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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. JUNE 2.1900. 5 1 They would have obeyed the mandates of SCHOOLS ARE DELAYED BY GARPENTERS' STRIKE SO 01 IS NOW FIFTY YEARS OLD In it.

This is what he said about the government clerk: "We have a favored class of officials In this country. There Is no office created that there is not an important demand to fill it. For every olT.ce created It is safe to say that there are dozens and scores of applicants desiring to get into the government service. They desire to get into the government service because they are better off than they are outside. They have regular employment; they have short hours; they are desirable places, and the moment tbey get In they become an organized, importunate and hungry band of mendicants, begging us for more favors.

"We are beset by them constantly, and we forget all the people who have not been able to get into these offices. Committees take the cue from the importunities of the people In office and are continually granting them more and more pay. They organize, they taboo, they boycott members and senators who do not favor their propositions, and their de under Mrs. Henrichson's direction, will assist in the following programme: Spring Song Mendelssohn Philomena Glee Club. Roses of June German Miss Davison.

Under the Rose Flshar Approach of Spring; Behr Mrs. Harlow. Venetian Boat Song Blumenthal MUaes Robinson and Altenbrand. 'Cello solo Adagio Popper W. Paulding DeNlke.

Who In Sylvia? Phubert The Sweet of the Year Wllleby Miss O'Brlg. Jeruehy Gaynor The Gay Harrlss Incidental' eolo, Miee Bennett. Philomena Glee Club. Greeting Beck In Blossom Time Needham Mies Wagenfoehr. My Heart and the Rain Neldllnger Slave Song Del Rlego Miss Hoffman.

Mia Madre Campana Moedames Harlow, Wood and Henrichson. The Sunflower and the Violet Taylor The Willow G. Thomas Mies Nesbett. Berceuse Godard April Weather Rogers Miss GIrard. 'Cello solos-Reverie Botteslnl Bpanlshe Tans Popper Mr.

DeNlke. Proposal Turner Summer (by Chaminade Miss Robinson. Rose In the Garden Neldllnger Mrs. French. Mrs.

Hohenstetn. Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Henrichson and Miss GIrard. Autumn Sons Turner Lletl Slgnlor Meyerbeer Miss Bennett.

mands for increase, and we sit tamely and grant their requests. There is no session of Congress that we are not Importuned and our doors beaten upon by the employes here in Washington and elsewhere, demanding more pay, more privileges, ana they are now organizing for a civil service pension in some form or other, which, when Inaugurated and aaoptea, win add tens of millions of dollars every year to our expenses. "I am rather hopeless of being able to stop or restrain or limit this. I have tried it before, and I have alwavs heen overruled. I have nothing to s-av aaainst these employes personally.

Thev are I presume, almost all them good and faithful servants of the public. But that does not Justify them In their constantly importuning for more pay and more privileges. Whoever goes into one of these places at a known and fixed compensation and privileges should accept that; and the heads of the departments ought not to allow subordinates to push these matters before Congress." CRIST. BETH ISRAEL CONFIRMATION. Ten Young People Are Kecelved Into Membership of Well Known Jewish Congregation.

The Congregation Beth Israel, Harrison street and Tompkins place, was the scene of confirmation exercises Wednesday morning. The confirmants were Sadie Ballaban, Pauline Borgas, Lulu Goldberg, Mae Hartman, Mollie Lazarus. Sophie Spectorsky, Bella Traub, Ooldle Williams, Louis Bergman and Charles Borgas. The exercises were very solemn and the excellent manner In which the affair was managed reflects great credit upon Dr. Israel Goldfarb.

The confirmation certificates were presented to the confirmants by Samuel Conn, superintendent of the Sunday school. After the exercises the guests were takon to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. I. Applebaum, on Luquer street, where a dinner wa6 served.

H. M. Copland acted as toastmaster. Mae Hartman, one of the confirmants, delivered a neat address, which was well received. Nat N.

Tuck made a lengthy address. Samuel Cohn Bnid he was proud to bo the superintendent of a Sunday school that turned out such bright scholars. Others who spoke were H. Sonnenstrahl, H. Goldsmith, Dr.

Goldfarb, M. Sallt, M. Pelz, S. Brooks and I. Applebaum.

The Beth Israel Talmud Tornh will hold a summernights picnic at Ulmer Park Tuesday evening, August 28. Samuel Cohn is chairman of arrangements. BOYS HIGH SCHOOL WON. Gold Medal of Interscholastio Debating League Awarded to Vincent Meyer. Boys High School won the first prize in the second annual declamation contest under the auspices of the Greater New York Interscholastio Debating League, held last night in the auditorium of the Boys High School, Marcy and Putnam avenues.

Vincent Meyer, who took a leading part In the Boys High-Girls High play a week ago, won the gold medal. A year ago, Ralph D. Robinson, also of Boys High School, won the first prize. The school auditorium was crowded. Dr.

William H. Maxwell, Superintendent of Schools, acted as chairman. On the platform with him were Dr. John Micklebor-ough, principal of Boys High School; Philip M. Thorne, president of tho Greater New York Interscholastlc Debating League, and Professor Charles S.

Hartwell, of Boys High School, who was largely influential in organizing the league. After a selection by the Boys High School orchestra, Philip Thorne gave a short address, explaining the work of the league. He then introduced Dr. Maxwell, who made a brief speech. He commended debating and declaiming as very useful and Instructive brain exercise.

The first speaker was Thomas J. Crawford, of DeWltt Clinton High School. He recited George Llppard's "Traitor's End. Vincent Meyer, of Boys High School, fol lowed, with "The Death of Porthos," by Dumas, and was loudly applauded. The Boys High Glee Club, led by Will iam Howell Edwards, sang Klein's "Moon Joseph J.

Cary singing the solo part. Mark Mever Whipple, ot Manual train ing High School, recited "An Appeal to Ireland," by Thomas F. Meagher. Louis Horwltz, of Eastern District High School, recited "Cut Off from the People," by Hall Caine. The last declamation was ny Emil Maximilian Podeyn.

of Commercial High School, Lippard's "Heroes of the Land of Penn." While the Judges were making their de cision, the Boys High School orchestra nlaved "Oregonla." by Laurendean. The Boys High School Glee Club sang a selec- tion. and had to respond to two encores, The committee of Judges comprised William C. Duncan, chairman, teacher of elocution in Polytechnic Institute; Will-lam Phelps MacFarlane, teacher of elocution at Adelpbl College, who coached the Boys High-Girls High play, and Frank W. Holmes.

They awarded first prize to Vincent Meyer, of Boys High School; second prize to Thomas J. Crawford, of DeWltt Clinton High School, and third prize to Emil Maximilian Podeyn. of Commercial High School. The prizes were gold, silver and bronze medals. DIPLOMAS TO GRADUATES.

Exercises Supplemental to St. Catherine's Hall Commencement Held in School Building. Diplomas were presented to the graduates of St. Catherine's Hall, at the school building. 292 Washington avenue, last those they had consented to represent.

The members of Congress, of a legislature, or of any other delegated body, are supposed to act In accordance with the expressed wishes of the men who elected them. In the absence of any specific Instructions, they vote on all subjects according to their judgment, having in mind the needs and necessities ajnd best Interests of their constituents. When a member of the House of Representatives is elected as a free trader or as a protectionist he votes with the party which represents those views, for the measures by which those principles are put into concrete form. When the Electoral College meets its members vote according to the instructions of the electoratein the last election, so many for Roosevelt, so many for Parker. Those who had been elected by Democratic voters did not vote for Mr.

Roosevelt, nor did those elected by Republicans vote for Judge Parker. Nor was there any legal obligation resting upon an elector to vote for the candidate of his, party; it was a matter of honor more binding among men than laws. When a delegate to the Board of Representatives agreed to serve, she was bound in honor to represent her co-members, and not her own views. The delegate, if uninstructed, was left at liberty to vote for who ever she pleased. When, however, the members of the assocjation in a school met and the delegates were instructed by the majority to vote for a particular person, or a particular ticket, that delegate was bound in honor to do so.

It was a trust which she should have respected. She had no right to consider only her own feelings. She was a representative. She could not be such if she voted in opposition to the views of the majority. If a delegate did not desire to represent the majority she should have resigned.

It would be considered dishonorable by men if one accepted office as a representative and disregarded the Instructions of the majority. John H. Walsh, the Great Pacifier. One of the purposes John H. Walsh, as sociate city superintendent, has in life is to make people happy.

He la a division superintendent and is a member of the Board of Superintendents committee on nominations, transfers and assignments. It Is in this latter position that he has most to do in making teachers happy. He has been known among those who know what he does as "the Great Pacifier." On the committee he represents Brooklyn, and all the teachers, especially those who enter the service from the Brooklyn Training School for Teachers, he takes under his protection. He spends days and nights in finding the best place for a girl a place near her home, amid pleasant and congenial surroundings. Not every school is pleasant and congenial, sad as it may seem.

There are persons in authority who ae hard to please nervous and irritable. They are not all women, either. Mr. Walsh knows all of their peculiarities and acts accordingly. In making transfers of heads of department, sometimes compulsory, as there are more of such In Brooklyn than the law of the board allows, Mr.

Walsh endeavors to place those who are to be moved in schools which can be easily reached from their homes. This is often difficult. The associate superintendent has to listen to grievances, to complaints, to appeals for one thing or another. Every teacher goes away better satisfied with her condition or with a belief that something will be done for her. It all takes time, but it pays, although very few know how much consideration is given to each case.

EXHIBITION OF PRIMARY WORK Parents and Friends of P. S. No. 3, Hancock Street, Inspect P.esults of School Instruction. The work done by the 1,300 children of the primary department of Public School No.

3, In Jefferson avenue, during the past term, was on exhibition yesterday. Parents of the pupils and many friends visited the school to view the work and were profuse In their praise. The children are divided into twenty-four classes, Miss Julia I. Jones being head of department In charge. Dr.

La Salle H. White Is principal. Following an entertainment given by some of the pupils, Miss Jones and the other teachers explained the work to the visitors. Perhaps the thing which attracted the most attention was the penmanship of the 5 and 6-year-old little ones. There were also drawings, water colors, construction work and sewing.

The construction work, which included hammocks, boxes and chairs made of cord', was especially good. Miss Jones attributes the excellence of the work of pupils to the spirit of loyalty and the harmony that exists among the teachers. "The children are governed by love," said Miss Jones. "Our motto is kindness. It has had the effect of making the children more courteous and refined than they sight have been under different conditions.

Of course the school is located in a good section of the hnroneh and the children enjoy environments that have resulted In making this department of the school a model." BROOKLYN INSTITUTE NOTES. The tri-centennial of the birth of Rembrandt will be fittingly celebrated by the Brooklyn Institute on Monday evening next. Kenyon Cox, N. will then give an address on "Rembrandt and His Works," at the Art Gallery, at the usual hour, 8:15 P.M. The lecturer is himself of interesting personality and a man who has succeeded in more than one form of his art.

For, after winning fame as a painter of portraits and figure pieces, of ioic jtui. ne uaa acnicvea reputation a3 a mural painter. Since his celebrated i work at the Chicago Fair he has painted i two decorations for the Congressional I Library at Washington, one for the Walker Art Gallery at Bowdoin College, and a frieze in the court room of New York's Appellate Court. This will close the lecture season of the Institute. Saturday botanical excursion will be taken to Hoffman Boulevard.

Jamaica, with Miss E. B. Brainerd as guide. The party will leave the Cypress Hills terminus of the LexInton avenue elevated road at 1:30 P.M., going by trolley to its destination. Aquatic plants are the special object of the trip.

PAKIS FASHIONS TJP TO DATE. From the Engle Paris Bureau, 53 Rus Cambon, through the courtesy of Abraham 4c Straus. Black broaiclorh gown, circular skirt, trimmed with folds, collar and cuffs em-Iroidered in black and white. The Plel Bros. Employes Aid Society I will hold a family reunion at Alten- kirch's Park, Jamaica, to-morrow.

PIP Awl on III MUCH PERPLEXED Island of Santo Domingo and Its Affairs Are a Burden toThem. HOW TO GET RID OF ITAPUZZLE Foreign Nations With Claims Against Santo Domingo Are Becoming Impatient Over Delay in Payment. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, Juno 2 Public men here are wondering how the administration is going to get out of the Santo Domingo predicament. This is as much a puzzle to President Roosevelt and Secretary Root, as it is to the politicians, Democratic and Republican, naval officers, and others interested In the affairs of this troublesome republic, which Is always on the verge of a revolution.

The administration would gladly "let go of Santo Domingo If It could see Its way clear to release its grasp. For more than a year now a fleet of United States warships has been riding at anchor in Santo Domingo ports, waiting a call from shore, to preserve order and maintain the president on his shaky platform of power. There is even less prospect now of the withdrawal of the ships and the surrender of the island to its own people than there was a year ago, and, to make matters worse, no one is able to say when the situation will improve. It is a curious and decidedly embarrassing development of the President's intervention to save the island from the fury of foreign creditors. The Santo Domingo treaty, which was to provide peace and prosperity for the little republic, is hopelessly beaten in the Senate Committee on Foreign AfTalrB.

Not even the most optimistic of the President's friends believes that there 1b a ray of hope for it, and no motion will even be made for it3 reconsideration In committee. The administration Just now sees no way of backing out of the difficulty it got Itself into when the President decided to do by indirection what the Senate last year refused to sanction In treaty form. There is another element of embarrassment In the situation. A New York trust company holds more than $1,000,000 of funds collected by American agents of Santo Domingo, while acting as customs officials for the insular government. The money was deposited in New York with the idea that it should apply to the foreign debts of Santo Domingo after the Senate had ratified the pending treaty, which provides for the gradual wiping out of the foreign claims In this manner.

When this money was sent to New York the administration had no thought that the treaty would be defeated, and thus tie up a large sum without a proper claimant. If the money were to be turned over to the new president of the Island, all kinds of troubles would Immediately follow, for there is one thing that surely may be counted on to start a revolution in any of the Central American republics, and that is the prospect of capturing a considerable sum of money. In the meantime, the foreign nations which have claims against Santo Domingo are again becoming restive. They drew off about eighteen months ago, after President Roosevelt had volunteered to seo that the debts should be paid. Now that the prospects of payment are as gloomy as of old, the.

creditor nations are beginning to make inquiries. It is understood that no move will be made by them until the adjournment of Congress, as some unfore seen development may occur to torce favorable action on the treaty. Ex-President Morales may create a crisis in the relations of the two countries. He has threatened that unless the Senate acts on the treaty before adjournment he will organize a revolution and overthrow his successor. President Cnceres.

Morales is again hankering for power and regret3 bis sudden abdication. Eight Vessels on Guard at Santo Domingo. The United States maintains a fleet of eight vessels In Santo Domingo waters, follows: The Yankee, Austria, Du buque, Eagle, Nashville, Newport, Pa-ducah, and Scorpion. The Marietta is on the way to the Island and will be added to this already formidable force. There is no detail bo dreaded by naval officers as an assignmeut to duty in Santo Domingo waters.

There is absolutely no pleasure to break the awful monotony of the stupid place. The vessels roll continually In the long, tropical sea. while the heat is intense. Several Instances have been reported of officers having their minds affected by long service there. The navy Is thoroughly sick of having to do police duty at Santo Domingo.

Santo Domingo will doubtless be an is sue in the coming congressional campaign. The Democrats propose to ask how long the government intends to continue as the policeman for this island. Speaker Opposes Popular Legislation. 'For a man who poses as a friend of the people, It strikes me that Uncle Joe Cannon is obstructing a lot of measures that are demanded by the public," said a member of the House to-day. He referred to the opposition of the speaker to the Immigration bill, the pure food bill, the meat inspection bill and tariff revision.

The speaker, by some means or other, has come to he regarded as hostile to all of these measures. The immigration bill has been hanging fire for several weeks. It Is on the calendar as a special order, but there appears to be no opportunity for passing it. The pure food bill Is In the same condition, and no one knows whether it will pass at this session or not. The speaker is against the Beveridge meat inspection bill In its present shape, and wants plenty of time to consider it before saying the word that will bring Its adoption.

His intense objection to tariff revision Is well known. The spenker is losing popularity with tho Republicans of the House. Tills may be only temporary and possibly may be accounted for by the recent hot wave and the requirement that all Republicans remain In their seats to fight the filibustering tactics of tho minority. Whatever the reason, no doubt remains that Sneaker Cannon is not referred to as "dear old Uncle Joe," so frequently as In the past, The Republicans are showing signs of irritation all alonq the line. They want the speaker to rush legislation through and adjourn, so that thev can go home and look after their political fenses.

hard political campaign is coming on. and the Republicans nre apprehensive teat they lose control of the House. The obligation to keep a quorum rests wholly trlcts to go home and look after their fences. This is one of the things under which the Republicans am chafing, Hale Denounces Government Clerks. The government clerks of Washington are up In arms against Senator Eugene Hale of Maine, as a result of an extraordinary denunciation by the Maine Senator of the federal employe.

He recentlv referred to I'ncle Sam's army of workmen fcnTitrrv nrciatanf Knn rt li cants whlch' naturally aroused a storm of bitter protests from the government desks. But Hale has not beer, disturbed bv the rumups his cruel remark has raised. Hale used to speaking his mind, and when he hns anything to say states it In terse. 1 vigorous English, and his lash has a sting; a i i Four Buildings In Congested Districts May Not Be Ready' In September. PRINCIPALS ARE APPOINTED.

Commercial High School for Girls Needed Dr. Maxwell's Advice. Delegates Are Bepresentatives. The strike of the carpenters will have the effect of retarding the completion of at leaet four elementary schools, the Erasmus Hall High School and the Training School for Teachers, and will prevent their occupancy when the new school yeabegins in September. The elementary schools so affected are: Public School No.

66. Watklns avenue and Osborn street; sittings for 2,500 children; contract time of which expires on August 24. 1906. Public School No. 80, Newkirk avenue, Thlrty-Srst and Thirty-second streets; 600 sittings; contract time expires August 15, 1906.

Public School No. 149, Sutter avenue, Bradford and Wyona streets; sittings for 2,500 children; contract time expired May 12, 1906. Public School No. 151. Knickerbocker avenue, Halsey and Welrfleld street, 1,800 sittings.

All these buildings are in congested districts, and they are badly needed. The Board of Superintendents expected to open them in the fall, and they have appointed the principals and will probably nominate the teachers at the meeting of the Board of Education on Wednesday. The schools in the neighborhood of these new buildings are densely crowded, and the part-time classes are numerous. The builders made their contracts with the expectation that the then ruling rate of wages would continue until the buildings were completed. If a margin had been left by the contractors for a probable rise in wages there would have been no trouble, of course; but having figured close, the master carpenters would lose money if they paid the advance demanded.

But they cannot get men without paying the advanced wages, and the work is therefore delayed. Work is progressing on the other school buildings more or less rapidly. These are: Public School No. 6, Warren and Baltic streets, 36 classrooms. Public School No.

8, Hicks, Middagh and Poplar streets, 24 classrooms. Public School No. 30, addition, Conover, between Sullivan and Walcott streets, 24 classrooms. Public School No. 42, St.

Mark's and Classon avenues, 32 classrooms. Public School No. 83, addition, Schon-ectady avenue. Dean and Bergen streets, 26 classrooms. Public School No.

92, Rogers avenue and Robinson street, 27 classrooms. Public School No. 109, addition, Du-mont avenue, Powell and Sackman streets, 55 classrooms. Public School No. 114, Canarsie, 24 classrooms.

Public School No. 148, Ellery street, Hopkins street and Delmonlco place, 49 classrooms Public School No. 10, Christopher avenue, Powell and Sackman streets, 48 classrooms. Commercial. High School for Girls 9 Needed In Brooklyn.

''High school men are agreed that there should be a commercial high school for girls as well as the one for boys in this borough, Probably thousands of young women lose the advantages of high school Instruction because there is no school, with a course of study designed especially for the training in office work. In the high school curriculum there is provision made for commercial subjects, as electlves in the third and fourth years; but all girls who enter those schools must in the first two years follow the course prescribed for those who are preparing for the training schools for teachers or for college. The many who look forward to engaging in office work, as well as those who are compelled to take up office work because of conditions at home, regard the work of these two years as a waste of time. They have to take up subjects which they believe they will have no use for during their whole careers. After spending six months or a year in a high school, hundreds leave to enter the business schools, In which they are taught typewriting and stenography In six months or thereabouts.

If Dr. Maxwell would Instruct some of his principals of high schools, who have some business experience William Mc-Andrew, of the Girls Technical High School of Manhattan, and Frank R. Moore, of the Commercial High School, of Brook lyn, for example to prepare a three years course, or even a two years course, for girls, which would fit them for general or special office work, and give them the advantages of a high school training, he would win the approval of a very large class of people, who want to see their daughters self-supporting, either because of present necessity, or because they regard It as well that all girls should learn something by which to earn wages In case of necessity. A suggestion was made to the writer that as new Commercial High School was not fully occupied, it would be an excellent Idea If Dr. Maxwell would recommend to the Board of Education the use of part it as a girls commercial hlgh( school.

This suggestion was presented to the city superintendent, together with the fact that there is no place in Brooklyn where a girl can to-day obtain a commercial education. "The proposition could not be carried out." said Dr. Maxwell, "because the building was equipped for boys, and that part which would be assigned to girls would have to be overhauled. It would cost at least $10,000 to do that, which would havei to be taken from the repairs fund, and the board could not afford to spend that amount, when so many elementary schools need repairing. "The Manual Training High School Is equipped for commercial work, and girls In Brooklyn who want to take up such a course should go there.

There is plenty of room, I believe, to accommodate those who would apply. I have had no complaint of the need of a commercial school for girls In Brooklyn. In equipping the Eastern District High School rooms will be set apart for commercial work." Representatives Should Represent Views of Those Who Elect Them. Complaints have been made by many teachers, members of the Brooklyn Teachers Association, that some delegates to the Board of Representatives voted in opposition to the instructions they received from the members of the association in the schools. Some have asked: "What are we going to do about it?" The only answer is, of course, see that those delegates do not represent you again.

The writer was present at the annual meeting of the Board of Representatives, and heard two or three teachers put the question to the president: "Are we bound by the vote of the memters In our schools?" or words to that effect. His reply was that they were not bound by such instructions, but might vote as they saw fit, "according to their conscience Such advice would have been excusable under ordinary circumstances: hut it was generally known that those who asked the question desired that it should be answered in the way it was answered, in order that they might have a good ex-cue to vote as they desired. "Con- science" had nothing to do with the mat- ter. The women who the Question 'who acted upon the advice given. were incapable at that moment of reason- ing they were carried away bv their i motion.

In their calmer moments they not have asked such a question. Says Dr. Shearer, of Elizabeth, to the School Men of New York City. NUMBER CAN BE REDUCED. Children Should Be Taught by the Teachers, He Says Individual Should Be Studied.

rr William J. Shearer, superintendent of Elizabeth, N. schools, addressed the schoolmen of New York last evening on the subject to which he has paid special attention during many years: "Why So Many Children Are' Backward and How the Number Can Be Reduced." Much of hat he said has hitherto been printed in the columns of the Eagle, but the following extract from his Interesting address Is timely: General conditions in Philadelphia, bos. ton. New Orleans, i-mcasu, ouu cities which I visited, are little it any.

better than conditions In New York. Ia nm. resneeu the conditions in Boston are far worBe than In New York. The steps taken to lorm cmooea iw infectives in New York schools is no doubt in the. right direction, and it is hoped mufh will be accomplished.

However, this is lopping off the branches and not striking at the root. Neglecting tne tnmgs neyuuu iui rmi there nre some things which the superintendents and principals can do to very materially reduce the number of so-called backward children. The majority arc called backward because, regardless of difference in teachers, in ability, iu home environments, and in a hundred other ways affecting the pupil's progress, all are expected to cover the course at the same rate. Who will deny that this is so? Since It Is so, Is it not an outrage? The course of study can be greatly Improved. More time should be given to essentials and less to non-essentials.

If the subjects are taught at the right period In the child's development, they can be taught better in one-half the time. More important than all, Is that such a plan of organization be provided as will enable pupils to go forward regularly as they are able In place of being chained to those of unequal ability for their whole school lives and constantly repeating work unnecessarily. Such a change will benefit a hundred times as many as provision for those who are markedly weak, physically or mentally. With such a plan it has been shown that 93,000 more children In New York would complete the third year, and fail to be considered backward; 90,000 more would finish the primary grades; 72,000 more would finish the sixth year. In place of the loss of 1,000,000 years by the pupils now enrolled In this city, the loss would be reduced to about 40,000 years, and this would mean a saving of $35,000,000 to New York on the pupils now considered backward.

In addition to this 260,000 would gain instead of losing time. This great reduction in the number con sidered backward, and In the expeune of furnishing schooling, can be secured verv easily. iinffl Instead of parents doing the teaching and the teachers the hearing of recitations, pupils would be taught by the teachers, as they should be. In place of having to work with those of unequal advancement, the children would, at all times, work with those of equal attainments. Instead of every class containing pupils who should Lot be- In the class, no class would contain those who were not ntted for the work.

Instead of losing sight of the Individual in the mass, much attention would be given to the individual differences, which should be studied at all times. Each pupil would be allowed to go just as fast as he can do the work thoroughly and no faster. None would be held back when they are able to go forward and none goaded beyond their natural pace. By having only those of about equal attainments in each class, the work would always be suited to those in the class in place of being unsuited to a large portion of those In the class. MUSIC NOTES.

The Adelphi College Glee Club will give Its third annual concert at the college hall on weanesaay evening. The concert will be under the direction of John Hyatt Brewer, and the club will be assisted by the following soloists: Miss Pauline Hath away, contralto; Michael Banner, violinist; Livingston Chapman, baritone, and Sidney Dorlon Lowe, accompanist. The programme will be: Port Songs In Spring Fweet and Low Violin solo Airs Russo Mr Rnnn.F Bargiel J. rl. Hrev Three-part Songs The Daffodils King Fairy Footstena 'j Baritone Solos Memorla Lyn nuu-ucr iimn me Tierry Handl Three-part Sonus Th Snow Edward Elgar oy Mr.

Banner. Wood Henry Smart Contralto Solos Caro mio ben Glordanl Listen to the Voice of Love Old English Mies Hathaway Vioiln Solo Zlgeunerlnelsen Saraeote -vir. Banner. Cantata The Sea nnrt th. ion John 'Hvatt Brewer ObUga to soprano TC0, mis Grace Rhoads.

tT. "ve Is a Bubble Aintsen 'ci -vi r. i napman. Two-part Song-The Glrla of Seville Dcnjta Sopranos and altos. The pupils of the Brooklyn College of Music, Robert W.

Connor, director, will give a coscert at Memorial Hall on Monday evening. The programme will be: Quartet (Two pianos) A Toute Vapeur. Miss Mildred Brewster. Miss Mary Mu'll'anev Miss Madeleine Baldwin, Master Tom Mu'l-la ney. Soprano-Softly Ye NMght winds Wallace Miss Stella Campbell.

Recitation The Minister's Black Phelps Miss Mabel Washburn Quartet (Two pianos) Victoria March Mllltalre Miss Virginia Pentz. Miss Bessie MeBreen Mite Helen Pentz, Mine Lillian Roberta Banjo Cathedral March N. Leivltt i.Vm Jl "-v Ml" Connor, Millard Charles Leavltt. Vincent Smyth, Stuart Brown. Ricliatlon The Cultured Daughter of a Plain Grocer Anon Miss Jennie Mecaffry.

Piano Sal tarello Mills Miss Mary Johnston. Soprano Come With Me In the Summer -v'sht Vender Stucken Miss Augusta T. Asplnall. Harp-Oh! Be noi Sad Oberthier Au Bord de la Fontaine DeConinck ii ips inrence Mcuune. Recitation Daisy's Faith Mathews Mies Marie Dlngee.

Piano L' Avalanche Heller Little Edith Connor. Soprano My Redeemer and My Lord Buck Miss Leona Fay. Duet (Two pianos) Bellsarlo Oorla Ir 1 wen- a Bird Ida Randolph Smalley and Mary Johnston Monologue How M'ss Ceely Took the Cake. Locke Miss Furth. Violin and Piano Le Barbier de Seville, 4ngeleft Walter Bose and Clarence J.

Shlehler Contralto Dry Those Tears Del Rlego Miss Hazel M. Johnson. Quartet (Two pianos) La Butna Ventura. Fumagalli Miss Ethel Birr. Bdith Barr.

Miss Cath-arlne Pc-ople. Miss James Corenor. Monologue American Beauties Locke Miss Myrtle Haas. Mandolin. Guitar.

Banjo and Piano Metropolitan Waltz. Brewer Leonard Schinnaitel. Frank Beattys Le Roy Lane. Wilbur Wright Jarre Connor Piano Rigol'tto. Liszt Ida Randolph Smalley.

Soprano Selected. Miss Daisy W. C. nklln. Quartet (Two planes) Dance Gallcienne.

Miss B1lth Tyler. Mrs. Russell ShanahanMrs! G. H. Webster.

Ida Randolph Smalley. Recitation Seiecteii. Miss Bessie McGowan. Violin. Violoncello and Piano Gurlltt Walter Bose.

Charles Rosenbauro and Clarence Shieble- The pupils of Mrs. Herman Henrichson will give a musical at the Pouch Gallerv Monday evening. W. Paulding De Nike. violoncellist, and the Philomela Glee Club, Dr.

A. S. Kavanagh, for Soma Years the Pastor, to Preach Anniversary Sermon. $68,000 DEBT ALL WIPED OUT. Bond to Be Burned A Brief History of the Society and Its Struggles.

1 The fifth anniversary of the New YorK avenue Methodist Episcopal Church will he observed to-morrow. In the morning the anniversary sermon will be preached by the Rev. Dr. A. S.

Kavanagh. In the afternoon, at 3, there will be brief addresses by John Truslow, R. S. Tait, John E. Searles, -William P.

Sandford, the Rev. Dr. S. Pnrkog Cadman, the Rev. A.

W. Byrt, the Rev. Dr. George P. Mains, the Rev.

Dr. M. B. Chapman, the Rev. Dr.

C. H. Ruck, the Rev. Dr. A.

S. Kavanagh. After the addresses will come the burnin? of the bonds, representing $77,000. This ceremony will be In charge of Henry I Quick, chairman of the finance committee during the year of the payment of the pledges on the debt. In the evening, at 8.

a prayer and praise service will be held In the chapel, led by the pastor, the Rev. Francis J. McConnell. Tho New York Avemie M. E.

Church has an Interesting history. Meetings were drat held at the close of the year 1855 by John McKIUop. an earnest local preacher, of the Summerfleld Church. In a private house on the old Clove road, now the Eastern Parkway. The place was soon too email and a house near by was leased and fitted up.

the Rev. Dr. J. M. Reld, then pastor of Summerfleld, conducting the firat.

services. On June lfi. 1856. a hoard of trustees was elected, and the next day te Nathan Bangs M. E.

Church was organized, named for a veteran pioneer of Method-Ism. A gore of land was bought on October 27 for J1.000 on the Clove road, a little north of the first location. The building, a plain structure. 35 by 50 feet, was be-nn Immediately after securing the ground. Tt wn well planned and Its arrangements for nil church purposes were comfortable and convenient.

Dr. Banes dedicated It on March 8. 1857. the entire cost, Including furniture, being 4.73. On completion there was a debt of $2,500.

The organization of the Church, otinut the year 18R4. weakened the New York Avenue Church in numbers n1 financial strength. The tide nf ponulatlnp took another direction. Th ehtirrh censed" in prow, and Its nulnlt wqs supplied by tho local and ravelin" mlnlstrv ns nens-itv compelled. Tt vidnt that the church was no longer In the rlffht plaep.

Its removal was Indispensable, apd earnest effnrt wpr. made, esnpclallv 1fifi? and but th canP' wa not effected until 18T3. Whl' thp e'irch was known ns th Nathan Hani's Church. It served fh 'ollnwlng rMntoters; 1857-5S. the S.

H. rlatt- issfi-en. A. et Hunt; 1S1. A.

C. iSB.t W. rTntfletfl. 1SH4. John HeWIIIon nreacherl: 1P-SB.

P. Sheerer-': 187. "John McTCH'nn; Francis! 19tfl t-i Anril. 173, r. McMullon.

Tn March. 171. the crista fcM enme. Thn few remaining merrhora fait wpf useless to continue the TTn'ea i change of location could he had. the must disband.

A rootlnc was hel nnfl earlv removal determined on. Negotiations worp aorna mpebera nf Qlirnmerflold fhnreh. IrtnVtno' fn th en- Hnunne of the New Vork Avenue hit-cS aa a mlsatnnarv enternrta. Services' were continued hy tv.a nl4 of rt-eaph-ri until Him the dlahandtna: of Qt. Andrew's F.

Church e-ave so oft--n-nnltv to hmf their pmportv or, New VnrV "vojuie. After COT1 ferric1 Wtth thfl nf the Ttehhorhrod. thn Vof VorV p'-nnue nronertv was hnnarht for Jti3.KftO. The namp of the church wa: rhmfod to thp Vow VorV Tppita Af. Chnreh.

nnd on Spntember 1, ioti thp. aervlces were held. To th fnrtv or flffv remaining membera the p'd church acpfla'a came imropdlptelv. Th TIpv. tT'ht-cn.

ehanlnln nf tn served th until thp nf thP Rpv. H. Hanehereh in November, who ha pnptorpt rhsra'p un'l Anrtl following, when the Rev. C. Weatirdte camp to the ehurch from th Provldene conference.

Ho wa tn charge during and tin to April. 173. when the Pev. T. R.

Slleor waa appointed, remaining until June. 1877 when the Rev. J. Gracev. a returned mlasionarv from India.

fnoV his place "nf II Anrll. 1878,. After htm. came thp Rev. Dr.

Daniel A. Goodsell, who was tn 18SS elected a blshon. Thp present edifice at the corner of New York avenue and Dean strePt W'fls erpct-ed under the of Dr. Gporare P. Malna Thp building coat about .000 of debt was left on the building.

Five years aeo thin debt was attacked by the nenple of thp church, led by Dr. A. S. Kavanagh. and provisions were made to have the last dollar of indebtedness paid bv the end of May, The pledgp has been kppt, nd tomorrow the bond will be burned.

The pastors of thp church slncp the erection nf the nw building hnvp hpen George P. Mains, M. B. Chapman McFarUnd. A.

S. Kavanagh, C. H. Buck and F. J.

McConnell. BILLS FOR MONUMENTS. Governor Higgins Signs Two Measures of Interest to Brooklyn Veterans. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, June 2 Two of Senator Cooper'i bills were signed yesterday by Gov. Higgins.

One appropriates $1,500 for the ere ting of a monument in commemoration of the soldiers of the Fourteenth Regiment, New York State Militia (Eighty-fourth Regiment, New York State Volunteer Infantry), which retained its formation and designation in the then New York State militia and is now known a the Fourteenth Regiment, New York State National Guard. The commission named to have charge jacob Callas. Edward Riker. John H. Styles and Henry White.

The other bill signed also appropriates SI. 500 for the erection of a suitable monument in commemoration of tho soldiers of tbe Tenth Regiment, New York State Vol- unteeers. Infantrv (National Zouaves! who wpre engaged in the second battle of Bull Run, or Manasssas Plains. August 30, U62. The commission named in the law is composed of the following survivors of the regiment: John W.

Marshall. William A McNnlty. Charles W. Cowtan. Frank M.

Clark. Charles H. Ludwlg. William Warren. Jamts H.

Grady. Thomas D. Moscrop. Edward A. Dubey, Joseph W.

Kay. Herman Cantor. George F. Tait. John F.

Conway. John B. Chase and 'ohn Miller. Among the passengers on the steamer Friedrlch der Grosse. that sailed for Germanv.

were Martin Hencken. x- president of the Sieveners Pladdeutsche Society, his brother, Henrv Hencken. of the San Francisco catastrophe; Emil Rositzke, lieutenant of the Erooklja Schuctzen. Good Night Goldberg fnitomena oiee The annual recital by the pupils of Miss Emma L. Ostrander will be given at Me morial Hall on Tuesday evening.

They will be assisted by the Qulncy Ladles Quartet: Miss Emma L. Ostrander, first soprano; Miss Matilda Heltunann, second soprano; Miss Viola De Nyse, first alto; Miss Paula Levy, second alto; William G. Jones, violinist; Miss May E. Davis, pian ist, and Mrs. Mattie stemler fani, accom panist.

The programme will De: The Dance. A May Morning uenza Miss Josle Morrlsy. Sunset Buc" Mies Susie Llndhorn. When the Heart le Young Buck Miss May E. Davles.

Sunshine and Rain MIm Smllv Rives Mahland. Vlllanelle 'Acqua Miss Grace Dodd. Trio The Oars are Splashing Miss Julie rrencn. airs. owni, Snrite Godbold.

Roses of June Lane Allss unarioiie jieiu. Remember P. D. f'fd So Dear Chaffln Mr. My KlOg Synes Mies Ethel Wayne Munson.

Ave Maria Gounod-Bach nhHeato. Mr. Jones. The Swallows Cowen Mrs. John rransun runer.

Mrs Mattie Stemler Pahl, accompanist. Dream After the Ball Czlbulka Oulncv Ladles Quartette. As the Dann A Dream Dumen "Rdiraj Pranzen. Greeting A Llttlo Secret Bontempe MISS Agaioa snieias. Rhapsodic Hongrolse Liszt Ui.

Mav E. Davles. April Morn Batten airs, narry r. aiucwh. L'Egende Wlenlawskl William G.

Jones. I Love But Thee Alone Bontemps In Sunny Spain ocniemarm Miss Mathilda Hettzmann. Adoration Tehnft Obllgato. Mr. Jones.

Memory Park Miss Paula Levy. Hie Thee Shallop Perkins By the Class. Obllgato by Mies Ostrander. Miss May E. Davles accompanist.

Miss Jessie McDeeble will give a piano recital at Crosby Hall, Classon avenue, on Friday evening. She will have the assistance of the Iuterborough Ladies Quartet, Miss Adelaide Dieckman, first soprano; Miss Mary E. Lovely, second soprano; Mrs. George T. Curnow, first alto; Mrs.

Jennie Campbell Keough. second alto, and Miss Ida Sutherland, accompanist. The programme will be: Colomblne Delahaye Murmuring Zephyrs Jensen Welcome Pretty Primrose Plnsutl Old Folks at Home Foster The Interborough Ladies Quartet. Spinning Song Mendelssohn Second valse Godard Fruhllngsrauschen Slndinff Valee-Ambesque Lark The Chimes Mncy Kentucky Babe The Interborough Ladles Quartet. Rondo Caprlecloso Mendelssohn Valse.

Opus 34. No. 1 Chopin MUNICIPAL REGISTER. Appointed to City Positions. DApartmnt of Finance James F.

ButW, 106 Prospect Park West. Appointed canir In the bookkeeping and awards division at $1,200 per annum. Department of Docks and Ferries William V. Elliott, 141 Rewes street, appointed financial clerk at per month. Board of EXtmate and Apportionment Orrin X.

Webster, 73 Seventh avemie, appointed Men. ographer and typewriter at $1,050 per annum. Certified for Appointment. Department of Fire Fireman, William J. Stankard, 162 East Fifty.nlnth street, Manhattan.

Department of Water Supply, Gas and ElectricityTemporary clerk. Carrie L. Fromkess. 1689 Second avenue, Manhattan. Department of Street Cleaning District su perintendent, August F.

Gunther, 416 Pleasant avenue. Bronx; Thomas P. Farrell, 174 Sixty-fourth street. Manhattan; Barth F. Dwyer.

100 Heyward street. For information concerning the civil service address the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Civil Service Bureau. Answers will be published in this column. BROKERS ASS'N IN COMA. Flatbush Real Estata Men Organized a Month Ago, hut Have Done Nothing Since.

A movement has been on foot for several months among real estate brokers of Flatbusb to establish an organization for the purposes of mutual protection and che governing of rates in regard to sales, rents and commissions. The movement v.as precipitated by the recent and still existing appreciation of Flatbusb. real estate. Values have soared to such an extent that, practically any price agked has been accepted. The result has been that there has teen no generally recognized rate ro govern commissions, and ral estate values have persisted in spasmodic Jumps upward, which Indicates that have gottan beyond the control of the brokers.

Nearly a month ago thirty of I lie representative agents of Flatbush met at the otOc-. of Oliver Holt and Frank E. Foster, at 831 Flatbush avonue, to perfect an organization. The purpos9 and benefits of such an organization werj borouil dlsci.isnei and the plan was dormcd feasi ble. B.

Aimer, of King Aimif, was unanimously chosen as prendent; Frederick W. Hill, vice president: VV. Johnston, of Blood Johnston, sccratary. anl William King, tieasurer. A committer was appointed by the chair to draw up by-laws, and to aei forth the objects of the organi zation It wai agreed that meetings enould be held at the call of the caalr.

No further meetings have been caned and the discussion of the merits or de- merits of such an association seems to have ceased. Inquiry among real estate men of Flatbush to-day revealed the fact that it was quite possible that the young I organization would soon die a natural death, if it has not already virtually passed out of existence. It seems to be pretty generally con- ceded that the association, as organized, would result beneficially to Flatbush night. The commencement exercises were I of the erection of the monument Is made held Thursday. The graduates were Miss I up of the following surviving members of Genevieve Allen, Miss Grace Graef, Miss the regiment: James McLeer, James Elsie Vogel and Miss Marjorie Wells.

1 Whitlock. Cornelius J. Mahoney. James Last night's exercises were opened with I D. Rankin, Alexander Barnie, Charles F.

processional hymn, followed by prayer Baldwin, Ramon Caidoua. Alfred Crans-bv the Rev. Dr. Spencer S. Roche.

Mrs. t0u, Harry W. Mlchell. Peter W. Ostrand-Elcanor Hooper Coiyell.

violinist, gave a cr. Wilbur F. Rossell, George H. Rice. brokers, ana tne iact mat 11 nas appar-j on the KepuDIicans.

so that about one-ently "gone by the board" has led to a half of the absentees are Democrats, rumor that there has been some strife John Sharp Williams has told all his within the organization. This cannot be Democratic colleagues who have close dis. Souvenir de Bode and Legenae. by Wienlawski. Emanuel Schmauk was ac comprnlst on the piano.

The Rev. Howard Mellsh delivered the address to the graduates. He counseled tbem to live the full rounded life, doing the best they could for themselves, yet not forgetting that there were others wbo might be benefited through their Influence. The principal, Miss Emma Conro, was congratulated, not only by the speaker, but by those in the audience, on the success that thus far had attended her in her profession. The last dance of the season of the Alpha Chapter of the Alphi lau Phi as held, last night, in Pouch Gallery.

The ballroom was decorated for the occasion fl nlinlAa ntlpnneH ntlH tho a f- fair was 'in all respects a success. The committee in charge of the dance was comDOsed of Miss Carrie Heilbrunn, Miss Irene Wood and Miss Alice Wagner. The patronesses were Miss Mary E. Darker. Miss Alice M.

Higgins. Mrs. Meyer. Mrs. Heilbrunn, Mrs.

G. Coffey and Mr3. S. I. Loeb.

confirmed. Others credit the sudden withdrawal of Interest to tne taci mai mere are some i brokers who persist in drawing commis- 1 slons on sales, without regard to I percentage. They dislike to pledge them- selves to any general schedule of rates. while the brokers who work upon a per- centage ba6is feel that such disinclination to uniformity Is unfair to them. Many of the organizers maintain that the association is still alive and will con- tlnue to exist, despite reports to the con- trary- The L'lk Dramatic Club at a meeting last night decided to make a five-day excur- sion to Baltimore and Washington at the end of July.

A visit to Mount Vernon and Captain John's Bridge Is also planned. is.