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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YOEK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1900. MISCELLANEOUS. CIGARETTE STARTS EXPLOSION. FIRST ICE BLOCKADE.

NELSON'S HARD TIGHT. MISCELLANEOUS. ERIE BASIN PROPERTY OUT OF WAREHOUSE TROST TO DISCUSS LEGISLATION He Battled Against Fire Until the Department Arrived. What might have proved a disastrous fire occurred at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning in the factory of Charles Nelson on Essex street, between Liberty and Glenmore avenues. Nelson lives at 790 Glenmore avenue, Just around the corner from his place or business.

He is a manufacturer of toy fireworks and there have been many slight fires in his place in years past. As has been his custom, Nelson went to the factory yesterday morning to do some work. At the time mentioned, an overflowing kettle of paraffin started a blaze. Nelson tried hard with the apparatus at his command, to put out the fire, but the fiaimes gained headway, until! at last he ran into the street and shouted "Fire!" Patrolman Davison of the Liberty avenue station was near by and he sent in an alarm, while Nelson went back into the factory to try again to check the Are. The Fire Department made a quick run of it and the fire was soon extinguished.

The damage to the building was $25, fully insured. The loss on stock was $100; no insurance. STRIKES NUMEROUS IN 1899. Net Result Was to Increase Wages to a Point Higher Than They Had Been for Some Time. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, February 3 The thirteenth annual report of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration, which was transmitted to the Legislature to day says in part: "There was a noticeable increase in the number of strikes in the state during the past year, the total being higher than for any year since 1891.

The increase is confined to no one branch or class of industry, but has been general throughout all, and the question of wages has been the direct cause of by far the great majority of disturbances. The total was 450 as compared with 271 in 1898, 245 in 1897 and 246 in 1800. At least 60 per cent of the strikes have been of short duration and have had no appreciable effect on general labor conditions. "Active operations in all branches of Industry, particularly in building trades, creating a demand for iron, brick, steel and other material, which has more than equaled the supply, thereby causing a rise in prices, has been met with a demand on the part of labor for increased wages. This demand has been general, members of nearly every craft engaging independently and through their respective unions in strikes for higher wages and a shorter work day strikes which have been in the ma.in successful and which have brought the wages of the present day higher than they have been for some time past.

"It is only natural that occasionally the services of the board are not accepted In the same friendly manner in which they are offered. It has been the policy of the board to transact its business quietly and without ostentation. It meets with failures. It is not possible to frame a law under whicb may be amicably adjusted all the differences which arise between employers and employes Involving questions of wages and condition of service. That it has been an important factor in the settlement of the labor disputes of the past year is attested by the marked favor with which its services have been accepted and approved by both employers and employes.

"More is accomplished through mediation than by arbitration. The board frequently finds one party or the other to a controversy, and sometimes both, disinclined to submit the matter in dispute to arbitration, and often in such cases conferences have been arranged through mediation, at which mutual concessions were made and agreements reached, thus accomplishing practically the same result as would have been reached at the out3et by arbitration. "In instancse where both mediation and arbitration have failed to bring about a restoration of harmonious relations, the board has instituted inquiries through one or more of its members, at the conclusion of which its recommendations have been accepted and the trouble terminated." MUCH STATE LITIGATION. More Business in the Attorney General's Office Than in Any Previous Year. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, February 5 The annual report of Attorney General John C.

Davles has been transmitted to the Legislature. In part Mr. Davies says: "The litig ion this year in which the state has been interested has been very considerable, in fact it may safely be said that during no previous year has the volume of the litigated business of the Attorney General's office been as great as during the year 1899. During, the year ending December 31, 1899, the Attorney General has been served with papers and notice of proceedings for the voluntary dissolution of corporations in one hundred actions. The number of actions brought for the purpose of sequestrating the property and assets of corporations has been thirty six.

"The actions brought for the foreclosure of mortgages in which the people of the state have been interested as parties have been thirty five in number. There have issued against the Controller, Secretary of State and other state officials ten writs of certiorari and nine proceedings have been instituted against the same officials for the purpose of obtaining peremptory writs of mandamus. I have had pending before me four applications in quo warranto proceedings. There have also been commenced during the past year twenty one miscellaneous actions and proceedings against various state officers and departments which this office has been called upon to defend. There have been made and disposed of nine applications for leave to bring actions for the dissolution of corporations and eight applications to bring actions to annul the charters of corporations.

"During the year 1899 the Court of Claims, in addition to ite four regular stated sessions in the City of Albany, has held special sessions in the cities of New York, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utlca and the Village of Watkins. The court was in session practically in each month of the year. "During the year, 451 cases were disposed of, and in 170 of these Judgments of dismissal were entered in favor of the state. The amount claimed by the claimant in these 451 cases was the amount allowed by the court, and for which judgment was rendered, was $221,409.30, the awards as a whole being 17 per cent, of the amount claimed. "There were presented to the special and extraordinary Grand Juries, impaneled to investigate violations of election laws.

211 cases, in 193 of which Indictments were found. There were 18 cases in which Indictments were not found; and 31 indictments moved for trial. Five hundred and twenty five subpenae were served for persons to appear and testify before the special and extraordinary Grand Juries. Including the pleas of guilty, there were 24 convictions. "In the land department of this office the most important questions which have arisen during the past year have related to grants of land under water; and to a consideration of these the Attorney General, as the legal advisor of the commissioners of the land office and as a member of that board, has devoted much time and attention.

"It has seemed that the time had arrived in the progress and development of the resources and water facilities ot the State of New York whea grants of land under water should be made with less liberality as to size and cost than was both wise and proper in earlier days; that the balance should be more carefully adjusted between the public interests of the people of the state and the private rights ot Ihe owners 'of riparian property. "Hereafter, patents for beneficial enjoyment will be restricted. All applicants will be enabled to make their needed Improvements, while the interests of the public will be safeguarded by terms in the grant which will re servo to tho people of the state such parts of the land as are not utilized by the applicant, and which will cnake it revert to the state upon his failure to meet the conditions upon which tho grant Is made." MAGISTRATE TEALE RETURNS. Magistrate Teale has recovered sufficiently from his recent indisposition to attend to his court duties. He was sitting on the bench In the Myrtle avenue court this morn Fierce Nor'wester Choked the Slips This Morning.

The fiercest nor'wester of the present winter blew across the upper bay this morning. As a result all the slips were choked for the first time with ice that had floated down the North River. Not a piece seemed to get past the Atlantic Dock, the gale blowing it all in. A'ery soon the entire basin was blocked with the masses of ice, and boats experienced some difficulty in getting around. Should a sharp frost set in before the ice drifts out there will be considerable difficulty in moving bolsters, lighters and car.al ats to the ships loading in tho dock.

On the north and south piers the wind blew so fiercely that it was almost impossible for pedestrians to keep their feet, while in the bay the water was a mass of tumbling whitecaps. BARBERS ARRESTED. Liberty Avenue Police Raid Proprietors for Working After Hours. Frequent warnings to barbers who have continued working after the hour set by the barber law caused the police of the Bushwick station to make a raid yesterday, resulting in the arrest of five proprietors. The law breakers who fell in tho hands of the police were Tony Stabile of 295 Stagg street, Baldonaro Ferraro of 108 Graham avenue, Hyman AVolff of 147 Graham avenue.

Frank Eckstein of Graham avenue and Cook street and David Gawrelwick of 79 Seigel street. The prisoners were arraigned before Magistrate Lemon in the Manhattan avenue police court this morning and after a lecture on Sunday law breaking were remanded for trial. CAN NOT TEACH LATIN. Edict Prom Rome Prohibiting Instruction of Classics by the Brooklyn Christian Brothers. The edict that recently came from Rome prohibiting the Christian Brothers from teaching classics in their schools and colleges Is acknowledged as a complete defeat for them in their fight to continue the cuj riculum that they have been following since their order was introduced in this country about fifty years ago.

Tho only institution conducted under the direction of the Christian Brothers in Brooklyn is St. James' Commercial School, which is connected with St. James' Pro Cathedral, on Jay street. The edict will have bearing on this institution as Latin was only taught to young men who intended entering college. This, of course, will have to be done away with.

In Manhattan there are two institutions, conducted by the brothers where classics is part of the curriculum Manhattan College and De La Salle Institute and what effect the prohibition of the classics will have on those institutions is yet to be seen. Brother Castorls, who is the head principal of St. James' Commercial School, was seen this morning. He said: "Of course, we do not fully enjoy the decision of the Propaganda, but we will have to abide by it. It is not, however, generally known that the rules of the order of the Christian Brothers prohibit the teaching of Latin in their schools.

Such, however, is a fact. The founder of the order, blessed De la. Salle, made it a rule when he instituted his reforms in the schools in France. At that time Latin was taught to children when they first entered the school, and he did away with it entirely and taught only the vernacular. This rule still exists and is followed up by the brothers in every country but this.

There are 18,000 Christian Brothers scattered throughout the world, and of this number only 1,500 are in this country, so you see we only represent a small fraction, and if this privilege was continued with us the representatives of the other countries would also want the same concessions granted to them. "There, is an erroneous idea that the brothers are supposed to conduct only primary schools. This is not so; for in France they are in charge of colleges and have established scientific schools the same as the Pratt Institute in this borough and Cooper Union in Manhattan." AVhen asked what truth there was in the report that the American brothers would leave the order in case the superior insisted upon enforcing the order. Brother Castoris said that there was positively no truth in it, that they would continue their affiliations and work under the new rules. Brother Castoris also said that in a published report "it was stated that there were only six bishops in this countrv who were Interested in the work of the Christian Brothers.

This, he said, was a mistake, as the brothers had established themselves in at least twenty five dioceses. SNEAK THIEVES STILL AT WORK. Mrs. John E. Volck, Who Lives in Captain O'Reilly's Precinct, Loses Money and Jewelry.

Mrs. John E. Volck of 246 Jefferson avenue had a very exciting experience with a sneak thief on Saturday afternoon, the details of which only became known 'this morning. The case was reported to the police, who decline to give out any of the particulars, but are endeavoring to run down the man. This policy of secrecy on the part of the police has not as yet aided them any way, and while they are secretly working on the reported sneak thief and burglary cases the thieves are also doing quiet work on their own account.

During the past two or three weeks a number of thefts similar to the one reported by Mrs. Volck have taken place, but in each of the other cases the sneak thief has succeeded in escaping before a description of him could he got. Most of these burglaries have occurred In the Bedford section, within the boundaries of Captain Myles O'Reilly's precinct, and although he has had his men, and, it is said, several special men, the burglar has been able to elude them. Jewelry and money valued in all at about $300 were stolen from Mrs. Volck's house.

The house is in one of the wealthy sections of the city. On Saturday afternoon Mrs. Volck sent her" 13 year old daughter, Edna, to the drug store, on the corner, for some medicine. The girl, in leaving the house, fixed the latch of the door so that she might enter the house on her return without ringing the bell. It is thought that the girl afterward forgot to change the condition of the door, and later left home to attend a euchre party.

Another daughter went to the Park to ekate. Mrs. Volck's mother, who lives with her, was in the upper part of the house when the daughters went out. Mrs. Volck herself retired to her room for the purpose of taking a nap.

AVhile resting on the bed she heard the door of her room open, but thinking it was her mother did not open her eyes. Later she heard a noise in the room, and on looking up saw a man ransacking the bureau drawers. Mrs. Volck jumped from the bed and shouted, and a6 she did so the man became alarmed and ran to the door. He slammed the door after him and rushed down stairs, with Mrs.

Arolck close behind. He tripped over a Tug at the landing, but recovered himself and rushed out of the door to the street and disappeared down Marcy avenue. There was no one on the street, and so Mrs. Volck had no means of following the man. AVhen she returned to her room she found that he diamond earrings, valued at $165; her diamond engagement ring, valued at $100, and about $50 in money were missing.

Mrs. A'olck says that the man looked like an Italian and was short and ctout. He wore a dark alpine hat and a chinchilla overcoat. SEVEN MEN BURNED. rittsburg, February 5 Seven men were badly but not fatally burned in an explosion at furnace No.

3 of the Duquesno AVorks of the Carnegie Company yesterday. The explosion was caused by the fall of a hang, which compressed the gas until it burst the furnace, throwing hot limestone in every direction. PRESIDENT OF ERENCH SENATE. Paris, February 5 M. Clement Armand Fallleres, IRepublican, Senator for Lot et Garronne, was to day re elected president of the Senate by a vote of 175 out of 221.

Eive Persons Injured and a Hotel Wrecked in an Oil Hamlet. Bradford, February 5 Four persons were seriously and one fatally hurt and a hotel wrecked by a natural gas explosion at Rew City, an oil hamlet in this vicinity, Saturday night. Gas from a broken pipe connection had collected under the floor. A youth in lighting a cigarette ignited the gas, which had worked up through a crack. The explosion that followed threw the occupants of the room in various directions.

Walter Williams was hurled against the celling with terrific force. He has since been unconscious and will not recover. The front portion of the hotel was blown up. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. Washington, February 5 The President sent to day tho following nominations to the Senate: Navy Commander J.

F. Merry, to be captain; Lieutenant AV. F. Fullam, to be lieutenant commander; Lieutenant (Junior grade), H. H.

Caldwell, to be lieutenant; Lieutenant Commander U. R. Harris, to be a commander; Medical Inspector AA'illiam'G. Farwell, to be a medical director; Surgeon D. M.

Bertolette, to be a medical inspector; Pay Inspector D. A. Smith, to be a pay director; the Rev. L. P.

Rennolds of Maryland, to be a chaplain. OBITUARY. Joseph Lyman Partridge. Joseph Lyman Partridge, father of Stats Superintendent of Public AAorks, Colonel John N. Partridge of this borough, and of Dr.

Edward L. Partridge of Manhattan, and one of the oldest residents of Brooklyn, being in his 97th year, died yesterday morning at his home, 125 Montague street. He was born in Hatfield, in 1S04. He was descended from AVilliam Partridge, an early settler of Hartford, who arrived from England in 1640, soon after moving to Hadley, and there and at Hatfield the family, in an unbroken line, continued iden tlfied with the affairs of Western Massachu. setts and the Connecticut River A'ailey for more than two hundred years.

A record of descent would show closer and often repeated connection with such representative New England families as the Dudleys, Cottens, Strongs, Dwights, Lymaus, Bradstreets and Huntingtons. Mr. Partridge was graduated from AVilliams College in 1826, having been the oldest living graduate of that institution for several years. He engaged in teaching for a period of eighteen years, at the Berkshire Gymnasium and Leicester Academy. For fourteen years he was principal of 1 Leicester Academy which in the early days prior to the higher development of the public school system, was one of.

the best known and important educational institutions of Massachusetts. From 1846 to 1878 he was engaged in business and manufactuing pursuits in Boston and Lawrence Mass. For a few years he was one of the editors of the Puritan Recorder; afterward a paper manufacturer of Lawrence; was collector of internal revenue, Essex County, from 1861 until the cessation of the war tax: and treasurer of the J. C. Head ley Steam Engine Manufacturing Company from that time until he retired from business in 1878, when he removed to Brooklyn.

His tastes were scholarly. Until over 85 years of age he re read Arirgil each summer, and a chapter of his Greek Testament every Sunday. Until his 96th year he was exceptionally active physically, with no impairment of an intelligent interest in matters of the past and present, and with sight and hearing uimpaired He was appreciated In the community for his most gracious and kindly words and acts, and. possessing the social qualities, he had a large circle of friends. In 1837 he married Miss Z.

N. Wilson, daughter of the Rev. Luther Wilson of Petersham, with whom he has lived more than sixty two years. As an attendant and senior officer of the Church ot tne pilgrims ior tw enty years, he was a close friend of the Rev. Dr.

Storrs. A widow also survives him. Dr. E. Dana Fitzsimmons.

Dr. T. Dana Fitzsimmons died yesterday morning at the residence of bis father, M. J. Fitzsimmons, 689 Tenth Btreet.

He had been ill for some weeks. The funeral will take place to morrow morning at 9 o'clock from his late residence. A solemn requiem mass will be celebrated at St. Augustine's Church, Sixth avenue and Sterling place, at 9:30 o'clock. Hollowing the mass the interment will be made in the Cemetery of the Holy Cross.

Dr. Fitzsimmons was one of the most wide ly known and popular of Broklyn's young physicians. He was born in the Twenty sec ond Ward, where his father has lived and done business for over twenty five years. Af ter being educated at private schools, he en tered the Polytechnic Institute, from which place he went to the Long Island College Hospital to begin the study of medicine. Af ter completing his course he graduated in the class of 1897.

Later he passed an exami nation of an interneship at St. Mary's Gen eral Hospital, where he served eighteen months, covering the period of the war with Spain. He was one of the surgeons whoi went to Montauk Point to care for the sold iers wounded in the battles in Cuba, and brought a number of them for treatment to hospital's visiting staff as well as on the staff of St. Mary's Maternity on Dean street. Dr.

Fitzsimmons was a member of several of the local clubs including the Crescent, Knights of Columbus and Columbian. He also retained a membership in the Bonnie Lock Golf Club of Sullivan County, where he spent his summer vacations. He was a musician of ability and composed several works, one of which was played by Sousa in his tour a few years ago. He had a host of friends and was unusually popular among his professional associates. He was a man of generous instincts and gave much time and money to the cause of charity.

He was in his 26th year. Edward R. Mcllvaine. Edward R. Maellvaine, one of the leading members of Pacific Arolunteer Fire Company No.

14 of Brooklyn, died at his home on Staten Island, yesterday, at the age of 65 years. Deceased had been ill only about two weeks. He was at one time a clerk In the Bank of the Republic, Manhattan, and resided in Brooklyn for many years, only recently removing to Staten Island. For more than thirty years he was a faithful employe of the Howard Fuller Brewing Company of this borough. He is survived by a son and two daughters.

The funeral will take place to morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the residence of his son in law, George J. Turney, on Prospect street, New Brighton, S. I. CHILDREN'S EASTER FESTIVAL. List of Meetings for Its Promotion This Week.

To further the plans of the Children's National Easter festival, to be held at the Seventy first Regiment Armory, Manhattan, in Easter week, a number of meetings are to be held during the present of February. The festival is to have among other features a reproduction of the block house and hill at San Juan, with Spanish war relics, a wooden reproduction of a United States battleship with cannons loaded with gifts for girls and boys, the "House that Jack Built," "Mother Goose and Her Bird." the Cuban American Express Company, the Klondike and a number of other amusements, together with a great many booths representing the different nations of the earth. The meetings to further! plans aro to be held as follows: AVith Mrs. AA M. Carson, 149 East Thirty seventh street, Manhattan, February 6.

11 A. M. with Miss Arauderpoel, Hotel Buckingham, February 6, i 3:30 P. M. with Miss Mllnor, 13 East I Twenty fourth street.

February 7, 11 A. with Mrs. Charles Fellow, 51 East Fifty 1 fourth street, February 7, 3 P. M. with Mrs.

Townsend Cox. 5S West Ninth street, February 8 11 ith Miss E. D. Blnninger, 329 Lexington avenue. February 8, 3 P.

M. with Miss Delafleld. 475 Fifth avenue, February 9, 3 P. with Mrs. Charles Lee, 5 Gramercy Park.

February 11, 3:30 P. and at Packer Institute. February. 10, at, 10:30 A. M.

ACCUSED OF ROBBING MAILS. Chicago, February Henry Walsh, an old and trusted clerk in charge of the mailing department of the Chicago Poet OlBce, was arrested last night by post office inspectors, charged with robbing the malls. CHEAP, EFFECTIVE, PALATABLE HUNGARIAN NA TURAL APERIENT WATER. A Wineglassl'ul a Dose. Sole Exporters: THE APOLLINARIS London.

TRIAL JURY SCORED BY JUSTICE EIliR. Declares That Affidavits in Pelham Case Constitute a Scandalous Revelation. POINT OF LAW WAS DECIDED. Gaynor Recommends That the Commissioner of Jurors Call the Jurymen to Account. Justice AVilliam J.

Gaynor in Supreme Court has granted a new trial in two cases brought against the Highway Commissioner of the Town of Pelham, AVestchester County, for damages on the ground of alleged negligence, in which the verdicts were for the Highway Commissioner. The motion for a new trial was on affidavits made on affidavits of all of the trial jurors, as there was newly discovered evidence. The plaintiffs, August Retss and Charles Weber, were driving at night in the Village of Pelham and their horse ran against the end of tho side railing of a highway bridge. The horse was killed and the men were hurt. The bridge extended across a stream from the A'illage of Pelham to the Town of Pelham.

By statute the care of the bridge was in charge of both village and town. The road on the village side was formerly the same width as the bridge, as it is yet on the town side but the village widened the road so that the end of the bridge stood against the middle of the road. In this way the horse going on the right hand side of the road ran against the end of the hand railing. All of the jurymen make affidavits now that the main reason why they found for the defendant was that they believed that the Town of Pelham and the Village of Pelham were jointly liable for the obstruction complained of, and both village and town should have been sued, and that the entire damage should not be borne by the town; that the jury believed that under the law the plaintiffs could maintain an action against both of the municipalities hereafter, or they would not have brought in a verdict for the defendant. Justice Gaynor says: "This is a scandalous revelation.

This jury makes no scruple of swearing that in disregard of their duty to decide the facts submitted to them, and nothing else, the law to the court, they entered into a consideration of a point of law in the jury room and decided the case in accordance with their decision of such point of law. Of course the plaintiffs had a right to sue either the town or the village or both, as they saw fit, and it was none of the jury's business which they did, nor of the court's, either. And yet this is what the Jury swear they did. There is a day to call such jurymen to account. It is to be hoped that the Commissioner of Jurors will take care not to put them on the panel hereafter.

No one's rights are safe in the hands of such men. "Their conduct was outrageous. It is enough to dishearten a judge who wants to have justice done, to hold court with such jurymen. Though it is no business of the jury or of the court that the plaintiffs sued only one instead of both, it may be incidentally mentioned that under a statutory requirement that such claims for damage be presented to village officials within a given time after the accident, happens, the plaintiffs by so failing to present their claims, had lost their right of action against the village. This serves to further illustrate the outrageous conduct of these jurymen, who would not have It that the court decides the law and the jury only the facts, and insisted on taking everything into their own hands.

Of what use would it be for trial judges to tell jurors that a trial is divided into two parts, the decision of all points of law by a judge and the decision of all questions of fact by a jury, neither having the right to usurp the functions of the other, if jurors would nevertheless defy the law and act like jurors in this case? "But the affidavits of these jurymen besmirching their conduct and thereby impeaching their verdict cannot be entertained. The law does not permit it (Dalrymple vs. Williams et 63 N. A'. 361).

Verdicts would otherwise have no stability. This is not the case of receiving the affidavits of jurymen in order to ascertain what the verdict really was which they agreed upon, where there was some mistake in the rendering of the verdict or in the terms in which it was rendered. "The ground of newly discovered evidence seems to be substantial. The defense of 'no funds' was interposed. The Highway Commissioner testified that he had only 1 cent, which he got from his predecessor.

But it is now made to appear that the course of business was for the town meeting not to raise funds for highway expenses in advance, but for needed funds to be obtained from a bank which advanced it during the year, and then for the bills to be audited and put la the next tax levy. If the jury had had this evidence before them I do not think they would have found that the commissioner was without funds. That is, if any guess can be given as to what such a Jury would do. The motion for a new trial is, therefore, granted on payment of cost and disbursements after notice of trial." WISCONSIN CENTRAL. A Revival of the Rumor That the Gra4 Northern Railroad Will Control It.

It has been announced time and again that James J. Hill, the controlling spirit in the Great Northern management, has had his ambition concentrated in a transcontinental railway system from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast, and a survey of his interests shows that the Wisconsin Central Railway would, under proper conditions, give him the connecting link which would render that ambition an accomplished fact. With the Great Northern extending from St. Paul and Minneapolis to the Pacific coast, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railway extending from New York and other Atlantic coast cities to Chicago, which he, in conjunction with Philip D. Armour and Marshall Field of Chicago now own and control, the function of the AVisconsin Central filling in the gap to complete the transcontinental line is apparent.

Under the arrangements made at Minneapolis the AVisconsin Central will run into that city on the Great Northern tracks, will build its freight stations on Great Northern land, under a leasehold, it is said. It was reported in Milwaukee by railroad men that a movement was quietly under way in Chicago to restore the junction of the B. O. linos with the Wisconsin Central there. The plan, it was said, being to run the former into the Illinois Central station, which is now used by the Wisconsin Central lines.

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T. BOOTH Ithaca. N. Y. WORK ON STEEL TOMS IS PROGRESSING RAPIDLY.

Plenty of Material at Hand Construct This Part of New Bridge. to NO DELAY IS ANTICIPATED. Scarcity of Granite Necessitates the Temporary Suspension of Work on Manhattan Anchorage. The great steel towers for the Manhattan. Bide of the new East River bridge have begun to assume definite form.

The announcement was recently made that work on these towers would" probably be somewhat delayed because the contractors would be unable to furnish the steel as rapidly as it was required. It was learned to day that there had not been: the least delay in this work and none is ex pected. There has been a slight interruption with the work on the anchorage. This work, however, is expected to be resumed within month. People who have watched the work with interest from the decks of ferryboats have noticed that the granite work on the Brooklyn side is much farther advanced than that! across the river and While the steel work on the Manhattan side is rising each day, none has yet appeared on the opposite side of the river: This is explained by the fact that the Manhattan side has more steel than granite, while the reverse is the rule in Brooklyn.

Saturday it oecaine necessary to stop work on the Manhattan anchorage for the present. The granite for this work comes from Coblc is kill and is shipped from Albany. Navigation on the Hudson having closed shipments have ceased and probably will not be resumed before March 1. Therefore, the anchorage work cannot be continued until another shipment of granite is received. The shipments of steel have been, on the other hand, quite as large as desired.

Up to the present time eomething like 900 or 1,000 tons have arrived. There are now no indications that these shipments will be interfered with. The steel conies from the New Jersey Steel and Iron Company of Trenton. Shipments are made by rail and about eight car loads, or 130 tons, are received at one time. This is rapidly being placed in position.

To day the two towers reach about 40 feet above the granite pedestals on which they rest. These towers are to be connected by an arch, work on which is about to begin. Steel bolts, 8 feet in length and 24 inches in diameter, are sunk in the granite pedestal to hold these great uprights. Great care is taken to have every part fitted or joined exactly. As evidence of this, workmen to day were filling the three quarter inch space between the base of the towers and the top of the granite pedestal.

The iron work rests solidly on the granite, but every bit of space is being filled with steel filings, mixed with acid, to make a solid mass and keep out every bit of air or moisture. This afternoon J. A. Tilly and an Eagle reporter climbed the several flights ot wooden stairs, to the anchorage. The view from this great pile of granite is a grand one and the city, river and bay can be readily viewed for a long distance.

"Work was stopped here for a brief time, because we had worked up all the granite on hand," said Mr. Tilly. "This, however, will not make any material difference. The Iron work Is proceeding rapidly and is making a very good showing, as you have observed. At present there are 150 workmen here.

The cable chains are in place and about one half of the intermediate towers are nearly completed. These towers will be completed without any interruption because of the lack of granite. The blocks for these have all been cut and are on the ground. About the time these are completed and ready for the iron work, work on the anchorage will probably be resumed. "The two towers which you see from the river are about.

40 feet high and are ready for the arch which joins them. Ten feet more and they will be ready for the bridge Beat." TWO VOLUNTARY BANKRUPTS. Ulysses Grant McQueen of 163 Joraleraon street this morning filed with the clerk of the United States District Court his petition in voluntary bankruptcy. He names nineteen creditors with claims amounting to $2,831.27 and gives assets valued at $50. James Hicks, formerly in the liquor business in Long Island City, living at 150.

Jackson avenue, was a second petitioner. He schedules seven secured creditors in $1,391, and thirty eight others In $9,483.79. He values hi3 assets at S320.2G. GRENADA'S PURSER LOSES AN ARM The British steamer Grenada arrived to day from Trinidad and Grenada and Captain McMillan reports that while out shooting alligators at Trinidad Purser McEwcn accidentia discharged his gun, shooting himself In the left forearm. He was taken to the hospital, where his left arm was amputated.

HURT BY A DANGER SIGN. A wooden danger sign which stood in rout of 8 10 Broadway, Manhattan, was blown down by the wind at 7:21) o'clock this morning and struck Charles Meyer, 24 vears old, of 66 West One Hundred and Sixteenth street. Ho was internally injured and was removed to St. Vincent's Hospital. SUPREME COURT ADJOURNS.

Washington, February 5 The United States Supreme Court to day took an adjournment tutll the 26th. Trustee for the Company Takes Possession of All Its Property Except the Beard Stores. G. B. H0RT0N NAMED AS AGENT.

Outside Concern Will Probably Get the Beard Property and Bid for Opposition. That the Erie Basin property has been abandoned by the United States Mortgage and Trust Company, acting as trustee and mort gtgee for the Brooklyn AVharf and Warehouse Company, is definitely settled by a notice sent to all the warehouses and elevators to day, signed by Third A'ice President Arthur Turnbull of the Mortgage and Trust Company. The notice is addressed to all officers and employes of the Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company and states that the United States Mortgage and Trust Company, as trustee and mortgagee, having taken possession of all the property, real and personal, of the Brooklyn AVharf and Warehouse Company, except that known as the Erie Basin, appoints Gurdon B. Horton as agent with all the powers and duties that have heretofore been possessed by him as president of the Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company and also appoints all the other officers and employes of the Brooklyn Warf and AA'arehouse Company, except those at the Erie Basin, to be representatives and employes of the United States Mortgage and Trust Company, with the same duties and powers, the same terms office and with the same compensation as at present. A notice, also signed by Mr.

Turnbull, has been conspicuously posted at each elevator and warehouse notifying all persons that Gurdon B. Horton has been appointed agent of the United States Mortgage and Tru3t Company, as trustee and mortgagee, and that his orders are to be respected as such. The former notice makes it plain that the Beard property is no longer part of the warehouse combination. As already stated in the Eagle the removal of the engine, coal and plant to the Atlantic dock clearly Indicated that this would be the end. This will result in a saving of probably $300,000 a year for property which was doing very little busi i ness.

On the other hand, it is sure to fall into the hands of some outside concern which will make a big bid for business, just as the Bush Company has done at the foot of Forty i second street. There seeems to be an uneasy undercurrent of feeling that another move will be made to i secure the receivership of the AVarehouse Company for a Tammany man, although how that can be done now is not apparent. It is well known, however, that consederable uneasiness exists among the officials of both companies concerned, as well as among the bondholders on this point. It is conceded on all hands that the receivership as originally ordered, would have been one of the richest plums that ever was plucked in New York. THE COURTS.

MOTION TERM. Supreme Court, special term for motions, Dickey. J. Ex parte business at 10 o'clock. Motion calendar called at 10:30.

SUPREME COURT. SPECIAL TERM TRIALS. Day calendar, Tuesday, February 6. Wilmot M. Smith, J.

Demurrer; Nos. 510, Neumann vs. Neumann et al. For Inquest: 516, Kennedy vs. Fulton and others.

General calendar: 474. Davenal vs. Huckner; 1.415, Fraze'r vs. Frazer: 372, Hughes vs. Hughes: 261, Brooks vs.

Brooks: 459, Cum mlngs vs. Harrison; 119, Loomis ot al vb. Knight et al; 453, Tuppln vs. Spear; 619, Olassford vs. Glassford; 620, Bennett vs.

Bennett; 521, Schlei mann vs. Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad Company; 522. Pick. aB receiver, vs. Blelstlft and others; 523, Brooker vb.

Brooker; 524, Crotty vs. Gardiner: 325, Philcox vs. Philcox; 526, Gorham vs. Craig: 527. Ehrllch vs.

A'ermllyea; 528, Dillingham vs. Schwarbuscher Sangerbund: 529, Pool vs. Tremalne; 530, Harrison et al vs. Frlemaln et al; 531. Itiehhelmer and others vs.

Eppig and others; 532, Homyer vs. Homyer: 533, Kern vs. Kern; 534. Rachlin et al vs. Goetz; 535.

Gardner vs. Gardner; 536, O'Brien vs. Guntz et al; 537. Thebold vs. Gardner; 53S, Johnson vs.

Flagg: 539, Maher vs. Maher. SUPREME COURT, TRIAL TERM. Day calendar, February 6, Fart I. Marean, J.

Part II. Mattlce. Part III, Jenks. Part V. Chester, J.

Nos. 4,740, Freeman vs. Brooklyn Heights Railroad: 4.603. Williamson vs. Brooklyn Heights Railroad: 2.139.

Knight vs. Brooklyn Heights Railroad; 1,451, McCarroll vs. Brooklyn Heights Railroad: 1.726. Reeder vs. Mersereau 2.79S.

Gardner vs. Campbell; 2.3S4. Cowley vs. Nassau Railroad: 3.19S. Morean vs.

Slegel Cooper Company: 4.6C7. Baccio vs. vs. New York Con denned Milk Company: 1.134. Reeder vs.

Westphal: 4,539. Francois vs. Morrison: 4,577, CoUEhlin vs. Brooklyn Heights Railroad: 4, SOS. King vs.

Brooklyn Heights Railroad: 4,571. Anwater vs. Brooklyn Heights Railroad: 4.B46, A'tergutz vs. Laughlin; 4,061. Mayer vs.

Nassau Railroad: 25 Poulson vs. Navarro; 1.215. Quirk vs. Slegel Cooper Com pary; 2.254, Maske vs. Slegel Cooper Company; 2,195.

WUge vs. Brooklyn. Queens County and Suburban Railroad: 1.936. Mollenhauer vs. Nassau Railroad: 2.94S.

Miller Brooklyn Heights Railroad; 4.670, Riese vs. Cro.ss AusUn Ireland; 3,24 Waring vs. Journeay: 2,597, American Surety Company vs. Coyle: 217, Huners vs. Rueser: 2,612.

Terhune vs. City of New York; 2.096, Cas sano vs. Brooklyn Heights Railroad: 2,164. Mc Nulty vs. Nassau Railroad; 3.412.

Helnleln vs. Kletr.ert; 2,017, Blehusen vs, Haywood; 3,321, Van Houten vs. Brooklyn Heights Railroad; 4.726. Ferris vs. Brooklyn Heights Railroad; 2.03S.

Samuel vs. Conev Island and Brooklyn Railroad. The following causes. If marked ready, will be passed for the day; causes will not be set down for days upon this call: Nos. 340, Horels vs.

Brooklvn. Queens County and Suburban Railroad; 1,735, Leroy vs. Metropolitan Street Railroad: 1.676, Symons vs. Nassau Railroad; 3.510, Greenwald vs. Brooklyn Heights Railroad: 4.607.

Kelly, administrator, vs. City of New York et al; 2,123, Cranley vs. Nassau Railroad; 2.5S6, Brown vs. Berlin Iron Bridge Company; 2,341. Bopp vs.

Turn bridge; 2,41. Hoye vs. Flynn et al; 3.374, Jarashow vs. Robinson; 2,339. Sands, vs.

Brooklyn Heights Railroad; 1.956, Ross vs. Third Avenue Railroad; 1.547. Esposito vs. Imperialli; 1.640, Walsh vs. Degnon McLean 1,196.

Beyer vs. Nassau Railroad: 3.354, Holmes vs. Eriksen et al: 2.3S3. Dunn vs. Brooklyn Wharf Company: 4,535, Manning vs.

Brooklyn Heights Railroad; 3.397, Nordheim vs. Allen; 1.240, Chlckett vs. Feltman; 736, Hickman vs. Nassau Railroad; 3.507. Doyle vs.

City of New York et al; 4.149, Strlftler vs. Strlmer; 3.834, Harris vs. Llvoti: 2,372, Elders vs. Meurer; 4,523. Mulligan vs.

Holland; 1,141. 1.142, Andrus vs. Long Island Railroad; 2.691, Ornsteln vs. Spero; 3,072, Miles vs. Press Publishing Company; 856, Gregonette vs.

Brooklyn Wharf Company: 864, Mehrle vs. Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad; 1,604, Page vb. Anderson; 2.857. Rahmer vs. Morris; 1.771, Welsh vs.

Ferguson; 2.578, Kennedy vs. A'assar. Highest number reached on regular call. 3,465. COUNTY COURT.

Criminal calendar. Part Hurd, February 6 James Doyle, murder. Part II. Asplnall. J.

James Prestera. Max Rys sel, Jacob Welslnger. Antonio Demarlo. Joseph Ransome, Carmine Belmore, John Buckley. John D.

Kelleher, assault. SURROGATE'S COURT. Calendar for Tuesday Before Surrogate George Abbott The will of Caroline G. Rogers. John Smith.

Roslna Kraus. Eliza L. Bergen, Jeannetta Campbell. William Meyer and Alfred E. Plt tard.

The accounting in the estate of Bridget Keenan. The estate of David Barnett. Contested calendar at 10:30 Nos. 17 the will of John C. Hallon; 8.

the real estate of Barbara Berker. REFEREES APPOINTED. Bv Dickey. J. The Hank Clerks' Co operative Building Loan Association vs.

Miller, Thomas II. Troy; Staten Island Savings Bank vs. O'Hare, Herman S. Butler: Gould vs. Elliott, G.

E. Darling: Jenner vs. Conover. Edward L. Collier; Caxe vs.

Jones. William E. Kisseburg; Fowler vs. Van Houten. S.

N. Garrison: same vs. same, Irving Hopper, to sell. A THREATENING POSTAL CARD. Vincenzo Conti, a barber at 26S Court street, was arrested by the United States marshal on Saturday evening on a warrant Issued by Commissioner Morle on the complaint of his brother, Thomas Conti, a court interpreter, living at 406 Seventh street, who charged that Vincenzo sent him a threatening postal card through the malls.

The prisoner was held in $500 bonds for examination. TO PROTECT GRAVES OP KINGS. Washington, February 5 The Senate committee on public lands took its first action regarding public lands, of Hawaii to day, in reporting a resolution introduced by Senator Clark of AVyoming, withdrawing certain lands in the Island of Oahu from the public domain. These lands are the burial place of the former kings of Hawaii, near Honolulu. L.

H. B. A. TO BE INCORPORATED. Albany, February 5 The Ladles' Hebrew Benevolent Association of Greenpolnt, of the Borough of Brooklyn, has made application to the State Board of Charities for permission to De incorporated.

Presidents Will Meet on Wednesday and Consider the Stranahan Bill. OPPOSITION IS GENERAL. What the Heads of Some Brooklyn Institutions Say About the Proposed Law. John Harsen Rhodes, president of the Savings Bank Association, whose membership includes the presidents of all the savings banks in this state, has called a general meeting of those presidents for 11 o'clock Wednesday morning in the Chamber of Commerce in Manhattan. This meeting will discuss the question of taxation on savings bank deposits and alBO the whole question of taxation as It affects the savings banks now before the legislative committee on taxation and retrenchment.

The bank presidents represent about 1, 500,000 depositors whose aggregate savings amount to about $800,000,000. In view of the closeness of this meeting and the more effective presentation of facts that the Savings Banks Association will be able to make, the local savings bank officials are somewhat loth to talk about the problem. But they are unanimous in declaring that any such legislation as is proposed in the Stranahan bill affecting the earnings of the thrifty masses is more or less iniquitous. Bryan L. Smith, president of the Brooklyn Savings Bank, said this morning: "I uelieve that the present bill before the Legislature will not pass; its administration would be impossible, and it must be modified.

The real thing to tear, however, on this taxation question is the effect of levying a tax on deposits of $1,000 in savings banks. These deposits have never been taxed, and now not one in 10,000 would be reached. But the effect of such a law would be to frighten the people whose thrift is encouraged by the savings banks. Nor could the individual depositor be reached through the banks, for the law says that no local authority has the right to make inquiry regarding savings bank depositors through the banks themselves. Doubtless the more general taxes proposed could be borne by the banks, because these things would all equalize themselves in time.

The loaning of money by savings banks is only a matter of supply and demand, the officials of the banks seeking to make the investments at the best rates obtainable. The effect upon the individual depositor would not be material. But it does not seem to me possible that it is seriously intended to levy a direct tax on the individuals who seek the savings banks as a safe place to keep their money." Felix Campbell, president of the Brevoort Savings Bank, said: "I think' it is very bad policy to tax savings banks. In my opinion it would tend to make the poor skeptical of the places provided where they can keep their money safe. The efforts of the officials of these banks is to do a labor of love, for which they receive no compensation, and I believe they seek in every way possible the interests of their depositors.

I even think it was an error so to change the law as to allow the investment of savings banks deposits in railroad bonds. It is placing a great responsibility on thesafficials, and I believe that we should adhere to the old law of making our loans on good real estate at 50 per cent, of the values. "The savings banks should he regarded as sacred trusts and the officials should not be allowed to take risks In any way. We have about 5.000 depositors, including school teachers, young men and women in business, servants and others. It is our province to encourage thrift among the people.

Why, then, should the Legislature step in and place a premium on this by taxing the depositors? It would mean going back to time primeval, and the old stocking would be again brought Into use. I cannot believe it is possible that our representatives will pass a law of that kind. All savings bank officials with whom I have talked are indignant that they should have to resort to any intercession with our legislators to prevent any attacks on our savings institutions. If our rich state needs money the large money earning institutions should be looked to and not the savings of our poorer classes." General J. V.

B. Meserole, president of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank, said: "The committee on taxation and retrenchment of the Assembly, in order to catch a few depositors whose deposits exceed $1,000, propose a law punishing all the others. We have 82,000 depositors in this bank, but of these only 160 have more than $1,000 In their names. In other words, in order to catch 10 per cent, they propose to tax the remaining 90 and inflict a great injustice on thousands of people. The deposits of 80,000 of our de 1 positors average about $400 each.

We have helped to build 8,000 houses in this district. I am opposed to the taxation of savings bank deposits in any manner or form. If the Republican party passes this law the 1,500,009 savings bank depositors in the state will be down on them and the Democratic party will use it as a weapon at next election." MORE MEN FOR SCHLEY. Fifty five Men to Be Sent to the South Atlantic Station at Once Battleships in Reserve. The Navy Department at Washington today issued an order to send fifty five sailors to Rear Admiral Schley, commander of the South Atlantic Squadron.

The men will be taken from the battleships Indiana and Massachusetts and the receiving ship Vermont, all of which are at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This is said to be a very unusual thing and is construed by some officials to mean that the Navy Department has decided to be more indulgent to the former commander of the cruiser Brooklyn, Rear Admiral Sampson having been taken care of with land duty at the Boston Navy Yard. When Rear Admiral Schley left Tompkins ville last fall with his flagship, the Chicago, he did so with a short crew. This was very unusual, because the flagship of a squadron usually goes to its station fully equipped. At the time it was considered by some to be a discourtesy to the commander of the squadron because of his connection with the Sampson controversy.

At any rate the complement of men of the South Atlantic Squadron will now he made full. The men will be sent on the long Journey by the first steamer leaving by the Lamport Holt line for Brazil. Both the battleships Massachusetts and Indiana are now at the Brooklyn yard undergoing repairs and getting ready to be placed in reserve. Captain Train said to an Eagle reporter to day that he thought it a disgrace to tho Navy that the two first class battleships of the country should be placed In reserve or practically out ot commission. "Why," said he.

"it would take us a month to get rendy for sea in our present condition. What a fine state of affairs we are In to be so helpless. At least one first class battle ship should always be ready to respond for action at a minute's notice. We do not know what hour a battleship may bee needed with all unsettled condition of affairs around us. It is a big mistake to have the Navy of this great country In such a helpless state.

It really is not safe." The Massachusetts and Indiann will be placed In reserve at the League Island Navy Yard at Philadelphia as soon as tho repairs now being made are completed. METHODIST PREACHERS MEET. Tho monthly meeting of the Brooklyn and Long Island Preachers' Association was held in the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association, 502 Fulton street, this morning. The Rev. Joseph Pullman of Patchogue read an interesting and instructive paper on "Christianity and Methodism." JUDGE JOHNSON'S CONDITION.

At the home of former Suprome Court Judge Jesse Johnson, SOS Clinton avenue, it wa6 stated this morning that there was no change in his condition..