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THE BROOKLYN ATLT EAG LE. nW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1900. 20 SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. PECIAL ADVEBTI8BMENTB. WATER SITUATION BETTER.

IT: Exhibition of Cotton Fabrics for Spring, Sheer or heavy materials, introducing new weaves, designs and colors. The floral patterns are exquisitely arranged, colored and hand printed. Those interspersed with conventional figures are exceedingly novel in effect. Mousselines de Soie, corded or plain weave. Fine corded Batiste.

Printed Organdie. Embroidered Swiss. Dotted and striped Zephyrs. Cotton and silk Grenadines. Fine sheer Dimities, 30 inches wide, floral and line stripes, pin head and polka dots.

Delicate colors, black and white or grey and white. 25 cents per yard. Shirtings, suitable for waists, one yard wide, white figures or stripes on delft or pale blue, pink or heliotrope ground. cents per yard. JAMES McCREERY Broadway and 11th St, New York.

WIFE'S LOVE VALUED BY II JURY AT 15,7511. This Is Just $44,250 Less Than the Estimate Fixed by Lawyer W. S. Lewis. C.

HOFFMAN, DEFENDANT. Motion to Have the Verdict for Damages Set Aside Denied by Justice Gaynor. In the suit brought In Lawyer William S. Lewis of 115 Nassau street, Manhattan, against Charts Hoffman, of 242 Water street, to recover 550,000 for alleged alienation of the affections of Mrs. Lewis, a jury in Part I of the Supreme Court this morning handeil to Justice V.

J. Gaynor, a verdict In favor of the plaintiff for S3. 750. Flora A. Lewis was married to the plaintiff on April 23, 1S73.

They have two sons, Horatio W. Lewis, IS, and Vincent R. Lewis, 15 years old. It was alleged by the plaintiff that on Hay 1, ISPS, the plaintiff and family left their residence, 03 Monroe street, and went to live at South Elliott place, the residence of the (Whose Hushand Socured a Verdic: for Damages Against O. Hoffman.

fir Alienating Her Affections. defendant. The plaintiff and the defendant were formerly very good friends, but Mr. Lewis alleged that the defendant strove to and did alienate the affections of Mrs. Lewis between June 1.

1S06 and January 19, ISM, and that the plaintiff was received very coolly "when he arrived home from Virginia in Jan Mrs. Lewis, I uary iSrri into the iloor beams. At danger naa Mr'. Hoffman and Mrs. Lewis were prepar appeared.

The loss will not exceed SI 000 There was some damage to tae office or David ing to go to a cnurcn meeting and they went, VY atidnS in the basement, leaving him at home. before, they went, President' Fail child sent the following let however, the plaintiff testified there was a ter to Deputy Fire Commissioner TuHy this WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH. An Exploding Lamp Believed to Have Pired Mrs. Dietz's Apartments. Mrs.

Jane Dletz, a widow, Co years old, was burned to death in her apartments at 216 West Twenty seventh street, Manhattan, this morning. The house in which Mrs. Dietz lived is a tenement sheltering twenty families. She occupied two rooms, in the rear on tte second floor' and lived alone. About 3 o'clgck this morning Edward Br.v dy, who lives on the same floor, smelled smoke and discovered that it' was coming from the rooms of Mrs.

Dletz. He ran to his window and yelled. Thomas Costello of 234 West Twenty seventh street, who was on his way home, the cry and ran to a nrebox. He then informed Patrolmen Baxter and Dillon of the West Twentieth street police station. Meantime tho smoke increased and Michael Kane kicked in a door and entered the room.

In the adjoining room he saw Are on the walls and ceiling, while oa the floor lay the body of the woman. He made an ineffectual attempt to reach her, but was driven back by the smoke and flame and was forced to retreat from the room. The firemen were soon on the scene and the woman's body was dragged from the apartment. Dr. Nesbitt of the New York Hospital, who came with an ambulance, pronounced the woman daad.

The damage to the building is ebuumieu i $100, the fire being confined to the apartments where It originated. It is believed an exploding lamp caused the fire. TRIED TO GET HER CHILD, Mrs. Landau's Mother in Law Was Protected by Officers. But Annie Landau, 19 years old, the wife of Louis Landau, attempted to take her two and a half year old child from her mother in law in front of the Manhattan avenue court this morning, but failed owing to the presence of two nnlioemen who threatened her with ar nnrrind out her plans.

She and her husband lived together for two years after their marriage. Then a quarrel came and they separated. Until a week ago, she said, she didn't know hla whereabouts. Then she located him at 28 Fayette street. She went to that address and was told by Landau that be had been divorced from her and had again married and to prove the claim, she says that he showed a marriage certificate.

Then she had him arrested on a charge of abandonment and he was arraigned In the Manhattan avenue court on Friday and was held in $a00 bail until this morning. To day she told her story on the witness stand and Magistrate Lemon ordered Landau to give a bond for $104 for a year and to pay the woman $2 weekly. Being unable to give the bond, he was sent to jail. The child was in court in the custody of Landau's mother, who would not let it out of her possession. The girl mother stood on Manhattan avenue in front of the court awaiting the appearance of her mother in law and child and said that she was going to grab the child and run when they came out.

Her threat reached the ears of the mother in law and after waiting some time, she finally made her appearance followed by two court officers and Clerk John C. England. The mother made a rush for the child, but was prevented from taking it by the officers. Clerk England then informed her that she would be liable to arrest if she persisted in her plan. The mother in law and child were hurried up Manhattan avenue by the officers to get them out of the reach of the mother.

The wife said, when she saw that her plans had failed, that she would take the matter to the courts and there fight for the possession of the child. THOUGHT CHURCH WAS ON FIRE. Smoke Coming From the Roof of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Edifice Causes Great Excitement. There was great excitement in the neighborhood of the Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, which the Rev. Dr.

R. R. Meredith Is pastor, this morning, over an alarm that the church was on fire. A number of citizens while passing the edifice at 9:30 o'clock saw smoke coming froth the cornice near the rear of the building, and it was at once believed that the structure was oa fire on the Inside. The recent destruction of St.

George's Episcopal Church, at the corner of Marcy and Gates avenues, was fresh In the minds of the people and added to the excitement. One of the first to notice the smoke was George Glassey, an undertaker, whose establishment is at 489 Tompkins avenue, opposite the church. Mr. Glassey was for many years sexton of the church. He at once hurried out to send in an alarm.

On his way he met Patrolman McVev of the Gates avenue station house, to whom he stated that he "thought the church was on fire. The policeman then gained an entrance into the church and found that the heavy smoke was due to the burning of a lot of rubbish in the furnace. Mr. Glassey sent In ain alarm, howeveT, on his own account, and' In a few moments the Fire Department and a wagon full of policemen, in charge of Captain Myles O'Reilly, were on the scene. When MeVey learned that Glassey had sent in an alarm, it is said, ho threatened' the undertaker with arrest.

Those who saw the smoke say that It seemed to escape from around the cornice of the building, wnicn migm nave resulted from a defective flue. DECEMBER PAY READY. Manhattan and Bronx Teachers to Be Paid To day Coler's Further Criticism. Controller Coler announced this morning that the Manhattan and Bronx teachers will receive their December salaries this afternoon. Mr.

Coler had additional criticism to make of. the bookkeeping methods of the School Board for Manhattan and the Bronx. In speaking of the salary muddle. and its final straightening out he said: "The amounts the, Ahearn law salary increases have been definitely ascertained and the December pay' rolls of the Manhattan and Bronx teachers have been audited and sent to the city The teachers will receive their Individual checks this afternoon. "The Ahearn law increases In the Borough nf nk'vn acereeate $292,123.36.

The esti mate of the School Board was $303,294, or $11,1 IU.D4 tOO mucu 1 mvutiaicij ttuuuidtc guess. The Ahearn Jaw Increases in the Borough of Manhattan and. the Bronx aggregate $530 701.78. The estimate of the School Board was a difference of $108,101.78. A description of this kind of guessing Is unnecessary.

"Only last week a school commissioner wrote a letter to the newspapers containing an estimate of what the Ahearn law increases In Manhattan and the Bronx would be for the year 180'J. This letter was written two weeks after the close of the year, when, with a proper set of books of record, the school authorities should have had at hand tho necessary data to furnish exact figures. This gentleman publicly wondered why I had not adopted this new method of accounting in order to make the necessary bookkeeping entries in the Department of Finance. If it had not been for the self sacrificing laborB of the whole force of the commissioners of accounts and of many in my own department who have worked day and njght for the past two weeks to remedy the breakdown in the Board of Education, the school teachers would probably have been kept without their salaries for As soon as the supplementary pay rolls are disposed of, which will be In a few days, a' thorough investigation will be made of the bookkeeping methods of all the school boards, with the view of establishing them on a' proper business basis." The Controller to day addressed a letter to the commissioners of accounts, through whose efforts largely the settlement of the pay roll difficulties have been reached thanking tbem and their office forces for their self sacrificing labors In the matteri ABANDONED WIFE GETS CONTRACTOR IN JAIL H. Deyo Accused of Disregarding Order to Pay Weekly Allowance of $5.

OFFICER TAKES HIM FROM BED, Woman in Whose House He Was Found Gives Him Her Purse to Help Him Out of Trouble. Jacob L. Deyo, a well groomed contractor striking appearance, whose name has figured somewhat prominently in the law courts of late, was taken from bed yesterday morning by Officer Quigley of the Adams street court as a defaulter on an order that Magistrate Brenner made some time ago to Pay his wife a weekly stipend of $5 In abandonment proceedings. Quigley had learned that Deyo was likely to found at the residence of Mrs. Electra Powell, also known as Lottie Powell, who has been named in divorce proceedings brought Mrs.

Deyo against her husband. The payments to Mrs. Deyo were three weeks in arrears. The officer was told that he probably would find Deyo in Mrs. Powell's house, at Degraw street.

Yesterday morning at 7 o'clock he was at the front door asking for admission. Mrs. Powell told him there no Mr. Deyo in the house, but Quigley he would make a search. "Oh, you must not do that," said Mrs.

Powell. "There are ladies in the house and could not go through all the rooms." "I'll be discreet, but I must make the search," said Mr. Quigley. He finally got inside and found his way to Deyo's room. The man was In bed and Quigley told him that he must get up and go with him to the station.

Deyo pleaded that his wife had no further claim on him and that he had secured a divorce from her. Quigley said that he knew nothing about that but that it was his duty, plain as a pikestaff, to look him up and he intended to do it. Then Mrs. Powell tried her powers of persuasion. She first pleaded, then wept, but policeman was obdurate.

This morning, when the case was called in Adams street court, Mrs. Kate Pendleton appeared in place of her sister, Deyo's wife, who is an invalid. The case was before Magistrate Brenner a month ago. Mrs. Deyo and her husband have lived together for ten years.

In June last, through the publication of a story in "the newspapers, she found that her husband was living in the city andshe instituted proceedings against him. He was found guilty of abandonment and was ordered to give bond to pay Mrs. Deyo S3 weekly. He did not have bondsman so he was sent to the Raymond street jail in default. One day.

his counsel having represented that he could get a bondsman if he had a chance to see him personally, was released from jail on parole, but he broke away from his lawyer in the street and disappeared for a time. He was found later, but failed to get a bondsman. On his promise to make the payments he was allowed to for it was plain that if he remained in jail he could not make very much money as contractor. He paid the money for one two weeks, and then" ceased. Deyo claimed that he had a divorce from his wife, but Mrs.

Deyo had had the default upon which the divorce had been granted reopened and had Instituted proceedings against her husband for an absolute divorce, naming Mrs. Powell in the papers as the person who was responsible in a measure for her troubles. That case is still pending in the courts. Mrs. Deyo lives at 40S Franklin avenue.

The proceedings In court this morning were brief. Deyo said he had neither money nor bondsman, so the magistrate sent him to jail. Then Mrs. Powell asked permission to see the man in the pen. She was given that privilege.

She poked her purse through the bars, begging him to accept the money to get him out of his trouble. Deyo declared that he would not accept it under any circumstances. Mrs. Powell went back to Officer Quigley and asked him what she should do about It. "Oh, I guet he'll take the money," said the officer.

"Try him again." Mrs. Powell went back and this time succeeded in persuading Deyo to make use. of her pocketbook. But the magistrate saw no reason to accept the money and Deyo went to jail. SIGSBEE LEAVES THE TEXAS.

Succeeded by Captain Gibson To day. Battleship Now Waiting for Her Coal. Captain Charles D. Sigsbee. who was in command of the ill fated Maine, was to day succeeded by Commander William C.

Gibson as captain of the battleship Texas. The vessel is lying at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and will leave this week to join the North Atlantic Squadron in the tropics. A number of other important changes were also made aboard the Texas. Passed Assistant Surgeon Fred W. Olcott left the Texas to day and was succeeded by Dr.

Adrian R. Alfred, who has been stationed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Lieutenant Le land F. James of the Prairie was transferred to the Texas. The sailors from the receiving ship Vermont were also sent lo the Texas.

Captain Sigsbee took his personal belongings from the ship last week and will leave the city to morrow for Washington, where he will be at the head of the intelligence bureau of the Navy Department. He will take a short rest preparatory to assuming charge of his new post on Thursday, February 1. He has been in command of the Texas for some time, having brought the bodies of the sailors blown up wUh lhc Maln(, back tQ the states from Havana some weeks ago. He has almost recovered from the injuries to his right leg and is able to walk about, but only with considerable difficulty. He was able to be on deck for the first time to day.

and there he welcomed his successor. Commander Gibson, when the latter went aboard about 11 o'clock. Notwithstanding the order from the Navy Department directing to Texas to leave the Navy Yard to day, she will be unable to sail before Thursday or Friday. Tho repairs to the ship have been completed, but Captain Sigsbee refused to accept the coal offered for her bunkers and the contractors will be unable to supply a new lot before Wednesday. It will be delivered to the ship in covered lighters and 400 tons will be taken aboard.

This will carry the battleship to the tropics, where she will join the flagship New York, with Rear Admiral Farquhar, commander of the North Atlantic Squadron, aboard. THREE SMALL FIRES. The oven suddenly caved in this morning, at 2 o'clock, when the workmen in David Bopp's American Pie Baking Company's place, at 211 Sands street, were about to get out their first batch of pies. A tire resulted and an alarm was immediately sent out. The flames were put out after a loss of $500 to the pieraan'e stock and $200 to the building.

Flames in the residence of Julia Reilly. at 1,618 Pacific street, caused a damage this morning amounting to $200. The causo of the fire is unknown. There was a fire early this morning in the residence of Thomas Costa, at 544 Fifth avenue. The damage is estimated at $250.

WILL DO MR. SIMIS' WORK. Mayor Van Wyck has designated Charities Commissioner John W. Keller to exercise the powers held by Charities Commissioner Adolph Simls, in the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. This designation continues until revoked by the Mayor.

FOR SCHOOL NO. 125. The Committee on Buildings of the Board of Education will open bids this afternoon for the erection of new Public School No. 125. in this borough.

Proposals will be received at the board's headquarters, 146 Grand street. Manhattan. Recent Rainfall Adds 1 1 4 Inches in Hempstead and Croton Sheds. Chief Engineer Birdsall of the Water Sup Ply Department announced to day that the rainEall for the past few days had amounted in the Croton ami Hempstead water sheds to about 114 inches, and that it had further relieved the recent scarcity. The situation in Brooklyn is not secure, however, further copious rains being needed.

The li inches, Mr. Birdsall said, would do as much good as the former heavier rain, as the ground was less parched and would give up a greater percentage. This morning water was flowing over the Croton dam for the first time in weeks and no storage water is being drawn for use in Manhattan. The running streams are supplying the water required. Mr.

Birdsall said the Croton overflow could not be saved until the new Cornell dam is finished and the Cross River branch reservoir is built. HUSTLED OUT BY FIRE. Small Blaze and Plenty of Smoke in Kings County Trust Company's Building This Morning. At ":40 o'clock this morning there was a fire in the Kings County Trust Company's Building, at the corner of Court square and Fulton street. It happened at a time when there was much traffic on the street, but the cars were not impeded very for Deputy Dale and Murray were there and they aided in so placing the hose that the cars soon had free passage.

The flames originated in the cellar, near the dvnamo which runs the passenger elevator. It is believed that they were due to the improper insulation or some 01 tne wires. There were several people in the elevator at the time of the discovery. Albert Lewis, the man in charge, was almost stifled by a cloud of smoke which swept up the shaft. He went to the lower floor with his elevator and discovered that there was a fire in the cellar.

Then he gave an alarm to the people in the bank and asked them to semi out a call for the engines. Next he went to the upper floors, where there were a number of offices, and took all the people in the building out. On his third trip of rescue the machinery gave out and he was torced to go do from the third floor. By that time the engines came, for the call had not been out much more than a minute when No. 105.

Pierrepoat street, came up to the front of the building. Deputy Chief Dale happened to be on his way to his office when he heard the alarm and he reached there a second or two after the fir't engine. At that time the situation seemeu menacing. Smoke was pouring in dense volumes from the windows on the upper floors and to the uninitiated it seemed as if the whole buildine was involved in the fire. Mr.

Dale decided not to send out. a second or third alarm until it was absolutely necessary and' he soon found that th men who came on the first call could lake care of it. As it was, the fire was confined entirely to the cellar. Smoke did some 1 mace to the upper floors, but not to serious or'startling extent. The firemen flooded the cellar and put out the flames, which had begun to cat their way morning Brooklyn.

aJnuary 22. 1900. Hon. James H. Tully.

Deputy Fire Commissioner: Dear Sir Appreciating the efforts of the firemen at the fire in our building this morning. I desire to contribute 5100 to the Firemen's Pension Fund, for which I inclose check. Respectfully yours. (Signed) JULIAN D. FAIRCHILD, President Kings County Trust Company.

DIED IN THE VESTRY. Mrs. O'Hare's End Came Suddenly Before the Altar in St. Francis Xavier's Church. Mrs.

Elizabeth O'Hare, wife of Patrick O'Hare, a retired machinist, of 102 Summit street, died suddenly yesterday afternoon ohout 4 clock, in the vestry of St. Francis Xavier's Church. Sixth avenue and Carroll street. Mrs. O'Haro nronosed to her husband soon after dinner that they should take a short ride to Prospect Park, and they took a Hamilton avenue car for that purpose.

They spent an hour at the park and at Mrs. O'Hare's suggestion, they started to walk home. When t' reached St. Francis Xavier's Church, sne heard the voices of the children of the Sunday school singing and remarked to her husband thr.t she should like to go in and listen to the exercises. She remarked, also, that she wished to stop, as she felt rather tired.

Her husband will ingly accompanied her to the church and after occupying one of the pews for a time she grew very pale and motioned to him that she was ill. Leaning on liis shoulder she was assisted by Mr. O'Hare to the vestibule, where she was made as comfortable as possible. Her condition became serious and Father Hickey began administering the rites for the dying, a nhvsician having been sent for in the mean time. The clerirvman Granted absolution and tJl0 ick woman was removed to the vestry.

administered by Father Hickey in the nres ence of Father Dougherty, three sisters of one i of the Catholic orders and her husoand. She fell back just as the priest was finishing the rite, and died in her nusbana arms. Her sudden death amid surroundings of such an impressive nature create'd a general feeling of sorrow, not enly in St. Francis' Church, but in St. Stephen's Church, at Hicks and Summit streets.

of which Mr. and Mrs. O'Hare had been attendants and members I for twenty five years or more. Although Mrs. O'Hare had not been in ro nusi ncaiin lor some Lime, ue uau iiul cwm piaine i recency oi owns than usual I Mrs.

O'Hare was about 50 years of age and an active member of Ave Maria Council No. 36 of the Catholic Women's Benevolent Le I gion. Her death is the first in the council for i four years. Tho funeral wil ltake place on Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock, from St. Stephen's Church.

Hicks and Summit streets, the Rev. i M. .1. Doran, rector, officiating. FOUND A BABY ON THE BOAT.

Greenpoint Man Turns the Waif Over to the Police. ycu? then the "kid" set. up a loud protest and the policeman found the bundle contained a lively baby. The stranger said his name was Joseph Daniels of lit; Oreenpoint avenue, He had found the child deserted on the Greenpuint Ferry, which he said he had just left, and decided to yive it to a policeman. He was taken to the East Twenty second street police f.tation, where his ex i planaucn was accepted and he was allowed to go.

The child is a girl and about weeks old. SPANISH WAR CANNON. Mayor Van Wyck. by his failure to approve or disapprove, has permitted the Municipal Assembly's resolution, requesting the Board of Estimate to appropriate a sum not exceeding 375,000 for the purchase of cannon captured in the Spanish American War, to become operative. The cannon, if purchased, are to be placed in the various parks as monuments.

FOUND DEAD IN A HOTEL. A man supposed to be Thomas Duffy was found dead in a room in the hotel kept by Marty McDonald on Tilyou's Walk, Coney Island, ibis morning about 11 o'clock. There was a strong odor of gas In the room at the time. The body was removed to the morgue und the police are making an investigation. of be by SSO Was said you the the not the he go.

a or WITH AN ICEBERG STORY Captain McKenzie Says the Dangerous Field Was Encountered on January (5, 400 MILES NORTH OF AZORES. Iceberg Was Four Hundred Feet High and at least a Quarter of a Mile in Diameter. An iceberg, extending 400 feet above the water and at least one fourth of a mile in diameter, was sighted by Captain Mackenzie of the Prairie while on his way across the Atlantic Ocean last week. The iceberg wa6 first observed when the Prairie was in 45 deg. 32 min.

north latitude and 45 deg. and 43 mln. west longitude, an unusually low point to encounter dangerous ice fields. The Prairie, a converted cruiser, which has been pressed into service to carry American exhibits to the Paris Exposition, returned to the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday. Captain Morris R.

S. Mackenzie told an Eagle reporter to day that he was surprised while on hia way home from Havre to see the im mense iceberg on January 15. It was first sighted when about ten miles away. He said It is very unusual, indeed, to find an iceberg so far south. "They usually melt long before they reach that latitude," said he.

The day was clear and there was no danger, but had there been a heavy fog, such as the Prairie encountered when she arrived at Sandy Hook, she might have run into this iceberg. At any rate, Captain Mackenzie has prepared an off! clal report of the dangerous field of ice, and the report will be forwarded to the Navy De partment at Washington. He is anxious that navigators be apprised of the iceberg's where abouts. Navigators do not look for these great fields of ico it the latitude indicated, and Inasmuch as the Prairie came over the course taken by the leading Transatlantic steamers plying between New York and Havre, the presence or the iceberg was tbe'principal top o' conversation among naval officers at the Navy Yard to day. The Prairie returned with nothing but about 500 tons of dirt and sand as ballast.

This was being removed from her hold to day. Notwithstanding this ballast, the Prairie rolled a great deal. Landsman Hampshire Was violently thrown to the deck during a heavy storm, fracturing his skull. He was sent to the Marine Hospital, connected with the Navy Yard, as soon as the Prairie arrived here. It was a rough voyage, but the ship was not in danger at any time.

It will require several days to remove the ballast and get the vessel ready to go to sea. She will then go to Baltimore and take aboard the second cargo of exhibits for the exposition. She will also carry the officers who are going abroad to bring to America the new cruiser Albany, twin sister of the New Orleans. The cruiser Is about ready to be placed in commission. Seaman Carson was drowned while trying to get ashore as the Prairie left Havre.

A French soldier threw him a line and Quartermaster Ostroni jumped over to rescue him. Carson was dead when hauled aboard. Thomas Atkins, a marine, deserted the ship while at Havre. The sailors of the Prairie cannot understand why he should want to remain In France. PATROLMAN HUGHES ARRAIGNED He Is Charged With Perjury, but Pleads Not Guilty.

Patrolman William Hughes of the Vernon avenue station house, who was arrested on Saturday evening by Court Officer Sheedy, on a warrant charging him with perjury, was arraigned in the Gates avenue court this morning before Magistrate Worth. Hughes entered a plea of not guilty and waived examination. He was held for the Grand Jury. Hughes is charged with having perjured himself when testifying a case of disorderly conduct, in which he was the complainant, that he had never been convicted of any crime. It is claimed by Lawyer Rufus L.

Perry, who' represents the complainant in the present case, that Hughes was convicted and served a time for petty larceny, when he was 19 years old. Magistrate Worth placed the bail at $2,500, which was furnished. Hughes refused to make a statement. GRIEVANCES OF SHIPPERS. Merchants Offer Serious Objections to the Freight Classification Schedule Adopted January 1.

The board rooms of the Trunk Line Association, 143 Liberty street, Manhattan, were crowded this morning with Western shippers, who came as representatives or the various traffic bureaus throughout the country to confer with the Trunk Line executive committee and the classification committee, and to present certain objections against the new freight rate schedule which went into effect on January 1. William R. Corwine, representing the Merchants' Association of New York, read a long and technical paper reviewing the difficul ties between the shipper and the railway and the trunk line companies, as existing under the present classification. He set forth the principal causes of complaint, as follows: "We believe that the reports of earnings made by railroads in their financial statements, In which it is shown that some of them have increased their annual dividends, and that others, for the first time in many years, If not in their history, have declared dividends upon their common stock, show that the railroads are earning sufficient money to enable them to realize largely Increased earnings, gross and net, for the Immediate future. "That the decreased cost of operation of railroads, as set forth in their reports, and In the reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the tendency to lower the cost of transportation rather than to in crease it, is sufficient to overcome tne claim of the necessity for more money due to the advanced prices of articles entering into the construction and maintenance of railroads.

"That the theory, which has resulted in the widening of the difference between carload lots and less than car load lots, Is wrong. In that it lessens the area of distribution, hurts the small shipper and the small buyer. "That the method of reclassifying dry goods is unjust, in that It tends to discrimination and complications, and that, if it. be found necessary thus to slmplfy classifications in these lines, instead of the present classification standing, all dry goods should be placed In the second class. "That the new schedule works an injustice to the shippers in practically prohibiting the use of wood pulp packing boxes by a large class of shippers to whom they are of great benefit, and thus adds to the burden and expense of such shippers, and therefore should not be allowed to stand.

"That tho rule of the new classification which reads as follows, 'Shipments of property combined Into packages by forwarding agents, claiming to act as shippers, will only be accepted when the names of Individual shippers and final consignees, as well as the character and contents of each package are declared to tho receiving agents, and such property will be way billed as separate shipments and freight, charged will work a great hardship to Jobbers and packing houses, as well as to small merchants, and should be rescinded altogether." Detailed complaints were made by Individual shippers. MOVEMENTS OF OCEAN VESSELS. ARRIVED MONDAY, JANUARY 22. Ss Pretoria, from Hamhurff. Rs La Brctagne, from Havre.

Sb risa. from Hamburg. Sb City of Augunta, from Savannah. Ss Algonquin, from Jacksonville. nainf ul seeno in the house.

Lewis said 1 that the defendant, at another time, asked the plaintiff whin he was to get out. The two sons decided to remain with then mother. When the verdict was handed in this morning Lawyer Grossman of Friend. House Grossman, for the defendant asked to have the verdict set aside as contrary to the weight of evidence. Justice Gaynor denied the motion, but granted a motion for allowance to the plaintiff.

Then Lawyer Grossman asked to have an exception noted on the ground that his honor, while testimony was being taken, had made use of the following remark: "This jury and myself by this time understand the relations between this man and woman. If not, then we are very slow." Justice Gaynor hesitated a moment and then said that he did not remember saying what the lawver quoted. He would see that the matter was looked up. and decide accord ingly. i Justice Dickey had accompanied Justice Gavnor to the bench in Part I.

Justice Dickey 1 usually sits in Part II. being assigned to tfcat room for January. and it was noticed Charles Hoffman, Ordered to of Law Allf nntinp the Affections Lewis wire. nnrl hpniti, f.r the verdict in the loft honoh nml went home. It was said that Justice Gaynor tit ho xfrmiltl lie In court to morrow.

NO SERVICES IN SCHOOLS. Xaw Forbids Religious Ceremonies After Hour of School Opening, Says Superintendent Skinner. Albany, January 22 The attention of State Superintendent of Public Instruction Skinner was called this morning to the trouble in the new public school at Piermont, where some of the Catholics living in the dis trict object to the form of religious exercises which take place when school opens, 9 o'clock in the morning, on the ground that the services are not of a non sectarian order "Yes, it is a violation of the school law to compel children to attend religious services after the hour of school opening," said Su I SALE OF SUITS. Gowns, made of basket or serge, with fancy silk! yokes. Tailor Suits, with fly front! or tight fitting coats.

$7.50 each; Formerly $15.00 Tailor made Suits, with! double or single breasted bod front coats. $10.00 each; Formerly to $20.00 Tailor gowns, made of homespun, Camel's hair, or Vene tian Cloth. Tight fitting or! fly front coat. Lined with silk. $15.00 each; Original price, JAMES McCREERY COJ Broadway and 11th New York.

LOST AND FOUND. LOST ON SATURDAY EVENING, ABOUT a storm WAGON COVER (canvas), betweorj Fulton Ferry and Myrtle av and Lawrence stj sultame reward win oe paia on reLurn or sama to BBEZELL. 331 Jay St. LOST AT LOESBR'S THIS MORNING. BLACKS POCKETBOOK.

Finder can keen money and! also receive reward if other contents returneclj no questions asked, to 41 Tillary st, near Wash lngton. A. MOKCH. PRODUCE EXCHANGE VOTING. It Is Considerine To dav Chances in thaSf.

Bylaws Affecting the Gratuity Fund. One of the liveliest and in some respects most important meetings in the history o' the New York Produce Exchange was held to day, the members voting on three amend ments to the bylaws governing the gratuity i fund, which has long been in a most unsatisfactory state. The membership of the exchange is limited to 3,000, and a $3 assessment is levied at the death of a member. There are only about Ave hundred active members, the balance of the list being made up of men who in years ago, hecauso they thought the gratuity fund a good life insurance proposition. Of recent years business has fallen off to a marked degree and few new members have joined.

Numerous membership certificates have been sold at auction for the benefit of delinquent members, of which there are at least three score posted at this time. Naturally the value of certificates has decreased greatly the last few years, and a membership has been known to sell as low as $30. Since the beginning of the last fiscal year April, 1899 there have been sixty two deaths, and for the full year the total number Is likely to be about seventy five, which means $225 in assessments for each member. It was the original purpose of the Gratuity Fund to pay the heirs of a member in full standing the sum of $10,000. The gratuity began with $2,000 for the first year end Increased until the end of eight years, after which time a member is entitled to the full amount.

The death rate Increased greatly and last year the number aggregated seventy four. These members, had they lived, could not have paid more than $199,800 into the fund, while their beneficiaries received a total of $611,994.08. The Impossibility of facing this condition of things much longer led to to day's meeting, which brought out a large number of members, many of them old men who have not been In evidence on the floor. The old members are naturally averse to any change in the bylaws governing the fund, although some of them admit that the present are extremely onerous. The younger mem bers were engaged in active campaigning and in the early afternoon it looked like a draw battle.

The polls opened at 10 A. M. and closed at 3 P. M. INDEX.

To Classified Advertisements in Today's Eagle. CLARSmCATlON. Administrators' Notices 1J Amusements 4 1 Auction Sales Board Borough Notices Business Notices Constwlso Steamships Corporation Notices 18 Death Notices Dentistry Dividends Election Notices 1 Electric Lighting and Power 9 Employment Agencies 10 Flnanclnl l4r19 For Exchange 10 Furnished Rooms 10 Help Wanted 10 Horses and Carriages la Instruction Legal Notices 11 1S 1T lost and Found 20 Miscellaneous 6 Ocean Steamships Post Office Notlco 11 Proposals 17 18 Public Notices 17 1B Railroads Real Estate Loans 10 Situations Wanted 10 Special Advertisements 30 Steamboats Surrogate's Notices ..10 17 To Let and For Sale 10 Wanted 10 Winter Resorts "iVMiiV! BLANKETS. Fine Eastern and California wool, full double bed size, $3.00, $4.00 and $5.00 per pair; Valne $4.00 to $0.50 Extra size, $7.50 per pair; Valne BED SPREADS. Crochet, tan sue.

15c, $1.15 and Value 1)5 cents to $1.75 Marseilles, $1.50 and $2.00. Marseilles, tin finish $2.00 and $3.25. Value and $3.75 COMFORTERS, 5 Silkoline, various designs and colors. $1.00 Value $1.50 TliiH department lias been transferred to the bancment. JAMES McCREERY Broadway and 11th New York.

JANUARY SALE OF WOOLEN DRESS GOODS. Nine hundred yards Im ported Novelty fabric, basket weave. Raised black silk, figure designs, on red, gray, sage or castor grounds. 95 cents per yard; Former price, $2.25 Challie Foulards, fine quality, silk warp. White dots and figures on a i a 1 or a lue grounds.

48 cents per yard. JAMES McCREERY Broadway and 11th St, New York. THE WEATHEB. INDICATIONS TILL F. M.

TO MORROW. Washington. January 2i For Eastern New lork: Fair to nlsht. with warmer in northern portion; threatening Tuesday; trsh southwesterly winds increasing. pR0BAB1MTIES.

Fair to nlsht and Tuesday; fresh southwest winds, increasing. A noon the Eagle's mercurial barometer registered 30.40, having risen LOO of an Inch since midnight Saturday. The Indication Is fair weather. Record ot the thermometer as kept at the Brook lyn Daily Eagle Oince: A. M.

2 P. 4 P. M. 6 P. 8 P.

30 P. ....31 ....8) 4 A. M. 6 A. M.

5 A. M. tO A. M. 12 M.

T2 mianignt Average temperature bunaay Average temperature corresponding Sunday last year 43 2 A. M. to day 35 10 A. 9 4 A 35 1 12 47 1 A. 33: 2 P.

40 I X. 37 I 3 60 Average temperature to day 3jf Average temperature corresponding day last year MJi HIGH WATEB. Following is the official announcement of the time anil duration of high water at Now York and Sandy Hook for to morrow. January 23: A M. TimeiRelEhtl P.

at Rise. I Fan. l'lmOHelgM h. Feat. U.

feet. II. h.h. m. New York 3 1112:15 1 3.7 Bandy Hoolci 0:03 I 4.1 12.00 3.0 1,0:03 6:35 6:23 The sun will rise to morrow at 7:22 A.

will set at 6:02 P. M. WANT MOBE PAY. Bridge Tenders Appear Before Commissioner Shea and the Mayor. A delegation of bridge tenders from bridges over Newtown Creek, Gowanus Canal and the Harlem River visited the Commissioner of Bridges and the Mayor to day to urge that their salaries be made $900 a year as requested before the Board of Estimate last fall.

Commissioner Shea, when he presented his estimate for this year, asked for money enough to raise their salaries from $730 to $900. Less money was allowed than was asked for and the new scale on the bridges named was fixed at $839.50 instead of $800. This is $2.30 a day as compared with $2 before. The increase was asked on account of tho arduous nature of the work and the fact that the commissioner had made them a uniformed force. The Mayor told them to put their complaints In writing and he would investigate.

For Information ReatardlnK Florida's great Winter resorts, apply to Travelers' Information 2 Peril place. N. Y. perintendent Skinner, "and the reading of the A man approached Policeman Jerome Hayes Bible in the public schools is also pro at the foot of East Twenty third street, Man hibiieJ. hatian, last night, and handing him a bundle, "As far back as 1SSS." he continued, "the said: superintendent of common schools laid down Officer, take this kid somewhere, will tne ionowin decision: the common scnool system nor other social system can be maintained, unless the conscientious views of all arc equally respected.

The simple rule, so to exercise yuur own rights as not to Infringe on tlm of others, will preserve equal justice amoiu: all. promote harmony and insure success to our schools." In support of this principle tho superintendent held that scripture reading and prayers constituted r.o legitimate part of the business of the public schools. This principle has been adhered to by former superintend ents. BUILDER BEST SETTLES. A deed of transfer of trusts and a reassignment of all the properties involved in the assignment of John Best, the South Brooklyn builder, made on Saturday of last week to William Reel for the benefit of creditors was filed In the County Clerk's and Register's offices this morning, Mr.

Ucel having made satisfactory settlements with nil creditors. HIGHER PAY FOR, MINERS. Hazleton, January 22 Notice was Riven to day at the colliers of A. Pardee Co. of an increase of 2 per cent, in the wages of their 1,500 employes.

Next mouth another advance of 2 per cent, will be made. All the coal companies In the Hazletnn region have granted increases within the last eight weeks..