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IHE HEART OF MONTROSE. J)ul:e Seeking in America This Grew lome Relic of His Famous Ancestor. •The Duk» of Montroee. who Jia* beep, yachting: in t tj C West ladies and who has now arrived In the. •"cited States on a visit of some duration. la anxious to discover the whereabouts of the heart or th© most famous of all hi* ancestors, James Graham, Marquis of yontro«». -which, retarded as the talisman of his family. disappeared in France at Boulogne after the taott extraordinary vicissitudes about one hun dred years ago, and Is believed to be hidden away at ♦he present moment in some private collection of rtos. relics and bric-a-brac In the United States. closed !n that wonderful little steel case Hade of the blade of the great Montrose's sword. The Mara"' 8 of Montrose, it may be remembered. «erW' t;r ' 8 bravely for King Charles I, was taken **, „ T , r by the forces of Parliament, sentenced to P rti V' n(J executed at Edinburgh In 1650 under dr tauce* of great indignity. The body. afUr Co^ 'jiff three hours to the galiows, was quartered, * aßl irtrd*r.ee T7ilh the eentence. the head being la *" on a EP ike at Tolbooth. while the limbs were Mt «ed In various parts cf the kingdom, the arm* aw^j, to Dundee and to Aberdeen, where they fc *^ nailed up against the principal city gates. Z^Ttomembercd trunk was Inclosed in a "little V* \* f| .f. and buried on the Boroughmuir. which ''the usual p'.ace of execution and of burial of JE'iSit criminals, a place of evil reputation, little **_». ty <.uy and much shunned at night. *Srirose before his death had bequeathed his heart ♦« Ms niece by marriage. Lady Napier, to whom £ was pLion.tely devoted. On the night after .?. «ecufoa Lady Napier caused the trunk to be ** execat.on tel-t to bo removed and brought to v UE bv trutteTand devoted adherent,. She then had ft kwd and Inclosed in a little steel case made f S. Wafle of her hero's sword, and placed the I« ma fine go.d fil-gree box. which had belonged f^£ hu "t,* rd's kinsman. John Napier, the in ?? r.' tv. locavithms. Shortly before her death r^ r , ditched the casket to the son of and his successor, who was living in I;?,, toHo'teni In some way or other, probably tSuS?obiry. the heart was lost, and all hope It recovering it had long been given up. when a £enTo< th« Graham I^Of recognised the gold *r,re* box Inclosing the steel case In a curiosity shop in The Hague. He purchased the relic at once and returned It, not to Lord Montrose. but to Lord Napier On the death of the fifth Lord Napier it paased into the keeping of his only surviving daugh ter Hester, afterward Mrs. Johnston, whose hus benfl was a commodore of the Royal Navy. While or. a voyage out to India, with his wife and her possessions on board, the commodore's ship became engaged in a fight with a French man-of-war, and during the course cf the encounter a splinter struck the casket, shattering the gold filigree box contain ing the heart, tut fortunately leaving the steel casket Intact. In India Mrs. Johnston caused a d«ver goldsmith to construct a gold filigree box in the place of the one destroyed, and this in turn n*f placed In a silver urn on the outside of which «as engraved in two native dialects a short account of Montrose's life and death. The urn soon came to be regarded by the natives as something uncanny, gcd the report spread that it was a talisman. Be fore long the urn and its contents were stolen and for a long time could not be traced. Ultimately •viaence was procured tending to show that the relic had been sold for a large sum of money to v a powerful chief in the neighborhood of Madura. Tews went by, and one day Mrs. Johnston's son happened while out.Ehooting to save the life of the chad of this Madura chief from death by laying low a tiger with a timely bullet Just as It was about to spring. The chief, in true Oriental fashion, offered to give young Johnston anything he might choose to ask, and Johnston naturally availed him «elf c? the opportunity to beg for the restoration Of the urn containing the heart of Montrose, The chief readily compiled with his request, and. it may be added, was later on put to death by the English for rebellion against the Nabob of Arcot. after hav trg ln rain sought immunity by relating his sur render of the Montrose relic. The Johnston family returned to Europe In 1793. and. passing through France on their way to England, were arrested by the revolutionary government at Boulogne, not be fore, however, they had time to intrust the silver -urn with Its lnclosurcs. to an English woman liv ing there, who promised to keep it hidden until it could safely be conveyed to London. Unfortunately the woman in question died aoon afterward, and the Johnston family, on the restoration of peace were unable to find any trace of the silver urn and of the heart. _____ . The search was taken up by the late Duke of Montrcse, and has been prosecuted with a good deal of vigor by the present duke, everything tend ing to snow that tha relic has found its way to this country, end is at the present moment In some private collection in the United States. It Is pos sible thai the silver urn has been disposed of separately but thero can be no mistake about the littla steel case and about the filigree casket of Indian gold The present Duke of Montrose would give a large sum to recover thin relic, which has furnlßhed the tksree for seme of the roost celebrated novels, and efcould he not able to furnish the full amount a. which h^s furnished the :nost celebrated novels, and to furnish the full amount reauired himself— for he la not rich as dukes go there Is no true Scotch Graham -who would not gladly contribute toward the recovery of the heart of rrose. end to the bringing about of Its find ing a final resting: place on Scottish soil after all Its extraordinary wanderings and vicissitudes. RECOVERY OF A MISSING ARM. I may add that some ten years J>go the duke managed to recover the right arm of the Marquis of Montrose. The left arm had been nailed up above the tM of Aberdeen, and had thereafter been taken down and entombed in Lord Huntly's vault until 1681, when it was conveyed from there to Edinburgh, where, along with the head, th« legs and the trunk. It was accorded a grand state funeral and entombment in the Cathedral of St. G!les by King Charles 11. But the right arm. which had been nailed up above the principal . gate of Dundee, was not recovered at the time. It seems to have been carried off into England by a Crom well.an officer of the name of Pickering:, and it was through his descendants that it came into the pos session of the Grahams of VToodhall, In Yorkshire, who ir. turn transferred It to the Duke of Montrose. The arm Is in a mummified condition, and the hoJ*s through the centre of the hand and through the fleshy part of the arm near the elbow indicate that the limb had been nailed up somewhere, in the manner in which It was customary to expose the severed. limbs of those executed for high treason. A PROMINENT FIGURE ON THE TURF. The present Duke of MontroFe. who counts among his other ancestors Sir David Graham, who signed the historic letter or 1300 to the Pope declaring the Impendence of the Scottish Church from Rome, and Sir Patrick Graham, the envoy Bent to arrange the marriage of the son of King Alexander 111 of B'ottand with the daughter of the Count of Flan <s*rf. 18 an old soldier, served In the Guards and in tfco Eth lancers, and went through the South African war es colonel In command of the militia bafallon« of the Argyll and Sutherland Highland residents. His wife, although the mother of grown op children. !■ nevertheless still one of the most beautiful women of her day, and. alone with the Ihiche«se« of Portland, Sutherland and Maryborough. ■M selected to held the canopy above Queen Alex andra at the coronation. The duke's mother. Caroline. Duchess of Mont roe*, was celebrated on the turf, on which she raced ender the name of "Mr. Mentor,," and has been portrayed In a popular play under the name of the "SporUn? Duchess." Her picturesque and forcible Ucsuage did not prevent her being 1 pious and god rsarir.g. ft nd she built a handsome church at New market for the particular benefit at the Jockeys and MHI hands. Indeed. it was quite a familiar spec tacle to 1 see the old duchess conducting some of her stable boys who had attempted to shirk divine service iiito the church, holding them by the ear. Eke figures in the reredos above the altar in stone as St. Bridget. That is to say, she served as model for the twin', to its sculptor. The duke's eldest eon, the Marquis of Graham, is a very 'remarkable young fellow, who, for the pur pose of qualifying himself by persona^ experience for dealing with the Question of the Improvement of tie condition* of life In the mercantile marine, served for several voyages on board a sailing ship before the mast, (Jolnjj duty as a common seaman and subsequently as a petty officer, before any one became awtre of his identity. WAS W. B. ASTOR'S TUTOR. Maurice de Bunsen. who has Just been appointed by Kjus; Edward to be his envoy to the Court of Lisbon, began his diplomatic career In the Ucit*d Elates as an attache of the English Mission UTVasMcston la I*7B. and, while of German descent. may be said to owe the origin of the fortunes of his bouse to America. The first Bunsen, Christian Charles by name, and grandfather of Klnar Ed ward's new envoy at Lisbon, was a young student of humble birth at the University of GSttlngen, In most 6tra.itoned circumstances, when, by a piece of great good luck, he was selected to serve as private tutor and travelling companion to young William B. Astor, son of the John Jacob Astor who laid the foundation of the great wealth of hla family. The couple wandered all over Europe together, visiting Goethe, Schopenhauer and Nlebuhr, and when finally young Astor returned to New-York Bunsen was provided for in a financial sense, and In the most generous fashion, for the remainder of his days, and was able shortly afterward to marry at Rome, an English grfri, Miss Waddlngton, aunt of the French statesman and foreign Minister of that name, whose American widow, daughter of Presi dent King of Columbia University. New-York, has spent the winter in this country. At Rome Bunsan became very intimate with the scholarly Prussian Envoy. Miebuhr, who secured his appointment as secretary to his legation, and, becoming a warm personal friend of Prince Frederick William of Prussia, he was, on the suc cession of the latter to the Prussian throne aa Frederick William IV, promoted to the poet of Minister in London. His sons, George and Ernest yon Bunsen. both distinguished themselves by their pronounced liberal views, which gave such offence to the first Prince Bismarck that ho virtually drove them from German official and political life. Indeed, Ernest yon Bunsen resigned his position in the German army and diplomatio service and estab lished himself in England, where he married Miss Elizabeth Gurney, a daughter of the famous old Norfolkshire house of that name. He returned to Germany to take part in the caring of the siik and wounded during the war of 1870, for which services old Bmperor William insisted on appointing him one o* his chamberlains. This did not, however, prevent Ernest yon lUmsen from having hia son Drought up as an Englishman, and Maurice, after graduating from Oxf. ri, entered the English diplo matic service. Some time ago he married Miss Berta Corry, a relative of the late Lord Rowton, and has been for several years past first 6«cretary and councillor of the Paris Embassy, with the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary. He was nomi nated at one time to the first secretaryship at Washington, but before taking up the appoint ment secured hia transfer to Constantinople, which he considered offered better opportunities for Bpeedy promotion. KING LOUI9 XV'B MOTOR CAR. It is a great mistake to imagine that there Is anything particularly new about horseless car riages and about motors. For in glancing over Borne old French memoirs of the reign of King Louis XV of France I find that he had a horse less carriage constructed for his use by a car riage builder in the Rue de Charonn© at Paris. Tae vehicle in question was an invention of a man of the name of Vaucresson. was painted blue with gold ornamentations, while the motive powar was provided by an Immense clock spring. There are likewise old prints in existence representing King Loulo XV driving about In a carriage of this kind. It. however, came to gTlef. The spring got out of order. Having been wound up too tig-ht, it burst its bonds and projected the occupants of the carriage into the air and to a considerable dis tance. King Louis to the end of his days believed that the accident was part and parcel of an at tempt to aasasslnate him, for the unfortunate inventor is on record as having spent the re mainder of his life in the dungeons of the Bastille. NEW KNIGHT OF ST. PATRICK. Lord Meath, who has Just been created a Knight of the Order of St. Patrick, receiving the ribbon rendered vacant by the death of the late Earl of Kenmare, Is particularly well known in this coun try, being, like his wife and son, a frequent visitor to the United States. His younger son, the Hon. Arthur Brabazon, spent several seasons in New- York, and his eldest son, Lord Ardee, was in America last falL Lord Meath is perhaps the most useful Peer in the House of Lords. For. Fince retiring from the army and from diplomacy, he has devoted himself to philanthropic enter prises, of which he has organized and originated a large number. Among them are the Young Men's Friendly Society and the Girls" Friendly Society, ea«h with a membership of over 60.000; the Ministering Children's League, with Its mem bership of 100.000, pledged to do at least one act of kindness a day, and maintaining a large num ber of homes for destitute children; the Meath Homes of Comfort for Incurables and Epileptics, the Brabazon Employment Scheme, which finds congenial occupation for those old cripples or infirm inmates of workhouses who are reported as past work, and are given over to Lord Meath's society to save them from dying of inertii, and Heaven only knows how many other societies besides. Lord Meath's ancestral home is at KHlruddery, near Bray, in County Wicklow, whence Sir Walter Scott, a frequent guest at Killruddery, took his idea of the novel "St. Ronan's Well." Lord Meath ie descended from Jacques de Brabazon, sur named "The Great Warrior," who was one of the principal lieutenants of William the Conqueror, and has his name recorded as such on the roll of Battle Abbey. The wife of the fourth Earl of Meath was "The Countess Doll," of Dean Swift, whoee humorous epitaph on her and her sec ond husband, entitled "Doll and Dickey," is well known. MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. MAY DAMAGE PAINTINGS. Small Fire Fills Brooklyn Museum With Smoke. It Is possible that some of the valuable paintings in the museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, at Eastern Parkway and "Washing ton-aye., were injured by smoke, caused by spon taneous combustion, which set fire to a lot of oil soaked rags on the ground floor at 30 o'clock last DiffhC It will be impossible to determine the amount of the damage until to-day. The fire was discovered by Peter Van Dine, the watchman. It started in a pile of rags and waste that had been left by painters. When the firemen arrived In response to a still alarm they were unable to get into the main entrance, and the watchman did not have the keys. They entered through the old section. Had it been necessary to lay hose a serious delay would have been caused. As it was, the fire was put out by hand grenades, but the firemen were obliged to carry the smoking rays through the old section in order to get them to the street. In this way th* building was filled with a dsnaa smoke. NEW- YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, MOIrHAY. HC&KG& 13. 1905. OmO CENTRE AT THE CITY HALL. PROPOSED BY THE MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY. NEW CUT HALL PARK. Plan to Make It Centre of Har monious Buildings. The Committee on Civic Centres of the Municipal Art Society of New-York, J. Q. Phelps Stokes, chairmarviaa made a. report to the City Improve ment Commission in reference to City Hall Park and Us surroundings. The committee urges the necessity of promp* action for a civio centre for Manhattan at Cltj Hall Park, so that pubUo buildings which are to be erected in tho future will be placed with reference to existing buildings, and a group created that shail be not only notable for the individual structures, but for tha beauty of the group. The term "civic r^ntre" has been accepted by students of civic improvement to include the grouping of public buildings around a park or open space or plaza, so that to the advantages of llsht and air is added the length of vision which enhances architectural beauty, while there axe also brought into closer relation those buildings which, through their use by the public, become the centre of civic life. The report says, in part Tlie centre of business activity in the Borough of Manhattan is unriouht in or nbout City Hall Park. The City Hall, which is the heart of any civic organism, 1b there. The Pos>tufnce. which is the expression of federal life. Is there. Th« Hall of Records and Courthouse, many of the newspaper buildings, the great bridges, will make this section of the city for generations a vital part of the city It eeema fitting that with so much already centred at this point thei% Bhou'.d be some intelligent effort made so to dignify this part of the city by group ing of present and future bulld'ngs that it shall be the most beautiful civic centre in the world. For the space rented by the city of New- York for municipal offices around City Hall Park the amount paid a year is $294,707. This is absurd. It miirht better use a sum equal to the principal on wMeh this amount Is interest to build municipal offices, which ■would be not only more suited to the business of its employes, but which should lead dignity to the civio centre. A plate submitted (Plate O shows a suggestion for treatment of City Hall Park, mnde by Gustav U.ndenthal, by which municipal offices may be In buildings owned by the city. A plan of the build ings ac projected is shown In Plate B. This is a suggestion of grandeur entirely possible, and in this or other form entirely probable of accomplish ment within a few y^ars. It is certain that if the proper treatment were given to the City Hall Park locality ax the nucleus for a civio centre, with future Postofflee. Court house, municipal n<T!r>es and kindred buildings so placed that the streets J?:idir.K to the park would form vistn through whlcb they could be seen: if each huildiner had the proper setting not only for Its own bin the group perspective, the result would Justify the effort. What was nccomplished tem porarily in stucco at the Chicago fair could here re achieved in stone and marblft, to Berve as a con tinuous inspiration to otho:r cities. When a puhllo building is to be erected ft should front, if possib'.e, on a park or open place. Wher ever there is an important public building already in existence which has not an adequate approach, a diagonal Ftreet or an open space should be cre ated if practicable. Public buildings and buildings of semi-public character should be grouped to gether about these open spaces, each making a part of a great p'cture, with distance enough about ft to allow the onlooker to get the entire effect. When this "civic centre" Idea Is developed, the matter of decoration of bi:i!dlnEr« will follow as a natural se quence, both as to external and interior decorative art. Tlie Municipal Art ficcietv secured, during the ad ministration of Mayor Low, the right to have a city Improvement commission created. Under the administration of Mayor .McClellan the commission was namr-<V This has been a long step toward in telligent planning for the comprehensive treatment of the beautifying of the city. The first report of the City Improvement Commission, which had been awaited with much interest and which has been recently issued, more than justifies the formation of the commission. The interest there displayed by so many citizens in their suggestions for civic bet terment is more than encouraging. In advocating the formation of civic centres, especially a civic centre at City Hall Park. Manhattan, the Mu nicipal Art Society, through its committee, wishes to emphasise this as ons of the several, hut one of the most important, steps to be taken for im mediate improvement. The committee last spring issued a report to show how a civic centre could be created in The Bronx around the courthouse then planned. OBITUARY. COLONEL CALEB HUSE. Highland Falls, N. V.. March 12.— Colonel Caleb Huse, aged seventy-five years, died suddenly at his home here to-day following a surgical operation. Colonel Huse wbb graduated from tho United States Military Academy in ISSI, nnj was for many years an instructor at West Point. He re signed from the Union Army in 1861, and subse quently was commissioned by Jefferaon Davis as colonel and sent to Kurope as purchas ing agent for the Confede: ate Army. He re mained abroad In that casacity until the end of hostilities. For a year prior to the War of the Rebellion he was superintendent and commandant of cadets in the University of Ala bama. Colonel Huse -was born at Newburyport, Mass. He is survived by his wife, three sons and five daughters. The sons are Reginald M., prin cipal of cedarcroft School, at Plainfleld. N. J. ; Harry P., professor of mathematics at the Naval Academy, and Robin S., of the law firm of Huse, Layng & Crane, New- York City. BEABURY BREWSTER WILEY. Orange, N. J., March 12 (Special).— Word was received in Orange to-day of the sudden death in Birmingham, Ala., yesterday of Seabury Brewster Wiley, son of Charles Wiley, a publisher wBo lives at No. X Clinton-st., East Orange. Mr. "Wiley waa forty years old. He was well known in the Oranges. "Mr. Wiley said to-day that his son, so far as was known, had been in the best of health and he did not know what had caused his death. EMMETT SMITH. Emmett Smith, for thirty-two years city engineer of Bayonne, N. J., and for many years the real Democratic leader of that city, died suddenly on Saturday evening. H» had not been in the best of health for two years. Mr. Smith was fifty years old. He bad lived most of his life in Bayonne. He resignrd the position he held so long only two months ago. A widow and two (laughters survive him. THE REV. LEWIS GROUT. Brattleboro. Vt., March 12.— Rev. Lewis Grout, for many years a Congregational missionary in Natal. South Africa, and an authority on the Zulu language, for which he compi'ed a grammar, dieel here to-day in his ninety-first year. He was grad uated from Yale, in 1542, and in 1846 went to South Africa, where he remained twenty years. Later he occupied different pulpits in this State. He leaves no near relatives. TABLET TO ALONZO B. CORNELL. Ithaca. N. V., March 12.— A memorial tablet to the late Governor of the State and benefactor of th* university, Alonzo B. Cornell, was unveiled to-day In the memorial chape) on the campus. In design it balances the memorial erected in 1883 to the wife of the Governor, Elcn Augusta Cornell, and the work was intrusted to the same artist. Charles R. Lamb, of New-York. The memorial ia a combina tion of mosaic, metal and marble. The Angel of Memory i;- K*t*d, supporting with her extended arm ihe eh'«-ld of oxidised silver. In which tb» lo ftcrtDUoa U U«avlly cut. WAS FIFTH AYE. GUEST Hotel Clerk 'Asks About Gas Victim — Woman Companion Dead. His woman companion dead and he himself Tin conscious, a man who has been staying at- the Fifth Avenue Hotel was found yesterday at the Governor Hotel, No. 56 Whitehall-si. He registered as A. Harrison, but in his pocket waa a card bearing the inscription. •'William F. Blank, repre senting the Vulcan Asbestos Company, No. 116 Maiden Lane. Doctors at the Hudson Street Hos pital, whither he was taken, believe his condition and the woman's death wore due to the use of a gas heater attached to the gas Jet. which had de stroyed the oxygen in tho room. The police main tained that the case was one of ordinary gas asphyxiation. The man's chances for recovery are good. The woman had a handbag in which was found a letter addressed to Mrs. M. Patton. care of Mrs. Brehrnan. No. 107 West 9th-st., Brooklyn. The Brooklyn police were unable to find such a person. A man who said he was a clerk at the Fifth Avenue Hotel called up the Hudson Street Hos pital m the evening and asked how "Mr. Harri son" was getting on. "Know nothing of him ex cept that he stayed here!" was all the hotel cleric would say regarding: the patient's identity. MR. MEYER'S HOME IN RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, March 12.— Gaorge yon L. "ieyer has leased the Kleinmlchel Palace for hia resi dence during hia term as American Ambassador here. It is a fine structure, on the fashionable Serscief-st., near the French and other em bassies. Its interior is one of the most gorgeous in St. Petersburg. The family of Kleinmlchel was ennobled by Catherine the Great. After the death of Count Klelnmichel his widow leased the palace. It was occupied for several years by Prince Plo, the Spanish Ambassador, but for some years has been unoccuDied. WHAT IS GOING ON TO-DAY. Ccrrmlttoe cf Nine meeting. Meeting of the Ohio Society of New-York. Waldorf. I p. m. Meeting National Board of Fire Underwriters. Mutual Ufa Building, afternoon. Meeting of the Society of Medical Jurisprudence. No. 17 West 43d-st.. 8 p. m. Conference of the Civio Club. * i>. m. Columbia students' annual 'varsity show. Carnegie Hall. evening. Thirteen Club dinner. Circle Restaurant, 7:13 p. m. Lecture by Mis* H. M. Day on "Foods: Esc» and Chouse." before Public School No. 15S. Avenue A. between 77th and 78th sts.. 8 p. m. Sunrise Club dinner. Cafe Boulevard. 0:45 p. m. Women's conference of the Society for Ethical Culture, Society House. No. 33 Central Park West, 4 p. m. Annual election of officers at New-York City Mothers* Club, the Tuxedo, corner Madlson-ave. and 59th-«t., 8 p. m. Ysaye-Krelsler concert for the benefit of the New-York Ortheptadio Hospital Carnegie Hall. 8:15 p. m. Mass meetlnr of club women in the Interest of West Side Park. City Club, No. 55 West 44th-at., 2:30 p. m. Free lectures of th» Hoi.rd of Education. 8 p. m. : St. Luke's Hall, No. 48 Hudson-et.. near Grove, Albert L. Mershon. "Distinguished Names In Roman His tory": Public School No. 14, No. 225 East 2Tth-st.. Dr. William L. Falter. '"An Evening -with Longfel low's 'Evangellne' " ; Public School No. 40. 15Cth-«t and St. Nlcholaß-ave., Frederick I. Monsen. "The Monuments of a Prehlstorio Race" (Illustrated 1 ! : Pub lic School No. $2. lst-ave. and 70th-st, John B. Pevlns. "Core* and Manchuria: The Land of the Morning Calm and the Gibraltar of China" (Illus trated): Public School No. 86. fl6th-st. and Lexington ave.. Professor Oeorees Castegnier. "France Before the Revolution of 1780"; Public School No. 185. Ave nue A. between 77th and 7Sth nts.. Miss Helen M. Day. "Epgs and Cheese" (practical demonstration*): Public, School No. 188, Lewis and East Houston sts., Dr. Henry R. Rose. "Benjamin Franklin" (illus trated): Educational Alliance. East Broadway and Jeffersnn-st., Frank L. Blanchani. "Underground New-York" (Illustrated): Morris High School. 166th st. »nd Boston Road. Mim Jennie M. Davis. "Growth of Union" (illustrated): Public School No. 7. Church «t., KlnsrsbrlcJtr*. Louis H. Cornish. "Colonial Life Amonst the Puritan*" (Illustrated): Public School No. IT St. Ar.ns-ave. and 147th-st.. Alexander T. Van Laer. ''Paintings In the Metropolitan Museum of Art" (Illustrated): Puhlio School No. 81. Mott-ave. and 145th-st., Dr. Alexander D Savage. "Greek Art" (illustrated): T/afayettp Hall. Al*>xand«T-ave. and 137th-st.. W. Wallace K«r. "Electrlo Bells. Batteries and Alarms" (illustrated). THE WEATHER REPORT. Official Record and Forecast. — "Washington, March IS. — The Gulf disturbance noted Saturday night Is now over the Florida peninsula, with decreasing Intensity. It has caused a continuance of th« rains In the Southern States and some high winds alon>* the South Atlantic Coast. There were also local snows In the upper lake region, the upper Mississippi Valley, the Northwest and the central Rocky Mountain region. Temperatures are generally below the seasonal average east of the Rocky Mountains, especially In the upper Mississippi Valley and the Ink" region. The pressure continues low west of the Rocky Mountains, with a severe storm on the Pacific Coast, the barometer at Rose-. burg to-nirnt reading 29.24 Inches. As a result of this storm general rains have continued In the coast States, and there were also local rains in the plateau region. There will be rain or snow Monday In the slope and central Rocky Mountain regions, and rain generally west of the mountains, continuing Tuesday, and extending east ward into the upper MirMs«ippi Valley. There will also ba rain Monday alone the South At lantic Coast. Elsewhere the weather will he generally fair Monday and Tuesday It will bo warmer Tuesday In the upper Mississippi Valley and th« Northwest. On the New-England and middle Atlantic Coast the winds will be fre*h northwesterly: on the South Atlantio Coast, fresh to brisk north to northeast; on the Gulf Coast, light to fresh northeast to east, and on Lake Michi gan, liirnt to fresh northerly, becoming variable. Flood warnings have been Issued for the Ohio River below Louisville. The danger line of BS feet at Evangville will be reached Tuesday or Wednesday. The upper Ohio will be falling as far south as Cincinnati by Monday night. Stcri warnings are displayed on the Pacific Coast. Steamers departing to-<lay for European ports will have fresh northwesterly winds and generally fair weather to the Grand Banks. Forecast for Special Localities. — For District of Co lumbia. Delaware. Eastern Pennsylvania. New-Jersey and Eastern New-York, fair to-day and Tuesday: light to fresh northwest to north winds. For New-England, fair to-day and Tuesday; fresh northwest to north winds. For Western New-York, fair to-day: Tuesday partly cloudy: light to fresh northwest to north winds. For Western Pennsylvania, fair to-day; Tuesday partly cloudy; light to fresh northerly winds. Tribune Local Observations — In this diagram the continuous white line shows the changes in pleasure as indicated by The Tribune's self recording barometer. The dotted line shows the tempera ture as recorded by the local Weather Bureau. Loral Official Record. — following official record from the Weather Bureau shows the changes In the tem perature for the last twenty-four hours. In comparison with the corresponding date last year: 1904. 1005. 1904. 1005. 8 a. m 23 S3 «p. m 84 SO Ba. m 22 82 9 t\ in ...30 88 9 a m 23 32 11 p. m..... 27 Si Urn . 30 2*l 12 p. m 29 — « p. r0..... 83 891 Highest temperature yesterday. 41 degrees: lowest. 81; average yesterday. 80; average for corresponding date last year. 28; average for corresponding date last twenty-five «yar«, 87. Local Forecast.— Fair to-day ana Tu**4«/i light to ties* ■flfTrtliTTftPfc ta pftrtH !*t!ti<l% *' ■ - ' * •*-• -• —— - I^w . „«._ w^_ 150.00— T0 California— l3o.oo to all other Pacific Coast points. Erie Railroad. In formation at 399 and 1.159 Broadway. X. V. : SSI and 860 Fulton Street. Brooklyn. Died. Death notices appearing In THE TKIBUNE will be tepnblished in The iTI-WXkly Tribune without extra charge. \* ' Arm»tron*. fcmea. Seeger. Ludwl* 9. Clark. Arthur L. Beeur. Bollna J. Cur.hlln. 11. IClizabeth. Smith. Emmett. ("nr.vrrs. Ebenezer B. Steers. Phebe A. Cooper. Isabella 8. Trowbrtdge. Rutherford. Jr. Elliott, Florence M. Van Wyck. Elluafceth M. '. narna E. Whitney, Mary L. Huse, Caleb. Wiley. Seabury B. Jac kson. Nannie N. Yerkes. Rev. David J. Muan. Henry X. ARMSTRONG— Sunday evening. March 12, 1003, James Armstrong, in hi* 73d year, at his residence. No. 24» Prealdeat-st.. Brooklyn. NoUce of funeral hereafter. CLARK— Sunday. March 12. at hi* late residence. No. ,«* Pelham Road. New-RocheUe. N. V.. Arthur Ludlow Clark, eldest son of the late Colonel Henry W. Clark and Fanny E. Clark. In the 31th year of his aw. Funeral serves at Christ Church. Pelham Manor. >•• 1.. on Tuesday, March 14. at 3:30 o'clock. Trains leave. 12&th-st and 3<l-ave. for Pelham Manor at 2:45 P. m. and f re .1 Grand Central Station for Palham at 2.15 p. m. Washington and Baltimore papers please copy. CONKLTN— On Saturday. March 11. 1906. H. Elisabeth Conklin, wife of George H. Copklln. Funeral on Tues day. March 14, at 8 p. m.. at her late residence. No. 110 Kent-*t,. Brooklyn. Interment private. CONVERS — On Friday morning. March 10. Ebeneser Buckingham Convers. mm of the late Charles Cleveland Convert and Catharine Buckingham Convers. after a short lilnoaa. at his residence, in Englewood, N. J.. In his 65th year. Funeral at his late residence on Mon day. March 13. It Is requested that no flowers be sent. Interment at the convenience of th* family. Ferry boats leaving the Erie ferry at the foot of 23d-at. at 2:10 p. m. and the foot of Chambers-st. at 2:20 p. m. connect with the train, on the arrival of which the services will be held. COOPER— Saturday morning. March 11. 1003. Isabella S.. widow of Thomas E. Cooper. Funeral services at her late residence. No. 40 West 96th-st.. Monday. 12:80. ELLIOTT— On Friday evening. March 10. of pneumonia. Florence Mary, wife of Oeor*» Lobdell Elliott and daughter of the late Henry Newell Beers. Funeral ser vices at her late residence. No. 8« West BSth-«t. New- York, on Monday. March 13. at 10:30 o'clock a. m. HARD— On Friday. March 10. Sarah X.. wife of A:i*n Wale* Hard. Funeral services at St. 'Bartholonj'»v's Church. Ma<!lson-ave. and 44th-st., Monday. March 13 at 10 o'clock. Philadelphia and Baltimore papers pleaai copy. " HUSK— On Saturday. March 11, at his home. Highland Fails. N. V. Caleb Huse. Funeral services at Holy Innocents" Church. Highland Falls. N. V • Tuesday March 14. at 2 o'clock p. m. JACKSON— Entered peacefully Into her rest, after a brief Illness, at her home. No. AM Hl»h-st., Newark N J Friday. March 10. IPOB. Nannie Nye Jackson widow of Frederick Wolcott Jackson and daughter of the '.ate Captain Ezra and Nancy F«ss<>n.len Nya. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral service at her residence on Tuesday afternoon. March 14. at 3 o'clock. Interment private. MUNN— Suddenly, on March 9. at his residence, No. 2SI Lexlngton-ave.. Henry Norcross Munn. son of Orson Desaix Munn. Funeral services at his late residence at 10 o'clock on Monday, March 18. Interment at Wood lawn. Private. ; BEEGER— On Sunday. March 12. 1005. Ludwlg Philip Reefer, In the 31st year of his age. Funeral service* on Tuesday. March 14. at 2 p. m.. at his late residence. No. 6 4th St.. New-Brighton. Staten Island. BEGTJR.— Suddenly, at Ouchy. Switzerland, on March 10 Sellna J. Besur. wife of Dr. Avery Segur and daughter of th« late Nathaniel R. and Selina O. Darrell New- Haven tConn.) papers please copy. SMITH— At Bayonne. on Saturday, March 11 Emmett Smith. in his 56th year. Funeral services from his late residence. No. 124 West sth-st.. Tuesday. March 14 at 2p. m. Carrlaoes in walling at West Bth-st. arrival of 1 p. m. train from New-York. Kindly omit flowers. Interment private. STEERS— Friday, March 10. 1005. at her residence No 10 East 3Sth-st.. Phebe Ann, widow of Henry Steers. Funeral services will be held at Trinity Chanel £3th-st., near Broadway, on Monday morning, the 13th Inst., at 10 o'clock. TROWBRIDGE— At the residence of his parent- New- Haven, Conn., Saturday. March 11. 1905. Rutherford. Jr.. only son of Rutherford and May Well* Farrel Trowbridge. in the 11th year of his age. Funeral ser vices will be held at No. 70 Grove-st.. New-Haven, on Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock. VAX WYCK— East Flshklll. N. V., March 10 1905 Elizabeth M . widow of James Van Wyck and daughter of Nicholas Van Brunt, of Brooklyn. N. V In her 83th year. Funeral service* will be held on Tuesday March 14. at 1:30 p. m.. from her late residence. Carriages will meet train at Brinkarhotl leaving New-York at 7:54 a m. WHITNEY— Miami, Fla ,on March 11. of heart fail ure. Mary Louise, wife of Alfred R. Whitney, of Mor rlstown, N. J. Funeral private. WILEY— at Birmingham. Ala., on Saturday March 11. Seabury Erewster Wiley, son of Charles and Julia Halsted Wiley. Funeral private. Toledo (Ohio) papers please copy. \y*w YKRKES — Early Saturday morning, at his home. No. «B5 West 7th-»t., Plalnrleld. N. J.. the Rev. David J Yerkea. D. D.. pastor emeritus of the First BaDtlst Church of Plalnfield. N. J.. In his 81st year Funeral service at the church, corner of Grove and Front «ti^ on Monday, March 13. at 5:13 p. m. * UNDERTAKERS. tSd St. Frank E. Campbell-Stephen Merrttt. 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Milan: Hotel le I* Hermitage. Monte Carlo:: I '* l XL * 1 - Rome: Hotel de Nice. Nice: Hotel Beau Site. Cannes; Hotel dallla. Cannes: Savoy Ostsl. Genoa- Hotel de Londras. Gen<m : Hotel Bellavn*. 3aa > Remo: Hotel de la Vll:<>. Florence; Grand Hotel. Ttor •J 10 *: *« vr>y , Hotel. Florence; Hotel RAyal. «M Bamo; c ote ' °™ » Bretagne. Nice: Bav*v Hotsl. San R«ao; Grand Hotel. Monte Carlo; 9ua Palace Hotel. Mont* Carlo; Grant) HoteL Alx-l**-Balna; Hotel Loovt. aad _. -£* v Alx-les-Balns. J l\ : , Ea *PT— Shepheard's Hotel. Qsssl»e» yalaca' Hotel. Postofflce Notice. m aTo°c 1 c vu a r « an^tim^* * * U «*»«*•*• " *»* a H Foreign mails for the week endtna? Marsh IS. MCR. will rwfAw < . pn » Rt> . tly la a " """"I at the Genaral pottoOc* a»; follows: Register*! »cd Parcel. Post Mail* elo*» one hour earner than closing tim» ehown below. Farcela Pest Malls ror i-.erma.ny close at 5 * m. March 13. per a •■ Bran denhurg: and March 20. per c. •. Kronprtn* Wtlhelßßu | ti^i fill and Supplementary Malls close at Foreign •la lon (corner of West and Morton Streets) half hour later tran closing time shown below (except chat 3uDpt«m«Bt*ry Malls for Europe and Central America. vU Colon, ilium one. hour later at Foreign Station). TRANSATLANTIC MAILS. WEDNESDAY (15)— At 8:30 a. m. (supp!«n«a«a«T V* J- ";', for Europe per c. a, Oceanic, vi» Queenstowni and Liverpool: at 9:30 a. ia. for Italy direct, per a. a. Nord America «mail must be directed "per i a. Nori America"); at 11 a. m. for Norway Parcels Post MaUa. per 9. a. car II (regular mall tor Denmark mint M directed "per 8 - a, Oscar ll"i. THURSDAY U«>-At 7 a. m. tor Franc* twlt»ertti*L Italy Spain. Portugal Turkey. Egypt. Or«M>c« and BrltS isn India, per s. •. La Touralne. via Havre (mall for Toil' 1 " 1 " 1 ) 3 ° r i:urop * muat *>• directed "per a. a. L*> SATI'RDAY(I9)— At Ba. m. for Europe, per a, a New-, Tork. via Plymouth and Cherbourg (mail for Ireland! must be directed "per s. ■. New-TorJc"); at 8:30 a. to. for Belgium Parcels Post Mail*, per •. a. Finland fr*ru-' jar mail for Belgium nut b* directed ••per *. a. Fln-« land i); at 8:30 a. m for Italy direct, per a. a. Neckar (mail must be directed "per s. a. Neekar r ') : at 0:30 a. m. for Scotland direct, per a. s. Ethiopia (mall must be> directed per *• BAB A Ethio r ia">; at 10 a. m. for Aaorca Island*, per a. *. Cretic (mall for Italy must be directed , per s. ». Cretic"); at 10::» a. m. (supplementary 13 re.> for Europe, per a. a, Umbria. via Queenatown and Liv erpool. MAILS FOR SOUTH AND CENTRA!. AMERICA. MWBT* INDIES. ETC. TUESDAY (14.— At 4a. m. for BraUl, per aa. Syraenaa, via Rio Janeiro and Santos (mall for Northern Brazil. Pemambaco, Bahm. Argentine. Uruguay and Paraguay must be directed '•per 4. s. Syracusa"): at 9:30 a. m. (supplementary 10:30 a. m.> for Nicaragua (except East Coast). Honduras (except East Coast), Salvador. Panama. Canal Zone, Cauca Department of Colombia, Ecuador Peru. Bolivia and Chill, per b. a. Finance, yta Colon (mall for Guatemala must be directed ■•per a. a. Finance"): at 12 m. for Yucatan and Campeehe. per *. a. Dassry (mail must be directed "per a. • Daggry*'). WEDNESDAY (15)— At 3a. m. for Bermuda, per a. c. Ilermudlan; at 9:30 a. m. (supplementary 10:30 a. m.) for Inagua, Haiti, Santa Uarta and other places In Mascialena D*p't, Colombia, per s. a. Adirondack mall for St. Marc. Petit Ooave. Aux Cayes. Cape Haiti and Port de Pals must bo directed "per a. a. Adirondack"); at 6:30 a. m. for Newfoundland, per a. i. Silvia- at 11 a. m. for Haiti, per s. s. Prina Wlliem II (mall fop Cape Haiti. Port <1* Pan. Curocoa. Vaaaiuela. Trlni t'.a<2 and Guiana must be directed "per a. a. Ptin* Will em 11"); at 12 m. for Northern Brazil, par — a Ber nard, via Para and Manaoa. THURSDAY — At » a. m. for Cuba. Yucatan and Campeche. per s. s. Vlgtlancta (mall for other parts of Mexico must ba directed "per s. a. Vlgilancla"); at 13 m. for Mexico, per s. *. Seneca, via Tampico (mall must be directed "per a. a. Seneca"): at 12:30 n. m. (supplementary 1 p. m.) for Turks laUnd and Domin ican Republic, per s. s. Cherokee. FRIDAY (17) — At 12 m. (supplementary 12:80 p. m.» for Bahama*, per s. s. Orlraba (mail for Santiago must bej directed "per s. ». Orizaba"); at 12:30 p. m. (supple mentary 1:30 n. m.) for St. Thomas. St. Crolx. Leeward and Windward I«Un.is and Guiana, per a. a. Parim* (mall for Grenada. Trinidad and Bt. Vincent must t>« directed "per s. • Parima"). SATURDAY (IS)— At 4a. m. tor Rio Janeiro. Sao Paulo, Sao Francisco and Flortanopolia. per a. a. Capri (mall for Argentine. Uruguay and Paraguay must ba directed "per a. s. Capri"'*: at 8:30 a- m. (supplementary 0:30 a. m.) for Porto Rico. Curacao and Venezuela, per a. a. Philadelphia (mall for Colombia. vi» Curacao, must be) directed 'per ■. a. Philadelphia"); at 9/30 a. m fop Arse^tine, Uruguay and Paraguay, per ■. ». H«sperid«s; at 0:30 a. m. (supplementary 10:30 a. m.) for Fcrtun* Island. Jamaica and Colombia, except Cu.uca and M«e> dalena Departments, per a a. Samls. (mall for Coat% Rica, via Limon. must be directed "per a. *. Sarola"")) at 10 a. in. for Cuba, par a. a. Morro Castle, via Ha vana: at 10 a. m. for Brail!, per a. *. Castlllan Prince* via Pernambuco, R!:> Janeiro and Santos (mail for Northern Brazil, Argentine. Uruguay and Parana? must be directed "per a ». Castllian Prlnfe'*'); al I2:3t> p. m. for Cuba, per *. a, Curitvba, via <J t TrT°i Cm*-H must b» directed "per *. *. Curttyba"). Notice. Five cents per half ounce In addition to th«. regular postage must be prepaid on all latter* forwards^ by the Supplementary Malls, and letters deposited In the drops marked "Letters for Foreign Countries." after tit* Closing of the Regular Mail, for dispatch by a paj-CieUr lar vessel, will not be so forwarded unless «uch addi tional postage la fully prepaid thereon by stamps. ■■»%. pigmentary Transatlantic Mall* are also opened on tn* piers of the American. English and French steamers whenever the sailings occur at & a. m. or later; and la«» mail may be deposited In the mail boxes on the piers at the German Lines sailing from Hoboken. The malls on the piers open one hour and a half before, sailing time,' and cloaa ten minutes before sailing time. Only reralay, postage (letters 5 cent* a half ounce) I* required on articles mailed on tho piers of the American. Whit* Star an<J German (Sea Post) steamers: doaal* postage (letters 10 cents a half ounce) on other lines. MAILS FORWARDKT> OVERLAND. ETC. VXCEPC] TRANSPACIFIC. Malls (except Jamaica and Bahamas) are forwards^ dally to ports of sailing. The CuNNECTTNO malla otosai at the General Postofflce. New-York, as follows; CUBA, via Port Tamps, at t4:SO a. m. Monday, Wdnes day and Saturday. (Also from New-York. Thursday and Saturday— ccc above). MEXICO CITY, overland, at 1:30 p. in. and 10:S0 p. m. dally, except Sunday; Sunday at 1 p. at. and 10:30 p. m. NEWFOUNDLAND (except Parcels Post Malls), via, No*Cj Sydney at 7 d m Monday. Wednesday and Saturday (also occasionally from New- York and Philadelphia. Is* above*. MIQUELON. via Boston and Halifax, at 6:30 p. m. everr other Sunday (March 13 and 24. April * aad 21. eta). ' JAMAICA, via Boston, at 7 p. m. Tuesday, via Philadel phia at 10:30 p. m Wednesday. (Also from N«w-Yar'x on Saturday. Se» above» BAHAMAS (except Parce!* Post Malls), via Miami., Florida, at t4:SO a. m. Monday. Wednesday and Saturn day. (Also from New- York. S#e above.> BRITISH HONDURAS. HONDURAS (East Coast) and'- GUATEMALA, via New-Orleans, at tlO:3O p. m. Moa-i day (West Coast of Honduras Is dispatched from. New- York via Panama — see above.) COSTA RICA, via New-Orleans, at tl0:30 p. m. Tuesday, NICARAGUA (East Coast), via New-Orleans, at *1034. p. m. Wednesday. (West Coast cf Nicaragua 1* llin patched from New- York via Panama— see above.) PANAMA and CANAL ZONE, via New-Orleans, at 1 10:301 p. in. Sunday (after to: 30 p. m. Sunday and until saUlpf of New-York steamer, mail for Panama and "ml Zonj Is held fnr the New-York i«i«r — above.) fß«glstered Mil! for overland dispatches close* at • p. Bwj previous day. TBANSPACinc MAILS. FORWARDED OVERLAJtta. The schedule* of closing of Transpacific Mail* Is arraaged on the presumption of their uninisrruptetl oveiCaa4 transit to port of sailing. T^r final cocnecUn? mails (ex cept Registered Transpacific Mails dispatche-i via Van couver. Viet'-: Taociaa cr Seattl*, which close 6p bu previous day) close at tae General Postornc*. New York. as follows: Hawaii. Japan. Korea. Chin* and Philippine Island* »i» San Francisco, close at « p. m. March 13 for' dis patch ptr s. s. Mongolia. Jsimr (txcept Parcels Post Mails\ Korea. China and - •..■- ' islands, via Vancouver aai Victoria B. C tkn st « p. m- Jlaxch U tor dUj?atch per a. *. Enisreaj Of ! . , "^ Japan. Korea. Cfitna and Philippine Island* via Seattle olrse at 0 p. m. March 14 lor dispatch per a. a LyraT Hawaii via San Francisco, close at « p. m March 2a for dispatch per si a. A U metis. ' Jmmrs9 w Hawaii. Jaran. Korea.- China and specially ai«-*««e 1 mall for Vhilipplp.*. Is!inds. via 9e.n Francisco, clos* at „'» p. ro. March 'Si for diapateh p«r s. . CMna Hawaii, via (an Franeijro, oio§* at « p. m March 13 for dtsr-ateh p«r s. s. Nebraskun. * " FIJI Islands. Australia trxrept West) and New-Cale^anJa. v a V-anoouver and Victoria. B. C. .-;-■•• at « • m, March 25 fcr dispatch r«r a a. Aorangi *' "• Philippine Islands, and Guam, via San Francisco e!os» at « P ra March » for dlspateh per I', a. Transport New-Zealand. Australia (except West* New-Caledonla. Samoa. Hawaii an.l FIJI Island*. M Saa Franclaool c'..-sa a{6^ re. Aftil I fcr di<pst»h per s. t Sonoaaa. i}. 1 lJ !f Cunard steamer carrying tb» British mall fo- Jvew-Zeaiartd dees n«t arrive In lime to cc-in«c: wlt>» this d!s?atrb. extra ma'l»— closing st ■'am., trfi • m. and 6 p. ra. ; Sundays at 4;30 a. m.. Ba. m. aa4 6 p m. — be made up and forward*! until the arrival of the CunarJ steamer.) Tahiti and Maraue<4* litmnds. via San Francisco, oka* ot 6 p. n». April IS for Uspatch per a *. Mariposa. Manchuria (except Newchwane and Part Artiur) an»J Enttern Slbonn !a at present rorwarded via, Russia. NOTE.— lTr.'.e^s otberwlyp «S*»e*^td. West Au«tra!ia ■# forwar<l;:l via i:urci>«; New-Z»alar«l via fan Kranel.po ami certain plac«r* In th* CT»!n»*> Provlnc* of Yunnan via Urltt»h India — 'he qiucVrct rout**. Philippines spe cially" adJresjeJ *"vl» Europe" nniit b« Tally prepaid ati the -reign rates. lUwitU I* forward*! via Ska Frarvlj else* axetualvaly. ' WILUXM R. WILU-OX PMtaiMt^ Postodca. Naso-VjicX.-Y-i March 10. UOB^ ™ r <