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25 THE BEOOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1900. THE DAVENPORT FAMILY 15,000 BAGS OF SUGAR ON THE NEW GERMAN AMERICAN PIER. At last a day arrived when Fanny was the head girl. How she looked forward to the morning walk and her meeting with royalty once again. She was not disappointed, for the next day the school girls caught sight of OAK CREST, THE LINDENS, KINGS OAKS AND RUGBY.

Life in the Canton Homestead. Work of a Great Real Estate Syndicate. ysrw only representatives of the family at present before the public. The former and elder is at present a prominent leading man and shares honors with his younger brother as a matinee idol. Edgar appeared first with his father, in the tragedy of "Pizarro," playing a child's part.

It was a short engagement, for he was sent to school there to remain until as a youth he renewed his professional career at the Walnut Street Theater, "The Exiles." For some vague reason Edgar chose to be known on the bills as H. G. Davis. Later, he resumed his own name, the theatrical renown of which gave it a corresponding professional value. An engagement with the Boston Museum Stock Company, where he became very popular, lasted for five years.

Since then he has appeared in "The Crust of Society, '61," and last year with the Columbus Theater Stock Company. When the late Frank Mayo first produced "Pudd'nhead Wilson" both Edgar and Harry were members of the cast. They belonged also to George W. Lederer's Comedians, an organization which existed eight or nine years ago, with Robert Edeson, Louis Mann and' Clara Lipman as associate players. For the past season Edgar Davenport was one of Viola Allen's company, playing the part of Drake, to which his fine presence and ease upon the stage lent themselves effectively.

Harry Davenport, appearing at present in "The Lady Slavey," at the Columbia Theater, Boston, began to act when 5 years old, and, like most of his brothers and sisters, made his debut in a child's part in his father's company. As Damon's boy, in "Damon and Pythias," the youngest scion of the house was introduced to the public, and he tells with amusement of an incident that occurred shortly afterward. "The play was 'Jack I believe," he said to the representative of the Eagle, who called upon him, "and I was playing the boy, of course. My father, the late E. L.

Davenport, was one of those serious minded actors Suburban Properties of Wonderful Growth. Familiarity blinds the unreflecting to the most important facts. Residents of Brooklyn Borough and the greater city scarcely realize the extent and magnitude of the suburban development that is going on all around them. The spectacle is always before their eyes and what is constantly seen fails to attract attention. A mountain can only be viewed from a distance.

It is only to real estate investors in other cities that the New York field assumes its true proportions. The metropolis is the Mecca of real estate operators as well as of financiers. Up to this time Brooklyn Borough is the section of the greater city which has found most favor with individual and syndicated capital. Dean Al vord came from Rochester to inaugurate in Prospect Park South a new departure in suburban development. The leading spirit of the company which is found at Kenwood, William E.

Johnson, is a Chicago business man of long experience in the Windy City. Nearly thirty months ago, or on January 1, 1898, the firm of Wood, Harmon Co. of Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburg and nineteen other cities began operations in Brooklyn on a large scale. Oak Crest was the first point selected for transformation from fields into home centers. Since that time the company has acquired The Lindens, Kings Oaks and Rugby, and the total area of these four districts aggregates 1,100 acres.

All of this land excepting fifty acres, or less than 5 per is above grade, thus insuring easy and perfect drainage and highly favorable sanitary conditions. At the outset of what has since grown into a four sided enterprise the new company's programme of improvement seemed too sweeping for realization. What has been done since, however, has put doubts to flight before the logic of accomplished facts. No portion of Oak Crest, Kings Oaks and The Lindens has escaped the touch of progress. Most people remember the woods of the Lott estate on Coney Island avenue and the John Schultz property on the corner of Kings Highway and Ocean avenue, both of which for the last fifteen years have been principally a receptacle for general rubbish and picnic parties.

To day these places are among the most beautiful about New York. Grass plots filled with flower beds and shrubbery line both sides of the granolythic and crushed granite walks. The grass is kept close cropped and the whole place has the appearance of the entrance to a park rather than a suburban real estate development. Men are continually at work cutting the grass, trimming the walks and keeping things in shape. The woods have been cleared out so that sufficient sun can get through to start the grass which has been planted throughout the whole of the properties.

Many houses have been built and new ones artistic and handsome are constantly under operation. There are a greax number of very handsome suburban tplaces around Brooklyn, but few if any are kept cleaner condition or trimmer style than those of this firm. Descending from the general to the particular, it will be proper to describe these localities in the order of opening. Oak Crest is the highest point between Prospect Park and the beaches and extends from Coney Island avenue nearly over to Ocean avenue, between Avenues and I. This whole sec tion is covered with superb trees which are mainly oaks of long growth.

No sooner had the ti at nnm. intn fha nneinn nf tho C.WEEI)S JOURNALISM. k. 8 THE DAVENPORT HOMESTEAD AT CANTON, PA. company than its improvement was vigorous solltn byC.

from Flatlands to Canar Iy pushed to completion. Streets were laid I nc cast Fiity sevcnth street or out. regulated, graded and curbed, the sick anfI cn west by Albany the queen. She approached to where Fanny stood trembling and happy and, placing the pet in me nttte girl's arms, said, Kindly: "I knew you would do it!" Mrs. Davenport's father, Charles Vining, was an actor of note, and at one time a dentist.

While playing at the Adeluhi. in Lon don, Mrs. Davenport had a singular exper! ence. During one act some of the characters cross a Bridge, which had need to be fastened securely to the stage. One night the actress areamea tnat sne was standing on the bridge when it gave way.

She seemed to feel no fear, but jumped to tho stage in safety and awoke. A tew nights later the calamity really occurred at the theater. As in her dream she jumped to the stage and escaped injury, while several actors, who clung to the falling structure, were thrown beneath the stage and killed. Mrs. Davenport died in 1892, having been brought at her dying re quest from Boston to the homestead at Can Mrs.

E. L. Davenport, Who Before Her Marriage Wis Fannie Vining, a Famous English Actress. ton that she might end her days in the house where her husband had died. E.

L. Davenport, considered by many theater goers of his time to have been the finest American Shakspearean actor, appeared first in a small part. "A New Way to Pay Old Debts was the play. In it, later in life, be Dlaved with great success the part of Sir Giles Overreach. Davenport was one of the many young men who ran away from Dome to become actors.

A special medal awarded him at school for declamation had much in creased his determination to become a player and the opening fojnd his talent was soon recognized. Davenport sang very well as a young man and was often heard between the pieces, when, as was the old custom, a song was given to entertain the audience during the interlude. Among the parts and plays with which E. L. Davenport's name became identified were Sir Giles Overreach, "The Lion of St.

Marks," William in "Black eyed Susan," "Richard III." "Hamlet" and Bill Sykes in "Oliver Twist" a wide and varied range and one demanding extraordinary versatility. At one time a star combination was formed with Davenport. J. W. Wallack and Lucille Western.

"Oliver Twist" Edgar L. Davenport. was given with Davenport as Sykes. Wallack as Fagin and Miss Western as Nanc) all of them becoming famous as the best exponents of their respective parts. When the homestead at Canton was purchased, the advent of so well known an actor created some little stir in the town and Mr.

and Mrs. Davenport were frequently called upon to contribute their talent for the benefit of church and private entertainments. As a Shakspearean scholar E. L. Davenport naturally gave readings from the gentle bard, and they became wry popular.

The parlor of some country house was usually the scene ot these entertainments, with a raised wooden platform arranged across one end of the room for the speaker. According to the prevailing fashion, a long mirror was generally to be found between the windows that, formed the background of the stage. Now Davenport, like many noted men. had his weak point it was a harmless vanity about a bald spot on the back of his head. So sensitive was the actor upon this subject that he made it a point to request that an American flag should always be draped across the mirror.

None save the members of his own family understood the underlying motive which prompted the patriotic desire. It happened once that Davenport stopped upon the platform and began to read with all his accustomed seriousness. Some villago wit had meanwhile determined to play a joke on the tragedian and to that end stepped from behind the window curtain, whero he had been hiding. Davenport could not see the fellow, who was dressed as a clown and straightway began grimacing and gesticulating in mock imitation of the actor. A titter from the audience made the latter aware that something unusual was taking place behind him.

At once to his sensitive mind there came the unpleasant suggestion that the Hag have fallen and that it was the reflected Bald spot in tne mirror which had occasioned the impolite mirth at his, expense. Turning around to ascertain the truth he beheld the clown. Pausing to look at him for an instant in silent contempt, Davenport took up his book and stepping down from the platform left the house immediately. No apologies ever sufficed to overcome the indignity, nor could he ever again be induced to enter that place. Such was E.

L. Davenport, who died September 1, 1S77. A firm yet kindly man, having talent that amounted nearly to genius and that unfortunate inability to accumulate worldly goods which is, alas! so frequently allied to the artistic tempenament. MABEL GREY. Notable in Theatrical History.

Here may we hope to pleasantly renew Our late acquaintance broken, off, with you. THESE words, which serve, fittingly as an introduction to these personal notes tho Davenport family, were spoken by the late Fanny Davenport, ori January 21. 1873. Th couplet was part of an opening address, delivered by the various members ot Augustin Daly's company at the opening the New "Fifth Avenue Theater, which was, contrary to its. name, on lower Broadway.

Many notable names' are among ihose who, one by one, stepped forward on that occasion and. after the old fashioned' custom, delivered a' verse of the inaugural poem in the quaint, impressive manner of the palmy day Here are a few of the company: William Davidge, Mrs. Gilbert, of the white curls and motherly face, whom we saw in "Miss Sara Jewett, Kate Claxton of "The Two Orphans" fame; Clara Morris, Louis E. Ii. Tavenport, A Great Actor and the Father of Noted Men and omen of the Stage.

James, Linda Dietz, Fanny Morant, Owen Fawcett, Joseph Whiting, James Lewis, Harry Crisp, George Griffiths, George Clarke, Charles Fisher and W. J. Le Moyne. None of these achieved greater theatrical fame than Fanny Davenport, who was the oldest in a family of nine children, nearly every one of whom was at some time on the stage. Fanny was born in 1850 and appeared at the age of 9 as King Charles in "Faint Heart Ne'er Won Fair Lady," a play in which Mr.

and Mrs. E. L. Davenport were acting at the time. The Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, saw the debut of the little girl who was afterward to become one of our great emotional actresses.

Prior to her career as a star she was one of Daly's stock company for a number of years. One of her early appearances as a star was made in a dramatization of "The Vicar of Wakefield," produced at the Union Square Theater, New York, under the title "Olivia." In the cast at the time was Edmond Price, whom Miss Davenport afterward married. Robert Mantell was at one time her leading man and shared the honor with her in "Fedora" and other plays. Her greatest sue cess 'was had in the Sard ou dramas, which she produced on a lavish scale. "Gismonda," a play magnificently staged, created much comment because of its church scene, in which altar was shown, brilliantly lighted by candles, and.

the odor of incense swung by a ce'nsor bearer, so that the fumes were wafted into" the audience, produced an incongruous and somewhat uncanny effect. In this scene Fanny Davenport wore jewels said to be valued at $30,000. Melbourne MacDowell, her husband, for she was twice married, was her leading man at the time of her death, which took place in September, 1898. Since that time he has starred in the Sardou repertoire jointly with Blanche Walsh. Fanny Daven Fanny Davenport.

port left beside her jewels and much valuable theatrical property, a fine estate at Rox bury. Mass. Of Fanny's brothers and sisters three are dead, Lillie. Adele and Eddie. The others are Blanche, May, Florence, Edgar and Harry.

Blanche Davenport was an opera singer, known as Bianca la Blanche. She sang for a number of years with much success in Italy and was especially a favorite In Naples. Returning to America she toured in grand opera for a season under Strakosch's management. She has retired from the stage and is at present living in the Davenport homestead at Canton, Pa. One of the sisters now dead (Lillie) was the widow of Frost Thorn, who perished in the Mohawk disaster.

He was one of the unfortunate guests on the Garner yacht when it capsized. The fatal termination of the pleasure trip was one of the sensations of the year. Retired and living in Philadelphia at present is Florence, another of the Davenport family, who was1 formerly an actress and singer. She was a member of the opera company organized by the late John T. Ford of Baltimore, some years ago.

"Pinafore" was produced at the South Broad Street Theater, Philadelphia, and Florence was the Josephine, in a cast which included Belle Archer, as Hebe, and George Dcnham, as Sir Joseph Porter. Mrs. William Seymour, wife of the well known stage director, was May. Davenport, and, before her marriage, was connected with the Boston Museum Company. Mr.

Seymour staged the Maudo Adams' production of "Romeo and Juliet," the exceeding smoothness of that performance and an especially well managed mob scene in the first act giving evidence of the ability of tho "man behind the scenes." The Mary Saunders version of the "Old Curiosity Shop" was also given under Mr. Seymour's stage direction, and he has recently been engaged by the Llebler Company to stage its new productions. So much for the Davenport daughters! The two sons, Edgar and Harry, are the Crest, is practically sold, and the trifling fraction that remains in either of the suburbs will soon be in the hands of intending house builders. This ebarmir.3 section, which has all the improvements of Oak Crest in a similar state of advancement, has been developed under restrictions similar to those at Oak Crest, and on lines carefully devised to insure 'Trv erowlh future select ness of tho tne Absolut Protection of trees, ImPrveraent Society and the sidewalk culture of flowers and shrubbery! each 'aS Creft' are rained "and ia nf fht aS, ess6ntial to the attainment of the great ends steadily kept in view by the company. next comes '0 Kings Oaks.

This third tract was only opened last autumn. It and during the brief in nt me Jhal has e'aPi since it was placed upon the market, two thirds of the property has been sold. The tract faces on Kings htgnway and Ocean avenue, with a frontage of 1,600 feet on the former (its souta eLn and a like frontage on both sides of Ocean avenue, which is 120 feet wide, boulevarded its entire length and destined to become one of Brooklyn's fashionable thoroughfares Dean Alvord's artistic example in the culture of flowers and shrubbery along the walks is as closely followed as the difference in conditions will permit. The streets and avenues are macadamized in lieu of asphalt pavements, which cannot be laid while lots are sold at the prices asked in Kings uaks. The third suburb to be projected by this company will be built up by a company o.

lot owners, homogeneous in character. References are required of every purchaser ad thus objectionable people are excluded from the colony. Through liberal and effective advertising the great bodv of those comprising tne thrifty and progressive class have been thoroughly informed respecting the attractions of Kings Oaks and its neighbors. Oak Crest and The Lindens. The results of this policy are seen in the rapiditv with which the sales of plots have proceeded.

It is designed to have Kings Oaks take a somewhat higher grade in its architecture than the suburbs wtien preceded it in order of opening. bile plots must include two lots, the low limit in the building cost of dwellings is fixed at a higher figure, and stands at $3000, and $4,000, according to the street in which the building is located. No business can be carried on within the limits of the property, upon which four very fine dwellings have been erected by purchasers. A ride of six minutes beyond Prospect Park brings the sightseer and resident to this attractive park grove, which the lapse of five years will see wholly taken up with new and handsome dwellings of various types of architecture. This is one of the last desirable timbered tracts now remaining in the borough, and with its transformation into a settled suburb the scene of building activity will be transferred to other fields.

Kings Oaks may be reached from the bridge in twenty eight minutes by the Kings County Elevated and Brighton Beach Rapfd Transit trolley. The Bergen street. Marcy avenue and several other surface lines also tap this section, which may thus be reached from Park row and all Brooklyn points for a single 5 cent fare. The opening up and almost complete disposal to intendinc home builders of all the lots in three suburbs in a li'tle more than two years is a record which reflects clearly ann strongly me popularity of tins section ot tne Dcrcugn with those who are e.jfSrW iiuiu inK uuitr anu crowned parts ot the city. This activity now finds contini.ed in a new quarter, whicn has rgcs'ved the euphonious name of Rugby.

Ttio tract in question lies partly in the i town of Fla and partly in its adjacent county neighbor, and so is located in. both the Twentv 'ninth and Thirtieth Wars. This tract is bounded the nOrtn East BrOldwaV. 01! the avenue. Within the limits of this latest acquisition of Wood, Harmon Co.

there are in all 500 acres. The present and initial opening, however, only covers 133 acres, all of which are situated within the town of Flatbush. or in the Twenty ninth Ward. It is proposed by persistent advertising to abolish from popular use the prosaic name of Flatlands and substitute the more attractive appellation of Ruehy in its stead. When the old name, received as a ieencv of the colonial times, has been relegated" to history and oblivion, this promising portion of the borough will nave entered upon a creat future.

During the early summer a large amount of money will be expended in laying out and beautifying the section of Rusby which will first be ushered into sibilitv. All that has been accomplished in its three sister sections will be repeated here, and tree planting and the culture of flowers and shrubs will be carried forward cn the same extended scale. When all the four suburbs are considered together, they comprise 1.103 acres, or nearly two square miles of territory, which was originally subdivided into twentv seven farms. Speaking from a city point of departure, this widespread development commences with the Ryerson property r.n Rock away avenue and extends to the Post estate at the other extreme of the domain. When finally subdivided there will be mere than 17.000 lots in the entire area.

To stimulate Rugby's progress the company has agreed with the Br.ioklvn Ranid Transit management to have fit'tv houses built there within one year, and in return for this agreement tho Reid avenue line has been extended to Rugl fi Already transfers are given on the surface trolleys, and it is expected that the company will soon couce le transfers from the elevated to the surface line at Utici avenue. While the plan which is brine nnt in operation by the comnanv involve! nniv permanent duration of that high character wnich will be given to it at the nmsi As already Intimated New York i the land of desire for Western men of enterprise wno mid in tne metropolis a proper field for ten years a resident ot Roston. Spcakir. for all their various holdincs tho annual sales of lots range from Si to $2,000, 000. During the nn.

ten or twelve vears the aggregate sales of house lots have reached the handsome total of All property Is handled on the installment plan. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the holdings of this firm is the manner in which the lots are sold. Failure of buyers to keep up their payments through loss of employment does not entail forfeiture, as the simple payment of interest on the amounts overdue will protect the rights of delinquent lot holders. A further security is afforded by a life insurance policv issued to every buyer if in good health tho time of the purchase, the amourt being nxr at a sum sumcient to cover the value of the lots. By this means if any person die before payments are completed.

deed of the property is given to his heirs, irb the proviso, however, and no installtrictit is more than thirty days in arrears. The ycarlv fee required for membership in the Village Improvement Society, which secures the keeping of all streets in park like condition without cost to lot owners, is only ro cents. A certain percentage of the urrss receipts is set aside each year as a building fund from which buyers of plots in good standing may obtain loans for the erection of dwellings. To stimulate growth and an advanc1 in values, the company has offered SIS. 000 prizes for those wh complete bouses in Kings Oaks before August, i of this year, and a 3 cent fare lOui dock.

They were piled about four deep from one end to the other of the four hundred foot pier, and there was' just enough room left on one side for the stevedores to pass with their trucks. The value of the cargo was estimated roughly by Mr. Carr, the dock master, at $200,000. The reporter, in' order to make a photograph of the 18,000 bags on the floor at the time of his visit, was obliged to secure a position on the top of a heap at one end, and his view point left out of the field of the camera at least one eighth of the bags. The accompanying illustration shows but imperfectly the magnitude of the ship's cargo, since it embraces only about two thirds ot the quantity.

The sugar was consigned to W. D. Munson the ship's agents, and most of it is for the American Sugar Refining Company. The first cargo to be taken aboard ship at the new pier will probably be a large consignment of baled hay for South Africa. A new and powerful compress on adjacent grounds is preparing this cargo, but there is as yet no ship to receive it.

and it is not Jefinitely known when one will arrive. er heard of a self made newspaper man in all my experience. To return to a discussion of journalism in the abstract I believe I remarked a little while ago that journalism was divided into two classes: day and night. That is correct as fur as it goes, but there is still another subdivision, tints and colors. Under this head papers are apportioned into two groups white and yellow.

A. white journal may print everything, but a yellow journal prints anything. It was a yellow journal that endeavored to stop a play, in the interests of morality, recently, and then printed in full as court testimony, all the speeches that it claimed were improper. After that it printed them again. Then, lest some one should forget the Immoral portent of a particular situation, it printed them once more.

My friend, if you ever join the staff of a yellow journal you must expect to be surprised. A yellow journal, like Bret Harte's heathen Chinee, has peculiar ways. To day it will spend to induce one man to identify another as a criminal and to morrow it will cut down th eorhce payroll because too much money is being spent in salaries. All the while it is howling about the grasping, blood sucking power of the trusts. The yellow journal is distinctly in advance ot the times.

It cau describe accurately battles that never occurred, criticise performances which never were given and illustrate, with marvelous detail, fashionable fires that didn't burn. The evening editions of the yellow journals appear on the street at 8 o'clock in the morning; you can buy a 2 o'clock extra at 10; a 4 o'clock spasm at 12 and a 6 o'clock fit at 2. When 6 o'clock comes, you haven't anything to read, so you buy a white journal and how funny it seems! Wnere is that story of the gruesome murder in West Ho boken? That deadly defeat of the Boers is missing, too. So is the account of the new race of pigmies which the yellow journal so vividly told. It seems strange to you.

very. My advice to a young man just starting out in journalism is quit calling it journalism and say newspaper business. If you apply to an editor and tell him you "aspire to a journalistic career." you may as well go back to the bank, the store or whatever it is. What you are looking for is a job and don't you forget it. In the second place never take a job on a yellow journal if a white journal offers you more money.

Remember this. It may come randy. Third, get over the idea that it takes any especial knowledge to become a newspaper man. It doesn't. Pay attention to my lessons, follow my formulas, fill out the written tests which I will send you from time to time and you will be as good a newspaper man as ever came out of a college of journalism.

For the coming week. I ish you would take this exercise: Write a three column essay on "The Modern Tendency of Ethical Development." Submit it to all the editors in your town, one after another, and after they have refused it, send it to me and I will burn it. This will teach you at the start the kind of stuff the editors don't want. a. H.

F. should be in this land of the Southern sun. "Muchas gracilis; buen provecho ie haga a vd." or "Graeias buen provecho!" 'Thanks, may it benefit you." There is hardly a common peon in Mexico who will not invite you in this polite way to partake of his fare, and those of us who. in mountain hut or little rancho have been pressed to eat and have accepted have dined on buen humor eorn pania; in pood humor and agreeable company. true Mexican, of all degrees of the sock.1 scale, has the generosity of a prince.

He inherits it from the chivalrous Spaniards The poorest Spanish shop lad in Mexico, on the days of bis infrequent outings, will ask yi it us he sils down io his repast to share it with him. May Allah bless a race like this, so kindly and so hospitable in the fine oil Oriental way. It warms the cockles of tie heart to meet such people in such cold and hustling days. Mexican Herald. 1 THE NEW PIER at the German American stores of the Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Co.

has just been completed, and the first ship to be mcored there has discharged a very large part of her cargo of sugar. The pier is at the foot of Partition street, just below the Atlantic basin, and is on the site of old Pier 39, which was burned a little more than a year ago. It is inclosed, and the superstructural frame is constructed of steel. The interior walls are sheeted with galvanized corrugated iron. The dimensions of the pier are 100 by 115 feet.

On the south side of the new dock a powerful dredge, is engaged in deepening the water sufficiently to accommodate steamships of the heaviest draft, while on the north side the Norwegian steamship Ulriken is discharging her cargo of sugar from Cienfuegos, Cuba. The first cargo to be landed at the new pier is noteworthy both for its size and its value. It consists of no less than 3.500 tons of sugar in 23,515 bags. At the time of the Eagle reporter's visit the Ulriken had discharged about 18,000 of her 23.515 bags, and they were the only freight on the ficor of the The Eagle has securer! from the publishers. Fuller C.

Weed Boston and ttangor, the ex elusive rig ht to publish in such installments as it sees fit advance proofs of the firm's new serifs on Journalism." Being an ol.l newspaper man himself, it is Professor Weed's intention to make his book the introductory lesson In a school. Instruction to pupils will I); disseminated in a manner somewhat unusual, but as eftieaeinus. seemingly, as it will novel. The lessons will be printed In various sectional newspaper. throughout the country, of which the Eagle is one, and letters, together with questions and requests for information, may be sent to the nearest newspaper havinE the service.

In this way Professor Weed hopes and expects to reach a much greater number of students than would be possible from a single source of instruction. To day the Eagle prints an extract from Professor Weed's Initial chapter. Journalism is the art of making newspapers. It is divided into two classes, day and night. The night begins where the day leaves off.

The night journalist goes on duty in the afternoon and works till the editor tells him to go home, The day journalist frequently works all night. This principle should be well grounded in every pupil's mind before he starts, as upon it depends much of his future happiness, as well as his ability to hold his job. Some men have of course an insurmountable prejudice against night work any character. To them I say keep out of journalism, unless they are like the young reporter I once knew in New York. I won't tell you what paper he was on.

When you get to be a full fledged newspaper man you will be able to tell the name of a man's paper by the character of his assignments. As I was about to say this young man was told to go out to Greenwood Cemetery every night until further notice and sit upon a tombstone. The third assistant managing editor had told the second assistant managing editor, who had told the city editor, who had told the first assistant city editor and he had told the reporter that a man's body, then under that particular tombstone, was to be exhumed by the District Attorney's office. The young reporter was assigned to keep watch at the grave all night and until he was relieved the next day. Did he resign, you ask? No, no.

Did he storm and break down at the indignity of the task? Not much. He said: "Yes. sir." and went immediately uptown to the theater. The next morning he got up early and t.cnt to a telephone box near his home and called up the office. "Where's my relief?" was what he said.

"Here I've been on the brink of the grave all night long and I'm most frozen. Hurry up the day man. can't you?" Then when the day man came the young reporter continued to enjoy himself. At the end of the week he put in a fat bill for time and expenses which tho office paid. This will show you, my young friends, what direful consequences attend the man who shirks his night work, and before I forget it there is another thing.

The District Attorney's office did not dig up the body. It was a pipe I mean the story. (A pipe in newspaper parlance has the same meaning that it has anywhere else where good English is spoken.) Well, so much for night work. One of the most difficult knacks to acquire in the newspaper business is the ability to know a story. This is commonly designated as "a nose for news." I have on my desk, as I write, a letter from a Brooklyn newspaper man.

He says that he first developed a nose for news when his city editor sent him to write up the Barren Island disinfecting plant. He knew he had a story that day the instant it touched his nostrils. This is only one of many illustrations of natural talent, talent which is sometimes born in a man. although as a baby, with a brand new set of works, he hasn't much time to consider a little thing like talent or even genius. Newspaper men are born, not made, think I may say safely, without fear of serious contradiction, that there has necr been an instance where a successful newspaper man was not born.

I nev A POLITE PEOPLE. Generosity and Chivalry in the Republic of Mexico. In traveling here one meets with courtesy, an article in which the people excel. If you enter a little inn. or rural fon'da, people seated at rough tables will not fail to say to you politely, "Gusta vd, comer?" It is Spanish, and most Arabic, withal, to offer of your food to the fellow traveler or the newcomer.

The Moors used to say, in their fine and lofty way: "In the name of Allah, will you dino with us?" And the polite person replied: "Hence an." or "May it benefit," just as here in Mexico we say, if we are well bred, "bieu educados," as everybody PROP. FULLER OF walks flagged and the roadways macadamized Pending the laying of mains by the city, water is supplied by the company from wells on the property. In the course of a few months, however, mains will be laid in all the streets and water supplied in regular city style. Sewer construction is also being pressed with equal vigor. Within the limits of Oak Crest already described there are in all 7K3 lots.

All building plots must contain at least two lots, and bouses must cost S3, 000 on seme streets and $2,500 and $2,000 on others, while in back streets dwellings costing may be put up. No stress is laid upon the duplication of architectural types as owing to the diversity of tastes and the extent of the suburb any two structures that might be similar in appearance would be too remote from each other for their identity in style to be noticed. Buildings must stand ten, fifteen and twenty feet back from the street line, according to location. Oak Crest and the other sections of the great tract are exceptionally well adapted to building purposes. A sub soil of gravel and sand runs all the way to tidewater, so that damp cellars are and will be unknown.

Every care is taken to enhance the sylvan effect of the district. The oaks and other trees are sedulously guarded against injury or destruction. On all the streets and avenues hardy trees of rapid growth are being set out at intervals of twenty feet. For this purpose maples and other ornamental trees are selected. As all trees that grow from a nut have roots extending downward to the water which are liable to be cut or broken in removal, none of the nut growing varieties can be transplanted, but only such as come from seeds.

This law of botany prevents nature's original contingent of oaks, hickories and wal nuts from being supplemented by the later efforts of tree planters. Fortunately, in the the development and opening at this time of case of Oak Crest and Kings Oaks the early only 133 acre. yet it really moans il'e im bounty of nature needs no artificial additions, provement of the entire section, to which the With the exception of water mains and sew name of Rugby will extend. In its character ers, which will ere long be provided, all this coming suburb will be one of ihe mcst street improvements have been completed, i attractive spot in or around New York, and So immediate and general was the recogni every precaution will be taken to insure the tion of the desirability of Oak Crest for sub urban residential purposes, that building plots were rapidly taken and now only thirty or forty lots remain unsold. Although the company is not a building firm, still it assists of the old school to whom guying or any inattention to business while upon the stage was intolerable.

What I had done to displease him I have forgotten quite, some childish sin of omission or commission, yet I shall never forget the awed feeling with which I obeyed the summons of the stage manager to report directly at my father's dressing room. He bade me be seated with as grave courtesy as though I was one of the grown up actors In his company. Then as he proceeded to make his change for the next act he spoke without anger, yet with a seriousness of word and gesture that impressed themselves indelibly on my memory. said he, 'the part which you are playing is a small one, nevertheless I exact from the members of my company strict attention to business. Unless you can attend more readily you must be replaced by some one else." Never had the dignity of my calling occurred to me before, and when my father had finished his kindly lecture upon what the future might hold for me if I were sufficiently earnest, I promised like the good little boy in the story book 'never to do so any The musical talent inherited by some of the Davenport family fell also to Harry's share and while a lad he belonged to Ford's Juvenile Pinafore Company, which appeared at the Broad Street Theater, Philadelphia, and gave daily matinees, while tho same opera was being given at night by the regular company (in which his sister Florence was singing).

He afterward belonged to the Girard Avenue stock and managed that Philadelphia theater for one unsuccessful season, after which he joined the Lederer forces. His succes in the "Belle of New York," in which ho first appeared in a juvenile role, was repeated in London, where his versatility was shown in his clever portrayal of the part assumed in America by Dan Daly. Mr. Davenport not only sings, but is beside a remarkably clever and agile dancer. It is not surprising, viewed ih the light of heredity, that the children of Mr.

and Mrs. E. L. Davenport should each inherit a share of the talent of their famous parents. Mrs.

IB Harry Davenport. Davenport was an English dancer as a child and later an actress of no mean renown. Fanny Vining was her name and her children still preserve a set of golden buttons presented to their mother by the Queen in recognition of her talent as a dancer. Mrs. Davenport used often to relate to her children another incident in which Victoria figured pleasantly.

It appears that while the former was at school in London, the mistress of the academy was wont to take her young charges to walk in a nearby park where the young Queen came for her morning constitutional accompanied by her ladies in waiting and a small pet dog. Young Fanny watched in envy the favored pupil who, having attained to head of the class, was rewarded' by being allowed for a brief and precious moment the dubious distinction of holding in her arms the small canine belonging to her majesty. tv plot buyers to improve tneir purchases oy tne; me tnspiay oi ineir hustling dualities. All erection of tasteful dwellings. A vigilant the members of the firm of Wood.

Harnion watch is kept over the property both before Co. ere born in the West. Their real and after its sale through the agency of a estate interests now cover twenty five cities. Village Improvement Society formed and i with some ninety subdivisions. Reside the maintained by the company.

This association large cities already mentioned, the firm has is composed of lot owners who pay small an I extensive holdings in Bufalo. Syracuse, nual dues and thus provide a fund which is Rochester. Providence, New expended in setting out trees wherever need Haven. New Britain. Auburn.

Scranton, ed. and keeping the streets, grass and shrub Springfield. and other towns. The bery in good condition. This policy will be members of the company are Charles E.

continued for twelve years, at the expira Wood of Washington. 11. C. William K. Har tion of which period the villagers, with the uon of Boston and C.

B. Harmon of Phila suburb fully built up, will be in a position delphia. W. E. Haruion.

who is the rcsi to look after such matters for themselves. dent manager of the Rrcoklyn property, rrn Avenues and I are eighty feet wide, while I vious to bis removal to this city, was for the other streets have a width of sixty feet. As in the case of The Lindens and Kings Oaks, the cutting down of trees is prohibited, except under carefully regarded restrictions where building operations would otherwise be interfered with. At the close of the building season last autumn some fifteen houses had been erected by plot owners, and as many more will be undertaken this summer, according to present indications, with a prospect that the number will be added to later on. It is needless to say that all the houses are detached, single family dwellings.

Speaking generally and on the average for the whole section, the elevation above tide water is thirty feet. No better indication of the solidity of Oak Crest values could be given than the fact, that during the past year the price of lots has advanced 60 per cent. For The Lindens the increase is 30 per while the Kings Oaks, which is only in the commencement of its development, the rise is already 10 per cent. The second suburban section evolved from fields and groves by the company was The Lindens, which lies just beyond Oak Crest in the same general position, and its of similar character, all on or above grade, with handsome timher throughout. This Oak Crest adjunct entered upon its era of improvement in the autumn of 1S0S.

This tract is somewhat smaller than its above mentioned neighbor and comprises 531 lots. When placed upon the market it was disposed with equal readiness, ar.rt at the present time there are only thirty ur lots which have not found purchasers. It wu. 'bus be seen that the whole tract of The Lindens, like that of Oak.