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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17. 1902. Is a feasible one. The only question causing delay is that of tho attitude of the Dock Department.

The department has yet to approve of the plan. There is a hitch over the time when the piers are to be turned over to the Board of Education. SLOW PROGRESS ON BROOKLYN TUNNEL II OF LABOR DIFFICULTIES. WITH THE HOUNDS AND HOLDS WITH THE HARE." the past summer closely followed the sheep camps. The fire marked areas of the region comprise 2.751,770 acres, which leave only 192,350 acres of the tracts now, or formerly, wooded, which have nt been visited by a fire at least once during the last hundred years.

The region in whirh the forest has been mo.st severely burned forms a fairly well defined belt, ranging from fifteen to twenty miles in width, and stretching diagonally across the entire region from northwest to southeast. Grazing acts as a destructive agent to the forest by preventing reforestation. Mining, In most portions of the West, makes Inroads upon the forest by cutting. In this region it acts in another way as well that is, through hydraulic mining operations. Every acre of forested ground torn up by the hydraulic giants and covered with tailings, or converted Into a dumping ground for the debris and crumbling bluffs of sand and gravel left by this class of miners will possess much forest cover.

The future of the forest will depend upon two factors tho length of time tho present forest will yield mill timber and the composition and general aspect of the growth to follow. If we suppose that the present conditions of cutting, grazing, fires, shall continue in the future as in the past thirty five or forty years, it is not a very dlfflcult matter to predict with tolerable accuracy that by the end of the present century, or even fifty years hence, the accessible forest will have been swept away. The rest of the report is taken up with detailed descriptions of the various drainage basins as to topography, soil, mining, agricultural land, pasture, forest and wooded areas, fires, reproduction ahd chaparral. These are the drainage basins of tho north, middle and south forks of the Feather River, of tho Yuba River, of the Bear River, of the north and middle forks of the American River and the Rubicon River, of the Truckee River and of Long Valley. The report has numerous Illustrations.

a. B. A. VIEW OF ION'S ECLIPSE Observers on the Earth Got Only a Glimpse of the Shadow Last Night. AN ASTRONOMER'S LECTURE.

The Rev. Frederick Campbell Discusses Conditions in the Skies and Explains Beason for the Eclipse. City people who stayed up until nearly midnight last night to see the eclipse of the moon were disappointed. The eclipse took place sure enough, but clouds obscured the vision of the inhabitants of the earth in this vicinity. The clouds began to move as early as 9 o'clock, and grew more dense as the time approached 11 o'clock.

About 11:20, however, the observers were able to discern the shadow on the lunar disk. At midnight, before totality began, however, the clouds tecame dense and the moon was entirely invisible. At Westminster Church, Clinton street and First place," last evening a large audience listened to an illustrated lecture on the eclipse of the moon, the speaker being the Rev. Frederick Campbell, pastor of the church and vice president of the Department of Astronomy, Brooklyn Institute. In opening his lecture, the speaker referred to the usefulness of astronomy as a means to the elevation of thought and character, a field in which to escape worldly care and draw near to God, to Whom, as the Source of the universe, we are not only led to the heart, but driven by the necessities of science and logic.

The stars, he said, as seen upon a clear night, present a bewildering maze, which a very little study will, however, begin to clear up. It is easy for the most unpractised observer to recognize the grouping of stars into constellations, as well as to recognize among the individual stars differences of size and brilliancy. Among the visible stars all but five, are what are termed "fixed stars," always keeping their respective positions. This is not because they have no motions, but because these count for practically nothing by reason of their extreme distance. Even every smallest point of light in the Milky Way is a fixed star, and each such star is an independent sun, shining in its own strength.

The five exceptions to the fixed stars are luminaries which move about among the other stars within the limits of that same belt where the mocn is always found, and where the sun would also be seen if his bril liancy did not extinguish starTight. These are known as planets, whose movements are so near the earth that they can be readily distinguished, worlds like our own, revolving about the sun as a center, and shining only by reflecting the sun's light. These five are increased to eight when the earth and distant Uranus and Neptune are added. As all the planets move In essentially the same plane and at different rates of speed, they will occasionally become grouped in ways that are very interesting to behold. Thus a year ago next month, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and the moon were all assembled in a way in which they will not be seen again more than twenty years.

As these planets all revolve about the sun, so the moon revolves about the earth. In so doing the moon passes the sun once in every twenty nine and a half days, and would eclipse that body each time if it came directly between the sun: and the earth, but usually It passes ibpyeor below the So, also, at similar intervals the moon passes behind the eaftii.af full bu' usually too high (Or) too low to be affected by the earth's shadow. At intervals of about six months, 'however, sun, moon and earth tend to get into a straight because at such Inter 'vals the moon's bi weekly crossing of the earth's plane occurs straight toward the sun or straight away from it, and sometimes both, two weeks apart Thus, there is liable to be an eclipse of the sun, and, two weeks before or two weeks after, an eclipse of the moon. Sometimes all three occur within four weeks, that is, two eclipses of the moon and an eclipse of the sun between. An eclipse of the moon, the.

speaker said, is caused by the moon's passing into the shadow. As the moon depends upon the sun for its light, it therefore grows dim When the sun's light is shut off by the body of the earth. The reason it can be seen at all is that some of the sun's rays are refracted around the earth, through its atmosphere, and so fall upon the moon in sufficient quantity to render that orb visible. If one were on the moon at such a time as this, he would see the sun eclipsed by the earth's huge bulk; and, instead 'of totality lasting only a few minutes, it would in the present instance last one hour and a half; the earth's sphere would exclude much of the corona, as well as all of the sun's body. The moon wi'lj 1" the ideal place to witness an eclipse of the sun.

PAEIS FASHIONS UP TO DATE. Prom the Eagle Paris Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon, through the courtesy of Abraham Straus. This trim suit has a coat and skirt of brown hop sacking, edged with fancy black braid; the broad belt is of panne velvet. JANITORS' SALARY FLAN. Special Committee of Board of Education to Make Report.

The special committee on janitors' salaries of the Board of Education will be ready in aaar future to make public its report on' a plan for the payment of janitors' salaries. The system under consideration is to take the janitors from an eligible civil cerv ice list. The only objection to the plan is that this will Increase the cost to the city nearly $200,000. New rules are to be adopted governing janitors. The principals will be given more authority and will be held re sponsible for the condition of the school building and grounds; With a view to hav ing a general supervision oi tne janitors a supervisor of janitors has been appointed.

The plan to make use of the recreation piers of the city fcr public school buildings is being rushed through. The committee on buildings has approved oi the plan and the Department of Buildings has reported that It REGISTER TO DAY. To day lit the third day of registration. Yon can reRinter at any time lip to lO P. M.

The place for roRlxtrntlon Trill he found in toTlny's Engle. Yon vriU lose yonr vote if yon fail to regrlftter, and it is safer to register at once. "THE PRICE PAID." To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: The editorial of October 14 in the Eagle, on "The Price Paid," is a masterpiece of clear thinking and dignified diction. It images the spirit and purpose of the fathers and founders of this great nation. It should be read in the schools.

It will crystallize and sustain the thought of many men in this great city. God bless you, and may you live long and prosper. POOR RICHARD. Brooklyn, October 16. 1302.

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST EUCHRE. Active preparations are being made for the euchre to be given by the members of the Church of St. John the Baptist at the Knapp Manuion, November 7. A numLer of prizes have been donated, and if the sale of tickets can.

be taken as an index, the probabilities arc that the attendance will be of goudly proportions. ST. ALBAN'S LODGE. The second degree was the work done in St. Albans Lodge last evening at its rooms, 44 Schermerhorn st.

Wor. Charles E. Bre tell, the master, was ably assisted by several prominent members of the craft. FELLOWCRAFTS IN SANDALPHON. Wor.

Robert Frothingham conferred tho fellowcraft degree in Sandalphon Lodge last evening. There was a large attendance and many visitors. LONG ISLAND LODGE. The first or entered apprentice degree was conferred in Long Island Lodge No. 382, F.

and A. last evening. The work was done by the senior warden, Louis Arnold, in a creditable manner. Clynta Distilled "Water. Five gallons absolutely pure water delivered In tlltlnp demijohn for 50c.

Try Clynta Ginger Ale and Vichy. Clynta Water Company, 32, 34, 36 Clinton st. MARRIED. EDWARDS PUTMAM At Brooklyn, X. Thursday.

October 15. by Rev. H. P. Dewey.

D. LILA B. PUTNAM to JAMES L. EDWARDS. WATERMAN PORTER On Wednesday, October 13.

1902, at the residence of the bride's parents. 27B Halsey st. ETHEL. MAE. daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Augustus Porter, and ARTHUR HOWARD WATEI1MAX. DIED. BAIRD On Wednesday, October 15. 1902, MART ELIZABETH, wife of John I.

Balrd. Funeral from her late residence. 331 Bergen st, on Saturday, October IS, at 2 P. M. Relatives, members of Brooklyn Lodge No.

941, K. and L. of and friends are requested to attend. 16 2 CASSEL At his residence. 139 Pacific st.

after a short Illness. FREDERICK C. CASSEL. Friends and relatives are invited to attend funeral services Friday evening. October 17.

at 8 o'clock. Interment at Greenwood. 16 2 CUMMJNGS On Wednesday. October 1G. 1902.

THOMAS FRANCIS CUMMINGS. the beloved son of Henry and the late Rose Ellen Nolan. Funeral from St. Catharine's Hospital on Saturday. October 13, at 2 P.

sharp. (Mayo and Sllgo papers please copy.) EVANS On Tuesday. October 14, GEO. W. EVANS In the 65th year of his age.

Funeral services will be held at his late residence, 540 Washington av. on Friday. October 17, at P. M. Members of Oxford Council No.

6 j0 and also members of Fourteenth War Veterans and Moses F. Odell Post are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral Friday, October 17. at 8 P. M. 16 2 EVANS Oxford Council No.

650, R. A. Brothers: You are hereby notified of the death of Brother GEORGE W. EVANS. Funeral services will be held at his late residence, 546 Washington av, Friday evening, 17th at 8 o'clock.

Kindly attend In V. M. C. R. L.

HUTCHINSON. Regent. George W. Barnett. Secretary.

16 2 EVORY On October 16, 1902, ALEXANDER F. EVORY. aged S3 years. Relatives, friends nnd members of Long Island Council No. 173, R.

are Invited to attend the funeral services at his late residence, 3C2 Seventeenth st, on Sunday. 19th at 2 o'clock P. M. 17 2 FARRELL On October 15, 1902. MARGARET E.

FARRELL. wife of the late John Farrell. native of Kllasher. County Longford, Ireland. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, 94 Adelphl st; thence to the Church of the Sacred Heart on Saturday.

October 18. at 9 A. M. Interment In Holy Cross Cemetery. Kindly omit flowers.

(California papers please copy.) 16 2 FLYN'N On Thursday. October 16. at his residence. 220 Harrison st. JAMES son of the late John and Catharine C.

Flynn. Requiem mass, 9 A. Saturday, at St. Peter's R. C.

Church, Hicks and Warren sts. HIGGINS On Wednesday. October 13. EMMA BALDWIN, wife of George W. Hlgglns.

Services Saturday evening. 8 o'clock, at 931 Lafayette av. Brooklyn, N. Y. Relatives and friends invited to attend; also members of Dauntless Council No.

1.757. R. A. Interment at Falrmount Cemetery, Newark. N.

J. (Newark papers please copy.) 17 2 McNULTY On Thursday, October 16, 1952, PETER beloved son of John and Mary McNulty, aged 20 years. Funeral from his late residence. 209 Hoyt st, on Saturday morning, thence to St. Agnes' R.

C. Church, Hoyt and Sackett sts. Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery. MUNSON Entered Into rest October 16, 1902, tho P.ev. FREDERICK MUNSON.

Funeral from his late residence, 2 Verona place, on Sunday, 2 P. M. Relatives and friends invited. (Connecticut papers pleaEe copy.) 17 2 NOSTRAND On Wednesday. October 13.

1902. at the residence of her parents, after a lingering illness. LIZZIE beloved wife of John P. Nostrand. and daughter of Andrew and Agnes Houston.

Funeral services Saturday. October 18. P. at 547 Monroe st. Interment private.

16 3 O'GKADY On October 15. JOHN J. O'GRADY, beloved husband of Delia Gllda, a native of French Park. County Roscommon. Ireland.

Funeral from his late residence. 564 Baltic st. on Saturday, October 18, at 2 P. M. Relatives and friends Invited to attend.

16 2 RAWSON At Lincoln, on Wednesday, Octo ebr 15. EDWARD J. RAWSON. In the 77th year of his age. 17 2 RORKE At his home, on Wednesday.

October 13. 1902. at 7 P. EDWARD F. RORKE, late detective sergeant of police.

Funeral from his late residence. 46 Tompkins pluct. on Sunday. October 19, 1902, at 2:30 P. M.

Relatives and friends and members of the Police Department respectfully Invited to attend. Interment In Holy Cross Cemetery. THURSBY On October 16. MARTIN KALB FLEISCH, beloved husband of Clarissa Find lay and eldest son of Helen M. and the late Rodney Thursby.

Funeral private. RA HEY On Wednesday, October 15, MARY TRAHEY, a native of Balling Garry. County Limerick. Ireland, and sister of the late Cornelius Trahey. Relatives and friends are respectfully Invited to attend her funeral from the residence of Mary Sweeney, 188 Amity st, on Saturday morning.

October 18. at 9 A. M. thence to St. Paul's Church, where a solemn requiem mass will be offered up for the repose of her soul.

Interment In Calvary Cemetery. 16 2 VALENTINE On October 16, 1902, JAMES VALENTINE, ased 63 years. Funeral services at his late residence, 220 Marlon st, on Sunday. October 19, at 2 o'clock. Interment Evergreen Cemetery.

LEBOHNER WE SINCERELY THANK THE relatives and friends of the family and also the members of the Star of Hope Lodge No. 430, F. and A. M. Progressive Chapter, Washington Relief Circle, Morningstar Lodge No.

72, Knights of Pythias; Bushwtck German Co operative Sick and Benefit Funds, Richard Wagner Singing Society, Pastor Knabenschuh and also George G. Englert. undertaker, 115 Evergreen av, for their services rendered at the burial of my beloved husband and father, GEORGE C. LEBOHNER of Dexter Park, Jamaica av. MRS.

BARBARA LEBOHNER AND CHILDREN. Controller Grout Will Likely Take Steps to Have the Contractor Prodded. LEEWAY HAS NEARLY EXPIRED. Contractor Has Not Yet Let Any Sub Contracts McDonald's Requisition Approved. Controller Grout asked his associates In the Rapid Transit Commission yesterday when work is going to commence on the Brooklyn underground extension.

He reminded them that the contractor's leeway of two months is nearly up and said he desired to see the contract gotten under way. Mr. Rice, acting chief engineer, in reply, said that the engineering staff had been at work on the plans for the past two months and that they are now far advanced. The contractor, he reported, has not yet let. the sub contract for the Broadway section, nor has he.

up to date, let any of the contracts for the steel or cement required for construction. Mr. Orr. in explanation of the contractor's failure up to the present to start excavation said that the contractor was not allowed to open the street until a large quantity of steel was on the ground, since such opening would unnecessarily prolong the disturbance of trallic. Mr.

Grout's inquiries did not elicit any very favorable report as to an early beginning. He told tin. other members of the board that a mere formal breaking of ground without active progress in the work would not. be satisfactory to Brooklyn. Nothing more was said on the subject, but in view of Mr.

Grout's interest in the matter it is possible he will move to have the contractor prodded ahead if lie does not in the early future show a disposition to proceed. A letter written to Commissioner Charle3 Stewart Smith by James W. Alexander, representing nearly all of the owners of the big buildings that line Broadway from Maiden lane to Wall street, was read and acted upon. Mr. Alexander said the people he represented owned about 1,150 of the 1,200 feet of Broadway frontage and that they had agreed upon a competent engineer to look out for their Interests.

The board was asked to allow him to co operate with the rapid transit engineer and examine the subway plans. This was agreed to, Mr. Orr stating that he understood the owners of the skyscrapers were anxious to furnish information as to the foundations and in return have access to the plans so as to protect their interests. As stated some time ago in thc Eagle tho underground extension contractor's difficulty in securing a sub contractor for the Broadway section is largely due to the fact that the" work will be difficult on account of the enormous buildings that practically line the street. Mr.

McDonald's monthly requisition calling for work done in September for $907,000 was approved. This makes nearly $22,000,000 paid for the underground to date. Mr. McDonald also sent In an application to be allowed to build about a mile of new track, as an extension to the Kingsbrldge extension. This new trackage, he thinks, will tap a good passenger district.

The application calls for a third track from Dyk man street station to the end of the lino as at present laid out and then an entirely new extension north for about three quarters of a mile, all of this to be paid for as an extra under his present contract. The matter was referred to the engineer for report as to the cost, also as to the advisability of It. Mr. Grout raised the point that It might be cheaper for the city to call for bids for it if approved and said the policy of permitting big extensions to be built as extras under the old contract might causa future complications. He suggested that the contractor might feel warranted In making such a proposal as to the projected east side route.

The board received a copy of Justice Lev entrltt's order requiring the razing of the old Hall of Records as soon as temporary quarters can bo found for the New York register. Mr. Orr announced that he had signed tho Pennsylvania tunnel franchise agreed upon. ITTNER HOLZMANN. In the presence of a large number of their friends, Miss Anna B.

Holzmann and William F. Ittner were married at the German Evangelical Reformed Church, on Wyona street, on Wednesday evening, by the Rev. H. Freeh. Mr.

Ittner Is a prominent member of the Jewell Literary Society and the Twenty sixth Ward Y. M. C. A. The bride was given away by her uncle.

Conrad Kratzen stein. She was attired in a gown of heavy ivory white satin, trimmed with panne velvet and exquisite lace. The bridesmaids were the Misses Elizabeth Bade and Bertha A. Ittner. They were dressed alike, and wore point d'esprit over white taffeta, trimmed with white satin lace.

The floral decorations consisted of palms and white and pink crysanthemums. The bridal party marched to the altar to the strains of the wedding march from "Lohengrin." Charles A. Seeger was best man. The ushers were Simon Nager, Herman Heyser. Clifford T.

Booth and Charles J. Martin. A feature of the affair was the reception and wedding supper at Breitkopf's Hall. There were one hundred guests. The dancing lasted until a late hour.

Many beautiful wedding gifts were received. SMITH CARMAN. Miss Alice Bondel Carman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G.

Carman of Bath Beach, was married last night at the Carman on Bay Seventeenth to William H. Smith. The wedding was a very quiet one, only the members of the families being present. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Alfred H.

Brush, pastor of tho New Utrecht Reformed Church. Miss Carman was attired in a gown of white crepe de chine and carried bride roses. Thero were no bridesmaids. The groom was attended by Henry Caband as best man. Following a wedding supper, the young couple left on an extended tour of the South and they will make their home in Mexico City.

Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. John V. Van Pelt. Miss Susie Van Pelt.

Mr. and Mrs. Julius Lassoe. Mr. and Mrs.

George St. John, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson G. Carman, Mr.

and Mrs. Robert A. C. Smith, Mr. and Mrs.

Alfred Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Prentiss, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Corbctt, Mr.

and Mrs. J. S. Bogert. Captain and Mrs.

F. C. W. Smith. Mr.

and Mrs. George B. Mullor. Miss Muller. Mr.

and Mrs. George Carman Deake, Mr. and Mrs. James McClernon. Mr.

and Mrs. MacCormell, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Daniels. BABCOCX OVENS.

A quiet home wedding was that celebrated last evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. James Ovens, at 163 Euclid avenue, when their daughter. Miss Janey A. Ovens was united in marriage to Henry Babcock.

Tho Rev. Dr. Stuart Crockett was the officiating clergyman. The bridesmaid was Miss Eva Smith. Blake Case was best man, and Harry H.

Newton and Ray Ovens acted as ushers. The. bride was gowned ln tan crepe de chine trlmmod with white satin and she carried a bouquet of white roses. The bridesmaid was attired in white taffeta silk. The presents were handsome and numerous.

Those ln attendance included only members of both families. REGISTER TO DAY. To rtny In the third day of reBintra tlon. You enn register nt any time up to IO I'. SI.

The place for registration will le found in to day'n Eaffflc Yon ivIH Ionc your vote if you fail to reRlnter, and it 1b safer to register at onjee Coal Strike Commission an Important Forward Step in That Direction. A COUNTRY WITHOUT STRIKES. Applied to New Zealand, Where Compulsory Arbitration Has Been Successfully Operated Eight Years. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington.

October 1" Sociologists and students of political economy here say that the submittlon of the facts in the coal controversy to a commission constitutes an important forward step in the direction of universal arbitration labor difficulties. The coal operators decline to admit that there is to bo arbitration, preferring to call it an "Investigation," but generally the commission Is looked upon as one of arbitration. So far none of the advocates of arbitration as a means for settling labor disputes, has gone so far as to seriously urge compulsory arbitration in the United States. Capital and labor are alike opposed to it, the former on the ground that it would give too much power to the court to interfere in the management of business enterprises, and the latter because they fear the law would bo interpreted in the interests of capital. But at this time, when arbitration and conciliation in labor troubles are being talked of.

It is interesting to know that one country has successfully tried compulsory arbitration. As was to be expected, one of the younger countries was the first to muster up courage to try the venture, New Zealand being the pioneer in this regard. The law has been In force there for eight years now, and so successfully has it operated that New Zealand Is now referred to as the country without strikes. It is understood that other British colonies are seriously considering the advisability of adopting the same method of ending strikes. The law is known as the conciliation and arbitration act.

Its primary object is to bring about industrial peace, and it is very generally conceded to have succeeded in obtaining orderly and methodical hearings before impartial state tribunals instead of the loose, violent and haphazard methods of the strike and lockout system. However, if the parties to labor disputes wish to settle their own differences in their own way, the state does not meddle with them. The law was passed in 1894, and its popularity and usefulness have been such that there is little or no talk of repealing it. In fact, most of the organized industries of the colony are now being carried on under conditions laid down by the conciliation boards and arbitration courts. Most of these cases have been brought by trades unions, the workmen apparently having greater faith in the tribunal than the employers.

That they have had ground for their complaints is shown by the fact that most of the decisions have granted concessions of more or les3 value to the plaintiffs. The great and important proof of the success of this law is found in the fact that there is a complete absence of strikes in New Zealand. It should be stated that wages of labor have risen steadily since the arbitration act went into operation. Under the old conditions workers whose wages had been cut down in the dull times of the previous decade would have struck on a rising market, as they strike elsewhere. Instead of strikes as a method of bringing better wages, however, the arbitration court is resorted to.

Ono of the most striking things in the operation of this law has been the respect that has heen paid to its decisions. In some cases the awards have been disappointing to the trades unions, but they have been loyally obeyed. In some instances the employers have objected to the decisions, but such cases have been few and attempts at resistance have been promptly met with fines. The New Zealand law has done much to disprove the arguments that have always been made against compulsory arbitration, to wit, that it hampers enterprise and checks the growth of manufacturing. There has been no such experience in the British colony, where all industries have gone forward with wonderful prosperity for the past ten years.

The number of idle workmen has constantly decreased; fresh factories have been opened and the shopkeepers who deal with the working classes admit that business is better and bad debts fewer than at any time in the last twenty years in the colony. So far there has been no attempt to test the strength of the law. This will not occur until some powerful organization of labor or capital defies the decision of the court, but the claim is made that the best Justification of the law is found in the very fact that there has been no desperate trial of strength of this kind. The law frankly encourages labor to organize, admits that labor and capital are hound to differ, and only insists that if they cannot settle their difference in a friendly and peaceful manner they must go to the state, which will provide them with machinery for doing so. The New Zealand law was brought about as the result of a terrible strike some twelve years ago, known as the maritime strike.

It devastated the whole of Australia. It was a war between classes and spread from the shipping world, where it began, into a great circle of related industries. Then the idea of compulsory arbitration was formulated, as an exhaustive investigation showed that the experience of other cases In voluntary conciliation and arbitration was a record of failure wherever it was most important it should succeed, just as was the case when the Civic Federation undertook to settle the big strike in the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania. As a result of the maritime strike in New Zealand the law now in force was drafted and passed. Its main points are: 1.

It applies only to Industries in which there are trades unions. 2. It does not prevent private conciliation or arbitration. 3. Conciliation is insisted upon by the state before it resorts to arbitration.

4. If conciliation unsuccessful the disputants must arbitrate. Disobedience of the award may be punished or not at the discretion of the court. It does not forbid nor prevent disputes, but it makes the antagonists fight their battles in court. Some of the benefits of the operation of the act are given as follows: Strikes and lockouts have been stopped and terms have been fixed so that manufacturers can make their contracts ahead without fear, of disturbance; workmen, knowing that their income cannot be cut down, or they be locked out, can marry, buy land and build homes; disputes arise continually, new terms are fixed, but Industry goes on without interruption.

As before stated, there has been no legislation in this country, state or national, requiring employers and State Laws to employes to submit cjottip their differences to a court tribunal, but Labor Disputes. many of the states have adopted laws for the regulation of strikes under certain conditions. Indiana has had a labor law on her statute books for the past five years, which provides for the appointment by the Governor of two labor commissioners, whose duty it shall be, upon receiving Information of any strike, lockout, boycott or other labor complication In the state affecting the employment of fifty or more persons, to go at once to the place and exert themselves, first, to adjust the controversy by conciliation; second, If that effort should be Ineffectual, to endeavor to induce the parties to submit their differences to arbitration; third, if that should bo unsuccessful, after a lapse five days, to investigate the facts, with or without the consent of the dis 'HE RUNS putants. There is a provision In the same laV for compulsory investigation, but there has been very little occasion to make use of it. Many of the states of the Union have established permanent central bodies, with authority to mediate in labor disputes and to arbitrate matters referred to them.

Sixteen states have established such central boards, beginning with Massachusetts and New York in 1866 and followed In later years by California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Montana, Minnesota, Ohio, Utah, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Michigan, Connecticut and Indiana. These central boards usually consist of three members, an employe, an employer and a neutral. The most tangible results have been secured in Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. The forthcoming volume of "Mineral Resources of the United States for the Calendar Year 1901, United States Geological Sur World's vey," estimates the production of Coal world's production of 1oni coal in 1901 at 866, ln iyu1' 165,540 short tons. The three great coal producing countries of the world are the United States, Great Britain and Germany.

The output of these three countries combined makes up SI. 61 per cent, of the world's total. Austria Hungary comes fourth. France is fifth, Belgium is sixth and Russia seventh. The last country, notwithstanding its vast area, produces only about 6 per cent, as much coal as the United States.

The three countries which lead in the production of coal are the three countries that lead in Industrial development. Prior to 1899 Great Britain led among the world's coal producers, but during 1899, 1900 and 1901 the United States has made such remarkable increases in coal production, due principally to the unprecedented activity in the iron and steel and in other metal trades, that we now stand far in tho lead of all competitors, with a production In 190V exceeding that of Great Britain by 47,965,938 short tons, or 19 per cent. Up to tho close of 1900 the coal production of Great Britain and her colonies, if taken together, still exceeded that of the United States, the excess in 1900 being 3,368,825 short tons; but the enormous output of the coal mines of this country last year exceeded by about 26,000,000 short tons the entire output of Great Britain and her dependencies, including India and the Transvaal. Of the output of coal in 1901 the United States produced 33. 8G per Great Britain and her dependencies 30.86 per cent, and Germany 19.42 per or combined, 84.14 per cent, of the total production.

One of the interesting features of the great strike which is now about ended was the part played In the ne Gompers Goes gotiatldns by Presi dent Samuel Compers of the American Fed Sargent Goes Up. oration of Labor and Commissioner of Immigration Frank Sargent, chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. The former was entirely ignored by the President throughout the entire proceedings, while Mr. Sargent was frequently called into consultation by the President and iva more than once intrusted with personal missions by the chief executive. If any deduction is to be drawn from the events of the past ten days as to whom the President considers to be the most influential man in labor circles, he regards Mr.

Sargent as that individual and not Mr. Gompers. In fact, it was noticeable on more than one occasion that the counsel of the latter, as expressed in newspaper interviews, was turned down absolutely. Gompers held out tenaciously against the acceptance of the restrictions imposed by the operators In tne naming of commissioners, and he filled Mr. Mitchell with alarming tales of what would happen to labor if these limitations were not lifted.

Commissioner Sargent, on the other hand, recommended that the President be trusted to give the miners a fair deai. and his view of the matter was taken by Mitchell. This is only one instance where the advice of Sargent was taken in preference to that of Gompers. In fact, Sargent comes out of the negotiations with a long and brilliant plume in his cap. He has demonstrated that he is still a power in labor circles, despite the fact that he is holding a government position.

But more than anything else he has shown that he possesses rare good Judgment and tact. So far as can be learned, he did not make a single false step in discharging the commissions placed In his hand by the President and, while representing Mitchell in the selection of commissioners, he seems to have done equally well by the miners. Altogether Mr. Sargent has shown that he is one of the big men of the administration. Colonel Mosby of Civil War guerrilla fame has made another raid, this time rounding up a band of men and women who have been Colonel Mosby systerna 1 1 a 1 1 1 Makes frauding Unclo Sam Another Kald out of Western grazing lands.

Colonel Mosby is a special agent of the Land Office of the Interior Department, and lately has beer, engaged in clearing certain public lands in Nebraska and other Western States of the fences that had been illegally erected by cattle men in their efforts to control grazing fields. Mosby was located in a small Nebraska town, in which there Is a land office when about thirty women got off the train in charge of a slick looking Individual. All the women marched to the land agent's office and filed claims for grazing plots, on the ground that they were widows of Union soldiers. In each case the soldier's service was given as just sufficient to cover the claim. Colonel Mosby was suspicious of the outfit, and engaged one of the women in conversation, with tho result that he found that the whole scheme was a fraud and that none of the women were widows of Union soldiers.

After getting their warrants they proposed to turn the land over to a big syndicate that is monopolizing gtazlng lands. Wholesale arrests wore made at Colonel Mosby's recommendation. The export figures for September are extremely encouraging. They are the largest ever shown lor Sep Big tember, with the Tj single exception of Jixpori that month ln thc Figures. year of 1900, and fell less than half a million dollars below the high water mark made in that year.

The figures, as Just presented by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics, show the total exports in September, 1002, lo be $115,521,984, against J106, 989.921) in September 1901, and $115,901,722 in September 1900. the highest figure ever shown by September px portatlons. Comparing present conditions with those of earlier years, the figures for September, 1902, are 25 per cent, in excess of those of September. 1898. 50 per cent, greater than those of September, 1S90, more than double those of September, 1SS8.

and nearly three times as great as those of September. 1885. This seems to Indicate that the downward tendency in the export trade caused by the corn crop failure of last year has reached its lowest point and that the reverse movement toward normal conditions has begun. Following the failure of the corn crop last year the exports tended steadily downward. Beginning with October, 1901, in which export figures were $145,000, 000, the movement was steadily downward, until they reached in July of the present year.

In August the upward movement began, reaching $94,000,000, and In September $115,000,000. which is about $9,000,000 In excess of September last year. This decrease in exports, as is well known, was due to the corn failure of last year and to the low' price of cotton; and while the new corn crop has not yet begun to make Its appearance In the export figures of the Bureau of Statistics, the movement of the new cotton year has been active and is the principal cause of the upward trerd in the export figures. The cotton exports for September were 347.000,000 pounds, valued at $30,000,000. round terms against 200,000,000 pounds, valued at $16,000,000 in September of last year, nnd less than 200,000.000 pounds, valued at $20,000,000 in September of the preceding year 1900.

Even breadstuffs show a decidedly upward tendency in the export movement during September, the total value of bread stuffs exported In September, 1902. being $22,000,000, against $12,000,000 In June, and $21,000,000 in September of last year. The above figures relating to cotton and breadstuffs. It should be understood, are those of the preliminary statement of the Eureau of Statistics, but Include per cent, of the entire exports of this month, and although practically complete, are the preliminary figures and subject to the usual revision. Professional Paper No.

8, United States Geological Survey, now in press, by John B. Lelherg, is devoted to the discussion of Northern Sierra "The Forest Condi Nevada tlons in the otUi porest Conditions, ern Sierra Nevada, Cal." The region covered by this examination consists of a tract of country situated in the north central part of California, covering a section of the main range of the Sierra Nevada, together with its western and eastern slopes and lying in Pluma3, Sierra, Butte, Yuba, Novada and Placer counties. The areal extent of the region is 3.491,100 acres, of which about 69.000 acres consist of level, or gently rolling tracts, situated in the Sacramento Vallev; the remainder consists of foothills, mountains, canyons, lakes and valleys. The areal extent of the lakes is estimated to be 72,800 acres. Mr Leiberg divides the forested tracts of the region into woodland, or wooded areas, and forests, the woodland consisting of trees seldom suitable for mill timber purposes, and the forest consisting of merchantable timber.

The woodland areas comprise 364, 000 acres, and are confined to the foothill district of the region. They arc so situated as to form a transition from the non timbered levels of the Sacramento Valley to the forested region of the mountain. Tho areas covered with forest embrace 2.337.930 acres, and occupy all of the central, eastern and trans Sierran district except where lack of soil or climatic conditions are unfavorable to the growth of timber. It Is a fact worthy of note that in the trans Siorran district no woodland exists to form a transition ground between forests and desert, unless scattered trees of the western juniper type be so considered. The forest comes to the edge of the arid, non limbered tracts In Long Valley and Trucltee Basin, and there stops.

Coniferous species of trees constitute fully 95 per cent, of the forest in the region. The remaining 5 per cent, consists mainly of different species of oak. ash. maple, mountain mahogany, aspen, cottonwood, California buckeye. Western red bud, alders, etc.

Of the coniferous trees in the entire region, yellow pine constitutes 25 per sugar pine, 1 per red fir, 25 per white fir. 44 per and Incenso cedar, 5 per cent. All the coniferous species of the type found here arc long lived trees. The yellow pine attains an age of 250 to 450 years; the sugar pine. 400 to 450 years; red fir, 200 to 275 years; white fir, 175 to 275 years; incense cedar, 100 to 175 years.

Little of the first class mill timber, 24 Inches at thc base, is less than 175 years old. The stand of timber varies from 500 to 50,000 feet B. M. per acre, and the total stand for the region is estimated at a.Vout 12 235.000,000 feet B. M.

Including the woodland as well ad thc forest proper, Mr. Leiberg estimates that systematic cutting has been carried on within the last fifty two years over 1.386,890 acres of the region, and that 6,398,000,000 feet B. M. timber has been cut. equal to about 52 per cent, of the present stand of timber estimated by local practice.

In connection with this. It is to be noted that a very largo proportion, probably 30 per cent, of the standing timber, occurs in places practically inaccessible, and wili never become available for use, except, perhaps, locally, as mining timber. Fire has been and still is the most potent fr ctor in shaping the forest of the region. The general character of the forest, the relative ratio of the different species composing It, the density and capacity in mill timber of the different stands, the litter, in fact almost every phase of forest condition has been determined by thc element of fire. Fires ravaged the forest long before the American occupation of California.

The aboriginal Inhabitants undoubtedly started them at periodical Intervals, to keep down the young growth and the underbrush. When the miners came, fires followed them. Contemporaneous with tho advent of the miners, or soon after, came the flock masters with their sheep. The belief Is generally held that the sheep herders fired the country in all directions, and have been responsible for most of the fires of recent years. However that may be, all the fires observed during WITH MOZART AND HAYDN.

Evening of Music in Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church. Under the direction of John Hyatt Brewer, organist and director, the quartet and chorus choir of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church will, on Sunday evening, render a notable programme from the sacred music of Mozart and Haydn. The programme is as follows; Organ prelude, "Kyrie Eielson" (Ninth Mass), W. A. Mozart; anthem, "Kyric Eleison" (Twelfth Mass).

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 1791); Hymn 97 (congregational), tune. Lyons, Josef Franz Haydn (1732 1809); solo. "Benedictus" (First W. A Mozart; anthem, "Passion Motet," Johann Michael Haydn (li 37 1806); offertory solo. "Within This Sacred Dwelling" (Zauber fiote), W.

A. Mozart; Hymn 308 (choir First Mass), W. A. Mozart; sermon, on the subject, "The reason Why Men Are not Saved." by the Rev. Dr.

David Gregg, pastor; solo. "The Spirit Song," J. F. Haydn; quartet, "This Is not My Place of Resting," W. A.

Mozart; solo. "Remember Me," J. F. Haydn; duet, "Christe Eleison" (Thirteenth Mass). W.

A. Mozart: 'anthem. "Gloria in Excelsls" (Twelfth Mass), W. A. Mozart: Hymn 522 (congregational) tune, Austria.

Josef Haydn; benediction (sevenfold amen); organ post ludc, "Et Resurrexit" (Twelfth Mass). W. A. Mozart. MC CABE SMACK.

At the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Angeline Smack, 271 South Fifth street. Miss Eleanor Smack was married to Harry Mc I Cabe, the Rev. William N. Dunnell, S.

T. of All Saints' Church, Manhattan, officiating. I Miss Ida B. Smack was maid of honor and A. Charles Smack best man.

The bride was gowned in white crepe de chine over white taffet3, trimmed with Chantllly lace and carried a shower bouquet of lilies of the valley. Mr. and Mrs. McCabe left for a tour In the South. Among those present were: Mrs.

AnKOllne Smack. Mrs. Sarah McKinley, Mr. and Mrs. John MoCabe.

unci Mrs. A. C. Sim onson. Mr.

and Mrs. J. tl. K. Gash, Mr.

anil Mrs. and Mrs. George Smack, Gash. Mr. and Mrs.

K. Mo.Mahon. Mr. Mr. and Mrs.

Ji.s enh Dlake, Mr. and Mrs. lson. Mr. and Mrs James 1 7.

Brings. Mr. and Mrs. Georco M. Ives.

Mr. nnd Mrs. Charles Hill, Mr. and Mrs. William Townscnd, Mr.

and Mrs. William Mr. and Mrs. K. Mr.

and Mrs. W. Hallctt. Mr. and Mrs.

W. KalllnB. Mr. nnd Mrs. C.

f'onklln. Mr. and Mrs. William Hoviehwart. Mr.

and Mrs. W. T. Kimball. Mr.

and Mrs. Harris. Mr. and Mrs. David Mrs.

M. J. Gnsh. Alfred D. Miss Florence Townsend, William E.

Clowes. Henry Wnlte, Arnold Walte. Florence Walte. Cora Walte. Miss Stella F.

Dame. Samuel J. Renner. Miss Bessie P.nymond. Harry Glfford, Chauncey Kelton, Miss Lucille Hand.

Mrs. M. M. Kelton. Klmer Hallett.

Wllmot C. Hallett. Miss Clara SlalKht. Miss Maf G. Ridley.

Miss E. H. Benson. Miss Ilia Thompson, Miss Minnie Fnwreu. Miss M.

Fruere. Miss .1. Rol llnger. Frank Kelton. Robert McKinley, Miss Sarah Smack, Miss F.thel Smack.

Captain Abraham Smack. William Smack, the Mls ses Harris, the Misses Nelson, the v. Dr. Dunnell. W.

H. DlFney. Miss Clara MeTlaln. W. 11.

Mueller, Mr: Anna Tlllotson, Thomas Rowvle, Mrs. Sarah Davles of Rye, X. Y. A. Charles Smack.

MIhs Ida H. Smack. G. Whitman Dawson. Millard Hallenhrck, Miss Kimball of Fort Wayne, and Ross Kimball.

PURITAN CHURCH MEETING. The annual meeting of Puritan Congrega tional Church, Lafayette and Marcy avenues. will be held this evening, at 8 o'clock. Reports will be presented covering the progress of the past year. The members of the church and congregation will be received socially by tho members of the church committee and their wives, together with tho deaconesses, at 7:30.

Refreshments will be served at the close of the business session. GERMAN REFORMED CHURCH FAIR An attractive and well stocked fair was opened last evening In the basement of the Second Reformed (German) Church. Church avenue, near Ftathush. The fair will continue to night and to morrow night, an entertainment being a feature each evening. That given last night was well worth the price of admission.

Charles F. Murphy, the new leader of TnmmAnv rnll w.ia nt one time an em ploye at Roach's shipyard..