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IILEYB JJIDLEYS'. THE ENGINEERS OE AFLAT THEFAEMOEBILLYBEAED THE DEESS OF CLERGYMEN they were engraved, hone knew whither, and the poor colored man After a weary searoh, departed a sadder and perchance a wiser man. Most of tho oldost inhabitants aro still alive, and a short tour about Red Hook will convince any doubting person itf the reality of tho late Billy Beard's big scoop, and afford another tangible reason wliy rents and taxes are abnormally high inihe City of Brooklyn. J. R.

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The clerical adventurer always wears tho uniform and little men piece out their littleness with gowns and robeB. I admire skirts on women, but a petticoated priest disgusts me, while a straight clerical coat is my abomination. On the whole it may be inferred that I am not wholly in favor of a distinctive clerical dress. The Rev. Henry A.

Powell, D. pastor of the Lee Avenue Congregational Church Every minister in this matter of dress must, of eourso, be guided by his own taste. Personally I am Btrongly prejudiced againBf. a peculiar garb for the clergy. Perhaps this is because I am a thorough Congregntionalist.

holding that a minister is but one of tho church to which he belongB, who, by reason of natural iitness and the feeling that ho can best serve God in that capacity, and not from a special Qualification imported by the laying on of hands, has been chosen by his fellow Christians to perform cor tain offices in the church. Being, therefore, one YY RSRSRRRS YY 8SSSSSSS88 EK EE TV YY YT YY TT YY YY YY YYYY YYY YY YY YY YY YY YY YY YY NS 88 SS SS as ss 83 SS SSSSSS8S3 EE EK BE EEEHK EEEKK RR EK EE KKEREBEH US3SSSSS9 SS SS SS ss ss8 SS 89 ssss NEW YORK. A AA A A BRR RRR MW NMEES NTT 31 CTTTT RSS3S MNNM NN MNNM KB NUN NN HN si JU a EBB A A LONG GARMENTS, JACKETS AND WRAPS. LARGEST ASSORTMENT AND LOWEST Ladles' English eloth long GARMENTS, In and checks, plaits In front, bell aleavea. satin well worth $18.00.

All wool Tailor mads Beaver JACKETS, Black, R4d and Navy, at $5.50: worth $8.00. Ladies' Seal Plush WRAPS and MOSJESKAS, Ism fronts, drop ornaments, $13.75, $16.50, $19.75. Ladies' English Plush SAOQUE8, fine quality and finish, $22.00 worth $30.00. Four hundred Misses' CLOAKS, Shirrs Skirt, Slf and Cape, ages 3 to 12, at $3.90. Misses' fine Gretchea GOATS and NEWHABSSBJ choice Btylos and colon, $3.00 to $20.00.

3 JJJ KRS KB KKB RRR RRR SSS3S 8sss3 BS8Sa RGB KB BBB 1,000 JERSEYS, balance ol a leading manulaotorer, this season's production. Some aro subject to slight im perfeotlons. Having bought the lot at a large diioonnt of fully oue half cost of manufacture, we offer them ft correspondingly low prices. I 1 ALL PURE WORSTED. ALL PERFEOT FITTING.

Coat Baoks, some plain, others braided, at 48c. at at $1.48, at actual value being from 9So. to $3.88. NW KBB AND MUSLINS. All wool Red FLANNELS, yard wide, 18o.

yard; worth 25o. All wool Red twillod FLANNELS, 29o. worth 50o. Bleaohed SHEETINGS at a yard. Utica SHEETINGS, 4, at 15c.

8 4, at 2Qo. 9 4, 21Hc a yard, ALL WOOL LADIES' CLOTHS, 64 inches wide, all colors, at 39c. and 95c. yard. EDWARD RIDLEY Jt SONS, 309, 311, 31 TO 321 GRAND STREET, 50 TO 70 ALLEN STREET, 59 TO 65 ORCHARD STREET, NEW YORK.

C1 QOWPERTHWATT CO. WILL CONTINUE ALL NEXT WEEK THEIB SPECIAL SALE OF FURNITURE. CARPETS, BEDDING, Big, CASH OR CREDIT. COO OO A PPP FEB RRR TTTT OO OWWWP PR WV VW PPP EE KRR VV VV oaa oo keb HH ll A A AA TTTT II OOO OO OOO oo 000 oo WV VW A A II VV AAA II A AU 408 TO 416 FC LTOS STREET. BROOKLYN.

INNirilAJVOJb. pHENIX INSURANCE COMPANY OF BROOKLYN. N. Y. OAS 11 CAPITAL INSURES AGAINST LOSS BY FIBB.

OFFICES: PHKNIX BUILDINU, COURT STREET, No. 98 BROADWAY, BROOKLYN. E. CITY OF NEW YORK: WESTERN UNION BUILDINO. Broadway, corner Dy street.

OFFICERS: (3EORGK P. SHELDON. President. ARTHUR B. GRAVES, View Prenidont.

GEORGE INGRAHAM. Second Vice PrsaldOQsi Philanukk Shaw, Secretary. CuiuLKri G. Lit'CLK, Asaiutant Secretary. B.

O. Tiioun. Secretary Brooklju Department. TLANTIC MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY. NKW YORK.

Office, 51 WALL ST. ORGANIZED JK4y. INSURES AGAINST MARINE AND INLAND TRANSPORTATION RISKS and will issue policies making loss payablo iu England. Atfaettt Jur the socuritv ot iu policies are more tuan TEN MILLION DOLLARS. The profits of the company rerort to tbe assured and ire divided annually upon tho premiums terminated Juriutf the year, certificates for which are iasuod bear Jit' iuterest in accordance with its charter.

J. D. JONES. President. W.

II. 11. Vice President. A. A.

RAVEN. Second Vice President. J. U. OBAPUAK.

Secretary. THE WILL1AMSBURGH CITY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF BROOKLYN, N. Y. ABSTRACT OF STATEMENT, January 1. 18X8.

Capital Reinsurance roBorve, eto Not urplua C.84.70,30 ftM" smm; "83 578 31 Corner Broadway and Kent ay. and 211 Monttf ua at Brooklyn; 150 Broadway. Now York. EDMUND bRIGGS. PrtaidaM, F.

H. WjTr, Hoc. W. II. flltowN, Assistant 3cc A.

V. Giuovx, Assistant See ease WaTSON. Geu. Aaent. 2T71TNA INSURANCE COMPANY, TVj hartvobd, oosn.

AGGREGATE AMOUNT OP ASSETS. TOTAL. EXCEPT CAPITAL AND NET SURPLUS 1,801,438.40 JOINT STOCK CAPITAL PAID 4.O00.UD0.0O SURPLUS BEYOND ALL LIABILITIES 3,193,182.13 Total SROSilffl OAS A. B. THORN.

Azent, WZ aluutanueet. 1 0NTINENTA INSURANCE! CO." CORNER OOURT AND MONTAGUE STREETS Capital $1,000,000.00 surplus 80 Total assets II. H. LAMPORT. President.

V. O. SlOORE, Vice Preside, C. 11. DDTOHSB, Secretary Brooklyn DepartBuaa.

FFF 'A WW NN EBB SSS Tj AA WN WNNNE a FP AANNNNNNKB BSS8S AAA NN NN a a LLLL A A Xa NN BBB LLLL B833s Underground Life of Apartment Houses. How the Elevator Works Water Distribution, The Fires Lou's and Busy Hours Small Pay for a Dangerous Business. I Btopped the other day into a first class flat, which was Bteam heated and had an elevator. It was an imposing looking building, being nine stories in height and having an elegant exterior The basement was tho most probable place to gather knowledge about tbe fiat, and tho door was open, so that I passed in. The first person mot was not the tyrant janitor, but that imposing and greatest of men, the engineer.

Upon my tell ing him the why and wherefore of my intrusion into his stronghold, he said: "Now, pray don't say anything about it. Sunday is always a dull day here and I am glad to have company. As you want information I will do all I can for you. Come with me and I will show you how tho elevators are run." The engineer conducted me into an apartment which contained a long cylinder, at either end of which was a Bet ot wheels, over which ran wire ropes. "This," said he "is a cylinder used for tho purpose of running the elevator, which is hydraulic.

You see before you what would ordinarily seem an iron boiler, about Be.ven feet long. This wire rope is really two ropes. It is first tied or anchored to tho side of the cylinder. There are fivo wheels at each end of the cylinder. This rope goes over the first wheel, at the extreme end of the cylinder, and returns under the cylinder to the iirst wheel nearest the elevator, and then again over the top of the cylinder and over the second wheel, thus continuing back and forth until we find we have the rope coming oft' the last wheel attached to the.

top of tho elevator. Inside this cylinder, if we may so designate it, is another head which is movable, and to which are attached two piston rods, or in professional parlance, a double piston rod. At tho point nearest the elevator is a small iron pipe, through which, when the check rope on the elevator is pulled, comes the water which rushes into the cylinder aud forces the inside head outward; the piston rod, attached to tho wheels at the further end of the cylinder, over which the wire ropv runs, being also forced outward in turn, causes the elevator to ascend. When the elevator descends the whole thing resumes its first position. You will observe, as the elevator ascends, that the rope furthest froirfm) and nearest to the elevator moves bo fast that you can Bearcely bco it, while, the first rope from the anchorage scarcely seems to move at all.

It is on the principlo of a block and fall. To run this elevator it is necessary first to fill a tank on tho ground floor full of water. There is a corresponding tank on the roof; they each hold about 2,840 gallons. When the first tank is full tho water is pumped up to the tank on the roof and when the roof tank is full an electric bell rings in tho engine room. From leakage and various other causes the tank has to be tilled quite frequently.

When the elevator goes up and returns again the water is pumped into the tank on tho ground floor. In that tank is a cork float, which is connected with a balance on the engine. As soon as tho water runs into the tank the cork float is dislodged from tiie pipe hole, the balance on the engine drops and the pump commences to work quickly, and aa soon as tho water is pumped out the balance rises aud the cork float once more covers the pipe hole in the tank. But let mo show you the engiuo and fire room." The ougineer condncted me into another apart ment nearer tho front, in which were the engine aud three pumps. In front of that and under the sidewalk was tho fire, or boiler room, which con tained two immense boilers and various articles of furniture.

It waB well lighted and surprisingly cool. Lot us take the engine room firat. As you see, there are three pumps. The first pump is used for pumping the water from tho cylinder into the ground floor tank. Tho second pump is used for the purpose of pumping the water to the roof, and haB another connection with the main by which water is pumped to another tank on the roof for the use of the house, for the laundry, etc.

This has also pipes running through the boiler and house by which means hot and cold water is distributed. The third pump is uBed to pump the water back into tho boiler, which goes out as steam to heat the hoiiBcs and returns condensed. There are four houses run by this single engine. The en gino is a Beam hydraulie pump of about twenty horse power. Of the boilers there is not much to say.

We use onfy ono at a time, and clean tfiem out one at a time, every three months. As you can see by the indicator there is ten pounds of what iB called back pressure on tho houses at present, that is the return of tho condensed steam. Is this a good pay ing profession Not as good as it ought to be. There are two of us engineers' here, ono day and ono night. I go to work at 7 o'clock iu the morning and stop at 0 o'clock in the evening.

The night engineer goes on at 6 aud stops at 7. The das' engineer gets almost twice as much as the night engineer, and for this reason in the day I have to do all gas fitting and steam fitting, and my employer wanted me to do tho plumbing, but I wouldn't. Now when I go to do any repairing I wouldn't leavo my engine for more than half an hour for anything, because there's no knowing what might happen. But if the boilers blew up they would only hurt the sidewalk and wouldn't more than jar the house a little. This profession, as I said, should bo a paying one.

and would bo if it were not for the fact that any number of engineers can bo had for $10 a week. Whether they are first class or not is another question. The place I learned engineering iiOvas Dublin, where it waB necessary to servo seven years before wo were qualified, but in this country the time is only three years and six months. To get a certificate it is necessary to go before a board of examiners, who decide as to whether vou are competent or not. Some of the positions are not worth being examined for.

An engineer's average pay should bo $3.50 a day, and more especially in theae flats, where we havo to work Sunday and every other day, besido having to be our own firemen. I have worked at engineering thirty j'ears, ten in Dublin and twenty in this country, and in all that time I have never had an accident happen to me." 'About how much coal iH consumed a day?" "The fire is kept going all tho time and steam has to be kept well up. This boiler stands sixty pounds, but wo never let it go so high as that. As to the amount of coal consumed in a dav it would bo rather hard to estimate, but I shovel iu half a ton of large coal at ono time. This is a danger ous business.

How often do we read of accidents occurring to engineers? If a man wants to commit suicide all he has to do, if he is an engineer, iB to let steam get too high in tho boiler and there ib a grand explosion and an end to tho engineer, Bo far as ho himself is concerned." The engineer left me to find my way out, re marking that ho had something to attend to upstairs. F. E. C. HESUY REYNOLDS ARRESTED FOR FOlMiEUl, Henry Reynolds was charged in tho Tombs Court, in New York, yenterday morning, by William P.

St. John, proHident of the Mercantile Bank, with endeavoring to cash a check representing $1,000 by fraudulent pretenses. Reynolds represented himself asthe agent of C. J. I'rinco of Boston, who had forty barrels of turpentine in Htorage at tho Metropolitan Steamship Company's warehouse.

When Reynolds presented the cheek tho officers doubted its validity and telephoned to tho steamship company's office, whero tho check was pronounced a forgery. Ho was arrested and bail was fixed at $2,000. THE STABLE BOY STABBED TUB JOCKEY. Antonio Hack, alias Willie Anderson, the Jer omo Park stable boy who stabbed Peter Ford, a trainer, during a fracas at Jerome Park Friday evening, was arraigned before Justice Murray at tho Harlem rolice Court, in New York, yesterday, and was committed to await tho result of the injuries inflicted on ford, who is now in Manhattan Hospital suffering from half a dozen stab wounds. The prisoner says ho acted in self defense.

as unknown suicide. Early yesterday morniug Henry Hough, an ox pressman, 35 years of age and a native of Scotland, was found uuconRoious, with a bullet wound the roof of the mouth, in an outhouso at 601 Eighth avenue, New York. He was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where he died at 8:30 o'clock. The police are of the opinion that it is undoubtedly a case of suicide. Energetic Acquisition by a Late Brooklynite.

A Curious Estate in the Twelfth Ward Water Front at Red Hook Point and Gowanus Canal A Locality Little Known and Well Worth Visiting. Beard's Form is the popular title of a locality almost unknown outside the Twelfth Ward, except by the grumbling steamboat owners and pilots who rendezvous around the Gowanus Canal, and Colonel Harry Beard, who claims the ownership thereof. Thirty years ago the site of Beard's Farm was a waste of shallow waters, the beach line which ran where Elizabeth street runs now. Here and there sand knolls appeared, and reaching northward toward Hamilton avenue wre swamps where the tall grass of the salt marshes Brew and flourished. Some sixty years ago the late Billy Beard, Colonel Harry's father, landed from the Green Isle.

He was a hard headed North of Ireland man and his manipulation of the hammer and trowel soon placed him in the wav of taking contracts, and like hundreds of othe contractors he waxed fat on tho proceeds. He cast anchor on Red Hook Point and gradually acquired the control of the water front from that nointto tho redolent waters of the Gowanus Canal. The oldest inhabitants are under the im nression that Billy paid little if anything for tin grant, his only expenditure it is said being for mvBterioua interviews with Aldermen, Asscm blymen and other incorruptible gentlemen of that ilk. Be that us it may, Billy hud claim this immense property, and malicious disputants, who no doubt were evil minded rsons, were gagged with gold or otherwise disposed ot. Hav ing.

like a good general, secured his rear from attack, Billy's march to the sea commenced Erie Basin was enclosed and the Brooklyn Basin laid out on paper. The city's rights were barter ed by the city's guardians, or quietly ignored by Billy and while the city scarcely then possessed or now has, a public, dock, while taxes on proper. tv increased, tins enormous scoop of public, prop. orty. the only valuable property the city had, the southern water front, was quietly annexed by tne late Billy Beard, aided and assisted by a corrupt Legislature, and, if possible, a still more corrupt Board of Aldermen.

If you want to reach Beard's Farm from the Citv Hall, take a Ciwstoivn car to Wooilliull street, walk up Columbia street, cross Hamilton avenue, enter the Democratic precincts of the Twelfth Ward, and make a bee line for the Owl's Head. Before yon get there, however, you will find yourself encompassed by shanties of every size and color, the materials of which, being mostly from the shipping and lumber yards, attest that they have come from every clime be neath the sun. Here and there the gutters, like swollen rivers, overflow the street, and form shallow puddles in which, during the Summer heat, matronly porkers take luxuriant baths, while the young fry of the family waltz around, careless alike of the heat and the butcher's knife The respectable old City of Cologne is reported to be able to furnish more distinctly different bad smells than any other, the old towns of Calais and Constantinople included, but it is more than doubtful if the combination could beat the aroma evolved on a hot day in and around the shanties that diverge, from Columbia street. Goats aro present everywhere, quietly munching brown paper, cinders, tomato cans or anything else that comes up, except cobblestones. Although the goat's digestive powers seem almost equal to those anciently ascribed to the ostrich, whose principal nourishment was then believed to be horseshoes, yet the goat draws the line at cobble stones.

Dusty, begrimed fowls abound, and near the salt marshes bedraggled and melancholy looking ducks and geese waddle about, and yet among those shanties is a hardy and healthy race, and that in Bpite of swamps and smells. Vaseline works, soap factories and resin works tend still further to taint the atmosphere, while in the hollows, every rising tide makes a pool, and each ebb leaves a stagnant hole of sodden mud, yet there is no malaria and little sickness of any kind among the residents of these ricketty, tumbledown structures, that Iraki and rot amid the slime and ooze that everywhere abounds. At the foot of Columbia street, and at right angleB runs Elizabeth street. Midway from the latter runs the Long Dock, in the direction of Staten Island. This is a long plank road that runs between the Erie and Brooklyn basins and leads to Beard's Farm.

On each side, steeping in the shallow water, lie hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of timber of every kind and class, waiting to bo shaped into masts, spars, spiles, or for the thousand and one puposes of ship build The change is an amazing one to a person who has not been down there for years. The barren waste of watera that tho indefatigable Billy Beard managed to obtain from the city lias become one of the moat valuable water front properties in tho United States. From the Long Dock, great piers have been built into the Erie Basin, where hundreds of vessels annually dock and discharge their ballast. A large sectional dock has been erected, repair shops and forges, a couplo of groceries and saloonF have been established and scores of caulkers, platers and carpenters make tho air resound with their hammers. In Summer tho slimy logs aro covered with hundreds of barefooted and barelegged young Americans, chasing each other, diving, swimming, or fishing for the wily but succulent crab.

In Wintor tho piers, especially on Sunday, are peopled with tho canal boatmen and their families, whose floating homes, tier on tier, may be counted by the hundred, anxiously awaiting the glad news, that the genial breath of Spring had once more freed the long imprisoned waters of the Erie Canal. Passing rotting hulls, half buried in the sand, shattered masts and broken yards that often had braved tho storm, you reach a large, or at least comparatively large tract of land, Beard's Farm, formed entirely from the output of ballaat, supplemented by contributions from the mudscows. The surface of the farm iB covered with patcheB of coarse graBS, with here and there tufts of white or red clover and yellow flowered trefoil. As a farm this tract would not be a success, but as a site for ware houses it is unoqualed. With a water front reaching from a point opposite the Anglo American Dry Docks, the recently built spile dock reaches almost to Poillon's Wharf, which is a continuation of Clinton street, and to a line drawn through Twenty sixth street.

There is an extensive water front, plenty of water, no trouble about Buttennjik Channel or tho Diamond Reef, which cause so much difficulty to vessels entering the present Brooklyn ware houses; the advantages of this site are apparent to tho most unskilled eye. Billy Beard vindicated his character for shrewdness, when he acquired this enormous property, and there are not a few residents of South Brooklyn to day, who are ready to swear that Colonel Harry has inherited, if not his wisdom, at least his spirit of acquisitiveness. Old steamboat men say that either tho city maps aro all wrong or Colonel Harry Beard has annexed a very considerable slice of what they have been led to believe was public property. Back to the north of Elizabeth street, the present property represented mainly by swamps, where tho salt grass flourishes, they say Colonel Harry will not sell a lot at less than $5,000. It is doubtful if tho city assesses them at $100 each.

These ill natured people who question Colonel Beard's title to any of this, as they allege, public property, point convincingly to the ease of Louis Heinneman, the housemover, or aa he is more popularly known "Dutch Louis." He formerly resided with his goods and chattels, household gods and goddesses, on a small isolated Band bank, situated off the font of Columbia street. "Dutch Louis," like the shrewd old German he ia, always paid his taxes, and wheu Colonel Harry some time since Bought to evict LouiB, ho was checkmated. The stout old man refused to budge, threats and blandishments were alike wasted, and finally Colonel Harry purchased the Band bank at the cost of three lots on Columbia street. This made the residents of the Twelfth Ward yell with delight. Old residents Btill remember when part of this property was known as Cedar Island, and bore the blackened stumps of the trees from which it took its name.

There is a tradition that it belonged to colored folks; before the outbreak of the war, some thirty four years ago, a negro, armed with a map, spent weeks in aoarch of certain marks, made by surveyors on rocks on this island. Alas! for the poor negro's dream of wealth, the island was there, but the marks of tho survey were gone and so too were the rooks on which be J. Various Views of Ministers on the Subject. Some of Them Object to a DfstfnctlYC Costume In or Out of the PnlpltOlhcrs Like Robes. What the Rev.

Messrs. Cnyler, Talmage, Malcolm, Gunnison, Intjersoll, Powell and Nelson Say. The custom among clergymen of wearing distinctive dresB, consiatinK of straight cut coatfl, whito neckties, i a long established one. is no privilege in America more thoroughly appreciated than the freedom and independence indulged in by men in the style of their dress. There is a certain style of garment that gives a clergyman a professional appearance, and a good many of them choose to wear it; still, there is a tendency growing in Brooklyn and other cities do away with this ultra style.

Under the Mo. ical dispensation the rabbis wore distinctive robes which in that day commanded more respect than intellectual attainment. The Saviour, however, according to historians, professed a contempt for anything out of the ordinary and wanted His disciples not to seek to be called rabbi. The Emperor Constantine restored the sacerdotal vestments, and they hayo been generally recognized to a certain degree by orthodox churches and the Protestant clergymen. Hteps have actually been taken among a certain number of divines in Chicago to overthrow this established cUBtom.

It might be interesting to the renders of the Eagle to know the opinions of some of the Brooklyn clergymen on this subject of clerical dress. Here is what some of them say: Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. Is.i think that dress is very apt to be the index of a man's character, and I think that it is best, therefore, for people to dress differently.

Every book has an index. Home persons appear free and easy in ministerial or other garb, while, on the other hand, some are precisionists and precision of apparel in appropriate. liver man ought to select for himself and dress as lie pleases, provided he doesn't break the laws of propriety. I think the flowing robe in the pulpit is appropriate and beautiful for many ministers. It corresponds with classical thought and speech.

It is graceful and not at all out of place, and especially if it is expected in the denomination should the clergyman meet that expectation. I think, however, that a minister who indicates by his dress in ordinary, every day life that he is one of the clergy loses the opportunity of seeing the world as it really is. People are put on their guard and sny. "Look out! Here comes a Minister!" lint the advantage for those, on the other hand, is that they escape hearing great many unsavory and undesirable things. I make no difference between every day apparel and Sunday apparel.

Every man ought to have the largest liberality on that subject I do not think any clergyman can afford to be indifferent or reckless as to the laws of dress. A minister who has a half buttoned vest and one leg of his pant.t loons in tlie top of his boot and one down, and a rivulet of tobacco juice from the corner of his mouth and his linger nails in mourning for departed soap isn't qualified for usefulness and I don't want to hear him preach. The ltev. Theodore L. Cuyler My custom is to wear a pulpit robe on Sunday and during the week any plain decent black suit that fits me and that I can pay for.

Every minister exercise his own taste and discretion. I am not half so much troubled about the eutof ministers' coats as I am about the character 01 their preaching. Many of our bravest, noblest ministers especially the frontier misuiouaires are glad to get any coats to warm their honest hearts. It is not likely that the majority of our Protestant clergymen will ever adopt a uniform. The Rev.

Edward P. Ingersoll. of the Puritan Congregational Church I am not in sympathy with anything that tends to mark the minister by his every day dress. The spirit of the Gospel is brotherhood. I want first and best to be known as a man and a brother, and so I will not in my every day or Sunday life do or wear anything that is suggestive' of what you call sanctity.

I do not regard the robe as objectionable as it. is not distinctly ministerial. It is the badge of the orator and not the token of sanctity. The spirit of this age asks for the real man with the dress of a gentleman and not that of an ancient or modern ecclesiastic. I prefer to do my work.

However, I will not throw stones at the clerical dress of any minister whose heart and whose manhood get beyond his dress. The ltev. John VP. Malcom Let mo say I am not a unit in this matter. For what there is of taste in me, of an lesthetic ecclesiastical kind, craves for ministers of the Gospel anything in the way of dress that will render them impressive, awe inspiring and that will separate them from all other human beings and constantly suggest to the eves of all beholders the solemn nature of their office and render them as distinct to human gaze as the feathers of a crow or black bird render them distinct among birds of the field.

It is not strange then that with these tastes I have been a great admirer of the surplice in the pulpit, and a distinct clerical grab out of the pulpit. But I find my reason and moral conviction, and that which is human and fraternal within me opposed to all useless distinction. I feel that anything which savors of classism or caste should not be fostered, but should pass away with the lierce and bloody past in which it took rise: that all unnecessary dress distinctions should gradually go by with the war paint, the feathers, nose rings and various insignia of the savage. If, however, it is necessary that a car conductor should carry on his cap the sign of his association in order that the traveler may know where to place the money for his passage, well and good. Or if it is necessary that a minister should carry the sign of his calling in the cut of his garb in order that he may be distinguished from common sinners and receive from his fellow travelers his due need of reverence and passage money it would seem cruel to object to it.

But it is hard for me to see that a minister of the Gospel stands in need of a uniform like that of an officer, or a corporation, or a police of the law, in order to show eiUciency. Why desire to create a gulf between himself and the people 'Why not be a man of the people, with the people and for the people and cherish no such distinctions among men and no such separations between men? Why not, instead of carrying the gign of one's calling in the cut of the garb, let it be seen in the benignity and radiance of the face? Does a man wish to lie distinct from other men? Does he wish to impress men and draw to himself their reverential gaze? Then let him court likeness to his divine Master. The royal insignia of hia character will stand him in better Htead that all the tailoring in Christendom. If the surplice were confined strictly to the Catholic and Protestant Episcopal bodies, I would feel it somewhat out of my charitable reach. But as men of our non litnrgical churches dabble with it, I may say I do not like the Twelfth Century institution and consider all surplice like our surplus, simply in the way.

Rev. Dr. Almon Gunnison I am not in favor of clergymen wearing a distinctive garb. I consider it as much out of place for a minister to advertise his vocation by a special dress as for a mason, shoemaker or butcher. One of the axioms of good breeding is thataman shall not publish his occupation.

The ill bred man displays his trade, talks of self, takeB the world into his confidence; the gentleman is reticent of himself and esteems the man as more than his accidental trade or occupation. Good breeding does not even permit the wearing of the uniform by military men, except when in the discharge of dnty, and the policeman when off duty donB tho civilian's clothes. I have no sympathy with the un American custom which puts our higher judges in skirts. I ktiow the principle on which tho custom rests, but it is a relic of an age when man stood not for what he is, but for what his rank makes him. The clergyman of to day stands for himself and himself alone.

A great historic church adds nothing to a weakling and a pigmy in a pulpit is but a pigmy still, though he is befionnoed and bewigged. I can never Bee a preacher in a distinctive garb without feeling that ho does not stand for just what he is. Mr. Boecher in his slouched hat was Mr. Beecher still, and the little dapper theologue, fresh from the seminary with conventional parson's coat and vest, with collar and tic after the Btraighteat sect of tho clerical Pharisee, is nothing more or less than the little nobody that he really is.

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WALTERS, Util Broadway. New York, upsUtrs. Chicago and Alton, office. Van Brakle Ricliardsiou. One of the prettiost home weddings of the season took place Friday night at 517 Lafayette avenue, tho residence of the bride's mother, Mrs.

Isabella Richardson. The Rev. Dr. Hiram Hutch ins, pastor of the Bedford Avenue Baptist Church, performed the ceremony. The contracting parties were Miss Annie L.

Richardson and Mr. J. AdelbertVan Braklc. The rooms were profusely and elegantly decorated with palmB, pink roses and growing flowers. A marguerite bell of pink roses and ferns hung over tho bridal pair as they knelt to receive the solemn benediction that ends tho Episcopal service.

The bride wore a short gown of whito brocade, trimmed with creamy duehease lace, and diamond earrings and breastpin, the gift of tho bridegroom. She carried abonquetof orange blossoms and looked very youthful and happy. There were no bridesmaids. Miss Elsie Fowler was the maid of honor and Mr. J.

B. Bateman the best man. A sumptuous repast was served to the guests and a good deal of mer riment followed the bride's unsuccessful attempt to cut the wedding cake, which was about three feet high, surmounted with sugar effigies of herself and groom. Tho presents, which completely filled a room, were costly and in tho best of taste. They included every article of furniture likely to be of service to a couple beginning housekeeping.

The newly wedded pair departed amid the congratulations of their friends, and showers of slippers and rice, in time to catch tho night train to New Haven where they purpose spending the honeymoon. On their return they will reside on Greene avenuo. Mrs. Van Brakle is a skillful musician and her talents have always been at tho disposal of the Bedford Avenue Baptist Church, of which Bhe and her husband have been members from childhood. Among those present were Rev.

T. J. and Miss Whitaker. Mr. and Mrs.

Springer, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Waddell, Mr.

and Mrs. Ed. Bcaslcy, Mr. and Mrs. George W.

and Miss Eliza Brown, Mr. George R. Com ings, Mr. J. S.

Harlev, Miss Pietseb, Mr. John Baptist, Mr. Frederick Kesiguc, Mitis Eloise Fowler, Miss A. Hilton, Mr. J.

B. Bateman, Mr. and Mrs. La Purge, Mr. and Mrs.

Megavey, Mrs. E. Suydam, Miss Lizzie Rich, Miss Lowe. Mrs. E.

B. Thompson, Mr. J. C. Kase, Mrs, Isabella and Miss M.

K. Richardson (mother and sister of tho bride). Miss Minnie Cately, Mr. J. L.

Wessell, Mrs. E. and Miss Elina Evans, Mr. and Mrs. L.

P. Faulkner, Miss E. A. Monroe, Mrs. S.

Soles. Miss Nellie Burt, Mr. and Mrs. T. Gibson, Mr.

and Mi a. P. A. Cranston, Mr. M.

D. Van Buren, Sir. and Mrs. S. Rowland, Mr.

and Mrs. A. Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. J.

Van Brakle (mother and father of the bridegroom). Mr. and Mrs. P. XV.

Ward, Mrs. and Miss Vincent, Mrs. J. Evans and daughters, Mr. William Van Brakle, Mr.

W. F. Hoffman, Misses Jennie and Melissa Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. T.

W. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. W. G.

Dodge, Rev. Dr. aud Mrs. Hiram Hutchins and the Misses Hutchins. Srindle Place.

Miss Ella May Place, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Place, was married on Thursday evening at the family residence, 085 Qninoy street, to Mr.

James E. Prindle, of New York, the Rev. Harvey E. Burues officiating. Mr.

George W. Jameson and Mr. Franklin E. Place, brother of the bride, acted as ushers. The lady wore a costume of white faille, moire train, dnchesse lace and diamond ornaments.

At the conclusion of the ceremony Mr. Frank E.Dale played the wedding march from "Lohengrin," and the couple departed on a roundabout bridal tour covering Boston, Portland, Niagara, Washington and Old Point Comfort. Among the gueBts were Mr. and Mrs. E.

W. Prindle. Mr. and Mrs. W.

E. Dyer, Mr. aud Mrs. W. M.

Graves, Mr. aud Mrs. G. C. Booth, Mrs.

A. S. Booth, Mr. and Mrs. J.

M. Booth, Mr. and Mrs. E. L.

rrindle, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Prindle, Mr.

and Mrs. F. A. Coushi, Mr. and R.

H. Rose, Mr. and Mrs. 0. P.

Rose, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Rose, Mr.

G. W. Jamoson, Mr. S. H.

Hardwick, Mr. J. E. Henry, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles M. Culver, Mr. J. W. Porter, Mr.

Charier E. ickware, Mrs. Henry Gale, Mr. Jesse V. Rolden, Miss Josephine Gale, Mr.

Frank E. Gale, Mr. Frank King, Miss Addie Lehman, Miss Mamie DeLong, Mr. Carlos R. Day, Miss Alexander, Mr.

and Mrs. George E. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Worthington Gregory, Rev.

and Mrs. W. J. Bridges, Mr. and Mrs.

J. F. Oltroggo, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E.

Green, Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Fountain, Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Van Voorhees, William W. Place, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey E. Burnes, Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas J. Johnston, Mr. and Mra. Henry Battormann, Mr.

and Mra. Stephen Crawford and family, Mra. Valentino Golden, Mibb Lizzie Roy, Mrs. E. Shonnard, Miss Adeline King, Miss Mary L.

Case, Mrs. K. O. Squire. Mrs.

B. Frank ArculariUB, Miss Marion Wetenhall and Dr. and Mrs. William A. DeLong.

Irvine ILahoy. Miss Margaret R. Lahey and Mr. Alexander Ir vine were married Wednesday evening at the residence of the bride's sister, Mrs, Charles Chinnock, 157 Sixth avenue. Bishop Walker, of Dakota, cousin of the bride, officiated.

Miss Lahey wore white faillo fraucaise, with duchesse lace and tnlle. Plenty of presents and number less good wishes added to tho happiness of the pair. They enjoy their honeymoon at Old Point Comfort. The company included Mrs. Mary Walker, the Misses Walker, Mr.

Sam uel Walker, Mrs. Elbridge Moore, Mr. aud Mrs, James Lahey, Mr. and Mrs. D.

E. Rose, Mr. and Mrs. James Lahey, Mrs. Hamilton McLean, Mr.

and Mrs. A. H. Ronnie. Mrs.

H. Watson, Miss Belle Watson, Mr. James Watson, Mr. and Mrs. William Irvine, Dr.

and Mrs. Van Orden, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Daily, Mr. and Mra.

Alfred Walker, Mtbs Lilian Buell and Mr. William Freeman. Dickens Itadciitjurff. Miss Arabella Radenburg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

C. F. Radenburg, of East New York avenue, was married on Thursday evening, at home, to Mr. Gilbert Dickens, of Canarsie, by Rev. J.

B. BBrown. MiBs Louisa Grosch and MiBs Louisa Dickens were bridesmaids, and Mr. Frank Dick ens best man. Among the guests present were Mr.

and Mrs. William Dickens, Mr. aud Mrs. Will iam Dickens, Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph Skidmore, Mr. and Mrs. Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. F.

Mulvehill Mr. and Mrs. John Belling, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Gessling, Mr.

and Mra. Nelson, MisBes Jennie Gessling, Isabella Nelson, Rowe, Mamie E. Stew art, Elizabeth Hayes, Place and Vint, Captain Arthur Stake, of Brooklyn; Mr. John White and C. Fisher, of Canarsie.

Irvine fcalie A charming wedding took place laat Wednes. day at 157 Sixth avenue, wheu Mr. Alexander Irvine, a well known young merchant of this city, was united to Miss Margaret Lnhcy. The cere mony was performed by the Right Rev. Bishop Vnlker, of Dakota, assisted by the Rev.

F. F. Brown. The bride wore white faillo fraucaise en train, with decollete corsage, trimmed with point lace. Tho bride was attended by six maidB of honor.

The presents were numerous and beautiful. The bridal tour extended to Washington, and on their return Mr. and Mrs. Irvine will jnake their home in St. Johns place.

THAT ABANDONED BABY. Gaetens and Hiw Wife Without Bail. James Held JameB and Cecelia Gaetens, tho parties who took the child from tho unfortunate girl, Mary McGee, on Thursday night, and abandoned it in the woods near One Hundred and Sixty seventh street and McCoomb'u Dam road, were before Justice Gorman, in tho Essex Market Court, in Now York, yesterday. The husband appeared to be half Btarved. Mrs.

Gaetens Btated that her husband had told her thataman named Watson could secure the admission of children into an institution. Sho went with her husband on Thursday night aud she believed, when she waited at Ono Hundred and Sixty seventh street for her husband to take the child, as he informed her, to Mr. Watson, that ho really did so. The husband Baid that ho gave the child to a man whom he met on the cars of the cable road. Both were held without bail for examination until Monday.

A BANJO BKClTAb. Sir. Grant Brower will give a banjo recital next Wednesday evening at Historical Hall. Ho will assisted by Mr. Scott Fennell, baritone; Mr.

Piatt, basso; Mr. Charles S. Yerbury and tho Hatton Quartet. A fine programme will be given. in of the people why should he seek to differentiate himself from them by a peculiar attire.

I can see numerous reasons wny souuors, policemen and car conductors should wear uniforms, but fail to perceive even one reason why clergymen should; and. certainly if such a step lie desirable there should be a distinct attire for the clergy of each sect so that there may he no error in the minds of the public. For myself again, I find a satisfactory degree of comfort in the garments of ordinary humanity. S. Giffard Nelson, pastor of Trinity Baptist Omrcli I dissent in general from the pietyithat expresses itself by phylacteries or their equivalents.

The minister, according to the New Testament signification of the word as employed and, substantially, as defined by Christ, is "one who serves." Not Christ, hut eeeiesiastieism, called him a clergyman and asserted his superiority to the laity, thus perpetrating the anomaly of placing the servant above the served. It selected for him hi. distinguishing badges, directed the cut of his robe, his coat, vest, collar and cravat. It decreed the tonsure, directed the shaving of the priest's crown, enlarging the shorn circle as his ecclesiastical dignities increased, memorial, we are told, of the crown of thorns and mgnificarit of the reality that cures and afflictions increase as men advance in eminence in Christ's earthly kingdom. All this, from an eeelesiastieal or even (esthetic standpoint, is exceedingly pretty, and gratifies the spirit of religious conservatism by appeal to the authority of the Mosaic ritual.

With the wise and good, both men anil women, of tlfc Roman communion who feel constrained to follow churchly dictation in matters of dress and personal habit, I have no contention. The church is their mistress and fhpj would be contumacious did they not obey her. But that Protestants, whose distinctive religious existence i i based mi the claim to absolute freedom of opinion and release from ecclesiastical domination; should seek to imitate by the cut of a coat or any other distinguishing badge the usages nf a church whose authority they have renounced, is someMiing that I cannot understand. Of course, if a minister wants to wear a stock, or have his coat button up to his throat, or even have the collar so ample that it will conceal his ears, and this as a matter of personal preference, I can see no reason why he should not gratify his tastes. But to dress that he may be known as a minister in clumsy imitation of an old formality instituted and still prescribed by the Roman Catholic Church is ridiculous, and if I were a Roman Catholic priest I would find it difficult to pass him in the street without laughing outright.

I know but two broad positions religiously that a man can consistently take he must be a Romanist or a non Komanisf. If the claim of the Roman Catholic Church to the apostolic succession be allowed and if there be any church whose claim to that succession is valid it is hers: then bIio lias the right to command absolutely in matters of drcsj and all els for tho canon of inspiration ib still open, and she is the scribe to add or amend under her claim of divine authority. But disput ing these claims and alleging that the sacred canon closed with the last of the New Testament books, 1 should resist all attempts to constrain me bv human dogmas or tacitly retained customs in matters of dress as in matters of ritual or belief. Whoever places himself on the authority of the New Testament alone will find no mention of any distinctive garb worn by the apostles, and from his commission as a servant of men for Christ's sak will, I think, discern the inexpediency of distinguishing himself from his fellows by marked formalities in attire, A minister should dress neatly and becomingly and as one who has to speak to his people and who craves their sole attention to his theme, modestly and inconspicu ously. He should be and appear at all times a well bred gentlemen.

J. A. lleK HER RETROTflAL CELEBRATION. Bliss Bessie Corn' Engagement Party in Dean Street Miss Bessie Corn, of 12S Dean street, who is engaged to Mr. J.

L. Puldhoim, of Cleveland, held a reception laBt Sunday. The parlors wera decorated with plants and flowers, which were the gifts of the young couple's numerous friends. About 200 called to congratulate. Among them were Mr.

and Mrs. Samuel Corn and son, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Vogel, Mr. and Mrs.

Louis Vogel, Mr. and Mih. William Vogel, Mr. and Mrs. Heyman Vogel, Mr.

Harry Vogel, Sir. and Mrs. Sehrier, Miss Polly Schrier, Mr. and Mrs. Lemliea, Mr.

and Mrs. J. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Corn, Julius Corn, Grandma Corn, Rev.

Mr. Sparger and Mrs. Sparger. Rev. Sir.

Priellander, Mr. and Mrs. Milkman, Miss Metzger, Mr. and Mrs. H.

S. Kaliske, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Jacobs, Mr. and Mib.

G. Baum, MiBs Carrie Baum, Mr. and Mrs. Seward, Mrs. Chadwick, Mr.

and Mrs. H. Levy, Mrs. L. Levy, Mr.

Aaron Levy and sister Tillie. Miss Hannah Bass, Miss Sarah Good stein. Miss Brookheimer, Mr. and Mrs. Morris and Hannah Morris, Mr.

and Mrs. A. S. Maune, Mrs. Kumsler, Mr.

L. Maune, Mr. and Mrs. M. Colin, Mr.

and Mrs. H. Davis, Mr. and Sirs. Solinger, Stella Solinger, Mr.

D. DreBsner, Miss Rosa Goldsmith, Minnie Goldsmith. Mr. Lewis C. Bach, Mr.

Gub Blumenau, Mr. Charles Strauss, Mr, James Colin, Air. 1). Harris, Miss Matnias. Mr.

Edward Mathias and wife, Mr. and Mrs. J. Einsheimer, Mr. and Mrs.

S. Goodstein, Mr. James Calhoun, Mr. and Mrs. J.

Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Fisch. Mrs. Rosenberg, Mr.

and Mib. Bierman, Mr. Michael Purst, Mr. Albert Harris, Mr. Joel Krone, Mr.

Jame3 Alexander, Miss Newman, Mr. Eiscman, of Cleveland, Misses Hannah and Rachel Marx, Miss Hattie Jacobs, Miss Levy, Misses Clark and Folkart, MesBrB. Folkart, Son nenstrohl, Coleman, Jacobs, Judah Moses and many others. The fair hostess' parentB, Mr. and Mrs.

Julius Corn, and her brothers, Abe, Henry, Oscar and Charles Com, assisted in receiving and entertaining the many friends. THE LIiV DIVORCE CASE. Wife No. 1 is ftoiiig to Have tbe Case ICcoiicned. Dr.

Samuel H. Linn obtained a decree of absolute divorco from Amelia C. Linn in New York in alleging that she had sustained relations with a dentist in Philadelphia, and that the complaint had been properly served upon his wife at the New York Hotel, in New York. Three years later ho married a Miss Hannah Willis, and has had one child. Then he took up his residence in St.

Petersburg, Russia, where ho now practices ns He is the dentist of the royal family there and has been very successful. A short time ago the divorced wife petitioned Judge Barrett, of the Supremo Court, to reopen the decree. She claimed that she waB never served with tho complaint. At that time and during the period when Bhe is alleged to have been guilty of infidelity she asserts she was in She alleges that the evidence upon which tho degree was granted was fictitious, airs. Linn first learned of tho divorce when her husband wrote her from Russia inclosing tho decree.

Immediately upon the recoipt of the decreo she took steps to have it Bet aside. She was unable, Jtow over, to make personal servico upon her husband until September last. Mrs. Linn also said that her husband had deserted her in 1870, and that she had never heard from him until she received the divorce papers. Yesterday Judge Barrett handed down an opinion in the case in which he orders a reference to take further proof of the facts.

GustinaWingert, of 2n Summit street, charged her husband, Prank, with striking and beating her before Justice Masaey yesterday. He pleaded not euilty and wa9 held for trial..