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The sun., 1899-07-16

Daily Scene at Noon Rt Groceries in the
Borough of the Bronx.

Talk about our colored population being fond
Of watormelors. Why. they are not in it with
the Italians" said contractor who is doing .
large amount Of work in the borough of the
Bronx. Every chance one nf my Italians gets
he is of for a slice Of watermelon. and at noon
they always mako a rush for an Italian grocery
where they keep watermclons on ice and sell
them In one and two cent slices. just go over
and watch them when the whistle blows"
The reporter did. The grocery was not far
from Jerome Park and under an old awning
outside the store were several tables on which
were large cakes Of ice The ice was covered
with pieces OF Old newspaper, and on this were
piled shoes OF melon. The pieces were OF varl-
Gus sizes and nSnd in price from n cent to q
nickel. At noon there was rush Of men from
Every man bought IA piece Of watermelon. Tho
ar was full Of living green rinds. and the rush
kept up until all wer" satisfied All did nou
content themselves with slices. Four men
would combine and buy a whole melon. cut ID
into four sect ions with big kniis md dive
INTO II ny Ia their eyes, tn" envy Of their less
wealthy companions.
When tn" rush was over the reporter skatcd
over m" rnds and seeds and asked the store
keeper how many melons he sold day He
said 100. All through tn" Italian colony in the
Bronx the stores are loaded up with melons,
and no Southern darky can get away with
one quicker or with more evidences Of delight
than an Italian workman. They eat them
morning. noon and night. and on pay nights
bring home section for the wife and children.
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TIE JOLLY H4RBOR SEALS.
An Incident of Feeding Time in tho Big
Pool ut the Aquarium.

Around the edge Of the platform at one end
Of the harhor seals pool at the Aquarium there
Is low railing to keep the seals in; between
that railing aud the outer railing that extends
all around tho pool there is a space a foot or
two wide. Tn" ais are fed always from the
platform. the food being tossed to them in II 0
water or handed to them as they open their
mouths for it on the platform. where they come
to get II.
The seals food is brought from tho Aqua
~ium's TOO room to the pool in tin bucket:
tho man who feeds tn IN lifts this bucket from
the ioUr and sets II over into tho space be-
tween the outer aud the inner railing around
the end OF the platform, preparatory 10 step-
ping up and over upon the Platform himself
The seals know when meal time comes HS well
A. anybody. and when that bucket is set over
between the ratings. II they are feeling well.
a. g"u"raly they are, they como cambering
M the incline. aud c."nr OF II upun the plat
!,im, to rub their noses against III" railing
clos" TO tho Iunk"t: they'd be glad tO reach
over into it il they could hut tn" railing is too
hiGh for them. Then maybe they turn and
slide down tho incline and dash around the
pon AMI IN tn" InrlIn" again with a rush. BY
that time the food Is ready.
But often Nellie. the older and bigger Of the
haIhur seals. doesn't slide back into the water.
She draws away from the railing a little. and,
with head uplttol. waits on the platform. and
whom tn" man StaUS over upon II she graVoly
throws W i'tplrr TO him to shake hands.
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EJrtSs Of
NEW RECRUITING STITION.
1t Is Mt the Battery and Has Been in
Operation Since Friday.

Anew recruiting station for the United States
Army has been orened at the Battery. To re-
leve the officers at Governors Island and
make it easier for would-be recruits To make
their applications, Capt. benjamin X. Roberts
of the Fifth Artillery. commanding the post at
Fort Columbus. detailed Corporal Helms OF
the Fifth Artillery to duty at tho Governors
Island Barge once. next to the Staten Island
ferry house. to give information to and make
preliminary oral examination OF applicants
for enlistment. At the same time he sent
soldiers to guard the entrance to the Gov
ernors Island boat landing to refer all desiring
to enlist to Corporal Helms before permitting
them to cross o the island The Battery Office
wa established on Friday. and posters we're
put M on tn" walls aud fence prOmu eating
the call for volunteers
papers. two men called or Friday aud satisfied
the Corporal that they were worthy ot being
by shf % pnS 3H 1sSrGPs a Rs
Third Infantry. on the island The CORPORAL
judges OF the apparent fitness OF the applicants.
cupation. and endoavors to learn their refer
eneee. Four m9Te % men we're sent over 6y hl him
turned away because OF their youth. None Is
eligible under the age of y or over that Of 80.
a Of Ssw 9oTE 0ne came from S
Two were engineers. The others were labor
ing, men, Most Of them desired expressly to
The recruits are wanted for the Twenty;
seventh United states Volunteer ReGlment Of
9s a9s cown Hn f a be r6o r2Fsq1ra rse at t"TP IS oP
philippine service The term oi the men en-;
listing expires on June 30, 1901. Accented
squads Of ten to Camp Meade; All who are
sent over to sec Iieut.-Col: Kilburn 60 on the
boat leaving the Barge ONCE landing at 2:l5
the Battery on a later afternoon boat.
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Army Orders.

WAsHINGroN. July 15.-These army orders
have been issued
First Lieuts. Albert B. Donvorth Seventh Infantry,
and Howard D. Perry. Seventeenth Infantry. e1-
change regiments and the former ordered to San
Francisco.
Major Willis Witch. Twenth. first Infantry. from
Plattsburg Barracks to San Francisco.
Major william F. Tucker. Paymaster. appointed
Chief Paymaster. Department OF the Lakes
Major George W. Fishback, Additional PAymaster.
from Boston to New ork city.
Second Liout George W Moses. Third Cavalry,
FIRST Lieut., William $. Iiraves. Seventh Infantry.
detailed as member of the examining board at
Thetc transfers hav. been made in the Second
Battery Battery b; First Lieut.. George Biakeiy
RnF GG " n, to ht e.y y h,isrs tr' Ar
ns :? SfS 1 F.sns t.a os5
WIam Jpason oFdered , tS San Juan as Engineer
G These otcsrs rersDtly nj % app6ntsd to Join their re
spscttNe reriments at the places indicated:
tn. f.nt NJ Chapn FAM Henrs
q Crockett and Second Lieut.. Sanford f. Worthing-
Twenty ty.seyenth Infantry. Camp Meade.Maior
eyHs any seion 60 Ln Risar EiI' BTewe
:, Twenty eighth Infantry. Camp MeaIe-capt Pete.
Li@Ht.. LEWIS NJ CLARK, s H. Carl Young % and Marion
Ihlrtlftn Infantry, fort Snerluar-flrbt Lieut..
Frank II. Buckingham.
Thirty tirst Infantry, Fort Thomas-CApt Charles
p Suyers Capt. Lucius Bennett and First Lieut..
Benjamin stark. Jr.. and Second Lieut.. William H..
Monroe.
Thirty.second Infantry. Fort Lsavenworth First
Leuts. Grant Gillespie and Charles A. Phillips and
Second Lieut.. William II. Clopton.
Thirty-fourth Infantry. Fort Lozan--Capt william
z Dame Second Lieut.. Robert c. torliss.
Thirty-hfth Infantry. Vancouver Barracks-CApt.
Samuel r. Langworthy and First Lieut. John L.
Hughes.
Capt Thomas W. Darrah. Thirty nth Infantry.
from San francisco TO Vancouver Barracks.
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RIOT At CHERBOURG.
Marine Infantry and Police Clashed and
Many Arrests Were Made.
Sprcta! Caole Despatch to THE sus.

Sprct1I CdOe Despatch 10 THE SUN.
PARIS. July l5.-After the display OF fire.
works at Cherhourg last evening disturb
ance arose. in the course Of which tho marine
infantry destroyed the decorations and han
died the police very roughly.
Numerous arrests We're made, Early this
morning tn" rioters bcsicGcd the police sta
ton demanding the release Of thrir comrades
The rioters tried to provoke the soldiers by
insulting cries. but the military were unmoved
by the shouts Of the mob,
The police and military finally succeeded in
restoring order. Though a number Of persons
were injured. there were no fatalities. The
Sub Prefect and the Public Prosecutor re-
mainod near the scenes OF the disturbances
throughput The riotous marine infantry
seized a woman in the Place de Chaucon and
stripped the clothing from her. 1t is expected
that severe measures will he taken against tho
rioters
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FIRST NEBR<SKA's WELCOME.
Some Objection to Expansion Talk in Pre-
pairing for Their Home Coming.


LINCOLN. Neb.. July y15.-Enthusiastio prep
arations continue for the reception OF the First
Nebraska Volunteers on their return home
The Regiment will reach San Francisco on
July % There has been considerable crti-
cism to-day of the character OF the speeches at
the mass meeting held last night to talk over
the reception. There were three speeches on
the programme. Gem Henderson. Gen VIZ
qualn and G. VI. Lam bertson being the takers
besides c. o. Whedon. the Chairman OF tho
eral plan. and Mayor Winnett. who. as
the Chief Executive OF the city. pledged
the citizens. to II hearty cooperation; Tho
speeches OF mbertson and Gen. Manderson
took on a decided political tinge, ard both took
occasion TO defend expansion and holding Of
the Philippines and the policy of the Admins
tration. and to condemn opposition to this
During Gen Manderson's speech there was a
decided expression Of displcn.ure. Kisses being
administered a rebuke to the injection of parti-
san politics into such a meeting and took issue
with the declarations OF Mandcrson and
IISCoIS. Neb.. July 15.--An invitation was
sent to President Mckinley to-day asking him
braska extend its welcome to the Fighting
First" from Manila on its return in September
Assistant Secretary Of War McikleIohn will
also be one of the speakers as well as Senator
Thurston and Senator Hayward.
The fact that Col. Bryan has not been in
vted to speak has caused Indignation among
the Democrats and POpulists, and their press
is attack ing the arrangements made by com
mittee OF citizens. averring that 1t is a scheme
on the part OF the Republ cans 10 turn it into
un expansion meeting aud as formal opening
Of the state campaign. Gov. Povnter is the
only fusionist on the programme of speakers.
and the newspapers charge that the committee
take tho meeting away from the managers
A big row Is being stirred up over the matter
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PROSPERITY ~ THE WEST.
Crops Abundant at Good Prices and Money
Never 60 Plentiful

WASHINGTON. July 15-George f. Roberts,
the Director OF the Mint. who has returned
from tour OF the middle West. reports most
prosperous condition OF affairs In that section.
The crops. he says are abundant. and the only
complaint of farmers was inability to secure the
labor necessary to handle them. As to the nnan-
cial conditions there. the Director says money
had never been so plentiful. This vas point
edly illustrated by the fact that tho Western
banks. instead of borrowing funds from Chica-
go. were actually competing with the banks OF
that city in putting money out at interest
The usual conditions were therefore reversed.
and Western money was going to the East.
Former senator Wilson OF Washington who
WAS among the callers at the White House to-
day, when asked about the free silver ssnti-
ment in his state. said that nothing was heard
OF 1t now. The peope OF Washington we're en-
|roTyinE great prosperity and we're conttonted
were being paid or. and they were settling
down to steady progress. AS to the question
Of expansion. Mr.. Wilson said there was no
division in the state on party limos as to that
Republicans. Populists and Democrats support
ing the military operations in the Philippines
He thought that sentiment was general on the
Pacific
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7HE JOINT MON COMMISSION.
American Members to Fix a Date for the
Reassembiing of That Body.

henssembling of That Body.
WASHINGTON, July 15.-John w. Foster. one
OF the members Of tho Canadian Joint High
Commission. returned to Washington to-day
and held conference with Secretary Hay re-
garding the postponement OF the reassem bling
OF that body. which adjourned to meet at Ot-
tawa on Aug. 2. meeting OF the American
members will be held early next week, on the
return OF Senator Fairbanks, who has
been in Alaska investigating the subject
Of the boundary between that Territory and
British America. This conference has been
called by Secretary Hay to determine upon a
line of action to be pursued by tho American
members on tho boundary and other questions
at issue between the two Governments. and to
agree upon date for tho meeting of the Joint
commission early in the fall.
IL was decided upon some time ago by the
American members OF the commission that
the date OF meeting OF tho joint comm ssion
should be postponed from Aug. =. but no date
having been agreed upon, Secretary Hay has
not yet informed the British com mission when
1t will bo agreeable for the Joint commission
to reasonable. This date will be fixed upon at
the conference to- hs held this week between
Secretary Hay and the American members.
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SMlLLPOX CLOSES CHURCHES.
No Public Religious Services to Re Held
in Frankfort, Ky., To-day.

TRANSPORT. Ky. July 15.-The City and
County Boards OF Health. acting under the di-
rection OF Dr. ]. n. Mccormack. Secretary Of
the State Board OF Health. this afternoon
ordered that the churches OF the city OF Frank
fort be closed tomorrow, and that the police
disperse any public gathering within the next
week. This action WAS taken in precaution to
prevent further spread OF the smallpox cpl
demic The State law gives the Board Of
Health the power to enforce such rules and
sanitary regulations as they may adopt IA
cases OF prevailing contagious diseases. Tho
churches Of the city have not been closed he-
fore on SUNDAY in the memory OF the Oldest IN
habitants.
James Dean refused to permit the physician
To- varcIuate him and family under the enioTc-
ing vaccination orders and WAS arrested and
tried this afternoon before City Judge Hern-
don, The Jury fai ed to make verdict and q
second trial will DO had.
Councilman Robert Jilsson dehed the au.
thortties to vaccinate him. The authorities
have given him time within which 10 submit
and say his business house will bs closed and
lie will be subjected 10 the law - In the case OF
Dean.
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OFFICERS OF VoLUNTEERs
More Appointments of Captains and Lieu
tenants in the New Regiments.

WARRINGTON. July 15-The following APP
pontments have been made in the volunteer
army:
To be Captalns-Adam G. Carson. formerly
Captain Fourth u. 4. V. l.: Henry A. Peed.
formerly Captain Fourth Missouri; William J.
White formerly Captain Second Ohio.
To be First Lieutenants-CharlesW W. Barber.
formerly Captain Fourth New Jersey: Freder-
lex j. Barrows. formerly Captain Fifteenth
Minnesota: Cyrus Gray Bossieux. formerly
Captain Virginia Volunteer Infantry; John VI.
Dunn. formerly First Lieutenant First Della
ware; Richard Drum Laird. formerly First
Lieutenant Tenth Pennsylvania; Daniel j.
Moynihan, formerly Second Lieutenant Second
Massach chusetts: Frederick b. Nelson. formerly
Of Philadelphia City Troop William J. SeRell.
~ formerly Gap,sn and AssSnpt u. nn Adjn,apTt
TTolnpkins, formerly Sergeant MAJOR second
sS9 Ssr9 9hn Cap3an Tensh 1S e. noaS George ST 0F;
whhtsettt; formerly CAPTAIN Fifth Missouri.
George W. Cochmower, formerly private First
Illinois; John Alden began, formerly Corporal
second Lieutenant Fifteenth Minnesota; Roy
/; ,Fernald, formerly :, Of Gomnaqy C.. seventh
Wharton tiriGil, formerly First lieutenant
Th51 r. s. I f HGrd Eobsr %Sr
:. Knox. formerly Second Lieutenant Virginia
volunteer Infantry: Louis St Clair Muntord.
formerly Second Lieutenant Second Alabama;
Frederick Harvey PlMmmer. formerly Second
Leutcnant Fourth, Virginia Volunteer Infan-.
try; Max Wagner. formerly Second Lieutenant
United States Volunteer Signal Corps: John y.
Wright. formerly Second Lieutenant Fourth
Boyle. formerly First Lieutenant and AdJutant
l5Sth Indiana; William i. Euass. formerly OF
Jr, formerly First, Lieutenant Second South
Carolina: James A. simpson. formerly First
Lieutenant Fourth Kentucky
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WASHINGTON. July 15,-The following de-
spatch from san Francisco. announcing the
dsnartura ofthc City of Para. was received at
the War Department to-day:
Transport City OF Para sailed yesterday
evening with Major AuGur and two troops
Fourth Cavalry. four officers, 10 men, head
quarters. band and four companies Twenty
fourth Infantry. II officers. 542 men; Com
pauy B. engineers. three otllrer-. loo men $50
rounds caibre 80 ammunition per man. With
troops six Assistant Surgeons. ten acting As
sistant Surgeons. nineteen men Hospita Corps.
one officer and tw.uty-one men Signal Corps !:
seven Twenty NTH Infantry. Passengers.
Gen. schwan and aide; Coils. Carpentsr. Egh-
teenth. and Bisbee. Thireenth; Major Lee.
fantry SHAFIER, MaJor-General.'
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VOLUNTEERS TO SAIL FROM miNILA.
Rain and Typhoons Have Prevented tho
Loading of the Transports.

WAsHISGToH, July 15.-The War Department
received the following cablegram this morning:
manila. July H.
Twenty inches Of rain in July. attended by
typhoons. made landing Of transports impossi-
bile at Negros. Impossible to unload sixth In
fantry until last day or two. CALIFORNIA; now
londing. Colorados leave tomorrow on War
rem Idahos, North Dnkot and NvOminEs
next week as soon as transports can he coaled.
"OTIS"
The refrigerator ship Glacier. from New York
arrived at Manila to-day with large supply Of
beef on board.
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Old Louisville Legion to Reorraniue.

LOUISVILLE. Ky. July 15,-The old Louisville
Legion. which served in Porto Rico as tho First
Kentucky Regiment Volunteers during the re-
cent war between this country and Spain. is be-
ing reorRanized. The First Kentucky was mus
tercd out OF the volunteer service last January,
and since then Louisville has heen wit hout any
military organization whatever. Its COM
mandant was Cot John j. tnSt leman. father
OF Alice Castleman. who attracted attention in
New York society two winters ago. Six Of the
nine companies to form the new regiment have
already been organized
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wis. than 10 was. he wculd hsv. fallen one

electoral vote snort OF the NUM- Der required.
For years afterward. LONG after Pennsylvania
had become securely Republican and political
conditions in it were changed entirely. there
were to be found some back number Demo-
Gratis still asserting that Pennsylvania could
be recovered to the party. as there are now
Democrats to be found, though they are few
In number. who want to 20 back to the solid
South. New York. Connecticut and New Jersey.
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Needed \ Watch.

man walked into a pawnhrokers' sales
shop at 4G West Thirticth street. yesterday
afternoon. and asked to see some watches. lie
rock et"d il and ran IN toward broadway
Policeman william II. Diehl caught him after
a chase down Broadway The prisoner said he
was Fred MAJOR OF the Mills Hotel
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Mrs Rosie Crete Of 235 East 1891 street was
wheeling her baby carriage into Third ave-
nue tea store last night when boy on the
sidewalk grabbed her pocketbook. which was
lying in the carriage beside tho baby. Mrs
Greie raised q cry and Policeman Kass pur-
sued the hoy and cauE ht him, The boy, said
he was William Eisenschmidt, l6 years old. OF
4l4 East llNth street He was locked up in
the East 12Bth street station on a charge OF
highway robbery
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JEWELRr BURIED WITH THE DEAD.
1t Consists Chiefly of Rings and Seldom
InClmdcs Articles of Great Value.

As a rule not much jewelry OF value is buried
with the dead In the case of women. tho
Jcw"lry buried with them is likely to be con-
lined to plain gold ring, which in the case OF
wife would be her wedding ring. 1t might
easily happen that this would be the only ring
worn at the time Of death; other rings having
been taken from the fingers because the wear
ing of them might have been a source OF dis
comfort to the wearer. On the other hand 10
might happen that the rings could not bo
easily removed. In such case the rings
would be left on the fingers and buried with
the body
The wedding ring IL not always buried,
sonnet mes the husband desires to keep 1t: in
some Instances, If there are children in the
nnmlky: innm,lky: it IS given to the Oldest, growp-up
would he most commonly some plain bands
valued as GIT or k"epsa he or for some dear
H,ss[o"iati29. ,.s sometimes diamond ring might
ne buried Tor simla reason. perhaps with
the diamond turned inward showing only q
plain baud ul"n the finger as tho hand lay
but while such Is the prevailing practice,
with constantly increasing observance. 1t is
eases in which the bodies Of women have been
hnricd with earrings. and all the rings com-
thi"niy no worn IN ne including perhaps ,yalua-
be taken away. Such cases are unusual and
are becoming rarer
Suhstanta y the same practice prevails with
regard to the nurvinG OF Jewery with the
bodies OF men, Watches and chains OF value
have been buried with the dead. but not often.
Costly l"wclry has been thus buried. but this
Is seldom done; commonly such Jewelry as
may be buried IS simple and comparatively
ineNrenstvo. There might he left upon the
finger some ring that had been specially dear
10 tn" dead. and that he had wished to keep
always
besides the rings there might he buried va
riIus other art ic"s Of more or less value. for
whl@h special attachment had been formed,
or mat the dead had requested should be buried
win them. Sil not very much Jewelry ot
yn!u" is buried ntler all. and the tendency Is to
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Lindsay to Speak to tho National Bar As
sociation.

LOUISVILLE. Ky. July Ex-senator William
Lindsay Of Kentucky has accepted an invita-
ton to dcliver the principal address at the
National Bar Association meeting al Buffalo
J.. on Aug. -. Senator Lindsay il one ~
the state : foremost orators. He has not yet
chosen the topic upon which he will speak.
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LEXINGTON. KY. July 15.-The Thirty-nrst
Reg Giment. being recruited mt Fort Thomas for
service in the Philippines. now has 257 men
enlisted. 1t is estimated that the regiment
will be complete within three weeks
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Two New National Banks.

wAsHINGToN. July 15-The First National
Bank Of Perth Amhoy \. j.. capital 100000
and the Cement National Bank of Segfried
Pa capital $50. 900. were to-day authorized tC
begin business by tho Comptroller Of the Cur.
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JEANNE sCHWERIV DEAD.
She Was tho Leader OF the women's Move
ment in Germany.

SPECIAL Gable Ds'parh 10 THy suN.
BERLIN. July -. 5.-Teanue Schwerin. the
leader of the German wom"n'- movement. died
to-day after Il surg ical operation.
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Lady Salisbury Recovering.

SPECIAL Cable DsIpaich u TEE Sun.
LONDON. July l5-Lady Salisbury passed
good night ahd 10 progressing taVorably toward
DSoOvsTR
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when again you have something hrst class in
Horsss Ahd Carriages" for sale or exchange. You
can reach sCs readers through no other daily pub
ucGuon.-AdS,
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ENLIsTAENTS OF VOLUNTEERS.
3sS Men Accepted on Friday and 1873
Since Monday.

WARRINGTON. July 15.-The following state
ment showing the number Of recruits secured
yesterday for tho volunteer regiments was
made public to-day at the War Department: