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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 24. 1908.

Eagle Opera Ticket Competition Commanding Public Interest Numerous Changes in Position Result From Heavily Increasing Vote--Miss Marie McNickle Advances Seven Points--Many Contestants Strengthen Grip on Prizes--Almost a Half Million Ballots Have Been Cast. With the Grand Opera Ticket Voting gradually. approaching Eagle's, half a million votes and the daily total increasing nearly every day, changes in position are becoming more numerous and the competition is creating interest in the present voting strength of various candidates, as compared with that of the past few weeks. Naturally, with an increasing vote, each candidate has shown improvement, but in various sections of the list a standard of daily Increase has been set by a few lively contestants. The Samuel Loring, Active Competitor for Eagle Opera Tickets.

most important questions now are the length of time that others will keep pace and the manner in which they follow the trend of the voting. Among the first thirty contestants there were three changes in position, but they did not lessen the grip the overtaken candidates have upon the prizes, because of the fact that no advance was large enough to qualify for an increased number of tickets. Edward C. Avila gained three points, occupying fourteenth position, while Kathleen M. Thompson advanced from thirtieth to twenty-seventh place.

Among the last balf of the list--those who will receive the same number of tickets-Lily Ruger jumped ahead three points, Val Korn. two points, F. B. Chapman two points, Roger W. Mullin two, Jessie R.

Lockitt two points, and the Rev. Charles H. Coon, who was at the head of the second division on Tuesday, passed into the leading division yesterday. Gains of importance in the contending list were made by John Cowen, from eighth to fifth; Marie MeNickle, teenth to tenth, the largest gain of the day, and Eugene R. Cragg, sixteenth to fourteenth.

Wedding of a Contestant Does Not Divert Her Interest. Miss Ada Barr. a popular contestant. who has maintained the fifteenth place for the past few weeks. was married last evening to Charles Vernon of this city.

She wishes to thank her many friends. for their generous support and PRIEST HAD MEN ARRESTED. Father Curran of Jamaica Says Brooklynites, Begging Food, Were Abusive at Rectory. Father Joseph Curran, assistant pastor of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, 'in Flushing avenue, Jamaica, caused the arrest, yesterday afternoon, of Joseph O'Connell, 34 years old, a printer, of 475 Hicks street, Brooklyn, and Joseph GalJagher, 47 years old, of 577 Kosciusko street, Brooklyn, on the charge of vagrancy, the men, it is alleged, having used abusive language to himself and his housekeeper, when ordered to leave the premises after asking for something to Of late there have been a large number of beggars who have requested to see the priests of the church, and have applied to them for food.

The number has become SO large that the priests have not been able to supply all, as the needs of the members of their own parish have been great of late. Father Curran, therefore, instructed the housekeeper to refuse such applicants. When the men rang the door bell yesterday the housekeeper told them that it was impossible to comply with their request. They began to use abusive lanto her, it is alleged. In the midguage die of the harangue Father Curran came out, and hearing their remarks ordered them off the stoop.

They answered him impudently, the priest alleges, wherehe called for a policeman and had upon the two arrested. They were arraigned this morning in the Far Rockaway court. COULDN'T GIVE ADDRESS. Stranger Whose Mind Seems Affected by Loss of Money, Arrested at Far Rockaway. Martin Ziegner, who could not tell the police where he lived, was held until September 30 by Magistrate Gilroy at Far Rockaway yesterday 80 that his sanity could be inquired into.

Ziegner was found wandering along the boulevard at Rockaway Beach on Tuesday evening and acting in a strange manner. Edward Duff, who lives at 153 Boulevard, said the man had walked into his home and sat down, and when asked to get out refused to do so. He was finally induced leave, and as he walking down the street he was accosted by an officer and arrested. In court yesterday Ziegner told Court Officer Moore that he had lost money and asked for a key, upon receiving which he placed it upon the wainscoting of the prisoners' pen and made an effort to unlock it, saying his money was in a closet behind the wainscoting. He also picked up the oilcloth and looked for money he said he had lost.

The loss of money seems to be the weakness of the man. HELD IN DEFAULT OF BAIL. 'Alleged Wire Thieves Will Be Examined at Lynbrook, Thursday. (Special to the Eagle.) Lynbrook, L. I.

September 24-John Bush, John Wood and Charles Kehres, arrested on a charge of stealing copper wire from the New York and New Jersey Telephone Company on Saturday last, and who, after being discharged by Magistrate Smith at Rockaway, on Monday, he having had no jurisdiction in the matter, the crime was committed in Nassau County, were arraigned before Justice Edward T. Neu at Lynbrook, yesterday, and committed to the county jail in default of $1,000 bail each, to await examination, on October 1. OPERA, FOUR DECADES AGO, AS PRODUCED BY GROVER Eagle's Opera Ticket Contest Recalls Many Incidents to Veteran Manager. "FAUST" FIRST PRODUCTION At the Old Brooklyn Academy--How He Established Status of German Opera. and To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: It is Saturday evening and I sit here in my old armchair reading your columns.

My eye rests on some headlines, "Opera Contest-Competition for Seats in New Academy." My glance takes in the mar739 ginal date, just over them -it is September 12. 1908. September 12! My mind leaps back over a great span. It was just -four years to -night that I gave the first great performance at the New York Academy of Music. We had given the opera nearly a year earlier, in the Philadelphia Academy--its first performances in America.

It was in the first or second week after that September 12 that I gave that opera at the old Brooklyn Academy, which was the first performance, with complete ensemble, of grand opera at that house. It is rather a good story and will bear telling. First, you must know, that in that long ago time German art and German artists did not occupy that proud position which they do to-day. Neither the Austrian nor the Franco- Prussian wars had taken place. German opera was not the polite opera of any capital in Europe, save Berlin.

Some attempt had been made with it in London, and, notwithstanding the fact that the reigning family and the Prince Consort were German, the effort was a failure. Even in Vienna the fashionable opera was the Italian. Some few performances with modest returns had been made in a theater in New York purely to a German clientele. During the season of 1863 Maretzek, the impresario of Italian opera, had fallen out with the Philadelphia public and that offered a for the exploitation in that city German artists and chance. their repertoire.

Satisfied that they were of far more than usual merit, I determined to win for them a broader recognition. After testing their value in Baltimore and Washington, I charged on Boston. At that time there was a very modest percentage of Germans in Boston, which city possessed the reputation of culture and, above all, of superior musical taste. It was to this that I appealed, and I was completely successful. Now I determined to attack New York, as my company was growing in popular estimation, and especially since winning Boston's acceptance.

The New Academy, in the interest of the Italians, resolutely denied any date within the proper operatic season. So I was forced to accept the apparent Waterloo of a September opening. Several of the German critics, in the interest of the Italian season, were inimical to us. -It was a fierce struggle, but I was valiant. I advertised ingeniously and with far greater volume than the customary modest efforts at the Academy.

Nearly every seat in the house was sold, but as the hour for opening drew near I jumped into a carriage at the Metropolitan Hotel, eagerly desirous of seeing what was to be my fate. in the upper parts of the house, the family circle and gallery, portions of the auditorium which were without reserved seats and to which we were entirely subject to the great public for recognition. I have stated that certain German writers were against us. The morning of the 12th, our opening day, a prominent German paper attacked us somewhat viciously. The sum of it all was that I was very young, and that it was preposterous for me to bring to the Academy the self-same artists who had been appearing with scant success at the Broome Street Theater.

a The nature of the attack made me fear that we would be greatly lacking in popular attendance. The street lamps were lighted as I rode up Broadway, although twilight had not yet arrived. We turned the corner at Fourteenth street the driver pulled up his in alarm. "Mr. said he, "there is a fire." "Where?" I asked, rising to my feet.

"It must be at the Academy," said he. I took a rapid glance and immediately conjectured what the nature of the fire scare was. "Get me to the directors' door just as quick as you can." There were two vast mass meetings, one in Irving place, the other in Fourteenth street. I passed quickly in at the directors' private door and had barely time to the corps of attaches, "Are you all in place?" The doors were burst. in on both sides and in twenty minutes the great auditorium was packed to its fullest.

People threw their money into the box office openings. More than three hundred of the seat holders were unable to get in. It was estimated that fully eight thousand people were turned away. At the Brooklyn Academy the conditions were of this nature. In the first seathere had been some attempt under Ulman to give fair opera, but with him with Maretzek, both of whom engaged the chorus and orchestra for four performances in New York per week.

The numbers of each were reduced to scarcely more than one-third of the complement, saving them the considerable cost of the extra Brooklyn performance. Of course, the business fell off, and the more it fell off the more they pinched the orchestra and chorus, until on one occasion opera was given with exactly ten pieces in the orchestra. So when we came with "Faust' and convinced the public that they were going to have the complete ensemble, extra stage band and every detail, the old Academy never saw a greater house. Birgfeld, the Philadelphia bandmaster, afterward impresario Parepa. Carl conducted the large stage, band.

He was Anschutz conducted the opera and Horace Wall, my business manager, and, led the army of chorus. That was the season that established beyond dispute the status of German 011- era and left it 3 force with which all subsequent years had to deal. Jacob Grau, a truly strong impresario, who wag kep: fro: the New York Academy by jealousy, jollied me into undertaking the New York season. I was timorous of it. He had prepared what he thought were especially fire costumes for "Faust." He promised me the use of them for New York, as he thought to exhibit them to the directors and disclose his superiority to Maretzek.

They were not overwhelmingly grand--but I made the most of every shoestring in my anI nouncements. It was in looking after these costumes for his uncle that Maurice Grau made his debut into matters of music with me that season. Harry Palmers, subsequently of the "Black Crook" production, had been most of his life about the Academy. He had been West for me and secured engagements for my company in Cincinnati. Louisville, Indianapolis, Chicago and St.

Louis. 1 consulted with him about the method of my announcements. "Shall I pursue the usual Maretzek method of gentle purring?" "You give it to them your way, and just as strong as you can," advised Harry. I did. Never was such advertising.

The papers revealed columns; the streets blazed with unique bills. Of course it was an easy subject for ridicule, as who should say, "God bless me, is it possible that this wonder whom Mr. Grover promises us is our old friend?" There were many humorous incidents. There were no competent aids obtainable then. I was forced to be the whole shooting match at all points.

I had secured with no little trouble privilege from the park commissioner to place a great bill board directly against Union Square, fronting the turn in Broadway. Left in Mr. Wall's charge, he simply dawdled, and I was compelled to show him the short road by dragging the lumber from the yard, getting the mechanics from the Academy and erecting the hoarding, which was instantly covered with our bills. All New York was aware that something was going on. This gave the cue to some of the critics that I was "circusing" opera.

This animus was inspired by Maretzek. We were personally the best of friendsbut he was determined to bury my operatic ambitions with all speed. I afterward enjoyed the pleasure of his coming to me and asking as a great favor that he might use the board after my season was over. I made him a present of the board, lumber, labor and privilege. He promptly proceeded to cut it down in size and all its advertising value was lost.

In this connection a turning of the table son the humorist occurred. Browne (Artemus Ward) and I were intimate. He counted, as a mere matter of course, that I would grant him the use of my big board for his approaching lecture. 1 surely should if he had applied to me. At his usual hour of turning up, about 2 P.M., he began his daily route at the La Farge, amidst friends and admirers who waited to hear the quips that fell from him at each moment.

"Well, gentlemen, I can't stay with you all day, I've got to see Len And in the pursuit of me. the entire gang adjourned to the Sinclair with prolonged chat and numerous cups. Then they gathered at Florence's, the St. Nicholas and Heaven knows how many other places, each time adjourning with: "Well, gentlemen, I must see Len must see Len Grover." This speedily grew into the belief that romewhere along the route there was to be a huge joke when Brown met me. Late at night the party came in to the bar of the Metropolitan.

After further quaffing, the usual finish: "I really must see Len Grover!" Chorus-'Ha! ha! He must (hic) see Len Grover!" The barman said: "He was in here about ten minutes ago, and went up to the office." Up to the office they all came, to be told that I bad gone to my room and, guided by one of the bell boys, they ly mounted the stairs and arrived at my door. By this time they, had Seen quite nine hours on this vague chase. Artemus softly opened the door without the formality of rapping. Sh-sh, Len." sotto voce, taking me apart; "don't shay a word--they think its -ha-ha-the biggest kind of a joke, but, shay, it's bizhness. I want you to le'mme have that big bill board.

but. old man, gave it to Maretzek a "With all the, pleasure in the world; couple of hours ago." "Well. I'll be- said Artemus. "Gentlemen. the drinks are on me." Many will remember his answer to the telegram, seeking to learn his terms for a series of lectures.

Brown, what will you take for twenty days. Signed (Tom Maguire). "Answer--Tom Maguire, Theater, San Francisco- -Brandy and soda. (Signed) Brown." At the inaugural performance on that 12th of September, after the opera. I presided over a banquet given in the directors room on the successful opening, and later, at near 2 o'clock, was away' down to Liberty street in a cab.

and sending my own press telegrams broadcast of the opening. By the time we reached St. Louis, $15,000 was taken in four hours, an amount unheard of up to that time. Among the little indignities to which we were subjected, the Academy director before our opening took up all the carpets and substituted matting. In the spring when we returned.

I gave the first performance in America of We were no longer denied the carpets. The following season, in addition to the German opera, I directed Max Maretzek's Italians at all points except New York and Brooklyn, which accounts for the comparatively small number of German performances that I gave here in Brooklyn. LEONARD GROVER. September 12, 1908. REGISTERED AT MINEOLA.

Many Fair Visitors From Greater New York and Long Island Call at Eagle Tent. (Special to the Eagle.) The following registered at the Eagle tent on the second day of the fair: Anna E. Seelig, Rockaway Park, L. Irving E. Brown, 164 East Thirty-seventh street, New York: M.

F. Depe, St. Albans: Theo. J. Lutz, Shore View Park; Mrs.

Mathew T. Murray, New York; Mrs. Josephine M. Welsh, Marie M. Murray, Freeport, L.

Gertrude Murray, Freeport, L. Wm. H. DeMott, Woodmere; Mrs. J.

M. Desmond. Brooklyn; Mrs. A. A.

Boun, Freeport; Mrs. Etta Smith, Harry Smith, Northport; Mrs. W. A. Van Siclen, Van Siclen, Bayside; Fred R.

Smith, Jennie W. Smith, Glen Cove; Mrs. D. Manning, 145 Fourth avenue, Brooklyn; Mrs. W.

Coulton, Mrs. C. J. Hanlon, Brooklyn; Dr. W.

Leech. Oyster Bay; Mr. and Mrs. B. Thomas, Great Neck; Mrs.

E. Kessling, 1027 Madison street; Mrs. Suleder, 1027 Madison street; Mrs. Fritz, 1024 Madison street, Brookyn; Mrs. Wm.

E. Jones. Patchogue; Mrs. George Ibsen, Mrs. F.

Linn, F. Linn, Miss Bessie Nue, Miss Jeanet Cummins, Mrs. Tennie Cummins, Roslyn; Mrs. N. H.

Snow, Port Washington; Chas. Grasekamp, Brooklyn; E. Heyman, Brooklyn; Mrs. Chas. F.

Smith, Islip; Jos. A. Warner, Hempstead; Mr. and Mrs. E.

W. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. E. S.

Young. Riverhead; Mr. and Mrs. F. E.

Adams. Miss F. Ethel Adams. Brooklyn; James Powers, Geo. Gray, Brooklyn; P.

Volkman, 106 Moffat street. Brooklyn; Mr. and Mrs. R. R.

Smith, Freeport; Andrew Reilly, 1000 Nostrand avenue. Brooklyn; Thomas C. Crerend, 284 Midwood street, Brooklyn; Mr. and Mrs. J.

W. McCabe, J. McCabe. L. B.

Keough, R. E. Keough, 116 North Eighth street, Brooklyn; Mrs. M. Wilson, Springfield; Geo.

B. Remsen. Floral Park; Chas. Abels, New York: Andrew Van Utendoll. 130 East Ninety-eighth street, New York; Mrs.

S. M. Stille, 1790 Third avenue, New York City: Artie La Comte, I. Gobetz, New York City; Louis Fink, 273 Linden avenue, Flatbush; Mr. and Mrs.

James Conley, D. O'Brien, Master James Conley, Mrs. M. E. Conley, Amityville and Brooklyn; Chas.

Heins, Black Stump, L. E. R. Greenfield, James Anderson, Louis Trautwein, Brooklyn; John C. Allgeo, Flatbush; Miss H.

L. Allgeo, Brooklyn; Miss Myrtle Wenzel, Huntington; Mr. and Mrs. Sidney W. Hawkins, Lake Grove: John F.

Brush, Ithaca, N. J. S. Codley, Glen Cove: William Erbe, Manhattan: William W. Titus.

East Williston: Mrs. Frank S. Downs. Mrs. Wesley Smith, East Quogue: Mrs.

Norman Wicks, Mrs. Harry Smith, Mrs. James Carrol, Bay Shore; Mrs. I. M.

Wighe. Mrs. R. H. Stryle, Frank S.

Downs, Huntington: George H. Magill, Freeport: Mrs. H. V. D.

Voorhies, Brooklyn; Mrs. G. H. Magill. Freeport; Mrs.

J. Gulick Sutphin, Freeport: Mrs. Mary D. Skiff. 256 Woodruff street, Flatbush: Douglass Willson, Jamaica: Lillie Oehrelein, 867 Broadway, Brooklyn: Mrs.

May E. Kurtman, 867. Broadway, Brooklyn; Henry Mugge, Bath Beach; Mrs. M. F.

Tepe. Mias Estelle Tepe. Mrs. C. R.

Berry, Mrs. D. Lamberson. Mr. and Mrs.

Rode, 174 Nostrand avenue, Brooklyn; Mr. and Mrs. J. Pightling, Jamaica; Mrs. E.

P. Burwell, Richmond Hill; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sandman, Ozone Park; Miss Grace Larger. Brooklyn; Mr.

and Mrs. R. S. Mousell, Mr. and Mrs.

F. D. Tordon, West Hampton: Mr. and Mrs. R.

J. O'Donnell. Brooklyn; Miss Bertha Hendrickson, Freeport; Mrs. Lou Glass, Richmond Hill; Dr. Stanley Keyes, Brooklyn; L.

C. Michels, Freeport; Geoge Cook, Port Washington: J. W. Moore, M.D.. Freeport; A.

Wood, Greenlawn; Mrs. C. W. Schroeder. Mrs.

W. Jansen, 334 Bradford street, Brooklyn; Mrs. M. Rose, 195 Berriman street. Brooklyn; H.

A. Cooney, 1569 Seventy-fourth street Brooklyn; Brooklyn; Mr. and Mrs. Rose, 195 Berriman street, J. Ferguson, 357 West Twenty-sixth street, avenue: Manhattan: Martin J.

Gavin, 166 Engert Fred J. Seelig. Rockaway Park: Mrs. A. Wuest, 421 Beverley road.

Brooklyn; Mrs. W. Meyer, Elmwood avenue. Brooklyn: Miss Mary Norton, 122 Fulton avenue, Jersey City; James H. Sullivan, Roslyn: John F.

Betsch, 7 Beaver street. Brooklyn; Joseph P. Schof, 19 Fayette street, Brooklyn: Charles M. Wemmell, Minnie A. Wemmell, 387 Willoughby avenue, Brooklyn; A.

T. Russell. 97 South Second street, Brooklyn: William R. Smith, 23 Yale avenue. Evergreen; J.

P. Tracy, Brooklyn; William M. Saniff, EAGLE BOMB TRAVELED FAR. Williamsburg Bridge Celebration Slip Found at New Dorp, S. I.

Bohan of 17 Pearl street, Stapleton, Staten Island, has sent to this office a Williamsburg Bridge celebration circular, which was discharged from one of the celebration bombs by the Eagle, on Wednesday, September 16, and which. he writes, was found by his 'father, Michael Bohan, on Tyron's farm, at New Dorp, on Saturday, September 19. SAYS PRIME FUNCTION OF MANKIND IS TO EAT Retired Philosopher Claims Art of Eating Is Ultimate Achievement of Existence. ADVOCACY OF MATERIALISM. Theory Discredits Idea Which Bases Philosophy of Life on Existence of Immortal Souls.

Once there was a popular saying that there is nothing like oil; but it was evidently invented by Mr. Rockefeller and must therefore be regarded distrustfully. But before Rockefeller, and perhaps before Omar Khayyam, it was said that there is nothing like food, and that saying, it appears, will bear examination to-day. Professor Karl von Bulendorf, formerly of Heidelberg, but for many years retired from the circles of academic fame, and residing in a little known valley of Bohemia, has recently reminded his colleagues his existence by the announcement of a stupendous work in thirteen volumes containing a history of eating at all and among all peoples, the object of which is to prove that eating is the prime function for which mankind (among other animals) was created. The annourcement created a momentary stupor among theological circles in Germany.

When it was learned that the book, though projected and even written, was still lacking a publisher, the stupor was somewhat abated. At present the theologians are talking about the retired without greatly alarming the inprofessor's, theories, tegrity of established religion. "The Art of Eating in Its Relation to the Prime Functions of Life," as the proposed title of the professor's work may be abbreviated, declines to admit any other raison-d'etre for the existence of animals than the consumption or destruction of material--a process of eternal combustion necessary to, or rather alienable from, the endless motion which. in its turn, constitutes the function of the planetary system. Such a theory somewhat discredits ological theories which base the philosophy of life on the existence of immortal souls.

So many scientific theories, how. ever, have clashed their scalpels against the fortress of religion in vain, that the perturbation excited by the prospect of thirteen large volumes advocating materialism subsided to derision when it was learned that no publisher cared to risk money on a subject more suitable for a magazine article. On the other hand, those branches of philosophy which lean toward materialism And comfort in Professor von Bulendorf's theory. It is alleged that the logic of his deductions is from a scientific point of view satisfactory in the direction of proving that the principal function of life is rather high eating than high thinking; that, in short, the satisfaction of the carnal appetites looms larger as a principle of life than the aspiratisns of mind or sul. Dietetic reformers have seized on this theory to fortify their material philosophy of the importance of meals.

There is now a school in Germany which claims that all the efforts of life should frankly admit for their guiding motive the acquisition and assimilation of food; rather, that is to say, than pursuit of glory or the preparation of the spirit for a future life. William K. Jagenstein, an American follower of Von Bulendorf, who imitates the aged scholar in his choice of a hermit life, has thus expressed himself to the reporter in elucidation of this new materialism: "I aver confidently that no man in America, whether he be a millionaire or a politician or a scholar or an artist, obtains pleasure in life commensurable in fullness and continuity to the pleasure which for instance, extract three times a day, year in and year out, from the anicipation, contemplation and degustation of my meals. I am not a gourmand; I live frugally; I spare and strong; I enjoy in old age a complete immunity from dyspepsia, rheumatism, weak heart and neurasthenia; and I believe I may claim to be perhaps less idle, selfish or selfindulgent than those whose profession is the cure of souls. Yet I owe this happiness (which is to say, this success in life) to a religion the base of which is apparently pure self-indulgence.

Having once admitted Von Bulenlorf's theory that we live to eat, rather than eat to live, the problems of life have been simplified for me to two humble, economical and easy ambitions--the acquisition and enjoyment of food. "The prime requisite for the enjoyment of the hermit continued, "is appetite; and appetite is most easily secured by manual labor in the fresh air and in the country. Therefore such employments as farming or wood cutting or teaming, by this theory, are as honorable and even as lucrative a business as the professions, since they afford not only the requisite food but the appetite for it as well. "Given a healthy appetite, such as comes from physical labor, the highest attainable gratification of the palate is insured by the simplest and cheapest food. My breakfast.

for instance, always and practically without variation from year's end to year's end, consists of cold corn fried in the fat of one or two slices of bacon, with coffee. If I add fried potatoes and an onion. that constitutes a dainty breakfast; if I add to these a couple of fried or poached eggs and a fried banana, with a slice of bread and butter. it is what I call a red letter breakfast-an enormous breakfast. "A breakfast constituted of these simple elements," Mr.

Jagenstein continued, with facial gesture of subdued gusto, "admits of ample variety by the mere regulation of quantity and cooking, to say nothing of additions. The rigidity or density of the cold corn-meal-the thickness with which it is sliced--the number of times it is turned in the fat--the number of slices of bacon--the quality and quantity of coffee--the way it is made--the amount of canned milk and sugar used--these tions are as delicate and important as the adjustment of the mixture in the carburetor of a gasoline engine. I say that my breakfast consists of fried cornmeal and coffee; but I can never say till I have made it what kind of a breakfast it will be--except this much, that it is almost impossible to make it a bad breakfast. Yet if 1 allow another person to meddle with this important function--this matutinal celebration of my religion, if I may say it without disrespect to my neighbors--it is possible to mar it seriously--I mean by ignorance in the art of making coffee. "My friend," continued the hermit with increased enthusiasm, "can you honestly say that life offers to man any higher gratification than the anticipation of fried corn-meat and it be the consumption thereof? "Beautiful food" (an expression of actual ecstacy suffused the recluse's face).

"I repeat, that I am no glutton; but not the less sincerely do I contend that gluttony-sane, healty, well earned gluttony--represents the high water mark of human aspiration. If you do not walk with me in the appreciation of fried corn-meal-and I concede freely the variety of tastes and habits-consider, if you please. the evening sacrament, as would almost venture to call it, of toast and tea." CEILING FELL ON THEM. Marcus Mayner, 60 years old, in company with his wife, Ida, 50 rears old, were at work yesterday in their candy store, at 406 South Fourth street, when a large section of the ceiling dropped. Mayner was lacerated about the head, while his wife was cut on the left thigh.

Both were attended by Dr. Jaffer of the Eastern District Hospital and not removed. MAGISTRATE GIVES WARNING. Will Be Severe With Disturbers of Peace on Trains. Disturbers of the peace on elevated trains in the South Brooklyn and Bay Ridge sections were warned this morning by Magistrate Dooley in the Fifth avenue court that he would deal severely with such offenders.

He imposed several fines in Brooklyn Rapid Transit cases. The two Manhattan brokers who were arrested a few days ago for disorderly conduct on Bath Beach train and who during the uproar which they caused accidentally knocked off a woman's hat, were fined $3 each. These men described themselves as William Morgan, 45 years old, of 41 East -first street, and John Smith, 27 years old, of 315 West Fifty-fourth street. The three men arraigned yesterday morning for creating a disturbance on the were fined $5 each. LAID THEIR OWN DUST.

Jamaica Residents Bought Oil and Sprinkled One Street Highway Department Inactive. Unable any longer to endure the great clouds of dust which have continually, during the past few weeks, swept. into the houses on Hillside avenue, Jamaica, after every automobile sped by, and not being able to secure any relief from the Highway Department, a half dozen of the residents of the between Clinton and Hardenbrook avenues have recently banded together and bought six barrels of crude oil for purpose of sprinkling the road and allaying the dust. The prime mover of this project was William H. Lyall of Hillside and Clinton avenues.

He has interested the Rev. George E. Tilley, Charles J. Jennings, principal of the High School; Alexander Carpenter, Louis Miller and Andrew Kammerer, who have become the co-purchasers of the oil. An employe of one of the men is sent around every once in a while to sprinkle the roads with oil, and the nuisance no longer exists.

"Without this oiling," said Mr. Lyall, "it was impossible for, us to. sit out on our porch at night without being covered with dust. Nor could we leave our windows open day or night. There seemed to be no relief fortheoming unless we.

took matters in our own hands, and we have done A number of residents on Hillside avenue, between Flushing avenue and Hoffman' Boulevard, have already signed a petition and sent it to President Gresser asking that their neighborhood be attended to and that oil or water be used on the road. FIGHT AGAINST GAS TANK. Central Flatbush Taxpayers Association Will Continue Crusade--The Injunction Proceedings. The fight which the Central Flatbush Taxpayers Association began last spring against the erection by the Flatbush at Winthrop street Nostrand aveGas Company of a monster, gas holder nue, will be renewed at the first fall meeting of the association, to be held this evening at 1301 Nostrand avenue. Much has been done during the summer to strengthen the position of the taxpayers, and there is great interest in the two suits for permanent injunctions which are to be heard later.

When the summons and complaint in a taxpayers action for permanent injunction were served on the gas company's offers last spring, there were intimations that the work of construction would be pushed, the company's view being, apparently, that the action would fail in court. In June, however, a second action was begun, the party behind the suit for a permanent injunction being the City of New York, which is interested through its ownership of the Kings County Hospital and other buildings near the site of the proposed tank. Comparatively little work has been done by the company since the second suit was begun, and the delay has encouraged the members of the Central Flatbush Taxpayers Association. S. T.

Hollister, president of the association, is quoted as saying: "We know that the new gas holder, which will have a capacity of 5,000,000 cubic feet, is not needed to supply the Twenty-third Ward, which has the same boundaries as the old town of Flatbush, beyond which the charter of the Flatbush Gas Company does not permit them to do business. The company's game is to make this a great storage plant, from which gas can be distributed to all points of the Borough of Brooklyn south and east of Prospect Park. We know we are right in this fight, and we are going to win." Louis Pink, an attorney associated with Edward M. and Paul Grout, is in charge of the suit begun by the taxpayers. Assistant Corporation Counsel Frank B.

Pierce has been appointed to look after the interests of the City of New York in the second injunction action. Both attorneys will appear in the Supreme Court on October 5 and move that the injunction actions be placed on the preferred calendar. BERGEN-VAN WEELDEN. (Special to the Eagle.) Babylon, L. September 24-The old First Presbyterian Church here was the scene last evening of a fashionable wedding, when Miss Lina Van Weelden, only daughter of former Village President and Mrs.

Henry Van Weelden. and Harold Gerard Bergen, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bergen, were married in the presence of a company that taxed the seating capacity of the edifice. The bride, who wore a gown of white satin, was attended by Miss Beulah Muncy as maid of honor and Miss Miriam J.

Dimmick and Miss Helen, Merrill, the latter of Freeport, as bridesmaids. The bridegroom's best man was the bride's brother, Harold Van Weelden. and the ushers were Alfred Smith, F. Rae Walker of Babylon, William Sendall of New. York and Dr.

Tracy of Hartford. The bride's uncle, the Rev. W. A. George, of Hobart, performed the ceremony.

Miss Marjorie Horning of Brooklyn was flower girl. A reception at the home of the bride's parents followed the church ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Bergen, on their return from their wedding journey.

will make their home in Brooklyn. Both the paternal and maternal ancestors of Mr. Bergen Were prominent in the social life of old Brooklyn a generation ago. He is related to the old and well-known Kouwenhoven family. -STORM Miss Anna Edna Storm, the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. John G. Storm, last evening married to Washington Irving Suydam, son of the late George W. Suydam. The ceremony was performed at 95 Ridgewood avenue by the Rev.

T. J. Whitaker of the Bushwick Avenue Baptist Church. The residence, which is at the corner of Elton street, was a gift of the bridegroom to the bride. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a robe of white batiste and carried a shower bouquet of roses and lilies of the valley.

The bridesmaid, Miss Florence Bennett, was gowned in pink batiste and her bouquet was of pink roses. Richard Evans acted as groomsman. The young couple went on a honeymoon trip to Niagara Falls and Montreal. Guests were: Mrs. Sarah M.

Storm, Miss Sadie Storm. Mrs. Anna Gothard. Mrs. Emma Barber, Mr.

and Mrs. Lucas E. Decker, Miss Edith Decker. Mrs. George Valentine, Mrs.

E. D. Storm, Mrs. Ida Roberta, Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Benter, Miss Elizabeth Storm, Samuel H. Storm, John G. Storm, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H.

Roberts, Richard, Marjorie, Grace and Weston Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gothard. Mrs. Lydia Dean, Charles Dean, Mr.

and Mrs. George Schaffer, Charles, Lucy and Gussie Schaffer, Mr. and Mra. James J. Cogan.

Mrs Richard Evans. Miss Isabelle Evans. Mr. and Mrs. John Van Zuilen, Chester Gothard, Morris Perry and Mrs.

Alice Cascata. FIRE PARTLY WRECKS FLUSHING HIGH SCHOO asks that, in order to avoid confusion, her maiden name be used on any which may be cast for her in the future. Editor Voting Contest. I desire to enter in your Opera Contest a good friend of our club. W.

Winans of 462 Second street. There are many votes to follow from his friends. He is well known, many friends and is a good friend to your second contestant, James O. McLaughlin. LOGAN CLUB COMMITTEE.

The Sixty Leaders. 1. Baxter. W. Navy McLaughlin.

James 16 Court 27.216 3. Mason, J. Harry, 16 Court 4. De Stefani, R. 542 State st.

5. Echard. Anthony, 65 Lafayette av. 18.069 6. Klotz, Miss Maude 907 Lincoln Welty, Miss May, 500 Clinton 13.168 Steber, Mrs.

Fannie 34 Plaza 9. Healy, James 1011 Pacific 11,519 10. Lansing, Miss F. 508 Halsey st. 11,217 11.

McKay, William 9 Debevoise place. 10,371 12. Hanion, J. F. 116 Eagle 9,678 18.

Carpenter. Miss 306 Fenimore 7,907 14. Avila, Edward 457 State 7.603 15. O'Leary, James 443 Fifty-eighth 7.580 16. Sasso, James 1537 East Twelfth 7,038 17.

Barr. Miss Ada 385 Halsey 1,524 18. Wood, Dr. V. 1288 Halsey st 6,930 19.

Byrne, John 77 North Oxford 6,495 20. Gimble, May, 118 Clermont 6.315 21. Andrews, Beatrice P. S. No.

148.... 5.806 Woodruff, Amy 79 New York 5.745 Enequist, 3710 Av (13th 5.574 24. Hayden, James 1061 45th 5,889 Mead. Anna 112 Hancock 4.908 26. Kennedy, Harold, Spooner Stock 4,892 27.

Thompson. Kathleen 2670 4,703 28. Schweithelm. Laura 99 S. Portland.

4,635 29. Ridgewood Day Nursery, Knick'r 4.601 30. Thayer, W. Armour. 143 St.

James 4.543 31. Lacalle, 1645 Pacific st (23d 3,863 32. Smith, Lillian Oliffe, 229 Fulton 3.840 33. Reilly, E. 375 Fulton 3.708 34.

Wells, Fullerton, 26 Court 3.167 35. Connor, Robert 540 Greene 2,951 86. Fanning, Florence, 43 St. John's 2,845 37. Knapp, Lillian, 207 Van Buren 2.638 38.

Beatty, J. 118 Webster av, L. I. 2.575 39. Ruger, Lily, 332 Gates 2,475 40.

Chapman. Livingston, 51 Herkimer 2,471 41. Bradell, Clara, 298 Cumberland 2.461 42. Borden, Ada 319 Cumberland 2.420 43. Steers, Judge A.

2694 Bedford 2.386 44. Korn, 247 Dean 2.385 45. Anderson, Miss A. 196 Van Buren. 2,276 46.

Bogart, Jennie Roslyn, L. 2,255 47. Boice, Miss S. 400 Washington 2,248 48. Delaney, Wm.

395 Stratford "Road: 2.178 49. Chapman, F. 951 St. Mark's 2.094 50. Doyle, Agnes 519 Eighth 2.082 51.

Hayden, E. 115 Nelson 2.059 62. Clay, Mrs. M. L.

I. State 1.976 58. Stussy, Charles, 172 Montague 1.911 64. Mullin, Roger 71 Cumberland 1.907 55. Lockitt, Jessie 730 Carroll 1,892 56.

Rether, Joseph 44 Twenty-second pl. 1.890 Bi. Jervis. Perlee 387 Lafayette 1.874 68. Robertson, Margaret.

443 State 1,858 59. Boam, N. 242 Adelphi- 1,793 60. Coon, Rev. Charles Hancock 1,753 The Next Twenty-five.

1. Wheeler. Miss L. Greenport. L.

1.744 2. Snyder, Margaret, 48 Gates 1,730 3. Kelly, Wm. A. 98 Miller av 1.710 4.

Burke. Richard. 32 Fourth 1,639 5. Cowen, John, 126 Vanderbilt 1.521 6. Lane, Carrie, 107 Columbia 1.620 7.

Foster, Alonzo, 642 Macon 1.516 8. Tyler, Margaret 150 Lafayette 1.504 9. Dunn. Andrew 169 Dean 1,475 10. McNickle, Marie, 864 Bay 18th 1,428 11.

Nova. Dr. J. 297 Schermerhorn st. 1.381 12.

Johnston, Mrs. 252 Jefferson av. 1,375 13. Walton, Amy 269 Berkeley 1.343 14. Crags.

Eugene 239 Skillman 1.339 15. Colgan, George 50 Johnson 1.336 16. Brewster. E. 83.

Midwood 1.335 17. Lee, Nellie 82 Madison 1.307 18. Simpson. Florence, 260 Fiftieth 1.293 19. Draper.

Mrs. J. 165 Marlborough pl 20. Slandorff. Sophie 29 St.

John's pl. 1.194 21. Tompkins, Lillian 724 Marcy av. 1,045 Miller, Emma. 1011 Flatbush 1,022 Roche, Paul.

390 Herkimer 990 24. Coffin, Miss E. 1213 Avenue 985 25. Volk, Robert 85 Stuyvesant 056 New Contestants. Hartig, Henry, 1334 Decatur Total vote to 108 How to Cast a Vote.

The coupon will be found on page 2. To cast to vote for any contestant or to enter a new one, it is necessary only to cut out the coupon and. fill in the name and address of the' person for whom it is to be counted, forwarding the same to the Eagle within the time limit of two weeks, the date of which appears upon each coupon. NEW YORK'S BUDGET EXHIBIT. Plan Originated by Municipal Research Bureau Taken Up by Taxpayers Conference.

The idea of a budget exhibit, which originated with the Bureau of Municipal Research, has been enthusiastically adopted by the Greater New York Taxpayers' conference, which joins in sending invitations to taxpayers' organizations, and to the general public to participate in making the budget show a success. The exhibit will be held on the ground floor of the City Investing Building, for a period of two weeks, opening probably October 5. Responsibility for the hibit will rest with a joint committee representing the Greater New York Taxpayers' conference and the Bureau of Municipal Research. A series of noonday meetings will be held under the auspices of the Greater New York Taxcity a officials will be invited to discuss payers' Conference, at which the chief with representative taxpayers the directions in which it is important for the city, at this time, to increase its expenses, and where it is both practicable and necessary to retrench. Among the organizations that have been especially invited to make exhibits are the New York Milk Committee, the committeees on the prevention of tuberculosis, tenement house and physical welfare of school children, City Club, the Merchants' Association, Hospital Conference, State Charities Aid Association, New York Prison Association.

Brooklyn League. Communications should be addressed to Budget Committee, City Investing Building, 165 Broadway. TO DECREASE SCHOOL DEBT. St. James Alumnae to Give Progressive Euchre, October 9, in ProCathedral Hall.

Under the auspicese of St. James Alumnae a progressive euchre and reception will be held in the assembly hall of the new academy attached to St. James Pro-Cathedral, on Jay street, on Friday evening. October The arrangements are in charge of efficient and energetic committees, and the proceeds will be used to lessen the debt on the school building completed a year ago. The game is scheduled to begin at o'clock, and many handsome prizes will be distributed among players and onlookers.

The first meeting of the alumnae since the summer recess was held this week at St. Academy, Miss Katherine Hogan presiding. There was an excellent attendance, all the classes well represented. The principal business, in addition to routine matters, was the consideration of plans for the proposed euchre, which the alumnae hopes to make the most successful beneft yet given for the Pro-Cathedral and to eclipse the fine record already made by the members for conducting successful entertainments, financially and socially, for the benefit of St. James Academy.

DR. WATKINSON TO SPEAK. The Rev. W. L.

Watkinson of London is the guest of the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, at 2 Spencer for a few days before sailing for England. He will preach at Northfield on Sunday, and he has consented to address the prayer service held at Dr.

Cadman's Church, the Central Congregational, in the lecture room at 8 o'clock to evening. This will be the only opportunity this season of hearing Dr. Watkinson in Brooklyn. The clergy of other churches who are not engaged on that evening wit be gladly welcomed by the pastor and the church. Big Building Saved by Volur teers After a Long, Hard Fight.

HOSE WEAK; PRESSURE POO Adjoining Departments Had to Called Upon for Help -Loss May Reach $20,000. A fire that broke out last night in the Flushing High School Building, on Sanford avenue, did $20,000 damage to the building and its contents, and in consequence 1,500 children in Flushing are today without proper school accommodations. Janitor John Senett discovered the fire at 6. P.M., and at once sent in call for the Flushing Volunteer Fire Department. Chief J.

Frank Ryan and the six companies responded quickly, but by the time they reached the burning building the entire upper part of the middle section was destroy burning the entire fiercely building. and threatening to The volunteers worked heroically, but it was plainly to be seen that they were not making any headway, in view of the fact that they could not keep the hose from bursting, and besides, the water pressure was only about forty pounds, and Chief Ryan telephoned to the Newtown and Bay Side Fire departments to send their engines to the rescue. The Newtown and Bay Side firemen responded, but it is many miles from their firehouses to Flushing, and the consequence was that the flames had it all their own way for over hour, until the engines arrived, and when they did get to work they were handicapped by bursting hose. The firemen, however, confined the flames to the middle building, where they started, and were quick to extinguish fires that started in other parts of the building by falling pieces of burning lumber. During the summer the city has spent several thousand dollars installing fireproof stairs throughout the building and building an addition to the extreme eastern part.

The new section is not yet completed but was not damaged at all by the fire of last night. While the fire was burning fiercely the bell at St. Joseph's Orphanage, which stands a block away from the high school building. was kept ringing and Sister Mary Rose was prepared to march out of the orphanage the 200 children in the institution, but that action was not necessary. Chief J.

Frank Ryan of the Flushing Fire Department said that his men would not have had any trouble in getting the best of the flames had it not been for the poor condition of their hose and the inadequate water pressure. The lack of pressure is said to have been due to the fact that the burning roof of the school building is Ligher than the stand pipes. What caused the fire is not known but it is believed that it can be traced to carelessness on the part of mechanics who were on the roof of the building making repairs most of the day. Professor Howell R. Wood's chemical laboratory was located on the third floor of the building just under the roof which was afire but an investigation showed that the fire did not start in the laboratory.

The damage done by the fire and the water will make it impossible to occupy more than a dozen of the class rooms 10 the group of buildings. "The school will be opened on Monday morning," said C. B. J. Snyder, the superintendent of school buildings, today.

"I gave orders last night, as soon as I was notified of the fire, to put in a temporary roof, and Mr. Collins, the deputy, is doing his utmost to get the building in readiness. The work on the alterations will not have been completed, but it will be in such shape that the pupils can begin and go on with their studies. The Board of Education has been spending $45,000 in fire protectionputting in a fire stairway on the south ter of the building. The contractors had side and a fireproof stairway a in the centheir work insured.

GRESSER TO YOUNG MEN. In Temple Forum Banquet Address Queens President Urges Them to Get Into Politics. "Get into politics," was the advice given last evening by Borough President Lawrence Gresser of Queens to the members of Templo Forum, a well known organization of young men of Richmond Hill and vicinity, when he spoke at the installation banquet, held in the clubhouse, his subject being "Young Men in Politics." President Gresser, who made his speech a short one, said: "The advice that I want to give to all young men is this: Get into politics. That same advice was given to me when I was 21 years old, but I did not profit by it at the time; in fact, it is only about tweive years ago that I entered politics. Be active in your local politics.

Register and enroll. Attend the primaries, and see that you get proper delegates to the conventions and the proper men in office. Take an interest in questions of local importance, and do not be so narrow' minded as to vote for an incapable or dishonest man just because he happens to. be on the ticket of your partry." Frank X. Meier, president of Temple Forum, gave a brief history of the organization.

The toast aster was Dr. C. E. Field, the director of the organization, and the other speakers were the Rev. John Graham, rector of All Saints Church, Morris Park, subject, "Organizations for Young Jacob Reis, "Our Assemblyman William A.

De Groot, "The Nation and the Professor Isaac. N. Failor, principal of the Richmond Hill High School, "Worlds Around Us." The banquet, at which 129 persons were present, owed its success to the efforts of the social committee, which was composed of Harry B. F. Mierisch, chairman; James Walker, William J.

Boegel, Herbert T. Davis, William C. McKay, T. N. McClosky and Dr.

David H. Noll. POLITENESS AN ASSET. Dr. Johnston Shows Difference.

Between Good and Bad Business Forms, To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Upon my return from a short summer vacation I found two bills awaiting me, each for two months service. One was from the gas company and called attention to the fact that my two months bill, amounting to $4.32, remains unpaid, and "unless settlement is made before September 14 the supply of gas will be discontinued." The other was from the telephone company, reminding me of the same remissness on my part to the amount of $7.20, and at the bottom was this request: "Kindly favor us with a remittance and oblige." of course, a check was forwarded to each, as was their due, but every one of your readers will understand that a certain feeling of good will went with one that did not go with the other, and sometimes even a soulless corporation finds that good will has more or less value as an asset. Of course, these reminders were both printed forms, but it cost Do more to print one than the other, and the receipt of the two at the same time perhaps served to emphasize in my mind which was better business form. DR. WILL H.

JOHNSTON. 35 Fort Greene place, September 23, 1908.