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THE BHO(3KYN DAILY 3DAGIjE TTO8DAY JANUARY 21. 1890. SIX PAGES. PERSONAL MENTION. INDIAN VICTIMS THE STAGE.

all tho othors that it can. The first installment of tho money was to havo been turned over ye torday, but it did not reach here. Tho seven vessels owned by the Red Stack line are valued at $737,000. ROOMERS 0. TIIE RAMPAGE.

Streets, say Romsen or Pierrepont. Tiro Tvuter material could be well cared for where prices areinuch lower. But not even a postscript lifted a voioe of inquiry. The city un doubted! wants a lot and if anybody wants to sell a lot there was all the more reason for completing the transaction without delay. The proposed buildings and plant for Die contagious disease hospital have already been provided for by an appropriation.

They were ordered yesterday to be contracted for, after specifications have been prepared and proposals called for by advertisement, the cost being limited.to)j(25,000. i Opinion it seems is not unanimous in support of granite pavement. The custodians of William Beard's estate objected to laying it on Bush street. Thoy informed the Board that they would be content with cobblestones. Perhaps they believe the latter are as good us ill laid granite.

of the bridge So that, in bridge building, as well as in many other things, we seem destined to lead tho world at least a little while longer. The Ilridea and elio Uglillioiittc Board. The letter from the bridge trustees to Brooklyn Representatives at Washington, published in the Eagle to day, ought to be convincing. A movement was begun some time ago by the Lighthouse board to secure from Congress a grant of jurisdiction over the illuminating part of the bridge. It was understood that the board, if it secured control, would vail the lamps of the structure, so that they would light only the bridge itself, perhaps not even that, and would be unseen from tho water or the shore on oither side.

What loss to the beauty of the situation this would'involve it is unnecessary to say. Nothing could warrant the fleprivation but a necessity of navigation, which has by no means been made out. Tho Board obtained some vague testimony from steamboat captairs, but those most familiar with tho subject, the ferry pilots, make no complaint. Against indefinite assertion must bo set the fact that no accident has occurred by reason of tho lights since tho bridge was opened. With this record behind them the trustees, nevertheless, have spared no pains to provide safeguards even tho superfluous one, as it seems to outsiders, of marking the edges and center of the channel with colored lamps.

It is to be hoped that the intimation of the Eaole's Washington correspondent, that there is small probability that Congress will authorize the Light House Board to invade the bridge, is well founded. ular benefits is not way to arrive at tiie accomplishment of practical results. The introduction of the Fassett bill undoubtedly marks the beginning of a struggle involving the largest consequences to the people of New York. The growing demand for better rapid transit facilities iii that city is so tinmistiknble that it cannot be much longer ignored. What is indispensable, at the outset, however, is that a right beginning shall be Responsibility must be concentrated somewhere, ff it cannot centered in the municipal officers it should bo conferred on the State Executive'.

The Commissioners should bo named by the Mayor and his colleagues or by the Governor. Only in this way can a safe and salutary restraint bo placed on the sweeping powers to be exercised by the Commissioners when chosen. Solely by this method can the general welfare be protected and the common interest promoted. The measure, as it now stands, is a distinct blow at the principle of homo rule which ought sturdily resisted by the friends of loca." it government. Aa Adirondack Park.

Governor Kill's idea of a State park, iu the Adirondack is an admirable one. There is no region of equal extent east of the Alle henies comparable for natural beauty, for the charms tliat invite the tourist and the balsamic air that restores the waning vitality of the invalid with that embraced within thp limits of the North Woods. Its value becomes more and more apparent as the Western forests disappear before the ax of the emigrant. If we would retain it with all its primeval attractions unabated we must gnard it from injury and spoliation by some such provision as that, which the Governor recommends. In his message to the Senate he calls attention to the fact that some of the most beautiful parts of the wilderness have already passed Harry Horton is well represented by Mr.

Currie. Miss White and Misa Morriok as the two sisters have a proper sense of what their parts require, and Miss White's portrayal of the womanly character ia graceful and artistic. Thore are some Bceuic defects, notably tho interior of the hotel, which might be more realistic, aud the muses' scene in Contral Park is overdrawn, the oharactoi Johanna Nolan needing repression. Tho introduction of vooal muaic by the Acme Quartet anil the minstrel, Horaco Murrow, aro agreeable features. Next week Nat Goodwin will appear.

BROOKLY.N THEATER. The annual visit of tho actors who play Bartley Campbell's "My Partner" to this city was begun yesterday, and tho popularity of the pieco doea not seem to suffer with age. DoBpite the crossness of ita comedy it is much the beat thing that Mr. Campbell ever wrote, and thore are human nature and heroism enough in it to keep it going for years to come. The oompany now engaged upon it is not distinguished for finesse, and lays stress on tho melodramatic features and tho clowning, but the story ia told appreciativoly.

J. F. Pike, aa Saunders, is simple and manly if a bit lazy, and Frank Chapman makes a dashing Singleton. Thomas Maguiro's hasty utterance makes half his speeches incomprehensible. As the blatant politician and tho abused Joaoph Clark and Charles Ray devote themselves to making laughter.

The women, May llosmcr, Stella Congdon and Emma Whittle, aro rather perfunctory, but occasionally play with spirit and feeling. Oliver "Doud Byron will be seen next week in "Across tho Continent." HYDE ii BKHMAN'S THEATER. Tho Night Owls, who revisit the. glimpse of tho footlighta this week, have improved their performance by adding to its specialty features and abbreviating tho burlesques. Annie Wilmuth, May Adams, Sam Bernard and the Laporte sisters arc tho singers; Natta is a juggler; Topnck and Steele, Frank O'Brien, Wills and Adams and Hawkins and Collins aro the comedians, and the whole company appear in The Sculptor's Dream." concluding with an exhibition of living Btatuary of a surprising sort.

AS1N'0. Minnie Hebult sings of "Globe Trotter Nellie B'y" and other matters this week; Maud Martyno warbles ballads; the Robinaona also sit Frank Gratis yodels and plays on a double harp; A.J. Martyne gives a sketch or two in character; Sat suma balances and Juggles and the orchestra plays selections from "Zampa," "Tho Brass Monkey" and other modern works. Ex Governor Amos, of Massachusetts, will spend the Winter in Florida and the Summer in Europe. Franz Lachner, musician and composer, died at Munich.

Reports are revived of a compromise between Prince Murat and Miss Gwendoline Caldwell. Senators Sherman and Morrill are suffering from tho grip. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J.

Randall havo become members of the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church in Washington. Dr. Adler, the chiof rabbi in London, is dying. Bpurgeon, the London preacher, is critically ill at Mentone. Secretary Rusk has reeoived an offer from a publisher for the manuscript of a book of reminiscences.

Rusk saya ho ia not "a literary cubb." Alonzo A. Stagg, the base hall pitcher of Yalo Colloce, ia to oomluct Bpooial religious services in tho Borgen Point (N. Reformed Chnrch. Jacob H. Schiff, of New York, haB given $10, O0O to Harvard Univoraity to promote the study of the history and literature of the Soniitic people.

Senator Quay is going to Florida to catch tarpon. Dr. Froderick Bramann, who performed tracheotomy on Emperor Frederick in 1888, is now Extraordinary Professor of Surgery in tho University of Berlin. State Senator Titus Sheard ia improving slowly. Much of Ward McAllister's success as a manager of society oveuta ia attributed to the enforcement of the rules which at times appear some what rigorous.

For inBtance, he waH intoreBtod in ascertaining the names of the gentlemen and Indies who wore partners in tho Sir Roger do Coverloy outside of the four official sots. He sont out circulars to some of tho subscribers asking them to forward to lain tho names of tho ladies with whom they wore to dance. "I sent back word," says one ot" tho subscribeva, "that I was to dunce with my wife Mr. McAllister demurred to this, and thou I smilingly asked, 'With whom am I to dance, except with my very best girl and won tho day." It would bo interesting to know the basis for Mr. McAllister's rule that husbands shall not dance with their wives if thoy can find anybody else.

New York: Correspondent Indianapolis Journal RECENT EVENTS. The General ABBombly of tho PreBbytery of New York discussed tho revision of the Westminster ConfeBBion. Sonor SagaBta haB chosen a Ministry for Spain. Railroad traffic west of the Rockies is practically at a standstill, owing to snow storms. The si to for tho new State prison is Esopus Township, in Ulster County.

Mauy ocean steaniera are overdue, among them La GaBcogne from Havre. George F. Damon, thb agent of a big Kansas Ranch Company, whose home was at Portches tcr. committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. The Powers have declined to sitle with Portugal in her quarrel with England, and so alio has entirely aubsided.

The Provisional Government of Brazil ia trying to negotiate a European loan of $10,000,000. Valentine Loower'a Cambrians Brewery in New York is reported to have been sold to an English syndicate for $1,500,000. Thirty nine persons, chiefly Germat" audPolish noblemen, have been banished from Russia. A 14 year old boy was arrested at New Haven for stealing $150 from Actress Fanny Davenport. Thirteen prisoners escaped from the Quincy (111.) jail by sawing through the heavy bars.

An English syndics to has purchased 4,000 acres of land in Prince George County, and will found a town. Yale's midwinter week of gayety began last night with tho glee club concert. Colonel John M. Otter, the manager of tho seven hotels bolonging to the Stewart eatate, haB resigned his trust. Maurice Barrymore has complained to Superintendent Murray of his arrest by Policeman Adams, claiming that it was entiroly unprovoked.

Chicago's demoralized police force ia now reorganized. It ia about time. A meteor was seen to shoot through the clouds and descend rapidly near Chester, Pa. The Now York Central Railroad employes arc organizing to enforce a demand for more puy. Mrs.

Henry E. Young, ot Poughkeepsie, who died recently, left property valued at $1,000, 000. Canada thinks of increasing the duty on wheat flour from 50 to 75 cents per barrel. Walker Sheridan, one of the most noted criminals in this country, died in jail at Montreal. Rending Railroad officials say that unless there ia an improvement in the coal trade every colliery owned by the company will be shut down.

The London Gaiety Company opened to tho largest house of tho season at the Broad Street Theater in Philadelphia. Two fnrnaceH in the Chambers Glass Company at Pittsburg burst, and 135 tons of molten glass flowed out upon the floor. Tha Fort Scott, Wichita and Eastern Railroad is to be aold to satisfy a mortgage. C. A.

Sledge, of Waycioss, shot and killed Henry McDonald, of that place, in a dispute about a woman's character. POLITICAL POINTS. Ex Coroner Eidman has been appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third District of New York. Who got the pots of gold at the end of Senator Elect Brice's rainbows? is Journal. Governor Hill has recommended a special commission to secure a park in the Adirondacks.

Missouri is preparing to enforce its anti trust laws. Mr. Peckham distinctively repudiated Governor Hill's claim to represent the Democratic party in his vetoes of the Saxton bill a declaration which the audience applauded, but which the election returns do not sustain Vtlca Hernia, The Herald is right; tho election returns do not sustain Mr. Peckham'a declaration. Governor Hill doea represent tho Democrats of tho State, who gauge these ofl'orta, like tho Cooper Institute meeting of sham Republican reformers, bent on creating a little factitious sentiment that they hope may bolster up their imbecile "Hill in a hole" policy.

They do not want any practical reform in any direction, and the peoplo understand their charlatanry. BlnrharMon Daily Leader. Ex Secretary Whitney, while in Washington last week, said that the feeling in favor of Mr. Cleveland is very strong, and if it continues to increase, nothing can prevent his nomination. Ex Secretary Whitney's head is level and he is a close observer of the course of events, but in this latest remark of his he has only repeated what everybody knew before.

Mane.lie.ilcr Union. To pursue the German examples further it is no secret that tho high protective tariff is weighing heavily upon the German people. Although they are endeavoring to increase foreign commerce by subsidies tho value of tho trade of Germany, notwithstanding the tremendous efforts of the Government and of individuals to pusli it, has declined $150,000,000 since 1 While wages are not advancing the price of food is. Owing to tho restrictions on American boef and pork the German laborer now rarely tastes meat, and ia crying aloud that tlieBO hindrance be removed. In time his voice must be heard, Louisville Courier Journal.

What is wanted is not so much outside law, but more law and order iu the family. Men are made or marred at the fireside. No artificial daddy with a parcel of statutes, formal flubdub and text hooka can take the place of the natural daddy with his love and common sense aud big hickory. When a man makes the right kind of laws for his own family and executes them he need not bother himself about Stato laws and courts Atlanta Constitution. Grover Cleveland denies that he is to take part in the great tariff discussion now going on iu the North American lieviexo.

We hope he may be made to change his min 1. The ablest champion should be brought into the Hata in this battle of the giants. Boston (UoUe. COXTE.M'ORARY HUJIOIt, Mr. Author I shall always depend on my brains for a living.

Wife Ia that the rcaflon that you cannot get your life insured, dear Munsey's Weekly. Tho man who's modest Follows in the wake Of men of gall who Straightway take tho cake. Merchant Traveler. Littlo Maud Mamma, isn't thero any Little Lady Fauntleroy Mamma Perhaps, darling; but she ia too wise to make a show of herself. 1'neK: Artist How do yon like my portrait of Miss Roseblooin Friend It reminds mo of an old saying.

Artist What iB it? Friend That "things are not as bad aa they aro painted." Smith, Gray .0 Monthly. Young Housewife And now I want a couple of sad irons. Hardwaro Dealer (producing tho articles) Yea'in. Here thoy are. Young Housewife (innocently) But aro those really sad irons? Hardware Dealor (assuringly) Why, yes.

Don't you see they aro in black 1New Orleans Times Democrat, "Who is the lady over there by the door uaid one traveling man to another at the hop. "That is Miss Pasacigh." "She suggests medieval tinieB tome." "Medieval times';" "Yes; middle ages." Merchant Traveler. Most of ns worry over our trials, but tho lawyers worry if thoy haven't any. Yankees Statesman. Jimmy What ib magnanimity, papa 1 Rinks Magnanimity, my soir ia giving a (load villain a glowing obituary notice and picking the life of a deceased horo to pieces.

Laweeive American. Bob My dad's a 'squire and gits his iiaino in tho paper every day. Tom (contemptuously) That's nuthin'. My dad took Jink's liver Pitts and got Ids pietnr in tho papers. I'iltslntru Bulletin.

Bingley How well Cadsby and Sappy got along together now. They used to bo nt loggerheads, but now there scorns to be an understanding between them. Miss lliuitcur Yes; I novcr supposed they had more than one altogether. f.uw retice American. 1VA11 KECOKDS C03DIHTKK.

The Aldermen yesterday afternoon anthorinod the president to appoint a Special Connnittoo on War Records and Relics. Tlio work of compiling tho records of tho rogiments that wont forth from Brooklyn to the War of the Rebellion was bogun last year under tha ohiu'Bo of ft Special La Grippe's Deadly Work Among the Red Men. A Band of 800 in Danger of Extinction. Tho March of the Epidemic in Widely Separated Localities. Winnipeo, January 21.

A. band of 800 Indiana on St. Peter's Reserve, a fow miles out from Winnipeg, is being rapidly wiped out. Tho Indians aro afllictjd with the influenza in its most sevcro form, and, being without probor medical attention, they quickly succumb to the malady. In most cases it has developed into lung diseases, to which thoy are subject.

Seventy five per cent, of them aro down with tho epidemic, and if speedy action is not taken by tho authorities in tho way of Bending phyaiciaua few will survive. Tho Indians have never beforo boon afflicted with a malady of this description and havo no idea how to treat it. Bosrojt, January rjl. No deaths from complications attendant on influenza were reported yesterday to the Board of Health. A Worcester, special says tho doatha in that city last wook numbered forty eight, against twenty eight for tho week before.

Exactly one half of last weult's deaths wero caused by throat and lung disoasea. Throe were directly attributable to influenza. Specials from Manchester, N. record tho death from la grippe yesterday of Miss Abbie L. Chulhs, agud 74 years, who had worked for the past forty seven years in tho Amoskuag Bjll Mill, and of Ezokiah Goodloy.

aged Bei.vidiuiu, 111., January lil. Sickness has been on the increase here lately to an alarming extent, until it has reached a point where thero aro more sick than well people in town. Diphtheria in its worst form has appeared. There aro not enough doctors to care for tho aic Haiiti 'oup Citv, January 21. Thore are over two hundred cases of influenza in this city.

The circuit court was adjourned by Judge St. John, who is down with the disease. Tho county clerk, several of tho attorneys, ono of tho jurors, the defendant in the Shull Hart case are all sick. LocKi'onr, N. January '31.

Hon. Amos A. Bis sel died in this city Jxst night of illness following an attack of "la grippe." He was in his (Kith year. Mr. Bissel was born iu Cnoida County, but came to Lockport in and has resided here ever since He was identified with canals from his boyhood, beginning as driver at 9 years of age, and afterward becoming the largest individual owner of canal boats in tho State.

He represented the First Assembly District of Niagara County in tho Legislature of A BUFFALO PASTOR IN TROUBLE. He is Arrested on a. Charjre of Obtaining by fc'alxc Pretenses. Buffalo, N. January 21.

The troubles of Pastor Ernst in connection with the, proposed music fostival have culminated in his arrest on a warrant issued at the inBtance of Mr. G. C. M. Lautz, by whom Mr.

EniBt is charged with borrowing on false representations. The pastor was locked up for three hours, when on application of some friends he was released on his own recognizance. Mr. Lautz says that Ernst came to him to got tho loan and stated that ho had the proceeds of sales of tickets, but wanted JiiOO so as to be able to bold $4,400 in bank and thus inspire confidence in tho festival. Ho gave Mr.

Lautz a note for the amount and when the note beoamo duo he invented a nnraber of excuses for not paying it. Mr. Lautz threatened him with prosecution and he paid $1500 on tho note. His subsequent representations so annoyed Mr. Lautz that he yesterday began prosecution.

It is also learned that early last year Mr. Ernst borrowed $r00 from a member of his flock, falsely representing the use to which he intended to put it. The money was not paid back until last August and then only after considerable trouble had been made about it. Tho moat charitable view of the pastor's misconduct is taken by one of tho Festival Committee, who nays he. believes Mr.

Ernst is mentally unbalanced; that he undertook too much in connection with the festival and got crazy over it. Mr. Ernst will have a hearing in court this morning. SMASHED THE JEWELER'S WINDOW. A Dnrinjr anil Successful Robbery in Montreal Cast Montreal, January 21.

A daring robbery was perpetrated last night at tho jewelry store of S. Walker. Mr. Walker is a leading diamond merchant dealer of the city and always has a templing display of the gems in his window. About 0 P.

when tho street was crowded, two men stopped at the window. One fastened the door and the other with a hammer broke the plate'glass window and snatched a tray of diamond and gold rings, valued at $8,000. The men then made for a sleigh and being pursued, one drove off without his companion, taking the tray with him. The other doubled and ran down tho street pursued by Holland, the shopman, who bad burst tho door open. He was overtaken and arrested, but none of the goods was found in his possession.

He refused to give his name. The men are strangers here. Thoy had the appearance of prosperous American crooks. MldlCIU.NT TA1I.OUS IX CONVENTION. Chicago, 111., January 21.

Tha fourth annual meeting of the Merchant Tailors' National Exchange, which opened at 0 o'clock thia morning in this city, will be an interesting event. Important in ita business bearings it will bo unusually attractive in its amusement features. Over two hundred delegates from all parts of the Union are present, and they will be truly representative of everything that concerns male fashions in tho United States. In this reBpeet tho convention must not be confounded with tho meeting of tho cutters, which is in session at the Grand Pacific. The merchant tailors have invaded the Palmer House and occupy ft scries of tho host appointed parlors as headquarters, while they will use the spacious clu broom for their deliberations.

The arrangements for both a profitable and enjoyable time during the convention have boon completed in a manner which gave attention to tho most minute details. THE M.IZZ.UtD'S DEADLY WOItK. Tai'oma, January ,21. At least ten human beings and thousands of cattle and sheep perished iu tho blizzard which began with the year and raged over Washington for a week. Reports from tho Colville Reservation are to the effect that cattle 'aro dying by hundreds from starvation and thirst, and that tho ground is covered with over two foe of snow on the level and in some places is drifted mountain high.

Tho keeper of the stage station twelve miles from Alma started to walk to town last Thursday, and Sunday his body was found on the prairie only a mile from his home frozen stiff. The mail carrier at Wild Gooso Crook perished on the same day and eight cattlemen are known to have lost their lives in the storm. Cattlemen estimate that they will lose one half of their herds this season. FIVE INDIANS DROWNED. Hin.KNA, January 21.

Nowb comes from Flathead Lake that a band of thirteen Indians at tempted to cross tho Lake near what is known as Wild Horse Island Sunday afternoon where the channel is narrow and apparently the ice is of anfiiciout thickness to sustain tho weight of a human being. The Indians had light ponies with them, and by crossing at this point expected to save a few miles' travel. Eight of the party crossed from the island to the mainland in safety, but five riding close together broke through the ico and with their ponies were drowned. AN UNCANONICAL Chicago, 111., January 21. A dispatch from Chipuewa Falls, says: "An unusual occurrence took place at St.

Mary's Catholic Church, Sunday, boiug the public excommunication of Charles Bergeron, a wealthy logger, and his nioce, whom ho has married. Tho marriage is forbidden by the church and Stato, but it was performed in New York, where bucIi marriages are lawful. The anathema for bado tho congregation from holding social or business relations with tho couple." TIIE CHARGE HADE HER INSANE. Oswkoo, January 21. Mrs.

Day, arrested iu Michigan on tho supposition that she was the famous "Old Mrs. Bender," one of tho noted family of murderers brought hero for trial, has become insane. The charge haB weighed heavily on her mind, and old ago, accompanied by tho hardships of jail life, has turned her mind. Tho physicians say sho is hopelessly insane. Her trial and that of her daughtor are Bet for the March term of court.

KILLED HIMSELF WHILE HUNTING. Dexver, January 20. Peter Oglesby. nophew of ex Governor Oglcsby, of Illinois, accidentally shot aud killed himself this afternoon whilo out hunting tivo miles from this city. Ho had laid hia gun on the ground, and when he picked it up took it by the muzzle.

Pulling it toward him, tho hammer caught in tho grass, causing the gun to ANOTHER OHIO LEUISLATOR YER1 ILL. Columiius, 0 January 21. Mr. Samuel M. Taylor, Republican representative from Champaign County, was taken to hia home at Urbana last night very low with pnou monia.

Ho was taken down several days ago hero at hia hotel with la grippe and thought to worry the disease out, but it developed into pnou monia, and ho is in a very critical condition. STARVATION AJ10NU THE INDIANS. Chicago, I1L, January 21. A dispatch from Ashland, says: "Indian Agent Leahy has just returned from a trip to tho Lac Court d' Oralles Reservation and says that if something ia not douo immediately many of tho Indiana in that reservation will starve. He urges that Congress take immediate NOW THEY WANT THE LAKE STEAMERS.

Buffalo, N. January 21. Tho projectors of foreign syndicates havo turned thoir oye3 upon the lako steamer lines out of this port. A syndicate with headquarters at New York, as nearly as can bo ascertained, is Raid to havo oloBed a bargain for all tho vessels owned by the Rod Stack, hue, aud proposes to gobblo up It. is Occupied With Light Amusements This Week.

Yarlcty Predominates "Knjnnkft" at the Academy of Music Vaudorillo at tho Park A New Play at the Criterion Reappearance of Tho Two Sisters," Roger La Honto and My Partner." Kajanka," produced at tho Academy of Music last night, is probably tho most olaborato and gorgeous spectacle preaonted hero in many yeara. For more than two hours the spectators woro treated to a bewildering succession of stage pictures representing everything from the cavo of Beelzebub to Electra'B house iu tho celestial rogions. Other acones of much brilliancy were tho idol room in tho Jainish Temple, exterior of the Jainish Temple by moonlight, ruins of a Brahmin temple, the fairy grotto and a superb floral bower. Tho performance was threaded along lines not dissimilar to thoso of the "Black Crook'' and thore was even a larger and more varied exhibition of anatomy than iu that celebrated show. Kajanka differs from moat performances of a similar character in that its women, who number some scores, aro young, comely and sprightly.

A wager might be safely offered that not a single female on the stage wore tights "bofo' de wall." If tho great aunt of Tagliom or tho grandmother of Bonfanti was about tho building she failed to approach tho footlighta. Anna Caldwell, a plump and pleasing person, displayed a shapely iiguro as Electra, Naturo's Good Fairy Queen In her portrayal of Beelzebub Uicca Allen ang gested that physically, at least, her Satanic majesty is a rather captivating person. Zamello, her son, was impersonated by William Rugc, an astonishingly agile individual. Frederick War ren and Walter Owen were a pair of comical high priests. George D.

Melville, as a clown, recalled tho pantomimic proficiency of the late George L. Fox. In the multitude of richly costumed dancers who crowded tho stage, not tho least attractivo was Edith Craske, a vivacious young woman, who per formed gracefully seven distinct character dances. The applause which greeted MisB Craske was, however, a mero zephyr compared with tho Whirlwind of approbation which followed tho advent of "the fairy Papillou dancers." There aro four of them, arrayed in black accordoon skirts and amplitudinous laco drapery. II tho prerogativea of a fairy include license to kick far above one's head, theso dancers, kuowu as Rose and Alice Batcholdor, Nellie Sonnett and Edith Macklin, are fully alivo to the elasticity of their privileges.

At the Jardtu Mabillc, under tho Second Empire, thoy would have boon flailed as stars of the first magnitude. Their popularity with the gentlemen in the bald row was instantaneously apparent. Without accessories of any kind the Papillou dancers are an exhibition in themselves. During the evening agreeable diversion was furnished by a charming floral march and a olever diaplay by the Austins, French acrobats. The spectacle was applauded throughout by a crowded house.

It will be continued during the week. PARK 'THEATER. A good variety show is a good thing, because one aces tho best of every man and woman in it, and by the same token a poor variety show is a low and loathly thing, because ono learns how bad the best of a man can be. The variety bIiow managed by Professor Herrmann and disclosed at the Park this week is one of the best and is more entertaining than most of those plays that have entirtainment solely for their object. Sijice the former appearance of his Transatlantic Vaudevilles in this city a fow changes have teen made iu their personnel and in the sketches they offer, but Trewey remains the particular star of tho troupe and tho shadow pictures made with his lingers, his tricks of legerdemain, his expertnoss itr balancing and his studies in facial expression created much am prise and mirth.

Many of tho acts on tho programme were new to the peoplo who saw them last night and who, for fear of assaults on their most delicate senae, do not attend the regn lar variety theaters; but, while every feature is good of its kind, it is more or less familiar to those who do go to variety allows. Tho gentleman who lights his nose, oars, top knot and back by electricity, the dog that singa to music, the clown with a prodigious voice wherewith ho imitates bells, the acrobats who bond backward from chairs and pluck handkerchiefs from the floor with their teeth and the Majilton dancers havo all been preceded at the cheaper houses by copyists or prototypes, while the women singers and dancers aro so common that their appearance ia the least refined and least profitable part of the show. Professor Herrmann has expelled the usual Irish comedian and tho usual jester with a black face, for thoso people are usually coarse, noisy and tedious beyond endurance, but if he could put such men as Bobby Gaylor and Lewis Dockstader into his programme and leave out the Gaiety dancers, Miss Seymour and Eunjco Vonee, the change would be acceptable to most of his audience. Little freddy, who is little genius, Hings in four languages, dances in one and directs tho orchestra liko an Anliti. Gus Williams, by his Bongs, his recital of "The Hat," familiarized in Paris by Coquelin, and his piauo solos, played aftor tho manner of an amateur with hard fingers and harder car drums, evoked shouts of laughter.

Charles Ross and Mabel Fenton, recent additions to tho company, did ao well in burlesque tragedy that it is quite probable thoy will bo playing "Yirginius'' in earnest ono of theso days. Next week Richard Golden will present himself iu "Jed Trouty." CUUKUIOS IUKATEU. Last evening was played "The Miner's "an entirely now and original American comedy drama," according to the programme, written by Charles A. Tho performance was' the first of the week set aside for amateur societies, but tho company, while composed of local talent, have abandoned amateurism and propose to take the road in quest of fame ami fortune. The play, however, is ono that a more talented cast could hardly fill with interest.

It contains no new situations, no dialogue that would entertain tho average audience, no freshness of plot or execution. It is hardly a comedy, lacks the breadth aud force of a drama and even by the introduction of specialties cannot be made otherwise than mediocre. Tho play deals with tho abduction of Jip from a Dakota mining camp by her nncle, Jjouis Jerome, who, as her supposed guardian, wishes to obtain control of her. She is followed to Now York by Jack Noble, who has promised the girl's father, now dead, that ho will care for her. On his arrival iu the Metropolis he falls into the toils of the uncle's plots and after many dangers and con spiracies tho scene shifts back to the Dakota wilds, whore all is righted by the usual methods, the villain's discomlituro and tho triumph of the oppressed, bringing the play to a proper close.

The cast was as follows Jfl'jk Noble, Jip's guardian. Louis Jerome, Jin's Kdivftrd Jerome, nU Dakota Diclc, miner Heuiamin Fok, a lawyer llitl DriRK.s, a tmd character TcJJy Noonan, an Irish porter Etlmumls Edwin Walter I. M. J.udlotv K. KMi i Itrowne Edwards itol'ort N.

"Wnito, Jr P. Knight K. Arm.stroug O. W. Graham E.

Ellison It. NoiTinan Fisher Waller P. Knisht Dulco Durant Gibson, a detective Uantam of Prison Guard. Prison Guard A Minister Servant Conch, a nogro wench Jip, tho wiltlllower Miss Durant, while possessing graces ot face and person, failed to impart to the central figure of the play the chic for which alio evidently struggled, and her movements occasionally suggested St. Vitus' dance.

She is also lacking in voice and even her rendering of tho familiar odo to the lato Mr. McGinty failed to show any redeeming point. Mr. Edmunds as Jack Noble, while somewhat crude, made the best of such tinea as fell to his part, but it seemed a pity that the requirements of the role should compel him remove hia moustache after the second act for tho absence of that manly adornment somewhat detracted from his dashing appearance. Mr.

Walter, as Louis Jerome, exhibited the malicious intensity of the traditional villain. Mr. Edwards, aa Fogg, made but little of a part that afforded some opportunity for character work, and the comedy element rested well iu tho hands of Mr. Knight, as tho Irish porter and negro wench, his character Btudics being good at times. Tho others of the cast, though they had littlo to do, did that little fairly well.

The house, which was comfortably filled by friends and acquaintances of the author and actors, extended as much sympathy and encouragement as was possible. I.KK AVKNUE THKATEB. Three curtain calls after the close of the third act and a recall at the close of the play gave proof of the appreciation of "Roger La llonte" held by the andienco at Lee Avenue Theater last night. Smoothly played and strong in interest, tho piece bo held the people that they wore in no humor for the muaio played between tho acts. Terriss Tabor.

Miss Millw.ird and Miss Bateman were in good form and little Marguerite Fields wus as precocious as over. Tho other characters were equally weil sustained. The improbability of tho play is lost in the quality of tho dramatic workmanship nnd tho acting, and the element of humor introduiod, though not natural, attains tho end of entertainment to the satisfaction of most poo pic. Next weok "Kajanka." GAIETY THEATER. Tho encounter last night between Jack Fallon and Frank Fabor was not stirring enough to suit tho audience and tho loud urgings from tho gallery were disregarded by tho pugilists.

Tho match was procedod by exhibitions by the clovor Frank Bush, Conlon and Dougherty, acrobats; Ray Wilson, comique; El Nino Eddie, rope walker; Charles, A. Mack, baulo player; Isabel Ward, player on holla; Carl, draftsman; tho Weuia brothers and Coyne sisters in a sketch; Profossor Abt and his stercopticon, and the Zanfrcttas in "Tho Enchanted Trumpet." THE ANl'MIOX. Denman Thompson and Coorgo Ryer's play of "Tho Two Sisters" needs no description, as this is it i second year on tho stage. It was presented to Brooklyn theatcrgODis again last night at tho Ampbion. As a transformation of tlto author's conception into tho represented character Coulter's llirnnt IVupcr is a success; ho makes a good hearted, affable landlord.

If tho characters of Siuffoii and Judge Calvin, both common to Now York life, wero elaborated, it would add to tho vigor and interest ot tho play. Ocorgc W. Itycr has not assumed too much in his personation of Da Flaunno, tho Canuck, but ho nevertheless, should not abate his study of that part. At timou ho lackasolf possession and is ill at case. This may be attributed to tho faOt that ho lias not been on tho stage slnro 1801.

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A Timely Veto. The new Supervisor ut Lare beius well. His veto of tiie resolution providing fr payments to Justice Newton aud Constable Sutherland, of Gruvosend, and K. T. Eastman, architect at St.

Johuhiud. is encouraging to those who desire an economical administration of county affairs. With an evidently keen appreciation of the facts Dr. Kretzsch niar points out that the questions iuvohed in the claims of the Gravesend officials and in that ofllr. Eastman have nothing in common, It may be difficult, he thinks, to decide whether the bills for justice's and constable's fees represent services actually performed.

That decision would have been rendered more attainable hail the subject been reported on by the Law Committee and counsel of the Board Supervisors. Dr. Kretzschmar objects to the clause of the resolution discharging the committee, because the subject has not received sufficient examination. It represents wholesale method of dealing with public concerns which cannot receive bis approval. In reference to the claim of Architect Eastman Dr.

Kretzschmar is much more specific. A report as to its legality, he says, is demanded in the interest of the taxpayers. Obviously the Supervisor at ii jju is not impressed by the plea put forward by Mr. Eastman. Mr.

Quintard, in the original veto of the Eiistman claim, showed that Eastman was receiving 2i per cent, on the cost of four buildings, when he only prepared plans for one. The plans are uniform in the four buildings. Mr. Eastman interposes the suggestion that the. overcharge was to aet as a balance to the other items of "extra allow auce." He demands compensation a clerk of the works, for traveling expenses, sacrifices called for in doing work so far away from his office and the consequent loss of city work.

In the veto message Mr. Eastman is reminded that the resolution fixing the mnount to he charged by him ''states in the plainest maimer possible, that the work is to be done on the new County Farm at St. John laud, then, as now. located on Long Island, about forty three miles from Brooklyn," and that "not a word is said therein about clerk of the works, traveling expenses or extra allowance for the sacrifices culled for in doing work so far away from the office and the consequent loss of city Dr. Kretzschmar.

continues According to Mr. II. B. Eastman's own statement he has been required to prepare but one sot of plana, but he charged for four sots, because four buildings identical iu every respect are to be erected, a proposition which certainly deserving of a detailed examination and report by the Committee on Laws in conjunction with the counsel of the Hoard. The legitimate ch irgc for one set of plans is 8 18.7 while the object of a detailed examination will be to find out if the county is Justly indebtel to Iff.

II. li. Eastman for an additional charge of $1 1, 1. in plain words, eleven thousand four hundred and fifty six dollars and twenty live cents. The question naturally arises, and should be oonsidered by the Committee on Laws ami the eouuselof the Board, what would happen if after these four brick buildings, each of which is to accommodate only 150 patienU, are finish id the Board should decide to erect eight more of exactly the same pattern.

Would the supervising architect, Mr. 15. B. Eastman, be justly entitle. to receive provided the contract would be given out at the samj figures for plans uready on hand the enormous sum of and for superintending the construction of the buildings fISO.oOO more What would follow the payment of Eastman's claim is perfectly plain.

It would not only give him more money than was nlated under his contract, but open the door for a further multiplication of his charges. Where, if the precedent be established, is the line to be drawn? Mr. East mail would be as fully justified in charging for one hundred buildings, if they were erected, as for lour, although the plan originally was not subjected to the slightest mo'liti numi. It ij necessary, under the circumstances, that the matter bo thoroughly examined in order that the authorities may know precisely where they stand. The veto is clearly in the public interest.

It ought to be sus taiued by the Board as emphatically as it is bv honest citizens. The Aldermen and Their Committee. The old party axiom, "To the victors belong the spoils," has caused much heartburning among the reformers, but even they will scarcely object to its practical adoption by the Aldermen. "It is such a little one." Scarcely anything is left to them in the way of patronage or plunder. If they detect the most inviting opportunities of obstruction in the Water and Drainage Committee nobody will blame them for making that committee solidly Democratic.

It really makes little or no difference whether that and tin? other committees appointed yesterday include ltepublican representation. The postscript members are too remote and feeble a minority to accomplish anything either in the details of reference or in the open Board. One of them stands at the lower end of each committee, with the exception noted, and excepting further that the Election Keturns has two caudal joints. lb re again the majority relieve the postscripts of labor so f.ir for this committee meets but once a year. The only way in which a Ibjmb'iVrm Alderman can hope to make an impics uon upon the Common Council U.

not by investigations, deliberations, reports, or votes, but by giving publicity to the doings or omissions ot his colleagues. It needs ability and tact to make this policy effective. Unless he is generously gifted with these qualities a man is likely to make himself a nuisance. The people do not care to be bored, even by reformers and critics. A Republican Alderman, if in even a more slender minority, though he stood alone, might make the session of an exceedingly interesting and perhaps to the people profitable one.

always providing that he possessed the right kind of capacity. He must be sure of his own position, lie must be terse, temperate and cool, or it is not worth while, for him to undertake the function of wholesome publicity. Is there such a Kepttbliean in the Board Mr. Coffey was not content to let the practice of making 2o0 contracts and so avoiding competition pass with his mere protest of a week ago. He seemed the passage of resolution directing the several departments "to fiend their requisitions for supplies for 1800 to the "Commissioner of City Works forth, and that they be transmitted by him to the Board." The purpose is to get.

the articles in large i .1. I Oil LIU' I II os. 1111 nil i ''lis n'l i distributing (hem in small parcels over the CUI ile JJLl lliljll ooiiuic Unanimously aud without debate a resolu tion was adopted which authorized the ex llflll fnv 1 Pused as a yard for the storage of water mains and other material. Bonds are to be issued for the amount. It is understood that some such provision is necessary to the preservation of the city's property, but the resolution curiously avoids making the matter specific.

A good lot ought to be bought for nnrlifinc n. bettor one than in needed. The it cover ground oji the best residence Trouble Impending Over Tract ill tha Sioux ItcKcrvatioit. PiiiiniK, S. January 21.

Tho hundreds of boomers in this city who are anxiously waiting news of tho President's proclamation opening tho Sioux Reservation have completely organized for a concentrated movement to occupy tho land, tho mi unto tho wires bring word from Washington. South Pierre boomers havo reorganized and will again try to occupy the town site. Fort Pierre citizens aro making preparations to guard against them. They havo called for further enforcer, of troopg from Fort Sully and it is understood two more companies will be stationed there at once to protect settlers on tho Square and preserve order when the rush begins. A number of officials of the Northwestern road came no yesterday and spent the afternoon looking over the Mile Square.

This survey, taken together with tho recent no tico from Martin Hughitt that tho Northwestern claimed the Mile Square according to Government treaty, gives color to tho belief that the company is now arranging to take pos csaion of tho entire town site immediately upon the proclamation. Black Tomahawk, the Indian pre eniptor of the same land, has completed his residence, and now claims he will enforce his rightu with all tho Sioux Nation if necessary. Houses arc going up like magic, and the Indian police ami troops havo hard work to keep people who arc allowed at Fort I'iorro from constantly encroaching over tho linos. 311'ItDEltEI) IN THE KENTUCKY Cati.i:ttsih:i!o, Ky January 21. R.

M. Long, a Guyaudcttu Comity constable, was murdered and his wife desperat ly wounded Sunday night by a band of rnlliaiH, who broko into the house. A neighbor passing found that tho front door bail buun broken in with a timber medusa battering ram. On tho bed, weltering in their blood, Were Long and his wife. The former's body was riddled with bullets and life was extinct; the itter had a ghastly wound in the face, from which she was rendered unconscious.

As the furniture was not disturbed and the wife could give no solution of the mystery after sho had regained consciousness, friends of tho murdeiv 1 man that a gang of des peraduei, against wh un he held warrants fot moiinshiniiig, committed the deed. Others be liuvo it is merely a continuation of tho Hatfield McCoy feud, as the victim was related to tho former family. The wounds of the woman are believed to bo fatal. STAISIiED AND ItOliilED A CAR IxDlANAroi.rs, January 21. A negro jumped on the front platform of a South Side street car last night, fatally atabbod Morris Parry, the driver, and escaped with his money box before tho passengers knew that anything unusual had happened.

The car was heavily laden with men aud women, whose first intimation that anything was wrong was a feeble exclamation from Parry as he fell againBt tho door and then to tho platform. Half a dozon men were soon in pursuit of the murderer, but ho was too far in advance and quickly disappeared in tho darknesB. TIIE WIRES J.A USED TIIE FIRE. Boston, January 21. Fire Marshal Whitcomb, in his report on tho Thanksgiving day fire, admits the impossibility of deciding beyond a doubt tho oririn of the fire, but says: "I must still yield to tho irroaistiblo conclusion that the fire was in some way caused by the ignition of the relay in tho office of the Electric Time Company, probably owing to contract with a high tension wire." Tho marshal urges the need of municipal control of wires and better building laws.

lil nilh'lt MILLS SDSPENI) OPERATIONS. Boston January 21. About seventy live men and a large number of girls, employed in iho various departments of tho Fobs' Rubber Factory, received notices yesterday that after Saturday next their services would not bo needed, owing to tho unfavorable weather for the rubber trade. The two Fells factories, which employ over throe thousand persons, are now running on three quarter time, and unlcBS more favorable weather sets in will probably shut down. SELLING TICKETS ON TRAINS.

Philadelphia. January 21. The Supreme Court yesterday decided in favoi of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in the appeal of tho suit of P.cese, of Pittsburg, the question at issuo being tho legality of the extra charge of 10 cents where fare is paid on trains instead of at ticket offices. Tho conrt holds that where ample facilities aro given to aecuro tickets and a coupon is given for tho refund of the extra charge, the practice is justifiable. TIIE STORM IN TIIE NORTHWEST.

St. Paul, January 21. The storm along the Northern Pacific is not sc severe as reported in dispatches from San Francisco. Heavy snows have fallen in Washingtoc and Montana, but there have boon no serious delays to trains except near Missoula and Billings. Montana, and southwest of Fargo, in Minnesota.

The train whieh left Portland Friday night reached here yesterday afternoon, two hours and fifteen minutes late. At 10 o'clock last night all express trains were reported running. HEAVY SNOWFALL IN NEVADA. Austin, January 21. More snow has fallen iu this vicinity since December 1 than was ever known before.

Th snow lies three foot deep, and the town is cut of from outside communication, except by telegraph. The loss to stock is expected to be verj great, and ono rancher has already lost 4.00C sheep. Several houses have been crushed iu frou the weight of snow. THE MAYFLOWER SOLD. Boston, January 21.

The schooner yacht Mayflower has been bought by William Aniory Gardiner, of this city, from Francis T. Underbill, of Now York. Tho Mayflower wiia altered to a schooner last year by 3Ir. Underbill and her present rig will be maintained. THE HEX OF '19.

Iliuiquei oS tlic California IHouccrs ill New York Last Night. In New York last night occurred tho fifteenth annual dinner of tho Society of California Pioneers of the Men of '40. About fifty of the menu hers and guests met for that purpose at Morello's. in West Twenty ninth street, and among the Brooklynitcs present wore ex United StatcB District Attorney Mark D. Wither, tho president ol the association, Just elected for a second term, who presided at the banquet and made a thoughtful address: Mr.

James McCloskey, the dramatist; cx Souator Domas49trong, tho vice president of the Pioneers; Mr. St. Clair McKolway, tho guest of the association, who spoke upon the press, with discursive reference to the place of California in political and economic history and Mr. R. U.

Johnson, one of the editors of the Century, who also delivered an interesting series of remarks. The principal speech of the evening was made by Gonortd Sherman, whoso reception was enthusiastic and affectionate and whoso recollections as a soldier in California from 1843 to were graphic, interesting and humoroua as well as philosophic in marked degree. Greetings wore received from kindred societies in Baltimore, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco. TO HELP TIIE BROOKLYN MATERNITY. The Maternity Hospital on Concord street, one of the most useful charities in tho city, has just completed its nineteenth year.

It finds its thret houses on Concord street totally inadequate tc tho demands made upon it, and its managers have decided to raiae a fund which shall onabla them to build a handsome and commodious building somnwliurc in the newer portions of the city that are more suitable for thoir purposes than bustling Concord street now is, and which shall enable them to quadruple tho capacity ol their chanty. The first step toward this fnnd if to be a course of lectures for the boncat of the Maternity Hospital by II. II. Ragan, beginning at Association Hall on Friday evening. Tho managers of the Maternity have engaged Mr.

Rngan for a course of four lectures on "The Heart ol "Glimpses of "Tho Yose mito and tho Yellowstone," and "Paris tho Magnificent." The first three of these lectures will bo delivered nt Association Hall on January 24, January .2" and January and the lust on February tho First Baptist Church on Pierre pout street. Youujr Smylie'a "Aciue" Licorice Pol lets. A trial will their merits. Alt dniEidsts. HUSI3F.SS NOTICES.

CLEVELAND'S. cli.v;:i.axd's cleveland's CLEVELAND'S SU HA KING ABSOLUTELY THE BEST. All tho iugroitientsused in making thispow Ior M'O published on overy label. Tho purity of tho hiRreilionts nnd tho aoiontifio accuraoy with which they aro eombiutnl reader CLEVE IiAND'S superior in struu'eth nnd oflioioucy to any other baking powdor manufactured. INFLUENZA IS VERY CONTAGIOUS TO PEOPLE SUFl'EIUN( FROM I MUTATION OF THE THROAT.

BY USINO TIIE CELEBRATED SODEN MINERAL PASTILLES. THIS UNFAILING REMEDY FOR SOKE T11UOAT. COUGHS, CATARRH AND HOARSENESS, YOU CAN PROTECT YOURSELF AOAIXST THIS DREADED DISEASE. EVERYBODY SHOULD KEEP A BOX OF SODEN MINERAL PASTILLES IN THE HOUSE. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AT AND A BOX.

rampldots sent gratis on application lj tha SODEN MINERAL SPRINGS LIMITED. 15 CEDAR STREET. NEW YORK. IlIiAKT Oi' AAIISIIIC'A, RAGAN, ASSOCIATION HALL, BENEFIT OF BROOKLYN MATERNITY, 40 AND 18 CONCORD SiT, Ttie Woman's ClirilLaii Temperance There is no doubt that the indorsement of the Prohibition party and the presidential aspirations of the Hon. John P.

Sf? John in the national campaign of 18S4 by the Woman's Temperance Union was mistake so far ns the interests of the latter were concerned. It a i of dissension that has uever ceased to agitato the councils of the sisterhood. provoked a controversy that had nothing to do with the legitimate objects of the union. It excited feelings at war with the harmony which the. success of the cause demanded.

And now, after five years, it results in the resolution of many of the most prominent and influential members to establish another organization. The Ex 11.1: yesterday gave information of some of the details of that movement. It is desigued to hold a convention of "non partisan Christian temperance women," at Cleveland. Ohio, on the 2d iust. The call announces that the object of the.

gathering is to organize a national association "devoted to the prosecution of temperance work by such methods as wisdom and experience have clearly proven give theonly true promise of success." Although the name of Mrs. J. Ellen Poster is not attached to the call, the account credits her with the chief responsibility for it. She is an ardent Republican, and is said to have made effective speeches" for her party during the last presidential campaign. She had a double motive for opposing the action of the union in 1SSL Mr.

St. John and his Prohibition friends did not dissemble their hope of bringing the Republican party to terms by aiding in the defeat of its candidates. Both as a political partisan and as an advocate of working the temperance cause by conservative methods Mrs. Foster had reason to enter her protest against the union's indorsement of the Prohibitionists. It would be invidious to ask which of the two motives was the stronger.

Tie? only Brooklyn signer of the call for the Cleveland Convention is Mrs. C. Cornelia Alford. Her views are probably representative of the opinions of the great majority of the ladies who are acting with her. They are certainly views in which all reasonable people can couenr.

She holds that it was a serious error to ally a Christian philanthropic organization of women with any political party "because would tend to alienate the sympathies of many conservative women whom the union could not spare from jts temperance work." Happily this feeling had not much affected the practical work of the Brooklyn union. The women here," Mrs. Alford says, "were too loyal to the good work they were doing to let any question of politics interrupt it." This is a reputation Brooklyn women hnve won in every department of philanthropic effort. One of the chief reasons why the American nation has not advanced more rapidly in the direction cf social reform is that its women generally do not possess the qualities for such tasks that characterize the women of Brooklyn. It is great, pily that, this is so, but so it, is.

When all the AnK ri an communities become Brooklynized in this respect we shall be a greater and a better and a happier people. The Eaoj.b heartily agrees with Mrs. Alford in her statement, of the basic principle of temperance reform. We infer from her remarks printed in our columns Monday evening, tlwt she is opposed to all ultra She says of the women "who believe in politics action," aud, therefore, of all the Prohibitionists, that they "are too impatient to reach results quickly." In this observation is to be found the essence or the. difference between the ultra and the moderate reformers.

If fhe Cleveland movement embraces the Alford view as well as opposition to the policy of identifying the cause with any political party, it has the cordial approval of the Eaoj.k. Tiie ladies may be sure that the vi's which they seek to correct are beyond the reach of sumptuary laws. There is nothing to be gained by capturing either of the two gi'cat parties it the ultimate object, of the capture is to control legidc.tion. No statute that could be conceived Would be effective to revolutionize the tastes and appetites of men. The work to done is a moral and educational work, and lb" ndeney of prohibitory laws is to embarrass rather than assist it.

Mrs. Alford appears to re ogniy.e this, and we trust that her sisters who may be sent as delegates to Cleveland will see it as clearly. They are right in their desire to divorce temperance reform from politics. They will increase their title to sympathy and support by putting on record an official and explicit repudiation of the folly of the Prohibition movement. A Itloiv at Homo Itnle.

Tiie Rapid Transit bill introduced yesterday by Senator Fassett is objectionable chiefly because it embodies a vital attack on the principle of home rule. The experience of this Commonwealth with commissions appointed after the manner prescribed in the Fassett measure has been far from satisfactory. It is necessary, in order to show the unadvisability of naming commissions by legislative enactment, to go back no further than the history of the malodorous Aqueduct Commission and the ill starred Excise Commission. Public necessity in the former instance compelled the assemblage of the Legislature in special session to undo what eventuated iu iv colossal and scandalous blunder. Diversity of individual view and partisan influence in the latter instance impelled both houses to reject the bill submitted by their own appointees.

What is now proposed is a ready made commission, named at Albany, to deal with the most delicate and complex problem which confronts the citizens of the City of New York. It is a commission selected not in deference to public sentiment, not in compliance with the views of the Mayor, not in harmony with the wishes of the Governor, but in obedience to the dictation of those who have volunteered to bring it before the public. The personnel of the commission, in view of the principle involved, is of small consequence. There are on it the names of some able, upright and experienced men. Objection lies not so much to individuals as to the methods through which it is proposed to intrust them with practically unrestricted authority.

The reputed author of the bill, Mr. Wiii iam M. Ivins, says in an interview that there, need be no difference between Mayor Grant and the supporters of the measure except on the question of the method by which the Commissioners are to be appointed." That is precisely the point at issue. If the right of local self government is to bo respected, if the principle of home rule is to be maintained, authority to appoint will be lodged either in the Mayor, in the Mayor and Controller or in those officials conjointly with others chosen by the people. As Mr.

Ivins truthfully says, "a good bill with bad or incapable Commissioners would bo of no use." But who is to decide whether the Commissioners are "bad" or "good Not Air. Ivins, surely. It is idle to assume that Mayor Grant would deliberately betray the grave trust that measure modified in conformity with his prerogatives would impose. It is folly to pretend that lawmakers from the interior are better qualified to prescribe for New York than its chosen officers, who are in touch with its people and familiar with its urgent and constantly expanding material necessities. To refuse, in advance, to intrust a community with the direction of its own affairs is a defective mothod of inviting its confidence.

To invade the rights of a me tropolis under the guise of conferring partic The Nineteenth Ward Republicans would do better to rind out whether Secretary Tracy is in favor of Taylor for postmaster, before thoy censure him for being so. There is a groat deal of lying going on about whom Tracy is for and whom he is against, but the falsehoods have been generally corrected by subsequent events in time enough to obviate the necessity of their more formal correction in' some other way. The Eaohj presumes that the largest amount of lying of tho kind referred to was done in the representations which pictured Secretary Tracy as desirous, in the first place, of Tanner's appointment, and, in the second place, of Tanner's retention, after the discovery of the latter's fatal mobility of mouth. The report of the intention of the Prince of Wales to visit America during the present year is likely to be of more use us a topic than as a fact. A very interesting topic it is.

but there is reason to believe that it belongs in the category of the Herald's recent dispatches about Salisbury's intention to dissolve Parliament. There are just two, facts about those dispatches One is that the dispatehes attributing to Salisbury the intention to dissolve Parliament appeared in the Herald; the other fact is that Salisbury has not entertained any such intention. This gave the Herald a conspicuous advantage. It had the dispatches and it had the intention, while poor Salisbury had neither. Harry Phillips' letter to Pension Commissioner Raum reads as if he has used a razor for a pen and a blood bucket for an inkstand.

The letter, however, provokes in the sinful a Binilo, especially in such of the sinful as know the limits of Phillips' abilities. May be Tanner wrote it himself. The letter will be regarded as a very able production by those who are not good judges of very able productions. Commissioner Gibbeus. the lawyer member of the New York Subway Commission, has resigned.

He prefers the practice of law to a position which makes hun a target or a penwiper for every newspaper man with a grudge or au adverse opinion to exploit against him. The papers over the river are now saying that ho should never have been appointed, because he is notau electrician, and that Messrs. Moss and Hess, his colleagues, ought to resign, because they are not electricians. A Subway Commission of two electricians and one lawyer lasted in Brooklyn for about six years without the result of placing underground any of the electric wires of the companies which prefer to maintain and multiply poles. The best Subway Commission would comprise one thorough business niau and the electricians should be such employes ns he needed himself to select.

Your scientific experts, as a rule, are not successful pub lie officers. The New York Herald has done for Governor Abbett, who was inaugurated in Trenton to day, the questionable service of publishing his message in advance ot its delivery to the New Jersey Legislature. Upon Ballot Reform the Governor speaks at length. Ho demands a complete registration throughout the State, subject to judicial revision, and absolute secrecy of the ballot; the making of intimidation, bribery or other illegal practices a crime and not merely a misdemeanor; a limitation of the amount which may be legally spent in or for any election, and the declaration that the exceeding of that limit shall make the election void in the district affected: publicity of election expenditures and an itemized statement of every candidate under oath of how much he has spent and what he has spent it for, a failure to make such a statement to be a forfeiture of the office to which he has been chosen; either the giver or the receiver of a bribe to be able to give testimony concerning such an offense. The message argues out these points in able detail, and is a creditable, thoughtful and suggestive document.

A woman threw herself out of the top story window of a tenement house in New York, night before Inst, and was killed. She left a letter saying thatshe did so because she could not get work and had no alternative to starvation but sin. She did not, it seems, even have such an alternative, for the sin of self destruction which she committed was one of the most evil thatshe could havo perpetrated. It is a fact, on the other hand, that New; York City aud Brooklyn abound with facilities for food and for work which those who need them can readily obtain, simply by indicating their distress either to the public authorities or to any of tho enterprises of private benevolence. The womairs ignorance of these things, if it existed, was deplorable.

If she knew about them, her false pride in not availing herself of them was gravely culpable. The address delivered the other evening by Miss Caroline B. LeRow, of this city, before the College for 'framing of Teachers, was the. eloquent expression of a mind that has profoundly studied the problems of education. Than Miss Leltow there are few whose practical experience iu relation to tho theme on which she spoke is greater or.

who surpass her in the ability to treat it analytically and philosophically. The address is marked by the penetration characteristic of her acute and far seeing intellect, and she displays throughout the evidences of her perfect familiarity with the methods and needs of popular education. Her hopeful aud healthful spirit shines through her words, and as we read them we feel how vast and flatceriug are the possibilities of the future. If, under the limitations aud embarrassments which now beset the culture of 'the young, such great things as she mentions have been accomplished, what may we not hope for when the advantages which her prophetic vision anticipates have been fully realized? The Speaker of the House of Representatives has appointed the following gentlemen members of the Special Committee of the World's Fair John W. Candler, of Massachusetts, chairman James J.

Belden and Roswell P. Flower, of New York Robert R. Hitt and William M. Springer, of Illinois; Nathan Frank nnd William II Hutch, of Missouri George E. Bowden, of Virginia, and William L.

Wilson, of West Virginia. This selection carries out tho idea adopted at tho meeting of tins representatives of the rival cities held just idler the session of Congress where it, was resolved that the different competitors should be equally represented. In the above list Messrs. Bowden and Wilson are advocates of the choice of Washington City os the site. There is scarcely any chance of an agreement of a committee so constituted, buo they compose a jury before whom the claims of till will bo fully and fairly tried.

With the House tho ultimate decision rests. It will hear the different reports received from the. committee and make up its mind upon tho facts and arguments thus presented. from under the control of the State. Iu his judgment it is possible to recover them by exchanging undesirable lauds within the State limits.

He would have the boundaries of the proposed park accurately fixed and those boundaries should include the wilder portion of the region, covering mountains and lakes and the head waters of the streams that are fed from its fountains. He favors the policy of permitting visitors the. use of lands for Summer camps and cottages. Such occupants, he thinks, would havo an interest in preserving the forests in all their beauty and would prove the best, fire wardens and foresters that could be chosen. There is available for the pur )Oses of a park an extent of country from fifty to seventy miles square.

Under the liberal policy indicated of leasing portions of it for Summer occupation the Adirondacks, instead of being an expense aud burden to the State, would a handsome revenue. Accordingly he suggests the appointment of a commission, serving without pay, and composed of three or rive public spirited citizens to investigate the whole subject and submit to the Legislature a plan for the creation of the proposed park. Here is an idea that every intelligent citizen of the State will rejoice to see carried out. Since the Governor's visit to the North Woods last Bummer and his acquaintance with the sylvan deities that haunt those solitudes he has been a loving student of Wordsworth and felt a sympathy with nature that he never supposed himself capable of. His message to the Senate is an expression of this sympathy as well as the proposal of a step of great practical importance.

The language of the document betrays his secret. It is the most poetically expressed of all his papers on public affairs. There is in it the very breath of the forest. Yon can fancy as you read it that you hear the music of swiftly flowing waters. It makes you think of the dark pools where the coy trout lie hidden, of the shadows chasing each other across the mountains, of sky tints reflected from the bosom of glassy lakes and of high old times at popular hostel ries, where the seductions of mine host's hospitality almost rival the charms of nature.

Governor Hill grows in grace and wisdom as he grows iu years. Slridgre and Tunnel Jtriilding "It will not be many years before you can step into a car iu Brooklyn and bob up on the streets of New York in less than one minute and a half." The statement was made to an Eaole reporter yesterday by Engineer Hall while discussing the purposes of the East River Tunnel Company, recently incorporated. The company wants to operate a gravity road beneath the waterfront the foot of Broadway, Brooklyn, to the foot of Grand street, New York. The span at the point specified is 2,000 feet, and by descending a distance of 100 feet on an incline of one in four, it is calculated that the time actually consumed in making the trip will be less than two minutes. On the feasibility of such a project, from the engineering standpoint, wo do not care to venture an opinion suffice to allude to it as one of the many contemplated schemes to bring the cities into closer communication.

It is certain that these are the days of marvelous enterprises, and we arc progressing all the time. Perhaps it was thought that the science of bridge had reached its highest development in the graceful structure which rose to view beneath the hand of Roebling, but, as a matter of fact, the Brooklyn highway was no more in advance of what had preceded it than the proposed North River Bridge, if successfully completed, would be in advance of our own magnificent span. The need of closer communication between New York City and the Jersey shore is a subject which has long been agitated, and now there has arisen a company which talks of meeting the demand by constructing the greatest bridge in the world. What is equally to the point, the plan may be deemed to be practicable inasmuch as it was designed by an engineer of international reputation and meets with the indorsement of the Roeblings, It is desired to span the Hudson from the foot of Fourteenth street to the Jersey Coast, about midway between Jersey City and Hoboken. Should the bridge be built, it would' in all proportions be just about twice the size of that between New York and Brooklyn.

The cost would be 000, an increase of the towers would bo 500 feet in height, or almost twice as high as those of our bridge which rise 280 feet in the air; the span between towers would be 2,800 feet, or 1,225 feet longer than that with which we are familiar and the full length, including anchorages, would be 7,000 feet, nearly twice that of the home structure. With a roadway 8o feet wide, it is desigued to accommodate six railroad tracks, the whole to be suspended from four immense cables, two on each side, passing over the towers and fastened iu the anchorage at either end. The cables would be four feet in diameter, and each would contain no less than 15,000 steel wires. These figures are so conspicuously in advance of those which mark the proportions of the Brooklyn highway, that we cannot fail to admire the daring of the genius which has planned the work, any less than we can hope to sec if brought to successful completion. From the business and commercial point of view, there is promise of even greater advantage than has attended the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge; tor the missing link in the chain of transportation between the South and the Eastern States would be supplied, and this would mean the cheapening of freight rates and consequent decrease in the price of goods landed in the New York markets.

The most intricate part of the problem is that of cost. Where is the money to come from The expense involved is so large that it would appear futile to look to private capital exclusively and, on the other hand, it is certain that considerable difficulty would be experienced in inducing the States of New York and New Jersey to reach a conclusion as to the relative share of the burden. Congress might reasonably be asked to aid the enterprise under conditions which would guarantee adequate return on completion. The argument is not purely local; it embraces, in a more or less vital degree, the interests of the entire country. In conclusion, it may be said that, should the bridge be built, it would bo cvon larger, so fur as total length of span is concerned, than that proposed for the English Channel.

Tiie longest span of tho Channel bridge would bo 1,700 feet that of tho North River Biidgo would be 2,850 feet. Frmi the engine t's point of view it is tho length of tho spi which clothe length tM size of a bridge aud THE HEAVY TAX RATE. Eighteenth Ward Property Owners JUnler Protest Against It. The property owners of the Eighteenth Ward held another mooting hist evening, corner Devoo street and Bnshwick avenue, to discuss the best methods of protesting against tho high rate of taxation on tho property iu the ward. Counselor David Eilan presided and, in the absence of tho secretary.

Dominick Statutes, James Rciily recorded. The meeting was largely attended. After the minutes of the previous meeting had been read the committee appointed to confer with organizations of other wards submitted their reports. Mr. James McLinden stated that he had consulted Mr.

31. Hastings, president of tho taxpayers' organization in the upper end of the ward, and that the latter had expressed much satisfaction at the cotirso that was boing pursued, aa it allowed that the people are becoming enthusiastic in tho movement. Mr. James Steinhauser informed the members that ho had made a visit in the Twenty first Ward, where he found that thero was a big organization which was fighting for tho same cause. Ho said that they honed that the time would soon come when tho different organizations would unite and be one body in the fight.

Mr. Steinhauser also stated that ho had conferred with the organization in the rrprJer end of the Eighteenth Ward for the purpose of effecting one permanent organization in tho ward, but that that organization did not regard tho proposition favorably, because there was a bill before the Legislature to divide the ward. They preferred to await the rc Biilt of the action of the Legislature. The reports of the committee wero received, ami on motion tho commit tee was discharged with a vote of thanks. Chairman Eilan then declared that something had to bo done at onco for the protection of their property.

He said that many of the property owners in the City of Brooklyn had labored two thirds of their life for what they now owned, but that tho time was not far off when they would soon own it only in name on account of the heavy taxation which was being placed upon it. Several now members were here enrolled. On motion Chairman Eilan was appointed to draw up a bill to be presented before the Legislature providing for the piovontion of heavy taxation, and asking that not more than 2 per cent, be allowed. SONS OF TEUPERA.VCB. ftrcuiipoitit I)ivinin by Iter.

II. At Temple. The Rev. 15. Aider Temple, of the Sons of Temperance in North America, addressed Grcenpoiut Division No.

90 laBt evening in Association Hall, on Manhattan avenue. Tho hall was filled with tho members of tho order. The meeting opened with a prayer by the Rev. E. H.

Rowlandson. Mr. John M. Stearns, who presided, followed with a fow remarks in which he referred to the ood work accomplished by the order and the necessity of its continuance. Ho also spoke of the increase of membership and said that many who had joined the order at first were still total abstainers.

At the conclusion of his remarks ho introduced the Rev. Alder Temple, who said that there wore mauy instances where a division of the Sons of Temperance had succeeded iu closing every saloon in its locality, and he impressed upon his hearers the magnificent work that had boon done by the children of tho association. The instructions the children had received on the principles of total abstinence had done much good, In order that they might accomplish this good work they must be trained and educated to the evil effects of intemperance. In the order that ho represented the children were all over the age of 7. They wore instructed principally on the truthful side of tho question of intemperance, thereby laying tho foundation of a truly noble character.

He gave a short history of tho order in Nova Scotia, and said that the work had been carried on bo successfnlly there that the results had been far ahead of tho expectations of the organization. Hia remarks were graphically illustrated and were listened to with mnch interest. The meeting closed with the singing of several temperance songs. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS. Last Evening's Itlcctiiig at the Academy Music.

The stockholders of tho Brooklyn Academy of Muaic met in the directors' room in that edifice at 8 last evening to elect a Board of Managers for tho ensuing term of five years. Jndah B. Voorhoes presided and Paul L. Ford acted as secretary. The following ticket was elected unanimously, there boiug no opposition: Alexander M.

White, William M. Riclrmds, George L. Nichols, W. Husted and J. S.T.

Stranahan, all of whom were elected for tho torm of five years. The holding over members aro Isaae Frothing ham, Henry K. Sheldon, William Cary Sanger, I. K. Wells and E.

H. Silver. Thoso with those elected last night will constitute tho Board of Managers. Henry K. Sheldon continues as president and Isaac Frothinghani aB treasurer.

The treasurer's report showed a balance on hand of out of which a dividend of 5 per cent, was doolared. It also showed that since January 1, 188:2, there has boon paid out in dividends just $50,000, nnd that the amount ex ponded in improvements since then has been $80,000. Said Gordon S. Ford, chairman of the Executive Committee, to a reporter: "The above report an unusually good ono, and shows the Acndomy to be in a nourishing condition, and tho mooting to night was, as usual, a harmonious one." SECOND ANNUAL RECEPTION. Members oi the Unique Social in the Brooklyn Institute.

A very enjoyable affair was the second annual reception of the Unique Social, held in the largo hall of tho Brooklyn Instituto last evening. Tho hall waw well, filled by the members of tho club and their friends, and dancing, to the enticing strains of Professor Lent's orchestra, was kept up till tho early morning hours. Mr. Harry Davis was tho floor manager, assisted by Mr. William E.

Bowden, Mr. M. Jones and Mr. M. Michaels.

The Reception Connnittoo consisted of Mr. Harry Hanna, chairman; Mr. S. Francisco and Mr. T.

Cooper. Tho officers of tho club aro William M. Hyde, president; Frank Bowdon, vice president; Alonzo Skelton, secretary; Harry S. Embree, financial secretary; James L. Patrick, treasurer.

Among those present were Mr. James Patrick Miss Hunter, Mr. Alonzo Skelton, Mr. II. Simons, Mias E.

Simons, Mr. and Mrs. J. Patrick, Mr. W.

E. Bowden, Mr. Samuel Usher, Miss Maud Embree, Mr. aud Mrs. C.

II. Leopold, Mr. Frank Whcelor, Mr. B. Bogart, Mr.

Harry H. Embree, Miss Dido Hutton, Mr. and Mrs. James M. Cuff, Mr.

Frank Bowdon, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Skelton, Supervisor Charlea A. Andorson, Mr. H.

Buttson, Mr. S. Phillips, Miss Eva Simons, Mr. H. J.

Simons, Misa Lora Wise, Mr. and Mrs. Josoph McMahon, Mr. II. E.

Davis, Miss It. Symons. EXPERT BANJ01STS ENTERTAIN. A Concert by the Wore ISrotheru in Association Hall. It was a largo and onthasiaatic aasomblago that occupied seats last evening in Association Hull and witnessed the annual banjo concert or tho Doro brothers.

Every one of tho artists was duly applauded, and dcservingly so, and tho Doros jip held their imputation as banjoista par excellence. The concert began at 8 o'clock sharp with an overturn by the banjo orchestra and then tho Metropolitan Quartette sang a number of selections. James S. Burdottc, tho humorist, was ex cellent, and a bnnio solo, "Near to Thee," by William C. Doro, brought down tho house.

In fact, he was twice encored and later in tho even ing was again called upon to ropeat his performance. W. Ruse, J. R. Falcs and H.

H. Farr played on tho mandolin and A. H. Bachmann, violin soloist, oanio in for his share of applause. Ono of tho wonders of tho evening was Miss T.

llorridgc, who has Just turned her 13th year. Sho is an export with tho banjo and boforo the close of tho entertainment was called to tho footlights and preaonted with a gold modal. J1C DONALD'S SUDDEN DEATH. Coroner Lindsay was notified yesterday of the sudden death of James MoDonald, without medical attendance, at his home, COO Manhattan avenue. He will hold, an iaquost A ILlatiftM ilfiirtiiittiWJ'fe'tt.