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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1900. DEWEY STILL IN FIELD FOR THE PRESIDED. POLICE SW BROOKLYN HAS BEEI GETTING GOOD DEBT LIMIT IMTERFEflES WITH BOND ISSUES keep on malting contracts for the district until the expiration of the company's charter in 1931. The population of the district is growing rapidly aud Mr.

McLean thinks it a matter of good policy for the city to buy now. After the report was read the Mayor said he agreed with it and he was ready to authorize the Corporation Counsel to proceed at once MOTORMAN DISCHARGED. John J. Buckley, the jnotorman of the car which killed the boy, Frank Horn, at Coney Island, on Sunday last, was dismissed from custody this forenoon, by Magistrate Worth, iu tho Adams street court. Tho inquest in the case was held last night and six of the jurymen exonerated Buckley from all blame, while three others, while blaming him, declared in their verdict that the killing was not intentional.

There was no one in court to make a complaint against the accused and the verdict of tho jury did not warrant holding him. WATER AGA1H FLOWS IN 2GTH WARD PIPES, But the Supply Has Not Yet Been Restored to All Houses. keeps a hotel bounded by Liberty avenue, Os born street and East New York avenue. Tho lower floor is conected with the East New York avenue main, while the upstairs floors get wter from the Liberty avenue main. Tho Liberty avenue supply has been and is still all right, but the lower floor has been without water since Tuesday afternoon.

This morning Luhrs engaged a plumber who had the water on the ground floor running in two minutes. Peter J. Kennedy, a former building Inspector residing at 93 Chester street, in the GrownBsville section, is one ot those whose water supply has been cut off. He called at the Long Island Water Supply Company's old office, at the corner of Fulton street and Sheffield avenue, this morning, to make a complaint. "I was told." he said, "that all they had to do in that office Was to receive money.

I was referred to Deputy Water Purveyor Hawkes." THE FAMINE IN THE 26TH WARD. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: At about 5 o'clock Tuesday evening, May 15, a water "famine" happened at our house and the next houso north of it on Barbey street, between Atlautlc avenue and Fulton street. In each case the "famine" commenced at the same time and was at once complete and perfect. Said "famine" continued until the next morning, when Mr. George Williams was called in and removed it, and we immediately had a full pressure and supply of good clear water and great rejoicing at our house, with thanks to Mr.

Williams. Ho also removed the "famine" next door, with like results. I havo no knowledge of the cause of this so called "famine," coming so sudden and remedied so easily, but believe that the plant of the late Long Island Water Supply Company is capable of supplying the Twenty sixth Ward with enough and as good water as can be obtained from any driven well system on Long Island. JOHN C. SCHENCK.

Brooklyn, May 18, 1900. with condemnation. Mr. Whalen objected. He said he wanted to look into the matter first.

"These private companies are frauds and swindles," said he, "and I want to be right in this. If there is any way to beat them, I'll beat them out." The Controller agreed to Mr. Whalen's request that the matter be referred to him and the Mayor also agreed with the understanding that a report be made at the board's next meeting. Controller Coler reported that $4,575,000 had been received from excise fees and $93. 000 for theatrical licenses, of which was turned into the general fund.

Property to Be Acquired for New East River Bridge. The board confirmed the purchase by agreement by the New East River Bridge Commission of the following pieces of property in Brooklyn required for the bridge; 12 1 South Fifth strict $7,000 South Fifth street SCO 'uuth Fifth street ".000 23." South Fifth street G00') 210 South Fifth street .500 220 South Fifth street 6,750 Part 05 South Fifth street 10 200 Part S3 South Fifth street 41 1 and 4lfl "Wythe avenue 14,000 231 Broadway 17,000 Hoefollng street 5000 20S South Fourth street 7,500 120 South Fifth street 5131) Part 147 South Fifth street g'oOO Southwest corner South Fifth street and Urlggs avenue 20 000 197 South Fifth street in 90Q and 12S South Fifth street 17000 220 South Fourth street lii'oOO 122 South Fifth street o'oOO South Fifth street 300 South Fifth street 10 000 'l and 15C South Fifth street 2i000 241 South Fifth street c'soo South Fifth street 6 500 103 South Fifth street 10 000 111 South Fifth street s'lo 84 South Fifth street 7' 000 201 South Fifth street 7 000 1W South Fifth street 7'; 257 Broadway 1S.000 239 Broadway 16.000 357 to 363 Berry street 25 000 214 South Fourth street E.OO0 23C South Fourth street 10,000 Mr. Guggenheimer just at the close of the meeting asked if Controller Coler would not furnish a complete statement of the city's financial status. "I thiak we can leave that at the Controller's discretion," said the Mayor. "He has informed mo." "I want to know as much as the Mayor," replied Mr.

Guggenheimer. Mr. Coler said be would tell every member of the board everything he wished to know. No resolution was adopted, however, and the board adjourned. RUNAWAY GIRLS FOUND.

One Returns Home, the Other, Who "Was About to Be Married, Escapes. (Special to tho Eagle.) Jersey City, May IS Annie Mall, who with Gertrude Deinse ran away from her home In Brooklyn four days ago, was located in a boarding house at 141 Grand street last night. She returned to Brooklyn this afternoon. She was accompanied by her parents and by Mr. and Mrs.

Van Deinse. Gertrude escaped when the detectives reached Mrs. White's boarding house. Annie Moll said: "Gertie and I left our homes because we didn't like to be under such severe restraint. We thought we could earn a living as stenographers and be independent.

Gertie was completely wrapped up in John McNamara of 825 Bergen street, but Gertie's parents can't bear Johnnie and they have tried in every way to discourage his attentions. I sympathized with poor Gertie when they wouldn't let her wed the man of her choice and I don't blame her for starting out with me to be free and independent. "Before we left our home we collected a lot ef money by saying we wanted it for the Boers. Wheu we left Tuesday, Mr. McNamara was with us.

He took us to the Clarendon Hotel. Brooklyn, provided ua with a room and left us there in the afternoon. The next day Gertie and I went to Jersey City where we hired a room in Mrs. White's boarding house. "Mr.

McNamara met Gertie every day and without interference. It was so different from home. Last night Gertrude thought of marrying Jack and in fact the plans had already been made when Detective Sergeant Fitzpatrick of Brooklyn and Captain Cody appeared at the house. "Gertie got away with Jack just in time. I wouldn't bo surprised if they were married by this time.

Jack is a good boy and I know he'll make a good husband, no matter what you may say." Mrs. Van Deinse wept bitterly in Captain Cody's office. She blamed Annie Mold for Gertrud's flight. She said that much money had been spent on the girls to give them all possible advantages. She said she could never be reconciled to Gertie's marriage to McNamara, who, she declared, was not her equal.

This afternoon Mr. Van Denise went to Newark to see if he could not find his daughter there. In order to escape the detectives Gertrude and Annie exchanged part of their clothing and assumed the names of Annie Brown and Laura Wilson. INDIANS OPPOSE NEW CREED. Several Pull Blooded Aborigines Are Delegates to the Presbyterian General Assembly.

St. Louis, May 18 At to day's session of the one hundred and twelfth annual Presbyterian general assembly the attendance was greater than yesterday, many commissioners having arrived during the night. There were several full blooded Indians in he assembly as delegates, among them being Thomas Aungie and the Rev. Henry T. Selwin of Greenwood, E.

both opposed to a revision of the creed, and Stephen Weston, a Choctaw. Promptly at 9:30 the Rev. Dr. Ditckey, the new moderator, called the Assembly to order and appointed James H. Converse of Philadelphia vice moderator.

He also announced the appointment of chairmen of the following committees: On bills and overtures, the Rev. Robert F. Sample; Judicial committee, Dr. William McKibben, Cincinnati; polity. Dr.

Daniel W. Fisher; home missions. Dr. Richard S. Holmes; foreign missions.

Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall; education. Dr. George B. Stewart; church erection.

Dr. William M. Clark; theological seminaries, Dr. D. R.

Kerr; freedmen, Dr. E. Trumbull. Papers to the General Assembly were then placed in the hands of the stated clerk. After action on the committee on bills and overtures, these papers will be reported.

Provision was then made by the General Assembly to place the election of a permanent clerk In tho hands of a committee composed of one commissioner from each synod to be named by the moderator. This committee will give a hearing to all who wish to nominate candidates, and will eventually present two names for consideration by tho General Assembly. Among the candidates for a position of permanent clerk, made vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. William E.

Moore of Columbus, are Dr. W. B. Noble, Dr. John Branch, Dr.

John Miller, Dr. G. W. E. Birch and Dr.

B. W. Gemmill. N. Y.

CENTRAL TO CONTROL IT. Negotiations aro now pending which will, in all probability, give the New York Central Railroad either full control of or an equal voice in the management of the New York Connecting Railroad and Bridge Company. This is the company that purposes to build a bridge across the East River to connect the New York Central, Harlem and New York, New Haven and Hartford Roads with the Long Island Railroad. The New Central has not yet been asked to share In the Pennsylvania's purchase of the Long Island Road, but it undoubtedly will be asked to do so in due time. Continued From Page 1.

made fifty arrests every day, and that is no opera house pun, either." VIEWS OF THE MAGISTRATES. Kramer Blames Citizens for Doing the Work of the Police. Judge Kramer, was asked to day what explanation there was, iu his opinion, for tfie decrease In arrests, and whether that should be attributed to a lax rule of the Police Department. He said: "Whether that condition prevails or not, whether crime Is on the increase and the number of arrests on the decrease, I am not prepared to say without an examination into the facts; but if such a condition does exist, the blame does not attach alone to the Police Department but to those who crlticls3 the departnieut. The better class of the community, those who are looked upon as charged with the duty of showing the people what is right and exposing that which is wrong and in this class is included clergymen of our city have it in their power, without the aid of the Police Department, to stop crime and have the offenders arrested and punished.

"Very little effort on tho part of those whom I speak of will discover every policy shop, gambling house of every kind and description, disorderly house or other places devoted to immoral practices or lewd exhibitions, and all that is necessary is for two or three persons to get the facts as to the existence of these places and go before a magistrate, swear out a warrant, and the parties will be apprehended, and punished if guilty. "They have another remedy: The citizen authority is superior to that of any policeman on the force. He has not only the right to direct the policeman to arrest an offender, but he has a right to arrest tho policeman himself if he commits an offense. The citizen stands in the same relation to a policeman that an employer does to his employe. It is because the citizens collectively, by reason of their other important engagements, such as commercial business, lawyers, doctors, or whatever it may be, have not time to attend to police duty, that they hire other persons to attend to it for them, and they have just as much right to see that these persons do their duty faithfully as any other employer, for it follows that a citizen has a right to enter a station house at any time and say to the captain, or sergeant in charge: 'There is a violation of law going on at a certain place, and I demand of you to send a number of men and make the If the captain fails to comply with that demand, the citizen may proceed against the captain, and has the right to ask for his dismissal from his employment.

"This being so, it can clearly be seen that if there is any laxity on the police force, that laxity exists simply because the citizens aTe remiss in not holding their employes to a strict accountability and to the full measure of their duty. If citizens were to gather the facts as to crimes that have been committed in half a dozen instances in any precinct, and lay those facts before a magistrate and have a warrant issued, the offenders arrested and convicted without the aid of the Police Department, that of itself would convict the Police Dc partincat of failure to perform their duty, and would leave the Inference that their failures so to perform their duty was for reasons other than the difficulty in locating the source of the evils." Police Magistrate Brenner this morning corroborated the facts In the Eagle's article calling attention to the falling off in the number of arrests made by the police in the past year. Judge Brenner has been a police magistrate since the spring of 1897 and has had much experience both in the Adams street and the Gates avenue courts. "All of the police justices," said Judge Brenner, "have remarked and commented on the decrease in the number of arrests and that decrease is plainly apparent in the detailed statement which shows the number of cases of all klndB arraigned in each police court. I had not thought, however, that the falling off is as large as your figures show It to be.

The decrease began to be apparent immediately after the consolidation. I am cot able to say definitely that it has been due to carelessness or inefficiency on the part of the police, but the fact remains. "It has been suggested that the less number of arrests for drunkenness may be due in part to the operation of the Raines law. Before that law went Into effect saloonkeepers were careful to rid their places of persons who were drunk enough to make a disturbance and thereby attract the attention of the police, and the result was that many intoxicated or semi intoxicated persons were put out of saloons to be arrested as soon as they appeared on the streets. Under the Raines law the tendency is more to keep drinkers in saloons.

"Another index to the decrease in the actual number of arrests made is in the smaller number of suspended sentences. There are very few suspended nowadays, which, possibly indicates that the police are rather less strict about tho commoner offenses. And again, it has happened within the past two years that at times the county jail here In Brooklyn has sheltered scarcely a single offender excepting those who were awaiting trial in the higher courts, that is, that there were no persons being held there on Jail sentences." "As regards the article in tho Eagle," said Magistrate Steers, who was presiding in the Lee avenue police court this morning, "I can simply say that you may rest assured that the magistrates will do their duty when the arrests are made. I have noticed for several years that the arrests have been getting less and less, and when speaking before an audience of Christian workers recently along with ex Mayor Schleren I remarked that I was glad to think that people were getting better. "I always uphold the police, but when I find that any single member of the force supersedes his authority I will turn the tables on him and, as I have always done before, have him made defendant in place of complainant.

As I said, however, I wish to uphold the police In this discussion. If I were asked the question, has crime decreased? I would say that I do not know, only I would be glad to believe from the decrease in the police arrests, a6 shown in the Eagle, that it had. It is the police who really know whether crime is decreasing. We magistrates simply deal with the cases as they come before us." CANAL INQUIRY PROPOSED. Senator Morgan Says Object Is to Destroy Conspiracy Against People and Government.

Washington, May 18 Soon after the Senate convened to day, Mr. Morgan, chairman of the committee on iuteroceanic canals, offered a resolution directing the committee to inako an investigation, sweeping in its character, of tho dealings of the individuals or incorporations with a view to monopolize a ship canal at Panama or in Nicaragua, and whether the Individuals or corporations propose to obstruct the United States in the construction of an Isthmian canal. Mr. Morgan stated that tho "object of the inquiry proposed Is to enable the President of the United States to check, escape from and destroy a conspiracy founded in fraud and corruption and arrogance against the highest rights and privileges of tho people and government of the United States." The resolution was referred. PRIZES FOR SCIENTISTS.

Scientific work is greatly encouraged In France by the prizes which have been established by the Academic des Sciences, most of these being founded by legacies which huve been loft for that purpose. The Moutyon prize Is an annual award of S1 J0, to be given to the person whom the academy Judges most worthy on account of an Invention or improvements of Instruments useful in agriculture, the sciences or the mechanical arts. Chicago News. AN AMIABLE MAN. Josh You don't find manv men as good natured as Silas.

Hiram No, indeed! I never heard him say a hard word about nobody not even about Concres3 or the Leclalatur'. Puck. Many Prospective Public Improvements Must Be Put Aside for the Present, CONTROLLER COLER'S REPORT. Formal Statement a Big Surprise to Mr. Coler's Associates in Board of Estimate.

The city is again perilously near the constitutional debt limit and a general halt Las been called by the Mayor and Controller in the matter of new bond issues. Controller Coler sounded the warning at a meeting of the Board of Estimate to day and declared prospective public improvements, for which money Is not already provided, must be put aside for the present. Mayor Van Wyck stood with the Controller and let it become known that the two had been discussing tho city's finances within the last few days and had reached the same conclusion that nothing new can be undertaken at present, or until the new valuations are confirmed and the margin again raised. Although the Controller has several times of late sounded notes of warning in addresses and published statements, to day's action came as somewhat of a shock to his associates in the Board of Estimate, except Mayor Van Wyck, and was an unpleasant surprise to everyone. When the hoard met the Controller submitted tho following statement of the conditions existing: Department of Finance, City of Xew York.

May 15, 1900. tie Board of Estimate and Apportionment: Gentlemen I present herewith reports on Eighteen applications for the issue of bonds for various purposes, aggregating All of these reports are favorable, so far as the merits of tho applications are concerned, and if nothing else were to be considered, I would recommend authorizing these several issues of bonds. It is my duty, however, to report that the city's debt is so close to the constitutional limit thereof that it would not be safe for the present to authorize any further increase thereof. In addition to the prospective alterations and improvements to the County Court House in City Hall Park which are said to be essential to the health of those required to use the sajne the Legislature has passed a number of mandatory law which will add largely to tha city's indebtedness during the current year. Common prudence dictates, therefore, that for the present at least, the authorization of bonds be suspended.

The eighteen reports above referred to are as follows: Department of Parks: of Hudson Park Alterations in Kiversido $15,000.00 Drive viaduct across Nlne ly sixth strest Improvement of Riverside drive, between One Hundred and Eighth and One Hundred and Twentieth streets ITurnishing and completing buildings of the American Museum of Natural History New structure in Van Co. landt Park Improvement of grounds of Bronx Park, In the nelgh borhool of tile botanical garden S1.610.6S 25, 300.00 liO.000.00 20.000.00 200. 0M.0O 5505.010. GS S200.O00.OO Fire Department: "For repair shops S2OO.0GO.O0 Department of Water Supply: TTwo pumping engines, with boilers and appurtenances, to be placed In the high service pumping near Washington $150,000.00 "High service engine at Jerome Park Reservoir 103.000.00 tTwo pumping engines for the new hish service pumping station at Jerome Park Reservoir 45,000.00 Tank and stand pipe for the high service pumping station at Jerome Park Reservoir 15, 000. CO "Acquisition of lar.J for an additional storage reservoir on the Cross liiver Lira.nch of the Croton Hivi 200,000.01 To pay for damage on th Byrani River.

In the State of Connecticut 13.000.00 3Tor payment of damages, legal expenses, in pending proceedings under the charge of the Corporation Counsel, institut 1 at the instance of the former Department of Public Works 250.000.00 Extension of small wat mains into New street districts in the Uorougl: of Brooklyn 250. 000. IA pumping engine of fifteen million gallons' iaily capacity at Millburn pumping engine 73,000.03 Water mains, wells to increase and extend the water supply from the pumping plants owned by the city, in tho First and Second Wards of the Borough of Queens 200,000.00 Wells and pumps to increase aid extend the city water plant at Tuttenville 10.000.u0 1,413. Total S2.11S.910.0S Some of tho foregoing purposes are of such an important and necessary character that they should be taken up for action as soon as tho city's financial condition will warrant it, out in the meantime, for the reasons above stated, I recommend that those requisitions and the reports thereon be printed in the minutes and laid over. Respectfully, BIRD S.

COLER, Controller. Several Extra Millions May Be Required for Teachers' Salaries Next Year. Mr. Coler in a verbal statement said the "Davis bill added $3,000,000 expense this year and revenue bonds for other purposes would probably Increase the city's debt. Mayor Van Wyck supplemented this: "Next year the Davis act will cost twice as much.

We may nave to raise $7,000,000 for extra salaries alone in 1901. I understand the Controller is of the opinion that we cannot have any more public improvements until we see just how much the Davis act and other things are going to cost. We must practice the closest economy if we are to extend the rapid transit underground to Brooklyn. It seems there 1s nothing for us to do except to accept the Controller's report and let these matters lie over for the present." Corporation Counsel Whalen thought it a good time to put In a word for his section, and he gave notice of his intention to propose modifications in the rapid transit plans. They provide for only two tracks from One Hundred and Fourth street to Fort George.

Mr. Whalen said this was not satisfactory to citizens of the upper west, side; they wanted leur tracks all the way. "That won't reduce tho cost," said Mr. Guggenheimer. "I'm afraid your chance of getting the modification suggested is slim," said the Mayor.

"The east sido should have better facilities, too," said Mr. Whalen. "The road should lie continued up Lexington avenuo from Forty second street." "I don't care." said Mr. Coler, "to discuss the wants of sections. I represent the whole city, and my recommendations are made as the representative of all the boroughs." Mr.

Whalen fiaid he intended to bring tho matter up later and he simply gave notice of his intentions. Report Recommending' Acquirement of Elathush, Water Company. A report from Engineer McLean of Fi nance Department was presented by Mr. Coler. It recommended that steps be taken by the city to acquire by condemnation the Flatbush Water Works Company in this borough.

Mr. McLean said in his report that tho city's present contract with the company expires next January and that now is a favor ablo time to proceed. The law under which the company is organized prevents the city from going into the company's district to lay mains or supply water. The only thins the city can do unless it acquires the plant Is to make a new contract with the company and Has Not Altered His Mind to Accept Nomination if It Is Offered to Him. CANNOT COME TO BROOKLYN.

Admiral Again Declines Invitation to View the Parade of the Sunday School Children. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, May IS Authority was given to day for the publication of the statement that Admiral George Dewey has not changed his mind in regard to the presidency and that his recent Western and Southern trip had not altered his determination to accept the nomination for President if it is ottered to him. The Admiral's rather vague ideas about tha way he hopes to be nominated, however, were not cleared up by his tour, and it is stated that ho has no more political organization back of him now than ho had when ho first announced his candidacy. While the subject of politics was talked of more or less in the various cities in which he stopped, authority is given for the announcement that nothing in the way of a Dewey machine was built up in any of the Western or Southern States; and that tho Admiral empowered no one to act as his political agent.

Whatever political strength he may have gained on his trip ia merely in his way of unorganized support. So far as caa be learned Admiral Dewey is not taking any steps whatever to push an active campaign for the nominatloa. He is evidently allowing matters to drift, in the hope that he may by some lucky accident be the nominee of the Democratic National Convention. It was stated at the Dewey home to day that the Admiral has done nothing in the way of formulating the political platform which he said, some weeks ago, he would Issue to the public. This has also been allowed to drop.

Admiral Dowey and Mrs. Dewey are resting from the effects of their recent journey. They spent the day yesterday at Beauvolr, their country residence, and received several guests who called. This morning they drove into town and paid a few personal calls. Admiral Dewey does not expect to leave Washington until the Gth of next month, when lie will start off on another tour.

This will be much shorter than his recent one, and will include visits to Columbus, Detroit and Grand Rapids, where arrangements for Dewey celebrations are now under way. The Admiral will be absent about ten days on this jaunt, Dewey Declines Invitation to Witness Sunday School Parade. To day he again declined to accept an invitation to visit Brooklyn. Those in charge of tho children's parade that will take place in Brooklyn next Friday telegraphed to the Admiral while the latter was at Nashville, asking him to come on and view the parade. At that time the Admiral replied would be impossible for him.

to accept theiin vitation. To day another telegram was re ceived here from Marshall P. H. NewcomH, asking the Brooklyn representatives to Admiral Dewey to reconsider his prigina declination. The attempt failed, howevera the Admiral said he could not possiblSCSftf range to go to Brooklyn.

jj A GETTYSBURG INCIDEinJ, A Soldier Stunned by the a Shell. "I see by the war cablegrams," said a. rest dent of Pittsburg at one of the hotels, "that some of the dead Boers found in the trenches where lyddite shells had burst were without: visible wounds. Apparently they had been killed by shock. That recalls to me forcibly a very remarkable case, for which I can vouch personally.

During the first day's fighting at Gettysburg a young man named Joe Cady, second lieutenant in the Twentieth Pennsylvania, was supposed to have been killed by a shall which exploded within a few yards of his head. Later in the day some passing comrades saw that he was breathing and carried him to the rear, where the surgeons made an examination, and, greatly to thoir surprise, could find no wound. The man was in a profound stupor, but to all aopearauces was physically unhurt. He was sent to the general hospital at Washington, and from there to his home, still in the same condition. Cady was the son of a farmer who lived near Harrisburg, and my own people knew the family quite well.

I was a boy no more than 5 or years old when the lieutenant reached the old farm, but I remember distinctly what a sensation the case created. "For several weeks Cady lay exactly like one dead, and then, very gradually, he began to emerge from unconsciousness into a horrible automatic sort of life, next door to complete idiocy. He could sit up. and even walk a few steps, but his mind was a blank, and tho only sounds he uttered were guttural noises like an animal. That shocking condition remained unaltered for nearly three years; then, suddenly, without warning, ha had a seizure like catalepsy, from which he awoke in a few hours in complete possession of his reason.

He was terribly bewildered, of course, and had no idea whore he was, but after the shock of waking passed off he was as sane as over. During tho years his faculties were in suspense he sat most of tho time with his eyes closed, and tho consequence was that they were very sensitive to light. Ho had to wear blue glasses for some time, but that seemed to bo the only bad effect ha suffered. Lieutenant Cadv became an active business man, and died iti 1889 or 1890. An autopsy might have given some clue to hi long trance, but I believe none was held." New Orleans Times Democrat.

A NEW RUSSIAN SECT Which Has Been Discovered in a Prov ince of Eastern Siberia. In his latest report to the Czar, tho Procurator of the Holy Synod tells of a now sect discovered in the government of Yakutsk, eastern Siberia, and originated by a peasant, Filip Likhacheff, who was exiled to that remote region from the Ufimskaya government for belonging to the sect of the Skoptzl. The Anglo Uusslau says that the doctrines of the new sect aro explained in a MMS. headed "My Profession," and the chief points aro: (1) Tho first real disciple of Christ was Judas, for he repented of his sin and hanged himself. The 3amo method of death Is recommended to tho members of the sect who wish to part from this sinful life.

(2) Ilovcrenco is dua only to God; that shown to any man is Idolatry. (3) Man, being sinful in his very nature, and inclined to induce others to sin, ho must not have any authority over his follow mun. (4) Hence, no obedience must be showa to any secular or ecclesiastical authority. (5) The powers that be are from the devil, officials of the state as well as priests of the church. (G) Property Is a sin as tho result of greed; likewise family tics, as tho result of the lust of the flesh.

Likhacheff, on being arrested, openly acknowledged himself to be the author of "My Profession." The heresy was spreading among working men, especially among Skoptzls exiled to Siberia from European Russia. London Globe. ADDITIONAL STRAIN. "I don't bollovo in working by a system." "Why not?" "Why, If you work by a Hystom that system Is only one more thing you will havo to keep your mind on." Chicago Rocord. ITALIAN CHAMBER DISSOLVED.

Rome, May IS The King has signed a decree dissolving the Chamber of Deputies. The elections have been fixed for Juno 3 and Parliament will be convoked Juno 16. GAS WAR MAY BE OVER. General Jourdan Says That Some Details Yet Remain to Be Settled. Prices Go Up.

A meeting ol the directors of New Amsterdam Gas Company was held this afternoon. General Jourdan, president of the company, said that while the local gas war was not yet absolutely settled, the prospect for a speedy settlement was very promising. "Some details remain to be arranged at another meeting," he said. Well informed people, however, are confident that the settlement is absolutely arranged. Following the statement of General Jourdan Consolidated stock went up to 1D6, Brooklyn Union advanced to 160 and New Amsterdam a point and a half each for common and preferred.

WORTH MAY BE NAMED. Many Brooklyn Republicans Believe That Pormer Leader Will Be Sent to Congress. Jacob Worth is a candidate for Congress in the Fifth District. In the opinion of his friends and not a few political lights, who are uot his friends, the mere fact that he is a candidate is enough to assure his nomination when the time comes. The only thing that might prevent his nomination in the opinion of those same men would be for Thomas C.

Piatt to take a decided stand against him and fight it out. One of the leaders in the county, who is close to Senator Piatt, confessed that he could not say just how the state leader would regard the Worth boom. "I am inclined to believe that he would oppose it, as everyone knows that the fight Worth made against him in the mayoral campaign had behind it the making of Lou Payn as the leader in the state, if Piatt had been defeated at the city convention. "Mr. Piatt does not forget such things.

On the other hand, however, he might be willing to let Mr. Worth go to Congress on the supposition that he wants the place itself to end his career in, and would not seek to regain his power in the county." Right there is where the rub is for the present county leaders. If Worth gained supremacy in the Fifth District, with such friends as Schroeder, William, Deubert and Kissell to help him. Marshal Haubert finally acquiescing as an old friend of the ex leader. It would not be so difficult to get a good hold on the Sixth Congressional District.

His nomination would settle the ambitions ol Davis for state Senator, as two such important places would be hardly likely to go to the Nineteenth Ward. Dady is set on renominating Davis. As for WoodruS, the question is just as difficult to settle. The feeling betveen Worth and Woodruff has materially changed since the famous debate in the Academy of Music, when the present county leader paid a splendid tribute to his predecessor. Mr.

Worth appreciated this unsolicited and unexpected compliment and did not hesitate to Eay that he would be for him for Vice President if his influence could help him. Marshal Haubert absolutely refused to discuss the Worth situation, declaring that he did not believe he was a candidate in spite of his son's interview to the contrary. "Tho nomination, in my opinion," he said, "will be by acclamation, and should go to the Twenty first Ward." When asked if Worth could win if nominated however, Mr. Haubert refused to discuss such a possibility. There is no doubt that Louis Worth's statement has stirred county politics, and the leaders do not really know just where they are at.

BAD EFFECTS OF LENIENCY. Pilipinos Who Do Not Hesitate to TJrgo Sedition Under the Very Nose of Authority. As the weather grows hotter, we pursue with the same persistency if less energy the study of the native mind. That is the great problem behind all other problems which makes the situation perplexing. Solve it, and the others will be comparatively easy of solution.

After you have been in the Philippines a month you are convinced that you know just how the native thinks. In two months you find that what you have learned one day is contradicted by what you learned tho day before. In a year you have concluded that you know nothing at all. Henceforth you are always on the point of giving the native up as an enigma and treating him as such, when he suddenly does something entirely new, which seems to promise interesting results in a fresh line of investigation. General Otis, with the manner of a father confessor, puts every prominent prisoner brought into town through a catechism, with this same object In view.

Flores, Aguinaldo's Secretary of State, is the latest one to grow tired of living from hand to mouth and being kept on the move by our soldiers. "So you have come In," said the General to him. "Yes, I have come in to see how the situation is in Manila," was the smiling reply. "I think that Manila is the best place for me to carry on my work now." "Well, do you still retain your hopes and aspirations for a Filipino republic?" "We are not fighting your brave troops in the field Just now except with guerrillas, but we can influence your American Congress. We have not given up." "Would you have come in under the same circumstances If tho Spaniards had been in authority?" "Oh, no; We know you aro more lenient." "All right.

You may go," said tho tired ruler of the archipelago. "But you had better not mix up iu politics or I may have to lock you up." Flores thanked him for hla advice and walked out of the Ayuntamlento free to Join the throng of agitators who have been gathered in this dry season's campaign. There Is only one country in the world, and that our own, which could produce a governor general for a tropical land who would show such kindness of hoart. With the Spaniards In power, Flores mUht have been executed on the Lu neta; and he might not have had that honor. It Is more likely that he would have been one of a party of ten or twelve to be shot In a bunch In the old Vlsayan barracks.

The Incident goes to show that if we have not grasped the Insurgent's way of reasoning, he has become grounded In certain of our attributes. Not only power, but the exhibition of It, Is the one thing convincing to tin; Oriental, whether he is of high or low station. The prisoners whom we allow to return to their work of agitation or their commands, if thev wish, do not think highly of General Otts's humanity but rather they think poorly of his ability because he does not use his authority up to the limit. Native leaders have even gone so far as to claim to their people that the general was liberal because he realized that for a small sum Agul noldo coiti. 1 hire an emissary to assassinate Mm.

and that Agulnaldo would only desist from this so long as tho general did not Imprison the members of his cabinet or his when they were Frederick Palmer In Collier's Weekly. SHORTAGE NOT YET EXPLAINED. Some Indignant Citizens Who Were Without Water Forty eight Hours Talk of Suing the City. Some relief to day was given to the Twenty sixth Ward, which for nearly three days has suffered from a shortage of water, for some reason which no one has yet explained. One explanation offered to day is to the effect that the water pipes were clogged with a vegetable growth, which came from the small reservoir at Highland boulevard and Miller avenue.

When the water ceased to flow into tho hpmes of the Twenty sixth Ward residents at 6 o'clock Tuesday night the cause of the trouble was ascribed by some of the officials of tho Water Department to the fact that a connection was being made between the Brooklyn system and that formerly owned by the Long Island Water Supply Company. This work was completed on Wednesday and still there was just as little water to be had in the eastern part of tho ward. There was considerable talk to day among the people affected by the limited supply of water about bringing action against the city to recover damages and one man, at least, said ho would take steps immediately to learn what could bo done in this respect. Residents on Cleveland street, between Jamaica avenue and Arlington avenue, were among those to get relief. The water began running in the houses on both sides of Cleveland street, between the avenues indicated, at 6 o'clock last night, just forty eight hours after it had ceased running, or had been unceremoniously cut off according to the belief of the houseowners up there.

While Cleveland street was relieved there were others iu the immediate vicinity who had no water and the fact that their neighbors were receiving a plentiful supply made them angry. Lawyer Edward R. Vollmar, who lives on the northeast corner of Arlington avenue and Elton street, had no water in his houso this morning. The famine as far as it affected bis family had lasted since midnight Tuesday. Mr.

Vollmar dropped in to see his neighbor at 245 Arlington avenue, on the northeast corner of Arlington avenue and Cleveland street. There was no water there, although the Cleveland street property owners had water at high pressure. The lawyer and his friend talked over the situation and determined if nothing was done to take the law in their own hands and make a street exploration for a main that would give water. There were talks of a suit against the city, but exactly what measures will be taken were not determined. The indignation is very general, and it is not at all unlikely that some concerted measure will be taken Ly those who are still cut off from the supply.

An inspector of the Department of Water Supply had a number of men digging holes on Fulton street, near Sheffield avenue, thi morning to find out, apparently, what the matter was. He declared that the taps of the service pipes connecting with the mains were in a number of cases clogged with vegetable matter which had found its way into tho pipes from tho emptied reservoir of the Long Island Water Supply system on Ridgewood hill. A citizen who had paid a plumber to make an exploration and who wanted the city to pay the plumber's bill said that in his tap there was a wad of vegetable matter "packed in as tight as a wad of oakum," as he expressed it. This seemed to me the complaint of a number of persons who had their water supply stopped, although their houses were connected with the main service pipes. The assertion that this sudden famine is the result of the rapid growth of the district is scouted by the residents of the section.

"How is it," asked one indignant citizen, "that all at once the supply should so suddenly fail? Mr. Moffatt and his friends do uot pretend to say that there was a sudden increase in the population of the ward exactly at that hour. The people downtown will have to do better with their excuses. There was something wrong with the supply that made it give out so suddenly just at that moment and we have not had an explanation yet. It is about time that somebody told us what the matter was." Dr Robert A.

Black, the local health officer, sent one of his inspectors out to the Twenty sixth Ward yesterday afernoon and this morning the inspector was preparing his report. Dr. Black said he would forward it to Manhattan as soon as it was received. "The inspector found that the situation was puzzling," said the doctor, "and that there had been no exaggeration in the stories published in the Eagle nad tho complaints that had reached our office. Of course, unless something is done 60on to relieve the people there may be trouble, but until I have seen tho inspector's report I cannot say what measures will be taken." Among the visitors to the office of Water Purveyor Hawkes yesterday afternoon was Bernhard Midas, formerly a Charities Commissioner and a prominent officer of the Twenty sixth Ward Home Owners' Association.

He lives on Jamaica avenuo and he reported that he had been without water since Tuesday. "We never had any trouble before," said Mr. Midas, "and wo are surprised at this. Speaking confidentially I think when tho gentlemen of this excellent department get at the root of this matter we will have all tho water we want." Martin Bennett of 29 Jamaica avenue owns five buildings on the block where he lives and controls seven otherB. He has had no end of trouble, as the complaints of his tenants have been many.

Shortly before 9 o'clock this morning Mr. Bennett called up the local office or the Water Department and stated that he would hold the city responsible for any damage he might sustain as the result of the water famine. An hour later a force of workmen were digging up the pipes leading Into the buildings, and early this afternoon water was again flowing. F. T.

Fosdlck, who conducts a laundry at 124 Van Slclcn avenue, had his water supply restored by appealing to a plumber. "Tho cutting off of tho water," he said this afternoon, "caused quite a loss. I believe tho city is responsible for tho trouble and I expect to take steps to recovor damages." Others who have suffered much inconvenience by the lack of water are of much the same opinion as Mr. Fosdlck. Foreman McDonald, who was In charge of a number of men engaged in digging up water pipes on Jamaica avenue this afternoon said that the trouble wa3 caused by a vegetable growth which had Mowed into the surface pines.

No one seen was able to explain why such a thing should be permitted and naturally enough some persons were asking if this sort of thing Is likely to occur often. Plumbers in the ward are doing a lively business. Henry L. Potter of Van avenue and Fulton street exhibited a lot of moss which he took from a connecting pipe leading to a houso on Barbey street. Alfred II.

Weston, 0 real estate dealer at tho corner of Fulton and Jerome streets, who is tho secretary of the Home Owners' Association of the Twenty sixth Ward, has prepared a list of those residing In that section who have not had a drop of water since Tuesday evening. The list foots up about one hundred. A peculiar state of affairs exists on Jerome street between Fulton street ond Atlantic avenue, wher every alternate house Is cut off from a water supply, although all tho houses are connectod with the name main. Kx Aldcrman Richard Pickering said this morning: "I was one of the first of the Arlington avenue Eection to be without water. cYnter day I cnRaged a plumber and It wa8 not long before the water was running.

This morning there was the same old trouble, a drop of water. I supose I will have to employ a plumber by the month." In tho Brownsville scctloD, Henry Luhrs A LITERARY SHRINE. Dove Cottage, Grasmere, the Former Home of Wordsworth and De Quincey. Professor William Knight of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, writes at length in the May Century of Dove Cottage, best known as the home of Wordsworth, his article being illustrated by Harry Fenn.

Among other things he says: It was good news to the literary world when it was announced a few years ago that Dove Cottage, Grasmere, tho humble home in which the poet Wordsworth lived with his sister from 1800 to 1808, and to which he brought his wife in 1802, had been acquired by the English nation, to bo held in trust for posterity, for ia that house the poet passed the sevea years of his poetic prime and accomplished his choicest work. Tho story of Dove Cottage, both before and after it became Wordsworth's home, is a curious one. It was originally a small "public houso," or hostelry, where travelers going from Ambleside to Keswick were entertained. As all such houses had some "sensible sign" of their existence, it had forftoutward blazonry a dove and an olive branch. After the purchase of the house and its orchard ground a great deal of labor was undertaken to put it in order and to arrange for keeping It up.

Before 1891 more than 1.000 had been subscribed in aid of the scheme, and some of the entries In the list of contributors are interesting, e. "A Disciple of the Poet who gave us "The G'0; "Three Lovers of Wordsworth," are Seven," "Working Women," etc. Both Lord Tennyson and Henry Irving subscribed. It is worth while to note the number of visitors to the cottage since 1892. In 1892 93 it was in 1893 94 it was in 1894 95 it was in 1895 96, in 1896 97, since 1897 it has been larger still.

Adjoining Wordsworth's room is the guest chamber, of which so many of the friends of the household made use. It is a tiny room, with a bright outlook on the orchard garden to the north. Here havo slept John Wordsworth, tho poet's sailor brother. Coleridge and Mrs. Coleridge, Southey, John Wilson, AValter Scott, Sir George and Lady Beaumont, Thomas ClaTkson, Charles Lord, Thomas Wilkinson as well as the Coleridge children.

As the family increased in number it was found necessary to build aa addition to the house; and, poor as the Wordsworths were, they managed to design and erect a smaller room off the old guest chamber. It is on the eastern side of the cottage, about the level of the parlor floor. It used to be called "The Newspaper Room," because, for economy, Dorothy had covered its walls with the newspapers of tho day. In November, 1S09, De Quincey went to live in Dove Cottage, and became a near neighbor of the poet for many a year. De Quincey had many books, but no bookcases, and kept his volumes oa the floor, in long miscellaneous rows and lofty piles, and even, tradition says, hid his money among them.

When Coleridge came to be Wordsworth's guest at Allan Bank ho saw much of Do Quincey, and borrowed his books from Dove Cottage in order that he might read them leisurely at Allan Bank. He carried so much away for consultation that sometimes five hundred volumes were "transferred on loan." T. extraordinary consciousness as to loans of books was illustrated in a very significant and honorable manner at this period of his life. He used to wrlto upon each volume which he took away from Dove Cottage, "Thomas De Quincey. Es o.uire"; and their owner tells us of the trouble he afterward had in erasing these dreadful inscriptions, lest it should be supposed that he had ever styled himself "Esquire" on any book belonging to him.

He tells us that In 1816 he had five thousand books in the cottage, collected gradually since his eighteenth year. His rooms were "populous with books." He kept two cups and saucers near the fire and "an eternal "for I drink tea," he said, from 8 o'clock at night to 4 in the morning." VARITIES OF COCKROACHES. They Believe With Roosevelt in the "Strenuous Life." The croton bug, writes Harvey Sutherland In Alnslee's Magazine, is rather tho smallest of the roach house population. Ho is five eighths of an inch in length at maturity, is light brown, with two dark brown stripes on his thorax. As becomes an inhabitant of this continent of great things, the Perlplaneta Americana is th5 biggest, though the tropical "drummer," which beats rhythmically on the woodwork with his wings is two inches long and measures three inches from tip to tip of his outspread wings.

It is said that there is a very gay colored cousin under tho equator six inches in length. What the English story books call the black beetle is really a cockroach, oriental in Its origin. What makes our English cousins glvo it this name is because it is not a beetle and is not black, but a dark brown. Tho males have shortened wings, and the females havo hardly any. This Is as it should be.

There is too much gadding about by the sex. The Australian variety, being a good sailor, fond of tho roving Hfo, the warmth aud moisture of tho forecastle, to say nothing of Its picturesque untidiness, is now generously distributed throughout the world, thanks to ocean borne traffic. Ho has a yellow band on the upper chest and a yellow dash on the sides of his upper wings. You will never find those four varieties dwelling together in amity in one house. Like the good old Tory that he Is, the cockroach is Intolerant to tho last degree.

If ho cannot heat his kinsman in the battle to too doath, ho emigrates to another house, where he may hide in a crack In the wall, according to the dictates of his conscience. Tho cockroach Is thoroughly in accord with Governor Roosevelt in Ills advocacy of tho "strenuous life." He never gets enough fighting while he lives. Put In a bowl with an opposition cockroach, he furnishes us fine a gladiatorial show for the monoy as one could ask for. At the conclusion the victor gathers up the fragments of his adversary, and. that nothing may be loft, cats them.

This form ot entertainment is deservedly popular among tho Chinese. A REAL ADEPT. Vlrdtor Is your daughter Maggie a very accomplished pianist, Mrs. Brown Jones? Fond mamma Oh, yes, indeed; you should hear her play "Homo, Sweet Home" with variations'. Why.

she gots in so many littlo twiddles and runs you'd really never recognize It at all. Ally Soper's. '1.