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DR. LYMAN ABBOTT SPEAKS
ON BIRTH OF DEMOCRACY
We Are Living in an Age of Transition He Tells Academy Audience.
CHANGES
IN THEOLOGIES.
Bible Does Not Speak With Its Old Authority, Whether We Like It or Not.
Speaking to a large audience in the Music Hall of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, yesterday afternoon on the "Birth of Democracy." the Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., editor of the Outlook, before going back to the early Hebraic democracy exiting before the Christian era, briefly reviewed the modern evolutionary processes of politics saying:
"We are living in an age of transition. In such an age we find ourselves, an age of universal questioning, though nothing which was settled in the past is settled to-day. As though the interrogation point was put against every faith of our fathers, every conclusion they had reached. We have a new science, a new philosophy of human life, a new psychology, a new theology. No church is immune, even the Roman Catholic
written as great dramas as Shakspeare, nor have we a Pluto or a Dante, but our classles are in such form that all may enjoy them for the price of a elgar or two glasses of beer, and the penny newspaper can and will furnish a kind of literature to everybody who can read, and many who cannot think. "Democracy means more than a government by or for the people, it means the life of the people, by the people for the people. We are moving not toward the conception of liberty, not toward less government but toward the conception of a social democracy, not by competition but by co-operation and combination. Nor can I doubt this is a healthy movement worthy of promotion and wise guidance, that we live together in social fellowship."
This was the first of five lectures to be given by Dr. Abbott, under the direction of the Brooklyn Institute, Department of Political Science, on "The Democracy of the Twentieth Century."
PENSA LITERARY CLUB.
On Friday, January 7, the regular fortnightly meeting of the Pensa Literary Club, Mrs. C. A. J. Queck-Berner, president, was held at the home of Mrs. Robert Murray, 560 Macon street, Mrs. W. H. Fry, vice president of the club, read a paper on "The Victorian Poets," and the usual discussion of the paper followed. The regular number of members were present, and two guests, Mrs. Gates and Mrs. T. N. Glover. A social hour was indulged in, with piano solos by the president.
The meeting adjourned until January 21, when the subject will be "Burbank's New Agriculture."
CHARGES CHUM WITH ROBBERY
Servavnt Girl Lost Money and Clothing—Some of Latter Found in Miss Moleski's Room
47TH WINS FIRST SHOOT
IN EAGLE MEDAL MATCH
Marksmanship of Crack Guardsmen Soars High and Captures Initial Series.
2 COMPETITIONS POSTPONED.
Naval Battalion and Second Signal Corps to Struggle Next Saturday.
The first series of shoots in the 1910 competition for the third Eagle Trophy, offered to national guard and naval militia organizations for excellence in marksmanship, resulted in a victory for the Forty-seventh Regiment. Two more series are to follow. The Naval Battalion and the Second Signal Corps, which were to have shot Saturday night in the first series, postponed their match by mutual consent until next Saturday night. Following are the standings of the teams entered in the competition, with the results of Saturday night's matches:
Twenty-third Regiment ... 351
Equidron C ... 347
Fourteenth Regiment ... 342
Thirteenth C.A. District ... 300
Standing of the Teams.
SIFTS CHRISTIAN THOUGHT.
Pastor Russell Begins Series of Sermons.
Pastor Russell of the Brooklyn Tabernacle (formerly the Plymouth Bethel) began a series of four sermons on Church Federation yesterday afternoon, in the Opera House of the Academy of Music Yesterday's special subject was "The Cost of Federation to the Presbyterian Congregational and Methodist Denominations."
Mr. Russell said that the trend of modern Christian thought was in the direction of unity; that the factional divisions among the denominations were drawing more closely together In Christian work, and that a confederation of the churches was not an idle dream.
TALKS ON PINCHOT ROW.
E. T. O'Loughlin Discusses Ballinger Controversy Before the Economic Club.
E. T. O'Loughlin discussed, last night, the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy before the Economic Club of Brooklyn. Mr. O'Laughlin declared that the present row was the inherited land struggle which confronts every country at some stage of its existence. It was a struggle, he said, between the people for their national resources, and the corporate interests, who wish to gobble it up as they have been doing right along. The reason these perennial thefts of our natural resources have not been exposed before this time was because the people had no champion. Were not the adversaries in the present controversy two important figures in the national eye, the row would not even
FORESTERS UNION SERVICES.
Many Prominent Men Attend Meeting and Review Past Work.
The Union services of the Foreaters of America, held in the Amphion Theater yesterday afternoon, was well attended. The first speaker was Thomas McNulty, grand secretary of the organization, who explained the aims and benefits of the society. He declared that nearly $100,000 were expended in this country alone during the past year, in paying claims of beneficaries. Following him Alderman Bent spoke.
The feature of the services was the address of Willllam Reuben; grand chief ranger of the order. He said in uart: "To extend the Foresters' membership we must have the hearty co-operation of all. In this county we should have a Foresters temple, in which we could congregate."
FAVOR WHITE SLAVE BILL
Two Men's Classes Also Indorse The Bill Against Pool Selling.
350 Voters From Churches Oppose Bill Appointing Sunday Law Commission.
Grace Presbyterian Church Men's Class, of which the Rev. Robert Henry Carson is leader, paid a fraternal visit, yesterday afternoon, to the Men's Class of the Central Presbyterian Church, of which the Rev. Dr. J. F. Carson is leader. The topic was "Fellowship." on which both pastors
PEARY'S OWN OPINION
AS TO ESKIMO'S ORIGIN
Thinks They Are the Remnants of an Ancient Siberian
Race.
SKETCH OF GREENLAND TRIBE.
Calls Them a People "Unique on the Face of the Earth"—Faithful Unto Death.
Commander Robert E. Peary gives in the February number of Hampton's Magazine, to be published to-morrow, his own solution to a riddle that has puzzled explorers and scientists for the past few centuries. That riddle is the origin of the Eskimos.
The commander in this second installment of his story of the discovery of the North Pole reveals the importance of well-trained Eskimos in polar travel, and he incidentally gives a remarkable sketch of the Greenland tribe that he himself employed. He says:
"The members of this little tribe inhabiting the western coast : Greenland from Cape York to Etah are in many ways quite different from the Eskimos of Danish Greenland or those of any other Arctic territory. There are now
suggested that their invocation of the spirits of their dead may be vital of Asiatic ancestor worship."
Other parts of the narrative cell of the flora and fauna of the Arctic.
"In some places," says the commander, "in this coast in summer, the grass is thick and long as on a New England farm. Popples bloom here with dandelions, buttercups and saxifrage, though to the best of my knowledge the flowers are all devoid of perfume. I have seen bumblebees even north of Whale Sound; there are files and mosquitos, and even a few spiders. Among the fauna of this country are the deer, the Greenland caribou, the fox—both blue and white—the Arctic hare, the polar bear, and perhaps once in a generation a stray wolf."
THE U. S. IN THE PACIFIC.
Charles A. Towne Thinks We Should Maintain Large Fleet There and Be Ready for Trouble.
A small but attentive audience was present last evening at the Young Men's Hebrew Association, 345 Ninth street, for the purpose of hearing an address by exSenator Charles A. Towne on "The United States in the Pacific." Among other things, Mr. Towne said:
"The history of the world is centralizing around the Pacific and the countries touching it. Civilization has been traversing the globe. It began around the Mediterranean. Greece became the center of the world, then Rome developed her world-wide power. Civilization crept around part of Africa and to England and Scotland. Soon after the discovery of the compass, came the discovery of America and the development of the At-
Church acknowledges the entrance of the spirit of modernism, the pope at Rome has found these conditions worthy of serious attention. We have a new sociology, new politics. There is no longer any clearly defined line of demarkation between political parties. We have not a Republican party, but a Roosevelt policy, and also a Taft policy, and if the newspapers are correct we have a considerable party of Republicans in Congress who are opposed to both.
Referring to "theologies," Dr. Abbott said: "We find the authority of the Church of Rome not what it once was, and the teachings of all churches questioned. The Bible, whether we like it or not, does not speak with its old authority. The preacher to-day is not marshaling proofs, but arguments for his contention.
"On the question of sociology, to-day, there are capitalists who deny to labor the right to organize, while organized labor denies the same right to capital, and we find also that organized labor denies a man the right to work unless under unionized conditions. Then we find that autocratic power worl much evil on the man who possesses it as on the man who suffers under it. We are beginning to question the right of any man to govern others, who is incapable of governing himself."
"Government should derive its authority from the eternal sense of right and wrong. Half a century ago the declaration of William H. Seward that 'There is a higher law than the constitution' was met with laughter, derision and excursion.' There was a current belief in America then that government rested on the consent of the governed, but that condition has gone, we no longer argue 'is it constitutional,' but 'Is it right.' We in America no longer believe in the rule of the majority, but we believe in the eternal and immutable laws of right and wrong.
"This is an age of organization, an age tending toward human brotherhood. We have taken a long step toward co-operation and organization. Modern democracy is a great human development. It provides more homes than palaces, better roads, and locomotion, we have art galleries and libraries. Clyde Fitch has not
Helen Moleski, who worked as a servant with a family living at 1067 Prospect place, was a prisoner before Magistrate O'Reilly in the Bedford avenue court yesterday morning, charged with grand larceny. The complainant was Annie Slavarie, a young servant employed in the family of Otto Schmitt, at 153 Calyer street. In her complaint the Slavarie girl accused the prisoner with having robbed her of 103 in cash, a gold watch and chain valued at 25, a gold ring worth 25, and some wearing apparel worth 10. Magistrate O'Reilly remanded the accused in $509 ball pending further hearing.
According to the story told by the Slavarie girl she and Annie came to America together from the same town where they had known each other from childhood. She had the greatest confidence in Helen and trusted her implicitly. So deep was her trust that she took Helen's advice regarding her savings. It was Helen's advice not to trust any of the banks but to keep her savings in her own possession. Every time Helen made a visit she anxiously inquired the amount of Annie's savings, and when the latter made this statement it led the police to believe that Helen was simply waiting until the amount had grown to a sum worth taking.
Helen's last visit to Annie was on December 20 last. The money, jewelry and wearing apparel was in a suit case, and when Annie was called from her room, Helen, she alleges, must have seized the opportunity to decamp. When Annie discovered her loss she hesitated at suspecting her countrywoman, but her suspicions grew, when Helen failed to make her usual visits and notified the police of the Greenpoint avenue station. Detectives Cassidy and McGrattan were deto the Prospect place house, Helen was confused. She hurried to her room followed by the detectives, who caught her in the act of removing some wearing apparel, which she threw behind her bed. It was recovered, and when shown to Annie was readily recognized as belonging to her.
Second Naval Battalion ... 000
Second Signal Corps ... 000
Forty-seventh Regiment.
<tr><th>Rank, name, company:
NY Yards
Sergeant White, K
T'1
Sergeant Tomoselli, K
Corporal Cokelet, K
Sergeant Murphy, H. S., I
Corporal Babe, H., I
First Sergeant Hudwalter, K
Team total
Twenty-third Regiment.
<tr><th rowspan="2">Rank, name.
2014 Yards
T'l
Sergeant H. C. Head
E. E. Searley
T. P. Ward
E. E. Alber
Corporal C. H. K. Blauvelt
E. L. Adams
Team totals
Squadron C.
Fourteenth Regiment.
<tr><th>Rank, name, company.
T
Sergeant I. Flanigan, A
D. Hertherington, B
Corporal A. Wilson, G
Corporal A. Brentson, G
First Sergeant O. Carlson, G
First Sergeant D. Trimmer, E
Team totals
LECTURED IN THE WEST.
Miss Annie S. Peck, the distinguished mountain climber, has returned to the city after a lecture tour in the West and is stopping at the Hotel Alabama.
The next regular dance of La Jeunesse series will be held at the Pouch Mansion to-morrow evening. The committee in charge is composed of Miss Helen Smythe, Miss Kathleen McDonnell, Miss Elsie Erskine, Frederick Meurlin and Arthur J. Stricker.
LA JEUNESSE DANCE.
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Grand
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Grand
T'1.
T'1.
AT ATLANTIC CITY.
ANNOUNCED HIS ENGAGEMENT.
<tr><th colspan="5">309 Yards
Grand
T'L.
The "R. O." Club of Flatbush held a meeting on Friday evening at the club rooms. Social and house committees were appointed by President Sullivan, L. Weber, a member of the club, surprised his colleagues by announcing his engagement to Miss Harriet Byrne of Second place. The wedding will take place in June.
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Grand
T'1.
T'2.
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Paar are among the recent arrivals at the Chalfonte, Atlantic City, N. J.
and a number of men spoke. But the main thing done was to enter a joint protest, sustained by every one of the 350 or more men present, against a bill now before the Legislature and the approval of two others.
The two bills favored are No. 12 and No. 26, and the one opposed is No. 13. These bills are now under consideration in the Committee on Codes of the Legislature. The Committee on Civics of the Central Men's Class, of which C. W. Jacobs is chairman, through Mr. Niles, another member, brought the matter before the joint meeting and the protest will be formulated by a joint committee of the classes, signed by the pastors and officers and others of the two classes and forwarded to the governor and to the Committee on Codes. It was also resolved by the meeting that each member of the two classes write to the Senator and Assemblyman of their districts, making an individual protest.
The bill opposed is the one providing for the appointment of a commission to revise Sunday laws, which Mr. Jacobs, Mr. Niles, Dr. Carson and others declared to be the opposite of sumptuary legislation, as it was declared to be. It is believed that it is a bill to make a freer Sunday, and to allow all sorts of business places to be open on Sunday. Dr. Carson said the bill to increase the penalty for trafficking in women, otherwise known as the "white slave bill," was a good bill, and the Agnew bill, to prohibit advertisements facilitating pool selling and gambling, was also worthy of the support of all good men.
CLUB TO GIVE BALL.
The Vanderbilt Social Club of Windsor Terrace will hold its annual ball on January 25 at Autenreth's Ulmer Palace Hall, Ocean parkway and Fort Hamilton avenue. Mr. Harvey, chairman of the arrangements committee, who has been working industriously for the success of the event with his committee members, has announced that everything is in readlues. A large attendance is expected.
SAIL FOR BERMUDA.
George Van Velsor Pettit and a party of friends left for Bermuda on Saturday on the steamer Oceana for a three weeks vacation.
between two hundred and twenty and two hundred and thirty in the tribe. They are savages, but they are not savage; they are without government, but they are not lawless; they are utterly uneducated according to our standard, yet they exhibit a remarkable degree of intelligence. In temperament like children, with all a child's delight in little things, they are nevertheless enduring as the most matured of civilized men and women, and the best of them are faithful unto death. Without religion and having no idea of God, they will share their last meal with anyone who is hungry, while the aged and the helpless among them are taken care of as a matter of course. They are healthy and pure-blooded; they have no vices, no intoxicants, no bad habits—not even gambling. Altogether, they are a people unique upon the face of the earth. A friend of mine calls them philosophic anarchists of the north.
"I have been studying the Eskimos for eighteen years, and no more effective instrument for Arctic work could be imagined than these plump, bronze-skinned, keen-eyed and black-maned children of nature. Their very limitations were their most valuable endowments for the purpose of my work.
"There is a theory, first advanced by Sir Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographical Society of London, that the Eskimos are the remnants of an ancient Siberian tribe, the Onkilon; that the last members of this tribe were driven out on the Arctic Ocean by the fierce waves of Tartar invasion in the Middle Ages, and that they found their way to the New Siberian Islands, thence eastward over lands yet undiscovered to Grinnell Land and Greenland. I am inclined to believe in the truth of this theory for the following reasons:
"Some of the Eskimos are of a clastinctly Mongolian type, and they display many Oriental characteristics, such as a mimicry, ingenuity and patience in mechanical duplication. There is a strong resemblance between their stone houses and the ruins of houses found in Siberia. The Eskimo girl brought home by Mrs. Peary in 1894 was mistaken by Chinamen
lantic era. The republic of the United States is the supremo fruitage of the civilization of mankind. Finally, civilization reached the Pacific. Fifty-six years ago we opened the ports of Japan to the world. In his lifetime Prince Ito saw the modernization of Japan, saw it change from feudalism to a modern constitutional state.
"The Eastern question can be expressed in one word, 'China' with an interrogation mark after it. When these 500,000,000 people shall waken and demand the telephone, railroads, water works and all the luxuries of modern life, there will be an economic impulse greater than the world has ever seen. Japan intends to govern the Orient, and does not intend to let us interfere. She humbled Russia, the proudest of all nations, and has taken at one jump a position in the front rank of nations.
"No nation has so large a Pacific coast line as the United States, and we must take a hand in the Eastern question. The Chinese question is the greatest question facing America to-day. John Hay opened the doors of China. Japan is rapidly closing them.
"Our people should know what is doing in the Far East and who is doing it. We have no business to have control over a country that we do not understand; and how many of us understand the form of government in the Philippines to-day? "Events have taken us into the Far East and we must not 'back up,' and we will not. But in order to maintain our position these three things are essential: First, settlement must be consonant with liberty; second, conservation of our commercial interests, and third, be prepared to do it by force if necessary.
"Japan, with the object always in view of control of the Orient, is preparing for 'eventualities' in the Pacific, and so we should maintain in the Pacific as large a fleet as does Japan plus the increment of any other power there, any other possible ally. This would cost a lot of money, but it would be less than the loss in case we were caught unprepared. Let the United States become strong enough to have its way and it will not have to fight. This is the greatest object of diplomacy in the world."
MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENTS SEEK ESTIMATES FOR WORK TO BE DONE BY CONTRACTORS
The assessments have been levied for local improvements. For the regulating, grading, curbing and laying cement sidewalks on Grant avenue, between Jamaica and Liberty avenues; for the regulating, grading and curbing of Schenck avenue, between New Lots road and Stanley avenue, and the laying of a sewer in Fourth avenue, on the westerly side, between Ninety second and Ninety-third streets, and an outlet in Fourth avenue, westerly side, between Ninety-fifth street and Marine avenue, and in Ninety-fourth street, between Fourth and Fifth avenues. These assessments were confirmed by the Board of Revision of Assessments on January 13, and entered on the same date in the Record of Titles of Assessments. If paid within sixty days from that date there will be no interest charge.
Corporation Notices.
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, ROOM 1. BOROUGH HALL, BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
SEALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE
received by the President of the Rochester of
Brooklyn at the above office until 11 o'clock
a.m. on
The Engineer's estimate of the quantities is follows:
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20. 1910.
No. 1. FOR FURNISHING ALL, THE LABOR AND MATERIAL REQUIRED FOR CONSTRUCTING SEWER IN SIXTY-FIRST STREET. BETWEEN TWELFTH AVENUE AND FORT HAMILTON AVENUE. AND AN OUTLET SEWER IN ELEVENTH AVENUE. BETWEEN SIXTY-FIRST AND SIXTIETH STREETS.
215 linear feet of 18-inch pipe sewer, laid complete, including all incidentals and appurtenances; per linear foot. $2.70... 1605
20 linear feet of 18-inch pipe sewer, laid complete, including all incidentals and appurtenances; per linear foot.$ 1.80... 162
1,625 linear feet of 12-inch pipe sewer, laid complete, including all incidentals and appurtenances; per linear foot. $1.60... 2,140
1,860 linear feet of 6-inch house connection drain, laid complete, including all incidentals and appurtenances; per linear
STRUCTING SEWER IN STERLING STREET. BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND NOSTRAND AVENUES.
The Engineer's estimate of the quantities is as follows;
$89 linear feet of 15-inch pipe sewer, laid complete, including all incidentals' and appurtenances; per linear foot. 31.20.
The time allowed for the completion of the work and full performance of the contract will be forty (40) working days.
The amount of security required will be Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000).
No. 4 FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR AND MATERIAL, REQUIRED FOR CONSTRUCTING SEWER IN EIGHTY-SECOND STREET, BETWEEN FOURTH AND SIXTH AVENUES.
The Engineer's estimate of the quantities is as follows:
05 linear feet of 15-inch pipe power,
laid complete, including all incidentals and maintenance;
per linear foot. $7.
1,420 linear feet of 15-inch pipe power.
15 manhole, complete, with iron heads and covers, including all incidentals and appurtenances; per manhole, 459
obtained and the plans and drawings may be seen at the office of the Bureau of Sewers, the Borough of Brooklyn, No. 215 Montague street, Brooklyn.
o feet (B. M.) of sheeting and bracing, driven in place, complete, including all incidentals and appurtenances; per thousand feet (B. M.), $19...
Dated January 3, 1910.
ALFRED E. STEERS, President.
See General Instructions to Bldders, at foot of column, last page of this paper.
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS.
Office of the Department of Parks, Arsenal Building, Fifth avenue and Sixty-fourth street, Borough of Manhattan, City of New York. Sealed bids or estimates will be received by the Park Board at the above office of the Department of Parks until 1 o'clock P.M. on THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1910.
Borough of Brooklyn.
FOR FURNISHING AND DELIVERING FORAGE AT PROSPECT PARK, BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN.
The time allowed for the completion of the contract will be until June 30, 1900.
The amount of security required is one thousand five hundred ($1,500.00) dollars.
The bids will be compared and contract awarded at a lump or aggregate sum.
Blank forms may be obtained at the office of the Department of Parks, Litchfield Mansion, Prospect Park West and Fifth street, Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, SOUTHWEST CORNER FIFTY-FIFTH STREET AND SIXTH AVENUE. BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, THE CITY OF NEW YORK SEALED RIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE RECEIVED BY the Board of Health of the Department of Health until 10 p.m. A.M.
avenues. Area of assessment; Both sides of Grant avenue, from Jamaica to Liberty avenues, and to the extent of half the block at the intersecting avenues and streets.
FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR AND MATERIALS NECESSARY OR REQUIRED TO FURNISH AND INSTALL ELECTRIC AND GAS LIGHTING FIxtures, Etc. WITH ALL NECESSARY ALTERATIONS AND OTHER WORK INCIDENTAL THERE, TO IN THE OFFICE BUILDING AT FLEET AND WILLOUGHBY STREETS, BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, CITY OF NEW YORK.
The time for the completion of the work and the full performance of the contract is forty-five (45) consecutive working days.
The amount of security required is fifty per cent. (60%) of the amount of the bid.
Bids will be compared and the contract awarded at a himper aggregate sum.
Sample of the quality of the fixtures may be seen, blank forms and plans for the above work and further information may be obtained at the office of the Chief Clark of the Department of Health, southwest corner of Fifth-fifth street and Sixth avenue. Borough of Brooklyn City and New York.
TWENTY-SIXTH WARD, SECTION H.
SCHENCK AVENUE—RE G U L A T I N G,
GRADING AND CURBING. Between Now
Lots road and Stanley avenue. Area of
assessment: Both sides of Schenck avenue,
between New Lots road and Stanley avenue, and
to the extent of half the block at the intersecting avenues.
THIRTIETH WARD. SECTION 13.
FOURTH AVENUE—SEWER, westerly side, between Ninety-second and Ninety-fifth streets, and OUTLET in FOURTH AVENUE, westerly side, between Ninety-fifth street and Marina avenue, and in NINETY-FOURTH STREET, between Fourth and Fifth avenues. Area of assessment: West side of Fourth avenue, from Ninety-second to Ninety-eighth streets; and triangle bounded by Fourth and Fifth avenues, Ninety-second and Ninety-fifth streets. —that the same were confirmed by the Board of Revision of Assessments on January 15, 1910, and entered January 13, 1910, in the Record of Titles of Assessments, kept in the Bureau for the Collection of Assessments and Arrears of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Rents, and unless the amount assessed for benefit on any person or property shall be paid within sixty days after the date of said entry of the assessments, interest will be collected thereon, as provided by section 1019 of the Greater New York Charter.
Said section provides, in part, "If any such assessment shall remain unpaid for the period of sixty days after the date of entry thereof in the said Record of Titles of Assessments, it shall be the duty of the officer authorized to collect and receive the amount of such assessment, to charge, collect and receive interest thereon at the rate of seven per centum per annum, to be calculated to the date of payment, from the date when such assessment became a lien, as provided by section 139 of this act."
Section 150 of this net provides "An assessment shall become a lien upon the real estate affected thereby ten days after its entry in the said record."
The above assessments are payable to the Collector of Assessments and Arrears at the Bureau for the Collection of Assessments and Arrears of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Rents, in the Mechanies Bank Building, Court and Montague streets, Borough of Brooklyn, between the hours of 9 A.M. and 2 P.M., and on Saturdays from 9 A.M. to 12 in., and all payments made thereon on or before March 14, 1909, will be exempt from interest as above provided, and after that date will be subject to a charge of interest at the rate of seven per centum per annum from the date when such assessments became llena to the date of payment.
easterly side of Eighth avenue to the point or place of beginning.
WILLIAM A. PRENDERGAST.
City of New York, Department of Finance
Fourth-That, provided there be no objections filed to either of said abstracts, our final report herein will be presented for confirmation to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department, at a Special Term thereof for the hearing of motions, to be held in the County Court House in the Borough of Brooklyn, In The City of New York, on the 18th day of March, 1910, at the opening of the court, on that day.
Fifth—In case, however, objections are filed to either of said abstracts of estimate and assessment, the notice of motion to confirm our final report herein will stand adjourned to the date to be hereafter specified, and of which notice will be given to all those who have therefore appeared in this proceeding, as well as by publication in the City Record, and in the corporation newspapers, pursuant to Sections 951 and 954 of the Greater New York Charter, as amended by Chapter 653 of the Laws of 1906.—Dated, Borough of Brooklyn, New York, January 12, 1910.
JOHN S. BENNETT, Chairman;
HARRY L. LEGGATT.
JOHN A. WARREN.
Commissioners.
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NEW YORK SUPREME COURT, SECOND DEPARTMENT-In the matter of the application of The City of New York by the Corporation Counsel, for the appointment of Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment to ascertain and determine the compensation which should be justly made for the closing and discontinuance of BENNETT'S LANE, from Eighty-fourth street to Gravesend Bay, in the Thirtieth Ward, Barough of Brooklyn, The City of New York.
Notice is hereby given that we, the undersigned, were appointed by an order of the Supreme Court made and entered herein on the 11th day of June, 1903, and duly filed in the office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment for the purpose of making a just and equitable estimate for the loss or damage, if any, to the respective owners, lessees, parties and persons interceded in any lands, tenements, hereditaments, premises, rights, easements or interests theroin, taken, affected, damaged, extinguished or destroyed by or in consequence of the discontinuance or closing of Bennett's Land so to be closed.
All parties or persons interested in the lands and promises, rights, easements or interests therein taken, affected, damaged, extinguished or destroyed by and in consequence of the discontinuance or closing of said Bennett's Lans, or affected thereby, and having any claim or demand on account thereof, are hereby required to present the same, duly verified, to us, the undersigned Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment, at our office in the Bureau of Street Openings of the Law Department, No. 164 Montague street, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York, with such affidavits or any other proofs as said parties or
attendance at our said office on the 25th day of January, 1910, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, to hear the said parties and persons in relation thereto, and at such time and place, or such further or other time and place as we may appoint, we will hear such owners and claimants in relation thereto and examine the proofs-in support of such claim or claims and such additional proofs or allegations as may then be offered by such owners or claimants or on behalf of The City of New York.
SUPREME COURT, SECOND DEPARTMENT—In the matter of the application of The City of New York, relative to acquiring title wherover the same has not been heretofore acquired for the same purpose in fee, to the lands, tenements and hereditaments required for the opening and extending of THIRTEENTH AVENUE, from Thirty-sixth street to Seventh-third street, omitting the land occupied by the tracks of the Prospect Park and South Brooklyn Railroad Company, the Sea Beach Railroad Company, the Manhattan Beach Division of the Long Island Railroad Company and the Brooklyn, Bath and West End Railroad Company. In the Twenty-ninth and Tailleth Wards, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York. Notice is hereby given to all persons interested in the above entitled proceedings, and to the owner or owners, occupant or occupants of all houses and lots and improved and unimproved lands affected thereby, and to all others whom it may concern, to wit:
First-That the undersigned Commissioners of Estimate have completed their estimate of damage, and that all persons interested in this proceeding, or in any of the lands, tenements and hereditaments and premises affected thereby, having any objection threeto, do file their said objections in writing[duly verified, with them at their office, No. 166 Montague street, in the Borough of Brooklyn, in the City of New York, on or before the 1st day of February, 1910, and that the said Commissioners will hear parliies so objecting, and for that purpose will be in attendance at their said office on the 3d day of February 1910, at 3:20 o'clock P.M.
Second-That the undersigned Commissioner of Assessment has completed his estimate of benefit and that all persons interested in this proceeding, or in any of the lands, tenements and hereditaments and premises affected thereby, having any objection thereto, do file their said objections in writing, duly verified, with him at his office, No. 165 Montague street, in the Borough of 'Brooklyn, in the City of New York, on or before the 1st day of February, 1910, and that the said Commissioner will hear parties so objecting, and for that purpose will
LEGAL NOTICES.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, by the grace of God free and independent—To Jane McCormick and Kate McCormick, send greeting: Whereas, Henry Gillen, of Hempstead, New York, has lately petitioned our Surrogate's Court of the County of Kings, to have a certain instrument in writing, bearing date the eighteenth day of November, 1903, relating to real and personal property, duly proved as the last will and testament of NEIL McCORMICK, late of Brooklyn, New York, deceased. Wherefore you and each of you are hereby cited to appear before our Surrogate of the County of Kings, at a Surrogate's Court, to be held at the Hall of Records, in the County of Kings, on the thirty-first day of January, 1910, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to attend the probate of the said last will and testament.
In testimony whereof, we have caused the seal of our Surrogate's Court to be hereunto affixed. Witness, Hon.
(L. S.) Herbert T. Ketcham, Surrogate of our said County, at the County of Kings, the 25th day of November,
in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.
EDWARD J. BERGEN.
Clerk of the Surrogate's Court.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, by the grace of God free and independent—Thomas McNicholas, Catherine Hughes, send greeting: You and each of you are hereby cited and required to appear before our Surrogate of the County of Kings, at a Surrogate's Court of the County of Kings, to be held at the Hall of Records, in the County of Kings, on the 16th day of February, 1910; at ten o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to attend the judicial settlement of the account of Elizabeth Ryan, as administrator of the goods, chattels and credits of SARAH BOYLE, also known as SARAH McNICHOLAS, deceased. And let the above named infants then and there show cause why a special guardian should not be appointed to appear for them on said judicial settlement.
in testimony Wherefore we have traced the
coal of our said Surrogate's Court to
be hereunto affixed. Witness, Hon.
Herbert T. Ketcham, Surrogate of
(L. B.) our said county, at the County of
Kings, the 29th day of December. In
the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and nine.
EDWARD J. BERGEN.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, by the grace of God free and independent—To the Public Administrator of the County of Kings. Any and all unknown persons whose names or parts of whose names and whose place or places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry.
a power basin, complete, of either standard design, with a pipe or grating, from basin hoods and connecting verities, including all incidentals and appurtenances, per basin.
1,000 feet (B. M.) of sheeting and bracing, driven in place, complete, including all indentedals and appurtenances; per thousand feet (B. M.).
The time allowed for the completion of the work and full performance of the contract will be at least (60) working days.
The amount of security required will be Three Thousand Dare (£3,600)
No. 2 FOR WORKING ALL THE LABOR AND MATERIAL, REQUIRED FOR CONSTRUCTING SOWER IN WASHINGTON AVENUE. BETWEEN PRESIDENT AND MONTGOMERY STREETS.
1,660 linear feet of 24-inch pipe screen.
The Engineer's estimate of the quantities is as follows:
lift complete, including all incidentals and appurpurities;
(4,000 feet (11 M.) of sheeting and
bracing, driven in place,
complete, including all inclu-
dents and appurtenances
per thousand feet (H. M.).
TOTAL
The time allowed for the completion of the work and full performance of the contract will be thirty (30) working days.
The amount of security required will be Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000).
No. 4 FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR
AND MATERIAL REQUIRED FOR CONbetween Madison street and Putnam avenue.
Borough of Brooklyn.
The time allowed for the completion of the work and full performance of the contract will be fifty 400 working days.
The amount of security required will be Two Thousand Dollars (2,000).
No. 5 FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR AND MATERIAL REQUIRED FOR CONSTRUCTING SEWER IN TREMONT STREET FROM THE END OF THE EXISTING SEWER, BEWEEN RICHARDS AND VAN BRENT STREETS TO RICHARDS STREET.
The Engineer's preliminary estimate of the quantities is as follows.
The three allowed for the completion of the work and full performance of the contract will be thirty (30) working days.
The amount of security required will be Four Hundred and Fifty Dollars each.
The foregoing Engineer's preliminary estimate of the total cost for the completed work in to be taken as the 100 per cent, basis and test for bidding. Proposals shall each state a single percentage of such 100 per cent, such as 50 per cent., 100 per cent or 100 per cent, for which all materials and work called for in the proposed contract and the notices to holders are to be furnished to the City. Such percentage, as bid for this contract, shall apply to all unit items specified in the Engineer's preliminary estimate to an amount necessary to complete the work described in the contract.
Blank forms and further information may be
17 See General Instructions to Bidders, at foot of column. Inst page of this paper.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Corner of Park avenue and Fifty-ninth street, Borough of Manhattan.
CITY OF NEW YORK SEALED RIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE RECEIVED BY the Superintendent of School Buildings at the above office of the Department of Education until 2 o'clock P.M. on
MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1910.
No 1-For the general construction, etc. of additions to and alterations in Floys High School, on the western side of Marcy avenue.
Borough of Brooklyn.
No. 2 For fire protection work at Public School No. 15, Third avenue, corner of State street, Borough of Brooklyn.
The amount of security required is 129,000.
The time allowed to complete the whole work will be 25 working days, as provided in the contract.
The amount of security required is $2,000. On Nov. 1 and 2 the bids will be compared and the contract will be awarded in a lump sum to the lowest bidder or each contract. Bank forms, plans and specifications may be obtained or seen at the office of the Superintendent, Estimating Room, Ninth Floor, Hall of the Board of Education, Park avenue and Fifty-ninth street, Borough of Manhattan, also at branch office, 131 Livingston street, Borough of Brooklyn.
Superintendent of School Buildings.
Date—January 3, 1914.
17 See General Instructions to Bldders, at foot of column, last page of this paper.
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS
IN PURSUANCE OF SECTION 1618 OF THE
Greater New York Charter, the Comptroller of
the City of New York hereby gives public
notice to all persons, owners of property,
affected by the following assessments for LOCAL
IMPROVEMENTS in the BOROUGH OF
BROOKLYN:
TWENTY-SIXTH WARD, SECTION 15.
GRANT AVENUE-REGULATING, GRADING, CURBING AND LAYING CEMENT SIDEWALKS, between Jamaica and Liberty
NEW YORK SUPREME COURT—SECOND DEPARTMENT In the matter of the application of The City of New York relative to acquiring title, wherever the same has not been heretofore acquired, to the lands, tenements and berechtitments required for the opening and extending of SIXTY-THIRD STREET, from seventh avenue to New Utrecht Avenue. In the Thirtelfth Ward, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York.
Comptroller's Office, January 13. 1950.
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We, the undersigned, Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment in the above-entitled matter, hereby give notice to all persons interested in this proceeding, and to the owner or owners, occupant or occupants of all houses and lots and improved and unimproved lands affected thereby, and to all others whom it may concern, to call:
First—That we have completed our estimate and assessment, and that all persons interested in this proceeding, or in any of the lands, tenements and hereditaments and premises affected thereby, and having objections thereeto, do present their said objections in writing, duly verified, to us at our office. No. 164 Montague street, in the Borough of Brooklyn, In The City of New York, on or before the 1st day of February, 1910, and that we, the said Commissioners, will hear parties so objection, and for that purpose will be in attendance at our said office on the 12 day of February, 1910, at 2 o'clock P.M.
Second-That the abstracts of our said estimate and assessment, together with our damage and benefit maps, and also all the affidavits estimates proofs and other documents used by us in making the same, have been deposited in the Bureau of Street Openings in the Law Department of The City of New York, No. 194 Montague street, in the Borough of Brooklyn, in said city, there to remain until the 11th day of February, 1916.
Third. That the limits of our assessment for benefit include all those lands, tenements and hereditaments and premises situated, lying and being in the borough of Brooklyn, In The City of New York which, takery together, are bounded and described as follows, viz.: Beginning at a point on the southeasterly side of Eighth avenue where the same is intersected by the center line of the block between Sixty-second street and Sixty-third street; running thence southeasterly and along the center line of the block between Sixty-second street and Sixty-third street to the westerly side of New Utrecht Avenue; running thence southerly and along the westerly side of New Utrecht Avenue to the center line of the block between Sixty-third street and Sixty-fourth street; running thence northwesterly and along the center line of the block between Sixty-third street and Sixty-fourth street to the southeasterly side of Eighth Avenue; running thence northwesterly and along the south
persons or criminals may declare, within ten days after the date of the first publication of this notice.
And we, the said Commissioners, will be in attendance at our sold office on the 26th day of January, 1910, at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, to hear the sold parties and persons in relation thereto, and at such time and place, or such further or other time and place as we may appoint, we will hear such owners and claimants in relation thereto and examine the proof in support of such claim or claims and such additional proofs or allegations as may then be offered by such owners or claimants or on behalf of The City of New York. Dated, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York January 15, 1910.
James F. Qulgley, Clerk.
NEW YORK SUPREME COURT, SECOND DEPARTMENT—In the matter of the application of The City of New York by the Corporation Counsel for the appointment of Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment to ascertain and determine the compensation which should be justly made for the closing and discontinuance of COWENHOVEN LANE, between Twelfth Avenue and Fifty-fifth street, in the Thirtieth Ward Borough of Brooklyn. The City of New York.
Notice is hereby given that we, the undersigned, were appointed by an order of the Supreme Court made and entered hereto on the 11th day of June, 1903, and duly filed in the office of the Clerk of the County of Kings. Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment for the purpose of making a just and equitable estimate of the loss or damage, if any, to the respective owners, leases, parties and persons interested in any lands, tenements, hereditaments, premises, rights, easements or interests therein, taken, affected, damaged, extinguished or destroyed by or in consequence of the discontinuance or closing of Govern- hoven lane, so to be closed.
All parties or persons interested in the lands and premises, rights, esteements or interests therein taken, affected, damaged, extinguished or destroyed by and in consequence of the discontinuance or closing of said Governmen- lance, or affected thereby, and having any claim or demand on account thereof, are hereby required to present the same, duly verified, to us, the undersigned Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment, at our office in the Bureau of Street Openings of the Law Department No. 164 Montague street, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York, with such affidavits or any other proofs as said parties or persons or esteements may desire, within ten days after the date of the first publication of this notice.
And we, the said Commissioners, will be in
Fifth. That, provided there be no objections filed to either of said abstracts, the reports as to awards and as to assessments for benefit herein will be presented for confirmation to the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Second Department, at a Speakag Term thereof, to be held in the County Court House, In the Borough of Brooklyn, in the City of New York, on the 19th day of March, 1910, at the opening of the court on that day.
Sixth—In case, however, objections are filed to the foregoing abstracts of estimate and assessment, or to either of them, the motion to confirm the reports as to awards and as to assessments shall stand adjourned to the date to be hereafter specified in the notice provided in such cases being given in relation to filling the final reports, pursuant to sections 681 and 684 of the Greater New York Charter, as amended by chapter 68 of the Laws of 1906.
Dated Borough of Brooklyn, New York, January 12, 1910.
no in attendance at his said office on the 4th day of February, 1910, at 3:30 o'clock P.M.
Third—That the Commissioner of Assessment has assessed any or all such lands, tenements and hereditaments and premises as are within the area of assessment fixed and prescribed as the area of assessment for benefit by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment on the 14th day of December, 1905, and that the said area of assessment includes all those lands, tenements and hereditaments and premises situate and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, in the City of New York, which, taken together, are bounded and described as follows, viz.: On the northwest by a line midway between the westerly side of Thirteenth avenue and the easterly side of Twelfth avenue; on the southeast by a line midway between the easterly side of Thirteenth avenue and the westerly side of Fourteenth avenue; on the northeast by a line 100 feet northeast of the northeasterly side of Thirty-sixth street and parallel therowwith; on the southwest by a line 100 feet southwest of the southwesterly side of Seventy-third street and parallel therewith.
Fourth—That the abstracts of said estimate of damage and of said assessment for benefit, together with the damage and benefit maps, and also all the affidavits, estimates, proofs and other documents used by the Commissioners of Estimate and by the Commissioner of Assessment in making the same, have been deposited in the Bureau of Street Openings, in the Law Department of the City of New York, No. 164 Montague street, in the Borough of Brooklyn, in said city, there to remain until the 15th day of February, 1910.
JAS. B. SHELDON.
GEORGE P. MADDOCK.
Commissioner of Estimate.
JAS. B. SHELDON.
Commissioner of Assessment.
F. Q. Giley, Clerk. 318 157 021
be ascertained, heirs at law and next of kin of Margaret Dunn, deceased, send greeting: Whereena James Dunn, of the County of Kings, Honour of Brooklyn, City and State of New York, has lately petitioned our Surrogate's Court of the County of Kings, to have a certain instrument in writing bearing date the 25th day of May, 1909, relating to real and personal property, duly proved on the last will and testament of MARGARET DUNN, late of the County of Kings, deceased. Wherefore, you and each of you are hereby cited to appear before our Surrogate of the County of Kings, at a Surrogate's Court, to be held at the Hall of Records, in the Borough of Brooklyn, on the 25th day of January, 1910, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to attend the probate of the said last will and testament; and that the above named infants then and there show cause why a special guardian should not be appointed to appear for them on the probate of said last will and testament.
In testimony whereof, we have caused the seal of our said Surrogate's Court to be hereto affixed. Witness, Hon. Herbert T. Ketcham, Surrogate of our said County, at the Borough of Brooklyn, the 5th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninie.
EDWARD J. BERGEN.
Clerk of the Surrogate's Court.
Michael F. Hennessey, Attorney for Executor.
(2) Broadway, New York City. 418 6w m
IN PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER OF THE Hon. Herbert T. Ketcham, Surrogate of the County of Kings, it is hereby given, according to law, to all persons having claims against HELENA PROSLIER, late of the County of Kings, deceased, that they are required to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, at the office of her attorney, Ralph K. Jacobs, 215 Montague street, Brooklyn, New York, on or before the 1st day of May, 1910, next.—Date: October 14, 1908.
Executor of the Estate of Helena Frostler. Deceased.
Ralph K. Jacobs, Attorney for Executor, 213 Montague street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
aikdm m
IN PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER OF THE
Han. Herbert T. Ketcham, Surrogate of the
County of Kings, notice is hereby given,
according to law, to all persons having claims
against JORD PRIETO, late of the County of
Kings, deceased, that they are required to ex-
hibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to
the subscriber, at her place of transaction
business at the office of Joseph E. Haggerty,
El Broadway, Borough of Manhattan, New
York City, on or before the 6th day of March
next.—Dated, September 17, 1803.
LOUISA PRIETO, Executrix.
CONDITION OF MILITIA NEVER SO GOOD AS NOW
Adjutant General's Report Shows a Gratifying State of Affairs
Affairs.
TOTAL OF 16,291 MEN.
Albany, January 24. That the present condition of the military service of this state, both as to the National Guard and the Naval Militia, was never exceeded as to strength, equipment, discipline, general efficiency and realization of patriotic purpose, is pointed out by Adjutant General Nelson H. Henry in his annual report to Governor Hughes, commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. A resume of the percentages of absences from the annual inspection and muster of the several National Guard organizations for the past five years indicates a gratifying increase in interest. The percentage absent during 1909 was 1.93, as against an average of over 3 per cent. for the preceding four years.
During the year 2,302 enlisted men were dropped and 298 enlisted men dishonorably discharged. Five officers and 45 men died.
Promotion Should Be Divorced From Social or Political Influences, Says General Henry.
The authorized maximum strength of the National Guard is 18,900 men. Should the ratio of increase for the past few years be continued this limit would soon be reached. The present strength of the infantry is 546 officers and 19,605 men. Should existing organizations recruit to full strength the aggregate of the infantry arm of the service alone would exceed the maximum fixed by law.
The strength of the guard on September 20,1905, was 995 officers and 15,296 men. a total of 16,291, and a gain over the preceding year of 301. The total gains for the year were 5,080 and the losses 5,079. There were awarded 450 decorations for long and faithful service.
The medical department comprises 114 commissioned officers and 463 men, organized as a field hospital with detachments assigned to different organizations
The adjutant general repeats his recommendation that the enlisting period be reduced from five to three years, with a two-year re-enlistment period. He condemns the present practice of allowing men whose terms have expired to continue in the service without re-enlistment.
General Henry points out that the percentage of sickness reported in the past 15 or 20 years in tours of field service has decreased progressively in proportion to the increased activity and actual practical service required of the organization.
The total expenditure for field service in 1909 was 225,653.68, of which there was charged against the state, 120,767.63, and against the War Department of the United States funds, $104,585.65. The latter paid additional for the maneuvers in Massachusetts.
Considerable attention is paid to the present promotion of officers under the elective system and the system of promotion by seniority. A series of annual examinations is recommended, with a view to the formation of an eligible list from which selections for promotions may be made by superior officers.
"Promotion in the organized service" says the report, "should be divorced from social or political influences and be established only upon merit."
The strength of the naval militia on September 30, 1909, was 55 officers and 755 men, a total of 810, or just seven more than the preceding year. There were 196 gains and 189 losses during the year.
Naval Battalion Marksmen Make Second Highest Score of Season. Defenting Signal Corps.
FOR EAGLE RIFLE TROPHY.
The Second Naval Battalion and the Second Signal Corps shot their postponed match in the Eagle Rifle Trophy competition on Saturday evening. The sailormen succeeded in scoring the second highest aggregation score of the season. They made 354 while the signalmen pilod up but 327. The latter were shooting for the first time in the competition.
The relative standing of all the teams and the full score of Saturday's match follow:
Aggregate scores
Forty-seventh Regiment ... 28
Naval battalion ... 29
Twenty-third Regiment ... 37
Squadron C ... 38
Fourteenth Regiment ... 41
Second Signal Corps ... 52
Thirteenth C. A. District ... 60
President has been a member of the National Guard.
After the military portion of the programme Saturday night, the borough president and his staff were escorted to the council chamber of the armory, where the officers of the regiment were given an opportunity to meet the chief executive of the borough. In a few felicitous remarks President Steers congratulated Colonel Norton upon the excellent showing of his men during the review and drill.
Among those who congratulated President Steers upon his first review were Brevet Major General John G. Eddy, the president's military boss; General John B. Frothingham of the Twenty-third. Brevet Brigadier General William Morris of the Tenth Coast Artillery District, Lieutenant Colonel Barnes, adjutant general of the Second Brigade; Captain Walter L. Carlin, 41st to General Eddy; General George W. Wingate, the Father of Rifle Practice; Major Frederick W. Baldwin, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Frederick H. Stevenson of the Fourteenth Regiment, Brevet Brigadier William A. Stokes and Congressman William M. Calder.
"I have seen your regiment drill many times," said the president, "but I have always been acting on the staff of the reviewing officer, and never before have had an opportunity to speak my opinion of your performances in public. This is my first opportunity to do so. It was fine, and I am proud to be president of a borough which has such an excellent military organization as 'Ours.'"
SECOND COMPANY. SIGNAL CORPS.
S. Parkes Cadman, pastor of Central Congregational Church, the new chaplain of the Twenty-third Regiment Armory, made his premier bow as a military min Saturday night, during the review which was extended to Borough President Alfred E. Steers. The new chaplain did not parade with the regiment, for his new uniform is not quite ready, but he was called upon to outline the policy he will pursue in the conduct of the religious department of the Bedford avenue infantry's organization at the collation which was served after the review in the officials' mess.
DR. DRAPER'S ANNUAL REPORT
"In the first place," said the new chaplain, in the course of his remarks. "I do not like the uniform that is prescribed for chaplains, and I should like to see a reform instituted in the regulations changing it. I think it's too blamed plous. I want to be a real military man and wear a dashing uniform like other officers. All that I should like to wear would be a small cross on my shoulder straps just to let the boys know that I am chaplain."
Albany, January 21—Dr. Andrew S. Draper, commissioner of education, transmitted his annual report to the Legislature to-day. He says that the attendance in all the schools of the state, elementary and high, colleges and academies, day and evening, aggregated 1,840.909. Of that number there were in the public elementary schools 1,254,729, and in the public high schools 101,983; in the evening schools there were 132,110. Of the 50,768 teachers, 67,152 were in the public elementary schools and 4,079 in the public high schools. In the universities, colleges and professional schools there were 4,231 teachers.
at $329,533,991.
From the high schools and institutions of higher learning, including the professional schools, there were 18.931 graduates, of whom 8.837 were from high schools and 1.935 from academies
n Schools and Colleges There are 1,840,909 Pupils
Commissioner Says Interest in Vocational Training Increases.
<tr><th rowspan="2">Rank
Name
Years
Value
Grand
Eugeneant
William V. Luske
Corneral
Waltem R. Brown
First Co.
Patsy Wade Pattis
First Co.
Private Thendure S. Clark
Private
Frank Ochs
Private
Joseph F. Jaunce
There Are 50.788 Teachers and Insti.
During the year the attendance increased 47.356, the number of teachers increased 1.688 and the number of graduates increased 2.087, while the amount expended increased only $2.298.278.
These institutions of learning use property valued at 329,533,901, of which 157. 11,999 is used by the common elementary schools, 26,146,619 by the common high schools and 112,920,676 by the universities, colleges and professional schools. The total expenditures for these educational institutions last year aggregated 76,696,217, of which 47,146,722 was spent for the common elementary schools, 5. 16,160 for the common high schools, 16. 456,213 for the universities, colleges and professional schools and $83,928 for evening schools.
Considerable space is given in the report to the progress made in the establishment of vocational schools and the problems connected with their further development, to which the education department is giving special attention. Since the passage of the industrial and trades school law in 1905, interest in the subject has been constantly increasing. Many educational, political, and social organizations are actively enlisted in its support. Among the objects sought to be accomplished in the scheme of industrial education are manual training in the various grades, industrial work in the primary departments, industrial arts in
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