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2JW YOBK, FBIDAY, JULY 14, 1899. SHERIFF COTJLSEN ARRESTED. A FIGHT IN AMBUSCADE. BERNARD PETERS DIES AT mm NE. over to his son, Thomas P.

Peters, now the present editor in chief, and James Sperry and William C. Bryant, his two sons in law. In Brooklyn Mr. Peters was always a recognized force In journalism. In the Eastern District he was a consulted leader on all important public questions, and he will be remembered throughout the whole city as a man of sound judgment, fearless and bold in the cause of the Republican party and a citizen whose example was always for good.

statement. The letter carriers of Boston held meeting and requested his reinstatement. Pittsburg letter carriers followed suit. And so was presented the strange spectacle politicians and Post Office subordinates trying to overrule an honest official; Boston and Pittsburg carriers presuming to tell the authorities at Washington how a Brooklyn Postmaster should run his office. In the face of all this secret opposition, of which the public knew nothing.

Postmaster Wilson stood by his guns, confidently relying upon the Integrity of the administration at Washington. His confidence was not misplaced. The authorities at Washington approved of the action taken by the Brookiyn Postmaster. He would undoubtedly have resigned had he been reversed. The foregoing are a few, but a fe.v of the real reasons why the bone hunting, professional Republican spoilsmen of Brooklyn would be pleased to see Postmaster Wilson removed.

A representative of an influential morning paper informs me that he has run across the trail of news fakirs who bave visited several prominent citizens of late in the search of news, and introduced themselves with the. remark: "I was sent to you by 'Mul' of the Eagle." That is one way of trying to keep pace with the enterprising reporters of this paper. "Mul" has never authorized the statement quoted. He always gets his news in person, and has no jurisdiction over uhe HE DAILY EAGLE Is published every afternoon on the working days of tin? week and on SUNDAY MOliNINGS. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION per year; Cor six months; SI per month; Sunday edition SI.

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when not exceedlns five lines. Tteileloi'S nptJcr S. iiO conts frit erich Incer GENERAL C1APP DEAD. He Was One of the Best Known Military Men in Connecticut. Hartford, July 14 General John B.

Clapp, aged 57 years, one of the best known military men in the state, died early this morning. He has been failing for some time and ou Monday was brought here from Madison, where he had gone in the hope of benefiting his health. He died of Bright's disease, with complications, and was conscious to within hair an hour of the end. General Clapp was born in Wethersfield. oa July 14, IS 12.

He enlisted in the Fifteenth Connecticut July 21, ISC for bravery at Antietam was made a first lieutenant. He was appointed adjulant January 9, 18ti3. He the seige of Plymouth. April 20, 1864, he received the brevet rank of captain for meritorious conduct. After the war he was appointed assistant adjutant general on the staff of Genera! C.

R. Prentice of the First Brigade. In 1S73 he was promoted to be lieutenant colonel of the First Regiment and In 1874 became colonel. He was appulnted brigade inspector in 1878 on the stoff of General Stephen R. Smith and was later promoted to the staff of Governor P.

C. Lounsbury as commissary general. General Clapp held many city offices. He was a Mason and a prominent member of several military organizations. One son survives him.

THE NEW SKENE HOSPITAL. Its Site Will Probably Be on the Park Slope More Money Is "Wanted. The site for the new Skene Hospital for Brooklyn, which was incorporated at Albany yesterday, has not yet been determined upon. Several pieces of land are under consideration, and it Is practically certain that the one selected will be somewhere on the Park Slope. The staff of the hospital has not been selected.

The next thing now in the work of progress will be to raise more money. Hugo Hirsh, one of the incorporators, said to an Eagle reporter to day: "I believe I may say that the outlook in that direction Is most encouraging. We have already received from to $30,000 voluntarily in cash, and assurances of a desire to contribute a much larger amount. The hospital will be a credit to ttiia oorougn, and the incorporators feel confident of a liberal response to any appeal for contributions it may he decided to make." "Has the site been determined upon?" "Practically, but not absolutely. I cannot Kay more than that your guess that it will be somewhere on the Park Slope is correct." The actual name of the new institution will be the "Skene Hospital for Self Supporting Women." It will be supported by voluntary contributions and will, of course, receive the usual assistance from tne state for incorporated institutions of that nature.

It will be controlled by the following directors: John Claf lin, Hugo Hirsh. Charles A. Moore, Alexander E. Orr, Royal C. Peabody, Alexander J.

C. Skene, Charles G. Sproul and Spencer Trask. One of the features of the new hospital will be its dispensary. STATE BOARD DISAPPROVES.

It Will Not Grant the Application of the Woodbine Nursery Other Matters Disposed Of. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, July 14 Some time ago the Wood He Had Long Been a Conspicuous Figure in Social and Journalistic Life. FUNERAL SERVICES TO MORROW In May last He Was Taken to Connecticut With the Hope of Prolonging Life. Bernard Peters, proprietor of the Brooklyn Times, died at his home at Marbledale, Lichfield County, yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock, of paralysis. Mrs.

Peters, as well as the immediate members of their family, Thomas P. Peters, associate editor of the Times; Mrs. James A. Sperry and Mrs. William C.

Bryant, were at his bedside at the time of his death. Mr. Peters was first attacked by the ailment which ended his life on January 1, 1895. He was confined to his bed for several months afterward, but finally recovered. During the past eeven or eight months he gradually grew weaker bodily, although mentally remaining as vigorous as in earlier life.

Toward the middle of May last his family, on the advice of Mr. Peters' physician, Dr. Fiske of Bedford avenue, had him removed to Marbledale, his summer home. Although they gave up hopes that he might outlive the year, It was thought that the change might BERNARD PETERS. The Former Editor in Chief of the Brooklyn Daily Times, Who Died Yesterday.

prolong Mr. Peters' life to some extent. At first he seemed to improve somewhat, but during the past two or three weeks he had been failing rapidly. The body will be remov to Mr. Peters' late home Lee some time to day.

It has biw. arranged that it will be conver by sonn train leaving Marbledale in the afternoon and that it will reach the Grand Central station, Manhattan, about 6 o'clock. Funeral services will be held in All Souls' Unlversalist Church, South Ninth street, to morrow evening, and will be conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Dr. John Coleman Adams.

The interment will be in Cypress Hills Cemetery. Preliminary services were held at noon today at Marbledale, at which the Rev. P. S. Ockford, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church, officiated.

The nallbearers at the funeral will be B. W. Wilson, Felix Campbell, Edward Merritt, John Mollenhauer, George H. Fisher, Darwin R. James, Andrew D.

Baird, General C. T. Christcnsen, William Dix, Arthur C. Thomas, William Lamb. J.

W. Van De Water. Francis M. Young, George B. Whiting and T.

S. Ockford. Bernard Peters was born in the Rhine Palatinate, in the picturesque old town of iJurk heim. about twenty miles from Heidelberg, in, the month of October, 1S27. Seven years later his father.

John Philip Peters, emigrated to the United States and settled in Marietta, then the pioneer town of Ohio. Here Bernard Peters passed his childhood and youth. He early displayed so much talent that his entry into one of the liberal professions was considered advisable and. although reverses prevented him from devoting his whole time to the study of law, he managed by diligence and perseverance to acquire some mastery of its details, while attending at the same time to the duties of a clerkship in a country store. His preceptor in his law studios was Ferdinand Buell.

one of the three examiners before whom Rutherford B. Hayes He Is Charged With Allowing Prisoner Henning to Escape. July 11 A federal warrant has been issued for the arrest of. Sheriff Coulson of Lasalle County. A curious story is back of the warrant.

Some time ago, in the United States Court here, William H. Henning of Chicago was sentenced to the Ottowa jail for uine months for running a bucket shop. It is alleged that Henning lias been allowed by the sheriff to go at will about the Town of Ottawa. The charge against the Sheriff is "permitting a prisoner to escape," although Henning has not fled and apparently never had any intention leaving Ottawa till the expiration of his term of imprisonment. FLATBUSH TBTJST COMPANY.

Formal approval to begin business having been received by the Flatbush Trust Company from the State Superintendent of Banking, the following directors and officers were formally elected last evening the company's office, 822 Flatbush near Caton: William Brown, president; John Z. Lott, vice president, and John H. Ditmas. second vice president; Gustave A. Jahn, third vice president, and secretary, Edmund D.

Fisher, for ten years with the Brooklyn Trust Company. Directors, Homer L. Bartlett, M. William Brown, F. A.

M. Burrell, Pomeroy Burton, George C. Case, Warren Crutkshank, Joseph F. Curren, Henry B. Davenport, John H.

Ditmas, Edmund H. Driggs, George M. Henderson, F. W. Holmes, Gustave A.

Jahn, John Lcfferts. John Z. Lott, G. W. May nard, Theodore Maynard, Lewis E.

Plerson, D. S. Ramsay, George H. Roberts, A. W.

Schmidt and Henry W. Sherrill. The members of the executive committee are William Brown, F. A. M.

Burrell, Warren Cruikshank, Henry B. Davenport, John H. Ditmas, Gustave A. Jahn, John Z. Lott, Lewis E.

Pierson, A. W. Schmidt. Henry W. Sherrill and Richard Young.

The company's stock is well distributed in the section from which business will be solicited. It Is expected that the company will begin business on July 19. LTJMBEB MEN IN SESSION. Milwaukee. July 14 About sixty members of the National Hardwood Lumber Men's Association gathered in the second annual convention at the Hotel Pfister yesterday.

The principal business to come before the convention is said to be the establishment of the uniform rules in the trade. Yesterday's proceedings wero confined to a report of the committee on the revision of the constitution and the election of officers. Several changes were made in the constitution, including the admission of Canadian members. PABIS FASHIONS TJP TO DATE. From the Eagle Paris Bureau.

53 Rue Cambon, through the courtesy of Abraham Straus. Tan cloth suit trimmed with rows of machine stitching and jet buttons, laced with black satin cord. FTJNEEAL OF MBS. G. T.

HOBBY. The funeral service of Mrs. George T. Hobby was held at her late residence, the Eagle Building, Washington street, laet evening. There was a large attendance of the family and its friends.

The Rev. L. Mason Clarke, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Henry street, officiated, having traveled the greater part of the day to reach the city in time for this purpose. His address to the mourners was on "The Christian Mother In the Christian Home." Two appropriate hymns were sung by a trio. The service throughout was remarkably impressive.

Hobby, after a long sickness, during which she was patient and resigned, passed away on Tuesday, having reached her 6fth year. DIED. ARMSTRONG On July WIS. T. S.

ARMSTRONG. In his 32d year. Funeral services Saturday at 2 o'clock at 15 Greene av. Brooklyn. Funeral private.

BARNES Suddenly, on July FIDELIA beloved wife of John Barnes. Friends and relatives are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral services at her late residence. 243 Carlton av, on Friday July 14, jit 3 o'clock. Interment at convenience of family. 13 2 EENSON Entered into rest, after a lingering illness, on July ia.

1839. JAMES HENKO.W Funeral from his late residence, fyO Fulton st. on Sunday. July 1G. lSItll.

at 2 P. M. Members of Joppa LudKe, F. and A. and also of Alpha I.odffe No.

9. Knights of I'ythlas. and friends and relatives of the family are respectfully Invited to attend. I'lease omit flowers. (Belfast, Ireland, papers please copy.) 13 3 BOC1UKT At Uulcevillc.

I'isler County, N. on Tuesday, July FLORENCE MAY 130GF.RT, in the 19th year of her age. Funeral services at her lute residence, 3S Hart st, Friday evening, July 14. at a o'clock. Interment at ltldgov.ood.

N. J. 2 BYRNE? On Wednesday, July 12, ISPs, MICMAICL BYRNES, niltlve of Kind's County, Ireland. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from his late homo, 2SU Nineteenth st; thence to St. John the F.vanKelist's Church, at 9:30 A.

en July CHATI'IELD At her Summer homo. Brnoksvale. on Wednesday. July heart failure. EL17.AHKTH BROOKS ('HATFIELD, wife of Henry W.

chatlickl of lircklyn. Funeral services at Ilrooksvale, Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Interment at Hridseport, Conn. 2 LE ROY On Friday, July 14, Dr. JL'DSON CALKINS I.E HOY.

Funeral services July 4 at his late residence. r7 Tompkins av. Interment private. 14 2 NATTRAriS At EfCK Harbor City, X. July 12, FELIX ALBERT, infuntson of Frank E.

and Lizzie Nattrass. Funeral services at residence of his parents, :33 St. Marks av, Urouklyn. July 14. at 2 I'.

M. PETERS On Thursday, July 13, ISM), at Marble dale. Litchfield County, BERNARD PETERS of Brooklyn, N. Y. Funeral services at All Hodls' Church, South NMnth st, on Saturday.

July 15. at 1'. M. Interment at convenience of family. 1'Iease omit (lowers.

11 2 S1NEY On FrUlny, July 14, ISiiti, of pneumonia, at residence of her daURhter, 181 St. Johns place, ANNA M. WYOKOFF, wife of John Slney, in her G9th year. Relatives and friends are Invited to the funeral from 1S1 St. Johns place, on Sunday, ICth, at 3 P.

M. THOMAS On Friday momlnn. at hU residence 341 Court St. ROBERT TPOMAS Hotlce of funeral hereafter. CUTS UP QUEER AiiTlGS.

Snaps an Axle at Foot of Curve on Brooklyn Side of Bridge. MILD STAMPEDE FOLLOWS. Elevated Passengers Transferred Trolley Cars No Interruption to Morning Traffic. to bridge cable train, consisting of five carSi Jumped the track in rounding the curve at the Brooklyn end of the bridge this morning at 8:30 o'clock. Only one car left the rails, but the track and cable pulleys were, badly damaged.

All cars were crowded, as the bridge traffic at this hour is unusually heavy. Motor car No. 102 was doing the pulling and made it at rather a rapid rate in rounding the curve. Just here the track is down grade and th sharp incline gives the train a natural momentum. Happily, the train had reached almost the bottom of this when the accident happened Most of the passengers were buried in their morning papers.

Sjme were on the platforms as the transfer cargo from the elevated trains was large. Juiit where the motor takes a good grip on the cable and shoots up to the main eminence of the bridge a sudden jar went through the whole train. All cars careened to the left. The cable began to thump violently. In the front car there came a mild stampede, a8 it looked for a time as if the decided lurch would turn the whole car on its head.

For. eight yards t'he car bumped over the beams and stretchers. As soon as it was stopped the passengers began to jump off and make their way back to the trolley lines. Some leaped over the railings and walked across. It was found that the axle of the motor car had snapped in half.

In some way a flaw had come in the iron round or it had worn away, for it broke clean. The stretchers were cut up for several yards. All cats except the one derailed were quickly pulled back to the Brooklyn shed and those passengers who had not alighted transferred to a large shuttle train which was put In operation on one track. Transfer ptissengers from the elevated trains were cared for. Guards were placed at the bridge entrances and all passengers from the elevated trains furnished with transfers to the trolley cars.

Trallic, except for tne track of the bridge, was not delayed or interrupted. The car with the fractured axle was jacked up and trundled back to the yards. The cables were straightened and the track placed In shape. WATER SUPPLY BILLS. A Twenty sixth Ward Man Complains of the System of Charging Interest.

Thomas Krekeler of Hamilton avenue and Fifteenth street, is on the war path against the Long Island Water Supply Company for charging its customers, he says, 6 per cent, if there is any delay in the payment of the latter's bills. He says that there is no good reason for nor equity in it and he contends that it is in the line of an unfair discrimination toward the citizens of the Twenty sixth Ward. In speaking of the matter to an. Eagle reporter to day he said: "The Long Island Water Supply Company, which supplies old East New York, or the Twenty sixth ard. with water, claims that "The Long Island Water Supply Company has to get its water from the City of Brooklyn.

It would seem, under the circumstances, that ill is only fair that the inhabitants of the Twenty sixth Ward or those who take the water from the Water Supply Company should understand that the company has no right to charge this per cent, on bills not paid by the lirst of May. The City of New York or the old City of llrooklvn grants the public from May 1 to August 1 the privilege of paying their water rates witho it a penalty, and as long as the Twenty sixth Ward is a part of the City of New York as well as a part of the old City cf Brooklyn. I cannot understand why the citizens of the Twenty sixth Ward should not ctiiov the same privileges as residents of other wards of the city." Mr. Krekeler said that there was nothing on the bills to show that ihe company has the right to make the charge interest. He said that the company's representative simply said: "Pay your bills, and if you do not pay according to our way.

we will cut off your water supply. President Gray of the Long Island Water Company, when seen at the offices of the company, on Fulton street, wiih regard to the complaint of Mr. Krekeler. sai 1: "The system under which collections for tha use ot water supplied by tbia company ar made cannot be considered a burdensome one. The bills are due on May 1 and we allow rebate, arranged on a graduated scale, for settlement.

The customer has all of that month to pay his bill. The estimate for the supply of water Is made wltii the object of giving the advantage of this system of rebates to customers. I have forgotten exactly how this scale is graduated, but It is not true that a customer pays the full premium of 6 per cent. If he does not settle his hill in advance and on the 1st of May. He pays a portion of that 0 per cent, for bills unpaid in May, an added portion for bills unsettled until June, and so on.

"I cannot see why this arrangement I burdensome or unfair. Practically, the same buslnei principle is in force in almost all commercial houses: that is. customers are given a discount on what are considered cash transactions, or for the payment of a bill when It is presented. We do not Intend to make conditions; liard for our customers, and I do not think that they can fairly be consider unreasonable or inequitable." CITY RAILROAD ORTHOGRAPHY. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: It is currently reported that the Brooklyn City Railroad Company is now putting its employes of various kinds through a course of civil service sprouts, and that no applicants for positions under the now system are to be accepted unless they pass a satisfactory examination.

Whether the course ranges as high as that prescribed for the scrub women, under the rules, in our glorious new consolidated city, I know not: but the new code on the city railroad inust include the painters, for this startlingly brilliant line confronts five patrons to every seat on the Putnam avenue trolleys: "AS'OID DANCER WAIT UNTILL THE C.Wt STOPS!" Is common intelligence of any value in the railroad business or is it like some of the yellow journal stylt the bigger the bullhead the better the salary? AARON A I 1 1 R. 242 Livingston street. July Li, lslio. KING HUMBERT TO GO TO PARIS. Paris.

July 14 The Rome eorro.si.?nlent of the Figaro states that negotiations have been opened relating to tt visit of King Humbert and Queen Margherita to the Paris Exhibition of 1U0U, which will be preceded by a visit to Paris of the Prince and Princess of Naples and the Duke and Duchess of Aosta. The Kafrle "Pari Bureau. Americans soinir to Paris Rre cordially Invited to visit the Eaglo Purls Uurenu. 53 Rue Camboa. Introductory curds can be obtained at the Kasii In lormatlonBjeau, Eale Building, BrookljrB.

Some of the Beal Beasons 'Why Bepubli can Politicians Desire the Eemoval of Postmaster Wilson A Drunken Letter Carrier and Another Who Had His Face Scratched fcy a Young Married Woman Have Powerful Political Backing Warning Against Frauds. Recently one of the morning papers announced that the leaders of a Republican faction ia Brooklyn intended to prefer charges against Postmaster Wilson with a view to securing his removal from office on the ground that he has been perniciously active in politics. The Postmaster has made no attempt to conceal the fact that he is opposed to a continuance of party management that has been identified closely with men concerned in official, city, contract and political scandals, and whose candidates at two elections were oyprwholmingly defeated. That is one reason why his Republican enemies would like to see him removed, but there are other reasons which have been kept in the background, reasons which may be discerned in the following statement of facts: Since the Postmaster assumed the dutiee of his present office he has removed twenty five or thirty post office employes for cause, drunkenness, neglect of duty and dishonesty being the chief offenses which moved him to summary action, fn most of these cases the offenders sought the aid of the Postmaster's political enemies, some of whom are now ex congressmen and leaders. Mr.

Wilson steadily resisted the influence of these politicians and for several months he and they have been engaged in a conflict behind the scenes unobserved by the public. Here are two cases which illustrate the nature of the conflict waged between the Postnjsrjter and his adversaries: Some months ago a letter carrier while on duty became so thoroughly intoxicated that he fell upon the sidewalk and split his head open. Entering one of the sub stations of the post office the drunken carrier abused the superintendent in ruffianly language, man ifested a desire for a fight and conducted himself generally like a rowdy. As soon as the ease was reported to the Postmaster the carrier was promptly suspended, then the charges against him were carefully investigated and finally the man was removed. But a Republican congressman and several local Republican leaders of greater and lesser degrees went to the front for the dismissed carrier and endeavored to secure a reversal of the Postmaster's action in the case.

These friends of the dismissed carrier tried to go over Mr. Wilson's head at Washington and as a matter of fact did for a time succeed in half persuading the Postmaster's superiors that he had" made a mistake in removing the carrier. The fight against the Postmaster was conducted with such persistency and vigor that the letter carriers made the matter a subject of discussion in the corridors of the Post Office, some approving of the course pursued by their chief, others siding with the politicians arrayed against him. Naturally this sort of thing was calculated to seriously affect the discipline of the force. For if the Postmaster could be overruled by the politicians in one case of flagrant unfitness to wear a carrier's uniform why not in others that might follow? Postmaster Wilson refused to budge one inch from the position he had taken, and met the secret assaults of his opponents with a crushing mass of evidence the guilt of the removed carrier.

To one local Republican leader, Wilson "I will never consent to that carrier's re instatement. He disgraced his uniform and the department. I don't eare how strong he is politically. Sooner than reinstate him I would resign the Postmastership. The people of Brooklyn have a right to demand from rie that every letter carrier in this department shall be sober and honest." The postal authorities at Washington sustained the Brooklyn Postmaster, but that did not end his troubles with tiie politicians.

About three months ago a letter carrier entered a house in the Eastern District and had an altercation with a young married woman. He left the house with the marks of the young woman's finger nails all over his face. Not until ten or twelve days after the incident did the carrier say anything about the matter to his immediate superior. Then he said a woman had snatched a letter from his hand, and that when he tried to recover it she scratched his face. But the young married woman had another story to tell.

One day she appeared at a sub station with a police officer, for the purpose of pointing out the man whose face she had scratched. She said that he had come to the house in which she lived, while her husband wa.s' absent. That as he produced a letter he made an insulting remark, Ahicli she resented sharply, and finally he threw her down. In defending herself she used her finger nails. The young woman desired to identify the carrier for the purpose of causing his arrest.

The superintendent of the station, anxious to save the department from disgrace, advised the woman to forego her determination to have the carrier arrested, and said: "Report the case to the Postmaster and he will see that Justice is done in the ease." The young woman acted upon the advice given to her, and wrote a letter of complaint to the Postmaster, in which she made several Serious allegations. He immediately directed that an investigation be made in the case. An investigation was made by two trusted officials. The woman made affidavit to the truth of her charges. Corroborative evidence showing that the carrier had been engaged in an altercation and struggle with the woman was obtained by the investigators.

Each recommended that the carrier should be removed by the Postmaster. Mr. Wilson gave lo the carrier an opportunity lo prove his innocence, if possible. After weighing all the evidence carefully the Postmaster dismissed the carrier. The carrkr ought to have congratulated himself upon escaping a serious charge hat might have been brought against him in a police court, but, on the contrary, he determined to fight ihe Postmaster.

Republican politicians hurried to Washington to urge upon the postal authorities a reversal of Postmaster Wilson's dismissal. Other Republican politicians tried by persuasion and cajolery, and finally by vailed threats, to secure the dismissed letter carrier's reinstatement. Mr. Wilson resolutely resisted all of these influences and expressed surprise that any one should be desirous of forcing back into the service of the people a man who had clearly shown his unfitness to wear a government uniform. To an ex Congressman the Postmaster said: "You have been deceived concerning this currier.

It is inconceivable that any one knowing all of the facts in this case should ask a reinstatement. I want it distinctly understood that so long as I am postmaster, be it for twenty four hours or until President McKinley's term expires, I will not consent to the retention of any man in my department who he trusted to visit any home in Brooklyn, be it in tenement house or mansion, without conducting himself as a faithful servant of the people. Many of the letters going through this department are delivered at households when the men folks are absent. I must tnBlst that every carrier In this department shall be a man of honor." Finaily the politicians induced the Letter Carriers' Association to back, them in their demands for the dismissed currier's rein bine Nursery of Brooklyn filed with the State il lh( authority to collect the annual Board of Charities an application to be per water charges on the first of May of each mltted to Incorporate tinder the existing law. year.

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C. E. New Bedford, Mass; Miss Mary Dexter, Roojiester: U. S. Lerr New York; BurJon (taylord, Coston: H.

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C. E. Al.lr.iall. M. W.

Tolan. Uruoklyn: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas II. New York; Mr.

and Mrs. S. Hur. eU. H.

Coo.ly,. James T. Greene, C. 0''. tleiinesy, Brooklyn.

The F. r. Fowler. Meturhen. i M.

Vivr. Uorner R. Scnville. W. M.

Xew Xew York; L. Hale. at. Louis. W.

K. Klherun. X. Charles S. Skelton.

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O. Aub. Newark. X. F.

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Boston. Gresh.utu, Saratoga X. Y. GvurLte V. Glantzer, A.

M. Dyer I' Kd hlil.l. New York City; Morris W. Kekojwr Fllza betjl. N.

D. H. Ralston, V. C. Shohmeyer, DECLABED A DIVIDEBTD.

The Willla nisburgh City Fire Insurance Company of Brooklyn has declared a regular dividend of 10 per cent, and an extra one of 2 per cent, out of the earnings of the past six months, payable on demand. This is announced in spite or the general dullness among insurance companies. After the declaration of the dividend $15,173.03 was added to the reserve fcr reinsurance, and the net surplus was also increased. The loss ratio of the Williamsburgh City for the past Hix months ending June 30 was 55 per cent. Marshall S.

Driggs is president of the company. BBOOKLYIT MAN KILLED. Franz Kunst, a provision dealer, living at 18 Ten Eyck street, this borough, was killed In a collision between his wagon and an electric car on Twenty third street, Manhattan, yesterday. Kunst was driving on East Twenty third street in frout of an approaching car. The motorman rang his bell, but Kunst did not get out of the way.

The motorman, being a new man, lost control of the car, vvhieh smashed into the rear of the wagon. Kunst was thrown to the ground with such violence that he sustained injuries from which be died. Peters, the motorman, was locked up on a charge of homicide. HOW UELSON WAS CAUGHT. Detective Lynch Had a Sample of the Young Man's Summer Suit.

A light checked suit of a very pronounced pattern proved to be the undoing of Nelson of 45 Myrtle avenue yesterday afternoon. The police had been looking for Michael and Detective Lynch of Captain Reynold's office had been sent down to Coney Island to And him. The complainant was Louis Nelson, the young man's father, who keeps a haberdashery shop at the number given. On Monday he sent Michael to the Brooklyn Bank to deposit 570. The money was not left there and who is 24 years old and single, disappeared.

Lynch saw a man with a loud suit on the boardwalk at West Brighton yesterday afternoon. He took a good look at a sample of cioth which had been given to him by Nelson's father and it was undeniably the same So tynch went unhesitatingly up to the wearer of the suit and said, boldly: "Mike I want you to come back to town with me! Your father wants to see you." "Oh, about that mosey?" said Mike Vns "ply. Michael said that he did not think that his father would make any russ about It and added that he had no objections to return. He was looked up overnight in the Adams street station and this morning was arraigned in the ams street court. The father said this morning that he did not want to make a complaint of grand larceny against his boy and decided that he could not conscientiously swear that he hod taKen more lhan $25 of his money.

That made the complaint one of petty larceny The lad pleaded not. guilty and hearing was postponed. MW MANUAL TBAINING SCHOOL. Chicago, July 14 Mrs. C.

P. McCormick, widow of the late Cyrus P. McCormick, has signified her intention of establishing and thoroughly equipping a manual training school, to be operated in connection with the S. P. Leon Collegiate Institute at Jackson, Ky.

This Institute is an auxiliary of the University of Kentucky and is located in the heart of the mountains of the eastern part of thft state at the1 county seat of what was once known' at "Bloody Breathitt." Tlio ramoun Mr. uu Mh, Spoopciidylfe Stanley Huntley humorous, sltelchcs. ln. Euglo titKTX 0. St, Price to cents.

bright, reliable and conscientious reporters of the Eagle. If any one comes to you with the statement that he comes from "Mul," please kick him out into the street. MUL. SHORE ROAD ENDS IN SAND BANK Necessity of Completing the Driveway Outlined in Mr. MacKay's Letter to Park Commissioner Brower.

John MacKay of Bay Ridge, in a letter to Park Commissioner George V. Brower, writes as follows relative to the necessity of completing the Shore road: "As chairman of the committee on streets of the Thirtieth Ward Improvement Association, a body representing the electorate of the whole ward, permit mo to call your attention to the fact that the Shore road, as far as it has been completed, ends on the north in a sandbank 15 feet below the level of the surrounding country. It is dangerous In the dark, and in certain seasons is offensive to the neighboring residents on account of tne pond which forms there. Access to the Shore road is, therefore. Impossible except by going around several blocks.

It stops at First avenue, and there remains to be constructed the portion between that avenue and Fort Hamilton avenue. "The city has acquired all of the property between First and Fourth avenues, and it is that portion that we now petition to have constructed, title not having been acquired to all of the land beyond, between Fourth and Fort Hamilton avenues. "Fourth avenue is 120 feet wide, is macadamized south of Sixtieth street, and. according to the plans of the Shore Road Commission, was intended to furnish access to that road to all that section of Brooklyn west of the Park Slope. "Any proper approach from the city should be with the ends of the road, and not with any street which bisects it.

compelling those who wish to view the whole to retrace their steps part of the way. Sixtieth street, six blocks north of the parkway, furnishes at the present time a most desirable approach of this character, it is 100 feet wide and crosses both Fourth and Fort Hamilton avenues. "As over $3,000,000 have been spent in acquiring the property and only a comparatively small amount upon the road in its present Incomplete condition, we respectfullv submit that, when we ask for the completion of this part we are asking for relief from a most intolerable situation, and, if it is granted, as we trust it will be, reasonable and comfortable access, to this, the most beautiful parkway on this continent, will be given to the public. The cost of what we propose, ornamental bridges, is estimated by competent experts to be within $200,000. "We trust that you will be able to see with us that this is one of the most pressing needs in your department and that you will Include it in your plan of work to be done this fall and winter." OBITUARY.

JOHN W. BATES. John W. Bates, who for thirty years was In the restaurant business with his brother in law, on Wllloughby street, died at his home, 51 New York avenue, Wednesday afternoon. The immediate cause of death was consumption, from which he had suffered for several months.

Mr. Bates was In his 55th. year at the time of his death. He was born in Brooklyn of Scotch parentage. His first business venture was with C.

W. Keenan, the paint dealer of this city. In 1S69 he went with his brother in law, Samuel Weekes and started Parker's restaurant on Willoughby street. Mr. Bates leaves a widow.

He was long a member of the Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, and was a member of the men's association of the society. The funeral services, this afternoon, were conducted by the brother of Dr. Meredith, pastor of the church, assisted by the Rev. Dr. A.

S. Kavanaugh of the New York Avenue M. E. Church. Mr.

Bates was also a member of Commonwealth Council, Royal Arcanum. WILLIAM GEORGE. William George, for thirty years, a resident of the Twenty third ward of Brooklyn, died at his home, b'li Lafayette avenue, Wednesday. His death was the result of paralysis. Mr.

George was a native of Pontypool, Wales, where his father was the business manager for Lord Leigh. He came to this country at an early age and settled in Albany. He married there Emmeline Brainard, one of ten sisters. He came to Brooklyn in 1SG9, and after serving in a government position at Albany, he went Into business with his brother in law, Mr. Weldon and remained with his successor, Theophilus Olena, who was president of the Board of Aldermen of Brooklyn.

He remained with him until forced to give up business by the infirmities of age. He was 70 years old when he died. He is survived by his san, Walter W. George and his daughter, Mrs. E.

S. Green. The funeral was held from his late home this afternoon and the remains were taken to Albany for Interment In the Albany Rural Cemetery. JOHN DILGER. John Dilger.

a prominent resident or the Sixth Ward, died at his home, 384 Henry street, Tuesday. His death was caused by heart failure, the result of dropsy. Mr. Dilger was a native of Stuttgart, Germany, but came to this country at an early age. For a long time he was In the wine and tea business in Manhattan, but had been retired for some years.

He was in his GGth year at the time of his death. He was at one time captain in the now defunct Third New York State Militia. Ills wife survives him as do his two sons. J. Evirard Dilger and Franclyn Dilger.

the latter of whom made a reputation as an actor with Angustln Daly, Stuart Robson and Roslna Vokes, under the name of Franoklyn Reglid. The Rev. W. J. C.

Kraeling of the German Lutheran Church, officiated at the funeral services which were held at his late home to tlay. The burial was in the family plot in Greenwood. JtinSON CALKINS LE ROY. Dr. Judson Calkins Le Roy died this morning at his home, 57 Tompkins avenue, after a Ions illness.

Dr. Le Roy was born in Brooklyn nvenly hve years ago. He received his early education In Public School No. prepared himself for college at the New York Preparatory School, In Manhattan, and grad I uated In medicine from the Long Island College in the class of 1S98. He was appointed an Interne at the Bushwlck Hospital, hut had srved only four months when stricken by the i dH' ttse which caused his death.

Dr. Le Roy 1 was a bright student, who gave promise of much advancement in his profession. His i father died recently, but his mother, and brother survive him. ELIZABETH BROOKS CHATFIULD. i Mrs.

Elizabeth Brooks Chattield will be buried to day from her home in Brooksvalo, her death having occurred tncre last Wednesday. Mrs. Chatfteld's Brooklyn home was at 4 South Oxford street. Mrs. Ctmtfield was well known in Brooklyn society and was a member of a number of women's clubs in this borough.

Her husband survives her, as well as her two daughters, Mrs. John Van Buren Tbaver of Monroe place, and Miss Florenoo Chatfleld. Mrs. Henry Sanger Snow la a niece of Mrs. uaatneld.

suoseQuently (luaiiued ror aumission to tne; women ami nursery or urooklyp was ap bar. Mr. Peters did not pursue his legal proved by the board. It proposes to provide studies to the end. a day nursery where working mothers may se In 1S4 1, while he was still a dry goods i cure hoard, lodging and care for their chil clerk and studying law, the Universalis! de nomination founded a new church in Marl etta, the Rev.

G. T. Flanders, a most fluent speaker, being the lirst pastor. Mr. Peters was attracted to his church by the charm of his eloquence and finally gave up the study of law and prepared for the ministry, hut not until his father had given his consent, which was obtained in thu summer of I 18.

He then proceeded to Clinton, Oneida County, N. where the Rev. Dr. T. J.

Savvver. for manv years the pastor of the Orchard Street I its application for incorporation, was post Church, New York, was then president of poned by the board for further consideration. Clinton Liberal Institute. Mr. Peters re The application of the Skene Hospital for malned in Clinton one year and then went Self Supporting Women in the City of Brook South and taught school in Marshall lyn to be permitted to incorporate, was like County, during ihe winter.

Two years I wise approved by the Board of Charities, its more were spent in Marietta in the pursuit of directors are John ClafUo, Hugo Hirsh, his studies, and he again returned to Clinton, I Charles A. Moore. Alexander E. Orr, George v. hfrr he rnmnlnUid his pd i inn rhr.1 Foster Peabody, Royal C.

Peabody and Alex aims of the institution. Evidently the; light thrown on the undertaking by the Eagle was not deemed satisfactory by the Board of Charities, for that body has just decided to disapprove of the organization i and incorporation of the nursery, for the reason that it was considered "simply a business experiment and no necessity for its existence naving neen known. The application for the incorporation of the 1 dren by the day, week or month, and general ly to care for such children as the director; may think advisable, its directors are given as follows: Mrs. Florence Lurcombe. Miss Reha Jones.

Mrs. Alice Schiller, Mrs. Sarah G. McGuire, Miss Pett H. Edwards.

Mrs. Elizabeth K. Jacobs. Miss Inda J. Mulbury, Mrs.

Fanny N. Robins and Mrs. Adele Jones, all residents of Brooklyn. The request of the Bay Ridge Hospital and Training School for Nurses, for approval of i ander J. C.

Skene of Brooklyn. Charles (, Sproull of New York and Spencer Trask of Saratoga Springs. A WOMAN LAWYER APPEARS. First Time in the United States Court That a Plaintiff Is Thus Represented. C.

Annette Fiske, counselor at law of Manhattan will shortly make her debut as a prosecuting attorney in the United Stales Circuit Court in Uroooitlyn before Judge Edward B. Thomas. In addition to this she will have the distinction of being the' first wo.nun to thus appear in the United States Court in Brooklyn. She appears as attorney for Martha 12. Mac I l.aury of Bloomlield, N.

.1.. who sues t.i i lirooklvn Heights Railroad Company for $110, ()()o lor personal injury. l.aury ot Bloomlield, N. .1.. wno sues t.ie pi.

sets forth that on June 8, imik, tne plaintiff was injured al the corner I Broa.lwav and Driegs avenue in the Eastern I District while a passenger on a trollev cur. I tJt.i "hurled forward with such force as bruise to right sprain, contuse and i Khoelt ihe rUhl knee Joint, wrench right i seriouslv and grkvouslv injure her." ard that she is "still unable to pursue lur avocal ions" and "is p. rmituently injured." win refore she lairus the sum of $110,000 as ulh viating damages. WATERMELONS FOK SAILORS. Last night, at the Flouting Bethel, at the I foot of' Joralemon street, ihe sailor visitors were treated lo a watermelon supper, the 1 watermelons being the gift of W.

K. Trues dell. About eighty sailors frum the merchant! vessels lying along the East River enjoyed the feast, which was supplemented by cuke and tea, furnished by Captain Hiram Meeker I of the Floating Bethel. Commodore John I Englis and John N. Suyre unable to be present and sent, their regrets.

Dr. Stewart, the boat's doctor, made some pertinent remarks, as did Captain Meeker. The latter emphasized 'he fact that there would be no vacation in the work of caring for those wishing the aid of the Bethel. SHE TOOK PARIS GREEN. Amsterdam, N.

July 14 Mra. Jane Turn bull of Fort Hunter, five miles from here, committed suicide last night by taking paris green in a nt of despondency. 1 1 ministrv. beinir ordained in Dr. Sawver preaching the ordination sermon.

His first pastorate was in the City of Cincinnati. In the meantime Mr. Peters had gained considerable reputation, which extended to the East, and in the winter of he received a call from the First Unlversalist Church of Wllliamsburgh, the name of which was changed in 1S70 to All Souls' Unlversalist Church. Here he remained eight years, though after his second year he left for Europe, making an extensive tour of the continent, and spending the winter of in Heidelberg attending lectures at (he University. During his stay abroad he wrote letters to the Brooklyn Times, to the Cincinnati Times, then owned by C.

W. Siarhuck, and the Christian Ambassador, edited by the Rev. J. M. Austin and published al Auburn, N.

Y. Soon after Mr. Peter' return to his charge, the War of the Rebellion broke out. and with characteristic zeal he entered upon the discussion of all important and exciting themes of the day, and, of course, in defense of the Hag and on the side of the Union. His early Iopil and political studies were now brought into use.

as they specially filled him for discussing Ihe questions ot tile mo men wnn Ki'eat clearness ami ititeiiiKcnce. During the lirst years of the w. ir ser vices were in constant demand. Hut in time the strain upon his consi ittn ion became to great that his health pave way. In he received an invitation lo remove to South Boston, but this he declined.

After his vnea lion in the summer tiiut year, lie returned to his work more or less enfeebled by ill health; and, receiving, in the fall another invitation to take charge of a church in Hartford, he accepted. Thither he moved early in 1804. After a time he assumed editorial charge of Ihe Post. Ills work on thai journal was able and vigorous, and. at length he left the pulpit altogether ami gave his entire attention to journalism.

For a short time, in 1808, he resumed his ministerial labors and accepted a call to Pennsylvania, but his heallh once more interfered and be retired permanently from the ministry. In the autumn of 1S0K Mr. Peters became connected with the Williatnsburh Times. That paper was founded on February 2K. ISIS, by George C.

Bennett, now dead, who was the father of Congressman Bennett, rest ieni of the Eastern District. The lirst few numbers were printed in a shanty In Ci and si reel, near Berry, on a hand press. Grand street In those days was the principal thoroughfare in the Eastern IMstricl. It was seven years after the first issue that old Willlamsliurtth became consolidated with Brooklyn. In ISHS Mr.

Peters entered the employ of Mr. Bennett as an editorial writer and several months later he purchased a half Interest in the paper. Six years later Mr. Bennett retired from the paper, haying disposed of his Interest to Mr. Peters, who continued its successful nubllca tlon until four years ago, when he turned it.