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1911. BOROUGH AND LONG ISLAND QUEENS BOROUGH READY TO DEMAND HER RIGHTS People Aroused as Never Before Over Question of Transit Betterments. WILL REFUSE TO BE IGNORED. If Borough's Needs Are Not Considered, an Appeal Will Be Made to the Courts. Residents of Queens have become aroused over the transit situation, dur1ng the past two days, as they have not been for some time.

They have come to the realization that unless something is done at once, the borough is likely to be entirely overlooked in the transit extenthat will be authorized by the sions, of Estimate and the Public Service Commission. Yesterday afternoon representative men from all sections of the borough got into communication and decided to call A mass meeting to be held during the coming week, at which the sentiments of the borough will be expressed. This meeting will be called jointly by the United Civic Associations, the Jamaica Transit Committee, the Committee of Thirteen and the Long Island City Bustness Men's Association. It is predicted that this meeting will be attended by several thousand people, and those who pushing the proposition have the asare that Controller Pendergast and surance President Mitchel of the Board of Alderprobably will be present to make men addresses. The Queens residents probably will not take a stand as to whether the city shall build the extensions to the transit sysbut they will insist that their bortems, ough shall be given some consideration.

It has become known that the assessed valuations in borough will be increased $100.000.000 this year, and this, almost revolt has been caused as this information has gotten abroad, and the have that are to residents get no transit extensions, although they are to pay on this increased assessment order to give the city a debt borrowin ing margin for transit purposes. predicted that counsel will It is now and if the borough is not be engaged, considered, the fight will be taken into the courts and the whole transit situation in the city up. At a meeting cholo executive commitkee of the United Civics, held nfternoon, at Flushing, the situation was thoroughly gone over, and it WAS decided that prompt and aggressive action da necessary. John Adikes, Lucien Knapp, W. W.

Kenerson, Julius Harder and John Salisbury were named a committee to interview representatives civic bodies In the borough as to the advisability of calling a mass meeting during the com1ng week. A meeting has been arranged by the United Civics for January 24, but if the situation is found to demand it, the big gathering will be called for an earlter date. RAPTURE MAY BE IMPORTANT. Brooklyn Man Caught After Smashing Window of Astoria Jeweler With a Stone. Patrolman Henry F.

Mohrman of the 'Astoria precinct is believed to have made a very important capture early yesterday morning when, after a long chase and a lively hand-to-hand encounter, he subdued a and placed under arrest a man who gave the name of Joseph Dempsey, 32 years old, of 114 Greenpoint avenue, Brooklyn, when arraigned at the station house. The policeman was on a sharp lookout, R.8 his beat is in the business section of Astoria, and in that vicinity recently there have been a number of petty burglartes, all of them done with much show of cleverness. The officer noticed two men cross the street early in the morning and he hid in the shadow of a building to see what they would do. Suddenly he heard the crash of window glass and he saw that A stone had been thrown through the show window of David Shapiro's jewelry store at 183 Main street. Mohrman immediately gave after the man whom he had seen chase, the window.

and after a run of about a half mile he caught the man. The latter turned and gave fight, but the officer finally subdued his prisoner and got him to the station house. Magistrate Fitch, who heard the testlmony in the case yesterday afternoon, held Dempsey for the Grand Jury. BROOKLYN WOMAN AN HEIRESS Receives $1,000 From Estate of Her Father--Estate of Old-Time Circus Man Taxed. (Special to The Eagle.) Riverhead.

L. January 7-The will of Thomas Danes of Blue Point, probated by Surrogate Nicoll, disposes of an estate of $8,000, of which Anna L. Hannan of Brooklyn, a daughter, is given $1,000, and the residue is given to William Danes of Patchogue, a son. The taxable estate of the late James L. Hutchinson, once A partner of Barnum.

the circus man, amounte to $378, 456.27. and the tax imposed 1s $6,426.18. Mr. Hutchinson's gross estate was 166.40. The estate is divided among a number of legatees, among whom the following are the principal ones: James J.

Hutchinson. Guy Hutchdnson, son, Edith A. Verdery, Ruth Hutchinson, daughter, $89,371. The will of Katharina Mann of Brooklyn and Eastport, disposing of an estate valued at upward of $7,500, has been probated here. The executor, Peter Pimblett, of Newell street, Brooklyn, A son-in-law, is directed to sell the realty, and then divide the estate into bree equal parts, one each for Bertha Elliott.

daughter; Emma Pimblett, daughter, and Albert Mann, son, of Eastport. CHILD MAY BE FATALLY HURT. Ran Into Motorcycle at College Point. Both Legs Broken. Martha Nolan, 4 years old, of FourMeenth street, College Point, while walkAng with her mother on Thirteenth street yesterday afternoon broke away and ran into the roadway.

A motorcyclist was approaching at the time and the child ran squarely into the machine, which knocked her down, breakdug both her legs. The child is now in a critical condition At her home. The police say the cyclist AVas not at fault and did not detain him. Ails name is not known. MEN WHO HAVE TRAVELED TO TELL OF JOURNEYING Travel Talks a Feature of Next Week's P.

S. Lecture Course in Queens. AIR VOYAGING ANOTHER TOPIC. Talk on Benjamin Franklin Scheduled -Historical and Technical Lectures to Be Given. It Is generally agreed that if one would know geography one must travel.

A teacher going down the St. Lawrence River the past summer was heard to exclaim: "I never thought the St. Lawrence was like this; it seemed to me only a thin line on the map. I shall be better able to teach about it now." To many persons, the rivers of world are only thin lines on maps; the mountains are like so many hairy caterpillars and towns are merely dots. But those who have seen the rivers, have climbed the mountains and have visited the cities know what they are like.

Some men who have traveled will present to the people who attend likenesses of the places they have been in at the lectures which the Department of Education has provided for the residents of Queens Borough, and which will cost not a cent nor any trouble. Arthur K. Peck, at Public School No. 22, Sanford avenue and Murray street, Flushing, will lecture on "Arizona: The Southwest Wonderland," on Monday night, a and Louis Leakey will take his guests on a visit to "London of To-day," at Public School No. 4, Queens village.

These and all other lectures on similar topics are illustrated by fine stereopticon views. On Thursday night, at the Bay Side School, Lewis Gaston Leary, 1 Ph.D., will lecture on "Egypt and Cairo," and at the Springfield Presbyterian Church, the same night, Henry H. Parry will give an account of "Wales and Peoples." On Friday night, Ernest A. Reed, at Public School No. 6, Steinway avenue, near Broadway, Long Island City, will take his hearers back many centuries to "The Egypt of Antiquity," while, the same night, at Public School No.

27, College Point, Justice H. Moore will be entertaining his audience by a description of "Street Life in Paris." Aerial Navigation a Timely Topic. In view of the recent deaths of noted airmen, the lecture by Charles L. Harrington, at Public School No. 68, Bergen and Rathjen avenues, Evergreen, on Friday night, on subject of "Aerial is certain to attract a large and interested audience.

Other lectures of a different character, but none the less interesting or important, will be delivered. One is by Norris A. Brisco, Ph.D., of the College of the City of New York, on "Child Labor," at Public School No. 57. Morris Park, 011 Monday night, and another is at Public School No.

72, Maspeth, on Friday night, on "The Work of the United States Bureau of Fisheries," by Richard W. Sharpe. Thomas Benton Wilgus will lecture three times on "Benjamin Monday night, at the Woodside School; on Wednesday at the Astoria Assembly Rooms, and on Saturday at the New York Parental School, Jamaica avenue, near Flushing. George Eliot Cooley of Stuyvesant High School, will deliver the second of his course on "Development of the United at Public School No. 1, Ninth street and Van Alst avenue, Long Island City, on Monday night, his topic being "The Colonial Period," in which he will tell the story of the growth of the colonles.

The same night (Monday) Edwin W. Foster of Manual Training High School, will lecture at. Public School No. 88, Elm avenue and Fresh Pond road, Ridgewood Heights, on "American Woods and the Lumber Industry," a subject upon which he is an expert, being a teacher of carpentry, a member of the American Forestry Association, and having been for a summer season in the lumbering business in Maine. At the Bryant High School, Long Island City, on Thursday night, Harlan I.

Smith will speak of "The Beginnings of Industries." and on Friday night, at Flushing High School, Dr. Frederick E. Breihut will explain all about while the same night Dr. Frederick Campbell, at the Newtown High School, will tell the wonders of "The Distant Stars." On Monday night, at Richmond Hill High School Richard A. Purdy will present "Shakspeare's "Julius Caesar." At the Steinway School, on Wednesday night, W.

Wallace Ker will describe "The Telephone." TO GIVE PLAYLETS. Sea Cliff Militiamen to Appear as Funmakers. (Special to The Eagle.) Sea Cliff, January men of the Sea Cliff Separate Company! are busy rehearsing for the two playlets which will be presented at St. Luke's parish 18. house The on Wednesday will be evening, Janplaylets son's Stag Party" and "Fun in a Schoolroom." The cast of "Snobson's Stag Party" includes John Forster, Raymond Searing, Joseph Mott, Fred Fellendorf, Edward Conlin, Lester Waters, Michael Fitzgerald, Alonzo Stewart, Gordon Hurley and Roland Stewart.

The leading role of "Fun in a Schoolroom" will be taken by Augustus Schletcher, who will impersonate the teacher; Herbert Gladd will play Willie, the teacher's pet; Herbert Braddon, Jimmie, the hard guy, and Robert ton will assume the role of Isaac. PAST MASTERS AT DINNER. First District Masonic Organization Holds Annual Banquet in Manhattan--Grand Master 8 Guest. The past masters of the First Masonic District, which comprises all of Long Island outside of Brooklyn, got together at the Hotel Navarre, Manhattan, and had their annual dinner, last night. Twelve of the twenty-three lodges in the district were represented by twentyeight men, who sat down to dinner after they had elected officers for or ganization, the Past Masters Association of the First Masonic District.

The offcers, all of whom are new, are: President, James H. Fitch; A first vice president, Joseph Ogle; second vice president, E. A. Shipman; third vice president, N. Failor; secretary-treasurer, James W.

Eaton. The guests of the evening were: Most Wor. Robert J. Kenworthy, grand master of the State of New York; Harry L. Hedger, district deputy grand master of Glen Cove, and Joseph Fitch.

All of these made short, felicitous addresses, "for the good of the order." Those present were: James Tuthill, Robert J. Kenworthy, Harry L. Hedger, Joseph Fitch, Elmer G. Story, E. A.

Shipman, Dr. Wickham, John Morrison, Joseph Ogle, E. D. Tuthill, H. H.

Lupton, Alexander S. Williams, W. H. Connell, Charles Downing, James W. Eaton, George W.

Downing. George 0. Linkletter, Fred G. De Witt. John C.

Denton, James A. Dayton, Frank H. Hobart, Jesse C. Mills, Raymon J. Taylor, H.

A. Grieshaber, W. H. Cowan and I. N.

Failor. LONG ISLAND WEDDINGS. ROGERS--SHEPHARD. The wedding of Miss Carrie A. Shephard.

until recently a teacher in Public School No. 51, Richmond Hill, and Robert Edward Rogers, of Bellport, L. took place on Thursday afternoon, at 136 Jefferson avenue, Richmond Hill, the ceremony being preformed by the Rev. Dr. Frederick Stiehler, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Morris Park.

Mr. and Mrs. Rogers are spending their honeymoon at Savannah, Ga. In the spring they expect to establish their home at Bellport. HUGHES-BRADY.

Miss Anna Brady of 79 Grant avenue, and James A. Hughes, of Brooklyn, were married on Wednesday evening last in St. Benedict Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Morris Park, by the Rev. P. J.

Tuigg, assistant rector. The bridesmaid was Miss Dorothy Brady, a sister of the bride, and the best man was Michael Reilly, of Richmond Hill. After the ceremony a reception was held at the bride's home. Mr. and Mrs.

Hughes are residing at 635 Sherman street. FELL AND FRACTURED SKULL. L. I. Railroad Employe Died as Result of Fall.

Herman C. Krake, 25 years old, a. rallroad employe, about midnight last night climbed up the viaduct over Diagonal street, in Long Island City, to do some electrical work, and in some way lost his balance and fell backward to the street. He fractured his skull and died 500n after in St. John's Hospital, to which he was removed in an ambulance.

Krake lived in First avenue, Manhattan. BABYLON'S FIRST 'PHONE WAS A TIN CAN AFFAIR Used Thirty-two Years Ago; Line Only 250 Feet in Length. WAS CRUDE, BUT EFFICIENT. Carried Many a Love Message From Young Liveryman to His Bride. No Fear of Listeners.

(Special to The Eagle.) Babylon, L. 7-While looking over some mementos, the other day, Supervisor came across what is undoubtedly the first telephone used in Babylon. This instrument was used on a line 250 feet in length, ing between Mr. Daily's office in his livery stable and his home, then at the head of the lane leading to the stables. That was thirty-two years ago, and the development of modern telephoning could hardly be more strikingly shown than in Supervisor Edward Daily.

Who Owned, 32 Years Ago, the First Tele- phone Used in Babylon. the contrast between the crude and unpretentious instruments he first used and his present equipment. The first instrument was a home-made affair, constructed of two tin cans connected to the ends of a wire which lead from the house to the office. This instrument, which was merely the practical utilization of a familiar toy, was used successfully for four or five years. Shortly before constructing this instrument, the supervisor had married.

Those were the days of love's young dream, and probably no other pair of newly weds have enjoyed telephonic communication, unvexed by the fear that central or some subscriber might be listening. By tapping on the bottom of the can, it was easy to signal from one end of the line to the other. In those days, Mr. Daily had begun to gain his present enviable reputation as a conversationalist par excellence, and it canot be doubted that what he said over the wire was of nearly the same excellence and interest are his present day conversational offerings. After doing good service, the tin can telephones were discarded and Mr.

Daily purchased two telephone receivers. These he connected to either end of the line and had as good a short line equipment as one could wish. Each instrument had to be used as was the case with the tin-can 'phones, both as receiver and transmitter. can On account of the short length. of the line no batteries were needed, and the crude.

but effective. line did good service until the coming of the telephone company, to whose service Mr. Daily was one of the first subscribers. TO WINTER IN CALIFORNIA. (Special to The Eagle.) East Williston, L.

January 7-Mrs. William Hind of this place, accompanied by her brother, George Wainwright of Brooklyn and Mrs. Wainwright, expect to spend the remainder of the winter in Southern California. Mr. is very well known in Brooklyn real estate circles.

OUT ON LONG ISLAND. On the Friday before Christmas more than 10,000 post cards were mailed at the Huntington post office, and on the same day 1,700 one cent postage stamps were sold at Port Jefferson. An Amityville man, a property owner and resident there thirty-five years, has just been drawn to serve as a trial juror in the county Supreme Court. It's the Arst time in all those years that he has been called upon to do jury duty at Riverhead, while some of his neighbors have had to serve in that capacity again and again. Albert Gifford, a former Westbury resident.

died recently in Maryland. He was for a long period night watchman on the broad estate of Edwin D. Morgan in the Wheatly Hills. The remains were brought back to Westbury for interment in the Friends burial place, and services conducted by Miss Mary Post were held at the home of a friend of the dead watchman. There's a place known AS Death Valley between Mt.

Sinal and Port Jefferson. The aptness of the name is shown by the fact that while driving through the valley a few days ago Harry Kempster of Port Jefferson was badly hurt and might have been killed. His team bolted at the sight of an automobile, and he was thrown out and quite seriously injured. Patchogue, like Brooklyn, now boasts of "Judge" Green. There's another coinci- dence-each is a member of the Fourth Estate, and each is a good deal of aL "j'iner." It is probable that the Brooklyn Green is more of a raconteur than the from the Orient, but the latter has a man few good stories gathered during years of attendance at press association meetings and other places where wits foregather.

F. the Bellport chronicler of is at odds with Santa Claus. He events, expresses his feelings in this way: "Someone did some early shopping for this Christmas. Result: Pair of sus118 penders, lounging jacket and slippers to match. The only place we ever lounge 1s around the corner grocery store, and we have a prejudice against slippers that goes back to the time our maternal progenitor applied them where they did much good." Mention has been made in this column before of the incongruity of the fact that the family name of Smith so seldom appears in the news from Smithtown Branch, That strange condition of affairs continues.

For instance, in the Port Jefferson Echo of last week were fourteen items under the Smithtown Branch heading all what are known as "person-and the name Smith appeared but once. What has become, of all the Smiths who once populated "the Branch?" The Whitestone police stopped some of the village boys from coasting on a hill thore during the recent period of coasting. deeming the sport dangerous at that pojat, Madaunted, the lads drew up a CONDITIONS IN QUEENS. "Maspeth" Points Out Need for Further Probing. Editor The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: A few days ago there was published in your paper the full text of Special Attorney Train's report on conditions in Queens Borough, in which he strongly recommends to the next Grand Jury the advisability of investigating Building Bureau.

As an example of the manner in which building operations are carried on, the following may be interesting: During the past summer three six family tenements were erected in Maspeth. There are no sewers in that section, and each building was provided with a cesspool, which was located under the sidewalk. Hardly had the buildings been completed and occupied, when waste water was noticed flowing through the foundation walls into the cellar, and I am. informed that the cellars of these buildings are to-day practically sewage receptacles. The occupants of these buildings are mostly Poles, poor and uninformed as to their rights, and no hand is raised to assist them.

Certainly the matter is one for vigorous action on the part of some one in authority. Some months ago The Eagle published an article criticising the Building Bureau, and the then superintendent stated that he did not have enough inspectors. The officer referred to has since resigned, but the conditions are evidently unchanged, and all those seeking homes in Queens Borough are likely to suffer as a result. MASPETH. Maspeth, January 3, 1911.

BURGLARS AT RICHMOND HILL. Good Haul Made at Hastie Cottage. Attempts Made 1 to Enter Others. The home of Mrs. Isabella Hastie, at 520 Chestnut street, Richmond Hill, was entered by burglars a few evenings ago and over $300 in cash and jewelry was taken.

The burglary was the second that has occurred at the Hastie home within a year. The house was thoroughly ransacked. Part of the thieves' loot consisted of $200 cash. An attempt was made by burglars to enter the home of Mrs. John Niederstein, widow of the former county clerk, John Niederstein, in Beech street, near Hillside but the thieves evidently were frighteneed away.

It seems that an attempt was also made to enter 'the home of David W. Thompson, in Maple street, near Central avenue, early yesterday morning. There are marks on several window sills on the ground floor which indicate that the burglars tried would, the windows open with a jimmy. I WATER TURNED ON. Flushing Equal Franchise Society Has Accomplished an Important Piece of Civic Work.

The work of installing a temporary main in West Grove street, Flushing, in or der to supply water to twelve families, who were deprived of their sole source of supply last summer, when the Board of Health closed a spring that has been in use for years, was completed yesterday. turned of. and residents The Department, Water has can now avail themselves of the opportunity of getting water into their homes. The work of installing the temporary water main was taken up by the Equal Franchise Association, the Good Citizenship League and the Flushing assocation after the city authorities stated that they would be unable to do the work until next spring. DOG ATTACKS WOMAN.

Mrs. Frost of Rockville Centre Bitten by Animal, Which Leaped at Her Throat. (Special to The Eagle.) Rockville Centre, L. January 7- "Are there no dog laws in Rockville Centre?" demanded Mrs. Joseph Frost, as she rushed into the village office early yesterday morning.

"Yes; plenty of them," came the answer from behind the desk. "Well, I want one shot at once. He bit me and bit me badly." Then Mrs. Frost explained that she had been bitten on the right arm by a vicious dog on the streets of the village the day before. The canine had, she said, leaped at her throat and sunk his fangs into her arm, which she raised to protect herself.

The owner of the offending dog, she further stated, said he kept the ugly brute, because he was afraid of burglars. Mrs. Frost's arm was 80 seriously lacerated by the animal's teeth that she had to be attended by a physician. BAIL FOR BOWMAN. Horseshoe Stock Promoter Raises Money and Will Be Released.

(Special to The Eagle.) Riverhead, L. January 7-After having been locked up in the Nassau County jail for a week it was expected that William F. Bowman would be released in $2,000 bail some time to-day. Bowman is charged with selling horseshoe stock to many Suffolk County investors through false representations, and after his indictment he jumped a bail bond and disappeared, being caught by Warden Furey last week in Hempstead. An Eagle reporter was told last night that he had given a mortgage for $2,000 to Clarence A.

Baker of Yaphank, and that latter was to furnish bail for the promoter. County Judge GriMing will approve a bond signed by Dr. Baker. EUCHRE TO AID HOSPITAL. On Monday evening, February 6, the Ladies Mutual Hospital Society of the Rockaway Beach Hospital and Dispensary will hold its annual euchre and reception in Arion Hall, and the committee in charge of the affair promises to make it the most successful event of the season.

Already a large number of pretty prizes have been received, and it is expected that there will be about 200 to choose from when the time arrives. a The annual meeting and election of officers of the society will be held in the hospital building on Friday afternoon, January 20. CONCERT BY "THE MUSURGIA." A concert by "The Musurgia," of New York, with Walter H. Robinson, as conductor, the chorus consisting of thirty men, sang on Thursday night at Archer's Hall, Jamaica. The concert was one of a series to be held by the Jamaica branch of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.

A large number of music lovers were present. "The Musurgia," whose membership consists of business men, lawyers, physicians and other professional men, 1s one of the best known musical organizations in Greater New York. AGAIN WAHNETAH'S CAPTAIN. Thomas Cleary was re-elected a captain of Wahnetah Boat Club of Flushing at the annual meeting held last evening in the Flushing Hotel. A.

V. G. Doremus was re-elected president. The club is planning to hold a minstrel entertainment. in the Flushing Theater next month.

RETIRES TO BE A FARMER. Frank C. Ness of Brooklyn has retired from business in Manhattan, to devote his entire time to the management of the poultry and fruit business on the farm of Ness Bros. (Charles J. and Frank at Lake Grove, La THIRTEEN SNIFFENS DEFY SUPERSTITION SPECIAL UNION SERVICES.

Churches of Jamaica Join to Hear Evangelist William Phillips Hall. A number of the churches of Jamaica will unite for special evangelistic services to- morrow. Two meetings will be held, one at 4 o'clock in the afternoon in the Presbyterian Church, and the William Phillips Hall. other at 7:30 in the evening, in the Dutch Reformed Church. The Rev.

Dr. Saul 0. Curtice, pastor of the Methodist Church, the other pastors have been active in arranging the meetings. The churches uniting, besides those in which the meetings are to be held, are the Methodist. the German Evangelical and the German Presbyterian.

The theme of the meetings is, "'The King's Business." William Phillips Hall, widely known as business man evangelist, who Soveral years ago sent out the call which resulted in the organization of the evangelistic committees in the several denomnations. will be the speaker. His aftersubject will be, "'The Source of Power," and in the evening, "The Ministry of the People of God." JAIL FOR UNFILIAL SON. John Rogart Disregarded Court's Order to Pay Mother $2 a Week. Because he failed to contribute $2 a week toward his mother's support, John Rogart, of Ridgewood, was committed to the Queens Jail, by Magistrate Smith, in the Flushing police court, yesterday.

Rogart hag been under bonds to help support his mother, and as he falled to do so a summons was issued for his appearance in court. He failed to obey the summons, and was arrested on a warrant by Patrolman William Allen. When the patrolman arrested him he said he did not care for the courts, but when he was ordered to the prisoner's pen to await the arrival of the deputy sheriff, who was to take him to jail, he wept and asked his mother to help him. He will be given a hearing on Monday morning. COUTANT OUT OF JAIL.

Blue Point Man Purges Himself of Contempt Charge--In Jail Three Months. (Special to The Eagle.) Riverhead, January 7-Surrogate Nicoll yesterday signed an order discharging Charles E. Coutant from the county jail, where he has been locked up since the middle of October on a contempt of court charge growing out of his refusal to file with Judge Nicoll certain papers that he was commanded turn over. It is understood now that he has paid some of the money over which the trouble arose; at any rate, there has been some sort of a settlement. Coutant lives in Blue Point.

At one time he was a very prominent politician and influential citizen. Some years ago he was testamentary trustee for George A. Arthur and handled a considerable sum of money in that proceeding. He was commanded to file a report showing what he had done with the money, and to explain where it was invested. This he so persistently refused to do that he was judged in contempt and locked up in jail accordingly.

LONG ISLAND OBITUARY. David Shotwell. (Special to The Eagle.) Northport, L. January 7-David Shotwell died at his home here early yesterday morning, after an illness of a. few days.

He was a son of Peter Shotwell and was born in Hicksville 67 years ago. He had been a resident of this village for about 25 years. He is survived by a widow and six children, Mrs. V. H.

Conklin of Providence, R. Mrs. Lydia Healy of Providence, R. Mrs. Steven Underwood, Mrs.

George Brower, Joseph and Clarence Shotwell, all of this place. He is also survived by two brothers. Andrew and James Shotwell, both of Northport. Funeral services will be hell from his residence to-morrow at 2 o'clock, the Rev. C.

S. Tator officiating. William J. Ryan. William J.

Ryan, 66 years old, a brother of Sister Flavia, who is a nun of the Order of St. Joseph, died yesterday at his home, in Tenth avenue, College Point. He was born in Flushing and made his home there up to a few years ago. He is survived, besides Sister Flavia, by two brothers, F. Frank Ryan, clerk in the J.

Ryan of Washington, by one son, Municipal Court at Newtown, and James John Ryan, a druggist, of Flushing. $2,500 FOR PLAINTIFF. The jury in the Queens County Supreme Court. whi leard testimony in the al. brought ny Thomas N.

Quinn, a trolley car conductor a Marcus A. Myers, the glove manufa teter of Manhatt, in for injuries vol tv al, yesterday turned a verdict of $2,500 it favor of the plaintiff. Quinn has overei sufficiently fro'r the acciden: to hold position as el child on the subway in Manhattan. CEMETERY ENLARGED. (Special to The Eagle.) Lawrence, L.

January 7-The trustees of the Catholic cemetery at this place have just added a large tract 10 their burying ground and have laid it out into plots. Paths and drives will be laid through the new section, and the whole cemetery will be made more attractive. TO WED ON FEBRUARY 28. The wedding of Miss Valeria Wilmerding. daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Charries H. Wilmerding of 20 Sanford place, Flushing, and William Buel Sprague of 333 Sanford avenue. Flushinz. take place lat St.

George's Church, Flushing, on Webguary 28. Gather at Xmas Table Dec. 26 (Twice 13) and Drink 13 Toasts. 13 ARTICLES FORM THE MENU. Then the Family Organize the Sniffen Thirteen Club--Each Member an Officer.

Hats off to the Sniffens of Sea Cliff, from the first to the smiling thirteenth. In fact, they all smile--those thirteen Sniffens. They smile because they are thirteen in number where other familles would find food for gloomy forebodings in that thought. Lastly, they smile because they are Sniffens--the Sniffen family characteristic is to be happy. Smiling at superstition, ringing all the changes on the mystic number, drinking a toast "to the thirteen of us," the Sniffens sat down to Mrs.

Carrie B. Sniffen'g Christmas dinner at Sea Cliff. There were thirteen separate dishes designated by thirteen small flags, each one bearing a number. No. 1 flag was displayed proudly over the soup and No.

13 showed that ear the last item of the dessert and the end of the menu had been reached. Sniffen Clan Becomes an Organiza. tion. While they were eating and smiling thirteen smiles of defance at bad luck which is usually supposed to follow in the trail of the number it was proposed that the Sniffens organize. The proposition was hailed with a whoop.

Thereupon the Sniffen Thirteen Club became an actual fact. The treasurer--every well regulated club has a treasurer--took up a collection. Each Sniffen contributed 13 cents to the common fund. The total of $1.69 will be used, it was resolved with laughter, to protect the family from the hoodoo during the coming year. Then the family statistician got in his fine work.

He discovered that of the ages of the Sniffens, 273. could be exactly divided by thirteen a and the result would give each the creditable age of 21 years. Mrs. Carrie Sniffen sent out the invitations to her four sons their families on the thirteenth of December. The feast was on the twenty-sixth (thirteen goes into twenty-six twice) and the toasts were thirteen in They began when Burt G.

Sniffen arose and, raising his glass, proposed that everyone present drink "To the Health of and they grew more and more defiant of the hoodoo. Toast to 13 More Family Dinners. at least thirteen more Christmas dinners of the Thirteen Sniffens" was W. J. Sniffen's proposal, and the sentiment was cheered loudly.

Those who were present and the respective offices to which they were electled Burt are as G. W. follows: Sniffen, president and toastmaster; Elizabeth L. Sniffen, vice prestdent; Burton L. Sniffen, secretary; Mrs.

C. B. Sniffen, treasurer; Walter J. Sniffen, statistician; William C. Sniffen, caretaker; Annie L.

Sniffen, guard; Harold M. S. Sniffen, director; Jessie M. Sniffen, director; Armita G. Sniffen, director; Madeline F.

Sniffen, director; Lillian M. Sniffen and Delos W. Sniffen, also directors. When the dinner was over the thirteen Sniffens stated their opinion that never since the number thirteen came into beIng had thirteen mortals had such 8 happy time of it as they had had at the famous Sea Cliff celebration. BIG RANCH PLANNED.

Company Formed to Raise Chickens and Ducks on Large Scale Down Riverhead Way. protest, signed it and sent it to Mayor Gaynor. His honor took the matter up with the police who "gave a reason for the faith that was in them" and were duly sustained. The boys showed courage in going to the man higher up, but demonstrated that they were "only kids" when they later refused to use a safe coasting place set apart for them. "If the Amityville foes of Leander Wright imagine that because he is spending the winter in Brooklyn, he is 'sleeping on his they probably will be disappointed," said a friend of Wright yesterday.

"In a matter of polltics, local or general, Leander is seldom caught napping. It's a safe bet that he knows exactly what Is going on at Amityville and, through trusted lieutenants, is planning to circumvent his adversaries." Wright may be a loser--although he usually gets what he goes after--but if he is defeated this time, his friends say it will not be because he is not "wise' to every move made by those who are opposed to him and his friend, "Garry" Haff. In this way the editor of the Smithtown Branch Messenger announces an anniversary and outlines his future plans and hopes: "As this issue of the Messenger closes the fourth year of its publication in this village, and desiring to balance our books we will send out during the next few days statements of accounts due us, hoping they will receive prompt attention. Thanking the public for past favors, hoping they will continue their financial aid, and will also assist us in obtaining the local news and other interesting art'eles that go toward making a village or town paper interesting. It costs you nothing, and you are welcome to the use of its columns, excepting for personal gain of any kind." Wonder on whose toes the editor of the Sayville News has inadvertently trodden.

The following indicates that he has been interviewed by some resident with a grievance: "The man who handles the local ment of a newspaper learns, after due experience, not to expect even briefly expressed thanks from 8. column of pleasant things, but he knoweth as surely as cometh the winter that a single line, in which there 1s an. unintentional misrepresentation. will cause someone to be heard from, as if from a housetop. And we may add that when he has made pleasant mention 999 times of some person, place or thing, but on the thousandth time fails to do so, he must not expect to be forgotten.

The omission may have been from accident, inadvertence or even an entire lack of knowledge. It matters not. The simple fact remains, and he will Judged by that." It is related by the Easthampton Star that the Rev. Dr. Samuel Buell, a famous preacher, known all over the island during the last halt of the eighteenth century, used to preach sermons of two or three hours in length, He is said to have been very ingenious in detaining his congregation.

Once. preached nearly two hours, and fearing that some of his The hearers might be planning to leave church, said that he was done preaching 10 sinners and such in the congregation might go; the remainder of his discourse would be addressed to good people. As a result he preached on--and his hearers did not diminish. There is another story toll of Dr. Buell that may be new to many readers of this department.

He married, in his "eighties," a girl of about 20-Miss Mary Miller, nicknamed Polly. His son-in-law, whose wife had died some years before, wanted to marry Miss Miller, and spoke to the reverend doctor about it. The old preacher said: "It is right for you to marry again, my son, and Polly Miller is a very nice girl, but she's much too young for The son-in-law accepted his dictum and married another woman, and in a few months the aged divine led the fair Mary altar. He did not think her too young to be his wife. The practice so largely indulged In of going to the post office as soon as the mailbags reach there and "standing around" until the windows are open gets on the nerves of the editor of the Huntington Bulletin.

urges offenders to remain at home or elsewhere until the mail is distributed, and then go to the office and get their letters, and get out. The Bulletin editor says: "Some are there before the mail reaches the office. Some enter directly behind the eight or ten pouches, the contents of which they know must be sorted before they can get their portion. At times the room is hot and stuffy, the presence of so many people vitiates the air, making it disagreeable for the post office force and far from comfortable for those whose presence causes it." He also gives some offenders a little lesson in manners, as follows: "At the box windows it is every one for himself, the chief offenders -being young misses who are anxious, perhaps, for loving epistles. This scramble to get to the windows first, regardless of the rights of those who have walted patiently near the delivery windows, and who are by every rule of justice and fair play entitled to be waited on first, should cease.

Don't butt in, young women and gentlemen, when you see that others are ahead of you. This is business as well as politeness. The scramble has gone 110 SO long that the older people are apparently resigned to it, and they stand patiently In the rear waiting until the young misses have received their love letters or otherwise before the step up to the window." It is, however, a safe bet that the practice will continue indefinitely. Until all villages grow into cities people will make a meeting place, or a trysting place, of the post office. It's a feature of rural life that cannot easily be done away with.

That's one reason why many places that could have free delivery do not seek it. The people like to go to the post office once, twice or thrice A day, and go they will. There is a whole lot to be seen and heard at the post office, and who wants to be deprived of the excitement of going there at least once a day? It's not fun to go in when the crowd is not there. That would be akin to Hamlet without the melancholy Dane, (Special to The Eagle.) Riverhead, L. January 7-Lawyer C.

E. Crater, of Brooklyn, was in Riverhead yesterday on business relative to the Heath Poultry Company, of which he 18 treasurer, and which concern expects to 800n begin work on what will probably be the largest duck and chicken farm on Long Island. This company has lately been incorporated with a paid up capital of $25,000, according to Mr. Crater. The president 18 Thomas H.

Heath of Hartford, vice president and treasurer, C. E. Crater, secretary, E. F. Roessell, Manhattan, and the board of directors includes the officers named, together with Joseph F.

Perdue and Dr. J. M. Creamer, both of Manhattan. The company has bought fifteen acres of land on the south.

side of the river at Upper Mills, near Riverhead, and twelve acres on the Flanders Pleasure Drive, also near Riverhead, but a considerable distance from the Upper Mills property. The company proposes to utilize the Upper Mills plant as a duck farm and the Flanders plant for a chicken farm. The duck plant will handle about 100.000 ducks a year, and 00.000 it is expected to keep practically 100.000 laying hens at the Flanders plant. It 1s planned to build a 100-foot hot water brooder house, a laying house 20x112 feet, a cold brooder house 12x300 feet. and two bungalows, one of seven rooms, at the Upper Mills plant, and one of five rooms at the Flanders plant.

At Flanders, besides other buildings, there will also be two concrete cellars 100 feet long. to be used as incubator cellars. Each will have forty Incubators of 250-egg capacity each. RICHMOND HILL REVIVAL. The Rev.

H. C. McBride, D. and his wife, well known as evangelists in varlous parts of the United States, will begin a series of evangelistic meetings at TrinIty Methodist Episcopal Church, Richmond Hill, to-morrow morning. These meetings will continue every night for two weeks.

Dr. McBride has been a recognized preacher at the camp meetings at Ocean Grove for years. He is the appointed evangelist of the New York East conference. OLD NEW YORKERS TO MEET. Martin Mager, county clerk of Queens, has called another meeting of the OldNew Yorkers, to be held to-morrow afternoon, at 4 o'clock, at the headquarters of the Third Assembly District Democratic Association, 45 Forest avenue, Ridgewood Heights.

The meeting will be the second that has been called to bring together old New Yorkers who reside in Queens at present. TALK ON AMERICAN HUMORISTS The regular meeting of the Jamaica Women's Club will be held at King Manor on Wednesday afternoon, January 11, at 3 o'clock. The chairman of the day will be Mrs. F. L.

Ferguson, and the subject for the afternoon will be "American Humorists." An instructive interesting programme has been arranged. WM. B. T. RONALDS, Estab.

1902. and Embalmer, LINBROOK, LONG ISLAND..