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T. I DEC, 1602 THE BROOKLYN AIL FOUR O'CLOCK. Entered at Brooklyn, N. P. O.

as Second Class Matttr. NEW YORK. TUESDAY. DECEMBER. 9.

1902. vol. 02. NO. 'MO.

20 PAGES. THREJ5 CEM IS. 1 JDj. I hr liu. TWO CHARACTERISTIC VIEWS OF PRETTY CLOSE TO I aLDERMEHTO WAITAWEEK ON P.

fi. R. TUNNEL MATTER ROBERT WESTPHAL, simply whether this great enterprise shall be permitted to go on or be forbidden. The Pennsylvania Railroad proposes to make use of land beneath the surface of two rivers and far benath the surface the city, by means of which to connect its. terminal in New Jersey with the Long Island Railroad terminal in the Borough of Queens.

In doing this, the railroad seeks to create terminal facilities for its great transcontinental syeteni on the island of Manhattan, and thus it will give to two boroughs of the city unbroken connection by rail with the West and South. "To accomplish these results the railroad asks for authority to construct two stations in Manhattan, one on the west side arid one at Fourth avenue, and only at the station does it ask for access to the surface. There it proposes to pay for all the land it uses and for all the damage it inflicts, and the only interference it will cause with existing surface conditions affecting the public is the closing of a single block of Thirty second street, where its main depot Is to be. the rest of its work it uses land of no value to anybody, land which is used by nobody and which pays no taxes, and which can be maffe of value only by expenditure of a vast sum of money such as the company proposes to spend. "One effect of this company's proposed expenditure, then, will be to give taxable value to some of the soil beneath our rivers and to some of the soil far below the.

surface of our streets. The work, as planned, not only preserves for the city, absolutely unimpaired, the city's unrivaled facilities for maritime commerce; but it also leaves all our' north and south avenues in Manhattan available for subway construction, because the proposed tunnel passes under those avenues far below the surface. This enterprise, therefore, wiU afford new and invaluable railroad facilities to the CiU of New York, without diminishing in any respect any facility that the city now enjoys. Readjustment of Franchise Value. "For the privilege of connecting with the surface and of making a terminal in the city for Its transcontinental system the company agrees to make a payment for the franchise in a sum to be readjusted every twenty five years, and which is to begin at 00 cents per foot, rising in ten years to per foot for everv mile of track it lavs within the limits From Snapshots by an Eagle Photographer This Morning.

Made Before the Hoy Was Arraigned in the Leyh Case. The Peculiar conformation ot the Boy's Ears and a Drooping Eyelid Are Noticeable Features. ON CHARGE OF STEALING. The Prisoner in the Leyh Case Shows No Fear in Police Court. FAMILY BITTER AGAINST HIM.

He Still Claims It Was Bromo Seltzer That He Put Into the Old Man's Beer. Robert Weslphal. the boy of 14 who worked in George H. Leyh's medical bandage and optical store at 73 Broadway, and who has been under suspicion of knowing more than he told about the old man's death by poison, was arraigned shortly after noon to day in the Adams street court, before Magistrate Dooley, on a charge of larceny. The complaint was made by Dr.

George F. Leyh, the son Of the dead man, who was not willing to charge the boy with homicide, although young Westphal had declared that he had given the old man a dose of bromo seltzer in his beer Just before Leyh's fatal fllness. The boy was arrested last night at his residence, 257 Stockholm street, by Detective Sergeants Donlin and Miller ot the headquarters squad, who have been aiding Police Inspector Druhan in the investigation of the case. The detectives took the boy in charge because of certain discoveries that they made yesterday. The most damaging of all the things they had found out about him was that he had purchased a bicycle on Tuesday last, only a few hours after Leyh's death, at a sporting goods and novelty store at 869 Broadway, for which he paid $17.75.

He also bought a pair of buckskin gloves at the same place and paid $1.25 for them. A boy who only received $3 a week for his services, and who confessed that he gave' his mother all of his earnings, could not be expected to have as much as $28 to spend for bicycles, and the natural inference was that Mr. Leyh had been robbed. Another very suspicious feature of the case was that, the boy had ordered that the bicycle should be sent home on Christmas Eve. The presumption of tne detectives was that he took this means of getting the wheel home on the supposition that his parents would believe that it had been sent to him as a holiday gift by some anonymous admirer.

If the lad had that notion it was dispelled, for his mother, in looking through his pockets one day since the murder, found the receipt for the money paid for the bicycle, and also for the buckskin gloves. She questioned him about them and he told a story that she may have believed and about which there is no explanation. But she said she would not tell his father, any way, and the. boy felt secure. The detectives went to Wrestphal's house after finding out all they could about the suspicious purchase and confronted him with the facts that had come into their possession.

He was staggered at the extent of their knowledge, but the detectives did not question him further at the house. They ordered him to put on his coat and then they took him to police headquarters, on Smith street, where Inspector was waiting for him. There he was practically placed under arrest. He was very closely questioned by the police and by a representative of the District Attorney's office and under stress of quizzing he finally admitted that he had taken a pocketbook with $27.08 in it from the Leyh store after the old man's death. He said he had found the pocketbook on the floor and he took it because the man LOCAL AV BATHER PHOBABII.ITIES.

Knir and not unite no m11 to iiiKhU AVediicsilny. fnlr, with rlsinn triiiiiorn ture; frenh north to nnrt ln ii.tt vi iiid. McLeod, daughter of Mr. Leyh, ihe daughter Isabella and Dr. McLeod, the son in law, trailed over to court with Dr.

Leyh and the assistant, district attorney an. I the ue tectives. They were all willing to say Ihe most bitter things against the hoy. The men women declined positively to discuss the case with reporters. Hr.

McLeod, who was spoken to by a representative of the Eagle, declared that he had made resolution that he would not talk to reporters. "This case is in the hands of the police and the coroner," he said. "We have told them all we could about it. but wo have not made any suggestions. We said nothing about how the police should go about the work.

That is their business. We suppose that, the police know what they arc doing in the case." Police Have Not Taken Possession of Leyh's Poison Bottles. It is a fact that the members of the lam ily have been complaining that, the police' were exceedingly slow about ihe investigation and that something should have beeu done on the murder theory long ago. So far as is known, though, Dr. McLeod, who attended his father in law in the old man's last moments, did not indicate in any way what were the ante mortem symptoms in the case.

or in any way seek to guide the police Into an Inquiry as to what 'ort of poison was used. There has been all along a suggestion that the old man's death was due to cyanide of potassium, yet so far as is known none ot the Hurt; symptoms of cyanide poisoning, which arc marked with muscular rigors and other characteristic i were not present in this case. The idea that sal ammoniac was the cause of Mr. Leyh's death was abandoned as soon as it wacj suggested, lor it is known that sal ammoniac not kill. Before a person could take enough to kill there would be nausea that would eliminate all of the dri from the system.

While the police have never scriously cou sidered the sal ammoniac it is a fact that they have oecn looking into the story of the electrician. Baltzer. that Leyh visited his store, asked if sal am moniac was poison and was presented with, about a pound of it in a paper bag on the li of his death. The police have sought kij some little bit ot corroboration to the electrician's story and have searched the store high and low for the paper bag and what seltzer had been used not only by Leyh. but by his daughter Isabella.

There was nothing suspicious in the discovery of the bromo seltzer bottles, except that the person who murdered Mr. Leyh anil there seems to be They Defer Action in Spite of an Urgent Communication From Mayor Low To day. LABOR MEN ACTIVE AT SESSION. They Brought All Sorts of Pressure to Bear on Members Doubt as to the Besult. The Pennsylvania tunnel franchise fight is on in the Board of Aldermen this afternoon, with both sides doubtful as to the final issue, but both claiming victory.

Long before the meeting hour people began flocking to the City Hall and the Alder mauic Chamber was packed behind the rail and in the gallery. when President Forne's gavel dropped and the roll was called. Many of the visitors were labor men, who have put up the strong fight that has had so much to do with the franchise's holdup. But they were not entirely predominant. In among them were scores of business men, who had thrown aside their personal and private affairs to attend and encourage the advocates of the measure in their attempt to secure to the city the greatest single improvement ever offered.

The aldermen were as usual somewhat dilatory, some coming an hour late. The roll call on a resolution at 2 o'clock showed only 63 out of 7D members responding. The aldermen and spectators were impa tient over the monotony of the early routine. They all wanted the real business of the day to 'begin, the tunnel fight. Expectation of a stiff battle heightened the interest, which became keener still when the rumor grew to a certainty that Mayor Low had re entered the discussion by sending in an urgent letter restating his views as to the vital importance to the city of the con templated improvement and the advantage ous terms the city was securing.

The Mayor's communication was not the form of a message, but' as its general tone indicates a statement of facts in his possession and his reasons for approving the franchise as it stands. A Crank in the Gallery. Just before President Fornes called the meeting of the aldermen to order this afternoon a white haired man in the gallery rose and cried out: "A gentleman from Brooklyn craves the attention of the 3oard of Aldermen for moment. If Board of Aldermen permit this tunnel to be constructed it will be de stroyed by an earthquake when Jesus comes, as told in the Revelations, sixteenth chapter, eighteenth verse. If you don't believe me He got no further, as' the sergeant af arms hustled him out IrvMi the cold air.

The early business of the meeting was burried 'through with in anticipation of the fcsanel franchise contest. The communication from the Manufacturers' Association of Brooklyn, asking that the ordinance requiring the heating of cars be extended to Brooklyn, was referred to the Committee on Laws and Legislation. A number of communications from workingmeri, opposing the Pennsylvania franchise, were Ordered on file. After the board had been in session for about a quarter of an hour the gallery was crowded with spectators and the space reserved for spectators on the floor was taxed to its utmost. Labor representatives were active In Interviewing the different bers of the board in an effort to prevail Upon them to remain firm in their stand against the franchise.

Samuel B. Donnelly and Matthew Quinlan of the Central Federated Labor Union were conspicuous by their activity. Communications favoring the franchise were read from the New York Beard of Trade and the Merchants' Association. Alderman John T. McCall introduced a reso lution asking the Board of Estimate to au horize the Controller to issue special revenue Donas to ine amount oi ivu.uuu, me pruceeua of which shall be devoted to the purchase of coal to be distributed to the deserving poor of the city, under the supervision of the Charities Commissioner.

The resolution was unanimously approved. At 2:30 the Mayor's message was read to the Board of Aldermen. There was absolute silence while the secretary was reading the long appeal of Mayor Low in favor of the tunnel franchise. Upon conclusion Alderman Matthews arose and cut short an attempt to have a letter from the secretary of the Merchants' Asso i elation read. He asked that the letter be I Hied and President Fornes upheld the Alderman's contention.

The report of the railroad committee of the Board of Aldermen in favor of the tunnel waa then read. Alderman Meyers moved that the franchise question be made a special order for the next meeting. Alderman Wafer said that Senator Piatt insisted on immediate action. He was against this. Alderman McCall wanted time to submit a minority report.

The Mayor's resolution was adopted and th matter went over for one week. Mayor jy w's Letter to Aldermen. The communication to the Board If Aldermei, was as follows: "New York, December 9, 1902. "To the Honorable, the Board of Aldermen or the City of New York: "The Pennsylvania tunnel franchise, now pending before your honorable board, is of such surpassing importance to the city as to justify a statement from the Mayor of the reasons why he thinks the franchise should be approved. Such a statement seems to me the more forthcoming in this instance because when this franchise, iu its first form, was rejected by your board I used all of my influence to secure its reconsideration through a conference committee representing both the Rapid Transit Commission and your board.

Your representatives upon (his committee did their work well, and it may con fidently be said that the fritnchisc is in bet ter form now than when it was first sub mitted for your consideration. After its approval by the conference committee, and! before its adoption by the Rapid Transit Commission, a public hearing was given by that body, at which every one interested had I an opportunity to be heard. There was sub stantially no opposition to the franchise in its present form, except as to its omission to Drovide for the eight hour day and the pay i ment of the prevailing rate of wages. i "Your own representatives, and the city officials generally, used every proper means 1 to obviate even this obiection; but, as to thnsp orov sions. the Pennsylvania Kauroau ihat iieede'I aid, twn ill man and were rick, and at least four ear of widows with families of two tn four children all in dive circumstances.

At the Department i 'IkivI I while Commissioner Teale said an early hour this morning that there lir. been no unusual additions to th" average number of eases, yet he confessed that a continuation of the cold spell would probably make the work In the ni unusually heavy. "Up to the present time," he sni'l. "I think the Christmas season lias afforded good ileal of relief to the poor. The unusual de innnd for unskilled labor jus.t before the holidays ought to enable many a man to ho together his honf.

"After Christina, however, it will be an other story. Then the business interests I will commence lo re rid (heir holiday 1 help and then, if tin weather cold, wc must expect much distress." The following letter shows what one Sunday school is trying to do In this emergency: To" the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: You may be Interested in a rough account of what the children of the Hanson Place Baptist Sunday scho.ol are doing this year toward helping the poor of the church and of our vicinity. In former years they have been asked to' bring gifts for the poor, when coming to the Christmas festival, and they also brought to the festival for those not members of the school some such gift, and I as high as 700 separate pieces of clothing or packages of groceries have been received, but this year the work has been systematized and each class has been given a definite thing that each member of the class Is requested to furnish: reports have 'been supplied to the classes, which will show what actually has been brought, and the result will be that the following goods will be received, and there is reason to believe that a great many of our children will bring even morn than" they have been requested to furnish. If even a few of the schools in our city adopted this plan, making this a time of giving, as well as receiving, it would result in a great amount of good being done for the poor of the city. The following is a list of what will be furnished by ihe children.

'leur. pj pupils. 1M: pouruls; Potaloee. IT, pupilf. small mcapuiv: small ni KHUres.

Turnips. pupil. quarls; quarts. lemons. 7 pupils.

lemons; 10 nupils. '2 oranKet: "0 eranip'S. Apples. pupils, 3 apples; 23 apple. corn.

:15 pupils. I enn; cans. Tomatoes. puplla. 1 cap; f)9 cans.

Teas. 34 pupils. 1 can: 34 canp. Kreakfast food. 34 pupils, 1 package; 34 packages.

Oatmeal, 37 pupils. I package; 37 packages. Spllr peas 3S 2 iti quarts. Ilealis, 3i pupils. '2 quarts; 72 quarts.

Hlee. pupil.1. 3 pounds: IP! pounds, milk. 12 pupils, 3 cans; 21 cans. sUBiir.

32 pupils. 3' pounds; lf2 pounds. Ceffoe'. 3(t pupils, pound: IS pounds. Tea.

22 peund: iP.i pounds. Tads, ti pupils. 2 12 pads. Pencils. 10 3 pencils; pencils.

Sioap. 4 2 oars; bars. Prunes, .7 pupils. 2 peloids; in pounds. Codltsh.

10 pupils. 1 V) packages. Wscuils, 10 pupils. 2 packages: 20 Stockings. 12,7 pupils.

1 pair; 12 pairs. Salt. 1 barrel. Just an Item in regard to the stockings. The children of the primary department, and the kindergarten department are each requested to bring one pair of new stockings, to roll one and put it In the toe of the other, and fill the stocking with toys, apples or lead pencils or something of that kind.

Now, after having all these wc found wc had forgotten salt, and one of our teachers volunteered to give a barrel of salt. There have been other subscriptions for clothing, and our only fear is that we will have more stuff than our own committee can distribute. GEO. H. NEIDL1NGER.

Brooklyn, December 1902. While the cold snap was severely fell in Orcenpoint and Williamsburgh to day and the dearth of coal made it particularly hard for many, there were no cases of extreme suffering brought to the attention of the police. the offices or the various coal concerns located in Williamsburgh it was stated that while there had been few individuals with pails and buckets clan for fuel, there had been heavy inrc the stock by small coal distributers a 1 grocers. Xone of the Arms has more than half the ordinary supply, but there is enough on hand, at high price, to give relief to those who are able to meet the demands of the retailers. Throughout the poorer sections of vill iamsburgh and Gre npoint women and children with palls and scuttles were much in evidence and the fortunate grocer with a box full of the precious fuel made a substantial profit on his original investment.

The prices for a few shovelfuls of coaf ranged from eight to thirty five cents and protests by the hapless purchasers availed nothing. The indications this morning were that the weather would cause the closing of some schools, but all the Williamsburgh schools were, busy during the morning session aud word was given out that there wa enough fuel on hand to keep the buildings in fairly comfortable condition. It. was the wisdom shown by the authorities some time ago which enabled the schools to do business, as nearly as the janitors had some on hand' When the coal strike was at its height and the indications were that the schools in Williamsburgh would be barren of fuel when the cold weather set in. a carting concern of Manhattan was employed to transfer to Brooklyn about 300 tons of coal which was stored in one of the downtown Manhattan school buildings.

For nearly two weeks the distribution of this supply went on throughout the Eastern District and has come in handy in the present emergency. BABTLETT AND WOODWARD. Albany Sumor That Odell Will Designate Them for Appellate Division. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, December It was stated to day that Governor Odell had decided to designate Justices Willard Bartlett and John Woodward to the Appellate Division of tho Second Judicial District. The Governor, it Is kno.wn.

was deeply Impressed with Ihe unanimity of sentiment for this assignment, as shown by the nction of the Hur Association and as expressed by the committee which called upon him last week. It was rumored that the Governor would announce his determination to day. Up to a late hour it was impossible to confirm Ihe rumors. MANY CAR LINES TIED UP. Engine in Power House Broke Down and Passengers Spent an Arctic Morning Hour.

One of ihe engines in the power house of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company at Fifty second street and First avenue, suffered a mishap early this morning and the result was that for lack of motive power many lines wore blocked between and o'clock. For nearly an hour then; was a complete tie up of some of the Borough Park. Bay Midge and Bath Beach surface lines and there was trouble on the West End Division of the L. road. There were delays, also due to lack of power, on some of the Fulton street surface and lines.

The Flatbush trains were all late in arriving down town and there were scions nn the surface lines. I An official of the company, in speaking with an Eagle reporter of the tie up on the local and the suburban lines, said: I "One thing Is patent ami that is that, we are up against a hard proposition on the power question. People cannot be made to realize that the delays and the tie ups and the cold cars are all due to fact that we i cannot get sufficient power to run our ears, although we are making herculean efforts, i I might, say, to do so. We are rushing work on the new power house and are preparing to install new engines in the ones being used i now. On the lines, to offset the scarcity I of electrical power.

vo arc using as many Bteatn coaches and locomotives as we can. .12. S4. 3C Clinton nt. TnrUltth Baths jnlarged.

tmprovod. Quiet aleop. Itest. Adv. THE BOY PRISONER PUBLIC PURSE TIED TIGHT.

Piteous Appeals to Charitable Societies That Cannot Be Answered. THIS IN SPITE OF PROSPERITY. "For God's Sake Send Me Coal; We Can Do Without Pood," a Woman Writes. No Belief in Sight. Seldom in the city's history has the cry of the poor and needy followed so closely upon a cold snap and rarely have the combined charitable organizations of the borough been so unprepared to cope with an emergency.

From all parts, of the. city, come urgent demands for coalr and' wood" and food. In many cases the officers who have charge of the distribution of aid have been sorely tried iu making choices to receive the benefit of To mslto matters worse, it is frankly and generally admitted that if the cold wave continues for two or three days most of the charitable organizations will be swamped with relief applications, if not entirely incapacitated. At the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities tho emands for special relief are many. In deed, the bureau is trying to help first of all and deserted wives in the largo Dumber of cases which come to them.

The bureau, as well as other organizations could use any amount of coal. If reports eai'e correct, it would seem that conditions are now worse among the poor than they were any tune during the coal strike. The comparatively mild weather up to the present cold spell is the chief cause of the present, unpreparedness of the charltaole organizations of the borough, baid Albert A. Kay, the general agent ot the Brooklyn Society for the Improvement, of the Condition of the Poor, to a reporter this morning: "The mild weather up to the present cold period has apparently put us out of the mind of the public and our friends in gen oral. We have seldom been so helpless in December, a month which is one of the worst' iu the year for the poor.

"This vear we sent out fully 7.000 appeals 1 have responded. The trouble lies in the fact that when wc sent, them out the weather was mild and now we are obliged to confront an emergency with a consiciera I ble dearth of funds. We need fully $6,000 at this very minute." I Superintendent E. C. Avilu of the soeiety I told the reporter that the number of cases averaged between fifty and one hundred a dav.

He said that the society was trying not to turn any appeal away, but that the ffrnwi ntr number of cases lesseneo a great measure tne am inai umu tend to the individual. The greatest demand is apparently for luel and the supply It he soc et is nlmos ex nausieu. nun of coal is greater than ever and with the society's depleted fundi the condition of affairs is An instance of what, kind of appeals comes to the society was given by Avila. He showed the reporter the rollowing letter: "For God's sake," it road, "send me coal. We can do without food but we want coal." This letter was from a woman on Steuben street, who was about to.

become a mother. Her husband was sick In the hospital and seven small children were dependent upon her in her helpless condition. "I have telephoned to coal yard to send them coal," said Air. Avila. "but that is all we can do.

We have no coal." Another of the many cases is the condition of a family in Chapel street. The mother is a widow and has six children. Her eldest bov Is dying with pneumonia in an ice cold room. The society is making every elfort to aid this case, but Its resources are being sorely taxed. At the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, Assistant Secretary S.

H. Bishop told the reporter a similar story. There is a great demand for fuel. At this bureau nothing is given away without the applicant earning It. Conditions are such that the society is obliged to limit its aid to deserted wives and widows, or to cases where one or both of the bread winners of the family arc helpless on account of illness.

Mr. Bishop emphasized the fact that in the matter of the special appeals the citizens of the borough have fallen away below the showing of last. year. "I cannot understand the conditions at present," said the assistant secretary. "The city seems to be prosperous enough and yet answe to our special appeals In emergency cases have fallen off beyond belltf.

To bring li down to actual figures, last year, when special appeals were made by us. the average response was per cent, more than we needed. This winter, however, instead of being above our requirements, the responses have fallen BO per cent, and 70 per cent, he low the amounts wo need. The result Is that in many cases our resources arc quite deficient." lie. also told the reporter that at the present moment there were three families, where TnM HlMtorlo Through Iovoly Srcnei iou make the journey on tiny one of eight dully trains between New York and Chicago by tho New York Central lints.

Adv. A NEW WEATHER RECORD This Is the Coldest December 9 in New York City for Twenty six Years. ONLY 6 ABOVE IN FLATBUSH. Official Thermometer Showed Above This Morning The Fuel Famine Desperate. To day is I tie coldest December fi in New York City for twenty six years.

The temperature wen! down to only degrees above zero, by tho official UnittM States Weather Bureau thermometer ami went still lower by other thermometers. In Flatbtfch above was the lowest. Fortunately for this city without coal, the temperature took a rising turn at 9 o'clock, with the promise from the Weather Bureau that the rest of the day would not be quite so cold and that to morrow would be warmer. Before the mercury started up it went perilously near to zero, nearer than 11 lias been this early in the season for a long, long lime. Even with the promise of warm weather, the coal situation is still desperate.

There is some coal in New York, but it is hard to get. and is so scarce as to justify the statement that there is a find famine. Many deal i rs have practically stopped deliveries, except to customers of long standing, and even to them coal is delivered in very small quan tities. A peculiar feature of tho fuel famine is that the wealthy and well to do people are suffering with the rest. One of the prominent women in Brooklyn actually appealed this morning to the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities for help.

She didn't want anything like pecuniary assistance, but she wanted coai and couldn't, get it from any dealer in town. She had helped the poor through charitable institutions and she had the needs of the poor brought right home to her by her own plight. She wanted Secretary Nichols to use his influence to get her coal. Of course, he couldn't do it, as he is not able to get coal for the necessities of his own department. Dozens of the largest and finest homes in Brooklyn are cold and cheerless their owners are wishing that they lived in fiats, where all the heat is furnished from one general furnace.

But the flats are havens, snug aud warm, for a cold populace. The majority of the apartment houses need thawing out themselves, for they have been as unfortunate as private citizens in securing coal. The very poor people have not yet Sell the full effects of winter. With them lb coal famine makes little or no difference, so far, because they never use coal so long as, there is wood to be picked up on the street and along the river front. Thousands of them ube kerosene stoves and do not care bow high coal goes.

It looked like zero weather from 6 o'clock last uight to 9 o'clock this morning. Abou sundown there was a rapid drop of mercury and the cold tncrwaced steadily, until midnight. At 2 o'clock this morning, the Eagle thermometer registered 13 above. By 4 o'clock there had been a drop of three degrees and 0 o'clock it was only degrees above. At o'clock the thermometer showed a little above degrees and this was lowered to by o'clock.

At 11 o'clock the temperature had risen to 11 above. New York City missed the worst of the cold snap. Up state, the mercury made zero look high up the scale. Rome. New York, had a temperature of 'X degrees below at 6 this morning.

SUFFERING ON LONG ISLAND. The Great South Bay Frozen Over and Coal Carrying Schooners Cannot Reach Ports. Froeport, L. December fi If residents of this village bad been suddenly transplanted into the Arctic regions last night they would not have suffered more from the cold than they did by the wave which swooped down from that section, with discomforting and alarming rapidity. Willi the thermometer falling rapidly and a biting northwest gale, everybody realized late yestercVy afternoon that the night would be a severe one.

Those who had but a scan, supply of coal In their bins found it impossible to sparo coal enough to heat the entire bouse, and oil stoves hx'l the call with many lo assist in keeping rooms warm. This morning when the unhappy and unfortunate householder awoke he found that the mercury had gone as far down toward zero as degrees and was still holding it cs own. Water pipes were found to be frozen in many instances and much discomfort and annoyance resulted. Beside the inconvenience which the wave will cause to householders, the Great South Buy has frozen over, which will prevent the carting of auy more conl by boats, unless a thaw occurs, and the industry wiK receive a severe set back." The cold wave is causing much suffering among poor families, who have hut little coal which lo keep warm. Zero Weather on Bockaway Peninsula.

Rocltaway Bench. December Th cold snap of the pust forty eight hours lia. caused considerable suffering among the people who have nu fuel. During the night the thermometer registered at midnight. and this morning ninny water pipes are 1 frozen and bursted.

Ice formed in the creeks land along the edges of Jamaica Bay. The I icy gale which prevailed all of yesterday and i part of the night heightened i be suffering of those exposed to n. SKATING AT PATCHOGUE. Coldest Weather Known in Years at Same Period. (Special to the Eagle.

1 Palchogu L. December The great South Bay was frozen over this morning fqr I the first time this season, a thin coating of i ice spreading out from the mainland as far as the eye could sec. Last, night was the I coldest of the winter and at 7 o'clock thin morning the thermometer registered only 4. above zero, which is the lowest, point regls I tered af this season of the year that has been known for many years back. There is skating on the ponds and the fleet of scooter sailors are preparing for nn extended winter's sport on the bay.

32 BELOW ZERO NEAR SARATOGA Coldest Weather Experienced for Years Up the State Scarcity of Conl Causes Suffering. Saratoga. December The mercury recorded 3u degrees below zero last uight. which was one of the coldest experienced for years. Other towns in this section report from 2S to "'J.

degrees below The cold wave will cause much suffering, as there still a scarcity of cool in many places. Albany, December 0 The cckles. wcither of the winter prvlls here this SLorniuc who owned the money was dead and he 1 must bavo remained ot us contents, lor the thought nobody wou.d question him about it. XSt But TAllZ He said that he went to the store and of the bag or a trace of sal ammoniac bought the wheel for $25.75 and he paid $1.23 been discovered. for the gloves.

When he was asked how it Tne pol'ce in their search thrrugh the stoiv wo that voa I did find two bromo seltzer but bromo nf fhp rMt nf Ntt Vnrlf Thin nrnvifiinn fnt" periodic readjustment of payments on account of the franchise will enable the city periodically to increase what it will receive on account of the franchise, indefinitely. As a result this city will have the honor, unless it is' prevented by the action of your board, of being the first American city thus to safeguard its interests. If the city, in earlier days, SSxd 1 been as successful in caring for the public interests, its revenues from franchises would now provide for a large part of the city's annual expenses. If the first successful effort to secure for the city not only adequate initial payment for a franchise, but also the opportunity periodically to profit by tne. constantly increasing value of it, is now mme will ue uitiumi uiu.n tviue spread disappointment.

"It has been said that he who makes two blades "or grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor. The offer to give to a city unbroken connection by two trunk line railroads with the West and South of the United States, when only one such connection has been enjoyed before, carries with it the promise of so great a benefit to the city as ought to command from the authorities the most hearty response. It means, if accepted, more work for the la boring men of New York, not only during the process of construction, but also through the centuries of the railroad's operation; it means more business for our shops, more employment for our factories and more commerce for our port; and it means cheaper and better homes' within the borders of our city for multitudes of our population. "It will go far to make sure the permanent pre eminence of New York among the cities of the world; for New York grows as the United States grows, and the more freely our island city can command unbroken railroad connection with the mainland of the United. States the si eater will be the prosperity of New York.

It is an old saying that 'all. roads lead to The same roads always lead out of Rome, as well; but Rome was a magnet that, given the roads, was able to draw the whole world to itself. New York is such a magnet in this country and upon this continent, but, like Rome, it must have the roads. For the city to get a new trunk line railroad without losing or impairing so much as by a bridge the city's unique water advantages is unparalleled good fortune; to get unbroken railroad connection with the West and South for two of its boroughs, and not for one only, despite such wide and navigable 'streams as the Hudson River and the East River, is a result only possible in these days of gigantic resource and gigantic undertakings. It is a proposal worthy of the city to which it Is made and the cits should reply to it in a manner worthy of'itself.

For these reasons I venture to hope that thft nrnnnsed franchise, will receive the an proval of your honorable board. (Signed)' "SETH LOW, Mayor." DANGEROUS ACCIDENT ON L. Trolley Poles on a Kings County Train Bipped Off by Girders on Myrtle Avenue Tracks. Shortly after 10 o'clock this morning, an unusual and dangerous accident occured at the Brooklyn terminal of the Brooklyn Bridge. Fortunately, no one was injured, as the accident occured after rush hours, but had it occured an hour or so earlier, many pasB sengers would no doubt have been badly Injured.

The Brighton train, which is due at the Brooklyn terminal of the bridge ot 10:25, was delayed just above the bridge entrance for some minutes, because the switchmen had allowed a Kings County train to be run to the Brighton station. The result wan that it was necessary to switch the Brighton train, which was due at the bridge, to the Fultcn Ferry tracks. This might have been all right had the switchmam taken into consideration all the factors in the case. He had not. however, and a bad accident was the result.

The girders of the Myrtle Avenue which are above the tracks of the Kings County at this point, hung so low over the oncoming train that all of the three trolley poles on top of the cars were ripped out of the sockets before the niotorman of the traln could bring it to a stop. The terrific sound made by the ripping out of the poles, caused a small sized panic In the cars. The passengers did not know the cause of the noise and creaking and thought they were in peril. Fortunately, however, they were not hurt, for the poles. instead of falling on top of the cars and thence through the roof, down upon the pas sengers below, were hurled to the station platform.

Being late in the morning, there were iu passengers on the plaf" and no one was injured. Passengers the cars, when they realized that there as no further danger, quieted down and lt.t the cars as soon as possible. Many were the comments upon the "stupiaity ot tne switcn. nan and upon the "negligence of the Rapid Transit officials" for allowing r.uch an accident to occur when it could so easily have been averted, CAUGHT PLOTTING KING'S DEATH. (boxen liy the IIiin Mini.

no doubt now of the fact that lie was mur to our tnenas, tne nope uiai tun dered might have stored the poison In one contribute as usual, but it is no exaggera I of thom. Tho 1W, which ftrouirht. death tion to state that oi that number not over $27.08, he answered, with the readiness that has been characteristic with him when cornered, that he applied some of his own pocket money to the purchase. That was another fib. the police conjecture, because he never had any pocket money.

Boy Tells of Giving Bromo Seltzer to Xeyh. It was long time after he had made ihe admission about the money that he made any about the old trussmaker's death. He insisted Tor a time that he had never interfered with the beer, but finally he admitted that he had dosed it with bromo seltzer. "Mr. Leyh.

had been drinking all of the morning." he said. "He drank whisky and wine until he was too drunk to attend to his business and as he sometimes took bromo seltzer when he was that way I decided to give him some. There was some in a bottle on a i' uj beer I took the cork from the bottle and dumped some of the powder into the glass ne uisteu tne uecr uuerwuru una saia ne aiu not like it. ihen he was taken sick and The boy would not further incriminate mmscii. uirau.se, uiuilu seiner won a not Kin mm uuu tne puiice nuve an iaea mat it was not from the bromo seltzer bottle that the stuff was put in the bottle, for there was more sediment in the bottle than in the glass.

Having got all they could out of the boy he was sent around to the shelter of the Brooklyn Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Children as prisoner for the night. The blotter in the detectives' office at police headquarters records the fact that he was locked up as a suspicious person. That waa because no one would take the responsf bility at that time of making a charge direct ly against the boy. Coroner Williams had been called into ihe consultation at headquarters and there was a suggestion that the boy should be held on a charge of homicide. But no one would make the charge.

Coroner Williams said that the result of the chemical analysis of the contents of the stomach of the dead man and the bottle had been made he could not tell that Mr. Leyh had died from violence. Coroner Williams is a man of property and he could not take chances, no matter what the boy might say, of a suit for damages if no such charge as homicide c.uld be proven against him. So Coroner Williams would not commit him to jail on a charge of homicide in the light of the facts he then had. Dr.

George V. Leyh, the son of the murdered man. was then consulted concerning his availability as a complainant against the boy on a charge of grand larceny. But Dr. Leyh also has property and he did not want to see his estate dissipated by a damage suit and he, too, was nervous about making a charge.

That was why Robert was sent to the shelter for detention merely as a suspicious character. Something must have stiffened the back this morning, for after a long consultation at the District Attorney's office. Dr. Leyh determined that he would make the charge of larceny against Robert. Assistant District Attorney Bailey was sent over with Dr.

Leyh to the Adams street court to put his complaint in writing. There had been a family consultation over the case and Mrs. to the old man was unouest tonably a most potent drug, but it did not act. with the quick fatality of cyanide of potassium. That might be explained, as has already been shown in the Eagle, by the fact that I'yli had eaten freely before the poison was introduced into his system.

It is likely that the drug was some ether poison, though, and it is not ai all unlikely that it was bisulphide of mercury, not a quick acting but most potent toxic agent. So far as can be learned, the police have not taken possession of the poisons which are left in Mr. Levh's store. An Eagle re porter, who the shelf in Leyh's shop containing the hn, oaphic chcmje.us. found a bottle of cvauitle of potassium and another of bisulphide of mercury.

The latter was eIeaner taB thl. tlur 3ust bou.s i n(1 iriient iona thnt it hr.H I been recently opened. The fat cork had a of the botUe with' a pnife, and it hnd" been shoved awav down in the neck of til bottle, as if it had been hurriedly and very rni'nlhlv Tli i hntttt nf nnknn whi0h "was labeled poison', has not" been taker, possession of bv the police. An Eagle re DOrter this morning son in law McLaod why the police had not taken charge of the poisons on the shell'. "Ask the police." leplied Dr.

McLeod. "That is 'their business, not mine. The bottles arc there for them lo take if they want tfc Dr. Hartung, the post mortem examiner for Coroner Flahertv. is committed to the I belief that the poison which caused the old man's death was cyanide of potassium.

smelled what was in the beer bottle," he said, "and I noticed the peach pit odor which characteristic very clearly "I smeiled it, too." said one of the Coroner's clerks. "Didn't notice any peach pit ouor. It smelled lo me like stale beer." Dr. Wuest, who made the post mortem examination, had a notion that the poison might have been cyanide of potassium, but he was not very sure about it. The analysis is still in progress ami it may not be completed for a day or two.

But it was quite possible that the person who introduced the poison into the bottle nf beer got the stuff in the store, and it is also probable that bisulphide of mercury was the agent of death. The drug was handy to anyone who had the run of the shop. Boy Seems to Be Fearless When Arraigned in Court. One ol the interested witnesses of the proceedings in court to day was. the boy West phal's father, a plainly dressed, heartbroken looking Gorman, who is well regarded by all his aeiin iintnnces.

The man sat in the court room when the boy was called, and his eyes never left the lad while the arraignment was goinK on. The complaint was a long time in prep.i Continued on Page 2. Have llenrt lo Heart '1 IU Willi your physiciaa about Dewar's Scotch Whiskey. Adv. positively declared, as it has uniformly de dared from the beginning, that it would not Thirteen Anarchists Arrested In Italy accept the ranchtec if these clauses were Taktag Oath to Kill Sovereign, made a part ot It.

"It is an old proverb that 'you can lead Rome, December 9 Thirteen anarchists proposing to spend $50,000,000 or thereabouts, i a desperate struggle. The police surprised upon this enterprise: but no one can compel tnem at a meeting while they were in the it to spend a dollar unless it is satisfied i with the terms of the franchise. The com act of taking an oath with poignards to as pany's consistent attitude as to these pro saeslnatc King Victor Emmanuel, visions entitles it to. be taken literally af. anarchists and one of the its word In respect of them.

The question before your honorable board, therefore, is police were severely wounded. I It Jlnki's Time. Tlve Pcnneylvanla Special enables tin; hu iners The Pennsylvania 20 hour Special olToi uiipar nian to nave actuall four hours; but Ire may our i alleled Servian to ChlcaRO. It leaves Xcw, York uc his business duties en route. Adv.

and Brooklyn dally. Adv..