NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, 3IONDAY. DECEMBER 21, 190S

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CHURCH STREETS.

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Special dices.

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jDeath notW* appearing In THE TRIBI\u25a0» \u25a0> wiD Be)

repabßabed to the Tri-Tf«eklr Trit>ua« without «xtzajr~ebars*.

BaMwin. EJ. Packa. Uly.Couxran. Hampton A. Emits. Ot'jlt.'oJ.Dunnin*.Sarah A. Sullivan. BasilJ-Field Mary Q Trtmble. Mary 9.Hoyt. Anna H. Whir-. •>•.:*-E.MicKay.Charles C Wtlcox. RaTTJerSL

BAl^DWlX—Entered !n?o —»\u2666 rw-nVr 1». \u25a0• 55'B-ilrtwin. In hi« MtS y»sr. Ftsr<»ra! serr-tMS at «hsp«lof FTftti ATfna* P-»»trr--r >a- rrjtrrch. No » JaBI •\u25a0>\u25a0%»'. Monday afternoon, at 2 n'c'.nr*. Inrenaeftt -•""\u25a0•»!\u25a0

'at Woodlawn. Boston t.--» Ptessa ovr-COT,*RSKX

—Of jn^umonia. on Sarar»far. U**:Ka*aTl9mi

ir>f*. Hampton Aaron Canton, la fi;» «il year. FxcwraA!

from h!» home. No. »4 « Uaai «.. Ea« «oa. >-/•»•Taea<!a7. December 22. or. arrtral of tbm trala .•avlagwBirciay »t. 10:10. D.. I*Si W. R. R.

DUNNING—

At Her home, a; Upper M-ar- 1-

X. /-.Sarah Arlunaa. wife o£ ttaa lat- Jaoies Waxrsn Duar-nlng. Notice cf ror.«ral hereafter.—

Su<J<i«r.l7. at P»rt CbmttT. N. T. a* *n^|day. Tw»ifth month 19th. .-\u25a0.'. 0.. wllow *>*John Field. Funeral ar fMwrf*1 itecttß* Bow a.»PurchaJ«. N. V.. Thinl *«r. Tweifta in-Jnta. 2CJ. «• 1*

o'clock.HOTT

—On Purniay. r»r»inb»r 20. Miss Anna Bel!* Hryt, •

nlec« «r tb« !a.ta Mrs. taa&er.a> Van Cl!af. rawsral »er^vlc<» Jrom her late r»:»l<Jenoe, Hote! Par*erßoa. OS*>v-<«- 47ta »t.. on Taeaday -v^ninji. 22& leal at

•o'clock.

MACKAT—Suddenly, oa Friday. D<?c-Tr.b»r I«. Charles*C. UaeKay. Funeral

*"-\u25a0 at hl» late i—iilinr*.

95th st. aa-1 Sliora Drive. Bay Ricisc. oa Moaiiay•-•-:.-«. the 21at inst.. at 9 o'clock.PACKE—Badeaa :\u25a0 en Deeembrr 2»>. In !C#w T-rx CJty.

Liiy. wif« at Edward H. Packe. Fiisera.: servlres »\u25a0 .the Chapel of th« -•-.

-M»rr!ti Buna: Company.

Bth aye. and t9tb «t.. oa TueaSmy [r.orn:r!<. at » 3B)

o'clock. Interment at Philadelphia. Phirai'l; ..«papers plea*« copy.

SMITH—Major Or*an<*r> Jar Smlto. at his horse, ar D*ebs<Ferry. X, T.. Dfc»mh*r 20. 1909. at tl p. m. FuneralTuesday. D«*c«»m(wrr 21 at the rasMaac^ apaa Ota ar-rival of thf 11:53 a. m. train fmm th« <srand CentralStation. Ixxington a-.-e. Sre^lal '•ar firm Now Tint,7-- .-- -

£ at 2.09 p m. Carriages wit]meet th» traiaat Hastlntrs— or.-f'

BJClir\-AV—On F-'a- r~^mN*r is. iyy. DaaOJ '.beloved husrand of EUufcrth Vau^hao ms^i 7S y«ar%at his renldencs. No. 272 Sterlln* Pace. BrooUrn.Funeral Monday. Decesiijer 21. Be^iHaoi rraaa St.Joseph's Church. FaclSc »-. sear VaaderW!t ay«.. a*10 o'clock a. m.

TRIMBLE—

On December :a 130fl. *: her late r-si-donce. No. 53 East 2C?h »t.. New Tork. Miry 5..:widow of Merrttt Trinib!* ami dauirliter o* the lat».Walter and Mary M. T'n<l»rh!l!. in tha Sli year other *»<\u25a0. KeUM of funoral hereafter.

WHITS—

G«ors« Edward VKTuo, ta N-w Tor* City. oa.Decerr.S-r 19. \u25a0- the «4th y»ar of bti zgt, »-!n of '"\u25a0»

late Henry 'rVTiit*.ot New Haver. Cons. Funeral »er^Tiees chapel Grov» Street Cemetery. New Ha-.-in. Tue»»Oar. D«camb*r 22. ax 2 p. m.

Wll/nx—

At AalMTtll*, N. C. on December 20. RavnesvScranton inn of George W. and the late El.a F. 'Wll^jcox. of Montciair. N J-. In Us* 27th year of Ms *g*»>Xotl-*of funeral tereafter.

Died.

yesterday on the Cunarder Campania. McCoßafJlweighs 775 pounds and Is thirty years old. He wilj

take command of the lobby of Miss Elliott's the**tre when the new playhouse Is opened.

NEW COHAN & HARRIS PLAY GIVEN.[Py Tdesrapb t-> Ti« Tribunal

Hamilton. Ohio. Dec 30.—T0-night at »Knraj

Theatre Cohan & Harris produced for the flrs*

time "The Counsel for the Defence." a sew drama)

by Henry Irving Dodj?-. The play deals with mcomplicated legal problem and la woven around

a mysterious murder. Tho leading role i* played}

by Frederick Perrey. who is supported by MissMuriel Starr. Thomas Flndlav. Mis* Grace Heyer,Sidney Alnsworth. Lynn Pratt and Horace Jam**.The play Is destined for an early production 13New York. A larg«» audience was present. Includ-ing amon* the theatrical m»n A. I* L^!iiT;r«r.-

Frank McKee. George M. Cohan. Sam Harfl%Jack Welch, William Hepner and Victor iXoore.

:His family is a very old cne and his title of count;dates from Iho beginning of the sevnteentti cen-; tury; that is to say. it is sore* three hundred yearsiold. His present marrias* baa turned out very hap-|plly.and his wife has apparently Inherited none of1 the extraordinary eccentricity of her mother, the;Spanish Infanta Amelia, tvTio during the closing'years of her life had to be placed under restraint.

Among1 the sisters of Princess Elvira are the redi haired Duchc-s of Genoa, married to the on| brother of Queer. Marsruerite, and Princess Clara.| who was at one time entraped to th« multi-million-; a!re Bavarian Ironmaster, Baron Cramer Clett, but'

whose marriape- was forbidden by her uncle, theRepent of Bararia, en the ground of insanity InhisfairJly and of ihe mor« than able origin of hisfather. Princess Elvira's brothers include PrinceLouis Ferdinand, married to the- Infanta Paz, sisterof the late King of Spajn. and who has achievedquite as much fame as an obstetrician as hiscousin. Duke Charles Theodore, has aa an oculist.Ifthe duke has restored the sight to thousands byhis cataract operations. Prince Lioula Ferdinandcan boai»t ->f having1 brought many hundreds ofyoung Bavarians

" the poorer class Into the worldfree of cost. H*is the only prince of the blood in

Europe \u25a0who has r«cel\ed the honorary rank ofsurgeon general In several armies, notably In thaiof Spam. MARQUISE PB FOXTEXOY.

*HEBREW ORPHAN ASYLUM MEETING.Th» Heine Orphan Asylum held its annual

meeting1 yesterday afternoon 1n the asylum buiid-lrp. at Ralph avnue and Pacif.c street, Brooklyn.f.rr.on L. Rothschild was elected president, suc-eeedlne Moses May, who resigned several monthsago. Frank Pentlarge was made vice-president, andMoses J. Harris treasurer. The society cared for351 children in the last year, a pain of forty-five

over the preceding year. There had been a fallingoff In membership dues, 134 members having with-drawn because of unsettled business. The organi-

zation, however, has Increased its building fundby jrt.^'"50, having or hand JI2UXW 59, "while itri^ds 1300.000 for a new win? ar.d enlarging the old,building.

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the file of applications of selected aspirants fospositions of various kinds which has Ju3t beeaInstalled at the Uptown Office of

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ZjORT> ROBERTS WAS RIGHT.

LrriRoberts, In hi? sensational speech the other£sr on the subject of the military weakness ofGreat Eritair., warned his countrymen that itwouiu be within the p->wer of Germany to land anr.

—cf XSOIfIM or TOO.OOO men on th«» coast of the

Called Kingdom which would sweep everythingbefcre it. I^ubts have been expressed on bothKjes of t2w Atlantic »s to whether this would beZeaj&'.e. especially in view of the watchfulness oflie :^vy. But Vice-Admiral Finnis has, In ajjsßSc acdrrss at Dover, shown that it was quitepessSde For he stated that Sn f-ae of the recent

tie :=ar. .nrvres and sham naval rights, he and the;rr?e sr.-ier his command wr>r« supposed to repre-sent a G:-rrr-an See* Intrusted with the task of :ecsT^Tir.fr as arrr.y cf 50.000 men across the North jSes.. 2.r.i of e~ecti,is a lauding on the Briti*hcoast, jHe flecJsjreiJ thai under the cover of one cf those \u25a0

beary fogs which pornetiTnes hang- over the North j£*a aad British Charuiel for weeks together, he !

sacc**-ilf-i m accomplishing his task without being jcasgfct, or even seer: by the opposing idronawiica v.t:*on the lookout for him. inorder to pre- ,veit the :rvafion.

WHY HE 15 A TOTAL. AESTAINER-I

Aar.: tie rulers cT Europe who have placed :Ciemselvea en record as total abstainers must be <

:--.-.-- th* r.arr.e of Ferd:nand of Bulgaria. It •

if aot :r. bis case a matter of principle cr of£»a::h, but one of policy, pure and simpie. and in;

Sorswearins be<?r. wine. ;i«iur>rß and stimulants of'

every kind, even ceffee, he acted 011 the advice cf ilus wonderfully clever Toother ar:d principal po- iliv.~&\ adviser, the lat» Princess Clementine of (

C'b-rz. of uliuui it used to be said that abe wasfar and away the shrewdest diplomat In Europe.

'Jlore -"-mperate even than the Turks, since he baseven cut off smoldsx. his abstemiousness has ["

•\u25a0 iof :r.«-s!::nabi' > help to self-reetraint in ar- ;psnezta with ministers and others and in seem*-tag o\-er.-e.«« of temper. Thanks to this abstinence, jr> serves are always under t;:e most perfect con-.-:. ssd the fact that he never loses patience or !temper, never displays even signs of irritat'.on iunder the most trying circumstances and intense '\u25a0•

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-;or.. jrives him a tremendous advantage in 1

his dealings w:rh the passionate, hot tempered ar.d \u25a0

:r.---rate racrs of the Southeast of Europe!Err.

-c whom be has cast his lot. Many persons

iscr This imperturbability of temper and this \extr Unary patience of his to a kind heart and ;pestle disposition. But this is an entirely mistaken ',eJT-mption. «"»f heart be possesses remarkably !little. In fact, there is r.ot ranch of real gener- ;rs:*v aad n*

tenderness ir: his character. Itis ther-s..- of total abstteervce as a matter of policy, \sad .depxedl for tw fake of obtaining a very real j

•ige over all these with wnom he Is brought j

b •-tact.

Jjord Minto'8 Best ProtectionAgainst Assassination.

rOorrrtefct. WS. hv ihf \u25a0Bn-nt-mrr.nA Company.}

That Lord Mlnto's life Is threatened Is to put thematter but ir.lldlr. For the leaders of the Insur-rectionary movement in India, rrho are responsible»or thct spread of outrage and crime there thathas led to the Inauguration of what Is virtuallyir.i"iai-y law by the British authorities, realize full•wen the BOTCTttan which it would create amongt^e flssky millions of the Deccan Ifit were poaaf-v,}^ «r. ajssassinate the Viceroy. Of course, everyp.jps'.Me pm-ai tlon is taken by the authorities to

j-r^vM*1*or ti:P p3.f>Ty of the Earl, and he Is guard-

ed st aH times by picked white officers of theIndian police. Sti'.l more reliable tor purposes ofprotection

—however, the native orderlies.

Xhe?r» are efficers chosen by th*-lrcomrades for thepaiitomi. and responsible to them for the Viceroy's

safp?>.Xbere Kre certain rrgirr.«»nts ho have the prlvi-

>?<* of firmishinK- th***orderile*. and the nativecarers sad m«n resard itas a point of honor thattheir representatives on the staff of the ViceroyBbouid •'"t as his phieid. The orderlies knew en-actfy what Is expected of them, and they cannot

b* diverted from their duty. »>v*?n by the commandsOf tl>e Viceroy biznsetf. They have no concern:n life r>th«>r than the absolute fidelity to theirtruyt. that is to say. the safety of their charge.aad ttteir q-let bnt Incessant watchfulness at allboars, even Tipcii occasions -when danger seemsleast te threaten, has prevented many an unrecord-ed fi.-iiTira.! outrage in the past, and will protectLord Mir.to therefrom in the future, so long as hereir-alr.? la office, at what Is now undeniably a postcf dasger. It may be remembered that at leastcr.e of Lord Mimo's predecessors as Viceroy ofIsii'.a hjkS SBcannl»ed to the hand of an s-ss&asln,nxrr.v',T, the Earl cf Miyo, who was k:"."*c in theA-ca-TULn Islands.

PLANS OF YALE DRAMATIC CLUB.The Tale Dramatic Association, accompanied by

the university orchestra of twelve pieces, will go

on the "mad" on December 30, opening in Hart-

ford the same pvenin?. The Interest in th» Taleplays. The Critic" and "The .^".re-Eater," has

v^en very k«*en this rear and large audiences areexpected in Hartford. Bridgeport, Meridea andWaterbury. The New Tork performance ft]

-plays willbe given on the evenings of January *and 5 and the afternoon of January 5 in the ball-room, of the Waldorf-Astoria. The sale of seatsop*>ns December

"at that hotel and at the Tale

Club, No. 30 West 44th street.

The -mall audience that assembled In the Met-ropolitan Opera House last night for the regularpopular concert did not find the announcement"positively no encores" staring It in the face. Itbecame enthusiastic with Mr. Martin's admirablesinging of "Fanget an," from "Die Meistersinger,"and was so pleased with Mme. Rappold'3 singinjof t » familiar aria from "IITmvatore" that itkept up its appeal until the Brooklyn singer gavean extra number, a song In English to piano ac-companiment. The other singers were Miss Gayand Messrs. Didur and Not*, the latter singingthe seasonable Noel by Adam. Mr. Spetrino con-ducted.

The rest of the programme consisted of vocalnumbers by Miles. Esplnasse. Zeppllli and Ger-vllle-Reache and Messrs. Parola, DofrM andArimondi. Mr. Parola In Braga's Romania wasat his best, and Mr. Dufranne put splendid expres-sion and a final resonant voice into his singing ofSchumann's familiar "Two Grenadiers." M..Gervllle-Reache, always a Sunday night favorite at

the Manhattan, had an aria from B»"rlio«. MrCampaninl led the orchestra In Liszt's FourthRhapsody, and with Mr. Char Her directing In thestirring Rakoczy March the most Joyously enthusi-astic Sunday night at the Manhattan so far thisseason was brought to a close

Even more enthusiasm waa shown after Elmar.'aplaying of the Serenade by Drlgo-Auer, ar.d"Zapateado" of Sttrajate. to the pia.no accompani-ment cf WaMerr.ar Llacbo^vskt. Acknowledgmentsof the r'a-: !it3 falling,the violinistplayed a gay >ttaof Goss»- \u25a0: and t..e Swtr^ Song" of Ethel Barnes.In the first and last of these numbers he used a"mute" on his Instrument, to the amusement anddelight of his hearers. Orchestra Joined with audi-ence la paying tribute to his skill, and both got

a front and back view of Mr. Hammerstein s "sta."

rton. as he smiled first at the one, Ithe or..

Gabriel Pierne's Christmas Cantata.Dr. Frank Damrosch devoted the second part of

the Concert for Younr People at Carnegie Hall lastSaturday afternoon to Gabriel Pierne's cantata."The Children at Bethlehem." In the performancehe had the help of a chorus of two hundred chil-dren from the public schools of Mount Vernon, whohad been trained in the music by Alfred Hallam.supervisor of music In that town: rery well trained,too, so far as knowledge of the musical text wasconcerned, though greater care In the productionof tone may have seemed desirable to some minds,and also more attention to fluency in the singingof the melodies. An obvious desire for precision Inattack It was. apparently, that created a staccatoeffect, which worked Injuryto the music especially

in the flra». part of the work. The performance alsoenlisted an orchestra. Mr. Blspham as narrator(it was his to sing a little and to declaim adozen lines or so of an explanatory nature to In-strumental music which may be marred, by the dis-traction i, and Miss Nevada Van der Veer, MissLaura r.rmbs. Miss Ruth Harris. Miss Fanny Rice,

Miss Underbill. Mr. De Los Becker and Mr B. A.

Jahn. The first of the lad;»« represented the Vir-gin Mary, the second the Star of Bethlehwm. whichthe singular conception of M. Piern* and his poethas endowed with a .voice, as It ha* also given

human speech to an ox and an ass. occupants withthe Christ Child of the lowly stable In Bethlehem.For musical purpose*, also. the shepherds who

watched their flocks by night, "all seated on theground," are transformed into children, whose ut-terances, like those of the Virgin and all the othercharacters, are of an Ingenuousness quite startling

to the Anglo-Saxon mind of to-day.

It Is Impossible to call to mind anything in

modern music which Is quite so obviously the prod-uct of a preliminary success as this work ofPlerne's. Had there not been a "Children's Cru-sade" there would never have been a "Children atBethlehem." and the comparison between the worksis as fatal to the latter a*It Is inevitable. In "The

Children's Crusade" there is contrast of thought,

of color and of suggestion: in the new work therela monotony of melodic idea, of harmony and otmood. Much of the music is extremely beautifuland also extremely original. There are harmonies

and instrumental effects which seem to rise from

the orchestra like an intoxicating odor; but theirIteration and reiteration eventually become tiresomeand create a positive longing for a tit of sturdy.

old-fashioned commonplace. It required a Frenchpoet and a French musician to create so singular

a mixture of mediaeval literature and modern mu-sic as this work exemplifies; but there Is charm Inthe daring of the scheme, as there Is a promise of 3.

reversion to artistic tastes of a purer and noblersort than those generally prevalent to-day.

It 13 very likely that the new cantata would havebeen more effective than it was if Ithad not beenpreceded by so much other music on Saturday. It

la quite long enough In Itself to fillout a concert,

yet Dr. Damrosch asked the audlenc»— In num-ber and character— to listen first to the tiresomemarch from Liszt's "Christus," four of Cornelius'sChristmas songs, sung with dubious Intonation by

Mr. Bi*pham: tho charmingly ntlve serenade fortwo flutes, with harp accompaniment, from Berlioz's"Infancy of Christ," and his own arrangement ofthe German carol. "Stllle Nacht." Attention wasalready Jaded when the cantata began, and incon-sequence it seemed unduly prolix.

SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERTS.BOacha Elman. the young Russian violinist, was

easily the star of the popular concert at the Man-hattan Opera House last night. At the end of r.ia

first number, the Pasranlnl Concerto, played to theaccompaniment of the entlro orchestra, led by Mr.Campanini. the audience broke Into a torrent ofapplause, and declined to cease until Elman re-appeared, violin in hand. For the extra number heplayed the Bach-Gounod "Aye Maria." the beauti-ful tone he Imparted calling forth another outburstof enthusiasm.

MUSIC

EX-GOVERNOR FRANCIS P. FLEMING.Jacksonville. Fa. Dec 20.

—Francis Philip Flem-

ing, Governor Of Florida from IS£9 to 1533. died athis home in this city to-day. Ex-Gorernor Flemingwas a native of Florida ax served in the Con-federate army through the Civil War with distinc-tion. After the war he was admitted to the barand became one of Florida's ablest lawyers andpoliticians.

JOHN H. KERRISON.Popton, Pec 20.

—John H. Kerrisnn. formerly

publisher and owner of several newspapers InEngland, died to-night at the age of seventy years.He started the first half-penny daily In Englandat Liverpool, published "The Evening Star" atStockport, another paper of the same name atAshtnn, and was owner of "The Weekly Guar-dian

"With the tallnre of certain English Jmnks

he lost a fortune and enlisted in the English army,serving with snch distinction in an Indian cam-paign that he received a medal for bravery fromQueen Victoria.

Mr Loud during the latter part of his service InCongress was chairman of the Committee onPost Offices and Post Roads. He pave much at-tention to the postal service end was the authorof a bill Increasing the rates on second class mat-ter, which he submitted three times, but which waseach time defeated.

Mr Loud served twelve years as Republican Con-gressman from the 6th District. Ho was sixty-one years old. He was born In Abingdon, Mass.,ar.d went to California \u25a0when thirteen year^ old.He enlisted as a private in the t'r.lon cavalry w?Tenonly fifteen years oid. He Ft-1; ed law, but fol-i w<=d a mercantile pursuit.

EX-CONGRESSMAN E. F. LOUD.San Francisco, Dec. 20.—Ex-Congressman bTtureiM

F. Loud died last nisiit at the home of his son !n-Jaw, Captain J. J. <"allundine. In this city. Forseveral months be had been In poor health. H!acondition was aggravated by the death of hisdaughter five months ago and the loss of his wife,who died on December 6.

In ISO Ia married Miss Evelyn V. Brady. Be-sides his wife he leaves two daughters and a ton.

Courtland Smith vice-president of the AmericanPress Association. Major Smith was a memberof the military order of Loyal Legion, the Ards-ley Casino, of Ardsley-on-the-Hudson and theLotos Club.

Major Smith was born In Vlgo County, Ind., In1842, pen of Hiram Smith and Sarah Jacobs Smith.He \u25a0was educated in the common schools of hisnative city, and was a graduate of the AsburyCollege, now De Pauw University. From 1563 un-til IT?he was editor and publisher of "The TerreHaute Mall." and of "The Chicago Express" from1879 until ISS2. In th* latter year he founded theAmeriran Tress Association.

During the Crvil War he served in the 16th Indi-ana Infantry and the 6th Indiana Cavalry as pri-vate, sergeant, subaltern, captain and major. Hewas attached to the Army of the Potomac, theArmy of Ohio and th»» Army of the Cumberland.He was wounded in 1881 Major Smith was theauthor of "The Coming Democracy." "A ShortView of Great Questions." "Eternailsm," "Bal-ance" and "The Agreement Between Science andReligion."'

MAJOR ORLANDO JAY SMITH.Major Orlando Jay Smith, founder and pr-

-I

of the American Press Association, whose offlceeare at No. 45 Park Place, died last night at his

• Dobb'a Ferry, after an i!lnea« cf severalmontha, fr< m cancer of the stomach. Major Smith

*ratf>d on by Dr. Joseph A. B \u25a0

"ember, and for a while his cnances Of rCCOI cryCavorable, A few days ago, however, hl3

condition became grrare and hts death w^as

OBITUARY.

OBITUARY NOTES.WILLIAMJTEWAN, a well known business man

Iof Albany and brother of ex-Postmaster James B., SlcEwan of that city, died yesterday.

JOHN SHELBY BARROW, assistant general p:*s-Isender ajcont of the Eri» Railroad. 3ied yesterday at!his home in Newark. N. J. Mr. Barrow, "who was, born in Baton Rouge, La., fifty-seven years ago,'

had been with the Erie for ten years. He was for-| merly employed by the Chicago & Vorthwestern

and the Jamestown, Chautauqua &Lake E> Rail-i road. Mr. Barrow leaves a wife and five Children

MISS L. A. NErKTT .lied on Saturday at herhome, at No. 11l Bank street. Newark. N. J.. from

\u25a0 paralysis. Despite her thirty-one years. Miss "tbihut, who was blind, was known for her accompllaa-.' ments and for the aid she gave those similarly!afflicted. She was the founder of the library for thej blind in Newark.

'THOMAS if. GRIFFITH, who built the first

bridge over Niagara an.l two bridges over the Mls-!si33ippi. died on Saturday in West Now Brighton,;Staten Island. Mr. Griffith, who was eighty-five• years old. retired from active business about a

\u25a0 srore of y«-ars ana. Daring the Civil War he wag anj inspector of Ironclad kiilps at the Brooklyn navyi yard.

AMERICAN WOMAN'S PLAY IN LONDON.: n. Dec. 20.

—"Oop at Klerstenans," a

of ml.*; \u25a0 in a Torfcahlre setting by B<-r'.-.a•iraharn. an Axi.er: .in, wad prodneed ptfrately by

/ v t t:...(! waa • The critics spea.lt

with fr< s: i

•rizatl'ii; Tbe author was cal.cdLef.jro tho curtair. ajid applaud, d GIANT DOORMAN FOR THEATRE.

When Miss M.ta Elliott was In London sev-eral months ago she decided to engajre a real pro-fessional "commissionaire" to attend to th» arrtvaland departure of carriage* at her new theatre lathis city. After conferring with her manager shesent to Ixmdon fur Peter M \u25a0• ullogh, an EnglishGrenadier, six feet tour laches tall. Ha arrived

SUNDAY SHOW HEARING WEDNESDAY.As the result of the campaign of tha Interdenomi-

national committee for the suppression of Sunday

vaudeville. Mayor McClellan had announced that hawill hold a public hearing on Wednesday to learn

the sentiment of th* public with regard to Sunday

Performances at theatres ar.d the numerous movingpicture shows m this city.

MISS BATES TO HUNT THIEVING FOX.Miss Blanche Bates, now at the Stuyvesant The-

atre in "The Fighting Hope," has organized a

hunting party for n*xt week. Miss Bates has beenannoyed recently by a fox that has carried orrseveral choice fowl from her estate at Ossinlng-on-

the-liudaL'n. She has decided 111 1 run down theoffender, and will have the assistance* of MissFrances Starr. Wai Charlotte Walker and othermembers of Mr. BaUuco'S forces. Miss Batea'shunting dogs willbe used on the trip.

MRS. BLOOMFIELD-ZEISLER AT CONCERT.Tha plan on which Mr. Hermann Klein's Sunday

afternoon concerts at the new German Theatre areorganized seems to be the consorting of some dis-ting7iished artist with a group of leas considerablemusic makers. In pursuance of this scheme, yes-terday':; programme ottered Mrs. Eloomfield-Zeis-ler as the lion of the occasion, while her associateswere Miss Li'.'.ie La-arlor and Mr. Frank Ormsby. insongs, and Mr. Otto Meyer, violinist, not omittinsrMr.Arthur Rosenstsin. whose pianoforte accompani-mr-nts provided, after Mrs. BloomfVe'.d-Zeisler's play-ing, the most worthy moments of the after-noon. Judged by the customary and only practicablestandards governing musical performances, the con-cert challenged seriou3 attention only in so far a3

Mrs. Bloomfleld-Ze doings were concerned. Sheplayed the Beethoven Sonata In D minor. Op. 31.No. 2; foul Chopin pieces, the "Berceuse." th©Etude. Op. 25. No. 3; the Vals*. Op. TO. No. 1.and the B-Cat minor scherzo, and With Mr Meyersh^ presented Beethoven's Sonata, Op. 47. dedi-cated to IQeutsWl and familiar!." known by hisname. The pianist, whose recital of a week ago

is fresh in the memory of many grateful hearers,gave of her best yesterday. In the Kre-it- So-nata she -was compelled to accentuate somewhather normal tendency to assume the leadership, butin the music that she played alone Mrs. Bloom-field-Zeisler was at her best. She combines thought

with emotional force in a way unit* her own andsingularly happy In Its effect upon her hearers.There was potency in the D minor sonata, as she

brought It to her listeners, and there was a *<rwitching delicacy and a lovely color in tha first

three Chopin pieces, while the scherzo became athing of poignant beauty1

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The centennial celebration will continue with ft

missionary service to-night, at which the Rev. Dr.A. F. Scbauffler. the Rev. Dr. Charles i.Thompsonan.l Robert X- Sp**r will speak. To-morrow nightthere will be a centennial reception at th<t home ofMr. and Mrs Charles B. Alexander, at So. IWestWith street. Addresses v.illbe delivered by the R#V.Dr. Ba.xter P. Fullerton, moderator ot the GenerulAssembly th- Rev. Dr. John F. Carson, moderatorof th« Synod vt New York; the Rev. Or. GeorgeAlexander, moderator of the Presbytery °^ STewYork, and tho Rev. Dr. Francis I*Patton, presidentof Princeton logical Seminary. The relebruilonwill me to a dose on Weilnt-sdav nlßht with .'tdevotional service, at whit-h the H«v. Dr. MaltlandAlexander uiiJ iho Rev. L)t. Usury a. C'offla will

The present members of the church Who havebeen longest on the rolls are the followingMrs. Ed-wards Hall, No. 14 East 44th street, who joined in1852; Mrs. Henry M. Alexander. No. 10 West 54thstreet, who Joined in 185?. Miss Charlotte Hamilton,

of HijJJt Orange, Joined In 183fi. Ewer. Mclntyre, ofNo. 9j3 Weal 74th street, and WUllaai Campbell,superintendent of the Chinese Sunday school, arethe oldest elders.

During its hundred years of existence the churchbas contributed to home and foreign missions and

to the general support of Prfsbyterianism. accord-ing to the reports of the cifneral Assembly, thehuge sum of J7.9U"

Throng at Celebration inFifth Ave-nue Presbyterian,

Presbyterians from all over the United Statescrowded the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church,

IFifth avenue and 56th street, at the three centen-nial services yesterday to celebrate th* foundingof the church. In Cedar street. Th* Rev. Dr. J.Ross Stevenson, the pastor, spoke at all three ser-vices, preaching the anniversary sermon in themorning. At the afternoon and evening servicesDr. Stevenson was assisted by the Rev. Dr. EdwinF. Hallenbeck. the associate pastor, and by theRev. Albert L. Evans, the Rev. Hugh Prltchardand the Rev. Paul R. Abbott.

A feature of the morning service was the bap-tism of Miss Ellen Harvey Trull,the Infant daugh-ter of the Rev. George H. Trull,who was formerly

assistant to Dr. Stevenson, but Is now Sunday

school secretary of th« Presbyterian Board of For-eign Missions. Miss Irene Damon McGregor, In-fant daughter of R. W. E. McGregor, a member ofthe congregation, was also baptized.

Dr. Stevenson chose as his text for the anni-versary sermon "A Witness Bearing Church." Be-ginning with the founding of the church. In ISCB.he traced its history and activities down to thepresent day. Ho said:

The Living Word called the Fifth Avenue ChurchInto existence just on« hundred years ago. Therewere scarcely ninety thousand people all told In thiscity. At that rim" there were no steamboats orsteam ferries, and the only means of transportationwas on horseback or by stagre coach. The mailswere slowly carried from pi.ire to place at fre-quent Intervals, and the postage varied accordingto distance, 25 cents for more than four hundredmiles. There were two or three daily papers \u25a0"• thecity, a larger number of weeklies, but no religiousjournals at all.

Though the Presbyterian Church had been In ex-istence in this country for more than ore hundredjand fifty years, there were at that time about three

hundred ministers in the whole Church and 21.27'Jcommunicants. There we: four Presbyterianchurches In ;he city, though a goodly number in

the vicinity constituting a presbyfry. The totalbenevolent gifts of all these churches In the presby-tery fcr that year amounted to J1.352. When ourchurch was organised in i*S there were twenty-sixmembers. Secharißh Lewis and William elandwere the two ruling eld»rs. and a year later George

Fitch was named the first deacon. The Rev. Dr.John B. Romeyn, the son of a Dutch Reformedminister, and whose first parishes had been in tneDutch Church, »d» the firtt pastor, «'.-i serveduntil his death.— that is, for seventeen years, From.th»s« simple oeginnings our church has grown

We have had four church homes, the first atCedar street, costing a little more than M0.00O; thesecond in lu;an« street, the third at 13th street andFifth avenue, and the fourth in the present loca-tion Eight ministers have served the church, andthe longest, £..•* well as most fruitful pastorate wasthat of Dr. Hall. from 3867 to 18&8. or a tern: ofthirty-one years. Tha church has had elxty-e-.ghtruling elders and forty-three deacons. There havebeen enrolled in the church approximately ten

j thousand members, witn a present total member-ship. Including those in the chapels, of over twothousand. \u0084' Ifs ministers hare <?ome not only from across the?ea. but from North ar.d South, from East andWest. OriginallyIts membership was drawn largelyfrom New England, an.l for a while it was called

;the Federal Church. But two of her pastors wereIof Southern birth, and during the war she was ac-

cuse.! of having some sympathy with secession.While the Scotch and Scotch-Irish elements havebeen strong la her life. Dutch. Swiss. German andFrench names appear on the roll, where can alsobe found the names of Japanese and Chinese,though the predominating Influences have been

;American. It has not been the church of any onei class of society, but has aimed to be a fold con-t cerning which It may be said: "The rich, and To*

Ipoor me«=>c together: the Lord is the maker of them

i all." There has been a continuity of life downthrough thr«e generations. The son of one of the

charter members and first deacons. William Hall,isstill living,H. M. Hall, of East Lyme. Conn. Mostof the original families have died out or havemoved away, but there are still In the church *.-<»

grandchildren of two charter members, Hugn

Auchincloss and Netsie Colt.

COMMUNION CELEBRATED.Communion was celebrated at the afternoon

service at 4 o'clock and forty new members were\u25a0 received Into the Chan*. In the evening Dr.

Stevenson spoke on "Out Indebtedness to Great•Religious Movements." taking as his text. "Othershave labored and ye are entered Into their labor."John, lv, 3S. The speaker referred to the famousrevival of 1867, and pointed out that the originator

of this movement, which swept over the wholeUnited States and resulted in more than onemillion conversions, was Jeremiah Calvin Lanphier,

who for eight or nine years previous had been amember of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church,

which was then at Fifth avenue and 19th street.The business men's prayer meetings, which weresuch an important adjunct of IMBrevival, werefirst started by Mr.Lanphler.

Ecclesiastical records show that few churches

can boast of one hundred years of life with a j

record of only eisht ministers. The exact date of

the founding of the church In Cedar street wasDecember 19, 1808. Dr. Romeyn. the first pastor,

who was active in the organization of the Ameri-1 can Bible Society In ISI6. died in 1528, and was| succeeded by the Rev. Cyrus Mason, who resigned

in 1835. Dr. George Potts, of Mississippi, then as-sumed the pastorate, and the next year the church,

which had outgrown the cedar street edifice, [

moved to a newly erected home in Duane street.

Dr. Potts was succeeded in 1344 by Dr. James W.Alexander, who held the pastorate until his ,

death. In 1861By 1552 the church had grown so rapid!? and the

city had expanded so rapidly to the northward jthat It was deemed necessary to seek another newhome further uptown. Fifth avenue and 13th |street was picked as a suitable site, and a hand- j

\u25a0 some new church edifice was erected there. On. jthe death of Dr. Alexander, In 1859. Dr.Nathan L. jRtce was called to the pastorate, and served until j

1867. when ill health forced him to retire.DR. JOHN HALL'S LONG PASTORATE.

Dr. John Hall was 'hen called from Dublin, and j

he soon became one of the famous preachers of the |country. Dr. Hall's pastorata lasted for thirty-ore

years. InifTTo the church buildingat Fifth avenue j

and :9th street was taken down and moved to 57th-street and Seventh avenue, where th* Central Pres- \

• byterian Church now stands. The present brown- \u25a0'stono church was then built at Fifth avenue and jbsth street.

On the death of Dr. Hal!, InIS3B. the Rev. Dr. jGeorge T. Purves, a professor In Princeton Theo- j

: logical Seminary. was called to the pastorate. He \u25a0

died in 1988 and was succeeded by the present pas- •

tor, who was called from McCormack Theological ;i Seminary. In addition to its regular ministers !!many of the world's most famous pulpit orators

have addressed the members of the church during

the last century. These Include Jonathan Edwards, j

who spoke to the Cedar street congregation. In,recent years the Rev. Dr. G. Camp t-11Morgan, of jWestminster Chapel. London; the Rev. Dr. Hugh. \Black, formerly of Edinburgh; the Rev. Dr. W. J. IDawson. formerly of London, and the Rev. Dr. J.

Wilbur Chapman, the famous evangelist, have Ifrequently spoken from the church's pulpit.

The church, In addition to its home activities, jsupports many chapels and missions. One of these

Is- the Young Peoples Society, organized by JamesAnderson Hawes and William Sloane, which sup-ports a largo mission and association house and a jchapel at o-><i street ar.<l First avenue; a fresh airhome at Branchpoint. N. J.; the Alexander Chapel jin King street, the John Hall Memorial Chapel on jFirst avenue and the Chinese Sunday School in jEafct 59th street.

The church has always been noted for its liber-ality, which Is exceeded by no other church In thecity. Beginning with a church property valued at

$60,000 and annual subscriptions to home and for-

eign missions of less than COO. the church to-day

owns property valued at over |2,000.wn. and In the

last six Years the average annual contributions to

-home and foreign missions have been {223,976. Dur-ing the litst year of genera] business depression 'hecontributions to the church's various actlYites were$352,000.

THREE SERVICES HELD.

CHURCH 100 YEARS OLD

PROMINENT ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS.XXI..MONT—Judge R. Thatcher. Denver. GRAND

—Tom A Marshall, Kelthshurg, 111. HOFFMAN—George W. H. Osborn, Chicago. >LJ_tANI i—Tlieod.ire Ix-srhes, Chicago. lAII'CRIALr-KugeneHllhert Chicago. MANHATTAN—Dr. NathanielNeS, rit. Louis. V,ALUK-'lii;'—Frank U. Cock. \u25a0•\u25a0I'.'aUUC'J. ,

LAST ELMENDORF LECTURE

Tellowstone Park, the Wonderland of Amer-

ica." was the subject of Dwight EUnendorfa last

lecture of the eeason In Camepi* Hall, last night

That this is one of the most popular of Mr. E7l-

raendorfs offerings was shown by the size of th

audience which listen^! to It. every s=eat in the

auditorium beins taken.Mr. Eimendorf began th« Journey through the

Park at the log cabin railroad station. With the.

aid of the stereopUcon and moving picture machine

a private conveyance was boarded and wonder

af!er wor.der passed before the view of the trav-

ei'er? In his introductory remarks the lecturer

said that Yellowstone Park was the most wonder-

ful place he had ever visited.The moving pictures of the poysers In action

and of the wild animals which inhabit the park

\u25a0v^re rleasing, and the views of the rock forma-

tion': with their delicate colorings, drew much ap-

plause One moving picture, that of two bear

cubs playing, Wai exceptionally fine. The journey

ended with views of the Yellowstone Valley and

three moving pict-rea of the falls

WHAT IS GOINQ ON TO-DAY.Free admission to th« American Museumi of Natural

>>w 'york

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Churchmen's Association luncheon. Hotel

\u25a0 pss:ra-fcol c C!uo No. 120 Ontrn; Park South. 4 p. m.

A-n-al mi-stir.S and d:nn»r of New York Academy of"Silence* Hotel Kr-aic^t, T p. m.

Ar.ruai dlr.r.er of Uhe N>^ E.".*lar.<3 Society in Brooklyn.

arthe Brocklyr. Academy of Music, 7 p. m.

MlMiorary s.rvK-e. Filth Avenue Presbyterian Church

centennial. » s. m.

Shakespeare Club. Hotel Aator. S p. m.Marshall Darr»ch on •'Julius Cassar." at People's Insti-

tute. Cooper Union, b p. m.

THE WEATHER EEPOET.Official B*-«ord and Forrcast.- Washington. Dec 20.

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Cue to a storm north of UiHe Superior, and local rains

h»v« continued to the far BOUth. In other dlßtrict. faires nave con-... 1. an.,

mt wi.i\u25a0">•.

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*B^v^^rn Kew York, rain or .now to^lay; Tue^Jay

p*rUy cioady with enow near the lake*.

!».:.! Official B^-ord.-The followte. o!Tlc!al record

fn.m tte -~th« bureau rtow. the c.,an X,

B In the Um-

pentnre for th- ««t twenty-four hoart In compariaon

with Ih,««re^». £» of iMt >-r:IMS.

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4 p. m...'. 3» 38iUlStiew Umperatnm y^trr-iay. » £,•«***!'• '','**";4V

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nodesaia btnw«nLtuni Ireaa to «troi;« *ouUi wuiua i«-

Ti;« issue of the suit d^peucia altogether on theq:«ucr: cf the ancestry of the mother of the grand-fatht-r or Count Rudolph IVrbna Kaunitz— that is to•ay. or a la£y who lived and flourished daring the\u25a0--'->tr:rig y;trs of the ilg—ietr.ih «-»-iitury and during

*\u25a0•<- tret two decades of the nineteenth century, aPert I rhes ;U1 Europe ha.d been converted into avast battlefield by the great IfapoSeon. whone troops

Mrept over the ler.jr-.h and breaxith of Austria,

teaxJss destruction and devastation In their train.Thf conilrJen cf the Austrian an.l Hungarian jot-

encnesti la three <iars was, thanks to th»^ con-\u25a0tast wars and Invasions 1,of a moat chaotic nature.Mid •»::;:<• tl.ere nay i> much tircumsUintiaJ evi-o>acr thct wo'jJJ lead t."1 the !;«-li«>f in the fra-jil

?r^ic'.!se<3 ty the gTeat-rrandmother cf Princess Kl-vfim'ft husl< u-.d. Isliould lnxi»^;r.« thai it would Im-Otxcaely dsHenlt to definitely establish It in »ufha Icsallj conducive nrnr.ri*r &* to compel the sur-r#-r.c!-r of the name and uxs of Kaunitz and of a!!Ow Kauriut rrori^rty,a. derision which sfoold rlrtu-ti3y reduce the cour.t to something akin to beggary.

count was :i tv-idower when h-r niarrif-i I'rin-Desi Kvira, r.is flrst wife bavins been a CountessCliorlcsicy, who left J:lm with a cne-3'ear-cld <hnd.*tiO has been brought up by the irin<-ess aa !.< .-Bwa Offsprtny. Th^ princes hss two sons and aCasxtuer of her own by her marriage with the•*na, wfio is a. man of about forty-five years vi

\u25a0"«•-._• very >u^ \u0084,-r at yicnna. .—.—

at Munfrti

;^r,;r those in tr.e line of succession to the

treat Ka-nitz property, which since the death ofthe c iChancellor, at the close of the eighteenthcentury, has Increased aJmost a hundredfold invalue. 2^ the chiefs of the princely House ofPs-£j\ It seems that foao gtudent of genealogyh&presed dsxiaa- the course of his researches to

c:!>r->i-»T- evidence to ir.~ effect that the great-

Biaadaother of Count Rudolph Wrbna was not

re* y r.obiewoxic, but was of Quite bumbler.r ;^iha£ merely r^ssunv*! aa her maiden name

Iba name of the Hungarian village Is-which she haj

betr. boss, iii.d that the documents which she fur-nish*^ to tli" imperial court of Vienna with regard

to r.t-.T ancestry at the time of her presentation

after ir.arr-.aire, la accordance with the customary

reqoireaaeats, were clever forperies. The student-.--.; the result of his researches to the notice

*the I'alffys. an<l en *he strength of the aUeged

l^scr> v«>r:es they have instituted suit against CountBufii ;. "C^'r^na, with v.v <,bjeot of compelling himto eurrecder to them the whole of the Kaunitzprop* rty. as wellas his rights to the armorlai b«nr-

ligs uiid came of Kaunilz. en the ground that he

does not fulfil the eer.eaioglcal qnaltflratloTm ex-fcctr-i by the terms cf the win of the oIJ Chancel-lor.

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-eraed. In1851 the R»E*nt of Bavaria «im»-

"vtai rp?uctar:t"y gnre his consent to the marriage

cf Ms r.:ece. Princes* Kivlra of Bavaria, to CountIVrr^.a Kaur.itz. an*} altho-jeh the

Wrtaas ar» not a ;n«»d.:at!»»d (or formerly i-eign-

'.'£\u25a0 Ficase of Germany, and do n^t pogj=eF.«,

:.••: re. *i>e pr*ropativ«» of mating- Trlth royalty\u25a0 footing; <^* equality, yet he permitted his r>re

to-

rstract -Kith The cour.t a fu'! fi^dg^d marriage.

\u25a0wtthout ir.siptire upon a ynorgranatic -ininn. IfheI]iraself to be Induced to give -way in

the matter. U "fas because of the colossal wealthcf the Dobleman in Question, who, ap principal h*srla • c fortune of Prinze. Kaurltz. the rhanr*lMrrf Easpreca Maria Tfcerese. Is on- of the greatest

\isA '\u25a0T.r.^-s of Bavar.a. and *sp«*'-iai3y of Austria.

":-\u25a0- c K^-nits left no rrr-.-.f is«u». hut in provid-

er f r the laheritaaca of his estates entailed them.wit] the rr<^^sirl" that the owner for the time be.Sag •= '\u25a0.. eld always be able to ph<->-»- e:eht p»nera-

t;o'.F of ancestors on the father's s;3<\ and an equa:siaaber at jrr.eraUonis on the mother"* Fide, entlre-

b '---- Trr-rn any bourgeois rtrain. These are the?U2^:f..-au< ris exacted in the case of the Knights of

the ?ov»reJjm Order of Malta and of the TeutonicOr:er. of the charn'rwriains of the Krr)p*r'">rof Aus-tria, cf the Ladle-? of the Palace and of the mem-b*'«; <f -he femiaiXM Order of the Star Cross at thecr.urt cf V;er.ra_

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