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1 WWtWS THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. JANUARY 16, 5. 1902.

APPLICATION DENIED. POLICY WILL BE PLAYED FINE ARTS. TERRIFIC GULES AT SEA, as being in any way related to the ancient and diehrnorable game of poke. From the same backer of policy it is learned that the gambling fraternity wero somewhat indifferent tho defeat of Tammany because of the greed of the corps ot protectors and because of the extra expense entailed of fighting the Anti Vice Society and other organizations. "Policy has been played for so long that it has come to stay," naid this backer, "and the iiroof of the hold it has upon the people is the fact that it is to day played in three times as many offices in Brooklyn and New York than ever before in its history." Policy may be a dishonorable game, but there are many high tcned public men in Brooklyn today who have been boosted by policy money.

There is at least one Supreme Court justice who was the executor of the estate of the biggest policy kings Brooklyn ever had, and one of your police magistrates never amounted to a row of pins until he secured a big share of this same policy backer's estate by marriage. Another big officeholder and former president of a leading club directed the legal affairs of the backer of Eastern District policy while occupying a judicial position." One man says the poor people have as much right to risk a dime as the Wall street gamester has to risk a dollar, and policy will exist as long as the gaming instinct lasts, which will be forever. I Odds Ends. I men Grades, 6.00 Grades NEAR SMITH STREET. as represontwl.

well shrunk. S0 to 7 00 'S, 4.00 to BoyS', 3.03 to 4.03 390 FULTON STREET, We guarantee Si! I Sods goods 66 id it it 66 i6 it our seams Trowsers to lit. sewed with the best silk in the market, our' Trowsers to be well shaped and tailored. ANDTHEPODKETSWILLHOLDTHECA! We manufacture and sell all wool Trowsers from to TO OKDER. We manufacture and sell all worsted Trowsers from $.

to TO 0EDEE. We manufacture ami sell Trowsers, made from the product of the best woolen mills in the United States, from $5.50 to $6.00, TO 0EDEK. We manufacture and sell the same goods just as well made and trimmed, IE Plays Are to Be Telephoned and Drawings Advertised Under a Clever Disguise. HUSH MONEY TO DEFRAY COST. Police Protection Cut Out of Future Policy Shop Expenses by Big Backers.

While the Police Department, is being reorganized tor the conduct of a vigorous campaign against gambling and other forms of vice, the men who depend upon the credulity and love of gain ot the public to bring them bread or fortune are making the most strenuous and carefully arranged preparations for evading the intent of the laws ever known in the history of gambling in the metropolis. The arrest of Al Adams, one of the big backers of the game of policy in Manhattan, instead of frightening the conductors of the penny lottery, as it is sometimes called, has only served to lend additional caution to tho arrangements in contemplation. From one of tho chief mainstays of the policy game in Brooklyn, a man who was associated with Adams and three others in parceling out territory in the greater city during the Tammany control, an Eagle reporter learned that, after the first of the year the classic gamble of 4 11 44 will be conducted upon broadened lines, both with respect to the manner of recording plays made and numbers selected and the way of conducting headquarters or offices. Under the advice of one of tho best known criminal lawyers in Manhattan, an elaborate system has been devised, whereby the old style of registering gigs and saddles will bo discarded and plays will bo made without the use of incriminating number slip or record of numbers drawn. The necessary elaboration of the conduct of the game, it is said, will drive many of the smaller offices out of business and there will be very few of the tenement house and other small writers, who barel manage to make $10 or $15 a week after tho backer and protection money has been paid.

On the other hand, it is expected that tho better patronized policy offices, or shops, as they are generally called, will do a more extended business because of the safeguards that will make it more convenient for tho reception of plays. The big backers of the game, after looking the ground over carefully, have come to the determination that the police, under the administration of its affairs by Colonel Partridge, will not be able to deliver any protection and for the first time, perhaps, in the history of policy playing in New York the item of protection will be withdrawn from the list of expenses. The money thus saved per month will he a large sum which will be devoted to the edded cast of running the game. The principal factor in the new arrangements for recording plays which it is expected will defy all police scrutiny will be the telephone and the same idea will be adopted by poolroom owners. It is not generally known but there is no requirement of the public telephone service that a subscriber's name be printed among the list of patrons and very many private wires are in existence of which the general public has no knowledge.

Some of these1 are contracted for with the proviso that the telephone company is to send no calls from the outside whatsoever. While in the majority of cases the telephone bears a number known only to the subscriber and his intimates. By the use of this secret service, so to speak, and mainly by the employment of privately constructed and maintained wires policy offices will do business without chance it is thought, of successful prosecution. The writer, as receiver of plays, will have a headquarters in a real estate office or restaurant or any semi public resort, where the presence of numbers of men will not be noticeable nor preventable by the police upor. any basis under the present laws, and when a player enters and announces his selection of numbers the same will be quietly telephoned to headquarters, where a corps of writers will keep tally with a receiving phono at each desk.

The writer will hear upon his person not the slightest evidence of being engaged in the policy business and when the player leaves the office ho will carry none of the objectionable telltale slips, the simple possession of which under the new laws is a misdemeanor. The play which he made will have been registered under his name or under some name by which he will be known to the receiver of the play and he will turn over his money relying upon the honor of the conductors of the game to pay any hit or drawing of prize he may secure. In all probability the main office or place where plays will be received will be outside of the state or in some remote locality, and it is expected Lour, me ancnuonai expense win ail oe covered by the saving of protection money. The announcement of drawings which are now circulated by means of the telltale sllp3 will be made in a cleverly conceived advertisement to be made in certain afternoon and morning papers, whereby the initiated will be able to read the figures at a glance and the law's prosecutors be at a loss to identify MILITARY HOSPITAL I WIBECAN GETS PATRONAGE. New Colored Republican Leader Gives Jobs to Two Followers To Put Club on Swell Basis.

Lieutenant Governor Woodruff. In appreciation of George E. Wibecan's defeat of John II. Smith, Mr. Atterbury's negro lieutenant, gave him Friday two substantial appointments for the colored Republicans.

Mr. Wibecan and the Lieutenant Governor had an hour's talk on Friday afternoon late, and, after their conference was over, Mr. Wibecan brought out of headquarters with him the appointment of James A. Rycrson to a five dollar a day job at Albany, and, as If to rub it in to Mr. Atterbury's negro lieutenant.

Mr. Woodruff appointed Frederick Johnson, one of Mr. Wibecan's most ardent lieutenants, as one of the attaches of his private office in the Senate chamber at Albany. There was great jubilation among Mr. Wibecan's friends Friday when he passed out the appointments, and his other friends are hoping that he will land them somewhere at some time, with the hope that tho time will be soon.

Mr. Wibecan told Mr. Woodruff that it was his intention to remove the headquarters from its present location in Fulton street, opposite Lewis avenue, and to give it a central location. He further told him that it was his intention to put the club on the basis of the swell colored clubs in Philadelphia and Washington, of which Mr. Wibecan is a member.

BROOKLYN LODGE B. P. 0. ELKS. A Year of Unexampled Prosperity.

Over $10,000 in the Building Fund. Prospective Theater Parties. Brooklyn Lodge of Elks had a happy New Year celebration, and its first meeting in 1902 was memorable through the reception of several new life members, whose dues, being applied to the building fund, make it reach the sum of $10,100. They have, beside, over $1,000 to meet current expenses. This is a state of affairs that has been largely due to the efforts of Exalted Ruler Charles Cran ford.

There are now 600 members in the ledge, and with tho coming year will be added 200 more. There has been an average of fifteen a night elected during the year. The spirit of the membership has' kept pace with its numbers. The socials that occur every other meeting night, or at least twice a month, are always interesting and enlist professional talent among the members of the order, many of whom appear every week at the various theaters in the borough. A thumbblt for the members is being arranged for an early date, and on January 18 there will be a theater party at the Park Theater, where the orchestra has already been engaged for the members of the lodge of Elks, who will take their wives or sweethearts to the play.

Eight members of the Spocner Stok Company are members of Brooklyn Lodge of Elks. On January 20 a benefit will be had by Thomas T. Hayden. lecturing knight of the lodge, at the Academy of Music, when the lodge will attend in a body. Exalted Ruler Cranford is proud of the assistance given him by the members of the lodge.

His second term closes in March, and will be the red letter one in the history of Brooklyn Lodge. He has set a lively pace for his successor, whoever he shall be. j. BEATING OF FRANCES GEHL. (Special to the Eagle.) Long Island City, January 4 At St.

Joseph's Home, Astoria, this morning it was stated there were no new developments in the case of the alleged beating of Frances Gehl. The sisters said they had nothing to add to what they said yesterday about the child's stay in the home. FOUND DEAD IN BED. Thomas Healey, 35 years old, was found dead in his bed at 2,431 Third avenue, the Bronx, yesterday morning. The body was removed to the morgue.

IN THE TRANSVAAL. For SOc. Per Pair Less. We do not reduce the price at the end of each season, but we do keep the prices reduced Opposite Elm Place. 533 FuSton Street.

'Bi 13 Counsel Befused Permission to Inspect Grand Jury Minutes. i (Special to the Eagle.) Long Island City. L. January 4 Judge Moore this morning denied the application of Daniel Noble and George L. Glaser, counsel for William Richensteen and John A.

Da vies, to inspect the minutes of the Grand Jury on which the indictments against the latter were based. Counsel then made a motion to dismiss the indictments, on the ground that Foster Crowd 1, foreman of the Grand Jury, was not challenged the same as Charles Brace, another member of that body. Mr. Brace was a delegate to the Republican convention, while Mr. Crowell was chairman of the Citizens' Union convention.

The indictments charged questionable reports in connection with the result of a conference between a committee from each convention. Judge Moore gave counsel until Tuesday to hand up affidavits. NEW ERA IN MEXICO. A Promising Field for Profitable Investment in Rubber and Other Cultures. In Mexico the line of development in which foreign capital has most recently become interested is tropical agriculture.

It is a well known fact that the Mexican haciendas have hnnr, omnno the steadiest and best paying undertakings on the American continent. But as agriculture requires very close touch with the' laboring population, which tho Mexican planter handles with great ease, but which to others is an uncertain element, foreign investors, until very recent times, 1, rtf tn rtnTinrtnnlties af UIU IIUL IlltllC uav forded bv tho rich lands of tho republic. The reformation of the Mexican sugar industry aiong modern lines is Just beginning, and the first well equipped plantations are giving wonderful returns. Excellent coffee Is being raised on the higher lands of the tropical belt of Mexico. In this culture, too, large capital Is necessary on acount of the expensive character of machinery and the large quantity of labor required in harvesting the berries and preparing them for the market.

A product that is looked upon with much favor, because it does not necessitate a long process of Ar rafl 1 fn id PnPfia Which is cultivated in this region with comparatively nil' nvnnncn TVirv lH a tion of tropical fruits has not yet been undertaken on a large scale, partly on account of the absence of rapid and regular means of transportation. Some plantations are. however, canning their fruits for the Mexican market, where it brings very acceptable prices. The finest grade of tobacco is raised in tho Valle Nacional, near Tuxtepec, and in the Tuxtla district. The artificial culture of rubber has now been undertaken on a large scale.

From all that has been said, it will be seen that Mexico is not a land for the investor of small means. As a farmer coulfl not himself do heavy manual labor in this climate, he would have to make liberal use of hired help. His expenses of management would, therefore, be practically as high as those of a large plantation. The original cost ot the land, when reckoned as including the expenses of clearing and planting and of caring for the crop until its maturity amounts to a large sum per acre. Should he desire to plant rubber, the farmer must wait for at least seven years, until his returns begin to come in; for the other cultures he would ned ex ptnsive machinery.

Companies and individual planters with large capital, however would have far to seek at present to find 'a more promising field for investment and a more desirable locality than southern Mexico. Public Opinion. CAPTAIN POUND THE PLACE. Then He Spent a Pleasant Evening Among Friends. Bergen street, near Kingston avenue.

This was the simple direction given to Captain Henricks of the United States transport Brutus, the other day, and when the Captain adjusted his compass and got his bearings and courses, he arrived at the desired haven before 9 o'clock on the evening of December 30. The Captain found there a social gathering, a few of the neighbors of the St. Marks section of this borough, among others, Colonel William Hemstreet. Barrister Hem street, Misses Ann and Margaret Hemstreet, Miss Aggie Dugall, John and Alfred Duncan, Miss May Duncan, Misses Alice and Edna Smith, the Misses Pretner, Miss Jean Hasty of Washington, John and Don Hasty, Mr. and Mrs.

J. H. Small, Miss Agnes Small, Mr. Wagner, Professor George W. Jenkins.

The gallant Captain remarked on taking his departure on the morning of the 31st, that the evening had been a red letter evening to him for sociability and entertainment. To break up the stiffness that always has to be encountered for the first half hour of all social gatherings, illustrated drawings were made of well known proverbs, which had the desired effect of breaking up the reserve. Miss May Duncan and Professor Jenkins won the two prizes for elucidating the largest number of the drawings. After the ice was broken the enjoyment of the evening began, consisting of instrumental and vocal music. Just before 12 o'clock the guests at 1,326 adjourned to the dining room and spent an hour in discussing the merits of a caterer's ability.

WRONG SIGNAL WRECKS 3 TRAINS. Four Men Killed in Collision Near Johnstown. Johnstown, January 4 Because of a i wrong signal at Nineveh tower, a fast east I bound Pennsylvania Railroad freight train ran into a slow freight ahead, five miles west of this city, and a few minutes later i a westbound freight crashed into the wreck, causing the death of four persons and the serious injury of at least five others. The dead are: James G. Black, engineer; i William Paul of Pitcalrn, fireman; Robert S.

i Nolan, brakeman; James Winters of Pittsburg, engineer. The injured are: William Steele, Edward 1 Gallagher, George Smith. John Fogarty, Jesse E. Butler. They will all recover, it Is thought.

FALL ON BOTTLE PROVES FATAL. Boston. January 4 Death came to day to Mrs. Kate O'Reilly, who, almost unconscious from loss of blood, with her babe on her breast, was found last night In the basement, in which she lived. Just before the woman died she was able to say that she fl'll on a bottle and cut herself.

James II. Looney. brother of Mrs. O'Reilly, was arrested last night, as it was said that the man and woman had heen drinking together. He denied ail knowledge of how his sister was hurt.

CLAIMS OF COUNTIES. Batavia. N. January 4 A call has been issued by Judge Washburn of Batavia, secretary, for a meeting in Albany on January l.j of attorneys of the thirty nine counties which have claims against the state for rebates cn taxes paid to the state on bonded railroads. The uourt of claims recently rejected the claim of I'lster County which was tnade a test case, but it is expected that the matter will be taken to the Court, of Appeals.

NEW STOCK COMPANIES. Albany, January 4 Tho following stock companies have been incorporated: The Meneley Bell Company of Troy; capital. $100,000. Charles A. Towne Co.

of New York City, to deal in securities; capital, $100,000. Exchange Realty Company of New York; capital, $100,000. NEW HOSPITAL SUPERINTENDENT Albany. N. January 1 George M.

White of Buffalo has been appointed assistant superintendent, at the New York Stale Hospital for the care of crippled and deformed The Rungc Collection. At tne American' Art Galleries there is an exhibition of pictures collected by Edward Range of Jamaica Theso pictures, seveuiy five In number, are not. large, and will probably be sold at' prices to pique interest among other collectors ol American art when they are dispersed at auction on the night of tho 9th inst. Various cf the important painters ot the country are represented In this group, though few arc seon in important pictures, some of them, indeed, being so early and so crude as not to represent the typical art of theso men at all. The Wlnslow Homers, for example, appear to have been painted thirty or forty years ago, and are unlike the powerful things he has done within the past dozen years in, his lonely studio beside the Atlantic.

And while Sargent has become a name and fame, there is little in his nude bather, sunning himself on a. beach, that a dozen other men might not have done aB Well. This, however, need not be construed to the detriment of the group as a whole. Tor it shows taste on the part of the collector and contains not a little that is meritorious. An orchard by Willard L.

Metcalf, with a rough foreground of rocks and browning grass, is rich, deep toned and beautiful. One should hear more of a man who could paint like this. Louis Moeller has several of his German Americans, copied with some hardness of precision and with no conspicuous sentiment. Severr.l small and early Homer Martins have a typical serenity of composition and harmony of color, a little scant in material, but suggestive of wide spaces and a love of nature. Ralph Albert Blakolock's "The Glow" wa.s obvicusly painted when he was at his best a remarkable piece of color, homogeneous, fine in sentiment and noble in effect.

One ot the Icebergs of the already forgotten Bradford recalls a kind of painting that had a vogue not many year3 ago. The Eastman Johnson "Devotion" is a fair example of that artist's work, and there is an interesting specimen of the marine painting of the late Hnrry Chase. Another man who should not be icrstt.en is a young Brooklynite, Joseph Decker, whose fruit and still life exhibit a delightful practice and certainty of touch, never degenerating Into dryness and photographic effect in cither line or tone. There is always a bloom and richness in his work that separate it from the most of still life in which there is almost Inevitably a severity and academic quality. One of the Hudson River men represented here is Frederick E.

Church, whose small "Twilight," showing distant, mountains overhung by a wide sky streaked with salmon clouds, has something of the qualities that he disclosed in his "Heart of the Andes," but it is more possible to live enjoyingly with this than with his panoramas. Charles H. Davis in his "Valley and Lake" has the serenity that is lovable in pictures, and has also a seriousness which is a less constant quality in his recent work. Charles C. Cur ran's "Pond Lily Gatherers" is one of his rather happy conceits, decorative and pretty a couple of young women in a boat, under a big sun umbrella, gathering lilies from a lake that are as big as their heads.

There are a charming "Fall Foliage" by Henry P. Smith, two typical Venetian figure pieces by Charles F. Ulrich, a Venice by Robert Blum, a ruffling sea piece by J. G. Tyler, in which the spirit of storm is manifest; an idyllic "Landscape and Sheep" by T.

B. Craig, a reading negro by Alfred Kappes, a man who was not only clever, but gave great promise ot important work, and who died too soon; an essay Into the classic by Henry R. Poore, who has dealt with his subject in a mood of stern realism, and a "Rlverdale Moorland" by W. L. Picknell that is delightful in its sense of air and sun and health.

The Innesses, seven in number, exemplify, for the most part, his earlier method, and lack that fire and dash which in his later pictures sometimes led him not merely to high success, but to irregularities ot method that came near to failure They have, therefore, a caution and reserve which are not displeasing, and they have, too, the indications of that splendid sense of color which flamed out in his autumns and his sunsets. Jointly with the Runge pictures is to be seen a collection of value and Interest: Japanese books, prints and screens, namely, the property of Bunshlchi Kobayashi of Tokio, which will be sold next Tuesday afternoon and on Wednesday evening. These illustrate Japanese art of various periods and in excellent examples. In the first gallery there is. likewise, a large mural decoration made for the Fort Wayne Court House, and representing the Battle of Fallen Timbers.

It is the work of Florian Peixotto, a young Californlan, and shows an action of the United States infantry under Anthony Wayne, in which it is engaging with Little Turtle's band on the banks of the Maumee. Because of its adaptation to a wall space, and its primary purpose as a decoration, rather than a historical painting, a processional order has been adopted and this naturally Interferes with the aggregation cf large mosses of either troops or Indians, but enough is shown to give the effect et battle and the drawing is sound while the color is light and harmonious. Fifteen paintings by Edward A. Rorke will be shown at. the Clausen galleries, beginning on Monday next.

A large painting, measuring 12 feet by 9, and representing the betrayal of Christ, is to be put on exhibition at 29 West Thirtieth street, Manhattan, on Sunday. The artist is Eugenie dc Beste, an American. The canvas has been blessed by the Pope, a certificate to that, effect having been granted. At the Knoedler gallery there Is, on present show, a group of portraits by Wilhelm Funk, whose sitters are society people, with a few celebrities, including A. J.

Balfour and General Miles. Mr. Funk is a showy painter, who does not fear the use of color, and whose method is dashing and assertive. His lack is of refinement, and although there is a superficial correctness inhls portraiture, it is not convincing as an exhibit of character. His subjects take on a sort of family likeness, and that likeness is not invariably pleasing.

Jn the forty portraits painted by Ellen Emmet, and shown at the Durand Ruel galleries, there is distinction and the effect is happy. In their essential quality as likenesses they impress tho observer as true. In color they are always agreeable, and in their manner they disclose facility, and the subject is always treated with respectful consideration, evcu when the picture is hasty or sketchy and the mood of the painter is full of spirit. Miss Emmet makes an occasional portrait that entitles her to rank with Miss Beaux and other famous women artists ot the land. Fantin Latour's prints are on free exhibition in the Lenox Library, on Fifth avenue, where they have been advantageously arranged by Curator Weitenkampf.

They form a part of the valuable Avery collection. Latour is one of the better known artist lithographers on the other of the sea. but not a well known one here. His work is almost fantastic, often thin, yet with a substance of good drawing and marked artistic ability. He has the valuable and none too usual quality of imagination, and he idealizes music and musicians, as well as painters and poets.

There are. beside these rare pictures on stone, illustrations for Hugo's "Bather," a self portrait at the age of 17. and a figure of "Lithography." In the present exhibition are also shown the etchings by Egusquiza for Wagner's "Parsifal," with his portraits, of Wagner, Schopenhauer and Louis II of Bavaria. The forwarder. of the St.

Louis fair offer a prize of $2,500 for the best, device for a seal, stationery mark and publicity material, indicative of that exhibition. There will also be an honorarium of $250 each for eight, minor designs in sculpture or medals. Six months will be allowed for the competition. Greuze's "Listening Girl" is the frontispiece of the new number cf the Art Journal and the descriptions of the Wallace collec tion are continued, with phototype portraits showing the work of Nattier. Fragonard, Greuze and Lepicie sugary art, not unfortunately obsolete.

Neuschwanstein. with Its picturesque and beautiful castle and its romantic lafco and mountain setting, is pictured in photographs and drawings. Floral design in wall paper, Eton wore and re jent London exhibitions are subjects of illustrated papers. The December number of the International Studio gives sonic space to Domenico Morelll and his fine and serious art, with illustrations from a half dozen of his pictures and a delightful photographic portrait of himself with his little granddaughter on his knee. Some of the rather freakish architecture of the Darmstadt, artists' colony is disclosed In color.

Tho struggle to be different, without adequate reason therefor, is There are some interesting studies of the French poor by Dupuis. English glass, the book bindings of Kei'3ten. recent work from the exhibitions, a series of sketches by Charles Kceno, the picture show at Vittsburg and ap Belated and Battered LinersCrawl Into Port With Tales of Unusual Experiences. MENOMINEE'S SLOW PASSAGE. Atlantic Transport Vessel Twice in Collision Ellamy Breaks a Shaft and Comes In in Tow.

The steamship Menominee of the Atlantic Transport Line, arrived in port yesterday after one of the worst voyages ever experienced by the officers of the vessel. The steamship left London on December 19 and should have arrived here on Tuesday. Storiu3 were encountered throughout the entire jour ney. I The first morning out from London the ship struck and sunk the packet steamship Hermes. The Monominee suffered little damage and continued cn her journey.

The worst day of the voyage was December 2S when heavy seas, snow and hail were encountered and the ship traversed but fifty miles. Last Friday and Saturday similar storms were met and the cattle pen aft, ventilator foreward and a companion way were badly damaged. When the vessel docked yesterday there were many friends and relatives of the sixteen passengers on board waiting to greet them. The passengers were enthusiastic in their praise of the conduct of Captain Lucas and his men. A.

B. Gardenier, one of the passengers, said that the passengers were constantly reassured by the officers of the ship that there was no danger. He said that some of the officers had admitted that the voyage was one of the worst they had ever experienced. A similar statement was made by Mrc. Jean nette V.

Levering. Captain Lucas and his men refused to talk of the voyage or of the damage to the vessel. The passengers knew very little about the collision on the first morning out, saying that the vessel kept on her way. There were four stowaways on board the vessel. They were James Arthur Williams of Stockham on the Ems; Albert R.

Moade of Philadelphia and whose mother, he says, lives at 1,224 Fortieth street. Brooklyn; Frank Verney, no friends or home, and William Andrews of Baltimore. Before getting into her dock the vessel struck a lighter, but did no damage. The sides of the steamship and her decks were badly iced. The' passengers on board were Mrs.

Henrietta L. Allerton. G. S. C.

Bethune, G. Clarke, Lauring Clarke, Harry Dornton, Edwin B. Foote. A. B.

Gardenier, C. J. Garwood, Max Hartmann. Mrs. Emily Ivens, Mrs.

Kempt. Mrs. Jeannetto V. Levering, R. Moly meux Seel, Mrs.

Swinford, Miss Swinford and M. Thorel. The belated German steamship Pisa arrived Friday night from Hamburg, after a most tempestuous voyage. The Pisa encountered a succession of heavy westerly gales and heavy seas which compelled her to proceed slowly. The supply of coal rrn short, and Captain Fendt was obliged to bear up for Halifax, where she arrived on December 20.

but was detained outside the harbor for more1 than thirty six hours owing to a prevailing snowstorm. On January 1, at noon, the Pisa ran into a heavy northwest gale with a high cross sea. in which the hurricane deck was damaged. From Halifax to port, a succession of heavy northwest gales and furious sea were encountered. The Pisa brought 319 steerage passengers.

One child died of pneumonia on December 18. The British steamship Ellamy. from Ucata and other Mediterranean ports, arrived yesterday in tow of tug M. E. Lucken bach.

The Ellamy, laden with sulphur and general cargo, encountered stormy weather after passing Gibraltar. On December 4, in latitude 32.47, longitude 42.10, the tail shaft broke and the steamship was obliged to lay to, to await the assistance of passing craft. (Twenty four hours later the steamship Atoara, rrom ine ivieuuerruiieiiu, uouuu iu Baltimore, hove in sight and took ner tow. They arrived safely at Bermuda and the tusr M. E.

Luckenbach was sent from here to tow her to this port. After leaving Bermuda the weather was stormy, with southerly winds and very high seas. The gales were so fierce that the craft were obliged to drift oetore it many nours. RUMORS OF A COAL FAMINE. Supply of Anthracite Said to Be Scarce, but Open Weather May Prevent Higher Prices.

The story of a coal famine comes with the first notice of a drop in the thermometer. It tsa some foundation in fact, according to the wholesale dealers in the article, though the prospect favors a continuance of present prices for a short time at least. The scarcity seems to be in anthracite, though the demand for soft coal for hotel and factory supplies is likely to be in excess of the supply on hand. H. D.

Heissenbuttel. secretary of (he Mo quin Offerman Heisseubuttel Coal Company, said yesterday: "The price of soft coal has increased about 80 cents at wholesale, but has not yet affected our retail prices. The amount on hand among tho wholesale deal era is the smallest for this time of the year than has been the case foT years past. This is in a measure due to the strike of last year, which prevented many from getting a supply on hand. If the weather keeps open there will probably be no trouble and no rise in prices." At the office of the Scranton and Lehigh Coal Company it was said that they bad not heard of a coal famine that was likely to affect them.

Their supply on hand, it "was claimed, was large enough to meet; the ordinary demands of the season, so that noise of their customers need foar. Mortimer L. Reynolds, of II. Reynolds Sons, said that, as far as coal is concerned, there was no real famine, but coal was scarce and hard to get owing to the effects of the recenr great, storm. "I think." said Mr.

Reynolds, "that there will be no advance of prices and that with a little moderation of the weather, all who desire coal will be able to get It. So far as we are concerned, we shall not raise prices unless the wholesale prices go up, and we have received no notification of any increase." Tho whole trouble seems to be due to the general prosperity of the country, aril the need of cars to move the general freight. Coal is the least remunerative to the railroads and is therefore laid aside by them for the' better paying trade. Upside the mines of Pennsylvania and other points have been most of them closed for the holiday season, making a comparative scarcity of the commodity on hand there. Tho general opinion among dealers is that, when the mines get fully underway and the better class of freight gets moving coal will be plentiful again in the markets.

EGGS UP AGAIN. Cold Weather Checks Production and Raises Prices. The egg market look an upward turn of 2 cents per dozen in price yesterday. Cold weather and snow since January in districts chiefly relied upon for the supply of fresh laid eggs have been responsible. At the beginning of this week best authorities expressed the opinion that for the ensuing SIX WCCK3 Liie efc "uui'i in' "weather market," mild weather and al senco of snow bringing Increased production and cheapening prices, while severe winter weather would be attended by the opposite condition.

Balch, Price Coc 376 Fulton St, Offer the balance of their At Greatly Reduced Prices. Ail their fine felt HATS OUTING Will be sold at the uniform price of $5.00. SHOE BARG 3,000 Pairs to Select From. PRICES CUT IN HALF AND LESS. At $1.59 and $1.95, Misses' and Children's Dutloii and Laec Boots, former prices $2 to $4.

At $2.45, $2.95 mid $3.45, Women's Botts and Oxfords in Patent and Enamel leather, Box Calf and Vici Kid; also about 500 pairs of Sample Boots and Oxfords, worth from to per pair. All of these Slices are taken from regular stock, to make room for Spring good and are fully guaranteed. J. and T. BOND STREET CORNER.

plied art are subjects of description and pictures. The next sale at the American Art Galleries, after the dispersal cf the works on present exhibition, will be of the pictures, mostlv French, that were collected by the late Henry T. Cox of Brooklyn. They will be sold on 17th of this month at Mendelssohn Hall. CHBTSANTHEMUM CLTJB.

The Chrysanthemum Club received its friends last Thursday at the residence of William Miller, 1,137 Greene avenue. During the afternoon and evening over 300 guests called and were entertained by the members ot the club. Dancing was one of the features of the occasion and was interspersed with illustrated songs, phonograph and recitations. Banjo melodies by W. George Gundlack and Edward Madison were much appreciated.

The parlors were very prettily decorated for the affair with ferns and holly, while ropes of smilax gracefully draped from the chandeliers to the tables. As usual the women were the recipients of a souvenir, which was a framed photograph of all the members of the club, with the Inscription "Happy New Year, 1902 Chrysanthemum Club." 498 FULTON STREET. Let our experience Help you in choosing. Thirty years selling Pianos in Brooklyn Tells the story of square Pay as yon please. dealing.

470 Fulton Hot. 1 nnil Ilciyt ANDERSON 20 Price. (From ItM LulKtun Ii'st l.Ii I British Military Hospitals in Ope Colony are much appreciated by the Kafllr3, and especially by those with an ailmem. A ineillca 1 officer in charge! of a military hospital has often more black patients than white to attend to. But the kindly doctor gives them a moment of his valuable time and, if npessary, a prescription.

The Kaffir dearly loves his medicine, and the women like to come with their babies on their backs to the doctor, who always sends them away quite reassured both as to their own health and as (o that of their children..