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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, i JULY 19, 1898. BROOKLYN INTERESTS HOT 10 BE NEGLECTED, TESTING THE MAIL TUBES. ACCUSED DOCTORS 60 FREE KILLED OH THE TRACKS MILLER BABY'S BODY FOUND TRANSPORTS NEARLY READY IMMUNES RESPOND TO RED CROSS CALL. First Carrier Passes Through at 3 o'Clock This Afternoon, Coroner Discharges Physicians Who Charles Davis Run Over at Alabama Remains of Annie Miller's Child Exhumed at Jersey City.

Large Fleet to Leave the Harbor This Week. Attended Addie Cornelius. Avenue Station. Aldermanic Finance Committee! 1 Urges Action on Bond Issue i N0 hegxtojAJI service just yet. Many Leave To night on the Resolute for Santiago.

LAWYER BACKUS' STRONG PLEA. BELIEVED TO BE AN ACCIDENT. A POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION. ST. LOTJIS HEADS THE LIST.

14 I2T A NEW UEPOUT TO BOARD. I Postmaster Wilson Is Willing' to Afford OTHER NUB.SES TO GO SOUTH. He Warns the Coroner That He Will Take the Case Into the Supreme Court if His Clients Are Not Released Mother of the Dead Girl Indignant Grand Jury Has Yet to Consider the Evidence. The Body of the Unfortunate Man Discovered on the Tracks by a Passenger Who Was Entering a Car Engineer, WhenArrested, Declares That He Will Swear Positively That His Engine Did Not Strike Anyone. Mis.

Eckert, With Whom Annie Miller Lived on Prospect Place, Recognizes the Remains of the Infant by Certain Marks James Rogers, Who Will Answer to a Charge of Kidnaping on Monday Morning, Released on Bail. The Plucky Liner Taking On Coal, Supplies and Her Five Inch Battery. Resolute Leaves To night Former Atlantic Transport Liners Fitting at Brooklyn Docks Transatlantic Lines Hesitate Over Contracts. the Contractors Every Facility to wm tvt an ijj icjlll, uut jj. j.

i tiu mail iu Ti tt i cess of the pl(m Is Assured. A preiiminiary t3St of the tubes that are intended to convey the mails from Brooklyn t0 Manhattan and return was made yester day afternoon and again to day. At the first test the tubes to Manhattan were found to rlirht hut the. Mum tubes fallal to respond to the pressure. But this morning the final connection was completed at the Brooklyn end of the bridge and the first carrier passed through at 3 o'clock this afternoon.

These tests were merely preliminary on the ipart of the New York Mall and Newspaper Transportation Company, which holds the contract, and it is not likely that any mail will be allowed by Postmaster Wilson to go through until the success of the system has been thoroughly and satisfactorily demonstrated. Postmaster Wilson has afforded the contractors every facility possible and manifests a disposition to give the company a fair chance to demonstrate the value of the service, and is even ready to agree to any reasonable experiment to that end. The value of the service is evidenced, however, when it is known that nothing but first class mail matter will pass through the tube; that its capacity is not possibly over 20 per cent, of the required service necessary to do away with the wagons, with the probabilities more nearly 12 per and that where packages must be broken for distribution no lime will be saved. The tubes, as demonstrated, are a saving only in such mail matter as can be made up and continued on its journey without having to be reassorted at the post office. Tor this service the company has a contract with the government from October 1 this year to June 30, 1901.

at $1 1,000 a year. At present the mail is transported between the two offices by wagon under contract that expires at the last named date and for which the government pays S5.000. This wagon service will be continued, the tubes not lessening the service by a single trip. In addition to the $14,000 an expecise of over $6,000 will be entailed upon the Brooklyn post office in the operation of the tubes, divided as follows: On a 36 hour basis, which will probably be the average use of the tubes, it will require nine extra tons of coal, at 54.29 per ton; four extra firemen, at S720 per year; two assistant engineers, at $1,080 a year two men to take care of the transmitters and receivers, at about $600 a year each. If the system is required to run for the full day of twenty four hours, this expense will be increased 50 per cent.

For this extra expense of $20,000 a year the Brooklyn post office will receive benefit to the extent of from 12 to 20 per cent, in facilitating first ClaPS mfll'l nnlv Tr Ic nrr lilroWr fh tny. heavy morning and night mails the tubes will De great service, but during the lighter hours of the day the tubes may hasten delivery somewhat. It has been figured out ai LUC UIUM CALlaVaUdll HA HUhl. I11H 111 I 1 tnat at tne most extravagant expense the put Ung in of the entire plant, which consists of about two miles of eight inch iron pipe, two sets ot uoriiss engines and Rain air compressors of eighty horse power each; air tanks, the cost of this plant will not be over $60,00. At $14,000 a year the return for this outlay is a little under 25 per cent.

Several efforts have been made to have thi3 system extended to the leading branch offices in Brooklyn, but Postmaster Wilson is determined to wait until the original plant Is successful 'beyond pexadventure 'before he will say anything about this. Should one tubes be carried to only four stations in Brooklyn it is stated that the extra cost to the government per year would be about $200,000 tfor the use. with an extra cost to the Brooklyn office of from $6,000 to $7,000 per year for extra help at each station. The same percentage of saving in transmission would be had in these stations as is figured out betwoen Brooklyn and Manhattan. The engineer in charge of the plant in the Brooklyn Post Office says that the carriers will pass through the tubes under a head way of ten seconds, with ten pounds pressure, and that it will take from three to miriutes for the carriers to reach the aMnhaitan office.

By request of the contract ors and with the consent of the Postmaster General the Brooklyn office has furnished the contractors tine steam to make the tests and will probably continue to do so until the plant is finally accepted 'by the government as complete. It is Interesting to note in connection with these mail tube contracts, which at present costs the Manhattan Post Office alone about a year, that John E. Millholland, who was the chitef promoter of the system, has sold to Howard Gould a controlling interest in tne capitalization or about Mr. Gould holding ahout $2,200,000 iii bonds and stock, and that Mr. Millholland Intends to go to Europe to spread lite tubular pressure.

PUT OUT A MAN'S EYE. Kilcoyne Struck With a Stick While Stopping a Eight. Emilio Iglisias, 12 years old, of 730 Jefferson avenue, was held under bail this morning in the Gates avenue court by Magistrate Bris tow on the charge of assault. Yesterday afternoon the prisoner and William Kilcoyne, the 13 year old son of Patrick Kilcoyne a former saloon keeper, were engaged In a fight in front of Kilcoyne's home at 248 Reid avenue. The elder Kilcoyne atempted to separate the fighting boys when Iglisias, it is said, struck him with a stick.

The end of the stick struck Kilcoyne in the right eye and he fell to the ground in agony. An ambulance was summoned and the man was removed to St. Mary's Hospital, where the injured eye was removed. The physicians expressed the belief that the other eye was in danger of bing made blind also. Policeman Meagher of the Ralph avenue station arrested Iglisias, who said he did not mean to hit Kilcoyne with the stick.

The boy was bailed out by his uncle. George H. Wood worth, a member of the Board of Education. FOUND BEAD IN BED. Broker Chadsey Died, It Is Believed, Prom Apoplexy.

Mrs. Lucy Lorlngs. the janitress of the Imperial flats at 1,339 Bedford avenue, informed two policemen last night that she believed something was wrong in the flat occupied bv Frederick W. Chadsey. a broker.

The poMce niien, with the permission of the janitress, broke into 'the fiat and found Mr. Chadsey dead in bed. The coroner was notified and he gave it as his opinion that death had resulted from apoplexy. The deceased was in business at 120 Front street, Manhattan, and was about 40 years old. On June 1 Mrs.

Chadsey and her two sisters, the Misses Hammond, went to Madison, X. to Ubelr mother's home to spend the heated 'term, while Mr. Chadsey remained in the ciity to attend to business. He was last seen alive on Thursday of last week and it Is believed 'that he died several days ago. A telegram was last night dispatched to Mrs.

Chad soy, who is expected home to day. The coro n. will hold an inquest. The deceased was formerly in business a't Seattle. and came to Brooklyn about three years ago.

A SLIGHT COLLISION. The ferrvboats Winona and Pierrepont of the South Ferry line bumped into each other at 7:20 o'clock this morning as ono was leaving and the other entering the ferry at tho foot of Whitehall street. Tho collision was slight. No slass was broken on either boat. and there ivmt little excitenjent among the pas Members ot the Committee Have In terviewed Members of ihe vd of! Estimate and Other City Officials and All Are Quoted as Saying That This Borough Will Get Its Fair Share of Improvements From the Greater City Resolution Introduced Urging Controller Coler's Plan for Leffis iative metier ueot matter.

The finance of the Board of Aldermen this afternoon submitted a new report of eontkler.ible length, advising the passage of its first report favoring tie authorization of the Si3.000.0u0 boud issue, which the Brooklyn Aldermen have been holding up for over a mouth, under the claim that their borough was? not to get enough out of it. In their report to day. the majority of the finance committee signing, much space is taken up in telhns of the committee's labors villi members of the Board of Estimate, individually, and reports of conventions with them are detailed show that there is no desire to treat Brooklyn unfairly. The committee report, in as follows: "In view of the contention in the effort to raise funds to prosecute public improvements, there has been some discrimination manifested against the boroughs of Brooklyn 'and Queens. We have called upon and conferred with the several members of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, with a view of impressing them with the necessities of these respective boroughs and urging favorable consideration of all reasonable demands for such improvements as can be successfully met and grunted.

We have refrained froun attending before that board, duly or ganYed as such, in order to avoid ail appearance of the exaction of a promise, as a condition to favorable or affirmative action in the matter of the bond issue. We are con vinced that those of our members who have voted against such bond issue are not dis posed to exact conditions, but simply desire personal assurance of favorable consideration when circumstances will permit the board to give it. Without exception there has been manifested a ready disposition to accord to the citizens of the entire city, irrespective Of borough or territorial consideration, equal and impartial treatment." His honor the Mayor aptly explained his position in saying: "I recognize and make no distinction between the several boroughs. I am mayor of the whole city and the growth and well being of one is to me as important and gratifying as is the improvement and prosperity of the other." Other interviews follow, with Controller Coler, Corporation Counsel Whalen, President Guggenheimer of the Council and President Feitner of the Tax Department. All deny anyming out tne mend feelings to Brook lyn and the Controlle; declares he wants to do justice to all boroughs.

If he should favor any one, he told the committee, it would be Brooklyn, because he is a resident here. Tihe report proceeds to give an account of the committee's invitation to the Brooklyn members to meet it in conference. This conference, it continues, was held yesterday and resulted in an amieafole discussion of the facts and the conditions surrounding the bond issue. The committee hopes that the Brooklyn men will discontinue their opposition in view of the circumstances and vote for the adoption of the original report. The situation is declared such that it is no time for political or partisan The committee presented two resolutions for adoption, first original report and resolution and the following: Resolved.

That the of the finance mittee, as presented June lust now again resubmitted. and is hereby adopted, Resolved. That the committee on legislation be coin ana It is hereby instructed to confer with the controller and to prepare am have presented to the Legislature sueh amendments to existing law as will absolve the city from county debts In the form and manner recom mended by the said controller and to exert every Honorable means passible to secure f. ivorahle of an action on said proposed amendments by the Legislature at the earliest date imssible. Resolution to Enforce Law Against Profanity in Public.

In the council to day President Guggen heimer presented for adoption following ordinance designed to put a stop to objection I able language in public: Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of i die City of Xew York as foC'ows: I Section 1. That under the provisions of section Si. mib seotion 22 of the charter, the use of profane, vi'e or of ob scene language In any public street or place within the limits of the City of New York or in any 'public transportation car, ferryboat or othe pubic conveyance operated wl Jhln the lim its of the city, shall constitute a m'isdemeanor, and that the person using such vile or language shall be liable, within the cognizance and juri.vl'iet:m of the magistrate's courts of the City of Kv York, to a. fine of jvn more than S10 and not less than S3. Sec.

2. This ordinance shall take effect immediately. WAITING ON THE CONTRACTORS. Brownsville Strikers Will Make No Move Toward Settlement. The striking Brownsville tailors, who were engaged in malting 95.000 coats for the United States Army, to be used in Cuba, a contract originally given to Cenyon Co.

of 729 Atlantic avenue, held a meeting last night at the Osborne Assembly Rooms, 01 Osborne street. Bernard Ellison was chairman. He explained that before they went on strike, the men were treated more like animals than citizens of a free country, and it was as much for this reason they struck as for the reduction in price. Jacob Smith suggested that it would be well for the strikers to make up their minds whether to continue the strike alone or to get the assistance of their unions, several of which were represented. Scleral other address were made.

On motion ot Mr. Smith, it was resolved to re main on strike until the contractors agreed to pay former prices. It was also resolved thit the strikers refrain from appointing a committee to consult with Cr nyon Sr Co. The first step in the direction of a consultation, they said, must come. from the contractors.

ASKS FOE, NEW BIDS. Keating of tihe Ivpartment of Highways has advertised again for bids Tor repairing ard maintaining the asitfialt pavement In a targe numtxr cf Brooklyn streets Which eU Unme dlaite attarAtlon aoctn ding to Highways Kn fflneer X. P. Levis of Bru Bids asked for several week' ao. it or.

tfee day of opening not one wits cn hand, owins to the failure of the locaj ais pha companies to ares eat proposals. Mr. Keating has now set ug ust 2 as new date opcttiing bids. rt streets Included contain about sixteen ciles of asphalt most of it iaid the ist ten yc urs and ail by C. anf.ird ('.

of Brooklyn. Oonsidcrabe surprise was ni est over the failure of company to present (aids last week, but it developed that considered the terms and speciflcaitHins severe aid ifce method of payment for work done urasatrsfao.ttry. The list of streets was iiuiUtSh ed in ft last woelc, I i Activity at the Society's Hospital in Manhattan Jubilation Over the Government's Acceptance of Bed Cross "Volunteers Clothing and Delicacies Sent to the Wounded Soldiers at Local Hospitals A Squad of Immune Nurses Prom New Orleans. The Missouri to Go to Porto Rico as a Hospital Ship. At the Red Cros6 Hospital, 233 West One Hundredth street, Manhattan, there was mucb activity observed this morning consequent upon the ca11 issued by the Red Cross Society for immune nurses to go to Santiago.

A number of applicants, mostly men, were on hand. In conjunction with the examination for iramunes, which was conducted by Dr. Shrady, preparations were also being made for a detail of graduate women nurses, not im munes, to go to Fort Monroe, Chickamau ga and Jacksonville. Surgeon General Sternberg, who has been in New York for a day or two, told the Red Cross authorities that the government was willing to accept the services of Red Cross immune nurses in Cuba, as there appeared to be need of their services, aDd also that nurses were likely to be required In the hospitals at Fort Monroe and other Southern points. This was gratifying news for the Red Cross relief committee, which has been working hard for months and has collected a large sum of money for the maintenance of nurses.

Ta quote a member of the relief committee, "It tends to show just how we stand with regard to the government, a point about which there has been much doubt up to the present." Mrs. Shrady and Mrs. Whitelaw eid, the latter chairman of the Red Cross Auxiliary for the Maintenance of Nurses, were at the hospital this morning and to an Eagle reporter Mrs. Reid said. "We expect to send off several male imnrun nurses by the Resolute this evening, but just how many it is not now possible to say, as 14 will depend upon accommodations.

We understand that the government intends sending a number of mirses also by thac ship. had hoped also to send ten women graduate nurses to day to Fortress Monroe, but tihe transport is not ready and we shall have to wait a day or two. Surgeon General Sternberg has told us that ten nurses will be ac cepted at the hospitals in Chtckamauga, Fortress Monroe and Jacksonville. Miss Laura D. Gill, who acted as superintendent of the first delegation of nurses wnien 3 sent to Tampa and who returned to New York last week has just been sent by us to interview the Army authorities at Cbickamauga, Fortress Monroe and Jacksonville with regard to accommodations for the nurses.

As wo pay all their expenses we do not intend to send them unless there are suitable accommodations. We shall know in a day or twd how many to send and we have a list of applicants all ready to start. "To day we sent four male nurses to th Marine Hospital on Stat en Island. All were graduates of the Mills School. One of the commltte Is to hare a conference to day with Surgeon General Van Ruypen of the Navy concerning the advisability of sending Bed Cross nurses to Portsmouth, Dr.

Sb.r4.dy will attend to all the nurses who apply and Dr. Frank B. Carpenter has charge of the male applicants who are not immunes." It is expected that the society will also send a number ofdoctors and assistants to Cuba. From the Red Cross Supply Depot, 522 Broadway, pajamas, night shirts, slippers, socks and delicacies were sent yesterday and to day to the Long Island College, St. Peter's and the Marine Hospital and the Defenders' Aid Auxiliary of Brooklyn also sent delicacies last evening for the soldiers at the Long Island College Hospital.

There were at Army Building Hhis morning five young woman wtto were recrmted aa immune nurses by the Daughters of the Revolution of New Orleans. They applied to the assistant surgeon general for enlistment and were accepted and sent to this city, wbere they will be assigned to the hospital ship Resolute. They esre Mrs. Florence A. Paitefllo of New Orleans, Miss Barbara C.

Wfcifee of New Orleans, Miss Ktngroen oil the Cook County Hospital; Miiss Painter of Indiana and Miss Sadile Harlan of Sao Antonio, Tex. Tn.ere were ailso Swo colored female nurses. Mrs. Patollo wore a medal which wae presented to her by tho Pope ftxr nursing the Marfot Fathers at Algiers, Louisiana. These fathers cannot be nursed by women, but a special dispensation was greeted for bhls occasion.

The immun nurses were provided wJth letters from Assistant surgeon General C. H. Allen and arrived 'tThte morning from Washington. Major WMia.m Ariihur in charge of the ambulance ship Missouri 6aid this morning that one Missouri would arrive in Philedoflptiia ra Thursday and unload her cargo and come im to this port, where she will he fitted out. It is intended tfcat she shall aiccompatiy tihe Porto Rico expedition and preparaittons will be hurrfod ki transforming her into a hospital sfaip and transport for the wounded.

The Missouri will accommodate about sJx hUndired soldiers. The vessel. was to be provided with an Ifce and carhoTna.tlirg plant. If there lis not enough time to put in Ae ioo plant she Willi carry' a supply of ice on board. Beside Major William Aftbur Captalm A.

M. Stark has been detailed as executive officer and Dr. BrVwn has been detached from tho Olivette on board uhe Missouri. Surgeon B. M.

Parker wiil also be on the staff aboard the Missouri. There wfll be twenty men in tihe corps ten contract nurses and four sbswardis. TK ie pres eot captain crew will aiccompainy the vessel. The Missouri will haYo two launcfc'es, an electric plant and 200 eletctoiu; fams. Major Arthur expects to have the vessell in readiness Inside two weeks from the Jay she aa rlves In this port.

FIREMEN'S EXAMINATION. Hugh Bonner, chief of the firo department has issued an order that officers and memben of the force and all those desiring to enter a competitive examination for promotiom to all grades except Deputy Chief, must file theit application not later than to morrow. INDEX To Classified Advertisements in Tp day's Eagle. ciAssmcATioJr. fag Administrator's Motlce 12 Amusements 6 Auction Sales 8 Board 8 Business Notices Business Opportunities 8 Claiirvoyants Coastwise Steamships 1 Corporation Notices Death Notices 7 Dentistry 3 Dividends Employment Agencies 8 Excursions Financial 12 13 For Exchange 8 Furnished Rooms Help Wanted Horses and Carriages Instruction a Legal Notices 9 10 Lost and Found 8 Meetings 18 Ocean Steamships 1 Post Office Notice 10 8 Railroads Rtal Estate at Auction a Situations Wanted 8 Special Notices 9 Sporting 6 8 Steamboats 10 Summer Resorts 8 9 Bummer Resort Guides 9 Surrogate's Mottoes ....9 12 To Let and For Sale 8 Wonted 8 Charles Davis, 55 years old, of 333 South Second street, who is well known in the Eastern District, where he has lived for many years, was Instantly Killed shortly after 2 o'clock this morning by being run over by a train on the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad at the station at Alabama avenue and Fulton street, in East New York.

From the investigation which was made by the police of the Liberty avenue station, it appears now to have been purely an accident, due to the carelessness of the dead man, as much as to that of anyone else. For a long time the identity of the man who had been killed was unknown to the police, but, after several hours, William J. Davis, a son of the deceased, was found at the South Second street address and he finally fully identified the remains. About 2:10 o'clock Engine No. 5, in charge of Engineer Job Green of 1,696 Broadway, pulled into the Alabama avenue station, drawing a train down town to the Brooklyn bridge.

Jacob Hoffman, who lives in Cypress Hills, was the conductor. There were several men standing on the platform waiting for the train and among them was Charles F. Lyons of Brooklyn Hills. Mr. Lyons seems to have been the first one to discover that an accident had taken place.

As he was stepping into the car he chanced to look down between the platform and the first ear and saw the body of a man lying there. The body was under the front truck of the first car on the train. Mr. Lyons notified the conductor and the engineer and upon instituting an investigation it was found that the body was wedged between the car wheels aaid the ties and a pool of blood encircled it. Policeman William Mc Mahon of the Liberty avenue station, who was on duty in the street below, was informed of the accident and he immediately rang up an ambulance from St.

Mary's Hospital. When Surgeon Fitzgerald arrived, however, life was extinct in the body of the unfortunate man and the Coroner was notified. Later the body was removed to Delninger's undertaking establishment, on Liberty and Van Siclen avenues, and Policeman McMahon placed Engineer Green under arrest on the charge of homicide. The only article found on the person of the dead man which gave the police a clue to his identity was an Insurance receipt for $2 paid by Charles Davis to O. W.

Troy of 531 Broadway. Through this slip of paper the police were enabled to find William J. Davis, the son. who went at once to the undertaker shop and identified the remains as those of his father. Mr.

Davis, the son said, left his home early last evening and did not say where he was going. He was a man of steady habits and was in the employ of F. W. Young piano makers, of Marcy avenue and Hope street. Mr.

Davis was quite expert at the business and was in prosperous circumstances. He had no family troubles and his son firmly believes that his death was the result of an accident. Engineer Green was taken before Mbj? trate Brtetow in the Gates avenue court this morning and held under $1,000 bail for ou jujj ou. juyons, tne pas senger who first discovered the body, was in court and told the magistrate all that he knew of the case. Engineer Green said that he was positive that his engine did not strike anyone and, therefore, he said Mr.

Davis probably fell from the platform between the tenaer rma the first car. No one seems to have seen Mr. Davis on the platform before his body was found under the train, and Mr. uLJufi, j. a vi upiaion tnat tne deceased was trying to cross the tracks from the east to the wesrt platforms when he lost his balance and fell under the wheels.

Coroner Delap will hold an inquest. IMPROVING PARK ENTRANCE. The Fifteenth Street Approach Will Be Graded and Curbed Trolley Tracks a Nuisance to Wheelmen. Park Commissioner Brower expects within a short time to begin the task of improving the Fifteenth street entrance to Prospect Park. Specifications are now being prepared for grading and curbing the circle at Ninth avenue and Fifteenth street, and as soon as they are ready, the Commissioner will invite bids for the work.

One question in connection with this Improvement will be in regard to the location of the trolley tracks at the point in question. They are now laid directly through the center of the circle, and are a constant menace to the lives of hundreds of bicyclists and drivers, who are in the habit of using this entrarce. Residents of this section have protested time and again about the trolley tracks and asked that Umj; be removed. The South Brooklyn Board of Trade has also made a vigorous complaint concerning them. It is desired that In making the improvements to the circle the railroad companies will be compelled to remove their tracks and go around the circle, instead of directly through it, hut this, in ali probability, will not be possible without a fight on the part of the railroads.

Commissioner Brower is anxious to have the tracks removed, and it is likely that an agreement will be reached at the proper time. The work will be promptly begun as soon as the contract is awarded. LEO BELS' SUICIDE. Killed Himself With Illuminating Gas in the Compton House Leaves a Widow and Child. The unconscious body of Leo Bels, who lived at 308 Livingston sreet, in this borough, was found Sunday afternoon in a room of the Compton House, at Twenty fourth street and Third avenue, Manhattan.

The odor of Illuminating gas drew abtention to the room and when the door was broken in Bels was found, partially dressed, lying on the bed. Two of the valves on the chandelier in the rooms were open. All of the conditions indicated that Bels had deliberately planned to kill himself. He was at once removed to Belleveue Hospital and everything possible was done to restore him to consciousness, but despite all efforts he remained in his lethargic state until 5:25 o'clock yesterday morning, when he died. Bels was one of the three sons of Joseph Bels, a former cigarmaker of Atlantic avenue, who died about three years ago, leaving about $50,000.

This money was divided by the father's will among the three bovs, Jacob. Samuel and Leo. Jacob and Simnul continued in the business in which their father nau oeen successful and now have a cigar manufactory on YVilloughby street, in this borough. Leo, it is said, was less inclined to thrift and sobriety than his brothers, and began to spend his money with more speed than discretion. Recently he had been employed by his brothers, and was said to have been a good marksman.

It is said that during the past year or so he had spent much of his time and money on the race tracks. Bels was 31 years old and leaves a widow and one child, 4 months ol d. He had been living recently at the home cf his mother in law, who resides on Livingston street at the number already given. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock to morrow afternoon. Undertaker Frank S.

Henderson, who removed the body from Bollevue, has charge of the funeral The cases of Drs. Franklin G. Vose and Joseph C. Thorns, who were charged by a coroner's Jury with culpable professional Incompetence in the case of Miss Addie Cornelius, who died from peritonitis and blood poisoning after she had been operated on by the doctors at her home 2.208, Fulton street, wer called in the Coroners' office this morning. The cases came up on adjourument, for the coroner's jury' had already held the accused doctors by their verdict and the findings of the jury will go finally to the Grand Jury.

Lawyer Foster L. Backus, who appeared for the physicians, had declared that "culpable professional incompetence" was not an offense under the provisions of the penal code and be had warned the Coroner that he would take the case Into the Supreme Court on habeas corpus proceedings if either of his clients should be held for the Grand Jury. When the case was called this morning in the Coroner's office both of the doctors were inquest, said that he was ready to hear any thing that Lawyer Backus might have to say on the subject. "It your honor please." said Mr. Backus, "I desire to make a motion on behalf of the defendants.

The law makes it your, duty to make a dii'igent inquiry into all the circum stances surrounding a case reported to you, visit the locality, view the body and do general police investigation to guide you in your future conduct of the case. The amount of labor, care and enterprise shown by you in this case has been very great. The information presented to your mind derived from all sources constrained you to act, but now that the inquest is ended and the tesimony transcribed it is your duty to act as a magistrate and as such to be guided by the rules of law under which any magistrate must act. The testimony at the Inquest is your guide. Section 7S3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure lays down this rule and requires that you 'must proceed to examine the charge contained in the inquisition and to hold the defendants to answer, or discharge them therefrom in the same manner in all respects as upon a warrant of arrest on an "Now, my first motion is to discharge the defendant.

Dr. Thorns, ion the ground that tlhere is nothing in the Inquisition that shows that his conduct was criminal. He was called in from 'the street by Dr. Vose, whose' patient this unfortunate girl was, informed that Dr. Vose wats to curette and asked to administer chloroform.

The father of the girl brought the chloroform, the mother was present during all 'the 'time and no objection to Dr. Vose's conduct of the case was made. Dr. Thorns administered the chloroform and did nothing more. The testimony in the case shows that Dr.

Vose was an experienced physician and surgeon and it is undoubtedly true that any other physician would have acted as Dr. Thorns did. I 'therefore move for bis discharge. "My second motion is for the. discharge of Dr.

Vose. He must be 'held, if at all, under section of the penal code for manslaughter In the first degree for causing her death white operating upon her with intent to pro duce a miscarriage, or for manslaughter in the second degree under section 193 of the penal code for causing her death by culpable negligence. It was nowihere pretended in this inquisition tlhat Dr. Vose was acting with an intent to produce a miscarriage. The issue is narrowed down, therefore to the ques tionv does the testimony on the inquisition show this girl's death was caused by uhe culpable negligence of Dr.

Vose? If tnere was eirl Twi'hlp ni3i7ltffiAnp mast ho fviinl either In the diagnosis or in the operation. All of )he testimony shows that he hod diagnosed the case from Friday morning till tihe time of the operation on Sunday morning as perit oni'tiis. The autopsy disclosed that his diagnosis was correct. Whatever opinion your honor may have, as a physician and surgeon, outside of this inquisition you must disregard. The autopsy disclosed as the primary cause of his death general peritonitis and endo metrltils.

The testimony upon the inquest showed that, taking the post mortem findings as true, and the diagnosis of Dr. Vose as true, it was his duty to curette. A physician must aot upon the symptoms presented to him, and he is fortunate indeed if the post mortem findings establish that his diagnosis was correct. The testimony, therefore, fails to slhow any criminal act by Dr. Vose.

The stupid verdict of the jury is no guide for judicial action in this case. I therefore move for the discharge of Dr. Vose" Coroner Delap, who had been listening attentively the address of Mr. Backus, said chat he had carefully examined the evidence and declared that he did not think there was sufficient to justify him in issuing a warrant for the further detention of the two doctors. The men were accordingly discharged.

Ahout fifteen minutes after they had walked out of the office Mrs. William Cornelius, the mother of che dead girl, came in and had a talk with Deputy Coroner Kelly. Mrs. Cornelius had been, at the District Attorney's office and came with one of Mr. Miu ean's officers.

She seemed to be very much disappointed when stoe heard that tie doctors had been discharged from custody and declared tha; their escape was an outrage. She asserted that they should be punished for what they had done to her daughter and It was with the greatest difficulty that Mr. Kelly could quiet her. Mrs. Cornelius did not mention any name when she asserted with pathetic emphasis that "he" should be sent to prison.

"He is certainly to hlame for my daughter's death," she said, "and tt is an outrage that tie should be allowed to escape. He is worse than Mrs. Place, the woman who is to go to the electric chair: and now he will be allowed to go around and cause the death of other innocent girls like my Addie. I do not intend to allow this case to stop here and I will see some other authority to find out if he cannot be punished." Mr. Kelly informed her that the case was not really concluded, and the intimation that the papers In the case, with all one testimony, would be referred to the Grand Jury, seemed to give her some comfort.

She left the Coroner's office with the intention of going to the District Attorney again before she got through with the case. UNDER THE SCAXPEBS' IAW. Broker Cagney, Charged With Selling a Pass, Furnishes the First Case. Timotny G. Cagney, 36 years of age, who said he was an operator of a miniature railroad, was held in $200 by Magistrate Kudlich in the Center street police court, Manhattan, this morning on the charge of selling a pass on the New York Central Railroad from this city to Buffalo and return.

The pass was made out in the name of E. J. Lawlor and wife and was dated January 27, 1S9S. The complainant was John S. Hobbs, a lumber merchant of Plainfield.

X. J. Hobbs said he paid $25 for the pass. It was alleged in court by Hobbs that Cagney was a member of the firm of Cagney ticket brokers, at .101 Broadway. This is the first case under the recent law, which prohibits the sale of a railroad pass.

WILL SAIL AS UUAL. The New Haven Line steamer C. H. Northam, scheduled to leave New York at 12 o'clock midnight daily, but which has been detained at New York on account of war restrictions placed by tho Government regarding the passing of vessels by Willets Toint before a certain hour, will, on and after to day, leave New York on time, which will allow the New Haven Line to run its steamers as per its regular summer time table. Tho restrictions imposed by the Government have been modified.

THE COURT CALENDAR. Supreme Court special term for motions, Stover, J. Motion calendar callod at 10:30, ex parte business at 10 o'clock. The police of the Brownsville station have found the body of Annie Miller's baby. It had been picked up on the doorstep of Mrs.

Schultz's residence at 17 Sussex street, Jersey City, on the night of July 9, and was taken to the almshouse on Snake Hill. There it was cared for by the county authorities until the 15th when It died in a spasm. The infant was buried In Potter's Field and late yesterday afternoon its body was exhumed in the presence of Detective Officers Croak and Stack of the Brownsville station, and Mrs. Louisa Eckert of Prospect place, near Rocka way avenue, with whom Annie Miller lived. Mrs.

Eckert positively identified the child by reason' of two chicken pox pits on Its face. The identification was not considered complete enough for police purposes, although the clothing which Uhe child had worn when last seen was on the little Jersey City foundling when it was taken to the almshouse, and this afternoon Annie Miller, the mother, will be taken by the police to Jersey C'ty ate body. James Rogers, who, Annie says, is the father of the child, is at present under charges on a complaint that he kidnaped the baby. The story of the child's disappearance has been told at length in the Eagle. The police were looking for the parents of the infant, which "was found on the doorstep of Peter J.

Kennedy's residence at the corner of Chester street and Eastern parkway about a week ago when they discovered that Annie Miller, a girl of questionable habits, had lost her six months old boy. She could not tell anything about the child's whereabouts, but said that James Rogers, a pressman, who lives at Rock away avenue and the Highland boulevard, knew where the baby was. He was arrested, but he declared that he knew nothing about the child. Other witnesses, Frank DIetz, John Young and Mrs. Teatom, who lives at lis Chester street, had all stories to tell the police which seemed to make it certain that Rogers knew where the baby was.

The police learned that on Thursday night a week ago, Rogers and the Miller girl had begged Mr. Teatom io Induce his wife to keep the baby for "them over night as Annie had lost her place and was not able to make immediate provision for las board. Mrs. Teatom 'took in the baby on the distinct understanding that she would be relieved of 'the burden by noon next day. But Annie did not return for the baby, Mrs.

Teatom cook it to Barbara Miller, Annie's sister, who declined to have anything to do wi'th it. She handed it to Frank Dletz, who came along at that time and Dietz iaid it down on the sidewalk on Prospect place, near Rockaiway avenue. While it was lying there, crying for food' Rogers came along, shouldered i't, and carried It off. That was the story told by two eye witnesses of the transaction, and the police had an impression that Rogers had made away the baby, particulaily as he had declared to Captain Velsor that he knew nothing about its whereabouts. Annie was arrested on a charge of having abandoned the child and Rogers, Dietz and Young were locked up as vagrants.

Every effort was made to Induce Rogers to tell where he bad taken the child, but he adhered to his story that he did not know where it was. Later he said to the police that Annie Miller had confessed to him that she had abandoned it on a door step in Jersey City on. Saturday night a week ago. That was the first clew that the police had to its whereabouts. The parties in the case were up before Justice Bristow in the Gates avenue court yesterday afternoon, but Lawyer Bruns, who appeared as counsel in the case, was not ready to go on with the hearing, and Assistant District Attorney Van Wyck consented to an adjournment until Monday next.

In the meanwhile the police made a complaint charging Rogers with kidnaping and he was held until this morning. The police made the discoveries about the death of the child yesterday, and this morning, when the case of Rogers was catled, he pleaded not guilty and was remanded until Monday. Bail was fixed at $500, and the bond was given by the accused's mother. It is probable that the police will have all the evidence in shape when the case Is next called. A CHANGE IN PLAYGROUNDS.

Contributions of Reading Matter Asked From the Public. A week's experience in the operation of the school playgrounds for the children of this borough has resulted in several changes in the programme originally laid out. The grounds connected with school No. 8 have been closed and those of school No. 1, corner of Adams and Concord streets, opened instead.

No. 1 was one of the schools originally selected, but was changed to No. 2 on request of societies interested In the work. The hours have also been shprtened, so that hereafter the sessions will last from 9 A. M.

until noon and from 1 P. M. to 5 P. the extra hour at both sessions being recognized as being more than the children required. Miss Bancroft, who is in immediate charge of the playgrounds, asks the public who are interested in the success of the work to send to her at 131 Livingston street, all reading matter, such as magazines and the like, that can be spared.

The children manifest great Interest in what the teachers read to them and are apparently hungry for all the child stories they can get hold of. The attendance at al Ithe playgrounds has been greater than was expected and the teachers in oharge have entered into the work with much spirit. ILLNESS PROMPTED SUICIDE. Reuss Was Moody and Shot Himself in the Head. Cterles Reuss, a cigar maker, 45 years old, who lived at 329 Crescent street, in the Twen ty siixtti Ward, comncifced suicide yesterday afternoon by shooting bimself in the left temple with a .38 catcher revolver.

Reuss was on epileptic and yesterday afternoon when he enitered tfce candy store kept by his mother and sister on Crescent street it was evident thait he was about to suffer an attack from tihe disease. He went upstairs to his room and very socn after a shot was beard. His mother fouoid him lying on the floor with a bullet wound his head. Anubulamce Surgeon Duif field from St. John's Hospital arrived wh'j an ambulance and Reuss was taken away.

He died in bhe hospital last night about 7 o'clock. He was unmarried and his long illness is supposed to have caused him to take his life. MOVEMENTS OF OCEAN VESSELS. ARRIVED TUESDAY, JULY 19. Ss Ss SB Georc Dumois.

rrom Sanchez. KI Monte, irom New Orloan. City of Aucusta. from Saranoatx. I'olycarp.

from Pant. Uto, lroin Vera Cruz. Ss 8s 8s Si. Ss Ss Us sjs as Ss Ss ss SS Ss Bs Ss Ss ss 8s Mario, from Itotterdam. Altai, from Klnwston.

Marengo, from Newcastle. Chester, from utliampton. AIUtlVKU AT FOltEIGN PORTS. Koenigiu liiiise, from New York, Bremen. Lartro, from New ort.

Falmouth. Aral, from New YorJc. Hainburc. August from New York, Hamburg. Foreland, from Now York.

Hamburg. Romelo. lroni New York.pd. Lundy Island. ann rrom Now Yoric, DLonieyiueo.

Cltiden. from New York. pel. Pra le Point. Poun5 Ivania, from New York, Prawle Pt.

St. Leonards, from New York. pu. Prawlo Pt. Fel bridge, from New York.

Kiug Rood. Rubens, from New York King Road. SAILED FROM FORF.IGN PORTS. Pennsylvania, lor Nrew York. Hainltnrs.

Barliaroasa. for New York. Southampton. Robert Diokinson. for New York.

Shields. Kuflon. for New Yprk. Rio Jauelro. Belinda, for New (York.

St. Lucia. Uerschel. for Nonf York. Santos." Art liter, for Neifr York.

Huaourg. Oottined Seliailker. for New York. Trieste. for N'iw York.

Marseilles. Potomac, for New York, Liverpool. Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss There Is not an 'id: man to day on board the auxiliary cruiser St. Louis, which with steaim ur its lying at the American Line pier on tho XorLh River front. The big vessel was short of allmost everything when she oame into port yesterday, but now she is takKng on 4,000 tens of coal, a lairge stock of provisions and stores.

Mechanics are at work moirniting live 5 inch breech loading and rapid fire rifles cm her main deck and whien the St. Louis leaves part on the next voyajge she will be as heavily armed as the St. Paul, but will lack the additional metal on her sides. Capta'in Goodrich expects to go to Porto Riico, but there is a possibility that the St. Louis will form a port of "Watson's squadron and will be fitted against the former Hamburg American Liners now a part of Admiral Camana's squadron.

Unlike the St. Paul the St Louis is not pot leaded (war paCnted), but the white stripes have been obliterated and her hull and twih smoke stacks are all block. Her upper works and boats are still whit and her rnaste and deck fittings remain a reddfeh cream color. The armed supply vessel Resolute, formerly the Yorktown, is still loading supplies at Pier No. 14, North River, but Captain J.

D. Eaton expects to be on his way to Santiago this afternoon. Two additional 6 pound breech loading and rapid fire rifles have be6n mounted on the Resolute's forward deck, and as she now carries four guns of that caliber forward, she is considered a match for any torpedo boat destroyer afloat. The Resolute will carry supplies for the Army and Navy at Santiago and 150 immune nurses in charge of Surgeon Thomas O. Summers.

The other transports, Massachusetts, Roumanian and Michigan, which will hereafter be known only by their official numbers, now being fitted out at Brooklyn docks, will probably leave for the South this week. They were to have sailed to day but orders came from the War Department this afternoon to hold them for a day or two. The Roumanian wil stop ait Newport News, where she will take on hoard four hundred tons of hay and other fodder for the animals in the government service in Culba. The Atlantic Transport liner Manitoba, which made her last trip as such, arriving here yesterday, as soon as her cargo Is discharged will be turned over to Major Summerhayes to be fitted up as a United States transport. The Massachusetts, Roumanian, Michigan and Manitoba are not armed vessels.

The Glacier and Supply will leave the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, to morrow Dor Santiago, with provisions, stores and supplies for the American fleet there. The converted yacht Sylvia will go out in a day or two. She has been ordered 'to Key West and Cuba and similar orders have been received from Washingson for the yacht Kanawah. The cruiser Buffalo, formerly the Nichteroy, is expected here from Norfolk, as It has been found necessary to have her machinery overhauled. The torpedo boat Porter, which is also in need of Tepairs, is expected to Teach the yard to day Transatlantic Lines Slow to Bid lor Transportation, of Spanish Prisoners.

Inquiry at the offices of various Transatlantic lines in Manhattan indicates very little likelihood of any of the companies competing for the contract of transporting the Spanish prisoners taken in the province of Santiago de Cuba to Spain. It was estimated by officers of the Hamburg American Line to day that about twenty vessels, each capable of carrying a thousand men, beside her crew would be required. As it is believed that the government desires large rather than small vessels for transports, the Transatlantic lines are slow to give the subject consideration, as it would require the withdrawal of their best vessels from their regular passenger traffis. The contracts suggested are of so unprecedented a character that the companies are at a loss bow to compute the actual cost of transportation to so fine a degree that they will be protected from loss in carrying them out. It is figured that many alterations in the vessels will have to be made at large outlay, the chief of which will be the increase of galley space for providing food for the prisoners.

As an indication of what the carrying capacity of some of these vessels may be made to do, it is instanced that the Hamburg American liner Scandia, which was bought by the United States and is now on her way to San Francisco, carried for the Russian government in May and June of this year 1,800 troops from Odessa to Port Arthur. Atlantic Line Purchases New Steamships. The steamships Boadicea, Alexandra, Cleopatra, Winifreda and Victoria, of the Wilson Furness Leland Line, have been purchased by the Atlantic Transport Line, and an agreement has been entered Into by which the Wilson Furness Leland Line abandons for seven years its passenger and freight traffic between London and New York. The vessels were sold outright, the purchase taking place because tne Atlantic Transport Line had sold all Its vessels to the Government. The Winifreda was turned over this week and the others will be 'transferred as they reach the city of London.

The last of the Wilson Furness Leland Line steamers to leave New York will be the Alexandra, which is scheduled to sail July 30. Immediate Communication With Santiago. The Ren line steamship Philadelphia, which has been chartered by the Ward line to open 'trade between the ports of New York and Santiago, is still in dry dock in the Erie Basin, hut Is expected at the Ward line dock, at the foot of Wall stree't, to morrow. She will CATry food, stores and passengers and eail Saturday afternoon. BIDS FOR DREDGING CANAL.

On Wednesday. July 27, Commissioner of Sowers James Kane will open bids for dredging Goiranus Canal from the bulkhead north of Douglass street to tho south end of the channel at the Union street bridge. This work has been in contemplation for a long time and tho improvement has been repeatedly demaudod by business men. On the following Thursday Commissioner Dalton of the Department of Water Supply will open bids for furnishing semi bittiminons and anthracite coal for tho stations in Brooklyn and Quoens in tho following amounts: Section 1, 39,900 gross tons of semi bituminous coal. Section 2, 21.400 gross tons of anthracite pea coal.

THE WEATHER. INDICATIONS TILLS P. M. TO MORROW. "Washington.

1). C. July 10 For Eastern New York, showers and tbuucier storms to night aua "Wednesaay: high temperature to niKllt coolor In. northern portion Wednesday; southerly winds. LOCAL PROBABILITIES.

Showers and tlmiuicr storms to nignt and Wednesday; warmer to afeht southerly winds. The following is the record of the thermometer an kept at tne Brooklyn Daily Kaele oinre: 2 A. M. to day 75 I Id A. 70 ijL.it 75 i 12 78 li A.M 74 I 1 P.M 81 8 A.

St 75 82 Average temrjerature to day 77 Average temperature corresponding uay last year Vfljjj HIGH WATER. Following is the official announcement of the time ana duration of high water at New York and Saudy II 00k for to morrow, Julv 20: A ,11. M. TimelHalgbt TimelHeiitat in. u.

Ft. 1 1 11. m.I Ft. Imra'n of Rtoe.l Fait H. lets.

u. ITew I 8:44 SamlyHook 8:27 3.9 4.2 II I il 8:33 I 4.6 4.S I) 1 54 6:03 6:31 if il Li.