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New-York tribune., 1890-05-29

To the Editor Of I he Tribune.
Sir: Herewith tender you the cordial thanks OF
tho General Assembly Of the Presbyterian Chnfch III
the United states Of America for the iniI' aDie Anu
accurate reports Of proceedings given in your innen
A., tunnel Annr, atuc thc effort and expenditures
involved in these reports. We are. yours rcapc'u"lS'
WILLIAM T.. MOORE, Moderator. ,,
MlLLIhM II. K'HEltls Staten O''N'
Saratoga Sp7I1rt y. Y. May - l-'o'
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PROFESSOR ROBERT G.. sAUNDERsoN.

burlington, Iowa. May % (Specian-Profcssor Rob
crt g. saundcrson. principal of the Burlington public
schools for seventeen years. died to-day. lie was one
of the leading educators In Iowa lie was local editor
Of The London Tines when sixteen years OF age and
for "A wear u -6jl was a reporter IN NewYork City.
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The little advertisements Of the people remain
ne nouular a, ever bccausc they %lWays a'c"HPu9.
tcir pnrposc bling together those VINO can buy anu
those who with 10 sell.
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BOARD and rooms. household and other help, and
many other desirable things are advertised on the ninth
page OF The Tribune tins morning.
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MARRIED..

PLATT-JENCKS-On Tuesday. May 81. At the residence
OF the brides mother by the Rev Theodore c. Williams,
D. D. Elizabeth daughter OF Mrs. Mary and the lato
John II. Platt, Francis NJ. Jcncks
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A fcw elegant suites at the pala,ial home The Cam
bridge SHAVE and 33dst be had temporarily by the
month or balance OF the season.
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While many furniture stores keep goods fol
years and then have an auction FLINT CO. 1ih.st and
| 6thave plainly lower than auction prices any
| goods that drag,
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the people who hold the ice have us by the throat.
IL Is to our interest. Of course, to keep prices down.
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Announcement of Espenscheid's
Summer Styles In Gen.lemen's Hats.
Salesroom, 11S Nassau-st, lis.
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maps do well to follow.
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The clever Ittlc adveriiscmcnts on the ninth pncc
81 The Tribune minister % all the commonplace Want7
u mankind.
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6uecial Noilres.
George A. Lenvitr Il Company.

A. George A. Leavt Il Company
EUGENE O'CONNoR. AUCTIoNEER;
ART ROOMS 7s7 AND $50 BROADWAY.
EXECUTORS SALE,
STOCK or CHOICE PRIVATE WiNES
10 CLOSE ESTATE or +. J. BORDEN; ~
Consigned by THOMAS BwRLdNGHAAAi' esq co "AAA~
ST, NEWPORT, X. l.
TO BIZ SOLD BY AUCTION,
WEDNESDAY, JUNE I. AT O'CLOCK.
rnsouh,edly the finest offered a: public Or
nrVte salr Few II any Of these be duplIcated as
any price and many Of them have been handed down -
family helrlooms.
webster 1906, BonapaTte, 1925. and Duary CognaS'
1904 Drandie,: March X BoRsons, 1911, JohanIsoerg
isl8 and Juno 1917. Madeiras Amontllado 1891 tor
don s35 salerus 1886 and 1874 Dry SherEes BuIxes
Ter 1918 old Reserve, 1916. 0d London lo-o ana 1850
Ports Dutch Holland Gins; tTuikenheleF anu re,
mitace Rye TOkay ASSN (inown as count AuGrass!
Wre fieitzelberger private stock Tokau Imperial ron.
TT Canet Orand Vim Chateau Ia Tour Leoyle anu -NoH'
rose d,rand YIN Lafayette, 1873 and others
CATALOGUES NAILED on APPLICATION. -
Cnrnet CIeaning.-r. NJ. STEWART. S2e 7h-ave.;
.end for circular; telephone call, 126 2lst:s..
Roebuck's Adjustable Wire screenswln ht any win.
dow All hou.lurnlshlng stores Aeep uel ASA toe
they are the and cheapest; sliding screens
i'm ali woods Measures and estimates given al ~ fui'
ton-st. Established 10 years
Th, Seu. ork Associate for Improving The Cen.
dtin ~ the PoOrlhs od Association Is An AID oocley
devoted elevation OF the home life OF The poor Ana
tho ud,cous Of their necessities without regard 10
ras. ras osf SSS careful reamen The Society grants
rsi,ep aud has weeQuippei sanitary sewing and fesb
ar depsrtments IL has just opened Harlem trAnsa.
i broadway; Chairman Com OF Ways and Means X
fulton cutting; Chairman Finance Com: James A.
scrymser; General Agent F. g. Longwor,h 10 4uA.aye
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MANY popular necessities are met by consulting the
littIo advertisements in The Tribune
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Notices of marriage must he indorscd with full
name and address.
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REPORTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Boston. May 90, 1880.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-02-08
NAVAL SECRETARY TRACY.
SUDDEN INTERRUPTION OF A BRIL-
LIANT AND SUCCESSFUL CAREER.

Early struggles and rriumphs-- brilliant
Military Csre~r--Tskes nigh Rank NJ ne
New York Dsr--The Beechcr-Tiiton Trial.
Heated Campaign and Yitting Reward.
Benjamin Franklin Tracy, whose able
administration of the naval department
Of the United States was SO suddenly in
tcrrupted by an appalling calamity, was
born In Owego, Tioga county, N. y, in
1880 and passed his early life ora farm,
attending only the winter terms. Of an
academy. From boyhood be was notice
ably vigorous, earnest and reliable. and
when admitted to the bar, In 1851, nc
soon made his mark in law practice. So
rapid was his rise and so great the popu-
lar confidence in him that in 1853,
and again in 1855, he was elected district
attorney, though his party was in u mi
nority in the county.
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breathe, ana beave, ana crackie, as do
the sward and plants and trees OF the
country.
Gaths house Is In the heart Of such iso.
laiion and is in the center of ncighbor-
hood Of houses miles in extent The
building is one of New York's old timers,
brown stone on the English pattern.
with small front yard, level with the
street. Strangers have doubtless noticed
that a few blocks of the many thousands
Of houses in town have a vacant area OF
ten to twenty feet depth In front. This
is because some old proprietor, with n
high sense Of the fitness of things, made
restriction when selling or leasing land
that the building should not reach TO the
pavement line. These English basement
houses in Thirty fourth street, of which
Townscnd's is one Of row of perhaps a
dozen, have n neat grass plot In front and
low iron fence to protect IL. The houses
themselves are roolny and comfortable.
The first floor contains reception and
living rooms, with parlors above. AL
though travelling man and Washing
ton correspondent, with q country home
Gath has had for many years New
York home His friends and children
are located in the ncighborhood
For the past few years, however, his
domestic hobby has been new country
home on South mountain, MARYLAND.
The place. which he names Gapland. IL
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Ohih CITY HOME. tOric novel,
Katy Of Catoc,in." and if loneliness of
nature and historical associations can
compensate for the isolation Of Il mount
ain home. then the choice is "a happy
one. Vet II IL not all the spirit Of poetry
that draws the active correspondent To
seek this mountain retreat as change
from city life.
Mr.. Townsend is a practical man and
puts theories to test. When the cost
Of living. cooking reform, etc, were
topics of newspaper discussion some years
ago he selected IA kindred topic for one of
his New York letters, and made the
rounds of the markets with a basket ON
his arm Just to see how much sion,
annoyance, economy and humbug com
bIned there are IN the market basket net
as attributed To certain great men, HIS
Gap'and is the result of n similar pro-
pcnsity for seeing how some things can
be done; for at first he SIMPLY fell in love
with Gapland rs do all susceptible folk
that pass that way -and decided To build
himself lodge. The plan drew l,is at
tention TO the rocky formation of part
of the mountain, and he found building
material on the spot. A hoUse. with out
buildings. soon followed. and If the estate
with all lis appointments should prove
more attractive than the Thirty. fourth
street house as a refuge for q man of
"Guth's" well Travelled years, il will not
be strange, especially as Washington is
at present headquarters for his news
paper labors.
Returning down town n half mile to
another broad street. or avenue, Twenty
third street, where a still later move
mcnt, the spreading ont OF the residence
quarters, drew many wrll-to do people to
the west side of the island, we find au-
other brown stone with history.
Jake Sharp's house, at 3o6 West
Twenty third street, comes in the Man
sard era. II WAS built about twenty-five
years ago, and within it was doubtless
planned, il not maturcd, the celebrated
broadway Street Railway scheme which
brought Sharp To sorrow.
Sharp, too, had his home in congenial
surroundings He passed his prime in
building piers and street railroads with
ferry connections. Twenty.third street
got its ferry very recently-that is, in
Jim Fisk's time, since the war. This
street long after some of those farther
up town had been built upon with fine
mansions, was waste of vacant lots,
with here and there factory, stage
stable, cattle market, and road tavern.
London Terrace, "a row of fine old man
sions west of Ninth avenue, and row of
brick cottages near Eighth avenue. oppo-
site the Sharp house, stood almost alone
as desirable residences of that ncighbor-
hood The present Grand Opera house,
built by Pike after the war, gave the re.
iion a beautiful marble structure in the
Italian style. II stands on the corner OF
Twenty third street and Eighth avenue,
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"i". oAcop S"Ah' street rallw
'''' No' from the ferry
dock to the central portion of the city,
and the Opera house combined, brought
life to a district that but for these might
have remained for years tagging in the
march of progress.
The Twenty-third street home of Sharp
marks the second stage of the mans ca
reer. Had he lived long enough and car
ried out his plans, he might have died in
palace on the avenue. He came to the
brown stone from little brick house
Qleased) on Twenty-second street. His
most active work was done in the brown
stone period, when, although known 10
his neighbors principally as quiet, upob-
trusiye man, he was preparing the Broad
way project, and actually carried it in
his brain for quarter of "A century. On
the steps of the brown stone one cold
winter morning, as he was about to drive
out in his beaver and silk wrappings, the
boodler manipulation was met with the
news that the indictments against him
were to be tried at once
He staid in the brown stone TO fight
it out. The palace on the avenue never
came TO crown his career During his
busy life in the city Sharp maintained a
country place near Rome, n Y, and
there he caught cold in the great blz-
zard and died the month following in a
house near his old home, which his fam
lily occupied after his conviction. IL was
during his trial, or between the time of
his indictment and his death, that Sharp
became best known TO his immediate
neighbors. He was greeted by the idle
and curious whenever he appeared in
the street. One day he divided public
CURIOSITY with another celebrity Of the
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hour. Mrs. Langtry, whose cottage is on
the same block.
Sharp was ON trial in the great railroad
charter case. and the Lily was courting
popularity on one stage and fighting a
legal battle over high paling she bad
erected before her cottage on another,
and by coincidence both celebrities had
their carriages at their doors at the same
hour. The mob crowded about the Lang
try carriage until Sharp appeared, and
then went over en- inassc and surrounded
the Sharp carriage, and followed IL as
long as they could keep up with IL. staring
at its occupant with tho usual sang froid
of street loiterers. His ncighborhood
fame, such as 1t was, came late and came
suddenly, and vanished as quickly as it
came, for few Of the residents of the To-
cality, excepting the tradespeople whose
patron he was. remember personally the
occupant Of the brown stone, No. 328, or
can tell OF hand where he lived, within
half dozen numbers.
GEORGE l.. KIINER
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ON ieaving tnat city to the erect that she
did not horc TO be as happy In Washing.
ton as at her old home She united two
qualities not often found together an
extremely charitable disposition and
good judgment in giving. She was one
OF the founders Of the Home for Friend
less Children.
Personally she did not like "society in
big doses," as one interviewer expresses
Il; small parties, small gatherings Of per.
sonal friends she greatly enjoyed. Her
place among the cabinet ladies', however,
was well sustained; and the young and
fair, as well ms the official society, were
looking forward to n winter Of unusual
enjoyment when death invaded the cabi
net circle-and with such rapid blows!
Scarcely had the American people time
TO express their deep sympathy with
Secretary Blaine In his double affiiction
when they were shocked by the appalling
calamity to the Tracys.
In Brooklyn society there is, besides
the general sorrow. a deep and special
grief for Miss Mamie Tracy, who was q
charming and cultured lady with much
musical and artistic talent. and it adds
nota little to the grief Of her friends that
she, like her mother, did not favor going
to Washington. Mrs. Tracy's maiden
name was belinda 4. Catlin, and she was
a native of the same county as her hus-
band-Tioga, N. Y. Their three children,
Emma Eloise (now Mrs. Wilmerding),
Frank b. and Mary Harrington, were
also born there, in Owego. Miss Mamie
was 26 years old, and received most Of
her education in Brooklyn, and was loved
and admired by all who knew her.
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THE TRACY MANSION.

In 1861 he was elected to the legisla-
ture, in which he was made chairman of
the railroad committee, and won fame
by defeating the first skillful organiza-
ton TO place a surface railway on Broad
way. He entered on the fight almost
single handed, but his exposure was SO
effective that he soon gained adherents,
and the scheme went into local history
as "a desGvedly defeated job" The
time came when New York city regret
ted that there was not Tracy at the
head Of the same committee In the
house. On June 90, 1869, Governor
Morgan personally requested Mr.. Tracy
to raise a regiment in the counties of
Broome, Tompkins and Tioga. He soon
did that and assisted in raising another
and was commissioned as colonel of the
first--the One Hundred and Ninth New
York.
His career in the Army of the Potomac
was brilliant At the close of the battle
of the Wilderness he was carried from
the field exhausted, but refused TO go to
a hospital, and, after brief rest, led his
regiment through the three days fight at
Spottsy ylvania. Being completely broken
down he was then compelled To leave the
service for time, but soon took com
inand Of the One Hundred and Twenty
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SISTER ROSE GERTRUDE.
She Ii Going 20 Hawaii to Minister To the
IPpers.

She Ii Going 20 Hawaii to Minister To the
Lepers.
Miss Amy &. Fowler (Sister Rose Ger
trudc), member of the Third Order Of
st. Dominic Of the Roman Catholic
church, is on her way through the United
States to Hawaii TO take up the work left
by Father Damien at his death among
the lepcrs.
How simple this announcement, yet
how much is involved in it. An English
girl, having learned of the sacrifice of
one who fell a certain victim to the most
dreadful of all diseases, freely offers her
self TO take his place as the soldier steps
into the tracks of his comrade shot down
in n storming party, with this differ
ence--that the soldier acts under fever
ish excitement and may not be killed,
while the woman gives herself deliber-
ately, and for her there is no hope.
The Oldest and best known legend of
the sacrifice of young girl IL that of
Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon
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Ell PeRAL.
The Spanish Boat which Navigates Below
the Waters Surface.
Ell PERAI,.

When Jules Verne wrote his TWENTY
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea-" in
which Capt. Memo navigates in his won.
derful boat under the surface of the wa.
ter, every one regarded it as splendid
piece of imagination, but few, if any. sup.
posed such a boat practicable. This, how
ever, is an age in which the imaginative
writer finds it difficult to keep ahead OF
reality. Lieut.. Peral, of the Spanish
navy, has built boat which closely re-.
sembles the cigar shaped submarine yes.
sci whose picture appears in the volume
written by Jules Verne.
1t was about five years ago that Lieut.,
Peral conceived his idea, but kent b;s
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at once ordered AARON j. VANpERPoEL
for his home library. Taken all in all.
Judge and Frank Leslie, in going way up
to"n far from the printers quarter. have
not been quite reckless. Fifth avenue,
with Madison and Union squares and
Gramercy park for neighbors, and the
site Of home of an old time, brainy,
cultured New Yorker, these things should
inspire good work if there be power in
surroundings and traditions
II is by no means seeking a contrast to
go from Sixteenth street and Fifth ave-
nue. 10 George Alfred Townsend's (Gath's)
neighborhood in West Thirty fourth
street. West Thirty Fourth street is not
to be judged throughout by what it is at
Broadway and Sixth avenue, all hustle
and confusion. 1t is one of the city's
bruad streets, and had the early fathers
been duly sensitive TO the proprieties they
would have called it am avenue rather
than street. This street was populated
by later generation of aristocratic peo-
pie than those of lower Fifth avenue, and
that portion of it west of Sixth avenue
seems TO be far more exclusive than
o'SiuI itSSii-tihat III thS Stiloc
of being retired.
Townsend's home Of the past seven or
eight years, No. 36l, is near Ninth ave-
nue., and is very far from the central
thoroughfares frequented by visitors, and
II any one cares TO test for himself that
isolation to be had in town which is so
often said to be complete, let him stroll on
West Thirty fourth street some pleasant
afternoon In autumn between l and 8
O'Clock. Then the masters OF the long
rows Of mansions will be at their offices
down town. the ladies will he shopping
or in the park, and the servants will be
IN the back Easements. The caterers
wagons will have abandoned the street
and the carriages and cabs viii he v ith
their owners or patrons in the park. All
wilibe silent within and without, and the
football of the few pedestrians will echo
~ hsoc1D around Then II is isolation
@oo1 ~ bgick apd stone do no,
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Ell PERAL AND INVENTOR.
El Peral Descending,

senal Of Carraca and launched in Septem-
Der, 1888. She is cigar shaped, measures
"A feet from stem to stern and o.
feet broad. She is driven by twin
screws, the motive force being sup.
piled by electrical storage batteries.
The Peral is a torpedo boat and
fitted with complete torpedo gear. The
steerage apparatus is in coming tower
in the middle in which the helmsman
obtains view Of all about by means Of
rejecting mirrors. What the internal
machinery is is kept secret.
Several tests have been made, in one
of which the Peral went down like a
whale and remained under water forty
five minutes, attaining speed of six
knots an hour Against such torpedo
boat no vessel, however powerful and
well equipped, can stand.
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rehearsal, is one Of patient effort and well
earned success She has had no sudden tri-
umph, no matutinal awakening to find her.
self famous; only the capacity for taking
pains and the reward of unhagging persever.
ance. As a consequence, Miss Kemble has
attained to artistic as well as physical ma
turity But although not in the first bloom
of youth, Miss Kemble's fair, silky hair,
blonde complexion and graceful carriage
give her an excellent stage presence"
Her first appearance on the stage was in
1874, at a pantomime in Melbourne. Then
she took up small Shakespearean parts, and in
less than two years was leading lady at the
Victoria theatre. At 10 she played Lady
Macbeth, being the youngest woman to at
tempt the role in Australia.
1t is said that she excels in those difficult
and delightful old school comedies created by
Sheridan and contemporaries Her stage
name, Kemhle, is that borne by her mother
before marriage Her father objected to her
going on the stage, and so she did not take his
name. She is married, and was born In
Ireland
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occupant of that office; there was u
great moral reform movement in
progress, and the campaign was savagely
personal.
The charge as to liking good horse
never hurt anybody in Brooklyn politics.
but Gen. Tracy was defeated under cir.
cumstances which made him enthusi-
astically active against the Democrats in
1888. The success of the Republicans in
New York that year was chiefly due to
Brooklyn, and Gen. Tracy received much
credit for it: it 80 happened also that he
was the one man on whom all parts of
his party in the state could unite, and
his appointment was therefore a pecu-
liarly happy one. 1t is no secIect that
e, nAt re-
m,tsHE IA WAS 10 be at
tU;noy ge!r 4, l.nl j wuuld certainly
seem more in line with his talents and
pursuits.
For New York as state, however, the
naval secrctaryship is vastly more i'm
portant Than the other place, and Gen.
Tracy has most ably served the best in
terests of his city and party while serv-
ing his country in way To command
general approval. The official and semi
official intercourse between him and his
predecessor, Secretary Whitney, was
most pleasing episode in the political
movements of the day, and their per-
sonai relations, with suggestions for im-
prorement of the navy, have been highly
honorable To both. In addition TO ac-
cepting the plans for defensive action
coast dcfenses and the like which have
been settled for some years as the ma
tional policy, Secretary Tracy purposed
10 go much farther, To the construction
of line of battle ships ready for offensive
action IL desired, and on this point will
come the first discussion of his policy.
Gen. Tracys domestic circumstances
have been of the happiest, and the
BROOKLYN friends OF Mrs. Tracy now re-
call with grief some Of her expressions
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THREE NEW YORK HOMES
a cELEsRArEo LAWYERS HOUSE IN
THE ARIsrocRATlc QUARTER.
Ne Metr~poiltan Ressdsnce os Wei,
Kncwn Newspaper Correspondent = A
ssssst Railway Baron's brown stone.
Ss1s "Reminiscences from Manhattan.
Isrrial corrcspondcncr.l |

NEW YORK, Feb 6.--The mammoth
buildings that are beginning TO appear in
lower Fifth avenue TO meet the demands
Of business are wiping out the land.
marks of the once exclusively aristocratic
section. The new building of the Goelet
estate, corner of Sixteenth, the home Of
The Judge and Frank Leslie Publishing
company. occupies site almost as strong
y fixed in the memory of New Workers
"a the Goelet place at Broad way and
Nineteenth street, where the old home
stead has fingered amid the palaces of
business that surround it. The corner at
Sixteenth street (northwesD was never
built upon and was one of the very few
vacant spaces of private land in that
vicinity. 1t was an oasis of primeval
sward in desert of brick and stone.
Another landmark that shared the fate
of the old corner was the town house of
the celebrated lawyer, Aaron J. Wander