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American Theatre-Forty-second street and Eighth avenue, at 8:00-Hoyt's "A Runaway Colt."

Abbey's Theatre-Broadway and 38th st. -Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry. Bijou Theatre-Broadway, near Thirtieth street, at 815.-Peter F. Dailey in "The Night Clerk."

Broadway Theatre-Broadway and 40 h street, at 8:15-Geo. Edward's Company, "His Excellency."

Casino-Broadway and 39th st., at 8:15"The Wizard of the Nile."

Daly's Theatre-Broadway, near Thir tieth street, at 8:15-Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."

Eden Musee-Twenty-third street, nea Sixth avenue-Waxworks.

Empire Theatre-Fortieth street and Broadway, at 8:15-Miss Nethersole in "Camille."

Fifth Avenue Theatre-Twenty-eighth Street, near Broadway, at 8:15.-James A. Herne in "Shore Acres." Fourteenth Street Theatre-Fourteenth st. and Sixth ave., at 8-"Bonnie Scotland."

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Grand Opera House-Twenty-third street and Eighth avenue, at 8:00The Byrons in "The Ups and Downs of Life." Hammerstein's Olympia-Broadway and 44th st., at 8:15- Music Hall, Yvette Guilbert. Theatre, Rice's "Excelsior, Jr." Concert Hall, Promenade Concerts. Harlem Opera House-One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, near Seventh ave.. at 8:15-"The New Boy."

Herald Square Theatre-Broadway and Thirty-fifth street, at 8:15-"The Heart of Maryland."

Hoyt's Madison Square Theatre-Twentyfourth street, near Broadway, at 8:30.Koster & Bial's Music Hall - Thirtyfourth street, bet. Broadway and Seventh avenue, at 8:15-Variety.

Lyceum Theatre-Fourth avenue, near 23d st., at 800-"The Home Secretary." Madison Square Garden. - Madison avenue and 26th street.-Fair. Metropolitan Opera House Broadway and 39th st., at 8:15-Grand Opera. Palmer's Theatre-Broadway and Thirtieth street, at 8:15-"The Shop Girl." Proctor's Pleasure Palace-Fifty-eighth street, bet. Lexington and Third aves.continuous from noon to midnight Vaudeville,

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TO EXCUSE ABSENCES.

The Committee on Teachers, through the chairman, Dr. Hunt, makes the following report on applications to excuse absences of teachers:

To the Board of Education:

The Committee on Teachers, to which were referred the applications made by several Boards of School Trustees to excuse, with full pay, teachers' absences occurring in 1894, would report: that a careful inquiry has been made into the causes of the several absences. After due consideration of the general matter of excusing absences, your committee concluded that any of the following conditions should exclude an absent teacher from payment for the absence:

1. Service of less than five years as teacher in our schools.

2. Absence for fifty days during the preceding five years.

3. Failure to secure a meritorious record during the preceding five years.

4. Previous excuse of absence by the Board of Education to the extent of sixty-three days.

5. Non-employment of substitute for absent Leacher.

6. Failure to present a physician's certificate in case of absence through illness or contagious dis

ease.

The teachers whose absences have been caused by personal illness, death in family, contagious disease, or order to appear at court, and who would not be excluded by the application of any of the conditions stated above, are named in the resolution herewith presented for adoption :

Resolved, That the following-named teachers be excused for absence, with full pay for the time allowed:

Eleventh Ward-M D 36, Pauline Fisher, 3 d Feb.; PD 36, Sarah Crummy, 3 d March; Bell Cohn, 10 d Oct.; PD 8s, Lilly Lederer, 2 d Jan; PS 5, Johannah Loch, 4 d Jan., 5 d April; Amelia C. Chapin, 3 d April.

Twelfth-F D 37, Margaret C. Cornell, 2 5-12 d Jan., 17th March, 2 1-3 d Dec; Mary E. Elting, 4 d Dec.; P D 37, Alice J. Orcutt, 9 d Feb.: M D 39, William McCarthy, 1 d Feb.; Lizzie F. Spafford, 13 d March, 19 d April, 13 d May; Annie Matthews, 21⁄4 d Nov.; PD 39, Elizabeth Cahill, 4 d Feb.; Kate F. Ford, 3 d March; Maria A. Donnegan, 4 d Dec.; G D 43, Mary Shoemaker, 6 d Oct.; Adelaide Rork, id Feb. G D 43, Ottilie Brandeis, 8 d March, 5 d April; PD 46, Margaret M. McGarr, 3 d Jan.; G S 52, Lucie S. Brown, 1 d March; G D 54, M. Madeline Meeker, 3 d Nov.; F D 57, S. Annie Stevenson, 1 d Jan., 2 d Nov.; Susie Stevenson, 2 d March, 7 d April; Annie S. Core, 1d March; Kate H. Jackson, 14 Nov.; P D 68, Cecilia F. Morse, 21⁄2 d Jan.; Georgiana Dowdall, 6 d Nov.; F D-72, Louise M. Webster, 1 d Jan., 2 d Oct.; Anita E. Knight, 2 d Jan.; Emma L. Livingston, 3 d Jan.; Harrie. S. Greenwood, 11 d March; Aunie S. Bailey, d Feb.; PD 72, Eliza L. Lynch, 5d Jan.; Aunie M. Dunphy, 25 d Jan., 2d Feb; Annie E. Stainton, 2 d Nov., 14 d Dec.; Eliza Silkman, 4 d Dec; F D 78, Myra Townsend, 2 d Jan.; P D 78, Mary C. Meehan, 4 d Feb.; Catharine G. Downey, 3 d Oct., 6 d Nov.; M D 83, Annie Skinner, 8 d Jan.; John P. Euroy, 13 d Feb.; Carrie Sayles, 3 d Oct.; M D 86, Sarah M. Bleakley, 5 d Jan.; Maggie J. Browne, 15 d Feb., 13 d Sept., 21 d Oct., 10 d Nov.: Samuel McC. Crosby, 1d Nov.; Pauline Peterson, 311⁄2 d Dec.; PD 86, Elizabeth W. Hopper, 1 d Jan.; M D 89, Elijah A. Howland, 1 d Jan.; Louise Probst, 2d Feb.; Annie A. Black, 3 April; M D 93, Johanna S. Tuomey, 4d Nov.; F D 93, Rebecca B. Haw, 1 d Jan.; Florence Thomson, 23 d Oct., 19 d Nov.: Pauline S. Benson, 2 d Dec.; PD 93, Agnes M. Dunne, 7d April; P. S. 9. Rose C. Farley, 4d Oct.; PS 19, Ella F. Whalen, 5 d Jan.; PS 23, Adelaide Fair banks, 1 d March; P S 42, Emma F. Martin, 3 d March.

Thirteenth-F D 4, Addie Lambrecht 2 d March; PD 4, Susan I. Finu, 1 d. Jan.; MD 34, Josephine A. Smith, 2 d April; F D 92, Grace Bowtell, 18 d April; Mary A. Tremper, 3 1-24 d June; Charlotte E. Searle, 3 d Oct.; PS 20, Martha L. Rockwell, 7 d April; PS 40, Lillie W. Cole, 9 d Jan.; Jeannette L. Coomes, 4 5 6 d Oct., 7 d Nov.

Fourteenth-P D 30, Sarah A. Ahern, 4 1-12 d March; PD 21, Emma I. Quirk. 5 d Oct.

Fifteenth-FD 10, Frances A. Pond, 6 5 6d March; PD 10, M. Eliza Purdy, 10 d April; P D35, Julia T. Lawlor, 14 d Jan., 19 d March, 19 d April; Mary H. Lynch, 3d Sept.; F D 47, Anna Banta, 4 d Nov.; Caroline Vanderbilt, 5 d Nv.; PD 47, Fanny Julien, 7 d Jan.; S. Frances Marsh, 71-3 d Oct.

Sixteenth-F D 45, Jane White, 1 d April, 41⁄2 d Oct.; F D 56, Lucy D. Terhune, 6 d Oct.; P D 56, Jennie A. C. Hager, 3 d Feb.

Seventeenth-PD 13, Mary A. McCaffery, 5 d Feb.; Madeline F. Delaney, 1 d May; Teresa M. Riley, 4 16 d Nov.; Rebecca W. Flynn, 1 d Nov.; Mary E. Carter, 5 d Dec.; M D 19, Mary J. Poor, 4 d March; Evangeline A. Chute, 1 d March; FD 19, Cordelia S. Kilmer, 14 d Dec.; P D 19, Mary H. Tompkins, 11-3 d Jan.; Alice A. Fowler, 13 d Sept., 16 d Oct.; M D 25, Helen A. Pettigrew, 4 d Jan.; Minnie A. Flowery, 3 d Feb.; Ellen A.

Raftery, 12 d March; F D 25, Anna R. Aiken, 3 d Jan.; Hannah A. Sill, 10 d March; Sarah Goldie, 1 d Oct., 4d Nov.; Maria M. Massey, 3 d Dec.; P D 25, Fannie W. Roylance, 5 d Feb., 4 d March; Caroline L. Langbein, 5 d May; M D 79, Martha I. Stevens, 5 1-3 d Jan.; Retta C. Twomey, 19 d June; Elizabeth J. McKeon, 1 d Nov.; Rachel B. Hall, 14 d Dec.; PD 79, Kate A. Rogers, 1 d May, 1 d June; P S 22, Esther K. Cone, 7 d Feb., 19 d March, 3 d April; Lizzie L. Foy, 6 d Dec. PS 26, Jennie G. Cunningham, 1 d Jan.

Eighteenth-M D 40, Mary McGarry, 8 d Feb., 18 d March, 18 d April; Mary Daly, 1-3 d Feb.; P D 40, Jennie J. Goetz, 3 d Jan.; F D 50, Julia Murphy, 2 d Feb.; Hannah K. Herrick, 4 d Feb.; Mary A. Haggerty, 5 d March; PS 29, Maria E. Fitzpatrick, 2 d Feb.

Nineteenth-M D 18, Frank J. Coleman, 1 d April; E. L. Campbell, 4 1-3 d March; M D 27, Joseph W. Cremin, 3d Feb., 7 d March; P D 27, Augusta L. Roe, 4 d April; P D 53, Ellen F. Canty, 2 d March, 3d April; P D 73, Ada A. Brennan, 1 d April; M D 74, Sarah Newman, 5 d March; Eunice D. Rehorn, 2 d Jan.; PD 74, Elizabeth Hadley, 3 d Feb.; Rosa Rosenstein, 3 d March; F D 77, Cecilia A. Francis, 4 d March; M D 82, Moses Moritz, 6 d March; PD 82, Nellie Ford, 1 d Feb.; Mary J. Galpin, 7 d April, 1d March; Mary McCoy, 1 d Feb.; P D 35, Emily Scott 15-8 d March.

Twentieth-M D 26, Clarissa E. Smith, 10 17-24 d Oct., 4 d Nov.; P D 26, Jeannette S. Haslett, 1 d Oct.; M D 32, Maria J. hompson, 6 d Sept., 21 d Oct., 17 d Nov., 14 d Dec.; PD 33, Josephine Walker, 1 d April; Kate McCarthy, 19 d April; Jane E. Hughes, 3d Nov.; Grace Ackley, 3 d Nov.; F D 48, Agnes L. Higgins, 6 d April; PD 48, Mary E. Royster, 1 d Oct.; Emeline Dowling, 13 d Sept.; Helen H. McGown, 3 d Sept.; P S 27, Annie S. Hayes, & d March.

Twenty-first-M D 14, La Fayette Olney, 5 d Feb., 511⁄2d March; Nicholas J. Maybee, 4 d Dec.; Emma V. Taylor, 3d Dec.; F D 14, Faunie Merritt, 14 d Jan., 13 d Feb.; Alida J. Woolley, 7 d Nov.; Elizabeth G. Cooley, 9 d Nov.; P D 14, Mary Barnes, 7 1-12 d Oct.; F D 49, Sarah C. Duffy, d Dec.; PD 49, Sarah Armstrong, 7 d Feb., 21 d March, 22 d April.

Twenty-second-P D 9, Clara McKibben, 4 d Feb., 3d March; Martha Jackson,3 d March; Teresa Bernholz, 4 d April, 151⁄2d Sept.; F D 17, Amelia Kiersted, 2 d Jan., 91⁄2d Feb., 1 1-6 d March; Urlaville A. Wilbur, 6 d Jan., 17 d Feb, 18 d April; Caroline C. B. Martin, 161-6 d March, 1% d April; PD 17, Mary A. Byrne, 3 d June, 3 d Nov., 3 d Dec.; Amy Ackerson, 8 d June; Emina J. Salberg, 2 d Dec.; F D 28, Mary F. McDonald, 1 d March; M D 51, Justin Martin, 22 d March, 18 d April; Amelia Schaller, 15 d April; P D 51, Margaret Hosford, 1 d Dec.; Jennie A. Moody 5 d Dec.; M D 58, Augusta Schaller, 514 d April; P D 58, Emma A. Egbert, 3 d Jan., 2 d Feb.; Elizabeth M. Hamilton, 1 d April; M D 67, Anna F. Rogers, 24 d April; M D 69, Emma Burnett, 2 d Sept.; Margaret Lounsbery, 2 d Dec.; F D 69 Leah Bartley, 4 d Nov.; Pauline Krauth, 13 d Sept.; Annie M. Hoffman, 3 d March; Susan A. Haight, 3 d Jan.; PD 69, Anua M. Smith, 2 d Jan.; Julia M. Elliott, 2 d Jan.; Emma Edwards, id March; Josephine M. Lyall, 1 d April; Anua M. Smith, 2 d Oct.; F D 84, Sadie R. Davis. 3 d Feb.; Addie A. Jasper, 3, d_Feb.; Margaret Robertson, 17 d March, 4 d April; Mary A. Flynn, 1 d April, 14 d Oct.; FD 87, Helen S. Fletcher, 4 d Feb.; P D 87, Elizabeth Bainton, 1 d March; M D 94, May Belle Benjamin, 4 d Oct., 5 d Nov.; P D 94; Anna E. Meynen, 5d Oct.; P S 41, Emma A. Sparks, 1 d Feb.; Harriet E. Bradshaw, 3 d June, 6 d Dec.; Kate J. McCabe, 2 d Nov.

Twenty-third-G D 60, Elijah D. Clark, 5 d Feb; Hannah S. Wingate, 2 d March; G D 61, Wm. T. Traud, 1 1-6 d Jan. Loretta Hovey, 10 d Feb.; P D 61, Camilla E. O'Connor, 3 d Feb.; G D 62, Sarah E. Doran, 2d March; P D 62, Nellie E. Sinclair, 1 d March; G D 85, Teresa U. O'Neill, 3 d Feb., 9d Oct; Mary McCormick, 6 d April; Josephine S. Gibney, 4d Nov.; PD 85, Emma C. Haviland, 2 d Feb.; G D 90, Mary C. Huntingdon, 2 d Jan.; P D90, Teresa A. Clarke, d Jan., 6 d Feb.; G D 91, Virginia Jones, 8 d Sept., 6 d Oct.; P S 44, Alice J. Cunningham, 2 d March.

Twenty-fourth-G D 63, Virginia F. Middleton, 5 d Feb., 1 d Sept.; P D63, Augusta B. Reed, 1-4 d Feb.

A CITY COLLEGE PROFESSORSHIP. Superintendent Henry W. Jameson is a prominent candidate for the Chair of Philosophy in the College of the City of New York, made vacant by the recent death of Professor Newcomb. Mr. Jameson is probably one of the best equipped among the several who have been named for the place. In addition to his service in New York schools as teacher and superintendent he has had a wide outside experience. He is a graduate of Yale, and was associated for several years in St. Louis with Dr. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education. Other names mentioned for the professorship are: Professor Scripture of Yale; Mr. McNulty, who now has charge of the work as a college instructor; and Dr. Edgar D. Shimer, who, as a teacher and instructor in the School of Pedagogy, has won brilliant reputation.

PERFECT FRIENDSHIP.

Friend of my soul, forever true,
What do we care for flying years,
Unburdened all by doubts or fears;
Trusting what naught can e'er subdue?
Fate leads! Her path is out of view;
Nor time nor distance interferes.
Friend of my soul, forever true,

What do we care for flying years?
For planted when the world was new,
In other lives, in other spheres,
Our love to-day a bud appears--
Not yet the blossom's perfect hue,
Friend of my soul, forever true!

-The Lark.

FORCED HIS RESIGNATION.

The Jersey City Board of Education last week accepted the resignation of Principal Amos H. Thompson of the High School. The issue was one which began in June, last year, when Principal W. S. Sweeny of the High School, was peremptorily dismissed and Mr. Thompson was appointed as his successor. Last May several changes occurred in the Board of Education, and some friends of the deposed principal were ap pointed. It was discovered that, although Mr. Thompson is a college graduate and an experienced teacher, he had only a certificate from the Board authorizing him to teach, and not a certificate from the State Board of Education, which the rules require. Then an active attack was made on him to force him out. He procured a provisional certificate from the State School Superintendent, good until the meeting of the State Board. This did not stop the efforts of Mr. Thompson's opponents, and his resignation was demanded. It was reluctantly given, and accompanied by a note in which, in a courteous manner, he wrote that he was not moved by any spirit of resentment or by any personal desire to sever the relations that existed. He practically said the resignation was not a voluntary act, but one forced, because it was understood that his opponents were numerous enough to dismiss him if he did not resign.

Mr. Thompson went before the State Board a few days ago, and passed a creditable examination. He attained a percentage far above the average usually reached by teachers. This, it was hoped by his friends, would end the friction, and he would not be disturbed, but his opponents were bent on ousting him, and the resignation that had been forced from him, was presented. Directors Cowles and Koonz made an earnest fight for his retention. Director Cowles was not permitted to read the letter sent with the resignation to support his claim that the resignation had been asked for by some members of the Board, a claim which was denied by Director Degnan, who, with Director Stowe, led the opposition to Principal Thompson.

A vote was reached after a long discussion. Directors Daly and Walker asked to be excused from voting, and this may raise a nice legal question as to whether Principal Thompson was prop erly removed. They were excused by the Board. Eleven members were present, and on the votes of five the resignation was accepted. Those who voted for its acceptance were Directors Obergfell, Hoos, Degnan, Stowe and McLean, and the four who voted against it were President Allen and Directors Cowles, Koonz and Beach. After another wrangle as to the right of a member to nominate a candidate to fill the vacancy and ignore the Committee on Teachers or the Committee on High School, Charles I. Haskell, principal of Public School No. 14, was appointed unanimously to fill the vacancy in the High School. There was another discussion over who should name the principal for School No. 14, and it was finally decided to allow the Committee on Teachers to present a name. It is said that former Principal Sweeny of the High School had been slated for the place, but one of the directors who had promised to vote for him deserted the combination and voted to refer the matter to the committee. Director Beach, chairman of the Committee on School No. 14, who is to confer with the Teachers' Committee about Mr. Haskell's successor, was active in having Principal Sweeny dismissed from the High School.

CONSOLING.

Mrs. Wigwag-I'm afraid I made enemies of all the callers I had to-day. I felt too miserable to entertain them.

Wigwag--I always thought misery loved company.-Philadelphia Record.

The provision of the State Law for Truant Schools has made it necessary for the Board of Education to provide for such a school at once. Application has been made to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment for funds, which will be included in this appropriation for the ensuing year. As stated in some of the discussions in the Board of Education on this subject, it will not be necessary, for the present at any rate, to construct new buildings for this purpose. The plan favored by the Board was to set aside certain schools in which the attendance was falling off, and to use some of the class-rooms in these buildings for that purpose.

There are several such schools in the lower part of the city, each of which could probably care for a limited number of those truants of which the city is required to assume charge. The building of Truant schools, especially for that purpose, it is obvious, would entail upon the city, at the outstart, a cost of many hundred thousand of dollars by the purchase of sites and the erection of buildings. But a more practical outcome for the immediate treatment of this problem has presented itself to Mr. Snyder, Superintendent of School Buildings, and Superintendent Jasper, in their conferences with regard to this measure. They have suggested to the By-laws Committee that the old Grammar School building, No. 62, at Third ave. and 157th st., which was occupied by Mr. Silber's school before the present new structure near Courtlandt ave. was completed, would afford facilities for all the requirements of the first Truant School. The building is the property of the Board. It is not considered in good condition for a day school, and will have to undergo considerable repair and alteration to be adapted for the new purpose.

The accommodation as a day school,

afforded by this building, was for about 1,500 pupils. It contains twenty-five classrooms. But a comparison of the the number who can be cared for in a Truant School of this size, will indicate the extent of this new labor which devolves upon the city under the new law. After a careful consideration of all the requirements, Superintendent Snyder thinks that the capacity of this building, as a Truant School, will not exceed that for one hundred children. There will be needed a principal, several teachers and janitor who will live in the building; and a large portion of the room, which was used as class-rooms by the day pupils, will have to be devoted to dormitories and living rooms. There must also be class-rooms for those inmates as well, as they will be assigned to the school and maintained and educated for a definite time. The cost of The cost of maintaining that number of pupils for a year is placed in round numbers at $10,000.

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If the city had really 50,000 truants, according to one wild report which obtained circulation a few months ago, the problem of taking care of the incorrigable portion of this number would be an exhaustive one. As it is, the question is not one that will be easily adjusted. There are probably at the time not to exceed several hundred actual truants under the new law, in this city, and a good portion of these would not necessarily come under the provision of the statute, to be assigned to a Truant School. A class that would not be de

sirable is suggested by Superintendent Blake, the experienced officer of the Department of Charities. Once it is known that such schools are established, he observed, there are hundreds of families who will let their children run in the streets in order that they may be placed in the schools and cared for.

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of Education will probably take up for serious consideration the long-mooted subject of a building for the Board and subject of a building for the Board and its several departments. public building in the city required more urgently than this. The present quarters are not only cramped and inefficient, but they are improperly located to transact promptly and well the numerous details. of business which so great a school system makes necessary. If Commissioner Little, as chairman of the Building Committee, enters upon this subject with his characteristic vigor and foresight, there is a probability that the Board may secure suitable quarters in a not very distant future.

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Some idea of the uncertain tenure of

office with teachers in many cities is shown by the manner in which the resignation of the principal, Mr. Thompson, of the Jersey City High School, was forced upon him. It was claimed by those who opposed him to be voluntary, but the travesty of such an assertion was made apparent by Mr. Thompson's statement. Whether he was a capable, efficient principal is another question. If he was not the issue should have been forced on that ground, and not as a pretext. Mr. Haskell, principal of Public School No. 14, who succeeds Mr. Thompson, is, we believe, a thoroughly competent appointment.

The

The Brooklyn school census, just completed by the police of that city, indicates that there are 270,000 school children in the precincts of that city. New York police department have just entered upon their enumeration, which will doubtless show an aggregate up ward of 400,000, bringing the total of those two cities close on to three-quarters of a million children of school age. This vast aggregation is fairly well provided for, and the needs were never more fully understood than they are at the present time.

With the steady growth of this great centre, which comprises greater New jurisdiction, there can be no halt in the York, whether or not it is under a single

provision for the schools. If these provisions stand still for a year, it will require more than a year to catch up again.

The Board of Education postponed final consideration of the reorganization of its committees to a special meeting on Friday next. A plan for ten committees was presented by Commissioner Prentiss, which will be taken up with the report. This plan and its grouping appear at sight a crude and hasty generalization. It provides for two college committees with which the Board of Education, as a body, has no authority whatever.

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The report of the Committee on School System, with the proposed new school legislation, will also be considered at Friday's meeting. From a hasty perusal the measure seems to present a general reorganization of the statute, with little or nothing that is "revolutionary." This may not be satisfactory to those who desire radical measures, but it will be to many others who prefer to make progress slowly. It is probable that the general discussion may give rise to other and valuable changes.

AN ANNUAL MEETING.

The Advisory Council for Military Instruction in the Public Schools will hold an important meeting at the Grand Central Palace, Lexington ave. and 43d st., on Saturday, at 8 P. M., Decem ber 21st. Addresses will be made by Generals Viele and Loud, Commissioners Hunt and Wehrum, and Principals Page and Gaddis. This being the annual meeting, officers will be elected for 1896.