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THE BBOOKXYN" DAILY EAGKLEiv KEWY0RK, SUNDAY, JAKUAKY 29, 1899. 1 4 MISCEILAUEOTTS. BOUGHT THE JUDGE'S LOT, tion each one in the service, not forgetting the commanding officer of the little crew of five who manned the Merrimac; not forgetting, but pausing a moment in honor of the marvelously few men who carried their patriotism to death. We wondered at the battle TRIBUTES TO SAMPSON AT THE MONTAUK CLUB. BROOKLYN BOYS Annual Y.

Mi C. A. Debate Decided in Favor of the Central Branch. The hall of the Young Men's Christian Association Central Branch on Fulton street was crowded last night with friends of the mater, corresponding increase In that alma mater's influence and power. "I have alluded only casually to the Board of Education of the past.

The Board of Education of the preseat is a subject with which the toast that I have been cailed upon to response to to night is email in romparlson. There certainly is nothing small about the Board of Education. Its ideas are ot the largest order. Our distinguished Governor, who is your guest to night, had occasion, in an Interview with the pree3 the other day, to characterize his situation Iji relation to the lower branch of the State Legislature. The substance of that characterization was that one class of that body included 149 members and the other included one member, wHo was mentioned.

"My view of the Board of Education with reference to the other interests of this greater city is something akia to the Governor's view of the Assembly. There are the Charities, Health and Park Departments, the Board of Public Improvements and the Municipal Assembly, on the one side, with the counterbalance of the Board of Education on the other. "I do not wish you, gentlemen, to fall into error regarding my views oo the matter cf education, because I may seem to speak lightly of such a serious topic as the Board of Education. I believe that no amount of money, however large, can be so wisely spent by a municipality as that money which, in its disbursement, genuinely heips to the education of the youth of the city. As to meth The only Salesrooms Greater New York foe THE CELEBRATED SOHMER PIANOS ABE TfOW 10CATEI iff THE SEW SO BUILDING Fifth cor.

22c for. THE SOHMER" HEADS THE LIST Of THE HIGHEST GRADE PIANOS. JUBILEE DINNER JF THE CiTY COLLEGE, Alumni Meet in Large Numbers to Celebrate a Half Century of Continued Prosperity. WHAT THE STATE HAS DONE. Addresses by Sr.

St. Clair McKelway and Controller Coler on Topics of Interest. practitioners of these professions. The degree ot knowledge required does not Itself involve a college education. Such an education is an excellent aid to professional equipment.

It Is not a necessary part of it. I am not pleading for or against any standard. I am only pointing out to college men and to non college men that the state standard is one thing and the standard required by the professional schools annexed to college foundations is another. The effort to fasten the standards of such schools on tho state will be resisted. It ought to be, unless certain changes be made.

The age at which men can become bread winners in the professions, or out of them, is a matter of public policy. A man should be able to be a bread winner in an honorable profession at. 23 or 25. Suppose a lad gets through a high school at 17. If he then gets through a college at 21 and through a professional school at 25 he will have to use up from three to five years more in getting a practice.

That will put him at 2S or at 30 before he ceases to be a charge on someone else and becomes a charge on himself. If In law or medicine he would supplement his schooling here with school or hospital experience, at home or abroad, two years more would be added to his period of preparatory and unproductive activity. If anyone thinks that the great mass of American youth can be subjected to that protracted process, he is an errorist, whom it were kind to call a crank. It will be impossfible and it should be. I know that the question of degrees in some of the professions has been brought in to complicate matters.

But a man can be a lawyer without being an LL.B., and there are not a few LL.B.s who are members of the bar, rather than lawyers a distinction that should be borne in mind. If the professional schools annexed to college! foundations insist on courses and policies which will, bring men to the threshold of middle age before they can establish themselves In professional practice, the professional schools not annexed to college foundations will obtain one class of students, the children of those In humble circumstances, or persons who support themselves, while studying, by their own labor, and the schools annexed to college foundations will obtain pupils from homes of ease and will carry them on their way. There will thus be one state standard met by one set of professional schools and a I Of Manila. It seemed, that chance must have ruled to produce such a result. When the same kind of a victory, as wonder ul, as cheap, as complete, and as decisive, was brought about by Sampson, then we know that chance was the least element in it all and that readiness and foresight had united with courage and skill.

At the' risk of being thought extravagant, I want to say one superlative thing, yet a thing well within the bounds of cold, exact truth there is no other navy in the world to day which has a record for this same readiness and foresight, courage and skill, and a record of uninterrupted and surprising victories, equal" to the record which the American Navy has created in the past one hundred and twenty three years. There Is no other people who may so fittingly eulogize lis naval heroes, who may so rightfully exult, rejoice and be proud of Its battleships and of the men behind their guns, in their conning towers and fighting "tops, in their engine rooms, and of the men who do fte hard and killing drudgery, of which fatne takes no note, deep in the Iron bellies of the ships." CHEROKEE AGREEMENT. It Has Been Sent to the Senate Bace Issues in School Question Disposed Of. Washington, D. January 28 The agreement concluded at Muskogee, Indian Territory, on January 14 betweeen the Dawes Commission and a commission from the Cherokee Indian Nation providing for allotmens of land and other questions and general introduction of the Indians Into United States citizenship, has been sent to the Senate.

Agreements with three of the tribes already have been put into effect, the Seml noles, Choctaws and Chlckasaws. The Cherokee agreement makes the fourth submitted for ratification and the only one of the five nations now remaining to tTeat with the commission is the Creek, with which negotiations have been resumed. The Creeks commission once concluded an agreement, but the people rejected it some weeks ago by a majority of 152 votes. Their chief objection, It is said, was to the provision for selling publicly the proceeds to go to the Indians of all stir plus lands over the one sixty acres allotted to each Indian. The Indians want all the lands allotted and none sold and this point is likely to be conceded, in which case the negotiations with all the famous five Indian nations probably will be speedily and gratl fyingly completed.

One clause in the Cher.okee agreement which has escaped general notice disposes of race issues in the school question. It provides that money for school purposes within the Cherokee limits is to go for the education of children belonging to all classes of citizens residing in the Cherokee Nation, but separate schools are required for colored children, to be "maintained with equal advantages as those provided for children of other classes." 'This puts tho Indians and whites together in the Cherokee schools, but requires the colored children, of whom there are a fairly large number, to be placed in separate educational institutions. PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS. President Sends a Batch of Appointments to the Senate. Washington, D.

January 28 The President to day sent these nominations to the Senate: Treasury George B. Whitaker, Collector of Customs, District of Burlington, N. J. Justice William C. Hook, United States District Judge, District of Kansas; Marcus C.

M'Lemore, United States Attorney for the eastern district of Texas. State James H. Worman of New York, now commercial agent of Cognac, to be consul at Munich, Bavaria; William T. Fee of Ohio, now consul at Cien fuegos, to be consul at Bombay, India. CAPTAIN GORMAN'S HOAX.

No Truth in His Story That Canal Boat Austin Was Lost With Five Lives. South Norwalk, January 28 Captain Thomas Gorman, who yesterday gave out the alleged details of the sinking of the steam canal boat, J. C. Austin, in the Sound off Wilson's Point, with the loss of five lives, has disappeared. Gorman was the master of the Austin's consort, the Daniel B.

Flske. Yesterday afternoon he came to the city from Wilson's Point and with great detail rehearsed the harrowing loss of the Austin. To day George Gilson of New York, agent for the owners of the Austin and Fiske, came up here to arrange, if possible, for the raising of the sunken craft. He found the two vessels with ill on board, safely moored to the dock at Wilson's Foint, where they had come early yesterday morning. The agent's investigation fixed the responsibility for the false story on Gorman, who admitted that he had told the story.

He gave no explanation of his action in perpetrating the hoax. MAY DEFEAT NAVY BILL. Washington, D. C. January 28 The introduction of an amendment to the naval personnel bill in' the Senate committee on naval affairs, permitting the direct appointment in the Navy of civilians, has united all branches of the service in opposition, and it "is asserted at the Navy Department to day that if the amendment is persisted in the whole bill will bo lost.

The main argument is that the appointment of a number of civilians now would create just such a as resulted from the appointments made during the Civil War, which caused the stagnation from which the service is still suffering. PASSED IMMENSE ICEBERGS. St. Johns, N. January 28 The British steamer Ulunda reports immense icebergs two hundred miles southeast of St.

Johns, directly In the track of Atlantic shipping, and forming 4 serious danger to passing steamers. Reports from along the coast indicate that the Arctic ice floe is traveling south rapidly, and a blockade of the eastern front of the island is impending. GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER. Troy, N. January 28 Robert Balfour was to day found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree.

The jury had been out nearly twenty hours. Balfour was indicted for murder in the first degree in having caused the death of Henry White at Valley Falls October 15, 1898. But as It Was Acquired at a Tax Sal, the Lawyer Returned It for $1.15. City Magistrate J. Lott Nostrand of the Coney Island police court, who is the most waUhy judge on the bench, a' few days ago lost a plot of land at Bensonhurst valued at about $1 000 for the paltry sum of $1.15.

The Judge imagined he owned it right along and that the title to. the property reste by a deed Undisputed to' himself. But there was a change of when yesterday Lawyer George Petit of. street called at, the court andquietiy informed him' that he: was the, o.wpei of the property in The Judge, thought Mr. Petit was simply joking or that he had been suddenly afflicteia "with a delusion.

But when he saw thaj Petit was in earnest he thought it time to explain. "Why, nonsense," said the Judge. "My brother and myself own a big slice of that Bensonhurst property. We have our deeds and a guaranteed title. How do you claim that you own It?" Mr.

Petit saw he had an opportunity for a little fun, and added: "Why, it Isn't worth anything, is It?" "Well, 1 refused $800 for it not two weeks ago. I consider it worth $1,000," said the Judge, becoming vexed. "That's impossible," said Mr. Petit, "for I bought It for the petty amount of just $L15." "What?" exclaimed the Judge, how fully convinced that Mr. Petit was a fit subject for a lunatic asylum.

The Judge was getting so excited that Mr. Petit would not "carry the joke anjr "further, and hastened to explain that he had purchased the property at a state tax sale a few days ago for $1.15 for arrears of taxes. Then Judge Jfostrand breathed easier, and taking his pen, drew check for the tax fee and the usual redemption fee, and Mr. Petit and tha Judge went forth to celebrate. The property will be re deeded to him by Mr.

Petit. The state does not notify property owners of arrears of taxes save by publication, and Judge Nostrand did not see that his plot had beea offered for sale for the paltry tax of $1.15. NEW ENGLAND FISHERIES. Interesting Figures Showing the Value of the Industry at Boston and Gloucester. A sheet of statistics issued by the' Unit4 States Fish Commission gives some interesting figures concerning the fisheries industry ln the vicinity of Boston.

During, the year 1898 fresh cod to the value of $317,079, of 14,882,500 pounds, was landed at Boston. At Gloucester, fresh cod to the value of $279,872 was landed during the year. Other, kinds of fish landed at the two places during the year were as follows: Boston Cusk', $24, 141; haddock, hake, pollock. halibut, fresh, halibut, salted, mackerel, fresh, mackerel, salted, other fish, other fish, salted, $6,805. Total value, fresh, total value salted, $34,340.

Gloucester Cusk, haddock, hake, pollock, halibut, fresh, $449, 264; halibut, ealted, mackerel, fresh, mackerel, salted, other fish, fresh, other fish, salted, $64,426. Total value fresh, total value salted, $891,992. FAVORS FORD'S AMENDMENT. A Correspondent Who Makes Light of Home Rule in Brooklyn. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: It will be a great boon to those whose children attend the public schools and who are compelled to accept incompetent' teachers, and submit to be taxed to pay them salaries, if Senator Ford's amendments to the school laws are adopted.

There are those, however, who oppose these amendmen'te, on the ground fh at t'hey would destroy home rule in Brooklyn. Will these gentlemen kindly teU what their so called home rule has done to improve rne xeading force of the school. Superintendent Maxwell, in his annual reports, alludes.to this subject and has made charges of a most serious nature against the Board of Education, which that body has never denied. Perhaps Senator Ford has read those' reports, the charges they contained, arid also noted the cowardice of the TDoard 'that dared: not resen't them. East New York has had a surfeit of the Board of Education's peculiar Tiome rule designed to 'bring the schools and! homes closer.

When the Town of New Lota became the Twenty six'th Ward, its schools had a number of 'teachers, many of whom, by reason of their ignorance, were better fitted! for scrubbers or desk dleaners. They were 'taken from factories and such places to receive appoin tment as teachers to the exclueioni of competent applicants that had no pull. All this was done, of course, to bring the schools closer to the homes. After annexation! these teachers were retained by the Board of Education and permitted to teach in primary grades, on conditional certificates wlicfo wer extended from year to year, until they obtained a regular certificate. By this act th hoard not only accepted a legacy of incompetent teachers, bu't also adopted the go aa yo please tactics of the gang of unscrupulous politicians that appointed them.

Then, Withi a desire, no doubt, to boom home mle and bring the schodls closer to the homes, Public) School No. 62 was reduced to a primary school and placed In charge cf a teacher who had 'but four years' teaching experience ia the lowest primary grades of Schools Noa. 56 and 57, although tfie rules of the board at the time called for eight years' teaching experience on the part of a first grammar grade teacher before she could 'be appointed a branch, principal. After this indefensible transaction, another move was made "by the Board of Education to bring the schools and hotries of East New York closer. One of the New Lots teachers, whose name appears on page 213 of Superintendent Maxwell's report for 1896 as teaching on a conditional certificate, extended, also, shows up on page 72 of the same report as the "branch principal of Public School No.

66. The Board of Education should be) Lexowed, and aa it has never been investigated, its members should, if they have nothing to fear, demand one, In order to show, If they can, 'that they never appointed Incom peten't teachers or broke their own rules to unjustly promote incompetents or lowered th grades of schools to make places for them, of wasted $30,000 per annum of the people' money, intrusted with them to educate children, upon unnecessary heads of departments. In the meantime Senator Ford should go ahead and pass his amendments and pay no attention to the sniveling about home rula on the part of the Keelys, who have thus far made their own private gratification the sole criterion of right and wrong in all ma'aers pertaining to' management of cue public schocils. c. Brooklyn, January 26, 1899.

BOTH MEN ARE WORTHY. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Seldom have rivals been favored with the degree? of praise which the Eagle accords both the candidates for the presidency or tha borough Board of Education. Mr. Robertson possesses zeal, earnestness and courage) while His couTse has been marked by faithful endeavor and a stanch advocacy of th principles of right conduct. But he is a young man! Is It then a crime to be a young; man? Mr.

Robertson's course in the service of the board reveals no youthful errors. Although a young man he is ever ready to be guided by those prudent, sagacious and honorable men who largely direct the policies of our board, and it is safe to infer that only such men can influence his decisions aa president. But, ohe candidate may be exalted without debasing the other. Th present incumbent is also temporary president of the central board. Brooklyn needs him there permanently, Our city is nofc straitened in her resources.

She can furnish a president for the local board and ona for the central board. Mr. Swanstrom's legal acumen, forensic skill and legislative experiences will greatly subserve the inter ests of Brooklyn across the river and defeat the wiles of the wicked, everywhere. Tha local board should honor the praiseworthy ambitions of the younger man by making Mr. Robertson president and thus give hhA an opportunity to grow older ln its wsil dV rected service.

DOOTOsfc Brooklyn, January 28, 1893. 3 members of the association, who came to listen to the arguments on the question of the retention of the 'Philippine which was the subject of the annual debate between the Central Branch and the Twenty third Street Branch, Manhattan. Justice Edgar M. Cullen decided the debate in favor of the negative side, held by the Central Branch, and spoke at length on the question himself. The arguments were well given convincing and the boys of the Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association feel justly proufl.

The speakers on the negative side were Max Corinsky, Herbert S. Barnes and J. C. Klink, and those representing the Manhattan branch were Myles Walsh, W. G.

Gary and Francis M. Applegate. The rest of the programme was made up of piano solo by W. R. Haines and recitations by W.

C. Frampton and Charles A. Wilkinson. CASE AGAINST MACNAUGHTANS. Prosecution Closes a'nd Tames to Testify To morrow.

At the cross examination of James W. Clausen, cashier or the Tradesmen's Bank IB 1897, which, It is claimed, the Machaugh tans tried to wreck, continued yesterday, afternoon by General B. F. Tracy, for the Macnaughtans, witness admitted that he was selected as a medium for the transfer Ot property of the Wool Warehouse Company to the Wool Exchange Company. General Tracy handed witness a note for $500,000.

It had been signed by Allan Macnaughtan, but the signature had been torn off. Witness said the body of the note was in his handwriting and it was given to him by Allan Macnaughtan when the check was certified. Witness held it till he got the $500,000 check. In exchange, witness said, he gave his check for a like amount and It was put to Macnaughtan's credit ia the Tradesmen's Bank. William H.

Tandy of Nyack, paying teller of the Tradesmen's National Bank, testified that he certified the $510,000 check at 11 o'clock, February 10, 1897, and gave it to Allan Macnaughtan. He did not look to see about the amount of Macnaughtan's credit; Cashier Clausen had asked witness to certify It. President Macnaughtan, witness said, he did not see that morning at the bank. Bookkeeper R. F.

Nevlns ol the same bank testified that he entered credits of $10,000 and $500,000 to Allan Macnaughtan's account about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The prosecution rested. General Tracy said that Allan Macnaughtan would probably in a week be well enough to be examined. James Macnaughtan will probably be examined for the defense to morrow. BANK NOT TO COLLECT TAX.

General Brooke Will Institute a New System of Revenue Collection in Cuba. Havana, January 28 The Spanish Bank will not collect any more taxes in Cuba. Major General Brooke, Governor General of "the island, received information last night from Washington that the bank's collection was left to his discretion. The bank is still under the orders of January 7, suspending its contract to collect taxes and orders rescinding the contract will be Issued. General Brooks Is engaged in a careful examination of the back taxes and will use his discretion in the matter of their remission.

While there is no information forthcoming as to what he will do in the matter, there is no doubt the General will remit all taxes prior to December 31 last. The matter ot the assessments of real estate for taxes during the, year 1899 is being most carefully considered. The Spanish assessments aie not liable, and properties to day are in some cases worth less than formerly. There are indications that' new assessments will be made this year. Taxes will be collected through provincial bureaus, which are to be established, under the Cuban Treasury Such bureaus can be established within ten days and will be in no way offensive to the people.

The rations for the Cubans in the hands of the military authorities are only sufficient to last ten days more. Large requisitions were made yesterday for a further supply, including condensed milk and canned soups for the sick, as well as an increased allowance of rice. The military authorities are wisely forestalling the possible future necessity for press censorship by giving words of good advice to the newspapers here. About 450 Cubans are awaiting repatriation at Key West. General Brooke is convinced that work is awaiting them here and that he will be granted permission to bring them here.

Major General Leonard Wood will proceed to Santiago de Cuba, his headquarters, at the first opportunity next week. General Brooke last night attended a ball in honor of Emperor William's birthday, at the residence of the German Consul, Dr. Falcke. FATHERS AND SONS. How the Second Generation Is Affected "by Standards of the First.

To the dean of a large college, who has mizst to do wUifch studen'ts and their parents in all academic sorrows, it soon becomes clear that paTents aire accountable for more undergraduaJbe shortcomings Uhan they or their sons suspect and this aifber liberal Allowance for faults iin the college and its officers. "I have spent an hour tic day with Jones' father," said a college president in a formMable "oas of dlisdifpliine." "I have conceived a better opinion of the son aifter meeting the father" and the experience is repeated year by year. Five minutes, or two miinutes, with a father or a morther may reveal the dhlef secret of a young man's failure or misconduct and may' fill the heart of an admftoistrative officer with infinite compassion. "You say he gambles," says a kud, swaggering father. "Well, what of it? Gentlemen ailways play cards." "I told my boy," says a father ot a different sHaimp, "that I did not myself believe Ln (what is oomarmonly called 'vice'); tot that if went into that sort? of 'thing, he must not go off with 'the crowd, but must do it qu'ietly ln a gentlemanly way." Hereditary aand home influence less palpable but quite as pervasive and nearly as is that of the trivially biographic mother, who, while a dozen, men are waiittng at the dean's office dow, assures the dean that the son, now on trial for his academic life, "was a lovely baby," amd who, so to speaik, grows up wHth him then and there, tracking him step by step, wlUh frequent countermarches, to his present staticn; or of the father who is tickled bv the reminiiscences of his own youth that are evoked when his son is oaught stealing a poor shopkeeper sign; or oi cne father wiho suggests that tlhe college should employ at his expense a detective against his con; or of the father who at a crucial moment in the te of a wayward sen goes to Eoirope for pleasure (though, to do Mm justice, he has teen of little use at hiame); or of the father who argues that ibis son's love of drink cannot be hereditary, since he himself straightened out 'before his son was born A'tlantic Montlhily.

HIS IDEA. Cartigan And, Mike, wat is dls game called goluf? Hartigan Sure, it's me belafe that It is shinny wid a college eddlcation. Town Topics. A JffeTv York city Almanac. There are several stood newspaper almanacs but the Eaele Almanac Is the only one which bos been prepared with special refer.oe to New l'ork City and Lone Island.

Carpets Cleaned By improved proeees by the Eagle "Warehouse and Storage foot ot Fulton at Telephone 1M, Brooklyn. Adv. Continued From Page 1. made the glasses ring. Every man the tables Jumped to his feet when the chorus came and howled, rather than sang it.

It all ended with so much cheering that the bo'sun and the ship's hell and President Moore all had to act together to bring silence. President Moore then arose to aonounce as the second guest of importance a man who came 250 miles from Washington for the dinner and who would have to go 250 back again. He said he did not come to havo a free lunch, hut to do homage to the man he had selected and stuck by for a most responsible position and for the Montauk Club. He spoke of him as a New Eagland man and declared that New England men might be counted upon at any time to do what was right. He declared that had he not been a New England man he might possibly have fallen a victim to the terrible pressure which was brought to bear to make him select another man.

He ended by saying that the wisdom of his choice was sustained by the result. When he finally mentioned John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy there were more enthusiastic cheers and one man frantically rose to his feet and shouted, "Thank God for this!" Address of Secretary Longr. Secretary Long responded instantly, "I do!" (Laughter.) From that moment till the serious part of his speech Secretary Logn kept the diners in a perfect uproar of merriment. He said: "There is nothing I admire so much as modesty.

Your presiding officer has spoken of certain advantages I had as Secretary of the Navy from the fact that I came from the East. (A voice, 'All wise men come from the East. Applause and laughter.) "Most wise men come from Massachusetts, Mr. Moore says, and he described the state as the mother of great men. Mr.

Charles A. Moore was born in Lynn, Mass." (Uproars of laughter and applause.) Picking up a six pound wooden shell the Secretary said that he could easily explain why it was that America lost no men to speak of and Spain lost so many. He said that Charles A. Moore came on these shells, whlcn he recognized as the same and tried to sell them to the department. (Laughter.) He refused to buy the mfor the American Navy and Mr.

Moore finally succeeded in selling them to Spain at a great profit. (Tumult of laughter.) The Secretary continued in this manner, provoking laughter at every sentence. "Just before the beginning of the war Admiral Sicard of the North Atlantic squadron was taken ill. Sampson was next in command. He had been with the squadTon for a year in ail the evolutions and practices.

He had been head of the Bureau of Ordnance. By his quality at that time and also by his professional qualifications for the command of that fleet I recognized in "him the proper man and had no hesitation in assuming the responsibility of putting him at the head of that fleet. "I claim the result has justified my choice. As Mr. Moore has said, he conducted that campaign not only without a blot thank God, that was to be expected of any man in the Navy but without a mistake.

You must understand that he was hampered somewhat by the superintendence of the department. When the command was sent to Dewey in Manila harbor (applause and cheeers) it was to capture it and destrov the enemy's ships, and he did it. When Sampson was sent out there were no ships of the enemy to attack. He confronted an unknown force of battleships, equal to our own, upon the Spanish shore. His orders were to blockade Cuba.

His request to be permitted to bombard Havana was denied. Undoubtedly he could have accomplished what he desired to undertake. "The Oregon had not appeared and the Maine had been blown up. The loss of a single ship might have meant a difference in numbers that would have been disastrous. Anybody who has studied the battle off Santiago will know that It began on the first day of June, more than thirty: days previous to the actual conflict." Here Secretary Long described the complications that met Sampson off Santiago, the difficulties of coaling in a choppy sea, the close watch that had to be kept for an emergency and day and all the difficulties which the Secretary declared were conquered.

"When the smoke of the outcoming Spanish fleet was first discovered every ship moved into Its place like clockwork in obedience to the arrangements that had been made and the victory was won. It is of no more consequence that at that moment Admiral Sampson was six miles away than it was that Grant was many miles away at Missionary Ridge when the great battle of Chattanooga was won." The diners here rose to their feet, waved their napkins round their heads and cheered until they became hoarse. Secretary Long made a motion to sit down and fraatlc shouts of "Go on! Go on!" greeted him. "I simply want to add," the Secretary continued, "that I do not want to do Admiral Sampson the injustice of praising him too much. I know and he knows that the work could not have been accomplished had he not had with him men of the same type and character as himself.

(Applause.) Had these men been hard pressed they would have been able to have planned as he planned. "They carried out his orders in an admirable maimer and with an intelligence which won the battle at Santiago, and do not forget, gentlemen, the blue jackets, the boys of whom Bob Evans said, 'Gentle as women when the battle was over, they were as ijrave as lions while the battle The enthusiasm which greeted the close of Secretary Long's address was unprecedented, President Moore said, in the historjt of the club. Speech of Borough. President Grout. Borough President Grout spoke as follows: "With the record of two parts of our government in the past year's war reasonable and fair minded Americans can find no fault; for there are two who have shown wisdom and bravery beyond what mankind is accustomed to expect of men.

These two who have been brave and wise so far beyond the ordinary measure are the President of the United States and the Navy. We do not exclude Congress and the Army from adequate praise, though we may think that the Army should unite with the sinner in the prayer book in confessing that, in seme respects, it has "left undone those things which it ought to have done," and that in both Congress and the Army there has been a deal too much talking. Unfortunately the law of court martial does not apply to the members of both bodies. If it did, the quick cessation of charges and of counter charges which that law is now producing in the military body might in the Senate result in an equally speedy confirmation of the treaty of peace; and, with Spain eliminated, leave us free to apply to the people of the Philippines not only the lessons of peace but of freedom and, when time is ripe for it, of fitting self government, with the same disinterestedness and love of mankind and of human rights which the nation is sacredly pledged to follow with Cuba. I think that there is no question of expansion or of non expansion here.

The United States have always believed in and have always practiced expansion wherever it was possible to expand into territory which could grow into genuine American states. If Cuba and Porto Rico shall some day produce a real American or a real Americanized citizenship, which, of its own consent, would become part of us, then the shades of the fathers who, by purchase or by conquest, brought In Florida, Louisiana, the Great Northwest Texas and the Far West and California, wili not rise to prevent. Nor is there any question here of imperialism or of anti imperialism, for we are Americans and the Philippines have become an American question and the Americans are not and cannot become imperialists without ceasing to be Americans; they cannot deliberately plan to create in the Philippines a colonial empire like that of India. "It was the Navy which brought us this responsibility on the heels of this triumph in the far East, just as was the Navy at Santiago which gave the Fourft or July a new meaning of triumph and of independence. We may forgive the Navy for importing into our politics the new questions of the far East since it Is the Navy which in the past has settled our issues with English, French and Moors, and now with, tne Spaniards.

The Navv has but one fault and many virtues, it i's always ready, It shoots well, its medical and commissary departments do not fail, and from the day of Paul Jones it has almost without exception won every battle. The few exceptions had always the glory of gallant resistance to an overwhelming force. But the Navy has this one fault that it produces an over supply of deservedly popular heroes. We meet to honor Sampson, and no one more deserves it, yet we cannot refrain from speaking of Dewey also; of Schle3', of Watson, of tho captains of the Oregon, the Texaj, the New York, the Brooklyn. We ought to men ods wo may differ, but as to the value of this result there can be but one opinion, nut I fear I may be drifting from my subject and I wiil close by calling your attention to one idea relative to our Greater New York which has bean growing upon me of late.

I believe that we as a nation are on the eve of an era of prosperity which we are far from realizing now in its entirety. That prosperity will come as surely "as the dawn follows the night. "It is, therefore, our duty, gentlemen, as citizens or the Greater New York and sons of this great Empire State, to bestir ourselves and obtain our fair share of this prosperity. It is your duty. Governor Roosevelt, to di rect the affairs of the state to tnls end; it Is our duty, as citizens of Greater New York, to aid you.

And if this is done and we work shoulder to shoulder, New York City will become not only the financial center, but the greatest port of entry In tne world. Dr. St. Clair' McKelway, who was greeted with applause, spoke as follows: Dr. McKelway Speaks on Professional Education.

My friends My subject is "The State's Policy Toward Professional Education." Really, the state has none. But one has been made for the state and accepted by the state. A canal policy, the stace has. made It at the polls and put it into the constitution. So it did with the merit system.

So it did with other matters. But the learned professions have made their own policies. Afterward they got the state to enact them. Still, the people at large actively and actually had iittie to do with them. They were not much concerned with them at the first.

They have become interested in them since. Distinguish the policy of the state toward general education from its policy toward professional education. The common school system of the state, and the State Board, of Regents, long existed together before the state had a policy toward professional education. The common school system carried pupiis to the threshold of what is called the higher education. Then the Board of Regents had provisional charge of the institutions where that higher education was obtained.

But both systems together were at most or at best only fitting instrumentalities for professional education. The state's policy toward the latter made for it by the professions themselves is a different thing from the state's general policy toward education, lower or higher. Roughly speaking.law, medicine.accountant ship. pharmacy, dentistry and veterinary medicine and surgery are affected by a relation to enactments. All of them are units, except which is found to be divided into three schools.

There are no two ways of studying the other professions. There are three schools of study in medicine. The state impartially recognizes all throe. Now. every one of these professions requires a certain amount of preliminary knowledge from intending students of it.

It may be a little less or a little more, in the case of some than in that of others. The degree is immaterial. The fact is the thing. The degree of subsequent requirement of knowledge is not immaterial. We shall see that hereafter.

But, at the outset, people will generally admit that men who propose to be lawyers, physicians, dentists, pharmacists, accountants, or the like, should have a certain degree of general knowledge. That should be the foundation for the superstructure of thoir professional life. This carries more in it than might be at first seen. If the requirement is right, the state should make certain that it is possessed. That justifies the state in prescribing it and in ascertaining it.

That further justifies the state in providing means to acquire it. The state should certainly feel obliged to do so. That fact enabled the state to make use of the common school system and of the board of regents as means for ascertaining and certifying that these requirements of Intending students of the professions have been met. What was in hand was thus used for what was needed. The development, within the professions of a demand for a minimum educational requirement of intending students nas strengthened the place of the high schools in our edu caticoal system.

Graduation from these schools qualifies intending students of the professions to begin their professional studies. High schools thus become not only the sum mi't cf the common school system, but the threshold of the system of professional education. Before that, tlie high schools "had been' the vestibule on the threshold of general college education. But, by making graduation from them suffice for entrance into professional study, another reason was given for the maintenance of the high schools in our public educational life. As ttie moral right to spend public money for more than general elementary education has been challenged, the additional defense or justification which the state's policy toward professional education has given to the high schools is or marked value.

I care not to quarrel with whether too much or too little preliminary education is required of intending professional students. Some sftould be required, as all admit. Not too much is likely to be required in a state ultimately governed by public opinion. But tlie question of whether too subsequent education in professional schools themselves may no: be required Is an open and an important one. The state will be unlikely to interfere, even with the extreme requirements of aay of the medical schools, or law schools, attached to college foundations.

Schools attached to such foundations aTe part of a university scheme. Universities can well be permitted by law to make their Own conditions. They will not be permitted by law to make tile only conditions or entrance to the professions. I Take accountants and pharmacists I shall not say dentists. Practically, it is hardly nec essarv that they should have a college educa tion.

Practically, it is necessary that they should know enough to graduate from a high I school, whether they acquire that knowledge I inside or outside such a school. This is also the nase with veterinarians. Whether a law i yer or a physician should have a college edu cation beforeentrance upon the professional in stitiuion from which he would be graduated, I is a proposition more interesting in academic than in practical iorm. unanes uonor, James T. Braiy and some of the greatest jurists of the United States, did not have a col lego education.

Abraham Lincoln had not. Grover Cleveland had not. This shows that st mnt? and great men can come to the bar and to the highest office in the land without college education. It does not make against college education, but it does make against the requirement of college education by law for entrance into, and graduation from, schools of professional instruction. know this is a delicate and difficult question.

I know that the standard of professional educa cation has been raised so high in this state by professional schools annexed to college foundations that the tendency is to 'establish that standard by law upon all Intending students of the professions. It. is called the New York standard. It is not the New York standard. It Is within this state, but It has not been enacted by this state.

The state requires preliminary education, a certain period of study in professional offices or schools or both, and the ability to pass the examination of the hoards which tho state has established for DON'T TAKE OUR WORD. Ask Your Doctor If Braunschweiger flumme Malt Extract Is Not the Best. At AH Druggists and Grocers. The annual dinner of the alumni of the College of the City of New York was held at the Hotel Savoy last night. The dinner was a memorable one, as it celebrated the half cen tury of the existence of the institution.

It on January 27, 1849, that the opening exercises of the college were held. The first steps taken toward founding the City College were taken in 1817, when the Board of Education applied to the Legis lature for the passage of an act authorizing the establishment in this city on a free col lege or academy for the benefit of the pu pils who had been educated in the public schools of this city. January 7, 1847, the Legislature passed the desired act and af terward the people ratified it at aa eiec tlon. The name Free Academy was given to the Institution and under that name it was incor pbrated. It had the power to confer degrees diplomas.

In 1866 the name was changed to that, of its present title and all the privileges and powers of a college conferred, sub ject to the visitation of the regents of the ITniversity. Among the speakers last evening were Gov ernor Roosevelt, Dr. St. Clair McKelway, Controller Bird S. Coler and Edward II.

Shep ard. Controller Bird S. Coler spoke as follows: Controller Coler's Speech. "In responding to the toast assigned to me to night I shall touch lightly upon the early history of this great municipality; tho days of Van Twiller and Stuyvesant. when General Webb was a boy.

I shall do but little else than remind you that tho Board ot Education, even at that eariy day, estab 1 llshed the now time honored custom of send Ing to foreign countries for teachers, by importing Mynherr Adam Ruelandsan from Hoi land. This system they have religiously kept up and when clay modeling, psychology and other special branches are more fully developed, we may hope that the distinguished directors of the education of the city's youth may be successful in securing an ante p'locene professor from Iceland. "The ancient and honorable Board of Aldermen, too, so far as concerns their share in the past greatness of New York, we shall have to dismiss with a brief reference to the famous deadlock in that board in 1840 or therea i bouts, when eight Tammany members and eight Whigs could not agree to organize until the Fourth of July approached. It had been the custom at this time to appropriate $2,000 for a grand dinner and other things that fire the soul with patriotism. This important duty staring them in the face, they organized by electing a Tammany president and a Whig vice president.

The last little supper the Aldermen attended a few days ago was not after a dead lock, but a dead man, and was considered dead cheap at half the amount. Nor shall I dilate upon those halcyon days when our present Governor, Colonel Roosevelt, lassoed the Police Department and everything else within his reach. It was here that he developed the fighting' qualities which later made him a shining figure on the slopes of San Juan and have now placed him in the most exalted po sition in the gift of the people, save that of the President of the United States. "The City of New York of to dav, not Greater New York, but Grandest New York, the foremost city of the civilized world, is the toast to which you expect me to reply to night, and if I may, in some humble way. convey to you my faith in the stability of its present greatness and my expectation of its future possibilities, I shall feel that I have not al together wasted your time and neglected my opportunity on this occasion.

There lias been a great deal of talk of late of what the 'antis' are pleased to call the failure of consolidation. I do not believe that this talk has taken very much hold upon the more intelligent class of our citizens, but I feel it my dutv to go upon record whenever possible in the expression of an emphatic negative to those who have adopt ed this view. To my mind Greater New York IS not a great failure, but a splendid success, a success which may bring with it hardships during the years of adjust ment between the vast interests con solidated, but which makes possible in the end all that development which our enormous population and ideai location entitle usjn the history of the nation ami (he world. "It was a consolidation of ninety five separate municipal corporations, counties, cities, towns, villages and school districts with which we were asked to struggle. All sorts, classes and conditions of books were laid down by these corporations and thousands of claims, many fraudulent, more extravagant I or excessive and some were left for us to adjust.

It is unnecessary to discus3 with you who are so familiar with the dry details of bookkeeping the character and difficulty of our labors in this direction. Then there was the greater city debt. The consolidation of these territories within one municipality, under the terms of the charter, concentrated the obligation of all into a single obligation, millions in excess of the limit provided by the constitution. This lack of borrowing ability added enormously to the hardships of the situation, and has given rise to a large share of the complaint, owing to the delayed improvements. When these dlffl Oultles of consolidation are contrasted with the situation which exists upon the consolidation of large industrial or commercial in teress, the fact that the city has survived the strain is excellent proof of the stabilitv of the system underw hich we are operating.

"One of the most splendid features of our splendid city is our public school system. It compares favorably with that of any municipality in the world and should grow and will grow with our city. At the head of this school system in the greater city is the College of the City of New York. It is not the duty of a municipality to give to all its chil dren a collegiate education. Our private wealth is sufficient for a large share of our youth to obtain their higher education through individual means or private munificence.

But the College of the City of New York has a great and Important function. It holds out to the youth of the city, as an inducement to earnest study and high attainment, the prospect that by so doing tho enjoyment of its advantages may be earned. It gives to the dc voted scholar the possibility of the best and highest education, no matter what his indi vidual or parental resources may be of a finan cial kind, provided his attributes of mind and character make him deserving of such advantages. The College of the City of New York is, therefore, an inspiration and a spur to hundreds, perhaps thousands, who, through untoward circumstances, are prevented from en joying the benefits toward which they strive, but who, In the striving, have reaped almost incalculable benefits. The College of the City of New York is the capstone of our public school system and the developmentand growth of our city can but find reflection In the de velopment and growth of this institution.

The Greater New York will mean to you, gentle men. whose closest ties are with your alma university standard exceeding that required by the state, and the result may be lawyers and physicians representing the masses and physicians and lawyers representing the classes in this commonwealth. That is not a question that personally concerns laymen. It does concern educators, and it collectively concerns the state. I say nothing against the higher standards.

Those who wish them, can take them. But the attempt to prescribe them by this state will fail. The attempt, therefore, would better not be made. I know what I am talking about on this head, for I know the temper of the great mass of the people and the direction of their sympathies toward all students, especially toward those entering the professions by the road of hardship. If college education is ever made by the state a necessity for entrance upon the learned professions, then the state, through its central authorities, or by the power it delegates to local communities, will make or establish the colleges for that purpose, and will make them free.

The stats will prescribe no standards for which, as a state, it does not provide the facilities. If the state does that, it will recognize or establish colleges as one thing and universities as another. It will not favor universities doing college work or colleges doing university work. It will take into account the time at which men should be able to begin to earn their own living. It will reduce high school standards to enable pupils to get through those schools, and to enter colleges of such standards as it will provide, at 14 or 15.

It will create college standards for free colleges, from which pupils can graduate, at 18 or 19. It will encourage professional schools, in which the period of study will not be. more than two years. Those professional schools may or may not be parts of universities. But If the state' is required to go into the business of standard making all around, universities will be required also by the state to confine themselves to post graduate instruction altogether.

Those who press upon the state the provision of more than a general standard for professional education will have themselves to biame, if they bring down upon their own heads more changes than they would desire. There Is a temper growing up among all but the so called professional educators, in whose name as many blunders have been committed as crimes in the name of liberty, a temper not to be mistaken or too brashly Invoked. Revolutions do not go backward. But nonsense sometimes goes forward, and people return from it to reason. A return to reason in education is likely.

Boys and men can be overschooled and the primary purpose of education itself can be misconceived, and the misconception can bo elaborately organized into universities, and even into a state system. The object of education is a modicum of knowledge and a maximum of the whole man. The pupil should learn as much as will equip him with necessary facts and necessary principles. That should be for the purpose of graduating him into the school of life, there to learn more. Too many colleges are would be universities.

Too many so called universities are only inflated multiples of small colleges. I believe in mathematics, in the classics, and in the humanities for the value of them as iritollectual disciplines and stimuli. I believe in the modern languages for the rest which they give to the mind through change; and in the sciences for their exact knowledge. But I maintain that enough of these can be acquired to bring our youth to the threshold of professional study at a far earlier age than that at which many of them now reach it, and to bring them over that threshold into tho inspiring field of competition and industry, while they are still young and buoyant and hopeful I am glad to address an institution of which the history is a proof, of these propositions, glad to be surrounded by Its honored alumni, and confident that the interesting period of life, which it celebrates to night, is ono from which it can look back upon the past with pride and forward on the future with confidence. ARMY AND NAVY UNIFORMS.

Efforts to Prevent Their Manufacture in Tenement Houses and Sweat Shops in This State. Albany, N. January 28 The War Department at Washington and the Factories Inspection Department of the State of New York have joined forces in an effort to prevent the manufacture of uniforms for the United States Army and Navy in tenement house sweat shops in this state. The fact that Army clothing contractors were having work performed in these establishments developed last fall, and a complaint was lodged with the Quartermaster General's Department at Washington by certain labor organizations of New York City. That department at once ordered on investigation and sent Colonel William S.

Patten or the department to this state to make an inquiry into the matter. Colonel Patten made application to the Factory Inspectors' Department for assistance. Chief Inspector O'Leary designated Deputy Inspector James L. Gernon of Brooklyn to assist Colonel Patten. An Investigation was conducted.

Inspector Gernon subsequently sent a communication to Colonel Patten setting forth some facts which he obtained. In reply he recived a communication from Colonel Patten saying that in contracting for clothing needed by the Army of the United States, the law requires that contracts shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidders after public competition. Unless steps can be taken by which the bidders are made to understand, prior to the letting of contracts, that the work connected with making articles required must not be performed in tenement houses, ill ventilated rooms or under unsanitary conditions, such for instance as prohibited by the laws of the State of New York, his department is compelled to award the contracts to the lowest bidders. In reply to that communication, which was submitted to department headquarters in this city, a letter was sent by Chief Inspector O'Loary to Colonel Patten, saying he will 'be pleased to co operate with the War Department In any effort to remove the making of Army clothing Trom every place of employment in this state of a contaminating character. He suggests that the War Department Insert in the clothing contracts let to persons in this state, specifications defining the character of the shops or places in "which the goods must be made up.

Under such contracts it can demand a certification from the factory Inspector of the state setting forth the condition of such workshops and can by the terms of such contracts refuse to let work be made up in tenement houses or other places not so certified by the Tactory Inspector. Vr I' ELECTIONS IN HAYTI. Washington, D. January 28 Minister Powell reports from Port au Prince that the election for members of the Chamber of Deputies passed off quietly and resulted in the election of governmental candidates, so that the government has an absolute majority in both chambers. This, it is thought, will Insure the stability of the present government.

A POPULIST LEADER DEAD. Fort Worth, January 28 Evan Jones, one of the most prominent figures in the populist party, died last night at his home. Mr. Jones was on the National Populist ticket with General Weaver and was also a congressional candidate on the Populist ticket two years ago. DECISION IN BIG LAND CASE.

St. Paul, January 28 Judge Loch ren to day filed a decision involving the right of the Northern Pacific Railroad to about 1,000,000 acres of land in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Judge Locsren decidea in favor of the company. THERE IS A CLASS OF PEOPLE Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed In all the grocery stores a new preparation called 0, made ot pure grains, that takes the place ot coffee.

The most delicate stomaeti receives It without distress and but tew can tell It from coffee. It does not cast over as much. Children may drink It with great benefit. IS cts. and 25 etc.

per package. Try it. Ask for GBAIN O. 1 MfcvJ.