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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. MAY 15. 1909.

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week days. Nights and Sundays, 6200 Main. Indications Until 8 P.M. To-morrov7. Washington.

May 15-For Eastern New York: Showers to-night and Sunday, light to moderate variable winds. Local Probabilities. Unsettled weather, with showers to-night and Sunday: wind shifting to northeast and east and becoming southeast and south, mostly light to moderate. General Weather Conditions. The disturbance that has been causing showers in the Lower Lake section and in portions of New York.

Pennsylvania and New England has moved northeastward to the Maritime Provinces. The western disturbance was central this morning in Wisconsin. It has been attended since yesterday morning by local storms and heavy rain in sections of Kansas. Missouri, Nebraska, lowa and Wisconsin and by showers in the Upper Lake section and in Minnesota, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Eastern Texas. The weather continues warm south of the Lake district and from the Middie and Lower Mississippi Valley eastward to the Atlantic coast.

Temperatures have fallen in Kansas, Western Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado and Northern Texas and in Northern and Northwestern New York and Northern New England. Tem- Pre- Tem. Pre. pera- pera ture. tion.

ture. tion. Boston 68 00 New Orleans 74 .00 Buffalo 64 10 72 .00 Manhattan. 68 00 St. Louie 70 Philadelphia 72 Chicago 70 .32 Washington.

70 Duluth 42 .01 Highest, 74. at Orleans, lowest, 42, at 70 Neil San Fran'co 45 .00 Duluth. indicates amount too small to measure. OFFICIAL TEMPERATURE. FRIDAY.

MAY 14. 8 P.M. 4 62 9 P.M. P.M. 71 6 P.M.

80 10 P.M. 6 P.M. 79 11 P.M. 67 7 P.M. (Midnight) 67 SATURDAY.

MAY 15. 1 A.M 67 8 A.M. 69 2 A.M. 66 9 A.M. 69 3 A.M.

66 10 A.M. 4 A.M. 66 11 A.M. 5 A.M. 60 12 (Noon) 6 A.M.

66 1 P.M. 7 A.M. 68. 2 P.M. 79 Average temperature o-day, 72.

Average temperature to year ago to-day, 62 HIGH WATER. el H.M./Feet H. M. H. M.

Tine; High New 5:08 5.39 4.9 6:64 6:25 Sandy Hook 4:48 4.7 5:15 5.3 6:08 6:35 SUN RISES AND SETS. May 15. May 16. Rises. .4:38 7:07 SHIP NEWS.

Arrived at New York To-day. Manna Hata, from Baltimore. F. J. Luckenbach, from Mayaguez.

Colorado, from Galveston. La Savoie, from Havre. Manna Hata, from Baltimore. Colorado, from Galveston. La Savoie, from Havre.

F. J. Luckenbach, from Arroyo. Merida, from Havana. Sailed From Foreign Ports To-day.

Montevideo--Voltaire, for New York. Antwrep-Vaderland, for New York. Queenstown-Arabic, for New York. Southampton-St, Louis, for New York. Arrived at Foreign Ports To-day.

Pernambuco--Corsican Prince, from New York. Rotterdam--Captain A. F. Lucas, from New Amsterdam-Charlois, from New York. Newport-Devonshire, from New York.

Manchester Tintoretto, from New York. London-Mesaba, from New York. Port Said--Matoppo, from New York. Naples -Finland, from New York. Genoa-Perugia, from New York.

Bremen-Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, from New York. Plymouth-Philadelphia, from New York. Sailed From New York To-day. Hercules, for Perth Amboy. Ingelfingen, for Port Tampa.

Livingstone, for Nipe Bay. Minnewaska, for London. Queen Eleanor, for Rosario. Thespis, for Manchester. Due To-morrow.

From. Salled. Lapland Antwerp 00 Re d'Italia Naples May Suruga Gibraltar May 5 St. Erika Andrew Lisbon May Rotterdam EI Monte Galveston Monroe Norfolk May 15 May 10 City of Columbus Savannah May 13 Iroquois Jacksonville 13 Sabine Mobile 9 REPORTED BY WIRELESS. Newport, R.

May 15-Steamer Baltic, erpool for New York, reported by wireless teleat graph 6:20 as having passed Nantucket Lightship A.M. Will dock about 8 P.M. Siasconset, May 15-Steamer New by York, wireless Southampton for New York, reported Hook telegraph 200 miles east of Sandy at 8 A.M. Steamers Cleveland and Hamburg for New York, reported 268 miles east of Sandy Hook at 9:30 A.M. Both steamers will dock 8 A.M., Sunday.

about Sable Island, N. May 16-Steamer Furnesela, munication Glasgow for New York, in wireless comwith the Marconi station here when 720 miles east of Hook A.M. Will dock about 8 A.M., at 7:35 Monday. ALL TO NIECES AND NEPHEWS. The nieces and nephews receive all of the real and personal property valued at over $6,000, by the will of Susan Wells of Long Island City, fled yesterday with Surrogate Noble of Queens.

Daisy Robinson obtains the real estate on Lincoln and Central avenues, Rockville Centre. The remainder, consisting of $2,100, 18 equally divided among Bertha Ahrens of Bridgeport, Henry Bodge of White Plains, N. and Minnie A. Way of Jamaica. William Cass Baker, ex-sheriff of Queens, is made executor.

FELL OFF ROOF; LITTLE HURT. William Johnson, twenty-one years of 9 Hecker street, Jamaica, while old, workin ing on the roof of a two-story building course of erection at Fulton avenue and Spruce street, Richmond Hill, yesterday, fell to the ground, a distance of about twenty feet, and escaped with contusions of the nOBe and right cheek. After being attended by an ambulance surgeon from St. Mary's Hospital, Johnson left for home. INDEX OF REGULAR FEATURES.

Classifcation. Page Athletics Automobiles Baseball Books 5 Bowling Boxing Children's Dept. Churches Churches 8 Courts 16 Editorial Financial News.14-15 Fishing Fraternal German Golf Industrial Age Institute News 6 Lacrosse Marriage 2 Supplement, MRS. MARTIN DION'T GO TO THE ALUMNI BANQUET Says She Stayed Away to Save Other Graduates From Annoying Publicity. ANXIOUS FOR A QUICK TRIAL.

Doesn't Know Who One of the Corespondents Is, and Can't Find Out -Her Confidence. Mrs. Etta H. Martin, who is being sued for divorce, didn't attend the reunion banquet of her college alumni the Hotel St. Denis, last night, because she ate was afraid her presence might spoil the a affair.

"You might as well know my reasons for not attending." said Mrs. Martin, today. didn't go because I didn't want to a nice, quiet, pleasant reunion turnt dinner into a notorious affair. I wanted to go, but knew that the publicity growing out of my presence there would give the banquet a notoriety distasteful to all my fellow graduates and intensely so to myself." The chief speaker at the reunion banquet was the Rev. Dr.

Jonathan Magie. Meeker, father of Dr. Harold Denman Mecker, who is one of the nine prominent co-respondents named by Edwin E. Martin in his divorce suit. Dr.

Meeker is president of Mrs. Martin's old collegeCentenary Collegiate Institute, the (atumal association of which was holding reunion banquet. Dr. Meeker and many others. came over from Hackettstown, N.

where the college is 1o- cated, to take part in the banquet. Quite a number of Brooklyn graduates of the Centenary took part in the dinner. The Centenary is a co-educational institution and both the alumni and alumnae were well represented. Mrs. Martin had planned to take part in the banquet and there was a rumor that the reunion would be made the occasion to pass a vote of confidence in her.

Her friends ridiculed this latter suggestion and said that under no icrcumstances would her domestic affairs figure a dinner of the alumni. Because the newspapers learned that Mrs. Martin to attend the banquet, sue not to embarrass her friends by attending. Mrs. Martin laughed at that some girlish escapade of hers at the college in Hackettstown had caused her to leave the Centenary before graduating.

"I graduated in the class of she said, "and I don't know of any happening my student days that caused any troubie with the college authorities." Mrs. Martin said that she was very anxious to learn the identity of "Mr. Knapp," one of the nine co-respondents. She said she couldn't imagine who he could be, as her husband's complaining affidavit had been so vague and indefinite in describing him, and she had been unable to obtain a bill of particulars setting forth his full name and the times and places of her alleged relations with him. Mrs.

Martin was told that rumor had identified this particular co-respondent as a prominent Brooklyn business man with musical tendencies. "I don't know any one by the name of Knapp, or any person that could ft that very hazy description," said Mrs. Martin. "I have some doubts that he exer existed, and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that Franklin Taylor, my husband's counsel, knows just as little about Mr. Knapp as I know." Mrs.

Martin seemed very confident of the outcome of her husband's suit against her. She said that his case would go all to pieces in court, as there was absolutely no truth in his charges. She said she was anxious to have the case tried before a jury, as quickly as possible, but that she didn't know whether or not her husband's counsel, J. Arthur Hilton, would be able to prepare the case in time for trial, on Monday. It was reported to-day that Frederick L.

Higgins of 226 New York avenue, one of the nine co-respondents, became engaged to be married only a short time before the Martin divorce suit became public. It was stated that the matrimonial prospecte were not at all clouded by his embarrassing predicament, as he had been able to convince his friends that his connection with the case grew out of his desire to improve his singing voice under the teaching of Mrs. Martin, and that he was never more than a pupil until the detectives employed by Mr. Martin aroused his chivalrous instincts and caused him to interest himself in the protection of Mrs. Martin.

PEABODY NOT IN GOOD HEALTH Could Not Go to Colorado Springs to Take Oath as Executor of Palmer Estate. A dispatch from Colorado Springs, received in this city, says that George Foster Peabody took the oath as executor of the $6,000,000 a estate of the late General William J. Palmer, yesterday, along with Charles Mullen and George A. Krause, also of this city. Owing to Mr.

Peabody's health, he is forbidden by his physicians to go to Colorado Springs, because of the altitude, and the oath was administered at Pueblo, 2,000 feet lower. Mr. Peabody, it was said, stood the trip well, but will return here immediately. The estate will be closed up as soon as possible for one SO extensive. The three executors are beneficiaries to the amount of $50,000 each.

The bulk of the estate goes the general's three daughters, Mrs. Leopold H. Meyers of London, and the Misses Dorothy and Marjory Palmer of Colorado Springs. PROFESSOR AT FIT THROWING. George Montgomery Sent to Jail and Must Quit Calling Ambulances.

The Flatbush police think that George Montgomery, who has no home, is suffering under some strange hypnotic spell. George has a penchant for falling down to the sidewalk and kicking his feet about as if suffering from an epileptic fit. The physicians at the Kings County Hospital, to which institution George has been taken three times in one week, say he is a "faker," and a professional fit thrower. days ago George "threw' a ft over in Parkville, and when the policeman went to his aid he tried to kiss the blue coat. Policeman Maxwell Barr, the ball player of the Flatbush station, found George last night on Snyder avenue and took him to the Flatbush station to have the ambulance doctors look him over.

Ambulance Surgeon Brockway said the "sick man" was condition that did not impress him in the least. "This man is not really sick," he said, "he's shamming." Magistrate Steers told George that he was a nuisance, and that his penchant for calling ambulances will have to stop. He fined him $10, and as George did not have it, he went to jail for ten days. DR. WHARTON'S MEETINGS.

In the Hanson Place Baptist Church, corner South Portland avenue, near Fulton street, the Rev. Dr. H. M. Wharton of Philadelphia will preach morning and evening to-morrow.

He will give an evangelistic address before the Sunday school and all who desire to hear at 3:30 P.M. Evangelistic services will be hold each evening during the week at 8 o'clock. There will be excellent singing at all the services led by a large choir. Dr. Wharton is considered one of the most attractive and successful evangelists in the United States.

The public is cordially invited to hear him and to attend the services on Sunday during the week. GET RUCKER'S PICTURE. Eagle readers should see that, with to-day's paper, they receive A photogravure of Nap Rucker. This art sec. tion is a particularly Ane picture of the great Brooklyn pitcher, and is the first of a series to be issued by the Eagle.

STATION AN IMPORTANT ONE Stops Will Continue to Be Made at Consumers Park. Commissioner McCarroll Satisfied That Discontinuance Would Work Considerable Injury. Public Service Commissioner William McCarroll made a report to-day to the commission on the complaint of W. Congdon and others against the stopping of trains at the Consumers Park station of the Brighton Beach line. Mr.

McCarroll says in his report: "This is a station which was established in 1901. It is located between the station at Park place and that at Prospect Park. It is something more than a third of a mile from the latter and about three-quarters of a mile from the former. The testimony, including. that of our inspectors, showed that the ordinary traffic was light, averaging about one hundred people on week days and running up to between two hundred and three hundred on Sundays.

The immediate locality of the station is but thinly settled, and the residents are mainly those employed by the brewery and silk mill in the vicinity. "The evidence offered included a petition signed by a large number of citizens remonstrating against the discontinuance of this station. While the traffc is small and the neighborhood in that vicinity is but slowly developing, the distance between the stations is such that considerable number of persons would a undoubtedly be much inconvenienced by compelled to go to either one of the being other stations. "In the progress of the development of this section, considerable changes will take place in near future. The Muof the Brooklyn Institute of Arts seum and Sciences is located on the Eastern parkway, which is six blocks distant from this station, and which is visited by a large number of people.

Some of the intervening streets are not yet cut through and the railroad runs through private right of way in a depression. A considerable population is now settling along the Eastern parkway. It would seem probable that in the not distant future a station would be required at another point that would better accommodate the general public and the large number of visitors to the museum than does this station at Consumers Park. In the meantime it would appear that the discontinuance of stoppage of trains at this station would work considerable injury and injustice to the people located there, who are largely dependent upon. it and who would also be served if a station should later be located at another point, as suggested.

"As the station is used only as a signal stop, it does now, seem me that the commission would be justified in ordering its discontinuance under all the circumstances, and would, therefore. recommend that the complaint be dismissed and that an order to that effect be entered." JUMPED INTO POLE HOLES Women of 40th Street Defy Edison Company Men. Victorious in Their Fight, and Courts Will Now Decide the Case. All day yesterday, from 9 in the morning until almost 6 o'clock in the evening, three women defied the efforts of ers employed by the Edison Illuminating Company to erect poles on Fortieth street between Fifth and Sixth avenues. These women were Mrs.

Bessie Mitchell, the wife of a prominent builder of 653 Fortieth street; Mrs. Antonio Vachris, the wife of Lieutenant Vachris of the Italian detective squad, and Mrs. Paul Simonetti, the wife of another detective in Vachris' squad. The laborers began to dig in front of 653 Fortieth street, and had reached a depth of about 4 feet when Mrs. Mitchell jumped into the hole, there to remain until the laborers went home in the evening.

This attracted a big crowd, and a couple of policemen to keep order. The laborers then abandoned their first location and started to dig in front of 641, but almost immediately Mrs. Simonetti came out with a chair and sat down over the spot where the men had commenced to dig. The gang of workmen then returned to their first location, and began to dig a hole 3 feet away from the one occupied by Mrs. Mitchell.

Then Mrs. Vachris came out in a hurry and jumped into that hole. The three women and their neighbors had quite a pleasant time, and during the heat of the day solicitous friends brought out umbrellas to shade them from the sun, and delicious lunches, which they ate with great gusto in their cramped positions. The laborers also seemed to enjoy the situation. They did pot attempt to molest the women in any way, but sat down an date their black bread and cheese and smoked and talked.

When the time came for them to knock off, they gathered up their implements and went away. In the meantime, lawyers had been communicated with and injunctions were issued. The electric company will have to wait until the issue is settled before making any further attempts to plant the unsightly poles. There are number of trees along the street and the property owners say that the poles will injure the trees. One pole was planted on the street the day before yesterday, in front of 655 Fortieth street, occupied by Mrs.

R. J. Jones. Mrs. Jones said that she would have taken the same means to stop the placing of the pole in of her house if she had owned the property.

FATHER MC GOLRICK IN JAPAN. The Rev. E. J. McGolrick, the rector of St.

Cecilia's Church, Greenpoint, who is travelling around the world in company with the Rev. Charles F. Gibney of Greenport, has recently written from Singapore. Both he and Father Gibney are enjoying good health, and observing many curious customs on their trip. Their latest letters tell of their visit to the schools conducted by the Christian Brothers at Singapore.

They will visit Calcutta and Bombay, and from there go to the Holy Land, whence they will proceed by easy stages to Rome, where they the golden jubilee of the will arrive in time for the celebration. of lege. While they were in Japan, the two priests visited Osaka. where they were the guests of Bishop Chatron, and inspected the schools, hospital, orphanage and other Catholic institutions, and were greatly impressed by the success achieved by the missionaries. In Kobe, the most important commercial port of Japan, Father McGolrick preached at the high mass on Sunday.

He spoke in English to a congregation composed of Japanese and many English speaking residents. He told of the present condition of the olic Church in the United States, and of its marvellous growth in the past one hundred years. Father Perrin, one of the missionaries at Kobe, took the pulpit at the conclusion of Father McGolrick's address and gave a summary of his remarks in Japanese for the benefit of the natives. KAHLER COMFORT SHOE R. L.

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That he had just been instrumental in obtaining from the Board of Estimate and Apportionment an appropriation of $675,000 for library sites in all sections of the city, and that Queens Borough would receive $100,000 of that amount for the purchase of the sites at Jamaica and Long Island City, was the statement made last night by Attorney Briggs for the Carnegie libraries at the meeting of the Queens Borough Library trustees, held last might at their headquarters in Jamaica. Mr. Briggs said that the sites for the two libraries had been virtually selected, and would be officially passed upon within the next two weeks, and that he expected the title to pass by July 1. It is understood that the Jamaica site decided upon is that on Clinton avenue, near Fulton street, 100 feet square, which is now occupied in part by the library. There is available from the Carnegie fund, for the erection of the two libraries in Queens, Mr.

Briggs said, some 237. He said that he had been informed that Mr. Carnegie would give such additional sums as are required, and will allow $50,000 for each of the buildings. The trustees mentioned $80,000 as being a sum desirable for the construction of the library in Jamaica, which will contain the administration offices, though this matter will be further discussed at some subsequent meeting. The site at Long Island City was not definitely announced.

Attorney Briggs declared that owing to the construction of the new bridge at that place the committee had some difficulty in deciding on the library location, having been compelled to modify its plans. DISSENTS ON DEBT LIMIT Justice Ingraham Does Not Agree With Gen. Tracy. Says He Believes Special Franchises Are Not Real Estate and City Contracts Should Be Included. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in Manhattan yesterday afternoon armed the opinion of General B.

F. Tracy, the referee appointed to determine the city's debt limit, in the three taxpayers' suits brought to restrain the Board of Estimate from approving and certifying contracts for the construction of the Fourth avenue subway in Brooklyn. General Tracy held that the debt limit on June 30, 1908, was $106,205,714 and excluded from the debt limit more than $54,000,000 for which contracts had been let but the work not yet performed. The only opinion handed down yesterday is a dissenting one by Justice Ingraham. He does not believe that the $466,855,000 of special franchises can be classed as real estate.

As to excluding the 000,000 of contracts from the debt limit justice Ingraham says: "It is true that the obligation of the city depends upon performance by the various contractors of their obligations; but as an actual existing condition there is no doubt that the city will have to pay the sums represented by these contracts and provide for their payment either by issuing bonds or by some form of taxation. It is said that as to these unexecuted contracts the city can break the contracts and then would only be liable to the contractor for the amount of the contractor's profit. "But even in such a case the city would have to make a contract with some one else to do the work, and at any rate while the contract actually exists as a valid contract, recognized by both parties, as such it seems to me it is an existing indebtedness and within the contemplation of the Constitution prohibiting the incurring of further indebtedness. "There are other questions presented in regard to the sinking fund in which I am inclined to think the referee was wrong. Thus I do not consider that the city is entitled to deduct from indebtedness under this constitutional provision bonds issued for water supply and for revenue purposes which are not included In the indebtedness to which the 10 per cent.

provision applies. The sinking fund holds these water bonds, but held by the sinking fund they are not obligations against the city. It is like an individual or corporation purchasing its own obligations and holding them. They reduce the indebtedness of the city for the water supply, but they cannot reduce the other indebtedness upon which the right to borrow is limited." SERVICE IS ALL RIGHT. P.

S. Commission Drops Proceeding Against Flushing Avenue Line. On motion of Commissioner Edward M. Bassett, the Public Service Commission to-day served an order on the BrookHeights Railroad Company discontinuing the proceeding begun on motion of the commission in regard to the number be operated on the Flush-Ridgewood line. Commissioner Bassett's opinion says that the proceeding was instituted because inspection showed overloading on this line as well as on three others that use Flushing avenue in part.

Recent observations showed that during the morning, westbound, between 6 and 9 o'clock, thirty-six cars were being operated past the maximum load point as compared to a previous average of twenty-five cars, the count showing only two overload halfhour periods as against five in the first inspection. In the afternoon, between 5 and 8 o'clock, the corresponding increase in eastbound traffic was from thirty to thirty -three cars, and the overloading decreased from three half-hour periods to one. The commissioner concluded bis opinion as follows: "The improvement in the operation of this lime has been sO marked that, in my opinion, it is proper that the proceding should be discontinued. The operation of this line, however, should continue under the supervision of the transit inspection WILL ATTEND CELEBRATION. The regular meeting of the Fulton Street Board of Trade was held last night at Lubeck's Casino Hall, Fulton street and Buffalo avenue.

It was decided to send over two carriages bearing the officers of the board to the Queensboro Bridge Celebration. RIOT AT THE OPENING OF 5 AND 10 CENT STORE Bluecoats From Two Precincts Fail to Check Rush of Women. AMBULANCE ALSO CALLED. Frenzied Bargain Hunters Desert Children, and Police Round Them Up. The opening to-day of an extension at Flushing avenue and Broadway to one of the five and ten cent stores which are so attractive to foreign population of Williamsburg, brought on a small-sized which necessitated the calling of the police from four stationhouses.

Several women fainted in the crush to enter the store and were revived by an ambulance surgeon and some score or more of children were lost, temporarily, and were lined up at an elevated railroad poet and I Identified by their frightened mothers later in the day. At noon to-day the police were still hovering at the entrances, letting the women and children in a few at a time and harboring the lost ones in the shadow of the structure. The excitement really began last night, when the proprietor of the store ran up the show window curtains, lighted the store inside and put up notices that the shop was open for inspection--from the outside. The attractive offerings at five and ten cents kept a crowd about the windows until after midnight, with the police on hand to keep the sidewalk from being blocked. Then there was a lull for six hours.

At 6 o'clock this morning Sergeant Quigley and half a dozen policemen from the Hamburg avenue station lined up along the sidewalk, and their troubles began. The crowd numbered several hundred by 7 o'clock, and was doubled an hour later, when the doors were opened. There are fur entrances on the Broadway side and three on the Flushing avenue side. It soon became necessary to turn the Flushing avenue entrances into exits only and to forbid the shoppers to go out by way of the Broadway doors. The shop was quickly filled and still the women and children sought to enter.

It was excessively warm and the shopwere not particularly familiar with drawing room etiqutte, and in the mad pushing and pulling, shirt waists were torn and hats were jammed and side combs were lost, and small children were swept from their mothers' sides. Sergeant Quigley and his valiant band of six found their efforts as unavailing as they were strenuous, and word was sent to the Stagg street, Clymer street and eVrnon avenue police station. More bluecoats were quickly on the scene. By the time they arrived several women had lost consciousness. Dr.

O'Keefe came in an automobile from St. Catherine's Hospital and used all his smelling salts, or whatever restorative an ambulance surgeon employs in such an emergency, in getting the shoppers in trim for another try to enter. Children found wandering alone and crying were corraled by the police and gathered about an elevated post a half block from the shop. There was a surprising large number of mothers willing to sacrifice a child for a half dollar's worth of goods for a dime. The crush at the store continued all the forenoon and bade fair to keep up during the rest of the day and into the evening.

TEST NEW RECORDING LAW Motion to Be Made in Queens, Monday, for Mandamus. Opinion of Attorney General O'Malley Does Not Decide Matter--Title Companies to Act. The uncertainty as to the effect of the new law providing that the city clerk shall authenticate all acknoledgments made by commissioners of deeds as to rea lestate conveyances in New York City before they can be recorded by county clerks, and as to whether the new law supersedes section No. 58 of the charter, which permits the acknowledgment by a commissioner of deeds of any part of the city to be received at the office of any county clerk of Greater New York, is still the subject of much anxious inquiry at the Queens County clerk's office. County Clerk Neiderstein is to try out the issue with one of the title guarantee an trust companies on Monday, in a friendly mandamus proceeding.

probably before Justice Garret J. Garretson of the Supreme Court. Register Pendergast of Brooklyn said that they had so many papers to record every day that the new law, if carried out, would create such congestion that he was acting under the provision of the charter, an dthat if it was afterward decided that it was not the legal method, new papers could easily be made out. County Clerk: Neiderstein wrote to the attorney general of the state for an opinion, and received the following reply: "County Clerk of Queens: "I beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of May 11, in which you make inquiry with reference to the inconsistency which apparently exists between the general law and the charter of the City of New York, with reference to the certifcation of acknowledgments, etc. "A special act is not affected by a general act unless there is the clearest manifestation on the part of the Legislature that the special act shall be changed or affected; so that I think that wherever there is an apparent inconsistency tween the provisions of the different acts to which you refer, that your special act will prevail with reference to the fling of a certificate of the appointment of a commissioner of deeds.

I am unable to find any direct decision upon the ques tion involved. "While I have given you the law as I think it would have to be construed, the safe course would be for parties to follow the general provisions under the real property law; but still I do not think it is absolutely necessary. "I suggest that you consult your corporation counsel or some of your local lawyers who are more familiar with the city charte; than and while doing so, cal their attention to the cases of Mahon vs. City of New York. 29 Misc.

251, and People vs. Quigg, 59 N. Y. 88. I "Yours truly.

"EDWARD R. O'MALLEY, "Attorney General." CLASSES CONFIRMED. Bishop C. E. McDonnell confirmed a class of 125 children in St.

Rose of Lima Church at Rockaway Beach this morning, and then went down to Belle Harbor, where he confirmed another class in St. Francis de Sales Church. The children will receive their first communion at 7 o'clock to-morrow morning. THE COURTS. THE COURTS.

SUPREME COURT-TRIAL, PART V. Criminal calendar, Monday, May 17, Abel E. Blackmar, 12341.. People vs. John C.

Schweitzer, murder, first degree. GOODRICH BIDS ADIEU TO BROOKLYN NAVY YARD With Simple Ceremony Captain Joseph B. Murdock Becomes Commandant. ONCE EQUIPMENT OFFICER. Not Many Changes in Personnel of Staff to Be Made by New Officer, Captain Joseph B.

Murdock, who commanded the battleship Rhode Island on its cruise around the world, is now the commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was inducted into office to the music of the Navy Yard band, under the leadership of Reinhold Schultz, Commodore Schley's old chief musician on the U. S. S. Brooklyn during the battle of Santiago.

Captain Murdock at one time was the equipment officer of the Yard, and it was at his recommendation dation that that department was provided with a medicine shop of its own. That shop, however, was dismantled recently, at the instance of Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich, U. S. relinquished the post of commandant this morning, and has been transferred to another building under the jurisdiction of the manufactur1ng department.

At fifteen minutes after 9 o'clock this morning Rear Admiral Goodrich, Captain Murdock and the principal officers assembled in front of the Lyceum, the I commandant's office. A company of marines and the marine band were drawn up across the street and presented arins at the appearance the officers, who were clad in full dress." Without much ado Admiral Goodrich proceeded to read the order of the Secretary of the Navy relegating him to private life, and at its conclusion said to Captain Murdock: "In addition to this order directing me to turn over this great yard to you, the department did me the honor to say that if you will duplicate my experience here, you will not have an idle moment." At the conclusion of this remark Captain Murdock read the order directing him to assume command of the local Navy Yard and added that he felt highly honored to have served with Admiral Goodrich, during the latter's last days in active service. Then the guns on the Cob Dock commenced firing a salute to the admiral's flag, which was hauled down, and the senior officer's pennant of Captain Murdock hoisted in its place. A bugler and a drummer with the marines sounded two "ruffles," and the marine band played a march. Admiral Goodrich shook hands hurriedly with the officers about him, and was driven to his late home on the Hill, where he doffed his uniform and donned a civilian suit.

He was then driven to the Grand Central Station, whence he took train for Albany. As the carriage sped through the gateway, the band, which had been marched to the gate, struck up "Auld Lang Syne." "Should auld acquaintance be forgot" hummed one of the workmen standing near. "Sure, we'll never forget him." Among those who witnessed the ceremony were Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder of the Atlantic fleet, who came up from his quarters on the Connecticut; Acting Captain of the Yard Commodore H. O. Dunn, Captain.

Samuel W. B. Diehl of the receiving ship Hancock, Medical Inspector E. H. Green of the Naval Hospital, Pay Director Reah Frazer, general storekeeper, Pay Inspector F.

Arms 0 fthe yard pay office, Pay Inspector Thomas C. Jewett of the department of provisions and clothing, Captain Wythe M. Parke, inspector of steam engineering work; Naval Constructor W. J. Baxter, yard manager; Civil Engineer Luther E.

Gregory, Colonel William P. Biddle, commandant of marines; Lieutenant Commander Philip Williams and Boatswain Hopkins. Lieutenant William F. Bricker, the admiral's aide, who was also present, will be the only member of the commandant's personal entourage who will not be held over by Captain Murdock. Lieutenant Bricker is to be succeeded by Lieutenant, Edward C.

S. Parker, now on the reserve battleship, the Alabama. Captain Murdock is the first captain to be detailed to the command of the local Navy Yard and station since 1889, when Captain Francis M. Ramsay was the commandant, from February to November of that year. The first commandant, assigned in 1806, was a lieutenant, but the scope of the yard increased so rapidly that the second commandant held the rank of captain.

With one exception, when a commander was assigned, captains were detailed here up to 1861, when the place began to be reserved for officers of flag rank. Captain Murdock is well up in the list of captains, however, and he will be made a rear admiral before the year is out. PROBE FOR THE TEACHERS Mayor Will Appoint Investigators Next Week. Mayor McClellan is so busy Anishing up his work with the legislation that affected city, that he has not yet had the to select the of thine the commission which is to investigate the salary question of the women teachers. It is expected, however, that he will appoint the commission some time next week.

The commission will have to be rather energetic in investigating the question, because all departmental estimates must be filed with the Board of Estimate by July 15. In his memorandum, which he has forwarded to the governor with the veto, the mayor says: "The chief exponent of this bill at the public hearing before me estimated an increase in the budget of about $3,000,000 per annum; an auditor, who also made a statement on behalf of the bill, estimated $3,500,000. The official auditor of the Department of Education has also submitted to me an estimate as to what amount the new mandatory measures would reach, and he places the figures at $4,000,000 per annum. Other expert accountants have figured the increase to the budget as high as $6,000,000 a year. "I have furthermore noticed that the bill, while equalizing pay as' between men and women teachers, does not appear to do so among women.

On the contrary, it appears to provide for different rates of pay for women doing exactly the same work, but in different schoolhouses. "If there are any such glaring inequalities between the salaries paid to men and women teachers as is claimed by the proponents of this bill the commission I am to appoint will be able to investigate and report. "My duty in this matter is clear and certain: "First, to veto this bill. "Second, to appoint a local commission to investigate the alleged grievances in regard to the salaries paid to men and women teachers in this city by which action mandatory legislation will be rejected, and it any grievances are proved, eliminate the same in the next budget as far as local conditions relative to the raising of money will permit." Miss Grace C. Strachan, president of the Interborough Association of Women Teachers, said that while she was disappointed, she was not surprised, but result only meant a continuation of the movement for egual pay.

THE BEST "APENTA" NATURAL APERIENT WATER BOTTLED AT THE SPRINGS. BUDA PEST, HUNGARK MARRIAGE LICENSES Issued in Brooklyn for Twenty-four Hours Ended at Noon To-day. David sixth W. M. and Wilson, 36 years, 1514 Seventyst, Ruth Fortune, 20 years, 1514 Seventy-sixth st, Wiadislaw Zajenczkowsky, 24 years, 95 Nineteenth st, and Katarzym Znalezna, 19 years, 95 Nineteenth st.

Axel A. Lesch, 27 years, 400. Dean st, and Anna S. Nelson, 29 years, 646 Werren st. Michael Umninski, 22 years, 271 Forty-second st, and Helena Bloch, 25 years, 271 Forty4 second st.

Herman Blecher, 23 years, 108 Norfolk st, Manhattan, and Rachel Spatter, 21 years, 212 Grand av. Pawel Chajkacwicz, 24 years, 42 Scholes st, and Sophia Kurziana, 18 years, 45 Hudson avenue. George M. Pope, 40 years, 155. DeKalb av, and Mary E.

Contant, 33 years, 155 DeKalb av. Joseph Kolenik, 27 years, 342 me East Sixty second st, Manhattan, and Susie Skavela, years, 210 Freeman st. Giuseppe N. Scali, 25 years, 133 Melrose and Maria G. Fornataro, 19 years, 258 rose st.

Carl A. Johnson, 26 years, 589 Vanderbilt and Hilda Nelson, 26 years, 589 Vander avenue, Frank Vincent, 61. years, 59 West Fifty-for st, Manhattan, and Harriet S. Vincent. years, 296 Ryerson st.

and Magnus Lillian L. E. Ericksen, Schroeder, 27 years, 20 159 years, Bedford. avenue. Hiekki Eskelum, 31 years, 661 Warren st, 8 Alma Wirkkunen, years, 634 Union St Samuel Miller, 25 years, 434 Sackman st, a.

Annie Malkim, 19 years, 244 Watkins st. Dennis McCarthy, 29 years, 665 Bergen st, an Bridget Hanley, 27 years, 423 St. Mark's av. Joseph R. Piccolo, 21 years, 628 Grand Josephine Buonavolonta, 17 years, 628 Grand avenue.

Charles A. Lind, 26 years, 160 Fourth av, and Ellen Laurin, 18 years, Bridgeport, Conn. Julius Kreiner, 26 years, 858 Wythe av, and Minnie Blatz, 22 years, 319 Stagg st. William J. Smith, 31 years, 17 Pulaski st, and Maud E.

Westland, 23 years, 1423 Bushwick av. Michael A. Stern, 23 years, 167 Boerum st, and Clara Kaufman, years. Boerum street. William Smith, 27 years, 240 York st, and Anna F.

Geary, 27 years, 240 York st. John Perfors. 22 years, McKee's Rocks, and Helen Malolepszy, 28 years, 507 Flushing av. Karl S. Nordlinder, 33 years, 580 Pacific st, and Augusta M.

Frisk, 23 years, 580 Pacifio street. Theodore Lee. 40 years, 84 Luquer Fourth st, place. and Gunda Jacobsen, 38 years, 19 Walter S. Vaughan, 22 years, 226 Kingsland.

av. and Emma Zimmer, 18 years, 314 Leonard st. Alexander Pawlawsky, 27 years, 289 Kent av, and Victoria Zuza, 22 years, 278 Kent av. Bernard Kastenbaum, 38 248 Hart st, and Sabine Reichert, 27 years, 259 Hart st. Thomas Wright, 22 years, 8 Hubbard place, and Florence Kerrigan, 17 years.

424 East Ninth st. Walter J. Green, 30. years, Raleigh, N. and Isabella L.

Lucas, 21 years, 94 Kent st. John H. Bardes, 30 years, 270 Lenox rd, and Harriet A. Siegele, 26 years, 167 Lenox rd. John J.

Backes, 27 years, 117 Manhattan av, Manhattan, and Florence J. Carlin, 24 years, 297 Garfield place. EUCHRE AT ST. JOHN'S. Six Hundred Persons Compete for Prizes in Gymnasium of College.

Six hundred persons attended the anu nual euchre and bridge whist to aid St. John's College, Lewis and Willoughby avenues, the games being held in the gymnasium of the college. Two hundred and fifty bridge whist players occupied the upper part of the building, the same number were in the lower part of the gymnasium, while there were one hundred non-players who received prizes. The a84 sortment of gifts to be contended for was of the handsomest character, and numbered about two hundred. St.

John's College holds popularity among the Catholics of Brooklyn. and the people of every parish united with that of St. John the Baptist to make the annual euchre and bridge whist a success. The Rev. James M.

Chestnutt, C. had general charge of the affair. He won credit from all for his efforts. Miss Rosemary Rogers was the general chairman, and with the secretary, Miss Mary G. Walsh, was indefatigable in bringing order out of confusion.

Miss Catherine McCaffrey was complimented for her work as chairman of the prize committee, for a better selection could not have been secured. The ticket committee, under the chairmanship of Miss Anna Keany, distributed and sold an enormous number of tickets. The reception committee made all who attended feel at home. Mrs. M.

Bannon was its chairman, and Harry Rutan as chairman of the floor committee kept the games, of which there were ten going on, till the finish, like clockwork. It was after midnight before they were entirely concluded. Mrs. Nolan was on the press committee. A NEIGHBORHOOD SQUABBLE.

Culmination Said to Have Been a Stabbing. The culmination of a neighborhood squabble that has been going on for some months, came last night when John Lemaster, aged 49, of 366 East Ninth street, was arrested on complaint of Frederick Young, of 368 East Ninth street, charged with felonious assault, and taken to the Parkville station by Policeman William Vance. Young says that Lemaster cut him on the left arm with a pen knife last night, while the latter in defense that Young with another says had laid in wait for him and person pounced upon him. Lemaster denied the stabbing and casually remarked that he had been drinking. "Your honor, I did not lay in wait for this said Young to the magistrate.

He pricked me with the pen knife without provocation." Lemaster then declared that he has been annoyed for some time by Young's family who call him names and "make things disagreeable." Policeman Vance who was an post when the alleged stabbing took place, said that the two families have been at odds for some time. In the Flatbush court to-day Lemaster asked for an adjournment and he was held for examination until next Tuesday. CHURCH TAKES ACTION. At a meeting of the Greenwood Baptist Church held last evening the following was unanimously a adopted: "Be it moved that the Greenwood Baptist Church direct its energies to the enforcement of the excise law in this neighborhood to the end that persistent tors of the law be driven out of business." Classification. Page.

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14 Washington 'Letter. Weather 2 Women's Wreatling Words Can't Tell how WELL you feel 10 days after quitting COFFEE and using POSTUM "There's a Reason".