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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-02
GAY SCENES AT LAKEWOOD.
RECEPTIONS AND BALLS AT THE COUNTRY C1.I-n
AND THE HOTELS

RECEPTIONS AND BALLS AT THE COUNTRY CLUE
AND THE HOTELS.
LAKEWOOD Jan. (SpeciaD.-The season OF gayety
AT the Laurel House eliminated in the New Years
pai' Which took place tonight The ball was a
brilliant affair. by reason OF the many Young neo-
PIE VINO arc guests OF this house and the Iaurel-in-
the-fines Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs
l.. Bayard Smith. Mr. W. l. Bull W. L. Bull. tr
Mrs. Gustav Schwab. Mr.. and Mrs Francis L.
irdoie' Mr. and Mrs. James Mclean the Misses
Mclean MI and Mrs. Francis C. Lloyd John ID
Rockefeller 1r.. Mr. and Mrs d Clinton R,oir
John l. Blair. Mr.. and Mrs f. c. Gregory the
Misses Gregory. Mr.. and Mrs. Orlando NJ Harper
inc Misses Harper. ". p. OConnor, Miss O'Connor
Mrs William G. Wood Mr. and Mrs W F. Tooker
fehry Daley. Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. c. Isurrow Green
Mrs Warren Pond Mr.. and Mrs F. f. Ballard the
Misses Ballard, Mrs. F. G. Barnes Miss Barnes
Mr.. and Mrs Albert H. Gallatin Miss Gnllatin A
r. Gallatin. Mrs Alfred W. Bates the Misses Bates
ana Mr.. and Mrs William Ropes. o, New-York:
Mr. and Mrs p Sanford Ross OF Newark: Mr.
and Mrs j. S. Suydam and Mrs. Remsen Bennett
OF Brooklyn: Mrs. William McMasters and Mrs
Blackstock OF Newport
At the Country Club this afternoon Mrs Ceorpo
J. Gould gave reception from until O'clock
The scene was a brilliant one with the holiday
decorations forming background for the beautiful
gown worn by Mrs. Gould and the gowns of Mrs
Kingdom and Mrs. Dwight NJ Harris who assisted
reception hours. and there was large assemblage
OF cottagers and friends from the hotel Tonight
the clubhouse was again a brilliant scene when
MI and Mrs. Robert Blge Kerr and Mr. and Mrs
James converse gave dance. The clubhouse was
decorated with festoons of evergreen. Glisteniny
with electric lights running from the high ceiling
TO the balcony pillars and fastened with red rib
bons TO the balcony ratings. Among those present
from out Of town were Mr. and Mrs Joseph
Cultivate the Misses Andrews and S. T. Beck
with o. Cieyeiand Mr.. AMI Mrs. J. G. Moore. Mr.
md Mrs. William Thorne. Theodore f. Vail Mr.
Bratton Dunbar Wright. Frederick Wells Mr. and
Mrs Thomas y. Kerr and Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Hamilton Kerr OF New-Ycrk
The New Years ball at the Palmer House took
place this evening Palms and holiday green were
arranged in the music room and IN the dining
room. where supper WIS served after the dancing
Among the guests were DR.. and Mrs. S. r. McIvoy
Miss Wyckof. Mr.. and Mrs. T. n. Graf the Misses
Davidson Mrs. Becker. Miss Becker, O. G. Pinck-
ney. Miss Louise Richards. Mrs. W. J. Underwood
Mr.. and Mrs n. J.. Williamson. Mrs Sidney Smith.
Henry L. Kelly. Miss Helen I.evien Miss Maoney.
Of New YCrk; Mrs. J. Y. Breesn nd family OF
Trenton: the Misses Frank. Mrs Nesbet Miss
Nesbet. +. f. Low and Miss Rossitcr OF Brooklyn
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NEW-ROCHELLE.

The Christmas music given in ST. Johns Metho-
dist Episcopal Church last Sunday will be repeated
to- morrow.
The members Of the Huguenot Wheelmen nave
dec,d.d TO hold their annual ball on Thursday jan
nary 2s in the gymnasium A dinner will be served.
Tho committee I'm charge Is composed OF j. lie
Count F. NJ Carpenter. Girard Smith and c. 7.
Kuchler.
A large number Of young people ushered in the
New Year al masquerade ball given by the Misses
C;rupe at their home at No A Trinity Place. Re
freshments were served at midnight.
The next lecture in the course which IL being
eiven I'm the Trinity Parish House by Professor
william Freeand. head master OF the Harvard
school will be on next Monday night. The subject
will be Rome"
Sinclair camp. Sons of Veterans, Is preparing for
a CELEBRATION at its headquarters tn Main-st to-
night The occasion will be the public installation
az Officers A large number OF guests from neign-
boring places are expected 10 be present
viii give a concert In Trinity Parish House on next
rriday evening. \ number OF soloists from New.
York city have been engaged to appear ana VIII
he sIlpported by n chorus OF ninety voices.
The members of the Iselin family held general
reunion al the Quaker Ridge farm OF William r.
Iseln In Scarsdale yesterday: The members ana
morning and were driven to the New Rochelle
Water Works where an inspection OF the plant was
n ade The water works are the property OF Adrian
IseIn. and are among the finest In the state FOL
Ing from the Quaker Ridge Farm William f. lseiin
was master OF the hounds. The party was com
posed OF Mr.. and Mrs. G. Oliver Iseln, MT and Mrs.
William f. fseln, Adrian lsein, IT.. Mr.. and Mrs
De Lancey A. Kane. DE I.ancey lselin Kane. Column
bus ODonnell Tsclin. Gouverneur Phelps. Arthur
Iselin. Earnst Isein. Alexander keogh Mlss En-
ner at Quaker Ridge Farm.
The Board OF Education mas finally arrived Al the
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the association. he said: There is little doubt that
South America Is soon going TO be great field for
American manufacturers. We ought 10 control the
markets there absolutely. and We probably will be-
fore another twenty-five years goes by. believe
the Mckinley Administration TO man will help
American manufacturers 10 get firm hold on the
South American markets. The project involves the
special training and careful selection OF young ac-
tive hard working and competent Americans for
consular work down there We shall want young
who will stick 10 their posts OF duty and watch
every move OF foreign exporters to their particular
ports They will need 10 have business ability
enough to keep home manufacturers Informed or
the standing Of would be purchasers OF American
goods. |, involves great expansion OF our mer-
chant marine. possibly the substituting OF mail
American steamers and vigorous policy on the
the interest Of American manufacturers In their
efforts to achieve commercial supremacy In South
America The project Is entirely feasible. Ameri-
can skill and pluck will give US the victory II they
are only rightly applied ! apprehend that before
another year rolls round the National Manufacture
ers' Association will have made distinc, impress
sion, and that shall have gained ;ho,d In
many South American ports where no" only the
English or the German flag la seem
a manufacturer familiar with the attitude o. the
Cleveland Administration toward the aims OF the
association said: president Cleveland has not
given the manufacturers any announcement IN the
project In hand Secretary Gresham, while living,
even discourage the idea. But in Secretary Olney
we have had a friend. He has assisted us on every
occa sion when he could. and, result our work
is well in hand for pushing with vigor as soon as
President Mckinley Is inaugurated."
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TUCKAHOE AND BRONXVILLE.

Ox-sleds have superseded sleighs for sle!ghine
parties In s;carsdale in the last week. On invita-
ton OF W. H. seely ox-sled parties have driven tc
Iartsdale. Greenvill, and Tuckahoe.
Next week will be observed as a week OF prayer
Tuckahoe.
Marble Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons. at
tended special services in the Tuckahoe Methodist
Episcopal Church. where the Rev. Or. Bates on
St. Johns Day delivered a sermon on the life,
character and work of ST. John
The project OF organizing an Episcopal church In
Bronxvllle is revived.
The Rev. j. Hendrick de Vries. for four years
pastor of the Bronxvie Reformed Church. will ac-
cept a call to the Second Presbyterian Church in
Princeton. y. J.
BY invitation Of residents Of Lawrence Park. at
BronXvie. Mrs Margaret Custer Calhoun (whose
husband of the victims of the Custer mas
sacre) gives a reading In the Casino Monday
evening. January II.
DR.. o. q. Hall has purchased. for about s2 0oo.
the ola Hodgman homestead and ten acres OF land
near the Tuckahoe railroad station. and will i'm
prove the property. The homestead will be altered
into a hotel
Miss {. Murtha. stepdaughter of DR.. J. W. Smith
OF Tuckahoe. has been elected vce-president Of the
Junior class Of the University Law School.
The Winter Night School in the Waverly Hill
Public School house Will open next Tuesday
A Royal Arcanum council. with twenty-seven
members. has been organized in Tuckahoe. and is
named Lakeview. The officers J. w Warren
regent; L. a. Myers. past regent: J. A. Riley. vice
regent: G. w. butcher. orator. and F. Eibel. secre-
tary.
Court Tuckahoe +. o. A.. has elected Frank
Eibel chief and II. McKenna sub-chlef ranger. John
Kane treasurer, and John Law and william Creary
secretaries This court has los members. and with
in nine months has paid four death benefits
years a town official of East Chester, went out OF
off, January !.
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study Of the consular service To Trbun re-
porter he said last night
There Is no doubt that We need complets~e
vision in our system Of selecting consuls. In Co.
many men are trained for the consular service i
extensively and painstakingly as they are trainel
for the military service. For instance the Ger
man Consul In New-York Is 10 all ntents and pur-
poses a NewYorker. so completely docs he know
our language customs, and the territory in which
he guards German interests. The result OF this
training Is that the Germans are walking away
with the trade OF the world. Even the English
Government il negligent compared with the
German. For our consular service men should he
examined as 20 their qualifications for the special
consulship which they are 10 M. do not neccs-
sariIy refer TO competitive Civil Service examina-
tion. but mean an examination which will show
mat they have sufficient knowledge OF language
history and customs OF the people among whom
they are going TO be able 10 further American in
terests. ~ "a
But there arc other reasons 10 account for the
rapid growth OF the German foreign trade The
Sernan Government subsidies its steamers en-
taged In international traffic by giving them con-
tracts for carrying the mails IN excess OF the act
uai vAlre OF the mail-carrying service performed
Ihat Government; also establishes financial aeen-
ciss In foreign ports In order to assist its rner-
chants IN getting money promptly and without
losses OF exchange II 10 doubtful II this country
could establish exchanges Of this kind. and Il is
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1T NAY BE A FATAL DOSE.
A ROCHESTER, MAN TAKES sTRYCHNINE IN
NEWARK HOTEL.

A ROCHESTER, MAN TAKES sTRYCHNINE IN A
NEWARK HOTEL.
chambermaid at the Continental Hotel. in New
ark upon going to Room No. l0i yesterday morn
Ing had her suspicion aroused by sounds within.
and calling a porter the door opened and q
man was found lying the bed unconscious DR.
Hawk. who has office near called. Per-
ceving that the man had taken poison the phys
clan administered antidote and sent him to the
hospital, where the poison pronounced TO be
strychnine.
The y. G. Seaman. OF LEROY near
Rochester. y. Y. He has Office at No. 252 Yves,
Twenty eighth-st.. NewYork. He is connected
with Ringing Brothers Circus and the Woodward
a. Heaey Paten, Medicine Company On Deem
Der 9. Mr. Healey registered at the Continental
Hotel and took Room No l0i, saying that a Mr.
Seaman would soon join him. Seaman arrived Il
few days later. and last Thursday he went TO
Rochester to visit his relatives on Thursday
Scanlan to the desk In the hotel and tried to
get draft cashed, but told that the accounts
were made up and IL could not be done He left the
Motel and returned at a. m. yesterday under the
influence or liquor. and went to his a led
note. addressed to woman in Rochester
found in the room. a strange man appea red al the
hotel soon after Seaman taken 10 the hospital
and secured the letter before the police were in
formed about IL. The doctors the hospital said
last night that Seaman would die.
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night. has been postponed until next Friday night
give Moet to s
relation 10 the business developments Of the city
! Mems Christian Association has engaged the Eng.
Iish Hand Bell Ringers Concert Company and MISS
given In Association Hall on Monday night. jan
Among those whom General Horace Porter has
selected as aids at the 'niusural parade In Wash;
Say MpT Is ars and John 10 be
Of this city who we're on his stsn at IN, the time OF
Geepse ye
old. died at his home No. 2sS prosyec; ave Ches.
der @ 81 0T pan % wso
in the Revolutionary War. lie was formerly
e esr So On * If s He
widow and one daughter. Mrs James Matthews
o'clock.
The committee which Was recently appointed BY
the Democratic City Club to select new site Tor
the clubhouse has made its report The committee
names three sites, one In South Third one IN south
will decide which one they will take at their next
The committee In char ;e Of the. Flr.mens Rowl:
Ing Tournament have decided 10 have the opening
ga, S on es ss a
large silver challenge cup Will be awarded 70
Police commissioners Mcc, rten and Wilson hay,
been appointed by the Bolrd OF Police commission.
Common Council To make suggestions regardtng
amendments to the police act II T. und .h
amended that the appropriation VIII oe IN
creased to $4,000 n year. This would enable the
Commissioners to increase the force TO twenty or
twenty-fva patrolmen. end additional sergennts
and roundsmen and iblish the roll-call system
The present force OF twelve men has over sixty
miles OF streets to patrol
The most ausplci)us affair Of the new year was
the reopening the Mount Vernon Hospital yester-
day. and the public reception giver by the women
The visitors book shows that over five hundred
people visited the hospital. and responded In some
manner to The appeal for aid made by Colonel
Henry HISS b. W Tilden and :harles II. Wilson
the officers OF the board Of managers. The main
contributions were the $500 recently given by the
Common Council the Of horses for the ambu
lance for the wear by Burr Davis. and about 500
in cash Archibald r. Banning formally turned the
ambulance over the managers. and the local nor
lists gave the large supplies of flowers. evergreans
and holly with which the rooms were decorated
The following women composed the committees who
received the visitors: Women manageable John
Maher Mrs Charles Williamson. Mrs. William
Wilson Mrs. Sloat. Mrs. NJ &. Keog and Mrs
Henry Huss wives OF the physicians connected with
the hospta-Mrs Currier Mrs Campbell Mrs
Goodwin, Mrs. Howe. Mrs. Greene Mrs. Knapp
Mrs Janenski Mrs. Berthe. Mrs. Brush Mrs
Banning and Mrs Carlisle. The two committees
were assisted by Miss Wilson Miss Campbell, Miss
flnss. Miss Goodwin. Miss Maher. Miss 0nenstein
Miss Myers Miss Aller. Miss Lantz Miss Tlton and
others. William P. Banning and NJ 7 Mann fur
nlshcd the piano music. The board OF managers
is greatly pleased with the outcome OF the open
ing and think that there Will be no further DIM
Guilty in maintaining the hospital.
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GOLF AT LAKEWOOD.

TIFFANY RICHARDSON. ARTHUR CLAF1LN AND
JASPER LYNCH TURN IN THEIR CARDS.
Lakewood. Jan. (SpeciaD.-IIalf dozen golfers
visited the links OF the Ocean County Hunt and
Country Club to-day. and played over the course
twice In the first match for the silver loving-cup
eiyen by James Converse TO the golfer winning II
the greatest number OF times between December
Is and March Is In open handicap tournament.
Jasper Lynch. Arthur Caiin and Tiffany Richard
son turned In their cards although James Con-
verse. K. Robbins Walker and others made the
double circuit Lynch who was penalized at
scratch. went around In l0l. which score would
have been considerably less but FOR an unlpchy
counter with the line OF trees that has to be
cleared In playing for the seventh hole.
Richardson, the young golfer who made such an
excellent showing In the recent tournament here
found playing on the entirely different from
what ne has been accustomed to. and could only
with Ills handicap OF II. get net score OF lO2
Cia6in completed the eighteen holes In l06. and.
as III allowed strokes his net total OF IS
was tn. lowest, and earned for him the trophy
for weeF.
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decision to remedy the inadequate school accommo:
dations by erecting buildings at the earliest
possible date special election has been called for
Peorusry and will be held in the Town Hal from
mating two sites for public school buildings and for
the purpose Of voting on the question OF an appro.
priation for building purposes each OF the sites
designated Four sites will be submitted from
which two are to be selected. One site 70 be sub
mitted H. In Huguenot-st and one In Hudson-s
One of these is to be for primary schoohouse.
south or the railway tracks. Another site 70 pc
submitted Is In Winyah-ave and another In Fifth
ave- on the road leading from NOrth-st. to Peters
vile, and one OF these Is to be designated as site
for new grammar and primary school north Of the
railroad tracks The first site Is valued at Nl.5oo:
and II designated. $4,000. or so much as Is found
necessary. will be expended upon a building. The
second site is valued at 5000 and the building at
Sow: the third site. 81 G56 and $4,000 for the build
ing; the fourth Site $500. and $4,000 for the build
Ing. The sums named are to be raised by a tax on
the property lying within School District No. In
the town OF New-Rochee, and collected In annual
instruments OF not more than 5000 a year.
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WOULD STOP THE TRAIN AT.A COW PATH
A FARMER WHO COULD NOT BREAK HIMSELF OF
OLD HABITS

Washington n. j.. Jan. (SpeciaD-As the
Easton express on the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Railroad approaching New VII
lage yesterday Thomas Keenan, the engineer, saw
standing between the tracks waving a
danger signal The engineer applied the brakes
and stopped the train quickly possible The
with the signal approached. He an old
farmer. who said he lived New Village. His
danger flag consisted OF large red handkerchief
tied on "A pole. The engineer ran out OF his cab
and asked what the trouble
BE this here the train for Washington?' the
farmer asked
YES" replied Conductor De Voc and Engineer
Keenan, In one breath
WAL | guess I'll g'long down with ye." said
the farmer and he jumped aboard tho train.
When the train had started again. the conducto.
approached the farmer. who was tucking his ban
danna into his pocket
What did you flag this train for?' asked the
conductor Don't you know it's a State prison
offence 10 do such thlng?"
why no. | didn't know IT was wrong. ] wanted
ter 20 down ter Washn ton, and ] couldn't git
III kecrs when they were goin. Why. that's the
way we alters used stop the keers over the
Rockaway Valley road. where used TO live
This earnest reply Of the innocent old fellow
caused a general laugh among the passengers, and
the conductor readily forgave him after warning
him never TO repeat the performance.
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TT NAY PROVE 4 MURDER.
A WOMAN SHOT BY A MAN SHE HAD
WORKED WITH.
THEY HAD BEEN PARTNERS IN A LAUNDRY IN
COMFY ISLAND AND orARRELLED

COMFY ISLAND AND orARRELLED
OVER AN ACCOUNTING.
A shooting case In Gravesend reported last
evening al police headquarters. as result OF which
Mamie Clark. forty-fve years Old OF Gravesend-ave
and Avenue r. II lying in critical condition In he
Norwegian Hospital and William Raymond. thirty
four years old. Is locked up in the Tw"nty-fourth
Precinct station. The Clark woman and Raymond
time conducted laundry at Coney lslani but
they had frequent quarrcls over the anage:ent Of
business and short time ago dissolved partner
ship. Yesterday Raymond called at Mrs. Clark's
place 10 demand the settlement OF old accounts and
made demands which she was not disposed to grant.
Her refusal anger:1 Raymond Who after several
minutes Of wrangling drew a revolver and shot the
woman in the neck.
Raymond escaped, but alarm was sent out by
the police and hunt begun in earnest.
Finally Raymond discovered by Patrolman
James Shea OF the Twenty-fourth Precinct. who
hurried him 10 the station house. An ambulance
call was sent 10 the Norwegian Hospital and the
Clark woman was taken there where II was said at
A late hour that the chances for her recovery
slight. Before she was taken 10 the hospital DR..
Burger. Of the Neck Road who summoned 10
attend her, refused. 1t is said. take the be-
cause ne considered that her condition too crit
cal.
Raymond lived in West Third-st.. Coney Island
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kEW.JERSEY NEWS.
EXPRESS BARNS SET ON FIRE.
OIL sPRINkLED OVER HAY IN THE STABLES OF
THE UNITED STATES EXPRESS COMPANY
IN JERSEY CITY


THE UNITED STATES EMPRESS COMPANY
IN JERSEY CITY
Fire was discovered at noon sterday In the hay
ioft or the United States Express Company's
s'ao'e az Communipaw. jersey City. The Fire
department was called. but the employees made
successful fight and extnguished the blaze be-
fore the hremen arrived.
a strong odor OF kerosene oil pervaded the loft
ana IL was noticed that the hay and woodwork
III the vicinity OF the blaze had been saturated
win the oil. The common opinion was that che
hre was OF incendiary origin. and after an invest
CATION Acting Detective Nugcnt arrested George
Quineban. thrty-nlne years old. OF No. 2so Com
munpaw-ave.. who employed az an extra
s'"o'emah. Ills arrest was based threats alleged
70 nave been uttered by the prisoner 1t IS charged
tnat Quneban said: az don't ret steady work
II put you all out OF Job"
nt sta ole is large frame building with stalls
Ior hity horses the fire had not been so prompt
~ Uncovered and quenched a serious CONFEDERATION
w Sv h nave doowsd as the building surrounded
r rond Company The structures south of the
T,sp' ana cut on from the lower section of tn,
cry: ana before the fire apparatus could have
arrived the fire would probably have spread TO the
railway company's property ~
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CRCGERS.

social Incl lent that interested society along
the Hudson was the house party to dance the old
year ard the new year in. at Boscobei the
home OF the Crugers from which the village takes
It's name. This time century ago the old man
sion the scene OF entertainments. at which
many OF the most prominent men OF the country at
tended, among them being Alexander Hamilton
Aaron Burr. De witt Clinton. Rufus King, John
stead was deliberately decorated with Christmas
greens mistletoe; holly. bunting and Japanese
lanterns Yesterday the guests celebrated New
Years Among the guests Mr.. and Mrs. Jo-
seph Taft Mr.; and Mrs. Herbert c Plass. M and
Miss Lavelle Richard A. STREET., Herbert e. PtAss
and @. II. Belts.
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MAMAROEECK.

The following officers have been elected by Alert
Lodge l. o. o. F.: a. Hrsch noble grand: H. r.
Doepel. vice-grand; H. J. Geiney. secretary; r. "
Oliver treasurer. II. +. Doepsl. Henry Winters ard
H. j. Gedney trustees The installation will be held
al the first meeting In January.
The women Of the Mamaroneck ". c. T. Z. will
give n dinner to-day In Temperance Hall, IN the
Boston Post Road. for me children OF the village.
Ample arrangements have been made TO acccmmo-
date all who come.
John W. McCabe. who was elected Justice OF tho
peace OF the town OF Mamaroneck. al TIE election
last spring assumed his duties yesterday Mr. Nc
Cabe Is a Democrat and succeeds iar A. Boyd
who had he'd the office continuously for sixteen
years.
AT a meeting OF the village trustees on Wednesday
ment we're adonted and IL was directed hat the a..
pa,rolmen should procure uniforms at once. The od
town hall will be used for a police STATEN until
a new can be built A commission for the i'm
provemen, Of the public docks was appointed, and
the Assessment Committee was authorized &c have
the village limits indicated by marble posts.