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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 30. 1905.

AND DEATHS MARRIED. STEELE-HAWXHURST-On August 29, 1905, at the residence of the bride's mother, 147 Oakland st, MAUD ESTELLE HAWXHURST, daughter of Oscar and Charlott Hawxhurst, to WILLIAM ROYCE STEELE. Baker, Cornelia Bohn, Mathilda C. Booth, Harriet Brown, Mary Agar Cary, Mary E. Copley, William.

Erbrecht, Louise Hoffman, Robert DIED. Loughman. Michael McVoy, Robert. Mulraney, William. Phelps, Edwin 0.

Small, G. S. Vance-Sprague, Williamson, W. Ha. Winslow.

Ellen BAKER-Suddenly, on Monday, August, 28, 1905, CORNELIA, widow Nelson Baker, age 72. Funeral services from the residence of her son-in-law, J. M. Feaman, Wantagh, N. on Thursday, at 2 P.M.

Train leaves Flatbush av station at 10:51 A.M. BOHN-On Monday, August 28, 1905, MATHILDA 'beloved wife of August W. Bohn, aged 51 years 3 months. Services at her late residence, 112 Park place, Thursday at 8 Interment Fri. day morning.

Relatives and friends invited to attend. BROWN-Entered into rest on Wednesday, August 30, 1905, MARY AGAR, wife of the late Arthur Alexander Brown. Funeral from her late residence, 128 Lincoln place, on Friday, September at 11 o'clock A.M. CARY-On August 28, after a lingering illness, MARY widow of Clark W. Cary.

Funeral from her late residence, 225 Park place, on Thursday, 10:30 A.M. (Southern and Western papers please copy.) COPLEY-At his residence, 69 st, Tuesday, August 29, WILLIAM COPLEY. Notice of funeral later. ERBRECHT-Entered into rest on Monday, August 28, LOUISE ERBRECHT, aged 27 years. Funeral services at her residence, 144 Kosciusko st, Wednesday P.M.

lates HOFFMAN-On Tuesday, August 29, 1905, ROBERT HOFFMAN, after a lingering illness, in his 73d year. Funeral on Friday, September 1, at his late residence, 532 Evergreen av, at 2 o'clock sharp. Interment Mount Olivet Cemetery. 30-2 -On Tuesday, August 29, 1905. at his reeidence.

212 Seventy-second st, Bay Ridge, MICHAEL LOUGHMAN. Funeral at Our Lady of Angels Church, Seventy-fourth st and Fourth av, Thursday, August 31, at 9:30 A.M. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. Me Wednesday, August 30, ROBERT VOX McVOY, in his 76th year. Services from his late residence, Monroe st, Brooklyn, Friday afternoon, September 1, at 2 o'clock.

MULRANEY-On Monday, August 28, 1905. WILLIAM, son of Anna end the late John Mulraney. Funeral from his late residence, 343 Seventh st, Thursday, August 31, at 2 P.M. Interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, Flatbush. PHELPS--At.

Westfield, N. EDWIN son of the late John M. Phelps. Funeral services at his late residence, 134 Embree Crescent, Westfield, N. Thursday, August 31, at 8 P.M.

Interment private. SMALL--At Dalton, August 29, 1905. GEORGE SUMNER SMALL, in the 72d year of his age. Funeral private. VANCE-SPRAGUE-Suddenly, at Rockland, Sandy Spring, on Sunday, August 27, 1905, ABIGAIL VANCE-SPRAGUE, the Rev.

Alexander Vance. VILLIAMSON- Monday, August 28, 1905, in his 79th year, WILLIAM H. WILLIAMSON. Funeral services will be held at the residence of Mr. J.

L. Ryder, 7. Remsen place, Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Thursday, August 31, 1905, at 2:30 P.M. WINSLOW-On Tuesday, August 29, ELLEN, wife of John Winslow.

Funeral from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. A. E. Tolkamp, 204 Eighth av, Thursday, August 31, 1905, at 8 P.M. 30-2 IN MEMORIAM.

JOHN GIBB. Widely known as one of the most honorable merchants of New York, John Gibb, entered into rest in the seventy-seventh year of his age, at his country residence, Afterglow, Islip, L. on Sunday, at the sunset hour, August 27, 1905. By the death of this distinguished merchant the Merchants Central Club of New York loses one of its oldest members and a valued friend, and at a special meeting of the board of governors of the club, held this date, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Resolved, That we have learned with profound regret of the death of our highly esteemed fellow member, Mr. John Gibb.

Resolved, That to the bereaved family of Mr. Gibb and his surviving business associates who are members of this club, our sincere sympathies are hereby tendered in their great sorrow. Resolved, I. That these resolutions be entered on the minutes, and a copy be forwarded to Mr. Gibb's family.

Resolved, That in tribute to the deceased, the following named gentlemen are hereby delegated as a committee to represent this club at the funeral services at Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn, on Wednesday, August 30. Walter Kobbe, Pres. William Skinner, George Legg, Russell Murray, George C. Andreae, B. H.

Brundrett, Col. F. W. Cheney, William Carroll, Col. Chas.

F. Homer, Fred. Fleitmann, 0. L. Dommerich, Julius Kayser, B.

Greeff, Frank Arnold, W. C. Kimball, Hermann Vogel, Henry Sidenberg, A. Vondermuhl, Thos. F.

Vietor, William Meyer, A. Montant, F. W. Wettlaufer, A. Rusch, J.

B. Cozzens, John Grimshaw, Joseph Grose. Attest: Franklin Allen, Secretary. August 28, 1905. GREAT PINELAWN CEMETERY.

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Y. CONTRACTOR IS ACCUSED. Storekeeper Says Fox Drove Away Without Paying for Goods. Thomas Fox, 29 years old, of East New York avenue and Ford street, a contractor, was arrested last night at his home by Court Officer Burns, of the Butler street court, on a warrant issued by Magistrate Tighe to Joseph Lennenbaum, a storekeeper at 224 Bush street. Lennenbaum charges that on December 2, 1904, Fox came to his place and got a quantity of blankets, whips and other articles, which he told the shopkeeper he intended to purchase.

Lennenbaum says that while 1 he was in the store making out the bill Fox drove away with the goods. Fox was arraigned in the Butler street court to-day on the charge of grand larceny. Magistrate Tighe held him in $500 bail for examination. SAYS FRIEND ROBBED HIM. Tailor Causes Arrest of Visitor, Accusing Him of Larceny.

James Lapore, 21 years old, of 112 Mulberry street, Manhattan, was arraigned in the Butler street court to-day on the charge of grand larceny 011 complaint of Vincent Borone, a tailor, of 326 Thirty-ninth street. Borone says Lapore came over from Manhattan yesterday to see him. He declares the man slept in the same room with him and this morning a gold watch and chain, a revolver and $17 in money were missing. Borone says his companion had a bunch of keys, one of which was found in front of the trunk in the room. The stolen valuables had been taken from the trunk.

Magistrate Tighe held Lapore for examnation September 1, holding him in $500 bail. HELD FOR THE GRAND JURY. Robbery and Burglary Charges Against Three Men. In the Butler Street Court to-day, Magistrate Tighe held Frank Bouch, 17 years old. ot 128 Hamilton avenue; Frank Jones, sailor, 30 years old, and Martin Gainor, 17 years of 162 Huntington street, for the grand jury.

Charles Nelson, of 155 Hamilton avenue, says that, on the evening of August 29, he was on the stoop in front of his house when Bouch snatched his gold chain, valued at $10. Jones was charged by Kenneth McPhee, a sailor on board the steamship Honosius, lying at Pier 36, foot of Pioneer street, on August 24, with robbing him of a bag containing clothing and other things. On August 26, it is alleged, Gainor broke into the store of Horace Child, at 359 Sixth avenue, and stole a quantity of copper and brass fittings, valued at $50. He was charged with burglary. ROMANCERS AGAIN BUSY.

Lurid Tale of Robbery in Dunton Switch Tower Based on a Holdup a Fortnight Ago. The highly sensational story published in several morning papers telling of an attack upon the night towerman of the Long Island Railroad at Dunton very early yesterday morning by five men, who were said to have robbed him a hundred and forty dollar gold watch and a roll of bills containing about $120, after a hard fight, has its foundation in the fact that about two weeks ago Night Towerman Van Winkle was robbed of his watch while on his way from his tower by a footpad, who ran away after grabbing the watch. Van Winkle, hoping to meet the fellow again at some time in the near future and settle matters with him privately, had not the Long Island Railroad detectives. The reported the case the city, police nor to above comprises all the real facts of the case. FIGHT FOR THEIR LICENSES.

Kings Park Hotel Men Declare State Is Trying to Force Them to Sell Their Property. There is great consternation among the six hotel keepers of Kings Park, L. for they are, they say, in danger of being ruined because of a little joker passed at the last session of the Legislature that has, unless it is declared unconstitutional, given them over to the tender mercies of the state, which wants their property for little or nothing. The hotel men, Julius N. Burr, George Marshall, Jenie Cusick, George W.

Curran, Eugene F. Keane and Albert Esser, were all in the special term of the Supreme Court this morning before Justice Burr, as defendants in proceedings brought by the State Excise Commissioner to secure the revocation of their liquor tax certificates. It wasn't because the hotel men had violated the Sunday selling law that the actions were brought, but because the Legislature last winter passed a law forbidding the sale of liquors within a mile of state property, and, as all of these hotels are within a mile of the boundary line of the Long Island State Hospital grounds, the Excise Department demands that the licenses be revoked. Fear sent Mrs. Magnusson almost headlong down the stairs and out into the street.

There she saw Policeman Murphy and she told him that there was murder going on in the rooms upstairs. He ran up to see and at that moment he encountered Williamson, tall and imposing, on the landing. The man had shot himself in the left temple, and blood was trickling down his cheek. When the man saw the policeman he ran back into the Magnusson rooms and into the kitchen where the dead body lay. He threw the revolver beside Rogene's remains, for the woman was stone dead, and stood around, defiantly watching the policeman.

Murphy took him into custody and Detectives Gannon and Whittaker also came in. The body of the woman was removed to the Amity street station and Dr. Bull of the Long Island College Hospital Was called. Williamson was conscious and did not seem to 'be so very much hurt. He was interviewed by Captain Baldwin and complained most that the woman had not been kind to him.

And he said that he had spent $800 on her. He did not seem to be worried over the killing, but his unconcernedness was probably due to liquor. The doctor took the man to the hospital. The opinion of the physicians is that the man will not be long in their care and that the wound is not serious, for the bullet in his head glanced and slid along the skull, failing to puncture it. One of the reasons given by the dead woman for declining to cut loose wholly from Williamson was that he was the best friend she had I in this country and that she needed friends.

NEGRO CARVES HIS Edward Christopher Missed $18, Accused William Locket of Theft and Sliced Him With a Razor. Because, when he came home last night, a pocketbook containing $18, all the money he had, was missing from the coat in which he had placed it, Edward Christopher, a colored porter, proceeded to carve his roommate, William Locket, whom he suspected of taking the money. Both negroes occupy a furnished room on the second floor at 262 West Forty-first street. Locket is a in the Pennsylvania tunnel and Christopher was until recently a porter in a bat store. They had been fast friends hitherto.

Now Locket is in Roosevelt Hospital, breathing vengeance as well as he can with his nose, lips and forehead sliced in a dozen parallel lines. Christopher got away after the cutting and the police of the West Thirtyseventh street station are seeking him. Christopher was out of work and the $18 was all he possessed to keep him from starvation until he got another job. When he came home last night and found the money gone his feelings demanded explosion and they exploded. He accused Locket of stealing the money.

Locket, who is several sizes larger than his roommate, threw the smaller negro out into the street. Christopher wag in his night shirt, as he wag about to retire when he found the money gone, and it was cold outdoors in such garb. He begged for his clothes and Locket threw out his trousers. Unfortunately for Locket there was a razor in the trousers. Christopher found it and 1t gave him courage.

He went boldly back up stairs and attacked Locket. He tried to cut the big man down to his own size, and, as Locket was unarmed, his efforts were uninterrupted until Locket's howls brought other occupants of the house. Then Christopher ran away. As he was so scantily clothed the police believe he will soon come back and give himself up. Locket's wounds, though painful and disfiguring, are not expected to prove serious.

LOST FINGERS IN SAW MILL. Louis Wremstock, of 1090 Nostrand avenue, employed by the John R. Corbin Company in their saw mill at the corner of Flatbush avenue and Avenue in charge of one of the big circular saws, had two fingers of his right hand cut off yesterday afternoon. Dr. Ogden, from Vanderveer Park, wag called and gave Wremstock attention.

Later the ambulance from the Kings County Hospital, which had been summoned, responded. Ambulance Surgeon Walzer dressed the wounds and the injured left man for his home. HIT IN EYE WITH CLUB. Tony Verre, a laborer, living at 112 Skillman avenue, was in the ey with a club last night in the course of an argument with Sanafena Fenelele, of 22 Skillman avenue. He was treated by Ambulance Surgeon 0'Day, of St.

Catherine's Hospital. Fenelele was not arrested. LITTLETON BACK AT DESK; WILL NOT TALK POLITICS Didn't See McClellan, Who Was Staying at Same Place in White Mountains. LAUGHS AT GOSSIP STORIES, But Has a Kind Word for Governor -Hints That McCarren Has Made a Mistake. Borough President Martin W.

Littleton returned to business this morning after a vacation in the White Mountains. The president is in fine condition and went at once into the details of business that had accumulated during his absence. Mr. Littleton had a word to say about politics. His attention was called to the fact that the political reporters had been nominating him on the Fusion ticket with great unanimity, some for mayor and some for controller.

"I'm afraid that's all subject to ratification," said Mr. Littleton, laughingly. While away the Borough President had a number of distinguished neighbors. There are but two hotels in the village of North Bretton and they are not half a mile from each other. Mr.

Littleton was a guest at one and Mayor George B. McClellan at the other. Notwithstanding their nearness to each other, these two eminent citizens never met once during the holiday season. Other celebrities spending a vacation in the neighborhood were Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Henry H.

Rogers, the noted financier; ex-Governor Frank S. Black, the chief executives of New Hampshire and Maine and half a dozen mill ionaires. There were recent intimations that Governor Benjamin B. Odell, who is conductthe fight for Fusion in this city, had been ing in communication with Mr. Littleton while the Borough President was a away.

This was "I have not seen Mr. Odell," he said, "nor denied a by Mr. Littleton. heard from him in any way." Parenthetically Mr. Littleton said he had always believed that Mr.

Odell made an admirable governor of the state. The Borough President has an appointment this afternoon with a citizen in Manhattan who will have a great deal to do with the conduct of the coming campaign. Mr. Littleton was annoyed when he discovered that the news of the proposed conference had leaked out, and refused absolutely to discuss it in any way. He showed a somewhat languid interest in local movements and inquired about the recent activities of the politicians here.

He was told that Senator McCarren had offered the insurgents against his rule here one-third representation conventions and committees, and that the opposition organizations, hitherto almost moribund in most cases, had been quickened into renewed activity by this offer. The president seemed to think that Mr. McCarren's knowledge of political dynamics had not been increasing lately. "It looks as if he mistook a stimulant for an opiate, doesn't it?" Mr. Littleton asked.

the return of the Borough President work on a number of important public improvements here will be resumed or begun. Next week the local boards will begin operations for the fall campaign, and before September is well under way, business will be brisk all round. GERMAN OFFICIALS HERE. Getting an Idea of Agricultural Colonization for Government Use. A large numbor of high officials of the German government arrived on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse yesterday steamer noon.

They are members of a commission sent to America for the study of the farmers' condition and the settlement and colonization question in the western part of the United States. The purpose of the visit is to gather information that might be used by the German government in the colonization and Germanization of Posen, Eastern Prussia and the olish districts of Silesia. The members of the commission will devote to the study four weeks and will return to Germany on the steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm on September 26. Three days will be spent in New York and to-day a visit will be made to Ellis Island. From here they will proceed to Chicago and different farmers' settlements in the West.

The members of the commission are Chief Government Counselor Hugo Ganse and Government Counselor Henry von Both of the colonization commission, Posen: Private Financial Counselor Alfred Hugenberg, of the ministry of finance in Berlin; the provincial counselors Wilhelm Schlenther, of Tilsit; Carl Hayessen, of Wollstein; Ernst Gerlach, of Kattowitz, and August Meinicke of Oppeln; the Boundary Commissioners Ernst Maerke and Wilhelm Maedler, of Beuthen; Heinrich Klaassen, of the colonization commission of Posen; Otto von Kiesewetter of the Bund. A special study of the system be made by American, Maercker police and Maedler, who are connected with the German police. Among the passengers was also governwho, ment with surveyor the Tincauzer from Koenigsberg, consent of the German government, is going to Washington as member of the board of consulting engineers of the Panama commission. Mr. Tincauzer is considered to be an authority in hydraulics and was connected with the building of the North Sea and Baltic Sea canal for eight years.

MOROCCO'S SULTAN OBDURATE. Will Not Release French-Algerian Merchant, Bouzian-French Cruisers Ready to Proceed to Tangier, Paris, August 30-The Foreign Office has issued an announcement to the effect that to-day or to-morrow the French minister at Fez, St. Rene Taillandier, will be able to address a final summons to the Moroccan Foreign Office relative to the release of the French Algerian merchant, Bouzian. The minister at the same time will advise the Moroccan Government of his intention to leave Fez if the demand for the release of Bouzian and redress for his arrest be not complied with. M.

Taillandier will be instructed to reach Tangier by the surest route and to take such steps as may be deemed necessary after his arrival there, it in the meantime the demands remain unsatisfied, Dispatches from Toulon to the French newspapers announce that in view of the trouble with Morocco the cruisers Charnier, Bruix, Pothuau, Chanzy, Latouche, Treville and Requin are being held in readiness. Tangier, Morocco, August 30-The Sultan has replied by letter to the French minister, St. Rene Taillandier, that he continues to regard the recently arrested French-Algerian merchant Bouzian as a Moroccan subject, and will refuse to comply with the demand of the French Government for his liberation. DROWNED IN THE WALLABOUT. Frank Mullins, 8 years old, of 180 Tillary street, fell off the string piece at the foot of Clinton avenue, into the Wallabout Basin.

shortly before 8 o'clock, last night, and was drawned. He struck in falling a spike in the piles, causing a lacerated scalp wound and breaking two ribs. The boy was an orphan and lived with his uncle, Edward Leach. ORPHANS FOUND STARVING. Penniless Children Had Scarcely Touched Food for a Week.

Robert and Lottie Matthews, respectively 14 and 16 yesne old, were found yesterday afternoon in a cheerless and barely furnished room at 67 Montrose avenue, without food, money or friends. They had been in that condition for more than a week and were actually starving when the police of the Stagg etreet station heard of the case. No time was lost in taking the children from their desolate home and after a good dinner, provided by Captain Hayes and men of his command. Robert and Lottie were taken to the rooms of the Children's Society. Their father died several years ago, and their mother wore herself out trying to keep their little home together.

She was taken sick last week and died in the Eastern District Hcepital. The pitiful condition of her orphan children was not discovered, however, until yesterday afternoon. HUSBAND'S DOUBLE CRIME. Wife Will Die as Result of Wound, but He Will Recover and Not Be a Suicide. It was said this morning at the Norwegian Hospital, where the Reja couple are being cared for, suffering from pistol wounds, that the man will probably live but that the woman will undoubtedly die.

The shooting was done early yesterday afternoon by Mathias Reja in the basement of his home, at 180 Twenty-sixth street. He first shot his wife in the back and then attempted suicide by shooting himself in the right eye. The motive for Reja's action is unknown. A. M.

E. CHURCH IN UPHEAVAL. Brooklyn Center of Political Turmoil Between Negroes, Which Resulted in Bishop's Resignation. Politics--plain Republican vs. Democratic politics-has caused an upheaval in the African Methodist Episcopal Church of the whole country, with Brooklyn as the center of the disturbance.

Negro politicians of Brooklyn, some of them wearing clerical garb, have forced the Rev. Dr. Benjamin W. Arnett, Bishop of the First Episcopal District, to resign his high office. It is a great victory for the Republicans of Bridge street.

It was in the Bridge Street African Methodist Church that the trouble started. The negroes down there are Republican by inheritance and training and to them a Democrat is a lost soul. Bishop Arnett is not a Democrat, but he has a son who has Democratic leanings. Therefore, because of his close blood relation to a Democrat, the Bishop is not regarded as a fit man to rule over the negro Methodist church. He made a long and hard fight to settle the trouble in the New York Diocese, but finally had to resign.

Ill health was given as the cause of his resignation. It was only a few weeks ago that the members of Bridge Street Church defied their Bishop and locked the doors against the new pastor Bishop Arnett assigned to the church. This pastor happened to be the Bishop's son, Dr. Benjamin W. Arnett, jr.

The officials of the church were obdurate. They sent an ultimatum to the Bishop, telling him they would not accept his son as their pastor. They did not give as a reason their suspicion that he was tainted with Democracy. It was enough for them that he had a brother who was a Democrat. They announced at the same time that they would not receive the Rev.

Dr. S. Timothy Tice as their presiding elder. Tice is a negro Democrat, who won the ill favor of many Republicans of his race by espousing the cause of Judge Parker in the last presidential campaign. Bishop Arnett sent another man to Bridge Street Church, but did not replace Tice, who is still presiding elder.

The New York diocese is in a seriously disturbed condition. Bishop Arnett was a personal friend of the late President McKinley. with whom. he served as a fellow member in the Ohio Legislature. The late Mark Hanna was another friend of Bishop Arnett.

The Bishop has held many high positions in the churches and colleges of his people. THEATER ADS. MUST BE DECENT. Acting Mayor Fornes Taking Steps to Prosecute Pasters of Obscene Bills on Boards. Following upon his statement to the Eagle In which he invited complaints against theaters or persons who displayed Immoral advertisements in Brooklyn, Acting Mayor Fornes has received several letters from Brooklyn residents calling attention to what they believed were violations of the law.

He has communicated with Police Commissioner McAdoo relative to these matters and promises that they will be thoroughly investigated. 'If it is found that any theater has been violating the law, steps will 1 be taken to have its license revoked," said the mayor this morning. "I am glad to know acting that the people are taking an interest in this matter. It is impossible for the police Or city officials to get on the track of all violations of the law and we must depend upon our citizens to aid us in offenders and punishing the out ferreting guilty. "The Police Commissioner to what is the judge as constitutes a violation of the law it in he the finds matter that of theater advertisements, and offenses have been committed the guilty party should be punished." "VAMPS'" MOVING DAY.

Rockaway Volunteers Give Way on Friday to Paid Men. (Special to the Eagle.) Rockaway Beach, L. August 30-Yesterday was moving day for the volunteer firemen here and at Far Rockaway and they were busy all day carrying out their trophy cases, furniture and other effects in order to make way for the members which of the paid service, will be inaugurated here on Friday morning. Battalion Chief Ross, of Manhattan, who will be in charge of the Rockaway Beach and Far Rockaway districts, spent the here, entire day attending to matters which needed his attention. The volunteers will be mustered out of service on Friday morning.

INDEX To Classified Advertisements in Today's Eagle, CLASSIFICATION. PAGE Amusements Auction Sales Boarding 10 Business Notices Business Opportunities 11 Business Personals 16 Cats and Dogs 11 Coastwise Steamships 12 Concurrent Resolutions Corporation Notices 12-13 Death Notices 16 Dentistry Excursions Financial 14-15 Furnished Rooms 10 Help Wanted 10 Horses and Carriages 11 Hotels and Resorts 12 Instruction 11 Legal Notices 7-8-11-12 Lost and Found 16 Manhattan Amusement Marriages 16 Miscellaneous Ocean Steamships 12 Proposals 13-16 Public Notices 13 Railroads 12 situations Wanted 10 Special Notices 9 Sporting Steamboats 12 To Let and For Sale 11 Wanted 10 Where to Dine Well R. T. BOARD IS TO MEET FOR BUSINESS TOMORROW Rumor Says It Wili Have a Chance to Pass on N. Y.

Connecting R. R. Franchise. THE PROJECT IS IN ABEYANCE. Since New Law Was Enacted Nothing Has Been Done--Board of Estimate Also Meets.

A meeting of the Rapid Transit Commission has been called for to-morrow afternoon. A rumor that could not be verified has it that the New York Connecting Railroad Company will at this meeting renew its application for a franchise to build a steam railroad line connecting the New York, New Haven and Hartford and the Long Island Railroad systems. Since the company's application for a franchise was turned down by the Board of Aldermen this spring it has made no move to renew its application. This has excited some comment in view of the fact that the Board of Estimate, mem-: bers of which are known to favor the connecting railroad project, has held the franchise-granting power for several months. After the application of the New York by Board of Aldermen the Rapid Transit Connecting Railroad had been turned down Commission wrote a letter to Vice President Rea fthe company explaining the objections voiced by the aldermen in their report.

The Aldermen wanted the company to use electricity, instead of steam as a motive power and to allow the public access to the bridge which it will construct over the East River. In its answer to the Rapid Transit Commission Vice President Rea said that it would be impossible for his company to accept a franchise under the conditions fixed by the aldermen. Since this reply was recelved nothing has been done. The members of the Rapid Transit Commission say that they are powerless to take any initiative and that if anything more is to come of the project the New York Connecting Railroad Company will have to renew its application for a franchise. The matter will then go to the Board of Estimate for renewed consideration.

Acting Mayor Fornes has called a special meeting of the Board of Estimate for tomorrow morning. The board will be asked to issue bonds to the amount of $1,200,000 for alterations and furnishings on the interior of the Hall of Records in Manhattan. The contracts for these changes and furnishings were let several months ago after a considerable amount of adverse criticism on the elaborate installations contemplated had been passed. It was stated at the time that it would not have been a difficult matter to economize several hundred thousand dollars on the Hall of Records job by some alterations in the specifications that would not have resulted in chaepening the appearance of the interior of the elaborate building. Asked as to whether any other matters would come up for discussion Deputy Controller Stephenson said that he would bring papers relating to several other matters to the meeting, but that they would not be acted upon unless some one else called them up.

He said they were all matters that could wait until the first meeting after Controller Grout's return, which is scheduled for September 14. Acting Mayor Fornes said that the Will1amsburg Bridge terminal matter would not be discussed, as upon further examination the Law Department has decided that no immediate changes in the resolution are necessary. A meeting of the Sinking Fund Commission is also scheduled for to-morrow. The only matter that has so far been placed on the calendar related to the adjustment of an assessment made against a Hebrew congregation in Manhattan. The courts have decided that the assessment was illegally made.

Following that decision the Sinking Fund Commission will rectify the matter immediately, It was hoped that the Dock Commissioner would by this time be able to make some report on the municipalization of the Thirty-ninth street ferry, but the illness of the chief engineer of that department has delayed the progress of the examination, which he has in hand. It will probably be some weeks before he will be ready to report on a plan for operating and maintaining the ferry. ZARTMAN'S CHAUFFEUR HELD. Superintendent of Parks, Who Was in the Machine, Said He Was on Official Business. Fred Brown, 23 years old, living at 141 East Forty-second street, Manhattan, employed as chauffeur by William F.

Zartman, superintendent of parks, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Patrolman John E. Fennessy, of the Seventy-second Precinct, for violating the motor vehicle law in running the Park Department automobile more than tegu miles Superintendent an hour. Zartman was In the machine and the policeman says he sought to justify the high speed by saying he was on official business. The arrest was made on Ocean parkway, near Avenue along which the motor vehicle was running on its way from Coney Island. Brown, who pleaded not guilty, was held by Magistrate Voorhees in the Flatbush court this morning in $100 bail for examination on September 5, PRISONERS FISHED FROM RIVER.

Two Men, Bound for Harts Island, Jumped Overboard in Hell Gate. Captured by Life Savers. An Incident happened in Hell Gate, off the Astoria shore, on Monday, in which two men were saved and lost within a few minutes. The two men were prisoners on the city boat on their way to Hart's Island. When boat got into the eddies of Hell Gate, the two men managed to get free and jumped overboard.

Persons on the shore saw them and warned the Hell Gate crew of the Volunteer Life Saving Association. Arthur Donnelly, keeper of the Hell Gate lighthouse, and James McKenna, Dominick McHale and James Allen, members of the crew, went out in their boat and got the two men, but the latter did not want to be saved in that way and tried unsuccessfully to capsize the lifeboat. They were beaten into submission and hauled into the boat and the life savers rowed alongside of the city boat and handed the prisoners over to the keepers on board. The two men were saved from death in the river, but, in their opinion, were lost by being returned to captivity, Their names were not obtained. MRS.

DOW SMITH ENTERTAINED. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Dow S. Smith, at 175 Bay Twenty-ninth street, was the scene Thursday evening, August 24, of a supper and musical given in honor of Mrs.

Smith's sister, Mrs. S. C. Stanchfleld, and Miss Mary West of Minneapolis, who are spending several weeks with her. During the evening Russell Patterson, solo organist of the First Presbyterian Church of Newark, N.

rendered several instrumental selections while vocal selections were given by Mrs. LeRoy V. Smith, Mrs. Russell Patterson, L. V.

Smith and William O. Wood. Among those present were Miss Mary West, Mrs. S. C.

Stanchfield, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Smith, Mr. and Mrs. W.

0. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon M. Smith, Mr.

and Mrs. Dow S. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. C.

A. Parker, Masters Vernon Smith, Dow Smith, and Willie Wood, and the Misses Agnes Smith, Ruth Parker and Doris Parker. MISSING FROM RIDGEWOOD. Police of Queens Borough Asked to Find Charles Benish. (Special to the Eagle.) Jamaica, August 30-The police have been asked to aid in searching for Charles Benish, 33 years of a age, a varnisher of 159 Onderdenk avenue, Ridgewood Heights, who has been missing since August 12.

He is described as 5 feet 9 inches in height, weight 140 pounds, his face pockmarked, black hair, mixed gray mustache, and wore when last seen a blue serge cutaway coat, gray striped trousers, black straw hat, red and white striped outing shirt, black stockings and button shoes MILKMAN BREAKS AN ARM. Charles McDermott, 16 years old, who lives at 5705 Fifth avenue, and is employed Borden Condensed Milk Company, fell from one of the wagons owned the company an early hour this morning at Seventeenth avenue and Seventy-fifth street, and sustained a fracture of the left arm. He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon Livingston and was removed to the Norwegian Hospital. ONLY A SMILE FROM DEPEW. Director of the Equitable Silent When Questioned About Resigning From Board.

The board of directors of the Equitable Life Assurance Society went into session at 11 o'clock this morning. Of the forty-seven members of the board only sixteen were present. The large defection was caused by the fact that a great many of the members in the old days of the society stayed away. As things stand now twenty-five members of the board are old members and twentytwo are men appointed in the last two months. of the prominent members of the old board who stayed away to-day were: James Hazen Hyde, George J.

Gould, T. D. Jordan, Alvin W. Krech, John J. McCook, V.

P. Snyder, H. M. Alexander and William Alexander. On the other hand Chauncey M.

Depew and C. B. Alexander were both present. Mr. Depew was asked as he went in if he intended resigning to-day.

He smiled one of his old smiles but didn't answer a word. Among the prominent persons mentioned to-day as likely to be appointed directors of the Equitable Life Assurance Society is J. M. Studebaker, of South Bend, Ind. It is understood that there is a very strong movement begun in his state among the policy holders to have his name added to the list.

It is understood that Mr. Studebaker will accept the position if it is offered. PROMOTION FOR A. N. DUTTON.

Assistant Superintendent of B. R. T. Elevated Lines to Be Company's Assistant General Manager. It was announced this morning at the office of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit that Assistant Superintendent Arthur N.

Dutton, of the elevated lines, had been promoted to the position of assistant to Vice President and General Manager Calderwood. L. V. Smith has been made assistant superintendent of the elevated lines to succeed Mr. Dutton.

Mr. Dutton will have practically the same duties as were performed by George R. Folds, who has just retired from the position of assistant general manager of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system. Mr. Folds resigned to go to Chicago as general manager of the South Side Electric Railroad Company.

He was a lawyer and without any practical railroad experience he became connected with the Transit, but he soon Prooklyn. techRapid nical details of the railroad business and made a reputation assistant general manager. Mr. Dutton the advantage of a long experience in railroad work. He was connected for eight years with the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe railroads.

He gave up the position of train master of the Arizona division of the Santa Fe to come to Brooklyn as assistant superintendent of the elevated lines. He has been with the Brooklyn Rapid Transit since March, 1903. DRAGGED BY FRIGHTENED COW. Corona Farm Hand Seriously Injured by Unusual Accident-Now in a Hospital. Otto Betzold, 47 years old, a farm hand, living in Corona, 1s in St.

John's Hospital, Long Island City, suffering from a fracture of one leg, numerous bruises and cuts and probable internal injuries, all received in trying to lead a frisky cow with a long rope. Betzold started out yesterday with the cow and when he struck Jackson avenue a trolley car caused the animal to jump and frisk about and the rope got tangled about Betzold's feet and he had a hard time rescuIng himself. Betzold got the worst of the bargain, the rope winding about him as quickly as he tried to unwind himself. He struggled to control the cow, but the cow controlled and before he realized his peril the him, line was several times about his body and he was bobbing over the roadway as the cow sped away. The unfortunate farmhand at the side was found lying of the of the road by Patrolman Ehlers, Astoria precinct, and removed to St.

John's Hospital. His injuries be were found to very serious and, while he has a chance of recovering, it will be cold weather good before he can leave the institution. ACCUSES EMPLOYE OF FORGERY. Gustav Spielberg, who said he lived on West Fifteenth street, Coney Island, and was employed as a driver for Isidor a baker, of Surf avenue and West Segall, Fifteenth street, Voorhees was this arraigned before Magistrate morning on a charge of forgery. He held in default of $1,000 bonds for the Grand Jury.

The complainant against Spielberg was Segall, who declared the driver had forged his name to five checks, aggregating about $68, which he depoolted in his own name. Burnett' Extract of Vanilla Hag taken gold medals over all other brands. I will advise and present a plan for advertising your business, write WITHOUT CHARGE to you, 11 you character will of me, neighborhood telling your business, location, and the special lines you Eagle desire to push. Address B. Box 19, office.

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Return to 46 Cumberland st: reward. LOST -A FOX TERRIER, BORN WITH THREE legs. Finder will communicate with WILLIAM LYNCH, 309 Plymouth st: reward $25 if returned to above address. LOST -TUESDAY MORNING, GOING THROUGH First Second places, Clinton and Schermerhorn sts, a twisted gold PIN; liberal reward if returned. BOX 3, Eagle office.

LOST--IN PROSPECT PARK, SUNDAY EVENing, "Catherine a GOLD CROSS, with name engraved, Martin, died May 17th, 1904." Reward if returned to 115 Ninth av. LOST -BRINDLE BULL TERRIER, HAS WHITE chest and throat, also white line down center of head; license tag on collar, No. Party returning same to 590 Flatbush av, will be suit. ably rewarded. LOST -ALLIGATOR SKIN PURSE EN ROUTE between Sixth AV and Prompect Park, down Boulevard to Coney Island: among contents two small crosses, money, owner's carda, a golden lead pencil, etc.

Please return to Mrs. H. M. MILLS. 1922 Sixth av: reward.

LOST- -IN BENSONHURST MONDAY FEMALE brindle BULL DOG, answering to marked brindle head and sides shape saddle name Tifap; white shoulders and breast, screw tall. undershot, showing two under tusks. Liberal reward by returning to Mra. B. PACKARD, Eightieth st and Twenty-third av.

DR. C. C. HENDRICK FIGHTS DECREE OF SEPARATION. Applies for Order Setting Aside the Verdict of Supreme Court Justice Smith.

INVOLVES CARE OF CHILDREN. Mrs. Agnes M. Hendrick's Troubles Again Aired in Court by Husband, Who Owes Alimony. Mrs.

Agnes M. Hendrick, who has been living at 109 President street with her three children since her troubles began with her husband, Dr. Charles C. Hendrick, is again confronted with the necessity of appearing in court to protect herself from a legal attack by the doctor, who is now alleged living Philadelphia with Laura Biggar, the actress who figures all through Mrs. Hendrick's marital troubles as the one who, it is alleged, has alienated the affections of her husband.

The this case came up morning on an application by the law firm of Caruth, Zeigler and Caruth, acting for Dr. Hendrick, for an order setting aside a decree of separation obtained by Mrs. Hendrick from Supreme Court Justice Smith. Lawyer Francis W. Russell, counsel for Mrs.

Hendrick all through her fight for freedom from her husband, the appeared to oppose motion when it came before Justice Burr. Dr. Hendrick was not in court. Had he been it is quite likely that one of Sheriff Hesterberg's deputies, who was vigilantly watching the door, would have nabbed him on a warrant for his tice Marean. arrest signed by Jus-, The attack this morning Is 8 decree of separation, and made upon Mrs.

Hendrick admit the friends of tion that has been it is a vital questhat his fight by the doctor in raised of against his wife, for by the separation Mrs. Hendrick is decree solutely the custody of the three given children abfor which Dr. Hendrick more than for victory has been fighting separation in the suit itself. The the decree awarding the children to Mrs. Hendrick custody of backed up by an order of has been which would make Dr.

Hendrick Justice guilty Gaynor felony, it is said, if he disobeved the of a and removed the children from order drick's protection. If Dr. Mrs. Henwin the fight Hendrick should decree and secure a reversal of the legal bar it would remove the separation children, and against her husband getting the would try the plaintiff is afraid that he again to abduct one or them. more of There was a long by Lawyer Russell.

He argument to-day over in court thoroughly went the case and informed the only had Mrs. Hendrick been court that not her fight for a victorious in $50 a week alimony from the and an award of separation that she had also defendant, but divorce sued him for an absolute and had secured an decree from Justice Wilmot interlocutory cently. The M. Smith refinal latter has not yet been judgmnt, as the three months made required a by cree law had between interlocutory and final dethat already not elapsed. Lawyer there Russell said drick the sum was due from Dr.

Henof $2,000 unpaid Mrs. Hendrick, alimony. black, with two of her dressed in attractively court this children, was in interest to the and listened with deep morning two children, argument of her lawyer. The a boy and a girl, ably pretty, the little girl were remarkin her mother's arms when falling to sleep in the she lost interest seemed to listen surroundings, but the boy strange what was going on. The intelligence to with much who is a cripple, was left at child, a 800 third The main, and, in home.

ment made Dr. fact, the only argureason why by the Hendrick's lawyers as aside was that on the trial be set separation should lished that Dr. Hendrick it was was not estabe this state. This was combated a resident of sell, who read the findings of fact by Mr. Justice Kelly, which stated signed by ant was a that the defend.

Upon the resident of New York State. listened with Justice Burr, who had conclusion, ment, asked that to the argugreat attention be handed to all the papers in the case him. HELD FOR KICKING WIFE. John White Said, "Suppose I Have Cause for Beating John White, 40 years old, of Rochester and East New York avenues, wag arraigned before Magistrate Voorhees in the Flatbush Court this morning on the complaint of nis wife, Mary, who charged him her, knocking her down and with striking The trouble occurred on August kicking her. 26.

When Judge Voorhees asked the what he had to Bay to the prisoner plied: charge, he "Suppose I had cause for hitting her?" "come if you had cause," said the trate, here next Tuesday magisJudge Steers about the cause; $500 and tell bail." WHEN SLEEP FAILS Take Horstord's Acid Half a teaspoon in halt before a glass of water Just retiring brings refreshing sleep. PROPOSALS. FOR PROPOSALS THE FOR CITY BIDS OF AND NEW ESTIMATES YORK. NOTICE TO GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS The person or persone making a bid for any service, work, materials or estimate The City of New York, or for of its supplies for or ments, bureaus or offices, shall any furnish the in a sealed envelope, indorsed with the title eame supplies, of the the bid materials, work or service for which or estimate is made, with his or their the name or Preeident names and the date of presentation to or Board, or to the head of the partment at his or its office, on or before the date and hour named in the advertisement for the same, ceived at will which time and place the estimates re. or Board or be head publicly of said opened by the President and the award of the contract Department, made and according read to law, 88 9000 thereafter as practicable.

Each bid or estimate shall contain the place of of the person making the residence name and same, the names of all persona interested with him it therein, and it no other person be 80 Inter. that ested, it is shall made without distinctly state that fact: also, any estimate connection with any other person making an for the in all respects fair and without same purpose and la collusion or fraud, and that no member of Board of Aldermen, thereof head of or department, chief of other bureau, officer of deputy The City of New clerk York, therein, 01 become Interested, directly or Indirectly, shall be is, contracting partner, stockholder, surety a 01 otherwisce in or in the performance of the tract. or In the supplies, work or business to which thereof. it The relates bid or or in estimate any portion must of the profits the oath. in writing, of the be verified by that the several or matters parties party the all respecta true.

stated ing estimate herein are in the consent, or in writing, will two be accompanied hy Each bid estimate freeholders in The City of New York. householders or of (1 a law guaranty act or as surety surety, and company shall duly authorized by forth in the blank form contain the matter No set bid estimate will be mentioned below. condition precedent to the reception or unless consid- as or considered a eration certified of check any upon proposal one it of be the State accompanied or by a order banks of of the The Comptroller, of New York. drawn to the City National of five per centum of the or amount money to the amount of the bond quired as provided in section 420 of the Greater New York Charter. The in the check or money should not be In certified closed but should envelope be containing the bid or entir mate, addressed to either head inclosed in a separate envelope, President Board, the or of the Departthe or presentation submitted ally, For upon particulars to the of the bid or estimate.

of the supplies or as the nature quantity and and quality extent of the work, tions, reference schedules. must be made to the specificaPresident, Board or on Ale in the eald plans, office of the Department. No awarded bid be accepted who is from or contract shall to New any York person debt in arrears to The City a of defauiter, upon or contract or who 18 the as surety or otherwise, upon obligation to city. any The contracts is must reserved be bid each for separately. The right estimates in be case to reject if it deemed to be for the all bide or interest of the city so to do.

Bidders will write out the amount of their bids or estimates in addition to inserting the B31110 in figures. Bidders are requested to make their bids or timates upon the blank formy prepared and eg. niched by the city, a copy of which. with furenvelope in which to Inclose the bid. the gether with copy of the fus proper specifications, in the form approved by Including the Core the a contract, tion poration therefor Counsel, at the can office be obtained upon applicawhich the work is to be of done.

the Plans Department for unga of construction work may also be and 5900 there,.