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THEBEOOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1901. ROBBERS WRECK A BANK. RECRUITS FOR THE IOWA. AMUSEMENTS. STROBEL THOUGHT HIS WIFE BOTH DE FOREST AHB BUSH SAID TO BrON THE SLATE.

iinUKHCGI WBEiTISnifORDITES JANITORS IRE CARELESS; SCHOOLS IN BID MiTION jORPHEUMT Building Almost Blown to Pieces Little Booty Secured. Wellington, November IS Word has been received here that the Bank of Manchester, south of here, in Oklahoma Territory, was wrecked with dynamito by robbers early to day, but that little booty was secured. The building was almost blown to pieces and the robbers fled. It is believed the work was done by the same robbers who blew open the safe of the hank at Milan, sixteen miles from hereSunday morning. A stranger was in Wellington Saturday, where he had some dental work done, and he remarked that he would have to hurry back to Milan where he had left his two companions and a team.

It is believed these men are the robbers and every effort is being made to apprehend them. OPENING SERVICES. The. opening services of the P. E.

of the Nativity were held yesterday morning and evening in the new parish house on Kenilworth place. There was a large attendance at both services as well as at the session of the Sunday school' in the evening. The Rev. Andrew Fleming is the rector of the church. FAVOR LIBERALITY.

Germans Express Opinions on Proposed Amendments to Excise Law. The agitation in favor of an amendment to the present excise law among the Germans of this borough Is taking definite shape, and it is expected that something In the nature of a public demonstration will soon be the result. Prominent Germans In all walks of life, ministers, business men and professional men have expressed their views on the question and all agree that the next Legislature should apply the test of liberality to the much vaunted ability of self control and sober enjoyment of the very class which demands a change in the law. The Rev. Dr.

Jacob Loch, rector of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Schermerhorn street, has also joined the ranks of those who are willing to back up their convictions by coming out publicly for the necessity of an excise amendment. While, all of. these men care primarily for the introduction of what may be termed the Sunday" they are not particular about the manner in which it is brought about. Local option seems to be the most favored plan, as it will impose the smallest possible burden of responsibility upon the legislators, at the same time furnishing a means to establish Anally whether the people of New York City are or are not in favor of Sunday opening.

Dr. Loch's opinion on the matter has been expressed by him in this way: "I look at the excise question from the view point of a German. While in Philadel phia I gathered considerable experience in this direction. As long as the regulations were of a liberal character everybody was satisfied and there was little insobri oty and vice.1 Shortly after left the city a number of measures that may be termed blue laws were enacted. My successor has complained to me about the increase in vice and drunkenness and I understand that, in his own sphere, he has to.

contend with widely conditions than confronted me. "I am in favor. of opening the saloons and meeting halls after church hours, just as it is being done in Germany. It is not right that a man who desires to drink a glass of. beer On Sunday should be stamped as a criminal.

I fully believe that the liberal administration of the excise laws is the best preventative against drunkenness as a general vice. The Raines law hotels, on the other hand, are the source much grievous evil." Mr. Tiemann is of the opinion that a liberal administration of the present law will not suffice, as it opens up to many channels for corruption and blackmail. But he holds in the event of the. Legislature refusing to give relief, Mr.

Low will be able to make the best out of a bad situation. BROOKLYN MAN GOT OFF EASY, But His Friend, Mr. Wright, Paid for a "Little Walk" Sunday Morning. A prosperous looking man, who described himself as George Wright, of No. 2 Creed lane, Ludgate Hill, London, England, also of 121 Fulton street, Manhattan, called at the West Thirtieth street station, Manhattan, last evening and complained that he and a friend, who lives in Brooklyn had been robbed in a hallway on West Thirty sixth street early yesterday morning.

Wright said he and his friend were enjoying themselves on Saturday night. They had such a good time that it was not until 4 o'clock yesterday morning that they started for home. Then they were on Broadway, opposite the Herald Square. They met a couple of women, he said, who invited them to take a little walk on Thirty sixth street, west of Broadway. Wright says that he and his friend had not gone far when they were forcibly pushed into a hallway and robbed.

The Brooklyn man was relieved of $18 in money, all that he had left. Mr. Wright said the light fingers of the women took from him $300 in American money, a live pound note and a diamond pin. Mr. Wright said that, in all, the little walk cost him $600.

Provided with descriptions of the two women. Detectives Wheaton, Higgins and Quilty of the West Thirtieth street station and Detective McCullom of the Marlborough Hotel, where Mr. Wright is staying, were looking for the thieves last night. DR. SMITH A DELEGATE.

He Has Been Delegated to Attend State Conference November 19 22. Dr. Evan F. Smith of 4S1 Franklin avenue, a member of the board of managers of the Long Island State Hospitals, has been appointed as a delegate to second New York State Conference of Charities and Correction, representing the Long Island State Hospital. The conference Is to bo held in Association Hall, Twenty third street and Fourth avunue, and Assembly Hall, Twenty second street and Fourth avenue, New Yorlj City, on November 20, 21 and 22.

Dr. Smith has been a member of the board of managers of the Long Island State Hospitals for over six' years, having been appointed one of the members of the board by Governor Morton to organize and bring under state control the liospitnls and care of the insane of Long Island, and for a number of years has taken a special aud active Interest in the care and treatment of those suffering from nervous and mental disorders. Dr. Smith is also actively identified In the work of the Federation of Churches and Christian Organizations of New York City lit" the capacity of one of the board of directors and Is thus interested in the social, educational and philanthropic work of the organization. Associated in this work are John Seeley Ward, Charles A.

Schleren, William E. Dodge, Spencer Trask, Anson Pnelps Stokes, Seth Low, LL. George Foster Peabody, Everet V. Wheeler, Robert D. Benedict, R.

Fulton Cutting, and a number of others. INJURED IN A FIGHT. Charles Muller, 31 years old, a stonecutter, of 1G Crescent street, received a dislocated jaw and lacerated wound' "of the scalp In a fight with, a of men with whom ho had previously been drinking last night. The fight occurred in front of MUller's house. Policeman McHugh of the Liberty avenue station, who learned of tho disturbance, nr rlved on the scene a few moments after the affray, but Mullor's assailants had escaped.

Muller told the policeman that ho did not know who the men were. He was removed to St. Mary's Hospital by Ambulance Sur geon Meagher, where his jaw was set and bis other injuries dressed. Eighty Enlisted Men to Be Sent to the Battleship Via San Francisco. Eighty enlisted men will be sent from the receiving ship Columbia the Navy Yard to morrow to the battleship Iowa, at present cruising in Pacific waters off the western coast of South America.

The men arc largely recruits, and many are residents of the city. They will relieve a number of men who are at present on the Iowa and who will shortly have served their time on the sea. The men will be sent to San Francisco by train, and from there will be taken south by one of the government vessels. The Iowa recently was dry docked at one of the navy docks near Panama. It was the first time that a United States ship has been placed in the dock, as heretofore they have been sent to the yard at Seattle.

ROBBERS SECURE $700. Findlay, November IS The safe in the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton freight house was blown open early this morning. Tho robbers secured about $700 in money. Nitroglycerine was used to destroy the safe and many persons were nv.iltenerl hv the explosion. The burglars escaped.

DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY. Convention at Wilmington Closes After Electing Officers Georgia Woman President. Willmirgtcn, N. November 10 The United Daughters of the Confederacy closed Its eighth annual convention here to day, after an all day session, to meet next year in New Orleans. An invitation was also accepted to meet in 1903 in St.

Louis during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in that city. Officers were elected as follows: President, Mrs. J. A. Rounsaville, Borne, a.

first vice president, Mrs. Mollle M. Mc Gill Bosenberg, Galveston, second vice president, Mrs. T. J.

Latham, Memphis, recording secretary, Mrs. John P. Hickman, Nashville, corresponding secretary, Mrs. Virginia F. MeSborry, West Virginia; treasurer, Mrs.

James Leigh of Norfolk; custodian of the crosses of honor, Mrs. Gabbitt, Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Stonewall Jackson was elected an honorary president, with Mrs. M.

C. Good lette of New York for life. The convention adopted resolutions condemning the promiscuous granting of titles by Confederate camps and restricting tho number of sponsors and maids of honor at Confederate reunions. changes were made in the constitution and $500 appropriated out of the United Daughters of the Confederacy funds available after February 1 for the Jefferson Davis monument to be erected at Richmond. The flag presented by Mrs.

M. Rosenberg of Texas, as a memorial to her father and Mother, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas MacGill, of Maryland, was remanded to the keeping of Miss Lee of Virginia, with instructions to place it In the Texas room of the Confederate Museum at Richmond. CORPORATION FIGHTS TAXES.

Union Traction Asks an Injunction From Illinois Courts at Springfield. Springfield, 111., November IS The hearing of the arguments in the case of the Union Traction Company and others against the State Board of Equalization, in which the complainants ask for an injunction restraining the State Board of Equalization from assessing their capital stock and franchises for 1900 in accordance with a writ of mandamus lesued by Judge Thompson in the Sagamon Circuit Court and affirmed by the Supreme Court, was commenced at 10 o'clock to day in the United States Circuit Court before Judgo Humphrey. The complainants alleged that such an assessment would be in violation of the Constitution of the United States, as an assessment had been made last year by the board. The arguments to day bore on the application of the City of Chicago to become a party defendant in the ease. Assistant Corporation Counsel Sehofield urged that the City of Chicago be alowed to berome a partv defendant because the State Board of Equalization, having been convicted of fraud according to Judge Thompson's and the Supreme Court's decisions in the failure to properly assess these corporations last year, would not.

likely defend this suit brought against them, in which the points at issue were those which had been passed upon by courts in the case of tho Chicago Teachers' Federation mandamus suit against the State Board of Equalization. He also pointed out tho fact that the failure to assess the corporations in question would lose to the City of Chicago a fund which was necessary for the city to have to pay its running expenses. Henry Crawford, representing the Chicago Union Traction Company and the Chicago Traction Company, denied the right of the City of Chicago to be made a party defendant and claimed that in the history of the law there had never been in chancery proceedings an instance where the parties other than those named in the bill by the complainants had at this stage of the proceedings been allowed to make themselves defendants. He also denied the right of tho chancellor to decide what, parties should become defendants and alleged the City of Chicago had no Interest In the case. OPPOSES CLOSING OP STATIONS.

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: I mistake the temper of our people if the attempt to close nearly all of the stations on the Kings County Elevated Railroad docs not cause an earthquake of indignation. For what have we given that, corporation the privilege of blockading the principal avenue of our city, the darkening of our houses and stores, tho torturing of our nervco, our eyesight and our eardrums, by day and by night, year after year, but for the privilege of using that structure as a means of transit at our convenience? Why should we the abandoned be made to endure the suffering, and tit tho same time be denied the rewards and benefits promised for the concession? Shall we meekly Hubmit. to the proposer outrage, that the people in the suburbs may gain five or seven minutes' time In transit to their homes? Even a blind man could sen that. It Is not the company's solicitude for the welfare of the dear people of East New York that prompts the change, but that it. Is the prospect of saving a few dimes thai It costs the company to maintain the Let.

us kick, anil kick until our rights are properly respected. O. II. W. Brooklyn, November 17, QUEENS BOROUGH.

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il Uori. ttl of tlv Jamnlea Iltnl will TuiS'Iny. mlior when the Institution will bo thrown open for public Inspection. GREATER NEW YORK DEMOCRATS. Albany, November IS The Greater New York Democratic Club of the Twenty eighth Assembly District of New York City, was Incorporated to day.

The directors are Louis lieiisinge: Brunner. Henry John fnto. William ndsbm gh. Alrainm Frltdner and George Wolff of Nov. York City.

It is estimated that one county on the ear.ieni shore of Virginia, containing a population of about 13,000. sold this year barrels of Irish potatoes at a profit of noo. v. lilch means that every man. woman an i l.ltd in the county would bo entitled tu re i nive, If tho money were distributed pm i rata, something more than $75 from one crop alone.

iS FOOLING HIM 15111, Husband Explains Why He Failed to Call Physician When Woman Drank Acid. HE IS NOW UNDER ARREST. Police Believe That There Are Circumstances, of an Extenuating Character in the Case. The police circumstances of an extenuating character unquestionably relieve Charles Strobel, a silversmith, 10 years old, of 30S Ellery street, of the cruel charge of allowing his wife Annie to die of carbolic acid poisoning without summoning a physician. Shortly after the death of his wife yesterday afternoon Strobel was arrested by the police of the Vernon avenue station and' detained as a prisoner until la.st night, when he was released in bail of $1,000 by Coroner Berger after a short examination at tho station house.

The charge made against him by the police was that he v. an accessory to the death of his wife. Strobel, through the action of the Coroner, was freed until the result of the inquest, which will be held in a few days. Strobel, when seen this morning, made no attempt to conceal any of the particulars and his statements placed an entirely differ ent complexion on the case. His arrest he explained was brought about through a statement made by his 12 year old daughter Hannah, to the effect that her father had failed to call in a doctor for her mother.

Strobel claims that he was then unjustly placed under arrest without giving him a chance' to explain all the circumstances. His daughter Hannah was at home this morning and. she broke down and cried bitterly when her father told her that she. had got him into a lot of trouble. According to his statements to day, and which were unhesitatingly corroborated by his children, he said that yesterday was the eighteenth anniversary of tho marriage of himself and wife.

There had been frequent quarrels recently between them owing to his wife's jealousy growing out of falsehoods told to her by a relative. He declared that there was no ground for the statements and less for the actions of his wife. During her exhibitions of jealousy she frequently threatened to kill herself and even went so far on a number of occasions as to throw herself upon the bed with a bottle labeled poison beside her and pretend to have swallowed the contents. She so completely fooled him on several times he hurriedly called a physician only to rind that there was nothing the matter with her. Yesterday he declared that when she really took poison he labored under the impression that she was again faking and said that it was unnecessary to send for a doctor.

He had previously informed his wife that it was the anniversary of their wedding and appealed to. her to spend the day quietly in the company of their children. She, however, he insisted upon" quarreling with him aud when she went into the bedroom and swallowed the poison he went out to the barber shop. The household was in an uproar when he found his wife apparently, as he thought, going through another imitation of having taken poison. His daughter Mamie, 17 years old.

labored under the same impression. It was Hannah, however, who. discovered Burns on her mother's young girl was not detained from hurrying out to the drug store of Charles F. Kramer, and Ellery street, from where a call for, an ambulance was sent out. Dr.

Dowd of the Williamsburgh Hospital responded, but he said the womans" death was. only the question of a short time. After he left Nolan of 2G4 Ellery street, who had attended the family, was called In and It was while he was at work over Mre. Strobel that she expired. It was while Hannah was in her excited condition that she remarked that her father had refused to call a doctor Intending to add that her father, thought her mother was sham The policeman present, atronei de clared, did not wait to allow him to make a statement and explain away any thoughts of brutality, but escorted him to the station house, where the same privilege was denied him and he was locked up.

Strobel Insists that if a thorough investigation had been made there would have been no necessity of arresting him Strobel apparently bears a good reputation among his neighbors. He has been employed for nearly thirty one years with the same concern. Dr. Charles Wuest. the examining physician for the Coroner made an investigation and his report will be submitted to that official.

VIENNA VIEW OF STONE CASE. Ambassador Says Brigands Think $100,000 a Bagatelle to Land of Goulds and Vanderbilts. Washington, November IS Baron von Hen gelmuller, the ambassador from Austria Hungary to the United States, who has just returned from a vacation of several months spent at Vienna, called upon President Roosevelt to day. He was received In the blue parlor. The ambassador was charged with conveying to the President Emperor Franz Joseph's best for the success of his administration and the prosperity of his country.

Baron von Hengelmuller lias returned to the United States charged with no particular or important diplomatic, mission. He says that Austria Hungary is taking no active interest in the Stone abduction case. During the past thirty years, he says, half a dozen such abductions have occurred in the same region, but they have not attracted widespread attention because tho brigands never before have made such exorbitant demands. "The brigands," said he, "evidently believe that a ransom of a hundred thousand dollars more or less is a mere bagatelle to the country of the Goulds and Vanderbilts." TAXES PAID IN THE COUNTRY. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: In a recent issue of the Eagle Commissioner Murphy is credited with the statement that the Greater New York furnishes the people up state with education, road, and other necessaries of life and that there are no taxes on the farms, etc.

I think Mr. Murphy has been misrepresented. Possibly your reporter did not hear him say so, but was told he said so by a "reliable informant." Some one who reads his reported may be mlsle'd Into believing them true. The school district in which I live maintains a school, with high school course, for the support of which the district raises by tax Ji.ouO and gets from the state about $S00 yearly. So you see, even without state aid the young hayseeds wouM not suffer from absolute Ignorance.

As to freedom rrom taxes, I pay on my little twelve acre homestead, value $2,000, a road tax of $10, a school tax of S22.H0 and a stato, county and town tax of In all $67.50 on my farm holding. It would rent to a city man for a summer homo possibly for $100 for three months, or for a year to some sort of tenant, if I could fi nil the right man and desired to rem it. So your city reader need not believe su 'h ynrns even If Mr. Murphy does. I bad witnt erroneous ideas simi lar to hlfl (or I he one attributed to him) years ago.

but removal from Brooklyn soon dissipated them. Permit me to congratulate the Eagle tlnd to wish It many happy turns ol tin. day. M. RICHARDS.

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J3 ra r. dTota I MARIIA.Eil mat. aa "lie. HS I M. FUSTIC III I I Hilly Tenement House Commissioner ship Uppermost in Discussion of Appointments To day.

POLICEMEN WANT PARTRIDGE. They Have Been Told That He Is a "Fair Man" and They Are Tired of "Shakedowns." Tvro sets' of rumors were in circulation today about Mayor elect Low's choice ol a tenement house commissioner. This is a new department created by the charter and ranks in salary with the biggest of the other com inissionerships, with a salary of. $7,500 and two deputies at each. One story has it former Building Commissioner Wesley C.

Bush of Brooklyn is sure of getting the Job. On the other hand, it' was asserted with great posltiveness that Robert W. De Forest, who'was chairman oi the commission which framed the new tenement house law, had already been selected by Mr. Low. Mr.

Bush was commissioner in Brooklyn both under the administrations of Mayor Schleren' and Mayor Wurster. He has an excellent record. "A great many people say that tho'appointment would naturally go to Manhattan, the great tenement population resides; and that Mr. Bush is more. apt to be named a3 deputy for Brooklyn.

Mr. 'De Forest is a specialist In tenement 'house matters. He was appointed by Gov to' the tenement house com mission, which drafted last year's law, the principal features of which were embodied in' the new charter. Mr. De Forest acted ns.chairman.of that commission.

In addition he has' long been interested charities of a public nature, being a member of the State Board of Charities and president of the United Charities organiza tlon in this city. Mr. De Forest is about 50 years 'old, is a man of independent means and belongs to one of New York's old and representative families. He Is a lawyer by profession, but has not practiced. His office is in the United Charities Building in Fourth avenue, Man hattan, near Twenty third De Forest's work on.

the Tenement House Commission won him' the reputation of being a practical expert in the Impor problem of the condition of the poor. He was warmly commended by Governor Roosevelt for work In this connection and it is more than possible the present President, recommended him to Mr. Low as the Ideal man for the place, it is stated. The position is a new one and carries with very important, duties. The commissioner will have, extended powers and will have to be' alert to.

kepp owners and builders of tenements up to the high requirements cf the new law. Brooklyn's quota of the is much Some one said the, other day that this borough ought to get 'SO per cent, because it furnished SO per of Mr. hut is regarded as a pleasantry. It is stated this by a Wan who is pretty well informed of Mr. Low's intentions that Brooklyn will naturally get about one third of the big offices, which yrould amount to five commlssionerships.

The appointment of John Partridge as police commissioner is regarded as assured, though it Is positively asserted that he and Mr. Low have not. met. since the lat ter's election, it is. said, however, that Cojonei Partridge's original appointment as stato superintendent of works was recommended Governor Roosevelt by Mr.

Low, and that, he Jiaa more than the Confidence placed in him. Colonel Partridge and Mr. Low are old friends. There is a great desire In the. rank and 'file of the.

Police Department that Partridge be appointed. The. men who havoi boen hlackmailed by repeated "shake downs" are tired of being mulcted by their superiors and are urging their friends to bring what in fiuence they can to secure the appointment of the former Brooklyn Commissioner. They say that they.have learned from old Brook lyn policemen that while In. office here Colonel.

Partridge was a'n absolutely "fair man," and just in every particular. As president of the DeKalb and Franklin avenue street car line he was extremely popular with his men and avoided a strike when all the other lines were tied up in the great dispute of 1895. Mr. Low was asked again at bis house this morning about Colonel Partridge. "I have nothing to say about appointments just now' he said.

"There is plenty of time icr that." A story that Colonel Waring's brother was to be appointed street cleaning commissioner was shown Mr. Low. "Will you confine your appointments to the residents of Greater New York?" was asked. "I hardly think that is worth discussing," he replied. "Are you preparing personally an amendment to the excise law?" do not care to talk on excise matters just' now.

When I have anything to say, I will see that my statement bo made to the whole public." 1 Mr. Low said he would call at the City Hall on Wednesday in response to Mayor Van Wyck's invitation to familiarize himself, with the details of the Mayor's office. It was regarded by some as significant that 'Anson G. McCook and Justice Blanchard called on Mr. Low early to Mr.

McCook was city chamberlain under Mayor Strong. The office pays 512.000 a Herman Ridder said this morning, speaking of Mr. Low's programme: "I have no doubt that Mayor Low will give an absolutely honest administration. I think, also, that his intentions are. of the best.

Whether his administration will be popular on his If he tries to create' an official aristocracy, ho will help Tammany to win again two years from now." Mr. Bidder added that he was greatly in favor. of amending the excise law to make it more and just. 'MISS BALL LOSES HER SUIT. Jury Brings In a Sealed Verdict in Fa of Paddock Manufacturing Company.

A sealed verdict finding, for the defendant, Paddock Manufacturing Company, of 21 23 Codworth street, in the suit tried before Justice Wllmot M. Smith and a jury and brought by Miss Mary Ball, formerly an employe of the defendant, to recover for personal injuries, was opened in Part II of the Supreme Court this morning. Miss Ball had been in the employ of the company for a day when she had two of her fingers so Injured in a cork paring machine that they were amputated. She contended that the machine was out' of order and that, being a hew hand, she wasot warned that it was dangerous. "The defendant denied that It was negligent and brought some of the girl employes who were near Miss Ball to testify that the accident was caused by her own negligence.

One of the defendant's witnesses testified that Miss Ball declared, when the machine developed some refractoriness, that she could fit "the 'old thing" with her hairpin. There was a shaving in the knives and it was soon after the hairpin had been used, according to defendant's witnesses, that Miss Ball suffered from the accident. CAR DERAILED, SIX HURT. Youngstown, November IS A trolley car on the Youngstown and Sharon Electric Railway jumped the track In Hubbard, seven from here, at 5 o'clock this morning While going at a good rate of speed. Si.f persons were Injured.

Thirty passengers, were on the car. at. the time the accident occurred. The car was wrecked. Friends Believe That Woman Ran Off With the Holy Ghost and Us Society.

MISSING SINCELASTWEDNESDAY Mrs. Hanscom Has a Summer Home in Maine and She First Met Sandford There. Frienda of Mrs. Ruth A. Hanscom of 474 Grand avenue, who left Brooklyn last week coincldently with the workers of the Holy Ghost and Us Society and their leader, F.

W. Sandford, now believe that the meetings of the revival cult were not so unfruitful here as It was generally supposed they were. Mrs. Hanscom, who is a widow, is said to be worth from $15,000 to $20,000, and her conversion as one of Us Is, therefore, believed to have been balm upon the excoriated feelings of Mr. Sandford, in view of the indifference shown by the other people of Brooklyn toward his annunciation of a new faith.

Mrs. Hanscom is s'ald to be the owner of a house on Grand avenue, In which she lived until the men and women of the Holy Ghost and Us Society swiftly and' mysteriously left the borough after a peculiarly dispiriting me'etlng on Wednesday of last week at Grand Union Hall, Court and Harrison streets. It Is now thought certain that she joined them when they left. The home' of Mrs. Hanscom, when a reporter called there to day, showed signs of having been untenanted for some days.

The little iron gate leading to the areaway was swung wide, the grass plot within was trampled and beaten down by the feet of the small boys in the neighbourhood, several barrels, recently emptied of ashes, littered the pathway and the blinds of the lower part of the house were drawn. The house itself is one of the older sort In the Seventh Ward and has been divided for the use of two tenants beside the owner. No response was forthcoming from the two upper floors, In which lived people of the names of Thompson and Withers, but evidently living there no longer. The name of Mrs. Hanscom had been taken from above the hell for the lower part of the house.

Inquiry among some of the neighbors revealed the fact that Mrs. Hanscom has not been seen near her home since the middle of last week. It is known that the widow is the owner of a summer home in Machias, where she has been in the habit of spending the months during the warm weather. She ha3 been a resident of Brooklyn only for the past few years, having formerly lived in Maine, where it is thought' she first came to know of the movement headed by Sandford. He began preaching in Shiloh, that slate, and although she is believed by her friends here' not to have been influenced by his proclamation of his own "commission from God," she was curious enough to attend the first of the meetings in Grand Union Hall, when the society began its crusade of conversion in Brooklyn.

She was a noticeable figure at all the sessions of "Us." Constant In her attendance for the four days that Sandford held forth she was a speaker, morning, afternoons and night, after Brother Sandford would, as was his wont, call for testimony or the relation of personal experience in the struggle for the truth. One evening she arose and in a tone of high, hysterical, sing song began: "I am a Brooklyn woman now; once I was a Maine woman, and "A godly woman always," broke in Brother Sandford, followed1 by "Amensi" "Hallelujahs," "Glory to God" and other similar expressions from the workers on the platform. Mrs. Hanscom was also one of those bap tlzed in the waters of the bay at the foot of Sixty first street. Bay Ridge.

Gowned in one of the flimsy, calico coverings furnished by Us to the nine who braved pneumonia, she waded, waist deep, into the icy water, and was wholly immersed by a huge comber that rolled in upon the shores. Afterward she returned to her home on Grand avenue, having donned her street clothing in a small shanty used for dressing and undressing, before and after the baptism. By this experience she was made a bona fide member of the society. When friends of Mrs. Hanscom called upon her next day, having read In the newspapers of her exploit, to protest against her defying all the laws of health and good sense by such unnatural exposure, they found the house closed and Mrs.

Hanscom gone, me? tried to find where she was. but there seemed to be no clew to the widow's whereabouts. When the newspapers announced the following day that Brother Sandford and the rest of Us had also disappeared those Interested in Mrs. Hanscom came to the conclusion, that she had joined the society on its journeyings. Sandford announced when ho was here that ho would proceed to Maine where a convention is to be held, beginning on Wodne3 dav.

It is expected that news of Mrs. Hanscom will be had from Shiloh or from Machias, where the widow may stay in her own home during the sessions of the convention. BOY WISHED TO FIGHT INDIANS. He Got as Far as New Rochelle When His Courage Gave Out Found Asleep in Dry Goods Box. Mount' Vernon, N.

November IS Mer ritt 0. Willis, 'the 10 year old son of Merrltt O. Willis, a prominent resident of Bronxville, Borough of the Bronx, who has been missing since Wednesday last, was found early this morning curled up in a dry goods box on First street, in this place. Policeman Dorry happened to look Into the box. which was standing on the pavement, and discovered the boy.

who was asleep. The policeman' aroused the little fellow and after he learned his name, took him to the station house, where he was given a good meal and made comfortable. The boy had suffered greatly from exposure and was nearly frozen when found. He told the policeman' that he had left his home with the intention of going out West to fight Indians. He got as far as New Rochelle, when his courage gave out and he decided that it would be better to return to his home.

He had got into the dry goods box because, it was. the warmest place be could find In which to pass the night. The parents of the boy were at once notified and he was restored to them this morning. TELEPHONE WIRES CUT. Chicago, November IS Three hundred telephone connections on the South Side were soverad by wire cutters last night and the long distance service of several suburbs put out of business.

The service was repaired to day. Officials of the telephono company said they conld not place the blame, but believed that the work was duo to tho linemen's strike. OKLAHOMA WANTS STATEHOOD. Washington, November 18 The 'annua! report of Governor Jenkins of the Territory of Oklahoma was mado public to day by the Secretary of the Interior. Governor Jenkins makes a strong plea for statehood, saying thnt the past rapid development of the material interests of the territory insures its future.

Ho claims a population of half a million for Oklahoma. BIG CARGO OF PERSIAN DATES. The steamship Gprklstan arrived yesterday afternoon at the Union stores from Bus sorah, at the extremity of the Persian Gulf. She brought an entire cargo of Persian I dates. The ship arrived in port on Saturday, but was held at quarantine for disinfection, as there had been two cases of smallpox on board while the ship lay at Bussorah.

i Investigation Following Diphtheria Outbreak Shows Laxity of Caretakers. NEW MEN ARE RESPONSIBLE Janitors Take Advantage of the Fact That They Have No Im mediate Boss. The recent outbreak of diphtheria in Pub lic School No. 3 and Hie necessity for the School Board to thoroughly fumigate and i cleanse that building has led to an investigation a number of complaints about the 1 condition of class rooms in other school buildings and the alleged laxity on the par.i of janitors to do the work they arc paid to do. Thi3 Investigation proved that in a num ber of Instances the complaints were well 1 founded, and the general charge that the school janitors were careless and negleeLi'ul is not denied by the officials of tho School Board.

One of the rules for the direction of Jtmi tor's work Is that every class room shall be scrubbed at least once every month. Sev eral teachers complain that the floors of i their class rooms have not been thoroughly cleaned in a year. Jt is known that in at least one school teachers have brought in and paid themselves women to give the iioors i a good scrubbing. In another school a teach I er linally, after repeated ineffectual efforts to have tho janitor do his work properly, LIU UilLC llUU LU IUJ UUII11MU111 UUIUI LJIU School Board, whereupon the janitor performed his duty. Another rule of the Board of Education Is that janitors shall devote their entire time to the keeping of the scnooi buildings to which they are assigned, to thoroughly clean and disinfect all lavatories and sanitary fixtures each day and ventilate every class room immediately before udiI after idle school sessions.

The windows also are required to be kept clean and free from obstruction, the floors swept every day jnil class rooms properly dusted. That these requirements are lived up to by many of tho janitors, it Is claimed, is not the fact. Much of the present condition the cleanliness of Jie school buildings is charged to tho mixed authority under which the janitors do their work, the men taking advantage of that fact and not doing anything more than they are compelled 1 actual supervision on fear of dismissal. Formerly all janitors wero brought directly under the supervision of the schoul principal and local committee of the school. A janitor could not get his monthly pay until he presented a certificate signed by the principal and chairman of his school to tho effect that he had properly performed his duty.

Under the charter this work was placed with the School Board, who turned the entire question of janitors over to the Building Department. The Building Department, on the other hand, is administered directly by the Central Board of Education, which has made rules for the work of janitors, which are not too arduous, but under which every school building could be as it should be. The Central Board of Education will not interfere with the individual janitor, but deal with them as a whole. Tho Building Department, consequently, cannot interfere, and the School Board finds Itself helpless by the requirements of the Civil Service Commission regulations. Thus, with no one in direct authority to oversee tho work, with no certificate required from the principal, and with but three inspectors in the Building Department to supervise the janitors' work, the latter have taken the matter practically into their own hands and do much as they please and no more.

One of their consistent complaints since consolidation is that they do not receive enough pay; that whereas teachers, nremen anci policemen are equalized through out the city, they must be content with less pay here than Is received In Manhattan. The i fact remains, nevertheless, that the Brook ly janitors are paid more in Brooklyn for their work than ever before. One of tho school officials said of this matter this morning: "It is a fact that cannot be denied that our Janitor service is not what it should be. This is not the fault of the obi men who have been in tho service for years, but lies wholly with a number of the new men who have been taken Into our schools. is a pity that these men should bring this reproach upon the schools, but It is there juKt the same.

The position of Janitor is now moro exacting tlmn formerly. In the first place an applicant must pass a civil service examination, then he must gu before the Police Board and pass an examination us an engineer, for the great majority of ur schools are now heated by steam and require an engineer to take care of i.he boiler and plant. The question of salary should not. en'cr into the matter, for when a man takes the position bo knows what he is to receive. Tile janitors are paid.

I believe, about $5 a month fcr each ruom in the building. These be is supposed to keep clean, ami to do ibat he must hire as much lu lu as is necpssnrv for which he must pay, of course, out. of his salary. The more a man can shirk, the less help he needs and the greater will be bis net pa v. "The fault really conns hark to the school principal, whose duty it Is to see that his school is kept in a cleanly and sanitary condition, so far as lie can do this by personal supervision.

If a principal Is careless, his Janitor will be. If be Is vldenwake and careful, no complaint ill evor be heard about his building. I believe that the only way to overcome this laxity on the part of janitor. is lo require ornslart supervision by the prim clpa! and a cert ilicate from him before the janitor Is paid, and when a janitor knows that, his principal can bold up bis pay If he does not do his work, that work will be done properly." ARTHUR FORTH, ssm Oplithalmist (Oculist Optician), 466 Fulton Street Forth Torate Lenses jiro niarvdotislv brilliant free from all lens defects, i Help tho eye as none oilier can. Perth Torate nses 'llfTer frem ih regular a dees a Jl'li) ealnera ns frem at J2.

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