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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1907.

merger, they made persistent and er Phatic denials of Its existence. PIKE'S PEAK OR "BUST'. WEATHER FORECAST LOSS OF LIFE IT. FI; HER BLAMES POLICE Persons desiring Information concerning the weather, temperature or other information can secure It by using telephone Xo. 571 Mala, from 8 A.M.

to P.M. week days. Nights and Sundays. tiZOO Malu. Indications Until 8 P.M.

To-morrow. Washington. December 13 For Eastern New Tork: Fair to-night; Saturday. Increasing cloudiness and warmer; probably anow In the south and west portions; light variable winds, becoming easterly. Local -robabilitieg.

Fair to-night; Saturday, rain or snow and rising temperature; light variable winds, becoming fresh easterly. General Weather Conditions. The storm yesterday In Northwestern Texas appeared central (his morning In the State of Mississippi, having caused In the past twenty-four hours rain In the Oulf States. Lower Mississippi Valley and State of Arkansas, and rain and snow In South Dakota. Nebraska.

Kansas and Western Missouri. The storm In he extreme Northwest has disappeared to the northeast, but It has been followed by another from the North Pacific, central this morning north of the state of Washington. Rain has fallen In the North Pacific States and North ern California. Idaho and Nevada. Colder weather prevails in the New England Slates and east portions of the Middle Atlantic Mates, nnrt cooler in Oklahoma and Texas.

The temperature has risen In the East Oulf and south Atlantic Slates and from the Dakota eastward to the Upper Lake section. Tern- Pre- Tein- Prs- pera-clplta. pera-clplta-ture. tlon.r Placa. tur.

tlon .001 New Orleans 1.51 Place. Boston 26 Buffalo 20 New York 23 Philadelphia 26 Washington IS 62 Cincinnati 23 .00 00St. Limit ..36 .00 .001 Chicago 33 .00 .00, Duluth 6 .001 San Kran'co G2 .34 Highest, at New Orleans; lowest, 20, at Buffalo. 'Indicates amount too small to meaiura. Official Temperatur.

THURSDAY. DECEMBER 12. Teiiipur-j Temper atun1 alure .13 8 S'l 9 32 10 P.M 27 .11 11 P.M 2S 31jl2 (Midnight) 25 FRIDAY, 13. 251 A 24 24 9 A 24'10 A IP 24111 A .11 24l2 I Noon) 33 24 I P.M 33 24 2 P.M 33 temperature to-day, 28. HIGH WATER.

PLEASED BY PARIS BUREAU. IS REGE OF TIE Justice Betts Made Him a Colleague of Hasbrouck, Ignoring Stay. GQ0DWIN BROWN PERMANENT. ourt jttoias mat international xrusi Co. Has Ho Hope No Action on Borough Bank.

(Special to the Eagle.) Kingston. December 13 That deeds and bonds and mortgages made out In blank, some as long as seven years ago. others three and four years ago. were put up as collateral for loans amounting to "hundreds of thousands of dollars," from the Brooklyn Bank, was one ol the sensa tional charges which Charles A. Dolson attorney for Receiver Bruyn Hasbrouck made beforo Justice Betts In the Su preme Court here late yesterday after noon, in the course of the bearing on the stay and order' to show cause for a change of venue issued by Justice Walter Lloyd Smith of the Third Appellate Division.

Ruling that tbe stay, which was secured by S. Stanwood Menken in behalf Cfi the Brooklyn Bank, was null and void. Justice Betts made permanent the receivership of Bruyn Hasbrouck and appointed Charles M. Hlgglns, the heaviest depositor and chairman of the depositors Committee, to serve with him. Hasbrouck will get all the fees which the court will authorize him to collect, while Mr.

Hig-gins secured his appointment on condition ihat he will receive only such fees as the depositors vote to allow him. Charles A. Dolson. former deputy attorney general, and Charles M. Stafford, counsel to the depositors 'committee, were appointed counsel to the receivers.

Mr. Menken rushed around the state last Wednesday night In a special train 1'? get the stay and be on hand with it by the time the case of the Brooklyn E.uik was called by Justice Betts. He djd not have time to serve the papers ou either the attorney general or the receivers, so it was ruled that under Section 8, Chapter 378 of the laws of 18S3. which requires sufficient service, the stay was void. This defeats the motion for the change of venue, at least until such time as Mr.

Menken shall have concluded the appeal which he declared he might take. 1 "Ml 4. Tl There was another sensational turn When Frank S. Piatt of O'Brien, Board-(man Piatt declared that whilo Mr. Stafford might represent certain of the depositors he did not represent Jefferson and Charles Hogan of i.

Hogan's Sons. Jefferson Hogan, who was a mem- Ibor of the committee of fifteen, had, aner maKing an investigation, coucluuuu that he did not want work with the committee or did not want the committee to take any interest in 'him. That was why Mr. Piatt represented him before Justice Betts. It was made clear by Justice Betts early in the proceedings that he was in favor of any plan whereby the banks under litigation would be placed on their feet, and he added that he will appoint Drooklyh depositories for them.

It was after Mr. Stafford's declaration that he represented the depositors thai Mr. Piatt took the floor and made the startling announcement. When wan asked to explain he said that many ot the depositors had been induced to transfer aDd did actually transfer their deposits to' the International Trust Company, so they were no longer creditors of the Brooklyn Bank. "Tney are two separate Institutions," added Mr.

Piatt, "and now they ask the court to appoint Mr. Higgins as permanent receiver. In that event he would be called on to handle a claim against himself, which It would be his duty as receiver to dispute." William F. Mackey, special counsel for tbe attorney general In the bank cases, began the proceedings by arguing that tbe receivership of the Brooklyn Bank should be made permanent. Mr.

Menken flashed the stay at that time and argument was thereafter was basod ou whether tho stay should hold or was void. Mackey's Declarations. Some new light was shea by Mr. Mackey on that qear-merger of the Brooklyn and International. The only real casn of the latter, he declared, amounts to $5,000.

William Gow, Mackey says, deposited with the Oriental Bank a note for $600,000, and that amount was included In the "estimated capital" of tho International. Whenever this note was mentioned to persons connected with that AMUSEMENTS. ORPHEUM Week Doc. 9. MATINEE RVERY DAT II As Mackey proceeded, Mr.

Menken objected, saying that be bad gone back on his word and was beginning to argue at ter promising to agree to an adjourn ment. "The trouble with the attorney general." laid Menken, "Is that he takes too much Interest in tbe cause ot tbe receiver and not enough in the cause of the stockbolders and depositors, who ought to be protected. The receiver bas conducted a newspaper campaign by making inaccurate statements to the re which have interfered very ma terlally with our plana for resumption. I dont like to see a million dollars In capital dissipated that way. The Brook lyn Bank Is an.

old and honorable lnstl tutlon and the merger was made in good faith. The Brooklyn Bank can get money to resume business." "Where will you get It?" asked Mr, Piatt. "From the International Trust Com pany, replied Mr. Menken. no, you won't." responded Piatt "The International Trust money you speaa or is notning but wind.

How Two Big Gow Notes Were Se cured. Mr. Mackey then went on to explain that uow. lor that J500.000 note to the Oriental Bank, put up as collateral 3.012 shares of stock of the Brooklyn Bank and 2,500 snares In vouchers for International Trust stock. The half million, however, was credited to the International ac count.

John S. Jenkins and Nelson Burr signed another note for $260,000, which went through the same channels. That left $250,000 still to get, so an authorized note for $245,000 was secured from the Borough Bank. Of that. $100,000 was placed on deposit In the International and the remaining $145,000 came from the Borough In a cashier check.

The remaining $5,000 was the only real cash Mackey said, that figured In the so-called merger. In response to a question by the court Mr. Menken said he bad hopes of nut ting tbe International on Its feet again. But Justice Betts declared that, inasmuch as the mainstay of a bank was the confidence of the community, be did not believe the International could ever resume. In view of the disclosures that have been made.

Mr. Stafford then declared that the Brooklyn Bank depositors wanted nothing whatever to do with the Inter national, and wanted the steps so far made in the merger wiped out. Justice Betts said he wanted to hear from the receiver, so Paul A. Dolson, his counsel, told some things he said he had learned In his Investigations. "The maladministration of William E.

Hutchinson and Mr. Halsey and Mr. Denton, whom the depositors called In to value the securities of the bank, was responsible for the real troubles df the Brooklyn Bank," said Mr. Dolson. This was a bombshell In the depositors and stockholders camp, from whence had frequently emanated the statementts that "we have yet to hear one word of criticism against the old-line directors and officials of the Brooklyn Bank." Dolson' statement was, In fact, the first accusation against that element.

"As a matter of fact," Dolson continued, "the liabilities of the Bmoklyn Bank amount, all told, to $2,282,178, and the assets to only $1,418,572. Experts Iirvp gone over the books and arrived at those figures. And these disinterested gentlemen mentioned by Mr. Stafford found that the liabilities were $1,902,000, and the assets $2,013,122.37. Wo found that the bank holds $290,000 in single-name paper (maker and endorser the same), and there is no other collateral to cover that amount.

Then the past due and discounted paper amounts to $301,000. "Then the receiver found also that the hnnk as collateral for many hundreds of thousands of dollars deeds In blank; bonds and mortgages in blank; assignments of mortgages In blank some of these documents made as long at seven years ago, some made three years ago and some made four years ago. And these documents were never recorded. "We found one Instance of where a $15,000 mortgage on property not In the State of New York was assigned to the bank for the ostensible purpose of clearing tho property of Its first mortgage; then a second mortgage was given to secure tho first amount. And the man who made that first mortgage had no right to do it.

because tite (property In question had been mortgaged for every penny It would hold, and the mortgage foreclosed! There are other second on first mortgages that have been foreclosed. "Tbe examination shows also that Robert W. Jones, Is Indebted to the bank for $110X00. and William Gow for $118,000. Some of It Is secured, some not.

"The $234,000 In bonds and securities which were carried from the Brooklyn Bank to tbe International were fraudulently entered on the books as being held from October 11 to October 22. A deeper Investigation will bring out evidence of a gross crime there. The books of the International were deliberately falsified because there was never any pretense of a merger. The question Is: Will the Brooklyn Bank be able to claim that these securlt'es were stolen and can they get back from the First National Bank the $254,000 in assets without paying the amount secured thereby?" fter heart 'K Lawyer Austen for Goodwin Brown, receiver for the International Trust Company, Justice Belts made permanent Mr. Brown's receivership and rendered the decision In th0 other case.

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TO 11 P.M. Concert Afternoon and Mvenlna; by the Empire "Women's Orchestra. The Only National flhow to Be Held in New York City. Season 19)7-8. ADMISSION BO.

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DAVID BELASCO uf OClri ln A ftraml presents David WMnrlCHf Army Mnn EDEN MUSEE v'xDx. Knmuna Nippon Jiipa. CINEMATOGRAPH HIPPODROME, 6th A to 14th N. Y. Clt Ually Mats, at 2.

Bst Seats 81. Ev'gs. 55c. to 81.r,0 Tlih AUTO RACE FOUR SEASONS William Seibel Burned to Death; Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Pwyer Overcome by Smoke. NINE HORSES ROASTED ALIVE. Fire Chief Croker Says Police Told Him Blazing House and Stable in Manhattan Were Vacant. One mnn was burned to death, another man and his wife overcome by smoke, and nine horses killed In a one-alarm fire which did (2,600 damage to the one story stable and adjoining house at 31 East Ninth street, Manhattan, enrly this morning. After tho fire, Chief Croker bitterly arraigned the police, making the statement that If they had not been negligent tbe life of the man who perished could easily have been saved.

The dead man is William Beibel. 63 years old, who lived in tbe house behind the stable. Robert Dwyer, a truckmaa who ran tho stable, and his wife, wcro found unconscious ln tbe house and hurried to St. Vlncent'B Hospital. Dwyer If in a serious condition.

There Is a ono-story brick and frame wagon house In the front, street. Just behind this is facing tbe the house. the first floor of which is used as stablo for Dwyer's four horses and five horses which he boarded He and bis wife lived on tho second floor of tbe house, above tho stable. The bouse Is two story and a half brick structure. William Siebel, the man who lost bis life, lived with Dwyer, for whom he worked.

When Chief Croker arrived the whole front of tho stable was In flames. Chief Croker says be asked the police particu larly If tbere wero any persons either la the one-story placo or ln the stable the first floor of tho house. According to Chief Croker he was told that tbere was no one In the place. Convinced that thore was no work of rescue to be done tbe firemen ran several lines of hose to tho ono-story building and devoted all their time to squelching the flames. The fire spread from the one-story building, which was filled with wagons, to the house and stable In the, rear.

After the fire had been partly extinguished in the one-story structure. Patrolman Campbell of the Mercer street station ran up and Informed Chief Croker that there was some one in the rear building. Swearing lustily at what he termed the negligence of the police, Croker hustled his men into the rear building. Captain Shannon of Truck No. 3 was near the chief.

"Shannon," cried Chief Croker, "get your men into that back building, quick." Dashing through the still blazing one-story structure. Captain Shannon and bis men reached the rear building. Although there was still some fire in the one-story place Chief Croker ordered all the host turned on the house ln the rear. Shannon and his men got into the house by a rear window, as the first floor was wrecked, ln a hallway on tho second floor Dwyer and his wife were found. Dwyer had attempted to rescue the woman.

He was overcome by Bmoke and fell unconscious. Ho fell upon his wife and prevented the smoke from reaching her. His coat was partly over her head, and it is believed that the man In a last effort threw the coat over her face to save her from the smoke. Both were unconscious. The man and woman were carried out and Into the store of Samuel Klapner at 33 East Ninth street.

Later the body of Seibel was found in a large closet on the second floor. He was dead, and as tho flames had reached the closet, was burned about the body. It Is believed that he was smothered before the flames reached him. To all appearances It would seem that Seibel, In bis confusion and fear, had crawled Into tbe closet, not knowing Just what he was doing. He-evidently wanted to escape from the stifling smoke, and took that means of getting away from it.

Both Dwyer and his wife were hurried to St. Vincent's Hospital by Dr. Wadr hams. Mrs. Dwyer recovered consciousness after first treatment.

Dwyer. how; ever, was in a more serious condition, and did not recover so readily. The nine horses In the first floor of the house were roasted alive. A watchdog and a cat were also burned to death. After the fire was extinguished, Chief Croker said: "This loss of life was practically due to the negligence of the police in not being on post and discovering the fire.

This is the second fire this morning that got great headway before an alarm was turned In. There was a lire at 18 and 2n West Fourth street, this morning, and although It Is directly in the rear of the Mercer street station the fire was hurnlng from the fifth story to the roof and was bursting nut of the roof and could be seen a mile before an alarm was turned In. The first thing that I asked when I got here was whether there were any horses or persons in this building The nolh-e said It was a va cant stablo. Not till later did I Know that anybody was ln there. If we had known It earlier this man's life could have been saved." CLOSE OF SPECIAL SERVICES.

The special services at the Bedford Heights Baptist Church will close on Sunday night. Charles Inglls of London has been prearhlng every night with much acceptance and the meetings have been well attended. Sunday will be a day full of services, and Mr. Inglls will nreach morning and evening. On Monday night Mr.

Initl's will deliver bis lecture "Around Ihe World Evangelizing." Illustrated with stereopticon and mov ing pictures. The lecture Is full of In teresting Incidents and wMl Include work among the American Ind'nns. negroes of Africa, aborigines of Australia and all the countries of Eurooe. A silver offer ing will be taken at the door. The pns- tor F.

H. Jacobs, will sing at all the services on Sunday. L. I. CITY TROLLEY ON FIRE.

There was considerable excitement last nleht among the passengers on a New York and Queens County Railway trolley car at Jackson avenue and Jane street. Lon Island City, when the car was set aflre from a faulty motor box. No one was injured und the damage; to tho car la unknown. A keen brain and steady dependable nerves can win wealth and fame for their owner. Clear-headedness and a strong healthy body depend largely on the right elements in regular food and drink.

Coffee contains caffeine a poisonous drug. Postum Food Coffee is rich in the gluten and phosphates that furnish the vital energy that puts "ginger" and "hustle" into body and brain workers. "There's a Reason." 3 P.M. 4 P.M. P.M.

P.M. 7 P.M. 1 A.M. 2 A.M. 3 A.M.

4 A.M. A.M. 6 A.M. 7 A.M. A.M.

P.M. TlmelHIghl TlmelHIgh H.M.Peet H.M Durat'n of Klse iPall New I 4.3 Sandy Hook. 3:22 4.7 1 115 4.0 4 4 I SHIP NEWS. Arrived at New Tork To-day. Sam land, from Antwerp- Manna, from Pemerara.

Manna Flata. fnm Baltimore. Nueces, from Galveston. Vakllvla, from Tnagua. BelJe of Scotland, from Montevideo.

Arrived at Foreign Ports To-day. Genoa Moltke. from New York. Naples Principe rtl Plemonte. from New Tork.

Naples Konlp Albert, from New York. Amsterdam Rotterdam, from New York. Amsterdam Prlns Wtllem I. from New York. Montevideo from New York.

Adelaide Chatham, from New York. Sydney, N. S. W. Tomoana, from New York.

Southampton Adriatic, from New York. Sailed For New York To-day. Palermo Napolftan Prince, for New York. Liverpool Hnltlr, for New York. Piira lionlfuce.

for New York. Cherbourg Kaiserln AuRuste Victoria, for New York. London Delaware, for New York. Steamships Due To-morrow. From.

Sailed. Pennsylvania Plymouth Iec. 2 Arabic Liverpool Ic. 5 fcafra Huelva Nov. 27 Tintoretto Harbados iec.

it Hennlne Almerla Nov. 2 Santiago Tamplm Dec. 6 City of Savannah Savannah Dec. 11 BROOKLYN AND QUEENS FIRES Reports of flrea and alarms of fire re celved at Klre Brooklyn. for tha twenty-four hours ended at 8 A.M Friday, December 13: December 12.

11:40 A.M. Bell and Oooheron avenues. Hay Side, two story frame; damage uuncung sugni. uamage to stucK trilling. December 12, 9:13 A.M.

S4S-SIS Mvrtle avenue, six story brick: damage to building and stock trining. December 12. 10:10 A.M. 142-444 Fifth avenuo, two story brick; damage to stock trilling. December 12, 2:15 A.M.

101 Qulncy street, four story brick. December 12, .1:37 A.M. Rockaway avenue and New Lots road, one story frame; damuge to building and stock trifling. December 12. 3:4 A 3K Carroll street.

three slnry brick; damage to building trifling, damage to stock slight. Derenihor 12. 4:12 A.M. Ifferts nlne h. tween Nostrand and New York avenues, fence mo, utiuniKw 10 ouuaing trilling.

December 12, 4:13 A.M. 163 Third avenue three stury brick; damage to building trilling. December 12. 3:51 A.M. ION Havemeyer street, five story frame; damage to building slight.

December 12. 5:03 A.M. 185 rhauncev street Ave story brick; damage to building trilling. December 12. A.M.

313 Carroll street Jute In yard. December 12, 7:41 A.M. -Jackson avenue, near airtrei, i.ong island Lity; trolley car No 29; trilling damage. Decemher 12. 8:50 A.M.

-445 Qulncy street, three story frame; damage to building and slock trifling. December 13. 12:23 A.M.-411 Myrtle three story brick. 20x50: dimac. and sttek trilling.

December 12, 10:20 P.M.-Park avenue and Second Btreet. Ilav Ml.lrt damage to building and stock conldcrable. MONEY FROM OVER SEAS. Searle Heirs Believe Some Is Coming to Them From England Don't Know Amount. Since the advertisement appeared In the New York papers about a month ago, for the heirs ol Alfred J.

Searle, formerly of Jersey, In the Channel Islands, England, the three sons and two daughters of Mr. Searle. four of whom reside In Greater New York, have been looking forward with happy anticipation to some good news from the other side, though tney are as yet unaware as to how much Is coming their way. Mr. bcarlo came from England at an early age, married and settled In Eighteenth street, South Brooklyn, where he lived for a number of years, plying hl trade as a carpenter.

Shortly before his death, which occurred about tv. cnty yeas ago, he moved to Twentieth street. During his lifetime, although he at times rcferrec1 to some wealthy relations In England, he never mentioned anything deftnilely to his children, and It was not until the advertisement appeared In tho paper Hist they had any Idea that any money was due them. The five children of Mr. Searle are James Searle, who resides on Rockaway avenue: Lizzie Searle of Manhattan, Jas.

and Alfred Searle of Brooklyn and Mrs. Alice Laton, whose home is In France. James Searle, the eldest son, has already corresponded with the EngllBh solicitor, having charge of the fortune. If fortune it be. and is In dally anticipations of receiving a reply.

Until then, however, he has no clew to the amount of the money or estate to which he and the others or nis lamny are heirs to. FOR PROTECTION OF SHOPPEF.S. Inspector Flood Has Detailed Thirty-six Big Policemen to Duty. Borough Inspector Flood of the Police Department has organized for the Christmas shopping rush a squad of men to protect life and preserve the peace at the shopping centers. The squad went on duty yesterday.

Thirty-six men were detailed for the service, selected for their obliging dispositions and knowledge of the town. Each man will be an Information bureau. The inspector has been spending much time of late on Fulton street, in the shopping centers, and has given the traffic squad instructions about handling carriages and private conveyances on Fulton and Livingston streets. It is also his purpose to have men on duty on Broadway and in other places where the shoppers are out in force. DIE!" I SHOT HER Climax, With Real Blood, at a Home Reproduction of a Melodrama.

BUT MARGARET WILL NOT DIE. "The r.ocky Mountain Express" Inspired the Two Friends to an Amateur Performance. Mrs. Mary Maroney and Miss Margaret Price, each 22 years old, had a lot of fun this morning In their room at 62 Nassau street, until Mary pinked Margaret in the left shoulder with a bullet from a .32 caliber revolver, and then the fun ceased and Mary worried for fear that Margaret would die on her hands. Mary is the wife of John C.

Maroney, who keeps a liquor store at High and Adams streets, and Margaret is a distant relative ot Mrs. Maroney and on a visit to her from the East. The women wont to the Columbia Theater last night and saw The Rocky Mountain Exnress." which a thriller. They were highly delighted with the play and talked of the heart-wrenching situations that are in it until a very late hour last night. This morning, after breakfast, they proceeded to live over again the Joys of the performance and they went through soma of the scenes In a spirit of fun.

The villain catches it, of course, and Margaret played the villain, while Mrs. Maroney took the part of the heroine. It is de creed that tho scoundrelly, heartless wretch must die, and on the stage he gets properly doctored by one of the heroic persons in the cast. The scene was still vivid In the minds of the two women. The villain is about to succeed in his rascalities when along comes a hero with revolver.

"Villain, you shall die," says the heroic one, without any apology, and bang he goes with his revolver, and the villain dies, sure enough. This was the part that. Mary and Margaret were, working over when the mishap spoiled the whole thing. Maybo Mrs. Maroney did not think the revolver was loaded.

It was her hus- band's, and she found It on a bureau i Mr. Maroney uses It at night when he comes home to Nassau street, laden with money, for nobody knows at what time the highwaymen of that neighborhood may set upon him. It was just the thing needed this morning to make the rehearsal more Impressive and Margaret really did not think her friend would shoot. Mary got hold of the revolver, and Margaret was the sauciest kii.d of a villain, as she dropped on her knees, as villains should, imploring mercy, "Villain, you shall die," said Mary, and pop went the gun. Down went Margaret, and she screamed that she really was dying.

Mary threw the still smoking revolver away and got Margaret's head In her lap. She joined in the screams, and some of the people of the house came in, auu mere was a call ror tne ponce, or a doctor, or somebody who knew about pistol wounds. Policeman Fred Yunknr of the Adams street station came in and he sent out a hurry call for an ambulance. In a jiffy Dr. Tousey of the Brooklyn Hospital was there, looking over Margaret's wound.

It was lucky, he said, that Mary had held the weapon so high, or that Margaret was so low down in her supplication, for the bullet did not do very much damage after all. It plugged a hole in a very fair shoulder and spoiled a kimono, but tht wound was only flesh deep and will Heal very quickly. The Joy of knowing that Margaret would not die upset Mary some more and she needed as much attention as the wounded woman. Yunker, as was his duty, placed her under arrest, but Margaret declared that It had all been accidental and unintentional, and she declined to make a complaint against her hostess. So Mary was released, and an hour later, under the Influence of nerve tonics, both of the young women had pretty well recovered irora the shock.

The revolver will be kept out of the way now and Mary will not go fooling with firearms any more. NEW TYPE OF CROSSING GATES L. I. B. R.

Is Equipping Danger Points in Hichmond Hill Section With Them. In order to further saf guard the livej of thoso who have occasion tp use its grade crossings. The Long Island Railroad Company Is placing hanging bars on the gates which are lowered at the passing of a train through the Richmond Hill section of Queens Borough. These bar3 are suspended from the gates by wires, and their mission Is to prevent persons from crawling under the gates after they have been lowered, a practice which has resulted In many fatal accidents. All the crossings in Richmond Hill have been equipped with the improved bar within the past two days.

The gates at the crossings of the Atlantic avenue division, in Morris Park, were so NO RELIEF FOR CABMAN. Advised to Sue When His Fare Got Sober Enough. An excited cabman was in the Fifth avenue court this morning wondering how he was to get his fare from a man Who had refused to pay. Magistrate Voorheos told him that nearly all cabmen overcharged, and he did not know what he was to do except to see the man when the fellow was sober. The man who took the cab at 3:15 o'clock this morning at Fifth avenue and Warren street, said he was Peter Hansen, aged 36.

He told the driver to drive to 51 Fifty-first street. At Fifth avenue and Twenty-seventh street he Jumped from tho cab and fell In the street receiving a slight cut on the bead. He was evidently Intoxicated, although tin driver says be did not notice it when the ride began. Hansen was placed un der arrest by Officer John J. Patton and taken to the Fourth avenue station house.

This morning in court sentence was sus pended. MUNICIPAL REGISTER. Two Examinations for Draftsmen. The Municipal Civil fierviue Commission announces examinations for mechanical drafts men (electrical, heating and ventilating and aanltary) and Junior mechanical draftsman. The examinations will be held on January 14.

Appliccitiuiu will lie received until Deemnnor 24 at thA olttre of the commission. 2V9 Broadway, Manhattan. The subjects and wwlghts of the examination are as follows; Technical. experience, matnemalics, Zt ana neatness, 1. i'fie per-1 centage required is 75 on the technical paper and 70 on all.

Vacancies occur frequently. The salary of a mechanical draftsman Is from $1,200 per annum up, and the salary of a Junior mechanical draftsman Is $600 per annum and up. Candidates for mechanical draftsman must be not less than 21 years old, and candidates for Junior mechanical draftsman not less than 18 years old. Gardener the Only Examination Fending. Besides the two new examinations announced above the examination for gardener, which closes December 30, and will be held on January 22, Is the only other examination for which candidates may now enter applications at the office of the Municipal Civil Hervlee Commission.

22ft Broadway, Manhattan. Sixty-nine applications have been received for the gardener examination. The axman's examination, which closed on December 11, will be held on January 7, with 492 candidates entered. Certified for Appointment to City Positions. The Municipal Civil Service Commission has certified tho following candidates for appointment from lists to the heads of city departments Indicated: Tire Department Engineer of steamer: Charles M.

McXally. 817 Fifth avenue; John Morrlsey. 79 Congress street; Christ J. Deegan, 64 Wilson street. Department of Taxes and Assessments Second prade clerks: Harry A.

Hauff. 30 Sterling place; John K. Ruddy, 444 Bast Eighty-second street, Manhattan; Maurice Goldberg, East Forty-ninth street, Manhattan; Mever Rothcnherg. 66 Amboy street. Manhat tan; Morris Kaminsky, 1474 Washington avenue; LJodley Johnson, 79 Schenk avenue.

Department of Buildings, Manhattan Assistant engineer: Albert H. Chandler, 348 Gates avenue; Max Feldman. 63 West One Hundred and Forty-third street, Manhattan: Israel Werlln. 51 Wt One Hundred and SfVr-nteenth street, Manhattan; George W. Herbert, 1556 New York avenue: Ernest A.

von Flntel. Richmond Hill. Ij. Abraham Whit son. Centre Moriches, I.

Department of Bridges Stationary engineer: wmiam Flshhaugh. Eist One Hundred and Forty-flrst street, Manhattan. For Information regarding the civil spi'vtce. address the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Civil Service Bureau. Answers will be published in this column.

PARIS FASHIONS UP-TO DATE. From the Eagle Paris Bureau. 63 Rue Cambon, through the1 courtesy of Abraham Straus, Copenhagen blue satin gown, embroid ered in light and dark shades. Heavy fllot lace on waist. Mr.

Garland Returns Thanks for Courteous Treatment and Assistance. C. M. Garland of 213 DeKalb avenue called at the Eagle office to-day to express his thanks for the courteous treatment he received from the managers of the Eagle's Paris Bureau. Mr.

Garland was married In October last and went to Europe on his wedding tour. He states that ho called at the Paris Bureau and was cordially received and given every attention possible. Unable himself to secure opera tickets for tho time he desired them, he sought the assistance of Mr. Mc-Kelway of the Bureau and was successful. He said the Bureau was a great aid to him in many ways, and he wished to thank the Eagle for establishing such a place of convenience for Brooklyn and Manhattan ppoplo when abroad, and also to thank Messrs.

Ingram and McKelway for tholr attention to him whilo there. HAD TO SCRUB FLOOR, HE SAYS Williamsburg Man's Domestic Ex periences Related in Court. Because his wife made him scrub the floor, William Davis of 29 McKibbin street, appeared In tho Manhattan avenue court this morning as complainant against her and his mother-ln-Iaw. Davis had a strange story to tell. I He said that he had been married for i "ve years, but that the union had brought no happiness.

"Why, your honor," said Davis, "my wife actually makes me scrub the floor after 1 have returned from a hard day's work. And, to rub it In, my mother-in-law now lives In the house and adds to the general misery." The man then went on to say that between his wife and his mother-in-law life was made miserable. He said that his pockets were searched at night, so that on many occasions he was obliged to walk to his work, for lack of five cents. The man's talo seemed to affect Magistrate O'Reilly deeply. He advised Davis to go home and Insist on his rights and refuse to continue scrunblng tbe floor.

"And you had better lock up your clothes at night," said tho magistrate, "If you don't want to walk to work In the morning." Davis left tho court room apparently much braced by the advice. FELT A JAR ON EARLY TRAIN. Engineer Louis Eiehl Tells of Incidents Preceding the Brewsters Express Train Wreck, In the trial of Alfred II. Smith, vice president and general manager of the New York Central Railroad, for manslaughter, growing out of tho wreck ol the Brewsters express train, near Woodland Road Bridge, on February 16 ia5t, In tho Supreme Court, Manhattan, today, before Justice Kellogg and a jury, Prosecutor Smyth first called to the witness chair Benjamin J. Buell, foreman nl the wrecking crew of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Company, which was called to the wreck.

ThiB w'trtsi r-aia he found the wheels on the left side of the pony truck of the rear motor off the track and the retaining ring off. Spencer C. Case, master car builder, recalled, testified that the retaining ring was fastened on to the tiro, which ho found by bolts. "Some ot the bolts were sheared oTf," said Mr. Case.

Louis Blehl, an engineer of the New York Central, railed by Assistant District Attorney Smyth, testified that he took out a train on the morning of the disaster with General Manager Meyers of the General Electric Company, and an operating inspector in the cab with him. Mr. Biehl said that on his first trip on tho 9:13 A.M. train, he made that day, he felt a slight Jar -from right to left, as he remembered, while he was running at a rate of from forty-five to forty-eight miles per hour, a little beyond the Woodland Bridge Road. On another train, about 3 P.M.

he experienced no such jar. "Do you know," asked Mr. Nlcoll, whether this Jar was due to some oscillation of the motor, or a defect ln the track?" "I don't know." "But you made a report of this jar," said Mr. Smyth. "Yes.

to the superintendent." witness said he had tinr.d himsell on both stetm and electric locomotives and said that when he thought he was going at forty miles an hour he might be going forty-eight or fifty. REGISTERED IN PARIS. Eagle Bureau, 53 Rue Cumbon. Paris, December 13 The following have registered at the Eagle Bureau: John James, A. H.

Stoeber und Grace Millef White, Manhattan. 4VVVVSArVVSVVSrVVVVVV4 JOHN M. BULWINKLE, 413 Fulton St. Brooklyn. N.

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MAT. MAT. ONLY DAVID BELASCO Presents THE ROSE thfe RANCHO "WHh FAANJES STARR 4 rovvH. $1.50: Bal 4 rows, (1.30: II; 2d 50-75c MISS GRAND Mntn Dully. 2rc, BOc.

Vaudeville Festivals rSS.ySff-'Sf TRIXIE FRIGANZA STAIEY'S TRANSFORMATION CO. Jack Norworth Riccoboni's Hotsm. CAPTAIN WINSTON'S SEA II0NS. Johnny Johns Burton Brook. Marguerite V.

Hanley, New Pictures A BIG MUSICAL EVENT The t'lHtbiiNh Mimical itlplunfrc All Souls Churrh, Ocean and Dltmaa avs. Krlilny Kvi-nlnK, Dec. 13, 8 P.M. Poprann PHA.N'MA CTMMINO Tenor Soloist. PAINE PHILLIPS Oriranlst and Pianist CARL FIQL'E Vtolln Prof.

LOUIS MOLLKNHAUKn Headings BERENICE URAVKH AiIiiiIkoIoii, $1.00. MAJESTIC 'WtiVft AI.H.fiMetz" METZIN WILSON in THE ALPS Next a Week-MISS CECIL Sl'OOlVFUt MMin win no cteuu uwu noR-A iwAr mwm jve Mntineen Wdnemlii) mul Sat ar tiny BLANCHE WALSH Dec. lll-Mandf Atlnnin in Peter Fun NOVELTY MAT. DAILY Souv. Mat.

Wed. Amateurs Frl. Irene Frnnklln and Burt Green. Caron Herbert, Majestic Muslral 4, Foster A Dog, Chaa. Kenna, Tennis Trio, othern.

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