Brief Notes of Borough Folk at

Home and Abroad.The engagement of Miss Katharine Lynde Bab-

cock Smith, daughter of Mrs. James Augustus, Os-

trom. of Chicago, and William Henry Talcott. ofManhattan, but formerly of the Heights, an-nounced last week, was of especial interest in

the borough. Miss Smith is the daughter of the

late Cyrus P. Smith and a granddaughter ofP.ryan H. Smith, of No. 79 Pierrepont street. She.is a sister of Mrs. John P. Wilson (Rloise Bab-

enck Smith), who before her marriage a fpw

years ago spent much »of her time with Mr.

Smith. Her fiance ie the son of the late William

BROOKLYN SOCIAL CHAT

Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Dougherty and Miss

Dr. Lester Keep, ©t Clinton avenue, is now at

SaravistA. Shelter Island Heights. N. T.

lira. PhilipRuxton. of Remsen street, is spend-

ing the summar at the Moorland, Bass Rocks,

Gloucester Pass.

thoee entertained at luncheon Wednesday by Presi-

dent Rooserelt at Sagamore Hill. Oyster Bay.

Mre. A. D. Marks, of Willow Btreet, is now at

the Pine Grove Springs Hotel. Spofford, N. H.

Mrs. Eugene Lascelles Maxwell, accompanied by

Mrs. John Thallon, arrived at Bretton Woods. N.

H.. Monday, having motored up from Glen Cove.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence W. Seamans and MissDorothy Seaman!« were, as usual, among the firstto register at the Mount Washington.

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Pratt were registered

at the Elton. Waterbury. Conn., Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lonsdale Leeming are also

absent from Glen Cove. They are making an auto-mobile tour and »era registered at the Equinox

Houee, Manchester. Vt.. Thursday.

Mr. and^Mrs. F. A. Brockway and Miss FlorenceSmith, who are motoring In the Berkshire^, wereregistered at the Hotel Vendell. Pittsfleld, Mass..Monday.

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$3.50 to $5 Lingerie Waists, $1.98.Three Elaborate and Beautiful Models.;, , . _.»_,. Dv it -ou ,„._. ernr anriKack al«=o collar, sleeves and body of waist trimmed with wider-

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Advanced model, buttoned in'

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China Silk WaiSts. $3.98. i China Silk Waists. $2.98. .. V,nina aiH.-naiSIS, *J.yo.trimmed with Venise medallions, forming yoke; :

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;

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\u0084^-», St, Tailored models In black and white; buttoned front ana back;-Just right for mountain and seashore wear; made of soft^yarn, in Tailored ™°££» trimmed with crochet and Val. insertion; .

fancy stitch, single breasted; patch pocket*: colors arc white card.- gj^™«bacfc three-quarter length sleeves.

nal and gray: Second floor. Central Building. •. DUiionea u««.iw

Our Great August Furniture Sale Will Be Announced Next Sunday.

Woman Seeks Matrimonial Aid at |

Y.M. C. A.—Prospect Park Bomb.

'C. U. Chase, secretary of the Prospect branch

of the Young M*n's ChrisUan Association, in 9th

street, .was making: out his monthly report the

other day when he wa« interrupted by unex-

pected appearance in his private office of a stylish-

ly dressed woman. ,--.^

*-Iam looking for a husband," was her explana-

tion' mh*-n she caught his look of inquiry.

••W—v—w—whatr' asked -Mr. Chase. ,•I am looking for a"husband." \u25a0-

••Why-*r-this:is—ah—ratner" began the sec-

retary, bl'js-:.;ng. and then he stopped in utter con-

•fusior."Isn't this thf Y. M. C. A.r- asked the visitor.

Fill! icoovj •-.nt-.ire«il>.\u25a0Y«-s. ma'am."

-Well you see." went on the visitor. "Iam on

my vacation and 1 thought that it would be a

.good time to look f..r a husband. Naturally. I

-came here. Now. what can you do for me? You

liave a "t of fine young men here, and one of

\u25a0them is sure to be just the man for me. Ilive in

the *ard and own ;•,..\u25a0. m- I''.- not mind if the

man is poor.- eo. long as he is real nice and is

Vllling to try to love me. and me only."

Mr Chase naturally is timid where the fair sex

•is concerned, and in his embarrassment and per-\u25a0 «r,lexi:v lie could only say:

•A great many of our most eligibleboys are ay.ay

;on their Vacations. now. so you see that it is a bid

lime to come to get one."

"Oh \u0084' mayl>e om.^ one of trios* young

men whom you have on hand would do." returnedthe * .man. smiling and expectant. The secretar>-

•thought -at first that -he might present a *\u25a0!\u25a0

'or «., .' the youths whose happy faces were even

'then framed in Of front '«\u25a0'\u25a0'\u25a0 of the "gym.

'hut he felt that 1-.? could not conscientiously do so.

"Iam' very, sorry." he murmured, "but as \u25a0 mnt-

'ter :o* fact m have no matrimonial department

'.cfVnneciea with the V. M. C. A." Then as a cloud1_, v

- ;over th? fair countenance before mm ha

•r,a5;T"-i in add: "Maybe we ought to have suchis, HiiallWnil hut we haven't got one yet."

—Why. the idea!" replied the visitor. "That:very nrange: Tou ought to look after an imnor-•,-•: matter :ik« that: You pretend to carry on a

igreat <'hristian' •«*- What could you do of a

T^iore'thoroughly Christian nature than to brma;

J abort the right kind of marriages^ Icertainly

1 think tha,• the T. M. C. A. is sadly lacking in its

Ipreparation to do real Christian work. You sur-

JT>*i^e me Isupposed, of course, that Icould get

U~hnFha Cd here. What can 1 do? My two weeks'ivacation will *pon be over, and Ihave not got a

Ihusband yet-;1

-am very much disappointed in

ithe v. M.C. A.".'

There \u25a0>?.« .-i bomb scare at Ha 154 Prospect

iPark Wed -he other evening, when a suspicious

hooking- object, was -found on the first floor by John

.'Day 'it looked like an infernal machine. Day in-\u25a0formed,Bicycle Patrolman Cornelius Pratt, and he.!transported the object with the utmost care to the

\u25a0 Firth avenue police' station, where it was placed

tn a pail of water' in the rear of the building. A

.crowd collected near the apartment house where

the object' had been discovered, and soon several

'persons' appeared. 'at the station house to tell of

two mysterious Italians they had seen near there.

They knew the owner of the house had property

~nted to Italians in Manhattan, they said, and

they feared the worst. The police are not used to

bombs Many of them sat up all night rather than

go to '-bed with'the thing around, and. as they

Thought, likely to explode at any time, and those

that-did retire kept their clothe* on. ready for any

emergency' In the morning" William Maxey volun-teered' to.open the. "bomb." Acting Captain Gilles-

•pie.: 'Lieutenant Sullivan and Patrolman Fennelstood at a distance when the operation began. No

explosion' occurred, and the spectators gradually

gafhered in closer."'" Suddenly Maxey said some-thing. . . \u25a0

\u25a0\u25a0

"Did you hurt yourself?" the crowd asked, as

one man. \u25a0

"No," replied Maxey; "not yet."

"Is '.her- any danger that it may go off?" asked

a timid reporter.

."Sure." returned Maxey. "just like this.'

He turned the bomb toward the room, pushed

something and a fine spray resulted.•That is not dynamite." the reporter declared."No. that's perfumery." raid Maxey. "This 'bomb'

Is just a new.fangled kind of atomizer."

SMOKY FIREPLACES

Women's

$3.50 Tan Blucher Oxfords, $1.98.Best Shoe Bargain Ever Announced.

/.JUST.m.SHOES FOR NOW,^W %t^'ZV^^%^l2&mmmmmmmmmm> impossibly at any other lime ot the year and never before at any time by any store. The qnanfty .s htera^b^ come e^rly^ _PART OF ENGINE THAT WILL PUMP 15,000.000 GALLONS OF WATER DAILY.

To be installed at the Mount Prospect Reservoir of the Brooklyn Water Department.

MADE TO DRAW OR NO CHAROB.

tt*m*n*tlons and Kitimate*Ttm.

References—

W. Astor. Jos. H. '^oat«, WSt*law Reid and many other prominent pecs'.*

JOHN WHITLEY, *M*

Engineer itContractor. \u25a0l215 Fulton St.. Brooklyn. N. T. Telephone 1813 Mil*

This \u25a0dTertiaement appears Sunday oalr- ,.

C ,cima«t.T Roberts is preparing to make an-other fight this fall to get back the Republican

jleadership of the 11th Assembly District, for which1

he was beaten by State Senator Travis at !aFt fall'sIprimaries. Travis has decided to give up the lead-*.-*.;. but he will seek re-election to the Senate.'Alfred E. Vass is supposed to be his personal•«hoic*- for the leadership. It is said that Mr. Rob-'crts intends I" fight not only for the leadership, but

• al?o to prevent Travis'* re-nomlnation. With R. C.• Fuller, leader of the 10th Assembly District, he is• expected to back Assemblyman Charles F. Murphy'

for the Senatorial nomination. Representative Will-

lam M. Calder. leader of the 12th Assembly Dis-,trict, is Travis's strongest friend. The Postmaster'sjfaction, in the nth District has formed an anti-]Travis

'club, known as the "Senate Club," from

!m-hJch-Mr." Roberts'? efforts will be directed.

iMONTHLY SERVICE ACROSS THE SAHARA.• Though

'a journey across the Sahara is still an

', \indertaking of some magnitude, the pacification ofIthe central region by the French has been wonder-ISullyrapid during the las=t five years. Removed, as« it seems, from the exciting influence of events in

\u25a0 Morocco, and undisturbed by Senussite propaganda,"the French officers have been able to establishfriendly -relations with th« Juareg and Berbertribes .and have organized a chain of posts right

acrpss the desert connecting Algeria with French. West: Africa. The r«mt«- for the telegraph has .beenaurveyed. and a "wireless" installation is being es-' tab'iphrd;. • Meantime. -by the' last mail from Dakar the Gov-iernor of French West Africa reports that he has

Instituted a monthly.service by couriers betweenthe Niger and the Mediterranean. The southern;r.r.int*of <Tf'«nur«' willbo the ancient town of Gao.:on the Niger, some two hundred miles below Tim-v,,^, and th* p°i"t of departure from the north

• Insalah in the easis of Tuat. which is some three!hundred miles south of rail head in the Bud•

Oranasls. Intermediate posts have been established'at A«ades and the Ahaggar. The oversight of the.

w r^ut...which covers fully one thousand miles'Sesert. has been intrusted to Colonel I.apernne.

"onirnandant of the f-rritory of the Algerian OasesLieutenant Coionel Cristofari. commandant of-

the military territory of the Niger.

Much is expert^ in the way of accustoming thewIWI tribesmen of the Sahara to the new order of

:tiSh' regular running of thisma71C

feol,^Sly wm» development of trade may follow.

ITuTa' prWent it will be used chiefly as a meani.

oT rapid enmmuniration between the French mlli-

fnn pofts It is intended that offlr^r;. selected for

l^i-icVIn or returning home from the Niger d s-

SsS*aiSn make u^ of the tr«n«-Saharan route

which willbe^^V^ "^B^ira? orVihSini*win £ -ed on the new

aervl<*.-Pall Mall Gazette.

.*£&':&* -THE .MARSEILLAISE."When Claude Rouget de Lisle, an unknown officer

quartered' with his regiment at Strasburg In th*\u2666STly day* of the French Revolution, hearing the

Mayor of that city express a desire for a patrioticMnt,sat down arid composed the words and musicof the "Chant de Oatrre pour l'Armee dv Rf11"-he scarci-ly foresaw a twentieth century Presidentof ¥a French Republic being welcomed to Englandby its King to the 'martial strains of his song ofthe -revolution. First heard In the house of theMayor of Strasburs; on AprilX. 17D2. It lukl reachedMarseilles. by June, wbere it was rung amid great

\u25a0' enthusiasm at a*civic gathering. A volunteer bat-ta'.ion Just living for Paris adopted it for a'marching . sons;.

-under the title "Chant les Mar-'emulate.

"and on August 10 it was the rallying'song

'during the attack on the Tullertes. From that day11 .became the national anthem of the French, and

ijts compote/ :ived to be pensioned by Louis Philippe1n ISO.— Dundee Advertiser.

Odd Case of a Massachusetts Veteran of the

Civil War Explained.With the Un« "died in service" against -.« naiM

in the roster of the old 6th Massachusetts F.egiaea;

Thomas E. Ballard. a pensioner of the CivilWar.lives in. the South End district of Boston, enjOKi

himself .in spite of age and Infirmities, and i-i-'iheartily when reference is made to the fact w:for more than forty years he has ':\u25a0-\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 offlasßj

dead. ,vf-JNot long ago Mr Ballard attended a reunion rt

survivors of old Company «J of the nth at »-' *'ter and answered to his came at roilcal., »i>

"The Boston Globe." This gave rise to a wmstatement that it was the tlrsc time r.- had mhis ..id comrades since in- war. and that b* JS"peared to them as one returned from tie caw

This' was scarcely the fact, since Mr.BalLird fcaThis «BJ BHM«Ii r"«"

-Icr - sin(>*MTMT Ba: '"• "\u25a0

attended many a reunion of his old company^years past; but that his name appears in tne™;roster of his company among those

*** \u25a0»\u25a0\u25a0

service" and that his relatives in •'- \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0for dead are strictly tru<=- -u.-irttil

His 'name Is given in a book entitled s"^Sketch of the Old«th Regiment." by John « km

son. chaplain, published In IS6B. as among ••»slain Inbattle. , -„»

How thla error occurred makes *f «̂"!;and one that Mr. Ballard has often recitea- ' .̂

In Wai Mr. BaSaW -was employed as *ci^a«V

maker In a car factory in Worcester. Ii»*la

the front with the ffth as a private, and »a> «v [\u25a0th» regiment when M I «ed through f^}--^.

Ha saw hard sen-ice. At the md of an *mem of 114 .lays he was mustered out a :*°"JSter. and came to Boston to re-enlist, l/ ,• %in the nth regiment. U. S. l» v̂

t,»went to the front hi Company D. Captain <-.^

man. and rose to be a corporal.h r\e »8

,The incident which led to the report that ..e

dead occurred at the battle of Pamela «•\u25a0 -\u25a0 Jsif.

27. 1*52. In this sansruinary engazfrnent. 'and *th» Northern s-tde lost nearly ••• «» f^iaCConfederates nearly as many, the via ..;; wwas in Syke's brigade, oa the right irM-nrofwhich sustained »*>me of t

-hardest ««*,

Mr^*Brallard'sr

allard's recollection? of that dar.^'^j^of every other private soKteg are con.- Ml*fought all day. *nd toward theendo* «*. wftlbecame overcome. What Fa-"3™ *-;i'f,n'*!>&*•his command he did not learn tm mm^,^...ward, for he was left for dead

-",Vrit:M««:

The next day the Confederates. +™c %m ,j,.up the wounded and dead, came upo^ ->— \u25a0

was unconscious, but they «»ke^J, SB*1'

wounded to a hospital camp at S^va«e.There he recovered consclousr.??*- ... .;, •*«•<*. He remembered nothing of how he hsi±;ngtrtf*but had a dim recollection that ffk^iVn*£by the heavy limb of a tree 1 S»off. and in fallitiar felled Mm to the j*ro ,^

found himself suffering from a «'.-! \u25a0• m _\u0084.;from a spent- ball. , .v..-,-:« V£»

He was *!ck and weak ar.d h» »'!liara <r

chance* of gettinsr JSaok to hi* ree ta^nt s ,a»JMcClelian's army, to which he

-!o_n4S-« tiBSretreat, and the Confederate were p.e«-"

•

wiicn his was required by the $$12£he gave it as Thomai. Ball, ami as »ncn^

**Jx*«

entered on th» list of prisons \u25a0

* ,«ia**ten days In the hospital camp

-•?^« nan*-*"

Tie made friends with > prisoner n.,;%^Maxwell, a h*-rp£?lOh7£" from South Be

\u0084.,'.in!n«iMaxwell h-lp*»d htm in «**«?crooked stick for him to u.->e as a cr.fetching htm water One day he *£?*,;bscl£«K !service for the last time He never cam' w^Ballartl believed he was shot by a*•' '• -^was very likely the case. h r prW*?!

Ballard was now taken with the ,\^7.., \u25a0\u25a0<\u25a0&\u25a0*to Richmond. where he wn» '""J^J!)''- He «*•'*,Thunder" and later to rjbby rrtson ,i:«pe*^Llbby Priori four wr»nths. wh*.. 5' \u25a0

d,s#

taking the name of a m»n who -*lldW anN»

**name appeami on a list of prisoners ::

—CIn""his way "hallar.l got back to »*,£&&was exchanged at Annapolis and r*Jotn<tv ,vment. the 11th. at Harper** Ferry, after b

sent from it rive months or more. . wr!t««Meanwhile hN commanditis; officer ,„(,.•»

to his *!»t*r. Mrs, K. M Mor^. °fnC t̂ .<•\u2666"(with whom Mr. Ballad now Uy^ inW^edtfton street. Boston,*, that her brother was >n :S*.Galne's Mill. His comrades h*J " b̂ w

i§ojf.fleM. apparently a corpse, wh eh InslAus;ht«-. waa accented as evlJenc* t.w ,

dMr!Mors* had tried hard to locate hi» S>*'-

to have It brought North for **££«£;£"But they coutdn't find any trac< i \u0084« *)*<Mr. Ihillard recently, "for. you B*e

- ',£>uld &*«•

Wh*n Igot back to my company yo«»,. T f**•e^n the N.vs take me on their »ho«We »»•

wt,*•

I.didn't touch th» ground for a rail*- -u'*happiest dead man you ever saw. J^_ •»*£"I found mv camp »ftVct» ]»»<» *"%«&*,&£i

law requires when a soldier dies. \u25a0It *rZ£t rf*teen cents: Iwas soon bar* Inl lus**

°*I.was In a number of •ngagemenjls. !r«ci»«— 4

After Win* mustered out in IK*5t SJJtlf*After being mustered out in 1S»turned to Boston and secured an/ *^~^jT«t^letter carrier. He was No. a {n '"•!:!•*••?rlers. He continued to this.seyvK^.^^.tlgg.quarter of a -enturv and. as a fwl\''isr*Klfwl\''isr*Klteem in which he was held by P* t̂oJ2siSMHhe carries a handsome witcfc^**—

-ifl|

to i»>y rwt<tont» of Pwis^isttw*.:^^^^

"DIED IN SERVICE"; STILL AIITI

Stranger— Thla village boasta of a choral society,doeen't it?

Resident-No, we Juat ensure it.-Il»uatrate« Bita.

LOST IN PARIS.An amusing story la told of an Englishman in

ParlH. After some hours of sightseeing, one dayhe lost his way an Icould not get back to hishotel. He asked first one and then another, butthe foreigners apparently did not understand th^trown language. At last in sheer disgust he tore,

a leaf out of hi* pocketbook. wr<>t« upon It".thename of his hotel, and silently presented It to thenext passerby. The man looked at him compas-sionately, beckoned him to follow, an.l without -aword they proceeded up one street mid down an-other. Finally the wanderer saw th« dr.or of hishotel, and forgetting in his relief and gratitude allth« difficulties ;of the language, he turned to hiscompanion and said. "Thank you very much,I«mgreatly obliged to you The other stared at himin amazement, and then blurted out. "You duffer,why didn't you speak before? Ithought you weredeaf and dumK" The good Samaritan was of hisown nationality

—Tit-Bits. ,

Vegetable Worshippers Among the Egyp-

tians—

The Emblem- of Wales.

•The leek • occurs among the hieroglyphics offcgvpt. and is sometimes represented on the head

of the god Osiris. r. This latter fact 13 significant

.in relation to the wearing of the leek in theircaps by the Welsh, says 'The London Globe."A possible connection is suggested. May not this

curious custom of sporting the leek on St. David'sDay, March 1, have had its origin far away inthe dim distance of early Egyptian history? Theleek was among the many objects worshipped by

that strange and interesting people dwelling- bythe waters of the Nile. "His leeK-god smiles onhim," says Carlyle, in allusion to one of thosevegetable worshippers.

""'.:••>

Leek-worship does not appear to have passedon-into the religious systems of Greece and Rome.as did so many other fragments of the strangetheology of the Egyptians. Yet the leek had uspart in the funeral rites of the Greek Adonis.Leeks and onions In p..'*. along with other veget-ables, were exhibited as part of the ceremony.They were also put in the sacred chests of themysteries of Ceres, as well as of the EgyptianIsis. Again, the Druids are .-..:! to have used the

leek as a symbol in the worship of their '•\u25a0••-.known as Ceudven. If they did so. whence didthey borrow the custom? From what more ancientphase of human thought did it come down to

them? Possibly from Egypt, directly, or throughthe Greeks. So little, however, is known of thosemysterious priests and mistletoe-worshippers ofancient Britain that this la only a A niise. andwill probably remain so.

A more immediate origin of the custom tracesback the wearing- of the leek to the time of thatancient British chief Cadwa!!ad» r. South?}- alludesto the incident in his inscription for the Vale ofEwias. which is to commemorate "The Tale OfDavid's Deeds." And on the authority of the au-thor of the "Claris \u25a0Calendaria." St. David causedthe Britons under Cadwallader to wear leeks in

their caps when about IB engage the Saxons. Th»leek helped them to victory, and so became theemblem of Wales. And on a more recent occasion,

if we may trust Shakespeare for our history, thesame honest vegetable aided an English kin?against his enemies King Henry V is remindedby the Welshman Fluellen of the part played bythe leek in the battle of Crecy "Ifyour majesties,is remembered of it." he says. "the Welshmen dingoot service in the garden where leeks did grow,wearing: leeks in their Monmouth caps." And theKing himself took no scorn to wear the I^-k. ashe says to Fluellen. "I wear it for a memorablehonor." And it is related in the old chronicles thatWilliam 111 and his courtiers, on St. David's Day,ISP9. wore leeks according to custom.

The Egyptians not only worshipped the leek, butate it- their gardeners, must \u25a0 have set their leeksfor the pot as' well as to pray to. And Pliny. thatdiilgent collector of fact and tablet, tells of ,in

inscription on the great pyramid recording thatthe \-alue of tho leeks, onions and garlic con-sumed by the builders amounted to nearly half amillion •Fterllnsr. And amone the goo.l thins*sighed after by the Israelites in the wildernesswere the "leak's end onions and garlic" of theland • they hail left. The Emperor Nero, again,set the fashion of let-k eating among the Romans.He used to partake of them on several clays ineach . month for the sake of clearing his voiceHe found, or imagined, in the leek some virtu-not recognized by th(» faculty to-day. And so tn*Emperor was surnamed in derision Porrophagus.the leek eater. Thus the Egyptians combined leekworship with leek eatlnar, ,in.l so also the Welshesteem their national emblem and badge of th»irsaint a welcome addition to their table. Cock-a-leekie. again, in which the leek plays an impor-tant part, Is one of Scotland's national dishes, andone which Burns might have hailed as "Greatchieftain of the race of soups." But to eat leeks,in cock-a-leekl» or otherwise. Is not th« same asto "eat the' leek." .When Pistol laughs at Flu-ellen's leek, and threatens to knook it about Mihead on St. David's Day. the valiant Welshmanseedling onions, eaten as salarl.. The leek is the AlHum i».rrum of botanists, anative, with the onion, of Egypt, from whence itprobably came to Europe. The British gardenowes It to th« Romans The first name, Allium. in-dicates its relationship with the onion and the gar-lic, while its "second. If Bryant is right, connectsthe leek by another bond to ancient Egypt. For.he derives Porrum from Pi-orus, an Egyptian gr»lrepresenting the Haelrwnr of the Pheenlcians. Andas we munch the toothsome spring 11ions In oursalad we again recall the leek worship of ancienttimes. For ."scalllon" Is derived from Asoalon, oneof the Chief cities of the Philistines, where the leekused to be worshipped. Scullions would pn>bab!ynt first be used as a name for leeks, but now meansseedling onions, eaten as salad.

THE WEAHING OF THE LEEK.

the writer ends underground will be as big or

bigger. The whole apparatus when set up willbe

sixty feet or more in height.

The' new engines will,be-able to handle 15,000,000

gallons. The steam ends of the new pumping en-gine,

'which .will appear above ground at ;the ;sta-

tion. will be *•'high Ma three story houae,:--\u25a0•\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0

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This system has a pressure of 150 pounds to th*»

square Inch as the maximum, while in town thepressure. is 300 pounds. .? Nevertheless, the pressureat the island: has been found sufficient. .Now thereare only one, and a half miles of 12 and 16 inchmains at the island. The appropriation allows foran increase of two and a half miles. In the threeyears that' the service has been in use It hasproved Its value. • The' pumping station is at Nep-

tune avenue and West 12th street.The present appropriation will permit of the con-

nection of the Titus deep jwells .at' Forest Parkwith the distributing;mains. 'A 30-lnch main willsoon be ready; to. carry the 10.000,000 gallons ofwater that Titus will.pump dally to Myrtle andCypress ."avenues," where it will connect with the

4S-inch main from the Ridgewood reservoir.There are about

-twenty wells at Forest Park.

Titus has also eighteen, wells in South Brooklyn,from which he hopes to get 10,000,000 gallons ofivrater dally. These .wells arc- about ready to b«connected with the system. His pumpingstation Is[iImost completed. The Forest Park station is not

ready, but will be by the time the mains. are. Inboth cases the water will have to be forced intothe mains at a pressure of about sixty pounds to

the square inch.An improvement for which the people of. South

Brooklyn are waiting is the installation cf the big

new direct acting engines which are to be used forpumpingithe • water Into the -tower at the •MountProspect reservoir. This Is shortly to be done un-der the direction of

'Assistant Engineer W. B. Wag-

ner. :The turbine engines now in use are so noisy

that they disturb the people who live around thestation, and they can only handle 'about 6,000,000gallons of water a day. whereas lO.nflft.nno or moregallons are required.

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The section is a little slice of the bigger sectionknown in general terms as the Eastern District.It is in the Eastern District that the chief manu-facturing concerns, coal yards and lumber yardsare situated, to say nothing of the sugar re-fineries and other kindred enterprises, all employ-ing an immense number of people. The plans ofthe water officials are in preparation for the ex-tension of the high pressure fire service throughall this vastly important neighborhood.

The system now covers a large part of the down-,town district and the river front from Red Hookto the navy yard. It is purposed to carry thesystem far up into Willlamsburg, covering thewaterfront and- its vicinity, and

"a.- far inland as

Broadway and Myrtle avenue. WitJi this plan ineffect, the manufacturing, .the office, the shop-ping and the theatre districts would nil be pro-tected. This does not mean that all the factories,big stores and theatres would be protected, but thevast majority of them v would be.

The extension of the system has not been pro-vided for. It would not cost more than J1,000,000,as no new pumping stations \u25a0 would have to bebuilt. The two in the heart of the city would, inall probability, be enough, perhaps, with the "ad-dition of three or four more pump:-.

The downtown service and its stations and theConey Island service, with its one station, cost thecity $1.400,0C0. The Coney Island service will beextended and improved under an appropriation. of$100,000. It will'be extended along the waterfrontinboth directions, so as to protect the Island fromOcean Parkway to West 28th street.

The section between :Weal 19th street and Still*well avenue, will also be protected as well the sec-tion between Sheepshead

"Bay Road and Surf

avenue.-Improvements in the system will also be

made alons some of the walks. Two new mainswill be run into Steeplechase Park. Dreamlandand Luna Park are protected on the sides, whichis thought adequate.

New Water Appropriation To Be

Used for Extension of Mains.The Brooklyn Water Department, which received

from the city an appropriation of nearly J4.000.0C0the other day, is making,a vigorous effort to ap-

ply it to improving the conditions of its service by

laying thirty miles or so of new mains, and the

officials are also preparing to. ask for "other big

appropriations ,in the. near future. . ;Last week Deputy Commissioner Cozier. and Act-

ing Chief Engineer McKay inspected the smallportion of their territory that lies on NewtownCreek, between Metropolitan avenue and Grandstreet. The business concerns here pay more than$50,000 in insurance premiums a year. One lum-ber, yard, the biggest in Brooklyn, carries an in-surance of $700,000. and -another $400,000.

There Is an inadequate water supply here. Apro-posed • new 20-inch main will partly alleviate con-ditions, but the officials are not willing to stopthere.

BETTER FIRE PROTECTION.

COULD FILLTHE ROLE.- -

-What are you «**>*l«oye going to play to-day?"

asked Tommy c mother a* ahe noUeed the young-.t.m fnti«iesmttoa* la. «•• summer kl«he«.

"We aA tolas to pl±Y Senator*, mamma,* re-pui Tommy «The Wit <m a pair of big epeetaclee--\u25a0^SpWSt'B&ff; BufW «tf&& inviteIZ«J^^t&^i??sw*aSr ? Vny.he Is always

'AbmMt ttom Arkansas '—Chicago >ews.

;j*. mi liniifffiSWTttßßMllfißHß

Mrs. William G Longmier. of fit. John^s Place,

la now at the Monomonock Inn, Caldwell. N. J.

Mr. and Mre. CarU H.de Silver have had aa theirguests at Sagamore. Lake George, Robert B

Woodward and George Brackett

Charles A. Moore and Arthur Moore w*nasaon*

The <T»ar!es S. Burrs, of New York avenue, arespending July at the Sunset Hill House. Sugar

HIU. N H.

Recent arrivals.at the Irving House, Southamp-

ton. Long Island/ are Mr. and \u25a0 Mrs. William IX

Howard and the Misses Howard." ..'.;• U~S"f}£

Mrs. Theodore L. Lutklns, who spent thf early

part of tht- summer at Ihe Beechwood. Hummit.N. J. i« n"w' at lne (><"tagon, Seabright. N. J..where she will reinuln until S*-pt«rnt»er, when shewill return to Summit.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank 6. Jones will:leave Beech-wold, their place. at Sayville, Long-Island, nextmonth for Maine, where they have taken a campon Sebago Lake. . '; *

Among those who returned by thr last trip of theLusitania wero th»- Rev Dr.Arthur B.Kinsolving,of BaitiTnor«=. hut formerly of Christ Church. Clin-ton street; Mrs. David A. Boody and Mr. and Mrs.fharles S. Peabody. who have been livingin Parissince their marriage there three years ago. Mr.Peabody being a studf-nt at the Ecole dcs BeauxArts. They are now with Mr. and Mrs. Royal CI'eahody at Lake George, New York. Mrp. Pea body

will be remembered as Mis;* Alice Bowden. of theHeights.

Mrs. John Van Nnstrand is spending a few rveeksw.'.h Mrs. Frederick W. Moss ci Kennebunkport,Me., before her departure for Europe on August 12.Mrs. Van Nostrand. who will be accompanied by

Mrs. Robert C Black. wiU remain abroad during

the summer, returning with her brother. BishopWilliam A I^onard. and Mrs. r>eonard.

Mr and Mrs. Ernept Charles Pressprich are inEurope. Mrs Prp=sprich'= father. John J. Spowers.

has hern staying at the Mnnnmonnrk Inn. Ca!d-we]i. K. j.

Mr. and Mrs. Darwin R AMr-Mere will leave theirhome here for China early next month.

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Mr and Mrs. George Nelson L/Owrey ami K. Hu-bert LMeMeeM sailed for Liverpool on Wednesday

on th* Lvsitania. The wedding of Bayard SandsLitchfield and Mis? Marguerite Berg (a expected to

take place in England next month.

Mr an<l Mrs. Edward I. Raarttor sailed for Eu-rope on Thursday on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria.

There was an unusually large number of Brook-lyn people in Paris last week. Colonel WilliamHester. Herbert F. \u25a0 Gunnison and Miss FlorenceGunnison were registered at the Hotel fiel'Athenee on Thursday. Others in the Frenchcapital during the week were Mr. and Mrs. Fred-erick W. Dauohy, Miss Katherine Dnuchy, MissMargaret Dauchy, Mrs. Cornelius Zabriskie, MissOrlena Zabriskie, Miss Elvia Zabriskie.

'Mr. \ and

Mrs. C. Augustus Haviland. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney

Robinson Kennedy. Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Robin-son Kennedy. Leonard Kennedy. . Mr. and Mrs.Alfred C. Bedford. Miss Grace Bedford. A. ClarkeBedford. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick V. Dare. Mr.and Mrs. James W. Ridgeway. Mrs. A. C. Hazen.Jllss Anna Robertson. Miss Eleanor Jarvis. MissNina Jarvis and Walter S. Jarvis.

Mrs. Joseph B. Cousins and Miss'

CorneliaCousins, who are now at the Hampton Inn. West-hampton. Long Island, will go abroad the endof this month. ......

Announcement is made of the engagement ofMiss A<iel» Ferris, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Eugene Ferris, of No. 641 2d street, and FranklinM. Tomlinson. son of Franklin Tomlinson. of No.

359 Lewis avenue. Miss Ferris is interested in thejunior auxiliary of th<- Bt Mary's Hospital AidSociety.

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Demarest Condit. of No.197 Carlton avenue, have announced the engage-

ment of their daughter. Miss Edna Oppdlt. t'l

Frank Harold Wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frankr. Wright. Of Fast Orange. N. J.

Henry Talcott. of Brooklyn, and a nephew of

Mrs. John Van Buren Thayer.

Mrs. Ostrom and her daughter are spending the

summer at We6thamptan Beach. Long Island.

"Seem* to me you look younger than ever.""Why not? Kr Igrow older, Ibecome more and

more expert in avoiding trouble,"—Lift

HowLong ItWillHold Out Need NotMuchTrouble Us. . • . ;•

The question of the exhaustion of the. coal supply

of the United States Is not on» which can affect

the present generation or the next. Vet the Ameri-

can supply, is likely to be exhausted before that ofEurope, and particularly before that of GreatBritain. Looking at the matter from th"« point ofview of national providence or provision, covering

generations- and generations, America should be-yond doubt be a little saving of its coal.It • has .been estimated that Pennsylvania has

about enough anthracite coal to last at the rate of

production that prevailed last year, a little lessthan, two hundred years. Probably the supply willbe exhausted much sooner than that, unless someprofitable substitute is found for anthracite. As toDitrmlnous coal in the United States, the supplyis -very great and widespread. It Is estimated thatit will last, at the rate of consumption which pre-vailed during the last decade, something less than460 years. ..?... . \u25a0

If the coal supply of the world at large werelikely to be exhausted in any such! way as to makea considerable drain on American coals for foreign

consumption, the situation might be regarded asalarming if wo could put ourselves in the place ofour great-grandchildren. But there Is not likely to

arrive a time when we shall have to "feed thoworld" with coal. \u25a0 •..,.„> ,In1890 Great Britain had "In sight," bo to speak

—although it was all.below \u25a0 the ground—an avail-able coal deposit estimated at nearly 145,000,000,000tons At the rate of production and consumptionthen prevailing, the supply -would last about nlnohundred years. The ,coal measures of Lancashireare 9.000 feet in thickness.

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Moreover, there are many countries which pos-sess coal deposits that have never been touched.Besides the great coal fields of Europe and Amer-ica'as Inow worked. . there arm undoubtedly coal

dfposits in China, m the Philippines. In Australia,In South -America, in British 'North America, laAlaska, in the Indian archipelago and elsewhere.

With one circumstance the American people,looking/ at the matter from the consumer stand-point, may well be pleased. Europe does not wantour anthracite coal—the best fuel on the whole,that' the earth has ever produced." Europe dm-»not \u25a0 understand the use of -anthracite, and is ap-parently not willingto learn it- It.calls on us forbituminous coal, which we can spare more readily.

The-assumption that \u25a0 the :coal fields of -Great

Britain and America will be exhausted even at the.end of several centuries is founded on the furtherassumption that heat will continue to be made andpower generated In the future much as they are;now. But our Inventors and chemists hold out theassurance that great change* may be looked for Inthe methods or producing heat and . mechanicalenergy.— weekly. .

THE WORLD'S COAL.

Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Pillingham recently gave aporch card party at their home, No. 542 Kast 24thstreet. Flatbush. Bunting, palnis and Japanese

lanterns were used in th<* decorations. Among theirgoeets were Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Shepard. Mr. and

Mrs. E. \f Roy Bennett. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. King,

Mrs. Lillian Vestholm, Miss t'arrie Olufs, MissEleanor Willis. Miss Edna Ulllinghain. Miss Flor-ence. Secor, Miss Bertha Knowles, Miss Cora Ca-nillard. Miss Carrie Moller. Miss Augusta Shaw.Miss Laura Field. Miss liessie Loggett. Miss IdaWest holm. Frederick Adams. Charles Moller. W.H. Jenkins. Harry Fletcher. L. W. Westholm. A. F.

Wir.teisen and Thomas Frascr.

Mrs. Jay F. Carlisle is at the Lake Placid Club,

Lake Placid, N. V.

Colin Grant Mackenzie railed yesterday for Glas-gow on the California.

General and Mrs. Horatio C. Kinp sailed yester-day on the St. Louis for S)uthampu»n.

Francis Rogers, the well known Brooklyn bary-

time. willRivt- a recital on Saturday. Julyir,, at the

home of J. Hampden Robb at Southampton, Long

Island.

Mrs. Guy Dv Val on Friday Joined her mother,

Mrs. David Fairbanks, at the Oriental Hotel. Man-hattan Bea<-h. Mrs. Roswell D. Hitchcock is alsoat the Oriental.

Dr. Lorenzo GfHd, of Dyker Heights, and MissMonica Ryan were married on Thursday morningby the Rev. Father Francis Sullivan, of St. Ann'sChurch, Manhattan. They sailed the same day forEurope on the Cedrlc. The bride was principal ofPublic School ST. Jxmg Island City, and is an ac-complished linguist.

Dr. Burnham-Clark, of Clinton street, has joinedhis family at Elm O'er. Manchester, Vt. •

Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Broadway, Miss Broadway

and Miss Gilbert will pass August and September

at the Preston, Beach Bluff, Macs. .

Henrietta Dougherty, who are t;ikingr the Ideaitour, stopped at the Elton, Waterbury, Conn.,

Wednesday.

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