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I THE DESTROYER'S VOYAGE.
I J. TASKEE SKIPPER'S PEBILOVB
TJtlP TO RRAKIL.
Br4 jEa-uerteaee f th Cant-sunder)! th Krlea.
Vr M, Torr Boat la ! th YTsus
y -CuaU Mloeun Think th BnuH
I Ui Werhn't Terr Aiiltn t liaht.
I When the Ericsson torpedo boat Destroyer b-
I cams part of the hastily constructed Brazilian
I nTy lst autumn and started on her journey
I (or nto de Janeiro, no company would Insure
I the frail craft or the lives jf the men who went
I on hor. There were thirteen all told In her
I crew, and that of Itself was bad. Although she
I nt towed don n, few persons expected that she
J would live at sea. After a flerce struggle. In
W'i which oil. lard, and furniture were used In her
I fires, tho dlil reach Brazil, but now she lies use-
less In a basin at Bahla, m CapU Joshua Bio-
cum, who had ohargo of her on the trip to that
port says, with "the tide ebbing and flowing
through her broken hull a rendeirous for eels
and crawfish."
Opt. Siocum cornea from down East, and he
has written a pamphlet about the daring voy
aire. The title of CapU Slocum'e pamphlet Is
"Voyage of the Destroyer from New York to
Brazil." Although It was a most dangerous un
dertaklng, the Captain has fun In telling about
It, all In his own way. His "ornamental men"
In tho crew, who were careful to sail In the
steamer towing the Destroyer, amused him very
much. For tho twelve brave men who shared
his danger he has only the warmest praise. Of
I his "ornamental men" he says:
I "A young man to fight the ship. In case of be-
I tng attacked by pirates ' on the coast of Brazil,
I came from a recent class of naval cadets of An
il napolls. With sufficient confidence In his theo
ry ry. this young man came early, bringing his
' plans for the fight along with htm. If there
should be any, for he was bound to begin right.
" Also a nobleman, who came principally as
Count, engaged himself to be with us. The po
ltlonof 'specialist' was spoken of as bis, but
that was by the way. Tho Count was a brand
new sailor, and a good Judge of a hotel.
"There came, too, I should not forget IU a
young officer of the Ilrltlsh Itoyal Marine Ar
tillery, who became In time a feature of the
crow. This young man had accumulated hand
aotue gold bands for his caps, which ho fre
quently lost In the sea, npon the voyage caps
and alL The sword, which by merit he hod won,
wss of enormous slse. This sword and a heavy
Colt's revolver, which he wore night and dny,
W gsvo my young officer, I must say for a little
tiic DEa-rnorzn.
man a formidable appearance. The prodigi
ous sword, I recall, ' won by valor at the Sou
dan,' and 'presented by her gracious Majesty,
the Quoon,' hud the American eagle stamped
upon Its blade. This Is the famous sword which,
buckled on over a dashing red coat, secured for
n htm the position of third gunner's mate to the
I Count, Mr. W , a gentleman of Influence,
I procuring him the place upon first sight of this
I rig and the cut of his sails, for It must be borne
I In mind that we are to make a warlike appear-
I I ance when we come to Brazil. U not before.
"Of all these awe-inspiring weapons my old
sailors made due note. Well, this young man
came also, but, taking passage along with the
fighting Captain and the Count on the steamer
that towed us, he was always three hundred
fathoms ahead, except In tho ports we touched
on the voyage, and again came together to re
count deeds of valor and trophies won : my sail
ors always standing In awe of sword organ;
being, too, always touched at the sight of the
unmistakable bird spreading Its wings over the
Qoeen's gift."
They had trouble with this 8oudan hero, as
CapU 3 locum relates further on. At Martin
ique he was transferred to the Destroyer to re
main, now that she had crossed the Gulf. CapU
Siocum calls him "fir Charles" at this Urns
. and says tub about blmt
i "Numberless were the duels he would have
(ought on the Santulu Hut (or the want of
gentlemanly principle, no one accepted his
challenges not even the negro cook, to whom
ho gsve choice of weapons. This sanguinary
spirit spurting from the third gunner's mate on
the voyage, what will bo the state of the De
stroyer's decks. I ask. when the gunner himself
appears and the fighting Captain takes charge ?
uuitne cook, seizing me trying pan In his
black fl.it, against all the rules of duelling, don't
chr kno. chased Mir Charles around the deck.
That wasn't all: the negro, having gained on
Blr Charles sufficiently to reach him, be thought,
let fly the blooming pan, but hit something hard.
Instead of Sir Charles's head the steam winch
caught the blow, and of course the nan broke
Into a thuusand piece. It was a bad blow (or blr
Charles all the same. CapU 8turgcs.bearing of the
miehsp be was bound to hear of It. it was the
Hamuli's slapjack pan that was broken and
hearing of Sir Charles's thirst for blood, called
him to the bridge for an Interview, which could
bo heard all over the harbor, to the effect that
J Any more such work on the Santulu sir. and
I II make shark bait of your d d carcass, d'ye
heart Now. go forward.' Blr Charles h'wenti"
Sir Charles had a sort of a duel on board the
Destroyer, Capt. Siocum says, but the ballets
were extracted secretly from the pistols by an
official, and nothing came of 1U
Un the third day out from New York a rough
tea came on, and the seams in the Destroyer
began to yawn, and CapU blocuxn gives this pic
ture of the trouble:
"All hands are pumping and balling to kesp
the shin, afloat, but the water gains steadily,
and by midnight it I washing the tires and put
ting them ouu Steam must be kept up, else we
go down.
"Hounds of (at pork are heaped upon the
struggling fires. Hard bread smeared with fish
oil 1 hurled Into the furnace by the barrel, and
all available, light stuff as well that will burn
on the top of dead coals, snch aa tables and
chairs, Is thrown on the fire. There is no
longer stiy draught, the rising water has cut the
draught off. nut the. pork, and the bread and nil,
and our furniture after a whlln a long while it
seems make a Joyful lire that sends steam dy
ing into the tubes and pipe to lend us Its giant
strength. Danger signals of rockets and blue
light have been shown through the night."
Thy Anally got through the nlghU but It was
a pliMe call, and the skipper says of it:
" The water In the hold is kept down (ram one
to three fret. Occasionally n rolling suck Is
gained, which in our joy of it we call free bilge.
Great quantities of water go over the ship.
Bite washes heavily still, going often under the
seas, like a great duck fond of diving. Every
thing Is weu There is not a drypbice in the
entire ship. We are most literally sailing under
the sea,
" The Destroyer comes out of the storm to-day
(Dec, 13) decked from the top of smokestack to
bottom of (he life lines In Sargasso weeds or
flower. AH along the man ropes, (ore and aft,
are hauglng in clusters these flowers of the sea,
a rars and beautiful stghtl"
tour day later they had a terrific time near
the 'Caribbean Sea. The tort sponson began to
Irak, and the Yankee skipper says: "lie was a
clever man who designed these sponsonsand
saw them constructed in such a manner that
both of them didn't All up together." lie then
add-of this storm:
"The crew have all they can do to keep the
ship afloat to-night. The water puts our fires
a out. All we can do, we can't keep the water
down ; all liands balling for life. The main hull
of the Destroyer is already a foot under water.
and going on down. The crew have not seen the
thing as I have looked npon it to-night : all they
have seen Is hard work and salt water. Not
like driven cattle do they work, either, but as
stout, loyal men.
" ell l left her going down a foot under
water, Believe me, the Destroyer to-night was
Just about ready to make her last dive under
the . to ra down deeper than ever before.
Tim tank that we lived In on deck was all that
tun) ui her Up; the base of this, too, was well sub
merged wheu 'Big Alee' of Balera said. 'Cap
Hm. steam In the man is going down, too; ws
C4ii t keep up much longer.' but the storm wss
breaking away, and the first streaks of dawn ap
peared to cheer every" soul aboard. With a wild
Jell the men flew to their work, with redoubled
energy and wrought llks demons. This saved
, the Destroyer, and probably our own lives, too,
I fur It Is doubtful If a small boat could havclived
"..'fe' "torm. (or It was still rsglng high.
Twice In the night 1 was washed from the
wheel, and I usually hold a pretty good grip.
Dizziness from a constant pelting sea made me
reel sometimes fur a moment. To clear my
s-nes and uiak sura that th voyag was a
lau. and that the Iron lank on which were
driving through the waves hadin reality a bot
tom to it somewhere under the sea. was all that
VSSr1 do aud ruvson ouu
f be storm goes down by daylight, as sud
denly as It caino up In the night. And we get in
under the leo of a small bland (or shelter and
reit-Ycijnds-.srct!" ,
At bu Ilerre they laid up (or repairs. The
rudder wouldn't work. Pieces 0t wood had
i .J?! ".""d fr caulking, and tfco machinery hod
) I"H ''-" Juosi to pieces. Finally they
I ffrted again. I'hey had more storms, but at
aft. .klriliig under the leo of friendly Hands,
I l.ey modi-1 ernardo de Norocha. In Brazil, and
I 5 iui' Jan. i'U. reached Pernamburo. bating
ud from Nvr York on Dec, 7. They found
r t of tV.o Brazilian parr there, and Ad-
u i ..icalvte and hU lUig.uiji, ths l'arsna-
hybs, Th nraafltoni weren't glsd, apparently.
to see the Destroyer, for CapU Siocum says of
tho situation later at Bah la t
. " At New York detectives were put on to keep
folks away from the Ericsson gun; but here at
Bahla it was impossible to gel anybody to go
nearlU"
They had a long Job of It In flxlnc np the De
stroyer In Pernambnco. and finally she was
ready to go to Bahla. and of this trip the Cap
tain sayst ....
" The pestroyer.la caiTylnir powder now (or
the whole fleet, which burned all they bad sa
luting the Admiral on the war to Bahla.
"These ship preceded ns by a fiw days; os
tensibly in haste for Rio. but Mello, not being
ready to leave just then, the ' attack ' was post
poned. It being untimely, however, to come
back (or mors powder. It was shipped
along to them on the Destroyer. The
dear old craft had In already gun cotton
and dynamite enough to make a noise,
but Ooncalves wanted more thunder o( his own
old-fashioned sort, so we tilled her chock-a-block
with the stuff to make lU The submarine
cannon was all stowed over with barrels of
powder and was not getatable at all tho rest of
the voyage to Bahla, In facU powder was all
about. Three) barrels of it found stowage In the
Captain's room. The fourth one we couldn't
r:t In. It was stowed back of the galley. That
t didn't all blow up Is how I am her to-day
thlnklngof my sins." .
They got to flahla (our day later and (ound
quiet there. The Admiral had plenty n( tnuelo
and salutes as he went from ship to shore and
back again, but that was tho only sign of war,
Capt. Bloeum writes:
"The occasional pop of a champagne cork at
the'i'arls'on thehlll might have been heard,
but that was all except tho sunset gun. The
rising run had to take careotltself. The average
Brazilian naval man Is an amphibious being,
spending his time about equally between hotel
and harbor, and Is bsver dangerous."
Then the Captain adds: "indeed, the further
we got away from stirring Nsw York the less it
looked like war In Brazil. Thore was, to be sure,
torpedo practice one day. A Howell torpedo
was launched, but boomerang-Ilka It returned,
hitting the ship from which It was hurled,
the only thing lacking to have made It a howl
ing success was the dynamite, which these re
markable warriors forgot to put In. On the fol
lowing day Ooncalves. being in a bad humor,
scixedour ships, and then, under the pretext of
making ready to move the world, nullified the
great Ericsson cannon, which alone would have
settled the business of the revolu He rendered
It as useless as the ' busted ' gun at Bunker Hill.
" Ooncalves and his ofQoers. I grieve to say, re
viled the Destroyer, not only, I was told, (or
bringing tho powder so quickly upon their heels,
cutting thus Into their quiet In port and hasten
ing them on to tho fronu but for still greater
reasons as well. As It proved, however, thore
was no danger In meeting the enemy, uor any
cause of alarm. Ooncalve. It Is well known,
was fitted out with peaceful, harmless people In
his ships: Mello's outfit was the samo. Both
sides as harmless as Jay birds 1 Why should
they kill each other?
"when first the Destroyer came to Bahla,
though, and It wan reported that this was the
long-hoped 'money snip' to follow the lleet
anu pay the blllt the inrge Iron tank In which
the crew lived fitting In size their expectations
of the chest out of which they would all get
rich; many visitors came to see her and called
her a very handsome shim saying many
pretty things concerning her lines, &c.
But when, to their great disappoint
menu lnstrad of bank notes teeming forth,
they beheld sca-begrlmed tars tumbling out
of the tank, and, worse still, barrels of
gunpowder being hoisted out, they said, '.Yno
nniM." We give It upl' Their dlsappolntmenU
Indeed, was considerable, and her fine lines
could no longer be seen.
"it was proposed by Ooncalves and his offi
cers to digs hole In the bank, somewhere, and
put the Destroyer In IU under the mean pretext
of putting a patch over the old leak spoken of
at I'ernambuco a small matter. The meaning
of this was the condemnation of the ship.
"Robinson Crusoe In the fiction was not In a
worse tlx than this In which Admiral Ooncalves
would have himself appear. Marling too far
from thi very Bahla, Crusoe In the cViurso of
his wonderful adventures, we all know, found
himself obliged to dig his ship out to the sea
else let her rut in land. Exactly opposite was
the dilemma of our modern hero. The Destroy
er, Ooncalves snld. should be dug Into the land
else she would sink at sea,"
CapU Siocum then asserts that tho Admiral
made a deliberate attempt to wreck the De
stroyer, and this is the way he tells it:
" It was with great Interest that I watched the
progress of the whole business, and noted tho
methods employed to the end that the Destroyer
herself should do destroyed. The great pneu
mntto gun on the other ship I heard nothing
abouU That I believe was fixed and made harm
less early In the ' preparations." Tho Ericsson
' cannon' was the gun to bo dreaded now. A plan
was studied to somehow put It out of the way.
'Hhould that once double on us like the Howell
torpedo,' they said. 'It would be worse than the
yellow fever around here, and we must
get it out of the way,' Ho on tho S8th Febru
ary. 1H94. having discharged the sailors and
having filled their places with beaneatera from
the fields and the mountains, and having found
a captain unfamiliar with the ways, of a ship (a
thing, by the way, not so hard to find). Ooncalves
sent the ship to sea, ha did, with this outfit on
board. Bhe was gone only twenty-four hours,
however, and returned with all hands nhoyt
flat on deck, seasick and afraid. The Captain
It would be Impolite to call blm sick lost his
appetite and prayed to be thrown overside early
In this memorable adventure, which will live In
record side by side with the history of the war.
The Destroyer had proved too much (or the
greenhorns they couldn't lose her."
They sent her to sea again. CapU Siocum says,
this time without her best pump. but. like the
famous rat, she came back. They tried It again
and (ailed, and then disposed of her in this way.
according to the Captain:
"The upland navigator at the arsenal
at Bahla, having observed the New York
crew put the Destroyer In the basin and
out again with despatch, undertook, like some
tropical quadrupeds, to do the trick themselves.
Whether from pure enseedness or not this time,
I can't say. but they stove a great hole In her
bottom, having grounded her on a rook, 'acci
dentally,' they said."
There she lies to-day with the tides flowing
through her. The Brazilians had fun with their
new torpedo boat also, CapU bloeum says. He
record sit as follows:
"A crockery ware clerk was put In command
of her, and she was sent on a trial trip among
the ships In the bay. Now, to the poor clerk,
and his earthenware crew, all this was
strange and dangerous, but they cut up
high Mnks and made things hum in the
bay. Everybody was on his guard for a while,
for they hod steam up aud couldn't stop her
they didn't know how. The Captain hailed a
foreign steamer and shouted to the engineer
that be would pay 20 mil rels to be stopped. But
the engineer couldn't get aboard he couldn't
catch her. rib could steam IB knots and was
now at full speed."
Finally after two or three collisions she was
run aground.
At last Mello obliged the navy by disappear
ing, and the war was over. CapU Siocum con
cludes his narrative with this:
"They may tell of hot firing and hot fires, but
It was by the heat of the sun, and by that child
of filth, yellow (ever, that most Uvea were losu
In this way some of the members of our,
own expedition were taken. Were It not in
deed for these dsrker shades, I could
now look back with unalloyed pleasure over the
voyogeof the Destroyer: the voyage of past
hardships, now so pleasant to bear, the voyage
which gave to the crew, and myself, withal, no
end of fun."
JfSW STATU jm.Vk started.
TValetea K. Browa, Andrew HcLess, and
Jsha C, Mhecbaa la It,
The Eighth Avenue Bank, a State Institution,
Is th newest State bank to be organized In this
city. It Is on the southeast corner of Twenty
third street aud Eighth avenue, where It has
been doing business for several dsye, although
it has not yet obtslned a Dealing House
agent. The President of the new hank
la Walston It. Brown, the banker, of SO
Nassau street: Its Vice-President Is Andrew
McLean, woollen merchanU of 400 Broom
streeU and the other directors are John
C. Sheehan, K. T. Smith. F. fi. Pernberton.
A, J. Appel, Charles A. Johnson, A. J. Mnruter,
V. M. Wilcox. Coleridge A. Hone, and Joseph
Levy. Two more will he elected at a meeting of
stockholders to h held on Aug. 7. The cashier
of the new bank is t"lojd 8. Patterson, formerly
receiving teller of the Western National Bank.
Tho nominal capital of the bank Is StOO.000.
Onlv one.half of this has been paid in. but
Caahler Patterson said yesterday that the re
mainder would be paid lu hv next Wednesday,
when there will be no difficulty in getting a
clearing agenU
Th ladnstrtal Armr Appeals for Moaey
ad Food.
Washington, July 88. The "AdvanceOuard
of the United States Industrial Army," claim
ing to be 8,000 strong, have Issued an appeal
from Camp Roselyn, Alexandria, Va., (or money
and provisions. The appeal Is signed by Oen.
Lewis l Fry. I Angeles contingent: Col. Ar
thur Vlnette, ('ol. Calvin, and two other Oen.
erals and four Colonels, representing Cincinna
ti. Indianapolis. San Francisco, and Mlnneapn.
lis contingents. In the mean time the Virginia
military authorities have alven notice of an In
tention to expel the "Industrials" by force of
arm from Virginian territory.
New 1 .OOO silver CsrtlsUate.
WisiiisoTo.v, July 88.-The Treasury Depart
ment has received from tho Bureau of Engrav
ing and Printing the first installment of the
new f 1,000 silver certificates, and to-day began
paying them ouu The new certificate I a very
bandome not. In the right corner is th vlg
netu of Secretary Marcy, and on the left Is the
face and bust of an unnamed but attrac
tive female. Treasury gossip says the artist's
Ideal was uken from a photograph of "Josl"
Mansfield.
Mrs, CUvslaas's tSUntr IU,
BuxraiO. July S8.-Mr. Henry E. Perrine,
Mrs. Cleveland's stepfather. I seriously 111 at
his bom in this city. Mrs. Perrine has been
telegraphed to hasten hoin. from Oray Cables,
whtrs she is vllUn Mrs. ClsvrUtd.
SWIFTEST ON THE SEAS.
TttK COLOMBIA A.HD MlXirZAPOZJB
rXERLZSS AM01TO rr.tJt HHtPH.
Thetr Mlnlea a Canaree Beetraysra
Coals Tker Cateh. the Tleeteet Caaara
r I Eaglaad t Try to Bartleat These.
The two pictures printed herewith show the
present appearance of the two fastest ocean
going reesets In th world, th triple-screw
ornlsers Minneapolis and Colombia of the Unit
ed 8tates nary. The Columbia Is In commis
sion, and on an errand to Blueflcldst the Min
neapolis Is still at Cramps' shipyard In Phila
delphia, but will be In the navy for
mally In two or three months. They are suiter
ships and built from tho same designs,
but the four smokestacks of tho Columbia were
made Into two on the Minneapolis. Some minor
changes nt the plans In the engtno rooms were
also made In the Minneapolis, but practically
the thlps are duplicates. When fully equipped
these two ships will cost the people more than
16,000,000, but a compensation (or their cost is
found in tho fact that thetr like does not exist
elsewhere In tho world, and probably there Is no
nation of any real naval strength that would not I
Tried to Sob as Eteratss Railroad Statlsa
Early yesterday morning, while the ticket
agent wasn't looking. Patrick O'Brien of 38
Oliver street thrust his arm through the win
dow of th tlckot office of the Third avenue ele
vated railroad station at Canal street and stole
all th change within reach, lis ran down
stairs, followed by the sjtsnU shouting "Stop
thlstv' He was captured by a policeman be for
h had gone far. and In the Essex Market Pitllc
Court Wler h was held la 1400 UU for IrU,
coal capacity .Is about 8.000 ton, and H Is as
rtd that In a contest of speed. aeroe the
ooean the extra weight of coal would so hand!-
Sp the cruisers that they would be left behind
snch ship a tho Lucanla and Campania,
lis cannot be demonstrated until an actual
test Is mad. Man naval men think that It
would b a most useful experiment If the Secre
tary of tho Navy should direct one of those
cruiser to try to overhaul at a the fleetest
merchantman afloaU It wonld reveal the full
strength and also th weakness of these new
ships, who chief mission I to outrun the fast
est merchantmen.
It should be remembered that th Minneapolis
and Columbia wer Intended to cope with th
speed of th Paris and Majestio class of mer
chantmen. The Campania and Lucanla were
hot laid down when they were planned. It takes
much longer to build a war ship than a mer
chantman. There Is ten times more formality
about IU The war ship Is " Inspected" at every
turn, and this takes time. The United State
Government would have been satisfied had these
two ships surpassed the Paris clans, but when
they went ahead of the Lucanla class the aston
ishment was general In all naval and ship
building circles.
Tho two ships have demonstrated one most
Important thing In shlpbuildlng-th availa
bility of the triple-screw system of propulsion.
For vessesl of from V0.00O to 00,000 horse
power It is probable that this system will be
used hereafter. It take tho enormous strain oft
the shaft. Three shafts, each employing the
force of 10,000 horse, are much better con
trolled than two shaft each with 18,000 horse
poner. There Is lees danger of accident, and it
rn uinirxupous.
be glad to take them off our hands at a hand
some advance on their cost.
Ono can see at a glance that the Minneapolis
Is the handsomer vessel. Her two smokestacks
and their decrease In height glvo her a sym
metry that tho Columbia docs not possess and
moke her probably tho handsomest naval vessel
In existence. Those who earn for "lines" In a
ship and proportion In the setting of masts and
smokestacks will probably find delight In the
genera, contour of the vessel. Tho photograph
from which the picture was made was taken by
Ran aa the Minneapolis layoff Boston harbor
tho day before her trlnl trip, on which
she made tho unparalleled record of !tf.0?3
knot sustained speed for four hours' run
on a marked course. Tho picture shows the
vessel practically reody for her tesU She Is
without her guns, but she sits for down In the
water, being weighted artificially to mako up for
the lack of her armament. Tho wind and tide
are moving from bow to stern, and so slender
and graceful Is tho ship that In the photograph
there show plainly the traces of a slight wake
made while the ship Is at anchor.
Tho plclureof the Columbia was taken recently
In the Delaware, off Philadelphia. It records
accurately tho appearance of this craft as she Is
In actual use by the' navy. Her guns seem Insig
nificant things compared with the ship, nml
cost less to produo them. There I lee
"racing" of th screws and less wear and tear
on tho engines with , threo propellers
than with two. The ship, therefore, will
be steadlor in storms. Up to 80.000 hnrss
power naval men assert that the twin-screw
system will doubtless prevail. It Is easy to pro
cure shaft that will transmit this power, and to
put those screws on mrxlcrate-elr.rd vessels
would complicate the details of tho machinery
needlessly. Naval experts say, however, that if
tho Lucanla and Campania wero titled with
these screws the 00,000 horse power capacity of
those ships would be more affective and the ves
sels more comfortable.
The chief advantage of the triple-screw sys
tem to the navy, aside from its safe speed-producing
qualities. Is that it make cruising eco
nomical. Tho two sldo scrows may be detached
from tho engines and the third screw mny be
used alone. This will give n speed of from eight
to ten knots and cheapen the cost nt ordinary
naval work. Tho coal consumption may bo re
duced to a matter of from 50 to 00 tons a day,
and theeu expensive vessels may bo made the
most inexpensive, for large shlpvof any In the
navy In ordinary everyday use. r or this reason
especially do these two vessels commend them
selves to naval authorities. ..
Engineer-ln-Chlef Melville of the navy has
raid that as the result of the appearance of
these two eminent the Navy Department has
information that Enelnnd intends to build two
twenty-flve-knot crulwrs, each of 30,000 horse
power. If tried over measured mile the Co
lumbia and Minneapolis would show that speed
already. They did reach those figures In the
trlnl trips, but It Is tho sustained speed that
makes the record In this country, and not a
spurt, for which preparations have been
THE COLOMBIA.
even with the old-time guns in our wooden
shins, when gun decks still existed. But theso
moSerr .weapons are giants compared w Ufa .those
old weapons! and their appearance Is deceit (u.
The Columbia was nicknamed " Pirate be
fore she was named by tho Navy Department In
honor of the Columbian year and also of tho
capital of South Carolina. Naval men say that
the Minneapolis looks the pirate mora than the
Columbia. Pirate Is not a complimentary cog
nomen. but to 15m. extent it suggest? th.' mis . on
of these ships. They nre not Intended to bc fight
er. They arc. theoretically, cowards. Ihey
are. technically, commerce destroyers. In cau
they should meet n formidable antagonist they
ero to run away. They aro to prey on the shipping
of an enemy and to run away from an enemy s
war ships. If they can display tho sped they
showed o? their trial trips, there is not a mer
chantman in existence that they could not over-
hIt1'has been said that in a trip from here to
Liverpool, (or example, they would not be aWe
to make the time of the Lcanl or Cam.
ranla. and In a race would drop behind
fri a day cr two. On the other hand.
Charles It. Cramp, of the great Phlladel
phlYihlnUlldlng Ann. has testified before
the Naval Committee of tho House of Repre
sentative that these vessels can go a knot faster
In rald-oceaS than along the m'' Jf"""
off the New England coasu and his statement is
borne out by the fact that the Atlantic passen
rVreyhouridi make their fastest .peed always
In mid-ocean. When going at their fastest
Seed theVe T two ships use about twenty tons of
coal an hour. This Is almost tho ime, amount
of coal that the, big liners co"'"";
For a transatlantic racy the cruisers
would have to provide themselves with
about 3.000 tons of coal. Their normal
runxE Missryo o.t.v.vio.v nors
A Hearth for the Chlldrea Falls to Beveal
Their Whereabouts.
IUrttord. July HH. The three children of
James W. Oannlon, an engineer on the Consoli
dated Road, who disappeared on Thursday
afternoon, have not been found. Their father I
almost worn out searching (or them, and the
mother Is distracted. Bearchlng parties renewed
their work at daylight this morning, and this
afternoon a largo number of men turned out to
assist. The woods, meadows, and fields In the
south part of the city and along the line of the
Valley rood and the Connecticut lllver toward
Wethersfleld have been covered In the search,
but no trace of the threo little ones has been
found.
The theory Is gslnlng ground that they wan
dtred Into some stream or the Connecticut
River and were drowned. Towns down the
river hove been notified to .look out for the
bodies. They were bright chltdren-boys, aged
0.7. and jears respectively-awl they went
awsy from home together, . It Is believed they
must be dead or they would have been seen by
uiine one.
IIAHUIETT LOYKTT'S DEATII.
raud, Drowaed Near Iter Home After s
Quarrel with tier Ilusbaad.
Wm. Lovett called early yesterday morning
at tho Forty-sixth street polloe station In Brook
lyn and reported the disappearance of his wife
HsrrietU aged 34 years, from their home at 11
Forty-second streeU lie said that on his return
from work he found his wife drunk and reproved
her. They had some words, but no blows were
struck. About midnight his wife left the house
and did not return. A general alarm wa sent
out giving a description of the woman.
Three hours later I.'ivett came back to the
station and said that further search for his wife
was unnecessary, as he had found her drowned
at the foot of Forty-second street. She is sup
posed to have drunk some turpentine before
throwing herself In the water. Coroner Kone
has directed the police to make a careful Inves
tigation pending the holding of the luuuesU
Cburgea Agalast HherlO DoOr,
AhBAxr, July 88. -Charges were preferred to
Gov, Flower yesterday afternoon agalnut Sheriff
John Duffy of Westchester county, for alleged
neglect in not closing a pool room In Westches
ter county known as "Utile Monte Carlo."
The charges were preferred by B. O. Jayne, as
representative of the Society for the hnforce
ment of the Criminal Law. The Oovernor be-
iug in Watertown, the charges were mailed to
dm this morning. It Is probable that he will
take no action in the matter until his return to
th city during the coming week.
made carefully. The advance In ship
building has beon so rupld that It Is
probably only a question of time
when theso cruisers will bo back numbers, but
the limit of speed, like that in horse trotting,
mmt be reached some day. Already the
vcswls can goat the rate of nearly twrnty-etght
land miles an hour, which wo practically ex
press train speed ten years ago for a Journey of
long distance.
Senator Washburn of Minnesota, who was on
the trial trip of the Minneapolis, said that he la
bored tin Secretary Tracy for nearly two years
to get hlra to name the cruiser Minneapolis.
After It had been decided to gUo the
ship tht name It was planned to
announce the facial the Minneapolis Conven
tion. The citizens of the town got ready for a
hurrah time, but it ws thought that It would
make a partisan matter of naming our vesels, ,
and the announcement i withheld. Then,
too, it was feared that St. Paul might get Jeal
ous and It might affect tho vote, and in tho close
condition of political affairs at that time might
lose the State for Harrison. Democrats hail
been getting office in Minnesota, and the out
look was not a bright as it used to be in that
The Minneapolis and Columbia are 418 feet
long, an unusual length for war vessels, but
there had to be room for their massive engines.
They are BK feet broad and draw 8H feet of
water. Their tonnage is 7.500. The Columbia
developed only 18.000 horsepower, but the Min
neapolis developed 81,(I0, the power she wo
expected to show. The Columbia's speed was
88.81 knots, but it Is no secret that the Cramps
say that thoy could take her now and would
not be afraid to raco her with the Minneapolis
and show that she ha practically the same
speed as her sister.
TO riBIT JH3TOItIC.lL PLACES.
Stadeat FIlatrlM la l'hlladslphta to Make
as New Eaglaad Trip,
Philadelphia. July 28. Oeorge Washington
assumed command of the continental army be
fore Boston 110 years ago, and the event was
celebrated In Independence Hall this morning
by the students of th University extension
school. About fifty men and women students
from seventeen States decided some time
ago to make a pllgrlmago to the dif
ferent place made famous In the ttrug
fie against England. Tho gathering In
ndependenco Hall this morning was the outset
of the "pilgrimage." Theexerclsea wereopencd
with an address by Hampton L. Carson, a la wyer
of this city, Mr. Cortou was f olhm cd by Prof.
William P. Trent of the University of Virginia,
who reviewed the life of Washington.
At the conclusion of Prof. Trent's address the
students under the charge of guides visited the
various rooms of Independence Hall, Carpenter's
Hall, where the lint Congress met. and the
library of the American Phlloiphlcal Society.
Tho site at the southwest corner of
Seventh and Market streets, on which
stood the building la which Thomas Jefferson
drafted th Declaration of Independence, was
alto vlaltid. Th students wero addrsed at
the University of Pennsylvania this evening by
Talent t Williams on " Philadelphia' Contrlbu
tlons to Americanism."
To-morrow th students will attend sorvlro In
Old Christ Churcli, where Washington and other
revolutionary men worshipped, and on Monday
rooming the pilgrimage will begin. The pit-
frims will leave, here over the Pennsylvania
tallroad at 7:33 o'clock (or New York.und
thence they will go to Bolton and visit hltori
cal places in the Old Bay State. They will re
turn on Aug. b.
Naturalisation Frauds la Bochcaier,
RociieaTzii. July 88. County officials think
that Italians and Poles here are committing
wholesale naturalization frauds in order to evade
the Allen Labor law. It Is said a favorite schema
is (or an Italian who ha taken out bis final pa
pers to loan them toother Italians. One set of
Iiaiiers answers for many. Each Italian ex
ilblts the papers to the contractor osanevi
deuce of citizenship, and it Is suspected that the
contractors do not scrutinize the documents too
carefully. Another plants for an Italian with
first patient toloantbem toothers, who usethum
in swearing out final paucrs. The District At
torney has becu notified, and an investigation
will bo mode.
iUuaed to Elope ad Was Ktdaapued.
PrtlHCKTON, Ky., July 88.-Dolly Jones of
Laura Furnace, Trigg county, arranged but
week to clop with Joseph Colston. Casslus
Hicks, a rival, overheard the arrangement, and
on the night appointed, and with th aid of a
cvnfudcrate, decoyed Miss Jones to bia buggy
and drove hsr to th house of his (rlend, where
(or ten day ah w as kept a prisoner, each day
refusing Hick' proposals o( marriage. Mean
time notice was conveyed to her father, who
hasKued with friends to release hi daughter.
Her captors fled, and now Mis Jon is to marry
Colston without an elopemenU
The Heal Cateh.
Victoria, B.C July 28.-SeUng In Astatic
waters Is nearly over. Many vels are already
on their way hom. Th British pelaglo catch
to July 17 wa 44.069. or 1.870 averag per
schooner. The American Plgto catch was SO..
88V. or aa average of HU. This mean that th
total catch In th Paclflo will reach fully 00,000.
A
FACTS FROM TENEMENTS.
WORK OF TITK TESEHEXT HOV9E
COMMITTER IX IUIB CITT.
Valnahl larhrmatlea Obtataea tVa aa
Iaereetlo f s00 Bulldlasr Oeel4
by th Verjr Paor FsemtM Front of
Boats aadlords-nsalth r th Tsaaata,
" Rachel's moved ouU"
This Inscription, scribbled In chalk on th
walnscottlng of th staircase on the fifth floor of
the elx-story double tenement at 30 Esses
street wo the somowhat surprising finish of th
work of inspecting 2,000 specimen tenements,
undertaken by th Tenement House Committee
appointed by Oov. Flower. This particular
tenement Is right In tha heart of the Russian
Jewish quarter, In one of th most densely popu
lated foreign sections of tho metropolis. The
handwriting on the wall was Interesting, as
an Illustration of foreign customs In this region.
It was explained to the discoverer that poor
Russian Jews used tills method of announcing
to friends and acquaintance that thoy had
boon compelled to seek a new homo.
The Labor of inspecting the 3,000 tenomenU
was completed a week ago, and the visit made
to 20 Essex street was part of the task of In
spector Leverldge of the committee, to whom
hud been assigned the duty of retnspecttng cer
tain tenements In tho Russian, Jewish, Italian,
and Chlneeo colonies. Tho 2,000 tenements wero
selected by Dr. Cyrus Edson of the Board of
Health, who Is a particularly active member of
Oov. Flower' committee. His selections were
made with tho design of securing evidence that
would enablo the committee to make a reort
npon which legislation could be based to remedy
undesirable conditions. All tho 2,000 dwelling
hod been classed as being sanitarily unsulted
(or human habitation.
Twenty-seron Inspectors have been busy ex
amining theso buildings for the last two months.
They were divided Into two classes. Tho first
class was composed of sanitary experts cspabl
of making a scientific study of tho construction
of the buildings. Tho second class consisted of
laymon, whose duty It was to report such de
tails as to the slzo of tho dwelling rooms, the
amount of rent paid, tho number of lodgers In
given apartments, and other Information that
did not require oxpert knowledge. It Is said
that some of the best work accomplished In this
lino was done by the women who wero detailed
by Edward Marshall, Secretary of the commis
sion. Both the male and tho fomale Inspectors were
required to secure occurato Information on the
sixteen different points set forth In tills circular
blank:
Tux Tirnr.T Horsx Cotnrrrru. I
Citt or Niw You. I nut. r
AriRnrrrr srxcuL mini's
issrxcTtn. noiiBiLx s.
Psteof Villi
Btreet Number
I. Apartment ,
S. Number and slse of Itnomsfn this Apsrtment
8. cieanilnem of Apartment, Very iilrtr.biriyVcVeaiu
4. Unrntlon anil Amount of water Hupply
r. Is there a ltathroom In thl Apartment r
H, Number of Families In this Apartment..
7. Kumbor of Persons not boarders In this Apart
ment
8. Number of Boarders, Age and Sex
o". Numtierof Persons over 10. male female!. V.'.'.
in. Xumbcrnf Persons under In, male,, .female
II. Nationality
IV. Cleanltnen, of Perioni in this Apartment, Very
Dirty. Dirty, clean.
13. What la the Weekly Income per Family of the
Persons In this Apartment
14. What l the Kent of thl Apartment
lft. What nm the Sanitary Defects uf this Apartment
os to I'lumhlun ani Drainage.,
10. As to Light and Ventilation.
Remarks
ttpoulul Agent's Name,
All of the members of the committee serve
without salary, and every one of them has de
voted a great deal of arduous labor to making
personal inspections Independent of the regular
salaried insHctors. The committee is composed
of Richard Watson Ollder, Dr. Cyrus Edson,
OeorguB. Post, the architect; John P. Schuch
man; Roger Foster, a lawyer: William D. Hep
burn Washington, a civil engineer, who
traces his lineage bock to President
Washington, and Solomon Moses, who Is
prominent lu Hebrew charitable work. Chair
man Ollder Is associated with Mr. Moss as a
special sub-committee charged with the study
of the education, savings, and morality of the
tenement dwellors, and also with the Investiga
tion of school accommodations for the children
of worklngmen, the system of kindergar
ten Instruction, and of playgrounds for
school children. Mr. Ollder has stayed up
late at night on several occasions, and
has run to several exciting flres In the tenement
districts expressly to see for himself how fires
aro managed in the overcrowded quarters of
the town.
Architect Post Is Chairman of another sub
rnroinlltre charged with studying the construc
tion of tenements, with a special view of discov
ering means for Incrrabing their safety from loss
of life in cave of Are, and for providing adequate
scientific sanitation. Dr. Edson is Chairman
of a sub-cninmtttco to suggeisfc; Improvements
to secure cleanliness In the living rooms of tene
ments mid K'tter health conditions among the
tenunts, nnd iilwi to make suggestions looking
to the increase of public park and public baths.
There Is htill another sub-comintttee that devotes
Itself exclusively togatherlng statistics upon the
special question of mile in tho tenement
quarter, and of tabulating the profits of
the landlords. Thin sub-committee has already
collected sorao of the most startling evidence
secured by th committee, all tending to show
the extravagant profltanf the business of letting
tenemunts. Many tenements have been found
which nay the enormous profit of lQOpercrnU
upon the landlords' Investment, and the inves
tigation has made It certain that the general
averago profit is between 20 and 23 per cenU on
the investment.
Still another sub-committee Is busy collecting
statistics relative to tenement houso reform
abroad (or Incorporation In the rejiort to the
Legislature.
One of the most Instructive features of tho
committee's report will lie the two maps now
being prepared. Oue man will show by means
of black outlines the density of population in all
the crowded sections of the metropolis. Tho
other will exhibit, by means of colors, the ex
traordinary manner In which the foreign nation
alities have gathered In colonies In tho big city.
The Chinese, Italian. (Jerman. Russian. Jewish.
Bohemian. Oreek, French, and other foreign
colonies will all appear concentrated in well de
fined districts.
Inspector Levrrldge's final inspection was a
sample of all that preceded it. It Is considered
remarkable thau although the Inspectors went
about their work daily without iNulgos of au
thority. In only ono instance was objection man
ifested to their presence. Apparently Just as
soon us tho tenement dwellers discovered that
the inspection was being made with tho design
of benefiting them they becumo anxious to as
slit. The tenement at 20 Essex street, the re
examination of which was ordered by Secretary
Manhall, Is a building In which four families
dwell upon each floor. It Is built In suites of two
rooms each. Many of the tenants have lived
there for fivo ) ears. The suites of rooms consist
of one room IS feet by 18 feet, which Is a parlor,
dining room, sitting room, ami reception room
combined, ami u sleeping room measuring H feet
by H feet. There ln t a bathroom In the build
lug. The so-called yard is 4 feet wide and 25 feet
long and part of It Is taken up by nuthouses.
The bulldfnshas Are. rseupen.lmt they h re litter
ed with buses and clothe hung on the railings.
It Isonly whenan Inspector of the Htnlth Board
or the Department n(Hul!dlntr Is Insight that
the fire reeapes have an) thing like u presentable
appcurance.
The tenants all teem to be afraid to talk altout
the landlord. Insinrtor .evrridge found a Rus
sian Jew and his wifo ami eight children on one
flour of the house. Tho fatherof the famil) hail
been out of work for some time, yet thurmt
went on us usual and was paid. For two room
of the dimension given he paid JlOa month,
and this amount can bo taken as a standard for
tho district. The hallway of the building was
four feet wide and was dark. 111 ventilated, and
altogether unlovely.
Children romped noisily up and down the
staircase almost in a state of nudity. To have
put mora clothes upon them would have been to
Inflict cruelty. Outside scores and scores af
men. women, and children swarmed into the
streeU They were trying desperately to keep
cool In the absolutely stifling atmniphere. The
outdoor islora were nearly suffocating,
"SuppoM tontaglous slckneas were to break
out In this spotr' said the inspector's corn
panlon. "It would be awful, perhaps," he replied,
"and I say perhaps because it doesn't seem pos
sible to make these people sick. How they live
at all is n mistery that a native American can
not unravel , '
Th Inspector had a few days before vitlted
the double tenemental 810 Elm streeU In the
Italian Quarter, and hod by actual count found
thirty babies in the dwelling. Bad as their con
ditions were, nobody seemed to want tu grum
ble, AU the tenants were utterly without
knowledge of proper sanitary conditions.
The Inspector went Into 37 Mulberry street
later. This is a double tenement, next door to
the office of one of tho Italian bankers, who is
well to do, and has several branch banks. The
Inspector made a careful examination here.
The housekeeper wa a very fat Italian, who bad
a good-natured Italian baby In her arms. The
baby' foe wore a constant amlle. It was only
two months old. and yet its ears had been
deroed and earrings had been fitted Into th
obta.
"Ah, ha I" said th housekeeper: "that ll
good. The earring are giaxl for the sight."
Dangling about the baby' neck wa a gaudy
chain, and on th chain hung a rabbit's foot.
"Ah! said th housekeeper, with a broad
smfle, "You ask why that I there T That is
goodluck aU th baby. Uf e."
The tnmnt wa another building, arranged
la suit of two room for each family. It was
(our stories high. It wa not In good condition.
"Jesus ChrisU" cried on of the teaants, lift
ing her hand devoutly upward with a cbarao-
tsrtreld restore, "w malt but llttla, hot w
bar to pay 910 a month inU"
For this sum this particular woman and her
husband got two rooms, on 13x10 feet, and a
sleeping room 7x8 feeu whloh had a window
looking out upon an alrehafu Just 2 feet wide.
Th retnspeetlon of this particular district re
taforoed what th original Inspection had mad
clear, whloh was that all the tenants seem to
stand In mortal (ear o( th representative of th
In hi final tour Inspector Leverldge had a
second look In tho Chines quarter at the
double tenemenU 11 Pell street, which has a
rear building. It Is a perfect type of the swarm
ing tenement In the Chinese quarter. Both
building, the front and the rear, are occupied
mainly by Chinamen and thetr white wives.
There aro a few whlto men In the build
ing, but Investigation proved that the
Chinese were the favored tenants, because
they paid from (11 to 113 for two
rooms, n against S0.6O paid by white tennnts.
Tho building Is one of the curiosities of Ooth
am' Chinatown. White girls were in the back
yards chatting, and they hovered in seml-desha-blllo
about tho open doors of the dwelling rooms.
Many of them were pretty. Tho Inspector had
no trouble in gettlnglnfnrmstlon from thrm.
"What docs your husband do for a living?"
the Inspector asked on of thrm.
"Oh, he's a gambler." came the answer with
(rank nonchalance.
Nearly every one of theso white girls Is mar
ried to a Mongolian fan-tan player, and none of
them makes nny secret of IU The girls say that
their Mongolian husbands treat them with
tndnces. They get opium for them, buy dresses
or trinkets, and seem devoted.
When tho Inspectors wero looking through
Chinatown, they took up the special work
of thoroughly Investigating the cellars that
are rented out as human habitations. This
part of the work wss disheartening to
those engaged In IU but It was one of the
Incidental tests of life among tho extreme poor
in a big city, and valuable as an object lesson.
Thore nre a lot of cellars so rented, but the rum
mlttee hopes the fact that they exist will prove
a potent argument for reform. And tho com
mitteemen unite with (lov. Flower In hoping
that the work, undertaken now for tho first time
upon a comprehensive and practical scale, may
produce a reform that will bo both radical and
lasting, and do away with existing evils even at
the risk of cutting down tha enormous profits of
landlords.
OEX. ORVnR A CAPTAIX.
TJaaalnonely Chosea to Coaaoiaad tha City
Troop of Philadelphia.
Pram As FhUadttpSta Prut.
Oen. E. Dunl (Irubb was unanimously elected
CAptatn of tho City Troop nt a special meeting
cnlled on Monday evening at the armory. An
election became necessary lieoause of tho resig
nation of Capt. Edmund 11. McCullough.
The election was held by Major J. Wilkes
O'Neill, and was qultn enthusiastic. After tho
result was announced Major O'Neill adminis
tered the oath and the nowly elected Captain
mode a brief address amid lots of applause.
cait. c nunn onenn.
At the next regular meeting of tho troop th
office of First and Second Lieutenant, made
vacant by the resignations of First Lieutenant
Frank K. Patterxon and Lleutenant-tjuarter-master
Hugh Craig. Jr., and that of Cornet will
be tilled. Quartermaster Craig has given over
twenty-five ears of hard and active work to the
faithful performance of his Untie, and ho has
on several wrnilonv been presented with hand
some, tributes of tho esteem of his fellow so alters.
Mr. Patterson's services have likewise, boon
valuable.
THE QOLY CRAZE.
BugcsstlOBS for m Rainy llay JTachstruwa
with Clubs.
rrwn Punch.
Tennis Gossip.
The Long Island tennis championships will be
held by the Meaduw Club of Southampton to
morrow and following days, play beginning at
10 A. M. to-morrow and continuing at 10 A. M.
and 2;30 P. M. on the days following. Singles,
doubles, and mixed doubles will be played, Tho
winner of the singles will meet W. A. Larncd of
Summit. N. J for tho championship cup. The
present champions in doubles nro C. Hoburt and
V. O. Hail and in mixed doubles Miss Ewlng
and E. I.. Hull.
The uiual rules will govern the play. Thn en
trance fees are '.' In singles and $4 In doubles,
and entries ran be mode until within thirty
minutes of tho tlmo for calling play. Entries
should lie sent to Charles E. Frankenliach. eu
periutendenu at the club house. The committee
In charge consists of John Rowland, Henry O.
Trevor, Frcderln II. Belts, E. W. Humphreys,
und B. Ay mar Sands.
Tho Bergen Point Iiwn Tennis Club will hold
an open tennis tournament on Saturday, Aug, 4.
and following days. Handicap singles and
scratch doubles will be played. The entrance
fees are Jl.fiO In tingles and $3 In doubles. En
trance fees will w received by Secretary C. M.
Hall, Bayonnr, N. J up to and Including Thurs
day, Aug. 2. Tbeubual conditions govern the
play.
'I ho handicapping in the singles will be
done by H. L. Smith. J. K. HobarU
and J, P. Part'U I'lay begins at
2 P. M. on tha opening day and at 4 I'M. on the
days following, Defaults will not bo registered
against players until It becomes r.oreary to
continue the matches, Th club louruareat
Went Ninth street and Avenue A. nc.ir the New
Jersey Central Railroad station ut Weal Eighth
street.
The Bergen Point Tennis Club held a progro.
slvo tennis tournament In mixed double a on
Thursday afternoon. Handsnnm first and con
solution prizes were uttered, and u tea wa
served, c, L. Smith ami Miss Packard won the
first prize, the consolation going to S. L. Davis
aud Miss Southard,
Athletl Games or tha qaogu Field Club.
The Quogue (U I.) Field Club held a set of athlttlo
games si the club's groundi oa Saturday, with tho fol
lowing rssultsi
fifty-yard ack lUee Won by Jamea O'Connor. A,
MarLean aacond. C. O Connor third. 13 l-aeeouds.
One-huadreri-yard Daih-Wun hy II. OVouimr, E.
O'Connor Mtrond. J. W, O'Connor third 11 wHotittt.
Pouto tUce-Won hy l. ItscUaju, J. W. OVoouur
second. It. Crow third.
OUtaelslUee.60 Yard-Won by A. xtaclrsn.r. w.
O'Connor second, C O'Connor third
oeveuty-jard uurdls Itarw -Won by A. Fritter. A.
sf aeLrau secoud, C O'Couner third- 114 5 weouds.
iutung 10 pound bhoiWou by II. O'Connor. 31
feels Inebes: C O'Connor. '.'.1 feel, teoi.d, J. O'Con
nor, U fret 4k llu'hei, third.
hunnlng limad Jump- Woo by II. O'Connor, 19 Nat
0 Inchest J O'Connor, 18 feet V lucbea, M-coud, Mad
den. IT feel A Imhrt. third.
Thriving the lUuehnll- Won by F O'Omnor, with
Slftfevt ldlach.-., II. lUddea second, with 310 feel:
C. O Connor third, tth 301 feel.
btaadlaj IV -a I Jump Won by 11. Iladden, with 8
feel 4 laches, C O Connor, U frelxiarhre, ocoud, ).
W O'Connor. 0 fort, third.
Ketenl-nie-yard baah for llois Coder I Years of
As lual brat Weu by A. Chlldi, U. Crow aicuud,
Dau Third. Time, V 1-6 aei-oo-ta.
Pster Haher Waala toFUbl llou Fltaslta.
saoas Janata.
PtterUahw, the lrUhpugtllt,rUlt-d thtlhulrufed
A'rviomc yesterday afteruoonsad tallied shu Ptr
la looking well, and bl appearance bears testimony to
th fact that be Is taking ear ot himself. Peter U ex.
eedluxly desirous ot meeting Hob t-ltulaimoui again.
While b cuualdtr IIIiidU th cUrerett man la th
world. bO sanguine that b will cum out Aral
bet If a match U arranged. Wheu kd abuut Cor
bel!, be amlled meaningly ai,d sold - shur b'a
sister tban i lit Ol 'II at dad CMmUlurr."
Haher add that n wlch 1M) pounds now, but
eould easily Iraiadowu to 10 If aacvAaary. As for
Choynski. n de, Ur b U yrpard to cross arms
with buu t any Uu or olar Jo ilrm sultabl.
FtUr U toUiklng or trnklug a trip to Ireland la th I
near future. IN will postpone It. h says. U Chvyoakl I
or Fits (.re Mm a chance to OjpU J
BRITANNIA AGAIN WINS.
BITE OVT3AILB THE YIOILAXT XX Jk M
OEXTLIt BVT STEADT BREEBE. M
The English Cutter Flalshe II actuates au4
IS Heeonds, Actual Time, Ahead of thu H
Ceatreboarder A Berlou Collision Nr H
rovvlr Averted at tho Start lu Maaeew .H
vrlng for the Advantage Over the Cor H
aalr, the Khlppr of the Britannia I.un H
Up, and, t'antrarr to the Knetng Rules, . H
Crosses the llonr of the Vlgllunt Capt. H
Han Hheers OAT nnd Avoids nn Aecldejit H
Pknzanxg. July S8.-X light nnd vnrlablo H
breeze, mndo thu American centre bonrdvr Vigt H
lant nit cosy victim for the Prince, of Wales's
cutter Brllnnnln In the rnce tilt this harbor H
to-dny. Tho time, considering tho gentleness of H
tho breeze, wits very fast, thn Britannia averag- H
ing nearly eight knots nn hour,
Uho won by o minutes and 1.1 seconds, actual H
time, and with an allowance of 1 mliitito and 10
seconds from tho Vigilant, by 0 mlmitus and 33 H
seconds, corrected time. Tho forty-rntor Cor H
salr entered tho contest with not thu remotest t
hope of winning ono of the trophies., which were,
for tho winner, a cohIi prUu of J;I0U nnd it silver H
cup, valued nt $73, and for the second boat a H
cash prlza of Sl'-Jfi. H
Tho raco was for tho most part In tho open H
Channel, Tho yachts might havo been seen ills- H
tlnctly from start to finish from the picturequa
eminences on tho shores of Mount's Bay, par-
ticularly SU Michael's MounU If n fog had not H
rolled In from tho Cliauncl and shut out all oh- suH
Jects afluaU Tho sea was uiiruUlcd wlion tha suHl
visitors from all over England sv, armed down HI
to tho ainphlthcalre-suggcstlvo shores ot tha VMl
bay. !
The course wo fairer for the Yankee yacht, HHl
probably, than any other British ono she has HHj
sailed over. In tho matter of turns and tho H
length of tho legs. It formed an equilateral HH
triangle, each side uf which was eight and ono HH
third lulled long. There wero only five turns. HH
MnnoMivrlng was thus not so essential to victory HH
as tho actual sailing power uf the yachts, HB
Tho wind was light from tho south, and In- H
stead of tho " choppy Channel sea " so frequent- HH
ly referred to In British racing reports, there was HH
n short swell on. The sky wns somowhat cloudy. HH
The gentlo breero enabled tho yachts to carry
thrlrcluh topsails ami largo Jib topsails. HH
The Satnnlta. whoso skipper was ordered by
telegraph to enter thn yacht tu tho race, did nob
take part In tho content, as she hnd sailed for
Knlinouth licforo tho order urrlved. She will HH1
take nlxiiird some new racing spnrs at Falmouth
and get ruudy for battle un .Monday. HH1
As Is Inevitably tho case wheu more than two HB
yachts taku part in n race, there was sharp and HflH
hazardous mnnuMivrlng for the line. It was a
quick, exciting start. Tho gun boomed at 10
o'clock, and ten seconds later tho Corsair
crossed tho line. Her skipper nnd ('apt. Carter
of tho Britannia, Indulged In a llttlo jockeying to
get the weather berth. A serious collision be-
tween thn Britannia and Vigilant was barely
averted. They were both on the lmrt reach.
Tho Vigilant was Just about overlapping tho t
Britannia when tho cutter lulled iuiiI crossed
tho cciitrebonrder's bows. This Is contrary to
racing rules, and was not a bit relished by CapU m
Half, If he hud kept on his courso ho would HflH
havo run tho cutter down. Ha nhoercd the
Vigilant oil to the north, and she Just missed
poking her lowiprlt through the Britannia's
mainsail. The two cnnleatnnU In which tha
multitude of hMctators wero Interested were
timed nt tho start as follows: sHBl
Ilrliannla 10:00:17 HHfl
Vigilant 10:00:25
It wo a reach with tho wind forward of tha BBS
port beam to Mousehole, tho first murk. Thu HH
Britannia had tho kind of hrcczn In which she
bo frequently worsted the) Vigilant, nnd she was
llrst around the flngboat off Mouseholo. Time:
Krttannla 11:81:80 BBJ
Vigilant Il.ait.u3 iHM
It was another reach to the eastward to Porth- BBJ
hiven, with thn wind forward thn starboard HH
beam. The Britannia increased her lead by 1
mlnuto and "0 seconds, nnd was '1 minutes and
43 seconds ahead when Uiat point was reached.
Time: BB
Prttannla 12:18:40
Vigilant 1.:1S:.3
Spinnakers were sot on the next leg, running; BBJ
northwest to tho home mark, and tho Vlgllant'a
enormous spread of light canvas gave her nn
Impetus thai set her flying after tho leader. She
picked up thirty-seven seconds, and wns X' m!n-
utes and H seconds astern ot the Briton at tha
mark. Time:
Prltannts 1:14:28 BBI
Vigilant 1:10:30
Tho Corsair was half an hour astern, and BBfl
thereafter nobody manifested any interest in HBI
her progress,
Tho wind hod shifted to the south, making It .
a beat on thu Unit leg of the second round. Spin-
linkers were gathered In. The Britannia stood
off to tho tastwurd on the starboard tack, cross- HHB
ing the bows of tho VlgllanU which hail gonn on '
the port tack, rounding the homo mark. Tho
Vigilant held that tack a while, and then went
about, standing over to thu eastward, but astern
of the cutter. BBss
Tho Yankeo eased sheets a bit and came down
on tho Britannia, making an effort to cut -
through her lee. A haze then shut off tho '
racers from the spectators ashore. It was rstl- 'BBbu
mated that when they rounded the Mnusehol
mark tho Britannia was leading by U minute
and A seconds, thn Vigilant having picked up
threo secouds in tho beau Time: !
Ilrliannla I::00
Vigilant is:09
Tho wind rams out ot the southwest, very BBB
light, dlselpntlng the mlstx, and It was then seen
that the yachts were reaching for Portbleven,
The Briton wai leading by :i minutes and VI
seconds, and it was now Impossible for the Vlg-
tlant to win unless by a fluke or an aoctdenU
Time at l'orlhlevcn: HHH
Ilrliannla a:3:10
Vigilant 8:37:2
Only oue more Irg, a broad reach, was nects- BBB
sary to finish the contest. Ah the Britannia 1
better than tho Yankee on this point of sailing,
she added to her lend. The Vigilant hail a hope-
liMi stern t hai-e of it to tho finish. bh set her
big reaching Jib, following tho example of tho
Bntannlu, but she Inst steadily.
The Ilrliannla gained 'i minute and 1 second BBB
In the tlnul eight and one-third miles ot reach-
Ing. Time: BBB
nrttannia 4:10:37
Vlglltnt 4:24:40 !
(iiorgo (iould.in nn Interview with a repre- BBB
eentutlve of thit United Press after the race, un-
hesitatingly admltttd that the Vigilant was
fairly Ixuten. the Britannia huvlhg won on her
merits. The light wind suited tha Britannia
lictter than It did the Vigilant, aud the former
crosMnl the finish line first.
Tho Vigilant' malusall has nnt yet been al-
ter.il. It Is now In thu hands of Sallmaker
Wilson of Southampton. It Is doubtful whether
tho Vigilntit will recent Plymouth ou Wednes-
duy next, hut hc will boiircpared for tho sjiedal
race from Cowes to Falmouth, which takes
place on Monday, July 80,
The Tin Plate Industry, BBB
.Wasiiixgtox, July ','H. Special Agent Ayer BBj
of thn Treasury Department, detailed in con- BBB
nectlon with the tin plum industry, reports to BBB
Secretary Carlisle that during the quarter ended BBB
March 111 lat thlrty-slx firms produced 38,. BH
'-'00,411 pounds of tin nnd term plsto proper, BBB
against 'J7,51l.44l pounds by thirty-nine firm
In the previous) car. l)f the tin pinto T4 per
rent, was rolled In the United States, All
rlaseHor Un mid trrniM'latepriKlured aggregated
40.-c.,;t,.iu(i pounds, of which ili).070,oi pounds
wero blfuk plate ppaluccd In tho United Slates.
Of Ihe thlrlj -six tlrms making formal returns,
nineteen used Ameriiun plates wholly, three
foreign plaits w holly, aud fourteen firms used
No Yellow t'evrr ut Key tVU BBB
WjmiiiNimiN, Jul)".'. Surgoon-Ocneral Wy. BB
man of the Marine Hospital Service hu received BBB
r porta from Stat Hi allh Officer Porter of Flor- jBBV
iila. Surgeon Murray, and Sanitary Inspector BBB
Oulteras. who have been Investigating the ua- BBB
Hire of the fever nt Key West. The report
agree that tli" fever Is dengue, and say thut
there ia no suspicion cj yellow fever at Key
West. Surgeou-tieucral Wymaii wild to-day
that there was no iiortbm of tho United States
suspected of bvlng infoctcd with jellow lever.
IZ-gUH
Wreek ou th I.ah Mtaor Uoad.
Bcrr.w-n, July '.'S. Between U and A o'clock BBB
this morning a Lake Sh.re t-asi -bound through BBB
cattle train was wricked ut Angola, Eight or BBB
nine cars left the tracl, nnd ubnut twenty head BBB
of horses, inttle, uml hog were killed. Th
smash-up w,is n lil oni. hut the tnuksareu i
clear. Tho cunso of the wreck was u brake
beam dropping. Xoneof Ihe crew waa hurt, nor
did the engine laate the truck.
Three Death Irom u l'olsoned Wlt.TJs BBB
LIMA. I). July '.' Tho fumll) of Carson BBB
Kline, a farmer. c nsltting of father, mother, IflVdl
and son, lit Ing near Hrutton, were poisoned on UBB
Thursday. The symptom were the same in th BBB
entire family, and thev ull ditd. A well near
the bouse wa drained, aud a large packagauf
poison was duevrrrd there.
Kdllor II Melslt Glee IUIU BBB
Daniel I IK: Memtt. puliuherof tho Dad BH
FliwiuUU .Veirt, uhow-vs arreled on Friday on BB
a charge of rrliiK-iai libel made by Prevalent BBI
(ireenhat of ib- Wh"'-i)Tr -t, wa bulled out
yrstrrday morni'g. hdr-ard M, tl.U sigUAdth
bowl, which was tor 1,000. 'j