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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE PICTURE AND SPORTING SECTION. PICTURE AND SPORTING SECTION" NEW YORK CITY. THURSDAY. APRIL 1. 1900.

4 I I IMPROVEMENTS ON THE SOUTH BROOKLYN WATER FRONT PROGRESSING RAPIDLY. I'll jrL fr.r 4 View of Water Front Between Twenty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Streets, Showing New Pier in Course of Construction in Foreground. Building the Walls and Filling in on Dock at the Foot of Thirty-eighth Street. Improvemonts on the' South Brooklyn waterfront, where docks and piers are to be constructed from Twenty-elphtU to Thirty-sixth streets, and a new terminal is -to be built for the Thirty-ninth Street Ferry, are progressing iu a satisfactory manner. Valuable land is being reclaimed by means of sea walls and the tilling in of the Intervening space.

Some of the piers will lie the largest ever constructed iu the harbor. There i will be six of them, and they will range from 1.200 to J.700 feet in length. Each will be 1.T0 feet wide. five feet, permitting the dorkini; of the largest ships. Several dredges are now at work, and that part of the operations over the entire area is well under way.

When the improvements were started the depth of the water over the entire area averaged from four to six feet. The spaces between the piers will be dredged to a depth of thirty- EX-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ARRIVES AT GIBRALTAR. 1 SEC WWdvo General View of Gibraltar, HE steamship Hamburg, hav Iml feeling of admiration for the t'nited States, personilicd in the former President. The. Naples newspapers announce that the Duke of Aosta will give a dinner the night of April 4 in honor of Theodore Roosevelt.

United States, or who have relatives there, but also on the foreigners of different nationalities' who are now in the city. The people of Naples are anxious to extend to Mr. Roosevelt the heartiest of welcomes. The Amer The Naples authorities are taking extraordinary precautions to insure the, safety of Mr. Roosevelt during his short visit to that city.

They are not only keeping a close watch on Italians who have returned from the ican consul, Caspar S. Crowninshield, lias already received many proposals' from associations and private individuals wishing to convey messages of homage to the ex-President, or iu some other way to manifest their Delgada at noon on Tuesday. Apart from a luncheon or dinner to which the American consul, Kiclmrd 1,. Sprague, will invite the Roosevelt party, no preparations have been made for its reception at Gibraltar. ing on board ex-FresIdent Koosevclt and party, arrived at Gibraltar this The Hamburg left Ponta 1' i jii Winter Residence of the Governor of Gibraltar.

Europa Point at Gibraltar. One of the Quaintest Sections of the Town. NOVELIST CRAWFORD VERY ILL NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH FOR BOROUGH PARK. prosit HR dnt vuptinn lT- flro nT tlie I Church of St. Frauces de i.iiantai.

or wincn tne Jtev. AV. J. McAdams, S.P.M is i If rector. at Fifty -seventh street and Thirteenth avenue, Borough Park, has hastened the plans for I lie erection of a new church, which were under way when the tire occurred.

The new church will be a replica of the Church of St. Cecilia in Itoiin', the tilular church of Cardinal Rnmpolla. It will be built of licbt colored brick with limestone trimmings, under the direction of Helmle II liberty, architects. The church will be ti5 feet wide by 1h0 feet deep. The distinguishing feature of the building, which will make it noticeable from a distance, will be a beautiful tower topped by a large belfry and a cross.

I 11 i .4 NrVir 1 It 3 A'lJt il ii i F. Marion Crawford. Plans of New St. Frances de Chantal Church. i F.

Marion Crawford. 1 lie novelist, is critically ill in Sorrento. Italy. Con- gestion of the' lungs developed to-day and lie is said to lie sinking rapidly. I.