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PRODUCE ExoHAxGE BoYooTE.
IL Publicly Blnckiists ana ExcommunIcates .
Kansna City Packing Company.

1t Publicly Blacklists ana ExcommunIcntes .
Kanans City Packing Company.
Notice of the discipline, by boycott, of . nom
member was posted on the bulletin board Of
the New York Produce Exchange yesterday.
The non.member is the Jacob Dold Packing
Company Of Kansas City. L. Frank field. .
member of the Exchange, complained to the
Board Of Managers that he had bought from
the concern a carload Of spare ribs. which were
to be full sheet and new cure" He paid for
them. but the inspectors Of the Exchange de-
clared that they were not new cure" and were,
in fact, unmerchantable. The packing COM
pany refused to indemnify him. The Kansas
City concern was cited to appear before the
Board of Managers, but did not do 80. The de-
cison of the board in the case Is as follows:
"Resoired. That the charges in the complaint
Of L. Frankfeld against the Jacob Dold Packing
ion OF the board substantiated; and further
"Resotred, That the Jacob Dold Packing Com
pauy be prohibited representation on the floor
OF the Exchange during tho pleasure Of the
board; and further
Resolved, That any member of the Exchange
who shall with knowledge of such prohibition
represent or transact business for or In behalf
Of the said Jacob Dold Packing Company, af-
ter notice Of such prohibition shall have been
posted on tho balletin during hve days, shall
be deemed guilty of wilful violation Of the by
section 81"
The penalties provided In the section named
are suspension. and expulsion on a second Of
fence.
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WILLIAM J. sCANLAN.

place on Houston street, and later formed o
partnership with an actor named William
Cronin who was a remarkably successful female
impersonator. For several years they acted to-
Rethcr under the name OF Scanlan and Cronin.
Scanlan wrote the sketches In which they ap-
peared. and q great many songs as well.
He never had any knowledge of music.
but he invented melodies which had highly
wrote "Peek.a- BOO" from which he is said to
probably tho best known. After he separated
from Cronin Sconlan travelled for a season or
two with Minnie Palmer. and afterward took
place In one of BARLEY Campbelrs travelling
companies.
It was in Bartley Campbell's Friend and
Foe," first written in spectacular play, that
Scnnlan made his first hit as n star. Under the
management OF w. II. Powers he appeared in
that play and THE Irish Minstrel Seven
years before his illness he camo under the man.
ngement of Augustus Pitou. and 1t was with
his name that Scanlan's successes were chiefly
connected
Among those plays in which Scanlan APP
peared were .'Shane-Na-Lawn' and "Mavour-
neen." His first contract with Mr.. Pitou was
for five years, and another, to endure the same
length Of time, had been made, but Mr.. Scanlan
filled only two years OF it.
Then he became insane. He leaves widow,
who was Maggie Jordan. who aided William J.
Sharkey to escape from the Tombs Scanlan
left no relatives. The last surviving member of
his family was Sadie Seaman, who died several
years ago.
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SHIPPED Il VEHEMENT sToWAHAr.
Austrian skipper Brings Candeluci Hero In
HnbdcuHs-Accused or Arsop.

Austrian skipper Brings Candeiuci Hero In
HnndcuTs-Accused or Arsop.
Girolamo Candeluci, q Sicilian, with q full,
dark board, who says he is only 10 years old,
but looks at least 80, was brought handcuffed to
the Barge Office yesterday by officers of tho
Austrian steamship Tergestre. They said that
he was desperate person, and had tried to fro
the vessel and stir tho crew to mutiny. Ho
was stowaway on the Tergestre. He boarded
hcr at Messina and hid himself in the stoke
hole. He was discovered when the ship was o
day out, and was put to work passing coal.
The officers say that he became rebelious after
he had been at work a few days, and that he
was .punished. Girolamo declares that he was
treated cruelty, and that when he complained
he was tied to n mast. and fioEged.
The Tergestre touched at Boston before com.
ing to this port There Giroamo was taken
before immigration Commissioner Billings who
ordered the Captain Of the Tergestre to take
tho stowawaysback to Messina. Candeluci de-
clared that he would not go back; that he was
a healthy and honest man, and that he intend
ed to stay here and make living. He jumped
overheard. boat was lowered and he was
rescued. He was locked up in closet. He
kicked down the door. He was put In another
closet. and he also smashed the door of that.
Then he was handcuffed.
He says that he never attempted to fire tho
TerSestre. This accusation against him was
invented, he said. because when they locked
him up in n dark room he had lit a match to see
whereshe was. and what:kind of prison he was
in.
He has no money and'no relatives or friends
in the United States. and will be sent back.
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CAPT "B1bLY" SAMPSON.
Hew ne Rose rrous q Psor noy 20 the Gem.
maua OF Rattieshtp.

LYONS, N. VI Feb. 1e-Capt. William T.
Sampson, at present in command Of the battle
ship Iowa, and who has been assigned to pre-
side over the court Of inquiry which will in.
vestiRate the cause Of the Maine disaster, is
well known in Wayne county, having been born
and raised in the village Of Palmyra.
BILLY" Sampson, as he is still familiarly
called by many Of the older inhabitants Of this
county, has made his mark in the world. He
was born in the village Of Palmyra about fifty
six years ago. His father. the late George
Sampson, was a day laborer, working around
the village in tho summer and saving wood
from house to house during the winter. In the
carly sixties "Billy" trudgeds.along with his
father. splitting and piling UP wood. He was
q bright lad. Industrious, and very attentive
to business. He attended the common schools
in Palmyra at odd spells and attracted the at
tention of the late Squire William II. South.
wick, who predicted brilliant future for the
While attending school at Palmyra chance
to appoint Wayne county lad to the Naval
Academy at Annapolis arose. and through
fD wns iSdopsed Sy congressmS1 E. E b. MorSnn OF
Auburn. Sampson was diligent in his studies
class. His promotion in the navy has been
rapid, and to-day he is accounted one OF the
Ss officers in the ssys The p
waters when Admiral Sicard's illness was an.
nounced.
Capt. Sampson's first wife was q daughter Of
the late David 8. -Aldrich. ono Of the leading
many relatives still living in the vicinity of
Palmyra, and he visits his old home as often as
possible. He owns the famous Mormon Hill
larm, upon which s the hill where Joseph Smith
dug, as he alleged, tho golden plates from which
the Book of Mormon was printed by the late
present ownod in Rose in this county. George
Sampson works this Mormon Hill farm for his
brother. The old brick house on johnson street,
at the south end Of Prospect Hill, still stands,
and 1t was there that Capt. Sampson was born.
Wayne county people are naturally much In.
because the Investigation into its cause is to be
made by Billy" Sampson, upon whose reputa-
tion for fairness and justice any old settler
would be willing to stake his life.
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WARRINGTON sLEUTH LOCKED UP.
He Acted MysteriousIy In Mott Haven ana
Roused q Police MS suspicIOns.

He Acted Mysteriously In Mott Haven ana
Housed a Polcemnn's suspicions.
II Detective Samuel Price had an engagement
to meet Joseph J. Morgan Of tho Washington
Detective Bureau in Mott Haven yesterday
morning he was disappointed. The vigilance
Of Policeman Michael Hickey of the Alexander
avenue station was the cause Of 1t.
Hickey found Morgan hiding in doorway in
13sth street. near Third avenue, at A. NJ. and
concluded that the furtive way In which he
would dodge out Of the doorway. glance up and
down the street and dart back again was highly
deserving OF suspicion. When no asked Nor.
gan to explain, Morgan told him to mind his
knew by taking Morgan to the police station.
There Morgan was detained unt til Magistrate
Wentworth reached the Morrisania Police
Court.
In the meantime Morgan had established his
identity and explained things TO the satisfaction
of the police, and he was discharged by tho
Magistrate. He said he expected to meet De-
tective Price. All concerned refused to tell the
nature Of Morgan business in Mott Haven.
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Three Compiainants Against Carl L.. p. Han.
son. tho DeHertcr from the Maine.
Carl L. P. Hanson. alias BJorkman. the dc.
serter from the Maine. who was arrested on
Thursday on a charge OF stealing So, 500 worth
OF jewelry from the residence of /. Townsend
Burden. 5 East Twenty-sixth street. on Tues.
day last. was arraigned In the Jefferson Mar
ket Police Court yesterday on charges of grand
larceny.
Three complainants appeared. He was &C.
cused of stealing 1896 worth Of jewels from the
Burdens. jewels worth 1885 from A. H. Lamson
of Ill West Seventy second street, and Jewels
valued at 1910 from Leopold We'll of 100 West
Seventy. y.seventb street.
He pleaded guilty to all three charges and
Magistrate Douel held him in S2. 900 bail on
each complaint for the Grand Jury.
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TooL the stove. Elre ana All.

Tho Breezers. a social organization of Coney
Island. are to hold their annual dance tomor-
row evening at VaGderVoers Hotel In the
winter the hotel is not heated. but the Commit
tee on Arrangements, consisting OF Henry s.
Abbott. Louis Frederick, and Robert Burck-
hardt went around with a wagon borrowing
stoves. In the course of their wanderinRs they
beheld a large, fat. hot stove in the shop Of
Aaron Blakeman, who is the rabbi Of the local
synagogue. Aaron was not around, and the
took II. hot as IL was bundled II into the wagon.
and carried 1t to tho hotel. Now Aaron 10 plan
In fuel 70 keep 1t 90 hot that he won't bo able TO
move It.
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PIED At HIS SWEErHE.lRT,s HOME.
Nonller Wrote That He WonId XIII Himself,
Ms She Had Crnsrd TO Low, H!m.

Nouller Wrote That He woald XIII Himself.
as She Had Crasrd TO Lovc h!m.
Nicola Mouller, &c years old an Italian art.
~ and scene painter of 230 Chrystie street, fell
IN ioye 1.-TWO months ago with Carmolla Miraglia,
Who lives with her parents at 80 Chrystie street
ana works at 2O2 Elizabeth street as a cigar
WaAer M store kept by Mrs. Pepino Sala-
maheo. Carmel!a fell in Iovc with him, too,
Hu1 Aoalles got her fathers consent to their
marriage
everything ran smoothly up to few weeks
ASo When Mou.!cr got an idea that Mrs. Sala.
mahco waa opposing his marriage with the girl
eha was trying to get her TO marry another
man Aou!lcr went TO see his sweetheart ON
snaay night and chatted with her. her father,
Sna ner brother until nearly midnight, when he
'uaagaeny complained OF being ill.,
..,S 5enu Ior doctor. am feeling very m. " he
'Aia y frank Miraglia, the brother Of Carmelia.
somo u4Gtor ,3S was called In, and he prescribed
ina atier ps lon ,s Mo9er ,i They did him 40 good
snd iSpsed into unconsciousness. CarmeIia nail,
wbo ~ Ihto the street and called policeman
Hospital iIhG1ed ms an ann ambulance from Gouvcrneur
had MmII.r ~, =, Jones. the ambulance surgeon
Wss beinn ~ placed on stretcher. and the man
Wben0 0'bS ~. 'aSen 70 the ambulance when he died
were fnnn5 ',iu'n!hg was searched two letters
dressed nu tn IN 10 an inside pocket, One was ad-
follows: SofnoiiaS ana was as
Won Ss" Smoie 70 you that would kill myself when
you Sonst Snsed 70 love me. Now that 1 am sure
ouI NV y. S'e me any moro / shall carry
iis iaa ny NE. ! wish you prosperity and long
pray you to comfort my mother.
The otbo- ,o... NICOLA"
9S, Ihe brother of Carmella, WAS as foilovs,
vnrmIvp DEAREST FRANK: recommended To YOU
Ssr. Ess yoar .,It, ,sster, and beg Of you to mind
cor, cor mat haye,a mother. and l prav et sna ~
Cornnors.eef ref y she writes to you. Nicola"
lminSTrye lirefs phys'oan Weston who made pre-
lieyed SoulinltI oulitIihhason Yesterday. said he be-
ssssins ne tS. WIN make an autopsy. to-day to de.
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SCANLAN, THE ACTOR, DEAD
HAD BEEN IN BLooMINGDALE AsY-
LUM OYER SIX YEARS.

First Known aa Master Willie, the hoy
Singer" He Achieved Rnmo and Fortune In
Irish Drama-Broko Down AFTER ChriSt-
mas Performance in This City-His Career
William J. Seaman died early yesterday morn
ing In Bloomingdale Asylum at White Plains
where he had been since Jan. z, 1899. He broke
down after tho Christmas Day performance at
the Fourteenth Street Theatre. and was after
ward declared insane and sent TO Bloomingdale
Since that timo he had declined steadily
in mind and body. For the last three
years he had spent his time almost entirely in
bed. Occasionally he was able TO got up for q
few days. but that was exceptional. Mr.. Scan
Ian was born at Springfield. Mass, on Feb. ID,
1856. His parents were of Irish descent As q
boy he had accompanied temperance
lecturer on his travels. and was known
as willie, tho Boy Singer" When
about 10 years old he made his debut as q
song and dance performer at Harry Hills
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SeS, 900 FOR MRS. READ.
Damages for the Loss or Her Husband, Killed
by n Brooklyn Trolley Car.

by n Brooklyn Trolley Car.
The trial Of tho suit of Carrie K. Read against
the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company for tho
loss Of her husband. John J. Read. who was
killed In q trolley accident, has resulted in o
verdict for $25 900. the largest in a death case
ever recorded In the Second Judiciary Depart
ment, Tho trial lasted three days, and . scaled
verdict was handed in yesterday morning. On
the night of Aug. 90. 1895. o wagon in which Mr..
Read was driving was hit by trolley car of the
Bensonhurst line In Eighty.sixth street. and Mr..
Read was killed almost instantly. 1t appeared
from tho testimony submitted that the car was
going at such high rate of speed that 1t ran
800 feet after the collision before 1t could be
stopped. The team which Mr.. Read was driving
belonged to former Alderman Daniel O'Connell.
who died suddenly on the very night Of tho ac-
cident A few months later O'ConnelrB sister
and husband wero run over and killed at Coney
Island by train on the Culver Railroad.
James Klely a verdict for $500 in his suit
against the Nassau Company for personal In
juries. He WAS struck by a car while crossing
Bergen street. Justice Smith instructed the
jury that the rights of a street surface railroad
company are not superior to those Of pedes.
trians at street crossings. and that the com.
pany is required to operate Its cars so as TO
have them under control at thOse points.
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NEW ouURCH FOR NEGROES.
Father Burke 20 Move from Bieecker TO West
FIrty-third Street.

Vather Burke TO Move from Bieecker TO West
Firty-third street.
The Rev. John Z. Burke. rector of the Church
of st. Benedict the Moor. Bleecker and Down
ing streets. the only church for colored Catho-
lies In this city. purchased yesterday the church
on the south side of West Fifty-third street.
between Eighth and Ninth avenues. heretofore
occupied by the Second Church Of the EvanReli-
cal Association of North America. and will take
possession of 1t on May l. The church will be
do this a fair will be hold in Lyric Hall. com.
mencing on April ii; The new church win be,
ary work among the colored people, and not
parish church. The old church In Beecker
congregation which now worships at PA Sulli-
van street 1t will be known as the Church Of
the Madonna Of Pompeii II viii be distinctly 1.m y
spoken there.
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4 FORMER DISASTER TO OUR NAVE.
Tho First Steam Vessel Built for the Service
Exploded In New York Harbor.


Exploded In New York Hnrbor.
ROCHESTER,, Feb. 19.- Commander Frank
Hanford. who returned to his home in scotts
vile. Monroe county, last September after a
two years cruise on tho Pacific on the Alert,
corrects the report in some of the papers that
tho Maine was the first United States warship
In time of peace to be destroyed by IN explo-
sion. He said that on June 4, 1920. the Dema-
logos, or otherwise known as the Fulton tho
Second, was blown up In Now York harbor, and
twenty-four persons were killed and nineteen
were wounded. Among the dead were Lieut..
breckenridge and a woman. who had gone
aboard. The cause of the explosion was never
known. Some suspected that it was the
work OF q gunner's mate who had been fogged
that day for some breach of discipline. Others
believed that 1t WIS due 10 careIessness in leav-
ing kegs OF powder uncovered. There were two
and one-half barrels of powder on board. and it
was supposed that Il was this that exploded;
ever built. 1t was designed to be used in the
war OF 1912. but tho war was over before the
vessel was completed. 1t was in use as o re-
ceiving ship when destroyed.
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Post once Robbed.

BUFFALO, Feb. 19-Burglars got into the
Post Office in Gardenville. suburb of Buffalo.
last night. blew open the safe and got 800
in cash. checks, and stamps. The office was
wrecked by tho explosion. Tho robbers had
wrapped around tho safe a blanket that they
had previously soaked in water. The blanket
deAdened the noise OF the explosion. and no one
In the village heard 1t. The Postmaster. Charles
Schoepfin. lives across the road from the Post
during the night. Mr.. Schoepfiin telephones to
the Buffalo banks this morning and stopped
payment on the stolen checks. There is no clue
to the robbers.
The sun., 1898-02-20
BLIND STRIPED BASS.
They Arc by No Means Helpless. but Care 10
Taken That They Got Enough Food.

They Are BY No Means Helpless. but Care 10
Taken That They Get Enough Food.
Among the striped bass occupying ono of the
large pools at the Aquarium there are two
that are blind. But at feeding time they get
their share Of tho food that is thrown In with.
out difficulty. II one Of them should swim within
an inch or two of piece Of food in the water.
which in this case would probably be piece of
chopped clam, its nose would swerve. and it
would snap up the food in an instant. 1t detects
its presence by the sense Of SMELL
Fishes are very sensitive to shock. These
blind bass would feel at some little distance the
motion OF the water displaced by the fragment
Of food thrown in. Fishes can hear ana the
blind bass might hear tho fall of the food in the
water. They might, from either OF these
causes, turn toward the spot whonce the i'm
preston came, in search OF food. Finding IL
there, they continue to search for 1t there and
is taken that they shall not be disappointed.
The sun., 1898-02-20
1A7TIMER PRosEcUTIoN CLOSES.
The Testimony AEainst sheriH Martin and
Deputies Practically Ended.

Deputies Practically Ended.
WLKEsBARRE, Pa. Feb 19.-After consum-
ing nineteen days in presenting evidence in the
trial of Sheriff Martin and his deputies for the
Lattimer shooting, the commonwealth this
morning virtually closed its case. The case
would have been entirely closed but for the non.
appearance of two witnesses. Attachments
were issued for them. and they will be produced
In court on Monday morning. When their tes-
timony has been heard the case for the common
wealth will be completed, except for some testi
mony to be offered in rebuttal.
George 8. Ferris will open for the defence.
The defence has subpGnaed about 200 wit
nesses. and it ID expected that fully two weeks
will be taken up in hotring their testimony.
Tho end of tho trial is quito three weeks away.
and possibly four, for after the defence Is
through the prosecution will introduce some
forty witnesses in rebuttal
Only two witnesses were heard this morning.
and OF these Mrs. Mary Gallagher OF Harlcigh
testified to what she saw OF tho condition OF
wounded men at Lattimer after the shooting.
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THE RIVER AFTER THE HOSPITAL.
Attempt Mt Suicide by n woman with . New-
born Babe Just Out or Bellevue.

Attempt ut suicide by n woman With . New.
born Babe Just Out or Bellevue.
Mrs. Johanna Miller. "a years old. who was
transferred to Bellevue Hospital on Wednesday
from the Sloane Maternity Hospital with her
boy baby. was discharged from tho institution
al o'clock yesterday afternoon. She had her
infant bundled up In blanket and 1t was
thought by the hospital attendants that she was
going to her home at 332 East Forty first street.
She wandered in the rain down to tho Charity
Department pier ut the foot OF East Twenty
under pile of lumber to protect 1t from tire
rain. she walked to the end OF the pier and
sprang into the river The splash was heard by
hands on the pier. and they rushed to her aid
with boat hooks. The woman fought to prevent
her rescue, but she WAS finally dragged out OF
tho water unconscious. She was taken back 10
the hospital and her condition was found TO be
serious.
The sun., 1898-02-20
HOWARD GoULD's sTACHTLAUN
Bgiss CIemmons Chrstens the Niagara at the
Harlan q HoiIInEsworth Yard.

Bliss CIemmons Chriatsns the Niagara at the
Harlan a HoiiInEaworth Yard.
WILMINGToN. DEL. Feb. 19.-At 11:16 o'clock
this morning Miss Katharine Clemmons chris
toned Mr.. Howard Gould's steam yacht Niagara
as the vessel started to leave the why's in the
Harlan g. Hollingsworth yard. Capt. w. G.
shackford. who Is in charge of the construction
of the yacht, and Mr.. Andrew G.. Wilson. one Of
the officers of tho shipbuil ildng company. stood
beside her when she struck the blow.
with the first movement OF the hull down tho
ways, four flags wore raised on 1t, Union jack,
the Stars and Stripes. the Gould house flag. and
the New York Yacht Club nag: The tug Taurus.
when the hull dipped into the water. The launch
was highly successful. Fifteen hundred men
and women saw the launch.
After the launch Mr.. Gould expressed entire
satisfaction with tho event At noon Mr.. Gould
and his party took luncheon on their private
car.
The sun., 1898-02-20
Barretts Bondsmen Make Coed the Robbery

ORANGE. N. j., Feb. 19.-At meeting of the
bondsmen of Postmaster Timothy Barrett of
South Orange to-day tho shortage resulting
from the robbery of tho office last Sunday morn.
ing was mado good. A check was given to In.
cover the entire amount about 81 800. Charles
n. Leslie, who has been assistant Postmaster
ever since Mr.. Barretts appointment, resigned.
William Ball was named 70 succeed him.
The sun., 1898-02-20
Vineeu Men Saved By Ono Rope,

EAsroN. Pa. Feb. 19.-Fifteen mon employed
in Jackson's slate quarry at Pen Argyll had
wonderful escape from death this afternoon.
They were engaged in taking Off top stone.
began moving. The men spranR toward u half
inch safety rope and fortunately nil reached 1t.
The next second mass OF earth 100 feet long,
90 feet wide and 20 feet thick slid into the
quarry pit. 75 feet below. The men clunR to
the ropo until rescued.
The sun., 1898-02-20
UNCLE SAM HAS TOO MuoH GOLD.
Will Accept No More on Deposit AEainst
Transfers OF Curreucy.

Because Of tho superabundanoe OF gold in
the United States Treasury, the net amount
now aggregating Sl66.0Oo. 900, the Secretary Of
the Treasury has directed the Sub. Treasurer In
this city. Conrad N. Jordan, to refuse In the fu-
ture.to accept gold against the tolegraphc trans
fer OF currency or against actual currency ship
ments from Washington to out of.town points
on orders placed here. Greonbacks only will
be received hereafter against such actual ship
ments. and no teloErapho transfers at all will
be made.
The situation is directly opposed to that
which existed two years ago. when the Gov
crnment gold reserve was being constantly de-
pleted and the: Treasury offered special induce
monts for deposits of gold by allowing. pro.
vfded gold was deposited. Government contract
express rates on currency shipments instead Of
tho ordinary bankers express rates, which arc
twice to three times as much as the Govern
mcnt rates.
The sun., 1898-02-20
EaslGn BrscLlaridgs Buried.

LEXINGTON, KY, Feb l9.-At o o'clock this
morning. in the Second Presbyterian Church.
the funeral service over tho body OF Ensign
Joseph c. breckenridge, who was drowned off
Hayana took place. The services were con.
Quoted BY the Rev. Mr.. Rstclitte Of Washinglon
and DR.. Fulton. pastor Of the church. The inter
ment was Ia Lexington CSmst0E.