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LIVES SAVED BYACAT.
Il, Mewing Aroused Mrs smeltzer
to Danger from Fire.
Esund Her Brooklyn Store AbIazs
and Sent Ia an Alarm.
r,,s Tenants Badly Burned Before
riremsn Could Resolve Them.

Five persons were seriously burned
In a tenement-house hre which broke
out At $50 o'clock this morning At ~
Mill street. South Brooklyn.
Had it not been ies Inc p,e PIT, me me,
Owl! Oh NO. ~ ths tenant. who
awakened ohe VI M .s.
aroused the rest u ID hheiy that seAefa'
lives wou.a . nav nurns s .rs.
The persons 49, - 49, Il. Aus
Bridget Ryan. twsnv-toar years o'a' 0urne'
sbou, the arms face and legs.
M,rr,re. Ryan. her mother. sixty years old.
badly ournea about inc arm. an. a n sne... .,,,,
John coarin' tniV ye.. o''' '''"'' ~''1'
til. neck. hands, arm. and legs.
John co'sl'.' IT.. 'sh' ''A' '''' '"''' '''''
the nshas .A' 80. ,,,,.s, ,..-. ia
Mrs Kate cosslin. tNsn'y.esns ''s" "''
burned about the arms. chest and body.
All tho injured persons were removed
10 tne hoihes u he'sD
The house IL q three-story double ten
sment. and about forty persons made
their homes in It. The building is on thu
water front OF RED HOOK
At aao o'clock Mrs. Minnie smeltxer. a
-, n,hn Lsen. a grocery on the
widow VINO Keep. .. U. as
awal aaa... - ~ ~. cat in The hall.
meow! Oh nef pee GO, ~. -. ii.
the cat in when she noticed smoke in
VIC ,, $3.50 th. cr.ckIinp Of
the hall ana hearo 'hs efa'Ai'ns VI
op Mns ssm meHS ran into her store to
see where the IRE was and was nearly
oyercome py smoke. and tbsn ran I'D
She s. s,es fo,, STv' 70 the other ten
snts th sts the house lSu" was on fire
Ihen tne woman .a the street and
smoke and flame into tne street Ers
caused an alarm 10 NC sen' :"
H fn tbe nean t,m. the fire was spread
Ing fast, and most OF Sne n. ,esia hv tbe
the upper floors found escape ny the
stairway smut on. ,ro,. from
the windows into the next Tho, house. ,o m.
The Ryans and the Coagnns, WHO "
cupied the third floor, tried 10 t esSap.
by the roof. but found ina. t ~ % hait a bicf
sible TO push PACK aa !fe tbs ss,ky Wig
They were pinned in with apparent!
no other chance OF escaping IMAM W
jumping from M. the wv Wn ,,o On the stills to
Jump, but were forced PACK ~ w
heavy clouds of smoke rolling up tne
front Of the house from the nooTs DC
low. The crowd IN me 81 s,rse sit ' for IN,
firemen. 49,
The changing Of the nre pelis Iron ,
every direction gave them courage pu
each minute seemed an hour.
They then tried to force th ieto wa ~
street, led by the elder Coaglin:
When they reached the landing oeios
t.e second-story floor gave way ana IN
timbers crashed down: The name
lesped up to the third hoor, a me- inc a I'M r.
prisoned tenants were ioIceu paSh as hat
ladders they were all more or less burne
and hardly able to stand. .., a,
Old Mrs. Ryan was carr.e lea o sIsn he
ladder by q fireman. as was -s aiso ae
daughter, Margaret. ana n M an,
Coj;slin. They ,, mere b mmSUsV of. ~
A general signal for all tne ainpuian1 ~
IN the western part OF .ne cay W.
then sent out by tne nr pnnie and Rutle
Ambulance Suress thS horne
attended to the inJuLea a. "a heen ca
OF neighbors. wneIe 'Se eyy.r r nSys;cis n
r1ed by tne nreInah. 80 aIao In ATTEND
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Three suits for Damages.

NEWARK. j., Aug. 1.-THE father o.
Samuel Kreichnsr. the four-year-oid boy who
was injured by q New York line trolley car on
Aug. T. has brought suit against the consoii-
dated Traction Company for 900 damagsn
The boy Is still 1t st. Michasls Hospital In 9
precarious condition. Other suits recently hled
against the same company Joseph Dillon Tor
81 900 and Frank Dteboli for 81, 900.
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CL0WNEY IS ALIVE.
II Was Thought He Had Been Mar.
dercd In New Orleans.
lBy Assoclated Preea.

(I3y Associated Presa)
BRIDGTON, N. j., Aug. H.-Mrs. WILL
lam II. Clowney received a telegram
from her husband this morning from
New Orleans to the effect that he Is alive
and well.
A few days ago a man was found on
the outskirts OF New Orleans with his
head crushed and his body badly mutt
responded with that of Mr.. Clowney,
who went to New Orleans recently.
Mrs. Ciowney forwarded a photograph
of the supposed murdered man, and the
man as Clowney. Clowney Is an insur-
ance agent and has an office In Philadel-
phia.
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charses Her Boarder with Theft.

Annie BaEieks. q boarding house Keeper Vi
s,5 EIdridge street, made charge Of SraHd
IsfcCny. against Victor ksSsisr' twenty iour
wear. old, one OF hor boardeTs, In Essex Market
t,ourt to-day. She Eccused him oil preanns
onsn n Trunk and stealing thertfron $50. MIS-
sswioks produced three witnesses. who testinea
,hst the defendant had admitted to them thAt
ha had stolen the money lie WAS held LOT tFia''
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Police schools remembered.



SOUTH AMBOY, ~ j., Aug. i3.-At a meeting
o, the Board OF Education. held last evening In
Park Public School. George street. a resolution
was adopted changing tho name OF Park School.
formerly District IS. to Public School No. 1. and
Raiitan school, formerly District 20. to Public
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Wa. rhi. Child Ab.ndensAs

A female child two days old. was taken 70
Police Hesdquarteu at o'clock this morning
By Mrs. Kate Armitage, Of 10 Henry street.
The woman said she stumbled over the little
one when she came out Of the hallway OF her
house this morning. The police are investigating
the case. There was only an old shawl Wrapped
about the child.
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stamford Man Loses n Finger.

a. SUI. ISLAND. L. l., Aug. ii.--c. Dewiur.
h,ns SS Conn. q member Of tho Centre
Win N Club. was on board Of q launch
pluip,n. V o' friends last night and was ex-
ne m1ehnss, cAhfcr Of putting ones hands noar
wa 70 NY ln showing his frIendn how easy
" which ~, = lager 10 get too near the scar
Be aLipSis, and crushed II % that it
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Thomp.on Pincknsy's Funeral.

Thompson Pinsknsy died at iis rssidsnes
"a Grand avenue. Brooklyn. yesterday, and fu-
neral services will be held At p. y. tomorrow.
Mr.. Pinckney's death was due TO old age and
v.,vplar troubls of the heart. He wts Q director
in Inc East River Savings Bank and the Bowsry
Fire Insurance Company. and we ldentined
with shppinE interests for many yars.
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SAT0lLI AT THE SHRINE.
The Booming OF Cannon VIII Greet
the Archbishop in Butler. !

the Archbishop In butAers
BUTLER, N. j., Aug. H.-Archbishcp
Satolli Is to be the guest Of the Francis
can Fathers of st. Anthony's Shrine
here tonight. The train will arrive ut Y
o'clock. and will be met by q COMMITTEES
of twelve. The Apostolic Delegate will
be escorted by the entire congregation
to the chapel OF the Shrine. where he
will be received with the booming Of
cannon and bonfires. The Shrine VIII
be illuminated and the bells In the
chapel will ring during the procession.
Tomorrow Archbishop Satolli will cell
citrate Pontifcal high mass at the
Shrine in observance Of the seventh CEN
fury OF st. Anthony.
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Funeral of Dudley n. Andrews.

The funeral OF Dudley r. AndreWh WI tAks
place at s'P. N. to-day at his late home el
I.osrson avenue. Brooklyn. The internsnt will
be In Cypress Hills Cemetery. Apopl6y caused
Mr.. Andrews's death last Sunday; He was NIFTY
eight years old. a native OF this CITY and Tor
thirty years was Custom Houss broker
with ofnees At % and 81 William street
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Cohen Denie. the Charge OF Theft

Henry Cohen. ten years old. Of Th Allea
street. was committed to the Gerry Society
pending an examination into his character 10
Essex aMrket Court to-day. He denied eharxs
Of stealing a gold croSs from the neck Of Mrs.
Marie Cirmell OF ls5 Chrysue street. wis
made the charge against the boy.
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Jersey City Concert Hall Raidea.

The concert hall Of Gustavs Reiber. at ss1
Grove street. Jerssy City, was raided By tbs
police last night. Reiber has no license to sell
liquor and large quantity Of liquor was seissA
He was srraigned before Justice Potts this morA-
ing and fined $50. Reiber 10 the last OF the four
concert hall proprietors who have tried to run
their places In Jersey City In defiance Of ~
police.
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ABR AAAN,,s
Fulton St., Brooklyn.
Extra
SILK
VALUES.

Broken lines in
Printed and Bro
cadedT affetaSilks
that have been
$l.25 and $l.5O
yd.; also a small lot
Of Striped Surahs
in light and dark
shades, early sea-
son price $l.26 +:
choice at
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Peter Hamilton zabriski Dead

CHERRY HILL. n. j., Aug. A-Pctsr Ham
ilton zabriski whose death was reported In the
daily papers Of New York City three months aSo.
died yesterday afternoon OF quick consumptio1.
The deceased was . son OF Andrew Zabriski. .
we'll Unknown harbo- pilot.
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AMAfAM u~
SIRAJS

attend In q body the opening sessiou q be(h
schools. which occurs Monday, Sept To-
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You read The Evening woFidi
Do you read the sunday Wgridf,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-05
WINE AND WOOL.

Without distinction as to party the wine
and wool men are moving on Congress In
hope to save these respective industries
from impending ruin. Wool, as every one
knows, is made free by the Wilson bill.
On wine there is proposed an ad valorem
duty not to exceed 100 per cent on the in
voice value of the goods. Now this would
seem at the first glance to be pretty fair
rate of duty. If there could be GER
tainty that wine would be invoiced at an
approach to its selling value in this coun-
try 100 per cent duty wonld serve as q rea.
s0Dable protection. But with wine selling
at 8 cents gallon at French VINEYARDS
and subject to an invoice value to cor
respond with the growers estimate of
value 100 per cent rate would not be ap-
preciabe. French wine can be landed IN
New York at lower cost for Transportation
than California. II we ship by the cape
the distance is $4,000 miles, requiring five
months of time. The French wine is grown
near the coast and a journey of 5000 miles
places it in New York. The wine men and
the wool men are, therefore, in the same
boat The one has so little protection that
he cannot be much worse off if he had none
and the other has none. The wool-grower
will not be sentenced to a lingering death.
He is not being fed with false hopes. He
is landed on the bottom and at least knows
there is no lower depth TO descend.
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SOONER OR LATER.

A pamphlet has recently been published
purporting TO be an interview with a
prominent Irish churchman, in which the
assertion is made that the obligations
assumed by the Irish tenants under the
land purchase act will ruin them. Under
this act tenants are allowed from fifteen
to forty-nine years in which to complete
the series Of payments agreed to. The
pamphlet shows. as conclusively as any
statement reaching into the future can
demonstrate, that the appreciation of
money during the period of payment will
bankrupt the purchaser. Gold has already
consequence 80 per cent more of the farm
er's products must be sold TO procure a
given sum of money than had to be sold
when silver and gold began to part COM
pany. Twenty per cent more of gold ap-
probation, the churchman calculates, will
do up the average Irish farmer.
The late coinage bill, just introduced in
the House, attempts to provide against
such a condition of things in this country.
That bill declares that all contracts here
after made which are by their terms made
payable in dollars and cents may, at ma
turity, or thereafter. be paid in lawful coin
of the United States. This feature of the
bill will be denounced as infiicting a blow
to our credit. Men who have money will
not loan il unless the law assures payment
in gold. There will. without doubt, be a
little jar in getting back TO the timetable
basis, but we have to come to it sooner or
a
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matter of regret, as kerosene oil is one
OF our staple exports to South America,
China and other Pacific countries. If our
oil wells give out Russia stands ready to
take our place with an apparently mex
haustibe supply from the wells at Baku.
But 1t is unlikely that all the oil beds have
been discovered. We have in this State
deposits of oil which have never been even
eXplored-the policy of the late Standard
Oil monopoly having discouraged pros
pecting for new sources of supply.
Our silver-lead industry has passed out
of the speculative stage and has taken its
place among the steady industries of the
nation. 1t is now we'll understood th at
ore which carries 75 ounces or more of sill
yer is an accidental bonanza, which can
not be relied upon. But of the ore which
carries u TO 20 ounces OF silver there is an
abundance, and with economical manage
ment such ore can be made to pay very
we'll indeed. Prospecting thus far has
been very superficial. and has been con-
fined to spots. Veins as rich as those
which last year yielded 5000, 900 ounces of
silver remain to be discovered on this rim
of the great American basin. AS year fol-
lows year these will be discovered and In
spite of all misbaps the supply of silver
will probably keep up.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-05
NO QUORUM.

For two successive days the Democratic
House has been unable to show a quorum
in the House. The Republicans show no
disposition TO help their opponents out of
difficulty which an adoption Of the rules of
the last Republican House would remove.
Possibly eX-Speaker Reed silently enjoys
their perplexitles. He sees the House
drifting toward the government which he
devised, and he evidently proposes to let
it drift. The Democrats are apparently
deaf to the appeals of their organs. They
are being assured from all parts of the
country that the enactment of the Wilson
bill is all that is needed TO restore pros
perity. but they do not hasten to the work.
a good many are doubtless apprehensive
that the Wilson bill would make things
worse instead of better. They yielded
once to the exhOrtations of the Wal-street
organs and found when too late that Wall
street was only looking out for itself.
The failure of the repeal of the silver pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman act has
awakened distrust even Of Mr.. Clevela land.
The Democratic members of the House
doubtless expect to vote for the Wilson bill
in the course of the session, but they seem
disposed to put off the evil day as long as
possible. Since the approach to free trade
the Wilson bill proposes has been care
fully considered in the light of individual
experience. the Democratic majority has
become little bit shy of 1t. They find
that each Democrat wants free trade for
every interest but his own and protection
for his own. Most of them have sense
enough to realize that free trade canno,
be carried out on such lines The ouas-
tion then occurs TO them if it is not better
to have protection all round than free
trade all round. The fight. if there is one,
will be in the Senate. There might be
Democrats enough In that body TO defeat
the bill if the conviction were less general
that defeat would lose to the party what
little chance it now has of electing the
next House.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-05
THE MINING PRODUCT.

The report of the Director Of the Mint
shows that, Notwithstanding the alleged
disturbance in the mining industry caused
by the silver controversy, the product of
the precious metals did not vary much in
1898 from previous years. The production
Of silver is given as IS, 100000 ounces. and
Of gold 1.506.375 ounces. The gold yield
was about the same as that of the census
year-say So, coo, 600 less than the product
in 1880, and 100000 more than the
product of 1883. The coinage value of
the silver was $4,000, 0OO more than in the
census year; the increase being probably
que In part at least to the reputed effect of
the Sherman law. Ifreports from Colorado
and other silver States are to be believed,
the silver product of 1894 will show a de-
crease; but so long as there is any profit
at all in the industry the mines will
probably continue to be worked. What
the industry now needs is not stoppage
of productive silver mines, but a more
thorough exploitation of gold mines in all
parts OF the world,
One of the revelations in the report is
the large increase in the lead product
When Leadville was booming, the lead
product of the United States was 81. 500
tons, and small amounts of lead were i'm
ported from Spain. In ten years the
product doubled, and the price fell below
cents, at which figure the world was told
that lead mining would not pay and would
be abandoned. II appears. however, that
the product in 1893 was 213.2 1852 tons, show
ing considerable increase over the year
previous. 1t is hardly to be supposed that
this large output was obtained at a loss
When Leadville was booming, and mar
ketable lead was procured from car
Donates which melted themselves. mine
owners sold their lead at cents, and quite
simply became millonaires. Now, most of
the lead is got out of sulphides or sui
phurets. and it costs money to expel the
sulphur. Thus the cost of production
must be greater than it was twelve years
ago. and yet the product seems to have
increased nearly 80 per cent
Petroleum is a mineral product which
seems 10 be falling off. The product
two years ago was 100000 barrels. In
1893 il was only 80 500, 900 barrels. In the
last census year it was 100000 barrels,
and IN the previous census year it was g.
$50, 600 barrels. Production seems to have
reached its maximum in 1891 Biologists
would not be surprised If it declined al
most as fast as it increased. The quantity
lying latent in the earth is, of course. lin
itedi it may be exhausted. This would be
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-05
NEED MENDING.

The Literary Digest in its Balance
Sheet for 1898" says that our educational
methods need mending. 1t copies from an
address delivered by Melvill Dewey. sec
rotary Of the board of regents of the Uni
yersity of New York, in which the ad-
mission is made that the schools of that
State were not doing what was expected of
them. There had been a four-fold increase
in crime in The last four decades. In
Massachusetts there is growing illiteracy
in spite of the fact that in addition to its
public-school system libraries are provided
for 81 per cent Of the people.
Turning to the schools of Brooklyn,
n. Y, the Digest finds one cause of the
failure of the schools to meet expectations.
Superintendent Maxwell attended an ex-
animation in geometry in the three highest
grades in the grammar schools. He said :
A majority OF the pupils apparently did not
know what an Obtuse angle or an isOsceles tri.
angle is; their methods of demonstration were
clumsy aud Indirect; they evidently depended
more upon parrot-like memory than upon their
reasoning powers. and their use of the English
language was inaccurate. sovenly and incO-
herent TO a deplOrable degree. These facts To-
dictate Enthusiastically that both In quantity and
fault The children are not taught many things
which they should be taught and they are
taught few. II any, things in the right manner
There was time when the study of the
English language preceded examples in
Euclid. The ages OF the children attend
ing the three grades of the grammar
schools examined as TO their proficiency in
geometry are not given, but presumably
they range from 10 years to 10. Yet they
we're set to studying geometry before they
had been taught 20 tell what they do know
in pure English. The indications are that
the schools will continue TO fail 10 meet
expectations some time longer. The
aspiration of all School Superintendent
and trustees is to make a show. They
take the pupil over as much ground as
possible, cram him for examination and
turn him out upon the world when the
time comes for him to earn his own living
with smattering of many kinds of study
and a thorough knowledge of none. 1t is
a question if the old New England school.
with its three months term each year, did
not produce better results than are pro-
duced in the schools of to-day in a ten
months term.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-05
PORTIA LAW CLUB.

Several San Francisco ladies have or
gained an association to be known as the
Portia Law Club. The name has an i'm
posing sound, but it is not suggestive of
sound law. The Portia of the Merchant
of Venice" was not a lawyer. She did
not know the first principles Of law. She
was a bright and charming young lady
who volunteered to get her fance out of
trouble his spendthrift habits had led him
into. The genius of Shakespeare invests
the trial scene in the Merchant Of Ven
ice" with an atmosphere of reality. but if
Shylock had turned upon the fair advocate
and asked her where she found law for
the claim that the pound of flesh should
be cut if at all without splitting a drop of
blood the scene would have turned In
Shylock's favor. But the divine William
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-05
FALSE ECONOMY.

It is m after for regret that an institu-
ton TO which the greater part of the
people of the United States look for light
should have set the example of discharg-
ing professors during a period of dall
times. Without doubt the revenues of the
university have been affected by the gen.
eral depreciation of property which has
preceded the application OF Harvard's
free-trade theories. but the institution is
rich enough to stand temporary suspen-
sion of part of its revenues. To dis
charge professors is to add to the ranks of
the unemployed. If the discharged pro-
lessor does not join the ranks in person he
will send his cook, his gardener. his man
or maid of all work to represent him. Har-
ward ought to show more pluck. If The
students are not made of better material
than the managers 1t is no wonder they
lose football games.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-05

Editor CGll-SIR: For the interest of the
public and the Ferries and Cliff House Railway
L desire 10 call attention to the phenomenal
switch on the line of The road named at point
on Washington street nearly midway between
Mason and Powell. There must be some radi-
cal defect in the design construction OF the
switch named. II has been regularly erailing
cars, sometimes several times day and again
at longer intervals, ever since the line was
opened. 1 think 1t no exaggeraton TO say that
it has caused not less than 1000 derailments.
The derailed cars are turned at all angles across
the street. Dlockading the lines from North
Beach along Mason and from Taylor down to
Powell street The switch is intended to turn
the Mason and Washington street lines into
connection with Powell street; Il often block
AIDES this connection.
When one OF these derailments occurs there
Is grand rush Of employees to and from the
powerhOuse, fortunately near by, and men
with 1ack-screws and levers are called out to
lift the cars back upon the rails.
Changes have been constantly made IN this
switch ever since the line was opened, some
times with an apparent goOd result and at
others simply making bad worse. Few nights
have passed within the last two weeks when
repairs were not in progress at this point by
workmen who are put on" after the cars stop
running, and who make the wee sma hours of
the night hideOus 10 those who n ed sleep, by
the throwing down of crowbars and cold chisels,
moving and throwing aside of rails upon the
stone pavement of he street, with racket aud
noise and hanmering that would suggest to
those VINO did not know the sudden establish
ment of boiler factory.
few more such switches on the line wo Md
bankrupt the company and justify its condem.
nation as public nuisance. SUBSCRIBER.