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THE DIVORCE CAliGKDAR. TBE BVSBAl OBSERTMOE ASSOCIATION. OLD LANDMARKS GOING. DOCTORS DINE. PARK PLANS EDUCATIONAL.

WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAKCK 2. 1887. designs in the general interest when he made this long disputed, but now confirmed, acquisition. Ab a public spirited man he will, it is to be hoped, effect those designs. The West End has borne a radically different charactor from the other part of the Island.

There is no reason why the tone of the place cannot be raised without any decrease of its popular features. A necessity, however, will exist for radical changes, and Mr. Ziegler is credited with the energy and purpose sufficient to make them. The development of his plans will be watched with interest. firmation of Oollector Magone is one of the most proper acts that has been, done by the Senato in executive session this year.

"Improvement or the Breed." The improvement of tho breed of that noble animal the horse has, as is well known, enlisted tho earnest attention of a considerable part of our community which, by the way, the clergy comfortably assuro us is the moat plentifully provided with churches and homes and is the most profoundly and intensely moral one on tho face of the earth. For this improving end races have been run at Coney Island from the earliest peeping of Spring violets to the snow storms of Winter. For a liko unselfish purpose pool gambling has been kept up all that time. The men and boys of Brooklynand it ia said also some of the womon have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars on the various courses, patriotically, unconcorned whether thoy ever got the money back only the breed could be improved. The officers of the law have co operated in the most spiritod way to bring about the desired result, taking caro that no such trifling obstacle as a statute of the State in regard to public and organized belting should stand in tho way.

Now, in view of all thai has been done for him, it must be admitted that if the horse did not improve his breed he would be a very mean and extremely ungrateful animal. But that he has done so there is the most gratifying, even astonishing proof. It is argued by the bookmakers that, if there only is racing enough, not only tho particular quadrupeds that run on the track but the whole race will be benefitod, from tho aristocracy of the profession down to tho very peasantry of the street car and the peddler's wagon. The far A Meeting: In the Youngr Mon'n Christian Association Chapel. There was a called meeting of the Sunday Observance Association of Kings County last evening In the ohapol of the T.

M. C. Building, Fulton and Bond streets. There wore perhaps thirty persons tn attendance. The association was formed In September, 1883, with tbe primary objeot of securing a better enforcement of the Excise laws on Sunday.

In addition to this the members were determined, if possible, to shut up the candy stores on that day, as small children wore Inclined to spend thoir pennies thereon Sunday; to close the cigar stores for tho reason that small boys would smoke cigarettes If they could get them on Sunday; also, to prevent th delivery wagons of Ice cream establishments, groceries, etc, from running after 10 o'clock in the morning, as provided In tho revised Penal Code. Another thing that was to be suppressed was the publication or at least the sale of Sunday newspapers, for, the promoters of Sunday sanctity argued, "If a man has a lot of trashy newspapers to read he will not attend church on Sunday." Pleasure trips to tho parks of the city, excursions to pleasant resorts on the Sound or on Long Island, plcnlas and like Sunday amuBeiuonts were frowned upon, and It was the object of the association to suppress all those so far as practicable. Sunday base ball games wero a special brunt for the displeasure of tho gentlemen, and thoy allege that It was through their work that the games were eventually suppressed within the city limits. At the meeting last evening a paper was read by the Rev. Dr.

Parkhurst, of New Torn, upon tho subject of proper conduct on the Sabbath day and setting forth tho evil results of a thousand practices now so common on that day. Dr. Porkhurst was followed by Rev. Dr. Atterbury, secretary of the New York Sabbath Committee, in a brief address settingforth what good had been accomplished by the society sine It began.

THE ST. JOHNLAND FARM. Progress Which is Satisfactory to the Supervisors' Committee Supervisors Nolan, O'Brien, Forbell, French and Waltors, of tho County Farm Committee of the Board of Supervisors, paid a visit to tho county farm at St Johnland yesterday to examine Into tho progress of tho work there undor Contractor Birkett. Architect Eastman and Mr. Hart no companied tho committee, the latter for the purpose of looking over the grounds preparatory to making plans for electric lighting for tho promises.

Architoct Eastman submitted plans for several new buildings and modifications to bo made in those already erected, for examination by Dr. Harrison. Tho work was found well advanced, aud It was announced that twonty of tho cottages will be completed by June 1 as per contract Thirty men are now at work and more will be put on when tbe weather becomes settled. WHILE MAKING MOLiSSES CANDY A 5Irt's Drenn Catches Fire ana She is Seriously linrnerf. About 4:30 c'olook yesterday afternoon M13S Battle Martin, agod 19 years, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Alfred Martin, of 183 Ainslio street, was engaged In making molasses candy at the kitchen range in the basement when her dress caught Ore and she was presently in a blszo. Rushing upstairs she met her mbther, who with ready proaeuco of mind seized a basin of water aud throwing It over her extinguished tbe flames. Miss Martin then sank overpowered by pain. Drs.

Jamos Feeler and Goorge Newman on being called in administered suoh remodio3 as tho case demanded They say that the young lady's recovery is doubtful CURRENT EVENTS. A junk wai wrecked on the Chinese coast and 691 liveB lost. Allegheny City, is menaced with an epidemic of measles. The women of Kansas aro Boon to vote in municipal elections. The Prinoe of Wales has returned to Lon don well and hearty.

General B. F. Butler has invested $100,000 In Chicago real estate. The Greenback yoke has been thrown off by the Democrats of Michigan. Senator Hugh Nelson has been appointed Governor of British Columbia, Hawaiian volcano, Mauha Loa, is reported to be in astate of eruption.

The roduotion of the National debt for the month of February was $1,430,783. St. Louis has a centenarian who fought with Goueral Jackson at New Orloaus. Fifty thousand dollars is to be expended in beginning work on the Hennepin Canal. Railroad men are making ready to comply with tho new law as to fares and freights.

Mr. Parnell complained in Parliament yes terday that tho Irish were unfairly treated. The threatened failure of two workingmen's savings bansa in Sardinia precipitated a rlos. Thirteen horses, valued at $20,000, were burned to death in Maysville, yesterday. Sarah Bernhardt was enthusiastically re ceived In Washington last night in Camille." The paupers in the poor house at Water bury are carried off by smallpox.

The politioal situation in Indiana aneut tho Lieutenant Governor dispute does not Improve. There is a pronounced split between the new Gorman Liberals and the Socialists in Berlin. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth ot tobacco was burned In Boston yesterday. A missile was thrown at the carriage of the Queen of Spain In the streets of Madrid yesterday. The Hungarian artist, Munkacsy, is pre sently to paint a life sized portrait of Mme.

Minnie Hauk. The claimant Wardwell is making a hard' fight to secure possession of tho money left by miser Patno. The Republicans in the New Jersey Legisla ture yesterday divided their vote tor United States Senator. The fatal earthquakes along the Riviera are the occasion of much suffering among the people of that section. United States Treasurer Jordan has ar ranged to make a two weeks' visit to England on private business.

The prospects of the National Liberals in the second ballots of the German elections aro said to be brightening. About four sooro modern Goliaths sat down to the annual banquet of the Titans at the Brunswick last night Rutgers College has been presonted by P. V. Spader, of New Brunswick, N. with his unique library, valued at $15,000.

The treasurer of Jackson Township, is missing, together with considerable township funds. Ills friends fear foul play. If the excitements of war and politics spare him, Emperor William, of Germany, will finish his 00th year twenty days hence. Yale is still coquetting with the proposition of Harvard and Princeton to form a triangular Intercollegiate base ball league. The Mayor of Crete, has been ar rested upon tho complaint of a gambler for interfering with the latter's business.

The legality of Mayor Grace's appointment of Excise Commissioners in Now York has beon sustained by the Court of Appoala. The Longfollow Memorial Association has $12,000 Invested In 4 por cent bonds, and expects to raise $10,000 more beforo the end of March. Surveyors are going over what is reported to be the probable route of the long lookod for air line railroad between New York and Boston. The United Labor party of Middletown, N. has nominated Mrs.

Dr. Lydia Snyor Hos brouck for member of the Board of Education. The Erie Railway is to build a branch road which will glvo It connection from both the east and west with Sorantoa and the Wyoming coal regions. Twenty lives were lost and 464 bales of cotton by the burning of tho steamer W. H.

Gardner on the Tomblgble River, near Galnesvillo, yesterday. A credit of 1,000,000 francs has been proposed In tbe Frenoh Chamber ot Deputies by Premier Goblet for tho relief of the earthquake sufferers. A revolt by Bulgarian troops against the Regenoy is reported from Sofia. A state of siege has boon proclaimed In all the Bulgarian towns on the Danube. The Legislature of British Columbia has passed a bill to meet the emergency at Vancouver and to repress and punish the perpetrators of the outrages on tho Chinese The coast of New Foundland is entirely sur roundod by ice, putting a complete embargo on navigation by sailing vessels and creatiug much destitution among tbe people.

The receipt is acknowledged by the National Zeitung, of Berlin, of a third donation of $1,600 from American Socialists to assist In the election ot Socialist candidates to the German Reichstag. A statement has been submitted to the Vatican by Cardinal Gibbous, on boholf of the American bishops, whioh amounts to a protest against tho condemnation by the Church of tbe Knights of Labor. Jefferson Davis has been invited by the Vtckflburg Southrons to accompany them to Wash lngton as their honored and special guest on the occasion of the forthcoming inter Stato military encampment and drill. The Hon. Mr, Abbott, solicitor for the Canadian Paclflo Railway, was elected Mayor of Montreal yesterday.

Tho contest was uncommonly bit tor. Mr. Abbot is the first English mayor Montreal has had in many years. Charges were made in the General Assembly of Connecticut yesterday that a momber of tho Shellfish Commission had been ridlug on a free railroad pass for the post flvo years, and had charged the Stato mileage Just the same. The faithful ohildren of St.

Stephen's, the flock of tho Rov. Dr. Edward McGlynn, yesterday sent to Popa Loo heartfelt congratulations upon tho anniversary of his. aoventy slxth birthday and the fiftieth of tho venerablo prelate's priesthood. The House of Commons has been asked to assent to the appolntmont of a oommlttoo to Inquire Into corrupt expenditures by the Corporation of London on bogus meetings held tor tho purpose ot defeating tho bill tor tho reform of the olty govern ment.

Adelpbi Street's Cobble Stone BulldlNs; to Be Torn ttowm. One by ono the few intere sting rolics of "ye Village of Breuoklino," around which many fond memories cling, aro fast disappearing, much to tho regret of the old Brooklyultos. Many pages would be needed to give even a brief summary of all that Is Interesting in connection with some of the historical buildings that recently bad to give way to modern structures. Among the old landmarks which have now disappeared from sight li tho Old Beformed Dutch Church, on Court and Joralemon streets, whore now stauds what is known as the Cyciorama of Gettysburg; also, tho old Gothlo Hall, on Concord street, that haB been supersoded by au imposing modern building. A fow days ago another landmark, tho cobble stone building at 25 AdelphI street, probably tho oldest dwelling in Brooklyn, has boon bought by tho Arm of O'Hara, builders and contractors, and is now doomed to doBtructlon.

Its present owners intend to oroct on the Bite ono of those modern caravansaries that, Judgiugfrom the rapid progross already made in that direction, will very soon become quite as obnoxious a feature in Brooklyn as thoy aro ia New York and other large cities. Tho quaint old Dutch dwelling on AdelphI street was oroctod about 15U years ago by the Ryerson family, one of tho first that settled in Brooklyn, and It remained In thoir possession for over a century. Tho Byersons rank now among tho most proralnont citizens of Brooklyn. Mr. John T.

Hun tor, tbe president of the Farmors' Bank, married a Miss Ryerson, and always took great interest iu the old homestead. The latter was sold about fifty years ago to an Englishman, who kept tho place for a number of years as an inn. It was known at that time and for many years aftor as Tarn O'Shnntor's Cottage," and was ono of tho most frequented tav orns on the old Flushing road. Later on a Scotchman bought tho property, and it was then called Fosgy's Liquor Store and Bakery." Almost twenty five years ngo it chaugod hands again, going into pbssesaion of ono Mr. Uonry Moonoy, a ship carpenter by trade, who paid $3,000 for It Mr.

Mooney sold It a few daysaco to the building firm mentioned above for $4,900. A reporter of the Eaqle vlsltod yesterday tho interesting old homestoad and was shown through tho houso. It is built after the ancient Dutch farmhouse style, and is surrounded by an old fashioned gardon whioh was formerly well stocked with large, shady pear and chorry trees. In former yonrs the main entrance to tho houso was on tho Flushing avenue Bide, but It Is now entered from AdelphI street. The rear of tho house is built of cobblo stonos, but the other sides aro of framework filled with mud.

that forms now a compact, solid mass. Those throe sides of the house and tho roof are covered with cedar ahinglos, which have not deteriorated in tho least. Tho doors lead from the yard direct into tho rooms in tho basement and to tho opanmonra up stair.i. There wero formerly only four rooms, but at present tho whole houso is partitioned oa In many small but cozy compartments. Tho ceilings aro very low, tlio heavy beams, and in fact tho whole woodwork, having been roughly hewn, out ana fastened with strong, hand wrought Irou nails.

Tho window sills aro so broad that ono could And quite a comfortable mating placo on thom. The old fashioned fireplace and tho chimney are built of bricks that were imported from Holland and which aro still as durablo as rock. The houso formerly stood on a hill, at the foot ot which was in. nlug a clear spring that suppllod tho whole neighborhood with cool drinking water. Before tho swamps whero now tho Navy Yard stands were filled up the shoal tide reached within 150 feet of tho houso.

There is a common report that the Ryerson mansion served as General Washington's headquarters during tho time the troops from Fort Groena passed over to Jersoy. Thero is still another old Dutoh house ntndlng right among large modern buildings on Cumberland street, between Park and Flushing avenues, about ten feet below the surface of the streot, but II is neither bo quaint nor so solid as tbe houso on Adolphi street. It was owned by Alderman Bouten, a typical old Brooklynlto who died many years ago. FUNDS FOR A NEW CONVENT. A Prompt Response in St.

Joseph's Parish to Father Corcoraa's Appeal. The Rev. Father Corcoran, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, on Paclflc street, near Vanderbilt avenue, purchased a few weeks ago two lots adjoining the hou3e now occupied by tbe Sisters of St. Joseph, which Is west ot the church.

It is the intention of Father Corcoran to orect a mngnlGcent convent on tho three lots, and the work will be oem menced as soon as tho weather permits. Two weeks ago he made an appeal to tho parishioners for funds with which to begin work, and within ten days he was gratified when looking at his receipts to find that they amounted to $13,500. The donations ranged from $1,000 to 150. Notwithstanding tho heavy taxes on the parish to support tho church and tbe parochial schools, whenever Father Corcorau makes on appeal forasporiol object it Is readily responded to. There are 1,100 children educated In the paro ohlol schools.

The girls are taught by tho Sisters of St. Josoph and tho boys by four Brothers of St. Francis and four lay teachers. During the mouth of May Father Corcoran contemplates holding a fair to raise whatever funds may be necessary to the now convent Father Corcoran has boon tonty one years pastor of St Joseph's Church and appears to grow mora popular ovary day. ne Is ably assisted In his parochial duties by Kov.

Fathers Goubeaud and Afo Guerll. LODGE 48, V. 0. OF H. A Pleasant Entertainment at tbe Brook lym Institute.

A pleasant entertainment was given by Brooklyn Lodge No. 48, United Ordor of Honor, at the Brooklyn Institute last evening. Past President S. W. Wallace made an Informal opening address, aftor which Master Charles Miranda and MIbs Carrie Taylor played a duet on the piano.

Miss Grace Taylor recited tho "Human Frame" and Miss Annie Bedell sang. Mr. A. Nlnetz followed with a violin solo. Miss L.

Borgor, Mr. Meyer and Mr. Thomas sang somo pleasing selections and Miss Carrie Taylor, a mlBs of VI, appeared in vocal gems accompanied by Miss L. Bergor. Miss Louisa Mel drara and Miss Jonnle tSoodwin sang "The Lily and the Rose," and the programme concluded with a cornet solo by Mr.

J. Hormaudoz. After tho entertainment there was dancing. Th Committoo of Arrangements wore Mr. S.

Fling, chairman; Samuel Llnesburgh, H. C. Judsou, N. E. Maloney aud a R.

Gilbert. Ei County Clerk Henry A. Gumbleton denies that Johu Kolly always required tho County Clerk and Register of New York to pay him $10,000 to ba used In Stato politics. An Ainorinan Iliirli License Law. (1.) All persons of a reBpoot.ible character should bs permitted to sell intoiicattitg buveragtta, to bu consumed on tho premises (open to visits from the polico) upon giving eood and sufnciODt bonds to pay any fines to which they mifiht subject tuymselvos under the lar.

(2.) All persons found drunk sh. uld he punished with fine and imprisonment, as wull as all retailers of litiuurs on whose premises drunken persons might be apprehended, likewise all those who miRht have supplied ouch persons with drink while in a stato of intoxication. (3.) Punish all sellers ol liquora who may permit any dis turbnnces on their premised without immediately calling in the police to iiu.ill them. (4.) Prohibit under snffioient penalties all adulterations of wines and spirits, foreign or domestic. (5.) Manuiaoturo public opinion to look upondrunkardt as upon other criminals: to regard them with abhorrence to avoid them as a moral pestilouce.

(6.) And lastly, revoke all licenses to dealers who do not keep the nan intoxicating tonij, PIPER Hkiusiece, jld and In condition. Tkktotaij.ii. FPU POR SALE FURNITURE 355 PARLOR mL SlOfi narlor snila for S85: 375 chamber suite for $45; 100 misiit and socond hand rar pets constantly on hand.ac HTAM'S, 101 Court and tjohomiorhorustS; ITIOR SALE FURNITURE FINE PLUSH Mj parlor suit, elegantly upholstered in odd colors: oost $10M, mautol mirror, rijhly carvud, oost $10530: lolding bed with bevelal mirror, $H7; Brussels carpet. 41 ynTda. Oiill all the woek at 318 Henry st, dmnrpaa.

EOR SALE FUKNITUHJfi A Al i A' ster, Wilton and body Brussels civrjiets, ru3, ntc, a tho great administrator's sMe of the estate of Mrs. Catharine MoCoskry, deceased. Bold under the mannfto ment of the American Art Association, at tho Ortgios Gallorjr, Broadway, Now Yurk furniture mado to trder by MartVitto; broozt 3, uteiiing silver by Tiffany; carpets and nnholatery by Arnold. Constable dfc Co. Readers will aak: "Who was Mrs, Catharine McCoskry, pray." Sho misa3Irs.

Morgan, only hor taste ran od Worth co3 tumea, sterling silver and rich household furniture. Arriving at tho OrtEios Gallery, we found tho large salesroom crowded with Indie usaminntg Worth garments, etc, there being nearly 500 lola Not wiaUintr to invest, we asked tho genial i rtfiies what hour ho wuuld reach the furuituro 4 o'clock," was tho reply. Having two hours, and an invitation in our pocket for the opening view ol tbo Stowart Gallery, strolling Joisuroly up Broadway we Bpent the timo admirinc Rosa Bonheui's "Unrsn and MeiHonier's "Freidland, Promptly at 4 o'clock we wero back to tho Ortcios Gallery and gave btrict attention to business, buying all the furniture, carpete, at low Sjruros, considering tlio fino qnahty oi the woods. ParlorsA pair of magnificent Turkish par'nr suits, upholstered in antique tapestry, no woodwork, tini.tlied with tringo: eaoh is stiined with hair and as rood now ac when Miirootte sent them homo originally. They cost together Sl.a'K); we wilt sell them separately at $W0.

Kich antique ormolu mounted center table, Mexican onyx in laid top. onst $150, $50. Rich ormolu and buhl inlaid cabinet, finished in satin wood. Oi'St $2H). 350.

A pair djlid mahogany large easy ohairs, upholstered in antique tapestry, cost $100 at $35. birge Aawiuster carpet, with border, about eighty yards, splendid order, oost 3300, $65. Largo Yiordez nig, 11x15 foot, cost 500. Library Antique solid mahogany suit, beautifully upholstered in silk plush, with claw arms and let, cost 8200. Mahogany nntiquo secretary, highly polished, oost $100, $50.

Large antique sofa couch, with "our air mlLvur Alt in tho best maroon leather, a ffrand of furniture, cost $230, $C0. nana ooim mnuuKau; nan wim umiicu imnw and embossed Fronch leather scat, cost 4tJn, $25. Grand fathor'B clock," upricht cherry case, with load, ctfiax bell, runs eight days, juat thb thing for the top oi tho ejnfcr case, will warrant to koep nod time, cost $. rt.ua w.u.m Vmfi PHmntn. nnat A3 tier yard.

about GOyards in all, would make a fine room carpet, at the exti law price of $45. Wilton stair carpet. 17 yards long, tra width, cut 475, 830. Antique solid mhgany hall iair, upholstered in embossed leather, coal lo. ii ni.SnviMiv rsnni't suit.

nniMiQa with blue reps aud hangings; it comprises a largo French dresser, with boreled mvhig mirror, bedstead to rantoh, With bedd completo; blue mantel limhrequin and our tains go with sail. ttirnWiinc an elegant blue room, cost 8400. wii! close it at $125. One of the bargains of tine mahogany arm ire, with bevoled I'renoh mirror door, oost $'200, $.0. Solid mahogany chiffonier, with swing beveled mirr.v attached, made with drawers, and cabinet below, oost ifSM), $'25.

Walnut upright mirror front foldine bed, a beauty, paneled in French walnut, spring and hair mattress, cost $200, $B5. Dining room Vory handsome soliA mahogany buffet, rlboratly carved, stzo about si feet, finished with French beveled mirror. ant. grand square solid mahogany extension dining table to match; the two pieces cost 8800; A pair ol rwsi'k table covers, cood sire, with fringe edging, cost $50; both for 315. Call aud sco theso goods.

Unquestioned bargains. All our customers Und out that nothing is misrepresented at MC MAHON'S, 522 and Fulton st, near Flatbush av. We store goods purchased free of charge till roquired. FOR SALK FIAOS. iOR SALE PIANO $225 SQUARE grand, four round; used ten months.

ANDKKbON 4 21)8 Fulton et. OU SLE PIANO $110; PPRIGHlt line order: wonnarfnl harirain. ADKSO A CO 'J8FnltonBt. IOK AIjE 11 AN OS Li A i VsO fine uprights, with stool, beautiful carved legs: uprirfhM ntd $: monthly: aro. Si.

BUXQF. A BKyKPlfJT ft'eber Si Court st. Tjyoii SALE" PIANU 7r; trPKIC IJT, with cover and stool; douW und sijnanMmiy i rent, 3 per month; olanStinlart square wj.h siooi aii oovor. onlyiB5n: rout. $3 por i moi.t.i.

PUKLPS, Fulton at. fTlOB" SALJS PIAO A01UF1CL; 7 octavo; rich cawed ovorstruiif gr at isreat bargain; rented 33 wmth nP'Vjr A 'f 'S ftj to $15 month; pUoe for bargains. PHLM "i tonst. PIANOS SKVKRAlL STECI. JC ia! bargain, in Beaonu hand almost rwrmnabl.

raw V. H. UliA NOiavK. IU Moa tegooat, ion? Salnnd Hunbattda Who Want to be Separated From Their WlreKa Greonport is, in a email a seaport town, and many persons living there either own sailing craft or command vessels on'srrares, and me away from home a good deal In fair weather. Several of these sea oaptalns are now figuring as plain, tiffs In suits divorce from their wives.

Counselor Benjamin Reave, the loader of the Suffolk County bar, ia strangely enough attorney for all the In jured husbands, but the barrister declined to give the details ol the several cases, on tne ground tnet It would be a breach of professional etiquette. Other sources of information, however, were' less scrupulous, and the facts wore obtained from persons who knew them well. One case Is entitled Frank E. Stanton against An nie They are New Englanders and were married at Springfield; iu 1885. Mrs.

Stanton was then IT years old. After tho honeymoon the young couple removed from Springfield Orient, In the Town of Southold. Mr. Stanton was captain of the schooner W. Henry, whioh was totally wreoked only a short time ago.

About tbe same time the captain hoard of disaster to his domestic bark. A young butcher, with the rather romantic name of Ellsworth hampltn, is alleged to have made love to Mrs. Stanton In strawberry ttrqe. After a while there came an exposure which startled the vlllags. Ono day Ohamplln's butcher shop remained closely looked and the people hun gered for meat Many an anxious eye was cost upon the Stanton domicile.

In tho bouse next door lived a woman with her bump of curiosity largely developed. 8he was Captain Stanton's sister. Tak lng a slight advantage the suspicious sister In law Bought an opportunity to make an investigation in her brother's house and what she disoovered forms the basis of the captain's suit to have the matrimonial knot untied. The butoher, whose absonoe had set the village on edge, was definitely located and he figures as corespondont in tho complaint. Immediately aftor the soandal became public ChampUn and Mrs.

Stanton eloped to Connecticut Captain C. O. Fournler. la tbe second seafaring man who has reason for desiring to throw off the matrimonial yoko. Mrs.

Fournler Is a very handsome woman. Her husbandaalls his vessel between New YorK and the West Indies. Ugly rumors reached his ears on his last arrival, home and he concluded to make an Investigation on bis own ac count Ho bade Mrs. Fournler goodby one after noon and took the Long Island Railroad train for New York, ostensibly to remain away two days. His trip toward tho sotting sua did not extend beyond Southold and a carriage took him back to Greonport in the evening.

Thero came very near being a tragedy in the town that night The day following saw the looal population reduced by two In favor of Philadelphia. The captain's suit for dl vorce Is on the docket of the Supromo Court The corespondent in Augustus Wiggins. The keeper of the lighthouse on Long Island bar Is Charles Fentou. His wife's first name Is Eva. While he kept the light that pointed safe coureo to the mariner, Mrs.

Fenton, over on Shelter IsUud, kept, as alleged, a light in her window for a mus cular young blacksmith. Some one gavs tbe anvil beater to understand that tho beacon tender was hunting him with a brooch loading rifle, and the samo night he propelled himself across Peoonla Bay to Greonport, and put all the space possible between himself and Shelter Island before day break the next morning. Mothers are not as a rule ungrateful, nor will they tell about thoir daughters for tho edification of sons In law, but In the Fenton case the mother of the alleged offending wife opened up a book from which extracts were taken to form the basis of a suit for absolute divorce by the husband. Ira D. Randall wants a divorce from Ws wife, Joannah G.

Randall, but not to let him havoa monopoly of tho luxury she has interposed a dofeuso and begun a cross suit for unlimited froedom on her own account. Tho Randalls formerly kept a hotel in Greonport called the Half Way House. It came to pass that Mrs. Randall conceived a tasto for city life and shook the country mud from hor leather shoos. Soon tnoroaftor the hotel which Mr.

Randall continued to Inhabit was wiped out by fire and tho proprietor said he narrowly escaped going Into oblivion with it Tho cross suits between this couple have been referred to F. U. Benjamin, of Hlvorcoad. ENTERTAINMENT AT ASSOCIATION HALL. Concert by the New York Philharmonic Club and 31 tm.

UeobeLsn(tn The eighth entertainment of the Winter course, of the Young Men's Christian Association rocoptions, was given in Association Hall last evening. The seating capacity of tho hall was taxed long before the hour announced for the entertain ment to bogin, and at 8 o'clock the aisles were also filled and standing room wqb at a premium. The announcement that the Now York Philharmonic Club was to be present was enough to fill tho houso, of itealf; but the addition of Mrs. Honriotta Beebe Lawton'a name to the programme made tho Inducements to music lovers additionally strong. Tho members of the Philharmonic Club are Mr.

Richard Arnold, Mr. Friedhold Uemman, Mr. Emll Schenck, Mr. Eugene Weiner, Mr. Philip Farber and Mr.

August Kalhof. Mr. Arnold's vfoltu solos last evening wore applauded to the echo, and tho performer was repeatodly encored. Mr. Woiner per formed some difficult flute solos iu a masterly man ner, and was heartily appreciated by the largo audience.

The following is the programme, as presented last evening Sextet Symphonic No. 9 Haydn a. iiaro b. Adagio. Nbw Tnrk Philharmonic Glnb.

Violoncello Solo "Oonceno minor," Golterznan Mr. Bmi! Sohonok. Songs, a. "In Autumn." b. "Spring 8on(r," M.

Henrietta Beebo Lavton, with violin oDbligato hv Mr. ArnriM. Violin Sulo "Fairy Danoo," Bazzini Mr. Riohard Arnold. "In th Sunshine," Rofmann New York Philharmonic Club.

Quartet Variations, "God Save the Emperor," Two violins, vinla and violoncello. Flute Solo Impr mptu," Doppler Mr. Knffone Woiner. a. KreninKStar, R.

Wacner a. Krug Kbb York Phllharmnnio Club. Songs, a. A. mrciiaa ooaj.

b. A Valentine Sohlessinger Mrs. Henrietta Beebe Lawton. 'L'Espagnole New York Phtltitnnonic Clnb. Of oourso Mrs.

Beobe Lawton came In for her full share of tho generous applause of the audience. Her singing was peculiarly sweet and clear and tho seleutlons she rendered wero of the best Tho on tertalnment, as a whole, was probably the most interesting and best appreciated one of the entire course. THE NAUTILUS BOAT CLUB. Ita Annual Dinner nnd Election ol a Board of Officers. The annual dinner of the Nautilus Boat Club, eaten last night at Dieter's Hotel, developed the fact that the club is in a very prosperous condition.

Some eighty young men sat down and dis cussed tbe menu, and cheered the toasts and speoches which succeeded. Porhaps if the average of age were taken among all the clubs the Nautilus would be found the jroungeat Its growth has been rapid but Btrong, arid to day it stands equal to any older club la membership, and will In ol! likelihood rank among the first on Long Island as a rowing club before the present year out Last evening, bBfore the dinner, tho annual meet ing was held and resulted In tho election of the following officers: Henry F. Waring, president; Edward J. Williams, vice president; Louis Firuski, treasurer; J. A.

Patterson, secretary; A. B. Pru dons, captain; R. lllllman, first lieutenant; Al. Rlbus, second lieutenant Along tho wall of the dining room was spread a tremendous club flag presented by Mr.

S. Firuski, and on the table stood a huge champagno bottle containing a clock, as a protest against the lemonade odor whioh has somehow attached Itself to the club. There wero several other evidences at the dlnnor last night that the club has outgrown its adolescent aversion. The toasta respondod to wero: "Our Retiring Officers," A. F.

Magill: "The Nautilus Boat Club," H. F. Waring; Tho Nautical Fraternity," J. A. Patterson; "Bay Ridge Shore," Thomas Crane; Our Oarsmen," J.

W. Stray; Our Honorary Mombors," S. Firuski; "The Future of the Nautilus," R. lllllman. "The Tross," II.

Gower Hoso. and "Our Friends In Flushing Bay," Ed. J. Williams. The treasurer's report showed a prosperous state of affairs, as did the secretary's.

The club Is now worth $2,000, owns a fine set ef boats, with three new ones on the way, and has a larger memborshi than ever. Last season its members made a rowing average of 178 miles eaob, or a total of 7,600, whioh Is large oven when compared with the older clubs. Among tho speeches delivered last night were several confident expressions that the Nautilus Club will this year win the Eagle oup, and for this purpose it voted the money for a new shell. Messrs. Robertson and Schmallx added to the en Joymont of the evening by selections on tho vere phone and zither.

BROOKLYN PROPERTY AT AUCTION. Ctoed Prices Paid (or the Herring Es tate, Every Lot Being Sold. Jere. Johnson, snotion sale of the Herring estate, made In tho Real Estate Exchange in New YorS yesterday, was very successful, every lot of the entire estate bolng sold. Following la the catalogue of Brooklyn property: Union avenuo, northeast corner of Bayard street, 2 lots to D.

8. Yeoman $850 00 3 lota adjoining on Union aveuae to Kato Morrison 1,000.00 9 lota on north side of Bayard etioet, 100 feet east or union avenue, to u. u. yeoman a.uvu.uu 5 lots an Lorimor street, southwest corner of Newton street, same 1,660.00 8 lota south side ol Newton street, 100 feet west of Larimer stroot, to Mark Sokstein 2,080.00 1 lot on Newton street, adjoining, to D. S.

Yeo man 260.00 1 Int. mi T.nrlmeT nrmthwaat oorner Of Bay ard street, lo Olvany 780.00 3 lots adjoining Lorimor street, to I. S. Yeoman. 1,0 JU.OO 4 lots adjoining, tn Andrew Lemon 3,010.00 North side ot Richardson stroot, 100 foot west of Lorimor stroot, to Poter Biglin 530.00 6 hita adjoiulng toD.

S. l'ooman a lots adjoining to Jsmes E. Brown 720.00 6 gores adjoininu; to Loonold Michel 400.00 i sores south stdo of Klohardson street, to O. Gilbert 400.00 18 Iota south side of Ewtern Pi rivra running throuuh to Union street, between Roohester and Utioa avenuoB, to Byron W. Olark 6,210.00 FRESH POND TOOFERTY.

l.BR aorea south Bide of Metropolitan rv.ner.r Hogh street, to Ge irgo Keyser 1,600.00 7i71 aoroa north aide of Metropolitan avenue, running to south aide of railroad to A. Koyser. 3,837.90 8.86 acres suuth aide of Mount Olivnt avenue, to Wui. H. Suhr 1,243.20 VINILAND PJtOPEnTY.

IftOaorei wajt side nfJLInooln avonue, between Landis and Maple avenues, to Marcus Fry 1,600.00 Htlf Interest in 73u aoros adjoining to John M. Baldwin 312.00 KEWAHK PBOPEHTY. 3 lots on Maewliortor Btreet, northeast oorner of Johnson street, B. M. Og lou 3 lols on south side of South Sixth street, 100 oet west of Cabinet avonue, to T.

Murphy 600 00 Till? HXUISB LAW IN Fl.A.TBaSH. The Excise Commissioners of Flatbush met last ovoning tn tlio Town Hall. Tho Police Commissioners also held mooting, aftor which thoy waltod upon the Excise Board. Tlio visit was mado withaviowof coming to somo conclusion concerning the persons who aro selling liquor In tho town without a license and who have been notified by tho police to comply with tho law, but haveretusod. Eaoh Board wants the other to make the complaint.

Discussed at the Meeting of the Board of Commissioners. Mr. Hartean's Desire to Havo the Present and Former Administrations gated by the Legislative Committee. Jerome B. Wass Offlcialiy Decapitated.

The Board of Park Commissioners held a regular mooting yesterday evening at City HalL When the minutes of tho Executive Committee had been road, Mr. Ilartoou's motion to take up the Items sorlallm was carried. Mr. Harteau stated that he should opposo tbo purchase of several new teams as provided for by the octlou of thB Executive Committoo, If that were preliminary to the filling up of the Concourse lands oti their own account. It was exDlatned that the uew horaes were recommended purchased by the superintendent.

On motion tbo minute wasadoptod providing for the purchase of six horses. Mr. Hartoau uoxt objected to tho minute recommending that the superintendent make arrangements to level the east and west ends of tho Concourso lands. He held that the gentlomen of the Executive Committee were trying to ovade the contract system in dolug all work for the parks. Mr.

Oakley moved that all speeches in debate bo limited to five minutes. The motion was carried. Mr. Harteau presented a resolution providing that tho Concourse lands be graded on a level with the boulorard nnd filled in with beach und othor sud, and that tho work Be done by contract, to bo awarded to the loweBt responsible bidder. Tho cheapest way to do tho work, he Bald, Is by contract To do it from the park would bo difficult on accouut of the distance the toams would hare to travel from the park to Coney Island.

By this plan the cost would bo probably 25 cents per cubic yard I can't understand why the Commissioners want to do the work with our own teams. President Easton If wo accept Mr. Cranfotd's bid it will cost IB conts ner yard. If we do it ourselves it will cost 10 cents per yard. Mr.

Oakley said tho surplus sand at tho Island could bo nicely utilized. But it was doubtful if 200, 000 cubic yards of sand should be taken from the beach. Mr. Van VIock explained that the consideration was merely to take tho sand from the higher parts of tlio Concourse lands aud transfer It to the low lands. Certainly, there could ba no objection to such a proceeding.

It did not Involve filling In tho Concourse lands, as that expression Is commonly understood. A voto being taken on Mr. Harteau's resolution, It was defeated by a vote of six to ono. Tho original ininuto was thon approved. Mr.

Harceau next objected to having Mr. Van Vleck appointod a committoo of ono to confor with Mr. Calvin Vaux, who was connected with the park years ago, tn regard to matters of interost pertaining to tho park. Ho said there were enough one man committees and that Mr. Vaux's timo was too far back to make him of any use tor present purposes of consultation.

Mr. Hartoau moved to amend so aB to placo John Y. Culyer's name in place of Vaux's. Mr. Van Vleck said It was a poor time now to go to John Y.

Culyer for asiistanco and counsel after ho had boon gotton rid of in the sbameful manner made use of by the Commission. The motlou being lost Mr. Harteau moved to have John Y. Culyer's name added to that of Mr. Vaux.

This was also lost and the original minute was ap provod. Mr. Hartoau next objected to the minute recommending that plans showing the boundary line of ihe Concourse lands and the proper location of Dutch fascine mattresses on tho beach at Coney Island for tho preservation thereof. He resented a resolution providing that Engineer Samuel Mo Elroy and Colonel Johu Y. Culyer be deputed to prepare such plans as thoy may deem necessary for tho preservation of the beach.

Tho resolution was declared out of ordor. Mr. Van Vlock moved the referonco to the Executive Committoo of the mailer of the consultation with the Gravesend authorities in regard to determining the boundary line of the Concourso lands. The mo. ion was carried.

Mr. Somers moved that action be taken to learn what guarantee th a firm of R. KautPrs Sons would give incase their system of Dutch fascine mattressos for the preservalion of the beach were adopted, that it would stand the tests of storms and tidal influences. He stated that 200 feet of the beach had recently been washed away. The system had been used with eminent success in Holland and In this country.

It would cost from $8 to $10 per foot. Mr. Harteau thought that the opinions of experienced engineers like John Y. Culyer and Samuel McElroy ought to bs obtained. He moved to amend Mr.

Somers' motion to Incorporate tile above names and have thom draw plans. Mr. Oakley moved to amend by adding the name of Engineer Van Buren, and that the total cost not oxcoeel $500. Mr. Somers moved to amend further by striking out "at a cost of $500" and substituting "at whatever plans may cost for their drawing." The motion, with Its several amendments, was then adopted.

Von Vleck moved that the Executive Commit too be authorized to have a new musical stand constructed according to plans submitted, and which will cost $4,000. The stand will have a pormanent roof especially shaped to reflect the sound so as to got the bet affect. It will be quadraugular, aud will accommouate a band of sixty two pieces and will havo a solid foundation and basoment Inclosed by granite walls aud so arranged in compartments as to be useful for purposes of storage. Mr. Van Vleck's motion was carried.

Mr. Harteau then moved the adoption ot the following resolution Whereas, The Legislature of this State by rocont action has ordered an investigation into the affairs of all the municipal departments or this city by a committee for that purpose. Tnerefore, be it Retolvtd, That special committee of this Board be appointed, including tho president, to receive said Legislative Committee and afford them every facility for a thorough Investigation regarding the manner in which this Board of Commissioners have discharged their duties; be it further Resolved, That this special committee be directed respectfully to urge upon said Legislative Committee to extend their investigation prior to tbo date of the commencement of tho term of office of the present Board of Commissioners (June 17. 1830) to the end that a truthful, fair and intelligent exhibit of the general management of the Brooklyn Park Department under the oontrolof our predecessors as well as under the present Board may be given to citizens of Brooklyn aud all others whom it may concern. Mr.

Oakley I second tho motion. Mr. Van Vleck I move the resolutions be laid on the table. I don't believe tn lnvlttug investigation of the aots of a former Board. President Easton tor one, court Investigation for our own Board, but when you go back and ask Investigation of a former commission I am opposed to any such action.

I think we have all we can do to look out for ourselves. If you call for an investigation of this Board's acts I am ready for it any timo. I know that I have done nothing to be ashamed of. Somers I am willing to voto either way on this resolution to oblige a friend. Mr.

Harteau Oh. voto on the merits of tha question. Mr. Somers Well, I would like to have Just such an investigation as the resolution invites and I vote not to lay on the table. The motion to lay on the table was lost and Mr.

Harteau resolution was adopted. On motion several minor Improvements in the City Park wero ordered made. Mr. Van Vleck's motion directing Socretary Smith to send copies of Assemblyman Haggerty's Police bill now before the Legislature to all tho Senators nn Assemblymen of Brooklyn, together with a request from the Park Commission that they oppose its passage, was carried. On motion of Mr.

Van Vleck the petition of Jerome B. Wass for au Increase of salary was denied. Mr. Vn Vleck tbeu moved that Mr. Wass' services bo dispensed with aftor April 1.

Tho motlou was carried without a dissenting vote, and Mr. Van Vleck otlored to move a reconsideration if anybody desired to discuss the action. He was prepared to discuss the matter, but no objection had been made. Presldont Easton If you want to know my opinion about It I think it's about time we did all the "inspecting" we wont doue ourselves, and I am heartily in favor of what we have dono to night. Mr.

Somors Is there any necessity ot discharging Mr. Wass now? He has some work to Mulsh up. President Easton Well, he has a month to do it lu. He has been Qvo months at work now, and I think ho ought to bo through with what ho Is at. After somo luformal discussion the Board ad journed.

IN THE BOWLING ALLETS. Game Won by tbe Eautorit District Boodlers and tho Western District In dependenta. The third bowling match between the Ham burg Club, of tho Western District, and the Boodlers, of tho Eastern District, took place yesterday. The Hamburg won tho first game by 140 pointB, the Boodlers the second Dy 7 points; tho chotco of alleys was won by the Boodlers, so that the laBt game ot tho session was played at the latter's ground on Mosorole street. Tho Hamburgs wore defoated by 98 points, which gives tho odd game to tho Eastern District team.

Tho score is as follows; Boons or march. Hamburg. Boodlere. O. SieKraann 148 iCiinzQnatine.

188 H. Hamburg 13lWfllch 110 W. Lnughheod 110 110 P.Lohrbaoh 165 Stadtmullar lkb F. Tamo ltl Battormw 118 T.MoKinney 167 iKinkol Hg L.Kobbe 142'Dahlbunson. H.

Cudior. 142 Myur 17 J. 154Maera 1S7 A. Niomann ltOjWulter 139 Total lTuTotl 1,523 Kefsroe W. Slocum.

Scorers G. Semkon ond W. Loseby. A very exciting bowling match took placo at Independent Hall, 100 Baymond street, Monday evening, betwoen tho Independents and the Chumps, of Clermont avenue. The Independents proved too strong for tho Chumps, and dofoated them by tho score ot 640 to 1,445.

Hollt8, with 215, was the best for tho losers. H. Wlohern, 193; Lohrbach, 183 and Torake, 185, did the best for tho winners. The score Is aa follows SCORE OF MATCH. Independents.

V. Lehrbsch J. Bland R. Monscos A. Niotxir O.

Wiohern O. Wellbrock H. Toroko J. Malmken H. SouwMok H.

Wicheru Chumps. 185 Frost 102 175 Van Riper 147 130 Hou 149 1U4 Mt ICG 1C6 McCaffrey. 158 lGj'Kotcham 125 1B5 124 16o'McOiffin 119 03 193HollU 215 Total 1,445 lieferee, W. Loughheed. Scorers, O.

Slegmann and E. Van Blper. HARE AND HOUNDS. Athletes Who Will Do Some Rapid ISun xtius Thin Week, The Eureka Hare and Hounds Club will havo a mooting on Friday for the purpose of arranging a championship run for a gold modal The start will bo from Prospoct Park, and the distance run will bo from five to seven miles. The Prospect Harriers will also have a run on Saturday from the club houso, Prospect Park.

Tho Crescent Athletlo Club Hare and Hounds team will have thoir soventh chase on Saturday, starting from tho club house, oornor of Ninth stroot and Ninth avenue HOTEL AI1R1TALS. Hotel St. Gkoboe. J. Vf.

Sanderson, Boston; George Gulldlng, Qeorgo Beaver, New York; Edward Ketcnum and wife, Connecticut; William Matscho, John Brahne, F. If. Eastman and wife, city; H. Coddlngton, Now York; J. a So ram Is, O.

D. 8. a It Howard Taylor, Philadelphia; D. J. Lynoh, Brooklyn; A.

L. Lelnnd, Boston; G. D. Elghme, Poughkeepsle, 1. Y.

Fred Farley, Mol bonrno, N. It. A. Lawrence, New York; J. N.

Barr, Summit, N. J. PUT MOKET IS THY PlIBSK. Rov. H.

M. Gallfther delivered a lecture last ntgUtat tho Memorial Presbyterian Church, Seventh avonue and St. Johns place. His subject was Put Money in Thy Purse." Tho goodly sized audience thoroughly enjoyed the lee furor's humorous and pithy remarks. An organ concert lasting about minutes preceded the tattstitv' Reunion of the Long Island College Alumni.

Mayor Whitney's Words of Counsel to His Medical and Snrglea! Fiieada A ddresxes by Graduates, Old Time, fieceni and Prospective. Most, of tie prominent medical talent of tbe olty attended the seventh annual dlnnor of tho Association of the Alumni of Long Island College Hos pital at Eemsen Ilall last evening. Over a hundred members ot the association discussed an excep tional epicurean treat while an orchestra In the gallery played airs from the operas. Dr. B.

F. Westbrook, of tho Class of 74, presided, and at 10 o'clock, after briefly congratulating the association upon the Interest taken In their alma mater aud tho benefits of the organization to the college, he Introduced Jtfayor Whitney as the representative of the "City of Brooklyn." The Mayor said It afforded him great pleasure to meet bo many distinguished men from the Long jm.na uoiioge itoapiuu wnicn was one oi we most prominent aud noble institutions In tho city. It hud entered upon a groat career of usefulness and urooKiyn was proua oi it. was a city or hospitals as well aa of ohurches and homes. To the young men who had just entered life his advice was: Bo masters of tho situation.

He was a grocer and some people thought any one could bp a grocer.but he thought some were mighty poor ones. Bo dili gentand faithful," ho continued, "and thus become masters of tho situation. Thon you will becomo eminent and we shall be proud of you." Joseph C. Hutchison, M. LL.D., tho now president of the college, was greeted with prolonged cheering when ho rose to respond for the Collegiate Department." He said that the main objer of most atumm associations was tbe renewal of old and the making of new friendships and the destruction of an annual dluuor.

But the needs of the institution should bo taken Into couslderation at least once a year, and the alumni of every colleen should consider it a primary object to aid their alma motor as far as in thoir power. If one of thom saw anything In the management to denounce he should not donounco It broadcast, but do it quietly. Let him undertake to correct the faults, not publish them. He hoped that all differences between medical men would soon be harmonized, and as this was the only medical college In the city that the whole local profession should bo Inducod to rally to its support. Mr.

Thomas H. Rodman, President of the Board of Begents, speaking for that body said he never came to a public dlnnor that some ono before him did not take all tho wind out of his sails. Mayor Whitney It wasn't I.J The colloge made no progress at first, but seemed to be going all to smithereens on account ot harmony. But for tho last flvo years all had done their best to promote its prosperity, and now it was a prosperous institution. It was strong Jn lis professors and Board of liegents, and every one was co operating earnestly and vigorously to make it one of the largest and finest in the country.

If tho city continued to grow at its present rate the future of the college would bs assured. All could foel proud of tbe result now, but he felt that all would be prouder still as time rolled on. Dr. Alozander J. C.

Skene, for the "Faculty of tho College," said, among other things, that Brooklyn had enough lawyers; the Mayor had proved thoro were sufficient statesmen, but that tho need of institutions to take care of the body was pressing. Clear headed, pure hearted, able bodied, well educated men were needed for that, and the college had Just sent out a good batoh of that kind. Tlio very raro dlseaso of liberality had broken out, and as it was very contagious more money will follow. Dr. L.

M. Fleming spoke as follows for the graduating class: It is my duty and pleasure to say a fow words In bolialf of the class of 87, upon this occasion, our introduction to the Alumni Association. That the occasion itself will not soon loave our memories Is sufficiently attosiod by the expression upon the faces of tbe members of this class; and also wo Bhall be certain never to forgot our course of tbe past few years, the studies and expe rleuco of which have tended toward and culminated In the exercise we have Just completed. It la unnecessary to spoak at length of our Alma Mater, as mostoilho gentlemen present know as much, or more about her than I do, but we as a class recognize aud appreciate the benefits we have received in our connection with the Long Island College Hospital and shall always be proud of it The fact of graduation from such an Institution is in itsolf a long stop toward our common goal, succoss. We hope to provo in our future course, if any proof is needed, that our advantages have boon of the highest order.

We oelievo that in lecturo room and clinic the drill and practice we have received can be obtained in few if any other medical college in the country. We cannot spend three years of study iu such an institution without there growing iu us a feeling of appreciation of tho efforts of the faculty in giving us the training we have received, and with thie comes feeling of afoction for the colloge and Its customs and fervent wishes for her futuro success, sure to follow, in the rulo of hor Faculty, Board of Begems and Alumni Association. The observation of three years has shown ua how patiently our instructors havo worked for advancement, and the groat skill and scienco at their command, and has also glvon us a sonaoot reverence tor tho work wo are about to enter upon. This is the great debt we owe to the college and faculty, gratefully recognlzod by the members of this class. In conclusion wo wish to offer our hearty thanks for the kind reception they have given us to the Alumni Association.

Aftor lo morrow night we will also be alumni, and wo hope members of this association which is doing so good a work in cementing friendship and intercourse between ita members and striving in every way to bonoflt the institution which has graduated us. The "Sister Hospitals" wero represented by Dr. John Byrne, one of the threo originators of the Long Island College Hospital, as follows: Iu 18 18, aud for a considerable time thereafter, this city, with a population of 100,000, could boast ot but one Institution for the care of its sick or injured, and this was a very Indifferent frame build lug situated in Hudson avonue tho first city hi pi tal, and which was the nucleus of what is now known as the Brooklyn Hospital. Though the population of our olty has Increased sevenfold yet it is cousollng to be able to state that our medical charities havo more than kept pace with this phenomenal Increase In the number of its inhabitants. Indeed, I doubt if any other city, lu this country at least.

can, on tho whola, show a bettor equipped or more emciont nospitai ana uispensury servico than our own. In proof of this statement it is only necessary to refer to the records and the official reports of the different medical charities from timo to time published. And, I would here take occasion to express regret that the distribution and circulation of those reports should be so generally couQued to tho profession. This is not so in othor countrios aud ought not to obtain hore. Bven tabulated statements of the amount and character of gratuitous professional work accomplished In the lutorustsof true charities for tho alleviation of human suffering and the advancement of medical science, would bo by no moans sucli dry reading as somo might suppose.

Beside, a better acquaintance with tho nature and extent or the labors of hospital aud dispensary physicians and surgeons by tho general public would, In my opinion, serve the doublo purposo of stimulating those whom God has blest with health and means to contribute liberally to the support of theso institutions, aud secondly, preparing thom tho better to estimate and duly appreciate the value of Judicious medical and surgical services. Any attempt on my part to discuss the characteristic feature of any ono of our medical charitiop, whether as to organization, scope or efficiency, and to the exclusion of others would noc, I think, be in good tasto. Whoro all are actuated by the same lofty motive, and so far as the professional conuuet of each is concerned, united as brothors in the noble work of mitigating the suffering of our sick and afflicted fellow tbologs, 1 need only say that each will ba found to bo faithfully carrying out tho beneficent purposes of its foundation. I cannot, however, allow this opportunity to pass without congratulating you, gentlemen, alumni of the Long Island Col lego Hospital, on your good fortuno to bo ablo to point to that institution as your alma mater. And, as every fact connected with tbe early history of that successful pioneer in tho union of clinical and didactic teaching must posspe a special Interest tor you, I will, with your permission, ndd one which I think has heretofore been overlooked or misunderstood, and it is this: About thirty years ago three physicians of this city.

Dr. Daniel Ayres, Dr. Louis Baker and a third whose modesty forbids me to mention, being impress'" with tho defective methods universally adopted In this country for imparting a thoroughly practical medical and Burgl cal education, after many coniereuces on tho subject, conceived the idea of establishing a hospital and medical college in one, and in 1858 a most liberal cbartor was obtained from our State Legislature. Tho next step deemed best was to add to their number three other prominent and well known physicians as well as Influential citizens, for the most part porsonal frlouds of tho above named originators of the enterprise, all of whom, the latter lucluded, contributed lioorally to a fund for tho purchase of the nrODorty now ownod by tho I college and thon known as tho Perry Mansion." Aa to why the originators or the all important clinical method of teaching, which Is the distinctive charactorlslic feature of tho Long Island College Hospital, do not eoom to have participated in the collegiuto organization which was effected two years subsequently, recorded history Is silent and must remain so I deem it my duty, howovor, to add that to the untiring efforts or tno association oi gen llomon who took charge of this scientific infant after it hail braved the perils of a difficult parturi tion, to say nothing oi tne aangers oi weaning ana donation, and to the co operation of able professors, the highest praise that perseverance could merit or buccbib claim is rightfully due. Dr.

Foster, of the York Medical Journal, re sponded to tho "Medical Press;" ex Assistant Dis trict Attorney T. Moore upheld the dignity of the Brooklyn Bar," and Dr. John Harrigan the "Pres ident elect of the Alumni." In addition to the speskors tho following wero prosont: Dra A. Stub, N. Hoagland, J.

C. Hutchison, William Wallace, K. A. Lewis, E. H.

Bartley, J. S. Wright, J. H. Raymond, J.

D. liuehmore, J. A. McCorklo, Charles Jewell, F. E.

West, Arthur Mathewson, Samuel Showell, H. N. Read, H. W. Band, C.

Do La Vergne, E. Palmer, 0. B. Gunther, Kobert Long, T. A.

Joyo, J. M. Rous, E. D. Page, D.

M. Fuller, W. M. Hutchinson, V. F.

Parker, H. L. Coohran, Q. Hall, R. L.

Dickinson, J. McF. Winflold, J. M. Van Cott.

W. II. Belcher, Alexan der lino, W. A. Northridgo, H.

George MoNaughton, William Browning, B. Bogart, C. T. Glldersloeve, H. C.

Rogers, J. W. Hyde, V. Forguson, J. C.

Shaw, J. 8. PrOUt, R. Q. EclOB, Georgo H.

Kuhn, G. Butler, A. U. Buck master, Thomas II. Rochester, B.

L. H. McGlnnls, L. J. Morton, J.

L. Zabrlskle, T. R. N. Ferris, T.

Bauer, Bmillo Buohaoo, George G. Hop kins, G. W. Whlto, a. W.

Cushing, A. W. Shlard, George Q. Mlrrieloos, Alexander Hutching, J. J.

Colgan, J. J. Koyos, A. It Jarrott, J. W.

Flemming, George R. Fowler, F. W. Rockwell, P. H.

Kretzsch mar, W. H. Kretzsohmar, 3. F. Qulun, H.

M. Ayres, Goorge Drury, II. K. Boll, C. N.

D. Bell, R. C. Brew ster, W. G.

Russell, Hobo rt Newman, A. W. Brewster, Judge W. J. Osborne, J.

T. Prager, J. C. Smith, G. T.

Rloly, C. M. West, F. li Dodgo, W. B.

Hunter, H.TJ. Polhemus, J. A. Pfarre aud W. M.

Glimian. FOURTEENTH WAKD DEMOCRATS. A Resolution About Police Juaticco Causes Debate A meeting of tho Fourteenth Ward Demo cratic Association was hold last night in tho offices of ex Assemblyman McCarren, at 11 Bedford ave nuo. Presldont Thomas J. Patterson occupied the chair and James B.

Tully recorded. Waller Overond offevod tho following resolutions: llcsalved. That It is tho sonoo of tho Fourteenth Ward Democratic Association that the bill intro duced in tho Assembly by Mr. Bacou, providing for mi Inuroaso in tho salaries of tho police justices In tills city, should bo defeated. Hesomea, That a copy or tuoso resolutions oo ior wardod to tho Senators and Assemblymen from Kings County.

Justice Thomas J. Kenna asked Mr. Ovorond whero ho got his Information on which ho baaed his resolution '1 Mr. Ovorond replied that ho got his Information from tho press. Justlco Kenna replind that kg had never seeu anything iu iho newspapers about Increasing tho sal aries Of polico Justicos.

Mr. Ovorond askod him If he know positively that no such bill had been Introduced and Mr. Konua said that ho did not. Ho did know that the bill Mr. Bacon Introduced was known as the Elliott bill and provided for au lucreaso of policomou's salaries.

Tho resolution was tabled, after which tho mooting adjourned. The uew (iansavoort market building in New York will occupy a plot of ground too feet mnare. The Question of Building Gram mar or Primary Schools. Members of the Board Who Think that the Increase of the Latter Should be Checked for the Present Resignations, Promotions and Appointments. The Board of Education held a regular meeting yestorday afternoon, at ihalr rooms in Red Hook lane.

President Payne stated that tho object of the Teacher's Certificate bill before the Legislature, about which so much has lately been said, was merely to make a uniform standard throughout tho State (or teachers' examinations. President Payne reviewed the ettorta made by Brooklyn educators to defeat the bill as It stood originally or to have a substitute presontod exempting Brooklyn and Now York from the objectionable provisions. A resolution was prosented by Mr. Gutlfoyle and its adoption tooted, to th effect that tho Board op pose the bill. Colonel Culyer ottered a resolution as a substitute for Mr.

Gullfoylo's, to the following olloct: Resolved. That It 1b referred to tho Law Committee of thia Board, In conjunction with the president and tne aupertntenuouc or ruono iu Buch action aa may bo nocsssary to oppose any legislation at Albany which would Interfere with tho present method of granting licenses to teach in tho City of Brooklyn. Mr. GateB eaid ho was glad the membars hod acted as they did in regard to tho bill. Ho thought tho Board ought not to assume to dictate or suggest to the Slate legislative authorities.

said he "'Brooklyn and Now York are tho most Important municipalities in the State they aro novertneiess not ine wnoie dumb. Mr. lialsey advocated the eendlng of some effect ivo DroteaL The amendment offered by Mr. Culyer was then. adopted.

Proalrtnnt Pnvno Announced that a BUbliO hear ing on the two Dills, that of State Superintendent Draper and the substitute offered, would be given by tlio Assembly Committee on tho evening of March 8. Tho bill ol Mr. Clareuco A. Martin, tho professional accountant appointed to look over tho books of the Board, amounting to $809.87 was referred to tho Finance Committee. Mr.

Dana offered a resolution to oloao a contract for the purchase of a plot of land on Lafayette ave nue, Deiween scnenct sirees una itwssuu ttTuuuw, Hriioininf Branch Hchool No. 4. at 4.000, for a school Blto. The resolution was adopted. Mr.

Uarkness, of the Schoolhouso Committee, reported that tho bill of J11B.02, for repairs on School No. 11, was not npprored by his committee, to whom It had been referred for examination. He read a report of Superintendent of Construction Naughton, which expressed tho belief that several items of oxpense In tne Dill had neen lucurrea witnout any auiuuruj un. the part of the commitlee which contracted them also, that certain storm doors, erected at a cost of $91, wero dangerous to children going In and out, aud as preventing ogress In 03so of lira or a similar accident tie presented a resolution discharge of tho Schoolhouso Committee from any further riutv in the matter. Mr.

ilnrriiiBr moved the navment of the bill. He statod that the necessity of the work was impera tive. After considerable debate) the motion was carried. Dr. Griffin presented a resolution provldlug that the remuneration of Robert Nowall, curtman for the Board, bo increased $200 a yoar.

Mr. ohiflfiLerl that tho work could nrob ably be dono for loss oxpense than at present if proposals were advertised for. He did not think tlio motion could be legally carried, as there was no contract. Mr. Howosaid proposal? bad beon advertised for In former yoari and tho work awarded at 1500 and $fi00 a yoar.

That much work was obtained and no more. The nrosotit inoumbent of the position dis charged his duties well and conscientiously and was reany worm mucn more. President Payne nuggestcd that tho resolution bo chanced so as to road that the sum of $133.33 bo tho monthly salary of thi expressman. This was ao coDted and the resolution adooted. Dr.

Griffin offered a resolution that tha Library Committee Do directed to send supplies to Now York schools. It was decided out of order. Mr. Kelly called up two resolutions presontod at a previous meeting providing for the iucroase of salaries of heads of departments and teachers of grammar gradee. The resolutions were ouopteo.

They read Heads of departments appointed under those rules nood not toach a class and shall received $1,000 for the first year and an increase of $50 per annum until tho sixth yoar, when $1,230 shall have beon reached, which sum shall be the maximum salary of headB of departments. There shall be no increase, howover, to tho salary of auy head of department unless the said increase Is recommended by tho Local Committee of the school to which sho is assigned and iB approved by tho Teachers' Committee. Resolved, That Soattou II. of Article XI. bo amoudod by adding aftor tho words "an annual salary of $930'' tho following: for the first year and ao ln CTOiiso of $50 per annum until the sixth year, when $1,200 Bhall have been reached, which sum shall bo the salary of the sixth and succeeding Mr.

Kolly, for the Joiut Teachers' and School House committees, reported on tho resolutions referred to them at the lost mooting providing that the grade of the five new schools now being erected be intermediate. Mr. Weir offered a rorolutln providing that the now school near tho corner of Fourth avotiue and Twontioth Btreol bo designated a3 a branch of Primary School No. 10, and that It bo organized under tho direction ot the Local Committee in conjunction with tho Teachers' Committee and tho Suporintondont of Publio Instruction. Mr.

Woir stated that tho great need of the locality was for primnry rather than for intermediate schools. lie deprecated tho idea of making tho school in question Intermediate. Mr. Gullfoyle spoke in support of this view. Mr.

Nicot said it has always bean customary to loavo tho grading of now schools to the local committees or, at least, to consult them. The resolution presontod at tho last meeting by Mr. Harknoss was unprecedented. He offered a rosolu'ion that the new school on Throop avenue be organized as an independent intermediate school by a committoo appolutod by the president, wnue tne tour otnor new sonoois oe organized by the local commltteos in whose Bohool districts they are located. Mr.

Brlstow said the publio educator of Brooklyn were making a mistake in raising the cry for primnry schools. It was necessary to provide additional accommodations for grammar schools up to Uio third grammar grade, while beyond that grade thoro was sutQulent room for additional pupils. Mr. Uarkness said he bad no feeling in tho matter. He added that for the last eight years the Board had been in the habit of ordering the designation of schools as primary or branch schools, but r.ow additional room was required for grammar schools.

Tho public school system had been blocked by the numerous additions of prlmory classes, while the accommodations in the grammar grade had not been increased. The resuH is, he added, that aoholara who have gone through tho primary grade are deliberately kept back by the want, of room In the grammar classes. Mr. Bergen said that lie had been Dne of tho originators of the school on Fourth avenue and Twentieth street, to help out tho throe schools. No.

10, No. 40 and No. 49, and the design was subsequently changed so as to relieve No. 40. It had nvor boon intended for a branch of No.

10. Schools 10 and No. 40 had subsequently boon enlarged. Mr. Woir's amendment intended to make tho new school a branch of No.

10, but that school was so crowded that It could not take care of another branch. Mr. agaiu spekoin support of bis resolution. Mr. Gatos thought the grades of new schools ought to bodetorminod by tho exigencies in auy particular case.

If, ho said, a school cannot accommodate pupils up to a certain grade thou the grade ought to ho raised. He was in favor of making the new schools primary. He thought the opinion of the Superintendent of Public Instruction ought to have considerable wolght in determining new grades. Mr. Scott favored making tho now schools primary.

He said the blocking in tlio school system was ten times as great in the primary grades as in the intermediate. He also advocated local self government among tho echoola. Mr. Halsoy moved that tho whole matter bo laid over for a special mooting to be held two weeks hence, when Superintendent Patterson's views could be obtained. This motion was laid on the table.

The previous question was thon called for, and Mr. Nicot's resolution providing that the Throop avenue school bo organized as a separato intermediate school, and that the four other new schools bo organized by the local committees of their respective districts, was passed. Mr. Weir's resolution wbb then adopted, and tho Board adjourned. The Committee on Teachers report tho following resignations, deaths, promotions, transfers and appointments of teachers acceptod or noted by them at their meeting held February 8, 1887, also tho report of leave of absence granted: Resignations No.

16, Mary E. Black, Mallnda Buah: No. 18, Lizzie S. Van Horen; No. 87, Mary A.

Ledwith; No. 33, Kntherine L. Hauf, Caroline E. Johnson; No. 84, Edward P.

Crowell; No. 86, Thomas D. Murphy; No. 37. Elizabeth A.

O'Malley, Esther A. Seer; No. 40, Alice W. Eno; Fulton avenue, Jane A. Ruoff; No.

8, Jonnle H. Phillips; No. 9, Helon W. Merrltt; No. 20, Susie Young.

Deaths No. 20, Mary Cullen: No. 30, Charles A. McLaughlin; Henry avenue, Lizzie Lee. Transfers nud Promotions No.

4, Ellzaboth M. Curaborson No. 7, Mary J. OwonB, Henrietta Ahlers, Mary F. Murray, Mary E.

O'Hara; No. 15, Annie Haydock Moore; No. 18, Agnoa M. Komp; Mnry E. Duffy, Evelyn B.

Stanley, Maggie I. Von Busklrk. Annie M. Lucas, Lula N. Black, Ella G.

Watson, Laura E. Alexander, Florence L. Parr, Georgette W. Kemp, Mary W. Morris; No.

18, Sophia F. Moonch; No. 26, Viola Phillips Susan C. Hopkins: Sarah E. Dixon, Julia A.

Tuttle, Catherine E. Hays, Minnie J. Catoly, Sarah M. Farquhar; No. 83, Catharine L.

O'Brien, Charlotte A. Martin, Mary B. McDonald, Jessie L. Doming; No. 34, Millie H.

Bartlott, Eva Smith, Ada V. Husband; branch, Martha W. Langstaff, Margaret M. Hnmmett; No. 37, Alice Barnes, Mary C.

Smyth, Nelly M. Bossey, Mary C. Wilson, Fhebe E. Brlgham, Mary J. Fltz gatrick: Maggie J.

Freure, Margaret O'Keilly arah S. Hobboy, Mary E. Gray, Lottie E. Hoffman, Hannah Crook, Frankie A. Jones: No.

40, Carrie M. Lloyd. Florence A. DoWolt, Ketone A. Batchollor, M.

L. Cole; Fulton street, Maria Allen, Tlmothea A. King, Jennie E. Flynn, E. C.

Davis, Martha Jackson. Appointments No 3, Beatrice H. Slalght; No. 4, John J. vVolls, Era A.

Waterman No 16, Florence Marshall, Eva If. Kouuody; No. 6, Sarah M. Far quhar; No. 27, Mary E.

Collins; No. 30, Thomas Murphy; No. 83, Jennie E. Phillips; No. 84, Annie B.

Allen, Joseph V. Wlthorbeo: No. SO, K. V. Crowell No.

42, Mary I. McGrath Henry avenue. Maude B. Hart; Fulton avenue, John H. Barren; Cypress Hills, Nolllo E.

Hart; Bennett avonue, Elizabeth S. Ferres. Appointments for a specified rirao Contral, Georgia Gates, Stella M. King, Ellen L. Hills, Alice J.

Brown, Helen A. Northrup, Adellna A. Ballon. M. Josephine Brink, buoy T.

Lewis, Clara C. Calkins, Carrie N. Balsley, William T. Vloymen, Sarah F. Stobblns; No.

2, Sarah J. McComb; No. Martha J. MInshull; No. 16, Marlon R.

Cogswoll, Elizabeth W. Whltaker, Georgia M. Francis; No. 16, Martha J. MoMulklu, Florence Marshall; No.

18, Amelia K. Bnggotrora, Emma J. Sweet: No. 19, Marguento A. MarBRllles: No.

25. BesBio v. Claxton. Victoria T. Cranford; No.

28, Emma L. Wegensell; No. 27, Marie E. Frolderaux, Lllllo H. Curtis, M.

Morry woathor, Marlon Elliot, Agnes B. McKeon; No. 81, Annto McCaffrey: No. 33, Jossle L. Doming, Ellen T.

F. MoSorloy; No. 57, Belle D. Matthews, Emma L. Smith; No.

40, Cora E. Lung, Alice II. Strong; No. 42, Charlotte L. MncRoynolds.

Leave of Absence Granted No. 10, E. FranceB Carleton. COLONEL, JOYCE Replies to tbe Fervid Prose of Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The following letter uhows thtt the poet Joyce has not been sllonced by his poetic rival Washington, D.

ft, Fobruary 27, 1887. MY VSIB BOK I was shown to day at Willard'a Hotel, by a nowa reporter, the monthly screed of one Ella Wheeler, otlll olalmiug my poom, "Love and Laughter," and congratulating you on the devoted discernment you portend, as It wero, in rushing to the front as tho champion of this beautiful, mild, virtuous poetess. This Is a ten times told case, and one In which Ella aud Bolfird, Clarke Co. are lntore9tod for cash, at the expense of my notoriety. Tho lady must remember that somo three years since John Church of Cincinnati, put muslo to my words, "Lovo and Ijiughtor," and she, taking advertising umbrage at tbelr seeming audacity, brought suit on copyright in the United States Court, and.

when I wus ready to prove that the lines were written In January, 1863, for tho late George D. Prentice, this passionate poetess withdrew her suit and now abused me as a lunatic, a prisoner and a liar. This settles tho authorship. This langhago Is bo lovely from a lady, that it reminds me ot the fellow who abused the prosecuting witness when his client was acoueed of stealing a hog. Oh, thou.

Bless you my child. Yours sincerely, John A. JOTCB. This Paper has tbc Larseut Circulation ol sny Evculnsr Paper PnMisbecl lu (ho liuilod Slates. St raluc om an Advertising Ittvdiuiu in therefore apparent.

THE BROOKLYN EAGLE CAN BE OBTAINED EVERY EVENING FROM THE AGTCNT8 OF THE MAN HA TTA NE WS GOMPAN AT THE BRIDGE STATION OF THE NEW YORK ELEVATED RAILROAD. Con (In 11 ins: the Arbitration Commission. The Legislature has passed a bill extending the term of the Arbitration Commission from ouo yeur (the period named in the net of 188G, which has nearly expired), to three years more. Messrs. Purcell, Robinson and Donovan, the latter of Brooklyn, are named in the Extension bill as the Commissioners, being the ones originally nominated by the Governor tmd confirmed by the Semite.

The continuance of the Board is the refmlt of the record made by it in the experimental first year. The prolongation of the body settles the fact that the principle of arbitration has been made permanent in the polity of the State, alike because it has worked fairly well and because the politicians iu both parties are afraid to dispense with it. The law has not pursued the course which was expected, although it has accomplished some of the good results which wore antiei pated. The expectation was that there Would be frequent recourses to local arbitration on the results of which the State Board, ns a tribunal, would pass. As a matter of fact recourses to local arbitration have been rela tively few, while in several instances the Board, or some one of its members, has effect ively and directly suggested to employes and employers a basis of settlement of their dis putes, and has inspired them with the spirit of eettleiuent, to begin with.

This is a benign work. The utility of the Board is not measurable by contrasting the number of dis putes which it has composed with the larger number in which its offico has not been availed of. The progress ol the principle of voluntary arbitration may be slow at first. The progress of most roformn is but as the blessing which is promised to peacemakers rests on their motives and labors and is not lessened by the instances of passion in which their work is rejected, so does this principle of voluntary arbitration repose its claim to the considerate judgment of mankind on the gracious fact of its spirit and endeavor, unaffected by the willfulness or perversity of those who resist the noble impulse. The existence and course of the Board are an illustration of the gospel of humanity.

The money it costs is a contribution to the spirit nal forces which enter into the golden rule. The Board is a protest against the sheer sor flidnoss of capital and against the sheer leveling feeling of agrarianism. It is a protest framed into act ami fact by the sovereign power of the Commonwealth. The longer the Board lasts the more will public opinion preach recourse to it beneficent power and a quickening of its peaceful and gentle capacities. It is easy and hard to say: "There is nothing to arbitrate.

There is no way to enforce the recommendations," etc. That is tho talk in public of those who say in private They should be shot down like dogs" meaning working men who unite in asking for their rights of those who clamor for a BtroDg army, raised by a strong Government and led by a Btrong man;" of those who have no confidence in popular institutions and the like. However rich or cultivated or high in the social scale, these men who say or who would like to say these things may be or may claim to be, their doctrine is born of hate, cruelty and barbarism and is unworthy either of philanthropists, patriots or Christians. There is much to arbitrate. There ib a power in public opinion which makes a settlement based on justice and mercy more potent than the decrees of kings or congresses.

The minds that despise and scorn the sufferings and rights of labor, organized or unorganized, clamor for the powers of tyrants and are not even fit to adorn the station of slaves. Those who desire a strong army of a strong government run by a strong man invite and invoke on themselves the ills thoy would mete out to others, and bes2)eak a storm that, but for the provident and benign principle of concession, alike regulating law and tempering liberty, would whelm thorn and their fortunes in a common catastro2)he. America is no place for audi a spirit. The reBt of the earth ia becoming too hot for it. The Eaole rejoices at the fact that arbitration is imbedded in the life of the State.

We are glad it has just been made a part of the polity of the nation. We believe that it carries in it the eventual surety of the harmony of labor and of capital. If this be but an error, it is an error which wo revere. If this be but a delusion, it is a delusion which we hope and believe will yet enwrap the whole world in its angelic form. Collector iTIaffOHe's Confirmation.

The confirmation of tho nomination of Collector Magone, although long delayed, has come at last. There never could have been any doubt among reasonable people as to the result, aa his eminent fitness for tho office was universally admitted and only the blindest partisanship could have suggested a question on that subject. No doubt the event would have taken place at a much earlier date but for his persistent refusal to listen to proposals to job out the patronage of the ofiice which were not in the public interest, and these proposals, it may bo stated, came from Democrats as well as from Eepublicans in the United States Senate. For his firm and uncompromising resistance to such proposals Collector Magone deserves all credit, and the people of this country will not soon forget his courage for froedom and reform. The position of Collector of New York is among the most important in the gilt of the Government of this country.

As the natural entrepot of two thirds of the commerca of the United States, the Port of New York occupies a position altogether exceptional and the responsibilities of the office of Collector call for qualifications of on extraordinary oharacter. The amount of discretion vested in him is so great as to make his office virtually a judicial one. He is intruBted with tho execution of laws complicated in their nature and liable to great abuse in the absence of a firm hand. He can make or mar the fortnneB of great merchants, and he possesses opportunities of reaping profit for himself such ob no other man can have. Until the time of President Cleveland the New York Custom House was nothing but a great political machine.

It was run for years in the interest of the Republican party, and although this was not the case to so marked a degree in tho time of Collector Boberteon as in that of his predecessor, General Arthur, the taint still remained and Civil Service lawB were largely enforced in a manner destructive of their spirit. It was tho determination of tho President to change all this which led to the appointment of Collector Magone. A Btrong man was needed there, one able to resist pressure, ono, in fact, who possessed many of the qualities of Mr. Cleveland him Bolf. When the nomination of Mr.

Magone was fist announced the Eagus described hiB character and peculiar qualifications for the high ofiice to which ho had been called and predicted his success. HiB administration of the duties of his office has coinoided most accurately with the forecast then made. It has been clean, economical, impartial and just. The Civil Service law has not only been carried out to the fullest extent but Civil Service principles have been applied to cases which did not strictly come under their rule. Incompetent men have been discharged, tho weak and worthless have been weeded out, but nothing has been done that has not been in the public interest.

Nor should it be forgotten tlu.t Collector Magouo was the first to administer a check to those men whoso undervaluation frauda worn ruining tho trade of honest merchants and demoralizing all business. When it is considered that the Collector took this position at large personal sacrifico, not cnly of income, but also in point of peace and romfort, his excellent administration of the offico becomes the more admirable The con Tho Park neeUttg Yesterday. The Park Commissioners instituted a tardy but promising reform yesterday. They resolved to limit every speech to five minutes. They might oven cut it shorter with safety.

If thia meaauro of restraint had been adopted long ago muoh laceration of official sensibilities in the Board might have been prevented to soy nothing of tho feelings of the public The Concourso lands were again an object of interest. Mr. Harteau feared that six horses about to be purchased had some connection with a nefarious scheme of the Executive Committee for filling up the Coney Island domain according to their own notions. It was explained that the animals wero intended for innocent and honorable use and the transaction was allowed to stand. A motion by the same Commissioner to fill in tho lands with sand by contract was dofeatod, and so was an effort to associate Engineer Mc Elroy and Colonel Culyer in the capacity of advisers on Park matters.

A new music stand with a sounding board roof is to bo con structed in Prospect Park. After some discussion tho Bacon Committee was instructed to investigate not only tho resont Park Commission, but its predecessors. This opens a vista somewhat different from any to be seen in the popular pleasure ground. Steps were properly taken to oppose the bill by which Assemblyman Haggerty proposes to meddle with tho park police. After rejecting Mr.

Wass' petition for an increase of salary the Board resolved to dismiss him on the 1st of April. It has been heretofore asserted that he is a useful person. Before the jocose date fixed for his retirement arrives he may make himself so useful that the Commissioners may reconsider yesterday's action as a more bit of merriment. The Public Schools. Tho Board of Education yesterday formally protested against the passage by the Legislature of any law to interfere with the present method of granting licenses to teach in Brooklyn.

At tho Bame time something was said to the effect that "the Board ought not to assume to dictate to the State legislative authorities." Very true, but it is not dictation to set forth the interest of this city in the matter. The ground taken by President Payne and Superintendent Patterson seems to be that as the teachers who hero got licenses to teach expect to teach hero the existing plan serves very well. Tho Albany Department of Education favors a form of license whioh will be good anywhere in the State. If, as appears to be admitted, our method of examination is satisfactory, eould not its results bs accepted and tho certificate be made to serve the general purpose without overthrowing tho established local machinery The salary rules were amended so as to advance the compensation of heads of departments and teachers of grammar grades from $950, at the rate of $50 a year, until a limit of $1,250 is reached. The most important subject considered was the grade of the fivo new schools.

Mr. Kelly reported from committee a resolution in favor of making them intermediate. Mr. Weir moved that No. 10, on Fourth avenue, be made a primary, and the motion was adopted.

Tho Throop avenue school was made intermediate, and the others were left to be organized by tho committees of the several districts. Whatever they may think about it, the pressing need is for primary instruction, and until this is provided not an additional dollar should be expended oa any other kind. Th 's country, it seems, is not the only one which enjoys the distinction of possessing "boodle" Aldermen. Tho notorious corruption and inefficiency of the corporation of the great City of London are now to be dragged to light by moanB of an official investigation, and this, it is to be hoped, will be but the prelude to an entire change of methods in that quarter. For twenty years Liberal administrations have been attempting to carry moasuros for tho better government of London, but their efforts have always been defeated.

The combination of "boodlers" and blockheads interested in resisting all change haB proved" strong enough to defeat Parliamentary action and kept matters in their present state. Now, however, that a government investigation is to be heid which is to be public and open, it should result in an entire change. It is reported from London that dispatches have been received there from Canada by the Government which assume a muoh more conciliatory attitude in regard to the fisheries dispute than tho Canadians have heretofore shown. They are of such a nature as to suggest a new settlement which may be considered satisfactory by both parties. Mr.

Howitt's letters, published in the Eaomc yesterday, bear witness to the warmth of the entente cordiale existing between his Honor the Mayor of New York and the Dinner Committee of the Brooklyn Young Men's Democratic Club. The apprehension that Mr. Hewitt's feelings had been lacerated by the suppression of his letter was not more credit able to the committee than the assurance that his feelings were very far from being lacerated is creditable to Mr. Hewitt. Both sides come out of the affair with no little glory.

The committee has perfeoted a record that will stand the most critical inspection of posterity, and Mr. Hewitt haB shown that he does not wear his heart upon his sleeve for daws to peck at. Over the whole situation is diffused an atmosphere of grace, mercy and peace. The burning of tho steamer W. H.

Gardner on the Tombigbce River last evening, involving as it did the loss of about twenty lives, is a very sad affair. One of its worst features was the fact that some of those who lost their lives were on a pleasure trip which turned out for them to be a tragedy. Such events seem to come in a regular cycle of peri odical regularity, and human science and knowledge seem powerless to prevent them. In this instance there seems to have been no Jim Biudso at the engine to take care of the lives of his passengers. The bill granting women the right to vote at municipal elections, which prospered so amazingly during the early stages of its pro gress, has oncountered a snag.

When it was reached in the Assembly yesterday the pul chritudinous Erwin moved that it be laid aside. The valiant and ohivalrio Sheohan led a gallant opposition, but the motion prevailed by a vote of 43 to 33. This probably seals the fate of the measure fortho present session. The Eagle is sorry for the disappointment of a few fair women and brave men but it is not sorry that the privilege of voting ia withheld. The whole situation in regard to the subject of female suffrage may thus be summarized Men are opposed to bestowing the right to vote on women because women do riot want it.

If the time ever comes when they do want it they will get it. Such a general desire would imply a reasonable ground for granting it, and it is not in tho nature of man, who is the slave of so many of woman's unreasonable demands, to refuse any of her reasonable ones. The work of tho Building Department this i i i year, up to tne ena or ieoruary, snows a gratifying increase over the figures ofl88B, which was a year of exceptional growth. The figures which were published in the Eagle last evening show that permits were taken out during February for no less than 290 buildings of an estimated cost of $1,117,425. This is a larger number of buildings than any rocord of a previous February shows, and as regards value the figures were only exceeded by those of February, 1884, when some exceptionally costly structures were being erected.

Of the new buildings now in course of construction in this city the great majority are residences, showing that the enormous building operations of last year failed to equal the growth of our population. When it is remembered that in 1886 we built enough houses to accommodate 55,000 people, the full meaning of the present building boom will be apparent. reaching effect thus indicated is beautifully illustrated by a small but interesting table of statistics printed iu vesterday's Eagle. It appears that in 1885 the horses which drag the firo apparatus of the city consumed only 8.S)1G worth of feed and bedding, but in 1880 they made away with $13,121 worth an advance of about 50 per cent. Now, it stands to reason that thoy could not have done this if there had not been a very decided iin provement of the breed." An aiiimal in a state of nature, so to say, before he has been sub jected to cultivating and refining influences, can only consume a certain quantity of nourishment, and is comparatively indifferent to the straw upon which he reposes.

But when the process of culture begins to operate, reaching down from the race track through all tho stables of the town, when he becomes an equine itsthete, as it were, his appetite is rig orously stimulated and his tastes are more exacting as to tho couch upon which ho dis poses his graceful limbs when he addresses himself to sleep. The Commissioner of tho Fire Department and its Chief Engineer are to ba congratulated on the "improvement of the breed," as demonstrated in their engine houses. If there was racing all tho year thoy might double the appropriation for their horses. Yet it would be just like a churlish taxpayer to object to this, and the uncultured Assembly Committee may rudely ask for another explanation. The Roman Catholic Church and the Knishla of Labor.

It is evident now that one of the chief ob jeots of Cardinal Gibbons' visit to Kome was to discuss the subject of tho troubles in St. Stephen's parish and to consult with the ecclesiastical authorities as to the proper course for the Church to pursue in reference to labor organizations. His Eminence has placed before the Vatican a formal statement of the views which he is prepared to urge. He thinks that a broad condemnation of the Knights of Labor would be impolitic and usoless that it would alienate the sympathy of the American working classes and might hamper tho mission of the church to the laboring poor. In his opinion the dangers apprehended from the organiza tion are exaggerated.

At least one third of the members are Roman Catholics, and if tho Church exercises a due discretion it can keep keep them within the bounds of law, order and morality. He also declares it to be untrue that the knights are a secret order in the sense condemned by the Church, and accordingly contends that they are not exposed to cancnical censure. It will scarcely be questioned that these views of tho American primate are wisely conceived. The most prejudiced critics do not pretend that labor organizations are in themselves improper. The right of workingmen to combine for the protection of their interests and the promotion of their welfare is undisputed.

There is abundant proof that in the hands of men of good judgment and modera tion organized labor can do much for its own advancement. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is a familiar example. If all or ganizations of laboring men had been conducted in the spirit that controls the Brotherhood no complaints would ever have been hoard. American public sentiment is only hostile to demonstrations that are the fruit of the advice of reckless or ignorant leaders. Cardinal Gibbons has correctly interpreted this sentiment and recommended a policy which the Chiirch can expediently and consistently follow.

To repress the ambition of tho working classes to raise themselves in the social scale by such legitimate means as union and co operation afford is the desire of no intelligent man, whether he be in the church or out of it. On the contrary, to encourage such efforts is the duty of every one who believes that human happiness is tho chief end and aim of all human endeavor. It is far better that tho Roman Catholic Church should continue to exert its conservative influence in a cause in which the passions of men are so easily inflamed than to imperil its usefulness by measures which would deprive it of the sympathy of the working classes and loosen the reins of its authority over them. The Wire Pole Farce. Another act in the farce of removing the electric wire poles has begun.

When Judge Clement decided that those recently put up on Classon avenue must come down he and the complaining residents on that thorough faro doubtless thought that an unauthorized nuisance would presently be abated. But it now appears that if the New York and New Jersoy Telephone Company removes its standards the Fire Department will erect other and perhaps bigger ones in their places, because wires are needed in that particular street for the service, because there is no way of stringing them except upon poles, and because there is ample authority in the law for the planting of these supports by the department. Assuming the truth of this position the last state of the Classon avenue people will be as bad as, if not worse than, the first. What they objeot to is not the telephone company and its suave officers, but the poles. These unsightly objects are not a whit more attractive when they are exhibited by tho Fire Department.

The blame for this vexatious situation of affairs is to be divided. Part of it belongs to the draughtsman of tho Subway bill. He made several mistakes, of which the moBt radical was the omission to entitle it, "An Act to Prevent the Burying of Electric Wires in tho City of Brooklyn." But the bulk of the responsibility rests upon the Subway Commissioners. They were clothed with ample powers, wero made in fact an independent body outside of the looal government system, accountable to nobody, upon tho theory that they were so expert, so energetic, so brilliant, that if only let alone thoy would push tho business to an early and triumphant conclusion. They have been fooling with it for twenty months with trifling results.

The wireB intrenobed are insignificant in number compared with those still overhead. There will apparently soon be more poles if there are not already than there were when the Commissioners began work. If the Bacon Committee's jurisdiction covers stupidity as well as criminality it will investigate this work. Wcit End Ownership Settled. The Court of Appeals have affirmed the purchase of Coney Island Point, renamed the West End, by Mr.

William Ziegler from the Town of Gravesend. Two years ago he bought the 150 acres for $183,000, after the voters of the town had ratified the proposition with only ono dissenting vote. Messrs. Robert Furey, A. R.

Culver, Thomas White und one other, lessees in possession, maintained that a sale could be made only to them by the terms of their lease. The decision of Justice Barnard in their favor has been successively overruled by tho General Term and by the Court of Appeals. The lessees have not been entirely fortunate in their speculation in' that property, of which the nearness to the cities and tho frontage on the Bea make the value great. Mr. Ziegler was credited with large.