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13 THE BROOKLYN' DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1900. CANNERS HOLD CONVENTION. THE STORY OF CECIL LESLIE. SON'S MORE PAY FOR TEACHERS.

TALES TOLD OF ANIMALS. Ernest Seton Thompson Lectures Before an Interested Audience at the Montauk Theater. exclude competition? With tho States owning the roadbeds and the cities owning tho terminals, and no favor showu to any transportation company, but free play being given to competition, would not the public get the maximum of service at tho minimum of cost? What harm then could come from discriminating rates to shippers where any number of transportation companies were competing over the same highway for traffic? Would not this establishment of the conditions of freedom to Individual enterprise do more than the most severe State or Inter State regulations in fixing rates? Indeed, this is the only plan which will establish competition from all points to all points. It would meac just plain freedom! And what could be better for all men and for all legitimate and normal businesses than freedom? "It may seem that all governmental favors have been embraced by the three classes of monopoly that we have now consid'id. But there Is another class, which, though not so clearly seen, is more far reaching, more disastrous in its effects upon the general community, namely, that class of monopolies growing out of conditions created by the local, etate and national tax systems.

This form of governmental favor is not only the chief source of advantages enjoyed by corporations, but has as well conferred monopolistic powers upon vast numbers of individuals arid combinations of individuals. "I can draw no other deduction than that our whole present system ot taxation, from its nature or administration, tends to produce governmental favors, is to the advantage of some and the disadvantage 'of others. "Thiis great inequality of burden is quietly borne by the people because tariff taxation Is indirect and cannot be plainly seen. But if national revenue were raised by direct payment from the citizen to the government, such inequality of burden would not be tolerated for a moment. State and local taxes are more direct.

They are levied on the value of the property of the citizens, and notwithstanding' poor administration, fall far more equally. They attempt to measure how much each shall pay on the value of what he has. rather than on what he needs. And yet with what very great injustice is even such taxation distributed between owners of the same class of property! And what advantages, in commerce and industry, do the inequalities give to some over others? "Take the instance of the tax on mortgages. Though generally the same as on real estate, very little revenue is raised from this source.

Indeed, practically the only ones who pay it are those whose estates are tied than two thousand and one hundred and sixty dollars per annum; provided, however, that the service of nuch teacher, vlca prlncipal, head of department, or first assistant shall have been approved after Inspection and Investigation as tit and meritorious by a majority or the borough board of school superintendents. No male vice prtnclpul. head of department, first assistant, assistant to the principal or teacher of a graduating class shall be paid a less than two thousand four hundred dollars per annum. But no teacher shall bo paid a salarv greater than that fixed for the seventh year of service unless the service of such teacher shall have been approved after inspection and investigation, as fit and meritorious bv a majority of the borough board of school superintendents; nor shall any teacher. vlc? prlnclpal.

head of department, first assistant, assistant to the principal or teacher of a graduating class be paid a salarv greater than the salary of a teacher of the same sex in the twelfth year of sen it unless the service of such teacher, vice principal, head of department, first assistant, assistant to the principal or teacher of a graduating class shall have been approved after Inspection and investigation as fit and meritorious by a majority of th borough board of school superintendents. The eaid borough board of school superintendents shall approve or disapprove the servh of each teacher, vice nrlnclpal, hoad of department, first assistant, "assistant to the principal, or teacher of a graduating class within forty school days after the day upon which such teat her, vice principal, head of department, first assistant to the principal. or teacher of a graduating class becomes eligible to the increase In salary conditioned upon said approval. For oil purposes affecting the increase of of the teachsrs in any school, the principal of such school shall have a seat in the borough board of school superintendents with a vote on such fitness and merit all increases of salaries of the teacherr. In said school.

The board of examiners shall issue to ench teacher who has had experience in schools other than the schools of the boroughs of the City of cNew York a certificate stating that the experience of such teacher Is equivalent to a certain number of years of experience In the schools of said boroughs, and such certificate shall entitle the holder to salary in accordance with the minimum schedule of salaries herein established, subject howei'er to th? inspection and investigation as to fit and meritorious service hereinbefore provided. The salaries of the women principals and branch principals In said schools shall be increased by the addition of two hundred and fifty dollars in each year until they shall receive the sum of two thousand and five hundred dollars per annum: and the salaries of th male principals in said schools shall be Increased by the addition of two hundred and fifty dollars in each year until they shall receive the sum of three thousand nnd five hundred dollars per annum; and no male principal, after ten j'ears of servic as principal in said schools, shall receive less than three thousand five hundred doliars per nnnum; and no woman principal of ten years' as principal in said schools shall receive less than twenty five hundred dollars per annum, provided, however, that the service of such principal shall have been approved after inspection and investigation as fit and meritorious by a majority of the borough board of superintendents; but these provisions Bhall not apply to principals or branch principals of schools of less than twelve classes. No principal or branch principal of a school of less than twelve classes shall be paid a salary less than that paid to a head of department or assistant to the principal of the same sex. See. 2.

In high and training schools for teachers, no junior or substitute teacher, laboratory or library assistant, or clerk, shall receive less than seven hundred dollars per annum, nor less than one thousand dollars per annum after three years of service; no male Junior or substitute fachT, laboratory or library assistant, or clerk, Ih such high schools and training schools for teachers shall receive less than nine hundred dollars per annum, nor less than twelve hundred dollars per annum after three years of service; no regular teacher In high schools and training schools for teachers shall receive less than eleven hundred dollars per annum, nor less than nineteen hundred dollars per annum nfter ten yearn of service as such or after equivalent years of service as may be hereinafter provided, or after fifteen years of service In the public schools of any of the boroughs; no regular male teacher in said high schools and training schools for teachers shall receive less than thirteen hundred dollars pr annum, nor less than twenty four hundred dollars per annum after ten years of service as such, or after thirteen years of service in the public schools of any of the boroughs; no head teacher, principal's assistant, first assistant or principal in said high schools and training schools for teachers shall receive less than two thousand dollars per annum, nnr less than twenty five hundred dollars per annum after five years of servire as such, and no male head teacher, principal's assistant, first assistant, or vice principal in said high schools and training schools for teachers shall receive less than twenty five hundred dollars per annum, nor less than three thousand dollars per annum after live years of servire as such. Junior teachers, substitute teachers, laboratory or library New York Jobbers' Contract Rejected as Too One sided. Detroit, February 14 Officers were elected as follows by the three canners' associations, which began their annual conventions heTe yesterday: Western Canners' Association President, A. H. Trego ot Hooperstown.

secretary and treasurer, W. T. Birchard. Marshall town, la. Atlantic States Canners' Association President, J.

G. Winters, Mount MoTrl. N. Y. secretary and treasurer, H.

P. Cannon, Brldge ville, Del. Canners' Machinery and Supplies Association President, I. V. MeCagg, Chicago; secretary and treasurer, J.

T. Staff. Terre Haute, Ind. The form of contract suggested by the New York Jobbers' Association was discuesed and rejected, as too one sided, by both the Western and At'antic States packers. Both associations discussed a revision of the tin plate tariff, and from the opinions expressed it i 3 probable that the joint convention of all the associations will adopt resolutions favoring a revision, owing to the increase In the ccst of tin cans.

About 600 delegates are attending the three conventions. GOV. ROOSEVELT'S RECORD. An Independent Paper Marks the Percentage of Reform Decline in His First Tear in Office. From the New York Evening Post 1 Governor Roosevelt has formally announced that he will not.

under any circumstances, accept the nomination for the vice presidency. In giving out his statement he said: "And I am happy to state that Senator Flatt cordially acquiesces in my views tne matter." I The Governor had already made it practi cally impossible that he should be on the same ticket with Mr. McKinley, by pointedly opposing the President's policy on the two most important questions which have come up of late. Mr. McKinley favored a peaceable adjustment ot the controversy in Kentucky; Colonel Roosevelt's voice, as usual, was for war.

Mr. McKinley accepted the civilized view that an isthmian canal should be a neutral waterway, for the commerce of the world; Colonel Rooseveit. of course, insists upon the United States manaair.s if in I such a way that there shall always be a good chance for a fight over its control with one I of the great powers. The Governor sees that oil and water will not mix any better than such conflicting views as to tne true policy of the party, both at home and abroad. The Governor believes that his surrender to the Republican boss has insured his re nomination for his present office next fall.

with the support, or at least without the op position, of the party machine. At any rate, i he will seek the nomination, as he has a pcr feet right to do, and he invites the judg ment of the people upon the record which he has made in the executive office since New Year's of 1809. It may be doubted if any man ever became Governor of New York who had a greater opportunity than Theoaore Roosevelt's, a year ago last month. With uncommon natural gifts, with an experience in other offices, at Albany, at Washington, and in Xew York City, which had been most valuable, with great personal prestige as a rising leader of men in civil affairs, with the glamour of a war record in Cuba which had captivated the masses, with the knowledge that his election was not the victory of the Republi can organization, but of the candidate whom I that organization had been forced to ac cept, he commanded the whole situation. He had only to go ahead and do his duty as he knew his duty, anrl his record would have made him the master of the machine, and a champion of the people whom the machine I would not dare to resist.

i Colonel Roosevelt started out as though he meant tp improve this wonderful opportunity. The first test, of his quality was the appointment of a superintendent of public works I the official who controls more patronage than any other in the service of the state. The machine realized the importance of the. place as keenly as the Governor. It wanted rrancls Hendricks for Superintendent.

Governor Roosevelt knew and liked the man. He was familiar with Mr. Hendricks' good record as a city official in Syracuse, a legislator at Albany, and collector of the port in this city. But he recognized that Mr. Hendricks' relations with the machine were so close that he could not safely be trusted to administer the canal department in the interest of the state.

Instead of accepting the choice of the machine, he picked out his own man. He knew Dr. Truman J. Backus to be a Republican of Brooklyn whotf judgment about prominent Brooklyn men could be trusted, and he knew two other Brooklyn men of the same type as Dr. Backus.

Colonel John N. Patrridge of Brooklyn, a thoroughly independent Republican of high business standing, seemed the best man within reach. Governor Roosevelt consulted Dr. Backus and the two ether Brooklynites of whom we have spoken, agreeing that he would appoint Colonel Partridge if they. should report that he was honest, efficient, and would run the canals on a business basis.

Their report was altogether favorable, and the Governor kept his word. The machine was disgusted, because Colonel Partridge had bolted Piatt's nomination of General Tracy for Mayor, little more than a year before, and had earnestly supported Seth Low, the independent candidate. But the Governor had the whip hand, and the machine had to take a man who had been picked out becausa he was not the inach ine man, and could be trusted not to run the Public Works Department for the benefit of the machine. A year later another very important office was to be filled. Lou Payn's term as insurance superintendent was running out.

and it was essential that his successor should be a man as free from machine influence as Colonel Partridge. But an entire change had come over the Governor during the twelvemonth. He did not now seek to find the best man in the state for head of the Insurance Department. He did not consult Dr. Backus and other unselfish Republicans of that type.

On the other hand, he proclaimed that he would not nominate any man who was not indorsed by the machine. By the irony of fate, the man whom he flnally accepted at the hands of the machine fo Payn's successor was the very person whom he had refused, a year before, to take, with the same indorsement, and because of that indorsement, for successor of Aldridge In the Public Works Department. About the same time the term of Dr. Backus as the working member of the Long Island State Hospital board of managers expired. The Governor knew and respected Dr.

Backus so weil that he consulted him and was largely guided by bis advice as to the appointment of Colonel Partridge. He had been fully informed as to the admirable service of Dr. Backus on the hospital board by Alexander E. Orr. another member of the board.

whom the Governor knows to be one of our most public spirited citizens and one of our best business men. When Mr. Orr pointed out In a letter to the executive that, as a matter of course. Dr. Backus should be reappointed, the Governor replied, in a written communication, that he realized the force of what Mr.

Orr had said, arid that he should promptly send In the nomination. The next thing that all concerned knew was that the' nomination of another man had been sent in and confirmed without any consultation with Mr. Orr or any other member of the hospital board, and as now appears, without consultation with any one of the Lunacy Commissioners except the member who Is known as Senator Raines' man. The son in law of Senn tor Raines had been forced by Dr. Backus to resign his place as superintendent of the hospital for proved unfitness, and no suggestion of any reason for the removal of Dr.

Backus has every come from anybody but Senator Raines' man on the Lunacy Commission. Governor Roosovelt began his first year at Albany as though he meant to be the best Governor of the state that he could possibly be, and let the future take care of itself go contentedly Into retirement, if the people should not insist upon giving him a second term. He has begun his second year as though public office was essential to his peace of mind, as though he could not bear the thought of ceasing to fill a conspicuous position, as though life would hardly be worth living if he could not every day be issuing pronuncla mentos from the executive chamber at Albany, on his way to the White House at Washington, as to how a quarrel In Kentucky shall be settled, how an Isthmian canal shall be controlled, how the Philippines shall be administered In short, how the universe shall be run. In the brief Intervals of time left from these national duties he gives cursory attention to the affairs of the state government, constantly consulting the boss as to every step, and "happy" when the boss Is. with him.

FOR THE TRUST EVIL. The Railroad Magnate Says Restrictions and Special Privileges Should Be Removed. THE GREATEST MONOPOLIES. Evils of Patent, Municipal, Transportation, Taxation and Land Monopolies and How to Overcome Them. (Special to the Eagle.) Chicago, February 14 New York is well represented at the anti trust conference here.

There are several delegates from Brooklyn, Including Henry George, who as a member of the committee on resolutions took an active part in the framing of the platform submitted last night; D. B. Van Vleck, president of the Brooklyn Single Tax League, and E. B. Swln ney of the same organization.

Eugene V. Brewster is expected to read a paper advocating the socialistic remedy for abolishing trusts. A paper that has attracted considerable attention was on "Free Money; the Remedy for the Trust Evil," by Professor Alfred B. Westrup of Brooklyn. The main feature of the address was a proposition to establish a system for the supply of paper money which embodied the mutual or co operative feature as it is in life or fire Insurance.

Professor Westrup contends that as paper money is a form of credit, the government has no business to meddle with it, and that if left to private enterprise with free comnetiti should soon have the best money system that It is possible to devise. All the evils of our currency, he thinks, are the results of arbitrary interference with improvements that are known and would be introduced if the state would only take its hands off and leave it to private citizens who know more about it than Its officials do. He admits that the evil of trusts is monopoly, but says that with free trade in banking monopoly could not exist because we should necessarily come to realize that all borrowers who have security have an equal right to obtain credit money from its source the printing press, the same as the national banks do. Such a result, he contends, would put in circulation as much money as the total debts contracted in borrowing money, or, in other words, the total amount borrowed and the volume of money in circulation would be equal; whereas now, paper money in circulation is not a twentieth part of the mortgage indebtednesa alone, without counting the money loaned on other considerations. The security being the same, the mutual associations that furnished the paper money would be as safe as the money lenders are; and if these associations are responsible trustees, the holders of its paper would be as safe as the holders of the paper of the national banks.

Professor Westrup said that the real issue involved in the money question has never been discussed by the public generally and that that issue is the right of the individual to credit in the form, of paper money which all systems of money have deprived him of compelling him to use the money lender's credit, which he has to pay for at the; rate, that absorbs more than the increase of wealth. The mutual system will eliminate the profit of the money lender and supply money at cost. Interest on money loaning once being abolished and the volume of money in circulation being equal to the sum of all money borrowed, usury in all its forms would soon Monopoly, says Professor Westrup, is the absence of competition. Let there be unrestricted competition, and monopoly would cease to exist. The mutual system which he advocates, he announced, is to consist of a local association in every city and one general clearing house and supervising agency for the whole country.

Tom L. Johnson's Remedy for Trust Evils. Tom L. Johnson, the street railroad magnate, delivered a paper last night on trusts and monopolies. He said: "One of the most prevalent notions is that combination is in iteelf an evil, or that it necessarily results in evil.

It is said that combinations of men and aggregations of capital, if not absolutely prohibited by law, ought to be regulated and restricted, and more specifically It is said that the law allows too much freedom for corporate combinations. Others again say that competition is at fault, and they would have the law interfere and by regulation and restriction force men to act as it 1g conceived they ought to act. "With all this I have no sympathy, it is plain to my mind that competition is the natural order among free men, and that immense benefits to the whole community result therefrom. In my view, the evils of which there is such loud complaint are due to the restrictions created and the special privileges granted by law, and the true remedy for the evils will be found in removing the restrictions and in abolishing the special privileges. "What are the restrictions and the special privileges against which commerce and industry now struggle so vigorously? There are many of them, but substantially all may, I think, be grouped, in the inverse order of Importance, in the following five classes: Patent monopolies, municipal monopolies, transportation monopolies, taxation monopolies and land monopoly.

"The policy of encouraging and rewarding inventors by the grant of monopolies, openly avowed in the Constitution of the United States, is the last distinct survival of a policy which once had a very much wider application, and which, in every other case, has been abandoned because it was recognized to be unsound. The patent monopolies are supported by the argument that they encourage inventions and development of the useful arts. I do not believe that they really have this effect. Useful iaventions come naturally, and almost inevitably, as the next necessary step in industrial evolution. Most of them are never patented, or attempted to be patented.

The patents that are granted' interfere with the natural development. "The simple remedy is to repeal the patent laws, which would at once limit this particular form of governmental favor to not more than seventeen yeaTs, being the life of the longest existing patent. "If inventors must be rewarded, would it not be better to pay them a bounty than to continue a system productive of so much evil? We could measure accurately in dollars at least the co3t of the folly. "Consider next municipal monopolies. They consist of rights and privileges in the public streets and highways which, in the nature of the case, cannot be possessed by all the people, and can only be enjoyed by a few.

A constant strugglo goes on to obtain such privileges, with the result of checking and retarding for a long time necessary public improvements. Rival claimants not strong enough to obtain what they want, often succeed In checkmating each other at the expense of denying to the public needed advantages. My proposition on this subject is to enlarge the functions of municipalities so that the means of transportation and communication, and the supply of water and light, shall be furnished by public authority and not by privato enterprise, and extend this principle to its logical result of taking under public administration all businesses which require the grant of anv special right or privilege. I would not advocate any disregard of existing rights, or any confiscation of existing property. Municipalities ought not to hesitate to do what private persons in business do as a matter of course.

They should respect the grants which they have made according to their true limits, but, doing this: they should take advantage of every right that is 16ft to themselves to get rid of the present system and substitute therefor a regime of public ownership and operation. "The third class of trusts growing out of governmental favor relates to transportation, chief of which Is tho railroad. Is not the simple, easy, practicable remedy to he found In going back to the original conception underlying tho railroad to make a really 'public' highway for privato transportation companies or individuals to use? in making tho highway public property, should wo not destroy tho essence of present monopoly power in the railroad, tho power to Press Agent of the Franklin Syndicate Says the Eagle Closed the Money Mill. INQUIRY WAS PERSISTENT. An Alleged Confession Which Relates the Downfall of the Floyd Street Speculation.

In an alleged confession, which was printed In the Evening World of yesterday, Cecil Leslie, who was known as the "press 3gent" of the Miller syndicate, gives the Eagle the credit for closing the money mill. Leslie declares that Miller made at least $1,000,000 out. of the syndicate, and that tie fact that the Napoleon of finance had hut 51 in hie pocket when he was arrested was but a ruse for effect. Leslie says Miller had $10,000 worth of jewelry on his person and his pockets stuffed with money when he saw him last, and that $100,000 deposited in the Wells, Fargo Co. Bank by Miller has not been touched.

Leslie declares Miller had strong and far reaching political influence, and that he also had Influence with the police. In speaking of the manner in which the Eagle ended the operations of the syndicate, Leslie said: "It was on the Monday of the week that I left the Miller syndicate. A reporter for the Brooklyn Eagle interviewed me. as an old newspaper man, knew that he was after W. F.

and proposed to break up the Franklin Syndicate. As I was still in V. employ I did not propose to help Miller in his downfall, but at the same time war, naturally too honest to lie. As a result the reporter and I did. not get along well in our interview.

He wanted to know what my authority was for certain statements. In an offhand way I told him that I was W. press agent. Well, I wasn't, but I wanted to smooth down the newspapers, though I well knew the task I had before me. My heart wasn't in it.

for the Miller game was to me then the biggest swindle that I had ever known, and I have seen some good 'con' combinations in the West and on the Continent. "Now on that day when the reporter left, me he mentioned my natneL'n his story. He did the same thing on Tuesday, when all of the New York papers were devoting whole pages to denouncing Miller and his band of thieves. "On Wednesday, November 22. the day that I left, I had a talk with Miller about the Eagle man.

I told him that the reporter was pressing hard certain questions that I could not. answer the stocks that the syndicate were investing its money in, etc. said Miller, assuming a careless air, tell him we are buying thousands of shares of Rock Island, selling General Electric, and impress upon him the fact that we have large amounts deposited in the North River and Shoo and Leather And I am sorry to say that I followed my instrustions. I met the reporter that day and told him without a smile howr sound the concern was. I didn't take much stock in the yarn about dabbling in those stocks, hut I did believe honestly that Miller had large amounts to his credit in the two banks mentioned, and I laid great, stress on that point.

The reporter appeared to believe. "But this Is what, makes me wild with rage when I think of it the reporter made copious notes, left me, and went to Miller. He told Miller what his press agent said, and then produced proof's that the cashiers of both banks he had spoken of had compelled him to withdraw his account. The reporter then printed my. statement and Miller's acknowledgment that he had no account at either bank.

"I left him that night and notified the police of the same. "On the following day the same reporter was present in the syndicate offices. A man with one of the original certificates promising to pay on demand came in. That man had Insured Miller's life and as a commission received 540. Thirty dollars of this amount he put in the syndicate.

Later he drew out $10. and from the remainder. I believe, he tripled his deposits in dividends. But on this day he wanted the principal. He flashed his certificate on Miller.

F. was angry. He thought the man was ungrateful to him. His stubborn disposition came to the front. 'You are a nice he cried.

'You want to get your money now. when I put you in the way of making 520 per cent, on my own money. You must let me have the same notice that my other customers give. Get out or I'll throw you "The reporter heard the threat, and he helped the row aVong until Miller threatened to call the police. Then the reporter took the claimant to the District Atorney's office and there made a charge against the syndicate.

That was the first complaint against Miller and Mr. Steele, the then District Attorney, grabbed it eagerly. "I was included in th? complaint, with Miller, though why is stii! a mystery, except that it was at the suggestion of the reporter." BATTERY GIVES A SUPPER. A Novel Affair in the Thirteenth Regiment Armory Last Night. Battery of the Thirteenth Regiment Heavy Artillery, N.

G. N. gave a supper last night which was a decided novelty, in that all the food was cooked by members. They called It a "military mess." and by a unanimous vote the boys decided that no caterer ever prepared a supper equal to it. Captain Sydney Grant, who is nothing if not original, decided some time ago that it would be a good plan to try somethiag new In the way ot a company entertainment and suggested that a supper be prepared by the members of the organization, so that they could form some sort of an idea as to what they would have to eat in case they were sent into the field.

No guardsman could complain if he were given as good as was set before the members of the battery and their friends last night. The cooks were Quartermaster Sergeant Harry Mecks and Privates J. C. Ar nott, Randolph Hulsart and Benjamin P. Laing.

After beef soup was served, roast beef, with baked and boiled white arid sweet notatoes. steived tomatoes and stewed corn, celery, pickles, rice pudding and coffee. Every I thing was cooked to a turn ana mere was.no limit to the praise bestowed upon the kitchen quartet. Pipes and toeabDo were furnished for all. When these were called into service.

Captain Grant rapped for order and introduced as the first speech maker Major William A. Turpin. The latter told briefly what was meant by the change of the Thirteenth from an infantry to a heavy artillery regiment and pictured its future under the new order of things In glowing language. He was followed by Captain Ashley of the Beecher Company, who wished all sorts of good luck; Lieutenant Bagnall (supernumerary). Lieutenants E.

J. Reilly and C. O. Dewey, Le Moyne Burleigh. Sergeant Titus and others.

The last speaker was Captain Grant himself. He invited all those present who were not members the battery to join, and he told what were the principal advantages of membership. His statement that probably the gray full dress would not be required in the future was received with applause. "All the advantages of a first class club are here offered." said the Captain, "at a very small cost. Battery owes no man a dollar and has money In the bank." He explained, that to the families of members not in arrears a death benefit of $100 was promptly paid.

There was a large attendance of members of the battery and their friends, among the latter being Sergeant Bert Becker, lately appointed assistant Inspector of small arms practice; Ordnance Sergeaut Jatnes Mc Nevin. Sergeant TV. A. Graham, Lloyd Elle son. W.

E. Henderson, W. J. Madden. C.

Eestrip, Ralph C. Phinney. H. Stelling, F. Carr.

W. Sheppard, Charles S. Pike W. O'Donnell, H. H.

Birch, W. F. Wallace C. Cameron. A.

Winnnt. W. J. Maurer, W. Cameron, R.

V. Ellsworth, Thomas Bowen. E. Brush, H. M.

Bardell and Garry Wilson. An exhibition of a phonograph by E. J. Connette added to the pleasure of the evening. Provisions of the Fallows Bill That Is Expected to Be Passed.

IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS MADE. Salaries to' Be Increased in "Various Grades Absolutely Fixed Ahearn Law Defects Bemedied. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, February 14 Yesterday afternoon the cities committee of the Assembly reported unanimously in favor of the Fallows school bill. Early in the day the sub committee on school legislation of which Mr. Brennan of Kings is the chairman, had decided upon that bill as the most feasible and pracfical method of Axing the salaries question for the teachers of Greater New York.

It is generally considered that Messrs. Brennan and Fallows have again stolen a march on the Senate committee and while the Senators were quarreling among themselves the As3emblymen have agreed upon a bill which will probably be the one finally to pass. That it has the support of principals, heads of departments, class teachers and borough boards, was conclusively demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Assemblymen at the hearing in Manhattan on Saturday. There all the borough representatives were of one mind as to the method they wanted. They all declared for the Ahearn law as amended by Assemblyman Slater.

Mr. Fallows bill provides for the same amendments, but goes further and fills clearly and completely the unfortunate gaps in the Ahearn law that cost no end of trouble and delay, to say nothing of the $18,000 spent by Brooklyn teachers in their efforts to have its provisions carried out. The Fallows bill establishes a grade minimum salary for women for each year, from the first up to and including the sixteenth. The Ahearn law provided that women teachers should receive not less than $600 for ten years, $900 at the end of that period and at the end of fifteen years $1,200. The trouble was that the intermediate periods were not covered and teachers did not know w.hat they were to receive in the second, third and fourth years or up to the tenth year, or the years between th tenth and fifteenth of service.

It was possible for the boards to pay them one salary up to ten years and then ji'nip up to the full limit for that time. Fallows bill fixes the same yearly increases ror tne men up to and including the thir toenth year. The bill provides for teachers of the classes of thD. last two grades in elementary schools and for teachers of mixed classes, matters that verc left indefinite or omitted in the Ahearn It fixes the periods for inspection and investigation for meritorious service and thus prevents uncalled for annoyance or hounding of the teachers every year, a matter the Ahearn law does not touch upon. It further provides for outside service, an important incident in the educational system which has never been properly treated or considered.

Brooklyn teachers with ten, twelve or even twenty years' experience, under the existing law, would enter upon their first year if they took up work in New York. Again it provides for principals or branch principals with less than twelve classes, and includes a schedule for high school and training classes, one clause putting the Hafrigan schedule in force in Brpoklyn by fixing the schedules In force on September Jast. All these things the Ahearn law lacks. As for the question of money the bill calls for revenue bonds to pay the salaries of 1900 require? the Board of Estimate and Apportionment to provide for the funds, thereafter, to carry out the schedule. The bill is believed to have the sanction of the Governor and is the only one that now seems likely to pass.

There will be a meeting of the Senate educational sub committee to day, when eome step toward a committee bill will be taken. A conference with the Senate committee will subsequently take place. The Fallows bill, with all amendments. Is as follows: Section 1. Section rn hundred and ninety one of chap'tPr three Hundred and' seventy eight of th laws of eighteen hundred nnd ninety seven.

entitled "An act to unite into one municipality under Oie corporate name of. the City of New "York, th various communities lyinp; in and about N'ew York harbor, including the city nnd county of New York, the City of Brooklyn and the County of Kings, the County of Richmond and part of the County of Queens, nnd to provide for the government thereof." as amondeu by chapter four hundred and seventeen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety nine, is Iierebj' junended to read as follows Sec. 1091. Each school hoard shall have power to adopt by laws. fixing ihe salaries of the borough and associate superintendents, of principals and branch principals and of all other members cf the supervising and teaching staff, and such salaries shall be regulated by merit, by the grade of class taught, by the length of service or by the experience in teaching of the Incumbent in charpre, or by such a combination of these considerations as the school board may deem proper.

Paid salaries need not be uniform throughout all the several boroughs, nor in any two of them, nor throughout any one borough The salarleH fixed and established and duly payable in different schools of the territory hereby consolidated as these salaries were on the first day of January, eighteen hundred an3 ninety eight, shall be and remain the salaries in the schools of the boroughs, hereby constituted, until the same shall be changed or modified as provided for in this section, but the said salaries shall not be less than the salaries last duly fixed and established bv the school hoards of the several boroughs on or before the first day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety nino. and in force, due, payable or paid on that day in the severa.1 boroughs of the City of New York. No regular woman teacher in the public schools of any of the boroughs shall he paid a salary imm less than hundred dollars per annum. Except as hereinafter provided, each woman teacher after one year of service as a teacher in said schools shall be paid not less than six hundred and forty four dollars per annum: and after two years of such service, not less than six hundred and eighty eight dollars per annum; and after three rears of such service, not less than seven hundred and thirty two dollars per annum; and after four years of such service, not less than seven hundred and seventy six dollars per annum; and five vears of such service, not less than eight hundred and twenty dollars per annum; and after six years of such service, not less than eight hundred and sixty four dollars per annum; and after sevnn vears of such service, not lefts than nine hundred and eight dollars per annum; and after eight vears of such service, not less than nine hundred and fifty two dollars per annum; and after nine years of such service, not less than nine hundred and ninety six dollars per annum; and after ten years of such service, not less than ten hundrsd and forty dollars per nnnum; and after eleven years of such service, not less than ten hundred and eighty four dollars par annum; and after twelve years of such service, not less than eleven hundred and twenty eight dollars per annum; and after thirteen years of such service, not less than eleven hundred and seventy two dollars per annum; and after fourteen years of such service, not less than twelve hundred and sixteen dollars per annum: and after fifteen years of such service, not less than twelve hundred and sixty dollars per annum. The salary of each woman teacher of a.

clues of boys or of a mixed class shall be not less than sixty dollars per annum greater than the minimum salary to which her years ofV service entitle her. No teacher of the grades of the last two years of the elementary schools, who has completed fifteen years of service as a teacher, shall be pa id less than one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars per annum. No teacher shall, after ten years of service in the public schools of said boroughs, reCeive less than nine hundred dollars per annum nor shall any teacher, after fifteen years of service in said achools receive, less than twelve hundred dollars per annum; and no No woman, vice principal, head of department or first assistant or teacher of a graduating class in said schools shall be paid less than fourteen hundred and forty dollars per annum; no head of department or assistant to the principal shall be paid less than sixteen hundred dollars per annum, and no No male teacher In the public schools of any of the boroughs shall be paid a salary less than nine hundred dollars per nnnum. Except as hereinafter provided, each male teacher after one year of service as a teacher in said schools shall be paid not less than ten hundred and ten dollars per annum; and after two years of such service, not less than eleven hundred and twenty dollars per annum; and after three years of ouch service, not less than twelve hundred and thirty dollars per annum; and after four years of such service, not less than thirteen hundred and forty dollars per annum; and after five yars of such service, not less than fourteen hundred and fifty dollars per nnnum: and after six years of such Bervlce. not less than fifteen hundred and slxtv dollars per annum; and after seven vears of such service, not less than sixteen hundred and seventy dollars per annum; and nfter eight years of such service, not less than seventeen hundred and eighty dollars pr annum; and after nine years of such service not less than eighteen hundred and ninety dollars' per annum: nnd nfter ten years of such service not less than two thousand dollars per annum; and nfter eleven years of such service, not less tlu.n two thousand one hundred and ten dollars per nnnum; and after twelve years of such service, not less hnn two thousand two hundred nnd twenty dollars ner annum nffsr twelve yuari of rervlec In said schaoln shall receive less BEARS OF THE YELLOWSTONE.

A Big Cinnamon "Whipped by a Cat. Grizzly Who Tried to Hun a Hotel. Before an audience largely composed ot children, Ernest Seton Thompson le ctured at the Montauk Theater yesterday afternoon. Mr. Thompson talked about wild animals, with which may be said to have had close personal associations during a long and varied career as a naturalist, and about which has written with a vividness of description and a sympathetic charcn of style that have left Lobo and Raggylug and Sllverspot only a llttl" less clearly defined to most of us than are Eaghcera and Baloo and the immortal heroes of tho Reeonee pack.

Mr. Thompson is not a born lecturer, so far as his method ot. addressing an audience is concerned, but is immotlSPlv pntpnnim'n' hpnniiKp hp hjin chrsen to talk upon interesting subjects with which he in entirely familiar. Or his ability to hold the attention of his auditors, even when they ere very juvenilp. th? following incident will serve as an example: The theater was in total darkness, sav for tn? white parch of lighr throivn upon lha picture srreen by the stereoptioon.

There was a dead silence, broken only by the smothered gasps of snail Soys and girls as the lecturer told how Loco, the king wolf of the Currum paw pack, took bloody vengeance for the murder the beautiful white wolf who was his mate. "Lobo crept up to our cabin at said Mr. Thompson, "and we were awakened by a slifieij yelp. Then all was still. knew what bad happened.

In the morning we found that Loi had seized our pet dog ani torn him into litti pieces." Suddenly a small voice piped shrill and high through the darkness: did he tore up the dog for?" Like a wise man Mr. Thompson didn't stop to solve the but. kept right on with the story o' the plot that, le to Lobo's undoing, and which is ramiliar to those who have been fortunate enough to read "Wild Animals I Have Known." To such as were familiar with Mr. Thomp son's books net all of his lecture proved novel. That does not imply that any of It proved uninteresting.

The evolution of th reader into the auditor is as natural as that of the ai.Mh.ir into the lecturer, and in changed relations there is always a renewal of mutual interest. Mr. Thompson re told yesterday, with added effect, some of the) biography of trip Springfield fox. he trapped poor Blauca all over again, he made more than a passing allusion to his friends, the. coyotes, and explained anew some of nature's philosophy in the matter of cotton tails and jack rabbits.

Like Mowgli. he expressed a decided preference for wolves, but he spent most of his time talking about bears. Mr. Thompson studied bears in the Yellowstone Tsrk and the youngsters fairly howled with glee when he showed tbem pictures oi five fuzzy, wide eyed kittens watching their motlie cat whip an intrusive cinnamon, wh.i had come where he wasn't wanted. "Finally." said Mr.

Thompson, "the can chased the bear up a tree and sat at the foot of it until one of the game wardens notified the hotel proprietor to 'call off his Mr. Thompson dug a hole in a garbage heap near a hotel in the Yellowstone Park in order to better observe the bears that congregated there to feed. He smelt so badly at night that tho hotel people made him change hii clothes in the woods before he came indoors? but he had bis reward. He saw bears of all sizes nnd shapes, from the gigantic, overbearing grizzly down to the timid, nondescript little beggar in brown. Ho photographer bears he sketched bears, and.

according to specimen pages cf bis note hook, reproduced by th srereopticcn, he must, have interviewed bears. He saw forty during ihab one odorous vigil, although he is not. prepared to swear that some of them wore not repeaters, for the Yellowstone bear has habit of lunching every, hour or so. returning to the woods when hf appetite is temporarily satisfied and reappearing wh'en he feels the need of more tomato cans anrl ether delicacies of the garbag rNnn n. r.

ml. I grizzly that took possession of a Yellowstona frightening ihe guests and drove th9 clerk away from his desk. The clerk telephoned to the jrk superintendent: "Grizzly in possession of the hotel: may I shoot Back came the answer: "No shooting allowed in the park: use the hose." So Bruin was drowned out, and made his exit by way of tha kitchen, where he hypothecated a side at beef as a memento of his visit. THE OLD MAIDS' CONVENTION. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: In the Eagle of Sunday, the Hth I note that, an "Old Maids' Convention" is to be held in the Sunday school room of Plymouth Church on Wednesday evening, February 21, at 8 o'clock.

Is it to be a gathering ot old maids, to the exclusion of the public In. general, and will the convention discuss th cause and cure of old maids? Who are tha speakers, and is it to he a twentieth century movement whereby old maids will cease to be? Can you or any of the readers of the Eagle inform me why the convention is to be held in the school room, instead of the main audience room ot the church, provided th public at large are privileged to attend? If the deliberations result in a satisfactory solution whereby old maids will cease to be, then I predict that the usefulness and popu larity of the. women Homo Missionary So I ciety and the Young Women's Guild of Plymr I outh Church, under whose auspices this con i vsntion Is to be held, will be far reaching and beneficent. If the public care to be admitted will there be a charge and reserved seats, and where can tickets be bought? I am very much exercised about this matter and sincero lv ask for information. NEARLY AN OLD MAID.

Brooklyn, February 12, 1900. PHARMACISTS IN SESSION. Determined to Take Action in Severfl Legislative Matters Affecting Their Interests. The usual monthly meeting of the Kings County Pharmaceutical Society, was held is the College of Pharmacy Building. 329 Franklin avenue, yesterday afternoon, the president.

Adrian Paradis. in the chair. William F. Ricckcr of 161 Wythe avenue, was elected a member of the society. The following were proposed for membership: Jacob J.

Lauffer. 1,551 Broadway; George H. Born. 182 Bedford avenue; Myor Arensberg. 219 Adelphl street; Charles G.

H. Gerken, 1.485 Broadway; Ray Carleton Taplin, 1,485 Broadway, and O. JP, Bancroft ot 1,060 Fulton street. The treasurer. Dr.

William Ray, reported that there was a credit balance of S324.25 left over from last month and that he had received from the City Chamberlain a sum ot $170 from pharmacists who had violated tha pharmacy laws, as weH as $180 from tjie Controller, making a total of $350. Dr. William Muir, for the legislative committee, reported on the druggists' bill, now before the Legislature, and that it would reach a third reading to morrow. Dr. Mulr also spoke at some length on the Wilcox poison bottle bill and made a motion that every member of the association notify th Assemblymen and Senators in their respective districts that no particular patent bottla be adopted by the Stato Board of Health.

The motion was carried. Dr. Muir made a motion also to the effect that the members notify their Congressmen and that the secretory send a petition to the ways and means committee of Congress favoring the repeal ot Congressman Boutelle's bill known as House bill No. 793. schedule of the stamp tax on proprietary medicines.

This was carried. It means, roughly, that the pharmacists went the war tax taken off certain drugs. A degree certificate wu granted Edward J. Dobbins by Dean Barthjtt, of the college. up in court, and in these cases it usually amounts to half of the Interest.

Life insurance companies, savings banks and non residents are frequently exempted from this tax, and they are thereby given a monopoly of the loan business. In the State of New York alone the accumulations of insurance companies and savings banks amount to considerably more than one billion of dollars, which may be invested in mortgages. This immense fund is under the control of a few men in close touch with each other, acting on a common policy, and in very many specific matters acting actually in concert. This is one of the greatest trusts that exists. Those who control the funds are practically free from competition ot individual investors in mortgages; and the result is, as they themselves concede, that the average rate of interest which the freedom from competition enables them to exact is from one half to one per cent, higher than would be the case if mortgages were not taxable.

Glaring as this illustration is of the evils of the mortgage trust, illustrations of the same kind, if of less degree, might be given without number from the tax laws of the different states. And the tax on personal property generally has been found impossible of 'collection, except from the same smaJJ class who pay on mortgages, and such as pay on stocks of goods and the few things that are difficult to conceal. "The tax on buildings and improvements falls with much more weight upon small and inexpensive houses and improvements on small farms, the value of which the assessor can more accurately guess at, than upon the large ones, which he usually much underestimates. There is. moreover, a great disparity in taxation between what is supposed to fall on land and what on other things, and also a great difference between the burdsn that one land owner bears and that which another bears, being in no proportion to the relative values of their lands.

Probably the relatively highest tax on land falls on the small home owner and farmer, while the most valuable city lots and land held for speculation generally pays a much smaller rate. But the smallest' tax relative to value falls the great mineral and forest lands and water privileges. "Railroad taxation furnishes another glaring example of inequality. The tax rate in the State of New York is from 2 to 2 per varying with the different "As we have seen, the farmers and small home owners are the ones who are relatively valued highest. It is claimed th3t the general average in valuation of real property is about 60 per cent.

Yet, assuming the railroads of the state to be valued at 60 per cent, of the market value of their securities, it will be found that, they pay less than four tenths of 1 per cent, in taxes. This discrimination in favor of railroad property' is almost universal in the United States. The reason for this is that large interests make the most persistent efforts to shape or dodge the payment of their fair share of taxation." Mr. Johnson then illustrated the manufacture of steel rails in the United States as presenting a case combining all forms of governmental favor. Continuing, the speaker said: "The foregoing hasty considerations may perhaps indicate why it is that I have reached the conclusion that all' our tax laws, whether local, state or national, produce trade conditions which are promotive of trust, evils and adverse to the interests of the people.

Suffice it to say that I should substitute for it a system that would exempt from taxation everything of whatever nature except natural advantages, and on natural advantages I should place the entire burden of taxation. "My belief is that the entire revenue for the support of government should come from one single source, namely, the value of land. In other words, I should raise national, state and local revenue by means of what Is known as the single tax. "In substituting for the existing multiplicity of taxes, levied primarily for the support of government, a single tax on natural advantages, we give a death blow to the greatest of all governmental favors the real mother of the trusts land monopoly. For the reason that land hears little burden it can easily be monopolized, and that tho monopaly is growing closer and closer is shown in the fact that from a condition where the people of the United States at the beginning of this century were almost all land owners, not one fifth of the bread winners to day own land.

"While we have been discussing only trusts the remedies here suggested will solve the labor problem as well, for it is governmetal favors such as we have seen that force men into an unnatural competition with each other for the opportunity to employ themselves; whereas tho opening up of nature's storehouse to laborers will so multiply opportunities that wages will naturally rise. For just in proportion as monopoly takes less of the product of labor, there will be more to divide as interest to capital and as wages to labor. The demands of privilege work against men in two ways. They create conditions in which production is lessened, and of this smaller production they take a constantly increasing share. Do yen then wonder that we of the natural order see in the evils of trusts conditions that, in good times force willing men into idleness.

In bad times caise the strike, the lockout and the army of unemployed, and at all times work to produce the pauper and the tramp?" APHOM AND NECKTIE PARTY. An apron and necktie surprise party was given to William J. G. Byrne at his residence. 1.0S3 Atkins avenue, on Saturday evening.

The apartments were tastily decorated with flags and palms. Among the features of tho evening were vocal and instrumental music, with occasional recitations. Through the good work of the committee the affair proved a success. Those who formed the committee wore George E. Thomas, Mrs.

George E. Thomas, Mrs. Joseph Kelly, Miss B. Schroeder, Miss N. Schroeder, Miss M.

Hughes. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. William Byrne, Mr. and Mi 3.

George Thomas. Mr. anrl Mrs. Joseph Baker. Mr.

and Mrs. William Vclth, Henry Denton. Miss Phobr Veilh, Miss A. Cohen. William Velth.

Miss Nellie Schroeder. William Dyrno, Robert Pakcr. Minn Belle Schroeder. Miss I. Pohroerter.

Harrv Ueppe rt. Miss B. Kopp. Mlsa Joule Kopp. Miss Alice Smith, Ink Carrie Roane, Joseph Kelly.

Miss Nellie Pe.hnck. K. Kelly, Charles J. Brown, Teon Feltman. J.

G. Kslers, Miss Grace llyrne. II. Felilman. Mlr.s H'.

Uh I.lruee. Arthur Kinltli. Mips Enderllon, Joseph F. Raker. Mips Manl'c Lulier, Georste Vvackenfeld, Miss A T.tlher.

Mr. and Mm. Whlttnker, Miss G. Hnubt, A. Smith.

MIsr Hansen, Miss Kmma Whlttu ker. Muster T. F. Wlllltnker. Master William linker Miss Violet Bynie.

Hurry Clark. Miss M. UURilos. F. Zlinnuirll, Miss Ft.

Wlldprett, J. E. Kelly. 1J. Jaeger.

TnrlM mid Kxponltioil. A Free Guide upon application at Eajrle Free Information Bureau. assistants, and clerks, in high schools and training schools for teachers shall reeeiv an equal annual increment of not loss than one hundred dollars from the first year of service up to and including the third year of service. Regular women teachers In high schools and training schools for teachers shu II receive an equal annual increment of not less than eighty dollars from the first year of service up to and Including the tenth year of service. Regular male teachers in high schools and training schools for teachers shall receive an equal annual increment of not less than one hundred and ten dollars from the first year of service up to and Including the tmh year of service.

Head teachers, principals' assistants, first assistants and vice princ Ipals in said high schools anil training schools for teachers shall receive an equal anmal Increment of not less than one hundred dollars from the first, year of service up to and including the fifth year of service. Rut no teacher In a high school or training school for teachers shall reeeive a salary greater than that fixed for the fourth year of service unless the service of such teacher shall have been approved after inspection and investigation, as fit and meritorious by a majority of the vrHWigh bGard of school superintendents; nor s'ial! any teacher, head teacher, vice principal, head of department, first assistant or principal's assistant In a high school or training school for teachers be, paid a salnry greater than the salary of the ninth year of service unless the service, of suf'n teacher, head teacher. vice principal, head of department, first assistant or principal's assistant shall have been approved after inspection and investigation as fit and meritorious by a majority of the borough board of school Th said borough board 'of school superintendents shall approve or disapprove the service of each teacher, vice principal. hail of department, first assistant, assistant to the principal and teacher of a graduating class within forty, school days after the day npon which such teacher, head teacher. vice principal, head of department, first asslptajit or principal's assistant in a high school or training school for teachers becomes eligible to the increase in salary conditioned said approval.

For all purposes affecting the increase of salaries of the teachers in any high school or training school for teacher. the principal of such school shall have a seat in the borough board nf school superintendents, with a vote on such fitness and merit of the teachers in said school. The board of examiners shall issue to each teacher who has had experience in schools other than schools of the borough of the City of New York a certificate stating that the experience of such teacher is equivalent to a certain number of years of experience in the high schools or the training schools for teachers of said boroughs, and such certificate shall entitle the holder to salary In accordance with the minimum schedule of salaries for high schools and training schools for teachers herein established, subject, however, to the inspection and investigation as to fit and meritorious service hereinbefore provided. The salaries of the principals of high schools and training schools for teachers shall be increased by the addition of two hundred and fifty dollars in each year until they shall receive the sum of four thousand dollars per annum, and. In schools having twenty five or more teachers, five thousand dollars per annum, provided that the services of such principals shall have been approved after inspection and investigation as fit and meritorious by a majority of the borough board of superintendents.

Sec. 3. No salary now paid to any public school teacher in the City of New York shall be reduced by the operation of this act. Sec. 4.

The Board of Estimate and Apportionment is hereby authorized and required to direct tlie issue of revenue bonds for the purpose of providing funds carry Into effect the provisions of this act r. during the year nineteen hundred, and the said board Is hereby authorized and re Quired to allow and provide for the year nineteen hundred and one and for each succeeding year sufficient funds to carry Into effect the previsions of this act. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

THE COTTNTESS SCHIMMELMANN Speaks at Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church. The Countess Schimmelmann delivered a talk last night at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church. As on every other occasion when she has been before the public, there were few vacant seats. After a prayer by the Rev. Dr.

Pierson. the Countess was introduced by the pastor of the church. When the Count tess had finished. Dr. Pierson spoke of the great religious movement which was being carried on in Glasgow.

Scotland, and said that this movement should be a lesson to the people of Brooklyn. GRADUATES OF NO. 90. Graduating exercises of Grammar School were held here last evening in the Chapel ot the Reformed Church, at the corner of Flat bush avenue and Grant street. The exercises were largely attended.

On the platform were the following members of the local committees and Instructors: Local committee Richard Young, chairman; Dr. A. J. Dower and Edward M. Bassett.

Jeremiah Townsend, principal; Ellen E. Morris, class teacher; Alice M. Judge, musical director. The order of th? graduating exercises was as follows: "Ben Hur Charloi Hhcc" piano solo. Helen K.

Robinson; salutatory. Grace L. Hamilton: "Rock a Bv. Dearie." girl Brnlmuw "Pat's Confederate! Pip." recitation. FPrri Moran; "Battle of Waterloo." composition, shorwood Moran: "Martha," violin solo, Vincent v.

Jlmeson; "Flattie of Gettysburg" recitation. May Mlkolasch: "Anol's Porenn.de." vocal sol'1. A H. Pettlt. Vincent Jlmcson: "Macl.alne i child, recitation, M.

Adele Turtle "SprlnR 'itntion and chorus, Helen K. Robinson and clafsmntes: class prophecy, Clrace L. Hamilton: sons. Kraduates: "Hail and Farewell." flass sorus, srraduntes valedictory. Sherwood Moran: address to graduates and conferring of dlplcmas, Richard ouns.

These are the names of tho graduates: Sherwood Moran, Kurd Moran W. Jlme Hon. James Cowan. Koscoe C. Williams.

John W. Watt Walter iunl'l. P. Gleason, Emma Brock. Grace I Hamilton.

Helen 1C Robinson, Jessie Randolph. Ada H. Pettlt. Marjorte K. Hare.

Margaret Stewart. Ethel Fenton. May Mlkolasch, Ethel VlemlnR, M. Adele Turtle. Mary Josephine Rvan.

To Principal Townsend of the school was presented a handsome cherry rocWng chair by the members uf the graduating class, at the conclusion of the exercises..