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THE BROOKLYN DAILY, FEBRUARY 14, 1902. A RENEGADE KILLED. A BREJEEN LINER HERE, HAD, MET TOO MANY' BEGGARS GRAFF'S Mi TOOK REBATES COFFEY MEN ARE ANXIOUS ABOUT THE NEAR FUTURE. And'the Seventh Gave Gerlinghurst Two Cents toi the Eighth. Tflomas 32 years old, of 128 High street, was held by Magistrate Kramer in the Manhattan avenue court to day on a charge of assault made by Herman Gerling hurstv chief clerk of the Fourth District.

Municipal Court. While Gerlinghurst was walking, oa Broadway last night he was approached by the prisoner, who, as alleged, demanded money. Gerliughurst replied that he had already met at least seven beggars and Blackburn, as alleged, uttered an oath and threw 2 cents at Gerlinghurst, advising him. to. give money to eighth man he met'.

The prisoner became abusive and, as alleged, struck the man, who promptly had him arrested. F. J. SWEENEY DISCHARGED. Frank Sweeney, of 187 Clifton place, who was charged with attempting to extort money from Mrs.

Max Josephs by means of a letter offering to disclose the whereabouts of her husband, who has been missing for some weeks past, was discharged to day by Magistrate Ingersoll in the Myrtle avenue court. No one appeared against him and his father and a business man who had known him for fifteen years spoke well of him. B. R.T.T0 BUILD A BRIDGE. It Will Replace the One Over Coney Island Creek on the West End Line.

The bridge of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company on the West End line across Cone3' Island Creek has been In use a number of years and is now unfit for further service. The. company has entered into a contract for the destruction of the present bridge and for the erection in place thereof of a new, modern structure, which when completed will permit the increase of car service to Coney Island via the West End line. At the present time a line of cars is operating via the West End line from Coney to Thirty ninth Street Ferry. Commencing Monday, February 17, the cars of this line will be cut off from Coney Island by.

reason of. tearing down the bridge and will run between Ulmer Park and the ferry. People desiring to go to and from Thirty ninth Street Ferry and to Coney Island can be accommodated by the Sea Beach cars of the Third avenue line. WOMEN SCORE WOODBURY. Merits and Shortcomings of New Administration Discussed by Health.

Protective Association. A meeting of the Woman's Health Protective Association was held this morning at "its rooms, 214 Schermerhorn street, Mrs. Jame3 Scrimgeour presiding. The topic for consideration was "Six Weeks Under the New Administration." Much of the morning was occupied with discussing the excise and Sunday opening law. Mrr.

Andrew J. Perry stated that she was greatly disappointed in the present administration for its non enforcement of the law. "The officials are disposed to temporize," said Mrs. Perry, "and while itrmay loot be possible to enforce the law strictly let them at least enforce it as far as they can." "It can be enforced," declared Mrs. Scrimgeour.

"There is a reason for Its not being done. We will not say what that reason is, but the law can be enforced." She advised each' ward taking up a vote and settling the question for itself. After some discussion a mctiori'was made by Mra. Andrew J. Perry, advocating that the law as it stands should be enforced.

A rising vote was called for, and the motion was unanimously Mrs. Scrimgeour reminded the association that the reform administration was up for upon which Mrs. C. C. Dike made a little address, in wnicn sue neia tnai iuo time was altogether too short to change conditions'; that there were still nearly two years before the city In which to prove the administration, and, for her part, while it was very easy to criticise, she found more pleasure in dwelling upon the few improvements, whlcb seemed to offer encouragement.

Among these she mentioned the work of the Fine Arts Federation and the School Board. The subject of street cleaning was next token up and Major Woodbury was scored for neglect of duty. Mrs. Scrimgeour declared that it was all very pretty to have window boxes and flower gardens, "but. added pathetically, "how about the ash barrels.

Who can enjoy the flowers as long as those dreadful ash barrels are before him?" One woman mentioned that Commissioner Woodbury claimed that he had been deluged with, complaints which were quite groundless. Whereupon Mrs. Scrimgeour replied: "But we have serious charges. Vfn waited six weeks and conditions are not one whit improved." She said that she, in company with several other women, had called upon Commissioner Woodbury, but that they had found him so much better informed than themselves that they felt it would be presumptuous to speak. However, they ventured to delicately hint that conditions might be improved and were told: "Ladies, Just and 'you will.

see Brooklyn a spotless Mrs, Scrimgeour urged that having waited so long without seeing any improvement in the streets, every member of the association should write a letter to Commissioner Woodbury, voicing her sentiments. Other tolfon iln wpp ttlp wntpp nnestlnn the police platoon system, and Commissioner Partridge and Commissioner Redfield were both commended for the work they have done. The meeting was largely attended and much interest was manifested. SUES FOR ABSOLUTE DIVORCE. An order for service by publication has been granted by Justice Dickey in the Supreme Court to Horatio G.

Wilbert of Brooklyn, who has begun an action in the Supreme Court for an absolute divorce from Eliza Wilbert. who lives at Forked River, Ocean County, N. J. GOING THROUGH IY CROWD HOSPITAL. a.

a. rressni nuuuuiiiiuudiiuns iviay Soon Be Inadequate to Take Care of the Brooklvn Cases. OUTBREAK IN SUMMIT STREET. It Puzzles the Health Authorities Vaccination of Police Going On Merrily. There has been a perceptible increase within the last two or three days in the number of cases of smallpox reported at the Health Office and there seems to be every indication that the accommodations of the contagious diseases hospital on Kingston avenue will be i taxed heavily If there Is no decrease.

The disease, as far as Brooklyn is concerned, is not In a malignant form, for out of the fifty seven eases reported up to yesterday there have been but three deaths. The health officers are very much puzzled Just now over an outbreak In the house at 146 Summit street. There are three families In the house and the disease has spread apparently through the entire building. The cases in the Summit street building seemed to break out almost simultaneously, indicative of the fact that the source of Infection was the same and that the patients had been exposed to the same influences at about the same time. But the closest questioning of the people in the house failed to give the slightest indication of the source.

All declared that, to their knowledge, they had not in any way come into contact with any person who had the malady. Two of the Inmates of the house who have not as yet developed the disease, but who are plainly ill with its premonitory symptoms, were taken to the Kingston avenue hospital for observation yesterday. Their names are not given by the health officers. Another case which came Indirectly from the house went to the hospital yesterday from IS Moffatt street. This was Lizzie Reilly.

aged 16 years, who had been a servant In the family of Mrs. Daniel Ferry at 116 Summit street. She was infected while at work and she is one of the victims of the mysterious inoculation that the health inspectors cannot understand. There were five cases In addition to that of Lizzie Reilly reported at the health office this mcrnlng. The patients were all taken to the Kingston avenue hospital.

They were: Daniel Connor, aged 5 months, who went with his mother, who is not at all ill, from 67 Richardson street; Annie Meyer, aged 3 years, from 1,247 Fifth avenue; Joseph Jen son, aged years, from 600 Seventh avenue; Frank H. Hetzel, aged 29 years, from '567 Evergreen avenue; Charles Moore, aged 3 years, of 1.285 Park place. The vaccination of the policemen of the city, for which, as announced, the police surgeons have been making arrangements, is progressing merrily. If an Inconsiderate citizen darc3 to touch the arm of a policeman within the next week or two there may be a clubbing. Every man on the force within a month will have been vaccinated.

The work is done by precinct. Last night the men of the Liberty avenue station and the Adams street station were inoculated by the inspectors of the Health Department. There was a fine round up In the Adams street station when the force of over ninety men bared their arms and submitted to the needles used by the doctors in making the scarifications. There were some who objected, but the only excuse that was taken was a certificate from some practitioner showing that the person had been vaccinated within a few weeks. Even the captain of the precinct took the virus.

He was the first to step up for vaccination and thus gave a timely example to his men. This afternoon the Health Board doctors were vaccinating the detective sergeants in headquarters on Smith street. The men were all summoned by an order from the captain's office and none demurred. It was plain that they recognized the fact that there was a necessity for the general inoculation, for detectives', like any other policeman, may be called at any time to enter a house where there is smallpox. They are always about and are in contact more with the general public, possibly, than any other class of men.

SAYS LAWRIE MARKS IS ALIVE. In Springfield, Asserts Police Official, Who Professes to Know Hiding Place. Springfield. February 14 A police official who is In a position to know of what he is speaking, made the statement yesterday that Lawrie MarkB, bookmaker, gambler and sport, who was supposed to have committed 3ulcide in the English Channel on November 27, is here, or' was here In the past few days. He is even Informed of the place where he Is supposed to be hiding or where he was seen to enter Monday evening.

City Marshal Stebblns said yesterday that under the circumstances the police would have no right to molest. Marks if he should be seen on the street. HOTEL KEEPER PKOSECTJTED. Held Itiahle for Deaths of Eleven Guests in Tire. St.

Louis, February 14 A summons has been issued against B. W. Gilham. proprietor of the Empire Hotel, in which eleven persons lost their lives last Sunday, commanding him to appear in the First District police court Thursday, February 20. and show cause why he should not be punished for violating sections of the city ordinances which require lire escapes in hotels three or more stories high.

THE EXPERIENC mwm mi I hi Niii I MAORPNEUMQNIfl. Qacfc for Savings and WereNjarly Overcome. MANY LIVES WERE' IN DANGER. Blazes on Manhattan, and; to Harry ''cheskey and his wife Dora, who with their infant child were rescued at a stubborn blaze which broke out last night In the four story doublis brick building at 87 Manhattan are lyiag la a critical condition 'at St. Catharine's Hospital suffering from pneumonia: which they contracted as a result; of.

the fire. Both th6 man and woman inhaled a deal of smoko, the infant, which. was held By the mother 'and wrapped snugly In a blanket, managed. to escape the fumes. "All the other tenants who were rescued by the firemen feel none the worse for.

their experience. Ten families, among which are many small children, occupy the house, and, when shortly after seven o'clock last night an alarm of Are was sounded through the building, all the tenants were thrown' into a The Are. was. discovered, a woodshed "in the cella.r. and.

through the aid of the air shaft it ate its way up to the first floor and cut' off the escape of who occupied the upper part of the house. Heroic work on the. part "of the firemen alouo saved the imperiled families from'death by flames and smoke. Captain Cloone and Firemen lluridy and Kellogg; with members of the Salvage Corps from. rStreet, were chiefly instrumental in saving the occupants.

Many of the imprisoned persons succeeded in making their way up the scuttle to the roof, where they quickly sought places' of safety over the adjoining houses. Chesky and his wife might have escaped with the rest of the tenants had not a quantity of money which the man had placed in one of his rooms appealed too. strongly, to him. He had made his. way out the hall: way when the 'first cries of tire aroused him.

but as soon as "tie mlssc'd the money which represented his savings, ae hastened back to his apartments, and his wife. 'with her baby in her arms, followed. him. Both were found in a semi conscious condition by toe firemen, and were removed, to a nearby, store, where they' Wfe revivedrby Surgeon thty were taken to. Catherine's suffering, shock, and.

during the night; cases, of. pneumonia developed. At lhi hospital, not. much, hope is held On the third floor the firemen discovered Henry Felter struggling through smoke to get his aged mother to 'a place of safety. Both were on the verge of collapse the rescuers reached them, and 'only the' timely arrival of assistance saved the" George Jacobs, with his wife arid" young were5 hemmed in'b'y 'the'bliridTng'smoke, and almost given up hope frheri! the' firemen: raised a' la'a'deVto the" window" '6f their' apart metits and succeeded in" ge'ttihg' them down.

Henry Davis, with" his wife and iwo small children and a boarder, had also succumbed to' the smoke, but they were revived as soon as they were taken out into the cold "street. The fire did riot do very much damage and about $500 will coyer the loss sustained by the owner of the building. Smoke add 'water' had' a damaging effect on' the' eft ects 'of all the 'teharits; arid "many ''or "them" insured. 'Two Other Fires in the Eastern Dis Considerable exci'temei)it wag caused a fire wtyck broke oii mm miisa "fii the cellar of the four story brick dwelling at .114 Nostrand" shortly, before 10 clock last night. The fire was discovered by the occupants of the two stores on the ground floor when smoke filled their, apartments, of the.

stores was. occupied by Herman Palillo, a dealer in shoes, and other by Abraham; Cohen, a glazier. Following the appearance of flamed burst through the floor, and the occupants were compelled' to mak.e a'hurried'exit, leaving behind all their valuables. The odor of smoke penetrating to the floors above, together with the shouts of warning, caused a great commotion, as it was. thought that escape, from the was cut off bthe fire below.

A scramble ensued for" 'thk: lire escapes, but owing to the prompt.arrival..o the police and firemen the frightened, tenants were persuaded to pass out of the building through the main entrance. The fire was kept confined to the. cellar and ground floors, but not without difficulty, and was extinguished when both stores were gutted. Palillo placed his loss at $150 and Cohen at $200. The building is owned hy "William "Krause' of Wythe' avenue and South Second street.

No one inth'e building was able to advance any: reason for the fire breaking out in the cellar, and owing to its mysterious origin Fire' Marshal Brymer will conduct an investigation: A lighted gas jet. in the apartments of Frederick Legner, 'living on the second floor of the" house at 570 Bedford 'avenue; crane In contact with' curtain at daybreak this morning and blaze which caused an uproar among the other tenants. The fire had ignited the woodwork about the window before it was discovered by the occupants and the alarm given caused a great, scurrying among the other tenants, many of whom were awakened from sleep. scantily clad, rushed. from the building, and suffered intensely from the cold until the fire bad been extinguished by the firemen, who reached the scene shortly after the alarm was turned In.

Damage to the of $500 was done in the apart? ments of Mr Legner before the fire was extinguished. FARMER DOWNS KILLED By Being Thrown From His Wagon at Baiting Hollow To day. (Special to Eagle. Baiting Hollow, L. February J.4 Albert T.

Downs of Hollow, formerly ofi JamesDort and Northville. was killed here this morning while driving to the. Sound Beach a load of cord, wood on his farm wagon. In going down a hill the wagon struck a gulley and the team started and became throwing Mr. Downs with great force on the ground.

He 3truck on his head, rupturing a. blood vessel, from the effects of which he died almost Immediately. He was 60 years of age and leaves a widow, four sons arid two Mr. Downs was a' well krtdwn "farrifeV in this section. One of his 'sons is "the Charles Downs 'of North Dakota': ROOSELT AND DETECTIVE.

(Washington Correspondence, Omaha One doy recently President. Roosevelt started out for a walk, with Theodore, as a companion. They strolled off toward Cabin John bridge, which is eight miles from Wash ington. One of the local detectives, whose" duty it is to guard the President while he is out of doors, started after Mr: 'Roosevelt' and his son. The PresideSt walked all "the way to Cabin John Bridge and his" son strode along beside him, enjoying the outing as much as his father.

The detective was fagged oof when he got to the bridge and sat down to rest. While he Avas.restjng too President disappeared, and a panic stricken sleuth came back on an electric car, wondering what had become of his charge, hour and a halt, later the, President came swinging, up the 'White House" walk. The detective stood on the White House portico. "Missed y.ou?" chuckled the President, "r'b'ame; hack through the WTh1rt night the' President participated' in a' White House' dance and was as lively as any of the youngsters present. Number cf Filipinos Meet Like Fate in Samar.

February 14 Ti: uniier the of routi. Walkvr. ill an lac ilro'l recently, irv ii ride i.o.i nu'n' rnu killed number of killed the nffirer in ronrainrid. i v.n lor'ous renegade named Winfrey, a f. ira Fury third Regiment.

wl.Mn American troop hnd for months i 'vipture. A naind Iir.K. who i Winfrey. In mill cjp.ra'. Ici; v.i;:i the Kt i r.

BIDS ON HORSE FEED. Proposals to Supply the Police Department Opened To day. Bids tor supplying hornv feed for In Police Department during the coming' year wert opened this morning In Commissioner office. The bldn are made rep arutely for Manhattan And th Hrnn. for Brooklyn nnd Queens, and for Richmond Borough.

The bidder for delivery In Man hnttan and Bronx were: George M. Kalahari. Franklin avenue; John Moonan. Went street: T. 2.

Hotmail. 6X Wet Thirty fourth street: Horace 640 Went Thirty fourth street. For delivery In Brooklyn and Queens: F. Donovan Sons. Brooklyn.

For delivery In Richmond: Horace Inger snl. John Moonan. James F. Mc.Manus. T.

P. Hufman and F. Unnovan At ronrt. GUDEN'S FINDING SET ASIDE. Justice Dickey Says He Will Send Caae Where Decent Precedent Is Observed.

Sheriff Gudcn's methods of conducting a hearing by a sheriff's Jury has got him into more trouble. Justice bicker, after characterizing the jury trial farcioal. set aside the finding nnd said he would send the case to a i court where regular and decent procedure could be observed. The hearing before Justice Dickey came UP yesterday upon an application of Lawyer Rudolph Marks to have an. inquliltlon filed by Sheriff Guden vacated on the ground that the proceedings were unlawfully conducted.

Affidavits were prexented Justice Dlekey'to show that Sheriff Guden ana defendant 1 I yer talked with the Jury and got them to re duce a verdict from $425 to $50. Sheriff Guden and Lawyer Levi W. Nay Ior to day gave out the' following statement concerning the case: I The plaintiff sued to recover damages for personal Injuries. The Maryland Casually Company, In which the defendant was In sured. settled with the plaintiff for tiOO.

without the knowledge' of bis attorney, Ku i dolph Marks, whose agreement with the plaintiff was that be was to receive one 1 half of any verdict In his favor which should be rendered. Mr. Marks got an order from the Supreme Court directlnc the enne to go to a sheriff's Jury, who were to asieia th damages. In order that. Mr.

Marks might set bin half of the damages. The Sheriff's Jury was summoned as, usual. Mr. Marks appeared for. the plaintiff and Mr.

Lawson for the defendant. The Jury ws found satisfactory. Sheriff Guden was at the Jail and a deputy sheriff presided. The Sheriff came In and took the place of the deputy before all the testimony wfta in. Counsel wrangled and each Bhowed much" bitterness toward the otben There was So much noise that the clerks In the office, gith 1 ered around the closed door and listened.

Mr. I Marks, in summing up. told the Jury that the J00 paid by the Casualty Company must I be deducted from any verdict which they might find and out of that verdict he was dn titled to half for his services to the plain tiff. The Jury brought in a verdict for t25. Counsel went Into another room and.

drew up the Inquisition, In which the verdict Is placed at J25. When paper wan. (resented to the Jury to slgrii, some of them objected on the ground that they understood that from any verdict they found $400 was to be deducted, their Intention being that Lawyer Marks should receive $25 only for his services. It was then explained to tbern that If the $400 was deducted the verdict fbr the plaintiff would be only $25. of which Lawyer Marks would receive only one half, $12.50.

The Jury then reconsidered their verdict and rendered a verdict fAY the plaintiff for $30, so that Marks might receive $25. ELECTROLYSIS AT NAVY YARD. Investigation to Determine Possible Damage to the Columbia Sapid Transit Expert Skeptical. An Investigation Is being made to day and will be continued for several days to determine the extent to which electrolysis Is going on, so as to ascertain the exact amount of damage which may be done the United States receiving ship Columbia by the electric current which Is constantly passing" through her. If it Is found that the vessel is In danger of being permanently damaged she will probably be moved from her present position the yard.

It was said at the Navy Yard this morning that some action will probably be taken In the near future to compel the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company to properly conduct the electric current back to the power I house. As the power of the current Is yearly ln I creased, the danger from electrolysis at the N'avy Yard Is proportionately Increased. The present condition cannot continue. It was said, as the government will eventually be compelled to bring an action against the I railroad company to force JL to. stop the de teriorating process at the yard.

C. E. Roehl. electrical engineer of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. Is skeptical of the staten made at the Brooklyn N'avy Yard to the effect that electrolysis is damaging the cruiser Columbia.

"Such a thing Is Impossible," said Mr. Roehl to day. "The resistance of the water is so high that we have never been able to got a return of more than 200 amperes. That Is Insufficient to damage a vestel In the water." SCHOOL BURNED AT TRENTON. Trenton, N.

February 14 The John A. Roebllng School, one of the public schoola of this city, and two frame houses were destroyed by fire to day. The school, which cost was burned' to the ground. The fire broke out before school timo and there were no school children In the building. THEY WERE THERE ALL THE SAME J.T.

1 the.1 in IMIIT. 1 With the II ive Mr. 11 Why. 1 MR sure i net unv the I' 'en In the! i 'cathedrals were well erwagh Vctiaved. I S.

S. Cassel Conies to Brooklyn, but Goes to Galveston to Load. The North 'German Lloyd Steamship Cassel arrived thiB afternoon at tin Amity street pier of the line from Bremen. She Is the first of the Bremen liners to come to Brooklyn since early last summer. Her docking here now is due to the fact that the Kaiser'n yacht and two other liners have left no room for her at the Hoboken pier.

The i Cassel brought M0' passengers this port i and SO for Galveston. As soon as sue dls charges 2.400 tons of cargo here she will i proceed to Galveston with thn haiance of her cargo and passengers. She will grain and cotton at the Texas port for men. load Bre Albany, February 14 Assemblyman Plank has introduced a bill increasing th appro I prlation for defraying the of the Bertillon system for the identification of I criminals from $2,400 to per year. OBITUARY.

Charles Hawthorne. In the death of Chnrles V. Hawthorne of 497 Twelfth street, last Wednesday, there passed away the third of a family of Sandy Hook pilots. Mr. Hawthorne was born In Williamsburg in 1861 and resided in Brooklyn all his life.

He was educated in the public schools of Brooklyn and nt an early age made a trip around the. world. He was Charles W. Hawthorne. so fond of adventures that he repeated this trip on two other occasions and he visited every city and country of the world before he had reached the age of 21 years.

At that age he began to serve, his time as a pilot and in 1886 was granted a full license and had served continuously from that year up to the time of his death. About two months ago Mr. Hawthorne contracted a severe cold, which finally developed Into corisuinptlon, which resulted In his death. He had always up to this time enjoyed the best of health and his sudden death was a great shock to his many friends. He was a thirty second degree Mason and a rilember of Baltic Lodge No.

284, F. and A. De Witt Clinton Commandery 27, K. T. Do Witt Cllnton0Chapter No.

142, R. A. Mecca Temple. N. S.

M. S. Mr. Hawthorno was married In 1899 to Lillian Murphy, daughter of the late Thomas Francis Murphy, who was a Sandy Hook pilot for over thirty years. Mr.

Hawthorne's father, who died three years ago, was one of the pioneer pilots, having been in. the service before tho act was passed licensing pilots in 1863, and he pursued that calling up to the time of his death. He Is survived by a widow. Funeral services will be held at his late residence Friday evening at 8 o'clock. The Rev.

Dr. Thwlng, who Is a prominent Mason and pastor of the Calvary Church, Marcy avenue, will officiate. Interment will be in the family plot in Greenwood Cemetery. E. L.

Snow. E. L. Snow died last night in his eighty third year, at the Home for Aged Men, in Classon avenue. Mr.

Snow will be remembered by many. Brooklyuites as having formerly been connected with the advertising department of the Eagle, where he was for a long time one of its most faithful em ployes. Previous to being employed on the I Eagle he was connected with one of the large credit concerns in New York City, for which he traveled all oved this country and Can ada. Mr. Snow was born In East Hampton, and was for many years one of the best known New EnRlanders In Brooklyn, During his lifetime he filled many places of i trust, and always with credit to himself and I his employers.

He had been a member ofi Plymouth Church since 1870. Of the family of his wife nnd three daughters, only one i daughter now survives. During the past two years Mr. Snow hud been an Inmate of i the Home for Aged Men, where he received I the best of care and all tho comforts that go to make a man's declining days cheerful. In active life Mr.

Snow was well known as. 1 man of kindly disposition and disposed to be helpful to all whom he met in distress. In Plymouth Church he was an earnest worker for the cause of Christianity. The Rev. Samuel Scovlllc, assistant pastor of Plymouth Church, will conduct the funeral ser vic at the Home for the Aged this evening.

The interment, will be made in East Hampton. to morrow. Daniel F. Ruescher. Daniel F.

Ruescher died suddenly at his heme on Ovlngton avenue, near Fifth avenue, Wednesday morning. He had been to business on Monday and Tuesday and did not complain of being ill until Wednesday morning Dr. W. Friend was sent for and attended Ir. Ruescher.

but ho succumbed to heart disease in a few hours. Mr. Ruescher's familv were all at hi bedside when he died. Ho iinrn in Brooklyn on August 3, 1877, and had lived here nil nis.me ne naa oeen 'in business with his father as tobacco Inspec tors, in Water street. Manhattan, for many vear's.

and was very popular in the trade and socially. a member of several athletic and bowling rli The funeral services will be held to morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Lutheran Church of Bath Beach, the Rev. L. Happ. pastor.

The burial will be In Greenwood Cemetery. Mr. Ruescher was unmarried. His parents, three sisters and a brother survive Cornelia A. Lagerstrom.

Cornelia Ann. wife of Kmil Lagerstrom. died at her home. Rogers avenue, on Wednesday of paralysis. She was born in 23, 1S36, and New York City on September lived in Flatbush for twenty four years.

The funeral services will l.e held at the family residence to morrow nignt at 8 o'clock. Mr. Lagerstrom. who is janitor of the Rogers avenue school, and three children survive her. COACHMAN IN TROUBLE.

James Camp, coachman employed by Edward L. Rossitrr, assistant treasurer of tho New York Central Railroad Company, was held to day In $200 bail on a charge of assault for the Court of Special Sessions, by Magistrate Ingersoll. in the Myrtle avenue court. The cornplafnant. Mary.M.

Seley, of 780 Putnam avenue, alleged that on January 14 Camp knocked her down and kicked her. Camp said all that hp did to push her in self defense during quarrel. jCjiLD' "COMMONS" CLERK DEAD. Loidoni February .14 Slr Archibald Mil formerly clerk of the House of Common's, died this morning. He had been in the service of the House of Commons from 1S37 recently.

i I I I I I I i i i I AFTER FIRM HAD FAILED. Surprising Admissions Made by G.Edward Graff at Hearing Before Referee Tilney. SAYS STEELE GOT THE CASH. Van Wyck Declares It Is Not His Pur pose to Protect Crooked Wall i Street Brokers. G.

Edward Graff, head of the bankrupt brokerage firm, gave aome danmglng testimony to his slde of the case in the hearing before Referee Tilney in the I'ost Office Building this morning. The examination was a continuation of the previous hearing for the purpose of establishing the assets of the firm nnd to find out what became of the money. Judge Augustus Van Wyck. assisted by Judge Allen, conducted the cross examination. Judge Van Wyck war, obdurate in his questioning and called out continued opposition from the counsel for Mr.

Graff. Ex Senator McCarty, James Shcvllu, ex Fire Chief N'evins and Frank Creamer were among the interested spectators. Graff testified that after he had gone Into bankruptcy and filed his' petitions he had allowed George Steele. a confidential man, to collect rebates due the firm from various commission merchants of the Stock Exchange, draff said that he was not aware of the exact sum which was collected by Steele as he never Inquired. Graff said that be owed Steele Borne money, he didn't know how so ho allowed him to get It In this way.

Referee Tilney was evidently greatly surprised at the admission and twice asked Graff to repeat the testimony. Mr. Graff evidently was not Impressed with the seriousness of the confession. This operation 1b In direct vlolntlon of the bankruptcy statutes and such Illegal transfer of assets Is one of the most serious offenses proVlded for. The lawyers for the creditors alleged that Graff knew more specifically than he explained the amount that was collected, and It was declared he profited by the scheme for the deception of the creditors.

Graff testified that Steele was a confidential man, employed as a go between to deal with the several brokers on the Stock Exchange with whom he bad dealings. He was for a time In charge of the Actor Branch for Graff and later located at 66 Broadway. A credit' was found on the books dated April 1, 1501, for Graff. said this sum was the amount of a rebate paid to Steele by the brokerage firm of Adams. McNeal Bingham.

Steele carried on the transactions with the firm In behalf of Graff, and then turned over the profits from the deals, as commission. A second entry in the books of J1.685, entered as a check, was cited to show that the practice was common. The amounts each month Graff said, varied, considerably. Steele was very active, he said, and brought In a Urge amount of business. In fact.

Graff said that many months Steele's share of the commissions accruing from the trade which ho secured for the Graff company ran up to J400. If was often J200 or $300. he said. Steele received a guarantee or J50 a month for his services. That sum was, however, merely nominal.

Graff said that there was no fixed commission upon which they divided. It was the 'purpose of the attorneys to show that these sums which were received by Graff from; Steele and the commissions allowed to Steele, too. wcro not charged against the firm as they. should rightly have been. It 1b alleged that Graff was accustomed to pay the commission Steele and then take part of the balance, although the entire sum' should have been as he was dealing in the name of the firm and not in his Individual The amount which was realized from this operation was not estimated, but It Is alleged that It reached large proportions.

The examination then turned to several accounts which appeared on the ledgers, for the purpose of finding out the exact dealings with the inembers of the Stock Exchange. As the personal accounts were taken up there was vigorous opposition on the part of Graff's attorneys. It was contended that it was not necessary to drag in the names of reputable, dealers of the Exchange. "I want to know what these figures stand for," Judge Van Wyck said. "I am going to show that this man Graff has money In his possession which has never been paid back to the firm and to show this I want to know who he dealt with.

I am not here to protect all of the crooked brokers In Wall Btreet. When you come down to It, I believe that this man Ames divided commissions with Graff as well as the The question was admitted by Referee Tilney. Graff testified that on May 1. 1900. he received a.

commission. from. SI. Chapman, a broker, of 1665. A commission of $1,114.19 was admitted from Von Saun, a broker, and several amounts credited to an account.

Graff explained that In each of the cases he credited the commission account with one half of the sum. charged the blotter account with the amount and took the money for further speculation. Then he became personally resDonsible for the amounts and paid them back from his own pocket. He, said that the Initials stood for Louis Prince, a broker of 50 52 Broadway, with whom he had a Joint account. Judge Van Wyck asserted that the account might really stand for L.

P. Mcnham, a prominent broker. At 12:30 the hearing was adjourned for an hour. DEBT CLEARED OFF. Tie last Dollar Paid by Sixth Avenue M.

E. Church New Edifice Projected. Scth W. Fox. president of the board of trustees of the Sixth Avenue M.

E. Church, announced at the fourth quarterly conference. Just held, that the last dollar of the mnrta debt ,7.000 had been paid and the canceled mortgage is in me nanus 01 the trustees. This haB been accomplished In tho two years pastorate of the Rev. Dr.

W. V. Bowdish. It has not been decided whether a meeting of rejoicing will he held at which the mortgage will be burned, or whether It will be framed and placed among the historic papers of the church. In any event, a jubilee service will be held.

It has also been determined that a new church must be built on the lots adjoining the present edifice. A fund will at once be started and r.wial collection for the purpose will be taken on Easter Day. Sunday, March "JOMPED HEES HATJS." Piter Morrcll is a French Canadian who lived up in the state. Peter came to town recently and went to see his friend, the editor. The following colloquy took place: "Oood morning, Mr.

Morrcll," said the editor. 'Good Morning." "What can I do for you this morning?" "You know, mha wife, he's Jompcd mill halts?" "No! Is that so?" "Yes, he shant hax me. Ah want to put peem in ze 1 aper." "0 you ini to advertise the fact that she has left you, eh?" "Yes." "All right. Just write it out and we'll see what wc can do." So Peter put pen to paper and after 13 minutes' hard work handed the slip over with a look of triumph on bis fHce. This Is what the editor read: "Hah name eez Peter Morrell an man wife he's name is Peter Morrell.

too. He' jomp mah haus for free week ago. Ho shant hax me. Anbody dat's trusted heem or. mah 'count, dat's loss for you," MII wr.ukee Sentinel.

Mr. Kempner Speaks of Rumor That Twelfth Ward Chieftain May Retire. SHEEHAN SETS GOOD EXAMPLE. Organization on Permanent Linta Necessary if Tammany and Allies Are to Be Kept Out of Power. The rondltlon of the Coffey DS mocra' kUIiii; rloon concern to men who really hope for lb erratioa of a fore to oprosc WUIoiighby street The flnaatlal aknek to which attention has been called in ihe Eagle only one feature'of the situation.

As an organiutlon the Brooklyn Democracy is to day all In the air. District les4ra were appointed, not elected, to organise. OA fusion movement amonar Democrats. TJiey were to pass away with Election Day. anoTlt was understood that electd leaders weje to take tbelr place.

But nothlns In the of such substitution has been accomplished and no executive committee meeting has been held. It la freely asserted In many quarters that It would be hazardous to call such a meeting, because recriminations could not be avoided. There are too many workers whose claimi have been Ignored sine the Low administration came Into power Wfcat strength the onranlzartoo still baa Is du chiefly to the personality of certain men certain districts. Gottfried Weslernaeher cannot be denied a genuine following ln ths) Nineteenth; Don O'Reilly. Coffey's cMet lieutenant in the Ninth.

Is a good hustler; William P. Fickwt has developed some significance In the Seventeenth since hs got his $7,000 Job In the Surrogate's office; Mortofl O. Davis is aggressive In the Kourtb. and Otto Kempner In the Twentieth perhaps has mors ground for hoping to carry' his bailiwick thaa any of the others. Commissioner Kempner was asked 'this morning to give hl views of the rumored retirement of Senator Coffey.

After some reflection he said that he heard the rumor and that he would not be greatly surprised if 'It were well founded. Mr. Kempner added that even before the election some of Mr. Coffey's closest friends had asserted that if the Eu sloaWBs succeeded In carrying this county Mr. Coffey would feel that be had been revenged and that, after having the satisfaction of beating Wllloughby street, CflUpr 'would withdraw from active politics and surrender the field to the younger elements "of the Brooklyn Democracy.

Continuing' Mr. Kempner said: "I believe that Senator Coffey baa been a vital force in the Fusion movement. Whether he has acted from motives of revenge or ot public policy, there Is no doubt that ths Brooklyn Democracy, which he In a largs measure helped to create and to maintain, was a potent instrument in the overthrow of the Wllloughby street machine. But this rumor of his retirement awakens In me some considerations concerning (hie present situation of Democratic polttlcs In this county and I think it opportune to express them now. "In the first place I find that though WIII oughby street Id defeated and the Independent Democrats ore victorious, there Is no Indication of an attempt to build up an opposition organisation on permanent lines.

We present a remarkable contraat to Manhattan, where the Greater New York Democracy li seising tho fruits of victory to organise a formidable and aggressive opposition to Tammany Hall. In Brooklyn, we seem: to have gone to sleep and have allowed the Brooklyn Democracy to sink Into a state Innocuous desuetude, to use President Clare land's famous phrase. "I do not think that the logic of the situation warrants an attitude of indifference and of Innctlvlty. If It continues, the Democratic party of Kings County will speedily drift back to old conditions, and at the first opportunity the Wllloughby street clique will be back In the saddle. Against euch a calamity, I desire to utter a word of "There are In Brooklyn a large number of prominent Democrats of independent prp cllvltlee.

who surely do not desire to see the junk shop throne restored at 9: Wllloughby street, and they must do something tangibly and affirmatively to prevent It. In any such movement, they can count on the support of thousands of Democratic eltliens, who are anxiously waiting and watching for the announcement that our leading Democrats nrc taking the Initial steps for the organization of a permanent antl WIUoughby street Democracy. I am one of the men on that waiting list, and at the first signal of a start In the direction Indicated. ean give the starters the assurance of support from at elast one well organized district association. "It would be an everlasting pity If the great opportunity that is within our grasp to keep Tammany Hall and Its Brooklyn annex out of power were to be frittered away and lost.

Such a chance will not come again In. a decade. I trust, however, that before many days have passed we shall bear of the coming together of our representative independent Democrats, who will set the bait a rolllng toward the formation of a pure, powerful and permanent antl Wllloughbr street Democracy." ACTOR SUED FOR SEPARATION. Walter Wilson, Employed at the Park, Retorts With Charge of Infidolitj. Wife Gets Interim Alimony.

Justice Dickey has granted J25 a week alimony to Helen Wilson, who Is suing Walter McFate Wilson, an actor employed at the Park Theater, for a separation. The plaintiff is also an actress and played far two seasons In "Tho Convict's when she left the stage on account of 111 health. Wilson says his wife has been married twice before. He says that on February 3 last she met him at the entrance to tho Park Theater and strui him several blows on the bead. He accused her of being unfaithful to him and she replied: "That's all right: I'll admit it, but you prove It." Mrs.

Wilson ears nothing of the kind took place. PUSH CART MEN SEE LOW. Mayor Promises Relief From Alleged Police Persecution. A delegation of Grand street push cart men saw the Mayor to day. nnd complained that the police harrass them while they are prosecuting their business.

They bad a petition, signed, they declared, by 100 Grand street merchants who do not object to the push carts and their trade. The spokesman of the delegation said attempts to see Commissioner Partridge had failed, and Mayor Low. calling Mr. 'Clarke, his law adviser. Immediately had him call up police headquarters, so that he might consult with the commissioner.

He promised the push cart men the complaint would receive prompt attention. TOOK IT FOR A STRAP. There was a great rrush at the Van Lobster's reception. The crowd swayed back nnd forth before the doors of the upper room, ai Frl7Zlehy, who happened to be caught In the midst of It, suddenly reached up and caught hold of an arm of the chandelier. Presently somebody called his attention to this seeming eccentricity.

"Bv gum." snld Frirxleby; "blamed If I didn't think I was coming up In a 5 o'clock Btreet car." Clevelond Plain Dealer, Don't the men crowd dreadfully In tho cars here in Brooklyn? Allfat Fearfully! I was' almost squeezed to death the day. Little Small "(gaspingly) know how you must have felt, mum!.