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THE BROOKLYN" DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1901. 16 BOY SENT TO THE ABM. ENGINE AND TRUCK COLLIDE. GRIMES HAD PAWN CHECK.

THREE GIRLS ACCUSE OEPT. PI ATTERBUHY, LIKE OfflT, Mi YARD DRY DOCK SITE SURVEYED BY GOODRICH. Serious Accident Averted by Chance in South Brooklyn Last Night. While responding to an alarm at 214 Twenty fourth street last night Engine No. 139 of Sixth street and Fourth avenue, collided with Truck No.

128 of Thirty ninth street, at the corner of Third avenue and Twenty fifth street. The engine and truck were coming In op posite directions. A trolley car stopped In front of a hydrant. The driver of the engine could not see the truck, as the view ahead was obscured by the car. He dashed across the street Just as the truck came dashing up.

A collision was inevitable. The crash was heard some distance away and many women and children screamed. There was a rush to rescue the firemen, but luckily no one was hurt. One horse has a slight cut on the eye. The fire was caused by a lamp explosion and did not amount to much.

OLDEST PERSON IN E. D. DEAD. Mrs. Catharine Howe, Who Lived on Rutledge Street, Was 103.

Death on Monday. Probably the oldest resident In the Eastern District died on Monday at the age of 103 years, In the person of Mrs. Catharine Howe. Her death occurred at the home of her married daughter, Mrs. Annie E.

Jones, with whom she lived at 213 Rutledge steet. Mrs. Jones and the other members of the family are certain as to the age of Mrs. Howe. Mrs.

Howe had been a resident of the Eastern District for only seven years and at tho time of her death was entirely blind, but possessed all her other faculties. She was a descendant of a Holland Dutch family who was one of the early settlers in the central part of New York State. They originally settled there more than 200 years ago. Mrs. Howe was born near Johnstown, N.

and made her residence for years in Utica. Her only daughter Is Mrs. Jones and another son, Joseph J. Howe, who enlisted as a soldier during the Civil War and contracted a fever in the field which subsequently caused his death. Mrs.

Howe lived in Utlca until after the death of her husband and nearly all cf her remaining relatives. Finally at the earn est request of her daughter and son in law she took up her residence with them. One of her delights was to have about her her six grandchildren, all grown up, and her three great grandchildren. About a year ago her health began to fail and she grew gradually weaker until her death on Monday night. She was conscious of her approaching end and recognized those about her bedside by their voices and called each by name.

Her death was peaceful. Funeral services will 6e held this evening and the interment will be private to morrow In Greenwood Cemetery. WIFE SUES LIEUTENANT WEISS. Demands Separation on the Ground of Cruelty From Seventy First Regiment Officer. A motion for alimony and counsel fees was granted by Justice Stover this morning in the suit ot Caroline Weiss for separation from her husband, William Weiss, formerly a lieutenant in the Seventy first Regiment.

Ho served in that capacity during the Span ish war, and up to August 13 last, since his return from Cuba, he has lived with his family at 59 Division avenue. He is employed by the George Ernold Company. Mrs. "Weiss is now living In Manhattan with her parents, with whom she says sho Is compelled to take refuge because of her husband's ill treatment and failure to support her. Mrs.

Weiss alleges that she was married to Lieutenant Weiss on October 25, 1894. She says that during the latter part of July last, when they were living together in Division avenue, he notified the landlady that their apartments would be vacated on August 13 and that she must put up a rental sign. He did vacate the premises, the plaintiff says, and Mrs. Weiss had to store her furni ture and go to the home of her parents, sue says her husband told her that he was tired of married life and that he intended to abandon her. In, an affidavit Mrs.

Weiss alleges that on November 30, 1900, she returned home and found her husband in an intoxicated condi tion. She requested him to get up and retire for the night, when he struck her in the face and chest, knocking her over. She says that at the outbreak of the Span ish war her husband in his capacity as an officer of the Seventy first Regiment enlisted in the government service. He went with the Army, she says, leaving her without funds, and he did not send her a penny ot his salary for four weeks. After his return from Cuba, the plaintiff alleges.

Lieutenant Weiss called frequently upon a Mrs. Howe, the widow of a soldier, ostensibly to help her secure a pension. She alleges that many nights about this time he failed to come home at all for lodging. In January, 1899, while conversing on the street with a woman friend, Mrs. Weiss was accosted by her husband, who happened to be passing.

He asked her what she was talking about and when she failed to answer be slapped her face. On June 15. 1901, he accused her of injuring his bicycle and said: "I will kill you yet before I'm through with you." At another time he struck her because she complained of his late hours and declared: "I have only just begun. It will be worse later. If you are disgusted now, you will be more disgusted.

I am going to do as I please, and all you need to do here Is to cook my meals. Outside of that you can go to Cassie McCabe of 284 South Fourth street, a friend of the plaintiff, makes an affidavit that she saw Lieutenant Weiss slap his wife'3 face while he was talking to her in the street. Cassie also swears that on another occasion, while she was calling on Mrs. Weiss, the defendant kissed her and attempted to appear affectionate toward her with the evident intention of annoying his wife. Lieutenant Weiss says his wife's allegations are not true.

Week Haskell are Mrs. Weiss' attorneys. J. A. DOREZ'S WILL FILED.

The will of John Anthony Dorez, who died in Brooklyn on August 21, was filed for probate yesterday. The testator left about $9,500 of which $2,500 is left to friends. His niece, Mary Ellen Reardon, is to receive the income of the remainder for life. At her death, the principal Is to go to Sister Eu pemia, of the Sisters of Bon Secour, Lexington avenue, in trust for the benefit ot the order. The executor is Magistrate G.

G. Higginbotham. THE WEATHER. INDICATIONS TILL, 8 P. M.

TO MORROW. Washington, August 2S For Eastern New York: Partly cloudy to night and Thursday; light to fresh east winds. LOCAL PROBABILITIES. Partly cloudy to night and Thursday; light to fresh east winds. At noon the Eagle's mercurial barometer registered 33.03 3.07 higher than yesterday.

Record ot the thermometer as kept at the Brook lyn Dally Eagle Onice: A. M. to day 1' A. T5 4 A. "1 12 A P.

TH A. I 3 P. Average temperature to day "iH Average temperature corresponding day last year 3 AT THE BEACHES. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the temperature at tho Coney Island beaches was 78. There was a light southeast wind.

The temperature of the water was 74 degrees. Tide will be high at 6 o'clock. HIGH WATER. Following is the official announcement of the time and duration of high water at Xew York and Sandy Hook for to morrow, August 29: A. M.

Timel Height h. m.I Feet I. P. M. I Uura'n of I HlfO I Fall Foot Wow York.

.1 T.16 I 1.1 Sandy Hook. I 0.62 I 1.3 7.30 7.11 6.1 The sun will rise to morrow at 5:21 A. will set at 6:41 P. M. II S.

5 I IS 0:5 He Is Accused of Stealing a "Watch and Chain Worth. $70. William Grimes was arraigned this morning before Magistrate Dolley at the Butler street police court on a warrant sworn out by Frank St. Clair of 494 Hicks street, charg ing him with having stolen a watch and chain valued at $70. St.

Clair swore that he (ell asleep on a keg near his house and that when he awoke his valuables were gone. Grimes was the only one known to have been present. The day following the theft St. Clair states he met Grimes on the street and that he was dressed In an entire new outfit and had pawn checks to the amount of $20. Grimes was held for the Grand Jury.

HUNG FROM THE BRIDGE. Thompson Found in a Perilous Position Last Night, but Didn't Re member It To day. George Thompson, 26 years old. of OS Nassau street, this borough, who was caught hanging from one of the girders of the Brooklyn Bridge last night was this morning arraigned in the Center street court, Manhattan, charged with intoxication. "I work for the Brooklyn House Cleaning Company," said Thompson.

"I worked yesterday and caught cold. I then took some whiskey and cocaine and do not know what I did." When told that he was caught hanging from one of the girders, Thompson looked startled. "Well, I don't remember anything about that." he replied. Magistrate Olmsted fined him $5. BORINGS IN EAST RIVER.

Steam lighter at Work Just South of Wall Street Ferry Slip. For two or three days past a steam lighter flying red danger flags has been at anchor in the East River, at different points between South and Wall Street ferries. She is said to be engaged in making borings for the proposed East River tunnel, and Is in the employ of the Rapid Transit Commission. Borings have been made in the slip at the foot of Joralemon street, as well as in the end of the street itself. To day the lighter is at work a little south of Wall Street ferry slip and a couple of hundred yards out from the Brooklyn shore.

NOT A SPITE FENCE. Existence of a High Fence Starts a Report That Bad Feeling Exists Between Neighbors. Frederick Ecker, said to be a glass dealer, lives at the corner of East Thirty fifth street and Flatbush avenue. In the rear of his premises Is a tight board fence 10 feet high, which has been reported to be a spite fence. Both the Eckers and their neighbors on Brooklyn avenue, whose back door faces the back door the Eckers, deny the report.

Mrs. Ecker said to an Eagle reporter: "We put up the fence, as we have a perfect right to do. We have had no trouble with our neighbors, and it is not a spito fence. We have a reason, of course, for putting up the fence, but we don't care to make it public." The family living on Brooklyn avenue refuses to give out their name, but it is understood that it is Pell. Said the man of the house: "We have had no trouble with the Eckers; in fact, I have not spoken to Mr.

Ecker more than three times since I've been here. I'm a Baptist and an amateur gardener, but it is false that I work on Sunday, much to the dislike of my neighbors. My wife has had no trouble with Mrs. Ecker, and we have no children to fight with their children. I don't know why they put up the fence, which is entirely on their property, but I'm sure I don't object." The substance of the street rumors is that Mr.

Pell, as the name of the Brooklyn avenue resident is said to be, has objected in the past to Mr. Ecker working in his garden on Sunday, and that, to meet these objections, the glass man erected the fence. The fence is not unsightly, and while it is unpalnted on the Eckers side, a coat of dark green paint covers the Pell side. There is a little door in the fence, across which, on the Pell side, a board has been nailed. This door was put there, the gossips say, so that Mrs.

Ecker could open it and laugh at the Pells' discomfiture. The fence Is not built on the boundary line, but wholly on the Ecker property. Neighbors do not seem to take any interest in the quarrel between the two families, if there is one. and both the families said to be involved claim that there is not even a misunderstanding. Others would have it that' the women of the two houses have criticised each other so much that the fence was put up to stop the exchange of words.

But this statement is indignantly denied by both parties. The fence is there, all hands seem to be satisfied, and, so far, the neighborhood has not held an indignation meeting. YOUNG GIRLS THIEVES. Lottie Hoff and Edna Mullen Said to Have Stolen "Valuables From Several Houses. Youthful depravity was alleged in the case of Lottie Hoff, lf years old, of 77 North Ninth street, and Edna Mullen, 11 years old, of 92 North Third street.

Both, according to the police, are young, but well versed In crime, and claim that they have been in the habit uf robbing various residences which they visited while on begging tours. This, it is said, was done by both without the knowledge of their parents, who wore present in the Manhattan avenue court when both were arraigned this morning, and showed evidences of respectability. The arrest of the two children was made last night by Detectives Langdon and Walsh of the Herbert street station. They were, it is claimed, detected in the act of robbing the apartments of Mrs. Hannah Sherwood, at 124 Ainslie street.

The two entered the dwelling and went among the different tenants, begging money. Mrs. Sherwood was absent at the time, and they, It is alleged, took advantage of this fact by entering the rooms, and were in the act of leaving with a large bundle of goods when Mrs. Sherwood appeared. She detained both, and sent word to the station house, and the detectives were sent to the house and placed both under arrest.

They wero locked up, and later turned over to the care of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and they spent the night in the shelter provided for children of their ages. In the possession of the youthful prisoners at the time of their arrest was a silver watch and chain, which was identified by Mrs. Catherine Kilken of 622 Metropolitan avenue, who claimed that the valuables had been stolen from her rooms. She. in company with Mrs.

Sherwood, appeared before Magistrate O'Reilly this morning as complainants against the prisoners. Wheu the children were arraigned the parents of both were present and expressed surprise to learn that they were thieves. Both wept profusely and emphatically declared that the thefts were committed without their knowledge and consent. The women also declared that bad associates were responsible for the present position of their children. Magistrate O'Reilly turned the girls over to the care of Agent Meyers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children pending further investigation.

Francis Golden Pound to Be Wayward, magistrate Commits Him. Francis Golden, a lad of 13 years, was committed to the Disciplinary Training School this morning by Magistrate Steers, in the Coney Island court, on a charge of vagrancy. The boy was arrested a few days ago by the police of the Coney Island precinct and he was handed over to the care of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in order that an agent could make an investigation. Agent Sauer learned that Golden had been arrested a score of times and had been committed to the Truant Home on three occasions. He has also served a term in the Catholic Protectory, Sauer said, and the latter suggested he be sent to the Disciplinary Training School.

The boy's grandmother was present in court and she did her best to have the lad committed to the protectory. She admitted ho was beyond her control, but said she would rather have him sent to the Catholic Protectory than to any other institution. Magistrate Steers, however, thought the society agent was right and young Golden In tho future will hold forth at Farrell's farm. In Mapleton. SMALL RIOT AT CONEY.

Street Car Men and Waiters Engage In a Lively Row Near the Delavan Hotel. There was a small sized riot shortly before midnight last night on the sidewalk in front of the place known as the Delavan Hotel at Surf avenue and West Eighth street. Coney Island. In which several waiters, a number of conductors and motormen and others participated. During the row several heads were smashed with sticks and clubs and fully 2,000 people were gathered around the corner.

Inside the place were several women musicians and they dropped their instruments and ran screaming from their places on a small stage. The fighting crowd pushed its way Into the place and a considerable amount of blood was spilled. It appears that the row was started by an employe of the place and a motorman. The electrical workers of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system had a picnic at Coney Island last night and ten cars were stalled up on West Eighth street, south of Surf avenue, waiting to convey the picnickers to their homes. It could not be learned just how the trouble started, but suddenly one man was seen to wield a stick In the air and he was immediately surrounded by men in uniform.

Two men were seen to rush up to the West Eighth street police station and shortly afterward four policemen were rushing down the street on the double quick in the direction of the fight. Detective Sergeants Delehanty, Kelly and Brady finally came up and took two men to the police station. They were not held, however. An ambulance was called from the Emergency Hospital and a man was attended by the surgeon. BAYLES ACCEPTS THE PLACE.

Will Act as Expert to Appraise Sanitary Utilization Company's Plant. Controller Coler announced to day that James C. Bayles, who was president of the New York City Board of Health under Mayor Abram S. Hewitt has accepted the appointment offered him by Mr. Coler and Acting Mayor Guggenheimer to act as the city's expert in the matter of the appraisal of the Sanitary Utilization Company's plant on Bar ren Island.

It will be recalled that when the companj on July 31 last secured the new five year contract for garbage disposal in Manhat tan and the Bronx, it was on condition it would sell its plant to the city at any time the latter decided to buy and an agreement could be reached. The company which for five years previous had done the work for $89,900 a year, put in a bid of $232,000 a year, and its counsel. at a subsequent hearing, said the company was forced to raise Its price because it had never paid a dividend and beside was com pelled under the new contract to Increase its plant. Mr. Bayles Is an expert In his line and will investigate the plant thoroughly before making any recommendations.

In this connection of possible purchase by the city, it fs interesting to note that there appears to be no longer any fear on the part the city authorities that the Legislature will pass an act doing away with such disposition on Barren Island. The courts' rul ings of this year that the act passed in 1900 was unconstitutional seem to have given a death blow to the anti Barren Island agita tion tnat. was so fierce two years ago and led to the passage of the act in question. HUSBAND ACCUSES WIFE. Told Magistrate She Is an Habitual Drunkard and Woman Tries to Attack Him.

The peculiarly sad scene of a husband ac cusing his wife of being an habitual drunkard was witnessed before Magistrate O'Reilly this morning in the Manhattan avenue court, when Mrs. Elizabeth Slattery, 36 years old, of 136 Scholes street, was arraigned on the charge of intoxication. She had been arrested the previous evening and her apparent respectability attracted the attention of the magistrate. He asked Mrs. Slattery when arraigned if she was in the habit of drinking and she admitted that she occasionally took a drink.

The magistrate was on the point of commit ting her to jail for a term of ten days when her husband walked up to the bar and accus ed his wife with being habitually drunk. He added that it was her only one bad habit. Slattery, who dressed well and was respect able looking, expressed his regrets at being compelled to make such a statement against his wife, but asserted that his statement was true. Mrs. Slattery turned savagely upon her husband and called him a liar, whereupon Magistrate O'Reilly changed the term of her commitment to twenty nine days.

In her rage she attempted to reach her husband but was prevented by the court attendants and conveyed struggling Into the prisoner's pen. EAGLE BUFFALO BUREAU. Buffalo, N. August 28 The following registered at the Eagle bureau August 27: Dr. John F.

Shea, M. A. Grogan, A. J. Vut ting, George C.

Glttese, Mr. and Mrs. Egbert Burson, George H. Partridge, Jacob Ryerson, William J. Schwab.

Henry M. McKean, Mrs. Henry M. McKean, Mr. and Mrs.

Henry W. Coons, George E. Lovett. Samuel J. Gra ham.

Frances S. Doherty, Lizzie A. Bowie, John Mack, Joseph Shaughnessy of Brooklyn, N. Y. the Rev.

P. J. Fahey, Morris Park, L. William Williamson. Flatbush, L.

F. Voorhees Hegeraau, Flatbush, L. Mr. and Mrs. P.

H. Cassidy, Ozone Park, L. Miss Alice L. Lamb, Ozone Park, L. I.

INSPECTED HEBBEW SANITARIUM Rockaway Beach, L. August 28 A recep tion and inspection of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children of the City of New York, at Rockawav Park, was given yesterday after noon between 3 and 5 o'clock, and several hundred people visited the Institution. The board of managers is desirous of enlarging the building, and, with this purpose in view, is endeavoring to raise $10,000. The workings of the society and a description of the Sanitarium were recently given In the Eagle. AN ALLEGED PICKPOCKET.

Frank Smith, 29 years old, of West Sixteenth street and Railroad avenue, Coney Island, was arrested last night by Detective Taylor of the Coney Island precinct, who charged him with attempting to Pick the pocket of Robert Henderson of 186 Ninety fourth street. He pleaded not guilty and the case was adjourned. LIST OF REFEREES He Sent It to Judge Rich and It Contained the Names of Kis Friends. DADY EXPLAINS HIS LIST. He Suys He Was Trying to Secure an Equal Distribution in.

the Ap Dointment of Referees. MHhaol J. Itdy "was soon this morning ami askt'ii it it v. as true that he had sent, one f.ir names to be placed on a oi lawyers from which jus SiiMi euie Court might select their rvUrv.v. Dady said he did and that t'no ettly thing that surprised him was that any on .1 should be surprised that he di.i.

"Apparently some enemy of mine in the executive committee." 3Ir. Dady said, "has ccen fit to give one of these letters out, with a false impression of the truth in the matter, but for the life of mo I cannot see anything startling or wrong in these letters. There is nothing new in the suggestion of furnishius the justices with suggestions for referees, as this has been done ever since I can remember. But if there is anything wrong in th idea, the act has not been done and no excitement need be raised, for the li.it was never presented to the justices and never will be." "I it net unusual to have a list asked the reporter. "I do nut know that a typewritten list representing every executive member of the organization without partiality has ever been prepared before," Mr.

Dady said, "but it is not to send in typewritten lists to justices, apparently, from what I have dis averod within the last two or three weeks. The Democratic organization has always done it in Brooklyn and in Xew Yorlc County none but Tammany men need apply for referee ships. In our case there was no compulsion intended and the list, when prepared, was to be presented to the justices from up the st'ate who come here without any idea who the lawyers are and who naturally seek information from the men they know, if they are Republicans it would not be unnatural for them to go to the Republican officials, would "But how did this scheme of a regular list begin?" was aslce'd. "For seme time." Mr. Dady replied, "the majority of the referees have gone to one district and this has caused some comment among the executive members, who did not see any of their friends appointed to these places.

They asked me why this was and I could jot tell them. Then they asked if I wouid not see if the rofereeships could not be more evenly divided. I told them that if they cared each to send in two names I would place then on a list and the first time I was asked for suggestions for referees I would turn it to one of the court clerks, through some lawyer, and would request the individual executive members not to seek these places themselves, so that there would be a chance at least of equality in the county among the Republican lawyers. I could not myself see why certain men should be continually employed as referees and no one else get a chance. "Xearly all the executive members turned In two names, some turned in thre.

Jlr. did not turn in any, but he did not make any sugses'ion as to its being a mistake to equalize matters in this way. I waited for some time for the other executive members to turn in their quota of names una then wrote the letter of which the Eagle printed a copy yesterday. This was written to four or five men who had not responded to the invitation. "Here is the list now.

rtfr. Atterbury sends in the names, you see, of Horace Graves and John K. Farrar. Mr. Waldo has not sent in any at all.

Mr. Schoeder has sent in three and so on down the list. But when I saw that the Hit had not been completed I decided not to do anything further about it. The justices have never received it. I will now take the matter up in the executive committee, with another little event connected with it, and see what has happened.

1 cannot see any harm in it." Ii was discovered that Mr. Dady is not the or.ly man who has submitted lists of men. Waiter B. Atterbury sent a list to Justice Ri' h. who recently held court in Brooklyn.

It was forwarded on the letterhead of the Kings (Vimty Kt publican General Committer. ih.e address of the headquarters 'laed to Itroa iway, Xew York City, Mr. ter'eury's office address. Ii was a list or' "Brooklyn lawyers" from whom jusiice select his referees and names re a follows: John R. Kar rar.

Joseph Roura. Almet R. Latson, Waldo Builard. Assemblyman Harris Wilson, Senator Henry Marshall. Charles E.

Francis, Robert E. Swoezev, Wilmot L. Moorehouse, John H. Kemble. Ii will he soon that with the exception of John H.

Konible. the former assistant district attorney, who comes from Mr. Waldo's district, the lawyers suggested as Brooklyn mou whom Justice Rich might use are all from the Seveatei'iith Assembly District and that. Attr rbttry is still tailing care of his friends. It was lists of this character that led to the suggestion that if any lists were to be sent they should represent the suggestions of all the executive members and not one dirtrin.

Waiter B. Atterbury said to day that he recalled sending Justice Rich a list of lawyers and asking him personally to consider them in malting any appoint ments of referees. "The names were not sent in any letter, hut were inclosed in a personal note and on a sparate sheet of paper. It was a personal request made by Walter B. Atterbury, personally, made to a judge, politics not being mentioned in the matter.

The letter was not signed by me as chairman. "So far as I recall, the matter referred to In the letter published in the Eagle yesterday was never discussed in the Executive Committee. The first I knew about the plan was on securing Mr. Dady's letter." Mr. Atterbury would not discuss the ethics of Mr.

Daily's plan to transplant the Tammany system of judicial pa: rnnagc to Brooklyn or the propriety of pending out circular letters which hmdied that, a demand would he made upoi1 the judges for this patronage, to say nothing of the implication that promises must "nave been made by them. "I merely wish to say that I should be plad to have the letter accompanying the slip published in full. If Mr. Dady gave out tli" list let him the letter also. It will explain that the request was merely a personal one." KEF GET IS CONFIRMED.

Jus'ice Stover, in the Supreme Court, today confirm 'd the refi reo's report. In an action brought by Margaret MeXtilty, wlfo of Pet. II. MeXulty. against William J.

Gaynor and Barbara Wcehslor. executors of the will of Joseph Wcc.hslor. The action was brought to partition valuable property at Kensington, Orrr.n rUway. oao half of which the plaintiff claimed to own. The case was referred to Augustus Van who found In favor of the plaint iff.

and SiOver. in confirming th" referer's rrn ordered a sale. The plaintiff was represented by Towns Me Cross'n. and the defendants bv Mevo Hyde. BEKEDTJCCiO MURDER TRIAL.

The trial of John nem'duccio for the murder of Antonio del Hiaze. husband of Beneduc Clo's one time wife, was continued to day In the criminal branch of the Supreme Court, before Justice flildersleeve and a Jury. Mrs. del Bjnzo. widow of the murdered man, is the chief witness for the prosecution.

FELL FOUR STORIES. Sibeliia Freid, fi years old, of 017 East Eighty third street, fell from a fourth story window at the above' address to the ground this morning. Her right arm was severed by striking an ash can. OIES FROM AN ASSET, And John Cline, a Laborer in the Department. Is Arrested for Homicide.

ROW OCCURRED IN WORK HOURS. Cline, With Other Workmen, Was Dunking Beer and Burns Objected. Michael Burns, 50 years old, of 549 Gate avenue, a foreman in the npnnrtment nubpuai uum a lructurea SKuti, and Jonn Cline, 29 years old, of 509 Baltic street, a driver of a cart engaged in carrying cobblestones for the department, was arraigned in the Myrtle avenue court this morning on the charge of homicide. It is claimed that during an altercation Cline struck Burns on the head with the seat of the cart of which he was driver. Cline pleaded not guilty to the charge of homicide, admitted that he struck Burns, but said he acted in self defense.

He was held for examination by Magistrate Naumer. Cline was arrested at about 6 o'clock last evening by Detectives Ansbro and Carroll of the Flushing avenue station house. At that time Burns was still alive, but had been removed to the Brooklyn Hospital by an ambulance surgeon, who believed that the man's injury would prove fatal. Burns died at about 11 o'clock last night. The alleged assault took place at 2:15 yesterday afternoon at the corner of Flushing avenue and Hall street, where a gang of men employed by the Highways Department and in charge of Burns were repairing a cobblestone pavement.

Just prior to the altercation between the men. It is said that Cline and some men with him were sitting in the cart drinking beer, when Burns came along and objected to the drinking during working hours and ordered Cline to put it away. Cline, so the police say, refused to comply with the order. Then followed the trouble. Cline says that Burns climbed up on the cart and struck him and that he Jabbed the foreman with the board seat.

Burns was, however, struck on the head, causing what looked like a scalp wound. The wound bled some and after a time the foreman was induced to have his wound dressed by a doctor and was taken by another employe of the department, Andrew Johnson, to the office of Dr. Henry Bulwinkle, at 196 Washington avenue. Dr. Bulwinkle, it is said, dressed the man's wound and advised him to go home.

Johnson consented to accompany Burns and they started to walk on Myrtle avenue in the direction of Vanderbllt. At the corner of Vanderbilt avenue Burns suddenly dropped to the pavement. Joseph Kelly, the janitor of the Myrtle avenue court, which is across the street from where Burns fell, after investigating the man's case and hearing of the assault telephoned to Police Headquarters for an ambulance. The police of the Flushing avenue station house were also notified. When the ambulance surgeon arrived Burns was unconscious.

He was removed to the h'osnital, where his case was diagnosed as one of a fractured skull. From Johnson Detectives Ansbro and Carroll received the story of the assault and went in search of Cline. They were told that the owner of the horse and cart was John Smith of 509 Baltic street. At the Baltic street address the officers found Smith unhitching the horse preparatory to stabling it. Smith knew nothing whatever about the assault.

He told the officer that the cart and horse had been engaged during the day in work for the city and that Cline was the driver. Cline was found in the neighborhood and admitted that he had some trouble with Burns. He was locked up in the Flushing avenue station house over night. SHIP NEWS. Incoming At New York.

Kansas City, from Bristol. Santiago de Cuba, from Manzanlllo. Trentham Hall, from Calcutta. Glonystwytri. rrom Klo Janeiro.

Ambon, from Philadelphia. Vera, from Tilt Cove. Sabine, from Galveston. Servla, from Liverpool. Maraval.

from Port Spain. Major Barrett, from Philadelphia. Gera, from Bremen. Mongolian, from Glasgow. Foreign Shipping.

Southampton Arrived Lahn. from New York. River Plate Arrived Castilllan Prince, from NT York. Glasgow Arrived Anchorla, from New York. London Arrived Menominee, from New York.

Manchester Arrived Holbein, from New York. Port said Arrived Anapa, from New York. Arrived California, from New York. a rrlvsrt Opunlfv from New York. Liverpool Arrived Wasland, from Philadelphia.

Cherbourg Arrived Pretoria: from New York. Southampton Sailed Kalserln Maria Theresla, IO New 1 orK. San Juan Sailed Philadelphia, for New York. Naplp Sallod Spartan Prince, for New York. South Shields Sailed Potomac, tor New York.

Gibraltar Passed Slcllla. Naples, for New York. Ponta Ferrarla Passed Prlns Wlllem IV, New Yorlc for Amsterdam. Prawle, Point Passed British Queen, New York, fnr Annrarn. Lizard Passed Bulgaria, Hamburg, for New Lizard Passed Galileo.

New York, tor Newcastle. LASSELE HAS SAILED. Tho etpainshlti Lassele sailed last evening from Roberts stores for La Guayra, Venezu ela. She is chartered by the Red line, ana orrftl nrn She was loaded in short order and hustled out to sea. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS.

will be introduced on Thursday, August 29, at our own stores and authorized agents throughout the United States. NEW BRANCH STORE, 567 5th WINDSOR ARCADE, NEW YORK. PERSONAL. WEIR MY WIFE LEFT MY HOUSE AND board without any just cause. I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by her.

ALEX WEIR. LOST AND FOUND. I.OST STRIXG OF PEARL BEADS AND GOLD CLASP, on Tuesday afternoon, in the nhoppiug dirtrlct; a pultnble will be given by returning same to "G4 Hnley gt. LOST THIS MORNING, IN GOING FROM CITY Hall to Wall St l'erry, aDout a lady's gold WATCH, Waltham make, with fleur de lis PIN. Suitable tward will be paid if retut to 3W Macon at.

Fall Styles A CHINESE LAUNORYMAN Police Believe That On Sing De tained the Young Girls Against Their Will. ON SING HELD IN $1,000 BAIL Girls Who Have Been Missing From Home Turned Over to the Children's Society. In the opinion ot the court the evidence which was contained in the affidavits sworn out against On Sing, the Chinaman who was arraigned this morning at 11 o'clock in the Butler street police court, charged with as' sault by three young girls, seemed to substantiate the belief of the police that the laundryman has been running a questionable establishment at 201 Hoyt street. The place has been closely watched for over two months and yesterday afternoon It was raided. Clara Schnickler, 14 years old, of 162 Nevins street; Etta Erlckson, 15 years old, ot 412 Warren street, and Tessie Delano, 14 years old, of 243 Bond street, had been missing from their homes since Saturday, August 19, and no traces were found of them until yesterday afternoon, when Policeman Hassett observed three girls fn the laundry.

Investigation proved they were the missing children. Their story was at first that they had been Eorcibly detained and assaulted during the week. Cre dence in their story gradually weakened aa the facts leaked out, partly from their own inconsistent statements and from the stories from other sources. Neighbors of On Sing state that the girls have been seen entering and leaving the laundry several times during the week, apparently without any restraint, and that sometimes they went out together and occasion ally alone. The girls, it Is said, were given money by the Chinaman and spent the day wherever they were disposed to go.

They frequently went down to Coney Island. The girls acknowledged that they prepared their meals and that On Sing furnished their provisions. One day last week Tessie Delfino says, she went to a friend who conducts a meat market on Third avenue, near Bergen street, and borrowed 60 cents to go on a trip. On Sing when arraigned pleaded not guilty to all the charges through his attorney. The Chinaman maintained a grim silence.

He was held in $1,000 bail on the charge of rape in tne first degree and the case was ad Journed by Magistrate Dooley until Septem ber 4. The three girls when arraigned did not seem much depressed by their disclosure and joked before the bar about the matter. They were held in $300 bail each and were turned over to the Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, where tney win be held until September 4. The police say the girls have an unde slrable reputation, uncommon for girls of their age. It was stated by Detective A.

J. Delaney that he had for six weeks been keeping close watch on On Sing's place and that it was suspected to be a bad Joint. A short time ago, he said, a case of one girl had been reported to him on the charge that she was being sent to the place by her mother. The girl and her mother subsequently disappeared. The laundry of On Sing consists of the typical Chinaman occupying the ground floor, with office and public rooms in the front and with the workshop and a couple of living rooms in tne rear, tne rear rooms, where the girls claim to have been detained, are in no way barred so as to prevent escape.

The doors to the rooms were open when the girls were discovered. On Sing has the reputation of beinjr a re spectable Chinaman. He is 40 years of age and well dressed. He was a member of a Brooklyn Sunday school and regularly attended church. The parents of the three girls appeared this morning at the court and, upon inquiry, denied that they had been turned out of home, and said also that they had been searching anxiously for the girls ever since their disappearance.

THE CACIQUE SAILED TO DAY. Has Goods for All the West Coast Ports of South America. William R. Grace steamship Cacique sailed at 8 o'clock this morning from the foot of Baltic street. She carries a large cargo, including a lot of railroad material.

She will call at Punta Arenas, Coronel, Tal cahuano, Valparaiso. Cbquimbo, Antofagasto, Iquique, Pisaque, Arcia, Mollendo, Pisco! Callao, Salaverry, Pascamayo, Eten, Pimeu tel, Paita and Guayaquil. The first named is in the Straits of Magellan, the others scattered along the entire west coast of South America up to Guayaquil, the principal port of Ecuador, which is situated a couple of degrees south of the equator. HAD TO HIT DROWNING MAN. Two Rescuers Worked Hard to Save a Man and Succeeded.

George Pope of 320 West Thirty fifth street, Manhattan, while In bathing last night off the foot of Fourth avenue, Fort Hamilton, with some friends living on the Shore road, while endeavoring to swim from a float to shore, a distance of several hundred yards, became exhausted and sank. Robert Hagemtm, whose father keeps a boathouse nearby, and William Van Pelt, both of Fort Hamilton, saw the man sink and swam to the place where the man went down. Hageman brought Pope to the surface, but before the two rescuers could do anything with the man they had to hit him on the head, as he made a terrible struggle. They finally got him to shore. Both men were exhausted.

CAR AND WAGON COLLIDE. An accident was averted about 2 o'clock this afternoon, on Joralemon street, when a horse attached to a loaded wagon of the Union Gas Company crossing the tracks on which the Cros9town and Greenpolnt trolley cars run shied and backed upon the track. A Crosstown car was turning in from Court street at the same moment and the wheel of the car hit the wagon. The wagon and the car stopped at the same time and there was no damage. The horse became quieted and was driven away.

INDEX To Classified Advertisements day's Eagle. in To CLASSIFICATION Amusements Assignee Notices Auction Board Business Notices Business Opportunities Coastwise du nmshtps Corporation Notlcus PAsa 4 13 10 4 11 11 13 5 15 4 ...14 15 10 10 11 11 1 9 11 13 IS Dentil Notices Dentistry lMvldt ndp Excursions Klimnclnl Furnished Rooms Help Wanted Horses. Carriages. Etc Hotels and Resorts Instruction I eKt Notices Lost and Found Manhattan Amusements Miscellaneous Ocean Steamships Personal lMtn nology Tost Otllce Notice Proposals Public Notices Railroads Ileal Kstato at Auction Situations Special Advertisements Special Notices Steamboats Summer Resort Guides To Let and For Salt Wanted 11 16 Ii 13 13 11 11 It) 16 11 ii 10 is Buildings to Be Torn Down in Ordei to Use Location That Bowles Favored. ASSERSON'S IDEA SHELVED, Active Work Cannot Begin at Once.

Uncle Sam's Big Junk Sale Set for September 28. Civil Engineer Ernst P. Goodrich, who is in charge of the Department of Yards and Docks of the Brooklyn Navy Yard during the absence of Engineer Asserson, accompanied by several officials of the yard, yesterday went over the ground that is to be used for the new dry dock, to be known as No. 4. The plot of ground selected is very large and there are a number of buildings on it.

It is located at right angles with Dry Dock No. 2. The buildings that are doomed to destruction in order to make room for the new dock are No. 17, used as a saw mill; No. 19, boat shop; No.

44, master shipwright; No. 25, construction and repair rigging loft; No. 26, ordinance storehouse and the crematory. There will be nothing done on the proposed work for some time, but it is said that the construction of the dock will be started some time within two years. It Is estimated that the new dock will cost in the neighborhood of $1,250,000.

Of this sum only $500,000 have been appropriated. The site selected for the dock is the one that Admiral Bowles, then Naval Constructor Bowles, favored, when he was stationed In the yard. Civil Engineer Asserson, head of the Yards and Docks Department, however, favored building the dock in Whitney's Basin, his opinion being that the expense of building the dock would not be so great there as the cost of excavation would be saved. Admiral Bowles, however, opposed the selection of the 'Whitney Basin site on the ground that the dock would be too far away from the shops and would prove greatly inconvenient for the workmen of the yard to reach. It is evident that the Navy Department sided with Bowles, as the site he recommended has been decided upon as the location of the new basin.

Uncle Sam is going to have a junk and second hand clothing sale, to take place at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on September 2S next. There is a great conglomeration of articles to be sold which have been discarded by the vessels reaching the yard to be overhauled. The list includes cutters, dlnkies, sailing launches, whaleboats, a punt, four lifeboats and a life raft, railroad iron, slate, lumber, a typewriter, carpenters' tools, furniture, engines, machinists' tools, old books, pumps, copper wire, old flags, 110,520 pounds of shell, 47,980 pounds of steel, gun carriage, Lee rifles, revolvers, belts, bayonet scabbards, clothing and shoes. There are also In the collection knives, forks, table cloths, napkins, doilies, carpets, butter, flour and coffee, a number of musical instruments and electrical machinery. Some of the boats have come from the Vermont, others from the Massachusetts, the Supply and the Monongahela.

It is said that the entire collection is valued at about $4,000. The discarded articles have been assorted in lots and blank forms will be sent by the department to defers who will bid on tho goods in lots. The goods will be on exhibition to permit the dealers to look over the collection and bids will be received until the day stated for the sale, when they will be opened in public and awards given to the highest bidders for the various lots. Already a catalogue has been sent to Washington and the sale will be advertised. The second class cruiser Montgomery will be ready to go into commission on Tuesday next.

The Montgomery has undergone a complete overhauling. Her boilers have been re tubed and so has her condenser, and the engines have also received the attention of the engineering department. All the wood work of the cruiser has been taken out and replaced by metal. The vessel has been put In an up to date condition. NO ROOM FOR CHATEAU LAFITTE.

Bordeaux Steamship Had to Go to tne Erie Basin to Discharge. The Bordeaux steamship Chateau Lafltte has arrived at the foot of Richards street to discharge, instead of her usual berth at the South Central Pier. This Is due to the fact that the Hansa liner Hohenfels is loading at the latter pier for South Africa and Calcutta, beside the Tyser liner Indraghiri. The Hamburg American liner Athesia, for the China and Japan ports, is expected, also, to arrive to morrow morning from Norfolk, where she has been loading cargo coal. This crush of business shut out the Bordeaux Bhip, which brought a cargo of tartar, dried wine lees, wine, mineral waters, preserves, china, brandy, sardines, olive oil, mustard, argols, soap and talc.

Among the items in her manifest are 124 cases of cigarette paper, 575 cases of olive oil and 1,593 bags of powdered talc. She only brought a few corks. FOB, ANNOYING PEDESTRIANS. John Wilson, 36 years old, of 400 Gold street, was arreBted last night by Detective Gorsuch of the Lee avenue station on a charge of vagrancy, but when he was arraigned before Magistrate Higginbotham in the Lee avenue court this morning he was discharged with a warning. Wilson, from all accounts, stopped a number of people and demanded money for beer and his actions toward one woman caused her to go to the station house and complain.

In the meantime Wilson, who had obtained some money, stepped into a saloon on Lee avenue opposite Taylor street, where he raised a disturbance. When arrested by Detective Gorsuch the prisoner made a fight and attempted to throw the officer, who overpowered him after a struggle. In court to day Wilson denied that he was abusive and after being warned to keep away from that section of the city was discharged. LINEMAN INJURED BY FALL. Fletcher Lohner, 32 years old, of 20 Brooklyn avenue, entered the Atlantic avenue police station last night and asked for medical attention.

Lohnes, who is a lineman in the employ ot tho Brooklyn Rapid Transit and who appeared to be suffering from painful injuries, stated that he had fallen from a twenty five foot pole while repairing a feed wire on Ocean avenue, near Sbeepshead Bay. He did not think, that his injuries were serious and started for home, but was compellod to seek assistance at the station house. An ambulance was summoned from St. Mary's Hospital. Dr.

Meagher, who responded, after attending to Lohnes, removed the latter to his home. AGED MAN HAD TO GO TO JAIL. John 61 years old, of 38 Catherine street, was committed to jail this morning by Magistrate O'Reilly in the Manhattan avenue court in default of a $200 bond to keep the peace toward his married daughter, Mrs. Mary Gundlach, of 205 Montrose avenue. She appeared as complainant against him and accused her father with having kicked and otherwise misused her.

As a witness she had a neighbor, Mrs. Margaret Schepler, who was present on one occasion when tho accused attempted to forcibly take away his daughter's child, charging her with not being a responsible person to care for it. TOO EARLY FOR ASH CANS. An Eagle correspondent says the ash collector calls for cans in the vicinity of 1,772 Fulton street before 7 o'clock in the morning and complains that tbis is too early for people to put out ash cans..