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it was decided to construct an entirely new system, and Mr. Bayles was made a commissioner to plan and carry on the work. He was a forcible and pithy speaker, presenting his subject in interesting and comprehensive form. He lectured extensively in New York. New Jersey and elsewhere, and in 1886 lectured before the Sibley school of engineering, Cornell university. He held various offices of honor and responsibility, among them that of president of the New Jersey state sanitary association. Among his published writings are: "House Drainage and Water Service in Cities, Villages, etc., With Considerations of Causes Affecting the Healthfulness of Dwellings" (1878); "The Study of Iron and Steel (1884); "Causes of Industrial Depression" (1884); "Industrial Competition (1885); "Iron Manufacture in the Southern States" (1885); "The Engineer and the Wage-Earner" (1885); "Professional Ethics" (1886), and "The Shop Council" (1886).

BAYLEY, James Roosevelt, R.C. archbishop, was born in Rye, N.Y., Aug. 23, 1814; grandson of Dr. Richard Bayley, professor of anatomy of Columbia college. His preparatory education was acquired at Mount Pleasant school near Amherst, after which he entered Trinity college, Hartford, where he was graduated in 1835. His first idea was to make medicine his vocation, thus following his father and grandfather, who had both attained eminence in that profession. He abandoned the study at the close of his first year, since his preference had turned unmistakably towards the church, and resolved to study for the ministry. accomplishing his purpose under the tuition of Rev. Samuel F. Jarvis at Middletown, Conn. He was ordained a priest and appointed rector of the Protestant Episcopal church in Harlem, a position which he filled during the years 1840-'41. When the cholera broke out, Mr. Bayley was distinguished for the activity and humanity of the aid he rendered the sufferers. Religious doubts which had long assailed him caused him at the end of the year 1841 to resign his rectorship and repair to Rome, and on April 28, 1842, he was received into the Roman Catholic church. He began a theological course in the Seminary of St. Sulpice, but was recalled to America by Bishop Hughes, who ordained him a priest in 1844. In 1845 he became vice-president of St. John's college, Fordham, and in 1846 its president. In this year he was made pastor of a church on Staten Island, near the quarantine station, and chaplain of the fever ships anchored there. As private secretary to Bishop Hughes he gave valuable assistance in maturing the bishop's plans to promote the growth of the diocese of New York. He also collated and arranged valuable historical matter concerning the early days of the church in New York. He was at the suggestion of Bishop Hughes made first bishop of Newark and was consecrated, Oct. 30, 1853. He changed a weak missionary district into one of the most prosperous of the American dioceses. Bishop Bayley founded Seton hall college, at Orange, N.J., in 1856. and a theological seminary, which was Later attached to the college. He established St. Elizabeth's convent at Madison, N.J., for the education of young girls, having brought from Europe a colony of nuns whom he placed in charge. He introduced into his diocese the religious orders of the Passionists, Dominicans, and Augustinians, and founded the priory of the Benedictine monks. He travelled in Europe and the Holy Land, and was present at Rome, in his official capacity, at the canonization of the Japanese martyrs, in 1862; at the centenary of the Apostles in 1867; and of the Ecumenical council in 1869. The notes taken during his travels were given to his flock in the form of lectures. In 1872 he was, by a papal brief, translated to the archiepiscopal see of Baltimore, the highest honor the church had to offer in the United States, and in October, 1872, was installed in the cathedral at Baltimore and invested with the pallium by Bishop Wood of Philadelphia. He was consecrated Apostolic delegate in 1875 and conferred the beretta upon Cardinal McCloskey and the pallium on Archbishop Wood. He freed the cathedral from debt and consecrated the edifice in 1876. He used the hot baths of Vichy in 1877, but receiving no benefit he returned to America. He wrote: "History of the Catholic Church on the Island of New York"; "Memoirs of Simon Gabriel Brute, First Bishop of Vincennes,"' and "Pastoral for the People." He died at Newark, N.J., Oct. 3, 1877.

BAYLEY, Richard, physician, was born at Fairfield, Conn., in 1745. He acquired his medical training in his native country and his hospital experience in England, and began practice as a physician and surgeon in New York city in 1772. After practising three years, during which time he introduced radical changes in the ordinary treatment of croup, he returned to London and studied there for a year. Upon his return he attached himself to the British army in the capacity of military surgeon under General Howe, retaining his commission until 1777, when he resigned and resumed his private practice in New York city. In 1792-'93 he occupied the chair