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, 1888-09-15

The assembling of 300 electricians in
New York city was an event of practical
Importance to all the civilized world,
whereas a few years ago it would nave
possessed significance only to those who
are professionally interested In the subtle
agent whose operations the delegates
gathered to discuss. Electrical phenom-
ena have always exercised a natural fasci-
nation over the minds of Investigators
ever since the earliest observers
made the discoveries which Pliny
records. A long series of beauti-
full experiments, of which the most pict-
uresque and the most famous was Frank
Inns drawing of electricity from the
clouds, had scarcely lone more, however,
in respect of popular knowledge and ap-
probation of the mysterious force, than
to keep alive the sense of awe with which
1t was invested, when suddenly the tele-
graph transformed the world. Then for
the first time the invisible spirit became
a valued though still an unfamiliar friend.
But yet the vast field over which cleo
tricity was destined to assume control
was visible only to a few prophetic eyes.
Experiments in electric lighting had been
practically successful only within very
narrow limits, and beyond a few mechan-
ical applications which now seem meager
and insignificant the general public saw
nothing more than vague possibilities Of
the future. 1t was the invention of the
t~elephone-at once a marvellous toy and
a practical necessity-that first gave to
electrical science the impetus under which
the immense progress of the last decade
has been accomplished. That was indeed
a touch of nature which made the whole
world kin. When electricity became an
inmate of the home it ceased to be the
exclusive property of men of science, and
occupied forthwith a place in the thoughts
of all from which 1t can never be dis
lodged.-New York Tribune.
, 1888-09-15

A Connecticut Yankee suggests the use
of flash light photography as a means of
protecting bank vaults from burglars.
He says: Il would nave a camera placed
in a position where 1t would command in
the field of the lens a space of ten feet
square or more in fronto of the door of the
vault, and have the other apparatus SO
arranged that as soon as tampering with
the vault door was attempted the whole
would BE placed in operation My plan
would of course include retaining the
burglar alarm connecting with police
headquarters. AS soon as the burglars
had begun operations the police would be
alarmed, and at the same instant a pict-
ure of the men would be made by the
camera and flash light combined, 80 that
even if the men escaped the police they
would leave behind them evidence which
would very probably eventually result in
their detection New York Sun
, 1888-09-15

In a lecture before the Society of Arts,
London, Mr.. A. w. @. Ghean gave the
following concise and simple directions
how to act on the occurrence of fires: Fire
requires air; therefore, on it's appearance
every effort should be made to exclude
air; shut all doors and windows. By this
means, fire may be confined to a single
room for a sufficient period to enable all
the inmates to be aroused and escape;
but If the doors and windows are thrown
open, the tanning of the wind and the
draft will instantly cause the flames to
increase with extraordinary rapidity. 1t
must never be forgotten that the most
precious moments are at the commence
ment of a fire, and not a single second of
time should be lost in tackling it. In q
room, q table cloth can be so used as to
smother a large sheet of flame, and a
cushion may serve to beat it out; a coat
or anything similar may be used with an
equally successful result.
The great point is presence of mind,
calmness in danger. action guided by rea-
son and thought. In all large houses,
buckets of water should be placed on
every landing. a little salt being put into
the water. Always endeavor to attack
the bed of a fire; if you cannot %extinguish
n fire, shut the window, and be sure to
shut the door when making good your re-
treat. A wet silk handkerchief tied over
the eyes and nose will make breathing
possible in the midst of much smoke, and
a blanket wetted and wrapped around the
body will enable a person to pass througha
sheet of flame in comparative safety.
Should a lady's dress catch fire, let the
wearer at once lie down. Rolling may
extinguish the fire. but if not, anything
(woolen preferred) wrapped tightly round
will effect the desired purpose.-Boston
Budget.
, 1888-09-15
Queer Plants at Washington.

ri want to call your attention to the
unlicensed barrooms you will notice In
this house." said Mr.. Smith. as he entered
another house near by.
Here flowers resembling small red bana-
nas could be seen They were hollow and
open at the top, and contained a liquid
These were the unlicensed barrooms.
Breaking one off and opening it, it was
filed with small red ants.
'"They come and drink the liquor" said
Mr.. Smith, ''get drunk and die happy"
Here is the cockroach barroom," he
continued, and here the spiders. An ant
will not drink any of the roach or spider
liquor and vice versa
Near the door a beautiful plant with
creamy white caves was labeled ICON
sumption plant"
Whence the name2'' asked the repor-
ter; lis the plant diseased2"
YES, it really has the consumption"
was the reply, land where these leaves
are tinted a creamy white they are dis
eased lungs. You know that a plant
breathes through its leaves. This plant
is p~ropagated for its beauty"
The fly trap flower, In a largo pot near
by. hundreds of tiny, thick leaves resem-
bling semi-circular jaws provided with
small, sharp teeth attracted the reporters
attention.
lnhL y Inc well Known ny trap mower,
said Mr.. Smith, by way of explanation.
. While he was speaking a butterfly
alighted in n Quicker than thought
the jaws closed and the butterfly was a
prisoner.
"How long will that butterfly remain a
prisoner" asked the reporter.
1.-TWO or three days. By that time the
flowers will have derived all the benefit
and good the fly possesses, and its jaws
will soon open and the fly be cast out. 1t
is my belief that the flower obtains susten-
ance from the prisoners it takes. Some
times it gets hold of the wrong kind of
food, however. and it gets dyspepsia
This conclusion is reached from the effect
of the food on the leaves. Now this cell
caught the head of a blue bottle fly a cou-
pie of days ago, and got the dyspepsia, as
you can see by its color"
The reporter looked and saw a sickly
combination of green and yellow markings
ON the leaves, and the dead fly still be-
tween acknowledgment Star.
, 1888-09-15

In a Boston newspaper office not long
ago the chief proof reader had been greatly
annoyed by an extraordinary use of com.
mas that cropped out in occasional takes"
on his proofs, and. finding that they &C.
CURED regularly under a certain slug"
he went to slug ifteen's" frame to ex-
p~ostulate with him. He found that the
mar was a new sub" who said he had
come lately from Nova Scotia, and had
learned his trade in a first class office in
Hnli.u For PHYS sake" exclaimed the
proof reader, what sort Of q system of
punctuation do they employ in Halifax"
THE rule In our office" replied tho corr
poster with a ~patroniZing air, was 10
put "a Cbout three commas to o line. -
FoE;U2 -.2nscri0t.
, 1888-09-15

A gloomy road winds high around one
cliff overlooking the hollow of the bay.
Following 1t, you pass under extraordi-
narily dark shadowS of foliage, and over
q blacklist soil strewn with pretty bright
green fruit that has fallen from above.
Do not touch them even with the tip of
your ingerl Those are m~anchineel apples;
with their milky juice the old Caribs were
wont to poison the barbs of their parrot
feathered arrows. Over the mold,
swarming among the venomous fruit, in
Vulnerable crabs make a sound almost
like the murmuring of water. Some are
very large, with prodigious stalked eyes,
and claws white as ivory, and a red cut
rass; others, very small and very swift in
their movements, are raspberry colored;
others, again, are apple green, with queer
mottlings of black and white. There is
an unpleasant odor of decay in the air
vegetable decay.
Emerging from the shadow of the
manchineel trees. you may follow
the o up, up up, under beetling
cliffs of plutonian rock that seem about
to topple down upon the pathway. The
rock Is naked and black near the road;
higher, 1t is yelled by a heavy green
drapery of lianas, curling creepers, I'M
of crawling, dull echoes of dropping; the
thick srowths far up waverin the breath
less air as If something were moving sinu-
ously through them. And always the
yickly odor of humid decomposition. Fur
,sher on the road looks wider, sloping up
between black rocks, through strange
vaultings of foliage and night black shad-
ows It's lonesomepess Expresses; one re-
turns without regret, by rusting gateways
and tottering walls, back to the old West
Indians city rotting under the SUM-
Lafcadio Hearn in Harper's Magazine.
, 1888-09-15

Extraordinarily, Miss Edith, l am very
sorry l kissed you. l didn't think what ]
was doing, 1t is a SORT Of temporary in
sanity in our family.
Miss Edith pityinglyl-lt you ever
feel any more such attacks coming on you
had better come right here, where your
Of you.-Judge.
, 1888-09-15

Alpenstocks made of mahogany, with
silver plate on the top for the name of the
n are rather extravagant means Of
assistance to mountain climbing.
, 1888-09-15

The railroad bridges in this country II
placed continuously would reach from
New York to Liverpool.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-09
LOyGoBARDT ON TRIAL FOR KTs LIFE.

jury was obtained yesterday In the trial Of Giuseppe
Longobard, before Recorder Smyth charge VI murder
first degree. Most of tho jurors merchants and
tradcsmcn and seemed to be OF unusual intelligence As
sistant District Attorney Bedford opened tho He
said that Longobard and companion had nsulted tho
Of John Barrett and when tho young up he
seized by the Italians and Lcngobardi shot him.
Deputy Coroner Schocr testified 10 the postmortcm
animation.
Charles Schang, who at Rark Row and Roosevelt
st. October H. testified that he Barretrs sister
going along the Longobardi and another young
who has since escaped Italy stood the sidewalk
and the who Is fugitive made remark which led
Mary Barrett to say, II there policeman here
would you arrested" She Italian and
Longobaidl nterfered and attempted separate them.
John Barrett tho Of the quarrel and
L0ngobsrdi violent blow which caused him to stagger.
The who escaped struck Barrett and Longobard drew
revolver and shot Barrett Schang was closely cossex
smned by ox.Judge Curtis He said that he did not
crowd Of young men rushing up TO aid Barrett lie
pad he did that Barrett Q member Of
any gang"
atrkal uill dau
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-09
HER GOOD MayyERs DID YorAVAHL.

Mrs. Annie Ingram who kept house for dodgers and
ooarders No 152 Wavcry place. and who was charged
with completely thefts James A. Ucarn Son, was
convicted yesterday Of petty larceny She was tried on
the cha go before Judge Gildcrsecve two months
ago, and the jury at that time disagreed,
ten Of the Jurors being for conviction.
Mrs Ingram is fifty years age She indicted with
Ernest Longo who the first witness against her.
Longo this country from Italy few years ago
and has been employed drygoods clerk by several
firms. lie salesman In the silk department Of James
A. Ucarn & Son last fall and lodged for limo at Mrs
Ingam's house. lie said that he had committed a
crime until Mrs. Ingram suggested to him last September
goods might be stolen from his employer without dan
ger detection lie a. ally consented 10 assist in carrying
out plan which mlic, and three occasions
goods from the counter and divided with him the
money obtained q. pawn-shops Mrs Ingram denied that
she had any dealings with Longo and several witnesses
testified that she had borne good reputation but the
IL ~ ctcd her. though tloy her 10 mercy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-09
THE EXTERIOR STREET. IveT TWO FERRIES.

Tho Commissioners Of the Sinking Fund yesterday dis
proposed exterior along the East River
The according the act Of the Legislature was 10
extend from SAtyf 10 Eightyslxth ss aad to be
$50 feet wide An examination by General Newton re-
suited In his reporting that the street need be only 10 feet
wlde and extend further than Eighty rstst and that
is necessary that all the streets should come
down to tho grade OF the exterior street resolution
carried the Corporation Counsel be requested TO
pr, pare bill enbodying sue get Of Gene al New
ton, and present It to tho Legislature.
Joseph J. Dvn0huc behalf Of the Roosevelt street
Ferry Company said that the company wanted to lease tho
ferry for years at s2o, 600 year. Since tho
Brooklyn Bridge opened there had been steady fall
Ing or in the receipts OF the ferry company. 1t was
necessary 10 build and commodlous boats TO get
back OF this patronage lie had given an order for
two boats Unless the company could get lease for
years he would countcmand the order for the new
boats He not willing TO give percentage OF tho
gross receipts
Mayor Hewitt asked II the company would bc willing to
pay 200 year for the first avc years and allow the
city the option Of cent the gross receipts for the
last i've years Mr. o. Donohue said 1t would. and the
Commission agreed accept that proposition The Con-
rocr objected to advertise the sale VI the lease The
followed with the Thirty fourth ferry
to Long Island CITY. The upset price Is to be $4,000
year for tho first Ave years and cent the
receipts for the second Ave years
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-09

IN of her mother for examination next Thursday
The Bridge Trustees bavo signed the agreement al
lowing tho Union Elevated road TO build It's tracks
Sands st. over the Bridge TRACKS,. The Union company
Is willing to let tho Kings County company have
platform adjoining its structure over the sidewalk In
Sands-st.
The rival factions of tho Ancient Order OF Hiber-
mans have been unable to agree In regard to Joint
parade St. Patrichs Day. and there will be two par
AIDES as usual
Tho incline by which the cars Of tho Fulton street
Elevated road Will be placed In position on the trachs
Is being built at ClassOnavc. and fultonst' IL
is expected that tho road Will begin to carry passengers
early In April between Nostrand ave- and the ferfy'
The road Is to extend 10 Fast NcwYork but work Is
bcng pushed between tho points named that an early
opening mag DO possible
About sixty of tho 100 girls employed In Adams's
Tutt frut chewing gum factory, at NOS 1o7 ana lou
Sands st. have struck because their wages for packing
Tampico gum have been reduced from to cents
box.
Edwin Q. Dobbin went into liquor shop at No. 400
Manhattan-avc early yesterday, and after drinking
for some timo taken H. He was sent to tho East
District Hospital and died In short tlmo OF alco-
holism. An autopsy showed the cause of death
coroncr's jury found yesterday that the death OF
Louis Kuth, OF No 400 Grand st., was due to the In
halation OF coal gas lie shut himself In tight room
and opened the pipe Of hs stovc where coal was burn
Ing.
Judge Brown dismissed yesterday the suit OF Thomas
II. Story recover the value Of policy for $4,000 on
the life OF his father IN the United Life and Accident
Insurance Company, on the ground that he concealed
the fact that no suffering from disease when OK
amIned by the company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-09
RHPrEPS gO lJD TIE EXCISE hoard

Excise Beard has letter to several prominent
brewers Of this city, calling attention TO the confused
OF cAc.r laws with reference 70 the sale OF beer
in NewYork The letter mentions several Inconsistent
ecs" obscure and npracticablc penalties"
and urges that time should be lost In providing
edy Constant violation Of the laws Is invited by the i'm
possibility of enforcing the conflicting and ofentmes alb
surd statutes they stand to-day and the necessity for
new lcgflaucn is "ATJaind The Commissioners reQucst
information from the brewers concerning the practical
workings Of the law In the trade and request their
operation In 70 nuating plan which shall remedy the
evil Some Of tho brewers appealed the
persons who held meetings with David A. Wells repre-
scnting the United States Government years ago. and
after going Europe examine the methods OF collecting
In foreign countries agreed upon the system
In Of collecting the tuty beer by OF the
stamps tho kegs Many OF them pay Govern
ment $500 day and upward In this manner
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-09
LITTLE LEAP-YEAR ROMANCE.
THE MlsuAps or AN English GIRL WHO GOT

THE MIsHAPs or AN ENGLISH GIRL WHO GOT AN
AMERICAN HUSBAND BY LETTER
The last OF tho life Of Mrs Thomas MITCHELL
who America yesterday, would make an excellent
leap year story. Six months she was Gertrude Could
living in wlnchclsca. Sussex England She was good
looking well marncred but Of many surplus maid
ems Thomas Milehc was a WELT do farmer
Van Buren, Mo-, where there was great scarcity or
women as there Of In Sussex Mr.. Mitchell
found monotony Of bachelors home irlsome, and adj
vcrtlsed In the English papers for wife.
Miss Could believing that she possessed the quahca-
tons housewife, answered tho advertisements cor
dependence began and continued photographs were ex-
changed aud an engagement followed The young woman
arranged Missouri ana married. and was one
OF the passengers the Inflated steamship W. A. Sehol-
ten which sunk by collision with the bark Rosa Mary
Straits OF Dover November 49, 1887 when many
lives were lost She the upper deck at tho Time
and when the began sink rushed with several
others the bridge The crowd pushed her on Into the
water only other English passenger jumped after
and held Up until both rescued by ono Of the
boats Of passing steamer.
After getting shore sho refused to come with the
other passengers the steamer T. CaaDd and returned
She wrote TO Mr.. Mitchell. who lost no ume
In making o voyage to England. They were married In
London about weeks ago. and weeks later took
passage the Gulon Nevada. They started from
New York yesterday for their Western home
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-09
ADDING TO man BRJDeE PARK.

The Board Of Street Opening and Improvement yes
to-day considered the proposed High Bridge Park.
Maps and plans were submitted and with them werc
tho report OF Calvert vaux landscape architc't, and
Park superintendent Parsons, and letter from tho
Park Commissioners favorlng tho park The park as
laid out comprises strip along tho west bank OF tho
Harlem River from Onehundred and nfty -ninth-st to
Fort George, Two-hundrcdth-st 1t Will contain
about 1G5 acres. Mayor Hewitt spoke strongly In
favor Of thu Park which he thought would be ono OF
the most attractive on tho island
Messrs. vaux and Parsons advocated in their re-
port the including of the old Roger Morris house and
some of the Jumcl properly In tho park BY the intro
duction of flight OF steps and an archway, passing
under tho EdgecOmbe Road this could be done Tho
MAYOR said that the house the oldest the island
IL had been Washngtons headquarters. house with
such associations should be preserved
It estimated that IN, land for tho park would
cost "a, 100000. 1t was finally decided TO ask tho
Corporation Counsel to draw the necessary bill and
present II to the Legislature.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-09
RURIAL OF RERYiRD ROELKER.

The funeral Of Bernard Rocker the we'll known lawyer
who died Monday from pneumonia took place yester
day at his hume, No. IL East Twolfthst Mr. Rocker
member Of the Manhattan, the Nineteenth Century
and the Down Town clubs Those organizations wero
all represented at the funeral There also present
many Of Mr.. Rockers rcativea The Rev. Dr. Robert
Collycr OBLIGATED Tho burial at Woodlawn.
Mr.. Rocker was seventy two years old and the
last OF three brothers who TO this country
Germany more than nifty years ago lie graduate
OF the University OF Bonn. In 1887 no became
Of German in Harvard University. Ito intimate
with LongfelOw Lowell and Story. and also friend
OF Samuel J. Tden. In 1855 he came to this city and
established the law Arm OF Laur Rocker. lie
knoln somew hat . writer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-09
ROY HAVEN GOT HIS MONEY.
THE OLn BROOM MAN HAD HALF-wITTED Son
HEIRS BEGINNING TO SPRING UP.

THE OLp BROOM MAN HAD a HALF- WITTED BON
HEIRS BEGINNING TO SPRING UP.
The Public Administrator IS in charge Of the effects Of
the old broom man. Haven whose supposed fortune
of s3S 600 will probably be sfed down to about e. 000
Mrs. Schneebcrg Ravens landiady yesterday
o. No. ga Thrteens, and referred the reporter
40 before 10 John H. Atkinson Of No. 1928 Broadway,
At Mr. AlInson's law olco II stated that the old
mans money him at the death OF his William
Perry Haven, in August 1885. The son worked for
Mineola L. I. lie was half we1, and received
his services being considered an equivalent for
his board and clothing Young Haven's grandfather,
william Forbe died In 1872, leaving 10 his grandson the
annual interest g. 000 These payments the farmer put
in the bank, and William Haven died advertised
for his father The read by O. G. Shurragcr,
q real estate agent Of No 2o4 West Twenicthsr, who
showed II 10 the old man. Haven then consulted MI
Atkinson, and with him visited Mneola several times
viii remain, the payment Of administrators
and lawyers fees and the funeral expenses, propaDy
So. 900.
Mr. Shurrager who had known Haven for fortyiour
years. believe he had that any fortune at
all him. He that In 1874, Haven married
widow years his senior who had several ehafeh
but bore him none Mr.. Atkinson says Haven was threc
times married Haven not q MeNrcan war veteran
He was great and used TO assert that nc was
once an Assembyman this city Mrs Harriet DON
elson Of No. 6Si Lafayettave brooklyn has known
Haven for fortynvc years lie used to visit her house
once o week. and always received dollar she insisted
that be should have decent burial and offered grave for
him in her own plot In Cypress Hills Heirs begin
Ming to appear Mrs Lavina Cook Of No $50 West Forty
third st. scpdaughtcr If Haven, sent her son yesterday
to inform Mr Atkinson Of hor knshp She Ia not legal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-09
LONG ISLAND.

now Republican Club was organized in Matttuck
last night, TO be known tho Garfield Club. Captain
Isaac Teed was elected president; William H. Pike,
treasurer Lncius e. Young, secretary j. c. Wells and
Sidney Tuthill, committee speakers. A glcc club
organized, and Will be led by Professor George
Reeve.
J. Forest Tcrrill, supposed to be OF tho mashed
who filled In the newly made canal at South
Hampton, about two wecks ago. has been held In 1900
bail to appear before the Grand Jury at Rvcrhcad-
Ecllie McVency ago fourteen. living at No. $40
Seventbst, Hunters Point, was fatally burned yescr
day. She was trimming lamp. and accidentally
spilled some of tho oil her drcss. few moments
later she ran 10 the to take child away from IT,
and hor apron caught fire. Before assist ance could
reach her she horribly burned about the limbs and
body
Although there is money enough In tho treasury
OF long Island City to pay tho Interest due March
on tho water bonds 81 $50 II is still unpaid A.
result City Treasurer +. W. Bleckwenn has received
letters from tho Woonsocl1 National Bank. the
Nassau National Bank Of Brooklyn, the Third Ma
tiOnal Bank and tho Robert Cerc Bank of Syracuse,
complaining that the money duo on the Interest
coupons remained unpaid and asking an explanation
of the delay. Tho deadlock In tho city government
10 to blame for this condition Of things. II IS ex-
pectod. however. that the treasurer will ISSUE the
checks In q few days