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a THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. JANUARY 28. 1911.

MARRIAGES AND DEATHS DIED. Bogert, Philip E. Lewis, Joseph Cochrane, Lynch, Phillip Corcoran, J. McKee, William Dayton, Caroline E. Moreda, Manuel Dowling, Catherine O'Brien, James Dunn, Bridget Parker, Edward J.

Edson, Jarvis B. Phraner, Caroline B. Enright, Thomas Penney, Alfred R. Forker, James H. Post.

Marguerite V. Gumpert, Charlotte Potter, Edith E. Henderson, C. C. Robinson, Marion L.

Hill, William H. Sangunitto, Sarah Kane. Catharine A. Schlag. Herman L.

Kennally, Pauline Schott, Charles H. Kilgallen, Peter A. Stiesi, Bertha Kirk. Emma Van Blankensteyn, Lappine, Marie H. W.

Williams, Anna M. Ledwith, Ella C. BOGERT-Philadelphos Council No. 562, Royal Arcanum -Brothers: You are requested to attend the funeral services of late Bro. Past Regent PHILIP E.

our BOGERT, Saturday evening. January 28, 1911, at 8 o'clock, at 127 Halsey st. A. E. ECKERSON, Regent.

O. Hull, Secretary. BROOKLYN LODGE NO. 22, B. P.

O. You are requested to attend the funeral service of our late brother, ALFRED R. PENNEY, Saturday, January 28, 8 P.M. at 199 Hooper st, near Marcy av. ALBERT T.

BROPHY, Exalted Ruler. H. Becker. Secretary. Joseph COCHRANE-At his residence, 674 Warren st, on January 27, 1911, JOHN COCHRANE, son of the late John Cochrane and Edith Bell.

Funeral Sunday, January 29, 1911, 3 P.M. Interment Cypress Hills. CORCORAN--On January 28, 1911, at his residence. 439 Sixty-third st. MICHAEL beloved husband of Anna Corcoran.

A requiem mass at 9:30 A.M. Monday, January 30. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Fifty-ninth st and Fifth av. Interment, Holy Cross. DAYTON-On January 27.

1911, CAROLINE daughter of the late John A. Dayton and Adelia Trowbridge, aged 72 years. Funeral from the chapel at Greenwood Cemetery on Monday, January 30, at 2 P.M. DOWLING-On Saturday, January 28, 1911, at her residence, 72 Heyward st, Brooklyn, CATHERINE DOWLING. widow of Judge John Dowling of Brooklyn.

DUNN-On Thursday, January 26, 1911. BRIDGET DUNN (nee Ford), native of Balingarr, Kings County, Ireland, in her 80th year. Funeral from her brother's residence, 32 Wyckoff st. Brooklyn, on Monday, at 9:30 A.M.. thence to St.

Paul's C. Court st. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. EDSON-On Thureday, January 26, 1911, at his residence, JARVIS BONESTEEL EDSON. beloved husband of Eliza Ward Edson a and son of the late Marmont B.

Edson. Funeral services private. ENRIGHT-On Friday, January 27, 1911, after a lingering illness, in his 27th year, THOMAS. son of Michael and Mary Enright. Funeral from his late home, 38 Reeve place, Monday, 2 P.M.

Interment, Holy Cross. FORKER-Thursday, January 26. 1911. JAMES H. FORKER.

Funeral services late residence, 693 Degraw5 st, on Saturday, January 28, at 8 Funeral at convenience of family, Relatives and friends invited. GUMPERT-On Friday. January 27, 1911, in her 24th year, CHARLOTTE JANE GUMPERT. daughter of Frederick D. and Emily M.

Hodges. Notice of funeral hereafter. HENDERSON-At New Hyde Park, L. Friday, January 27. 1911, CHARLOTTE C.

HENDERSON, daughter of the late George H. and Charlotte Kelsey, widow of Charles H. Garretson. Funeral service At her residence, New Hyde Park, L. 1., late, Monday, January 30.

at 11:30 A.M. Interment, Zion Churchyard, Little Neck. L. at convenience of family. Carriages will meet train arriving at New Hyde Park at 11:13 A.M.

HILL--On Friday, January 27. 1911, WILLIAM H. HILL, late of Hill Bros. Funeral services on Monday, January 30, at 2 P.M., at 405 Franklin av, near Gates avenue. KANE-On Friday.

January 27. 1911, at her residence, 261 Etna st. CATHARINE Dolan), beloved wife of John T. Kane. Funeral Monday, 10 A.M..

from Church of Blessed Sacrament, Fulton st and Euclid av. KENNALLY-On Thursday, January 26, 1911. A PAULINE KENNALLY, the beloved daughter of Paul and Ernestine Kruess, in her 37th year. Funeral from the residence of her parents, 30 Bergen st. Sunday, 2 P.M.

KILGALLEN- Friday, January 27, 1911, PETER A beloved son of Catherine V. and the late Thomas J. Kilgallen, in the 7th year of his age. Funeral from his late residence, 718 Third av, on Sunday, January 29, at 1 P.M. KIRK--At Seney Hospital, passed into rest January 26.

EMMA KIRK, widow of William Kirk. Funeral services Baturday evening, January the undertaking parlors of O. Schaffner's Sons, 1037 Myrtle av, at 8 o'clock. Interment at convenience of family, LAPPINE-On January 27. 1911, at Florida, N.

MARIE H. WALTHER. wife of George W. Lappine. Services at her late residence Sunday, January 29, at 1:30 P.M.

Interment private. LEDWITH--On Saturday, January 28. 1911, after a short illness, ELLA C. LEDWITH. at her sidence.

209 Carroll st. Brooklyn. Notice of funeral hereafter. LEWIS-On January 26, 1911, JOSEPH LEWIS, aged 56. beloved husband of Mary Lewis.

Funeral services to be held at late residence, 551 Tenth st, Sunday, at 2 P.M. LYNCH--On January 26, 1911, aged 18 years 6 months, PHILLIP LYNCH, at the residence of his uncle, Michael Deegan, 2942 Fulton st. Funeral, Sunday, 2 P.M. McKEE-On January 25, 1911, WILLIAM McKEE, in his 75th year. Friends, also members of Atlas Lodge No.

316, F. and A. and Eighty-second Regiment, N. Y. Volunteers, Company are invited to attend funeral, at 124 Macon st, on Saturday, at 8 P.M.

MOREDA-On January 26, 1911, MANDEL MOREDA, beloved husband of Annie Moreda (nee McLaughlin) and father of Regina Moreda. Funeral from his late residence, 233 Putnam av, on Sunday, January 29, at 2:30 P.M. 0'BRIEN-On January 27, 1911, JAMES, beloved husband of Annie O'Brien. Relatives and friends are invited to attend funeral from 692 Dean st, on Monday, January 80, at 9:30 A.M.; thence to St. Joseph's R.

C. Church, where a solemn requiem mass will be offered. PARKER PARKER. January his 28, 1911, EDat home, Bay Ridge and Third avs, beloved husband of Rebecca P. Parker, nee Lee.

Requiem Mass at Church of Our Lady of Angels, Seventy -fourth st Fourth av, 9:30 A.M., Tuesday, January 31, Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. (Portchester papers please copy.) PENNEY-On Tuesday, January 24, 1911, ALFRED R. PENNEY. Funeral service will be held at his late residence, 199 Hooper st, on Saturday, January 28, at 8 P.M. PHRANER-At Hempstead, N.

Janu. ary 28, 1911, CAROLINE widow of the late John Phraner. Services on Wednesday, February 1, at 2 P.M. at the residence of the Misses Jerome, 74 Franklin st, Hempstead, N. Y.

POST -On Friday, January 27. 1911, at her residence, 142 East First av. Roselle, N. MARGUERITE VAN NOSTRAND, wife of Zebulon Post. Funeral services Sunday, January 29, at 3 o'elock.

Interment private. POTTER--On January 25, 1911, EDITH D. POTTER, aged 17. Funeral services at her late residence, 1487 Pacific st. Brooklyn, Sunday, January 29, 2 P.M.

Interment Evergreens Cemetery, ROBINSON-Suddenly, on Thursday, January 26, 1911, MARION LOUISE ROBINSON, wife of Rev. Millard L. Robinson, associate minister of the Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal Church, in the 35th year of her age. Funeral services 011 Sunday, the 29th in the Hanson Place Methodist Church, 3:30 P.M. Interconvenience of the family.

SAILED FROM BROOKLYN TO TRAGIC END AT SEA Twenty-three Haytians to Die For Mutiny on Gunboat Fitted Out at Tebo's. 70 LIVES LOST IN DISASTER. Brooklyn Man Took Converted Yacht to Island Republic After Elaborate Ceremonies Here. Behind the brief cable messages from Hayti to-day, outlining the final chapter of the career of the gunboat La Liberte, which sank off Port de Paix last October, after she had been wrecked by fire and explosion, lies an absorbing story, the first chapters of which were written in Brooklyn. La Liberte, which was destined to become the flagship of the black republic's navy, originally proud, an English built, sea-going pleasure plying peacefully about local waters as the property of Albert E.

Tower. She was purchased by Hayti, converted into a gunboat at Tebo's shipyard, foot of Twenty-third street, South Brooklyn, and taken down to Hayti by Wallace H. Downey, general manager of the Tebo Yacht Basin Company, after unusual ceremonies, when the Stars and Stripes at her mast-head gave way to the flag of the island republic. La Liberte's end was one of the most tragic in the chronicles of the sea. Seventy persons were either killed or drowned out of the ninety persons who were on board when she was blown up.

The admiral of the fleet and ten Haytian generals who were on their way to take command of the several divisions of troops in the Department of the North were among those who perished. Despatches arriving here to-day, from Hayti, state that twenty-three officers, non -commissioned officers and sailors, survivors, have been tried by a military tribunal, found guilty of burning the boat and of massacre. They have all been condemned to death. The Erl King Armored and Equipped at Tebo's. It was in the fall of 1909 that Hayti purchased the Erl King and turned her over to the Tebo Company to be changed from a vessel of pleasure into a craft of war.

Her costly teakwood rails were covered with galvanized iron sheeting, the wooden bulwarks armored with 32-pound steel plates, magazines placed in the lower hold and frowning guns installed. When the metamorphosis was complete a formidable object she was, with her battery of two six- -pounders, two three-pounders, two one- -pounders and two automatic Colt guns. On October 27. 1909, she was christened at the yard, her sponsor being Mme. Sannon, wife of H.

Paulens Sannon, mirister plenipotentiary of the republic cf Hayti. Minister Sannon was on hand and made an address and among those present was Admiral Simson, probably the very man who perished in the disaster; Chief Engineer Taylor and Harbor Master Breton of Port au Prince. "It was on October 30 I sailed with the gunboat for Hayti," said Mr. Downey today. "That was the most interesting trip ever took in my life.

We made the republic in six days, arriving at Port al Prince on November 4. then delivered the boat to President Simon. The president of the republic admired her greatly. Haytian President and Cabinet the Guest of Brooklyn Man. "I invited the President and his cabinet to dine aboard.

They did, and the co next day they inspected their new naval acquisition. Salutes were fired and we had a great time all 'round. The President asked me to take La Liberte to Aucayes, which was his home city. I took her to Aucayes and the palace band and the palace guard came aboard. Again there were christening ceremonies attended by the government officials, while the bishop of the department erected an altar on the ship and presided over the religious ceremonies.

assisted by his entire staff. Then I took the vessel back to Port au Prince, where I remained a week. "There was no warfare in the republic at that time, but the President was a southern man and not in favor with the people of the north. In Hayti the people of the south and the people the north are opposing factions." With La Liberte in commission, Hayti's navy numbered eight vessels. The rest were converted fruiters.

except the yacht of the President, the Nord Alexis PINCHOT ON NEW LEAGUE. Says Movement Is a Revolt of Independents Against Wealthy Men and Political Machines. New Haven, January 28-After an address before Yale City Government Club last evening, Gifford Pinchot was tendered a reception, during which he spoke on the objects of the Republican Progressive League. He said In brief that the movement was a revolt of independent men against wealthy men and political machines. In his lecture on "Conservation" Mr.

Pinchot said that the political struggle in the country is between men who believe in government for the human welfare and the men who believe in government for personal proft. He predicted that the advance already begun in forest conservation would soon embrace many other problems. 26, SARAH, beloved wife of James ANGUISH Thursday, January J. Sangunitto, Sr. Friends and relatives are invited to attend funeral from her late residence, Surf av and Sheridan's walk, Coney Island, Sunday at 2 P.M.; thence to Our Lady of Solace Church, West Seventeenth st.

Interment in Greenwood. SCHLAG-Suddenly, on Friday, January 27, 1911, after a short illness, HERMAN L. SCHLAG, in his 63d year. Funeral services Monday morning at 11 o'clock at (his late residence, 74 Tillary st. Interment private, in Lutheran Cemetery.

SCHOTT-Suddenly, on January 25, 1911, CHARLES H. SCHOTT, aged 55. Funeral private from his late residence. STIESI-On Friday, January 27, 1911, at her residence, 298 Fenimore st, Brooklyn, BERTHA STIESI, in her 51st year. Funeral services Monday, January 30, at 8 P.M.

VAN BLANKENSTEYN--At her resl: dence, 1414 st, CORNELIA, widow of the late Cornelius F. Van Blankensteyn, in her 86th year. Funeral private. WILLIAMS- Amityville, L. N.

on Thursday, January 26, 1911, ANNA M. VAN NESS, beloved wife of Richard H. Williams, in her 63d year. Funeral services at her late home, Amityville, on Sunday, January 29, at 2 o'clock. IN MEMORIAM.

DIVVER--In ever loving memory of PATRICK DIVVER. who died January 28, 1903. May he rest in peace. GERHAUSER- -In loving memory of GEORGE GERHAUSER, beloved husband and father. Died Jaruary 28, 1907.

RYAN-MAURICE RYAN. beloved husband and father. Died January 28, 1909. May his soul rest in peace. OBITUARY.

Joseph Lewis. Josph Lewis, a native of Wales, died at his home, 551 Tenth street, Thursday, aged 58 years. He leaves a widow, two sons and three daughters. Dr. Stephen Tabor Birdsall.

Dr. Stephen Tabor Birdsall, who practiced medicine in Brooklyn from 1868 to 1884, and then moved to Glens Falls, N. died at the latter place Friday night. He was born in Manhattan, Manuel Moreda. Manuel Moreda died at his Putnam avenue, Thursday, of a complication of diseases.

He was born in Spain and was a cigar manufacturer. He leaves a widow, Annie McLaughlin, and a daughter, Regina. Norman Roscoe. Norman Roscoe a city weigher, died at his home, 124 Palmetto street, yesterday, of pleuro pneumonia. He Was born in Port Chester, N.

46 years ago, and was a member of Tuscan Lodge, F. and A. Welcome Council, R. and the Forty-seventh Regiment, N. G.

N. Y. Francis Flanagan. Francis Flanagan, father of the Rev. Matthew A.

Flanagan of the Church of the Epiphany, died yesterday at his home, 74 Howard street, in his sixty-first year. A requiem mass will be offered in the Church of the Epiphany Monday morning at 9:30 o'clock. Professor F. G. Hesse.

Oakland, January 28--Professor Frederick G. Hesse of the University of California died at his home here yesterday at the age of 86. Professor Hesse was connected with the departments of mathematics and mechanical engineering for twenty-nine years. Hesse was editor of the patent oflico report at Washington, D. in 1857.

John Cochrane. John Cochrane, son of the late John and Edith Bell Cochrane, died yesterday at his home, 674 Warren street. He was born in Brooklyn in 1885, and was employed by the Jones Printing Company. He was a member of Church of St. Augustine, and is survived by a brother, Valentine, and two sisters, Edith and Nancie.

William McKee. William McKee, a member of Atlas Lodge, F. and A. died Wednesday at his residence, 124. Macon street.

He was born in Ireland seventy-five years ago, and gave up business life over twenty years ago. He leaves a brother and two sisters in Ireland. The funeral services will be held this evening under the auspices of Atlas Lodge. Anna Marie Sonderman. Anna Marie Muller, widow of Charles Sonderman, died Thursday at her home, 221 Central avenue.

She was born in Schifferdorf, Germany, July 20, 1827, and had lived in Williamsburg forty years. She was one of the oldest members of the Lutheran Church of St. Bush-. wick avenue. She leaves two sons, Henry Charles and John, and three grandchil- dren.

Stephen Mersereau. Stephen Mersereau, a stationer, died Thursday of Bright's disease at his rosidence, 667 Glenmore avenue. He was member of an old Staten Island family and was born in the Bilopp House, May 1838. For more than years he express route New Lots had lived in Brooklyn. portly years ago to Brooklyn.

He was a member of the Twenty- second Assembly District and leaves a widow, Isabella Matthews; a son, William, and a daugh- Mrs. Mary Haslett. Catherine A. Kane. Mrs.

Catherine A. Dolan, wife of John A. Kane, died suddenly last evening at her residence, 261 Etna street. The decased was born in South Brooklyn and attended school at St. Peter's Academy on Hicks street.

Before her marriage she was connected with St. Peter's R. C. Church, and was prominent in all its societies. She is survived by her husband and three brothers, Charles Dolan, James Dolan and Thomas Dolan.

She was of a kindly disposition and had a host of friends. The funeral will be held on Monday morning at 9:30 o'clock from her late residence on Etna street, thence to the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, where a requiem mass will be sung. James Hueston Forker. Janies Hueston Forker, purchasing agent under Park Commissioner John T. Stranahan during the laying out of Prospect Park, and who held the same position under bridge commissioners until ten years ago, when became confidential clerk for United States Commissioner John Allen, died Thursday of cerebral hemorrhage, at his home, 693 Degraw street.

He was born in Manhattan, June 22, 1840, the son of Jonathan and Rebocca Forker, and leaves son, William and a daughter, Mrs. Martin S. CorSi ley; brothers, William and Henry; a sister, William Miller, and four grendchildren. The deceased was 8 Civil War veteran, having served in Com- pany of the Thirteenth Regiment. Joseph Kiesel.

Joseph Kiesel, aged 28 years, died suddenly at his home in Villard avenue, Hollis. early yesterday morning, from internal hemorrhage. Kiesel, who was a young man of ample means, was at one time engaged to Miss Matilda Mangold, daughter of A. H. Mangold, of Flushing.

There was somewhat of a sensation. about six months ago, when, after all the arrangements for a wedding had been made, Mrs. Mangold, mother of Matilda, announced in a Flushing newspaper that the engagement of her daughter and Kiesel had been annulled. At the time neither the Kiesels nor Mangolds would throw any light on the cause for the announcement of the annulment. It is said that Kiesel visited his former fiancee last Thursday.

Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been completed. Major Theodore H. Babcock. Major Theodore Hurlbut Babcock died at his country home, Nanuet, Rockland County, N. on Monday, January 23.

Major Babcock was a resident of Brooklyn for many years and an officer in the National Guard from 1881 until the retirement of General McLeer in 1907, upon whose staff the Major served as brigadier inspector of rifle practice. He was then retired from further service at his own request. He was an officer in the Thirteenth Regiment from 1881 until his appointment on the brigade staff. He was a very efficient officer and faithful in the performance of his duties. He was buried on Wednesday of this week in the Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn.

There was placed upon his grave a beautiful wreath of flowers from General McLeer and members of the old staff. Marion L. Robinson. Marion wife of the Rev. Millard L.

Robinson, assistant pastor of the Hanson Place M. E. Church, died at her home, 12 Gates avenue. Thursday night. of pernicious anemia, after two weeks of illness.

Mrs. Robinson was born at Brookline, near Concord, N. and had lived for years in the latter city, Her parents, Daniel R. and Louise Shattuck Dean of Concord, survive her. She was married at Concord on October 6, 1906, to the Rev.

Millard L. Robinson, who was at the time the pastor of the Manchester (N. M. E. Church.

She came with her husband to Brooklyn two years ago. when he became assistant pastor of the Piace M. E. Church. She was devoted Christian and a woman of Hanson a rare culture, having graduated at the Boston University in 1905, with high hon01S, being elected an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa for proficiency.

Funeral services will take place in the Hanson Place M. E. Church, Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and the interment will be in Concord. BRICK STACK BLOWN DOWN. Whippany, N.

January 28-One man was killed as the result of a brick stack falling at the Caledonian Paper Mill here to-day. The dead man was George Lockwood. fireman at the plant. He WAS buried under the debris. Superintendent William Purcell, who was in the heater room, was injured also.

The acident was caused by the high wind. A Polish laborer who was employed at the mill is missing. He is believed to be buried in the ruins. CORK MANUFACTURERS CHARGED WITH SWINDLE Man Who Put $1,000 in Tells Court He Can't Get It Out. SAYS LIFE WAS THREATENED.

Partners Are Held in $3,000 Bail Each to Answer to Accusation. Santo Piluso, aged 52 years, of 446 Van Brunt street, and Abraham J. Rosen, aged 24, of 230 Jackson street, were arrested this forenoon in the Adams street court on a charge of having swindled Samuel Davidson of 1424 Wilkin avenue, in the Bronx, out of $1,000 in cash. Piluso and Rosen are, respectively, the president and secretary of the American and Foreign Cork Company, which had its factory on Van Brunt street up to a few months ago, when they moved to Cliffside, N. J.

They advertised for a business partner with $1,000 to invest. Davidson, a painter, who was looking for a business opportunity and who had $1,000, journeyed over to Brooklyn and found the cork works and Messrs. Piluso and Rosen. They explained that they needed money to invest in modern machinery. Davidson claims Rosen said to him: "I want a Jew in the business, because I am a Jew and all the rest of the people in the shop are Italians.

I would like to have another Jew to help me on the inside." Davidson had his wife and a lawyer of his own to look over the place, and he finally paid his money in a certified check drawn on the Bronx Borough Bank. The check was put to firm's account in a local financial concern and the day after Labor Day, which was September 5, Piluso and Rosen, Davidson claims, began drawing the cash out. Davidson was to get $20 a week for his inside services, but he found out, he says, that the made to him by the two principals concerning the credit of the company and Its assets were not true. It is alleged that the company owed many debts, had a chattel mortgage on the office safe and had borrowed the typewriter. The factory was moved to New Jersey and the business is now in the hands of a receiver.

Davidson got seven salary checks in all, and one of them, he says, was drawn on a barren account. After the factory had moved to New Jersey. according to his complaint, he found that he was not welcome there, for he had been kicking fort the return of his money. One day one of the partners said to him, according to a sworn statement he makes: "If you dare to come in that shop you will never go out alive. I will get these Italians after you." The lawyer, Max Mandlebaum, declined to permit his clients to plead to the charge and said he would bring proceedings in a higher court to get them out.

"They are both highly respectable men," said he. "Both live in Brooklyn and have the confidence and respect of many people. Their arrest is an outrage, for there is no evidence of fraud. Mr. Davidson simply made a bad business investment." "I think." said Assistant District Attorney White, "that this man was swindled out of his money.

I have other evidence in the case which I am not prepared to present now, but the mere fact of this concern moving to Jersey and going into liquidation would seem to suggest that there was something wrong." Magistrate Kempner held the accused in $3,000 bail each for a hearing on January 31. The bail was promptly furnished. KILLED BY BURSTING PIPE Foreman in B. R. T.

Power House Struck by Metal. Three Assistants, Scalded by Steam, Barely Escape With Their Lives. As the result of the explosion of a big steam pipe in the basement of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit powerhouse, at Division and Kent avenues, at 7 o'clock last night, one man was killed and three others were injured. The lead man was Charles Johnson, day foreman, of 261 Fortyeighth street. He was struck on the jaw by a piece of Jagged metal and rendered helpless.

Three workmen who were assisting Johnson at the time fled when the explosion took place. They were all injured, but not dangerously. Part of the duty of Johnson and his men was to see that the large steam pipes, many of which are suspended from the ceiling of the basement in the powerhouse, were in good order. Last night, about 7 o'clock, a leak in one of the largest of these pipes was reported to Johnson, and, summoning the three helpers, he mounted a ladder to investigate. He had hardly started when there was a loud report and Johnson was seen to totter for a moment and then the escaping steam blotted him from the view of his men.

With the explosion the three men rushed to the side of the foreman, ouly to be met and 1 driven back by the blistering steam. The workmen, nearly dened by pain, made frantic efforts to escape, and ran against the hot walls of the boilers. Their hands, already badly scalded. were burned by this wall of heat. Their cries for help were heard by the other workmen on the floor above.

A rescue crew was formed. Half way down the ladder they were met by the blinding, choking vapors and driven back. A few fought on, but even the most courageous were finally forced to seek safety for themselves. Finally the three assistants of Johnson dragged themselves to the foot of the ladder and were carried, half dead, to the air. When the steam was shut off the men found Johnson's body with his face crushed and his flesh almost parboiled.

An ambulance had been summoned from the Eastern District Hospital by Patrolman Rourke of the Clymer street station. In the opinion of Dr. Gustav, Johnson had been killed instantly. The three assistants were treated at the powerhouse. HORSE KILLED; MAN ESCAPES.

Train Strikes Wagon at a Jamaica Crossing--Driver Only a Little Hurt. Edward Borne, a driver in the employ of Samuel Stiles, a Jamaica mason and builder, had an almost miraculous escape from death on Thursday morning at the Division street crossing of the Long Island Railroad, Jamaica, it has just been learned. A horse and wagon that he was driving was struck by an eastbound Greenport express. The horse was killed, the wagon was demolished and the driver was only slightly injured. It is charged that the gateman at the crossing lowered the gates while Borne was still on the tracks.

Borne says he owes his life to the fact that he was standing in the back of the wagon and was not sitting on the driver's seat. He was thrown out. but escaped with a severe shaking and a cuts and bruises. He walked to 4. Mary's Hospital, where.

he received treatment, and then went to his home. NEW ORDER PROHIBITS STANDING IN THEATERS Fire Commissioner Waldo Serves Notice on Every Manager in the Greater City. HITS VAUDEVILLE HOUSES. Brooklyn Proprietor Says That Association Will Appeal From the Decision. Fire Commissioner Waldo issued an order yesterday which threw the theatrical managers in Brooklyn into a state ot consternation when it was served upon them last night.

The order, which applies to the entire city, will prevent the sale of admission tickets in the future unless purchasers is given a seat. The famous old sign, "Standing Room Only," is destined to become a thing of the past. In the future, under the new order, nobody will be allowed to stand during a perform-, ance, and the managers, will have no other alternative restrict the attendance to the seating capacity of the house. Commissioner Waldo did not act arbitrarily in issuing the order. He is simply carrying out the law as laid down by a decision of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, which was de rendered in a a the early part of last month.

The text of Commissioner Waldo's order is as follows: "Chief Edward F. Croker, in charge Bureau of Violations and Auxiliary Fire Appliances. Sir You attention is invited to the decision of New York Supreme Court, Appellate. Term, October. 1910, handed down January 4th.

1911, in the case of the Fire Commissioner Manager of The Dewey Theater, which covers the question of standees in all theaters. Very respectfully, (Signed) WALDO. "Fire Commissioner. "Under this decision the presence of any standees in the aisles or passageways of any theater is a violation of law." Some of the Brooklyn theatrical managers, when realized the full meaning of the edict, were indignant. The matter, Percy G.

Williams of the Orpheum Theater said, will undoubtedly be taken up by the Theatrical Managers Association. Mr. Williams had no grievance to express against Commissioner Waldo. He said that the commissioner was undoubtedly carrying out law, but an effort will be made by the managers to appeal from the decision upon which Mr. Waldo bases his order.

Admission to a theater at a nominal price, with the privilege of standing in the back of the parquette has always been a popular thing with thousands of theatergoers who could not afford a seat. But the back of the parquette is a passageway, as expressed in the fire commissioner's order. The theaters will have to eliminate "admission tickets." There is another feature to the enforcement of the new order which the managers say should not be overlooked. Often there are weeks when the attraction playing does not fill the house. "But then again," said Edward Trail, the manager of the Montauk Theater, "some popular attraction comes along where every night in the week seats cannot be purchased for love or money.

Why should we turn away and disappoint people who cannot secure seats by refusing them admission?" The Montauk Theater. except in an instance as described above, Mr. Trail said, will not be very much affected. But Mr. Trail said he believed that the enforcement of the order would put some of the smaller theaters out of business.

"Without criticising the Fire Commissioner," said Percy G. Williams, "I think the order is very unfair. Take the Orpheum, for instance. In the back of balcony we have a promenade SO people can walk around. Down stairs the parquette we have a 16-foot foyer.

you could hardly ho call that a passageway. "Vaudeville houses are different from other theaters. People like to get up and walk around. "Then again there are many men who have an hour or two to spare and they will buy an admisison ticket to see a few acts. They want to stand so that they can leave without disturbing others.

"The new order." concluded Mr. Williams, "if it is strictly enforced will put many of the smaller vaudeville houses out of business." Leo Teller, the manager of Broadway Theater, contended that space the back of the parquette is the foyer of the theater a and could not be construed as a passageway. L. J. Rodriguez, manager of Shubert Theater, also said that the new order would not only work a great hardship upon the theaters, but the public as well.

He used 1 the same argument that Mr. Trail did. The last order issued by the Fire Department regarding the foyer of the parquette of a theater permitted standing room for people four rows deep. The new order apparently abrogates this. The managers have no complaint about the new order as far relates to aisles.

The statement was made to-day that there is a decision by the Court of Appeals which is just contrary to the decision handed lown the Appellate Division in the Dewey Theater case. DELAWARE SOCIETY DINNER. The annual dinner of the Delaware Valley Society will take place to-night at the Hotel Manhattan, at 7 o'clock. The speakers' list includes the names o1 Controller Pendergast, James G. Cannon, Congressman William S.

Bennet. Street Cleaning Commissioner William H. gressman George W. Fairchild, AssemblyEdwards, ex-Justice M. Linn Bruce, Con- a man Clayton L.

Wheeler and others. CORONA HOUSES ROBBED Five Entered; Money, Jewelry and Clothing Stolen. Trading Stamps, Hoarded by Thrifty Housewives, Form a Part of the Loot. Burglars made a raid in Corona between 2 and 4 A.M. to-day and visited seven houses.

They made a fair haul and got away undetected. Two other Mouses were visited, but not entered. In each case the burglars visited only the lower floors, and the sleeping families were not disturbed. Burned matches were strewn all over the lower parts of the houses and holes were burned in the table covers at several places. The houses entered were those of James Egan, 165 Grand avenue: Louis Niccabler, 138 Lake street: Louis Cohen, 164 Park street; Charles Lockheard, Dupont street; Henry Hoffer, 152 Lake street.

Those vis. ited but not entered were Charles Smith's, 157 East Grand avenue, and R. H. Nichols', 142 Lake street. Mr.

Eagan lost $8 in cash and 1.000 trading stamps; Mr. Niccabier. two watches valued at $30, al lot of trading stamps, some cash and an overcoat; Mr. Cohen, in money and watches, jewelry, valued at nearly $400; Mr. Lockheard, an overcoat valued at $45.

The burglars made a queer haul at the Haffer home, getting only a pair of socks land $7.75 in cash. BELIEVES DOCTOR KNOWS WHERE MISSING GIRL IS Mother of Grace Dailey, Who Disapeared Wednesday, Tells Interesting Story. POLICE AT WORK ON CASE. Name of Physician Given by Distracted Parent, Who Says Daughter Is a Good Girl. Mrs.

Sophia Dailey, a widow living at 1113 DeKalb avenue, has asked the police to aid in locating her 17-year-old daughter, Grace C. Dailey, who mysteriously disappeared Wednesday during the noon hour. The girl employed in a Broadway department store a few blocks from her home and left there about 12 o'clock to get. her luncheon, as usual. Mrs.

Dailey was out when her daughter reached home, but the girl's grand mother sat with her at the table. Grace left her grandmother saying she was going back to the store. When the girl did not return home at night Mrs. Dailey went to the department store only to learn that she had Grace C. Dailey, Who Mysteriously Disappeared During the Noon Hour, Wednesday.

not been seen there since 12 o'clock. The distressed mother searched for her missing daughter through the night and Anally reached the Ralph avenue police station about 2 o'clock yesterday morning, and was directed to the Vernon avenue station, where she related her story. Mother Believes Physician Knows Where Girl Is. Mrs. Dailey was almost prostrated when seen at her home.

She had a very interesting story to tell about the missing girl. She said she believed the girl was in the company of a physician, whom she named, and who lives little more than a mile from the Dailey home. A strange man had come yesterday and told her he had seen her missing daughter in the company of a man on Throop avenue Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Dailey said her daughter was a member of the Sunday school of Calvary P.

E. Church, Bushwick avenue, near Grove street, and that last summer she was named as a delegate to attend a convention in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Dailey said she believed Grace had attended this convention until a short time belore her disappearance when she had told her that while she was supposed to be at the convention she was in the home of the physician.

Mrs. Dailey produced a postal card which she had received during the convention period and this bore the name of the physician she named She also produced another card dated a few days later signed with the name of a prominent uptown professional man, and told how much Grace was enjoying her outing. Both cards were mailed in Brooklyn, and at Station Broadway, near Greene avenue. Both were in pencil and in the same handwriting. Miss Dailey Not Romantic, Says Mother.

When the woman's attention was called to these facts she remarked that she had noted this and believed the physician had written both in order to deceive her. The writing appeared to be that of some much younger person than the one mentioned by the mother. Asked if Grace was not of a romantic turn of mind and might not have enjoyed practicing a joke, Mrs. Dailey said she was certain she had not done anything of this kind. Grace, she said, was too good a girl to have deceived her.

Iftany deceit had been practiced, the mother said, she was certain it was by a person older than her daughter, and one who was interested in keeping her away from home. MILITIA BOARDS DETAILS. Assignments of Officials in the Metropolitan District Announced at Albany. Albany, January 28-In general orders Is issued yesterday from Headquarters Division, N. G.

N. the examining boards for officers, then existing, were dissolved and new details for the boards were made. The details for the Metropolitan districts are: For officers of the corps. of engineers- Lieutenant Colonel George Bunnell, chief engineer: Major George H. Clark, corps of engineers; Captain William A.

Kenney, corps of engineers; Captain William H. Happe, medical corps (Twenty-second Engineers). For officers of the signal corps Colonel Frederick T. Leigh, chief signal officer; Major Oscar Erlandsen, signal corps (First Brigade): Major Sanford 1. Cluett, signal corps (Third Brigade): Captain Henri A.

Santoire, medical corps (Second Company, Signal Corps). For officers of cavalry--Captain James C. MeLeer, Squadron Captain Arthur F. Townsend, Squadron Squadron Captain William R. Wright, Captain Charles A.

Brown, medical corps, Squadron C. For officers of artillery and ordnance officers serving with organizations attached directly to division headquarters--Lieutenant Colonel N. B. Thurston, chief ordnance officer; Major Franklin W. Ward, coast artillery corps, Ninth Artillery District: Major David Wilson, first battalion, field artillery; Major Bryer H.

Pendry. coast artillery corps. Thirteenth Ar-' tillery District; Captain Clinton Stevenson, medical corps. Thirteenth Artillery District. For officers of the medical corps--Lieutenant Colonel William G.

Le Boutillier, chief surgeon: Major John L. Macumber, medical corps, Fourteenth Infantry; Major William S. Terriberry, medical corps. Field Hospital: Captain Joseph A. Cox, medical corps, First Ambulance Company.

For officers of infantry of the first brigade and oflicers of the adjutant general's, Inspector general's, judge advocate general's, quartermaster's, subsistence, and ordnance departments serving with the First BrigadeLieutenant Colonel Thomas W. Huston. Twelfth Infantry: Major Alfred H. Abeel, adJutant general, First Brigade: Major Robert McLean. Seventh Infantry; Ma'or William S.

Beekman, Seventy-first Infantry; Captain Thomas F. Maguire, medical corps, Sixtyninth Infantry. For officers of infantry of the Second Brigade and officers of the adjutant general's, inspector general's, judge advocate general's. quartermaster's, subsistence, and ordnance departments serving with the Second Brigade--Colonel Frank H. Norton, Twenty-third Infantry; Lieutenant Colonel Ernest E.

Jannicky, Fortyseventh Infantry: Major Walter F. Barnes, adjutant general. Second Brigade: Captain William F. Koerner, medical corps, Fourteenth Infantry, NO HAVANA FLIGHT TO-DAY. Key West, January 28-McCurdy's Havana flight was again postponed today because of rough seas.

SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Hale's Honey Of Horehound and Tar Loosens the Phlegm Allays Irritation Arrests Tickling Soothes and Heals Contains no opium nor anything injurious All Druggists For Coughs and Colds Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in One Minute LOST AND FOUND. FOUND--Fur CONROY, 313 Flatbush av. LOST, in Church or Reid av car, yesterday, a gold CROSS. Please return to 18 Buckingham road; reward.

28-2 LOST, on Tuesday, 24th, lady's gold WATCH and FOB, monogram K. R. N. Reward, 479 Franklin av, Brooklyn. 27-3 LOST, a black lynx STOLE, on Marcy av, going from' Boys High School to DeKalb av.

Reward if returned to 286 Quincy st. Greene and Gates or Tompkins av car, betweep LOST. Elgin, gold a WATCH. Friday P.M.: Classon and Macon; reward. 405 Classon av.

28-2 OST Leather PORTFOLIO, with legal papers; Culver line. Return and receive ret ward, JOSEPH W. GOLDMAN, 309 Broadway, New York City. 28-3 new "black MUFF and GLOVES. At Crescent Theater.

Friday evening, January return MARTIN, 89 Joralemon st, Brooklyn. Reward. LOST. Boston BULL DOG. brindle, white face: collar, no name on it.

Reward. F. R. STRONG. 450 Ocean Parkway.

Telephone 2354 Flatbush. LOST. in Abraham Strauss', Wednesday, Persian lamb MUFF with tails; reward of $10 will be given and no questions asked. Apply STORE. 1087 Fulton st.

LOST, brindle and white Boston BULL TERRIER puppy: answers to name of Trouble. Reward if returned to 185 Stratford road near Beverley road, Flatbush. Tel. 3227 Flatbugh. 28-3 PERSONAL.

PERSONAL. WILL family of late CATHARINE LEWIS. formerly of 5 Fifth st. Williamsburg. kindly send maiden name to 420 West One Hundred and Nineteenth st.

New York City? 28-2 ONLY LAWYERS WANTED Nassau Bar Does Not Wish Laymen to Serve as Magistrates. Will Seek Legislation to Bring About Reform Suggested--Better Police Protection Sought. (Special to The Eagle.) Mineola, L. January 28-If the Nassau County Bar has its way, no more laymen will be elected justices of the peace in the township of New York State. At last night's bar association dinner a committee was named to draft a bill, to bo presented to the legislature, providing that in future only lawyers will be eligible to be elected justices.

It was also the opinion of the bar association that Nassau County should be better policed and resolutions urging the supervisors to remedy the conditions were adopted. At the election preceding the dinner the following offers of the association were chosen: Surrogate John J. Graham, president; District Attorney Charles N. Wysong, vice president; William C. Roe, secr tary; E.

T. Payne, treasurer. Fully 300 lawyers and laymen were present at the dinner, which was served at, the Garden City Hotel, and which was an elaborate affair. GRAMERCY COUNCIL RECEIVES. The eighteenth annual reception Gramercy Council No.

1510, Royal Arcanum, was held last night in Trommer'9 Hall. Bushwick avenue and Conway street. About 500 members and friends of the council attended. The chairmen of the various committees were: J. A.

Bader, entertainment; Oscar V. Heim, floor; Regent M. F. Topping, reception. EMERALD SOCIETY MEETS.

A meeting of the Emerald Society was held last night in the Jefferson Building, Fulton street and Court Square. Four new candidates for membership were proposed. They are Dr. Joseph Todd, Michael J. McEvoy, Chris.

J. Brooks and Stevenson J. Brooks. The Emerald Ball will be held February 21 at the Waldor1-Astoria. CHANGED TO HOTEL BOSSERT.

Owing to the sembly, Fulton dinner of the York City and have been held Hotel Bossert fire last week at the Asstreet, the twelfth annual Paint Salesmen of New Brooklyn, which was to there, will be held at the to-night. CORPORATION NOTICES. PROPOSALS FOR BIDS AND ESTI MATES FOR CrY Un' NEW YORK. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS.

DIED. The person or persons making a bid or estimate 1or any service, work, material or supplies for The City of New York, or for any of its departments, bureaus or offices shall furnigh the sume 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 estimate received will be publicly opened by the President of Board or head of said department and read, and the award of the contract made according to law as soon thereafter as practicable. Each bid or estimate shall contain the name and place of residence of the person making the come, 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, end is in all respects fain and without collusion or fraud, and that 110 meinber of the Board of Aldermen, head of department, chief of bureau, officer deputy thereof or clerk therein, or other of The City of New York 1s, shall be or become interested, directly or indirectiy, as contracting party, partner, shareholder, surety or otherwise, in or in de 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 in are in all respects true.

Each bid or estimate shall be accompanied by the consent, in writing, of two householders or freeholders in The City of New York, or of a guardity or surety company duly authorized by law to act as surety, and shall contain the matter sat forth in the blank form mentioned below. No bid or estimate will be considered unless. as a 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 centur 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 8 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, board on file in the maid office of the president, or deNo bid shall be accepted from or contract partment. awarded to any person who is in arrears to The City of New York upon debt or contract, who 18 8 defaulter as surety or otherwise or upon any obligation to the city. The contracts must be bid for separately. The right is reserved in each case to reject all bids or estimates if it be deemed to be for the Interest of the city so to do. Bidders will write out, the amount of their bids or estimates in addition to inserting the same in figures.

Bidders are required to make their bids or upon the blank forms prepared and furnished by the city, a copy of estimates 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 application therefor at the office of the department for which the work is to be done. Plate or drawings of construction work may also be seep there.