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DAILY BROOKLYN The weather. warmer to-day Monday, probably bowri( moderate oath wind. EAGLE THE Y-y Credit Coupon Cut thm out. Must rx redeemed or exchariRj within sis JL1.V 0, 101 1. 5 SECTIONS.

Volume 72, No. 188 NEW YORK CITY. SUNDAY. JULY 9, 1911. 51 PAGES.

THREE CENTS. DRAGGING RIVER FOR BODY. FAMOUS SAYINGS. TUB WEATHER TO-MORROW: H0I1M ABROAD FiiTS FOR CITIZfflSHI? officer upon which or whom the work is devolved." Some uf the Controller's subordinates vill go to the Corpuralum Counsel's office, some to the Sinking l-'und Coinnnssiini, some to the Cily I Chamberlain control, nccorcling to where U.tlr work 'u to be continued. TO CHHfTER BILL BEFORE ITS PRBNS HIE KNOWN TO PUBLIC TO ASK TAFT FOR DOCUMENTS NEW SCANDAL Uncle Sam expects every man to pay his duty Admiral Nelson Loeb.

IMOWICZ' IN DANGER Daring Aviator High Over Upper Manhattan When His Gasoline Gives Out. (Special to The Eagle.) Nassau Boulevard, L. July 8 Emulating the example set by Harry Atwood, who made a spectacular flight over Manhattan, La ills Lewkowlcz flew from the aerodrome at Nassau Boulevard to Manhattan, this afternoon. He" left the field In his Bleriot at 4:25 P.M. and steered a straight course for New York by way of Floral Park, Jamaica, Richmond Hill and Long Island City.

As he arose In the air he made three graceful circles of the field and then he started on his westward course. He announced that his objective point was Central Park. When he was about four thousand feet over One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street Manhattan, at 6 o'clock, he found that fail supply of gaso. lene was exhausted and he made a long volplane to earth. Lewkowlcz turned to his left and landed at Leonla, N.

J. If he had turned to his right he would have made Central Park. He made a beauti ful volplane over the Palisades. In landing Lewkowlcz, however, had the misfortune to come down on a hard clay field and hia car was badly damaged. Woodruff sent a huge automobile truck to Leonia with a number of mechanics to bring the plane back to Nassau Boulevard, where the machine will be reassembled immediately.

A. L. Welsh of the Wright school took up Mrs. Tim Woodruff, and Sopwith did his usual passenger carrying stunts at Nassau. Sopwith also took up Earle J.

Ovington, who had a camera with him and he took a photograph of the Wright machine as It was landing. He also took up Commodore W. L. Candee of Brooklyn, and In this flight Sopwith went over Westbury and the Meadowbrook Hunt Club. Isaac Allen was also a passenger of Sopwith.

Captain Baldwin flew down from Mineola In his Red Devil. HELD AS COMMON GAMBLERS Six of the 76 Men Found by Police in on Place, Upper Fulton Street. When a squad of 'Sf forced their way Into the rear of the lower floor at 1326 Fulton street, at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, they found seventy-six men shooting craps, playing Klondike and studying racing charts. They took the six men who were supposed to be running the gambling establishment to the station house and let the other seventy go, after taking their names and addresses. The raid was made on evidence gathered last week by Patrolman James J.

Finnan of DeDutv Commissioner Dniie-h- erty's office squad. Finnan was tipped off on the location of the place and went In to Investigate. He found the front part of the lower floor occupied by the Globe Disinfecting Company, but managed to persuade one of the men In charge of the gambling rooms to let him in. The place where the gambling was conducted was cleverly partitioned off from the office In the front. There was a narrow passageway blocked by a door which opened by the pressure of an electric button and another narrow passageway then led Into the "club" rooms.

Finnan made himself solid with the management by dropping a little money and had no trouble In getting the door opened fori the police yesterday. The raiding squad was led by Lieutenant William Wines, aided by Detectives Edward Wardell and Francis J. Watter- son of Deputy Commissioner Dougherty's staff. The six men who were arrested on the charge of being common gamblers gave the following names and addresses: Arthur JaekBon, clerk, 28, of 324 Albany avenue; Edward Walsh, clerk, of 1584 Atlantic avenue; Albert Hill, olerk, 27, of 2212 Surf avenue, Coney Island; Jo seph Frey, salesman, 26, of 660 Herkimer street, and David Wilson, 24, salesman, of 11 Sumner avenue. Chief Magistrate Kempner Issued the warrants on which the arrestB were made.

FAIR. ADD Best Bargains For Summer. A Remarkable Advertisement Compressed for Your Convenience. MODERN INVENTION permits the motorist to convey with him in a small metal tube enough air to inflate many large tires without any exertion enormous power compressed into small space. Into this column and on the pago that follows we have compressed the best bargains of the season from near to one hundred specially stores in this Greatest Store of Stores.

It is a remarkable advertisement in small space. Shop early, please, for your own comfort and to permit the men and women laboring here to enjoy to the fullest degree the early Hjw a Morse Was Saved. A True Siorj With Several Points to It. Near to Wallabout Market on Thursday last a horse lay dying of the heat. Its owner hailed an A.

S. wagon and asked the driver for "some of that horse medicine of A. The driver instantly complied and a few minutes later the horse was on its feet, apparently as good as ever. Three blocks away another horse lay dying. A horse doctor attended it and left.

When he returned the horse was dead. This true storv shows that DR. MURRAY'S VETERINARY COLIC, CHILLS AND FEVER MEDICINE will cure where other remedies fall; that there are many horse owners who know this by experience, as evidently the first man did; and that every A. S. wagon carries a bottle of It and the publio is Invited to request help from any nearby A.

S. wagon for any afflicted horse. BEST, however, to have a bottle on band yourself. $1.00 a bottle or six for $5.00. Something New.

A Dime in the Slot Typewriter. In the Rest Room for women on the Mezzanine floor, Central Building, there la a splendid typewriter, and a dime dropped in the slot permits its use for thirty minutes. The world moves and you always And this Store In the lead. tLECTKIC FANS. At tV2A to You can have a breeze blowing at home whenever you want It.

Subway door. East Building. bAtlii, Itcguliuly at The "Sternau," portable Overhead Shower, you can easily adjust yourself. Simply connect the faucet" with the shower with rubber tubing, fitted with curtain, 60x66 Inches. Nothing kfleps you so cool and comfortable during real hot weather as a shower bath and here are the best obtainable under priced.

Subway llonr. East Huildtng. A a A .1 it; Hunter Green Most popular color of the season. Good quality silk taffeta. $10.00, mi 2.M) and .515.00 Foreign I'arasols, $5.74.

About 30 novelty Parasols from Paris and Vienna. Store orders only. to $5.00 Slisbtly Soiled I'nrasols, About one hundred. None on approval or C. O.

D. and store orders only. Main Moor, front, Central HullfClng. iT A i IONKRY. Correspondence Cards With KiiKi-iived Initials, 10c.

a Box. If you want dainty little Note Cards, and would like to get thom at a price unheard of outside this Store, then share in this sale. Box containing 24 high grade white Correspondence Cards, stamped in color from hand engraved initial dies, with 24 envelopes (plain) to match. Store orders only and none C. O.

D. Not more than 4 boxes to a customer. Main lloor, front. Central BidMlng. SHhtiS AND PI LuwCAES The sizes quoted are before hemming: At 3 9c.

each. Good quality ready made bleached muslin Sheets, 2x2 yards, with very neat center seam. At 44c. each. Same quality as above, 214x2 yards.

75c. Sheets at 5Hc. Each. Very heavy rond thread bleached muslin Sheets, yards; sold by most stores for 75c; been selling here for 69c; a limited quantity at 5 8c each. Good quality fine and heavy bleached muslin Pillowcases, 45x36 inches, 12c each.

Good quality hemstitched muslin Pillowcases, 45x36 Inches, 14c. each. Subway floor. West Building. TIL TIES.

"I'eerless" Ice Cream Freezer. SIMPLE mechanism, quick, satisfactory results. 1 quart, 2 quart, $1.87: 3 quart, $2.24, and 4 quart, $2.37. Subway floor, East Building. Search Being Made at Eequest of Widow of M.

Joppa, Drowned Iday 3. (Special to The Eagle.) Copymnud, X. July 8 At the request of his widow, tlie' Hudson ltiver at this 11, lint iu 111 il'd in 'in r.rV,.t In roc.over the bC(iv of mi.h:i ZLa Brooklyn. He was employed on the llsrh.er Stonewall a iid was druwncd fell overboard as the boat va? itr.friirg cere on May 3. He was In (aoiii reading when some cno called him, ai it i3 thniiulll that i i liaate to nnswer the call.

EDWARD M. SHEWRQ VEOY Y. Well-Known Brooklynito Passes Through Crisis.Following Three Weeks Sickness, at Erlowest. (Special to The Eagle.) Lake George, N. July 8 Edward M.

Shepard has been seriously ill fnr the last three weeks at his beautiful summer home near here. Physicians have been In constant attendance upon the eminent Brooklynlte, but have kept the nature of the sickness a secret. It is understood, however, that it Is some form of pulmonary trouble, possibly pneumonia, but Edward M. Shepard. that the crisis was passed Thursday and the patient Is now definitely better.

Mr. Shepard came to Erlowest, his summer home, some weeks before he was taken sick. The house was built about a dozen years ago by Mr. Sheoard. the park the house stands in being on the Bolton high road, about a mile out of Caldwell.

Information from the house, which Is Ideally located for sechiBion, gets to the outside world In meager form, and It Is only within the last few days that It became known here that the distinguished Jurist and former candidate for Senatorial honors had been passing through a most serious illness. It was early in the year that Mr. Shepard contracted Influenza or grippe, and was compelled to seek the balmy air of Lakcwood to recuporate, and this in tho middle of a most strenuous campaign for tho Snnatorship in the place of Chauncey M. Depew. Friends of Mr.

Shepard had feared that he was not entirely over the effocts of that attack, but had felt reassured at his acceptance of the appointment as Storrs lecturer at the Yale Law School for 1912. WILL SIFT MATTER FULLY. Probability of More Arrests in Connection With "Go" at B. B. A.

C. Despite the report from the Kings County Hospital last night that "Kid" Bolte, the prizeflgher who was injured In a "go" at the Brighton Beach A. was doing well and had a good chance to recover, the rumor spread that there would be more arrests In connection with the bout, and that there would be some unusual police activity. This could not be confirmed, but was generally believed to be so. The police have received instructions, It Is Bald, to sift the matter and reach" the man upon whom the blame Is prop erly to be fixed.

In the past the Brigh ton Beach A. C. seems to have had some powerful protection. At Coney Island last night it was being said that this protection was not powerful enough to keep off the coming Investigation of the police. WOULD DIE IN WOMAN'S PLACE Young American Offers Himself as Substitute for One Condemned.

Fort Scott. July 8 Claude Wins- by, 26 years old, a painter of this city, to day mailed a letter to the Governor-General of Canada, offering to give his life to save Mrs. Angelina Napolltano, sentenced to be hang for the murder of her husband. Winsby's letter says: "My desire is to offer my life as a substitute for one which is capable of bring lng Into tho world a child, If in this country, might rise to the head of the nation. In America we esteem a pure woman.

In your country, if reports are true, you hang them for defending their chastity. DEAD BODY OF BABY FOUND In Basement of South Second Street Tenement There Three Weeks. Mrs. Jessie Balbowltz, the Janltress of a Aye-story tenement at 138 South Second street, discovered In the basement what appeared to be a bundle of newspapers under the stairway. She opened the bun- die, which was wrapped tightly with heavy cord and found the dead body of an Infant.

After she had Informed the Bedford avenue police of her discovery, Lieutenant Monohan sent Detective Clark, who took the bundle to the police station. The body was so decomposed that It was im possible at first to determine the sex, but provca to do a nve-months-old fe male child. A squad of policemen were sent out with Detective Clark, wbo questioned all tho dwellers In the neighborhood, but unable to get anv In formation regarding the Infant. The Cor oner physician, Dr. Wuest.

will ner form an autopsy to determine the cause of the death, wnion it is believed occurred three weoks ago. AXI MIBZA IS ACTIVE. Teheran, Persia, July 8 It Is expected that tho former Shah Mohammed All will attempt to enter Persia at Astrabad and resume his rule, with the help of the nomad tribesmen in North Persia. Jirvr Baltimore Ohio Freight and lonfnsr Office In Brooklyn. The Baltimore Ohio Railroad Company nounces the opening- of a Joint Freight and t'assenKcr omce at rso.

4 Court street, Brooklyn, whore their repreentatlv vm be pleased 10 meet the public and furnish Information In regard to all freight and paamnger mailers. Mr. C. A. Hitchcock, aasntant commercial freight agent, will be In charge of fretg.it traffic.

Mr. E. D. Alnalle, city passenger and ticket agent, will be In charge of passenger and ticket matters. Telephone Main 4296.

Adv. 3-K if feci I -Uid2k U. S. WATCHING NICARAGUA. Reports or Internal Rastlessness ant! Extnnnl Intrigues, ton, July The United States gunboat relieved the Yorktown at Ccrinto, Nicaragua, to-day, to keep an eye Oil tho Uin.rtiied conditions in Nicaragua.

With of threatened trouble there, American officials deem adviser lc to keep a close watch. In addition to the Internal restlessness there are reports of external Intrigue afaiust Nicaragua, and these rumors have Increased the necessity of maintaining American waiBhlpa in Nicaraguau waters. 10 ABSENT MARINES RETU1 Remainder of Those Who Took French Leave Epected Back by Officials. Of the forty marines, including four non-commissioned officers, who took French leave of the Navy Yard on July 6, ten had returned up to 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Colonel Lycune said that he had never received any complaint of the meals which were served to the men and that very often he inspected the meals himself.

He admitted that the delay in paying the men caused a good deal of dissatisfaction, but that that was entirely up to the paymaster's department iu Manhattan, who has charge of the pay-rolls ot five other navy yards. The Colonel said that the delay In pay was due to the fact that all the navy yards Bend In their pay-rolls to the paymaster on the first of every month. The two holidays, Sunday and Tuesday, following the first bo closely left only the one work day, Monday, July 3, which was an Insufficient length of time for a paymaster's force to get the pay-roll ready. Thus It had to be delayed until after Fourth, as government employes do not work on holidays. He also stated that he thought the majority of tho men would return before the ten days have elapsed.

COPPER INJUNCTION DISSOLVED Justice-Page Ends Order That Tied Up Big Mines. Minority stockholders of the New Dominion Copper Company who secured an ex parte injunction preventing the New Dominion Copper Company from carrying out a contract made with the British Columbia Copper Company, whereby the latter company smelted the ores of the New Dominion Company, met with temporary defeat In their application to have the injunction continue during the pendency of the action. Justice Page in the Supreme Court in Manhattan yesterday dissolved the temporary Injunction which had tied up nil work at the mines In British Columbia, and said: "That the plaintiffs will eventually succeed does not appear beyond question and the final decree cann give adequate relief for any wrong done pending the litigation. Furthermore, to compel the defendants to ceaso operations in their mines and close a substantial portion of thteir smelting plant would Inflict serious injury to the defendants by reason of the Injunction." STANLEY IN PITTSBURG. Senator Is Quietly Inspecting Big Steel Plants.

Pittsburg, July 8 Representative A. O. Stanley of Kentucky, chairman of the House committee Investigating tho affairs of the Unitod States Steel Corporation, arrived here quietly yesterday morning. "Are you here In an official capacity, or as a private citizen?" he was asked. "It Burely Is not a private visit, then again it is not an official visit.

I am hero to acquaint myself with steel conditions. As head of the committee I owe It to my-Belf and the other members to be fully acquainted with tho entire business and the present situation. If I find anything that may bo of value to the committee any evidence that may be used by the Investigators I will not hesitate to use it." One of the purposes of Mr. Stanley's visit Is to learn about the alleged deterioration of steel manufacturing plants and of the physical expenses which were mentioned by some of the witnesses during the Investigation at Washington. He denied that he was here with a view ot looking Into the acquisition of large coking Interests by tho United States Steel Corporation.

$40,000 GARAGE FIRE. Portsmouth, N. July 8 The automobile garage of Chadwick Trefethon, the plumbing establishment of James W. Burrett, and two dwelling houses were destroyed by fire here to-day, causing a loss estimated at $40,000. Five thousand gallons of gasoline and a quan tity of dynamite were stored near the garage, but hard work by the firemen kept the names at a safe distance.

The fire originated In the garage and was caused by the explosion of a gasoline tank on an automobile. HAS $10,000,000 CAPITAL. Albany, N. July 8 The National City Company of New York was incorporated to-day with a capital of to deal In real estate. The directors are: James Stlllman, Samuel McRoberts and James W.

Sterlln of New York; Stephen S. Palmer of Princeton, N. and Frank S. Vanderlip of Scarborough. PITTSBURG FACES ICE FAMINE.

Pittsburg, July 8 After one day's relief, Pittsburg 1b again In the grasp ot a heat wave. The thermometer Jumped 20 degrees since this morning, registering 90 at 2:30 P.M. Storage ice supplies have been exhausted and warnings were Issued today to the people that an Ice famine Is immlneut. TWO VICTIMS OF BULL. Dover, N.

July 8 As a result of injuries received in encounters with an enraged bull, Damon Guptll, the owner of the animal, and Horace Luce, a farmer, are dead. On Thursday the bull gored Ouptlll bo badly that the man died today. Yesterday Luce was so terribly hurt by the creature that his death resulted a few hours later. COLLIER WAS AGROUND. Washington, July 8 The naval collier Hector ran aground ff Cape Henry, early to-day, but floated before assist ance reached her, according to an official report to the Navy Department.

The collier now is on her way to Cape Cod Bay. SII.SHE SO. BOO FULTON ST. lo degress cooler than any other Restaurant Gwaxw N. T.

or I Buchenberger Was Naturalized 27 Years Ago, but Represents Company in Germany. QUEER POINTS State Department Takes Up Case of Man, With Family Here, Who Is Considered an Expatriate. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, July 8 H. C.

Buchenberg-er, a Brooklyn man, now In Germany, is trying to And out whether he is a citizen of the United States or not. Mr. Buch-enbergor was naturalized about twenty-seven years ago, his birthplace being tho Fatherland. He Is an employe of the Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Company, a German corporation with an American office. He went to Hamburg in 1907 and is now working under a flve-year contract with the company to represent them abroad.

He still owns a house In Macon street, where he had lived for about twenty years. At the time of his departure Mr. Buchenberger sought a certificate stating his American citizenship, but could not get it because he was unable to state definitely how long he would remain away from the United States. A part of his family is still here, hla sons, being 'educated In this country. Recently Mr.

Buchenberger, contemplating a return to the United States In 1913, went to the American Consulate General In Hamburg and applied for a certificate stating that he was an American citizen. He then discovered that he was considered to be an expatriate, a man without a country. Buchenberger Immediately wrote to his lawyers in the United States and through Representative Redfield of Brooklyn the matter was taken up with the State Department. There Is an act of March 2, 1907, which provides that when a naturalized citizen shall have resided for two years In the foreign state from which he came it shall be presumed that he has ceased to be an American citizen and the place of his gen eral abode is deemed to be his place of residence during the said two years. The law provides, however, that such assumption of expatriation may be overcome upon the presentation of satisfactory evidence that his residence abroad is solely or principally as a representative of American trade or commerce, or Is for reasons of health or education, or because some unforeseen cause has prevented his return.

Huntington Wilson, Acting Secretary of State, in a long letter to Representative Redfield discusses the Buchenberger case In detail. He says It Is obvious that Buchenberger Is not In Germany for reasons of health or and the question arises as to whether he Is a representative of American trade or commerce or whether he has been compelled to remain abroad temporarily. The State Department cannot see how Buchenberger, as the foreign agent of a German corporation which only has an American branch, can be considered as representing our trade and eommerco. He therefore cannot receive tne protection of American citizenship unless he can show that his residence Is still In the United States, that some unforeseen exigency has prevented him from return ing, and that he Intends to come bacit Immediately upon the removal of the preventing cause. Mr.

Wilson says, nowever, mat tne oe- partment will reconsider the case If Buchenberger produces documentary evidence of such facts. He adds: When Mr. Buchenberger resumes ac tual permanent residence In this country the presumption of expatriation raised by the law mentioned will De finally overcome, according to the department's construction of a recent decision of the At- torney General In the case of Nazara Mr. Redfield now believes that Buchenberger can satisfy the State Department that he has not expatriated himself, and will be able to get the protection which his American citizenship entitles him to. AXLE OF ENGINE MELTS.

Narrow Escape of Passengers on Shelter Island Express. Greenport, L. July 8 Very few of the Brooklynltes who came to the extreme eastern end of Long Island to-day on the Shelter Island express knew that they narrowly escaped being In a train wreck. It seems as though a special Providence only prevented a catastrophe. When Engineer John Hogan had backed Engine 89 Into the roundhouse here he discovered that the right Bide of the forward axle on the pony truck, the first axle on the engine, was so nearly broken in two that he refused to take the engine out again fearing she would fall over.

The axle Is a solid piece of four-inch Bteel, but the hot box had causod this to melt down to about two inchos In size. come true. Both wanted a reading of the cards. When this had been concluded they became Insulting and made offensive remarks, she ordered them to leave. They were both standing at the top of the stairs Just outside of the door leading to Mrs.

Miller's apartments when the falr-halred German uttered an unseemly word. The medium is about 25 years old and possesses an athletic figure. She also has a muscular right arm. The German found this out when a fist propelled by said arm struck him flush In the mouth and toppled him backwards to the bottom of the stairs. The Italian did not hesitate.

He ran down the stalrB as fast as his legs could carry him. Mrs. Miller followed the twain. The other occupants in the house had been aroused by the commotion and thev Joined Mrs. Miller.

The two men had hardly stepped Into the street when they were pounced upon by a crowd of angry women. Mrs. Miller exercised her pugilistic prowess on the German. She split his lip with a left hand Jolt and with a right hand hook she made the claret flow from his nose. The other women were pummeling the Italian.

The two men finally broke away and raced down New Jersey avenue pursued by the women. A Fulton street car fortunately happened to come along and the two men sought refuge on the car. After the fracas was mi over a policeman appeared on the scene, but his services were not needed. Mrs. Miller In discussing the Incident last night said that the two visitors tallied in every detail with the two men she saw In the vision.

She said that her occult powers tell her that the visitors were sent to make trouble by some rival medium who lives on Halsey street. Mrs. AUUer 14 very pretty ana widow, Subservient Legislators Will Take Orders of Tammany Boss to Pass Secretly Drawn Measure. GOES INTO EFFECT AT ONCE. Many Changes Relating to Franchise Power Gaynor Expected to Sign It If His Wishes Are Observed.

(Special to The Eagle.) Albany, July 8 The crowning work of the Legislature, dominated by Tammany Hall, Is now complete. It Is the new charter for the City of New York, as dictated by Boss Murphy and Mayor Gaynor, with an utter disregard of the interests of the public. The printer has It all set In type, and the proofs are being gone over for misprints, but no one "on the outside" meaning the five million inhabitants of New York, or any of the great newspapers, Is allowed to have a peek at it. Murphy and Gaynor seem afraid to let the public read the charter. And not one of their agents dares to open his mouth on the subject.

True, the charter will have to be published in time, but Its provisions will not be understood until after the bill Is passed. The plan is to report It out on Tuesday or Wednesday, rush It through both Houses of the Legislature, with the aid of weak and cowed "repre sentatives of the people," and, after It becomes a law, to let the people read It and understand It, if they can. It Is safe to say that not one member of the committee having the charter in charge, with the possible exception of Assemblyman James Foley of Manhattan, who comeB from Murphy's own Assembly district, understands Just what the charter Is intended to accomplish, In all its dotails. Foley says it will be a very acceptable Instrument, but the correspondents and the public are entitled to form their own Ideas on that point. And neither the correspondents of the newspapers nor tho public can form any opinion, except that tho wholo charter should be read with a microscope and viewed with suspicion.

One man who is closely connected with tho charter makers was asked to-day if the Board of Aldermen was to be given power to grant franchises Instead of the Board of Estimate. Many Changes Relating to Franchise Powers. "I am pledged to secrecy," he said. He represents a great dlBtrlct, which Is vitally affected by the new charter. He said it In a shamefaced way, for he Is Inclined to be an Independent, and It galls him to have to take orders from a boss.

"And to tell the truth," he continued, "I do not know about the franchise power. That has been put in the hands of the aldermen, and taken away again. It has been made a Joint proposition between the aldermen and the Board of Estimate, and then changed back again. There has been so much fuss over that section that I do not know how It la at the present time, and If I did, I would not be sure how It would be to-morrow. They keep adding and taking away, and putting things back again, all the time.

It would have been Introduced last week only that tho Tammany people keep making changes. "And, at that, the charter may be harmless enough looking when It comes out. It Is my opinion that It will be amended while It 1b being debated on the floor. No one will know what the amendments mean until after the bill is lammed through. "It Is my opinion also that the worst things will be put In these amendments." Gaynor Expected to Sign Bill If His Wishes Are Observed.

It Is confidently expected by Murphy that the Mayor will sign whatever charter Is put In front of him provided it contains provisions for a new paid Board of Education, and a few other matters Increasing the Mayor's power. But no one can know, from the way the charter Is being handled, what it will do until it Is passed. The members of the Legislature are expected to vote on the mere say so of a boss and a Mayor greedy for power, without knowing what Is In the bill. "I'll vote for tho charter," said a Brooklyn member to-day. "I'll be no good if I don't.

But I hate to do it without knowing wher I'm at. For I'll blamed for voting for It, I realize, If it Is not satisfactory. I ll be damned if I do and I'll be damned If I dont, so I'll take the easiest way. I want to get renominated. Can you blame me?" John H.

McCoocy, the Democratic lead er of Kings, was greatly concerned about the charter provisions when he was In Albany this week. He 1b opposed to changing the composition of the Board of Education, and he warned several of the leaders of the danger in fooling with the works of that grtat department of tho city's administration. The Mayor is said to be obdurate on this point, however, and Tammany probably will Jam it through. Republican votes can be had, If neces sary, to pass the charter through thj Senate. It is common gossip In Albany that several Republican up-state mel are In Leader Wagner's pocket so far as the charter Is concerned.

In return for favors received. One of these men has secured appropriations totaling over $800,000 this year for his district, more than many a Democrat In good Btandlng has Bccured. Other Republicans have been corraled In the same way. One thing Is known positively about the present form of the charter, and that Is Its closing sentence, "This act shall take effect immediately." The six words will cause an upheaval In the departments of the city government, which has not been paralleled In While those in charge of the new charter say that It will not contain anything "very revolutionary," still there will be enough changes to make a big Impression on the employes of the departments, on the political machines of both parties, and on the taxpayers. And as soon as the bill becomes a law, it goes Into effect, so that there will be a lot of scurrying between now and the first of August.

It is expected that the actual read justment will take some time, but If the way In which the charter Is being prepared is any criterion, the reorganiza tion of tne aaministratlon of the city will be rushed along. However, this will not materially affect the employes of the city In the departments that are transferred and shaken up for some lime at least. There is a provision In the new chartor which says that "transfer of personnel follows transfer of functions." AH minor employes under the jurisdiction of the various bureau chiefs in the controllers office, for instance, shall oe retained without change of salary or civil service status and trans ferred Jo the board, office or C. P. Taft.

Ballinger and Guggenheim Agent Involved. ALASKAN LAND CONTROL Claim That President Was Induced to Restore to Public Domain Lands That Gave Access to Coal Fields. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, July 8 Congress wants to know If the letter flies of the Department of the Interior contain the following communication: Dear Dick I went to see the Pres-Went the other day about this Controller Bay affair. President asked me whom I represented.

I told him, according to our agreement, that I represented myself. But that did not seem to satisfy him, so I sent for Charlie Taft, and asked him to tell his brother who it was I really represented. The President made no further objection to my claim. Yours, DICK. The "Dick" to whom this alleged note was addressed Is Richard A.

Ballinger, former Secretary of the Interior. The "Dick" who is alleged to have signed it la Richard S. Ryan of Alaska and New York, promoter of the Controller Railway and Navigation Company, claimed by many to be one of the fingers through which the Morgan-Guggenheim Interests seek to get a grip on Alaska. It seems to-day as If the Ballinger ghost will never he laid, so far as the Taft administration is concerned; that it Is likely to walk periodically and haunt the President's peace of mind. In his absence from Washington no statement as to the truth or falsity of the statements made in the letter can be Issued from the White House.

Secretary Fisher, Ballinger's successor, is out of town, and the contents of the flies of the Interior Department will not be made publio without his order. The Dick to Dick letter, if it be a genuine one, goes to the heart of the whole Alaskan railroad and coal hint that the President's brother, Charles Taft, smoothed the way for private interests to get control of Controller Bay la based on the statements of a newspaper woman, Miss M. F. Abbott, who saya that she found the letter in question among the letters filed in the department and made a copy of it. Miss Abbott? says the letter is a postscript to a formal letter from Ryan to Ballinger and that her version is verbatim.

The Two Exits for Alaskan Coal. A brief explanation of the Alaska situation Is necessary. The two great coal fields, the Matanuska and the Bering, are approachable through only two harbors. The coal of course, has no value without means of transportation. Cordova Harbor lies nearest the Matanuska field.

It has been In the hands of the Guggenheim Interests for three years. Cordova itself lies on a sea front which is impracticable for ships because of mud flats and sand bars in all directions. But about five miles south of it lies the Nelson town site. This fronts on a bay which has deep water. A special act of Congress turned the Nelson town site over to three men who bought 2,600 acres at $1.25 per acre.

It Is surrounded on all sides by a government reservation. It is the only navigable part of Cordova for large vessels. It Is the terminal of the Copper River Railroad, a Guggenheim property. This road runs Inland to the copper fields. It can be extended easily In either direction to the Matanuska and Bering coal fields.

James Wickersham, the Alaskan delegate, Bays a great part of the extension can be done for $1,000 a mile, so level is the ground. The road has never been extended because the coal fields have never been unlocked by official action. Thus the Guggenhelms absolutely control one of the two exits for Alaskan coal. Controller Bay lies about sixty miles south of Cordova In a direct line. South of It for more than a hundred miles there Is no harbor.

North of Cordova for a great distance, likewise, there is no harbor. Controller Bay's short front, until last October was a part of the Chugach For- st reserve and as such was withdrawn from public entry. It was beyond the grip of the Alaska syndicate. On October 28, 1910, President Taft signed an order eliminating from the Chugach Reserve 12,800 acres, including the front on Controller Bay. Thereupon claims in the eliminated territory were filed, two by James S.

Ryan and one each by Arnold S. Scheuer and Frank F. Davis, with railroad rights. These claims cover the waterfront of practically the only accessible part of the bay for ships. Richard S.

Ryan Is said to have appeared In Washington a year ago, with a view to getting a foothold on Controller Bay, the land surrounding which was then reserved under an order of Roosevelt. The Guggenhelms had never shown any Interest In Controller Bay, already possessing one of the two harbors, until it looked as If their Cunningham claims were liable to be thrown out. But If they got the other harbor they had a grip on the coal fields no matter who got the claims themselves. Ryan said he did not represent the Guggenhelms, but declared that his railroad was a rival to the Cooper River road. Kyan Appealed to Ballinger.

The forest service was approached and asked to recommend the elimination of the necessary land from the Chugach Reserve. It refused. Ryan is then declared to have appealed to Ballinger. He Is later alleged to have gone directly to the President. President Taft, It is alleged, demanded to know what Ryan represented and was told that he represented himself and his railroad.

Mr. Taft was not satisfied with the assurance. Here Is where the Dlck-to-Dick letter comes In. It Is an alleged statement that Ryan got Charles P. Taft, the President's brother, to explain who he really did represent.

Following these alleged negotiations came the order of October 28, 1910, throw- Contnlued. on Page 4, Muscular Medium Mauls Men; Vengeance Visits Vision Varlets Husky Hoodlums Horrified by Brutal Blows of Feminine Fist. Soothsayer Sees alible In Trance. Mrs. Ethel Miller of New Jersey avenue claims to posiesa occult powers.

She reads cards, and If a client desires it she will, through the medium of the trance, delve Into the future and recite the good fortunes and the misfortunes that await her visitor. Several days ago she exercised these powers In her own behalf and across her vision came the shadows of two men, one dark and swarthy, presumably an Italian, and the other a fair-haired German. Her occult Instinct warned her that soon these men would call upon her as visitors and their coming boded no good. The prediction of her trance materialized yesterday afternoon. Two o'clock found her bell ringing violently.

When she opened the door Mrs. Miller saw the two men whom she had previously seen In the trance. The dark-haired man was an Italian, powerfully built and weighing nearly two hundred pounds. The other was the falr-halred German, well put together, but not aa heavy as his companion. Mrs.

Miller, not frightened by the ap-'pearance ot her visitors, Invited them in. She wanted to see if the rest of the vuiub sue uau seen iu iu. fcruue woum.