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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-06
OFFICIAL VISIT TO LEAGUE ISLAND.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ALLEN AT THE PIIILA-
DELPHTA NAVY YARD.

DELPHTA NAVY YARD.
Philadelphia. Oct. 5.-The dispatch boat Dolphin.
with the Assistant Secretary Of the Navy Charles
H. Allen on board. arrived at the League Island
Navy Yard at noon to-day for the purpose OF PEE
hitting Assistant Secretary Allen 10 make his Gus
tomary annual inspection Of the naval station after
which the Dolphin sailed for New-York Mr.. Allen
inspected tho station at Newport News yesterday.
and witnessed the launch Of the battle-ship Illinois
The seventeen men-of-war lying In and about
League Island had been decorated in his honor.
and salute OF fifteen guns fred upon his
rival Assistant Secretary Allen held long con-
VeIsaton with Commandant Casey and the other
offcials. after which he made a tour Of the yard
and shops. 1t was his first visit to League Island,
and he expressed himself being much pleased
with what he had seen.
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HAvAyA NOW A SUBSISTENCE DEPoT.

"ashnston. Oct. 5--An order has been issued dls-
s.,''huing Tampa Fla. depot 70 wAich officers
s ."s Subsistence Department are a9signaole 10
M, '2r the purpose OF purchasing md shipping
b a. ence supplies AID designating Havana SuDa'
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nrr,,rr.p FORECAST FOR TODAY

For New-Esn glanf showers; clearing and cooler NJ
night; brisk northwesterly winds diminishing
Far F,asern New-York. showers In the early morning
followed by fair: brisk northwesterly winds Diminishing
For the District % Columbia Eastern Pennsylvana
New. Jersey Delaware. Maryland and virginia gen
srsIiv far cooler: light northwest 70 r0rth winds
For West Virginia Western Penn-ylvana, weston
Sew-york ard Ohio far cooler fresh. northery winds
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MRS. A. NJ. ELY SECOR.

Mrs. Anna NJ. Ely Secor wife Of James F. Secor.
died at Pelham Manor yesterday. She was eighty
years old. The funeral will be held al her home
tomorrow afternoon. at o'clock
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-06

,,,o,o- 5srbert started last night for Pittsburg.
VIA health IS 80 far improved that his physician
has permitted him TO go All his concert engage
rrenfs there with the 22d Regiment Band and the
p,ttsburg orchestra. His sickness began a rev
,aoEs 20 in Buffalo where he went Win Inc com,
Seny playing his operetta The Fortune iel,e1i a.
"a he VAS chiefly alarmed by finding hinse.t al
a,, UNI, no o,aily deaf His hearing has now nearly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-06

10 and 81 degrees the 07x being Of
degree higher than that Tuesday and 1914 degrees
higher than that Of the corresponding day Of last year
The weather to-day vii. be fair and cooler.
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Crowley Honorn. Nicoll Edward
rayerw.ather. John. sscor. Anna NJ
Feiowes Birney. Stitch Lillian H.
ASHBY-At the Methods; Episcopal Church HemA
Funeral en- Friday. m. 7th inst at 10 A. m
Board OF Managers invited.
BiNssE-on Sunday October 2 1905 a, his residencs.
H; s"s Dr. ,o s' sps. :, ss q &: A'H'
cAbrs.on the "a inst. at his residence. No as West
G oos ;. hd '' home on Thur
Inttrmcnt private
R2eYsEn oA her No ~; ,s
Funeral Friday October T. a, ? o'clock D. m
Interment In Calvary Cemetery.
Maria 'es S' Dsz.f IN ,s Se' sss
In'ermen' at wht-sboro. October T. a, $50 ?. m.
N Tnr.s October he s SSn az
Fpncra services a, So se Broadway. Paterson m
DEN dsnce No u shaw Birney Feioves. OF the
Funeral ,eryiccs Church on Thursday October
New-or.eans rapers please copy
HAvILAND-At Ro.evir. " j. October T. Richard T.
Funeral private.
KELL5R-A, her residence. the New-Amsteraam Hotel.
Funeral private
MoRSE-Suddeny. OF pneumonia, Charlotte Dunnng
woo1 Wife ~ Edward Lind Morse NJ the residence OF
Mr george II. Warren. No. 6l0 Pa.lsadeay Yonkers
. y. L. on "Wednesday October :! 1895.
Services at the famiy plot Greenwood Friday
toter q A, 1879 o'clock.
NI soil san Diego. Cal on. October 3 Eaw.ra
Nicoll' son 81 William Nico.l OF islip Long Island
In the 47th year Of hts aGe
oaE III: on, wsdns,day october a, her residence No
odell In the nth year Of her
Notice ~ funeral hereafter
sECOR-At Pelham Manor, y. Y. october &. 1905 Anna
d Ely. vile OF James ,. secor In the s0th year OF
her
Funeral services will he at her late residence on
Friday, october !, at o'clock 2. m Carriages will
De in waiting az the Pelham station. Now-York and
New-Haven Railroad on the arrival Of the Oa o. m.
train from Grand Central station
tnterrsnt at enience Of family
STiCli-october Lillian Pshst beloved wife Of Peter
Stitch. in be- Sls,
Relatives and friends invited attend funeral ser
vice AZ her late residence No 40 Hopknson-ave..
Thursday at p. m.
. A.-The kensieo Cemet~ry.-Priva,s station.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-06

Henry F. pixey is TO have burlesaue OF 'Cyran
40 pergerac" for which f. f. Rice VIII co'npos
the music Mr.. Rice will also manage 'he aia
VIC ,na oro.uc,lon is expected to take place in th
CITY about a month hence.
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THE YELLOW FEVER SITUATION.
OFFICIAL, REPORT FROM MISSISSIPPI TO SUR
GEoN-GENERAL wYMAN.

WASHINGTON Oct. 5-Surgeon-General Wyman' OF
the Marine Hospital Service to-day received an
Official paper covering the ycllow-feVer situation IN
Mississippi In Jackson there are SIX ne" cases
rorortod two ri Harrison, two at Taylors. three
y, vro,or,1lIe three at Madison and one Mt Tren-
ton The mortality among the patients Throughout
inc yellow fever districts is said 10 be lght ahu
cjtbourh tho fever rather the increase. there
is believed 10 be no danger of lis general spread
The Marine Hospital surgeons are SAID 70 pe EN-
Gent and successful in the treatment OF the uls-
ease and are rigidy enforcing the laws relating 10
..L1.r N line and lsOlatiOn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-06
CLAN-yA-GAEL DENOUNCES ENGLAND.

AT the annual festival OF the Clan-na-Gael the
First Irish Volunteers held last night at Suffers
Harlem River Park resolutions denouncing Ing,
land and protesting against any alliance with thA'
Power were adopted.
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NOTES OF THE STAGE.

The fftieth performance OF "A Nuni"' 80,
will be given at Days Theatre 'o-i'o''o" s
-, continuance OF the run Is still expected
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xARRrED.

At the residence Of the bride father No iSs Halsey-
st. Brooklyn. by the Rev. DR. josiah Strong assisted
by the Rev DR.. Lewis Ray Foote Helen walker.
daughter of Mr.. Charles Strong. 10 John Clinton
ketciam. OF Brooklyn.
PARKER-NYE-On Wednesday. October S. at ~. Luke's
Church. Brooklyn. by the Rev. Henry c. Swentse.
D. d., Miss Katharine Hay Nye TO Mr. George Parker.
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MONDAY Oct 10Th. and following days the LIBRARY
NJ the late RI. Rev. WILLIAM STEVENS PERRY
81 Inva
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DIED

Notices OF marriages and deaths must be in
dorsed with full name and address.
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r,,,,,. once Oct O. m.-Ths weather Yesterday
a''Uu'. s,a warm The temperature ranged between
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rR1Br-yb LOCAL ORDINATIONS

7, ,hs si,sr,m III. continuous white lnr SHOWS ~
:, nre,-urt as indicated by The Tribune sen
no,onneer The dotted line shows the tefnpeFa-
tur. as recorded at Perry's Pharmacy.
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A.-The kensico Crmet~ry.-Privats station
Harlem Railroad ~ minutes ride from the Grand Central
Depo,. Office 10 Err; &2ds.
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The York to-day devotes six PAGES 10
the funeral OF the Rev DR. John Hall containing author
addresses. IRE portrait OF Or. Hal.
an excellent cut Fifth Avenue Church and care
fully prepared OF than 200 prominent peope AT
he pages also given N the American
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POstOmcc Notice

Worlds Fair Award ,5i Lexins'on-ave 18th
Postonfcc Notice
,sayud DAILY ny oil Interested as changes may
a tmc)
Foreign male for the week cnainr October iSes vii
io;iows Parces Ps, Mails hour earlier than
'''-''| w TRANSATLANTIC MAILS
THrRsDAYc NJ for Egrope Der IA =. , ASSn's'
via m oT Fancs ana Italy,
spain Pras9 T s T sy, . sns ~, r .s Ins parts
Europe be directed rer La .. al oo
c,rs f f5r T FrnnSe svserand ay spain Poas
y Esy, ard prsh Ina3 mus s be %,s directed per
WfTFsndam via Rotterdam Get'crs be directed
T S %sEen Ts,pers a. Us, he directed pr Fada)
70 deter, 70, sG %as b ' Greeted per EhopS
Ssn.G G'S ssvs sG 81
cnsned on the piers the American. English. French
German 80 nD 81 an. sn .' of . aeSn sn WITHIN
NAILS FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA WEST
INDIES. ETC
. u f1 L. F Fss GSanTs' d ni1ss.
s 9 Eastern Prince, at p m 'suppIenentary i,U
or A ssT T'!9s's At 2 p 's
and Guatemala must Dc directed per
r2ss.; d" a., M Complementary 80 p nj for
Sh;;1f 70 E. ara e. s,:s q, De
CUBA Ms,anras via Tampico Gesrs must be directed
s:psr Ms,anzos'1
sIberian from PHILADELPHIA $50 lsupple-
mentary 10 for Barbados and pemorara, per S.
,,ti.c az 10 a. supplementary l030 a. ND tor
Fortune Island iamec1 ss'snlln and car,haeens per
$ Alene det,ers FOR Gotta ki.s nu-' be directed Per
AH,,s and santa Martha per nols,ein' 1890
y9,nq va s be directed s a1SI a. 1875
a m for cuba per = orisaba via Havana de,,.rs
!! d cSsSa. pc: T.S".,o and ue. S per tor
Kar,hago det,ers for other parts Of Mexico mus. b
directed per ksr'haeoC a. II a m for Porto Rico
VIA Curacao per >. Phladepha. At !? m, Tor New
foandand. per s. > Portia at !: m. ,or Porto Rico
direct ' fer Central america ,1c9pi COSTA Rcs and
South facnc pSr sr b, sraces pr wa ASysnes
Norm sydney.
Mails for Newroundsna. by ran 70 Hanfa1. and thence
Mails for Mlauson. b, raD 70 Boston ara theme "
steamer clos" a. nj. o me- o sI, az go Pm for ,o
'1ps M, Ns, and ,, T GSs,,ns
unless specially addr-rse- tor dispatch by steamer.
close nj. o'S ssy a, O. m nr sSs "a
TRANsPAcIFIc MAILS
Nal. ns s,n 'f TgRsne. sod her. DAN. us
go M Mails ., 70. M, a.w att, Pc,
%. oc, SS.a II =, ssS s @
p pfier september 20 ana Up October ts $50
nina ara Sap,n Per ,.s., Ti f; ,S% Tn
Mas for the aocieiy Islands ship city q p.ps.ii
aD ss. of Ss. Ss ss 0s sS ss
Wee, Aas,r.ls which are fOs.aJi.e VIA Esrops New
z Marposa 1o% san daily Up to
october ~ at a. r m na' s,s t, m 20, ,. on
rran.Dacae man. arc FORWARDED to port .. sailing daily
s sna of ner uninterrupted overland TRANSIT tkes
''eed ma. el Scssrs m v Ssy cor a.'
Pvs.oaes. Nsv-York. n. r. sepsensss % ~
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isA f read DAILY oil Interested ae changes MAJ
az tmcD
FOREIGN MALE Tor ending October lss. VII
lose promptly in all the General Postorcc al
follows Parcels Pest Mails close hour earlier thah
closing time shown below.
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TRANSATLANTIC MAILS

,,,o- IN. closing or the Supplementary Transatlantic
Mails named above. additional supplementary mails are
nnsred on tho piers OF American English. French
IA carman steamers and f,main open until within Ten
Minutes OF the hour sailing OF steamer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-06
AMERICAN INTERESTS IN CHINA.

From The Brooklyn Times ..,o. us
cH,ora, Roosevelt, has seen all the issues, re ne
= oorossred Them with ease. ana ne e'lueh"' ia
.rnds TO make vigorous chHP"ie'
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-20
BEWARE THE THIN BANANA.
1t Was Picked Too Soon and Will Always
Prove Puckery and Sour.

1t Was Picked Too Soon and Will Always
Prove Puckery and Sour.
When you are buying bananas, never
purchase the long thin ones unless you
want fruit which will pucker your
mouth. No matter how well ripened
these thin bananas may appear to be
they will always be found both sour and
acrid. This is because the bunch which
contained them was picked too soon.
The banana grows fastest at first in
length. When it has reached it's full
development in that direction, it sud-
denly begins to swell and in few days
will double in girth 1t is at the end of
this time that it begins to ripen natu-
rally, and the effort of the banana i'm
porter Is to have the fruit gathered at
the last possible moment, and yet before
the ripening has progressed even enough
to tinge the bright green of the fruit
with yellow A difference of "a hours
on the trees at this time will mako
difference in the weight of the fruit of
perhaps 25 er-cent, and all the differ
ence in it's final flavor, between puck
cry sour and the sweetness and smooth
ness which are characteristic of the ripe
fruit. To get the bananas to our market
in good condition requires fast steamers,
which must be provided with ventila.
ton and other means of keeping the
fruit from ripening too fast in the hold.
Much of the finest fruit does ripen in
the few days of passage and this is sold
to hucksters for street sale.-New York
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-20
Falling In Love.

ut is not everybody who can fall
desperately in love-" Andrew Lang de-
clares MANY a young woman knows
that she, for one, is not born heroine.
We cannot all have genius for passion.
Indeed that genius is first, rather un
usual, and, secondly, is apt not to be
confined to single object Girls ought
not to be educated in belief in the
coup dc foudre. Most of them will find
some good fellow who is much attached
to them, as they will be to him. They
will marry, if they have luck and mover
think of losing their heart, in the style
of Dido or Medea. This has always been
the prose fact Of matrimony, and thus
'Hymen peoples every town. If young
women wait for the coup de foudre and
the handsome knight who comes riding
through the forest, thev will Golf st.
Katherine or lead apes in hell. Novels
prove the inadequacy Of the ideal. Tho
heroine always loves the unsatisfactory
poet, is jiltod, meets the solid squire CT
business man and finds that what sho
had taken for love was, etc.-we all
know the forlnula-and lives happy
ever after.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-20
FOOD WASTED IN COOKING.
Life Sustaining Value of Meat and vece-
t"bles Lost Through Ignorance.

Aie 6usualnlng NaIue or Meat and Vege-
t'bles Lost Through Ignorance.
A series of Investigations by experts
connected with the United States de-
partmtnt of agriculture go to show that
there is an immense amount of popular
ignorance in the matter of cooking;
that, while the greater part of the food
OF man is prepared for use by cooking,
yet the changes which various foods un-
dergo during the process and the losses
which are brought about have been but
little studied. Few persons know, for
instance, that in 100 pounds of uncooked
cabbage there are but ~ pounds of dry
matter, and of this dry matter from 2 u
to 3 pounds are lost in the cooking pot.
Experiments with potatoes showed that
in order to obtain the highest food value
potatoes should not be peeled before
| cooking; that when potatoes are peeled
before cooking the least loss is sustained
by putting them directly into hot water
and boiling as rapidly as possible.
Even then the loss Is very considerable.
If potatoes are peeled and soaked in
cold water before boiling, the loss Of
nutrients is very great, being one-fourth
of all the albumenoid matter. In a
bushel of potatoes the loss would be
equivalent to pound of sirloin steak.
Carrots contain less nitrogen, but rela-
lively more albumenoid nitrogen than
potatoes, and therefore furnish more
matter available for building muscular
tissues. In order to preserve the greatest
amount of nutrients in the cooking Of
carrots the pieces should be large rather
than small. The boiling should be rapid,
SO that the food value of the vegetable
shall not be impaired, as little water as
possible should be used, and if the mat.
ter extracted is made available as food
along with the carrots loss Of 20 to
80 per cent or even more of the total
food value may be prevented. In the
cooking of cabbage the kind Of water
used has more effect on the loss of nutri-
ents'than the temperature Of the water
at which the cooking is started. In any
case the loss is large. The losses which
occur in the cooking Of potatoes, carrots
and cabbages vary with the different
methods of boiling followed. -Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-20
Ran and Caught the Car.

A short man with a fat, red face ran
out of the Erie railroad depot at the
foot of West Twenty third street the
other forenoon and chased a crosstoWn
car which was midway between Llev-
enth avenue and the ferry. He was a
fast runner and held his hat in his left
hand as he gained on the car. The pas
sengers OH the rear platform, in Il spirit
of mirth, encouraged him:
Don't give up. You'll make it.
Make squirt. cid boy. This is your
last chance to get car before two mill
utes," one of them said.
At Eleventh avenue lie caught up,
and, pcrspiring profusely, sprang upon
the rear platform. He appeared happy,
and when he handed his faro to the con-
ductcr he said: "Theso Blcecier street
cars that run down Ninth avenue do
not 60 often, SO ran to catch this one. "
The conductor rang up the fare, and in
q matter of fact way answered.:
This car goes to Thirty fourth street
ferry. Get ont and wait for u Bleeckel
street car.
The sprinter got of as son1o of the
passengers cried out:
"Yuu can run anyway 1t Is better
TO run and lose Il car than never TO per.
spire ut all. New York Commercial.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-20
A Story About Commodore Casey.

No one has higher opinion Of tho
the commandment at the League Island
navy yard, as the following story will
show. Recently there was produced at
one of the local theatcrs a naval play,
the theme being trouble between Amer
lea and England, in which one of the
performers took tho part of bluff
American sailor. In order to make him
self perfect in his part tho actor visited
the navy yard and asked the commo-
dore for the privilege Of looking around.
The commodore not only granted the
request, but in Il personal talk gave tho
actor some pointers. Later the actor
submitted the manuscript of his part to
the commodore, who suggested that
some of the lines which were directed
against England be stricken out. Ono
limo was evidently missed by the COM
modore. 1t was as follows "We haven t
got much manners, but VIC can fight
like HI"
After the play had been produced the
actor had photographs taken in Costume,
and to show his appreciation Of what
tho commodore had done for him he
sent one Of the pictures to that official.
On the back of the photograph the actor
wrote the line quoted above and APP
pended his autograph. BY the next
mail the performer received letter
from the commodore, in which he was
given to understand that that official of
the navy knew the American sailor to
be gentleman at all times. "But APP
prove the last part of the sentence, p"
concluded the commodore. -Philadel-
| phia Record,
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-20
THE WORLDS POPULATION
I" Gould All Find Standing Room on One
Of England's Shires,


England today contains 80, 600 Ooo
people, but 1t has trebled it's population
IN the course of century, inasmuch as
the population was 10000, 600 on the
accession OF the Hanoverian dynasty.
AT the time Of the great revolution in
1858 England contained $500, 600.
while London, now $500, 900, contain
ed only 500 900 inhabitants.
1t further appears that the entire
population Of the country was under
1'ooo, 600 when the "Domesday Book
was compiled shortly after the Norman
conquest. Other nations are more or
less anlenable to the Same principle of
increase, and modern ideas of the vast
populations Of antiquity are far from
being correct. In spite of the grossly
exaggerated statistics of Josephus, the
site OF Jerusalem and tho course of its
ancient walls, which can easily be
traced, prove that the Holy City could
never have accommodated more than
100, 600 people, while the outer walls of
Rome, still standing, indicate that the
ancient population of the Eternal City
could not, even in its palmy days, have
exceeded 1000, 600 people.
Westward the star of civilization
lakes 1t course" is truth confirmed by
the history Of the ancient world and set
forth IN the rise and fall of the success
sive empires Of China, India, Assyria,
BabyloniA Egypt Greece and Rome.
The westward trend of the Aryan ia
miles OF Celts, Teutons and Slavs in
prehistoric times points to an eastern
origin Of the primitive nations that gath.
cred strength as they marched toward
the lands Of the setting sun, and it now
appears highly probable that the bulk
OF the worlds population had congre-
gated around the blue waters of the
Mediterranean when Greece and Rome
were IN the meridian of their power.
The numerical strength Of these nations
was not great, and modern ideas of the
vast population of the ancient world are
more fanciful than real.
From the foregoing considerations it
would appear that the regular home
troops of the British army, numbering
about l00,000 men, could find standing
room on four acres Of ground, space
equal to that of Trafalgar square, Lon
don, while the entire force of volun-
teers in this country, numbering about
$4,000 could be accommodated in
Lords cricket ground.
The $500, 600 people in London could
easily stand in Regents park, while tho
40,000,000 of the United Kingdom
could be packed together in space
within range of a cannon that can fire
the distance Of mile.
The present population of the world
could stand in Middlosex, while all
who have ever lived since the Chris
tian era could stand in Yorkshire, and
all the inhabitants of the world, reck-
oning from the timo Of Adam to the
present day, corld, as far as area is con-
cerned, have found ample standing room
in England. -London Tit-Bits.