The "dram shape" and Automobile cdw \rxstyle, in a very iar^e assiT'.rr.enr, full reg-ulation ?:ze: Silver Fox, Russian and Hud-bob Bay Sable: Ermine. Mink. Sea!. Chin-chilla. Bis Marten. Sable Fox. Blue Fcx.Blue Lyci.

REXODI AND REPAIRING -i fars WJ! b*prcr*.-:y dir.» :y ak.:>i work-rs. aai e=ur» «^">f^rr"iKnarutt^X; very ao^mre cost.

FCR FASHIONS rr.IXbrKATEP. »h-ir:cp »:: Z±*ixj'.e*in «ctw t.X:« s»asc-:. v.:: N ma'.:-l rr~ up-;a apcl^catloz.

The sn<?st ar<? Silver F^x ar.d RussianSable. Less ei-'t^aive. bat eqaaHj correctfor this season ar.d very popular* ar» *'-»round, thick ar.d Idh?- B^-as of,Black' Bear.Long Boas la the beautiful Silver Point*!Alaska Fox. the Ela^k ilaren, tie BlueLynx ar in. many other furs.

MUFFS

in Broadtail. Persian Larr.'n. Seal, wfi\u25a0vw designs in collars. rev»r* »r-. lan»Vin combinations of furs.

LONG COATS,including the most popular AoBSSMigain Sealskin. Br jadtail. Persian La^b asdSable, with contrasting furs tn<eoEarrevers and lapels.

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BOX COATSin Seal Persian, ar.i Batv Lamb A vare-«and interesting exhibit of :-»s^ srarrr.e=:s.A most fashionable street coa^

NECK PIECESin Silver Fox. Russian ar.l Ha-"son BaySable. y.'.r.K Biack Manen, Seal PerSnLarr.t and] Sat Fox.

BOAS

FINE FURS.We reach every known sc iree of

supply, with unusual facilities forsecuring a choice of perfect skinsThe stock that we offer year by yearis therefore not only£reat in varietyincluding every far in yogue, but "itis wholly unrivalled in the highaverage quality and unblemishedbeauty of the skins from which thegarments are fashioned.

JACKETS

c«*r Gr»r.d H

Xaaafactsren ani lasy-jrrer» »rf

449 Broadway,

n >.- m

F. BOOSS & BRO.,

motor cars. They are equipped with four 100 horse-power motors, making a total of 800 horsepowerfor the tram. The locomotives now in use havea capacity of 200 horsepower. Under the electricsystem the power is quadrupled Each of themotor cars baa a cab at one end the cab cf theforward car beinr at the forward end and rh«cub of the rear car at the rear er.!. This par.C'-'eo away entirely with "relay engines Therewill be no coupling at the end of th» route buithe train will be started as soon as loaded. Thetrain i« operated by the motorman in tht forwardcab. The rear cab is always free 'rom the electriccurrent when not In is<

All the apparatus on which f.r»« are liable to oc-cur is concentrated in the cab, under the eonsta-tInspection of the moi rman N fuses ar usedand thxu the danger from fuse explosions la elimi-nated.

The cars are equipped with wnoden <=iat benchesrunning lengthwise along the sides it is believedthat vi len benches will meet with popular favorbecause of taeir cleanliness.. Th» objection hithertomace tn them has been that they are made un-comrortaDie by the uneven starting if tra i Bythe electric motor trains wil be sta-ied so eeni rthat a secure foothold will not '- •• required.

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The train will b* operated on the Second-ayeline, hetwA*n the Forty-second-s: and N'inety-sec-ond-at. stations. -..-••\u25a0•

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CHARGED KITE >TEALiyG OPI'M. A NEW CATCH QUEBTIOX.3LAF.SE .n"t:t OF the rr." TAKEN" FROM j

a WAREHOUSE. AJCO -nro ARRESTS MADE jJoseph Bcesch. a cooper, thirty-five years old. of

SCo. ---' Tnird-ave.. Brooklyn, and Maurice Shea.a jur.k dealer, of No. 444 arth-ave.. Brooklynwere held :n $3,000 bai! each by Magistrate Zeller :in tile Centre-ft. police court yesterday on thecharge of ,sv..j btoje a quantity ol opium, valuedat SS.**iSfA from the warehouse of Lawrence, Sonft Gerrif h a: Nos. 425 nI427 Water-ft.

Tae opium b«s the property of Dodge & Olcott. ;of No. tb WSliam-st. On August & .a.-- the ware-bouse was broken ir.to and the opium cases, or.which the auty nad not been paid, were tiroter:optr and the opium taken. Boesch was arrest-.-don suspicion soon afterward, but there being noevidence against him be was di^criarced. Tne sr.it-ter was placed Sn tbc hands of detectives andeoxne of the opium was traced to a BroadwayccmmiEsion house. Harry Howe, a cierk of DocjreIOlcott. was sent to buy some of the opium 4.*

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Botsch and Shea were en the truck deliveringthe gooes yettercav t.h*y ur, arresiec Th*opium wa? seized by \u25a0<\u25a0.:. officer at the CustomsDepartment.

'the ear'.y start the RsiUs srot In the sprins and the

i late winter, which, er.ab-ed then to run ur.::l now.I AU cf the mills in tiis city closed to-day, ih!'.?; those in the northern part of the sta:e have

---| closir.s for the '.a?t we-ck

AUERICA.SS *AIL FOB CVBAS B0ME& |Nearly fifty cotontets left yesterday on the Mun- '

son Liner '^Curltyba,' tor La Gloria, t:.» new jAaaer:car; Oolooj in Cuba. TiUa eaiigration, which !is sssjsaßlnc large propon results from the re-

'. c«r.\ reports of the splendid agricultural possibia- !Itlss of the countrr magnificer.t climate and health- i

falnest.Th* Cuban Land and Bteami Company of this :

city owns the colony, and ects to have two;

Utousasa propit there in possession cf iheir homesby early spring. The pioneers are seemingly veryesttasiastfe. They shipped a larre amom o: ho-i«e- :eojo. efjecte. Bevera] women a-.: children weniaiosg.

Tbe Ifuu Line .-.as mace rate reduction* tothe c . \u25a0\u25a0•..sts and contemplates placing more ;

Bteaaurs is commission to accommodate the newtraffic, as- mar. >.-. unable to secure ;issage yes- '•terday.

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DEADLOCK OVER CAPTAiyCY.Con-rt C. Sin Regiment, is eleci . itenant

J. J. Cowdrey captain. The Nominating immlt-tee of Company a is In a deadlock, being lividedbetween First Lieutenant Aestlni and Second Lieu-tcnaai K-rtz. The difficulty will ... Isthought, by choosing an outside man. Lif-uter-a^tKopetskt ;s orcanizing a Spar.'sr.-American Warc*rr.^ lr the regiment. The members cf the reei-me.it are complatoing about the c-iav in onenini:the rmon ran««

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:TO ElAltiyE STFDEXTS FOR COLLEGE.At a meeting held a- Columbia University yester-

; day to effect the permanent organization of thaj Board on Uniform College Entrance Requir^mert*j Seth Low was elected chairman. President Thcma*!of Bryr. steWT vice-chairman, acd Professor Bur-:j Ist of Coiumbia, secretary. The treasurer was soti ehos»r. The first examinations under the directleaj of the Board will re heM ir Jun^ Wl ..: frensj twenty to thirty points ir. the Middle States and ati various centres throushout the \\>.<: 1: .- i^-i lieved tr.at trar.y will take the examrrtatlor-s wna!do not expect to enter college, but d-sire a c*rtW-; cate of their ability to do so,I

TRAXSFER Of LAKE STEAMER*.Daluth, Minn.. Nov. IT.—Tt l?« T»»v>rt<*i araor.g

vessel men here that the Bessemer s:eamsh:p roa-, pany. of which John D Rockefeller owns prm-'-t'.caV.v a.: the stock, has t-ansferrM th*- b:^ f.**'

;d whaletacks to the Consolidated Iror. M:ne«. ofwhich Jor.r. r>. Rockefeller aUo owns about all ts*stock. The fleet cohslsta of thirty «aal«bacKS andan equal number of other larcv >:e^rtiers Tn«d-a'. U jimiiar to that hy which th» American:Swaawnlp Compar.\ transferred it* fleet t,> th*;American stee! and Wire Company a few das» a«a

It stands alone.

TheKnabe

154 Ftfth Aye.,

cor. 20th St.

rr.rmoys ;.v /<!.v£z?rpr'-r.

Hwman A. Perkins, c>t No iUnion Square, has !flic.l a petition In bankruptcy, witb liabilities o* ig«Ua und i."a*»oi*. I

SAWMILLS J\ yOBTHWEST CLO6M DOWS.Minneapolis, Minn. Nov. -With the advent of

winter, WBicb bas now begun tn earnest, a ma-jority of the sawmills tbrousrboui tii- Ncrth.w«-*tha>.- closed for the season, and nearlj five thou-sand men have t>««Ti threwn out of work in conse-quence. Ait ot them can find SISTJ u> do in thewoods, however, so no •uCertns la anticipatedThe pond of each mill is full ol loss, and the last*eason was one of th* best «v« ltno»u. owlas u>

L,;b«>rnn.in Brothers, composed of Bernhard »ndgaul Liberman. manufacturers of flower* andfeath«rs> aj >;o. 21 it - East Houstnn-«t.. haverim] a petltl •. In bankruptcy, with liabilities ofityi9TI *f"'»s*et« of $21,227. Benjamin Barker hasbeen appointed re*«lver of the tsseu

\ Million In Involuntary bankruptcy hRS b^«n

Hied against Emfsi Frankoski. who did business

mFr«nko»kl Brotl manufacturer* of children'sHothinff »l - *

0- .""*> VVooster-st.. bj Lawrer.ee &Hughes, for creditors.

GVy CArTAIX MADE A\ ETS'SIGy. IGun CartAln Hobart Ouion, on* of th* earliest

members of the First Division of the Ist NavalBattalion! hns been H*cte<! ensign. The battalion,rlllhold a danre on *m the New-Hampshire onthe evening of December 13.

MUBCATISE TO Ou.Y WATERWOIiKS.Musc*tln«. lowa. Nov. 17.

—One hundred thousand

dollars' worth i".; city waterworks bonds, bearing fP-r cent, were sold at a -pecial session cf the CityCouncil to h Cleveland ilxm After Jui.uary 1 thectiy willown -.;.ii o;.erut- the waterworks.

BOARD OF MANAGERS CONSIDERS work INALASKA, PORTO RICO AND FOR-

EIGN COUNTRIES.The Rev. Joshua Kimber. associate secretary of

the Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society, yes-terday g-ave out a report of the proceedings of theBoard of Manaeers of the society which was heldlast Tuesday. The acceptance by Rathbone Gard-ner of a rlace on the Board was received, alsothe declination of the Rev Dr. Rufus W. Clark.

The following delegates were appointed to at-tend the eighth conference of ofl"i"»rs and repre-s^r.tat:vf-s of Foreigr. Missionary boards and so-cieties, to be he!d in New-York January 16 to IS:The Bishop of Pennsylvania, the Rev Drs. A.sopand Aplegate, Captain Mahan and Mr Chauncey.

Letters w^re at har.d from the Bishop of Alaskaflown to September 23. The hist letter was datedon board oi a steamer on the Yukon River on hisway to Tanana, where he expected to wir.rer. Incase the steamer should be eauckrt by the \cm, hewould have to make a tripof five hundred rr.i.e-s or.snow shoes. Mr. Chapman reports that greathindrances have come to the work at Anvik fromInsufficient help, but that the proajsci for thefuture is bright. The boardlr.p school, always ef-ficient, has b«ren more so this last year than ever.Four of the pupils were confirmed. The whole ex-penses of the school were JJ.1%3 The Rev. Mr.Prevost wants a missionary at Valdez.

The Rev. George K. Prait. or Sir. Juan. PortoR!co, emphasizes the trreat ne~d .->f Spanish workir. tha' city and the real necessity that some mango down with Bishop Moreiaact en h;s prospectivejourney.

Johr. Pavne Gibson, teacher of the orphan asylumat Cape Pains Africa, died on August 30, In r.isforty-fouri year. TV? Bishop has or.'.ered a boatto be built which will b<- propelled by a keroseneensjine or bj sail. In whi n he will n* able tf>reach the coastwise stations and :iis<"» to sail upSt* Paul's Paver.

Bishop Graves write* that the native clergy fromup th^; Ya.r;.s-tse Rivrr are anxious to Ret backto their stations, but b« \u25a0.•-.-•• th" future en-tirely ur.ct-rtain as v*-t. so that no schema of workcould be framed. St John's. College, at Shang-hai in-er. has reopened with 145 student*, andat Mary's Hal! with forty-five pupils, which6hows that the Chinese in the neirhr-orhood arenot disturbed by the presence of foreign trocpibut on the coi irarj feel safer.

EPISCOPAL MISSIOXS REPORT.

Ir. the seesaw ol doubt your dedsioamay balance the wrong way. Dealingwith us you can only balance one way—

the right way. Money back if jzxthink otherwise.

Our sale of Oxfords. Cambridge andOlive Grays, made of Vicuna. Cheyiotaand Friezes, overcoat or Raglan, silkiined throughout, to order $25.00. Spe-cial sale of fancy Cheviots, suitable forbusiness wear. Sl6. Full dress or Tax*eio. silk lined throughout. *•">•'. are spe-cial value.

Sample?, fashion book, measuringgriide mailed anywhere.

ARNHEIM,BROADWAY & 9TH ST.

Nothing like it hai ever been held before in thistintry. It will .^rk a re*: a:.; practical step

toward that religious inity of which so much hasbeen said in recent years. The conference embracesmembers of fifteei distinct religious todies, in-c:::d:r.r Jews. Unitarians. Episcopalians and r.i-versalists Among the speakers at the differentsessions will be many of National prominence In-cluding Bird S. Coier, th» Rei Dr. Lyman Abottand the presidents of Vassar, rnell, Wesleyan.

It will begin at the Church of the Holy Cosi-munior or. Tuesday ever.in? at T:43 locs Theconference willcontinue en Wednesday and Thurs-day. Morning and afternoon sessions will -•- r.--..in the hall of tha United Charities Bi

'ling on

Wedne: laj and Thursday, and evening =e?s:or.swill be held in the following churches: Tuesdayevening, ai the Church of tile Holy mmunion.Twentieth-st. and Slxth-ave.; Wednesday evenir.g.

Lt AllSouls' il'r.irariar.". Church. Twer.tieth-st. andFourth-ay?.. and Thursday evening, at the Brtck(Presbyterian! Church, Thirty-seventh^st. andFifth-aye. The evei sessions will begin at 7:45

ICn Tuesday evening "The Stai Conference of

Religion. Its Tdeals. Propaganda ani Aims," willbe presented by the Rev. Leishton Williams andthe Rev. Thomis R. Sllcer. Ethical Pr tgresa in

the Nineteenth Centuryl' will be discussed by theRev. James M. Whltonv cf this ~ity. ... HenryD. Lloyd of Chicago. The Wednesday

—srr.i:.e

session, at th*1 United Charities Building, willcomprise addresses ar.d discussion on the topic,"Keiisrion. the Life of God in the Soul cf Man

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the aker^ E>el- the Rev. \V\ C. Gannett, ofRochester, N. V.. ar.d Professor Walter C. Rausch-enbuTch: als v of Rochester.

"The ro.~=ibi;iues of mmon Worship" w:i:form the subject of addresses by the Rev. Dr. RHeber Newton, of this city, ar.3 the Rev. HenryBerkowitz, of Philadelphia^ "'Political IdeaiE of theF.iWe." by Professor Nathan Schmidt, of CornellUniversity (Old Testament'), and Professor HenryNash, of Harvard University Mew Testameni wil]

form thi subject of addresses at the fternooisession, when the Rev. Percy 5. Grant, ot thiacity, .'lr.li President B. P. Raymond of WesleyanUniversity will also be heard on the subject, "De-mands of a Nation Conscious of a Moral Mission."

The subjects for »Ved lesday evening's session, atAiJ Souls' Church, are '.'Dangerous Lasses in aRepublic." the speakers beir.g Fred Howard Wines,of the Census OfiHre] Washington! ... President•---.•:: Crilese. and Religion

Vital to Democracy."' the speakers b>.in? the Rev.Washington Gladden, of Columbus. Ohio, andPresident John G. .... Corr.el! University.

On Thursday morning, a: the United CharitiesBuilding, the Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott ar.d Presi-dent G nley Hall, of Clark University, willdeliver addresses or. the <=- i'-c: "Re!:2ious Edu-cation In the Pub! Schools." anu "Education byChurch and hool in Social Righteousness" willbe presented by Simeon E. Baldwin, of New-Haven,Co:-.n , and President James M Tayior o* VaasarCollege The afternoon session Will include "TheUnorganized Religious Forces." by r-.r- P.- . CharlesF. Dole, ot Boston, and the Rev, Algernon 5. Crap-ney, c-f Rochester "Tl • !d*al Ccmmor.we2.ith a3the Kingdom of Go<V' wii; be the subject of ad-crr=tes by Edwin Mark and Profesi r ThomasC Hull,of Union seminary.

At the Br!.?k Presbyteria 1 Church, on the 3ameevening. Controller Bird S. Coler ar.d the Rev. Al-frpd W. Wlshart of Trenton S J.. wOl be thespeakers or. The subject of "The Unused Power oftha Churches InPolitics." snd the "Messare of theConference to the Churches" will be presented bythe Key E S. Tlppie and the Rev. Dr. Jogiah

S roTsr. both of this city.Many of the \u25a0 . Iresaei will be fallowed by hnef

discussions, and there wIJ! be brief devotionalppr.'ices at each session A meeth -oi the tenera]

Committee will be held in the United CharitiesB'Jiifllr/f on Thursday at 2 p. rr.

The New-York Stat< Conference of Religion wasorganized in ISBS by a lar^e number of personsbtlonplne to eleven different dtnomir.atlons. ItsGrjierd; Oominittee now includes members of fif-teen denominaiions. The practical aim ar.d rangeof its Interests ar» thought to be sufficients repre-gented 1">V 'h* t-uhj^cts presented ir. the programme.Ivbond of union i» not in a common formula, butlr. tbc •!'• ilrii which is variously expressed indifferent '-\u25a0\u25a0-'' "•» forr Tts purpose is to pro-mote the largest practicable junction of religiousforces for ?he furtherance of these fundamentalrr-licic <--\u25a0 mor.il .inrt social intere??s which are vita]

to the stability of .he commonwealth.Tn« Executive Committee consists of J. M.

Whiter., tirman; J K. A'if-r. S T Carter C. HKvon W. C. Gannett. Thomas Whittaker. M. HTarri?. 1- A. Maynard, H>^r.ry Mottet. R. H Now-ton H m Ba:id«rs, T R Slieei Jo«;ah StrongE. 8 Tipple and Lelghton Willtims.

wonder i.= that the matter did not come to ahead befcre. Only Dr. Jordan"? taJtaCK pre-vented a rupture several years ago. The friendsof the university regret bitterly that Dr. Rossshould have forced an issue by giving out to

th*» press his letter of resignation, which boredate ot last June. Net even the best friend? ofthe university deny that this incident has seri-ously hurt the university, as it ha« shown thatabsolute freedom of speech, of which everyStanford man boasted can no longer be claimedfor the institution.

The first week" of the Grau Opera CompanyBhcw that Melba has drawn larce audiences atall her performances, but that Gadski and Nor-dica have not fulfilled expectations. The sale ofseats for "Lohengrin." in which Schumann-Heinle sings to-night, is the larsjesC of the sea-son. All the artists \u25a0-\u25a0<- -\u25a0 Saleza and Scottihave been in fine voice, and all the pen giventhis week have been put <-,n with attention to

details such as have nevei been seen here before.Frank Daniels ha«= made a hit in "Th» Ameer,"despite the attractions of the opera season. laanother week Alice Neilson appears at the Co-lumbia,

Charles 9 Gre< president of the Universityof California a:ur:r.!, has devised a scheme by \u25a0

which the alumni will erect one of the newBerard buildings as a memoi It is expectedthat $100,000 willbe raised by regular contribu- \u25a0

tions from 2.800 alumni of reo'-';ar courses.

Through the exertions of Colonel Lnng. dep->tquartermaster of the Army, at San Francisco. \u25a0

all future bids for arrr.y supplies will be open Ito the oca! merchants. Not only wil] this ap-ply to contracts for th? local army and thetroops in the Philippines, but it will include |supplies for Cuba or Porte Rico. Th- War De-partment was willingto r.ak« this concession to

San Francisco merchants because of -h aid'

which H received here in the early day? of theSpanish- American war. and the aptnesswith which large orden were filled.

The California Cured Fruit Association hassecured control of all the unsold prunes in the \u25a0

State, and is thus in position to fix rates. Thisaction was taken because of the fear that out- •side packers would cut the rati below a profit- iable figure. It also insures the shipment ol only :

the best grades to the East.

One of tne \u25a0 Jteworthy real estate sales of the ;week was that of Mr.- E. E. Crocker's new resi-dence, a: the northwest rner of Clay andFrank'in sts.. to L-ewis Meyersteir. for 543,000.The lot cost $30,000, and the house, which is just :finished^ fest $23,000, so that the purchaser got ,a bargain. Mr?. Crocker expeced to make it erhorr.e. but finally decided afier the house wasfinished to remain in New-York,

The Mechanics' Library will soon begin a sys-tem of sending books over the State, and tl ishoped by this means to increase largely -its Imembership. In a few weeks the Mercantile [

Library will be removed to its new quarters, in|Post-st., when it will be much more an activer.va: of the Meehan than it has been In thelast seven years, since it has bern out in VanNess-aye.

Gas stocks have been weak, cw.ng to tha re- :ports that Clau« ?rreckels willsoon start a n-wplant. Mr. Sjireck^ls partly udrmstl report.but he ieaves the date of becirr.ir.e- the work [

indefinite. There is no doubt, however, that hehas had estimates of the cost of the plant, ar.ihe has an energy !n establishing electric lisrhtand power plant! which proves that ifh- decid-s ;

on establishing sasweri-cs he will carry the'

Bchej through to success.

Heavy rains last nig-r.t and to-day have pre-vailed over most of the State, md the fa"! ranges

'from half an inch to two inches The fall has [been lightest in the south, but the reports show ithat the rain is increasing there. This :a:r. will jdo much good, a? it will heip all orchards, andwill start ploughs going.

The yield of dry win? this year will be aboutthe same a? last year, but the quality willb«- ash:rh as that of the famous vintage of 1S;«3-There willbe about fifteen r;:llioneailons of drywine and seven million grallons of sweet wine.Of dry wines, Sonoma County produces fromeisht and a half million to nine million sailonsand Santa Clara comes next with two and a ha!?millions. From $13 to •*!."> a ton was paid tovineyards for grapes.

TfJF PR'\T LOTB MARKET.Pa.! River. Mas-. Nov :T <Sp*c-ial>.-Broker»re-

port that the sales !n th* local prtr.t ctoth. marketdurir.s the week amounted to X2.000 r'e..-t-«. a:! «xJ.i»-No regulars were disposed cf. There was ;i flightincrease in the sales of the week over those of tasprevious week, but Urn total is much less than theneeds of bujers would seem to require. The con-tinuance of the iluiness in the cloth market ia £••!»to the indisposition of both buyers a-.d topurchase or sell large amounts "of ci.>o at pres*n:pnees. Purcha.*er» axe: as trey were lah •>\u25a0«*.endeavoring to indu.v manufacturers 10 siuuiequotation^ on the finished malarial bat tt.il: cs^nare arm in iheir dt-maniJ for fall p.-K-e* and tnsisron in,, direct n fusal to part with»:ock e.\-e?r upona banis equal to 3>, cents. The advance «.>.* U c*n:In thr price or American -..rimed fabrics maJ*cany in th« \»-. r. has g:vtn renewed strenrtr. totht- market an 5 ,-ausw! a sl:s ht advan-e bs th*quotation for iisquaro +v. tr.;s standard raaH-now beine h,-:d at S\ cent» in Urg^ centres. Rf-l»or.s from New-York and Philadelphia !ndic«t»ttiut prinirri«r poorly suppUeJ •r.U tßat OMlrnook 0:1 hand will 3<arce!v pull them ttsrou^hanother mourn. They are holdins ofT :n the hop*ot prive concessions, but they nun soon CBjSWtheir tactics and buy in Urge quantities. Whenthe nuymg movement set» in it is lik»!y to be a

SEATING THE GITESTS.

Aek the commltteenaen what they consider isAelr worst tack In arranging a dinner, and the

rhances are a, they will reply in chorus that

the most irritating of their experieaces is theseating rf the guests.. It is necessary that

friends be seated together, and where the systemof separate tables— a style which is becomingmar* popular every year

—is followed this task

is comparatively easy. But it iB different at

dinners which are attended by three hundred or

S^SSS^^^SSl^S^ilIs on these occasions that the ccmmittee havemore than one peck of trouble on their hands.Obviousiy they can grant only a certain num-

j£ taV"«\ he%fThe%aplaker-hcarrr;ecr

*cenn ar?d

heatf Lnd th/v arl ca?l*d upon to bear with-V^nce -he mutterings of the unlucky

Seni find thSSlvS^lacea toward the

KendofThe room. Not until the last mo-ment can the diagram of the seats be printed^Mar,v neocle will delay their application forrtKr« SStFI Pe-hapi, the very day of the din-

2S>hS?stffi^rti?to Scumitance. whichth-v could not foresee will cancel their appli-

ration- All this m-ar.s a constant rearrang-£g and reapportionYn* of places, and -hen a:c«t 'h» namec ar d diagrams a-e •«!* -3 tne

-« So' r-V^f^th. V.rr.rnute.menEET,'^ .? .Jf" •g «ith .hem.

_„_i\fnrp-5 l«sn niWERTHE CHAMBER B i*,-D IOJ»«.si

Morris K. Jesup w:'l preside when the Cham-

ter of Commerce holds its lS2d annual banquet

at Delmco*. on Tuesday evening. The com-raittee in charge of the dinner consists of J

Edward Simmons. Henry W. Cannon. CharlesE. Srr.itr. Cornelius N Bliss and John B. Ken- jnedv. ir. the absence of President McKinley.Cfcarle* Emnr>- Smith. Postmaster-General. w»l |speak for the Administration. Other speakers Iwill be Bishop Lawrence r< Massachusetts. John jX Cowen. president of th# Baltimore and Ohio \u25a0

Railroad, and Chief Ja«tice Parker of the Court |of Appeals. In the abr-ence c: Governor Roose- !velt Senator D*?ew will speak for the State, iOne of the features c: the lUoatr*tion on the |menu cover represents th« beginning of the con- j£rncttea of th" underground rapid transit road,Among the prominent

-,bers of the Chamber_.

hr. w-.; 6.f%.r,A „-,\u25a0•? k»-mho win attend willbe: ;I.Pierrcr.t M«xas. |Brartaa.Xtm ',

\u25a0MIIVBaK^. Bffis!il?"4 !L>v: p. vor-.cn. Woodbury Larr-iTTofcn B K«-r.n«-iy John a MeCall. :r2Lf£Tv b>, iicie-

-:::vr'..'.lr4 '3. EUwtrd s;rr.mor». John H«r?-r- Bhoade» \u25a0

Cfc«rie» B. sn-.i:h. Trcrr*F '- Peab.-(jy |Ker.ry tv. c*nr.ca. Jacob H/Ecfcia. ,

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The extradition proceed brought by the Brif-ith Governmem against Frederick G. Yuengling.eon of the we:; known brewer which have been jpeadiss for seme time before United States Com- :

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*«P,*«™>- "^"^ISVSg topurchase reaiestate for the mere purpose oradding t« the convenience and comfort of itspassengers is far from rosy. The Tribune does

i A pi^v SUGGESTED.jj But The Tribune does think that a -way cut or

the difficulty Can be found. For years the city

moaned under the inconvenience of having thetracks of the New-York Central Railroad cross

tho Harlem River at *rade. The cost of elevat-

th<_

tracks wag tOO great for the railroad to

undertake alone The city not long ago steppedin and offered to defray part of the expense. The

:company undertook to foot the rest of the bill.

The tracks were then elevated, and this resulted; to the mutual advantage of the city tht citizens,

the road's patrons and its ockholders If theme course were pursued in the case or tne

Manhattan Elevated Railroad in Park Row. the;same resullß would probably follow because the

Manhattan directors know a "good thing when•they see it. and are always willingto acceptsomething for nothing. But some may be able

Ieasily to see hw a part payment by the cit> for

real estate to be utilized by the Manhattanwould benefit that railroad and also its patrons.Bnd aJ the Mmc tlnie lhey m

,rnt be una to

see how it would directly benefit the city itseir.A gurv<fy of the property which adjoins on

jIh(? nortn the New-York entrance to the Brook-lyn Bridpe will open their mental eyes to the

|™\°*g£*?*£S™'2nht City Hall stationt ojthe elevated railway were broadened and ex-tended in an easterly direction, it would slice off

j the tops of several building, which stand on asmall triangular block. The toaae of j«w biock

|rests against the approach to the B.idge. andIthe apex Is farmed by the junction of Part.Row

jand .North Wll lam-st. It to a fil»°™"

oc£ "J\u25a0 a narrow one. and the buildings upor it are

|of comparatively Uttle value. Some • da> they

!are likely to be razed in order to make W for

ia modern sky scraper, and then the property w 111|be perhaps too costly to purchase. In itsipres-jent condition the city ought to be able to con-demn and buy half the block for little in excess

iof the value of the Bite. The space so acquiredwould be cleared of Its present buildings and;the street surface could then be turned t-> goodadvantage as a broader approach to the Bridge™d also as a irtdening of Park Row at thatpoint, which is always overcrowded and so un-comfortably filled with pedestrians that on*'ith difficulty makes headway upon the narrow

sidewalk. IfPark Tow is badiy congested therer.c>w in the busy hours, what will i:be in a fewyears more? No New-Yorker ever forgets thathis city grows constantly. He is proud of it andglad of it. But every now ar.3 then It is neces-sary to point out to blna bis duty to the New-York of th* future. H«r« is a case in point.Park Row is already too narrow for the traffic

.it has to bear at the north side of the Bridge

entrance and in \u25a0 •-•\u25a0 rears more the congestion-«» become unendurabh VThy not kill twobirds with one stone . why not widen farkRow 2!j feet now and at the same time relievethe terrible inconveniences which passengers en-aure at the Clty Hail station of the elevatedr^ad?

THREE PLATFORMS NEEDED.By this means ample room would be afforded

for the truct:or. ojer the widened Park RowSof three parallel platforrr:. for the elevated sta-

tion. One of these, which may be called plat-. . .f'-Tm "A. would lie between the uptown anadowntown tracks. On this platform all passen-sr^rs who desired to so uotown would a'vaittheir trains. Platform^ 'B' would lie east ofthe tracks, and might extend almost to thefronts of the buildings on the easi side of wid-ened Park Row. Platform

'C" wou d lie west of

the tracks as close to the "Staats-Zeltung"Building as th«? present platform now is. Trainscoming into the station from uptown would dis-embark their passengers up"n platforms "B"and "C." and be at once refilled from the *\u25a0-•-

Eit< side with the passengers v.-airir.sr upon plat--;-rm "A"

vho desired to go upt wn. By thissimple method the uptown stream would nolonger be obliged t0 buck the downtown streamand Cny Hall station could b transformedf..m outiandish barbarism into a modernconvenience

That the Manhattan Railway would be willij.to meet the city at least halfway in this schemeseems likely from th manner in which AlfredBWtt. vice-Jresident and genera] superintendent

!ot tn? company, received the proposition when aTribune repcrtT laid itbefore hhn the other day.He i?aid the company would be willingto co-operate with the city "to any reasonable x-tent." Just what share cf the expense his roadv. juid bear he was not then prepared to state.

Eut there is another quarter in which part ofthe expense would be borne. One of the of-ficers of th Department of Taxes said thatthe proposed widening c? Park Row would addgreatly :. the value of surrounding property,and that the owners benefiting thereby wouldbe '..-\u25a0. to pay a generous proportion ofthe expense. The propertj adjoining would begreatly enhanced in value, and the owner orowner? \u25a0would be assessed accordingly.

A tracing trom the maps of the Departmentof Taxes and Assessments was made of theproperty as .• now stands. It is hounded byPark Row. North "William-st. and the BrooklynBridge. The property is "nearly triangular inshape, and resembles a broad-nosed flatiron. Itconsists of lots Nos. 23. 24. 25 and 2fi of cityMock No. 121; and its dimensions are 121.1 by100.3 by 76 by 7 fett. The frontage in Park Rowis 121.1 feet, ar.d the street numbers are 77 to 89inclusive. IfPark Row is widened by th< ac-quisition cf these lets, to a depth of twenty-fivefeet the dimc-nsinns of ••\u25a0 property r::rri-r ngwould be **0.7by 50.4 by 3S by 7 feet, a reductionof about 50 per cent- This would leave a frontagein Park Row of 60.7 feet instead of 121.1; asat present and would widen the sauare at theJunction of Park Row and North Willlam-StJThe >nose<i condemnation would entirely elim-inate Nos. S3. SS S7 and B9 Park Row, andwould destroy one-half of the buildings repre-sented by Nos. 77. 7J> and 81 Park Row. In£•; earance the block would retain its present

ofiguratloa.

VALUE OF THE PROPERTY.The buildings, varying from twenty to sixty

feet in height, are generally in a fair condition,but are small and unimposing. They are rented

'•\u25a0 proprietors of small capital, with the excep-tion of the Oa*is a somewhat pretentious saloon.

irned by Weinberg & Presco. The buildingswhich would be entirely destroyed are occupied-y the Old Sp< Cigar Store, Max Rosenblum,

prietor, No. SO Park Row; the loan office ofWilliam Goldstone, No. 87 Park Row; the to-bacco shop of Weinberg & Fresco, No. 85 ParkRow, and Herring's lunch room, at No. S3, ad-joining. The buildings the depth of which wouldbe \u25a0• luced by on^-half are occupied by theOasis, a saloon, ir-berg &Fr^rco. prcprfetorsNos. 61 and 79 Park Row; the saloon of AHorn. No. 77 Park Row. and Lnyties Brotherswine cellars No. 7S Park Row. No. 75 of thisstreet is th« site r>f the new Bridge entrance

The assessed valuation of the entire 1 iock de-scribed is $lfi.",non One-half of this sum orMt«.r><t<». would represent the assessed value ofthe titles necessary for the fulfilment of the pro-

sed twenty-five foot widening Allowing forthe conservatism with which valuations by eitjofficials are made, it is more than probable thatthe city would be compelled to pay double th<*assessed value of the property. It is estimatedthat flt&500 would be demanded for all th"titles necessary to the success of th* plan

Sections No. 4 to 36 r.« the New-York'

Citycharter authorize the Board of Public Im-provements to change the rrap or plan of thecity in order to lay out new streets or tc widenand straighten existing ones, subject to the aDproval of the Municipal Assembly. Such aproposition is first considered by the local Boardof Improvements, which consists of members ofthe Municipal Assembly, representing the dis-trict in which the Improvements to be made arelocated. The president of the borough is exofficio chairman of each local board There area* many local Boards of Improvement as ther*are Senate districts. This Board recommends ordisapproves the project, and presents its reportto th" Board of Public Improvements which deliberates upon it. After receiving a vote of ap-proval *he proposed plan is published for tendays in "The City Record" and a publichearing isgtveo. at which interested property owners maystate their objections. At the expiration of thehearings a resolution 1« nubmltted to the Munic-ipal Assembly. If the resolution receives a two-thirds vcte in both houses and i« signed by theMayor The Board of Public Improvement- isempowered to acquire for the city the title, ofthe property in question. Thu the wideningproposed is consummated *« far as the alter£tion of the city's map i« concerned

MIGHT TAKE EIGHTEEN MONTHS.A special condemnation commission is then

appointed by the Supreme Court. After thenecessary condemnations have been made, therMtof the work Proceeds under the supervisionand responsibility of the Commissioner nt High-ways. The State has the power to acquire title*to property for park purposes by the right ofeminent domain. Thl. rleht extends to th. a£.

(Continued from First r«c >

banner* and flowers, while at several ol th« jlarger banquets SGOO to $1,000 will be paid tothe decorators and florists.

RKMEDT FOR OLD DISGRACE

GUESS HOW MANY OF SHAKESPEARE'SPLAYS YOU HAVE SEEN ACTED—

THEN COUNT THEM UP.

Here Is a new questl r. to Lnfl ct on your 1elp-less friendfl after you have asked them where theBook of Hezekiah is and who wrote "Be good,sweet maid, and let who will be clever." Askthem how mary of Shakespeare's plays they

have seen on the stage. They must answer byguess. not stopping to count up. That is justthe point After they hav< g-u ssi I let themcount up and see how near they came. Yourr.irht try it yourself befcre ye read any fur-ther You •\u25a0 HI find that most persons if theyare theatregoers will gu< ss far too few.

This fact was discovered recently in thecourse of a discussion or the subject occasionedby Mr. Mansfield's production of the seldomplayed "King Henry V." One person present,who cherishes a fond ambition to see every oneof Shakespeare'; dramas on the stage, and con-sequently keeps account of how many tie hasseen, said that this made his -fcurth.

ther. wl pretends to no such object, saidthat he thought that he had seen half a dozenor so. When the list wa* read o\e£ to him itproved that he had -\u25a0\u25a0-.\u25a0 eighteen Anotherwho has been a constant ati i lani at theatresfor the last thirty-five or forty yea:?, said thathe thought that he must have seen ten. Itproved that he had seen twenty-nine.

As there are only thirty-seven in all. this maycount as a pretty good record. It is probablethat this man has missed scarcely anythingwhich has been played in New York In the lastthirty years, and therefore his exact list maybe Interesting. This is it. "Hamlet." "Mac-beth." "Romeo and Juliet." "Othello," "TheMerchant of Venice," "As You Like It" "\Midsummer Night's Dream," "The Taming o#

the Shrew." "Julius Ca-sar." "Measure forMeasure,- "Airs Well That Ends Well." "Corio-lanus." "King Lear." "Loves Labor's Lost""Two Ger-tlemen of Verona," "The Comedy ofErrors." "Cymbeline," "Antony and Cleo-patra," "The Winter's Tale." "King John"King Richard II." "KingHenry IV." Part I-Kin* Henry V." "King Richard 111.- "King

Henry VTII." "Th« Merry Wives of Windßor "

"Tempest," "Much Ado About Nothing "

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He thou Kht that he had seenAll«^eh That Ends Well." but was not sureThis Is a pretty good list, and the plays whl^hare not ntained in it are not likelyjoften tobe seen by anybody. There are onlj eight ofthem. -King Henry IV." Part IIthe threeparts of -Kins: Henry VI." "Titus Andronicus

""Timon of Athens." "Pericles. Prince of Tyre"and "Trollus and Cressida." Both "Timon" "and'\u25a0Pericles." however, have been played in Eng-land withir. a short time, and Richard Mans-field has long had "Timon" in his mind, though

he has not yet got quite so far as to play itAmericans who have seen th^ less usual n'iavsof Shakespeare within the last few years Er*indebted to Augu«aln Daly for many of their-

initiea, though other managers and actor*have helped a good deai One of Mr Daly's\u25a0r m important productions of this sort' was! ofcourse. "The Taming of the Shrew." Wh^n' heproduced this play it had been no long known onthe sta only in its abbreviated form called"Katharine and Petruchio" that Ithad been al-mo-t forpotj.-,n thai the whole play wm sus-cepttble of stase setting. "Th- Merry wivesof Windsor" was also for a time litt'e h«riof except on Mr. Daly'. «a«e. although it became quite a fashion a fe^T seasons Eo an*lVulhvm H. Crar.^ ard Beerhr.hm Tr£ n?hcounted among the unusual plays for It h^had several productions of lat* and » nnm«ito making,tour with it thft season iT^aong time since anybody but Mr. Daly has nutTempest "

"Two Gentlemen of Verona" andcountry. Lab°r"S LL°8t

"On the •£«• *n Sto

.Jhflre hh *VC bef>n tyro "'c«'nt Productions of

t ,?« flr?.1 I? art ot"Kln« Hftnry IV" by MiMJui a Marlowe an.l Beerbohm Tree two

"J e»r

H'nry vm"h>' £>r Henry Irvlnrfin*-K

lm^, Mod->«ka and two of "Cvrnb/"j"£by Mme. Modjeska and Miss Mar2stMather. Miss Mary Anderson elwSI h|rT..."

career this country withPouerTavored

n. NEW- YORK WAIIVT TRIBUNE. SUNDAY. NOVEMBER IS. 1900.

"Everything in Furs.*

ELECTRIC TRAIN IS READY.

quisition of property for the Improvement of citystreets. In this particular case, however. It islikely that the rity of New-York, and not theState, would take action toward the widening

of Park Row."The proposed widening of Park Row might

be accomplished In a year, and it might requirea year and a half." said John P. Dunn. As-Fistar.t Corporation Counsel, in charge r>{ theBureau of Street Openings, yesterday. "No onecan tell definitely how many months wouldelapse in the process of obtaining legislativesanction."

The sum paid by the city for the property isdetermined In each case accorilinp to circum-stances. An assessment Is generally made uponthe owners of adjoinins: property who may

benefit by the widening of the thoroughfare. Inthe recent widening of Elm-st property ownerswho gained by the city's action paid V> percent of the $5,000,000 which the city expended.

RESIGNATION OF PROFESSOR ROSS

FROM LELAND STANFORD UNIVER-SITT-WLVE YIELDTHIS YEAR.

[BY TEUEORJU-H TO THr TUHfM 1

San Francisco. Nov. 17.—The trouble «t L»-

land Stanford University over the resignation

of Dr. Edward A. Ross, head of th* depart-

ment of sociology, If nearingr an end. Thealumnf of the university have apl) the ac-tion of Mrs. Stanford and virtually just.Sedher in requesting Professor Ross's resignation.

Behind the reason given by President Jordan—the political addresses made by T>v. R^«s

—are

personal reason! that must have had greatweight with Mn Stanford. It is known thatshe resented the harsh criticism of the method*by which the Stanford fortune was gained, andof the large corporations in which she hoids in-terest. Such criticii Professor Ross did nothesitate to make in his lectures, and the only

TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.

MADE UP OF ORDINARY ELEVATED CARS

WITH A MOTOR AT EACH END-

WOODEN PEATS r?EP.

The new electric motor train, which is coJnr nfMct six cars, is fully equipped and ready at theSlxty-seventh-st. yard of the company for it? trialtrip on the elevated road en Tuesday or Wednes-day r.pxt In appearance the train resembles therleva ted road trains now in use. Instead of a loco-motive ar one end. the first and last cars are the

TT WILL BE HELD IN THIS CITY THIS

WEEK—THE PROGRAMME

The programme for the New-York State Con-

ference of Religion, which willbe held in thia city

this week, has Just been completed. One of the

Executive Committee. L. A. Maynard. said yes-terday: "The meeting will be unique of its kind.

CONFERENCE OF RELIGION.

the public with 'Antonj and Cleopatra, whichMrs. Langtry has since played in Engjana.Nothing has been heard of "The Comedy of Er-rors" since Su:art Bobson mad- an only par-tiallymieeeßsful attempt at it a few seasons a f>

Some time before, wh^n hr and Mr. Crane werepartners, they had maJe a costly production orthe play. Mr. Mansfield Is Riving the first pro-duction' of "Kin*Ktnry V which New-TorKhap seen in twenty-seven years. "Kintr J nn

has lnnp been a stran*er, but Mm. Modjeska ts

now playing it about the country.

When you have exhausted the Interest in tne

number of plays se»n you can request your vic-

tlm to try bow many of SI akespeare's plays necan name. He is pretty eood at soch tninss vhe can name all the thirty-seven. The chances

are that be will leave out some of the most

familiar ones. Three confirmed theatre-sro^rstried ih<» experiment toother the other day ana

succeeded in thinking of thirty-six. When the>

were finally forced to pive up and appeal to tne

list it was found that the niisnlr.s one was

•\u25a0Romeo Rnd Juliet," which they bad all seen

played repeatedly.

THE ELECTRIC TRAIN ON THE gECOND-AVE. ELEVATED BAILBOAI*.

F. Booss & Bro.,Makers ar-d I:sp-rter«,

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