‘1.“ .. '3 BEGIN THE YEAR BY THE FOR WEEKLY GAZET‘E AND N. 1. WEEKLY TRIBUNE. 110m 11 Areas 1 Sent toi anv Address FOR" (DFKBVTWsIDCHLar! ADDRESS: ALL! ORDERS TO GAZETTE. . v. . 1 ., BIG SHIPS FOB DEWEY I Navy Depar truest Consid ring the Sending oi Ships to Manila. ORDERS NOT YET ISSUED It llIuy Re Two 1010115113 Bafore Any of the Big Ships on This Coast Can 1111512111 I o the raciflc. The Oregon Not Eikely h...»- \ 0 Go Anyway. Spain Wants to Send Some. Washington, Sept. 7.-—-The navy de- partment is considering the advisabil- ity of sending more ships to Manila to take the places of some of those now in Admiral Dewey’s command which are badly in need of an, overhauling through the long stay in the far East. It has been the intention of the dc. partment ever since the surrender of Santiago to send ships of Admiral Sampson’s fleet to Manila. The origi- nal idea was to augment Dewey’s squadron by several battleships arid perhaps one armored cruiser. This, however was before the Spanish over- tures for peace were made, and the Philippines question threatened to be complicated'by European interference. Recent events have brought the gov- ernment to the conclusion that while the situation is not so serious it would be well to have a few seagoing arm- ored vessels at Manila, and careful conside1ation is now being given to the subject. No orders to shit-s have been issued, nor has any preparation for sending vessels on the long voyage been be- gun. n-wgyoflw The battleship Oregon, which was originally intended for the Philippines, will probably be retained on the At- lantic coast. As'for the Iowa, orders have been issued to the commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard to have her ready for service by she will not then be in the condition that would justify the government in sending her abroad. It will take at least a month’ 5 addi- tional time to get her in shape for con- tinued active service. Nearly all‘her boats haVe been lost, her machinery needs overhauling, an‘d'altog‘ether she will be far from available for a long cruise when the repairs are completed on September 18.115 matters stand it‘ may be two months before any of the big ships now on the eastern coast can; start out to augment Dewey's squad-i r‘on. . Madrid, Sept. 7.~-Theicabinet‘coun-‘ oil has decided to ask the United States to consent to Spain’s sending warships to the Philippines to protect. the coast towns against the insurg— exits. PAY FOR PORT.) RICO TROOPS. Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Taken from the huh..Treasury. New York, Sept. 7. —SeVeral“ hundred Rilers gathered at the Pine street en-' trance to the sub-treasury yesterday, while half a score of sturdy volunteers under the supervision of Major J. C. Muhlenberg, payn master in the Uni ted States army, piled an express wagon with a dozen’small safes, each con-' taining 21 goodly sum of Uncle sum’s currency. Altogether 'the twelve safes contained gold and silver as well as minor coin to the amount of $700,000. The money goes to Ponce, Porto Rico, on the steaé mer Yucatan, which leaves this port to-day, and upon arriving there Major Muhlenberg will c immence the work of paying the United States troops re- maining on the island. NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS. When the Second lt-:giment is Expected at Camp Voorhcon. Sea Girt, N. J., Sept. 7.—Gov. Voor-' hees, who spent the night in camp, returned to Elizabeth yesterday. Be- fore leaving he, said that he had tele- graphed Colonel Hine of the Second regiment for information regarding the time when the command would oave Pablo Beach for Co mp Voorheeqs but had received no reply. It is belieVed however, that the regiment will arrive here about'l‘hursdz y. Governor Voor- hees also said: The camp is in readiness for the coming \of the Second regiment. This morning the tents occupied by the First bittalion of the Fourth regiment were moved to the extreme left of the camp in order to make "mm for the new- comers. Bridge Plunge“ 60 Feet. Hogansburg, N. Y., Sept. 7.—At about noon yesterday two south spans of the International bridge of the New York and Ottawa Railroad, now under con- struction across the St. Lawrence riv- er, about three miles above St. Reg1s Indian village, fell - without warning while about sixty men were at work on the bridge. All were thrown into the river, some sixty feet below. Thirty-three were picked up and ta.- ken to Cornwall hospital. Eighteen of these died afterward. About twenty- scven arenow missing. The b1idge consists of three spans,‘ of which two were completed, and the thirdwas near’y 1.“ n1sl1ed when the south pier gave way at its foundation, causing both spans to, fall, taking its load of human freight with it. —. SchIey Reaches San Juan. San Juan de Porto Rico, Sept. 6.— The United States transport Seneca. carrying Rear Admiral W. S. Schley and Brigadier General W. W. Gordon of the Porto Rico-military commission, arrived off the harbor last night, but did not enter until this morning. The cruiser New Orleans, which is ly- ing in the harbor, fired an admiral's salute of thirteen guns. The Spanish gunboat Isabel Segunda responded with thirteen guns, Whereupon the New Orleans set the Spanish flag at the peak and saluted it with thirteen guns. Egan is sword Bearer. Dublin, who was released from- Portland pris- on in January, 1893,- after serving ten years of a twenty year sentence for treasonsfelony, was elected sword bearer of the city of Dublin yesterday. September 18. but. Sept. 7..—James F. Eagan,‘ ”THE evasin E is .being used and i. have 'of the pres ident's ,of the Fifth army "General Shafter's ,wili I the' signal station. soldiers have rendered to the Gr \, . / ISTERNBERIG VISITS MONTAUK. Surgeon-General Thinks \Vikof! an Ideal granny. Camp VVikoff, 7.—Surgeon General Sternberg of the regular army was in camp yesterday making a personal inspection of the hospitals and sanitary conditions. In speaking of the results of his investi- gation General Sternberg said: _ “I am gratified to find Camp Wikoff in such excellent condition. I had been led‘to believe that it was otherwise, but I can now report, after a thorough examination, that this -is~an ideal camp in every particular. As to the general hospital, we have here the finest field hospital ever constructed in the his- tory of the world. No better site for this camp could have been found on the whole Atlantic coast. We have a deep harbor, 5,000 turf covered. acres. fine air, good water, a railroad to keep us supplied with necessaries, andkwe are isolated so far from towns and'cit- ies that we are not continually over: run by peddlers and sightseers. 1 find the general condition of the men to be very good. The sick are receiving thc best medical attention. Most of the suffering was from malarial fever but that was unavoidable. Men cannot be exposed to the great hardships of war. the digging up of the soil for trenches, and lying there without many con- tracting malarial fever. , “I find some typhoid fever here, but , not a great deal. As to an epidemic of typhoid there is no danger of that. When Dr. Senn was quoted as having said that this would be a pest hole of typhoid in a month, it was because he was misunderstood. He said what any other physician would say, that ty- phoid would result the proper sani- tary precautions mare not taken. What Dr. Senn said w.as '1' "Tint to be a warnv lng. There is absol..tely no indication that there will be a 1.13. tiouble here.- I find sufficient si. its throughout the. camp and they are being properly at- tended to. An awash-111:: e of quick lime just ordered 1,000 moie barrels. The Water supply is entirely satisfactory. “Orders have been issued to regimen- tal commanders to give furloughs free- ly to all the sick and convalescents un- der them. Men can now receive fur“ loughs from their regimental surgeon direct without applying at the hos- plt-al." This is said to br one of the results Visit. About five hundred men wil' be leaving‘ da1iy hereafter. 1 Orders have been, received from the secretary of war to send the regulars corps composing command back to their posts. It is cs‘:1nated that Within two weeks all but two divisions will have left,‘ and Ithc 2‘ will be retained here indefinitely. General Shatter he s assumed com- mand though much of the detail work Wheeler and Young. General Shafter's headquarters will r :be in a cotnfortab'y furnished cottage on the bluff overlooking the shore near The Cottage isno‘w being overhauled, and telegraph lines are being put in tit: e cottage formerly occupied by the Montauk Club. , ASKS FO_R.A PARADE. -Vah1WyckI-Requests the 11119911111111: 3 Let New Yorkers are. the; Soldiers. New York, Sew. 7.-I—Mayor Van Wyck has sent the following dispatch to President McKinley: New York, Sept. 7. Hon. William Me? 1nley, President of the United Statets, Washington, D. 0.: . “The peeple of the city of New York are sincerely desiz .:s of witnessing a review of the Un 'zd States soldiers, regulars and volumeers, before they are disbanded or d1st11buted and they earnestly hope and respectfully re- .quest that you will exercise your au- thority to "ive them an opportunitv to see the troops and show their ap- preciation of the services which the coun- try A committee of c. tizons has this day been appointed to taeze action in this matter and the people of this city are ready to act at once. ROBERT A. VAN WYCK. The committee of one hundred which will have the great peace jubilee in hand was named last night. The Bond Subscriptions; Washington, September 7.—The pros- pect now is that the subscribers to 4,500 worth of the new war bonds to the number of eleven hundred or so will receive alloiments; in other words the agg1egate of ‘he bids thrown out for nonconfonr-ity with the depart- ment's regulations will reach about $5.- 000,000 worth, and the volume of bonds which would have gone to these sub- scribers will be turned over to the per- sons whose namcs stand at the head of the list of bidders still unsatisfied. The chief offenders in New York are the subscribers through the North American Trust Company. It is not known that the officers of the company were active participants in the busi- ness. Judge White Declines. Washington, Sept. 7.——There is no longer a reasonable doubt that Judge White has decided to decline the ap- Ipointment of peace commissioner, and that he refrains from making public ‘announcement of his purpose at the - ceptance before request of the president. It is inti- mated that’Ia very early announcement may be looked for, as there is reason to believe that the president has al- ready made a. tender of the commis- sionership, and is row awaiting an ac- making public that fact. Arrangements for the departure of the commission ‘on the 17th inst., from New York are being pushed. The Number Killed. Washington, Sept. 7.—The official re- cords of the war department, as far as completed, show that there were 33 of- ficers and 231 enlisted men of the army, 264 in all, killed in battle during the war with Spain. - These casualties include all the lives lost by the army in the battles in the Philippines" as well as those in Cuba' and Porto Rico. Kh‘nliIfa Hus 3,000 Mon. London, Sept. 7.—A dispatch to the Central News f1om Omdurman says Since his release fro 11 prison Eagan, the Khaufa in his flight took 3,090 'men has lived in New Yplk. with him. “GAZETTE Montauk Point, Sept. . . City. =1..ences is that the gold placer diggings continue to be done by Generals' THE KLONDiKEeoLD FIELDS. _PlaIcer Diggings Nearly Exhausted—No ‘ Gold-Bearing Ouartz . San Francisco, Sept. 7,—Capt. John McCafferty, cit-collector of customs for Alaska, and a miningcngineer by pro- fession, has arrived here from Dawson His summing up of his experi- of the Yukon district are short lived, and that there are no true; fissure' veins in that territory, because the country is much broken and because the geo- logical indications are such as to war- rant the conviction that-there is no gold bearing -q'uartz. Large broken ”deposits” of gold n ay be found theie, '. but they will be of the nature of pool:- ets and will not last. The most surprising opinion ex- pressed by him is that the placer dig- gings are on the point of being worked out, and that many have barely paid expenses. - The steamer Peitland has arrived from St. Michael 1:1. £1.11 treasure estima- ted at from one 111?} two million} dollars. She brought down a large number of passengers, most of »whom were car's-enters, who had been employed at St. Michael in put- tingfiogether several boats. There were also thirty-five or forty miners on board, nearly all being well sup- plied With gold dust and nuggets. A dispatch from Seattle says: “Colo- nel McCook, United States consul at Dawson, has had a sli ht difficulty with a Dominion official already, yet he has been at Dawson but a few weeks. As a result, he was compelled to remove the United States flag from the store of the Alaska. Commercial Company at Dawso... and allow\a Do- minion customs 011‘- -cr, Davis, to hoist the British ensir... The American coat of arms was xemoved fiom the ‘0‘ n.” .——. door and Colonel McCook sought an-V "' other office.” THE CHESTER FROM PORTO Rico. ___ Arrives in New York With 1,200 Gillcers and hen. II New York, Sept. 7,—The United tates transport Chester, Capt. Dann, arrived yesterday Ponce, P. R.. from which port she sailed last Thursday,.September 1,-at 4.15 p. m. She brought about sixty oflicers and civilians, and 1,150 men, making a total: of 1.210.1consisting' of Brigadier General Schwan and staff. Brigadier General Haines and Staff and the Fourth Pennsylvania-volunteers. Among the civilians were Perry M. de Leon,'United States consul at E‘cuar dor, and a 'son of Secretary of - State Palmer. The transport experienced fine weather throz. gnout the voyage. The general health of the troops is excellent and. the men were in the best of spirits on reaching port. I There was one death on board dur- ing the voyage, Captain M. H. Smith, Company K, Fourth Pennsylvania, Who died at 10 p. 111. Sunday night of male.- rial fever. The body was placed in a ,metallic casket and brought to port for burial. Captain Ssiiith was a native of Columbia, Pa. .. and was 38 years of age. Six men were in the ship hospital. five suffering with tvphoid- fever an the other ill with malaria. After a brief inspection at quarantine, the transport proceeded to Jersey City,. where she will land her troops. The Chester,as .'~. 3 steamed up the bay, was greeted by passing craft, the trobps returning the greeting with cheers. . “The Chester left Ponce three hours after the departure of the transport Obdam, on board of which General Miles and Staff ember-lead. Nothing was seen of the latter during the voy- age. . 'Revislon Seevns'AilsuTed. - Paris, Sept. 7,—Tl'1e Figaro says that General Saussier refused to accept the war portfolio because he had been 0011- I nected, as military governor of Paris, with the Dreyfus 519.12, and he there- fore considered tlmt he \should leave to‘ another the settlement of thismat- ter. ’The newspapers confirm the report that the acceptance by General Zurlin- the ministry of war, was. due to Presi— dent Faure’s insistence. Some of the 11'“. rs praise his ac- ceptance of the office under the ex- isting difficulties 0" the situation, and attack M. Cavalgrfc, the late minis- ter of war, declaring that his action in resigning was tactless and illogi- cal. ' The newspapers regard the revision of the Dreyfus case as being assured, saying that the prisoner’s counsel will now make strenuous efforts to secure a. public retrial. The Matin says thrt Colonel Picquart yesterday signed a demand for the provisional liberation of Dreyfus. Whaling Fleet Lost. San Francisco, Sept. 7.—A special to the Examiner from Seattle says tho. news of disaster to the Arctic whaling fleet came in the following letter from Captain ’J. C. Downing of the Wolcott to Austin Ciaiuorne, the local agent of the Pacific Stce, m Whaling Com- pany' Juneau, August 20. I- arrived from the westward this evening. The latest from the Arctic is that all the vessels-that were caught in the ice were lost, Mason (captain of the Jeannie) is crazy. I obtained the above information from Captain Ned Lennon, pilot of the gunboat Wheeling. J. C. DOVVNING. This letter came via the steamship Alki, which has arrived from Juneau. ..._' Beetle of the Flowers. Saratoga, Sept. 7.—Fully one hun- dred thousand people yesterday after- noon witnessed the parade and ‘ the. battle of flowers of the annual fete giv- en under the auspices of the Saratoga Floral Association. It was fully twice as large as that of last year. The floats included alle- gorical and historical subjects, in which the hotels and'cottages were entered. 3: Gen. Panda Departs. New York, Sept. 7.—G.en Luis Man- .. uel de Pando, the Spanish officer, who arrived in this city Sunday, and who has been stopping at the Hotel Ameri- ca, Fifteenth street and Irving Place, has. taken passage for Europe. Captain Contao of the Infanta. Maria Teresa, is still. at the Hotel Mar- tine lion and a half to: afternoon from ' ”network of steel wire. Scientific Tic! Bits. A person lking at the Irate of four miles an hour consumes 2. 300 cubic inches of air per minute. A process has been recently perfect- ed by which thin sheets of absolutely transparent celluloid .are silvered by- a. similar process to that formerly used on glass. ‘ ' _ The beautiful colors seen. in the,soap - bubble arise frbm the fact that the Fbub- ble, being very thin, reflects light from both the outer and inner surfaces of the film. A burglar-proof glass has been m- veuted by a smart manufacturer. It is . made by pouring molten glass over a It is specially adapted forIIskylights and jewellers’ windows. m. .. . , General Vennkoff, a Russian, has dis- ‘ Icovered a. mdgnetic poleof the earth, . or something like it, at Kotchetowka, in the government of Koursk. The mag- netic needle freely suspended'becomes vertical there; but at 60ft. from the centre it inclines 1 deg. from the verti- cal. Perhaps the phenomenon is due to magnetic ore beneath the surface of the ground. - Wflflhmwfw‘ie. The Persians in 516 B. C. invented a’ transparent glass varnish, which they laid over sculptured rocks to prevent them from weathering. This coating has lasted to our day, while the rocks beneath are honey-combed. - “Hunger stones” havebeenseen in the Rhine this winter. They appear only when the water is very low, and the date of their appearance’is then cut in- to them. They are believed to for- bode a. year of bad crops. «1 ..1 9; ~11. veg-T] In Summer Array. “:1 Dame Fashion has sunk into her usual midsummeriethargy. Stagna- presses this condition of affairs and the causes are manifold. In the first place the fashionable woman has laid in _a store of gowns of every descrip- tion necessary for a summer campaign at mountain or seaside, and in the second place. the swell courturieres are busily planning and concocting novel and original designs to startle the eyes of the fall shoppers. ‘ . ‘ Still the. large establishments show many toilets :and dainty accessories to 'the toilet, which, if not new, are cer- tainly worthy of mention. The sum- mer months have (brought forth a. be- wildering array of gowns, hats and parasols, which are glorious in their rich colorings and convey the impres- sion when a bevy of summer -'girls are gathered together of a. large garden of gayly colored flowers. very few severe gowns are 'seen, an 'when they are they are made con icuous by their very simplicity. Flounces tor Skirts. Flounces put on straight all ardunId are- equally as fashionable as those . arranged to curve upwards as they are carried towards the' back or the skirt. The latter style is less familiar and on many forms. more graceful. On a great number of the gowns for general wear this season the Igored' skirt with one deep Spanish~ flounce is extremely pop- ular. The gored breadths may reach under the flounce, or may end where . the top of the flounce begins. This style is. much. used. for._ light silks, for sheer wacls, and every sort of washlmaterial. .and trimmings are employed which best harmonize with the sort of fabric selected, ‘Ruchesp folds and rows of narrow velvet ribbon. are used for silk, and shirring and t king in various widths for light woo s. A Good Idea. A woman who is the' owner of a . rarelyhandsome mahogany table finds it at once her, pride and her. despair to keep it up to the high standard of condition which she insists upon achieving.~ It was her suggestion re- cently that she intended'to make in- quiries of her cabinet maker to see if it were not possible to have a glass top fitted over it as is done on trays. It would be easy, as she explains, to keep the glass polished and flawless, and through its transparency the beauty of the table would be apparent, while perfectly protected. Some other housekeeper may like to similarly pur- sue the suggestion, although its possi- bility is uncertain. I When Planting a. 1. emery. Some one suggests that to watch auc- tion sales for a. storeshow case is a good idea. when planting a. fernery. A wooden frame may be painted a dark green, and the glass box is ‘just what is needed for the warm, moist air on which ferns, mossesand certain other , plants of this.,~nature i-thrive.
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