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LEATHER MANuFAcTuREs.
United States a Leader of Nations-In-
 crease in Value of Boots and Shoes.

Washington, May 26.-The United States as leader among, nations in the manufacture of shoes and the great increase in the value of every kind of boots and shoes are interesting points brought out in report issued by the census bureau, relating to the manufacture of boots and shoes, leath- CT and leather gloves and mittens for 1905. It shows that there were 1,S16 es- establishments engaged In the industry. having $122, 6,09S capital, ,924 wage earners, wages amounting to $SS,O59, ,6S0, cost of materials amounting to $751; S6S, ,495, and products valued at $S2O, 1O7,- 45S. All of these items except the number of establishments show in- creases for the five-year period since the twelfth census. Capital and value of products increased at practically the same rate. Number of establish ments decreased almost IS per cent. since 1900.
 Hides to the number of 17,5S1 ,61S, costing $S9, ,126,593, reported by 669 es- tablishments, represented 46.6 per cent. of the total cost of materials. The use of hemlock and oak bark extract for tanning has increased greatly Sole leather formed more than one-half of the value of all leather manufactured
 At the census of 1905 there was an important concentration of the indus try in the eastern states. Pennsyl- vania, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey reported pro- ducts valued at over $2O0OO,O00. Their combined to,al capital of $171, 764 PAS { was 6S per cent. of the total for the United States.
 Leather gloves and mittens were made in 3S9 establishments. Their to- tai capital was $lO,7O5,5 ,599; their manu- factured products valued at $17,74O, 1885 There were S,S7O,146 dozen pairs of gloves, mittens and gauntlets manu- factured, valued at over $17,OO0,O0O, ar increase since 1900 of Is per cent, in number and almost seven per cent. ir value Kid and leather gloves import ed in 1905 aggregated $4,727, ,4S9.
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ist of the United church, has been visiting in Oxford during the week.
 
 MT. and Mrs. c. D. Holt and MT and Mrs. H. W. Hill of Winthrop ave- nue, are at Atlantic City for few days. They are stopping attthe Den, niS.'
 MT. and Mrs. E. B. Street and fam fly, who have been staying on Chapel street during the winter have gone to their summer home in East Haven. Miss Eneline Street will have as her guest for few days, Miss Evelyn O'Lough- lin.
 A very enjoyable piano recital was given at the home of Miss Kate Lewis, 121 Park street, by Miss Katherine Hall of Wallingford, Friday evening. She was assisted by Miss Norma Lewis on the violin Several persons heard the music and complimented both Miss Lewis and Miss Hall. Following is the programme.
 Bach, Invention B fiat; Beethoven op. 26, two movements; Chopin, waltz, c sharp minor Mendelsshon; Spinning song, Hollaender, andante for violin Miss Norma Lewis; Grieg, To the Spring; Greig, Butterfly, Hollaender march, Gounod; Tell Me, Beautiful Maiden, Miss Lewis, with violin obli- gato; Braungardt, Rustling Woods Listening, Will O. the Wisp; Lescheti- zky Two Sl5ylarks; Francis Schubert violin solo Brahms, Hungarian dance F. Nicolai, Merry Wives of Windsor Miss Hall and Miss Lewis.
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BROWN UNIVERSITY.

The following men have been elected to membership in the Rhode Island Alpha of,Phi Beta Kappa:
 ' Seniors-C, R, Branch, Providence; V. K. Krieble, Lansdale, Pa; c. D.. McEvoy, Providence; T. R. Marshall, Philadelphia, Pa: w. Partridge, Jr, Central Falls; l.. F. Payne, Shelburne Falls, Mass; " A. Schwartz, Newark N.eJ.; B. c. Sinclair, Johnson, Vt.; w. c. Slade, Providence.
 Juniors-D. J. Allen, Stanfordville, N. Y.; s. J. Howe, Providence; C.. J. Hunkins, Laconia, N. H.; A. J. Mary ott, Springfield, Mass; T. Miller, Fall River, Mass; E. J. Olsen, Jr., Provi- dence; E. w. Peckham, Providence; H. T. Stetson, Newton Center, Mass.
 The following members of the univer- sity have been elected to membership in the honorary society of Sigma XI: Miss L. B. Joslin, Attleboro, Mass; ". K. Krieble, Lansdale, Pa; J. J. Mall colm, Providence; H. E. Miller, St. AL bans, Vt; w. C. Slade, Providence; E.. H. Swett, Providence; w. N. Ross, Providence.
 Sunday afternoon in the Union, the Brown Y. M. C. A, held the first of a series of informal discussions, which are to be continued next fall, The topic at this discussion was: "Of Whar should the college mans religion con- sist?"
 Professor William Macdonald of the History department of Brown univer- sity and MT. George r. Winship of the John Garter Brown library, will teach during the summer session of the Uni- versity of California at Berkeley, Cal, from June 24th to August Sd.
 The contest for the Gaston prize medal, the winner of which has the privilege of speaking at commence lnent, was held last week and was won by Joseph Boardman, Jr., of Plymouth. N. H., who took for his subject 'The Promise of the American Drama
 The Hicks prize debate was held Fri day between teams from the sopho- more and junior classes on the question "Resolved that the recent action of the authorities of the United States in re- gard to the Dominican Republic consti- ute a desirable departure in American diplomacy" The prizes which are awarded to the three best speakers, ir- respective of the side they uphold, were announced as follows: First prize to C.. F. Hughes, IT., 'O9, of Albany, N Y., (aff.) second, to D. L. Stone '09 of h. dianapolis, Ind. (aff); and third, to A. c. Tn omas, '0S, of Wakefield, Mass, (neg.).
 Officers were elected for the Civics club for the coming year as follows: President Thomas Miller '0S, of Fall River. Mass; vice-president, Ivory Littlefeld, '09. of Providence; secre- tary-treasurer, R. s. Pinkham, OS of Wollaston, Mass.
 Last week a meeting was held in Sayles hall in the interests of interna- tional peace and arbitration, the prin- cipal speaker being Rabbi Charles Fleischer of Boston.
 been re-awarded to Philip Hadley, ,45
 The Grand Army Fellowship has been re-awarded to Philip Hadley, graduate
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ASSIGNED TO cURACY.
Young New Britain Priest Goes to
 Missouri.

Rev. William A. Burke, who was a few weeks ago ordained to the priest hood is home for few days in New Britain with his father, Patrick Burke, before beginning his first pastoral work. He will leave next Monday for Monet, Mo, where he has been as- signed to the curacy of St. Lawrence church. Monet is a place of 10000 people and his work will be largely of missionary character. Father Burke's career will be watched with much interest by his large circle of friends here, who have followed with admiration his course through col lege and the seminary to the priest hood.
 He was graduated from the New Britain High school, in the class of 1898. He went to Niagara college, and took a regular acdemic course. grad uating in 1904, He prepared for the priesthood at St. Bonaventure Theo- logical seminary, Allegeny, N. Y, where he recently completed his course. He was ordained for the priest hood at the cathedral of the Immacu- late Conception, Kansas City, Mo, March 25. Since then he has assist ed in numerous services before being assigned to a regular parish. He liked the life in the west and chose a west ern diocese for his pastoral labors, Father Burke is a brilliant student, and a fluent speaker He is of a studi- ous turn of mind. He celebrated high mass at St Mary's church last Sunday for the first time in this city. The congregation was pleased to see the young priest before the altar, and fol- lowed the service with interest.
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IN SOCIETY
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A Yale wedding of interest will be that of Miss Florence Bacon to Mr. John c. Greenleaf, '99, of New York. Miss Bacon is the daughter of Mrs. William B. Bacon of Boston, and niece of Assistant Secretarysof State Robert Bacon. The ceremony will be perform ed in Trinity church, Lenox, Mass, on June 1, and the bride will be attended by Miss Emily Bacon, Miss Martha Ba- con, Miss Aleid schenck, Miss Rosa mond Dixey, Miss Alice Bowker and Miss Bessie Stone. MT. Greenleaf will have as his ushers Mir. Richard Green leaf, jr., MT. James Walton, MT. J. l.. Mills, Mir Edwyn Sands, MT. John Cross, MT. David Dana, Mir Frederick Brooke, MT. Robert Flint and MT. Fred erick Allen.
 Miss Marion Nicholsgof Howe street. has been entertaining her classmate at Vassar, Miss Evelyn O'Loughlin.
 
 MISS A~uhes EStSl4S 11dll, lHS pianist, will sail for Germany early in June to study with Bergmeister in Berlin.
 
 Miss Marion P. Whitney, who is a member of the faculty at vassar col lege, spent Sunday at her home on Church street.
 Miss Bertha Street. Miss Marion Nichols and Miss Emeline Street, will attend the reunion of the class of 1903 at Vassar college in June.
 Miss May Bradley, the soprano solo
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Pilgrim Fathers.

Lafayette colony, No. z, United Or der Pilgrim Fathers, initiated seven new members at it's regular meeting in Red Mems hall Friday. On June ' the colony will go to Meriden to visit Platt colony. Supreme Governor Fos- ter is expected to be present at that time. 5a
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CHARGED WITH PoLYGAMY.
Extra Bral1eman Arrested and Held for
 Order Shepherds of Bethlehem.

Star of Light lodge, No. 3, 0. S. B., at it's regular meeting last night initi- ated six new members in the second degree. Two supreme officers, John Hall and William Hooker, were pres ent. It was decided to hold the an- nual banquet on June 26 Nomination of new officers will be made at the meeting to be held on the second Fri day in June.
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UNIQUE SUMMER HOME.
House That Rockefeller is Building at
 Greenwich.
Greenwich.

Percy A. Rockefeller, son of William ad nephew of John D. Rockefeller, is building coutnry home in Conneeti- cut, which is unlike any other ever planned. Perhaps the most extraor- dinary feature of it is a confined air space in the walls, forming non-con- ductor of heat, cold or moisture. The air space, it is said, will make the house warmer in winter, cooler in summer, and dryer al the year around than any other mans home, rich or poor.
 The unique building is Just outside
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FREE LIBRARY.
More New Books Added--MostIy Works of Fiction.

Works of Fiction.
 The followings books of fiction were added to the Free Public Library, Bay 9:
 Ade, G., The Slim Princess.
 Andrews, M. R. S, The Militants; stories.
 Boyies, K. and V. D.. Langford of the Three Bars.
 Chambers, R. W, The Tree of Heaven.
 Coleridge, M. E. The Lady on the Drawingrom Floor.
 Fogazzaro, A, The Sinner (Transla- tion of Malombra).
 Grundy, M. B., Dimble and I-and Amelia.
 Kingsley, P M.. The Princess and the Ploughman.
 Lighton. W, R., The Shadow of a Great Rock.
 Lillibridge, w., Where the Trail Di- vides.
 Lysaght, s. R., Her Majesty's Rebels. Mccarthy, J. H., Needles and Pins. Maud, c. B., Felicity in France. Mott, L., To the Credit of the Sea. Peterson, H., Dulcibel; a Tale of Old Salem.
 Thurston, L. M, Jenifer. Williamson, c, N, and A, M., The 1 Princess Virginia. Young, R. J, and Coleman, c. F.. Brown of Harvard
 NoN-FTCTION. ! Alexander E. B., Military Memoirs of ! Confederate.
 Barnett, M, "rhe School Beautiful. Bevier, |, and Usher, S., The Home Economics Movement.
 Cornish, c. J., Animal Artisans and Other Studies of Birds and Beasts. Francke, K, German Ideals of To- day.
 Going, M., (E. M Hardinge, ps,) Field, Forest and Wayside Flowers. Harcourt, l. F. ", Sanitary Engin- eering-Water Supply and Sewage Dis posal Harrison, c. S, A Peohy Manual.
 Hay, A., Alternating Currents.
 Hendricks, B. J., The Story of Life l Insurance
 Hull, W. H., ed, Practical Problems in Banking and Currency.
 Hume, M. A S., Through Portugal. Kropotkin, F.. Prince, The Conquest 1 of Bread.
 Meyer, F. L., Twentieth Century |. Manual of Railway and Commercial Telegraphy, 4th ed.
 Paterson, W. R., The Nemesis of Ma tions.
 Perry, J. G., Letters From a Surgeon of the Civil War,
 Rexford. E. E., Four Seasons in the Garden.
 Robertson, J. P. Personal Adventures and Anecdotes of an Old Officer.
 Selden, IF. Fl, Elementary Woodwork for Use in Manual Training Classes.
 Smith, J, A., The Spirit of American Government.
 Stearns, r. F., Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
 Swenson, B ", and F'rankenfeld, B., Testing of Acknowledgements Machin- cry and Other Apparatus.
 U. s. Bureau of the -Mortali- ty Statistics, 1905.
 Wallace, A., The Heather in Lore, Lyric and Lay.
 wigram, D. T, Northern Spain, Painted and Described.
 GERMAN BOOKS.
 Croissant-R Rust, A.. Die Mann; ein volks-roman.
 Herzog, R., Der alten Sehnsucht lied. Herzog, R., Das Lebenslied: roman. Huch, R.. Die vertefdigung Roms; roman.
 Ompteda, G., Freiherrn von. Normal menschen; roman.
 sperl. A., Hans Georg Portner; cine alte Geschichte. 1 stratz, R., Der du won dem Himmel 1 bist; roman.
 wilbrandt, A., Die schmestern; TO- | man.
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student in Comparative Anatomy and Bacteriology, whose research in Biolo- gy and especially in rabies, since the recent outbreak in Providence, has att tracted much attention.
 The Brown university librarian re- ports for April an addition to the H. brary of 79O volumes and 273 pamphlets
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BREACHES ON PERSONALITY.
Rev. EndIcott Peabody of Groton at
 Battell Chapel.

Rev. Endlcott Peabody of the Groton
 school preached to the Yale alumni at BatteIl chapel yesterday morning on Personality" College, Mir. Peabody said. was the place to develop new personality. He said it was one of the first duties of a man to study his per sonality and determine the work that
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Daughters of Liberty.

Daughters of Liberty, No. 3, will have whist at their regular meeting next Friday night in their rooms in the Insurance building. The following week limitations of new members will take place.
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Pursuant to vote of the Corporation of The Proprletors of the New Haven City Burial Ground passed at a meet. Ing thereof legally warned and held or meeting of said Corporation will be held at the office of the Clerk 149 Or ange Street, on Monday. May 27, 1907. at o'clock p. m., for the transaction of any business proper to be done at said meeting
 New Haven, May 9s 1907
 Attest: EDWARD c. BEECHER.
 my2S St Clerk.
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Ramburg-4merican.

PLYMOUTH -CHERBOURG- HAMBURG sDeutsch'd, May 30 Pretoria June 8 Batavia ...June 1 *Kaiserin June 13 tBluecher, June 6 Patricia June 15 *Among special features of these ves- Palm Garden, Ritz-Carlton Restauranf' Elevators, Electric Baths
 POOREST BUREAU.
 R. R. Tickets. hotel accommodations. and general information about foreign travel.
 Travellers Checks. good all oyer the world.
 HAAlBURG-AMERIC LINE,
 35-37 Broadway, N. Y. SweeZey & Kelsey, 102 Church St., Nj. nunder S Son, 249 State St; J. H. Par ish & Co.,, S6 Orange street; Bishop {: Co lS6 Orange St; H Bussman, 7i Orange St
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StarIn's N. .Y.&N.t1.l.lna

DAILY EACEPT SATURDAY. PASSENG GER AND FREIGHT SERyICB Leaves New Haven goo D. m, Starin Pier. foot of Brown Street Leaves New York 800 p. m, Cortland Street. tickets $1.25. Rooms $i Take Chaps ell Street cars to Brewery Street.
 0. H. FISHER. Agent
 New Haven. C0ra.
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PLYNOUTH-CHERBOURG- SOUTHAMPTON
BOSTON-QUEENSTOWN-LIYERPO0L

Fnst Twin Screw AInil Steamers.
 of 11.400 to 15.ScO tons. REPUBLIC, May 30, 12,3O D. n.; July B, June 6 CYaIRIC, June 10.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-22
EFFECTS OF MEAT INSPECTION.

Meat packers of the country must
regret the opposition they offered last
year in congress to the passage of
law requiring more stringent inspec-
ton of packing house products des-
tined for interstate commerce. The
fight is all over now and the reports
of the Bureau of Statistics show that
splendid results have followed the en-
actment and enforcement of the law.
The growth of export trade in meats
of various kinds in the last year has
been wonderfully and adverse criti-
cism, formerly so common in foreign
markets, seems to have entirely dis
appeared. Packers and the people
may regret the sensational methods
that were employed in the expose of
the packing house methods. but the
wisdom of the resultant legislation
can no longer be disputed.
Consul General Wynne of London
has furnished the Department of Com
merce and Labor with a report made
by the Grocers' association of London
in which the American meat inspec-
ton system is most cordially approved
and the British public assured that
even the most fastidious need have NO
hesitancy in buying and using Amer
lean meats with an assurance that
they are pure and wholesome. The
stamp of the United States is a splen-
did sponsor and the packer, the stock
grower and the consumer have reason
to be thankful for the adoption of the
meat inspection law.
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TURKEY MUST YIELD.

Moslemite resistance to the march
of modern civilization and enlighten-
ment cannot much longer be effective.
Diplomats representing the most pow
erful governments of the earth have
wrestled with the sultan in an effort
to induce him to catch step with the
progress of the nations, but without
encouraging success. Missionaries
and battleships have alternated in
their visits. carrying peace offerings
or war threats. and have come away
with samples of the willy Turks mex
haustible supply of promises and the
Ottoman empire has gone on in its
dark and devious way until the Amer
lean drummer got busy, and now the
path has been blazed for the conquest
OF the Turk by the powers of modern
civilization.
The consular bureau of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor tells
how the trick was turned. IN an IN
guarded moment the sultan made GER
tain concessions TO foreign commercial
travellers, and the next morning an
American agent of stereopticon fac
tory was busy on the streets Of Smyrna
with a few samples He steadily
pushed their sale in every store and
private residence 10 such an extent
that he Was soon Obliged TO engage
four assistants. Within a short time
majority OF the inhabitants of
Smyrna were provided with stereopti-
cons and It is stated that the agent
met with the same success in other
towns of the Levant.
The sultan may as we'll surrender
to the inevitable. This country knows
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A POLITICAL "REMINISCENCES.
Controversy over COnkIiDR's Speech
Nominating Grant in 1850.
Yo,,IsN,ilIa C,ouriar- Journal


Louisville Courier-Journal.
singular controversy has sprung up
about the beginning of the speech in which
Mr.. Conkling nominated General Grant for
president in 1880 at Chicago. The popular
idea has been that he began his speech
with some lines OF rhyme, about as fol-
lows:
And is asked what state he halls from,
This our sole reply shall be,
From near AppomattON Court House,
With its famous apple tree.
There are slight verbal differences in
different versions, but they are unimpor-
tant TO the solution OF the main contention.
The New York Times undertook to say
that Conkling did not begin his speech
with any sort of "doggerel," but that he
said in plain prose that when asked where
his candidate came from, he answered.
from Appomattox. In proof OF this the
Times quoted the speech as published the
next day in it's own columns. Thereupon
came volume OF communications, many
of which took issue with the Times. Va
rious reports are quoted to show that
ConkIing actually used the so-called dog
gerel. and several reporters who were pres
ent and heard the speech Join In this testi-
mony. Here is a specimen extract from
letter furnished by James H. Kennedy who
tive of the Cleveland Herald:
When New York was called, Mr. Conk-
ling came down the aisle from his seat on
the floor OF the convention. Some one
placed a chair, on which h, stepped, and
from there to the reporters platform.
arose and gave him my chair and from
that he stepped to the table.
There had been much talk of the states
from which came the various candidates.
In his opening Mr. COnkling began;
II asked what state he halls from,
Our sole reply shall be,
He comes from AppOmattoN-"
He was allowed TO go no further, wild
burst of applause followed that lasted for
a long time. When 1t subsided he con-
From ApPomottox Court House,
And its famous apple tree"
I sat directly beneath him, and this OPEN
! ing is so wildly impressed upon my mind
that / am sure there can be no mistake.
Now, this discussion does not seem Inn
| portant, but It has brought out facts that
have surprised many intelligent people, who
ought to have known better, as many will
say. It transpires that the "doggerel" Is
found in a volume OF the verse Of General
Charles C. Halpine miles ORenly), edited
/ by Robert b. Roosevelt. The Brooklyn
/ Eagle says II was written in 1868, at a time
when Halpine hoped that Grant would he
the democratic nominee for president. The
\ full stanza, as published in the book, is as
/ follows:
| SO, boys, a final bumper
| While we all in chorus chant
For next president we nominate
| Our own Ulysses Grant"
| And Is asked what state he halls from,
| This our sole reply shall be,
! From near AppOmattOX Court House,
! With its famous apple tree.
| For twas there, to our Ulysses,
! That Lee gave up the night
| Now, boys, to Grant for president
And God defend the right,