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THE BROOKTjTST DAILT EAGLE SUKDAT, NOVEMBER 17. 1895. sylvania and received his degree from that sylvania and received his Mosby, of confederate fame, and for his dis tlnguished bravery had been mentioned in started to prac GLEASON AND HIS BAILIWICK. TO IMPROVE ISLAND WATERS. UNDERHILLS OF OYSTER BAY DESCENDED FROM IS NOBLE POLE city, afterward i general orders thirty two times.

Gleason had learned the milling business in Ireland, and kent at it for a while in this countrv. and finally to Flatbush. where, in lie married Miss Abby Lcfforts Lett. This marriage led to the naming of the well known Zabrlskio I homestead, on which stood a house more! I ancient than anv other in the old towi of I i Flatbush. having at the time of its destruc 1S77.

attained the age of 225 years, Peculiarities of Long Island City's Famous ex Mayor. And Other Descendants of the Famous Captain John Something About the Old Zabriskie Family of Flatbush. He drifted into various pursuits to make a I livelihood, and was not many years in the I. country when he became identified with AppBODriations Recommended by Chief Brooklyn politics. He was one of Boss Hugh McLaughlin's henchmen for a while, but fcngmeer UraighlJl.

later became one of his most bitter antag onists. Gleason relates to day with a great deal of gusto hotf in the days of Pat Hayes in the old Thirteenth ward he downed the REPORT TO SECRETARY HERBERT late Maurice B. Flynn. who was McLaughlin's candidate for assemblyman. Gleason's Tipperary blood was up and when the votes HE CAME FROM OLD TIPPER iRY.

TO ERECT A MEMORIAL SHAFT. I us ortkriu snrouueu in iue uamucoa ul unrecorded history and the names of the i occupants are unknown up lo 171a, when Dr. THEY FO'J'DTIP HACKENSACK, JJ. Jollll Newbury toik possession of it. The Flatbush town records might be able to tell tii.

story, but they are in Dutch, and no one has yet undertaken the job to trans Ancestors of tlu Late Dr. Zabriskie Who late them. At any rate the title of the prop were counted the McLaughlin Flynn Hayes nnrv combination had Ancient and Honorable Artillery company of Boston. In 1638 there, was printed In London a pamphlet of which Captain John Underbill was the author. Its title Is "Nevves from America." Only two copies are known to be in existencein this country, one in the library of the Historical society of New York city and the other in that of Harvard university.

Each, though two hundred and fifty six years old, is In a good state of preservation. It is a unique specimen of typography and shows the state of the printer's art in the seventeenth century. The peculiar spelling of the period in which it was written, and with more or less of the interchangeable use of the letters and and the form for are preserved. The history of Captain John Underhlll is too long for publication here, but a page or two of it to show his wonderful character and the persecutions to which he was subjected, will not be out of place. Shortly after he settled In Massachusetts began his troubles with the church on account of his views concerning personal and religious liberty.

Those were the times when the Puritan church exercised the most rigid and minute supervision in all households and over everyone's conduct, regulating the cut of the coat of the men and interfering with the style of the caps and gloves of the women, and when only formal and solemn countenances, whether natural or assumed, were considered proper. It was in 1C37 that Captain John Underbill was disfranchised and banished from Massachusetts. beaten. A free fight vwi sv been Asked for and $102,000 for Port Jef si I ert' "au been vc. 'ea lor a century ana a nan ensued in which many prominent men took part, but Gleason held his own.

Honorable Positions as Physi in some descendant 01 Liene's. Early Straggles for a Living Onoe a Lieutenant of Hugh McLaughlin Alderman and Mayor at the Same Time. Went Broke in but Now Comfortably Fixed His Street Railroad and Other Enterprises. A Growing Society That Has Traced the Family Lineage to the Days of Queens Mary and Elizabeth Visits to the British Museum and Stratford on Avon Mrs. Cocks' and Mrs.

Doremus' Researches. old Ninth district, comprising the Thirteenth and the Fourteenth wards, and until Upon the death of Jeremiah Lett it was bequeathed to his daughter. Mrs. Abby L. 52a briskie.

Dr. Harrea. Zabriskie soon acquired a Nourishing practice in Kings county, and chins. Clergymen ard Jurists The Family Homestead Over Two Hundred Year. Its Origin Hidden in the D'Jtch Records.

ferson to Complete the Channel Wants $20,000 for Newtown Creek' and $50,000 for Buttermilk Channel For Gowanus Bay and Creek $1 25,000 and for Jamaica Bay $2,000. 1 was a highly esteemed member of the Coun ty society. He held a number of portions or trust, and in 1847, the year nre vi' rus tn his death, was elected superintend I ent of in the town of Flatbush. He THE name of Zabriskie family A man of the peculiar traits of character, the fame and following of Patrick Jerome Gleason it would be hard to find outside of Long Island City. Big of body, bluff of man 1 died in 1.S4.N, leaving a widow and live cntl i dren.

three John Lloyd Zabriskie, Jere mlah Linn Zabriskie and Xiokolas Lansing brought prominently before the public last ner and kind ot heart is Gleason. Ho is a Oyster Bay town is full of Underhills, and like the roots of a great oak the family branches out In every direction. The roots of this geneological tree are of all sizes and. strong. Time, instead of weakening them has added to their vitality.

A family of hardy men and womanly women, whose history Is probably the most interesting of its kind in the state. If not. in the country. For ilo doei; I Zabriskie. and two daughters.

Harriet Lydla it man of unique and forcible character, a man of many battles, a man who has astonished his political opponents and a man Is he who Two years before his trial Captain Underbill was in fnvc.r witb irwnrnnr nr ns hp Called and Sarah Barrea Zabriskie. The eldest of these was Dr. Zahrlskle, who died last week, the second son is the Rev. Jeremiah Zabriskie. who resides In Flatbush.

Xickolas Lansing Zabriskie is a lawyer, who lives at Aurora, N. and of the two daugh ters, one is dead and the other is Mrs. H. L. Strong, the widow of the Rev.

Robert Q. Strong of Flatbush. has net less than 1,200 personal friends whose vote, it has been demonstrated he can swing for any candidate he supports, regardless of three hundred years this family has in him. "Right Worthy Master Vane." He had death of Dr. John l.ir.,,1 Zabriskie of FiaiVusii, a distinguished physician and philanthropist.

It is oven better known in New Jersey than in Brooklyn, for the reason that the lam state one of Its creased, and it would be difficult now to meet an porta command in the Pequod war in politics or the many changes in the ballot law. He is 52 years of age, of fine physique ZiBOnOWSKJJ COAT OF any one lu the town, born tnere, wno couia 16SG, and was generally employed on such ex not trace his or her lineage to Captain John peditlons us required extraordinary courage iT.iorMU who enme over to Massachusetts and energy, but he soon lost his popularity. and thoroughly democratic in his ways. He LONG ISLAND PACKET LINES. Is a widower with one child, a pretty girl of 12 years.

Her name is Jessie, and she lives from England with Winthrop and his 900 or ideas of that 11 gave in luxury with relatives in Brooklyn, while her father, who expects to take his seat a mayor of the turbulent municipality over which he has ruled with an iron rod for six years, dwells in a two story frame rickety house, 112 Front street. Long Island City, and most eminent jurists in the person of Abraham Zabriskie. who, after having served with distinction on the bench for a imniVr of years, was elected to the office of chancellor, which he held until his death, in 1554. Chancellor Zabriskie's eldest daughter was married to the Danish. minister at Wash METHODS OF TRANSPORTATION BEFORE RAILROADS WERE BUILT.

One of the time honored industries which were forced out of existence by the railroads on Long Island were the weekly or semi eokly packet lines plying between the villages along the south side of the island and this day he maintains that he was counted out. He says that he received more votes than any other Democrat that ran for the office and that his majority was more than 300, but the board of supervisors acted as canvassers and counted him short 16 'voteB. "When the campaign was over," said Gleason to an Eagle reporter. "I had just 50 cents In the world that I could call my own. 1 digested a dinner that cost me 45 cents and while doing so I made up my mind what to do.

I crossed the river with the remaining 5 cents and to a confidential friend I related my financial straits. A few years previous to this, while attending the funeral of a friend I saw the necessity of a railroad between Calvary cemetery and the Hunter's Point ferries to carry the New people who were obliged previous to 1872 to tramp over the bad roads ankle deep In mud, to the cemetery. This was in 1869 and a year later I went to the legislature and secured a franchise to build a road from the ferry to the cemetery. I borrowed some money from a New York friend and struck off for California to make a fortune to build the railroad. I encountered many mishaps and among others was shipwrecked off Acapulco, but I pushed on to San Francisco.

In about a year I had saved sufficient money to return home and start work on my railroad. When I arrived in Long Island City I was not In town a half hour before I was informed that the late ex Senator James M. Oakley had obtained a franchise to build over the route for which onlj' the year before I had obtained the privilege. I was in a quandary. That night I went to a lumber merchant and ordered sufficient lumber to build the road.

The lumber was delivered early the next morning and by noon laborers were engaged in laying the track between the cemetery and the ferries. I Jumped in myself and with pick in hand worked as hard as any of them. When the road was in a half way finished condition with one second hand car and a worn out horse I drove the first trip over the road. From the start the road, such as It was, became well patronized. The people had no other alternative and as the traffic Increased I put on more cars, and continued to drive and act in the capacity of owner, stcvholder, superintendent, driver and conductor." As years rolled by Oleason's railroad franchise enhanced in value and the ex mayor ac contentedly keeps bachelor's hall.

Gleason is wedded to the old building, when a bach elor, in 1S72, he went to live in the house, ington. M. 13111c. ana they now reside in Lon and has ever since, with the exception of one i New York city. On the north side of the don.

where at the court of St. James he rep year; that was after he was married and installed his wife in a handsome residence in tub d.b 1 resents the government of Denmark. In New Jersey, too. at Hackensack It was rsianu cue increased population ana utstance where of the railroad stations from the landings i t. Twelfth street.

Within a year he returned 5 to his old bachelor quarters a widower. Mrs. (Special to the Eagle.) Washington, D. November 16 General Craighill, chief or army engineers, in his annual report to the secretary of war maks some important recommendations. for the improvements of creeks and rivers on Long Island.

"Greenport harbor," says the report, "at tbe eastern end of Long Island, Is exposed to southern storms. Its anchorage ground, which was sheltered by Joshua Point has materially shoaled by the erosion of the point and by the influx of drifting sand. Up to July 1, 18S4, $46,000 had been appropriated for improving this station, the breakwater had been completed and dredging done to increase the area of sheltered anchorage. Th project was completed in September, 1893, and no further work is proposed and no additional appropriation is required." General Craighill says that Port Jefferson is the most exposed of the ports on Long Isl land sound. During the past fiscal year a contract has been made for dredging a channel twelve feet deep and about one hundred feet wide through the bar at the entrance.

Future appropriations would be applied to completing and maintaining the twelve foot channel and to repairing, enlarging and exr tending the jetties. The. estimated amount required for completion of the existing project is $102,500 and the amount asked for for the coming year is 57,500. In speaking of Newtown creek General Craighill says: "The amount expended up to the close of the fiscal year, June 30, 1895, in Improving these waters was $2,000, aud wa applied in dredging 72,394 cubic yards from various reaches of the creek. At the close of the year the IS foot channel from the entrance to the Vernon avenue bridge was 175 fee: wide at the entrance and 150 feet wide at the bridge with a 21 foot channel 40 feet wide through the center.

The cause of the habitual shoaling immediately following dredging is the absence of bulkheads to confine the banks. The existing channel is not adequate in width or depth to the demands of commerce and the ne. improvements should be executed by methods which will carry it progressively from the mouth to the head of navigation. General Craighill recommends that $20,000 be appropriated for the coming year in completing this improvement. The amount expended on Buttermilk channel for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1S95, was $13,968.34, and was applied in dredging 52.602 cubic yards of material from Red Hook Gleason who was a Brooklyn woman, died in 1882, leaving him the care of an Infant SS227rt2!" around him, and when the zeal of our worthy forefathers burned the hottest against heretics and sectarians, when the popular argument against all such was fire and Imprisonment, disfranchisement, confiscation, banishment, and even halters, he took side against the banishment of Roger Williams and the pious Wheelwright, with the result that he himself was finally driven into exile.

He was ordered out of the jurisdiction of Massachusetts Novemer 20, 1637. and went to Stamford, In the same year. He was at once made commander of the troops in Saybrook, and with Captain Mason took part in the victorious attack on the Indian fort at Mystic, when the fierce spirit of the tribe was completely broken. In 1G41 was chosen governor of Dover. N.

but was soon in dtffculty with the church from being too fond of the use of tobacco. Here, as Inter on, his Boston enemies followed him with their unrelenting persecutions, and finally, when they determined that Dover was in the Jurisdiction of Massachusetts, ho was compelled to flee to Amboyna. then In the possession of the Dutch and now the city of Albany. He solicited to be received with a few families from Long Island and to enjoy the privileges of a citizen of the Dutch government, which was granted on condition that he subscribe to the oath of allegiance to the States General and the Prince of Orangp. From 1643 to lfi lfi he was He left his luxurious house to take up his abode once more in the Front street house.

UNDBKIULL ARMORIAL, BEARINGS. utou lo Kive tiu pucivets sjiiiiioieuL business to maintain a precarious sort of existence, but on the south side the packet lines have been virtually abandoned from all the nearby villages. One of the pioneer lines was established in East Rockaway by Messrs. Samuel and Wright Pearsall in 1S40. They ran the sloop Hamilton weekly.

They afterward purchased the sloop Victoria and ran her alternately with the Hamilton, one leaving Wednesday and the other Sunday. The earlier captains I emigrants, whether he is an Underbill, a Cocks, a Weeks, a Carpenter, a Seaman, a Feaks or a Willits. Over the fields that once knew the wigwam and the wampun. the signal fires and the wars of the Matinnecocks. these same Underhills now own some of the finest homes and some of the most productive farms in the state.

The Underhill family is represented in nearly every state iu the Union. Canada, South America, the islands of the South sea, and even in Africa, where an English missionary established a village on the Congo, calling it Underhill. which set wore William Ieach and Oliver Langdon. tlenient has a place on the map in Stanley's engaged in fighting the Indians north of the Captain Oliver Doxey ran the packet Splendid for many years and Captain Joseph Bedell had charge of the Eliza R. One of the last or the packets to make regular trips was the Alexlne, Captain Carman Watts.

Captain David Jackson was one of the first of the regular hands to run on packets. He remembers when seed oysters cost from 5 to Id cents a bushel and the marketable oyster old for 5 shillings 'GUV i cents) at the dock in New York. Captain Oliver Doxey is one of the oldest Dark Continent" among scores ot peculiar huuj African names. In this country there are hij ui luul. hmm il is staieu mat Captain John Underhill killed 300 Indians thousands of Underhills.

Brooklyn and the quired an interest In tne Stelnway horse railway. He disposed of this interest a number of years ago to William Steinway and his political power enabled him to make some very profitable real estate Investments. He got too many irons in the fire, apparently, about four years ago, and became so financially entangled that a number of judgments were recorded against him in the county clerk's office. Recently the ex mayor disposed of his Calvary cemetery road to the Steinway people for a handsome figure. He had extended the road to Lutheran cemetery.

and converted it into a trolley line. The ex mayor claims the honor of beiDg the first man to start an electric rail 1 mmm I of the packet captains. Ho ran a packet regularly for over twenty and says that he used up three boats. They were owned by Alexander Davison and later by his sons, A BUY L. I Messrs.

O. and C. Davison. His orders were to make trips regularly, regardless of wind, weather or boats. His first sloop was the north of the sound and 120 on Long Island, who had crossed the sound to destrov the Dutch plantations there." After the conclusion of the Dutch wars he still wished for more campaigning and his restless temper led him to embark in the conflict between England and Holland "To go against the Dutch or any enemies of the commonwealth of England." His commission placed him at the head of a good fighting force and with the latter hi took the Indian stronghold at Fort Neck and destroyed a great number of the savage a.

Shortly after, in he settled down in Oyster Bay, L. and in his house the half yearly meetings of Friends ued to take place. He became a man of much Influence, and Governor Nicoll, in 1665, appointed him high sheriff of the North Rid PATRICK J. GLEASOX. The old building has been used as a butcher shop, printing house, waiting room, pool room and it is at present the campaign head quarters of the Gleason Democracy.

What the surroundings are matters not to Gleason. The first floor, which was formerly used as a waiting room by the passengers of the ex mayor's Calvary cemetery railroad before be sold out, is now unoccupied. The upper floor contains four rooms and Gleason is always at home to everybody. He sleeps in the rear of the large front room where his followers assemble and array themselves to fight his political battles. Of tbe other two rooms on road in either Kings or Queens counties.

He has valuable real estate holdings and although never flush with money is reputed to be wealthy. The ex mayor attended the national school in Ireland and upon arriving in this country took advantage of the night schools, the Inauguration of which was his chief hobby when he became the chief executive of Long Island City. The constantly fluctuating condition of political affairs in the ex mayor's bailiwick has not prevented him from pursu other parts of Long Island containing probably the largest number of them. It was i here that the idea of a society originated, the temporarv officers being Miss Pamela Underhill of Brooklyn, chairman; D. Harris Underhill of Brooklyn, secretary, and Mrs.

Mar iantia Underbill Cocks of Locust Valley, L. assistant secretary. The first meetings of tbe societv were held at the residences of George W. Underhill. 1 13 South Oxford street, and Reuben H.

Underhill. 19 South Elliott place. The present officers are as follows: W. Wilson Underhill, president: Robert Underhill. first vice president; Francis F.

Underhill. second vice president: D. Harris Underhill. corresponding secretary. 100 South Third street.

Brooklyn: Silas A. Underhill, recording secretary; Dr. J. W. Underbill of Van AVert, honorary secretary: Mrs.

M. Underhill Cocks, assistant secretary; W. Wilson Underhill, treasurer. The pet project of this society just now is to erect a momi.ncnt in honor of their ancestor. Captain John Underbill, at Matinne cock, near Oyster Bay.

L. I. The society has also taken up the work of research which for many years has been individually prosecuted by some of its members to trace the lineage of the family since, the earliest date of its existence. England and especially the British museum aud Strat ford on Avon. where one ot the Underhills sold New" Place to William Shakspeare In 1 have been visited and much valuable Information has been secured.

Miss Pamela UndVrhill of South Oxford street. Mrs. M. U. Cocks and Mrs.

R. Ogden Doremus are among these who to Europe and devoted much of their time to straighten out this family's ancient records tangled up by centuries of changes and the obliterating influences of emigration. Among other things a committee on armorial bearing was appointed, composed of I). Harris Underhill. 400 South Third street, Brooklyn: Mrs.

S. V. E. Harvey. Ill ing of Iong Island.

He died in 1672. On his old farm, still in possession of his descendants, on the hill known as the Matlne cock or Underhill burying ground, is the grave of this wonderful man, of whom it has been said he was the most dramatic personage in our early history. The place which the Indians deeded to him is in possession of Ann 'E iizabeth Underhill, widow of George R. Underhill. never having been out of the Un ing nis interrupted studies and he is an om nlverous reader particularly of the newspapers, and of work on veterinary, of which he has an extensive library.

He is also the fortunate possessor of three scrap books filled with newspaper clippings, which he prizes the first American antstor of the family settled. That, was in He was Albridt Zaborowskij, a Pole cf noble birth, who had fled his country leoau. of religious persecution, lie crossed the sea in the ship which carried hune.reds of other refugees, mostly Huguenots, and also a quota of Dutch emigrants. lit oast his lot with the latter, who wtnt directly to New Jersey, and there founded Il.icki usa' k. This Is practically all that is known of Albridt Zaborowskij, except That he a prosperous farmer, and in lt turned v.

Dutch wife. Maohteld Yan derllnda. the i.nion being blessed with five sons, who also married Dutch wives, and had a numerous prt nv. In the course of time the name of Zaborowskij was gradually modified nr. simplified, until it assumed its present, form.

It appears that the first Zabriskie who forsook the tilling of the soil as a means of making a livelihood was John Lansing, born ill whr became a preacher. He was a member of the first class that graduated at Union college in Aft being ordained a minister of the Dutch Hofornied church he was given charge of a congregation at (Ireen'mish. on the Hudson, opposite Albany. From there he removed in lSll to Millstone. N.

where he resided until his death 1S50. Corwin. in his of the Reformed Dutch Church." speaks of the Rev. John Lansing Zabriskie as a man of many excellences, zealously pious, a gentleman of the old school, 6imple in bis tastes and unostentatious i' his shoal; giving an additional width of 20 feet. It is estimated that will be required to completo the existing project and $50,000 is asked for to push the work during the coming year.

The depth of water tin the channeli of Gowanus bay and creek was originally only from 7 to 12 fete at mean low water, which was wholly insuffclen't for the passage of vessels employed in the commerce of the district. The work of improvement was begun in 1881, and the work is still in progress. The amount expended during the fiscal year jusj ended was and was applied in removing 757,000 cubic yards of material under contract. At that date in the Red Hook channel the 26 foot channel was 80 feet wide from the entrance to Erie Basin to Henry street, while the 21 foot channel was 400 feut wide throughout. The Gowanus creek channel was 250 feet wide and 21 feet deep from Henry street to Percival street.

The beds of both channels have been lowered from 5 to 20 feet as the material removed was sand, the banks, having lio confining bulkheads, have cn rospoudingly increased their slopes, the unstable material sliding into the channels and reducing their depth. The channels also suffered from deposits brought in from outlying shcals by the waves. The source of degradation will be appreciably exhausted only when permanent bulkheads are built along both shore, to hold the soft and unstable banks. Th amount that can be profitably expended in ths coming fiscal year is which congress will be asked tn appropriate. Jamaisa bay is a tidal hay, situated on the south side of Long Island, uear the western end, whose waters flow into the Atlantic the floor one is used by Gleason as a private office and the other is an ante room to his sleeping apartment.

It is to Thomas Kin sella, the late editor in chief of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, that Gleason gives the credit of having first put the idea in his head of becoming mayor. Gleason said in 1SS2. when as president of the common council he was fighting the ring, he prepared an effective speech and when the common council met he sailed into the ring. In his rough, disconnected speech he described the boundaries of the city, the poor railroad and ferry facilities and other to its growth and concluded with a review of what Improvements the city should have. The speech was primed in the newspapers and the Eagle editorially gave Gleason a very flattering notice and mad the suggestion that he ought to be tbe mayor.

After readlnr that notice. Gleason derhill family, and the deed from the Indians to Captain John (on parchmeuti is still in her possession. The deed of lands from the Indians to Captain John's son John is in the possession of the daughter of Charles Cruger Underhill. deceased. Samuel V.

Underhill of Locust Valley has in his possession a Bible that contains the oldest records of the Underhill family on Long Island. In addition to the living members of the family alread named are the following: The Rev. Andrew F. Underhill. rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, this city; Mrs.

H. C. Duval, a member of the society and a lineal descendant of Captain John Underhill uonev. Splendid; he next ran the Hunter, and then the George Rider, the latter boat being one of the iaM of the packets. The packers usually took an as sorted cargo of farm produce and oysters and clams to the said that he felt more confident than ever that East nty fifth street.

New Ycrk; the Rev. Andrew F. Underhill, 410 Macon street, Brooklyn; Mrs. Marianna Underhill Cocks, I Locust Valley. L.

and Miss Pamela Uu derhill. South Oxford street, Brooklyn, i Through their efforts much has beer, ascer city, and they were sold by the captains qn commission. Tlie return trip was made with an assorted cargo ot merchandise, consisting chiefly of groceries, dry goods, fur the local stores. The coarser kinds of freight, such as lum ber, manure and ashes, were usually carried by sloops which were chartered fcr that special purpose. Many of them are still ocean through Rockaway inlet.

The amount expended in improving these waters during the past fiscal year was $9,460. during which time the channel has been dredged to the full projected width of 00 feet and, a depth of 5 he ought to be the mayor. He went in and won and while serving his second term in the common council was elected mayor. Instead of resigning his aldermanship he held on to it in conjunction with his mayoralty powers to the great chagrin of his political enemies. The dual municipal offices in which Gleason stubbornly insisted upon performing the functions stood him in good stead.

I Ie would veto objectionable resolutions passed by the hoard of aldermen in his office as mayor, and then cross the corridor tn the city hall, walk into the common council chamber and as alderman take part In the common council proceedings and vote to sustain his own veto as mayor. In those days the citizens' committee called Gleason their Moses. In 1889 they grew tired WmtWs Sh on the maternal side on her father side she is one of the long line of the Long Island Frosts; the wife of ex Congressman Towns end Cocks of Locust Valley, a lineal descendant of the Long Island Underhills; Jacob Underhill of the same place; Francis F. Underhill, prominent in school work; James W. Cornwell.

son of the late William Cornwell of the Westchester branch; Mrs. Mary Underhill Lewis, widow of Eiias Lewis, who was president of the Brooklyn bank; Mrs. Hannah Underhill Hicks, widow of Stephen Hicks of Old Westbury, L. Miss Phebe U. Titus of Remsen.

street: Miss Pamela U. McCoun, Mrs. Stephen Valentine. Mrs. Stepher B.

Jacobs aud Miss Underhill, artist, 319 Manhattan avenue. THE MENHADEN CATCH. feet, to within 400 feet of the. bulkhead at JESSIE GLEASOX. tained concerning the coat of arms of the Warwickshire Underhills of the Stratford on Avon I'nderhili and of Sir Edward Underhill, the lather of the first of that name in America.

Mrs. Cocks, the chairman of the commutes on coat armor, In one of her reports, says: "Muiiy persons siipiins thai 'Heraldry and Hereditary pride of family, are unpopular. Tills is evidently a mistake, as the first of the Puritans show them to have er. very much attached to marks ot dlstinrllon which they retained and exhibited in this country upon every IT WAS FAIR, BUT NOT LIKE THE OLD TIME FISHING DAYS. of holding up the hands of their Moses and sought a new leader in City Treasurer Frederick W.

Bleckwenn, whom they nominated and tried to elect to lead them otit of the wilderness they declared that Gleason was fast leading them into. Gleason refused to be. downed and he polled 2.SS0 votes to Bleck wenn's 2,557. The blow was a crushing one to the citizens' committee and for the next three years in office Gleason was monarch of all he surveyed. He ruled with an iron rod.

They usually take out a cargo of beach sand, a few thousand clams, and made the trip to Albany for ashes or lumber. The proceeds from the sale of the sand and profit on the clams pays the expenses of the outward trip and the freight, on the lumber the return expenses. I The packets were built for speed, and from Hog Island inlet to the Iiook was the favorite racing ground. The rival packets which ran 'from Amltyville and villages fur the. ea often waited for a brush with the I packet from Fast Rockaway.

either at the in let or at the dock in New York. It often hap i pened that they were becalmed or storm stayed together at the hook or in Old Rock away bay. and when they started out there was a fine opportunity for a. race. The rela i tive speed of the various packets was always the chief topic for discussion among the boatmen.

The packets ceased running about the year 1 1SS0 and it is probably only a question of a I little time when the freighting of lumber, jotc, by sloops will be a thing of the past. The cost of labor and the waste of time in possible occasion, ami feel ppjuil to acknowl edge tlin? thp Stars and Strlptis of the arms anil Aoe; of our Union took their orlein from the personal coat armor of George Ya.shingtoii. It must be to the most supprucia! observer that heraldry and hereditary honors are peeretly as much prt7.l in this country to day as they are in Knpland. This is proved by the avidity with whUh those who are entitled to Ihem listen to the hen who is able to establish their ciuini. juH.V l.ijo'!, TtlKKIK.

The menhaden season of lSOM is ended, and all vessels engaged in it have steamed away from the fishing grounds at the east end of Long Island. very highly. The clippings tell about Gleason's work and exploits for more than twenty years back. Mr. Gleason is very fond of music from a good piano, and is giving his little daughter a thorough musical education.

Dave Braham is the ex mayor's favorite composer. The ex mayor is a charitable man. and has done much to help the poor of his city, who frequently seek aid at his office. His private office is neatly carpeted and contains a rolliug top desk, an easy chair, a lounge, several other chairs, and from brackets hang four cages containing sweet singing canary birds, presented to the ex mayor by admiring friends. Hanging over his aesk is a large picture of the ex mayor's twin brother, the late Major General John H.

Gleason. Over the mantelpiece is also a large picture of the ex mayor's late wife and on the mantel a portrait of his daughter. The main office, to which Glea scn's constituents have free access, Is a large square room covered with linoleum. It contains several desks, tables and chairs. President Cleveland's picture hangs on the wall, and another picture is a group of thirty young men who were given a business education at the expense of Mr.

Gleason. In another part of the room hangs a hand painted testimonial of a handsome design, which was presented to the ex mayor by the teachers in the public schools. Another testimonial Is from the Hebrew society In the city, and there are various designs of the ex mayor's famous battle nv the foot of Baywater avenue. The original depth of the channel leading to Canarsie, answered to a depth of 4 feet at mean low water. During the last year two pile dike3 were built aud maintained, one on the north side of the cuter end of the channel, and the other on the south side, their lengths being 1,058 and S20 feet respectively.

The channel was dredged to a depth of feet, to a width of 125 feet from Canarsie landing to deep water in Jamaica bay. In addition to this several other Improvements not contemplated in the main project and which added materially to the facilities of navigation were completed, The excavation of a cut 250 feet long and 70 feet wide, with a depth of 6 feet on the east side of the steamboat landing. At Canarsie 1,300 feet lent and 60 feet wide, with a depth of 4 feet, extending through to the southwest to connect with the southwest channels, the latter for the purpose of permitting tidal circulation. The amount asked for to complete this work is $33,000, while congress will be asked to appropriate $2,000 for the coming year. The secretary of the navy has appointed Commander Chester and Civil Engineers Endicott and Wolcott a board to make an examination and report of the disputed points in regard to the construction of the timber dock at the Brooklyn navy yard.

A short time ago Contractor Walsh came to Washington and had a long talk with the secretary in regard to the payment for some work which he claims was not included in his contract, and Secretary Herbert decided to refer the matter to a board for settlement. The members of the board will convene at the Brooklyn yard on Monday, November 18. He was not particularly flushed with success, but it was his way, and it is just the same to day. Many an obstreperous follower of I Gleason found It out with others not included I in the Gleason camp, as Mayor Gleason's life. When he took charge of the Millstone church it the smallest in the district, but when ho 'lii it was one of the largest and strongest.

The Rev. John L. Zabriskie had two sons and two daughters. The oldest of these was Menhaden fishing is keen sense of public duty prompted nim to exercise any or all the functions of his appointees whenever he deemed it necessary This he frequently did, and woe be to the Johti Barrea, Lloyd Za'oris the father of the late Dr. John kie, who afterward settled in lone entirely by steamers nowadays, there be illustrate and emblazon their shields, and reveal the long line of ancestry, who have preceded Heraldry is a noble, useful and entertaining science.

Scarce any studies which ore considered so polite and ornamental, can lay a luster claim to the attention of gentlemen, for It enables rights anil prerogatives by llluptratinir facts. The jrov emn of this country itself has repeutedly evinreil the reffard for emblematic adornment, as honorary reward fur distinguished service! Kach state of this Union has its "Armorial Itearlng." with Its appropriute device and motto, while over the national epis the bird of liberty proudly unfurls tlie truth so fatal lo tyranny. Pluribus erst mm 1a 'III which symbol headed the Gleason ticket r.n the blanket ballot in the recent election. The tamous ana only original battle ax with cai'tain x. uBKNr'.

jng not a single one of the old time sailing gears engaged in the enterprise. The bulk of the fish were caught this year on the Jersey coast or in the waters of lower Long Island sound and Gardiner's bay. Of the large fleet of twenty five fishing steamers that have up to within four or five years sailed from Greenpcrt. there remain but ten at the present time, which shows a decided falling off in the industry. Thomas E.

Burns is the most successful Greenport captain, having caught during the season 6,700,000 fish, which were taken on board the steamer Mon tauk and landed at the factory of the Falcon Oil wcrks. The Falcon, Captain William Bartlett. caught a.800.000. The Vesta. Captain Charles Burns, caught 4,000,000.

The rest of the Greenport fleet catch was as follows: Steamer Ranger, Captain Edward Downs, 970.000; J. L. Lawrence. Captain Otis Payne, C. 500.

000; E. F. Price. Captain Fred Hallock, 4.OHO.000: Estelle. Elijah Tallman.

captain. 5, 600.000: Stirling. Captain Gabriel Edwards. The coat of arms with the flags has a field argent, a chevron, sable, three golden bezauts, between three trefoils, four flags and crest, a golden hind lodged on a green mound. The golden bezants were small Moorish coins and signalized the captain's father's services before Cadiz, where he had fought with the which Gleason chopped down the sheds of the Long Island railroad while mayor, hangs from the wall in the ante room to his sleeping apartment.

The ex mayor is very popular with the hoys and girls and women in his bailiwick, and during the past campaign they MmmmiM mm i mwrnrm NAVY YARD A BOARD OF INSrECTIOH TO EXAMINE THE TEXAS. Tho regular naval inspection board, of which Captain Picking is president, has been ordered to this station to examine the recent docking of the battleship Texns, which resulted in Dutch against Spain, the trefoils represented his exploits in Ireland with the Earl of Essex, for which he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth; the hind was trippant. as it ready to spring. like Sir Edward, to the service of the realm. The other shield and crest was found by Mrs.

Doremus on a brass tablet in a church at Stratford on Avon. The genealogists of the Underbill society have found records of conspicuous men of the name as far back a3 the time of Edward the 7.300.000; George Hudson. Captain James AVard. Nat Strong, Captain George uiq as mucn snouting ana canvassing for their champion as any of the ex mayor's lieutenants. In the past election Gleason claims, according to the returns, that he polled 2,550 votes, but the returns In the city clerk's office, on the strength of which City Clerk Murphy gave John P.

Madden the certificate of election, credit Gleason with ouly 2,534 votes and Madden with 2,608. A bitter contest will wage over the result in the courts, as Gleason claims his election by 34 plurality. Gleason has always been noted for his aggressive character. If he dislikes a person he never stands on ceremony about telling him so. On the evening of Sentember 7.

First, much of the information having THE Z.VBibflKli: IX" PATRICK J. GLEASON AT THE AGE OF 28. offlcebolder who dared to question the mayor's right. Leading up to Gleason's office from Flatbush. The cn: son was Abraham Jersey.

The Smith, 5.30O.OO0: Walter Adams, Captain rial lowav, 6.100,000; George F. Moorse, Captain Frank McComber, 6.200.000. This altogether makes a total of 70,526,000 menhaden, which when manufactured into guano and oil should produce at an average selling price about half a million dollars. The. crews receive an average of about $40 per month, while the captains have gone out on commission entirely for this season.

Captain Gabe Edwards, who commands the Stirling, really caught the most fish, while Burns leads all Greenport captains. From eighteen to twenty men constitute a full crew to each vessel and in years gone by the village of Greenpcrt received a large revenue from the quantities of supplies sold to the big fleet. In those days the factory owners who became eh.im eil.ir daughters wero Marie who ish minister, and Catherine the wife of II. vw alr Xl1 irijuries to hor bottom and trames. The board wiil also report upon the changes recommended in the interior of tno vessel by her commander.

Captain Henry Glass, and is expected to tegia work to morrow. In nccordnnco with this order, tho Texas did not como out of the dry dock yesterday and is not now expected to until the middle of next week. The long delayed trial of the Maine's torpedo boats was begun when Lieutenant Dillincham left the ynrd with one of the boats, bound for the trial course which has been prepared on the Hudson riTer. The navy varJ tug Mna and the receiving ship Vermont's launch accompanied the torpedo boat, ready to tow it bnek to the ynrd in ease of a This ie not a remarkable precaution, consider iogthe four or five break, downs ot the past trials. The boat will be put over a mile course.

The spd shs will be able to dvlop is a matter of fjrent speculation. It is conceded, however, that she will not make tbe required beven teen knots. The distntch boat Dolphin loft the yard married a Dan who became New Yorker. iauithter of i'ea Th ir mother vs Ha John Harrea Sa: the street there still remains to day the telltale flight of stairs, in a good state of preservation, which have borne the weight of many a well known politician, who went down them unceremoniously for impertinence to the boss and persistency in trying to get him to run the city government according to their respective ideas. Gleason glories in having been born in Ireland's fighting county.

Tipperary. He came to America in 1861 and no one to see him today would believe that he was the smallest re and cut: bringuig a cargo of lumber Albany is beoming toj great lo leavs a nitrgin of pivflt for the captains and owners of sailing vessels, and as tha old fashioned sloops are w'lvoked or becme to) old and rotten for the business, no new ones are being built to take their places. The old captains, too, arc losing interest in boating, and xtq one by one making their last voyage. Young men do not. seeir.

take kindly to the exposure and hardship of running the primitive sloops, preferring the oyster business or sum trade on shore. It is evident that the lumbering but picturesque coasting sloop and s.rhooner are fast passing a.iy. 1S90, while he was the chief executive of his bailiwick, he entered Tony Miller's Hunter's Point hotel, where he became Involved in an argument with George R. Crowley, a newspaper reporter. Crowley got decidedly the worst of the argument and when the grand 1ury looked Crowley over that body promptly indicted Gleason for assault and the mayor was tried before Justice Cul len and sentenced to five days' imprisonment in the Queens county jail and to pay a fine of Gleason occupied the large and commodious cell formerly occupied by ex Mayor Henry S.

De Bevoise. whom Gleason was instrumental in sending to jail for misap Montagnie, a he minds i virtue that into r'iH iplea in v. oniar. of n.ut charaet' r. iter ebildrei: i hav.

Johr Barrel Zn bush. N. parcntr to 1 1 l'. yt been found in tne British museum, witn the help of the American Underhills traveling iu England, and Mr. John Underhill of Birmingham.

England, in correspondence with Mrs. Edward Underhill. of Yonkcrs, Y. The first of these seems to have lived in the sixteenth, century. "Hdwp.rd Underhill.

gentleman." a favorite of Queen Mary, who died in 1546. and whose marble monument and coat of arms are still to be seen in Eatington church. Then Jobn Underhill. D. the great bishop of Oxford and chaplain to Queen Elizabeth, the account of whose patronage of the.

eminent diviue reads like a chapter from Mis? Strickland's "Lives of the Queens of and next William Underbill of Stratford on Avon, who sold New Place to Shakspeare: Edward, commonly called the HotRospeller: Sir Edward, his son. knighted by Uuoen Elizabeth, and a friend of the second Earlof Essex and of the Earl of Leicester, end Captain John. Sir Edward's son, the Puritan tsnd governor of Dover, exile and Indian fighter, whose story John G. Whittier has told in verse. This is the John Underhill whose memory it Is proposed to honor with a monument on his old fcrm at Matinnecock.

where he finally settled and died in 1672 in the peaceful arms of the Society of Friends. He came to this did not buy their stores wboesale as they do at ree was ijorr at tne present time. school at thj'. viliaif. v.

in ii trie rcrnov attended here be a h'l 1 he ri i by bis tV class class There is no doubt that the near future will a family of eight Doys. ine Doys leit meir find the menhaden fishing industry a thing of home 1,5 Ireland one by one to take part in the past, although some of Greenoort's the war of lne rebellion until Patrick and wealthiest residents realized their fortunes his twin brother, who died ten years ago. from that source. were left at home alone. One day late In the English ran yesterday for a cruise between this port and propriating tne funds of the city.

While in structi nrlsnn Gleason coi.diicted the nffotro of thn I the capes sf Virginia. She wl'l be on the loot lo he municipality from his cell, and when not busy tioi airjCK siguiucu uia ut aai; il ciuifiimu to America and enlist A FOR Island has played an Important in the Marlborough Vanderbilt wedding, happy pair were married by Illshon part The ittle lec iii in 1 th. A. Lot of Fin tbu.sh. aftt rivard of rhi.

of appeals 'V class mate. After studied medicine with a country practiti tner jr i'e. and attended two of li.turc. at th. Ciiieev of Ph fl'ifl i riis io X'pw it 1: cirv out lor uvniiUK nrvibs nuu uw ut.u quwuii tored will be blown up with dynamits.

The Dolphin will erulae all winter, putting into this station when in nesd of coal or The training ship Alliance will leave the yard on Wednesday for Newport. A larfio "drsrt of sailors was sent yesterday from tho Vermont to tho Leauo Island yard at I'liiladolphio. They will form part of the crew of the battioliip Indiana. Tho Vermont is onlistmg a large number of apprentice boys. with messengers from the city departments he stood on a chair in his cell, and by tho aid of a field glass which he thrust out of the window between the prison bars he superintended tbe relaying of the rails by laborers along tho line of his Calvary cemetery railroad.

During his incarceration he had many callers, among them, the school children, who visited him daily with flowers and fruit. Gleason's friends tendered him a reception when ho was liberated. john and are now enjoying the honeymoon at Mr. beautiful country seat, at Oakilale. Suffolk county.

A more delightful r. tn at for lovers could not be found and it QUAIL NOT PLENTIFUL. Mr. A. A.

Fraiser complains that he finds quail very scarce this fall, and is very indignant at the city papers for saying that they are plenty hereabouts. The Herald stated that William Rhodes, the well known one armed gunner, got sixteen birds on November 1. Bill says he tramped all day and didn't see a quail. Suffolk Couaty News. "On what side arc you going to fight?" asked the twin brother.

"I'll stand by the Stars and Stripes," replied Patrick. "Well. I'll Join the other side," said the brother, and both started for America. The boys separated in New York and the ex mayor did not see his brother again until after the war. The greeting was affectionate.

The brother had fousht under General country in 1630. with Governor Winthrop, and Atter beiut; llcen. e.l to practice In the state i is generally admitted that the yotitit: people of New Jersey, he afended another course I mrrried for love as yyell as for monvy and of medical lecturjat the University of Peun rank. Jamaica StaCdard. wan at once appointed to drill tne Massachusetts militia.

In this capacity he organized and was the first captaiu of the famous.