Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-06-10
EDWARD G. DANA.
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SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

SPECIAL CoRRESPONpENCE.
Howard kretz, young man about
%, M art student of the Academy OF
Design i'll this city, made II startling
and successful jump from the Brook.
lyn bridge Just e ore dusk the Other
evening, and came ont OF the water
uninjured. kretz boarded trolley
car bound for Brooklyn. 1t was an
open one, and offered all tn, alvan.
tages for which he was looking. When
the trolley car was near the highest
point of the span. Kretz leaped from
it and, like flash, vaulted over the
high railing, he took no time to steady
himself for perpendicular drop and
swung some distance ont from
the structure before he assumed
an upright position. He struck the
water feet first, cleaving it like an ar
row. He disappeared for some sec
onds and then shot up into view again
only to disappear for the second time.
The waters had hardly closed over him
when he reappeared and Immediately
struck out strongly for the New York
shore. He was pulled aboard
frcighter, taken into custody and hur'
ried to the hospital He was nnin-
jure | and the next day was acquitted
on the charge of attempted suicide.
He had been reading book on the
csophy and simply wanted to demon.
strate that Il man, by exercising his
will power, could do anything he
wished without injury to himself.
John G. Sheehan has openly de-
clare war upon Richard Croker. He.
seeks to supplant Tammany's present
chief, as Croker supplanted him two
years ago. Mr.. Sheehan has under
consideration an offer to lead Il Bryan
bolt in Tammany. which contemplates
the election of Chicago platform con-
testing delegates from every district
in New York county where there is a
Representatives who were disloyal to
the national ticket in 1895. Mr.. Shee-
han announces in an authorized inter-
view that he intends to fight Croker
within the Tammany organization.
Whether he will finally become leader
of IL rival Bryan organization depends
upon the result of the contest within
the organization itself.
Mr. Croker must have sailed for the
English race tracks with the expecta-
ton that John CSheehan would start
nn insurrecton within the ranks OF
Tammany before his return. That
the fight has begun will be no sur
prise, there .oye, to the man who calmly
describes himself as the most power.
full man in New York. There is a sur.
prisingly large number of old Tammany
leaders and oiiceholders whom Croker
has retired. among them Sheehan and
ex- Mayor Gilroy, who are ripe for an
uprising. Sheehan will lead, and his
innermost expectations probably will
TO satisfied if he makes "the old
man. compromise. There are sus-
picions that the rebellion is being
in the interest of
Bryan, but that remains to be deter
mined by the developments.
There is ample room for resentment
at the plea of Brooklyn aide man,in
$35, 900 outlay for heating
and lighting the recreation piers this
year, that he believes these piers are
in their effect. If the Brook
lyn aldermen cannot conduct their or
yanize war upon every Manhattan
that has not its coun-
terpart in financial outlay in their
lorough without turning the virtue of
the poor into n weapon, they would
do we'll to abandon altogether their
ignob!e enterprise. The recreation
pier represents one of the most ra-
tional benefits to the tenement house
population that great city ever guar
anteed and nothing should he per-
mitted so impede its maintenance ""l
Apropos of the fire which recently
cavaged Coney Island Comptroller
Coler of this city says: 81 speak for
myself onl y in proposing The regenern-
tion of this part OF the island, but it
seems to me the turning Of it into Il
public park would lie great benefit
to the city and one o! the most whole
some improvements that can be con-
ceived. Coney Island has been a con-
slant disgrace and menace t, this city
for the past twenty-five years. 1t is
source of pollution to the morals of
the population. Therefore T am heart
lily in favor of the city's wiping away
the whole of the Bowery and turning
the district into fine seaside park"
"It's an ill wind" etc. Charles H.
Treat, collector of internal revenue in
the downtown district of this city
thinks the formation of industrial
combinations will mean an increase in
the receipts of his Office of at least
81, 900, 900 for the year. BY July l,
when the war revenue law will have
been in force for twelve months, the
receipts of his o!lic,, he thinks will
have amounted to nearly $17, 600, 00o.
One trust company lately bought $685.
900 worth of $50 revenue stamps, and
another 800, 900 worth. The Office
has received 81, 174.25 from the sale
of $50 stamps alone.
On Decoration day the followers OF
the late Henry George observed his
memory by the decoration of his grave
in Greenwood cemetery, and at the
Peoples club bust of the great re-
former by his son Richard was un-
veiled with appropriate ceremonies,