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THE BROOKLYN DA3XY JEAGrXiE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1900. PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S CLAIMS. MEMORIES OF BOWLING GREEN. km Prepared for the EAGLE By J.

C. PRITCHARD, United States Senator From North Carolina. Historic Site of New Custom House. Reminiscences of Commodore Vanderbilt. THE ARGUMENT FOR HIS RE ELECTION.

28 for Cuba without the shedding of blood or the expenditure of a dollar, but when the report of that disaster reached the ears of the Amer HAVE always contended that in dealing with political questions we should exercise the same judgment and discretion that is displayed by the business man in ike THE Bowling Green block of old New York residences occupying part of the site of the new Custom House, is now approaching the final stage of demolition, and henceforward will remain but in pictures, tradition and memory. It was a hislorio group of buildings, dating back in the city's life as far as 1817, and replacing in turn structures going back still further to the early years of the seventeenth century. Proud old New York names are associated with its buildings: the Remsens, Gihons, Whitneys, Vanderbilts and others among them, and when completed they marked the highest point of splendor and luxury which the city had then reached. They were noted for hospitality from the beginning. Lafayette was entertained there during his last visit to America; Garibaldi there wore his crimson shirt at dinner and levee the unconventional garment in which that diligent hero elsewhere stood before kings; Prince Louis Napoleon, not quite a score of years before he came to his empire, was entertained there; so were Webster, Clay, Calhoun, John Quincy Adams and their peers a retinue of distinction without end.

Across the way Washington Hall, still older, had sheltered an earlier generation of notables. Washington had slept under its roof; Hamilton, from his modest stone porch, had given hail to the advancing dawn of the library oVt spr ivirrR tur'nfr'C Commodore Vanderbilt would wait for np man, even though he were Czar of all tho Russias. It was about 1S57 that the Commodore began to be convinced that railroads were the profitable carrying Instruments of the 'time and he dropped his steamboats as quietly asl he had formerly dropped his sailing boats, to adopt them. He had unlimited cash accumulations and began first to invest them Jersey Central. Then he took up Harlem, which was a drug in the market, kicking around the street at 3 or 5 cents on the doA lar, and before anybody knew he was a buyer he had obtained possession of the entire capital stock.

About this time the Common Council passed an ordinance authorizing Harlem to lay a track down Broadway, with the result that the stock advanced to unheard of figures. Then it occurred to the thrifty city fathers that if they could pass such an ordinance they could also rescind it, making favorable conditions to a bear market. So they sold the stock short in an unlimited manner and proceeded to cancel the privilege. But they could set no stock to make good their short sales. The Commodore held it all and forced a settlement at his own figures, leaving the enterprising aldermen and their speculative following mostly bankrupt.

The Municipal Council men tried to corner the Commodore after that. In 18G4 he took up Hudson River In tho same noiseless manner and presently had tha control of that property with an eye on Central, at which he made a dash in 1866, but missed, Henry Keep, representing the opposition, going in as president. But he got a firm hold of it a few years later and it still remains a family possession. Central was originally composed of twelve local lines pieced together in 1853, with Dean Richmond at the Buffalo end and Erastus Corning at Albany as managers. WThen they died control of the road became an object of sharp competition, falling at last, naturally, into tho strongest hands, and those were the Commodore's.

When he had it securely in hand'his first move was to issue $40,000,000 in new stock, increasing his portion by that figure and that the property justified this liberal exploit of watering is proved by the fact that the stock so created has never failed to pay dividends from that day to this. Perhaps the proudest day in the Commodore's history was the one on which his great ocean steamship the C. Vanderbilt, built to outspeed any ship afloat, was launched. Whether it actually did so I do not remember, but it came near it. In 1859, from Sandy Hook to the Lizard Light house, she made the time of nine days, accounted swift sailing in that period.

When the war broke out the Commodore presented it to the government and It did service till the conflict was ended. Then the government gave it back with the thanks of Congress, and a gold medal sent to him in its commemoration. With the Central, Harlem and Hudson River in his possession, the Erie became au object, of interest to him, and. he made an effort1 to acquire its but he ran against the triumvirate of Fisk, Gould and Daniel Drew and they worsted him. Sheltered by the protecting statutes of New Jersey, in which they had taken refuge, and hired a printing press, they proceeded to gratify the Commodore's desire to buy Erie common by printing off reams and bales of that security, enough to bankrupt the exchequer of an empire.

When the Commodore discovered this he ceased buying and abandoned an effort to secure control of tho road. But he was able to force his adversaries to take the stock he had bought off his hands, and they settled with him by paying over $5,000,000. Thurlow Wreed used to describe a vis't which he and Sir Henry Holland, who wanted to see the great railway magnate, once paid to the Commodore at his offices in Bowling Green. After the usual salutation and introduction, Sir Henry said: "I should like Mr. Vanderbilt, if you will permit me to sea your bureaux of affairs." "What bureaux?" asked the Commodore.

"Your departments of business. Where da you conduct your affairs?" "There," said the Commodore, pointing at a boy seated on a stool at a high desk at tho other end of the room. That was all the visible machinery of his immense combinations and enterprises. "But come, Commodore," said Weed, "pull out your drawers and show Sir Henry' your instruments of work." The Commodore opened a drawer of his aesk, displaying a check book and a box of cigarsthe tools of his trade. He was cheerful, pleasant and approachable to all, but a man of few words and of invariable dignity in distinction of manner.

While in London, on being called on for a speech at a dinner, he rose and said: "Gentlemen, I have never yet made a fool of myself and am not going to begin now But here's my lawyer (pointing to Horace Clark, his son in law). He does my talking and can talk to you all night if you want him to." What he did say whether addressing statesmen, magistrates, bishops, scholars or less important folk, showed invariably sense and penetration and gave sign of the superior penetration which he possessed. He was a placable and reasonable partner. In a game without reference to the authorities, was capable of an occasional revoke and was a placable and reasonable partner. In a law case when he was once a witness the interrogation arose: "Where were you, commodore, when these important transactions were taking place?" "Playing whist." "What! do you play whist when matters so critical are in the balance?" "Yes," the commodore replied.

"I never allow business to interfere with whist." It is now nearly a generation since the commodore's death, but his work is still active in the hands of his descendants, and seems likely to remain so for a number of generations to come. Jay Gould said of him that he was a man of a csnttirv. Tho ican people the Republican party declared not only that the Cubans should be liberated, but that the blood of our gallant sailors should.be avenged. When Congress declared war against Spain the President at once took steps to prosecute it with great vigor. Under his leadership we won a victory over the Spanish government that is without parallel In the history of the nation.

As a result of our. war with Spain, among other things, we acquired title by treaty to the Philippine Islands, a territory that is of vast importance to the people of this country from an industrial and commercial standpoint. By the terms of that treaty we became responsible for the maintenance of law and order in those islands. After the ratification of the treaty the Re publican party was called upon to deal with the question as to whether or not, after the Philippine Islands had been ceded to us, it was good policy for this government to abandon them and thus permit Germany or some other power to occupy them. It was decided that, having taken them, It was our duty to retain them and see to It that law and order were restored within their boundaries.

As soon as it was understood that we were to have the Philippines the Democrats at once began to assert that the Republican party was in favor of imperialism and that it was about to commit a great national crime. Instead of the Democratic party giving the President that cordial support to which he was entitled they began at once to oppose the ratification of the treaty and delayed its adoption so long that Aguinaldo and his followers were encouraged to fire on the American flag and to precipitate a war which has cost us much treasure and the lives of some of our most gallant soldiers. In my humble judgment much of the trouble in the Philippines is due to the fact that those misguided people were led to believe that they would in some way be recognized by the American government and that in the end they would be permitted to triumph. The Republican party contends that inasmuch as we own the Philippines it Is our duty to restore law and order in those islands and that we should not permit' Aguinal do and his followers to assume control, and that, having restored law and order, we propose to give the inhabitants of those islands such form of government as will best subserve the interests of that section. There has been no disposition on the part of the Republican party to arbitrarily control those islands without consulting the interests of their inhabitants and without providing for them a government which will tend to bring their citizenship to a higher state of civilization and enable them to appreciate the many blessings incident to a republican form of government.

Is there any political party in this country whose leaders will say that they are in favor of the United States relinquishing its claim to those islands? All fair minded men must admit that we cannot, in good conscience, relinquish our title to them. I do not think that the American people, in view of their military achievements in the past, will for one moment entertain the idea of turning those islands over to some foreign power. The commercial interests of the United States demand that we should extend our trade relations with the East, and such being the case, how important it is that we should maintain dominion over those islands, situated as they are on the pathway to the Asiatics. There is every' reason why we should retain the Philippines and I am of the opinion that the American people will never give their consent to the relinquishment ot one right which "we have acquired as a result of the war with Spain. Even if it were not for the commercial advantages that are to follow as the result of expansion we cannot as a nation afford to indorse the proposition of anti expansion.

These are the principles for which Mr. lie. Kinley has stood. On this platform he should be re elected. UNIQUE CLUB AT PRINCETON.

University Students Support an Institution for the Benefit of Town. Boys. (Special to the Eagle.) Princeton, March 31 Unlike the unfriendly relations between students and townspeople in many university towns, the cause of "Town and Gown" rows, the relations of Princeton boys with the residents of Princeton are most pleasant. The good feeling on the part of the students has taken a useful turn this year in the founding of a town club for Princeton town boys and men, supported entirely by subscriptions from the college hoys. The experiment is now a fixture and the club is a pronounced success.

The idea of town club originated in the Philadeiphiau Society, the Young Men's Christian Association of Princeton University, when it was found that a free library carried on by some of the townspeople was unsuccessful for lack of funds. T. S. Evans, H. R.

Lathrope, '00, and Arthur Poe, '00, of foot ball fame, took charge of the plan from the outset, and the efficiency of the club at present is due to their skillful, management. The club began with thirty boys on its roll and now has forty five. Three rooms of a comfortable house are fitted up for the use of the boys. Each room is in charge of a college boy, who is chairman of a committee appointed to assist him. By this arrangement a different man has charge of each department every night.

On the first floor of the house is the gymnasium, containing wrestling mats, parallel bars, medicine ball, punching bag and boxing gloves. On the second floor are the reading room and the game room. The former is furnished with copies of the current weeklies, beside almost two hundred books of boys' stories. At 7:30 every evening the house Is thrown open to the boys. As they come in each ono is given a tag and assigned to a division according to his age.

These divisions are then led to the different rooms, where they remain half an hour in each. At the end of that timo the divisions are moved. This process goes on until 9 o'clock, giving each division a half hour in each department. The club was intended originally for boys only, but it was found advisable to add a men's department. For this purpose two rooms on the ground floor have been fitted up, one for a reading room, the other for smoking.

Last Sunday the plan of holding a regular Sunday afternoon religious service was begun and will be continued as long as the attendance is large enough to warrant It. PROFESSIONLESS SISTERXINESS. The ingenue I hear that Tottio Terror has been engaged to play Sapho. Straight, or burlesque? The soubrette It will be a burlesque, but she won't know it. Indianapolis Press.

NATURALLY. Mr. Suburbs One What seedy. looking man was that I saw in your front garden? Mr. Suburbs Two Oh; he'd be the gardener, I suppose, if he was seedy.

Ally Eloper's. the ordinary transactions or life, and with that end in view I desire to call attention to some reasons in support of tl proposition that it is the duty of the American people to re elect President McKinley and return a Republican majority in the next House of Representatives. The American people in 1.SP6 were called Upon to decide as to which of the two political parties at that time advocated principles that were best calculated to bring the greatest good to the greatest number. It was indeed B. critical period in the history of the nation.

IWe were undergoing a series of financial disasters that were unparalleled. No section had escaped the demoralization, wreck and ruin that had swept over the country with the rapidity of a prairie fire. Banks, stores, manufactories and all industrial enterprises had undergone the same kind of reverses that had overtaken the farmer and the business man, as well as those who earned their living' by daily labor. The then all absorbing question was "What shall we do to relieve the people from the trying ordeal through which they are passing?" The Democratic party had been given an ample opportunity for demonstrating to the country at large that it was capable of successfully administering our public affairs. That party had in 1S92 succeeded in electing the President of the United States, a majority of the House of Representatives and had secured the Senate by a good working majority.

No party ever'assumed control of our governmental affairs under more favorable conditions and it is generally agreed that no party ever made such a complete and dismal failure as he Democratic party in its attempt to grapple S. Senator J. C. Pritchard of North Carolina. with the great questions which were at that time presented to the American people for solution.

The two most important enactments during the second administration of Mr. Cleveland were the passage of the Wilson Gorman tariff law and the repeal of the Federal election law. In the first instance their legislation paralyzed every branch of industry, and in measures that were it made it possible for that party to return a majority in favor of their candidates In certain sections of the regardless of the fact that a free ballot and a (air count wonld have given Republican representation. The Republican party, fully appreciating the deplorable condition of affairs that obtained, promptly challenged the conduct of the Democratic party in relation thereto, and declared in plain and unmistakable terms that: their existence was due to the incompetency and mismanagement of the Democratic party, and contended that, no real and" "substantial prosperity' could come to the American people until there was a complete re versal of the policy which had been inaugurated by the Democratic party; that the repeal of the Wilson Gorman tariff act and the enactment of a tariff bill similar to the McKinley law would again inspire our people with that confidence which was so essential to secure a revival of business and without which there could he no hope for an improvement of conditions in any section of the country. They contended that once public confidence could be restored as a natural sequence there would be a general inclination lor investment on the part of those who, on account of fear or mistrust, had withdrawn their capital from the avenues of trade, and which had done so much to disturb all branches of industry and to throw out of employment thousands of laboring men and send them adrift without an opportunity of earning an honest living.

We are all familiar with the result of the election, and I feel warranted in saying that every man, woman and child in the United States is cognizant of the blessings that have followed in the wake of the election of President McKinley and a Republican House. The election in 1S96 did not result in giving the Republicans control of the Senate, but the situation was of such a serious nature that some of the Populists and Silver Republicans, together with some patriotic Demo crats, vbte'd to sustain the administration in 4ts policy with respect to the tariff, and certain other questions about which we were called upon to legislate, and as a result the bill became a law, and we have 'only to observe the conditions that are visible on every hand in order that we may idecide the question as to whether or not the (policy of the present administration has teen a proper one. While under Democratic rule there was general depression of business, a constant decrease in the circulating medium, and thousands of laborers were unemployed, to day we are confronted with an entirely different condition of affairs. On the first day of July, 1896, the circulating medium was $21.10 per capita, and "to day, under Republican rule, the circulating medium has increased to $25.93 per To day the manufactory is running at its full capacity, and In almost every instance there has been a marked increase in the wages fiald to operatives. The farmer who, under Democratic rule, was compelled to mortgage his farm in order to secure money enough to pay his taxes, is to day able to meet all his obligations, and most of them have paid off their "Democratic mortgages," and while under Democratic rule there was no market for their cattle or other products, they are now receiving the highest prices that have ever 'been paid for live stock and farm products.

There has never been a more vigorous campaign conducted than the one that was waged by the Democracy in behalf of the Cubans. The excitement was so great that immense throngs of people surged through the corridors of the Capitol at Washington and indignant crowds assembled on all the streets of that city, demanding that immediate action should be taken in heii'lf of the suffering Cubans. some timo prior to the declaration ot war. against Spain the leaders of that party objected to the policy of the President. But while such was the case he wisely contended that wo should do all in our power to secure a.

peaceful solution of the question rather than tako the risks that were incident to an appeal to arms. Had It not been for the destruction of the Maine I feel sure that the President would have secured indopeadenoo J) "Wi edition of the "Life of Alexander Hamilton," a finely bound set of the Spectator in eight volumes, which belonged to Mr. Turner's mother before her marriage and was brought to this country from England in the early part of the century by his father, and a complete set of Tooke's "History of Prices," a work on political economy, in six volumes, which is extremely rare, a fire having destroyed the plates of four of the volumes when but a few had been printed. Another work of extreme rarity is Alexander Hamilton's own account of his secret trial, which was originally included in a locked case. Like all owners of large libraries, Mr.

Turner has been obliged to fill over flow shelves in other rooms, and in a magnificent apartment on the first floor the entire woodwork of which is rosewood in its natural state, and the walls of which are hung with rare paintings, are to he found some; wonderful art works, among them the. noted "Meissonier Portfolio" and John Leech's "Comic Almanack." with illustrations printed on India paper. In an adjoining room of equal beauty are treasured some two or three hundred small volumes, each a gem in binding, that Mr. Turner considers among his choicest and rarest works. Among these are an original edition of Scott beginning in 1S17 and continuing until his death.

They were purchased in the original paper covers, in London, by Mr. Turner, and when bound were enriched by the addition of many English copperplate illustrations of the text. There are seventy four volumes of these, and over fifty of a similar edition of Dickens, including numerous odd volumes not included in the general sets of Dickens, very rarely met with stray sketches written in his younger days, such as "Sunday Under Three Heads," signed by Timothy and his "Sketches of Young Gentlemen," dedicated to the "Young Ladies," with six illustrations by "Phiz," 183S. Other treasures in this collection are Douce's "Dance of Death," "Inns of Old Southward and Their Associations," McZan's "Scottish Clans," Miss Pardoe's works, original edition; Leech's "Comic History of England." original edition; complete set of Do ran's works, complete set of Walpole's works handy volumes: early set of Shakspeare. Howard's "Illustrations of the Costumes of Shaks peare's Characters," and "The Art of Chromo lithography of Japan," by Audsley.

dence of the mothers and fathers. Especially should he seek to direct the social life and physical training of the school. He should realize that the heart and imagination were more important to train than the Intellect alone. I believe that such a man might be broad enough to undertake some sort of ethical and religious talks which would offend no church and no sect. I believe he might enjoy the friendship and confidence of the most liberal of the clergymen and might bring the churches and the school into more sympathetic relations.

Surely, there should not he a wide gulf fixed between the spiritual teachers and the mental teachers. The spiritual teachers must come into closer touch with the mind trainers in order to secure that threefold harmonious development of spirit, mind and body which alone is worthy the name of education. Can such a man be found? We cannot expect perfection on this earth. But, if mothers and fathers would begin to look for him, I believe such a man could be found. At present the city superintendent and the hoard are the only ones interested in finding principals.

Is it not time the mothers and fathers should bestir themselves and take some part in finding the man who is to stand as the type of American manhood in the minds of thousands of future mothers? Let the city superintendent of schools set his examination test and the gentlemen of the board size up the candidates, But let the mothers and fathers see to it that with all his scholarship and executive ability and knowledge of pedagogy he shall be a man a man like the great Arnold, or like Charles Kingsley or like Phillips Brooks a man with the soul and a heart and red blood, as well as a man with an intellect. Let it be said of him: "He always bore with him the tenderness of a mother, the insight of a poet, the wisdom of a philosopher, and the courage of a man." JUDEX. EUROPEAN EMIGRATION. Foreigners in France and Frenchmen in Foreign Countries. In no country of Europe is the number of foreigners living in the country and the number of citizens living abroad so peculiar as in France.

According to the last census there are 1.130,2 11 foreigners in France, while only r.17.000 Frenchmen are living abroad. Of these foreigners in France, not less than 1, 112.072 are of other European countries, while, on the other hand, only 217,000 Frenchmen enjoy the hospitality of other European countries. It is interesting to cast a glance at ir uFrom BelRtnm. no less than Ihij.S.O people have emigrated to France, but only i Frenchmen have gone to Belgium. Ui Itii.ians there are no less than 286,042 in the iTenci republic, while only 11,000 French "Kes prevail for Russia; 1 1,337 Russians in France, and only iM enehmen in Russia.

Still greater are tne differences between Germany and France as there are 83.3.13 Germans living in France and only 24 .000 Frenchmen in Germany, rhero are, furthermore, 12,000 Austrians In I' ranee as against. 3,000 Frenchmen in Austria. Spain and Switzerland seem to be the mn ilVOrv'fl nftcr as there are frenchmen in Spain and 54,000 in Switzerland, but 77,000 Spaniards and 83.000 Swiss have settled down in France. Philadelphia Record. KIND MAN.

The recruit I asked the feller that hands out the grub If he. wouldn't gimme a softer chunk of hard tack. The veteran And what did he say to that? "He said if I waited around there another minute he would soak me one." Indianapolis Press. my HROUGH windows of tinted Italian stained glass from Genoa, representing in design the muses of poetry, history, the drama and music the sunlight streams across the polished floor and lights the hard wood cases containing the large collection of books of Mr. J.

Spencer Turner of Remsen street, while a wide open fireplace, carved reading table and numberless easy chairs make, the room an ideal one for study or reflection. "You will find my library less distinctive, perhaps, than that of many other collectors," explained Mr. Turner, while recently pointing out some of its most interesting features to the writer, "because it has been built up along general lines only; and while all classes of books are fairly well represe I have made no exhaustive collection of works on any special subject, but I have bought whatever I knew to be of interest or whatever happened to take my fancy. Then I have also many works purchased at times when I happened to be interested in a certain subject or studying along certain lines, as my French works, for instance, and many others purchased during my travels abroad. Books accumulated in this manner are like friends, and as such I regard almost every volume in my library, although, of course.

I have my special favorites, as all lovers of books have." Despite Mr. Turner's modest assertion that his library contains no special features, one of its most interesting features is a collection of books on chess, numbering about 200 volumes. and including all the principal works on the subject by both the old and modern authorities. Mr. Turner, who is an expert chess player, was for several years president of the N'ew York Chess Club.

There is also another department connected with his library that is a unique feature for a private library. In an ante room opening off the main library is to be found a large and varied collection of dictionaries and works of a similar nature, both in English and French. Beside numerous lexicons, dictionaries and encyclopedias of a general character, there are to be found medical, chemical, botanical, literary, religious and, in short, dictionaries of almost every subject that can be mentioned. Among the rarest of these is THE IDEAL PRINCIPAL Qualifications Necessary to the Perfect Direction of a Girls' High School. Hearts Should Be Trained as Well as Intellects Cradle of Pure Government.

When one considers that in a public high school are trained the future mothers of our city; when one realizes that the purification and regeneration of city life must be done chiefly by the mothers, some idea may be gained of the jkind of man who should he at the head of a large high school for girls. The man who assumes to direct the education of our future mothers should enter his school reverently, as one would enter a holy place. He should purify himself from personal ambition and desire for power and form no political intrigues. Any desire to be "solid" with his chairman should have no place in his thoughts. Above all he should be a man who controls his own appetites and passions.

His should be the best type of fatherhood and manhood the city can produce. To select any lower type of man than this is trilling with the well springs of the city life, with the soundness of the home life and with the purity of future citizenship. Mothers can do more than ministers to impress coming mayors and assemblymen with the idea that public office is really a public trust, and that they should not seek oflice for what there may be in it for them. Mothers can do more than any number of investigations to abolish corruption from our police department and stop the levying of tribute on vice. In fact, pure mothers and pure fathers can in time close our dens of vice by contributing no more material from which criminals are made.

On mothers chiefly rests the responsibility for a loftier manhood and a purer womanhood in the coming years. It is from the mothers that children get t' 'eir first ideas of right and wrong. It is the mothers who can raise the standard of citizenship, who can abolish corruption in municipal politics, who can cleanse our Augean stables. They can do It by implanting more lofty ideals of honor, of truth and of working for the public good. These ideals implanted by mothers can be nurtured and trained in the public schools.

But in, the high school rests the chief burden of training girls for a loftier mot.heri:ocd. Our ideal principal, then, should be a man harmoniously developed on the three sides of his nature. lie should be great morally and spiritually able to exert a powerful influence for all that Is highest and purest and truest in human life. Ho should be intel leetually well equipped: receptive enough to take in nr.v ideas from the humblest girl in the school, learned enough to command the respect and admiration of his teachers and of the community and of the university men. Physically he should be sound, with strong nerves, elcar eyes, clear complexion, clear brain, a lover of all forms of wholesome sports and recreation.

Not long ago asked a teacher how he liked his new principal. The reply was: "We don't, know much about him yet. but all his teachers are dead in love with him." A principal must be able to command not only respect and obedience, but love and enthusiasm from his teachers. They know that he is able to give them points on all questions, and they must feel that he is a set of Smith and Wace's splendidly bound in whole calf. In the large section of the library devoted to belles lettres are to be noted at every turn such delightful examples of modern book making, as the English centennial edition of Robert Burns in four volumes, the edition do luxe of Hawthorne's "'Scarlet Letter" and "Marble Faun," Whittier's "Snow Bound," printed on parchment, with full etchings in illustration; "Uncle Tom's Cabin," bound in tan suede, and the many other English and American classics that have been brought out in such beautiful form within the past few years.

A work of special interest is Mariette Bey's "Voyage Through Upper Egypt, from Cairo to the First Cataract," a large and magnificently illustrated work, of which only one copy was printed. Having become bankrupt and unable to carry out the work, he would permit no other numbers to.go through the press, and the work was secured for Mr. Turner by Goupil of Paris. Of recent years other copies have been printed, but only a third the size of the original. The story of the purchase of Mr.

first book is interesting. Passing the book store of Dr. Thomas, afterward president of the Newton Theological Seminary, when scarcely more than a boy, he noted that the doctor's awning was sadly in need of repairs, so stepping into the store, he said: "Doctor, you need a new awning. If you'll furnish the material I can make it, and I'll lake the pay out in books." The bargain was accepted, the awning made and put up and the enterprising youth carried home as his reward a copy of Webster's Dictionary, which to day is still in good condition, despite long use, and holds an honored place in the collection of dictionaries. Mr.

Turner is an accomplished French scholar and among the finest works in the library are in that language. One particularly fine set of works in this language is Allison's "History of France," bound in tree calf with richly tooled back, and a French art work upon the treasures of Pompeii and Herculaneum. In a case adjoining those devoted to scientific works and books of travel the visitor notes at random an Aldine edition of the British poets in many volumes, a curious work entitled "Memoirs of Exploded Popular Delusions," by Charles Mackay, 1S41; a limited sympathetic enough to listen to their difficulties and advise them wisely. I a principal cannot inspire his teachers, how shall the teachers inspire the pupils? To secure cheerful from teachers and cheerful cooperation and obedience from scholars, inspiration and enthusiasm should be the mainsprings of the school. Then there will be no occasion for any nagging of teachers or by teachers, or any petty regulations for pupils.

Girls will be only too glad to obey a man who has a genuine interest in finding out what is best in themselves and trying to help them develop it. Teachers will work their hearts out trying to please a man who is anxious to help them all he can and save their energy. Such a principal would abolish a complex and antiquated marking system, and require from his teachers as little bookkeeping as possible. He would know that the less bookkeeping and the less looking over of examination papers and exercises, the more energy and originality and spontaneity would be loft to be put into teaching, which is, after all, the real business of the school. He would aim to draw out the best in his teachers, as well as the best in his pupils.

He would also advise his teachers to seek wholesome recreation and set the example himself. He would try in every way to secure permanent and adequate salaries, so that his teachers might not feel anxious and worried about money matters. He would counsel his teachers to spend their evenings in rest and recreation, rather than in work in the evening schools. He would know that lessening the routine work of the teachers would mean better teaching. He would encourage the parents to meet him and state their grievances.

They would never need to have recourse to the public prints to secure a hearing. He would form some sort of a parents' league, which should bring the home and school into closer touch. He would aim to bring more of the school into the home and some of the home into the school. Parents and teachers would then work together for a common object, instead of being at cross purposes. He would personally see that wholesome food was furnished at the lunch counter to his girls, well knowing that sound livers and sound digestions secure clearer brains and better lessons.

He would seek to establish closer relations with all the lower schools, so that going to the high school should bo like going from the sitting room of a home Into the parlor. The principals and teachers in the grammar schools should know their ideals and train the children In them from the beginning. The principal would have no heterogeneous mass of girls to begin on and they would all have like Ideas of honor and of self government, and would have been so trained that they would not have very much to unlearn. In short, they would have received training, not. cramming, for the high school.

Many of the grammar schools do train their pupils year after year with no word of encouragement or appreciation from the high school. Ho would also bo in close touch with girls' colleges and with the normal schools and other schools for training teachers. Ho woulti also seek to promote fellowship between teachers and pupils of other high schools and with the manual training school. He would know that the manual training school was not a thing apart from the rest of the school system, but related to the academic schools as the right hand is related to the left. He should be beloved and trusted by the superintendent and should have the confi republic and inspiration to the patriotic hearts of his listeners.

It looked out upon the eviction and destruction of the leaden statue of George III in the Bowling Green beside it melted into bullets for the patriot cause. The effigy of that monarch was thus turned against his rule and the old house blossomed with flags and rang with acclamations when his army of occupation folded its tents and took final leave of the stiff necked and perverse generation which It could not subdue. Louis Philippe was a guest here during the years of his American exile his throne not yet in reasonable ex pectancy, and he may have brought with him and there nursed the lover grief occasioned by his rejection as suitor for the hand of the beautiful Miss Willing of Philadelphia; Some of the American letters and notes of the princely exile are dated from this old colonial hostelry. Proudest of its time with the best Madeira in its cellar to assist in assuaging his disappointment, Brillat Savarin, most shining light in the literature of the cuisine has left record of famous dinners here in which his art, then little known on this side of the water, was introduced to the wonder and rejoicing of the local bon viv ants of the time. It is now a score of years since this venerable and memorable structure was torn down to make room for the Field Building, which now rises over its site higher than the new Custom House is to be, though not so massive or imposing.

But a good many New Yorkers yet remember it, with its hall of lost footsteps growing shabbier and shabbier as the years went on and at the last silence and ruin left upon its walls for a memorial. It was time for its material form to vanish, but there is still a glow in its tradition not yet faded out, nor soon likely to be. Perhaps the most conspicuous personality associated with the vanished Bowling Green block was the late Commodore Vanderbilt. He lived in one of its houses, No. 5, for a good many years, and after that occupied it as a business office during the remainder of his life.

I saw him there first in 1S54. my errand to him being on behalf of Brady, the photographer, who wished to get a sitting from him for an imperial photograph a form of art which had then just come In to be added to his collection of portraits. The commodore was a conspicuous and well known figure in the New York of that and many subsequent days. I found him in his office in the rear' room of the first floor what had been one of the great drawing rooms standing at his desk by a high window, looking out on the blank walls of surrounding warehouses, and he was smoking a cigar which published through the apartment the fact that it was a good one. I unfolded my proposition to him and he received it kindly, but parried the request by saying: "Sonny I would go, but I'm so busy." He was finally persuaded to yield, however, and promptly at the appointed hour the following day I called for him with a carriage.

As we drew up Broadway he told me a good deal of old New York history associated with its buildings, and those who had built and lived in them. They had mostly all grown up In his time, and as far down as the Battery some of the old families yet clung to them, though the tide had carried mdst of them northward to Bleecker and Bond streets, and a few as far as Union Square and Fourteenth street. In this migration the commodore stopped half way, building for himself a spacious and solid, but not at all pretentious, house in Washington place, near Broadway, with the famous old New York hotel opposite and Washington Park not far away. Here he lived during the remainder of his years, and here he died not quite a quarter of a century after our ride up Broadway. After this first visit to the photographer the commodore called frequently, and showed a keen interest in the art and the great array of portraits of notable men and women which Brady displayed.

At this time the comrnodore was about 60 years old, and worth perhaps $5,000,000. He was born on his father's farm, near the old quarantine Staten Island, in 1794. Before he was 16 he had earned and saved $100 with which he built his first boat, a small sailing craft, which carried passengers to and fro and brought garden produce to the city. By the time he was 25 he was master of quite a fleet of small sailing craft and had saved $10, 000. Then he went into steamboating and in the course of the following twenty five years had built and run thirty eight steamboats plying on the neighboring rivers, the sound and in the nearby coasting trades and had piled up what was then considered a handsome fortune.

When the rush set In for California, consequent on the gold discovery, in 1S49, he left New York one day. imparting his intentions to no one, and when he came back he had opened a transit route across the isthmus, carrying one of his steamboats up the San Juan River and launching it on Lake Nicaraguaa herculean task for that time executed with silence and celerity the most successful and profitable stroke of business ho had up to that time accomplished. The line thus established took toll of the Immense tide of California travel for a term ot years, greatly Increasing the Commodore's already large fortune. In 1853 he made a yachting trip to Europe on one of his largo steamers, the North Star, taking members of his family and friends to the number of about twenty live with him. staying five or six months, cruising mainly in the Baltic and Mediterranean.

Ho was everywhere received with distinction. At St. Petersburg a timo was appointed for the Czar Nicholas to visit the North Star, but the hour arriving without the sovereign, the Commodore ordered up anchor and away. Just as they were starting a bustle on the distant wharf indicated that the imperial launch was making ready and that the imperial visitor was at hand. But the North Star wouldn't stop, giving token that, like time and tide.

est who had ever appeared in the business activities or the country since its foundation and that is probably the general estimate of him by those competent to judge. Personally, he was a most interesting and attractive figure; looked, as Sir Hon like an English archbishop, and though his eai iy euucauon was that of a boatman and market gardener, showing itself in a measure in his speech throughout his and carriage were of the highest distinction. ine new Custom House ought to be adorned With his StatUG in nnmmpmnrsiUftn nf hit, association with its site and of his hlstorio relation with tho business development of New York and ot the country at large. a. MORE IMFOKTAMT.

hear your school term is to bo shnrtonod this year," observed the stranger. "Yes." said the nrominent citizen. "t'hiM'ft a deficiency in the fund this year." "I suppose, then, there has been a general cutting down of salaries in tho other municipal departments?" Tho prominent citizen's jaw moved spasmodically up and down, but he emitted no'! sound. Chicago Tribune. I.