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the THE will be developed by it, as the benefit will not be merely local, but their establishment will be the first step toward the development of the entire suburban area. If the whole system of arterial streets could be acquired under Angle condomaation proceeding, it he mos: advantageous. Not Too Much, Uniformity and System. When these controlling streets shall have been definitely determined, we need not worry about the details of filling in the spaces between them. Our city plan is fairly safe.

Whether it would be advantageous to have the intervening spaces treeted in a uniform or conventional is questionable. It is doubtful whether a regular plan is even desirable. Is Washington more beautiful than Paris vards is superimposed upon a rectangular simply be because its great system of boulestreet system? To one who is studying the city merely as a plan, this might seem desirable, but the interest of the average citizen is not in the map; it is in the street system itself, and it might be preferable to allow these various subdivisions to develop along lines of least resistance, without exercising too much control over In fact, if the treatment of these different sections varies, a more pleasing result may be attained. Here, where the topography suggests it, a serpentine system of streets may be laid out; there, a generous depth of lots. with space for gardens and ornamental planting, may be provided; here, again, we may find a group of narrower streets compactly built up with secluded courts and with small houses fronting upon a little plot of grass or shrubbery.

Agreeable surprises may await us in strolling through these various sections, while a short walk in any direction will bring us to one of the system of thoroughfares where the traffic, the business and the amusements of the great city will be found. If one of these sections takes on a distinctive character, the neighboring districts will be stimulated to try and establish a character of their own. If we attempt to establish a uniform cut and dried standard for all parts of a great city, it is more than likely that we will find that we have "leveled downward." In all large cities the individual is likely to be lost, the neighborhood feeling is unable to survive. It is frequently held that this neighborhood feeling is an evidence of provincialism, that it is inconsistent with the development of a great city, and belongs only to the small towns. This may be true if we leave the city as a whole to develop as an unrelated group of neighborhoods, for A comprehensive plan cannot be evolved by a town meeting, a civic association or a group of them.

The creation of such a plan needs a strong hand and a central authority which will be in large degree regardless of unimportant local interests. But, the general scheme once established by a system of thoroughfares such 88 has been outlined, the writer believes that a great degree of latitude should be allowed the neighborhoods and the individual developers, SO long as the street lines they wish to establish are not inconsistent with public convenience, with an abundance of light and air, with a rational and economical drainage system, and with good sanitary conditions. Parks and Playgrounds. No reference has yet been made to a system of parks and playgrounds, and the place which such a system should have in the city plan. This omission was intentional, as the writer does not believe that a park system should be a mere incident in the plan of a city.

The policy of most of our cities, and with few exceptions this policy is especially notable in New York, has been to defer the selection of park sites until the necessity for park areas has become apparent, or until the public demand for them has become SO strong that it cannot be ignored. Meanwhile, the entire city plan is likely to have been covered by a system of streets, many of which must be obliterated when the parks are finally laid out. It is scarcely necessary to say that the adoption of a street plan has resulted in the conversion of acreage property into city lots with a great increase in value. This value may be to a large extent speculative rather than real, but it is a value which will be reflected in the amount which the city must pay in the acquisition of the property. It must be admitted that parks are a necessary part of any city plan, and that, therefore, they should be given a conspicuous place in designing a city street system.

The writer, however, is disposed to go somewhat further and to maintain that instead of adapting the park system to the street system, the former should to a considerable extent control the latter. In other words, one of the first subjects which should receive serious consideration in the preliminary study of a city plan is that of available park sites. It there is a particular bit, of woodland, an elevation with a commanding outlook, or even a piece of low -lying land traversed by a stream, which have not yet been cut up into building lots they can be most advantageously set aside at this time as future parks. These reservations should be scattered over the entire area so that there will ultimately be some open space within convenient walking distance of every resident of the city. These parks should be connected by adequate roadways, not necessarily straight, or even of uniform width, but contracted where the topography would involve expensive construction, and again expanded to include a small area which might ultimately become a most attractive feature of our park and parkway system.

As we are dealing with a territory which is at the present time suburban, and where detached houses are likely to be always a characteristic feature, it will not be necessary to provide large park areas, and yet parks of considerable size may be exceedingly desirable as playgrounds and places of recreation for those living in the most congested areas in the older parts of the city, especially if they are so located as to be easily reached by existing or prospective transportation lines. It may be deemed unwise, or even foolish, to assume that parks will be ultimately needed in the particular localities which we have selected. The city may not grow in the direction and along the lines which we have assumed, but, while it must be admitted that the manner in which any city will develop and expand cannot be predicted with any degree of accuracy, it is not unlikely that this expansion will follow the lines of least resistance, and if encouragement is given by a judicious selection of park areas connected by adequate roadways, and if the controlling features of our street system are laid out along the lines already indicated, the future development is almost certain to follow these lines, and the result will be a city plan which will appear logical and reasonable, rather than a mere accident. Minor Public Buildings. In a territory such as we have been considering it may be useless to speak of the grouping of public buildings, for the important municipal centers will have already been established and will not be moved.

There are, however, minor public buildings, such as schools, libraries, public baths and comfort stations. police stations and fire houses, for which provision must be made, and it would be most desirable to set aside here and there what might be termed "municipal; blocks," upon which buildings of this kind could be grouped in a very effective manner. Our park areas and our "municipal blocks" should be acquired at as early a date as possible. It is often very difficult to justify a public expenditure in advance of actual needs when so many demands are being made for urgent municipal improvements in the older portions of the city, but a little foresight in this spect would undoubtedly save many times the sums which will inevitably be required to correct mistakes owing to lack of foresight in making provision for what is sure to be required some day, The writer knows of no instance of the formulation and execution of a policy such as has been outlined, but it appears to be 80 reasonable and logical that it is a matter ef surprise that the problem of making a city plan has never been undertaken in this manner. It is not submitted as a rule to be followed in city planning, but as a suggestion which may be thought worthy of serious consideration and discussion, in the hope that it may be of some slight assistance to those who are confronted with a problem of this nature, BROOKLYN DAILY Row, Left to Right-George Van rector), Charles M.

Boock and Arthur Second Row, Left to Right--Harry W. Simpson, and Edward E. Boyce. The Felloweraft Club of Cosmopolitan Lodge No. 585, F.

and A held a beefsteak dinner recently at the Hofbrau House, A motley crowd they seemed when they had donned their white caps and aprons. As soon as the inner man was refreshed, hilarity and good feeling prevailed. Songs, recitations, speeches, were indulged in, and every one seemed to enjoy the festive occasion. Much of the success and popularity of INFORMATION BUREAU NOTES. The Eagle Information Bureau has been busy this week answering all sorts of summer hotel and boarding house inquiries.

Many new booklets have arrived within the past few days, among them some literature from the New York Central lines. The Long Island Railroad and the Ulster and Delaware road changes their schedules to-day and The Eagle received yesterday a supply of the Long Island tables with all of the branches. The forms for the Summer Resort Directory will close to The book will be more attractive than it was last year, with more cuts of houses and the guide maps of the various sections. The book will be issued June 15. The business men of Crown Point, Factoryville and Crown Point Center, New York, organized a board of trade recently.

Many members of the board have great faith in the town as a summer resort and an effort will be made 'his summer to bring vacationists to the town in great nunber. An attempt will also be made to have the Lake Champlain steamers stop at Crown Point. David B. Plumer, the well known resort proprietor, whose management has made successful the Laurel House and the Laurel-Pines at Lakewood, has added another hotel to his list, "The New Profile" in the White Mountains, at New Profile. All of his hotels are popular with the tourist public, and Mr.

Plumer's wide experience will unquestionably add to the prosperity of the latest addition. The Hotel Berkshire, at Litchfield, Harry Clinton. manager, has opened its doors this spring for the first time to a spring trade and has found it highly successful. The guests from Brooklyn are Mr. and Mrs.

E. J. Byrne, Mrs. A. C.

Lamb. Miss Lamb and Mrs. J. H. Lack.

The Manhattan guests are: D. Newman, Mrs. and Miss Denny, Mr. and Mrs. E.

H. Fuller and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. F. D.

Sutton, Mr. and Mrs. William Pearsall, M. C. Plate, Mrs.

R. N. Van Buskirk. Mrs. W.

H. Hylan, B. S. Clark. Mrs.

W. A. Parrington and sister, Miss Ella Rossell, Mr. and Mrs. di Zerega, P.

J. Cravin, Dr. Charles T. Taylor and Mr. and Mrs.

George Ely. The annual cantonal assembly, open air parliament, to decide the affairs of the canton, met at Appenzell on April 24. The members gathered, every man carrying a sword, worn in accordance with a hereditary custom. They were headed by a band. The Landamman arriving took his place on the platform, before which were placed two ancient swords, crossed.

The assembly was "called to order" by the Landamman. Then the business began--the questions to be decided being taken up and put to Any name for any office, apparently could be proposed by any voter, but each had to be voted on, the one getting the highest number of votes being elected. Much of the business referred to local matters, all of which was disposed of satisfactorily. Although the summer European travel is now at its height and the steamship lines say that travel is, greater now than at the same time in previous years, preliminary arrangements have been completed by the Hamburg-American iLne -for their series of winter cruises during the season 1910-1911. The great number of American travelers going abroad to southern and warmer climates during the winter months is increasing each year, and to keep pace with the increasing demands the Hamburg-American Line is not only extending its operations into new territory and adding more ships, but is also sending the largest and newest vessels to the interesting places in the Orient, the West Indies and to South America, and is providing the very finest accommodations.

For making the eru ses to the West Indies the magnificent new steamship land has been selected. She will make cruises in January, February and two March, 1911, of twenty-eight and thirty days duration, calling at various ports in the West Indies, in "enezuela and the Isthmus of Panama, and also an Easter cruise of about sixteen days duration. For the Hamburg Line's twenty-second annual cruise to the Orient and the Mediterranean the great steamship Cincinnati will be scheduled. The Cincinnati will leave New York January 28, 1911, on an eighty-day cruise. The itinerary will be practically the same as in previous years, with several new featadded.

The cost of the trip will be ures $325 upward. The success of the first cruise to South America as far as the Straits of Magellan early this year has prompted a similar cruise for 1911 by the same steamship. The Bluecher will leave New York in January and the trip will last seventythree days, covering 18,000 miles. Among the places to be visited on the South American cruise are: Para and the Amazon, Pernambuco. Bahia, Santos.

Sao Paulo. Montevideo. Punta Arenas, Straits of Magellan, Coronel on the Pacific coast. and a railroad trip to Santiago, Valpariso, across the Andes to Argentine. Buenos Ayres, Rio Janeiro and the West Indies.

FIRE CHIEF LOSES A DOG. Battalion Chief Henry Wackerman of the Brooklyn Fire Department, who keeps about seventy-five blooded bulldogs in his kennels at 294 Maujer street, was showIng a friend from Cuba his stock Friday night, when he noticed that Chevalier. one of his prize dogs, a pure white bull terrier, valued at $300, had disappeared. He doesn't know whether the dog himself got away or was stolen. SUNDAY.

MAY 15. 1910. 9 EAGLE. NEW YORK. CITY PLANNING BY TRIANGULATION, Order to Provide for Systematic Development of Such an Area as Brooklyn, ADVISED BY NELSON P.

LEWIS. Desirability 'of Creation of Centers for Buildings Where City Business Is Conducted. A characteristic feature of most AmerRican cities is the lack of important diagonal streets leading to some definite point of interest, said Nelson P. Lewis in his paper read at the Conference on City Planning, held at Rochester, N. May 2-4, 1910.

He is the chief engineer lot the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. New York City. The paper is from the Engineering News. These diagonals need not be long, or if they are they need not be straight for their entire distance, but different sections of them should as A rule be free from deflections, and where deflections do occur in their alignment, there should be an apparent reason for each such change in direction. which Should also occur wherever possible at a point where other streets intersect, 50 that there shall be series of foci, or points of interest, throughout the city.

This is the charm of Washington and of Paris. One may follow any one of the numerous diagonal streets in either of these capitals and be quite sure of reaching some point of interest. A city plan which lacks these characteristics almost necessarily lacks proper sites for public or other important buildings or manuments. While. as already stated, it is often impossible to correct mistakes of planning within practicable limits of expense, there are few cities where conditions cannot be greatly improved without an expenditure which will fall ultimately to justify itself.

In most American cities whose growth has been conspicuous it will be found that additions have from time to time been made by extension of the city limits or by consolidation with other cities. Frequently these additions have already been streets have been laid out and certain imexploited ted by the Suburban developer; provements have been made. They are often so limited in area that it is diffcult to do anything but extend the already established city plan over them or accept the street lines which may have been adopted by the village or town authorities or fixed by the real estate developer. It occasionally happens, as in the case of New York. that an extension of the city limits will include large areas where there are a number of cenof population, and that these centers are disconnected and could be absorbed iln a larger city plan without serious to the latter.

Areas ot this kind, contiguous to a large city, are almost invariably traversed by highways which have been established for many years and which follow natural lines of traffic. These old roads are the logical routes for transportation lines, such as electric railroads, and they could, and it would be safe to say they should, be made the controlling feature of the city plan. They rae generally of the ordinary country road width-that is, three Or four rods, and occasionally only two rods. This width will be totally inadequate to the important part which they should play In the ultimate city plan. but they are usually allowed to remain until they, have been so built up as to make a widening very expensive.

In making a plan for the annexed territory, it will be found that in most cases the street system of the older city is extended over the new addition, or the crude street. plans of the several villages and towns which have been absorbed by the greater city are prolonged until the different layouts meet in a confusion of unrelated street lines, without system or symmetry. Then, in order to make the plans fit together, it is likely that a street will be laid out upon which they can abut, but which has no other reason for its existence. In other words. the plan of the annexed territory is the result of an attempt to enlarge and expand the old city plan or those of the existing centers of population.

with no effort to study the problem as a whole or to grasp the possibilities of the territory as an integral part of a great city. What, then, is the logical method of procedure? Do we first need an accurate topographical map of the entire area? This involves a large expenditure of time and money, which, in the judgment of the writer, could De expended to better advantage. Let us assume that the unmapped areas are extensive, as in the case of those which were added to the City of New York at the time of consolidation. The first thing which it is necessary to do is to be able to determine the relative position of the different parts of the new territory and the different existing highways with respect to the remaining portions. This can orly be done by a triangulation.

which will establish points whose precise relative positions will be known, these points being. say, not less than 2.000 feet or more than 5.000 feet apart. It will then be possible to proceed with our mapping and planning in widely separated sections of the new territory with a positive knowledge of the relation of the street lines which we will estab11sh in one section to those which we are to lay down in another. Old Roads as Main Streets. The next 1 thing which will demand our attention is the system of existing roads.

There was and is a good reason for these roads. Their grades may be excessive in some places, but it is probable that their alignment has been sacrificed for easy grades at the time when they were laid out, when improved roads were almost unknown and heavily laden vehicles were obliged to avoid excessive grades. These roads should form the skeleton of our future street system. In many cases it will be necessary to straighten them and in all cases to widen them, but wherever mossible the new lines should be parallel with the old ones, so that the old roads may become a part of the new street with as little disturbance as possible and without sacrificing the trees. What width shall we give to these old roads which are to become the principal arteries of our city? In the writer's Judgment they should in most cases be not less than 100 feet in width, and in some instances even wider.

It is unnecessary for ur at this time to determine the subdivision of the streets which are to exceed 100 feet in width, but if the old road was fortunate enough to have good shade trees the original highway can probably be preserved for pleasure driving. while another section can be reserved for railroad tracks. and perhaps still another for automobiles, with adequate sidewalk spaces. Such an arrangement for the separation of different kinds of traffic will require a total width of about 150. feet, or even more, These old roads which we are making the basis of our city plans may have been nearly parallel with each other or they may have been approximately radial, while the cross connections may have been infrequent or unimproved, but these cross connections will be a necessary feature of the final city plan which we.

have in view. They must, therefore, be carefully considered. They should be straight between the parallel or radial highways wherever possible, and should join them at points where there are deflections. At these intersections there can well be an enlargement of the street area, creating plazas or spaces which will be available for a fountain, a monument O1 some other decorative feature. As soon as this system can be determined, the property required for the 11P streets, which we might perhaps EM1 boule yards, should be acquired." The cost of this acquisition could properly be assessed upon the entire territory which FELLOWCRAFT TEAM.

Cosmopolitan Lodge No. 585, F. and A. Wynen, Louis P. Paff, John McMaster Rothwell.

Schmale, James Gertenbach, Birdsall E. Cosmopolitan Lodge is due to the activ-1 ity of Cosmopolitan Felloweraft Club. This organization, composed of members of Cosmopolitan, has given to the lodge one of the best drilled felloweraft teams in eity, if not in the state. The work of the team has been most highly commended by all who have seen it on the floor of the lodge. Some years ago the idea of a fellowcraft team for Cosmopolitan Lodge was conceived, but owing to the lack of young blood, was scon abandoned.

It was not RIVAL CLIMBERS' CLAIMS STIR UP BITTER STRIFE Two Women at Verbal Swordspoints Dispute Records of Each Other. MISS PECK VS. MRS. WORKMAN Paris Tribunal of Scientists Passes Judgment on Question Which Causes Much Comment, Rivaling the famous Peary-Cook controversy in popular interest abroad is the war that is being waged in Paris between supporters of Miss Annie Peck and Mrs. Bullock Workman, mountain climbers of international reputation, both of whom emphatically assert they have Mrs.

Workman, Ready for a Climb. reached the highest altitude. French and German newspapers are filled with the claims of both women and, according to recent cable dispatches, the quarrel is to be settled once and for all by the members of a new society at Paris, composed of scientists and other public spirited persons, who have for their president the witty and accomplished Mme. Camille Du Gast. The new society is called "Parisiens de Paris." Every member is Parisian born.

Mrs. Bullock Workman asserts that she has beaten Miss Peck's record. Miss Peck has been climbing the Andes Mountains, Mrs. Workman the Himalayas. Miss Peck claims to have climbed 700 feet higher than Mrs.

Workman. The latter scorns to defend herself, but for self protection she has sent to South America and had the mountain peak measured. The report she received, her supporters say, proves that Miss Peck did not climb as high as she has asserted, for the very good reason that the mountain itself does not tower to that altitude. Tor this reason the friends of Mrs. Workman are booming her as the person holding the record of having reached a height of nearly 24.000 feet above the sea level.

The Paris society has been called upon by both sides. principally because a woman is at its head. Mme. Du Gast is widely known the world over. She is counted one of France's wealthiest and most beautiful women, and became notorious a few years ago when she was accused by a promiment French lawyer of being the model of the "Lady in the Mask," Gervex's famous painting, which depicts a superbly handsome woman clothed in nothing more than a black mask.

The lawyer's sensational charge started a law suit that held the world's interest. Mme. Du Gast was awarded damages. Woman Heads Parisian Reform Society. As president of the "Parisiens de Paris" this aggressive widow is the lender of anything that looks like municipal reform and dearly loves an argument.

One of the objects of the society is the beautifying and embellishment of Paris. Recently Mme. Du Gast was daring enough to suggest the destruction of the Eiffel Tower and offered to head a delegation to bring the matter to the attention of the municipal authorities. Street car reform, tax reform, any old The United States Custom Employes Benevolent Association, formerly the United States Weighers Laborers Association, will have its third annual summernight's festival on Thursday evening, June 2, at Manhattan Casino and Park, One Hundred and Fity-fifth street, Manhattan. The proceeds derived from the affair is for its sick and death fund.

The committee comprises: J. T. Moir, man; S. Cooney, secretary and treasurer; H. E.

Earle, William Beatty, William Edwards, P. Thompson, J. Marshall, C. P. Klausman, C.

G. Langer and T. Schott. CUSTOM EMPLOYES OUTING. ANNOUNCES WEDDING DATE.

Mias Florence Preston has announced that Wednesday. June 15, will be the date of her marriage to Francis L. Corwin. This came as a surprise to her friends, who supposed that the wedding would not occur until the fall. Miss Preston is popular in the Stuyvesant Heights section, and 1a a member of the Omega Phi Fraternity, Her fiance is a weilknown runner of the Tr A.

C. and a sergeant in the Arab Patrol of the Masonic Shrine. The ceremony will take place at the home of Mra. A. S.

Higgins, her sister, at 414 Jefferson avenue. TO GIVE SHIRTWAIST DANCE. An invitation shirtwaist dance will be given by Transfiguration Lyceum to its young women's auxiliary of Transfiguration Lyceum at Long Island Business College, South Eighth street, near Driggs avenue, on Friday evening. The entertainment committee. consisting of Messrs.

Monohan, Masterson, Foley. Lund. Ward. Burke and Costigan, has been making arrangements to insure successful evening. The dance is given to the young women of the parish who helped the Lyceum make its recent barn dance the most successful social event in the history of the parish.

A GOLDEN WEDDING. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Solomon to Cele. brate Fiftieth Marriage Anniversary To-day at Family Reunion.

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Solomon, lifelong Brooklynites, will celebrate their golden wedding to-day at their home, 389 Fifth avenue They were married fifty years ago at St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, on Carroll street, by the Rev. Dr.

Drown, who is still living, and who has promised to attend the celebration. Many other friends and relatives C. F. MATZEN Mr. and Mrs.

Samuel Solomon. will be on hand to extend congratulations. The affair will be a general family reunion. Mr. Solomon was born in London and came to this country when a boy, in 1852.

He settled in South Brooklyn at a time when that section was in its infancy, and grew. up with the city. Mrs. Solomon likewise came to America when a child. They have four sons-Charles Samuel William B.

and George A. Solomon, and have fifteen grandchildren. Mr. Solomon is one of the oldest members of Trinity P. E.

Church, and is likewise honored in the Foresters of America, of which he was one of the founders. He is a member of the Knights of Honor and the Order of Odd Fellows. SNEAD TRIAL POSTPONED. Three Wardlaw Sisters Will Not Have to Answer Charge Until August. Newark.

N. May 14-The trial of tho three Wardlaw sisters accused of contplicity in -leath of Mrs. Ocey Snead, the East Orange bathtub victim, was postponed to-day until August 29. The trial had been Set, for Monday next. The postponement W22 asked by the array of distinguished counsel who appeared for the women prisoners, on the ground that there had not been sufficient time to prepare the defense.

Chandler W. Riker, one of the counsel, said that eighty witnesses would have to be summoned for examination in the case and that numerous papers also remained 1.0 be prepared. No serious objection was offered by Prosecutor Mott and Justice Gummere directed. the postponement. The three prisoners -Miss Virginia Wardlaw, Mrs.

Caroline B. Martin and Mrs. Mary M. Snead--have been in prison in this county since shortly after the crime was developed. It was stated that no attempt would be made to have them admitted to bail pending the beginning of their WEDDING PLANS ANNOUNCED.

Close upon the announcement of the engagement of Miss Irene E. Kelly to William E. McCollom, M.D, comes that of their wedding, which is set for Wednesday, June 1. at the bride's residence, 203 Berkeley place. The bride-to-be is the daughter of John T.

Kelly and the late Anna E. Bradley, who have resided ou the Park Slope for a number of years. Dr. McCollom is a promising young physiclan in the hill section. a son of the late Dr.

William McCollom, who practiced medicine for over forty years on Lefferts place. Miss Kelly's principal attendant and maid, of honor will be her sister. Miss Lillian Kelly, and the matron of honor. Mrs. Victor Earl of Manhattan.

The bridesmaids will be Miss Bess Meyers of Manhattan, Miss Grader Comisky of Brooklyn and Miss Sweeney of Denver. Col. The couple will be at home after June 15, at 1174 Dean street. PUPILS TO GIVE CONCERT. A concert will be given on Friday evening in Association Hall.

Bond street. near Fulton, by the pupils of the Misses Ida and Johanna, and Henry Mollenhauer of the Henry Mollenhauer Conservatory of Music. A long but excellent programme of vocal, piano, violin and ensemble music will be presented and will bring every pupil before the audience of parents and friends that is expected to attend. Quite a few of the young musicians will combine to form a piano and violin orchestra, and these in various combinations will take part in the concert. The recital will conclude the forty-third year of the conservatory.

TO START EUCHRE SERIES. The first of a series of weekly euchres to be held on Monday afternoons and evenings will be given to-morrow at Mechanics Hotel, Surf avenue and Nineteenth street. The affair will be under the direction of Mrs. J. Campbell.

POWER OF SUGGESTION. Angry man (at the telephone) -You go hang yourself. Smithers! (After a pause) Do you hear me? Central--Your party hung up! DEVOTEES THRONG SHRINE OF MY LADY NICOTINE Tobacco Users' Cult Gains Converts With Surprising Rapidity. $60,000.000 WORTH PRODUCED Besides Great American Crop, Europe, Asia, Africa and Various Islands Contribute to Smokers' Needs. M.

(Senior Deacon), Charles R. Ritter (Di- Austin, Sidney C. Randall, Walter W. until the fall of 1907 that the present organization, which now numbers seventy, Maine efficient formed. present officers, who have proved SO in their management of the affairs that they were all re-elected to serve a second term, are Bros.

Robert G. Preston, Jr. president; Louis P. Paff, vice president; John McMasters, seeretary; Charles Book, treasurer: Charles Bio Montgomery, Ritter, drill chairman master, of and Robert entertainment J. committee.

reform, is the society's aim, and this bitter quarrel of the mountain climbers is just the sort of question its members delight to discuss. The supporters of each side have carefully studied the accomplishments of their favorites. Not a feat performed by Miss Peck in recent years has been overlooked, and Mrs. Workman's daring climbs have received equal attention. Miss Peck bases her claims for superiority on her climb of Mount Huascaran in Peru.

She believes she has attained the greatest height in the world in mountain climbing. President Leguia, of Peru backs her up with a gold medal. On her famous climb Miss Peck had a hand frozen. Her guide was so badly frozen that one foot and a hand had to be amputated. The Peruvian medal presented to Miss Peck is inscribed with these words: "The government of Peru to Annie S.

Peck. No one before has arrived at the summit of Huascaran. Second of September. 1 The reverse side bears a picture of the mountain and the inscription: 'Mount feet. Republic Peru." The greatest height previously claimed was by W.

W. Graham, who reached an altitude of 23,800 feet in the Himalayas. Miss Peck, who weighs about 120 pounds, and appears frail, says she was not even sick on her great climb. "The mountain is 24.000 feet high. I have won.

It is the world's record." she said when she returned from the trip. Mrs. Workman Climbs Himalayan Peaks. The Himalaya Mountains have always had an attraction for Mrs. Workman.

With her husband, the intrepid woman has climbed the towering peak time and again, and has reached a height of 23,621 feet, nearly four and one -half miles. It is the dream of this woman's life to reach the top of Mt. Everest, which attains height of more than 30,000 feet. But a few months before Annie Peck's achievement, and Mrs. Workman cilmbed Mt.

Hispar. Coolies taken with them became frozen, nine were stricken with hemorrhages and the party suffered untold misery before they reached earth's ordinary level, fifty days after starting 'he trip. When Mrs. Workman heard of Miss Peck's statement that she had traveled 700 feet higher she started an investigation and, according to her friends she sent to Peru and caused Mt. Huascaran to be measured.

The report she received. they say, declares the mountain to be but 20.000 feet in height. If her calculation is correct, she has Mrs. Annie Peck, in Climbing Costume. beaten Miss Peck by more than 3.000 feet.

and is the champion woman climber. Like the partisans of Lieutenant Peary who declared Captain Cook "faked' his figures concerning the North Pole discovery, the admirers of Miss Peek in Paris are erying out "fake" as regards these new figures produced by Mrs. Workman. Their trump card is the medal presented to Miss Peck by the Peruvian government, which bears the inscription feet." Whatever the report of the Parisian society may be. they cannot help but decide on olle thing, that is that can women are foremost in this daring sport.

Mrs. Workman recently lectured In Paris. She is A brilliant talker and won many friends. by her modest recital of her experiences on mountain tops. From hints that she threw out it is thought that she and her husband are thinking seriously of making a dash for the South Pole.

Madame Du Gast has issued invitations to member; of the society to meet next month for the discussion of the Peck- Workman affair, and some interesting arguments are looked for. DREGHORN-LLOYD. Mrs. Edwin Lloyd aunounces the engagement, of her daughter, Norma Virginia. to James Dreghorn, of Brooklyn, N.

The vice president of a tobacco store syndicate which probably has more establishments of the kind in States than any of its competitors, declared the other day that the month of i April, just ended, his firm sold more tobacco than in any other April month the past ten years. Statisticians, at the same time, announce that the number of tobacco users in the United States is growing steadily and that the total production in this country alone is well along over the $60,000.000 mark. This does not have anything at all to do with what is added to pay the middleman's profits, or the amount of money which is actually spent by the consumers. The greatest tobacco producing state in the Union is Kentucky, which generally produces something like 315,000,000 pounds a year, worth, variations of the market excluded, something like 000. North Carolina comes next in the list; Virginia, next; Ohio, fourth; Tennessee, fifth, and Wisconsin, Maryland, South Carolina, Connecticut.

New York, Indiana, Massachusetts West Virginia, Missouri, Illinois, Florida and Georgia, next, in the order named. The general impression among those not versed in the subject is that the Southern states invariably produce more tobacco than those of the North. The above list disproves this impression. New York State in 1899 grew nearly 14,000,000 pounds of tobacco on a little more than 11,000 acres, and the of the output as taken from the ground was about $1,172,236. The states named practically grow 99.7 per cent.

of all the tobacco produced in the United States. Kentucky in 1899. produced 36.25 per cent. of the whole and North Carolina, 14.7. The entire production of the world is estimated as near 2,600,000,000 pounds annually.

The estimated production of the whole of Europe is 500.000,000 pounds, or considerably less than that of the United States. Germany contributes to the foreign total by producing 60.000,000 pounds; the Austrian Empire, including Hungary, 134.000,000 pounds; Turkey, both in Asia and Europe, 43,000,000 pounds, and India, 550,000,000 pounds. Cuba's normal crop is 62,000,000 pounds; that of Java, 53,417,000 pounds; 100.000,000 pounds, and Japan, 40,000,000 pounds. Nearly all of the South American states produce tobacco to some extent and port from 12,000,000 to 20.000,000 pounds each. France raises from 40.000,000 to 60.000,000 pounds annually, all government monopoly.

The Philippine lands furnish a about 25,000,000 pounds, 01 at least they raise that much. China raises an immense quantity, but exporta little. It may be interesting to know that tobacco grown under different conditions of soil, climate and mode of nicotine. shows varying percentages of nicotine. The following analysis shows the percentage in leaves only: Havana, 2.00; Virginia, 6.87; Kentucky, 6.09; Maryland, 2.29.

Tobacco coming from Clarksville, from heavily manured lots, shows a percentage of 5.29. Perique, air cured (stripped from midrib), 4.25 per cent. The amount of nicotine varies in different samples even among those from the same locality, and it is influenced largely by the character of the fermentation which the tobacco has undergone, as well as the length of time it has been kept and the degree of exposure to which it has been subjected. One thing is quite noticeable and that is that the tobacco bringing the highest prices has generally the least content of nicotine. Though used by a greater number of people and among mow- nations than any other cultivated product on earth, with the exception of tea, it is the most heavily taxed product of the world.

In 1902 the amount of snuff put on the market in the United States reached nearly 19,000,000 pounds. At the same time there were manufactured in this country nearly 7.000,000,000 cigars and nearly 3,000,000,000 cigarettes. Dr. Richardson in the London Lancet recently said: "Tobacco is innocent as compared with alcohol; it does infinitely less harm than opium; it is in no sense worse than tea and by the side of high living it contrasts most favorably." ANTI- FIGHT CRUSADE. San Francisco, May 14--That the- promoters of the Jeffries-Johnson fight are viewing with much anxiety the crusade launched against the holding of the contest at Emeryville, and are taking steps to insure it elsewhere if the bars are put up in California, is shown by an announcement of Tex.

Rickard that he will secure a permit for the big battle in Nevada. "It's merely a step to safeguard ourselves," Rickard explained last night. He denied that he expected trouble in this state, the gloomy San Francisco "fans" busy his intention to take out a Nevada license speaks for itself and considerable apprehension is manifested on all sides over the situation. Leaders of the anti-fight movement in California are active. Following up 8.

protest recently made by the church federation of Oakland a mass meeting will be held there to-night at which it is announced definite plans looking to the prevention of the fight will be discussed. Many prominent citizens will be on hand to argue against the Emeryville contest, The principal speeches will be made by former Governor Hardes and Mayor Frank K. Mott. Jack Johnson is spending most of his time in his automobile and is holding to his determination not to do any ring work until Sunday. CONSERVING THE SCENERY.

the Boston The removal of a ten-ton oak tree two miles in Newton and its transplantation at the place of destination suggests new possibilities in the distribution of these sentinels of the soil. This undertaking is perhaps unprecedented in ite magnitude and the effect upon the tree cannot be determined for some time but it it thrives it points out a way of conserving much of the beauty of our natural scenery that now goes to waste. In the development of new territory, or in cutting up fine old estates for commercial purposes, many fine trees are, as a rule, cut down. If they can be safely taken up and their lives prolonged elsewhere it would prevent a sacrifice that many deplore. In Garden City, Long Island, it is an almost regular practice to take up trees of a number of year's growth and place them in a setting where they will have a larger value.

The expense is comparatively small and it 19 a regular feature in the development of what is being made one of the most beautiful resident spots in that section. It is 10 longer an experiment, for almost all the trees thus treated do well La their new environment..