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it his was it the debt. the he he are was his a Think has have great the promised of and what as a his in the year your post him pox- the as in In BY A JOB BAKER SPEAKS HIS MIND Attacks Public Officials Who Are the Servants of the Corporations. PAYS HIS RESPECTS TO JEROME. Platt, Odell, McCarren and Ryan Come In for Their Shares--Octopus in the Labor Union. Robert "Anti-Pass" Baker, who recently lost a municipal job at the end of three days tenure because of his craving for free and vociferous speech, went on an eloquent octopus 'hunt out in East New York last night.

In a lecture delivered before the Men's Club of the Glenmore Avenue Presbyterian Church, on "The Functions of the Government," the former Congressman and short term secretary of the Dock Department trimmed the of the railroads, ineurance companies other corporatentacles, tions he was able to round up in his INquiry, and then took a few scattering shots at Odell, Depew, Platt, McCarren, Harriman, Belmont and Ryan. Even District Attorney Jerome did not escape the arrows from the Baker bow. The speaker castigated him for failing to act against the Metropolitan Traction Company, styling him a "eelf-exploiter of his own virtue." Mr. Baker, who now has enough "exs" before his name to supply a new algebra, WAs the Chestnut etreet station of the met at Kings County Elevated Railroad by a special committee, which escorted him to the church building, at the corner of Glenmore avenue and Doscher street. As soon as the applause which followed his introduction to the audience had subsided, he plunged into his subject with all the fire and abandon of speech which cost him hie place in the city government.

functions of the government," said do the things the people need he, "are to and require. Special privileges should 1ot be granted. All the present evils of abuse have arisen through the indifference those who have never asked themselves, 'What are the governmental evil of the government, I "The greatest the sin of omission. As an illuscharge, is tration, let me recall to your minds a speech delivered by Clarence Shearn, at the Grand Central Palace, in the last municipal camStanding before a vast audience, Mr. paign.

Shearn declared that only a week ago in a office Thomas F. Ryan had paid to Benjamin B. Odell, the sume of downtown He asked what purpose that im000. mense sum had foen" paid, and answered his question by asserting that it was handown ed over to induce Odell to prevent cothe hesion of the Republican bosses to overthe government of Ryan. Mr.

Shearn throw Odell's treachery and told his hearscored how only a few months before Ryan had ers led the delegation from Virginia to the national convention. "Though a non-resident," continued Mr. Baker, "Ryan is possessed of special priviin this city and probably did pay the leges money, as charged. himself doesn't deny it; Odell only says that he hasn't met Ryan for many months. Now, the shocking, part of it all was that no protest was ever entered against the startling charge.

I awoke the following morning, expecting to find the papers filled with it. I thought surely to see the authorities take some action. By the one it was dismissed as a incident; by the other it was never noticed. "At that time I knew an English editor who was stopping in the city. I spoke to him about the matter.

He listened attentively, reflected for a minute and then exclaimed: 'Baker, you people are "I never asked him whether he meant that the American people at large were corrupt, or merely the officials. assume, howthat he referred solely to the latter ever, class. If so, what he said was true. Enormous sums are paid to legislators for the legislation they enact. Our legislator's are longer our servants; they are the servants of the corporations who pay them.

"It is in the granting of special privilthat the evils of which I speak lie. eges If the government used its functions, goods could not be delivered. Then there would be an end of these abuses." Mr. Baker referred to a chapter in the latest book of Henry George, entitled "The Menace of which a meeting between a judge and three legislators at the Montauk Club is described. The judge, he said, remarked that the chairman of the insurance committee received $25,000 annually from the insurance companies, but one of the legislators of the party, a state senator, corrected him by declaring that the chairman didn't get so much as that, that the chairman of the railroad committee was the only legislator who received so large an amount.

'Here." exclaimed Mr. Baker, "Is a specifie charge, Only the names of the men comprising the party are left unmentioned, and it would not be a very difficult task to discover them. Yet no attention has ever been paid to the charge. It has been suffered to pass unnoticed. Then we all remember the accusation that Tom Lawson made against Senator Pat McCarren of our own borough.

Lawson accused the Senator of accepting 8 regular retainer from the Standard Oil a year at first; $20,000 a year at the present time. Lawson added that his information came from the highest source-from the man who paid the retainer, Henry H. Rogers. "What was the answer to the Lawson charge? Nothing, but, 'He's a In spite of Lawson's offer to forfeit $100,000 if his assertion could be disproved; in spite of his statement that he would welcome a libel suit in the case, McCarren has fallen back on his master's policy of 'addition, division and Everybody knows that the Standard Oil people wouldn't admit McCarren to their homes on a social footing. Why, then, does he get it? Because he has violated for years the fundamental principles of government.

Because he has given to the Standard Oil the property of the people. "Again we have the testimony of Senator Thomas C. Platt on the witness stand before the insurance investigating committee to the effect that he received political contributions from the insurance compantes, together with his admission that receiving of those contributions imposed moral obligation on the recipients not to oppose the interests of the givers. 'Moral obligation'how can there be any moral obligation in a case where there is so obliquity? Senator Platt, I fear, become a decrepit old man. "Even more interesting instructive is the case of the lamented Chauncey M.

Depew-the 'genial he was once affectionately termed. Depew not only put hig hands into pocketg of the widows and orphans; he allowed $200.000 to be taken from the coffers of which he was a custodian for the benefit of company which bore his name. True, to make good the amount if the borrower defaulted. But when it found that the company was trouble and couldn't pay did he Why, he asserted that he had taken legal say? advice and that not legally responsible for the of deplorable moral condition--a man nominally servant, actually servant of speculators, of his own employers and those controlled by his employers, who first employed a lobbyist! "If the people had asked themselves the question: functions of would never have been sible for him to put hands the treasury: would never been possible for him, in seat al Washington, to vote the interests of the corporations after year; it would never have been possible tor Jim to have held up in the House of Representatives for ten years the bill providing for all uptown post office in the Borough of Manhattan, simply because the corporation which employed him didn't want a office up town. If the people had asked themselves Lant.

question Platt could never Lave died Hulte. L. of is 25 of Bakers the THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY.

FEBRUARY 14. 1906. 13TH GETS ITS ORDERS FOR THE METZ REVIEW Drills in March to Be Devoted Exclusively to Coast Artillery Work, GEN. GRANT TO REVIEW 14TH. Takes the Place of General Sickles, Who Is 11-Election in 13th Regimental Association.

In orders Colonel Austen, of the Thirteenth Regiment, last night assigned the Third Battalion to the artillery practice the night of the review by Controller Metz, February 28, Company will furnish the guard for the night. After March 5, enlisted men ordered as special detail for artillery instruction for the Gould trophy competition will not be required to attend drills with their companies on the same week, but will be credited on attendance report as they may be present or absent at the schools. drills in March will be devoted exclusively to coast artillery work, with details made as far as possible to conform with the instruction given by Lieutenant Edwards in the schools. The detail for Gould trophy work will be considered as a first relief; the detail at regular company drill as a second relief. For artillery duty first relief companies G.

H. I and will be under orders of Major Davis. For artillery duty first relief companies A. B. and under orders of Major Ashley.

Artillery work for the second reliet at company drills will be under orders and supervision of the battalion commanders of the battalions to which companies may be attached. The following is given as the composition of the uniform of enlisted men and occasions on which they are to be worn, as prescribed in orders from general headquarters: Full dress uniform-Full dress coat, breast cord, full dress trousers, full dress cap, black shoes, white gloves, russet leather belt and cartridge box; to be worn at reviews, parades and other ceremonies under arms. Service uniform--Service coat, service breeches and leggings, service cap, russet leather shoes; for habitual wear in garrison. Under arms, add olive drab cotton gloves, russet leather belt and cartridge box; for duty under arms in garrison (company drills): Service coat, service breeches, leggins, russet leather shoes. service hat.

(cam: paign), field belt, olive drah. cotton gloves; at target practice, on marches, maneuvers, and in the field. The regimental association last night elected these officers: President, W. A. Turpin; vice president, Sergeant H.

L. Hillman, of Company; recording secretary, Corporal W. G. Viemeister, of corresponding secretary, Sergeant G. Sweeney, of treasurer, Lieutenant Frank Dean, of track captain, Private E.

Finley of quartermaster, Sergeant J. McNevin, non-commissioned staff. The annual dinner will be held the first week in March. A committee, of which Private Finley is chairman, is to select the date of the spring games. The association has voted money to give the office of secretary up to date equipment, such as typewriter, etc.

The association received with marked evidences of satisfaction the news that early in the evening that champion Pulaski, the crack quarter miler of the University of Pennsylvania, had joined Company E. The monthly meeting of the George D. Russell Camp No. 43, United Spanish War Veterans, was held Saturday evening in the mess room at the Twelfth Regiment armory. Lieutenant Colonel George D.

Russell, major of the Thirteenth Battalion during the Spanish War, presided. The evening marked the beginning of a series of camp fires to be held after each meeting. The supper served was an old-timo camp one, consisting of pork and beans, etc. After the supper many anecdotes of the days of '98 were related. The George D.

Russell Camp is composed largely of the old Thirteenth Regiment men, who served with the Twenty-second Regiment during the war, but it also has a large: percentage of members from other Regiments. Its membership is increasing rapidly and it has a large balance in the treasury. An invitation is extended to any Spanish War veteran to join its ranks. Meetings are held on the second Saturday of every month at the Thirteenth Regiment armory. Fred Grant to take the place of General Daniel E.

Sickles as reviewing officer of the Fourteenth Regiment the night of February 24. General Sickles' ill health prevents his taking the review. A regimental drill preparatory to the review will be had next Monday night. William Johnston, of the field music of the Twenty-third Regiment, is to be transferred to the Fourteenth and detailed as drum maior. His permanent appointment 10 that position will follow if he proves satisfactory.

The Veteran Association is planning a large reception and review for a date in April. The proceeds will be devoted partly to charity. In orders from regimental headquarters the men are praised for their prompt response to the call to act as escort to the body of Dr. Fowler. Captain Kimball.

of Company, has offered a prize of $75 for recruiting. It is expected that the review of the Fortyseventh Regiment on Saturday night, February 24, by Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. retired, will be the event of the season, as it is intended to give the veteran soldier: a hearty reception.

Extensive preparations toward this end are being made by Brevet Brigadier General John G. Eddy and Lieutenant Colonel Barthman. Extensive arrangements are under way for the review of Company by General Horatio C. King, on the night of April 27, at the Marcy avenue armory. During the evening there will also be an exhibition of wall sealing by members of the company and an extended order drill.

A delegation from Company F. Captain Snyder commanding, will be guests of the Field Music of the First Regiment of Newark, N. this evening. A committee of Company composed of Lieutenant Roux, First Sergeant Blume, Sergeant Burns, Privates E. W.

Patterson and Littman, has been authorized to arrange for a theater party for the entire company. At the last meeting of the company the following elvil officers were elected: Captain E. E. Jannicky, president: Lieutenant W. C.

Hanton. treasurer; Sergeant W. J. Jackson. financial secretary, and Lance Corporal W.

S. Thompson, recording secretary. Private H. G. Hammond has also been selected to act 08 track captain and have general supervision over the athletic members of the company.

Second Lieutenant J. B. G. Dickinson, Company has been nominated for the office of first lieutenant. Captain Furey has requested General Eddy to set a date for the election.

Privates Ernest Reid and Walter H. A1- bert of the same company have been appointed acting corporals. BOSS BAKERS SINGERS' BALL. Brooklyn German Organization Holds Tenth Annual Event. The annual mask ball of the Brooklyn Boss Bakers' Singing Society at Prospect Hall last night was one of the most successful and brilliant events held by the society during the last ten years.

Other organizations were largely represented, including the Brooklyn Boss Bakers' Society, Willlamsburg Boss Bakers Society, Williamsburg Bose Singing Society, Independent Quartet. Club, Brooklyn Boss Bakers Women's Society, Brooklyn Boss Bakers Bowling Club and Columbia Bowling Club. The ball was opened with a ballet, dances by the Misses Anita Lafrenies, Lizzie and Tillte Klein, followed by a tableau, showing Prince and Princess Carnival, impersonated by Conrad Schneider and Miss Hanna Klein, respectively surrounded by the members floor committee, dressed in Louis XIV. costume, A minuet, danced by the committee, closed the introductory scene. TAMMANY'S EFFORT TO OFFSET HEARST'S WORK Charles F.

Murphy Leads the Braves Before the Cities Committee at Albany. TO SUPPORT GRADY'S BILL. Want to Create a. Board of Control of Public Utilities for New York City. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, February 14-Tammany Hall contributed a first class show for the hayseeds yesterday afternoon.

Most of the big braves came here with Leader Charles F. Murphy to be present at the hearing on Senator Grady's bill to create a Board of Control of Public Utilities, which was gotten up by the organization as an offset to Hearst's municipal ownership propaganda. The countrymen were surprised not to see Murphy and his assistants in war paint and eagle quills. The Senate chamber, where the Cities Committee met for the day, was crowded by the curious. The chief speech was made by Congressman W.

Bourke Cochran, who came here from Washington especially to represent the Tammany organization. The drift of his speech was that the government could not operate franchises as cheaply as corporations or so effectively; that the city should operate only in cases where corporations were unable or unwilling to give the city efficient service. For this purpose the Grady bill, which creates a board of five commissioners to supervise franchise operating corporations, was introduced. Mr. Cochran came here fresh from Washington and the debate on the rate in which he took a part.

The first speaker was, Charles V. Fornes, ex-president of the of Aldermen, who told of his work and experience during the last four years. He said the same principles must be applied to the management of the city's affairs as of private business, and emphasized the fact that the city had no real control. over the corporations owning public franchises in its streets. M.

Warley Platzek, who was the next speaker, said that two principles were involved in the bill the municipal control of public utilities, and, second, home rule. He said that he stood on the last city platform with the Democratic party. To have the utility corporations controlled from outside the city, 'he said, was manifestly unfair. He thought the bill a very moderate one, in that its powers were largely suggestive. The term of the commissioners was made during good behavior, in order to divorce the board from politics.

It not only guards the sacred rights of property, but gives right of appeal to the courts. The passage of the bill would be a great boon to the people in that it meets the demands of progressive civilization. Lewis Nixon said the Board of Public Utilities provided for in the Grady bill would be the connecting link between those who are now operating such utilities and the people who are dependent upon them for service. There ought. to be some public board, he said, to which complaint could be made and from which a remedy for bad conditions could be obtained.

Senator Grady closed the hearing with a detailed explanation of the provisions of the bill. "If you believe that the members of the board should not be appointed, by the he said, friends of the bill will object to your making the offices elective. The committee can do anything it wants with the bill, so long as it preserves the principle on which it 'is framed. We who advocate the bill believe that there is danger to orderly government present management and control of public utilities in New York City." JUSTICE GARRETSON TO PRESIDE Nassau County Supreme Court Convenes on 1 -Civil Calendar Is Heavy. One Murder Case.

(Special to the Eagle.) Mineola, L. I. February -The general calendar for the February trial term of Nassau Supreme Court, which opens here next Monday with Justice Garrett J. Garretson presiding, has been issued by County Clerk Cheshire. The preferred calendar shows but four cases.

Among these is the action for libel by John Vincent, to the Nassau supervisors of 1903-4, against Alonzo M. Onderdonk, publisher of the Hempstead Inquirer, Mr. Vincent asks $25,000 damages. The case was dismissed by Justice Keogh a year or so ago, but the Appellate Division ordered a new trial. The special term calendar shows twentyseven cases.

Among these is the action of George Wallace against William H. Jones, chairman of the Nassau supervisors, and others who were members of the early board of the county, to recover certain monies charged the county, illegally, it is alleged, for official services. This is the action Mr. Wallace had difficulty in getting into court, the Court of Appeals finally deciding in his favor. Mr.

Wallace also has an action on the calendar against James Dean, former president of Freeport village, and others who served with him as trustees and assessors, to set aside certain taxes on his property. alleged to be levied without authority of law and not consistent with it. The regular trial calendar contains fiftythree cases, a lesser number than usual. A number of these are actions against the Long Island Railroad Company, the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, the New York and Long Island Traction Company, the New York City Railroad Company' and other corporations. Harvey Murdock, an architect, has an action against Gould and there are several suits growing out of- the recent clash between the independent baymen and oyster planters of Hempstead township.

The Grand Jury will have a number of important criminal cases. to consider, among them being that of G. Cleveland Poole, charged with the murder of Charles O'Hara at Port Washington. FIREMEN'S WORK PRAISED. Brown Co.

Send Letters of Thanks, With Checks, to Richmond Hill and Morris Park Volunteers. Richmond Hill, L. February 14-George W. Brown in whose stables a fire broke out on the night of February 6, have sent the following letter 'to Foreman Thomas P. Donovan, of Morris Park Engine Company, No.

1: "Richmond HIll, L. February 8, 1906. "Mr. Thomas P. Donovan, Foreman Morris Park Engine Company 1: "Dear sir--We want to thank your company for the services rendered on the occasion of the fire at our stables last Tuesday night, February 6.

Our fire department congratulated upon. its' efficient "services and ever-ready response when duty calls. "As further mark of appreciation will you accept the inclosed check for any use your company may see fit to put it, and oblige, yours very truly, "GEORGE A. W. BROWN.

Similar letters, with inclosures, were sent to Hook and Ladder Companies Nos. 1 and 2, and Hose Companies Nos. 1 and 2 of the Richmond Hill Fire Department, all of which did efficient work at the art sented the United States Express Company in the Senate of the United States. "If such holders of special privileges as the Brooklyn Rapid Transit and similar corporations did not exist, there would be no corruption. Such corporations exist in violation of our constitutional rights.

When, in any business, special favors become necessary to its conduct, the government should step in and itself exercise the special privileges granted. "Governor Folk said that the pass was the first downward step in the path of a public servant. He spoke truth. He, of all the men who ever occupied a place corresponding to that of a district attorney, is the only man who has had the courage to strike a blow high up. When he discovered all the ring corruption in St.

Louis he did not, after the general fashion, select a few poor aldermen and pack them off to prison. No, his aim was higher; it was the real criminals that he determined to reach. He packed more than half of the legislators off to jail and then he placed in the docket the rich men who had been the recipients of their favors. He went after 'Ned' Butler and all the rest. "Now.

it was more than four years ago that I had the pleasure of hearing a certain candidate for office in New York County declare that he had papers in his possession which would put certain men connected with the Metropolitan Traction Company in prison, and that, if he were elected, he would put them there. He has since made the same assertion in the presence of some of my friends. "What, let me ask, has the District Attorney of New York County ever done toward the fulfiliment of his promise? What step has he ever taken in the direction of sending the Metropolitan traction offenders to jail? He has done nothing; he has not taken a single step. Even when it developed, as it recently did, that the Metropolitan had bribed jurors, that these men actually bought verdicts, he made no move-this self exploiter of his own virtue. 'Again let me clal your attention to Henry L.

Rockwell, recently appointed a member of the State Railroad Commission as a representative of the railroad workers. Rockwell lives at Yonkers; he had been in the employ of the New York Central for more than forty years; he might be supposed to know something of the railroad situation between this city and Albany. Yet this man has the effrontery to tell us that he had never known a man to ride on a pass on the New York Central-he, for a long time a conductor. And what does this go to show? reach Simply down that into the the tentacles of the octopus very labor union and pick up a man who is safe, a man who will not blab, a man who will lie. Such is the hypnotic influence of this corporation.

And it is because we ourselves do not operate this road--and all the other public utility corporations--that this condition of affairs has been brought about. "Once more permit me to invite your attention to the recent insurance investigation. Do you recollect how. when E. H.

Harriman was on the stand, and asked if Odell it was that not he because of his with possessed his power, he replied: 'I should rather say that it is because of his relations with me that Governor Odell has There, indeed, was a cynical assertion of power assertion, blatant, let out in a moment of mental aberration, perchance, that he temporary could control Odell and through him the Legislature. "Right here in Brooklyn we are victims of the same conditions. We rebel sometimes; we rebel for a quarter of a minute, usually in the strictest privacy. True, the B. R.

T. does not hand out passes to the legislators--that would be dangerous for the recipients. Their constituents to travel on the cars of the are forced B. R. and it would be embarrassing for man or senator to pull out assemblyan a pass in the presence of his constituents.

As the T. and B. R. other railroad corporations in this city do not issue operating passes to the legislators. through what channels do work their influence? How they trol? do they get conthe "Senator Frawley furnished the key to answer when he last fall that he had got jobs for 1,400 openly men boasted city.

in this How did he get those because jobs? Was it the corporations loved the Oh, no; he got those jobs because man? the corporation men that are mental operating governmen on functions their realize that having those payrolls means power for them. They know that when time arrives the men who the these proper can be hold jobs to it that depended upon at the primaries to see be 110 delegates are elected inimical to the interests of the who will employ them. They will vote as Bryan men who as Belmont say. and "The gravest failure is of the its failure to maintain government equal rights--to his see to it that every individual equal is secured in right to the soil. That is thing which, so far as I know, somement does.

no governcured? can those rights be How by a system of sewill absorb Only taxation, which all values. place them in the treasury, and then distribute equally among the people." 11,000 LOTS SOLD AT BELLPORT The Last of the Old Dunton-Hageman Syndicate Holdings Disposed Of. Location of Bicycle R. R. (Special to the Eagle.) Bellport, L.

February 14-The Broadway Syndicate, of Brooklyn, headed by W. H. Agricola, of 1466 Broadway, Brooklyn, corner Putnam avenue, bought yesterday, through Theodore C. Warren and George B. Ackerly, 11,000 the last of the Suburban Investment Company's holdings in the Town of Brookhaven, for $30,000, or at the rate of $30 per acre.

The tract is about six miles in length and extends both sides of Dunton avenue, from Great South Bay north a point north of the main line of the Long Island Rallroad, west of Medford. The plot, originally owned jointly by Frederick W. Dunton and George W. Hagerman, consisted of about 10,000 acres of so-called scrub oaks and pine barrens and was considered worth $3 to 4 a acre when bought by Dunton and Hagerman. They cut it up into building lots, advertised liberally all over the country and sold 100,000 at from $25 to $50 each to 16,000 purchasers, scattered all over the country, from Maine to California, and some lots were bought by people in Europe and Asia and Australia.

Some work was actually done on the property and the brush was cleared up and 200 miles of streets plowed out; fitty-two yoke of oxen and 500 men worked for a long time at the job. Dunton's proposed bicycle railroad was to be built through the property and a model section, a mile and a half long, was constructed and operated near Hagerman Station. This has since been taken down after $50,000 was lost in the venture. At present, none of the lots, except those upon which houses are bullt, some 100 or more, are put on the assessors' rolls. The Suburban Company pays taxes on them on the acreage basis and collects from cents upward each from the owners, thus netting a handsome income, said to be $5,000 per annum from this source.

SAENGERBUND'S MASK BALL. Women's Chorus to Celebrate Fourteenth Anniversary. A final rehearsal took place last night. for the mask ball to be held by the Brooklyn Saengerbund, to- morrow night, when the committee in charge will appear in Tyrolean costumes, as the affair is to be a "Ball in the Alps." Tyrolean singers, under direction of Peter Voigt, will entertain during the evening, as will Stretz's Arion Orcheetra. The women's chorus will celebrate its fourteenth anniversary on March 4, when a musical farce will be the special attraction.

The men's chorus making arrangements for the annual concert to be given under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute at Agsociation Hall, on March 22. SUDDEN DEATH AT HEMPSTEAD. (Special to the Eagle.) Hempstead, February 14-Samuel a life-long resident of this village, suddenly Monday, of heart failure, 1 in his 69th year. He was found witting in a chair, by his wife. Justice Charles F.

Gittens was notified and decided that Hults had died of heart disease, from which he suffered at times. The deceased leaves a widow and several children. Funeral services were held to-day. ALMOST CAME TO BLOWS AT M. O.

LEAGUE MEETING Cries of Trickery and Fraud and the Lie Passed in the Third District PRESIDENT SMITH ACCUSED. Apologies Demanded, but None Given. Adams Lecture on Single Tax Postponed. Personalities were freely indulged in, apologies were demanded, but none given, cries of fraud and trickery were raised, and everybody in the room seemed determined to fight to the bitter end, at a meeting of the Third Assembly District Municipal Ownership Club last night, in 504 Henry street. Charles F.

Adams, secretary to Borough President Coler, had been invited to address the members of the single club, but the controversy among them lasted so long that Mr. Adams diplomatically wormed himself out of making an extended address. So bitter was the controversy at times that fears were entertained by some that blows would be struck, for the accusations of fraud and trickery were frequently and boldly made. Grieved and a trifle angered by tho direct charge that he had held 3 caucus in his own home and there arranged a slate of officers, President William T. Smith, left the chair and declared with conerately lied.

Applause greeted the aggressiderable emphasis that his accuser a delibgive answer. All the trouble would have been averted perhaps, if the members had not excited themselves about the adoption of a resolution to affiliate with the Independence League. James Boyle declared that the constitution of the club forbade the adoption of such a resolution and opposed it on that ground. The opposition led to the charges and counter charges and kept the meeting in a turmoil from 8:30 till 10 o'clock. It seemed to be the general impression that the club had a right to affiliate with the Independence League without consulting the local county committee.

Members expressed themselves on that point freely. Others maintained that the ward organization is subservient to the county committee, the county committee to the state organization and the tsate organization to the national organization. In demanding that the club proceed regularly, as he expressed it, and comply with the rules as printed in the constitution, Boyd stated that there had been much trickery and fraud and that it was time to do things openly and squarely. He said he knew of certain things that had been done in connection with the club that the clubs of the other parties would not have done. President Smith demanded an explanation, saying that the remarks of the speaker were a reflection on the club and perhaps on him in his capacity as president.

Boyle rose, or rather jumped up, and divested himself of his coat. His face was white. "Yes." he shouted, "I'll tell you about the trickery." Then he declared President Smith had called a caucus to pick out a slate of offlcers in direct opposition to the very idea of the municipal ownership and direct nomination plan. The meeting was in the president's house. He said the old officers were ignored in the deliberations.

He said Smith was like the men in the other parties, who wanted to run things. He claimed Smith tried to turn down the labor people in the club and on the committees. These remarks did not seem to meet with the approval of the majority of the members of the club. Everybody, with the exception of a few, wished to tackle Boyle, but President Smith surrendered his chair to the vice-president and defended himself. He said he did not call a caucus.

He declarod his opinion had been asked about the qualifications of certain persons for office and that he answered. He would do the same thing again. He didn't consider that inconsistent with the idea of the direct nomination system. "I brand the statement that there was ever a caucus a lie," said Smith, with much deliberation. "The trouble is that Boyle tried to trick us.

He tried to have his own friends placed at the head of our committee list, but I saw his duplicity and I placed them at the bottom. He tried to trick us, but we turned the tables on him." Smith demanded an apology and then sat down. Boyle Jumped up. So did six others. All wanted to speak.

All were excited. One man accused of Boyle of having registered him as declining a nomination for an office, when he had never declined. Boyle didn't apologize to Smith. The president finally put the motion that the club should join the Independence League, and it was passed, but not unanimously. Mr.

Adams was then introduced. He said it was too. late to discuss the single tax question, because it required much time to do that and his time then was too limited. He expressed some pleasure over the heated arguments of the meeting, saying that they are good for the people. They have a tendency, he said, to increase the interest of the people in affairs and make them more active.

The activity of the people in the affairs of government is what is needed, he said. INTERVENTION WITH RUSSIA. Congressman Law Tells Brownsville Hebrews President and State Department Will Act for Best. Some time ago the Young Men's 'Republican League of Brownsville adopted resolutions extending sympathy to the persecuted Jews in Russia, and calling upon the United States Government to intervene in their behalf. A committee was then appointed, consisting of Jacob Holtzmann, chairman; Paul J.

Epstein, Isadore M. Rosenblum and Joseph Krisel. This resolution was forwarded to Congressman Charles B. Law, with a request that he bring the matter before the proper authorities. The congressman conferred with President Roosevelt and was by him referred to the Department of State.

He subsequently had numerous conferences with Secretary Root and Assistant Secretaries Bacon an1 Adee, and requested them to define the position of this government toward Russia on this important question. In accordance with this request the Department of State forwarded to the congressman an official letter in which it defined its position. This letter is embodied in the letter of Mr. Law to the chairman of the committee. In his letter to Congressman Law, Assistant Secretary Bacon said: this juncture, any action by this government looking to the relief of the Jews in Russia would be perhaps and I fear probably, inopportune and unavailing.

With the hoped -for establishment of a more liberal form of government and the restoration of administrative control over the scenes of the occurrences, which are so greatly to be deplored, this government may look for a practicable response to its repeated solicitation of freer treatment of American Hebrews, and may be in a position to exert effielent good influence toward the more liberal treatment of all Jews in Russia, and their better protection from the consequences of deep-lying racial antagonisms. The problem is one which strongly attracts the sympathetic attention of this government." Referring to this letter Congressman Law, in a letter to the committee, said: "It is my belief that no man holds a higher place in the esteem and confidence of American Jews and the American people, generally, than our President, Theodore Roosevelt, and our secretary of state, Ellhu Root. They have repeatedly shown their abhorrence of that species of barbarous intolerance and fanatical bigotry that has given rise to the atrocious barbarities inflicted upon the helpless and defenseless Jews of Russia, and I believe that the extent to which this government may intervene consistently with its own welfare and the welfare of the persecuted Jews above referred to, may be safely left in their hands for Initial action. Whatever action they may at any time during my term of office recommend to Congress, looking to the alleviation of the sufferings of the Russian Jews will receive my hearty and energetic support." SOUTH SIDE SUBWAY. East New Yorkers Want R.

T. Commissioners to Go Over the Route. Interest bas not waned in the Southside Subway Association, and the meeting held in Torborg's Hall, Pitkin avenue and' Linwood street, night, was well attended and showed the residents of the souththat' side of the Ward are. just as earnest as plan' to have a Twenty-sixthe subway run through the section, President Martin Pfeiffer presided and Secretary Edmund Gallagher recorded. On a motion made by Jacob Rubin, chairman of the finance committee, the associadecided to invite the Board of Transit Commission and other officials to visit the Twenty-sixth Ward and go over route of the subway, as advocated by the association.

A committee was. appointed to fix a date with the commission and report at the next meeting, February 27. The association branched out as a sort of board of trade at this meeting, although. it has heretofore confined itself to subway, and subway matters only. Messrs.

Brunner, Donnelly and Schwarting were appointed by President Pfeiffer, to see the Brooklyn Rapid Transit officials about the running of the Liberty avenue trolleys. BROOKLYN SOCIETY. A Weddings suddenly take first place in the Society news of the day, chiefly hitherto announced weddings. Yesterday there was married quietly from the home of her grandmother, Mrs. M.

Herriman, 92 Remsen street, Miss Caroline Dow. Miss Dow became Mrs. Philip Hanson E. Hiss, jr. Concerning Miss Dow and Dr.

Hiss this column said at the time of the announcing of engagement some months ago: "Miss Dow is a daughter of Abbot Low Dow, of Columbia Heights, and on her mother's side she is the granddaughter of Mrs. M. M. Herriman, of Remsen street, with whom she spends a great amount of her time. This summer she is with Mrs.

Herriman at New Canaan, the colony popular nowadays among Brooklynites, Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff Leeming, Edward Tasker Howard and Miss Ruth Howard, Mr. and Mrs. H.

Day Atwater, and lately Mr. and Mrs. Sturgis Coffin and Mr. and Mrs. Johnston de Forest being among the representative people of this borough who have located there.

Both Miss Dow's sisters are now married, Miss Margaret Dow being Mrs. Ernest Greene and Miss Cornelia Herriman Dow Mrs. Charles Foster Bancroft. The latter's wedding was this past June, and was very quietly solemnized from Mrs. Herriman's town house in Remsen street.

Abbot Low Dow, the father--a cousin of Seth Low, A. A. Low and William G. Low-married again last December; his bride being Miss Carola Sanford, daughter of the noted General Henry S. Sanford.

Dr. Hiss' residence is 262 West Eightythird street, Manhattan. He is a brilliant Johns Hopkins and Columbia graduate, and has had the honor of having been put upon the Pneumonia Commission. The Rev. Richard W.

Dow, assisted. by the Rev. H. P. Dewey of the Church of the Pilgrims, officiated.

At noon to-day, in Christ Church chantry, there was a bridal of no little interest, that of Miss Florence Hopkins Ingalls of 234 St. Johns place, youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry Ingalls, and Philip Russell Wilbur, son of Mrs. Philip Cornell Wilbur, of 62 Sterling place and Oysof the bride's to father this was the very quietter Bay, L.

I. Because of the recent death est of weddings, and no reception followed it. The Rev. Dr. Arthur Kinsolving, rector of Christ Church, officiated.

There were two matrons of honor, a maid of honor, a best man and two ushers in the wedding party. Miss Ingalls wore a frock of white crepe de chine and carried bride roses and lilies of the valley. Her three attendants were in gowns of white organdie over white silk, and they had white hats and bunches of white carnations. The matrons of honor were the bride's two sisters, Mrs. Harry Sanderson Morris (Miss Mary Ingalls) of Manhattan, and Mrs.

Howard Edwin Sumner (Miss Gertrude Ingalls) of Worcester, Mass. Miss May Wilbur, the bridegroom's sister, was maid of honor. The best man was Augustine Rice Platt and the ushers Frank Luther and Harry W. Spencer. To-night is the marriage of Miss Anna Kirk Valentine and James Willets, of Glen Cove, L.

I. This will be another most quiet wedding, solemnized from the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Valentine, 111 Mark's place. It will be a "Friends ceremony," which is of quite uncommon interest and notability in this day and generation.

This ends the wedding programme of the moment. So far as now appears the next bridal on the calendar is that of Miss Miriam Pope Bagg and George Phelps Fort, next Monday evening in the Church of the Incarnation. The event of the week now is Mr. and Mrs. Robert Low Pierreponts "Children's Party." at the residence of John Jay Pierrepont (the old Pierrepont Mansion, 1 Pierrepont place), on Friday night, Last Saturday evening witnessed a most interesting occasion.

It was a "housewarming" in the "Fiske and Ocean avenue, until recently the home of Mr. and Mrs. George P. Fiske, formerly of the Heights. Host and hostess were this "Mansion's" new occupants, Mr.

and Mrs. T. B. Ackerson. There were over 300 present at this large reception.

Mrs. Ackerson had with her an extensive receiving party, all in white. She herself was gowned in white aeolion cloth. The supper table was in green and white. It was the most extensive piece of entertaining in Flatbush thus far, this winter.

To-morrow night is the euchre and dance of the Visitation Alumnae at the Pouch Gallery, a reception to Bishop McDonnell coming before the euchre. There will be a big assembly at this. Miss Geraldine Rose heads the committee. For the concert and dance in aid of the Trained Christian Helper, at the Pouch Gallery, Tuesday evening of next week, at which the Chaminade will be the musical feature, the full list of patronesses now is: Mrs. John Anderson, Mrs.

Alfred M. Boucher, Mrs. Frederic M. Burrell, Miss Josephine Bacchus, Mrs. A.

F. Boulton, Mrs. Robert A. Black, Mrs. William Arthur Alexander Brown.

Mrs. A. C. Browne, Mrs. Jerome Elliott Bates, Mrs.

Walter Cecil Burr, Mrs. A. Remsen Boerum, Mra. Tunta G. Bergen, Mrs.

Albert Beales, Mrs. Clinton DeWitt Burdick, Arnold Wells Catlin, Mrs. William A. 'Cook. Mrs.

Frederic C. Cocheu, William S. Cogswell, Mrs. Henry Carson, Mrs. Charles Corbett, Mrs.

Nelson Garrison Carman, Mrs. Frank H. Dwenger, Hugh De Haven, Mrs. J. S.

De Selding, Mrs. Jerry Townsend Duryea, Mra. Henry Hogeboom Esseletyn. Mra. E.

A. Drew, Mrs. Frederick V. Dare, Mrs. Edmund H.

Driggs. Mrs. Henry A. Fairbalrn, Mrs. Matthew Foster, Mrs.

William E. Fort, Mrs. William H. Fritchman, Miss Frederick Knapp Fish, Mrs. D.

Goddard, Mrs. Thomas Edward Hicks, Mrs. John W. Hollenback, Mrs. Otto Heinigke, Mrs.

Calvin Edward Hull, Mrs. Walter Hammitt, Mra. James Sterling Hollinshead, Mrs. D. S.

Harrington. Mrs, T. J. Ivans, Mrs. Frank C.

Ketcham, Mrs. Charles E. Keator, Mra. Gabriel C. Little, Mrs.

J. Carlisle Loudon. Mrs. J. Elliott Langstaff.

Mre, Stewart Lewis, Mra. A. G. Lockitt, Mrs. Charles P.

Metcalf, Mrs. Edward Morris, Mrs. William Macbeth, Mrs. Oscar H. Montgomery, Mrs.

Stanley MacGillvary, Mre. James McCalden. Mrs. Louis Lee Nichole, Frederic W. Norris, Mra.

S. Vanderbilt McFarlan. Mra. E. A.

Osborn, Mrs. Willis L. Ogden, Mrs. Mortlock Pettit. Mra, Harry De L.

Randall, Mrs. Waller H. Redman. Mrs. Lewis H.

Rogers, Mrs. Thomas F. Rowland. Mrs. Henry P.

Read, Mrs. John F. Saddington. Mre. Herbert Dana Schenk.

Mr. John Sheppard. Mrs. James Scholes Simpson, Mrs. James Greig Stevens, Mrs.

Irving Thomas Smith. Mrs. Cyrus Foss Tibbals, Mrs. W. Edwin Thorp.

Mra. John Terry Woodruff, Mrs. G. K. Whitbeck.

Mra. Thomas Jefferson Worman. Mre. Guthrie R. Winder, Mrs.

J. K. Upham, Mrs. William Vance, Mrs. J.

Vandervoort. PROGRESSIVE AMUSEMENT CO. (Special to the Eagle.) SCHOOL BOARD'S PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES COMMITTEES Frank L. Babbott and Alrick H. Man Dropped From Important Chairmanships.

OTHER IMPORTANT CHANGES. Nathan S. Jonas, Chairman of Committee on Studies; General Wingate, Athletic Fields; John Greene, Finance. When the Board of Education meets this afternoon President Winthrop will announce the names: of those he has selected for membership on committees of the board. He has been guided by Abraham Stern, the the the the acknowledged leader of the majority of the board.

The results will not be satisfactory to some persons, who regard the interests of the schools paramount to the interests of any political party. Former President Henry N. Tifft- was offered the chairmanship of the committee on elementary schools, but he declined that important position, and has been assigned to. the chairmanship of the committee on high schools. Vice President John Greene is as chairman on the finance comretained, other chairmen who hold their places are: Richard Adams, building.

committee; Robert L. Harrison, committee on by-laws and legislation; George A. Vandenhoff, committee on lectures and libraries; Richard B. Aldcrofft, nautical school committee; John J. Barry, committee oil sites, and General George W.

Wingate, come mittee on athletic fields. Nicholas J. Barrett takes the place of Samuel M. Dix, as chairman of the supplies committee, which means that a new policy will be pursued; Dr. Louis Haupt succeeds, a8 chairman of the committee on special schools, Felix M.

Warburg, who is said to have informed the president that he intends to resign from the board; Thomas J. Higgins is chairman of the committee on care of buildings, in place of Samuel B. Donnelly, a Republican; Nathan S. Jonas takes the chairmanship of the committee 011 studies and text books, and Abraham Stern is chairman of the elementary schools committee. Alrick H.

Man, the chairman of the executive committee of the Normal College, is succeeded by William N. Wilmer. Frank L. Babbott has been chairman of the committee on high schools, and training schools for several years. He is a man of independent means and has devoted considerable time to the, committee and the schools.

Mr. Tifft, however, is, according to those who have become acquainted with him during his incumbency of the presidency, well equipped for the position, and will be in accord with the wishes of some of the principals of manual training schools and technical schools. It is said that Mr. Babbott has opposed the principal of the Girls' Technical High School, in Manhattan, William McAndrew, in his desire to raise the standard of that school, The people connected with the Normal College will be particularly disappointed that Mr. Man was not continued as chair man of the executive committee.

He devoted much time to the college, and fought the battles of the graduates as against the Board of Examiners, which he won. He' defended the college at Albany, and secured the approval of Commissioner Draper to the new course of study adopted by the faculty, Since he became chairman the college has entered upon a higher plane, and it was his desire to still further increase its efficiency There are some persons who regard his depo4 sition from the chairmanship as a victory. for Dr. Maxwell. Mr.

Wilmer, his successor. is new in the educational field, and his qualification for the position is unknown. Mr. Man remains on the committee. He is a' Republican, but was reappointed in January' by Mayor McClellan.

QUEENS LOT AND FARM SALES. 91 Lots Bought by Frank P. Hoffman in Astoria Woodhaven Plot Sold. Thomas S. Ryder has sold to Frank P.

Hoffman ninety-one lots on Pierce and Franklin avenues, and on Catherine, pect, William, Radde and Academy streets, and extending from First to Fourth avenues, in Astoria, The property to be worth about $50,0000. A purchased money mortgage of $35,000 was given. Mary Booth conveyed to Charles and John Moller six and three-quarter acres southeast of Elmhurst, with a frontage of 1,418 feet on the easterly side of Trotting Course Lane, and 146 feet on the south side of the Long Island Railroad. The property is said to be valued at $30,000. Christopher Gullman has bought 01 Thomas E.

Gillespie twelve acres of salt meadow at Jamaica South, adjoining Long Neck Creek. Margaret A. Hill gives a mortgage to the estate of George I. Tyson of $42,332 on a plot on the Jericho Turnpike and Tyson avenue, in Queens and Floral Park. David Michel has sold to Edward Chap4 man a tract of about seven acres, partly Brooklyn and partly in Queens, 583 feet op.

the easterly side of Eldert's Lane and north of Atlantic avenue, said to be worth about $60,000. George E. 'Anthony has bought of August Quartrop and John Hendrickson forty-one lots at St. Albans, bounded on the north by Allen street and east by Roosevelt avenue. Anna Weckham sells to Ella Godacre eight acres at BaySide, on Crochero avenue, subject to a mortgage of $7,400.

NEW YORK'S TEMPORARY DEBT. Address Made by Controller Metz Bed fore Conference at Washington. Washington, February 14-Some observations on the "temporary debt" of New York City were made by Herman A. Metz, troller of -that city, in a paper read, yesterday before the conference of auditors, controllers and city treasurers now in session here. He said that in addition to the large aggregate funded indebtedness of the city there was $42,097,000 revenue bonds ort temporary debt issued in anticipation of tho collection of taxes.

Among the assets which New York has to liquidate, these temporary loans. are some $35,000,000 of arrears of personal taxes, of which upward of 500.000 have been outlawed or otherwise disposed of, and of $11,500,000 remaining, a very small percentage only is proba4 bility collectible. Also among the assets applicable on collection to the liquidation of these temporary loans is upward of $14,000,000 special franchise taxes. levied under a statute passed in 1899. They consist largely of taxes.

against corporations which ment ality of because (the of the alleged unconstitution-, statute, but the law has since been held constitutional and the is that with some minor probability taxes will be collected with modifications, the interest. Mr. Metz said that the large amount of personal taxes outstanding, the greater part of which is in all likelihood uncollectible, evidences the faulty these taxes were originally on which system predicated. LECTURES ON THE BIBLE. The Rev.

Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, pastor Hancock of Central Congregational Church, street, near Bedford avenue, will resume his lectures "The English on the Friday evening. Everybody is welcome to lecture. WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT. Albany, February 14-The Progressive Amusement Company, of Brooklyn, has been WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT.

chartered by the State Department, to pro- The wedding of Miss Ida Estelle vide public amusements, with a capital of daughter of Mrs. Siede, Mary Slede, to Clarence $25,000 divided into shares of $100 each. The Tudor Orton, of Brooklyn, will take place at A directors are: Maurice Resnicoff, Max Brooklyn, Res- the home of her mother, 297 Macon street. and Joseph of Tues Oring. February 27.

on.