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THE BEOOKLYF DAILY EAGLE. KEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1900. SCENE OF THE BIG LUMBER FIRE ON NEWTOWN CREEK. CHIEF DALE EXDNE tfHON VICTORIOUS IN BEST BALL MATCH 6 I II LUMBER YAKL (LUMBER LUMBER. coai7 pocket 8lBWfiXJ LUMBER YARD wu30.0tfo rpr 1 vj soody i.i i LiSi'Tooo JV'A ten 1 i for Reynolds' fire.

It would have taken thirty minutes' to 'take up the suction and hose of a single engine on Chapman's Dock to have moved It to Grand street. It was much quicker to get engines from the engine houses. I did the best I could that night and would do the same way to night. The fact that I confined the fire to such a little space shows how well the fire was fought." Figures Made by Infallible Machines. Fire officials assert that figures that cannot lie and cannot be changed show beyond a shadow of a doubt that the attack upon Chief Dale was not based on facts and that it was entirely unjustifiable in every way.

The figures that show this are. It is not made by fallible men, but are made by infallible machines automatic registers that are the most perfect ever created. On that are the most perfect ever created. On Jav street, on the top floor of the building, where is located the Fire Department headquarters of Brooklyn Borough, there is a very large room fitted up with the finest arrangements that could be produced by electrical and mechanical genius. There are machines that receive every fire alarm sounded in Brooklyn and that register the exact day, year, hour and minute in which each alarm is made.

Not only dries the machine make this record in plain ink, but it makes it in a manner that no man could change; it punches holes in the paper register tape so that there may be no possible mistake. These little perforations are always accurate. Since the electrical machines were first installed in the Fire Department they have never been known to make an error. It is pointed out that a number of men "who are making the fight on Chief Dale have testified before a special committee of investigation appointed by the Manufacturers' Association of New York that on Saturday, April 14, at 5:50 P. they saw done or did themselves send in an alarm from the place of Mortimer Eugene Reynolds, on Grand street, near the junction o( that thoroughfare with Metropolitan avenue.

These same men have further testified that no engine responded until 6:55 o'clock, more than an hour after the alarm was rung. A man named Heik, in the emplov of Reynolds, testified that he himself pulled the alarm, under the directions of Eugene Reynolds, and that even after they had sent in the alarm they looked at the clock and found that it was then only 5:50. James Sherlock Davis testified that at 5:40 o'clock, ten minutes before the box alarm was pulled, a telephone alarm was sent from Reynolds' office to Fire Headquarters. He testified that he himself called up headquarters and asked for protection for both the Reynolds firm and his own firm, that of Cross, Austin Ireland. He testified that in re i v.

i irr lumber 'S JVVf UN? BRICK LUMBER ii LUMBER "YARD '2T? COM agtfKl 13? VALUE 'I7 LUMBER YARD VALUE of OSSETT' 'w; GRAND V6T rS 1 "VALUE BJO.OOOK i 3 LUMBER i to. i hp A TVL TEN EYCK ST. c. The map, prepared by Fire Marshal Brymer, shows the burned area and the surrounding lumber yards, which were saved. by black dots, numbered.

The positions of the fireboats are also shown. BY COMMISSIONER TULLY Praise Instead of Censure for His Work at the Newtown Creek Fire. NO GROUND FOR THE CHARGES? Mr. Tully Maintains That Reynolds' Firm Received Tire Protection Bequest Was Not Ignored. Praise instead of censure has been given Deputy Chief James Dale for his conduct in handling the big fire at Metropolitan avenue and Newtown Croek, Saturday night.

April 14. This afternoon Deputy Commissioner James H. Tully finished his examination of the evidence in the case and wrote a letter to Fire Commissioner John J. Scannell exonerating Chief Dale and complimenting him in high terms for the able management of the fire. The report of Commissioner Tully will in all probability stop the fight that is being niade on Chief Dale by certain property own ners near the scene of the fire, who had a 'committee of investigation appointed by the ilanufacturers' Association, which committee employed ex Corporation Counsel Burr to prosecute the inquiry.

The report of Commissioner Tully is to the effect that there was never the slightest grounds for the charges brought against him by James Sherlock Davis and others. It maintains that the firm of Mortimer and Eugene Reynolds did get fire protection and that their requests for such protection were not ignored, as they claimed. The evidence submitted to Fire Marshal Alonzo Brymer, who made the investigation for Mr. Tully shows that the Fire Boat Seth Low. equal to six engines, was at work on the coal pockets fire at o'clock, before the time at which Mr.

Reynolds claims the destroying blaze started; that at o'clock the David A.Boody.also equal to six engines, was throwing water on the coal pockets, and that six fire engines were sucking water from the Grand street main and throwing it on the fire a few minutes after 7 o'clock. This evidence is in the face of the claim that no stream of water from the fire boat was turned on before 7:30 and that the fire engines did not shown up until the coal pockets were almost consumed. Commissioner Tully 's report is as follows: Commissioner Tully's Beport. Department, City of Xe York, Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, Brooklyn, April 24, 1'JOO. John J.

Scannell, Fire Commissioner: Sir Following the fire which occurred Saturday evening, April 14, on Chapman's Dock, Metropolitan avenue and Newtown Cieek, in the Borough of Brooklyn, my attention was called to alleged statements of "Mortimer Reynolds and James Davis, charging mismanagement against the Deputy Chief in charge at the fire. I thereupon instructed Fire Marshal Brymer to ascertain nor only the origin and cause of the fire, which he is by law required to do, but also to inquire as to whether the charge was well founded. The result of this investigation is submitted herewith. After careful examination of the testimony I find that the charge is based on the claim that assistance was not given to Mr. Reynolds when he asked for it.

Mr. Reynolds contends that he went to Deputy Chief Dale about 6:13 P. M. and informed him that his property on the side of the creek opposite the fire was in danger from, flviEfr snarks. and unless nn engine wjis sent there, it would burn out; that the Dep uty cniet promised to send the fireboats and an engine, but did not do so.

Mr. Reynolds centends further that no water was thrown on his building before o'clock. The facts, as they appear from the official reports and the testimony submitted, show that in reply to the request of Mr. Reynolds for an engine Deputy Chief Dale said, "I will do better than that for you; I will send the fire boat," and that he thereupon ordered the David A. Boody to leave the Are at Chapman's dock and cross the creek to Reynolds' pockets.

This was done, and the boat commenced to work on the coal pockets about 6:35 o'clock. In addition to that, he ordered Engine No. Ill to leave the dock and proceed to Reynolds' coal pocket. This was also done, the engine connecting with hvdrant on Grand street near the coal pocket at 6:39 o'clock. Special calls were sent for fivo companies, and they arrived and commenced work on the coal pockets in the following order: No.

130, 7:01 o'clock; No. 122. 7:02 o'clock; No. 109, 7:02 o'clock; No. 135, 7:04 o'clock; No.

117, 7:05 o'clock. The first company at work on Reynolds' coal pocket was the fire boat Seth Low (Engine 123), which arrived at o'clock, and was ordered by Battalion Chief Dobson to work at the coal pocket, from the loft of which fire was blazing. That in one minute after such order a stream from the bow gun was started, and as soon as possible five streams were playing on tne coal pocket. During the progress of these two fires an alarm was received at headquarters from Hardy Voorhees' lumber yard, in the same section of the city. This was at 7:10 o'clock.

In response thereto Engine in2 arrived at, 7:37 o'clock, and Hook and Ladder Company 52 at 7:31 o'clock. Attention is called 1o this, because the statement has been made tViat no response was made to a call from that station. At the timo of these fires the wind was strong enough to carry the sparks quite a distance, thus to some extent endangering any or all of the buildings and structures in tho neighborhood. The most effective way to protect all this property was to extinguish the fire as quickly as possible. When a fire starts in one locality enough companies are sent to fight and control it.

and the remaining companies are temporarily redistributed to protect the rest of the city. The restricted area of these two fires shows that they were exceptionally well fought. The fumes and smoke from the first fire incapacitated forty nine officers and men. That is pretty strong evidence of the character of the work performed. I can readily understand the feelings of any person while viewing tho destruction of his property, and how difficult it is for him to gauge the flight of time: nevertheless, I feel that there is no justification for the statements made.

I do not find any cause for censure. In my opinion the officers and men of the department are deserving of hearty commendation. Respectfully. (Signed) WILLIAM H. TULLY.

Deputy Fire Commissioner, Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Davis Accused of Using Bad Language. The evidence before Marshal Brymer accuses James Sherlock Davis, who made the charges against Chief Dale, nf using bad language to the operators at the Fire Depart mcnt Headquarters anil of threaten ins, wiih oaths, to show up the Fire Deportment and have the newspapers write a grand expose. Joseph A. Garnishor, telephone" operator on duty at the time of the fire, said that Mr.

Davis used unsentlemanly language to him and said: "I will he if I don't show up the Fire Department; I will have the papers write it up and give it a grand expose." The operator swears that cither language was In the same strain. William N. Hare, another operator, testified to the same effect and quotes curse 'words alleged to have been used by Mr. Davis over the 'phone. The evidence gathered by the Fire Marshal includes from every person in a position to know anything about the fire.

It showa to the exact minute when every engine left Its engine house and when it arrived at the fire. There is a report from every company, the reports all having been made the night of the fire, long before the present controversy started. These reports show that some mistakes have been made In charging Chief Dale with an almost criminal delav. Chief Dale says that Mr. Reynolds evidently expected htm to take the engines away from the Chapman Dock fire to carry them to Ills place before the latter caught on fire.

"If the Clarendon Hotel was burning and the Eagle wore to catch on fire, I wouldn't take the engines from the Clarendon," said Chief Dale. "I would call other engines, as I did English Champion Too Much the Combined Efforts of Travis and Douglas. MISS LINTON WINS AT LAKEWOGi Canadian Golfer Defeats Mrs. Manice of the Eittsfield Golf Club by Two Strokes. (Special to the Bay Side, L.

April 24 The great Var den made his appearance here at Oakland Golf Club links this morning the beat ball efforts of Walter Trayia. tne club's amateur champion, and James Douglas, tho club's professional. The sun greeted the English champion and then retreated, the day being sunny and cloudy, but always sultry, makims the crowds that clambered oyer the course perspire with a midsummer profuse ness. The gallery for the morning play was not so large as expected, but the club officials contented themselves with the assurance of a big afternoon crowd. Probably a hundred were behind the ropa at the morning play, which started at 10:30 o'clock.

The first round was not over until 12:40 and the first half of. the match was not less tardy. At the conclusion of the first nine holes Vardon was. 3 up, having covered the course in 3S, which is two less than bogey. The care with which the champion held hia adversaries, in spite of Douglas' unlooked for two on the second hole, took away about all of the anticipated competition features of the.

affair, for it was apparent that the best that Douglas and Travis could do was far from good enough. Vardon took the first with 'a. well played four, each of his adversaries taking a Ave. On the second hole, the trap, Vardon needed the bogey of three, walla Douglas was down in a two. This was the only hole that the pair won.

Vardon took the coquette in a four and so did Travis, the next three being halved in 5 each. Vardon over drove the 511 yard sixth in three strokes. Playing the eighth, Vardon drove into the road but lifted without penalty and holed out in four. Douglas and Travis being 5 each. This made the visitor 2 up and as he won the hole in a four by faultless play he was 3 up on the round.

On the second round of the nine holes the play was more even for the pair held the stranger down for the opening holes in good style, despite the fact that Vardon opened, up in bogey figures exactly. On the first; or the tenth, as it is called, the Britisher was down in a 1, bogey figures. Douglas held the champion for the first two, Travis made the dell in a four, thus beating: the champion and making the partners one up for the round. Vardon's three for the coquette was faultless, while Douglas and Travis each got a four, thus evening up the play on the round. The fifth hole was won by Vardon with p.

bogey five and on the next Vardon repeated his feat of overdriving the green on his third. Douglas was dead "in a fine four, but missed the put. Vardon over putted and the hole was halved in six. Playing the sixteenth Douglas was thought to have had a neat piece of luck when ha reached the green in two, but Vardon's shot was even more lucky, for he was dead In two after striking the side of the hill. Vardon won the hole in 3 and was 5 up.

But on the drive off at the seventeenth Vardon topped his tee shot. He recovered by a wonderful mashie shot, but Douglas, lit faultless form, as down in a four, leaving the pair 4 down. The last hole was halved, in 5, all three players making the bogey figures. The cards: Vardon Out 4 3 4 4 5 5 5 4 4 38 In 4 3 5 3 5 3 5 5 39 7T rjestball: Out 52545555 5 41 In 43446044 540 81 Travis: Out 5 3545555 6 13 In 54440G45 543 S6 Douglas: Out 5 2 5 5 8 5 3 5 iS In 43547744 543 89 (Special to the Eagle.) Lakewood. X.

April 24 The unexpected happened in the women's semi finals at the Coif Club of Lakewood this morning, precisely as in the men's tournament upon several occasions last week. Miss Linton of the Royal Montreal Gclf Club, who last evening locked forward to her match with Mrs. A. Manice with apprehension, emerged from the finish of the round victor by 2 up. Mrs.

Manice had carried all before her up to this point, heading the preliminary list and beating Miss Linton's card in that round by ten. strokes, but she bad apparently overplayed, her strength in yesterday's two matches, and the closing play of her match with Miss Linton was listless and poorly judged. By the stroke card her score was 10 to the bad compared with yesterday, while Miss Linton bettered her yesterday's play by 2 strokes. Their cards: Miss Linton. Royal Montreal: Out 70 4 In Mrs.

E. Out In 450 103 Manice, PislsfleM Oolf: 7 5 (1 7 7 7 6 4 7 7 0 4 7 5 3 7 36 31 107 Miss Walton, Allegheny Golf Club, beat Miss M. Andrews, Montclair, 3 up and 2 to play, bringing Miss Linton and Miss Walton together for the first cup finals. In tho second eight Mrs. Wood, Allegheny, beat Miss Towne, Royal Montreal.

7 up and 5 to play, and Mrs. Duncan Hunter, Lake wood, beat Miss, Florence Suydam, Dyker Meadow, 1 up over twenty holes. Of third division matches Miss Forr jBt, Hartford Golf, beat Miss Downer, Lakewood, 1 up, and Mrs. P. G.

Brathwalte, Lakewood, beat Miss Leslie May, Lakewood. 2 up. A handicap is on for the afternoon, having a good list of entries; and prizes are offered by Mrs. Arthur E. Hedstrom and Mrs.

Frank M. Freeman. NOT MUCH TALK OF DEWEY. Congressman Clayton Says Bryan'f Nomination at Kansas City Is Inevitable. Congressman Bertram T.

Clayton came over from Washington last night and paid a visit to the auction room to day. Ho said that there was not much talk now of Admiral Dewey for President. "In my opinion," said Colonel Clayton, "Admiral Dewey can do more for the country as Admiral of the Navy than anywhere else. At a time when such an expansion of the Navy is goining on, bis advice and infiuenco are invaluable. As the hero of Manila Bay thero is nothing that he wants that he cannot have." Congressman Clayton also snid that he regarded Bryan's nominal ion nt.

Kansas City as inevitable. When asked ir he a candidate for re election, iho Congressman said he would like a renonilnntlon and had yet heard no opposition to it. He thinks that he will bo able to do much more for his district after the experience of his present term. Senator McCarren said to dny that ho believed the Xcw York delegation to Kansas City would bo a unit for the modification of the Chicago platform and that they would use every effort to mako the now declaration of principles more acceptable to Kustern voters. Senator McCurrcn is likely to be put forward as a member of the committee on resolutions which Is to framo tho new platform.

COURT OI" APPEALS DECISIONS. Albany. April 24 Among tho decisions handed down to day by tho Court of Appeals were the following: Mc Carrcn, applt, vs Cooper, Judgment affirmed with costs; People ex rel Colonial Trust Company, applt, vh Morgan, Controller, order affirmed with coata. 1 T6SO.O00 positions of the fire engines arc indicated PORTO RICAN FRANCHISES. Debate in the House Over Amendments to the Eoraker Resolution.

Washington, April 24 Previous to the resumption of the consideration of the Post Office appropriation bill in the House to day Mr. Cooper, chairman of the committee on insular affairs, asked unanimous consent for the consideration of the Foraker resolution to provide for the continuation in office of the present military administration in Porto Rico, pending the appointment of the civil officers under the civil government act. The resolution carried two amendments placed upon it by the insular affairs committee; one to provide that franchises should be approved by the President and another placing certain restrictions upon charters, corporations, etc. It was arranged that the resolution should be debated for one hour. Mr.

Hill (Conn.) raised a point of order against the amendments. Mr. Cooper and Mr. Williams (Illinois) expressed regret that a point of order should have been raised, at the same time contending that the point of order was not well taken. Speaker Henderson had read a decision of Speaker Reed in the Fifty first Congress, in which the Speaker had held in a somewhat analogous case that an amendment to a resolution to amend an act in a certain particular was not germane, and therefore not in order.

Mr. Richardson, the minority leader, argued that the amendments were germane to the original act, and therefore germane to the text of the resolution. Both sought to amend the same section of the original bill. Mr. Hill said he was opposed to the proposed amendments in form and substance, and he thought it needed no argument to show that they were not germane.

Mr. Williams said that information had come to the insular affairs committee that all sort's of companies were preparing to invade Porto Rico, and the committee considered I that the proposed restrictions should be placed upon them to prevent a great scandal there. He said lie could not understand why the point of order had been raised. Mr. Msody (Massachusetts), prefacing his remarks with the statement that he regretted exceedingly that the point of order had come from his (the Republican) side ot the House, raised the point of order that Mr.

Hill's point of order had come too late. Mr. McRae (Arkansas) declared that if. he had not understood that the point of order would not be raised to the amendments he would never have given consent for the consideration of the resolution. He thought if the amendments were to be ruled out that it was only fair that the whole question should be submitted.

The speaker in a long ruling held that the amendments were clearly not germane. At the same time he expressed his "profound regret" that the point had been raised. Upon Mr. Moody's point that the point of order came too late, he saiu he was not clear. He called for the official reporters' notes upon this subject and when they had been submitted to him he ruled that the point of order had come too late and he therefore overruled Mr.

Hill's point of order. Thereupon Mr. Cooper took the floor In support of the amended resolution. He explained that the amendments were to correct serious and patent defects in the civil government law. Those defects he said had attracted the attention of the country and the press.

Under the act the Governor and the council would have sole control over franchises. He read an editorial from a New York Republican newspaper severely condemning the failure Congress to safeguard franchises and contending that the duty to correct the mistake was clenr. CHARGED WITH STEAXING MAIL. Letter Carrier Arrested With Marked Stamps in His Possession. John M.

Addi, 35 years old, of 712 East One Hundred and Sixty ninth street, a letter carrier of Station One Hundred. and Fiftieth street and Third avenue, Manhattan, was arrested last night and charged with stealing from the mails. The arrest was made by Post Office Inspectors Jacobs and Sands while Addi was collecting mall at One Hundred ant! Forty second street and Alexander avenue. He was locked up for the night in the Morrisania station. Superintendent Mott of Station has received complaints fo'r a month past from residents along Addi's route to the effect that they had registered letters containing money.

The sums mentioned aggregated $100. Superintendent Mott communicated with the post office inspectors and on their advice mailed a decoy letter addressed to Mrs. Martha J. Hakttead, Freehold, Mpnmouth County, N. J.

Five $1 silver certificates, one two dollar certificate and three marked two cent postage stamps we're placed in the letter. The marked stamps wore found on Addi when he was arrested. Addi was arraigned before United States Commissioner Alexander this morning and held in $1,500 bail for examination Friday afternoon. In default of bail ho was locked up in Ludlow Street Jail. Addi's counsel, Abram J.

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sponse to this request he was told that five engines had already been sent on a special call for duty in Grand in front of his place. Some Alleged Inconsistencies. This, it is alleged, is where the inconsistencies come in. The first alarm received by the Fire Department was sent from Chapman's Docks, across the canal from Reynolds' place. That alarm was sent by telephone at 5:47, seven minutes later than the people in Mr.

Reynolds' office assert a telephone alarm was sent from there. The first box alarm came from 581, a short distance away from Mr. Reynolds' office. That was received a minute after the telephone alarm. At 5:55 a box alarm was rung from box but as this box was so close to the 5S1 box, it was known that the fire was the same, so the call was retained.

An hour later, or to be exact, at 6:52, one of Chief Dale's officers sent in a special call from box 381 for five engines to go to Grand street in front of Reynolds' coal pockets. Reports from the foremen with these engine companies, each of whom races for first place and each of whom guards so closely against the others making Incorrect reports of arriving time, show that the following engines arrived at the time specified: Engine No. 130 at 7:01 o'clock. Engine No. 109 at 7:02.

Engine No. 122 at 7:02, Engine No. 135 at 7:04 and Engine No. 117 at 7:05. Now the enployes in the Fire Department headquarters assert that when Mr.

Davis called up, it was after these engines were sent out, and they must be correct, else they could not have told Mr. Davis, as he says himself, that the five engines had been sent some time before. Mr. Davis and the other witnesses examined last Saturday said that if the five engines were sent they did not show up. As a matter of fact, the engines could not show up directly in front of Reynolds' coal pockets, because they could not work without water, and some of them had to stop more than a thousand feet away la order to get hydrant connection.

But every one of these engines was pouring water on the Reynolds fire almost as quickly as they arrived. The evidence against Chief Dale given last Saturday declared that If Chief Dale had sent an engine over before Reynolds' pockets began to burn the whole property could have been saved. According to that testimony the fire that destroyed the coal yard started between 6:35 and 6:40. If the Messrs. Reynolds and Mr.

Davis are correct about the time of the start of the conflagration, then Chief Dale must have had the equivalent of six fire engines throwing water on the coal pockets several minutes before they caught fire. The report of the officer in charge of the fire boat Seth Low. made the morning after the fire, says that the Seth Low arrived in front of Reynolds' coal pockets at 6. 2S. The boat was halted by Battalion Chief Dobson.

who or dered it to attack the lire in Reynolds coal pockets. In less than a minute, or before 6:30 o'clock, the Low had its standpipe, or bow gun. pouring water on the Reynolds blaze. This standpipe is itself equal to three engines. Immediately thereafter four hose streams were turned on the fire from the boat.

This was all before the time at which the Reynolds Bros, and others say the fire finally started. Mr. Davis says that the first stream from any flreboat was thrown on Reynolds' pockets about 7:30. Tho first engine to attack the Reynolds fire was No. 11.

This first went to the Chapman's dock side of the canal, and had let two lengths of hose into the creek to get suction when Battalion Chief Dobson ordered it around to Grand street to fight the fire in Reynolds' place. At 6:59 No. Ill was throwing water on the blaze. The David A. Boody was pouring six hose streams and ono stand pipe stream on Reynolds' pockets at 6:35.

Tho Boody arrived at the fire at 6:30, spent fifteen minutes throwing water on the burning lumber, and then moved across to help the Seth Low fight the Reynolds fire. The Boody poured water cn the Reynolds pockets for one hour and thirty minutes. Seven fire engines and the equivalent of twelve more, making a strength of nineteen engines altogether, were at the Reynolds fire. One of the fire engines, No. 152, had responded to a call from Hardy Voorhees.

This call was sent in at 7:10. One of the representatives of the firm testified that no Brooklyn engine responded, but that tho volunteer department from Newtown camo on a call. The evidence of tho firemen shows that at 7:37 Engine 152 arrived at Hardy Voorhees, and that six minutes before Hook and Ladder Company No. C2 had arrived. These two companies found no fire as Hardy Voorhees' men had put it out.

No. 152 Teported for duty in front of Reynolds' place, and was assigned to cover unprotected territory. Fire Quickly Extinguished at tie Bey nolds Pockets. The fact that the Fire Department sn quickly extinguished the fire at Reynolds' pockets and confined the blaze to such a narrow space when the odds were so much in favor of the blaze proves that somebody must have acted with promptitude. There was never a better opportunity for a fire to spread Itself over blocks and blocks of property.

Rich seasoned lumber and dry Inflammable structures stretched for more than a mile right in the path of the blaze. Yet In thirty minutes after it started the blaze had been put under control and had not been allowed to destroy anything more than a part of Reynolds' property. Tlie rockets were dry as tinder and burned in a little over fifteen Chief Dale says that It Is something to marvel at that his men did so well. Mortimer L. Reynolds testified on Saturday that he went to Chief Dale at 6:15 and personally bogged him to send an engine around to his place.

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X. The NOT WORRIED ABOUT KAPPER. Local Organization Paying Little Attention to His Proposed Appointment. The proposed appointment of Isaac M. Kap per, counsel for Senator Michael J.

Coffey in proceedings before the county committee as a member of the charter commission, has not stirred Willoughby street very much. The head men there say sarcastically that Coffey's support of Republican measures was cheaply bought by the Governor. William O'Donnell, the anti Coffey leader, is bitter about the matter, but the old timers take the matter philosophically. It was learned to day that Senator Coffey was anxious to see Kap per honored, but he asked for the appointment only as a representative of the Democratic party. As it is, Willoughby will have na representative on the commission, for William C.

DeWitt is not now considered to be in very close sympathy with the machine. SCHOOL FURNITURE BILL Hearing Before the Governor on Measure Prepared by Senator Davis. the Albany, April 24 The bill of Senator Davis, permitting public school districts throughout the state to purchase other than prison made school furniture, was the subject of a hearing before the Governor to day. Among those who favored the bill and spoke for it were Assemblyman Henry W. Hill of Buffalo, Deputy State Superintendent of Public Instruction D.

E. Ainsworth and Martin E. Murphy, president of the State Federation or Labor. Labor Commissioner MeMackin opposed the bill. Mr.

Hill asked the representative of Superintendent of Prisons Collins, who was present, if it was not true that the prison authorities were able last year to furnish only one half of the furniture ordered by the school boards, and that orders had to be given for furniture outside of the state. This was admitted by the representative, who gave as the reason that the facilities were poor, only 150 convicts being employed in making furniture. Mr. Murphy said that Labor Commissioner MeMackin had not been indorsed by the labor element for the position which he held. The Governor contradicted this statement, saying that Mr.

MeMackin had received the indorsement of labor men to a liberal extent. Mr. Murphy replied that it was an individual support and not that of organized labor. Mr. Murphy contended that the only way to keep convicts employed and jit the same time not compete with the skillei labor would be to take out the up to date machinery and have prisoners manufacture by hand.

The Governor said he would look into the matter. RACING AT AQUEDUCT. Track Is Past and Prospects for Good Day's Sport Are Promising. Aqueduct Race Track, April 24 The track has dried out nicely and is fast. The programme is up to the average.

The fields are of good proportions and the prospect for good racing Is excellent. First race Woodstick (O'Leary), 8 to Lillian Hoffman (Landry), 50 to Vouch (Mc Joynt), 3 to Midder (O'Connor), 5 to Anice (Mitchell), 12 to Himseir (Meany), 30 to Shawnee (Buttman), to I Know (Lo der), 20 to 1. Himself won, Mudder second and Vouch third. Time, .56 1 5. To morrow's Entries.

The entries for to morrow's races at Aqueduct are as follows: First race For 4 year olds and upward which have not won at this meetlnff; splllnR; with 100 added, of which $70 to the second and $30 to the third. About seven furlongs. Name. 'Wilts. N'ame.

Whts. Rhinelnnder JUr.ank m.m no Sweet Caporal 110; Emigre iou Lindula comedian Ill Wine Press 10 li nessle Taylor 104 10C 108 100 Sparrow The Gardner Corlalls Zanone Tho Jofferpon It. iKKed Sailor 113; I'rotua lOli Impartial 112! HenHatlonnl 108; Oliver Mc 103 114 Second race For 2 year olds; NeHInir: with siei a.hletl. of which $70 to tiie second uml $30 to tho third. Five furlongs.

Name. Whts. Name. Wins. StnitoKlst 107jOrderer n.3 Yorkshire Boy 1041 Servant 11,7 Ilaimwourst 1041 Voucher nn LlKht Ball HOI KKVptlan Prince 101 rt'iiiKen 101'Grnylette 107 Lamlikln llOISilurlnn 113 Third nice For llllies 3 years old which have not won more than two races; sellinK; with $400 added, of which $70 to the second and $30 to the third.

Six furlonK. Name. Whts. Name. Elsie Skip 10:,, Candla 98; Lottie Sllevillo Sunlol Iinreatea The Laurel ISI Eileen Daly Fourth race "or 3 year olds and upward can: with added, of which S70 to fh Whts.

103 Ofi 107 08 handl necond $30 to the third. About seven furlonRH. Name. ut k. Whts Charentus King Warrenton KInnlklnic Honey Boy 121 Ellin IV.nl.

Silver liarter'. 100 ''oldone 0 1 lh I ilea eg oo Hennevine Fifth nice 1 or nines i years old; selling with $400 added, of which $70 tr, the and $30 to the third. Four and a half fiirlrmns. Name. The Jade Novelty Delia Oec Hum Kurn Whts.

Name 105! Lady I'aflden WhtH. 103 111 Zenalde lOUQuocn Quality i.i'i Tror a vear olds: with xtno n.i.i.... which $70 to the second and $30 to the third, ono Iln nrA KAVPIltV Vdrflfl. Name. WhtH.

Name. Cnrbtmclo 103Bllver Garter I.Hinp Globe lll Shorehnm Itovnl SterllnR Bramble Paii Puk Keowls Gold Goldona 1UI WhtB. Ill Ill Ill Ill someone who he supposes to have been Mr. Reynolds went to him and asked him to send an engine to Grand street. He said he told Mr.

Reynolds he would do better than that and would send the flreboat Boody. This he did immediately. The report of the Boody shows that the boat was ordered across to Reynolds' place just at this time. Deputy Commissioner Tully says that Hardy Voorhees and the other property owners in that vicinity should not complain If they had to put out a few incipient blazes started by sparks. "Why, out there on the edge of the city the most hazardous business is said Mr.

Tully. "There is hardly anything there that will not burn freely and rapidly. It is all business that has either established itself there, because it would not be allowed up town, or because It has been driven out there by public sentiment. With a fire like that at Chapman's Docks, with the sparks and cinders flying for more than a half mile, the responsibility to a certain measure falls on the property owners. They should look out for their property and put out any little fire that may start from a spark." DR.

TO GAS, $25 A DAY. C. C. Clark Explains to Magistrate Why He and the Gas Company Fell Out. C.

C. Clark of 235 Winthrop street was summoned before Magistrate Worth in the Grand street police court this morning by Colonel William A. Stedman, manager of the Flatbush Gas Company, who said that Clark refused to allow the company to remove a gas meter from his house. Clark admitted that the statement was true, but said that he moved into the house last fall and notified the gas company that he would use gas. The company asked a deposit of S3 for the use of the meter and' Clark refused to pay it.

Subsequently he said the company sent him bills for $25 for each day the meter was In his house. Then he went to the gas office, he said, showing the bill to Colonel Stedman and demanded to know why he was asked to pay $25 a day for' gas. Clark said that the gas company's manager became angry, grabbed the bill. but only succeeaea in gening nu.ii. oi u.

Since then he and the gas company have not been quite cordial. He told the magistrate to stop the quarrel he would allow the company to get the meter. Two o'clock was set as an hour convenient to both and the case was dismissed. HE WROTE TO POLICE BOARD, But Officer Said He Keant No Disrespect to His Captain Station i House Feud. Commissioner Abell presided at the.

police trials to day. Officer George 'W. Rogers of the Fourth avenue station was charged with insubordination. About a week ago the officer wrote a letter to Commissioner York asking to be excused from inspection. This, according to Mulberry street laws, is insubordination Roeers admitted writing the letter and Commissioner Abell arose from his seat in addressing the officer.

He said: "lou have nn rleht to go over a commander's head. You are clearly guilty of insubordina tion." Officer Rogers said in his own behalf: "Mr. Commissioner I thought It was clearly within mv privilege to write as I did. I had no intention to disregard the rules nor did I intend any disrespect to my captain." Commissioner Abell asked Captain Bedeli of the Fourth avenue station what he thought of the matter. Captain Bedell said: "I do not think that the officer meant any disrespect." He added that the officer was an excellent man.

Officer Rogers was reprimanded. Officers Edward J. O'Connor and Philip Roth of Bath Beach were accused of attacking each other with night clubs in the station house on April 11. Captain Burford said that, he heard a crashing of clubs on the day in question and on going into the room found the men face to face. Sergeant Ryder said that he heard a scuffle and Roth say.

"Captain, let him have his revolver and I can whip him even with that." Officer Roth said that O'Connor had been constantly nagging him and that O'Connor struck him while he (Roth) was sitting In a chair waiting to go out on duty. Officer O'Connor said that Roth was to blame. Officer Fitzpatrick said that O'Connor was the aggressor. Commissioner Abell said: "There is evidently a feud in the station house and a lack of brotherly feeling. The way to stop it is to separate the men." The case was referred to the full board.

ARBESTED AT CONEY ISLAND. Edward H. Kennedy of 251 East One Hundred and Twenty second street, Manhattan, who ivas arrested last night in Cone Island by detectives of the East Ono Hundred and Twenty sixth street police station, charged with having forged indorsements to two checks signed by Edward Rafter, a grocer of One Hundred and Twentieth street and Third avenue, was arraigned this morning in tho Harlem Police Court and held In bail of $3,000 for examination to morrow. Kennedy had been employed by Rafter as a clerk. Tho two checks forged were for the amount of $431.

HI. He is said to have passed them on Brown Thirty first street and Second avenue. BABCOCK RENOMINATED. Baraboo, April 24 Representative J. W.

Babcock was unanimously renominated today by tho Republicans of the Third District in convention here. TALK OF EVANGELISM. Continued From Page 1. Missionary Society, will speak of the work in that part of the island world. Native Agency in Evangelistic Work.

The Rev. S. H. Chester, D. of Nashville, secretary of the executive committee for foreign missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, read a paper on "Native Agency in Evangelistic Work, With Special Reference to the Development of Native Leaders," at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Churcl this afternoon.

In part he said: "A widely prevalent sentiment in our home churches is that civilization not. in its essence even, but in the mere trappings of it forms a large, if not the chief, part of what the coming of the kingdom means to the heathen nations. If this were true then the world rather than the church would be the proper agency to conduct missions, and the best evangelists to be found in China would be her great viceroy and diplomatists, not converted even, but. only westernized if such a thing were conceivable. "Comparatively few of the native agents needed to day chosen of Christ for propagating His church will be found among the literati of China, the Samurai of Japan, the Yangbans of Corea, the Brahmins of India or the chief men of any heathen society.

In oriental society especially men of that class are usually found to have a holy horror of work. Again, in all the far east to day the most deadening influence on character is Confucianism, and the most thoroughly Con fucianized man is the literary man. To de Confucianize him will usually require not only regeneration, but also quite a lengthy period of progressive sanctification. Meanwhile he is likely to persist in his habit of magnifying form over substance, to retain more than is meet of his awful reverence for trifles and his enlightened scorn of weightier matters, and to shrink from the impropriety of overturning himself loose on a congregation in a full tide of gospel enthusiasm. As a rule he will make a poor evangelist.

"In Japan the missionaries at first had their chief access to and gathered the main body of their converts, and hence of necessity most of their evangelists from the Sa maurai class. But in my observation of the work there nothing impressed me so much as the need to day of a supplementary body of evangelists, drawn from the lower classes so as to be in full sympathy with them, and so, as to be free from the class spirit, less accustomed to dependence on others for support and trained to hard work, to go out into all the country villages where the masses of the people live and preach to these the simple, old time gospel until they all come to know what it means. By this method sooner than any other will the mighty power of Buddhism over the masses in Japan be broken and the foundations of a strong and stable church be laid. "I met some native ministers on my visit to our oriental missions in whose presence I felt as if carried back to apostolic days, and at whose feet I felt like sitting that I might learn more of the spirit of Christ. The number of such now to be found in connection with our Protestant missions in all parts ot the world is already a great host." MC KINLEY IN CANTON.

In Deference to His Wishes No Public Demonstration Was Arranged. Canton, April 24 President and Mrs. McKinley and party arrived in the city at 10:10 A. to day. In deference to the announcement of the President's friends that he came here for rest from public cares and to look after private business, no public demonstration was arranged.

But in spite of this there was a crowd at the station when the train rolled in and lusty cheers went up as the President and Mrs. McKinley stepped from the train. An informal reception committee was also at the station to bid them welcome. The carriages were driven by the most direct route to the M. C.

Barber home, where the party will be entertained during the visit In Canton. MISER, CRUSHED TO DEATH. Chautauqua County Character Often Went to Jail for Safety. Dunkirk. N.

April 24 Volney Bull, an eccentric farmer, holding mortgages against 100 farms in Chautauqua County, was crushed to death to day while assisting at a barn rais ing at his home in Greenfield. Bull had a terror of burglars and often went to Jail, paying ills board, to enjoy safety. On one occasion he was tortured by masked men and forced to give up SI. 100 in cash. He lived the life of a miser, although the richest farmer in Chautauqua County.

DROWNED MAN POUND. Somo hoys playing at the foot of Harrison street shortly before noon to day discovered the body of a man floating in the water. He was 32 years old, five feet six inches in height, and weighed 150 pounds. He had tandy hair and mustache, and wore a blue serge suit. He wore a light striped outing shirt, a red necktie, black socks and lace shoes.

Ho had no underwear. GROCER WASN'T ARRESTED. James M. Stewart, a grocer, at fi02 Fulton street, says that the item In the Eagle of yesterday, in which It was stated that he hud been arrested on complaint of Mrs. Rose French of 33 Ashland place on the charge of giving worthless notes, was a misstatement of facts.

Ho Bavs he was not arrested i.