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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, THURSDAY. MARCH 6. 1902, 8 RAILROAD CENSURED. THE OARMAN DIVORCE SUIT.

COMMERCE OF CUBA, BOTTLE A GREENWICH POINT IS A GOOD MISSIONARY FIELD. OF SWAMP fcOOT MB. To Prove what the Great Kidney Remedy, Swamp Root, will do for YOU, Every Reader of the, Eagle May tlav Strange State of Affairs Brought Out on Cross Examination of a Witness a Sample Bottle Sent Free W. F. Lohnes, prominent Inisiuef of Springfield.

Ohio, writes thp following strong indorsement of tho sivat kidney remedy, Swiimp Hoof. Co liio Editor of the Springfield. Ohio. Republic: "Springfield. Ohio.

February 21. VJ01. "Having heard that any one could procure a sample bottle ot" Swamp Itoot. five, by mail, 1 wrote to Dr. Kllmev Bingham ton.

for a sample buttle, si. ml it was promptly sent. I was so pleased after trying the sample bottle that I sent to the drug store and procured a supply. 1 have used Svvanip Koot regularly for some time, and consider it unsurpassed as a remedy for torpid liver, loss of appetite ai'fl general derangement of the digestive functions. I think my trouble was due in.

too close confinement in I on recommend it highly for all liver and! kidney complaints; I am. not in the habit of indorsing tiny medicine, in this case I cannot speak too much in praisso of Swamp Root has done for (W. F. Lohnes.) West High Street. The mild ext raordinary effect of tile world famous kidney and Maiitli remedy.

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organs to V.e. A trial will convince tiny one. You 'may have'" a sample bottle'' of this wonderful remedy. Swamp Root, sent: absolutely free by'mail. also a book telling all Swamp Root and containing: many of "the thousands upon thousands of testimonial letters received from men.

and women who owe their good health in fact, t'neir very lives, to the grcal curative properties of Swamp Root. In writing to Dr. Kilmer Biugbamton. Y. be sure to say that you read this geuoyovts offer in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

If you are already convinced, tliat Swamp Uont is what you need, you can purchase the ixvjular fifty cent and one dollar size bottles at the drug stores everywhere. Don't, make any mistake, but reniomler Hie name, Swamp IJoot. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Hoot, and the address, Bingliamton. X.

Y. ion every bottlei. Coroner's Juries Hold Them Responsible for Two Deaths. Jamaica, L. 'March fi At a coroner's inquest before Coroner Leonard Ruoff, at Jamaica yesterday, in the case of Silas Al bertson, a negro, 48 years of age, who lost his life by 'being struck by a train of the Long Island Railroad Company, on February 8.

at McNeil avenue crossing, Far Rockaway, the following verdict was brought in: "That deceased came to his death from fracture of seven ribs, hemorrhage and shock, caused by being hit by a train of the Long Island Railroad Company, and we find the said Long Island Railroad Company responsible for not having a flagman or gates at this crossing. We exonerate the engineer from all blame, as he did all in his power to. avert the accident." In the case George Fritsch. age 1 years, who woe Irtllarl 11,... TT niticu (I HUilCl IU1 VII VC1UUU avenue, Long Island City, ou February 5, the verdict was as follows: "That deceased i came to his death from injuries to the body, head and extremities after being struck by a car of the New York and Queens County Railway Company, and we hold the said company responsible for not running more cars at a lower rate ot speed.

We exonerate the motorman and conductor from all blame." LONG ISLAND COMING EVENTS. The Ip.st reception of th season will be 'given this evening by the Port Jefferson Social Club. The Women's Social Society St. Albans will hold a poverty social at the home of Thaddeus S. Wells on Saturday evening.

The Korkvlll; Center Koarrt of education will meet to morrow night for the appointing of teachers for the next term. A meeting of Rockaway rteaeh property owners will be held to morrow evening to take action on the granting of a franchise to the Ocean Kleetrlc Railway Company for the extension ot Its line alone the Poulevard. PIRST CLASS OYSTERS SCARCE. Freeport. L.

March 6 The continued cold weather and freezing up of the bay last month resulted in making oysters very weak and planters are finding it difficult to supply their customers with first class stock. The season will be over in a few weeks and unless the oysters gain strength much loss will be incurred by (he dealers on account of large quantities being unfit to ship to market. DEPRAVITY IN CHILDREN. A Brooklyn Mother Speaks Out About the Matter of Discipline. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Will you allow me to join those who have come to your moral support in your noble and earnest pleadings for greater parental care and watchfulness? Although the moral degeneracy and corruption of the city children are disgusting and revolting, we can not justly blame them as much as the parents who sit in smug complacency while the children they have brought into' the world are corrupting and ruining not only themselves but others.

There are fathers of respectable church going, families who stay out at their clubs night after night playing billiards, whist, and smoking, who laugh and think it a fine joke if they find that their young sons have been "out" even later than they. There are cultivated, Christian parents who do not go to church in the morning simply because it is too much trouble to get up in time, thus settidg an example of self indulgence and neglect of acknowledged duty to the young people of their family. But we must, go even farther back than the parents and into the broader field of public morals which have Become so re laxed and lowered in the last two or three generations. When our country was in the making the sterling and robust qualities of self denial and obedience to duty were. fully exercised.

Now the tendency Is to self Indulgence and pleasure seeking. The sense of personal responsibility and of amenability" to law of any kind', human or divine, is weak and lax; There is more anarchism, a mitred of government' and restraint than is recorded in the police courts. And" undoubtedly "atheism and a ccm tempt for religion and religious observances are increasing not the atheism of the earnest and critical scholar who sees with real pain arid regret what seems to him the disintegration of the old beliefs, but the atheism of the flippant and ignorant who, hiding behind the names of a few earnest, and zealous leaders of free thought, make them an excuse for their own utter lack of thought or of moral purpose. There are very few really sincere and highminde.d parents who even if they do not see clearly the divine authority for Christianity, do not realize that from it come the noblest, aspirations and the purest impulses and teachings. As you have so well said, it is the children whose parents do not go to church who become the lawless and depraved even though their intellects may be sharpened by the studies of the higher schools which pass by the noble precepts they might teach.

Mllo says, that he knows of no literature or history taught in the schools with an ethical purpose. I do not know whether "Romola" by George Eliot' is used in the literature classes or not. but certainly no more certain or powerful moral lesson can be found anywhere than in this book where the ruin of a lively and brilliant character is traced directly to his selfish pursuit of pleasure and complete atrophy of conscience, and Romola's noble and solemn warning to Tito's son on the last page ought to be framed in gold and hung before the eyes of every child. The whole existing condition is the result of lack of self control and of proper respect for authority. We see this everywhere.

In the streets, where the bold and noisy jostle aside the quiet, and elderly in the parlors, where the sweet graces of modesty and deference sesm lost in the schools where authority is criticised and flouted, and yet. in the face of all this and as if to flout what ou and others have done to enforce control and authority, comes the Hoard of Education with a fatuity worthy of a Dogberry with a rule against corporal punishment in our schools! Does this precious band of schoolmen know nothing of human nature? Nothing of the laws of the universe? Are they anarchists themselves, not believing In the enforcement of laws? If crime were free from punishment among men, as they would have it among children, criminals would soon force the law abiding from the earth. Let them hang their heads in shame and retire to their lonely towers or desert islands, while men knowing the stern necessity of the enforcement of lows take their places. It is the child's right to be punished and in such a way as to make him realise the greatness of his offense and it Is the duty of his teachers and guardians to indict such punishment. A child Is not born with a knowledge of cause and effect, either moral or natural.

Nature soon teaches it the one. and its 'guardians should teach it the other. If a child, no matter how young or innocent, touches fire it is burnt and it seldom does the same thing again. In the same way. if a child breaks a moral law, it should feel at once the sting and pain of punishment.

Would any of our most sentimental schoolmen, or most, careless parents have that law of Nature rescinded so that, in order to save the blister on the baby's fingers, he might put his hand into the flames and see it shrivel and char without any discomfort? In the same way, if a child feels no shame or pain after a moral offense his conscience will become atrophied and give iim n0 warning of moral decay. That the physical sense Is the one to be appealed to in early years Is proved by the boast so often heard from a disobedient pupil. "I don't care, she cdn't touch me." What an outrage and 'oven crime, that a. young miscreant may call his teacher a vile name and yet that the only law' relating to it is that he shall not be punished. Is the safety of their skins of more importance than the safety of th.

ir souls? Is it not far bettor that one hoy in thousand should suffer from a black or a bruised back than that the whole thousand or the whole generation should grow up unrestrained and law one guardian, teacher or school om. ial'. who advocates the impunity of an(j lawlessness tn a child, is directly responsible for the condition of youthful depravity so painfully evident In our cities A BROOKLYN MOTHER Brooklyn, March 4, 1902. Mrs. Carman Proves Her Innocence and the Case Is Dismissed.

Mineola, L. March 6 John Carman sued his wife Jennie tor an absolute divorce on statutory grounds before Judge Garretson yesterday. Mrs. Ida Raynor, sister of the plaintiff, testified that by looking under a crack the door she saw Mrs. Carman and the corespondent, W.

T. Cornwall, sitting on the bed together. The Raynors and the Carmans lived in the same house. She also i testified that the corespondent was in the house with Mrs. Carman on the nights of February 13, 15 and 20, 1900, and her testi I raony was practicably substantiated by that i of her husband', Joseph Raynor.

The detense placed on the stand the core I 1 spondent who testified that he was with Mrs. Carman on the evenings of February 13 airfr company with his sisters but had I I never remained over night and was not at I I the house on the night of February 15 and I that there had never been any wrong doing between Carman and himself. rThe mother and sisters of Cornwall testi T.fied as.ta. of young Corn wall's statements and proved a complete ali bj. The last witness was the defendant, I and Mr.s.

Carman testified that there had never been any improper actions between I Cornwall and herself and when she was ordered from her home she went to her father's I residence. At the conclusion of the testimony the attorney, for the defendant. L. 'B. Haskins of Hempstead moved to dismiss the rfiae on the grounds that no cause for action had been shown aail this.

was granted by Judge Gar retson. TROTTING AT MINEOLA FAIR. A Card of Eight Races Announced for the Fair Next Summer. Mineola, L. March 6 The following trotting card has been prepared by the horse committee of the Queens Nassau Agricultural.

and has been recently sent out byThomas H. Bacon, secretary of the horse i These races will be held at the summer fair on Wednesday and Thursday. June 18 1 and 19, and all entries must be filed with the secretary on or before June 6. purses offered will aggregate some $2,000 and' an interesting meet is assured, The card: 3:00 county class Open to tK.rses owned or bred in Queens nr Nassau. Counties, trotters; purse $150.

I class Pacers; purse 2:30 dass Ti ntters; purse 5 00. class Trotters; purse 5.100. class Trotters: purse $300. clnss Pacers: purse S300. i 2:10 class Trotters: purse SCOO.

Free for all class Pacers: purse $300. i FIRE IN COLLEGE POINT. College Point, L. March 6 At 12:30 o'clock this morning fire broke out from some unknown cause in the three story dyclling on Nineteenth street, between Fifth I and Sixth avenues. College Toint, owned and occupied by Nicholas Thompson.

The in t.erio'r of the building was completely burned out and only a few charred timbers are left. The family had a narrow escape, but managed to get out. of the building without serious injury, though Mr. Thomp 'son had his hair singed and his hands slightly burned; The building was enveloped "irf frames when the firemen arrived, but they did effective work in preventing the flames from spreading. The damage to the building is $2,000 and to the furniture $500, partly covered by insurance.

OBITUARY LONG ISLAND. Mrs. Minnie S. Arnold. Flushing.

L. March fi Mrs'. Minnie S. Arnold, widow of Richard J. Arnold of Newport.

R. died yesterday of heart failure at her home, Jamaica' avenue, this village. The deceased had been ailing for some time, but her condition was not. such as to alarm her friends. Mrs.

Arnold was ti2 years old. Two daughtersMiss S. C. Arnold, Miss E. H.

Arnold, and one son, Carrington G. Arnold, survive. John A. B. Martin.

Patchogue, L. March 6 John A. B. Martin, aged as years, died last night at the home of his parents. Mr.

and Mrs. Samuel Martin, on Carman after a week's tit i ness, of measles and asthma. The deceased was born at Manor and had lived at Pat i ehogue the past seven years. He was a past grand of Brooklyn Lodge No. SO, I.

O. O. "past chief ranger or" Court Advance No. 159, Foresters of America, and a past councilor Fnrragut Council No. 54, Jr.

O. U. A. The funeral will be held. at 2 o'clook to morrow afternoon from his late borne.

William E. Sawyer, Riverhead. L. March fi William E. Saw p'or of Southampton died at his home yester and the funeral will he conducted from 'the Methodist Church here Sunday after Mr.

Sawyer was formerly of River The services at the grave will be ron "ducted hy Henry A. Barnum Post. G. A. Riverhead.

to which Mr. Sawyer belonged. was 55 years old and leaves a widow and I William and John Sawyer, sons, of! Southampton. Mr. Sawyer served for two years, first in Company C.

Ninth New York: Artillery, and lastly in the Second lijN'ew York Heavy Artillery. NASSAU SURROGATE'S COURT. Mineola. L. March 6 Before Surrogate Seabury yesterday the following business 'was transacted: A tmitte tr.

N. ivhr: lg. P. .1. Ji e.ii ai.

x. eino: l.pth A. Maran i was lamed as wilt of iavi.1 Schn. i.l. l.

j.ier I.nuls Trope Also Will of hursl: VV. Willeti, IMT I .1 fr iconic Til. will Kllisa I. I. gcr mon Sea ruff.

wle. I.ei an valued which .1 Vi e.l ll. g. nnan reeelves Sl' fi. the balance the children an.l grandchildren.

AlS" tie will DanM A. Cornell 1 Washington, the value of whose estate is unknown. i it.Ts of grante to Joseph I en the estate of Phoebe I Tompkins. t't an estate value. 1 at K.

and Sera'a r. ceice eiptal shares. Also to Isart, l.tlyst. i the estttte of Anna I.nystei of Cb Ilea.l. who left an rstate amounting to.

i het husband and three children. EASTERN STAR DEGREE. Flushing, L. March fi Pleiades Chapter of the Eastern Star had a gala evening! last Tuesday, when it was favored with the visit of the Most Worthy Graud Matron Anna McArthur. accompanied bv her staff.

About 15f members and visitors were present and the Eastern Star degree was conferred by Worthy Patron L. S. Valentine of the chapter, assisted by Worthy Past Patron, Stone and Brother Robinson, present patron; of Orient Chapter. Pleiades was eompli 1 luesite'd on the excellent performance of the work and later refreshments were served in the banquet room. The Enstern Star de grcr will be conferred again on March is.

ROCKVILLE CENTER'S BUDGET. Rockville Comer. March fi The board of trustees has prepared the annual budget! of expenses to be voted on at the election to be held Maridi IS. as follows: I For ilhisc letk. SOtiO; for streets, 1.2f.e f.

lights, lu.lhlg interest and l. i for tire department, inclu ling boti.l interest and prire iptil. making total ef Mf side th' se expenses, a oposlte te raise ll.e 'O for repairing tip elr.tiir lig.it s.vst.'m uml iinoC i. raising sl.e.'.'i for hnpr. of Park avenue, from I.

In avenue the nil I road, with IVinskil! gravel will he submitted the Vct' vs. There will also submitted the whet' h' tin 1 1 be rais by tax to purchase i wag. 01 Alert Ib.se nifiany N'o. 2. LONG ISLAND PERSONALS.

Miss Lillian Finn ami Miss llth Powell of t. I' mpsteic re visiting at no. Mrs. I Mnrshm.I is visiting at I ok. ls are out lb wedding Miss Smile .1 i ia w.i:u: st.

daughter of T.e.viise:i.I ilawxhurst tie St. b. til ot St. Albans, on We.hies evening. March It, at the home of the bride, ti t'rivlral and Farmers' avenues.

st. Frank M. I. Upton New York litis presented the Mattltuck reading room with hound volumes. Mrs.

Hattio Everest of Easthnnipton has been visiting relatives In Eastport. Comparative Statement Prepared by the Insular Division of the War Department. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, March 6 The following comparative statement concerning the commerce of the Island of Cuba for the nine months ended September 30, 1901, 1900 and 1899, has been tiepared in Insular Division of the War Department. The total value of the merchandise imported during the nine months ended September 30, 1901, was $48,616,814, as against $49,701,993 for the same period of 1900, and $46,833,122 for the same period ol 1899; and the total value of merchandise exported during the nine months ended September 30, 1901, was $52,861,672, as against $37,911,367 for the same period of 1900, and for the same period of 1899.

In the imports these figures show a decrease for the period of 1901 of 2.2 per cent, as compared with the same period of 1900,. and an increase of 3.S per cent, as compared with the same period of 1899; in the exports there is an increase of 39.4 per cent, in the period of 1901, as compared with that of 1900, and Jl.2 per cent, as compared with the same period of Gold and silver was imported during the nine months ended September 30, .1901, to the value of same period of 1900, same period of 1899, exported during the nine months ended September 30, 1901, to the value of same period of 1900, $2,176,664, and In the same period of 1899 there was exported the amount of $3,610,434. The value of imports of merchandise from the several countries respectively during the nine months ended September 30, 1901, was as follows: United States, a decrease of 4.8 per cent, as compared with the same period of 1900, and 3.4 per, cent, as compared with the same period of 1899; other North American countries, $2,292,795, an increase of 14.7 per cent, over 1900, and a decrease of 13.6 per cent, as compared With the same period of 1899; United Kingdom, $6,910,853, a decrease Of 16.7 per cent, as compared with 1900, and an increase, of 4.7 per cent, over 1899; German, $2,416,633, an increase of 14.8 per cent, over 1900, and 82 per cent, over 1899; France, $2,096,561, a decrease of 16.2 per cent, as compared with 1900, and an increase of 19.9 per cent, over 1899; Spain, $7,033,915, a decrease of 2.2 per cent, aa compared with 1900, and 13.2 per cent, as compared with 1899; other European countries, $1,080,527, a very slight decrease as compared with the same period of 1900, and an increase of 37.4 per cent, over 1899; Asia, an increase of 52.3 per cent, over 1900, and 80.3 per cent, over 1899; Africa, $9, while during the period of 1900 it is credited with $882, and nothing. in the same period of 1899; Central America, $94,073, a decrease of 65.3 per cent, as compared with 1900. and 75.1 per cent, as compared with 1899; South America, $5,009,366, an increase of 40.4 per cent, over 1900, and 63.9 per cent, over 1899; Porto Rico.

$854,211, a decrease of 10.5 per cent, as compared with 1900, and an increase of 22.7 per cent, over 1899; other countries. $100,473, an increase of 69.2 per cent, over 1900. and a decrease of 30.3 per cent, as compared with the same period of 1899. The value of exports of merchandise to the several countries respectively during the nine months ended September 30, 1901, was as follows: United States, $41,773,251, an increase of 50.5 per cent, over the same period of 1900 and 24.8 per cent, over the same period of 1S99: other North American countries, $367,178. an increase of 22.1 per cent, over 1900 and 827.1 per cent, over 1899: United Kingdom.

$4,262,339. an increase of 19.1 per cent, over 1900 and 341.4 per cent, over 1899; Germany. $3,127,992, an increase of 1.1 per cent, over 1900 and 458.1 per cent, over 1899; France. $1,174,620, an increase of 7.3 per cent, over 1900 and 6.3 per cent, over 1899; Spain, a decrease of 51.9 per cent, as compared with 1900 per cent; as compared with 1899: other European countries. increase per cent, over 1900, and in' 1899 there was exported only" the small sum of $4S, 326; Asia, $8,350, a decrease of 19.9 per cent, as compared with 1900, while there, were no exports during the period of 1899; Africa, $168,936.

an increase of 98.2 per cent, over 1900, while in 1S99 there was only Central America, $14,594, an increase of 14.7 per cent, over 1900 and 164.2 per 'cent, over 1899; South America, an increase of 21.1 per cent, over 1900 and. 238 per cent, over 1899; Porto Rico, $6,294, a decrease of 30.7 per cent, as compared with. 1900 and S2 per cent, as compared with the period during 1899: other countries, $269,806, a decrease of 15.4 per cent, as compared with lDOO, while during the period of 1899 there was only the small amount of $5,419. The value of imports of merchandise, gold and silver, carried in American vessels in September. 1901.

was in British vessels, Dutch, French, German, $208,851 Spanish, Norwegian, all other foreign vessels, $27,927, and in domestic vessels, $328,234. The value ot exports carried in American vessels was British vessels, $213, 630; French, German, Spanish. Norwegian, all other foreign vessels, $8,845, and in domestic vessels, $33,062. B. A.

WOULD PUT SEATS ON CAR ROOFS. "A Patron" of the B. R. T. Make? Some Suggestions.

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Are you so fortunate as to be able to patronize the so called Rapid Transit system, especially during the rush hours, when standing room in the car aisles and the platforms is at a tremendous premium? If not, that you may the more fully appreciate the beauty of the service, could you not arrange to take an excursion on either surface or line from some point up town in, the morning across to Park row and return over the bridge in the late afternoon? If you survive the ordeal, kindly relate, in the columns of your valuable paper your experience. Do you think it would likely aid in solving the rapid transit problem if during the rush hours the management cannot or will not run more cars, to equip all surface and cars that are allowed to be run with seats and standing room on the roofs, to be reached from the sides of the cars by means of scaling ladders, something after the order of the old Fifth avenue, Manhattan, stage coaches? More passengers per square foot of space could thus be packed on each car. If the present conditions are to continue would it be at all appropriate to suggest a change of name to the Overcrowded Creeper Transit Company? If no actual improvement in our transit facilities may be expected in the near future should we be surprised to hear the formation of "Get Away" and "Stay Away" Clubs and the continued advancement backward of our property values? If we would hold tnose we now nave ana invite, not repel, the tide of would be settlers to our midst we should have an efficient system of rapid transit, in fact as well as in name. It is to be hoped tnat our transit friends will evolve a plan and speedily put it in force that will remedy the present defects'and give us a better service. A PATRON.

March 5, 1902. THE DOYLE STAPLETON FIGHT. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: In regard to the article In the Eagle on "Doyle Must Face a Fight," I wish to correct the figures you give of 2.60O for Doyle and 1,700 for Stapleton or opposition, and make it read as follows: According to official results at the primary, in August, 1900. the figures were: Doyle, 3.010: Stapleton, 1,590. Should they put up a fight next September, I am willing to bet $1,000 that they would not receive 1,000 votes, as they have been promising anything from the Brooklyn Bridge to Prospect Park, misleading every one of their followers who are foolish enough to believe them.

FAIR PLAY. Brooklyn, March 3, 1902. MARTHA WASHINGTON RECEPTION A Martha Washington reception, which was to have been held on Washington's birthday night, but which was postponed, was given last night at the Baptist Church of the Redeemer, Oortelyou road nd East Judge Garretson Thinks so After Hearing the Evidence in a Church War. RIVAL SECTS WANT POSSESSION. The Edifice Renovated by Canon Bryan for Episcopal "Worship Claimed by the Congregationalists.

(Special to the Eagle.) Mineola, L. March 0 Nearly, the whole population of Greenwich Point was present in Judge Garretson's' court room when the case of the Greenwich Point Church was called in which the plaintiff, Mr. Stewart, representing the Congregationalists of Greenwich Point, seeks to obtain a permanent injunction restraining the Episcopalians from using the church for their services. Witnesses were placed on the stand by the plaintiff's attorney and all testified substantially alike, which was to the effect, that the church had always been a Congregational Church and that the Episcopalians were well informed that if it ever ceased to. be such the property would go back to the' heirs of Zophar Smith.

Before court adjourned, the defense placed one witness on the stand, who testified that the Greenwich Point Church was, to his belief, a union church, and that the Congregationalists could not claim exclusive right to worship in it. After the examination of 'several, other, witnesses for the defense, among whom was Canon Bryan, the case was at noon, Judge Garretson reserving his decision and giving counsel ten days in which to submit briefs. In reviewing the case. Judge Garretson remarked tltat. judging from some of the testimony in the case, there was a good field for missionary work at Greenwich Point.

Archdeacon Bryan, in speaking of the matter said: "I am very sorry to have to carry this matter into court, but I think the rights of the diocese of Long Island should be protected, and we have a five year lease from a majority of the old board of trustees of the church "and also a relinquishment of the rights of the heirs of Zophar Smith to the property, so I cannot, sec why we should be debarred from using the church as a place of Episcopal worship. The diocese has spent a great deal of money in improving and beautifying the property and we have'saved the church from wreck and decay." INSPECT0RBURKE AT WORK. Cutting and Removing Broken Wires in Queens Suburbs With a Gang of Men From the Department. (Special to the Eagle. 1 Jamaica, L.

March fi Chief Inspector Joseph H. Burke, in charge of the department of electricity under Commissioner J. H. Dougherty, has during the past ten days had a gang of men equipped with rubber gloves and insulated plyers and horses and wagons at work in Ihe five. wards of the borough cut ciug off all loose and sagging wires, rolling them up and throwing them over in adjoining' lots or at the sides of.

the highway, and cutting down the tilting poles, of which' there were a hundred OTjj' A large amount at poles and wires in the swampy meadows over the Rockawav meadows rut the line of the Long Island Electric Railroad, between Jamaica and Far Rockaway. win scores. poles fell to the ground and the wires crossed the highway in every direction. Inspector Burke has: about completed his work and says that not a eingle person ha; teen Injured, although the broken wires sizzed and spluttered in every direction, causing a great lose of electricity to the lighting end trolley companies. The strike of the linemen is gradually dwindling away and it is thought that the wires will all be replaced In about three weeks.

Communication between Brooklyn and Jamaica. Flushing and Far Rockaway. has been restored and the local service is in good shape at the east end of Suffolk and between Riverhead and Babylon. The electric lighi wires of the New York and Queens Electric Light Company are all repaired and in good working order all over the borough. The company's loss in the storm is estimated at $2,000.

The damage to the New York and Queens County Trolley Company's lines, by the storms of the two weeks, was estimated at not less than $20,000. The loss by the stoppage of the line on Jackson avenue, between Flushing and Long Island City, is placed at $3 000 per day. 30 FEET OF WATER IN ACARA. Wreckers May Resume Work of Removing Cargo. Freeport.

L. L. 6 The steamer Aeara, which is going to pieces in Jones' Inlet, stood the brunt of yesterday's storm better than was expected, and the Merritt chnpman Wrecking Company's managers have hopes of saving more of her cargo, though there are thirty feet of water in the storage compartments. Twenty five hundred eases of tea were taken aboard lighters which started for New York Tuesday night, and the wreckers will resume the work of removing the cargo today, if the high seas go down. Captain Kilgour.

with his wife, officers and twenty members of the crew are still quartered at Point Comfort, two miles north of the stranded ship. Captain Weldon. representing the board of underwriters, is also at the Point Lookout Life Saving Station. SPITE HOUSE MUST COME DOWN. Freeport Trustees Decide on the Extension of Lena Avenue.

Freeport, L. March fi The spite house which John J. Randall is building to prevent the extension of Lena avenue will have to come down as the village trustees last night, by a unanimous vote, granted the application for the extension of that, avenue in a straight line from Long Beach to Bayview avenue. To thwart the project, Mr. Randall commenced to build a two story house directly in front of Ihe avenue on his property and iie also put a gang of In borers lo work extending the avenue on an angle south of his dwelling.

He declares he will not remove the building nor permit his land to be condemned by a commission, but will continue laying out Lena aveue through his land and that of Valentine Smith to Bayview avenue, offering it to the village alter its completion. INJURED IN AN ACCIDENT. Ozone Park. L. March fi Bochle of this place was seriously injured a few days since while riding in a trolley car in Brooklyn.

A truck came in collision with the car and the pole, striking a window made the broken glass fly in all directions. Some of struck Mrs. Boehle in the face, cutting it badly. She was taken to the home of her sister, who lived nearby, where a physician was summoned and several stitches taken in her cheek and forehead. SUDDEN DEATH.

Richmond Hill. L. March fi Miss Edith Billinger, aged U' years, a resident of Pough keopsic. died suddenly of heart disease nt the Porter Eim street, Richmond Mill, last night. She had been nbout the house during the day and about 6 o'clock was taken with a fainting spell from which she never revived.

Dr. Moss was summoned, hut the young woman was dead when he by Hail. The Cent sJlotment of the stock of the Mergenthader Hortori Basket Machine Co. is being rapidly subscribed. Another advance in the selling price will occur as soon as this present allotment is exhausted.

Price to day, 40 cts sKare (par value, $1.00 It is but fair to state to intending purchasers that prompt action is advisable, as the mail subscriptions are very heavy. The New York Office of the Company is at 287 Broadway. such as a reception, dinner, party, you will find that nothing more dainty and delicious than WtLCH'S GRAPE JUICE can be served It can be used in a fruit punch, in lemonade, or alone, serve cold. Try it and you will be delighted. WELCH'S GRAPE JUICE is appreciated by cil, It is safe for young md old.

It is absolutely pure. Sold bv druggists and grocers. The Welch Grape Juice Westfleld. N. Y.

The Oak from Little Acorn grows. Great Strength from FLAKES show. Be welt be stront Eat Toasted Wheat Flakes Thoroughly Cooked. buildings. Mr.

White does not know that his tenants are afraid to hang their washing on the roof on account of the number of thefts of clothes which are constantly occurring. In conclusion, let Mr. White take charge ot his building for a short time and I think he will be ashamed to think that he has ever posed as the owner of model tenements. ONE DWELLERS. Brooklyn, March 4.

1902 IN JUDGE GARRETSON'S COURT. MrsvfRayhdr Said Judge Taylor Told 'Ser She Could Marry and He "Eaters a Denial. (Special to 1 he 'Eagle.) L. i Match Br the unexpected cross examination of'a witness in the Greenwich' Point Church cape yesterday, a Bcantial was mtfurthed which even caused Judge Garretson to turn his head away anil brought from liiin several caustic remarks as tohi5" opinion of connnonlaw marriages. The witness ia question was C.

12. Boy ton, a lay reader of Greenwich Point, and the son of the Rev. F. Boynton, for many years a minister residing in freeport. family is connected through marriage.

He had been railed to the stand by the plaintiff's counsel to testify as to what he kneApSFtGreeuw.ich Point After, Mr. Boynton had conclude.d his testimony; on' that topic, the attorney for the ctSnnueaoed his cross examination by asking the. witness he was a married man ag on being answered in the rtrTe witness was then asked "to state who; wffe vs, when 'tiiey were married and by whom. Ttie. answers to these ques tions.

brought out the fact that Mr. Boynton, the i'utness, had contracted; a commoniaw niartTage with Mrs. Anna Raynor over a year ago and that they had been liv'mg'aS' man, and wife since. On being cross examined further. Boynton testified that his so called wife's husband was still living at Froi'port, a few miles from Greenwich Point, that never been any divorce.

At this point, the defendent's attorney moved to strike out all the testimony of Mr. Boynton in regard torthe Vhurili mtttter on account of the witness's immorality, but this was objected to by the attorney for the plaintiff, whoostated that, lie would place Mrs. Boynton ron" the stand and show'that they were prcporly married. This was and Mrs. Boynton.

looK.inc. s4aart maae. matters worse by acknowledging tliat she 'knew her husband was living that; she left, him on account of His treatment of her and she also stated that she supposed she bad a right to marry again, saying: "It" I ani OUt 'mjstakep ifjpi attorney for the 3endan.t,. Judgfe of Hempstead is tfie one who told me This caused Mr. Taylor, to jump, to his feel with' a denial and it.

was, finally broucht out that the woman had c.ommence'd suit against her husband, for abandonment" before Judge Taylor when he was a justice of the At this point Judge Garretson remarked, "A commonlaw marriage covers a multitude of sins. bjjt hfiiaese is no marriage at all." Mrs.T;Bo"ynton was then excused from giyrn'g fiirt herrtestimony. es. The.pfamr Nnitnwnntac iva unable tn make her usual trip hetween Pert Bridgeport yesterday owing to th" snow storm. The.IIempste.

ui ttas.iirulJil' Light Companv will KIMin(r3amrUln3a0lkiWagjl C'dartKnpsJJ6Blijiety itid HQWIrte; hi! spring. The EaSSnv.Tbom. ts of Payville Congregational Church. mailo elaborate arninfcemrte for iv KUjropea'u Vib vclo tour ir the season of The. annual meeting of Suffolk 'mimy T.oilge of GooI Xe.mpl'tr was cnlilot at Tues fray" hy County Trmnlar Samuel Herigrs of lodges of the county wore representei by slxf a delegates.

s. League. of the Kirat Woo.l bajjn Presbyterian I'huroh listrned to lecture in Jhe vhurvli jLust nilu bv P. I Ainswonb. deptuy Mate supwlnVruli otptiblie instruction, whose subject was "The Syiii emncy of the United RBjass'iiriCErAi Ereeport.

L. March fi The annual meeting: pt y.illage trustees was held last night. The budget prepared by the board aggregates Jfi.SOO. as follows: village expenses Sl.oofl For; Board of Health 20" KoC.Firo rt.p;rtnu ltt r. I.i'Mi I'ofci maintenance sin 1.i;on 'ocistreet lighting eiol r.

j.hint Totfil 26, sen he report of Treasurer Baldwin shows balances for the year as follows: Cneral fon.l ItL ht fund. S211.7;:: furjfl. streei. int. rest fund.

street lights. tri, m. K. i Tula I hafcnce. Total disburs ineuts f.

i the yeor were 6 proftoslt Ion Lo. Japatds of AvaSlfrahd irgh't 'co'nTmiSsio'ners. each wiljJSe 'submitted to s. Sylvester." Shea' slvvorn in as vtrrage clejik Snd the board meet: 'tomorrow nighC "when a hearing on ebarges preferred against Theodore V. Fonda, foreman of Wide Awake Engine Company, will INTJRANCE COMPANIES'ilTJST PAY BlverhSaaC.

MaTcj BSUS. Haditah F. Benjamin oT Riverhead recovered $12,000 yesterday in Jtulge Smith's couraon', account of insurance policies in the pafjy of North the Greenwich In sunce Company lie' Ameriean Fire I.n.tir sntfe Company and The Company. Plaintiff sued to collect tiiese policies, which wore issued on the United States Hotel at Jacksonville. which was burned in the bit: tire l.

tsf 'May; TVi'cndant resisted payment on the gronnd that foreclosure proceedings were in progress when thK nolicies went into force hur It was proven thin.rj.he who wrocnthG: insurance was oognlzati; pffhis At the conclusion of the plaintiff's case Justice Smith directed a verdict tor plaintiff. CAPITAL STOCK INCREASED. Roanoke, 1.. March fi The Halting Hollow and Roanoke Telephone Cnuioaty has voted to increase its capital stock from $500 to $5,000. anil its action has b.

en by the statu nut lio. ies. The company will immediately isu itA shares of stock $25 per share, and wil! i ommence tri extend its lines through additional farming territory in Northville and Middle Roajl. 'i'he company, though bui year old. is already on a paying basis, and is a convenient means of eom munication bote.

ihe farmers and their markets. MUST PAY THE Riverhead, Mari a fir The action of Francis E. Grlmshaw. of Easthainpton against Samuel H. (Irdway yesterday was a suit to collect interest on account of rent due on house at Ensthntnptoii.

The defendant admitted rentinu the premises, but said that they were compelled to move on account of a pest of bedbugs. Mr. Grim 8hawreTsfme that" the hujrc wore tbe're only after he Oroways arrived, but Tiefore renting them the house none of them had ever been seen. He go; a verdict for the Villi amount. held eokbup.glary:.

Greenport, A. fi night John Pol lock, 20 years old. was caught by nep e.y Sheriff E. p. Jennings breaking into the dm; store of George II.

Corwin Co. on Main lie wan placed in the lockup ami arraigned before Justice I'. Terry yesterday afternoon, who heid him to nv.ei' the action of (ho Grand Jury. Sb rin' i.p.ins took the accused man in liie ounty jail at Hivcrhead this morning. OFFICERS ELECTED.

Atlantb niy. ll aeh ForVman. I 'n si foraiaa. tt.Tg Vrecland: se. i.

tar niy 1. perg tlnari. lal secretary. Alb I I ti jm A. P.ogera; trust.

s. i iiarles Molle, Frank ILIar.tle and William J. Mc'ay. 1 MORGAN LIBRARY BILL. Charles Jv Phillips Is Opposed; to: the Measure.

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Inclosed 1 'beg' to Sand you letter from: Phillips, one of the directors of the Brooklyn Public. Library, which was received too late to be read at the meeting of the Brooklyn Democratic Club on Friday evening, February 28, at which the Morgan bill was discussed. H. A. METZ.

New York, March 3. 1902. The letter follows: "Dear sir I am1 indebted to you for the invitation you have so courteously extended to me, but an engagement of pressing importance, which I cannot postpone, will prevent me from attending the meeting of tonight. "I feel, however, that it is my duty, both as a citizen and as a public officer, to register, in unequivocal terms, my disapproval ot the Morgan bill, which should never have been presented to the Legislature of "en York without previous and thorough consultation with the "directors of the Brooklyn Public Library, even had the framers of that bill felt convinced that all its provisions were in accord with the views of each and every one of the directors named. "This bill is open to many objections, some of which, in view of the popular indignation which has been aroused.

will, I doubt not, be promptly removed; but there is oho radical objection which is likely to remain if the promoters of the bill, can secure even tolerable support and which, if not wholly eliminated, will necessarily entail consequences or the most serious nature. I refer to the plan or converting an institution, publicly founded, publicly governed and publicly supported, into a corporation, which, though publicly supported, will, in effect, be privately governed, and that perpetuity, without the least, accountability to. any one in what concerns its poliey. its tone and. its sentiment.

"This plan contrary to all the instincts and traditions of our people, the nature of our polity and the known wishes of an overwhelming majority of the entire community. The eminent respectability or the probable trustees of the proposed corporation is granted, but is a matter of no consequence. It Is the principle involved which must be considered and before all minor Issues must give way without condition. We cannot afford to establish a precedent, which, if allowed at all, will apply quite as much to the Board of Education or to the Dock Department, or any other department, as to the Brooklyn Public Library. It is wholly irrelevant to cite the case of the N.

Y. Free Public Library. That institution was privately, not publicly, founded: the estimable and enlightened gentlemen who created it spent many millions' of their own money to establish and' maintain it, and flnallv nresented it, as a superb gift, to the public, provided its management was allowed to remain as originally fixed. They did not seek to convert a publicly founded institution into r. privately governed corporation.

and to suggest that the Legislature approve a revolutionary act. "Brooklvn Would welcome the union or the Montague Street Library with the; public system already established; but that library should' come to the people as' the free and untrammeled gift of generous citizens, seeking by their generosity to prove their confidence in those to whom they themselves owe everything they have. believe me very truly yours. (Signed) J. PHILLIPS.

"New York, N. February 28, 1902." WHITE'S MODEL TENEMENTS. Behind the Times Declares One of the Occupants. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: In to night's icsue of the Eagle you publish a speech delivered by. Mr.

White at a dinner of the Municipal Club, on tenement house life. Now. to be brief, Mr. White knows as much about his "model tenements" as General Miles knows about the canteens. Mr.

White's company employs a superintendent who has the management of the 'buildings under him are agents who collect rents and supervise repairs, and naturally they are anxious to keep down expenses; result is that the buildings, which were models twenty five years ago are away behind the times to day. This can be verified 'by having a tenement house inspector pay a visit to the.