The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-15
QUESTIONS AND ANsWERs.

one such enas. the ship had lost her Tiddrr. the
sails, the distance bsIng conslderable before no
Drought her safely 10 port. NAUTIcUs.
A. least three such cases come into mind. but the
Identifying circumstance arc lacking. The most
recent case Is that Of q steamer whose bows mad
psen crushed In by collision: she was n~aVlgRted
stern foremost TO port In the Azores. This bit Of
good seamanshlp caused old sailors to recall that
the same sort Of vOyaglnG had been done by q
Yankee clipper which had lost her ruddcr and
was backed Into FayAl over several hundred mics
or vOyaglng. Nor was this the only instance OF
tho man0uvTe. for Stewart In tho Old IEonsIdes had
used u In capturing the Cyane and Levant. This
Incident n thus recorded In Maciay's History Of ehe
Navy" vol. a.. paGe 81. The sternmOst ship
vas obJerved lufnng up 10 a. 10 take a raklng 20
sition across tho Constitutions stern. Mindful Of
hts danger. Capt. stewart suddenly bFaced his
main and mlEscn tOpsalls nat 20 the mast. shook ali
Forward. let 90 his jb sheet and quietly but swiftly
ohrked. under rover Of the smoke. abreast the rear
ahip. The manGuvrs was executed In beautiful
style. The yards swung around almost a. soon
as the order was issued. the ship checked her course.
tr5mbied for q moment and then began backing.
AZ u by magic the Constitution had dropped asteTn,
and Amos, before the enemy waS aware Of II was
alongside of the stonmOst ship. with every gun Of
hee formidable battery reloaded and double shotted.
Again the quiet order was passed along the diVl-
slons. and the neHt Instant q murderous discharge
OF Iron tore It's way into the British frigate. Capt.
Stewart now maintained q heavy and rapid are on
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most shlplufnng sthwsrt his course to rake. he nned
away under topsalls and. shooting ahead, crossed
the wake OF the foremost ship and secured a rakIng
position before the smoke from tho last cannonad-
British 70 discover the whereabouts Of their nlmbic
foe" Details Of thelonger backward voyages mem
TONED will be appreciated.
Kindly inform me as to the method Of computing
the house number on an avenue or street J. NJ 5.
II the reference 10 local In application IN the
Borough Of Manhattan there In indeed no ystcm
ct all. except to have only odd numbers On one
aide and even plumbers on the other. In 80 much
Of the city a. ls covered oy numbered streets and
avenues there Is evidence Of = scheme to have
the odd numbers fall 90 the left on streets counting
from Filth avenue; snd to the right going north
along the avenues. Yet this has not been con.
sistently carried out. Clumsy as II IL. Il IL an I'm
provement upon the English plan of numbering
buildings consecutively along a single side Of the
street. In other cities and In certain parts OF Brook
lyn the century plan IL adopted and works out
conveniently. This allots 100 numbers to each
block regardless Of the number Of buildings or
standard city lots which may be there. a slmllar
system has In California been extended TO the mum
herring Of farm houses on the country roads. Some
bright mathematician once Invented a formula
for working out the nearest IntcrSectIng street TO
any given avenue number in New York. but most
metio have found Il more convenient TO ask . po-
hceman. II som Kind friend this
feat In mathematics II will he interesting.
Who was Hauy. q teacher OF the blindY II. &C.
The Able Vslentln Hauy. born In I74S. at Saint
just. France. dying In 1922. was one Of the foremost
Inventors OF methods OF teaching the blind. II Is
said that his interest In the subject was awakened
through his fOndneHs for = pianlsle who had been
stricken with blindness. This may have given him
the impulse toward the printing Of music in relief.
But he carried the Idea further to include relief
charts for the teaching Of geography. and eventu.
ally through the use of ralsrd letters TO all branches
OF elementsry education. To the Gre0t astonish.
nent Of the Academy Of SCIENCES nc produced be-
fore that body q b Ind pupil wnOm he had educated
In arithmetic. music and geography. Under Gov. |
eminent subventIon he established In 1874 an lnstI.
tute for the blind In Paris with eleven pupils. The
accommodations were Increased In liza and under I
the Consuls this school was eventually consolI
dated with smother public Institution leaving Hsay
out. Mortified At this treatment. he left Paris In
1900, established schools for the blind in Berlin
and st. Petersburg. but returned TO Paris In 1871
In poverty and III health.
I was asked on a recent examination TO explain
me Patriarchal Theory and am unable to md
any Information. What Is IIF NJ. W. EARLT'
It Is one Of the alternative theories As TO the
organization OF human societies through the family
unit. In our race and throughout the clearly
h%lgeOrical period tho family power has found its
exercise through the male and preferably through
the senior male still surviving In the ascending
scale Of klnShlD. This reaches It's Highest logical
development In the doctrine Of pntrla potestas
In the Roman law. Its survival In English family
life through the custom Of primOxcniture has been
fOStered by the artificial creation Of lines Of sue |
eesSlOn TO eldest sons IN hereditary nobility and
BY the law of entail. which admits Of vestIng lite
TO property In one life beyond that which Is al. !
ready In existence. The matriarchaI theory of
the family recognizes kinship only through the
mother. IL involves polyandry and tho nephew
right. such families arc found In many parts
OF the world. Probably II was the earlier as well
as the more reasonable type. The subject Is care
fully discussed In the volume Tho PatrIarchaI
Theory" by John r. McLennsn. London. 1875.
Whom was Il sought 10 honor In the naming OF
Allen street, ! cannot md that It was the name
OF any early settler theresio NJ. VAN T-EsER. !
A good nGhtlng shlpman VINO came 70 hIs end
with honor In the War OF 1912. Master G mmandant
william Henry Allen OF our navy. His last night
was when he lost the Argus TO the Pelican In isI3. |
In a hot engagement OF forty seven minutes. Allen
suffered the loss OF mis- left leg and died a prisoner
In England. wnere he was buried with every honor
that a gallant enemy could show a rood tighter.
He had outmanGuvred and OutfOught the Pelican, !
but he lost the day through the odd mlschance !
that he was nghting with powder which had been
BY the British Navy and was 80 weak
that the shot did not dent the sides OF the engaging
ship. Earlier In the war he had served with De-
catur and was the prize master OF the Macedonian.
Even before the wa broke out he was a division
onicer on the Chesapeake when she wasOverhauled
by the Leopard In 1907. He nred the only shot
which came from the Chesapeake. nriny the cannon ,
with a live coal brought from the galley In his
fingers.
VIA. vas the date OF the burning of the Roycry
Built in 1890 the original Bowery Theatre was
burned down In 1893. Rebuilt In ninety days the
new BoweTy was burned In 1883. Rebuilt IN 1887
II was sgain burned and rebuilt In 1850. Fire de-
strOyed IL again In ls4S and 1855
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