.. u -. ....-..u—.-.uw—,~-su-. . n-.~.~. a... w ea. HARVAED’S ENGLISH OOAOE no Thinks His System Superior to Ynlo’l and Cornell's. "NEW YORK, Nov. :J.—P..obert C. Leh- mann, who is to coach the Harvard uni- versity crew, arrivcd’today from England. Mr. Lehmann will go over to Cambridge tomorrow and after meeting the candidates tor the crew will pay a visit to Mr. Pea- body in Boston. In speaking of the change he proposed to make in the system of training and row- ing Mr. Lehmann said: “I propose to coach the crew at Harvard from the English point of view. I will en- deavor to teach the crews all I know and substitute the English system for the American. I believe the defeat of Cornell and Yale at Henley demonstrated that the English system was the better one. The Yale men were as fine looking a crew as I ever saw. “ Their physical proportions and develop- ment were the admiration of all who saw them. They were easily the superiors of the Englishmen in those respects. Their defeat is not to be ascribed to any defect of strength, endurance or training. ‘ ‘ Mr. Cook had thoroughly instructed his men in his ideas of rowing, and their exe- cution was splendid. The trouble lay in the system and the construction and ar- rangement of their boats. They did all their work with their arms and failed to utilize the muscles of their bodies properly. They held the Englishmen well for about half the distance, but after that the long sweeping body stroke of the latter began to tell, and Yale dropped out of, it. “ Mr. Cook saw when he reached Eng- land that some changes would be necessary in the arrangement of his shells, and he did make one or two changes, but it was too late. One of the alterations he made was to adept the English car. He made one or two trials with it, but found that his crew were so accustomed to their old cars that they couldn’t get used to the new ones and abandoned the idea, for the Hens icy race at least. “I understand, though, that he is using the English oar now and has found that since his men have become accustomed to it they are getting along much better than they did with the Old ones. ' “The English car is rather larger than the American one. The blade is about 6% inches wide and square at the end. It is generally made of cedar. I shall use it at Harvard.” Mr. Lchmann said that he also intended to substitute the English for the American shell. Miss Annie Howard Married. LONDON, Nov. 13.——Walter Parrott of Parrott Bros, stockbrokers of this city, was married at St. James parish church, Paddington, to Miss Annie Howard, daughter of the late Charles T. Howard, the so called “lottery king” of New Or- leans and the betrothed of the late Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago at the time the latter was murdered by a crank. Alaska’s Gold Output. SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 13.—-—G. R. A. Wishart of The Alaska Mining Record,who is in Seattle, says that the output is larger than that of last year by nearly $1,500,000. The number Of miners has been largely in- creased. Over 11,000 people went to Alas- ka this season, of whom 90 per cent were interested in mining. -Mrs. Castle Unable to Sail. LONDON, Nov. 13.——Since the release of Mrs. Walter M. Castle of San Francisco from Wormwood Scrubbs prison on Tues- day last her condition of health has been such that the doctors now refuse to grant permission for her to sail for the United States at present. ‘ The Abduction of Sun Yat Sen. LONDON, Nov. 13.—The Daily News says that the government has decided to prose- cute Sir Halliday Macartney, councilor of the Chinese legation in London, for his share in the arrest and detention in that le-» gatiou of Sun Yat Sen, the Chinese doctor. Lasker Wins Again. Moscow, Nov. 13.—Lasker won the sec- ond game in the forty-first move of his chess match with Steinitz. Rate of Discount Increased. BOMBAY, Nov. 13.——The Bank of Bom- bay has increased its rate of discount to 8 per cent. The Weather. Fair; cooler; northwesterly winds. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL Closing Quotations of the New York Stock Exchange. New YORK. Nov. 12.——Money on call easy at 3% @4 per cent. Prime mercantile paper. WM per cent. Sterling exchange firm, with ac- tual business in bankers‘ bills at 84.8W.85% ' for demand and $4.82%@4.82}§ for 60 days. Post- ed rates. $4.82lé@4.84 and [email protected]. Commer- cial bills. 34.81%. Silver certificates. sales $12,000 at 64%0. Bar silver. 64%0. Mexican dol- lars. 50340. Government bonds firm. State bonds dull. Railroad bonds easier. ,' Closing prices: _ Atchisou .......... 16% New England..... - Bur. & Quincy... 83 N. J. Central...’...107 0., 0.. C. & St. L. 32%; North American. . 5% Cliesapeake&0.. 181/4 Northern Pacific. 16% Chicago Gas ...... 78% DO. pref. . . .‘ ....... 28 Cdrdage ........... 6% N. Y. Central..... 96% Cotton Oil ........ 17 Omaha. ............ Ontario 85 West... 16% Pacific Mail..... .. 25% Reading .......... Del. & Hudson. . .128 Distillers’ Trust. . —— Erie ............... 17% General Electric. 34 ”Tel: Island....... 78% I[OCle:,_, "-"alley.. 21.... . :lver Bullion..... 64% Lackawanna......160% St. Paul........... 78% Lake Shore ....... 153 Sugar Refinery. . .1219fi Lead .............. 27 Texas Pacific.. 11% Union Pacific..... 11% Wabash pref...... 18% Western Union. . . 89% Louisville & Nash 5256, M :ssouri Pacific. . 25%, I§.Ul'Lh western. . . . 106 General Markets. New YORK, Nov. i2.——FLOUR—State and western quiet. but held steady; city mills pat ems. [email protected]; winter patents, [email protected]; city mills clears. $4.85@5: winter straights, $4.40@ f \VHEAT——No. 2 red opened steady. advanced on light. receipts and firmer second cables. but broke sharply under realizing; December, 86% @87 11-160.; January, 88%c. CORN—No. 2 dull and easy owing to pros- pects of heavier receipts; December, 31%c.; May, 35@35}§c. OATS —No. 2 neglected; December, 24@2~i%c.. May. 26%c. . PORK—Quiet; mess, $8.5m: family, 810.50 @il. LARD—steady; prime western steam.$~i.50, nominal. BUTTER—Steadier; state dairy, ll®180.; state creamery,12y§@203«§c. ' CHEESE—Steady; state, large. 7m10}éc.: small, 7mm. _ EGGS—Firm: state and Pennsylvania.22@ 260.; western, “@240- SUGAR—Raw quiet, but firm; fair refining, . 3@33-16c.; centrifugal, 96 test, 37-16c.; refined steady: crushed, 5%0-3 powdered. 4910- TURPENTINE—Quiet at. M26560. . MOLASSES—Quiet; New Orleans. 27@330.. nominal. , RICE—Steady; domestic.’3%@6c.; Japan. 4% We. TALLOVV—Steady; city, 3%;04 country, 3960. HAY — Easy; shipping, ' .; good to choice, 7m8%'c. . WEEKLY - N wagons PG’A'Z TE TE.- TTT T To Subscribe for the TT AND WTTKTTNTTIBTNT \ -_p-— " ox: mem- .. " BothIPaoers Senttto oneiAddress \ . for $I.OO aYear- NEW YORK’S FIRST REFORM MAYOR. The Story of Abraham Hewitt’s Struggles Shows What Yankee Pluck Will Do. Ex-Mayor Hewitt, of New York is one of the 'few notable men. who are natives of the State and life—long resi-’ dents of the city. . Mr. Hewitt, who is in his seventy- fourth year, has lived in New York since he entered the public schools as a very young lad. As professor, as business men, as the executive of the great benevolent enterprise of Cooper institute, as Congressman. Mayor, and political leader, the has for some fifty years been constantly active, and a familiar personality to his fellow citi- zens. But it will :be of interest to re- call some of the incidents of his early r‘xperiences, as he recounted them in 1886, when Mr. Henry George was his chief opponent in the M'ay-oralty can- vass. n a speech on October 22, of that year, Mr. Hewitt said: “The opposing candidate attacks me cause, as he says, I am a rich man, and he asks your sutfrages because he is a poor man. He says that I owe my riches, such as they are, to a series of ‘happy 'acci-dcn‘ts.’ EX- MAYOR HEWITT. “The first of these ‘h'appy accid‘cuts' was one “that I could not helpdmy birth. I was born of a mother who was a farmer’s daughter and a father who was a mechanic. They were of good, ready, honest stock, and I was not. brought up on a bottle. “The next lhappy acciden't’ was that they were not rich, but poor, honest people, who earned their daily armed and brought up their children to rev- erence God Tand give an equivalent Tiler what they received. My edu'cuttiom— the next ‘htappy accident—was in the public schools of Lthe city of New York. There I learned 'to meet my equals and to measure my capacity with those who began life with equal advantages —Tand honest mind in a sound body. The next ‘Ta'ccideni’ eras that Columbia College gave two scholarships free to the public :sch‘ools. There were 20,000 of us went up for "those two scholar- ships. One of them was given to me. I rwas admit-ted «to the college, and l was obliged to support myself from the day I entered to ’the day I was grad- uated by rteac'hi-ng rthose whom I could find who would take me. Not one dol- lar of burden did my education impose upon my parents. who, anxious as they might be to giVe me an education, were too poor to' do so. And it was perhaps by another ‘happy occiden‘t’ that I passed through college at the head of my class. “It was certainly through another ‘accident’ that about this time I be- came nearly blind. I was compelled to pass a year in Europe, during which I lived upon the little money I 11rd saved by my teaching. Another ‘accident’ was that the ship in which I was went to the (bottom, and I was saved in one of the small boats, in company with a man who has been my friend and brother and will "be to the end of my life. I landed at New York in mid- winter, in a borrowed suit of sailor’s clothing, and I had three silver dol~ lars in my pocket, my en‘tire worldly wealth. “I was then twenty-two years old, and that ‘acc'lden't’ wus- the turning permit of my life. It taught me for the first time that I could stand in the face of death without fear and without fiinching. It taught me another thing —--.that my life, which had been miracu- lously rescuod, belonged not to me, and from that hour I gave ii't '10 the work which from that Ttime has been' in my thoughts—the welfare of my fel- low«citizens. For «thirty years I have never turned aside firom that task. The task which I had set for myself was to contribute, as far as I could, to 'the employment of men, so lthat they could help themselves and «not be made the subjects of public charity. Self- help is the remedy rfor all the evils of which men complain. :I have had :to help myself from [the earliest year I can remember, and every struggling young man who chooses ‘to follow .the same rule, who will help himself and not become dependent on public or pri- vate charity, can achieve .a measure of success that will satisfy every inde. pendent citizen.” ' - . Lucid Explanation. “What‘s the matter with your new check Lrouscrs. Freshly? The dormer section seems to have sulfered eclipse.” “Yaas' Dooced shame. You see, I wasn‘t looking where-ah I was trav- eling. and I unfawtunately dwopped into that mud bank yaunder.” “Really! Well, that was a poor in- vestment. The bank blacklisted you, perhaps, because it was felt to be a case of premature check upon de- posil."—lVashibgton Star. lmlefinltely Postponed. “ be. old man, I_ didn’t think she . would utterly refuse you.” , "‘Wcsl. it was about the same thing.” “Hos? to?” 1' "'s'i'eli. fliit‘ said she was willing to wait In!“ Tune until I could supper-t nor." Boreu'on a Tear. . New YORK, Nov. 12—Stprm signals flying.today from the weather bureau in this city, and at all the signal stations along the middle Atlantic and New Eng- land coasts. The storm, which was central thisgniorningbver Lake Huron, is moving northeastward and is "likely to cause‘galés in this and the eastern sectiOn. " " Stripes of Honor. WASHINGT :7, Nov. 12.——The president, in accordance with the act of congress au- thorizing him to prescribe the kind of rib- bon to be worn with the medal awarded to soldiers for distinguished gallantry, has prescribed a silk ribbon one inch wide and one inch in length with red, white and blue stripes. Transvaal Wants Indemnity. LONDON, Nov. 12.—A special dispatch from Johannesburg says that the govern~ ment of the Transvaal republic has decided to put in a claim for $5,000,000 indemnity against the British Chartered South Africa company as one of the results of the raid of Dr. Jameson and his freebooters. Mrs. Castle Coming. Home. LONDON, Nov. 12.—-Mr. Walter M. Cas- tle of San Francisco called at the United States embassy today. He will sail for the United States on Saturday next, accom- panied by Mrs. Castle. A Queen In 3 Smash Up. PARIS, Nov. 12.-—A special train having the queen of Portugal on board collided to- day with another train near this city. Two persons were injured, but the queen was not hurt. I Insane Hospital Districts. ALBANY, Nov. 12.—-The state commis- -sion in lunacy has postponed until Mom day next the reappointment of the insane hospital districts. o'ad Bowed c'on'i. “A fact well known to farmers is that the rows of grains on an ear. of corn are always even in number,” said A. D. Catlin, of ~Tolorio, 111. “There may be eight, ten, twelve, fourteen 01- sixteen rows, but never nine, eleven. thirteen or fifteen. This fact and the knowledge of it cost several men in my neighborhood very dearly a. few days ago. A farmer who raises a small crop of corn, and who has always been regarded as of rather weak intellect, concluded that he saw a chance to make some bets, Early in the sea- son he carefully scraped from a dozen ears of corn just formed one of the rows. The corn ripened, and the re- maining rows grew together so as to hide the evidence of the one removed ever having existed. Then the far- mer offered to bet either that theoth- ers could not or that he could find ears of corn with odd: rows. He had no trouble in getting some ,very good bets on the latter proposition, but, of course, none on the first. He then found the ears he had fixed, and made as much money on the dozen ears as he did on the entire crop of corn. Now, any sugggestion of corn with odd rows is provocation for a fight in that neighborhood—Washington ‘Star. Sea. Signaling by rings. The flags to be hoisted at one time in signaling at sea never exceed four. It is an interesting arithmetical fact that, with eighteen various colored flags, and never more than four at a time, no fewer than 78,642 signals can be given—Cincinnati Inquirer. ALWAYS lN GOOD CONDITION 3" I mm. 1. Brooklyn Vault Light Company, MANUFACTURERS, V U LIGHTS, SKYLIGHTS AND PATENT LIGHT DESIGNS. OFFICE, 481 DRIGGS AVENUE. BROOKLYN. N. Y. «p 10 to the ten "winners in a. {tilt-T I STANDARD OF Nine immediately, ‘. J. 10 ‘ I imes Out of The New York Journal recently offered ten bicycles ‘ ‘ng contest, leaving he choice of machine touch «All of them chose /" I . icycles. THE WORLD. and one after he had looked at others. .And The Journal bought Ten Columbias. Paid $1003ach for them, too. On even terms a Columbia. will be chosen times out of Beautiful Art Catalogue of Columbia and Hartford Bicycles is free if you call upon any 3 4' - ‘ Columbia agent; by mail from us for two 2-cent mm POPE. MFG. (20., Hartford, Conn. Branch Stores “and Agencies in almost every city-and town. 0 ' properly represented in your vxcmity, let us know. p8. lf Columbia: are not
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