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a a a a a THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 19. 1911.

MARRIAGES AND DEATHS MARRIED. at 202 Quincy st, Brooklyn, GRACE B. BEEBE, to LYNN D. STILES. DIED.

Bell, Mary J. Riordan, J. V. McC. Crampton, John Severn, Julia A.

Edwards, Raymond Sievers, Henrietta Fitzpatrick, Mary T. Silsbe, Edward F. Fox, Herman Smith, William H. Griffith, Louisa Van Cott, Peter Hedges, Marcus 0. John Keilholz, Charles C.

Winchester, Frank Platts, Sarah C. MARESI-GOODE-On Monday, December 18, 1911, at the Hotel St. Regis, New York City, by the Rev. Joseph J. Donohue, HELEN GOODE, daughter of Mrs.

Henry Walton Goode of Portland, to POMPEO SI. MARESI of Brooklyn. STILES -BEEBE-December 18, 1911, BELL-On Monday, December 18, 1911, MARY J. BELL, beloved wife of Robert Bell. Funeral services at her late home, 324 Smith st, Brooklyn, Wednesday evenat 8 o'clock.

Interment, Peekskill, N. Y. CRAMPTON-On December 18, 1911, JOHN CRAMPTON. Interment in Greenwood at 2 o'clock on Wednesday, December 20, from the residence of his sister, Mrs. Henry W.

Adams, 349 Prospect av. EDWARDS-On December 17, 1911, RAYMOND beloved husband of Mabel (nee Willet). Funeral services A to be held at his late residence, North avenue Hotel, Westfield, N. Wednesday evening, December 20, at 8:30 o'clock. FITZPATRICK-On Sunday, December 17, 1911, MARY (nee Duffy), wife of Edward J.

Fitzpatrick, and gister of the Rev. Thomas Duffy of St. Agnes Church, New York. Funeral from her late residence, Henry st, Wednesday, mass at St. Peter's Church, December 20, 9:30 a.m.

Solemn reguland Warren sts, 10 a.m. Interment, Poughkeepsie. FOX-On Monday, December 18, 1911, HERMAN FOX. Funeral services Thursday, December 21, at 2 p.m., at the residence of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Straus, 369 Ovington av.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend. GRIFFITH-On Monday, December 18, 1 1911, at her residence, 72 Hoyt st, LOUISA GRIFFITH, wife of Henry Griffith, in her 82d year. Funeral services at Holy Trinity Church, on Wednesday, December 20, 1911, at 2 p.m. HEDGES Hempstead, L. Sunday, December 17, 1911, MARCUS OSBORNE HEDGES.

Funeral services at the First Presbyterian Church, Wednesday, at 1 p.m. Interment services at Bridgehampton, after the arrival of the 11:57 a.m. train, Thursday, December 21. KEILHOLZ-Suddenly, on Sunday, December 17, 1911. CHARLES CHRISTOPHER KEILHOLZ, beloved husband of Margaret W.

Bressette, in his 68th year. Funeral gervices at his late home, 449 Macon on Wednesday, December 20, at 8 p.m. PLATTS-On December 18, 1911, SARAH C. PLATTS, at her residence, 1167 Seventy-fifth st, Brooklyn. Funeral private.

RIORDAN-On Saturday, December 16, 1911, JULIA V. McCARTHY, beloved wife of Edward Riordan. Funeral from her late residence, 96 Fourteenth st, Brooklyn, Wednesday, 2 p.m. Relatives and friends invited. Interment Calvary.

(Middletown, papers please copy.) SEVERN- her residence, 1744 West Eighth st, Brooklyn, N. JULIA beloved mother of William E. Severn, in year of her age. Funeral serv- 1ces Tuesday evening, at 8 o'clock. Interment Wednesday.

(Washington, D. and Baltimore papers please copy.) her home, 304 Fourteenth st, on Monday evening, December 18, 3911, HENRIETTA, widow of the late John Sievers. Notice of funeral in Wednesday evening papers. SILSBE-EDWARD F. SILSBE, In the 49th year of his age.

Funeral services at his late residence, 631 East 108th st, N. Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Interment Patchogue, L. Wednesday a.m. SMITH, WILLIAM H.

Tuesday, SMITH, at December his resi- 19, dence, 1054 Forty-first st. Masonic funeral service on Wednesday, December 20, at Sandalphon Masonic Hail, Forty-sixth st and Fort Hamilton av, at 8 p.m. Masonic bodies please talce notice. (Baltimore, papers please copy.) VAN COTTOn Friday, December 15, 1911, PETER VAN COTT, aged 82 years. Relatives and friends, also members of Ridgewood Lodge No.

710, F. and A. Orient Chapter, R. A. and Masonic Veterans of Brooklyn, are respectfully invited to attend funeral services to be held at his late residence, 606 Halsey st.

Monday, December 18, at 8 p.m. Interment private. VEITCH-Passed peacefully away on December 17, 1911, JOHN VEITCH, beloved husband of the late Sarah Veitch. Relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services, to be held at his late residence, 70 Barbey st, Brooklyn, on Tuesday evening, December 19, 1911, at 8 o'clock. Interment private.

WINCHESTER-Passed away, after an illness of seven months, at his home, 118 Sterling December 18, 1911, FRANK E. WINCHESTER. Funeral services Wednesday, December 20, at 8 p.m., ut his late residence. IN MEMORIAM. GOODWIN-In loving memory of our mother.

ROSE GOODWIN, who departed this life December 19, 1910. May her soul rest in peace. HER DAUGHTERS. SURPRISE your friends with a photograph. All sittings made up to Dec.

20th positively ready for Xmas. GARDNER 276-278 Fulton st, 2 blocks below Borough Hall. RILEY A SUICIDE. Corona Groceryman Cuts Throat With a Knife. Edward Riley, 35 years old, who conducted a grocery store on Shell road, Corona, committed suicide at 3 o'clock this morning by cutting his throat with a knife.

Riley lived over his store and about 3 o'clock this morning he told his wife he heard a noise downstairs and would TO down to investigate. He did not return, and after some time had A elapsed Mrs. Riley went to look for him. She found the door of the bathroom, which is on the first floor, locked, and summoned a neighbor to help her. They forced the door and found Riley dead.

Ambulance Surgeon Booth of the Flushing Hospital said he had died almost instantly. It is that business troubles had Riley to be despondent of late. A CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL. Goetz Association Will Entertain Ridgewood Children. The Andrew Goetz Regular Democratic Association has arranged a Christmas festival for the children of the district in which the club has its headquarters, which will be held at Oriental Hall, 150 Forest avenue, corner of Palmetto street, Ridgewood, on Wednesday evening, December 27.

It will be a family gathering parents are to bring their children and have a good time. There will be 110 admission on charged and there will be a present for every child. The affair is under the direction of A committee composed of Andrew Goetz, Charles Knatz, William Nill, Peter Schneider, George Glading, James J. Brown, Charles Pfost, Willam Reilly, H. May, Jacob Bender, Charles Guhl, William Buss, Edward Mauer, G.

A. Zoller, Andrew Sperber, Dr. William Mathews, In addition to this committee the officers of the association will assist. SUFFRAGISTS CALM EVEN WHEN ENJOINED Serving of Court Order Forbidding Convention Fails to Cause a Ripple of Excitement. INSURGENTS IN JOYFUL MOOD.

Argument in Court Occurs on Thursday--Both Sides Will Then Be Out in Force. Everything happened, yet nothing occurred, is the decidedly conflicting announcement which describes the Woman's Suffrage convention which did not convene last evening at the Lockwood Academy in South Oxford street. For a few minutes all interest revolved round the voluminous document, officially introduced as an injunction, representing the petition of Grace A. Raymond against the Woman Suffrage Party, naming as respondents, Carrie Chapman Catt, E. Jean Nelson Penfield, Martha Wentworth Suffren, Margaret Chanler Aldrich, Harriet Burton Laidlaw, Bertha Elder, Mary D.

Fisk, Helen G. Ecob and Edith M. Whitmore directors of said corporation; Carrie Chapman Catt, E. Jean Nelson Penfleld, Martha Wentworth fren, "Mary Wells (name Mary fictitious, real name unknown to petitioner), Margaret Chanler Aldrich, Harriet Burton Laidlaw, Mary D. Fisk, Bertha Elder, Helen G.

Ecob and Edith M. Whitmore, as the city committee of said corporation; E. Jean Nelson Penfield, as chairman; Martha Wentworth Suffren, as vice chairman; "Mary" Wells, as secretary, and Margaret Chanler Aldrich, as treasurer of said corporation, and asking to have the election at which the petitioner was elected as recording secretary of the Woman Suffrage Party for the Borough of Brooklyn established as valid. Insurgents Quit, Singing Peans of Victory. Singing peans of victory, the small army of in insurgents, clasping copies of the injunction in their arms, having seen their duty and performed it with legal precision, departed from the scene.

Their presence at the academy and the serving of the injunction was not unexpected. The shadow of the coming event had been well cast by last night's Eagle. The detachment had arrived in fairly good force, Amy Wren, Sarah Stevens and Grace Raymond leading the wav. and they had, by virtue of their inpunction, called off the meeting before it had even been called to order; hence the peans of victory. But the servers of the temporary injunction aS they withdrew left behind them a very representative body of women who neither lifted their voices in protest nor did anything which, even by a wide stretch of the imagination, might furnish material for newspaper notoriety or precipitate an argument.

Nearly all of the respondents were present, as were also Mrs. Stephen Loines, Miss Anna Rhodes of Manhattan, Mrs. David Porter, Mrs. E. P.

Hamson, Miss Ida Craft, Mrs. Orion White, Mrs. Martha J. Peebles, Dr. Jessie Edwards, Mrs.

Chatfeld, Mrs. Barrett, Miss Anna an Goeseling, Mrs. Rose Brunner, Mrs. Grace Wolterbeek, Mrs. L.

Primrose, Mrs. E. S. Childs, Miss Hilda Loines, Miss Elizabeth Dutcher, Mrs. D.

W. Barker and many other prominent district representatives. Convention Would Have Been a Large Affair. The convention, had it convened, would have been a large one. Each of the twenty-three districts was well represented.

Prior to the arrival of Mrs. Penfield, Miss Rhodes and Mrs. Suffern, who had been dining together at the home of the latter, where the events of the evening had been planned for and considered in prospect, the hostess of the evening, Miss Carr of the Lockwood Academy, Announced that by way of entertainment the Suffrage hym might be sung. As the hymn was finished Miss Wren rose and read the injunction. Then, assisted by Miss Stephenson, papers were served on Mrs.

Penfield and Mrs. Suffren, a8 they emerged from the committeeroom, which they had entered immediately upon arriving. There was some question as to whether any announcement whatever should be made, but after consulting with their counsel, Charles C. Suffren, Mrs. Penfeld appeared before the waiting delegates and said: "We are prevented from holding the convention called for tonight because of a court order, which we must respect.

I want to assure you, however, that everything will soon be satisfactorily settled. We shall regain our balance and I am sure nothing will prevent our continuing our splendid Suffrage work in Brooklyn." Injunction Ignored During Social Hour Ensuing. That was all. No reference was mado to the charges of fraud and conspiracy contained in the petition; no concern was expressed regarding the hearing to occur before Justice Jaycox on Thursday morning. The women who remained at the Academy for a brief interval after the interesting denouement merely settled themselves for an informal and goclal chat about suffrage matters in general.

Beyond the statement individually expressed that to be personally present at the hearing on Thursday, the matter of the injunction might well be supposed to have been merely a dream. Mrs. Suffren, In a statement to The Eagle made later, said: "I think the whole thing merely requires patience. Perhaps it will he all the better for coming before the court, much as the majority of the Suffragists dislike notoriety in anything which savors of quarreling or ill This is the first time I have ever known anything of the kind to occur in suffrage work. and I cannot but feel that Mrs.

Elder has been very ill advised in the matter." What the Injunction Contains. The order of the court as served at last night's assembly reads: "I hereby order that the respondents, their agents, representatives and each and every person, and the Woman Suffrage party and its officers and agents be, and they hereby are restrained and enjoined and stayed from doing or performing any act or thing whatsoever affecting the rights of the petitioner and said other persons elected with her, as officers of the Woman's Suffrage Party of the Borough of Brooklyn, pending the hearing and determination of this application; and sufficient cause appearing therefor, services of this order on or before December 20, 1911, shall be good and sufficient service. (Signed) "WALTER H. JAYCOX, "Justice of the Supreme Court." The various charges contained in the petition will be heard before Justice Jaycox at 10 o'clock on Thursday morning, and from the interest manifested a large representation of the Suffrage Party, regardless of personal affiliations, will be present. BROOKLYN HORSE SHOW.

One-Day Event at Riding and Driving Club. The Brooklyn Riding and Driving Club announces a horse show on Wednesday evening, December 27, on the tanbark at Flatbush avenue and Prospect Park Plaza. The event is an annual function exclusively for members. Eight classes make up the programme. Several handsome trophies have been offered.

Judging will start with saddle horses for the Allan Pinkerton Cup and there will be other classes for combination horses, tump is, saddle ponies, road hacks and rairs. FIRE ROUTS HOTEL GUESTS. Nearby Building Was Destroyed-3 Furnace Stokers Missing. Chicago, December 19-Nearly 1,000 hotel routed in early today which totally destroyed the suests, were, Open Board of Trade building, a fivestory landmark at 323 South Laselle street. Three furnace stokers who were In the basement are missing and it is not known if they are safe.

Alarm was immediately felt for the guests in the Kaiserhof, New Victoria and Stafford Hotels, all of which were near enough to be touched by the flames from structure. Bellboys, elevator men and even the city firemen did heroic work in the hotels. Every room was visited in the hostelries and the guests awakened. EAGLE PARIS BUREAU CALLERS. Eagle Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon.

Paris, December 19-General Stewart L. Woodford and wife, Lorenzo Bertolini of Milan and Leon Ceppart of Paris regIstered at The Eagle Bureau today. UP GO EGG AND BUTTER PRICES Fresh Eggs Are 46 Cents a Dozen; Butter 36 and 38 Cents a Pound. On the eve of Christmas and despite figures showing that eggs and butter are being delivered in the city In great quantities, the dealers today began to boost the prices. When as to the reason for the raise givquestioned, ing as an excuse that the cold storage business has been ruined and that the dealers' have' been unable to store far enough ahead to provide for the market.

An analysis of prices for this year and last, howover, shows that there seems to be some concerted movement to send the prices just as far as the people will stand. Fresh eggs, quoted a year ago on the Mercantile Exchange at from 34 to 38 cents a dozen, yesterday advanced to 44 and 46 cents a dozen. Butter, which was 27 to 30 cents a pound last December, went up yesterday to 36 and 38 cents a pound. The increase on both commodities is roughly 33 per cent. Since March 1 New York has received 4,298,190 cases of eggs of twenty-four dozen to the case.

This exceeds by about 500,000 cases the number which arrived last year. The number of packages of butter which has reached the city is 1,631,630. This exceeds the number that came in last year by 200,000. "THE MOUSE" RETURNS. The Elusive Gregory Nabbed at Brookhaven Last Night.

Patchogue, L. December 19-William Gregory, better known as "The Mouse," who has eluded the police of this section for many months, was captured at Brookhaven last night a few hours after he returned to his native haunts, and held by Justice Green this morning await was, the action of the Grand Jury. He is charged with criminally assaulting a and robbing Mrs. Sophie Sauer of Corona on May 10 last. The assault occurred on a lonely part of the Medford road, and "The Mouse" made his escape through a network of police that searched all over Long Island for him.

He was traced through Huntington, and probably made his way to Manhattan. At 8:45 last night Gregory alighted from a train at Brookhaven, and he had no sooner done so than someone notified the police here. Deputy a Sheriff Frank Norton of this place and Constable Augustus Reiss of Medford went immediately to Brookhaven and found their quarry asleep at the Cedar Inn. This morning Mrs. Sauer identifled the prisoner as the man who had assaulted her.

BREWERS IN CONVENTION. Address by President Schaefer a Feature. The N. Y. State Brewers Association opened its annual convention in the asesmbly room of the Lager Beer Brewers Board of Trade yesterday afternoon in Manhattan.

An address by President Rudolph J. Schaefer Was a feature of the convention. Following the election of of- Rudolph J. Schaefer. fleers speeches were made by Jacob Ruppert, president of the United States Brewers Association; John Gardiner of Philadelphia, Louts B.

Schram of New York, Frederick E. Grant and William H. Hirsh. Among those present were Rudolph J. Schaefer, Ja ob Ruppert, Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo, State Exelse Commissioner W.

W. Farley, Anton Hupfel, Adolph G. Hupfel, Adolph J. Hupfel, J. Christian G.

Hupfel, George Ehret, George Ebret, Theodore Obermeyer, William Hoffman, John C. Heintz, John Relsenweber, B. T. Kearns, E. C.

of Syracuse, John Bradley of Rochester, S. B. Foster of Rochester, L. Burgweger of Buffalo, Jacob Lang of Buffalo: E. G.

S. Miller of Buffalo, George C. Hawley of Albany, Fred W. Woerz, Charles J. Warner, B.

Fallert, H. B. Scharmann, H. F. Scharmann, Christian Feigenspan, Louis B.

Schram, Peter Doelger, Hugh F. Fox, Robert C. Powers, Frederick A. Reed, president of the Hotelmen's Association. TOBACCO TRUST MUST UNLOAD.

Forced to Sell Its Holdings in United Cigar Stores Company. The Tobacco Trust, acting under orders of the United States Supreme Court, must part with its holdings in the United Cigar Stores Company, the corporation which deals directly with the consumer. There are 1,400 stores in the United's great chain. Stock of the United Cigar Stores pany, which has been quoted as high as day and closed with 205 bid and 216 asked. 260, went to the low level of 201 yesterThe selling was caused by the rumor that following the distribution of shares today there would be an unloading movement at the high figure.

Newspapers are printing stores about the reported sales of the company day which indicate that the stock is algo being bulled. 59,500,000 AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF TAXES Controller Pendergast Runs Across Assets in Checking Accounts. GOES INTO GENERAL FUND. And Eleven Points, It Is Expected, Will Come Off the Tax Rate On Account of It. Controller Prendergast, in a communication to the Board of Estimate, has recommended an unexpected, addition of $9,534,905.84 to general fund of the city, for the reduction of taxes.

Although the tax rate for 1912 has not been fixed, it is estimated that the sum named by the Controller will reduce the rate about 11 cents on each $100 of assessed valuation. As an illustration, it is now estimated that the tax, rate in Manhattan and the Bronx for 1912. will be $1.78 per $100. Were it not for the addition to the general fund proposed by the Controller the rate would be $1.89. The $9,500,000 1s made up of a long serles of unexpended balances in budgetary and special revenue bond appropriations made in 1910 and previous years.

The expert accounting division of the Finance Department discovered this money in reconciling the fund balances on the books of the city and county departments with those in the Finance Department. "In 1912 tax rates, as estimated, are on the final budget amounting to $181,090,656.51, as determined by the Board of Aldermen and the Mayor, and on a conservative estimate of taxable real and personal property for the year 1912 of $8,300,000,000. The estimate makes allowance for a deduction of approximately $9,500,000 from the general fund, which the Controller insists shall be transferred from that fund to the taxes account to make up deficiences in special franchise taxes, which the Aledrmen and the Mayor eliminated from the 1912 budget. The exact amount of these tax deficiences disallowed was $7,452,264.88, which had been calculated as the accumulation to December 31, 1910. Assuming that the direction of the Aldermen and the Mayor is accepted the Controller declares that there should be added to the $7,452,264.88 about $2,050,000 to cover the special franchise payments 1 made and to be made by the corporations under section 48 of the special franchise tax law in 1911 and 1912.

Money Comes From Checking and Correction of Accounts. "The transfer of fund balances recommended by the Controller is made possible at this time because of the checking and correction of upward of ten thousand open fund accounts on the city's books. For many years past differences in these accounts have been left unadjusted, and because of the lack of agreement it has until now been impracticable to turn the balances over to the general fund yearly a3 is contemplated in the city charter. The Controller has inaugurated the use of a monthly report from all of the departments and offices using city funds, by means of which it is proposed hereafter to check currently the balances so that at the close of each year the unencumbered amounts may be immediately turned into the general fund. This is the largest single contribution to the general fund for the reduction of taxation ever made from this source in the history of the city.

The balances are found in the appropriation allowances for 1910 and previous years, the major portion, however, being in the funds for 1910 and 1909. The Controller in his report calls tention to the unusually large a amount of unexpended balances in salary appropriation for 1909 and 1910, which he credits to the use of controlling grade schedules accompanying salary appropriations In the budgets for these two years. He also attributes the very large accumulations to the more economic administration of departmental funds because of the scientific segregation of expense accounts in the budgets for recent years. Among the considerable items is one of $1,128,399 in the budget appropriation made in 1910 for payment of Interest on revenue bonds. This saving, the Controller says, is due to lower interest rates and in large part to the policy of the present administration of restricting revenue bond fund borrowings to the shortest period of necessity, as well as to a more vigorous administration than in former years of the city's tax collecting function.

TWO KILLED IN A GUN FIGHT. Another Dying as Result of Shooting Affray in Thomas Jefferson Park. A general gun fight between about twenty men in Thomas Jefferson Park, Manhattan, resulted in two men being killed and one wounded mortally, Just before midnight last night. Fully a dozen shots Were fired. Then two men were seen to stagger from the entrance of the park, in First avenue, between 112th and 113th streets.

The two men reached the avenue and fell to the pavement. They died within a few minutes. One of the dead men, from papers found on him, is believed to have been "Patsey" Ammello, who had lived at 512 South Pearl street, Philadelphia. The other is said by the police to be Mariano Debuono, a barber, 23 years of age, of 154 East 109th street, Manhattan. The one now in Harlem Hospital and mortally wounded said he was Amoclio Duomomo, 27 years of age, of 1638 Westchester avenue.

'The police detained as witnesses Dimallia, 22 years of age, a barber, of 304 East 111th street; Frank Stabile, 19 years of age, of 358 East 113th street; James Arciallo, 29 years of age, cer, of 175 East 101st street, and Frank Bienco, a boss truckman, of 318 East 109th street. Thus far the police have discovered no motive for the gun fight. All that is known is that about twenty men were engaged in it and that there were two distinct parties pitted against each other. WILL GET AFTER THE MAYOR. Sunday Observance Ass'n Is Demanding Sabbath Law's Enforcement, A meeting of "public protest" opened this afternoon at Bedford Branch Y.

M. C. under the auspices of the Sunday Observance Asociation of Kings County. This meeting is to presage a "holy war against Sunday saloons and Sunday moving picture and the man higher up--the Mayor--is in line for severe censure for permitting drinking in the rear rooms of saloons on Sundays, and the sale of liquor with meals in hotels and clubhouses. It is claimed that Mayor Gaynor does not compel the enforcement the laws forbidding moving picture shows and vaudeville on Sunday, and that the "Sunday moving picture shows are depleting the Sunday schools, taking away the vision of God on that day and teaching the children how to commit crime." The speakers of the afternoon were the Rev.

Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis and the Rev. Dudley Oliver Osterheld. The social gervice committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island has indorsed the work of the Sunday Observance Association, and Canon William Sheafe Chase, presided at the 1 meeting. The offleers of the Sunday Observance Association are: Charles Judson Haulenbeek, president; Canon William Sheafe Chase, first vice president; Arthur L.

Brown, second vice president; the Rev. Robert H. -Carson, third vice president; Joseph M. King and Asa F. Smith, corresponding and recording secretaries, and John W.

Cummings, treasurer, MISS BURNETT ASKS WARRANT. Charges Robert Bartlett With Bigamy-He's a Prisoner in Rochester. Miss Harriett Burnett, the young Brooklyn woman who married Robert Bartlett, a married man of Rochester, os the man giving his name as Robert Samuel Bartley upon applying for a marriage license in Brooklyn early this month, appeared at the Adams street police court, this morning, to apply for a WATrant for the arrest of Bartlett, or Bartley, on a charge of bigamy. The man is now a prisoner of the Rochester police, his first wife, Mrs. B.

E. Bartlett, charging him there with nonsupport. BAR ASSOCIATION'S NEW HOME. Because of the lack of a quorum of the trustees of the Brooklyn Bar Association, yesterday afternoon, at the Brooklyn Club, the matter of the lease of the A8- sociation's proposed new home was not taken up, but the trustees adjourned the meeting until Thursday afternoon, to meet in the Bar Library, Kings County Court House, at which time, it is said, the lease will be signed and immediate steps will be taken to complete the alterations contemplated in the house, 160 Montague street, so that the association can take possession early in the spring. POULTRY SHOW OPENS Exhibits From All Parts of the United States, Canada and Other Countries at the Garden.

With more than 4.000 birds actually present, and close to 90 different classifications for them, the biggest poultry show New York has ever seen opened at the Madison Square Garden today. is the twenty-third annual exhibition of the New York Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Association, and the cream stock of this from onlincludes all parts of the United States, Canada and several foreign countries. Besides the more than 4,000 birds, which included the many different breeds of chickens, pigeons and canary and kindred birds, there are some 300 rabbits of the highgrade sort-Belgian hares, Angora rabbits and the like; white rats, cavies, or, a more commonly known, Guinea pigs, and more than 200 cats of high degree. The last-named will be on exhibition on Thursday, in the big concert hall in the Garden, where the Atlantic Cat Club will have them put through their paces. The club is composed of, wand the show run entirely by, women have made a study of cats.

The results of this knowledge may be found in the wellnigh perfect specimens to be seen at this year's show. Miss Harriet Ward of Brooklyn is the president of the club and Miss Jennie R. Krooch of Orange, N. 18 the secretary. There will be more than 100 classes and more than 200 prizes have been donated.

Interest is keen among American poultrymen as to how well the foreign contingent will fare in the matter of prizes. Among those to be seen on the floor of the Garden at the opening today are exhibits from the estates of the Rev. E. Lewis Jones of Keightony, Radworshire, England, and that of Miss S. Carey of Spolsby, England.

Miss Carey will show some of the best Orpingtons from across the water. She has fifteen birds on exhibition. All parts of Canada are strongly represented. Judging of the various poultry classes started along about noon, but owing to the extremely fine classification, the awarding of prizes was necessarily slow. HARRIS AND BLANCK DEFENSE Eighty Witnesses to Be Called to Testify Before Next Friday.

The defense in the trial of Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, charged with manslaughter for having caused the death of Margaret Schwartz, during the fire in their factory in the Asch building, in Manhattan, where many lives were lost, was begun this morning, before Judge Crain and a jury, in the Criminal Courts building in Manhattan. Max Steuer, counsel for the defendants, announced that he had eighty witnesses, and that he expected to put about twenty witnesses on the stand during each day, so that he can rest his case Friday afternoon when court adjourns over. Christmas. He also announced that both fendants would take the stand in their own behalf. According to Mr.

Steuer's outline of the defense, it will be conceded that one door, that leading to the left on the eighth floor, on the Washington placo side, I was blocked at the time of the fire. The star witnesses for the defense will be three girl operators who worked oil the ninth floor, one of whom is badly crippled from injuries received during the fire. They are expected to say that they went to the Washington place door on the ninth floor, during the fire, at A time that no one else was there, and that the key was in the lock. One of them tried to turn the key, but failed, and then she or another turned the knob and the door opened. CHARLES BIGELOW HAD A GUN.

Intoxicated Comedian Says Someone Slipped It Into His Pocket. Charles Bibelow, a comedian, familiar to every playgoer in this city, was arrested in Sixth avenue, near Twenty-sixth street, Manhattan, early this morning charged with intoxication and also with the more serious crime of carrying a concealed weapon. It is not known where Bigelow spent his time after he left the theater where he is playing, but at 4 o'clock this morning he was rolling up Sixth avenue, clad in a long coat, a golf cap, a suit of pajamas and a pair of shoes. There was a crowd of men following him. Patrolman Burdick of the West Thirtieth street station, arrested him.

Bigelow wag still unsteady when arraigned before Magistrate Barlow in the Jefferson Market court. Ha wobbled a bit as he said in answer to the two charges. "Your Honor, I am compelled to admit that I was drunk. As to the gun, however, I know not how it got into pocket. I did not fire a shot.

Some person must have slipped the gun into pocket. I never carried a gun in my life. Magistrate Barlow was impressed with the story told by the comedian and discharged him. Under escort of several friends and attendants the actor then went home to rest. GREAT GREATFLOODDAMAGE IN WALES Swansea, Wales, December 19-The floods caused throughout Southern Wales owing to the River Avon bursting its banks have subsided to a great extent.

The damage is widespread. A score of bridges over the river have been swept and hundrds of homes inundated, their occupants being forced to seek shelter on the higher ground. NOTABLE XMAS NUMBER. The Press-Chronicle Company of Paterson, N. of which William B.

Bryant, son of the late William Cullen Bryant of Brooklyn, is publisher, has just issued al notable Christmas number, with sections printed in colors and contalning a large amount of advertising and much valuable news matter, with special features. TWO KILLED BY TRAIN. Binghamton, December 19-Alpheus Finch and W. H. Coy of Conklin were ground to pieces beneath the wheels of two passenger trains early this morning.

The accident occurred at a crossing. CONFESSES TO SETTING FIRE TO HIS OWN ROOM Samuel Brant Admits He Committed Arson and Implicates Two Others, POLICE NAME OTHER BLAZES. Expect to Connect Three Men With Organized Gang in Brownsville Section Who Burn for Insurance. Fire Marshal Thomas F. Brophy and Detectives McKeon and Ryan, who were responsible for teh capture and arrest of two alleged "frebugs" in Brownsville yesterday, after they had employed a ruse and trapped the men, expect to make more arrests as a result of the arraignment in court today of the two prisoners and an alleged accomplice.

Samuel Brant of 124 street, Manhattan, one of the prisoners who was taken in yesterday's capture, pleaded guilty to the charge of arson when arraigned before Magistrate McGuire in the New Jersey avenue court this morning. Brant was held without bail for the Grand Jury. After Brant's case was disposed stepped into one of the private offices of the court with the Are marshal and the detectives, and accordIng to the authorities, promised to lay bare the whole story of his operations. It is the belief of the police and the Ore marshal that Brant had been working with a gang in the Brownsville section setting fire to their apartments, rented especially for, that purpose, with a view toward collecting insurance money. The confessed "Arebug" will give a statement in the form of an affidavit, it is sald, naming some of the other men who were in with him on the wholesale arson scheme.

After teh arrest of and his companion yesterday, following a fire at 726 Cleveland street, the police made another arrest. They made a prisoner of Benjamin Brownstein, who works in fur establishment at 81 West Eighth street, Manhattan, and who gave his address as 124 Second street, the same house at Brant's. He was accused of being an accomplice of both men. court and the serious charge was read to When the three men were arraigned in them Samuel Brant did not hesitate about pleading guilty. His companion, however, who is described 88 Joseph Brant, alias Morris Greenstan, of 158 East 144th street, Manhattan, had nothing to say.

Brownstein, who was arrested later, asked that he be given time to mecure a lawyer, and, with Joseph Brant, was until Friday for a hearing without bail. Think That Five Other Fires Can Be Traced to Men. The police already know of Ave Ares in the Brownsville district which they believe they can connect with the operations of the men who were arrested yesterday. The fact of Brant's open admission of the crime in court today was considered trump card for the authorities, and they figure on working on the confession which he is expected to furnish today, to clean up the rest of the firebug band. The story of how Fire Marshal Brophy and the detectives trapped the Brants for the arrest came out after A fire in 8 tenement at the Cleveland street address, 'where rooms had been hired by the men.

The fire official and the detectives were furnishd a tip by Abraham Flam, an Interpreter in the fire marshal's office, to watch the Brants. The alleged firebugs did not know that they were being followed or suspected of their operations. The offers disguised themselves and walted until their suspects had gone as far A8 fully carrying out their plans to set fire to the building in which they had rooms before they were apprehended. CITY'S MILK TO BE PURE. After January 1 Tainted Article Will Be Practically Unknown.

New York City, after January 1, will have the most perfect and elaborate systhe world prevention of diseases due to impure milk. Every quart of milk sold in the city for human consumption will either be pasteurized, according to the French requirements, or will be of the higher grade which is not subjected to heat, but is watched from the cow to consumer by medical perts and branded at every step. "It a single glass of infected milk is drunk in this city after the Arst of the year," said Commissioner Lederle today, "it will be the consumer's fault." An agreement has been reached between the New York Board of Health, the New York Wholesale Milk Dealers Agsociation, the Sanitary Bureau of the Milk Association, and the New York State Grange by which the new order will be inforced. In the past the commercialized pasteurization process has been a medical farce, as doctorg have freely admitted. The milk has merely been subjected to an intense heat for twenty or so seconds and then cooled off as quickly as possible.

The French standard has. always been twenty minutes of boiling at a temperature of from 150 to 160 degrees. Twenty minutes exposure is necessary to kill the typhoid germ. After the first of the year pasteurized milk will be subjected to twenty minutes boiling. New York City receives daily 2,000,000 quarts of milk from 44,000 farms in seven states, over which it maintains careful inspection.

The city's men trace the milk from the farm to the city, inspecting at every point, from time to time. The city demands this jurisdiction and maintains it by the simple process of cutting off at this end the sale of any milk which they are not allowed to inspect at the point of production. ANOTHER FORWARD STEP. Meeting at Hamilton Club of Leaders of Brooklyn Development Plan. Another step was taken today toward Brooklyn's development, when a.

luncheon and meeting was held in the Hamilton Club by those who have Interested themselves in the project. Following so closely the visit of Daniel H. Burnham, the famous architect, who made a flying trip through the borough, the projectors of the scheme were enthusiasts la today, and there is every evidence that the plans will bear fruit. Those at the luncheon Included Frederic B. Pratt, chairman of the citizens committee; Robert T.

Woodward, vice chairman; John B. Creighton, secretary, and William Tumbridge, treasurer of the provisional committee. Others invited to the luncheon were Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, Professor Franklin Hooper, Herbert F. Gunnison and Alfred T.

White. Today's luncheon was for the purpose of permanently organizing and to elect officers. It was believed that following the lunch eon proper the temporary officers would be chosen as permanent officials. It is also planned to establish a strong citizens committee, but the last of names is not as yet ready because It is not complete. RIOTING IN DUNDEE.

Dundee, Scotland, December 19-The dockers and carters of this port who are on strike have suddenly got out of hand and begun to cause great disturbances in the vicinity of the quays. Rioting became 60 serious today that 300 soldiers have been ordered to the city. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTE. Coward Shoe Straight Inner Line Last with Coward Extension Heel FOR WOMEN A last so helpful to flatfoot" conditions, that leading orthopedists pronounce it a most corrective shoe for weakness of the arch structure. It embodies Coward remedial principles, including Coward Arch Support, and Coward Extension Heel.

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SMITH, President st. LOST, a brown HAND BAG, in Hippodrome picture show, 1740 Fulton st; contained money. Kindly return to orphan, 47 Utica av: reward. LOST, WATCH, with silver CHAIN, In Kingston av or vicinity, on Monday evening: reward. Return to A.

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LOST, WATCH and FOB, marked St. John' College Field Day, on Tuesday morning, on Madison st, between Marcy and Gates aV; reward given. 261 Madison st. LOST, WALLET, Saturday night, Montauk Theater; name Morton Trust Co. on inside: Ander may keep cash 1f wallet 1s returned.

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974 Sterling place. PERSONAL. PERSONAL. FRANK SULLIVAN, will not be responsible for debts contracted by my wife. N.

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19-2 PROPOSALS FOR BIDS AND ESTIMATES FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS, GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS. The person or persons making a bid or estimate for any service, work, material or supplies for The City of New York, or for any of its departments, bureaus or offices shall furnish the same in a sealed envelope, indorsed with the title of the supplies, materials, work or service for which the bid or estimate made, with his or their name or names and the date of the presentation to the president. or board, or to the head of the department at his or its office, on or before the date and hour named In the advertisement for the same, which time and place the estimate received will be publicly opened by the President of Board or head of said department and read. and the award of the contract made according to law as soon thereafter as practicable.

Each bid or estimate shall contain the name and place of residence of the person Interested making the same, the names of all persons with him therein. and if no other person be interested, it shall distinctly state that fact. also that it la made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the same purpose, and Is in all respecta fair and without collusion or fraud, and that member of the Board of Aldermen, head of department, chief of bureau, officer of deputy The thereof or clerk therein, or other New York is. shall be or become Interested. directly or Indirectly, 89 contracting party.

partner, shareholder. of surety the or otherwise, or In the performance contract, or the supolies, work or business to relates, o' or in any estimate portion must of be the verifled profits thereof. The bid oath, in writing. of that the the party or matters parties making the estimate all respects several therein are in true. stated Each bid or estimate shall be accompanted by the consent, freeholders in in The two of house- New writing.

of holders or City York, or of a by guaranty law to or act ag company and surety duly authorized the matter set forth surety. in shall contain mentioned below. the blank No kid or estimate form will be considered unless, condition precedent to the reception consideration of certified any check proposal, It be accompanied by a national banks of The upon one of the state or to the order City of New York, drawn of the Controller. or money to the amount of five per centum of the amount Section 420 the bond required As proof vided in of the Greater New York Charter. The certified check or money should not inclosed in the envelope containing the bid 91 estimate.

but should be either inclosed in separate envelope addressed to head of the department. president or board. or submitted personally upon the presentation of the bid or estin ate For particulars as to the quantity and quality of the work, supples reference or the must nature and extent of the be made to the specifications. schedules. plans, on Ale in the sald office of the president, board or department.

No bid shall be accepted from or contract awarded to any person who is in arrears to The City of New York upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter as surety or otherwise upon any obligation to the city. The contracts must be bid for separately. The right la reserved in each case to reject all bids or estimates If It be deemed to be for the Interest of the city 90 to do. Bidders will write out the amount of their bids or estimates in addition to inserting the same in figures. Bidders are required to make their bids or estimates upon the blank forms prepared and furnished by the city, a copy of which, with the proper envelope in which to Inclose the bid, together with a copy of the contract, cluding the specifications in the form, approved by the corporation counsel, can be obtained by application therefor at the omce of the partment for which the work is to be done.

Plate or drawings of construction work also be seen there.