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10 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. MONDAY. MAY It. 1908.

Big Mass Meetings in Churches HID TRANSIT BILL The Old Circuit At the Rider General Conference Denounce Race Track Gambling His Opinion of the Liquor Traffic A Wonderful Description of Hero Day Romance of a Brooklyn Boy. not appreciate the dangers that confront the state in the fight for the preservation of the Constitution. Men are too busy in their daily occupations to give much attention and thought to the moral and constitutional sides of the question. But when aroused the people come to the frout. Whenever a moral question has come up before them there always has been a man to lead them.

The moral and constitutional aspects of the question are interconvertible. It. is the case of the people against twenty-five senators. The question is whether the voice of the people shall be heard or the legislators follow their own thinking. The defense of racetrack gambling is merely sophistry and evasion.

People can probably not be made righteous by law, but the state should not be made unrighteous. Then some say this will prevent insignificant wagering, but that does not need contradiction. "Governor Hughes," said Mr. MeCarrolI, "raises the moral issue and it must be answered. When he presents such a question it must be settled then and there.

When the governer insisted that the reform take place at once he knew that great damage would be done to thousands of men before September 1. The fundamental TJtrestion is whether the legislators shall obey the plain mandate of the people and the Constitntion." Mr. MeCarrolI declared that criticism of the legislators Bhould not be too general because the Assembly and half the Senate had voted in the right direction. Each man is responsible for the exercise of his individual Influence in this matter. It is up to the people not to stand for the disgrace of the state, and to make effective the tight of the governor the people should stand firmly behind him.

Mr. MeCarrolI earnestly hoped for victory in the end. Dr. Boynton said that of the states be has known they have all respected their constitutions. The Bay State holds the provisions of its Constitution sacred, and there is no political interest strong enough to dare to subserve it.

The late governor of Michigan religiously saw to it that the Constitution of that sWte was respected by all. Dr. Boynton said he was glad the issue had arisen, and stated that the fundamental question was not Baltimore, May 11 The old circuit-rider rapped on my door at 6 o'clock the ether morning and summoned me to an auto ride before breakfast. As we whirled through a number ot streets on our way to the park we passed a number of saloons already open and ready for business. waved his hand at one of them as we passed and said: "There must be no reaction from the wrath from which all good and Christian citizens the sneaking, law-breaking, murderous liquor traffic.

It deserves neither charity nor mercy. There Is no law It will keep, no pledge it will honor, no child it will not taint, no woman it will not befoul, no man it will not de grade. It foeds upon dishonesties ot con duct and on the Bhame of brothels. It stimulates all revenges and makes the murderer dance upon the body he has killed. I am not rehearsing a Prohibition speech.

I am only quoting from the blsh op's address. Was there ever a more scathing indictment penned than that?" "I have never read one If there ever has been. And yet I have heard men who made a living by delivering temperance stump speeches denounce with the most bitter Invective the Methodist bishops as the allies of the liquor traffic. The conference will exhibit a wide difference of opinion upon nearly every subject. The liquor traffic Is one topic upon which all are agreed.

The most casual reference to the conflict with it arouses lusty amens and hearty cheers. If you did not know it was a religious body you would think it was a third party Prohibition rally. Appearance of Two Governors, It was a happy and striking Incident that the references of the bishops to pro hibition and the liquor traffic should be so closely followed by the debut of the two governors. It. was so clever in its fitness that it almost seemed the work of a crafty stage manager.

It is refreshing in these days to hear a governor of a great state Introduce at a religious meeting a political document ad dressed to the speaker of the House at Washington. Governor Hanly short speech might have been a class meeting testimony or a prayer meeting exhorta tion, so temperate was it and uttered with such spiritual unction. 'Governor Hoch had something of the old-fashioned revivalist, so fervid and hortatory was he that it would not have surprised me had he invited somebody to the 'anxious Before the conference is over," sug gested the circuit-rider, "the prohibition of the liquor traffic will be a subject every speaker will draw on when he has a hard time. Already some speeches that did not catch on at the start were cun ningly directed toward the saloon and a few stout denunciations saved the day. "Nothing reveals the temperament of the conference mort clearly than the discussion of any great moral evil.

These preachers must have been accustomed to mix their sermons with theology and politics half and half so easily and smoothly they glide from any subject, it matters little what It is, into arraignment of the saloon and denunciation of graft. The laymen seem to have thrived on that sort of diet. They punctuate every fiery address with a whirlwind of ap plause. I Invited a Brooklyn boy, Levi Gilbert, who was one of the committee of twenty- five who went to Washington with the two governors, Congressman Andrus, and a number of very strong ministers and laymen, to visit the circuit-rider's box and tell him about the trip. Tho two men were soon merry over some of the laughable incidents of the journey.

The circuit-rider laughed heart ily but silently as he heard the story of Speaker Cannon, who listened very attentively to the committee and replied in characteristic fashion. He met the statement of the large portion ot the South having "gone dry" by suggesting that he did not think that indicated that all the Southerners had also "gone dry." Romance of a Brooklyn Boy. As I watched the two men so typical of their generations, I rehearsed to my- elf the romantic story of the Brooklyn boy. Born on Dean street; most of his youth and young manhood had been spent on Myrtle near Bedford. An attendant upon the public Bchool; a student for three years at the Polytechnic, for two years assisting in building the Brooklyn Bridge; graduated at Wesleyan University and Drew Theological Seminary; oc cupied chief pastorates for afteen years in Minnesota; two years pastor of a great church in Seattle; five years in the First Church, Cleveland; three years in Trinity Church, New Haven; editor "Dally Chris tian Advocate" In 1900; editor of the Western Christian Advocate," Cincin nati, 1900-1908.

Delegate to General Conference. 1904 and 1908. 'Received D.D. from Hamline and Wesleyan universities; B.D. from Drew Theological Seminary; LL.D., from Moore's Hill College; Lit.D.

from Ohio Wesleyan; the author of several valuable books. It is not impossible that he may be elected to the Episcopacy; not he Is reasonably sure of re-election to his present position. It would be hard to crowd into one life, less than three-score years, much more of achieve ment and important and valuable service for his fellow man. Had he become mayor of a great city, governor of a great State, congressman and senator. It would not have been more useful or a greater honor.

He Is one of scores of men here who have similar striking and marvelous records. This is one of the facts that makes this the greatest religious body upon the globe. My meditations were disturbed by the editor remarking: "You do not mean to say that if the Gospel was preached in the same language, with the same earnestness and faith, the same results would follow- I cannot imagine seeing the floor of Clermont Avenue Rink, covered with hundreds of men and women lying helpless, while other hundreds went leaping, shrieking and shouting up and down the aisles, to and fro, leaping over chairs like mad men and women." "If the work was of God, why not the same result," said the circuit-rider. "It was nothing new. In my younger days.

It was the common thing. If there was no excitement, the meeting wa's considered almost a failure." People Less Emotional in These Days. "Our people are less emotional than they were In your yotlnger days. I cannot Imagine Brooklyn pcopie victims of 'the jerks' such as you have described as having occurred at the ramp meeting seventy-five years ago when you were converted. The people in those days were more excitable; they were simpler in their emotions, more easily moved and not at all unwillin" to surrender completely to their excited feelings." "What do you know about it?" Inquired the circuit-, rider abruptly.

"I have known both generations. If Iwanted to picture a mind, excitable, easily moved to extremes of fear and fun, I would never think of taking pioneer men and women TO BE OPPOSED BYCL.il. Committee Appointed to Appear Before Governor Hughes at Hearing on Friday. FUNDS FOR POLITICAL ACTION Good Crowds at Label Fair Yester day Afternoon and Evening. Other Notes.

The Central Labor Union yesterday afternoon appointed a committee, com posed of Messrs. Atherton, Boyle, Ger-non and Flaherty, to attend the hearing on Friday before the governor, to op pose the bill amending the Elsberg Rapid Transit law, which Is officially known as "An act to provide for rapid transit rail ways In cities of over 1,000,000 Inhabi tants," passed in 1801, as amended In 1804 and 1885. The bill provides for fifty-year franchise and extensions. The matter was brought to the attention of the union by the People's Institute, re questing It to take suitable action. The American Federation of Labor has appealed to the C.

L. and to all local unions affiliated with it, to contribute to the fund for the purpose of the confer ence organized to take action to bring about the passage of the bills before Congress, sought by the A. F. of The Pearre bill, to regulate and limit the is suance of Injunctions; the employers' 11 ability bill, and the bill extending the application of the eight hour law to all government employes, and those em ployed upon work for the government, whether by contractors or subcontrac tors. The application for a donation was referred to a committee Boyle, Atherton and Matthews to decide upon the amount to be given.

The brewery workmen reported that they had given $25 to the fund. The committee on park employes reported that they 'had had an interview with the Mayor regarding the vacation bill, and that it had met an objection to a clause providing that no vacations should be given during the months of October or November. This clause was intended to prevent the employment of laborers for political purposes during tho campaign. The mayor informed the com mittee he was in favor of the bill. The secretary was Instructed to request the mayor to act favorably on (the bill.

On the request of Plumbers Union No. 1 the secretary was instructed to communicate with all department stores, informing them that It was understood that they did not employ union plumbers, and requesting them to do so. A communication was received from the Allied Wall Paper Trades, asking the co-operation of the C. L. U.

in getting Jobbers and retailers not to handle anything but union made wall papers. That was granted. The Asiatic Exclusion League of San Francisco forwarded a petition for the adoption of the C. L. requesting the members of Congress to vote for the bill to exclude all immigration of the yellow races, except merchants, students and travelers, and that the exclusion be made perpetual.

It was referred to the legislative committee. The delegate of Actors Union No, 2 complained that trade unions did not employ union actors when they gave en- tertaluments, and requested the delegates to inform their unions that the C. L. U. had adopted resolutions providing for the employment of union actors when they conducted entertainments.

The Central Labor Union and the Central Federated Union of Manhattan, especially Timothy Healy of the Firemen's Union, were thanked by the Bartenders and Walters local council for bringing about the settlement of the trouble between the unions and the managers of Celtic Park. The committee on Navy Yard grievances reported that the asbestos work ers had complained that the union scale was not paid in the yard. The committee had communicated with the secretary of the navy, and had been requested by liim to Bee Admiral Goodrich for further Information. The committee will see the admiral. The Carpet Layers reported that they have a grievance against a Broadway house, which does not employ union men.

The secretary will write. The Brewery Workers have signed three-year agreements with the employers. The Plumbers Helpers asked for a committee to visit a brewery which is employing non-union men. The committee consists of Delegates Marvey, Maxwell and Brady. The Labor Lyceum Association is to hold Rn excursion to Niagara Falls and Buffalo on Saturday, September 5.

and invites all members of trade unions. Crowd at Label Fair Last Night. All the delegates of tho C. L. U.

vis-isted the Label Fair after the meeting. There was a good crowd present all the afternoon and evening. The Hatters Union has a booth, at which one of its members is on hand to polish all union hats. The Teamsters Union has a prize goat, which it is to raffle. The goat behaves Itself and is entirely tame.

The Women's Auxiliary of the Lithographers Union has a booth, where it sells postal cards printed by members of the union, having the union label on them, and there Is a big demand. The Metal Polishers Union has an exhibit; not as fine as it will be, however. Some members of the Women's Trade Union League have a fortunetellers tent, and everyone is invited to see what the future holds in store. There is dancing In a hall and George M. Neuhert, last night, lectured upon the union label, illustrating it with stereoptlcon slides.

There will be an entertainment to-night. LAID A CORNERSTONE. Simple, but Impressive, Ceremonies Witnessed at Rockaway Beach, Father Murray Officiating. Several hundred persons stood in the chilly wind that swept across Rorkaway Beach yesterday afternoon and participated in the ceremonies attending the corner stone laying of the new Catholic chapel, which is in course of erection at the corner of the Boulevard and Park section of the beach. The cere monies were simple, and the Rev.

Henry Murray, of St. Rose of Lima Church, laid the stone. In the copper box were placed the church records, coins and documents. The Rev. F.

J. Uleau, assistant at St. Rose of Lima Church, preached the sermon and there was singing by the choir. The new edifice will be 46 by SO feet and will have a brick basement and foundation, the upper part being of frame construction with iron beams. The body of the chapel will have a Beating capacity for 200 people and In the basement there will be Sunday school rooms.

There will be three entrances, one on the Boulevard side and two on Wolcott avenue. The chapel will cost Jfl.mn, and it Is expected to have It ready for dedication by June 15. LECTURE ON "GOOD OLD TIMES." (Special to the Eagle.) Freeport, L. May 11 Before the Freeport Board of Trade, which is to have a special women's night on Wednes day evening. Dr.

George Thomas Dowling will give his lecture on "The Good Old Times." 'This lecture will be the final of a free course given during the season through courtesy of President Alonzo Foster to the board, members and their friends. HAD II LARGE GRIST Judge Jaycox the Miller; One Separation Granted; Others Went Over. WIFE GOT THE ONE DECREE. Case of the L. I.

B. R. vs. Weeks, In volving a Battleground at Cedar-hurst, Is Closed. (Special to the Eagle.) Patchogue, L.

May 11 Before Jus tlce Jaycox in special term ot the Su preme Court here on Saturday three divorce proceedings were heard, only one of which was foncluded. The suit for absolute divorce brought by Herbert L. Hawkins, of Stony Brook, against his wife, Myra B. Hawkins, bitterly con tested by Mrs. Hawkins, took up the best part of the afternoon session, and was then adjourned over for two weeks.

Mr. Hawkins charges his wife with improper Intimacy with Thomas L. Chapman, pro prietor of the Stony Brook Hotel, and Mr. Chapman is assisting Mrs. Hawkins In her defense.

Chapman made no de fense to the suit for divorce brought by his wife, Cornelia Chapman, of Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, and which was tried before Justice Jaycox some time ago, and In which the court denied a decree to Mrs. Chapman. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins were married in 1894 and have a 13-year-old son.

Mildred W. Lane, of Babylon, was granted a separation from her husband Audley S. Lane, who, she said, is now living at Manorvllle. They were married in 1884. and have no children.

No defense was entered by the husband Mrs. Lane said her husband had not supported her in three years and had left her a year ago. No alimony was asked, counsel for Mrs. Lane declaring that she was only too glad to be rid of him. Alma T.

Young, of Port Jefferson, brought suit for absolute divorce from her husband, Albert Glynn Young. The parties were married on Christmas Day, 1905. The testimony of Dr. A. H.

Grif- flng of Sayville, a brother-in-law of Mrs, Young, was the only evidence taken, and the case was adjourned for two weeks. The case of the Long Island Railroad Company against Herbert A. Weeks of Cedarhurst, which has been going on for some time, was closed, the testimony of the defendant and that of the commis sion appointed to take the testimony of another witness belug presented. The railroad company claims to own a certain strip of land over which It wants to run a short third rail connection from Springfield Junction to the Rockaways. Weeks says he owns the land.

It was the question of the legal right of way over this strip and that of the adjoln- ng Vandewater property at Cedarhurst that caused so much trouble last June, when the railroad company had a force of policemen and laborors attempt to assort tho rights of the company on the lands, and for which the Nassau Grand Jury later Indicted some of the railroad company's participants, the railroad company also later settling with Vandewater by taking the property at his pr'ce. Briefs were ordered to be submitted within two weeks. Counsel for the executors of the will of George W. Thome, which will was declared valid at the last April term of the court In Riverhead, made a motion for an extra allowance, as against tho contestants of the will. Counsel for th will claimed that the suit brought war simply a strike, and dared any of the interested contestants to make affidavit that the suit was brought in good faith.

Counsel for the contestants declared the suit was brought in good faith and that they had expected to prove by medical experts that Thome had been suffering from a serious kidney disease, but a recent ruling of the Court "of Appeals that such testimony was not competent gave a different complexion to heir case. Lady Helen Leigh, it will be remembered, was tho principal beneficiary under the Thome will, and a commission was sent to Paris to take testimony in the case. Briefs were ordered submitted. District Attorney G. H.

Furman made a motion that he be substituted as attorney for Henry E. Weeks in the latter'? suit to recover $231.87 from Charles S. Marsh. Furman claimed that Weeks had entered into an agreement with Lawyer Leslie A. Davis to collect the claim upon a contingent fee.

and later refused to go on with the case unless a certain sum was paid Lawyer Davis explained his procedure in the matter, and the court, took the papers for final decision. Lawyer Davis asked for $32 and costs of the motion to-day for his withdrawal from the case. ROUGH ELEMENT ON HAND. Frequent Bows Among Coney Island Visitors Testerday, and Trainmen Had Their Hands Full. The disorderly element in the crowd that went to Coney Island yesterday seemed to be greater than on previous Sundays, and there were many fights during the day on the various walks and on the cars.

There were plenty of police on hand for the purpose of handling the crowd, but they were not available when a row started. Luna Park was open for Inspection, as on last Sunday, and the big place and Stauch's dance hall seemed to be the magnet for the 76,000 people who visited the Island. Frederic Thompson, accompanied by Manager Kilbourn, made a tour of the park during the evening, and both are now waiting for the opening day, next Saturday. Mr. Thompson said the opening will be a big thing this year, and he Is hoping for good weather for that day and all those that follow It.

He has closed his theatrlral enterprises, and all his time" now will be given to Luna Park. The police station was a dreary place during the day, not an arrest being recorded up to 8 o'clock. There was plenty of work for the police in and around the railroad depots, but none appeared to be willing to do it when the opportunity presented itself. At one of the terminals, waiting for an outgoing train, were two persons, one of 'whom, a man. had evidently Imbibed rather freely during the day.

His woman companion was fondly stroking his left cheek with one hand while going through his pockets with the other. At another depot two young girls fought over a youth, and one of them was minus tho roof of a Merry Widow hat when they were separated. One of the passengers on a train leaving the West End depot about 10 o'clock was a cripple, and after the train had pulled out, he started through the car presenting to every other passenger a small card asking for help. A guard saw bira and ordered him to cease. The guard asked the others in the car not to give the cripple any money, as it was against the rules of the company.

A well-built young man told the guard to "back up." and he did. The cripple then collected considerable coin. At Ulmer Park a fight started in one of the cars, and when the train stopped, it was continued on the street. As usual, a number of girls got off the train to see the row, and the train left them there. The rough element hung on until after 1 o'clock this morning, when they boarded the trains and made things decidedly uncomfortable lor the trainmen.

His Stand for Reform Senator Register Prendergast Speak for Doesn't Care for Woodruff. men have taken in favor of these laws. "Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be sent to the governor." The meeting closed with the singing of "America." Mass Meeting at Summerfield M. E. Church.

A neighborhood mass meeting in the in terest of anti-race track gambling legis- lation was held last night, in the Sum merfield Episcopal Church, asninS' and Greene avenues. The church was well crowded and despite Sunday conventionalities the congregation luudly applauded the striking points scored by the speakers in support ot Governor Hughes and against the twenty-five senators who caused the defeat of the race track bills at the recent session of the Legislature. Register William A Prendergast lauded the Governor In high terms and proclaimed his independence. in action and utterance, of the Republican county leader. Public Service Commissioner William MeCarrolI also spoke and Frank Harvey Field presided.

The Rev. Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, pastor of the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, added a few words on the subject. The meeting was held under the auspices of the men's club of the Summerfield Church. The Rev.

James E. Holmes, pastor of the church, declared that when a moral question confronts the people their hearts are always found in the right place. Mr. Field reralled the history of race track gambling legislation, more particularly the Percy-Gray law, and the recent action of the Senate in voting against its elimination. He pointed out the evil influence of gambling and gave instances of the ruin it has wrought and the temptation in which it places the men who follow It.

Register Prendergast said that this being a government of laws, the Constitution, which is the highest of all. should be obeyed. Even if it is not right, and has been tolerated and sanctioned by the people, it should be respected. If there is no respect for the Constitution there will be no respect for the laws. There has been considerable discussion that the corporations are prone to evade the law and to secure by improper special legislation.

That is what the racing interests are trying to do. The argument that gambling is Inherent in human nature is not a strong one at all, nor the one which suggests an unjust elimination of all smaller games of chance. But if this minor form be resorted to by any man, no matter how strong his moral fabric, if it is kept up he will be weaker and finally fall a victim to it. The Immoral Influence of the Race Tracks. "The racing interests," said the register, care but little about the moral sido of the question so long as they can carry on their business.

Look at the specimens of humanity that return from the race track every day and you will see that they have suffered. But what care the race track men about them? We have a right to say something on this question of morals. If I see my brother going down to destruction I have a right to speak for the moral law. We know that the Influence of the race track is an immoral influence. Some have said that gambling has gone on and we have survived it.

but I say give It free leash and we will soon go to perdition. Other states have rid themselves of it, but the great state of New York allows it, by constitutional trickery, to flourish. You may say that New Jersey has many pool rooms, but by efficient police they ran be abolished. But because pool selling is permitted that is no reason the Empire State should legalize gambling. The course of men who gamble is downward.

Sometimes we interfere with poolrooms when a spasm of virtue attacks the police department. The race track men do not give the people a fair deal. If it were a good cause the gambling interests were fighting' for, they would not have to use the methods they are using now to uphold it. According to the Eagle, and I regard it as a veracious paper, the racing men met in the Ten Eyek Hotel in Albany and in secret session banded to defeat the anti-race track bills. What honest business is required to use such methods? One Legislator Says He Was Offered $10,000 for His Vote.

"Is there any doubt that money was used at Albany? One legislator I know said $10,000 was offered for his vote. Do honest men have ito depend upon that sum of money to stay in business?" Mr. Prendergast answered in detail arguments made In a newspaper article in favor of the continuance of the Percy-Gray law and which stated that the penalty for gambling is made too severe in the proposed legislation. The register argued in favor of the bills and showed how the lack of proper penalties made the punishment practically nil. "The governor is fair minded and practical," he said: "he asks that there be no discrimination against any one form ot gambling." Of the legislators, Mr.

Prendergast declared, most of them voted right, did Senator Travis. There is no leader who can take away a good reputation. The question is. Shall the Legislature legislate or shall the people have any right to control them? The politician is against the issue, but the people have the moral and legal end on their side. "I heard a man say." continued the speaker, "that the church people are all right; that they get enthusiastic and then for-get about it around election time, and then the practical politicians control the choice ot legislators.

That is partly true and it is a shame it is true. It Is not sufficient to approve what is said, but we must carry the fight to the polls. Does Not Care What Woodruff Thinks. "The leader cares but little about public opinion on any day hut Election Day. form my opinions independently and say what I believe and believe what I say.

I rare little what the leader of this county thinks about it. If he docs not want to come on my band wagon he can get, upon another and I wiH wait until he walits to get aboard mine. I form my own views as I want, whether he likes it or not. "It will be necessary, if Governor Hughes does not win at this extra session for him to take a second term. I have said that before, and here only recently the Republican leader In New ork made statement to the same effect.

The politicians think they can defeat the people. Therefore it is necessary for the pcopie stand behind the governor and support him and show their power. This may be heresy, but it is sometimes necessary that heretics should be burned at the political stake. The governor is right and he knows he is right, but he must have the people behind him. He is no Delphic oracle with a double tongue and It is refreshing to have a man who is no politician In the executive chair of the state." Register Prendergast considered the question of whether the Legislature shall have the right to govern itself or be coerced by the governor In his fight for right.

It does not concern tho theory the Legislature to have its members forced to vote on one side. The speaker justified the governor's call for an extra session, and said that the question of emergency was solely one of the gov ernors own judgment. If he is wrong can answer to the people for It. He doing his pimple duty, and the question is whether the people will uphold a God-fearing and conscientious public servant or whether they will allow him to back to private iife as afailureandhis right idea as a wrong one: The register urged the congregation to prevent this result by making the Influence of the people first felt at tlm polls where the people are in power as the arbiter of things political. If this is done a great benefit will be done and the power public opinion will achieve a great triumph.

mgers That Confront the State. JIr MeCarrolI said thatthe people do! Governor Hughes Indorsed for Fuller, Assemblyman Farrar, Hart-Agnew Bills Register Last night before an audience of several hundred people in the Puritan Congregational Church, Lafayette and Marcy avenues, a Democratic State Senator and a Republican Assemblyman made common cause against the gambling evil and indorsed Governor Hughes' stand against the Percy-Gray law. Senator Charles Fuller of the Eighth District stated that he believed his vote more truly rep- n.mn.,i, han those of his who voted against the bill in the last session and said that he was going back to Albany thiB time with, the hope that the reform bills will pass. The meeting was under the auspices ot the Puritan Men's League and Edward H. Wilson, their chairman, presided at the meeting.

John R. Karrar, assemblyman from the Seventeenth District, stated that the question was not one of poliics alone but should be looked at from a moral "standpoint. He said that each representative of the people gives his word under oath, when taking office, to support the state and constitution, and as it is decreed in the Constitution that gambling shall not be permitted, it Is their duty to see that proper laws should be passed to enforce this. People have said, perhaps, that racing is a goud sixirt and to stop it would be unfair, but the bills are not to stop racing but race track gambling. Ho maintained that the Legislature cannot change the morals of a man.

but it can maks laws to punish him for offending. It is left for th.o church to look after the man's morals. In the end, he said that every man ought to lend his efforts toward stopping gambling. Senator Fullsr's Address. The next speaker.

Senator Fuller, thought it was a good thing to remember what a representative government means, not that when a question arises, the senator or assemblyman should go to a political leader and find out how to cast his vote or take orders from a political boss, or further his own interests or those of his party, but he should gather up the general sentiment of the people who chose him and represent them. "Until 1894, there was nothing in the constitution against gambling. Since then we adopted the policy against it, and it still goes on. The only way to answer the question is to change the constitution. So long as the Percy-Gray law stands, just so long will the question be before the people.

Is the Percy-Gray law an oppro-priate law to prevent gambling in this state? The law does not prevent gambling, and since it does not then we are not living up to the letter of the constitution. Every workingman has the right to object to his neighbor gaining wealth through hazard, the certain speea ol a horse or to go further, the rise and fall of stocks, w'len he gains his by labor. "Many of my fellows did not see fit to vote the way I did. I was isolated in the House, having only one supporter in the Democratic rank, and we were nearer the true Democratic principle than th others, if ever a law was obnoxious to Democratic principle, it is the Percy-Gray law. passed to put money in the pockets of a few, and a true Democrat will oppose this, since the true principle is against special legislation as favoring one man or set of men, and the Percy-Gray law is special legislation of the rankest kind.

The Church in Politics. "How can any man be a true Democrat Enl say anything wrong against the Constitution? What is needed is a closer connection between the church and politics, not a legal connection between the church and State, but a vital conscious union." In closing. Mr. Fuller said that they go back to Albany to-morrow with some inconvenience, perhaps, to a great many, but they had a public duty to perform and were going to stay there tntil they did it. The Rev.

Jason Noble Pierce then discussed the moral side of the question. He opposed the statement that the Assemblyman made, that the Senate was the Upper House, and maintained that the Assembly was, having passed the bill, while the Senate was yet on trial before the people. However, he said, "I am proud of this Democratic Senator and this Assemblyman who were among the few to do their dut. We should co'nsider not only what is in the Constitution, but why it is there, and the reason for the clause against gambling is to protect the people. But does it do so when the enormous cost to the people to support the children of gamblers is estimated? And who can estimate the cost to the State to support the criminals?" He made a statement, which he said was from an inspector of police in New York City, that 50 per cent, of all theft, embezzlement, forgery, burglary, suicide and murder is the direct growth of race track gambling, "What is the use," said Mr.

Pierce, "of churches and ministers trying to uplift men, and of the State paying money for the education of her citizens when other men do their best to pull them down. The people in New York State cannot command the respect of neighboring states, if they continue to permit an oligarchy of gamblers to drive boldly over the Constitution. One man said that the bills would abolish the good breed of horses, but "God bless the governor who said. 'We want a good breed of men not "In answer to the argument that pool Tooms would flourish if gambling at rac tracks was stopped. I say that the poolroom and track are one and inseparable, and one cruld not be greater than the other, because they are both on the same footing ill gal.

"The immunity given to bookmakers at the track under the Percy-Gray law makes it impossible to remvict a poolroom keeper for doing the sam" thins outside the race track fence, and such of poolroom keepers seem unfair. The cases against them do not have public sentiment behind them, and so gambling is practically unchecked. If all gambling, both inside and outside of the tracks, is nut on the same footing then the poolrooms will have to go as well as the bookmakers. Minister Displeased With the Eagle. At this point he said that he had heard a great deal about the Brooklyn Eagle.

thought it was the greatest paper that ever was before 1 tame to Brooklyn," he said, "but I have been disappointed in one respect. In its editorials it has not come out quite so strongly for the anti-racing bills as one would naturally expect. It has seemed to fear that the bills would result in the confiscation of property and in harm to vested interests. but really what vested interests are there? They notarise from profits which are but from a violation of the constitution. Now, 1 am not a lawyer, but 1 would like to have any lawyer explain to me how there can be vested interests that we should respect in rrnfits which arc the violation of the The following resolution was adopted by the members of the churc h.

"Whereas, the question is about to be brought before the Legislature of this state whether the constitution of the state shall be observed and respected and a great evil suppressed: or whether that constitution shall he overthrown by private interest and creed. "Now, therefore, be it resolved that we, citizens of the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, assembled in the Puritan Church, this 10th day of May. 19'iS, do heartily approve and indorse the efforts of the valiant governor of this state, the Hon. Charles E. Hughes, to place upon the statute books, laws which the constitution says shall be there which shall effectually prohibit gambling of all kinds and especially that within the precincts of licensed race tracks; and that we cordially approve and indorse the stand which the senator and assemblymen from this district, the Hon.

Charles H. Fuller and the Hon. John R. farrar and other senators and assembly- as 1 a to of lie Is go all sf as easy victims to hysterics. Men and women who dared the privations of the wilderness, and lived without scarce a comfort of life, such as we count essential; who labored with their hands in the mnchest nnH hapHaot ,..11 il.

tun iu tay mo roundatlons of their humble threatened on one hand by savage beasts, and on the other by more savage men; driven to the suppression of nearly every emotion by the perils and privations of every waking hour, they would furnish the poorest possible material for the trickster and mountebank." The editor very earnestly asked: "Do you think our people are more emotional than yours were in those days?" The Circuit rider looked acrosb the room as if he saw something in the distance; he then mused half aloud as if to himself. "I attended a political rally In the Clermont Avenue Risk to hear the election returns. The only I ever saw similar to It wan Wnii i saw tn the flurry of a panic. No madhouse In its craziest ward could exhibit more excessive hysterics or more irrational conduct; one was inspired by politics, the other by money. If these people knew that they were docmed to die for their sins, and suddenly were emancipated from the agony of dread, they might possibly 'Jcrk'and shriek and leap as much as they did In the rink or on Wall Street: but they could not more." The editor was greatly sobered and for a moment there was silence.

Before the conversation could be resumed a tumult arose in the conference. A speaker had spoken with impassioned earnestness and dramatic fervor. An illustration of almost overwhelming beauty and sublimity was poured forth with tones of thunder. His powerful voice was swallowed up by the roar and noise of the clapping of the hands and the cheers of the excited audience. Suddenly In the midst of the mglhty din, a strange sound was heard The Old Circult-rlder exclaimed in excited lTl; that?" was but high-pitched, shrill, hardly more than an aspiration of breath, and above all sound and piercing the tumult like a forked flash of lightning in the midst of a mass of black clouds.

It was weird, thrilling and made the blood chill anB Btlng as It darted from head to foot turning the marrow into ice as it dashed down. A Weird Noise Stirs the Old Circuit Eider. The circuit, rider almost ni.t.j v. spoke: 'I have not heard that uin for many years. I first heard It at midnight In my youn manhonrl i i in an Immense wilderness and wandered about for hours trying to find the path and at last lay down under a clump of bushes to rest holding the reins my weary horse.

I had barely dropped Into a troubled sleen when about me that sound pierced the quietness of the night. I listened; the silence and darkness was full of terrors could neither explain nor banish. My horse pressed his nose against my face and I felt him trembling as he sough by touching me to invito my sympathy and help. Whether, it was man, bird or beast, I could not tell, but heard it no-more. As you would Imagine, it was the longest night I ever spent.

Once again, a few years later, I heard it. I was preach ing with my usual fervor when all at once a tumult was occasioned by scoret of people shouting in a wild paroxysm. At the moment of fiercest excitement I heard the weird sound again and such was the effect upon me that I dropped into my seat and helplessly gazed in wonder upon the whirling, shrieking crowd. "Did all these scenes of excitement end when the noise subsided? or were there results that led you to believe there was anything supernatural in It?" inquired the editor. "Hundreds were converted at the camn meeting.

Scores of wicked and depraved men were stricken down, who when the trance was overleaped, shouted and praised God. They lived holy and useful Christian lives ever afterward. I never tried to analyze the emotion so as to label one part divino and the other human. I only cared to know that wicked men were redeemed by the power of God and stayed redeemed." As If forgetting we were pear, the cir cuit-rider in a low tone scarcely more than a whisper said softly to himself: This is an 'emotional' as well as a 'reactionary' body. What a meeting that was when the Governor of Maryland, the Mayor of Baltimore, tho leader of the Baltimore Conference, the revered Bishop Warren, and Senator Dolliver, each In his own way rose to heights of such mpassioned eloquence as to thrill toe thousands who could not make 1 noise enough to relieve their leaping blood and wildly throbbing heart.

Hero Day at General Conference. "Then that other meeting Hero Day! The missionary bishops' testimony meeting. Men who had dared the unspeakable horror of life among heathen men and women, and had survived to tell the tragic tale. I held my breath when one told of the death by small pox of Bishop FitzGerald's daughter as she was nursed by a missionary's wife; then the death of the bishop. Hundreds were in tears as the pathetic story was almost sobbed out by the speaker.

The revulsion of feeling hurt like a blow when a delegate arose and startled the audience by declaring that the speaker had only half told his story. He had said that It was a-mlsslonary's wife who nursed the dying girl in spite of the horrors of the disease, but he had not told us that he was the missionary, and It was his own noble wife 'Who had risked her life in her deed ot love and mercy. A silence so deep as to be oppressive held the vast audience spellbound: then an electric flaBh of cheers such as heard once can never be forgotten. A unanimous vote by rising honored the quiet, sweet-faced woman, who never dreamed she had -done more than a simple Christian duty, "We had scarce become quieted enough in soul to breathe freely before a slight man walked slowly to the speakers platform. As soon as his venerable form appeared a scene of boundless enthusiasm engulfed the entire audience.

The missionary bishop who had closed half a cen tury of most heTculean labor with such marvelous results as savored of the miraculous. He read feebly a request to ba permitted to retire from the active wofc. A wave of sympathy swept over the audience that was broken here and there by a quick catching of the breath and a gentle sob. "Then the missionary bishop from China, with a dash and rapid sweep of words of fire that left no hearer a moment to quiet his leaping pulse or cool his burning blood, piled incident upon incidenttender, pathetic, stirring, thrilling that told of marvels not second even to Pentecost. When he retired amid such a roar of applause and cheering as surprised the thousands who shouted, men and women looked at each other and declared, 'The days of miracles are still with The editor and I sat spellbound as we called up the scenes so graphically pictured in the gentle whisper.

As I look back upon it after twenty-four hours of respite, It Is now, as then, a gleam of a world of wonders located In the magic and mystery of an enchanted land. It can never be forgotten." JAY BENSON. Palmer and Charles C. Kern of New York City. A certificate of incorporation of tho Hewlet Tempany Company of Brooklyn, has been filed with the State Department.

It is proposed to do a general printing, lithographing and engraving business, with a capital of $10,000. The directors are Hewlet Tempany of Brooklyn and George H. Ford and E. F. Hills of New York City, whether it was worth the paper it Is written on, but whether the people will have their will obeyed.

It Is not a crusade for speech-making, but for action. The pastor declared that if the issue was not settled in the extra session the fight would go on and be one of the issues of the fall campaign. The struggle will continue, he said, until right has been established and the Constitution and all its provisions respected. John A. Wallace, president of the Men's Club of the church, read resolutions in which the meeting expressed its support of the governor, and urged the legislators to pass the anti-racetrack bills.

The resolutions were unanimously adopted. GERMAN SOCIETIES. The Frohsinn Women's Chorus gave a calico dance at Eppler's Hall. Hamburg avenue and Bleecker street, on Saturday night. The president of the society, Mrs.

K. Bretscher, had the pleasure of greeting delegations of several other societies. On Labor Day, the Labor Lyceum Association will have an excursion to Niagara Falls. A second reruest has teen sent by the entertainment committee of the United Singers to the societies affiliated with the central organization asking them to select five or ten women to participate in the dance of the roses, to be executed at the festival of roses, to be given by the United Singers on June 14 at the Glendale Schuetzen Park. All sections of the Arion will partici pate in the concert to be given by the Arion Children's Chorus on May 17 at Arion Hall.

Peter Bachenberg is the in structor of the children. A large delegation of the Independent Quartet Club, headed by President Nic Kraft, went to the house of Michael Both on Ralph avenue, near Putnam, on Saturday night, and congratulated him on his birthday. The Harmony Singing Society, with headquarters at 49 Tompkins avenue, is to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary July 18 and 25. The festival will include a banquet and concert on the first day and a kommers, for members only, on the last day. The May Festival and annual outing of the Lasalle Maennsrchor, which was held yesterday at Gentzlinger's Grove, Glendale, was well attended.

The committee in charge had provided games. The singers rendered songs under direction of Conductor Julius Lach. The Socialistic Mannerchor attended the festival. The committee In charge consisted of R. Kaelber, chairman; M.

Henne, Wm. Schmidt, Henry Hacker, Fritz Karmann, Ph. Mohr, Paul Huebner and Ph. Debus-mann. On next Thursday night the Philharmonic Club of Brooklyn, of which Emil Koch is musical director, will give a concert at Saengerbund Hall, in which the Brooklyn Saengerbund is to take part.

A large number of members of the Gambrinus Maennerchor participated in the annual May Walk to Laibacher's Florida Park, Glendale, yesterday. The Rev. Dr. John J. Heischmann will give a lecture to-morrow night in the Evangelical Lutheran St.

Petri Church on Bedford avenue. The proceeds will be used for the benefit of the German Evangelic Old Peoples Home, Bushwick avenue and Chauncey street. The quarterly meeting of the Brooklyn Circle, No. 1, V. A.

O. was held at Druid's Hall, Knickerbocker avenue and Stockholm street, on Saturday night. The circle has a membership of ninety-five, and a capital of nearly $3,000. The German Cooks of Brooklyn have organized with headquarters at Hamburg avenue and Grove street, where they will meet every Friday night. The following officers have been elected: Oscar Becher, president; Rud.

Krauch, vice president; Ch. Kippe, financial secretary; George Mueller, treasurer; Albert Krauss, recording secretary; Frank Zimmermann, chaplain. Nearly one thousand people attended the second concert of the German American Boys Chorus at Schwaben Hall, yesterday afternoon. The programme arranged by Musical Conductor Ernst Seharpf was well rendered. Master Joseph Engelhardt played a violin solo, "A Flower of Italy." J.

Berger, A. Hettich and R. Kneyer made a hit with the song "With the Breath of Roses." There was a prize recitation, "Der Alpenjaeger." by Schiller, John Berger being awarded the first prize, a gold medal, and Hermann Erbacher receiving honorable mention. The soloist was Mrs. Elise Erdtmann, soprano.

Dr. Felix Jaeger, conductor, played several selections. The Ladies Chorus of the Schwaebischer Saengerbund. the Independent Quartet Club, the Schwaebischer Saengerbund and the Singing Society Aurora took part in the concert. President John M.

Bauer Intro duced Henry Weissmann, who spoke of the influence of German song upon young people. Carl Aichmann. president of the Schwaebischer Saengerbund, presented Conductor Ernst Seharpf with an envelope containing $75 In recognition of his services in behalf of tho Boys Chorus. Secretary Hy. Klorke also received a present.

A reception followed the concert. CHILD'S THIGH FRACTURED. I. City Lad Fell From Coach Step and Wheel Han Over Him. While playing about a coach in front of his home at 133 Greenpoint avenue, Long Island City, yesterday afternoon.

Francis Jones, three years old, was seriously injured by the sudden starting of the vehicle. Frederick Elsassar of 1S3 Engert avenue. Brooklyn, the driver of the roach, had stopped in front of th house to visit the child's parents, who are his friends. He came out and started to drive away waen screams caused him to pull up his team quickly. Without his knowledge the child had climbed up on one of the side steps of the coach and the starting of the ve-hlcle caused the youngster to lose his balance and fall off.

The hind wheel of the coach passed over the boy. fracturing his thigh. Elsasser was the first to reach the injured child and he carried him into the house, where he was attended by Dr. Costello and removed to St. John's Hospital.

No arrests were made. FELL FROM CROWDED CAR. been Incorporated with the Secretary of James Finnegan. 18 years old, of 318 State, to make and Install scenic railways. East Forty-fourth street, Manhattan, was jgravity slides and other amusement enter-found unconscious at Wirthrcp and Stein- prises.

The capital is $50,000, and the wav avenues. Long Hland City, at 9:45 directors are Frank R. Series. Albert R. Ia3t night.

He Is supposed to have fallen from a crowded trolley car coming from North Beach. Ho received a lacerated wound of the forehead and abrasions of the face and the knee. He was attended by Dr. Costello of St. John's Hospital and removed there.

BROOKLYN CORPORATIONS. Albanv. May 11. The National Gravity Railway Company of BrooklBofeas just.