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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. KE YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1901. MISCELLANEOUS. POLICEMAN STOPS HORSE. MISCELLANEOUS.

DADY BLUFFS JUTEBBUHT LATEST SPORTING NEWS, (For Other Sporting News See Page 13.) AMERICAN JOCKEYS FIRST. workmen well, persuaded his company voluntarily to give mm a nine hour work day. with ten hours pay. This was but one of the generous condition. oilered the machinists.

The factory, which occupies two entire city blocks and employs 2S0 expert macbiulsts, his tsesi running under the new regime for two months. The surprising ran of the new regime is that the machinists do more work in nine hours than they formerly did in ten hours, I at least such is the case in some depart incuts, and in al! departments where there has been an opportunity for comparison with I old conditions it has been shown that the i men produce as seed results in nine hours School Children Saved by Brave Deed of Officer Lott. Policeman William Lott. attached to the Lee avenue station, exhibited great bravery this morning in stopping a runaway horse attached to a butcher's wagon and prevented the animal from dashing into a group of children on their way to school at Wilson street and Bedford avenue. The horse and wagon were owned bv John H.

Hilken, a butcher, at Lee avenue and Wilson street. They were in charge of a clerk, who was delivering an order in a Bedford avenue nouse. The animal took fright and dashed through the thoroughfare. Fully a dozen small children were in the path of the runaway and were too terror stricken to move. Policeman Lott, who was passing at the time, rushed into the street and grasped the bridle of the horse.

He was dragged fully 50 feet before the animal was brought to a standstill within a short distance of the children. The policeman's uniform was torn in several places during the struggle. The horse and wagon were taken to the station house, where the owner claimed them later. BROOKLYN FIRM MAY WIN. Puller O'Connor the Lowest Bidders for Homeopathic Hospital Contract.

Charities Commissioner Goetting yesterday afternoon assisted in the opening of bids for the alterations and repairs decided upon as necessary to put the Homeopathic Hospital in Cumberland street in a condition demanded of a public institution. The lowest bidder was the firm of Fuller O'Connor at $39,200. This is the firm of which State Senator Rudolph C. Fuller is the head, and their offices are in the Temple Bar Building in Court 6treet. The other bidders were: Charles O.

Johnson of Manhattan, Daniel J. Ryan, Brooklyn, Hartman Horgan, Manhattan. and Thomas G. Carlin. Brooklvn.

$50,347. The Board of Estimate allowed $45,000 for these alterations, so that there will be a good sized fund out of which the new hospital can be furnished. These alterations are somewhat extensive, and contemplate the remodeling of the present small rooms into large wards, with ample light and ventilation. The plans and specification were prepared by Architect Louis H. Voss of 65 DeKalb avenue, who has done all this work for the' Charities Department of Brooklyn for several years.

It is calculated that the alterations will be completed by October 1. when there will be accommodations for 23G patients. The contract will probably be awarded on Monday of next week, if Controller Coler has then approved the sureties of Fuller O'Connor. Commissioner Goetting stated thi3 morning that in a few days there will be an auction sale of the old furniture and fixtures on the premises and that when the hospital Is opened in the fall it will be equipped with an entirely new and up to date outfit. FLORIDA CHATJTAUQTTA.

Mr. Wallace Bruce Tells of the Success of the Chautauqua. Wallace Bruce of Brooklyn, president of the Florida Chautauqua, who recently returned from his winter home at De Funlak Springs, says that the growth of this Southern Chautauqua, which was founded in 1SS4, has been phenomenal during the last three years; that the sessions have been extended from four to seven weeks; that the attendance has steadily increased from 7,000 excursionists in 1S98 to over 12.000 in 1901, in. addition to the permanent and transient visitors who represent almost every state of the Union. In speaking of his work for the coming season Mr.

Bruce refern 1 to the building of a "Hall of Brotherhood," at De Funlak Springs, the cornerstone of which has been laid by General John B. Gordon, to stand not only as a fitting exponent and embodiment of Chautauqua teaching, but also to combine under one roof different branches of science, literature and art. with an opportunity of study alike for young and old. The plan of the building Is a miniature suggestion of the Capitol at Washington, consisting of two wings with corridors, rotunda and dome. The twenty three outside columns of Doric architecture wll be dedicated to the Presidents of the United States, the supporting columns and pillars of the first floor to the founders and builders of free institutions, statesmen, philosophers, soldiers and martyrs while those of the second floor, relating to literature, science, art and patriotism, will uphold the crowning dome of a united people and the widening brotherhood of the world.

REV. W. R. FERRIS RETURNS. Left Dr.

Babcock at Constantinople Well and Hearty Details of a Trying Trip. The Rev Walter Rockwood Ferris, pastor of the Bay Ridge Presbyterian Church, who was a member of the Auburn Seminary party under the charge of Professor James S. Riggs, of which the Rev. Dr. Maltble Davenport Babcock was also a member, returned to Brooklyn on Sunday morning.

Mr. Ferris was summoned home by the death of his baby daughter. Mr. Ferris said he left Dr. Babcock in Constantinople several weeks ago and he was then perfectlv well and happy and the life of the congenial party.

He went through the trip in perfect health, was jolly, but anxious to get home to his work. Dr. Babcock preached to 500 students at the Syrian Protestant College at Beyrout, who were enthusiastic over his discourse. Mr. Ferris left Dr.

Babcock in Constantinople. He spoke of going back to New York and of hie arrangements for his fall work. He carried a full kit of medicine, about which be knew a great deal, and was also a careful student of surgery. Mr. Ferris says Dr.

Babcock started from Constantinople to BrindiB and was then perfectly well. He was probably stricken on the way, Mr. Ferris says, with gastric fever, to which was added tbe Eastern fever, which is so prevalent and which attacks the brain and produces delirium. The party of which Mr. Ferris was arranged by the Rev.

Dr. Wilton Merle Smith, Dr. Babcock and Professor Riggs, all of whom were college chums. About fifty started but twenty dropped out on the way. Dr.

Smith was taken ill and went to a hospital in Jerusalem, whero he recovered and rejoined the jiarty as Damascus. A clergyman from the West was taken with the fever at Seee rea, Phlllppi. Mr. Ferris was also 111, but did not leave the party. Three women in the party went the entire trip and eight part way.

Mrs. Babcock did not go to Cairo or Joppa, but waited for the party at Damascus. On February 23 the company left New York. They first went to Naples, then to Port Said and Joppa, where they took horses, rode and camped out for five weeks. Theh itinerary was finished at Naples and the travelers are now on their way home.

Mr. Ferris describes the whole trip as a most severe one, they being sometimes ten hours a day In the sad dle. HERLIHY CASE ADJOURNED. By consent of all parties interested, the further hearing in the cage of Police Captain Herlihy, set for this morning at Jefferson Market Court, was adjourned to 10:30 to morrow morning. Spring Summer weights.

Reduced prices. SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 1 16 West 23d Street Brooklyn 604 Fulton Street a mim 1 iv uv jw mbi ms fir Mmrr FRAGRANT a perfect liquid dentifrice far tSia New Size SOZODONT LIQUID, 25c SOZODONTTOOTH POWDER, 25c Urge LIQUID and POWDER, 75c At all Stores, or by Mail for the price. RUCKEL, New York. MACHINISTS STANDING OUT Great Strike Seems No Nearer the End Than When Men Quit Work Yesterday. BOTH SIDES HOLD MEETINGS.

Machinists Anxious to Win Victory at JR. Hoe Co. What Leaders Say. The National Metal Trades Association and the National Association of. Machinists are 10 nearer an agreement for the settlement of the machinists' strike in this city to day than yesterday when between 6,000 and 7,000 workmen went out.

'While some of the large firms' employes are on strike and the machines idle, one concern, the John H. Williams Company, in South Brooklyn, is at peace with its employes. This is due to the fact that several months ago the tirni, without being requested, granted the men a nine hour day without any reduction of wages. William C. Redfield of the firm says that the nine hour day is only fair.

It was expected that at a conference of the representatives of the National Metal Trades Association held in the Astor House to day some agreement would be reached whereby the machinists employed by the hrms of the association would be able to return to work. Instead the members decided that the machinists had violated the Ne.w York joint agreement made a year ago and this fact should be pointed out by the head of each firm whose men had gone on strike. This means, according to the statement of Delegate Reilly, that the six hundred machinists who went out at the Worthlngton Pump Works and returned to their machines at noon to await the result of a directors' meeting this morning, will not go to work to mor raw mnrnine At the meeting held by Eureka Lodge of the International Association of Machinists this moraine at Cecelia Hall, 101 Grand street, it was announced by George Warner, the principal business agent, that information had been received that eighteen concerns had agreed to the demands of the strikers. Work, he said, would be resumed lmme diately in these shops. He added when seen that as their session wa3 conducted in secret nothing further could be made public.

At the Manhattan headquarters of the strikers It was said this afternoon that the Whitman machine shoo in Brooklyn, em olovine a number of hands, gave in this morning to their enmloyes. About, twenty representatives of the asso ciation attended the meeting at tba Astor House, which ended at 1 o'clock. Before the session began Secretary Devens said matters looked favorable for the employers. It was thought that the meeting might develon a difference between employers on account of so many firms giving in the first day of the strike, and this appeared as 11 there were only two ways for the employers to act, either to surrender unconditionally or to order a general lockout. At 1 o'clock A.

B. See, chairman of the press committee, came out of Room No. 74 and told the reDorters that an attempt was to be made to show the strikers that they had acted unfairly and in violation of the New York joint agreement, which provides that an questions as to wages are to be arwtratea. "We decided." said Mr. Lee, "that each manufacturer shall go before his workmun and tell them that in strikine they nave act ed contrarv to agreement.

We want them to see that thev have been imposed upon by this man O'Connell, who ordered the men to quit work all over the country. We want the machinists to understand that an agreement is a thing to stand by. When they draw up and sign an agreement they ought to abide by it. "Instead of leaving their work without saying anything to their employers they ought to have told them of any grievance. We had heard rumors of a strike, but had no official notification that the men intended to go out.

That man O'Connell thinks he is a great man because he commands and the men obey. He's a big Indian. We wish to meet our men and we will meet them half way." At the strikers' headquarters, at 23 Duane street, Manhattan, all was quiet. The executive board was in session all day. Senior Delegate George H.

Warner was not at the headquarters during the morning, and in hla absence C. W. Booth, representing Grand Lodge District No. 15, was In charge. New3 was expected from the firms of Robert Hoe Co.

and the Worthlngton Pump Company, but up to a late hour this afternoon no favorable news for the strikers had been received from either place. The machinists are especially anxious to have the Hoe company yield. Mr. Booth said this afternoon that if that firm did not come to terms machinists employed by that firm in England would be ordered to quit work and every newspaper office in this city where the Hoe presses are in use would be obliged to close down. According to the Masons' Builders' Association, there is no change in the status of the Mason Builders' lockout against the bricklayers this morning.

Otto M. Eidlitz, the president of the association says that the builders are firm. The bricklayers themselves assert still that there are less than 600 men locked out and that these have found employment with "lumpers," as small sub contractors are called. There will be a meeting of the Executive Committee of the bricklayers' unions of New Manhattan and the Bronx, at the Labor Lyceum to morrow evening, 64 East Fourth Street. Relative to the reported strike on the rapid transit subway.

John B. McDonald, the contractor, has issued the following statement: "We have received no complaint from the workmen or mechanics either with respect to wages or hours of labor, nor does It seem to me that there is any reason for expecting any such radical action as a strike by any of our employes. So far as the workmen themselves are concerned I have not the slightest doubt that they are satisfied as to the wages paid and the hours of labor." ARGUMENTS FOR STRIKERS. Kedfield Says Machinists Do as Much Work in Wine Hours as Formerly in Ten. A strong argument in favor of the striking machinists' demands wns given to day in anj adarer.3 aeiiverea ai inn nun Avenue Hote befon a sub committee of the Congrcsrioril Industrial Commission by William C.

field, treasurer of thr .1. H. Williams r'Jm pany of Brooklyn, one nf the stc'and iron forging manufactories not affecvefl by the strike Ine speaker smwihi niij. tnc strike, had not affected the Williams (Vm pany. Several mouths ago.

Mr. RelfleM, who an enthusiast on the subject of treating iJVi 1 the mortgage cn every home in Brooklyn tan be paid off easily and economically through the Eagle Savings Loan Company, one eighty ssix ffemsen st TO BE BOUGHT By CITY. Needed to Supplement the Facilities of the Flatbush Water Works Company. LAND WILL COST $200,000. President Grout's Policy Seems to Be in Favor With Municipal Administration.

The city has decided to acquire by conden. nation the Cornelius B. Kouwenboven farm. situated in the Twenty ninth Ward, adjoining the land owned by the Flatbush Water Works Company. ThU farm consists of about 118 acres and is, in the opinion of the Water Department engineers, required for use in connection with the Flatbush Company.

which is to be bought and made part of the Brooklyn water system. The Kouwenhoven farm lies along Paerdegat Creek, at the hea'd of which are the Flatbush Water Company's works, and adjoins the company's tract. The land has been roughly assessed as worth about $200,000. The purchase of this property has been deemed necessary for the protection tansiou of the existing plant and, ever since the city authorities decided to buy the Flatbush works the water officials have been investigating this farm. Last Friday the Board of Estimate, upon recommendations made by the Brooklyn engineers, through Deputy Commissioner Moffett, adopted a resolution providing for a bond Issue of $320,000, $200,000 for the land itself and $120,000 for the sinking of wells and erection of a new pumping statioa on the property.

No condemnation proceedings have yet beaa authorized but they will follow within a short time. The Water Department officials have been waiting to see how the proposition to acquire the land would be received and now that the money Is on the way to being definitely provided for surveys will be begun at once and maps and plans prepared. Condemnation will follow as soon as the maps are ready, first being authorized by the concurrent votes of the five members of the Board of Estimate; then the corporation counsel will be instructed to begin proceedings. The acquisition by the city of the Flatbush Water Company plant has been urged by Borough President Grout for over two years. Mr.

Grout opposes the granting of permits to private water companies in the different suburban sections of the city on the ground that all extensions allowed them go to increase the value of their franchises, and that eventually the city, to protect itself, will have to buy them out at greatly increased valuations. The conclusion last year of the long proceedings necessary for the taking over of the Long Island Water Supply Company lent an Impetus to the plan of securing the Flat bush Company plant. The latter company practically supplies the Twenty ninth Ward as the Long Island furnished all the residents of the Twenty sixth Ward. OBITUARY. Mrs.

Henry Ceroid Julian. Marie F. W. Oliver, wife of Henry Gerold Julian and daughter of D. W.

Oliver, formerly mayor of Bayonne, N. died Sunday, at her home, 1.309 Dean street, of heart failure, after an illness of three weeks. She was a native of Cov'ngton, her mother being Miss Mary A. Harrison before her marriage to Mr. Oliver, and a second cousin if the late President Harrison.

She traced her ancestry to Lord Williams, who cams tc the colonies early In the eighteenth century and was a direct descendant' of the Marquis of Annandale. Mrs. Oliver was married thirteen years ago to Mr. Julian, who was manager of the revision department of the Mutual Life Insurance Society of New York. They had lived In Brooklyn for several years, where Mrs.

Julian was a faithful attendant at St. Bartholomew's P. B. Church. At the funeral services to be held at her late noma to morrow afternoon the Rev.

Alexander N. Young ot Mattawan, N. an uncle of Mrs. Julian, will officiate. Ellas Durlach.

Ellas Durlach of 712 Macon street died Sunday at St. Vincent's Hospital, Manhattan. He was born in Brooklyn 50 years ago and had lived here for twenty three years. He was a manufacturer of toys and was a brother of Isaac Durlach, former deputy collector of Internal revenue. A widow an'd two children survive him.

Mrs. Egbert Guernsey. Mrs. Egbert Guernsey, husband la said to be the oldest physician in Greater New York, died at her home, 180 Central Park West, yesterday, of heart trouble, aggravated by the news of the suicide of her husband's nephew last April. Mrs.

Guernsey was born in Newtown in 1819 and was the daughter of Peter Teunis Schenck and Jane Meserole Schenck. She celebrated her golden wedding to Dr. Guernsey last December. She was one of tbe founders of the Hahneman Hospital and the Guernsey Maternity Hospital, which were afterward consolidated. She wrote a text book on English grammar, which was used in the schools of several Western states.

She was one of the oldest members of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration and had established Epissapal churches at Montclair, Flaf, and Peekskill, N. for colored people. tr. Guernsey and a daughter survive her. SALOONKEEPER ACCUSED.

Von Haeelon Charged With Selling Beer to a MinorS rierman von Haselon, a Saloonkeeper, at 137 Schenectady avenue, wasarraiitnod in the Gates avenue court this Jnoming on the charge of violating the liqufcr aw by selling beer to a minor. The complaint wae maQB by Patrolman Youngs of tKe Atlantic avenue station house. The offlceA was passing along the street yesterday afterfeoon, when he saw a boy named Henry Wol ot i. ,23 st. Marks avenue leaving the salon with a can ot beer.

Young took the back t0 tne Baioon to meniiiy toe man tnat 80id hm the beer. Wolf pointed out Von andi whUe thB officer was engaged in taftklng down the names In his book, the took the callj which had been placecjp on tne counter, and throw Its contents the sink. Von Haselon was arrf e5ted and this morning pleaded not guilty to tlhe charge and was held for examination. iL The Bent IcS, thc Cheapnt. If you are looking toHr niBn Brale psck.

by experts, by reliable and experlnce men, consult th Eajjtyo wehomo and Storsca FORCES A MEETING. Committee of Twentyone Will Be Represented at the General Anti Tammany Gathering. WOODRUFF TO BE HOME TO DAY. He Will Remain While Dady Is in Havana, for Leaders Cannot Leave Things Unwatched. Lieutenant Governor Woodruff is expected home this afternoon to attend the meeting of the committee of twenty one appointed to confer with the anti Tammany forces.

Mr. Dady wrote to Mr. Atterbury that it was time the committee met and organized, and If Atterbury did not call it he would. Thereupon the committee was called. It will merely meet to appoint a sub committee to attend the general conference at the Citizens' Union headquarters, on May 28.

Mr. Woodruff was immediately telegraphed for, not only to attend the conference, but to be on hand before Mr. Dady leaves for a two weeks' stay in Havana. Hereafter, as the Eagle announced some time ago, there will be some one on hand in charge of the county the year round. Mr.

Dady leaves to morrow afternoon. Mr. Woodruff will be in Brooklyn until the middle of June, when he will go to Europe to attend to imperative business matters. He will return in August. It was because there was no county leader in town when Mr.

Howe took office that the Eastern District leaders put through their neat coup d'etat. The organ ization leaders do not want that to happen again. Before Mr. Woodruff left for the Buffalo Exposition he gave instructions as leader in the county, that no nominations were to be publicly discussed or decided upon until the conferences of the anti Tammany allies had been completed. In fact, Mr.

Woodruff wants to have a ticket satisfactory to all con cerned arranged, and then ratified by the con vention, as was done two years ago. Henry Jacquillard, the leader of the Six teenth Assembly District, and one of the Worth men in the successful Congressional combine last year, is now looming up as a candidate for chief clerk under Brenner in the office of juror's commissioner. Ho asked the Lieutenant Governor for this place some time ago, but nothing was decided at the time. The fact that Bert Relss, Mr. Jacquillard's close adviser, is stating that there will be an opposition movement in every Assembly district this fall at the primaries suggests that Mr.

Jacquillard's appointment to the place he seeks might be considered as a possible condition of peace. It has already been hinted that Mr. Howe's nomination for borough president would have the same effect. Assemblyman Jacob Remsen, when asked this morning II there had been any organized movement against Records Commissioner Waldo in the Eighteenth Assembly District, said that he knew of no definite agreement being formed, but that he considered the appointment of Grenelle as deputy "a most foolish political rove, which meant the defeat of Mr. waiaor uisirict ai.

tne primaries. Commiss5 i Waldo could not be found this mornr)0Mr. Dady met Mr. Waldo before the aj'Of pent was made and asked him if he did Sf, tab It wise to consult the executive about it. He suggested that the office fk entirely belong to Mr.

Waldo. The Atterbury people are asking, if Mr. Waldo did not care to consult the organization, why he did not give the appointment to them to keep their fight, and suggest that William A. Doollttle was in line for promotion and a civil service man. Several more or less prominent men in the Twenty ninth W7ard, however, approved of the appointment and hoped It would be followed by the promotion of John Johnson to Mr.

Grenelle's place. Mr. Johnson indignantly denies that he is favored for Mr. Grenelle's former position ana heartily indorses Mr. Waldo appointment of Grenelle to be deputy.

He assured the Eagle reporter that only "enemies of the organization" were dissatisfied with Mr. Grenelle's promotion. CHARGED WITH CRUELTY. Daniel Prentice of 1,317 Fulton street, Brooklyn, was held by Magistrate Brann in the Center street police court, Manhattan, this morning in $300 ball for Special Sessions for cruelty to animals. The complainant against Prentice was Francis Estreicher of 124 Hopkinson avenue.

Estrelcher said that he saw Prentice beat and kick the horse he was driving yesterday afternoon at Broadway and Reado street. He remonstrated, and Prentice attacked him. A broken whip was displayed in court. The employer of Estreicher, who was in court, said that the horse did not bear any marks of ill treatment. Prentice drives an express wagon.

PRESS VIEW 0FTISS0T PICTURES Will Be Open to the Public at the Brook lyn Institute Museum After To morrow. Press view of the Tissot pictures, now arranged in due order at the Brooklyn Institute Museum, Eastern Parkway and Washington avenue, was given this morning to representatives of various papers. The pictures are placed in the west gallery on the third floor and make a handsome showing in their new frames. These are of leaf gold, with gold mats and of size to suit the pictures, instead of, as heretofore, in frames uniform in size, with white mats, so arranged for the greater convenience of handling transporting the pictures about the country for exhibition purposes. The frames were made by George F.

Of of Manhattan and are air tight, each picture being set in passepartout before being placed in its frame. All have tablets telling their subjects. Four compartments have been arranged in the gallery, the walls of these being colored to match the walls of the apartment a dark shrimp pink. In order to obviate the dwarf lne of the pictures by the too great height of the wall, hangings have been placed about two thirds of the way up of velours matching the general color scheme of the room. The pictures hang to the middle line and number from the left of the entrance, the ordering being strictly Tissot's own.

New electric lights have been put in the room, a group of seven, in frosted globes hanging over each compartment. In the center of the room Is a circular settee, also upholstered in the velours. Over each doorway Is the inscription, In gold letters: THE LIFB OF CHRIST, BY JAMES J. TISSOT. PRESENTED BY CITIZENS OF BROOKLYN, 1900.

In the smaller gallery, to the left of the larger one, is the collectln of pen and Ink sketches made by Tissot as studies in detail for the pictures. Some of these were used as head and tall pieces for the Tissot books. On the wall of this smaller gallery, directly in frrnt nf rhe pntrance and in view from all parts of the larger room, hangs Verets cbagln's "Crucifixion," loaned by John W. Brown, two pictures from whose collection are In the East Gallerv. To morrow the collection will be open for private view of subscribers and after that for the general public, subject to the usual rules of the museum.

Since it was known they were at the museum there have been many inquiries for them. The gallery will be opi'n Sunday afternoons from 2 to 6 and Thursday and Friday evenings from 7:30 to 9:43. 5 DEFEATS CHALLENGER. Fife Yacht, Badly Outpointed in Beating, Overhauls Shamrock II in Free Run Home. NEW BOAT SLOW DOWN WIND.

Shamrock II Shows Admirable Light Weather Qualities Points High and Foots Fast to Wind ward. Ryde, Isle of Wight, May 21 The two Shamrocks started to day over a course as nearly as possible similar to the windward and leeward course of the contests for the America's cups. Starting from No Man Fort, the course was laid fifteen miles to windward and return. A moderate, varying breeze of eight to twelve knots was blowing and the water was smooth. The racers had a preliminary bout as they beat out from Cowes Roads for the starting line.

The Shamrock I started half a mile ahead, but the challenger, after four long tacks, closed up and stayed broad to leeward, holding a better wind and traveling faster. She luffed out to windward in magnificent style, and, when she met the Shamrock some one had to give way in order to avoid a foul. Captain Wringe should have yielded, but he held on and Captain Sycamore was foced to round up in the wind to clear her. The Erin was awaiting the boats at No Man Fort and started them. The Shamrock II came around ahead of Fife's boat, and immediately after the signal was given, led out to a fine start, having an advantage of probably half a minute.

They went off, beating to windward, on short tacks, with the challenger pointing rather better, going fast and increasing her lead a little on every tack. The wind hauled round a little southerly, but held fair and steady, and the racers slipped along smoothly and fast. The weather conditions were such, however, as to raise doubts if they could finish the thirty mile course within the five and half hours allowed in cup matches. The conditions seemed to admirably suit the challenger. She pointed higher and footed faster than the old boat and gradually edged out to windward and went ahead.

Once clear of the island point they had a few cross tacks inshore and the Shamrock I dropped into the wake of the leader as they fetched off. The times at a mark off the end of the island were as follows: H. M. S. The Shamrock II 12 31 10 The Shamrock I 12 30 2 This showed nearly two minutes' gain for the challenger In an hour's sailing, and part of the time the Shamrock II sailed without a jib topsail and looked as if she had the whole game in hand.

As the boats beat out to the weather mark they found a fresher wind and more sea, but the challenger seemed to have found her true form and kept pulling away in excellent fash Ion. There was a big gap between them as they turned the weather mark. Booms were then run off to port and spinnakers were set to starboard as the yachts started, dead before the wind, on the long lee back to No Mao Fort. Going free, the Shamrock I pro fed again that she is a better boat on this point of sailing than the challenger. Getting, first and last, a freshening wind, she ran up on the Watson boat, and, keeping wide her wake, ran into first place, showing a le markable turn of Bpeed.

The challenger once more showed that down the wind Is her weakest point. Spinnakers were lowered as they passed the Nab lightship and the yachts reached free for home In an unchanged position. he Shamrock I won by barely hal fa minute, picking up two minutes and a half on the run from the end of the island home. YACHT WHITE HEATHER HERE. Brings a Party of Americans Back From Cowes.

Mr. Harrison I. Drummond's auxiliary yacht White Heather arrived this morning from Cowes and proceeded to anchorage at the foot of Twenty sixth street and East River. The White Heather is painted white and barkentine rigged. She was built In 1890 by John Reld at Port Glasgow.

She was fitted out at Cowes, from which port she sailed on May 2. During the voyage she experienced ordinary weather, except May 11,. latitude 42.30, longitude 35.15, when she ran into a heavy northwest gale, with sea, compelling the yacht to lay to for 26 hours. The White Heather made good weather of the storm and sustained no damage. The yacht carries a crew of 24 men and brought four passengers, friends of Mr.

Drummond. They are E. E. Paramore, M. B.

Miltenberger, both of St. Louis, and Messrs. H. F. Taylor and L.

C. White, of this city. BIDS FOR SCHOOL NO. 132. Close Competition Out of Which Brooklyn Firm Will Probably Be Awarded a Contract.

The building committee of the Central Board of Education yesterday afternoon opened bids for the erection of new Public School No. 132, in Manhattan avenue, between Metropolitan avenue and Conselyea street. This will be a three story, twenty class room building and will be the plainest school house yet erected in Brooklyn, so far as its exterior ie concerned, although its interior appointments are on the lines of the most approved style of school house construction. The details, with photograph, were published in the Eagle last week. Rutan Hennlngton of Brooklyn were the lowest bidders, their figures being $102,157.

They were closely pressed by two other bidders and the whole list showed the closest figuring yet noticed In school house construction, only about $12,000 dividing the lowest from the highest bidder. The construction will be fireproof throughout and the building should be ready for classes by the February term in 1902. The other bidders were: F. J. Kelly Son, $102,701 Peter Cleary, William Thomas Lamb, Alfred Nugent Son, K.

A. Murphy, R. H. Hood Cunningham Hearns, H. M.

Luke A. Burke, John H. Goetchus, $109, 900; William P. McGarry, John Thatcher Son, $108,000, and Thomas Cock erell Son, $114,000: ZIMMERMAN HANGS HIMSELF. Christian Zimmerman, 57 years old, wt found edad shortly before noon to day, In a room in the rear of a candy and tobacco stors at ISO Frost street.

hWen discovered he wc hanging suspended by a rope and had proba bly been dead for an hour. It Is aat. ne commutea suiciae wnne aesponaemv wing to ba dhealth. Zimmerman lived alora the rear of the store, which he kept ot on Ill the rear of the store, which he kept the above address. IN THE CITY RECORD.

The City Record contains to day the complete list of men who, having successfully passed civil service examinations for appointment as patrolmen, have been certified tc Police Commissioner Murphy as eligible for appointment to fill the 150 existing vacancies. Lester Reiff, Ciena Jenkins and Danny Maher Bide Winners at York Spring Sleeting. London, England, May 21 At the first day's racing of the York spring meeting to day the Stand stakes of 5 sovereigns each, with 100 sovereigns added, for 2 year olds and upward, the winner to be sold by auction for 50 sovereigns, at five furlongs, was won by Sohe mus, ridden by Lester Relff. Clem Jenkins had the mount on Oxbridge, which came in second. Catcleugh finished third.

Mr. J. Rowson's K. K. Clem Jenkins having the mount, was first, Mr.

T. Wilkin son's Summer Shower came in second, and Overbury, owned by Mr. W. I. Anson, with Johnnie Relff up, ran third, in the race for the Glasgow selling welter (handicap) stakes.

of 3 sovereigns each, with 150 sovereigns added, for 3 year olds and upward, at six furlongs. Pax. owned by Lord Ellesmere. with Danny Maher in the saddle, won the race for the Great Northern handicap plate of 500 sovereigns, for 3 year olds and upward, distance one mile and a half. CONSTITUTION ON TRIAL SPIN.

Herreshoff Cup Defender Goes Down. Narragansett Bay in a Light Breeze. Bristol, R. May 21 The cup yacht Constitution went out on her first trial spin to day. She left her moorings at 10 o'clock and went down the bay with her mainsail, fore staysail and jib set.

When down toward Bristol Ferry her topsail was set. A light wind prevailed and at times there was a dead calm, so that not much progress was made during the forenoon. BARBARA FRIETCHIE IN FRONT. Oliver Mac Runs Second, at Prohibitive Odds, and Snark Third in First Race at Morris Park. (Special to the Eagle.) Morris Park Race Track, N.

May 21 A big crowd is here to day and good sport is promised. The track has dried out somewhat, but is still heavy on the turn. The first race was won by Barbara Freitchle, 9 to 5 and 3 to 5. Oliver Mac, 1 to 4 for the place, was second, and Snark third. Time, 1:12.

OLYMPIAN GAMES AT CHICAGO. Paris Committee Picks Windy City for 1904 Meet. Paris, May 21 The committee having In charge the quadrennial Olympian games, at its meeting at the Automobile Club, to day. selected Chicago as the place for holding the contests in 1904. MORRIS PARK ENTRIES.

(Special to the Eagle.) Morris Park Race Track, N. May 21 The entries for the races here to morrow are as follows: First race Hurdle handicap for 4 vear olds anri upward; with 5600 added, of which $125 to the Becond and $75 to thp third. Mile and three quarters over seven filKhts of hurdles. Name. Wht.

Name. Wht. Semper Ego 162 Dr. Elchberg 158 Magts Light 1371 Charawlnd 116 The Loan Chord 1401 Champion 136 The 1SS Matt Simpson 133 Monroe Doctrine 140 Holland 132 Dallion 1301 Wandering 130 Second race For maidens 3 vears old and upward; with $550 added, of which $75 to the second and $50 to the third. Eclipse course.

Name. Wht. Name. Wht. Ezra 110 Satire 1W Mark Twain U0 Award 105 Admiral Dewey 110 Historian no Peeler 107 Contend 110 Senator De Lear 107 Monad 110 Isaac Hopper 110 Manchuria 11(1 Hollowwood lQoiFenlmore 10" Choirmaster 107 Roxane 105 Third race The Gaiety, tor fillies 2 years old; with $1,000 added, of which $250 to the second and $150 to the third.

Last four and a half furlongs ot the Eclipse coUTse. Name. Wht. Name. Wht.

The Hayden 1171 Laodlce 115 Bella 1121 Blanche Herman 112 Luclllne 112 Sweet Clover 112 Fourth race For 4 year olds and upward: with $7u0 added, of which $125 to the second and $75 to the third. Last seven furlongs of the Withers mile. Name. Wht. Name.

Wht Carbuncle 30.1! Lady Uncas 101 Water Cure 103 Godfrey me Ben Viking 109 Huitzllopoehtll 1C6 Alslke 1061 Fifth race The third of the spring serial handicaps; the Yen Courtlandt; with $1,000 added, ot which $250 to the second and $150 to the third Last seven furlongs of the Withers mile. Name. Wht. Name. Wht King Lief 1101 Lavalllere 100 All Gold 1001 St.

Finnan 33 King Pepper 1121 Black Fox 105 Sixth race Selling; for 3 year olds and upward a.T7e?' to the second and $100 to the third. The Withers mile. Name. Wht. Name.

wht Armor 105 Tyrshcna 101 Lanceman 10T Knight of the Garter ICS Glade Run 1051 Matt Him. Robert Metcalf 1061 Young Dixon loSfe! ALFAN0 DENIES STABBING. Declares He Did Not Kill Be Ia Femina, but Latter's Brother Says "That's the Man." Pasqualo Alfano of 41 Havemeyer street testified in his own behalf this morning before Judge Hurd and a jurv in his trial for manslaughter, on a charge of killing John de la Femina in a quarrel over secret society matters at 51 Havemeyer street, a saloon, on February 5 last. Alfano not only denied the quarrel, but the stabbing as well, although he admitted he had been in the saloon about the time De la Femina was stabbed. He was there, he said, to try to sell some maccaroni and cheese.

The first he knew that he was wanted for the crime, he declared, was when Patrolman Fletcher Tracy came to 764 Park avenue, where he was calling on a friend. Tracy said: "I am looking for a man named Alfano." "I am Alfano," the witness said he told the policeman. He did not try to escape. His arrest followed. He denied that he had attempted to evade arrest, adding that he did not know that the police were searching for him, although they had been to Jamaica, Woodhaven and his home, 41 Havemeyer street, in trying to locate blm.

Luigi de la Femina, brother of the man who was killed, testified that he told Policeman Tracy that he did not know who had stabbed his brother, although he was present at the time of the stabbing, because he did not then know Alfano's name. He did know It now, and. pointing his finger at the prisoner, said, "That Is tbe man." After Patrolman Tracy nad testified to the fact of the arrest and counsel had summed up, the case was given to the jury. a Wcll llgniCQ SlOrc aU veitlSCS ltSelt. XOU PclV IOT the light only.

1 tie adver tising it gives you is free. EDISON ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING GO. OF BROOKLYN, Qeneral Offices: 359 368 Pearl Street. ln i as they ever did in ten. All of these facts were recited by Mr.

Redfield to the Industrial i Commission Committee to day. He is de lighted with the results of the change in the factory's working hours, for the results are just what he predicted. AGREEMENTS WITH MACHINISTS. About 1,000 Firms Have Signed Men of Allied Trades May Stop Work. Washington.

May 21 The storm centers of the general strike of machinists throughout the country to day are in the vicinity of Cincinnati, and on the Pacific coast. The number of firms that have signed agreements was augmented to day by about a hundred, which brings the aggregate of the establishments making concessions to one thousand in round numbers during the past three or four days. Save in one or two instances, as at Scran ton, the allied trades have not yet been affected. It is claimed at the general headquarters of the machinists, however, that where agreements arc not affected by this afternoon or to morrow many of the men in tbe allied trades will go out in the individual shops where the machinists already are out. The estimate of President O'Connell of the National Association of Macinists, as to the number of strikers to day remains at 50,000 approximately, the same figure as given yesterday.

The executive board of the association Is in session here, watching the progress of the strike. President O'Conuell this morning said: "The reports from all sections are very favorable. The indications are that the great majority of firms will have reached agreements with the men to day or to morrow. The dispatches coming in from various cities indicate that conferences will he held today with a large number of firms. Many men who were working yesterday went out to day.

The additions made last night and this morning to the list of strikers, and the number that will return to work this morning with their demands granted will about balance each otaer. To day's reports show that only three railroads in the United States are now affected by the strike, namely, the Central Vermont, Lehigh Valley and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western. The situation, according to reports received to day at headquarters, is summarized as follows: Practically all the trouble between Kansas City and the Pacific coast has been adjusted. At Kansas City about 600 men are out. but a few small firms have signed the agreements.

San Francisco reports an almost complete tie up. About 6,000 men have struck. Agreements have been reached there, however, with eleven firms outside of the Union 'and Dresden plants and the Fulton Ship Company. At Seattle 700 men have struck. There are 300 strikers at Taeoina, Wash.

The trouble has been adjusted at most of the other Pacific coast points. At lork about men have struck. A settlement has been reached with the bal ance, which involves about 50 per cent, of the hrms. MOTHER IS COMPLAINANT. Says Her Son Threatened to Shoot Her After She Had Given Him Money.

Mrs. Flora C. Fleich of 2,626 Atlantic ave nue was the complainant in the Gates avenue court this morning against her son, Herman Poelzsch, whom she charged with disorderly conduct and threatening to kill her. Lawyer Adolph Kiendl, who represented the complainant, stated to the court that the pris oner had been drinking for about a year and had neglected his wife and family, who live at 651 St. Ann avenue.

On Tuesday of last week, he said, Poelzsch called on his mother and asked for money to take him home, and Bne gave nim a. tie returned shortly after ward very much under the influence of liquor with a loaded revolver and threatened to snoot nis mother, nis brother (who is a doc tor), and even himself. Mr. Kiendl said that Mrs. lelch was willing to support his familv.

but wanted her son to keep away from her home. Poelzsch made a general denial and mur mured something about hla mother helping omer people. Me was held by Magistrate wortn lor examination and was sent to jail until May za, in delault ball. PLEAS TO INDICTMENTS. Judge Edward B.

Thomas, sitting in the United States Circuit Court, this morning heard the following pleas to indictments handed down last week by the Federal Grand Jury: Samuel Wolf, illicit distilling, not guilty, held in $2,500 for trial: Nathan Co hen, dealing in unstamped cigars, not guilty. held in $1,000 for trial; Peter E. Hart, postal clerk, abstracting letters from the mail, not guilty, held in $2,000 for trial. All these men gave bonds and were released from custody. STRANDED STEAMER HERE.

Merritt Chapman Company Brings In the Iona From West Indies. The British Bteamer Iona of West Hartle pool, England, Captain Cranston, which went ashore on the night of February 23 last at Corrientes Bay, near Cape San Antonio, arrived in port this morning under her own steam and in tow of the wrecking steamer William E. Chapman. The Iona sailed from Las Talmas, February 4, for New Orleans In ballast and went ashore on the 23d at midnight, during thick, rainy weather. The Merritt Chapman Derrick and Wrecking Company undertook to save the steamer.

The company's wrecking steamer William L. Chapman and a gang of experi enced men, In charged of Captain Fred Sharp, proceeded to tbe vessel assistance and suc ceeded in floating her on May 1. She was taken to Havana and left that port on May 14 for New York. The Iona is thought not to be badly damaged. She makes but little water and is kept free by the aid of steam pumps, bbe is now anchored off Staple ton, Staten Island.

EASTERN DISTRICT PARK. Seventh District Board Wants New Park Land Acquired. It has been decided by the members of the local board of the Seventh district to recom mend to the Board of Public Improvements that all titles to property within the proposed boundaries of the new park over in the Eastern District of this borough be im mediately acquired. The boundaries of the new park land are as follows: Berry street, avenue. Lorlmer street.

Driggs avenue, Manhattan avenue, Leonard street, Bayard street. Union avenue anfl North Twelfth street, covering sections nf the Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Seventeenth (Wards. Mavor Van Wyck and Controller Coler have approved the park project. LADIES CAN WEAR SHOES tk' nr ur lns Allan's 'oct Has. a "WilT to be hak into tht, shnw.

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Address, Hen S. Olms Lo Hoy, N. Y..