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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. TUESDAY DECEMBER 9. 1902. 2 MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS. CLEVELAND II LISTENER WESTPHftL BOY ARRAIGNED DN CHARGE OF STEALING. 1834. WILLIAM WISE SON, Jetveler and Si I erm fab thera and the disturbances that are incidental to progress. "The benefits all seem to accrue to the person who first uses an invention, while the ones displaced are apparently shut out of the industrial system.

It is not notloed how they are gradually absorbed into other channels of employment, that open up as the cost of production is decreased. If such were not the ease, the whole industrial mechanism would soon come to a standstill! considering the progress of inventions supplemented by the army of aliens that arrive yearly and the increasing proportion of women breadwinners. "An adjustment coincident with the displacements must evidently take place some where, or the number of unemployed would be appaling. This is the pith of the problem. The immigrants and the women Introduced into the factory become In turn buyers, and hence create a demand for goods that results in the employment of as many as they have dis placed.

"The evil of immigration is not that the aliens take the places of native laborers, but rather Is due to the crowding into tho most available occupations that offer them the means to temporarily live to their lowest standards of living and general helpless DIAMONDS and Other Precious Stones in latest styles of mountings offered at reduced rates. wages, or he may give wax to girls and unskilled men at lower wages. If the union is strong and wise, the former method will be adopted. If the union is weak and shortsighted the latter will be. permitted.

"But the question of restrictions on machinery is entirely different from the question of high wages for operating machines. One union may require three skilled men to a machine, where one skilled and two unskilled could do the 'work. This would not be a restriction on output, as it would If the union required four men to operate where three would suffice. In the first case, the union simply demands high wages, in the second it tries to 'make "The uppermost questions in this matter therefore are these: Are High wages desirable, and if desirable, can they be onain tained if the limits on apprentices are removed? Also, Is an all around education in the trade an advantage to the modern form of specialized industry, and if so, can this be secured by other means than apprenticeship? Minimum Wage or Uniform Wage? "It is preposterous to denounce all unions for insisting oa a uniform wage. The Typographical Union permits employers to pay more than the minimum.

With $27 as the minimum in New York there are newspapers that pay no compositor less than $30. The Bricklayers' Union, on the other hand, prohlbita the employer from paying more than the minimum. But here is a question of the evil to be met. If the Bricklayers' Union prohibits a contractor from giving a swift man extra pay to set the pace for the others, can the contractor come into court with clean hands? Is this a case of higher pay for more efficient labor or rather a case of forcing inferior workmen to do as much as superior ones at less pay? "If the union restricts the employer in the matter of wages and hours, is it not presumptuous and unbusinesslike that it should also restrict him in the kind and quality of goods which he sells in order to pay wages and reduce hours? Address of Frederick A. Halsey.

The chairman Gentlemen, the next paper will be from Frederick A. Halsey, the editor of the American Machinist, on the topic, "The Premium Method of Payment." Mr. Halsey spoke in part as follows: An Answer to Mr. Mosely. "I would like to say in regard to Mr.

Moseley's remarks yesterday on piece work that I do not think it works as well in this country as he seems to think: that the American employer does not cut the piece rate as freely as they do In Europe is I think a thesis that cannot be defended. At the same time Mr. Mosely's conclusions may have been the result of a loose use of terms. "We have in this country a system known as the New England Contract. Plan, which may be much the same as the plan ihat Mr.

Barnes referred to. It is a plan that, is often confused with piece work and often goes by the same name. If Mr. Mosely has gone to the Baltimore Locomotive Works he may have been told that they use the piece work plan. They do not.

If he has been to the Brown Sharp Manufacturing Company he may have been told there that they use the piece work plan. I am not as sure in this case as I was in the other, but I am pretty sure they use the New England Contract System. Now. this New England contract, system works better than piece work. It does it because when the cut comes there are not too many men to kick.

"The result of this operation that I have described of the premium plan of the workmen getting a portion of the gain and the employer getting a portion is what appears at lirst sight to be paradoxical, that tho wages goes up and the cost goes down at the same time, the one because of the other. It may be objected and has been objected that this is not equitable to the workman; that it is only proper and right that he should be paid in proportion to his output. To say why I do not think this isthe case is a long story, but I can give one explanation which will explain it. as well as a long dissertation will do. zn 1902.

Fulton St. SIX DAY RIDERS GET A BAD SPILL, John Bedell at Bottom of Bunch and Carried Off Unconscious. OVER 25 MILES BACK OF RECORD Dropping Out of Gougoltz and Kaser Has Robbed Race of Much Interest. When day break came this morning, the eleven representatives of as many teams in the six day bicycle race, at the Madison Square Garden, pedalling around the basin like track to the rag time accompaniment of one of the negro trainers, on a piano in the middle of the ring. The riders have settled down to a steady grind, and are making no attempt to catch up with the record, jvhich they are far behind.

At 12:30 this morning. Gougoltz and Kaser announced their withdrawal from the race. This was on advice of the management physician, who said he thought it might be dangerous for Kaser, injured a bad fall on Su.i day night, whose injuries are troubling him very much. Gougoltz, whose ill luck seeme to pursue him, said he was ready to go on in the race in case he could secure a riding partner as is permissible under the new rules of the race. Last year, Simar became ill and che team as forced to withdraw.

All the riders feel sorry for Gougoltz. who has met with such ill luck in this and last year's race. When Kaser was ordered off Ute. track by the physicians, there were tears in the Frenchman's eyes. Gougoltz begged that he be allowed to continue until Kaser should be well enough to return to the track.

This could not be. however, for the condition of Kaser's chest was such that he was warned to remain perfectly quiet for several days, or blood poisoning might set in. A determined effort was made by Fra iz Krebs. the Brooklyn rider, at 3 o'clock this morning, to regain the lap lost by his team early in the race. It was learned later that his efforts had been superinduced by 'the presence of Augusta Schultz, a pretty girl of 19, to whom he is engaged to be uiBJrriod, who had called to see her lover ri59.

Krebs is depending, it is said, on the priJie money to start housekeeping with and it. will be a severe disappointment to the young couple, if the team fails to land one of the larger prizes. The management has promised the couple that they can be married in the Garden if the shows up well, in which case the pair will receive a percentage of the receipts for that night. At 8:00 o'clock the leaders were over 23 miles and two laps behind the record. About 8:30 o'clock a newsboy, who awoke from his sleep, stole across the track on the Twenty sixth street side of the Garden, just as the eleven riders came down the high bank on that side.

He. did not see. or hear them and tho crowd yelled as they saw the men all swerve to the rail to avoid a collision. It was a miraculous escape, and caused the onlookers to hold their breath. At least a dozen employers rushed for the miscreant and promptly ejected him.

At 10 o'clock, which marked the thirty fourth hour of the race, the riders were 2 miles and 9 laps behind the best previous record. They had also fallen behind manv other records of six day bicycle races. At 10' o'clock, interest in the race was at low ebb. At 12 o'clock the racers were twenty four miles and six laps behind the record. Breton, at.

the head of the leading bunch, passed the 700 mile mark thirty five hours and eighteen minutes after tho start of the race. Several atempts to steal a lap were made between 11 and 12 o'clock, but all tailed. In every instance the riders all "tacked on" to the one who spurted and accelerated motion on the part of all the riders was the result. The scores at 12 o'clock w'ere: Name. Urrton Darriiison McFarland Maya Stinson Morau Bedell Bertoil Newklrk Jacobsun Butler Leander Floyd Kreb Barclay Franz Kreb Kec.titn Peterson Oalvln Root Mile ns.

7W 70S 'iO 7lW 70!) Doerfllnscr Heller The record the. thlrly stxth hour Is. 73 1 miles 2 laps. One of the worst "spills" of the race occurred at 1 :15 o'clock. For about twenty minutes the riders had been going at full speed to the delight of the 3,000 The spurt was started by Leander.

Maya swerved high up on the track at the Twenty sixth street and Fourth avenue end to, aiiow Johu Bedell an opportunity to pace. The leaders had already gained a lap and a quarter on Heller. Maya's tactics caused him to unintentionally crash into Bedell and the two rolled down the incline. Butler and Heller, who were close behind, rode into the heap and soon there was a tangle of men and machines with John Bedell unconscious at the bottom. Bedell was carried from the track unconscious and came to In a few moments, when restoratives were applied.

He was badly shaken up but said that he was still in the race. Butler had his face scratched and Maya both knees scraped. The fall was the second bad one for John Bedell, Tils knees being In bandages at the time of the smashup, as a result of a previous fall. The scores at 1 o'clock were: Name. Miles.

LanB. Breton Darraijon 72s McFarland Maya 72S Stlnson Moran 72S 6 Bedell Bedell 72S 6 Newklrk Jaeobhon 72S Butler Ttirville 72S 6 Leander Floyd Kreb 728 6 Barclay Franz Krc 72S Keegan Peterson 728 Oalvln Root 72S Doerfllnser Haller 2, This is the 37th hour of the race and the record Is 753 miles and laps. The scores at. 2 clock were: nine. Miles.

Lips 7fr. Brrlon Darrapon Mcr an nn Maya 'U Moraii B. Ic.lell N'owklrk Jacobsnn Hutler Turvllle I.cnntfer Floyd Krebn Harclay Fran; ICrebs KepRan Petrson CilvJn Koet Dnernlpser 7r. 'lie wird Is 77S mli" anc ini'n. SCHOOL GIRLS.

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SCOTT St BOWSE, Chemists, 409 Pearl St, N. V. Tho Weather Bureau thermometer reached 10 degrees below zero. People coming iu from the outlying districts, especially toward the North and West, report temperature below IS. The last southbound tow.

which started yesterday afternoon. 19 having difficulty in Betting through the ice, and the Murray Line low from New York scarcely reached Troy last night, but cannot be returned to Albany, as the river is now solid from shore to shore. Railroad service is hampered by the cold and trains both ways are delayed. Rome. December ft Last night's temperature was the coldest recorded here In many years.

At 6 A. M. to day it was 26 degrees below. Catskill. December Navigation on the upper Hudson closed to day.

The steamers City of Hudson and Redfteld have arrived here for the winter and the Redfield leaves for winter quarters in New York. The Catskill ferryboat fought her way through the ice to Hudson, five miles north, where she released the steamer Onteora from an ice floe. The pilot of the ferryboat reports iee Hops in the river six inches in thickness. The thermometer registered 10 below zero. Schenectady.

December 9 Bitter cold weather prevails here to day. This morning the thermometer registered 22 degrees below tero at 6 o'clock. It is next to impossible to procure any coal from local dealers, arfd many cases of extreme suffering have been reported. Physician predict that, unless the situation is relieved, many deaths will result from the present ocal famine. The Mo River is frozen solid from shore to shore.

Poekskill. December This was Lhe cold 1 st day of the season here. In this place and ft. Tarrytown. Osslning and other towns along the Hudson River the mercury fell nearly to the zero point.

There was much soffering among the poor on account of the scarcity and high price of coal. Navigation on the Hudson River is suspended above this point. LOCAL NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. Mark I). Reardon, a son of Police Captain Reardon.

surrendered himself in the Lee avenue police court this afternoon, having heard that there was a warrant fcr his arrest. John Hemmel, of 125 Washington place. Manhattan, was the complainant. Hemmel alleged that Reardon. who was reported to bf the proprietor of a poolroom at 13G Grand street, in the Eastern District, repudiated a bet on a New Orleans race, after a horse on which the complainant wagered had won.

Keardou denied the charge. The engineers of the Bridge Department have, up to date, made almost 100 tests on the cables of the new Wllliamsburgh Bridge which was recently on fire. They reported ii Commissioner Lindenthal that the cables wi'ro damaged but very slightly in certain places where the fire reached them with much severity, but that their strength was not impaired. John Hauch. 24 years old.

of 875 Liberty avenue, is in the Bradford street emergency hf.spita! and may die. as the result of an injury received lust night in a saloon row. Hhincboldt HaffncT. years old, of 10 Ver iont street, hit Hawk with a glass. Haff jier was held in $2,000 by Magistrate Furlong on a charge of felonious assault.

John Short, who at one time lived in good style in the Sixth Ward, and has had a checkered career, as often told in the Eagle, was to day sent to the penitentiary for six in his own request. Short Is 32 years eld. hut. as he says in a sworn state M'ent. made before Magistrate Tighe in the Butler street court, has no home.

Drink, he admits, is the cause of his downfall. James Murphy. :12 years old, of 107 Freeman stret i. while driving across Manhattan avenue at Freeman street, this morning, was run down by car No. 705 of the Cross town line.

lie was removed to St. Catharine's Hospital, suffering from shock and probable internal injuries. An action was begun this morning in the 1'nitert States Circuit Court before Judge VIdward B. TuonvSs by John T. Reed to recover srOiono in commissions from R.

A. Uoggers. a mining promoter. The plaintiff claims that he negotiated a deal by which iiw million dollars worth of the mining stock cent rolled by Doggers was disposed of end that, therefore, be is entitled to a 10 per cent, commission. William Kicly.

an "mployc of the Flatbush F.iei'tric Light Company, was seriously injured Ipte yesterday afternoon as the result ot a accident. Klely was driv ine along Ocean avenue, perched fifteen feet Tom the erround on top of the aerial wogau t.sed in replacing the burnt out carbon sticks in the lamps when a heavy gust of wind blew the metal vehicle completely over. Philip BHnum of Fifty second street, while trying hoard a Fifth avenue car at Adams stret end Myrtle avenue, this afternoon, lest his hold on the car and fell to the ground, breaking his right arm. To morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock a special meeting of the executive committee of the i of Education will be held. Tn reference 10 the abrogating of the printing contract for $30,000.

with Wynkoop. Ilallenbeck. Craw it.rd a staieuicni. will be presented to the by the priming company, pro testing against such action. The Quigg family, living at M7 South Ninth street, left their front door open last nigbt end a clever thief stole worth of cloth i ing.

At a fire at 2 Third avenue to day Tas Viper, a Greek peddler, was nearly burned 1 to death. He was found unconscious on a burning mattres. in a basement and was I taken to the hospital badly burned. Finley ivter Dunne, author of "Mr. Doo ley," and Miss Margaret Abbott, daughter of Mrs.

Mary bbott. formerly of Chicago. were married in Manhattan to oay. Charges of neglect of duty, making false reports to the inspector and permitting dis orderly bouses to exist in his precinct, were handed to Police Commissioner Partridge to day against Captain John T. Stephenson of the Mulberry street station.

Corporation Counsel Rives appeared be I fore Judge Leventritt, in the Supreme Court. Manhattan, to day, to ask that the stay granted, restraining Fire Commissioner Stur gis from removing Fire Chief Croker, pending the decision of the Appellate Division, 011 lhe question of the removal, be vacated. Joseph C. Rogers, 539A Hancock street, fileda petition In voluntary bankruptcy this morning with liabilities amounting to $15, 171.21, and $,50 assets. Peter Healy.

43 years old. an electrician employed by the Fire Department, commit suicide this morning by taking carbolic tcid. He had been drinking heavily of late. David Morrison, convicted of larceny 111 lhe second degree, on complain of Otto Rans veillcr. of Palmyra.

X. will be sentenced Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. District. Superintendent of Schools W. A.

''ampbell, whose office is at Public School No. 74, is very ill at bis home. 287 DeKalb avenue. Ho is suffering from a severe attack of erysipelas and will not be able to attend to his duties for ten days or two weeks. IT Ex President Chats With Chair man Hanna Before Second Day's Session.

WAGES, HOURS, RULES, OUTPUT. Four Subjects That Were Discussed in the Speech of ohn R. Commons This Morning'. The second day's meeting of the industrial department of the National Civic Federation began this, morning in the rooms of the Board of Trade and Transpotration, 203 Broadway, with a large attendance. The subject of the discussion of the morning session was "Restriction of Output." The speakers programmed for the morning were John R.

Commons, who represents Carroll D. Wright, in the investigation of the question of restriction and output in this country and abroad; A. Halsey, editor of the American Machinist, and James McConnell, president of the National Association of Machinists. At the afternoon meeting the question was to be "Shorter Hours" and programme of speakers included Professor Gun ton of this city; Adua F. Weber of Albany, Theodore Marburg, retired tobacconist, of Baltimore; George H.

Barber, chairman of the legislature committee of the National Association of Manufacturers, and Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor. Ex President Grover Cleveland was one of the early arrivals. He and Senator Hanna spent some time in conversation in the cloak room, after which Mr. Cleveland met a number of other men.

On entering the meeting hall he was greeted with applause. Accompanied by Archbishop Ireland and Oscar S. Straus, he sat in the audience on the right of the chairman's desk. Immediately after his entrance Chairman Hanna called the meeting to order. Among others present were: Bishop Potter.

ex Secretary Cornelius N. Bliss. Charles Francis Adams. John G. Milburn.

Samuel Gompers, Bishop McGolrick of Duluth, the Rev. Dr. Rainsford, H. H. Vreelaud, President Eliot of Harvard, Alfred Mosely, Lewis Nixon, John J.

McCook, Charles G. Bonaparte. R. H. Jeffrey of Columbia, S.

R. Galloway, Consul General Buenz. Chairman Hanna said: "The committee will be in order. The discussion this morning will he opened by John R. Commons, who has charge of the investigation in this country and Europe of the subject of th'e restriction of production.

Mr. Commons is associated with the United States Bureau of Labor and has made this question a study as well as one of investigation. Speech of John R. Commons. Mr.

Commons said: "Mr. Chairman and gentlemen In talking with various parties and reading newspapers on this subject of restriction of output it has appeared to me that a good deal of confusion exists in mix ing up this question with other questions. regarding labor and the paper that I have prepared attempts to make distinc tions between the question of restriction of output and the other restrictions Imposed i by labor organizations. This ubject in volves the entire problem of labor unions, Technically SDeakine. and in the broadest sense of the word, every union that attempis I to be more than a mutual benevolent society 1 endeavors to restrict the employer at some point.

It trte to restrict either the hours of work or the number of apprentices, or the employment of non unionists, or the method and medium of payment, or the use of machinery, or the division of labor, or the speed of machinery and the speed of work. Even the demand for higher wages is a re 'yti iettrtn nil tho freprtnm nf flip emnlover to pay as low wages as individuals would ac 1 cept. In fact, the" very reason for the ex I I istence of a. union is an effort to interfere at one or more points with the liberty nf I the employer in managing his business, tr all restrictions and interferences with em ployers should be condemned, does it not follow that all labor unions should be condemned? "If labor unions arc. in the wide sense or the word, restrictive, the question arises.

Arc all restrictions alike Are some of these restrictions necessary ami justifiable and others superfluous and wrong? Do all labor restrictions limit production? Or, arc there some which limit production and others which do And of those which limit production, are there sorne where the limitation is justifiable, because of the compensations iu other directions? And are there others where the restriction brings no compensation or inadequate compensation? Do Shorter Hours Bestrict Production? "Take first the question of shorter hours. Is the shorter workday a restriction 011 output? A work day is simply one form of the demand for higher wages. It means higher wages for the time at work. The same question may. therefore, be asked of wages.

Does increase in wages restrict output wages and hours of labor tiro questions exactly the opposite from those of output or restriction on output. By wages and Hours ot moor v.e mean simpiy the rate of pay per hour received by the workman. By output we mean the amount 1 of product per. hour which the workman I gives in return. Higher wages and shorter nours may increase me tost ot output, out this is a question entirely different from the quantity of output.

YS ages and output together determine cost, and if the shorter day or higher wages bring greater output per hour, then they are exactly the opposite from a restriction on output. This is. indeed, one of the reasons often advanced for shorter hours namely, that the longer period tor recuperation furnishes strength for increasing the speed while at work. "The question of restriction on machinery is connected with that of high wages and apprenticeship. Is it a restriction on output when the union requires a three dollar man to operate a machine that could be just as well run by a dollar and a half man? When a machine, like the typesetting machine or tile cigar making machine Is introduced, the skillcd workman may either continue to work at.

the machine at his former rate of i A SOLDIER'S FOE. Knocked Down by I nnnnpeeted Enemy 'oft'i so tit'lVcls ilu; brain ntul nerves that iirop'M' nutrition is inti'i'lm with tlic lin. il i txl injr is fivijuontly nervous prostration. iMtniifr the Aiiiericiin Wav, Ii Avem wiui liiv troop to nii'KiiinauKa. niv troop to suys Lieut.

.1. Ttilbott of Sprin.u;tie.ld, 111. "If there is one? place on curfli where one drinks more coffee otlit It is in tho army. It is soldier's and I en 11 assure you that 1 drank my share. Aftor several months of hard my lieaith save out.

the chief cause hpin? the coffee, bad food, over exertion and heat. i On file advice of the surgeon. I ten tiered my resignation and with my heart full of regret and my nervous system shattered. I returned home. Almost the lirst thing the doctor whom I consulted i advised me was to nit coffee.

That wits 1 tin? first intimation I had that coffee had anything to do with my condition. The! next iiiimr was 'what shall I drink?" wife's mother used your I'ostum Food Coffee and knew how lo make it righr. so I tried it and very fond of; it. My nervous trouble soon left: my old time liealili anie buck, and thai Fall 1 trained io in flesh that the boys on return ing alter Minister hardly knew me. 1 Quitting eoffee and using Postittn did! wonders for me." I 1 i 1 I I i I I I I i 1 1 i Continued From Page 1.

ration. There were two affiants. Dr. Leyh, who made the direct charge, and Detective Sergeant Miller, to whom the boy had made his confession and who was used in corroboration of the charge made "on Information and belief." The two witnesses were first called to the desk, and Magistrate Dooley took their acknowledgments. Then Robert Westphal was called from the pen, where he had been shivering for two hours, and the complaint was read to him.

He looked tired, but was not at all frightened, apparently. "How do you plead to this, guilty or not guilty?" asked Magistrate Dooley; after had warned the boy that be was not asked to make, admissions and that he was entitled to counsel at every stage of the proceedings. 1 "I don't said Robert, turning helplessly, to the officer who stood at his side. "I'll mark this not guilty." said Magistrate Dooley, "and I will adjourn hearing until Thursday next." "How about bail?" asked the magistrate, suddenly, turning to Assistant District Attorney Bailey. Mr.

Bailey had nothing to suggest and the boy had nothing to say, so the magistrate said he would settle the matter of bail when an application for bail should be made. The boy was turned over to his waiting father for a brief talk and then he was taken out to a restaurant and fed. After that the detectives and Officer Coschina of the Children's Society, took him to the shelter on Schennerhorn street, wBere he will remain Incustody until his next arraignment in court. Robert talked freely enough to reporters who saw him to day, but he had not much that was interesting to offer. He said that ho only gave Mr.

Leyh three grains of bromo Beltzer, "like rock salt, you know," he explained. Bromo seltzer is not a bit like rock salt, but there are other things that look like it things that are deadly poison. The boy added that there were two bottles of bromo seltzer in the store, and In that he was right, for the police found just two bottles there. Robert devoured the newspaper stories of the Molineux trial, members of the family say, and more than once old Mr. Leyh told him not to read such stuff.

There may be a suggestion in this that will be followed up by the police. There are many features in the Leyh case that closely resemble those in the Molineux case. Bromo seltzer hottles also figured in that. OIL FIRE WELL FOUGHT. Confined to Two Stills and a Loss $6,000 A Thousand Barrels of Oil Nearby.

of Fire was discovered in Pratt's Oil WorkB, at North Twelfth street and Kent avenue, at 6 o'clock last evening, just as the "day gang" was "knocking off." Four, alarms were turned In and twelve engines, Ave trucks and twn fire hosts, the Seth Low and David A Boody, responded. The nremen touna iqhl tuts olo. near where 1,000 barrels of oil were stored. 11.. wnr ncrH fire ii fterht.

It ULUIdllJ 1.1410 would have been a dangerous one had this stored oil been reached. The night was cold and the wind high. The firemen were clothed in ice from the water, which practically froze as soon as It fell. On this account they had difficulty in making progress, but within a fhav 1,0,1 the hlnze under control. The fire was confined to two stills.

While they" were working a still exploded and its top was blown off. There was a resounding crash and the firemen scattered. Nobody was injured. In spectacular effect, the fire was one of the most note worthy, that recently has occured on the' East River front. It lighted up the river and a large section of the city.

The first was handled by Batlallcn Chief Snow, whose experience in fighting oil fire3 has made hira an expert in this kind of work. George S. Gifford. superintendent of the Pratt works let efficient assistance. Had the blaze reached the stored oil.

it would have been serious. As it waS, the loss amounted to about $6,000 only. One of the stables of the Street Cleauing Department is nearby. Superintendent Clarke auu oreman rvuectei yt. icauj spreading of the flre.but fortunately it was not necessary to vacate the stable.

AGED MAN BADLY BURNED. Patrick Kernan of Patchogue, While Weak Prom Illness, Fell on Hot Stove. His Injuries Serious. Patchogue, X. December Patrick Kernan, aged about 70 years, brother in Iaw former Aesemblyman Edwin Bailey, sr.

met with a peculiar and painful accident last night. The old man is in feeble health and under the care of a male nurse named Gregory. While Gregory was away for a short time his patient attempted to put a plaster on his back and stood with his back to the kitchen stove for the purpose of heating the plaster, so as to adhere it to the flesh. The old man was too weak to stand long and he fell backward, striking squarely on the stove. Later he was found in great agony and with his flesh badly burned.

SOCIETY WILL CARE FOR THEM. Henry Mittendorf Haled to Court for Neglecting His Six Children. Thinly clad and suffering from exposure and lack of food, the six children of Henry Mittendorf. a widower living at 29 Meserole street, stood before Magistrate O'Reilly, in the Manhattan avenue court to day and corroborated the statements of the police and officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, who charged the father with neglecting to provide for his family. The oldest child was Henrietta, 14 years old, and the others, the youngest of whom is 4 years, cuddled up close to their sister, who smiled and spread the happy news among the tots when the magistrate told her that they would not have to return to their' miserable home, but would be taken care of by the society.

Several complaints had been made' against Mittendorf on account ot his alleged brutal treatment of his children and the police and society agents investigated the case. They learned that the man was employed in the power house of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company on Kent avenue and that he worked steadily and received good wages, but that instead of caring for his family, spent all his money for drink. For a year or more Mittendorf had been neglecting his children, according to the police, and about three months ago neighbors complained to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Agent Meyer caused the arrest of the man and on his promise to stop drinking and provide for his family he was discharged. He failed to keep the promise and the pitiable condition of the children attracted the attention of neighbors, who" supplied them with clothing and food.

Agent Meyer promptly secured a warrant for Mittendorf's arrest and the man was taken to court by Officer Sweeney this morning. The shivering children were lined up and Mittendorf was asked to make an explanation. He. refused to answer, and was a hearing. The children were placed in the custody of Agent Meyer and taken to the society's shelter.

APPELLATE COURT CALENDAR. December 9 The Appellate Division, Third Department of the Supreme Court, calendar for Wednesday. December 10, is as follows: 95, 118, 96, 97, 112. 81. 113 and 119.

ness, which is taken advantage of to the detriment of those who are striving to uplift the standards. The same applies in a degree to the women partly dependent upon their earnings and who do not possess the ability of the men to act in concert and, therefore, are made to accept less than men for the same work. "Under conditions where the laborer can ocfer no resistance and the so called iron law of wages operates to keep him down to the life line, machinery only adds uncertainty to his other woes. He is as it were cut out of civilization. Wherever he presses upward and secures a larger share of an ever enlarging product, machinery becomes an unlifting force.

"The influences that are bringing about this result are education, which arouses ambition in the worker, organization, that enables him to assert himself and a more liberal conception of the relations between employer and employed, that serves to minimize the severity of the industrial strike, and promotes fairer dealing. With such a trend taking place the worker will In time become reconciled to the machine, and instead of regarding it as a curse, will welcome it as tho only means that makes possible more wages with shorter hours and enhances at the same time the purchasing value of money a three fold gain a prospect that make3 the disadvantages of machinery fade into nothingness." TELL OF BURNSIDE'S CRIME. Witnesses of Murder Trial Describe the Shooting of Prisoner's Young Wife at Coney Island. David Burnside, who Is on trial for his life in the County Court, before Judge. As pinall and a jury, walked into court this morning when the trial resumed with the same calm and unruffled mien that he showed all day yesterday, while his counsel and Assistant District.

Attorney McCaffrey were at work getting a jury. The young man, while not listless in his demeanor, seems to take little interest in what is going on about him, and not even the gruesome details of the shooting affected him. The actual trial of the case began morning, as. just before the court adjourned last night, the jury was competed. Detective Taylor was the first witness called by the prosecution.

He told of his I visit to Inman's Casino, where he found the body of Mrs. Burnside lying on the floor, and of his aiding in taking it to the Coney Island police station and afterward to the Morgue, where he pointed it out to Dr. Hartney, who performed the autopsy. i I Nellie West, of 102 Tremont street, where the Burnsides resided, said she Burnside was "crazy." The witness laughed I as she said this and Judge Aspinall rapped I with his gavel. I "Stop this levity." he said.

"This is no 1 laughing matter. If you were on trial tor your life, you would not feel much like I laughing." BARS BRISTOW AND HANBURY. New Eule "With Beference to Federal Officeholders Said to Have Been Promulgated by Low. resentative Bris ibury being made 0 represent the aid to day to be is now believed lent of a Federal only possible ob by Mayor Dow ueceed in getting irty organization here, but it is a very serious one. Mr.

Low is said to have observed that it would be impossible for him to name any man who is now and' will continue for two or three months to draw a salary from the Federal government. That objection might possibly be removed by resignation of their present offices by cither of the men. WILLIAM POTTEB BEINSTATED. Schenectady. December 8 William Potter, who last work secured an injunction against Frauk C.

Pcheffer. president of the loca Painters' I'nion, compelling him to reinstato him as a member of local No. 62, from which he had been expelled by reason of his membership in theNational Guard, this afternoon was temporarily reinstated iu that organization. Formal demand was made by Potter's iH torueys. Yates Grupe, upon Sheffer for his reinstatement, and a union card was presented for his signature.

Sheffer finally declined to sign the card, but he said that, acting on the advice of his counsel, he would consider Potter a member of the union temporarily, pending the action of the court on the injunction. CHAPMAN DOCKS CO. FOBMED. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany. December 9 The Chapman Docks Company of Brooklyn was incorporated today with the Secretary of State to carry on the business of designing, building freight elevators, lighterage, storage, wharfage, warehousing, docking and unloading vessels.

The capital stock is $250,000. divided into shares of $100 each. The directors are Theodore R. Chapman of Jamaica. Seth D.

Smith and Marshall E. Smith of Freeport, Edgar J. Seaman of Brooklyn and Edward L. Frost of Floral Park. C.

VANDEBBILT'S CONDITION. Cornelius Vanderbilt's condition i6 practically unchanged to day. Dr. Austin Flint, the family physician, called at the residence, at Park avenue and Thirty fifth street, Manhattan, about 9:30 o'clock this morning and remained for a half hour. Upon leaving he said that Mr.

Vanderbilt had rested fairly well during the night and that his condition was about the same as yesterday. ALD. DOWNINGr'S RESOLUTION. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen to day. Alderman Downing offered tho following resolution, which was laid over: Resolved.

That the president be and he is hereby authorized and requested to appoint a special committee of three whose duty it shall be to Investigate and report to this board bv what right and under what conditions the firm of Frederick Loeser Co. assumed to close and block the thoroughfare known as Fulton place, in the Borough of Brooklyn. NO DESSERT MORE ATTRACTIVE. Why use Kchittne and spend time soaking, flavnrlns nn'l coloring when 0 produces better results in two minutes? Kvcrything In th paekaBP. Simply 1 hot water and set way to cool it's perfection.

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Flatbush Ave. DAMAGES FOR BROOKLYN WOMEN Mrs. Dewey Receives $3,000 for Injuries Sustained in a Railroad Accident at Niagara. (Special to the Eagle.) Buffalo. December 9 Mrs.

Sarah E. Dewey, wife ot Charles B. Dewey, 337 Lafayette ave nuet, Brooklyn, was awarded a verdict of damages against the Niagara Gorge Railway Company by a jury in the Supreme Court here yesterday. Mrs. Dewey came to Buffalo in July, 1901, to see the Pan Americau Exposition On July 12 she made a trip to Lewiston, along the Niagara Gorge.

While "getting Off a Gorge car in Lewiston she, was caught between two cars and sustained a fractured rib and other injuries, which latter; she alleges, are permanent. She instituted suit to recover $10,000. Her husband also brought suit to recover $10,000 for loss of her services. The action was first put on trial about two months ago. At that time an employe of the defendant company swore the crew in charge of the car was employed by the road which operates a line on the Canadian side of the frontier.

The defense was that the Niagara Gorge Railway Company was not a proper defendant. Mra. Dewey's attorney, George Hi' Kennedy, was forced to withdraw a juror and discontinue the trial. On the second1 trial, which is just finished, he charged the witness who had caused the, discontinuance of the first trial with falsely testifying and threatened to take the case before the Graud Jury. Mr.

Dewey's suit has not yet come to trial. NAGER MAY LIVE. Doctors Hold Forth Some Hope for Hotel Keeper Who "Was Murderously Assaulted. It was said to day that Simon Xager, the Bast New York hotelkeeper who was murderously assaulted, it is alleged, by his newly engaged porter, early yesterday morning, has a chance of living. The odds are not very much in his favor, but it Is believed by Drs.

Murphy and Butler that he may survive his Injuries. A circular piece of Nager's skull, at least two inches in diameter, was driven down on the brain by the force of the blow he received at the hands of Louis Jaeger, now under arrest. This was lifted yesterday by the doctors in attendance and with his strong constitution the medical men hope to pull him through. Nager is out of his mind and, according to the police of the Liberty avenue station, keeps calling loudly for Jack. His family know of no acquintance of that name and are at a loss to tell of whom the injured mn is speaking.

Shortly after trepanning was resorted to yesterday by the doctors Nager became a raving maniac, it is said. Four policemen were sent from th.e Liberty avenue station to the house yesterday and thy had all they could do to restrain Nager, who tossed and kicked and struck at everyone in his delirium. He was later strapped to his bed. A NEW BROTHERHOOD. Congregational Pastors Form One and Make TJr.

Lyman President. Lenten Plans. In the language of one of their number, "The Congregational ministers of Brooklyn have determined lo take a brace." Yester day' at noon, after luncheon at the University Club, Clinton avenue, a. social organization to be known as the Brotherhood of Congrega tional Pastors was formed. The Rev.

Br. Albert J. Lyman, pastor of the South Church. was elected president and the Rev. Dr.

Charles T. Bayliss of the Bushwick Avenue Church, secretary and treasurer. It was agreed that tbey should meet for social and fraternal purposes on the first Monday after the first Sunday in every month except during the vacation season. No papers on big subjects are to be read, but work for the best interests of the denomination and the cause of religion will be planned and carried out. At the suggestion of the Rev.

Dr. S. P. Cadman of the Central Church Lenten services will be held in the Congregational Churches during Holy Week, from April 5 to 12, and the different pastors Vill exchange pulpits. This plan was given hearty indorsement by the Rev.

Dr. Harry P. Dewey, the Rev. Dr. Thomas B.

McLeod, the Rev. L. L. Taylor, the Rev. Charles Herald, the Rev.

Willard P. Harmon, the Rev. Luther R. Dyott, the Rev. Samuel W.

King and all those present. The Rev. Drs. Newell Dwight Hillll, Robert J. Kent and A.

J. Lyman were unavoidably absent from the meeting, but they knew of the Lenten plan and gave it hearty indorsement. This new brotherhood is the outgrowth of an invitation by the Rev. Dr. McLeod to his brethren to meet him at luncheon at the University Club a month ago.

when he spoke of the need of some organization which would bring the Congregational pastors of Brooklyn into closer and more frequent fellowship. A TALLYHO SMASHED. (Special to the Eagle.) Long Island City, L. December 9 A tally ho coach owned by James H. Hyde, vice president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, was put on a flat car here last night to be shipped to the owner's country place east of Babylon.

When the train started the car jumped the track and the coach rolled off and turned crushing the top. OQOOCOOOOCXXXJOCOOOOOOOOOCOO is tit: DDnr'TDCccnrni 8 fKUtrKEOSlUiN means ELm, TRICITY ADVERTISING means SUCCESS. PROGRESS and SUCCEED fayob taining an ELECTRIC ADVERTISING SIGN FREE OF COST. EDISON COMPANY, 360 Pearl Street. 8 OQCQGOQOOOOQQ Not long ago I was in the works of the Ledge Sharp Company of Philadelphia.

Mr. Lodge was showing me about. He point en 10 an 01a lame tnat naa come down to Dim from the old days of his early business life, and remarked that that lathe cost him and also remarked that to day he would be glad to sell a lathe better made in every tespect. containing mucn more iron and 3 better design, for $300. 'Now it seems to me as plain as anything in the world can be that piece rates based upon a price of could not possibly he maintained when the price goes down to S300.

In other words, as I look upon it. these cuts in the piece rales are the necessity and lhe result of falling prices. Ii is looked upon as a grasping act on the part of the employer. and while perhaps i the fact remains I not cut them from do it from neccssit is. at.

the same time Advantages 0: "And cuts in th it. arc inherent and it is largely t( that, cutting that, devised, lhe prer into the future, wh shuts its eyes to further the dtfferc the employer and the employe as regards wages. The employer's point of view is to measure wages in units of output, whereas the employe's way is to measure them in units of time. No man who earns his own living has any way to estimate the value of his work except by the income it gives him. That is true of all sorts of labor; it is true of all trades, professions and occupations.

"The ignoring of this difference, by employer and employe leads to an apparent antagonism between them, wnici does not, in point of fact, exist. We say that, their relations are essentially those of buyer and feller, and just as the interests of the buyer are with low prices and the seller with high prices, so we say the Interest of the employers are with low wages and the eni ploye with high wages. Now that statement ot the case is of is as COOd as wnoIe and it is a half truth because Wt? jgnor tnla difference i their points of vjrv. We ignore fact that while tfc Pmpi0Ver must have low wages per unit products, the employe wants high wages pe unit of lime, and when we recognize the full statement of the case there is no resultinE antagonism whatever. And it would seem to me that if there Is any possible basis ot united and co operative action it is found in this premium system." Discussion of the Paper.

When Mr. Halsey closed there was a short discussion of his paper. Mr. O'Connell opposed the piece work and premium plans. Considerable debate was caused by his assertion that the number of apprentices admitted to learn a trade should be limited.

ilr Rainsford asknd if it. were nnt an un democratic principle to limit the appren tices. He said that he knew of factories in New York City that employed men from Germany in their shops, and he understood that, fact to mean that there were too few admitted to the learning of trades in this country, as our own jnen do not supply all tho needs of the trade. Mr. 0 Connell said.

In answer, that aside from the "Democratic" side of the question, there is a practical side, and that: teh action of the union in restricting the number of nprentices was the result, of many hard knocka and a ciose st jdy or the subject. Mr. Gompers was asked whether he ould be in favor ot trade scnools where young men could learn trades. He said he would be opposed to trade schools, but would be heartily in favor of manual training schools. His objection to the trade school was, he said, based upon the fact that they had been found to be the greatest producers of strike breakers in the country, the greatest "hot houses" of strike breakers.

Remarks of Henry White. Following the discussion aroused by Mr. O'Connell. Henry White, general secretary of the United Garment Workers of America, spoke on the "problem of machinery." "Although this age is pre eminent in mechanical achievement, the belief is still general in many quarters that labor saving methods are detrimental, that only a few profit by them to the disadvange of the rest. It is a strange paradox to find an ingenious and enterprising people actually doubting the Milue of methods tnat.

erwirge Human ca pacifies and enhance the effectiveness of hibor. "This confusion as to the effect of machin ery is due to the difficulty comprehending In workings of our complex Industrial sys ii'iii and the inability to discriminate be ween the benefit society derives from labor saving methods, the abuses associated with.