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The Brunswick times-call., 1901-10-31
PERSONAL
MEN TON
ITEMS OF INTEREST CONCERNING
BRuNSWICKIANS AND THEIR FRIENDS
FROM LOCAL AND OTHER SOURCES.

There has been trouble In the upper
circle of Brunswick's ool0red popula-
tiou for the past few days ADD it GU =
minated yesterday In Judgs Conally's
court by three of the parties being
bound over TO Superior court. Those
bound over were the wife If w, Fl.
Mathews, Mamie Hooley and Lucille
Allen, wife Ct Grant Allen.
The Brunswick times-call., 1901-10-31
MASON'S GRAND LODGE.
Meyerhardt Elected Grand Master and Other
officers Chosen.

Macon, Oct 30-At the session OF the
Grand Lodge of Masons OF Georgia to-
day the following grand Off GERS wert
cleo I'd for the ensulng term:
Grand NJ asEer-Max Meyerhardr.
Deputy G ard MasteE-JO hd d II r.
vell.
Senior Grant W%rdan- Thomas e
Jetfr,y
Junior Grsrd Warden-H.nry Bank,
Graz TrraSurer-J' mes M. Rusbin
The Brunswick times-call., 1901-10-31
SAM JONES AT POPULAR PRICES
Will Lecture at the Grand Saturday Night
Next.

Tickets sre aow On sale ut r ,eming &
WHtf's es p,pui"r pr ces 10 Sam mes
secure s. ara = night a ne one->
bon e. b = 81 j>ot will De Flu
Philosophy and Fac ;. Many seats
nbva already been reserved SUD the
prospect Is good for ful house.
The Brunswick times-call., 1901-10-31

fThHf British steamship Murcia clear.
ed frhm Straohan & Co.'S. dock yestsr-
day bound for Liverpool and Manohes
ter. Her cargo consisted II 10 219 bal o.
cotton, weighing 4,222 664 pounds aud
valued at 1911, 336.2O
The Brunswick times-call., 1901-10-31

PIANO FOR SALE-A moe upr GIT
piaor, 10 be aimlst given away; et.,
CANT tome. Call 81 liz . street and
you will get bsrgSir
The Brunswick times-call., 1901-10-31

Meetings Continue at the Baptist Church.
Meetings tod y ond omorr0w sC 10
in. srd 80 o. ID.
Every sermon Essnge!is. NeighboF
breaches is clear, forceful nj convi0c-
ing Al, ~ho a.tended tie meeti e
hsv been xrea IL ntload And NI~sstd
The Brunswick times-call., 1901-10-31
At the Grand Last Night.

T p esenration OF Til slma ~ the
G and las night wa isapOio maBt
20 the entire audience, The sy is
capa ne ot pse entstion but the COM
p ny is not up 10 b, ssn1rrd
The Brunswick times-call., 1901-10-31

Mr.. w, F. Parker, formerly a clti-
zen of Brnnswiok ard p member OF
the fiem of ConeY & Parker, now living
in Baltimore, is In the city on WISH
and il being welcomed by hia many
old friends.
The Brunswick times-call., 1901-10-31

M. Lee Townsend, repr esanttag the
Pride ct Jen NICE" was In she otis
yesterday arranging tl1al details for
the prod notion OF th,s great rom4ndo
drama. He examined the opera house
and says the stage is fully adequate for
tue 1ew and complete scsntc on tit car,
ried by the company.
The Brunswick times-call., 1901-10-31

1t ID reported that Sam ones " II b.
IN Brunswick oext Sunday 40 wiil
preach either afternoon Or n glt. This
Is nut ut all prob aba, as Mr. JInes'
engagement are such that he Will prob.
sb'y have to leave Immediately after
his lecture It me operS hanse en- S4s-
u'daY night NJ dub macy will
ts Ike advan.ags of Ihe oypof u CITY 80
hear him 10 d lecture whera ne alwsys
has scope for his wit and literary 8.
MIR. Chsrl F. Does 1lpgsr leaves this
morning 20 ~ 90 tue road in atva, g
Of Guy Wood ward's Wanted a FAM
y" Co. Chsrl!e will make a good ad
vance mao and his msny ,r,ends here
wish ntm ev-r3 ucce.e.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
THE BLACK DEATH.
elsewhere

The pity and sympathy of compassionate
New-York may well go out TO hapless Cape
Colony, where the bubonic plague is raging
with great virulence and the death rate climb
ing TO figures which cause serious anxiety.
In America this hideous pestence has been
almost unknown except in the filthiest quarters
of the Chinatown of San Francisco II is gen
orally believed among experts that IL is not
likely 10 spread to any serious extent among
Europeans and Americans in communities in
which the streets the sewers and the homes
in the districts crowded by the poor are kept
In proper sanitary condition. There is no occa-
sion for alarm over the possibility of the plague
gaining a fOothOld in New York and claiming
a host of victims here as it has done in con-
gested centres OF population in Asia.
Nevertheless, this is the true Black Death
which swept over Europe in the time of
Boccaccio, and sent millions of men, women
and children 10 a premature doom. 1t is the
same plague which made charnel house of
London when the Merry Monarch was on the
throne, and its destructive conquest of the
british capital was vividly described by De
Foe Its venom and deadliness are not sur
passed by the infection of any other malady
which ever afflicted humanity. But unlike
smallpox, which affects the clean as well as
iHc ullNltdL, unlFSS illt S'iltEuilh VI NdCCilld-
tion is made use Of the Black Death in this
era rarely attacks the homes which are we'll
cared for or the people whose habits, diet and
surroundings cOnduce to health. Smallpox. I'M
less warded off by the vaccine virus, is almost
as likely TO infect a household on Murray Hill
as on Cherry Hill, if there is exposure TO
contagion. And it may be remarked with truth
that New Workers are becoming altogether too
careless and Indifferent in respect to vaccina-
tion. Too many of them are content TO incur
serious risk of smallpox, a disease which is
now uncOmmonly prevalent in many parts of
this country and of which there are many
eases in New-York. And the number of these
cases here is not diminishing. The Health De
partment is sounding loud notes of warning
and is providing liberal facilities for free
vaccination. But multitudes of our people in
sst upon shutting their ears and refusing TO
take heed.
The Black Death is so ghastly a horror that
quarantine departments and local health of
ficers in every country should be on their guard
and strive in every way TO prevent its entrance
into places where it has not yet advanced But
the peril of smallpox 10 the unvaccinated is
grave and disturbing at the present time. If
the entire population We're vaccinated SMALLPOX
would soon disappear entirely. But in the con
ditions of to-day it is menace to those who
refuse 10 armor themselves against it,
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
OTHER HIGHWAYS NEEDED.

Tho LATEST nroposal for relieving the con-
pestion of traffic on Fifthaye. did not COM
, mend itself to the city authorities 1t is that
the roadway shall be widened sixteen feet by
taking eight feet from each sidewalk. Beyond
doubt such widening of the roadway. making
il possible for three more vehicles TO travel
abreast along ii. would in itself be good thing.
1t is a thousand pities the street was not made
so wide or even wider. when il originally
laid out. But we fear ii is now too late. For
such narrowing of the sidewalks would produce
upon them a congestion bad in its way as
that which now prevails in the driveway. And
if that should be Temedied by adding TO the
sidewalks the space now between the stOop line
and the building line. and the sidewalks should
thus be kept at their present width, many of
the buildings might he hopelessly mutilated
and the appearance of the avenue would be
spoiled
The remedy for the present congestion is
rather We believe, to be found in a dimnution
of traffic. by restricting traffic upon that ave-
nue. TO that which properly belongs there. Al
the present time Fifth-ave. is the general thor
oughfare for north and south traffic, no matter
upon which other highway ii naturally belongs.
Thus, trucks and drays going from SiXth-ave.
and Tenth-st. TO Sixthave. and Fiftieth-St.
make the trip by way of Fifth-ave. So.
teamster wishing 70 go from Third-ave. and
Fourteenth-st TO Third-ave. and One-hundred-
and-twenty -fifth-st. does by way of Fifth
ave. Nor can we greatly blame him for doing
so. Fifth-ave is free from trolley and
elevated railroad. and has an incOmparably bet
ter pavement than the other avenues-excepting
Eighth-aye.-and is therefore pleasanter, safer
and far easier to traverse. Yet it is a mani
fest injustice to have this highway over
crowded and the traffic which belongs upon it
incommoded by the influx of traffic which he
longs elsewhere.
A measure restricting the use of Fifthave.
TO legitimate Fifth-ave traffic should, however,
certainly be accompanied by others making
other highways equally suitable for use. Sew
enth-ave.. for example. is broad, and practi-
cally free from cars. but it is vilely paved. If
il were asphalted it would make an even more
desirable highway, as far as Central Park, for
its gradients are much easier than those On
Fifth-ave. Similarly. if FOurth-ave. and Third
ave. were properly paved business traffic could
make use of them 10 advantage and TO the
relief of Fifth-ave We do not mean, of course
that all business traffic should he excluded from
Fifth-ave From Fourteenth-st. 10 Forty-sec-
ond-st il is now chiefly a business street. and
much business traffic legitimately belongs upon
il. But the traffic which does not belong upon
il should be excluded from it. and such ex-
clusion should be facilitated and commended in
the provision of equally desirable thoroughfares
elsewhere.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
4 NEGLECTED TRANSIT ROUTE.

The abominable crowding. uncomfortable.
indecent and dangerous on the Brooklyn Bridge
trolley cars is attributed TO the circumstance
that the carrying capacity of the bridge is not
sufficient for cars enough to accommodate the
throngs which seek TO travel by that route.
Doubtless that is true But that is by no means
satisfactory excuse for existing conditions.
There are other routes of travel between Man
haitian and Brooklyn which are not utilized 10
anything like their legitimate capacity. If they
were properly utilized there would be material
relief experienced on the bridge
We refer to the ferries. and especially TO Full
ton Wall-st. and South ferries. once the chief
means of transit between the two cities. They
are now little patronzed. even by those who
should naturally use them rather than the
bridge. Men habitually come from Wallst. to
the bridge instead of going down to the ferry.
Men whose places OF business are within a
block or two of Fulton Ferry walk five TO ten
blocks TO get 10 the bridge instead OF crossing
the ferry. Why?
One of the chief reasons, beyond all doubt, is
that there are 10 adequate transit facilities pro-
vided AT the Brooklyn ends of those ferries. II
one crosses Wall-st. ferry he finds nothing but
dingy little cable car which makes occasional
trips up MOntague-st. 10 COurt-st., where the
passenger who wishes to go further must trans
fer 10 another line and run his chances of cling
ing to the outside OF the dashboard of an already
Overcrowded car from the bridge. If one crosses
South Ferry the situation is little better. He
must ride up 10 Boerum Place and there trans
fer. unless he prefers 10 wait an nterminable
time for possible through car. And the same
is to be said of Fulton Ferry. Any one who
wants TO ride in Court-st car may cross that
ferry with assurance OF being accommodated.
But II he wants any other car he will do well To
cultivate patience.
Well, it is said It is impossible 70 run more
cars to Fulton Ferry, because Futon-st is
already overcrOwded And it is impossible to
run through cars TO the Wallst. ferry, because
the MOntague-st. line cannot be changed 10 n
trolley road. Plausible excuses. but insufficient
There used to be n car line in Furman-st.. begin
ming at Fulton Ferry. passing close by Wall-st
ferry, running 10 South Ferry, and thence going
up Atantic-ave. If that line were reopened and
put to use, it would afford accommodation TO the
Third-ave., Fifth-ave.. Seventh-ave. and Flat
bush-ave. cars. and perhaps to some others
People could then cross any of those three
important ferries with assurance of finding
through cars in waiting at the Brooklyn side
And that route, along little used streets would
prove actually more speedy one than that by
way of the Overcrowded bridge
1t is quite true that when people are in the
habit of going by one route it is difficult to
switch them off to another. But we are inclined
to think there are thousands who would gladly
escape the inferno Of the bridge If such through
route as that which we have suggested were
opened 10 them.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
MONEY AND BUSINESS.

Distribution Of merchandise through retail
and jobbing channels continues of satisfactory
volume, and payments promptly met ex-
cept at a few Southern cities. In manufactur-
ing lines and structural work. however inter-
ruption has occurred, and the future is extreme
ly uncertain. Iron and steel workers are con-
sdering the wage scale for the new fiscal year
and important contracts depend on a satsfac-
tory settlement. In case of an extensive strike
and lockout. II has been suggested that strikers
may readily find employment on the farms but
while reports from farming regions all indicate
that hands will be in great demand II is we'll
known that workmen in the cities do not readily
suffered any appreciable loss to judge by the
changes at st. Louis and Cleveland, more than
80 per cent at Baltimore, Pttsburg Cincinnati
and Louisville; 40 per cent at Boston. and a
per cent at Chicago.
Stock market trading is considered light. but
this is only in comparison with the phenomenal
activity just preceding the panic Sales are still
more than double those of year ago and more
satisfactory in calibre than when indiscriminate "a
buying made disaster probable. Aside from ab
surd fluctuations in Northern Pacific on insie
nfcant sales. price changes are small. sixty
railway stocks rising only 80 cents a share dur-
ing The week. to sos -. IndustriaIs. gas and
traction stocks made more pronounced gains
The outside public has not yet recovered fro,,
the shock of May 8. and trading is largely nro
fessonal. Foreign houses are still in a bad M
sition to deliveries of Northern Pacific stool
Money rules easy and promises 10 continue cb~an
IN the light of the improved pozition OF the as
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
TAKMANrS OPPRESSION OF THE poop

TAENAAFS OPPRESSION OF THE POOR.
While not by any means the sole count in the
indlctment TO be brought against Tammany
Hail. Captain Goddard's charge of oppression
OF the poor by Tammany deserves to be placed
high up in the list. II is common knowledge
that Tammany holds its control by means of
the adherence TO its candidates of voters COM
monty described as belonging 10 the poorer
classes, and that this adherence is TO a large
extent secured and held by means of in
dividual benevOlences on the part of Tammany
leaders. IL is well known that Iammany dis
trict leaders make practice of finding places
FOR men who are out of work, of visiting
families who are in trouble or distress, and in
many cases of lending active and personal as
sistance, which becomes not unnaturaly the
occasion Of sincere gratitude on the part of the
individual helped. In many instances these
benefits are conferred at the expense of the
public but of course that which appeals most
strongly TO the beneficiary is the thing done
and not the moral principle involved.
But II the poor could be made TO understand
the full meaning Of Tammany rule they would
turn from il as from the plague To cause
them TO understand il should be the object Of
the most earnest effort during the coming cam
paign. The conditions which exist in the lower
lions which fulfil the longing and the hope of
those who are forced 10 dwell there If they
knew that enforcement of the laws and an
honest city government would give them sur
roundings OF order cleanliness and purity: if
they had the chance 10 know what these things
mean; If they knew that half of the saualor and
yiciousness, Of the wasting sickness and death
about them, results from the non-enforcement
OF the laws-non- reinforcement sold by Tammany
for price-they would turn their backs ON this
pubic enemy in moment. But heretofore
they have not known all this. They do not
Know IL now. 1t seems TO many that the en-
1orcement of sanitary and building laws. for
instance, would be hardship, and they fancy
that Tammany is doing them kindness i'm
standing between them and the law.
Tammany's oppression of the poor does not
stop with the sale of the non-enforcement of
the building and sanitary laws-laws largely
constituted for the protection OF the poor and
humble IL is oppression of the poor that the
children OF the poor forced to live amid
surroundings OF vice and immortality. and for
This Tammany is responsible because the police
under Tammany tutelage, profit by the exist
ence OF these conditions; IL is oppression of the
poor that, instead Of the rights which the law
gives them, they should have only indulcences
doled out to them by men whose inner nur
poses are always selfish, often criminal; il Is
oppression OF the poor that their children should
- turned AWAY from the schools for lack al
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27

better of his weakness. The system has an
economic as we'll a moral advantage; for il
is far cheaper to maintain probation officers
than to build and maintain jals and reforma-
tories.
The Probation of First Offenders act for
England. enacted in 1881 offers conditional
liberation TO certain classes of offenders hut
those who so exempted from punishment
do not have the benefit of any kindly guidance
and help by probation officers. Lord James of
Hereford introduced a Juvenile Offenders bill
in Parliament last year which would have
remeded this defect, but il was defe1ted by
the cry that it an invasion of personal
liberty. 1t is curious and suggestive fact. by
the way. that in republican America the people
will permit a far greater abridgement Of per-
sonal liberty if it is ostensibly for the public
good than is ordinarily allowed in nonarchical
England. Unlike the probation officers of
Massachusetts. the visitors of the poor in Ger
many appointed under the Elberfeh syst m,
receive no salary But fortunately the service
is looked upon as most honorable. and there is
no difficulty in securing for it men of the high
est character and standing in the community.
Under the benefcent operation of the system
the local expense of poor relief has heen much
reduced, and under the kindly and intelligent
control and guidance of the visitors thrift, in
dustry and morality are promoted. AS result
many of the poor themselves make some pro-
vision for their old age. The Howard AssOcia-
ton commendS the systems of Massachusetts
and Germany TO England, instead of an old age
pension law. advocated by many, under which,
it SAYS. many of the recipients would spend the
money in drink or other dissipation and then
become charges on the parish.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
decorative at best. and mere rococo ornaments
at that
PERSONAL.

A movement has been started in Georgia to per-
petuate the memory of Eli Whitney by converting
into a country club the scene Of his labors near
Augusta. where he perfected his cotton GIN An
organization has been perfected, and charter ior
the club secured.
The Rev. George Grenfell has been commissioned
by Robert Arlington, a wealthy man OF Leeds'
England to establish chain of Christian missions
across Africa. Mr.. GTenfe has long been the
friend and confidant of Leopold. King of the Bel
gans. by whom he was created a commander OF
the Royal Order of the Lion. He was selected oy
the King of the Belgians to act as a special COM
missioner for the delimitation of the Congo from
tier. and travelled a thousand miles on oxback
during his journeyings which occupied two years;
and compelled him to occupy the same tent . ainle'
dangerous surroundings for the whole of that time
Ernest August Renner. of Cincinnati is one OF
the few survivors of the twelve men appointed TO
carry the coffin of Napoleon at the time Of It's
removal from ST. Helena TO its present resting
place in Paris. and he is the only one or tne Twelve
over.
DIR. James Cow the headmaster of the West
minister School. London. is the first layman TO hold
that office since Queen Elizabeth refounded the
school. At Cambridge he chancellor's medaliist
and Fellow of Trinity College, and ne has gwen gwen
further proof of his learning by his books; winch q
embrace such subjects as Greek. mathematics ana
the odeS and epodeS OF Horace
Lord Edward Cecil the soldier of Lord Sails
bury. having obtained his brevet majority in May,
1895. for services in the Dongoa expedition. and
the ID. S. o. for the expedition to khartoum. has
been promoted to brevet lieutenant-colonelcy-
while still a captain in the Grenadier Cuards-as a
reward for his good work at MafekinS, where he
was Major General Baden-POwelrs right hand man
throughout the investment Lord Edward is not
yet thirty-four.
Dubuque. Iowa. May 26-Colonel David B. Hen
derson. Speaker of the House of Representatives,
and his wife started for Europe yesterday for a
three months tour. They will go from New-York
to Old Deer, Aberdeen, Scotland where Colonel
Henderson was born. After visiting Great Britain
they will go to Paris to see their daughter Belle
who is studying music there
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
FIGHTING OVER ESTATES.

Samuel Wood. of Long Island, when he died
some years ago. left provision in his will for
the establishment of a college of music, and
set aside several hundreds of thousands of dol
lars for that institution. 1t is now disclosed
that extensive and prolonged litigation over the
estate has consumed the greater part of the
property. and that there is little prospect that
the college will ever he founded
At some time in the future the people of this
State may perhaps demand that the legislature
shall take some action to diminish the excessive
cost of legal proceedings in disputes over wills
and estates Rightfui heirs are often i'll treated
and despoiled in such contests. and the reason
able wishes of testators are sometimes ruth
iessIy nuIlified.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
PROBATION FOR OFFENDERS

The compulsory probation law for certain
grades of offenders in Massachusetts has proved
so successful in practice as TO attract consid-
cradle attention in England, according to a
pamphlet issued by the Howard Association, of
London. The law first enacted in 1879 an
piled only TO juvenile offenders In the case of
such offenders the court was authorized TO in
trust them 10 the care of probation officers for
a limited time. The children went back TO their
homes, but were legally in the custody Of the
probation officers, who reported on their con-
duct. At later date the law was amended so
as TO make it apply to certain grades of adult
Offenders. especially drunkards and the good
eHects OF the law have been marked Imprison-
nent Tor such offences has practically little de-
terrent effect, and its moral effect is generally
Dad. Drunkards are not necessarily men Of evil
instincts; many of them in fact, would like to
overcome their craving for strong drink. But
when the stigma of Imprisonment is nut ON
such men they are likely TO become reckless
and gravitate rapidly down the path Df moral
obliquity- If, on the other hand, such a man
is allowed to go back 10 his family knowing
that an officer OF the law is at hand to counsel
and help 49, e Is far more likely 10 get the
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
Amrsemfris.

AMERICAN THEATRE-s:l5-Kit Carson
BIJOIy-S:l5-The Climbers.
CASINOS: :l5-FI0rod0ra. zras
CRITERION NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Knghtnooo was
Flower.
pAL.Y'S THEATRES :lO-San Toy.
EDEN MIISEE-The World in Wax
EMPIRE THEATRE-s:l5-Diplomac
GARDEN THEATRE-s:l s:l5-Under Two Flags. ,,.o
GARRICK THEATRES :30-Captain Jinks OF the rO4se
Marines
GRAND OPERA HOTTSE-s-Herrmann-
HAMMER STEMS GARDENS-S-Paradise.
HERALD SQUARE THEATRE-S-The BTlNtoh f2urs4o1S-
KEITH 'S-Continuous Performance
ROSTER & BIALsS-l 49, :s5-N audeviie
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE-S30-On the -ulei-
MURRAY HILL. THEATRE-2-S-The Rivals
-YORK-s: :l5-Vaudeville-The Kings Carnival
PASTOR S-Day and Night-Continuous show - .,
PROCTOR'S FIFTH AVENUE-Strange Aoventufes VI
Miss Brown and Into Darkness and Noveitles -,
PROCTOR'S TWENTY-THfRD STktShI-fihh D"i"'''O
Bitterest Foe and Novelties
PROcTORS FTFTY-ETGHTH STREET.-THE "o'
Novelties.
PROCTORS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ENTf,f. IN
STREET-Niohe Jacks Uncle and SoEelIles-
TERRACE GARDEN-7-Ccncer1-Sl l5-El Captain
wAII.ACK'S THEATRE-s:2O Mistress Nell