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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. TIIURSDASEPTEMBER 24. 1903. FAVOR GOVERNMENT OWNERSHITJ MISCELLANEOUS.

I SAYS YOUTH WAS THIEF. Woman Accuses John Bohner of Snatching Eer Purse. DOS WITH BUIE5 UNDER THE EYE OF SGIENGC LAKE SITUATION THREATENING. Chicago, September 24 Concerning the strike of the vesselmen of the Pittsburg Steamship Company, controlled by the United States Steel Corporation, at the enj of conferences yesterday at Cleveland it was declared that the disputing parties are farther apart than ever, and that the fight threatens to extend to the ships of half a doien of the biggest independent fleets oa the lakes. John Bohner, 19 year, old, of 1-0 Crove street, was charged to-day before trate Doolcy, In the Myrtle avenue cur', with being the principal in a pockctl-onk snatching case yesterday afternoon.

Mrs. Clementine Lane of 71 Greene avenue was walking along Carlton avenue, between Greene ave. and Fulton shortly after o'clock, when, it Is alleged Bohner knock -1 her poclietbook from her hand. Then, It is KflM tin a ,1 eint lcu to get out 01 mo waj. In the course of his flight made use of a WILL CARRY SCRAP IRON.

along Carlton and Greene avenues, Fulton I street and part of South Oxford street, by vl Farmers National Congress Also Wants Oklahoma Admitted. Niagara Falls, iV. September 24 At the opening session of tho Farmers National Congress to-day Professor F. M. Webster of Vrbana, read a raper on "Insect Pests of Plants and Their Effect on American Agriculture." Professor Webster said that the millions of dollars loss of crops by InsectB every year did not receive the attention it should by either the public or the farmer.

These great losses he believed preventable. Professor Frank Parsons of the Boston University and president of the National Public Ownership League Law School, delivered an address on the "History of Govern mental Ownership of Public Utilities." The farmer, especially in the West, he said, Is greatly interested in the franchises of the Interurban trolley lines, which now market his products. He is also greatly interested in postal savings banks and government own ership of railroads. The resolutions committee have Indorsed resolutions favoring government ownership of railroads and a postal telegraph system. Un restricted agricultural reciprocity with Cana da was voted down by the committee.

A resolution favoring the admission of Oklahama as a state was also favored. The Farmers Congress will send five delegates to the National Civic Federation meeting In Chicago to confer with that body on industrial troubles. BRUCE ON THE CAMPAIGN. Fusion Has Nothing to Defend Except the Homes of the People, the City Treasury nnd City Property. M.

Linn Bruce, the chairman of the New York County Republican Committee, made the following comment on the Fusion ticket to-day: "The Republican city convention has nominated the winning ticket. Tho work of Mayor Low. Controller Crout and President Foraes has been to the people of the city on object lesson not enslly forgotten. They have lifted city government out of the gutter of corrupt politics. "To renominate them was not a matter of politics.

It was chiefly a question of Indorsing demonstrated honesty and capacity. The majority of the peoplo of this city are good and Intelligent people. That majority may sometimes be deceived, but to charge that they cannot recognize good city government when they see it and compare it with Tammany rule would be an insult to their intelligence. "The campaign now opened will not be one for or against Individuals. No issue cculd be surer than the one we now face.

It Is honesty and capacity against dishonesty and incapacity. It is the good people of tho city against Tammany and the Tammany system. The good people are going to win. To the Tammany Inspired statement that we will be on the defensive in this campaign I say for the Republican organization that we shall be on the defensive only to tho ex tent that we shall bo defending the city treasury; defending the homes of the people from blackmail and extortion; defending tho docks, the schools, the parks and the playgrounds from a band of corruptionists who are without honor and without shame. 'Mavor Low will be re-elected not because of his politics, but for the reason that he has made it possible for the moral elements of the city to realize the material value of good city government." JACKIES MISS MC FARLIN.

Commissary Steward of the Culgoa, Who Fed Them Like Princes, Sent to Naval Hospital. The jackles on board tho United States supply ship Culgoa, now moored off Tomp-klnsville, S. with the Kearsarga and the Indiana, have been In an anxious frame of mind all this week and many of them are sad and downhearted. Commissary Steward McFarlln, who has gained fame as the man who feeds the sailor lads on stuffed turkey, chicken salad, Ice cream and other delicacies not Included in the regular rations Issued by Unclo Sam, is sick at the Brooklyn Naval Hospital, where ho is to undergo an opera tion. Although the operation is not considered dangerous one, the commissary steward looks upon It in a rather serious light and bade the sailor lads larewell oetore ne leu the ship.

He deposited his ready cash and the deeds to a considerable amount of property, of which he is the possessor, with the Naval Young Men Christian Association last week, so as to be prepared for the worst. The Bailors say he has promised them a feaBt far ahead of anything they have witnessed In the past If the doctors at the hospital do a good Job and pull him through. McFarlln has weulthy relatives living in tho northern part of tho Btate and himself has had quite a history. He was for some time in charge of a large mess at Cornell University, where his brother Is a professor, and has the catering business down to a science. The quantity and variety of the food he has dealt out to the Culgoa's crew have caused him to be widely known.

SCHOONER 102 YEARS OLD. The Vigilant, Built for a Slaver, Captured by Danes, in Use Ever Since. To the Editor of tho Brooklyn Eaglo: The scl.ooncr Vigilant spoken of In your issue of 22d is under tho Danish Hag, and has been bo from the early part of last century. She Is the official mall schooner running between Bt. Croix and St.

Thomas under contract with the government. The writer personally knew an old gentleman lu St. Thomas, who, If he were now living, would be abuut I'G years old. He was a ship carpenter, having learned tho trade in Baltimore. I have heard him say that the Vigilant was built In Baltimore in SOI for a slaver, and had been captured by a Damsn man-oi-war, una since men nils Dceu under the Danish Hag.

She Is a remarkably pretty model and a very fast sailer and. although she lias lie tome lines as she originally had, it is prob-ablo that not a piece of her is original, the having been repair- su often. 1 was born in St. Tlmma.s in l.M. WALDEMAK M.

SIMMONS. Jornlemon street, Brooklyn, September 23, 1903. WHAT CONEY ISLAND WANTS. To tho Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: In last night's Eagle an attractive piece of news was brought before my eyes, the Introduction of tall poles to servo for telegraph, 1 telephone, trolley wires, In the principal avenues of Brooklyn, instead of the com-j panics' Individual poles, as at present, i In the past summer, down on Surf avenue, Coney Island, the number of pob was an eyesore to me. Could not ornamental poles be erected down here as well as In Brooklyn, to serve the above purposes? The building of sewerB down on the island Is a great Improvement, and this would be, i too, and Coney Island, with its new attrac- Hons, would be a place that the peoplo could call a "New Coney," and would bring re- speetable persons down.

May this bo fulfilled before anothor sum mer comes. L. P. H. Brooklyn, September 23, 1903.

SURROGATE'S COURT. Calendar for Wedntsday; held In Boom 87, lloor. at 10 e'ourt House, before Surrogate Jsmes Church: Tho accounting- In the estate ef George A. Thayer, William H. Tllton.

Otto Gunlli-r. Albert Melslnlin Theodore H. A. Wldftge, Mary Fleming. Fprouln, Imogene Fules anil i--hnian: tho estate.

James Kverwoi. ndlourned to October 6: Andrews; the guardianship ef Iob Infant; the administration of Jane Farnan; contested calendar at 10 o'clock, the amounting af Mary Ann Dugard and James Everson. ILII Engineer O. F. Nichols Will so Report To-night to Flatbush Property Owners, WHO OPPOSE EMBANKMENT.

Meeting at Knickerbocker Field Club to Sign Petition to Grade Crossing Commission. Owners of property along the line of the Brighton Beach Railroad In Flatbush, south of Church avenue, are much Btlrred up over the attempt ot the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company to persuade the recently ap pointed grade crossing commissioners to abolish grade crossings along tho line throughout the section by elevating the tracks ot the road on an embankment with culverts at the street crossings. This feel ing is growing stronger day by day. The property owners who are affected by the change favor a continuation of the depressed road, by which the line rung through the section of Flatbush north of Church avenue. A large number of Influential Flatbushltes are enlisted in the fight against an elevated road, which they believe would depreciate their property DO per cent.

In value. Several meetings have been held and to night at the Knickerbocker Club there will be anothor meeting, at which a petition to tho grade crossing commission, protesting against the elevation of the tracks, will be presented for adoption. It is expected that several hundred of the most influential property owners of the locality will sign the petition" if adopted. With the petition will be submitted a re port signed by O. F.

Nichols, the well known engineer, showing the feasibility of the de pression idea' advocated by the property owners. The report will be accompanied by charts and diagrams further Illustrating the ideas of the property owners as to what plan should be pursued in altering the line of the road to conform to the grade crossing law. That the plans prepared by the engineer engaged by the property owners are feasible and practical in every detail, tho property owners, who have their money Invested In property along the line of the road, do not for a moment doubt. Among the possible drawbacks to the plan of pressing the tracks has been advanced the fact that a large trunk sewer at Foster avenue crossing the line at only five or seven feet beloiv the surface would prove an in surmountable obstacle. It has been claimed that the sewer could not bo laid deeper because the low land level of the section rendered it Impossible to properly flush out a depressed section.

hen this contention was called to the at tention of L. H. Pounds, who is one of the most prominent opponents of an embankment, he said: The property owners have not arrived at their -conclusions regarding a satisfactory plan for the abolishment of grade crossings and the altering of the lino of the railroad without thoroughly and exhaustively investi gating and weighing all the circumstances and apparent obstacles In the way of a depressed road. We have spent a lot of money before ar riving at any decision and have had the as sistance of a man ho is a rocognlzed leader In the engineering procession. He found that up to Foster avenue there was not a single naturnl obstacle against de pressing the tracks and that at that point the difficulty could be remedied with comparatively little difficulty by elongating tho sewer main at that point the necessary distance under the tracks.

'We do not advocate the sinking of the tracks out of sight altogether. By the method of elongating, which is not a new one by any means, a leeway of at least fourteen feet is gained for the passage of tho depressod road, which Ib entirely eufflclent. 'If the streets crossing the tracks are raised some distance in grade either side of the point of crossing, we do not object. "We have not. been going at this matter with our eyes closed, as some people seem to imagine, and there Is not a thing that wo will advocate which will not be perfectly within the bounds of feasibility from an engineering and practical standpoint." PRIVATE CARS COMMON.

Used Not So Much, by Very Rich as by Men Who Are Very Busy. In tho minds of ordinary persons private cars, with their sumptuous furnishings, are an extravagance of the very rich, or vehicles for presidents and directors of railroads to travel over tho country In an elegant leisure, says tho Chicago Record-Herald. As a matter of fact, these private cars are a great investment for the railroad companies. In many Instances they pay for themselves over and over again. Where thcro was one privato car ten years ago there are twenty to-day.

From luxuries they have becomo a medium of saving of time and a business gain. All tho Important Hues keep five or ten private cars, and they all bring good profit. The privato car system was Introduced when tho theatrical stars Jumped In and got more than tho cost of them In advertising. Tho privato cars of Mary Anderson, Pattl, and iugtry attracted attention all over tho country. One of the first men to gain In tho business end of a private car was C.

W. Bunting, a Western millionaire. When a critical friend said to him that $2,500 was a great deal of money for even so rich a man as he was to pay for "Just rldin' around in his own car," hi' replied that it had paid for itself in lejs than two mouths. Scores of rich nun could say the same thing to-day. A.

J. who rides from Philadelphia to New York two or threo times a week, Kays the amount of work he and tho assistant heads of tho departments accomplish between the Broad street station and Jersey City during the Journey more thau pays for the cost of tho car. At the Philadelphia Centennial, In 1S70, two primitive private cm and one l'ullman car were regarded as the wonders of the exhibition. To-day similar cars would be regarded as fit for a small road in one of the South American republics. Bui they set the ball rolling.

The best private cars of to-day cost any- wnere irom m.i.ouu to and oiler every reasonable luxury to ten, fifteen or twenty occupants. Kkii men who mijtht be expected to uso private cars never do. Neither Mr. Morgan nor John Jacob Astor owns a private car. The handsomest private cars in tho world are owned by Adolphus llusrh and Charles M-Schwab.

Busch received his as a present from friends. Mr. Schwab's Is new, built at. a cost of and Is one of the most luxurious things on wheels. It Is seventy feet long Including an observation compartment of twenty feet.

The celling is hand painted. Tho furniture, which, like the general appearance of tho ear, Is in Louis XV period, Is all hand made. Each of the brass bedsteads In tho two Btaterooms cost Jl.OOu. To hlro a private car costs from $35 to $100 a day, not including food or transportation charges. A private car trip from Chicago to New York means an expenditure of nearly $1,000, yet a large number of men make It every month.

Private cars, or even special trains, are so common row that other travelers at the stations scarcely notice them. DESPITE BIG TRLir.K SEV 15 M. Samuel Sons of Brooklyn Buy Her for Their South American Trade. Upton's First Challenger Will Be Altered at Erie Basin, Where She Now Lies. The fate of at least one of Sir Thomas Liptou's challengers for the America's cup became known to-day, when it was announced by M.

Samuel ft Sons ot Brooklyn that they had become the owners of Shamrock I and would convert her into a schooner for trading purposes. The idea of a cup yacht being turned into a merchant vessel may be somewhat startling to yachtsmen, but may serve to answer the critics of the modern type of racing vessels, who say they are mere machines and of no commercial value. A morning paper announced that $20,000 had been paid for Shamrock I by George De Tlnna of 438 Central Park West, Manhattan. To-day It was announced by Messrs. Samuel Sons of North Second street and Kent avenue that Mr.

De Tinna had acted for them in tho matter, although they did not care to state the price paid for the vessels It was a liberal one, however, thoy said. H. H. DavleB acted as Sir Thomas Llpton's agent In the sale. It was further stated by Samuel Sons that they would have the vessel converted Into a schooner at an expense of from to $40,000.

She is now lying at Erie Basin where the alterations will be made. The work will occupy about three months time. The new owners of the old cup challenger are importers and exporters of old Iron and metal and will use Shamrock I in their own trade. She will run between this port and Brazil and other South American ports, carrying scrap Iron and other metals. A representative of the firm told an Eagle reporter to-day that it would not be necessary to alter the exterior of the hull, although yachtsmen and nautical experts do not understand how, with her draught of 22 feet, she can be of use for trading purpose3, particularly in many of the South American harbors.

It has been generally expected that if Shamrock I was converted into a schooner, either for pleasure or business purposes, a large part of her fin would be cut off in order to reduce her great draught. As a schooner she will not carry nearly so large a rig as she has in her old form and will not require the same depth of fin or amount of ballast, particularly If she is intended to carry cargoes. Extensive alterations will be made in tho interior of the vessel, however, such as puling her hold Into condition to receive cargoes, strengthening the hull where It may be necessary and providing quarters for a crew. Shamrock I has a length over all of 130 feet and a water line of 90 feet. Her extreme breadth of beam is 24 feet 64 Inches.

The depth of her hold Is 10 feet 6V4 Inches. She was built in Gourock, Scotland, and is rated at 135 tons, gross. It is probable that the name of the vessel will be changed by her new owners, although that point has not been definitely decided. WESTCHESTER GOLF. Thirty Players Start in Annual Open Event on Country Club Links.

(Special to the Eagle.) Westchester, N. September 24 The annual open amateur golf tourney of the Westchester Country Club began this morning with thirty starters. As the qualifying round at 18 holes medal play could be de-dcclded either in the morning or afternoon, many of the players did not drive off until after luncheon. The first round begins to-morrow morning. In the qualifying round the first sixteen will be eligible to compete for the Westchester Country Club Cup and the sec ond sixteen for tho Consolation Cup.

Among tho good scores In the play to-aay were: L. Downey. Apawa nils Out 40, In Jl. Total 81. L.

Lapham, Apuwumls Out 44. In 44. Total 8S John Moller, Lakewood Out, In, 44. Total, 92. A.

Do Witt Cochran, Ardaley Out, 46: in, 48. Total. 92. SITE FOR HANCOCK STATUE. To tho Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: I believe there is a statue of General Han cock stored somewhere in Brooklyn awaiting a site for its erection.

Now It strikes me that a good location for it would be at the head of Fourth avenue, at its junction with Atlantic avenue, as this will be a fine botile vard when the improvement now under way Is completed. Won't the Eagle advocate this? GEORGE Mc FARLAXD, New York, September 22, 1903. SOUVENIR CARDS. A Young Woman Shows Her Dislike for Them. "Why is It that the souvenir card has become so popular of late?" asked a young woman as she exhibited ono of tho pictorial oddities whic hhad been sent to her from a point in the Ozark Mountains.

"And why Is it, I nonder, that I have boen picked out as a special target by faddists who humor this foolish whim? I have been getting souvenir cards for a year from all parts of the earth. Every friend who goes away from here, and who thinks enough of mo to write will Invariably write to me on a souvenir card. I have received littlo scenes aud skits from all over tho habitable globe, crags aud canyons from the liocky Mountains; glimpses of Bike's Peak, Moro Castle from Cuba, broad stretches of snow from the land of tho hyperborean, lee hills from the Alps, kopjes from South Africa, street scenes from London, gliding gondolas from Venice, beer guzzling sketches from Berlin, and, to cap the climax, when I went away on my vacation, my frlend3 here actuully wrote to me on souvenir cards cards containing bad likenesses of familiar buildings, streets, alligators, bayous, bales of cotton, old black mammies, plckannlules, and so on, and so forth. Now what do you think of that? "Why hould they pick me out as the one particular victim of this fAollsh hobby? I'm not running any art gallery. Beside, I do not take kindly to fads.

They are too whimsical, ton unsubstantial. And It was the irony of fate to literally cover me up with cards containing pictures of places and things I have known from my infancy the old St. Louis Cathedral, Jackson Square, Lee Monumentwhy, it Is simply awful to think nbout It," and tho little white piece of the sketch from the Ozarks filtered Into the waste basket beside flakes of bdow. New Orleans Times-Democrat. UNCLE REUBEN SAYS: Honesty an' Industry am two valuable Jewels hidden In de ground.

Dey was hidden dar wid de expectashun dat people would dig fur 'em, but dat was a great mistake. Lots of mon hev all found dat dey kin git along very well wldout 'em. Detroit Free Press. NOT SERIOUS. Nell The Idea of your being engaged to him! What do you want to be married for? Bells I don't; but I want to show that I can be if I want to.

Philadelphia Ledger. AO'P VESTIBULED A7 iiO TRjAINS for Philadelphia EVERY HOURj IN THE DAY. via READING RoOUTE NEW JERjSEY CENTRjAL. To Reading; Terminal without change. NO DUST, NO StTMOKE.

HANTON MAKES A DISCLAIMER. Ko Attempt to Use Sharp Practice in Judicial Convention in Third District. M. C. Hanton, the Republican leader of the Third Assembly District, who was beaten In the primaries by Deputy Fire Commls loner Lainibecr, objects to the report printed In the Eagle yesterday of the proceedings of the convention to select Judicial dele gates.

He made this statement: "The report ot the convention In the Third Assembly District, which appeared In last Might's Eagle, was viciously unfair, especially ao as to Mr. Wllraot Morehouse, who is without question one of Brooklyn's most worthy citizens and a man who would not stoop to any act unbecoming a man of honor, no matter what the occasion might be. Mr. llorehouso acted strictly within the law, as anybody familiar with the primnry law will admit and who knows what took place, and the gentlemen who went ahead and elec- ted temporary officers and appointed a committee to seat Mr. Morehouse only betray their gross ignorance ot the law, even though there were several lawyers among them.

"Mr. Morehouse transacted the business for W'hich he was appointed by the county committee. When the temporary chairman was elected Mr. Morehouse greeted him as a gentleman and administered the oath required by law and then retired from the chair. This was all the attempt made by Mr.

Morehouse to steal the delegation; and those who charge sharp practice were the only ones who thought about it, and the re-" port that there was a disturbance is about as true as anything emanating from the Source from which the report comes from. "The statement that William liothe was a delegate from Hanton's district is not true, as the gentleman who represented Hanton's home district was Fred M. Bradley, one of the executive committee members of the Brooklyn Young Republican Club, who placed in nomination the ticket headed by Mr. Morehouse, and the vote as announced was 21 to 13; and in the latter part of the paragraph: 'Morehouse is said to have attempted to take his men from the list of alternates elected to the Assembly District Convention to nominate an Assemblyman' is positively untrue, as I have a tally of the roll called by Mr. Morehouse or the secretary, F.

G. Patterson, appointed by him." FORTY YEARS IN THE NAVY. Captain J. M. Miller One of the Youngest Officers Who Fought in Civil War.

Captain J. M. Miller, now attached to the local Navy Yard, Is celebrating to-day the fortieth anniversary of his connection with the United States Navy. Captain Miller, who is 56 years old, Is, with three or four exceptions, the youngest officer in the Navy to-day who participated in the Civil War. He joined the Naval Academy in 1863 and took an active part in the hostilities during the last two years of the war.

This would entitle him to retire at any time with the rank of rear admiral, but the ca'ptaln has no idea of taking advantage of this privilege. "I shall stick It out for another six years," he said this morning, "because I like the service too well to quit it before I have to." During the Spanish-American War Captain Miller was in command of tho Merrlmao and turned her over to Rear Admiral Sampson when It was decided to send her In to block Santiago Harbor. As might be supposed, the captain has touched at every port of any Importance in the world during his many years an a seafaring man, and.hls fund of stories and anecdotes is Inexhaustible. Captain Miller Is scheduled to command the cruiser Columbia when the repairs on her that are now under way shall have been completed. He has been at the Navy Yard three times, having occupied various positions of importance.

He was captain of the yard for some months after Rear Admiral Harrington received his promotion to the grade of rear admiral this spring. Captain Miller will also soon be a rear admiral. THE JOYS OF SUNBURN. A Summer Luxury Highly Valued, by Many Persons. Among the horses ot tho sun Is Erythreos.

He Is the "red producer." All of them, according to the Greek aud Latin myth, "breathe Are from their nostrils," but It is this one that must be credited with those peach-bloom tints common to late spring and the summer. A half hour out in tho open will convince one that the "red producer" Is tainting the sunshine with his fiery breath Hall, Erythreos! Sunburn to tho city youth, and ago as well, is one of the luxuries of the summer. It is becoming to some; some It makes hideous along with it may come freckles galore; there may be days and nights of discomfort and cold cream poulticing; but none of these possibilities rob the sunburn of its charm. It serves an outward and visible sign of a good time somewhere. "Where did you get It?" addressed to the wearer of a newly-borrowed visage will, nine times out of ten, bring out the story of a day, or days, spent away from town, and there will be a touch of pride In the tone of the narrator.

He will talk of tennis, golf, boating, bathing and the like until you're sorry you got him going. There are those who will bewail the fate that browned them. Nine out of ten are unwittingly or maliciously prevaricating. Sunburn, when all Is said pro and con, is a distinctive Joy of the summer. It speaks for the big outdoor world.

It Is tho seal and sign of avocations which may nnt be pursued by most for eight months of the year, and those avocations fill out the census of the chief recreative doings of both S'-xes and all ages. Sunburn is eloquent of fresh air, for the sunshine is the bouquet to tho breeze. It is synonymous with energy, and energy Is the tell-tale of life. The dead bleach, the living breathe and burn, dogma to the contrary notwithstanding. Sunburn burns.

The lirst day's outing Is apt to cook the back of the neck, the cheeks, the nose, the hands and arms, and the hot breath of Erythreos reaches every exposed square inch. But there are scores of cooling salves and lotions, with cold cream and witch hazel high on the list, to make sadness and sighing endure but for a night. Everybody knows what a day, even in a nice, sizzling sunshine, means in this respect; but, safe to say, there will be no fewer outing seekers for this fact. Sunburn and love have many things In common, but, at any rate, both are a sweet pain; both know no cure but time. And the season for this Is here.

Erythreos is surely snorting. Those who have been following the golf ball on recent days, who have been at tennis or have chased the baseball about the lot know It, perhaps too well. Lay on, Erythreos: Baltimore Sun. NOT SO CLEVER. "Fine, wasn't it?" exclaimed Clllman, after the trombone soloist had finished his star performance.

"That was really clever, eh?" shucks," replied Citlman's country cousin. "He didn't fool me a little bit. That's one o' them trick horns. He didn't really swaller it." Philadelphia Press. Authorities Decide That This Mongrel's Case Was Genuine Hydrophobia.

RARE CHANCE OF OBSERVATION. Veterinaiians Interested Because Question Has Been Raised if Rabies Actually Exists. The first case of rabies in dogs that baa ever come under the notice of the authorities) here has just been placed before the Board ot Health, and after a diagnosis and numerous experiments, the local officials have agreed that the animal in question was af fected with the dreaded disease. The case was called to the at tention of the Board ot Health by Dr. Finn and Dr.

Mullln of the Long Island Veterinary Hospital, at 285 Jay street. who three weeks ago were appealed to by the owner of the dog. The animal was a brown mongrel of the water spaniel type, and when brought to the hospital was sub jected to an examination by the doctors, who concluded that they had a case of rabies on their bands. The dog was placed in a large stall and through the iron grating the doctors watched until convinced that the animal was suffering from what is known as furious rabies, the most dangerous form of the disease, which always results when the rabid virua Invades the brain. The animal weighed about fifty pounds, but In its condition its strength was won-dorful, as it tore about the heavy two inch planks which formed the floor of the stall la which it had been placed.

The doctors tried to put the creature out of misery al soon as possible, but all efforts to get near enough to shoot it or force poison upon it were futile. A lasso was finally used and tho dog was strung up. The body was then sent to the Board of Health and the examination of the doctors bore' out the diagnosis of Drs. Finn and Mul-lin. Virus was taken from the spine of tha dog and guinea pigs, which were innoculated, soon fell victims to the disease.

The dog was owned by a Brooklyn doctor, but the officials at the Long Island Veterinary Hospital would not divulge his name for the reason that his wife was badly bitten at the time the dog received its fatal bite and the outcome of her case is awaited with fear. The dog was bitten by a cat, and the doctor's wife, in getting the animals apart, was snapped on the hand by the cat. Symptoms of rabies developed soon after in the dog. Thus far no serious results have manifested themselves in the case of the woman, but this is not regarded as strange, for hydrophobia might take from three weeks to a year to run Its course. The question whether there is such a thing as real hydrophobia is held to be settled by the observations in this case.

V00D00ISM RAMPANT In the Republic of Santo Domingo, as It Is in the Negro Republic of "I spent a considerable time ln the negro republic of Santo Domingo," said Professor Jesse Walter Fewkes of the Bureau of Ethnology, who recently brought back from tho West Indies to Washington a remarkable collection of the objects indicating the old Indian civilization of the islands. "Santo Domingo, as you doubtless know, occupies the eastern end of the Island of Hayti and is the Spanish speaking negro republic, while Haytl, on the western end. Is the French speaking. I made the old City of Santo Domingo my headquarters for the time I remained on this island, and frequently visited the tomb of Christopher Columbus, which is situated in the magnificent cathedral at that point. Santo Domingo was a very rich city in the old days of Spanish domination and one encounters the evidences of former opulence on every side in the form of fine old houses, beautiful churches, fountains, gardens and statuary, all in more or less advanced stages ot decay.

"Voodooism is rampant throughout Santo Domingo, as it Ib in the neighboring negro republic of Hayti, and once during the period of my stay on tho island I ran counter to one of Us manifestations in a most peculiar and unexpected manner. When I flr3t landed in Santo Domingo I was anxious to go into this subject ns much as possible, notwithstanding that it was incidental to the main purpoBe of my trip, for it seemed to mo that those who had written of Haytl and Santo Domingo rather neglected this important and peculiar phase of West Indian life. It was not long, however, before I discovered that which other travelers have noticed, namely, that the power of these voodoo priests and priestesses, the 'papalol' and is so extensive and all-pervad-lng that tho people, both high and low, are simply afraid to talk about it. It Is the one thing which they will not discuss with outsiders. They stand in deadly fear of the voodoo practitioners, whose power extends over all classes, from tho president of the republic down to the lowest field hand.

However, there was one man with whom I had considerable dealings and to whom I frequently broached the subjeot of voodoo-Ism, who one day took me Into his confidence and, escorting me to an outbuilding near his home, showed me a large carved wooden snake, which he assured me was the main and central object of veneration in the voodoo ceremonies. "Voodooism, you know, is the serpent worship of Old Calabar, Whydah and Dahomey, on the west coast of Africa, transplanted to West Indian soil. Under the rule of their French and Spanish masters, the negroes were obliged to be Catholics In outward appearance, If not in heart, and were obliged to practice their heathen riles secretly, in the depths of the forest at midnight; but, after the revolution, when they drove Ibe whites from the Island, took a new lease 01 life and is to-day th rn a. I powerful and iuiiuu ui mtj mm iepuuuus. The Roman Catholic religion maintains a feeble existence by Its side.

The latter is named In tho constitutions of the two republics as the state religion, and those whom you meet ln the islands would be insulted if you were to consider them anything other than good Christians and Catholics, but beneath this surface lies the paganism of old Africa, with lis human sacrifices, cannibalism, obscene riles and ceremonies, every bit as strong, if not stronger, than It Is or ever was in the depths of the African forest. "Sometimes a live snake is worshipped, but on other occasions a wooden Image is substituted; and such evidently was the practice in this case. The snake was beautifully carved, really a very artistic creation; but when I came to ask the keeper of this singular bit of furniture where he got It and what he was doing with it, he merely shook his head and, putting his Angers to his lips, enjoined me to silence and secrecy, fearful lest the very walls might betray the awful fact that he had exposed the gnd of the pa-palois to the profane gaze of a white man." Washington Post. RAIN OF BUTTERFLIES. Milan has Just been the scene of a remarkable "rain." or downfall, of butterflies or moths.

They settled In tens of thousands on almost ev ry available Inch of space on the ground and on the buildings of the central quarters of the city. The Insects are described B3 perfectly black and Thenr presence is ascribed to an air current swept along ln front ot a hurricane, Chicago Journal. IRON TRADE OUTLOOK. Cleveland, September 24 The Iron Trade Review this weeks says: Favorable and unfavorable factors have appeared In Iron trade movements of the past week. Considering the amount of rumor and sentiment abroad, tending to depress values, the fact that they have yielded so little in some cases and none at all In others, coupled with the steady booking of business both in pig Iron and finished material, gives good support to hopeful views.

On the other hand, the closing down of certain blast furnaces and steel works, with promise of further restriction in the near future, is unfailing proof of production In excess of consumption, and indicates again a market price that has reached the cost line for some producers of pig iron. A new and unexpected complication on the labor side is the issue raised by tho masters and pilots union on the Great Lakes. The issue Is the right to employ the non-union man, and the affair may develop into largo proportions in us effect upon the Iron trade of the year. WOMEN'S GOLF ENTRIES. National and Metropolitan Champions Not to Play in Annual Tourney at Chicago.

Entries for the women's open golf tourna ment for the championship of the United States Golf Association, next week, at the links of the Chicago Golf Club, at Wheaton, 111., were announced to-day. Maturin Bnllou, secretary of the United States Golf Associa tion, gave out the entries. There are sixty-threo names on the list. This Is about the saino as last year. Every section of the country is well represented except the metropolitan district.

Miss Bessie Anthony, Miss Mabel Higglns, Miss J. Anna Carpenter are the best known of the Western players. Miss Frances C. Gria-com, Miss Louisa Wells are two strong Eastern players who have entered. Mrs.

E. A. Manice, the M. G. A.

champion, Miss Ruth Underbill, the Nassau Country Club crack, and Mrs. Charles J. Stout (Miss Genevieve Hecker), the national champion, are prominent absentees, as Is Miss Louisa Vanderhoef. The list: Mrs. W.

A. Alexander, Exmnor Country Club. Miss Bepaie Anthony. Cllenvli-w Club. Miss Marlon Austin.

Chtraso Club. Miss Sally K. Alnslle, Westward-Ho Golf Club. Miss Miriam Anthony. Evanston Golf Club.

Ml Mary D. Ainshe, Welward-Ho Oolt Club. Miss Ueorglanna Bishop, Brooklawn Country Club. Miss Florence Bordfn, Fall River Golf Club. Mrs.

Ronald H. Barlow. Merlon Cricket Club. Airs. A.

T. H. Brower. Chicago Golt Club. Mrs.

E. C. Ucrrlman. Edgewat-r Golf Club. Mrs.

A. Bi-lfller, Lake Geneva Country. MIhb Bishop, St. Paul. Mips An-la Frazer Cotton, ChlcaRO Golf.

Miss J. Anna Carpenter, Westward-Ho Golf Club. Mrs. H. W.

Cummlnes, Inverness Club. Mm. lv. W. Cramer, Chicago Golf Club.

Miss Grace CollinB. OiL-aso Golt Club. Miss Edith Collins, Bt. Louis Country Club. Mrs.

J. H. Cranford, Chevy Chase. Mrs. F.

E. lonohoe, Golf Club, ills Jano Durrell. F.dReivater Golf Club. Mrs. C.

L. Peering, Midlothian Country Club. Miss F. D. Everett.

Kxmoor Country Club. Mrs. Caleo F. Fox, Huntingdon Valley Country Club. Miss Frances Grlseom.

Merlon Cricket Club. MrB. John R. Gott. Chicago Golf Club.

Mrs. A. W. Goodrich, Chicago Golf Club. Mrs.

Gordon. St. Paul. Miss Katharine C. Harlny, Fall River Golf Club.

Miss Mabel HlKSlns. Midlothian Country Club. Mrs. Jarvls Hunt, ChlcnKo Golf Club. MIPS U.

Kenny. Mtnikahda Club. Mm Kirk. Chlcasjo Golf Club. Mrs, Elmer E.

Mitchell, Wilmington Country Club. Mis A. Estelle Murray, Wilmington Country Club. Miss Katherlne Moulton, Minlkahda Club. Mrs.

B. Mcllvalne, Onwentala. Miss McDonald, Chicago Golf Club. Mr9. Lllburn G.

McNair, the Country Club, St. Louis. Mre. D. O.

Mapwell, Edgewater Golf. Mm. Perclval Manchester, Glen View Club. Miss Carrlo Neeley, Midlothian Country Club. Mies Fanny C.

Osgood, the Country Club, Brook-line. Miss Elltaheth F. Porter, Wollaston Golf Club. Mrs. Elliott RodgerB, the Edgeworth club.

Mrs. Alan Reld, the Chieago Golf Club. Mlsa Elizabeth Robertson. Glen View (lub. Miss M.

S. P. Spence, Merlon Cricket Club. Miss Jane S. Spence, Merlon Cricket Club.

Miss Ada Smith. Lost Angeles Country Club. Miss Louls-a A. Wells, the Country Club, Brook- line. Miss Martha Wilson.

Onwentfla Club. Mrs. Loula C. Washington Park Golf Club. Mrp.

Wilton C. Work, Huntingdon Valley Coun try Club. Mrs, Pertrnm M. Winston. Chicago Golf Club.

Miss Elizabeth Young. Calumet Country Club. Miss Alice Revoll. Washington Park Club. Miss Jeanette Slaughter.

Evanston Golf club. Mrs. John P. Fofter, I.os Angeles Country Club. Edward P.

Msrtln, Chicago Golf Club. Miss Margaret Martin. Chicago Golf Club. Miss Lilian Btddle. Rlverton Country Club.

RACING AT GRAVESEND. First event Monastic, 5 to 1 and 2 to 1 won. Funnyslde, even for place, was seo-ond. Pol Roger, third. Time, 1:07 4-5.

GRAVESEND ENTRIES. (Special to the Eagle.) Race Track, Gravesend, L. Sopteraber 24 The entries for the races hero to-morrow are as follows: First race For all ages; handicap; with $1,000 added. About six turtongs. Name.

Wht. Name. Wht. Young Henrv liltLux t'ata 120 Manila Worth 11 dyinnlan lib Ingold I'arlslenno 110 Ahtlmada tftinllcr lmi Damon l'Iemurrer l'3 (Juli! Saint o' Linden flu Squid iCntert'Ular 80 Second race For 3 yesir ol'ls and upward which have not won in IMZl with $1,001 addvd. One mile and a sixteenth.

Name. Wht. Name. Wht. Monograph lllillardlng 10!) WyunYld Carbuncle "5 High Chancellor 12 Sir Voorhlea Third race The Algeria: for 2 year olds which have not won un to the date of entry; with added.

Fivo and a half furlongs. Name. Wht. Name. Wht.

Letola Reveille 97 Dick Turrln Ida, Hello Tom Cud Hath Beach lua Flammula 10tMordella ln Thlitln Heather SWIJuvonal Maxim 10-' Bob Mnridiy 82 Fourth isce-For all ages: handicap; with $1,200 added. Ona mile and a sixteenth. Name. Wht. Name.

Wht. Hermls HlBonnlbert Lord April Shower bJ Ci'i' nntii Fifth raceFor maiden fillies and geldings years old; to carry 112 with abided, l-'ivo and a half furlongs. Name Wht. Name. Wht.

voSsoon Llnk Ruth Pun-tub morndell i Si" Hvirnirea'" H2t.Merry Moments 112 "si uflte lull Wlrtnrl" lU.Hlythen.s. 112 sixth race Ftor 3 year olda and upward which bavo not won at this meeting; selling; with added. One mils and a sixteenth. Nams Wht. Name.

Wht. Meleterslnger J'5 M.HV' War 1M1 Highlander MM- hcver m3 titnk.8 im Buutnnnier Our Nugget X' 1 evtn L-nnrka P' :K.liei-ln i(i Cavler llilLa.ly Potentate Kojal rirato 02 M. Mfekln loo ON AN OCEAN LINER. "What was the most remarkable thing you saw on your travels?" And the man who had just coma back from Europe wearily replied: "Four aces against four kings." Washington Star. ALPHABETICALLY SPRESSED.

He 0 K. She 0. I A J. He R. She URN G.

The Kindergarten Review. THE NEWER SLANG. "Your conclusion Is wrong," said Mr. Mc-Brldo to his wife. "I can't imagine how you reached it." "Well, I Jumped at it," she explained.

"Indeed? Then you get another Jump." Detroit Free Press. rranK Halloran of the Classon avenue station. During the chase two shots were fired by the officer, who finally captured his man. The purse, which contained cents and some memoranda, was found in the street by a woman. Magistrate Doolcy adjourned the case.

DR. DICKSON TO RESIGN. Will Leave East New York Reformed Church Soon and Pass the Winter in California. The Rev. Dr.

James M. Dickson, for nearly ten years pastor of the Reformed Church of East New York, intimated to his congregation on Sunday morning his Intention to resign at an early day. Dr. Dickson two months ago returned with his daughter from an extended European tour, but It was made manifest that he had contemplated tho resignation before going abroad. Dr.

Dickson also expressed his intention of spending the coming winter In California. Dr. Dickson has had marked success In Brooklyn. He is of Scotch parentage and was born in Caledonia, Vt. lie i.s a graduate of Dartmouth College and of Union Theological Seminary.

He was ordained and installed pastor First Reformed Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn in the fall of 1S57. The church was organized expressly In view of securing him as its pastor aud had purchased the church building on the corner of Atlantic avenue and Bend street. Dr. Dickson had been reared In the Reformed Presbyterian Church and it was the purpose to keep him In tho denomination if possible. Although unanimously called to a church in Baltimore, he took charge of thu new organization here and labored successfully for three and a half years.

At tho end of that time he announced his resignation, but was met in tho Presbytery by such a remonstrance on tho part of his church that he was sent back and for one year more did his best for the church, when he united with the Third Presbytery of New York in tho larger Presbyterian Church. Dr. Dickson took charge of a church in his native town in Vermont for tho summer, but returned in the fall to become the pastor of the Sixth Tresbyterian Church, in Newark, N. J. He has also served a pastorate in the old Goodwill Presbyterian Church, at Montgomery, N.

Y. tho West Thirty-fourth Street Reformed Church, In New York City, and the Pilgrim Congregational Church, In Providence. R. I. He has had forty-six years of continuous pastoral work, never leaving one church until he was satisfied he ought to taka up another and always making the chango without the loss of a Sunday service.

Sketches of Dr. Dlrksnn have appeared some years since in the Treasury In Now York and In a volume styled "The Men of Vermont." BEAR STORIES OF MAINE. One a Menl for Foxes nnd Another That liked Candy, in the Lonesome Woods. "Mighty queer what tastes the four-legged critters have," said 'Lias Cookson, the Eustls trapper and guide, he squatted down on tho grocery steps tho other night. "There Is Old Doug (Douglass), best trapper in this town, who says that bear and sloh are the best grub a fox gets hold of.

Old Doug, he killed a den full of black bear some time back, and no sooner had ho got 'era skun than he found that there was a row of foxes a-sottln' 'round the den waiting for him to get outer tho way so's they could cat up the carcasses. Foxes Is fond of bear meat. I dunno's I keer for it myself. "Old Doug shot one bear in the head, and the critter walked fifteen miles into the woods 'fore he fell down dead. Next day when Old Doug follered tho trail he found that a fox had ben shaddcrin' the bear all the way and thnt after the bear had finally died he'd made a meal off'n It.

"But bear themselves Is about the queerest critters in the woods for special likin's. Everybody knows that a bear will bang 'round a bee tree for months. Just a-hopln' that the tree will fall down so's they can get at the honey. I have seen 'em watch a tree all summer. They'll leave ripe rasp-terries any time for real, bang-up honey.

"But what I was goin' to tell was about how a bear come down off'n Bald Mountain t'other night nnd nlgh scared Hen Fletcher outen his Bkin. 'Twas In sugarln' time, and Hen he had about 500 trees tapped. Ho was a bilin' of the sap In a sugar house that had one door and one window. The window was high up In the gabli. and the door was opposite.

Hen had seen bear tracks In the orchard afore he got well to tappln' trees, but he wasn't expeetln' no trouble. He was workln" late one night, keepln' tho fires goln' under the kettles, when ho sorter fell asleep. When he come to he Baw a ligger a-standln', Just like a man, at the table, and eclln' up the candy that had been laid out to cool. 'What air ye a-doin' ho yells. "The figger didn't say nothin', but kept on eatln' caudy.

and that made Hen mndder'n a hornet. The corner where the figger stood was darkish, but Hen calkilatcd he could see well enough, so he ups with a club and bangs It straight at the liger's head. "The figger turned 'round like a flash, and come the whistle ot a mad bear. The crilter bounced outer the shadder and made straight for Hen. But Hen he didn't wait to shake Lands He went up the ladder and out through tho window, takln' sash and all.

The bear got excited and ran Into the kettle of baU-biled syrup, capsizln' It and burning his paws till he roared with rage and pain. Then he got outer the sap house and run one way llko a scared sheep, while Hen Fletcher he run t'other way. Just as seared, with the window sash 'round his neck. It was daylight afore Hen went back to the pap house. Then ho got h's rifle and chased up the bear, Got him near Frank Chick's farm, and a mighty fine bear it was, too, only It took a week to get the sugar outer his fur.

After thl. Hen pays he'll shut the windows and doofs tight when he goes to bllln' sap." Philadelphia Record. EUROPEAN BANK STATEMENTS. London. September 21 Tho weekly statement of the Bank of England shows the following changes: Total reserve Increased f.

379,000, circulation decreased MI5, 000, bullion Increased 130,914, other securities decreased I0M.000, other drpnslis Increased 909,000, publio deposits increased 151,000, notes reserve increased S94.uoo, government securities art-reason The propor-I tlon of the batik's re-servo lo liability this I week Is 53.8a per us compared with 54.30 per cent, last week. Paris, September 21 The weekly stnte-; ment of tho Bank of Franco shows the fol-j lowing changes from the Inst statement-Notes In circulation decreased 18.950 000 francs, treasury accounts current decreased 11.575,000 francs, gold in lmnrl 8,100,000 francs, bills discounted decreased 5,500,000 francs, silver in hand increased 1,41:5,000 francs. WOULD BEAR WATCHING. "Well, what did he say?" thc the firm. -He Just said: 'Come around the latter part of the week and I'll pay that littlo hill of replied the 6 bl" "He did, eh? Well, you keep hot on bis trail, or be 11 get away from you if ho really meant to pay that bin wouldn't call it "-Philadelphia.

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