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The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-21
WILLIAM A. WEIGH, JR., DEAD.
Son of Dr. Welch of This City Expired
 Suddenly Yesterday

Son of Dr. Welch of This City Expired
 Suddenly Yesterday.
 Dr. William A. Welch of 792 Chapel street received the sad news of the death of his son, William A jr., last evening. The doctor received a tele- gram from Chelsea stating that his son had died, giving no particular time, but he thinks death came early yesterday morning or late Tuesday night. In the last letter received by Dr. Welch from his son it stated that the young man was suffering from heart trouble, and it Is thought that he was stricken with the disease, as he died very suddenly MT NNlch was thirty-three years old and leaves a wife and three children. He graduated from Exeter, after which he learned the machinist's trade at the Atlantic Iron Works East Boston. He lived in Chelsea, Mass, and was an only son.
 Dr. Welch left on the 2:10 train this for Boston and will attend the funeral of his son Saturday.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-21
ARMORY NOTES.
Ready for Dewey Celebration-Priz
 Drill for Blues-Joseph Andrews Ad

Ready for Dewey Celebration-Prize
 Drill for Blues-Joseph Andrews Ad-
 Vancement.
 New Haven Grays was held at the armory last night. The drill was pre- paratory to the procession at New York. The orders for Dewey Day" have not yet arrived, but are expected this week. The company will probably leave Sat urday morning for New York. Louis N. Burgess was elected to membership in the Grays.
 At meeting of the City Guards last night Privates Metz and Greenbaum were appointed corporals. Corporals Zimmerman and Henry were discharg- ed their terms having expired. Musi- elan Rudolph and Privates Arams and Bottich were discharged, being non-res- idents. Privates Lewis and Sickert also received discharges The Guards held short drill in preparation for their work next week at New York.
 There will be q prize drill for the De- herty medal tonight at the armory, to be participated in by members of the Blues. This medal has been offered by oaptdlh DoHerly TOT eXceileHce III ulIll work The company has recently re- turned from camp and is in excellent condition Captain Donovan and Cap tain Welles will act as judges.
 Joseph Andrews, brother of A. R. An drews of Company D, has received an appointment from President Mckinley as lieutenant in the Forty eighth Mass achusetts volunteers. Lieutenant An drews enlisted as a private at the be- ginning of the war and fought in the Sixth Massachusetts in Porto Rico un- der General Miles. He is twenty-six years old and, save the Porto Rico cam paign. has had no experience in the mil itia The company is at present in camp at Framingham, Mass, and will sail for Manila in about two weeks.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-21
SPECIAL, SESSION OF N. E. o. P,
Deputies from Lodges in the State
 Here Yesterday

Deputies from Lodges in the State
 Here Yesterday.
 The deputies of the various lodges of the New England Order of Protec- ton held a special session here yester- day in A. o. U. w. hall on Orange street, to discuss plans for the advance ment of the order in the state Sixty nine of the seventy-fve lodges were represented by deputies. Grand Warden Jonathan W. Chapin of this city delivered an address stat. ing that the object for which the dep uties had been called together was for the discussion of ways and means to promote the good of the order through out the state by the comparison of notes of what was now being done among the various lodges and to get the concensus of opinion from the dep- uties as to what plans were best for the future
 The New England Order of Protection he said is one of the strongest and most prosperous of the many fraternal benefit orders of the state. It's present membership ie over S,166. During the past year there has been a net gain of 1,177.
 New Haven is it's principal strong hold. Here there are thirteen lodges with a total membership of $500.
 Interesting speeches and timely sug~ gestions were made at yesterdays meeting. After the business meeting the deputies and grand lodge officers banqueted al Francis.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-21
TO EIGHT FOR uONOR.

Paris, Sept. 20.-The Aurore will to- morrow publish the following declara- tion from Captain Dreyfus:
 The government of the republic has given me my liberty But liberty is nothing to me without honor. From to-day I shall continue to seek repara- tion for the frightful judicial error of which I remain the victim.
 T wish France to know by a definite judgment that I am innocent. My heart will only be at rest when there remains not a single Frenchman who imputes to me the abominable crime perpetrated by another
 ALFRED DREYFUS"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-21

Rennes, Sept. 20,-M. Viguier chief of the secret service, and M. Dureault ar rived at the prison after midnight, bringing the ministry of wars order for the release of Dreyfus
 The latter walked a short distance from the prison, where he entered a carriage and was driven to the Vern station, outside the town. He alighted about five hundred yards from the sta- ton and walked the rest of the distance in drizzling rain. The Nantes train came in just as he arrived. The cap- tain boarded the train, and it went out of Rennes bearing Dreyfus away free man.
 A small crowd of people had waited around the prison until midnight, but it then dispersed, thinking it was too late for Dreyfus to leave. Mme Drey- fus left Rennes at noon, accompanied by her father and friends.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-21
ROME ANTEDATES ROMULUS.

It is all very we'll to demolish Will lam Tell, Shakespeare, and Beatrice Cenci but when it comes to denying the existence of Romulus and Remus, it is another question altogether-for the Romans
 Although opinions have always differ ed about the exact date of the founda- tion of Rome, the calculations of the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-21

she is equally gifted as singer and actress, and so succeeds in blending the finest vocal, and the most expressive and truest dramatic art that her em bodiments are wonderfully vital, con- vincing and impressive. The cast for that performance will include, besides Mime. Calve, such great singers as Ed ouard de Reszlfe, Claude Bonnard, M. lily Rosa Olitzka and Mathida Bauer meiSter
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-21
AT RORDEAuX-

tite Girotde says that three travellers arrived here to-day on the train from Nantes one of whom was recognized as former Captain Dreyfus They went to a hotel intimating their intention to proceed by the Nice express
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-21
DREYFUS SET AT LIBERTY
BO1RDED 4 TRAIN AT TERN UN.
 NOTICED.
Detectives Bringing the Ministry of Wars Order for the Release of Drey fus Driven to Vern i'm q Driz1iing Rain.

Rennes, Sept. 2O.-Captain Alfred Dreyfus at 3 o'clock this morning left the prison here in which he had been confined since his return from the He Du Diable, and proceeded to Vern, where he took train bound for Nantes His departure was completely unno- ticed
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-21
MADISON FAIR

The Madison fair which was post poned from yesterday on account of the ther, will be held to-day,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-21
Bicycle Races,

One mile open won by w. B. An drews, New Haven. H. Batcheldor, New Haven, second; Thomas Bowden, New Haven, third. Time, 2:471a,
 One mile handicap, Branford riders, won by Roy Bartholomew Q5 yards), E. Van Sickles (seratch, second; John Barron, (S0 yards) third. Time 2.2S One half mile boys under fifteen years, won by J. E. Reynolds; Stephen Kelly second. Time, 1.2S 3-4.
 Horse Races
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-21
BRANFORD FAIR.

Result of the Bicycle and Horse Races.
 Branford, Conn.,, Sept. 20,-The bicy- cle and horse racing events at the Branford fair to-day resulted as fol- lANNS.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-21

Showing an increase of. .... $1,1S3, 699, 01
 These figures do not include the earn ings of the Old Colony Steamboat com pany, the Providence and Stonington Steamship company, or the. Norwich and New York Transportation com pany, which aggregated $3,7S3, ,926.55. So much of the net earnings of these steamboat companies as have been di- vided are included in "Income from other sources
 There has been no charge to capital account except for purchases of real es- tate amounting to $138,422.02
 The floating debt shown in the com pany's balance sheet represents a DOT ton of the amount advanced for the extension of the Boston and Providence railroad to the Southern Terminal sta tion. This will be cancelled upon the sale of the Park Square property in Boston, belonging to that corporation.
 The following charges have been made to operating expenses to meet e,orarol dapreciafiop.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-21
THE CONSOLIDATED ROAD
ANNUAL REPORT OFTHE BOARD OF
 DIRECTORS.

And General Statement of the Roads Affairs for Its Past Fiscal Year-Issued Yesterday.
 Following is the report issued yester- day by the board of directors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad.
 In accordance with the bylaws of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company, the board of direc- tors have caused to be prepared gen. eral statement of its affairs for the year ending June 30, 1899, as follows: FOR TWELVE MONTHS, JULY 1, 1898,
 TO JUNE 50, 1899, INCLUSIVE. Earnings
 From passenger department. SIS, 3S4 S30 D Erom freight department .... lS,3Sd S4S oo @ Eiolh rents ................'.. ozo'tio'o1 From telegraph receipts ...... jU,S2IU IU4 Total gross earnings from operation ........ ........S S3I, ,l45,9lLo1 Less operating expenses (6S.S7 ,,, per cent. .......... ....... "a, oSl, 2o62J Income from operation ...... .S11, ,562, G6O7S Add income from other sources Dividends on stock owned. .... S2l1 ,059G0 Interest on bonds owned. ..... 61,095.00 Dividends on StockS leaSeu... oo4,Ulo,Uu Miscellaneous income ......... 11,193.S5
 - Income from other sources... 623, 423. 45
  Total income ...............$1 .$12, 1S6. 0S4 23 Deductions from income Taxes ... ...... ........ $2, I'll, 167 II Interest on funded debt, ac- crued ... ...... ...... 324, ,230.55 Interest on convertible deben- ture certificates accrued .... 655. .SSS. % Interest on debentures (non- convertibe) accrued ........ 120,00O % Interest on current liabilities, accrued ... ......... .... 935.06 Interest of deferred liabilities. accrued ....... ............ 100000 Rentals fo leased lines. ac- crued ....... ............... 4,537, 80 Total deductions from income $7, S2O 1855
  Balance of Income applicable to Dividends ............. S4,365, ,o7o.6s Dividends paid per cent. on S51 ,00S, 600. ..... $1,020 172 co per cent on $52,30S 60O ..... 1,046, 1720O
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Balance of Income applicable
$4, 15S,6 S,6sS.00
Surplus for tho twelve

Surplus for tho twelve months ........ ............ SPOT, ,2S2. 6S These figures include the earnings and expenses of the New England rail- road operated under lease during the year, and of the Shepaug, Litchfield and Northern railroad merged July g, 1898. For purposes of comparison it may be stated that for the year ending June 30 1898, the gross earnings from oper- ation were as follows: New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company $50, ,322, 737. 55 New England Railraod con- pany ........ ....... ...... .$5, 57O, ,645.74 Shepaug, I4itchf1eld and North ern RailraOd comapny ...... 6,S34, ,69
  Total ........ .............. .$35, 96O, PIT. .9S
  The total gross earnings from operation for the year ending June 30 1890. were. ........ .$37, 143, ,91707
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NOTES AID OPINIONS.
THE ANGLo-ANIERIcAN TREAs

THE GLO-AMERICAN TREASON.
The Democratic party in national con-
vention assembled in 1900 will speak
loudly and plainly against the treason
able relations with England that have
been set UP by the Mckinley admins
tration. This action will be taken in
answer to the almost unanimous pro-
test of the American people, those of
! Germans and of Irish descent cspec-
ANY The interest of the United States
lies In friendly relations with all other
nations. and entangling alliance with
none OF them. There is no nation in
| the round globe with whom we have
closer trade relations than with Grcat
britain. She takes largely of our sur
Plus cereals and breadstuns, which.
however, she sells TO other nations with
Whom we should aud must deal direct.
England takes nearly so per cent. of
our exports. but only one-tenth is for
English consumption. Germany con-
sumeS FAR more of our exports than
does England. She buys them of Eng
lish merchants. however This kind
ot business has gone on for years and
It's pcrmanency would be good thing
Tor England. Consequently she wants
an alliance. There are. of course. n
number Of Americans who fancy that
such an alliance would be a tremendous
adVantage, and such doubtless it would
De-to Great Britain. She would make
us the )ackal. while she played the
non. But these mistaken enthusiasts.
!ihperlaIlsts all eXpansionists, are not
wen acquainted with the opinion of all
the citizens Of this republic. One can
easily discern that the alliance PRO
posed would not be ut all acceptable 10
american citizens of Irish birth. but
'hese nave been comparatively quiet.
While American citizens of German de-
scent nave been active in expression
'he'r disapproval of such alliance
ana in their organization TO combat INV
Stcp In that direction. In this matter
me German of Chicago have
taken the lead and have permanently
organlzed. with this threat of an Eng
Nsh alliance as motif to bring sea
sohabiy TO bear the whole weight of
neriiiah- ~ ,herican influence for what
'hey consider the universal good.
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ever dared to cough him down. Whether
out of the club or in it, his personality
was always accepted at it's own good.
true worth
The most fateful day, therefore. in
the whole history of the club was that
Tuesday. juno 22, 1874. when. dining n
The club. Johnson looked so Ill that the
members present feared that It would
be the last time, as indeed 1t proved TO
be. that he would ever dine there. I;
is. then, with n picture of the club
with Johnson's impressive personality
in the foreground. that we may fitIv
close our sketch:
The room is before us and the table
on which stand the omelet for Nurcnt
Q5urke's father-in-law. an accomniish.
ed Roman catholic physician. who lived
with Burke) and the lemons for John
son. There are assembled those heads
which live forever on the canvas Of
Reynolds. There are the spectacles of
Burke and the tall. thin form of Lane
ton. the courtly sneer of BeauclerI the
beaming smile of Garrick. Gibbon
tapping his snuffbox and Sir Joshua
with his trumpet to his ear. In tho
foreground is that strange figure which
Is as familiar to lis as the figures az
those among whom we have been
brought up-,he gigantic body. the
huge MASSEY face. scanned with the
scars of disease: the brown coat. the
plack worsted stockings, tho gray wig
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1t has been solemnly telegraphed
from Hot Springs, that Mr.. Mckinley
has taken bath. had walk and has
read something to Mrs. Mckinley. We
are glad that the gentleman has wash
ed himself this time and with water
not white-wash. 1t must have been
quite refreshing after so much lime
we understand now how that reported
earthquake had it's origin-the great Mr..
Mckinley walked. and.the earth trem-
bled beneath his tread We are left in
uncertainty as to why the President had
to read for his wife: whether on ac
count of her blindness, or her illiteracy
How interesting and gratifying it is to
have these items of9our imperial fam
lily sent us daily! Jenkins ought to en-
tighten oftener-at least twice a day.
Just think of it: doubling the happl
ness OF 10000 600 loyal subjects.
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Langton. as they left the club together.
And when Lang ton assented. but limited
that he could have wished to hear
more from another person, Burke re-
piled: "Oh. no, 1t is enough for me
TO have runG the bell to him" And
Burke was one of those who attended
him at the last. AS Burke. with four
or five other friends, was sitting at his
bedside, he said: II am afraid, sir,
such number of us may be oppres
sive TO you" Nor. SIR said Johnson;
lit is not so: and I must be in a
wretched state when your company is
not a delight to me-" MY dear SIR"
replied Burke. his voice broken with
emotion. you have always been too
good to me-"
Burke's career was disappointing
one. Johnson had said of him: 1--WE
who know Burke know that he will
be one of the first men in the country"
Sir James Macintosh. the great pub
icist, once said of him: "Gibbon might
have been taken from corner of his
mind without ever being missed" But
Goldsmiths amusing ante-mortem cpl
taph upon him was too true:
Though born for the universe, he mar
rowed his mind,
And TO party gave up what was meant
for mankind.
Too deep for his hearers, he went on
refining
And thought OF convincing while they
thought Of diningi
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POPULAR STUDIES IN LITERATURE.

Though equal to all things. for all
things unfit
Too nice for a statesman, too proud for
wit;
For patriot too cool. for drudge
disobedient;
And too fond of the right to pursue
the 'eXpedient.'
In short. twas his fate. unemployed or
in place. sir,
To eat mutton cold. and cut blocks
with IL razor"
The club made some amends for the
appreciation that parliament failed to
give. Here only" Foster says, The
could pour forth to an audience worth
exciting the stores of argument and ell
oqucnce he was thirsting to employ on
Il wider stage; the variety of knowl-
edge. the fund of astonishing imagery,
the ease of philosophic illustration the
overpowering copiousness of words. in
which he never had rival" This.
however. was written with reference 10
the very earliest days OF the club for
Burke was elected to parliament when
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dictionary claim for it that at com
bincd more talent and genius than ever
met before or since would he Il justi-
fable one.
BESIDES the formal clubs. such as
Johnson or such as the Mermaid is
SAID To have been. another sort OF club
He rs famous in literature. This is
mat which Is associated with the cof-
rec houses we read so much about in
the social history of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries The coffee
mouse gathering was indeed the pro-
genitnr of tho club, and not a few cof-
fec houses developed into clubs. even
into clubs of the modern sort. For cx-
ample TWO or the great London clubs
of to-day. Arthur's and Whites, had
their origin, the one Il century and a.
third ago. the other a century and two
thirds ago, in coffee houses known by
these names.
The mos; famous coffee houses in
literary history are Wills. Button'G and
the St James. WINS is associated es-
pecially with The name and fame OF
Dryden. III was Dryden" so Pope. in
Spence's Anecdotes" is reported as
saying, who made Willis coffee house
the great resort of the wits of his time
The following account Of this famous
place of entertainment is also given by
Spence:
The company Of which our poet was
the arbiter sat upstairs in a room cali
ed the dining room. In winter the
poets place was the place of honor by
the iircside. In summer his chair was
removed to corner Of the balcony
looking over the street. Tie called the
two places his winter seat and hls
summer seat. The appeal was made
to him in every literary dispute The
company sat at tables dispersed
throughout the room. Smoking was
permitted and was so much in vogue
-Ih9t il was not rtrTf-7Tfrrod a nuisance.
The visitors divided themselves up into
parties, and the young hcaux and wits
VINO seldom approached the principal
table. thought it a great honor to have
a pinch CT snur out of Dryden's snuff
box
AS is we'll known Pope. when z deli
cate boy OF II. was once taken to Wits
To sec the veteran poet laureate AL
though coffee houses were public places.
yet, when Dryden was the reignjnc
spirit in Wits, ii was well known that
II one did not wish 10 be considered
an lmpertlnent intruder in the society
frequentinS the pace it was necessary
to have Il formal introduction before
one MINCED with it.
Note This study will be concluded
Thursday, May o5:h.
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xIII.-LITERARY CLUBS OF
LONDON.
(Continued)
JOHN EBENEZER BRYANT,
NJ A.

despite its hundred years or more of
brilliant existence. the brightest vears
OIL the Literary club" were undoubt-
euly Its earliest years. when johnson.
Bnrke, Reynolds, Goldsmith and Gar
TICK were in their prime. Johnson and
burke, of course. were the great pro-
tasonlsts OF the organization. To quote
Leslie Stephens words, johnson was
never ured of praising the extraordi-
nary readiness and spon.oncitv or
Burkes conversation" Burke is such
man. he said, that if YOU met him
Tor the first time in the street where
you were stopped by drove of oxen.
and you and he stepped aside but for
hVe minutes. he'd talk to you in such
manner that when you parted you
"ouio say RMS is an extraordinary
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man." "What most envy Burkc

man." What I most envy Burke
for" he said again. lis that he is never
what we call humdrum; never unwill-
ing to begin IL talk nor in haste to
leave off. Take I'm whatever topic you
please, he is ready To meet you" That
fellow calls forth all my powers" he
once cried out when he was i'll: were
TO see Burke now it would kill me-"
Burke is the only man." he said again
whose conversation corresponds to his
general fame in the world"
Burke returned this high apprecia-
ton. How very great Johnson has
been tonight" he once said to Bennett
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DIR. JOHNSON'S BIRTHPLACE.
LlCHFIELD.

The club of Johnson and Reynolds
and Hurke was the most famous club
that literature ever possessed for her
own, but there were others. These we
nave no space even to mention. Men
ton. however, must be made to that
famous club which is additionally said
to have been founded by Sir Walter
Raleigh and to have been called ",rhe
Mermaid club because the meetings
were held ut a tavern called "The Mcr-
maid" OF this club. sometimes known
also as the Bread Street club or the
Friday Street club. besides Raleigh. the
founder. Shakespeare. J0nson, Beau
mont. Fletcher, Seldeu, Cotton. Carew,
Martin and Dome are said to have been
members. If this were Soft this club
really had such an cxistence-lhc ia
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the club had been in existence scarcely
more than year. Nevertheless. the
description is true in the main for his
whole career, for despite his learning.
his character and his elonuencc. Burke
never really won a command Of the
house OF commons Nulgarly he was
called its dinner bell" When he went
INTO question 1t was only, as Macau-
lay has described it. ito be coughed
down. or to be left speaking to green
benches and red boxes"
So that. after all. it is johnson who
was. and still remains, the principal
figure of the Literary club. No one
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The Baltimore Sun. after cursory
examination and estimate of the ele-
ments ANA forces of dscord now "in
sight" in the Philippine Archipelago.
thinks they are quite sufficient to fur
nish us with war for two or three cen
turtles. with annual intcrnlsslons for
rest and rcfrcshment during the rainy
season. wherein no man not fully ac-
climated and amphibiatcd may fight
with that ease and comfort which even
our Irish friends desire in their bo1-
ligerent diversions.
According to the sun and HTarpsr's
Weekly. we have SO far come in COLT
sion only with the Quakcrs of the
Philippine Peace Alliance, ami that the
really warlke tribes have not va; boan
encountered by our troops Focmen
worthy of our steel arc vet 10 be- fonnd
In the Moors and Saraccns who pro-
dnced heroes worthy to he matched
with the chivalry OF Christcndom.
These are not likely to he scrylc an
prentices to Western masters