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New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
JOHNS HOPKINS.

Baltimore. Nov o (speciaD-The Board Of
Trustees of Johns Hopkins University at It's resu-
lar monthly meeting. held Monday afternoon
elected James l. McLane president to succeed the
late c. Morton Stewart. who died at Old Point
Comfort in the summer recess. Mr.. McLane Is per-
haps the most widely known of the men who have
entered the Board since the passing away OF the
original members. He had been actively associated
with the business of the university for nearly eight
years, and for :he last two three years had
been chairman of the Executive Committee He was
one of the prominent lawyers OF Baltimore. and
was also the president of the National Bank OF
Baltimore
The Young Mems Christian Association OF the
university has been taking religious of the
students of the philosophical department. The
phllosophical department numbers about 3'o stu
dents Blanks have been to nearly all of them.
but definite answers have been received from only
25I. OF the 2J4 the Episcopal Church In its two
branches. Protestant and Reformed. has 66. or 26
per cent; the Presbyterian. g. or 25 per cent; the
Methodist 46, Is per cent: the Lutheran, %, or
per cent: the Baptist and Congregational each 16
or per cent; the Jews. 49, or per cent; the
Friends Society. I. or per cent and the Roman
Catholic Church. 5. or per cent.
majority of the students of the university
active members of the Young Mems Christian As
socaton' and the religious life is comparatively
high. In the first month of the college year sixty
SIX new applications for membership were received
by Secretary Perkins,
Dr. Henry Skinner West. 90 who was this year
made associate in English. has resigned to take
,Dr Dyer. who was appointed in June to be as
SlStant professor ia physiology, has resigned. to
Ia tSke & the Professor5hp OF physiology in the College
OF PhyS1clanS and Surgeons of Chicago.
Harry Stephenson ByIne. of the senior class has
Deen notned OF his election treasurer of the
National Association Of College Journalists organ
lied In New-York last summer
ne News-Letter. the undergraduate publi-
catlon has come out this year in improved form,
anu rs IN hourishing condition. AT the last meet
ing OF the stan Aubrey Pearse. jr of the freshman
cass' vas elected assistant business manager in
pace OF John NJ: Bandel. 01. promoted to the head
OF the business department ~
Dr. Christopher Johnston has begun a course of
lectures on The Ancient East" These lectures
are III ustrated from the archaeological collections
OF the university, and have proved popular The
scientific and educational courses OF lectures in the
university extension system began on November
with gratifying attendance. Courses were be-
gun IN pedagogy. Latin, physics. botany. meteor
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ONE SAILOR KILLS ANOTHER.
BRAINS HIN WITH WRENCH AFTER
REPEATED QUARRELs.

John Collins forty-two years old an Enshsh
sailor was murdered yesterday morning on board
the steamship Dunstan which was moored at Pier
No T. Martins Stores, Brooklyn. Collins was asleep
in his bunk at the time and the crime apparently
was the result Of old feud between him and a
shpmate named Bernard Corrsan- On the trip
last month from Para Brazil to Brooklyn the
men quarrelled On Thursday night Collins ana
Corrigan got shore leave. and went 10 a Furman-
ST. ship resort. They quarrelIed theSe and until
they returned the ship, when Corrigan drew
knife and cut Collins in 'he cheek Boatswain John
Tupper disarmed Corrigan and sent the men to the
forecastIe about q. Three hours later cries
from Collins aroused the crew. and 1t was found
that his head had been split open by two terrible
ows. Corrigan standing by with wrench
in his hand He was disarmed, and when q ponce
man arrested him it is said he remarked I'm
afraid I killed poor John" Yesterday in the Ad-
ams-st court Corrigan held for examination
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
cH1LD's Guard OVER DRUNKEN MOTHER.

With her bright little three-year-o child, Mamie.
standing guard over her. Mrs Della Cuff. twenty
nine years old. OF No 81 Little-st, was found In
beasuy state OF intoxication in the cellar OF the
house at No. 1,2S1 Bedford-ave. Brooklyn late on
Thursday night. When she was arraigned before
Magistrate Worth in the Gates-ave. court yester-
day morning Mr. Folk. agent for the Society for
the prevention OF Cruelty to Children. asked that
Mamie be committed to the socety's care
Mrs Cuff begged to be allowed to keep the child
and t1ld pf5fal story She said that her husband
the child had been their way to friends house
TO get something to eat when she had been over
come oy desire Tor something to drink She
promised never to drink again and declared that it
"oEo Sa Mi heT 20 ne separated from her baby
appeal and decided to give her chance to reform
with her "--- NooA -aldiulo
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
TRINITY.

Hartford, Conn. Nov. (speciaD.-Trinity has
this year added professor and four instructors
TO her teaching stan. Charles Lincoln Edwards
(Ph D.. Lepsic). lately of Cincinnati University,
Is now in charge of the new Hall of Natural Sci
ence and has chosen his assistant in the de-
partment of geology Clarence Wilson Hahn, B. S.
Cincinnati President Smiths classes in mental
science and some OF his duties as college chaplain
are now taken by the Rev. Herman LilienthaI
(M. A. Trinity. George Pendletou Watkins A. b.
a prize winner at Cornell, has been appointed as
sstant in the department of economics. John D.
Flynn (B. A. Trinity Is filling the place OF Dr.
Flavel s. Luther, professor of mathematics who is
at present abroad on years leave OF absence.
The college library has been presented by DR. G.
BIRDS OF America"
The subjects for defamation in competition for
the WhtloCk prizes have been announced The
competition is open To the Junior and senior
classes. The writer's of the best five essays handed
In receive the alumni prizes OF $40 each, and are
allowed to compete for the Whitlock prizes of
$50 and SO
The Hartford Admittitur prize OF $50. awarded
yearly 10 the member of the incoming class passing
the best entrance examination from the Hartford
High School, has been won by Bayard Quincy Nor
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
CoNFEssEs TO RoBBING THE NAILS.

Patrick F. Ryan. a postal clerk at the Coney
Island station. Brooklyn arrested yesterday by
Postofice Inspector Boyle a charge Of robbing
the mails On September H. 1894. he appointed
clerk in the General Postofce and la ter trans
ferred to Station and then Coney Island.
where he has served about a year and a half.
Complaints of the loss of mail matter have been
coming in from the Coney Island district for six
weeks. and yesterday Inspector Boyle caught Ryan
on the first test letter sent through the mails. 1t
was sent from the main office IN the first delivery.
reaching Coney Island time. but not found
in the mail OF the person TO whom 1t directed.
Ryan denied any knowledge of 1t, and offered to
be searched Inspector Boyle however. made Ryan
take from the registry fund and stamp money five
one-doliar bills which had been sent in the test
letter and marked for Identification, and when their
numbers were called off they were forthcoming.
RYAN then admitted that he had taken the test let
ter from the mail and had exchanged the money,
believing no one would question the office funds
He was taken before United States Commissioner
More and held in 81 bail for the Grand Jury
his plea OF guilty. Ryan lives at No. 156 Schermer-
horn-st., Brooklyn. and has been married about
year.
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
YALE.

New-Haven Conn. Nov. (specfaD-several
valuable collections have recently been given TO the
Peabody Museum of Natural History Professor
Beecher has given a OF fossils and Indian relics
collected by him in Colorado and Professor
Brewer and DR.. Coe have presented two Alaskan
totem poles. A valuable collection of Egyptian
antiquities has been secured for the museum. and
IS now It's way TO this country. The authorities
OF the museum are engaged in restoring n prehs-
toric dinosaur thirty feet In length. the bones OF
which were found some years ago near the Black
Hills of Dakota.
fellowship to be known as the CuyIer
Fellowship yielding income of $500 has been
given 10 the university by Thomas De Witt Cuyler
Yale, -. and Miss Eleanor De Graf Cuyler IN
memory OF n brother. who died after his
graduation from Yale in 1882. The fellowship will
be awarded annually 10 n graduate of the academ-
ical department pursuing professional studies
IN New-Haven
Undergraduates have received with favor the an
nouncement that students will again be employed
as walters IN the university dining hall The ex-
pertinent of having professional paid walters has
proved unsatisfactory. Many seIf-support!ng stu
dents earn their table board by waiting on table
and to this class of the announcement Is es-
pecially pleasing 1t Is interesting comment on
the democracy of Yale life that student NAV
adopt this method of supporting himself without in
the least lowering his social status among his
classmates
The first OF the university symphony concerts
was given in the Hyperion Theatre on Thursday
afternoon under the direction OF Professor Horato
w. Parker. The chief orchestral work presented
was Rhenberger's 'Wallensteins Tod Among the
shorter pieces the programme was the overture
10 Wagners "Meistersinger." The symphony Or
chestra has gained steadily IN recent years both
in the excellence Of its performances and in the
enthusiastic support which 1t is receiving in Tho
university and in the town " ~
Last Saturday evening the japanese students OF
the university held a meeting In West Divinity
Iia to celebrate the anniversary Of the Mikado|Is
birthday. The recent edict of the Empernr or
The Moral Character of Education was read
ana ana tne japanese national songs were sung. Yale
the current year twelve of the Mikado's subjects
are registered In the several departments ths
larger number being in the graduate department
One OF these Is woman. On Wednesday evening
Henlly Shochi Ohara. OF Chbakon Janan Iectnrnd
before the Political Science Club on Statistics OF
Several interesting public lectures have been de-
livered this week: On Wednesday Barr Feree ~
the Brooklyn Institute lectured on the "Cathedraia
Of Of Amiens and Rheims" and on the same evening
Course British Rule in India"
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
RRYN MAWR.

Bryn Mawr. Penn. Nov. (SpeciaD.-some inter-
estng facts regarding the progress OF education in
the South are revealed hy recently compiled stats-
tics of Bryn Mawr College. These show that Of the
whole number OF graduates OF Bryn Mawr. II Is per
cent come from Southern States Three Southern
girls have European felowshIps and eleven
have held resident feowships. Three OF the South
ern graduates hold collegiate positions. and over
one-third are teaching in schools AT present Bryn
Mawr has enrolled Ssi students. twenty-seven OF
whom from the South. II II be remembered
that the facilities for education in the South have
been small until recently II will he understood that
these figures show remarkable advance in per-
the hardest educational held-the higher edu-
cation of women.
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
HOLD POSSESSION OF a TRAIN.
FINALLY A merry CROWD OF EAST NETWORK.
ERs WALK HOME FROM THE LOOP.

FINALLY merry CROWD OF EAST NEW-YoRk-
ERs WALK HOME FROM THE LOOP.
''The train is coming around the BEND sang one
hundred Indignant but jolly East New-York resi-
dents as they held the fort on Thursday night In
an abandoned train the sidetrack Of the Kings
County Elevated Railroad at Alabama-ave. and the
Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. They were waiting
for the company to take them TO the end OF the
line. They became tired OF waiting about IL o'clock
and decided to walk home.
It was O'Clock when the train rolled into the
LOOP" and the passengers were ordered to trans
fer.
Let US stay in the and make them take US to
the city line said legal looking man. I'VE have
paid fare for continuous ride and are en-
titled to it,"
The others cheered and kept their seats in spite
of remonsrances. and finally orders were received
the train up to the yard. When they ar
rived there the passengers stil stuck 10 The car
and proceeded to make merry Down below the
smalf boys. getting wind of what was going on
above. got up celebration OF their own; such
racket made that the company finally called
upon the police. The police could see no nfraction
of the law and stood calmly by enjoying the sport.
After wait of two hours home called SO loudly
motion adjourn Subject TO the call OF the
Chair" unanimously carried.
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
vacation. and T. vedder

IL taking his place. 0h
DR.. c. C.. Bushnell. formerly assistant in al.
at Union College has become assistant In Latin a.
Syracuse University.
The class of 04 of the Albany Medical CoIIaga
has elected the following officers: President AIbsSS
Van Der Veer. of Albany; vtce-president Csuy ~
Wilson. of Masonville; secretary. Daniel u
OLeary. of Albany; treasurer, L. Shaw of Ian.
singburg; marshal. Robert J. O'Brien, OF Wafs-
yliet. and sergeant-at-arms. George L. Branch Of
Corinth ~
The officers of the class OF O2 of the Law IA
partment President, Melvin T. Bender: vfce-
president, Wilbur w. Chamber; secretary "a "
Darrin: treasurer, Edward G. Conway: orator
George E. Pike; addresser. Frank NJ Hickok:
proDhet. James F Nolan: historian, J. + Nc,
Mullen; toastmaster. Raymond Finn and marshal
Ezra A. Barnes.
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
VASSAR.

Last Saturday the senior parlor was formaI,v
opened by reception given to the sophomores In
the afternoon and to the faculty in the evening
Miss Reahan1. chairman OF the ParIor Comn,Ittee.
Miss Jackson. president OF the senior class an5
Miss Van AIMEE. president OF the sophomore cI.ss
received.
Two contests in college athletics have been de-
cded this week. Miss J. Lockwood won ,bs taa,t-
Championship. and the team OF 'O1 finally secured
the basketball championship for the year ees u
The Friday following THANKSGIVING which a. ~.
day of the annual Philaethean receptfon VIII -.
whole holiday this year. the faculty having grantaj
the petition Of the Students Association asEing
this ie
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department Of oratory. the cup in the handicap
golf match for faculty women. which was played
over the course OF the ithaca Country Club last
Saturday. .
The big totem pole " IN DR.. Fernow brought
back from Alaska last has last found a
resting place in the in McGraw Hail. II
necessary cut six f. It off the end OF the pole
get il into the museum.
As result Of competition among upper elas Gas
places The Era the literary monthly OF the
university: Miss L. NJ Pulg, o. Brooklyn; j.
r. Paterson. '02 Pittsburg Penn. and W. w MACK
o. New-York.
The Cornell Athletic Council has acted fayoraoly
the proposition of assisting the New YORK Avn.
letic Club to raise funds for suitable
to Father Bill Curtis the patron or interCoi-
legate athletics, who perished in snowsorIn Oh
the White Mountains last spring. The ralslHIs ~
Cornells share has been put into the hands ol
track team management. and popular STUDENT suo
scrption win be taken.
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
CORNELL

ithaca, N Y. Nov. observation-disclosures 7 w
jerks has returned from New-York after errapein
for course OF special lectures to be delivered ,n
the course Of the winter term to students In tb.
various political science courses and tho un,,,o,
at large. James Reynolds. head worker IN ,ba
University Settlement in NewYork will deliver five
lectures on "The Problems OF Great CITY" Ex
Superintendent Brockway Of the Elmira Retorr,
atory will give five lectures THE Criminal and
His Relations to Society" Modern B,1sinAss g.
Its Relation to Labor" will be the topic Of eya
lectures by Samuel Gompers. president OF the
American Federation Of Labor. Judge Ebert NJ
Gray. president OF the Federal Steel Comnan,,
will lecture on Modern Business Methods" Jobn
W. Foster will give five addresses on "'The ratar
History of American Diploma cy" This series was ~
have been given last year. but Mr.. Fosters iunesv
prevented 1t is likely that Oscar S. straus. Amer
lean Minister to Turkey. will deliver ct least one
lecture similar subject
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In New-yor,,
has presented to the Cornell Museum of Casts
cast of the Gortyna inscription. which was found
in Crete in 1854
An extraordinary interest in debating Is hahn,
shown in all classes Of the university. All excant
two of the limited membership of the Fresbr,a
Debate Club have already qualified. For tho e.
vacancies in the Jacob Gould Schurman C,Iuh
twelve sophomores competed. This unusual activjty
early in the year means that excellent mster,o,
will be developed for the intercollegiate debatIn
team which Is to meet Columbia and Other ot
leges in the spring.
The Cornell Masque has elected twenty navv r,o
bers mostly from the sophomore class and rrt,,
begin work soon on a play for junior week
professional instructor has been engaged in N
York. The organization will give several entor
tainments this winter '
Renewed effort is to be made to raise .aa,.,
funds for an alumni hall. which 1t is pronosad -
build on the campus opposite the univsra,.
armory. 1t is to be modelled after the 9on.+os
Ciuo' at the University of Pennsylvania Tha
aiuIhni committee In charge of raising the neces
sary fund has secured $500, Of which q 50o go
as memorials from the last two graduating classas
Inc class OF 0l win probably give $1,000 to the fs
SUBSCRIPTION OF $4,000 from ex-President nSn Io.
y. y White Will become available as soon as th 1w
alumni have raised $50 600 ~ Soo" as the
Professor Roberts, of the College ~ A,.,.,.
Ieports growing demand for graduates to ae' re
eprns @ superinIenosnts and assistants on big WesF
SLn ms Nearly every week he received lattss-
training. WIN university
Mira Duncan c. Lee. wife Of Professor Lea. Of N.
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
TIE REV. F. ". HANNAN CALLED.
SURPRISE IN THE BUsHwIcK AVENUE METH
oDIsT EPISCOPAL CHURCH

The Rev. F. ". Hannah. OF the First Methodist
Episcopa! Church. in Waterbury. Conn. has been
invited 10 become the pastor of the Bushwick
Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. Brooklyn TO
succeed the Rev. William A. Layton. This has been
a great surprise to friends OF Mr Layton outside
OF the church. II had been generally supposed
He has worked hard and faithfully and is about to
begin the erection Of a new house of worship. This
latter step has become necessary through the de-
cision Of the Central Church: whose building has
been sold for the approach of the East River
Bridge. TO unite with the Bushwick-ave. church.
Many of the details Of this new work have
be carried out by Mr.. Hannah. who 1t Is under
stood, will succeed him after the next conference
to be held in Brooklyn next April.
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
]. Hurry. Indians. and secretary and treasurer.

G. j. Hurry. Indiana, and secretary and treasurer,
F. H. Bulley, New-York.
Professor Grosvenor will represent the college at
a meeting of the Alumni Association Of New-York
be held on November q at the University Club
The finals in the interfraternity tennis tourna-
ment have been played off. Giese and Richsrdson son
(Alpha Delta PhD won the championship by DE-
feating Watson and Plimpton (Psi Cpsilonl
The chairman of the Junior Promenade Com
mittee. James L. Fords jr, has appointed the Ioi-
lowing men to serve with him on the committees
Charles W. Anderson. New-Jersey; Frank n
Buley, New-Iork; Prentiss Cornell New-forx, ana
David Shilling, Massachusetts,
j. w Ladd, of Portland, Ore. has restored the
prizes in public speaking which were Withdrawn
last year on account of the death of Mr. Hogan
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
JAMES BLLGER DEAD.

Babylon Long Island Nov. e-Jarnes Bulger died
hero last night at his home. in West Main-st.. in
his seventy-ninth year. He born In Ireland. He
esta blished machine shop IN the Eastern District
Brooklyn and prospered in business Mr.. Bulger's
eyes failed him about twelve years ago and he be-
came totally blind
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
AMHERST.

Amherst. Mass. Nov (specaD.-A new general
catalogue of the college has just been published
This catalogue gives the names of all the grad
yates OF Amherst, together with the important civil
and political of1ces some have held as we'll as the
honorary degrees received. 1t also contains a COM
plete list Of the presidents. trustees officers and
professors of the college. 1t shows the whole
number of alumni to be 4.l5s
At a meeting OF the Cotillon Club the following
officers for the ensuing year were elected: Presi-
dent, n L Watson, Psnnsyivania; yics-president
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
NORMAL COLLEGE.

The Alumne Association of Normal College will
he represented. at the convention OF the New-York
Federation OF Womens Clubs at Albany on No
vember IL, IL and II by DR.. Elizabeth Jarrett and
Miss L. Marie Pierce.
The Committee Child Study will hold confer
ences on The Management OF Children on tho
first Monday of each month from this month 70
April. at p. m. Mothers and teachers are Invited
to attend
The alumnae Shakespeare and literature class
opens te twelfth term on November l2 with a Iect-
The Literature OF the South OF FJIrona
After, the Revival OF Letters by Mrs L. g.
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
INSPECTION OF TROOP G.

The annual inspection and muster of Troop G.
n. 9. -. z. VIII take place this afternoon on the
Prospect Park Parade Ground Major Edward
Greer. aid on the stan Of Major-General Charles
F. Roe. will be the inspecting officer. The troop
VIII leave the armory at 1:5o o'clock under the COM
7nand of Captain Charles /. Debevoise In addition
10 the regular drill and dress parade Major Greer
VII cau upon non-commiss:oned oficer TO drill
NAItA
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
SMITH.

Northampton Mass. Nov. (SpeciaD-The Phi
Kappa Psi Chapter will hold it's first open meeting
tomorrow evening Edward Waldo Emerson of
Concord. will give address on 'The Life and
" ork of Thoreau."
In the sixth and last round of the annual fall
tennis tournament Miss Helen Walker o. won the
championship.
DR.. Brady entertained his advanced classes in
Latin Friday evening at his home and told
them some thing of his work in the last year which
he spent abroad. studying principally in the Amer
ican School Rome for the study of Latin
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
A FATAL ATTACK on TROLLEY cAP

William H. Turner. of No. 245 Emerson Plac.
Brooklyn, while passenger on a De Kalb-ave
trolley car. In Brooklyn. yesterday afternoon was
taken with heart trouble and died almost instantly.
He was eighty years old. The car. which was at
De Kalb and Classon aIes., was stopned and an
ambulance surgeon called from the Rrooklvn
Hospital. but the doctor said that the man was
beyOnd ali aid ~- ''~S
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
4 TELEPHONE ROOM BUByFD

The telephone room in the New-York and Queens
County Railway Company's building in Borden
ave-, Long Island City, was burned about 5 o'clock
yesterday morning. The fire was caused by the
crossing Of telephone wire and an electric light
wire The loss is estimated at $500
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
TO REPAIR DISCIPLINARY soHooL

At the meeting of the Board OF Public Improve
1lerts yesterday afternoon resolution was adopted
authorizing the appropriation of $4,000 the use
OF Commissioner KeaTny TO make iuuroyeuents IN
the the Brooaiyn Disciplinary Training school It will
ipal Assembly and the Board OF Estimate
similar resolution was killed last year In the Muntc
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT IN THE FOOT.

Huntington. Long Island. Nov. e.-Edward Prime
sixteen years old the of Commander Ebenezer
S. Prime. Of the United States Navy. shot in
the foot while out hunting with David Carll a
colored boy, yesterday. Cdrps gun accidental
ly discharged and twenty bird shot entered young
Primes foot
New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
MUSEUM FREE LECTURE.

Professor William H Goodyear will lecture on
Considerations of 'Repose' In Greek Art" at the
Brooklyn Institute Museum. in Eastern Parkway
at o'clock this afternoon. The lecture will be H.
Illustrated with lantern photographs No tickets are
REQUIRED. $4,000 --0