New-York tribune., 1906-11-02

merce of the island. initiated improvements in the
ports and proposed to make Porto Ferraio free
the Levantine navigation He made a point of
taking half the expense in every detail of these
matters upon his own shoulders. Often he paid for
them entirely. Notwithstanding the new subsidies;
The municipal expenses of Porto Ferrao exceeded
the receipts, and if private individuals were ruin
oGsly lavish of their fetes and parades in order to
give MN pleasure and keep up the honor or their
dignity, he repaid them royalty.
The work that Samuel Hopkins Hadley did In
the Water Street Mission. established by Jerry
McAuley, is commemorated in a volume-of a
memorial rather than OF biographical nature
written by the Rev. DR.. ]. Wilbur Chapman and
recently published by the Fleming II. Revell
Company A large part of the volume is taken
up with extracts from Mr. HadlGy's book,
Down in Water Street" with accounts of the
funeral and memorial services, the newspaper
comments on his death and the personal testi-
mony Of friends The author contributes a
typical anecdote of the quick and deep sympathy
that Mr.. Hadley felt for the weaH and suffering
as well in death in life:
i was one day sitting with Mr. Hadley on the
piazza OF my home in the country. He was reading
New York paper, when suddenly he said, drop
from from here P d%cky IL Us and sad 5F i iyeSrfm He
it the eephone to he ee egra G ode as in
the near6y ca io~n a. M He 1 had read in the pa?er the
OF her sad career and. without friends to mourn
morgue-of ali the places in the word the mosf oss
desolate. Tears stood in the eyes the great soul
one of his assistants in New York and was to the
effect that the body of the poor lost girl be
taken from the morgue and carried to Water street
She was 70 be furnished at the expense of Mr..
Hadley, with coffin and shroud. and the mis-
sion workers were asked to gather around her poor
worn out body to read Gods Word sing the hymns
of the Church and cry over her misspent life This
was the spirit of S. H Hadley.
William Frederick Dix. the secretary of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company has for many
years been ardent collector of old furniture
and his fad has inspired him with the idea of
Romance of Old Furniture" which is shortly
to be published in the form OF an attractive
gift book by Moffat Yard e Co. with the title
The Face in the Girandole"
Judge Daniel Fish. of Minneapolis who six
years ago published a volume devoted to Lin
coin Literature" has since been in correspond
ence and personal touch with collectors of
Lincolniana in all parts Of the world and has
thus been enabled to correct the errors in his
previous work and largely to add to its COM
pleteness. He has rewritten and
ranged his material Lincoln photography
for Incorporation in the Gettysburg edition of
The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln"
published by the Francis d. Tandy Company. A
limited edition of forty copies of the Rbliog-
raphy'' will be issued as separate publication
printed large paper with facsimile of Lin
coins signature. in the watermark of each page
and illustrated with two photogravure portraits
of Lincoln The volumes will be intereaved with
writing paper TO admit of the expansion of the
volume by the purchasers
Miss Maria Hornor Lansdale, author of the