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The evening world., 1894-06-06
~" ROAD DEFEATS TIE CITY.
A. Verdict Involving -Nsariy sl,0Oo,ooo Set
Aside by the Court Of Appeals and
"SN .,' q New Trisl Ordered.

Corporation Counse, Clark received no.
tice yesterday that the Court OF Appeals
has reversed the decision of the Stu
preme Court In the suit of the city
against the Manhattan Railroad Com
pany to collect percentages on the re-
ceipts of the Third venue line, and has
ordered a new trial
This suit was brought to compel the
Manhattan Company TO pay 5 per cent.
of Its net earnings on its Third avenue
line since 1876, upc the ground that 1t
was built as n connecting line with the
old Greenwich street or Ninth avenue
road. and was, therefore, subject to the
same conditions. Judge lngraham gave
judgment for the city. The amount Is
almost 81 .0eo,oW.
The company, through ex-Judge John
F. Ditton inc julien T. Davies, con-
tended that while II was true that II had
applied to the old New York Elevated
Railroad Commission, which had TO dc
with the Ninth avenue line. for the APP
proval of its Third avenue plans as a
connecting line with the Ninth avenue,
yet. owing to changes In the mode OF
construction. running OF trains. rates OF
fare, &C, u new contract was created
with the city which exempted the com
pany from paying to the city the 8 pei
cent. of net earnings which had been a
condition OF the Ninth avenue franchise,
that the city should refund all the money
property damages along its Third avenue
Hn0
The evening world., 1894-06-06
THEY FIND THEIR BROTHER.
He Read About Thorn in This World, ard
Soon the Family MAY be Reunited.

BENJAMIN and Thomas Wood. brothers.
who beat their way from Nebraska to
Hoboken In search of their parents.
found their elder brother. Theodore. yes
,erday In Hoboken. They are happy and
contented. Theodore Wood Is employed
on the Della ware Lackawanna and West
ern Railroad. He had not seen or heard
OF his brothers 70, five years. He knew
that they were sent West and in~dentured
to a farmer In Nebraska until they
reached their maturity. but never ex-
pected to see them again.
When he read In The World last Mon
day that his brothers had returned from
the West he went to the police alton
expecting to find them. He was told
they were sent to New York to seek the
aid of the Gerry society in finding their
parents. The police were unable to find
them in Hoboken.
Theodore Wood went to New York yes
terday and found his brothers. 1t was a
joyous meeting. He took them to his
home IN Hoboken, and promised to pro-
vide for them until their parents are
found.
Mrs. Wood, the mother, is syid to be
living with her daughter In Yetkers. N.
Y. 1t Is not known where the father Is
living. TIL, last account was that he
was living in New York Efforts will be
made now to reunite the family. g..
The evening world., 1894-06-06
Ran OFF With The WIDOW.
She Is Fifteen Years His Senior, but
Young Wilson Tilted His Pretty
Sweetheart for Her.
ARE EOW ON THEIR HONEYMOON.
White Plains Gossips Are Excited, and thu
Tennis Club May Expel Wilson,
Who Is President.

When social circles in White Plains
had any function mapped out in the
past two years young Edward ]. Will
son was consulted as to how matters
should be managed. His word was law,
and his a~cquaintances accepted all his
suggestions. recognizing in him a SUI
burban Ward McAllister. He was
President of the White Plains Tennis
Club. organizer of several progressive
euchre clubs. a principal in amateur
theatricals and a leader In
Though only twenty-one years of age,
he knew a lot for his time on earth.
Supt. ]. II. Phyfe. of the Harlem Rail-
road, whose headquarters are in White
Plains, recognized the versatility OF
young Wilson, and secured his services
as secretary.
Wilson had been paying marked at
tention to Miss Mamie Fowler. one of
the buds OF the village. She is a hand
some and stylish young woman Of the
brunette type. They attended all the
social events together, and 1t was
generally believed that they were en-
gagged.
Wilson lived with Mr.. and Mrs.
Weeks, on Hamilton avenue. until a
few weeks ago. when he changed his
abode to the fashionable boarding
house kept by Mrs. NJ. ]. Dawson. an
attractive widow of thirty-six. on Ora
wampum street. Mrs. Dawson has a
son. Harry, aged fourteen. Her house
is near Miss Fowler's residence. on
Fisher ven and the young woman
became a frequent visitor at the board
ing-house. She and Wilson and Mrs,
Dawson became quite friendly, and
often went to the theatre together.
This pleasant state of affairs existed
up to Sunday night last. when at I p
NJ. a closed carriage drove up to Mrs
Dawson's house. In a few minutes vii
son came out, carrying a satchel, anc
later he was Joined by Mrs. Dawson
Very few people saw this occurrence
and those who did had no suspicion o.
what was going on. The two were
driven to the Grace Church Rectory
and wife. The carriage then proceeded
by a side street to the depot. where 4
! stopped just as the Pittsfield expires!
pulled In. The couple quickly. boarded
the train and began their wedding our
Il is rumored that their destination ii
:. Now that. the hurried marriage ha'
become known gossips are busy. TIL,
manner in which Wilson treated Mis-,
Fowler is denounced, and 1t Is said tina
the lawn tennis club will expel him at 1t
next meeting.
Miss Fowler denies herself to all cali
ers. Eve Wilson'S most intimat,
friends express sympathy for her.
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The evening world., 1894-06-06

from Good News.)
Mistress-Our style of living is very
simple. For breakfast. at this season.
We usually have buckwheat cakes
and -
New Girl-And I'm to bake 'em as fast
as you want EN-?
Certainly"
Is any Of your children boys7"
One Is a boy"
Healthy
Yes, indeed"
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The evening world., 1894-06-06
Braves Were After the Mayor.

Mayor and Mrs. Gilroy, with a PARTY Of
friends. visited the Wild West encampmcnt
yesterday afternoon ard were entertained at
dinner by Col. Cody and Mr.. Salsbury. They
rode in the old Deadwood stnge. conch ana
we've attacked by Indians in Western style.
In the Mayors party were Mrs. Gilroy, Post
master Dayton, wife and son. Mrs. Mulqucep,
Miss T. Gilroy, Jordan l.. Mott, J. l.. Mclchner,
Superintendent OF the free delivery of the
Post Office Department of Washington. Lieut..
Perry, Of the Seventh United States Cavalry,
and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Grown, OF
Washington, were also Mt the camp.
The evening world., 1894-06-06
FIRE IN lx MAYoR ooopER's HOUSE.
tln eussts ,Lcays the D1rner Table and
rfrht tho Flames with Their Foot.

TNf9 NsF3t9 e@oeNs SS 1NeN &oSS eae
Fight tho Flames with Their Foot.
The shade OF a gas lamp in cx- Mayor
Coorer o Mouse, ut No. 10 Washington Square
: Eortt beoame tilted over the lame last even.
ing and caught fire. A servant attt mpted to
right the shade and the blaze extended to n
window -curtain. The servant ran through
the hallway screaming and then out of the
house. up Fifth avenue, to a signal. box at
Eighth street.
The TX Mayor, member OF his family and
some guests were dining at the time. All left
the table and ran upstairs into the reading.
room where the fire was. A second servant
meanwhile. had pulled down the blazing
draIery. Mr.. Cooper and his guests then
stamped out the flames. The carpet, an all.
tique bookcase. the window casing, drapery
and the f~rescoing had been damaged.
Nothing remained for the two engines, tho
two hook and. ladder trucks aud the two bat.
talon chiefs to do when they arrived.
There was q chimney fire i'm Mr.. Cooper s
house one saturday night last winter.
The evening world., 1894-06-06

4 wholesome tonic, the original elixir Of
Calisaya made by MILTAU, has "A years unsur-
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The evening world., 1894-06-06
CONEY ISLAND.
Culv .R ROUTE,

Leave foot OF Whitehall st. n. y. hourly from
10 A. NJ. to go p NJ, Saturday, 40 p. NJ.
Sundays hourly from 30 A NJ to lilo. p N.
and hall. hodriy from lao to $40 =. M. 10,
$40 P. VI. Last train leaves Coney Island daily
SIS. Sundays 10. II p. N.
The evening world., 1894-06-06

MRS. WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP for children
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The evening world., 1894-06-06

MT. Hampden Moore, Wholesale preServer OF
terrapin stew and gr ei turtle soup. with offices
nj 100 West 2sth ST.. New. York city, and re.id,
ing at III eth st. south Brooklyn, says. - had
catarrh Of the head. throat mud stomach for three
or four years. was nearly deaf and II was al
most impossible for me to speak without cough
Ing. ! was unable to keep anything on my
stomach, as | would cough until would, vomit. /
was finally treated by Drs. Copeland and ''arhner
soiutely cured Of my trouble. ! think their treat
ment Is the hest ! ever experienced.
The evening world., 1894-06-06
Raw and Watery

Instead Of rare" is the latest verdict referring
to these early June days. Farmer Dunn will
serve up roses and honeysuckles by and by.
though. Meanwhile everybody may md seasonal
BILE solace at the glorious RIVERSIDE the
KER'S" are the latest fad, and are simply TAX
ing the town by storm. A woman drops in
tired to death with s~hopping-swallows one. and
is instantly braced up for a fresh bargain hunt.
The best bargains, though. are those on which
she saves 10 cents on every dollar by ordering all
ncedful supplies OF Drugs. Medicines Doctor
Prescriptions, Rubber Goods. Elastic, Stockings.
Folding Bath Tubs, Milk Stcrilizers,y Toilet and
Bath requisites, and no on, at
RIKER'S,~
9Th Ave., cor. 22d st.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-06-21
Mackerel risheries in Kerry,

A Kerry cores pondent of United Ire. land writes: Dingle, on the extreme western coast of Kerry, is now the center of very active operations in the mackerel fishery industry. Large takes of mackerel have been taken off the coast, and the recent trade whic h has sprung up in the curing of mack erel during the autumn season for the American market has brought employ ment and money to the doors of the the Kerry peasant and shopkeeper. Dingle is, in fact, a hive of industry at the present moment, owing to the cur ing and packing of mackerel for the American market. Every man, woman and child is employed, and thousands of cases are dispatched weekly to Liv- erpool and Glasgow for conveyance to American ports. The mackerel are found off the coast in great shoals, and a fleet of Boats is engaged in capturing them, landing the fish in Dingfe, where they are cured and prepared.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-06-21
FREE MAIL DELIVERY.
Curious Result of an Experiment. by the
 Postal Authorities.

Curious Result of an Experiment by the
 Postal Authorities.
 The difference between city and country ways have been illustrated in a curious manner by an experiment of the post office department, says the New York Evening Post. Under the last administration about fifty villages and small towns, ranging in population from eight hundred to four thousand inhabitants, were picked out for a trial of the system of distributing mail matter by carrier, as in large cities. At first general satisfaction was manifested, and the receipts of many of the offices for awhile showed an increase, indicating that the con- venience rstimulated correspondence, but as the novelty wore off the resi- dents very generally tired of the change and returned to the old prac- tice of going to the office themselves for their mail. A majority of the peo- pie would apparently rather have their letters lie in the office until they call for them and thus have an excuse for frequent visits to the center of local activity than have their mail delivered every day at their houses. The carrier in such places is really foe to social activity, as going to the post office" has always been recognized means of mixing with men, and it's occasional inconvenience is preferable to the loss of what is often only a pretext for making a break in the monotony of retired life In view of the evidence that there is not "a long-felt want" to be met by this system of free delivery in small communities, and of the fact that it's general adoption would in volve an annual expense of at least ten million dollars, the first assistant post master general wisely advises a sus- pension of the experiment
The St. Johns herald., 1894-06-21
swARMs OF WILD GEESE.

One of the Terrors Which Beset the Wheat
 Grower in California.
 As'I had an experience with wild geese in California, and it is so big that few, except those who are familiar with them, can readily believe it." said State Senator Dare to San Francisco Examiner reporter. 'I own a ranch of fourteen thousand acres at Knights Landing, on the Sacramento-theY Yolo ranch. raise great deal of wheat, and every year as soon as the wheat comes up the country is overrun with geese. have seen droves of them two or three miles long, and so thick that when you shoot into them with rife you are bound to hit some of them. They are so plentiful that am obliged to hire herders to keep them off. They settle in great bands. A band will set tie down on five acres, say, and you won't hear a quack nor squawk, but the geese are there and very industri- ous, and before you know it they have pulled up and eaten every bit of the grain. They have a skillful way of grasping the tender shoots in their mouths and pulling and relaxing and pulling again till they get the swollen grains with the blades and then eat the whole. A storm is almost sure to bring them in large numbers, but they often come in entirely fair weather. keep many herders to drive them away. If it were not for this wouln't have any wheat. The men are armed with loud- sounding Winchesters and they keep shooting among them all the time. At night the geese don't bother, but early in the morning and all through the day they literally swarm. The herd CTS go out very early in the morning and stay all day. It is a continual bat tie. The geese must be kept going all the time or the wheat is gone. When the men are blowing they get very close to the geese. Take fourteen or sixteen teams, each with a big blow that turns four furrows. They come along in string. The first one is a good way off. The next is a little closer, and so on till the last one is fifty feet or more nearer than the first one was. The geese don't notice this and man cah knock them over as he goes by. saw one man take a monkey wrench and bowl away and kill one. In fact, if anyone wants geese he may easily kill them by thousands, and I was almost going to say millions, up there. I have killed them myself many time. The annual visitation of the geese at Knights Landing is not joke. It is the sternest kind of reality and means heavy loss if war fare is not kept up against them"
The St. Johns herald., 1894-06-21
MARRIAGE IN MASSACHUSETTS
Some Reasons Why Yankee Women Have
 Long Outnumherad the Men,.

Some Reasons Why Yankee Women Have
 Long Outnumbered the Men,.
 The excess of women over men has long been feature of the population statistics of Massachusetts, and since Mormonism is not permitted to four ish in that progressive state the natu- ral effect of this feminine surplus has been an unusual number of old maids The cause, says the New York Press, is probably Horace Greeley's advice to young men on the subject of going west. The Massachusetts young man has been going west ever since, but we decline to believe that it is his fault that the Massachusetts young woman has not gone west with him. She stayed behind, not that she loved the Massachusetts young man less, but that she loved Massachusetts more, especially Boston. But as the Massa- chusetts young woman who did not go west with the young man of Horace Greeley's day became an old maid she missed the young man. She was left to lavish the wealth of affection upon cats, birds and other pets. And thus it happened that Massachusetts old maid, having nobody else to leave her fortune to, recently left it to her pet cat.
 There are those who think the ten dency of our time is toward a reduction in the ratio of marriages to the popu- lation of the marriageable. In one sense this is result of the continual improvement in the independence and general social condition of women. Not only are they 10 longer the slaves of men, but they are not obliged to tie themselves to men in order to get a living. As civilization increases the number of occupations in which skill and tact and passive endurance make success, women, being often superior in these respects, take possession of a greater number of places and crowd men out. The tables seem to be turned against the inquiry of Miss Mona Caird: ''Is Marriages Failure? This question caused great deal of discus sion in print a few years ago. If it is to be answered in the affirmative which heaven forfend-then it must also be declared, on the strength of the latest returns from Massachusetts, that singleness is a failure too. This leaves the relative merits of marriage and of singleness just where they were before Miss Mona Caird dared to prick the alleged bubble of matrimony with her pen. If an old maid who died rich was, nevertheless, so circumscribed in the wealth of affection and home life as to be obliged to endow cat, what can be said of the success of old maids who never get rich, even in money?
The St. Johns herald., 1894-06-21
Photographing . Train.

"At 8 way station the other day." said a traveller, 'I saw an amateur photographer photograph the train. I dare say this has been done million times before, but I had never happened to see it. When the photographer was through, he waved his hand as he might have done to a single sitter to let him know that he could get up and stretch his legs. In this case the en- gineer was practically the sitter, and when the photographer waved his hand he opened the throttle and snaked the train out of that big open air studio almost before the photog- rapher had had time to turn around. :"
The St. Johns herald., 1894-06-21
CASHMERE .sAAwLs.

Made by Men-Four Months to Do Seven
 Inches.
 One day we went to town to visit a manufactory of Cashmere shawls, says a writer in the Cornhill Magazine. After terribly unattractive approach, we again clambered up some stairs and emerged into large room full of looms, with about forty men all hard at work. One we especially watched. He had in front of him nearly thou sand shuttles of different shades, and out of these he would select one and thread it through as many of the fine strands stretched tightly before him as his pattern directed, and after so doing he pulled toward him a heavy bar which pushed the last little thread quite tight, before putting in the next.
 In old days one man used to read out the pattern to all the rest, but now each has his own design on slip of paper in front of him. It is said that the wavy line, so often seen in these shawls, was originally taken from the curves of the Jhelim. It took four months, we are told, for four men to QO seven l0C06S OI CnlS WOrk, one YdrQ wide, working from five in the morn ing till five in the evening every day, so it was hardly to be wondered at that two yards should cost nearly one hun. dred pounds.
 As we left the workroom, so glad to exchange its heated atmosphere for a cooler breath of air, it was impossible to check the obvious thought of the contrast such lives are to our own. We mingled with the gayly dressed crowd gathered to see polo tourna- ment, and our thoughts strayed back to that stif1ing room. with its ceaseless monotony and perpetual grind, where men, more like machines, wove hour after hour varying hues of color into one harmonious whole. And yet the old sinile would also assert itself, that we too, in one sense, are hour by hour working tiny threads that go to make up the pattern and color of our lives. The whole design, however, does not lie open before us, but is mercifully withheld by an al-wise master hand.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-06-21
A GREAT BEAR HUNTER.
Five Hundred of the Animals Slain b.
 Gen. Wade Hampton.

Five Hundred of the Animals Slain by
 Gen. Wade Hampton.
 MT. Theodore Roosevelt. in his evil derness Hunter" speaks of Gen. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, as ths man who, with horse and hound. ha been the mightiest hunter America ha ever seen" His special game has beer bear and deer, but he has also had the fortune to kill some sixteen cougars the panther of the east, the mountain lion of the west, and the lion and puma of South America. Of black beers, ac- cording to Mr. Roosevelt, he has prob ably killed more than any other mar living in the United States. Thirty ol forty of these he has killed with the knife.
 His plan was, when he found that the dogs had the bear at bay, to walk up close and cheer them on. They would instantly seize the bear in body, and he would then rush in and stab it behind the shoulder, reaching over so as to inflict the wound on the opposite side from that where he stood.
 He escaped scathless from all these encounters save one, in which he wa. rather severely torn in the forearm. Many other hunters have used the knife, but perhaps none so frequently.
 Gen. Hampton always hunted with large packs of hounds, managed some times by himself and sometimes by his negro hunters. He occasionally tool. out forty dogs at time. He found that all his dogs together could not kill big, fat bear, but they occasion ally killed three-year-olds, or lean and poor bears.
 During the course of his life he has himself killed. or been in at the death of, five hundred bears, of which at. least two-thirds have fallen by his own hands. In the years just before the war he had on one occasion. in Missis- sippi, killed sixty-eight bears in five months. Once he killed four bears in a day; at another time three, and ire quently two.
 The two largest bears he himself killed weighed respectively four hun dred and eight and four hundred and ten pounds. Most of his hunting for bears was done in northern Mississippi, where he had a plantation.