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^ VAV t ! THE febbK L Y N ‘ DMi.Y EA^ NEW Y O R K /Sm b A Y . JUNE 15. 1902. ««4ci» 4 5' -t- HEM aRlB ySElESS ■ S I CIPPEB SHELLS New Naval Guns of Moderate Caliber Easily Bore Holes in Nickel Plates. HESULT OF TESTS IN ENGLAND. If 6^1nch and 7.5 Inch \Weapons Can iSo Such, Damage \What W ill the / Larger Rifles Accomplish? I J (From London Engineering:.) / -Xo more disquieting news from a naval / point of view could be conceived than that which establishes beyond any question the ■fact that armored plate manufactured accord ing to the latest process, including cementa tion and subsequent hardening by chilling the '•fnco, has been defeated by modern guns and projectiles. X 6-in. plate and one of 12 in. in thickness hai'e been attacked by the \Vlc- Iters 6-in. and 7.5-in. caliber guns, with John son capped shot and shell, and on each occa* Sion when these projectiles were used the plate was completely perforated; and, apart altogether from the destructive power of the high explosives admitted in such shells into the interior of a ship through armor- plating, there is the equally disastrous effect of having the hitherto invulnorahle water- line plating open to t h e sea. The ship's crew, the mechanism protected hy armor, and the buoyancy of the vessel are consequently en- -dangered, and that. loo. by the attack of guns moderate In size and weight and in power, because i t Is obvious that weapons of higher caliber—9.2 in. and 12 in.—are propor tionately more powerful. The importance of this triumph of the guns will be more fully appreciated when i t is remembered that pur modern battleships, already completed or in course of construction, are clad on the tro a d s i d e with armor of c-orrespondlng re sisting power to that defeated, but iinaited in the thickness to 9 in., S in., and 7 in.; Lord Goschea's \m i g h ty” cruisers, now being delivered, and representing a cost of a n.ill- llon pounds each, have only 6-in. armor, while in course of construction wo have sixteen armored cruisers of the Kent and Devonshire classes, most of them with 4-ln. armor, and th e others with 6-in. broadside belts. The fact that foreign powers—notably the United States, Russia and Germany—have been striv ing, with the same energy as has been dls- play-ed by the \Vickers Company, to develop a similar effect does not in any way lessen anxiety with which these results will be re ceived. The Vickers Company have for several years been experimenting, with most satisfac tory results, toward the increase of ballis tics in guns, without which even the capped projectile could not avail; and with their 6-in. gun they have succeeded in develop ing a miuzle velocity of 3,000 feet per second, \While far some reason which is not quite THE NEW 7.5 VICKERS RAPID FIRING GUN. lilLLIiSilCflUHTTOPREllENT TO BE REPAIRED AT LAST. A fter Years of \Waiting the Sackett Street Setjer Is Being Repaired. The Board of Health and the Departm e n t * i c f Sewers have at last awakened to a fact ! t h a t every one having busir.esH in the vlcin- j Ity of Hamlltou ferry has known for years o . - i .. past, that the mala sewer passing down Poll -ICS Declared to B e t h s Only g - e k e t i street, was broken. A couple of days ago men from the Sewer Department were o n DFTHEI3 GLUe BOIGOTTS BEEF TBBST. Reason for Cougherly's An nounced Intention. i/egetarianism Pure and Sirnplo, on Menu, in Speeches and in Behavior- WHO WILL DO HAWKES’ WORK. H ints That New York Office W ill Take Charge When He Is Removed. a t work on the ■'busied'' sewer. Ju s t j i to a point inside the ferry |iier, an Iron pipe | ' was laid, but below th a t pidiit a wooden box ; rontlnued the sewer to the end of ilie ferry ! • p ’er. Complaints innumonible-w e r e .sent, to i otUolals. People got m a l a r i a and other dls- ' eases and at last their representations had HUNGRY FOLK NOT SATISFIED* ttTeel. Now a \b a r r e l ' ' sewer l.s to be laid down and continued from the point where the Iron pipe sewer end.s to the e.xtremity of j , the ferry pier. j Bryan G. H u g h e s Broke a Mirror, Cap* Six-Inch Projectile A fter P a ssin g Through Six-Inch Plate. explicable our warships have been fitted with weapons in which the velocities have been limited to from 2,160 feet to 2,500 feel per second. The difference is most marked, meaning, as it does, a striking energy at 2,500 yards range of 2,.922 foot-tons as com pared with from 1,515 to 2.023 foot-tons for the service weapons. Corresponding superiority might easily be recorded in connection with guns of higher caliber, but t'uis one i n s t a n c e will here suffice. Moreover, the Admiralty are open to criticism in not realizing the im mense potentialities of a gun of greater cal iber, notably that of 7.5 in., where a striking energy at 2,500 yards range of 6,627 foot- tons can easily be realized without any in convenient increase In weight, since the \United States Government, as well as some of the European powers, have adopted, for the secondary armament in warships, guns more powerful than the largely utilized G-in. piece In British ships. But an important contribution to the de feat of modern hardening arm o r is the fltiing of the shot or shell with a forged stool cap, which experience has proved protects and supports the point of imp.sct upon a hardened plate, and enabie-3 the projectile point proper to And Its way into tlie armor. Ten years ago Russia entered upon experiments with a so-called magnetic shot, in which the cap was secured to the projectile by magnetic attraction; but the Johnson cap has proved Itself much more Batlsfaetory. and the plates which have been perforated with this pro jectile, fired from a Vickers gun. establishes the success; an essential feature, of c.jurse, is the high striking energy. The Johnson cap is of forged steel, cylindrical in form, with its bottom bored out to fit over the nose of the projectile itself. For securing the cap there is cut round the projectile a small groove, having at one point of the circum ference a slight nick, so th a t when tho cap by hydraulic pressure, is forced to grip Into the groove, the nick prevents any tendency to rotation, which would be prejudicial to the effective absorption of the force of im pact \uy tbe cap. The reproduction of the photogr.iph ol a C-iu. shot which has pa.ssod through a 6-ln. Krupp cemented plate, illus trates’ the efficiency of the capped projectile Itself, and shows this circular groove by whlcli the cap is attached to the shell. Turning now to the trir.#s which have estab lished the triumph of the Vickers gun and capped projectiles over the modern armor plate it may he noted first, as regards the lat'c r that it \'as manufactured at Messrs. V i c k e r s ' works, where a completely new plant has been recently laid down for the hardening eJ armor plate according to the l a t e s t process, and both I'no G-!n. and the 12-in. plates tried and perforated were manufactured according to British .Admiralty specification. Moreover, the first shots fired at these plates were ar ranged to exactly correspond with the Ad miralty tests prescribed for the acceptance or rejection of such plates. Thus the attack was by a G-in, gun. firing armor-piercing shot of 100 iwunds weight, without a cap, and having a striking velocity of 1,960 feet per second with a corresponding energy of 2,664 foot-tons. As la shown on the engravings. the shots with this energy, and without the caps, made practically no Impressmn upon the plate, excepting tha usual surface abra sion, while at the same time tho projectiles were 'broken Into many places. The first s'not fired against the 6-ln. plate was broken up. the point only remaining fused In the pl.-.te; but there ware no cracks, and no sign of bulge at tho back. Against the 12-ln. plate the G-iu. shot In the fifth round developed the high velocity of 2.S27 feet per second, w i t h a corresponding energy of 5,542 foot- tons; but having no cap the shot was com pletely broken up, although the point, which penetrated 3 in., r e mained fused In the plate, and a- large piece of the projectile rebounded to the extent of 20 feet from the front of the plate. These results prove that the plate was equal to the ordinary Admiralty require ments. -As to the effect of the new shot fitted with the Johnson cap, t h e engravings of t h e plates carry convincing proof, and clearly estab lish the triumph of the gun, with Us new projectile, over the latest plates, and that, too, when developing r e latively low velocities. Taking first the C-in. plate, the third round vvas ftrej from a 6-ln. gun with a Vickers shot lilted with the Johnson cap, the total weight being 105 pounds. The initial veloclty was 2,007 feet per second, and the striking velocity 1,971 feel per second, corresponding to a striking energy of 2,S29 fool-tons, with the result that the plate was completely per forated. This in itself is an important r e sult, but more remarkable is tho effect obtained from the 7.5-ln. gun, which fired the second projectlls at this plate. The striking energy here was 6,795 font-tons, and the result es tablished the immense superiority of t h is gun for cruisers as well as for the secondary arm a m e n t of battleships—a point we have al ready referred to; because, not only did the shell perforate the G-in. plate completely, but the point of it. Weighing 92 pounds, was sub sequently picked up in a sand heap at the rear of t h e target, having, after going through the plate plowed its way for 20 feet into this sand. One can quite easily picture the effect of such a shell, witli Us \mirsUng charge of 6 pounds of explosives, finding its way through the 6-in. belt of one of our many modern cruisers, and exploding its lyddite charge in tho interior of the ship. Referring now to the 12-ln. plate, three rounds were fired on May 9, also in presence of hlg'n Admiralty officials, with results cor responding t.o those attained with the 6-ln. plate; but it will suffice hare to “ p o int the moral\ of the attack by the 6-in. gun on F r i day last, when several members of t h e Board of .Admir.ilty were present at the trials. The fourth and fifth rounds against this 12-ln. plate not. only establish the high velocity of the Vickers weapon of this caliber, but also tbe efficacy of t h e Johnson cap, and in cidentally proved the advantages of nltro- CElluiose powder as co.-npared with cordite. Burning more slowly it exerts a longer and tberofore a more powerful pripclling effect upon the shot, and a t the same tlmo does not 0 1 ode tho gun as in the case of ot'ner compounds oo.'r’taining nl.ro glycerin, whereby Uie ballistics are greatly reil'.iced, as has been proved during the Transvaal war. Rounds 4 and 5 were fired from the same gun, the only differen.ee being that In the one case (Round 4) the Johnson cap was used. W it h the cap the shot passed completely through tho plate, hut was held up by the wood backing behind, and, as shown in tbe engraving, the rear end of the shell was about 9 in. from tbe surface. All the evi dences poi.it to the fact t'aat w a t e r would be admitted in such c.ise, as the wo.id back ing and the steel plate, rorresponding to the skin of the ship, h.idly bulged. But. as will be seen in the engraving, a T.o-in. shell with a cap—the third round—defeated even this 12-ln. plate. AVithout entering further Into the details embodied in the official tabulated report, it may be deduced th a t ' a capped G-ln. projectile will completely perfor.ate a 12-ln. plate If such a velocity as 2.S00 feet per second Is developed, and this the \Vickers gnn can easily attain ; whereas with an uncapped sb.it. even at this high velocity, the plate undoubtedly triumphs, the extent of penetra tion being only 3 in. As for the 6-in. plate, which is much more extensively adopted in our armored cruisers, it has been fully dem onstrated that a 6-ln. shot, when capped, will effect complete penetration, even with a striking velocity of about 1,971 feet per second; and in the series of experiments carried out •by the Vickers' Company there are several examples of such plates being perforated and the shot remaining intact. Even at the risk of repetition, it is proper to point out that the 6-in. projectiles we have been referring to are not sbell, but with the 7.5-in. gun on these trial shells were used containing tiie equivalent .of a 6-pound bursting charga, and these completely perforated the 6-in. modern cemented plate with a velocity corresponding to a range of 2,500 yards. It may be thus taken that such a gun using lyddite shell\ with a Johnson cap could perforate the w a t e r line armor of all the battlcahips of t h e Can opus and Duncan classes, as well as all the armored cruisers we are now building, mak- flttcd in such a way as to attain the high velocities necessary to insure the fullest penetrative power fur such projtculcs; The dllRcullles are unimportant, ami no arm o r piercing shot now in store need be dis carded, beeau-se the Johnson cap can very easily be fitted to any projectile at little cost, and with tho result of increasing their efflciency by 30 per cent, even at moderate velocities. Since tho French, Russian, Gcr- n;an and United States navies have adopted such caps, there Is the greater need why our naval weapons shotilJ be thus brought into line, and for insuring that the ne'v guns to be fitted to our battlethips and crulssrs should be improved in their ballis tics, while at the sam e time tho 7.5-ln. in stead of the 6-ln. gun s'nould be adopted as the secondary arm a m e n t of our .battleships. This is tho more imp.ortant as these guns ere not only of very great power, but attain a high rapidity of fire. At the trials to which we have been referring, a test ivas made to ascertain their quick-firing qualities, and it was found that, firing at a target 1,000 yards away, five aimed rounds were i.i-charged within 31 seconds, representing a rate of fire of nine aim e d rounds per minute. No more op.onrrune tim e could be chosen 'for a spirited naval policy; the country, still smarting under the sense of laipotencc dis- cveryday, useful American mules wont on the ship. The gioman line steamship Syracusa salici! : mlrer ground on which to remove him Tho announcement that W a t e r Commis sioner Dougherty purposes to abolish the position of s u p e r intendent of repairs and sup plies in the Brooklyn department, now filled by Henry Hawkes. a veteran, has aroused a feeling borderin.g on Indignation among the hatter's friends, and it Is declared that If Commissioner Dougherty persists In Ills In tention an effoi-t will be luaiie to have him restrained by the courts. It was said to-day that Superintendent Hawkes will fight his case to the end, be lieving that Commissioner Dougherty has no but from the South Central pier for Macein. ; the fact that ho decs not agree with \nlra Rio Janeiro, and Santos. She has on board a full general cargo of food .stuffs, oils, lard end general merchandise. There is a pool between the lines in the Brazil trade and this accounts for the slowness with which some of the ships get away, hut so far they politically. In fuel, .Mr. Hawkes' friends say that, politics Is back of the wiiolo matter. Super]ntondeiil Hawkes Is one of tho best kmv.'.n in'll in this horongh. Althmi.gh a Doinei r a t of long standing and a close friend GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY’S GIFT tain O’R e illy Came by Error and Mrs. Beckwith Spoke. Educational Classes for Colored Young Men to Be Established in people in Greuter Ne-w Aork and surrounding Y. M. C. A. districts met in tho Eyrie R e s t a u r a n t on the twenty-third floor of the Tract Society George Foster Peabody has bought and building at Nassau and Spruce streets. Man- presented to the Brooklyn Colored A'oung h a t t a n , at 7:13 o'clock Friday night. The oc- Men's Christian .Association a fine old man- | c a s lon was the 217ih monthly session of the sion costing about SS.OOO. Evening ecluea- ( T b i r t o e n Club, and the food was vegetables, tloiial classes (or colored young men will be | in honor of the Vegetarian Society, many of prom i n e n t In this association, which now has | h.mi were present. The piece de reslslancB for the colored aasoeiatlou In hl.s native city, have t h e best end of the trade. No otic hut | cf Htigli McLatighiiii, he has not taken atiy John -Arbucklc has broken out. against the combination, and his revolt is said to be en tirely satisfactory to himself. The nest proof of this is tbe fact that he c.iiiinues to chanter his o-.vn steam e r s and carry ids own coffee with the most supremo iudiiier- ence as to w h a t the steam s h i p symlicaie or the coifec im p o r t e r s think about the matter. K E R H ISS COMES TO A N END And New Elythehourne Church \Will Be Greatly Helped. The Dutch Kernilss at the Borough Park Clubhouse came to a close last night after a very successful week. It was children's day and t h e r e was a l a r g e attendance from aficr- active part in politics for many years. He \nas been in the employ of the W a ter De- parim c m for years and is protected from removal by the fact that he is a veteran. .As toid in the Eagle on Tbtirsday, Super- Intciidciu H.iwkes and Registrar Titto curly Columbus, Ga,. when It shall have developed to require it. For yc;irs member.ship in many of the city and other associations lias been open to negroes, but very (ow of tliesc young men avail iliemselves of tbe privilege. Tho nssoclalton.s find that to help colored young men special organizations are re quired, as for railroad men. soldiers, sail or.*. students and other groups of young I men. In New A'ork City, w I ktc almost no 1 colored members were enrolled, an assocla- 1 lion wa.*- organized last year with 22.'> m e m bers. where Hie employment bureau, eduea- | n u t butler, llonal classes and dorm it o r y are leading feti- • (julep lures. The ela.sses we.'u iimiiediately tilled with negroes am b i t ious for self-improve ment. The colored a.ssoeiations tire grow ing, a.s ;hi' l iuornatlor.nl enminlttec has twe with artichoke sauce. Sweet corn, early Juno peas (cannctlj, and creamed potatoes took the place of chicken. Asparagus soup, straw b e r r i e s and ice cream, together with corn muffins and •whole w h e a t bread, helped to satisfy those who had dined before they caiiie. and tlio.se ' who wore really hungry went around the corner a f t e r dinner and got some pork and beans. There were three kinds of butter, how ev e r —fiatn btittor, cream e r y b u t t e r and pea- Tho liquors were coffee and quince punch, a highly invigor ating mixture, Croton water. E a s t Now York w,-uer, etherized w a t e r and seltzer water, llie r c were only three occurrences to m a r in the year were haled before Com missioner' gcc.-ctu,jos siipervl.sing this movement. | t h e .harmony of the function the first being s x r s r s s ' r ^ s s st i« T o ;:-:™.', i'**? c.n.«U,„^ M r . . . . I. iW . bm-o.ji, • f;,;*\* | a « « « . n . r d h . i,M l , , „ a t t a r . w . , l . ’ b l Commisss.mci Dougherty on A\ edne.'>d..y s..it, vear, mostly in northern cities where a meeting of tho Suicide Club and that h« word to former As.sistant Corporation Conn- • ,,,p pa,n,lallon is large, and three men ^ around to investigate. The second in- sel William J. Carr, Mr. Hawkes' counsel, | nre in preparation at the Training School. i t e r r u u t i n e ti-nc a n r- ti .. llre^ la^t e ' / ‘ slm u I U r o e o u / vv,/h''\hc “ ficUro i N e / ’v o ^ r l u “ d ’‘c h / C o n J i \lan who paimed off a u J Z o n . mongr'l’ sent to .Mr. Carr the announcement was made i lam a and J’liiladelphia -lO.OOO each. Wash- j cat on tlie astu t e j u d g e s of a Madison Square that Commissioner Dougherty was going lo ; inglon and New O r l e a n s each So,000, and ; c a t show several years ago aa a prize winner do away with -Mr. Hawkes' pl.uce. i Baltimoro 89,000. Booker Wa.shington says; broke a m i r r o r last night and created ... o ------ io^t ..\vp must depend upon the A oung -Men s I n.ua crcaiea Tho latter's friends assert th a t Comniis-j consternation among the Thirteen Club to preserve the young manhood of our race, j members. The third interruption was caused Every dollar put Into this work for my race , by a severe thunder storm, which caused a heconics an interest-bearing dollar. Money 1 ru.sli for the elevator. \The proprietor of the spent ill this direction means a b e u e r voter ! E y r i e is a prohibitionist who employs pretty and a belter citizen.\ It is Hkely th a t a j girl ivaiterr. of whom there were thirteen sloncr Dougherty from the beginning of the,; Christian Association not only to rescue but .ve.ar has been bent on the removal of .Mr. Ilawke.s, and that tho charges were pre ferred against him merely to enable the Comraissior.er to aecomplish his purpose. They declare that ComnilSEloner Dougherty, ^ . ____ ____ ___ _ llmling that Uie charges were not substan- : large development of the A’oung Men's ; In attendance. Including the dish washer. . . . 1 — 1,1 i,_is .i„-i,i„a „„ \ \ 1 - ' (iprlstian Association will t a k e place among The decorations consisted of umbrellas the colored men of tho cities. ! h a n g ing on the walls, ornamented with tha For an endowment fund of $f>o,l)nn for the : c h e e r f u l legend, \.Morlturl te BalutamuB.\ supervision of H i I b colored ■work. $21,000 has , which Senator H e n r y AVInton of Hackensack been subncrlbed by men familiar with this interpreted literally as m e a n i n g \Hello work, and special effort is now being made n-.- . . . • • by some of tho best and wisest friends of the colored race to complete t h o amount. RESULTS OE FIR IN G AT 1-1 1 3 - lS IN . CEMENTED ARMOR-BLATE (K RUPP PROCESS), BY VICKERS’ GUNS, AT ESKMEALS. played in connection wil'n the Transvanl cam paign, will welcome any well-deflnfcd and liberally-prosecuted policy 'ey Loivi •Selhornc and his hoard, while our great ordnance n a n u f taturing fir.vis are in an atimtraiile position for carrying out etitensive gun-con struction work, as t h e y are not. and have no: been for some time, fully engaged upon such ivork. FROM BROOKLYN PIERS. Many Ships Left the \Water Front Y es- terciay for Foreign Ports. Considering the season an unusually large number of passengers soiled yesterday on the Red D liner Philadelphia. She took about 70 cabin passengers, most of thei'n hound tor Porto Rico. On board arc a num ber of automobiles and men interested in them. They are intended tor tbe mail serv ice between San Juan and Pence. The ship c.arrles a fair cargo, considering the present conditions in Venezuela. Tliese are an u n known quantity here, as the cables are still out of working ortler.__, No_reports have been heard front tho last ships that left hero for Venezuelan ports- This is regarded as a case of cable interruption, but it is ra t h e r ominous of the conditions in.A'enezuela, The Philadelphia, like all the Red D steamships, is an auxiliary United States cruiser, and her experienced m a s t e r . Capt'aln John Cham bers. is sure to do the right thing in the event of any trouble a t La Guayra or Porto Oahello. He has been running there for some fifteen years past, and is thoroughly acquainted with all the situations in the republic. The Bremen liner Lahn sailed also at noon lug a very considerable hole and causing from the foot of Amity street for Genoa and RESULTS OF FIR IN G AT 6 IN . CEMENTED ARMOR-PLATE (KRUPP PRO CESS), BY VICKERS’ GUNS, AT ESKMEALS. much internal destruction; while the 6-in. Naples. She cariies 150 cabin and 200 steer- gun at a range of 2,000 yards could similarly defeat tho 4-in. armor of the Kent class. There can be no question about the earnest ness of the present Board of Admiralty and of their strong desire to bring the N.avy into the first rank of efficiency, and we can only hope t h a t the serious significance of the rraults attained will enable them to carry their desire more fully into practice. The nation Itself will gladly \foot Hie bill,'' and no difficulty should be experienced in secur ing the financial aid necessary. Lord Sel- borno hs,s embarked upon a commendalila policy of re-armir.g some of our ships which otherwise are fairly efficient, and it in cumbent upon him to ensure th a t not only will all the vessels bo supplied with capped shot and shell, but that the guns t'\*'! b® ago passengers and a full general cargo -Among ihe form e r arc the following Brook lynites: Afiss Effie Danforth, Airs. AIcAdoo, Miss Mury Murphy. Miss Lilia Murphy, Mrs. AI. H. Nelson, Miss B. Nelson and AA’aller Schumann, United States Consul at Mainz. The Anchor line steaniskip H e s p e r ia sailed in the afternoon from Hio Union Stores for Genoa, Naples and Leghorn. W h il e she did not carry many passengers she h a s on board a good cargo of general merchandise. Tli'j Trinidad Trading and Shipping Com pany’s aicam.ship Maravnl sailed also from the Union Stores for Grenada and Trinidad. She takes out n fair generrd cargo of flour, pork, food stuffs, fish, lard and some of the sacred Indian Zebu cattle. These latter are for Venezuela. Hoaa cf tho ordinary. noon until the closing hour. The ro’celpts were large and the entire sum will be turned over to the building fund for tl«, now Edge- wood Reformed Dutch Cliureh, which will be erected at Biythehournc shortly. The Ladies\ Aid Society connected w i t h the Bdgewood Church was in charge of the affair. The officers of tho .Aid Society'’are; President, Mrs, R. B. FIHiiiui; vice presidents. Mrs. Bernard Lazelere and Airs. A. J. AVilder; secretary, Mrs. AVHliatii C. Carlisle; tre a s urer. Miss Kate Kowenhoven; Mrs. D. AVal- tcfbeck. Among tho patronesses were the following: Mrs. 'iVililam If. I’eynolds of Borough Park. Mrs. E. .B. Litchfield, Airs. S. B. Diirven. .Airs. Tunis G . ‘Bergen. .Airs. J. Elliott La'ng- staff, Mrs. Trum a n J. Backus, .Airs. F r a n k l i n AV. Hooper. Mrs. J. H. Planten, Airs. John Berry and Mrs. Egbert Benson of Brooklyn. Others of the committee from localities adjacent to Borou.gli I’ark, are Mrs. Jere. Lott, .Mrs. .Adoipli Bennett and Mrs. John AicKay of Bay Ridge; .Mrs. Tunis Sclienek. Airs. Townsend A'cr. Pelt and Mrs. A. A’an Brunt A’oorhecs of New Utrecht; Mrs. A’an Bu.sk.'rk, AIlss Lake and .Miss Stillwell of nravesond; Mrs. AYilHam Ditmars and Mrs. Garrett Kowenhoven of Flatlands; .Airs. C. B. Jennings, Airs. Prince and Mrs. Wells of Flatbush, Mrs. George Bergen of Alattituck. lial tin.l enuld not hold, decided on the only course left to him under the civil servit-o laws—that of abolishing the place held by .Air. Hawkes. The (luestlon is asked hy Mr. Hawkes\ triends, if the ptC'Dlon of superintendent of .•supply ,ar.d repairs is abolislied, what pro vision Is to he made for a head of the b u reau of dlstrilniiioii la t-his horough, one of Hie mosi important liranehos of the dupiirt- ti ( nt ? .As s u p e r i n tendent of repairs and sup- id lea Air. Hawkes Is now the head of tills hurraii. Tlio.'-e who are familiar with th i deialls of the work of the AA’aler Depart- j men: say that it will lie impo.sslblo for the THE IT A L IA N INRUSH . death:\' The gastronomic portion of the ffin- n e r ended with an earn e s t effort to burn brandy to flavor coffee which •was so highly diluted with w a t e r that it would not burn. I-«Uers of regret were read from Mr». Carrie Chapman Catt. president of the Na tional American AVoman's Suffrage As- laoclation; Mrs. Dlmies T. S. Den- ! ison, president Federation of Women's 1,200 Men and \Women Arrived on the Patrla—^Tho General Situation. The Fabre Line steamship P a t r l a arrived 1 C lubs; E r n e s t H. Crosby, president of the ro i i i n i i s s l o n c r to eonsiilldatc th e b u r e a u w i t h ! ’ ‘ “...u ^.u,. __I V e g e t a r i a n S o e i e t v n n A n ’n V-' some other l;ran,-h of the depart,-npin. i t such! yesterday at the Union Stores^ trom_ . ,i„ol.Trntinn fre e f v.i1“ w l - / — wm___^ is his intention. It will be equally Impos- 1 N a p les and Marseilles. She brought over .slble. it i.s d.'Tlared, to cnmlucl the affalr-s i ],200 .steerage passengers, apparently of a of Hie bureau from Hie main offlec of tho i h c t l e r class than the ordinary. There was departm e n t and at Hie same time give u sat- j imusiially large number of women and ishictory service to the people of t h i s boj- I children on the ship, and a fleet of rowboats oiigU. I [..( well as a launch was on hand to carry Mr. Hawkes is a man of practical experl- enthusiastic friends around t h e ship t o greet er.ee. and his friends -say It will he hard for 1 new- arrivals. the Commissioner to find a capable man to take Ills piece.- The proposition to abolish the place of Mr. Hawkes, it is claimed, is only part of the policy of Comir.i.ssloner notigheriy to W i p e out the local department, \i'hnse who be- .... __ _ __ ____ _____ ___ -- lieve th a t fonimis'donor Dougherty would i Italian im m i g r a t i o n tliat the lines have I fiant declaration from E l l a W h e e l e r AA'llcox, playwright, authoress, essayist and poetess of passion. Mrs. AVilcox -wrote: \ITie Bungalow, \Short Beach. Conn.. May 26, 1902. \Thanks for your Invitation, but I don’t like 13! The last time (and the first) I ever sat 13 at table was a t a dinner given - - r. • i-Afi-hur Grissom, a few m o n t h s before ha The Prince Line steam s h i p Trojan Prince [ ,ii(,,i eiore no brought in nearly 900 more Jta l l a n s from | - i Geneve In tho power of concentrated Leghorn, Genoa, Naples and Palermo lan d - j favored, for hundreds of ing them at the E a s t Central Pier. .Atlantic , y e j r s . the thirteen as unlucky. I am glad GROUT WILL FIGHT. Not Satisfied AVith Decision of Justice Greenbaum in Matter of Jerome BiJls. bo i x-.'f-'odlng his power.s. in aholisltiug Mr. Hawltfs' plac“ say the ro m m ( ‘'siom’r would have to proscni good reason:; before a court (o have his net inn sustained. Mr. Dough erty v.nuld have to prove, it is claimed, th a t the Inir.’ati i.s not an l^s.^•.'^tlal branch of the department. The huraui is regarded as one cf the most imperial’.! in the service. Mr. Hawki-.s rofiises to disruss his own ca.se, an.l at the office of his counsel thlsl]j,j|\p morning It was sold that Mr. Carr was out of lo-.vn. rninminsionor Dougherty was not at Ills office this morning. It was said th a t he was making a lonr of inspection of the ponds at Mass.npcqua in company with Chief Engineer De A’arona and Deputy Commis sioner A’ar. Iderstine of the local departm e n t . C h a r g e s of neglect of duty have heen p r e ferred ai:nin.=t Enginerr ./ohn Af. .Smith, who is In fharge of the Riwkvillo C e n ter stntlon. A henring’ will be given to .Mr. Smith on Monday morning, at i0:3(1 o'clock. Mr. Smith has retained Mr. C.arr as hl.s counsel. I ---------- - - — glad \ ' s / g r e a t a tr a d e has been establish e d hy | ^rmtlrld yearo‘\ | r so\” ‘^rereome“the other wave. Then I will dine with you. \E L L A W H E E L E R AVILCOX.\ \WAREHOUSES CLOSED. AA’ork w.as sn.spcnded at neon yesterday along t h e water front, as the warehouses all closed down in ptirsiianee of tho custom es tablished some years ago. The halt holiday on Saturday will last until the middle of August. begun to cut rates. It Is reported th a t one company is carrying these pa.ssengers for $14 a head. The agents on tho other side are flooding southern Europe -with clrcnlars and pictures of the fortunes lo be made in and the deiights to he enjoyed In the .great City of New A'ork. These have so fired the enthusi.csin of the poorer cl,asses of people th a t they a r e said to he mortga.ging their farms to re.nch the El Dorado. Many of the imm i g r a n t s Itave discovered tho situa tion, and this accotmis for t h e number th a t sailed for Italy to-day on t h e Lahn. MISS DANFORTH’S TRIAL. Future H e a rings on Murder Charge W ill Be Before Middlesex Justices. South Fram i n g h a m , .Mass., June 14—By an Indeed, of all the celebrated persona In vited, the only ones who pu t in an appear ance were Mrs. Emq$a Beckwith,- late can didate for the m a y o r a l t y of Brooklyn, and her dimpled daughter. Mrs. Beckwith wore a beautiful black silk dress with a train three yards long, and all the time she was reading her paper the rain was falling fast enough to fill the subway excavations. GLEN ISLAND TO OPEN SOON. Glen I s l a n d will open for the season next Thursday. The improvements a t the resort this year are more m a r h e d than ever and tbe managem e n t has added to the number of a t tractions. The zoo has been enlarged and tho num b e r of anim a l s Increased. Tho agreement effected between Judge Kings- j bury of the local court and the clerk of t h e ' IHtle ones, has been increased Middlesex Superior Court, the case of Miss ! cages of Brazilian rlng-taiU , whlcli Nina Danforth. who. it Is alleged, on May I '’.ith several Bengal tigers and a family of 47. shot, and killed Andrew J. Emery of t h i s i leopards, arrived from G e r m a n y a fo'w daya place, has been canceled from the calendar ago. of the local district court. As the Middlesex Grand Ju r y has returned a t r u e bill for m u r d e r against the defendant, all future hearings will be before .Allddlesex Justices. MEMORIAL TO QUEEN ELIZABETH OF AUSTRIA. Recently U n v e iled In Stvitzerland. Although mandamussed to pay one of tho | bilks incurred by Detective AlcLelian of ■' District Attorney Jerom e ’!; staff for expenses | in ferreting out violations of t h e excise and gambling laws, Controller Grout is far from 1 satisfied -with t h e (iccUlon of J u s t i c e Green- i baum of the Siiofontc Court and will carry ' the m a t t e r to tho higher courts. In speak- ' ing of t h e case he said; \I expect to pay the account on which I ; was mandam u s s e d , but I shall pay it under ’ protest. That is, I shall not waive my rights to an appeal.\ j \I am of t h e same opinion now a.s I was at ' the outset of this question; that is, th a t it ■ is not rig h t or lawful to spend the city’s ; funds in aiding and abetting violations of tho law s . ’’ \I am positive In my own mind th a t it is not necessary to have rccour.se to such methods to abate crlr.it- r-r violations of the ordinances. Captain O'Reilly of Brooklyn had no difficulty, it seems, in closing one of the m o s t notorious places in New York, and the policy pursued by hi:n is one th a t I have always believed s'nouid be pursued.’’ “ T h is t h i n g of dm.’ctlve.s and policemen go ing i n to places where the laws arc violated ami spending money of tho city to got evi- ; dence is all wrong. If the police let it be , known th a t they purpose clo.slng up any place ! or otop i t from violating the laws, that place ■ will close and close quickly.'' 1 \Take Canfields. Do >’ou not think that if j one or two policemen wore to be stationed in , front of that pl.vce, t.bat it could not be ■ forced to close? It would stop all the trade 1 of the place and the policeincii -would not i have to be kept there for any great length of time either.\ | \I am not, only going to fight the bills of i Mr. Jerom e 's men. but al! sim il a r bills in - the rolice Department of the entire city. •I do not know hew much they will anionni to, but I know there are many thousands of ! dollhrs of such bills. I .in not think the entire question was presented at tho hear- ■ jng when the mandamus was issued, hut it | will be in liio higher courts.” \VOLKSFEST CLOSES TO-DAY. j To-day the Pluuduetscho A’olksfost will ; close, and, weather permitting, this will be ■ the banner day anti thousands of f r iends wiil assemble a t Ridgewood Park to enjoy once j more the various aniusemcntc. provided by j the committee. Bcslilc the popular games, Ahe vaudeville enterialnment, the baiioon ascension and the performance on the high ■wire, t h e event of the day will bo t h e aw a r d ing of the prizes to the champion shooter and the best bowler to-night, a f t e r which a display of fireworks v- 111 b r i n g the ninetconth annual festival to an end. A recently born baby buffalo Is an unex pected attrac t i o n In the space set apart for the big bisons from the far AA’est. The herd of e lephants has had two arrivals from India, one of which -was horn and reared in cap tivity. It has a fondness for children and promises to become a great favorite. It w a i formerly the property of a Rajah and p e r forms m a n y tricks. AVlth the addition of other anim a l s from remote quarters of tha globe the zoo a t Glen Island Is now one of the largest in America. An interesting attraction will be a band of Mexican Vaquoros. The band arc true typos of this peculiar class, seen nowhere else than on the plans, and their hourly ex hibitions promise to be a veritable •wild AA'cst show. The management has this season shown consideration for the pleasure of the llttlo ones. There are ponies by the dozen for them to ride on: any num b e r of small carts, camels, carrousels and swings run by steam. The aquarium has been Increased In size and new m a r i n e beauties and monster* added, while the Aviary and Museum of Natural H i s t o r y have both been enlarged and Improved. Among the additions are some harking seals. Little Germany, th a t portion of t h e resort set ap a r t for Teutonlo guests, has had Its share of improvement*. The castles built after the eleventh oenturjr style of architecture, the quaint stro l l f n r German bands and w a r b l e r s from the moun tains of the Rhine, and t h e German trees and Linden groves all contribute to disguise th* fact that tils visitor is still in America. Shaded walks have also been constructed. FLOWER GUILD TEA. The annual reception and tea of the Bcn- sonhurst Branch of the F r u i t and Flower Guild of -America was held yesterday at the j F a r t Lowry Hotel. Seventeenth avenue, Bath Beach. The big dining room and reception hall were gayly decorated for the occasion. .Mrs. Jo.scph AA'esIey Malone was chairman ot the eiuertainm e n i committee, and her as- sistant.s were Jfrs. Selden AA’lckett, Mfs. Robert Ives and Mrs. Frederick AA’. Gorlin. The reception committee Included Mrs. Miles .AicNamara. Mrs. John Allaire, Mrs. Lowry Richardson. Mrs. Peter Bogart, Mrs. N. N. Morrltey, Mrs. Edward Ives. Mrs. AA’alter E. Parfitt,'.Mrs. J. S. Fries, Mrs. Havlland, Mrs. AVilllam D. Dickey, Mrs. John S. Bennett, Mrs. AA’. G. Smithers, Miss Ruth Allaire, Miss Ethel Parflu. Miss .Anna Schwerdtferger. Miss De Nyse, Miss .Anna Robinson, Miss Meally. Miss Anna Coleman. Mies Lilian Syl* vestcr, Mies Mabel Parfitt, Mrs. George Bsch- bach. Thi.s memorial to the unfortunate Queen Elizabeth of A u s tr i a - H u n g a r y has been erected near tho place, where an assassin struck her down. The place is kno-svn as Terittet, In Sw lt z e r i i n d , one ot the villages on the Genfcr Sea that are collectively known as'M o n t r e u x . The monument w a s finished r e c e n tl y , Antonio Chlatone being th e sculptor. KILLED BY A FALL FROM A TREE. Alfred H. Hehra. an 11-year-old son of Hans Hehrs, climbed into a cherry tree In the yard of his r e sidence a t One Hundred and Seventy-third street and McComb's Dam Read yesterday afternoon, when a limb broke under his weight, and bo fell twenty fqet to the ground. He landed on his head and broke his nock. Policeman Kelly of the Klngsbridge station was called, and he sum moned an ambulance from Fordham HospltaJ, but on its arriv a l the boy w a i dead. U 3
