Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-19

toned in the present dispatches as being of
the team. has already volunteered for the
find it impossible to come. 1t was also
pointed out by several who were seen this
morning in regard to the news that the stir
ring events in the TransvaaI will cause
such men Balfour-Melville. Hutchinson
and Hilton to hesitate long while before
starting off on junketing trip to play golf
in America, owing to the unfeNorable crit
icism sure to follow from the English pub-
lie. The presence Of such a team would be
enthusiastically welcomed, but players here
will need further confirma ton of the report
before they will believe in it's truth.
Collection of Registered Letters.
If the first days returns may he taken
as any Indication, the new post office reeu-
lation, permitting the carrierzcollection Of
registered letters, does not appear to be
greatly appreciated. In nine of the most
thickly settled residential districts above
5&th street, in the boroughs Of Manhattan
and the Bronx, only seven letters were
brought in by carriers yesterday. These
were reports from stations between 50th
street and the Harlem bridge Above the
r!siana, not letter was offered for COL
lection. In the borough Of Brooklyn it is
reported that there was one letter collected.
But the postal authorities think that a
weeks time is necessary before any results
may be obtained on which to base judg-
ment. The letter carriers are guarded in
the expression Of their opinion on the new
arrangement beyond general complaint
that it means another pCcketfuI of blanks
and literature in their already heavy equip
ment. One carrier, however. who has
route full of flats and tenement houses,
voiced his sentiments as follows:
It's all right enough to meet a person
who is waiting for you on the street or on
his doorstep Then you can take his letter,
give him a receipt and move on; but when
a woman sticks her head out of a seventh
aY1fh "a Wl tn, Co,
Mister Mail-carrier, I've got a registered
letter for you, but l can't leave my bakin'.
Won't you please come up and get ft?' One
of that kind is bad enough but what do
we have more than dozen such cases each
trip?"
The Great Brooklyn Revival.
The great revival in Brooklyn, in which
nearly every Protestant Church in the bor-
ough Is actively participating, began We'd
nesday. The first meeting was held in the
big auditorium in the Young Mems Chris
tian Association building. More than a
hundred Brooklyn ministers are interested
the Rev l.. G. Broughton, the noted south
ern preacher, and they are determined to
continue the work from day to day until
every man, woman and child has been per-
sOnaly appealed to- Ministers and laymen
have offered their services as local mission
aries, to be assigned to any work they may
be fitted for by the various committees. For
a week ministers of all denominations have
spent an hour each afternoon at the Fleet
Street Methodist Episcopal Church in prayer
to fit themselves for the work they have
undertaken. The last of these meetings
was held Yesterday. At this meeting it was
made evident by the tone of the prayers
that the ministers of Brooklyn are more
united now than ever before and that a
spirit of oneness has, temporarily at least.
broken down UNCONVENTIONAL fences, and
that BROOKLYN is TODAY grand DariSh
In which Episcopalans, Methodists, Presby-
terians, CongreEationalists, Baptists, Luth-
Grams and all others are working hand in
hand in comon cause.