John Y, MoKane, a Remarkable Product of Politics, JOHN Y. McKANE. The death of John Y. McKane removes one of the most remarkable polit ical characters ever known to local politics in New York State. He was born in the County Antrim, Ireland, August 10, 1841. He lived in Ireland until he was about four years old, when the McKane family immigrated to this country and settled at Sheepshead Bay, Long Island. McKane did not smoke or drink. He was a hearty, rugged, blue-eyed man with Scotch-Irish blood in his veins, who did not know what it was to become weary either of work or of political turmoil. As a boy he dug claics on the beach in summer and went to the village sohool in winter. He worked at gardening and other odd jobs until he was fourteen, when he was apprenticed to a carpenter. He learned the building trade and laid the foundation of his wealth at this bus iness. McKane always did what he pleased with the vote of Gravesend. In 1890 McKane was in the height of his power. William J. Gaynor, after carry ing on a fight against the McLaughlin Democracy, became a candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court. He made a demand on MoKane for a copy of the registry lists of Coney Island. They were refused. He said over the telephone on October 30, 1893: "Mr. Gaynor will tind out that if he wants to get along with me the easiest way to do is not to fight me." As a result of the fight McKaue became a couvict in Sing Sing, and William J. Gaynor became a Justice of the Supreme Court. McKane served his term, whioh, with rebate for good behavior, was shortened to four and a half years. He was released from prison April 30, 1898. QOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOG 3000 COO ITerrible Effects of 8 o 8 Porto Rico's tyurricaije | ioooooooooocooococoooooooo PONCE, To tr Pico.—The hurricane, sad as is the havoc it wrought, great as is the misery it caused, has ac complished in a day what would have taken diplomacy years to bring about. It has taught the natives that the Americans are their real friends. The Americana, by their prompt and gen erous assistauoe, have wiped out all lingering prejudices. Porto Kico suffered more than any A3 regards the actual linancia! loss to the island oscasioned by the hurri cane, estimates vary. So far as I can figure it out the loss to the whole isl and will amount to about seventy-five million pesos, or more than $30,000,- 000. This amount covers damage to build ings and machinery, damage to ware houses and stores of coffee, tobacco and sugar; damage to this year's cane, coffee and fruit crops, including esti mated loss on the next three years' «r HOUSE IN PONCE DEMOLISHED BT THE HURRICANE. other colony by the hurricano of August 9. Every district in the isl and has been devastated. Thousands of liomeE have been ruined, and crops upoc which the whole population de pended for subsistence have been laid waste beyond retrieve for at least three years. BTIUiET IN ARECIBO, TOUTO RICO. DURING THE HURRICANE, SHOWING HEIOHT OF WATER ON THE HOUSES. Porto Rico to-day is as barren as was Cuba at the close of tbe insurrec tion. Here, in Porto Rico, fields that >ro once beautiful with waving canes, .llsides but a few days ago covered with the green coffee and banana trees now present a bare and sorry view. Homes that sheltered happy families have been washed away. The vil lages are crowded with shelterless people. The homeless to-day number about one-third of the whole population of the island. I have passed through every dis trict from the capital to Ponce, • and *l'' WRECKED CAFE IN TIAZA ADJOINING CUSTOM HOUSE, PONCE. often ridden for miles without seeing a house left standing. Where the houses withstood the wind the roofs were gone and furniture and clothing were ruined by the rains. It is the well-to-do who are, perhaps, to be the most pitied. Beautiful haciendas and powerful sugar factories were laid as low as the native's shack, crop; damage to live stock, and dam age to railways and shipping. It does not cover the loss sustaiuod by the Public Works Department, which will be heavy; nor does it cover the loss to the island of capital that was con fidently expectad to seek investment here this winter, and which may now be frightened away. The loss of growing crops is, be- yond question, the most serious item in the island's list of misfortunes. Everything has been more or less de stroyed. What the hurricaue left the floods carried away. Ths mango, bread fruit olid avocate trees, upoa which the natives depend to a great extent for subsistence, have beeu swept bare or broken down. Only the most sheltered banana groves are left standing. The coffee crop is wholly ruined, and all but the small est of the trees have been destroyed. A coffee plant takes five years to ma ture. The half ripe orange crop is on the ground. A few cane fields have escaped, but with the factories de molished these are only valuable for fodder. The wholesale, indiscriminate dis tribution of food is being stopped, else the whole population would be come pauperized. In all centres 1 visited rations are now being dis tributed to the old aud infirm and to young children. To all able-bodiod adults is offered work. At first this course of action caused some com plaint, but now the plan is beginning to work well, and the poor are all the more independent, and better con tented for it. The first care of the military authori ties has naturally been for the troops. In Ponce the 35000 granted by General Davis to the commander has beeu spent in cleaning up in aud around the quarters. At every country station the troops are living under cauvas. In most cases the barracks have been blown down. At Aibonito not one wall of the whole barracks is left standing. The soldiers lost every thing they had, and those in the hos pital had a narrow escape with their lives. The barracks collapsed during the .STKtT-IH-AoNC» | * | first hour of the storm. Fifteen min utes after the walls had toppled in the men, who had even formed ranks out side in the pelting rain, had appointed a delegation to wait upon Captain Wheeler to ask permission to rendei assistance to the town. The captain joined his men. Without a thought of their own loss, without thought of any danger, the whole troop crossed the swollen river between the barracks j and the town, aud were soon engaged ! in the work of rescue, dodging pieces | of flying zinc or rushing into tumbling houses. On the night of the hurricane I was sleeping on my own plantation in the distriot of Bayamon, about ten miles from the oapital. At about half-past seven o'clock Tuesday night my cap- J itaza, or head mail, came to the door and reported that the Government had sent out notice that a hurricane was approaching, via St. Thomas. Like mauy others, I did not give full cred ence to the warning. At half-past five the wind was blowing thirty miles an hour. Daylight was long in coming, for the sky was inky black. When dawn did come we could bo sure the storm was not far away, and everpthing movable was taken iu. Tenants began to run to us for shelter and we took them in also. At half-past seven o'clook the storm began in earnest, and in half an hour it was impossible to stand against the wind. We had braced and tied down the roof as best we could, but one sin gle puff carried away all our stays. In half an hour our roof was gone and the rain pelting in. At ten o'clock the wind was blowing seventy-five miles an hour. Once we made a sortie, and rescued a woman and two children, but hardly had we got them inside when the house began to creak and groan, and we sought the open. Dodg ing flying branches of trees and stray bits of timber, we crawled along the lee side of a penguin fence to a shack, sheltered behind a hill. It was half-past twelve before th« storm was over and we could venture forth. Our house, we found, had not blown down entirely; but the wooden walls were slanted at an augle of thirty degrees. The roof was completely oil and everything inside absolutely ruined by the water. It was two days before we could cross (lie river to get to market. Every peasant's hut for three miles around was down. Four hundred houses or, the outskirts of Bayamon were piled up in the public road. The railroad running to Uan Juan had been com pletely washed away. The highways were blocked with rubbish. It was two days before supplies of bread reached the town. In the interim the people lived on half ripe fruit FUNERAL BY TROLLEY CAR. Cn.tom drawing In Chicago, Largely Be. of the Great Saving In Kxpenw. Trolley oar funerals threaten to sap plant the old style in Chicago. A sav ing of expense is one of the ohief argu ments in favor of the new plan. The INTERIOR OP CHICAGO TROLLEY FU NERAL CAR. undertakers dislike to give up the lib eral commissions from livery establish ments they once enjoyed, but popular feeling is too strong to withstand. It costs but sll for a motor car and a trailer, with an extra charge of $3 for every additional car needed. On the line of the Chicago Electric Traction Company, a special funeral car, the Virginia, is provided. It is dark green in color. At each end is a vestibule, having a door in its front tor the admission of the casket. In one of these vestibules the casket re mains during the journey to the ceme tery, screened from the rest of the car by heavy curtains. The car proper is richly furnished, and accommodates twenty persons. The Calumet Company hasnospejial funeral car, but the back is removed from the seat of an ordinary motor car and on this the casket is placed. On either side of the casket the pall bearers take their places, while rela tives and friends occupy the remain ing seats. On the Calumet line, which covers a wide stretch of territory, south of Sixty-third street, the number of trol ley funerals sometimes reaches five a day. Arrangements with the under takers in suburbs along the line are tnado by the company. Million n Front Foot. A mortgage of $20,000,000 on a tiny town lot is rarely recorded in real es tate annals. The city of San Jose, Cal., has within her flowery limits a little patch of ground which has actu ally borne an incumbrance of the above named stupendous proportions. This iufinitesimal speck of Cali fornia's map has represented in money precisely what America paid Spein for the Philippine archipelago. And this San Jose lot, only a fair size flower garden, according to the California notion as to gardens, meas ures 14'.)(< square feet, while the Phil ippene Islands comprise 114,000 square miles. Allen's Sense of Humor. No man in Congress has a keener sense of humor than John Allen, of Mississippi, who for various reasons has been much in the public eye dur ing the past few months. Not long ago, in the midst of a very interesting speech, a member on the other side of the Chamber asked: "May I interrupt the gentleman from Mississippi for a moment?" "Is it for applause?" queried Mr. Allen. "The gentleman from Missis sippi allows no interruptions except for applause."—Philadelphia Satur day Evening Post. Sold With (lie Coal. A new carmun was engaged at a coal yard and he went off to deliver his tirst load. He failed to return and a search was thereupon instituted. The missing man was found at the house where he had put the coal in the cellar and had taken up his quar ters in the Kitchen. The cook said she could not get him to leave, and the carman was asked what he meant by such conduot. "Why," he replied, "I thought ] was sold with the coal—l was weighed with it."—Tit-Bits. flag. Float Sl<le bv Side. In view of the present strained re lations betweeu Canada and the United States over the question of the Alaskan boundary, tho accompanying photograph is interesting. It was taken at the extreme summit of the White Pass, at the point where the boundary line between the possessions of Canada and the United States is at BOUNDARY LINE AT THE SUMMIT Of THE WHITE PASS. present fixed. On either side of the line is erected a tall staff. From one floats the Stars and Stripes ard from the other the Union Jack. The men grouped around the flags are officers of the famous Canadian Northwest Mounted Police. DAZED ENGLAND WITH AN "AD." The Original Progenitor of T.iberal Ad vertising Still Living In New York. Some of the nabobs of the preenf day advertising world who think the} are "the only pebbles on the beach" ought to take a trip to Poughkeepsi« and listen to the advertising narratives an old man there may relate to them. And the old mau can substan'iate his narratives with facts and proofs, and is not a mere yarn spinner like many of his degenerate successors. His name is l)e Linton Wing, and years ago he won for himself the little of "progenitor of liberal advertising" bj his extensive advertising of a famous brand of flour of which he was the proprietor. It is said that at ore time be was worth $50,000,000, but lost his for tune partly by specnlatiou iu buying newspapers. One of Mr. Wing's greatest ndver tising feats, according to the Albuuj Press-fcnickerbocker, was the inser tion in the London Times, much tc the surprise of the slow-going Britons of a full-page advertisement of hi? famous braud of flour. It was claim ed as a joke that Mr. Wing, who alone had the secret and the patent for the manufacture of the Julian mills flour, introduced in the ingredients a Hast ening of alcohol and hops that gave a pungency upon which many a family was mildly exhilarated every morning at b' eakfast, and he had as a part of his business accounts a letter from Lord Palinerston, prime minister of England, in which the latter expres ses the thanks of Queen Victoria and her ministry for bags of his flour, be cause as the minister said, of its ele vating effects at each meal, Iu the advertisement in the London Times Mr. Wing bad such striking lines as theso: "Julian Mills see the Queen"; "Palme'Stun gets his Julian cakes early and saves England's houot by reason of the daring spirit they iu fuse into him." In the middle of the page was a wood cut —a most terrible innovation for the London Times—of Mr. Wing seated between the Queen and Lord Palinerston, who are both begging him to c >me to England nud live at Windsor. To this Mr. Wing responds: "I am an American sove reign, greater than the British crown." One of Mr. Wing's greatest enter prises was during the great celebra tion of IFSB, over the Atlantic cable. Albany turned out in great procession at the head of which was a great wagon of D. L. Wing, made entirely of flour barrels. Sixteen flour ban rels served as wheels and thousands of barrel staves formed an awning over the body of the wagon, on which fifty young ladies in baker's die s were conducting a mimic bakery of the Julian cakes. Thousands of Alban ians were gratuitously served with bread that day from the Juliau mills flour, and at the home of nearly every poor family in the ward iu which Mr. Wing lived were left that night a bar rel of flour and a photograph of Wing aud Queen Victoria. Say* Ytancinx In Sillv. "Of all pastimes I think dancing is the silliest, and I am 'never going to indulge in it again," taid a young man who has been more or less of a favorite iu Washington socie'y. "Why do you say that?" asked a friend, who was at a loss to account for this sudden change of heart. "I went out to Chevy Chase lake the other night, but I di I not goto take part in the dancing out there. I merely wautod a ride. A grouchy old bachelor was my companion, and, much against his will, we went over to see the devotees of Terpsichore at the pa vilion. The music was good, and there were so mauy pretty girls that I almost felt like taking a whirl or two ou the floor. I remarked to my mis anthropic friend on the scene and the music. He suifi'ed contemptuously, as I expected. "Put your hands up to your ea'-s, so you can't hear the music, mul then look nt them," he said. "I did so, and the transformation was complete. It »as as if some old witcli had waved her wand over the gliding couples and changed them into so mauy gyrating monkeys. The graceful swing of the two-step became a regular toad-hop. There was neither rhyme, reason or rhythm in their movemeutJ. It was au exhibition of appalling absurdity. I took my hands away from my ears so that I could hear the music,but the impression re mained, and I felt disgusted. I used to be very foud of dancing and I almost hate my bachelor friend for destroying the illusion."—Washing ton Post. How to .Suppre«t tli»» Vo.tjullo. Orders issued by the government ol India to civil surgeons witu entomo logical proclivities req .ire them "io make collections of mosquitoes and ather flies that bite men or animals, in accordance with the instructions contained in Professor Pay Lanketer's pamphlet," with a view of determin ing the possible connection of mala ria and mosquitoes. For the general destruction of mosqnitoe< several inethods have been tried. In many places the engineer has been success ful by drainiug the marshy a-eas. In others the use of kerosene, by throw* lug it iuto the water, where it forms a him on the surface, has prevented the developing larvie from reaching the air, and has thus brought about their destruction. A more rece it- ex periment has been the employment of permanganate of potash whii-h is said to kill the insect iu all stages of its development. As thii chemical has also been largely employed for puri fying tlip water of doubtful wells, and especial y with the view of protecting agaiust tho cholera bacillus, it would seem particularly applicable for ns«s in India.—lndian correspi ndeuce of tl>« London I.aneet. CAPSULAR BANQUETS. When Feasts Will Be Administered in the Form of Condensed Portions. "See that handsomely dressed lady that went out just as you came in?" inquired the grocer. "I'll bet mj head against a one cent postage stamp you can't guess what she wanted No? I'll tell yon. She wanted s glass of water and some salt. Yes. Then she whipped a little bos out o' her pocket, took a capsule out of th« bos, and, putting the salt iu the water, floated the capsule down hat throat Then she laughed, thaukeJ me, and said that was her luncheon. The capsules were filled with ex tract of beef. "The idea of concentrated foods ha? been getting in its work in prepara tions for soups. A little box holding less than a quarter of a pint has con centrated within it vegetables and meats sufficient toma!;eat;uarto: - more of soup. A genius out i 1 California dis jovereJ that f<() per of the pota to is water. He p"oceeded to drive away the water, and than shippel five times as much potato as it was possible to ship before desiccation. "Don't you remember that it wan said at the time of the war that pi ice? were so high in Richmond, Va.. that people brought their coufedarate money in a b.isket aud took their fam ily supplies of meat aud vegetables home in their pocketbooks? We're coming to pretty much the same thins? if this concentration goes od. It doe; not take much imagination to nee that the time may be near at hand wheu the grower of garden truck will take his stuff not to the grocer, but to the back door of the manufacturing chem ist, who will make it iuto various vegetable tablets. "Then we sliall have our tomatoe? in tablets, our parsnips in pilules,and lettuce in lozengers. The pint of milk will be represented iu a tablet the size of a trouper button. This is not at all fantastical. Some time age a chemist annoituced that he could and would produce food to sustain life from ordinary coal tar, and that t > it might be given the most delicate aud entrancing flavors, and it might be made charming to the eye. "If vegetables and other thing* that are now perishable are thus made iutc tablets, it is easy to see that there will not be the waste that we now nave. Good-by to the garbage ruua, who now carries away the profit of che grocer in hi i odorous wagoo. With the tabule business in full swtug there would be no need for the gro cer. He would go, and the place? that have known him would know him ao more forever. In his pla?e there would be fellows along the street witL fittle travs iu front of them, like sus pender aud shoestrin? men, selliug all kinds of vegetable tablets. Mote than this " Here the grocer was called away by • customer. Ruahins the llapldg in the Klondike. Arthur Ham, formerly of this city, writes from Lake La Burge, N. W.T., of the experience of his party in the White Hor. c e rapids: "You will see by the heading that we have passed the White Horse rapids. Just before we reached the narrow part of the rapid?, the final jump off, we ran on a rock in the rapids and stnek fast. We lay there from 8 o'clock at night until 5 the next morning. We had supper aud breakfast iu the White Horse and slept there. We had to run a line ashore and put up an aerial tramway, like a live-saving device, aud l'tiu part of our cargo ashore on a big line carrying a pulley. Two of our men went ashore on the line and pulled the stuff ashore with a horse. Then, with block, tackle and horse, we pulled the scow off the rock aud rushed through the rapids iu less than a minute without further acci dent. We expected to tako the scow and cargo across this lake with horses and sled--, but we nearly lost two or three horses and their loads through the ice and then gave up the attempt. One horse went iu up to her ears aud would have gone out of sight if she tiad not been held up until we could bitch on another horse and pull her out"—Buffalo Commercial. <ientlemen Rniloi* Did not Work. The opportunity to get rich sud denly offered by privateering ga e rise to a peculiar class of seamen, wh > be came known as "gentlemen sailors." All seaports sending out privateers were thronged with these tars of ex alted degree, and, in many cases, of long pedigree. Usually they were oi highly respectable parentage, and iu some instances belonged to well-knowu families. They weut to sea, not as common seamen, but as adventurers to whom the chance of making pri<e money was sufficient inducement to undergo the hardships and perils of the sea. Being better educated, and well trained to the use of arms—especially excelling the ordinary sailor in the latter accomplishment —they were welcomed iu the privateer, and the commander was glad to give them un usual privileges. They were not as digne l to the ordinary work of the seamau, but formed a sort of marine guard, standing between the officers and the regular crew. This arrange ment came to be understood when the "gentleman sailor" shipped. The common seamen were to do the real drudgery of ship work, while these privileged tars were to be on hand when fighting was to be done.—Sa*- irday Evening Post. Our Ulle.l Fainiti«*. "Does that man from America be long to the aristocracy?" inquired the earl. "Well," answered the duke reflect ively. "I have heard it asserted that some members of his family were coal barons " —Washington Star.
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