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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. KE YORK, SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1899. 32 ROGERS TO BE TRIED SOON. EASTERN DEMOCRACY. FRIENDS OR ENEMIES? SAMUEL McELROY'S WILL CAUSES WIDOW TO SPEAK BREWERS' COMBINATION WEARING COMPLETION.

STEAMER BRITANNIC OVERDTTB. The White Star steamer Britannic y.ester day afternoon was overdue here ahoutHa day and a hair. She sailed from Queenatown at 1:55 P. M. on January 19, on her wajfrom, Liverpool for New York, and to equal her best record would have reached the 'lightship at .4:25 P.

M. on Thursday, though her, arrival yesterday morning would have made a very good passage for this of yexr. The Britannic is commanded by Captain Haddock and is a very stanch ship and there is no uneasiness felt for her safety. In view of the heavy gales from the westward for the last week she would necessarily make very slow headway. The arrival to day of two belated liners, the Kaiser Wilhelm II.

and Saale, of which the Saale was much more overdue than the Britannic and their reports of heavy weather which retarded them Is reassuring of the safety of the Britannic. TTZ SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. had made to him when he visited Teall in regard to the "suit. Lawyer Albert E. Seaman, who was the attorney for Mrs.

Teall in this case, testified to the fact of being served with the papers in the present suit. Isaac. Ludham; a law clerk, testified to serving Teall with the' complaint and other papers in the Justice Smith was very impartial and wanted to be firmly convinced before granting Mrs. Teall's decree. The judge's decision in addition to giving Mrs.

Teall the custody of her child, Florence, had a provision that at any time hereafter she could reopen the case on an application for alimony. It was understood that ir there waB no great opposition to the suit that no alimony would be asked for. The fact that Teall failed to put In an appearance and made no defense to the suit caused no little surprise. The proceedings 1n the case occupied about an hour. It was rumored this afternoon that now the Rhode Island case would probably be dropped.

An order was returnable in the Rhode Island Supreme Court to day for Mrs. Teall to show cause why she will not be pualshed for contempt of court, as she did not appear in answer to the order. The quesr tion'Is, how can she be punished if she remains in the state? The suit to day was brought in Richmond County. TWO FALSE ALARMS that rightfully belongs to her and, as I say, she will never want for anything. We do not maintain that she" is insane and the only reason I can give why father stated so ia the will is because he probably knew her better than we do.

They had not been getting along well 'together 'fori some time and had father lived they would; have separated soon. So far as father remaining away from home is concerned, for dayti at a time, all I need say is that he was employed on jobs in all parts ot the world and that business kept him away from home a great deal. Mrs. McElroy was not prevented from going to the funeral and so far as I Iknow no one ever told her that she would have to leave the Johnson street house." Edward Hinman, Mre. McElroy's lawyer, was found at hia home, 110 Remsen street, last He was not disposed to go into a lengfhy discussion of the case, but said that he felt that his client had suffered, a great injustice when she had been referred to as a woman of unsound mind.

"Miss McElroy admits in the petition, which as executrix she filed with the her stepmother Is perfectly sane," said Mr. Hinman, "and that ought to settle the whole matter. Just why Mr. McElroy spoke of his wife as being xf unsound mind is, of course, not exactly clear, was for the purpose of preventing her from receiving her share of tho estate. It was oertainiy a most unusua: procedure on the part of a husband." Mr.

Hinman declined to speak of the separation suit. Mr. McElroy was a native of Albany and was 74 years old he died. In early life he was an engineer on the United States man of war Fulton. In 1859 he was appointed civil engineer in the Department of City "Works of.

Brooklyn, and laid out the system of water works of the city. He was the engineer of the Town Survey Commission, and laid out the system of streets in the county towns. He was also the engineer of the Sea Beach Railroad and surveyed the route of that line, as also that of the Brighton Beach syBtem. He planned the construction of the Brooklyn elevated system at its start. His was the plan of survey adopted by the county for Kings Park, known then as St.

Johnland, and used as a farm for the insane, afterward sold to the state. His opinion was sought in nearly every engineering enterprise in which Brooklyn was interested, and he latterly devoted his time as an expert and consulting engineer. THE SIXTY NINTH Sent In From One Keyless Box Where They Are All Located. The new keyless fire alarm boxes, forty eight in number, four being held in reserve, have all beea placed. So far two false alarms have been turned in, both from the same station, No.

124, at Atlantic avenue and Columbia street. The police think they know the guilty party and the'ehances are that after he Is arr estejd there will be no more tricks of the same kind played for some time. Of the fortyreight boxes, forty six take the places of the old key boxes. Two, No. 93, at Court and Joralemon streets, and No.

831, at Adams street and Myrtle avenue, are new stations. The complete list of keyless boxes is as follows: Box. Location. 19. street near Joralemon.

26 Fulton and High streets. 31. and Hudson avenues. 34 Columbia and Woodhull streets. 39....

Sands and Washington streets. 41 Atlantic avenue and Smith street. 71.... Washington and Johnson streets. 73 Myrtle avenue and Jay street.

74 Fulton and Court streets. 76 Fulton and Jay streets. 92 Fulton and Adams streets. 93. and Joralemon streets.

98.. uvenue and Henry street. avenue and Columbia street. 135 Hamilton avenue ana Coles street. 137..

a.venue and Court street. 141.. and Bedford avenues. 151 Bedford and Myrtle avenues. 162 Bedford and Flushing avenues.

and Franklin avenues. 166.... Columbia and Sackett streets. 156 Fulton street and Putnam avenue. 163 Hamilton and Third avenues.

172 Third avenue anJ Thirty ninth street. 182 Flatbush and Fourth avenues. .234.... Fulton street and avenue. 236..

and Gold streets. 238 Fulton and Bridge streets. 252 Hamilton avenu ana Court street. 255 Hamilton avenue, opposite Union street. 277 Myrtle and Vanderbllt avenues.

285,. street and Vanderbllt avenue. 2S6 Bedford avenue and Fulton street. DeKalb and Xostrand avenues. 291 Myrtle and Nostrand avenues.

312 Broadway and Myrtle avenue. 328 Fifth avenue and Ninth street. 346 Flatbush avenue and Bergen street. 389 Lafayette and Flatbush avenues. 4:3....

Broad way and Kent avenue. 417 Broadway and Bedford avenue. 481 Broadway and Flushing avenue. 521. 1 Fulton Ferry.

075.... Grand street and Drlggs avenue. 628.... 'Jamaica and Alabama avenues. 655 Greenpcln avenue, and West street.

831 Adams street anil avenue. 925 Fifth avenue and Fifteenth street. Key (boxes, replaced by the new ones, have been renumbered and put up at these points: Box. Location. 82 Gold and Marshall streets.

91 Front and Jay streets. 229 Wllloughby and Raymond streets. i 429 Foot of North Twelfth street. 437. avenue and city line.

447 Wythe avenue, between North Tenth and North Eleventh streets. 458 Leonard and Devoe streets. 486 Box and Oakland streets. 518 Maspeth and Vandervoort avenues. MANUFACTURERS RETURN.

Brooklyn Delegates to the National Convention Pleased With the Business Outlook. The Brooklyn manufacturers who attended the convention of the National Association of Manufacturers at Cincinnati during the past week returned yesterday. Former Mayor Charles A. Schieren was re elected treasurer of the association and Charles A. Moore and Richard Young were re elected, Mr.

Moore as vice president in charge of the organization's interests in New York and Mr. Young as a member of the executive committee. Ludwig Nissen, president of the Manufacturers' Association of this city, was elected a member of the executive committee of the National Association. The delegates report that the convention was altogether the most successful the organization has held, owing to the bright business outlook reported by the delegates from all over the country. Resolutions were passed urging Congress to ratify the peace treaty at once.

Some opposition was raised to this resolution, but it only served to bring out a thorough discussion, which resulted in a unanimous vote. DEER IN ADIRONDACKS. The Spiritualistic Medium Demands Reduction of Bail. Henry Richardson Rogers, the spiritualistic medium, who has been in the Tombs since December 12, awaiting trial on a charge of assault, was before Justice Bookstaver la the Supreme Court yesterday, on a writ of habeas corpus obtained in his behalf by Lawyer Purely. Mr.

Rogers. asked Justice Bookstaver to either order the District Attorney to give him a speedy trial or else make a reduction in the $1,000 ball required for his It is, alleged that he attempted to assault a detective with a hatchet at oue of his seances in 1S95. He was released on bail, but fled, and was again arrested on December 12. Justice Bookstaver ordered that the writ be dismissed, but said that unless Rogers was tried in February another application for a reduction of bail could be made. Mr.

Blake said that the ease would soon be tried. Rogers is well known through his marriage to Harriet E. Beach, who 'turned over property to him. Proceedings were brought by the children to have Mrs. Beach Rogers' sawiity inquired into, with the result that stre was declared mentally incompetent.

Proceedings are now pending to have the marriage annuiled. PLANS OF ASTORIA GAS CO. All the Illuminating Concerns, With the Exception of the New Amsterdam, to Be Absorbed. The recent sale by John D. Crimmins of the large tract of land and valuable water front at Astoria to the Astoria Light, Heat and Power Company for $750,000, is likely, as was predicted in the.

Eagle at the time, to result in the establishment at that point of the largest gas plant in the world and p.ob ably a gigantic electric power and lighting plant. It is the alleged intent of the movers in the enterprise, said to be the managers of the Consolidated Gas Company and several smaller organizations, to combine their plants and establish on this side of the East River an enormous gas manufactory with all the latest plans and improvements for economy of production and efficiency. A series of immense storage tanks will be built on the property and the large works on the Island of Manhattan abandoned. A number of small distributing reservoirs will be located in various parts of the city and they will be supplied by means of a large tunnel under the East River, in the same manner as the New Amsterdam Gas Company supplies its distributing reservoirs from its large works at Ravensivood in the lower portion of Long Island City. It is alleged that the land occupied by the present works in Manhattan can be eold for enough to almost entirely build the works at Astoria.

As is stated in the articles of incorporation of the Astoria Company, it is the intent of the promoters to supply Brooklyn and Queens boroughs from the same works. The magnificent water front, the only available one west of Plushisg, that could have been purchased at anywhere near a reasonable figure for the purpose, will enable the manufacturers to land the raw 'material lor the manufacture of the gas right at their works at a small cost for transportation, a fact of great importance in cheapening the cost of production. President Bowley of the borough of Queens says the new combination will take in all the gas companies of the City of Xeiv York except the aggregation now known as the New Amsterdam Company, which is controlled by the Standard Oil Company. He says: "The plan of the movers of this great Astoria Gas Light, Heat and Power Compaiy embraces the construction of a twenty foot tunnel running from Woolsey's Point through Ward's Island; thence coming out at One Hundred and Tenth street, Harlem. A bill will be introduced in the Legislature next week for the building of the tunnel, as it is an affair requiring legislative authority.

KELLY'S GOOD WORK. Recovers Property Valued at Over $400 Prom the Room of an Alleged Thief. The Eagle tcld cn Thursday how Detective Sergeant James H. Kelly of Captain Reynolds' staff arrested a young man known as George Hoffman, 21 years old, who was known as a boarding house thief. When he was arraigned in the Adams street police court many boarding house keepers identified him as the person who had victimized them and their boarders.

Hoffman was remanded to the Raymond Street Jail and his case will 'come up cm Monday before Judge Brenner. An interesting phase of the "social career of young Hoffman, or rather George A. Dreyer, that is bis right name, was learned by Detective Kelly yesterday. In following up the case, the detective learned that the young man had lived at 117 Avenue Manhattan, with a family named Lob. since January 2.

Sergeant Kelly visited the room formerly t.ccupied by Dreyer yesterday afternoon. He found in his trunk many valuable articles of jewelry and wearing apparel and amcng the jewelry was a cherished family relic tvhich the detective says was held sacred by a family in New Jersey and which was stolen by young Hoffman. In all the contents of the trunk was worth about $400. The detective busied himself taking an inventory of the stuff belonging to the prisoner, after he had telephoned to Brooklyn for the patrol wagon. He had no sooner resumed work than there was a knock at the door and a messenger boy bearing a dressing case appeared.

He brought a full drees suit for Mr. Dreyer, which the latter had hired. The detective took the case and dismissed the boy. The detective also came into possession of an invitation to a ball which was held at Arlington Hall. Manhattan, last night, which young Dreyer purchased about the same time he hired the suit.

The ticket was No. 4G. A few minutes later a messenger bearing a note from Dreyer written on the reverse side of a business card of the law firm of Fluegel man Bach, 320 Broadway, entered the room. The note requested Mr. Loh to kindly give the bearer Dreyer's trunk.

The detective took the card and dismissed the messenger. The patrol wagon arrived shortly after the second messenger left and all that belonged to young Dreyer was taken from the room over to this borough. OIL STOVE EXPLODED. By the explosion of an oil stove in the fiat of Bernard Meyers, at Gfi5 Franklin avenue, yesterday afternoon the premises were set on fire and Meyer's wife and children narrowly escaped injury. Mrs.

Meyers was preparing coffee on the stove when the explosion occurred. A quantity of the ignited oil was spattered over her dress, but she was able to extinguish the flames as well as bring her children to the street in safety. Firemen extinguished the blaze a few minutes after their arrival. The damage amounted to but $50. THE ASTOR BATTERY.

The members of the Astor Battery, who are at the Seventy first Regiment Armory, Manhattan, will spend the Sunday at their re upective homes in New York and vicinity. Nearly all of them were given leave of absence until Monday. Only a guard remains in command of Captain P. C. March.

No official news as to when the battery will be mustered out has yet been received. BOY TOYED WITH A REVOLVER. Irwin Stetson, 10 years of age, of 270 West Forty third street, Manhattan, while examining a caliber revolver on the top floor of 20(1 West Forty third street, yesterday afternoon, was accidentally shot in the body by the discharge of the weapon. He was attended by an ambulance surgeon and removed to bis home and afterward was taken to Roosevelt Most of the Big Breweries in Greater New York Have Agreed to Join. SOME DETAILS UNSETTLED.

It Is Hoped to Reduce the Price of Beer to the Retailers Some Economies. II its projectors have the suecoss anticipated, the conibiciation of reivers of tho greater city, outlined in yesterday's Eazle, will be effected within a very few weeks. That the Er.gle story was a surprise to ihe brewers of Manhattan and Brooklyn go9 without saying. The preliminaries have been arranged with such that no one concerned had any idea that the matter would get into the public prints. The advantages of such a combination as described are manifest.

For years the competition among brewers was so keen that profits were seriously affected. Then a pool was formed in which were many of the large concerns. It protected its members in a way, but left them as they were before, fighting for trade. The latest information is that most of the brewers consulted in regard to the proposed combination have expressed their willingness "to go in. A member of one of the largest brewing firms in Brooklyn, in discussing the union of all interested in the business, said to an Eagle reporter last night: "The article of this afternoon is substantially correct.

I can't imagine who gave it out, but that does not matter, now that it has become public. I hope the scheme will go through as planned. It is to unite all the breweries in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island under one management. There are seventy eight in all. and of these the owners of three quarters have been seen, including two thirds of those in Brooklyn.

A firm of brewers in Xew York is engineering the deal. Within the past few weeks they have sent to groups of brewers in the three boroughs asking representatives to meet them at their office and talk over the proposition. There are a tew who have been seen who do not think it would be a good thine but I can assure you that the large majority have been favorably impressed. "It is, perhaps, needless to say that the combination will not be formed unless practically all the brewers are willing to go into it. Our purpose is not to put out a lot of watered stock, but to make money for the retailer as well as for ourselves by producing our product very much cheaper than now.

The last year has been a very bad one for the business. The Raines law hurt us and then the doubling of the ioternal revenue tax simply made it impossibe to clear anything like a fair profit. Once there was money in the brewing business. There has been none of late. So far as possible we shall operate on the lines laid down by the Standard Oil Company, which has cheapened its product to the consumers and yet been a good thing for those behind it.

"Our proposed combination will not throw aoybody out of work. On the contrary, it may give work to more men than are now employed, for the Teason that, with the decrease in price there is likely to be a greater demand for beer and ales. It may shut down some breweries, for where two are now running at half their capacity, one can do the work at ai expense not exceeding that required to run either one now. Every brewer knows that it takes r.o more coal and steam to turn out a brewery's full capacity than it does to turn out half of it. And yet there can be no decrease in the labor employed, for the more beer manufactured the more men are required in the breweries.

"The capitalization of the combination has not been decided. So far as that is concerned the scheme is still in embryo. It may be $50, 000,000 or it may be more. You can say this, however, that the carrying out of the project has been guaranteed by a syndicate. All that is necessary to completo deal is.

as I have stated, the practically unanimous apree ment of the seventy eight brewing concerns of the greater city. Anyone who is at all familiar with the brewing business will see at a glance the thousand and oho ways in which money can be saved by the combination. For example, in advertising, in litigation, in the "inducements" formerly offered to the retailer for what he will be more than compensated by tho lessened cost of the product. chances arc that some definite action will be taken very shortly. It seems to me to be the only salvation of tho trade." $15,000 FIRE IN GREENP0IWT.

Three Small Factory Buildings Destroyed and a Double Tenement I Badly Damaged. There was quite a fierce fire La Groenpoint last night, when torse two and a half story buildings in Kent street, near Franklin, were almost entirely destroyed. The loss is roughly estimated in the neighborhood of $15,000. although it will probably he considerably lu a when the owners take an inventory of ho property saved. The fire broke out in a piU of wood in the rear of Nagle's machine shop, at (17 Kent street, shortly after William McGuiro, wiio happened to be passing at the lime, I observed the blaze and he turned in ti alarm.

1 'The fire spread with sreat rapidity and when the first engine arrived it had attained such progress that it was deemed advisable to summon additional engine and ladder companies. Nagle'e machine was quickly destroyed and the fire then jumped to the office and paint shop of Deicke fc at fill to 75 Kent street. The firemen tried to confine the blaze to this building, but they were unable to do so and another frame structure occupied by the Jones' Tubing Company, manufacturers of brass tubus, caught fire. Meanwhile the biazo spread to the double tenement house at HI K.ut The tenants, however, had ample time to remove their household effects, and their loss is email. Before the firemen got the fire under control the frame buildings had been destroyed and the tt.

nr.meni gutted. Charles Kennedy of 15S Franklin street, who was in Deicke factory tie time, of the fire, was overcome by the smoke, but revived when taken to Conklin's drug store, where he is employed. KILLED BY A CABLE CAR. A swiftly moving ca'hle car at Forty third street and Third avenue, Manhattan, yesterday afternoon struck down John Murphy. 40 years old, a waiter in the employ of Dobbin's restaurant at 8G5 Third svemie, Manhattan, and he died later In the Flower Hospital.

His skull and right arm were "broken and he was internaily injured. The grijiman of the. car, Joseph Lawrence. 30 years old, of 1.427 Amsterdam avenue, was arrr 1. SNURE GOES TO SING SING.

Louis J. Snure. who pleaded guilty to forging $20,000 worth of checks on his employer, which he pleaded was to save his sick wife, but which subsequent events proved untrue, was sent, to Sing Sing yesterday. In company with thirteen others Snure was handcuffed and taken up to the State Prison by Deputy Sheriff Kelly. There was W.

J. Bryan Asked Them Last March to Declare Themselves Regarding Money Question. LETTER TO WILLIS J. ABBOTT. Croker Had Asked That the Late Candidate Ignore Silver in His Eastern Speeches.

The following letter from William J. Bryan to J. Abbott, written' in March, 1898, was given out by Mr. Abbott yesterday. 'Mr.

Abbott, in speaking of the matter last night, said: "In March, 189S, seme of Mr. Bryan's admirers in New York learned that he expected to be in the East In the following month and would pass through New York. They came to me, saying that a reception should be tendered him and that he should be asked to speak. I responded, that in my opinion the regular Democratic organization should give the reception, and that Mr. Bryan ought not to be asked to speak under any other auspices.

"I accordingly consulted Mr. Carroll and was by him referred to Mr. Croker. Mr. Croker asked me to write to Mr.

Bryan and fijid out whether he would be willing to speak in New York, but would at the same time refrain from discussing the money question. I wrote to Mr. Bryan accordingly and received the letter mentioned. This letter I scat Mr. Croker at the Democratic Club, in order that he might have no illusions concerning Mr.

Bryan's position. As Mr. Croker has now definitely antagonized the Democrats who hold to the Chicago platform, it is the belief of many friends of Mr. Bryan that this letter in which he declares that New York Democrats should show their hands or accept the hostility of the members of the party in the West and South should be made public." The following is the letter referred to: "March 16, 1898. "Willis J.

Abbott, New York. "My dear Mr. Abbct; I am just in receipt of your letter. Please say to Mr. Groker that I shall not be able to come East until about April 13.

At that time I shall be pleased to meet him and talk over the political situation. If, as I have heard, he is compelled to leave for Europe before that time, express my regret to him. "I appreciate his invitation to speak there but he will upon reflection that I could not afford to make a speech upon the lines sog gested. The national platform declares the money puestion to be the paramount issue, and I fully indorse that declaration. So, believing, I could not directly or indirectly encourage any state to abandon the national platform.

"While tho Democrats of the West and South have no right to force the national platform upon the people of New York, yet the Democracy of the nation does have a right to expect the Democrats of New York to stand by the platform or announce their hostility. We ought to know whether the New York Democracy means' peace or war. "To ignore the national platform in a state convention will be noticed that the Democrats of New York are hostile to the platform, but lack the courage to declare it openly. The platform of 1896 will be reaffirmed in 1900 and for one, would like to know as soon as possible whether we are to regard the New York Democrats as allies or enemies. "If the Democrats of New York invite me to speak in New York City while in the East, I shall accept the invitation with pleasure, but it must be with the understanding that I shall not be restricted as to the subject to discuss.

I do not care to be a guest where the Chicago platform is denied a hearing. "I believe that the restoration of bimetal lism is necessary, and that 16 to 1 is the only ratio at which bimetallism can be restored, and I have no right to expect favors from those who are hostile to that doctrine. I can say to bimetallism at 16 to 1 as Ruth said to Naomi: "Entreat me not to leave thee, or to refrain from following after thee, for whither thou goest I will go; and whither thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people and thy God, my God. Where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me and more atso, if aught but death part' thee and me." "No one is compelled to accept my judgment, and I must myself be guided by it, and in my judgment the attempt to chain the nation to a gold standard Is so cruel and wicked that I would be beneath contempt if I should trade my convictions on this subject for any political advantage which the New York Democrats might be willing to offer. "Let me add another word: It is not only right that the New York convention should stand by the Chicago platform but it Is policy.

Bimetallism will be as strong in New York when it is fully understood as it Is now in the and West and South and the sooner the Democracy of New York begins the defense of the Chicago platform the sooner will the work ot education be completed. To ignore the platform when all the states west and south indorse it, will have all the force of a declaration against the platform and such a course will make it more difficult to Indorse the platform hereafter. "We were embarrassed in the last campaign by the fact that the Democrats of your state went to Chicago to oppose the platform which was adopted. Unless the party, in New York expects to repeat this experiment in 1900 it should lose no time In making a firm stand the Chicago platform. In urging this course upon Tammany and the Democracy of New York I ought to suggest that the party in New York has something, at stake as well as the party in the nation.

"Tammany needs the Democracy of the nation as much as the national party needs Tammany and Tammany should recognize this fact. "Democratic principles have too firm a hold upon the plain people to give the party in any section any promise of success by abandoning thom. "Democracy was defined at Chicago and the definition is so satisfactory, that no material change will be made in that definition for years to come. I hope the New York Democrats for their good as well as for the good of the party and country at large will speedily bring themselves within the definition by giving an unqualified endorsement to the Chicago platform. "Yours truly, W.

J. BRYANT." THE TEALL DIVORCE CASE. Judge Wilmot M. Smith Gives Mrs. Teall the Custody of Her Daughter.

(Special to the Eagle.) Patchogue. L. January 28 Although the name of the co respondent ia the Teall divorce suit, which came before Justice Wilmot M. Smith here to day, could not be learned, the evidence showed that there was a mysterious woman whose only identification was the name "Minnie." Thomas Jackson, Teall's colored valet, testified that about March 15, 1893, his employer met this woman Minnie near the Imperial Hotel in Mauhattan and then went to Koster Bial's and from there to a house in Wst Sixteenth street, Jackson not remembering the exact number. This was shortly after Teall returned from attending the inauguration of President Cleveland.

About a year later Jackson said Teall met the same woman at Koster Bial's, taking her to Delmonico's and again going to the house on Sixteenth street. Jackson said at the latter occasion he left Teall and this woman at. the house and went away. Annie i Jackson, who is, however, in no way related I to Teall's former valet, was the colored cham i bermaid at the Sixteenth street house. She said the number of the house was 142.

Testl fvine tr tho vtslf nf Teal! ahfi said Teall his companion took an unoccupied room upstairs, remaining about an hour. No other women were mentioned in the case. Judge Henry E. Howland, who was formerly counsel for Mrs. Teall in her suit for separation, testified to certain admissions that Teall She Declares She Is Not of Unsound Mind and Tells of Hef Unhappy Life.

FEARED TO LEAVE HER HOUSE. Papers in Suit for Separation Were to Have Been Signed the Day Mr. McElroy Died. Mrs. Maria Louise McElroy, widow of the late Samuel McElroy, a well known Brooklyn civil engineer, is greatly grieved over the allegation made in her late husband's will to the effect that she is of unsound mind.

The assertion that Mrs. McElroy was not perfectly sane was a shock and a surprise to her many friends and since the clause in the will was made public they have called at her home in numbers and repeatedly assured her that instead of thinking her. mentally unbalanced they believe that she possesses extraordinary intellectual qualities for a woman of her age. This belief, it is hardly necessary to explain, is universally held by all of Mrs. McElroy's acquaintances on the Heights and her associates in Holy Trinity Church, where she has been an active worker and pew holder for thirty odd years.

Mrs. McElroy, of course, denies most emphatically that she is of unsound mind and says that she is unable to explain why her husbaad made a statement of that nature, unless it was because he was angry at her when he drew up the will nine years ago. Mrs. McElroy, who is still living at 50 Johnson street, has not as yet seen the will and she did not know that she had been left any part of her husband's estate until she read the following paragraph, which was printed in the Eagle Friday afternoon. The will ot Samuel McElroy, today in the officii the Surrogate, appoints Mary H.

McEroy, a daughter, executrix and the testator desires that his daughters shall the property CO Johnson street as Jong as they conveniently can, enjoying Its income and al loting to the widow, Maria Louisa McElroy. who Is of unsound mind, a room as long as she desires it, free of rent. The widow gets one third of the capital and income and four children the other two third. The widow also gets the proceeds of two lite, insurance policies in the Hartford Life and Annuity Insurance Company. Other beauests.

axe also personal. Samuel H. McElroy, a son, gets scientific and professlona. manuscripts, maps, plans and instruments. All of Mrs.

McElroy's friends admit, as already indicated, that Mr. McElroy did his wife a great injustice when he referred to her in the will as a person of unsound mind. Even her stepchildren do not deny that she is perfectly sane, for they say as much in a petition which was filed with the Surrogate last week. An Eagle reporter learned last night that Mr. and Mrs.

McElroy had not been living happily together for some time and that papers in' a separation suit were to have been signed on December 9 last, the very day that Mr. Mc lElroy died. Mr McElroy's death, whlcn was the direct result of heart disease, was suaaen and somewhat unexpected. Altogether, he was ill only about one week. Mrs.

McElroy did not attend the funeral services, which were conducted by Dr. in Holy Trinity Church, for she feared that if Bhe left the house she would not be allowed to return. Since her husband's death she has remained in the Johnson street house during the daytime, but has passed the nights with a friend who lives across the street. Mrs. McElroy was a widow at the time of her maTriage to Mr.

McElroy. She had one son by her first marriage, and he was for a time Dr. Hall's associate in Trinity Church. He is now the rector of an Episcopal church in Fred on ia, N. Y.

Mr. McElroy had also been married before he met the present Mrs. McElroy. Four children, Samuel H. McElroy, Mrs.

Albert Bunker, the Rev. Irving McElroy and Miss Mary H. McElroy. were born of his first marriage. Mrs.

McElroy was trying to decide what would 'be the best for her to do under the exasperating circumstances when a reporter called at her 50 Johnson street, yesterday afternoon. She said that it was true that she had consulted with her friends relative to the assertion that she was of unsound mind, and that she had about come to the conclusion to tell the public of the unfortunate life which she had led ever since she married Mr. McElroy. Mrs. McElroy spoke with considerable emphasis, but it was very evident that her speech was that of a sane woman.

"You see for yourself that I am apparently not insane," said Mrs. McElroy, "and it Is perhaps not necessary for me to tell you that I am almost sick as a result of this awful announcement in the will and in the newspapers. To think, after all that I have done for that man, that I should finally after his death be accused of being out my head. Well, i I am going to tell you all I might as well begin at the beginning. Mr.

McElroy's firet wife was my own cousin. After she died, in the 70s, I met Mr. McElroy occasionally, and then we were married in 1879. I knew that Mr. McElroy didn't get along very well with his first wife, and when I questioned him he said: 'Oh, that is Kate's insane We hadn't been married very long, however, before I discovered that my husband was not very strict about some things.

One day, while overhauling his wardrobe, I came across a letter in a woman's handwriting. It was full of love, told of an enjoyable trip that the writer bad had with Mr. McElroy and ended with the hope that she would see him soon. When I confronted Mr. McElroy with the letter he was angry, but subsequently we made up and things ran along again as usual.

Once, upon discovering letters of this kind in my husband's clothes, I went to my room and cried for some" time, when 'Miss McElroy came upstairs and said that she hoped that 1 wouldn't always be as unhappy as was her mother. I remember another time wheu.1 discovered one of the letters and as a result Mr. McElroy and and I had words. It was ten years ago, think, that he made his will, for in looking over his diary I found the entry, 'L. x' That was in February.

1890. Those signs, interpreted, mean that I was cross to bim. At that time I remember he made use of these words. 'I am going to put you in an Now, it i'3 just possible that that Is why he says in the will that I am of unsound mind. "Of late years there wasn't any change in Mr.

McElroy's method of living," continued Mrs. McElroy. "He not only frequently spent nights away from home, but occasionally remained away for days at a time. His business, as you know, was that of a civil engineer, and although he often made as high as $100 a day, he seldom brought any of the money home. Our home has always been a very plain one and my life with him has been most unfortunate.

'Why didn't I attend Mr. McElroy's fu neral?" continued Mrs. McElroy. "Well, that I is easy to explain. I had cared for Mr.

Mc Elroy all during his illness without a nurse, i and when he died I was not in the best of health. The evening of the funeral Miss Mc Elroy came to me and said: 'You had better arrange to stay with friends to night, as we want to lock the house and take the I replied that I expected to leave the house, but didn't, intend to go until after Mr. McElroy had at least been buried. My friends told me that if I left and went to the church I would in ail probability be locked out. So despite the fact that I was very anxious to be present at the funsral services I remained at the house.

Once more the children told me to get out of the house, and then my lawyer, Edward Hin man of 110 Remsen street, told them that they were standing on very dangerous ground when they ordered their father's widow out of the house. I have not had a dollar from Mr. McElroy's estate as yet, and I was recently informed by Miss McElroy that I had only been left a bed. If. as It would seem from the published account, I am to have a share in Mr.

McElroy's life insurance, I will be well satisfied." Samuel H. McElroy. a son of the late Mr. McElroy, lives at 740 Carroll street. Ho is also a civil engineer and during the past fe years has made a great deal of money engineer for the old City or Brooklyn.

When I he was seen by an Eagle re porter last night he said that he was very sorry that the trouble between his father and step mother had reached the newspapers. "It is our Intention to take good care of father's widow," said' Mr. McElroy. "It is not our purpose to cheat her out of anything BEsmco 1 Model Shoe For Winter. Hygienic articles are often neither handsome nor hut our "Hygienic Shoes" are both.

Their felt foundation, warm, flexible and moisture proof, is much less cumbersome than cork; and the shoes are in every way as neat and dressy as those having none of their health preserving qualities. For Boys and Girls of all ages, (8 2.35 to 3.75 according to slzo.l Besides shoes for all ordinary purposes school, parties, exercising, etc. we have specialties to meet exceptional cases, or to remedy defects, such as our Shoes to cure The Habit of Toeing In, very common when children begin to walk. i.oo to 2.70, according to size.) 60 62 Wesi 23d Sti New York. Etfnnet Sets, plates, (Slass Cboice HJesigne.

teatest iDatietB. atgest Stbclt; fifth avenue ant 30tb St. LOST AND 3TOTJND. LOST A GORDON SETTER DOG, ABOUT 2 years old. A reward of So will be paid for Its return to 399 Hancock st.

2S 2 LOST REWARD FOR RETURN OF PACKAGE containing QUILT, lost January 21 in the vicinity ot SedgA lck St. C. A. FITCH, and 10 Fulton st. LOST ON SATURDAY.

JANUARY 21. FROM express wagon, BUNDLE. containing qui.t, marked Hamilton. 211 Pacific st. A liberal re ward will be paid If returned to this address.

LOST LAST NIGHT. ON FULTON ST. NEAR Flatbush av. or on platform of Flatbush avsU tion. Kings County Railroad, a POOh ET BOOK.

containing about $100. Finder will receive J23 reward by returning same to Mrs. WARNER, care Cowperthwait 20 Flatbush av, Brooklyn. a PERSONAL, Mahoney's National Detective Agency, Licens act and bonded; late detective sergeant po lice headr.uarters; bunkers corporations lawyer ar. merchants work a specialty; invesugationa confidentially conducted.

Room 20. Building. 367 Fulton st. Brooklyn; te.ephone, S2 BrooK lyn. FVT FOLKS AM WIFE OF OLD DECEASEM doctor; reduced weight 47 pounds 1y harm.eas remedy: no gain; health good.

Call or stamp for particulars, Mrs. J. MOLLS WORTH. 116 Clymer st. Brook.yn, N.

x. DIVORCE, ABSOLUTE. Ninety days, one year, soon: Senate passed bill extending time 1 year: House concurs; become" law few months; confidential; tree consultation. O'DONNELL. 309 Broadway.

MINTBN WHO KNOWS MISS MARY ELLEN MINTEN, at one tim in the employ of vv yna ham House, Henry and Pineapple sts. BrooklynT If she will call at the Wyndham House she will find something very much to har interest. THE "WEATHER. INDICATIONS TILL P. M.

TO MORROW. Washington. D. C.January 28 For Eastern New York, snow, clearing and much colder Sunday night; light variable winds becoming northwest, increasing. The following Is the record of the thermometer as kept at the Brooklyn Dally l.agie unite.

A TNf. vesterdav. 3 P. .28 .28 .28 .28 .27 .28 4 A. 31 fi A.

M. 8 A. 10 A. Jf ....17 ....19 ....21 ....24 r. 7 P.

9 P. 11 P. li JUL n.r 9rf 1 .20 i a. The suu will rise to morrow at 7:12 A. M.

and sot at 5:16 P. M. HIGH WATER. Following Is the official announcement of the tlm and duration ot high water at New York and Sandy Hook tor to morrow, January 0: I a. Sf.

.11. P. M. .11 Dura'n of TimelHeight UTImei Height Bise.i m.I Feet. n.

M. Feet.JlH. ii.B.3. :57 4.7""inO:30 il 5:44 sandy Hugil 9:85 I 4.8 4:7 6:08 6:87 INDEX To Classified Advertisements in To day Eagle CLASRlFirATlOS. PAOW.

21 21 23 as 31 31 26 26 7 31 31 22 21 30 31 24 28 22 Amusements Auction Sales Board Business P.usiness Notices Clairvoyants Coostwis. Steamships Corporation Dancing Death Notices Dividends Election Employment For Exchange Furnished Rooms Help Wanted Horses and Carriages Hotels ot America. Instruction F.oBt and Found Miscellaneous Musical Ocean Steamships Personal Post Office Notice rtallroads Real Estate Real Estate at Auction P.eal Estate Loans: Religious Notices Situations Wanted Special Steamboats To Let and For Sale Wanted Winter Resorts 28 as 3J 21 ....4 7 10 23 24 32 28 26 21 25 21 33 ....21 24 .42 33 Will Arrive This Forenoon at the Eoot of Franklin Street, North River. Those Who Will Parade. A change has been made in the place of arrival of the Sixty ninth Regiment when it arrives in this city to morrow.

Colonel D. C. McCarthy of the One Hundred and Sixty ninth Regiment received a telegram yesterday afternoon from Nashville, saying the regiment was en route to New York and would arrive at the foot ot Franklin street to morrow at 10 o'clock without fail. Colonel Duffy requests, if practicable, that an escort be ready on arrival and says he will follow the line of jmarch laid down. The parade will be as follows: Veteran Corps SlxtyTninth Regiment and Irish Brigade will form on Harrison street, right resting on West street; Shields and Reno Posts, G.

A. on Jay street, right resting on West street; St. George's Cadets, on Duane street. Tight resting on West street; Irish Volunteers, on Reade street, right resting on West street; Ancient Order of Hibernians, on Chambers street, right resting on West street; County Cavan Association, on Warren street, right resting on West street; discharged mem bers of Sixty ninth Regiment and Veteran Zouaves, on Murray street, right resting on West street. Immediately after the arrival of the returned sol dlera the line of march as previously given out will be followed.

Cincinnati, January 28 The Sixty ninth New York Infantry, en route from Huntsville, to New York, passed through here today in four sections. The first section arrived over the Louisville and Nashville 12:30 P. and was followed by the other three sections at intervals ot from fifteen to twenty minutes. They were transferred here to the Big Four for transportation to Cleveland, and thence by Lake Shore and the New York Central. Following the Sixty ninth New York on the same road came one battalion of the Ninth Ohio from Summervllle, S.

en route to Springfield, O. OBITUARY. The announcement of the sad death of Mrs. Grace G. Underwood, who was suddenly stricken with heart disease Friday afternoon in the drug store at Amsterdam avenue and One Hundred and Third street, Manhattan, in the immediate vicinity of her residence, the Castle Hotel, will sadden many of her old friends and acquaintances of this borough.

Mrs. Underwood was. formerly Miss Grace Curtis, eldest daughter of Judge Curtis, of Staten Island, and granddaughter of the late Dr. Otto Rotton, a well known physician of Brooklyn. Mrs.

Underwood was married in Paris some eighteen months since to a rising young artist and lived abroad for some time, finally returning to New York. Mrs. Underwood was before her marriage a great favorite in the young set in which she moved and was one of Brooklyn's most beautiful girls. She leaves a little daughter, 6 weeks old, and a younger sister to mourn with the stricken husband her sudden and tragical decease. The funeral services will be held at her late residence at 2 o'clock this afternoon.

John F. Heffernan died at his residence, 221 Prospect avenue, on Wednesday evening from a complication of diseases. He had lived with his uncle, Patrick Heffernan, until recently, when he was married. He was connected with several benevolent, political and social organizations, being president of the Prospect Association for two successive terms. In business he was associated with his cousin, W.

J. Heffernan. His father has come from Ohio to attend his only son's funeral, which takes place this afternoon, interment being made in Holy Cross Cemetery. PELL PROM A TROLLEY CAR. Irving Burcher, 25 years old, a clerk living with his sister, Mrs.

Louis Suytlam, on Ave nue fell from trolley car No. yoO of the Flatbush avenue line las: nigh; and was probably fatally hurt. He sustained a depressed fracture of the skull and Is in a precarious condition in the Kings County Hospital. Burcher was alighting from the car at Flat bush avenue and Avenue when he fell co the ground and was unable to rise. He was unconscious and was in a comatose condition when admitted to the A PRIZE FIGHT STOPPED.

Acting Detective Robert Howe arrested last night Thomas Richards, 17 years old, of 11 Eldridge street, and Louis Landau, IS years, of 11 Chrystie street, both of Manhattan, charging them with prize fighting in violation of the law. The boys were arrested in Adolph Weissbien's Hotel, Ocean Parkway, near Caton avenue, while in the act of engaging in a contest. George Armstrong, 25 years, of 31 East Fifth street, Manhattan, was also taken into custody, charged with aiding and abetting the fight. S500 FOR A DIME. It is seldom that a person nowadays values a dime as much as $500, but anyone finding himself in possession of a dime of the issue of 1887 with the letters and a triangle and a series of numerals on it can receive a cheek for $500 by returning the dime to Denny Donovan, lawyers, at 120 Broadway, Manhattan.

A client of that firm values the coin to such an extent that he is willing to part with $500 to regain possession of it. He spent the dime, no: when hard up, but by mistake, and has advertised to recover it. TO SAIL TO MORROW. Among those to sail to morrow on the Pennsylvania are Mrs. John S.

Brown, Miss Ethel Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ehlert, the Misses Magunder, M. de Routkowsky, Attache of the Russian Embassy, Washington, D.

Colonel E. P. Vollum. V. S.

Miss Marie Wrage and Mr. and Mrs. Jacob West. A N'e Street Directory. Published In the Eagle Almanac for 1S99.

Price 25 cen1. Estimate That Increase in Past Two Years Is 50 Per Cent. Albany, N. January 28 Chief Game Protector and Forester Pond has just returned from a four days' trip through the Adirondack forests. He says that few violations are being committed, although one party was apprehended in Essex County who had been cutting timber.

The general report of those who have an opportunity to know is that deer are not yarding this winter, as the snow up to the present time is not of a depth sufficient to prevent them roaming the woods as they do in summer. Therefore, they cannot fail to winter unusually well. The lowest estimate as to the increase of deer in the past two years by the best informed persons is 50 per cent. MOVEMENTS OE OCEAN VESSELS. AUMVED SATIJKDAY, JANUARY 28.

Ss Ethiopia, from Glasgow. Bs Excelsior, from New Orleans. Ss ViEilancia. from Havana. Ss Saale.

from Bremen. tjs Kr. Wiltielm II. lrom Genoa, etc. Ss Seneca, from Nassau, etc Sa Viscanla, from Hull.

Ss Klise Marie, from Amsterdam. ys Comanche, from Jacksonville. JSS Tbijigvalla. from Copenhagen. ijs Britannic, from Liverpool.

SAILED. Ss Campania, for Liverpool. Ss Bulgaria, lor Hamburg. 8s Auretta. for Trieste.

Ss Colorado, for Hull. Ss Jtesaoa. lor London. Ss r.a Hormandie. lor Havre.

Ss Statendam, for Rotterdam. Ss Trinidad, for Bermuda. Ss Assyrian, for Glasgow. Ss Cit of Washington, for Havana. Ss l'litladelpuia, tor La Guayra.

etc. Ss Hllilur, for Curacao, etc. Ss New Yorlt, for Turks Island, etc. Ss Alamo, for Galveston. Ss Manhattan, tor London.

Ss Adirondack, for Kingston, etc. Ss Tallabasce. for Savannah. ARRIVED AT FOREIGN" PORTS. Ss Languank, for New York.

Suez. Haltazan. for New York. Suez. Ss Uermanic, from New York, Liverpool.

Si La Gaudeloupe. from New York. pd. Tarlfa, ss Ocean, irom New Yoi pu. Scilly.

Ss Alexandra, from New i'ork. Dartmouth. Ss Serbia. Irom York. Singapore.

Ss Cvprlan Prince, from New York. 1'ernambnco. Ss British prince. Irom New York. Santos.

Ss Furnessln. Irom New York. Glasgow. Ss Boston Uir y. from New York, pd.

Brow Head. Ss Comerio. for New York. Colombo. Ss Ilekla.

from New York, Copenhagen. Ss Pomeranian, from New York, Glasgow, Ss Vega, Irom New York. Faval. Ss Indravelli. from Nnw York, pd.

Ma ta. Ss Ivydene, for New York. Kto Janeiro. SAILED FROM FOREIGN PORTS. Georglc, for New York, Liverpool.

Ss Bargunuia. for New York. Naples. Furst Bismarck, for New York. Genoa.

Ss Hero. lor New York, Hamburg. Ks Christine, for New York. Aarhuns. Ss Excelsior, for New York, Hotterdam.

Ss Dunblane. Irom New York. St. Vincent. Ss'Furst Bismarck, lor New York, Nanies.

Ss St. Queniin. for Siw York, Liverpool. Ss Anchoria. or New York.

Movtll. ss La Champagne, for New York, Havre. Ss Louis, lor New York. Southampton. Ss Aller.

lor New York, nd. Horta. Ss Hansa.for New York, Algiers. Ss Kenmore. for New York.

Kobe. Ss Liverno. for New York, Santos. Ss Norge, for New York.Copsnhagon. Ss Kensington, for Now York.

Antwerp. Ss Lucanla, for Now York, Liverpool. 6s Gleaartney, for New York, pd. Cape Spartol. il i Hospital.

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