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1908. 3 NOT ALLOWED TO REPRESENT FRANCE, Castro First Grants Permission and Then Withdraws It. ANOTHER COUNTRY INVOLVED. Conjecture as to Whether Brazil Will Regard This Action as an Insult. Caracas, August 31-President Castro's refusal to permit the Brazilian Charge d'Affaires Lorena de Ferreira to assume charge of French interests in Venezuela is the latest fuel thrown on the smoldering fire of Venezuela's international complications, and speculation is rife in Caracas as to whether or not Brazil will look upon this action as an insult directed at her and what France will do towards getting representation here for her interests after this rebuke.

For the past two months, ever since the American Legation was withdrawn, French interests have been unrepresented here, and, as a consequence, many payments by the Veneuelan Government to French claimants and creditors have gone uncollected. Large sums are now in the banks, and are likely to remain there until some one given authority to receive them. France is left in a very embarrassing position on accaunt of Castro's action, because it is a delicate task to find some other government to accept charge of her interests after what has occurred. The situation is somewhat involved, since the Venezuelan Government at first, on August 6, in a note from the Foreign Officer to Senor Ferreira, accepted the Brazilian Legation as in charge of French Interests, and it was not until August 10, in a second note, that the refusal of President Castro to permit tho Brazilian Charge to act for France was communicated to him. Senor Ferreira had in the meantime notified his government that the Veneuelan Government had given him its acceptance.

Dr. Jose de J. Paul, Minister for Foreign Affairs, explained in his second note that Venezuela's refusal was due to the fact that the government desired to continue to cultivate friendly relations with Brail, and that if Brazil assumed charge of French interests, a in addition to American interests, the conservation of these friendly relations would be very improbable, especially as the dispute with France bore a relation to those with the United States. Considerable surprise has been expressed by several members of the diplomatic corps that France. did not elect to place her interests in the hands of Sir Vincent Corbett, the British Minister, but the fact that several British corporations are involved in a controversy with the government here may be snfficient explanation for this, although Sir Vincent as yet has presented no claims in their behalf.

are in of their Charge The six Legations, remaining in Caracas d'affaires respectively, with the exception of those of Germany and Great Britain. Baron von Seckendorff, the German minister, already has under his care the interests of four nations, and he is at his wits' ends to keep from losing his enviable record of being almost the only diplomat persona grata with Castro. Dutch interests, however, are a serioug menace to the continuance of that distinction. The rumors current to the effect Holland will make a naval demonstration in Venezuelan waters has caused great surprise here, because no one in Caracas, under the circumstances as they are understood in Venezuela, can see what grounds Holland has for taking such action, and it is generally believed that the restoration of friendly relations with the island of Curacao is impossible until the apology demanded by the Minister of Foreign Affairs is forthcoming from The Hague. MARRIAGE LICENSES Issued in Brooklyn for Twenty-four Hours Ended at Noon To-day.

A August H. Kirckman, 26 years, 304 Stagg st, and Josephine F. Subr, 24 years, 611 St. John's place. Joseph Dettman, 24 245 Humboldt st, and Cristina Hepner, eyearg, years, 220 Humboldt st.

Russell J. Sweeney, 22 years, 256 Fifth av, and Ellen M. King, 20 years, 256 Fifth av. Paul Van Fromm, 25 years, 101 Cooper st, and a Elizabeth Angerman, 24 years, 493 Logan street. James J.

Hearns, 26 years, 179 Fourth av, and Mary V. Dacey, 19 years, 533 Third av. Salvatore Glammanco, 22 years, 506 East Thirteenth st, Manhattan, and Anna Penzavecchia, 19 years, 204 Union st. Kalman Chotimsky, 28 years, 157 Seigel st, and Rose Cotkin, 20 years, 515 Watkins st. Lorenzo Cassara, 28 years, New Brunswick, N.

and Antonia Giacalone, 20 years, 323 Melrose st. Jacob Haar, 21 years, 1943 Douglass st, and Sarah Rubin, 23 years, 35 Osborn st. Daniel McGowan, 26 years, Jersey City, N. and Florence Watts, 26 years, 80 North Oxford st. James McNamee, 22 years, 409 Fifteenth st, Manhattan, and Katherine Dell, 21 years, 99 Meserole st.

Henry Unseld, 21 years, 131 Graham av. and Elizabeth McNiff, 19 years. 702 Grand st. Gaspari Monteleone, 19 years, 2334 Tilden av, and Rose Maniscalchi, 19 years, 154 Hamburg av. Joseph Arnold, 23 years, 111 Stagg st, and Anna Eid, 19 years, 108 Montrose st.

Frank Procaccini, 24 years, 211 Reid av, and Angiolina De Prospo, 21 years, 1825 Fulton street. Madula, 18 years, 601 Third av, and Apolonia Osmola, 24 years, 448 Sixth st. Solomon Harris, 58 years, 144 Palmetto st, and Sabina Wittner, 45 years, 399 Himrod st. Raffaele Di Marco, 52 years, 67 North Oxford at, and Maria G. Marande, 26 years, 67 North Oxford st.

Timothy J. Buckley, 23 years, 118 Lott st, and Anna V. Dougherty, 22 years, 596 Driggs avenue. George B. Philo, 33 years, Montclair, N.

and Josephine Shaddock, 26 years, 604 Kosciusko st. Charles Sesofsky, 27 years, 426 Christopher av, and Rosie Sallerkraut, 20 years, 59 New Lots road. Abraham R. Koen, 25 years, 85 Eldridge st, Manhattan, and Bessie R. Meyer, 20 years, 1143 Herkimer st.

John E. Todd. 30 years, 191 Garfield place, and Ethel M. Evelyn, 30 years, 426 Cumberland street. Frederick H.

Blake, 21 years, 311 Van Buren st. and Helen F. Doughty, 21 years, 775A Halsey st. Andrew Vonnes, 35 years, 152 Leonard st, and Eva Hellerman, 21 years, 65 Scholes st. Eugene J.

May, 36 years, 311 Union st, and Mary E. Dugan, 28 years, 428 Union st. John Killoran, 27 years, 46 Underhill av, and Mary Christie, 29 years, 560 Vanderbilt av. Robert J. Little, 23 years, 497 Third av.

and Mary W. Connell, 22 years, 59 South Eighth street. Michael Loughman, 32 years, 49 Albany av, and Anna Breslin, 28 95 Nostrand. av. James Hogan, 46 years, 178 Classon av.

and Mary Kiernan, 39 years, 178 Classon av. George P. Baerries, 22 years, 236 East Tenth st, Manhattan, and Lelia M. Shaffer, 23 years, Hooper st. Whit ford Drake, 25 years, Waltham.

and Evelyn B. Rockwell, 25 years, 171 Prospect Park West. William Barnes (colored), 34 years, 1847 Fulton st, and Nanie Edwards (colored), 34 years, 1847 Fulton st, Giacomo Pandolfo, 23 years, 208 Union st, and Antonietta Gagliano, 22 years, 200 Union st. Pasquale Pennisi, 22 years. 270 Covert st, and Bellinda D'Andrea, 24 years, 398 East New York av.

Rosaria. Di Martino, 32 years, 53 Morrell st, and Maria V. Borgese, 26 years, 53 Morrell street. Hugh Mulligan, 28 years, 67 Ellery st. and Catharine Etherson, 23 years, 497 Greene avenue.

Frank J. Grogan, 27 years, 169 Starr st, and Annie F. Collins, 20 years, 319 Utica av. Francis E. Gilmartin, 23 years, 471 Fifth av, and Elizabeth Kane, 23 years, 740A Union st.

Frank A. King, 25 years, 394 Dean st, and Katharine J. Smith, 19 years, 393 Dean st. I CAPT. TOM COLLUM BURIED.

Was One of the Most Loyal Supportof Late Mayor Gleason. Captain Thomas Collum, who held the office commissioner of public works under the late Mayor Gleason, in Long Island City, was buried from his late home, on Jackson avenue, this morning. Captain Collum took prominent part in Long Island City politics during the several terms of Mayor Gleason, and at one time published a newspaper, which attracted considerable attention for its originality of expression. He was also 3 campaign orator, and was employed 10 presidential campaigns by mocracy. He is survived by his widow, two sons and a daughter.

BROOKLYNITE IN ASYLUM. H. O. Bernard Now in Insane Hospital, Westboro, Mass. Was Formerly Very Wealthy and a Large Manufacturer of Straw Goods.

(Special to the Eagle.) Worcester, September 2-H. 0. Bernard, once a prosperous and wealthy resident of Brooklyn, is an inmate of the Westboro, State Insane Hospital, and the present indications are that he will end his days there. He was committed for treatment as a voluntary patient on May 2 last, and the four months confinement has shown no improvement for the better. At the time he entered the hospital he understood his condition and was willing to go on advice from the members of his family, who went with him.

Mr. Bernard is one the most widely known manufacturers of straw goods in the world. At one time he was one of the largest manufacturers and heaviest taxpayers in the town of Westboro. In 1880 he owned the largest factory in the town, emploved between 1,200 and 1,300 hands, doing a business of $2,300,000, with a payroll of about $400,000 a year. He also owned National House property, on East Main street, in Westboro.

The changing hands of the last of his property in the town is said to have weighed heavily on his mind, and because of his old age it made him a physical and mental wreck. He lived in Brooklyn for many years, maintaining a residence there while his business was in Westboro. He has traveled extensively and has much furniture that cost a great deal of money, also oil paintings and statues of great value. In his younger days he was a lover of fast horses and was financially interested in some of the fastest horses in this country. At his home were oil paintings of some of his fast horses.

Mr. Bernard is about 75 years old and childish. After his house was sold he and his daugters, the Misses Louise and Virginia, went to reside in the Sargent House, on Summer street, in the center of the town, where they have remained during the summer, The family has a substantial income from property in South Carolina, and the daughters want to go there and live, but they are waiting the outcome of their father's illness. Mr. Bernard imagined all his property was being taken from him, and before going to the hospital asked his friends if they would take him to the poor farm.

When his paintings were being moved from his house he feared they would be stolen. His daughters are looking out for what property he has, and they visit him frequently in the hospital. A married daughter, Mrs. Helen Butterfield, lives in Brooklyn, her husband being a wealthy straw manufacturer. FOR CULVER LINE STATION.

Kensington Location Discussed by Kensington and Parkville Improvement League. After a two months vacation the Kensington and Parkville Improvement League, Andrew Klam, president, met last night at Bleichner's Hall, East Fourth street and Avenue D. The location of a permanent station at Kensington was discussed. The matter has been before the Public Service Commission, which requested the B. R.

T. the league to agree as to where the station should be erected. It was expected that Superintendent Dutton would speak last night, but he was not present, and the failure of the B. R. T.

to send a representative to the meeting was criticised. Some of the members of the league said last night that a station should be built at Sixteenth avenue, while others favored the Kensington location. Captain Walter Thompson said that if the B. R. T.

would build a station at Avenue which is between Kensington and Sixteenth avenues, the problem would be satisfactorily solved. This plan met with favor. A committee was appointed to see the B. R. T.

officials, come to an agreement regarding the 10- cation of a permanent station on the Culver division and report to the committee having the matter in charge. At present the B. R. T. trains stop at Sixteenth avenue and Kenkingston, but it was said last night that the company would not continue to make these stops.

The distance between the two stations is to lower its tracks at Sixteenth avenue 600 feet. The league wants the B. a R. T. and concrete the platforms.

A complaint was G. W. Borchers concerning stray dogs roaming through Parkville. These nominations for officers and directors were made Captain Walter Thompson, president; E. W.

Cushing, vice president; Kern, corresponding secretary; M. L. Cordozo. financial secretary; M. W.

Looker, treasurer; directors, eight to be elected, H. S. Kern, W. C. Kaufman, E.

W. Cushing, A. W. Cherrington, W. C.

Whitbeck, H. E. Fuller, F. Weals, Charles Larish, Captain H. J.

Woods, Alfred W. Rosekranz, Alexander McDonald, Andrew Klam and Benjamin Breun. REFUSES MONEY; IS BEATEN. Eugenio Sciavoni of 233 Rockaway avenue was complainant in the Butler street court this morning, before Magistrate Dooley, on a charge of assault, which he preferred against Antonio Pasquale of 24 Osborn street. The latter was arrested by Detective Fischetti of the Vachris Italian squad, who had heard that the prisoner had tried to force Sciavoni to give him money, and when the cash was not forthcoming beat him mercilessly.

The trouble occurred in a liquor saloon on East New York avenue last night. Pasquale pleaded not guilty and was held to answer. 'LEGS CRUSHED BY A CAR. As a Broadway car was rounding Fourteenth street into Union Square, Manhattan, this morning, the forward trucks left the tracks and dropped the front of the car into an excavation eighteen inches deep at the trackside. James Maher, 35 years old, a riveter living at 232 East Seventy-second street, bad both legs crushed by the trucks, and Dr.

Monroe, of the New York Hospital, said that the legs would probably have to be amputated. BIG JUDGMENT AGAINST FIRM. Twenty-nine separate judgments were filed to-day against P. I. and S.

Newman in favor of the Williamsburgh Trust Company. One judgment is for $11,231.22, while the balance are of much smaller amounts, aggregating, with the former, a sum in excess of $20,000. The firm dealt in horses and gave notes in payment for feed and other goods purchased. This paper was handled by the Williamsburgh Trust Company for a depositor. GLARKE IS HOME AGAIN, SILENT ON BLACK HAND What the District Attorney Learned About Brigands in Italy He Isn't Telling.

SAYS HE HAD A GOOD REST. Believed to Have Gathered Material That Will Be Useful in Making Prosecutions. John F. Clarke, district attorney for Kings, and Assistant District Attorney Francis L. Carrao returned from Europe this afternoon on the North German Lloyd steamship Barbarossa, from Cherbourg, France.

They have been away three months, traveling in Italy and France, with the especial object of studying the Black Hand system in the former country and the Italian criminals in both. From the time that Mr. Clarke left Brooklyn it was persistently reported by leading Italians, both here and in Manhattan, that it would be better for the two Brooklyn men to keep their itinerary secret, inasmuch as lawless societies that both would Mr. be apt Clarke to and annoy Mr. Italian, Carrao knowing Were interested in the prosecution of Italian criminals in this country.

"I have nothing to say on the subject of the Black Hand, threats, our travels, or anything that we saw or did abroad," said Mr. Clarke, laughingly, upon his arrival at the Hoboken docks to-day. really cannot say anything about it. We went away for a rest, and we got it. I have not kept in touch with affairs here to any extent." "How about that amusing incident upon arrival at Naples?" Mr.

Clarke was asked. "Oh, that was a mere exhibition of Italian courtesy," said Mr. Clarke. "Carrao and I tried hard to keep our coming and going secret, so as to get the rest we wanted. Somebody tipped off the Italian Government, and so, when we landed at Naples, there were two soldiers who greeted followed us and escorted us to our hotel.

When we wanted to get drink at the bar, the two soldiers stood at attention behind our seats. We asked them to join us, but they only stood like marble statues and saluted. I asked Carrao, who speaks the language, whether we were pinched. Carrao said it was, on the contrary, mark of great honor that the King of Italy thus showered attention on us." The fact that Mr. Clarke went to the very seat of the Black Hand system for his investigations caused much uneasiness among the respectable element in the Italian colony.

Letters were addressed to Mr. Clarke by leading and friendly Italians, warning him against allowing the Italian press generally to print the itinerary of his travels Italy, The letters did not reach through Mr. Clarke until he and his friend Carrao reached France Then the Brooklyn men were Clarke safe from Italian annoyance. Mr. said to-day that neither he nor Carrao had received anything but the most hospitable treatment wherever they went.

Although neither Mr. Clarke nor Mr. Carrao would allow himself to be quoted one way or the other to-day on the subject, it is understood that the district attorney of Kings has made valuable notes on the Italian brigand system, to be used in the prosecution of Italian offenders here. It is also understood, on good authority, that Mr. Clarke is now about the best posted man on Black Hand methods on this side of the Atlantic, for he is said to have received much valuable information on the subJect from Italian officials.

There are a number of Black Hand cases awaiting trial, and it was hinted to-day that possibly the opportune arrival of the Kings County district attorney may supply the prosecution these offenders the necessary proof" of former guilt." ANGRY AT CORRAO. Italians May Formally Protest Against His Criticism of Italy's Judicial System. Loud protests are being made against Assistant District Attorney Francis L. Corrao, on account of recent statements from him concerning corrupt practices the judicial procedure of Italy. Certain of the Italian leaders in the city are even seriously contemplating the holding of a great mass meeting of protest against Mr.

Corrao, at which his resignation from office will be demanded. The statements which are responsible for this feeling appeared in the Eagle of August 9, in a letter from the Eagle's Paris correspondent, in which the opinions of Mr. Corrao, who was then traveling in Italy with District Attorney Clarke, are set forth. The statement that is criticised was as follows: "I am very much disappointed in the judicial system of Italy. I find that criminals commit crimes, in the great majortiy of instances, with impunity; that the jury system is regarded by the best minds of Italy not only as corrupt, but as a complete failure.

The criminal procedure of Italy is away behind the times. A case which it would take two days to try in America, it would take nearly a month conclude in Italy. As long as an action concerns property, you stand a fair chance of a just decision, because of jealousy in those matters, but it it is a case of murder and crime the jurymen are not only easily influenced by the fantastic style or oratorv which prevails there, but they are corrupt. No wonder that when they come over to America they try bribery on our judges. The best men shrink from jury duty.

One man told me he paid a certain amount every year to escape jury duty. They talk about the corruption or Tammany Hall, but I tell you that Tammany Hall politicians could go to Italy and learn a trick or two in the way of corrupting the elector." The Italian Evening Bulletin, of which F. is manager, replied to this attack upon the Italian judiciary on August 29. The article denied every statement which Mr. Corrao was quoted as making.

It declared that he was in the country but for a few days and could not, in that time, possibly study the system thoroughly; that it was absurd for him to draw sweeping conclusions from the statement made by one juror in that land the people become irrespon- STANDARD cO ALE FOR 831VM VICHY NATURAL ALKALINE VICHY THERMAL INDIGESTION AND GOUT VICHY CELESTINSI Ask your Physician LESTIN when they come to this country; that the law In Italy is enforced without favor, and in the strictest fashion; and that it is indeed presumptuous for a politician serving under the corrupt New York government to prate about corruption. It accused Corrao of trying to gain favor with the Americans by dragging down his ancestral country. Michael Pette, one of the leading Italians of Queens expresses himself as most indignant at the utterances of Corrao. "This he said, "made a flying trip through' the country. I went, after coming from Italy twenty years ago, back to ynative land, and studied conditions closely there, and I found no such corruption.

don't make 80 many laws Italy, bat they enforce what they do make. They don't hang up signs that a noffense is punishable by $500 fine and imprisonment, when they never impose a fine of more than $2 for the misdemeanor. The judges in Italy are appointed for life, and don't have to curry favor with any political party. The laws sre made by men of wide judicial experience, and after long deliberation, The Italians can't find out when they come to America anything about the system of doing things, 80 they become irresponsible. They hear that offenses are punishable by certain fines, and find less are imposed, and thev think the system too lenient.

I am as good an American as Corrao, but I don't think it is right to run down the country of one's birth to become popular. The Italians of New York are considering a mass meeting of protest, and Corrao will then find out what he is thought of." OBITUARY. Mary Campbell Roome. Mary Campbell, widow of Henry B. Roome, who was for many years connected with the Journal of Commerce, died yesterday at her residence, 51 Quincy street, of paralysis.

She came to this country Ireland, when where 3 she years was old born from March Belfast, 4, 1833, and was one of oldest members of the Tompkins A Avenue Congregational Church. She is survived by a son, Charles and two daughters, Mrs. William J. Spence and Miss Anna V. Roome, who is the probationary officer attached to the Manhattan avenue police court.

Thomas McGrath. Thomas McGrath, a prominent lawyer and real estate dealer of Brooklyn, who for twenty-one years had an office in the Garfield Building, died Monday at his summer home in Goshen, N. Y. He was born in Manhattan in 1854 and had passed most of his life in this borough. He was a member of St.

Michael Holy Name Soeiety, Vigilant Council, R. the West End Board of Trade and the Municipal Ownership League of South Brooklyn, and leaves a widow, Catherine, two daughters, Mrs. Harry Dobbins and Alice, and a grand-daughter. The funeral services will be held to-morrow morning at St. Michael's Cathlic Church and the burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.

Agnes A. H. Rau. Agnes Augusta Houdlett, wife of Emanuel Rau, a retired manufacturer of machinery, of Manhattan, died Monday at her residence, 169 Heyward street, of Bright's disease. She was born in Berlin, Germany, 61 years ago, the daughter of Ferdinand and Augusta Houdlett, and came the old town of Williamsburgh more than 50 years ago.

She was an early member of St. John's M. E. Church. Besides her husband she is survived by three sons, Emil, Alfred and Alexander, and two daughters, Sadie and Elfrida.

Otto Segelcke, Otto Segelcke, one of the last of the old-time chophouse keepers of Brooklyn, died to-day at his home, 328 Marion street, of a combination of dropsy and liver trouble. He was 50 years of age and a member of Commonwealth Lodge, F. and A. M. He was with Harry Russell when he kept the chophouse at the corner of Fulton street and Poplar place, and then with his brother established a chophouse on Pierrepont street near Fulton, afterward run by Bernard McElroy.

He had lived in retirement for some years. He is survived by a widow. Eight years ago, he with two companions, while sailing in a small boat from Sheepshead Bay to the Highlands, N. were struck by a squall and driven to sea. They were picked up by a fruit steamer bound for Jamaica, W.

where they arrived after two weeks. They were given up as lost until that time. Mr. Segelcke loved to tell the story of their perilous voyage as castaways. They were in the open boat for twenty hours before they were rescued.

Mary E. Combes. (Special to the Eagle.) Lynbrook, L. September 2-Mrs. Mary E.

Combes, wife of Daniel F. Combes, died at her residence yesterday morning, in her 69th year, after 4. lingering illness. The deceased had been a resident of this locality all her life, and she was highly esteemed by all who knew her. She leaves a husband and one son to survive her, out of a family of six children.

The funeral service will be held at her late residence to -morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. W. E. Schoonhoven, pastor of St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal Church of Rockville Centre, of which the deceased had long been a member, officiating.

Elizabeth R. Winget. (Special to the Eagle.) Rockville Centre, L. September 2- Mrs. Elizabeth R.

Winget, wife of Joseph P. Winget, died at her residence, Maple avenue, yesterday afternoon, in her 630 year. The deceased was removed to Nagsau Hospital several weeks ago, where she was operated upon, and she returned to her home, but died soon afterward. She leaves a husband and one daughter, Mrs. Blaney of Rockville Centre.

The funeral service will be held at her late residence to -morrow afternoon, the Rev. G. Wharton McMullen, rector of the Church of the Ascension, officiating. Thomas Wightman. Pittsburg, September 2-Thomas Wightman, ninety years old, said to the oldest active glass manufacturer in this country, vice president of the First National Bank of Pittsburg, vice president of the Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and largely interested in philanthropic work, one of the pioneers of the city of Pittsburg, died last night at the family home on Wightman street.

Mr. Wightman's death was not unexpected, and all the members of his family were at his bedside when the end came. Mr. Wightman suffered a stroke of paralysis in March, another in June and a third several weeks ago, which caused death. Mr.

Wightman began in the glass business as an employe in 1834 and later became a manufacturer, continuing in the trade up to the time of his death. OBITUARY NOTES. Edwin Felix Degrove, an engineer with the Empire State Dairy Company, and long a res. ident of this borough, died Monday of pneumonia at his home, 1845 Broadway. He was torn in this city 54 years ago and belonged to Progressive Chapter, Royal Arch Masons.

He Is survived by two brothers and two sisters Charles Alexander Devine, who was born in the Stuyvesant section November 23, 1570, died Sunday at his home, 30 Lawton street. His wife, his mother and three sons survive him. Anna Kelly, widow of James H. Leonard. for many years a resident of the Eastern District, died Monday of heart disease.

Her home was at 70 South Ninth street. Sho WAA born In County Monahan, Ireland, 59 years ago. Sho belonged to the R. Church of the Epiphany, where the funeral services will be held to row She leaves a son, James, and three daughters, Mrs. John Rae, Mary and Sarah.

Samuel Groocock, aged 85 years, long In business with A. T. Stewart and the H. B. Claflin Company, and recently retired, died at his home In Clifton, N.

yesterday, He was prominent in religious circles and was well known In Brooklyn, where he had formerly resided. Mary E. Bishop, wife of Edward H. Danforth, died sud lenly Sunday at her home, 136 Lafayette avenue, of apoplexy. She was born In Lowell, February 1856, had for twenty-six years lived in Brooklyn, and was a member of the Nostrand Avenue M.

E. Church. She leaves her husband. a son, Dr. Earl H.

Danforth, two brothers and a father. Mary E. Vosper died Sunday at the Home for Incurables, One Hundred and Eighty-third street and Third avenue, Manhattan. She native of Port Antonio, B. W.

and belonged to the Simpson M. EL. Church. She was under the care of the Brooklyn Masonie Board of Rellef, and Miss Taylor, matron of Stelle Chapter, 0. E.

8.. tank charge of the funeral arrangements last night. The burial was in Cedar Grove Cemetery, BORNED CHILD ON STAND; HER TESTIMONY VAGUE Mother Is Set Free and Nobody Knows How Injuries Were Inflicted. "CARMELLA IS WEAK-MINDED." Father, to Whose Kindness Girl Had Always Testified, Stood By His -Hearing in Court. Although the Children's Society officers have been investigating the story of brutality told them by Carmella Marcello, aged 13, who claimed her father's wife, whom she called her had cruelly beaten her and had inflicted burns and deep cuts, they have not been able to make any headway in their quest for evidence.

The girl herself, who ran away from her parents' home, has told SO many different versions of the alleged assaults that Agent Joseph Coschina of the Children's Society went the Flatbush Court to-day and informed Magistrate Steers from the witness stand that would not believe Carmella under oath." The child ran away from her home, 328 Mark's avenue, on August 20, and stas picked up by a policeman of the Herbert street station, to whom she told a harrowing tale maltreatment perpetrated by her "stepmother." She was taken to the rooms of the Children's Society, where she repeated her statements made to the policeman. She was not able to tell her correct name, nor give her address, although aged 13, and the society officers looked upon Carmella and her wonderful adventures as "queer." During the time Superintendent Preston Clarke and Officer Folk were taking daily statements from Carmella, which varied very much, Peter Marcello was searching the city for his lost child. He inquired at the Eagle office for any trace of his daughter. Marcello is a contractor with an enviable reputation in his home section, and he evinced deep distress over Carmella's absence from home. Following the publication of his story in the Eagle the society officers compared notes and decided girl wanted by Peter Marcello and the child so horribly wounded and scarred were in reality one and the same girl.

This proved to be true when Contractor Marcello was summoned to the society rooms. Notwithstanding the paternal interest shown in Carmella by Marcello she continued to declare her "stepmother" had struck her with a hot poker, had chopped her with an axe and had inflicted many wounds by cufting and pushing her. Marcello charged his child with inventing lies, declaring his wife was Carmella's real mother; that his first wife died two years before Carmella's was born. He added that he had only two children by his first wife, and five by the second, of whom Carmella is the eldest. Despite all this the Society decided to carry the matter to a conclusion in court, and on Friday last caused the arrest of Mrs.

Mary Marcello, whom Carmella accused of beating her, and the woman was arraigned in the Flatbush court the same day. On that occasion the child adhered to her story and pointed out her father's wife as her "stepmother" and assailant. She showed a body marked with cuts and burn-scars and said the defendant had inflicted them, partly with a hot poker. Both her parents denied the charge, Peter declaring it was impossible. The child had already said she "loved her papa, who was always kind to her." and when he appeared as his wife's defender the magistrate decided to give the woman a chance to obtain counsel.

The charge against her was assault in the third degree. The Children's Society resorted to every honest effort available to connect Mrs. Marcello with her child's allegations, but in vain. Therefore, when Carmella took the stand in court to-day to tell her story, she did so after many hesitations. It was evident she had forgotten many of the harsh things she said of her mother, and she gave every indication of being In a repentant mood.

In fact she did not testify in any way detrimental to the accused. She did say she was beaten, but of August 2, when she had charged her mother had struck her with an axe, she had no recollection. To a question by Magistrate Steers as to whether she had ever cut herself Carmella replied she had, while chopping wood. Mrs. Marcello was placed on the stand and she denied ever having treated the child harshly.

She said she exercised nothing but kindness to her, because Carmella was "weak in the head from falling a great distance three years ago." Since then, the defendant said, Carmella has been acting queerly. Most the marks on her body resulted from the fall, which was from a' three-story house roof and were old ones. The more recent were self-inflicted, she said. At this period Agent Coschina informed Magistrate Steers that the case was hopeless, in his mind, and that the child had told so many lies it was unfair to try to use her testimony against Mrs. Marcelle.

"It may de she is wholly innocent." he added. accused bethat. came a mother two weeks ago, and said she was ill in bed on the day Carmella alleges she struck her. She also hinted that the child ran away to escape the work attending her own illness. In all her trouble Peter Marcello stood by his wife.

With the lack of evidence before him the magistrate could do nothing but dismiss the complaint. Mrs. Marcello did not turn against her daughter when she was freed, but manifested a real mother's love. She grasped the erring child in her arms and kissed her. She also made arrangements to take her hime, but Carmella will have to remain with the society until permossion is granted for her to go home.

As a result of the suspicion under which his wife has been placed by Carmella's accusation, Peter Marcello has been unable to carry on his contracting business successfully. Italians have A. high sense of honor in matters pertaining to children, and the treatment accorded them by their parents, and Carmella's charges hurt him. He hopese. now that the veil of suspicion has been lifted, to regain his lost ground.

When he has recouped his losses, Peter, who is described as a good, religious man, intends to send Carmella to Italy. He realizes that she 1s not mentally sound, and he will send her to his sister, who is sister superior in a convent at San Brisco. province of Bocca de Cassorta, Italy, The sister Superior wants Carmella and may make a nun of her. The accuser was petted and made much of by her little brothers and relatives in court, who insisted on kissing her and lifting her in their arms. That she has their unshaken love is cvident.

Neither the society nor the detectives seem inclined to do anything to throw more light on how Carmella received her severe burns. The disposition seems to be to accept the theory that they were "self-inflicted." FELL WITH A PIANO. Adolph Gehres, 30 years old, of Throop avenue, and Frederick Namm, 32 years old, of the same address, were engaged in carrying a piano down a flight of stairs in the house at 501 Flushing avenue, last evening, when It slipped from Namm's grasp. The piano crashed to the bottom of the stairs carrying the two men with Namm sustained severe lacerations of the left leg while outside of contu his sions Gehreg had left forearm fractured. After attended by Dr.

Mary Crawford of the Williamsburg Hosthe pital, men were taken home. The piano was wrecked. THE EAST NEW YORKERS WANT FIVE-CENT FARE Bitter Protest Made Against the Long Island Railroad Company. A PUBLIC SERVICE Twenty-sixth Ward Board of Trade Demands Five-Cent Rate Within Borough Limits. The Long Island Railroad Company was made the object of a bitter attack this before the Public Service Commission by a.

large delegation of citizens from East New York, most of whom were members of the Twenty-sixth Ward Board of Trade. The occasion was a public hearing on an order which the commission had issued the Long Island Railroad Company to show cause why the fare on the local electric trains between Flatbush avenue and Railroad avenue in East New York should not be reduced from ten to five cents. Commisisoner Milo R. Maltbie represented the commission. From Flatbush avenue to any point in East New York, including the Warwick street station, the fare is 5 cents.

To railroad avenue, which is the next station beyond Warwick, and which is within the borough limits, the fare is 10 cents. It was this discrimination in the rate of fare for different sections of East New York which resulted in the filing of the complaint upon which the hearing was held to-day. Incidentally, while the fare question was being discussed the railroad company also came in for a good deal of criticism in running the local electric trains under a twenty-minute headway. The headway, the speakers asserted, should be considerably reduced in order to give the epople of East New York a better opportunity to take advantage of the subway facilities to Manhattan. Joseph Keany, who represented the railroad company, after listening to six speakers, decided that he would have nothing to say at the hearing, choosing the alternative of filing a brief, which will present the railroad company's side of the case, Commissioner Maltbie informed Mr.

Keany that the brief would have to be filed by September 14 and on September 21 another hearing will be held. Robert F. Craig, president of the Twenty-sixth Ward Board of Trade, was the principal speaker. He said it was the most flagrant kind of an injustice for the railroad company to charge 10 cents in the borough limits after the city had paid one-half of the cost for depressing and eliminating the railroad's roadbed from the surface of Atlantic avenue. Before the improvement was made the fare was 5 cents, and Mr.

Craig thought it was a very peculiar proceeding for the railroad to immediately double the fare as soon as the electric service was installed, especially after the taxpayers had borne half of the expense. "We had a blowoff," said Mr. Craig, "in honor of the improvement. We did not know then that we were going to get poorer service. Compared with Brooklyn Rapid Transit rates the fare should be about 1 cent, as it takes only fourteen minutes to ride from Flatbush avenue to Railroad avenue." Senator Alfred J.

Gilchrist also spoke against the ten cent fare. Mr. Gilchrist is the counsel for the board of trade. "The whole thing in a nutshell," said Mr. Gilchrist, "is that the Long Island Railroad does not want to give us decent service.

It is content to maintain some sort of service in any old sort of a way, in order to live up to its franchise obligations." County Clerk Ehlers also spoke In favor of the plan to reduce the fare. He said the delegation from East New York was not asking for anything unfair. It simply wanted the railroad company to establish the old rate of fare which existed before the railroad system was electrified. As a railroad man John Walcott said that he believed a five cent rate of fare between Flatbush avenue and Railroad avenue was reasonable compensation for the distance. Others who urged the reduction of the fare were Virtue L.

Haines, Ascar Swift and J. J. Winters. THE REALTY MARKET; Allied Real Estate Interests Cites Instance Where City Was Mulcted in Condemnation Proceedings. The taxpayers of the greater city are becoming thoroughly interested In the efforts that are being made to reduce the expenditures of the city government.

As an illustration of the way in which the city has been mulcted in damages in condemnation proceedings, Allied Real Estate Interests gives the following instance: "About two years ago the city began condemnation proceedings for the widening of Rivergide Drive from One Hundred and -eighth One Hundred and Sixty-fifth streets. The strip to be taken from the adjoining property was about 20 feet wide and extended seven blocks only. Following A not unusual custom in such cases, the commissioners appointed by the court were men without the special qualifications needed for work of this kind. One of them Was a blacksmith by profession. and another was a man without apparent occupation.

The awards made amounted altogether to $1,142,263, an average of $33,000 per city lot. One of the properties in question was assessed in 1906 at $413,000. The strip to be taken from this particular property amounted to a very small portion of the entire plot, but the award for this unimportant portion was $483.948, a sum largely in excess of the assessment on the entire plot. "The other awards in thege proceedings were equally unfair from the point of view of the city, and 80 flagrant was this abuse of these proceedings that the Allied Real Estate Interests took up the matter with the elty authorities, held a public meeting, at which action of the commissioners was denounced by prominent speakers, and finally succeeded in arousing public sentiment to such a pitch of opposition that commissioners felt compelled to reduce awards by almost half the original amount. The following from troller Metz to president of Althe lied Real Estate Interests showed the effect of the agitation which had begun by that association: Dear Mr.

Robinson- I have instant and know amn glad settlement the matter tension WILH 40 reduced awards falls practically property efited and think settlement 18 more satisfactory the of and long Yours great benefit H. METZ, These proceedings involved an erable portion land and their missloers by action the elty was being charged about 000 too much. In five years there have been large of condemnation proceedings and public improvements. How these proceed Ings and Improvements have Cost the city per they 40 cent. more should have done? Auction Sales Yesterday.

JAMES BRIMLEY AT THE REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE. East New York avenue, southeast side, inter- MISCELLANEOUS. 5 WAY WRONG Child's Foot As It Grow AVM EDUCATOR Should 9 HUTCHINS Pat. Are and Economically Comfortably, Shod -XaaM Any CA 5 Ask 5-When -suado Keidsia 3 0 439 'skog genuine pue this SHOE without FOR Stamp 8 Stamp 1 40 None and section west Ames stroet, runs south 111,7 west 100 west north 93.8 to Douglass street, northeast 210 to beginning George al, against Abraham et George Tonkonogy, attorney, 1767 Moses Harris, referce. to BY THOMAS REAL ES- EXCHANGE Hopkins Marcy avenue.

37.8x100. Bank Edwin Gilbert for avenue. against attorLucia, referee Bold 828,750. SMITH REAL ES- M. Verona Mary premises attorneys, 189 Montague referee.

Sold and above Interest Watkins street, avenue, 20x100, against Morris Weitzner et torneys, Sammia, referee. for $4,250 Marcy avenue, Hopkina street, 100x45, Annie Hertzberg et al: Max Keve ga.u street, Manhattan: Haskell. referee. Sold to plaintiff for and above mortgages of $45,000 and Marcy EXCHANGE. changed Murray Leonard McLaughlin line number.