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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1898. MILES NOTIFIES MACIAS McCARflEN, A STATE LEADER. POLICE II WINTER GARB, BOMBARDED WITH BOTTLES.

THE QUADRIGA IS HERE. VERMILYESEEKS MANDAMUS I SYLVIA'S PLUCKY EREW OF TEMPORARY PEACE. DID HAZARDOUS DUTY. His Friends Pleased With His Selection as Chairman A Mid August Experience' That Wasn't Comfortable. Newark Chowder Eaters Assail a Brooklyn Excursion.

MacMpnnies' Magnificent Bronzes Arrive at New York To day. To Compel Controller to Award Bonds to That Syndicate. Commander at San Juan Gets His News From Us. Carried Dispatches Under Morro' Guns to Spanish Authorities. OP THE COMMITTEE OF TEW.

MULBERRY STtRiEiET'S TUGBOAT TURNS ON A HOSE. A GREAT WORK OF ART. ORDER RETURNABLE WEDNESDAY WHITE FLAG NOT ANSWERED. It Will Be Put in Position Upon the Monument Which Is Expressive of Brooklyns Appreciation of the Bravery of Her Men on Land and Sea as Soon as Preliminary Work Ib On the Same Day the Order of the Produce Exchange Trust Company to Restrain This A ward Will Be Argued Delegation Calls Upon Mr. Coler Is Assistant Corporation Counsel Connely Wrong They Believe That He "Will Measure Up to the Opportunity and That He Will Make a Record for Himself in the Organization of the Party Throughout the State A Significant Increase in Mail.

The Brooklyn Officers Had to Turn Out for Winter Inspection of Uniforms, in Order That the Department May See What Changes. Are Necessary. The Prospect of Buying New Overcoats Worrying the Local Officers. The Greenwood Athletic Club Meets the Gus Helfrecht Association at Carteret, N. and, After Duly Walloping the Jerseymen for Their Insults to the Women, Is Subjected to a Parting Sho wer of Glass Missiles.

TROOPS DISAPPOINTED. They "Were Eager to Get Into a Real Fight, Having Had a Modest Taste of It General Miles Says Aibonito "Would Have Been Ours in Four Days Had Not Peace Intervened. General Miles Undecided Whether He "Will Remain in Porto Rico Pending Negotiations or Return to "Washington. Ponce, Island of Porto Rico. August 14 Yesterday Major General Miles communicated by cable Captain General Macias at San Juan the fact that the protocol had been signed and to day he received from General Macias an acknowledgment of the notification.

General Miles also sent forward Mickler with a flag of truce to bear the intelligence io tie Spanish commander at Aibonito. He is personally unsettled whether he will remain here during the period of negotiations, but the lour army columns will remain where they are until the negotiations are completed. The volunteers are anxious to get home now ihat the end has come, though orders have "been issued to make the troops as comfortable as possible during the interim. The transports that have arrived are being disembarked, no orders to the contrary having been received. "Would Have Captured Aibonito in Pour Days.

General Miles says Aibonito wouid have been his within four days, had not the protocol been signed. General Wilson was already moving to the enemy's right flank at Aibonito when the President's orders came io suspend hostilities. General Brooke was pushing into the rear. Genera! Henry had come within fifteen miles of Areci'bo and General Schwan had reached Mayaguez. Fears are expressed by the natives that during the period of treaty negotiations the Spanish troops may be given free license within their lines to terrorize the inhabitants.

If this should be the case General Miles says the Americans would be powerless to interfere. Raising Our Flag in Porto Rico. Lieutenant Earnes of the Nineteenth Regiment Infantry, Lieutenant French of the Eleventh Regiment Infantry and Senor Antonio Lluveras, one of the insurgent leaders, were sent out to day through the country north and west to raise the American flag in all towns. The commission from the Xational Relief Association on Mr. Alexander Van Rensselaer's steel schooner yacht May has arrived witi supplies for the soldiers.

Some provision should be made to allow the refugees here to return to their homes and look after their property interests. CAMBON VISITS MOUNT VERNON "Washington, D. C. August 15 The French Ambassador and most of the members of his staff went to Mount Vernon to day for a. visit to the Tomb of Washington.

Secretary Thie baud remained in town and during the day had conferences with Secretary Day on incidental questions relating to the restoration of telegraphic and other means of communication with Cub. STATE MAY BUY CAMP BLACK. Negotiations Are Now Said to Be in Progress Advantages Over the Peekskill Camp. Eagle Headquarters, Camp Black. Hempstead, L.

August 15 Ii was learned liere to day on good authority that the State of New York is making efforts to buy the land now occupied by the camp for use as a state camp. George Hubbel. who is the agent for the heirs of A. T. Stewart, who own the property, said to an Eagle reporter that he ioped to dispose of the land to the state.

It i learned that General Tilllngh ast is in favor of the purchase. There are many reasons in favor of it. In the first place, the state could combine lie state camp, which is now held at Peeks kill, with the rifle ranges, which are at Creedmoor. The rifle ranges, which could be used at Camp Black, could be any desired length, for the plains are fourteen miles long. The range at Creedmoor is 1.000 yards.

This will accommodate enly the old style Springfield rifle, which has a maximum range of 1,000 yards, whereas the Krag Jorgensen rifle will shoot accurately at 2.000 and even 2.500 yrds. One of the drawbacks to the plains as a camp would be the lack of water, but engineers who have examined the place say that artesian wells could be driven at small cost. Baths such as they have at Peekskill, with hot and cold water, could easily be established. If a permanent camp is to be established here on the plains a perfect system of drainage could be Introduced. The Seventh Regiment and the Twenty second Regiment have built expensive houses at Creedmoor and if this change should be made the houses would have to be given up and sold, for they could not be moved.

The ground Is level and is extensive enough to permit the handling of large bodies of troops. At Peekskill there is not enough, room to drill regiments in extended order. At Hempstead Plains this difficulty Would be avoided. GERMAN CONSUL DIES. Representative of Emperor William at Philadelphia Passes Away.

Philadelphia, August 15 Charles H. Meyer. German consul in this city, died yesterday at his home here of apoplexy, aged 72 years. Mr. Meyer was appointed consul of the German empire in this city in 1872.

He was the first consul appointed to Philadelphia after the consolidation of the German empire and continued to fill that office until his death. In 1876 he served as one of the centennial commissioners and as an expression of appreciation of his services, the iate Emperor Will lam the First bestowed upon him the decoration of the Order of the Red Eagle. The same year, in recognition of his services in behalf of the Swedish government, the King of Sweden honored him with a decoration. Mr. Meyer was a member of the wholesale dry goods firm of Dickinson.

SICK SOLDIERS IN HOSPITAL. San Francisco. August 15 There were 317 patients at the Division Hospital this evening, the greatest number yet, and 57 at the post hospitals. Only one of these 374 h'ck soldiers 12 dangerously ill Phivate Mitchell of the Tennessee Regiment, who has blood poisoning, following vaccination and is uoi ioecteii to OUR I The Converted Yacht, Under Command of Lieutenant Ford and Manned by the Brooklyn Naval Reserve, Ran. Well Within the Range of the Gums at Havana at Early Dawn, Not Knowing Whether the Flag of Truca Was Recognized or Not Dispatches Transferred to a Spanish Gunboati The Brooklyn Naval Reserve has seen ser vice, and pretty exciting and dangerous service, too, according to the dispatches descrlb tng the firing from Morip Castle near Havan last Friday, and the operations which 'followed.

Brooklyn men have formed the crew of the converted yacht Sylvia since she vras dispatched to Southern waters, aiud it fell to the lot of this boat to carry messages the commander of Motto almost before the guns of 'that fortress had ceased smoking, and when the little craft was in imminent danger of being fired on. To be sure, the Sylvia displayed a flag of truce as she approached the fortress, but it was early In the morning and the comparMive darkness taken together with the record which the Spaniards had made for being none too ready to recognize the 'white flag, made the undertaking a risky, one. Soon after the San Francisco, tfce Sylvl and the other nbats which had drawn tbm LIEUTEXAXT WILLIAM G. FORD. fire of Morro had retired, unwilling Kib diienee to orders received by signals from tSia San Francisco, the Sylvia was signaled to take some papers oif an official character Havana.

Under command of Lieutenant W. G. Ford the little craft steamed baick and lay to within range of the castle's guns. Lieutenant Ford and bis men expected to be on at any moment, as their signal Indicating that their mission was not belfiigerenit received no response from the fort. After considerable delay, however, a gunboat appeared and the dispatches were delivered.

Lieutenant Ford is a graduate of the Naval Academy and has been exceedingly active in organizing the Naval Reserve in ough. He has 'been connected with the viprk: of the United States coast survey and on 'the boats of the Fisheries Commission. His occupation in private life is that of a civil, engineer and his office is at 1S9 Montague street. The ensigns of the Reserve are A. L.

Tuzo, who is signal officer of the Second' Battalion H. E. Kunz and Goodrich. Other members of the brigade aire as follows: Chief quartermaster, De Forest Oondee, cf 323 Garfield plu.ee; signal quartermaster of the Second Battalion, Apothecary T. J.

'C. Brenman; chief petty officer, a student in the New York University's MecMca i School; B. F. Cogswell of 305 Garfield place; one of tbe original meimlbers of the battalion; J. D.

Andrews cf 33 Montgomery place, a son of Professor Andrews of the Polytechnic, cf which Insti'tution he to graduate; Seaman Allaire, a graduata of the New York Naval School; Louis Pornores of 602 Canton street, Lemond C. Stone of 90 Pierrepont street, a student ia the Polytechnic; O. W. Schoneck, 19 Avenue P. H.

Col'lins, .77 Van Buren street; E. B. Rice, 1,144 Dean street; Leonard S. Webb, 28 Madison street; Rufus B. Leavitt, 325 West Fifty seventh street.

Manhattan; H. C. Zimmerman, 117 Park pla.ee; H. H. Gordon, 1158 Dean street; A.

R. Mulkins, 422 Ocean avenue, a bank, teller and a member of the Gravesend Bay Yacht Club and K. L. Martin, a son of Bridge Engineer C. C.

Martin, and one of the engineers of the new East River bridge. GOLD HUNTERS AT KOTZEBUZj; More Than 500 Prospectors Already oa the Sound. Port Townsend, August 15 A letter received here announces the arrival at Kotze bue on Sunday, July 1 1, of the steam schooner Elk, which sailed from this port early in June with a party of prospectors for the mouth of the McKenzie River. The Elk: made the run from Dutch Harbor to Kotze bue Sound in seven days, arriving, ther July 14. The letter states that there are more than 500 people on the Sound.

Already provisions are scarce. The. schooner had two years' supplies for fifteen men, for which a handsome figure was offered. Parties have coramence4i prospecting in the mountains and along ths various streams, emptying into Kotzebua Sound, but no strikes have been reported. Many who are short of supplies are making preparations to return south.

The only gold reported from the vicinity of Kotzebue Sound this season is about fifteen thousand which was in the possession of three men who had arrived at Dutch Harbor just before the sailing of the Elk. They had exhausted their supply of provisions and came to Dutch Harbor in the hope of replen ishing their stock. They refused to give thl exact location of their mines. The following vessels were reported In th vicinity of Kotzebue Sound on July 14: United States revenue cutter Bear, Laurel', Evelyi Johnson and Loyal. A LANDLORD'S TROUBLES.

Frank Mullen, who lives at 41 Garfield place, was charged with attempting to "stab his landlord, Thomas Condon, when arraigned in the Myrtle avenue court this morning. The pair had a quarrel over rent on Saturday night and during the fracas, it Is alleged, Mullen used a knife. Condon saM also Mrs. Mullen had hit him on tbe bead with a stove lid," and he secured a warrant for her arrest. Mullen pleaded not guilty and was held for examination on August 22.

WAGONS IN A SMASH UP. William Anderson, his wife and two children were driving along Eastern parkway fa a light wagon yesterday afternoon, when their vehicle collided with a surrey driven by Louis Kurlanzo. 1,837 Eastern AH of the occupants were thrown out, but escaped serious injury. Kurlanzo received a few bruises on his face. The wagon and surrey were badly wrecked.

STEAMER GUT HEEL IN COLIJSION, Hamburg, August 15 The German tany iteamer Gut Heil, Captain Daldorf, outward bound for New York, was In collision with th German ship D. H. "Watjen, Captain "Wioke, which arrived here on August 13, from Ha coma, a ad has returned, tq dock with her port bows damaged. The H. Watjen was also damajjii The unusual spectacle of policemen garbed in overcoats and heavy winter clothing marching around the streets to day attracted more than wonted notice.

The men were on their way to inspection. By an extraordinary provision of those who run things at the Mulberry street headquarters, the winter inspection had been fixed for the middle of summer and in thousands of homes of policemen in the boroughs of the greater city wives and other female relations were busy this morning destroying, as far as possible, the nauseating odor of camphor and tar, in which the coats had been wrapped since they were laid away something like a year ago, when Brooklyn had a department by itself. There has been muoh grmmblng among the men over the new regulations. The powers in headquarters at Manhattan had decided that all of the men in the force of the greater city should be attired alike. The process of uniforming the men has been going on ever since consolidation.

This has been in a great measure a hardship to the 1,800 men in Brooklyn, for they have been forced to get clothing that was similar to that worn by the men of the old city of New York. As a matter of fact, many of them had been forced to get new ckrthes at the last winter inspection of the old city. Overcoats, for example, form one of the heaviest taxes on the income of the men, for they are exposed to the worst weather and wear but much quicker than any other of the uniform garments. The old uniform coat cost $28 and many of those which were inspected to day were only purchased last fall. The men, it had been understood, would all be compelled to have mew overcoats this year and there was a great deal of grumbling thereat in the ranks of the oid Brooklyn force.

A committee of toe policemen went to headquarters in Mulberry street and had a talk with the powers there. They represented that their coats were just as good could be and 'they asked the privilege of having the old garments altered to fill the requirements of the regulations of the old New York force. They told the commissioners that they did not expect that the old New York men, who were largely, of course, in the majority, would be asked to have all their garments changed to fit the style used in Brooklyn, but they were anxious that their own clothing should not be wholly condemned. They did net get any particular satisfaction, but it is possible that the CommissiJLers may allow them to retain their old unliVm garments, with modifications to suit the egula tion. There are changes to be mae and this will entail some expense to th men, uuc Lucy aaim ciiac taey ao not Deer new coats auo mat wun tne enanges toe gar ments win De as gooa as those of theVmen jn the larger borough.

The regulation top coat of New York Vias two rows of nine buttons down, the front Tnd tne oia Brooklyn garment had instead io rows of eight buttons. The buttons run fri a distance of seven inches apart at the top three and one half inches at the bottom. ThY old coats of the Brooklyn men have five inches apart at the bottom. There are! six buttons on the skirt of tie Brooklyn top coat. In the new regulations there are but four buttons on the skirt, two on each side.

Brooklyn men claim that with a new piece inserted at. the breast the old coats can be made to meet the regulations. If the old coats are condemned it will mean a loss to them collectively of $50,400. So far no in formation on the subject has been received from headquarters, but the inspectors in charge of the local districts have decided to pass all good coats and instruct the men to wait until they receive further orders to have them, altered. The inspection to day took place in stations in the various inspection districts.

Ac'ing Inspector Campbell, who has charge of the men in his own and in Inspector Rhodes' district, had two batches of men at the Bergen street station to day. Inspector Bren nan held his inspection in the Gaites avenue station and Inspector Murphy in the Hamburg avenue station. The men did not all wear their coats on the way to inspection, although many did. The more sensible carried them over their arms untiil they reached the station. All were ordered to get the regulation winter trousers.

Hitherto the police of the Brooklyn force have worn only two grades of uniform trousers, the summer weight and the dress trousers. There are three pairs of trousers required under the new regulations the summer weight, of flannel; the dress trousers and the heavy winter trousers. It is the latter that the men are expected to have new. They are all required to have n'ew winter hcHmets. JAG0 REARRESTED.

Charge Against the Briitannic's Chief Officer Dismissed, but He Will Be Brought to the United States. Queenstown, August 15 J. W. Jago, chief officer of the White Star Line steamer Britannic, who was arrested here Friday morn ing, on the arrival of the Cunard Line steam er Lueania, on a charge of being concerned in robbing the mails, was discharged this morniug, but was immediately rearrested upon a warrant issued at the request of the United States embassy, charging him with embezzlement and larceny. He will tie taken to London, arriving there to morrow.

Evidence Against Wood Not Consider ed Conclusive. London," August lo At Bow street police court this morning Daniel Wood, steward of the Cunard Line steamship Lucania. who was arrested on Friday at Liverpool, for alleged complicity with Jago in robbing mails and smuggling, was caargeU on a provisional warrant with embezzlement and larceny. A representative of the United States embassy lniormea toe magistrate, sir John Bridge, that details of the alleged offenses had noi been received and asked him to remand the prisoner. Sir John Bridge replied that the GVidpnno was too slight to justify Wood's detention and released him on his own recognizance, to attend when called for.

NAVY YARD NOTES, Freshly painted and looking as trim and neat as if she had only gone into commission, the United States battleship Texas awaits a favorable tide to be floated out of the dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The need I ed repairs to her hull, uppersides, superstructure and machinery 'have been eotnoieted, un i der the supervision of Naval Constructor Bowles. The authorities at the yard expect the other vessels of Admira Sampson's squadron to arrive by the end of che week and the cruiser Brooklyn will probably be the first to reach the yards. The new dry dock will be ready to recive ono of tlhe vessels withtin two weeks as the workmen who are removing the coffer dam in front of 'the big dock are now cutting away the last row of high wooden piles which obstruct the entrance. The torpedo boat Dupont which arrived from Guantanaimo last week was towed over to the dock at che foot of Seventh street and East River to day for a thorough overhauling.

The big rerigc rater cteamer Celtic is still at the yard awaiting the arrival of some additional stores but wil; leave within twen iyfour hours for Key We, Cuba and Porto Since Senator McCarren was named as chairma'U of Che committee of 'ten that is to 'build up the Democratic party in New York State prior to the election of a governor and other state officers, his mail has materially accumulated. On his desk in the Phenix Building this morning was a stack of letters witia the postmarks of small villages and towns to the upper part of the state. As his law partner, Register Haggerty, passed by the Senator's desk this morning he ejaculated: "I see by the postmarks that the hayseeders are already getting in their fine work on McCarren." Xot only has the mail taken on larger proportions but the string of visitors has appreciably lengthened. There were scores of men at the office to day with a variety of propositions to discuss. The office force from the hirsute characteristics of some of the visitors were betting matches that they had come all the way from Speonk, L.

I. An Eagle reporter who rnauired for the Senator this afternoon was informed that he was not expected at 'the office until the latter part of the week. He is expected to take a brief rest after the organization of the committee in the Hoffman House. Manhattan, tomorrow night. Senator McCarren's appointment as chairman of this important committee has given a great deal of satisfaction to the rank and file of the party here.

His associates in the leadership of assembly districts prophesied to day that he would attract more attention for what he would do here than has been his privilege in the past. McCarren, in their opinion, has a distinct faculty for organization work and has done much of it successfully on his own account in his own neighborhood. He never had distinct charge of a campaign here, but he knows how to make one. He will be a member of the State Committee when the successor of the present committee is elected after the convention on September 28. "McCarren for the paist year or two.

has been anxious for expansion," said an oid friend of 'the Senator's to a reporter for the Eagle to day. "He has been a reader and student of political events for some years and is one of the best informed men in the Democratic party in 'the state. His views have generally been accepted by Hugh McLaughlin, who thinks more of his courage, intelligence and experience than he does of the same virtues in any other individual Assembly District leader. McCarren will make a success of his new place, and I believe it will have che effeot of lifting 'him to a higher offlciial Nation." Elliot Danforth. chairman of the state committee, had no'; arrived at his Broadway office at noon, when a reporter for the Eagle called there.

He is believed to be visiting his old home in Chenango Coun'ty. ATTACKS ON MANZANILLA. Interesting Details of the Work, of th Auxiliary Fleet Off Western Santiago de Cuba. An officer on board the converted gunfaoat Hist, which is doing blockade duty off Manzanilla, Cuba, and ivhl ch is mentioned in to day's dispatches as being actively engaged in the attack on that port Friday night, had written to a friend in Brooklyn some interesting details of the work of the fleet of auxiliaries along the western coast of the Province of Santiago de Cuba. He says: "Ever since our arrival on this station we have been in it up to the neck.

Our commander, Lieutenant Lucien Young, had charge cf the expedition on June 30 that with three ships closed in on nine Spanish vessels, three forts and more than a thousand men, and for one hour and torty minutes we toed the mark. Our ship, the Hist, was hit eleven times by 6hot and shell and pitted with small arm projectiles, and yet we did not lose a man. We sank two gunboats, one store ship and a sloop loaded with soldiens. "Three days later we took part in the chase by the forts and the destruction Cervera's fleet, which, coming as it did so soon after our anzanilla fight, almost sank it out of sight. "On the 18th (July) we took part in the bombardment of Manzanilla, when we destroyed five gunboats, one store ship and three large transports.

Two days later we bombarded Santa Cruz and cut the cable along the coast in three places. We are now assisting to blockade this section of the coast. Our men are anxious to have a chance to pelt a fort near here that looks very tempting, and I am told a plan is on foot for an early attack on the fortifications along this part of the Cuban coast." The latter part of the above letter probably refers to thf proposed actaek on Manzanilla, which was consummated on Friday and Saiturday and mentioned in to day's dispatches; probably the last engagement of the war. The Hist is a converted yacht and was fitted out at the Navy Yard here. FOUND STARVING AND ILL.

Timothy Lynch, Who Had Come From Newburg to See His Son. The physicians at St. Catharine's Hospital are interested in the case of Timothy Lynch, 52 years old. who was found exhausted and sick at the corner of Bushwick avenue and Grand street yesterday afternoon and taken in an ambulance to the institution. Lynch was found to be suffering from hunger and privation, as well as an ulcer on his left leg.

After securing some nourishing food and having his injury bandaged. Lynch told the physicians that he had come two weeks ago from Newburgn, N. in the hopes of meet 1 ing his son, who had been to Cuba with the Seventy first Regiment. The young man had not been among any of the detachments thac had arrived so tar, with the result that Lynch became penniless. He had been without food for several days and tvj on his way to the dispensary of St.

Catharine's Hospital when taken ill on the street. He has somewhat improved to day. but it will take some weeks before he is convalescent. DISORDERLY CONDUCT CHARGED. Lizzie Saunders, a young woman who lives at 100 Gwinnett street, in the Eastern Dis trict.

was arraigned in the Lee avenue po lice court this morning, charged with disorderly conduct. She was seen disputing with two men by Officer Peter Smith of the Cly raer street station, on Gwinnett street, at an early hour this morning. She fled on his appearance, entering the house at the address given. She re sisted arrest and threw a lighted oil lamp at the officer. Iu court this morning the accused woman's head was bandaged.

The injuries, she said, were by the officer's club. She was fined $1. DWYER'S NARROW ESCAPE. Denis Dwyer. 35 years old, a truck driver of 73 Freeman street, Greenpoint.

had a narrow escape with his life this morning. Dwyer was driving a team of horses attached to a truck owned by Logan of 70 Com mercial street, through that thoroughfare in 1 the direction of Manhattan avenue. At the I corner of the two streets the horses collided wlfh an pmnrv rnif.k. Tff thrown from his seat to the streeowery' con i msmns nf thp snmpi nnm I moved to the Eastern Dis The controversy over the city bond award whi'cih has been engaging the attention of tlhe Controller, tbe financial institutions interested and numerous, legal lights for the past week raged as fiercely to day as any time last week Controller Coler found on his desk this morning upon arrival at his office an order secured on Saturday by Strong and der of 40 Wall street, as counsel for Vermilye Brothers and Ku'an, Loeb the syndicate which put in the highest bid for the bonds, conditioned upon the approval of the legality of the issue by their counsel, directing him to show cause on Wednesday morning, next in Che New York Supreme Court why a peremptory mandamus Should not issue compelling Mm to award 'She entire bond issue to the Vermilye syndicate, as the highest bidders. The order secured 'by Strong Cadwalader Is returnable the same day as the injunction order secured by Carter, Hughes Dwjght last Friday in favor of the Produce Exchange Trust Company to enjoin the Controller from awarding the bonds to the Vermilye syndl date or anyone else 'but their clients.

Later to day the Controller received a delegation headed by James H. Parker, president of the Produce Exchange Trust Company; Myron T. Herrick, president of the Cleveland Savings Bank, and Julian D. Fairchild, president of the Kings County Trust Company, all interested in the bid of the Produce Exchange Trust Company, who urged the Controller to make the award in their favor. The Hamilton Trust Company, the United States Mortgage and Trust Company and the Western National Bank were also represented at the conference.

These men brought with them a number of opinions by eminent legal firms all tending to the belief that Acting Corporation Counsel Theodore Connoly's opinion that the Vermilye syndicate's bid was valid is in error. They left the osiniens with the Controller for further consideration. One of the opinions was written by Hoad ley, Lauterbach Johnson and addressed to Messrs Kountze 120 Broadway. In it Acting Corporation Counsel Connoly's opinion was attacked as erroneous, Hoadley, Lauterbach Johnson referring to a case of similar cnaracter decided by the courts in 1895, the uit of the Village of Fort Edward vs. Fish, in which the decisloa was adverse to Mr! Connoly's claim.

The case is reported in Hun's reports. Julien T. Davies of Davies. Stone Auer bach wrote an opinion for the Produce Exchange Trust Company, in whioh he declared that the Controller is under obligation to award the bonds 'to the highest bidder and cannot arbitrarily reject 'the highest bid offered. They argue that by reason of the condition attached the Vermilye syndicate bid is invalid and that the Produce Exchange Trust Company bid is the highest and they affirm that in their opinion the latter company can enforce the purchase from 'She city.

Root, Howard, Wtnthrop and Stimson also WTOte an opinion affirming the invalidity of the Vermilye syndicate bid and declared the award should go to the Produce Exchange Trust Company. Mr. Coler took the opinions and reserved any decision. He has announced his intention of awaiting the event of the actions In court, which come up for argument Wednesday morning. MYSTERIOUSLY MURDERED.

Merchant Found Dead in the Road, His Body Riddled With Bullets. Atlanta, August 15 A special from Wartrace, says: Rawlins, a prominent business man of Millersburg, has been found murdered on the road near his home. His body was riddled with bullets and shockingly mutilated. He was disembowled and the body cut almost in two. The body was found by John Pruett, who says he heard pistol slots in that vicinity several hours before.

Rawlins was recently married to a young woman who was the belle of the neighborhood. It was thought that Rawlins had been murdered by tramps, but suspicion now rests on AVilliam Fulks, Rawlins' neighbor, who is a cousin of his wife. Fulks called at the Rawlins home a short time after Rawlins had left, and on being told of the departure started in the same direction. Fulks recently purchased a revolver ana cartridges at Belle Buckle, Tenn. He was not present at the funeral and is said to have left town.

FATHER BILL DALY HURT. The Well Known Horseman in a Runaway Accident on the Boulevard His Family Escapes Injury. Father Bill Daly, the well known horseman, was the victim of a runaway accident on the Boulevard ight, in which he received a Eracture of the right shoulder, and a severe gash on 'the right cheek and forehead. Mr. Daly has a summer residence on the Boulevard, near the Neck road.

Last evening he had his team of fast horses hitched to his double seated surrey, with the intention of taking his family for a ride. In the party were Mr. Daly, Mrs. Daly, sheir two children and Mr. Daly's sister in law.

Just as the carriage was turning from the driveway of the Daly residence into the Boulevard some Tart of the harness became disarranged, the pole caught between the nigh horse's legs and both horses became unmanageable. The horses 'turned sharply into the Boulevard and began Co run toward Coney Island. Mo Daly endeavored to regain control of the frightened team, but found that he was unable to do so. After running a sfhort distance from the house one of the wheels catight in a tree as the carriage swerved to the side of the road and the whole party was 'hhrQ'wn out. 'Passing wheelmen and drt vers who saw the accident carried Mr.

Daly and the others to the side of the road and a messenger was sent for Dr. Stephen Pettlt of Sheepshead Bay. Wlhen the physician arrived (he found that Mr. Daly was tile only one who toad suffered any injury beyond the shock and the jarring incident to such an accident. Mr.

Daly's shoulder was found to be fractured and his face badly giashed. Carriages were procured and the whole taken home. The temm continued down the boulevard for nearly half a mile before It was stopped. Then Moun'ted Officer Hamilton' shied them to the side of the read and brought them to a halt. Beyon'd seme bruise3 about the legs the horses were unln iured, but the carriage was wrecked.

Mr. Daly valued the whole outfit at $2,500. A ST. DOTIS BRFDCKE JUMPER. St.

Louis, August 15 On a wager Miles McDonald, teamster, dived from the top rail of Eads Bridge Into the Mississippi River and came out uninjured. The distance from the rail to the water is 115 feet and the water is about twenty five feet deep. McDonald was picked up 'by a skiff. HOT WAVE IN THE WEST. San Bernardino, August 15 There has just passed over this section a hot wave that has never had a parallel here within the memory of many men.

The maximum has been 102, 109, 107, 103, 106, 104 and 103 degrees for seven days. To make matters worse there has been a very low barometer, The Greenwood Athletic Club of South Brooklyn had a picnic yesterday. It is a benevolent organization, in a certain sense, and the money taken in at the boxing contests that mow and then occur at its club house on Twenty fifth street goes to a good cause. Now and then tho members and their families indulge in a picnic on a holiday or a Sun day and go to some nearby grove on the Hudson, the Sound or New York Bay. Yesterday was one of the days chosen for an excursion and it was to nave been the biggest one given yet.

It certainly promised to be a very successful one and that it ended In an altercation as.4 a bad time at the Grove was no fault of the managers. At about the same time that the Greenwood Club started an its sail to Sylvan Beach Grove, Carteret, X. on board, the barges Cully and Vanderbilt, the Gus C. Helfrecht Chowder Association of Newark, N. also set out for the same place.

They were nearer to the grove aud arrived first, and when the Brooklyn party came the Newark men were, according to all accounts, in a condition to welcome them io a manner all their own. On beard the. Brooklyn barges were many women and young girls, and as their husbands and fathers escorted them from the boat to the grove grounds remarks were made that led those same fathers to make excuses to their families later on and disappear in the direction of the Newark crowd. They subsequently demonstrated 'that they have not lost the poinlts that attendance at several of the sparring matches gave to them, and the Newark men discovered to their grief that the word athletic, was not put in the Greenwood Club's name for nothing. After the little affair had been settled as quietly as possible at the grove, the order was given immediately to embark, as the Greenwood men did not think the women were safe in such a crowd as the target party had brought up with them.

Hardly half an hour had elapsed since the boat touched at the Sylvan Beach pier when the Brooklyn ites Started to return. A3 the picnickers went on board they were met by the Newark target party, who made remarks evidently not altogether appreciating the drubbing they received individually. Just how the final trouble arose no one seems to know positively. Some say that a Newark man tried to induce one of the prettiest of the Brooklyn girls to remain behind, and when she refused to yield to persuasicn sought to keep her by force, which led the Brooklyn athletes to take a hand in the argument. Others say that the assault was entirely unprovoked, so far as the Brooklyn party went, and the Newarkites were to blame In every particular.

However that may be, there was a sudden shower of beer mugs, bottles and stones from the pier up among the women and children on the decks of the barges. "It was a miserably mean, cowardly trick," a man told an Eagle reporter this morning, "as the Greenwood boys were defenseless. The gangplank had slipped off the' pier by some accident and we oould net get ashore at the crowd They were mad because lbey bad been licked once before: They threw tlhe thing's at the women upstairs and when we tried to get at the beer mugs and botitjres on board to return the bombardment the bar i keeper wouldn't let' us have them. So we i i Lit lit cymuu itti'tr wi uick. unui scmetMl tjug Xested the hose and the idea took at once.

uie iijuai'ii ui lil Lug Eiumunti ievy, tnmi iVd our barges in tow, steamed up alongside the pier and let loose. Every man withm reach was soaked and we woii the day. "There was nothing wrong with our crowd. Everyone on board our barges was respecta Die. ie Newark crowd were a lot of loafers.

however. They were nearly all intoxicated When we arrived and the order was given, as soon as we knew how things were, to return at once. We came home slowly, so as to give our people as good a time as we could to make up for the time at the grove and the picnic was a success anyway." One or two of the Green wood Athletic Club men who were seen by the reporter this morn ing said that they intend to take a trip to Newark with some of their friends and see if thoy cannot make a few return courtesies for the insults offered by the chowder association. They said that no sooner had the tug landed than the Gus Helfrecht men began insulting tne women on tne oarges. DUBLIN HONORS WOLFE TONE.

A Monument to the Originator of the Irish Movement. Dublin, August 15 The whole city is en fete to day in connection with the laying of the foundation stone of the monument in memory of Wolfe Tone. The municipal offices and many business houses are clcsed. Scores of thousands of excursionists are arriving and delegates are in attendance from the United btates, Australia, South Africa, France and Italy. There was an immense procession to the site of the monument.

It included represen tatives or an tne civic and trade societies, who followed a memorial car, containing the foundation stone, which was decorated witn flags presented by the Daughters of Erin '98 Association of New York City. Theobald Wolfe Tone, whose memorial is the central feature of the festivities in Dublin to day, was the real originator of the Irish movement that culminated in tdie rebellion of 1798. He founded the United Irishmen. Tone was a Protes.ant, but he had imbibed socialist Ideas and was bitterly hostile to the priests of that day. Whose Influence counteracted his own.

In Wexford, where the insurrection went farthest, the ablest leaders were but they acted against the then policy of their church. Tone offered his services to William Pitt, but t'hey were declined. He left a most interesting account of his Parisian adventures, and his tomb is still the object of an annual pilgrimage. THANK'S TO COLONEL SINN. The thanks of the South Brooklyn Board of Trade are given to Colonel William E.

Sinn in the following letter, wbicfo explains itself: South Tircoklyn Board of Trade, Brooklyn. X. August 12. 1S9S. Colonel William K.

Sinn: Peat sir At the first meeting ot the South Brooklyn of Trade held since June 20 a resolution was unanimously passed directing me to communicate to you the sincerest thanks of the board f.n use of your magnificent MontauU Theater for the benefit of the Volunteers' Families Fund. It may be safely said that the raisins of so lartte a sum as $700 would hardly have bet possJM.t without this cn onoratlon on yutir part, and ti know that it will prutify jvu to hear that thus far over llfty families have been helped, and some forty five now receive weekly allowances. As there ire no salaries or any other expenses to pay, every dollar raised Koes direct for the relief of tho. left behind by uur conquerors of the Army and Navy. Yours very truly.

KKIiDIiRICK URUCKBAUER. Secretary. DURENBURG MAY NOT RECOVER. At the Eastern District Hospital it was said to day that Michael Durenburg. tho store keeper of G50 Wythe avenue, who attempted suicide by shooting himself three times with a revolver Saturday, is not likely to recover.

One of the bullets penetrated the tissue close to his heart, while it is supposed that a second entered Durenburg's lungs. He has been suffering from almost, continuous hemorrhages. A BOY'S SKULL FRACTURED. While sliding down a bannister at his home, 260 Franklin street, last night, Edward Hughes, 8 years old, missed his hold and fell down a flight of stairs, fracturing his skull. The boy was removed by Surseon Slitvin to St.

Catharine's Hospital. Frederick Macmonnies' bronze quadriga, which is to be placed upou the top of the old ers' arch at Prospect Park, arrived to day. It was brought from Paris, where it was modeled and cast, in the Atlantic transport Victoria and is in the hold of the vessel ready to be delivered to McKim, Mead White, the architects who have designed the magnificent entrance to Prospect Park and who will look after the proper erection of the bronze work. The bronzes which are to adorn the arch were the product of a scheme of artistic improvement of the park conceived by Frank Squier, upon his appointment as commissioner by the then mayor, Charles A. Schie ren.

This scheme of improvement was a magnificent marble and granite entrance, with limestone walls along the side of the park. The entrances were to be adorned with bronze statuary equal, if not superior, to that of any park in. the world, and to complete the design, soldiers' arch was to have the quadriga and side groups, the quadriga typical of victory and the side groups stirring representations of glorious deeds by the Army and the Navy. The work was given to Frederick Macmonnies, a Brooklyn boy whose artistic fame ha3 spread over the world, and whose productions have won the highest praise. The quadriga was to have been completed a year ago, but the artist would not allow a stogie detail to pass unless to his mind it was perfect.

To this" idea of perfection time was sacrificed. He said: "This is a work for all time not for a day and a year or more now is as nothing compared with a successful artistic production that shall meet the approval of not only this but of succeeding generations." Aind so it was that he built up, destroyed and rebuilt, until there was brought forth an artistic production that has elicited the admiration of the greatest critics in Paris, where only the highest art is appreciated. A little over a year ago preparations were begun for the reception of the quadriga. Mr. Duncan, the architect who designed the arch and who takes the greatest interest in it, at the request of the then commissioners, visited the structure to see that it was in proper condition.

He found that in the years since its construction the rain and the frost had disintegrated portions of the structure and that before it would be In condition to sustain the weight of the quadriga a special support must be prepared for it. He also suggested certain repairs, which came under the supervision of the arch commission. These were looked after by the Park Commissioner and the work done under Mr. Duncan's direction and with his approval. 'The plan of the special structure suggest ed by Mr.

Duncan and designed by him was sent to McKim, Mead White, who had the special iron work made, and! it is now being put in place. Just when the preliminary work will be finished could not be teamed, as Park Commissioner Brower. when asked concerning it. replied: "That is being left entirely to McKim, Mead White, the agents for Macmonnies, and I am not giving it any attention." When asked if there would be any special ceremony connected with fts being put in positon, he replied: think not. There are side groups to be put upon the arch and I do not think we will take any action until all the pieces are in position, and that will be some tPme yet." At the office of McKim, Mead White there could not be found any person who had charge of the work, and, therefore, the ap proximate date of unvailing could not be obtained.

MC DONALD'S DEATH A MYSTERY Arrest of Two Burglars May Explain How the Policeman Was Drowned. One Carried His Revolver. The police of the West One Hundredth street station, Manhattan, think that in the arrest of two men for burglary this morning a clew may possibly be found to the drowning of Policeman Thomas McDonald of that station, in May last. McDonald was found in full uniform in the Harlem River. He had no reason to commit suicide, it was said, and his death was a great surprise.

He left his home to go to the station house, but was not seen alive afterward. His body was found a few days later. The men arrested were caught trying to rob a saloon at Ninety second street and Western boulevard. One of them, who refused to give his name, had a revolver which proved to be McDonald's. He refused to say a word about himself.

He was put down as John Doe, aged 28, residence refused. The other man says he is John Galvin, 20 years old, of io" West One Hundredth street. Bartender Philip Murtha went to the saloon at 4:30 o'clock this morning to open the Place. He saw the two men at work on the till behind the counter and he started away to find a policeman. He found two, Boylaa and Conway, of the W7est One Hundredth street station, who went back with him.

The two burglars saw the policemen and dashed out of the back door. Doe running north and Galvin south. Boylan dashed after Doe, and after a chase up the boulevard to One Hundred and Second street, half a mile, caught him. He saw JDoe throw something away and he held the man closely while he looked for the object. When he found it he recognized McDonald's revolver.

He took Doe to the station house, where they met Conway with his prisoner. He had as long a chase, catching his man at the foot of West Eighty sixth street. The two men were arraigned in the West Side court this morning and held in $2,000 ball for examination 'by Magistrate Simms on charges of burglary. THE MOTION WAS DENIED. Justice Lambert Refused to Punish Mrs.

Fleming for Contempt. Justice Lambert in Supreme Court, special term, fnis morning denied a motion in behalf of Michael Elsasser to punish Mrs. Bridget Fleming for contempt. She went on a bond for her husband, Patrick Fleming, and was sued in the United States Court in this borough. The amount of the judgment was $380.

Execution was returned unsatisfied and an order was obtained to examine her in supplementary proceedings. Mrs. Fleming did not appear to be examined. Counsel In opposition said that Mrs. Fleming was 60 years old and that what property she had possessed was in Coney Island.

The house on the Coney Island property had burned and the laud had been sold a year ago. Mrs. Fleming was also very 111 with nervous prostration. Justice Lambert, in denying rhe motion to punish Mrs. Fleming, said that she should appear for examination in eight weeks.

EX MAYOR BREEDON DEAD. Amsterdam, N. August 15 William Breedon. ex mayor of Amsterdam and a manufacturer of knitting machine needles, died suddenly to day aged 70 years. He.

was a native of Leicestershire, England, and came to America in 1S52. He was elected mayor of Amsterdam in 1891 and 1892. MORMONS IN i SAN FRANCISCO; San F. ancisco, August 13 President Wilford Woodruff, Bishop V. Clausen and Counselor George Q.

Cannon, three of the leaders of the Mormon Church, are in the city, the guests of Colonel Isaac Trumoo. They say that thelx visit Is purely one of pleasure and they cJme at the present time escape tue prevail Jig not eureii wrm..