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I I a a a THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. MONDAY. JANUARY 9. 1911.

BOROUGH AND LONG ISLAND MEETING IN MANHATTAN TO PLAN QUEENS' PLEA Representative Men to and Arrange for Big Transit Mass Meeting. LOUD DEMAND FOR RELIEF. Residents of Borough Look to Mitchel and Pendergast to Aid Their Cause. This afternoon, at offices of the Long Island Real Estate Exchange, Thirty-fourth street and Fifth avenue, Manhattan, there will be a meeting of the representatives of many civic organizations in Queens, at which arrangements will be made for the mass meeting of taxpayers of Queens, to be called in order to get an expression of their sentiments on the transit situation. From the excited state of feeling at the present time, the indications are that this will be the largest meeting ever held in the borough.

It probably will be held at "the Astoria Schuetzen Park, as this is the largest assembly hall in the borough, accessible from all sections. The representatives of the borough who are leading this agitation are now looking to President Mitchel and Controller Pendergast to assist Queens out of the slough into which the borough has fallen. This feeling is based on the statement in the report submitted by President Mitchel at last Thursday's meeting of the Board Estimate. Referring to Queens, that report said: Mitchel Report Points Out Queens' Needs. "Further, your committee desires to call attention to the fact that this proposition, which includes the operation of the Steinway tunnel, wholly fails to meet the situation in the Borough of Queens.

It makes easterly extremity of the Steinway tunnel the limit of operation. No adequate transit is offered to Queens by this plan, and while the operation of the Steinway tunnel is not dependent upon the acceptance by the city of the subway portion of the Interborough Company's general proposition, your committee points out that adequate provision for this borough might well be made a condition of the acceptance of any elevated railway and Steinway tunnel agreement." These two city officials having expressed themselves in this manner, it is intention to invite them to come to Queens and address the big mass meeting. This action will not be taken as that the Borough of Queens will indorse the stand taken by these officials in opposition to the Interborough, for it is to have some person who will speak in behalf of Mayor Gaynor. Mayor Has Always Favored Opening of Steinway Tube. In the speech which the Mayor made at Schuetzen Park, when he was a candidate for office, he declared that he was in favor of the immidiate opening of the Steinway tunnel, and he has ever since maintained that attitude, giving advice and assistance to the many civic repre'sentatives that have called upon him in reference to this tunnel.

The people of Queens are taking the stand that they do not want to get mixed up in any controversy over what proposition is to be finally accepted by the city, but they insist that the one that is adopted shall have proper provision for extension on both the north and south side of the borough. RAYMOND DAILY'S TROUBLES. Babylon Boy Wrenched His "Game" Leg, but the Sequel Is Entirely Satisfactory. (Special to The Eagle.) Babylon, L. January 9--The troubles of Raymond Daily, son of Supervisor Edward Daily, were not all ended when he returned to St.

Paul's School, at Garden City, after being detained at home with a dislocated knee. The youth is not only an expert baseball player, but also equally skillful at football. He was engaged in the latter last autumn, when he sustained the accident to his knee joint. Tedious days and nights, with his leg in a plaster cast, followed, but he patiently waited for recovery. After weeks which seemed like months he was able to walk about again, but there was a kink: he did not walk naturally.

He limped, and time did not was in Freeport, and attempted to board seem to cure it. One a day last week 1 a trolley car, when the lame leg got another wrench and there was a snap. The most excruciating pain followed. He went home and to bed. After a few days he was up again and this time he could walk without any limp.

The theory is that the leg was not properly set originally and that when it got the wrench at Freeport the bones were put just where they belonged. It was an extremely painful process, but young Mr. Daily hopes he has seen the last of his troubles now. WINS UNDER NEW LAW. $1,000 Verdict for Former Queens Employe Under Employers Liability Act.

William Shute, a former employe of the topographical bureau of Queens, but now of the Street Cleaning Department, living at 130 Fifth street, Long Island City, has been the first city employe to test the employer's liability law as passed by the last Legislature, and he has won his case. A verdict was handed down in the Queens County Supreme Court on last Saturday giving him $1,800. Shute's claim was that while he was working in the topographical bureau he had occasion to use a ladder from which he fell, sustaining several fractured ribs and other injuries. His suit was brought under the new law and the courts lained the contention of his counsel that it had been properly brought, to The jury was out but a short time when the verdict was returned. It has been a long time since employes of the city have been able to sustain actious for damages against the city while in its employ, but it is said that case will be a leading one for many other employes.

FOUND 1804 HALF CENT. (Special to The Eagle.) Westhampton Beach, L. January 3-- Halsey D. Rogers, a civil engineer of this place, while engaged in laying out a road on the plains between here and Riverhead 011 Saturday found a copper half cent bearing the date of 1804. and had undoubtedly been lost The cola, was remarkably well preserved by some annies 6 balf century ago.

BOROUGH PRESIDENTS AND QUEENS CITIZENS STARTING FROM BROOKLYN TO TOUR QUEENS JUSTICE CRANE ON "UPLIFT." Brooklyn Jurist First Speaker of Huntington Sunday Lecture Course. (Special to The Eagle.) Huntington, L. January 9--A good. attendance yesterday afternoon at the Bijou Opera House to hear Supreme Court Justice Frederick E. Crane of Brooklyn, who spoke' on "Uplift." This was the first of a series of lectures arranged by the Very Rev.

Dean John C. York, which will include, later, talks by Justices Carr. Stapleton Woodward, Representative Bourke Cockran and others. Justice Crane's talk was highly interesting. He spoke particularly to the younger men, and emphasized the uplift in politics and public life.

THROUGH MANHATTAN TRAINS. Will Be Running on North They Shore Division of L. I. R. R.

This Time Next Year. Residents along the North Shore Division of the Long Island Railroad between Woodside and Auburndale, are delighted with the order the Public Service Commission to the Long Island Railroad to eliminate the nine grade crossings on that line. This will give through service to the Pennsylvania station, Manhattan. by this time next year. According to Engineer Carlyle of the railroad the work of eliminating the grade crossings and the electrification of the North Shore will begin in March and will be Anished in one year.

The members of the Upper Flushing Association are given great credit for the work they have done. When the railroad proposed to eliminate the grade ings it intended to erect what the residents of that section termed a "Chinese wall" through one of most beautiful sections on Long Island. The Flushing Association opposed the plan and held several mass meetings, at which the members demanded depression of tracks, and held the matter up, several months, and in the meantime brought several of the city officials over the section. A plan was finally decided upon which calls for an elevated structure, but one that is not so unsightly as the previous one. When the line is electrified passengers can go from Flushing to Herald Square, Manhattan, without change of cars, in eighteen minutes.

LONG ISLAND OBITUARY. Annie Pertsch. After three days illness from pneumonia, Mrs. Annie Pertsch, 89 years old, of Flushing road, Corona, died Saturday night at her home. Mrs.

Pertsch attributed her great longevity to not worrying. She was always cheerful and bore her years lightly. Mrs. Pertsch had all her faculties and read without glasses. She was a great believer 111 plenty of fresh air and cold water for bathing.

Until a little more than year ago she could not be induced to sleep in the day time, playfully asserting that only old people ought to close their eyes while the sun was shinning. Mrs. Pertsch was born in Saxe-Coburg, Germany, on June 3, 1821. For many years her husband conducted a hotel in New York and died in 1878. She resided In the old Eleventh Ward of New York until ten years ago, when she came to the of Quens.

Her family consists of four sons, William, John, Frederick and Jacob. Jacob is a former Assemblyman of Manhattan. There are twenty-eight grandchildren and eleven greatchildren. Emma W. Bleecker.

Mrs. Emma White Bleecker, wife of William Bleecker, died at her home, 86 Sanford avenue, Flushing, on Saturday, after an illness of several days, fr from pneumonia. She was born in Flushing on November 10, 1866, the daughter of S. Baynard Fish. Her parents, moved to Scarsdale, N.

where of her childhood was spent. For the past five years she had lived in Flushing. She is survived, besides her husband, by five sons and two daughters. The funeral will be held from St. George's Church to-mornoon, and interment will be at Scarsdale.

DEEPENING A CREEK. Lindenhurst to Have Deep Waterway From Main Road to Bay. (Special to The Eagle.) Lindenhurst, L. Jandary 9-Work has been commenced on the dredging of the west creek and will probably be completed early in February. The creek is being dredged from the Great South Bay to the South Country road, where a basin.

200 feet square, will be constructed. The improvement is one that Lindenhurst has long wanted, and, when completed, will put her in line with her sister villages, with a navigable waterway that will compare favorably with that of any South Side village. CORONA'S FIRST THEATER. The first theater in Corona has been opened and it is known as the Hyperion Theater. The building is a fireproot structure equipped with all improvements.

It has EL large stage, with fireproof scenery. The building has cost over $10,000, and is located at the corner of National and Poplar avenues. The owner is I. Weiselbaum of that village. MOTHERS CLUB GIVES $50.

The Mothers Club of Public School No. 76, Winfield, has donated $50 to the Publie School Relief Association of Long Island City and Newtown. The money will be used in buying clothing for the poor children in those districts. SUICIDE'S BODY CREMATED. No Further Clew to Cause of F.

P. Radcliffe's Act. After an Episcopal service at the chapel of the crematory at Fresh Pond. yesterday, over the remains of F. P.

Radcliffe, the Jamaica real estate operator, who committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart on Friday night, the body was cremated. About thirty-five relatives and friends were present at the service, which began at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The widow was not present, owing to the fact, it was said, that she is still prostrated from grief at her home at 150 West One Hundred and Fourth street, Manhattan. The mystery surrounding the suicide has not yet been solved. Coroner Gustave J.

Schaefer, it is said, will hold no special inquest in the case, as it was 80 plainly one of suicide. $105,854,436 INCREASE Cause of Big Jump in Queens Valuations Explained. It Is the Result of Great Growth in Population and Number of New Buildings. The enormous increase in the assessment totals of Queens Borough real estate for 1911, $105,854,436, over 34 per a rate exceeding that of any other borough of Greater New York, is a result of the growth in population and the influx of new residents from Manhattan and Brooklyn following the opening of the Queensboro Bridge and growth of manufacturing Industries. The largest relative increase is shown in the Rockaways, the Fifth Ward, over 71 per cent.

That portion of Long Island City north of Webster and Jackson avenues, assessment district No. 2, with a 445 increase over 1909, comes next. District No. 5 of Newtown, between Woodside and Flushing Bay, along Jackson avenue and south to Greenpoint avenue, with an increase of $12,054,335 comes next. District No.

3, os Maspeth, Ridgewood and Glendale, $10,088,255 is next. The raise in this district is owing almost wholly to the 504 new buildings constructed last year. District No. 14, Jamaica, between Atlantic avenue on the south and Forest Park on the north, shows an increase of $6,713,305, owing to its 540 new buildings. The First Ward had 160 new buildings completed; Second Ward, Third Ward, 400; Fourth Ward, 1,357, and Fifth Ward, 328.

Following is a summary of the assessment rolls of 1909 and 1910 by wards. 1910. 1909. Increase. First $87.235,035 $73.492,875 $13,741,160 Second Ward.

99.656.605 70.671,120 28,985,485 Third 68,112,961 50.850,550 17.252,411 Fourth Ward. 85,836,985 26.506,935 Fifth 46,456,575 27,099,030 19,357,545 Total $413,805,096 $307.950,560 $105,854,436 GET A CHANCE TO SETTLE North Side Gunners Hear From the Attorney General. Told if They Do Not Respond, Suit Will Be Brought to Recover Penalty of $60 Each. (Special to The Eagle.) Northport, L. January 9-When the twenty men, who were arrested just off Little.

Neck Point on Thanksgiving and Sauter, morn- asing by State Deputies Lee sisted by Game Warden E. E. Garrettson of this place, were taken before Justice G. P. Hendrickson at Huntington, on the charge of shooting ducks before sunrise, and discharged on a suspension of senthey considered the matter closed.

tence, Now, however, the affair has taken 8 new turn in tr' receipt by each of the implicated of a letter from the office men of Attorney General Thomas Carmody, advising them that they are still liable to 1 punishment for the offense, which, as the letter states, is a fine of $60. The letter received by each of the men states in part: "Our instructions are to commence action against you to recover the penalty provided by law violation, on or before February 15, settlement is made by you. "If you desire to dispose of this violation by settlement, kindly advise me to that effect by return mail and I will inform you for what amount the case can be settled." The letters are signed by Thomas Carmody, Attorney General, per William C. MacDonald, Deputy. The men are all well known residents of Huntington, Centerport and Northport, and the arrests made a considerable stir at the time.

The men admitted the act, but pleaded ignorance of law as their denfense. To take effect in June, 1910, the law had been changed to read "before sunrise," instead of "before daylight," and they claimed that the shots had been fired only a few minutes before sunrise. On this evidence Justice Hendrickson held that, while the men were guilty, the circumstances were extenuating and released them on a suspended sentence. As a result of the affair. Game Warden Garrettson, who is a personal friend of most of the defendants, immediately resigned his position.

The letters came as a complete surprise to the defendants and they have not decided what action they will take in the matter. There seems to be no disposition to settle the case however, and it is expected that they will allow the action to ho brought. One man, Smith, was held on the charge of shooting without a license in addition to the charge and his letter from the Attorney General holds him liable for a fine of $60 on each count. SAYVILLE CHURCH ON FIRE. St.

Lawrence Edifice Damaged by Mysterious Blaze-All Sacred Vestments Burned. (Special to The Eagle.) Sayville, L. January 9-At 10:30 o'clock last night. St. Lawrence's Roman Catholic Church was found to be on fire.

The blaze started in a closet in the vestry room and the interior of that end of the church was all aflame. The fire burned through the roof and spread to the draperies about the altar a in the auditorium. The firemen answered the alarm promptly and saved the handsome edifice. Father Heffernan, who occupies the adjoining parsonage, has no idea as to how the fire started. Services were held in the church during the day, but none in the evening.

All the contents of the vestry were destroyed. CONCERT BY BLIND PIANIST. The third annual concert and reception by the sightless musician, Charles J. Beetz, and several of his younger piano scholars, at Palm Garden, Hamburg and Greene avenues, will be held on Sunday evening, January 15, at 8 o'clock. The programme promises an interesting evening and consists of.

piano solos by C. J. Beetz and his scholars, Jennie and Sophie Nathanson, Florence Linnemeyer, Elizabeth Zorn, Emma Lamm, Lillian Himmler, Harry Ett, Harold Condon, Clarence and Walter Gehrig. Other, assisting soloists will include: Soprano, Miss Margaret Braun; 'cello, Jacob Ehig. and Damen-Chor Frohsinn.

LONG ISLAND FORUM HAS GOOD BEGINNING $12,000 FOR NEW SCHOOL. (Special to The Eagle.) Copiague, L. January 9-By an almost 'unanimous vote at a special school meeting held here a few days ago, the citizens of this place decided to bond the district for $12,000 for the erection of a new schoolhouse. The bonds are to be of the denominaof $600 each, and are to run for a of twenty years, the first bond due in 1912. The board of trustees of being the school is to select plans for the building.

SOPHOMORES WINNERS. The basketball championship 1 between the senior, freshmen and sophomore teams of the Newtown High School, for which was played on Saturday afternoon, the trophy, was won by the Leverich sophomores. WOMEN TRIED TO GET AWAY Dashed for Newtown Creek When Arrested in Greenpoint. Man in Case Did Not Run-Arrests an Echo of L. I.

City New Year's Eve Party. In the Long Island City police court yesterday morning Magistrate Smith held John Buehler of 408 Linden street, Brooklyn. in $1,000 bail; Mary Jacoboes of 127 Guernsey street and Alice Keesal of 120 Guernsey street, Brooklyn, each in $500 bail, on a charge preferred by Mrs. Margaret Meagher of 80 Third street, Long Islend City. Their examination will take place on Wednesday, and Mrs.

Meagher says she will have an interesting story to tell of a. certain New Year's Eve party. Mrs. Meagher says that on New Year's Eve Miss Jacoboes and Miss Keesal came to call on her, bringing their men friends, one of whom was Buehler. Just previous to their coming, Mrs.

Meagher says, she put a roll of bills, amounting to $38, in a vase on a mantelpiece in the dining room. After the party broke up she went to get the money and it and the vase were gone. Mrs. Meagher says she ran after the departing guests and brought them back to the house. After their return to the house she told the party of her loss.

One of the young men, SO she told the detectives, then reached into his pocket and, pulling out the bills, said, "We've got all the money we need. There is what I have. We don't need your money." Mrs. Meagher says that the roll of money looked so much like hers that she picked it up from the table and was about to put it in her pocket when the young man set upon her and took it away. Next day Mrs.

Meagher got out the warrants. Soon after the party was rounded up the women took it in their heads to make a dash for liberty. They started down the street in the direction of Newtown Creek, the detectives after them. They had almost reached the banks of the creek, and were apparently about to take a plunge into the water, when they were captured. They were then taken across the Vernon avenue viaduct to the Hunters Point police station, where they were arraigned.

ELDERLY MAN KILLED BY AUTO Hit on Jericho Pike, Near City Line, at Floral Park--Motorists Unknown. (Special to The Eagle.) Floral Park, L. January 9-A man was killed on the Jericho turnpike late Saturday night, evidently by an automobile, and later was identified as Jacob Fucht, a German, about 60 years old. He was struck in the forehead and his skull badly crushed, and a number of bones in his body fractured. A pool of blood in the middle of the road showed that he fell scarcely more than a foot from the Greater New York line, and he may have been within the city limits when he was struck.

The indications: are that the automobile people stopped when they struck the man, and supposing him dead, laid him by the roadside and escaped without being seen by any one or leaving any clew whatever as to their identity. The body was found by Policeman Frank Mueller, who lives near, and who was returning from his beat in New York City. Constable George H. Hurrell took charge of the body and notified Justice Charles F. Gittens of Hempstead, and the remains were taken there by Undertaker Cornell.

the had lived in the vicinity The deceased, was well known among for about twenty-seven years. He was unmarried and had no particular home or close friends. He went to the home ot Jacob Wicks on Saturday night and got supper, leaving there about 9:30. This was the last seen of him alive. He evidently was going east on the turnpike and was struck by a machine going toward the city.

The dead man had nothing in his pockets but a small sack of tobacco. There have been several fatal automobile accidents in this locality. WORK CANNOT BE DONE NOW. Unsanitary Conditions in Rockaway Park Public School Must Continue for a Time. Word has been received by the Rockaway Park Taxpayers Association from the Board of Education to the effect that the unsanitary conditions existing in Public School at that place cannot be edied for some time, owing to there being an insufficient amount available for the purpose.

Several months ago the association took up the matter of the existing sanitary conditions at the schoolhouse with the board and a promise was made that these conditions would be remedied during the Christmas vacation, when it would not interfere with the class work. Upon investigation it wag found that there was not sufficient drop to the sewer at the school SO that new connections could not be made as with each high tide or heavy rainfall the sewer would back up and make conditions worse. The board now proposes to build new toilets in the first story, which will necessitate considerable work and will cost about $3,000. Just when this work can be done is not known but it 1s very likely that nothing will now be done until school closes for the long summer vacation. DOMINO CLUB'S OUTING.

Cold Spring Harbor Men in White Light District. (Special to The Eagle.) Cold Spring Harbor, L. January 9- On Saturday the members of the Domino Club made their annual pilgrimage to New York, and it all reports are true, they must have created a noticeable 'stir along Broadway. There was a small but enjoyable dinner, followed by an evening at the theater. Mrs.

Martin W. Littleton's Plan for Civic Education Is Warmly Indorsed. 500 AT FIRST SESSION. Mrs. Littleton, Cheered as Chairman Tells of Her Efforts to Found Forum.

LIBRARY BRANCH PUT IN OUT-OF-WAY PLACE Brooklyn Manor Civic Body Objects to Location in Forest Parkway. SAYS MANOR IS SNUBBED. New Station of L. I. R.

R. at Brooklyn Manor Is Much Appreciated. Train Service Good. Members of the West End Citizens' Association of Brooklyn Manor expressed much indignation at a meeting of that body, on Saturday evening, because, it was said, a permanent branch of the Queens Borough Public Library has been opened at the corner of Jamaica and Dennington avenues, in the Forest Parkway section, about two miles from Brooklyn Manor, instead of in or comparatively near the same building in which a traveling branch of the library has been located for some time. The organization was instrumental in starting the library at the beginning.

It paid the rent of a building, provided coal, bookracks, benches and other fittings, and one of the members, Dr. Albert L. Voltz. made himself personally responsible for the safety books sent to the branch by the Queens Borough brary. The growth of the traveling branch made it necessary that a permanent branch be established, and the civic association went before the Board of Estimate and obtained the necessary appropriation for its establishment.

To the surprise of everyone, it was learned a few days ago that the permanent branch library had been opened in Forest Parkway, at least two miles from its former location. Has Been Shabbily Treated, Civic Body Declares. Members of the West End Citizens' Association considered they had been treated shabbily. It was decided to have a committee, in charge of E. Bacher, make a thorough investigation determine why, after a suitable building for the library had been offered in the Brooklyn Manor section.

the branch was established in a remote section, where none of those who worked for the establishment of the library live. The committee will also take the matter up with the library trustees make formal protest against the removal of the branch from Brooklyn Manor to Forest Parkway. The members are jubilant because the new station of the Long Island Railroad. on the Rockaway Beach Division, at Jamaica avenue, was. opened to passengers last Monday, although no ticket agent his as yet been sent to the building.

Manhattan-bound trains stop at the following hours: 12:36, 8:10 and 11:19 A.M.; 5:43 A.M. and 6:27 P.M. Trains bound for the beach stop at the new station at 4:10, 6:24, 8:41 and 11:07 A.M.; 1:28, 3:38, 5:41, 6:16, 6:40 and 10:08 P.M. The steam trains running from Long Island City to Rockaway Beach are unable to stop at the station because the platforms were built tO accommodate passengers boarding electric trains only. Better Service Promised Later.

It was announced that Mr. Woodward, secretary to President Ralph Peters of the Long Island Railroad Company, had promised President Charles H. Schroeder, of the association, and Harry P. Engelhardt an even better train service later on. John H.

Wood, chairman of the transit committee, reported that he is trying to bring about means to lessen congestion at the Cypress Hills terminal of the Lexington avenue elevated road. Announcement was made that there will be a hearing before the Board of Estimate on January 29 in matter of an area of assessment for the opening of Ashland place. A delegation from the West End association will attend. ORDER'S 25TH BIRTHDAY. King's Daughters and Sons to Celebrate Anniversary.

Central Council of the International Order of the King's Daughters and Sons will welcome members of the order and their friends on Saturday, January 14, from 2 to 6 P.M., in the parlors of the Madison Avenue M. E. Church, Sixtietn street and Madison avenue, Manhattan. The occasion will be the twenty-fifth birthday of the order. The early part ot the meeting will be given to religious services, commemorative of the work of the order during the last quarter of a century.

Addresses will be made by clergymen, representative of various denominations; by members of the order and by others interested in religious, educational and philanthropic work. WARLOW A. C. OFFICERS. The Warlow Athletic Club of Whitestone has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, James Rodgers; vice president.

William Newburg; secretary, Albert E. Humphreys; treasurer, William Keinle: financial secretary: J. J. Connolly; track captain. Messer; board of governors, John Messer, Harry Messer, Wesley Ensign, Joseph Conlon and Frank Rodgers.

WOULD-BE SUICIDE REPENTS. Mrs. Selma Paul, 27 years old, of 963 Covert avenue, Ridgewood, who attempted 10 commit suicide on Wednesday evening by taking a quantity of poison, was discharged by Magistrate Smith in the Flushing Police Court on Saturday. The woman repented of her act, and after A reprimand the magistrate discharged her. WILL TALK OF MAPS.

Rockaway Beach Taxpayers to Meet This Evening. This evening a meeting of the Rockaway Beach Taxpayers Association will be held in Pachinger's Hall, at which a number of matters of general interest and for the improvement of conditions at the seashore will be discussed and acted upon. For some time past every effort of the association to have the borough officials make any improvement has been met with the reply that as there was topographical map of the Fifth Ward, it would be impossible to make improvement of any important character, and in consequence the resort has suffered. It is probable that the question of topographical map work will be one of the most important matters discussed at this evening's meeting. BUSY TIMES FOR JUDGE.

Justice Townsend Scudder Has Many Legal and Social Engagements for Next Week. (Special to The Eagle. Riverhead, L. January 9-In addition to being pretty busy in his court with very important cases, it now looks as though Supreme Court Justice Scudder would also have busy times socially when he comes here for the week beginping January 16, to preside at the January term of the Suffolk Supreme Court, for he is already slated for two important social engagements, and it is understood that others are being planned it court work doesn't keep him too busy. On Monday night the opening day of the court, Judge Scudder will be the guest of honor at a banquet given by the Suffolk County Bar Association in the Long Island House.

This will be a very largely attended affair, and Judge Scudder will deliver an address. The next night Justice Scudder, who is a past grand master of Masons of this state, will install the newly elected officers of Riverhead Lodge, and will be at a banquet by the lodge. He has sent word to Right Worshipful Brother Chalmers of Riverhead Lodge that he will be pleased to install the offi-1 cers, and the members feel that the lodge is being highly honored through his action. TILLY CAMP'S OFFICERS. Jamaica Spanish War Veterans Chose New Staff -Installation on January 18.

At an election of officers for Captain George H. Tilly Camp No. 66, United Spanish War Veterans, for the ensuing year, the following were unanimously chosen: Joseph F. Simpson, commander; William F. McGuire, senior vice commander; Albert P.

Flanders, junior vice commander; Peter Maguire, adjutant; Martin J. Simpson, quartermaster; Alfred Halliday, chaplain, and Denis V. Hogan, historian. Otto P. Grumbach, Matthew T.

Kenny and Charles B. Riley are the new trustees. The officers will be installed with eppropriate ceremonies at Fraternity Hall, Jamaica, on Wednesday evening, January 18. Maurice Simmons, past department commander of New York State, will officiate. The installation will be private.

Professional entertainers will amuse the veterans. Preparations are being made for the annual ball and entertainment of Tilly Camp, which will be held on the evening of February 4 at Weiden's Columbia Hall, Richmond Hill. The camp has increased largely in membership and has quite a snug sum in its treasury. ITS TENTH ANNIVERSARY. Brooklyn Manor Church Holds Special Services to Commemorate Its First Decade of Life.

Appropriate services marked the tenth anniversary of St. Matthews Episcopal Church, in Willard avenue, Brooklyn Manor, yes. rday. The Rev. Roy Farrell Duffield, now archdeacon of Queens and Nassau counties, who was lay reader in the church when it was established, ten years ago, delivered the mornting sermon, which was mainly of a congratulatory nature.

To-night an anniversary reception will be given in honor of the archdeacon and his wife. Fred S. Chapman, a member of the congregation, will display stereopticon views showing local residents and happenings of ten years ago. At the morning service, yesterday, a letter was read from former Archdeacon Bryan, who is at Panama, at one, time deeply interested in St. Matthew's Church.

At the evening service the Rev. Robert B. Kimber, B.D., superintendent of City Missions, canon of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and secretary. of the Diocese of New York, spoke.

The Rev. Mr. Kimber was rector of St. Matthew's Church early in its career. HONOR FOR MR.

ENGELHARDT. George Paul Englehardt of the entomological staff of the Brooklyn Institute museums, has been honored by having a. species of cicada named for him--the Cicada englehardti." The name was bestowed by William T. Davis, the entamologist. Mr.

Englehardt first brought the insect to Mr. Davis' attention througn a specimen taken at Blowing Rock, N. in August, 1909. (Special to The Eagle.) Port Washington, L. January 9- Fully 500 residents of this and other Nassau County villages, with a sprinkling from Suffolk County, and some dwellers in Greater New York, attended the first session of the Long Island Forum, in Victoria Hall, here, yesterday afternoon, and demonstrated by their presence that they were heartily in sympathy with the efforts of Mrs.

Martin W. Littleton, the founder of the forum. Mrs. Littleton, with characteristic modesty, declined to occupy a seat on the platform, but instead had a chair in the extreme rear of the hall. But although comparatively few of the audience was in the building until the adjournment of the meeting, they cheered heartily every mention of her name by the speakers, and on motion gave her a rising vote of thanks for her good work in organizing the forum.

At the close they thronged about her to offer congratulations upon the success of the first meeting. Henry W. Taft of Manhattan, the President's brother, who wag to have been the chief speaker. was unable to attend, owing to illness. He was to have spoken on "Americanism," and E.

Stone, the president of the Associated Press, was have presided and introduced Mr. Taft. The duties of chairman thus devolved upon Marion J. Verdery of Flushing, a close friend of the Littletons, who threw himself into the breach with an earnestness that showed his devotion not only to the forum idea, but to his friends. He proved an excellent, chairman and made a clever.

which he set forth the advantages of the proposed semi- monthly gatherings for the discussion of economic and political topics. He made a hit with the audience when he declared that it made absolutely no ditference whether a reform was accomplished by Democrats or Republicans, so long as it was brought about. Audience Cheers References to "Peggy O'Brien." His gallant references to "Peggy O'Brien," the of Mrs. Littleton, were well received by the audience. Mr.

Verdery told a number of very good stories to illustrate his points. He spoke in part as follows: "We are here in order to give our stamp of approval of a work started for our benefit. It has been started by a woman; that fact is a guarantee of the earnestness that is behind it, and also a pledge. for its success. The people of this country are not lacking ordinary intelligence; we know a good deal of the things we are most interested in, but to get at the great things is hard.

The spirit behind this movement is to have the people of Long Island better informed 011 all questions that involve worthy citizenship. To begin with, dear little woman never starts anything that is not a success. We all love Martin, but let me tell you that if it was not for Peggy he would not be the man he is. People Must Decide What They Want and Work to Get It. "In order to get good government the people will have to understand what it 1s and.

then decide upon getting it. Thes gatherings are intended ed to be uplifting and instructive and to plant the seed of patriotism so that we can get a good harvest. Mrs. Littleton has got men to come here to discuss questions of vital interest, so that we can benefit, and it depends upon the citizens of this vicinit to make the forum a success. At Net Rochelle a similar institution is in existence.

It started on a small scale, and to-day it is one of the largest institutions of its kind. This forum is born, it is baptized, and now it is for you all to say whether it shall grow stronger or die." Mr. Stone said: "It 18 the intention of this organization to uplift and instruct the men and women of this locality. The establishment of a forum is spoken of as being a new thing, but it is not new. Forums were first established in Russia.

hundred of years ago. The newspapers play a large part in the governing of the country. I will not say that it is the most desirable education for the people, because a newspaper contains so many subjects and is written by so many men that the average citizen does not get the inside facts on each and every subject. I hope this will be in truth a forum, a place where you will not only come to listen, but to join in the talk. We do not always know what we want, but we know we want something, and this 16 the place to discuss all matters pertaining to our government.

There are many vital questions to be considered, and places like this are where they should be discussed." Henry E. Earl of Roslyn, was the last speaker. He congratulated Mrs. Littleton upon the organization of the forum and then called for a rising vote of thanks from the audience. The response WaS hearty.

Luncheon at Littleton Home Before Meeting at Hall. The meeting at the hall was preceded by a gathering of Brooklyn and Long Island newspaper men at the Littleton home. Mrs. Littleton proved a charming hostess, and the affair was delightfully informal. She was assisted in receiving by Mrs.

Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mrs. George A. Thayer and Mrs. F. S.

Green. Mr. Green, in the absence of Mr. Littleton, who was detained by a S0- cial engagement in Ohio, assisted Mrs. Littleton in arranging for the transportation of the speakers and the newspaper men to the hall.

A large number of automobiles and carriages were provided, and the trip was made in quick time. Luncheon was served at the Littleton home. and was a pleasant feature of the affair. Those present at the luncheon and the informal reception that preceded it were: Burgess Johnson, Mrs. George.

A. Thayer, Mr. and Mrs. Fred S. Green, V.

Burnett, Marion J. Verdery, D. W. Murray, the Wave, Rockaway Beach; John T. Collins, Long Island City Star; L.

B. Green, the Argus, Patchogue; H. McAlister, Nassau County Gazette; Thomas Coates. Richmond Hill Record; William A. Leonard, Flushing Daily Times; Irwin J.

Long, Bay Shore Journal; Robert I. Johnson, Brooklyn; John Alden, Brooklyn Eagle; John M. Cruikshank, Brooklyn Times; Michael Pette, Labor and Commerce, Jamaica; H. S. Rushmore, Long Island Democrat: Charles Delano, Amityville Record: N.

H. Disbrow, Oyster Bay Guardian; Simon W. Cooper, Brooklyn Eagle; Francis Hoag, Sayville News: J. F. Flugrath.

South Side Signal; Walter S. Funnell. Brooklyn Times: Joseph R. Robbins. Smithtown Branch Messenger: District torney Charles N.

Wysong of Nassau County; J. L. King. Hampton Chronicle, Westhampton Beach; F. J.

Bang, Witherstine, Rockville Centre Shore Herald; Captain H. P. Bay Independent; William H. Hyde, Port Washington News. BIG K.

OF C. COUNCIL EVENT. The fourth annual vaudeville entertainment and dance of the Commodore Barry Council No. 533, Knights of Columbus will be held to-morrow evening at Prospect Hall, Prospect avenue, near Fifth. A vaudeville programme by professional talent will precede the dancing.

Every effort is being made to make the affair the best of its kind and as the proceeds are for benefit of distressed brother knights the members of the counhave entered into the spirit of the casion with energy and enthusiasm and are confident of a great success..