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3 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK1. JULY 13. TOO0. TWO RESCUED AT ARVERNE.

HIS WIFE PUT AWAY. OBITUARY. GAVE CITY CONTRACTS THUS WITNESSES FLOODS DP LIGHT FOB PJL1K TRIdTliiS PLAGES Will Propose Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg to the Emperor. LATTER WILL ACCEPT HIM.

Kaiser Will Probably Appoint the New German Chancellor at Once, Berlin. July 13 Prince Von Buelow, the retiring Imperial Chancellor, will formally propose in his audience W'ith Emperor William to-morrow, that he be succeeded by Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, Secretary of the Interior and Vice Chancellor. There is reason to believe that His Majesty will accept this proposal, and that the appointment will be gazetted at once. Prince Von Buelow will thus be permitted to name his own successor.

Emperor William requested him at Kiel to do so. In tho remote contingency that His Majesty does not accept Dr. Von BetUuiann-Hollweg. Prince Von Buelow will be permitted another suggestion. I)i.

Vcn Bethmann-Hollweg is a college friend of the Emperor. They were fraternity brothers In the Borussla Corps at Bonn, and during the entire reign of William, Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg ofteu has advised His Majesty, but he had shown a disinclination to accept high office. He is a man of reserved and thoughtful habits and sometimes has been called the "philosopher statesman." Dr. Von BethmHun-Hollweg is of Jewish origin.

The Bethmann family left Holland two centuries ago on account of Its religion and settled in Frankfort, where the men entered the banking business. His great grandmother married John Jameg Hollweg, who adde bis wife's name to his own. His grandfather was the first member of the family to enter public service. Ho became a professor of Jurisprudence at the Bonn University and received a patent of nobility for his learning. Later he was made a member of the Prussian Diet and became active In the constitutional agitation of the '40s, and ten years later he was appointed to tho Liberal cabinet as Minister of Education.

The man who is expected to succeed Prince von Buelow is now S3 years old. In his youth he studied law, always the first step to a public career, and was appointed assistant Judge. Before he was 30 years old ho hnd been made district governor of Ober-Barnlm, and later he became provincial president of Potsdam, where the suburban palaco of Emperor William Is located. During his three years at Potsdam he saw much of His Majesty, and tbo two men took long walks and rides in the environs. Following his sojourn at Potsdam, Dr.

Von Bethmann-Hollweg's promotion was rapid. He became president of the government of Bromberg, president of the province of Brandenburg, from which post he took up the portfolio of Prussian Minister of the Interior. He then followed Posaduwsky as Imperial Minister and showed in Parliament his powers of plain and effective statement. He is without the graces of expression and wit of Prince Von Buelow, but he Is a man of convincing thought and substance. After the clerk of the Reichstag had announced to-day tho passage of the bill providing Increases In the salaries of civil servants, Dr.

von Bethmann-Hollwelg rose and said that as the representative of Prince von Buelow he had a message from the Emperor to read. His communication was a decree closing tho present session of tho House, which will not re assemble until next autumn As had been expected for some days thi Socialists, to show their disregard for monnrchlal Institutions, remained seated while the message was being read: all the other members of the Reichstag arose. The Socialists then left the chamber rapidly, while the other delegates gave three cheers for Emperor William. FARM VALUED TOO HIGHLY. That Is Basis of Attorney's Appeal in Estate of Farmer Young.

(Special to the Eagle. Riverhead, L. July 13 Lawyer George F. Stackpole, appearing for Mrs. John C.

Young, Is a bit dissatisfied with the appraisement of Transfer Tax Appraiser Barker In the estate of the late John C. Young, who was president of the Baiting Hollow and Roanoke Telephone Company of this place, bo the lawyer yesterday announced that he had taken an appeal from the decree of Surrogate Bgl-ford In this matter. Mr. Young's estate consisted In part i'f a valuable 75-acro farm. Some experts declared that it was worth but Then some one Interested sent Under Sheriff Ellas J.

Jennings of Greenport to look it over. He made an affidavit that It was worth $13,850, and the appraiser made tho official appraisement at this figure. It is this feature of the estate that 13 objected to by the estate. If this Is ultimately reduced, the traus-ter tax fixed by the Surrogate's Court will be materially reduced. REALTY MARKET: OOOOOCOOOOOO( Husband Says She Drinks Heavily She Denies Charge.

Mrs. John Callahan, 60 years old, a woman who appean to have come from a respectable family, was committed to the House of Good Shepherd for sn indefin ite period by Magistrate Fitch. yeBterday. The complainant was her husband, John Callahan, who declared that his wife has been drinking constantly for the past ten years. In her own defense the women claimed that she had only drank ten cents worih of gin and that It had upset bcr.

She said that she had been married twenty-three years and had two children. She added: "I am old now and they want to get rid of me." POLITICAL NOTES Caus Has Given Murphy That $4,000 Job as Appraiser. McCarren Interviewed in Boston. Talk of Calder for Borough Presidency. Charles F.

Murphy, formerly assemblyman from tho Tenth A. has been appointed state appraiser of taxes for Brooklyn by Controller Gaus. The salary Is J4.000 a year. Mr. Murphy was the choice of the Republican executive committee for the place of commissioner of elections, to succeed the late Rudolph C.

Fuller, but failed of appointment bo-cause of tho constitutional prohibition against the arpointraent of legislators to office under a city administration during the time for which they have been electnj to the Legislature. There were some facetious politicians who said that Charles namo was against him In seeking office from Mayor McClellan. Senator McCarren Is In Boston as a member of the legislative commission appointed to investigate tho subject of direct primaries. He Is quoted as expressing himself rather freely on the general subject of party politics and party responsibility. Among other things, the Brooklyn leader said that the attempt to obliterate party lines In municipal elections by wiping off the party designations was a mistake and a failure.

He said: "That la a mistake. The people know their political leaders. You will And that Democrats will vote for Democrats and Republicans for Republicans as a general thing, regardless of whether or not tho words 'Democrat' or 'Republican' appear on the ballot. Every movement must have a leader in order to succeed. Tho leader Is the party.

He represents those who believe as ho does and who follow him." There has been a strong revival of talk of Representative William M. Calder for tho Republican nomination for borough president of Brooklyn. Calder has told his friends that he is not a candidate for tho nomination, but they persist in asserting that he would poll a tremendous vote, and owes it to bis party to run. It is said that Register William A. Prender-gast, from C'alder'B Twelfth A.

is a candidate for tho nomination. In the event of the nomination of a New York man for the office of mayor, it is considered certain that the Eighteenth A. D. will have a candidate for the nomination for borough president, and that Lewis H. Pounds will be the man.

Otto H. Bannard, president of the New York Trust Company. Is said to be the first choice of Herbert Parsons for tho Republican nomination for mayor. Mr. Bannard has served as treasurer of the New York Republican County Committoe for several years, and Is one of the most popular men In tho organization.

He is said to be a man of rare business ability, but of the most engaging and winning personality because of his indomitable exuberance of spirit. He Is a Yale man, and takes Just as great an interest in the athletic events of his alma mater now as he did when ho was an undergraduate. Whenever Yale is to havo a contest, either on the gridiron, the diamond or tile water, with Harvard or Princeton, Bannard arranges his affairs for a three days absence from business, and goes to the scene of the conflict. He requires one day to get ready, one for the game or race and one to recover. It is said, however, that when In harness he does the work of four or five other men, and appears to enjoy It.

Former Alderman John Hann, who managed the campaign of George E. Waldo against the Republican organliatlon of the Eighteenth A. D. last summer, has retired from active politics, and Is coining money, report says, In a movlng-plc-turo show and cafe at Bedford avenue and Eastern Parkway, SUPERVISORS AS SOLOMONS. Nassau Board Settles an Issue Between Telephone and Tele- graph Companies.

(Special to the Eagle.) Mineola, L. July 13 A controversy between the New York and New Jersey Telephone Company and the New York and North Shore Traction Company over the location of the poles carrying the wires and cables of the respective companies was settled by the Nassau County Board of Supervisors yesterday, that body directing both companies to locate their poles along both sides of the Ros-lyn and Mineola road at a distance of nine and one-half feet from the property line. The traction company is completing a connection of Its line from Mineola to Hicksvllle with the line from Mineola to Roslyn and Port Washington. It was necessary to run down along the west side of the Roslyn-Mlneola road eomo distance to the point where the overhead crossing of the Long Island railroad is placed. The poles of the New York and New Jersey Telephone Company ar so far out from the property line that the trolley curs could not run on thi tracks laid under the franchise granted by tho board of supervisors.

The traction company made a demand upon the telephone company for the removal of the poles, and the telephone company held that the expense of the change should be defrayed by the trac tion company. The officials of both companies have held several confercn. es, tut could not reach an agreement. Thi matter was taken up by the supervisors yesterday, and both companies ordered tu gef back. Plans and specifications for the proposed stone wall on the West Shore road at Oyster Bay were approved, and the clerk directed to advertise for bids for the work, to be opened on July 26.

BEATEN BY TOTJGHS. Cuffe Would Not Give Up Money for Beer. With his features badly battered Ed ward Cuffe of 14 Clifford place appeared before Magistrate Hlgglnbotham In the Bedford avenue court this morning as complaint against tnree men wuo ne charged with being responsible for his condition. The prisoners described them selves as Albert J. Bisang, 20 years pld, of 92 Freeman street; Charles W.

Burns. 36 years old, of 122 Noble street, and James Connors, 20 years old, of 107 Newell street. Cuffe was passing Noble and West streets loot night where the three men were drinking beer from a can. They had hold up several men and demanded and received money to replenish the contents ot the can. When Cuffe was stopped he refused to supply them with money and as a result he was knocked down and kicked about the head and body.

He fully identified the three as his assailants and they were held in or further hearing. Exhausted Swimmers Pulled Out of Surf and Revived. Details of a daring rescue in the surf at Arverne on Sunday morning were made known yesterday. About 11 o'clock in the morning, while the beach was black with people, two men ventured too far out Into the ocean at the foot of Cedar avenue, and In battling with the high breakers that were running at the time, tbey became exhausted and cried for help. Morris Bach and members of the Life Saving Corps, stationed near by, were attracted by the cries for help, and went to the assistance of the bathers.

Bach caught hold of one. and the life guards brought the other man safely to shore, where the two soon revived sufficiently to leave for their homes. They refused to give their names. CYCLIST BADLY INJURED. Struck by Sightseeing Auto Police Say Chauffeur Had No License.

Sumner J. Walden of 238 West Fifty-sixth street, Manhattan, employed as a chauffeur by the New York Automobile Touring Car Company at Broadway and Forty-second street, was in the Gates avenue police court this morning on a charge of operating a machine without a license badge. Ha pleaded guilty and was held for examination. He was bailed out by friends. Walden was in charge of a big Coney Island touring car last night that struck and badly Injured Julius Gruskae, 27 years old, of 327 Madison street, who was riding a bicycle near Flushing and Park avenues, en route to Coney Island.

At the time of the accident Gruskae was holding on to the mud guard of an automobile belonging to Abraham Levey of 702 Putnam avenue. The big touring car came along behind Levey's machine, which was being operated by Bertram G. Smith, a chauffeur of 127 Covert street. The touring car struck the other machine in passing, and knocked Gruskae down. His right forearm wsb fractured, his collar bone broken and his Jaw badly lacerated.

He was removed to the Cumberland Street Hospital. Walden was arrested by Policeman Edward C. Davenport of the Vernon avenue police station, who says that the man did not have a license badge. CANNOT SUE CITY AGAIN. No New Trial for Contractor Whc Claims $40,000.

Michael Greely, who lost his suit for $40,000 against the City of New York, for money alleged to be due on the building of Public School No. 5, at Long Island City, several months ago, cannot have a new trial, according to the decision handed down by 8upreme Court Justice Garretson yesterday. Justice Garretson also gave a decision sustaining the application of Maynard H. Clement, state excise commissioner, for a revocation of the saloon license of Max Emge of Richmond Hill. Justice Garret-son said that he did not think, from the evidence submitted, that the consents obtained at the tlma the saloon was opened, were legal.

MARRIAGE' LICENSES Issued in Brooklyn for Twenty-four Hours Ended at Noon To-day. Samuel B. Hotklns, 25 years, 404 Osborn st, and Rose Levy, X8 yeara, 95 Selge.1 st. Nicholas Gottlock, 44 years, Richmond Hill, Queons Borough, and Agnes Gross, 42 years, 174 Engert av. Charks Franz, 25 years, 406 Thirteenth at, and Agnes IuRy, 25 years, 693 Sixth av.

Hyman Ertesehek, 23 years, 362 Osborn st, and Sarah Spreyregen, 23 years, 349 Osborn street. Moses Rosen, 2.1 years, SR5 Osborn st, and Rose Hendelman, 22 years, 365 Osborn st. Thomas Neary, 26 years. 800 Berry st, and Eva Munzel, 20 years, 300 Berry st. Jakob Pfefter, 22 years, 207 Hamburg av, and Fannie Fisher, 21' years 207 Hamburg- av.

Nathan Sasefskt, 23 years, 496 Bushwlck av, and Sarah A. Kopetzaky, 22 years, 496 Bush-wick av. Vlncenzo Toseano, 28 years, 720 Bedford av, and Wally Oslner, 21 years, 720 Bedford av. Edward J. Keating, 47 years.

66 Orove st, and Loretta Savers, 39 years, 174 Jefferson avenue. Christian Thompson, 40 years, 416 Nineteenth st, and Anna Ha'lsten, 21 years, 321 Fifty-sixth st. Peter Freudenberg, 30 years, Parker's Prairie. and Catharlna Schmidt, 23 years, 177 Ten Eyck av. Michael Halajclo, 28 years, (5 Berry at, and Ewa Wojtowlcz, 2 years, 85 Berry st.

John Rudnlckf, 25 years, Astoria, Queens Borough, and Paulina A. Smolska, 24 years, 216 Freeman st. Gluseppt Trovato, 23 years, 173 Green st, and Carolina Ipsale, 21 years. 173 Green st. John W.

Wood, 23 years, 203 Hull st, and Florence Montrose, 21 years, 304 Myrtle av. Ernest Eckert, 31 years, Paterson, N. and Evelyn Coopey, 23 years, 6003 Fifth av. Eugene Cann, 22 years, 134 Raymond st, and Grace Graystone, 22 years, Johnson st. William Olsen, 25 years, 371 Douglass st, and Emma Nllsen, 22 years, 371 Douglass st.

Vlto Agosta, 22 years, 18 Dumont av, and Isabella Denota, 17 years, 19 Dumont av. Carroll L. Nichols, 27 years, 232A Putnam av, and Hazel A. Howe, 26 years, 232A Putnam avenue. John F.

Dempsey, 21 years. Flushing, L. and Gladys Cayard, 24 years, 432 Jefferson avenue. Milton Hall, 23 years. Woodhaven.

L. and Elsie C. K. Muller. 20 years, 217 Hop-kinson av.

George McGrath. 22 years, 184 Rockaway av, and Margaret Herllng. 19 years, 14S Knickerbocker av. Devls Karo, 33 years, 553 Bushwlck av, and Esther Llpschltz, 20 years, 49 Montelth at. Michel Cicclo, 21 years.

37 Withers st, and Sabattella, Caputs, 19 years, 37 Withers st. Otto Weber, 32 years, 31S Sheepshead Bay, and Mary Bookmeyer. 21 years, 2821 Cortland at. Angelo Pllla, 26 years. Elmhurst, L.

and Grazla Cavalluzzo, 19 years. 28 Jamaica av. Martin A. Olsen, 26 years. 645 Twentieth st, and Aurelia Braxl, 22 years, 645 Twentieth st.

William H. Mvtlck, 29 yeara. Jersey Cly. N. and Mathilda Grafenstlne, 21 years, 341 Fifty-first st.

Lulgl Ceraldl, 24 years, 168 Twenly-flrot st, and Llsabetta Varone, 24 years, 168 Tweuty- flrst st. Rosario Amato, 26 years, Hoboken, N. and Maria Cappolino, 33 years, 4621 Thiru av. Arthur Tunnlcllft, 23 years, 3305 Broadwy, Manhattan, and Sarah K. Christie, 22 years, 116 Wyckorl st.

Salvatore Serlvala. Jl years. 42 Powell and Theresa Wagner, 19 years, 63 Chrwloplua' avenue. Antonio Serlvala. 26 years, 42 Powell st, and Rosa Wagner, 22 years, OS Christopher av.

Cvrll Dewebury, 27 years. 48 Hancock st. Nellie Dewsbury, 25 years, 46 Kancoca st. Grazla Dlmonico, 21 years. 30 Fanchon and Rosa Deperlno, 16 years.

2411 Fulton t. Alfonso Forglons, 23 years. 564 President and Rosa A. M. Glalenella.

2s year. HA President st. Michael Cully. 1520 Broadway, and Mary Coffey, 2 St. Felix st.

Vlncenzo Anglollno. 138 Packman st, and Gluscpplna Panmullo, 183 Clifton place. Pasquale laccarino, 23 years, 386 Columbia st. and Domenica Indricrs. 22 years.

75 From st. William S. Mcllvaln, 24 years, 150 South Elliott place, and Fanny H. Losee, 22 it Rogers av. Robert Smith, 34 years.

Maspeth, Queens Borough, and Amelia Jantz, 38 years, 206 Sugg st. Morris Cutler. 21 years. 170 Glenmore av, and Nnsse Ginsberg, 19 years. 170 Glenmore av.

Samuel Serous, 27 years. 402 Georgia av. and Sophie Bolko, 23 years. 747 Herkimer St. Lewis Charln, 21 years.

136 Wallabout st, and Sarah Worth. 20 years, 812 Urand st. Anthony Dobrowoskl, 25 years, New Britain, and Sofia SaJ, 26 years. 665 Third av. William White (colored), 26 years, Jamaica, Queens Borough, and Annie Brooks (colorcu).

26 years. 149 Snedlker av. Coslno Cordons. 24 years. 25 Ksvjr it.

and Gluseppina Amodeo, 23 yeara. 245 Johneon si. fitefano Savtno. 27 years. 4917 Fifth st, and Catarlna LuPreto, 24 years, 4917 Fifth st.

TO JAIL TO SOBER, UP. A dissipated looking women, giving her name as Nora Wallace, age 68, of 22V Wythe avenue, was picked up last night undr the Influence of drink by Policeman Doyle of the Bedford avenue station. Whan taken before Magistrate Higgln-bothnm in the Bedford avenue court this morilng he told her that she had better go tj Jail and sober up. "Well. I guess not," shrilly shrieked the woman.

"I iuess that vou have got another remarked the magistrate, as he commiited her to Jail tor- days. DECLARE HIM SANE One Old Man Says Harry Had a Good Knowledge of the Bible. WAS OPPOSED TO BRYAN. Court Officer Says Prisoner Converted Him From Tree Silver Doctrine. White Plains, N.

July 13 Deputy Attorney General Clark announced at the resumption to-day of the inquiry into the present mental condition of Harry K. Thaw before Justice Mills that Drs. Austin Flint and Carlos B. McDonald would be the alienists called by the state to examine the plaintiff according to Thaw's own suggestion. Dr.

Amos B. Baker, assistant superintendent or Mat teawan Asylum, who bad Thaw under observation, will make up the trio of experts tor the state. Thaw's counsel said he was not ready to announce the names of the plaintiff's alienists until be had further conferred with his client. It was said Thaw would submit to an examination at the hands of the state's expert at the close of the lay testimony In the case. Deputy Attorney General Clark said this morning that he had no definite assurance that Evelyn Nesbit Tbaw, the plaintiff's wife, would appear In court to-day In answer to the state's sub-pena.

Edward Havens, a keeper at the Pough-keepsie Jail, who saw Thaw dally when he was confined there, was recalled to the witness stand at the opening of court to-day and testified that the prisoner appeared entirely rational in his speech and actions, as he bad observed him. On cross-examination District Attorney Mack of Dutcbess County got toe witness to state that be had left Thaw alone at various times when the prisoner was in bis charge, although the keeper knew the sheriff bad said he feared Tbaw might attempt to escape. "Did you ever know of Mr. Thaw attempting to escape?" Mr. Morschauser, Thaw's counsel, asked the witness.

The witness said be had not. "Did you ever have any fear that he would try to get away?" "No, I was confident that he could be trusted," replied Havens. The witness said If he had thought Thaw was Insane he would never have left him alone a moment. W. W.

Smith of Poughkeepsle was thi next witness called by Thaw's counsel. Mr. Smith Is over 80 years old. He said he had lived In Poughkeepsle ixty-one years and admitted hesitatingly that he was known there as a philanthropist. The witness gaid he had met Thaw on two or three occasions and talked with him on religious topics.

"I told him we were brother men and should try to alleviate each other's troubles and sorrows," the witness said. "I told him I was one among many who were friendly to him; "He told me he was a Presbyterian, and we talked about the Bible and about Christ's sympathetic attitude toward sinners," continued the witness. "Mr. Thaw appeared to be very well read end have a good knowledge of the Bible. His conversation was rational," said Mr.

Smith. Otto Mets, a New York court officer and former keeper In the Tombs Prison, testified he frequently talked politics with Thaw "He certainly convinced me that the silver question and Bryanism would be a bad thing for the country," said the witness. Deputy Attorney General Clark objected to the answer, and Justice Mills instructed the witness to confine his testimony to actual conversations between himself and Tbaw. The witness said Thaw told him he thought Roosevelt was a "strong man" and made a good President. When Josenh Hudson, an old Long Island Railroad conductor, was testifying the dignity and solemnity of the court proceedings were considerably ruffled by the boisterous laughter he created at times with his droll answers and side remarks.

Mr. Hudson said he bed had four or flv! hours conversation with Thaw all told-principally on railroad matters. "To tell you the truth of the matter," said the witness, "I wanted to find out whether or not he was insane and asked him all kinds of questions to draw him out." Thaw and the Judge Joined in the general laugh which this unsolicited statement by the witness created. The witness said Thaw showed a remarkable knowledge of railroading. "I have probably met more men In my life than any man in this court room," Mr.

-Hudson volunteered, "and have had a pretty good schooling In human nature and have seen many Insane men, but there was nothing Irrational about Thaw." On cross examination District Attorney Mack wanted to know if the witness and Thaw had ever touched upon the killing of Stanford White in their conversations. The witness said not, but that he personally believed It was "an act of Providence." -'Why didn't you question Thaw about that?" asked Mr. Mack. "You might as well ask me why I had not been to heaven," said the witness, "I don't know." i JUSTICE AT HUNTINGTON. Reaches Out After Motorist "Who Vailed to Light TJp and Father Who Failed in Eia Duty.

(Special to the Eagle.) Buntington, L. July 13 In Justice Hendrlckson's court yesterday Clarence Barclay Ward, a wealthy resident here, was fined $5 tor driving his automobile with out lights on July 3 at 10:45 P.M. The prominence of Mr. Ward leads the drivers of machines to believe that they must really live up to the law. In- the same court yesterday Henry Btlllwell was sentenced to six months in the Riverhead Jail for attempting to hit his son Louis with a carpenter's hammer.

Richard Dill, a neighbor, made the complaint. Drs. Lindsay and Gibson were Appointed to Inquire Into the prisoner's sanity, his family having declared their belief that his mind is unbalanced. The doctors found him to be O. K.

mentally end the sentence followed. MISS KELLERMAN ENJOINED. Must Not Play for Any One but Keith Before May 1 Next. Annette Kellerman, the shapely aquatic performer, having failed to answer, demur or otherwise move with relation to the bill of complaint filed against her in the United States Circuit court by Ben-Jsmln P. Keith, Judge Lacombe to-dtty signed an order restraining the diver between October 4 next and May 1, 1910, from appearing in, or presenting either privately or publicly any act or specialty in any place or places whatsoever, other than those designated by Keith.

The restraining order also authorizes Keith to recover from Miss Kellerman the costs, charges and disbursements of the suit in which judgment was taken pro confeeso. STATE PANTS CO. Barnet Rosenblum, Barnet Cohen and Samuel Zuckerman, doing business as the State Pants Company, at 607 First avenue and 33 Pike street, Manhattan, and 1039 Forty-second street, Brooklyn, In a voluntary petition give the firm's lia-llUUes as. 12,590.01, with, na assets. Arthur H.

Ebeling. (Special to the Eagle Lynbrook. L. July 13 Arthur Her man Ebellng. one of the best known young men in Lynbrook, died at the resi dence of his mother, Mrs.

Marie Ebeling, in Charles street, Sunday afternoon, in his 29th year, of abscesses on the lung. resulting from typhoid fever. Mr. bad been a resident of Lynbrook for the past few years. He was a member of the Lynbrook Engine Company, also treasurer of the Lynbrook Club.

Ho was a member of Beethoven Lodgo No. 661, F. and A. of Manhattan. H3 leaves a widowed mother and ont brother.

The funeral will be held at his late residence this evening at 8:30 o'clock. the Rev. Peter C. Creveling. rector of Christ Church, officiating, and the interment will be in Trinity Cemetery.

Hew lett, on Wednesday morning at 10:30. Mrs Anna iniel. Mrs. Anna E. Thlel, the wife of Adam Thlel, died yesterday at her home.

Seventy-fourth street and Fifteenth avenue, Lefferts Park, from pneumonia. Mrs. Thlel was in her 60th year, having been born In Germany In 1849. -She hart lived In the Bath Beach section since 1 NS7, and was very well known and liked. She was a Drominent member of the Ladies Aid Society of St.

John's Lutheran Church, Van Pelt Manor. She Is survived by her husband and nine children, five eons and four daughters. The funeral services will bo held at her late residence, on Wednesday, July 14. at 8 P.M. The Rev.

Louis Happ will officiate. The Interment will be private, on Thursday, in Greenwood Cemetery. Amanda Melvina Woodhull. Amanda Melvina Fltzallen Van Onlen, tho widow of John Woodhull, died Sim-day of heart trouble at hor home, 533 Clinton avenue. She was born In Brooklyn, June 25, 1838, the daughter of Andrew and Mary Van Orden.

and twenty years of her life were spent at Patrhogue, L. I. She was a member of Olivet Presbyterian Church and la survived by a son. Nelson and a daughter, Mary E. Woodhull.

The funeral services, which will be private, will be conducted by the Rev. F. G. Snyder. Matthew Frank Sanford.

Matthew Frank Sanford, a retired manufacturer of builders supplies, who, some years ago, had a large factory on Wyckoff street, and who was a resident of South Brooklyn for almost sixty years, died on Sunday of dropsy at his home, 261 Twelfth street. He was a member of the Sanford Association of Amcrlra. members of which trace their descent back to Thomus C. Banford, an Englishman, who settled at Mllford, in Ki32. Deceased was born at.

Warwick. Orange County, this state, May 29. 1S32. He leaves a son, Lewis a daughter, Mrs. Charles M.

Fordham, a brother, John, six grandchildren and two gnat-grandchildren. OBITUARY NOTES. Dorothea Behafer, the widow of Ernest Pnn-dermann. a resident of this borough for fifty years, and who. during most of time resided In the Bedford district, died on Sunday of a complication of ailments after a very brief Illness at her residence at 3o4 Lnlden avenue.

She wen born in Germany 72 years ago and Is survived by three eons, Joseph. Ernest and Charles, one of whom Is a builder, and three daughters, Louise and Daisy, and Mrs. John Taylor. Carl Schlesier, a veteran of the Civil War and a resident of Williamsburg for flfty-flve years, died yesterday at his residence at 1098 Halsey street of old age. He was a native of Autenberg, Germany, and born July 14, 1S7H.

He was a charter member of Thomas 8. Dakln Post, O. A. and for many years a cooper for the standard Oil Company. He served in the war as a member of Captain Wandell's company In the Twenty-eighth Regiment of this state.

He leaves two sons. Edwin and Henry, and two daughters. Matilda, and Emma. KILLED BY A B. R.

T. TRAIN. Manhattan Man Met Instant Death at Dangerous Crossing at Rockaway Beach. John M. McKenzIe, B0 years old, of 1G4 East One Hundred and Ninth street, Manhattan, was struck and instantly killed at the Falrvlew avenue crossing of the Long Island Railroad, Rockaway Beach, at 6:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon, by a Brooklyn Rapid Transit train.

McKenzie had arrived on the train reaching Ham-mel station at 5:15 o'clock, and waited for the last car to clear the track, when he started to cross. He did not see the B. R. T. train approaching on the opposite track, and stepped squarely In front of It.

He was struck and dragged along under the cars for fifteen feet or moro before the train could be brought to a stop. When the body was pulled from under the cars life was nearly extinct. The Rev. Henry Murray of St. Rose ot Lima Church, a short distance away, was summoned and administered the last sacrament and anointed the dying man.

His Identity was established by some letters and postals found in a suit case he carried with him. McKenzle's left foot was severed at tht ankle, and he was otherwise badly mangled. He was formerly employed at the Florence House, on the ocean front, as barkeeper. The body was removed to the station house and the coroner notified. The Falrvlew avenue crossing is one of the worst on the Rockaway Beach Division of the Long iBland Railroad.

At that point there are six tracks, four of which are used by trains and two by trolley cars. The time of arrival and departure of trains at the station makes the trains pass each other about the same time, and as the station Is a sort of changing place for passengers on the Rockaway Beach trains for Far Rockaway, the number of persons using the crossing daily is many hundreds. The train was in charge of Motorman Joseph Craig and Conductor Howlett Abrams, who wera placed under arrest. This morning they were arraigned lu the Far Rockaway court on a charge of homicide, and were paroled In the custody of the company, awaiting the action ot the coroner. SOLDIER KILLS HIMSELP.

Harry Charles of Herrvlllc, a private in the United States Army Ordnance detachment, stationed at Sandy Hook barracks, committed suicide to-day by cutting his throat with a razor. Charles had served three years in the infantry branch of the service and re-enlisted in the Ordinance Corps six months ago. No motive for his act of self-destruction Is known. LOUIS LOEB'S DEATH. Concord, N.

July 13 News was received here to-day of the death at Canterbury yesterday of Louis Loeb of New York, a well-known artist and illustrator. Mr. Loeb, who was 42 years of age, was staying at his summer home In Canterbury when death came. CUBAN SPEAKER IN NEW YORK. Seqor Orestes Ferrara.

speaker of the Cuban House of Representatives, and Mme. I'errara, were passengers on the Havana whlph arrived tn-Hnv from Havana. They are en route to Eu rope. BROOKLYNNTES IN PAIS. Eagle Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon.

c-l. Ti.ltf IS Tha following Rrnnlr. lynltes have registered at the Eagle Bu reau: John F. Cogan. Eatclle Cogan.

William H. Kohoe. Simon Donovan, Jr. Registered from Manhattan: John Warner Taylor. Mrs.

C. D. Lowrie. Mr. snd Mrs.

C. D. Stickney. A. L.

Ware. Otlifli. rafflotnrari TClrhv IT. De Walden Brenerman, Washington; M. Sexton, Al.

A. sexton, a. aexiou, 6iia Clarke, Wilmington, Del. TO Superintendent Lawrence of the Coler Administration Do-fends His Course. LITTLE COMPETITIVE BIDDING.

Out of Over 4,000 Purchases a Year, About BO Were Made In Competition. The brother of Joseph M. Lawrence, superintendent of the Bureau of Public Buildings and Offices, was very successful la getting contracts from Superintendent Lawrence, according to testimony before Commissioner of Accounts John Purroy Mltchel, in the Investigation of Colcr's administration. Superintendent Lawrence's brother was known as the Sampson Iron Works; that is, he and a young man named John Royal, who were in a foundry over on Meeker street, called themselves the Sampson Iron Works and got contracts under that name. Superintendent Lawrence defended these contracts when on the stand before Commissioner Mltchel.

He said no better work was ever done than was done by tho Sampson Iron Works, even If one of the works was his own brother. "They were a couple of young men Just beginning business," said Mr. Lawrence, "and I gave them contracts." Superintendent Lawrence told of one contract that he had given to his brother, but be said the Sampson Works bid only $450, while other concerns bid about $950, and one art metal works bid $8,120. The superintendent figured that he hnd saved almost $,000 by giving the contract to his brother Instead of giving it to the art metal concern. "There's a vast difference between $6,120 and $450," he said.

Before giving that contract, Superintendent Lawrence had given a lot of orders to the Sampson Iron Works. Superintendent Lawrence was asked about his Invitation bidding system. He said he would Invite firms to bid for selling supplies and would select the best bargain offered. "I myself, selected the firms to be Invited to bid," he said. He always selected A.

Pearson Co. of 63 Myrtle avenue to bid on supplying furniture and carpets. He said he had met Alexander Pearson first at a conference be had called on the subject of a contract, and that Pearson made such a good impression that he had given blm business thereafter. He said Desmond Dunne hadn't Introduced Pearson to him. Thereupon Mr.

Mltchel handed Mr Lawrence a card, which was the veri identical card used by DeBmond Dunne, then commissioner of public works, in Introducing Pearson to Lawrence. Pearson was Introduced on two different cards by Dunne, but Superintendent Lawrence swore the cards didn't antedate the first order he gave Pearson. On the subject of competitive estimates It was shown that out of more than 4,000 purchases a year, Lawrence had called for competitive estimates In only 41 cases In 1907, 59 In 1906 and 62 in 1908. Usually, Lawrence, as purchasing agent, bought without giving firms a chance to compete. "FIRED" SPEEDING CHAUFFEUR Bay Shore Colonist Hade Short Work of Employe Whom He Caught Violating His Orders.

(Special to the Eagle.) Bay Shore, L. July 13 An Incident which indicates that some owners of motor cars do not care to have their chauffeurs drive at breakneck speed occurred at the depot a few mornings ago, when a professional driver was summarily dismissed by his Irate employer. The latter's name could not be learned, but the Incident occurred Just before a 9:10 express, westbound, pulled out. An elderly man alighted from a big car. and affectionately kissed a little boy, evidently the child of hlB old age, and started to cross the track to the shelter.

As he did bo he turned on hearing the chug chug of a starting motor car, and peering Into the distance saw his car fairly flying through a cloud of dust. His face paled, and without hesitation he re-crossed to the depot, went to the telephone, call-d his home and remarked: "Tell William to return Instantly to the depot; I want to see htm before I leave. A few moments later "William" returned. "You srot your money last nlghtT" asked the owner of the car. 'Yes, rir." "You are discharged.

You thought I did r.ot see you when you tore down the road as you did. and with my son In the machine, too. No; not a word; leave the car Just where It is. Do you understand, you are through?" "William" made himself scarce, and the angry owner at once turned to a friend and asked him to allow his chauffeur to take his car heme. Then he boarded bis train with the air of a man who was conscious of a duty well performed.

CALANDRA BOY IN COURT. Uncle Arraigned on Kidnapping Charge Stoutly Denies His Guilt. Vlto Lucldo, a barber, of 699 Park avenue, charged with kidnapping his 5-year-old nephew, Peter Calandra, son of John Calandra, of 183 Floyd street, who was found Saturday night half asleep on a curbstone at South Fifth and Hewes streets by Policeman Frederick Cantwell of the Vernon avenue police station, was arraigned" before Magistrate Hylan In the Gates avenue police court this morning and his case was adjourned. Peter Calandra was the cynosure of all eyes when he was brought Into court by Detectives Flnley and Finch of the Vernon avenue police station. He formerly wore curls, but they have been cut off.

Every one wanted to catch a glimpse of the little fellow whose mysterious disappearance was for so long the talk of New York. Captain Buchanan of the Vernon avenue station Is working hard on tho case. Ho took tho' youngster over the Williamsburg Bridge and the little fellow remembered going over the bridge and pointed out a house on One Hundred and Sixteenth street, where he had stayed. He identified his uncle as the man who was with him. Lucldo' stoutly denies that he bad anything to do with the boy's disappearance.

ITALIAN HELD ON SUSPICION. Gluscppl Carlo, an Italian, living in Inwood. L. was arraigned in the Fr Kockaway court yesterday on suspicion of having feloniously assaulted James Wicks, a conductor on the trolley line running between Far Rockaway and Jamaica, several days ago. A quarrel occurred on Wicks' car and In the melee which followed tho conductor was slashed In the back, receiving a gash reaching from his neck down to his hip, which required twenty-six stitches.

Carlo was held under $1,600 bail by Magistrate Oilroy for examination on July 19. New Tungsten Lamps to the Number of 760 to Be Installed. SAD NEWS FOR SP00NERS. Sculley of the Marriage License Bureau Downcast and Even Tom Reilly Is Affected. After dark spooning and love making In Prospect Park will be no more.

The lovers lanes, which at night are now bo dark that the paths are followed with difficulty, will no more bo sought by the love sick youth and his sweetheart and the leafy dells which even the hard hearted cops could not penetrate with their vision will no longer prove an attraction. The lakeside will not be the place hereafter where young couples can exchange their nothings and other things that lovers are Batd to exchange. The onward march of progress, all unmindful of love's young, sweet dream, will make the night as light as day in Prespect Park. The big park, It might bo said for those who don't know it, is the greatest sparking place in the world after dusk, and thousands of couples undergo long trolley rides for a stroll through the secluded lanes. Deputy Commissioner William C.

Co-zlor of tho Department of Lighting to-duy filed with aPrk Commissioner Kennedy the plans for a new lighting system. It will replace the present system, which consists of 251) old-fashioned naphtha lamps and a few electric lights In scattered places. The old system don't give much light and In most places Prospect aPrk is as dark, after nightfall, as the blackest black paint could represent it. The ew plan calls for 760 of the ew Tungsten lamps, which Commissioner Cozier has already begun to lnstal in Fort Greene Park as well as some arc lamps. The maps show that when the lamps are all In place tbere won't be a dark spot left in the ark, hardly, and tho shady spots will be so few and far between that a handful of blecoats will bo able to discourage even the most heartsick youngsters.

More than one official sighed sadly when tho news was passed around that Prospect Park's day, or rather night, as a spooning ground is doomed. Deputy City Clerk Sculley, who has passed out mar-rlnge licenses to many young couples who brought the fresh air of Prospect Park with them when they made their affidavits, was downcast. "The records of licenses Issued are low enough, I think, without spoiling the best trystlng place we have. I wouldn't be surprised if some statistician figured it out that 20 per cent, of all the young men who come here for licenses first got the courage to ask their girls over here in the flower-scented walks of old Prospect, where tho wind sighs gently through the trees and makes music that stirs up tho sentiments." And although Mr. Sculley is a bachelor, he sighed another sigh of sadness.

"Yes, it's true." Mid Tom Reilly, the secretary of the park commissioner, when he was asked about the mati- to-day. Tom Relliy's usually cheerful voice was also sad. "And all those young penpls boosted our park along as the greatest and most wonderful place on earth! Do you know, that nine-tenths of all tho glory which we get for keeping the park is showered on us by the young people? "But this new fangled business had to come, I Buppose. And there Isn't an other park we could offer young Brook-lynites that would have all the advantages of Prospect Park." But the time for sadness Is not yet here. Deputy Commissioner Cozier told the Eagle confidentially to-day that the new lighting system won't be finished this summer or even In the early fall.

"They can mako hay while the lights don't said the commissioner. FOUND CHILDREN IN SQUALOR. Mother Down With Consumption and Father a Public School Janitor With Good Pay. The S. P.

C. C. has found It necessary to take care of the five little children of Joseph Egan, Janitor of the public school at the corner of Twentieth street and Fourth avenue. Four of them, Annie. 10; Elsie, Frank, 6, and Edward, 2 years old, were In the Children's Court this morning charged by Patrick Mal-lon, the Catholic probation officer, with being under Improper guardianship, and all four were remanded to tho care of the society until Thursday for decision.

Tho baby, who is 13 months old, is with the mother in the Riverside Hospital for Consumptives. The family live at the corner of Forty-first street and Seventh avenue, and the neighbors had sent word to tho S. P. C. C.

that the mother was sick in the last stages of consumption, and that the father neglected both her and the children. Last Saturday afternoon Mr. Mal-lon and Miss Lynch, both of the St. Vincent do Paul Society, went down there and found tho home in a shocking condition. The father was out somewhere, no one knew where, the mother was sick In bed, unable to get up, and the children ran around In the most frightful condition of neglect, filth and squalor.

The father draws a salary of nearly a hundred dollars a month from the city, but although the wife was sick there was no one to take care of the youngsters. The oatmeal pot where they had eaten their breakfast stood around half full with remnants and files. The children were not washed and the room, though well enough furnished, was unspeakable dirty. The woman complained of her misery, stating that her husband was very seldom home, often stayed out all night, she was not sure where or with whom, and though he drew a good salary he did not provide for the family. The agents for the society took her to the hospital and the children were taken to the care of the S.

P. C. C. Egan was in the Children's Court this morning, but did not seem to be embarrassed at the description given the Judge of his home. He was very snlp-pUh, claiming that he could afford to pay for the children If they were committed to some Institution.

When Judgo Mclnerney asked blm the reason for his neglect of his family, he laid the blamo on the woman. He excused his own failing by saying that bis wife -used to drink. THE COURTS. SURROGATE'S COURT. Calendar, Wednesday, before Surrffate Herbert T.

Ketcham. The will of Pavid Mc-Koll. The accounting; In the estate of Aaion WriKht, Catharine Van Winkle. Max Ruck-Kaboy. E.

L. Mllhan, Henry Preston. Rusa Jacob. Gwrge A. Thayer.

Alfred Riotoch. 1). C. Tletvut. M.

C. Ferdinand Eyscl. Peter Glmm and Alexander Seymour. COUNTY COURT. KINGS COUXTT.

Dike. J. Part 1. trial July 14, 1W9. Leo Dreyfus and Louis TedoMI, Krand larceny, second degree; James Hyland and August bumlnry.

first degree; Leopold ICarlc, burgltry, third degree. EZFEHEES APPOINTED. Ry Ftapleton. J. Roth vs.

Iandiu, Rufun 1,. Perry: T.afayette Trust Company vs. Hlgglnbotham. Maurice V. Theall; EaRle Savings and Loan Company vs.

Fleming. George J. S. Powllng; Interboro Improvement Company vs. Hall and others, William Allaire Sliortt; Culver Construction Company vs.

Carhone and others, Samuel E. Mitres; Fitzgerald vs. Cuming and another, Fre.J. M. Matthews; Johnson vs.

Purdy ana others. Edward W. Cooper; Sallt vs. gohoen-florf et Eugene F. O'Connor: Kusensky vs.

Greenfeld et Morris W. Hart; same vs. same, W. W. Butcher; Melsel vs.

Hochsteln I James Gray. Sales of Long Beach Lots Exceeded $25,000 Last Week. The sales at Long Beach last week showed a total for boardwalk and boulevard lots. In parcels valued at from J1.800 to $23,000, of $277,975. This, added to $219,486 for the week preceding, brings the total to $497,460 for fourteen days, a record unequaied by any real estate development enterprise in Greater New York or vicinity.

Among the week's purchasers at Long Beach were Walker Patterson, 8. W. S. Toms, Henry Meikel, Charles S. Bass, Thomas C.

Lynch, Mrs. Elsie C. Kllnk, James J. Farely, Louis Westphal, Mrs. Louise B.

Laridon, John V. Harding, Behrendt Bell, Benjamin E. Gulbert, William Forbes Murray. Mrs. Alice Du-rando, Thornton B.

Burns William J. Spain, Daniel W. McCahill, Miss Lulu Kelly, Kilbourne Clark, Samuel Friedman, Vaughn Glaser, Mrs. Kathryn Sullivan, Benjamin Norje. Horwlts Goodman, H.

B. Levy, William A. Larned. Frederick Quenzer, P. A.

Sherman, Louis Herman, Ferdinand Cranz, William C. Abbot, H. C. Engqulst, Dr. Osvaldo Ros, Henry W.

Felt. J. P. Feldt, H. O.

Reid, Waldo P. Clement, Mrs. Mary W. Jones, Mary Elizabeth Gallaher. Carrie B.

Benedict and Alice P. Cameron. Auction Sales To-day. BY WILLIAM H. PMITH.

AT REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE. Railroad av. s. 112-6 Union av, 75x200. Geo Noll et al ag-st Andrew Walker et al: Klendl Bros, att'js.

Atlantic avtfi Sanders Shanks, ref. Sold to Louis Mehrmann for 7,000. Stanhop st. 175 ft Irving av. fSx 100.

Killth Schilling asst Eleonura Mayor et al: James MRett att'y, 834 limedway; Jose Pldgeon, ref. Sold to Elsonora Maysr for S.175. Wyona st. s. 75 ft Sutter av.

25x110. John Doscher asst Borlch Welsenthal et al; Henry Cochrane att'y, 44 Court st: Moses Harris, ref. Sold to the plalntln for 50 over mortgage of Boerum st. cor Lorimer st. runs 100 beg.

Nathan Levy agst Sarah Kaufman et al; Louis Bursteln. atfy, Broadway: A Lincoln Bernstein, ref. Sold to the plaintiff for $2,500 over mortgage of $30,000. Newport av, cor Sackman st, 80x2S. Sackman st.

s. 12- ft Newport av. 280x300. Lee Co agst Albert Halperln et al: Gilbert Elliott, att'y, 44 Court st; Augustus Koehler, ref. Sold to Camben Construction, Pin)Ppy over m-vufage of.

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