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to to THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1913. 3 DENIES JURORS WERE MISLED Queens Borough President Answers "Trickery" Charge of District Attorney Smith. JUROR'S STORY OF AFFAIR.

One Man Says He Didn't Want Name Used to Support All of Smith Charges. Borough President Maurice Connolly of Queens denied today that any trickery had been practiced on the thirteen grand jurors to obtain their indorsement of charges filed at Albany against District Attorney Matthew J. Smith of Queens. Ten of the jurors have made amdavits that they did not know the nature of the paper they were eigning. to the article in The Eagle of yesterday I desire to call attention to the following statement made by one Mothe of grand his letter jurors, sent who to signed the a Governor.

retracand which statement is as follows: 'When we were in the Grand Jury room at the time of the John Doe proceedings. we took a unanimous vote disapproving the action of the Attorney in this matter. We to District, the manner in which the proceeding was conducted and to the calling of Aloyaius Halleran AS a witness. thus giving him immunity. We were convinced that the investigation was inspired by political motives.

We, however, did not impute these motives to the District Attorney. We expressed ourselves as opposed proceeding, and therefore. refused to hear Halleran unless he tiled a waiver of immunity. 'When the letter was presented to me by Mr. Rider and Mr.

Morris. it. said that we had opposed the tinctly, the Distriet Attorney in this John Doe proceeding. which was true. All the members of the Grand Jury with whom I have conversed were of the opinion that that was what they signed.

We are willing to stand by that statement 'because it conforms to our action in the Grand Jury room. If our letter la used for that purpose we can have Do objention. District Attorney Smith and his assistant, Mr. Hetherington, called upon me they presented the whole batch of charges that had been tiled against Smith, and said that our letter had beeL used to support the entire batch. I s.id that this was an unwarranted use of signature.

I do not know that this is the use that has been made of the letter, but I am willing to sign an affidavit for the District Attorney, saying that the whole list of charges was not indorsed by me. I do not know about the other charges. but do object to the action before the Grand Jury. "It is quite evident therefore, upon their own statement." Mr. Connolly says, "that their retraction was secured under a misapprehension and In the belief that the papers signed by them were being used to support all of the charges preferred against.

Mr. Smith. When. this matter is brought to their', attention have no doubt that the issue, being hetween them and the District Attorney rather than between the District Attorney and myself. they will see that their signatures originally were not obtained by misrepresentation but the retraction in their signatures was owing to an error into which they were led." BARBERS AGAIN ON STRIKE Conference With Bosses Breaks Up in Lively Row.

After a seven- -hour debate. lasting until 3 o'clock this morning. the Brooklyn Vaster Barbers Association, which met last night at Labor Lyceum, Willoughby and Myrtle avenues, was unable to come to any agreement with the journeymen barbers, and the session. broke up in scenes of wild confusion with shouts of "Strike!" coming from the dissatisfied workers, drowning out the a attempts of the more level-headed bosses to quiet the crowd so that the conditions might be remedied peaceably. The Independent Syndicate of the Journeymen Barbers Association declared a strike at the close of the meeting and, if their plans are followed out, the journeymen barbers will be noticeable by their absence, as was the case at the previous strike, some months ago.

The attendance at. the meeting was small, owing to the fact that what was virtually an admission fee was charged to the meeting, although it was explained that the charge of 50 cents was in the nature of advance dues. The master barbers, after hours of wrangling, were just ready to agree to the hours which demanded by the journeymen, were agreed upon at the last strike, but which, the journeymen claim, have been grossly disregarded by the bosses. It was when the Master Barbers Association demanded that the journeymen aid them in maintaining a fixed cents for a haircut that the journeymen of 10 he cents for a shave and 15 balked and the meeting broke up. There were several serimmages in the street, but none resulted seriously enough for police interference.

RAID DAY IN "PIGTOWN." Roundup of Dogs Excites Denizens of District. The Italians of Pigtown, are worried today and at 7:13 this morning Mounted Patrolman Charlie Meyn of the Flatbush station was told by the seventh Italian that he had no right to take his dog. It's "raid day" in Pigtown, and the S. P. C.

aided and abetted by the aforesaid Charlie Meyn, are rounding up all the dogs that are running loose in the neighborhood. Yesterday pups ran here and there, or squatted in the middle of the street, or snapped playfully at the heels of passersby, or fought furiously in the vacant lots---today, the hush of a quiet village at noonday on the hottest day -of summer is upon Pigtown, and only a few decorous, gentlemanly dogs bask dignifiedly in the Italian sunlight. Yesterday, a canine was a happy animal, today sorrow and disgust at life are the principal attributes of his make1p. From the back. of speeding autoambulances, the 1 long-drawn farewell wali of the incarcerated pup and the terrorfilied howl of the jailed canine pour forth to tell others of the species to beware of Pigtown.

The once open hearth of hospitality is closed, and the dogs very unhappy. CLOTHING STRIKERS QUIET. There are some three hundred strikers in the clothing trade out in the Eastern District. There is no disorder and none is expected, as the leaders will not countenance it, they say. Eighty -three manufacturers.

in addition to those already making application, have asked for arbitration of the strike. These cases will all be considered at headquarters in Manbattan on Monday. The strikers have been informed that all they have to do is to stick around the factories and report en what is going on. ANOTHER CARNIVAL QUEEN. Miss Breuer of Brooklyn to Be rowned at Keansburg.

N. (Special to The Eagle.) Keansburg. N. August 15-Miss Georgiana Breuer, of Brooklyn, and Philip J. Drake, of Manhattan, will be crowned queen and of Keansburg'8 third annual carnival tonight, having been chosen by popular vote to reign over the eight days' celebration In this popular summer resort.

Miss Breuer is a William F. C. Breuer, of 862 Lafayette avenue, Brooklyn. She is attractive, athletic and nineteen. She is a guest at the East View House, where she is spending her fourth summer.

Miss Breuer has always been popular with the summer people, and when she was mentioned as a can- Miss Georgiana Breuer, Brooklyn Girl Who Is to Be Crowned Queen of Keansburg. N. Carnival Tonight. didate for queen her selection was practically assured from the very start. Miss Breuer is an expert swimmer and tennis player and an accomplished musician.

The queen-to-be attended the Manual Training School, in Brooklyn, where she played on the basketball team. and was one of the most popular members of her class. Her sister. Miss Lillian. will be one of her four maids of honor.

like the queen, the selection Mr. Drake as king has met with universal approval. His. home is Waltham. and he 1s a former Dartmouth man.

where he, played football. He 1s tall. blonde, athlete and 24 years old. At present he resides at the East Side Y. M.

Manhattan. READY FOR BED, SUICIDE Planned Outing, Woman's Husband Finds Her Dead. At midnight. last night Henry Miller, who lives at 1665 -fourth street, Borough Park. discovered that his wife had not slept to her bed all night, and was very much surprised, because he bad planned to take her to the country this morning, and when she went to bed -she said she wanted lots of sleep, so that she might be wide awake, for.

the trip. Mr. Miller got up, and searched for her. He smelled gas and traced to the bathroom and there he found the door locked on the 'Inside. He broke down the door, and although the rush of gas almost.

overeame him, he managed to get to the window and throw it open, On a chair, with a tube in her mouth, all ready for bed, sat his wife belle: who is 59 years old, dead. Mr. Miller her to her bed and notifled the Parkville police by telephone. Dr. Smith of the Norwegian Hospital came In answer to a summons for an ambulance, but said the woman had been dead over two hours when he saw her.

Mr. could attach no theory or motive for his wife's suicide, though he admitted it was unquestionable. He said that she had been somewhat melancholy for the last few days, but he attributed it to nothing very serious, as she" had everything she wanted and was worrying for nothing that he knew of. SHOT AT COLORED PICNIC. Knives Also Used at Bridge Street A.

M. E. Outing. A large number. of members of the church and, Sunday school of Bridge Street E.

Church, of which the Rev. G. W. Johnson is pastor, went on the annual excursion to Forest Grove, Alpine. N.

yesterday. Late in the afternoon a number of the children got into a quarrel and there was shooting, some of the friends the school claimIn addition, it appears. there was slashing it was a "rank out outsider" who did ft. ing with knives, and, so the report goes, seven or eight persons were cut. One man.

David Manley of Brooklyn, was shot, and he was hurried to a hospital in Yonkers. The harbor police boarded the boat when it'arrived off the Battery and arrested Prime Van Doran under suspicion that he did the shooting. The Rev. W. D.

Johnson, pastor, could not be seen today. Mrs. Johnson. said that a statement was being prepared for the press AGED WOMAN GAS VICTIM. Granddaughter Finds Her Dead on Paying Her Visit.

Mrs. Korsberg. of 333 Furman street went to call on her grandmother, Mrs. Charlotte Johnson, 84 years old. who lived alone at 333 Hicks street, -today, but found the door locked.

While standing in the hall she detected the odor of gas. She told Mrs. Augusta Johnson. a neighbor. The -watchman, Stephen Jones, was found by Mrs.

Johnson, who, in company with a policeman from the Amity street station, forced the hall door open and entered Mrs. Johnson's rooms. They found the old woman on the floor in the kitchen. where she had rolled. from couch, and gas was escaping from a halfopen jet- in the parlor.

The woman's body was still warm and a hurry call was sent to the Long Island College Hospital for an ambulance: The doctor who responded worked over her for a long time but to no avail. MOTORCYCLE HITS AUTO. Rider Injured in Collision at Bedford and Bergen Street. John "Macauley. 25 years old, of 172 Marion street, was injured last night when the motoreyele he was operating collided, at Bedford avenue and Bergen street with an automobile owned and opcrated by J.

B. Cotter of 440 Stanley avenue. Macauley was thrown a to t'n- street and received contusions of the legs and body. He was removed to the Swedish Hospital by Dr. Lundorf and later taken to his home.

The automobile was damaged to the extent of $100. PARENTS SEE BOY DROWN. At the close of a day spent at Canarsie yesterday. 3-year-old John Homing, son of Mr. and Mrs.

John Homing of 5 Somers street, crawled to the edge of a pier oll which his parents were seated and fell overboard. He was drowned in spite of the father's frantic efforts to rescue him. Patrolman Henry Rohling spent two hours in diving for the body. Later men in rowboats recovered the body of the child. WOODRUFF'S STAND IS CALLED A BLUFF C.

O. P. Leaders Do Not Think Progressives Will Bolt Local Nominees. WILL POUNDS BE CUT? New Fusion Slate Being Prepared by Brooklyn Members of Hapgood Committee. Timothy L.

Woodruff was accused of "bluffing" today by members of the Hapgood Committee and leading Republicans, who pointed out that his statement of yesterday, announcing the determination of the Bull Moose to withdraw from the fusion conference. was, most carefully guarded. "It Bald the Bull Moose would ask no favors on the fusion ticket, but it did not say they, would accept none," clared one Brooklyn member of the Hapgood body today. "I believe that we pick out a ticket of really good men it will go through the Progressive designating committee all right." This view of the situation was confirmed in al measure late this afternoon. when it was learned that a certain promInent Progressive bad told close friend of Lewis H.

Pounds, the fusion nominee for Borough President, to "sit tight and things would come out all right." This information was elleited when Mr. Pounds'. friend pressed the Progressive for an answer to the question, "Does the Progressive bolt mean the turning down of Mr. Pounds by the Bull Moose designating committee?" It was further declared today that one prominent Progressive admitted that Mr. Woodruff did not intend to ignore the fusion movement, but that he bad made the statement yesterday to clear the Bull Moose of the charge of "grabbing." Mr.

Woodruff himself would not adwit this. What he said, when asked to explain his statement Was: "The statement means that the Progressives meeting in their designating committee will nominate whom they see At. It does not mean that they will turn down the men, who happen to have been suggested by the Fusion committee, but that' if they are indorsed by us it will not because the Hapgood body suggested One prominent Progressive' gave out an interview that he desired to. be printed without his name. and in it he sald: Says Progressives Mean to Cut Pounds.

"The Progressives mean to cut Pounds. That's. Woodrutf's game. He expects to get back at the Republicans that way. Some prominent independent.

Democrat will -be the choice. tor Borough President." The general feeling, however. was that the local Bull Moose would in the end follow the course of the New York. gressive organization, which today, through. a statement wade by the county chairman, Francis W.

Bird. declared in favor of the ticket named last night for them by the fusionists. This feeling was especially pronounced among the members of the Hapgood committee. Brooklyn members of that body are preparing a tentative slate for Kings County today. which divides the offices this way: Republicans for sheriff and register, Progreasive for county clerk, Independent Democrat for surrogate and Progresgives for coroners.

The slate has no names in connection with it ofeially, but the names of County Clerk Charles S. Devoy. Colonel Ardolph Kline, Edgar Hazelwood and Lewis M. Swasey have been Buggested for the shrievalty. The Surrogate: 1t was learned today, will be selected from the following men: Martin T.

Manton, Assistant District Attorney Hersey Eggington and Francis X. Carmody. Under this arrangement there is also a possibility 0'Loughlin might get renominated, but his chances a doubtful unless the Progressives actually carry out their bolt plan. From the headquarters of the Hapgood Committee It was announced today that the committee positively announce A Brooklyn slate by Monday. In the meantime the Fusion leaders are working to get.

the Progressives back into the fold. When Republican County Chairman Alfred E. Vass was asked to comment on Mr. Woodruff's statement he said: "I am loath to make reply to Mr. Woodruff.

because there is no guarantee that he will 'not make another statement tomorrow reversing that of yesterday. So far as the Republican stand is concerned. it has not changed that in the least. We Are for Fusion. have always been, and our.

attitude will not be shaken by any change of front on the part of the Bull Moose." The Republican Fusion Committee of Seven will meet, again tonight. and. it is belleved that they will then agree upon whom they want designated for Sheriff. The Hapgood Committee attempted to force them to arrive at an agreement on this last night, but did not succeed. The Progressive Assembiy District Committee of the Ninth met last night and adopted a resolution indorsing the action taken the Bull Moose County Fusion committee yesterday.

in withdrawing from the Fusion movement. so far as it conceros the local ticket. NO INDEMNITY DESIRED. Tokio, Japan, August 15--It is announced here that the United States has intimated her readiness to favor in principle the payment of an incemnity to Japanese subjects who have been affected by the Callfornian alien land ownership legislation and has also recognized the right of Japan to adopt a measure similar to the Califorrian bill. From intimations given in offcial eiralcles it appears unlikely that Japan.

will adopt either idea. It is said that what she desires is permanent friendly relacions with the United States, and therefore she seeks a fundamental solution of the dimculty. If the United States has no solution to offer, it is stated, Japan will probably allow the matter, to remain as a grievance. The public feeling of humiliation in this connection continues to be fanned by inflammatory comments in the newspapers. The Hochi Shinbun, which is often gensational urges as an chiect lesson to the United States the expulsion of American missionaries from Korea on the ground that they are undesirable aliens.

FIREMAN RUNAWAY HERO. Stops Horse on Surf Avenue and Saves Many From Injuries. A horse attached to a wagon, owned and driven by Tony Sculla, of 2870 West Fifteenth street, was frightened at the music in a carrousel at the corner of Surf avenue and West Eighth street, this morning, and ran away down Surf avenue. The avenue at the time was Alled with people, and it is a marvel that no one was hurt. The driver was thrown from the wagon and slightly bruised.

Hugh L. Kelly, a lieutenant of Engine Company No. 845, at the risk of his life, leaped to the horse's neck and held on to its nostrils, and finally succeeded in stopping the animal, assisted by- Patrolman McGlolue. 'B. R.

T. WANTS A BIG BONUS ON CONTRACT On Work of Reconstructing Sea Beach Railway as FourTrack Line. DESIRES TO HASTEN BUILDING Asks Permission of P. S. Commission to Let Contract Without Competition and on Terms Stated.

With the filing with the Public Service Commission today of plans for the struction of the Sea Beach Railway as a tour -track depressed line, it became apparent that an attempt Is to be made to grant the contractor a bonus which would net him an even greater comparative profit than the 10 per cent. over the cost of construction. which was sought recentily for the contractor on the Stetuway Tunnel, and which met with such a storm of protest when brought up at the last meeting of the Board of Estimate. A study of the figures submitted by Major W'. McNulty of 220 Broadway, Manhattan, the contractor to whom President Timothy S.

Williams of the New York Municipal Railway (B. R. wishes to give the work. shows that the total cost of the construetion would amount to $1,871,525. The bonus which the contractor would revelve were the work completed within seventeen months, amunts to $203.602.50, Just about 11 per cent.

on the cost of construction. With the plans, President Williams sent a letter asking the consent of the commission to the immediate letting of the construction contract without advertising and submitting it to compeitive bidding. In his letter Mr. Williams pointed out that it is essential that the work should be completed by the time the Fourth aveQue subway is completed and ready for operation as far south as Sixty -Afth street. If bids are advertised for in the usual way.

the letter continues It will probably take three months to complete the plans and award the contract, and this would defer the work so that tractors would not be able to wake any substantial. progress until next spring. Accordingly. it is explained in the company submits Major Me.Nulty's proposition because the contractor c'almns that he is ready install his plant al once. to begin operations on two weeks' notice, and to complete the work fu seventeen months.

Mr. Williams' letter termed the unit prices reasonable and comparing favorably with prices embodied In contracts for similar work. The form of contract, the writer says. Is similar to those already adopted by the commission for the Broadway- Myrtle avenue a and the Lutheran Cemetery coonections. -The bonus proposition Is as follows: The contractor to receive a bonus of 15 cents per cuble yard for excavation and 50 cents per cuble yard for concrete.

it the work is finished within the seventeeD months stipulated. this bonus to be reduced pro rata at the rate of 1 per cent. per day if the work is delayed beyond the seventeen months up to 100 days, with a corresponding penalty it the 100 days' excess is exceeded. City Would Ultimately Pay the Bonus. Speculation at once was rife as to just what was the meaning of the bonus osition.

It was found upon inquiry at the Public Service Commission that, although the railway company pays the bonus, it is the city which would ally suffer in the end. It was explained that the city would not begin to share the profits of the road until the interest on the bonds issued by the company for the construction of the line is all paid up. So it was asserted that the higher the cost, the longer the city would have to wait for its pro It was explained that, of course the proposals of the B. R. T.

had yet to come before the Commission, and whether it will be accepted is not yet known. No formal statement was forthcoming from the Commission today. Major McNulty's proposition, dated August 6, states that he is prepared to do work in accordance with the general plans prepared. by the company, for the following unit prices: 2.225 tons steel, per ton, $80; 36.000 linear feet concrete fence, per linear foot, 131,425 cubic yards concrete, per cubic yard, 918, 600 cubic yards excavation, per cubic yard, 450,000 duct feet conduit, per duct foot, 90,000 square feet station platform finish, per square foot, .05. The portion of the Sea Beach line for the construction of which the above unit prices were is from its connection with the Fourth avenue subway, about Sixty-Afth street, to a point immediately south of Eighty-sixth street, near Coney Island.

According to Mr. Williams, most of the land along the right of way needed for construction, has already been acquired. The unit prices cited above include the cost of taking down the existing bridge and foundations and constructing foundations for a new bridge at Seventh avenue. They also cover the caring for street and railway traffle during construction, the changing of existing wires and cables and the like. Major MvNulty proposes to do work generally accordance with the contracts ehe Myrtle avenue and Lutheran Cemetery connections.

MUNICIPAL REGISTER. Certified for Appointment. Board of Education, physician to examine mentally defective children. T. Krause, Long Island State Hospital.

Clarkson street; Joseph G. Wilson, the Belnord. street and Broadway, Manhattan; Harold W. Wright. Bellevue Hospital, street and First avenue, Manhattan; Frank P.

Jenks, 168 Third street; Isabelle T. Smart. 101 West Eightieth street, Manhattan; Mary Appleton. 541 Forthy-seventh street; Alice F. Leeder, 4:30 West 118th street: Elsie Fox, 822 West 163d street, both of Manhattan.

Department of Charities. Richmond, electrician at $4.50 per day-Emil Erdwurm, 143 East Fifty-third street; Thomas W. Holcomb, Manhattan: 143 East Eighty- ninth street, both of Good'et Chrystal, 614 Warren street: John J. Fetcher, 63 Southern Boulevard. Bronx: oJhn H.

McCormack. 193 Center street: Howard E. Hegeman, 307 Quincy street: James J. Wynne, 328 Eina street; Ambrose Buckley. 752 Monroe street: Frank S.

Pircher, 339 East 14th street. Fire Department, cable tester, at $1,200 pet annum--John S. sch. .917 Brook avenue, Walter Mahon, 354 Fifth street: Maurice Berger, 1830 Vineyard place, Bronx. Law 'Department, stenographer and typewriter, at W.

Byrne, 277 West Thirty -sixth street, Manhattan: Laura I. Becker, 211 East Thirty-fifth street. Manhattan: Mary I. Neary, 2652 Bainbridge avenue, Bronx; Anna C. Duane.

834 Eagle Avenue, both of the Bronx. Fire Department, Manhattan. c'erk, at $600 William J. Frazer, 636 Myrtle avenue: William J. Gallagher, 111.

Mulberry street: W. Wall, 239 East 126th street. both of Manhattan: Maurice Milbauer, 878 Kelly street, Bronx: Abraham Distler, 224 Second street, Manhattan. Fire Department. clerk at H.

Rondel. 373 Eust 154th street. Bronx. Health Department, bookbinder. at John H.

Higgins, '210 East N'netieth street: Joseph A. Perkinson, 426 East Seventy -ninth street; Gorge H. Wood, 208 West 115th street. all of Manhattan. For information on civil service matters address the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Civil Service Bureau.

Answers will be published in this column. No queries answered by wail. ROBBERIES THE WORK OF A GANG OF BOYS 10-Year-Old Lad Confesses and Implicates Several Companions. CAPTURED AFTER ROOF CHASE He Is Alexander Whittaker and Is Paroled on His Promise to Aid in Roundup of "Pals." That the many recent robberies in the Bedford district were the work of a gang of boys was indicated by the confession which Alexander Whittaker, 10 years old. of 526 Quincy street, made to Justice Ryan in the Children's Court today.

The boys who picked the houses that were to be robbed ranged from 16 to 18 years of age. They utilized the services of younger boys like Whittaker, because their size and weight made it easy for the older boys to lower them with the aid of a rope through the scuttle of a house, which was to be looted. Detective Sergeant Duffy of the Gates avenue station, with the aid of Alexander, expects to round up the most accomplished gang of juvenile housebreakers which ever operated in the Bedford district. He will not be surprised if Lis prisoners prove to be the sons of honored and respected families, who found housebreaking a most profitable venture to keep them well supplied with pocket money. The home of Dr.

Sidney Higgins at 414 Jefferson avenue was one of the houses which the gang entered. The family is away and the house is closed. Detective Sergeant Duffy Captures Boy at Scuttle Job. Detective Sergeant Duffy, acting on the many complaints which the police received, kept a strict watch on the neighborhood. and his suspicions were aroused by the actions of Alexander.

Entering the apartment house at 408 Jefferson avenue. the youngster pushed one of the bell buttons and the door was opened by the tenant in the apartment in the usual electrical way from above. The boy sneaked up stairs and made his way to the roof by lifting the scuttle. Detective Duffy, cautiously followed. he did not observe the detective.

who tie on the roof of Dr. Higgins' a home that Alexander was so' busy lifting the scutWas peeking over the open scuttle of the house through which the boy gained access to the roofs. Duffy quietly lifted himself to the roof and was almost upon Alexander when the boy saw him. A merry chase 011 the roofs followed. Alexander was as pery as an eel Every time Duffy thought he had the boy Alexander slipped from his grasp.

The boy, in dodging the detective. kept his eyes open for a scuttle which was not fastened. He found such an exit to safety on the roof of 416 Jefferson nue. Down he scampered with Duffy in close pursuit. The detective caught him just after he had slipped througb the front door into the street.

Alexander maintained a stolid silence until today when he was arraigned in the Children's Court. Upon his promise to help Duffy round up the other boys. Justice paroled him in the custody of his parents. Frederick and Elizabeth Whittaker. FRIED AN EGG IN THE SUN That Shows How Hot- It Is in Alma, Kansas.

Kansas City, August 15-How to get water for man and beast, and how to save a little out of wrecked crops of corn and other late summer products, presented Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma an increasingly serious problem today. It was the twelfth day of intense heat. Scattered showers last night were ineffectual and while SO much as half an inch of water fell yesterday at Topeka. It was in restricted limits. Cisterns are dry all over the country.

Springs that never before were known to fail have ceased to flow. In many sections a good deep well is a gold mine. Long trains of tank cars supply several Oklahoma and western Kansas towns with all the water they get. In a section of Seward County, where no rain has fallen in two months, the few wells that still give water are surrounded by campers, families that have closed their houses and gone to live In tents near a water source. Strange stories of heat pranks come from all parts of the country.

From Alma, Kansas, came a report, vouched for by one of the city fathers, that a woman, in a moment of desperation, wishing to verify or kill forever the old story of frying an egg in the sun, had prepared a fresh laid one nicely in a skillet with butter. and fried it to aT on a flagstone before her door, with only the sun for heat. Fire, which did nearly $1,000 in the home of Dr. Theodore Kroesch at Enterprise, was attributed by the doctor to the sun's rays shining through a lamp chimney in his study window upon papers on a desk. By noon in most sections of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma the mercury was well on the way to the hundred mark.

In Topeka last night the eleventh handrunning during which the thermometer had not gone below 75. Last night's minimum there was 77. BANK SNEAK'S GOOD HAUL. Stranger Steals $700 in Cash From Albany Teller's Cage. Albany, August 15-Just before noon today a stranger walked into the New York State National Bank, heart of the business district, and, advancing to the paying teller's window, called his attention to something behind the window.

As the teller turned the stranger reached into the cage and abstracted $700 in bills. He then escaped. REFEREES APPOINTED. BY BENEDICT. J.

Foley and ano. vs. Taylor and Horatto C. King: Steeger vs. Brady, Albert E.

Richardson: Baldwin vS. Erie N. Y. Realty Selah R. Strong: Baldwin vs.

Manhattan Properties Co, and Felix Reifschnelder, jr. BY CRANE, J. German Savings Bank vs. Plesch, Melville J. France; Diemer vs.

Nanes, Actions 1, 2 and 3. Eugene V. Brewster: Actions 4 and 6, Frank Harvey Field: Argyle Holding Co. vs. Pringle, Burt L.

Rich: Investors Mortgage Co. vs. Deming Realty Frederick Maerkle; Greene vs. Faber, 1a W. Naylor.

The Old and New at Roslyn. A picturesque Long Island town that has many quaint features. A very interesting il-1 lustrated story on it will be lished in the Sunday Eagle OBITUARY William A. Moore, William A. Moore, a native of Brooklyn, for twenty -five years clerk of the Anglo- American and Western Chion and Telegraph Company, died yesterday at his home, 146 Baltic street.

He leaves a widow, Annie Malloy, and four Martin, May, William and Anna. He was a member of the Third Assembly District Democratic Association. Charles F. Hallenbeck. Charles F.

Hallenbeck died Monday from typhoid fever, at Lancaster, Pa. His home was in Queens, Queens Borough. He was the son of Frank and Catherine Hallenbeck and was born in Arizona, nineteen years ago. He was a student at the Military School, Lancaster, and El member of the Holy Name Society of the Church of St. Bridget.

J. W. Fitzsimmons. J. W.

Fitzsimmons, born in New York City seven years ago, and for twenty-one years a resident of Freeport. L. died Wednesday at his home, 145 West Merrick road. Freeport. lie had been retired eight years from business AS a commission merchant.

of the rm of Jed. Frye with whom he had been for forty years, at 47 Water street, Manhattan. He lived most of his early life In the Eastern District, and was a ntelber of Crusaders Lodge, I. 0. 0.

and Massapequa Lodge, F. and A. M. He leaves a widow, Mary Elmore: a son. William and a daughter, Clara Mitzsimmons.

The funeral services will take place at his home, Saturday afternoon 3 o'clock. Burial in Greenfield Ceme- tery. Mrs. D. L.

Bailey. Greenport, L. August 15-Funeral services were beld this afternoon over the remains of Mrs. Deidamia L. Bailey, widow of Samuel G.

Bailey. The services were conducted by the Rev. Charles A. Barwise, pastor of the First Baptist Church of this village, of which the deceased had been an active member for many years. Mrs.

Bailey died on Wednesday morning and was in her 74th year. Mrs. Bailey was a charter member of Sterling Chapter, No. 216, 0. E.

in which she took much interest. The deceased is survived by one son, Charles G. Bailey, and three daughters, Mrs. Edwin D. Tuthill, Miss Sara J.

Bailey and Miss Lydia Bailey, all of this village. Interment was in Sterling Cemetery. Frederick Alexis Panier. Frederick Alexis Panler, a retired costumer -known In German circles Brooklyn as as amateur actor and theatrical director died 011 Wednesday at his residence, 55 Ashland place, his death being due to brain trouble. He was born in Paris.

France, January S. 1840, and had been a resident of Brooklyn fifty -two years. In the Civil War he Was a member of the Seventeenth Regiment of. New York Volunteers, and afterward became 8 costumer on lower Atlantic avenue, and later on Fulton street. He was costumer for the Emma Abbott Opera Company, at the old Park Theater, and he deigned the costumes and directed the carnival tableaus for the Brooklyn Saengerbund and other German 80- eleties, including the Ulk Dramatic Club.

of which he was a member. He had been for over forty years an honorary member of the Saengerbund. He leaves his widow. Delia Lubers Panier. who is ill at her home.

and a daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Stickert. The funeral will be held at his home tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. with interment in Greenwood. OBITUARY NOTES ERNEST A.

MOEHRING died at 0531 W'est Twentfeth street. Coney Island. Wednesday night from Bright's disease. He was horn in Manhattan. February 14.

1837. and lived at Coney Island twenty-five years: manager of the Bay Side Review and leaves a widow and four sons. requiem mass will be said in Church of Our Lady of Solace tomorrow morning a at 9:30 welock. JOHN GRIFFIN. a gravedigger in Calvary Cemetery for forty-five years, died Wednesday at 41 Jones avenue, Laurel Hill.

of kidney trouble. He was born In Mon More, County Clare. Ireland, July 1, 1843. and leaves A son, Lawrence, and two daughters. Mrs.

Catherine Yungst and Mrs. Mary J. Ryan. EDMUND KILIAN. a bookbinder and a member of St.

Peter's German Lutheran Church. died yesterday at 21 Logan street from pulmonary trouble. He was born in Manhattan. February 28. 1893.

and leaves his parents. Rudolph and and Caroline: two brothers. Miss Caroline. Rudolph. Hubert, and a sister, CHARLES ANGERMILLER.

for twenty years proprietor of the Linden Hotel at Greenwood Lake, died Wednesday in St. Peter's Hospital from tuberculosis. Funeral services were held today at his late home. 60 Eckford street. Greenpoint, with cremation at Fresh Pond.

He was born in Bavaria. Germany, 60 years ago, was a Free Mason, and leaves his widow, Minne, and two daughters, Caroline and Mrs. Minnie Andrate. Professor HENRI MARION. for thirty years professor of modern languages in the United States Naval Academy, and who was with party that brought the body of John Paul Jones from France in 1905, died at Culver, yesterday.

SEAMAN WRIGHT. born in New York in 1824, and a resident of Sammit, N. since 1859, died there yesterday. He was A contracting builder. and leaves three daughtera, Mrs.

Silas C. Wheat of Sterling place. this borough, and Mrs. J. B.

Coggeshall and Mrs. Frederick C. Kelly of Summit. GEORGE M. LAMBERT, aged 21 years, and the son of Frank and Marie Lambert.

died yesterday at his home, n8 Coney Island avenue, where the funeral services will take place Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. FREDERICK MILLER, employed by the Indemnity Company, and a member of Morningside Council. R. died yesterday at his home, 677 Monroe street. where funeral services will take place- Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.

He was born Tune 4. 1879, and had lived in Brooklyn for eight years. He leaves a widow. and a child two years old. Mrs.

LOGAN TUCKER. widow of Captain Logan Tucker, the last male descendant of General John A. Logan: died at Atlantic City. N. J.

suddenly last night. She was prominen! in Washington society, where the funeral services will take place, with the interment in Arlington Cemetery. R. WALDEN, aged 40 years, died yesterday at his home, 2678 Ocean avenue, where funeral services will take place tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. CHARLES VAN LOAN, late of Hyde Park and Catskill, N.

died in Poughkeepsie, N. yesterday. The funeral services will take place at 392 Main street, Poughkeepste, and the interment will be in the Rural Cemetery, that city. Mr. Van Lean was 60 years old.

JOHN A. ZIMMERMAN of 132 Newton street, Greenpoint, died Wednesday of cholera morous at North Branch, near Cancoon, Sullivan County, N. where he had been spending his summers for many years. He was born in Germany 75 years ago, and had been in the hay and feed and real estate bus. ness, retiring ten years ago.

He leaves a son, John daughter, Mrs. Emma Eppleur, and seven grandchildren. MARY GENEVIEVE HENDERSON CHILD, wife of William E. Child, died yesterday at 742 Macon street, where the funeral services will be held tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock. ARTHUR DWORESKI of 405 Schenek avenue died Wednesday in the Consumptives Home.

He was born in Brooklyn February 12, 1885, and he was a member of St. John's Polish R. C. Church. He is survived by two brothers, Joseph and John, and three sisters, Mary, Mrs, Rose Jaskey and Mrs.

Alice Schleskey. KNIGHTS OF HONOR NOTES. Senate Lodge will meet at Wilbur Hall, 6 Brooklyn avenue, on Friday, August 22, and may have initiatory work. There will be the usual smoker and prize drawing, 'and visiting Knights of Honor will be cordially welcomed. In connection with several other Brooklyn lodges, Ivy Lodge will hold a at 879 Gates avenue on Thursday, October 30.

Prominent speakers will address the assemblage. The Past Dictators, Veterans and Knights of Honor Association will hold its first meeting for the fall season at Wilbur Hall. 6 Brooklyn avenue, on Satturday evening, September 20. Locally, the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the order and its payment of $100,000,000 in death claims ull der the auspices of the lodges Greater New York will be of commemorated by a great outing at Astoria Schuetzen Park, Broadway and Steinway avenue, Long Island City, on Wednesday. August 27.

both sexes being invited. The committee of arrangements met in the rooms of Americus Lodge, 170 East. Sixtieth street, Manhattan. on August 6. and will meet again in the rooms of Zschokke Lodge.

393 Second avenue, Mandattan, on Monday, August 18. PENROSE DEMANDS RETURN OF HALE Forces Debate on Mexican Situation in Senate -Bacon and Lodge Defend President. WILSON'S CRITICS SCORED. Penrose Introduces Resolution Asking the President to Define Dr. Hale's Status in Mexico.

Washington, August 17--Senator Penrose foreca another debate on the Mexican situation today by introducing a resolution calling upon President Wilson to inform the Senate whether William Bayard Hale is in Mexico City as the agent of any executive department of the Government, if -o by what authority he was appointed and what compensation he has been given. The White House explanation of Hale's prescuce in Mexico has been that he was there as a personal friend of President Wilson forwarding information. Senator Penrose declared that he had desire to further complicate a delicate situation or to indulge in jingoism. Ho referred, however, to dispatches from Mexico telling of the serious plight of Shirley C. Hulse, son-in-law of Lieutenant Governor Reynolds of Pennsylvania, who, with his wife and little daughter, are believed to be in danger from revolutionists near the elty of Chibuahua.

The Senator declared that unless the mission of John Lind developed marked change in the conditions In Mexico, he would address the Senate next week, laying before it certain information he did not disclose today. Penrose Plans Address on Mexichn Situation. "Things are getting pretty close to home," declared Senator Penrose, "and are becoming serious, when American citizens are molested and their lives and property endangered. Personally, I ani willing to wait a few days to see if the mysterious mission of Mr. Lind produces any tangible result.

In the event that it does not, early next week I expect to address the Senate on conditions in Mexico, and will offer a resolution, which, I hope, will go some way toward the dignity of the United States and its firm intention to protect the lives and property of persons in Mexico." Hale, Mr. Penrose declared, had been active in Mexico City "conveying the impression that he is the representative of President Wilson," and had been in conference with Mr. Lind since the envoy's arrival. sooner Dr. Hale's connection are severed 1 the better for the unfortunate Americans now in Mexico." he concluded.

The resolution calling for information Went over to tomorrow. Senator Lodge charged that the Democrats were trying to treat the Mexican question as a party affair. His statement, made in bitter terms, followed a declaration by Senator Bacon that "force meant war." "Everything is being done that can be done," Senator Bacon declared. "short of using actual force, and force means war. and war is not a thing to be rushed into hurriedly and rashly, not to be encouraged by intemperate speech at this time." Lodge Champions the President.

Attempts by Democratic leaders to stop the Mexican discussion and turn the Senate back to the tariff bill brought all outburst from Senator Lodge. want to support the President 111 every posible way on this Mexican be cried. addressing the Democrats. "He is not your President alone: he is the President of the American people as much mine as yours But I want 110 partisanship in the handling of this serious situation. You can't have non-partisanship on party lines, and that is what you are trying to do.

"You can do nothing worse than to exercise the power of your malority on this Mexican question. This question cannot be disposed of that way; it cannot be dismissed with a smile and a Another resolution by Mr. Penrose calling for consular reports as to happenlings at Durango since January one by Senator Poindexter. calling for information as to measures to protect Americans in Mexico, and one by Senator Brandegee, calling for a joint investigation by the House and Senate Naval committees, to determine what increase in the Navy was being made and what naVal programme was under consideration, were introduced. In a demand that the Senate should not pass or consider the resolutions until the Foreign Relations Committee had 93 opportunity to take them up, Senator Bacon urged that all possible support be given to the President.

"While the Senator is deliberating in his interrupted Senator Penrose, "Americans daily being murdered in Mexico. is a prominent "Hore American citizen in danger of being shot. have. information that more than 100 Americans have been killed. and that their names are 011 file in the Department of State." "The President of the United States 1s known by this returned Senator Bacon, "to be acting in good faith, and to the best of his ability, trying to deal with the situation through methods that will save this country from the great disaster of a war.

I believe the American people recognize that and are upholding him in his Senator Penrose retorted that he believed the Administration was "engaged in good faith in a patriotic effort to solve the but that he believed It was time to take some "police measures" to prevent further "murder of men and outrages upon women." Objections carried all the resolutions over for another day, without reference to committee. Mediation in Mexico by the United States, Argentine and Brazil, was prOposed in a resolution today by Representative Towner, Iowa, President Wilson would be authorized to co-operate with the officials of the South Amerlean countries to make offers of mediation. Where Shall We Go to Get It? go! Come right merchants of this town in today's Eagle. Wonderful how these live business men anticipate your needs. Right now they are cleaning their August stocks and planning what they shall offer you at Christmas.

The steamers and trains are bringing in your fall attire -planned long ago. But the Important part in the merchant's fall and winter plans is to start with fresh new goods. He must sell what he has right now. That's why August is a month of unusual retail sales. Better clear shelves and a temporary loss than capital tied up in summer merchandise.

It pays to watch the advertising every day in the year, but it wilt never pay you better than right now in this month of August. The time to buy is when the other fellow is anxious to sell and never are the merchants offering better inducements that now Read and see!.