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IN CARS COMFORTABLE, SAYS HUFF, OF THE B. R. T. Vice President of Traction Company Tells Probers of Ease in Straphanging. FORTY-TWO STANDEES POSSIBLE Johnson's Ridicule Rouses Ire of D.

A. Marsh, Railroad's Counsel. "How to comfortably crowd a street car" was the question propounded to Vice President S. W. Huff of the B.

R. T. today by the Public Service Commission in its continuation of hearings on complaints made by the Transit Department head against the B. R. T.

service. Mr. Huff affirmed the fact that "people could comfortably stand in crowded cars on the longitudinal seat car, thirty-six passengers in the main part and six on the platforms." Standing possibilities in the open ear, Mr. Huff said he had never estimated The hearing today developed a tilt between Jos ph Johnson, chief of the Transit the Commission, and D. A.

Marsh, counsel for the railroad, following Johnson's, ridicule of the "standee" proposition. Although Vice President Huff said he had been in the surface railroad business for a quarter of a century, be could not in answer to a question, say how many cars the B. R. T. owned.

He was questioned by his own counsel as to the standing capacity of the cars used by his company and declared that the longitudinal seat cars can "comfortably carry one standee to every seated passenger. While the cross-seat. cars can very comfortably accommodate one standee to every two seated passengers." Commissioner Maltbie asked the witness: "Do you mean to say that people can comfortably stand in a crowded car?" "Certainly," was the answer. "How many standees can you carry on a longitudinal seat car?" "We can very easily stand thirty-six passengers in the body of the car and live or six on the platform." "How many can you stand in your open cars?" The witness hesitated and after a considerable pause said: "I've never estimated that. I can't say just now." A tilt ensued between the B.

R. T. counsel, D. A. Marsh, and Joseph Johnson, chief of the Rapid Transit Bureau of the Commission, whose report of conditions on the B.

R. T. caused the hearing to be held, when Mr. Johnson broke in to ask some questions regarding the "comfortable crowding" on the cross-seat cars. The witness persisted in maintaining that although the standees on the cross-seat cars were forced to stand partly in front of the seated passengers, they were "comfortable." Mr.

Johnson ridiculed this contention and when his questioning became more pointed, Mr. Marsh objected to Mr. Johnson's interrogation on the ground that he was only seeking "newspaper When the witness continued, he declared that Mr. Johnson's criticism was not quite fair. He declared that Mr.

Johnson expected too much and declared that most of his recommendations were impractical. Mr. Johnson's recommendations regarding the increase of cars on the long haul lines during the rush hours could not be effected, said the witness, because the B. T. had not a sufficient number of cars.

John Wiegel, head of the Time Table Bureau of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company's surface car system, was questioned regarding time-table making for the B. R. T. Mr. Wiegel said that the orders of the Commission as to maximum traffic did not meet requirements, because the maximum traffic hours on the B.

R. T. were quite variable. He gave a number of instances in which he. said the Commission's orders called for the maximum service between stated hours when the maximum hour of traffic had shifted to fully an hour later than the time specified by the Commission.

He said the B. R. T. schedules had nothing to do with delays in this respect, and declared that the existing schedules were the best obtainable. Vice President Huff was not permitted to testify as to the standing capacity of surface in other cities, on the ground that his own company had contended earlier in the proceeding that conditions in Brooklyn were unique and unlike any other American city.

Hence the Commission ruled the comparisons would be of no avail. When the witness was excused, Attorney Marsh said he had no other witnesses, and entered into a bitter attack on the Johnson report. When he finished, Commissioner Maltbie announced the hearing closed. Mr. Marsh asked for two weeks in which to file a brief for argument, and when Commissioner Maltbie declared that he asked for too much time, Mr.

Marsh declared he would either get more time or he would not file a brief. Commissioner Maltble finally declared he would take the question under advisement. BROOKLYN COURTS SUPREME COURT, SPECIAL, TERM. Part I. Motions, Tuesdas, February 2.

Be. fore Mr. Justice Jaycox. LeringLevin: H. I.

R. Bklyn Ash Can Mfg. Co. Zoffer-Dougherty re 11th Ar (Hanley): re 14th Av (Trask); re 41st St (Traski: N. E.

R. R. CoMCity Pren. City dergast Maresco: Rklyn Shulman-Pearl; Poster Adv. Co.

Co. Y. Co. Q. Ry.

Y. Q. By. Q. Co.

Ry. Mi Coldman: Y. 1. Traction (Manacker) Steel Barrel re Tobacco Co, City Tax Lien Murray: Bryant Camardella: Met. Tobacco Co.

re Loyd: re Debevolse St (Bausch): Cabot Robbeltobb: Douglass Manor Hinze Burnham: Baner-Jaimer: R. C. re Johnson: re Ineley Liedermann Bennat R. Liedermann Bennat R. Becker Becker Nordon Construction Co.

Construction Macon Phillips Phillips: Bklyn Trust Co. Johnson Bldg. re Van Bd. Deventer Ar: U. S.

Radiator Laheys of Education: Zackariason-Zobel: Nageley-Nageley; Sullivan: O' Wm. Gleichman Co. Fish Zohpson. SUPREME COURT. Special Term trials.

Day calendar. February City 2. of Abel New E. York. Blackmar, The Justice.

Dickens? cases marked ready on the reserved calendar will pear on this calendar when the above cause is disposed of. Highest number reached on the regular call 1704. SURROGATE'S COURT CALENDAR. Tuesday. Before Herbert T.

Ketcham. The will of Francis Armstrong. John Mo. Kearney, Walter O'Toole. Margaret McCabe and ADDA Corning and Kohlke.

Andrew The administration of Eugene C. Rust. The accounting in the estate of Leopold Starry. B. Cruse, Marcaret S.

Orr, I. C. Thimig. F. P.

Darely, Andrew Nelson. Carson, William Selden, M. Mocker. J. J.

Richart. Amelia Goifter, Albert Schlerbeck. 1. A. Reason and Marie Tripler.

The estate Esther Grenfeld, Katherine Mayer, Larson infants, Caroline Davidsburg, Felix Danes, Sheehy infants and Diedrich Francke. THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 1. 1915.

the BURGLAR IS SHOT; OFFICER WOUNDED IN DESPERATE FIGHT Thug Attacks Policeman With an Ax in Struggle to Get Away. GRAND ST. JEWELER ROBBED. Policeman's Bullet Enters Prisoners Head Through Nostril, Puzzling Physician in Search for Wound. A daring robbery and a desperate struggle to evade capture took place in the Eastern District early today at the jewelry store of Charles Wagner, brother of Coroner Ernest C.

Wagner, at 135 Grand street. One of two larg who forced their way into store was shot, probably fatally, and Policeman Stephen Thornton, who courageously sought to a arrest both the To robbers, may lose the fingers of his left hand because he warded off a vicious blow from an ax swung straight at his head. The shooting was also one of the most on record. One burglar escaped about $500 in peculiar, jewelry, watches and silverware in his pockets. The timely arrival of Policeman Thornton prevented what might have been one of the greatest burglaries committed in Brooklyn in recent years.

In the huge safe in the store, which the two men were trying to force open when the noise attracted Thornton, was more than $20,000 in diamonds and other gems. As it. was, the men frightened away, and when they left the store had only $800 in loot tin their pockets, and it consisted 0. the cheaper articles. In the pockets of the burglar who was shot were found a quantity of watches and about two hundred rings.

mostly gold wedding rings, but a number of them merely of the plated variety. Mr. Wagner, who lives at 30 Fillmore place, paid his usual Sunday evening visit to the store shortly after 9 o'clock last night, and when he went away, he carefully extinguished the lights, leaving one pendant over the safe burning, and then locked and padlocked the door. He has been in business for many years, and has not been robbed in all the time. burglars first attempted to get in According to the police, the two through the rear, which they could easily reach from a deserted alley leading from North First street.

The ax with which the policeman was later attacked, seems to have been used to pry open the iron shutters, but the windows themselves were barred with stout iron rods, locked from the inside. These rods were installed to guard against just such a contingency. The ax was used on these rods, but were unyielding, and the burglars finally gave up that plan. Entrance to Jewelry Store Through Transom. They then went to the Grand street entrance and let down an awning over door.

Swinging up by means of the awning rods, it appears that the transom, although latched, was either jimmied or forced with the ax. and in this way, the burglars got into the store. They extinguished the light over the safe and made 2. collection of valuables, working with flashlights, cause Policeman Thorton passed the store in patrolling his beat, but noticed nothing unusual. The burglars could easily have escaped with the loot from the store at this point, but they seemed to be greedy and wanted the really valuable jewelry.

With the ax. the combination on the five-foot safe was smashed. The blows attracted the policeman, who was half a block away. Thornton's approach was detected by the men, and they climbed over the transom into the street and almost fell into his arms. He did not expect to make such a haul, but bravely tackled the two thugs, and a fierce struggle ensued.

Thornton was in a fair way to hold both of them, but one of the men jerked violently from his grasp, and Thornton slipped and fell to the pavement. One man ran up Grand street and escaped. The other. who was carrying the ax, ran toward the ferry, and Thornton pursued him. Policeman Shoots Burglar and Is Himself Wounded From Ax Blow.

Owing to the slippery condition of the street, the fleeing man did not get far before Thornton was upon him. and another struggle took place. The burglar raised his ax high and swung straight for the policeman's head a terrific blow. Thornton had his gun in his hand and fired point blank in the man's face. But the ax was coming down, and, to save his life, Thornton had to ward it off with his left hand.

The shot attracted Police Sergeants Schilling and Rehill and four policemen and, when they appeared on the scene, Thornton had bound up his fingers in a handkerchief and WAS bending over the unconscious burglar. There was no blood and no wound to indicate where the shot had taken effect, but the burglar was, nevertheless, insensible. An ambulance from the Williamsburg Hospital was summoned and Dr. Rabinowitz also failed to find the wound. In the hospital this morning, a swelling directly over the man's nose was noticed and this grew larger until the surgeons made an investigation, and it appears that when the man was shot, the bullet went up a nostril and lodged in the frontal bone or in the He is survived by his mother, Mrs.

Louise Blackman, and his brother. Justice JOHN B. RATIGAN. of the Superior Court, his died home early In today, Worcester, after a Mass, long illness. at Justice Ratigan was forced to relinquish his duties last summer to submit to an operation for an Internal trouble.

He rallied, but never fully regained his strength, and underwent 8 second operation on January 2. He was appointed to the Superior bench by Governor Foss in 1911. leaves a widow and two sons. Mrs. ELLEN HURLEY of 114 Nelson street, died on Saturday from a complication of diseases, and her funeral was held today, with interment in Holy Cross demetery.

Mrs. Hurley was born in County. Ireland, lived many years in South Brooklyn, and WA9 member of the R. C. Church of St.

Mary Star of the Sea. She leaves a sister, Mrs. Bridget McKenna. MICHAEL JOSEPH ALOYSIUS ASPELL. 41 years old, a taxicab owner.

of 296 New Jersey avenue, died yesterday from Intestinal trouble at his home, and funeral services will be held on Wednesday afternoon, with interment in Calvary Cemetery. Aspell was born In Manhattan. He is survived by his widow, Nellie Curley: two sons, Walter Joseph and James Harold, and three sisters. PETER J. NICHOLS, 84 years old, for a time general superintendent of the Union Pacifie Railroad, died at the home of his daughter.

Mra. W. P. Dumbleton, In Indianapolis. Indiana.

yesterday. The funeral will be held In Denver, Mr. Nichols' former home, FRANK L. MAYES. 41 years old, owner and editor of the Pensacola Journal, and part owner of the Meridan (Miss.) Dispatch, died today in Pensacola, Fla.

a a a a a to a.m.. District F. to In net of Room A New ors, CUT IT RED TAPE (EMPLOYMENT Miami Rev. Dr. W.

G. McCready, rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church. Inter- ment will be in Evergreens Cemetery. James Albert Clements.

James Albert Clements, a commer- traveler, retired, who died on Saturday, in the Chapin Home, at Jamaica, was buried today from that institution, with a services by the Rev. Dr. Frank Oliver Hall, pastor of the Universalist Church of the Divine Paternity, in Manhattan, officiating, and interment in Maple Grove Cem4tery. Mr. Clements was born in Washington, Ohio, May 4, 1838, and leaves a brother, now in the West.

He had been in the Chapman Home since last November. Charies K. Browne. Charles K. Browne, 58 years old, a former resident of this borough, who was killed on Friday by jumping from the fourth-story window of the fac-! tory of J.

B. Gruman Sons, Newark, N. where he was superintendent, was buried yesterday afternoon from the funeral parlors at 29 Ashland place, services being conducted by the Rev. Charles F. Stanley, with interment in the family plot in Greenwood Cemetery.

Mr. Browne was born in Manhattan, and was for many years assistant superintendent of the soda manufactory of John Dwight in Manhattan. He was a member of the Royal Arcanum, and leaves a widow, Carrie Eggert. John Henry McNamara. John Henry McNamara of Bridgehampton, L.

where he was a farmer and where he died on January 28, was buried today from the home of his mother-in-law, 1514 East Eighteenth street, Flatbush, the interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, following a requiem mass Roman Cathoic Church of St. Thomas Aquinas, Flatbush and Flatlands avenues. Mr. McNamara was born in Greenfield village, Flatlands, on June 10 1869 and was the son of James McNamara, a farmer of that section. He died of paralysis of the heart.

He is survived by his widow, Annie Lahey; two daughters, Ella and Mary, and three sons, James, John and Wil- liam. Mrs. Jennie Benson Brouwer. Mrs. Jennie Benson Brouwer, widow of John Boyton Brouwer, died on Saturday night from pneumonia after an illness of three days, and funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at her late residence, 283 Warren street, with the Rev.

David Mac Murray, pastor of the Lenox Road Baptist Church, officiating. Mrs. Brouwer's husband, who was a Court street druggist, died on October 21 last. She was born in Peekskill, N. January 17, 1872, the daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Jewell.

She is vived by her mother, now Mrs. Elizabeth Sherwood, a daughter, Miss Gwendolyn Brouwer, and a sister, Mrs. Ella Hayden of Yonkers, N. Y. Mrs.

Brouwer was a resident of Brooklyy many years and long active as a member of the Sumner Avenue Baptist Church. George Loewer. George Loewer, 50 years old, and a well known summer resident of Rockaway Park. L. died suddenly from an attack of asthma on Saturday night, at his home, 163 est Eighty-seventh street, Manhattan.

Mr. Lower was president of the V. 1 ower's Gambrinus Brewery Company for the past ten years. 'He was a nember of Uhland Lodge No. 735, D.

aid A. and many other fraternal orde 's and of the Rockaway Park Citizens Association. He is survived widow. Ida. His funeral services will be held at St.

Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church, on Forty -seventh street, Manhattan, tomorrow morning. Mrs. Mary Pehnart. Mrs. Mary Pehnart (nee Maginn), Alexander Pehnart, died on of a brain affection at her residence, 45 Vanderbilt avenue.

Her late husband was foreman for the old firm of Robert Colgate this borough. She was born in Donegal, Ireland, on February 2, 1840, and her funeral will be held on her birthday, tomorrow, with a requiem mass in the R. C. Church of the Sacred Heart, interment following in Holy Cross Cemetery. Mrs.

Pehnart is survived a son, John, and a daughter, Mrs. Mary A. Bunny. Mrs. Elizabeth Margerin.

Mrs. Elizabeth Margerin, a former resident of this borough, died suddenly last Friday at Dunedin, Florida. where she was spending the winter at the Dunedin Yacht Club with her daughter and son-in in Mr. and Mrs, George S. Holmes, brain.

He is in an extremely serious condition. The police later identified the man 88 Stanley Gastaukas, 19 years old, of 364 Metropolitan avenue. In his room at that address was found much to connect him with the Long robbery, and with several other robberies, Captain Shaw says. Policeman Thornton was commended by Captain Shaw of the Bedford avenue, to which he is attached, for his excellent work. TO ACQUIRE LAND FOR TUBE Justice Manning Names Commission in Montague St.

Case. Justice Manning in Special Term of the Supreme Court today appointed Mitchell May, William F. Hagerty and Joseph A. Guider as commisioners to acquire property belonging to the Pierrepont Estate and privileges belonging to the New York Dock Company for the Montague street-East River, Whitehall street arm of the dual subway The Court directed the Commissioners to organize on February 8, and hold meetings thereafter at the option of the erty owners in the Bureau Street Openings at 164 Montague street, this borough. Several officials connected with the proceeding had made plans to have all the hearings held in Manhattan, but Justice Manning held that Brooklyn interests were involved in this particular proceeding, and therefore the hearings should be held on this side of the river.

FELL THROUGH GLASS DOOR. Cogowitch Gets Beaten and Then Is Locked Up. After dining well, Samuel C. Cogowitch of 235 Driggs avenue went home early today and mistook the house of Julius Kleinbub, a few doors away, for his own. That was at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Mr. Cogowitch entered rather hastily without the formality of opening the door. He fell into house through the glass panels of the door. Mr. Kleinbub sat up in bed as he heard the crash of the glass.

Then he went downstairs, having no doubt that he had a burglar to deal with. He fell upon Mr. Cogowitch before he had the glass out of his hair and beat him sorely. Then he had him arrested. Cogowitch explained today that he had merely been mistaken in the location of his domicile.

He was charged with intoxication. NO SCHIEREN DINNER. Former Mayor Is Now in Augusta, Georgia. Because of his absence in Augusta, there will be no cabinet dinner given tonight by former Mayor Charles A. Schieren, and the pleasant custom which he originated in 1896, and which continued for seventeen successive until his illness last year, seems destined to indefinite abandonment.

The cabinet dinners were formerly given every February 1, at the Hamilton Club, by the former Mayor of the old city of Brooklyn to those who had been associated with him in his administration and that of his successor, exMayor F. W. Wurster. The last gathering of the former Mayor's cabinet in this way was on February 1, 1913. W.

HOWARD GETS POLICE DEPT JOB Eighteenth Assembly District Democrat Named Complaint Clerk by Com. Woods. SUPPORTED MAYOR MITCHEL. Appointee Is a Brooklyn Lawyer Well Known in Clab Circles. William Howard an independent Democrat Eighteenth Assembly District, Brooklyn, was today appointed complaint clerk in the Police Department by Commissioner Woods.

Mr. Howard takes the place of Frank Lord, elevated last week to the position of Second Deputy Police Commissioner. The new complaint clerk lives at 1136 Sterling place and is a lawyer, with offices at 44 Court street. He is the WILLIAM HOWARD, JR. William Howard Jr.

Brooklyn Democrat Appointed Complaint Clerk in Police Department. son of William Howard who was a. prominent leader of the independent Democrats who supported Mayor Mitchel during the fusion campaign and who has been active in the sonian Alliance in Brooklyn. The younger Howard is 35 years old, married, and has been well known in legal circles for more than a decade. He was formerly associated with James W.

Osborne in Manhattan and for the past seven or eight years he has practiced in Brooklyn. He was born in Brooklyn a and has lived here all his life. His early education was received in the public schools and Boys do High. Later he studied at Dartmouth. graduated from there, and studied law at the New York University Law School.

Active in the club life of Brooklyn, he holds membership in the Crescent Club, is past regent of Council No. 173, Royal Arcanum, belongs to Alpha Delta Phi Greek letter fraternity, the Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Greater City and the Heptosophs. The position to which he has EL EL namesake and A been appointed, pays a salary of $2,500 00 grandson late William Howard of Washington avenue. SAYS RUSSIAN ARMY IS IN FIGHTING TRIM Czar's Aide-de-Camp Finds Men Physically Fit and Morally Ready. VISITED ALL THE FRONTS.

Declares Himself Well Satisfied With Positions Gained in East Prussia, Poland and Galicia. Petrograd (via. London), February 1- A Russian General, who is an alde-decamp to Emperor and is necessarily nameless, Nicholas, Associated Press correspondent today the Russian viewpoint of the sttuation. The alde-de-camp military, returned from inspecting the Russian forces at all the fronts except in the Caucasua. He said: "Today, exactly a half year since the beginning of the war, our second line of troops is greater and our entire armies are much stronger.

The men are more hardened and physically and morally more ready. "The enemy's territory has been occupied in East Prussia and Galicia to a greater extent than our most optimistic expectations, while the Germans are occupying practically the same lines as at the outset of the war. The distance between the Bzura river and the German frontier, though greater in miles than between Sochaczew and Warsaw, is strategically much less important, for the reason that there are 1 no fortified positions between the Bzura and Germany, while last three months, during which the Germans have been occupied in vain attempts to advance, have been profitably used by us to fortify the line from Nowo Georgiewsk to Warsaw and Ivangorod, which line is now practically impregnable. "The territory occupied by us in East Galicia is now part and parcel of the empire. Lemberg and vicinity are well fortified and the population is satisfied with the new state of things.

In the Carpathians the Austrians have been weakened by recent defeats and the German help there will be insufficient to infuse new blood into their army. "At the outset of the war, fears were expressed in view of the difficulties of importation, as to where we were to get necessary mechanical implements. Necessity has shown the strength and resourcefulness of the Russian nation. Many small wares, formerly manufactured for us in Germany and Austria, have been perfectly replaced in the Moscow manufactories. Village hand work is producing satisfactory cutlery, saddlery and munitions, and in making these things the peasant is show.

ing remarkable adaptability. "Even machine articles are successfully produced. When our troops were in a East Prussia the first time, they secured eight barb wire machines. These were brought to Russia and copied so that such machines are now produced here. This is one example, and such occurrences are numerous.

"The relations of the soldiers and the commanders are excellent. Many occasions have witnessed situations where the commander desired to precede the men. The latter, however, requested the leaders to remain behind, saying, 'You are one hard to replace; we can be alive to what is transpiring in the army. Officers and men are extremely solute unity of the nation and the "A felicitous circumstance is the abcountry and are gratified to see the concord between the government and the people and the interest which the entire people are taking in the campaign. Sanitary conditions can be Judged by the insignificant number of illnesses and the vigorousness of the men in the ranks." Dr.

Andrew Dickson Packer. Dr. Andrew Dickson Packer, son of Mary K. and the late William S. Packer, died suddenly this morning at his residence, 262 Hicks street.

He was born in this borough thirty-six years ago at 2 Grace court, from whence he went to Lakeville, to study at the Hotchkiss School. He was graduated from Yale University in the class of 1902 and from the Long Island College Hospital in 1907. He was engaged in the practice of medicine in this borough for eight years. On August 11, 1911, he was married to Miss Sophie Graham Booker of Lexington, who survives him. He is survived, also, by his mother, Mrs.

W. S. Packer; his sister, Mrs. Robert Brockway, and his brother, the W. S.

Packer, of Winchester, Mass. Funeral services will be held the house on Wednesday afternoon, and he as will be buried in the family plot in Greenwood Cemetery. The pall-bearers will be his former college friends at Yale. They John Wylie, John Callender, Wilder Bellany, Carl Flanders, Edgar Sinnock, Frank Nevins and Henry Rogers. Allen B.

Rogers. OBITUARY After an illness of nearly three years, arising from heart trouble, Allen B. Rogers died in the village of Morrisonville, N. on Saturday eve-; ning at the home of his sister, with whom he had resided for about eleven years. Mr.

Rogers was a bachelor. one family was October of born eight 4, in 1846, Hicks children being street, five one Brooklyn, daugh- of ters and three sons, all of whom survive. and all of whom are residents of Brooklyn and Long Island City. At one, time Mr. Rogers was prominent in Brooklyn politics, twice being an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Alderman.

He made money in the produce business and invested largely in Flatbush realty. The advances in value of these holdings enabled him to retire at a comparatively early age. For about twelve years he devoted his time to painting in oil and to studies of nature, on which subjects he often wrote articles for publication in weekly papers and monthly magazines. He was considered an authority on birds, insects trees, and flowers. Frederick Graue.

Frederick Graue, 57 years old, a liquor dealer, in business at Stuyvesant and Lafayette avenues for twenty-one years, died last night from pneumonia. after a brief illness, and his funeral will be held on Wednesday afternoon, with services conducted by the Rev. Carl for Schuchard, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, at the late residence of deceased, 957 Lafayette avenue. The interment will be in Evergreens Cemetery. Mr.

Graue was born in Stolzenhausen, Germany, and he had lived in the Twenty-first Ward of Brooklyn most of his life. He was very well known in Democratic and civil affairs in his section, and was vice president of the Sixth Assembly District Democratic Club; treasurer of the Stuyvesant Association, which had headquarters at his place of busines, and treasurer of the Brooklyn Club. He is survived by his widow. Emma Katherine Andre, a son, Frederick, and a sister in Germany. Mrs.

Theresa C. Brewster. Mrs. Theresa C. Brewster, wife of Henry D.

Brewster of Bay Shore, L. in her seventieth year, died of heart failure after a brief illness last night. Funeral services will be held at her late residence on Ocean avenue tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, the Rev. D. D.

Irvine officiating. The interment will be in Oakwood Cemetery on Wednesday morning. Mrs. Brewster was a member of the Bay Shore E. Church.

She is survived by five children, Harry Eugene Carleton Olin S. and Marie, the wife of William H. Robbins: also a sister, Mrs. Gertrude E. Stellenwert.

William Nicholas Siebern. William Nicholas Siebern of 80 Orange street died on Saturday of carcinoma. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 14, 1857, and was road representative of H. B. Hardenberg Co.

of this borough. He was a member of the Louisville, lodge of Elks and Atlantic Council, R. of this borough. He is survived by his widow, Sophie Bond, and two sisters. Mrs.

Norma Lenhart and Mrs. Charles J. Tiensch. The funeral services, tomorrow morning, will be conducted by the of White Plains, N. Y.

Mrs. Margerin was in her seventy-sixth year, and recently had made her home alternately with her daughter at White Plains and with her son, William F. Margerin, at Mount Vernon. She was the widow of William Margerin. Her remains be interred in Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, at the convenience the family.

Mrs. Augusta Simons. Mrs. Augusta Simons, nee Bareuth, wife of Abraham Simons, died yesterday from diabetes at her residence, 63 Stuyvesant avenue, and her funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon, with interment in Maimonides cemetery, Cypress Hills. Mrs.

Simons was born in Brooklyn February 27. 1858. She was active in the interest of the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital Society, and is survived by her husband, a retired manufacturing tailor of the Eastern District: two brothers, David of Brooklyn and Edward of Hartford, and three sisters, Mrs. Polly Saide of Hartford, Mrs. Mary Runnelsberg and Mrs.

Ray Lippman. William M. Brown. William M. Brown, 64 years old, of Newcastle, who was elected to Congress in that district last November, and who was formerly Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, died yesterday in the Hotel McAlpin, Manhattan, after being ill a week with pneumonia.

He was until last April the owner of a large amount of near Garden City, L. known as the Stewart Manor, and which he gave in exchange side for of the entire Madison block front be the east avenue, tween Eighty-second and Eighty-third streets, Manhattan. More than 000 was involved in the transaction. Mr. Brown is survived by a widow.

Margaret Faltz: a son and a daughter. His body was sent to Newcastle, this morning, for burial. Mrs. Louise Sherman Draper. Mrs.

Louise Sherman Draper, widow of Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert A. Draper, died suddenly this morning ol heart disease, after a long illness, at her residence, 775 East Thirty-second street, Flatbush. The late husband was a close friend of General Edward L. Molineux of Brooklyn, and they enlisted together in the 159th Regiment of New York State Volunteers, for service in the Civil War, Colonel Draper being killed in battle in the early part of the war. Mrs.

Draper is vived by two daughters, Mrs. William B. Vernam and Mrs. Martin R. Fisher, both of Brooklyn.

Funeral services will be held at her late home on day evening, with interment on Thurs- day Greenwood Cemetery. Charles F. Kirchbaum. Charles F. Kirchbaum, a telegraph operator.

died in St. Vincent's Hospital, in Manhattan, yesterday afternoon. His wife is supposed to reside in Brooklyn. Information of Mrs. Kirchbaum's whereapouts will be appreciated by the New York Telegraphers Aid Society.

195 Broadway, Manhattan, who have assumed charge of the remains. Telephone No. 6980 Cortland. Martin Roman. Martin Roman, 60 years old, founder and for the past seven years president of the International Purchasing ance of Fourth avenue, Manhattan, importers and commission merchants, died on Saturday at his residence in Far Rockaway, L.

I. He was a bachelor and is survived by two brothers and three sisters. Funeral services were held this morning at his late home, 14 Mills street, Far Rockaway, interment following in the Rodeph Sholom Cemetery, Union Fields. Thomas Reed Jones. Thomas Reed Jones, 78 years old, for twenty-three years an employee of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of Brooklyn, died yesterday at his residence, 43 Ryerson street.

He was one of the charter members of the Mergenthaler Aid Society. He is survived by his widow, Alice E. Moyer; a son, T. Reed Jones; a daughter, Mrs. Vella Smith, and three sisters.

His funeral services will be held on Wednesday at Mohawk, N. with interment in the cemetery in that town. Mrs. MARY BUHRMAN, S3 years old. widow of William Ruhrman, died yesterday In "The Alley." at Douglaston, L.

where she was born. She WAS the daughter of Benjamin Lowerre. JOHN BLACKMAN, 44 years old. of 1334 Jerome avenue, Queens, who wag in the moving picture business in the Bronx with his brother James, died on Saturday from pneumonia, and his funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon, with interment In Lutheran Cemetery. He was born in South Ninth street, Brooklyn, and was a widower, WEST POINT EXAMINATION.

Congressman Griffin Has Appointment of One Cadet This Year. There will be a competitive examination for entrance to the West Po Point Military Academy at Public School No. 118. in Fourth avenue, Brooklyn, on February 6, at 10 o'clock in the morning, arranged by Congressman Daniel J. Griffin, who has the appointment of one cadet this year.

All young men in sound physical condition between the ages of 17 and 22 years, who reside in the Eighth Congressional District, are eligible. They must be at least five feet four inches in height. NEW COMPANIES FORMED. (Special to The Eagle.) Albany, February 1-The King Blake Company of Mineola was incorporated today with the Secretary of State, to do a contracting business, with a capital $50,000. The directors are: Coleman King, Michael J.

King. Michael H. Blake and John M. Blake of New York City. A certificate of incorpoartion was filed by the Lambkin Coupling Company of Brooklyn.

The capital stock is $10,000, and the directors are Creighton B. French of Brooklyn and Charles H. Lambkin and George H. Lambkin of New York City. Articles of incorporation were filed by the P.

J. Cosgrove Cut Stone Company of the Borough of Queens. The capital is $10,000 and the directors are Patrick J. Cosgrove, Thomas Coleman and John Coleman of New York City. Frederick A.

St. Amand of Brooklyn appears as a director of the E. Finney Company of New York City, formed with a capital of $10,000 to deal in real estate. Harry Lawson of Brooklyn and Arthur W. Dalton Glen Cove are dion rectors the World's Tower Film Vaults of Valley Cottage, Rockland County, capitalized at $10,000, SPEEDERS FINED $25 EACH.

Magistrate Reynolds, sitting in the Adams Street Court this morning, fined four men $25 each for speeding their automobiles on the Flatbush extension. The men were all caught by Patrolman Leonard Preston of the Motor Cycle Squad. The men were Theodore G. Robinson of 395 East Fourth street, Joseph Rizzato of 93 Butler street, Nicolo Sgaglione of 221 Navy street, and Harry Birch of 288 Midwood street. APPRAISALS.

RUDOLPIT THIENES died January 3, leaving a net estate $7,870.84 In equal shares to a widow, son and daughter, GOTTHOLD ERGENZINGER died ber 15, 1911, leaving a not estate $686.48, which passes the widow. MARY GREALEY died Doormber 1914, leaving estate of $1,44.74, which passes 3 husband and rother, REFEREES APPOINTED. By Garretson, Forger vs. Rosenstein James P. Judge: Swan AL Va.

Swan ors, Eugene Sheck. Re Crane, May vs. De Nike (Nos. 1. 4 and 3).

Frank 8. 1r. Gannon Eastern York. Daukruptey Bofore calendar. Court opens at 10:30 Postoffice Ins.

Re Kobre and Ginsberg, alleged bankrupte, 6377. Re Trautman Company, alleged bankrupts. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT of.