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HP THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. MONDAY. JANUARY 20. 1902.

MISCELLANEOUS. Refreshing Sleep. FIVE OF THE BROOKLYN MEN ON THE NEW SCHOOL BOARD. Albert PATRICK'S CASE CALLED 01 TROUBLE That Officer, Preserving Order on Union Street, Meets and Overcomes Opposition. AN EX'PRIZE FIGHTER ARRESTED Gets a Black Eye as Well Saloon Keep er Helps Policeman Against Odds.

Frank Harvey Field. borough, he is very anxious that every person should take advantage of the free vaccination that is offered at the health office. There is much smallpox all over the country Just now, and there is an alarming outbreak iu England. The only immunity is by perfect vaccination and it is very well understood that if the virus 'takes" it is indisputable ground for the belief that the person so susceptible would have been susceptible to exposure from smallpox. Administration Criticised for Cutting Down Force of Diagnosticians.

It is declared by some Flatbush people that the policy of retrenchment inaugurated by the new administration has brought about a condition of danger to the public saving the city BorMdoiiaps aia mrkini 1 .1. i I uie expense list smaller than under trie Tammany regime, the Health Department in Brooklyn has out down its force of diagnosticians from four to two. A result of this apparent shortsightedness, it is declared, is shown in the case of 9 year old Benjamin Schmeig of 29 Vernon avenue, Flatbush, who was found suffering from smallpox last Thursday by Dr. Vincent J. Gallagher of Lenox road.

Dr. Gallagher notified the Board of Health at once that he had a case of the dreaded disease under his care, but so overworked were the two diagnosticians that they didn't reach the Vernon avenue house, in which there are persons, until Saturday afternoon. Then they began the tardy work of diagnosing the case and still later in the day, for the first tims since the case was discovered, ordered the Grant street police to establish a quaran tine about the house. On Saturday night the work of fumigating the house and vac cinating the tenants began. Dr.

Gallagher ordered the child isolated as soon as he discovered what disease he was suffering from. A13 a result of the discovery of the case. Public School No. 90, the principal grammar school in Flatbush, is closed to day. Young Schmeig was removed earlv vesterdav Tnnrnintr to X'nrth Rrnther Island for treatment tn nrevPnt spread of the disease.

Dr. Gallagher says i I There was a lively time in the vicinity of Rear Admiral Barker, commandant of the Fifth avenue and Union street shortly after Navy Yard, this morning issued the now in 2 o'clock yesterday morning and before the terpretatioa to the "fifteen day vacation fracas was over an ex prize fighter carried a hill" which was received from Secretary richly colored black eye. several persons got Long Saturday evening. The order iilares an well clubbed, a pistol was drawn and an of i entirely new restriction on the matter of the fleer who stood his ground in the. presence ot vacations to bo given of the Navy superior numbers lost his shield, but re Yard, specifying that hcrcjrtc, fii'teen covered it.

A saloon keener did his level best i "lays' vacation granted by Cougre is will he that the case was a most peculiar one. The gang heeded hiai for a short time, with the boy complained of feeling unwell a week ago I exception cf j. J. McGarry who is known as SVKZl ves at Third East New York, where there have been cases and seventeenth street. McGarry.

it of smallpox. The services of a physician 'sn used offensive language to the officer, were not called for until last week Thurs i ad Jesi lhat the former was in day. Then, Dr. Gallagher says, there i UBly; shoved McGarry off the to nelp the guardian of the peace and brin order out of chaos. The way in whicl the trouble came about was as follows: A good sized crowd of men and boys were coming along Union street and were snouting and making a great deal of noise.

As they reached Fourth avenue Officer M. F. Hynes of tM Bergen Street Station. who came into slSut, requested them to be more quiet. The "'e mage aJpsi As th.e policeman was taking his prisoner to Fifth 1 "IX" uu'uu Jonn J' vers, one or the crowd, made an attack, on ihe nf lhe "ucc0" had hir, hands full 1 iuan.1 "lo uespiiv me oaas, ana nammered away for all he was worth at every head he saw.

law. In the height of the meloe McGarry tore the shield from the officer's coat, and ran with it down Union street to Fourth avenue. Then the fugitive slipped into the hallway of John Reilly's saloon. Relllv saw him and hai.mg the officer said: "He's In the rear hallway; go and get him." Hynes, as he I srni ierl fnr nnlnnj r.n held the shield in such a I formidable weapon in case the officer should try to capture him. Hynes was not to bo baffled by any such maneuver, however, and, asking Reilly.

who proved to be an excellent SeCOnd. to hnhl thn nT ot i went at once for his man nrt enrMm tw was a rough and tumble fight, up and down and all over the hallway before McGarry threw up the sponge. In the meantime' Reilly was having his own experiences in front of the building and was holding the fort to the best of his ability. While he was doing this. Travers made nn attaek on him and there was another rough nnd tumble fight between the saloonkeeper and his assailant.

As this was going on somebody in the crowd pulled out a pistol and threatened to shoot. Before this partv had a chance to shed blood a quietus was given him, and he disappeared. Just then, aiu aciee. uie commotion In tbo neighbor hood, ajf like "modern Ilawkshaws." Officers i I i i TEETH. 1 The to do a dirKi ct.lt thiii' to divide it into liar's ami put a specialist on That is the way I practice .1 ry.

v.rr. trf rrccnj K.iward Kvereit Cadv, D. D. S. GOLER CULLS ON HILL ON RETURN TRIP FROM WEST Says His Interest in Politics Is Academical, but Visit Is Re gnrded as Signi'icant.

HE ALSO SEES THE GOVERNOR. Ert Ccntro'lcr Believes P.nkhuvst Will Not the Leist of Troubles That Lew Will Encounter. i i cla to the 1' Ft 7 off Albany fr. t.V I t.dl 1 tun aid good Albany. J.

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of ae, niai ilerc years aito from Itrookiyn. h. rt' worked as a missionary th and waller: i the HriMiklyn Navy Vrd, vas atta ke 1 an iis.satilt e.t SnttTday evenlnj; by a r.e a Neal Stantii'k, Is ycaM old. anha narrn.Oy es den at tho bands cf ar.ry Saturiay and aipu.n last Ilie pnsirer was to day pi sit lvei ideutitii i by his vuilni. wboe'e con iitioii is pr.

ario A r. d.il Norfolk t'ounty firand Jury to day indicted Stanback and he will have a speedy trial. HU3D A REFEREE. Ex Jails William II. Hurl.

was this rr.orni:::; referee by Justice Maddox of the Court, special term. In tho di.s:;eh!! ion proceedings, brought by the George Halhert Company, the well known wall paper concern of Hrooklv n. The members of the corporation are A. J. Nutting, t.ioorcte Malbert and George Loekwood.

The dissolution asked because the com panv wishes to proteel its creditors. Assets slvco. and liabilities i laced at 1133.174.04. this ti'ter he mere mm MSB lth bis icnrd from dead, for fixed feel. no more.

How to Get It Without Taking Drugs. Can't you sleep Do you know the reason why? Do yon realize what will happen to you if you keep on without, sleep? There is nothing so dangerous unless It Is the danger that exists in taking drugs and narcotics to produce sleep. There is no need of (loin? this. Why not try MoxieV Von kuv veil as a Summer beverage. Lean: to understand its value as a Winter drink, and as something that will 1)0 YOU GOOD.

A. glass of Moxic taken before retiring at' night feeds the. nerves. The blood will be drawn from the head. The digestive functions will act normally.

Sweet sleep will result. It is worth any one's while to have Moxie in tlie bouse. It is a drink you can offer to any one Moxie does good and positively contains nothing harmful; 8NEW CASES OFSMflLLPOX, 2 SCHOOLS FOBCED TO CLOSE Health Officials Find the Cisease Raging in an East New York House. FURTHER OUTBREAK IS FEARED. Dr.

Raymond Anxious That Everyone Should Take Advantage of Free Vaccination Now Offered. The health officials discovered, a nest ot smallpox yesterday in a one story frame house on Ridgewood, near Railroad avenue, In the Cypress Hills district, and as a result two public schools were closed this morning and will remain ciosed until the authorities are convinced that all danger has passed. The schools are No. 05, on Richmond street, in the Twenty sixth Ward, and No. 90, at the corner ot Church avenue and Locust street, in Fiatbush.

There were eight cases in all reported the health office since Saturday afternoon, and all of the patients have been taken to the contagious diseases hospital on North Brother Island. The cases since Saturday, according to the records in the ncalth office on Clinton street, were as follows: Robert Kessling, aged 25 years, of 42 Hamburg avenue; Benjamin Schmeig, ageJ years, of 20 Vernon avenue, Flatbush; Angus'. Mchr, aged 2S years, of 72 Gerry str Nellie Mahoney, aged 25 years, of 315 Pacific street; Minnie Reynolds, aged 7 years, of Ridgewood avenue, near Railroad; Sadie Reynold aged 9 years, of Ridgewood avenue, near Railroad avenue; John McCormick, aged years, of 21 Bogart street, and Fannie aged 36 years, of lot' Patchen avegjS As is usual wMSra case of smallpox is reported, the of the department, or the in charge of the contagious diseases Ipureau makes some attempt, to lind all about the history, the period of iijcubaTEftm and the source of infection. The case of little Bennie Schmeig of Flat buBh was puzzling, for no one in the family seemed to have the slightest notion of the source of the infection as far as he was eon. cerned.

There was an unmistakable small pox eruption that had been suspected as smallpox by the pnyaiciau uo nau uu called in yesterday to see the child. 1 he I health officer questioned the people in the house and found, through, an accidental re mark made by onet of the family, that Bennie had within two weeks been on a viait to his aunt's house in East New York. Then somebody olse in the house remembered that the aunt, Mrs. Reynolds, had written to say that two of her children were connneu to men beds. with chickenpox.

That was a leader for the department uoctor. tie urove out iu Gram avenue, where the isenaleigs said Mrs. nevnolds lived, but there aa no trace of any Reynolds family there. Uut P.idgewood and Railroad avenues are not iar irom rant street and after nosing about in the neighborhood for over an hour the doctor found some person who sv.i.i iliat he thought there was illness 01 some Kind a trame snanty to which he led the health officer. It was wovnn'ds house, sure etiouKh.

and the doctor found every possible facility for the spread of smallpox throughout the entire vi cinity. There COUIU not possioiy nave ueeii a better breeding ground for the disease, for twelve persons were huddled in the house. The family consisted of Mrs. Reynolds, a Mnn for her husband died from lockjaw I about seven years ago; her nine children, her brother Jacob i'lum. who is a laoorer, auout.

60 years old, and a visitor, Charles Rooke, aged ID years. The house, which is luckily detached, contains four rooms on the ground lloor, one a sitting room, anotner a general bedroom, a and a storeroom. 111 ucu in the sleeping apartment were two little girls, Minnie, aged 7 years, who was quite ill from the disease, and Sadie, who is 9, and who was nearly well. Minnie protested violently against her removal to the Xorth Brother Island hospital, but Sadie went along to keep her company and the shock of the removal was thereby mitigated. Sadie will be well enough to be discharged in a day or two.

The presence of the disease was a menace not only to the entire neigaborhood, but to the pupils of Public School No. OS, on Richmond street, where there are 1,000 children in daily attendance ana wnere, it was touuu members of the Reynolds household 1 had been constantly in attendance during the progress of the illness in the house. For the cases had been concealed by the mother. She protested that she thought the trouble was only chickenpox and said that for that reason she had not called in a doctor. But the belief that she knew better is strengthened by the fact that not long ago she had the other members of the household vaccinated.

Tho children who had been going to school during the illness of Minnie and Sadie were Charles, aged 14 years; Ada, aged 12 years, and Thomas, aged 10 years. Of the other children Lizzie, aged 22, had been working the agateware factory of Lalanee Gros Jean at Woodhavon; Andrew, aged 20, had been taking odd jobs vherever he could find them; Christine, aged 18 years, had also been working in the agateware factory and George, aged 17 years, had been working for a groceryman on Fulton street, near Railroad avenue. The authorities In Queens were communicated with to protect the workers in the agateware factory and this morning it was found that the girls had not been there for months. The health officer telephoned at once for policemen to guard the house so that the people there would be kept prisoners until they were all vaccinated and the house had been properly fumigated. Then steps wero taken without delay to provide for the closing of the big school on Richmond street this morning.

Tho consequence was that when the children arrived at the building to day they found it closed. The same course was taken with the public school In Flatbush which Bennie Schmeig attended. There "i3 more fear in the case of the East New York school, for the members of the Reynolds' household had not stopped attending there, even If there was sickness iu the house. A corps of able vaccinators was sent out this morning Into the East New York district and particular attention is being puld 4.0 the classmates of Charlie, Ada and Thomas. While Dr.

Raymond, the sanitary officer for Brooklyn, Insists that ho does not fear an alarming outbreak of smallpox In the NAVY YARD EMPLOYES The Recent Measure, Interpreted by Secretary Long, Restricts Holidays A DAY AND A QUARTER A MONTH, Fifteen Days' Leave Only Becomes Due After a Tear's Continuous Service. given at the rate ot one day and quarter at the end of each month's work. A man will be required to earn his vacation at the rate mentioned, before he will be given leave of absence oa pay. Secretary Long says In the order: "Per diem employes who have served twelve consecutive months or more, at the date of application, may be granted leave with pay. not to exceed fifteen days, during the current calendar year, at the rate of one and one quarter days per month as earned, except in the ease 01' absence on account of sickness, in which event fifteen days will be given without pay at any time during the year." The order caused consternation in the yard to day.

Fully three thousand employes of Uncle Sam, in all classes and grades, will be affected by the decision. Well formed plans for vacations and for pleasure trips were frustrated, and throughout the yard to day men were busily in denouncing the restriction as severe and unjust. The bill nasprit hi fnnrrcn l. mt venr cnnri I fled ttat employes In the Navy Yard who had previously served twplve ennser 1 1 VP nau previously served twelve months should be granted fifteen of alisenep full Pmm pa," From 1 days leave the time the law t00K effect Iast JlJDe 11:1,11 morning dozens of workmen and clerks have been ab sent from the yard all of the time. In every Instance they have taken the full fifteen days aDd have then urnei to work for another year and another fifteen days.

Hereafter, however, no one can be absent until he has earned the time by actual service. They will be allowed to take the dnv and a garter at the close of each month or to let the time accumulate for several months and then to take the vacation at one time. But a verji stringent limitation is placed on the option to be given the men in the selection, as the vacations will ail fall due at the jsame time. It will be necessary for the de partments to regulate the system and to dictate when the men may leave rather than allow a free choice. Otherwise, the entire yard will be compelled to close down several days in the year while the employes enjoy the play days voted them by Congress.

iii only a few Instances will it. he nnaihi fnr men talte fifteen consecutive days. In to the terms of the order Itself employes will not be allowed to take the time then In view of the apparent complications and dlssentlons which will follow the new order of things, it is generally believed that the change is really an Indication of the disapproval of tho Naval Department of the whole fifteen day vacation system. It is known that many of the leading men in the department, at Washington are radically opposed to the scheme and are anxious to see it abolished. The chief objection to shipbuilding in government navy yards is based on the vacation system and an attempt to modify It if not to abolish it has been In progress for some time.

One of the principal reasons given for the new interpretation by the Secretary of the Navy is that many of the employes of the Navy could work in the yard for fourteen or fifteen months and under tho old working take a full month of the time In vacations. The head of one of the departments said this morning that. In the one respect, mentioned the suggestion might be a good thing. He said, also, that it appeared to be rather hard on the clerical force, many of whom hnve been In the department under civil service for several years. At the present time, several of the clerks are away on vacations.

A well known clerk in the' steam engineering department, who was married a short time ago, and who Is at present on his honeymoon, was notified this morning that he must postpone the remaining portion of his trip and return to the yard straightway. He will be required to work several months to make up for the time he has overdrawn. FIRE IN A CHURCH. Flames Burst Through Floor While Pas tor Was Delivering a Funeral Sermon. Mourners Escape Through Windows.

Hartford City, January 20 At the United Brethren Church, near Humboldt yesterday, while the Rev. J. M. Hobbs was preaching a funeral sermon, flames burBt through the floor beneath the casket and the church was almost Immediately filled with suffocating smoke. The panic stricken mourner: and friends of the deceased escaped through windows and the corpse was momentarily forgotten, but was finally rescued from the flames.

The male worshipers formed a bucket brigade, and the flames were extinguished before the church was totally destroyed. The funeral cortege then proceeded to the cemetery, where the preacher finished the sermon nt the grave. The fire was caused an overheated stove In the basement. William H' irkncss. AFTER OPrUM SMUGGLERS.

U. S. Revenue Cutter Linking Investigations on Pacific Coast. Snntn Cat. r.

a United revenue tut'er Dear I In hiirbor. having re me fr. ai under orders; from Wn.hir.i, ten allege 1 smuggling of Chir. the the country this Th" cutter has visited several the Santa ami. lit ere i.T r.

has hreti I rr.r.n 1 one if he ether dence that within the ii, Santa a the CLERGYMAN WAS LENIENT. Hcnt.lnK. 17 yoart street, was charreil U. Her ith ar.iau.'t t.y minister. In tn.jrr.lnu.

TN tst.n th.it i. the Rev. (i. Cliff, a the avenue renr: clergyman to! 1 Masitrat w.u? one ers who set while he i his nay kimer street, i re nier.t As 1 'line! to have ilie .1 i rate, afi rely allowed to 11. olor.

h. Ij .1 1 li STEAMSHIP MEN WILL NOT TALK. Do Not Absolutely Deny Rumored Combination, However Simple Freight Rate Agreement Suggested. Representatives of tip nevral 'lines which r.re to tie interi.tid in contemplated omt l'int Sen for the i feeling of which English oflii iain of the Ley land Line an I otki are said to hi here on the (V lti reticent on the subject. Vire Presidi A.

Wright of the AuterLcan morning r. jdii ii to ail quest jonn "I cannot answer any ti.m i e. ni that subject." Gustav ftch.vab of Nnrtn German l.lo "I cannot talk Others all replied 10 Ties ions in the snr. tenor, only varying the form of ex of their refusal ro if Ititervjeu I. "What do vol think of th" report?" asked of Superintendent Alexander Smith of the Maritime Exehnng "I don't think mm about It." he replied "I have learned not to pay at i ton to ni uspaper stories of conti iiii 1.1 I think alien the mane s.itc! down you will find 'hat men are over re to ci the American setita' vim of competing the suiije ot nt, and I rates and to try and reach an possible, by it rate.

can lie ro i.iilnes5 distributed or. a basts. "As for nil tiii. tallc aioitt ci.ernoij out iitus tint don't corn' n0 a proposed tru: 't. I d' n't ttivi any r.

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Manhattan. He ban s'eadlly grown tter for more than a week and bin cham for recovery are now corsidered ct. Tremendous Throng Surges Around Court Room at Opening cf Rice Murder Trial. CASE WILL OCCUPY FOUR WEEKS I Many Excuses Offered by Talesmen. Goff Fines Thirty Who Failed to Respond.

After months of delay caused by difficulty In securing necessary evidence, changes in i administration In the District Attorney office and other minor hindrances, the c.i:;e of Albert T. Patrick, charged with the mur der of the late millionaire William Mar. Hire, who died September 23. ltiOO, was ral! trial to day. hefcre Recorder Goff rart of the Court of General Sessions, Manhattan.

Rice was a millionaire rerluse. living nt i tho Berkshire apartmmt house. 500 Madison I avc, Manhattan, with his valet, C. F. Jones.

He was a widower and held little or no com inculcation with his relatives', most of whom were in Houston, Texas. Patrirk. a lawyer at 277 Broadway, living at 316 West Flfty eighth street, was his legal advisor and most intimate friend, according to the prosecu tion, out Patrick asserts he never met Rice. After Rlre's death a will giving the moat of his property to Patrick was offered nnd this was asserted to be a forgery, supplying the motive for Rice's murder. Charles F.

Jones, Rice's valet, has confessed that Patrick had killed Rice with chloroform, with his assistance. When the case was called to dav the court room was crowded. Every seat was taken, all the standfng room was occupied and .1 mob of men and women fought In the rnrri dors for ehonun tn vu 6 Uj uie court omcers d0rS James Osborne and Francis P. Garvan of the District Attorney's staff, appeared for tne prosecution, and Fred B. House and Robert M.

Moore for the defense. Captain J. A. Baker, who represented the Rice property in Texas, sat in the body of tbo court with some of the relatives who are Interested in the contest of the will of Court penilDB Surrogate's lhir'5' nt "cla Panel of no names drawn did not answer and ReeorJer Golf announced that each absentee wa 'XZ toe case was ealleil Pe i lenKin ot me rennlred for trial and Mr. Osborne replied he prosecution would need three' weeks Mr.

Moore said that the defense would 1 P.v about a week. Among the special panel called were the names of William Proudman. jr. and Bth SerVPI 011 th" J'rv which sa, at the last trial of Dr. Kennedyaccused ot the murder of Dolly Reynolds.

ii 01 inc. 1,1 who answered to pressert toward the Recorder In response to the invitation to those who nad legal excuses to offer against serving on the Jury. The clerk announced that those who had only "social or business oX cuses" were forbidden to address the court "If any Juror takes up the time of the court." said the Recorder with I "with social or business excuses. I will fine mm lor contempt. The announcement did not materially decrease the crowd pressing toward the bench.

One of the panel explained that he was Interested in the Rice estate and the Recorder excused him with the consent of the District Attorney. Mr. Proudman and Prudden were also excused. F. D.

Turner, a lawyer of f'hlcaso. retained by Patrick's friends In the West, took a seat at the counsel table between Mr. House and Mr. Moore. Counsel on both sides expresse, themselves as supremely confident.

They were talking to the reporters while the Recorder was talking to the talesmen. "Without any doubt Patrick will be acquitted." said Mr. House. There is nothing against him." "Of course he'll be convicted." said Mr. wsoorne.

tie guuty ami me people navo the evidence to nrove It." When Patrick appeared at the bar he was smiling and appeared perfectly at. his ease, as he took the chair and shook hands with Mr. Turner. He was smartly dressed. After an hour and ten minutes spent In examining talesmen.

James Machell, the eighth man examined, was accepted as the first Juror and took the foreman's seat In the box. Machell lives at 313 West One Hun dred and Fourth street, Manhattan, and Is a diamond dealer at 53 Park place. WAITED TOO LONG. Justice Maddox of the Supreme Court has denied the motion of George B. Waters for a peremptory writ against former Controller Color, commanding him to reinstate him as a bookkeeper In the Controller's office.

Waters alleged that on May 1. 18K, Mr. Coler reduced him from the Dositlon of book 1 keeper, at $2,400 a year, to that of assistant bookkeeper at 1,500 a year. He df inunded 10 oe restorer! 10 ins lormer position, at his former salary, and that the difference between the two salaries be paid to him from May 1. to date.

The court thinks that he has waited too long before applying for the COTJNTT COURT SENTENCES. Judge Asplnall this morning sentenced ten men and one woman to various terms In the penitentiary and Sing Sing. The crimes com mitted were larceny, burglary, assault and bigamy, and sentences ranged from one year I to five years. John Meyer was sent to the penitentiary for one year for bbramv and William Conrad to Sing Sing for five yeara 1 for burglary. Ftertha Taylor, colored, went to the penitentiary for months and 20 days for an attempted burglary in the third de gree.

Sentence was suspended In the of Willlnin Deitsch and James Cauldwcil, convicted of minor offenses, nnd they were permitted to go with a warning to keep out. or bad company. Roth are young nu and they promised Judge Asplnall that hereafter they would behave themselves. REFEREES APPOINTED. tfnna.

J. Ijira Stella vs. Udward r.n.l ethr. Rchirt H. McCiraUt.

I i I I ja 1 I I 1 I 1 i I I i i I v. i I i i i 1 I I 1 Ivi .1.. VII vs. at James Gleason and Patrick Shea, formerly I tewer instances will it be desirable, as not Coney Island precinct detectives, who were I many of them will care for so long a vacation on duty on adjoining posts, appeared on thej(lurinS the very last of the year. The ques scene.

McGarry and Travers were arrested, tion has arisen as to whether the order does and. as they were being taken to the station really reduce the number of days' vaca house. three officers kept the crowd at bay. l'a by one and a quarter. The last day and This morning McGarry and Travers were 1 a quarter will not fall due until the close of taken before Magistrate Dr voy in the Myrtle 'he last day of the year.

That will bring the avenue court. The defendants looked as of 1 time into the succeeding vear. and was no rash on the face or under the hair, as is generally the case, but that instead the rash appeared on the abdomen and the in side ot the thighs. The physician was sure 11., 11 to alarm the neighborhood, he said that be thought it was only a case of chickonpox, but he ordered the child isolation. Then, to isolation.

Then, to make sure, he called in Dr. Ferris, who agreed with him in his diagnosis. "It is much easier to say at first that it iu chickenpox and then tell the people afterward, when you are certain, that it is smallpox, than it is to declare the disease smallpox at once, frighten the neighborhood and then find that it is only chickenpox," declared Dr. Gallagher this morning. Dr.

Henry C. MacLean of Sixth avenue and St. Johns place, who is a member of tne Board or Hcakh and a mcmbor of tlv local school board of the Board of Educa tion, having in charge the schools of Flat bush, telegraphed Principal W. L. Sprague, who is in charge of the throe grammar schools in the Twenty ninth Ward, to close the Church Avenue School this morning and keep it closed until further orders.

To day on all the gates and entrances are notices which read "School closed t.o day. Come to morrow. V. L. S.

Despite tins notice Principal Sprague admits that ho don't know wnen be wm open tne scnooi again. I'm now in the hands of the Board of Health. I don't know what they'll do, i sure, but I suppose they'll come here and fumigate the school room. Perhaps they may burn the desk used by Bennie, as every one" knew him. He had his books home with him and we shall not allow those books to come back into the school building.

Prob ably the health authorities will order them burned. Bennie has three sisters who at tend school here, but they haven't been here for a week and Bennie hasn't been in school since a week ago Thursday. Their books will all have to be burned too, I suppose. I don't know whether the teachers will have to be vaccinated or not, but I suppose they v. ill.

and all the scholars, too. "A woman came to me this morning with her little boy and very excitedly asked if the boy would have to be vaccinated. I told her that I couldn't say. She said that she wanted her family physician to vaccinate him if necessary, and finally wound up the interview by declaring that she was going to take the bey to the Cocior right away. The boy acted frightened to death, as if the vaccination was some horrible punishment for some of his wrongdoing.

"This closing of the school comes in a particularly bad time for us, as we have the graduating examination. of the highest class, commencing on Wedi'Wday. If this school isn't open then I shall take those scholars down to school S3 on Newklrk avenue. Of course that will mean that two classes in that school will have to give up their rooms, but these examinations have just, got to be held." Father John T. Woods of Holy Cross R.

C. Church, was a very angry man this morning. He discovered that Lizzie Sheerln, 12 years old, who lives on the first floor of the flat house in which the Schmeigs reside, was In his parochial school to day as If nothing had happened. She said that she hod been vaccinated, but the rector sent her home post haste. He blamed Dr.

Gallagher for not telling him at once about the case of smallpox and then paid his respects to the Health Department for' not notifying him. The attend ance of the Sheerin girl at school last week and this morning may cause the closing of the parochial scnooi during the week, WILL RETAIN INDIVIDUALITY. But Each Company in Atlantic Shipping Combine Will Share Profits Pro Kata. Liverpool. January 20 It is said to day that each of the companies joining the suggested Atlantic shipping combine will retain its name and individuality, while the profits will be divided pro rata on the earnings shown by each company's books.

It is also reported that the German lines may be included in the combine, so as to obtain complete control of the rates. PUT GLASS IN HIS POOD. Edward Ganzert, 32 years old, of 253 Har man street, was arrested last night by Officer Kelly of tho Charities Department on a charge of abandoning his wife, Mary, and four children. Ganzert says that his wife tried to kill him by putting broken glass in his food. He says that his wife oncj tried to take acid with the view of ending her life She ia Jealous, so Ganzert declared, and unbalanced mentally.

Magistrate Inger soil in Grant, street court this morning adjourned the case. they were pretty well used up and, after ii uie uevoy nau aaoresseu a lew words of caution to them he suspended sentence. NEW B. R. T.

POWER HOUSE. Structure in Process 1 Being jBuiit on Former Bed of Gowanus Canal. of The foundation is completed for the great powc house of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, which is to be erected at Third avenue and Second street, in this borough, at a cost of something over $3,000,000. At tho present time work Is being pushed to start the construction of the structural steel work, contracts for the necessary steel girders having been let some months since. Officials of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company believe that by the first of next August the power house will be practically completed.

By that date, too. It is expected that the first electrical generator will have been installed. The generator will be put Into commission just as soon as it Is installed in power house. It will have a minimum capacity of 4,000 and a maximum capacity of fi.000 electrical horse power. 'ine site of the great Brooklyn Rapid Transit power house was formerly the bed of Gowanus canal.

It required a great deal of work to clear the site preparatory to putting down the heavy stone foundations. This work is now completed. It has required quite a long time to finish it. From now on work will, It is said, be carried on much more expeditiously. The Third avenue and Second street power plant will bo the great central electrical station of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.

Electrical power will bo generated there and thence transported to the various sub stations that arc to be established and from whence the electric fluid will be disseminated over the vast area covered by the myriad tracks of the various line3 of surface and elevated roads owned or controlled by the Rapid Transit system. C. E. Roehl is the engineer of electrical equipment cf the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. The power, house Is being built under his Immediate supervision.

When fully completed and equipped with gigantic generators and other power machinery It will be one of the largest as well as finest power plants owned by any street railway company in the country. FIKE OH PvEMSEBT STREET. At 3:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon a lace curtain caught fire in the house of Mrs. Edward Ferry at 12 Remsen street, and occasioned a blaze which brought tho engines. The fire was extinguished before the damage exceeded 5100.

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