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10 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. TUESDAY. JANUARY 5. 1909.

4 WORKED LAME HORSE. THE BEV. MB. SMITH RETAINED, "11 TRUTH" REPORT TO DEPOSITORS BrooKJyn Society there was a stuuning display of gowning. Among the specially notable costumes of the night were: Mrs.

John Frothingham, gray silk. Mrs. Alfred T. White, gray silk. Miss Adelaide Chauncey, white tulle.

EAST BOCKAWAY FIREMEN. (Special to the Eagle.) East Rockaway, L. January 5 At the annual meeting of the East Rockaway Fire Department on Monday evening the following officers were electee1: Chief, John Settler; assistant chief, Lorenzo Smith: recording secretary. A. Scharfenberg: financial secretary, H.

F. Johnson; treasurer. Charles Brungcr; foreman Proctor Hook and Ladder Company, Melville Lane; assistant foremen, David Van Wlcklen; foreman Vigilant Engine Company, George Finley; assistant foreman. O. T.

Hewlett. OF The Executive Committee of Fifteen Presents Review of Its Successful Work. PRAISES CHARLES M. HIGGINS. Distribution of the $18,000 Which He Heceived His Effective and Dis.

interested Service. Conductor Accused by S. P. C. A.

Agent. Magistrate Gilroy, at Far Kockaway, yesterday held Anton Maye. a contractor of Biglow avenue, Woodhaven, for the court of special sessions, on a charge of cruelty to animals. The complainant was V. S.

Westervelt of tho S. P. C. who alleged Mayer had caused a lame and disabled borse to be hitched to a loaded cart. The driver, Luigi Amoniratl, of Grafton avenue, Woodhaven, who was arrested at the same time as his employer, and who was charged with driving the animal, was discharged.

THE NILE CAPRICIOUS Biblical Stream Destroys Farms to Create Others. Traveler at Cairo, Egypt, Writes Impressions in 600-Mile Journey Along Historic Banks. The Nile is such an immense river that a large book would be necessary to deal with it, even in an elementary manner. It is, approximately, equal In length to tho earth's radius and carries the great tropical rains from the equator to the Mediterranean, through Egypt, which is practically, rainless. Taking a section from Cairo, the capital, to Assuan, a distance of nearly six hundred miles, we have the Nile of the Bible the Nile of the Pharaohs, the Nile of the Temples, the Nile which has had such a great influence In history.

This year has had a "very high Nile," running, in feet, up into the thirties, while a "good Nile" rises about twenty-four feet. On November 10, when I set sail up from Cairo, It had fallen to about a good average Nile; so I had an opportunity of observing a full average Nile at flood. The first impression was that it Is not a wide river, as It averages, on this stretch, less than one mile wide. Generally It has a distinct current showing a rippled surface at many places. But the strangest fact of all is that the Nile does not overflow its banks.

Having been about eight feet higher than usual this summer it came very near doing so, and as a consequence the Egyptians were frightened almost to death! Indeed, it did cut through at some places and threatened whole villages with destruction. Now, what is the explanation? The banks are, on an average, ten feet higher than a full Nile, forming a narrow table-. land, on which many of the villages tone story mud) are built and constituting tho highways between them. These banks are of varied widths ln many Instances forming great fields of "dura," a klid of millet, which looks at a distance like Indian corn; closer It looks like bamboo cane eight feet high and about as thick as the thumb and capped with oval tassels larger than a goose egg, constituting the ear of grain. All the Nile water for these tableland banks must be raised, generally by hand with the "shadouf," which is tho parent of the down-East "well sweep." The overflow take lace behind these banks through canals, and these, in the best Instances, have sluice gates; so that water can be shut off and held wheu enough Is let ln.

Where these flat spaces behind the banks are large dykes are built in various directions (some with sluice gates), and these form the public roads, teeming with camels, oxen and donkeys in the most picturesque manner. The second impressive fact is that the cultivated valley of the Nllo is such a comparatively narrow strip. On a large map, where the cutllvated strip is colored, it does not look more than wide enough for a great river. If the Nile does not overflow its banks It cuts under them and they are constantly falling in at high water. This falling In takes place on the outer curves where the stream strikes the bank.

As a consequence, one farm is slowly being cut away while the one on the opposite bank is growing! This cutting in plays havoc with some villages, but where the property is valuable sloping aprons of stone are built, but the very high Nile this year cut great gaps even in these. In manv olaces the rocky clins come down to the river's edge and there is land on one side only; but sometimes: both banks are rocky and there Is nn cultivated land. But the hills generally look very near and the Impression persists that. the cultivated valley is very narrow. Kote that if the Nile overflowed Its banks It would look like a succession or lakes and there would be no visible channel instead It Is a well-defined river at flood, and not at all impressive in width.

One of the two great "Manages" is at Assuit. It has over one hundrea narrow arches with sluice gates and Just above a large canal branches on, also oavins ainlre eates. The gates are never snut in the river, only enough to retard the river a little and throw some Into the canal, and when the canal gets enough it can shut) its gates and hold its water wnue the river sinks, wnen i saw mo was "good." and everythins was just right with all gates open. The Assuan "dam" about 700 miles from the mouths of the Nile is totally different; for It is a "dam" across the Nile to bank back the water and form a great storage lake from which water is gradually let down as the Nile subsides. Naturally, it is a feast and a famine the Nile, but by saving during the flood, bv the use of this dam.

the supply of water is somewhat, equalized during the year. Just above the great Assuan dam is the Island of Phllae. in the center of the Nile. This Island is rich in temples, and when the water is dammed up, they are about half submerged and each year suffer injury. After the water subsides It la found that the stones of the temple walls exhume saltpeter and 1 satisfied myself by testing this, as in November this year tho island Is high and dry, the storage of water not in operation till later.

Tne dam is now being rai.id. so, in a year or two the temples will be totally submerged, all but the top of the pylon of the largest one. The most beautiful temple on this island is called "Pharaoh's bed." and It looks small at a distance, but if you planted it in the center of a plot loOxjo feet vou would have just comfortable space to go around it. Temples, generally, lie on the slopes behind the cultivated land and just under the shadows of the mountains, but some are close to the river bank when the ground is high enough. Temples and tombs would be too grefit a subject to treat here, but a short reference to the oldest of them might be interesting.

The temple of the Sphinx, near the great pyramid, indicates Ms great age by the simplicity of its architecture, having square monolithic columns without either bases or capitals. One of its remarkable features is the size of the stones. One on the outer wall is eighteen feet long and eight feet high; a door jamb is twelve feet high and eight feet square. One forming the roof of a little holy of holies is over twenty feet long. These stones are jointed In a remarkable manner, showing no signs "of having moved during their age of over six thousand years.

These stones are Assuan granite and were brought about 600 miles down the Nile and then transported over several miles of flat land to Gizah, where they have had such a long rest. This temple, the Sphinx, the great pvramid and the next greaiest are all close together at Gizeh. a half-hour trolley ride from Cairo. Ah! you wish to Vinnr nf rooriaf hn I niflhefi. nanvrus lotos.

In evidence on thlj section of the Nile; all farther up between the Tropic of Cancer and the equator. JAMES ARTHUR, Cairo, Egypt, December 12, 1008. First Methodist at Hollis Likes Him. (Special to the Eaitle.) Hollis, L. January 5 At the Fourth Quarterly Conference of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, the Rev.

James S. Chadwlck. district superintendent, presiding, a unanimous request was made that the pastor, the Rev. J. Balfour Smith, be returned for the ensuing yeSr commencing April next.

The reports of the various societies connected with this church show they are keeping pace with this rapidly developing locality. SERVIAN PARLIAMENT RESIGNS King Declines to Accept Besignations. Says Act Is Unconstitutional. Belgrade, January 6 For the second time in two days the Servian cabinet has tendered its resignation on the ground that It does not command the confidence of parliament. The king has refused to accept the resignation of his ministers, pointing out that to do so while parliament was not sitting would be unconstitutional.

EASTERN PARKWAY EXTENSION Brooklyn League Asks Signatures to Petition, for Important Pub. lie Improvement. The Brooklyn League, by Gilbert Elliott, chairman of the committee on parks and city plan, Is sending out circulars calling for signatures to a petition addressed to Bird S. Coler, President of the Borough of Brooklyn, the local board of the New Lots District, and the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, asking that they alter the map or plan of the City of New York by laying out an extension o( the Eastern parkway to the Borough of Queens; also to open and acquire title to the same. The route Is described as follows: Beginning at Eastern parkway and Lip-coin Terrace Park, thence southerly along Buffalo avenue, to be widened on its easterly side, to East New York avenue, thence southeasterly from East New York avenuo along the block between East Ninety-sixth street and Rockaway parkway anS curving into Newport avenue, thence easterly along Newport avenue, to be widened on its southerly side and across New Lots road, thence easterly along New Lots road, to be widened along its southerly side, to Vermont avenue, and thence curving into Hegeman avenue, thence easterly along Hegema avenue, to be widened on its northerly side, to Fountain avenue, and curving into Dumont avenue, thence easterly along Dumont avenue, to be wldeped on its southerly to tne bounaary line between the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Oueens.

Excepting therefrom the prop erty of the New York, Brooklyn and Manhattan Beach Railroad Company, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad Company, and the Brookyln, Queens County and Suburban Railroad The advantages of the plan, Including the addition of four miles of parkway and drives to the present system, ana relieving side streets from the motor cars which now speed through them, are fully set forth in the circular accom-nanvlne the petition. The Brooklyn League, 1,100 members, heads the column of signers. PUPILS WEEK AT EXHIBITION All the Children of Upper Grades Will Visit Museum and Hear About Tuberculosis. One hundred thousand school children of New York City will attend the Tuber culosis Exhibition, now being conducted by the Charity Organisation Society at the Museum of Natural History, accord ing to a resolution adopted by the Board of. Education.

The Committee on Elementary Schools and the Committee on High Schools recommended that all pupils attending the public schools in the grades from 7A to 8B, Inclusive, be permitted to attend the Tuberculosis Exhibition during school hours for a period not to exceed one half day's session. The pupils are to be accompanied by their teachers, and the visits iu general made during the morning. About 5.600 pupils win atteno auring each half day. The visits begun yester day, when students from De Witt Clinton High School, Stuyvesant High School, the High School of Commerce and the Boys Higb School went to the museum In, the afternoon. The Charity Organization Society has provided special demonstrators, who will carefully and thoroughly explain the exhibits.

These visits, which will be so valuable to the school children of the city, have been arranged through the special co-operation of Abraham Stearn, chairman of the Committee on Elementary Schools; C. J. Sullivan, chairman of the Committee on High Schools, and Dr. William H. Maxwell, City Superintendent of Public Schools.

The Queens end Richmond children will visit the exhibit next week. The Manhattan, Bronx and Brooklyn children this week and the first part oi next. AMERICAN PROPOSITION IN. Draft of Plan to Settle Matters Be tween United States and Venezuela Presented at Caracas. Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, January 4, Wvla Willemstad, Curacao, January 5 A draft of the American proposition look ing to the settlement of the questions now pending between the Veneiuelan gov.

eminent and that of the United States was to-day presented to the present administration by W. I. Buchanan, the special commissioner from Washington, who reached here a few days ago for this purpose. Rear Admiral Conway H. Arnold, cap tain William B.

Caperton, commanding the battleship Maine, and a number of other officers from this vessel were received to-day at the Mlraflores Palace by President Gomez. They all were dec orated with the Order of Bolivar. The members of the cabinet were present at the interview. On January 1 the American officers at tended the presidental New lear recep tion In Caracas. The local diplomatic corps also was represented.

Baron von Seckendorft. tho German minister, and denn of the corps, made an address in which he referred to Gomez as president and supreme magistrate or tne repuDiic, thus officially recognizing the overthrow of Cipriano Castro. The revolutionary outbreak in the State of Guarico under Mendible is doomed to failure. It has received no support and the thirty men who rallied to the cry or Mendible are fleeing In tho direction of Apure. pursued by government troops.

The band set free the prisoners In the local jail, placing arms In their hands. They then forced contributions from the merchants of Guarico. The local governor, Senor BrUleno. and several of his followers were killed, after which tne rebels burned the archives of the municipality. They then pronounced themselves in favor of Nicholas Rolando for president of the republic.

They took to the woods as soon as they heard that troops were coming. Ccneral Trono Castro, a brother of the former president, who was Imprisoned a few days ago, has indicated his willingness to settle the claims made against him, and he consequently will be released. The exequaturs of the Dutch consuls throughout Venezuela, revoked by Castro, have been restored. WITH II SPLENDID CAST Mme. Eames as Leonora, Caruso asManrico, Amato as the Count at Brooklyn Academy.

SAY SCORES AS AZUCENA A Record Audience as to Numbers and a Fine Performance Borne of Those Who Were Present. That good old opera, "11 Tfovatore," that was not accounted so very good by i Italian musicians of note when it was produced about sixty years ago. and Is not held to be so very good even by imodern Italians of the illumiitati, was (produced before a record-breaking house st the opera house of the Academy of by the Metropolitan Opera House forces. The truth is that the power of personal appeal, so great in Italian opera, 'fhas its climax in "II At its foundation is romance, and beside, romance stands tragedy. Put these to gether with the personal connection of he artists with the audience, for 1n- stance.

In such solos as "II Balen" and "Dl Quella Pira," and the fascination of all is irresistible to any but the Wa.gnerite of iron-bound conviction In all-surrounding genius of the Ger-'nan school, it Is probably Just as-well "La Tosca" was not put on last night, though It was in the councils of 'ithe Metropolitan Opera House managers do so. Very likely. It would not have 'drawn so large an attendance as did "II Trovatore," for the old opera is fairly familiar to all music lovers here as well as to the occasional opera attendant. And then, there was the announced feast, with Eames, Caruso, Amato, Rossi, 'Marie Mattfleld of Brooklyn, and Maria Gay. That was enough to ensure a great attendance, to say nothing of the sonorous chorus of the Metropolitan Opera House, and the picturesque scenic settings.

The opera was presented without a. hitch that was worthy of mention, and She audience was fairly enthusiastic, especially toward the favorites. The only 'element in the cast was, as viewed before the performance, Maria Gay. It was known that she had not met all expectations as a Carmen, and that this was largely on account of the too faithful presentation of the Spanish cigarette girl. It was this very faithfulness that made for her a triumph last night as the Azucena.

She was the gypsy bowed down with years and sorrow to the point of decrepitude, us so often presented, but vigorous, alert and vivid, breathing in every note that she sang a gypsy-like passion. There was not a passage when she was unemotional not a moment when she was not ellve to her finger tips with intense action. Her voice, which is rich and full, was her sennit. It Is sufflcientto say that even fV.fuso, who began his singing In his off-stage solo in perfunctory style, have been compelled to work later in the opera for his laurels. And he Bang as we have not heard him sing before in Brooklyn.

Caruso looks more like a soldier than like a troubadour, and, in Ills love scenes, he is not at his best in this opera; he takes toward adore jone an attitude like that of Monte Crlsto (when he comes out of the treasure cave and says, "The world is mine." In trios end quartets, he was fairly forced to use his marvellous voice; perhaps he would have chosen to do so anyway. One can never tell about Caruso. His singing if "Dl Quella Pira" was in his most pas- nionate style. And, when he was moved to do so, he sang with tenderness and pathos. Mme.

Eames was one of the favorites Inf the evening. The smoothness of her tones and the beauty of her method, together with the stateliness and the grace rtt her appearance, smoothed over the fact that, her voice is no longer as fresh as it wfca a few years ago. She gave an artistic presentation of the luckless Leo-jnora. Marie Mattfleld was entirely satisfactory as Inez, infusing more individuality into the role than It often receives. Her voice is notably pure and 'Qwect.

In Pasquale Amato the role of the 'Count dl Luna found a better interpreter than has been seen and heard hereabouts in a long time. Usually the Count is represented as a blusterer And tyrant; Amato showed him as a lover, as well as a soldier and commandant. He has a voice that commands lio, and he uses it, nevertheless, with great discretion. His figure made him more of an ideal patrician than most of he operatic counts, who are apt to run i girth. His "II balen" was given with as well as with strength.

Gliilio tRossi as Ferrando was entirely adequate to all requirements. Curtain calls were frequent and encores were demanded, but none was accorded. All of the choruses that have come from the Metropolitan Opera House have shown rigid training and that which ang last night was no exception to the ffule. The voices in the soldiers scene, in the anvil chorus and in other places, were resonant and never vociferous. Much of the scenery had not been Been in Brooklyn, and it was both elaborate and artistic.

In particular, the prison scene looked like a prison Instead of pasteboard, while the final scene, that the death of Manrico, was shown in pantomime by the lifting of a curtain at the rear of the stage. It was satisfying in that it did not leave the audience 0 imagine what took place as they rose to go home. Francesco Spetrlni con- ducted with admirable skill. In many ways last night was Society's most representative night in the new Academy thus far. "II Trovatore's" call was far-reaching and effective.

It summoned fashion in no uncertain way; it irought the best gowned house of the subscription series, more low-necked, distinctively evening frocks, lighter tones Jjenerelly, handsomer costumes. This was especially the case in the orchestra stalls, which presented a thoroughly satisfactory and decidedly metropolitan picture. Up in the first balcony the effect was not, strictly speaking, so good, though even there not so much more was to be desired. A very largo proportion of what really constitutes Brooklyn Society was present. Of course the Pratt Cotillon was on, but that came later in the evening, and a good many found it possible to manage both.

Caruso and Eames. together with proved splendid drawing cards for Brooklyn fashion. From the purely Society point of view, which differs more or less from the distinctly musical, "II Trovatore" was given In very nearly per-. feet fashion. During the first enfra'cto the Banquet Hall was crowded as never before, an Mrs.

Walter Redmond, black satin and gold. Mrs. Alfred G. Belden, pale blue chiffon. Mrs.

John Eadie Leech, gray satin. Mrs. Harry Lewis Batterman, black net. Mrs. I.

Sherwood Coffin, champagne color satin. Mrs. Frank Smith Jones, apricot satin. Mrs. George W.

Chauncey, a gray gown with iridescent trimmings. Mrs. de Stephani, blue chiffon. Mrs. Camden C.

Dike, white silk. Mrs. Calvin Edwards Hull, black vel vet, empire, the neck filled In with white lace; diamonds. Miss Grace Meurer White India crepe lace, with an overdress of silver trimmed with Dearls. Mrs.

John Anderson A gown of chinllle dotted blue moussclaine with trimmings of white marquise lace applique; worn with gulmpe of white net embroidered In silver. 1 Mrs. Charles F. Noyes White, em broidered with lace. Mrs.

Henrv Wheeler Crimson satin. Mrs. E. J. Horsman Light gray silk and hlack lace.

Mrs. William Robinson Simons White satin with Dresden roses and velvet. Mrs. Harold Smith Pale blue satin with silver lace. Mrs.

Howard Maxwell White satin. Miss Maude V. Jones A rose colored snansled gown. Mrs. Roland W.

Betts Cream colored lace. Mrs. W. C. Parks White satin and point lace.

Mrs. Frank Healy A white embroidered gown, with point lace. Mrs. aJcob Meurer Gray chiffon, heavily embroidered in blue and silver. Miss Mae Merer White chiffon embroidered in gold.

Miss Mary Caldwell Catawfca toned satin. Empire. Mrs. Clarence Kenyon, jr. Mauve satin, embroidered in silver, with orchids.

Mrs. Gulian Ross A white Empire gown. Among the people of the evening were Carll H. De Silver, Mr. and Mrs.

Lowell M. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred T. White, Mr.

and Mrs. Charles A. Schieren, Mrs, Calvin Edwards Hull, Mrs. Walter Burritt. Moore, Mrs.

Camden C. Dike, Mr. and Mrs. I. Sherwood Coffin, Charles T.

Young, Miss Elizabeth Young, Mrs. Samuel Bowne Duryea, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Pratt, Mrs.

John Anderson, George Anderson, George W. Meacham, Mr. and Mrs. Ellett Hodgskin, Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Healy. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Kenyon Mr. and Mrs.

Jacob Meurer. Miss Mae Meurer, Miss Grace Meurer, Mr, and Mrs. Desmond Dunne, Mr. and Mrs. How ard Maxwell.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gibb. Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Rogers Mallory, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. O'Donohue, Mrs.

George W. Chauncey, Miss Adelaide Chauncey, Mr. and Mrs. Gulian Ross, Mr. and Mrs.

Eugene Alfred wiamann, Mr. and Mrs. William Berrl, Mr. and Mrs. William Robinson Simons, Dr.

F. G. Miss Mary Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clement Bowen, Mr.

and Mrs. Abraham Abraham, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Baldwin.

Mr. and Mrs. John Eadie Leach, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin A.

Jessup, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Redmond, Mr. and Mrs. John Frothingham.

Mr. and Mrs. j. Sherwood Coffin. Mr.

and Mrs. Gilbert Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. W. W.

Freeman, Dr. and Mrs. Matthias Fig-ueira, Miss Erene Figueira. Mr. and Mrs.

Ludwig Nlssen, Mr. and Mrs. Simon F. Rothschild, Mrs. Frank Smith Jones, the Rev.

Dr. St. Clair Hester, James L. Morgan. Mr.

and Mrs. Walter L. Spadone, Miss Marie Spadone, Clarence H. Robblns, Miss Rena Robbins, Mrs. Cornelius Zabriskle, Edwin Carrington Ward, Crowell Hadden, Charles Spadone, Mr.

and Mrs. H. Baines. Mr. and Mrs.

Roland W. Betts, Mr. and Mrs. W. C.

Parks, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Batterman, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Batterman, Mr.

and Mrs. Edward C. Blum, Mr. and Mrs. John McNamee.

POLITICAL What the Bev. Father Belford'a Parish Paper Has to Say Concerning It. In the Nativity the parish paper of the Church of the Nativity, of which the Rev. J. L.

Belford is pastor, the latter has an article on "Political virtue" in which he says: "Be astonished ye heavens and ye of the earth stand still! The Congress overflows with indignation. The President has dared to impugn the character of some of the members; he has presumed to question the motives that determine legislative action; he has voiced the conviction that single-mintledness does not reign supreme beneath the marble dome of the Capitol. Can it be that Congress does not know the contempt In which it is generally held? Why, the average member of that ought-to-be-august body is a standing Joke and its proceedings are almost farcical when they are not puerile and inane. What a spectacle to find men like Piatt and Tillman in the Senate and men like foul-mouthed Joe Cannon and the latest brawler In the House asserting their dignity and vaunting their virtue. The shot has gone It has struck a sore spot.

The wounded braggarts dare not challenge investigation. What a' shame that corruption is so general. From the policeman who levys tribute on the peanut vendor to the senator who drains the corporation there seems to be a complete system of dishonesty in public life. "The municipal administration Is no better than the national. The liberal provision of automobiles for public officials has recently been aired in print and every ono knows that the machines are regularly used to carry Mrs.

Commissioner and her friends, and even the children, not to speak of the frequent joy rides of Mr. Commissioner and his friends, rides that often carry them into a state that is not spelled with a capital letter. The municipal ferry is at present under investigation and we find a deficit of more than a million for one year's operation. Tons of supplies are regularly wasted and destroyed in the various public schools and thousands of dollars thrown away in public lectures, which are delivered to audiences that largely exist in the imagination of those who manage the lectures." SURRENDERS FOR FORGERY. A young man who said he was Alberto Villanizar.

20 years old, of the City of Medellin, the Republic of Colombia, South America, went to police headquarters in Manhattan this morning and asked to be locked up, saying he was guilty of forgery. He was held as a -suspicious person until his story can be investigated. According to young Villanizar, his father. Dr. Sablo Villanizar, in September last gave him $300 to come to New York and enter a dental college.

The young man says he had heard so much about New York's "Great White Way" that he felt certain $300 would be a "piker" sum, and he forged the name of the firm of Lenclo Ferrer Son of Quibda. Colombia, to a check for $600, and when he reached this city he went to the private banking firm of G. Amsinek at 6 Hanover street. Manhattan, who were agents for the firm, and deposited the check there to his own credit. He first lived at 452 West Twenty-third street, he said, and then moved to 67 West Sixty-sixth street.

He became so interested in the "Tenderloin" that he forgot to matriculate in any college and soon spent the $300 his father had given him. Then he drew a like amount from the banking firm in a mall sums ana soon got away with it. He then learned that the bankers had discovered the forged check and was afraid to go there for the other $300. His money gone, he drifted into, several lodging houses and finally landed at ,129 Bowery. But last night he was unable to get the price of a bed there; the rain made him penitent as be walked the street, and he decided to give himself up to the police.

The Pratt Cotillon was the event oi all events last night. It was danced up at the Pratt Casino, with very nearly one hundred and fifty Society men and young girls, young married couples and a few of the somewhat older set takinir part. The Heights almost solely made up the big party. Nothing more beautiful a's a dance has been seen In years within ths limits of Brooklyn, and few of the Manhattan dances of the past few seasons can be put in its category. The Pratt Casino is a singularly admirable- dancing place, in the first instance.

It is perfection for a ball of this sort. For last night it was made remarkably attractive by being embowered in evergreens in true Holiday fash-Ion, and softly lit by innumerable Oriental lanterns of quaint tones and tints of color. In these lanterns. In each Instance, were electric bulbs. Mr.

and Mrs. George Dupont Pratt and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lee Pratt were the hosts and hostesses of this cotillon ball. George Pratt and Herbert Pratt, dancing led the cotillon.

The cotillon started at about half-past 10 and continued until a late hour. It was not only marked by the most charming of favors and the most interesting of "properties" and figure evolutions, but pretty gown after gown distinguished it. Sartorically there has seldom been as attractive a night in Brooklyn. Mrs. Herbert Pratt received her guests in a frock of pink satin with pale blue bugle trimming.

Mrs. George Pratt was in white satin with silver. The company of the night included: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bucknall.

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Bulkley, Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Phillips Colton, Mr.

and Mrs. William N. Cary, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Latham Fish, Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur Good win, Mr. and Mrs. William V. Hester, Mr.

and Mrs. David Lanman, Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan T. Lanman.

Mr. and Mrs W. Eugene Kimball, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Morris, Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Nielson, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Irving Pratt, Mr, and Mrs. John T.

Pratt. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Robinson, Mr. and Mrs.

Lewis Slade. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. White, Mrs.

Arthur K. Wood. Mr, and Mrs. Eugene A. Willard.

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Roelker, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Barney, Mr.

and Mrs. Cornelius Hoagland Tange- man, Mr. and Mrs, Stowe Phelps, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gould Jennings, Mr.

and Mrs. D. Fairfax Bush. Mr. and Mrs.

James 0. Byrne, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur James, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles A. Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Tiffany, Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph E. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. E.

Par- melee Prentice, Mr. and Mrs. Woodward Babcock, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Woods, Mr.

and Mrs. William G. Low, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Saltus.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold T. White, Mr. and Mrs.

Daniel Chauncey, Mr. and Mrs. W. Sterling Peters, Mr. and Mrs.

Willis D. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. E. Drexel Godfrey, Mr.

and Mrs. William Barstow, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crocker, Mr. and Mrs.

Laurence Jacobs, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Whitney, Mr. and Mrs. Norman de Maurice, Mr.

and Mrs. Howard Frederic Whitney, Mr. and Mrs. Jay F. Carlisle, Mr.

and Mrs. Raymond E. StrelL Mr. and Mrs. H.

Edward Dr'eier. Mr. and Mrs. Reeve Schley, Mr. and Mrs.

Frank M. Weld, Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Sands Litchfield. Mies Adams, Miss Josephine Barr, Miss Mary Babbott, Miss Thyrza Benson, Miss Jean Coutts, Miss Julia Fish, Miss Muriel Goepel, Miss Theresa Hewett, Miss Alice Ide, Miss Isabella Ide, Miss Helen Judson, Miss Sylvia Holt, Mies Charlotte Leach, Miss Eunice Miss May Noyes, Miss Mary Jennings, Miss Olga Doughty, Miss Pauline Mason, Miss Louise Robinson, Miss Jessie Sherman, Miss Hildegard Turle, Miss Mary Temple-ton, the Misses Low, Mis Katherlne White, Miss Annie Jean White, Miss Frances Williams.

Miss Alice Ogden, Miss Clara Ogden, Miss Madeline Litchfield, Miss Marian Litchfield, Miss Edith Cook, Miss Madeline Chauncey, Miss Edith Thurston, Miss Evelyn Crimmins, Miss Gertrude Beecher, Miss Edith Marshall, the Misses Stanton, Miss Antoinette Butler, Miss Carol Chauncey, Miss Dorothy Noyes. Henry Sherman. Adams, Horace Brown, Frank Belden, Henry Crane, Felix Doubleday, Judge Norman Dike, Albert de Silver, Emil Frank, Percy Goepel, Harvey S. Ladew, Huntington' Launian, Thatcher Luquer, A. A.

Low, Benjamin R. C. Low. George Hewlett, Russell Hewlett, Clifford Mallory, Ferdinand Hansen, Will iam Brinsmade, Johnson de Forest, James F. Pierce.

Fordham Paye, Augustus Post, Stuyvesant Pierrepont, F. Rutgers, David Stuart. Spencer Earla Williams. Townsend Morgan, Redmond Cross, Carll Willis, Pierre Willis, Alirea wnitney, Frederick P. Moore, Brlnkerhoif Thome, Henrv Vanderveer.

Clive Livingston, Du Val M. Pinckney, the Viscount de Peri-gny, Henry Cooper. A. Victor Barnes, Howard J. Haslehurst.

It was a most spirited and novel cotillon, of many features. In one figure the lights of the ball were turned out and the girls danced under umbrellas made to resemble great pink roses, each with its own electric light. Each girl on the floor had her own umbrella. The men were given little electric searchlights, which they flashed on and off most merrily. This was a stunning figure, the hundrea and more lights of the parasols and search sticks shining out dramatically as people danced.

In another figure the room was again darkened, and colored calcium lights were thrown upon the dancing couples. There were scarfs of illusion for the girls, boxes Of cigarettes for the men, in yet another figure. In the first favor figure oi the night, the feminine dancers got gold safety pins, with ribbons attached, for holding up long skirts. Wands went to the men in this figure. Pink sunbonnets and wntte Jockey caps were another set of favors, and huge American Beauties (of paper) and carnations yet another.

Y. M. C. A. AND TUBEBCUL0SIS.

Young Men's Christian Association Day will be observed at the International Tuberculosis Exhibition by a mass meeting on Friday night at 8 o'clock, in the auditorium of the American Museum of Natural History. Columbus avenue and Seventy-seventh street. Manhattan. Addresses will be made by Frederick B. Pratt, president of Pratt Institute; Homer Foks, secretary of State Charitie3 Aid Association; Thomas Darlington, M.

commissioner of health; the Rev. Harry E. Fosdlck, lecturer at Union Theological Seminary. A report on "Proposed Educational Campaign for Young Men's Christian Associations" will be made by George J. Fisher, M.

secretary of the physical department of the International Y. M. C. A. BELOVED FATHER JOHN BURIED St.

Petersburg. January 6 The remains of Father John of Kronstadt. the famous Russian priest, who died last week, were interred in this city to-day ln the presence of a small body of his Immediate followers. It is evident from the rec'tals the death of this man is evoking that his fame among1 the masses will be greater in death than it was in SFEEDEBS HELD. Three alleged violators of the motor vehicle speed law were arraigned before Magistrate Gilroy at Far Rockaway yesterday.

Thev were arrested In Jamaica, Sunday. Two were held for the court of snecial sessions and the other was dis- charaed. Theodore C. Tomllnson, who eave his address as the AnBonla Hotel, pleaded guilty and was held for the higher court, as was John L. Martin, of 74 Broadway, Manhattan, who was found guilty.

Pierre A. Proal of 30 East Fifty-second street, Manhattan, was discharged. AT TUBERCULOSIS EXHIBIT Monday Club Visits It Under Favorable Conditions. Interesting Addresses Made by Dr, Walter Sands Mills and Dr. Joseph H.

Raymond. The Monday Club of Brooklyn held a special meeting in one of the lecture-rooms In the Museum of Natural History, Manhattan, last evening. The object of the meeting was to furnish the members of the club and the other philanthropic workers of Brooklyn an opportunity to see the- International. Tuberculosis Exhibit under most favorable conditions. About 275 persons were present when the meeting was called to order by President Eben P.

Morford, who Is superintendent of the Industrial Home for the Blind, on Gates avenue. Mr. Morford spoke briefly of the objects of the meeting, and after explaining that- Commissioner of Charities Robert W. Hebbcrd was unavoidably absent on account of Illness, Introduced as his substitute Dr. Walter Sands Mills, who is a visiting physician attached to the tuberculosis Infirmary ot the Metropolitan Hospital and a member of several societies whose object Is the prevention and cure of tuberculosis.

Dr. Mills talked informally and Interestingly oq the system of treatment In the- Metropolitan Hospital. His address, ln part, was as follows: "The tubercu losis department was opened on January 81, 1902, wben the consumptive cases were segregated and classified. Since that date. some 18,000 or 19,000 patients nave been treated, and at the present time there are 850 cases, the largest number in any ona institution In the world.

As most our patients come from the hard working classes, the great majority ot the cases are ln an advanced stage, as the afflicted ones stay at their work until they. are forced to give up. The patients are kept under observation for two or three days after arrival; the history of their cases is put on record and they are classified. "Nearly all patients show Improvement at first, an account of the fresh air, good food and careful nursing. About 60 per cent, of them leave before thirty days have expired, as they feel that they must get back to work.

This is our greatest problem, as many of those who leave, return very Soon in a worse state than before, and death is the inevitable result We have actual accommodations for only about 400 cases, but we have to take all who come, and the consequence Is that many patients have to sleep on the floor. The necessity for larger accommodations is very urgent, and Commissioner Heb-berd has succeeded in securing appropriations for now buildings that will help to relieve the situation. The poorer people have become Interested, and they are losing that strange fear of the public hospital that used to be so prevalent, so that applications for admission are constantly Increasing, it may interest you to snow that plans for a splendid tuberculosis hospital, to be built on Staten Island, that will accommodate 1,000 cases, have been prepared. "I know of no hospital in which the patients get such good food and in such abundance as at the Metropolitan. Everything Is prepared in a way that would tempt the weakest invalid to eat.

"Ytu need not be told of the necessity for this fight against tuberculosis. It is estimated that one-seventh of the world's population dies of it; but, happily, we are at the dawn of a new day, when people are learning how to prevent it and how to cure it, even after it has gotten a fair start." Dr. Joseph H. Raymond, who was health commissioner when Brooklyn was a separate municipality, was the next speaker. He explained concisely the reasons for the present interest of professional men and philanthropists in.

the prevention and cure of the disease. It having been discovered that It Is not inherited, and Is curable, physicians and patients have both taken heart, and the results have been wonderful. The fact that It is no longer considered essential to send patients away from home has helped greatly ln stirring up interest, according to Dr. Raymond, as many patients have succumbed to homesickness In the past, and this prevented their recovery as much as the disease Itself. Dr.

Raymond dwelt upon the great benefit of sunlight in helping along a cure, and asserted th-t the discovery of the curability of tuberculosis ranks with any of the great discoveries of modern times. Dr. Hutchison introduced a resolution expressing the appreciation and support of the club for the good work done by Commissioner Hebberd, which was car ried unanimously. A vote of thanks to Drs. Mills and Raymond was also ex tended.

At the close of the meeting the members and guests were escorted through the exhibit by special guides provided by the management. In a chat with the Eagle reporter, Dr. Mills said that there Is an impression prevalent that Jews are not susceptible to tuberculosis. From his extensive ob servations he declared that they are no more Immune than are people of other nationalities. He also gave It as his opinion that alcohol Is not beneficial ln the treatment of the disease.

WIIIETS WIGGINS. Announcement has just been made of the wedding of Miss Maud Wiggins ot Nichols, N. to Ernest D. Willets of Manhasset, L. at Nichols, N.

Sat urday, December 26. Mrs. Willets Is well known in Manhasset. having taught In the public school of that place for a number of years. Mr.

Willets is assistant cashier of the Bank of Hempstead at Roslyn. GOT A PUNCHING. Robert J. Worrall, of 72 Lester avenue, Richmond Hill, was complainant against Henry Kiesal of Elseman avenue, Flushing, in the Far Rockaway court yesterday. Worrall charged Kiescl with having struck him in the face with his clenched fists on December 22.

Magistrate Gilroy set the case down for January 8, and held Kiesal in $200 bail. ALLEGED ASSAILANT HELD. Nicholas Desno of Richmond Hill, was held in $1,000 bail by Magistrate Gilroy at Far Rockaway yesterday, on a charge of felonious assault on Theodore Aurora. The alleged attack took place November 27. Deseno is held on a technical charge of being a suspicious person until Aurora can get to court to make a formal complaint.

The case was set down for a bearing on January i. The Brooklyn Bank depositors executive committee of fifteen has made a report to the depositors of the bank. The members of the committee are: William P. Rae, acting chairman; John E. Gavin, secretary; Mason, Au Magenbeimer, X.

S. Scott Company, M. Straus. Caleb V. Smith, W.

H. Hibbard Manufacturing Company, William Foster, Thomson Meter Company, Oppenheim, Collins Isaae Mason, James Oraham, De Haven Manufacturing Company, W. C. Bolton (Riker Drug Stores), Tompkins Tuthill, Joseph W. Kay and Charles M.

Higgins, honorary chairman. After reference to the recent opening of the fine new building, at Fulton street and Flatbush avenue, the report reviews the incidents following the closing of the bank's doors, October 24, 1907, and the naming of the depositors committee. Referring to the time when Indications pointed to a receivership liquidation, the committee says: "In all crises in human affairs the oc-' caslon seems to ever produce 'the man of the One who can lead and save. In this particular crisis your committee found such a leader and savior in the person ot one of its members, Charles M-rigglns, whom they elected chairman ot the committee, quite against his wishes. In order to carry on thU struggle for justice and decent treatment of all bank depositors In times of stress, he was induced, on principle, subordinating his own wishes and comfort, and much against his will, to accept and enter upon the duties of co-receiver of the Brooklyn Bank.

"When Mr. Higgins accented the enr. ceiversbip, he pledged himself to your committee and the depositors to accept only such remuneration as would be satisfactory to all Interests concerned, and he has consistently maintained and more than fulfilled that pledge. In the final proceedings for tho reonenln- of th bank, the Court, in its wisdom, awarded to uorecelver Bruyn Hasbrouck the sum of $23,000, and to Coreceiver Charles M. Higgins the sum of $19,000.

in full oav- ment to each for all services rendered. Mr. Higgins, having figured out that a receiver's fees should not. under the law. amount to more than two and one-half: per cent, of the moneys handled which WOUld make the sum dun him In rnnn1 figures about $15,000, promptly sent his check for $4,000 to the new president of tne Brooklyn Bank, being the amount which he considered In excess of what his receivership fee ought legally to be.

ne also handed over to the Executive Committee the sum of $5,000, to be usid in paying the expenses of the committee, in part, so that, to this extent, there would be no assessment on its membership or the depositors at large to meat such expenses. He reserved the sum of $6,000 to cover his own actual disbursements as co-receiver of the bank and member of the Executive Committee. These dis-; bursements Itemized in his roport to us amounted to a total of $5,692.10, and he thereupon handed over to your commit- tee the further sum of $307,90, the difference. 'He retained, also, the sum of $4,000 to meet certain contingencies that then had existence or might arise pending his nnai discharge as coreceiver of the bank, and out of this latter sum. In case it is not used to cover the contingencies men- tloned, he has expressed his Intention to donate to one of Brooklyn's most valuable institutions, tho Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, as a memento of the splendid light made, backed by the people of Brooklyn, against bank receiverships as fore conducted, and any unexpended bal- nnce of the said retained amount Is to be returned by him to the bank." Continuing, the committee praises.

Mr, Higgins in the highest terms and says that every depositor of the Brooklyn" Bank may well feel under obligation to him. The committee says that following' the reorganization and reopening of the bank "Provision was made by the repre- sentatlves of the bank to pay Charles M. Stafford, as counsel, the sum of $12,000. to baalnce the account rendered by him for legal services. In a lotal sum of (he had received $1,500 thereon from Mr.

Higgins), and also to pay David Bandler the sum of $3,500, In full of his account in the same behalf Payment to Mr. Stafford was made direct by the bank. That to Mr. Bandler i was made through the committee. To enable the latter, the bank turned over to Acting Chairman William P.

Rae and Secretary John E. Gavin, the sum of thereby contributing $1,200 to aid in meeting the incidental expenses incurred by your committee during its year of service. This sum of $1,200. added to the amount of $5,307.90 contributed by Mr. Higgins from the fees received by him as co-receiver of the Brooklyn Bank, totaling $6,507.90.

constituted therefore, the only funds' really available or chargeable to this committee." GERMAN ART EXHIBITION. Paintings Will Be on View Seven Weeks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The German -art exhibition in the new wing of the Metropolitan Museum of in Manhattan, was formally opened last night. Fully 6,000 persons, representing the diplomatic, political, social and art istic worlds, attended, greeted by a committee which included J. Pierpont Mor-' gan, president of the Metropolitan Mu-' eeum.

and Count Bernstorff, the German Ambassador, and passing on into the seven spacious galleries of tho museum's new wing through which the art treasr, ures brought here from Germany for the memorable International event, were distributed. The exhibition consists of 250 paintings, all the modern artist of the German empire being represented. Some of the pictures are owned by the Royal Academy of Germany and were loaned for the occasion. A large portrait of the. Gorman Emperor, painted especially for this exhibition by Professor Arthur Kampf of Berlin, occupies the place of honor.

After closing its seven weeks here the exhibition will be transferred to Chicae end Boston for a period of four weeks ln each city. TRAVEL NOTE. An Exceptional Peat ln Railroading. The public is accustomed, ln these days of high speed and long runs in railroading, to accept as a matter of course many conditions that a few years ago would have been contemplated with wonder. But the most recent accomplishment of the Twentieth Century Limited is one to make even seasoned railroad men take notice.

This train left Chicago In two sections, of six and seven cars respectiveliy, carrying 140 passengers and both sections negotiated the distance of nearly 1,000 miles on the exact schedule of eighteen hours, and arrived in Grand Central Station at 9:3 this morning simultaneously at adjoining platforms. This remarkable achievement speaks volumes for the efficiency of mod era railroading..