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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE V-j CrHit Coupon CI TIIIB OUT. WtRCII 1. FOUR O'CLOCK NEW YORK CITY. MONDAY. MARCH 1.

1909. VOL. 70. NO. PAGES, INCLUDING PICTURE SECTION.

THREE CENTS. HEARD MURDER ALARM. SPECIAL LEGISLATION I.OrAL WEATHER I'HOB ABIMTIKS. Fair and ellabtly narner to-nlttht; Tundir, rloadr. followed by ralnl narmrrl llajht to moderate eootll-eaat to Month, winds.

bank, took upon ourselves the onus of paying that money, which we did. and I recovered which the bank owed me. and now the bank stock is selling for $150 over the par value per share, or for $250." "LUCKY" BALDWIN DEAD AT THE AGE OF 81 PRESIDENT'S FAREWELL TO "TENNIS CABINET" BRITTON AND SGHROEDER ON TIL FDR LU I Tl Plan Suggested at Meeting of Sinking Fund Commission Favorably Regarded. TO DRAFT BILL AT ONCE. City Could Obtain Title to Broadway Terminals at Once by This Method.

Some progress was made toward ar riving at. a solution of the ferry problem m'Uee on finance to-day voted to rein the Eastern District to-dav when the port favorably the nomination of George Officera Arrest Vm. Connell, Has Pocketful of Cartridge. William Connell, 28 years old, stone cutter, living at 3A Somers street, was In the Gates avenue court, this morning, on a charge of carrying a revolver. According to the stories of the two officers who made the arrest, they were walking along Broadway, yesterday, when they heard cries of "murder." They ran to where the crlea were coming from, where they met a man describing himself as John Fox, who said that Connell was trying to shoot someone.

Fox said he had Just climbed down the fire escape In order to get away. The two patrolmen, Hoffman and Isaac-sen, went into the house and to the back ysrd. where they found a revolver with four cartridges still In the chamber. They then went to the- fourth floor of the house, where they arrested Connell. When Connell was searched In the station house thirteen ball cartridges were found in his pockets.

Fox failed to appear In the Gates avenue rourt this morning. The magistrate held Connell for further examination. A. PATRICK IN COOilT Comes From Sing Sing to Appeal for Liberty. Asks Week's Adjournment, but Appellate Division Orders Case to Go On Late This Afternoon.

Albert T. Patrick appear before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court In Brooklyn this afternoon la the last of his numerous attempts to secure his liberty from a life sentence in Sing Sing, following the commutation by Governor Higgins from a sentence of electrocution imposed against b'm for the murder of William Marsh Rice, some years ago. The news of his application for a writ of habeas corpus to Justice Gaynor, and of the fact that he was to make a personal plea to be released upon the technical ground that Governor Hlgglns had no right to commute the sentence of the court, which was electrocution, for that of life Imprisonment, seeing that he did not ask it, brought into court a throng of prominent lawyers and curious spectators. Mrs. Patrick, too, was In court and near her husband's side.

The caBe was reached about' 2 o'clock. Assistant District Attorney Taylor 6f Mr. Jerome's staff was present and filed a voluminous return to the writ. Mr. Patrick, then on his own behalf asked for a week's adjournment In order that he might fully examine the return and see what sort of a traverse he would make.

He wanted the Appellate Judges to remand him to the custody of either Kings or New York County so he uould be near his attorneys. The Judges, through Justice Jenks, who presided, however, would not take Patrick from the custody of the Sing Sing warden, nor permit the case to go off for a week, seeing that a new court sat next Monday, They were willing to let the matter rest until Friday, but this course was not what. Patrick wanted ha got Uerinlsst-jn from Justice and his as sociates to n. ai. inly room In tho eourt and consult, with the idea ot perfecting the reply that Patrick is to make to District Attorney Jerome's return.

Then Justice Jenks ordered the rase called, at 4:45 o'clock this afternoon to see what further disposition Is to be made' of SHIP'S MATEF0UND DEAD. Michael Harding on Pier With Bullet Wound ir Head Probably Went Insane. The mate on the steamship Clare McDonald, lying at Pier No. 86, Atlantic Basin, was picked up on the pier yesterday afternoon with a bullet hole In the center of his forehead. The Long Island College surgeon who came with the ambulance, declared that death had followed Instantly.

The dead man was an Englishman, by the name of Michael Harding and was about 28 yeara old. He had Just come out of a two weeks stay at the Long Island College Hospital yesterday, and waa to have sailed back to England where he has a young wife whom he married only last December. His cabin on board of the steamer was covered with pictures'- of her. The College Hospital authorities state that the chief trouble nn tne msie Insomnia, and tney mm ne went insane. suddenly HARMONY AT OYSTER BAY.

Full Ticket Decided On by Democratic Party. (Special to the Eagle.) Oyster L. March 1-r-Harmony Is restored in the Democratic party In tbo town. A full ticket has been decided on for town election, and the Independence League will indorse it and work for It The result was brought about at a meeting at Allchln's Hotel, Glen Cove, on Saturday afternoon, when representative Democrats met Independence League leaders and discussed politics, with the above result. The trckat decided upon will be headed by ex-Senator Norton.

Mr. Norton goes on It against his own wish and against the wishes of his family and most Intimate friends. It has been represented to him. however, that no other man in town can do as much toward getting out the party vote as he, and he has consented to lay aside his own prejudices and server- The rest of the ticket is made up as follows: For supervisor, James Norton; for town clerk. Charles Weeks; for collector, John Puvogel; for justice of the peace frr Glen Cove, Charles T.

McCarthy: for Justice of the peace from the South Side, Charles Budhill; for assessors, Daniel J. Hegeman, Peter Waters, Charles G. Kiel; for town superintendent of highways, Frank Jarvis; for highway commissioners. Harry Anderson, Frank Foweler. Peter Ketcham; for overaeers of the poor, Thomas Talbot, William F.

Britt; for constables, Frank McCahill, John Thompson, Frank Fleming, Edward Gorman and Daniel Maloney. WATCHORN CHARGES DISMISSED Immigation Commissioner to Be Named (or Second Term. Washington, March 1 Secretary Straus, after conferring with President Roosevelt, to-day, announced that all charges against Robert Watchorn, commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, New York, had been dismissed, after careful Investigation, and that the President would send to the Senate the nomination of. Mr. Watchorn for another term as commissioner.

Later In the day the President- sent Mr. Watcborn'a nomination to the Sea-ate. The President also sent to the Senata the nomination of William W. Handley to be consul general at Boma, Congo Free Stale. I I WASHINGTON' LETT EES SOLD.

Four Dated in 1777 Brought $210 at London Auction. London. March 1 Four letters or documents signed by Washington were sold at auction at Sotheby's to-day for $210 to a London dealer. The letters are addressed chiefly to Colonel Israel Shreeve. commanding in New Jersey, and are dated between February, 1777, and Janu ary, 1781.

FAVORABLE REPORT ON TERRY. New York Man's Confirmation as Assistant U. S. Treasurer Expected. i ashington.

March 1 The Senate cont jS. Terry to be aaslstant treasurer of the a V-au. V. Vaa- YOrk senators supported the appointment. It is likely the Senate will confirm It within the next few days.

ARRESTED FOR PENSION FRAUD James Cunningham Well Known in G. A. R. Circles a Prisoner. Alleged in Affidavits That He Took No Part in Great Conflict as Collected $400.

James Cunningham, held in high esteem In Grand Army circles tn Brooklyn, and said to be a past commander of one of the posts In this borough, was arrested thjls afternoon by government agents, onj a charge of getting pension money through false representations. The prisoner, who is a well-known personage In the old Fifth Ward section, has been in the undertaking businesss at 158 Duffleld street for more than fifty years, and is highly respected in that locality as a neighbor, citizen and business man. Tbe charge against blm Involves the Implication that although he posed as a Veteran of the Civil War, he did not serve at all In the conflict between the North and the South. He was arraigned before United States Commissioner Benedict by Assistsant United Stales District Attorney Louis K. Bick, and released under $2,000 bail for a hearing next Monday, pleading not guilty to the charge.

The news ot Cunningham's arrest will cause a profound sensation etong his friends and neighbors and more particularly among the Grand Army veterans who have associated with him for years and who think a great deal of him. The arrest was made quietly by Peter L. Cole, the special pension examiner In charge of the local pension office and Deputy United States Marshall James Proctor. Examiner Cole, who gathered the evidence on which the charge Is based, appears as the complainant In the case. It is alleged that In affidavits filed with the United States Pension Bureau at wasn- Ington.

Cunningham set forth that he served in Company rf the One Hundred and Slxtii New 'y'lirk Volunteers tn the Civil War under 'he ot Edwin Walker under which name be declared he enlisted. On strength of the affidavits he was given discharge made out In his own name. James Cunningham. On December 14. 1904.

he issued a declaration for a pension. He was granted $6 a month. Later, on his own application, he was given $8 a month. Since making out his declaration Cunningham has collected about $400 In pension money, the last payment being made to him last November. After his arraignment before Commissioner Benedict this afternoon, gunning-ham was asked whether he wanted to make a statement.

Ha declared he had nothing to say at this time except he would engage counsel and fight tha case to a finish. MARINE DIES IN HALLWAY. Police Believe James A. Black Was Victim of a Dose of "Knockout Drops." James A. Black, 25 years old, a half-breed Indian and a marine attached to Company United States Marines, stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was found unconscious this morning underneath the Brooklyn Bridge.

He was car ried into a hallway In Park row by a companion, and there died before the ar rival of medical assistance. Because of the circumstances attached to the death, the dead man's companion, MacCormlck, a marine In the same company, and William J. Bourne, 20 years old, who said he lived at 261 High street, Brooklyn, were held by the police of tho Elizabeth street station as material wit nesses. Coroner Harburger ordered the body sent to the Morgue, where an autopsy will be performed. The police believe that the man was along the Bowery last night and this morning, and that he was given, perhaps, a dose of "knockout" drops.

According to MacCormick. Black was born in Indian Territory. He had been In Cuba for a year, MacCormick told the police, and two days ago he received $175.20 as his year's pay. Black, his companion said, was an ideal soldier and was highly thought of by Colonel Biddle. who In lu command of the marines In Brooklyn.

HOMER DAVENPORT INJURED. Cartoonist Waa Riding in a Taxicab When It Crashed Into a Tree in Central Park. Homer Davenport, the cartoonist, received gash on the forehead from flying glass, and was badly shaken up. early this morning, when a taxicab In which he was riding struck a tree on the East Drive In Central Park at Ninety-eighth street, Manhattan. There was a woman In the taxicab wuh Mr.

but he refused to give her name to the police. She escaped injury. The automobile was badly wrecked and the chauffeur, Patrick Oilgannon, 23 years old, of 893 Eighth avenue, Manhattan, was hurled twenty feet, but except for being badly shaken up he was not. in jured. After the accident Mr.

Daven port called another automobile, aud In it went to the Hotel Ansonia, Broadway and Seventy-seventh street, where he lives. $5,000 JOB FOR HURRELL. Albany, N. March 1 Alfred Hurrell of Buffalo was appointed counsel to the State Insurance Department to-day by Superintendent William H. The position pays a salary of $5,000 a year.

Mr. Hurrell is sslsstant district attorney of Erie County and a member ot the faculty of the Buffalo Law School. Opportunities, are Jew. There will be one chance en March 7 for you to sell your reel estate tn tli ft. Estete Frclet kuue uf Sunday a hegie.

As. I to an as for I to in I) LONG-MISSING BOY FOUND. Elidell, Police Sure They Have Keith E. Dalrymple. New Oilcans.

La. 1 Keith Edwin Dalrymple, 15 years old, for whom de tectives all over the country have been searching for seven months, has been found. It Is believed, at Slldell, La. Said to be heir to a big fortune, left him in trust by his father, young Dal rymple ran away from his home in Sl-loum Springs Arkansas, last June. Dr.

C. M. Palmer of Charles City. Iowa, his guardian and executor of the estate, has been notified of the lad's detention. While the boy denied he was Dalrymple, the picture of Dulrymple Is a complete likeness of him.

RUSSIA SENDS NOTE TO SERVIA Acts Alone in Intervening in Troublt Between Servia and Austria-Hungary. Berlin, 1 The Foreign Office was advised, to-day that Russia, acting alone, had delivered a note to Servia In the matter of tho difficulties between that country and Austria-Hungary, arising out of the annexation of the dual monarchy of Provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. l'hls communication is friendly and sym pathetic in tone, but it advises Servia definitely against asking for any territorial compensation at the hands of Austria-Hungary, and it demands the renunciation of this claim as a preliminary to an economic understanding between Austria-Hungary and Servia. In view of this action on the part of Russia, the Foreign Office is of the opinion that collective Intervention by the powers is now less important. BATTLESHIPS IN THE HARBOR.

The Rhode Island, New Jersey, Ohio and Missouri to Be Overhauled After 'Round-the-World Trip. Third of the 'round-the-world battleships to reach this port following the beginning of the big fleet's dispersal at Hampton Roads, the battleship Ohio steamed Into port to-day to join the previous arrivals oil Tompklnsville. The Rhode iBland and tho Now Jersey reached here yesterday and the Ohio will follow their lead In disposing of her ammunition preparatory to going to the Navy Yard for such an overhauling as may be found necessary. The Ohio, like tbe Rhode Island, has orders to proceed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where she will be laid up temporarily. The Ohio was commanded on her long trip by Captain Thomas B.

Howard. She was In the second squadron of the fleet, the third division. She kept with the rest of the fleet until Its temporary dispersal in the Mediterranean, going to Athens, Salonlca and Smyrna, whence she proceeded to Gibraltar, and sailed home with the rest of the fleet. Following the Ohio Into the harbor during the day a fourth merah-r of the Jig tin- bvrlojblri Missouri. She will follow, the came procedure as the other arriving vessels regardiug her ammunition, and then, it Is stated, will proceed to Boston to enter the Navy Yard there.

FOR 'QUAKE SUFFERERS. 2,200 Houses to Be Built at MessinaJ Regglo and Regina Elena America Supplies Material or Funds. Messina, March 1 -The work of constructing wooden houses with material sent out from the United States or purchased with American money, to shelter the earthquake' survivors, Is progressing favorably under the direction of Lieutenant Commander Reginald R. Belknap, the American naval attache at Berlin and Rome. A large portable house already is In use as a storeroom and headquarters.

The lack of carts and horses lias trade the transportation of lumber from tho dock to the point of erection both slow and expensive; it costs $4,000 to deliver enough lumber to build fiOO housea. It has been decided to build 1,000 houses at Messina, 1.000 at Rogglo an 1 100 at tbe settlement called Regina Elena, the village throe miles from here being constructed under the personal direction of Queen Helena. Rojie, March 1 The American committee for the relief of the earthquake sufferers has received the sum of from Natlu.n. the Mayor ot Romo, to be' expended as the committee thinks best in relief In the Calabrlan district. This donation Is a distinct compliment to the efficiency of the American organization.

The mayor says that more money will be forthcoming if it is needed. HOPES TO PASS SUBSIDY BILL House Wants to Put Gallinger Measure Through Without Amendment. All Depends on Republicans. Washington, Match 1 Helylng on a poll Just completed an attempt will be made to-morrow to pass through the House without amendment the Golllnger Ocean Subsidy bill, already agreed to by the Senate. If all the Republicans who have promised to vote for the bill are present there will be a mere handful of a ma-pority in Its favor.

If the Republican absentees aggregate many, the bill will be defeated. The poll shows that tho Republicans will Increase the vote In favor of the bill taken a year ago by 28 or 30, but. at the same time the opponents of the measure will swell their numbe-s. principally by a large attendance of Democrats. Two roll calls are anticipated on the bill.

The first will be on a rule, providing for a vote on the measure. It Is believed that this will be agreed to and that another roll call will be taken on the passage of the bill Itself. PASSENGER ENGINE EXPLODES. Flndlay, March 1 Engineer George of Flndlay was Instantly killed and Fireman Richards seriously Injured that he will die. when the boiler of a Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton pas senger engine exploded five miles west here this morning.

The train was en route to Fort Wayne, and was moving slowly when the explos ion occurred. Beyond a shaking up, none of the passengers was injured. Tne coach chs remained on the track. HERR BEBEL CRITICALLY ILL. Berlin, March 1 Herr Bebol, the Socialist leader In the Reichstag, who has been 111 for some time past with a disease ot the kidneys, is announced today as much woree.

He is, In fact, considered to be dangerously ill. He has had to forego participation in the councils of the Socialist party. A Deal Kutntr Forecast for lOOn Sl-ta! arttctes en tile HeBlty situation by Ex- yeru in the Sunday cuagle, Maicti auv. It Takes the Form of a Luncheon at the White House. A NOTE OF SADNESS ABOUT IT.

Mr. Roosevelt in Brief Address Praises Men Who Have Worked and Played With Him. Washington. March 1 President Roose. volt to-day gave a fnrcwell luncheon at the White House to the members of the famous Tennis Cabinet and others who have boon closely associated with him during the past seven years.

Asido from the distinguished government, officials who have served aa among the President's chief aids during his administration, and also as his companions at sports of different kinds, there wore present men whom the President, had made friends when he was roughing it in the West years ago and with whom ho had gone on numerous hunting expeditions. The occasion was memorable to those who surrounded the President to-day and the lattor's farewell words were not entirely free from notes of regret If nor. sadness. The President in a brief speech laid emphasiH on tile point that, no administration had given its chief more loyal service, and he stated that he believed that the country had never had a. more devoted set of public servants than those men through whom, he said, most of the work of his administration had been accomplished.

The President, In his remarks following the luncheon, said: "Gentlemen You are her? nominally as members, or to meet the momhern of the 'Tennis Cabinet' that is. as men with whom at tennis or hunting, or riding. or walking, or boxing. I have played, with whom I have been on the round-up. or in the mountains, or in the ranch country.

But ically. as you know, you are not hero for that reason at all you are here because you are the men and because you represent the men with whom I have worked while I have been Presideut. No administration has ever had finer or more loynl service than you have given, and I do not believe this country has ever had an abler or more devoted set of public servants. It is through you and those like yan that I have done the major part of what has been accompl ishod under this administration. Moreover, In a vast number of cases the do ng pf the work itself has been your only reward.

The credit, has come to me, to tho chief of the administration, Foi- exactly as men like to symbolize a battle by the name of tho commander, so they like to symbolize an. administration by the man at the head, forgetting that the immense majority of his acts can be clone only through others and that a really successful administration, successful from the standpoint of advancing tbe honor and the interests of the country, must be managed as ourfl has been, In a r-tlrit of rhe nioit iya! association and po-t nership. "There are many others like you whom I would have given muc to bring herj to-day. but there simply wasn't room enough: and so 1 have brought you here partly for your own aakos. but primarily as representing thousands of other workers; as reprefcemtng all good, faithful, fearless public servants, who strive their best to do what the public need demands, and who.

in the last analysis, stand all on the Bame level, when Judged by that, supreme test which tokos into chief account the spirit ot the service rendered. Whether a man is a cabinet minister, a bureau chief, a marshal, an Indircn agont, a forester, a a member of the life-saving service, clerk in a department, or a workman in a navy yard, or whether he holds ooe of a hundred other postions. makes not the slightest difference If he puts his heart and his soul and his mind into his work, and Is content to accept as his chief reward the satisfaction that comes from knowledge that the work has been well done. "So, while I rcci- you for yourselves. I greet you still more as symbollng others; and In saying farewell to you shall take as symbolizing all of you one who leaves public life when I leave It; a man who made a real personal socrifico when, seven years ago.

he came here to take office at my request; a man who has stood ever since as the type of what a good public servant should be; a man who. for the last two years, has been one or the most useful cabinet ministers who ever sat at the robinct tabic Jim Garfield." Those present at tho luncheon wore-The French Ambassador, Secretary Baron, Justice Moody, the postmaster general. Secretary Newberry, Secretary Garfield, Secretary Loeb. Solicitor General Hoyt, Assistant Secretary O'Laughlln. Assistant Secretary Winilirop.

Assistant Secretary Satterloe, Assitant Attorney General Woodruff, Assistant Secretary Phillips. Controller Murray, Commissioner Leupp. Commisslouer Nelll, Commissioner Smith, Commissioner Mcll henny, John C. Rose, Henry L. Stimson.

Lyman H. Bass, Gif-ford Pin-hot, James B. Reynolds, W. Wr. Heffelflnger, Captain Luther S.

Kelly. "Yellowstone Kelly." whom the President first met in the Little Missouri, at present an Indian agent In Arizona: W. W. Sewall, the President's old guide; Captain Seth Bullock. Commissioner Keefe, Dr.

Henry S. Pritohett, John Abcrnathy. OHIO TO DRY DOCK HERE. The battleship Ohio will be tho first of the returned Atlantic fleet to arrive at this port. She Is scheduled to Bo into dry dock In tile Brooklyn Navy Yard on Thursday morning of this week.

It Is thought that she will leave Hampton roads only In time to go immediately into dry dock upon her arrival here. The other battleships assigned to the local navy" yard will arrive later. They are the Connecticut, Rhode Island and Nebraska. The latter has never before been in Atlantic waters. She was built on the Pacific coast.

STEPS ON MATCH; BURNED. Mrs. Frances Dillman, 49 years old, wife, of William Dillman, a well-to-do baker of Cherry street, near Union place, Brooklyn Hills, was severely burned about the body yesterday morning as the result of stepping on a parlor match. The match set fire to Mrs. Dillman's morning gown as she was on her way to the kitchen.

She Is now In St. Mary's Hospital. Jamaica, in a precarious condition, and Is not expected to live. Her son, Richard, 23 years -old. received painful burns of the hands and arms In attempting to beat out the flames that enveloped his mother.

BITTEN BY HORSE. (Special to the Eagle.) Mineola. L. March 1 County Judga Edgar Jackson has appointed John Mc-Natnara of Freeport guardian ad litem for his daughter. Nora, aged 17, who is about to bring an action in the County Court, against Bella Elizabeth Baldwin for $2,000 damnpes.

claiming she was blttea by a vicious horse owned fcy the latts. Former Gold Magnate, Gambler and Horse Owner Passes Away at Arcadia. ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF '49. Lost Seven Fortunes, but Died Rich, According to His Statement His Remarkable Career. Los Angeles.

March 1 E. J. Baldwin died at his home at Arcadia, on Baldwin's ranch, today, after an illness of several weeks. He was SI years of age. Baldwin was one of the most picturesque sporting men of the last century.

Ho was a native of Butler County, Ohio, and received little or no schooling, spending the first thirty years of his life on his father's farm, where ho labored with the patience of a cart horse. Yet he made $5,000,000 in twenty minutes and won $100,000 on a bluff. The news of the wonderful gold finds in California in 1849 flnallv percolated Into the interior of Ohio, and Baldwin waa inoculated with the fever. He pros pected in one camp after another, but never struck it rich and came to the con clusion that he was hoodooed. In the sixties, he was prospecting In I'iah with a companion when they were attacked by a band of five Indians.

-in which his part- "Lucky" Baldwin. ner was killed, but he escaped after he had picked off three of his assailants and the other two had been frightened off. From then on Baldwin's luck changed. The claims he had established earlier In his career began to pan out better. Finally he got In on the ground floor of the famous Comstock mine, and he became a millionaire almost In a night.

In less than five years he was credited with having $20,000,000 and such magnates as Sharon. O'Brien, Flood and Ralston, the San Francisco captains pf industry, were glad to include him in their dealings. The nerve which was characteristic of him In later years In all his dealings was particularly manifested in a light, he had with his partners In connection with the Bank of California. They had planned a secret meeting of the directors to put through a deal tcgainsi: his wishe. He went to th" meeting auoad of time, trined with a couple of gun, and held up the entire board until an injunction, which he had applied for, had been Issued.

Ho kept them with their hands on the table for an hour and a half until his attorney appeared with the papers. After that Baldwin, by foolish Investments, began to lose gradually, but always came back In style. He parted wkh seven fortunes, his principal losses being ascribed to women. He was married four times. His campaign on the race tracks made him famous in the East.

He owned many famous thoroughbreds, which he bred himself on his Santa Anita farm, and rivaled the well known Eastern owners of a decade ago. Baldwin went to the Klondike ten years ago, but returned and established the city of Arcadia on his ranch, near Los Angoles where he also built a race track, whic is holding meetings at present. In order to prevent any opposition, ho had himself elected mayor. Many reports to the effect that he was broke in late years brought a flat denial from Baldwin, In the course of which he aaid: "It's a peculiar predicament to be into be broke and not know It. 1 own the largest number of blooded horses of any man in California thirty-seven thoroughbred racing mares, 7,000 cattle and mules.

200 breeding horses and .10,000 head of high-grade sheep. But I fear I am getting too personal. "I have been represented as a fast liver and spendthrift. I am tho furthest removed from It. I am not a 'spender' or a 'high I noticed In the papers recently tnat nave lost a great parr ot my iurtUUe 1-WHiUiK lJJrni mtn.

iunr.cn me laugh, and must have made Fair. Ralston, Mark Livingston and Senator Sharon groan and turn over in their graves. I quit one poker game over winner It lasted three years. The cheapest chip was $100. It was in California.

No. I'm away ahead on poker. In my whole life's run. you might say. won In a walk.

"The biggest bluff I ever made was $100,000. I gave an option on some Ophir stock to Ralstson Senator J. Jones and Senator Sharon, till 11 o'clock the next morning. 1 walked Into Sharon's office and said: 'I'll give you $100,000 shaking the money at him, 'if you will let me off on that Glajter Brothers, of New York City now, were my brokers then. Now.

I really would have given him $250,000 to have had him buy the stock. Well, he refused my and took tho stock, just what I wanted him to do. "I made $5,000,000 once In twenty minutes; that's what gave me the Bobrlquet It was this way. and not as It has been repeatedly printed. Flood.

O'Brien. Mackay and Fair wanted to get the control of Ophir stock. They already had the Consolidated Virginia and the California. "I was Informed that La Sack, president df the company, was to get 000 to turn the property or control over them. This was hlB ruse.

He called extaji meeting. The purpose was to elect another director, making six. He was to be the other, and to claim two votes, one as president and the other director, and thereby get control. My lawyer' R. H.

Lloyd of San Francisco told me he could not possibly serve an injunction before 11:20 or 11:30. 1 ne meeting was set for 11 and all were present. I told my lawyer I would delay mat ters half an hour. I did. 1 got into a dispute with La Sack, called to 8.

W. Orayson, now of San Francisco, to watch fair play, knocked mm down t-vice, the last time under a large table, where kept hint. At 11:30 the paper was served, and then 1 secured the control nd made Dy tne operation. This was done simply by getting twenty minutes time and baffli ig them in their scheme. 'The California uanK went brotte trying break me.

They railed for $14,000,000. That was in 1875. With twenty-two years experience after that I'm not going broke a minute. Glazer now of New York, were my brokers when tte bank made a demand on them for l.O00,0n0 cash owed, by 3 P.M. They thought that would force me to sell my stock, as Ihev knew I owed them $1,000 000 and was short of ready rash.

When the time came the bank had their money and I offered to lend them $500,000. In August the bank failed for $14,000,000. Jim O. Mills. Senator Sharon.

It. 11. Lloy.l, Michael Reese and myself opened that Former Officials of Eagie Savings and Loan Company May Not Testify. JURY IS ORDERED LOCKED UP. Counsel for Defense May Plead That Officials Had a Bight to Borrow Company's Funds.

The case of (he people against Colonel fdward E. Brltton, former president of he Eagle Savings and Loan Company, and Quarantine Commissioner Frederick H. Schraedor. formerly second vice president of the same company, on the charge of the larceny of $4,000 from the com-' pany on February 29, 1908. began this morning in the Supreme Court before Justice Jaycox There are four Joint indictments against the charging larcenies on different occasions amounting In all to $7,348.17.

Assistant District Attorney Robert H. Elder, who is conducting the prosecution, decided to make his fight to conWct the defendants on the Indictment chargiug the larceny of M.OOO. The two men both of whom are very prominent, Colonel Brltton being one of the leading authorities on military affairs In the country, and Mr Schroeder, Republican district leader of the Sixth Assembly District got into trouble through their connection with a mining venture In the Black Hills of South Dakota. They were' interested In the Home-take South Extension Mining Company, hich Is said to adjoin the famous Hearst Homesteak mine. Much money wa reeded for its development, and many politicians were induced to subscribe for tock.

To carry the company over a period of stringency, which resulted from ihe panic, they drew on the cash of the Eagle Savings and Loan Company, to the amount ot $47,986.31. Checks were drawn on the Hamilton Trust Company and the Mechanics and Traders Bank by Commissioner Schroeder to the amount of $38,004.60. although to had not had an account at the Hamilton Trust Company for ten years and only small acciunt at the Mechanics and Traders Bank. Treasurer Carried the Brltton and Schroeder Checks as "Cash." These checks had been carried as "cash" by Joseph Wood, secretary and treasurer of the loan company, who acted under, instructions from his two superiors In so doing. Colonel Brltton, the president, had signed checks which were carried In the same fashion by the treasurer, and aggregated $9,981.72.

All of this was discovered bv a state bank examiner last July, and after an Investigation, the two officers resigned their positions In the company, and were Indicted on four of these transactions by the grand Jury and arrested in record time. They were arraigned before Judge Dike in the Couniy Court July 81. and pleaded not guilty, They were hoid under bail on each Irdlr.tment and Colonel Br! ton. who had a savi.igs account of t4.061.26 In the loan company, applied I his In the form of restitution, so that the actual loss to the company was reduced to $43,927.06. Assistant District Attorney EHer said to-day that almost all of this amount was still carried as a deficit on the books of the The two men under Indictment admitted at the time tlat the Irregularities were discovered th.it, tbey had used the money, they that they had Intended to restore every cent ot the money to the company.

Tile concern was in excellent condition the time, having" surplus of S200.000. and Its stah'lity was not affected by the dlsclosu'es. Elwin 8. Piper, was subsequently elected president of the company. It was freefy asserted at the time that the two men wot'd have been enabled to make good amounts they had secured in a tew weeks, without discovery, hat! it not been for bv work ihe state tank examiners.

He also said that there would be no dispute about the taking of the money of the bank, to the amount of about 40,000. bot that the defense would be that the taking of the money waa not stealing, or larceny. The whole case will undoubtedly revolve about his point, as it will be claimed that the loan com pany officials showed that they did not Intend to deprive the concern of the money, as they left the checks with the cashier as memoranda. The first talesman examined, Joseph Wiley of 486 McDonough street, waa peremptorily challenged by Mr. Roy, and then several others were either excused or challenged by one side or the other, so that It was nearly half past eleven before the first Juror was sworn in.

Edward Thomas of 278 Monroe street, fire insurance broker, was the first Juror accepted, and this despite the fact Schroeder. he said was a friend of his father. He is a good looking young man. apparently about the average In Intelligence. The other Jurors selected at the morning session were all young men.

They were as follows: Samuel D. Pettit, of 751 East TwelRTl street, insurance Frank J. Wheeler, of 67 Rapelye street. Walter Weston, of 622 Prospect place. Elbert T.

Mattheson, a real eatate and Insurui ee broker, of 364 Westminster road. Eugene S. Massey, of 51 Jefferson avenue. William H. Wallace, of 565 Seventy-fourth street.

Henry B. Thurston, of 23 Flske place; employed In the wholesale, paper business. When adjournment was taken at 1 o'clock, with eight Jurors in the box. Justice Jaycox made an announcement of a sort that has been made tn none of the Important criminal case tried In Brooklyn for many months. He said: "Tn a case of this kind It seems to the Court to become the wisest course to have the Jury isolated.

I shall put you In charge of officers, who will escort you to your meals and take you to a hotel at night. This Is In no way a reflection upon you or upon counsel. It Is merely the Idea of the court that a more correct result will be attained In this way. If you circulito among your friends and the public generally, your minds might be perverted by chance remarks. In this -y.

feel, we can get better results." iL Elder's suggestion, the court of-'ers were then Instructed to allow the ii'rors to send home for such articles as they might reoulre. and to Inform their families of their detention. TEST OF ATJTO FIRE ENGINES. Deputy Fire Commissioner Wise and Mayor McClellan to Be Present. Deputy Fire Commissioner Charles C.

Wise will this afternoon superintend a test ot two horseless fire engines. Mayor McClellan will be there to sec for himself how the automobile engines measure up In the various requirements exoected of efficient flre-flghtlng machinery. The test will begin at 3 o'clock. If ron are- at all Interested In Real Kstate, be mire and set the Sunday Eagle nf March 7. It will contain articles by Roalty Experts, giving a forecast of the market for Sinking Fund Commission held a public hearing on the plan of Dock Commissioner Spooner to prepare the property which the city proposes to take at the foot of North Second street for ferry purposes.

Mayor McClellan and his associates practically admitted that in the end the only solution of the problem would be the establishment of another municipal ferry on the same lines as the Staten Island land Thirty-ninth street lines which are now operated by the city. The Mayor is very much opposed to the municipalization of anflther ferry line. He acknowledged that frankly in discussing the question with the delegation of business men who came from the Eastern District to be beard on the question. "Municipal operation," said the Mayor, "is the last desperate resort. It should never be resorted to until every other re.

source fails. Therefore, speaking for myself I am opposed to the city operating any more ferries." Nevertheless the, delegation was not discouraged. They came over in the belief that the city could take title im mediately to any portion of the terminal property of the old ferry company. But Corporation Counsel Pendleton Inform-. them that they were mistaken.

Condemnation proceedings would have to be Instituted first, and Mr. Pendleton Informed tne committee that It might take two years before title to the property could be Invested In the name' of the city. The reason that the city W83 In a position to take title Immediately to the orop-erty required for the Thirty-ninth street and Staten Island ferries. Mr. Pendleton said, was due to the fact that Etch a proceedure hnd been sanctioned by legislative enactment.

That rue by Mr. Pendleton was seized upon Immediately by the committee. They gave the Mayor and his associates to understand that they would apply to the Legislature for the passage of a law which would permit the city to take ell or part of the Broadway terminal, and vest title as soon as the condemnation commissioners had been appointed by the courts. Condemnation Is the only alternative In view of the fact that the company Is asking $7,000,000 for the property, and on tho tux books it is valued only at $870,000. The delegation which appeared before the commission consisted of former Mit- or Frederick w.

Wurster. Charles F. Tut tie. Colonel Andrew P. llalid.

Alexander D. Seymour. 'George R. Thompson, i nomas K. Wallace.

Herbert O. Taylor, George H. Fisher and Thomas P. Peters. Mr.

Wurster made it plain to the commission that, any plan to divert the traf fic to the ferry terminal which the city proposes to establish In the vicinity North Second street would be useless to tne nranuraeturing interests in tne Eastern District. If the ferry service was to be resumed it, should be from the old terminal at the foot of Broadway. Mr. Wurster declared. It was there where all the elevated and surface lines had their terminals and the facilities as far as the approach to the terminal are concerned, he said, were of such a character that they could not be excelled in any other part of the Eastern District.

"I believe that the commission Is right In trying to conserve the Interests of the taxpayers and refusing to yield to the extravagant demands of any corporation, but why cannot the city take portion of the present terminal- at the foot of Broadway. It is not necessary to take it all, and then the ferry Bervlce may be resumed Immediately." It was at this point that Mr. Wurster waa informed that the city did not have the right to take title to the property until a condemnation commission had acted first. He was informed, however, that this obstacle could be removed by special legislation, as in the cases of Thirty-ninth street and Staten Island ferries. Mayor Wurster said that he and his friends were ready to secure that legislation.

In order that they might act in harmony with the city officials, he requested Corporation Counsel Pendleton to assist them in having a satisfactory bill drawn. Mr. Pendleton said that he was willing, and In a few days will arrange for a meeting between himself and a committee of Mr. Wurster's associates to draft the necessary bill. The committee consists of Alexander D.

Seymour. John R. Thompson, Charles F. Tuttle, Herbert G. Taylor and George H.

Fisher. It was at this point that the mayor explained that he was against municipal operation, except as a last resort. Charles F. Tuttle thereupon presented one of the strongest arguments thus far presented to the city officials, in which he sought to satisfy the mayor and the rest of the commission that here, if any where, was a case of the last desperate resort." The Mayor did not say that he was willing to a'-cept the situation as one of last resort, but his attitude was anything but antagonistic. Mr.

Tuttle said that no matter If the ferries were operatea Dy Ihe city a loss, there were Involved the Interests of business men paying taxes on property assessed at $2,000,000. "This Eastern District section," he said, "Is one of the most valuable assot3 the city has anywhere within Its boundaries. We have everything there to make It an ideal manufacturing center and everything to make It the greatest taxpaying asset of the city except transportation. tell you that If private capital were collecting all the taxes of the business men concerned. It would run ferries' to Broadway, not only at a loss, but it would run them free.

Private capital would be glad to have this last desperate chance." Very brief and only Incidental reference was made at one stage of the proceedings to the proposed lease to the city by the New York Terminal Company of the Broadway ferry terminal property. The Mayor, the Controller and other members of the Commission were unanimous In agreeing that the price asked by the Terminal Company. J420.0O0 a year for the whole terminal, or $210,000 for half of was excessive. COOK'S TIRADE STANDS. House Committee Finds It Privileged, Although President Was Attacked.

ashington, March 1 The special committee of which Mr. Mann bf Illinois was chairman, which was appointed to examine the recent speech of r. Cook of Colorado, attacking President) Roosevelt, to-day reported to the House that Mr. Cook's remarks, "treated as- a whole, do not contain language In violation of tho privileges of debate and flo not call for further action by the House." Tbe report was approved and the special committee discharged..