Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-27
Governor Roosevelt Scores His First
Victory Over the Machine.
PROMINENT CUBANS IN new YORK
Society Women Are Organizing All
Sorts of Clubs.
A TRAP SHOOTING MATCH
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

NEW YORK. January 26 1899.
All the indications point to the fact that
Gov Roosevelt has scored his first victory
over the so-called machine by appointing
men OF his own choosing to assist in con-
Quoting the canal prosecution. He has an
nounced the appointment of Austin G. Fox
and Wallace MacFarlane. two democrats,
of Manhattan. 1t is stated that he is still
feeling good over his action. He says he
really feels like President Low did after
he had presented a million dollars to CO.
lumbia College. He has performed one of
the most important acts of his administra-
ton, has secured two good men, and they
understand they are TO conduct the prose-
cution of persons charged with wrongdo-
ing in connection with the canals with alb
solute fairness and impartiality, so that any
one guilty of betraying the interests of the
state shall be punished.
If the estimate CT the board of health IS
to be believed the city of New York Will
have population on July l of $3.50, 033.
This is an increase of .154 over the esti-
mate of the same board for July l, 1898.
These estimates are made by the health
board as basis for figuring the death rate,
and are more or less guess work in the
absence Of any census.
On the newly estimated popuati ton the
death rate for the first week in this month
was 22.36 per 900. This is an increase in
the death rate of more than per 1000
since Tammany assumed control of the
city. Soon after January ], 1898. the health
board figured out a death rate, on the esti-
mate given above. for July l, 1898, of 17.O1
per LOCO. This was about the lowest rate,
honest or fictitious, the city ever had. For
the last week IN January, 1898. the deaths
in this city were 1,121, and for the last
week of December. 1860. The board of
health gives no explanation of this in
crease
Sister of Gov. Mora.
FREDERICK Mora. the civil governor of
Cuba who was recently appointed, has
sister in the borough of Brooklyn, in the
person Of Mrs. Avelna Mora FORBADE, a.
widow. Mrs FORBADE the wife of
wealthy Cuban planter, who died ten years
ago, leaving six children. Forcade's father
was very well-to-do, and when he died he
left estate valued at S10uU,000, which
was divided among four children. Before
the ten years in Cuba FORBADE had
amassed considerable wealth, but he was
forced to leave it all behind when the
Spanish government forced him to flee to
America. After the war he returned to
Cuba and once more be- anne prosperous.
After his death his sons carried on his
business until the breaking out of the last
war between the Cubans and the Span
iardS, when Mrs. FORBADE and her three
daughters, Amelia, Josephine and Emile,
and her son Pietro, again came to America,
settling in Brooklyn.
This is the season of the year when every
woman is asking every other woman to
join some sort of class or club Those who
are not going to Europe. to Bermuda, Palm
Beach. or Aiken are buSying themselves
with arranging and framing some sort of
excuse 10 meet once week during the
painfully stupid season of Lent as a
fashionable woman was heard calling il the
other day. There is a sewing class organ
lied by Mrs AStOr. Mrs. Mortimer Brooks.
Mrs. Lloyd Brice. Mrs. Frederic Bronson
and others, which meets every Thursday
morning in different houses lat the two
ends of town.. which is very prosperous
and the meetings are well attended The
members of this class sew for the Lying-in
Hospital. Those who cannot or do not
wish 10 sew themselves take their little red
and gray flannel garments home and have
their maids make them for them. There is
music or some sort of entertainment at
these meetings every week, and the morn
ings pass quickly and pleasantly.
There is also an organized sewing class
which meets once a week at different
houses, and the members sew for tie ba-
bies' ward of the Post Graduate Hospital.
Besides these two sewing classes there are
innumerable others among the different
sets of young girls. which are organized
and carried on very much on the same prin-
ciple. only without the entertainments be-
ing thrown in. A musical club has been
formed, Miss Justine Cutting, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Bayard Cutting being the
prime mover of it. Only persons who love
music for itself have been invited to belong.
The members are to meet once a week at
each others houses.
Novel Trap Shooting Match.
A novelty in trap shooting is a tourna-
ment planned by Elmer Z. Shaner acting
under authority from the National Sports
mans Association, to be held the roof
of Madison Square Garden. The dates
lected for the competition, which will be
at fnanimate targets, are from March
to H. inclusive, and details have been
far arranged that already the managers of
the competition have been notified by many
prominent wing shots of their desire to
enter in the shoots. The roof of the big
Madison Square Garden has been examined
by experts, who have pronounced it per-
fectly suitable for the purpose it is to be
put to. There is room for q SiXteen-yard
rise, and a target flight of forty yards
more, and the only shortening of the
roof is that the angle may be somewhat
more restricted than in the open air be-
cause of the positions of the walls. The
shooting can in no way disturb the resi-
dents of the neighborhood the experts say.
as the elevation is such that the gun shots
cannot be heard.
The money values guaranteed will be
liberal enough to attract all the best trap
shots in the country. Among those who
have signified their intention to engage in
the shooting are r. o. Hekes. K. d. Full
ford, ]. r. Elliott, Edward Banks. Ed. Tay-
lor, w. NJ. Thomas, A. H. and w. S. King
Bob" Fitzsimmons and Jim" Jeffries
are said to be making toward this center
in anticipation of arranging a pugilistic
contest. On the FtZsimmons side there
are the arguments of the public, prayers
that he should fight some one soon and
stop all twaddle and bunco. On the Jeffries
platform is William A. Brady. who sees a
boom in matters pugilistic, and has taken
Jeffres as his battering ram to get crack
at ANYBODY, Fitzsimmons preferred.
Brady cannot lose anything. All he wants
is "A man to match against Fitzsimmons,
and he has nailed him in Jeffries. The los
ers end of a purse between these two would
be quite a little. and even If there were no
losers end of the purse there is a possibility
of Ietfries winning, and in such an event
Brady would have nailed a good piece of
goods. for Jeffries would be away up in
pugiliSm, and Brady, with his good money
making judgment, would have him doing
heading roles and heavies'' as fast as the
billing could be done.
FftzsfmmOns willing to Fight