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The evening world., 1910-12-30
WOMAN owns
CHURCH, BUT MUST
WORK FOR BREAD
Says Congregation Won't Pay
Interest on Her Forty
Years Savings.

POUGHK EEPSfE. y. v, Dec. 30
with her earnings OF forty years invest
Cd In church property and title TO a
church vested in her name. Mrs. Mary
T.. Robertson. aged seventy, asserts she
IL 4 forced to earn her bread n buttor by
hard labor.
This situation was brought TO notice by
nm advertisement yesterday Offering the
Pentccostal Church property on Cherry
street for sale. so Mrs. Robertson may
recover 81. 400. at which she values her
equity.
Mrs. Robertson also alleges she has
been notified to pay rent for three rooms
In the building lust back OF the church..
where she lives. and hat II she does
not pay che cannot get the interest on
her money.
At the Baker shirt factory, where Mrs.
Robertson Is employed. she said ycster-
day she had given S2,ioo to the Pentc-
costal Church. which Is valued at 5000,
with the understanding she was to have
n home on the property for the re-
mainder OF her life. and also that she
was to receive $40 a year. But she has
not been paid a cent, she asserts. After
her original investment. Mrs. Robertson
continued. she borrowed 5000 more and
handed II over. the interest upon which
the church pays.
The rector OF tho church. the Rev.
Henry Kornohan, when asked about the
situation. said:
THE church. and lot are owned by
Mrs. Robertson and the decd Is In hcr
name. She Is at perfect liberty to sell
the property n dispossess ~ at any
time
The matter has been put into the hands
Of lawyers to, ascertain what Mrs. Rob-
ertson's rights actually are and to see
that she Is protected In her old age. She
has refused an oner of $1,000 for the
deed TO the church.
The evening world., 1910-12-30
ROASTED PIGS
SEAL PEACE PACT
IN CHINATOWN

Once more peace has been declared In
Chinatown. Al 8 o'clock yesterday az
t%ernoon the treaty prepared by the Com
mittee of Forty vas signed by repre-
%sentatives Of the on Leong Tong and
the Four Brothers Society. Although
the news was sent out from the COM
mittee's headquarters at No. IL Mott
street early In the evening. many con-
servative Chinese In the district reserved
their expressions OF Joy until the news
was confirmed by the ceremony OF ex-
changing the peace pig"
At 8 o'clock the doors OF the oficial
| kitchen at No. 25 Peli street were opened
and amid EXPLANATIONS OF approval from
a hundred Chinese In the street two
| cooks emerged. each carrying on his
mead a platter bearing "A nfty-pound pig,
| roasted to q delicate brown n deco
| rated with bright paper ornaments.
One bearer crossed to the Four Broth
ers headquarters, at No. 22 pell street,
and TO tho accompaniment Of "Ho 10
ma" the Chinese friendly greeting. dis
appeared up the stairway. The other
bearer turned into Mott street. n as
he trotted along toward On Leong
Tong headquarters. at No. IA. a thou
sand Chinese stuck their a out Of
windows along the route and chanted
praise OF the peace committee work.
Lieut.. va~pdessausky OF the Elizabeth
street station stationed many patrolmcn
and detectives throughout the district TO
keep sharp watch for signs Of t~reachery,
The ceremony of shaking hands" be-
tween the -Four Brothers and the On
leong Tong nj set for II o'clock.
Lieut.. vandessausky provided an escort
for the four Chinese Of the Brothers
who were delegated to visit the Or
Leong headquarters and do the hand
shaking. by midnight ten thousand
nrst chop frecrackers had gone of and
both tongs had saved their faces"
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HAPPY AGAIN WITH
WIFE UNCLE SAM
HAD TAKEN away
Mrs. Honann Returned TO Hus-
band After Sixteen Days on
Ellis Island.

Happy were Ludwig Homann and his
wife Ehxabcth when he went 10 EMS
Island yesterday and took hcr home to
their neat little Hat at No. 25 East
Ssventy-hrst street. from which she had
been taken sixteen days before. The
Washington that she should be re-
lealed. and Uncle sam forbore TO spool a
romance.
Elizabeth Homann Is a woman Of re-
inement and education. twenty-four
years old. In Berlin she met Ludwig IIo-
mann. lie confessed to her hat fifteen
years before he had married a woman
who disappeared a year later. lie had
never heard Of her since. he said.
Homann came TO America from Ger.
many In May. 1909. After he had OBJ
tained a position as foreman of n passe-
menterie factory the young woman fol-
lowed. A justice In Hoboken refused to
marry them unless Holman furnished
proofs OF his first wife's death or got q
divorce decree. The two then entered
into a common law marriage.
Homann and his wife were not salts.
fed with this Mt. so on Sept
% they went to Alderman Smith and
Homann made an afndavit setting forth
the facts. which 10 now In possession OF
the City Clerk. Then the Alderman
married them.
1T 10 h law" said Homann's law
yer. c. A. Oberwager of No. zoe Broad.
way, that after one party to n mar.
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SUFFRAGETTES IN
FURS SALLY OUT
AS BILL POSTERS

Miss Sylvia Pankhurst-seven hundred
OF New York from seven hundred points,
Sylvia began her career last night. She
did not go alone. She started In the
custody OF thirty women from the head
quarters of the women's Political Union.
They look her UP and down and o
town. left her In high and low places.
coiled her around pillars. pasted her all
over the boarding about the Hudson
tunnels at Broadway and Thirty-second
street and led the young woman up the
Rialto TO this threshold OF Kid McCoy's.
Whether II was Sylvia or her conduc-
tors baked there will never be known.
The women's Political Union was ap-
pearing Al Its W bill posters union.
Women In tailor gowns and expensive
furs carried small cardboard pals and
bundles OF posters. They were adver-
Using FIRST the cause OF woman suffrage.
and. second. its exponent. Miss Panx-
hurst. who IL on the ocean on the 81.
Paul. coming 10 deliver a lecture at Car
negie Lyceum, Jan. 8. She Is n dauyh-
ter of Mrs. ~Pankhurst. leader OF the
yS~uffragettes. and has a few scars of her
own.
The pastepots and the women who
met NJ Ma. Vi East Twenty-nlnth street
last night were divided into squads by
the unions vce-president. Miss Eliza.
beth r.. Cooke.
ladies. the more Pankhursts we zee
to-morrow the greater the glory" said
she.
Mrs. Nora Blatch De Forest led the
band that worked on Broadway above
Forty-second street: Miss Alberta HI
charged with her troop westward aeros,
the city. and Miss Cooke and Mrs. Har.
riot Stanton Batch took a course VI
Madison avenue to Thirty-irst street
and there slapped Miss Pankhurst int,
place IN every available spot on tn,
plahkIng about n new building.
Mrs. l.. N. Tinsley. Mrs. John Roger
jr.. Mrs. John w. Brannan. Mrs. Hetti
Graham, Miss Ingersoii. DIR. JAM Berr,
Miss Alice Grey, Mrs. Frances Herzos
Mrs. Frances Bjornson. Miss Sara
splint, Miss l.. l.. Dock and Mrs. So
phie Kramer were Others who lahore
with brush { ID pail.
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MISSING GIRL
HAD AN AMBITION
TO Be ACTRESS
Seicol'S Parents Have
Asked Police 10 Make
Search for Her.

Jane Florence seicol, eventeen. daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin scicol OF
No. II East one Hundred and First
street, was reported to the police OF the
The evening world., 1910-12-30

Of clothing as far as she knew. Jane
had always peer fond OF the stage, and
the mother believes she was trying to
find an opening.
The evening world., 1910-12-30
Marie Lasailc to Make Opera Debut

CHICAGO. Dec. 3o,-Marie Lasalle.
coloratura soprano. whose tuition was
paid by Mrs. W. X. Vanderbilt and
other New York women. n who halted
her studies for love OF Max Rabinoff,
Ia to make her grand opera debut here
on Jan 7.
The evening world., 1910-12-30

The song hit OF the new opera,
THE Spring Maid" In next Sundays
World.
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suit on his card Walter J. Travis was
onos harsh critic of the course. but he
I IN IN line with those who praise i now.
| Briefly there IL no local links better
bunkered and fgw 70 equal II in turf. The
/ following ara quotations from am appre-
catlon Of Baltusrol in the American
Goitv:
should fiy but he d flying Just the same;
and Baltusrol. handicapped as Il h by
climate and soil has nevertheless become
I iirst class Il has cost money 70 do II
and ie will always cost money % maintain
t in good condition-a great deal of
money. ] have no figures before me but
u Garden City spends g. 0O0 or 95.O10 a
year on upkecp merely it must cost BAL
tusrol twice "a muCh but then that s
another Of thoss little things. like nature,
az which Baltusrnl snaps IT, fingers.
I have spoken Of the great improve
ment In the fair greens. While they will
never have the thick. springy rirf which
you get from the sandy soil and the damp
air by the sea they are wonderfully good
and improving constantly, The putting
green's show even \ greater advance.
They have not quite the quality and tex
ttre of turf that YOU find at Myopia Gar
den City or Brookline. Not an of the
grass IL Of that hardy dwarf. close knitted
and slow growing variety which m time
will choke out the less robust and more
rapid growing species and make velvet
81 the entire surface but there ia a good
deal u the right kind and the turf is
thicker than Il was and wonderfully true.
In early November even there was hardly
a trace of worm casts. the greens showing
perfect condition and splendid care
Apart from the almost miraculous
Improvement in its turf great strides
have been made IN the building oi new
traps and in the reconstruction Of some
Of the Old hazards. Seashorc sand by the
carload and with a reckless disregard Of
cost has been placed in every bunker, and
more than ssyentv-iye new bunkers or
/ traps have been built These are con
/ structed in the main with the idea 81 not
only catching a ball but Of holding IL.
! onoe caught Some Of them near the
/ green's should he deeper. but that defect
/ can easily he rpmedied
J Half a dozen years ago Baituerol de-
[ spite It's good length and some hard
holes was hardly a championship course.
| To-day Il ranks with Fox Hills. ApaWamis
and Nassau and IL more difficult than any
oi them Probably Il can never have the
real article in turf through the green. but
What it has u above the average for an
inland course and no doubt viii bs inn
proved IN the years 20 come
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proved b be a mine % gravel and supplied
the greater part needSd 10 make conorete
Tor the new building. It has been deep
enei by the digging and developed into
a turted punch bowl that slopes into a
sand bunker. with a palisade Of massive
timbers on the far side holding up the
green A. in the bunker on the first hole at
Garden City.
The grass in the punch bowl viii be
kept closely cropped and should trapped
ball be not too near the sand and the
timbers a player who can negotiate a
hanging lie should he able 20 loft il 20 the
green, the entire hazard suggesting that
AZ North Berwick Failing % loft there il
a roadway a. an outlst for left handed
players. or 10 play hack in the punch bowl
would he an aid 70 right handed players;
hut the latter will still have a pot bunker
20 avoid on tho lip Of the hill between the
bowl and green. Il is surely a hazardous
hazard and IL will not comfort a tinid
player 10 know that each shot is in full
view of the onloOkers from the terrace
of the clubhouse
HlNNANAN WV VNNAs ANNlAN Tlle
only championship of note that has not
been held AZ least once nc Baltusrol ia
the intercollegiate Even when the
buildings were being patched up after
the fire the Womens Eastern Golf Asso-
citation proved it, loyalty and held the
championship there On June 3 and Q. with
the intercity matches for Mrs Griscons 3
cup n follow on tho next twD DAYS Mrs
&. Wheeler. Jr then Miss VI r. Adams.
won the tirle with ls5 and Mr.. g. r Fox
was second az iss New York gained the
team trophy that time. heating In turn
the Philadelphia and Boston women. In
cidentally the opening for the Griscom cup
A. a tricity contest was az Baltusrol IN I00o.
and the Boston women signaliEed their
debut in the match by winning and keep
ing on for two years more n gain the
trophy outright. a feat they accomplished
again early this month on the second
GrisOom Gun.
The Baltusrol Golf club had ius begin
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nArd. He inished in the BalsusrOl hand.
cap with 9S. 2-ss.
Baltusrol was an eighteen hole course
ranking up with The primitive ideas Of
links construction of the period The
club has never misssd 3 three day tOurna-
ment since 1897 except when all attention
has had TO be paid 90 championship meet-
ings. The opening tournament for women
took place In October, isas. when Mrs.
W. Shippen. Morris County, and Mrs.
w. B Ashmors, Raltusrol. tied for the
score prime al lOS and Mrs ". J Berg.
Nutley, won the match play cup.
The first national championship at
Balt,Isrol was the women's of 1901, in
which four tied for the score prize at ".
and Mrs. C. 7 Stout, then Genevieve
Hecker won her title by heating LIcy
Heron, now Mrs r \ laughlin ~ Pitts
burg later Mrs Stout won a Women's .
metropolitan championship over the same
ooIrae H Chandler ERaR Rained the
amateur title az Baltusrol in 1904. Fred
erick Herreshun. nov NJ g. A. champion.
making his initial how hersabOut In golf
by being runner up. Raltusrol. when
you think ~ It, has been a grsat place
for golf d6huts
Charles u Seely captured his second
VI g. A. title at Baltusrol in 1914. putting
out Jerome d Tmvsrs, titlehOlder. on
the thirty-eighth hole The New Jersey
State tournament has twice been plaveh
there, alsO the Fast Jersey and the oxford
and Cambridge Socisty's teams were en-
tertained at Baltusrol and met a selected
New Jersey team In "A match The New
York Metropolitan team match Was held
there in the long ago. hut the men "a tricity
that has taken it, place is still to come 70
Raltusrol George low is the professiona /.
and Raltusrol h the home club oi "
FeliOwes MORGAN. who is prominent in
national golfinR legislation Louis Kelley
IS the man who saw earliest the possi-
bilitieS Tor golf at Balttsrol and 10 this
DAY he it - who does the -phnR-n'. the
praisin and the c,issin'. 20 quote one of
the oaddies.
This IA the order of the holes:
out 80 30 its 80 Non a4O ass sas iAs "a,
In z5a 10 -, 80 17a 80 a.s aas zfs-3 3Oal
Three years ago the Baltusrol greens
COMMITTEES awakened 90 the new than-
RES ~ side traps and bunkers we'll placed
filed with shining wea sand that almost
tempted player to stay and tarry fOI
q stroke or two, irrespective 81 tho ~.
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ming In October. 1885. with a nine hole
course and six years before the rubber
Oored ball was in general uss. The msm-
bers are too much of ths present b dwell
on reninisoenCes- within a week of the
fire they met and voted n build q 81. 600
clubhOuse-yet much of the national and
metropolitan interest In the game is due
IN the enterprise and loyalty 70 golf AZ
Balmsrol. The first club champion was
James A. Tying and Cornelius J Sullivan
10 the present titleholder. other holders Of
the honor having been y P. TOler. p. Ut.
de- Raiames. Max n Behr. J. II. P. WhAr-
ton. G. VI. Hamilton. DR.. A. 3. Morrow
and Frank o. Reinhart and Louis p.
Bayard. Jr. both Prinoetonians. who in
their day held the intercollegiate cham
pionship The earliest " the open tour
nAments was aone dav handicap on Wash
ingtOn's Birthday. 1870. when there were
patches of snow on the ground and W NJ.
MoCawley n Philadelphia won the first
prize with %. lO-s6.
There were similar handicaps IN both
New Years Day and Washington Birth
day in 1897. w ID VanderpOol then at
Princeton. taking the former with 600.
100. and ~ r Toler the gross score
Prize with %, this player being then
BaitusrOls strongest man. and Of thirty
SIX cards he had the gross and net h0nors
with 70. o 20 IN the February composition.
In May Of the same year Baltusrol held
tho FIRST three day tournament. n. p.
Toler getting the qualifying round medal
with NJ. l.. p. Bayard. Jr. the inst match
play cup. Malcolm Graham. Jr., the
consolation cup and James A. Tying
both ends ~ the handicap with IS. n s5.
This was the advent NJ Findlay =.
Douglas IN American golf and Sr0tswood
y Bowers. who had only been beaten
a stroke IN the scors round. put the ~
Andrews amateur out by Z M aud 10
play Douglas had never driven from
dirt tees. and he said this bothered him
Bowers went through 10 the final and
lost 70 Bayard on an extra hole Walter
Travis al ratings n and = respectively
had gained his earliest two tournament
prizes the same month in the han Aioapa
az Meadow Brook and KnollwOod, in
the former after a playoR with J. {. Rem
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COSTLY TOWN RESIDENCES
ARE SAID TO M OUT or FASH
ION NOW.
A. Any Rate TheFe Was Been a Great
DVop IN Prices. Houses worth @2so'-
oO0 Net Lang Ag0 Bringing Only
RlEO,OOO To-day Country Homes


Il is several years now since private
houses except Of a very costly order
were built in Manhattan. Indeed. the
production OF what rnay be called middle
grade dwellings dwellings valued to-
Rether with their sites az S5o. .uOO % 500 ,oOo,
virtually ceased about ten years ago.
Al that time. time when millionaire
captains Of industry were invading New
York. one n the most notable Of the
current real estate developments WAS a
lively competition for expensive town
residences in and near Fifth avenue.
Uncxampled prices were paid for the
limited number Of fine houses In the
fashionable colony that happened 10 be
for sale and for the first time in the his
tory of tho local huildinG industry dwell
lngs worth upward Of a quarter Of a mil
lion were erected on speculation.
Since then this sort OF building too has
come 20 an end. Between i0OO and 1875
real estate values in the exclusive private
house quarter south and east Of tho park
doubled and trebled under the influence
Of insistcnt demand on the part OF people
Of wealth for individual houses. The
demand dwindled on the approach of the
panic. hut no one doubted that IL would
he restored with the return Of settled
financial conditions Il was thought
that the desire for individual town houses
expressed an abiding quality Of the
American temperament
-
reversal Of sentiment a. regards privacy
in city homes Not a few brokers who
make a speciality of private houses are
/ coming 10 the conclusion that such
houses will bs before long az unimpOFtali
numerically In this borough a. they are
for example. in Berlin and Paris.
Az any rate they are out Of fashion
i,,Mf now. There Is certainly no esIecfiv,
demand for individual dwellings at pres.
ent. Although freehold values IN othe,
oaFts of the borough have either held
their own or gone up In the last wear
uropsrty in the fashionable residence
quarter has declined.
Nothing stands out more oonspic,,.
ouuly IN the current real estate aitiistiou
than the decline OF hOues prices IN the
aaction bounded by Fifty-s@cond and
NpWentY=aHruilu eAlHtAa ana tInulAnn and
sixth avenues. Private dwellings thers
which formerly brought t1sO .OO0 20 SS0 .OO
have deprecated on an average gInn OOr
each and ere ell but unsalabls aa the re-.
duced figures
Between Madison and Park avenue,
J from Fifty-secOnd to Seventy-sacond
I street hOusas were never of The hiRh
price order mngtng generally betWeap
! 8a5. .O00 and tab.0 900. These are now worth
l only from $4,000 % $4,000
A large proportion of the dwellings
that have changed ownership of late have
gone into the hands of physicians and
other professional people.
Another evidence u change Of snnti-
ment with respect 70 private hOunea Ia
found In the great numbers Of such houses
which are being torn down 10 make Wav
for apartments. 90 course. the de-
muliti0n d private residences In the
business district u not . new or nar-
tiCularly significant fact. but he circI1n-
The sun., 1910-06-26

gate with a view TO purchase. Letters OF
inquiry should be addressed 10 the Com
miasioneT ot Agriculture. Albany. y. Y.
The department keeIs a list ot all the
laruIs IN the state that are Tor sale or TO
lot The lis' s compiled withthe assistance
Of the town supervisors and the iniorma-
ton is obtained direct from owners
The catalogue for 1910 has jus, appeared
in Bulletin No 10. List II Farms Occu-
pied and Unoccupied for sale or Rent in
New York State The bulletin u illus
tratcd with photographs Of houses and
other improvements and contains a map
~ the state Il Is well arranged for refer
encs. enabling the searchsrs 20 discover
at a glance all the farms offered in a given
county ur township
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ATerraee VIII OveriOok the Home Green
AMI Vexlng Punch Bowl HunkeF-A
Great Links for Players IN the Past
ana Present-New Ideas On the Course
One Balts Roll of good Dutch lineage
was a New Jersey farmer perhaps a
hundred years ago, and the mountain
beyond short Hills hears his name. Also
the golf club in the valley and the course
thai a. one place makes a bold attempt
90 climb the mountain does honor 90 the
pioneer settler. but in the modern form
the name is BaltusroI Until March q.
iaoo. the Baltusrol Golf Club used the old
farmhouse NJ its home. but 10 built upon
and extended 20 accommodate the large
membership that only the low portal
and the gently rising stairs. with some
ausint hooks and corners were unchanged.
A broad and spacious veranda hid the
littls front stoop ~ Farmer Roll. hut in
building the new porch there was a niche
cut out 10 give room % The only sur
vivor Of the original tenants. barring
the noble trees. a big rose of Sharon
hush that every summer flung ont hun
dreds Of fine blooms.
Fire wiped out the farmhouse and the
towering bush. and for about two years
tho Baltusrol members have had 10 put
up With ample but makeshift lodRments
but now all il changed; the palatial sue
Cseda the picturesque and solid comfort
the crowding ~ the temporary house
or rather houses. for all the buildings
unburned. from thu garage 70 the cot
taRss. have been In Use The new house
IL on a bluH at the foot n the mountain
and overlooks the eighteenth green.
Tho style of the building throughout
h Of az English manor house The
exterior ia " updrait brick laid In broad
white joints, with trim ~ Indiana lime
stone. The chimneys and basement wall
are constructed Of weather stained tran
rock from the adjoining mountain and
tho roof is II red thatch A principal
feature isthe concrete terrace. about three
hundred feet long and twenty-five feet
wide, from which most of the course and
many oi the greens NAV be seen
Tire main entrance is from the rear
under the squash court extension. snd an
entering the women's quarters arr found
IN the leff and the mems 20 the right
The doors open On hail which contains
no onice The dimensions arr 2s hy ~
feet and the hall Is lighted by loaded
glass windows two stories high. which
face large open frnplac" IN carved
Car1 stone 4 frnproof locker room in
a basement ah0ve ground. Ej feet wide
hy I'm feet long. provides large locIsers IN
zl1gl" tiers for I'm active members On
ne same f0or ara an The men showers and
toilet rooms On 'he second Roor !.
tho hilllari room around which are
grouped a SERVES of private dining and
card MONS a. 4 Tho wDmeu's locker room,
There are tvonfv-4eyen neiroorg f,r
momhers hsre ,ni pu th. thi-I Fo,r
accommniu'l"r. Gov thirty saryants
Tho pf H.'.0 h.. llaays guarded the
eightee0'h boob. l.H ,srirh h,s t..., +.
9aclor in tho ha.a., ,f many clnse ma,,b
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Commissioner Pearson says after dispos.
ing OF the theory Of soil exhaustion:
with a heathful climate, sofia tha,
respond generously 10 intelligent cult.
walton, with social school and church
surroundings unsurpassed. with market,
almost at the farm door providing outIst
for every kind Of food products at higsaSl
cnah prices Il would seem that svvry
acre Of tilahls and productive land N
the State would ba utiliDsd That q.
Il not the case is not the fault OF f.a
land. Il Ia due most Of all g. .c11.r
conditions. Including an euD-mu a., n.
crease OF manufacturing aCtiyIrio, 70.
growth of cities which have pjtra ....
men from the farms In this tact us-
opportunity ard advantage oF-rHt
those who now desire 10 secure farms %
New York State
In the following list will be found man
good farms with comfortable homes at
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Maxwell. Z. william street. Eas, orange,
y D. owner will rent.
Port Jervis II eighty .aine miles from
the Erie station in Jersey City. u
reached from Chambers street. Man
haitian. in two hours and forty-hve
minutes by express. certainly not a pro-
hibitive time of travel for week end trips
during the summer.
In his Introduction TO the bulletin