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3 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW TUESDAY. DECEMBER 30. 1902. MISCELLANEOUS.

WEATHER FORECAST. which drew the complaint against the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Coiniaoy served yesterday, said: "The whole difficulty mf jn the fact that the managers of this railroad company are acting under orders to earn dividends for B. U. HEARING GF VALUE, BOTH SIDES NOW DECLARE. AND OFFERED IT TO WOMAN That's the Slate Now Kings Men Think "Contractors' Trust" Too Obvious.

Indications Until 8 P. Iff. To morrow. "Washington. Dcecmb.T "0 For Eastern New York': Fair to night and Wednesday light west wlr.dr.

Iteeord or hi thermometer as kept at the Brooklyn Dally Kagle Office: 2 A. 29 i 10 A. i A. 2S 12 6 A. 28 i 2 P.

41 8 A P. 12 Average temperature to day Average temperature same date last 33 Local Probabilities. Fair snil jix to eight degrees colder: "Wednesday, fair: light to fresh west to southwest winds. At noon the Ilagle's mercurial barometer registered ao.tv.1, having risen .30 of an inch since noun yesterday. Official Temperature.

rieeordecl at the New York Weather Bureau for COST OF THE SNOW STORM. Commissioner Woodbury Saved $28,000 on Street Cleaning Work. Street denning Commissioner John Gaw Woodbury has compiled the figures showing the expense to the city of the recent snow storm and the saving under his new plan. This plan, which provides for payment, according to the area cleaned and not according to the number of loads received, has saved the city on a snowfall of three and one half inches, according to the commissioner's figures. The snowfall during the last storm was three and six tenths inches, and the work or removing the snow in the borough of Manhattan was completed last night at a total expense of about $4:1.000.

Last winter the expense ot clearing the same, under the old plan, with the same snowfall, was $77,000. In addition to this, the department has not I een called upon to Rive any aid to the contractor, and the result is that the department has been able to proceed with its regular work without interference of any kind. Commissioner Woodbury stated this morning that the company had arrived at an agreement with him whereby ill the future the snow from the structure will be cleared before the contractor has cleaned the streets under the structure. EAGLE ALMANAC OUT TO DAY. the it hcura ending it 2 P.

M. to day: December 29. December 50. P. SO 1 A.

St I P. 3ti 2 A. 5 P. A. 33 P.

r.7 4 A. 35 7 P. 3S (P.il 36 i A. )l 3" P. 36 7 A.

33 10 P. 36 A. 34 11 P. 37 I 9 A. 32 12 (Midnight) 36 10 A.

32 I 11 A. 34 12 (Noon) 35 i 1 P. 36 i 2 P. 37 Average temperature to day C4 Preeipitatlon fer 21 hours ending A. M.

to day Precipitation from 8 A. M. to 2 P. M. to day.

Humidity for 24 hours ending A. M. to day HIGH WATER. A. M.

j. P. 31 Duran at TlmalHolght ilTlme'Helght KIs 1 Fall H.H.I Feet. IjH. M.l Feet B.

H.jtt.M New 8:50 I 4.6 9:141 3.8 6:54 6:25 BanrtyHook I 4.S II 4.1 i 6:08 6:35 She Tasted It, but Threw It Away When She Found It Was Poison. A MAN'S UNEXPLAINED SUICIDE. He Give No Indication of His Intention Ip to the Time of Taking the Fatal Dose. fWilliam J. Higgins, a bachelor, aged 35 years, who lived with his mother at 127 Cumberland street and who was in business nnpr inp nrm name 01 raiKKiiis rijuu.

tailors, on Myrtle avenue, near Lawrence street, committed suicide under dramatic circumstances at 2:30 o'clock "this morning in 4i5' Adams street. It was evident that Biggins wanted the woman to die with him, lor lie uiiercu iiui; giaoo a av.t tlon of carbolic and whisky just after "Be foofif the 'fatal dose'. Higgins and the woman had been associates for a long time. It is said that her husband Is living somewhere in the borough and she has a sister who is well to do. She" Went to the house on Adams street about two weeks ago, the" room having been secured for her by.

one of her friends. Since Christmas Day Higgins had been a steady frequenter of the place and it is said he had been drinking very heavily. He was Ioa rtcTin flpnt heeaiise it is Raid, he was complaining of the loss of business. Higgins was in the woman's room last night and stayed there until an early hour this morning. Both had been drinking, but there Vas.no indication, just before he took the dose which proved fatal to him, that he had' any intention of destroying his life.

Indeed, that seemed furthest from hi? thoughts. The couple had eaten a light luncheon just before the tragedy and a por tion of a cocoariut pie, which stood on the table when the police got there, was evidence that whisky was not alone the refreshment of the pair. There was a bottle of carbolic acid on the dresser beside the lamp, which furnished a dull light to the apartment. The poison had been prescribed uy a local uovlui lu tuu wuuiu. The story of the suicide was told by the woman to Detective Breunan and Policeman Sand, of the.

Fulton street station. "Mr. Higgins took a drink," she said, "and offered "me some from the same glass, for he had not finished it. I put it to my lips and the fluid burned he. Just as I had the glass to my mouth I noticed the odor of carbolic acid.

I at once stopped drinking and 'Why, Billy, what have you 'I have just done what I said I'd do and everybody can go to he replied and as he did so he fell over on the bed." The man was soon in convulsions and Mrs. Ryan screamed for help. She was suffering too, for her throat and lips had been seared and burned by the corrosive poison in the sip she had taken from the glass. The woman who had charge of the house was awakened by the screams of Mrs. Ryan and ran to her assistance.

Then somebody went out for a policeman and officer Thomas Rand, who was in the neighborhood, called an ambulance. Surgeon Smith came from the Brooklyn hospital, but before he got there the man who' had taken the poison was dead. body remained in the room until a late hour this nrtsrnnnn when it was taken away by consent of Coroner Flaherty to an under inner a ucLcume ton street station, was nociueu ut happened and he made an investigation which convinced him that It was a case of suicide, pure and. simple, and that the suicide was the outcome of a period of intemperance. 1 The woman told her story of the tragedy i with no attempt, to veil the facts and she admitted that she and Higgins had been very friendly for a long time.

She was prostrated over hisdeath and did not seem to realize that she had had such a narrow escape from death with him. The ambulance surgeon attended to her injuries, for she was quite severely burned by the acid. Coroner Flaherty will hold an inquest and Mrs. Ryan will tell her story to the jury. TWELFTH WARD NOT SATISFIED.

Former Executive Member George W. Phillips Objects to Shrievalty Patronage. Strength and Health are necessary tor good work, enjoyment and success. Colds are weakening and imperil health. Hale's Honey of Horshound and Tar cures colds and coughs quickly.

Sold by all druggists. Pike's Toot hiiehe Iros Cure In One BRADY'S TRIP TD EUROPE IT FOR A TRUST COMBINE Ally of French Capital in Securing Concessions to Illuminate Pans. NEGOTIATIONS NEARING END. Municipal Council of the Big City Expected to Take Final Action in a Few Days. When A.

NT. Brady, with Messrs. Knapp and Hillings, sailed for Europe last Saturday, it was not for the purpose of effecting and consummating a great combination, or consolidation, of artificial lighting companies in all of Europe or even ot France, no was it. his purpose to introduce abroad modern American trust methods. It is very sad to destroy the airy and imaginative edifices that have recently been erected anent his departure for foreign shores.

The simple fact is that certain Parisian capitalists, desiring to obtain the new concession for the lighting of Paris from the municipal authorities and. obtaining it. to introduce the most approved American method of manufacturing gas and of organization and distribution, solicited certain American capitalists, of whom Mr. Brady is one and the representative of the others, to join them in tne enterprise and contribute to the capital ot tile company which would be organized to administer the concession if obtained. As the time approaches for the granting of the concession by the municipal council, Mr.

Brady, in company with two experts, sails for Europe to bear his part in the enterprise in which he has joined these French capitalists. These are the simple and brief facts of the case. The matter is not of recent origin, it has been on the carpet for a year or two. For "concession" read "franchise" and the matter in its first, aspect may be understood. The duration of the term of a concession or franchise in France is always fixed, and in the case of the one for lighting Paris the term of years it shall run is thirty five.

A company now in existence has enjoyed this concession for nearly thirty five years, and it is presumed that, it is an applicant tor its renewal. There have not. been assurances given it thai it. would receive such renewal and so doubt and uncertainty have clouded its situation. Its methods of manufacture and distribution have not kept pace with modern developments and the consequence is that there has been no little dissatisfaction on the part of the Parlmans.

It is perhaps not wonderful that the company, uncertain as to Its future, should hesitate on the large expenditures necessary to a modara equipment. The situation some two years ago attracted the attention of certain French capitalists who conceived the idea of seeking and obtaining the new concession. At the time Walston H. Brown of the firm of Wal ston 11. Brown Brother ot Wall street was In Paris and in financial relations with these capitalists.

As the most approved and modern methods of gas manufacture and distribution were of American origin and had received their most, advanced expression it. is not surprising, in view of thei relations, that these French capitalists should turn to the American, Brown, and solicit him, not only to join them but to secure some American capital for the enterprise. This Mr. Brown consented to do and since has been an active figure in the matter, devoting a great, deal of timo to it. Before these persons could enter into negotiations with the authorities of the municipality of Paris before the authorities would entertain a proposition these capitalists were compelled to place on deposit in one of the banking institutions of Paris a sum of $2,000,000 as a guarantee ot their financial ability to carry out the obligations they might assume.

This was done and such sum is now on deposit and has been for two years. That. Mr. Brown should have turned to Mr. Brady to join the enterprise since the latter financier is largely involved in gas manufacture in this country, is not surprising.

Mr. Brady entered the enterprise and though the fact is nowhere apparent, it will also not be surprising to learn that the financiers of the Whitney Brady group with whom he is in such close relations are also interested. There is a belief current, though those who have exact, knowledge are most reticent and refuse to say anything but that the concession is not yet obtained, that the matter is practically consummated. It: is also believed 'hat the journey of Mr. Brady and the.

experts has reference first, on the obtaining of the concession, to taking over the property of the old company at its appraised vaiue iUt obligation that follows to the new concessionaires; and. seeond. to the organization of their new property. And It is further believed that a man of multifarious and weighty affairs In this country, as Mr. Bradv is.

would not leave them for the treatment of a bird that, was not in hand. WATER CUT OFF FROM PIER. New York and Porto Rico Line's Shed Is "Without Adequate Eire Protection. The New York and Porto Rico Line steam ship people are not at, all satisfied at the ac tlon of the New York Dock Company in shut ting off the water from the company's pier. foot of Pacific street, at night.

It was said I on the pier to day that the water is cut off on the wharf outside, where the meter is lo cated. Although there are six hoses and nozzles on the pier they are practically useless so long as the connection is severed outside. Many terrible experiences show what devastation can be caused by fire on steamship piers before the regular Fire Department can be got on the spot. In winter the danger is far greater, especially when the streets abutting on the water front are blocked with snow and the slips choked with ice. When the breaking up of the Ice in the Hudson occurs, accompanied by a northwest wind, the floes drift along the water front and into the slips.

There they freeze solidly and impede the navigation to an extent that Is a great source of cost to the shipping people. In a case of this kind the fireboats are practically useless until they are able to buck themselves through the frozen floes. SEALEB BELIEVED TO BE LOST. Victoria, B. C.

December 30 Three of the four Japanese sailing schooners which hunted in Boring Sea, have returned to Hakodate. The fourth, the Tenyu Maru, Is overdue and has probably been lost with all on board. $110,000,000 where less than half that, amount has actually bfen invested. Natur ally they find it difficult nl naturally their: main problem is not to srrvp the interests of Brooklyn, but to cut down running expenses. 1 "Let them put up th.

47,000.000 in real money represented by th ir watered bonds and Then therr win be no trouble. They can dig tunnels. bridges, give a I good and efficient scrviiv and make money hand over fist. That's the whole trouble, The company is try inp sprvc the stock holders. In the words of another, th policy could be well expressed: The public be "We proved yesterday that there is no reason why the peoph' of Brooklyn shouid not be well served within their own borough during the non rush hours by putting more cars on all the lines.

I tried to point out in my speech thaf the conditions of the rush hours would be vastly improved by putting on extra cars before ami after the period of the greatest crush. "There are thousands of Brooklynite? who work in Manhattan who would make special efforts to get away early it" there was any reason lo believe they would find more room in the ears. But the conditions are just as bad before and after the hours as during them and there Js no incentive to try to avoid them." SOME ANTI B. R. T.

WITNESSES. What They Complained Of at the State Railroad Commission's Hearing. After o'clock at the hearing yesterday a number of witnesses were called to recite personal grievances and experiences In confirmation of complaints already made during the earlier session. The hearing was finally adjourned at 5:15 o'clock until next Tuesday. Judge Dailey said that he had not yet closed his case and would probably call several more witnesses.

James E. Dubois was on the stand at 3 o'clock. He brought out the point that he believed that better all around service would mean greater profit to the company. Lawyer Wells tried to shake the testimony of the witness, but DuBois stuck to his statements. William McCarroll was the next witness.

"We appreciate," said Mr. McCarroll, "that the company has a difficult problem on its hands, but we believe that good management in the interests of the people of Brooklyn would help matters greatly. The great difficulty is that trains from the bridge terminal are too infrequent. Officials of the. company have told me that, they run the cars as often as they can with the bead switch system.

They say they need more room. for a tail switch. There is plenty of cheap prop ortv tn he boucht. Why don't they buy it nnd nut in file tlil switch? I "And the surf ace' cars. The company runs surface cars frequently during rush hours.

It has promised more loops at. the Manhattan terminal, but It has not put them in yet. I can see no earthly excuse for jammed, packed, crowded cars during the non rush hours." Mr. McCarroll then stated that on Sunday evening the car which he boarded on the N'ostrand avenue line had taken on and registered 130 passengers. The car was crowded to the doors.

He admitted that the new cars were larger, better and more comfortable than the old ones, but said that the old ones which were run on the Marcy avenue Bergen street system were "simply terrible." "Now," said Lawyer Wells, don you know it to be a fact that if we should run enough cars so that no one would ever be forced to stand, a great many of our cars would have vacant seats?" "That condition ot affairs." retorted Mr. McCarroll, "Is so remote and so far beyond the imagination of any one who has ever ridden on the cars in Brooklyn that it hard ly seems worth considering. Have you never seen cars with vacant seats? "Rarelv," answered Mr. McCarroll. 'when I have been kept out unreasonably late at night.

I'll tell you. Mr. Wells, that if I had to depend on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit I wouldn't live in Brooklyn twenty four hours. Fortunately. I live where I can catch Long Island Railroad trains to take me to business." "Have you ever let a loaded car go by and waited for the next one "I have, sir.

I have let three or four go by. and they have all been jammed and crowded. I have learned that if you must take a car. it's best to take the first one that comes along. There's nothing to be gained by waiting." Henry E.

Pabst of 61 Somers street was the next witness. He said he was president of the Ocean Hill Board of Trade. He criticised severely the conditions existing in the Eastern Parkway Division of the elevated system. "Sixteen years ago the horse cars ran under seven minutes' headway. Now they run three car elevated trains, two cars open and one locked, on a nominal schedule of eight minutes, but really about once in fifteen." "How often does that happen?" asked Lawyer Collin.

"Half a dozen times every day." answered the witness. "A guard told me that he stood on the platform fourteen hours a day for from $1.25 to $1.75." "Will you kindly tell me the name or the number of the guard?" asked the lawyer. "No! No!" shouted several persons in the room. The witness then added that the cars were "filthy." He said that they appeared as if cleaned about once a month. The witness, then complained of the service on the Douglass street line.

He said he had frequently waited more than half an hour for a car during the middle of the day. Nathan S. Jonas, secretary of the Broadway Board of Trade, then complained of inefficient and infrequent service on the Gates avenue line. He spoke disparagingly, also, of the Broadway, Ralph avenue, the Broadway elevated, and especially of the Broadway Ferry terminal. "The conditions there," he saiii.

"are as disgraceful as they are at the bridge. There Is constant fighting and jamming, without regard to sex, age or condition." Charles Jerome Edwards complained especially of the poor service on the elevated lines. Adolph Kiendl and his brother. Theodore Kiendl. complained of the poor service in the Twenty sixth Ward.

Adolph said that the cars of the elevated at the leop were filthy and unfit for occupation. The other complaining witnesses were W. T. Butler of Ocean Hill, who complained of a poor transfer system: and J. Bunts of 475 Jefferson avenue, who caused a laugh by telling of his experiences as a volunteer conductor without pay when the regular man was too busy to do the work; David Molloy of 300 Lewis avenue.

Abner S. Halght. who "tvSsin favor of vestibuled electric ears; Edward E. Ford. Dr.

Evan F. Smith, Edwin P. Mayer, John H. K. Blauvelt and Edward A.

Miller. They were all bitter in their criticism of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit management. IT WASN'T WHISKY. But His Boss Says He Sold It to Saloonkeeper for $15. Edward CoUierg, a driver of an express wagon, of 379 Manhattan avenue, was remanded for examination in default of $300 bail until January 3 by Magistrate Hlggln botham in the Lee avenue court this morning.

He was charged with selling a half barrel of whisky which had been given to him by his employer, R. S. Leighton, of 12 Hope street, to deliver. The whisky was valued at $60. The police of the Bedford avenue station traced the liquor to a saloon at Hope and Hnvemeyer streets.

The proprietor claimed to have paid Slo for the whisky. Colberg denied selling the. whisky and said it must have drqpped from his wagon. TO ARBITRATE FRENCH CLAIMS. Paris, December 30 France and Guatemala have agreed to submit to the international arbitration court at The Hague the French claims against Guatemala.

They are similar to those against Venezuela. The terras of the protocol are now being discussed. President Greatsinger Says the Company Has Learned Some Things Through it. COMPLAINANTS FEEL HAPPY. They Say They Will Get What They Want All Their Evidence Is Not In Yet.

The belief is genrrai throughout the organization represented at the hearing before the State Railroad Commission yesterday that the way has been paved for forcing a speedy and radical reform in the conditions of transit which obtained in the Borough of Brooklyn. James T. Hoile. the secretary of the Manufacturerers' Association expressed the feeling of the majority when he said to an Eagle reporter: have certainly got the Brooklyn Rapid Transit people going." In spite of this confidence on the part of those who are trying to force the issue to immediate results, the plan of campaign adopted yesterday has been criticised more or less severely. "It was the opportunity of a life time," said one man, who was there during the entire hearing.

"The people are a unit and will back these men in anything they do, but, somehow or other, it seemed to me that there was a lack of tensity and specification in the attack. There was too much general kicking and too little suggestion of how and where the reforms should be made." President Greatsinger of the. Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company to day said that he had received a copy of the complaint of the Manufacturers' Association and that he intended to examine the document. Mr. Greatsinger added that the conditions complained of would come In for an Investigation.

He said that the company had learned many things at the hearing before the Railroad Commissioners yesterday, while there were other matters brought up that it knew all about. Mr. Greatsinger said that there were many cases called to the attention of the commissioners where the conditions complained of were of long standing, having originated before he became president of the company. "A thorough investigation will be made," said Mr. Greatsinger.

"I have talked the matter over with General Superintendent Smith and others and an effort will be made to get a remedy." Mr. Greatsinger said that he could not say as yet what measures would be taken to remedy the conditions complained of at the hearing. He said he would have to confer with the other officials of the company first. Incidentally, Mr. Greatsinger paid his respects to Controller Grout, whose attack on the company, he said, was entirely uncalled for.

"If the members of the administration do not co operate to help us." said President Greatsinger. "we won't be able to do much." Mr. Greatsinger also thought the press ought to refrain from atacklng the company needlessly. Regarding the suggestions made at the' hearing yesterday that the company adopt patent devices on the roads, Mr. Greatsinger said: "We have tried all sorts of patents and the experiments have failed.

1C any person will suggest some practicable scheme to improve the service, we will be glad to adopt it." Borough President Swanstrom said: "I hope that yesterday's hearing will have good resultB. More could have been achieved, perhaps, if the various protesting organizations had centralized their efforts, instead of carrying on a more or less sporadic agitation. However, the Manufacturers' Association has done more than was ever attempted before by submitting charges in a formal way, and we are justified, I think, in expecting good results to come from the hearing. I understand that in the event of the decision of the Railroad Commissioners not being satisfactory the Manufacturers' Association will have the testimony taken at yesterday's hearing reviewed by the Court ot Appeals." Mr. Swanstrom was asked if there was any provision in the charter empowering him to proceed against the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, and replied: "I wish there was.

I would have this question settled soon enough." It was suggested to the Borough President that it might be a good Idea to amend the charter in such a way as to give the borough presidents the powers now conferred on the Railroad Commissioners. Such an amendment. Mr. Swanstrom, however, said, would be unconstitutional. Secretary Hoile said to day that several important witnesses had been held in reserve for the renewal of the battle next Tuesday.

On the matter of specifications Mr. Hoile said: "This is what we proved, that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company is running its system with the sole purpose of taking in as much Brooklyn money as it can and saving all it can in running expenses. It pays absolutely no regard to the comfort or welfare of the people from whom all its income is derived." When asked what particular points he thought had been impressed upon the commissioners, Mr. Hoile said: "First, that there is no excuse for crowding during the non rush hours. Second, that there is no excuse for incivility and slovenliness on the part of guards and conductors.

There is also no excuse for the hurly burly, rough and tumble methods of treating, especially women and children and there Is no excuse tor not heating the cars. "I tell you," continued Mr. Hoile, "we have got the Brooklyn Rapid Transit people If we can't get the reforms we want from the commission we'll get them from the Legislature and the courts. They talk about increased electrical power in a month. Why we will prcve by sworn witnesses that there is no expectation of completing their new power house within a year." William McCarroll.

president of the Manufacturers' Association said to day: "I am well satisfied with yesterday's hearing. We proved 'many things. We proved that the elevated service, especially on the Kings County line, is entirely inadequate and that during the non rush hours the crowding is just as bad as during the rush hours because there are not enough trains run. The fact that the trains are operated during the rush hours proves that the company has them and can run them if it wants to. It will cost them a little mere money, but I believe we convinced the commission that we have a right to demand them.

"Now, don't misunderstand mc. We don't demand that they run trains as frequently all day long as during the rush hours, but we do demand that they run enough trains to accommodate those who wish to ride and give every passenger a seat. "This also applies to the surface lines. We want more cars on all the lines in Brooklyn for the accommodation of the people of Erooklyn, and, what's more to the point, we're going to get them. "We also proved that much of the discomfort and suffering from the crush at the bridge duriDg rush hours is due to the fact that the switching facilities at this end of the bridge are entirely inadequate.

We proved that with the substitution of 'tall switching' for the 'head switching' now in vogue this can be remedied. It will cost the Brooklyn Rapid Transit some money, but not an unreasonable amount, and we Intend to have It. "We proved that with a more complete system of transfers In certain parts of Brooklyn much of the crowding on certain lines could be done away with. Above all, we proved. believe, to the satisfaction of the commission, that, left to itself, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit.

Company will do nothing but cut expenses, and that whatever they do to alleviate conditions will be done only after it is forced upon them." Mr. McCarroll said that he meant to use the word "Inability" instead of "imbecility" in his speech yesterday in referring to the officials of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Ludwlg Nlssen. chairman of the committee WHY MR. CR0KER MAY BE ANGRY.

Boss Stood "With Peter F. Meyer in Contest With Three Men Who Are Now Honored, Charles F. will control all of the details of the reorganization of Tammany Hall at to night's meeting of the executive and general cotnmitteesaecording to present indications. All open opposition to him has been abandoned. He name the new chairman of the executive committee and all the members of the various sub committees, and put his own man at the head of the seneral committee to succeed ex Judge George M.

Van Hoe sen. His leadership of the Tammany organization will be continued with no outward elgn of difficulties of any description. His slate, unofficially given out this afternoon, is: For chairman of the executive committee, Daniel H. McMahon; for chairman of the 'general committee. J.

Sargent. Cram. A resolution, complimenting him on the great Democratic plurality obtained in Manhattan and the Bronx at the last election under hia leadership will be i.assed by the general committee. This resolution is all that Is necessary in the opinion of the Murphy leaders to confirm his authority as head of the organization. Nothing was known until last evening of Mr.

Murphy's purpose to relieve Mr. Van Hoesen of the general committee chairmanship and to put his old dock hoard associate in hia place. It is said not to be positively settled yet. Murphy's friends predict, however, that, it will be done. Mr.

Cram's selection as chairman will not be satisfactory to Peter F. Meyer, the real estate partner of Richard Croker. It will, however, be pleasing to Daniel H. McMahon, George W. Plunkett, Thomas J.

Duun and other Tammany leaders who defended Mr. Cram in the Dock Board disputes between Cram and Murphy on one side and Meyer on the other. A criticism on Mr. Murphy's plan of reorganization runs to. the effect that it.

brings the Van Wyck Dock Board into too much prominence. Mr. Murphy, who is to continue as leader, was treasurer of the board: Mr. Cram, who is proposed for chairman of the general committee, was president; and Mr. McMahon.

who is to be the chairman of the executive committee, is a contractor who secured much city business through that department. Ex Chief of Police Devery recently described this group of Tammany politicians as the "contractors' trust." Tammany leaders who are sincerely friendly to Colonel George. B. McClellan, Mr. Murphy's candidate for mayor, are this afternoon telling Mr.

Murphy that his arrangement will prove disappointing at the polls on that account. It looks too much, they say, like an expansion of mercenary polities. Another aspect of Mr. Cram's proposed election to the chairmanship of the General Committee is Its personal relation to the interests, political and otherwise, of Richard Croker. This relation is not yet fully understood by all the Tammany leaders.

Mr. Meyer was appointed a member of the Dock Bo ird at. Mr. Croker's special request. In his troubles with his associates, Messrs.

Murphy and Cram, he was supported by Mr. Croker. The disputes have never been fully settled. Some of the leaders suspect that Cram's election is a notice to Meyer and Croker that it is Mr. Murphy, and not Mr.

Croker, that is running things in Tammany at present. As to Mr. Croker, he cares very little who holds the empty honor of the Tammany chairmanships, it. is said, knowing that they amount to nothing when tickets and administrations are to be organized. It Is generally believed, however, that he will resent and punish In due ime any injury to his partner Meyer, or to Andrew Freednian, John Scannell.

John Whalen, Senator Maurice Featherson or Senator Grady. In Brooklyn there is a feeling that Tammany is over confident about the future, and that it is making some tactical mistakes. Tammany, the Brooklyn "leaders think, should not star the Van Wyck Dock Board at this time. Hugh McLaughlin is very much pleased, however, at signs of trouble making for Crolter. It is said that William S.

Devery is getting restive under his restraint, and is likely to break into activity again. There is a dispute between him and his associate leaders in the Thirteenth Manhattan Senate District as to who shall be nominated to succeed the late Senator Patrick H. Trainor. It is even said that Mr. Devery could be induced to go to the Senate himself.

Other leaders of the Thirteenth have chosen Peter F. Dooling as their candidate. Mr. Devery wants to go to Albany, it is said, for the purpose of making it lively for the Democratic state leader. David B.

Hill, who threw him out of the state convention. It is pretty certain that Devery's opponents will not give him the nomination. THE YEAR AT WALLAB0UT. All Market Business Prospered on Small Profits Through Enlarged Transactions. Prosperity has marked the year 1002 the subsistence products of the country by lease holding tenants in that line have been the largest in the his torv of the market.

Many sub tenants of such lease holders have Installed themselves and, though their competition has narrowed margins of profit, both they and their landlord's have realized from liberal to fair livings from their transactions, and at the close of the year there Is no report of any dealer having failed to maintain a reputable standing of credit. Inquiry among the more prominent of the general produce merchants upon the comparison of the sum total of their traffic with last and preceding years met with the reply that they had handled largely more goods than ever before. Unusually high prices have prevailed in many commodities which has restricted profit's somewhat, but the increase in volume of dealings has more than counterbalanced such shrinkage. Long Island farmers who have disposed of their produce in the market square will come out with better surplus from their year's work through the large crops grown and generous prices obtained for them than from any other of recent years, and the city itself has participated in the good fortune through increased collection of fees from the larger number of wagon loads of vegetables brought to the market square for sale. The freight terminals of the great railway systems of the Pennsylvania and the Delaware.

Lackawanna and Western Railroad Companies also show great increase in the traffic of th'elr several stations on Washington and Kent avenues adjoining the market. The business done from vessels in the market shipping basin keeps fair pace with that at the railroad terminals, considering its smaller sources of supply. GEN. GREENE VISITS EBSTEIN. General Greene, the new Police Commissioner, who was to have attended the police trials in Brooklyn to day.

did not reach here In time to be present. Ho reached Police Headquarters shortly a'rter 12 o'clock and met Inspector W. H. McLaughlin of the Brooklyn Department, and was escorted around the building by the Inspector and Deputy Police Commissioner Ebstein. The new Commissioner found everything in excellent shape and complimented the Inspector on the general appearance of the headquarters and seemed greatly pleased with everything he saw.

The 1903 Edition Is Selling Rapidly. Price 50 Cents; No Paper Covers. The first day ot the Eagle Almanac for has shown a rapid sale and heavy demand for the book. The Almanac this year is substantially bound in a neat red elnth cover with the title stamped in gold on the frcnt and back, it was learned, however, that some would be purchasers were delaying buying the book, waiting for paper bound copies. This year there will he no paper bound books and only the cloth bound.

Dp cent copies will be offered to the public. To thoughtful persons it will ai once be apparent why the book this year is sold for 50 cents. In the first, place the binding placed upon it is more than worth the extra price. was found to be impracticable to bind up so large a reference, book in paper covers sufficiently strong to stand the hard usage put upon It by those who use it. The new maps are expensive and are alone worth the price of the book.

Xew features have been added to make it of even more value than before, while the staudard features have been thoroughly revised. The actual cost of compiling, printing and binding the Eagle Almanac as it is to day is more than is asked for the work. So don't wait, for paper covers, as there won't be any, and buy your Almanac at once, as the edition is limited. OBITUARY. The Rev.

John H. Kirk. Methodist. Episcopal Church circles lost an old and active worker in the death. Sunday, of the Rev.

John II. Kirk, who passed away at his residence, 5GS Gates avenue, ot pneumonia and old age, after a week's illness. For more than seventy years lie had been a devoted churchman and for sixty years, as a lay preacher, he bad spoken in many pulpits in Brooklyn and Manhattan. For the past fifty years he had resided in Brooklyn, in the Bedford section, and was known to many church folks. Although in his ninety first year, deceased regularly attended the Janes Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was a member, until sickness prevented.

Born in New York City August I. 1811. deceased, early in life, learned the then art of printing and for forty years, until he retired about four years ago. lie conducted a printing establishment, on Nassau street. Manhattan.

His tastes were purely domestic and. except for church connections, he had no obligations of a social character outside of his home. He was always a Republican, but did not affiliate actively with his party's doings. Deceased is survived by three daughters and two sons. John and Kdgar.

the latter having succeeded to his father's business. Mrs. Kirk died about eighteen months ago. Funeral services, which will be held to night at the late residence, will be conducted by the Rev. Dr.

Bartholow, pastor of the Janes Church. The Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery. John C. Lazarevitcn. Funeral services over the remains of John C.

Lazarevitcn were held last evening at his late home. 374 Fifth street, and he was buried in Greenwood to day. the forty sixth anniversary of his birth. The Rev. Dr.

Far rar of the Dutch Reformed Church officiated and spoke touchingly of the virtues of the deceased and of his many sterling qualities of mind and heart that had endeared him to a large circle of friends. After that the impressive funeral ritual of the Royal Arcanum was conducted by the officers of Gilbert Council No. 1.343. R. of which the deceased had long been a member and a trustee.

The casket was surrounded by many handsome floral tributes from friends of the. family, Including beautiful pieces from Gilbert Council and from the Royal Arcanum Minor Bowling League, of which the deceased was one or the most enthusiastic members. Mr. Lazarevitch was born in this city and had lived most of his life in this borough, where he wa3 well known in business circles as an expert accountant of rare qualifications, having for years had charge of the auditing of the accounts and the examination of the books of a number of the largest firms in this city. Mr.

Lazarevltch was a man of retiring and modest disposition and a devoted father and husband. Until recently he appeared to be in robust health, having bowled a good score within a month in the Royal Arcanum games. He was suddenly attacked by a virulent cancer anil was removed to Seney Hospital by the officials of the Royal Arcanum Hospital Bed Fund, where every known remedy was applied in vain and he died last Friday, leaving a widow and three children, beside an aged mother. Robert V. S.

Samuels. Robert V. S. Samuels died of heart, disease yesterday while attending a meeting of the board of directors of the Marine Journal Company, of which his father. Captain Samuel Samuels is president, in the office of Black Kneeland.

44 Pine street. Manhattan. His father noticed the young man turn pale and before he could speak to him his son fell dead. The coroner was notified and by his permission the body was taken to his home, 152 Sixth avenue, this borough. Young Samuels was born in St.

John's Park, upper Manhattan. February 4. 1S72. He was a graduate of the College of the City of New York and of the New York Law School and had practiced for about seven years, being a member of the firm of Roe Samuels. He was a Republican in politics and a member of the Twenty second Ward Republican Association.

He was a communicant of St. Peter's P. E. Church and is survived by his father, mother and several sisters. The funeral services will be held at his late home Thursday morning at 11 o'clock, the Rev.

Drs. Kettel and Parker officiating. His father. Captain Samuels, is one of the best known and oldest surviving of the old time ship masters. He was in command of the famous Dread naught, the fastest sailing packet clipper of ante bellum days.

During the Civil War he commanded the S. steamer John Rice and the McClellan at the taking of Fort Fisher. He won the international yacht race in the Henrietta against the Fleetwlng arid the Vesta for $90,000 stakes and later won a similar event In the Coronet. MURRAY MURRAY. Dr.

P. J. Murray, superintendent of the Kingston Avenue Hospital, was married this morning to Miss Mary F. Murray, daughter of Augustus Murray, 131 Java street. Green point, in St.

James' Church. Red Bank. N. .1. The wedding was a quiet one.

only the immediate relatives of the family being present. The bride was assisted by her sister Catherine, who was bridesmaid, and the groom was accompanied by Counselor M'ill hjm C. Hughes of this borough, who was best man. After an extended wedding trip through the South the couple will make their home at 8115 Willoughliy avenue. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.

To night and To morrow Sun sets 4:3:1. rises Moon sets 5:46 P. M. Conjunction between Venus and the Moon. Con Junction between Mercury and the Moon.

SHIP NEWS. Arrived at New York To day. Buffalo, from Hull. Colorado, from Brunswick. Comal, from Mobile and Brunswick.

Erica, from Kingston. Finance, from Colon. George W. Clyde, from Georgetown, Kensington, from Blyth. Mexico, from Havana.

Potsdam, from Rotterdam. i'rlns Willem III. from Port au Prince. Saxonla. from Liverpool.

Sicllia. from Algiers. Valencia, from Port Limon. Zecland, from Antwerp. Arrived at Foreign Ports To day, Auckland Indraghlrl.

from New York. Bermuda Pretoria, from New York. Genoa Sicilian Prince, from New York. London British Princess, from New York. Port Natal Beechley, from New York.

St. Thomas Caribbeo, from New oYrk. Sailed Erom Foreign Ports To day. Barbadoes Kaffir Prince, for New York. Swansea Bellenden.

for New York. Ocean Steamships Sailing To morrow. American Line Steamship Philadelphia. for Southampton and London, from Pier 15, North River, at 10 A. M.

White Star Line Steamship Celtic, for Queens town and Liverpool, from Pier 48, North River, at 5:30 A. M. Coastwise and Southbound Steamships Sailing To morrow. Clvde Line Steamship Comanche, for Charleston and Jacksonville, from Pier 36. North River, at 1 P.

M. Mnllury T.ln? Steamship Denver, for Galveston, from' Pier 20. East River, at 3 P. M. Morgan Line Steamship El Valle.

for New Orleans, from Pier North River, at 3 P. M. Old E'uminion Line Steamship Hamilton, for Norfolk, from Pier 26. North River, at 3 P. M.

Ward Line Steamship Vigllancla. for Havana, and Meico ports, from Pier 16. East River, at 3 P. M. BROOKLYN AND QUEENS FIRES.

Fires reported and alarms for fire received at Fire Headquarters. Brooklyn, during the twenty four hours ending at 8 A. December 30, 1202: December 29. 12:03 P. M.

1,275 Putnam avenue, three story brlcki damage. to building and stock December 29. :45 P. M. 22 Graham avenue, rear, "one story frame; damage to building and stock slight.

December 11:18 P. M. 711 Hicks street, three story brick: damage to building trifling, damage to stock none. Dece'mber 29. 11:30 P.

M. 1.338 Fulton street, four story brick; damage to building none, damage to stock slight. December 30. 12:24 A. M.

Dahlia place and Broadwav. Brooklyn Rapid Transit railroad car No. 220; damage slight. December 30. A.

M. 1.12S Manhattan avenue, four story brick; damage to building slight, damage to stock trifling. December 30. 2:30 A. M.

Prospect avenue, three story frame: damage to building none, damage to stock trifling. THEATERS TO NIGHT. Brooklyn. Amphion The Toreador (Francis Wilson). Bijou Little Lord Fauntleroy.

Rlaney's Stranjje Adventures of Miss Brown. Columbia Antony and Cleopatra. Folly A Desperate Chance. Gayety Hyde's Comedians. Gotham The City of New York.

Grand Opera' House Spotless Town. Hyde Behman's Vaudeville. Montauk The Joy of Living (Mrs. Patrick Campbell). Orpheum Vaudeville.

Park New 8 Bells. Paytons A Milk White Flag. Star City Sports Burlesquers. Unique American Burlesquers. Manhattan.

Academy of Musiu The Ninety and Nine. American The Silver King. Belasco Theater The Darling ot th Goda (Blanche Bates). Bijou The Mocking Bird. Broadway The Sliver Slipper.

Casino Chinese Honeymoon. Criterion The Cavalier (Julia Marlowe). Daly's The Billionaire. Edon Musee Waxworks, Cinematograph and Concert. Kmpire Imprudence (William Faversham).

Fourteenth Street Up York State. Oarrlck The Cross ways (Mrs. Langtry). Grand Dolly Varden. Harlem Opera House The Middleman (E.

S. Willi! rA). Herald Square Richard Mansfield, in Julius Caesar. Hurtlg Seamon's Vaudeville. Irving Place Seln Trick.

Keith's Vaudeville. Knickerbocker The Altar of Friendship (Nat Goodwin and Maxlne Elliott). Madison Square Audrey. Manhattan Mrs. Flske In Mary of Magdala.

Metropolis Alphonse and Gaston. Murray Hill A Midnight Bell. New Savoy Girl With the Green Eyes. New Star Lost River. New York When Johnny Comes Marching Home.

Paradise Roof Vaudeville. Factor's Vaudeville. Princess Heidelberg. Proctor's Twenty thIrd Street) Vaudeville. Proctor's (Fifth Avenue) Cumberland "61.

Proctor's (Fifty eighth Street) Sidewalks of New York. Proctor's (One Hundred and Twenty fifth Street) Garret O'Magh. The Dewey Tiger Lilies Burlesquers. Third Avenue Power of the Cross. Victoria The Eternal City (Viola Allen).

Wallack's Sultan of Sulu. Weber Fields Twlrly Whlrly, The Stickiness of Gelatine. West End Theater Andrew Mack. TRIED TO BOB TRAIN ALONE. Single Highwayman Shot Conductor, but Was Wounded While Escaping.

Louisvillle, December 30 A bold attempt was made by a lone robber to hold up the Xew Orleans Cincinnati northbound express of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad as the train was entering South Louisville at 2:20 o'clock this morning. The highwayman got but little booty and is believed to have been shot by the conductor, J. D. Keene. Keene was going through tire sleeper in which were the porter, the Pullman conductor and one passenger, J.

E. Moore. A masked man sprang at Keene from a dark corner and commanded him to throw up his hands. Keene grappled with the A bullet from the robber's pistol stunned him and the highwayman pulled the signal cord, While the train was slowing down he. robbed the Pullman conductor and Mr.

Moore, securing $25 from the latter. As the train stopped the robber left the car. Conductor Keene meanwhile had re senses and left the train In pursuit of his assailant. He fired several shots from a rifle and after one of them the robber uttered a cry of pain. TRAIN DITCHED, THREE KILLED.

Qujncy, December 30 A freight train on the Monon road ran into a ditch near here to day and three members of the crew were killed. George W. Phillips, who was the Democratic executive member for years for the Twelfth Ward, and who is a close friend of Michael J. Coffey, is far from being satisfied'' with the of patronage of the Sheriff's office, as set forth in last even ing's Eagle. Mr.

Phillips said last night: "I do not think the patronage is fairly distributed by any means, more especially in the case of the Ninth Assembly District. The understanding always was for years past that the patronage should bo evenly distributed as far as possible, so that the amount 01 money paid out in salaries should be equaUzed among the districts. Nothing of the kind has been done in this, matter of the Sheriff's office. Take the case of James McMahon of 81 Walcott street. He has been a lifelong Democrat and' has held a position under a former Democratic administration.

He was at that time clerk in the County Court, at a salary of $1,800 per year, and held the, place for two years. He was removed from the position on account of his friendship' for Michael J. Coffey. Now, under Sheriff elect Melody, he is. appointed an assistant deputy sheriff at $1,000 a year.

"On the contrary, the name of Michael J. Sims of 225 Conover street appears on the list as a keeper of the jail at $1,200 a yeav. Mr. Sims has been a lifelong Republican and succeeds James Johnson as executive member for the Twelfth" "Ward. Later he held the position of messenger at $1,200 year in District Attorney Backus' office.

Former Sheriff Guden appointed him a jail keeper. He has held over under Sheriff Dike and is reappointed by Democratic Sheriff Melody. "If this be justice to the Democrats of the Ninth Assembly District. I fail to see it in that light, and I think there are thousands of other Democrats in Sonth Brooklyn who wflV'regard this state of affairs in the same light that I do': "Contrast present conditions with those of past days in this, the Fifth Senatorial District. In 189S, Coffey's Vote was 15,580, as against 8,155.

cast for Brackett (Republican), a plurality of 7.431 for the former. In 1901 the same district cast 14.080 votes for Edward M. Shepard and 13,410 for Mayor Low, the former's plurality being only 662 votes. "Jf the Democratic leaders are anxious to bring back the old time Democratic majorities in the Fifth Senatorial District, they will have to show an inclination to treat the voters of that district fairly in the distribution of patronage. "The best proof that the voters of the district would vote right, if fairly treated, is the vote they gave Coler after defeating O'Donnell at" the last primary." COURT OP SPECIAL SESSIONS.

Wednesday, December 31, Keady. presiding Fleming, Fitzgerald. associates: William Van Wyck. assistant district attorney People vs William Hand, cruelty to animals: People" James Labretta. cruelty to animals; People vs.

Jennie Schelble. petit larceny. People vs. Mary Wilson," petit larceny: People vs. Lewis Caggiano petit larceny; People vs.

John Corcoran, "petit larceny: People vs. John Uckert, petit larceny: People vs. Isaac Block, section 79. Sanltarv Code; People vs. Thomas F.

Brady, malicious mlFchlef; People v. Thomas F. Brndy. assault, third de "ICree: People vs Oskar Koldahl, assault, third degree: People vs. Joseph Perlman.

assault, third degree: People vs. Isaac Kelngolcl. assault, third degree: "People vs. Patrick Doran. assault, third degree: People vs.

"Martin Hogan. assault, third degree: People vs. Timothy McCarthy. Jietlt larceny: People vs. John Gaines, petit larceny; People vs.

Stick Sickles, otherwise John Russell, awault, third degree: People vs Paul Bloom, petit People vs. Florence Cunningham, petit larceny..