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Show A X r - - yor(.IsLandmarfi Heing "Demolished. - jOld JVeiet Last week workmen began tearing roof off of the bouse. My wife found down the old De Lancey bouee, on the letter and stood before me with Heath cote Hill, near Mamaroneck, N: darning eye, reading between her T. The property had been aold In teeth: partition proceedings, and had passed "The three little Thompsons are out of the possession of the last of not at all well, and 1 think you had the De Lancey heirs. better come down to see us. Signed The house was built IaJ792 on a hissed my wife with a contemptuous, high knoll overlooking the Inlet, and drawn-ou- t slur on the name, on the site of a brick house erected In 1(4? end burned Just before the Revo "Imagine the rest" New York lntionary war. The original house, Times. known as Heathcote Manor, was occupied by Col. William Heathcote, an THE UPS AND DOWNS OF A STATE earl settler and slave owner. The house was nearly surrounded, It is Hew Jersey's SsfM Deep tress a Csa-asitl- si said, by the quarters occupied by Col. Plaee la HaStoaal Affairs, Heath cotes slaves. After the death The rapid changes In the fortunes heirs, bought the of state at the national capital are tanceyoneatJhe Interests of his eouslnV De Lancey strikingly illustrated In the case of had been a captain in the British New Jersey, which. In a few years, army, but In 1789 he resigned his com- rose to the plnacle of Influence, but mission and went to Mamaroneck. has now fallen back Into the ranks. He erected the house now being deA brief while ago Garret A. Hobart as no other molished, and lived there with his dlled the man ever did. He was a power In the family until his death. me an Incident la the history ot that ship which was closely connected with my childhood, and which to this day stands out vividly In my memory. When 1 was about dve years old my family was interested in the old Salisbury Iron mine, which Is, I suppose, the oldest mine of real worth In the United States. The first large anchor for a United otates warship to be made in this country was made from Iron taken from that mine, for the frigate Constitution. The anchor was forged near Salisbury, and the process created a great amount of interest all over eastern Connecticut. A special wagon was made to cart the anchor on. It was drawn by eleven pairs of oxen and when the day came to start on its journey over the hills to the jludson, where It was to be received by Old Ironsides, a holiday was declared all along the route. Schools were dismissed, and la each village girls came out and decorated the oxen and the wagon with flags Tb blcyele loop" presents a most Interesting demonstration of a great fcteStiflc principle, which plays .Its part 3a preventing the earth from dropping into the sun, and the moon fro it being precipitated upon the barth, no less than In keeping the rldej and his wheel from falling to the .ground when he hangs, bead downward, In midair, at the top ot the oop. Centrifugal force is the agent concerned In this seemingly miraculous feat, a force that has many appliances In everyday life, some of whlcb-41- ke the Swinging of a bucketful of water around the head without spilling astonish the uninitiated, while other art so familiar that nobody atops to think of them. But when applied In the case now under consideration, centrifugal force presents itself in most sensational form. Yet, thrilling though it Is to watch tha Jld rider, defying gravitation, like a fly on the celling, without anything except his motion to bold him In place, the natural law that he obeys Is extremely simple and perfectly certain In Us operation. If he observes all the requirements of that law tt will never fall him, so that his Bifety depends entirely upon hlm-aef- f. f He must develop K x THE, OLD DE LANCEYHOUSE, MAMARONECK. N. Y, In one ot the earlier vlsit of James administration and not merely a pre- and tfowefA As nearly as I can - siding officer In the senate. He enCooper, afterward the first great Amwhose to original joyed President McKinleys confidence erican novelist, name Fenlmore was added by act of and few measures of Importance were n decided without his aid. legislature when he was Hobarts protege, John W. Griggs, years old, to Westchester county, he became acquainted with Susan, John was attorney general at a time when Peter De Lanceys second daughter. international and colonial questions And the friendship soon ripened Into gave to the office an Importance it A more tender regard. Cooper soon never before possessed. Gen. William J. Sewell, the senior became a frequent visitor to the De Lancey homestead, . and on New senator from New Jersey, was one Year's day, 1811. was married to the of the presidents most loyal support young woman of his choice, probably ers In the senate, and Mr. McKinley In the house now being destroyed. depended greatly upon his Influence la Nobody In Mamaroneck Is positive the senate at large and In the milithat Cobper was married in the house, tary affairs committee. A fourth Jerseyman, State Senator but his biographers have no cause to M. Johnson, was called William to celebratwas doubt that the wedding ed at the home ot his bride. The fact Washington to the post of first asthat many, of Coopers friends and sistant postmaster general to help exdepartment admirers deprecated his marriage Into tricate the postofflee from the slough of politics. A Tory famliy seems consistent with All f these honors fell to the lot the belief that he was wed in Mr. De Democratic Lancey's house. There seems to be of the long which Garret A. Hobart brought state the for reason that believing ample old parlor was the scene of his mar- into .the Republican fold, says the New York Times, but now New Jerriage, as well as of his courtship. The demolition of the De Lancey sey Is stripped of them alL The lives of Hobart and Sewell have bouse leaves only one monument of the eighteenth century In the vicinity Almost directly of , Mamaroneck. across the Boston Post Road from the thirty-seve- rock-ribbe- d fig- ure, that was in the yehr 1840." The Font WorW of testa. An Ingenious writer has been making a curious computation respecting the wheels in London. He points out that it takes 200100 horses to move these wheela Within a radius of twelve miles there are 500 miles of railway running through 700 stations, and between .morning and night the trains Tunning over these carry 1,300,000 passengers. But the street vehicles travel twenty times as far as the trains every day and carry more passengers, for though the latter travel 26,000 hours the miles every twenty-fou- r street carriages dally accomplish a journey equal to twenty times the circumference of the globe. The buses and trams move 1,600,000 passengers from place to place every day, while 120,000 people ride about In cabs and 25,000 In private carriages. Londoners traveled In London some. thing like 165,000,000 times making nearly 1,000,000,000 journeys, while a capital of than 70,000,000 is Invested a year, separata no less in the De Lancey house is the massive stone chimney of the Dlsbrow house, built In 1(77 and burned only a few years ago. This chimney Is carefully preserved by the owner of thy land on, which it stands, and may last an age on account of Its solid construction and broad base, unless a vandal hand has It demolished to make way tor Improvements. d THOSE THREEHTTLE THOMPSONS BwImw matter The Dim Wear Break- tar Or Brw si "in my business I come In contact with all sorts of animal people from the ordinary snake .charmer to the owner of a private menagerie," said a prominent New York snake and reptile man, whose name for the purposes of this story must be "Thompson." "Not long ago I presented three little alligators to a certain lady snake charmer1 named Hedwig, who was one of my regular customers. I received a letter Of .thanks in return saying that once the little chaps were trained they would appear on theater programmes as the Three Thompsons, named In my honor. "Hedwig was a picturesque sort of snake charmer, the kind of woman, and unattractive though v homely a whom as a . . stone wall, well not could help fellow mentioning even In ones home, too much l thing I spoke altogether about Hedwig to begin with. To add to the fuel I have been obliged to meet her several times In a business way after her evening performances. "One day I got a letter from Hedwig, and after reading it I Innocently took it home. It came near breaking up my establishment and taking the -- ROOM IN WHICH COOPER COURTED HIS WITE. 'carmnoju: clear, and must retain control over hi worked, and young unmarried people muacles id order to hold his balance became scarce in the oommnnlty. and guide his wheel. But thla la only" When the marriages in a certain Alsatian town fell below the average a beginning. As he rteea, In a moment he la going the authorities hit upon a curious inseek straight upward, and the preaiurs ducement for tardy couples to matrimonial publicly the altar. They he whirls When diminishes. swiftly across the overhead portion of the announced that all people who married track and reaches the center of the top within a certain time would be exempt ot the curve hie head la down, his feet from local taxation tor a period of are up and hia bicycle la on top ot five years. A marriage fever ewept him. They are sustained only by cen- "through the town at one. -n Austrian nobleman 'A trifugal force. Gravitation la pulling was anxious to encourage matrimony them straight downward with a force He ot 200 pounds. If the centrifugal force among the peasants on hia estate. brideto undertook provide 'every but slightly exceeds gravitation at this with tobacco for life and every point, the rider. If he has time to an- groom bride with a pair of gloves onoe a year alyze ils sensations, must feel almost aa long as she lived. This generous-offeas if he were floating like a feather, acted Ilk a charm, and soon of all nearly deprived weight wa scarcely an unmarried man there This lath critical point It the calon estate. Nearly every eligible th culations have been correct, there will was In the enjoyment of domesmale be enough velocity remaining when bliss. tic the top la reached to counterbalance gravitation, and, even It the excess 4 6YfRECCGlG-- 3' TUTUS alight the rider and hia wheel will ANSWERS pass on and, once over the center, they Soot HsMaraa EspIfM a Kaabsr are henceforth secure against a fall. ef SI pis QoMUoas. They will remain on the track during One of the greatest things that Colthe downward Journey. Theoretically, umbus discovered was that he bad with a loop 20 feet in diameter, and not the faintest Idea that he had disneglecting resistance, they must reach covered America. the top with a velocity of nearly six Washington said to the soldiers at feet a second. In practice the velocity Valley Forge that they that are whole would have to be considerably greater. need not a physician. Bat consider the effects upon mind The Chesapeake attacked the Shanand body ot the rapid changes ot ap- non and drove her up the Shenandoah parent weight that the rider undergoes. Valley, then tbe Shannon stacked the At the bottom of the loop his apparent Cheepeake and the war ended In a weight waa instantaneously Increased battle. to a prodigious amount, almost crashAt the battle of New Orleans three ing him down upon the handle bar. of the British officers were killed, one This lasts but a moment, and then, of them mortally. Britons low The Romans left th again almost Instantaneously, his weight drops upon him, and at the top spirited and of the loop ha aeems to weigh comThe Parthenon was used as a powparatively little, but only to be a sec- der magazine during the Trojan war. ond later again bent over the handle The outline of Greece Is very ragbars by the pushing pressure, as th ged. surrounding all th country wr Wheel, baring gained momentum, nearly all. Tbo Persians hurried across th Helwings upon the slope leading to the lespont, burning It behind them. stopping place. A great many of our authors wars It Is apparent, from what has been there. Howthorne, Thoreau, and born said, that the principal peril Involved Is personal In ita origin. The rider th battle of Concord. Dickens married, but not successmust not allow hia head to swim, or fully. hia muscles to relax their control over ' Th chief elements ot English aro th wheel. Given perfect and Saxon. Anglo mina tbs danger is reduced to Tbs three great literary works4 ot imum. th Hebrews wars th Translmtioa of The asm fores that carries the rider th Old Testament Into the New and circle would several around his twsnty-fogreat histories, these they carry him, through empty space, com- wrote on paprus paper made from that pletely around tha earth. If h couM weed. start from a mountain top with a veCognate born together. Example: tolocity of five miles, Instead of a few Cats are cognate. Cats cognat - well-know- r a centrifugal fore great enough to counterbalance his weight when he Is at the top of the circla Mathematics, knowing tha t&e of the loop, la able to tell him develop the force needed. The force depends upon the velocity with Which he move. He acquires that velocity, not by pedaling, but by riding (own a steep slope. How high must the starting point be? A general, rule, applying to all such case, Is tkat the elevation of the point from which be starts must be to the elevation of the top of the loop In a ratio exceeding that of five to four. The air resistance and the friction must all be carefully allowed for, and this Is the business ot the engineer who plans the apparatus. Accordingly, If the loop is twenty feet high, the starting platform must be mors than 'twenty-fiv- e feet In height, and the acquired velocity must exceed that named above. Of course, the loop may be leu than twenty feet In height and then all the other dimensions will be proportionately reduced. It la probable that. In the actual case considered, the velocity with which the rider arrivee at the bottom of the slope and begins tha ascent of the circular loop la at least thirty mile an hour. This velocity Immediately and rapidly falls off as hs commences the ascent of the eteepening curve, so that when he reaches the top he is moving only fut enough to Impart a centrifugal force exceeding his weight (or the effect ot gravitation) by a margin sufficiently large to Insure his safety. As the bicycle strikes the curve of the ( loop and begins to ascend, the wheels are pressed against the track with tremendous force and the rider la pitching forward with an' tnergy which only practice and trained muscles can enable him to withstand. It la as If the weight of htlf a dozen men bad suddenly been thrown upon him and hia machine. If we estimate the actual weight of bicycle and rider at 890 pounds, then It can be shown that their combined weight, or rather their pressure upon tha track, owing to centrifugal force, becomes, as they begin the ascent of the loop, more then a thousand pounds; And this, too, at the minimum speed theoretically required to carry them around. In practice this preuure may be considerably - crest-falle- -- , , ot 't-- '" post-office- . THOUGHT HE HAD A COOP EXCUSE -Saaeta Thanasa la HU DlsrSS Habit, The late Senator Allen G. Thurman of Ohio waa by no meat an abstemious man. Like a sailor he enjoyed hia grog, and though h was regular in his potations he seldom passed the line of perfect sobriety. Once ppbn a time his wife, leaving for a visit to friends exacted from tbejudge a promise that be would be a "teetotaler" during her absence. On the day of Mrs. Thurmans return the Judge stopped In the ( n. yards, per second. The needed velocity gether. variee with the radius of th circle Append hang to. Example: Ulystraversed. Prof. Garrett P. Servlae In ses appended to the raft Hearats Chicago American. She returned hia affection aa much as sh thought prudent, considering ENCOURAGEMENTS TO MATRIMONY the hasty temper of her brother. The president of the society was Cass Whsrs Slight fraresattaa CaasaS magnanimously sleeted, aa IpUmis God tempers the wind to the shortIt would seem that at times matri- horned lamb. Christian Endeavor mony only needs to be encouraged to World. become epidemic. The mayor of a town In Southern France, not satisfied Wealthy Waasaa Ftw Papaea A woman examined In a New York with the manner In which hia young peoplt were shying at marriage, of- bankruptcy court last week said sh greater. Here, then, would seem to be a point fered a reward of 100 francs to every had failed In her livery buslnesa beof special danger. The rider must be ample under the age of 24 who were cause, while In a fashionable (or, aa prepared for this instantaneous In- joined in wedlock during his term of she said swell) neighborhood, her crease of virtual weight He has to office. It cost the good mayor many patrons didnt pay her. She said ab of keep his nerves steady and bis head hundreds of dollars, but tbe scheme lost 175,000. . ? . - - The grate Is modern, but the fireplace Is the origlnaL flickered out Griggs has returned to wheels and horseflesh by means the practice of law and Johnson has which these - are" moved. returned to his business and legal inVestas Ballt ea Saa. There is a solid citizen of New York terests, which he left only because of President McKinleys promise of whose fortune was founded on sand. the postmaster generalship a prom- It amounts to a few millions. James ise that President Roosevelt did not Everard dug the earth cut of the bole feel binding upon himself. in whlcff sits that architectural monstrosity known as the general This earth proved to be fin OM IrMiMaV Aaahaw W. D. Richardson, a civil engineer building sand, a very scarce article is "Jim not only received whose home is now in Chicago, but New York. who was born In Salisbury, Conn., big pay for removing It, but sold It tew said the other day: "I have just been fancy prices, thereby laying the founreading a sketch of 'fee old frigate dation of his ample competency. New Constitution, and It brings back to York Pres - - imEDEdTUTG DsncmmATron bef6r going to welcome her to take a drop of that from which he had abstained during ber absence. While in the act of pouring whlBky Into his glass he heard Mrs. Thurman Quickly pattering down the stairs. putting his left hand. In which be held tbe glass, behind him. with his right hand extended be said: "Im glad to see you home, my dear." "Allen, what have you behind your she asked. Whisky, my dear."Oh, Allen, dont yen remember last dining-roo- m - year, when you were stumping the state, yon did not taste a drop, and you were never so well In your life?" "Yes, my dear, I remember, but w lost the state." Hoaor far Aatarieaa Salaattsh Dr. William Zeblna Ripley of New York has been swarded the valuable Prlx Bertillon by tbe Societe France, for bis monogram on "The Races of Europe." The wells of salvaton are not filled with tears. , le, -- |