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THE J3EOOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NE YORK, SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 1900. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. EARLY DAYS OF GRAVESEND, I IS AN INSTRUMENT BY MEANS OF WHICH lwjv One CAN PLAY THE PIANO 1 AL Aiiniis BIXJINN IIS" to morkow, MATINEE ATT FIRST TIMES AND COMPANY, IN HIS IN No musical knowledge gg TeChniC I wanted some time for the matter to blow over, and John and wife having decided to cheat William out of his portion, dug up the packages and reburled them in new places.

One of the places on Pelican Beach was lightly marked by knots tied in the long grass. William denounced hi3 brother to the insurance companies, and brought suit, which failed for want of evidence, after which he removed to Canarsle, and his brother John to Brooklyn. A storm having obliterated, all traces of the Pelican Beach spot where the $1,600 package was 'burled, this part of tho treasure was lost to John, who was forced to content himself with the $3,400 remaining. In 1S42 the Skidmore family removed their dwelling In sections to a new site on Dooley's Bay. During a storm and high tide, a ceiling left on the old location was floated to the new site across the water from Ruffle Bar to Dooley's Bay, without damage.

Skidmore then made a tour of search along Pelican Beach for any other remnant3 of his property that might be left along the beach. When retracing his steps homeward he came to the exact spot where John Johnson had burled the $1,600 package, and was surprised to discover a heap of silver coins which the waves had uncovered. He and a neighbor, Loring, hastily helped themselves to all the silver they could carry and hurried home. Falling iO conceal their luck, all of Gravesend suspended business In order to look for silver on Pelican Beach. Before all of the coins could be carried away, however, another storm burst upon the beach and again burled all traces of the spot from human eyes.

wnitever is requtrea on the part of the per The Pianola I The Pianola former. It is a significant fact that the Pianola is the only pian 5 player which has been endorsed fay musicians. MI SIC BY VICTOR HERBERT, COMPOSER OF "THE WIZARD OF TUB MLE." "THE "THE SERENADE" anil "THE FORTUNE TELLER," Unlimited Repertoire The Pianola brings into use thousands of pianos which are now lying idle. It makes every member of the family a player and master of a repertoire which includes the musical classics both ancient and modern, the latest endless variety of both song and dance music. Touch The sixty five fingers of the Pianola strike the sixty five keys of the piano by means of a pneumatic, according to the technic of the composition, the elasticity of the air producing a pliant, yielding, and remarkably sympathetic attack that is almost identical with that of the human 'fingers.

mm Pianola in IMuno. Our Instruments are gladly shown to the merely curious as well as to Intending purchasers. If unal.le to call, send for catalogue. THE AEOLIAN COMPANY 1 8 WEST 23D ST NEW YORK roads were only narrow, winding wagon paths, In building which littlo more than tho clearing away of the woods and underbush had been attempted. When a road was to be made the farmers were called out to contribute their services, and a fine was imposed for neglect to obey the summons.

These, lanes ran any and all ways and were laid out to meet individual rather than public convenience. Frequently a Journey of five miles was necessary to cover an air line distance of three, and the readiness with which many persons cut roads across the property of others led to numerous suite In the sessions courts. What is now known as Gravesend avenue was laid out in 1875 at a cost of $40,000 to abutting property owners. It Is an extension to the north ot the village centre road, as the Coney Island causeway was an entension towards the south. Two Colonial thoroughfares merit special mention.

In 1660, a lane was laid out from the village to the shore which became known as Beach Lane and'still survives in the road to TJnlonville. Kings Highway, narrow and winding in its course from Flatlands to New Utrecht, was opened in 1697. At first all highways were without fences, but with the steady increase of stock among the farmers, inclosed fields became necessary to protect growing crops from damage by animals. Owners of cattle at large were frequently fined for the damage resulting therefrom. Tho gates that stood on the four squares of the village were required to be kept closed at all times, and parents of careless children who disregarded this regulation were subject to fines for their neglect.

This protection of private property was carried to an extreme point. In 1668, when many fences had been thrown down and destroyed by unknown persons, the town was fined five pounds hy the County Court for neglecting to appoint constables by whom the miscreants might have been arrested. It was customary in the County Court, for the Secretary of the Colony, or a member of the Counsel, or the High Sheriff, if present, to sit with justices and preside over their deliberations. No technical defect in an indictment served to shield an offender from punishment, and artful schemers were not permitted to profit by another's ignorance of the law. Samuel Dennis, in suing John Van Cleef, produced the defendants' obligation to pay him several parcels of corn at a stated time, when the latter admitted the debt, but objected that the action was not legally entered nor a declaration given in.

This technical plea was disregarded by the jury, who found for the plaintiff, and the court gave Judgment for the amount claimed and two pounds cost. All horses and colts turned into the common pasture at Coney Island were, by law, marked, and description of them on the town records. In 1675 three men 'were chosen by the town to go to the "fflys" (marshes) about the second hour, and see If any beasts were mired, and, if so, help them out. If any beast should die through Jhelr neglect they were to pay the damaged and if any man should be warned to go aDd help these men, and should refuse, he was to be fined five shillings and pay all damage resulting from his neglect. Gravesend's first town clerk, John Tilton, held that responsible office for twenty years.

In his will, dated January 15, 1687, he devised land for burying ground "for all persons in ye everlasting truth of ye gospel as occasion serves, forever to have and to hold, and to make use of to bury their dead there." This land Is known to cover a part of the present burial ground, as no other has been used for the purpose since the first settlement of the town. In this cemetery is a common field stone, hardly appearing above the ground, which some antiquarians think may probably mark the grave of Lady Mcody. Another burial place in the north part of the town was incorporated September 7, 1S50, under the name of Washington Cemetery. It contains a hundred acres, or more than 10,000 lots of 400 square feet each, and was founded by James Bennett, to whom the land then belonged. After its establishment Washington Cemetery became almost exclusively a Jewish burying ground.

Recent rapid advances in realty values make the assessor an official of increasing importance. It is now 208 years since William Goulding and John Lake presented the first assessment roll, in April, 1692, at which time the county treasurer was first chosen by delegates from the several towns. The dignity of supervisor was not created until 1754, when Samuel Gerritsen was chosen as first of the long line of locally distinguished public servants. Sixty nine years ago Gravesend was thrown into excitement" over the closing incidents of a ghastly tragedy of the sea, with a grotesque comedy sequel of disappointments for some of the acors in the sanguinary drama. On November 9, 1830, the brig Vineyard cleared from New Orleans for Philadelphia with a cargo of cotton, sugar and molasses and $54,000 in Mexican silver.

The vessel was under the command of Captain William Thormoby. with a mate, a crew of six seamen, cabin boy and a steward, who was also cook. The steward, who was a negro, knew about the money which formed part of the consignment, and when the brig was off Cape Hatteias Informed the others, who joined in a plot to kill the captain and mate and get possession of the silver coin. At midnight, on March 23, 1831, the negro Wansley came on deck by a prearranged call from Dawes, who was steering, to trim the binnacle light. In doing so he passed behind the Captain, whom he felled to the deck with a pump brake and finally killed by repeated blows.

Another confederate, Gibbs, assisted Wansley in throwing the body overboard after the deed had been consummated. The two murderers then attacked Roberts, the mate, who was thrown into the water while alive and swam after the vessel for some dlstalnce, pleading for mercy. While this double deed of blood was in progress, Talbot and Brom rigg, who had secreted themselves in different parts of the vessel, were hunted up and brought out and given their lives and a share of the booty upon a pledge of secrecy. After the dispatch of these preliminaries Gibbs assumed the command, and the vessel was steered for Long Island. When the brig had arrived within fifteen or twenty miles of Southampton Light, she was scuttled and set afire and the crew took to boats.

Gibbs, Wansley, Brownrigg and Dawes, with $31,000, occupied the longboat, and Church, Talbot and Atwell, with $23,000, occupied the jolly boat. The wind blew a gale, and the Jolly boat, in attempting to cross Duck (or Rocka way) Bar, was upset and its occupants, with their booty, were lost. Frightened by the fate of their companions, the men in the long boat hastened to lighten their overladen craft by throwing all but $5,000 of their silver into the sea. Through this lightening of the cargo they finally succeeded In reaching land, when, each man, having taken out as much money as was needed for Immediate use, the balanco was burled in a carefully marked soot on the shore of Pelican Beach, then a part of Barren now Coney Island. Food and lodging were now their pressing need, and the little party soon met Nicholas Williamson, to whom they narrated a pitiful tale of shipwreck.

Having received from him the needed directions, the quartet proceeded to Dooley'a Bay, on the northwest shore of Bar Island, where John Johnson and wife and his brother William received the strangers kindly and cared for their wants. The Johnsons gave up their sleeping rooms to accommodate the unexpected visitors. By this arrangement, Brownrigg and the Johnson brothers passed the night In chairs In the living room. This circumstance gave Brownrigg an opportunity in what proved to be an ill advised burst of confidence to give a full account of the murder and the burled treasure to the Johnsons. Early next morning the Johnsons conveyed tho shipwrecked sailors to Sheepshead Bay Hotel, and then hastened with the utmost celerity to find and dig up the silver on Pelican Beach.

When the money had been found they divided it into two parcels ot $3,400 and $1,600, and burled the packages in two new spots, which were carefully Indicated, but In such a way as to escape the notice of anyone passing in the vicinity. During this interval of money burying, Gibbs and Wansley. at Sheepshead Bay Hotel, were bargaining with Sam Leonard to convey them to New York, but before the deal was closed, Brownrigg denounced them to the bystanders as pirates and murderers. Wansley took to his heels and was soon lost In the woods, but Gibbs and Dawes were thrown down and bound by the Innkeeper and his people. Judge John Van Dyke was hastily summoned, and Issued warrants for the arrest of the trio, and Robert Greenwood volunteered his services as constable to apprehend Wansley.

After an hours' search the negro was found, and on presentation of a huge pistol, surrendered and was bound and marched back to the hotel. Greenwood then showed Wansley tho pistol which was without lock or load, remnrklng that it was as good as any other if you only knew how to use it. Gibbs and Wansley were subsequently convicted in New York of piracy and murder on testimony of Brownrigg and Dawes, and hanged on April 22 following. The Johnsons had barely finished burying the money when Brownrigg and officers arrived on the spot to get the money which was found to bo gone. The brothers HAYMAN and DANIEL FROHMANi Proprietors.

Res. Sent, 50c. 73c, $1.00. iJl.Uft. lies.

Heat. Same ns Evening; ion f0c. ONDAY, AR ONLY, BROOKLYN. BBC COMBO OPERA WIT, oy "the prixcess chic. asd Fred OF "THE SMt'GCJi ERS." "Pretty lrl an 1 oxQiiiKltc music.

St. Louis GJttbc Democrat. "Dan ielN fnnnicr than ever." Cleveland Leader. 'The Ameer Marpasseil tionw." Buffalo Xeivn. especta MAT I SEE SATCKIIA J'roiinctiati 01 JJHMINIB the tniiuc l.jiii.'a.

THE ELITE THEATER OF BROOKLYN, ISABEL SINX HOVT, PROPKIETOR. AdmiKNion an nnd 50 cent Hcacrred Seat, Evening 5(lc, 91.50 INmcm'n Smiio as Two Weeks. MnftinaV 19 Beginning MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. ISABEL SINN HOYT Announcer THE BXGAKESIEXT OF MannsremeHt of Daniel Frohman. Presenting; Durijit; tho FlrMj AVeelC TUeir JLouilon itnd Xew Vorli Succesrf, All the Scenery and Appointments From She St.

Theater. London. "Such actlnff is sc Mnni seen on the stage of: the world." N. Y. Herald.

"It is worth going a long way to eee." N. T. Sun. NEXT WEEK Last Week. S.

KE A WHITE Ue7 in 4 BY SinS'EY fiiil XDY. A SON'S INHERITANCE iJ rn.mii in 51Y At.LEX ra'V. ARD. rhe juay. first time COL.

Theater generously donated by is Sinn Hcyt. Friday Afternoon, Marsh'. 30. BENEFIT Jf" ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA. THE MR, AXD MRS.

KEXBAL. PRA.VCIS "VlI.SsIS" CinPY. iX OLD KEMTCKY WAV noWX EAST COJIf ASY, THE Brxji'EH'S JIATK OIWI AXV. "HAHSJiAM. V.

IVII.OER. WILSIIV. ETTA BlTHiH, AXD MAST OTHERS. I'siiCEfe. RESERVED SRAT SAM BHOIXS ON Till'USiJAV.

ili. THEATER POPULAR WITH THE PEOPLE. BALCONY a CHAJRS. OC.IcMAlRS. 0U" To Morrow Night Mats.

Tuesday and Saturday. WILLIA (The Two Real Cooas) AND THEIR OWIT BIG COMPANY, IW 50 Peoole 50. In rod ue in 17 'Williams and AVnlker. Mattio Wilkes. Mallory Broji.

and Brooks. and Launch mere. Rec. Bro. ar.

PouR Ias, the (Ireat Cat lin. Ed. Ian f. Louie Thoini'son, Overton and Halliday. Emciton mv.

th WILLIAMS WALKER QUARTET iii'iu i iiii iir.M ana i.irme. Direction ilurtiir Ser.nion. SKVi IN OLD KENTUCKY. SHOKINQ CONCERTS. TO MORROW W1.E.

WOJIAX anil SOXO nURLESfilUIiS. AT 2 and 8 P.M. MANHATTAN AKrUSESTENTS. iS 42nd St Ca and 8th Av. CASTLE SO OPERA CO.

TO 3iRKOW XIGHT, MS3I.OUY AXI) Fl'X AT A MODERATE PEE. A remp rkable revival of uiuDi'k i iv i. ry Misses Morgan, Quinlan, Godfrey, D'irey, DO Lucre. Messrs. Robert Thomas.

MoulKn. Cn savant Meyers, and thf best lljjht opera chorus. In Y. Esa 5Qc 75c, SI. 00 iuis.

ve.i., i.iii'.i i.i s. seats. Mar, ill. OOHE MIAN IlIHL" tin 1 TaKATHli, El eninKH at 33il B'way. I Sat.

Mat. Only. I50TH TISV3E TO MORROW GOLDEN JEWEL CASKET SOUVENIRS. with Chas. A.

Bigelow and Great Cast In 'Smith De Km en's PAPA'S WIPE. POSITIVELY LAST 2 WfcEKS 4k illft THEATRE, BROADWAY 28TH ill flSH EDWIN K.VOVVLES..S0I0 Manager i. ni. Hats. wed.

Sat. 2:15. COMMEXCIXti TO MORROW XIGHT Limited EnRageinfcnt STUART ROBSON In an Eplgrammatlcal Comedy, entitled OMVER GOLDMBTK. ORATORS "a Bach's Mass in miaor Concert April .1. St atM 25 in ijl.OO.

SO SIMILAR. "The Boer retreat Is like a tramp's saunter down Broadway." "How's that?" "It's moving on from cop to 0p." Cleveland Plain Dealer. m. Am MRS. HE ELDER BLOSSOM MflMTAIW TMEATC'D i 1 HU SLft LSI mbel STAR How the Temporal Needs of the Community "Were Provided For After the Spiritual Had Been Supplied Methods of Mail Transportation First Schools.

Failing health compelled the Rev. Abraham I. Labagh to resign the Gravesend pastorate in 1859, when he was succeeded by the Rev. Maurice G. Hansen, a graduate of Rutgers College and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary.

Owing to the distance of Graves end Neck from the church, the residents of that neighborhood had long felt the inconvenience arising from the want of a chapel in the Immediate vicinity. Nothing was done, however, to supply this deficiency until 1888, when Simon C. Gerrltsen donated a plot of land, 50 feet front by 150 feet deep, on the southerly side of the Neck road. A prime mover In the enterprise was Jacobus Voor hees, a farmer and carpenter of Gravesend Neck, who strongly urged the erection of the chapel for a long period previous to the consummation of the project. At the time of the purchase of the plot for the parsonage, additional ground was purchased individually, by by the pastor, the Rev.

Abraham I. Labagh. Subsequently, the opening of Coney Island road through the property left a triangural piece, separated from the rest of the land. This particular plot was purchased for the church with funds realized from a fair held by the Sewing Society. The pastorate of the Rev.

Mr. Hansen covered a period of twelve years, terminating in 1871. His successor was the Rev. A. P.

Stockwell, who was installed in 1872. in personal magnetism and popularity he was a rival of Dominie Schoonmaker. After fifteen years of indefatigable labor, Mr. Stockwell resigned to accept a call from the Children's Aid Society of New York to act as a missionary. Failure to draw many persons of mature age into the church after a pastorate longer than the average and a conviction that his work in Gravesend was finished and that someone else might labor there with more success, were assigned by Mr.

Stockwell as the reasons for his retirement. Soon after the acceptance of this resignation, in November, 1S87, a call was tendered to the Rev. P. V. "Van Buskirk, who accepted the summons and has retained the pastorate up to the present time.

On East Ninth street, in the northern part of the old town, is the Woodlawn Chapel, an offshoot of the Gravesend Reformed Church. Upon the death in February, ISflO, of a child of Philip Leib, and a member of the Sunday school, Mr. Van Buskirk was unable to officiate at the funeral owing to a previous engagement for a similar duty at the same hour. The Rev. H.

T. Duensing was then invited to perform the solemn duty; and his recognition of the religious needs induced him to seek means for holding regular services. At the suggestion of Mr. Van Buskirk and with the consent of the trustees, the Greenfield public school was utilized for religious purposes. The little society steadily grew and through the efforts of Miss Cornelia Lake and others a Sunday school was organized on June 8, 1890.

The Rev. P. V. Van Buskirk took an active part in the enterprise, which fully carried out in the following August, when T. E.

Johnson was chosen superintendent and organist. Six lots on East Ninth street were subsequently donated to the society by Thomas Ferguson and William Zieg ler, upon which under the direction of Thomas Ferguson, James Sharkey and F. E. Johnson, as building committee, a chapel was erected in 1892, with a fund of $2,800 previously raised by subscription and a fair. It stands on East Ninth street, south of Main Btreet.

and Its total building cost was $5,000. A century ago town justices who were quasi church dignitaries, were encouraged to attend worship by having a pew set apart' for their use, which was called the magistrates' bench. This pew was sold at auction In 1813, Stephen Stryker being the successful bidder. At this time a prominent townsman was Rutgert Stillwell. who died in 1S23, at the age of 78.

He was a bachelor, and for forty years previous to his death had not been off his farm owing to a hasty declaration, made in 1783. He possessed a strong mind and memory and was an assiduous reader and student. These were indeed primitive times, since previous to 1843 Flatbush was the Gravesend Post Ofiice, and all mail Intended for the town or sent from it was conveyed to its destination by anyone who might happen to be driving to or from Flatbush and so would serve as chance postmen. Every farmer regarded it as his duty to call at the office and get any mail intended for his neighborhood. Since the town's people intermarried and no one had relatives living further away than a day's journey, Gravesend mail was a small quantity and this volunteer postal service met the needs of the time very well.

By 1S43, however, with increased population, this system became antiquated, and Henry C. Murphy, then serving his first term in Congress, secured a post office for Gravesend, and Martin Schoonmaker was appointed postmaster, serving till 1854, when Gilbert Hicks was appointed his successor. Some years later John Bergen was appointed upon the removal of Hicks to Flatbush, retaining the place till 1869, when Dr. R. L.

Van Kleck began a term of service, which continued longer than any of his predecessors. Gravesend did not wait so long for a school as It did for a post office. Eighty years after the town's settlement a Joint stock company of nineteen persons was formed and purchased an acre of ground with a house on it to be used as a school. This deed was dated April 8, 172S, and describes the property as Sounded "on the south by Nicholas 'Williamson, on the north and west hy highway, and on the east by the common yard, into which cattle were driven at night for safe keeping." For the convenience of householders, a gate opened into this inclosure. from each of the neighboring dwellings.

Nineteen pounds wan the consideration and the location was the site of the town hall erected in 1873. In 1788 a larger school house was built upon the same site, and this low wooden structure, 25 feet square, was the town's seat of education for fifty years, when it was transformed Into a town hall, and so used until 1S73, when the new edifice was put up, and the old building sold and turned into a tenement house. With the transfer of the old building into town hall purposes, a new site was purchased and a new building erected on the northwest side of the town square. This structure was enlarged by a wing In 1874. A second school was established in 1811 and a long, low building put up on land purchased from Isaac Denyse.

It continued to be occupied as a school until 1879, when a new plot was bought and a modern school house built on Ocean avenue. Although not total abstainers, Gravcsend's early burghers were very strict In the enforcement of license and Sunday laws. Disorderly conduct, ball playing, hunting and other sports on the Sabbath subjected the offender to a fine of fifteen shillings. Retailing liquors without a license also exposed the dealer to a penalty. Hospitality was highly prized, and the court before whom Humphrey Clay was arraigned for selling liquor without a license 150 years ago, remitted the fine and gave him a license for his Inn at Maspeth Hills.

In one respect. Gravesend history presents a uniformity which time does not disturb. From the outset the town meeting resolutions mostly relate to Coney Island, which to day more than retains its old consplcuous ness. With the original division of Gravesend Into thirty nine shares with a fortieth section for education. Coney Island was from time to time partitioned into thirty nine subsections.

TheBe successive allotments of Insular land were made in 1677, 1761, 1766, 1815 and 1821. Previous to 1823 Coney Island wbr accessible only by boat or by fording when tho tide was out. To secure a good highway to the shore, tho Coney Island Bridge and Road Company was then Incorporated and r. highway constructed. The capital stock was $6,000, and Van Brunt Ma gau, George Stillwell.

Garret Stryker, Jacobus Lake and Lawrence Ryder served as commissioners In laying out the causeway from the village to the shore. By 1824 this toll rond was In running order and Van Brunt Magaw was elected president, and John Terhune, secretary and They were succeeded In 1839 by James W. Cropsoy ns president, and B. I. Ryder as secretary and treasurer.

This thoroughfare censed to bo a toll road some thirty years ago. In the fifties and sixties Brooklyn owners of aristocratic horseflesh wero wont to have trials of speed on the Long Island Plank Road, surveyed by Tunis G. Bergen In 1849, constructed In 1850, and turnpiked a dozen years later. In earlier times Gravesend supplies technic, the mechanical obstruction which has heretofore debarred the novice from musical expression and which has been acquired only at the expense of unlimited application by the great musicians. Expression Expression, that which alone makes a musical and gives life andvariety to play entirely subject to the will of.

the performer. He may vary the touch, as a writer in The Musical Courier says, "from the feathery touch of a Joseffy to the lion's touch of Rubinstein." In un? with Gran Price, other words, the Pianola, through semi automatic methods, makes I possible an indi vidualized result. EXCURSIONS. Pleasure tours to Colorado California I The Pacific Northwest Alaska ana the Yellowstone National Park Special vi trains with dining. si op ins: and observation cars will leave New York and the Eastern cities In April for California as follows: Xo.

1. A (. Day. Trip through Colorado, Utah. California, the Pacific Northwest, Montana and the Yellowstone National park.

Xo. 12. A Days Trio, the same as No. 1, with an added tour through Alaska. Xo.

1. A 5: DnyN Trip through N'fw Mexico, Arizona, California. Nevada. I'tah and 'olo rado. The tickets provide for all traveling and hotel expanses for tin entire time, with a complete round of tho California resorts in th fruit end flower season (the Yosemlte Valley being optional).

Stop over privileges. Send for hooks of tours to Pari" Exposition, pan. Around the Wovld. and 11 oihrr places In season. For dcn money travelers chreks, etc.

Individual railroad and steamship tickets to all Circulars on application. Stnte iuftirmati' wanted. RAYMOND WHITCOMB Tours and Tickets Everywhere Established 1ST? I. f.riion Sffnare. DA.

SPECIAL TlIPS. TO THIS DELIGHTFUL OCEAN RESOKT BV QUECEU S. S. CO. MAIL STEAMERS.

APRIL AXD 11. XIXE AXD FOI'RTSKX DAY TRIPS. Si and $75. ALL EXPKXSES WASHINGTON. LINE.

MARCH 22. lintel and Traveling Expenses Included. $12.00 ACCClt 'ro SI 4.50 PRfMlRAMMK AXD INFORMATION FROM THOS. COOK SON, nml 1,1 SB Broudivaj X. Y.

J. LEilHEMCRAl'S SOX. 379 FfLTON ST. BROOKLYN. Jraveiing Made Brooklyn Iagle Outing Parries have been delightful because the management assumed all the burdens.

Limited in number. Kaggage transferred from boats or trains direct to hotel rooms and back again. Tickets for entire trip provided. Hotel accommodations found waiting. Carriages wailing at every point to convey the tourist t'' the next interesting sight in the itinerary.

Experienced conductors and guide? wherever necessary. All expenses paid before starting and nothing more over which to worry. Enjoyment from the start to the r.d. Everything first class. Railroads, hotels and Ftate rooms.

Such will be tho arrangements of the EASLE'S EUROPEAN TOURS Partic Sail on Steninxliln Aller.Jnne 27 BOOKINGS CLOSED MAHCH 25. Each party absolutely li ml ted to 23 persona. Itincrarlec and steamer diagrams at EAGLE SUREAU, Room Eusrle BaililiitK, Brooklyn, X. Y. Eor other ail vert iNOiiseiitM tinder tliia see Iltciex.

laist tlilKe, ON" THE TJESEST. Trails cress but once, however long they be, As ship hails shin but once upon the sea: Let, then, there be fair greeting and godspeed Between each passing traveler and me. A sad leavctaking at the parting well One braves the desert's dangers welrtl and fell Back turns the other to a lonely homo. And Allah goes with both how strange to tell: Worn desert paths, in sandy furrows seen, From gardens lead to other gardens green. As human lives lead out from regions blest To others blest but oh! the dust between! These camels, forced their heavy loads to bear, O'er native sands by paths familiar fare; But he who drives, a stranger and alone.

Himself by Fate is driven he kuows not where. From morning's calm to quietude of eve Slow moving camels dusty courses weave From birth to death wo fret life's dusty plain. And at our death how little dust we leave! Isaac Bassett Choate in The Independent. A LESSON IN ENGLISH. A little Beaton boy was visiting his aunt in New York recently, and of course he was taken to see, among other things, the Dewey arch.

So absorbed was he in studying its beautiful lines that he stubbed his too and fell flat. His irate aunt picked him up and dusted him off. and remarked, angrily: "Can't you look where you put your feet, Willie?" "No, I can't," replied the boy from Boston; "but I can look where I am going to put my feet." After that the aunt refrained from criticising Willie's actions. Harper's Bazar. WE HAVE ALL MET HIM.

"What sort of a fellow is Bobbers in a social way?" "Oh, he is one of those idiots who would say 'sweets to the sweet' when he was passing the pickles to a lady of uncertain age." Indianapolis Press. book: ry kihke shelle, author eric RAX EX, AUTHOR "An emphatic Hit." X. Y. Hcrnld. "An unqunlllietl SncceHs." Philadelphia.

Initiirr. "The hit of his life of hit." Chicago Times. i "Daniels received an ovation." Pro vi lie nee Jonrnnl. NEXT WEES, 1111 iBEST ORCH. SEAT SO.

DriKgs av. near ay. GRAND CONCERTS TO DAY. ANOTHER ALL STAR 2:30 PROGRAMME. 8:15 HTV nVM'ATIXEE EVERY DAY.

(llUit Nt Sieilts U5c Xo Higlier.J Knyrnfre riieii Extraordinary Arnerieft's Greatest Emotional Actress. CLARA ProseiiUnjr a "Woman's Whim." 6 CarE Dammann Troupe 5 Wonderful European Acrobat. ED. LATE LI. The Prince ot Coined) aim.

'Lelfiott, Busch and A Great Musical Gjomedy Act. BSCKWELL Comedy Uouffh Modeler. DAILY AND MILTON A Great Lunsrhinp Sketch. MARRY THOMPSON Mimic and Comedian. AfiACK ARMOUR A Splendid SlnpriiiKT Act.

THE VITACRAPH Caw Moving Pictures of Current Events FULTON ST, I lintineos AM KUOA DtVA V. I Tlmrs. Arrjat. GRAXD CONCERTS TO DAY. ANOTHER ALL STAR PROGRAM ft! E.

si. XEXT WEEK, RICE BARTON'S COMEDY GO. Presenting A Fl'XXY FARCE COMEDY WITH CLEVER liRS an BK; VAIDEVIM.E ACTS i MONDAY THURSDW Saturdav ''Popiilar Plays nt Popular Prices." Mr. JACOB IITT'S COMPAITY, An Entirely Xew an i Magnificent Production of HROXSOX HOWARD'S Great War Drama. 200 PEOPLE.

50 HORSES. CONCERTTO NIGHT. Clifford and Htitli, John Kernell. Smith and Campbell. The Bates Trio, Tim Cronln and other.

rE BOX OFFICI OPEN'S TO DAY AT 2 P. M. Xext Week, MATHEWS fc BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. SOXC; RKCITAL BY Mme. NORDIC A Monday Ev'ng, March 19.

Tickets at Chandler's. 30O ulton St. Or at Brooklyn Jtislitulc. Fulton St. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.

PHILHARMONIC CONCERT nv THE Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. WILHELM GERIGKE, Conductor, M. DOHANYI, Pianist. Saturday Kvertine.

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U. E. Philadelphia North American. "From the Broadway Tlieater, X. IX i I I 1 1 THE LAFAYETTE MONUMENT.

An American Artist Asks Some Pointed Questions About the Paris Statue. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: There has been no art project of such Importance and general interest to the American people within our national history as that, which purposes to dedicate in Paris on the Fourth of July next, at the exposition, a monument to Lafayette. To further this movement the aid and support of the governors of the various states and territories, together with the superintendents of education throughout the country, was solicited and secured. Together with a number of prominent and respected citizens these officials form a commission, responsible in the premises for the conduct of the movement having for its purpose the presentation to France of a fitting memorial to the generous and gallant Frenchman whose services in the cause of our liberties were Inestimable. The response to the appeal made by this commission to the school children, the states and the general government has been most generous, resulting in a sum exceeding $100,000.

To the end of securing for the execution of the work the best available American talent, the services of the presidents of the National Sculpture Society, the Society of American Artists and the American Institute of Architects were secured. In the appointment of these distinguished artists, representative because of their official positions and individual ability, as a committee of experts, an initial movement for securing the Best posible results would seem to have been fairly made. The outcome, however, has been far from satisfactory. Mr. Bartlett, a young man, born in this country, but French through lifelong residence in Paris, was, through processes not yet explained, selected to do this, which should be made the most notable achievement of American sculpture.

Mr. Bartlett. little known to us here, is said by M. Hovelaque, the most eminent of French critics, to be not quite seriously taken in France as an artist iu other than circles devoted to afternoon teas. This same authority has said of the French that, while tolerant of their own bad works, they have no such feeling of indulgence for those of expatriated Americans, who are much too imitative to be even flattering.

It is presumably in consequence of this feeling that the projected monument has been reduced in scope to a simple equestrian statue and to a small scale, that it may not dwarf adjacent monuments in the Garden of the Tuilleries. It has been publicly stated, and the statement has not been questioned, that more than $50,000 has not at any time been paid for a simple equestrian statue, together with its pedestal. In reply to repeated questions as to what is to be done with the great sum of money already in hand and in view, the commission has answered that it is intended to enrich the bronze by additions of gold and silver and that additional expense is to be entailed by the casting of the statue In one piece by the cere predue process. This writer has secured statements from the Roman Bronze Works and John Williams of New York, the Bureau Bros, of Philadelphia, the American Bronze Foundry Company of Chicago and the Ames Foundry of Chic opee, to the effect that gold and silver are not used in large castings, for the reason that they add nothing of durability or beauty and that not only is nothing gained by making a large casting in one piece, but that there is a risk of having it come out spongy and defective. These authoritative expressions dispose ot this possible means of expending indefinite sums and make it incumbent on the commission to explain what is to be done with the $50,000 and more in excess of the exorbitant estimate of $50,000 for the statue and pedestal.

Indeed, the famous French sculptor, M. Bartboldi, whose experience is probably greater than that of any living artist, has said that $20,000 would be an enormous sum to pay Bartlett for. his statue. Taking this estimate and allowing $15,000 for the pedestal, the whole expense would be covered by $35,000. The secretary of the commission has said that it is hoped the fund may be made, through the sale of Lafayette dollars, to exceed $150,000.

Various statements have been made in the press as to what Is to be done with this money, but officially nothing, except as to sinking it in gold and silver into the bronze, and in useless attempts to cast the statue entire. If the committee of experts had been consulted as to these curious propositions before the report was given out, the amiable gentlemen of the commission would doubtless have been spared the mortification of furthering purposes conceived without knowledge. It may appropriately be said that when prominent and honorable citizens lend their names for the assurance of public confidence in movements of this character, they should be at pains to inform themselves as to the nature of the duties they have undertaken to perform in order that confidence imposed by them may prove not to have been misplaced. In this instance, which is but one of many which has, and is being sadly mismanaged at this time, the experts claim to have had nothing to do with the selection of the young sculptor said now to have this work under way. If the statement made that no contract las been given is correct, It is to be hoped the expert committee may recommend that the matter be open to general competition.

Such action would subject Mr. Bartlett to no greater injustice than that to which Mr. Barnard and other sculptors, who gave their time to this work In its earlier stages without compensation, have been compelled to submit. There will be an abundance of money, however, wherewith to compensate Mr. Bartlett for whatever work he may do and enough left to secure for the permanent representation of the American people in Franqe a production which, not indeed worthy ot us, shall be at least: representative of the best we are capable of at this time.

Artists, who through merit, good fortune or otherwise, have obtained preponderlng Influence and are alluded to as the foremost American so and so and who are also much employed, will In tho order of things refuse to enter competitions, and, as a matter of fact, dlscourge them in order that they may recommend their friends for such work as they do not care to do themselves. We have an example of the kind in tho unfortunate monument of Lafayette in Washington. There might be a sort of poetic humor. If not Justice, In giving France as bad as she sent, and it may be we are In a fair way to heap even greater Injury upon her. It may be safely said there Is not an American sculptor of foreign birth, expatriated or otherwise, who would not.

if ho had a fair chance, enter a competition for this monument, for the slmplo reason that it affords the most conspicuous opportunity yet offered to conspicuously place an American work In tho art capital of Europe. Not in tho wholo history of our country has such a EXCURSIONS. RAYMOND WHITCOMB'S TOURS. ALL TRAVELING EXPENSES INCLUDED. Special Personally Concluded Tours TO THE PARIS EXPOSITION 19 parties of limited numbers will leave New York on the steamers ot the Atlantic Transport Line and tho North German Lloyd Line, during tho Exposition season.

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Brooklyn. chance offered for the achievement of a world wide and exalted loptiiatiou. In fact, if general competitions for public sculpture were made the rule, advances in that art of a most surprising nature would be found to follow. Everyone would have the greatest Incentive to dn his best, an incentive not offered wher work comes, to one simply of the momentum of previously acquired reputation. The most conscientious of us are prone to rest, upon reputation previously acquired and stop shot of what we might do under more stimulating conditions.

To be thus is to be but human. It is now. it is said, intended to unvail .1 staff or plaster model on the Fourth of Why not let it be placed as an ephemeral work, to serve an occasion, and then if it is, after a time, not found to be up to the requisite standard, give tho American sculptors a chance through open justly ordered competition to see what they can do? It is posible if the commission were 10 ask its experts for an opinion they be found in entire agreement with I his suggestion, as would doubtless the public enttment of tho country, which is appreciative, also, of a spirit strong enough in justice and truth to admit a mistake and repair ill considered action. In any event, the work this commission has projected, will, iu all human probability.be In evidence when the most distinguished of its members shall have been relegated to the dim perspective of an inconspicuous historical niche. And there is time still for deliberation.

AX AMERICAN ARTIST. New York, March lslOO. Arrangements are now being perfected for tho holding of the big benefit in aid of tho Actors' Fund of America at the Montauk Theater. Friday afternoon. March 30.

Mrs. Isabel Slnn Hoyt has not only donated the house, but being a life member of the fund, is giving most active aid to make tho occasion a success. Mr. and Mrs. Kendal havo volunteered their servxes.

while Francis Wilson and company. "Th Gunner's Mate," "In Old Kentucky." "Way Down Bast." Lydia Iranians Titus. Etta lluller and Marshall P. Wilder are also volunteers. It ia not Improbable that one of 'no leading soloists of the Maurice Grau Opera Company will also bo iu tho bill..