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8 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. FRIDAY. AUGUST 15. 1902.

RESTRICT RATE MAKING. PRINCESS YIR COL WILLIAM HEMSTREET PITCHES INTO DEMOCRATS TaOier'a ouce hDy' DEPEW position that comes of personal temperament more than of reason. They would not be Democrats unless they were born kickers. It is a fever, a mental disease with some men, to oppose the existing condition of things whether they be right or wrong. It is funny to contemplate what they would be without the Republican party.

The Republican party goes on upbuilding things; the Democratic party tears down and has no star of guidance. But for another party they would Immediately fall back among themselves, upon their native instinct for Kilkenny fights. Always remembering that the Democratic party contains some of the best elements of society, some of the purest patriots, and noblest Americans, yet it embraces all the obnoxious and dangerous elements of society. You can Practising Physician and Lecturer, Sister of Oronyatekhar, Head of the Order of Forresters of the World, Endorses Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound After Following Its Record For Years.

Prom time to time we have been publishing in the newspapers of this eotmtry our statements and claims of the superiority of Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for all the ills peculiar to women, but it seldom happens that the proprietor of a valuable medicine is abla to produce such unquestionable expert testimony as we are permitted publish in this article. It is unnecessary for us to devote much, space by way of introduction of Dr. Viroqua, as both she and her family are of international fame. Her brother Oronyotekhar, was second in rank of the Good Templars of the world when John B.

Finch was chief. Now at the head; of the Independent OrdeV of Forresters of the world, having' headquarters at Toronto, Can. Princess Vir oqua, the subject of our portrait, has been a practising' physician and lecturer in the United States for the past twenty five years her standing in her Srofession and eloquence as a speaker is well known, especially throughout le West. She writes a letter to Mrs. Pinkham of interest to all women.

mwva im XSSIUUIH It! (ItS IBl Mil i ill i a i baby second summer is saiely pas sed when the standard food in ill Imperial Granum is continuously used. It builds hard flesh, good bone and muscle, and gives permanent lasting results. Send for our book, containing suggestions for the care of babies, especially in hot weather. It is FREE with a sample of IMPERIAL, GRANUM. Address John Carle Sons, Dept.

153 Water Street, New York City PRINCESS VIROQUA, M. D. "Dear Mrs. Pinkham: Health is the greatest boon bestowed on humanity and therefore anything that can restore lost health is a blessing. I consider Lydia E.

Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound as a blessing to State and Nation. It cures her mothers and daughters and makes them well and strong. For fifteen years I have noted the effect of your Vegetable Compound in curing special diseases of women. "I know of nothing superior for organic trouble, barrenness, and it has prevented hundreds of dangerous operations where physicians claimed It was the only chance to get well. Ulceration and inflammation of fcha organs have been cured in two or three weeks through its use, and as I laid it purely an herbal remedy, I unhesitatingly give it my highest endorsement.

Fraternally yours, Dr. P. Viroo.ua, Lansing. Mich." After a thorough consideration of such a testimonial as this we are perfectly sure that the women of America will consider that we are amply justified in making our strong claims for the superiority of Lydia E. Pinkham'9 Vegetable Compound.

Every one, of course, knows that Dr. Viroqua would not allow such a statement to be made over her signature unless it waa absolutely true, and that her faith in the. remedy must be great or she would not allow her portrait to be published in connection with her recommendation. If you are ill do not hesitate to get a bottle of Iiydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound at once, and write to Mrs.

Pinkham at Lynn, Mass. for special advice it is entirely free. John C. Welch's Plan to Curb Growing Monopoly in Railroad Management. Addresses have recently been made by John C.

Welch before several branches of the Retail Butchers' Protective Association of Greater New York, one of which was the Brooklyn branch, on the subject of monopoly in general and its relations to the retail meat trade. Mr. Welch first came before the public on the subject of monopoly in 1879, when he testified to the extent of forty five pages of the official published report in the investigation of railroads of the state by a committee of the Legislature, commonly known as the Hepburn committee. Contributions to reviews and other periodicals from him have since appeared from time to time. In the North American Review of July, 1887, three months after the present Interstate commerce law became operative, he criticised the law unfavorably, one point being that it did not tend to make the railroads more amenable to public opinion and national authority than they had previously been.

The futility of the law now being everywhere asknowledged. Mr. Welch thinks It is practicable to modify it for the benefit of the business interests of the country, a large share of which benefit would fall to the railroads themselves. In his recent addresses he has treated It as a fact that the large shippers, in collusion with weak and corrupt railroad managers, have brought about the present situation in regard to monopoly. Those who first obtained the advantage of the railroad rebates became, as a natural consequence, great shippers; they were able to drive competitors out of business, and, with their enormous profits, had to make investments outside of their original businesses.

In this way railroad ownership fell largely into the hands of those who had commenced as small shippers. With the rising tide of public sentiment against them, it was but natural that they should desire other classes of monopolists to join hands with them. Their scheme covered the inland commerce of the country; it could be extended to foreign commerce by a favorable tariff. With their power over railroads and the wealth that it implied it was easy to wield political and legislative power. Mr.

Welch has taken the ground that it is not sufficient to fight monopoly through the tariff, but that it must be reached out for and dealt with at its fountain head the control of internal commerce through the railroads. The railroads themselves, in so far as they have an honest and legitimate management, do not favor the corrupt use that has been made of them, and would gladly join in a public movement to remedy the condition. To accomplish this there must be a relation of the federal government to the railroads, but one quite different from that which has been existing. The interstate commerce law created a commission that seemed to have assigned to it legislative, executive and judicial powers. Such an anomaly would not be in accord with the genius of our government, and much of the power that had been apparently assigned to the law was quickly taken from It by decisions of federal' courts.

It is now practically impotent, with no power aside from that of a statistical bureau. The consequences are that the great shippers dictate to the railroads now as much as at any time; the trusts come on apace and absorb most of the profits of our inland commerce. Mr. Welch has proposed a remedy: Put no restrictions on the railroads in their agreements among themselves; touch them on one point only namely, that no new or changed transportation rate shall be made in interstate commerce except as approved and permitted by a board representing the government of the United States. He claimG that such a law, made effective by proper penalties, would curb the dictation of the large shippers and the trusts; that it would open trade and commerce to competition; that it would be the interest of all railroads properly, legally and legitimately managed.

This remedy is given as being in accordance with the view expressed by the late Judge Cooley, greatly experienced and highly esteemed in railroad management and in jurisprudence; ihat in the future reorganization of railroad management in the United States some way must be devised for taking from freight agents and managers, often acting impulsively, corruptly and for a single Interest, an exclusive rata makbjg power. ROBBERIES REPORTED. Ebstein Hears of Pour Cases Prom His Subordinates. These were the robberies reported yesterday morning from the police precincts in Brooklyn to Deputy Police Commissioner Ebstein: Mrs. Annie L.

Coston of 199 Gates avenue tcld the police that some thief had entered her room in the Lewer's cottage at 186 Bay Twenty sixth street, and had stolen Jewelry orth $150 and a bullscye camera. Some thief trok $35 in cash from a trunk in the apartments of Helen Banonofsky, at 24 Catharine street, some time between Saturday and Tuesday. Joseph Miranda's barber shop was entered by burglars Wednesday night. The place is at 305 Adams street, a stone's throw from the Adams street police station. Razors, clipping machines and a small sum of money were carried away.

A diamond ring worth $125 was stolen from the residence of Mrs. Mary French, at 1,347 St. Marks avenue, some time Wednesday. A PASTOR'S FATHER DEAD. Resolutions Presented by a Committee of the Church.

The Rev. O. M. Jenkins, father of the Rev. J.

Alexander Jenkins, pastor of the Imman uel Congregational Church, Decatur street, between Patchen and Ralph avenues, died recently. The vererable clergyman had been for many years the beloved pastor of a church in North Wales. On Sunday a meeting of the Immanuel Church was held in the parlors and a committee of deacons, E. H. Henderson, L.

Van Wicklen and James M. Dobbs, was appointed to draft a set of resolutions to be presented to Mr. Jenkins. The resolutions conveyed the sympathy of the church with the pastor in his loss. A copy was presented to him Wednesday night and Mr.

Jenkins was much moved by tne thoughtful kindness and sympathy of his people. SECOND BATTALION N. M. N. Y.

Orders are out for the boatswains' mates and acting boatswains' mates to report at headquarters, Monday. August 18, at 8 P. M. for special instruction. Last Sunday, crews trom tne second ana fourth divisions, under command of Ensign Schoonoven went in the sailing cutters as far as Spuyten Duyvil.

The third division, in cutter, made the run to Greeneville. The gun crews taking part in the annual one pounder competition between the First and Second Battalions will report on board the Alleen at ::00 P. Saturday, August 16 uniforms clean whites and white caps, neckerchiefs. The target will be put overboard off Sandy Hook and firing at 1,000 yards will commence as soon as the distance flags are buoyed. The firings in the Second Battalion will be under the supervision of Lieutenant Kings ley Martin, gunnery officer, and in the First Battalion of Lieutenant Raynor.

Captain Forshew will be in command of the Alleen and an officer detailed from each division will assist in watch duty. Thursday evening the men of the fourth division will be instructed In marking clothes properly and placing the stops according to regulation. NEWSBOY DECIDES TO RETIRE. John Mangels, known to patients and attaches of Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan, for eight years past as one of the two boys having the privilege of selling newspapers through the hospital, has decided to retire, having accumulated a fortune estimated at from $10,000 to $12,000. Mangels is only 20 years Eight years ago he succeeded his uncle.

John Stellner, who for thirty years previously had the exclusive right to sell papers in Bellevue Hospital, and who retired to live on a comfortable fortune. I of In an Address to I 8th District Republicans He Discusses National issues. BOOM FOR CONGRESS LAUNCHED Democrats "Without an Issue Declares the Speaker Ridicule for Hill. Colonel William Herastreet addressed the Republican of the Eighteenth Assembly District at 1,554 Fulton street, last night. The club room was comfortably filled with voters of the district.

Announced to speak upor. the issues of the day. Colonel Hem street devoted himself entirely to national questions, and upon every issue he discussed he had decided opinions which he expressed in decided language. The speech was partisan to the core, the colonel's praise of the Republican party and its work being almost discriminate, while his denunciation and ridicule of the Democrats and their policy were as sweeping and stinging as any Republican in the audience could have desired. Colonel Hemstreet was introduced by B.

F. Chadsey, who acted as chairman of the meeting. The colonel spoke for an hour, and he kept his auditors interested. When he had closed a vote ot thanks was extended to him and Internal Revenue Collector Ernest Xathan made an animated speech, in which he enthusiastically declared that the district would honor itself in naming Colonel Hem street to represent it In any capacity. Whereupon the audience cheered loudly and crowded around the speaker of the evening with congratulations.

It was suspiciously like the lormal lauuehing a Congressional om. Before it adjourned the meeting passed tnis resolution: "Whereas, The people of Cuba, having been by the intervention of the United btates, suddenly liberated from slaverv and civil helplessness, and are still needing our material assistance to complete a republic of iJt ae iuiu prosperity, and "Whorm. 1 hp nonu i freely and fully conformed in their organic law to our own requirements, and the spirit of our institutions; "Resolved, That wo commend the customs reciprocity with Cuba, proposed by President Hoosevolt. and that we deem it the duty of all Republican organizations thus early mis congressional canvass to sustain the course of the President "This district and this club," began Colonel Hemstreet when introduced, "are to be commended and congratulated upon firing the first gun. This is the good old fashioned Ameiican way, the oeonie 2 ettini? i.

getter early and teiiing the politicians what i 0 ls an evj habit we have falien puiiLiciKns tea tne people what to do. This new word 'leader' strides up against the resentment and disgust of an American. He asks. 'Where are ra "msi' Clt' caucuses, pri aw 1' Ur Ve me business slaverv nn fv. JJ lfce one hand' and tyran I.

3 ther' a' "kely to do Lr ey are compelled to do. It is not too early now for the people to give bias to the coming convention, and to show that they intend to support President Roosevelt tne path ho is mapping out, to give him a Congress that will back up his courageous and wise statesmanship. Now is the time to come out with both your men and measures, before the caucuses and primaries so tnat we shall not have to choose the least of two evils. "Our country is so prosperous and well satisfied that the Democrats have to search with spyglasses for an issue. Another perspiring embarrassment with them is to find harmony.

iney can't find an issue until Jey harmonize, end they can't harmonize until they find an issue. According to a recent state rent of one of their leaders they can find either issue or a man. The cartoonists might make a hit by the picture of their Democratic donkey in a full but fruitless gallop arter three turnips held bv a rig of his own before his nose, labeled" Why. the country is so gay and powerful that the Democratic party might as well raise the issue whether the skies are bright, grass grows or water runs. Of course, there are people out of a job and there always have been, and alwavs will be in every country under rhe sun so long as there is indolence, vice and crowding from country to city.

Our parks are always full of bums through all administrations and all laws, and have been ever since I was knee high to a tadpole. "Has the Democratic party had any harmony tne last half centurv? They divided on the slavery question; thev divided on the war for the Union, and while vour voung men were yet in the field, in ISM. they declared in solmen national convention at Chicago that the war was a failure and should cease. They are to day divided on the principle of state sovereignty and on disfranchising the negro. They are divided on the public school question; and.

too, on the sectarian question, as sometimes shown by the mysterious result of some elections, and of Jew baiting. Tbey are always hopelessly divided on financial administration and upon our colonial policy." Then the colonel began the recital' of seme of the Democratic party's sins as he saw them. Their nomination of Sevmour against Grant was scored. Their tariff policy was pronounced a failure. The Philippines, he declared, were no longer an issue.

The Democratic party is only the' corollarv the negation of the Republican party, he declared, and has to oppose it on all the great issues of the day to exist at all. Then the speaker warmed up a little and declared: "It was a Democrat who shot Lincoln in the back and until to day there has been no Democrat in a certain great section of this country to apologize for that act." The auditors had cheered his other hits at Democrats or laughed at them, as the humor of the occasion suggested, but this was received in silence. Colonel Hemstreet said it was his peculiar fortune to have been employed in Congress during the reconstruction period and the Republicans who reconstructed the nation, he believed, were brought up by Providence to do this work. "Here again." he continued, "the Democratic party was divided and thev nominated Seymour, who addressed the howling Democratic, anti draft mobs of New York, of whom 1,000 were shot, as his 'noble It was my peculiar personal fortune to be, as a young man. employed as stenographer in Congress during that neriod.

and ran fiav the world will never know the painstaking, patriotic personal labor of those grand old stalwarts. All through sultry nights in the committee rooms, with their coats off, they would pore over laws, reports, correspondence and statistics, and have devout consultations to plan wise and patriotic legislation, resulting in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, and in a happy and strong reunion of our people. North and South. Those old patriots have gone to their reward. They were raised up by Providence.

Next came the national question as to whether we would repudiate our financial obligations. Although many brave and public spirited Democrats were with us, still the maintenance of a national and international money was a Republican party measure, and now our paper money is like gold the world over. Why, a dollar greenback goes here 3.000 miles. In old Democratic times, we had to stop at every state border and get our 'wild cats' changed and then get Then came a long series of wise and progressive legislation down to the present time, including the anti trust law. which was passed with only one Democratic vote in favor of it.

Lastly, the Philippines fell like a ripe apple Into our hat, giving us a distributing point throughout Asia with its six hundred millions of people for the output of our humming industrial surplus. "The Democratic orators will arraign the Republican party. Of course, the Republican party ls human; humanity itself Is error. Of course, the Democrats will oppose even thing the Republican party says and dors; that is their onry business; they are reactionists and negationists by natiue, a class that is found in every country; it Is a personal dis I I $50 REWARD. Wo have deposited with the National City Bank of Lynn, S5000, which will be paid to any person who can find that the uhove testimonial letter is not genuine, or was published before obtaining the writer's special permission.

lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Lynn, SXass. easny classify them. It serves a good pur pose in keeping things stirred up, preventing stagnation, tyranny or extravagance on the part of the powers that be. Our Democratic party should not a.

ohshed because it keeps the Republican party conservative and careful. But that is quite a different thing, on moral considerations alone, from putting the power of the Nation into the hands of a heterogeneous lot of people who can't find harmony. If they were in possession of Congress and the government tbey could not agree upon any progressive legislation. They have not enough moral coherence to form a national party, and they now, after national consoldiatlon of principles, never can have another victory, especially if the Republican party will come from the peop'e and out of the hands of the bosses or so called leaders." On the question of trusts, the speaker took the position that the Republican party was the party to check these combinations of wealth, and that it had already begun its task under the able, wise and energetic leadership of President Roosevelt. "I am no man worshipper, as some people in this city who like to be worshipped have found out, but I believe Theodore Roosevelt was raised up by Providence for the exigencies of the American people." The Republicans were not responsible for trusts, he said, any more than the Democrats.

The evil is an inherent one, the fault of no party, but of humanity, and thousands of years of tolerance and legislative neglect. "The progress of the people has destroyed political tyranny, leveling down and leveling up man, and giving to the people, constitutions and republican governments. Yet one ingredient of human nature has been left to grow rank, and that is greed. Financially, men, the world over, have been allowed to grow as big as shot towers and to aggrandize. But we can find millionaire Democrats as well as millionaire Democrats who are incorporators and directors in grasping trusts and monopolies.

They have their country seats, and their yachts glide over the oceans to their chateaus abroad. Show me a Democrat who won't take advantage in a trust, or who won't wear silk stockings when he gets a chance, and I will show you a man with whiskers on his liver. All cur people are agreed that i this ennrpntraf inn nf i oalti Ho cv amples of luxury, must stop. But this must I be dolle without injustice to vested rights i or Ignorant and violent revolution; and laws I muEt be promulgated so as to gradually remedy the evil and forever prevent it from dominating the country again. In that uiigmy.

worn a Kepuoilcan President, Theodore Roosevelt, and his Attorney General, are now taking the initiative, and the Republican rank and file are backing them up. He is a man who, by his level head, his heart in the right place, his American instincts, his incomparable bravery and strength, Eppms tn Via rnlce. Kir 3nnnn important iuncture to vmrtertnlte nnri narrv out such a task; and the main issue of this present campaign is, Shall a Consxess be elected who will sustain him? Congress must legislate more for man and less tor money; ic caliuicd ui suieLV nearer ana to arrest their drifting apart. It is a big 3b; giVe tlme' During the coming cam! 'flsures don't He' 'eveiaeu. i ne uemocrauc campaign orators will make them lie as fast as a naphtha automobile tt napbtha automobile can puff, and the people will be as muddled and hoodwinked as the authors themselves.

But the common sense of the people will inauire broadlv 'Ha WO general prosperity; is our credit good at home and abroad, and are we respected as a great national power throughout the That is all any government can guarantee. It cannot make people temperate, industrious or virtuous. 'The poor ve have alwava with It will be so, as long as there are faults, follies and accidents. But there is less poverty this country than in any been the vexation of every government since me woria oegan. "The Democrats are threatenng to make the.

revision of the tariff an Isbho watched the threshing over and over of that subject for forty years, read ail the great writers and heard great speakers of uum siaes; ana nave seen that while there may "be something in mere tariff tinkering that has to do, remotely, with the thrift of the people, the arguments don't satisfy the common intelligence. In brief, it may be said that if protection makes all manufac turea articles nign it makes also wages high so that the purchasing power of a dollar re mains aoout the same through all the changes of the tariff, except that bv nmtof. tion the workingman can always get the job and the dollar, while with low tariff and cheap commodities he has neither job nor uunar. it aoesn matter so much what the tariff is if it is steady and the business people can be given time to accommodate themselves to it. This constant shifting of tariff policy by partisan stump speeches and the ill considered whimsicalities of the nen ple is vexatious and ruinous to our business peace ana steaay aavancement.

Under our present policy the workingman or skilled mechanic is just beginning the erection of his little home from his savings bank fund. Suppose our present high tariff be theoretically wrong and it is suddenly changed by a change of administration. The mill is shut down and our mechanic's cottage stops half built. What cares he about fine spun theories of political economy or pretentious orators with their tables of statistics? He wants steadiness, something that he can rely upon, to raise his family and provide for his old age and his wife with dignity instead ot un satsfying dependence." Ex Senator Hill was ridiculed for criticising Governor General Wood's action of "buying off" General Gomez in Cuba for $20,000. The conditions in Cuba and Gomez's capacity for making trouble were explained by the speaker, and he declared that General Wood would have been justified In spending twenty times $20,000 "as a military measure" if necessary.

The only mistake made in Cuba, he said, was in withdrawing military government, before the Cuban people became Americanized. Continuing, the speaker said that the Cuban question was the most important with which the Congress would have to deal tn the near future. He said: "Fault is found with Congress for not lowering the Cuban tariff. Those faultfinders are in too much of a hurry. There is something to be said on the other side.

This country has already been extravagant in its benevolence toward Cuba, to the line of sentimentalism. We have spent over a hundred million dollars and many hundreds of lives to emancipate the Cuban people and start them, by a jump, from the sixteenth century Into the twentieth century. They nave an lsiana more productive, five to one, than any part of the United States. have unrestricted commerce with the world me same as ever, and political economists tell us the people could live on one hour's work a day. They can harvest subsistence for man and beast every month In the year, and if they cannot get along it is from their own laziness and sensualism.

They carry all their eggs in two baskets tobacco and sugar and those baskets being upset, they are left helpless. If they would do as President Palma tells them to who has lived twenty years in the United States, diversify their industries, thev could live without always begging for help. But they spend too much time in office seeking and in the cafes. The volunteers who were paid off spout their money lounging about the towns and brothels rather than in opening little farms or workshops. It ls said there they will do the same when they get this new payment of the thirty five million loan.

We having done all we have for them, are not legally or morally bound to give them another cent, but should tell them to go to work and lift themselves up as our own forefathers did in '76 by Industry and eam estess. Of course, just for experimental consistency. Just to carry out our own plan of malting them a free republic, we ought to give them a little pocket money to start out with. But what the Cuban people need most of all is stern trials in self help sobriety and enterprise that they confess they lack. Let the better class of Cubans, the wealthy, educated and businesslike, be the teachers and guides of the lower class; stay at home more, pay higher duties on luxuries and lower duties on necessities, have more sympathy with them, lift them up and set them to home production, Import less and themselves live less in seclusion and indulgence." NEW SAENGERFEST PROGRAMME President F.

Scheldt of the Baltimore Singers Proposes Welcome Changes. From Baltimore comes the news that Presr ident Fritz Scheidt of the United Singers has suggested a change in the programme for the Saengerfest, which had been outlined by the entertainment committee of the Saengerfest Association. At the next meeting of the United Singers the delegates will be asked to instruct the directors of the Northeastern Saengerbund to have the programme as sent out by the Baltimore singers for the Saengerfest amended in order to secure a musical success. The directors of the bund who will have to decide on the programme at their next meeting which will probably be held at Baltimore, are of the opinion that the principal feature of the festival, the great concerts and the prize singing contests, ought to find a more prominent place in the order of events that have been proposed to fill a whole week. The programme, as published by the Eagle last week, of course is said to be only tentatively set up by the bureau of entertainment of the Baltimore Saengerfest Association, partly as a working plan and particularly for the purpose of evoking suggestions that will lead to the forming of a programme satlsfac tory to all interested in the success of the festival.

The directors and the out of town guests, however, do not agree with the proposition of having the meeting of the delegates of the bund held on the first day, followed by a torchlight parade on the evening of the sec ond day and a banquet or "kommers," at the Saengerfest park and to begin with the re hearsals, prize singing and the great con certs on the third day. The directors of the bund claim that by this arrangement the singers would be compelled to have two days, Monday and Tuesday, to enjoy themselves with their friends and that by these continued amusements before the concerts, the success of the same would be endangered; it being very difficult to keep the singers from cele brating in going around from one to another society. "The singers will either stay at home until Tuesday," said S. K. Saenger last night, "or not arrive until Monday night, making It impossible to hold the meeting of the delegates on Sunday; or the singers will he unable af ter two days of merrymaking to enter the contests and take part with the same vigor as It tne concerts would begin on Monday.

"Furthermore, I do not see why a special day could not be given to the Kaiser prize singing and in addition a concert by the societies that compete for the prize. Brooklyn, when asking for a special day for the Kaiser prize singing two years ago, was denied the isame and by arranging the contest for a morning session we have lost at least not counting in the loss at the park, where the picnics were going on. August H. TIemann, another of the directors, is of the same opinion. "It will be impo3iible," he said last night, "to keep the singers together for a whole week, especially in the middle of June, when business is in full bloom and a vacation of a whole week means a great loss for our singers, who cannot afford to lose so much of their weekly income.

"In July, when on account of the Fourth of July celebration, the singers are compelled to quit work for a few days, the attending of a Saengerfest does not involve such heavy loss. Why not begin the co'ncerts on Monday, have the contests come off on that day and Tuesday and have the picnic on Wednesday? The trades display, grand procession with floats, may be all right to attract visitors to Baltimore, but the principal features are the concerts and the contests, and when these are over there remains ample time for excursions to Washington, Gettysburg, Annapolis, Atlantic City or other places. The grand procession also may be held on the forenoon of the picnic day." John U. Hummel, another of the Brooklvn directors of the bund, also strongly denounces the idea of continuing the festival for a whole week. "The singers," he said, "never will be enabled to stay so long a time away from work as would be necessary In case the programme as prOosed should be carried out.

For the delegates It would be a loss of an even ten days. To extend the festival over a whole week Is an innovation that cannot find the approval of the who have the final decision on the question of the programme. At all Saengerfests held so far there were onlv four days taken In, and that is all the sing' ers can lose from their work. A special day. think, never will be granted for the Kaiser prize singing.

We were denied this privilege, and I cannot see how Baltimore could be favored with it. because it will entail a heavy expense for all the singers willing to attend the festival. Only a small number of singers would go to Baltimore If the programme should not be changed. I think the 1 directors of the other associations, at Man hattan, Newark and even Philadelphia, are of the same opinion, that it is Impossible to bring a large number of singers to Baltimore for a whole week in the busiest time of June." As said before, Mr. Scheidt of Baltimore has, as is learned to day, suggested that the prize singing should be held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and that on Wednesday night the picnic should be held and the prizes be delivered to the different societies.

The trades display and the other attractions, review of warships and excursions, may fill the rest of the week. SUES FOB $5,000. Mrs. Jennie Marshek, of 718 Herkimer street, has begun Buit against the Erie Railroad Company for $5,000 damages for injuries sustained. Mrs.

Marshek on July 27th was a passenger "on a train leaving Greenwood Lake, and after seating herself at an open window, the window dropped and caught Mrs. Marshek's left hand. Several the fingers were crushed. Upon investigation it was found that the fastening was out of order. P.

R. R. TUNNEL CONFERENCES. Aldermanic Railroad Committee Will Attend Them Hereafter. According to an agreement reached at the meeting of the Rapid Transit Commission yesterday afternoon the Railroad Commit tee of the Board of Aldermen will be in vited to attend the future conferences with regard to the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel franchise.

The agreement was reached at the request of President Fornes of the Board of Aldermen with a view to giving that com mittee an opportunity to learn as much about the franchise as possible while it ia in a formative The commission approved vouchers yesterday for the work done on the subway to the amount of $1, tor tne month of July. According to secretary Burrows, tne total amount expended to date is WAITING FOR MR. FORD. He Has Not Come to Investigate City Bookkeeping. The Commissioners of Accounts are won dering what Worthington C.

Ford's where abouts are. About six weeks ago, the com missioners, on a request from Mayor Low ap poiuted him as an expert examiner to exam ine the methods of bookkeeping in the city departments. Arrangements were made whereby the Merchants' Association was to pay his salary, his connection with the city being purely in a business way aside from financial obligations. A letter was sent to hlij(tt 'the Boston Public Library notifying him of his appointment and a reply was received that he would take charge "within a fe days." This time has extended into weeks and no one knows where he is. Mr.

Ford is a brother of the late Paul Leicester Ford, the novelist, and is an expert, accountant and statistician. TO AID THE GERMAN HOSPITAL. A theatrical performance will be given some time between October 15. and October 31 for the benefit of the German Hospital Association, fhis was decided at a meeting of the committee on ways and means of the auxiliary of the German Hospital Association, held last night at Arion Hall. The committee was organized by the election of the following officers: August A.

Tiemann, chairman; A. Fehmel, assistant chairman; H. C. A. Wagner, secretary; P.

H. Goldschmidt, financial secretary; H. Scheldt, treasurer. The other members of the committee are Dr. W.

John Schildge, who on account of his being director general of the Arion Festival was unable to accept again the chairmanship; Colonel L. Ruege, P. Stuercke, William Neumann. C. A.

Evertz, A. E. Fischer, P. Herreschaft, H. Homeyer, Charles Roth, John Hummel, Theodor P.

Fritz, H. Zeidel, William Young, J. Sengstaken, H. Homfeldt, J. H.

Doscher, F. E. Hestmann, David Koos, D. Treckmann, Carl Heitmann. Whether the performance will be given at the Academy ot Music or at the Amphion Theater will be decided at the next meeting.

As soon as Mr. Conrled of the Irving Place Theater has. returned negotiations in regard to the play will be continued. In connection with the performance, a souvenir programme will be Issued by the committee. A SWINDLER AT "WOBK.

The man who has been swindling householders In Brooklyn on the false representation that he Is an Inspector of the Health Board has been at work again. He went Wednesday the residence of Mrs. Lewis Warady. at 43 Java street, and said that he had been sent to make an inspection of the premises. He was very careful in measuring the dimensions of the cellar, looked wise and said that the fee would be $3.64.

This sum the woman paid, and after he had eone she found that he had been a swindler. So she reported the matter to the police of the Greenpoint station. This is the description of the man: About 25 years old, 5 feet 5 inches in height, weighs about 170 pounds. has llRht complexion and a heavy blond mustache and wears a gray suit and a white straw hat. CHANGES IN CITY DEPARTMENTS.

The Commissioners of Accounts have made several appointments in their department. They are: Matthew T. Horgan, examining in spector at Bernard Fitzpatrick and George H. Nason, examining inspectors at $1,500 and $1,800 respectively: Wm. J.

Cobb. Edward J. McQuade and Frank P. Early, ex aminers of accounts at $1,500, $1,500 ana $1,800 respectively. Dock Commissioner Hawkes has made per manent the temporary appointment of Kumeo Yano, a Japanese, as marine cook.

Yano receives $60 per month. Adolph Balschum, has been appointed an inspector of tenements in the Tenement House Department at $1,200 per annum. BBOOKLYN OITICIAL'S PURCHASE. (Special to the Eagle.) Rockville Center, L. August 15 Wesley C.

Bush, deputy tenement house commissioner ot the Borough of Brooklyn, has purchased from Robert W. Haff the latter's property at the Junction of the Merrick road and Morris avenue, this village. The lot is 185x300 feet in size, and on It are a commodious modern cottage, stable and other outbuildings. Commissioner Bush is now occupying the cottago and will remain here until late in the fall. WHY ABE JANITORS UNPAID To the Editor the Brooklyn Eagle: Will the dear old Eagle try and give the Janitors of the puhlic schools some Information as to why they are not paid their July salaries.

We were tolrl that after the 1st of May, tinder the new rules and regulations, our salaries would be paid punctually on the first of each month. Probably Auditor Cook can throw some light on the matter A JANITOR. Brooklyn, August 7, 1902, RANKIN POST OUTING. Vets Enjoy a Festival at Coney Island. Large Crowd in Attendance.

The annual afternoon and evening festi val by the sea of Rankin Post No. 10, Grand Army of the Republic, Department of New York, was held yesterday afternoon and evening at Boyton's Sea Lion Park, Coney Island. The affair, as usual, was largely attended, and the old veterans and their friends thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Department Commander Allan C. Bake well and staff were present on the invitation of Assistant Quartermaster Michael J.

Cummings, and the party went down in a special car. It was a late hour when Commander Alfred T. Wilson and his friends and comrades went home. The drum corps gave an exniDition during the evening. The committee of arrangements included Jacob Callas, chairman; S.

V. Commander J. P. Holland, treasurer; John Hoole, secretary; Officer of the Day Charles Jackson, J. V.

Commander William H. Parshall, Past S. V. Commander James Whitlock. Past J.

V. Commander Jesse R. Chisholm, Comrades P. Riley, J. Woodward and P.

Rorke. The floor committee included James Calvin, Charles Miles, William Sporer, Henry Weidner, George Belzer and H. Macumber. SECOND NAVAL BATTALION. The Fourth Division, Second Naval Battalion, N.

M. N. gave another sail for its young women friends Wednesday evening. It was greatly enjoyed; even more so than the sail last week. There were about the same number present.

The division had two boats out, the steam launch and a cutter, which was in charge of Ensign elect Harry P. Hamilton. The boats made a run to the Crescent Athletic Club, where Lieutenant C. O. Brincker hoff, commander of the Fourth Division, was put ashore.

As the launch was about to leave the club house's float the propeller would not work. Hamilton, Chapman, Townsend, Watson and Martin soon remedied the trouble. The boats continued down the bay for a short distance and then returned to quarters. Dancing was then enjoyed and refreshments were served. It is expected that the division will have another sail next Wednesday evening.

RAINES LAW VIOLATION. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, August 15 State Commissioner of Excise Cullinan reports that an order has been granted revoking the liquor tax certificate issued to Josef Knlber for premises 421 Columbia street. Brooklyn. Knlber violated the provisions of the liquor. tax law by keeping his barroom open and liquors on Sundays and to minors.

COMPANY HAS A PERMIT. The Eagle has received a letter from a taxpayer calling attention to the fact that the Kings County Electric Light Company uses the city dump at the foot of Gold street for disposing of Its ashes, apparently without paying for the privilege. Upon investigation this morning it was learned that the company has a permit from the Street Cleaning Department to use the dump at the foot of Gold street. NEW BIG REAL ESTATE COMPANY. Albany, Auguet 14 The Pennsylvania Development Company of New York City was incorporated to dty to deal in real estate and do a general building and contracting business.

The company has a capital of $40,000. The diiectors are: John O. Gllmore and Charles J. Porter of Philadelphia, and William H. Cummiugs, John L.

Cummings and William L. Wood of Brooklyn. Every Woman In inlprpstpri nnri nhonldlcnnw. about the wonderfaJ MARVEL Whirling Spray nenew ayrinre Jtuec tion and Suction. Brat Sal est convenient.

itueansei Unitaqtiy. It he cannot supply the MARVEL, accent no other, hut send stamp for Illustrated book waled Jt gives full particulars and directions In Taluable to ladies. Room 700. Times Bdir.IVewVorl. For sale in Brooklyn at Burkhardt's, No.

1,941 Broadway; Bolton Drug Company's stores. WATCHES REPAIRED $1.00 FOR CLEANING OR MAINSPRING. Warranted 1 year." Jewelry made and repaired. Old watches and gold jewelry taken In trade and bought for cash. CHARLES A.

KEENE, ISO BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY. Open until o'clock. Saturdays included. THE BEST WALL FINISH MADE. PURE WHITE OR TINTED.

Cleaner and healthier Than Paper. TIEMANN'S HARMORINE. T1EM ANN'S, 88 Fulton St. WOLFE'S FRECKELGNE CREAM. A prompt, reliable and harmless remedy for i freckles.

Price 60c. per box. We refund i money If It falls to cure. Frederick Loerter fc Co. i TO AID THE CONGREGATION.

The fair In aid of the congregation of the Sons of Israel will be opened to morrow night In the large pavilion connected with the Sea View Hotel on Cropsey avenue, Bath Beach. The fair promises to be a big success. The booths and those in charge of them are as follows: Flower Mrs. A. Stern, Mrs.

J. Livingston. Candy Mrs. I. Goldsmith.

Mrs. Solomon Schipp, jr. goods and toys Mrs. Slomka, Mrs. Ha lerpand.

Mrs. A. E. Welgel. Fancy Mrs.

Charier Japhe, Mrs. Aaron Levy. Mrs. B. B.

Spiess. Mrs. A. Troper. Grocery Mrs.

H. Stern, Mrs. Carrie Weil, Mrs. Louis Mann. Jewelry Mrs.

Max Greenfield. Mrs. L. Schipp. Ice cream.

Mrs. F. Tworger, Mr. T. Tn orger.

Mrs. T. Meyer. Furniture Mrs. Solomon Greenfield.

Mrs. H. Joseph. Aid Society Mrs. I.

Brauer. Mrs. 3. Levy, Mrs. H.

Cohen. Mrs. H. Levy. Journal committee F.

Tworger. chairman; Mri. A. Slomka. Mrs.

J. Livingston. Fair Mrs. A. Stern.

Mrs. Loui Mann, Mrs. Aaron Levy. Julius Livingston. H.

Stern, Max Greenfield, Louis Mann. Judges of contest J. Goldsmith, Joseph Mann. A. Slomka.

Raffling committee Charlss Japhe, Aaron Levy, I. Brauer. S. Greenfield, Frank Splees, H. Joseph.

Officers F. Tworger, president; I. Goldsmith, vice president; L. Mann, treasurer: Charlss Japhe, secretarv. Trustees A.

Troper. Max Greenfield, H. Stern. Executive commutes Julius Livingston, chairman; H. Stern, F.

Tworger. S. Mann, Max Greenfield. Charles Japhe, Aaron Levy. I.

Goldsmith, A. Slomka, A. Troper. Solomon Greenfield. B.

B. Spiess, I. Brauer, A. LONG ISLAND'S POTATO YEAR. Fatchogue, L.

August 15 Judging from the reports from ail parts of the island the present season will be the best In the history of Long Island for potatoes. From all sections come in reports of the extensive yield and the excellent quality of the tubers, the extraordinary size being the principal feature outside of the quantity. On the farm of Augustus Floyd at Mastic fourteen potatoes dug out of a single row weighed fifteen pounds, while from East Patchogue comes the announcement by Postmaster Smith of a single potato weighing twenty nine ounces. All along the east end, where the potato crop is a feature, the same results are announced. mill Alk Tonr drore Iit far It..