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mi NEW SCHOOL FOR FLATBUSH. N. Frederick A. Blazey, Edward Segir Wltz, William Esper of Rochester, N. Ernest Baumann, Buffalo; E.

Watson Collins, Gloversvllle, N. Y. C. W. Hart, O.

Harrison of Schenectady; E. M. Rensbig of Utica; John Dolan, Ithaca; R. W. Jennings of Watertown; C.

W. Hopton of Blnghamton, and J. P. Dor gan of Niagara Falls. Queeen" and then played when the whole audience arose to their feet and cheered.

That speatcs wen for melr intelligence, appreciation and neighborly manhood. MARK D. WILBER. Winnipeg, June 30, 1899. COLONEL INGERSOLL'S BELIEF.

structive object lessons as to the climate's able or Inscrutable. This seems to have been partly the attitude of Confucius, and Is absolutely the attitude of Spencer, Ingerson, Huxley and the evolutionists generally, but the modern thinkers Just named all clearly incline most to the impersonal or pantheistic which is regarded by Christians as atheistic. Evolutionists like John Flske and Lyman Abbott may be said to be trimmers or compromisers who do not quite accept the old personal creator idea, particularly John Fiske, but attempt to reconcile the Christian conception to the pure scientific or philosophic conception. Now, finally, I hope I will not be misunderstood as treating the Christian or rather the Hebrew conception of God with disrespect. This conception is perfectly natural and plausible and to many men at first sight Indisputable, and is the only one that some minds have ever considered and.

the only one that some natures seem to be able to grasp. The great pagan philosophers, Socrates and Aristotle, both seem to have been monothe ists, Inclining to the personal conception, or to both personal and pantheistic, and Christian philosophy is built chiefly on Aristotle. The personal conception, however, may be said to be the one which has prevailed chiefly Tha' Feopteof theSUite of ed in Senate and Assembly, do enact, follow: Section Tho time within which Hhe Venial nln two thirds of the capital stock of tho New Torlc State Titlo Guarantee Cimpany may be paid In is hereby extended to the: first day of January, nineteen hundred and one, and the paying In of sard remaining two thirds of. said capital stock on or before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and one, shall bo a compliance with "the provisions of section one hundred and seventy four of chapter six hundred and ninety of the law of eighteen hundred and ninety two, known as the Insurance law. Sec 2.

Thlaiact shall take effect Immediately. State of New York, Office of the Secretary of State, I have compared the preceding with tho original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same Is a correct transcrtDt therefrom and of the whole of said original law. JOHN T. McDONOUGH. Secretary of Statp.

(Every law, unless a different time shall be pre scribed therein, shall not take effect until the twentieth a after It shall have become a law. Section 43, Article II, Chapter 8. General Laws.) CHAPTER 736. ACT releasing the Interest of the state of New York In lands located in tAe town of Perlnton, Monroe county, New York, to Fletcher A. De fendorf of Falrport, New York.

a law May 26, 1899, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, by a two thirds vote. The People of the State of New represent ed in Senate and Assembly, do enact as followst Section 1. All the estate, right, title and Interest of the people of the state of New York in and to the following described property, to wit. all that tract or parcel of land situate in the town of Pe rlnton, county of Monroe and state of New York, described as follows: Beginning at a point on the bnrme side of the canal, which point Is about four hu dred and eighty feet east of Parker street bridge in Falrport.

New York, and is an angle in. the blue line as shown by the maps on file In the? western division office of the engineering department of the canal at Rochester. New York, ana is marked one and fifty one hundred ths chains distant from the Inner tow path angle ot the and from this point the blue line widens to two and ten one hundredths chains at the next easterly angle; thence running along the present blue line to the intersection of the blue line with the norta. line of the property once owned by J. Be O'Dellj; thence along the north line of property of said: J.

B. O'Dell to the proposed blue line, which line is parallel to and distant from tha inner tow path angle of the canal one and forty one huridredthB chains (equals ninety two and four tenths feet) thence along said proposed blue line to the place of beginning; containing six tenths of an acre, mora or less, are hereby released and granted unto Fletcher A. Defendorf of Falrport, New York; and; to his heirs and assigns forever. Sec 2, This act shall. take effect Immediately.

State of New York, office of the Secretary of State, ss. I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original law. JOHN T. McDONOUGH, Secretary of. State.

(Every law, unless a different time shall be prescribed therein, shall not take effect until th twentieth day after it shall have become a lavr dectlon 43 Article II. Chapter General Laws.) CHAPTER 737. AN ACT to amend chapter nine hundred ana eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety six, entitled "An act in relation to taxation, constituting chapter twenty four of the General, laws." as amended. Became a law May with the approval of the Governor. a majority belnc present.

The People of the State of New York, represent ed in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows. Section 1. Chanter nine hundred and eight ot. the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety six, entitled "An act In relation to taxation, constituting chapter twenty four of the general lawa, a amended, is hereby amended, by adding thereto article thirteen, and to read as follows: Article 13. Sec.

2S2. LIMITATION Of TIME The provisions of the code of civil procedure, relative to the limitation of time of enforcing a civil, remedy, shall not apply to any action taken to levy, appraise, assess. detrminfr or enforce the collection of any tax or penalty prescribed by articles nine or ten of said chapter, and this act shall be construed as nayinff been in effect as of date the original enact ment of the corporation tax provided, however that as to real estate in the hands of bona fide purchasers, the transfer tax shall be presumed to be paid and cease to be a. Sen as against such purchasers after the expiration of six years from the date of accrual. ThiSJ act shall not affect any action or proceeding nowr Tnis act shall take effect immediately.

State of New York. Office of the Secretary of State ss I have compared the preceding wittv. the original law on file in this office, and 'hmtof certify that the same is a correct transcript there, from and of the whole said original law. JOHN T. McDONOUGH, Secretary of State.

(Every law, unless a different time shall be prescribed therein, shall not take effect until the twentieth day after it shall have become a low. Section 43. Article II. Chapter S. General Laws.) CHAPTER 740.

AN ACT to authorize th3 comptroller of this state to hear and determine the application of Raw son L. Hayes for the cancellation of the tax sales for unpaid Uixes of three acres of land in the southeast corner of lot number one hundrpj and twenty two. In township eleven of the old military tract, town of Saint Armand. county ot To Be Erected Shortly on the Property of Holy Cross Church. WILL SEAT 800 SCHOLARS.

Father Woods Plans to Spend $48,700 on Its Construction The Year's Work. Flatbush Is to have a new parochial school house, a fine modern structure, equal or superior to any building devoted to eimlliar purposes in that' section of the city. The work of excavating for the foundation has already been begun and the new building, to be erected by Cralgen Son, is expected to be ready lor occupancy on or. before November It will accommodate 800 scholars and cost completed, $42,700. The new structure is to be located on the property of the Church of the Cross, a short distance west of the edifice and beside the new rectory now in course of construction.

will face on Church avenue and extend through the block to Erasmus street. The building will he of iron construction, and practically fire proof. It will be 72 feet in width, 160 feet in depth and two stories in height. The outer walls will be of terra cotta brick with sandstone trimmings. The cornices will be metal, artistically wrought, and the roof of iron.

On the first or main floor will be the class rooms, thirteen in number. Ten these rooms will be 19 feet square and two located the rear, 20 feet by 28 feet. The entire second floor will be used as an assembly hall, where societies connected with the church can hold dramatic entertainments under the most favorable conditions. A stage SCHOOL. feet by 24 feet is to be built across one end and fitted with complete scenery and accessories.

This room will accommodate comfortably an audience of 1,000 persons. The basement of the building will be devoted mainly to the playrooms, of which there will two, one for the boys and another for the girls. The cool vaults and the steam heating apparatus, which will also heat the church, are to be located on this floor. The building is to be ventilated in the most approved manner and lighted with elec tricity. The wood trim throughout will be North Carolina pine, the floors will be double and the wainscoting in the vestibules Italian marble.

Iron staircases, with slate steps, will connect the three floors. The new structure will replace a one story frame building which for some time has been overcrowded. The Church of the Holy Cross, of which the Rev. John T. Woods is rector, and the Rev.

Fathers Lynch and Costello assistants, is in flourishing condition. The financial statement of the church issued the first of the year, the rector, stated that the parishioners of Holy Cross had reason to feel proud of their achievement for the year then closed. During the year the parishioners, numbering about 2,500, raised about $20,000. Of this amount 1 00 ivrs netted from the annual fair held the women ot the church; $5,951 from special collections, $2,464 from weekly and monthly pew rents, $1,055 from plate collec tions, ana from the sale of the old con vent. The expenditures of the church last year amounted to $27,774, of which $7,500 was borrowed.

Five thousand dollars of this amount was used to purchase property ad joining that of the church, on which a manu factory was to be established. The price of the property was $4,000, but the church was obliged to pay $1,000 extra to get the owners relinquish their right to the same. Last year the church expended $15,333 in erecting new brick and stone convent and a new rectory to cost about the same amount is now in course of construction. Much credit for the advancement of the church is duo to the Rev. Father Woods, who assumed charge of the parish a little more than, six years ago.

Two years ago a mortgage on the church property for $20,000 was burned with due ceremony and in the presence of 1,000 persons. It was the mortgage that had been on the church since its erection In 1872. The original cost of the edifice was $40,000 and $10,000 was expended by Father Woods a few years ago In beautifying the interior. DINNER OF RETAIL BUTCHERS. Prominent Members of the Ne York State Association Gather at Coney Island.

The annual shore dinner of tho New York Retail Butchers' Mutual Protective Association was given last night at Feltman's Ocean Pavilion, Coney Island, and was well attended. The dinners given by the association in previous years have been very successful and that of last night was particularly so. The annual convention took place on Monday afternoon in the Lexington Avenue Opera House, in Manhattan, and after the session the members visited the theaters and other places of amusement and thoroughly enjoyed them. The convention included delegates from nearly every state In the Union and all the prominent officials attended. The national association comprises members residing in every state west of the Mississippi River and the Eastern division, with a headquarters in New York, extends over all the states in the East.

Tho committee of arrangements for the dinner, including William G. Wagner, chairman; A. Futterer, George Herold, George H. Schaffer, Charles Young, Christopher Schuck, F. Leopold, George L.

Wagner, L. Gold schmitt, H. Levy, E. F. O'Neill and R.

B. Nooney, had provided an excellent menu. It was a late hour when the visitors left for their headquarters In the Borough of Manhattan. Included In the list of those occupying seats at the tables were William G. Wagner, president of the national convention; J.

J. Callanan, president of Eastern division; J. H. Phillips of Syracuse, president of New York State division; D. J.

Haley, grand secretary of the national convention and secretary of the state division; William J. Wallace, treasurer of tho national convention; Charles E. Hart of Meriden. vice president of the national association; E. J.

Hosey, A. S. Pickering, Edward Heard. Andrew Ashley, all of Ohio; Charles E. Hart.

Adam Sattig, William J. Wallace, Ira W. Stlllrnan of Connecticut; Horace A. Tower, North Adams, J. F.

Callanan, William H. Steele, John Thompson of Massachusetts; William W. Warren, Springfield, George Gardiner.Wheoling, V. Fred A. Hauk, P.

E. Delee, John J. Smith, Troy, N. Y. E.

J. Hartnett, Albany, VTRTTJE IN THE SLUMS. It Is As Elemental and Unpretending as the Slum Vices. Jealousy, envy and meanness wear so fine clothes and masquerade under no smooth speeches in the slums. Often enough it is the vhry nakedness of the virtues also that makes us stumble In our Judgment.

I am thinking of the "difficult case" that confronted some philanthropic friends of mine in a rear tenement on Twelfth street, in the person of an aged widow, quite 70, I should think, who worked uncomplainingly for a sweater all day and far into the night, pinching and saving and stinting herself, with black bread and chickory and coffee as her only fare, In order that she might carry her pitiful earnings to her big, lazy lout of a sou in Brooklyn. He never worked. My friend's difficulty was a very real one, for absolutely every attempt to relieve her was wrecked upon her mother heart. It all went over the river. Yet one would not have had her different.

Sometimes it is only the unfamiliar setting that shocks. When an east side midnight burglar discovered and pursued, killed a tenant who blocked his way of escape, a few weeks ago, his "girl" gave him up to the police. But it was not because he had taken human life. "He was good to. me," she explained to the captain whom she told where to find him, "but since he robbed the church I had no use for him." He had stolen, it seems, the communion service in a Staten Island church.

The thoughtless laughed. But in her ignorant way she was only trying to apply the standards of morality as they had been taught her. Stunted, bemuddled, as they were, I think I should prefer to take my chances with her rather than with the woman of wealth and luxury who, some years ago, gave a Christmas party to her lap dog, as on the whole the soundest of the two. and by far the most hopeful. Atlantic Monthly.

A Chicago paper, having kept a record crime for ten years, declares that the saloon .1 irnl.n Crqtac 1c rttrAptlv DUSlucss ui cue uuticu u.u.i chargeable with a total of 53,436 murders dur ing that time. LAWS OF NEW YORK. By Authority. (Even law, unless a different time shall be prescribed therein, shall not take effect until the twentieth day after it shall have become a law. Section 43, Article II.

Chapter S. General CHAPTER 732. VN CT to amend the transportation corporation law, in relation to the inspection of gas meters, and providing for a deputy "inspector for the borough of Brooklyn, in the city of New York, the employment of mechanics to assist tho inspector of gas meters in his work, and for the payment of office and other expenditures necessary for the performance of the duties imposed by law upon said inspector of gas meters. Became a law May 26, 1899, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented In Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section sixty three of chapter five hundred and sixty six of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An act In relation to transportation corporations, except railroads, constituting chapter forty of the general laws," as amended by chapter three hundred and eighty five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety three, and as further amended by chapter three hundred and sixty four of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety eight, is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 63. DEPUTY INSPECTORS. EMPLOYMENT OF MECHANICS AND EXPENDITURES The inspector of gas meters shall appoint four deputy Inspectors of gas meters to reside in the borough of Brooklyn, In the city of New York, Albany.

Buffalo and Jamestown, respectively, to hold office during his pleasure, and who shall In their respective places of residence discharge such auties as are required oi inem oy tne uibpeuLur. Said inspector is hereby authorized to employ not exceeding ten mechanics to assist him and his deputies in his and their work, said mechanics to be paid a sum not exceeding three and one half dollars for each working day. Such deputies Ehall receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars and such deputies and mechanics shall be paid in the same manner as the salary of the inspector. Said inspector is hereby authorized to incur such office and ether expenditures as are necessary for the performance of his duties imposed by law and for the purpose of providing the seals to be affixed upon meters as required by law; and the said office and other expenditures, as herein authorized excepting the salaries of deputy inspectors and pay for mechanics shall be subject to the audit and approval of the comptroller and shall net exceed the sum of two thousand doilurs per annum, and be paid in the same manner as the salary of the inspector. Sec.

2. This act shall take effect immediately. Sta.te of New York, Ofiice of the Secretary ot State, ss. I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original law. JOHN T.

McDONOUGH, Secretary of State. (Every law, unless a different time shall be prescribed therein, ehall not take effect until the twentieth day after it shall have become a law. Section 43, Article II, Chapter S. General Laws.) CHAPTER 727. AN ACT providing for the punishment of poold, trusts and conspiracies to control rates cf transportation.

Became a law May 26, 1839. with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented In Senate and AFpembly. do enact as follows: Section l.

Any corporation not organized under the laws of this state engaged In the transportation business, and transacting or conducting the said business or any part thereof In this state, or any partnership ot" Individual, or other association or person whatsoever, so engaged and transacting business afi aforesaid, who shall create, enter Into, become a member of or a party to any pool, trust, agreement, combination, confederation or understanding with any other corporation, partnership, individual or any other person or as eoclation of persons, to control the volume of transportation between this country and Europe, or to control, limit, regulate or fix the rates thereof, or who shall refuse to sell to any pereon, either for himself or another, on demand therefor, transportation between the United States and Europe, either castbound or westbound, at the usual and legal rates, shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and he subject to the other penalties hereinafter provided in thi3 act. Sec. 2. Any contract or agreement in violation of any provision of the preceding section of thin act shall be absolutely void. Sec.

3. Any corporation created or organized by or under the laws of any other state or country which shall violate any provision of the preceding sections of this act, shall thereby forfeit Us right and privilege thereafter, to do any business in this state, and upon proper proof thereof In any court of competent jurisdiction In this state Its rights and privileges to do business in this state shall be declared forfeited; and In all proceedings to have such forfeiture declared, proof that any person who has been acting us the agent of euch foreign corporation In transacting its business in this state, has been, while acting as such agent, and In the name, behalf or Interest of such corporation, violating any provision of the preceding sections of thia act shall be received as prima facie proof of the act of the corporation itself; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of eald court to certify the decree thereof to the secretary of state, who shall take notice and be governed thereby as to the corporate powers and rights of said corporation. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

State ol' New York. Office of the Secretary of State, ss. I have compared the preceding with the original law on file In tUlf office, and do hereby certify that the same ie a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original law. JOHN T. McDONOUGH.

Secretary of State, (Every law, unless a different time shall be prescribed therein, shall not take effect until the twentieth day after It shall have become a law. Section Ci, Article II. Chapter 8. General Laws.) CHAPTER 733. AN ACT to confer jurisdiction upon the court of claims to hear, audit and determine the al leged claims of the counties of Westchester and Orange against the state for a refund, of taxes paid on erroneous valuations of property in said counties for the years eighteen hundred and ninety six and eighteen hundred and ninety seven.

Became a law May 20. 1899, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented In Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upr.n the court of claims to hear, audit and determine the alleged respective claims of the counties of Westchester and Orange against the state for a refund of moneys paid by said counties to the state comptroller on alleged erroneous valuations of property in said counties for the years eighteen hindicd and ninety six and eighteen hundred and ninety seven, and to make awards and render Judgments therefor against the state and in favor of said claimants.

Sec. 2. No award shall be made or judgment rendered herein against the state unless the facts proved shall make out a case against the suae which would create a liability were the same established by evidence In a court of equity againut an individual cr a corporation, and In case such liability shall be satisfactorily established then the court of claims shall award to and render judgment In favor of cither or both of said counties for such sum or sums as shall be just and equitable, notwithstanding the lapse of time since the pnyment of said taxes on said erroneous valuations. Sec. 3.

This act shall take effect Immediately. State of New York. Office of the Secretary of State, ss. I have compared the preceding with the original law on file this otrlce, and do hereby certify that the same Is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original law. JOHN T.

McDONOUGH. Secretary of State. (Every law. unless a different time shall ho prescribed therein, shall not take effect until the twentieth day after It shall have become a law. Section 13, Article II, Chapter General Lawn.) CHAPTER 73r.

AN ACT to extend the time of the New York State Title Guarantee Company to pay in the remaining two thirds of its capital stock. Became a law May 26, 1808, with the 'approval of the Governor. Passed, a majority being present. possioilities. We booked on a fine steamer for Vancouver, making the passage by night.

Here, again, we have a young, thrifty, growing city, a strong rival of Victoria. It has a good harbor on Bernard Inlet and numbers 20,000 people. Its commercial advantages are very considerable, it being the terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway, with steamer lines to Japan, China, Honolulu, Australia, New Zealand and many South Sea, Alaskan and coast ports. The people are very proud of their Stanley Park, in which, among other big trees, one cedar measures forty eight feet in circumference. From this you have again the same continuous mountain panorama, the Cascades at the north, those of Vancouver's Island west, across the water; the Olympia south, and the massive peak of Mt.

Baker towering up at the southeast. The extensive Nanaimo coal mines are Just across the Georgian Strait. The people are very English, but both Victoria and Vancouver, as cities. In structure and activities, appear more American than Canadian. Finally, we have booked for Calgary and the Saskatchewan country across the mountains with our faces toward the East.

The ride upon the Canadian Railway from Vancouver through the various mountain ranges until you pass through the Rocky Mountain gateway at the East is the union, the combination, the culmination, wonder of everything ever witnessed by us. All the sublime in the Alps, Apennines, Pyrenees, Colorados, Mexican, Andes and Sierras is here repeated, min gled, piled up, crushed together In almost endless numbers and forms. You are right up to the highest pitch of expectancy, nothing tame, only nature's wildest, greatest and grandest, can satisfy. You enter the Valley of the Frazier there. Its crowded narrow canyons, then on the Thompson, Illicilliwact, Bear Creek, Beaver, Columbia, Kicking Horse, Vermillion and Bow, on and on mile upon mile, mountain range after mountain range, hundreds of miles, thousands of mountains; the railway runs along the rivers, now near the bank, then up the sides of the mountains, now through the tunnel of a crag or jutting point, then across a canyon, creek or gorge, one, two or more hundred feet above the water, then on the edge of a precipice, now on a cliff shelving over the river far below, constantly curving, climbing or descending grades, the.

rivers at the bottom, nothing but raging, roaring, seething, tumbling, rushing currents, cascades, whirlpools and maelstroms, watched in terror from dizzy heights down into hideous dark yawning depths; Yosemitea, small Niagaras and cataracts running, rolling, leaping and plunging in maddened torrents down the mountain sides; you are pleased, delighted, spell bound, then the swaying, tippling train as you rush around the curves, fills you with terror; you close your eyes, then hold your breath; there is no break; the wild cene continues; it grows more intense, more and more fearful; you watch and wait for a breath until you pass that yawning gulf, but it is no relief; it is miles, it Is scores of miles will the assurance of safety never come? No; night comes first; the phantoms of darkness arise before you, mountain upon mountain, range upon range 700 miles and more without relief. Now the snow and the glaziers seem to be coming down the mountain sides to meet us, nearer and nearer; now we are running with banks higher than the car windows: now we are above the snow; every turn disclosing more snow, more mountains and such mountains! Such forms aud groupings and carvings, on one the profile of a giant, on another the perfect outlines, man and horse, oE a mounted soldier. In one basin we could count more than fifty peaks thousands of feet above us, robed in snow, dome, turret, tower, battlement, precipice, glen and canyon with bewildering dreams of crag and rocks cut In every conceivable form, sculptured by nature or carved by the chisel of time during ten thousand years. Indescribable! No Tom Moore with the poverty of one poor language aided by the poetry and imagination of the sophomore class of a female college and the other classes combined could paint with words a complete descriptive picture of one of these numerous rivers and the sublimity of its mountain setting. We can add that you cannot comprehend it, and you cannot describe the incomprehensible.

The eye dims and the brain grows weary over the Incessant struggle to see, to measure, to paint upon the canvas of memory every one of the glories of this world of God's wonders, and when we had passed this dreamlike panorama of nature, had reached the summit of the Rockies, the great continental divide, had looked into the mirrored waters of its lakes in the clouds, had descended to the base of the Castle Peak Gates and entered the sweet, peaceful, grassy empire of the Saskatchewan, it was, indeed, a restful relief. There is a realm of country in the center of our North American continent, the extent, and character of which is little known to the people of the states. For a hundred miles it Is somewhat hilly, with smooth lawnlike surface, then rolling prairie, then an apparently boundless plain for hundreds and hundreds of miles, every foot from the mountains carpeted with an ocean of fresh grass and flowers, on and ever on as far as the eye can measure, grass and flowers, all the time reaching to where the skies come down to the earth to kiss them, and this with a hundred repetitions, for we are in a three hundred million acre field and meadow, a country as grand in extent and beautiful In dress and tint as was ever spread upon the face of this earth. From this we saw the sun set behind the receding mountains a glorious sight. Above and to the north of the sun, a dark, threatening tornado iike cloud had formed; soon the sun burst through its lower edge tinting cloud and sky In brilliant hues, red, violet and azure blue, crimson, orange and purple, blending with thrilling effect until it seemed the sun had melted all the gold of the Klondike and was pouring it through the clouds, down the snow silvered Rides of the mountain peaks into a burning lake framed in the prairie green.

It could not be more beautiful. How God varies His wonders, charms and blessings! We stopped at Calgary for a run to Edmonton on the upper Saskatchewan 200 miles further north, a pretty town of 2,500 people, on the line of the Mackenzie, in the center of a wheat district. The river, with the lakes, is navigable for 1,200 miles to Winnipeg. From the mountains east for a thousand miles and from the state's line north for five hundred miles an area of 500,000 square miles, comprising over 300,000.000 of acres, in extent equal to our original colonial territory, is farming land, either grain or grazing. It is rapidly becoming one of the great wheat producing valleys of the world.

Winnipeg, the chief city of this region and the capital of Manitoba, is a surprise. It is located on tho Red River, the Nile of the North, at its junction with the Assiniboine. It has about 50,000 people, is rapidly building up, has nine railroads and Is connected by steamers with between two and three thousand miles of navigable rivers and lakes. We visited the Parliament buildings and were kindly received by the provincial offices, the Secretary of Agriculture and the librarian favoring us with statistics of the country. Farmers, stock and wheat growers are settling In the valley at a rapid Tate.

The cereal product of Manitoba, one of the seven provinces of this portion of tho Dominion, was nearly 50,000,000 bushels in 1897. The root crop was ti, 000.000 bushels, with dairy and crop products in corresponding amounts. The number of new farms taken up this year in Manitoba amounts to 2,500. Wc could not get data for the whole seven provinces. The wheat fields for hundreds of miles promise an abundant harvest.

The house and barns indicate thrift and independence. The stations have one to four grain elevators, are thronged with agricultural implements, and the dealers say that 00 per cent, of their sales are paid in cash. The wheat producing capacity or this territory is equal to that of the whole United States for any one year. The eastern portion of this region has an abundance of timber and the western part his Immense deposits of anthracite coal, from which the people and railroads are supplied from Winnipeg quite to the Pacific. All the towns are growing and we have seen no territory that shows greater thrilt and general prosperity.

The public and private buildings and stores of Winnipeg compare well with our older towns, and they report less depression in trade for the last few years than in any other place wn have visited, the result of emigration and trade activities. They are just preparing to open their annual agricultural fair at which, jmlg by last year, they expect 50,000 visitors, many from the states. Our visit hf.iv; has been a series of surprises, both the people, the country and its resources and nstuni lug possibilities. Half of the run north and south and arc bearing the fruits of such intercourse. A gentleman told me that last week at one of their theaters the stage.

was occupied by a company from the states, that ths band plsyed "God Save the The Rational I4ea of God Discussed by Charles M. Higgins of Brooklyn. To tho Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: I have been interested In reading your edi torial in the issue of July 26 on "A Funeral Occasion," which refers to the death of Colonel Ingersoll and his alleged beliefs, and I would like to submit some words of criticism on one point in your article. You say: "One is glad that Ingersoll's friends deny that he every said he did not believe in God. It is as difficult not to believe in God as it is not to believe in effects without causes.

The human mind in point of fact is incapable of not believing in God whether it thinks it Is capable or not." Now this language strikes me as rather vague, as you seem to be using the term "God" in very different senses at different points, and you convey, I think, some wrong ideas as to Ingersoll's real belief and as to tjie necessary self evident nature of the idea of God popularly held and which he opposed. I may misunderstand you, but the point of your article seems to be that the popular idea of God, such as that embodied In the Hebrew or Christian systems which was the one Ingersoll did not believe In the purely personal, fatherly God, the Creator of the world, etc. is the one idea of God that is absolutely self evident, indisputable and incapable of human disbelief. Now, if that is your meaning, you will please pardon me for stating that I think this is quite, an unphllosophical and untenable position. This conception of God can be disputed and disbelieved in by the human mind, and as a matter of fact, is disbelieved in most extensively, not by the low and ignorant, but by most of the philosophic and scientific minds of the world.

And as a matter of philosophic and historic fact, it never has been believed in to any great extent by purely freethinking minds proceeding from pure reason alone, but is chiefly believed in by religious people who proceed from faith or dogma chiefly. Now, It is time that this philosophic fact was made plain and I submit that a great paper like the Eagle should not convey, or seem to convey, a false idea to its readers as to the philosophic status of various conceptions of God. nor a wrong idea of the conception ot God held by Ingersoll and other rationalists. If you had said that it is difficult not to believe in some conception of God, or that tho human mind is incapable of disbelieving in all conceptions of God, and that Ingersoll never disbelieved in some conception of God, your position might be impregnable, but as it is I think it is very pregnable. For example, you seem to use the term "God" in one place in the sense of a Supreme Person and Creator and in another place in the sense of a Supreme Cause or Power, which are very different conceptions.

Now I will readily admit that it may be self evident that there is a Supreme Source or Power, but I most emphatically deny that it is either self evident or fairly reasonable that this supreme cause, source or power is a personal being. Now, just here is the gist of the whole matter, and the great trouble is that to the mind of the Christian any man who does not believe in this Personal God believes in no God at ail, and the Christian arrogantly thinks that this idea is philosophically self evident and indisputable. Well, whether the Christian, or even the Eagle, likes it or not, the fact is that most of the greatest thinkers and philosophers, both of antiquity and of modern times, did not and do not believe in this Personal Creator conception. Such philosophic minds, for example, as Buddha, Confucius, Plato, Epicurus, Lucretius, the Stoic philosophers, Bruno, Spinoza, Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold, Thomas Huxley, John Tyndall, John Fiske and hosts of others that might be named in ancient and modern times, are examples of this fact. Even our good friend, Lyman Abbott, has advanced so dangerously near to the same class that in half a step more he will be in the pantheistic camp.

The conceptions to which the philosophic or scientific mind most inclines are the impersonal or nantheistic, and this is about ihe way they reason it out: All that we know in the nature of personal beings seems to be verv limited, wholly dependent on this "Stupendous Scheme of Things" the universe in which everything we know is immersed, from which every known thing comes, and to which every known thing returns, the supreme source of all. Therefore, it is more In accordance with reason and facts to conclude that this great scheme of things the universe itself or some power inherent in it is God and is the Supreme Power than that any personal being could be a supreme power. No personal being that we have any knowledge of is supreme or superior to the universe, but all of them are contemptibly limited and dependent on the universe, mere creatures of it, not creators. Furthermore, the very idea of creation itself is a pure assumption who can point to any instance of creation anywhere? The idea is. therefore, baseless, whereas the idea that matter and force in their entirety are eternal, omnipotent and infinite in themselves, and never were or could be created is more in accordance with reason and facts.

It, therefore, follows that so far as our actual knowledge goes, this great scheme of things, of which we know but little, does appear so far as we know that little to be absolutely supreme in itself self acting, infinite, all pervading and all controlling. What man can deny thl3 to be a fact of actual experience and observation? Therefore, the idea of a supreme person or a personal God and Creator, distinct from the universe, does seem to be a pure assumption, and the very opposite of self evident when critically examined. This is what led one philosophic wit to observe that no one would ever think of doubting the existince of a personal God and Creator until he began to reason on the subject. Now the Idea of God held by Ingersoll was the rational one. whether in the impersonal, pantheistic or agnostic form, and is no different from that held by Herbert Spencer and hosts of the best thinkers of the past and the present, and it is high time that, this fact was clearly understood and that the nonsense that is commonly heard about the singularity and unreasonableness of the belief or disbelief of Ingersoll and other rationalists was dropped.

This talk Is particularly nonsensical when we consider the great fact that all or most of the philosophic religions In the world today, that is, those built on reason or philosophy instead of "Faith," reject the same personal conception of God which Ingersoll rejected. I refer to the Vedantists and Jains tit India, the Buddhists of Asia and most of the Confucianists of China. Furthermore, most of the old Greek and Roman philosophers, together with tho modern evolutionists, all belong practically in the same class. Now you will see that all these make up a very, big and respectable array of believers in the rational conception of God which, whether we regard thorn in the past or the present, always have greatly outnumbered the Christians. Hence there really is no reason, from a philosophic or historic standpoint, or that ot mere majority, why the Christian should be too asserlivo or arrogant about his particular conception as indisputable, because there really arc and always have been a host of acutely reasoning believers in the world of a different conclusion a few hundred millions of them who do not and never have accepted his particular conceptions, and it is certainly time that the average Christian appreciated that fact.

As a matter of philosophic analysis, the full Christian conception is really a very complex mixture of opposite beliefs, the monotheistic the polytheistic, the personal and the pantheistic. Tho Jew, the Mohammedan and the Unitarian utterly reject the polytheistic element (the Trinity) but retain the personal and tho monotheistic features; whereas the rationalist rejects the personal idea, but retains the monotheistic or pantheistic features. Thus the Idea that God Is everywhere and in all things the all in all in which "we live and move and have our being" la the essence of the pantheistic Idea which that great Jewish sect known as the Christians absorbed from the brilliant pagan philosophers of Greece and Rome which, added to this personal and polytheistic element, makes the mixed or compound Christian idea of God. The Agnostic is simply that form of the rationalist who refuses to give positive assent or dissent to the personal, Impersonal or pantheistic conceptions, holding that thero Is not enough evidence to establish either one clearly, and regards the whole subject a3 unknow IN THE NORTHWEST. An Exceptionally Interesting Descriptive Letter About That Region From Mark D.

Wilder. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: In the settlement of our Northwestern boundary line had it not been for Web ster's jealousies of General Cass and his Ignorance of the country Cass would have carried his claim and demand for the settlement of tho line at the parallel of "54 deerrees 40 seconds or this would have taken the line to the Russian possessions and the purchase of Alaska would have good for nothing except as pasturage for polar Sea. Webster said the entire region was good for nothing except as pasturage for Polar bears. He did not remember that all west coasts have mild climates that Paris is on a parallel about 250 mlle3 north of Montreal and Edinburgh nearly 750 miles Jurther north. Even to day most oT the people east have no just appreciation of the Importance ol our northwest, nor of its future possibilities, but of its actualities in resources and prospective influence in our country's future wealth and control.

No state more aptly demonstrates the advantages and opportunities of this region than Washington. An equable climate, productive soil, une qualed in forest products, rich in minerals and with natural water ways: Ocean, sound and river superior to any other. Spokane already numbering some 40,000 people, situated in the center of an immensely pro "ductive mineral region, with its splendid "water power, railways and rivers, has an assured future; Puget Sound that nearly bi Jittle else than a great harbor, with a dozen ports aud with its two thousand miles of Island and mainland shores, all bordering deep water enough for a hundred other ports, has already made a place in the commercial world. At the north, Everett, a young city, the first tide water terminal of the Great Northern Railway, has 5,000 people; across the sound, at its entrance, is Port Townsend, the custom house city and port of entry for the sound. At the south eud or head of the sound is Olympia, the pretty capital of the state, its harbor connected with railroads to the interior and to the ocean; It has 0,000 people.

Tacoma, a flourishing city, the North Pacific Railway terminal, has the road's immense shops and the wharves of its Pacific steamer lines; Its population is 65,000. On one of the islands midway on the east shore it Seattle, the Chicago of the Pacific, next to Los Angeles the most rapidly growing city on the coast. It is beautifully situated on high, rolling ground, with roorn. for a million of people. This they expect and I do not think it a dream.

The city has ten miles of sound frontage and as many more upon Lake Washington on its east side. It is very metropolitan in its appearance, fine atone blocks and business houses, perfectly drained, supplied with good water, but its source to be extended to the mountains; the whole island accessible to cable and trolley lines, four or five creditable parks, 80,000 people and buildings going up in every part, relatively a more rapid growth than any other American city. The scenery Is hardly surpassed, viewed from any aud every point. To the west, you look over the sound, its islands, the opposite shores, and beyond the whole snow capped Olympian range. To tho north and east you have tie eternal snows, peaks and domes of the interior Cascade Ranges, with Lake Washington "and its charming sister lakes between; and on the south, the circle is closed with indescribable Mount Rainier, standing out In all its imperial grandeur, with nothing to shut out its glory, as its proud crest is raised far above every other of these many sublime and peerless Pacific peaks.

The Great Northern Railway has extended its line to this harbor, where they are building some miles of wharves, from which their coast, China and Japan lines are to run. Lake Washington is thirty miles long and a hundred fathoms deep; on its shores are the New ports and Ooney Islands of the city. The United States government has constructed across the sound its largest dry dock with capacity for any ship and In which the Iowa now lays. In connection with this the government now purposing to enlarge the entrance from the sound to Lake Washington and use its deep, fresh water, in which ships become cleansed from salt water barnacles without docking, as an anchorage for its Pacific navy. The exports of lumber from the sound are immense.

At Port Blakely, on the west side, we visited (through the courtesy of its owners) one of the largest lumber plants in the world, a double mill with a cutting capacity of 750,000 feet, in twenty four hours, and they are running night and day. They employ five hundred men. There were five ships loading and at times there are ten and twelve shins at this one mill, loading for China, Japan, Australia, Africa, Europe and Atlantic ports. The timber hero is immense, logs from two to eight feet in diameter, largely fir and cedar. Logs are drawn from the boom, run through the saws, circulars, one above another or band saws, cut Into board, plank, or timber, boards edged, sized and, if for ceilings or flooring, planed, matched and grooved, and run in a ship's hold in sixty minutes.

The trade with Alaska is one of the great factors in Seattle commerce, and the goods which are sold as outfits to Klondikers are very curious and novel. House utensils, beds, clothing and food for men and dogs, mining and transportation, everything had an Arctic cast. The people going and the merchants and miners returning give a character and coloring to the most interesting, excepting in their Arctic dress, quite like those of the early days of California. We saw the arrival of the first return ship for the season, quite an event. Most of the passengers were pretty well bronzed but in good health.

They brought much gold and in a mild way the scenes of the mining camp are re enacted here. We talked with those just returned and with others who have been to the Klondike and are interested In Alaskan trade and mines. All agree In their reports that the people here have no appreciation of the wealth of the mines of gold, silver, copper, coal and other minerals; and that these are practically inexhaustible; that water for electric power purposes is within reach of every point; that quartz mines now being worked have ore enough for 100 years, and that the wash up of the placer mines for this season will be very much greater than expected, perhaps twice the amount. In mines that were supposed to be exhausted, accidental digging to lower depths ha3 revealed stra tas richer' than any worked. Prom Alaska, the Orient and its more immediate contributing resorces.

Seattle will receive trade that will place her at no remote day among the commanding cities of the nation. An idou! sail of a day down the Sound, that is north, stopping at various places, took us to Victoria, the pretty capital of British Columbia, situated on Vancouver Island. The city has about 23.0OO people, lias a good harbor, Is substantially built, quite Montreal like, with pretentious parliamentary builUiUKs that cost their interior fitted with extremely good taste; the parliament chamber, halls and dome In magnitude, design and execution are all of a very high order. The grounds, trees, shrubs and flowers are in on faith, whereas the impersonal and pan theistic are tne ones which have prevailed chiefly on pure reason. I am, therefore, far from treating the personal conception with disrespect, but as a matter of mere Justice, reason and common sense, all I ask is to have the rational or impersonal conception understood and respected as it should be from Its great historic, philosophic and, I might say, geographic status, prevailing everywhere that the human mind has thought freely and deeply.

I would, therefore, advise the Christian to confine himself chiefly to the grounds of faith when arguing for his conception and not be too confident that it is indtsputable by pure reason. The personal conception" Is, ot course, absolutely necessary to the Christian system, and this is probably the reason why the average Christian constantly Insists on it as the only right one for everyone else self preservation being the first law of all natures. But to most reasonable or philosophic minds, acting perfectly free, not bound by faith or dogma, and consulting nature and its facts. "The Infinite Universe" or "The Infinite and Eternal Energy" in the universe, is a great and good enough "God" to satisfy their senses of truth and reality, and they can, therefore, all reverently say with the great stoic, Marcus Aurelius: "Everything harmonizes with one which is harmonious with thee, 0 Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late which is in due time for thee.

HOLY CKOSS Everything is fruit to me which thy seasons bring, Nature! From thee are all things, in thee are all things, to thee all things return." CHARLES M. HIGGINS. Of committee on comparative religion, Brooklyn Ethical Association. Brooklyn, August 7, 1899. XAZY OBGYIA LETJCOSTIGMA.

He Isn't Getting Himself Hatched Out on Schedule Time This Year. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: The Tussock moth, orgyia leucostlgma, heretofore has been double brooded in Brook i lyn; that is, there have been two broods each year, called first brood and second brood. The i dividing line has been near the middle of July. The eggs of the first brood usually have commenced to hatch about the 10th of July and have continued to hatch until about the 2oth. So far this summer only about one thirtieth part of the eggs of the first brood have hatched.

A letter from Dr. L. O. Howard, United States entomologist, on the 7th snvs: 1 "It is too early to predict whether the eggs which seem to have been delayed in their hatching will still hatch this season. If it were Washington, I should say that they would still hatch, but I have had no experience in Brooklyn." The present condition is new in Brooklyn.

The issue will be awaited with interest. LEWIS COLLINS. Secretary Tree Planting and Fountain Society. Brooklyn, August 8, 1899. HARLEM AND THE BRONX.

About $3,000,000 of city money has already been expended in connection with the project for the Grand boulevard and concourse from One Hundred and Sixty first street to the city line. In the near future about a million more will be expended for the same purpose to which that already spent has been devoted the payment for land condemned for the great public improvement. The interest on $4,000,000 is nearly $150,000 a year, about $400 a day. As yet not a tree is felled nor a turf turned, nor a rock removed, nor a foot of roadway graded. For the amount of money already expended no benefit has been received except in that the land necessary for carrying out the project has become city property.

In the budget of the Department of Highways now in course of preparation an appropriation for beginning development of the Grand boulevard and concourse will be called for. The amount probably will be $1,000,000. Chief Engineer Risse hopes that this amount will be appropriated for immediate use, and that appropriations of the same amount will be made each year until the work is completed in accordance with the approved plans, the work under which was estimated to cost about SS.000.000 in addition to the price to be paid for the land. Much satisfaction is felt by the property owners of Fort George and Inwood at the action of acting Mayor Guggenheimer in signing the resolution granting a railroad franchise on Kingsbridge road and other streets in that neighborhood, as that section of the city has suffered badly from the want of transit facilities. The franchise signed is the one granted to the Third Avenue Railroad Company several years ago, and which provoked so much opposition that the matter was taken to the Court of Appeals and the grant revoked.

Since then the Third Avenue and Metropolitan Traction Compaies have come to an arrangement by which they divide the profits and operate the new branches in conjunction. The new lines will run through an extensive undeveloped section of the. city which has hitherto been without street railroad communication. The Rev. Bernard Brady, formerly assistant at St.

Michael's Roman Catholtp Church in West Thirty second street, and recently commissioned to organize a new parish at Hunt's Point, has purchased a site for a church for $12,000. The property is situated at the southwest corner of One Hundred and Sixty seventh street and Hoe avenue. The church will be named after St. John Chrysostom, and work will be begun on it in a few weeks. While the church is building the congregation will worship in the mission chapel, a short distance away.

It has been decided by the Harlem Rowing Club to enter a junior four oared gig crew in the Middle States regatta, to be made up of Jordan, Schultz, Nonenbacher and Fltz patrirk. With the exception of the last named this crew rowed in the Intermediate four event of the national regatta. There will be three entries in the regatta from the Union Boat Club of Harlem 3enior double, junior eight and intermediate eight. The three crows are to be seen on the Harlem River every day, training for all they are worth. The intermediate crew, which is in charge of T.

F. Fitzslmons, has two new men In the boat, and that Is somewhat of a handicap at present. They show indications of rapid Improvement, however. 1. It in 27 be of of a by $4, by to a Essex, state or New iorK.

isecame ii 27 ISM. with the approval of the Governor Passed, three fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon th comptroller of this state to hear and determine the application of Rawson L. Hayes for tne cancellation of the tax sales of all that part lot number one hundred and twenty two In township number eleven of the old Military tract; town of Saint Armand, county of Essex, state of New York it being three acres in the southeast corner of said lot number one hundred and twenty two forty rods long east and west, and twelve rods wide north and south.

The said Rawson L. Hayes claiming to be the owner of said land, and also claiming that he sent the money to the comptroller in due time to redeem said land, but the money was returned with a statement that said land had been redeemed by other parties. Ths comptroller is hereby authorized to act upon said application in the same manner and with the same effect as? If the application had been made by the purchaser at the tax sale. Sec. 2.

Prior to the hearing upon such application, tho said Rawson L. Hayes shall cause to be served upon the attorney general of this state a. notice of. said hearing. Said notice shall bo served at least fourteen days before tho date of said hearing.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. State of New York. Office of the Secretary of State, ss.

I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certifv that the Fame is a correct transcript therefrom "and of the whole of said original law. JOHN T. McDONOUGH, Secretary of State. (Every law, unless a different time shall be prescribed therein, shall not take effect until the twentieth day after it shall have become a Section 43, Article II. Chapter 8, General CHAPTER 711.

AN ACT to authorize the comptroller of the stata to hear and determine the application of th superintendent of state prisons on behalf of the people of the state of New York for cancelia tion of a tnx sale of certain lands in lot two hundred and thirty seven. Refucee tract, Clinton county. Became a law May 27, 1S99, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1.

Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the comptroller of the state to hear and determine the application of the superintendent of state prisons on behalf of the people of the state of New York for cancellation of a tax made by the comptroller In the year eighteen hundred and ninety five, of a certain tract of land, beinff a part of lot number two hundred and thirty seven. Refugee tract, four hundred and twenty acre lots, ln Clinton county, containing twenty five acres, more orfiless, the people of the state of New York claiming to have been the legal or equitable owner thereof at the time of said, sale and at the present time; and the said comptroller Is hereby authorized to act upon said application In the same manner and with the same effect as if the application were made by the Durchaser at tho tax sale. Sec. 2. Prior to the hearing upon such applica( tion, the said Rawson L.

Hayes, shall cause to bo served upon the attorney general of the state, a notice of said hearing. Said notice shall be served at least fourteen days before said hearing. Sec. S. This act shall take efTect immediately.

Htate of New, York, Office of the Secretary of State, I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this otiice, and do hereby certify that the same Is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original law. JOHN T. McDONOUGH, Secretary of State. Every law, unless a different time shall be prescribed therein, shall not take effect until the twentieth day after it shall have become a law Section 43, Article II, Chapter 8. General Laws.) CHAPTER 739.

AN ACT to confer jurisdict'on upon the court of claims to hear, audit and determine the alleged claims of James W. Van Slyke and Francis E. Merrltt, of Utlca. New York; WeEley Barr, of Carthage, New York; Samuel H. Palmer, ae surviving partner of the firm of James, Remington ard Palmer, and Louis Hnsbrouck.

junior, of Ogdensburg. New York, against the etate for work done and services performed for the state and to render judgment therefor. Became a law May 27, 1S99. with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The court of claims is hereby authorized and empowered, and jurisdiction is hereby granted to It to hear, audit and determine the alleged claims of James W. Van Slyke and Francis E. Merrltt of Utlca, Now York, "Wesley Barr of Carthage. New York, Samuel H.

Palmer, as surviving partner of the firm of James, Remington and Palmer, and Louis Hasbrouck, Junior, of Ogdensburg. New York, for services, printing, advertising, alleged to have been done and performed for ond on the request and under the direction of the commissioners appointed under and in pursuance of the act of the legislature of the state of New York, entitled "An act to provide for the promotion of public health, and for draining and reclaiming overflowed and wet lands adjoining Black lake and its tributaries In the counties of Saint Lawrence and Jefferson, and for Improving the hydraulic power at Ogdensburg." In and about the work directed to be done by said commissioners, in their official capacity under said net. and the acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto and judgments recovered against said com misslcncrB In their official capacity as aforesaid. And arid court is authorized to award to such persons severally, and to their personal representatives or assigns, such sum or sums as, by due proof shall be deemed by such board to be a reasonable comppnsatlon therefor, and should be justly due and owing to them. Sec 2 No award shall be made or judgment rendered herein against the eta.te unless the facta proved shall make out a case against the state, which would create a liability, were the same established in evidence in the court of law or equity against an individual or corporation; and in case such liability shall be satisfactorily established then the court of claims shall award to and render a Judgment for the "claimant for such.

um es Fhall be just and equitable, notwithstanding the lapse of time since the accruing of damages, or other proceedings had herein, provided the claim hereunder Is ftlsd with the court ot. cl. lms within one year after the passage of thi act. Sec. 3.

This act shall take effect Immediately. State of New Yor.k, Ofticr of the Secretary of State, ss. I have compared the preceding with the original law on in this, office, and do hereby certify that the same Is a correct transcript there from und of the whole of said original law. JOHN T. McDONOUGH, Secretary of.Htatsw.