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THE BBOOKLYN BAIIjY EAGLE. YOEK, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1901. 5 II MEMORY OF EMMET. FATHER SHEEDY'S LECTiE. ir V'H DIED.

BRACKEN On March 3, THOMAS BRACKEN, native of County Westmeath, Ireland. Funeral from his late residence, 112 DeKalb av, on Wednesday, 2:30 P. M. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. CARTER On March 4.

1901, after a short illness, COMING EVENTS. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Sternberg will give a muslcale at their residence, Hart street, on Tuesday evening. March 12.

The second smoker of the University Glee Club Brooklyn will be held at the Pouch Gallery, on vjj Monday evenlnsr next. 4 Aurora Grata Chapter, U. Order of the Eastern Star, will pive an entertainment and reception afDecorior Hall, S79 Oateo avenue, on Wednesday venlns. The Shlnnecock Club will hold a stag at their rooms in Kearney Hall, Bridge and High street, this evening. The annual Purlm ball of Congregation Beth Elohim will be held at Saengerbund Hall tomorrow evening.

The West End Board of Trade will hold a meeting at Day's Hall, third avenue and Fifty fourth street, to morrow evening. The regular monthly meeting of the New York Chamber of Commerce will be held on Thursday afternoon at 12:30. Iolantho Council. R. will give its annual' entertainment and reception at Apollo Hall, 102 court street, this evening.

The Brooklyn Chautauqua Alumni will hold Its regular monthly meeting at the residence of the president, Mrs. Jennie Atwood Case, 725A Quincy treet, to morrow evening. The Ffatbush Arion Singing Society announces Its ninth anniversary entertainment and ball, to be held at Fritz Doerrer's Arion Hall. CM Flat bush avenue, on Thursday evening. In Public School No.

10S, Llnwood street, near Arlington avenue, tp nlght. Professor William C. Feckham will deliver a free illustrated lecture on "China and Its People." Miss Adela Jlankln will give "An Evening With Dickens" to night, with readings from the works of the author, in the Hebrew Educational Alliance Hall, corner of Pitkin avenue and Watklns street. ison isoi. THEN AND NOW.

FIFTY YEARS A CONGRESSMAN. Has for His Subject the Religious Outlook of the Twentieth Century. LARGE AUDIENCE HEARS HIM. Dwells on the Marvelous Progress Made, by the Catholic Church in Becent Years. There was a large and fashionable audience at the Montauk Theater last evening, where the Rev.

Morgan M. Sheedy of Altoona. lectured in aid of the Monastery of tht Precious Blood of Brooklyn. The lecture wai on "The Twentieth Century; the Religious Outlook." It was the first appearance of Father Sheedy before a Brooklyn and he made an excellent impression. Although not gifted with remarkable oratorical powers.

Father Sheedy proved a pleasant talker and held the attention of his audience 'during the hour and a half in which he addressed it. Bishop McDonnell, Mgr. Mc Namaia, Mgr. Barrett and a number of priests were present. Eefore the lecture there was a concert of a very high order in which the Brooklyn College of Music trio, consisting of E.

Adolph Whitelaw, violin; lime. M. Forster Deyo, pianc. and Karl Grlenauer, violoncello, gave a number of delightful selections, and a 'cello solo' wai given by Mr. Grlenauer.

Miss Matilda Agan, contralto, with the remarkable range of three octaves, sang Bizet's "'Agnus Dei." and also responded to an encore. Waller H. McIIroy, tenor, of the Garden Citv Cathedral, also I gave a number of selections. Father Sheedy was introduced by John C. Kelley.

tvho was chairman of the committee in charge of the benefit. Father Sheedy began his discourse by referring to the marvelous progress made during the last century. Much as the world has advanced, materially, he said, in the advantages of steam, electricity and mechanical appliances; sociologically, in the great, improvement in the conditions of life; intellectually, in the diffusion of education and the delights of literature and art. now brought within the reach of everybody, there is no advance that can compare with that which measures the moral and religious growth of the race. "Has our material progress outstripped the moral and spiritual of the age?" he asked.

In his answer he looked at. religious conditions outside the Catholic church: then he considered conditions from' a Catholic point of view: concluding with certain forecasts of what is likely to happen in the religious world during the present century. Continuing he said: "Among non Catholics there are two classes of observers: those who declare that. Chris tianity is disintegrating into lifeless elements: that Its creeds are being cast aside; that science has shattered the foundations of faith: that modern scholarship has shown the Bible to be full of iiiylhs and errors: that as a consequence men and women no longer believe the old teachings; that many ministers are preaching the principles of skepticism and open infidelity. This, say the pessimists, clearly indicates the decline of vital religion.

"But there is another class of observers: those who hold to the philosophy of hope and to what is called 'the religion of progress': they are quite sanguine and trustful in the future. "They are ready with facts and figures to support their contention that Christianity is at present in a sounder condition than ever before in its history. Confining themselves to our own country they claim pef cent of the population is Christian; that our laws and institutions are permeated by the spirit of Christianity; that almost all our public officials, from President McKinley down to the village postmaster are professing Christians; that the vast, body of judges, lawyers, doctorti, and teachers in our schools and colleges are firm believers in the teach ings of Christ; that the strong expression, of Christian feeling on the part of American women kept a Mormon, not long ago. out of Congress, and succeeded in putting the canteen out of the Army. Furthermore, they say that a census of families made recently in Philadelphia showed that only about 8 per cent, of the whole are non religious.

They insist that the same proportion would likely hold for all our large cities. According to this view the showing of skeptics arid atheists, when put to the test, is small, indeed. "Whichever view we accept, one thing Is quite certain. It is that there Is a profound interest in religion at the present time. Nop is it.

less evident that profound changes aro taking place in the religions world. As a result of these changes there is a truer understanding of what religion means. Th drift is, I believe, toward Catholic principles and Ideals. Let us see if it be en. "The most significant event of the nineteenth century was the marvelous growth anil reconquests of the Catholic Church.

When tho century opened her future seemed gloomy, indeed. In France religion was engulfed by the deluge of the terrible revolution: in Great Britain and Ireland the Ores of persecution still raged; in Germany and the Scandanavian countries there was littles hope of a Catholic revival; in Spain and Italy there was much to discourage the Catholic heart; In the. British possessions the adherents of the church hardly extended into the thousands; whilst in the United States, when the century began, it is computed that there were not, all told, more than 30,000 Catholics. Her enemies freely proph eelcd that now the end of the Church Rome was at hand. Edward Everett Hals tells that bis own father in 1804 In a commencement paper read on the day of hll graduating from a New England college) boldly asserted that 'Catholicity was If he were living to day to see fully one half of New England devoted followers the Catholic faith ho would marvel at tin strange resurrection.

"The enormous gains of the CalbolU church are due chief! to three events: Cath ollc emancipation, the Oxford movement an4 the conversion of John Henry Newman and! the dispersion of the Irish race. Connell, who alone secured the emancipation of th Irish and English Catholics, was one of ha greatest figures of the last century. Cattn ollcs the world over owe this great man 1 debt of gratitude. If the other day an IrlalM man and a Catholic, Lord Russell, died ful filling the highest law office In England n'as because his distinguished countrymaa had in 1S29 removed the ilisablllt.icH unde which Catholics suffered. The Oxford movrw ment.

and the conversion of Newman exer clsed and still exercises a profound influence In favor of Catholicity; it was the coming oi 'a second spring' thnt was to be followed bj a rich harvest of illustrious converts; meq like Manning, Ward, Faber. Wilberforoe, DaJ Knirns and a host of others. It. has als raised up in the Anglican church what Id linovi'n as 'the t'alboli which, except In the matter of papal sovereignty, is almost in entire accord with the teaching and prae tice of the Catholic church. The inlluenc of the disr'rrsed frlsh has felt as a po erful element of titreiigth to Catholicity 111 America.

I'ariada. Australia. India and South Africa. The strong faith arid virtue of thil people have left an Impress 1111 the church In all these lands. "In England when the bite Queen ascended the throne, In 1flT.

the Catholic body was feeble indeed. There were few chur 'hes. number of priests and of schools and colleges a great want. In the meantlmi there has been a gren! development. In ti United states the church has v.cn 1 derfullv from Hm.o'iO bi the beginning of thu I century to probably 1 at the end.

In i otlirr countries lh" same progress has been made. "Nor less marked and significant of what la to come is lite changed attitude of non I C'i ol I espe'daliy In this country and In England, to warn criuren. lie old prejudice? are fast disappearing. An Increased knowledge of 'iithoiilsm is helping deep nnd fur se. ing thinkers to look to the Catholic church for the only satisfactory so lution of such problems as the maintenancn of the marriage tie and the preservation oi the family, the proper relations between la.

bor and the cqui'ahlc distribution cil wealth, the rcpro lon of socialism, the proper guidance of the rising tide 01" democracy. Leo Mil tells the world at the opening of the ventieih century thnt the salvation of society Is to he found 'in the restoration of Christian disposition, and of the virtue of former times'; in other words, In a return to. Cnthollc faith and practice." Birthday of the Irish Patriot and Orator Celebrated by the Clan na Gael. M. W.

LITTLETON THE SPEAKER. He Reviews the History of Emmet's Life and the Events Before His Death. The birthday Robert Emmet was observed at the Bijou Theater by the Clan na Gael organization of Brooklyn on Sunday night. The place was crowded from root to orchestra line and the stage and boxes filled with Invited guests. T.

B. McGo'wan opened the proceedings with a straightway pro Irish, anti British speech of the regulation order, and introduced Controller Coler as the presiding officer. The latter's remarks, after thanks for his choice as chairman, comprised a condensation of his present speech on the good points of our city government, as far exceeding the bad points, occasion being taken to weave in the positive state ment that the adopted citlens of the United States, particularly those of Irish birth, are much superior in intellectual intelligence, moral worth, political activity and partisan skill and energy to those of American birth or American ancestry. James J. Byrne, the well known baritone, sang "Off for Philadelphia in the Morning," and "The Low Back Car," with manifest acceptance, concluding each of the selections with an extension of baritone into a shingle shaking tenor, which easily deserved the expected encore.

Miss Maud Kennedy, a most gracious and modest young lady, possessed of a well trained soprano voice, sang one of Moore's love melodies. She was recalled by the audience, whom she well pleased with another selection. The chairman then introduced Assistant District Attorney Martin W. Littleton, who delivered the first address of the evening with animation, gracefulness, marked earnestness and to the manifest satisfaction of an applauding multitude. He said in part as follows: M.

W. Littleton's Address. "This is not an occasion for the recitation of history or the perpetuation' of dates. To be free has been the hope and struggle of mankind throughout the history of the world. To preserve order and liberty together has been the labor of statesmen and philosophers in all ages and lands; to establish government without extinguishing liberty has been the conscious or unconscious tendency of all times; to confer power for common good and prevent its use for common evil has been the effort of the builders of constitutions; to put the sword at the command of the state for protection and escape its threat and thrust has tried the genius of our greatest men; to allow Intelligence ana virtue rreeaom to strive for the highest and best, and at the same time keep ignorance and vice from descending into the lowest and worst, has been, and is.

the unsolved problem. "Power not given by those over whom it is exercised, nor restrained by the expressions of their will, is simply tyranny; force, flashing in the sword and reflected in the crown, is not government, but anarchy; the ruin wrought by war, the sorrow brought about by wrong, the wreck of states and the dissolution of governments represent the product of the usurpation of power. The majestic mockery of kings assuming to rule by divine ordination is the most baneful and blasphemous doctrine that ever despoiled the earth or insulted heaven. The modern moderation of absolutism is not due to any intrinsic merit in Its principle, but to the resistless influence sweeping over the old world from the rushing fountains of democratic government. The union of the church with the state attempted to add to the domain of graceless force the destiny of the immortal soul, thus uniting the bondage of body and spirit.

Alan moved between the serried ranks of armies, bowed by the weight of his servitude; conscience was blinded by the glittering of crowns and darkened by the shadow of the gallows. Under this rule of the sword and sycophant the only method open to the people to express an opinion was by revolution. To talk was treason; to write was sedition; to think was a menace to the throne and altar. "Every nation in the world at one time or another has "been cureed by this alliance between creed and king, between sovereign and sanctuary, but Ireland most of them all. Ireland, the land of legend and love, of music and martyrdom, of famine and fun, of wretchedness and wit.

of passion and poverty, of oracle and oratory; a nation of recurring revolution, the seat of learning when all the world was in darkness and War; a country from whose centuries of mournful midnight shine out stars of luminous luster; she is the most luckless Isle of all the seas. Upon her historic shore has broken the wild fury of the world's worst storms oppression; over her valleys and through her mountains have swept the whirlwinds of internal conflict; across her pathway, thick with thorns and stained with blood, has fallen the shadow of thrones and the threat of armies. Throughout her history, tragic and terrible, the sword hangs above her head and the grave yawns under her feet. Worshipers of God had no secure and sacred temple wherein prayer and song could swell the silence into rhythmic, reverent praise, but must need seek the valleys and mountains, in open fields and wooded hllle, upon whose wild and bloodless altars the persecuted conscience could cry out to God and the breaking heart pour out its offering of tears. The cattle grazing upon its perennial pastures fattened for carrion, for the sin of other lands made them marketless.

The harvests, yellowing in the sun swept fields, passed away in dust before the wind, for the granaries of the world were closed. The love of liberty, burning its perpetual fires in the heart, must smolder on, but its radiance shone in the sunken eye, and ita glorious passions leaped to the lip to bJeak into eloquence and song, whose fadeless splendor and sorrowful strain will stir the uttermost generations of man. If to be always dying, yet ever living and laughing; if to be bleeding at every pore, yet ever struggling and singing; if to be groping for centuries in darkness, yet ever shedding light throughout the v. orld; if to be. yearning and fighting for freedom for countless ages, yet ne'er feeling its blessed influence; If to persevere in pest'lence, to feed on famine, to thrive on tyranny, to sleep by the side of sorrow, to scald the smile with tears and sweeten the tears with smiles; If to see hearthstones heaped with uncoffined dead and homes swept into the fury of flames, wives torn from the arms of husbands, children pulled from the bosoms, of mothers, churches destroyed, altars desecrated, government groveling In corruption and iron might crushing Impotent right: if to see perpetual sorrow sitting on the blackened brow of never end Ies night, and in sight or these to hope, to love, to inspire aye, even in the end to almoet triumph, is heroic then the Irishman is the over towering example of courage in all the history of the world.

Should Bemember and Revere the Noble Dead. "We assemble here to night to celebrate the birth of Ireland's patriot poet, her martyr orator, her boy lover. It Is. by remembering and revering the noble dead that we keep alive the treasured traditions of our country. The great and good who have gone before do not die; they disappear, but the forces set In motion by their thought and action become builders of nations and architects of times.

If it were possible to follow and definitely ascertain the precise product of the life of any one great and good man, what would be the wondrous tribute? His thought, born of anxiety and toil, holds mastery in the minds of succeeding rulers and statesmen; his sentiment steals across the centuries, pausing in each generation, to sing in every heart and illumine every soul. His actions strike against the on coming years with such impact that shining shafts nml lofty monuments leap from the earth and tumble from the mountain side; his whole Influence runs like a river of song through the v.illey of time, making the whole earth vocal with Its music. While we dwell with reverent Joy upon the memory of Robert Emmet, the past FANNIE CULPI3PER SPRATT, beloved wife" of Charles William Carter, in the TOth year of her age. Funeral services at her late residence, SO Doug Ip.ss st, on Tuesday, at 7:30 P. M.

Interment private. tVirginla papers please copy.) 4 2 CHESTER GERTRUDE, daughter of Alfred T. and Hattlc M. Chester. Funeral services at 723 Lafayette av.

P. March. 4. Interment at Buffalo, X. Y.

(Buffalo papers please copy.) COXLAN At St. Peter's Hospital, March 3, 1501, DENIS CONL.AN. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from Church of St. Thomas Aquinas. Ninth st, "corner Fourth av, Tuesday, March 3.

at 9:30 A. M. CONNETTR On Sunday. March 3. 1901, EDWARD J.

CONNETTE. of heart failure. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services on Wednesday, at 8 P. at his late residence. 510 Madison st, Brooklyn, N.

Y. Interment at convenience of family. 4 3 CONNETTE Acanthus Lodge No. F. and A.

M. Brethren: You are hereby summoned to attend the funeral services of our late brother, E. J. CONNETTE. on Wednesday evening, March 6, at 8 o'clock, to be held at his late residence, 510 Madison st.

Fraternally yours, H. G. BUSWBLL, Master. William Rower, Secretary. 4 3 CONNETTE Scottish Rite.

N. M. J. W. S.

valley of Brooklyn. N. YT Brethren: You are hereby requested to attend the funeral serv ices of our late brother, EDWARD J. CONNETTE. to be held at 540 Madison st, Wednes day evening, March fi, at o'clock.

WILLIAM O. CAMPBELL, T. P. M. EDWARD R.

KNOYVLES, M. E. Gov. P. G.

M. ROBERT H. WE EMS. M. W.

and P. M. JOHN W. RICHARDSON, 33d Com. in Chief.

Theo. A. Taylor, Gr. Sec. 4 2 COX On March 3, at his residence.

520 Washington av, Brooklyn, N. RICHARD F. COX. Funeral services Monday evening, 7:30. DAY On Sunday.

March 3. 1901, EDWARD DAY, in his 85th year. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, P. at his late home, 2S7 Macon st. Kindly omit flowers.

4 2 DUGAN On Sunday morning. March 3. DOUGLAS, aged 22 months 1.1 clays, son of Edward and Laura F. Dugan. Services.

Monday, P. at residence, 253 South Ninth st, Brooklyn. DUKEMAN On Sunday. March 3, CHRISTINA i'C. wife of the late William S.

Dukeman. at her home, the residence of William G. Ga hagan, 61 Decatur st. Funeral services Tuesday evening, at o'clock. Interment private at convenience of family.

FEEXEY At IS President st. South Brooklyn. beloved son of Thomas and the late Anne Feeney. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral and requiem at St. Stephen's R.

C. Church, Summit and Hicks st. on Tuesday, March 5, at 9 o'clock A. sharp. FISCHER on Monday, NORMA V1R GINIA, infant daughter of Norma Coverly and Frederick G.

Fischer. Funeral private. FISH On Saturday. March 2. MARTHA, wife of William Fish, in hsr Slst year.

Funeral services at her late residence, 139 Nassau st, Monday evening, March 4, at 8 o'clock. Interment private. (Long Island papers please copy.) 3 2 HANSEN On Sunday morning, March 3, our beloved mother, HELENA CHRISTINA HANSEN, passed away. Funeral services at Elim M. E.

Church, Forty seventh st. near Third av, Brooklyn, on March 5, at 2 P. M. HAYILAND At White Plains, third month, second, SOLOMON A. HAVILAND, in the S3d year of his ags.

Relatives and friends are resjjectfully Invited to the funeral at Friends' Meeting House, Purchase, third day, the 5th, at 11 o'clock A. Carriages will meet train leaving Grand Central Depot at 9:12 A. M. 3 2 HBIBERGER On Sunday. March 3, 1901.

WILLIAM HEIBBRGER. beloved husband Sophia Heiberger, in his 67th year. Relatives and friends, also Allemania Lodge No. Beethoven Liederkranz, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services on Wednesday. March G.

at his late residence, 38 Oakland st. at o'clock P. M. Interment at convenience of ths family. 4 3 HENEY At Brooklyn Home for Aged Men, on Saturday.

March 2, ARCHIBALD T. HENEY, in his 82d year. Funeral from home. Tuesday morning. 10:30 o'clock, 743 Classon av.

Friends invited. KELLY" On March 2. 1901. ANNIE, daughter of James and Chatrlne Kelly, Parish of Cashel, County Longford, Ireland, aged 27 years. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend her funeral, at the residence of her cousin, 10SA Rockaway av, Tuesday, March 5, at 2 o'clock.

McGRATH On Monday, March 4. 1901, at her residence, 119 Hoyt st, CATHERINE, wife of Patrick J. McGrath. Notice of funeral later. MULQUEEN At her in litis city.

JANE MULQUEEN. Funeral from 279 Warren st. Requiem mass for the repose of her soul at St. Paul's Church, Court and Congress sts, on Wednesday, 10:30 o'clock. Friends respectfully Invited to attend.

4 2 MURRAY At Woodhaven, N. oh March 4, 1301, SADIE wife of Steward B. Murray and daughter of Dow S. and Ruth A. Sottage, aged 2G years.

Funeral services will be held at her parents residence, Jamaica av, corner of Benedict, on Wednesday, March 6, at 2 P. M. 4 2 PAUL On Sunday, March 3. 1901, at his residence. 236 Leonard st, Brooklyn, JOHN beloved husband of Helen Catlin Paul, in the 83d year of his age.

Funeral services at the Alnslie St Presbyterian Church, on Tuesday evening. March 5, 1901, at o'clock. Interment at convenience of family. (Waterbury, papers please copy.) 4 2 PRATT On Sunday. March 3, 1901, at Mlddleboro, WILLIAM PRATT In his S3th year.

REINCKEN On March 2. LOUISE REINCKEN, beloved wife of Arnold Relncken, In the 31st year of her asu. Funeral services. Tuesday afternoon, at 1:30, at her late residence, 213 Prince st. 2 WANTON After a lingering Illness, at his residence, 344 Dean St.

March 2. WM. A. SWAN TON, son of the late William and Catharine E. Swanton.

Friends and relatives are Invited to attend his funeral. Tuesday. March 5, at 10 A. from his late residence; thence to the Church of St. Augustine, Sixth av and Sterling place, Brooklyn.

Interment in Calvary. 3 2 VAN BRUNT On Sunday, 3, 1901, AMELIA, wife of Rulef Van Brunt, In her 77th year. Funeral services at her late residence. 166 Herkimer st, Brooklyn, Wednesday evening, March 6, at 8 o'clock. Relatives and friends are respectfully Invited.

(Long Island papers please copy.) 4 3 VEGA At his residence, 11C Park place. Brooklyn, on March 2, 1901. JOSEPH A. VEGA, husband of Letitia Raymond. Funeral Tuesday.

March r. at 9 A. from his late residence; thence to Church of St. Augustine. Sixth av and Sterling place.

Relatives and friends Invited. VERNON On March 3. MARY VIRGINIA, wife of Frederic R. Vernon and daughter of Emma Jane and the late Daniel V. Argulmbau.

Funeral at 2 o'clock P. Tuesday, the 3th from 201 Lafayette av. Funeral private. WILLIAMS On Mar'h 4, ELI.A, wlduw in' William C. Williams.

Funeral from the residence of her granddaughter Mrs. I. M. Warwood, 816 Greene 6. at 2:30 P.

M. March 4 2 WALDRON On Friday. March 1, 1901. IRVING LESTER, beloved husband of Adcle Bowne Waldron, in his 23th year. Funeral services at his late residence.

944 Putnam av, Brooklyn, Monday, March 4, at 8 P. Interment at Hackcnsack, N. J. 3 i EST At Ithaca, N. March 3.

".901. ALBERT ROOD WEST, son of George P. West and Harriet E. West, in the 22il year of his age. Funeral Tuesday, March 5.

1901. 10 A. at 367 Gates av, Brooklyn. N. Y.

Interment at convenience of family. LIEUTENANT SMITH DEAD. Portland, March 4 Lieutenant T. M. K.

Smith, retired, late of the Tenth Infantry, United States Army, Is dead here. He was a prisoner at Andersonville and Llbby Prisons and, thirty years ago, was commandant at Vancouver Barracks. Eliectrlc Carpet Clnnlii'. Altering and relaying of carpets. The Easle Warchousa and Storage 28 3S Fulton Adv.

The Rev. Father St. John, for a number of years chaplain at Sing Sing, will give a le'cturs before the New Amsterdam Council of the Knights of Columbus, on Friday night, on "Prison at Sins Sing," at the rooms of the council, SOO West Fifty eighth street. Manhattan. The story of the Passion Play, as witnessed at Oberammergau in 1900, will bp given in a lecture by the Rev.

Dr. Franklin Russell In the Park Congregational Church, Sixth avenue and Seventh street, at 8 o'clock to morrow evening. HOTEL ARRIVALS. Clarendon Conrad Gerhardt, Johnstown, Edward E. Coles, H.

Grant'and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. A. Eagles, H. B.

Patterson, Philadelphia; R. T. Thayer, Boston; Charles Hayward, Wilmington, Mr. and Mrs. J.

Johnson, New Tork. City: Mr. and Mrs. George Pancoast, Brooklyn F. W.

A cker mon, Passaic, N. Mrs. P. .1. Rlddell, Chicago, J.

I. Chrislield. Rochester: Theodore Chamberlain Combos. Philadelphia: P. E.

Hunt, Boston; W. H. Merrfgan. Brooklyn; H. H.

Noel, V. 3. 3. Dallas; H. C.

B. Fanning. Worcester, F. Collins, A. W.

Tavlor, N. T. Ellen Fald, Philadelphia, D. E. Condlt, New York; H.

A. Cohes. Broeklvn; J. W. Harlan.

New York City; W. C. Dunning, Fort Wayne, H. M. Banks, New York; J.

M. Phelan. William R. Magulre. citv; Robert B.

Macmanus, GTeenpoint, L. Isabel Long Btreet, Louise Valante. Mr. and Mrs. G.

P. Fowler, New York: Truman C. White. Buffalo; Mr. and Mrs.

B. F. Williams, Amity vllle, L. M. J.

Dady, Brooklyn: Mr. and Mrs. J. I.ee Mitchell, New Haven. J.

C. Griffiths. W. H. Merrlgan, city; W.

Dunning. Fort "Wayne. Joseph Commisky. New York; II. Refrovieh.

Bethlehem. Pa. Charles O'Hara, Brooklyn; J. L. Mattlson.

Atlanta, Ga. John Park. Miss Arnold, and Mrs. John Rogers, New York City. St.

George A. K. Kendrick. New Haven; G. F.

Kalkoff. Brooklyn: T. R. Cottman, Harold Thompson, Robert W. Harden, city: Mr.

and Mrs. B. A. Valllner. Philadelphia; .1.

P. Kelly. G. J. M.

Wed. New York: Mr. and Mrs. J. Felklnes and child.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Randford. Mr.

and Mrs. E. Horno, Mr. and Mrs. G.

Palmer, city; Mrs. W. Pierce. Miss A. Pierce, New York: P.

H. Sewell, Walton, N. Y. C. S.

Hursh, Boston. Plerrepont Mr. and Mrs. C. M.

Holly. W. H. Webber, Miss Valente, Isabel Longstreet, New York; Mrs. Culver, Mrs.

Judson. St. Joseph, Mr. Mrs. X.

J. Harrison. Bridgehamnton. L. I.

Miss 'Saxton, Brooklyn. J. K. Brown Yon kers, N. Mr.

and Mrs. P. Steffee. Salem. George K.

and famllv, Boston, Mass. SURPRISE TO DR. BOWLSBY. A surprise party was given Dr. William H.

Bowlsby by many of his friends on Saturday evening, it being the occasion of his 73d birthday. The doctor has been sick for some time. The occasion was enjoyed greatly by those who were present, and several of the doctor's daughters sang, while his granddaughters played the piano and incidentally passed around some refreshments of their own making. Mrs. L.

R. Chapln sang "My Country" in a splendid manner; Mrs. Harry Burrell favored with a vocal solo; Miss E. Grifflng, with a piano solo; William Freeman and Mrs. Hattie Cohen sang, and a most enjoyable feature was a duet by Dr.

and Mrs. The evening's pleasure was brought to a close by all present singing "The Soldiers' Choruss," the words of each verse being sung by Mrs. L. R. Chapin, Mrs.

A. M. Griffin and Mrs. Harry Burrell, while these present joined in the chorus. Dr.

and Mrs. Bowlsby expect to celebrate their golden wedding on October 9 next. Among those present were: Captain William T. BifH, ex Captain Samuel Lowtlier, First Lieutenant F. G.

French and Color Sergeant Charles A. Rogers of Brooklyn Commandery No. 3, U. R. of the K.

of and George G. Coffin, quartermaster sergeant of the First Regiment of the U. R. of New York, and Chancellor Commander William E. Coffin, Vice Chancellor Nicholas Lyons, S.

H. Masters, Henry G. Young and other members of Progressive Lodge No. 21, K. of the lodge to which Dr.

William H. Bowlsby belongs. FACTS ABOUT WATER. City Has Already a Storage Reservoir at Rockville Center. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: In discussing the Forest Hill Storage Reservior and Suffolk County water bills the Eagle persistently ignores several important factB 1.

A storage reservoir in a park or elsewhere is a waste of money, unless there is water to store in it. 2. The city always has a so called storage reservior which cost $1,000,000 more or less, Known as the "Freel Folley," at Rockville Cgnter. It has never bean used, presumably there was no water to put in it. present watershed of the city must beVcjbandoned.

It is drained dry and has beSKpe too densely populated for the water shew of a city. In fact the city is now drimfong the sewerage of Hempstead, Spring fielaXvy alley Stream, Rockville Center. Free port Spd the other villages which practically cover The entire watershed. What additional wateir the city may get in Suffolk County it mustUoBe in Queens and Nassau Counties. 4.

There is, it is said, a "Ramapo job" in Suffolk Cbunty as bad in its way as the original Eamapo scheme. 5. The spending of millions of dollars draining the ponds of Long Island does not avert the fear of a water famine and the necessity of watching the clouds from day to day and praying for rain. There can be no permanent water supply obtained from Long Island. 6.

An inexpensive and permanent supply of water as good at least as that now used can be easily obtained by pumping the water of the Hudson River at say Rhinecliff into the Croton system and carrying it under the river to Brooklyn. This would end forever the Ramapo and the Cranford schemes and the periodical fears of a water famine. J. H. GRIFFITH.

East Rockaway, L. March 4, 1901. ONE YEAR AGO TO DAY. It was rumored that the Boers were seeking peace with England. The one hundred and twenty second anniversary of Robert Emmet's birth was celebrated by the United Clan Na Gael at the Park Theater.

The Second and Hope Baptist Churches of Brooklyn were formally consolidated. Pawnbrokers T. Newman Son, Fulton st. bet. Classon and Franklin avs.

Liberal Loans on Diamonds, Watches. Jewelry, Wearing Apparel and Personal Property of every description. CASTORIA ears the signature of Chas, H. Fletcher. muse for more than thirty years, and The Kind You Jfave Alwaiit Suuyht MARRIED.

BANKS THORPE On March 3. by the Rev. New. ell Dwlght Hlllls, DAY. youngest daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Thorpe, tu CHAUNCEY EDWIN BANKS.

PAT BRIGGS On Saturday, March 2, 1801, St. Mary's Episcopal Church, by Rev. Dr. Olarenc JoneN, BR1GG3 to CHARLES VALENTINE DAY, "both of Brooklyn. opens and a silent scene meets our anxious vision.

A serious, slender, sentimental boy. sitting amid the classic influences of Trinity College; the world reveals more to him thuii to the average college youth, for he is a poet; he looks across the ages into the shadowy legends of his native country and beholds Lady Coasair, the fair haired, establishing her colony of women on Erin's shore. Again the shadows, and then the seed of Japhet spread over the land for three centuries until they perished in pestilence. The shores of the Black Sea let loose legions and the Xe medhinns rush into the isle. The set grows dark and I he Fomorian kings give battle, and the plague persecutes, and the Nemedhlnns disappear with the winds of heaven.

More snadov. and baitles. and Nuada of the 'silver hand' is king. "The three sorrowful talra cf Erin' begin with the fate of the children of Turenn. Luga's father is slain by them and buried seven times before the earth held him captive.

Luga's revenge is compensation. He demands three apples from the fabled fruitage of Hlsberua under the sun rise, polished with light, sweetened with dew and blessed with the power to heal; the skin of a pig, locked in the courts of a king of Greece; a venomnd spear with head of harmless fire, guarding the royal chamber of the king of Persia; a flashing chariot, drawn by faultless steeds from the pageant of the Sicilian king; seven pigs, charmed into immortal being from the mighty Asal, the king of the golden pillars: a hound whelp, fierce as incarnate fury and gentle as a lamb from distant Troda: a cooking spit from Fincara. an island under the sea, governed by warlike women; three shouts on the heights of Mid kena, in the country of the Danes. These were all accomplished, and the sons of Turenn, exhausted from the struggle, died, and the murder is avenged. This mystic tale, built of shadowy myth and poetic fervor, flits into the fertile fancy of the youthful Emmet.

and then the spectral hosts of legend land sweep through bis vision. "The Feni move in dusky vales and along hillsides clothed wiih echoing woods, and seamed with the many colored sides of roaring streams, or by the angry sea where the screaming seabivd wings her flight toward the dark rolling heavens, where the awful faces of other times look out from the clouds and the dread deities keep their cloudy halls and the nightly fires "The young poet's mind is filled with the vild music of primeval years and peopled with the mist wrapped heroes of legendary Erin. Ah! What is such a mind? Its fancy kindles the gloomy gallows into an enchanting figure of the cross and fills the voiceless sepulcher with the sweetest note of praise. It runs along the darkened ruins of the years to the fields where died the brave, and with bleached bones builds polished temples of fame; frescoed with freedom's blood and sanctified by altars of human hearts. It seeks the sequestered valley and hunts among the silent hills, where the children of men hold stealthy communion with God, and smites the running stream into anthems of song, twists the rugged heights into shining cathedral spires, and commands the quiet stars to sing together until the eternal morning.

It flies into the fierce heat of nameless battlefields where liberty is loaded with chains and hurls the hurricane and swings the tempest at the bloody hordes of wrong. It steals into the fireside where immortal spirits stagger in wasting armor of flesh, where reason laughs at death and love defies torture, and lights the holy fire of hope in hearth and heart, and lulls the sick and sainted spirit into dulcet dreams, to awaken, 'born again' and free. This boy poet sweut. on the wings of light and love through the thickening gloom of Ireland's sunless past, and where'er he paused was a grave, and whate'er he heard was the flight of vulture, and where'er he went was death. And then his radiant Imagery whirled his saddened soul toward the sunrise Into the future, high above the blackened past, into the sunburnt clouds, sentineled by the thun ders of liberty and illumined with the lightnings of justice, and he saw from his transfigured pavilion of peace the upturned faces of the marching multitudes of Irishmen, lighted up with gratitude, as they startled the world into music with the patriotic air 'Let Erin remember the This was the boy poet, Robert Emmet.

The Orator "Was Developed. "Then his imagination found a magic Instrument in his silvery tongue and developed the orator. To make an orator we must have a thrilling theme, a heart that talks to the tongue, and a tongue that can Interpret the heart. The orator, Emmot, became the musical interpreter of his country's history. He stood with the great apostle, St.

Patrick, and lived in thought the days and years cf his Christian crusade; he fought again the Druidieal idolatry of 132, and heard with him as he in royal Rome the sorrowful 'voice of the crying under the pressure of pagan philisophy. He saw the insensate 'sun god' fade from the religious firmament and the simple cross of Christ outlined by stars of hope above a converted country. He heard the voice of genius awakening the monastic solitude into the language of wisdom and learning that was heard all over the world. He saw the daring Dane descend upon It and scatter its culture over the European continent: he felt again the shock of internal conflict which made way for the Norman invasion, with its weary years of war and cruelty; he saw the dominant character of the Irish absorbing the Norman day by day and heard the unspeakable penalty pronounced against marriage with Irish women; he saw the gallant Geraldines glimmer in romantic colors across history and disappear forever; he saw Henry the Eighth, with iron hand, shatter the monasteries, burn the altars, deface the images and despoil the shrines: he saw the reign of Elizabeth herein its ruin and the redoubtable Shane O'Nell's stand for Irish independence; he saw perpetual war reduce his country to want nnd its starving, struggling people living upon the dead; he saw Cromwell rise to his military power and rush his rmhlesK armies over the wasted island; he saw in his bloody rule the most shamful slavery of men and savage debauchery of women a page of history written with blood and stained with crime. "Seeing all the crime and sin and shame and sorrow which had made his country impotent and Immortal, he listened again and heard, and the philosophy of Molynnaux.

the sarcasm of Swift, swayed and stirr' him. the learning of Lucas and the forensic fortitude and brilliance of the famous Flood enthused him; the great and powerful Grat tan, orator and poet, enraptured him; the courageous and captivating Curran swept hl.H emotions, and his vibrant spirit, moved ny the manifold voices of his country's eventful history, beat upon by the memories of num berless battles, saddened by the melancholy thoughts of her wild and weird despair, elec trified by the thrill of joyous patriotism which made her past vital, trembled like a stricken harpstnng. and the ncademlc halls of Trinity rung with the chivulirc challenge of his enchanting eloquence. "And ihis is the orator. His intense piission for his country, translated from formless fooling into ennobling epic and pulsating period by his melancholy muse and graceful oratory, was stmiiened ny a tender ut.h of love.

He visited John Phll pot Curran's home while contemplating an effort to free his country, and there met Sarah Curran. The swift and subtle flight of glance, the mystic meaning, the strange and fascinating sense of soul surrender, the infinite and indefinite influences that mingle the sentiments and unite the affections, made this Irish boy a lover. I know by some it is thought in this age of metallic environment and prearranged impulse that love not acknowledged before a notary is the delusion of dunes and the swoon cf sentimentalists; but the institutions of government, the organization of society, the future of mankind, rests upon its strengthening elements. When clubs take the plnoe of courtship and money the place of marriage, when society subsists 1 on splendor, renounces romance and leaves 1 off the old fashioned 'falling in love, th future of our national existence and security will not be so certain. "Emmet, the poet and orator, became a lover.

Why did he pursue the plan for his country's liberty? How simple and easy it would have been to abandon his country for his love! There came the storm of conflict ing emotions. Ambition, purified by patriotism, called to him from all the ensanguined fields and broken altars of the past. Love. blessed with peace, radiant with beauty, hoel Mm into the future. A powerful nation, the tread of whose armies made I he continent, tremble, stood over his helpless country: a beautiful woman, crowned wun trpssea nf nicrht.

fashioned in faultless grace. uolifted by gentle genius and glorified by the holv fire of love, bent above his breaking heart! Will he be captive of the one or kinc of the other? Will he die for his country or live for his love? Will he stand by an onen grave or before a consecrated nitnr' Will he sanctify the gallows with the incense of his blood, or fill his heart with the Joy of gratified love? un, awanen, tm lnntr ciient harn strings and let Ireland's ages of grief wall through thy trembling threnody, for the supreme manjraum Emmet is at hand! Out from his loving vision floats the divine figure into the clouded future stalks the executioner. Emmet's Plan of Revolution. plan of revolution in Emmet's mind was undoubtedly to have co operation from the French. He visited Paris and met Napoleon and Talleyrand, in whom he saw nothing but pride and ambition.

Amid the gay Parisian environments he applied himself to the study of military science. Returning to Ireland, he established depots in various places in Dublin, and took up his residence at Harold's Cross, and later at Butterfleld Lane. The endless detail of preparation went on from day to day. and week to week, until in July, while celebrating the birth of the French. He visited Paris and met No magazine exploded.

This precipitated a premature outbreak. On the 23d the attack was to begin, but every misfortune seemed to conspire to upset his plans. A messenger became involved in a fight, and having killed a citizen, fled. Contusion and chaos was everywhere. The thoughtless and reckless became Intoxicated, the ammunition was' confounded, the flints mislaid, the Kildare men were misled by a traitor; Wlcklow men receiving no order, returned; a fasle cry that the army was approaching, and Emmet, sword in hand, rushed to the street and commanded his men to follow.

Only eighty obeyed. Lord Kilwarden and Dr. Wolf were slain In the street, in the frenzy of excitement. Unable to restrain his men in their madness, Emmet gave the word to disperse. The military began firing, and the revolution was at an end, and its promoters in retreat.

Emmet fled to Butterfleld Lnne. Later a council was held by the fugitives, and many insisted upon a continuance of the strife; but Emmet replied: 'Defeated In our first grand attempt, all further endeavor must be futile. The Justice of our cause must one day triumph; let us not indiscreetly protract the period by any immature endeavor to accelerate It. No doubt I could, in forty eight hours, wrap the whole kingdom in the flumes of rebellion; but 1 have no ambition beyond the good of my country; best study her interests and the interests of freedom by declining to elevate my name upon the ruin of thousands, nnd afford our tyrants an apology to draw another chain around unhappy "Following each other in rapid succession were the events of IiIg return to see Miss Curran. his capture and trial.

Falling in leading his country out of dependency into liberty, he censed to serve ambition nnrl returned to obey hi love. The appealing pathoB, the merciless arraignment, the bold aud brilliant impeachment, tiie fine irony, the unflinching defiance, the unfaltering patriotism and lie powerful defense of self and country, in his Immortal challenge to death, reveal bis tragic trial. "Let us not pursue the theme too far. Let us not destroy the beautiful picture of his splendid life and heroic death by the harrowing details of his shocking execution. It is enough to say that he made the supreme sacrifice of life and love for the glory of his country, and we, and all those who shall come after us, pay him the tribute of our love and tears.

The world will ultimately be free; the sword shall melt into a flaming torch, the crown shall become an altar of liberty, the throne shal become a shrine of mercy, and man cshall have no servants save peace, and no master save God." After Mr. Littleton there were morn vocal selections, as well as Instrumental selections by Slater's Band, which were well received, and among them was inserted an address by William Temple Einmct, who was introduced as the collateral descendant of the great Hobert Emmet. He traversed the customary grounds trodden by orators on this anniversary occasion and was listened to with gratified" attention, as well pa greeted with marked enthusiasm. Mr. Daley, who read the well known oration of Emmet Just before Mr.

Littleton began his remarks, hold the attention of the. audience for thirty five minuter and had every reason to be pleased with his own reception and with that of the words which it fell to him to present. Miss Margaret Isabel Cox recited "Shnni roek or Rose." Willam Daly read Emmet's sM celi in the dock, and John L. Wilson sang Aboo." The Columbian Quartet, including Frank J. Corbett, F.

M. Davidson, L. J. Wilson and James .1. Byrne, sang "Kathleen Mavourneen." Mrs.

Katharine Wilson sane; "The Harp That Once Thnmgh Tara's Hall." and Miss Kennedy. Mrs. 'VNolll, Mr. Uavldson and Mr. Wilson sang "Oft in the Stilly N'lght." Frank J.

Corbett sang "The Minstrel Boy." SIGNAL COEPS DINNER. XI 1 sr cnnil annual dinner of the Second PlL nH ps. X. N. wits held Suttir jrr.

nir.ht at the Argyle. The full complement rjf'mwi re present. The special event, at the dinner was th'' presentation of a solid gold match 10 ''aptfin Baldwin. It was ornfi Mii tli' corps pin In the center. Dr.

I raiiiphell msnle the presentation speech, for tlip 11:1 id i' 'Jj wiu. con Ki, ana win resii.iid. 'l. Sergeant Blgeloiv had charge of the for the dinner and was generallv nmpllroontcd for his success. After the repi'S' there was a vaudeville entertainment tnken pf.rt In hy various people from the nf the borough.

Galusha A. Grow, Eepresentntive From Pennsylvania, Is Celebrating To day. Galusha A. Grow, representative at large from Pennsylvania and at present the oldest member of the House, is celebrat ing the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of his career as Congressman to day. He was sworn in March I.

1S.1, and served continuously for the ensuing twelve years, when lie retired to pri vatelifc. But in 1894 he was re elected and has Galusha A. Grow, since been an active member of the House. He is now in his seventy eighth year, but physically he is halo and hearty and his mind shows no trace of the shadow of his years. It is needless to eay that Mr.

Grow has seen wonderful changes in his country Bince he first entered public life. He was speaker of tho House during the first two years of the Civil War and presided at many of tho most stormy sessions of those dark dayB. Few men may claim to have been personally acquainted and officially associated with the famous statesmen who were his contemporaries. Fillmore was President when he was sworn in in 1851, Daniel Webster was Secretary of State and Henry Clay was just closing his long and remarkable public career. The death of Isham G.

Harris of Tennessee several years ago left Mr. Grow the only surviving member of the Thirty second Congress, and he is, therefore, accurately as well as affectionately, known as the father of the present House. During his first throe terms Mr. Grow was classed as a free soil Democrat, and during the three succeeding as a Republican, with which party he has oince been associated, so far, at least, as national politics arc concerned. He Is a native of Connecticut, having been born hi 1E23, in Wyndam County of that state, but when he was 10 years old he removed with his mother to Susquehanna County, and has aiuee claimed citizenship in the Keystone State.

UNITED GERMAN SINGERS. Caecilia Saengerbund Application Approved To Arrange for the local Singing Festival. The United German Singers of Brooklyn held a poorly attended meeting at Arion Hall, on Arlnn place, yCHterday afternoon. The most, important business transacted was the approval of the application, of the Caect lin Saengerbund to affiliate with the Untied Singers, registering twenty right singers. The approval was given amid grent enthusiasm, the Caecilia Saengerbund being one of the largest societies who have recently severed their connection with the central organization.

It was formerly registered with seventy six singers with the central organization. The new delegates of the Caecilia Saengerlnind are Messrs. William Schroedcr, F. H. Mueller and Ernest Becker.

At the next meet Ing a committee will be appointed to tnke charge of the arrangements for the local singing festival which is to take place on July 21. at Kidgewood Park, as was annoiineed at 1 lie meeting. It was reported by Dr. John W. Schildge.

the first vice resident, that the Junger Miieniiefi hor of Philadelphia had refused to take chiii gi' of the Kaiser prize for the next eighteen months which has been In the custody of the Arion Singing Society of tins city. (lie recent national festival. The directors of the Northeastern SaengTbund aeeoriiiut.ly decided at. their recent meeting at Washington that the prize is to go to the singers of llaltimore. where the next national singing festival Is to take place in 1903.

The United Singers decided to register with only eight hundred ulngers with the Northeastern Se.ei.serbund for the ensuing year, having formerly registered one thnit sand members. John Hummel, the newly elected treasurer, was instructed tn forward the sum of in fees to the bund. Mr. Hummel also reported thai the runds of the lo'al organization amounted to TOO MANY TICKET AGENTS. Residents of Vandervrer Park fay they have been besieged lately by men with tickets to sell for balls and receptions, yesterday George W.

Lynch, III years old, of IR Myrtle avenue, and Peter J. Carroll. 21 years old. of Pearl street, were arrested, charged with nelllng bogus tickets for an 1 leged ball to be bePl at I.intt' a Hall, on Atlantic avenue, on March Investigation proved Hint they had rented the hall for thnt date by pitying $1 on de posit. That, fact caused their discharge when arraigned In the Grand street court this morning..