catarrh that makes their voices thick and uncertain. If some one would take a large sunny room, with free ventilation and warm, moist air, and start a Winter fresh air fund, by which babies and children might be brought for a day into the fresh air and the light, the infant mortality and suffering would be enormously decreased and the contributors to tho fund would have the satisfaction of feeling that their good work of the Summer was being supplemented and saved. After a while rich men will cease leaving money to aByiums aud hospitals and apply their bequests to preventives in stead of remedies of ill health, in the shape of free, comfortablo baths, Winter aud Summer, for the people, and decent, well aired and well lighted tenements.

The State has found It choapor to educate children than to punish criminals, and philanthropists will awake after a while to tho fact that monoy Is better spent in giving the poor a healthful home than providing hospitals to cure their diseases. Tho "Arabian Nights" at the Standard Theater is an entertainment including many things that occurred to the original Scheherazade. She and tho caliph associate amiably with tho creatures of her imagination, whose knowledge of current evouts and of the language of the streets of New York Is as unexpected as their agility in dancing, and as tho variety of their wardrobes. J. H.

Kyley, magician and uncle of Miss Lole Fuller, Aladdin, has a pyrotochnical struggle through threo acts with his disrespectful nephew over the possession of the magic lamp and ring, and of the two influential spirits attached thereto. These spirits are symmetrical young women Instead of intangible monstrosijles, and with tho opportune aid of machinery devised for the occasion, thoy perform prodiges of landscape alteration, such as no earthquake even with tho artistic genius of a Turner and with the stock of Jewels in King Solomon's mines could equal. One of the seismic incidents is the eruption of a curtain of real steam that veils the transformation of a cave of serpents and shudderlngsinto a crypt of crimson crystals, patrolled by pretty girls of assorted prismatlo colors, who succeed in reconciling Aladdin to his imprisonment In wondor laad. The Genii of tho King grants him a change of venue to the Sultan's palace, Whore he marries Miss Cella Kills, the Princess Balronbadora, after having paid his royal father in law's debts with counterfeit coin of the realm. T.

Russell Williams, Bargeant of the Bagdad police, disgraees the force by accepting bribes from tho magician and other suspicious characters and by reciting topical poetry composed by Captain Alfred Thompson, bis superior officer. A more astonishing series of spectacular evouts, comical colloqulos, moslom music and ballot bewilderments have nover been snen on the stage. Animated wax dolls aro wouud up to dance, ostriches appear harnessed to a chariot of fire, and as tho Arabian night wanes apace, Mrs. Aladdin is serenaded by a singing society composed ot her rejected suitors, who carol about "Tho Light of Other Days" until the audience Is woary of applause. This operatic burlesque Is tho invention and property of David Henderson of the Chicago Opera House, and it la lavishly equipped with special scenery and costumes, it will be exhibited eventually in Brooklyn, but tho Standard Theater Is crowded nightly with people from both cities.

D. New Yoke, October 2, J8S7. HOME IS THE COUNTRY. It Should bo Mado Available as a Preparation for Import iiitt Work. In the quiet of country and even of suburban life, men ought to get more time for communion with God.

Things are around which ought naturally to lead the heart upward to I'm. Alas! however, there aro many who have no longing for the quiet In order that thoy may havo fellowship with God. To such it might bo unpleasant. Conscience might tako occasion to speak too loudly. Others only find in quiet the opportunity for dreamy contemplations of their importance.

Secluding themselves In a selfish isolation, they shut themselves off from active service such as they might render. An Elijah fled lor a selfish qulot to Horeb; Jonah, for the same reason, took a voyage to Tareh ish. ThlB spirit benefits nolthor Belt nor others. The quiet should bo used, not for self, but for God. When Moses ascended Slnal, or when John went into the wilderness, or Paul went fdr tfiree years into tho desert of Arabia, it was to serve others.

So, when our great Master went into the desert to be tempted, or up Tabor's to be transfigured, or out of Jerusalem to Bethany, It was that He might come back to be of moro service unto maft. Is there not in this a hint to suburban Idlers who escape from tho conflict of Bin In the olfy? AH qulot at somo Bethany should be a preparation for tho rougher work of life and for active efforf for God. Now, ft was not only because Bethany was a quiet village that Jesus loved it, but there was one true home there. It was the nearest approach to a home that Jesus had on earth. He set a high value on domestic life.

Life in towns Is less domestio and more public Many have only rooms, not homes. There is bo little In them to hold men to them. Hence, ex cltomeut In public Is sought to supply the place of home Joys. When this Is the case the attachment to home, as home, Is lessened. Tho houso becomes a place where we board, not whero we aro at home.

This is an evil. Wo might lay It down ns a rule, that In proportion to the attachment of men and womon to thelr homos so Is the strength of a notion's life. Thero was real home life at Bethany. In it thore was a true element of Joy. All lovod Christ, and each loved the other.

Many wore tha happy hours spent by Lazarus, Mary and Martha, whon alone. But how their pulses must have quiekened In anticipation of happier still as they heard that well known and anxiously listened for footstep of Jesus approaching their lowly door, now happy they were when they could sit round aud listen to Hta teachings eoneernlng the Resur roction, or the Church, or concerning life in heaven, or of the mooting of friends there and of the occupation of the saved and of the lost great day. Quiver. The Baldwin Locomotive Worka, of Philadelphia, are employing over 2,000 hantls, and for the first six months of the present year turned out 318 locomotives. They now have orders on hand for 150, and the outlook for the year will, it is estimated, roach 656 the largest number ever known.

session of such an apparatus as we have now, could havo been stopped In their inclplency, or at least have been considerably lessened In point of Speaking of tho effort to obtain a river craft for the Are service iu this city, the chief says that recommendations had boen made from time to time to the Board of Estimate to appropriate a sufficient amount of money to build auch a boat as was required, but it was not until three years ago, upon the Joint recommendation of the Flro Department and the Board of Underwriters, a sufficient amount was allowed for the purpose. As soon as the monoy became available, the services of Mr. William Cowlss, mechanical and marine engineer, wero called Into requisition and the present fire boat was designed by him. "Almost Immediately after Its construction," continues Mr. Novins, "the services of the boat were called upon, as a large cooperage on Furman street within about 1,500 feet of the dock where the boat was located was discovered to be on fire at 10:30 P.

on the 19th of January, 1886, and within a vory short time two throe Inch streams were delivered from the boat upon the fire. The services of tho second alarm companies were dispensed with and In a short time tho fire was got under con troL Had It not been for tho services of the boat at least double the number of companies would have been called into service and the other parts 02, the city left correspondingly unprotected." The chief then gives the following, list of fires at which the Sefh Low has rendered "Invaluable 1886 March 26, steamship Carondeletj at Quarantine, S. June 5, ship Thorlco, foot Kent street; August 12, stoara lighter Roslyn, foot of Pacific street; August 23, bargo Arthur, Erie Basin Breakwator. 1887 February 12, Masury's varnish works, 187 Pacific street February 25, German bark Maria, off Fortieth street, where the boat was on duty sixteen hours; May 28, Palmer's storehouse and cooperage, Kent avenue and Fourth street, duly sixty eight hours; Juno 11, Have meyer's sugar refinery, Commercial street and Manhattan avenue, iduty seven hours; August 26, steam lighter Admiral, foot of Irving street; August 28, Hunter's Point Bridge; September 2, Hunter's Point Bridge, duty twenty seven and a half hours. Since finishing the lire boat for this city Its designer has made plans for a boat for Chicago and one for the Cleveland department.

Those boats, like ours," says Chief Nevins, are given such power and capacity as to make thom immense movable pumping stations, capable of carrying their equipment, crew, coal, etcx, quickly to the nearest practicable point aud from there operating with unlimited water supply upon a fire over 1.000 feet distant Inshore through several lines of large hose, and throwing a number of large and heavy streams. Operating upon a flro directly on tho river front these boats can throw very heavy streams from swivelling pipes with nozzles three and one half and four inches in diameter, or as many as six or eight strong two inch streams or a dozen of ono and one quarter inches. Beyond the water front belt these boats can bo made available in supplying water to the fire englnos and reinforcing them. The boats keep up steam constantly and are on the regular flro alarm and telesraph circuits by special slip cables, or they have these instruments located on the pier at the regular station." The chief also refers to the use the Brooklyn boat has served as nn Ice breaker and in helping vessels In distress. The next meeting of tho chiefs will be held in Minneapolis.

DWELLERS CAVERNS. f.ivintr Inhabitants of tbo Dark Places of the Earth Interesting Tha living inhabitants of caverns, those which make these regions of continuous darkness thoir abiding places, are numerous and of the greatest Interest to the naturalist. Of the several hundred species known to students, by far the greater part belong to the group of articulated animals, insects and crustaceans, these being the forms which, of all animals, aro the most varied In structure and best suited for the odd chances of Ufa which the caverns afford. As the reador well knows, the great problem now before science to determine how far the shapes of living creatures are determined by tho circumstances of the world about thom, and how far this determination has boen brought about through a procoas of selection, In a natural way, of those varieties which have some accidental special fitness for tho condition in whloh they live. Cavern animals afford us a oapital bit of evidence toward the solution of this problem.

The prevailing close affinity of their forms with those which live In tho upper world of sunshine and changing season shows, beyond a question, that they all dorived from similar forms which once dwelt In the ordinary conditions of animal life. What then are the effects arising from this complete change In the circumstances of thoso underground creatures The facts are perplexing in their variety, and by no moans well worked out, but the following points seem to be well established, viz: Thero is a manifest tendency of all gayly colored forms to lose their hues In the caverns and to become of an even color. This may bo oxplainod by the simple absence of sunshine, and on it no conclusion can be based. Tho changes of tho structural parts are of more Importance; those, as might bo expected, relate mainly to the organs of sense. The eyes show an evident tendency In all tha groups to fade away.

In the characteristic cavern fishes they have entirely disappeared, tho wholo structure which serves for vision being no longer produced. In the cray fishes we may observe a certaiu graduation. Some spoclea which abound In caverns are provided with oyes; others have thera present, but bo imperfect that thoy cannot serve as visual organs yet others want them altogether. One species of pseudo scorpion, as shown by Professor Hagau. has in the outer world four eyes, while fu the caves It has boen found with two eye3, and others In au entirely eyeless condition.

Some cavern beetles have the males with eyes, while the females are quiet without thom. As a whole, the cavern forms exhibit singular tendency of the visual organs, not only to lose their functions, but alsotodlsoppear as body parts. At the same time there Is an equal, or even more general development of theantennie and other organs of touch; these pajrts becomo considerably lengthened, and apparently of greater sensitiveness, a change which is of manifest udvantage to ths ln dlvIduaL Scribrur't Uaaazine. and a very great many Southerners. To see the provincial Soutborr.er in the full flower dt his efflorescence, however, it is necessary to fetch a compass into tho New York Hotel, where they most do congregate.

A Tow of tho richer and moro swell ones, mostly families from Now Orleans, have moved up to tho Victoria, but tho majority continue to patronize the downtown hostelry, where thoy have put up ever slnco It was a hotel at all. They aro very chummy and expansive, these visiting Southerners, and turn the place during heir stay into a family hotel. Any evening you stray into the corridors you will find pretty badly dross ed girls waiting up and down with their arms around each others' waists, aud the parlors are possessed by family groups and their callers, as much at home as in thei. own hospitable plantation houses. They are very amusing nt the table d'hote, whoro everyono call everyone else Aunt llary, Undo John, Cousin Susan, Cousin William, giving the onlookers a suggestion of unlimited and intricate consanguinity.

They order evorything on the bill of faro and are not particular about the cooking, tip tho waiters liberally, know thom all by name and unconsciously afford thom a great doal of secret amusement These Southerners have not, after all, ohangod very much lu typo from tho antobellum 'slaveholder. Thoy are very typically American and have not yot foil that influence of English manners which has so largely allotted the bearing of Now Yorkers and Bostonoso and introduced a reserve and frigidity of manner in public which has coir.o to be accepted here as the best of good brooding. Thoso Southerners are not to bejudged by the samo formulas that hold good in Now York. They aro very Individual and vory provincial. They aro warm hearted, impulsive and effusive.

But it is not safo to set down one of those eouplos, the woman over dressed and the man shabby, both of them thoroughly at homo and at eaao In publlo, as poo plo of low origin. Many of thom bear as worthy names as any on tho bead roll of America's groat eat, and in all essontial points of refinement are unsurpassed by tho most "correct" people in Now York. They hava a lnmentablo disregard for the mlut, anise and cummin of breeding, but In tho weightier matters of tho law, Justice and Judgment, they will be found in no rospect lacking. It is both amusing and agreeable to see tho attitude of these men to their women kind; It is the old American attitndo that held all over the country before the Introduction of the foreign olomont, and which used to lead Europeans to say that there were only two absolute sovereigns on earth tho Czar of all the Bussias and tho American girl. One of those shabby Granrtlsoulau Southerners at tho Now York Hotel is Biauton Duncan, of Louisville, ns amlablo and gallant an old crank as the South over produced.

Ho was tho mostvJolont opponent of Secession, but when 'it was accomplished lod a regiment ngalnst the Union. ITS has always bejen a prominent man in his State and is well known In England whero he has visited tho hofnos of tho most prominent people in tho United Kingdom. Just now ho is ardently interested in tho millennium and has published a pamphlet to prove that tho speedy downfall of England is plainly predated In Daniel and Revelations, and that all conquering Russia, is the foretold anti Christ. Another well known Southeruor who requonts tho Now York Hotel Is Miss Stauffer, tho young woman from New Orleans, to whom Tllden left a token ot his remembrance in the shape of $100,000, and who might, if she wished, have been the inheritor of the whole, of at least the widow's third. She was already wealthy, though, and monoy had no temptation for her.

Without being in the least pretty, she is extremely distinguished aud brilliant, and has always had the success which attends a professional beauty. Cemlng up Broadway the other day in one of Jacob Sharp's cars was a woman whom I bad not seen for years; but who some fifteen years ago I knew well. She was well dressed aud very good looking, with a large white brow, thick dark hair and black eyes. She is over 40, but extremely well preserved, not a gray hair and as few wrinkles as a woman of that ago can well get on with, she was Senator Tabor's first wife and the woman who laid the foundation of his big fortune. He has another spouse now aud sho Is divorced, but has never married again, though She cannot have laekod for opportunities, seeing that she is a handsome woman and Is much richer than tho Senator meant she should be.

Sho kept a miners' lodging house in the early days of their marriage, and It was there tho miners lived, who, while prospecting, struek the Little Httsburg mine. She believed in it from tho first, though most people didn't, and whllo thoy wers trytng to devolop it she allowed them to pay their board bills with stock in tho new lead. Sho turned it ever to hor husband, and when the rise of Little Pittsburg, came the Tabors went up with it. When he grew rich and had aspirations in the political way he thought his old wife was not good enough for him, and set about getting a new one whom he sealed to himself in a more or less informal Way la St. Louis, and afterward succeeding In tytn'g himself legally to in Washington.

He had to give his abandoned mate alimony though, and she took it in a lump In the shape of a tract of land In the suburbs of Denver. It wasn't worth much then, but she showed tho same Judgment as in tho case of Littlo Pittsburg stock. As the city grew hor wealth grew with It. She sold some of the land and built houses on the rest and now she Is worth anywhere from $100,000 to $500,000. No doubt she was crude In tho early days; keeping a miners' lodging house is not tho best school for feminine graces, but wealth aud travel and Parisian milliners have made a very attroctlve woman of her and Tabor now would have no need to be ashamed of her, in fact her friends think ho a long way ahead of hira In culture and refinement! There is no sign of tlio willow about her.

Sho looks as calm and happy as If there were no recreant husbands In existence, and though sho has never married she sooms to have found It quite possible to llvo without the mail who benefited by her discretion and devotion and deser edher for a younger, fresher face. The half holiday law soems to bo falling into innocuous desuetude on this side of tho river. These lost two Saturdays more than half tho shops have remained open though the exchanges were closed at the same hour as usual. Along Broadway a few big housos let down their shutters, and all of them closed earlier than on omer days, but the great ma.