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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. THURSDAY. JULY 15. 1.909.

MARRIAGES AND DEATHS DIED. Backus, Henry F. Bahr. John Henry, Butler, Frances I. Donovan, Catherine Garrahan, Patrick.

Honner, Anna A. Liddy, Fannie Lozier. Thomas. Marks, Harriett. Perley, Sarah M.

Smith, Lina Taylor, Elizabeth Vanderveer, Peter J. Wardell, Walter N. Woolley, Benjamin Wednesday night, July 1909, HENRY husband of Jennie A. Backus. Funeral services at his late residence.

162 Willoughby st, Friday, 7:30 P.M. Interment private. BAHR-Suddenly, on Wednesday, July 14. 1909. JOHN HENRY BAHR, in his 58th year.

Relatives friends. also Standard Lodge No. 1,056, Knights and Ladies of Honor; Rotenburger Freundschafts-Bund and Brooklyn Confectioners Verein are invited to attend the funeral services on Saturday, July 17, at 1:30 o'clock at his late residence, 1193 Bedford av. BUTLER--On Thursday, Heights, July 15, FRANCES 1909. at Shelter Island ISABEL widow of William A.

Butler, late residence, Orange, N. formerly of Brooklyn. Funeral services Friday, at 5:30 P.M., at Shelter Island Heights. Interment private, at Greenwood. DONOVAN-On July 13, 1909, CATHERINE wife of Fulmoth B.

Donovan, daughter of the late Henry Hashagen. Funeral services at her late residence, 669 Carroll st, on Friday, July 16, at 2 P.M. Relatives and friends invited to attend. GARRAHAN-On GARRAHAN, at his home, 1157 St. July 13, 1909, PATRICK Marks av.

Mr. Garrahan is survived by widow, Annie T. Guilfoyle, and a daugha ter, Mrs. John F. Hartigan, Funeral Matthew's services 9:30 A.M., July 16, at St.

Lincoln place and Utica av. InChurch, terment Holy Cross Cemetery. GARRAHAN-Brooklyn Volunteer Firemen's Association: Special meeting on Thursday, July 15, 8 P.M., to make arrangements for funeral of PATRICK GARRAHAN of Engine Company No. 5. JOHN W.

WALKER, President. HONNER O'Brien), beloved wife HONNER-On July 13, 1909, ANNA Robert Honner. Relatives and friends die are invited attend funeral from her late residence, 1233 St. Jobn's place, Friday, July 16, at 2 P.M. Interment in Holy Cross Cemetery.

LIDDY-On Tuesday, July 13, 1909, at the home of her mother, 869 Gates av, FANNIE, beloved wife of William Liddy, late residence 812 Putnam av. Funeral service will be held on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at her mother's residence. LOZIER-Suddenly, on Wednesday, THOMAS LOZIER, aged 68 years. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend funeral servico at his late residence, on Friday at 2:30 P.M. MARKS-On Wednesday, July 14, HARRIETT, youngest daughter of Sarah and Lawrence Marks, 245 Steuben st, Brooklyn.

Funeral private. PERLEY-At Bay Shore, L. July 14, 1909, SARAH widow of Joseph L. Perley. Funeral services on Friday, July 16, at 4:30 P.M.

Relatives and friends are invited. Carriages awaiting train leaving Long Island City at 2:52 P.M. Interment in Woodlawn at the convenience of the family. SMITH-At Budd Lake, N. after 1 brief illness, LINA SMITH, aged 58 years, beloved wife of Albert Smith.

Funeral private. TAYLOR-On Wednesday, July 14, 1909, ELIZABETH, wife of Percy H. Taylor. Services at her late residence, 1735 Caton av, Flatbush, Friday, at 8 P.M. Interment private.

VANDERVEER-On Thursday, July 15, 1909, PETER J. VANDERVEER, son. of the late Gertrude Van Alst and John Vanderveer. Funeral services at his late residence, 1159 Flatbush av, Brooklyn, Saturday, at 2:30 P.M. WARDELL-After a brief illness, at Pleasantville, Westchester County, New York, July 14, 1909, WALTER NORVAL WARDELL, only and beloved son of Norval Henry and Anna Helene Wardell, in his 11th year.

WOOLLEY-At Little Neck, L. on Monday, July 12, 1909, BENJAMIN, beloved husband of Mary Hewlett Woolley, in the 87th year of his age. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services at his late residence, Little Neck, L. on Thursday, July 15, at 2:15 P.M. Carriages in waiting at Little Neck depot on arrival of train leaving RE East Thirty-fourth st, New York, at o'clock.

IN MEMORIAM. IN MEMORIAM. DOOLEY-In loving memory of my dear mother, MARY GILL DOOLEY, who departed this life on July 15, 1908. Gone but. never forgotten.

CAROLYN M. DOOLEY. BIG PARADE OF ELKS. Scores of Marching Clubs Move Through Streets of Los Angeles. Los Angeles, July many gorgeous floats in lines, scores of marching Elks clubs and drill.

-corps moved today through the streets of Los Angeles. The parade was viewed by what was said to be the largest crowd ever gathered here. The marchers passed a mass of flags and bunting and fraternal decorations that fronted all the business houses and swung across the thoroughfares. The pageant was more than two miles in length. The parade began to move at 10 o'clock.

At the head of each of the twelve divisions was a band and there were floats representing the lodges of California and special features. Arizona lodges had at their head band of Indian musicians from the Indian schools of Arizona. Spokane lodge members wore costumes to represent soldiers cf the Continental army and behind them they dragged old fashioned cannon used by Washington's army in the Revolution. The four lodges of Riverside, Pomona, San Bernardino and Redlands marched together in orange colored uniforms. San Pedro, had a full rigged ship manned by sailors in uniform, typifying the harbor city.

BOORAEM PLANS INSPECTION. New Commissioner to Look Over All Precincts Next Week, Deputy Police Commissioner- Booraem intends to make a tour of the police stations of Brooklyn and Queens some time next week. Before he goes on his trip he will have a meeting with all of the inspectors and captaing in the district. He is. to be introduced to them to-morrow.

This morning he was on hand in his office early, making himself familiar with some of the routine of the police work, which he continues to find very interesting. From what he said it is conjectured that he purposes taking a live interest not only in the office work but in the detail of the precincts. He will keep track of the robberies and burglaries, and will seek to have the number reduced, if possible. CHINESE IMPERIAL EDICT. Peking, China, July edict issued to-day in he name of the Emperor, appoints his majesty commander-inchief of the land and naval forces of the empire in accordance with the constitutional project of the late Emperor Kwang-hsu.

A military secretariat under the directorship of Prince Yulang also is to assist the regent. The exercise of the military powers of the Emperor is delegated to Prince Yulang. In conclusion the edict appoints Prince Tsai Shun and Admiral Sah commissioners to labor for the reorganization of the navy. THE SUBWAY SITUATION AS IT STANDS TO-DAY An of Stock" of Interest to Citizens and Taxpayers of Brooklyn. 18 PLANS ARE NOW PENDING.

Ten Have Received Approval and Eight Are Before the Public Service Commission. THE SUBWAY SITUATION TO- DAY PROPOSED NEW ROUTES. Approved. Name. Kind.

Broad way Lexington avenue Subway Canal street Subway McAdoo extension (Herald square to Grand Central) Subway McAdoo extension (Tenth street, crosstown) Subway Jerome avenue extension. Elevated Pelham Bay Park extension Elevated Broadway-Lafayette avenue Subway Fourth avenue Subway Coney Island Subway Fort Hamilton Subway Under Consideration. Seventh avenue and Greenwich street Subway Lexington avenue Subway Third avenue Subway Macomb's Dam and Jerome avenue Elevated Manhattan Bridge spur (Canal street-Flatbush avenue) Subway Broadway (Union tc Moving Times square) Platform Interterminal Belt Line, Subway Freight Belt Subway An Inventory of "Stock" in the Subway Situation, Although the Public Service Commission is to sit all summer, proceeding with business as usual, a point has now been reached where those interested in transit affairs are pausing to "take inventory." They are reviewing the events of the last six months for the purpose of obtaining a clear understanding of progress made and of ascertaining precisely what the present situation is. Excluding the Interborough's proposition to third-track portions of its Second, Third and Ninth avenues elevated roads, there are now before the Public Service Commission proposals to build eighteen new subway or elevated railroads in this city. Of the suggested routes, ten have already been approved by both the commission and the Board of Estimate, and bids for their construction and operation will be advertised in the early fall, In the case of one of these ten roads--the Fourth avenue subway in this borough--contracts have already been awarded, and work would now be in progress, had not the improvement been held up by a taxpayer's injunction secured at the suggestion of Controller Metz.

The remaining eight of the eighteen proposed new lines are under consion. As they involve, wholly or sideration by the Public Service, Commisin part, routes which have not been laid out by the commission, their desirability from a public standpoint must first be determined by the commission. Assuming the decisions in these cases to be favorable, the Board of Estimate must also approve the routes before forms of contracts can be prepared, and bids for construction and operation invited. It is the intention of the commission to pass on these propositions this summer, and submit their findings to the Board of Estimate at its first autumn meeting about the middle of September. Four Companies Involved in the Pending Propositions.

Generally speaking, four companies are involved in the proposals submitted for the eighteen new routes. For one system, extending the Bronx to Coney Island, the Bradley-Gaffney-Steers Company has its intention of bidding. For another system, not SO comprehensive, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company has asked permission to bid. The Amsterdam Company has proposed the so-called belt line routes, while a syndicate of Chicago capitalists is anxious to construct a moving platform under Broadway in Manhattan. It should always be remembered, however, that except in the case of extensions to existing lines, the law requires that all routes, both those already approved and those to be approved, must be offered at public auction.

All bids must be accepted and the contracts awarded to the lowest responsible bidders, SO that it by no means follows that a corporation which suggests a route, or indicates its intention to bid for certain routes, will in the end get the contracts. Of the routes thug far approved and bids for which are to be invited in the early fall, that which is regarded by the Public Service Commission as by far the most important is the Broadway-Lexington avenue route in Manhattan. The building of this trunk line subway will Involve an expenditure or about 000. The road begins at the Battery, runs north under Church street and Broadway to Tenth street, and then crosses under private property to Lexington avenue under which street it runs northward to the Harlem River. Crossing the Harlem in a tunnel it proceeds by subway to One Hundred and Fortyninth street.

It is to be a four-track road, under Lexington avenue, being conI structed on the double deck system. Some Features of the Proposed Routes As a part of, or rather an extension to, the Broadway-Lexington avenue subway are two elevated lines in the Bronx. One of these is to run up Jerome avenue to Woodlawn Cemetery, while the other is to follow the Southern Boulevard and Westchester avenue to Pelham Bay Park. Ten million dollars each is the estimated cost of their construction. What might property be regarded as another part of the Broadway-Lexington avenue subway and which will undoubtedly be operated as a part of it, is what is known as the Canal street crosstown lines.

This subway begins at the Center street tunnel, now under construction in Manhattan, and runs River where it ends form of a westerly under Canal stretto the North The estimated cost of this line is $5,000,000. All these important new transit routes, involving a total estimated expenditure of some $85,000,000, the Bradley, Gaffney, Steers Company has offered to build, equip and operate on the "indeterminate franchise plan," title in the roads to be vested in the city from the very start. What is popularly known as the McAdoo extension is a subway running from Herald square, Manhattan, to the Grand Central Station. After encountering ter opposition on the part of the Interborough, the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company, of which William G. MeAdoo is the head, Anally succeeded in getting the necessary official sanction for the extension, and the work of its construction will begin this fall.

It will cost about $10,000,000, and, being an extension of the MeAdoo subway under Sixth avenue, Manhattan, will by means of the North River tunnel system, furnish a direet line of communication between the Grand Central and the big trunk railroads having their eastern terminals on the Jersey side of the North River. It is to be built with private capital, Another McAdoo extension on which work is already proceeding is a crosstown subway leading from Sixth avenue and Eighth street, Manhattan, eastwardly to the existing Interborough subway under Fourth avenue. enter building of 1 this underground road also involve an outlay of about $10,000,000. The Situation of the Fourth Avenue Subway. Crossing to Brooklyn, the Fourth avenue subway has already been approved and the construction contracts awarded, but work on it has been held up result of an injunction issued a year ago at the behest of Controller Metz.

The Fourth avenue subway runs from the Manhattan Bridge under the Flatbush avenue extension and thence under Fourth avenue to Forty-third street. It is to be a -track subway, constructed with city money at an estimated cost of $23,000,000. In connection with this road, it is to be stated that the Bradley, Gaffney, Steers Company has indicated its willingness to operate it, provided it be built with city funds, as originally in-! tended. The Broadway-Lafayette avenue route, forming the Brooklyn end of the so-called bridge subway loop, has also been approved, and is to be hung up at public auction this fall. Operated in connection with the Center street tunnel in Manbattan, it will form a belt line running over the Williamsburg and Manhattan bridges, and having also a terminal under the big municipal building the city is to erect at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The Center street tunnel is now nearly completed, having been constructed by the city for about $10,000,000. The Bradley, Gaffney, Steers Company has offered to build the Broadway-Lafayette avenue route at an estimated cost of $10,0000,000 operating the entire bridge loop system in connectiop with the Broadway-Lexington avenue subway in Manhattan. Two other Brooklyn subway routes, which have already been approved, and be invited this fall, are the Coney Islbids for the construction of which will and and Fort Hamilton extensions to the Fourth avenue route. No offers to build these extensions have yet been received, but the Public Service Commission is inclined to think the Bradley, Gaffney, Steers Company will submit some proposal regarding them. Otherwise, they will be built with city money.

Ten million dollars is the estimated cost of construction of the Coney Island extension, it is figured the Fort Hamilton extension can probably be built for about $7,000,000. Many Forms of Contracts Being Prepared. Acting under directions from the Board of Estimate, the Public Service Commission for all these approved routes is drawing a wide variety of forms of contracts. It will invite bids for city construction, for city. construction and private operation, private construction and for private construction and private operation.

The offers deemed most advantageous to the city will be selected from the various bids submitted, proper regard to the law, of course, being had. Of the eight suggested, but thus far un. approved, routes, the great majority has been submitted by the Interborough. That company has proposed a four-track subway extending from Times square south under Seventh avenue and Varick street to Canal and West Broadway. From that point it would butid a two-track subway eastward under Canal street, crossing Manhattan bridge and running under the Flatbush avenue extension to Nevins street, where it would connect with the present Fulton street subway in this borough.

From Canal street it would also build a two-track subway south under Greenwich street to the Battery, connecting there with the existing subway loop. On the upper East Side of Manhattan the Interborough has filed a proposal to construct subway extensions under Lexington and Third avenues. It would construct a four track subway from Thirtysixth street and Park avenue to Fortysixth street and Lexington avenue. From that point it would continue a two track subway for local service northward under Lexington avenue to the Harlem River. Under Third avenue and the Harlem River it would construct a two track subway for express service to One Hundred and Forty-ninth street in the Bronx, connecting there with its present subway line.

The Interborough also has suggested a Bronx extension to its Sixth avenue elevated system in Manhattan. It has of- fered to build an elevated road from Eighth avenue and One Hundred and Forty-ninth street over Macomb's Dam Bridge and up Jerome avenue to One Hundred and Ninety-fourth street. Other propositions put forward by the Interborough involve the third tracking of certain parts of its Second, Third and Ninth avenue elevated roads, the operation of the Steinway tunnel in connection with the existing subway system (provided the city will first buy the tunnel), and the connecting of its Second avenue elevated road with the Queensboro Bridge. In all, about $100,000,000 is involved in the 'latest proposals of the Interborough. The interterminal belt line consists of an elevated road running from Sixtieth street and the North River along the water front of Manhattan Island to ninth street and the East River, with connecting crosstown subways under Thirty-fourth and Forty -second streets.

The freight belt line is a proposed subway road under the aboye elevated road. The moving platform proposition, which has been seriously considered by the Public Service Commission and submitted to the Board of Estimate, consists of a moving platform under Broadway, running from Union Square to Times Square. SETBACK FOR PARSONS. House Refuses to Print Governor's Wall Street Report. (Special to the Eagle.) Washington, July 14- The noise and confusion of the House wag temporarily hushed to-day when Representative Herbert Parsons asked that the report of Governor Hughes' commission to investigate speculation in stocks and securities be printed as a government document.

As the unusual request was repeated by the Speaker a chorus of objections rose from all parts of the House, together with demands of "What is this, Mr. Speaker?" "A request to print as a document Governor Hughes' investigation of Wall Street," said the Speaker. Apparently the House did not care for enlightenment on Wall Street methods and the motion was lost under a storm of objections. NEW BURGLARY CASE ARREST. John Deangelo, 16 years old, of 128 Wallabout street, was arrested last night by Policeman Hoffman of the Lee avenue station in connection with the robbery of the iron foundry at 40 Penn street.

The robbery was committed on the morning of July 9, the property being removed in a wagon. The police also arrested Elmer Smith of 205 Rutledge street, William Kelly of 118 Walworth street and James Dempsey of 725 Bedford avenue. The three men were held by Magistrate Dooley in the Butler street court yesterday. NOTICE. While you are away from Brooklyn remember that we hold licenses to practice in New York and also in all the adjoining states, and our experience permits us absolutely to guar.

antee proper care for any case within thirtysix hours after death. F. M. FAIRCHILD SONS, Undertakers. Four offices; six phones.

AX FOUND IN RUINS OF BACHLAVITCH HOUSE Probably Weapon With Which Aged Verity Couple Were Killed. CRIME IS BEING Peter Backlavitch Is Now Charged With Murder in Second Degree-Examination Still Under Way. (Special to the Eagle.) Patchogue, L. July 14-No new clews to the possible murderers of the aged Mr. and Mrs.

Townsend Verity In the early morning hours of last Sunday developed yesterday afternoon at the examination before Justice Losee on the charge of murder in the second degree lodged by Coroner Savage against Peter Backlavitch, the owner of the house in which the old folks met their death. The inquiry by Coroner Savage, which concluded late Monday afternoon, resulted in the arrest of Backlavtich on the charge of his being responsible for the death of the old couple. When the examination opened yesterday Justice Losee read the inquisition charging Backlavitch with the Veritys, and made the charge of murder in the second degree. It was generally supposed that if held at all Backlevitch would be charged with first degree murder, Julius Fisher, one of the witnesses put upon the stand to support the district attorney's charge against Backlavitch, made a poor showing. Fisher said that he had gotten up early Sunday morning to go fishing at the East Lake, and that when he went to the fire he found Backlavitch outside the house partly dressed, and no one else around.

Fisher said Backlavitch shook his head as if to say "No," when asked if there were any persons in the house, and that Backlavitch told him he (Backlavitch) had dropped a lamp which caused the fire. Fisher said that if he had known there were people In the house he would have had time to have gone in and taken them out. could not, however, explain why he had left the scene of the fire, and after being absent a short time returned again. He did not explain either why he made no attempt to enter the house to save any clothing or furniture that might be of value. Fisher became confused in trying to explain the approximate time, and even could not tell the name of the friend with whom he said he intended to go on the proposed early morning trip.

He was a badly rattled witness at the end of his cross -examination. The other witnesses examined were Drs. Overton and Terry and Coroner Savage, who retold the result of their medical examination at the first inquiry. Dr. Overton said, in reply to Lawyer Vunk for Backlavitch, that the condition of the lungs of Mrs.

Verity at the time of the examination by him, thirty-six hours after death, was such as to make it hard to determine whether smoke had been inhaled therein any time before. Justice Losee denied the motion of Lawyer Vunk to discharge the prisoner on the ground that nothing had been shown at the coroner's inquiry or upon the depositions presented with the quisition connecting Backlavitch with the death of the Veritys. The court also denied the request of Lawyer Vunk to strike out the testimony of Coroner Savage as to the bodies found being those of the Verity couple, which identity the coroner based upon inference. The ax with which, it is supposed, the double murder was committed was found In the ruins of the house yesterday. Backlaviteh said at the coroner's inquest that there was no ax in the house other than the one in the outside woodshed.

Various reports have come forward as to suspicious persons having been seen going away from the Backlavitch's place at the time the fire was discovered by neighbors. Howard Williams, the grandson, who boarded with the Veritys and who did reach Patchogue Saturday night by reason of the train wreck at Bay Shore, has since told friends that he was expected home that night. This substantiates Backlavitch's story that he and the old folks waited until 11 o'clock that night for young Williams. There was a strong supposition that Backlavitch had a knowledge that young Willlams did not expect to return home that night, and thus laid plans to kill the old folks. The examination before Justice Losee is being continued to-day.

DR. MARY CRAWFORD RETIRES. Through With Ambulance Work, She Will Later Hang Out a Shingle Here. Having completed her term of service of one year and a half in the Williamsburg Hospital, Dr. Mary Merritt Crawford retired this morning to make way for Dr.

Walter Hurley, who succeeds her as house surgeon. Since her admission into the hospital Dr. Crawford has made a host of friends. During her term as ambulance surgeon she had a number of exciting experiences, and on several occasions her muscular development came in handy to subdue patients, particularly those suffering from dementia. Before taking leave of her associates! at the hospital she was the guest of honor at a dinner and was told how much her associates though tof her.

This morning she departed for Nyack, the home of her parents, where she will take a long rest before establishing a regular practice. It is her intention with her parents to return in the fall to Brooklyn and establish herself somewhere in the Stuyvesant Heights section. OPENING OF OSWEGO CANAL. Expected to Be Ready to Pass Loaded Boats To-morrow. (Special to the Eagle.) Oswego, N.

July 15 The Oswego Canal may not be opened until to-morrow. Mr. Monen, who has charge of the pulpwood here for the Battle Island Company, said that they expected water enough in the canal to pass down the light boats that are in Fulton and which will be brought here to load. It is expected that the canal will be full of water and ready to pass loaded boats by tomorrow. INDEX To Classified day's Classification.

Fage. 5 Amusements Auction 10 Boarding 4 Business Oppor'ties 12 Business Coastwise 14 Corp. Notices 18 Death 6 Dentistry Dividends 16 Resorts. 14 European 5 Excursions Financial 16-17 12 For For Sale 12 10 Furn. Help 10 Horses Carriages.12 Hotels Resorts.13-14 In 18 Instruction 12 Supplement.

FAVORED FIRM NOT CUT ON COURT HOUSE BILLS Douglass Co. Escaped; Contractors Who Did Real Work Scaled Down. CITY TIME SHEETS IGNORED. Mitchel Springs a Surprise-He Has Them for Use--Work at the Coler Investigation. John Purroy Mitchel, commissioner of accounts, has his investigation of the out of temconcluded, porary repairs to the Kings County Court House after the fire in February, 1908.

Before he finished, Commissioner Mitchel put on the record testimony showing that Douglass who secured the contract from Borough President Coler, was a firm very high in the favor of the borough administration. Douglass Co. was the Arm that didn't have its bill cut, while other contractors on the same job had their bills slashed terribly. In fact, Douglass Co. did the slashing, and was supported by the administration in the work of cutting bills.

If Douglass Co. hadn't had the bills of other contractors cut down there wouldn't have been money enough to pay Douglass Co. all that it wanted and claimed. The appropriation for the emergency job $10,000, and the bills of the contractors actually made the repairs totaled a almost that figure. Douglass Co.

had put in a bill for over $4,000, and the aggregate of bills was considerably above the appropriation. Somebody's bill had to be cut, but that somebody wasn't Douglass Co. That concern got all the money it claimed and got ten per cent. additional of the cost of the work done by other contractors. Assistant Engineer Walter R.

GrifAthe, of the bureau of public buildings and offices, testifled that if some of the bills hadn't been cut the total would have come within the appropriation. The so-called sub-contractors-the contractors other than Douglass given to understand that fact. In cutting the bills the time of the contractors' workmen was not accepted as kept by the city's own timekeeper, but the time sheets of Douglass timekeeper were accepted. In defending his office, Superintendent Joseph M. Lawrence, of the bureau of public buildings, declared: "The time was kept by John W.

Gibbons, one of the most conscientious and most experienced inspectors in the bureau of public buildings and offices, who did not leave the job while the work was going on, but got what sleep he could in a chair in the court However, it appeared from the evidence brought out by Commissioner Mitchel that the time as kept by the conscientious inspector was not accepted, but was ignored, while the time sheets of Douglass Co. were accepted not only for their own workmen, but for the laborers and workmen of other contractors. Engineer Griffiths, who appeared to be very careful in his efforts to tell a straightforward, accurate story, admitted that the time sheets of Douglass Co. had never been compared with the time sheets of Inspector Gibbons. After Mr.

Griffiths admitted that Gibbons' time reports were not used in passing on the bills, Commissioner Mitchel attempted to show that if the reports of the city's own inspector had been used, the overcharge in the bills would have been made plain. He showed from Douglass bill that in one item there was a charge for 2,682 hours of work in sweeping and bailing out water. This work began some time on Friday night, and Engineer Griffith thought it was finished some time on Saturday night. Commissioner Mitchel wanted to know how 53 men could get in 2,682 hours work in twentyfour hours. "Would you be surprised to learn that Inspector Gibbons credited Contractor Ryan with only 1,974 hours of work, whereas he was allowed 2,752 hours?" was one question to Mr.

Griffiths. Mr. Griffiths said he had not been able to find the Gibbons time sheets, as Gibbong had died some months after the fire. Commissioner Mitchel sprung a surprise by producing the original time book as kept by Gibbons. Mr.

Griffiths said that was the first time he ever saw it. When Mr. Mitchel asked why Mr. Griffith had approved Douglass bill, Mr. Griffiths said: "I believed Douglass bill was a fair one and I signed it.

It was impossible to tell just the number of hours that any one worked as the utmost confusion prevailed after the fire. Some men were at work even while the fire was in progress." Edward Riordan, an assistant engineer in the Department of Finance, who passed on the bills Douglass Co. after they were approved by the Bureau of Public Buildings and office of the Borough of Brooklyn, testified that he understood from Engineer Griffiths that the time charges specified in the bills were from the city inspector in charge of the work and not the time charges of the contractor doing the work. He could not say if Mr. Grifths told him outright that the charges were from Inspector Gibbons' time book, but he was given that impression.

"Did you know," asked Commissioner Mitchel, "when you approved the bill that two contractors were allowed in the bill $5 a day for their services, when you allowed them ten per cent. commission on the contracts?" "I did not." responded the witness. W. H. Roberts.

also an engineer in the Department of Finance, who passed on the bills after Riordan. was called and said that Riordan told the bills were drawn from the time by the city inspector. He was asked if he ever had occasion to find fault with the bills from Brooklyn, and he replied that he occasionally had found it necessary to investigate some of them, but not withIn the past few years. ENTIRE BLOCK MENACED. Bad Fire at Ozone Park Well Handled by Volunteers.

The volunteer firemen of the Woodhaven department, fought a bad blaze in a one story frame stable at 18 Lawn avenue, Ozone Park, about 9 o'clock last night, that threatened to wipe out an entire block. The Are extended to a two story frame dwelling owned and occupied by: Annie Tora, and to an ice factory on Ocean avenue. slightly damaging the side of the latter building. The total damage is said to be the neighborhood of about $1,500. EAGLE PARTY AT RIVERSIDE.

Riverside, July 15-The Eagle excursion party, on the way to the Seattle Exposition, arrived at the Glenwood Hotel, Riverside, at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Yesterday morning was spent at Redlands, with a drive through Smiley Heights. The members of the party are delighted with the Glenwood, which is one of the most beautiful hotels visited by them. The Antlers, at Colorado Springs, 1s picturesque; the El Tovar, at Grand Canyon, is quaint, in keeping with its surroundings, and the service is good but the Glenwood, with its Spanish architecture, real mission furnishings and old collections, ranks among the finest places in the West. The members of the party want to stay here a week, but they must be satisfied with a ride about town in touring cars, as to-morrow they have to leave for Los Angeles.

SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. THE INGENUITY OF MAN CANNOT MAKE TER WHISKEY THAN HUNTER BALTIMORE RYE FROM SELECTED GRAIN, SCIENTIFIC DISTILLATION AND THOROUGH AGING FRANK MORA C. H. ULRICH, Representatives, 15 William New York, N.

Y. NO HOYER WEDDING YET License Taken Out, All Right; Orange Blossoms Later. Error Caused Many Calls of Congratulation-Double Ceremony for September. There were no wedding bells yesterday for John H. Hoyer, 'pay clerk at the navy yard, who secured a marriage license to wed Mrs.

Albertine Hoyer of 416 Thirty-sixth street. Hoyer and his bride-to-be decided to postpone the wedding for two months. The Eagle announced that the couple were married under a misapprehension due to the issuance of the marriage license. Mrs. Hoyer's daughter, Miss Albertine, a stenographer, is to be married in September, and it occurred to both mother and daughter that it would be a good idea to have a big double wedding in the house on Thirty-sixth street, which is owned by Mrs.

Hoyer. This is how the wedding happened to be put off. Mrs. Hoyer is 51 years of age and Mr. i Hoyer acknowledges that he is 65.

Mrs. Hoyer is the widow of her prospective husband's brother, who died three years ago. Hoyer himself has been married before, his first wife being a widow. He has two stepsons. Since the death of her first husband, Mrs.

Hoyer has lived with her daughter and a sister in most comfortable eircumstances, and John H. Hoyer has been living in the same house. An attachment for his brother's widow sprang up and he proposed and was accepted. Last night the Hoyer home was besieged with visitors, who came to congratulate the happy pair. Many of them brought presents, and the rush of visitors was So great that the house was filled to its utmost capacity.

Mrs. Hoyer told them she was not married yet, but would be soon. The Hoyer home is being handsomely decorated in honor of the coming nuptials, and it is planned to make the double wedding one of the most memorable events that South Brooklyn has seen in some time. The exact date of the wedding has not yet been fully decided upon, but it will probably be some time in September. JOHN J.

BRENNAN RETURNS. Missing Sewer Department Employe at His Home in Lynbrook-Apparently Drugged and Lynbrook, L. July 15-John J. Brennan, who had been missing from his home on Lynbrook avenue since Thursday, July 1, returned unannounced on Sunday evening. When Mr.

Brennan entered his home he acted strangely and did not appear to recognize anybody, but seemed to realize that he was where he belonged. A physician was summond, in whose charge Mr. Brennan was placed. The physician reported that the man acted as if under the infuence of chloral. After several hours hard work he was aroused sufficiently to recognize those about him and his whereabouts.

He does not remember where he spent the time during his absence, only stating that he entered some hotel for a drink and that is the last he remembers. He has a faint recollection of being confined in a room for several days, but does not know where. At the time of his disappearance he had his month's salary, $150, in his pocket, but when he arrived home he was practically penniless. INJUNCTION ARGUMENT While Lawyers Plead, Trolley Work at Amityville Is Halted. Fuss Is Over a Change of Route in Cross Island Line, to Be Opened August 11, The fight of Edwin Purdy, a taxpayer of Amityville, L.

against the Huntington Railroad Company, to prevent the laying of tracks through Main street, in that village, was argued before Justice Stapleton in the special term of the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, and decision was reserved, although Justice Stapleton intimated that the temporary injunction granted by Justice Seudder some days ago ought not to be continued. The fight is intensely interesting to the folks along the line of the proposed cross island trolley, and is over a proposed change of route which was granted by the Amityville trustees, permitting a part of the line to run through Main street, tween Broadway and Richmond avenue. Lawyer Edgar P. Foster represented the plaintiff and other Amityville residents opposed to the proposed route and Lawyer T. L.

Carruthers looked after the interests of the railroad. Lawyer Foster claimed that legal notice of the proposed change of route had not been properly given, insisting that the notice of the change should have been advertised in a local newspaper, rather than a city paper, that might or might not have sufficient circulation in the town to put the residents on guard. He further contended that the railroad didn't have the necessary number of consents from abutting property owners. In opposition the railroad's attorney raised the technical point that no claim was made by the plaintiff that his property would be damaged by the laying of tracks through the street in front of his premises. He insisted that the value would be greatly enhanced.

The further point was made that no tracks would be laid unless necessary consents had been secured. Justice Stapleton thought that a statement by the reputable officials of the railroad company that no illegal steps would be taken in the construction of the line and that proper consents would be secured before. tracks were laid, was a sufficient guarantee and that the temporary injunction, perhaps, could be vacated. Lawyer Foster, however, insisted that it would do no great harm if the temporary injunction was continued until the court had been fully able to look into the facts as shown by the moving papers, plus those to be submitted. This led the court to say that the mo' tion would not be decided upon the papers submitted and both sides were given time to hand in additional affidavits, LOST AND FOUND.

LOST -FOX TERRIER; black spots, brown face: collar and chain: liberal reward. McGEE, 2115 Newkirk av. 16-2 LOST -White lawn DRESS and two WAISTS, on Greene and Gates av car; July 14. Reward if returned to Mrs. A.

SEAMAN, 301 Lafayette avenue. LOST-BANK BOOK No. 75,345, East Brooklyn Savings Bank; payment stopped. Reward If returned to GEORGE MEYER, 330 South Third st, Brooklyn. LOST-Diamond RING: July 14; in Henderson's restaurant.

Coney Island; liberal reward will be paid by returning to F. B. HENDERSON, Coney Island, BROOKLYN SHIPPING NEWS. S. S.

Russia Brought Nearly 1,000 Russians and Made the Voyage From Libau in Eleven Days. The Russia-American Line steamship Russia arrived shortly after 8 o'clock this morning at the north pier, Atlantic Dock, from Libau, the great Russian port of the Baltic Sea. She is a very large vessel and being light she could not berth at the Central pier, where these liners usually dock. The water was pretty high and the rail of the big hull overtopped the side of the pier. The Russia was crowded with passengers from all parts of Northern Russia, and it was said on the pier that there were nearly 1,000 on board.

She was flying very light, but none of the ships bring much cargo, generally some foal hides, horse fronts, fusel oil and sundries. The Russia made a fast voyage of eleven days from Libau, not calling at Rotterdam, as there is a strict quarantine there against ships from the Baltic Sea, owing to the existence of cholera in parts of northern Russia. The ship is scheduled to sail from here on July 31. One of her passengers will be General Baron Von Schlippenbach, the Imperial Russian consul general at this He is going home on vacaport. tion and to adjust some business matters while there.

To and From River Plate Ports. Barber steamship Cape Breton sailed yesterday afternoon from the South Central pier, Atlantic Dock, for Montevideo, Buenos Ayres and Rosario, She has on board a cargo of machinery, agricultural implements, binder case oil, lubricating oil, cottonseed oil, rosin, leather and manufactured good. generally. The Houston line's steamship Horatius arrived yesterday at the South pier, Ate lantic Dock, from Rosario, Buenos Ayres, Montevideo, Para, Trinidad, Ponce, P. and Havana.

She brought over 42,000 dry and salt hides, 23,000 bags of quebrache wood extract, 77,000 kilos of minerals, 1,000 bags of horns and lot of wool and horse hair. Sailed for South Africa. The American and African line ship Aros Castle sailed yesterday from Norton Son's pier, Bush's Stores, for Cape Town, Mossel Bay, Algoa Bay, Bay East and London, Port Natal, Delagoa Zanzibar. She takes out cargo of machinery, flour, foodstuffs, provisions, canned goods of all kinds, tobacco and its manufactures, oils, grease, hardware, and general merchandise. CASSIDY A SPEAKER.

Ex-Leader of Queens Democrats to Be Heard at Saturday's Outing. There will be lots doing at the annual outing of the Democratic Club of the Borough of Queens, of which Joseph Cassidy is president, which will be held on Saturday afternoon at Witzel's Point View Island, College Point. Mr. Cassidy is down on the programme for a speech, and he is expected to outline his plans for the coming campaign. the prominent Democrats who Among promised to attend are Charles F.

have Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall; "Tim" Sullivan and William J. Conners, Democratic state chairman. PROPOSALS. PROPOSALS FOR BIDS AND ESTIMATES FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS. The person or persons making a bid estlmate for any service, work, materials or supplies for The City of New York, or for any of Its departments, bureaus or offices, shall furnish the same in a sealed envelope, indorsed with the title of the supplies, materials, work is service for which the bid or estimate or made, with his or their name or names President and the date of the presentation to the or Board or to the head of the department at his or its office, on or before the date and hour named in time the and place advertisement the for estimates the same, received at which will be publicly opened by the President or Board or head of said department and read, and the award of the contract made according, to law as soon thereafter as practicable. Each bid or estimate stall contain the name and place of residence of the person making the same, the names of all persons interested him therein, and no other person be so with Interested, it shall state that fact: also that it is made without any connection with any other persot making an estimate for the same purpose ani is in all respects fair and without collusi4 or fraud, and that no member of the Board of Aldermen, head of department, chief of bureau, officer of deputy The thereof City of or clerk therein, or other New York is, shall be or become interested. directly or shareholder, indirectly, surety as or contracting otherwise in party, or in the performance of the contract, or in the partner, supplies, work or of business the to profits which thereof. it relates, The or in any portion bid or estimate must be verified by the oath, in writing, of the party or parties making there.

the estimate that the several true. matters stated in are in all respects Each bid or estimate will be accompanied by the consent, in writing, of two householders or freeholders in The City of New York, or of a guaranty or act surety as surety, company and duly shall authorized contain by the law matter get forth in the to blank form mentioned below. No bid or estimate will be considered unless, Ag a condition precedent to the reception or consideration of any check proposal, it be nied by a certified upon one of the state or national banks of The City of New York, drawn to the order of the comptroller, or money to the amount of five per centum of the amount of the bond required. as provided in Section 420 of the Greater New York Charter. The certified check or money should not be inclosed in the envelope containing the bid or estimate, but should be either inclosed in separate envelope addressed to the head of the department, president or board, or submitted estimate.

personally, upon the presentation of the bid or For particulars as to the quantity and quality of the supplies or the nature and extent of the work, reference must be made to the specifications, schedules, plans, oll Ale in the said office of the president, board or department. No bid shall be accepted from or contract awarded to any person who is in arrears to The City of New York upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the city. The contracts must be bid for separately. The right is reserved in each case to reject all bids or estimates if it be deemed to be for the Interest of the city so to do. Bidders will write out the amount of their bids or estimates in addition to Inserting the same in figures.

Bidders are required to make their bids or estimates upon the blank forms prepared and furnished by the city, a copy of which, with the proper envelope in which to Inclose the bid, together with a copy of the contract, includIng the specifications, in the form approved by the Corporation Counsel, can be obtained upon application therefor at the work office is to of the done. department for which the Plate of drawings of construction work may also be seen there Advertisements in ToEagle, Classification. Page. Legal Notices, Loans Lost Found 12 18 2-3 Steamships. 14 Public Railroads 14 Real 12 Resort 14 R.

E. 12 Sits. 10 Special 18 Special 14 Sporting 5 Steamboats 14 Sum. Cot, to 12 To Let-For Sale, 10-11-12 Travel 14 Wanted 10.