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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. FRIDAY. JULY 8. 1910.

5 MISCELLANEOUS. GOING IN! STONY BHGOK ASSEMBLY CONSIDERS LABOR LIS Queens Borough and Long Island Dr. Lyons FIRE ON EATON'S NECK. 1 i WEATHER FORECAST PERFECT Tooth Powder not only cleanses, preserves and beautifies the teeth without in jury, but impartspurity and fragrance to the breath, removing instantly the odor of tobacco. thus change our laws will not be an easy process.

There is the question of the inequality of laws In the different states, and there is the question ot constitutionality, and our statesmen in considering the amendment of tbe liability law to include a compensation for the employe are faced with the question of whether it would be due process ot law under the constitution to say that an employer must pay when he has been guilty of no wrong." President Donahue and Arbitration. Charles J. Donahue, president of tb.9 Federation of Labor of the State of Connecticut, who continued the subject which Mr. Sherman had discussed, told of the efforts In his state to establish a state board of arbitration following the strike there, and of his belief that It would be accomplished. He then took up the fellow servant rule, which, he said, was a part of our common law and had been since 1842, when its precepts were first Introduced In South Carolina, in the suit of Murray against a railroad company.

This law, he explained, makes every man responsible for his own wrongs. The law, he cited, had two exceptions which were remarkable. First, while It made employers responsible for the acts of agents, it immediately contradicted this in measure by providing that where men were engaged In the same employment under a common employer and one met with an accident through the carelessness of another, rule two would not apply. That is, the employe responsible for the accident would not be considered an agent of his employer. Men More Important Than Machinery.

"I hold," said Mr. Donahue, "that men are more Important than machinery, and that as they produce the wealth of the country, when they are injured in tho process of that production they should receive redress for it. The fellow servant law might have been adequate when tha employer had two employes and when he rubbed shoulders with them In common labor. "It is amusing to hear the pleas of the employers against the passage of a compensating law. Their fears of depriving their employes of the constitutional right to sue for damages makes a verv loose argument in view of the facts Just presented by Mr.

Sherman. Their rleht to sue now Is a mere shadow of a substance. America and Eussia Stand Alone. "It Is a sad commentary on our Ameri can civilization that America and Russia are the only countries where worklngmen have to bear the brunt of the responsi- uuuy oi injuries to worKtngmen. The facts are, as we well know, that In caso of death or Injury the wife or daughters uiuy nave to lane up the burden of wage earning.

The men who do the work ought to have at least the reliance of knowing that In the case of death or disablement their families would be saved from poverty and the poorhouse." Mr. Donahue here narrated briefly the efforts In Connecticut to have a liability act passed for the last twelve years, Its advocates succeeding In 1909 In having it passed in the House, though It was defeated by a tie vote in the Senate. "This ehows the change in sentiment in twelve years In conservative old Connecticut," said Mr. Donahue. "Why they Just laughed at us twelve years ago, and only recently President Mellen of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad said in an address that the right of employes to try to put their hands into the pockets of their employers and get money out might yet become law, but that the time had not yet come.

I believe that the fellow servant law does not serve universal justice, and a law of Justice we must have. Why, the employer, when his costs Increase In any direction, takes It out of the consumer. The consumer has to pay for everything anyway, and why shouldn't he pay for the injury caused to working-men who are producing the things he is consuming?" "Would you explain your views on that a little more clearly?" asked Chairman Jenks. "Do you mean that society at large or the people are responsible for the Injuries to worklngmen "I mean," said Mr. Donahue, "that the demands of the -people for the productions of worklngmen.

whether they be produced by dangerous means or not, form the underlying cause for the employment of worklngmen supplying these products. Now the employer can compel the consumer to pay for everything but the men's lives, but lays the burden of this cost upon the men themselves and upon their homes and families. I do not believe that a hat or a coat or the wear and tear of machinery and the other expenditures upon property, which are cheerfully paid by the employer through the consumer, are of more value than the lives of the men, and if society wants the things these men are producing, then society should pay the whole and not part of the cost. I hope that the law in this state providing for compensation will be found to be constitutional, and I hope that other laws will be passed that will take the burden of accidents and death from the worklngmen, remove the danger of poverty and pauperism from their families and place it where it belongs." Professor Jenks and the Aeroplane. Professor Jenks, In a brief closing ad dress, said that new sets of circum-ttnnces were constantly presenting themselves where amendments to the state laws would be necessary.

He spoke particularly of the flying machine and of the present effort to reach St. Louis from New York. Hamilton has recently taken a flight across several states, I understand, carrying messages," said Professor Jenks. "Now. suppose he was carrying some packages, would that not come under the Interstate Commerce law? Yet, amusing that seems now, for all we know may become a real issue in tne tuiure.

I believe our courts, as a rule, are trying to reach equitable conclusions, and while they are criticised dv ootn tne cornoratlons and the employes, I be lieve this very fact shows that they are striving to reach a just Judgment without favor to either." "The only difference," said Mr. Donahue, "if I may Interrupt you, Profes sor, Is that the workingmen who criticise the courts frequently land In Jail, and have done so not long ago, whereas none of the corporations have thus far arrived there." George W. Perkins of J. P. Morgan ft who was expected to talk on the labor question ns it is related to the Steel Trust, was not able to be present.

Welfare work for employes was considered at the evening session. W. L. Saunders and Miss Gertrude Becks spoke of this kind of endeavor In many establishments. Miss Beeks illustrating her talk with stereopticon views.

There was also a conference on welfare work in the afternoon. F. P. SELLERS. BROTHEB CLAIMS BODY.

(Special to Tho Eagle.) Rockvlllc Centre, L. July 8 The bodr of the drowned man found at Long Beach on Sunday night and removed to Forbell'S morgue by order of Acting Coroner Ed- ward T. Neu. was Identified late on Wednesday by his brother aB that of Patrick Joseph of New York. The roan had been missing since Sunday, June 26, whci he left for a day's Ashing at Fort Ha-ton.

He leaves a widow. The body was identified by some prayer beads and a small Catholic emblem In bU osckej 'S ROUSES O'BRIEN'S IRE 'Jamaica School Board Member Pays His Respects to the City Superintendent. WANTS HIM "INVESTIGATED.1 Mr. Chickeringr Has No Statement to Hake Says He Must Bow to Br. Maxwell's Will.

News of the transfer of John 3- dickering, district superintendent of schools, from the Flushing-Jamaica district to the East Side of Manhattan by City Superintendent W. H. Maxwell, lust before he sailed for Europe, caused many expressions of indignation among offlclalB and principals In the section over which Mr. Checkering had Jurisdiction. Herbert A.

O'Brien, member of the school board in the Flushing-Jamaica district, said to an Eagle reporter to-day: "It Is with deepest regret that I learn of the transfer of Superintendent Checkering. The purpose of the move Is not to promote Superintendent Chlckerlng, but to humiliate him, and, if possible, to force him out of the Board of Education. Ha is one of the ablest men in the department, and the Borough of Queens Is Indebted to him for his invaluable services. He Is the logical candidate for the position of city suj erintendent. "This transfer 1b entirely characteristic of Maxwell.

He dared not issue the until he had nafely escaped and was on his way to Europe. It Is about time some official Investigation was made of the city superintendent's office. I think Maxwell will be defeated In this latest move and public sentiment will not per mit this inexcusable and unwarranted hu mlltatlon to Superintendent Chlckerlng." When questioned by The Eagle reporter at his home, 105 East Seventy-first street, Manhattan, yesterday Superintendent Chlckerlng said: "I am not in any position to make a statement as to whether I like It or not. I received notico from Superintendent Maxwell, under date of July 6, the day that he sailed for Europe, that I was to go to Manhattan In an East Side district, and that District Superintendent Edgar D. Shinier of Manhattan will suucceed me In Queens.

The city superintendent Is acting within his powers and as a sub ordinate, can do nothing more than sub mlt to his wishes. "When Mr. Maxwell tried to have me transferred last winter and learned that he could not do so during the school year he said that I should have to go at the end of the school year. I am ready to go. I can say nothing more.

When Dr. Maxwell wanted to transfer Superintendent Chlckerlng laBt winter there was a Btorm of protest among the teachers and principals of schools in the Forty-third and Forty-fourth districts, where the latter Is very popular, and an Indignation meeting was held in th Queens County Trust Company building at Jamaica. Then It was found by School Commissioner Rupert B. Thomas of Flushing that, according to a bylaw, dis trict superintendents could not be transferred except at the end of a school year. TELL TALE OF KIDNAPPING Jamaica People Sure Girl Was in Hands of Abductors.

Saw Her Being Carried Along by Two Men, but Could Not Identify Captive or Captors. Residents of South street, near the Montauk Division of the Long- Island KailroaJ, In Jamaica, are much wrought up over something they say happened on Wednesday evening, and which looked to them like a kidnapping case. Several persons, hearing screams for help, started out in the direction of the sounds, api saw a girl struggling with two men. One of them was holding her by the feet and the other had her by the shoulders. The searchers saw the men and the girl disappear into a clump of bushes and go through some woods.

Then they lost all trace of -Jiem. Mrs. John Abrams and her husband as well as their youngest daughter, were among these who heard the screams. They live on South street. Mr.

Abrams led a party of searchers through tha woods, which they examined thoroughly with lanterns. Mr. Abrams says they discovered a girl's torn handkerchief among the bushes. There must have been a struggle in the bushes, too, for they wore trampled and broken. Traces of wagem wheels could also be seen, as tbougn a wagon had born luft somewhere in the woods and had then been driven away.

The police reserves were sent out and made a search, but found nothing tangible. Later In the evening, a young man and woman whose names could not be learned noticed a wagon driven rapidly alons Merrick road. It wag an open vehicle, and in it were two men and a girl. The girl was crying bitterly and begged the ero noiaing ner, to let ber go. It was noticed that the girl wore a black skirt and white waist.

The police at the Jamaica station say that no report had been received by them of any missing girl or young woman, but the residents of South street firmly that someone was kidnapped by two men. $240,000 QUEENS WORKS. Board of Estimate Gives Final Authorization for Many Highway. Improvements in L. I.

City. A final authorization was given by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, at its last meeting for highway improvements In the Borough of Queens estimated to cost In all $236,200, and for two sewers. Contracts will be given out for all at an early date. The work Includes the following: Regulating ond srnrtlim; Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth plreete, from Vernnn avenuo to Van Alst; oatimalcd coat respectively, nfto 17,400 and 17,700. Fourth aivnuo.

from Flushing avenue to WoU-ott. avenue, from Jarkson avenue to Grand, IJ1.400; Ely avenue, from Harrla avenue to Pfiyntar, Fifth avenue, from Hroad-way to Flualilnff avenue, JSl.OflO; Lawrence treet, from Wolrott avenue to Wlnthrop. $7,400: Monaen atreet, from Fulton street to PVanklln, Seventeenth avenue, from Fluahlna; to Grand. 113.100. Grading, curolng and rerurhlng Pnvntnx avenue, from Vernon to Funawlrk.

119.200. Regulating, grading and paving with flrt-Phalt block. Newtown avenue, from Flushing avenue to Grand. 147,200. Curbing anil flagging Reventeenth avenue, from Jnekaon to Grand.

112. 40. The Hat Includes nlao the regulating and grading of Center street, from Wyrkoff avenue to Mvrttle, rtldsewood: estimated to cost also the eonetrurtton of cewer in Oueena street, from Jnekson avenue to I. R. $000.

and Hfxth ftrind to Vanucventer. 1 Philemon T. Sherman Favors Compensation Act Like England's. SAYS, PRESENT LAWS UNJUST. Put Burden Upon Shoulders Unequal to Its Weight, Ex-State Labor Commissioner Declares.

(Special to The Eagle.) Stony Brook, L. July 8 Philemon Tecumseh Sherman, formerly commissioner ol labor of this state, made an Interesting address at yesterday morn lng's session of the Stony Brook Assem bly. His subject was "Compensation for Industrial Accidents." The burden of Mr. Sherman's argument was that In the vast majority of cases the responsibility for the death or permanent or temporary in- Jury of employes Is to-day placed fairly and squarely upon the shoulders of the employes themselves, beeauBe of the Inadequacy of the present state laws. He urged that these laws should be amended so as to pattern them somewhat after the compensation laws of England, although he pointed out the dlfTJculty of this In the plea of employers that the passage of such a law would be uncon stitutional and deprive their employes of their present constitutional rights to bring actions at law in case of injury.

That this plea of the employers was re garded by Mr. Sherman as a subterfuge with grotesque if not humorous features, was brought out by him in his analysis of the present law, which permits au em ploye to sue and to recover damages un der certain conditions conditions which, he declared, are so restrictive as to ren der the law almost a nullity, so far as It concerns the employes. The present law, he explained, permitted suit where It could be shown that the accident was due to the employer's fault or negli gence. What Are Known as "Trade Risks." Mr. Sherman then turned his attention to factory Inspectors to show that It was very rare indeed that such a cause of In- Jury was discovered.

A large percentage of the accidents In the building trades and on railroads and through the use of ma chinery generally, he said, was ascribed to what are known as "trade risks." This, he explained, meant that the accident was not due either to the negligence of the employer or to any fault of the em ploye, but purely to the exigencies of the work, which Involved risks there waB no known method of avoiding. As a result, Mr. Sherman said, not more than 20 per cent, of accidents involving death or permanent injury were laid at the door of the employers. And this small percentage alone covered the cases where an employe could bring suit at law, and even when he wins 50 per cent, of what he recovers goes to his lawyer. Here Mr.

Sherman pointed out that even the employes who found themselves in a legal position to recover were still far from actual redress. The laws' delay, the appealing of cases, the cost of law yers lees, the necessity of the plaintiff for earning his living, and other obstacles stretched between him and the point where he could realize any monetary return the Injury which may have crippled hjai for life. "On the other hand," said Mr. Sherman, "80 per cent, of our great workaday army have no redress under the law. Eighty per cent, of the responsibility for fatal accidents or the permanent injury of men rests upon the shoulders of the workmen who are least able to bear It, and Were are two results that follow: "First This evil falls UDon the familv.

and every family represented la this 80 per cent, must suffer In consequence of the Inadequacy of the law to grant it a means of redress. "Second Charity has to bear Its share of the burden, and next to illness, I regard the accidents which befall the 80 per cent, (who have no legal redress) as the greatest cause of destitution In the country." Mr. Sherman at this point paused In his argument to tell of the enormous sums paid uy employers for defending suits, for appeals, for insurance risks and other expenses Incident to accidents, Including the defense of unworthy suits, which, he said, amounted in the aggregate to four or five times the damage suffered. Present Law Declared Wasteful. "I declare that the present law is not only wasteful," said Mr.

Sherman, "but It causes false and exaggerated claims against employers, and puts a premium on perjury. It also Imposes a great burden of legal machinery upon the state. The judges of this state now occupy fully one-third of their time In trying such cases as I have described. "In the aggregate the cases cont S4 nan 000 or $5,000,000 annuallv. and rhia not take into account the jury or the time and expense Involved bv others con nected with the cases.

I claim that the present law is not practicable; that Its principles are wrong, though I am glad to say that In one respect that is. with regard to railroads and building enterprises it has been amended. The principle of the present law is wrong because it practically says that when an employe takes a dangerous Job he also assumes all the rlskB of it. This is not true. Qf all the working peoplo in New York State, 1,600,000 of them are engaged in dangerous Industries, not because they want to, but because, as It has been assumed, they have accepted the positions of their own free will, with the choice of refusal, but because their need nnd the necessity ot supporting their families compel them to take these risks.

or mis reason, the law of New York State is bad, though, as I have said, the Iimv regarding railroads and 1 uildings will be amended next month." Asked in what respects the railroad nnd building law had been changed. Mr. Sherman said that In a measure the amendment applying to accidents on railroads and in the building trades had been patterned Bomewhat after the compensation law of England, which allows a permanently disabled workman a certain percentage of the wages he earned beforo being crippled. Instead of this compen sation continuing for life, as It does in England, the new law In this state provides payment for eight years only after the accident. The English Compensation law.

Mr. Sherman then went into a detailed description of the English Compensation law, which, he said, entitled the injured employe to compensation in all cases of Injury except where the injury was du.i to the willful misconduct of the employe. In minor Injuries a limited sum was allowed, he said, but in cases of total dK-nbtlity the employe ib given one-halt of the amount he earned weekly as an able, uninjured workman. If after his recovery the workman was able to earn one-third. F.iy, of his former salary, then he received as compensation one-half, or 50 per of the unearned two-thirds.

That is. It the employe aB an expert workman camel $15 a week and after his recovery could as a watchman earn $5 a week ho would receive an extra $5 as compensation money for his injuries. "To change our laws so as to pattern nfter the compensation law in England," paid Mr. Sherman, "means that pur employers w.iuld have to bear the losses entailed by the Injury and death of their workmen, the same as they now bear tho lrssc3 of wornout or wrecked machinery or tne coal they burn. All who have given jhis sjibjscA thgugqt asrvx aMo Barn and Stable on L.

A. Bevln's Country Place Burns. (Special to The Eagle.) Northport, L. July 8 A ore which could be seen for miles blazed fiercely on Eaton's Neck last night, when a large barn and a stable at the summer home of Leander A. Bevln of Manhattan were completely destroyed.

The lire started over a section where the horses were kept. On the previous day a quantity of new mown hay had been stored In the building, and the heating of this may have caused the fire. The fire was discovered in time to allow the workmen to get all the horses and carriages out safely. Machinery and other contents were destroyed. SHOT FBOVES FATAL.

Inwood Italian Dies From Bullet Wound Self Inflicted. Pasquale Contlno, the Italian, who shot himself through the right side of the head yesterday morning in the yard of the store of Vincent Licurse in Inwood, where he was employed, after having quarreled with his wife, died In St. Joseph's Hos pital. Far Rockaway, about two hours after being admitted. The bullet pierced bis brain.

He leaves a widow and a daughter. RELIEF FOR RICHMOND HILL Flans Authorized for Sewer Mains to Cost 8500,000 Drainage System for 1,100 Acres in Woodhaven. The Board of Estimate and Apportion' ment at Its last meeting gave a preliminary authorization for plans for the con struction of a system of sewer mains for tbe benefit of the Richmond Hill and RIdgewood Heights sections aggregating in amount $567,000 estimated cost. Tbe number includes: Lefferts avenue from Liberty avenue to Ulster, estimated cost, Lefferts avenue from Ulster ave nue to Rockaway road, Panama street from Lake avenue to Rockaway road, Panama street from Vienna avenue to Blake, $70,000, and Panama street from Cozlne avenue to Vienna, also, temporary open drain In Panama street between Cozlne street and Jamaica Bay, $65,0007 All of the above will provide mains for the future sewer system of Richmond Hill. For the RIdgewood Heights district plans were authorized for mains In Seneca avenue from DeKalb avenue to Putnam and from Cornelia street to Myrtle avenue; In Hlmrod street from Seneca avenue to the Brooklyn line, and In Put nam avenue from Seneca to Myrtle, cost $74,000.

These mains will all connect with the big Myrtle avenue main now In tun operation. work will be pushed rapidly on the plans and specifications for the above undertakings and the: be ready for a final authorization a.ii letting of con tracts auring tne ensuing fa and nter. A drainage plan was also adopted for territories known by map numbers as 40B and 40C of the Fourth Ward, Wood- haven section bounded by the borough line, Forest Park, Cedar and 'Llbertv avenues, Rockaway Beach division of the Long island Railroad; Atlantic avenue and Walker and Ridgewood avenues, af- reeling l.iuu acres. The outlet for this system will be at the Jamaica disposal plant. The topograDhical dennrtmenf it going right to work on the plans for this worn.

FOUR QUEENS MAPS ADOPTED. Board of Estimata Adds 1,452 Acres to New Official Street System of Borough. Four final maps were adopted for the Borough of Queens at a meeting of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, held last week, comprising 1,452 acres, which, with the new street systems, have now become a part of the official map of the City of New York. Map No. 35 comprises 368 acres east of Lutheran Cemetery and toward Myrtle avenue; No.

38 takes in 367 acres in Corona and as far east as Forest Hills; No. 44 includes 367 acres along Trotting Course lane, In the Whitepot and Forest Hills sections, Including the Russell Sage Foun dation Trust tract. No. 30, comprising 350 acres in the Glendale section, had been referred to a special committee, consisting of the controller, the president of the Board of Aldermen and the president of the Borough of Queens. That committee reported in favor of leaving Myrtle avenue at its present width of 70 feet, instead of Increasing It to 100 feet, as provided for in the tentative map presented to the board.

It was done In resnonse to the demand of property owners, who would have to have had the cost assessed upon them, un- aer the present methods of the city government. There are two car lines on the street, and the highway Is a main artery of travel. A change was made in a man formerlv adopted, comprising about 00 acres in the Woodhaven section, bounded on the west by the Brooklyn Borough Line and on lis other sides by Woodbine street, niyrue, uypress and Putnam avenues and Cornelia street, changing the width and grade of streets. A similar change was made In the final map of section No 2, Including 367 acres In the lower nnrt of Long Island City and the Laurel Hill section. FOREST PARK BAND CONCERT.

It Will Be Given on Sunday, July 17 Weekly Concerts Hoped For in 1911. Secretary Wagner of the Forest Park Homestead Association Is In receipt of a letter from Park Commissioner Kennedy stating that the promised concert for Forest Park will be given on Sunday, July 17. The site Is a point Immediately west of the golf clubhouse. This concert Is to be a trial, and the only concert that will be held in the park this year. If It prove success, Mr.

Kennedy will ask for an appropriation so as to have concerts every Sunday during 1911. It Ib hoped that the people In that vicinity will attend In force and show their Interest, so that Commissioner Kennedy will be convinced that Sunday band concerts are desired. DEGREE FOB F.ECTOR TOY. Head of St. Elizabeth's, North Babylon, a Doctor of Snored Theology.

(Special to The Eagle.) Babylon, L. July 8 The Rev. Eugene L. Toy, rector of St. Elizabeth's Chapel, on the Belmont Nursery Farm, at North Balston, has had the degree of doctor of Bacred theology conferred upon him by St.

Stephen College, from which he graduated many years ago. The Rev. Dr. Toy has been Sector of 81 QUEENS PRESIDENT PROTESTS. Mr.

Greaser Doesn't Want Queens Dock Funds Diverted to Bronx. Borough President Gresser has sent a vigorous protest to Controller Prender-gast against the transfer to the Bronx of the money voted some time ago to Queens for the erection of public docks at the foot of Nott avenue in Long Island City; at the foot of College avenue, in College Point, and at tbe foot of Eleventh avenue, in Whltestone. The transfer was authorized at the suggestion of Dock Commissioner Tomkins, who stated that the money was needed more in the Bronx than in Queens. President Gresser has shown the positive need of these docks in Queens, and that it would be wrong to take thu money away from this borough. PICKED UP IN QUEENS Bits of News Here and There the Borough.

in Youth Who Laughed in Court Fined $10 81 Mothers and Babies on a Picnic. Emll Meguin of Maspeth yielded to laughter when his father, John Meguin, was testifying in the Flushing pollco court yeeterday against his wife, and Magistrate Connolly warned the young man to be more orderly. Meguin, answered In a disrespectful manner, and Judge Connolly fined him $10 for con tempt of court. The case of the elder Meguin was dismissed. In the Flushing Police Court, yesterday, Joseph Foester, 20 years old, of Maspeth was told that be must marry Miss Minnie Bicklemann of the same address, or go to Jail, on charges she preferred against him.

He accepted the former and Magis trate Connolly tied the knot in the prcs: ence of Court Officer Frank Derrick end W. O. Do Mola, who acted as witnesses. The bridegroom is a machinist and claims to earn but per week. Eighty-one mothers and babies from tbe Jacob Rlls Settlement House in Man hattan had their annual outing at Kis-sena Park, Flushnig, yesterday afternoon, as the guests of the Loving Service Cir cle of the King's Slaughters ol the Re formed Church, The visitors came in special trolley cars donated by the New York and Queens County Railway Company.

At noon the motners and children enjoyed refresh ments donated by Flushing residents and merchants and the afternoon was devoted to playing kindergarten games and other sports. A $50,000 hotel is to be erected at Edgemere on the site of Holmehurst Inn, destroyed by fire last September. Tha hotel will be two and a half stories high and built of frame, and will have a front age of 116 feet on Sea View avenue, and a depth of 32 feet. The second annual summer festival of the United Societies of St. Thomas Church, Woodhaven, will be held fit Dexter Park on Monday, July 11.

The committee in charge expects this affair to surpass any previously held. The Ladies Allar Aid Society will have charge of the dining room. lone Hardy of 30 Vernon avenue, Bay Side, while at play In the street, near her home yesterday, was lilt by an automobile, driven by Nelson M. Dudley, a professional demonstrator of 109 Third avenue, Long Inland City. She was knocked down and run over.

Her right leg was fractured and she was otherwise hurt. Dudley picked the child up, and, placing her In the automobile, drove to the Flushing Hospital. Her condition is not serious. Dudley then went to the Flushing police station and gave himself up. By the of eyewitnesses he convinced ih.i police that the accident was not In imy way due to his negligence, and ho was not held.

The body of William Hogue, who was drowned while bathing last Sunday at Point Vlow Island, College Point, was found yesterday afternoon by some workmen. The body was removed to 2(11 Fnst One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street, Manhattan, the home of the drowned man. Two painters sustained serious InJur-leii while nt work at Corona early this morning; the accidents ocurrlng In different places within fifteen minutes time. Andrew Thomas, while painting a house at the corner of Washington street and Smith avenue, fell from a ladder and had three ribs and his left arm broken, and a possible fracture of the skull. Daniel Rice was the other unfortunate painter.

He was at work on a scaffold on a new building at the corner of Smith utreet and Jnekson avenue, when the scnffold broke and plunged him to the ground. He received contusions of both JLfMfhs nsirtrnal lnjjta. IS IT Young. People of Both Sexes Residing There Are Eager for It. ONLY ONE IN BOROUGH NOW.

That Is at Long Island City Jamaica Students Must Go to Brooklyn. A movement Is on foot to establish at Jamaica an evening high school. Com plaints have been made by residents of that place, Richmond Hill and Spring field that there are no facilities provided by the Board of Education for students who desire to take up high school work in the evening, and a petition is being circulated asking for the establishment of an evening high school. This will be presented to the local school board, district No. 43, at its next meeting.

The only evening high school in the Borough of Queens is located at Long Island City. Most of the Jamaica students are obliged to attend the Commercial High School in Brooklyn, at Bergen street and Albany avenue. In an Interview with an Eagle reporter Herbert A. O'Brien, secretary of the local school board, District No. 43, expressed himself as being willing to push the matter and lend his help in the-move-ment to establish an evening high school.

Tbe power to establish the evening high school lies with the committee on special schools, of which Dr. Louis Haupt Is chairman. The charter provides that the committee on special sohools shall, upon recommendation of the board of superintendents, establish evening high schools where tbe special schools committee determines. The special schools committee of the Board of Education consists of Dr. Louis Haupt, Charles E.

Bruce, 8. Stern, Mrs. M. L. Towns, John Whalen and Horace E.

Dresser. The Jamaica High School bullalng is now used in the evening for elementary school work, together with domestic science and a modified business course. In the fall of 1906 an evening grammar school was started In the Jamaica High School building, and although an almost complete failure at first, its growth became so rapid and the movement so popular that the establishment of night higher classes was entirely dropped and as a Jamaica teacher told an Eagle reporter "It would be difficult to displace the one for the other now." Charles H. Vosburgh. acting principal of the Jamaica High School, when seen at his home, expressed himself as being In favor of the movement but said he was not sure that he would like to see the grammar school abolished.

"It Is In suoh a flourishing condition," be said, "that for one, could wish to see it remain, although the Institution of an evening high school would be a good thing and a benefit to many, more especially to the working classes. Wo havo pupils leaving our school regularly on account of having to go to work. The only way to procure a nignt school In Jamaica is by petition. One teacher said that a petition having the signatures of 100 persons (would-be pupils) would be sufficient to start the ball rolling in the direction desired. Some place the number still lower and advise the interested ones to procure the aid of leading men of the community.

A meeting of a small number of young men was held In Jamaica about a month ago to discuss the matter, but they were uncertain as to how to set about it. Speaking for the young women who desire to attend the night high sehool. Miss Edna Veederburgh of Jamaica South said: "We do not care to lane long trips, such as from hero to urooKiyn late at nleht. for obvious reasons, and if we make bnd suburban our connections or get caught In a storm it would bo very Inconvenient. A loral night high school would remedy this." Those Interested say they will work during the summer montns and see wnat enn he done in the way actual ac complishment In the fall.

PATCHOGUE TAX RATE LOWER. (Special to The Eagle.) Patchoiue. L. July 8 The Patchogue village trustees have fixed the tax rate for the year of 1310 at 08 cents on every $100 assessed valuation. A total of 14H.08 Is shown by Hie tax levy, divided as follows: Wster fund.

light fund, police fund, bonds maturing. $3,000: Interest on bonds, ex tending fire alarm system, general fund, street tuna, Jo.OUY.48, Th i Persons desiring Information concerning tha weather, temperature or other information can ecure it by using telephone No. 571 Main, from 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. week days.

Nights and Sundays, 6200 Main. Indications Until 8 P.M. To-morrow. Washington, July 8 For Eastern New York: Partly cloudy; probably thunderstorms in north portion to-night or Saturday; moderate south winds. Local Probabilities, Partly cloudy and continued warm to-night and Saturday; lieht to moderate southerly winds.

General Weather Conditions. High pressure areas were located this morning over the Pacific Northwest and the southeastern part ft he country. A rlisturbanc-i covers the northern districts from the Dakatas to New Engjand, while a trough of low pres-suro extends from the Upper Mississippi Valley to Arizona. Light to moderate showers have been general during the past twenty-four viura in inc Atlantic ami East (iuir States end from Northern Louisiana ami Central Texas to Kansas and Western Missouri. Morning temperatures to-day were generally about the seasonal average.

Conditions are favorable for partly cloudy and continued warm weather in this vicinity during the next thirty-six hours. Tern- Pre- I Tern- Pre- pera- cinita- pera- clpita- mre. nou. ture. tlon.

Boston 7: .161 New Orleans Si) ,26 76 Louis 76 I 7i 64 .20 .08 San Fran'co. 52 Buffalo 68 75 Philadelphia 78 Washington. 7S 80 Highest. 91). at San Francisco.

New Orleans; lowest, 62, OFFICIAL TEMPERATURE. THURSDAY. JVUY 7. 3 741 8 P.M 70 4 P.M 721 9 P.M -A 5 72 10 P.M 71 6 P.M 71,11 P.M 71 1 P.M 70 12 (MldnlKht) 71 PRrilAlt St 1 A.M 711 8 A.M 75 2 A.M 711 9 A 7S 3 A.M 71 10 A.M 81 A.M 72.U A.M S6 6 A.M 71 12 (Noon) 85 A.M 71 1 P.M 88 1 A.M 73 2 P.M 90 Average temperature to-day, 75. Average temperature a year asro to-day, 73.

HIGH WATEB. A.M. P.M. IIDurat'n TlmeHlhlrtlse Fall H.M.Feet H.M.H.M. TlmelHIsh Ji.M.

Feet New York. ..110:10 I 4.3 I 10:18 19:46 5 1 5.3 Sandy Hook.i 9:40 I 4.5 I 6:25 6:35 SUN P.ISES AND SETS. July 8. I July 9. 4:33 Sets.

.7:29 Rises. .4:33 Sets. .7:29 SHIP NEWS. Arrived at New York To-day. Mauretanla, from Liverpool.

Freya. from Haracoa. Metapan, from Kingston. Tintoretto, from Santos. Fob.

from Guantanamo, Cimbria, from Havana. Atlantis, from Puerto Plata. Arrived at Foreign Ports To-day. Copenhagen Helllg Olav, from New York. Cherbourg Prinz Frledrlch Wilhelm, from New iork.

Naples Neekar. from New York. Plymouth Deutschlnnrl, fim New York. Amsterdam Prlns Willeni IV. from New York Manchester Titian, from New York.

Montevideo Portreath, from New York. Sailed From Foreign Ports To-day. KoDe Indrafleo, for New York. Due in New York. TO-MORROW.

From. RnMr1 New York City Swansea June 25 New York Southampton 'I pr.na wniem ill St. Marc Ju 4 Merlda Havana July 6 Algonquin Jacksonville 6 City of Columbus Savannah July 6 Heported by Wireless. Fahlo Island. July 8 Steamer Cincinnati.

Hambjrff. Southampton and Cherbourg for New York, in wireless communication with the Mar coni station here when 7S0 miles east of Sandy Hook at 12 40 A.M. will dock 7:30 A.M. Sun day. PARIS FASHIONS UP TO DATE.

From The Eagle Paris Bureau, 53 Rua Carabon. through the courtesy of Abraham Straus. Blue and white foulard gown, veiled blue lace In with blue chiffon; heavy BatrlftnJlnfc.