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MARRIAGES AND DEATHS MARRIED. BLOHNE MANNING On Thursday evening, April 22. 1909. DELIA J. MANNING to Mr.

HENRY C. BLOHNE, at St. Patrick's Church, Kent, and Willoughby avs. Brooklyn, by the Rev. John Wilson.

Reception followed ceremony at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Callahan, 349 Park av. KEEFE SHEEHAN On April 18. at Nativity Church, Brooklyn, PATRICK Coolnahaw.

Kilkenny, tc DELACRO SHEEHAN. Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare, Ireland. Will sail for Ireland on the 29th on their honeymoon. Brady, Margaret L. Brown, Mary A.

Byrne, Harry Cassidy, John Frank, George L. Hasloch, Harriett Hilberg. Bridget Jones, James Kennedy, Ellen Lyman, Ellen GMacFarland, Fannie Martin, John H. McClare, Mrs. Ellen Miller, David Mullany, John J.

Peden. Frances Swahn, E. E. M. Vernol, John Gilbert Wolcott.

Elizabeth Wyatt, Helen F. BRADY MARGARET. L. GORDON BRADY, in her 39th year, beloved wife of Matthew Brady. Funeral from her late residence, 476 Seventy- -ninth st, Brooklyn, 30th 9:30 A.M., thence to the Church of Our Lady of Angels, Fourth av and Seventy-fourth st, Brooklyn.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. BROWN- Tuesday, April 27, 1909. Mrs. MARY A. BROWN.

Funeral services at her late residence, High st, on sorry Wednesday evening, April 28, at 8 o'clock. Members of Chapter, 0. E. requested to attend. a short illness, Captain HARRY J.

BYRNE Brooklyn. April 28. 1909, BYRNE, beloved husband of Mary Byrne. Funeral services on Friday, April 30, at 11 A.M.. at 9 Court Square, Brooklyn.

A (New Orleans, papers please copy.) CASSIDY--On April 26. 1909, at the residence of his son. John P. Cassidy, at Grand-View-on-Hudson, JOHN CASSIDY, aged 86. Funeral services at plot.

Cypress Hills Cemetery, Thursday afternoon, April 29, at 2:30 o'clock. FRANK-Suddenly, on Tuesday, April 27. 1909, GEORGE husband of Emma F. Patterson. Funeral services on Thursday, April 29, at his late residence, 869 Sterling place.

at 8 P.M. Members of the Welcome Council. 703. R. are invited to attend.

Kindly omit flowers. HASLOCH--On April 27, 1909, at her residence, 358 Arlington av. HARRIETT beloved wife of Frederick Hasloch. Funeral notice hereafter. HILBERG-On Tuesday, April 27.

1909. BRIDGET HILBERG, aged 73 years. Funeral from her late residence, 1003 Kent av. Friday, April 30, at 2:30 P.M. Interment Cross Cemetery, JONES--On April 26, 1909, at his residence, 182.

Madison st, Brooklyn, JAMES Nott. in his 77th year. Services WednesJONES, beloved husband of la Marion A. day, April 28, at 8 P.M. Interment priVALe.

KENNEDY-Tuesday, April 27, 1909. at 918 Sterling place, Brooklyn, ELLEN, daughter of Anastasia and the late WillJan Grenville Kennedy, Notice of funeral hereafter. LYMAN- Malden, N. April 27. 1909.

ELLEN, daughter of the late Annie and Edward J. Lyman. Notice of funeral hereafter. MacFARLAND-Suddenly, on April 26, 1909, FANNIE wife of the late J. Theodore MacFarland, M.

of Savannah, sister of Darwin R. Aldridge, Hicks st. Funeral services at the Church of the Holy Trinity, corner Clinton and Montague sts, on Thursday afternoon, April 29, at 3 o'clock. Interment at Savannah. MARTIN-On April 28, 1909, JOHN H.

MARTIN. at 129 Pacifle st. Notice of funeral hereafter. McCLARE- -On April 27, 1909, at her residence, 726 President st, Brooklyn, Mra. ELLEN McCLARE, widow of John McClare, 73 years, 7 months, 12 days.

Funeral Friday, 2 P.M., from Tabernacle Baptist Church, Clinton st and Third place. Interment Greenwood Cemetery. (Boston and Providence papers please copy.) after a lingering illness, DAVID, beloved MILLER--On Tuesday, April 1909, "bel husband of Henrietta Miller, in his 57th year. Funeral services at his late residence, 7701 Second av. Friday, April 30, 1909.

at 2 P.M. Interment private. Kindly omit flowers. MULLANY-JOHN J. MULLANY.

beloved father of Winifred F. Craig, aged 63 years. Funeral from his late residence, 28 Lafayette st, on Thursday morning, April 29, at thence to Our Lady of Mercy Church. Schermerhorn st. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery.

PEDEN-On April 27, 1909. FRANCES A. PEDEN, beloved wife of the late Horatio H. Peden. Funeral services at her late residence, 904 Madison st.

Wednesday evening, April 28, at 8 o'clock. SWAHN-On Tuesday, April 27, 1909. ELIZABETH MATHEWS. beloved On wife of GUSTAVE E. SWAHN.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, 2 P. at 371 Atlantic av, Brooklyn. VERNOL -On Tueeday, April 27, 1909, JOHN GILBERT VERNOL. A Funeral services at his late residence, 275 Halsey st. Thursday, April 29, at 8 P.M.

Interment Newburgh, N. Y. WOLCOTT -On April 26, 1909, BETH WOLCOTT. in her year, at 237 Carroll st. Funeral services Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, at St.

Martin's Church, President st. near Smith. Interment at Lockport, N. Y. (Lockport and Albion, N.

papers, please copy.) WYATT-Suddenly at her home, Spring Valley av, Hackensack, N. on Tuesday, April 27. 1909, HELEN FRANCES. beloved wife of Robert B. Wyatt.

Notice of funeral hereafter. IN MEMORIAM. ECKHOFF--In sad and loving memory our beloved wife and mother, ELIZABETH ECKHOFF, who departed this life April 28. 1907. Thou art gone but not forgotten.

JOHN D. ECKHOFF. Husband. WILLIAM J. ECKHOFF, Son.

LENNON-In loving remembrance of our daughter TILLIE, who departed this life April 29. 1905. A requiem mass will be held at St. Agnes R. C.

Church, Thursday morning, at 8 o'clock. "Gone, but not forgotten." MONSEES--In gad and loving memory of our beloved mother, CATHRINA MONSEES, who departed this life April 28, 1908. Gone but not forgotten. PORTER--In loving memory of my dear CHARLOTTE E. PORTER.

Died April 28, 1908. DIED ON BRIDGE PLAZA. Thomas Oakley, a retired Custom House inspector, who lived at 47 St. Mark's place, Manhattan, while waiting on the Brooklyn plaza of the Williamsburg Bridge last night for a car of the Fourteenth street line, was stricken with apoplexy. As he reeled and fell several men fan to his aid, and the insensible man Wag carried into the shelter near by.

where 1 he died. The body was removed 1,0 the Bedford avenue police station, where he was identified through papers found in his pockets. His son, Charles Oakley, later claimed the body, Oakley was 78 years old and a widower. CAUGHT BY A CAVEIN. While working in an excavation in rear of a row of buildings course erection at Waterberry and Jamaica avenues.

Richmond Hill, late yesterday atternoon, a bank caved in and partly barled Richard Sheppard, 19 years old, of 1236 Washington avenue, Chester Park. low workmen dug Sheppard out. He sustained contusions of both legs, and after being attended by an ambulance surgeon from St, Mary's Hospital, he left for home, A CLAM FOND OF JOKES PLAYS A CRUEL HOAX J. Welch Was Sure He'd Made a Find, but the Clam It Was Unkind. THE SHELL GAME IN GOWANUS Beats the Yarns of Tim McManus, but Welch Still Lives in Hope of a Clam That's Not a "Dope." list.

ye lubbers, to this tale, and clap your hands with glee, for 'tis the tale of a big fat clam just fresh from out the sea, that found his way with a lot of pals, to the shop of a round-faced man, who makes a biz of fixing clams to cook in pot or pan. And lest you think this yarn's a fake, we'll give the hero's name, for surely such a tale as this deserves to win him fame. J. Welch is his cognomen and he keeps in Windsor place, which, by the way, if you don't know, is found within the space that lies near Prospect Park, and people know as "Calderville," SO called from Calder, congressman, whose foremost name is "Bill." One day last week, while Mr. Welch was busy on the job of taking clams from out their shells, at which he is no slob, his knife struck something very hard within the clamlet's midst; he gave a start, likewise a jump, and cried "gadzooks! other words that mean surprise, alarm or consternation; it matters not just what he said -he made an exclamation.

eyes bulged out; his breath came hard please just let us rhyme on--no wonder, for within the shel! there lay a big white diamon'. J. Welch was dazed, kerfoozled, stunned, or anything you like; he's handled every sort of fish, from wh le right down to pike and every species in between, including all the molluses, but never saw a thing like this in all his life, by holluses! That last expletive may be new, but it would take a Peary to find a rhyme for molluses in a first class dictionary. However. "be that as it may," as our friend.

George Monroe, says, J. Welch was flabbergasted, and he almost had neurosis. He looked the diamond over, and he pondered on the question of how the clam had swallowed it, avoiding indigestion. He told the story to his friends and filled them all with wonder; not one of them had ever heard so weird a yarn, by thunder! Of pearls in oysters they had heard, and diamonds got from lobsters by giddy chorus girls who know the pretty tricks of jobsters. But, by the moon, the sun and stars, and great gods of Gowanus! this find of Welch's beat the fairy tales of Tim McManus.

McManus was a merry soul, the gags he told would dazzle; he had Munchausen tied up tight and walloped to a frazzle. But J. Welch showed the stone, which glistened brightly in the sun, and all agreed that in a ring the dizzy thing would stun the customers who came to buy a salmon, cod or shad; while J. Welch softly hummed a hymn-the tune was "Guess I'm The saddest chapter's yet to come, and if you have some tears, just shed them for a man who fully realized his fears. The diamond-finder took his find unto a certain sharp, who knows all stones as well as Welch knows halibut from carp.

The expert never even used his monoele to tell if it was "it." but glanced at it, then gave a scornful yell. He laughed so loud that J. Welch knew his goose was cooked- done brown, and that the clam had played a trick that was away low down, by handing him a "phoney" gem that wasn't worth a d---, and as he left the jeweler's he cussed that poor old clam. However, Welch is not cast down, but smiles just as of yore, and opens clams, and oysters, too, by jingo, by the score. He lives in hope of some bright day when luck to him will pass a clam that knows a diamond from a hunk of window glass.

SALOON MEN FIGHT POLICE Two of Them Arrested and Their Heads Are Bandaged. Incident in the Efforts Captain Lahey Is Making to Clean Up His Precinct. Edward Jensen, who rung a saloon 120 Hamilton avenue, and Morris Hanson, who has a saloon at 23 Union street, were held In $1,000 bail for examination on May 7 by Magistrate Tighe, sitting at the Butler street court, this morning. Jensen was charged with assaulting an officer and Hanson, with interfering with an officer. Patrolman Ryan of the Hamilton avenue station the complainant.

He said that he on post last night when Jenwas sen, Hanson and three others drove up to Jensen's place in an auto and went Inside, About five minutes later Ryan says that Jensen came out with Hanson and tore off his (the policeman's) rubber, coat and threw him gutter. Ryan then got three other policemen, Gill, McClunn and Kearney, and when they went into the place Jensen, they claim, tried to lick all of them and Hanson helped him. The policemen admitted using their clubs. The prisoners bore marks of the encounter. Jensen said that they had come from the funeral of friend and were sitting in the back room of his saloon when Officer Ryan came in told them to get out.

This, he said, they refused to do. Ryan then got the reserves and the offleers all beat him and Hanson with their night sticks, Lawyer James W. Ridgway, who appeared for Jensen and Hanson, said that he was going to put a stop to the wholesale number of prosecutions that Captain Lahey of the Hamilton avenue station was carrying on. Ridgway is counsel for Jensen, who has two charges against Captain Lahey, one for assault and the other for oppression. Captain Lahey is trying to stamp out the white slave traffle in his precinet, and has placed policemen in front of 8118- pected disorderly houses.

Ryan was stationed in front of place. SCHOONER A TOTAL WRECK. (Special to the Eagle.) Greenport, L. 1. April 28-The schooner Eva Lewis of Northport, which struck a submerged rock and sunk in seventy -five feet of water to the west of Plum Island several weeks ago has disappeared, and is said this morning that the vessel will undoubtedly be a total loss.

The schooner was bound to Greenport from Wellfleet, with four thousand bushels of oysters on board, consigned to Jacob Ockers of Oakdale. Westbrook Bros. of West Sayville Frank W. Rowley of Greenport. Captein Alwin Lewis of Northport owner and he was command the vessel struck.

Divers been on the during past FELL DOWN CELLAR STEPS. While playing tag with Mary Me Graft, Wyek- off street. steps lead- 250 Wyekoff None of saw fall. Saluter found the had a fracture of the right thigh and took her Long Island Hospital. TRUCK DRIVER BADLY HURT.

His Wagon Hit by a Trolley Car. on Vernon Avenue, L. I. City. William Schrieber, 47 years old, of 70 Huron street, Brooklyn, was burt last evening by being knocked from his truck by a Ravenswood car in charge of Motorman Patrick Keagan of 134 Irving street, Brooklyn.

The accident happened Vernon avenue, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, Long Island City, as the car was on its way toward Hunters Point. Schrieber is employed by the Yellow Pine Lumber Company of Greenpoint, and driving along in the same direction as the car. Motorman Keagan says that Schrieber turned part way off the tracks and then turned back in again. His car struck the rear left wheel of the truck and Schrieber was sent spinning into the roadway. He received-: a number of bad cuts and was taken to St.

John's Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon Powers, while Motorman Keagan was taken to the Hunters Point station house and released. The trolley car was but slightly damaged, and the few passengers aboard escaped with a shaking up. FIGHT WITH A HUGE RAT Aqueduct Farmer Used Pitchfork and Revolver to Kill It. Swears Rodent Was Big as a Cat, but Cannot Produce Carcass--Other Rats Lugged It Off. Armed with a pitchfork, Samuel Smithers, a small farmer, of Old South road, Aqueduct, had a desperate battle in his barn Monday night with a rat which he claims was as big as an ordinary cat.

The rodent, after fastening its long, sharp teeth in Mr. Smither's bulldog and severely wounding him, was finally dispatched, and during the night its carcass was dragged off to parts unknown by other rats. Smithers, who hails from Danbury, recently bought a small place at Aqueduct. He moved there with his family only three weeks ago. He soon learned that the large barn on his place.

which had been built many years ago, was infested with rats. He procured several cats, but the rats drove them out of the barn. Even Smithers' bulldog, Jack, a formidable looking beast, steered clear of the barn after nightfall. Every night Mr. Smithers could hear his horse, stabled in the barn, snorting and stamping with fear, and whenever he rent out to investigate he found his norse trembling and covered with perspiration.

There was something uncanny about all this, and Mr. Smithers determined that he would try and solve the mystery. Several nights he watched, but saw nothing. Monday night Mr. Smithers had occasion to go into the barn for something.

As he entered the doorway with a lantern in one hand and a pitchfork in the other he saw a large rat, the biggest he had ever beheld, nibbling at an ear of seed corn In one end of the place. He soon had the rodent cornered. The rat showed fight. Mr. Smithers called his dog.

and the animal made a rush for the rat, which bit the dog in the neck. and Jack ran yelping out of the barn. He had been severely lacerated. Smithers soon disabled the rodent and then called for his son. Jacob, to bring him his revolver, with which he ended the rodent's career.

Smithers left the carcass on the floor of the barn. intending next morning to place the dead rodent on exhibition in a local store. But to his surprise he discovered the following morning that the animal had disappeared. He believes that other rats dragged the carcass away. BOY HIT BY AUTO.

Was Playing in Street at Morris Park -Has Broken Leg and Internal Injuries. Calvin Dodd, 14. years old, of Morris avenue and Beaufort street, Dunton, was struck and severely injured about 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon by an automobile at Broadway and Sherman street, Morris Park. With several classmates, the lad was on his way home from Public School No. 57 at Morris Park.

The boys were playing "follow the leader," and ran out into the roadway. Suddenly young Dodd was bowled over by a rapidly moving automobile, headed toward Brooklyn. The accident occurred near Sherman street, and in the car were a man and woman. They did not stop and soon disappeared in a cloud of dust. The injured boy was removed to Jamaica Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon Gardner, after he had received first aid from Dr.

Buckley of Oak street, Morris Park. The lad had sustained a fracture of the left leg and internal injuries. The police are now looking for the automobile and its driver. MORRISON GETS A BOOM. Flatlanders Suggest Him for Borough President-Alderman Calls His Associates Grafters.

The monthly meeting of the Thirty-second Ward Citizens' Association was held at Colonial Hall, Avenue I and Flatbush avenue, last night. The principal event of the meeting was the address made by Alderman George A. Morrison, The members transacted their business 11 brisk manner, in an effort to complete it, to give their entire attention to the alderman. The speaker among other things said that the Department of Water Supply for this city is crooked to the core, and that with almost no exception the other city departments are just as rotten. He, the alderman, intends to make a campaign of every civic association in Greater New York and backed up, as he expects to be by them, he will force the aldermen to pass his resolutions.

now before the board, calling for a special committee to investigate the Department of Water Supply. Gas and Electricity. have already spent more than $6,000 In private investigations and have secured enough evidence to. warrant the throwing out of present water commissioner." he said. Mr.

Morrison declared that he obtained his evidence nearly a year ago, while he was investigating the Ridgewood pumping station. "Tammany Hall. through the Board of Aldermen, gave all the contracts for this work without public letting. and against the advice of the expert engineers of the Board of he remarked. He stated that at that time he was unable to get his evidence before a commission and he had to drop the matter.

"Now the Water Department is asking for $60.000 more from the Board of Aldermen. The taxpayer is about to be milked again." He promised the audience that 1e would use his personal efforts to prevent the "wholesale robbery of the public's The speaker took a "fall' out of his fellow members last night and referred to them as a "body of grafters." He said he wished that some day the taxpayers will throw the board out entirely. "My ostracism by the Brooklyn members of board is a relief to me, because it a burden from me--the burden of having to talk to he said. At conclusion of his address the taxpayers cheered. Delwin B.

Carr briefly and boom for borough presifor Morrison. The Alderman declared vehemently, however, that he will be of politics for good" when he finishes this term. "No. not if we can spoke up several members. Henry Falkenstein presided at the meeting in the absence of William VerDam.

WIFE'S WILL IS VALID, AND ABEL GETS $250,000 Surrogate Holds That Attesta- tion Clause Is Not Absolutely Necessary. WILL DRAWN BY HUSBAND. He Made Similar Will at Same Time With Same Witnesses -Left Estate to Each Other. Because of testimony' admitted without objection on the hearing, which gave the court some interesting sidelights upon the incidents of the drafting and execution of a home-made will, Surrogate Ketcham has admitted to probate the document in question, and an estate of about $250.000 goes to the husband of Mrs. Mary E.

Abel, the testatrix, instead of to her. brother, P. H. Cannon, who was the contestant. In her lifetime Mrs.

Abel was considered one of the most charitable women in Brooklyn. She died some months ago at her home, 238 Dean street, and soon afterward her husband, Christian C. Abel, offered for probate a document which purported to be the last will and testament of his wife. In all respects it conformed to the usual requirements of a will, but there was no attesting clause, except that immediately above the names of the three witnesses the word "witnesses" appears. It left her entire estate to her husband, but her brother, claiming that it was not properly drawn, began a contest.

In the memorandum handed down this morning Surrogate Ketcham draws a distinction between the will in dispute and some others which he has refused to admit to probate because of the crude way in which they were drafted. The three witnesses are all dead, and. what happened on May 1, 1404, when Mrs. Abel signed the document, had to be told by Mr. Abel.

It appeared on the hearing that the disputed will was written by the husband, and that at the same time he. wrote out a will for himself. His wife left all to and he left all to her. The same witnesses signed for both, and there was no attestation clause on either document. No lawyer was present.

Lawyer Francis X. Carmody for' the contestant sought to show that the wife was under undue influence when she signed her will. Lawyer Charles H. McCarthy for the surviving husband denied this. On the trial it was also shown that the husband and wife had lived together accord and affection.

They had been married fifty-five years. The wife lived fourteen years after signing the disputed will. Surrogate Ketcham said that it was. a simple question whether at the time of the transaction the testatrix was competent to make a will, not under restraint and fully aware of the nature of the document she was signing. The attestation clause, Surrogate Ketcham said, had I no statutory dignity, it being merely the practice of good draftsmen.

FIREMEN TRIED IN SECRET. Deputy Commissioner Wise Refuses to Admit Reporters to the Proceedings. Ten city fremen were given a hearing to-day before Deputy Fire Commissioner Wise on charges of being derelict in their duty. One of the fremen in the Flatbush section was accused of ignoring an alarm! of fire that was turned in. but it was impossible to find out any of the details because Deputy Commissioner Wise would not permit newspaper reporters to be present.

It was a session conducted behind closed doors. Just what the 'object of the commissioner is in refusing to give out informa- tion to the public is a mystery. The fire department is maintained by the city and is A public institution. When an Eagle reporter tried to enter the room where the hearings were being conducted this morning, he was refused admission. These hearings before the deputy fire commissioner in Brooklyn are held every two weeks.

Hearings a are held every week before the deputy police commissioner, and yet no attempt is made at the police hearings to exclude reporters, and the result of the investigations is always made known. E. A. NEILSON INJURED. Brooklyn Engineer Taken From a Building in Manhattan to the Seney Hospital, Chief Engineer Edwin A.

Neilson, 43 years old, of the Lawyers Title and Insurance Building, 160 Broadway, Manhattan, who lives at 1609 Forty-fifth street. Brooklyn, was taking an. elevator loaded with ice from the street to the basement in the building where he is employed early this morning, and while he was operating the moving gear his left arm was caught in the cables and he was badly injured. John Smith, another employe of the building, was nearby and went to the rescue of his chief and released him from his position by stopping the car. Policeman Keane summoned an ambulance to the scene of the accident.

Dr. Roberts wanted to take Neilson to the Hudson Street Hospital, but the injured man preferred to go for treatment to the Seney Hospital, Brooklyn, and accordingly he was taken up to Brooklyn Bridge and they transferred to the Seney Hospital ambulance, which had been summoned. YAWN DISLOCATED SHOULDER. John Deakin, 33 years old, of 1505 Atlantic avenue, after a strenuous day's work, got home last night about 6 o'clock. After dinner he chose a comfortable chair and taking up a paper, prepared for a very peaceful hour.

He soon began to yawn. During an especially wide yawn Deakin dislocated his shoulder and fell to the floor. Ambulance Surgeon Melbourne of St. John's Hospital fixed him up. FALL KILLED SALOON MAN.

William Markman, a saloonkeeper, 58 years old, of Bells avenue and Percy street. Woodside, was found dead at the. bottom of the stairs at his residence, at 4:30 yesterday afternoon. The man probably died as a result of a fall. There was nothing suspicious in the case.

INDEX To Classified Advertisements in Today's Eagle. Classification. Page. Amusements Auction Sales Automobiles Bankruptcy Notices. 15 Boarding 12 Business 4 Business Oppor'ties.

14 Clairvoyants Constwise 14 Corp. Notices. Death 18 Dogs 14 Election 16 European An'e'mts. 4 European 17 Financial 16-17 For Exchange 14 Furn. 12-13 Help Wanted 12 Herses Carriages.14 In Memoriam 18 Instruction 14 Hotels.

Resorts. 15 Supplement, UNCONSCIOUS MAN'S BODY FOUND ON B.R.T. TRACK Police Say That David J. Foley Was Probably Struck by a Train. R.

R. DETECTIVES ON CASE. Officials Claim That Man Was Not Hit by One of Their Trains--Died in Hospital. Considerable mystery surrounds the death of David J. Foley of 4519 Fourteenth avenue, Borough Park.

who was found unconscious on the tracks of the B. R. T. at Forty-third street and New Utrecht avenue, last night, with his head and arms lying directly across the rails. According to officials of the railroad company, Foley met his death through some other means than being struck by a train, while the police of the Fourth avenue police station declare that he was probably struck by a train and hurled to the opposite tracks where he was found.

At about 9:15 o'clock last night a Sea Beach train, loaded with passengers and bound for Coney Island, was going along at a lively rate of speed, when, at about a distance of 150 feet ahead of him, the motorman of the train, Patrick O'Donnell, saw form of a man lying directly across the tracks. The train came to a the sudden stop a few feet away. The motorman, conductor and guards rushed to the prostrate figure, and saw that the man was severely injured, and O'Donnell gave the alarm on the air whistle, which attracted Officer Robert Cunningham. He sent in an alarm to the Fourth avenue station and also a call for an ambulance from the Norwegian Hospital. The reserves from the station house and Ambulance Surgeon Gould arrived upon the scene a few moments later.

After making a brief' examination, Dr. Gould hurried his patient to the hospital, where Foley died a few moments later on the operating table. His skull was fractured. This morning the body, was removed to Foley's late home, after being identified by William Kerns of 1172 fortyfifth street. When an Eagle reporter called at the office of the B.

R. and asked for some information regarding the death of Foley he was told by an official that it is not known how the man came to his death, and that the entire detective staff of the company is at work on the case. The official went on to say that witnesses had been found who declared that they saw an intoxicated man in the vicinity of Thirty-ninth street and New Utrecht avenue a short time before Foley was found, and that the description fitted Foley. Another official declared to a number of newspaper men that the man was not killed by a train belonging to the company. According to the police of the Fourth avenue station, Foley was killed by a train which was probably going north and which, it is thought, hit the man and then threw the body from one track to the other, where it was found.

They laugh at the idea that it may be foul play or murder. David J. Foley, the victim, was a prosperous horseshoer, residing at. 4519 teenth avenue, near Forty-sixth street, Borough Park. The police found $6 on his person.

which would indicate that robbery was evidently not the cause of the killing. CIRCUS ANIMALS STOLEN Dog, Pony and Donkey Valued at $1,800 Missing. Park Slope Men Who Expect to Get a Camel Not Under Suspicion, Three valuable animals were stolen from the Ringling Brothers circus after the performance last night, and thus far the police have been unable to find either animals or the men who stole them. The missing animals are used the "Three Friends Act" by Miss Francisco, an act which has been much admired by all who have attended the circus. They, include a large sheep dog worth at least $1,000, a black Shetland pony and a cream colored trick donkey, the entire outfit being worth at the very least $1,800.

The dog in question in one of its acts rides the pony, with its feet in the stirrups, and drives like a human being. How the animals were taken away is not known, but they were stolen directly after the performance. Two prominent citizens of South Brooklyn, ex-Assemblyman H. L. Woody and George H.

Greenia, a personal friend of President William H. Taft and Speaker Cannon, were at the show last night, not primarily to see the different acts, but with the avowed purpose of getting an animal for the Prospect Park Zoo. An Eagie reporter visited the 200 this morning, but was unable to discover any additions to its live stock. While, of course, no suspicion is directed toward the two Park Slope men, nevertheless it remains a fact that they were on the grounds last night looking for animals, and that soon after they left the three anmials were also missed. Mr.

Greenia stated over the 'phone today that there is a very good prospect of Brooklyn getting a camel from the circus. He seemed very much amused when told of the disappearance of the stolen animals, but was reassured when told that no camels, elephants or giraffes were missing. He and Mr. Woody went to the circus as representatives of the South Brooklyn Board of Trade, A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS. Three Calls in One Afternoon for Flatbush Ambulance.

The ambulance of the Kings County Hospital was kept busy yesterday when three calls were received during the late afternoon. William Cooney, a driver, aged 53, of Fulton street, was driving a team attached to a truck at Malbone street and Flatbush avenue when it col-! lided with a surface car of the Flatbush avenue line. The truck was overturned and Cooney was rendered unconscious when he fell to the street. He was taken to the Kings County Hospital in a critical condition. He was unable to tell his name and address.

The number of the car was taken. Friends identified him. John Feltman, aged 7, of 1625 Gravesend avenue, was on Ocean Parkway and Avenue when he was struck by an unknown bicyclist, who escaped. The boy was thrown to the street and received cuts on the face and head and a dislocation of the left shoulder. He was taken home.

Efforts are being made to And the bicyclist. Jacob Lavine. aged 30, of 267 Dumont avenue, was at work on a new building at Flatbush and Foster avenues when he fell to the ground and sustained injuries to the face and hands. He was attended and left for home. SUICIDE IN SANITARIUM.

Harriett Haslach, 28 years old, of 341 Knickerbocker avenue, Brooklyn, committed suicide at the Rivererest Sanitarium, Wolcott avenue, near Lawrence street, Astoria, at 5:30 this morning, by strangling herself with a stocking. The coroner was notified. The body was removed to her home by order of the coroner, ARMY OF E.D. CITIZENS TO MOVE FOR FERRY BILL Big Delegation Certain at Mayor's Hearing on the Gledhill Measure. IS TO CONDEMN WATER FRONT And Vest Title in City at Once-This Will Give New Ferries Very Quickly, It Is Thought.

A small army promises to invade the Manhattan City Hall on the day set for the public hearing in relation to the Gledhill-Brown bill permitting the city to condemn that portion of the originally occupied by the defunct Brooklyn Ferry Company, which operated the ferries from the foot of Broadway to Manhattan. Under the statute, as explained by a prominent Eastern District manufacturer this morning, Mayor MeClellan having received a certified copy of the bill, may withhold action on the measure for ten days while the Legislature is in session and thirty days if the Legislature adjourns. A public hearing, however, must. be held and forty-eight hours public notice given of such a hearing. While there have been no surface indications of activity, the committee representing the Manufacturers and Business Men's League have been doing some yeoman's work in connection with the bill, and all the influence they possessed was exerted in securing its passage.

The bill was first carefully examined and then fully approved by not only the manufacturers, banking interests and business men, but numerous prominent citizens. As a result, there will leave the Eastern District on the day set for the hearing one of the largest delegations which has ever interested itself in a public matter. The committee representing the Manufacturers and Business Men's League is composed of Alexander Seymour, president of the Manufacturers National Bank; John Tuttle of Tuttle Bailey, John R. Thompson, Thomas P. Peters, Colonel Andrew D.

Baird. Bernard Gallagher and ex-Mayor Frederick W. Wurster. While the committee have made no definite arrangements it is their purpose to have the delegation gather at some stated point and proceed in a body to the Manhattan City Hall. Some arrangements of this kind will' be made directly the date for the public hearing is announced.

As a result the committee. taking time by the forelock. appeals to every manufacturer, business man, and in fact every interest, including residents not only of the aftected district but of every portion of the city, including Manhattan, to lend their presence on the occasion of the hearing. Ex-Mayor Wurster announced this morning that they would have on hand men who would furnish arguments which would offset completely any opposition which might be offered from representatives of the For the benefit of those who are not entirely familiar with the true character of the bill ex- Mayor Wurster explained this morning that it is what 1s termed a permissive bill, and was introduced at the suggestion of Mayor, McClellan. Under the present laws of New York the process of securing water front property under condemnation proceedings is exceedinglv slow.

and it would require several years for the city to the necessary property. This acquire bill. however, gives the city the right to condemn this particular water front propin exactly the same manner as it erty private property for school may secure building purposes, title vesting in the city at once. Mr. Wurster added his voice in the appeal for every one to aid in making the delegation on the day of the hearing one the largest and the demonstration the of the history of the city.

If he said he had no fear of greatest in this occurred, the results. SIX HURT IN ELEVATOR. Brooklyn Women Among the Injured in an Accident in Wanamaker's Old Store. elevator in Wanamaker's old store An Broadway and Ninth street, Manhatat the first floor to the basetan, fell from ment yesterday afternoon, and six persons were severely injured. They Matilda Ruentsch of 291 DeKalb Mrs.

Brooklyn, ankle fractured. avenue, Mack of 119 Hall street, Mrs. Margaret Brooklyn, ankle fractured. Minta B. Henkel of 201 St.

James Mrs. Rachel Dutcher of 100 West One place, Brooklyn, ankle fractured. Mrs. Hundred and Fifth street, Manhattan, C. Chambers of 541 West right ankle fractured.

Mrs. Mary One Hundred and Twenty-fourth street, Manhattan, left ankle sprained. W. Gressbach, clerk, of 368 Frederick Eighth street, Brooklyn, right ankle fractured. The injured, with the exception of Mrs.

taken in ambulances to Chambers, were the New York Hospital. Mrs. Chambers was taken home in a taxicab, summoned at her request. The injured women were all shoppers in the store, the police say. The negro in charge of the car could elevator boy not be found after the fall.

The police believe he was injured and taken to a private hospital. REALTY LEAGUE MASS MEETING Hot List of Topics Outlined for Discussion at the Ansonia Tomorrow Night. The second mass meeting of the Realty will be held at the Ansonia. League and Seventy -third street, ManBroadway hattan, on Thursday, April 29, at 8 P.M. the topics to be discussed will be: Among "Waste on printing in the Mayor's office." "The scandal of the Queensboro Bridge, which cost $7,000,000 too "The outrageous extortion of certain plumbers working for the city, for the installation of meters put in premises without the knowledge and consent of the owners." "Gross extravagance and legalized robbery in the Catskill Water "Failure to attempt the amendment of the Burr law, prohibiting the taking of water from Suffolk County, L.

"Failure of the Mayor during the past six months to commit himself on the eighthour day for the city clerks," "Persistent refusal of the Board of Aldermen, since December 15, 1908. to amend the ordinance regulating houts of business; i.e., to change the hours from 9 to 4 to 9 to 5, except on Saturdays and holidays." The platform of the Realty League for the coming campaign will also be announced. The speakers will be: J. C. Coleman, Gilbert R.

Hawes, Carlisle Norwood, H. B. Morrison and Alfred R. Conkling. NEW LIFE SAVING STATION.

Sheepshead Bay is going to have a life saving station, and through the efforts of ex-Judge Owen F. Finnerty, one of the members of the executive committee and of a special committee to secure the station. Judge Finnerty has called upon Austin Corbin and has obtained his consent to establish a site on the lands recently Alled in at Manhattan Beach, and the Volunteer Life Saving Corps will establish a station there in a short time. The quarters will be located in the vicinity of the inlet, in order that the crew can pay attention to and aid -those who meet with accidents on the ocean side of Coney Island. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS.

RED-MAN Brand Collars are fast making collar history. The weak points of the ordinary 2-for-25-cent collars are their strong points. THORNWOOD A new collar. EARL WILSON. DIED.

CARPET CLEANING. Electric or Vacuum Process. THE EAGLE WAREHOUSE AND STORAGE COMPANY, FIREPROOF WAREHOUSE, 28 TO 44 FULTON BROOKLYN. Tel. 4169 Main.

LOST AND FOUND. FOUND, a DOG, with harness. Wanted owner or kind home. Box Eagle Bedford branch. LOST--Tuesday, small diamond screw RING: reward.

A. J. Room 301, Eagle Building. LOST. PACKAGE school miniatures on ivory.

Finder will be rewarded by returning to Miss TERRY, 121 Remsen st. LOST. an ENVELOPE or COVER FOR AUTO TOP. between Fort Hamilton and Brooklyn Heights. Reward will be given it returned to 130 Columbia Heights, 27-3 LOST.

April 27. small POCKETBOOK, containing a sum of money. in Bedford section. Reward if returned to Mrs. 77 Hancock: st.

AUTOMOBILES. BUICK No. 10 model. 1908: must be sold; owner leaving town. 231 St.

Mark's av, Brooklyn. 28-2 HELD FOUR INQUESTS. Verdicts of Death by Accident Returned by Queens Coroner's Jury at Jamaica. Four inquests were held by Coroner Nutt and a jury at Jamaica yesterday, and in each a verdict of accidental death was rendered. The most tragic of the deaths inquired into was that of Thomas Breen.

37 old, of 4 Laurel Hill, who died March 11, in St. John's years, Hospital, after six weeks of terrible suffering. Breen fell into a vat of boiling water at the general chemical works on February 1, and his feet, legs and arms were literally parboiled. He was rushed to the hospital where he lingered six weeks. Stephen Dombrowski of Old Brook: School road, Laurel Hill, was walking on the Long Island Railroad tracks and was struck and killed.

The man was on his way home. in the middle of the track, when the train came around a curve. The engineer did not see h'm until he was but 25 feet away, and was unable to stop the engine before the man was struck. Thomas Clark, 60 years old, of 115 Fourth street, Long Island City. was hit.

by a freight car which was being switched in the freight yard at Long Island City, where Clark was employed. He died in St. John's Hospital. The last case disposed of was that of Walter Koehn, 11 years, of Sherman AVenue, Richmond Hill, who fell from a fence, striking his head against a stone, and causing paralysis. NABBED MAN WITH LEAD PIPE.

Policeman Young of the Bedford avenue station was passing the unoccupied house at 180 North Eighth street, owned by John Gallagher, last night, when a man walked out from the basement carrying quantity of lead pipe. Young nabbed the fellow, who proved to be Thomas Hayes, 37 years old, of 140 Bedford avenue. The prisoner was arraigned before Magistrate Voorhees in the Bedford avenue court on a charge of burglary, and held for examination. 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 or estimate 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 or service for which the bid or estimate is made, with his or their name or names and the date of the presentation to the President or Board or to the head of the department at his or its office. on or before the date and hour named in the advertisement for the same, at which time and place the estimates received will be publicly opened by the President or Board or head of said department and read. and the award the contract made according to law as soon, thereafter as practicable.

Each bid or estimate shall contain the name and place of residence of the person making the same, the names of all persons interested with him therein, and if no other person be so interested, it shall distinctly state that fact: also that it is made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the same purpose and is in all respects fair and without collusion or fraud, and that no member of the Board of Aldermen, head of department, chief of bureau, deputy thereof or clerk therein, or other officer of The City of New York is, shall be or become interested. directly or indirectly, as contracting party, partner, shareholder, surety or otherwise in or in the performance of the contract, or in the supplies, work or business to which it relates. or in any portion of the profits thereof. The bid or estimate must be verified by the oath. in writing, of the party or parties making the estimate that the several matters stated therein are in all respecte true.

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 surety company duly authorized by law to act as surety, and shall contain the matter set forth in the blank form mentioned below. No bid or estimate will be considered unless AS 8 condition precedent to the reception Or consideration of any proposal it be accompanied by A certified check 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 a separate envelope addressed to the head of the department, president or board. or submitted personally, upon the presentation of the bid or estimate. 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, on file 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 he bid for separately, The right is reserved in each case to reject all bids or estimates if it he deemed to be for the interest of the city so to do. Bidders will write out the amount of their bing or estimates in addition to inserting the same in figures. Bidders are requested 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 office of the department for which the work is to be done. Plate of drawings of construction work may also be seen there.

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18 Meetings 16 2-3-5 Musical Instruction. 14 Ocean Steamships. 14 Proposals Public Notices Railroads 14 R. E. at R.

E. Loans 14 Sits. Wanted 10 Special Advs 18 Special 14 Steamboats 14 Sum. Cot. to Let.

14 To Let-For Sale. 13-14 Wanted 12-13 Where to Dine Well 8 afternoon..