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but of a a THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8. 1913. HEALTH of your family and yourself demands that every precaution against illness, contagious sickness After any one, a house should be thoroughly disinfected.

Why expose your loved ones and yourself to a dangerous disease when all germs lurking within the contines of your home may be removed i immediately by of scientitic disinPectionethod The cost is so very reasonable that not to have it done amounts to neglect. fairchild DIRECTORS Sons 702 Fulton 2907 Jamalen 158 Reid 573 Flatbush Ar. VITAL RECORDS DEATHS. Aschoff. Ellen Jephson, Mrs.

Emily J. Babcock, Peter Kihm. Clara Bartow, Pierrepont Lyons, Michael Bergen, Jerome L. Mac Mullen, Lilly W. Blossfeld, Johanna McDonough, Peter Chase, William D.

McFarland, Libbie A. Cooper, Margaret A. Mellis, Margaret Dolan, Margaret H. Mitchell, William F. Donnelly, Elizabeth Pitxin, Mra.

J. Forrest, Rosalie A. Pfeiffer, G. Oscar Gulick, Ernestus S. Sanford, John A.

Hellahan, Timothy Askiff, Mae S. Howes, Rebecca S. Toy, William F. Rynes, Katherine Vanderhoef-Willicott Irwin, James D. H.

ASCHOFF- Monday, January 6, 1913, ELLEN, beloved of William Aschoff. Funeral from the residence of her son, William Aschoff, Jr. 135 East Third 00 Thursday, January 9, at 9:30 a.m.; thence to the Roman Catholic Courch the Immaculate Heart a of Mary, where solemn mass of requiem will be offered for the respose of ber soul. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. BABCOCK -Suddenly, January 1913, PETER BABCOCK, in his 17th year.

Funeral services private, Friday morning. (Philadelphia papers please copy.) BARTOW--At Utica. N. January 1913. PIERREPONT BARTOW.

Funeral at Utica, Wednesday, January 8. BERGEN-On January 8, 1913. JEROME BERGEN, beloved husband of Mary Lord Bergen. at hig residence, 370 Hancock st. Notice of funeral hereafter.

BLOSSFELD-At ber residence, 1934 Eighty-second st, JOHANNA BLOSSFELD, beloved wife of Charles H. Bicssfeld. aged 70. Funeral services Wednesday evening, at 8 o'clock, to which relatives and friends are kindly invited. CHASE -Suddenly, on Monday, January 6, 1913, WILLIAM D.

CHASE. in bis 815c year. Funeral services at his late residence, 120 Clymer st. on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Please omit flowers.

COOPER--Suddenly, on Tuesday, January 7, 1913, at her residence, Fiftysecond st, MARGARET A. COOPER (nee Doyle), mother of Bertram Cooper. Notice of funeral hereafter. DOLAN- -January Y. 1913.

MARGARET HIGGINS, wife of the late Peter Dolan, at her daughter's, Mrs. Charles O'Shaughnessy, Scarsdale, N. Y. Requiem mass at St. Bernard's Church, West Fourteenth st.

New York City, Thursday, January 9, 10 a.m. Interment Calvary. DONNELLY--On January 8, 1913, ELIZABETH, beloved wife of Henry Donnelly, in the 55th year of her age, at her residence, 113 East Fourth st. Notice of funeral hereafter. FORREST-Suddenly, 011 January G.

1913. at her residence, 53 Ocean av, Flatbush, ROSALIE widow of Robert and mother of Edward Walden Forrest. Services at her late residence, on Wednesday, 8 p.m. Interment at Greenwood. GULICK--In New York, January 6, 1913, ERNESTUS SCHENCK GULICK, of pneumonia, aged 17 years.

Services at Marble Collegiate Church, Twenty- ninth st and Fifth av. New York, Thursday, at 10 a.m. Interment private. 4- HALLAHAN-On Tuesday, January 7. 1913, TIMOTHY beloved husband of the late Bridget Hallahan.

Rela Ives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from 268 Myrtle av. on Thursday, at 2:30 p.m. Interment Holy Cross. HOWES -Suddenly, at Jamaica, N. REBECCA S.

HOWES, in her 73d year. Funeral services at Dennis, on Thursday, January 9, 1913, at 3 p.m. (B08- ton papers please copy). HYNES- -After a short illness, on January 7, 1913. KATHERINE HYNES.

Funeral from her late residence, Springfield, L. I. Requiem mass will be celebrated at Springfield Catholic Church, 10 a.m., January 9. Interment Holy Name Cemetery, Jersey City. IRWIN---On Tuesday, January 7.

1913, JAMES D. IRWIN. in his 66th year. Funeral services at his late residence. 136 Cambridge place, Brooklyn, N.

Thursday, January 9, 8 p.m. Kindly omit flowers. JEPHSON-On Tuesday, January 7, 1913, Mre. EMILY JEPHSON. Services Thurgday evening, 8 o'clock, 62 Nichols av." KIHM-On Monday, January 6.

1913, CLARA KIHM, beloved wife of Frank J. Kihm. Services at her late residence, 929 Marcy av, on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Interment Thursday, Evergreens Cemetery. LYONS- -On January G.

1913, MICHAEL LYONS. 81 years old. Funeral from the home of his son, John T. Lyons, 309 East Eighth st. Brooklyn, Thursday, January 9.

Requiem mass at the Church of St. Rose of Lima, Parkville, 10 o'clock. Interment in Calvary. MacMULLEN-At her residence, 24 St. Mark's place, January 7, 1913, LILLY WALLACE, daughter of Robert and Charlotte Nostrand MacMullen.

Funeral services Friday, January 10, at 8 p.m. Interment private. McDONOUGH--On January 6. 1913. after a lingering illness, PETER MeDONOUGH, beloved husband of Ellen Moran, at his residence, 983 St.

John's at place. 9 Solemn St. requiem Teresa's mass January 9, a.m., at Church, Classon av and Sterling place. Interment Holy Cross. Relatives and friends invited.

McFARLAND--On January 8. 1913, at her Avenue M. LIBBIE beloved wife of Robert L. McFarland and daughter of John and Ellen Requiem mass morning. at 9:30 o'clock, at St.

Brendan's Church. ment Holy Cross. MELLIS--At Brooklyn, N. on Tuesday morning, January 7, 1913, MARGARET MELLIS, late of Yorktown Heights. N.

Y. Funeral services at the home of her sister, Mrs. James Fenton, 282 Winthrop st, Flatbush, at 2:30 p.m., Thursday, January 9. MITCHELL--On January 6. 1913.

at 475 Second st, Brooklyn, WILLIAM F. MITCHELL, aged 52, native of England. (1.05 Angeles. papers picase copy.) PITKIN- Sunday, January 5, 1913, Mrs. J.

PITKIN, beloved mother of Mrs. -orence E. Kirchner. Funeral services at her late residence, 1072A Lafayette av, Wednesday evening, 8 o'clock. Interment private.

PFEIFFER--On January 7, at Hahnemann Hospital, G. OSCAR PFEIFFER, year of his age. Fune- the 79th ral services on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, at his late residence, Scarsdale, N. Y. Interment private.

Please omit flowers. -Suddenly, on January 6, 1918, at his home, 226 St. James place, JOHN A. SANFORD. Funeral services at 71 St.

James place, at 12 o'clock on Thursday, January 9. BALDWIN FAVORS VOTES FOR WOMEN Connecticut Governor Also Urges Election of President by Popular Vote. STATE PASSES TO DEMOCRATS Asks for Law to Prevent tion Against Uucle Sam's Uniforms. Hartford, Coon, January S--With the Inauguration Governor Simeon E. Baldwin, Executive today, of for a Connectieut, second the term, State as administration passes from the leans to the Democrats for the first time in a long period of years.

The House is nominally Republican, the Senate is Democratic by a margin of fourteen. The presence of eight Progressives in the lower branch gives the Democrats hope that they will hold, politically, a strategetical position in that a test of strength comes in uphoiding policies laid down by the Governor and supported by the Democratie Senate. The assumption 16 that the Progressives will act independently, and the latter expect reinforcement from those Republicans who are in sympathy with the legislative programme laid out by the committee the Progressive party assigned to kcep watch over legislative matters. Governor Baldwin, sixty-Afth Governor since the colonial days of Joirn Haynes, and forty-first since the adoption of the constitution of 1818, is the first to enter upon second term since Morgan G. Bulkeley, in 1891.

While the Governor's message dealt largely with State matters, the relations of the State with the Nation were also touched upor. Having just retired a8 president of the American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes, the matter of arbitration was fresh in mind when be asked the lators to pass an act requesting their Senators in Congress to give support to any proper convention that may be negotiated by the President for the reference of the claim of Great Britain, as to the true legal construction of the treaties on which she relies, to the permanent tribunal of arbitration at The Hague. He urged also, ratification of the eral constitutional amendment providTing for popular election of United States Senators, and the requesting of Congress to propose a constitutional amneudment for election of the President and Vice President by popular vote and abolishing of the Electoral College, his plan being to accredit each State with the number of votes cast for the two officers under the present system. On woman's suffrage the Governor advocated extension of franchise to women owning taxable property, as an important step toward granting the full franchise. In State matters, economies In various ways and the consolidation ot some deApartments were urged, as was legislation for the election of State Senators en a general ticket instead of by districts, and the enactment of a workingmen's compensation act.

Governor Baldwin declared that the Public Utilities Commission had justified its creation. pointed out that the through railroads are in general good condition, and asked for a law to prevent discrimination against the uniform of sailors and soldiers. LANE SUCCEEDS PROUTY. Caligornian Elected Chairman of Interstate Commerce Commission. Washington, January 8-Commissioner Franklin K.

Lane of California, was a selected today by the Interstate Commerce Commission to serve as its chairman for year beginning January 13. As chairman. Mr. Lane will succeed Commissioner Charles A. Prouty of Vermont.

Mr. Lane has been a member of the commission since 1905, and is now serving his second term. He is a member. of the Permanent International Railway Commission a3 a representative of the United States Government. He will serve one year as chairman of the Interstate Commission.

CHESEBROUGHS ESCAPE. Young Couple Flee Burning Yacht in Motorboat. Titusville, January 8-Mr. and Mrs. F.

W. Chesebrough of New York City who narrowly escaped death on Monday when their $30,000 yacht Huntress was destroyed by an explosion and three members of the crew were lost, were kept busy, today, assuring their fritnds that they were all right. Mr. Chesebrough is the youngest son of Robert A. Chesebrough of New York.

He and his wife live at 57 West Fiftyeighth street, that borough. They had been cruising for months in Southern waters. Early Monday morning, while the party were en route to Miami, the explosion occurred and killed the cook, steward and one seaman. The Chesbroughs and four men of the yacht escaped in a motorboat landed at Cape Canavaral. Later Mr.

and Mrs. Chesebrough left by train for Miami. SAFE BLOWER TRIES SUICIDE. John J. Haas, 22 years old, a.

self-confessed safe blower, attempted suicide in the Harlem prison shortly after midnight this morning, by cutting his throat with the jagged edge of a tin cup. He was found before he had lost much blood and was transferred from the prison to Bilevue Hospital. DEATHS. SKIFF--On January 6, 1913, MAE SCHULTS, wife of Harry B. Skiff.

Funeral services Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, at 214 Audubon av, New York City. TOY--On January 6, 1913, WILLIAM F. TOY, in the 38th year of his age, beloved husband of Margaret Toy. Funeral from his late residence, 2734 Fulton st. Brooklyn, on Thursday, January 9, at 2, p.m.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend. VA VANDERHOEF-WILLICOTT-On Tuesday, January 7, 1913, HARRIET VAN- DERHOEF, wife of the late William Willicott, in her 96th year. Relatives and friends are invited to attend funeral from her late residence, 1336 Herkimer st, Thursday, January 9, at 3 p.m. IN MEMORIAM. LILLY--Jo sad and loving memory of CECILIA CANTWELL LILLY, who died on January 8, 1912.

'To know her was to love her." 0 high mass in St. Gregory Church, St. John's place and Brooklyn av, Friday morning, January 10, 1913. at 8 clock. for repose of the soul; of CATHERINE ANNA DOYLE McCAFFERTY, beloved wife of James A.

MeCafferty. WALSH-Anniversary mass of requiem en Thursday morning, Jan. 9, 1913, at 10 o'clock, for the repose of the soul of the late Battalion Chief WILLIAM J. WALSH, at the Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria, Forty st and Fort Hamilton av, Brooklyn.

Relatives, friends and members of the Fire Department invited to attend. Eight Minutes Not Long To Stand, Says Don Seitz He Has Stood Forty Minutes Twice Daily, on Putnam Avenue Line, for Twenty Years- Is the Champion Standee, He Believes -James T. Hoile Coins a New Word to Describe Those Who "Only Stand and Wait." Don C. Seltz, who out of the fullness of his heart sent the B. R.

T. a dollar, because he had found a seat on a Putnam avenue car for the fret time twenty Fears, said today, that transit conditions in Brooklyn were worse than in any other large city in the country. Mr. Seitz made this declaration when he was asked what he thought of the Public Service Commission's opinion that eight minutes was not a long time in which to hand to a strap in an overcrowded car. Mr.

Seitz did not think eight minutes long to stand, in view of his, past bang to experience, a strap forty minutes each way every day of my lite." said Mr. Seitz. "From Reid avenue down on the Putnam avenue line--which is the line use--no one can get a seat. At night it is impossible to And a seat. I have seen nothing like it in any other city of the country." Mr.

Seit: said that cars were never to be found waiting on the loops at the Manhattan terminal of the Brooklyn Bridge. He said that they were rushed off at express-train speed as 800n as they came in. and that such a state of affairs was an "outrage." The same conditions had obtained, he said, for three years past. Seitz Criticises P. S.

Board's tivities. Mr. Seitz thought that the Public Serv-1 ice Commission could very well see to it that the cars waited long enough at the loops to take on passengers comfortably, land, if this was done. it maght help materially to do away with the many gravating little blockades which take place on the bridge nightly. He also said that while other sections of Brooklyn had been taken care of, so far as transit facilities are concerned, nothing at all had been done for the district in the heart of the borough, where he lives, and which he described as the heaviest tax- paying section of the borough.

Hoile Coins a New Word for Standees-Footholders." James T. Holle, secretary of the facturers Association, today coined a new SUFFRAGISTS STRIKE A SNAG Law Forbids Circulation of Advertising Literature on Streets The Woman Suffrage 1 party of the Borough of Brooklyn, ran against a legal snag in the shape of a city ordinance yesterday, when they attempted to carry cut pians for distributing literature advertising the mass meeting to be held at the Academy of Music tomorrow ing. This ordinance was discovered by one of the officers of the party who is a lawyer. The plan was to stand at the subway stations, with handbills and tickets for sale. A careful search was made last night, at the stations at Borough Hall and Flatbush avenue, but neither suffragists, handbills nor tickets put in an appearance.

Miss Elizabeth Dutcher, the wellknown trade unionist and Socialist, was to have been one of the women at the subway stations. AB far as could be learned the only part of the advertising plan that was carried out, was the distribution made yesterday afternoon, from the automobiles that toured the borough. Mrs. Frank Cothren, who has charge ol the arrangements for the mass meet11.g, was member of the party who unearthed the ordinance. She was asked this morning, jE literature was distributed last night, and said: don't know as it was.

It is against the city ordinance to do 80, you know. There may have been some given out at the department stores, however, but I don't know." "Do you expect to have any distributed today or this evening?" she was asked. don't know as any will be distributed." she said, "but then how can there be when it is against the city ordinance?" "But are you not in charge of the whole matter of distributing literature?" "I don't know as I am, was the answer. Ushers for the Meeting. The list of ushers for the meeting is completed.

They are Miss Grace Frank. bead usher, Miss Marie Appleton, Miss Alice Blum, Miss Janet Bowers, Miss Childs, Mrs. Ernest Draper. Miss Mardorie Decker. Miss Katherine Dauchy, Miss Katherine Grout, Migs Margaret Iale, Miss Amy Knox.

Miss Harriet Mygatt, Miss Helen Caldin, the Misses Lcines. Miss Mercy Lloyd. the Misses Simmons. Miss Jessie Stanton, Miss Suzette Stuart, Miss Edith VanIngen, Miss Helen Vaningen, Miss Doris Webb, Miss Elizabeth Webb, Miss Elvia Zabriskie, Miss Robeson and Miss Emmy Kelly. ADRIATIC ON HER WAY.

Was Aground Off Red Hook Only Four Hours. After four hours on the mud banks of Red Hook Flats, not far from the Brooklyna shore, liner the Adriatic huge slipped bulk up of with the the rising tide last night, and just betore 6 o'clock was groping her way down the bay through the almost impenetrable fog. Incidentally, J. P. Morgan spent his afternoon stalled in the mud.

The captain had dropped anchor when he saw that the going was likely to be pretty heavy and the Adriatic had "leaned up againet" the mud bank. The big ship was not damaged, and the four hours in the damp fog meant nothing more than a temporary inconvenience to her passengers. The Adriatic was fortunate In that she carried no cargo. She had 400 Arst-class passengers. Besides Mr.

Morgan. who was bound on his annual visit to Egypt, former United States Senator Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island was a passenger. ABANDONED SHIP SIGHTED. Nothing Known of the Fate of the Future's Crew. Philadelphia, January 8--The waterlogged and abandoned schooner Future of Boston was sighted.

off Cape Hatteras on Sunday by a steamer which arrived here today. The Future sailed from Port Tampa, for Washington, on December 27, and undoubtedly encountjered the storm which recently swept the Atlantic coast. Nothing is known of the fate of the crew of the Future, but it is believed here that the men were rescued by a passing ship. EAGLE PARIS BUREAU CALLERS. Eagle Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon.

Parts, January 8--George Lehnert of Brooklyn, and Arnold Slade of Paris, I registered today at The Eagle Bureau. MRS. LE COMPTE HAS HUSBAND IN COURT Charges Him With Choking Her and Her Father Provides Bail. MUCH DOMESTIC TROUBLE. Woman Comes to Court in Limousine Auto and Brings Her Maid.

Mrs. Madelon LeCompte, who has been more or less before the public eye during the past five years, appeared in the Magistrate's Court in Long Island City today against her husband, Edward LeCompte. In her complaint she charges him with assault. The instance upon which the action is based dates back to the night of December 24, last, Mrs. LeCompte alleging that her husband choked her.

The case was to have gone on today, but Magistrate Handy was without a stenographer and it being agreeable to Robert H. Elder, attorney for Mrs. LeCompte, and Clarence Edwards, who appeared for the husband, to postpone the case, bail was fixed at $500. It was then that it became known that the wife was practically alone in the fight against her husband, for her father, William J. Kenmore of 93 St.

Felix place, this borough, who was accompanied by a younger sister of Mre. LeCompte, was noticed not to speak to his married daughter, and furthermore he signed the bail bond in behalf of LeCompte. Mrs. LeCompte drove up to the courthouse door in a large limousine automobile, accompanied by a maid, and the car was driven by a Japanese chauffeur. She was handsomely gowned and wore a costly fur coat and large hat.

Not as much as a glance was exchanged by the husband and wife and the father and young woman did not venture near his daughter. He listened to the words of the magistrate and the attorneys and then after saying a few words to LeCompte he furnished bail. The LeCompte home is at 109 Woolsey street, Astoria, and is among the most costly and beautiful in that part of Queens. Recently there have been several scenes at the fashionable dwelling, the most recent being last Monday, when it was necessary to call out the police before order could be restored. The disturbance Monday was preceded by a similar occurrance the night previous.

Recently domestic troubles of the couple caused the husband to leave bis and with him he took his three children, by his first wife, to 7 Bank street, Manhattan. It was at that address that he was located this morning by Detective Thomas Teevn, who brought him to court. The scene of Sunday night was caused when LeCompte made an effort to enter his home, although his wife had three deputy sheriffs stationed about the house to prevent him from so doing. Through the advice of a friend, after much trouble, the husband was admitted and he packed some of his personal belonginge and departed for Bank street. Again be appeared the next night.

and this time a window was smashed before LeCompte gained admittance to the house. He said that he called for the purpose of getting clothing which he forgot the night before. That was the last visit he made to the Woolsey street house. LeCompte married for the second time in 1909 after he had obtained a divorce from his Arst wife. The present Mrs.

LeCompte was then Mrs. Madelon Kenmore Looker, her first marriage being to Irving N. Looker, from whom she was granted a divorce. Her husband had sued her and she brought a. counter action, which the court ruled was superior to the one instituted, by Looker.

"BACHELOR" SEALS DOOMED Taft Tells Congress Thousands of Them Can Be Killed. Washington, January 8-President Taft in a special message to Congress today recommended the repeal of the act of Congress which prohibited for five years the killing of fur seals on the Pribilof islands, passed more than a year a ago. Investigation, the President said, showed a remarkable increase in the size of the herd in one season and proved conciusively that only the female seals and the bull seals need protection, and that thousands of "bachelor" seals can be killed each year without reducing the herd. The act which the President wished repealed was adopted to give effect to the first seal treaty of 1911 between Great Britain, Japan, Russia and the United States. Although a clause in that treaty, the President pointed out, seemed to give the United States authority to suspend land killing to protect and preserve the herd, if no actual necessity were found for such suspension, it was not justified under the amended.

convention, elon, and the act should be GERMANY TO INCREASE ARMY. New Corps to Be Organized Out or Existing Brigades. Berlin, January 8-A new military bill is shortly to be laid before the German Imperial Parliament, probably during this month, designed to fill all the gaps in the army by previous laws. The size of infantry companies is to be increased and a third battalion added to each infantry regiment not yet thus organized. Cavalry divisions independent of existing corps are to be created.

The reserve substitutes who have hitherto been untrained are now to be called up for certain periods and trained in the use of arms. A new army is to be organized out of the existing surplus brigades. The regiments of artillery are to be more fally horsed. EMULATES CARSWELL. Introduces Bill to Prevent Erection of Franklin Avenue (Special to The Eagle.) Albany, January 8-Assemblyman Harry Kornobis of the Fourth Assembly District, Brooklyn, today introduced a bill to prevent the erection of an elevated rallroad on Franklin avenue, or in the well's section bill for described the in Senator same purpose.

The Kornobls bill is the same in all respects as Senator Carswell's bill. 13 LANDLORDS IN COURT. They Are Charged With Owning Houses With Dark There were thirteen cases in the Fifth avenue court this morning of owners of tenements charged with having dark rooms in their houses. Inspector P. D.

Murray was the complainant. Joseph Sabio of 222 Twenty-second street, Mrs. Bertha Geisman of 450 Ocean parkway, owner of the a tenements at 314, 316, 318, 330 and 0336 Fifty -eighth street, and Mrs. Mary Bush of 223 Twenty-fourth street, were among the defendants, All the cases were adjourned until January 20 and the owners were paroled. AMERICAN COAL FOR ENGLAND Owners Here.

Are Prepared to Undersell British Dealers. London, January S--American coal owners are prepared to furnish British consumers with of cos! at lower supplies prices than those by the coal producers of the United Kingdom, according to a published today in Shipping Alfred Thomas, the statement, head of the Welsh coal combination. will sail for New York on January 11, in order to visit the great coal fields on the Atlantic border, and la possible that he may put the matter to a tical test. SHAPING THE ARMY'S FUTURE Generals Conferring on Reorganization of Military Forces. Washington, January 8-Gathered at the War Department today by special order of Secretary Stimson, were most of the army officers in actual general command, with the exception of the few in the Philippines, for a conterence which is expected to have important results in shaping the future organization of the of the army.

The movement began last summer, when, after a year's hard work, tbe war college evolved a most elaborate geheine of reorganization of the military forces, with the purpose of bringing these up to the modern standards. It WaS arranged that the commanding generals should meet today, after they had thoroughly prepared themselves by a careful study of the report, to consider it with a view of framing drafts of bills and outlining executive orders to put Into practical operation its features. Among the topics for consideration were the general relation between the land forces at home and abroad; the traditional military policy of the United States; the joint use of regular and eltizen soldiery, the time required to raise armies, the distribution of the army, and a plan of tactical organization and administration adapted to the present dispersion of the mobile army. Ineldentally, there was involved such topics 88. the reserve system, the organization 'of a skeieton field army, and the frequently discussed "councils of national which has been so strongly, but unsuccessfully, pressed in Congress.

Among the officers present were: Gelerals Murray, Carter, Maus, Frederick A. Smith, Edwards, Wotherspoon, Mills. Evans. McClernand, Macomb, Barry, Bliss and Schuyler. It is expected that the conference will extend over a week.

0. S. WESTOVER'S DEATH Pioneer Miner, Prohibitionist, Suffragist and "Sunshiner." Oliver Sisco Westover died early yesterday, morning at his home, Rose Cottage, adjoining the John P. Jones property in Santa Monica, Cal. He had been struck by an automobile near the Santa Monica Postoflice the day before Christmas, but his injuries had not been regarded as serious till just before the Westover had spent about two months of each year for several years in Brooklyn with his daughter, Mrs.

Cynthia Westover Alden. Westover Lodge, the International Sunshine Soclety's Rest Home in Bensonhurst, was named for him. The Mineola, L. Sunshine Branch 18 the "Westover Branch." His eightieth birthday, October 12, was remembered by hundreds in different parts of the country to whom his face a and figure had been familiar. Mr.

Westover was born in Huntington County, in 1832; his father, a scion of the Virginia Westovers, his mother, a cousin of Alexander Campbell, who founded the Church of Christ. He shot his first deer at the age of 13, and through life was an enthusiastic hunter and fisherman. He was educated at a Campbellite college. He married Lucinda Lewis, a descendant of Francis Lewis, one of the New York signers of the Declaration, in Indiana. With her he went farther west Afton, Iowa.

There he was editor of the only newspaper, and was elected County Judge of Union County. His first wife died in Afton. Later he married Isabelle Cornelius, who survives him. The one surviving child of the first marriage is Mrs. Alden, founder and president of the International Sunshine Society.

Walter R. Westover of Los Angeles and Mrs. Grace Westover Fraser of San Francisco are the children of the second marriage. He leaves one sister, Mrs. M.

E. Young, and one brother, Charles W. Westover of Sawtelle, Cal. It was keen interest in mineralogy that took Mr. Westover to Colorado in the early mining days.

In that field he was an expert. Once in his later yeare, after he had retired, he consented to be carried from his home away up into the Sierra Nevadas in a liter to pass on some gold mine property. It was in his Colorado camp that Bret Harte wrote "'The Luck of Roaring Camp." Robert Collyer, whose death preceded his by a few weeks, made Mr. Westover's acquaintance on a like visit, and the friendship lasted for life. A strong mine boss, dealing with rough labor, Mr.

Westover was liked by his men. He never 1 knew the taste of liquor or tobacco. He was an aggressive Prohibitionist and a delegate to several national conventions of the party. He wa: also a believer in woman suffrage, and to his great delight lived to see suffrage triumphant his adopted State of California. He was a Good Templar, who had organized many lodges, and was likewise an Oddfellow.

A vast admirer of the late Frances Willard, he was a speaker at the Toronto World's Convention of the W. C. T. U. In 1897.

His later years been quiet and uneventful, with fishing and camping as his chief recreations. FIVE HURT BY RUNAWAY. "Green" Horse Resents Being Hitched to a Wagon. Five persons were injured, three of them by being trampled on, and the other two by being thrown to the ground, when a team of horses attached to a heavy wagon ran away in Willlamsburg shortly before noon today. A Samuel Borgman of 510 Adams street, Hoboken, went to Williamsburg this morning to buy a horse of William Wachdel of 331 Rutledge street.

He drove a team of well-broken horses over, and when he got to Wachdel's selected al "green" horse and hitched it to the wagon alongside of the better broken of the two he had driven over. Brogman and Wachdel got on the seat and started to put the "green" horse through its paces. He ran away and the good horse had to go along. Both men were thrown out and hurt, and Alfred Davis, 30 years old, of 442 Lorimer street; George Turner, 28 years old, of 59 South Second street, and Charles Boratsky, 23 years old, of 22 Cook street, who were unable to get out of his way, were trampled upon. Ambulance Surgeons Faske of the Eastern District Hospital and Feiner of the Williamsburg Hospital treated the injured.

The horse was caught at Johnson and Union avenues by Patrolman Frank Orme of the Bedford avenue station. HEAVY BAIL FOR DAVIDSON A tea broker, who gave his name as Archibald Davidson and his address at 321 Dean street, but 'who had rented apartments at the Hotel St. George, was held In $3,000 bail in the Fifth avenue police court today for a further hearing on Monday on complaint of Leopold Being, who said the Davidson had obtained a note for $2,000 on some tea and had failed to make payment to him. IS EPILEPSY CAUSE TO ANNUL MARRIAGE? Mrs. Hazel Frances Fox Declares Husband Concealed Affliction Before Wedding.

ASKS THAT TIE BE SEVERED. Fraud on Her Rights, Declares Plaintiff, Because Epilepsy May Be Transmitted to Issue. word for passengers on B. R. T.

cars. He calls them "footholders." Don Seitz may send a dollar to the B. R. because be got a seat, but Mr. Hoile says the' company will get no such token of gratitude from him.

"Biped strap searchers" is another term employed by Mr. Holle to designate those who, after obtaining a foothold, grope for straps and find there are not enough to go around. Mr. Hoile has long ago given up his search for a scat. He has been engaged for many moons in searching for a strap.

and his quest still continues, with some prospect that he may find one before January 1, 1914. ought to hang straps on every conceivable spot," said Mr. Hoile today, "Put on more straps. That is my prayer. As you know, there are straps on certain parts of the bare only.

Last night I was unfortunate enough to be located where there were no straps and I could do nothing but wabble. As a wabbler, I have become profelent, riding to ond fro. "I had my choice last night, between grabbing the belleord or the rope, which hangs from the indicator or just wabbling. Now I am no knocker, but give us straps and give us more cars. It is bad enough getting to work in the morning.

declares Mr. Holle, but when it comes to going back "you don't know where you are at." As an Illustration of this Mr. Hoile said Putnam avenue cars run uptown along four different channels. Some go straight up Fulton street, others around the curve into Court street, some up Court and some switch around at Jorale- mon street. A New Homegoing Wrinkle.

The other night a friend of Mr. Hoile's told him ne would show him new wrinkle" in getting home, and he proceeded to initiate him into the mysteries. He showed him how to get home by way of the cars which are shunted off at Joralemon street. Mr. Holle this the company ought to inform the public where they are at, so that they may know what cars to take home at night.

Another thing Mr. Holle can't understand is why, when passengers are told to transfer at Borough Hall, the conductors call out: 'Change cars for New York!" "What is New York, anyhow?" he asks. "Why don't they say 'change cars for BUTLER FOR VICE PRESIDENT. Vermont's Four Electoral Votes May Go for Columbia Prexy. Montpeller, 8-Political leaders here expect four elecJanuary, toral votes of Vermont, or half the total number of the national Republican column, will be given to Nicholas Murray Butler of New York, for Vice President.

Whether Utah, the only other Republican State, will join Vermont in supporting Mr. Butler, or carry out a reported plan for voting for a woman, has not been The four Vermont electors stated today that they would not vote for a woman for Vice President. The electors will meet on Saturday for organization, and will cast their votes on Monday, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution. TRIED SUICIDE ON TRAIN Frederick Baily Stabs Himself With Penknife on Rear Platform. A man who said he was Frederick Bally, 34 years old of, of 445 Seventyeighth street, Brooklyn, was taken to the observation ward of the Kings County Hospital today, to be examined as to his sanity.

He was arrested by Policeman Dennis Anderson of the Sheepshead Bay station this morning and taken before Magistrate McGuire in the Coney Island court, on a charge of attempted sulcide. Baily was riding on platform of a Island. Brighton Beach train, for Coney when he was seen to draw a pepknife from his pocket and jab it into his left side just below the heart. Daniel Sullivan of 2167 East Twelfth street, Flatbush, was a passenger on the train and saw Bally's actions. He stepped up to him and attempted to wrest the knife from his hand.

When the train reached the Avenue station the motorman blew the whistle, summoning Anderson. The man was found to bave slight wound in his side and was taken to the hospital by Ambulance Surgeon Gates. WHITE FUND GROWING. Reports of the help which the Knights of Columbus are giving in the movement for a memorial to the late Mgr. William J.

White were made last night at a meeting of representatives of various councils of the order, held at the Knights of Columbus Institute, 81 Hanson place. Francis X. Carmody presided. John Costelloe, grand knight of Bedford Council, said that in addition to the contribution of $500 made from the funds of the counell, contributions were being solicited from the members, and he predicted that the total gift of the council and its members would amount to $2,500. La Salle Council reported that it had given $50 from its treasury and was also getting subscriptions from its members.

General Phil Sheridan Council reported that it had turned in $800 as the proceeds of its recent lecture by W. Bourke Cockran, HIGH CHURCH MOVEMENT AND RITUALISM EXPLAINED. Series of Interesting and Instructive Talks to Repeated at St. James Church. Beginning Friday next, January 10, at 8 P.M., rector the of St.

Rev. Edgar M. Thompson, James Church, St. James place and Lafayette avenue, will deliver a series of interesting and instructive addresses history and doctrine of the Christian Church, the development and signifcance its ritual and ceremonial worship of throughout the ages. For the past three months Father! Thompson has been giving informal addresses on Friday nights dealing in a general way with these subjects, and also the relation of the Anglican Church to the primitive Christian Church.

These addresses have aroused great Interest among the members of the congregation and they have requested the rector to repeat them. He will explain the object of the High Church movement in the Anglican Church, what it means, and what it has already accomplished, and its future influence in the cause of tian unity. All Christians of whatever creed who would like to know the meaning and significance of the form of worship recently adopted at St. James will find these talks not only intensely interesting, but very Whether or not epilepsy, with which the husband is said to have been afflicted before marriage, is enough LO warrant the wife securing an annulment of the tie, upon her discovery of it afterward, is to be decided by Justice Putnam, in the Equity Term of the Supreme Court, in an action heard by him today, Mrs. Hazel Frances Fox brings the sult against David Fox, to whom she was married on.

November 16, 1910, and Fox's attorney claims that the wife's complaint doesen't state facts sufficient for a cause of action against his client. The action is brought by Mrs. Fox by the law Arm of Jonas, Lazansky Neu. berger, and the law firm of Burnstine Geist represents Fox. Ex-Secretary of State Lazansky- appeared for the plaintiff, and there was a legal battle over the question at issue.

In her complaint Mrs. Fox says that when she married Fox she didn't know he was suffering from epilepsy. She declares that she found it out afterward and now charges that this alleged cealment was in fraud of her rights in their marriage contract and gives her the right to a decree annuling it. For the defendant the point was raised that there was no statute in this State which makes epilepsy, concealed from the plaintiff before marriage, a cause for an annulment, and that the cases didn't touch the point. For the plaintiff the claim was made that the concealment was fraud on her rights, since it was generally believed that epilepsy was a hereditary disease.

Justice Putnam listened with great interest to the argument and gave both sides a week to present briefs on the controversy. TALK BY J. S. CROSBY. John 'Sherwin Crosby, a Manhattan lawyer who is interested in tenement house and social work.

was the speaker, this afternoon, at a meeting of the Woman's Alliance of the Fourth Unitarian Church, held in the church building, East Nineteenth street and Beverley road. His subject was "Our Public Schools." Mrs. G. Derby White presided. HOTELS AND RESORTS.

HUDSON RIVER COUNTIES. Country Life Within a Half Honr of the Grand Central, COUNTRY RECREATION CITY COMFORT HOTEL GRAMATAN Lawrence Park, Bronxville, N. Y. $5,000 Immediate protection costs $4 monthly. $7,500 Accident insurance with $25 Weekly income during disability costs $13 yearly.

Approved by New York and 35 Ins. Depts. w. L. Griffin, Broker, 391 Fulton Bklyn.

LIFE INSURANCE. MORE FOR LESS MONEY IF YOU ARE SELECT RISK. $15,000 Monthly income plan costs $113 yearly. LOST AND FOUND. LOST.

Goid PIN. on Sunday evening. 6th AV. between and 9th sts. Reward for return to 495 8th st.

FOUND, PURSE, Sunday, December 29. 1312. Owner can have same upon identification and paying for this ad. 546 3d st. LOST--ON Lexington av El Sunday night, lady's gold WATCH and.

reward. PANTE, 404 Monroe st. Brooklyn. LOST. January 6.

Persian lamb NECKPIECE coming from Empire Theater, Manhattan, to 508 9th st; reward. 528 9th st. Tel. 397 South. LOST.

a FOX TERRIER: white body And black spots; vicinity of Neck road and Coney Island av. Finder return to 819 Avenue reward. LOST. lady's small, faced gold WATCHT, with diamond in case, 'also attached. on Tuesday.

on Putnam av car, Nostrand av or Macon st. Reward if returned to W. BRUSH, 194 Hancock st. LOST. on Sunday morning.

January 5. about, o'clock, in Bay Ridge train, a gentleman's gold WATCH and CHAIN: the watch is 2 Keystone case and a. monogram. on front case; I will pay $20 and no questions asked the Ander of same, or will be pleased to receive the ticket for same. F.

DOWD, foot Dikeman st, Brooklyn, 8-2 PROPOSALS MATES FOR FOR THE BIDS AND ESTLCITY or NEW YORK. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. GENERAL, INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS. The person or petsons making EL bid ar male for any services, work, material or plies for The City of New York, or for of Its departments, bureaus 01 offices shall any furlsh the same in a sealed envelope, 111- dorzed with the title of the supplies, materiais, Is made, with his or their work or sore.ces for which the bid or estimate name or names and of presentation to the president, or to tha head of the department at h'a or its office, on or before the cate and hour in the advertisement for the same, at named which time and place the estimate received will be publicly opened by the president or board or head of said department and read. and the award cf the contract made according to law 28 soon thereafter as practicable.

Each bid or estimate shall contain the naine and place of residence of the the same, and names of all persons person making interested him therein, and if no other person be with so Interested, it hall distinctly state that fact: also that it Is inade without any connection any other person making an estimate for with the same purpose, and 1s in ail respects fair and wthout collusion or fraud. and that no member of the Poard of Aldermen. I department, chief of a bureau. deputy bead of thereot a. of clerk therein, or other officer of The City New York la, shall be directly or become Interested, or Indirectly, AN contracting party, or in the performance of surety or contract otherwise, in partner.

stockholder, the or in the supplies, work bun relates, or in any portion of ness the tr profits which there- 1t of. The or estimate must be verified by the osth. in writing. of the making the estimate party or parties stated that the several matters No therein are in all respects true. 8 a bid or condition estimate precedent will be considered unless, to the reception or panted of any proposal.

It be consideration accomstate by a certifed check upon one of the or national banks of The York. drawn to the order of the City of New or stock Comptroller. indebtedness of any corporate nature issued or by The City of New York, which the Comptroller shall ayprove AR of equal value the security reof in the advertirements. to the quired Amount not legs than three nor centum of the amount of more bond than five required. per as York provided section 420 of the Greater New in the Ned In the amount shall be as speeiCharter.

The proposals for instruction to bidders, and shall not be in excess of 5 The certifed check or money should per cent. ba not estimate, in the envelope containing the bid Inclosed or but should be elther inclosed in a separate envelope addressed to the head of the department. president or board or subbid mitted personally upon the presentation of the or estimate. For particulars as to the quantity and the work. reference or the must be and extent of the supplies nature made to tho specifications, schedules, plans, on Ale 171 the said office of the president, board or partment.

No bid shall be accepted from or contras awarded to anv person who Is in to arrears City of Now Vort: upon debt or contract. The or who is a defaulter surety or otherwise upon any obligation to the city. The contracts must be bid for separately. The right is reserved in each case to reject All bids or estimates if it is deemed to ba for the Interest of the pity so to do. Bidders will write out the amount of their bids or estimates in addition to inserting the same in figures.

are requested to make their bids nr estimates upon the blank forms pronared ant furnished by. the city. a conv of which witt: the proper envelope in which to inclose the bid. together with A copy of the contract. Ineluding the specifications in the form approval the corporation counset.

can be obtained by application therefor at the office of the denartment for which the work is to ha done. Plane and drawines of construction worts will also be seen there. al.