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THE BBOOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SATUBDAT, MARCH 23, .1901. MISCELLANEOUS. THE PARIAHS OF NEW YORK. MISCELLANEOUS.

A SECRET Or, Why Mr. Greatsinger Has Decided to REVEALED. Solve the Problem of the Bridge Terminal. His Resolve. An Unexpected Experience.

Mr. Great6inger Strolls Into the New York Terminal. REMOVAL NOTICE. THE LAWYERS' TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY Will remove its Brooklyn Offices on MARCH 25, 1901, to Temple Bar, 38 44 COURT STREET. COMING EVENTS.

Wherahlko Rawel, a native New Zealand evangelist! will deliver an address on "Christian Work Amone the Natives of New Zealand," in the Greenwood Baptist Church, Seventh street, near Seventh avenue, on Monday evening. The Ladles' Aurora Grata Euchre Club will Save Its next euchre on Tuesday, March 26, the following week being Holy Week. At the Alnslle Street Presbyterian Church. Mme. Lydia Von Flnkelsteln Mountford will deliver her lecture on "The Homes and Haunts ot Jesus.

Village Lite in Palestine." with twenty living models, on Thursday evening. SHOP DESTROYED BY FIRE. Schenectady, March 23 The hammer shop of the Schenectady Locomotive Works was burned to the ground; this morning. About 200 men will be temporarily thrown out of employment. MBS.

CATT'S ADDRESS. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt will be the speaker at the regular meeting of the Brooklyn Philosophical Association in the Long Island Business College at Bedford avenue and South Eighth Btreet, to morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Her subject will be, "Womanhood Suffrage." CONGREGATIONAL CLUB. The March' meeting of the Congregational Club of Brooklyn will be held at the Pouch Gallery.

345 Clinton avenue, on Monday. From 5:30 to 6:30 a reception will be tendered to the new pastor of the Central Congregational Church, the Rev. Dr. S. P.

Cad man. "dinner will be served, after which addresses will be made by Dr. Cadman on "The Spirit of the Pilgrims" and by Dr. Rosslter W. Raymond on "The Condition of Our Churches a Layman's View." Miss Margaret Goetz, contralto, will sing and Julian Pascal, pianist, will render several selections of his.

own composition. Fresh Flowers for funerals at one half city rates. Book of special designs, palm and floral decorations for weddings, receptions, etc. Thirty five greenhouses. J.

COXDON (Horticulturist). 731 Fifth nv. Branch office at Fort. Hamilton ay. 27 Bouth.

Miss Grace Van Studdiford, late soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, will make her Initial appearance in Brooklya vaude ville at Hyde Behnian's next week. Pawnbrokers T. Newman Son, 1,076 Fulton, st, Set. Classon and Franklin avs. Liberal Loans on Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Wearing Apparel and Personal Property of every description.

DIED. BRI GGS On Saturday, March 23, 1001, BATH SHBBA BRIOGS. daughter of the late Isaac W. and Louisa L. Briggs.

Funeral services on Monday evening. 25th 8 o'clock, at her late residence, 150 Halsey st, Brooklyn, N. T. 23 BKOWX On March 22, HANNAH L. BROWN, sister of Mrs.

J. M. Brown. Services Sunday. 3:30 P.

at 654 East Twenty third st, Flatbush. DEVLIN After a brief illness, on Wednesday, March 20, 1901, JAMES DEVLIN, the beloved husband of Kate Devlin, In his 62d year. Friends are respectfully Invited to attend his funeral, also members of Kings County War Veterans and Fourteenth Regiment War Vet eruns, brother members of McKlnsey Post, from his late residence. No. 50 Navy st, on Sunday, March 2 1, 2:30 P.

M. 22 2 BEKNHARD On Friday. March 22, CHARLES BERNHARD. Funeral Monday, the 25th, at 1' P. from 88 Putnam a v.

23 2 BOYNE On March 21, killed in the discharge ot his duty, CHRISTOPHER B. BOYNE. late member of Engine Company No. 141, B. F.

D. Funeral from his late residence, 236 Fifty second st, Brooklyn, Sunday, 24th 2 P. M. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. Members of Firemen's Mutual Benevolent Association are requested to attend.

JAMES D. CLIFFORD, President. Robert Paul, Secretary. ENGLAND On Friday, March 22, 1501, GEORGE H. ENGLAND.

In his 41st year. Funeral services will be held Sunday. March 24. 2 P. at his late residence.

1.617 Atlantic av. GIBBS On Saturday, March 23. after a lingering Illness, AGNES, beloved wife of Charles I. Gibbs. Jr.

Notice of funeral to follow. GOIN On March 20, CHARLES E. GOIN', beloved son of Charles E. Goln, and Ann Funeral on Sunday. March 24, at 2:30 P.

from his lato residence, 172 Nassau st. Relatives and friends Invited to attend. 21 3 DOMES On Friday, March 22, 1901, HENRY GOMES, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. A. E.

B. Bogert. Westfield, N. in his 71st year. Funeral services Monday, March 25, 8:15 P.

M. JAQUES On March 22, 1901, MART ELIZABETH MEEKES, beloved wife of Richard Dikeman Jaques. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at her late residence, Lyn brook, L. Sunday, March 24, 1901, at 3 P. M.

Interment private. MAGUIRE At his late residence. 277 Berry st, on March 22. 1901, JOHN J. MAGUIRE, in his 71st year.

Funeral on Monday, March 25, at 9:30 M. thence to the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul. Wythe av, near South Second st, for a solemn mass of requiem. Kindly omit flowers.

22 3 McCRUM On Thursday. March 21, 1901, CATHERINE, widow of John McCrum, In her 63d year. Relatives and are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, at the residence of her son in law, Andrew K. Leach, 494 Humboldt st, on Sunday, March 24, at 1:30 P. M.

Interment at Greenwood Cemeterj 22 2 PALMER On March 23, at the Brooklyn Home for Aged Men, 745 Classon av, JOHN PALMER. In the S6th year of his age. Funeral services at the home on Monday, March 25, at 2 P. M. Members of Mutual Lodge No.

67, I. O. O. aro invited to attend. RATTER Departed this Ufa March 22, 1901, at 4 A.

at the Baptist Home of Brooklyn, N. OIFFORD RATTER ot the Tabernacle Baptist Church, in the 78th year of his age. Funeral services at the Home, corner Greene and Throop avs, on Lord's Day, March 24, 1901. at 2:30 P. M.

RILEY On March 22. at his residence, 1,754 Fulton st, PATRICK RILEY. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral on Monday at 2 M. Interment in Holy Cross Cemeterj'. 23 2 SMITH On March 22.

.1901. M. JENNIE SMITH, beloved wife of Chas. E. Smith, aged 63 years.

Relatives and friends are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral from her late residence. 522 Herkimer, st. Monday, 2 P. M. 23 2 TAYLOR On Friday, March 22.

1901, of pneumonia. MARY widow of Dr. Stephen G. Taylor, In the 70th year of her Funeral services, on Monday, March 25, at 2:30 P. at the residence of hef son in law, Lewis German, 87 Canarsle Road, Flatbush.

23 2 VALENTINE Suddenly. on sixth day, third month. 22d, at his residence. 190 Lincoln place, RICHARD K. VALENTINE, M.

In the 46th year of his age. Notice of funeral hereafter. WARD On March 22, ANNIE S. WARD, wife of George H. Ward, daughter of the late Joseph S.

and PJioebe Lewis of Northport, L. I. Funeral services at 8 P. Sunday, March 24, at her late residence, 234 Greene av, Brooklyn. Funeral from Presbyterian Church, North port, Monday, March 25, at 1:30.

Carriages in waiting on arrival of 12:41 train, East North port. Train Ieave3 Flatbush av station. Brooklyn, at :0:50 A. 23 2 WOOD On Friday, March 22, 1901. SARAH WOOD, the beloved wife of William deceased.

Relatives and friends are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral service, at her son in law's, Joseph T. Hillary, residence, 126 Division av. on Sunday, March 24, at 4:30 P. M. 22 2 EDWIN BATH UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER, 119 Atlantic av.

Telephone 1,259 Main. THEY SAY. THE MERCHANT SAYS: Telephone service is a great promoter of business. It not only is an open door for new business, but increases the facility with which any business may be transacted. The flew York and New Jersey Telephone SI WILI.Ol GIIBY STREET, BilOUKLY.V, ST.

V. symphonies. True, the Institute concerts are supposed to be partly educational, and are, therefore, intended to cover the whole range of music; but as they do not, and as the selections are mainly from about fifty compositions, the Schumann oeuvre might be oftener represented In the series. His writing has not only feeling and poetry, but it has refinement and thought; It has moments, too, of state, of passion, of grandeur. A tenderness that Is no more than tenderness grows mushy, but In Schumann's case, and as exemplified in the third movement ot last night's symphony, it signifies the finer aspect of a strong nature.

In tbe spirit, ot the form, too, of the minor number that expresses the awe and wonder created by thei view of Cologne Cathedral, there Is a relationship to Bach. One of the two new pieces that have beenf played by the orchestra in Brooklyn this season was on tho bill last night. It was by Cesar Franck and was styled a symphonic! poem with the titlo of "The Accursed Huntsman." Like Weber and Wagner, and mora especially like Raff, whoso "Lenore" has unhappily disappeared from concert programmes, the composer has essayed a description of the supernatural, but he does not perform his task with the decision and the melodic clearness of Rnff, to say nothing of the others. Like the "Lenore," the motive comes from a poem by Buerger. The theme is tho persistency of a German count In hunting on Sunday instead ot going to church.

For this crime ho is damned and is followed in a wild flight about the world by a pack of demons. One hears the usual stopped horns and muted strings and the fantastic employment of the heavier reeds common agencies in the musical description of the ghostly and diabolic nnd there is nn. adroit use of a pair of bolls, represented for this purpose by bars of steel (the glockenspiel.) These bells, which describe the Sabbath coll to church, rock to and fro on a swinging figure in the strings which is restful and grateful, nnd could be far prolonged. In the more dramatic passages that succeed, this introduction thoro Is a lack of form anil progress, nnd occasional suggestions of the vagaries of Liszt, tho resemblance being tho closer because Liszt's second concerto had just been played, with Leopold Godowsky as pianist. Mr.

Godowsky's appearance hardly justified the to do that has been made about him la Chicago. He Is an even, honest and ahlo performer, but he is not exceptionally brilliant as a virtuoso nor commanding as an artist. He has. however, a feeling for the dramatic, as wns evidenced in the fierce pounding measures of tbe rhapsody. It would havo been an easy matter for those passages to have degenerated into bombast, as it; Is easy to reveal the meretricious in the composition by emphasis on its showy and sen satlonal contents.

It was rather to be regretted that. Mr. Godowsky did not have 4 second appearance earllor or later In the pro gramme that he might be heard In something more truly musical and less hackneyed. Ho never goes to extremes in anything, and ha might have given to us a Mendelssohn that was not lackadaisical, a Schumann that was not abstruse and a Chopin without bitterness. He is a player who would be welcomed on the boards at the Academy again.

During tho season tbat has closed the Boston orchestra has played only twenty pieces and brought here as soloists Messrs. Dohn anyl and Godowsky and Miss Aus der Ohe, pianists; Franz Knelsel, violinist, and Hugo Becker, 'cellist. The composers on the Hat aro Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Bizet, Dohn anyl, Dvorak, Franclt, Haydn. Liszt, Men deissohn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann ami Wagner, EAGLE TROPHY CONTEST. Important Rifle Event Between 13tbl and 47th Regiments To night.

To night's Eaglo trophy match between the Thirteenth and Forty seventh Regiments In the Sumner Avenue Armory will have a very Important bearing upon tho final result of tho year's competition. The series now stands: Forty seventh Regiment, won 2. lost 1. Thirteenth Regiment, won 3, lost 2. Fourteenth Regiment, won 2, lost 3.

Twenty third Regiment, won 2, lost 3. It will be seen, therefore, that a victory for tho Thirteenth means that the trophy will go for the next twelve months to cither the Thirteenth or Forty seventh Regiments, with the chances much in favor of tbe former organization, and that the Fourteenth and Twenty third are out of tbe fight. Tho best that either of tho latter teams can do. In the evvnt of a victory for tbo Thirteenth to night. Is to break evon, whllo the Forty Hovemh's best.

If it loses to night, is to vgin both its remaining matches with tho Fourteenth Twenty third and tio tho Thirteen ih for first place. This will necessitate another match between tbo two teams on cither the Fourteenth or Twenty third range. Whil'. as indicated, tbo chances now favor a final triumph for the Thirteenth or a tio between Thirteenth and Forty seventh, It Is possible that hto completion of tho scheduled matches will show nil four teams, tied, and a necessity for three additional matches. Such would be tho result should the Forty seventh win to night; the Twenty third beat tho Forty seventh In the Bedford Avenuo Armory and the Fourteenth beat out tho Forty seventh on tho latter's range.

This would mean that each team would have three, victories and three defeats to Kg) credit. Then according to tho custom In such mailers, unless the four Inspectors of small arniH practice decided otherwise, they would draw lotw to see which teams shoot together and on which of the othev two or neutral ranges. Tho two winners of these matches would then shoot the deciding contest of the year on a neutral range. Tho final winner would havo a title to tho supremacy which would lie indisputable. Whether all this becomes necessary depends however, upon many things and as stated above, to night's contest, may narrow the fight, down to a final match between the) Thirteenth and Forty seventh.

The three, previous matches between tho Thirteenth and Forty seventh rejriments In (he Sumner Avenue Armory have all resulted in victories for the home team. On March 11 tlie score was: Thirteenth, 150 108. Fortv sevcntli. MO ir.0. 2W.

Tho best work for tho winners was then done hy Private F. P. DeVlgnn of P. v. lth .10 50.

and for the. visile, by private A. Baldwin of with 2l In 1S1I7 the match was shot on April IT. the H' orn being: Thirteenth, 1CT KI. Forty seventh.

1M 17 1, 227. Private V. T. of Thirteenth, made 20 30. whil" Private W.

Lent of and Sergeant Ma tor Hobby, Forty seventh, each scored milking, respectively, 28 30 and 17 31. On Mr If. the Thirteenth scored R3. ami the Forty seventh 33S 1 1 I.i. uten.

int Iieweys, fit (32 32) was high for (lie Thirteenth, nnd Baldwins, 10 f27 33), the best score made by tho Forty seven fii. NEW PARISH HOUSE. To at. 1 o'clock, a service will be held for tho breaking of ground for the new parish house or Sr. Alban'B Church, The service will be conducted by the rector, the Edward Hcim, assisted by thu Rev.

Walter I. Stccher. rector of St. Timothy's Church, and the address will be delivered by the Rev. Dr.

H. O. Swentel, uri'hdeacoii of northern Brooklyn. The new edifice. Is to cost and will be erected on the lot? purchased by the con grcKatlon.

on the corner of Avenuo and East Ninety fourth streot. Statistics Showing That the Social Evil All Classes of Homes The Medical Hen Have Startling Facts Concerning Scourges Which Follow in the Wake of Immorality and That Would Shock the Country, hut Polite Society Taboos Their Public Con sideration. VII. "The social evil Is so notorious that none can possibly gainsay it. But when its extent, its causes, or its effects are questioned, a remarkable degree of ignorance or carelessness Is manifested.

Few care to know the secret springs from which the evil emanates; few are anxious to know how wide the stream extends; few have any desire to know the devastation it causes. Society has formally laid a prohibition on the subject, and he who presumes to argue that what affects one may injure all; he who believes that a malady in his neighbor's family today may visit his own to morrow; he who dares to intimate that a vice which has blighted the happiness of one parent and ruined the character of one daughter may produce, must inevitably produce, the same sad results in another circle; in short, he who dares to allude to the subject in any other than a mysterious and whispered manner must prepare to meet the frowns and censure of society. "The self righteous world may wrap itself in a mantle of prudery and close its eers against sickening details; the complacent public may demur at an approach to sin and misery; the self satisfied community may object to view wretchedness drawn from the obscurity of its hiding place to the full light of investigation; nevertheless, there is now existing a moral pestilence which creeps insidiously into the privacy of the domestic circle and draws thence the myriads of its victims, and which saps the foundation of that holy confidence, the first, the most beautiful attraction of home. There is an ever present physical so fatally destructive that the world would recoil, as from the sting of a serpent, could they but opprcciate its malignity a malignity which is daily and hourly threatening every man, woman and child In the community; which for hundreds of years has been slowly but steadily making its way onward, leaving a track marked with broken hopes, ruined frames and sad recollections of stricken friends; and which now in the full force of an impetus acquired and aggravated by concealment, almost defies opposition." When Dr. William W.

Sanger made the foregoing declaration forty three years ago concerning conditions then prevalent in New York and other large cities of the country, he gave a great shock to polite society. But his words were those of an earnest humanitarian and careful, honest Investigator of the social evil. He made decent men and women wince because of his bluntness, yet in face of the appalling facts which he marshaled in support of his statements, no one attempted to gainsay them. There has been no abatement of the social evil in New York since Dr. Sanger's day.

As a matter of fact, its devotees are more numerous. In support of his contention that the social evil menaced all classes of society, Dr. Sanger rigidly questioned. 2,000 fallen women who from time to time came under his jurisdiction as resident physician at Blackwell's Island. One of these questions was: "What business did your father follow?" Of the number thus questioned 106 refused to answer.

From the answer made by others Dr. Sanger learned that the fathers of 19 of these women were physicians; 36 were hotel and tavern keepers; 22 liquor dealers; 6 clergymen; 37 merchants; 24 manufacturers; 8 musicians; 31 naval officers; 48 shoemakers; 14 school teachers; 13 lawyers; 18 engineers; 5 men of property; 15 policemen; 35 sailors; 440 farmers; 259 laborers; 139 carpenters; 11 builders; 2 bankers; 21 bakers; 4 architects; 82 masons; 32 clerks; 10 jewelers; 14 grocers; 7 lumber merchants; 37 store keepers." Commenting upon his list the Doctor said: "This table shows that almost all classes of society are exposed to the influences which result in immorality, from the children of men of property, Dankers, mercnants ana professional men, down to the families of mechanics and laborers." A similar investigation. If made to day. would produce similar results. Vice does not seek for its victims solely In the homes of the poor and lowly.

Among the habitues of the Tenderloin, so the police will tell you, there are many women who have deserted homes as reputable as any in the land; wom en lacking but the one thing necessary to make them ornaments of refined and culti vated homes viz, virtue. To the police and our societies for the suppression of vice, society has left the work of dealing with the social evil. The police and these societies seem to have agreed that the only thing they can do is to drive immorality from place to place and endeavor to force It to refrain from flaunting Its Bcarlet colors in the face of the community. But that is not the method pursued when our authorities deal with an outbreak of smallpox or other malignant diseases. When these outbreaks occur the stricken are Isolated and gathered Into places reserved for their treatment.

Medical men familiar with the statistics of our hospitals and the facts coming to them in private practice know that maladies far more dangerous than smallpox, cases ol lues venerea, which outnumber smallpox by the thousands, are yearly ruining multitudes in all our large cities; not only terminating in hundreds of horrible deaths, but in other instances carrying into great numbers of homes poisonous taints destined to transmission for years to come. Polite society will not tolerate the publication of these hideous and appalling statistics in other than medical journals. To the terrible scourges which follow in the wake of the social evil society closes Us eyes, and its ears, too, should one venture to talk of a subject tabooed in polite circles. One can only imagine what would happen to any clergyman who might dare to touch upon this subject in a sermon; even a sermon On the Seventh Commandment would create a sensation nowadays. For society in welcoming to its functions the male sinner, society agreeing to excuse the misconduct of the young man on the ground that youth must have Its fling, and all young men must sow their wild oats the minister must perforce refrain from any frequent reference to the most vital of the Ten Commandments in its application to sin.

At all events, If you will take the trouble to scan the long list of topics announced for discussion in pulpits Sunday after Sunday, It will be apparent that the ministers for some reason refrain from dealing with this commandment, which applies to one of the greatest evils of the age. Yet the social evil Is ruining its thousands and tens of thousands yearly, wrecking thousands physically and morally. We can talk freely of all plagues but the plagues of Immorality. So little does society concern Itself with the social evil, beyond bestowing its approval upon the policy of driving habitual immorality hither and thither, that now and then some of that class known as our best people are shocked to find that they themselves have unwittingly afforded shelter to the Immoral outcast. That is to say, reputable people of large wealth who cheerfully VALUE OF OUR COLO OUTPli Reports Show That United States Have Resumed First Position Among Countries.

MINERAL DEPOSITS IN CUBA. Secretary Hitchcock to Send an Investigating Expedition to the Island. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, March 23 For the first time In live years the United States have resumed the first position among the gold producing countries of the world. The reports Just received by George E.

Roberts, director of the mint, show that during the calendar year recently ended, the United States outstripped both Africa and Australia in the value of the gold output. "Although it is too early to determine exactly the amount of gold produced in the various countries for the year ending with December, we know that the United States passed all competitors. The total for this country last year was between $78,000,000 and $79,000,000, a gain of about $8,000,000 over the record of the preceding year. Australia was the ranking country at the end of 1899, with Africa second and the United States third. Both those countries have fallen back during the past eighteen months.

Australia's product' was only $76,000,000, and Africa dropped down to about $50,000,000. The gain in the product of the United States served to put us ih first place again. The increased output of the Cripple Creek and Cape Nome mines helped us to our present position. I cannot account for the falling off in the product of Australia, for I am certain that her mines are not being exhausted. A great amount of capital has been recently Invested In new properties In the western part of Australia and a new mint has been built there.

The war in South Africa explains the falling off in the product of that country. The total product for the world during 1900 was less than for any twelve months In the past ten years. Last year's product amounted to about $250,000,000 or $260,000,000, a decrease of about $50,000,000 as compared with the preceding year. I see nothiug to Indicate that the world's supply of gold Is being exhausted. The opening up of the Siberian Railroad will add greatly to our supply, for there Is no doubt that rich deposits exist in Siberia.

Russia was producing gold before America was discovered, and contributes about $20, 000,000 to the yearly consumption. There is considerable gold in other parts of Eastern Asia. It can be found in undeveloped parts of China and Corea, and, In fact, the latter country already produces about $4,000,000 or $5,000,000 worth every year." At the urgent request of Military Governor General Wood, Secretary Hitchcock has directed that an expedi To Investigate tlon be organized for Mineral the Purpose of pro ceeding to Cuba and Deposits in Cuha. maklng a thorough Investigation of the mineral deposits of that Island. General Wood is being constantly appealed to for information concerning the mineral resources of Cuba by persons in this country and elso where who are anxious to invest money in developing the rich mines that it is generally understood are located there.

General Wood recently applied to Secretary Root for permission to have a survey made in order to determine Just what the conditions are regarding the deposits of ore, coal and other minerals. Secretary Hoot gave his assent to the proposition, and Secretary Hitchcock was appealed to. The latter's orders have already been partly acted on, for two of the experts of the Geological Survey are now on their way to Cuba. They are C. W.

Hayes and T. W. Vaughan. R. C.

Spencer, the third member of the party, will leave for Cuba In a few days. The men intend to mako a thorough survey of Cuba for the purpose of locating the various mineral deposits and to get full and reliable information as to their richness, depth, etc. A visit will also be made to the Isle of Pines and the report will Include an account of the resources of that Island. So far the only mines In Cuba that have been developed to any extent are those in the eastern portion of the Island, In the vicinity of Santiago. Iron, copper and manganese have been produced in paying qualities at that point.

According to the opinion of Mr: JJ. H. Barton, an expert on the question of water supply, attached to the Geological Survey Plenty of Water here, the solution of jn the troublesome prob lem of getting a full LoS Island Soil, supply of water for the City of Brooklyn is to be found right at tho city's feet, so to speak. Mr. Darton says that If the city authorities will sink enough well3 on Long Island they can get all the water that Is needed without any trouble.

In speaking of this matter to day Mr. Darton said to the Eagle correspondent: "In carrying out our water subply inquiries I mnde an investigation of the conditions on Long Island several years ago. I was thoroughly satisfied as a result ot my work there that there Is enough water under the surface of Long Island to supply all the city'B wants at very little expense or trouble. Long Island Is covered with a very loose, open soil that takea up a great proportion of the rainfall. The formation there Is largely ot clay, sand and gravel, conditions that are especially adapted for storing up water.

I made a Btudy of the amount of water fall there and found that it approximated forty three inches a year. 1 also found that about one third of the water passed under ground and was there stored up. I stated In my report that if wells would be driven 1,000 feet or so a good supply of water would be found at almost any part of the Island. The disposition of those In control of the water works seems to be. however, to get up some great Bcheme for carrying water from a great distance rather than adopting the simple plan suggested In my report.

A great many wells have been put down at various places on Long Island. and In every case but one that has come to my notice good water has been founil In abundance. Water was found at a depth of 1,000 feet on Barren Island, and many wells have been successfully operated at more mod erate depths on tbe north shore. The one failure occurred at Woodhaven, and reference fs constantly made to it as a basis for STATE ELECTRICAL LABORATORY. Its Establishment in Connection With Union College Urged.

The bill now pending In tho Legislature, whose purpose is to establish a state electrical laboratory at Union College, has much to commend it, and no reasonable objection to the proposition could bo raised. It would seem, then, to he a measure which deserves to be pushed to passage. That tho Governor will sign it is not to be doubted. Before entering upon a discussion of the merits of the bill It will be well to direct attention to the fact that Union College stands In official relations with the stato government, since by Its charter the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Controller, Secretary of State, Treasurer and Attorney General are, by virtue of office, members of tho college board of trustees. That this relationship exists is a sufficient answer to any question as to the propriety or constitutionality of the proposed legislation, as far, at least, as it affects Union College or seems to discriminate against other institutions.

Tho only other institution sustaining tbe same relations with the state is Cornell University. The special reason for locating the proposed laboratory at Union rather than at Cornell or any other college is found In the groat and exceptional advantages offered by the presence of the works of the General Electric Company, which makes Schenectady the natural center for the development of electrical science. Ivo one who haB vlBited Schenectady in recent years, or who is at all familiar with the conditions that prevail there, can fall to appreciate this. Even a single visit to the shops ot the General Electric Company is considered of such importance that professors from distant technical schools bring their students to Schenectady for one day each year. By a special arrangement the electrical engineering students of Union College are privileged to visit the shops each week, during their senior year, and are thus enabled to study in detail the various applications and uses of electricity.

If there were not already an electrical engineering department in Union College it would seem advisable for tbe state to estab lish one In order that advantage might bo taken of such exceptional opportunities, since jlectrlcal science is already closely identified with the economic life of the Btato and Is destined to play a still more Important part. It may be questioned whether any other science promises so much for tho development of industries and for general progress and prosperity. Tho rapid utilization ot our great water courses for the creation of electrical energy tends directly to build up our manufacturing interests and to Increase tho means of communication between all the cities and villages of the state. On general principles, therefore the state would bo Justified in fostering the study of the science so Intimately associated with its future growth. But the bill under discussion does not propose tho establishment of an electrical school In connection with Union College, as some seem to think.

All that it calls for Is the building, equipment and maintenance of an electrical laboratory to bo used but incidentally for purposes of Instruction. Primarily It Is to be used for work designed to meet the following three definite and legitimate needs of the state: It will be an official standardizing laboratory for electrical measuring Instruments. No such laboratory exists to day anywhere In this country. Such measuring instruments have only recently come Into use, and the need of testing them by sonio uniform and accepted standard must be appreciated by all consumers of electricity. It will bo an Independent and official source of information upon all questions of electrical science Involved In legislation.

As tue use of electricity becomes more general tbe need of legislation will increase. Property and life must be protected. The state should not be dependent upon the expert testimony of rival commercial interests. It will be used for Investigation and experimentation in connection with questions of direct, moment to the state, such ns the application of electricity to canal navigation. Incidentally It will be used to give instruction to tho students of Union College, nnd in return the college agrees to give one hundred free scholarships to students resident in tho state, chosen after a competitive examination.

These scholarships will bo distributed among the senatorial districts. Albany Evening Journal. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Last night the fifth rend closing concert of the annual series by the Boston Symphony Orchestra was given at the Ar ademy of Music. Contrary to practice thu performance did not befiin promptly, but the renson for that fact may be found In tin: Impossibility of passing a thousand people through a crack In a door without encroaching on the time set for tho concert.

Thcro nro doors enough leading Into the academy to admit any usual audience quickly and comfortably, but for economy's suite they are. seldom opened. On Indoors, however. It. was pleasant to discover a reversion to tbe old customs of tile Philharmonic Society In the banking of the platform front with palms, which convert the stage into a picture and relieve the monotony of the black and white in the dress of the men.

The audience woh not so largo as It should have been, for it ap pears to make no difference whether tho eon certs are few or many; the people who prefer variety shows and sewing circles are in an obvious majority. The reason Is not apparent for this fulling off In the public taste and patronage, from the day when a city half as large as the Brooklyn of tho present crowded the Academy to the roof to hear the Thomas band, which was no better than this from Boston. Last night's programme was short, but Interesting and well chosen. It comprised the. flhenish symphony of Schumann, the Liszt piano concerto in A major, a descriptive piece by Cesar Franck and tho overturn to "Tnmj hauser." While the orchestra was In good form ready, spontaneous, compliant to the will of tho conductor, brilliant, as always, in ItH string work, there were passages I bat were dull.

Mr. Gcricke overrellnes occasion ally. In his caution to avoid tho robust and coarse his readings are too smooth. In the "Tannhauscr," for Instance, one could for I glvo the rather leisurely tempo, for that lent point to the acceleration at the close; but ho suppression of the brass in those triumphant passages where it should have been lull throated was not to bo excused, fine could moro easily overlook harshness in tonal quality at tho climax of a work of such tremendous vehemence, than timidity and academic exactness. In the Schumann symphony, however, treatment was altogether delightful.

It was appreciative and sympathetic; It revealed tho spirit of tho nutltor: it had a romantic beauty and twlllgnt mystery that brought, up visions of the river Itself its ancient cltcn, its relicB of medieval glories, lis legended 1 crags and pools and ruins. It Is symphony I to hear oftener, ns arc all of Schumann I and generously contribute to hospitals, asylums, churches and various charities, having failed to acquaint themselves with the uses to which their real estate holdings are put, are occasionally amazed to learn that their buildings have been leased to immoral per sons. Tammany Hall has again and again made use of this fact for the purpose of making it appear that society is as bad as itself, and does not care where its revenues corns from. The following clipping, taken from the news columns of a New York dally at a time when Asa Bird Gardiner was District Attorney and under fire discloses one of Tammany's favorite methods brought into play when it would blunt the edge of hostile criticism (the numbers of the houses are omitted): "Tammany has thrown a bombshell into the Four Hundred. "Coincident with the announcement of the Chamber of Commerce Anti Vice Committee of Fifteen, which is distinctively an anti Tammany body, District Attorney Gardiner announces that criminal proceedings will be instituted against many prominent persons who own property on the lower East Side which is occupied by men and women of unsavory reputation.

"Tammany does not announce that it has undertaken these prosecutions on its own initiative. The evidence has not been uncovered by its own Vice Committee. The District Attorney takes pains to make plain that the complaints against these property owners have been brought to him through Superintendent of Elections John McCullagh, a Republican state official. "Among the persons to whom notices have been sent from the District Attorney's office, warning them that they are harboring disreputable persons in violation of law, are the following: Prince street Malvlna and Eugene Kel tikas and Mrs. George Peabody Wetmore.

Bowery Peter Cooper estate. West Third street Trustees of St. Clement's Church. East Seventeenth street Hamilton Fish, estate. Bowery Pierre Lorillard.

Chrystle street James J. Kernochan and others. Bowery William Aetor and wife. Allen street Thomas J. Cadwallnder.

and Third avenue Rutherford Stuy vesant. Bowery John Jacob Astor. "These represent only a part of the list of ninety property owners served by the District Attorney. This knowledge is not new either to the District Attorney or the Police Department, nor was it unknown to the Tammany Vice Committee. The police have always had a list of the houses in which suspicious persons were harbored.

One of the chief features of the vice crusade will be to uncover the uses to which the list was put. "No idea of instituting criminal proceedings against the wealthy owners, who knew noth ing of the characters of their tenants, was thought of until the vice crusade blossomed into potency. "Of course, it is well understood by the public and by Tammany that the owners of property, who are to be called to account, are utterly ignorant of the way in which their agents handle their property, but Tammany has a purpose in view." MUL. (To be continued.) PARIS FASHIONS UP TO DATE. From the Eagle Parl3 Bureau, 63 Hu Cambon, through the courtesy of Abraham Straus.

Black cloth princess, with soutache braid and white taffeta embroidered In black; white plaited chiffon front. ONE YEAR AGO TO DAY. John French died In the 86th year of his age at his Brooklyn home. Mayor Van Wyck said that New York was the cleanest and most moral city in the world. Bed rock was struck at a depth of ninety feet in boring on the Brooklyn side to find ground for the foundation of piers for the EaBt River Bridge, No.

3. BROOKLYN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION The fourteenth annual institute of the primary and junior departments of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union will be held at the Fleet Street M. E. Church, on Fleet street, near Pulton, opposite Bond street, on Thursday. There will be two sessions, at 2:30 and 7:30 P.

M. the argument that there Is no water under ground. It Is my belief that the well at Woodhaven struck one of the very few spots on Long Island where water does not exist. It is a very great injustice to the residents of certain portions of Long Island to bank up and draw off the water from the bays and sounds, as is now being done. I understand that considerable complaint is being made over this, and that it is claimed that the surface supply is being rapidly diminished by this process." Ex Representative Townsend Scudder of Long Island, who is still in the city, Is of the opinion that the passage of a Metropolitan police bill will not only be a bad thing politically, but Scudder Is Opposed to a Police Bill.

that It Is uncalled for. He thinks that it will be a direct blow at the principles of home rule and that It Is a question that should be left to the voters for decision. In referring to this matter today, Mr. Scudder said: "So far as I can see there is nj more necessity at the present time for the passage of a police bill than there was three years ago when the Republicans were in charge. Certainly the conditions now are no worse than they were then, and no move was made at that time by the Republicans to adopt such a bill.

The move to adopt a police bill comes with particularly bad grace at present, when a city election is only a few months off. If the people wish to correct the existing evils they will have an opportunity to do so at the approaching elections, when a new set of city officials can be chosen. That is the proper way of applying the remedy, and to attempt to adopt a cure by legislation at Albany violates the fundamental principles of home rule." A special agent of the Treasury Depart ment, whose district takes in the greater part of the Texas border, is In this city at Smuggling present arranging for Across the prosecution of a well known citizen of the Texas Border. Iowa who has been caught In wholesale smuggling across the Mexican frontier. Owing to the fact that the case has not yet been made up the department officials decline to give out the name of the offender.

It Is known that he is a railroad man some prominence in Iowa, and that he had been engaged in the smuggling business as a side issue for some years. He is charged with bringing Into the United States, without payment of duty, about $8,000 worth of porfilida, or Mexican drawn work. This is decorative work, done entirely by hand by the Mexican women, and Is much sought after for use as doilies, table covers, lunch cloths, etc. It is made of the finest linen and the drawn work designs are very handsome. The goods are dutiable at 60 per cent, and for years there has been wholesale smuggling of them across the border.

The special agent gave to the Eagle many interesting facts regarding smuggling on the Texas frontier. "Two thirds ot the Mexicans along the border line," he said, "make their living by smuggling. Any one who Is at all familiar with the characteristics ot tbe lower class of Mexicans knows that they would rather get 50 cents by fraud and trickery than earn a dollar honestly. They make a great deal of money by bringing mescal, their native drink, into Texas unlawfully. A vile grade of this drink Is made from alcohol shipped from the United States into Mexico, where it is mixed with the root of the cacttls plant and flavored to imitate mescal.

It is then smuggled back to Texas and sold at 10 cents a drink. The profit is immense, for a gallon of it can be made in Mexico for about 87 cents of our money. "So internal revenue duty is paid on the alcohol here, as it is put In bond for export. By being made up In Mexico and smuggled back across the border It escapes the duty ot $2.25, and the Internal revenue duty as well. Cattle are also smuggled across the border in small batches, and are later assembled In one big herd and taken north.

The Mexicans also smuggle tobacco In considerablo quantities. The Mexicans in that strip of territory near the border that belongs to the United States have never learned to love their adopted country. It is an absolute fact that of the Mexicans who live In the border towns In Texas, and in many places they comprise 95 per cent, of the inhabitants, not one In a hundred can speak English. Yet they are technically Americans. I fear for the fate ot the republic after President Diaz dies.

As a matter of fact, be is more ot a czar than a president, and is about the only person who can rule his people. The chances are that there will be a big revolution as soon as he dies. President Diaz realizes this, and is doing everything possible to prevent it. He Is giving all sorts' of concessions and privileges that will bring foreign capital into the country. German.

French and English moneys have been pouring Into the republic In recent years. Tho President hopes that the foreign powers will have such heavy interests there that they will step in and preserve peace and order upon his death." A. B. A. ENGAGEMENT CELEBRATED.

The engagement of Miss Florence Aron to Herman Greenberg was celebrated with a reception on Sunday night last at the residence of Miss Aron's parents, 147 Lorlmer street. Tho parlors were prettily decorated for tho occasion with potted plants, cut flowers and smllax. Those present included Mr. and Mrs. I.

Grcenberg, Mrs. J. Groonbcrg, Mr. and Mis. Mark Jacobs, Mr.

and Mrs. .1. Zorklnd, A. Nathan. J.

L. Jacobs, Mr. and Mrs. S. Fruedentbal, tbe Misses Pauline and Rosa Freudenthal.

Jesse Sllbermann, Mrs. H. Meyer. B. J.

Meyer. I. S. Meyer, Levy, Mr." and Mrs. IT.

Schwartz, Mr. and Mrs. S. Meyer and Mr. and Mrs.

A. Wright. HOTEL ARRIVALS. Pierrcp.mt Mlns S. V.

Lowther, Stanifor.l. Milton Stnlih. Northport, L. T. rrnfewsor R.

De F.rnent Tlmm. Santiago Cuba; Louis .1. Simon, R. Dnlton, Philadelphia; Mr. and I'.

1C Herkor, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. David Miir'tin, itronklyn: P. M. Wallace, FTeeport, L.

Stingy. H.ickensack. N. J. 'ciur' ntl' 'n J.

Parker, E. Bartlett. Brooklyn; H. C. Leopold t.

W. P. Ilowertnn, NVw York EIISMbelh Wallace, Mrs, .1. S. Griffith, ckl i uro Henry White, Stamford, W.

H. Merrl II. Waterman, Mins Carolyn WhytH Hrnnrton Tynan. Mr. and Mrtt.

fhUu, Mr ii'id Davl. New York: F. W. Arkfr nmii I'afHalc. N.

P. II. M. Tiury, York; S. Sirr.punn.

Charles E. Suffer. St.itfn IhI. i nrl Toiin W. iiiikipy, OysU Pay; Oforg" Sfv York; G.

E. Bfctwett, M. Strui. W. Achman, Si rii.org" Goorae Vi Ellin, Philadelphia: Mrs.

rhnrl'' I' M1" ItJnghflmton m. Nw York: W. Morrison. Wlrhltn, Kan'" b'" vv Filcner. Truro, N.

S. V. II finvl'eV. Mrs. K.

Elliott, Brooklyn: O. F. Spandlng. Ve'w Jwsey; Daniel F. LewiK, Brooklyn Mr.

and (r, .1 i. J.ir kwm. Troy, N. Y. What Shall We Have for Dessert? Tills MI' 'n arisen in the family every day.

us it rlay. Try Jell a delicious and healihf'ii Prepared In two minutes. No boiling' no i'ai simply add boiling wafer and set to Flavors: Lmon. Orange, Raspberry anil M' rrv. Gt a package at your grocers vj 1k: c'v.