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18 THE BKOOKLYN DAILY EAG LE, KEV YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1900. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. BURIED BOMB EXPLODED. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. FIGHT IN TAMMANY SECOND ARREST MADE PLANS NOW COMPLETE FOR THE EMERALD BALL.

WHY STILL HORE? tain R. H. Lace, U. S. il Captain W.

N. McKelvy, U. S. M. C.

Lieutenant A. S. Williams, U. 3. M.

Lieutenant O. H. Rask. U. S.

M. Marine Harracks; Lieutenant Commander Fremont. I'. Supervisor Port of New York: Pavmaster Hatton, HI. S.

Navy Yard; Lieutenant A. C. DilTenbach. U. S.

N. Lieutenant Rabin. U. S. Bliss torpedo works; Assistant Paymaster V.

Jackson, U. S. Navv Yard; Captain Neville, U. S. M.

C. recruiting duty. New York; Naval Constructor Ruhm. U. S.

Elizabeth. N. Commander Delehanty. S. Governor Sailors' Snug Harbor.

Staten Island; Lieutenant Blue, U. S. N. Boston. Naval Constructor Watt, U.

S. Navy Yard: Naval Constructor Cox. V. S. Navy Yard; Lieutenant C.

w. Jungon. V. S. Hydro graphic Office, Xew York: Xaval Constructor Lawrence Spear.

U. S. Morris Heights, New York; Lieutenant Commander H. Mor rell. U.

S. Navv Yard; Commander Man ney, U. S. Navy Yard: Commander Cowle, U. S.

Morris Heights. X. Y. Commander Windsor, U. S.

N. Lieutenant Commander Qualtrough, U. S. X. in family ing.

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Address R. 11.. EaKlsjilHee. UNCONSCIOUS FROM GAS. William Slate, 34 years old, a laborer, of 237 East One Hundred' and Twentieth street.

Man Badly Hurt at City Island While Digging a Sewer. While excavating on Ditmar street. City Island, Bronx, this morning Bryan Barring. 27 years old. a laborer, struck his pick into some hard, round unyielding substance which he thought to be a bowlJer.

In working to get It out of the frozen ground he was obliged tc. strike it repeatedly and the last tap caused the thing to explode. It vis blown into Barring's face, terribly lacerating it and blowing out his left eye. He will probably lose the sight of his right eye as well. It is not known what the thing was.

It Is said to have been a bomb which may have been imbedded in the ground since the revolutionary war. The injured laborer was taken to Fordham Hospital. DOORMAN GIBBONS ON TRIAL Testimony For and Against the Colored Officer of the Fifty third Precinct. The trial of Chris Gibbons, the colored doorman of the Fifty third Precinct station house, at Liberty and Miller avenues, was begun In the Gates avenue court this morning before Magistrate Worth. It was not finished, however, and was adjourned to complete the testimcny of the defense.

Gibbons was before the Police Commissioner on Saturday last on the same complaint and decision was reserved pending: the outcome of the police court trial. Much interest is being taken in Gibbous' case, as it is claimed that the defense will try to prove that the arrest was unjustified and was the outcome of ii.mie feeling on the part of the officer who made the arrest against the colored doorman. Gibbons was arrested at the Howard House, Atlantic and Alabama avenues, on January 24. It was his day off and he had several drinks in the saloon and after he came out was arrested. Lawyer George Alexander rep resented Gibbons.

Patrolman Post, who is credited with the arrest of Gibboni, was the first He testified that when Gibbons came out of the saloon he was unable to Steady himself, and when told to go liume became boisterous and refused to quiet down when threatened with arrest. Post said that he called Patrolman Twill man to his assistance and he placed Gibbons under arrest. To the questioning of Mr. Alexander. Post admitted that he struck the doorman in the mouth, but said tl at Gibbons tried to bite him.

To further questioning Post denied that he ever had any trouble with Gibbons "or threatened to get square with him. Patrolman Twillman testified that Gibbcns was intoxicated when arrested. Patrolman Wright, who was on the wagon when the arrest was made, said that he smelled. liquor from Gibbons' breath. The driver of the wagon admitted that Gibbons was boisterous, but would not swear that his condition was due to liquor and not to excitement.

Patrolman Richards and Sergeants Zwingmann and Early also testified that, the doorman was very boisterous and appeared to have been drinking. Lawyer Alexander claims that the door condition was the result of the abuse that was heaped upc him wh ich greatly excited him. Gibbons has been twenty years on the force. WILL FORM A COMPANY. Plan hy Which Mr.

McDonald May Qualify Rapid Transit Commission Meets To day. The Rapid Transit Commissioners met this afternoon to receive a report from the special committee which had been In conference with August Belmont regarding the bonds to he furnished by Contractor John B. McDonald. At last Monday's session Mr. Orr and Control ler Coler were requested to act upon this committee.

They met Mr. Belmont. Mr. McDonald and his counsel. Delancv Nicoll, yesterday and talked over the character of the securities to be furnished for the safe carrying through of the contract.

Mr. Coler left his office at noon to day and went down to Wall street, presumably to meet Mr. Orr and the contractor and his associates for another cenference before the commis i sion's session. Mr. Orr was uncommunicative to day re garding the progress of the negotiations.

He was asked to divulge the names of some of the men interested with Mr. McDonald, but said he could not do so, as he did not know who i they were. He would not talk about the report to be presented to the commission. I Contractor McDonald also declined to talk, i declaring there was nothing new to be told at present. Mr.

McDonald and Mr. Ntcoll were in conference this morning, The intention of the commission in naming the special committee mentioned was to have it confer with the contractor and Mr. BeimoiH and find out exactly what is proposed to be done about the securities required. The re port is expected to contain the detailed plan arranged by Mr. Belmont to enable Mr.

Mc Donald to qualify for the work. This plan is understood to provide for the formation of a construction company, which is so far ar ranged for that Mr. Belmont wlil be able to explain exactly the character of the bonds to be furnished and the men who will furnish them. PEIRSON WILL CASE SETTLED. Disinherited Son Receives a targe Part of the Estate by an Appellate Court Decision.

The Appellate Division has decided the controversy over the will of William G. Peirson, a weaithy cement pipe manufacturer, who died on September 3, ISf'G. The case came up on a submission of a question in the case of James A. Murtha and Thomas Connor, as executors and trustees of the will, against George Wilcox as executor of Martha B. Pelr son and of William B.

Pelrson and Edward L. Peirson. By the second article of the will of William G. Peirson he gave to his son. William B.

Peirson. only $100, on the ground stated in the will, that the son had been undutiful to him in many ways and that he should not participate in the estate. died on September and left all of her estate to William li. Peirson. the son who had been disinherited by her husband.

The father died on April 1. the grandson died on November 20, I before reaching his majority. The con frove'i'sy was whether, under these cireum i stances, the share of the residuary estate left to the had ever become vested so thai she might dispose of it by her will. The plaintiffs eia.med that it had not become so vested an 1 Wilcox, the executor of Mrs. Peir sc and William B.

Peirson, claimed that it had. i Justice Ilartlett, writing the opinion, decides in favor the disinherited son. saying that the intention of the testator in the first will 1 was to provide for his wife, his Edward K. and his grandson, William L. Peirson, and that the postponement of the division of the Estate until the death of the testator's father, Ivirson, was simply a means of in i suring to the father the income provided for the will.

The claim of the plaintiffs, that, by this Interpretation the disinherited son will receive a large part of the testator's es late, against the testator's expressed wishes, 1 Is decided by his honor to be untenable, be cause it could no more have influenced the testator's disposition of the estate than If Mrs. Peirson had left her share to an utter stranger. A COLLECTOR SHOOTS HIMSELF. Because he was short in his accounts with, a Life Insurance Company of Newark, N. Louis Guillemot.

24 years of age, of 00 I West. Houston street, Manhattan, a collector, attempted suicide this morning by shooting, 'himself in the left breast In the rear of a I grocery at 14 Macdougnl street. He wan taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, where it is feared I he will die. i FOR MCCARTNEY'S PLACE Any Effort to Name Senator Mitchell for the Leadership Will Be Opposed.

BRYAN ARRIVES IN MANHATTAN. Went to Plainfleld, Where He Will Speak This Afternoon To Be Back To night. The death of Street Cleaning Commissioner James McCartney means a war for the leader ship of the Thirty fifth Assembly District, Manhattan, over which he has presided for a long time. It was his intention, prior to his death, to avert the clash by naming Senator Mitchell as his successor, but his plans were never realized. That Senator Mitchell will endeavor to take the place made vacant by Commissioner McCartney's death, there is not the slightest doubt, but any advances he may make will be met by Louis H.

Haffen. who has already declared himBelf a candidate for the leadership. There is a deal of feeling between the friends of McCartney and those of Haffen. Some time ago, with a view, it is said, of settling the leadlership on Senator Mitchell, Commissioner McCartney caused a committee of five to be appointed from the members of the general committee, whose duty would be the filling of any vacancies that might occur. Commissioner McCartney was then considering the advisability of ceasing his political activity, owing to the enfeebled condition of his health.

The committee was made up entirely of McCartney men. Their appointment was the signal for a protest from the Haffen men, who named an auxiliary committee. Any attempt on the part of the McCartney committee to designate a leader will result in a bitter protest, which will carry the matter into the Tammany Hall executive committee for settlement. From an excellent Tammany source an Eagle reporter learned to day that a contest for the succession would be made at the ward primaries for the election of delegates to the state convention. It is said, too, on excellent authority that the brewers of the locality, and there are a number of them In the Thirty fifth District, are opposed to Haffen and will do their utmost to defeat him.

While the rumblings of war attending the succession In the Democratic leadership arc going on there is much Interest and speculation as to who will succeed McCartney in the Street Cleaning Department. John F. Car roll, the leader of Tammany Hall in Richard Croker's absence, was asked by an Eagle reporter this afternoon if he had heard of any candidates for the place. He said he had not and did not. expect to hear of any until after Commissioner McCartney's funeral.

The Tammany leaders for the most part are naming Deputy City Clerk Nicholas J. Hayes, leader of the Thirty third District, and Pcrcival E. Nagle. leader of the south side of the Thirty fourth, as the two men who stand the best chance of succeeding McCartney. In the gossip of to day there was no emphatic hankering after the place.

The Tammany leaders appreciate it is a difficult berth and one in which it will be hard to give satisfaction. Hayes, it is understood, is willing to take the place and, incidentally, make any sacrifices its acceptance may entail. Colonel Bryan Stops in Hew York oh His Way to Plainfleld, N. J. Colonel William J.

Bryan arrived in this city at the Grand Central Depot at 11:05 this morning from Hartford, and immediately left for Plainfleld, N. where he will speak this afternoon. Colonel Bryan received an ovation when he walked up the platform of the tsation. At the depot to meet Colonel Bryan were Congressman William Sulzer; State Senator Daly of New Jersey and Dr. J.

H. Glrdner and several others. There was a coach waiting at the depot but Colonel Bryan was so pressed by requests for handshakes from the crowd that he was delayed. Colonel Bryan, Congressman Sulzer and Senator Daly of New Jersey entered' a coach and were driven to the Liberty street station. Mr.

Bryan said that he was to make an address at 1 o'clock in Plainfleld, N. J. He will return In time to eat dinner at the house of Dr. John H. Girdner at 31 West Forty fifth street, with Tom L.

Johnson. O. H. P. Belmont, former Governor James S.

Hogg of Texas, the Rev. Father Ducey, C. C. Hughes, H. Gallagher and Philo S.

Bennett. The dinner will begin at 6:30 o'clock. Colonel Bryan is to speak before an audience of Grand Army men at Carnegie Hall to night on "Pending Problems." An admission fee will be charged and scores of Tammany men will be in attendance. General Sickles believes there will be no more regard for Mr. Bryan's views if they turn on the questions contained In the last national platform than there was in 1896.

There has been some suggestion that Bryan's speech might have a tendency to disrupt the Grand Army, but the suggestion Is scouted in Grand Army circles. MAY RESTORE BUSINESS. Water Eront Men Expect That the Warehouse Company Failure "Will Have a Good Effect. Conditions on the wnterfront remain unchanged by the collapse of the warehouse trust. There seems to be a tendency to clean out the stores, however.

At Robinson's, a quantity of sisal hemp is being taken away in lighters. A lot of Java sugar in baskets is being taken away by the sugar trust from Robinson's and from Beard's Amity street stores. The grain elevators are practically idle, with the exception that Master's is taking In some corn and at Dow's the Portuguese bark Nanny has arrived to load 60,000 bushels of grain for Lisbon. She is very tender and her ballast can only be taken out as fast as these sections can be loaded wdth grain, lest she turn The Nanny Is the vessel which took the remarkable time of ninety six days to cross the Atlantic from Oporto. Captain Joseph Souza, her master, was taken ill on the voyage over and died of berri berri, in the Long Island College Hospital, after being removed from the ship.

The vessel was quArantined and disinfected, as coming from a port Infected with the bubonic plague. In the Atlantic Dock there are fewer railroad cars than have been seen there lately. This is probably due to the fact that the African ships loading there now will not carry any hay. No one has been heard to exorens a word of regret for the failure of the Warehouse Company. On the contrary It is hoped that the failure will tend toward restoring business.

There Is scarcely a business concern along the waterfront that does not claim to have been a loser by its operation. The loss of shipping ha3 Injured storekeepers of all kinds, while manufacturers have been mulcted In landing charges. Ship owners and agents say they have been hampered by the uncertainty or where their ships were to bo sent, a practice believed to be the result of a deslro to force them into renting piers. The loss to labor hns been immense A conservative man Interested in the waterfront business, who has an accurate knowledge of all the conditions, past and present said to an Eagle reporter to day that he believed the loss In wages alone during the past five years would fully aggregate $2 300 000, or more than $10,000 monthly. This statement refers not only to the amount lost by the driving away of trade but to the cutting down all around.

Soma of the old superintendents were cut down from a year to $1,500, or Wharfingers were discharged or made do double duty, while the office staffs were mostly dispensed with. When the grain stores were full, an army of men was employed In keeping the grain in condition. When the storage shrunk from 10,000,000 to 2,500.000 bushels of course most of these men were thrown out of Jacob Marcus Is Accused of Taking a False Oath in an Application. MAJOR MORLE MAKES A REPLY. He Says the Grand Jury Presentment Is Based on Untrue Statements.

A second arrest was made this morning under the Indictments found yesterday by the Federal Grand Jury in the matter of alleged illegal naturalizations. This was of Jacob reus who, li was stated, keeps a cafe in Grand street, Manhattan. He was arrested by Deputy United States Marshal John E. Thorne and taken before Judge Thomas, who held him in $2,500 bail, in default of which he was taken to Raymond street jail. There are two indictments against Marcus, the one upon which he was arrested staling that on July 1S9P, he took a false oath before Commissioner Percy G.

P. Gilkes In an application for naturalization papers. Adolph Hoffman, who was arrested yesterday morning, was admitted to bail by Judge Thomas under bonds. Hoffman will have to plead to seven indictments. He was represented by Foster L.

Backus, former district attorney lor Kings County. it was developed that practically all of the indictments found by the Grand Jury are against residents of Manhattan. For the ar rest of these men bench warrants have bten issued by Judge Thomas and until they are taken into custody their identity will not bo disclosed. The presentment handed up to Judge Thomas by the January Federal Grand Jury yesterday was the main topic of discussion in government official circles this morning. Many opinions were given pra and con on the scandals supposed to have been unearthed, and which resulted in the finding of forty nine indictments.

One opinion was that 'It was unfortunate that the strictures of the jury against Naturalization Commissioners Morle and Gilkes were of such a character that at this time they cannot either bo adequately answered or disproved. Major Morle this morning prepared the following statement which, he said, wasall that hecould or would say at present, being satisfied that the development of the case would be his best defense: "Those of my friends who know me best will see that the presentment made by the Grand Jury to Mr. Edward B. Thomas. Judge of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York, is based en false statements presented before them, emanating from a vindictive I believe that the Grand Jury has been misled: being ignorant of the vindictive spirit actuating the false representations made before It.

Those who do not know mc personally, but only from the reputation of twenty nine years' honorable connection with the United Stated courts, upon reading the opinion of Judge Thomas of January 15, and published in the newspapers at the time, will also see the motive of the United States District. Attorney in obtaining ex parte such a presentment, and future evenris will prove to my personal friends, and to those to whom I am known by reputation, as well as to the public at large, all the fact.3." Commissioner Percy G. P. Gikes, who is also one of the clerks of the. District Court, would say, nothing in reply tu the Grand Jury's recommendations.

District Attorney Pettit would not talk about the action of the Grand Jury, other than to say that the presentment made was the work of the jury alone and that he had nothing to do with its preparation. The history of the federal courts in Brooklyn show that heretofore the only convictions found in naturalization cases were the results of the investigations by Major Morle and his official staff. DOYLE TRIAL BEGUN. His Defense Against the Charge of Murder Being Conducted by Xaivyer Ridgway. Officer William Lirr.bprge the Sixty third Precinct was the first witness placed on the stand by Assistant District.

Attorney Littleton when the trial of dames Doyle for the murder of Martin Carey was resumed before Judge Hurd and a jury in Pan I of the County Court to day. Llmbergcr was the officer who found the hclster of the revolver, which it is alleged Doyle used in the shooting. Liinbergcr testified that he found the holster in the yard contiguous with rfpohr's saloon, and it is presumed that it was thrown out of one of the wii.do.vs on the upper floors of the Spohrhouse. The holster was har.ded to witness by Assistant District Attorney Littleton and he identified it. When Mr.

Littleton offered It in evidence Mr. Kidjr.vay. who is defending Doyle, objected, on the ground that it was not found on the pers of the prisoner. The objection was overruled by JudRr. Hurd, and the holster was marked as exhibit.

J. Addison Corwin. police captain, in charge of the Sixty third Precinct, was the next witness called. His cross examination by Mr. Ridgway was sharp.

The captain held hla own with Mr. Ridgway. while he answered all questions promptly. Or. his direct examination Captain Corwin testified that on the night of the tragedy in fipohr's saloon he was on duty at police headquarters.

He went to his own precinct, the Sixty third, about 6:30 in the morning. He made two visits to Bpohr's place. He told of finding some caliber revolver shells in one of the rooms on the first floor above the saloon and also of finding a revolver in the ashes in a stove in one of the rooms. He identified a revolver handed to him as the one he found. When It was offered in evidence Mr.

Ridgwav objected, saying: "It has not been shown" from any evidence so far adduced that Doyle was possessed of a pistol on the night in question. This revolver, therefore, should not be accepted as evidence against him." Judge Hurd overruled the objection. Captain Corwin told of finding some bullet holes in the door of the saloon opening on to Lorlmer street. He said that the bullets entered the door at an angle slanting downward. When the captain was cross examined by Mr.

RidRway the first question was. "You have making extraordinary efforts Convict this haven't you?" "No, sir." replied the captain. "Have you not said that 'we have enough of them on the force (referring to the defendant's and it is time we got rid oi some of "No, sir." emphatically responded the captain. Corwin admitted that he had Mr. and Mrs.

Snohr before him and that he ashed them concerning the shooting. "Whenever they testified anything that was favorable to Doyle." asked Mr. Ridgway, "did you not say to them that vou would not lei their questions be taken down by the stenographer who was present because they were A. No, sir. Q.

Was there not an effort, on your part to have the little girl who "lnH house on the night of the shooting sav that she saw Doyle with a revolver in his hands? A. No, sir. Q. Whenever you found that a witness did not see what you wanted then: to see they were not subpenacd in the ease? A. No, sir.

The trial was continued. SENT TO AN INSTITUTION. Elizabeth Connelly, 10 yiars old, of 157 Forty ninth street, wa tu the Mouse of the Good Shepherd to day by Magistrate Eristow in the Butler street, court. Her father, James Connelly, of the same addtvss. said that hU daughter was willfully disobedient, that she associated with bile and vicious persons and was in the habit of remaining away fiom homo at.

nighu. It was at his reauest that the girl was committed. I i I 1 I i i Admiral and Mrs. Dewey Will Arrive at the Academy at 10:30 o'Clock. TO BE ESCORTED BY TROOP C.

Pinal Arrangements for the Big Reception at the "Union League Club. The arrangements for the sixty second annual ball of the Emerald Society, at the Academy of Music to night, are now complete. Before li o'clock this evening all will be in readiness. The spectacle promises to be one abounding in brilliant features. The decorations arc exceptionally beautiful, green being the predominating color.

The back of the stage is closed off with palms. behind which the music will be screened. Raised above and in front of the stage the word "Emerald" appears in green incandescent lamps, and on either side of this is "1895" and "1900," in frosted incandescent lamps. These are tastefully draped with Southern smllax. The balconies are also richly draped in wild srniiax.

From the lower left hand box. in which Admiral and Mrs. Dewey are to sit, are suspended two American flags, and about these, also, frosted lamps are arranged. In the middle ci the column and overhanging the box appears the Admiral's flag, represented in a bed of immortelles. The background is of white, and directly in the "center the four stars, denoting the rank of admiral, appear in blue of the same flower.

This flag is a beautiful piece of work. Around the border, in artistic arrangement, there is a combination of American beautv roses azalea, genesta plants, Easter lilies, calla lilies, cineralaria and carnations. From all the different columns and from the balconies and the front of the stnue laurel roping branches out and meets in a common i point in the center of the ceiling. A detachment from Troop together with a number of sailors, will act as an escort to 1 the Admiral and Mrs. Dewey.

The partv is expected to reach the Academv at iri sn 1 However, everything will be in readiness for the concert tc begin at 0:30. The dance by the orphans, for whose benefit the ball is given, will take place at 10:30 and the march at 11:00. On the programme eightv sailprs and one hundred and fifty of the cadet corps are listed to dance. There is every promise that the ball will be a splendid success. Mr.

Eyrne. president of the Emerald Association, to day received a telegram from Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McLaughlin and party, from Merritt. presenting their compli ments to Admiral and Mrs.

Dewev and wish ing success to the Emerald ball. As yet. the number of tickets sold and the probable number of people who will be pres ent cannot be stated, but it is safe to say i that it will exceed that of any Emerald ball of recent years. A resolution was recently adopted in the Municipal Assembly relative to the presence i of the Admiral and Mrs. Dewey.

A fine copy of the resolution will be presented to Mrs. i Dewey to night. Plans for Dewey's Reception at Union League Club. The last details for the ble reeeotlnn tc be given in honor of Admiral and Mrs. Dewey, at the Union League Club house tomorrow evening, were completed to day.

Many leading society people of Brooklyn will be present and the affair will be one of the most enjoyable affairs of the season. This is the first public social affair Admiral Dewey has attended since his return from Manila. The reception will be attended by from 2,000 to people. Admiral George Dewey and Mrs. Dewey will be given a welcome at the Union League Club to morrow night by Brooklyn people seldom accorded to anyone.

The auxiliary committee of the Union League Club reception committee met last night, when Chairman Walter Wellington outlined In detail the plans prepared for the affair. The dinner, which will precede the reception, will be given at 6:30 o'clock. In the gymnasium of the club. The reception will follow at closing at 11 P. M.

Admiral and Mrs. Dewey arrived in the city this morning and are staying at the Waldorf Astoria. The Admiral and Mrs. Dewey will spend Thursday very quietiy and to morrow evening at 5:30 o'clock W. E.

Pulsifer. nrest dent cf the Union League Club, will call at the Waldorf Astoria for Mr. and Mrs. Dewey 1 and escort them to the club house on Grant square, this borough. It has been arranged for the Admiral and Mrs.

Dewey to meet the members of the din ner party as soon as they arrive, an informal reception being scheduled for the early part of the evening About 120 people will he present at the dinner. They will include the presidents and other past officers of the club, a few distinguished Brooklyn citizens, naval officers and their wives. The following naval officials and their ladies will be present at the dinner and will occupy places at the table according to their rank: Pay Director and Mrs. Denniston, Barge Office, New York: Medical and Mrs. Walton, naval laboratory; Medical Director and Miss Wood, naval hospital: Medical Director and Miss Woods, Medical Examining Board: Captain and Miss Miller, receiving ship Vermont: Captain and Mrs.

Wildes, captain of Navy Yard: Captain Train, commander battleship Massachusetts; Captain and Mrs. Ashton. Davidson Pump Works; Medical Director and Miss Hawke, Navy Yard; Civil Engineer and Mrs. P. C.

Asserson. Navy Yard; Naval Constructor and Mrs. Bowles. Navy Yard: Commander West, chief aid to Rear Admiral Philip: Commander and Mrs. Swift.

Navy Yard: Commander Speyers and Miss Rolb, Navy Yard: Lieutenant Colonel Muse, United States Marine Corps, and Miss Palmer, Marine Barracks, Navy Yard; Lieutenant Hall and Mrs. Hall. Navy Yard: Lieutenant Dewey and Mrs. Dewey, receiving ship Vermont. Rear Admiral J.

W. Philip will not be present on account of a previous engagement which he made with Naval Branch Young Men's Christian Association workers in the West before the Dewey reception date was fixed. He will not return until late on Friday of this week and has sent a letter of regret. At 8:30 o'clock the big reception will take place in the main assembly room on the first floor of the club house. The reception party will occupy a place near the center of the room on the south side.

The guests will en tor the room by the main door next to the street and leave by the office door, thus avoiding confusion. Most of the members of the club will be accompanied by their la dies, while a few specially invitee! people will bo present. Only a few of the retired rear admirals of the Nnvy have been invited. It if; estimated that, at leas: two thousand peo pie will be present. i The assembly room has been elaborately decorated with hundreds of electric lights and to morrow the rooms are to be further beautified with tropical plants and cut flow ers.

The addition of about K120.000 worth of i choice paintings, the works of the leading artists 01 ibis anei other cities, makes the reception room exceptionally attractive for this brilliant (occasion. The receiving Jlne will be made up as follows: Colonel Hibbard Masters, who will introduce the guests to Admiral and Mrs. Dewey; President W. E. Pulsifer, Mrs.

Charles V. Oridiey. wile rf the: of the Olympla the day the Spanish fleet was sunk In Manila Bay; Marshall P. Davidson, first vice president of the club, and wife; David Thornton, seconel vice president of the club, and wife." The ladles of the reception committee: wili flank the line on either side. After the reception there will be dancing in the gvmna sium.

The guests are to enter the club house from the main entrance on Grant the car riages 10 approacn tne building from that direction, while the Dean street entrance is to be used the exit. Among the other naval officers who will I attend the reception will be the fallowing: I Pjsseel Assistant Surgeon C. E. Riggs. United I States Navy.

Navy Yard; Lieutenant Commander A. E. Dillingham. United States Navy. I battlc Indiana; Ensign W.

A. McClurgM edited Slaiea Navy, battleship Indiana; Can SHOT HIS FATHER AND RAN. Michael McLaughlin Quarreled With Brother and Father Both. Michael McLaughlin, 5" years old, of 359 Sackett street, Is at the Long Island College Hospital suffering from wounds in the face and neck, inflicted, it is said, by his son, Theodore McLaughlin. 10 years old, during a family quarrel at their home last night.

Theodore left house Immediately after the shooting, and although the neighbors could have stopped him they believed his story that he was going for a doctor. Up to a late hour to day he had not been heard from, although the Butler street police hoped to arrest him before night. The surgeons at the hospital say that the chances of McLaughlin's recovery are about even. The shooting was the result of a quarrel between Theodore his brother, Hugh, 24 years old. The father, according to information furnished the police, sided with Hugh, and.

grabbing Theodore by the throat, assaulted him and bit one of his fingers. The attack on Theodore was more than the latter could stand, for he whipped out a revolver and shot the father, as already indicated. Then he lied. MILLER CASE AGAIN ADJOURNED. District Attorney Asked for a Week's Further Delay Hints of Important Developments.

The case of Louis H. Miller, brother of the syndicate man. who is charged with hav ing secreted property belonging to his broth er's creditors, was called In the Court of Spe cial Sessions this morning for trial. Assistant District Attorney McCaffry pleaded for a further postponement or a week on the ground that the District Attorney was not ready to proceed with the case. Oddly enough Mr.

Whitloek. who appeared for Miller, did not make any remonstrance. It is said that the officials of the District Attorney's office believe that there will be an interesting new development in the case within a week. It Is quite clear that the policy of the office is to put off the young man's trial just as long as possible. This policy, it is understood.

Is the result of recent developments in the case against WLlIam F. Miller, the head of the Franklin Syndicate, which went to smash at its office, 144 Floyd street, after the Eagle's exposure of the methods of doing business there. To day's case was finally put over for a week and the ball In the case was continued. HER HONEY WAS LOCKED UP. White Man and Colored Man Had a Bow and All About a Letter.

A very stout colored woman In an excessively hysterical condition created a sensation in the corridor leading to the Adams street court this morning by wailing and screeching. A court officer asked her to explain the' cause of her woe and she answered, tearfully: "Dey've arreeted ma' darlin' boy; mah honey, dear. Whaw've dey put him?" Just at that minute a white man, with his head swathed in bandages, stumbled up the step'3 to the corridor and the colored woman threw her arms about his neck. He ehook her loose, for he was on his way to court to Gwear to a complaint against James Moore, colored, of 33 Mack place, who was charged with having struck the complainant on the head with a poker. The man who made the charge was Valentine Dietz of Jamaica, L.

and the dark woman was Annie Brown, who lives in one of the few houses In Way Home, a small street in the lower part of the town. The explanation of the case was that Dletz had gone to Moore's house to demand a letter which Mrs. Brown particularly desired to have and which she had written. Moore sayc that when he refused to surrender the letter Dletz drew a revolver on him, and in self defense he picked up poker and knocked the weapon from the man's grasp. Dietz suffered from an ugly wound of the scalp.

Moore did not surrender the letter. He pleaded not guilty In court this morning and the case wns put over by Magistrate Brenner until Thursday for hearing. Dietz left the court room with the delighted Mrs. Brown. PELL THIRTY FEET.

Nevertheless, Pishwiger Will Remain in the Hospital Only 24 Hours. A contused shoulder and face were the only injuries received by Samuel Fishweiger, 18 years, of l.vl Ludlow street. Manhattan, after a fall of over thirty feet yesterday afternoon. He is in St. Catherine's Hospital but will be able to leave there to day scarcely none the worse for his mishap.

Fishwiger Is employed in the factory of the American Veneering Company at 61 Milton street. Shortly before closing time he walked to the edge of the elevator shaft and while peering over to learn the cause of some 3houting below, lost his balance antl fell three floors to the basement. He landed on his shoulder and face and was rendered unconscious. He was quickly revived by Dr. Bodkin of Catherine's Hospital, who removed him to that institution, as it was feared he had received Internal injuries.

BIG RTJBEEB SPECIMENS. The steamer Dominic which arrived to day from Mapaos and Para brought a cargo of crude rubber. In the cargo are two large pieces of rubber of spherical shape, each weighing between 800 and 900 pounds. They are said to be the largest specimens of cruile rubber ever brought to this port and will be sent to the Pan American Exhibition at Buffalo. VENEZUELAN REBELS HE TIKE.

Caracas, Venezuela, February 7 The government troops yesterday again occupied San Fernando de A pure, a town in the State of Apure, seventy miles acuth of Calabozo, which hnd recently been taken by the rcvolutlon i. is. MOVEMENTS OF OCEAN VESSELS. A It IV HI) WEDNESDAY. PKimUAKY V.

I'r nlnsiihi: from Msbon. Sh Kf nsirifcton. from Antwerp. Sm I'rlm'o, from Leghorn. Ss from Cardiff.

AlManca. from Colon. S.s from Oip? Haytl. liomlnie. from Mnnnoa, Ss IlantM, from Port au Prlnee.

IlyuiiUixs, from Cape town. HKIVKD AT FOREIGN l'OJtTS. ai: from New York. pel. iunrti.

Si. 11 in. from New York. nl. firllly.

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(tiirll frnni New Yorls. Kinnnl. nk. from New York, Yokohama. Vli iorl from New JcrK, i Knoni.

SAILED FROM FOREIGN PORTS. for lew YorK, St. Michael. P1IIIIF0BE ADAPTED BY FRIGE. Doorman Furnished to Polish Up the Handle of the Big Front Door.

CLERICAL STAFF ENLARGED. Two Sergeants More at Wight to Copy Out the Orders in a Big Hound Hand. There Is a new luxury in the detectives' office of the local police headquarters. Co incidently with the arrival of Sergeant Humphrey came a real live doorman, who will polish up the door handles, keep the desks carefully dusted and see that the floor is clean and bright. This is one of the results of the brief administration of Captain Price.

He was amazed at the dinginess of the place assigned for the use of the detectives and he made a lively kick to Chief Devery about it. There was no one in the squad who could be expected to sweep up the rooms and the perfunctory work of the cleaners in the building did not suit the energetic captain from the Tenderloin. He was promised a doorman, but the shake up came before the chief had a chance to make the assignment and Mr. Devery did the next best thing. He sent a doorman to help Mr.

Humphrey and to day the new man was busy getting things about the office in ship shape. The new doorman is Doorman Dowling, from the Fort Hamilton station. He has for his new job a brand new suit of clothes and he seems to be glad to be relieved from the duty of handling prisoners. There are no cells at headquarters and the doorman has nothing to do with the prisoners. All that ne is expected to do is to Keep the knobs of the door shining, to see to It that dust is eradicated and once in a while to sweep and mop the floor.

Sergeant Metcalf, who Is still on duty as the chief of the clerical staff In the detectives' office, will have two sergeants to aid him by to night, it is believed. It is the purpose of Sergeant Humphrey to have assistance In the way of uniformed men and it is likely that the daily afternoon batch of letters from Mulberry street will contain the transfers of two desk sergeants to the detectives' office. The men who were sent out on post are not faring so badly. Late last night there was ai telephone message from Chief Devery to Deputy Chief M.ickellar, directing that all of the men who had been transferred as detective officers to precincts as patrolmen should be assigned to plain clothes duty and that they should be reserved for detective work in the precincts. This tempered the wind to the shorn lambs and this morning the uniforms that had been taken from closets where they had lain for years were laid away.

It is believed that the order from the Chief was the result of a sturdy protest that Commissioner Abell made yesterday afternoon, when he learned that all of the deposed headquarters men in Manhattan had been assigned to duty as a personal staff of plain clothes men for the Chief. Mr. Abell is jealous of his own borough's welfare and he thought that there had been an invidious distinction made, it is believed. Deputy Chief Mackellar sent out an order to the effect that the men should be assigned to duty as plain clothes officers. There was no provision for the three roundsmen who have been put back in uniform, but It Is not at all unlikely that they will be sent back to detective duty before long.

They have been schooled In the work and it is believed will be more efficient as detecttves than as uniformed roundsmen. Deputy Chief Mackellar had nothing to say when he heard that he would likely, ere long, have a personal staff of officers In plain clothes which would do the detective work of the office. It is believed, though, that he is not in sympathy with the movement, as he thinks that the men can do better work In their precinct3. He declined tn discuss the matter this morning, though, and simply admitted that he had sent out an, order providing that, the men should be returned to the plain clothes force in the precincts. ENVELOPE MAN ARRESTED.

Offered to Sell One With a Prize in It to Sergeant John O'Heilly. "Here, gentleman, try your luck," said a man. to Sergeant John O'Reilly of the Gates avenue precinct, who was standing with a friend on the corner opposite the station house, near Throop avenue, yesterday after noon. I "What have you there?" asked the inqulsl tlve police officer. 1 "Envelopes with money and jewelry prizes I In them," replied the man.

"It only costs you a quarter to try your luck." The sergeant didn't try his luck, bul marched the man, Vi his great surprise, into the station house, where he was held on the charge of peddling without a license. He gave his name as David A. Delmlnto and said that ho lived at 1,370 Uroadway. The prisoner was arraigned In the Gates avenue court this morning before Magistrate Worth. He denied that he was peddling prizes but was selling; needles and said that ho was told ho did not need a license.

He was held for examination. TESTING A FIRE EXTINGUISHER. A board consisting of Commandor H. N. Manney of the equipment department of the Urcoklyn Navy Yard, Lieutenant G.

E. Burd or the chief engineer's ofTles and Assistant Naval Conslructor IT. G. Smith, Is now examining a new patent (Ire extinguisher with a view tit Introducing the apparatus In the Navy Yard. It Is known as the Rutherford system.

The frequent llrcs which havo occurred at the yard have caused the Navy Department at Washington much uneasiness and a complete system of fire extinguishers is now to he introduced hcre Manhattan, vfas found in his room this morning overcome by gas from a stove in tha room, tic was taken to Harlem Hospital. THE WEATHER. f. INDICATIONS TILL P. M.

TO MORROW. "Washington, February 7 For Eastern New York: i Rain with warmer in the interior; Thursday, rain; colder by Thursday night; fresh to brisk, easterly windy. LOCAL PROBABILITIES. Rain to r.lRht and Thursday; colder by Thurs' day nlKht; fresh to brisk east winds. I At noon the Eagle's mercurial barometer regis i ni Ti rlonn I yesterday.

The Indication is fair weather. Record of the thermometer as kept at the Brook lyn Daily Eagle Oillce: J. A. M. to day J0 10 A.

1 4 A 12 42 6 A. '1 P. 4ft 5 A. 36 3 P. 42 Average temperature to day Average temperature corresponding day last yw Si)H HIGH WATER.

Following Is the official announcement of th time and duration of high water at New York and Sandy Hook for to morrow, February 8: A M. Tims'Helcht a. U.I Feet. P. M.

TimajUelfftat H. Keit. Uura'n of Jltlsc.i Fall Ik. mvh. m.

Now York 3:00 8:35 'Jj 6:6 Kmidy Hook (I 3.02 i 3.7 'I The sun will rise to morrow at A M. and will set at P. M. INDEX. in To PAOB.

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