:N~EW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. APRIL 18. 1901.

THE PASSING THRONG.

"Too much learnlnr is danserous, runs the oldsaw," said T.P. Clayton, of St. Louis, at the Hotel

Imperial y*M«rday. "and it oftenHORATIUS comes true, especially when appliedAT THE to the very young. Iam in pos-BRIDGE. session of a hopeful young nephew

who has just celebrated his fifthbirthday. The world of books he may not yet en-ter, save by proxy, for he knows not how to read.Bu: with the aid of another he can catch a glimpseof the promised land, and ih:s he dearly loves to

do. and a fond and dotins mother aids and abetshim in it by reading to him for an hour at a time.Kiplingand poetry are his choice, and of the latterthai favorite of children for the last three ge::-sratloai 'Horatlus at the Bridge.' easily holds thepalm. He has other favorites, but he counts ita day lost if 'Horatius at the Bridge* is not readto hirr« at once. IfThomas Bablngton Macaulay hadrealize.l the trouble he was making for generationsof mothers to come, Idoubt whether he would everhave written that historic and Immortal p«oamAmong its soul stirring verses you may rememberthis one:

"'But when th>? face of SextusWas seen among the Iea,

A yell that rent the firmamentFrom all Urn town arose.

On the house tops was no womanBut spat toward him and hissed.

Xo child but screamed out curse 3And shook his little fist."

"Macaulay In other parts of the poem furtherrefers to Sextus as fa'ls- Sextus. And this bringsme to the beginning again an i the reason »r alittle learning Is dangerous, especially to the veryjoung."

DIED.FULTON

—On Tuesday. April W. t¥n at Ma aeaM •¦Iye«^o"hU li?*T JUSttn D"^»»• °- S

Funeral 'n Boston.Intermee: at Greenwood.

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M'CLURG— A; St. Ai,g^.tine.Fla.. April 13. at B.I_L-Idisease. Alexander C. itcOurs. of ChlcUo.'*****

P '•"¦,',' 'at St- Jsits's Church on Friday. April 19. at

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MERRITT—On Wednesday afternf>ca at ter rtatdme*. IBStamford. Conn.. Maria Shaw Merritt.^SiT S5Matthew Franklla Merritt.¦-¦*"v •-•¦-¦ •

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Carrias-s vtll meet the 2 o'clock train from New-Terk.ROTHWELL—On Wednesday. April 17. Richard T Roth-weil. Editor of ¦The En#lneer:r.« ar.J M:mn« Journal"*an-J -Tho Mineral Indu«rr>-.-Fun»ral from his late residence. N-. 2SO W«et 139thH«..Xew-York. -n Friday, the IDth Inst.. i-1:30 p. m.SMITH—On Toesdar. at his late reMJer.ee. X» M Clia-

ton-ave.. Brooklyn. Jacob Smith. In the 80th year ofhis ajj?.Services Thursday evening. 8 o'clock.Interment private.

THAYER—On April 17. 1001. Harriet r R -eer^. *\4tmM Xathan Thayet.

Funeral cervices at t.ie residence of her sen. >>'. TownatndThayer. NY '••"• Siuth Portlaad-ave.. Brooklyn. S. T..Friday. April 10, at 4 o'clock p. m.WHITCOMB—On Tuesday. Arr 1 1«. 1901. Elizabeth.daughter al Sarah C. and the late J. Mortimer Whtt-

comb.Services Thursday. 3 p. m.. from b»r late residence. Mo.¦-•'¦Waal "f.th-st.Interment at Buffalo.

/The Woo.llj.nn Cemetery.

Horough of it aa, New York City.once 20 r:a--ta--t i:iStreet. Ma!:-on Square SautiJ-.„The roa«hkrr|»lr Rnrnl Cemetery.

011" a shori distance «ouUt of PousijKeepsle. haa fo*yaleelipiblelota and vr,,. , sites: rr.,-, 'r rr. 2o to 40 cam.per square foot: send for circular. Address

¦ iIK poughkeepsis Rl-R.\L CEMETERT.

Special NoticesK.\|irrMlnnof mouth r»stor. Dr. feaae. dental ap*.

ctalist; WorM*a Fair awards: 434 Lex.-aye.. cor. «th-»».

¦!olf\ KEXSIT MAKE* A SCFSE.

"The other day my niece rushed in and paid tr>

"Walker's (the lad Ihave been apsaUag of) mother:'Oh! aunty! aunty! WaSSSJ has

POEM'S just shook his fist at Mr. Smith (a'

INTERPItE- near by neighbor), and said awfulTATTONBY A things to him. and bl tried to spit

SMALL BOY. on him—honest he did' <thls lastwith a rising inflection). The mat-

ter, however, was serious, as Smith was a dearfriend, and the young hopeful was haled to thefront forthwith. 'Did you do this awful thins,"Walker?" inquired Mi mother, tearfully, and uponhis acknowledgment that it was true a naturalquery followed as to the why and wherefore ofsuch a painful and Illegal dereliction In Walter'scode of manner . Iam not sure Ieven yet havehia explanation clear, but it was something likethis: The front dooryard was Rome. Walker was arhild belonging In the ancient city of the sevenhills. The unlucky Smith, by an Intricate and

\;ilainahle system of reasoning, was FalseSextus. The sidewalk was 'the Tiber.' and wsjss

Smith tried to cross it Walker, the Roman child.gave False Sextus Smith what for. It Was pointedout to him that it was the women and not thechildren of ancient Rome who spat at I.i-•Sextus, and he acknowledged Iks point as welltaken. Of course, an spologj was due False SextusSmith. and Wallet! was led to his home to makeIt. The circumstances were explained to Sextus asclearly as any one could explain them, and thenWalker stepped to th« centre and made Ms little,apology. 'Oh. that's all right.' said the quo.lnaturfd Smith, 'he missed me, anyway.'

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Andrew Vartck Stout, wtu sa BaaiTteg* to MlsaEthel Banter Domlnlck takes place on Saturdaynext, «.-.ve his farewell bachelor dinner at the

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Among the other features of the social pro-granune of yesterday were the meeting of theKnickerbocker Bowling Club, in the Tennis Build-ing. West l'orty-tlrst-st.. where the final meetingwill take place next Wednesday, and a dinnerparty given by Mr. and Mrs. H. McK. Twombly.

For to-day there will be the weeding of MBasRosalie Paul, daughter of Colonel Charles R. Paul,to Henry A. Barclay, at the Church of tho Heav-enly Rest, the ceremony being followed by a recep-tion at Sherry's. In Philadelphia there Is to bethe wedding of Miss Lauren Whelen to Craig Bid-die, and a larse party is going from hero to attendthe c» rrmor.y.

The dancing season has by no means ended. Mr?.John Jacob Aator gives a dance to-morrow evening

at her house in Fifth-a\e.. while Mrs. Poor giveaone to-n!sht for her daughter. Edith, in her beau-

tiful Gra mercy Park and Lexlngton-ave. homeformed of the two houses which once belonged to

the Fieldses, and which Is especially well adaptedfor entertaining. The drawing room runs the en-tire width of both houses, as does also the con-servatory, while the dlnlsifr room has remainedvery much as it was when it was the scene of thehospitalities of the late Cyrus Field. A dance wasgiven last ni.-ht by Mrs. William R. Burr at herhome In West Pifty-slxth-st, for her daughter,Jl'mr.r. who was one of t!i" season's debutantes.Most of thnse present belonged lo the younger setand comprised Paul Ix'iceMer Ford and his bride.Miss Heloise Beekman. Miss Helene RutherfordEly. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Parish. Miss Isabel!Curtis. Miss Dorothy Edwards. Miss Mildred Pix.Miss Madeline ("ary, Henry Morton. Charles a.Dana, George McCracken and Henry Britton.

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THE ANTI-RITUALIST ON itANP AT THE CONSE-

CRATION OF EISHOP IN.;RAM

London, April17.—The scene in Bow Church to-day during the consecration of the Right Rev.A. W. W. Ingram as Bishop of London resembled apolitical meeting rather than a religious service.John Kensit, the anti-ritualist, entered an expectedprotest against the appointment. He spoke fo-some time in a loud voice, his remarks eaajasag anextraordinary uproar, and he was greeted withcheers, hisses and shouts ot "Order!" "Shame!""No Popery!" etc. ..Mr.Kaaatt, In the course of his remarks, accused

Dr. Ingram of being unfaithful to all his promiseswhen he was consecrated Bishop of Stepney, add-ing that he had helped lawbreakers, had encour-aged clergymen who, in defiance of the rubric?, ele-vate-l the host, offered masses and practised theconfession, etc. Uo concluded by savins that hewas prepared to appear in the courts and provethat Dr. Ingram was an unfit person to hold theplace of a Bishop of the .^"-otestant Church, owingto hia encouragement of tV.t«e Illegal Roman prac-tices.

The friends and opponents of Mr.Kensit becameso uproarious that the Vicar-General tried to clearthe church. Dr. Ingram apnealed Is his friends tolisten quietly. Eventually the Vicar-General over-ruled the objections, and the election of Dr. In-gram \va.« conlirmed.-Disorderly scenes nnd hustling recurred outside

the church, and finally Mr. Kensit was escortedhome by a score of policemen and followed by ahowlingm'>b.

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•THE PRIMA DONNA."It does happen sometimes that an indifferent

musical farce is saved by a chorus with many

pretty faora. There Is no such hope salvation,however, for "The Prlma Donna," the'"tl«v? ttww16rkby Harry B. Smith and Aime Lachatim<?, -whichwas produced last nlsht at the Herald Square The-atre, because it Is not an Indifferent work. To callit that would be gross Battery- How managers areever le»i to suppose that the public can be made toner.pt such trumpery la one of the mysteries whichmust ever hover nbout the theatrical trade.

The audience of last night evidently came pre-pared to enjoy the piece or pi-ris.li in the attempt,as was shown by the absolute foolishness of theapplause, but Its goodwill was sorely tried beforethe end, and once or twice there was laughter

Which clearly indicated not amusement, but deri-

sion. Tho piece is put together in the most hap-hazard way. Characters appear nnd disappearwithout reason and do things which have no con-nectlon and no relation. There Is no need to goon. In the presence of such a work criticismblushes and hides its head. The pretty faces werethero and there was much gayety of costuming;one scene was prettily designed and one or two of

the musical numbers rose a little from the generaldead level of mediocrity. If future audiences canmake anything of those things they are welcometo the. experiment and its results.

John Kenslt has caused many disorderly scenes!;. ;¦ 'formanees similar to those of yestenla.. 0aApril 9. ISSS, he caused a scene in St. futhbert'sChurch. London, where part of the service consist-ed in chanting St. John's story of the Passion, onthe same lines as the Oberammerßau play, theOJBdattnc clergy taking the part of Christ. Pilateand Calaphas. One of the principal features isknown as the "Veneration of the Cross," the cruci-fix being removed from the altar to the steps,where the clergy, acolytes and congregation ad-vance in pairs, prostrate themselves and kiss thefigure of Christ. At the end of the ¦jsaccsstai wasMr. Keasit, surrounded by a party of friends. Headvanced t<> the altar steps, but. Instead of kneel-ing, he horrified the congregation by suddenly seiz-ing the crucifix, raising it alotc and franticallyrushing toward the door, shouting:

"In the name of Cod, Idenounce this Idolatrynnd Popery in the Church of England. My Cod.help me!"

A painful scene followed. A atwd ot peoplesurrounded Mr.Kensit. and people struck him andwrestled with him. one man going so far as tothrust a handkerchief into his mouth in ord'-r togag him. Finally the congregation rescued therrucitix. and the police entered the church and ar-res-,.! Mr Ken-it.

finally thwarted In hor purpose and transformedinto the snake through the superior virtue ofthe girl and the timely appearance of thelearned Egyptologist with a black pigeon.

Mrs. Brown Potter was at her best a year ormore ago as Milady in a scene where she hadnot a word to say, but glided in and out andcoiled around a pair of lovers like a beautifulgreen snake with naming head. This serpentineeffect she produced anew at the Avenue The-atre as Nicandra, for her beauty :infl grace be-came weird and. sinister with the adventitiousaid of a wonderful clinging: robe of blackspangled net underlined with beetle green andpurple shot silk. She filled the stage with herpresence and fascinations, beautiful if malignand seductive; but since she could nut remainsilent and content herself with sinuous move-ments of the arm? and th» glint Of ruddy hair,she dispelled the illusion that she had becomea great actress. Her voice was hard, metallicand overstrained, and her theatrical delivery ofthe lined comported illwith the hurlyburly ofboisterous farce and infatuated lovemakin;:going: on all about her.

The experimenters of the New English ArtClub are wideawake, if not audacious, thisyear. Mr. Furs<» has a strong, dashing, halflength portrait of Mr. Dodgson. which has thepulsating vitality of a Sargent and the sus-tained purpose of a Raeburn; and he has also ahighly original outdoor portrait of Mrs. GeoffreyBuxton. with dignity of po.se and individualityof method. Mr. V.'il.son-Steer has a brilliantportrait of Mrs. Moffat Lindner and a success-ful decorative scheme in "Ilydr::ngea," an au-burn haired girl dangling a Firingof pearls be-fore ¦ Mack kitten, arith singular effects ofcolor and amazing cleverness in technique. Notevery experiment in the Dudley Gallery justifiedthe effort, but th'-re is a distinct Impressionhere of earnest purpose and definite aim. Mr.Mark Fisher in "The Pool" succeeds In fillingasecluded basta with rich mists of sunlight ona hn; day; Mr. TomsOQ illumines his "HappyValley" with the radiance of eventide; Mr. \V.W. Russell In "The Edge of the Forest" revealsthe impressiveness of massed foliage under ablue sky; Mr.Hugh Carter solves the problem

of failing licht In "The Close of Day," and Mr.kfoffat Lindner in "Boshani by Moonlight." witha light in a window reflected in water below,conveys a sense of luminous quality effect onthe outer edge of darkness. While the enthusi-asts of the New English Art cinh are not dream-ing dreams, unless it be Mr. A. S. Hartrick in"The Land of Make-Believe,

"they are paint-

ing with vigor and with the saving grace ofIndividuality. J- M. F.

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UAXsrin.h ix wither slit.Boston. April 17.—Richard Mansfield, the actor,

was fag the Municipal Civil (Y.urt to-day for a hear-in-' in a case In which Louis Kronbers. an artist,seeks to rocover IMA alleged to be due for workdone for Mr MaaaaWA A large painting of theactor as Richard HI. concerning which there is adispute as to payment, occupied a prominent placein tne courtrocm. The actor denies the plaintiff'sclaim, and say.s all he owes is $»X>, which he isready to pay at any time.

AiTRI.s S 8ES T Tt > IXBA3E 18TLUM.Boston. April 17 (Special).— Mrs. Theresa R.

Haupt, known in the theatrical world as TheresaVaughn, has been committed to the Worcesterasylum for the insane. She was taken from herhome in Chelsea on the application of her mother,Mrs. Sfary Ott. About eighteen months apro shewas obliged to leave the stage because of her fail-lnsj memory. She could not remember her lines,and finally was wholly unable to play her part.Since her "retirement she lived with her mother, inChelsea. Four years ago Mr. Haupt died, and theofficial record of Mrs. Haupt's commitment statesthat this event was a Contributing cause to theinsanity. The trouble was augmented by the deathof "Joe" Ott. Mrs. Ifaupt's oldest brother, a few-months ago in New-York. At n<> time has MrsHaupt been violent, and she had her liberty fullyuntil she was taken to Worcester Thursday. Hercondition has been one of melancholia, and shehas threatened lo commit sul side.

SJUtLEM MEDICAL ASSOCIATION DINNER.The annual dinner of the Harlem sflillhsjAsso-

clation was held last nisht at the Hotel Majestic.Twenty-four tables were clustered around thespeakers' table, at which were seated a hundredphj-Ficians. their wives and invited guests. Avaudeville performance and Informal dance fol-lowed the dinner. The speakers were r>rs. i^ouisJ. Ladlnskj. John A. Wyeth, Montrose R. Richard.Emll Mayer and the Rev. George R. Van DoWater.

MARRIED.

CHAPIN"—imiNCKERHOFF— On Wednesday. April 17.Nt the residence of the brM.

-parents. Englewood.

N. J.. by tho Key. Samuel M. Hamilton. D. D.. assisted1./ Urn Rev. Ashbel t; Verm(lye. D. D.. Elizabeth1-athrop. ilaugntft of Elbert A. and Kmily VermilyeErinckerhofT. to William BassasD Chapln.

HINCHMAN—SPENCER—

On Tuesday. April 16. at ther«ald*poa of the bride's parents. No. 109 West 76th-st..by the Rev. William H. Spencer. D. IV. Agnes Louise.daußhter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L>. Spencer, to Fred-erick BaHDaaFl Hlnchman.

HOMANS—VASDERPOOL- On Monday. Apr!! 13. 1001.at Trinity Church, Newark, by -h» Rev. Dr. WynantVanderpool, uncle of the bride, assisted by th-» rector.Dr. Osborne, Loraine Kleannr. daughter of Mr. EugeneVanderpooil, to Sheppard Homans. jr.. of NewYork.

The m-irriaere of Mis-s Sarah Olbbs Thompson,

daugiiter of Mr. and Bar*. Robert Means Thompson,to Stephen Hyatt I'eil at the Church of th- Heav-enly liesr yesterday ufternoon Will remain on rec-ord as on>- of the prettiest weddings of tho season.The church had been beautifully decorated withHow. rs by Hodgson, pink and whit.- asaleas. ropes

and Easter lilies predominating The bride was at-

tir.'il ;n white satin, the yoke beins of point lace,

while the long train <>f the dreaa araji trimmed with¦lace flounce. The veil war. Ukawiae (,f p.iint iaeaand was fastened to the coiffure by a spray oforange Uossooas. The bride.-mni(is. who consistedof Mi?s Bertha Munde, Mi-s Bdlth Hyde. MiaaDal.-y Holland. Miss Gertrude Feli. Mi-s BstherHoppln, Miss Eleanor Kusyeil and ofias BaraThompson, were all dressed alike in frocks of whitemousseline de sole, trimmed with sera Cltrnj lace.Their large nale blin- velvet picture hats weretrimmed with Hue maline and long blue ostrichplumes; they carried bouquets of pink sweetpeas

and wore the turquoise brooches Riven to them by

the brideThe ushers consisted r.f Robert L. Barclay,

Eugene S. Willaid, Theodore Roosevelt Pell, Pre#-cotr Slide. Charlea W. Faircbllds, Lucius Tucker-

man Gibbs, De Lancey Coster, Livingston Pell,

Lawrence EUlman nnd W. Albert r.ase, jr.. S.Osgocd Pell officiating as best man. The bride wasgiven away by her father, and after the ceremony.

Which was performed by the Rev. D. Parker Mor-gan, there was :\ reception at the Thompson house

In Kast Flfty-third-st. The newly married couple

received the guests In the drawing room, which, likethe dining room, was beautifully decorated withflowers, and afterward the guests passed on intothe marquee erected at the rear of the house, hung

with tapestries md brocades, where the wedding

break::!.-' was served beneath a canopy of Southernsmilax, Crom amoni? the greenery of which thou-

sands of tiny electric lights glittered like stars.

The Kane, Van Rensselaer, Yates, Morris andLawrence families, to which the bride Is relatedthrough her mother, were all represented at the

wedding. While among the quests were Mrs. JulesJ. Vatable, Mrs. L". H. Harriman. Mrs. C. B. Alex-ander. Mr?. Alexander V.>n Nest, who was arrayed

i:i black velvet; Mrs. J. Stewart Barney and MissGertrude Barclay, who wore a frock of light brownand white striped silk, with a yellow straw hat.trimmed with rose:'. Mrs. Robert M. Thompson

herself wore a beautiful toilet of lilac satin.trimmed with an applique design of ecru lace. < Mie

of the features of the wedding ceremony was themusic by the Philharmonic Orchestra, togetherwith the full choir of the church. The programmecomprised the introduction to the third act of"Lohengrin."

Then followed the overture to "Loiienßrln," theAndante Symphony in B minor by Schubert, the"Kammenoi Ostrow." by Rubinstein, and the Bach-Gounod "Aye Mari i." As the bridal party enteredthe church th< cathedral scene from "Lohengrin"was simjr. "Tl.e voice that breathed o'er Eden"w:;s suiik in the course of the ceremony by theboy soprano Reuben Manley. while at the end themarch from "Tannhauscr" was Riven by the choir.by the orchestra and by the organ, at which HenryK. Duncan, organist and choirmaster of the church,presided. Mr. and Mrs l'ell started late in theafternoon for their place at Sands Point. Long Isl-and, where they will spend their honeymoon.

Tin: SUPREME COURTS DrX'ISION CAUSES

GREAT ANXIETY.

Fargo. N. D.. April1?—As a result of the UnitedStates Supreme Court's decision derlarir.e Invaliddivorces pranted in this State in which residencev.-a.s not bona fide, a flood of telegrams has comefrom thos" likely tc be affected. Tt is believedthat owing to the practice of rushing home im-mediately after decreei were granted, less than I<>per cent of the divorces allowed in the recent di-

vorce period would be found valid ifcontested. Butof those secured a large percentage were agreed

cases, where appearance was made by both parti?"!.Comparatively few had bitter contests, and only inthese can the question of residence he raised.Many of the latter class, however. included wellknown Eastern people and foreigners. A majorityof thes« have remarried, and the decision of thecourt not only affects their present status, but thelegitimacy of .many children born after secondmarriages. This makes the court's decision farreaching and creates great anxiety. Applicants

for divorces have always been warned against

abandoning their residence so hurriedly, but muchof'tlie trouble lias been caused by divorce bureaus

operated by unscrupulous lo:al attorneys withbranch offices in the East. A majority of the vic-tims have been from New-York, although New-Jersey. Pennsylvania and the New-England Statesare' well represented. . .

Notwithstanding that twelve months residenceis now required, there ar. a number "f applicantshere at present.

ART EXHIBITIONAT THE COLONIAL CLUB.The annual art exhibition of the Colonial Club,

Broadway and Seventy-second-st., began last even-ing, and will continue to-day and to-morrow. Thecommittee on art consists ol c. c. Ruthrauff,chairman; A. C. Humphreys, H. B. Wilson. JamesLeoming and Everett W. Little.

Thero are forty-eight paintings in all. They in-clude a landscape by Corot; "Environs d'Ornans."Courbet: "Twilight," Daublgny; "FontalnbleuForest." Dlnz; "Autumn" and "Autumn Silence."George Inness; "Landscape at Barbizon," Millet:"George Washington" and "Andrew Jackson."Charles W. Peale; "Roebera de Jean de Paris."Rousseau; three canvases by Gilbert Stuart; "Re-turn from the Field," Troyon: John Trumbull'a"Washington." and "Ship on Her Beam Knds inthe Bay of Biscay," by J. M. W. Turner.

Notices of marriase3 and deaths :nust be ia-aoraed with fullname and aldr»-ss.

HAMPTONS TnjRVY-THIRD AXXIVERZARY.DIED.

Ar;|>tol Key. Edward W. Herrlck. Mnr> 1..Bartlett. KrSJaM R. McClurg, Alexander C.Uryce. Joseph i, Merritt. Maria S.CI-'ve:and. Cecilia r Rothwell. Richard P.Fowler, Katharine V. B. Pmith. JacobFulton. Re.. Justin D. Thayer. Harriet P. R.Heave)-. Mary. Whltecmb. Kllzabeth.

MM/¦:. LILLIAS BLAUTELT RETURNS.Among- the passengers on the steamer Oceanic,

which arrived here from Liverpool yesterday, wereMme. Lillian Blauwlt and her husband, \V. F.Pendleton. Mme. Blauvelt has just returned fromRome, where she sans Verdi's "Requiem" in theRoyal Academy of St. Cecilia, and received thedecoration of the Order of St. Cecilia. She willmake a tour, singinsc at Springfield Richmond,Louisville, Buffalo and other points, before goingto her summer home in the Adirondacks. In thefall she willgo to Europe for a Continental tour.

The wedding of Miss Helen C. liulkley,daughterof Mr. and Mrs. Justus L. Bulkley. and DorseyIves Holt took place yesterday aftrrnoon at thehome of her parents. No. 787 Madison-aye. Themarriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. >r.

David H. Greer, of St. Bartholomew's Church, inthe drawing: room, which was decorated withspring flowers. The bride w;is gowned in whitesatin, trimmed with roint lace which belonged tohrr mothor. Her tulle veil was fastened with adiamond ornament, the bridegroom's gift, and shecarried a bouquet of "orchids and lilies of the val-ley. Her bridesmaids Miss Pansy Roosevelt. MissIsabel Curtis, Miss Marion Fish and Miss Natalie"VV< Da, arOK gowns of white lace, with collars andbelts of blue velvet. Their brown straw hats weretrimmed with roses, and they carried chiffon para-sols trimmed with lilies of the valley and roses.T. Chesley EUehardson, jr., was best man, and theushers were Frederick "\V. Loew, 2d. John Adams,Bryce .Metcalf and J.»s.-pii Edmund Bulkley,brotherof the bride. A small reception was held after, theceremony.

FUNERAL OF GEORGE Q. CAXKOX.Salt Lake. Utah. April 17.— Funeral services

were held this afternoon over the body of ApostleGeorge Q. Cannon, of the Morrrmn Church, whodied in California last week. The ceremonies,which took place inthe Tabernacle, began at noonand continued until 2 p. m. All the hiirh dignitariesof UK Church participated. The immense seatingcapacity of tiie Tabernacle was taxed to its utmostand hundreds: of persons were unable to enter.President Lorenzo Snow, the head of the MormonChurch, was the principal speaker. After the ser-vices at t'.-.e Tabernacle the body was taken to therity cemetery, where burial took place. The coffinwag followed to its resting place by an Immense

throng.

Another wedding which took place yesterday wasthat of Miss Lillian Jones, daughter of Mrs. GeorgeW. Jones, to Charles York Judson, son of Mr. andMrs. Alfred M. Judaon. Nt the Church of theDivine Paternity. Hiss Ruth Overton, IBsm Gracex.v.-ion. Miss Nathalie Colfax and Miss MaySquirts were the bridesmaids, while William I>.Judson. Edward Fennesey. Bdaoa Horton. C. I*.Wlldey, jr., L. H. Smith and Frank Stearna. actedJ.S ushers. After tho c'r?ranny there was a recep-tion at the house of Mrs. George W. Jones, InWe»tTwenty-lirst-st.

MA;t,<i FOR SOUTH AND -ENTRAL. AMERICA.WEST INDIES. ETC.

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'mail for Curacao. Wrezuela. Trinidad. British. and

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nanr mall only which mv« directed "per 9.•-

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•p. m. prevlou." 'lay

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corna. clos» here dally at •:*>p. m. up to AprH tl9. li»-crcslve fcr dispatch per a. s. Duks» of Flf*.

Mails for Hawaii Japan. CMsa a»i Philippine Islanda,via Snn Francisco. close here datly at 6^!i> p. m. up MApril t2O Inclusive, for dispatch a*r•. s. r»rlc.

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Mall* f r Attstralla (»xc#rt TTe«t An«tralla. which ¦<-•«via i.i-,• and XeT-ZealanvJ. which «oes via SaaI-"r,n'!- ¦ an*l Fiji >'nn-1«. vliVancouver. clo«« heredally it •: ¦'¦ t>. ni. atltr Aoril rl.t anrl ur> to Aortl IS7.inclusive, for li»pa- per a. •. Aorangi >»-iprlei«entar»

malls, via Seattle, close a: 0:3o p. m. AprU f29).Malls for Hawaii. China. I-.r.in .i-..J. Philippine Islaada.

via San Franet-'«>. cloi>e h»re .iallr at 8:30 p. in. uo taApril -'.:¦> Inclusive, for dispatch per s. s. Nippon Mara.

Malls for ¦,¦¦:¦,-• iVanourer. close here dailyat 6:3u d. ra. ca to Anril t.Ti>.. tr. 'n.-ive. fc» disoatcnper s. s. Ekipht* of <*Sina {registered mill must b*directed "via Vancouver"). •

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-tion ot thetr uniat«rrupied ovtrian4 sraaaiL tamamxmail close* at 6p. m. peevloua day. > - ,

K. .. * .corxe^ius vast trrrr. Voatajaaaaa, •;roatofflce. New-York. N. 1.. AprilU. MM.

APPLBrOX At hia late reaidence. Oyontz Park, the Rev.Edward W*. Appleton. D. D.. Rector Ernerr-jj of St.Paul's Church. Chelter.ha-n. r-;in. l--.-•_•; peacefullyinto rest on Monday morning-, aged C7years.

Ih» fun.-:-ii services wttl ba r.elu la iK. Paul's Church.Cheltenham, on Old V r\ Road, near Elklns >-,-:

on Tbundar, April IS. at Ip. m. precisely. .The Keveren.l Clergy, relatives and friends are respectfully

InterraenYprlvat". 'at Laurel HillCemetery. V>.'A,-'.. :.BARTL.KTT— , on. April13. Ernest Russell Bart-

FuneralSfrjrn Church of t^e Heavenly Rest. «th-jt. and

slh-ave.. i'rlJay at 10 a. m.

BRYCE—On April I<".. IPOI. at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.'.l.j r Joseph Smith Bryce, late of the L"r.lted StatesVrmy, In the 94th year of h'.s as?.

Fu'ner.iY service* at St. Mark's Church In the Bowery, cor-ner of Second-aye. and renth->t.. on Friday. April IS),¦t0:30 a. m.

Kindly omit flowers.

CLKVEI^-VND- Tuesday. April IG. at the resi-dence ef her cousin, Mrs. P.' A. Wallirs. Xo. 477 We»tl-12d-st.. Cecilia Pauline Cleveland.

R^.iuirm mass at St. Leo's Church. Ea»t 2Sth-st.. betweensth jn.l Madison ayes.. Friday, April ly. a: 11 a.-m.

FOWLER—

On April IT. 11X11. Katharine V. D. Fowler.beloved «ife ot Colonel Edward S. Fowler.

Funeral services at her late residens-e. Sn. 4-17 tth-rt;.Borough of Brooklyn. New-York City, on Friday eveningat 7:30 o'clock. ¦' : ,

Relatives and friend* Invited without further notice.

Interment private. -"fra|m|A||| |||||l|[H(||fflli|ni|ff"' .

FRENCH VISITORS AT WEST POIXT.West Point, X. V.. April 17.—M. Cambon. the

French Ambassador, and M. Siegfried and others.isited the Military Academy this afternoon. Theywere shown about the post by Colonel Mills, and agrand review was held In their honor on the plainsby the cadets. »This morning the party visited ColdSpring and Inspected the Cornell Ironworks.

Among 'those .who sailed yesterday on the Ma-

ISStle were Mr. and Mrs. 'George L.Rives and MissRives. Lucius K.'Wllmerding, "WY M. Toung. Mrs.Travis Cochr«n, the Misses Louise and HenriettaHoguet,*-- Marshal C. Lefferts. Edward C. Cooper,Captain Wlndham and r the Misses Wmdham.

MANYVISITORS ATTKNT'THE KXERCISICS AT THE

¦QOCSMPCL NEGRO SCHOOL.

Hampton. Va.. April 17 (Special).— The exercises

connected with the celebration of the thirty-third

anniversary of Hampton Institute were attendedto-day by a large number af persons, including aparty of sixty-five from New-York. Boston andPhiladelphia, who are here as guests of Robert C.Ogden. and who are to make a visit to Tuskegee,Ala., before urnitiK home. Yesterday. in addi-tion' to the usual inspection of shops and class-rooms, a conference aras held In the Interests of

Southern education. To-day the annual BlWStltof the board of trustees was held, and the prin-

olpars report showed I,o*o pupils enrolled. The

tlllairtSJ class numbers fifty-one, includingeight

! Indians. In addition, tiade oartMeaaaa are to be: awarded to fourteen other young men who have'

finished courses in nine of the various industrial: departments of the institute. _

exercises1 This afternoon the anniversary

filled to orer-held In Cleveland Hall, which was filled to over-

¦ flowinc The papers read by the members of theKradu&lnp class were of high merit, and were weU1 received Notable among them was an address by'

a PaD*«O Indian. John Latorias. who gave a rt-sum! of tin- Indian situation, entitled -Forward,

iBackward and Now Onward to the Las u .uilow-

1pbCVi*w came speeches by graduates of other

year" wno toM^valuable work accomplished in' vart?us parts of the South. The closing remark*

I w^?e maPde Vthe Bey. Dra, Lyman Abbott ana•

Alexander McKen*le. ;:

LONDON NOTES.

±S OLDTIME PUBLISHER WITnOTJT A

TITLE—FARCE RET OFF BY THE SU-PERNATURAL—THE NEW-

ENGLISH ART CLUB.

London, April10.A meek and lowly publisher may build a

jr.onument more permanent than brass to thegreat men cf the nation, yet not be mentionedjt) -Who's Who" and be known In death only as>lr. George Smith. The founder of the "Dic-tionary of National Biography" is reported tohave expended out of his own resources overSS'-0.000 in completing that monumental workon a scale commensurate with its dignity andimportance. The brst writers were employed;

n0 p-.ir.s were spared to secure precision andr-omrW pnf>Si:?: a groat financial sacrifice was de-liberately made: and a service of inestimablevalue was rendered to the nation. The publicfpirited publisher, who carried out during aprotracted period of eighteen years this colossalundfrtaking in sixty-three volumes, was notrewarded with either peerage, knighthood ordecoration for what Mr. John Morley has de-scribed as a supreme act of good Dshtp.He has died at the age of seventy-seven withoutother distinction than the respect and admira-tion of the mat men of letters, who have appre-ciated the value of his service to literature andhistory. He was content, like Thomas Carlyle.Charles Darwin, John Tyndall. Thomas Huxley.Herbert Ppenccr. William EL Gladstone and JohnBright, to Ffrve his country in the dignity ofdemocratic simplicity.

Mr. George Smith was an oldt'ime publisher,who discovered authors and became their life-lo=g friend. One of his earliest achievementsirac the discernment of superior merit in Char-lotte Bronte's manuscript of "The Professor"and at unique genius in "Jane Eyre"; and oneof his cherished reminiscences was his introduc-tion of Thackeray to the shy, sensitive author.Le;?h Hunt, John Ruskin. the Brownings, Mat-thew Arnold. Anthony Trollope. Mrs. Gaskill,George Eliot. Charles Darwin. Lord Tennyson,Mrs. Humphry Ward. Thomas Hardy, Sidneyl«, Leslie Stephen and George Meredith wereamong- his intimate friends: and his relationsextended to the court, since he was the publish-er of the Queen's "Leaves from the Journal ofOur Life in the Highlands" and of Sir Theodore

tin's "Life of the Prince Consort." He wasthe founder of "The Cornhill Magazine" and of"The Pall Mall Gazette," under Mr. FrederickGreenwood's editorship: and his literary friend-ships with the greatest Englishmen of the timewere supplemented by a complete biographical

record of the famous men and women in na-tional annals. The goodwill of men of lettershe coveted and cherished. He was in a real»ense a true patron of good literature. Honors,title? and decorations he held in slight esteem.The only formal honor which he ever acceptedwa? the Oxford degree of master of arts.

Times have changed since the hacks of Grub-tt. made obeisance to the publishers as the ar-biters of literary destinies. The author nowhas behind him a man of business, the literaryagent, who plays off one publisher against an-other, and obtains the Aiehrsi t-rms for bookand serial rights before a line has been writtenor a title chosen. The successful novelist lives¦cell and finds it convenient to have sources ofcredit while he is producing his work; and theliterary agent is his broker and the publisher ishis banker, af'er the contract has been signed.Mc 7 money is lent by publiFhers to authorsthan in the Grub-st. time, and without other se-curity than the contract for an unwritten bookor an unfinished manuscript. The publishersencourage the practice because itplaces the au-thors under obligations to them and enablesthem to control subsequent publications withoutthe intervention of the literary agent. The dis-covery of a new author does not excite gratitudein the breast of the writer discovered, for thesecond work, destined to have a large sale on thestrength of the success of th? -first, is marketedby the literary agent without

—'erence to the

claims of the first publisher. The oldtime rela-tions of publishers and authors have been trans-formed since Mr. George Smith went into busi-ness in Cornhill and brought out as Tiis firstventure the eccentric Mr. Home's "New Spiritsf the Age." Th<- spirit of a still newer age hasdispensed to a iarK- degree -vit'.i literary de-pendence upon capital. The author, :-?deed. isdisposed at times to put on airs and patronizehis publisher by asking him to dlno with him, byproposing him at a club, and introducing him inbis literary and fashionable set!

Mr. Russell Vaun's "Nicandra" involves aMletona use of the supernatural, and is ac-

jcurately described as mystic farce. There arereminiscences of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"in the hurlyburly of love at cross purposes,and there are faint suggestions of "Pygmalionand Galatea" and of "Niobe" in the plot; but |the metamorphosis of a snake into a woman ofeubtle fasc nations is simply an artificial ex-pedient for setting a commonplace householdby ihe ears and bringing on a carnival of pro- IDuecuous hugging and boisterous fun without«¦ gleam of poetic imagination or whimsicalromance. Shakespeare was frank enough inthe farcical movement and underplot of his»•-'•¦. and he introduced classical characters andr.a; -•

for the artistic effect of contrast withJhe antics of rustics; but he also created aHouse Beautiful in comedy for the fairies andmlschiei'ous sprites of the fireside tales ofMerrie England. Mr. Gilbert in "Pygmalion andGalatea" and the Paultons in "Niobe" employed¦el ¦ natural motives for purposes of artistic in-vention. With Mr. Russell Vaun the super-

natural is simply a deus ex machina for bring-ing en and subsequently winding up a roaringfarce. The snake is let out of the box, andeverybody under the spell of a beautiful womanfalls desperately in love with the wrong per-ls*, a black pigeon is thrust into the charm-er's hand, and the snake is again imprisonedJn ¦'¦• box for the final fall of the curtain. Be-tween those mystical metamorphoses there arePeriods of thoughtless mirth.

Such originality as this piece at the Avenue

Theatre has— and there hi little, indeed— lies Inthe substitution of the supernatural for theor.iinary axpailaata ofproducing a farcical situ-ticn by a series of misunderstandings or acci-dents. Nicandra. once the priestess of Isis and«B<luly fond of pet snakes, was punished i,y

the wrathful goddess for feeding one with sa-wed black pigeons. Transformed into a ser-P^nt. she has been wrigglingand squirming for•£?3, until an Egyptologist captures her andleaves her overnight in an English household,

'!th explicit directions that the glass box is notto he disturbed. The curiosity of a languishing*i<!r,v.- returning from the opera is excited, andtfce lid of the box is broken, Nicandra appear-ln" as a sinuous and beautiful woman en-dowed with serpentine grace and irresistible fas-ciC£.Uons. The surernatural having opened the*«y for farce, everything follows the usual or-4*r. A retired merchant is enslaved by the en-chantress, neglects his wife, quarrels with his"*Phew, makes love to a housemaid and is pur-«uer] by tne languishing widow. A pair of wellmatched lovers are estranged, the nephew isenamored of a housemaid, the wife is persuadedto '-lor*- with a valet, an American millionaire

18 f onfound*d, and a policeman is bewitched.T«P«yturvydom is created in the prosaichousehold, while Nicandra glides about the

*ge, waving: her hands and !weaving- her

icapricious spells. There is method Inher malev-4olent mischief, for she hopes to win permanent

ctanncipation from curse of His by bringing

f||HSST i*«*'.»w«y a stainless heroine, and she Is

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