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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE FEIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1897i 12 SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. SPECIAL) ADVERTISEMENTS. YOUNG WOMAN TAKES POISON. MANY BAGS OF COFFEE GONE. FIFTY ONE CHINAMEN HELD, WILSON'S CHOICE ASSURED, LEAS 0 SEEKS MANDAMUS AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS.

WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD ASTORIA," AND PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRADE MARK. DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was' the originator of PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same that has borne and does now yzyl" on every bear the facsimile signature of wrapper. This is the original PITCHER'S CASTORIA" which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it the kind you have always bought, JS and has the signature of wrapper.

No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. March 8,1897. SA4Ur.r.

Do TTot Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the ingredients of which even he does not know. "The Kind You Have Always 'Bought" BEARS THE FAOSIMILE SIGNATURE OF Insist on Having The Kind That Never Tailed You. THE CINTAUH COUPAH. 17 WIHU T.

Nora Williams Attempts Suicide Near a Church Yard. Norah Williams, a young married woman, fell to the sidewalk early this morning as Officer John Hackett was walking through Seventh street. New York. The officer assisted her to arise and learned that she was unhappy in her home, 100 Fourth avenue. She said that after a quarrel with her husband last night, during which, it is alleged, that he struck her, she got a bottle of belladonna with the intention of taking her life.

She then walked the streets for hours. When she reached Second avenue and Eleventh street she sat down beside the grave yard of St. Mark's Church, concluding that it was the best place she could find in which to kill herself. She took a quantity of the drug and continued her walk, expecting every minute that she would drop dead. Then she began to regret her act, and asked the officer to save her life.

She was sent to the hospital. It is said that she will recover. BACKUS IS AFTER TULLY. District Attorney Will Make the Law Enforcement Secretary's Men Give Names and Dates. District Attorney Backus has made up his mind to call the hand that Is being played by Secretary T.

De Quincy Tully of the Law Enforcement Society. Mr. Tully has been bombarding the newspaper offices with typewritten matter purporting to show the inefficiency of the police at Coney Island and the negligence on the part of the district at torney's office in the matter of prosecuting violations of law in that so called lawless place, and declaring the mighty efforts which Tully is putting forth to purify Coney Island. Mr. Backus made a visit to the Flatbush police court to day and was closeted with Justice Steers in his private room for nearly an hour just before noon.

It was very evident that the conference was considered one of importance by the attaches of ttie court, as no one was allowed to disturb the two. When the District Attorney went out into the clerk's room he was asked to impart the object of his visit to Justice Steers. He hesitated a moment and then said that his. mission was to arrange to give those people who had accused him in newspapers of falling to do bis duty to prove their assertions. He had asked Justice Steers, he said, for a number of subpoenas for certain persons wbo claimed to have seen so much crime at Coney Island, in order to give them a chance to relate some of their experience probably to morow morning.

The District Attorney gave it as his opinion that Mr. Tully and his agents should co operate with him if they had seen so much violation of the law at Coney Island and assist him to get sufficient evidence to convict, instead of making charges that he Is not doing his duty. His visit to Justice Steers to day was made in order to round up some of these people who have been attacking him so much of late and give them an opportunity to state all that they have seen on their visits to Coney Island, and if it is found that they will make good witnesses and that convictions may result from their evidence, warrants will be issued at once. Mr. Backus told a reporter this afternoon that a batch of affidavits from Mr.

Tully, which had been heraided as containing evidence of much crime had reached him after some of the places where the alleged violations of law occurred had been closed by the district attorney himself. The affidavits were certified by Tully. who, according to Mr. Backus, has no authority to certify affidavits. The papers submitted to Mr.

Backus show In but several out of a multitude of cases of reported violations a basis on which legal proceedings of prosecution may be made. It is in these cases that the district attorney will subpoena the informants and bring them face to face wkh the men they accuse. Should the evidence warrant it prosecution will be made. BERRY STREET CONTRACT. A Delegation of Citizens Call at the City Hall to Hunt It Up.

The Board of Aldermen, a year ago, passed a resolution for the asphalting of Berry street, from Broadway to North Thirteenth street, but the work has not yet been begun. A delegation of property owners called at the controller's office at the City Hall late yesterday afternoon, to ascertain the cause of the delay. In the delegation were Thomas J. Patterson, ex Senator Owens, Sylvester Ma lone, James Conklin, John Greaney, Charles H. Reynolds, William O'Donnell, Patrick Mc Namee, James Devlin and a dozen others.

They found that the work had not been begun simply because the contract had not been certified by the Controller.and that the Controller had not certified because the contract had not been sent over by the Commissioner of City Works. The delegation went to the Department of City Works and saw Deputy Commissioner Fielding, Commissioner Willis being absent. Ex Senator Owens said it seemed to him that the street had been discriminated against, as other streets which had been contracted for long after Berry street, had been repaved. Berry street, he said, was in a very bad condition and about 80 per cent of the owners had partitions for tho improvement. Mr.

Fielding said he had been under the impression that the contract (which was awarded to Cranford Co.) had been sent to the controller. He at once made inquiries in his office and finding that it was still there, he told the delegation that he should send it to the Controller just as soon as the sureties should quality. SAID TO BE PICKPOCKETS. Two Young Men Who Were Caught on the Plaz3. To day Justice Brenner, sitting in the Adams street court, sent Joseph Lewis to the penitentiary for four months on a charge of vagrancy.

The prisoner was arrested by Roundsman Fleming and Officer McGrath of the headquarters detective bureau, with William Smith, at the Park plaza on Saturday night on suspicion of having picked pockets. The arrest of Smith was caused through the complaint of Jacloson C. Donneil of 477 Sackett street, who said that while ihe was in the crowd watching the electric fountain the man had stolen his gold watch and chain. Mr. Donneil detected the work of the and succeeded in grabbing him after the watch had been taken from his pocket.

The timepiece was found some seconds afterward on the sidewalk at the feet of the man. When the prisoners were taken to headquarters they gave addresses in New York City which were found to be fictitious. Justice Brenner was disposed to give them a chance to tell the truth end postponed action in the case for several days. In the meanwhile the men told many fairy stories to the police about their antecedents, all of which proved to be false. This morning the magistrate decided that Lewis was not entitled to any further consideration and he accordingly sent the young man to prison as a vagrant.

The case of Smith, against whom a specific charge of larceny had been made by Mr. Donneil, was postponed until to mcrrow for investigation. The police ciaim that the young men are members of a gang of thieves who have been working on the I'laza since the electric fountain exhibitions began. DIED AT SEA OF APOPLEXY. Elizabeth Jury, aged 7C years, a passenger on the Dutch steamer Prion Wilhelm III.

which arrivod here this morning from Amsterdam via Domcrara, died of apoplexy August and was buried at sea. Mrs. Jury was a native of England, living at Demerara, Wost Indies. She embarked on tho steamer at Demorara in a very feeble condition without attendance of friends or relatives and said slio expected to visit relatives in this city. TO MAKE PERU'S STAMPS.

Washington. D. AuguBt 20 Tho government of Peru has ordered its postago stamps made in the United States. Tho first order, for 1,000,000 5 cent stamps, has been given to the American Bank Note Company, and another, for 2,000,000 stamps of other denominations, will follow. Arrested as They Arrived at the Grand Central Depot.

CAME BY WAY OF CANADA. Inspector Scharf Caused Their Deten tion Because He Thought Their Papers Were Irregular A Woman Included in the Party Their Certificates Taken Away From Them at Montreal Several of the Celestials Discharged. A party of fifty one Chinese persons, including one Chinese woman, were detained thiB morning at the Grand Central Station, New Y'ork, at the instance of Chinese Inspector Scharf of the Port of New York. He averred that the papers of the party are not what they should be, and that they are not eligible for entrance to this country. The party came from China over the Canadian Pacific Railroad and over the New York Central to New York City.

Colonel Scharf heard that the party was to arrive this morning and he went to the Grand Central station. The train came in at 7:15 o'clock and Colonel Scharf had police from the Grand Central station precinct to detain them. He had asked for the aid of the police before the train came in, saying that the papers of the party were probably not all right and that they ought not to enter the city. When the train arrived a squad of police stopped the, party, to the great consternation of all its members. They were taken to the police station and Colonel Scharf said that he would inform Assistant United States District Attorney Kohler.

The inspector gathered up all the papers and took them to Mr. Kohler, in the Federal Building. He said that none of the papers was regular and that probably all of the party would be sent back. Assistant District Attorney Kohler said that he would look carefully over all of the papers to learn whether any of them were regular. He said that perhaps some of them could enter.

The Chinese chattered angrily because of the detention. They declared to Colonel Scharf that their papers were as regular as could be made out. They insisted that they should not be kept and hinted all kinds of revenge for the insult of detaining them. The Chinese woman is about 16 years of age. One of the party said she was his wife and added that they had been married three years.

Colonel Scharf said that the woman could not have been married three years, as she would then have been too young, md could not have been married at that age anyT way, according to the Chinese law. The party arrived on the North American continent at Vancouver, British Columbia. They came across the Dominion by the Canadian Pacific. They reached Malone, N. which is just across the border line, and took the Central train for New York City.

The party was to have divided here, some' going to Philadelphia, some to Baltimore, Washington, St. Louis and other places. The Chinese were sent around to the sub police station in the Grand Central depot where they were to be examined. The little room was packed with the Mongolians and their chattering and gesticulations were amusing to the crowd that had gathered without. The first to be brought under the Inquisitorial eye of the inspector was tbe woman, who said she was Tue Ling, the wife of Lee Yin.

She announced her age as 21 years, said she was born in Wuchang and had moyjd to Hong Kong tlhree years ago. where she met Lee Yin and married him. Lee stood by his wife's side and corroborated her story. He said he was a restaurant keeper at 16 Pell street, New York, and that he had just returned from China with his wife. He had gone home to bring her back last November.

Tho other members of the party said that they had from China by way of Vancouver and Montreal. At the latter place they were detained until the United States authorities at Malone, N. could be communicated with Their certificates, giving them a legal right to live in this country, were taken rom them in Montreal, they allege. Word was received at Montreal from Malone yesterday to send the Chinese along and they accordingly were started on their way to New Y'ork. Their papers were not returned to them.

Neither were they returned to them on passing through Malone. For this reason they were unable to show any right to live here. The inspector believed this story In many instances. In an hour he had examined over a dozen of the Chinese and had held only a few of them, Lee and his wife being among the number detained. Others in the group at the station house were Len Yuck, who says he is a member of the firm of Hock Hi at 14 Mott street, and Leung Yick Son, who says he belongs to the firm of Hulng Wik at 15 Mott street.

Wong Get, who acted as interpreter during the Lexow commission, helped the Chinese this morning to explain themselves to the Inspector. SOUTHAMPTON HORSE SHOW. Society Turns Out in Force at the Opening of the New Driving Park. (Special to the Eagle.) Southampton, L. August 20 Society and the lovers of the horse turned out in force yesterday afternoon at the opening of the new driving park near the water front here.

There were more than 3,000 people present and never before in the history of this resort has the collection of driving traps been larger or more eiegant. The show is the result of the combined efforts of some of the summer visitors and natives. It was 2::30 o'clock when the first event on the card was called, and at that time the track was lined with handsomely equipped carriages in which many prominent society people had places. Among the more prominent in the throng were Judge and Mrs. Horace Russell, the Misses Russell, Mra.

H. H. Garner, the Misse3 Iselin, the Misses Fitzgerald, Mr. and Mrs. W.

P. Ketcham, Miss Ketcham, Dr. G. A. Dixon, E.

W. Dixon, Mrs. George P. Bowler, George P. Bowler, Mias Soutter, P.

F. Collier, R. J. Collier, Mr. and Mrs.

A. B. Claflin, C. T. Barney, Miss Barney, General and Mrs.

T. H. Barber, Lieutenant and Mrs. A. L.

Morton, Miss Morton, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Barnes, the Misses Barnes, Mr.

and Mrs. C. H. Godfrey, Miss Godfrey, Mr. and Mrs.

De Lancey Nicoll, Theodore Freling huysen. J. W. Kllbreth. Miss Kllbreth, Mr.

and Mrs. C. A. Stevens, J. H.

Cram, Mrs. B. A. Sands, Mrs. W.

D. Woods, L. Biagden, Mr. and Mrs. Henry May.

The awards of prizes were as follows: Ponies in harness First prize, TV1M Hose, owned by Miss S. Townsend; second. Prlncetln, owned by De Nicoll; third, Bayard, uwned by T. H. Barber.

Jr. SlnKl'f First prize. Patience, owned by C. A. Stevens; second.

Tsar, owncil by Miss E. Kennedy; third. Firefly, owned by the Misses Iselln. Tandems First prize, two ffcldinfrs, owned by Dr. T.

Wyman Porter; second. Louise and llar KJiret. owned bv H. G. Trevor; third, Billy and jack, owned by J.

W. Kllbreth, jr. Piilo ponies First prize. Charity Lamb, owned by R. J.

Collier: second, Wrlctcles. owned by A. Stevens; third. Gold Freich, owned by H. K.

Vlnfrut. The high jump was won by Wellington, owned by C. A. Stevens, with M. Newton second and Arctic, owned by P.

F. Collier, t'dird. Charity Lamb, owned by R. J. Collier, won the pony race, with Betty, owned by C.

Coster, second, and Plate, the property of George P. Bowler, third. The farmers' race, which created much amusement, was won by E. P. White's Regulus.

The show will continue to day and the card for the afternoon contains many events of interest. ENDEAVOREBS' FINANCES. San Francisco, August 20 Tho financial report of the Christian Endeavor '97 Committee will bo officially presented to tho quarterly convention of Golden Gate Union on September 3. It will show over waa collected, but tho expenses exceeded this amount about $1,200. Tho deficiency will bo made up from the proceeds of tho two big concerts.

Disappeared From a Cargo Discharged at Koberts' Stores. NO CLEW TO THE MYSTERY. One Hundred and Twenty nine Bags, Valued at $2,000, Lost Under the Eyes of Watchmen and Tally Clerks. Brought From Rio to Arbuckle Bros, and Other Firms on a Lamport Holt Vessel Police at Work. The police of the Fulton street station were asked this morning to investigate the circumstances attending the mysterious disappearance of 129 bags of Rio coffee, valued at which were stolen from Roberns' stores some time between the 31st ultimo and the 17th Inst.

The fact that there could have been such an extensive robbery on a dock where four watchmen were constantly employed is puzzling to the authorities. The robbery was reported by Shore Captain Gray, who is in charge at the storeB in the interest of Lamport Holt, the owners of a Brazilian line of steamers. Oh the 31st of July one of the company's vessels arrived at the dockk with 46,000 bags of coffee, consigned to various merchants in the United States. Of this cargo a large share was the property of the Arbuckles and 8,500 bags 'was consigned to the Woolston Coffee and Spice Company, which is also controlled by the Havemeyers. The ship's manifest showed that 46,000 bags had been placed in the steamer's hold.

The system of checking off the cargo as it is deposited is said to be perfect, but in the present instance there seems to be a flaw in the employed, for the company claims that it cannot trace the shortage. The vessel discharged a part of the coffee on the dock aand then moved up opposite the Arbuckle mills with the remainder. The quantity discharged at the mill was, according to invoice and the other portions of the cargo, with the exception of that which was loaded on freight cars at the dock for Chicago, was found to be in accordance with the tallies. It is believed that the shortage of 129 bags in the total will be found in the amount placed on the cars for the Woolson Company. The shrinkage of $2,000 was not discovered until there was a final tally of the cargo and then it was found that 129 bags had gone astray in some mysterious manner.

The shore captain says that he cannot account for the loss, but it is not at all unlikely that the coffee has been stolen by the collusion of one of the employes. The police regard It as remarkable that such a quantity of coffee could be stolen from a cargo without detection and they are at sea as to an initial clue to clear up the mystery. It is possible that the coffee was stolen at the original point of shipping, but that is only at the best a surmise. Captain Druhan of the Fulton street station is taking a personal interest in the matter and hopes before long to find a clue to work upon. He has detailed Detective Sergeant Rail and Officer Brennan to make an investigation.

The robbery is puzzling the dock authorities as well as the police. THE BRIDGE ACCOUNTS. Result of Expert Accountant Thorn's Examination Submitted to City Auditor Sutton. City Auditor Sutton to day gave out the following report, which he had just received from Exipert Accountant A. B.

Thorn: To the Board of Audit, City of Brooklyn: Gentlemen In accordance with instructions I have examined the books, aocountB, vouchers, of the trustees of tne New York and Brooklyn Bridge, from July 1, 1896, to June 30, 1S97, inclusive: 1896 July 1, cash balance on hand 5123,898.23 RECEIPTS. Tolls, six months to December 31. 1S9S $695,588.26 Tolls, six months to June 30, 189" 016,665.99 Rentals, twelve months to June 30. 1897 113,639.07 Materials Fold to June 30, 1897 2,719.83 Interest on deposit, June 30, 1897 1,591.27 Uniforms 719.90 1,330,924.32 Total $1,454,822.55 EXPJSNIHTUTtBS. Twenty four pay rolls twelve months $779,717.28 Salaries, twelve months 51,030.53 Maintenance account, oil.

coal, lumber, material. etc 1,379,404.65 July 1, 1897, balance $75,417.90 Cash on hand and in bank: Brooklyn Trust Co. (special deposit Brooklvn Bank 33,818.57 Peoples' Trust Co 22.B29.SO Hank of New'York 2.638.23 7th National Bank, N. Y. 2.610.55 Cash on hand 1,819.58 Tolls Of June 30 3.201.17 $75,417.90 The balance of $450.24 on deposit in the Peoples' Trust Company to the credit of the Liberty street extension and plaza improvement, as per my last report, remains the same, no expenditures on that account having been made during the year.

The examination, of which the foregoing is a report, invouved the overlooking of fifteen hundred vouchers for moneys disbursed and the comparing of fifteen thousand dally returns of tolls with the entries on the dally shet and cash book. These and all other entries of receipts from other sources were found entirely correct and satisfactory, as were also the pay rolls and salary accounts, which were caj efully examined. In even' Instance we were rendered willing and courteous aid by the officers and others connected with the executive department. Respectfully submitted, A. B.

THORN, Accountant. THE WEATHER. INDICATIONS TILL 8 P. M. TO MORROW.

Washington. D. August 50 For Eastern New York, fair to night and Saturday; northwesterly winds. LOCAL PBOBABILITIKS. Fair to night and Saturday; slightly cooler; westerly winds.

The following is the record of the thermomet kept at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle office: 71 I 10 A.M 72 1 7012M 74 IA.il Gil 2P. 75 8 A.M 70 I 3 P. 76 Average temperature lo daj 72S Average temperaturo corresponding date last year 66JS HIGH WATER. Following is the ollicial announcement of the time and duration of high water at New Yor and Sandy Hook Jor to morrow, August 21 A M. Time'Htslght 1.

M. ,1 Duca'n of Rlse.l Fall a. m.h. v. Time HelgW h.

M.I Feet. H. M.I teet. New 1 1:28 andyUoon! 1:08 3.0 3.2 i 2:22 I 1:50 I 3.8 4.0 I 6:37 MOVEMENTS OF OCEAN VESSELS ARRIVED FKIDAY. AUGUBT 20.

S3 Helvelius. from Rio Janeiro. Ss William fatorrs. from Shields. Ss Nacoochee.

from Savannah. Ss Hrltannic, from Liverpool. Ss Craigearn. frnm Shields. Ss Hulsteln.

from Gonaives. Ss Alecto, from Hull. Ss Alamo, from Galveston. Ss Pretoria, from St. Thomas.

Kb Para, from Tilt Cove. Ss Hrlus Willem IV, from Amsterdam. SsNeustria, from Marseilles. AP.RIVBD AT FOREIGN PORTS. Ss Manitoba, from New York.

London. Ss Morven. from New York, Kobe, Sir Garnet WoIsmIov, from N. Antwerp. Ss Megantic, irom New York, London.

Ss Rnodora. from Now York, London. SsLongships. from Now York, Singaporo." S3 Tacroma, from New York. Trieste.

Ss Marengo, from Now Vorlc, passod Prawlo Pt. Ss Buffalo, from New Yorit, Hull. SAILED FROM FOREIGN PORTS. Ss Scindla, for New York. Palermo.

Ss Ginseppe Corvaja. for New York. pd. Gibraltar. Ss Rotterdam, for New i'ork, pd.

Prawlo Point Ss Ethiopia, for New York, Moville. Will Succeed Andrew T. Sullivan as Postmaster of Brooklyn. GIVES UP HIS WASHINGTON HOME He Has Not Yet Resigned His Seat In Congress Mr. Wilson Declined to Discuss the Appointment To day.

Will Be Confirmed When President McKinley Returns From His VacationInvestigating Post Office Work. (Special to the Eagle.) Washington, D. August 20 The announcement in yesterday's Eagle that Congressman Francis H. Wilson is to he the next postmaster of Brooklyn is positively confirmed here to day. Inquiry at the Post Office Department and among close personal friends of the Brooklyn congressman shows that there is no room for doubt on this point.

Congressman Wilson has ben a frequent visitor of late at the Post Office Department, pendlrg an investigation into postal matters, with particular reference to the Brooklyn office. The officials at that department, while desiring not to be quoted, are confident that the question of the successor of Postmaster Sullivan has been settled and that Mr. Wilson is the man. It can, therefore, be authoritatively stated that immediately upon the return of the President from his summer's outing Mr. Wilson's appointment as postmaster of Brooklyn will he announced.

Congressman Wilson is in this city, but he is non committal on the subject of postmastership. He refused to confirm the statment in yesterday's Eagle and declined to discuss the matter. He said, however, that he has not resigned his position as congressman. Mr. Wilson's determination to accept the position of postmaster was made within the past two months, for early in June he accepted the pace in good faith for Walter B.

Atter bury. Congressman Wilson has intimated sev eral times of late that he would not be a candidate for a renomination in 1898, and has even said that he made a mistake in running for. a renomination last fall. He preferred, for financial reasons, to get in close touch with his friends in Brooklyn in order to resume his law practice, which has been neglected while he has been in Congress. Further inquiry here develops the fact that Mr.

Wilson is making every preparation to leave Washington for good next month. A few months ago he leased a house on Wyoming avenue and established his family in it. The real estate agent having charge of this house stated to day that Mr. Wilson had made an arrangement to give It up at the end of Sep tember. Mr.

Wilson will. leave Washington in time to relieve Postmaster Sullivan on the 13 th. MURRELL GOT THE CASH BOX. Went for His Allowance, His Guardian Was Out, So He Picked Up the Tin Safe and Took it A way. Officers Harrington and Ruddy of the head quarters squad, rhis morning arrested Clarence Murrell, aged 19 years, on a charge of grand larceny.

According to the policeman who took him in charge Clarence is the toughest young rascal the authorities of this city have had in custody in many months. He does not look like a degenerate, for he has honest eyes and a bright, intelligent race. He admitted that he had had "ten beers," as he put it, before the policeman caught him this morning. He admitted also that he had been an inmate of the Inebriates' Home two years ago. "I stayed there two months and a 5alf," he said, "but they began giving me the gold cure and I skipped jumped over the fence." The boy's father was a cotton broker in New York City and his grandfather was very wealthy.

According to the little scamp his father was a victim of the liquor habit and failed in business more than once. "Grandfather always fixed him up and set him up in business again," added the prisoner. "Father had the bad habit and I suppose I inherited it and I can't help myself." When Murrell's father died some money was left to the boy and, he also inherited some from his grandfather's estate. He was too young to handle the cash and Mr. Wilson, of the firm of Weed Wilson of the Arbuckle Building, was made his guardian.

Since then the boy has been receiving the income at regular intervals. Whenever any money was paid, according to the police, the lad made the money fly. He has never really had very much, as a matter of fact, and he has never been late In a demand for a remittance. On last Wednesday evening, at about 6:30 o'clock, he went to the office in the Arbuckle Building to get some money. The man he wanted to see was not there and, according to a young clerk there, he took the tin cash box from which he had seen his money paid out and ran off with it.

A complaint was made to the police and Justice Brenner Issued a warrant for the boy's arrest. The officers learned that the lad had a fur nished flat on First street, near Fifth avenue. He was there yesterday, but disappeared before the police could get him. It is said that he had been entertaining two young women, whom he had met at Coney Island, at the flat. Yesterday he went to visit friends at 164 Putnam avenue, and the officers found Mm in a liquor saloon In that vicinity shortly after 10 o'clock this morning.

He took his arrest with marked coolness, but begged Officer Harrington to let him have another beer or two. The policeman courteously treated him. Murrell was taken to the Adams Street Station, where he was locked up pending arraignment before Justice Brenner this morning. It Is generally understood that the arrest is made with the Intention of having him sent to some place where the youngster may reform. The cash box contained about $5 In money, something over $8 worth of postage stamps and a check for $25.

To day the boy admitted that he had taken the box, but declared that he did not think he was guilty of any larceny when he did so. He sold the postage stamps at Coney Island and spent the money on two girls whom he met there. "I do not know what I djd with the cash box," he added. "I think I left it in a saloon somewhere." FIRE IN FRONT STREET. Inmates of an Adjoining Tenement House Badly Frightened.

Fire which caused a damage of about 000 brokeout early this morning in the five story brick building at 250 Front street, Xew York, occupied by D. W. Manwaring. a manufacturer of burlap and bagging. Smoke was seen coming out of the third and fourth story windows at 4:15 o'clock.

Chief Kruger arrived with the engines in response to the first alarm and seeing the nature of the building he caused a second alarm to be turned, in and followed it closely by a third alarm. By this time the firemen had battered down the big iron shutters from the windows on the third and fourth floors and the smoke poured out in thick columns jorapiotely enveloping the building and those about It. There were no flames visible at any time. At 200 Water street, next door to the rear part of the building, is a tall tenement house filled with tenants. When they became aware of the fire they became excited for a time, but It did not la'St long.

The only tenant to leave her apartments was Mrs. John Murphy, who ran down the stairs into the street with her baby boy in her arms. The baby was wrapped in a bears skin and had a straw hat on his head. When Mrs. Murphy found that the house in which she lived was not on fire she went back to her apartment! with her baby.

In His Efforts to Fix Greater City's Boundary! ASKS HEMPSTEAD BOARD TO ACT. The Long Island City Mayor Sues as a Prospective Candidate and as a CitizenSays Channel at Far Rockaway Has Changed Since Original Map Was Made Incorporated "Villages Cannot Be Divided. Mayor Gleason'a application for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the Hempstead, L. 1., town board to assemble and lorm election districts, so that all ol them shall be wholly within or wholly without the eastern boundary of the Greater New York, came up for hearing to day before Justice Dickey In Supreme Court, special term. Lawyer Van Vechten appeared for Mayor Gleason and Townsend Scudder for the Hempstead town board.

Mr. Van Vechten said that the Mayor was an independent candidate for Mayor of the Greater New York and his certificate of nomination was ready for filing. Apart from that the Mayor had a right as a citizen to bring the proceeding. In 1894, Mr. Van Vechten continued, by direction of the town clerk, a survey of the town line was made and the map was filed in October, 1S9 1.

The Town Board met on July 1 and fixed the line as surveyed in 1894. They adjourned, and, on July 13. reconsidered their act and fixed on a new line, so as to take to the county je Lawrance lands, valued at Mr. Van Vechten said that the new line divides 'ie village of Far Rockaway. In 1S94 the line passed through the center of the inlet between Rockaway and Shelter Island.

Sine ther the inlet was changed by the closing of the old one and the opening of a new one three juarters of a mile to the west, and the new line is fixed through the center of it, dividing the village, though the act of consolidation says that no incorporated village shall be divided in the creation of the greater city. Moreover, the map submitted to the Greater New York commission and the Legislature in 1S94 showed the line precisely as the town clerk's survey had it in 1S94. Townsend Scudder said in reply that he had been so busy making affidavits that he had not fully prepared for argument, but he would say that ne did not see why Gleason had asked for a mandamus. The mayor did not say that he was a taxpayer, but that he expected to be a candidate for Mayor of the Greater New York, and hoped to have the privilege of being voted for in the triangle cut off by the Hempstead Town Eoard. That he was a candidate did not seem to cut any figure.

"Oh, he may come in as a citizen." said his honor; "I don't rely on the fact of his being a candidate." Mr. Scudder said that there was no affidavit by the surveyor of the drawing of the boundary line In the complaint. The same surveyor had drawn both lines. The first line was the correct one, counsel said, for the eastern boundary of the Greater New York. The clause of the charter still exists saying that the line should go through the center of the channel.

It was true that the state legislators bad founded the boundary on shifting sands. His honor The question seems to be whether the channei should be accepted as It was two years ago or as it is now. "We say it should be as it was two years ago," said Mr. Scudder. "Furthermore, it is not true, as it is implied in my adversary's argument, that the Town Board of Hempstead had met once and made a final determination of this matter.

When they first met they determined the territory on the west Bide of the line, and on their reassembling later they took it up and revised what they had already done. If they had not done so they might have been compelled to do fo by There was but one action, the latter being a continuation of the former." Mr. Van Vechten said in reply that the county clerk of Queens County had a survey made of the line as of 1S94, and the map was now the official map on file. It was referred to in the proceedings of the Hempstead Town Boar! It showed that the line passes through the center of the channel, as required by 'aw. If the question Is not now determined, counsel said, it might cause serious trouble after the coming Greater New York election nas been had.

Mr. Van Vechten said he was sorry that Mr. Scudder had taken merely a technical view of the proceedings. It was of deep interest to all of the people. He quoted the case of Baird vs.

Supervisors. 138th New York, Court of Appeals, to shew that where an act of a public body on questions of moment to the people is concerned a mandamus Is a legal remedy. The decision nf the question involves the acts of 1S94, of 189G and the Greater New York charter, and the question was, what was the intension of the legislators. "Two words in the later act show that there Is no possible chance about it," said his honor. Mr.

Van Vechten passed up to his honor a map filed by the Greater New York commission in 1S94. It was the same as that drawn by the County Clerk of Queens County. Counsel drew on the map with his pencil the line as laid down by the Hempstead Town Board. "The old line took in the entire village of Far Rockaway. 1 see." said his honor.

"Yes," said Mr. Van Vechten, "and the new line cuts it in two. It's not the intention if the legislatlre to divide a corporation. By section 1,581 of the new charter all the incorporated villages in the Greater New York are to be wiped out. If Far Rockaway is half on one side and half on the other side of the boundary line what would become of the bonded indebtedness of the other half of tho village? New York would take care of one half, but what would become of the other? The validity of the charter might be endangered.

The relator does not care where the line is, but seeks for himself and others of the public to hnve the court declare where the line is so that proper ballots may be provided." His honor, to Mr. Scudder Do you seriously contend that the legislature intended to divide the village of Far Rockaway In half? "I can't see that the legislature thought much about it." said Mr. Scudder. Decision was reserved. TO TAKE EVIDENCE ABROAD.

Commissions Appointed in the Dressner Divorce Case. Justice Walter Lloyd Smith of the Supremo Court has granted an order for the appointment of commissioners to take testimony in Antwerp and in Paris. France, in the suit of Lee Dressner of Hastings on Hudson. N. against Celia Dressner of 57 West Twelfth street.

New Y'ork. for an absolute divorce. The suit was brought by Dressner in February, 1897, and the plaintiff charges tliat the defendant was too friendly with ThomaJ R. Horton. The plaintiff says that Morton and the defendant were at the Hotel de la Tamise in Parks in August and September, 1892, and on the Red Line stej.m.ship Ponl'antl that sailed From Antwerp for Xew York albout September 14, One commission is directed to J.

S. Van Ryswick, mayor of Antwerp, to examine John Doe and Richard Roe. the former being the fictitious name of ie gteward of the ship and the latter the agent or president of the line at Antwerp. Elise de Marneffe is also to be examined. The other commission is directed to a lawyer, Henry Peartree.

of i'aris. and the witnesses are Gustave Jorger. proprietor of the hotel; Jane Smith, a chambermaid, and John Smith, a waiter. ORDER NOT SERVED. Tho Supreme Court, ton the application of P.

S. IJoylan, judgment creditor, appointed a receiver for Henry Ruter. a Broadway saloonkeeper. The ClauB I.ipsius JJrewiug Company foreclosed a chattel mortgage on the store fixtures, and to day A. .1.

IJnyd, representing Boyian, moved before Justice Dickey In the Supremo Court, to puninh the brewing company for contempt for violating an injunction contained in the order appointing a receiver, which restrained all persons from interfering with ltuter's property. It appeared that the company had never boon lerved with the order appointing a receiver, md the motion was denied. Wool is High Bnt you can still purchase at this house a good ALL "WOOL Suit for Nine Dollars. Isow is your opportunity. Prices are advancing.

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How a Coachman of Babylon Grot Into Serious Trouble. Justice Brenner this morning held Burnett, a coachman of Babylon, L. to answer a charge of having stolen a bicycle worth from Frederick Summers 64 Liberty, street. The arrest was made by Detective Sergeant McCormaclc of the Adams Street Station. According to Mr.

Summers, the accused hired the wheel from him on August 31, promising to return It after a short ride. He did not go hack and the police were notified. It is alleged that Burnett traded the bicycle to a man in Bast New York for a wheel ol another make and then rode to Freeport, where he sold the second bicycle to a man named Dohois for $5. In court this morning the prisoner pleaded not guilty and was remanded for hearing. MRS.

McDONOUGH'S ASSAULT. John Burns, Frank Co dy, BaTtholomeTT Ferguson, Walter KIley and Daniel Cuddy, all employes of W. N. Murray, a California, stock raiser, who ha a stable on the Graves end race track, were charged before Justice Xostrand this morning with assault a.nd robbery by Mrs. Sadie iloDonough, who lives ac the State Club Ho'tel, Surf avenue, Coney Island.

The alleged offense was committed on August 6 last at the Gravesend Race track, when Mrs. McDonough was in the company of a man named Claries Blake, who was also assaulted. Kiley is under 14 yeans of age andj the judge suspended sentence In his case and the rest were held for the Grand Jury in $600 bail each. HEAD HURT AT A WINDOW. Annie IS'ixon, aged 17 years, who is employed in tho bookbindery at Nassau and Liberty Btroots, accidently struck her forohead against a window at the place yesterday afternoon and was painfully injured.

An ambulanco was calld and the girl was taken to her home at street. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. MESER0LE WILL NOT. CERTIFY. Civil Engineer Acknowledges That Glenmore Avenue Is in Poor Condition and Says He Was Misquoted.

An unexpected change in ihe position taken by Civil Engineer Walter M. Jtaerole regarding the Glenmore avenue improvement was developed ihis morning when Chairman Melvin O. Rice of the Streets and Road3 Committee of the Associated Cycling Clubs of Long Island, and D. B. Van Vleck, chairman of the Glenmore avenue committee of the Good Roads Association, interviewed Mr.

Meserole on the condition of that thoroughfare. When the unridable condition of Glenmore avenuew as first brought to the notice of Mr. Meserole he was quoted as saying that the road was in first class shape and that he would recommend the payment of the final 10 per cent, of the contract price. Pressure was brought by the wheelmen on Mayor Wurster an his honor afterward requested Park Commissioner Dettmer to instruct Mr. Meserole to withhold payment until Contractor Thomas Byrnes had placed the road in the best of shape.

The representatives of the two large wheeellng organizations visited Mr. Meserole this morning and asked him what he proposed to do in the matter of Glenmore avenue. "I do not propose to do anything until the final papyment on the contract comes due, which will be in November. Then if the road 1b in good condition I will certify it," said Mr. Meserole.

"The committee undedrstood that you had approved of the road in its present condition Kiiceested one of the visitors. Mr. Meserole denied this vehemently. "I have been misquoted both in tne puDiic prims and in your associations," he said. "This is the first that anyone has been to see me about the matter, else I should have said before that I do not think the road is in proper condition.

In fact 1 have pointed out a number of times to the Park Department where the roads should be repaired. The contractor has been doing some work recently at my suggestion. It's present poor condition is due entirely to the heavy traffic, to which it. has been subjected. This same heavy trafllic were ruts Into the granite blocks on Liberty avenue and when this traffic was diverted onto the macadam road of Glenmore avenue it is not to be supposed tho.

It could stand it. Tne road was all right as originally constructed and was in good condition when the last payment was made, which was in November last. I have nothing more to do with the road officially until one year from tbat time, when it sball be my duty to certify as to the good conditon of the road before the final payment is made, and I certainly shall not so certify unless it is proper condition. I am a wheelman myself and know that the road is not in good condition at present and unless it is very much improved I will not give my certificate." The committee expressed itself as very much gratified at Mr. Meserole's statement and expressed regret that he had been misunderstood in the matter.

HOURS OF LABOR. District Attorney Backus Is Looking After the Interests of Local Railroad Employes. District Attorney Backus wrote a letter on June 19 last to each of the railroad companies of this city calling their attention to the law1 requiring only ten hours labor. The companies through officials asked him, in reply, whether he could make any more definite suggestion. He suggested that an interview with practical railroad men could materially help him in making any suggestion.

This morning John J. Conklin, Thomas E. Greely, James Pines, Patrick J. Rorkc and William Burke, as a committee from District 75 of the Knights of Labor, waited upon him. As the result of the consultation Mr.

Backus has prepared a letter, which will be sent to each railroad company. The substance of the letter will be. Mr. Backus says, that the companies will be told that the law means ten consecutive hours of work in the twenty four hours for the men employed on the cars, including halt an hour for dinner. The time for swings waiting at one end of the line for another trip must be included In the ten hours.

Mr. Backus says: "I show that the design of the law is that men shall not be put on the cars to work when they are Incapacitated by overwork from paying that attention to their duties which the safety of tho public demands, and that if a man is required to wait to answer a hell during the swings the time must count In the ten hours' work, and, also, tho time when he is getting the car ready to go out, and when he is putting it up after his return from a trip. The companies had already asked me to prepare a schedule or give them my views on the subject and now that I have talked with sterling, practical men I think I can do something that will aid the companies. "This law does affect all of the companies at present. The men on the Smith street line, the DeKalb avenue lino and the Franklin avenue line are under contract as the hours of labor and the amount of pay, and to these the law does not apply, as the contracts between the companies and the men AkiH0 POWDER Absolutely Pure.