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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE SUNDAY, MARCH 20. 1887. 1.5 IN THE FIEE DEPARTMENT. HIGHER W0KK E0R WOMEN to i.F.r PAitTs or houses. TO LET PART OF HOUSE PAKLOB floor and second floor.

State st. SECRET SOCIETY NOTES. branches (aught No one can criticise us on the point of vastness. Somo of us have friends who struggle to transfuse tho masses only too fitly named with a spark of intelligence. The tale of their warfare with over largo classes and over large courses, the semi annual avalanches of examination papers, dealing with irrational test questions, the summary of their work at high pressure, their discouragements, defeats, Is not pleasant In the home life the young woman finds many things to mar the smoothness of hor life.

Tho servant question, for Instanco. Is it not dally agitated throughout the length and breadth of the land with acrimony, with eloquence, with pathos? When one clearheaded woman of wide observation and long experience vonturos to suggest that it will soonest be settled by the application of system, by some such well understood rules and specifications, for mistress and maid, as now enter into every engagement between men, presto all will be changed and for the better. Our relations as regards the lower classes need a thorough overhauling and readjustment Misunderstandings between employer and employee are continually arising. We see alcoholism, socialism, anarchy gradually Imbruting the spirits of our lower classes, while nervous debility, poverty of blood, the blind greed of gain and short sighted Indifference to moral and political responsibility are depleting the powers with which free born Americans should resist them. Wo cannot excuse ourselves on the plea of inability to begin this groat work of philanthropic regeneration.

It has already been Inaugurated here and there, by noble men and women, wiser than their time, who have risked am E. Hubbard; sentinel, George E. J03lln; trustees, D. W. Smith, William H.

A. Maynard and M. Brown; medical examiner, Frank Baldwin, M. D. ODD FELLOWS.

The noble granda and past grands of all the lodges of I. O. O. F. of Kings County, District No.

2, assembled together on Wednesday in the banquet hall of Hyatt Lodge Rooms, 89 Broadway. The convention was called to order by Distrlot Deputy Grand Master Julius Conklln, of Lyceum ISodge. He stated that the object of the meeting was to select a district deputy graud master. On motion of Past Grand Deputy D. W.

nitohkock, of Mount Ararat Lodge, Tast Grand John Horco, of Ollvo Leaf Lodge, was named. His nomination was seconded and carried unanimously, fifty two votes being recorded in his favor. Past Grand Howe has for many years filled the office of treasurer of Olive Leaf Lodge and his selection is a good one and in hearty favor with his associates. Artistic Lodge No. 101, I.

O. O. will confer the initiatory degroo on four candidates on Wednesday evening at its lodge rooms, Vanderbllt and Atlantic avenues. Brethren of sister lodges are cordially invited. Atlantic Lodge No.

50, O. O. will colebrate Its forty sixth anniversary on Monday evening at its rooms, 144 Fulton street, with a musical and literary entertainment Admission by ticket NATIONAL tfROVIDENCE UNION. Washington Council No. 11, National Providence Union, gavo an enjoyablo little entertainment to its friends, at Jppa Lodge Rooms on Friday evenlug.

President C. W. Cowtan welcomed the guests in a few explanatory remarkB, and Chairman Walker, of the Entertainment Committee, thon successively introduced the ladies and gentlomen who had volunteered thoir services to entertain the audience. Mr. W.

H. Hardou and Mrs. Harden, Mr. Truax, Miss Annie Kerr Little, Fannie Mauler, Professor A. D.

Flske and others mado the hours pass pleaB antly and profitably for those present Owing to the large number invited many were unable to gain admission. The Council's next sociable will bo held in a more commodious hall. Among tho officers of tho order present were Governor It C. Livingston, Secretary J. L.

Killgoro, Surgeon General John C. LoBter and Dr. F. M. Hoyt.

ROYAL ARCANUM. The Candidate for March publishes a very complete history of Fulton Council No. 267, accompanied by a very good photograph of the regent, Henry C. Duncomb. Bedford Council of the Royal Arcanum celebrated tho fifth anniversary of tho institution of the council on Wednesday night last at the council rooms, and appointed his grandson secretary.

This latter assertion simply puts an end to further argument The major was most certainly there. Assistant Foreman ilalliu, of Engine 7, was last week prosonted with a handsome flro hat Ho Is having a glass caso built for it and Bays it is altogether too boautiful to be put Into everyday use, at least until his old bat 1b worn out. Ho la not gifted with the eloquence of William M. Evarts, but he mode a little address which suited the boys of Number 7 away down to the ground. He said in substance, "Suppose we take a smile." He looks well in his new "boiled shirt," and is Just tho same democratic Are laddy that he has always been.

Ho foil into the dutlos of an assistant foreman as gracefully as a well brought up rosebud engineers his first conquest, and the boys would now follow him literally through flro and water. In 1881 a private citizen offered the City of New York the use of five tug boats to bo employed as flre boats in an emergency." Each boat was to be equipped with poworful steam pumps and supplied with the requisite amount of hose. The offer was accepted, but shortly aftor tho city recognizod tho smallness of the transaction and set to work building a flro Boat of its own. A few yoars later tho Seth Low was tho entire flre boat service grew out of the generosity and far slghtedness of a single resident of Now York. Long before a flro boat was thought of over here, London, Paris, and other largo European cities were supplied with fire boats which have never been equaled on this side of tho Atlantic, but, at tho same time, this is about the only branch of tho flre service In which Amorlca has allowed the foreigners to get ahead of her.

John Fitzgerald, of Truck 3, has heard about that proposed boat raco and does not Intend to be left He believes by a Judicious diet of pickles and smoked beef he can train down to 300 pounds, and he will bavo a shell built with water tight compart monts especially for the great contest He has never dono much boating outside of an occasional trip over tho ferry, but ho believes he can get away with any of tho boys at No. 5 Engine, after taking their nautical experlonco Into consideration. John wlshos It to be understood that he will row in a white shirt, trimmed around tho neck and sleevos with old point lace. Ho will carry a bouquet o( white roses, If any of his friends are liberal enough to present it to him. A training school for horses Is talked of In tho local department.

Such a school has mot with success In New York, and it is found that it comos in very handy in picking out any unsound points about the horses. If a horse is not sound the training soon brings out his weak points. Tho school also saves the drivers at the several houses a great deal of trouble and time, for it is ofton found under the old system that a horse is anything but fit for service after ho is detailed to, perhaps, one of the most active companies In tho city. At the training school in New York, tho horses are put through a regular drill and if they are out of condition, brought up to a good form for the hard work they aro obliged to do. Patrick McGulnnese, of Number fi Truck, Is saving up his odd change to be ready for the opening of the base ball season.

Ho has, it Is reported, engaged a reserved seat at Washington Park for tho season, and now talks nothing but short stops, pitchers, home runs, right fielders, teams, scores and league games. He can make a very pretty home run himself about dinner time. Like all base ball fiends, Patrick believes fervently in tho team of his own particular town, and be says ho would not let Brooklyn sell ono of her nine if Boston put up twice 110,000. Of course, he believes Boston and all other cities will bo "knocked cold" by Brooklyn's team evory trip, and hoproposo3 to be thero to see the fun whenever ho can safely trust tho runulng of the department to the balance of his comrades. Steve Allen Is one of the best liked men in the Department.

He has an excellent record for bravery, and distinguished himself oulv a short time ago at the flre at Hurzeman's bakery, whore Tyack and Haight were killed In the discbarge of their duty. He was severely Injured at that flro, but has nearly recovered and will soon be as sound as of yoro. LET PART OF HOUSE SECOND uoor; in good order. 4o4 Carlton av. LET PART OF HOTIRR LOWKR part of S.stoo brick to a small family, from tho lstof MayApply atjtil Honry at.

TO LET PART OF HOUSE UPPER part to family of adults; halls, stairs and shades furnished; neighborhood first class. Call ut S74 Adelphi street. mo letaWWouse consIst" .,1 of sovcn roiilns. ono floor Ap. plvnt house, 352 Stalest; or to S.

S. WKTMORE, 27 Columbia st. To letpartWhous floor, three desirable rooms, all accommodations, in strictly private family; only adults need apply. No. 423 Union st, near Hoyt.

To lkt part ok mousb second fPr rooms, in private house; rent. 814; three rooms. $12; largo frame house corner Berkeley place and lttb av. mo LET PART OF HOUSE SECOND floor; four rooms, including bath; all improvements. Apply at No.

406 Bergen st. references exchanged. LET PART OF HOUSE A VERY desirable second floor, consisting of fonr rooms and bath in the twostory brick house 182)4 Steuben st; convenient to L. road, also De Kalb and Myrtlo av horse cars. Apply on premises.

npo LET PART OF HOUSE A THIRD JL floor consisting of four rooms, throe large closets, one hall room on seconl floor if desired; use of the bath in houso. 30o Livingston st. ff0 LET PART OF HOUSE LOWER Part, consisting of basement and parlor floors, with all improvements; will let raa.sons.bly to adultB. 178 High re t. TO LET PART OF HOUSE UPPER part of 38Sonth Elliott place; two rooms and alcove; privilege of laundry; adults only.

Apply on premises irom 10 to 12 and 1 to 4. TO LET PART OF HOUSE FIVE rooms, on third floor, in house No. 15S Nassau st, within tivo minutes' walk to the bridge; will let to adult3only. Inquire of owner, in the basement. TO LET PART OF HOUSE LO WEK part of 23 st, two basomentB, two parlors and rooms on the third floor; improvements; balance oi honse ot.onpied by owner.

Apply on the premises. TO LET PART OF HOUSE FIVE rooms on second floor, range, hot and cold water, gas fixtures, bath room, etc. rent $18. 300 Hart st, near btuyvesant av: pleasant location; possession April 1. mo LET PART OF HOUSE A FLOOR JL of four rooms, five minutes' walk to bridge or ferry respeotable neighborhood; rent reasonable; to adults only; possession at once.

Inquire at PARRISH'S drug store, corner Henry and Orange sts. rpO LET PART OF HOUSE NO. 101 fl. Adelphi st, upper rt, 7 rooms, improvements, in good order; possession April low rental. Apply to BUMSLKY A HORTON, 332 Myrtlo av, corner Clermont.

Open until 9 P. M. TO LET PART OFHSoUSE LOWER part of houso partially furnished, No. 318 Carlton av nour Lafayette; all improvements; best sanitary plumbing; choice owner will occupy tho upper part. Apply on the promises.

rpS LETPARTlTifoUSE SECOND JL floor, brown stone house, 8i! Greene av, ono block from Rum av station road 4 rooms; bath and priviloce of laundry. Inquiro of owner on promiseB. Possession May 1. TOLET PAKTOlOUSB A GENTLB man and wife can find a beautiful second floor consisting of four rooms, six use of bath; lower part occupied by owner and wife rent moderate. Call at 446 Ilalsey at.

ro letpart6fTtousesecod JL floor, three rooms, ono alenvo anil li.nlirnnm. in liniun with owner; rent $18; adults only; nice neighborhood within walkhiR distance of tho park; stale si.o of family. AMERICANS, Box 14, Eagle office, TO LET PART OF HOUSE AN ELE srant second floor, in brown atone house, for 318, or third floor with four rooms, $10. to small fiimily without children, or man and wile and baby; first class noighbor hood. Inquire of owner, Sumner av.

TO LETPART6iODsE A FIRST floor of four rooms over store j'uat put in complete ordor; would suit for a first class dressmaker or small family; only one family beside in the house; also three notly furnished rooms. Inquire 37!) Henry Bt. rr0 LET PART OF HOUSE PHYSI JL cian wants responsible arty to take his house and board himself and wife; private family preforred, but would allow few select boarders; location on Heights, between Clinton nnd Court, st. Address PHYSICIAN, lloi lb, Kagle office. rrw LET PART OF HOUSE A NEW JL brown stone, basemont and parlor floors, with extension, threo rooms deep; use of bath on Becond floor; mirrors, all improvemonls.

ball furnished; convenient to I.road; possesion. Apply at No. 488 Putnam av, near Throop. TO LET PART OFIOlJSE month Basements, parlors and room on third floor, story stone, Macon st, near Sumner av. to gentleman ami wife perfect order; every improvement only two in balance of house.

JAMES A. FISHER, 1,415 Fulton stroek TO LET PART OF HOUSE PARLOR and basement floors, partly furnished if desired, in first class story and b' sement dwelling house, 380 Court st; all improvements; halls and stairs carpeted privilege of bathroom; location pleasaut aud convenient to ferries and bridge; adults only. TO LET PARTS OF HOUSES A FIRST floor and basement, neven rooms. $25; or a choice of Bocond or third 11. hve rooms each, $18: newly pa fiBted and painted; view of b'iy and bridge bath use of aundry, etc.

Apply framd house. Mansard. Columbia heights, opposite Poplar st; two minutes' walk from Fulton Ferry and bridge; immediate possession. TW iii VE'OUI'X TO LET STORE SUITABLE FOR ANY business, at 289 Columbia btreot. Inquire of M.

PETERSON, first floor. TO LET STORE ON THE HULL Na 722 tfulton street; large show window; 340 per month. TO LET STORE AND DWELLING, 347 Myrtle av, un the best block on thr. Hill necessary alterations will be made to suit tenant. Apply to BAUM.

Jl Myrtlo av. TO" LET STORE FOR BAKERY OR other business; tho finest location in Brooklyn, 982 Fulton Bt, corner of Gran av. AVIUAH A SONS, 984 Pulton 8i. TO LET STORE ANlTNOnSB220 Court st. between Warren and block, on the street; occupied by a jeweler ft.t i.Uo 'aat thirty yoars.

MARTIN BKEKN ViKe'. mO LET STORE A BIN I'i STORE JL good front WechBlor A AovaliAm's. Ap piy to ii. uuuran aun, ay uuaon st, near tsn dge street. mo LET STORES OR TWO JL stores on B'ultnn st.

between Oitv Hall and DeKalh av. N. COOPER SON. 493 Fulton st, noar Bridgu street. LET STORES 192 MYRTLE AV.

store iC Fulton st. also lofts in building: two lofts, 88 Myrtle av. three lofts, 15 Myrtle av, 22x90; in rooms; possession. Storage odioo, 15 Myrtle av. rjlO LET STORES FULTON ST, NEAR A Bedford av.

20xo0. new, SC00; Atlantic av, near store, $150. F. W. CARRUTHERS, 1,357 Fulton st.

TO LET STORES ON FULTON ST. tivo of the best located stores on Fulton st posses si May 1. Apply to LEONARD MOODY, No. 20 Court street. rBO LET STORE CORNER STORE AND JL dwelling, with stable, or store and stable separate corner of DrtggS st.

and Fillmore plaue; good business location Apply to W. GREEN, 298 Bedford av. mo LET STORES SEVERAL VERY JL fine stores, well located; plate glasswindowo; rent reasonable. DANIEL FERRY, 252 and 254 Oonrt street. mO LET STORE NEW STOKE, NO.

224 JL Atlantic av, with living rooms in tho rear and every convenience; good stand for a jeweler ora tailor; price per month. Inquiro of F. O'BRIEN, No. 218 Atlantia avenue. STORE AND BASEMENT No.

1187 Myrtlo av, near Clermont; fino large store and basement 25iC0; largn plate glass windows; reasonable ront. Apply to BULKLEY fc HORTON, 382 Myrtlo av, corner Clermont. LET STORE OR LEASE, A COR ner store on Fulton st, desirably located for a bakery or almost any kind of business. Apply to J. DAVENPORT, SON ft corner Fulton and Oxford streets.

mo LET STORE AND FLAT, 88 THIRD a av, at a bargain, 20x51; plate glass windows; suitable for shoe storo. candv inanuiacturer or anv kind of business; near public school; inquire of owner, 460 A do I lust. mO LET STORE THE STORE N. .1 corner Tompkins av and Monroe st excellent business location; with two floors over; arranged for dwelling apartments: to let from May 1, Apply to McGUIKE A KUIIN, At'ornoys, 20 Court at. moLET STORENO.

95 PRESIDENT JL at, one door from Columbia, store with plate glass front, three rooms over store and large, well lighted basement would suit merchant tailor or other light business. A pply at 202 Columbia st. mb LET STOREOORNER GREENE J. and Stuyvesant avs; store for druggist; SUiCOilOO; plate glass front; in expensive building; fino locality three minutes from elevated; ront $000; leaoo iven. WILLIAM H.

REYNOLDS, 47 Reid av, corner afayette! TO LET STORE 626 WYTHE AV; 25x50; large plate glass front, high ceiling: first class location for dry goods, boots and ahoos or hardware and house furnishing goods; Iov rent to a party who baa means enough to stock store properly. Full particulars with. MKLINCK, "Wythe av, corner Wilson sk TO LET STORES REDUCED RENT, als; Fulton near my office, with plato fronts; with or without finished basements; ouo 22x70, one 22x60, onel4iGD: $CU0, $700, 8120; no business accouted that would in erf ore with local tradesmen already established. THEOA. THORNE, 944 Fultontt.

mo LET STORE A FINE CORNER JL atoro for the grooory business; Brooklyn and Atlantic avs: thrivintc and growing neighborhood; just the legation for an onorgetic man; also suitable for other business; will lease for a term of yoars to dosirabio parties. Apply to F. W. CARRUTHERS, 1,357 Fulton st. TO LET FLATS FUUMSHEI), fgO LET FLAT FURNISHED COR a.

ner flat; 8 rooms; all improvements; good order; first class; for six months; very low: to two or three adults. Owner's office, 281 tit. James placo, oor. Atlantic avenue. m6 LET FLATS FTJRNISHED CRI JL terion flats; Fulton at, between Grand and Classon avs; elegantly mrnished; silk plush parlor suits: oak and ash bedroom and diningroom furniture; spring beds and hair mattresses 8 rooms; private hall; janitor service to $40: to lease to responsible parties only.

JOHN "VV. NUTT, 1,004 Fulton st. AIMKT.UH.Vr HOUSES ir0 LET APARTMENTS A FURNISH A ed apartment and ono unfurnished in the AJden, 39 and 41 Remeon on very favorable terms, if taken at once. Apply to janitor. PARTS OF IIOUSEN FURIVISHjEjD.

LET PART OF HOUSE FURNISH ed a very nle.tsant second floor: a front and hak parlor, bedroom and kitchen, suitable for light house keeping, at 18 Pacific st. For other To Leis, oe iPBffe 14? Gossip Collected Among the Engine Houses of the City. The Proposed Insurance Patrol for the City of Brooklyn Fire Laddies Who Wish to Distinguish Themselves at the Oar. It is generally believed in local fire circles that it is time this city had an insurance patrol. Tho patrol In New York has done good service in seconding the efforts of the regular Fire Department, ond has been the moans of saving many thousands of dollars since It came into existence.

Tho men in the Now York InsuranctfPatrol service have nearly all been connected with either tho paid or volunteer departments, and comprise many of the most experienced fire laddie8 to bo found In either city. Tho New York Patrol has paid for itself again and again, and the Insurance Companies on the other side of the river would not today dream of dispensing with it. About all of tho Insurance companies in New York have branch offices in this city, and it 1 surprising they hove not formed a patrol over here long before this Aa It is they detail inspectors to viBlt fires and estimate tho damage done. These Inspectors often get in the way of the firemen, and at the same time do nothing toward saying property. About the only thing thoy do is cut down the estimates made by the owner of tho burned premises to as low a figure as the owner will stand.

An Insurance patrol, furnished with, say, threo or four well equipped wagons, would pay the companies several hundred per cent better than an army of officious inspectors. The local Fire Department is ready to act In concert with a well drilled patrol, but there is probably not a flroman In the city who is not opposed to the Inspecting system at present carried on by the local Insurance companies. There is a report that Chief Shaw, of the London Fire Brigade, will visit the United ttatos again during the coming Summer. When he was over here a few years ago ho oxpressed astonishment at the admirable manner in which the several departments in the largo American cities were run. He went so for as to confess that the Now York department was better drilled than that of London, and also complimented Chief Nevlns very highly upon tho way lu which things wero conductod among the fire bouses In this city.

Chief Shaw has been at the head of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade of London for several years. The brigade is conductod upon a military footing, and evon a glance at the strict rules governing tho English firemen would cause an American (ire laddy to thank his stars that he is not Bervlng under a John Bull Government Theso rules would also cure effectually many of the croakers in our own department An English flroman Is summarily dismissed from service if ho become intoxicated, and ho must bo on duty at all hours, except in the event of his being sick. At the same tlmo his pay is not more than one half that received by the American firemen and out of this small remuneration he Is obliged to subscribo for all sorts of funds and Institutions. In short, a London fireman's life is very far from being a happy one. Timothy Makepeace Evarts Ryan, pa3t grand.

mechanic at Headquarters, is a great dog fancier. He has lately como into possession of a beautiful example of the yellow Bowery breed of canine. It Is not a large dog, but it manages to creato a great deal of innocent merriment in tho neighborhood of Headquarters. Timothy has given tho dog a name. He calls it, tor some reason best known to himself, Cyclops, although tho gifted animal's oyes are both thero and to all appearances sound and kind.

Last Friday afternoon Cyclops got all mixed up with the wheels of a passing car, and Timo.thy Makepeace gallantly rushed to the rescue of hl3 pet, while every man at Headquarters gazed in horror upon the scene of action, expecting every moment to see both dog and past grand mechanic ground to a shapeless mass beneath tho Iron shod wheels of tho passing vehicle. They both escaped with their lives, however, but, alas, Cyclops lost one of his most valuable members, to wit, his tail. The dog is now upon tho sick list and being carefully tended by Timothy and Doc." Hurd. In future Cyclops' life will be passed indoors and at the end of a half Inch ropo. A sample of the glass front key box is on oxhibi tion at Headquarters.

A few of those boxos will be put up in the leas thickly populated portions of tho city, where It Is Impossible to leave tho fire box keys in a convenient store or other accessible building. The Chief is a little doubtful about placing the key boxes in tho more thickly populatod portions of the city, a3 there is danger of children and other mischievous people smashing tho glas3 and stoaling the keys, If they did not go to the length of sanding out a false alarm from the fire boxos. Tho boxes have been successfully tried In New York, although not univorsally adopted throughout the Metropolis. The directions for working tho boxes are in plain sight, Just behind the glass front, and tho bozes aro substantially made of castiron. Assistant Foreman Charles Ruddy, of Englno 6, was mado happy last week by being presented with a fine new hat by the boys at his houso.

The fever for presenting hats to the new assistant foreman Is likely to spread, and there is already talk of mak ing glad the hearts of the lucky boys at the other houses. Charloy Ruddy took a little stroll on St Patrick's day, and arriving at a corner on Fulton street gallantly came to the rescue of sovoral fair ones who were anxiously looking for an escort to pilot them acrOBS the crowded thoroughfares. Charloy liked the business so well that he pressed himself in as a special polio emun, and probably saved the lives of several blushing maidens before tho ex citing day was over. Ho wore a green ribbon in his buttonhole by way of a badge, and thoroughly blessod any car or truck who attempted to disobey his command to halt Ho didn't see much of the parade, but he caught the grateful smiles of many a fair ono In distress, and this was worth miles on miles of St. Patrick's day parades.

Ruddy 13 now thinking seriously of Joining the polico force, providing he can arrange it to be placed on a poet which will tako him along Fulton stroot. The great fire in Buffalo resulting lu tho burning of the new Richmond Hotel has turned the atten tion of the Fire Department in the direction of tbe hotels In this city. It is now over five years since a fire of any consequence took place in tho local ho tels. At the time Ovingtons' storo was burned out tho Clinton House came very near sharing a liko fate, but oseaped, owing to tho prompt work dono by tho dromon. The hotels of the city are protty well guarded against fire, the sorvants at tho larger hotels being trained to extinguish the flames as much as possible before tho arrival of the on glnes.

At the same time it Is bellevod at Headquarters that it would bo well to place lire alarm boxos in overy one of the hotels throughout the cltj'. Thero are at presont boxes stationed near the Mansion and Piorropont Houses, but much quicker sorvlco could bo obtained If tho boxes wore placed directly insldo tho hotels. A flro at a hotel is, evon though ever so slight, an ugly thing to handle. If it gets un jor any hoadway a panic is pretty sure to ba tho result among tho guests, and a prompt alarm may result In the saving of many lives. There are more than enough boxes at Headquarters to supply every hotel and flat In the city, ond it is likely that something will soon be dono toward making ho hotels at loast more seoure from destruction by Are.

The Are service at the theaters could not be bettor than It is today, but thero Is room for improvement In looking after the safety of the hotela. Thomas Connelly, of Engine 5. was at one tlmo a ohamplon oarsman and of late ho has shown signs of again taking up his old hobby. Ho has purchased several pairs of Indian clubs and laid in a Btock of dumb bells, and Is fast getting him self down to racing weight under tho ablo training of his friend, Mike ONeil. The latter wishes Thomas to issue a challenge to the world to row for the champlouship.

As soon as the weather gets a little warmor Oarsman Connelly will commence practicing upon the celebrated Qowauus Canal course, and ho expects to bo in excellent form by the middle of June at tho latest His challenge will read "play or pay," and ho dons not propose to fool away his time in idlo gossip with the would be oarsmen in the' department who are simply Jealous of his skill. Captain Campbell, of the suburbs, has sent word to Connelly that he knows something about handling schooners, and wishes to know if that will como In handy in case he decides to enter for the raco. The organization of the first fire company in Brooklyn took place In a littlo dining saloon kept by Widow Margaret Mosler near whore the Fulton Ferry houBe now stands. The company was formed in April, 1785, or mora than one hundred years ago. Vetoran Major Brown says he can remember the first meeting at the widow's as though it wore but yesterday, but the major's friends aro inclinod to throw a littlo doubt on his assertion.

Thoy all agree that the major religiously believes ho was present at tho raeotlng, but are afraid that ho has got his own record mixed up with his great grandfather's or some little thing like that Tho major, howevor. stoutly alarms that he called the roll at the meeting What ollege Trained Members of the Sex Can Do. A Paper on a Timely Topic by Mrs. Trnman Backus Duties to be in the Poorer Sections of the City. The regular quarterly meeting the New York branch of tho Inter Collegiate Alumnae Asso elation was held in Hamilton Hail, Columbia Col lege, yesterday afternoon.

It was one of a series of meetings which are to bo held at tho various col leges throughout tho EaBtern Statos during the coming months. Several Brooklyn ladies, promi nent In literary circles, were present, an took au active parr in the exercises. The paper of the after noon upon which all subsequent debate was based was read by Mrs. Truman J. Backus, of 67 Livingston street, this city.

Mrs. Backus' subject was "Tbe Need and Opportunity for College Trained Women in Philanthropic Work." Tho substance of the address was as follows: At the outset I see our subject calling a satirical smile to some kindly faces. What are we, a tew hundred OTomnlem of ft new rihase Of education. handicapped as wo aro with tho crudities of our own youtu ana tuoso oi me syBiom wmcu uas trained us, that we Bhould weigh our modicum of power or hold It apart from the lavish contribution which woman has, from time immemorial, poured out at tho Saviour's feet? Woman, tolling in tho field of nhllnnthronv. has had ail Christian art, all chivalrlc gratitude of poets and historians to do her homage.

Although men as well as womon navo fed the signal fires, we find woman's unselfishness everywhere the great working lever by which great revolutions have been accomplished. Can we do better than emulate the examples of such charac ters as Florence Nightingale, Klizaoem i'ry nnu women of their class? I need not expand tho catalogue of their good works; need not stop to estimate tho saving powei of great physical and medical discoveries throughout tho nast century, to convince you that wo, who would to day divide our heritage with our untortunate teiiow men, rausi uoi nu other and far more complex probloms than those which taxed the noble spirits of an older time. Their world rocked littlo nf economic laws. Tholrs was the rank of the nlonoer to hew down forests and bridge chasms, to build rude shelters. Wo must drain the postuontlai marshes, consirucv muuuiu thoroughfares and erect noble and commodious edifices.

Medical and social science, psychology and the laws of heredity confront us. Thoy demand that the good work of tho modorn philan thropist be done, not for a day, nor ior an nour, but for all time. How natural that the educated woman should recognize this to an oppreslvo degree. Conscious of the experimental aspect presented by her training and by those mental habits engendered in her by that training, to the eyes of a critical world, sbe feols a great desire to apply her rorce at precisely tne rlgnt point or tne suciai mechanism. It is doubtful whether college trained womon have been recotmized as a factor of philan thropic work In any due correspondence to their ability.

1 beliovo that this lack nas Deen auo to a varloty of causes, all to be brought under two general denominations the colleee graduate's lack of aptitude for philanthropic work, as at present conducted, ana tho aerectivo nasisoi tne worn iiaeu. Yet every college graduate has a call somewhere to labor in the neld of benevolenco; usually It is wise for her to augment hor individual power through organization. I believe it rests largely with us to redeem the word "philanthropy" from tho straight and narrow meaning thrust upon it in popular understanding, If not in lexicography. It has cometo signify with most of us the giving of money or of time or effort so consldorablo'as to bo the marketable equivalent of money, to relievo sickness, pain, poverty, religious blindness. It should mean far more the Intelligent exercise of moral and mental power applied directly and indirectly through any and every instrumentality whatever, toward the physical, Intellectual and spiritual elevation of tho race.

In the man or in the mass. Accepting tills definition, may we not nssert that every earnest life should Involve constant earnest etrort, toward ttio true end of philanthropy; that good work should issue from good lives nnd trained minds as naturally as warmth from tho sunbeam The college graduate returning to her home after several years' absorption in books finds her family and her social circle eagerly expectant of many services. Her parents have long counted upon hor aid in tho domestic administration; her younger relatives require her to provo herself a fount of useful knowledge upon all occasions. Her pastor dosires her to take a class in Sunday school, and to lend an om clent hand in alt variety of so called church work. Her own student ambition assorts its claim upon time and nerve power; hor Alma Mater, through post graduate? organizations and subscriptions of various sorts has rather extendod than lessened tho sphere of her responsibilities by tho conferring of her degree.

What room can there be, in tho mind of a conscientious young woman who would meet these various demands, for philanthropic work. Tho speaker then dwelt at some length upon tho vicissitudes of a young graduate's life after returning to her home and entering upon domestic duties for hor parents, or if she marry, in hor own homo; the church work which she would be expoctod to attend to, in getting up ralrs, socials, festivals and the like; In onterlug a commercial life as a Journalist, an artist, a stenographer, an author, etc. She asked that these trials of the young woman be not too lightly spoken of or dwelt upon. Is it any wonder that In so many cases, she asked, there is so little time for philanthropic work Continuing Mrs. Backus said: If you are a hard workod school teacher, you are obviously not intended to protract your nerve tonsion by devoting half your Sunday to the instruction of a mission class, nor are you to be expected to risk contact with contagious diseaies by visiting tenement houses.

You will advance to tho higher plane of civilization by instructing your boys and girls and by elevating tneir amomong to a higher homo life. The reform which it is largely in our Doirer to effect, by virtuo of our college experience, in busi ness metnoas, i Dy no means unimportant Wo have learned that sanitary science, obeyed in the dwellings of rich and of poor, recoenized in tho paving of our streets and the clothing of our uvuioa, iuu ai, vl uuuiiiuu appilOU to make good blood and healthy muscle, lndustlal education wisely used to dovelop skilled labor and relievo the overcrowded professions; political science mado so popular and so real that greed and prejudice will cease to control onrgrent cities and mammoth corporations, out of thoso must eorao the salvation of the modern America. Who shall bo thoir aposilos but tho educated men and women who follow out their chemistry, thoir history, their logic, to practical conclusions, who bollovo with the great founder of the Inductive method that uthe end of philosophy Is fruit." How many of you have ridden along tho North River water front of Now York, between South ferry and Washington iMarkot, counting tho saloons, sa mple rooms, hotels, which at tho rate of six, eight, ten in a block trick themselves out for the wayfarer's eye in all tho glory of colored gluss, polished wood and bright metal 7 It has not been exaggerated as to thoir numbers; thoy aro there in tho proportion of ono to evory seven voters. Now contrast their attractions with those of the dark, foul smolling structures around and above them, their only sign of home life the ragged women lounging with Bhawls over their heads in tho dark doorways, the repulsive babies fighting with the dogs in the reeking gutters. These women cannot sew; they clotlio themselves and their households in the tattered, soiled garments of the Jewish old clothes shop.

In household service they have not tho faintest be Slnulng of skill. They cannot cook, beyond boiling and frying; their custom supports the unwholesome trado of the cheap bake shops, where ten kinds of poor (lour are conglomerated into alum raised bread and bilious cakes, the booths foe decayed fruits and vegotablosand diseased meat which are periodically raided by the police. Is it more unnatural for these husbauds and fathers to bo take themselves to the gin shop, with Its comparative eloganno, than for your husband to dine at the club whon you indulge In an old fashioned hons cleaning 1 Perhaps these husbands came from Deer arinaing uermany. ao when their day wages provo Insufficient to support thriftless wife and swarming children and pav the score at tho liquor counter, they are naturally enough augmented by taking in lodgers men, women and children who sleep like cattle on straw heaps In tho cornors of the low rooms and mnko doconcy and privacy unknown. Our rich contractors, our tenement house landlords, would rather give splendid gifts to hospitals, vagrant's lodging housos, MnrrInlon'a hnmAH fhnn fft Hutlrl atvn.xn buildings or enforce the law against overcrowdinc If in the moantlmo thoir own sous and daughters aro eontaminatod by the tilth of the police reports, if syphilis and smallpox and typhus and cholora menace them In street cars or rail way offices: if so cial crime bocomes so common among our lower classes that womanly purity lu tonoment houses Is pronounced Impossible by thoso who most seek to guard it, who will have the honesty to lay the awful paradox at his own door or at that of anv other eleek, complacent city father.

Are there not tne cuurcneB to evangelize these people and the common schools? Yes; the lavish giving of rich men has produced tho cathedral of the middle ages among our modorn shops and offices: the self denying zeal of clergymen and missionaries realizes the apostolic ideal. But thero is a remarkable shrewdness in what call popular intelligence, which distinguishes unerringly between tho letter and the spirit of our own observance. The nonuv Journals do not fall to record the defalcations of Dank presidents and cashiers who aro also Sunday school superintendents: th6y give their most llarlng capitals to magnify evory crime of high life. Out of 125 fallen women ouestioned con corning their antecedents at one of the New York night missions 122 had regularly attended Sunday school; seventy five were still enrolled, for aught thoy knew, on tho books of Protestant churches. Would the argument of liypocrlBy have had mush weight with them, think you, when they could quote such instances as that of tho church going landlord who leased tho third floor of his building for a drinking den, regardless of the two struggling women who had built up their honest bustnoss on the second 7 What then of our macnlflcent nublio schools? Does not popular education banish, first, lgnornnco, ttion vice, tnen seiuannoss? Yos; but follow somewhat closely tho nowspapor uunalsof DUbllo school management Infor the condition of a school building which ts finally condemned by our economical jsoara oi read between the lines of Mrs.

Agnew's minority report. Just tendered to the Board on the question for appointing a principal for School No. In practice we know little of aught beside the mammoth size of the school building, the huge aggregate of salaries paid to teachers, superintendents, and the long list of What is Going On Among the Various Lodges. Those Which Have Paid Their Quota Third District Masons Preparing for the Official Visit of the (Jrantl Master of the State New Loose in the Order of Tonti Odd Fellows. Bedford Council Other Matters.

The past week has been, a quiet one among the aociotles, but there promises to be moro than usual activity during the neit six days. Theiol lowiug is a record of the week's doings: MASONS. In the Third District there are 8,977 roaster masons, comprising SO lodges, every one of which has paid its quota on the Hall and Asylum debt. The name, number of lodge and amount paid are as follows: Number of Amount Nam. Aiodse.

Fortitude Hohenlmden Anglo Saiou Paid. $1,014 1,352 830 822 7U8 652 658 1.200 5SH S8i 354 840 1,128 702 858 93(1 1,008 653 3Dl 330 595 018 600 780 824,298 Sin JUODlAUK 2KB Brooklyn 288 310 322 Lexington Star of Bethlehem 7, Ml 1 ng Commonwealth Delta Jjjl Znredatha Stella Kings County Greenwood oo Bedford Cosmopolitan Altair 6J Crystal Wafo Adytum Mistletoe CJambriORa 63 Orion 71 Acrtnthu. 'l 73'J Sanctorum '( Aurora Grata 75(i Oovonant 'os Every lodge in the district, with the exception Commonwealth, paid its regular quota, the amount paid by Commonwealth being $436 in excess of its quota. Commonwealth Lodge was the drat lodge in the district to pay and the only one during the last Jlasonic year, and that even before the Grand Lodge by amendment to the constitution relieved those lodges that paid of the 50 conts tax. This is a gratifying showing when It Is known that tho Third District is next to tho largest district In the State, and at the boginning of K.

W. Theo. Taylor's administration his lodge was tho only one that had paid at the time, and it was thought thon that it would be the hardest district to bring in lino. Most of tho lodges sent their quota through tho hands of the District Deputy to bo personally delivered to Most Worshipful Frank K. Lawrence.

The rosult shows the popularity of tho District Deputy, If W. Theo, A. Taylor. Great preparations are being made for the comiug official visit of Grand Master of tho l4a sons in tho State of Now York FranK R. Law.

renco to the Third Masonic District of Kings County, which occurs on Friday next. It was Drst the Inton tion of District Deputy Taylor to tender a reception to the distinguished visitor la Brooklyn Lodgo Kooms, 300 Fulton stroot, but, having since found that thCBO rooms would bo far too Inadequate for the occasion, he has solected Historical liall, Clinton and Plorrepont streets, as tho place for holding tho reception. The fraternity In general are urged to bo present. Brooklyn Consistory No. A.

5. at its ncxt rendezvous, which will bo hold on Friday evening. at tho Consistory rooms, cornpr Court and Joral omon streets, will confer tho Fourth Degree. The work will be exemplified by Mo3t Puissant Graud Master 111. H.

Thomas. The Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander, William H. Peckham, will bo present, tog3ther with a large number of visiting brethren from consistories throughout the States. At the next regular communication of Aurora Grata L6dge No. 756, F.

and A. at 306 Fulton street, the Third Degree will be conferred by Klght Wdrahipful Thoodoro A. Taylor, assisted by tho past tliMrict deputies of the Third District. Right Worshipful John W. Vrooman, Deputy Urantl Master, Is expected to be present.

That the dlstln guahed brethren may receive a fitting welcome, members of sister lodges are cordially and earnestly invited to bo present and assist in malting the occasion a memorable one. Fortitude Lodge No. 19, F. and A. conferred the Second Degree upon two Entered Apprentices, Schurer and Thlmig.

The Worshipful Master was able to be present and conferred the degree, assisted by Worshipful Brother Harriman, Brother, Boice acting as Senior Master of Ceremonies. A large attendance was present, Including the District Deputy Grand Master, Theodore A. Taylor, Worshipful Brothers Craig, Penne, Harriman and others. Fortitude will turn out in a body to receive the grand officers March 25, at Historical Hall. It was the intention of Commonwealth Lodge No.

409, to work the First Degree on last Tuesday evening, and they would have dono so if it had not been lor R. W. Bufus T. Griggs, of Altair Lodge No. 601, who personally Invited tho officers and brethren to attend tho regular communication of that lodge, it being the occasion the ofllcial visit of the District Deputy and Commonwealth Lodge to show the esteem in which they hold the 14.

W. Brother and the members of Altair closed early and went in a body to Altair. Among tho distinguished brethren present were K. W. Brother Theodore A.

Taylor, D. D. G. M. R.

W. Brother K. W. Hichardsou, Grand Senior Deacon; It. W.

John W. Fuller, of Commonwealth; It W. Brother Rufus T. Griggs, of Altair; M. W.

Brother Murray, PastGrand Master of Maine, and tho following worshipful brothers John T. Palmer and G. F. E. Pearsall, of Commonwealth; John C.

Griunell, of Orion No. 717; A. J. Agate, of St Johns No. 1, New York, and Craig, of Fortitude No.

19. On next Tuesday, March 22, It. W. Brother Theodore A. Taylor, District Deputy Grand Master of the Third Masonic District, will confer the First Degree.

Hill Grovo Lodge No. 510, F. conferred the Third or Master Mason's Degree on Fellowcraft "Wolfsaorf on last Monday evening at their lodgo rooms, corner of Myrtle and Kent avenues. The first section and second sections wore worked by Worshipful Master Bonjio It Hicks with the assistance of his able stair. The lecture was delivered by K.

V. Brother Brymeu and was masterly and interesting throughout. A largo number of masters and brethren from sister lodges were present To morrow evening tho Third Degree will again be exemplified. Senior Warden W. H.

Sutton will work the first section and W. M. Benjio It Hicks the second part. It was a gala night whon Altair Lodge No. 601 welcomed It W.

Brother Theodore A. Taylor, the District Deputy Grand Master of tho Third Masonic District, and a night that will not soon bo forgotten by the brethren present, of which there was a large number. Worshipful Brother Rev. Warren C. Hib bard, in the East and greeted the District Deputy lu a man ner that has not been excelled by any lodge in the distrlot R.

W. Brother Taylor thanked the brethren of Altair for thoir very cordial reception, not only aa tho representative of tho Grand Master, but as personal 10 himself. There was no work, the evening being spent lu social intercourse In the banquet room, where an elegant repast, served by Doitor, was enjoyed. Among tho distinguished brethren present wore E. W.

Rich ardaon, of Commonwealth Lodge No. 409, present Grand Senior Deacon; John Millor, ropro eentative of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina; Frederick H. Wight and John W. Tut tle, of Commonwealth Lodge No. 409; Rufus T.

Griggs and J. W. Richardson, of Altair; Alonzo Erymer, of Greenpolnt, and it W. Brothor Murray, Past Grand Master of Maine. Worshipful Brothers John T.

Palmer, G. F. B. Pearsall and John W. vans, accompanied by a delegation of Commonwealth Lodge, comprising forty five mombors; Charles M.

Stafford, of Brooklyn, No. 288; A. J. Agate, of St. Johns, No.

1, New York; Thomas Marchant, of Minerva, W. D. John C. Gunnell and Barnuni, of Orion, No. 717; Frank S.

Henderson, of Stolla, No 485; Grimes, of Acanthus, No. 719; Lofton Love, of Hohonlluden, No. 56; James HuggliiB, of Joppa, No. 201; Henry J. Schenck and Perry Dean, of Aurora Grata, No.

756; Jerome B. Morse and Woaver, of Anglo Saxon, No. 601 Edward W. Mascord, of Altair, No. 001; Craig, of Fortitude, No.

19, and Do Wolf, of Painted Post, Corning, New York. ORDER OF TONTI. Deputy Supremo President Ilonry MItz has Instituted a now lodge in the Order of Tonti, which will bo known as United Lodge No. 100. with twenty six chartor members.

On Wodnesday evening he installed tne following ofacers: Past president, 8. S. Yerkes; prosident, Robert C. Livingston; vice president, George W. Lord, Jr.

seoretary, Henry Meislahn; treasurer, Charles J. Foso; marshal, R. K. Sharp; chaplain, Edwin Trevor; guardian, Will for ltd sake their capital and their reputa tion for business sagacity. 1 wtsn i coma ten you the details concerning the Improved tenement housos erected in Brooklyn in 1877, In the construction of which aro obsorved every written and unwritten law for the safety, oomfortaud moral purity of their inmates.

They are filled the year round, and though they house over 1,100 souls, they add not a feather's weight to the city's burden of crime. As against these new tenement houses, erected with every regard for the health of the occupants, I would like to tell you In detail of the burden of crime emanating from hundreds of other common tenement houses the property of reputable citizens, but where filth, degradation, crime and death abound. If I could tell you of the noble work performed by the ladles of New York, in an organization known as tho Health Protective Association, you would not underestimate the valueof the good work they have dono on the East Side of tbe city among tho tenement houses. It is estimated that the saving to the United States In a year through measures taken for tho prevention of the spread of contagious diseases Is about jaOO.000,000. The work of sanitary science clubs among our college graduates seems as necessary in our present state of public ignorance as Is the Influx of oxygen Into a gymnasium.

To us as educated women, ns representatives of enlightened thought, kindly concessions are made everywhere, more than overbalancing the disadvantages of our youth and small numbers. The reforms which we may assist are like the great labor saving inventions the cotton gin, the steam engine, tho telegraph their results recommend them. It will be the fault of the indiscreet, the too iltnid individual, if college bred women do not make thomselves a strong factor in thnt great home missionary flntomrise which aims by banishing Igno rance, thrlftlesBuess.avarlce.impurity, from our own homes, by regenerating the heathen whp live In our own cities, to create tho true Salvation Army whose motto, Mem lana in corporesano, may soon, oven within the time of our grandchildren, be blazoned from pole to pole. There were several ladies present who took part in the discussion upon the paper read by Mrs. Backus.

Among them were Mrs. North, the formor president of the New York branch of the Inter Collegiate Alumnce Association; Mrs. William H. Allen, of Brooklyn; Mrs. Frances Fisher Wood, of New York, president of the New York Association of Vassar Alumnte; Mrs.

Dr. Eliza Mosner, of Brooklyn, Miss Mamie Talbot, of Boston, read a paper Bet ting forth the work accomplished by the Sanitary Science Club of the association. Th papor was really interesting and instructive. 3Iiss Florence Cushing, of Boston, read a paper upon the subject of the work In cookery as taught in the BoBton public schools. The paper was well written, well read and welt received.

The next meeting of the associ ation will be held in Washington in April. SENSIBLE WOMEN WANTED. And too Kind of Education which Pro, duces Thenj. Specialized education does not necessarily create companionable nor even sensible women; elso, by parity of reasoning, would all professional men he personally charming and delightful, which undoubtedly thoy are not A girl may be a sound Grecian, a brilliant mathematician, a sharp critic. a faultless grammarian, yet be wanting in all that personal tact and temper, clear observation, ready sympathy and noble self control which make a companionable wife and a valuable mother.

Nor is unprofessional or unspoclallzed Instruction neces sarily synonymous with idleness and ignorance while a good all round education is likely to provo more serviceable in tho home and in society than one or two supreme accomplishments. Many of us make tho mistake of confounding' education with acquirements and of running together, mental development and intellectual specialization. The women of whom we are most proud In our own history wore not remarkable for special intellectual requirements so much as for genoral character and the harmonious working of will and morality. Tho Lady Fanshawes and Elizabeth Frys, the Alary Carpontors and Florenco Nightlngalos, whoso names are practically Immortal, were not noted for their learning, but thoy wero nono the less women whoso mark In history is indelible and the good thoy did Hvos after thorn and will never die. And takiug one of the at loast partially learned ladies of the past Is It hor Latlnlty and her buokishness that we admire much in Lady Jane Grey, or Is it her modesty, her gentleness, her saintly patience, her devotion in a word, is it hor education or her character tho Intellectual philosopher of tho sweet and lovely and noble woman Fortnightly Review.

THE EYE. A Story of Its Varieties and Thoir Sig nificances. Emerson has well spoken of tho eye that threatens liko a levelled rifle how often it is seen! You need not visit camps to find it; the counting room and tho office contain it quito as often, and sometimes it Is soon even under crimps. But tho threatening eye is not to be confounded with tho commanding eye or tho wild beast eye. The last mentioned, the most savage aud Inhuman of all, 1ft seen chiefly under the brows flushed or palo from debauchery, and, according to circumstances It has a restless or fixed glare.

Then there Is tho oruel and treacherous eye. This Is peculiar and rathor loss common. It is a cold gray different from tho "Intellectual gray" with a dark edge to (he eyelid. Thore Is none more thoroughly repellent. Sometlraos a yellowish, oat liko eye looks at you saying, "I'll deceive you at overy opportu nity." Other kinds are the focrotlve oye, sot so far back that you cannot soo the expression, the foxy, the critical, the loving, the sensual, etc.

The list is long, but of all tho most common Is the non com mittal eye. So frequent is it that the eye is greatly overrated as a general index of character; we really form our Judgment from the reBt of the features. When you have well mustered the different kinds of eyes, then try to account for their differences on anatomical principles. The components of an eye's expression are certainly not numerous. There are the color, degree of openness, movement steady or vacillating, otc.

Can those material elements alone account for the wonderful transparency you some times meet? There are eyes which seem aotually open windows In which the Invisible spirit sits and becomes visible to the earthy sense of sight Hind and Sature. THE IVY. One of the Moat Popular of Hoimo Plants. Perhaps the most popular of all house plants Is the Ivy, and its popularity Is well deserved. We have nothing else that will flourish so well In a dry atmosphere, and among dust and tho deleterious effects of gas from lights and coal stoves.

It seems to adopt itself to its surroundings and circum stances, and to "look at the best aide of everything," thereby proving Itself to be a philosopher among plants. It will grow In shady locations seeming to care nothing for sunshine, and on this account It can bo trained about pictures and along tho colling, and It always has suoh a cheerful look about it that it soon comes to be regarded as a friend and one of the family. It ought not to bo fastened to the wall, but bo suspended in such a way that it can easily bo taken down occasionally for a washing. Dust Bhould never be allowod to accumulate on its leaves to hide their beauty. The only insect tnat troubles tho ivy is the scale.

When this appears, every leaf and the onttre branches should be washed in soap suds, DBlng a tooth brush to loosen the insect's hold on them. After giving it a thorough cleaning syringe well with clear water. Give this attention twice a year, and your ivy will not be like ly to become badly infested with this enemy of most firm, smooth leaved plants. The best soil for ivies Is ordlnnry garden loom and sand, with a liberal quantity of bone meal is intxoa. This fertilizer seems to meet their wants better than anything else.

It makes them grow rapidly and their follago becomes large and healthy in color and texture, Most persons fuss with their ivies and complain that they cannot make them grow. Give them bone meal for food and let tbem alone, save for the washing, and you will have no reason to complain. AgricultutiitU corner Bedford avenue and Fulton street After the business meeting was concluded the invited guests were oscortod into the council room and from that time until midnight was one continued round of pleasure Among tho guests present and who contributed toward the pleasures of the oven lng were Frank C. Bowen, whose character delinea tions were Immensely enjoyed; Charles Splitdorf, elocutionist; Samuel II. Bellinge, vocalist, and Georgo Abenschien and Frank Everett Gale, pianists.

A substantial collation formed an Interesting part of tho night's entertainment. There was a largo attendance of members and their friends, who reluctantly loft tho council whon the ontertain ment was declared ended. The affair was gotten up under the direction of committee consisting of Charles E. Howling, Frederick W. Remy, and W.

Hedge, and reflects great credit upon these gentle men. Among those present were Regent James S. Stokes, A. S. Ives, G.

B. Van Wart, W. A. Cook, Otto G. A.

Hardcastlo, F. W. Millor, W. A. Smith, W.

C. Rogers, Dr. O. S. Rltch, Dr.

A. M. Hitch, It K. Darling, H. R.

Van Keuren, M. A. Brady and F. L. Sniffen.

Bedford Council has now a member ship of 160 and will give a number of similar entertainments in the near future. IN BLEAK ALASKA. Its Area and Discovery and Acquisition by the Uniced States. When Secretary Seward bought Alaska from Russia he added to the United Statos a territory of much larger area than tho States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin and Missouri togother and nearly nine times larger than England and Wales. The terri tory stretches out so far to tho westward that Sitka, ts capital, is only half way from New York City to the most western Alaskan island.

Many of the details of the formation of Alaska road like quotations from fairy tales. It has a volcano 8,000 feet high. The Yukon River is at some points from fifteen to twenty miles wide, its entire length is 2,000 miles and it empties with such a volume Into the sea that tho oceau is said to be fresh water for ton miles out. The temperature does at times fall as low as 58 degrees below zero, but as a rule It Is mild, on account of a sort of gulf stream known as the Japanese current. It was Peter the Great who set on foot the expedition which finally discovered Alas ka.

It was in 1725 that tho explorers sot out to cross Siberia toward the east, and one of their leaders was Behring, a Dane, who had been long In the Russian service. He did not land in Alaska till seventeen years later, and died on ono of the islands off the shore, which bears his name and where his body now lies. Spain, England and Franco also sent out exploring expeditions and Russia established a trading company, which sold the furs of the region. But in 1867 Secretary Seward effected a purchase of Alaska for the United States, which paid Russia $7,200,000, and a little moro than two years ago it was organizod as a civil and Judicial district, of which A. P.

Swlneford Is now governor. At proBOnt tho ohlof Industries aro carried on by the fishery and seal fur companies. In 1880 the catch of salmon was 8,000 cases; in 1883 36,000 caso and in 65,000 cases, at about 5 a caso. The magnitude of the fur operations may be seen from the fact that Between 1871 and 1883 about $5,000,000 was paid by the company to the United States Government as rent and tax. There are also mines of coal, lead, copper, sliver and gold and a vast growth of fine spruceand cedar, which will some day prove of great value to the people of tho United States.

Lieutenant Schwatka has twice been on expeditions to tho great Nortbwestorn territory and is now sending home reports of his discoveries, which are full of interest. It appears to bo clear now that Secretary Seward acted wisely when ho negotiated tho purchase from Russia. San Franeitco Examiner. LONDON NEEDLE WOMEN. Tbe Truth of Their Case Confirms Its Poetry by Hoed.

The women engaged in the shirt trade aro to tbe fnll as ill off, as badly paid, and aa much to be pitied as wore their sisters in the day whon Hood sang thelrsorrows and sufferings. The woman who is solely dependent upon Blop shirt making starves rather than lives by it She soon bocomes in very deed, The seamstress, lean and weary and wan, With only tho ghosts of garments on, who, In poverty, hunger and dirt, Sews at once with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt Happily, many of tho shirt hands are not wholly dependent upon the earning of their needle. Numbers of the married women of the poorer classes work at tho shirt trado wifh a view to supplementing the scanty wages of their husbands and the additional income thus gained, though It may be but three or four shillings a week, sensibly increases the comfort of the household, Considering the wretched prices paid for tho work, tho surprising thing is that the women should earn oven bo much at it as some of them do. Take tho buttonholingthe leading branch of the work in Tenement street. The holes aro rough punched in the factories, the work of the outdoor hands being to stitch them round.

This button holing Is admittedly "niggling" yet the rate at which it is paid for by the sweaters is a penny por dozen collars. As each collar has three holes, the hand, who finds her own poodle and cotto has to stltah thirty six holes for a penny. Even so, some of tho experts, by working long hours, by rising early on Summer mornings, and sitting late on Winter nights, by living on food that is "ready to be put into the mouth," chiefly bread and butter, and eating as they work; by acting on these lines Bomo of tho button holers will earn as much as olght or nlno shillings per week. The prices paid by the manufacturers who give It out in the first instance aro probably such as would enable a skilled and Industrious hand to make a living wage; but as matters stand such men are almost compelled to employ middlemen, and tho tender meroles of the sweater are cruel. All the Year Round.

The strikers numbered less than one hun dred thousand out of nearly twenty millions of workers In tho country. The public heard a great deal about tho hundred thousand strikers and very little about the nineteen million nine hundred thousand that kept quietly at their work. The hundred thousand made more noise than the nearly two hundred times thoir number who continued at work. But this comparison shows that tho prosperity of tho country is stable and that tho dissatis fied portion of the working population forms but a small percentage of its "vast army of iudustrlal toilers. Philadelphia Timet.

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H. DOHERTY, 2SG Flatbual, aV, noar Seventh. TO LET FLATS FIRST AND SECOND fiats in 234 B'latbush av 7 rnnnta t.ho ences; in the best ordor. Apply to II. EDKBOHLS, in store, or to D.

A. M. CHAUNC Moutaguo at. rpo LET FLAT FIRST FLAT, NO. 1 tUt.0??11?191 ronS; sood tenant wanted.

JOHN O. H6YT, 16 Oonrt Bt, Brooklyn, and 96 Broadway, New York. TO LET FLAT HANDSOME 6 ROOM flat in tho Wavcrloy, on Wnverly av, near Myrtle; rent, $25: possession April 1, if desired. Apply to WILLIAM MOREHOUSE. 444 Myrtle v.

tpo LET FLATS SECOND AND THIRD flats; immediate possession; lirst and fourth to iiW 1 on Clinton av, noar St Luke's Church. BROWN BROSm 40 Firth, av. Ogu open ovonings. TO LET FLATS FIRST TO THIRD floor; to 5 rooms; $14 to $1(5; 575 Warron at, near Fourth av; faftoan minutes by three lines of cars to bridge Apply on premises, or to LUTHER H. POTTER, 50 Flat bnsh av.

TO LET FLATS NEW; CliTDAP; 224 and 2(1 Ailantio av, near Court at; but iiTe minutes' walk to South Ferry; 6 moms and linib room with evory improvement. Inquire of V. O'BRIEN, No. 218 Atlantic avenue. mO LET FLAT 420 HENRY ST, A JL handsomely decorated, cabinet trim lint.

8 rooms; short walk to ferries; select neighborhood: every improvement; rent Apply to anit'ir on premises; or MARTIN BREEN 4 SON, 214 Court st. TO LET FLAT $3t50 A DESIRABLE corner flat of 6 rooms; all improvements and in pood order: pood location and near tho ferry immediate Bossossion If desired. Apply to LEONARD MOODY, 20 ourtst and 276 Flathush ay. TO LET FLAT IN THlFWiTONA!) Iwht rooms; most desirable on tho Hill: heatod by steam, electric bells, janitor and dour boy: two blocks from r.nd Willoughby av, near Washington. Inquire of janitor.

TO LET FL ATS I NTdLEG AN APaR1 ment. buildincs, Noa. 1,018 1,022 Bedford av. near DoKalb; contain 9 rooms, handsomely papered and frescoed; steam heat and every modern convenience. Apply on premises to the janitor.

TO LET FLATSTHE new HANJ some flata, 283 Lexington av, close to Nostraud av. elevated station: 14 minutes from bridge; A rooms and or tension; laundry; janitor; rent 816 to 318. Apply at lint or owner, 324 Second av, New York. TO LET FLAT IN THE LACONIA Corner flat, third floor, 8 rooms, handsomely tiled entrance, back stairs for servants: all improvements: steam heat, coal elevator, janitor, rent $42; also, flats and apartments, $14 and 410. Owner's oilice, 281 St.

James place, cor. Atlantic av. TO LET FLATSFINE FLATS FIVE rooms and bath all improvements: halls, stairs and windows elegantly furnished: cars to all ferries and bridge pass the do r. Apply to janitor. 244 Fifth ay, near Carroll ot, or to DANIEL FERRY, 252 and 254 Court street.

TO LET FLATSTEAMliElCTT3D; corner Halsey st. ana Throop av; 7 rooms, special improvements; handsome entranoe and halls; ruBidont janitor; complete plans hero; also corner flats and others near tins office, $1'6, $23, $21, $1S. THEO. A. TUORNE, 1)44 Fulton at.

TO LET FLATS G06TdWINFLATS SIC 8 light rooms, class front closets, dumb waiter, private water clOBets, cooking range, laundry and bath no pulley lines six lines of cars linlf block: 25 minutes to Battery, New York: 10 minutes to now Thirty ninth st iorry, 205 211 Twenty seventh st, near Fifth avenue. mO LET FLATS OFTROOMS BACH; JL front and back parlor, three largo bedrooms, dining room and kitchen, larffo bathroom: Jaro window in ttVer? TOOm. 110 Shaft: Ilfiwiv liamtRfl nnrt nnnnp nrl. v. itehall; main hall and stairs Oiirputed; only Hats on tho block; fifteen minutes from femes or bridee; janitor; rent $28.

Inquire at 275 Warrun fit, between Court and Smith. TO LET FLATS $12 ASfD $13 PER month, new brick French flats, rooms, two minutes from rapid transit, Atbmtio av. and elevated railway, Herkimer at, near Rookaway av; also, new brown stono Frencti flats, $16 and S1G ner month. rooms, Fourth av. near Uegraw et; twelve minutes from all ferries ana brillcp.

All thrf IlbnuA hnvft .11 imnrevomnnti VinIIu carpeted lighted; janitor, etc. Apply to janitor on premises or GKORGE K. BROWN, 26 Court at. TO BiET MOUSES FtJ TO LET HOUSE FURNISHED WITH irronnds. near Bedford av.

nlnnsnnt. Innnfinn anrf convenient to all lines of cars; from May 1 to Ootaber 1. Apply at 1,1 14 Pacific st. rilO LET HOUSE FURNISHED EL A erantlv furnished house on tho Hill, with nHvilWo of takinz boarders: ront verv ronnnnnhln. nll nil w.nk nt 123 Sixth av.

TO LET HOUSE FURNISHED WITH grounds, near Bedford av, pleasant location and convenient to all lines of cars; from May to October 1. Apply at utreet. TO LET HOUSE fTjeTn I 3 story brown atone bouse, nartlv fnrmnhari tr family who will board owner in payment of rent; refor onces. Call at 11 St. Felix st.

lb LET URNTSHE 2 story and basement brown stono; rnnms? t.n minutes' toL station; mirror in parlor, piano, everything in ood order; all improvements; 320 Clifton plaoe, near NaBtraqdav, rent $K15. TO LET HOUTBUOl the Hill Fnllv and handBomlv fnmiKhnri nnrtv would take boara in part payment of rtnt. with privilego of taking other boarders. Addross A. B.

0., Box lJ, Eaule aa. TO LET HOUSE FURNISHED FOR six months or Year, handsomelv furninhftH nnw atory and baaemont brown stone houBe; situated in the best part of Brooklyn; iifteen minutes from bridge. Owner, 430 Lafayette av. TO LET HOUSE FURNISHED FOR ono or threo veara: to nrientA fumiiVr thn rinn hifth stoop brown stono, No. 21 First place, between Clinton and Henry ats; an extra lot if desired.

Apply to K. CLARKK. Tnbuno office, New York, or LEONARD MOODY, 20 Court st. lO LET HOUSE FURNISHED ON ST. Maries av.

near New York av afansinn. tRhln ri grounds, all in qerfect order and elegantly furnished ono iiwiuowuua vvio vivj VX5UV IQW lO UBSirft' oie tenant for term of two or throe years. Permits to ex amine with J. N. KALLKY, 211 Montague at.

LET HOUSE FURNISHED It the Summer; small, oool and comf ortablo all con veniences; rolling screens, burglar alarm, telephone; fine ohance for thoso tired of boarding; terms low torilrht nartv. Call on or ndrirnsa r4 Mnrtnr at. Ncir York..