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7 THE BROOKLYN DAILY. EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. JANUARY 13.

1912. QUEENS BOROUGH AND LONG ISLAND WALTER BOWNE LAWRENCE DIES AT "WILLOW BANK' Was Member of One of the Oldest Families on Long Island. TRACED ANCESTRY TO ROMANS He Had Made a Fortune in BrokerBusiness and Was, a Promiage nent Clubman. Walter Bowne Lawrence, a descendant of the old Lawrence family which came from England and settled on Long Island in 1643, died yesterday afternoon at 2:30, at his home, Willow Bank, on Lawrence street, Flushing. He had been confined to his home with illness for the past two weeks.

Kidney trouble was the cause of his death. Mr. Lawrence was the head of the brokerage firm of B. Lawrence 20 Broad street, Manhattan, and was 011e Man of the oldest members of the Stock Exchange. His father, John W.

Lawrence, was elected to Congress in 1845, and was also a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York State. Mr. Lawrence was born in Willow Bank, which is one of the finest homes in Flushing. It was built in 1835, and stands on a high hill near the Flushing Creek. Mr.

Lawrence traced his ancestors back tc the ancient Romans, claiming that scme of the Laurentii of that noble race descended through English ancestry of whom the first name in the Doomsday Book was that of Sir Robert Lawrence of Ashton Hall, who in 1119 planted the banner of the Cross on the battlefield of St. Jean d'Acre and received for his gallantry the honor of knighthood and a coat-ofarms from Richard. Three Lawrence brothers came to America, and in 1643 they settled on Long Two of these se Lawrences were among the patentees of Flushing, recognized by Governor Kieft in 1645. Mr. Lawrence was a.

graduate of Columbia University, with the class of '59, and while he was admitted to the bar, he never practiced law. He engaged in the brokerage business shortly after leaving college, and it is said that he made 8. fortune. His estate at Flushing is regarded as the most valuable tract of land in the village. Mr.

Lawrence was a member of the University, Knickerbocker, Wiss and Oakland Golf clubs. He was fond of horses. and always had number of valuable horses on his estate. His wife, who was vived Anna by one Townsend, brother, died in Robert 1905. B.

He is Lawrence a surof Flushing, who several years ago ran for Borough President of Queens; two sisters, one son, Townsend, and one daughter, Miss Anita Lawrence. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 2:15 o'clock, from his late home. "THE MOUSE" SENTENCED. Other Criminal Cases Disposed Of in Suffolk County Court. Riverhead, L.

January 13--William Gregory of Patchogue, generally known as "Mouse" Gregory, pleaded guilty to two indictments in Judge Griffing's County Court yesterday afternoon, and was sent to Sing Sing Prison for not more than twelve years and six months and not less than six years, on one indictment; sentence was suspended on the other. It wag charged that he stopped Mrs. Sophie Sauer of Medford on the road one day, criminally assaulted her and then robbed the woman. When sentence was pronounced Gregory wept like a child. Gertrude Jones, who pleaded guilty to endangering health of her baby daughter by leaving it long hours at a time without food or heat in the house while she went out to work, was sentenced the limit for the charge--one year in the county jail.

Her husband. who was recently released from the jail on a familar charge, and held again for the Grand Jury, escaped indictment, so he was discharged from custody yesterday. Jack Kelly pleaded guilty to selling liquor at East Amagansett and was fined He said he worked for John Gibbons. Judge Griffing questioned Kelly closely about Gibbons, for a while ago Gibbons promised the court that he would not sell liquor again. The bail bond of Thomas Brown of New York, who is charged with stealing laurel from the woodland at Smithtown on C.

M. Higgins' estate, was declared forfeited, Brown not appearing. Hjalmar Johnson, John G. Livingston's chauffeur, at Islip, pleaded not guilty to stealing his employed's $4.000 car and wrecking it during a joy ride. He will be tried in May.

Edeson Crocker said he got drunk so he would be fired from his place of employment, but that it didn't work, and dur. ing his spree he hit a man over the head with a beer bottle. Judge Griffng asked him if he had ever been arrested before. "No, sir; I've been very lucky." "That's just the conclusion I reached myself," replied the court, who added that he would sentence him to six months in jail for the assault. to which he had just pleaded guilty.

William Fleet pleaded not guilty to selling potatoes from a short-weight measure, and his bail of $1.000 was continued until the May term of court. A REALISTIC TRAGEDY. Landlord Smith Was the Innocent Cause of Firemen's Despair. Port Jefferson, L. January 13-In response to the loud ringing of the alarm bell yesterday afternoon the firemen of Port Jefferson hurried with their hose reels to Hotel Square where white clouds were seen issuing from the doors and windows of the Townsend House.

Tho hose was run out and attached to the nearest hydrant. The men with the nozzle rushed forward. "Water, water, let her go," they yelled. The man with the wrench jerked it lustily. "All right.

here it comes." he called. Still the firemen with the nozzle waited while the white clouds grew denser. "Hurry up with that water," they shouted. "If we don't get it mighty quick the whole town will be in fames." But still no water. The hydrant was frozen as solid as if it had been poured full of melted lead.

While the hose was being dragged to another hydrant some of the firemen, axes in hand, but with despair in their hearts dashed into the 'Townsend House. The sight that met their eyes restored their spirits and caused broad grins to over their faces. Struggling beside a radiator In one the rooms was Proprietor Frank V. Smith. The "fire" was only a bursted steam pipe.

While someone found a monkey wrench and put our the "blaze" the firemen gathered in their hose. but for several hours afterward the volunteers were examining hydrants to be ready in case a more realistic contagra tion should DEMOCRATS ELECT. The Progressive Democratic of Corona has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: James Cassello, chairman; Aaron Martin, first vice man: Frank Bellucci, second vice president: F. Saccamane, recording secretary; D. Ressamane, financial secretary; J.

Kanner, treasurer: H. Bendet, sergeantat-arms. NEW FIRE HOUSE PLANNED. According to Philip P. Garvey, deputy fire commissioner of Brooklyn and Queens, plans have been prepared and a site selected for the erection of a fire house Whitestone to accommodate the paid fire department, which it is expected will be extended to Whitestone this year.

The deputy commissioner says that the new house will accommodate an engine and a hook and ladder company. GETS $12,700 DAMAGES Foreman, Crippled by Fall on Municipal Building, Recovers in Nassau Court. (Special to The Eagle.) Mineola, L. January 13-John B. Jones recovered a verdict of $12,700 against the Thompson, Starrett Company of Manhattan, in the Nassau Supreme Court here yesterday.

The plaintiff brought suit for $50,000 for injuries received while at work on the Municipal Building on March 17. Jones, who is a resident of Mineola, was foreman of a gang of structural ironworkers, and was on a scaffolding on the third floor, when a plank gave anl the plaintiff fell to the second floor, A distance of fifteen feet, where he struck some projecting beams, and then fell to the basement, a distance of feet. He was taken to the Hudson Street twenty Hospital, where he was confined for eight weeks, and since that time has been able to get about with the aid of a cane. It was claimed by the plaintiff that he sustained a fracture of the right elbow, was severely cut about the head and face, and has permanent injuries to his back, with the result that his kidneys were affected. Jones was employed at the rate of $42 per week, and it.

was contended that his earning capacity would be very much less if he were ever able to work. The defence claimed that there was an assumption of risk on the part of the plaintiff when he went on the scaffolding, and that it the plank from which he fell was thrown from the scaffold as the result of an accumulation of snow and ice under it, it was the plaintiff's duty to have taken care SO that the accident would not have happened, and this assumption of risk rendered the defendant free from liability. The jury was out but a short time. CHURCH PLANS NEW SCHOOL. St.

Luke's of Whitestone Purchases Large Tract of Land. The Rev. Thomas O'Brien, pastor of St. Luke's Catholic Church, Whitestone, announced yesterday that the church had purchased the fifteen acres of land on Ninth and Tenth avenues, Whitestone, upon which will be erected a number of buildings, chief among which will be a modern schoolhouse. The property is in the rear of the present church building and is an ideal site for a school building.

Since the parochial school was established by Father O'Brien in the basement of the church one year ago, it has steadily grown until the present quarters are inadequate. Plans will shortly be prepared for a new building. Monsignor E. J. Donnelly, pastor of St.

Michael's Catholic Church, Flushing, also contemplates erecting a new school building, to take the place of the one now used on Madison avenue. While no definite plans have been decided upon, Monsignor Donnelly says that the new building will be of brick and will be equal to any in the borough. DIRECTORS GIVE DINNER. Friends of Centre Moriches Bank at Enjoyable Function. Centre Moriches, L.

January 13- Twenty-two diners gathered at the Moriches Inn Thursday evening as guests of the Centre Moriches Bank. The dinner followed the annual meetings of the stockholders and directors There were no changes made in board of directors or in the officers of the bank. Those at the dinner were: John L. Havens, Ellison Bishop, A. J.

Hallock, H. A. T. Hedges, E. 0.

Howell. W. I. Gardner, William C. Rogers, Gilbert Rogers, W.

D. Herzog, Edward Thomas, R. P. Howell, J. D.

Howell, Ezra Miller. lA. K. Frank Penny, E. A.

Clark, James Taft, Ulysses Johnson, Edgar Daniels, E. H. Terry, Hiram Raynor and H. M. Raynor.

President John L. Havens presided and required each guest to make a speech. Charles E. Liscum, the bank's cashier, slowly recovering from an operation, and his absence was regretted. Resolutions were adopted expressing sympathy for him and appreciation of his labors in building up the bank.

MRS. SAGE'S NIGHT SCHOOL. Sag Harbor's Bountiful' Would Help Operatives. Sag Harbor, L. January 13-A night school for foreigners and operatives i in the Sag Harbor factories is to be established here January 22.

Mrs. Russell Sage is sponsor for the movement, and her representative in this place, R. K. Atkinson, who has charge of the social at the Atheneum and the park and playgrouad, furnished by Sag Harbor's "Lady Bountiful," has associated with himself in the project W. R.

Reimann, formerly village president, and Peter F. Hughes. The school will be kept open for the next four months and instruction will be given in elementary business, mechanical drawing and English. Some of the classes are open to both men and women. OFFICERS ELECTED.

The Elmhurst Taxpayers Association has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Thomas Hardgrave, first vice president; the Rev. Edward McGuffey, second vice president; R. A. Hardy, recording secretary; John T. Robinson, corresponding secretary; David A.

Smith, secretary; W. B. Dickinson, treasurer, MAJOR JORDAN PROMOTED. The War Department bas announced the promotion of Major Sidney S. Jordan, Coast Artillery Corps, who for some time has been on special detail at.

Fort Totten, Willets Point, to the rank of lieutenant colonel and his transfer from Totten to the command of the forces at Fort Terry, N. Y. REV. FARRELL AN ASSISTANT. Farrell of St.

Raphael's Cath ch, Blissville, has been made 89 to the Rev. J. Heafy of 8t, ew QUEENS LIBRARY BOARD ORDERS RE-EXAMINATION Girls Who Failed to Qualify for Grade Get Another Chance. MEETING WAS A HEATED ONE. Grievances of Unsuccessful Girls Recited-Favorable Action Taken on Trustee Edwards' Resolution.

The Queens Borough Library Trustees at their regular meeting in the Administration Building at Jamaica last evening decided after a long discussion to have another examination for the six young women who failed pass the position of Grade librarians, lowest for, grade in the service, as well as for the eighteen young women who did succeed in passing. It is -provided, however, that should some of, the successful candidates of the previous examination fail they may still be on the eligible list for appointment to Grade positions, their by their standing a in the re-examination. appointment to be influenced, however, Grade of the library service was abolished some on time ago, and as the city, naturally, did not provide in the budget for salaries for the continuation of the girls of the old Grade in the service it was necessary to hold an examination to give the employees an opportunity to try for grade. They were told that those who failed to pass would be dropped. When the examination was held a number of young women who had been apprentices in the service also sought promotion to Grade but the examination they took was different from that taken by the employes of Grade D.

because the former had previously taken some of the subjects in which Grade girls were examined. Soon after the examination, announcement was made not one the Grade girls had passed, and that all would be dismissed. These women were the Misses Brick, Darcy, Donnelly, Dunn, Fagan and Rosetti. Aggrieved Young Women Allowed to Appeal. At the meeting of the Board of Trustees last month it was decided that if any of the six young women felt.

aggrieved she might appeal to the chairman of the Committee on Rules, who would a confer other members of his committee and report the result of last night's meeting. Pending the final decision, those who had succeeded in passing the examination for promotion to Grade were appointed temporarily, subject also to the final decree of the Board. The discussion last night was a heated one. Dr. Hugh Barr Gray read the minutes of the meeting of the rules committee on the matter.

After Dr. Gray had concluded, C. H. Ludlum moved that the board go into executive session. Trustee Clarence Edwards objected.

He declared he could see no reason for secret discussion of the question. Mr. Ludlum then expressed his opinion that it would be unfair to have the names of the girls involved made public, a number of newspapermen being present. Trustee Ludlum's motion was lost. The principal grievance of the girls, according to Mr.

Edwards, speaking for the rules committee, seemed to be that their examination was not like that taken by the apprentices, all of whom passed. The examination papers of all the candidates for promotion were marked by Thomas J. McAvoy, a Brooklyn educator, and he followed closely the method of marking pursued by the library examiners. The mark of one apprentice, however, in the subject of library economy, was lowered materially by Mr. McAvoy, who considered the examinations a fair test.

A resolution was Introduced by Mr. Edwards, after his committee's report was accepted, providing for another examination. It provided, also, for a method of judging the examination papers and that all candidates receiving percentage of over 70 be placed on the eligible list for appointment to Grade C. An amendment was then introduced to read that ap-, prentices who passed the recent examination for the position continue on the ible list, whether they attain a percentage of 70 on the new test or not, but that their marks on the future examination be taken as a basis of judging their position on the eligible list, Miss Jesse Hume, the chief librarian, to be in charge of the examination, subject to a committee of three trustees, which should look over the questions before they are submitted to the candidates. The examination, it was recommended in the resolution, should be held within fourteen days, and five days' notice should be given.

Trustee Edwards' resolution wag finally adopted, despite protests of Messrs. Loope and Ludlum. Dr. Frederick W. Mar was elected president of the board in place of Dr.

Harris A. Houghton, and Clarence Ludlum was elected vice president. Other portant changes were made in committees. POLITICAL PAR PARAGRAPHS POLITICAL Now that the January Grand Jury has recommended an additional man for the jail, making three men in all, to work in eight-hour shifts, it is believed that the Supervisors will adopt a resolution next week authorizing the sheriff to make an appointment, and it is definitely certain Mr. Brush will appoint H.

Conklin of Riverhead, who has George capably serving as turnkey for been nearly a year. It is expected now that when the Supervisors meet next week they will create the of Assistant District Attorposition and it is believed the salary will be ney, $1,500 a year, which is considfixed at ered none too small, providing the District Attorney and the assistant attend justice court cases too, and the to the also act as indictment clerk, assistant lacording to the statements made by Mr. Green when he for the position. There is no change in the situation regarding the appointment as assistant, land it seems a foregone conclusion that L. M.

Young of Babylon will be promptly named for the job. The matter of changing the representathe Republican County Comtion on increasing the number of committee by from the larger districts did mitteemen at all in the annual meeting not come up Monday. It- is said that some were for additional representation, but anxious prevailed upon by a Patchogue poliwere tician to do nothing about it. It is said that some seeking places on the county feel surer of getting nominated if ticket the committee is left as it is. Then, too, pointed out that the smaller disit is would fight the plan, anyway.

It tricts it possible, though, that the committee appointed to revise the bylaws and recommend a change in this rules may matter, too. While the controversy among EastBank stockholders over the Sehampton lection of a board of directors favorable retention of George A. Miller as to the cashier has but little if any political it is nevertheless very intersignificance, to politicians in all parts of the esting county. For over a quarter of a century Mr. Miller has represented Ensthampton as Supervisor, and many times town plans have been made by Republican op(yes, and sometimes by a few ponents Democrats), to "dump but always plans have gone astray.

His strength the is a marvel to some, and is often speculated on, but those who know him best; understand why he wing. He is unCAM doubtedly the best posted Supervisor of of the ten in tho county. He is a any WAS WAITING FO' DE LAWD A Jamaica darkey, who considers himself a pretty good and pious Baptist, with some original views on honesty, found a valuable diamond ring in Brooklyn a few days ago. He boasted of his find to a white friend, who suggested that he advertise in the papers so as to locate the owner, If possible. "Don't you know that if you fail to use every endeavor to find the rightful owner you are guilty of larceny in the eyes of the law, just as though you had actually stolen the ring from the person?" "Look-a-here!" expostulated the negro, righteous indignation flashing from his eyes.

"You don't look at dis here thing in de right light, white man! "De good Lawd lets somebody lose dis ring. De good Lawd lets me find it, an' nobody but de Lawd kin make me give it up. He hasn't said nothing to me yet about it, and until he does, I'll keep de ring." Staggered by the black man's logic, Citizen "Fixit" fled. FREEPORT SCHOOL BOARD MEETS THIS AFTERNOON Apparently Not Disturbed by Adverse Sentiment of Recent Mass Meeting. MAY SELECT NEW TEACHERS.

Citizens, However, Remain Firm in Their Determination to Have Members Removed. (Special to The Eagle.) Freeport, L. January 13-Not only has the Freeport Board of Education declined to resign, as the citizens in a mass meeting requested, but it was learned today that they bad called a meeting for this afternoon in the school building, when candidates for superintendent and principal to take the places of Arthur E. Barnes and Roy Leon Smith, respectively, will be selected. The former was removed by Superintendent Draper on charges of immorality.

The latter was dismissed by the Board for writing a letter, telling the members his opinion of them for whitewashiug Barnes' character. Nothing new had developed in the arrangements of the citizens who want the Board to resign, but it is said they are determined to push the matter. At the Board meeting today it is said that the two preferred candidates for the vacancies in the Freeport schools will be on hand either to accept or reject the appointments. The plan of holding a mass meeting by friends of the Board are kept secret. TRADE BOARD ORGANIZED.

Cedarhurst Residents Will Start Active Campaign for Improvements. (Special to The Eagle.) Cedarhurst, L. January 13-At a meeting of the prominent citizens of Cedarhurst last night in the Murray Building, a board of trade was organized for the purpose of promoting the business interests of this village. The following officers were elected for the new organization: President, John F. Doherty; first vice president, B.

Murray; second vice president, S. L. Payne; treasurer, A. Adelberg; secretary, Percy C. Vandewater; board of governors, John F.

Doherty, B. Murray, S. L. Payne, A. Adelberg, Percy C.

Vandewater, Denis Egan and Harry D. Wheelock. The next meeting of the board will be held in the Murray building on Wednesday evening, January 24, when the details of organization will be completed and everything put in condition for an active campaign for the beneft of Cedarhurst. A public mecting will be held at Simon's Hall on Tuesday evening, January 30, when several prominent speakers will I address the meeting. DIED FROM BURNS.

John Clarke, 63 years old, of 12 Norris avenue, Jamaica, died yesterday in Jamaica Hospital as the result of burns about the arms, face and hip, which he sustained while he was thawing out water pipes at his home. FROM SUFFOLK COUNTY. very capable official, both for his town and for the county. It is undoubtedly true that for once ability is regarded paramount in Easthampton town. This may explain, too, why he won out in the "bank scrap." Even a grand jury can make political capital at times, although perhaps unwittingly this time.

This fact was demonstrated this week at Riverhead, when just previous to its discharge the jury In a presentment lauded District Attorney Greene in part as follows: "We congratulate the county in the election of and predict an honorable success to our present prosecuting attorney, Ralph C. Greene." The presentment, including this, was read in court in a full round voice by Foreman Isaac G. Terry, a righteous, good man, from Sayville, a neighbor of Mr. Greene. When he reached the words "R-a-1-p-h C.

G-r-e-e-n-e" it sounded like the close of a nominating speech in a convention. The Grand Jury's action is quite unusual. It caused much surprise in court. The explanation is likely this: It is the custom for the presiding justice, usually a stranger in Suffolk, to ask the District Attorney who would make a good foreman of the Grand Jury. It is assumed that Mr.

Greene, knowing the caliber of his old neighbor, suggested Mr. Terry, Assuming still further it is probable that Mr. Terry, mindful of the honor, suggested the tribute to his young lawyer friend in payment, and as Mr. Greene had made good at his first Grand Jury term, the other jurors readily acquiesced in the plan. Mr.

Greene is very popular and the Grand Jury's estimate was as pleasing to many as it was surprising and unusual. Former Senator Bailey is again in full control of the Suffolk Democratic organization. A year ago he was out, but the distribution of a generous amount of patronage within the year has helped to again place him in charge. His control is SO absolute that he personally had a proxy from Colonel E. B.

Dusenberry's town of Huntington in the annual county committee meeting here Tuesday, and got still another out of that town for his friend, J. Fred Flugrath of Babylon. His opponents, seeing they were beaten, fell over themselves to get on the bandwagon. Just how long the lion and the lamb are to gambol together is a mooted question, for there is fight yet in Colonel Dusenberry. He had a "few words to gay" at the meeting Tuesday when the "MILLIONAIRE IN EXECUTIVE POSITION Almy Wanted to Begin at Bottom and Has Made a Good Stoker.

MANY L. I. R. R. CHANGES.

Promotions in Operating Department Bring Responsible Positions to Well-Known Officials. As the result of promotions and changes in the positions of employes of the Long Island Railroad made by J. B. Austin, superintendent, which went into effect yesterday, the road can no longer boast of a "millionaire fireman." This interesting person, who has been in the employ of the Long Island for the past two years, is Frederick Almy, son of Frederick L. Almy, a wealthy Manhattan merchant, who lives at Lawrence.

He has been promoted from the cab of a locomotive, where he has been doing the laborious work of a fireman, to the position of night assistant train master, succeeding C. A. Barrett. Young Almy wanted to learn railroading from the bottom up and he has been given a chance. The reports of the railroad show that he has performed his duties faithfully, and as a result he has now been advanced to the position where he will have charge of power and equipment during the night shift.

C. A. Barrett, who held the position, which is now taken by Almy, has been advanced to the position of day assistant train master in place of J. M. Magee, who has been promoted to the position ot chief train dispatcher.

Both Mr. Barrett and Mr. Magee are old employes of the Long Island, in the important positions of night and day men in charge of power and equipment they have kept the road out of many difficulties. They have always been on the job when emergencies called them as well as at times when things were running smoothly. Mr.

Magee succeeds E. Lewis, who has been appointed "in passenger train master of the electrified lines and sent to the Flatbush avenue station. He was formerly division operator of the Cincinnati division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with headquarters at Cincinnati, when James A. McCrea, the present general superintendent of the Long Island, was superintendent of the Cincinnati division. He came to the Long Island soon after Mr.

McCrea did. Mr. Lewis succeeds C. D. Baker, who has been assigned to the special duty of devising a scheme for the electrification of the big Broad street station of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Philadelphia.

Mr. Baker is a son of Long Island and is only 38 years old. He has had a rapid rise on the Long Island Railroad through his ability and successful work. His first work was as clerk to the trainmaster. He was then made chief of the car record department and soon afterward was advanced to the position of chief clerk to the general superintendent.

While here he studied the electrification of the road and was made. train master of the electrical division, from which position he has been sent to the important work at Philadelphia. ROONEY GIVES DINNER. Popular Stenographer Surprised by Gift From His Guests. Joseph Rooney, stenographer of the Magistrate's Court at Jamaica, gave a bachelor dinner to Magistrate Harry Miller and to his fellow clerks, officers of the court.

and friends at Minden's Hotel, Jamaica, yesterday afternoon. Those present, knowing that Rooney was to be married, surprised the popular young man by presenting him with a handsome toilet set, which Mr. Rooney said he would no doubt find useful. Robert J. McMahon, who was toastmaster, made the presentation speech.

Among those present were Judge Harry Miller, Court Clerk. James Butler, Edward Moroney, James A. Roe, George Schneller, Michael Lenihan, Harry Vaughn, Joseph Aleck and Robert MeMahon. MUSIC MAKERS READY. Huntington, L.

January 13-The fife and drum corp of the Huntington Fire Department which has hitherto been unable to give proper vent to its enthusiasm, has just ordered a set of bugles, fifes and drums and its members can hardly wait for the date off, the next parade for an opportunity showing what they can do in the line. The fire department is planning a fair to take place at the Bijou Theater February 20, 21 and 22, to end with a big supper on Washington's Birthday. The proceeds of the fair will be used to defray the expenses of furnishing the new fire house on Main street, near the Town Hall. committee was being elected, and he said them in his usual emphatic way. It's "dollars to doughnuts" he will still be a factor in keeping things lively.

In the main, though, the meeting showed that peace to a large degree has been restored. It was a peculiar meeting, too, in many ways. It was a meeting of proxles--nearly all of the regularly elected committeemen sent their proxies to be voted by someone else. A man who worked hard for Republican success last fall voted a proxy. Another man, said to be personally enrolled as a Republican, likewise voted a proxy.

Another peculiarity was when Sheide personally nominated Mr. Rogers as his successor, and still another when Senator Bailey and Eugene W. Lane, sworn enemies for years, were seen hugging each other during the meeting. While it is true that the Port Jefferson postoffice fight is still on and an attempt is being made to get it before the executive committee of the Republican Committee, it is not believed by some of the political weatherwise that the county committee will "butt in." for there is no precedent for such action in a similar situation. It has been the unwritten law that postoffice squabbles should be settled in the district where the office is located.

if committeemen in such district can agree. If they cannot agree as to indorsement it has been customary to take the fight to either the full county committee or the executive committee. In the present case the committeemen from Port Jefferson have agreed on George D. Lee, so this leads the "wise ones" to believe that he will finally be appointed. And, too, up to date the powers that be in Washington have never yet turned down the organization; hence this fact gives additional strength to the faith in the committeemen's indorsemeni of Lee.

It seems to be true, too, tuat opponents (who live outside of Port Jefferson) to John E. Overton and Charles V. Platt, are stirring up the situation for political reasons of their own, thus endeavoring to discredit the leadership of these men by trying to get the county committee to "make a precedent" by taking hold of the matter. Yet this "pres sure" may not be sufficient to get the scrap before the committee, for an eastend member of the executive committee. who a short time ago was involved in almost a similar scrap, declared this week that the committee had no right to take any part in the scrap and that he should not be a party to assembling the executive committee for any such purpose.

4T is Port Jefferson's affair; let the commit teemen there settle it," he said. SEE SUNDAY'S EAGLE For INTERESTING RECORDS of JONES, WILLIS and COE FAMILIES. WILL INSTALL TONIGHT. Freeport, L. January 13-An installation of newly elected officers of D.

B. P. Mott Post No. 527, G. A.

will be held at the lodgerooms tonight. The women's auxiliary of the post will be guests of the men. J. B. Lord, who is in charge of the Memorial Rooms, in City Hall, will install the officers.

Veterans of the Civil and Spanish- American wars are invited. Past Department Commander E. G. Atkinson and General Loud, the present department commander are expected to be present. JOHN ADIKES INDORSED United Civics of Queens Will Urge His Appointment as P.

S. Commissioner. The executive committee of the United Civics Association of Queens met at Flushing last night and unanimously Indorsed John Adikes of Jamaica for Public Service Commissioner in place of William McCarroll, whose term has expired. committee was named to wait upon Governor Dix and urge the appointment. The committee will represent to the Governor that Queens Borough, with its 350,000 population and nearly $400,000,000 assessed valuation, has no representative upon the Board.

It will also be urged committee that the rapid transit interests of Queens are of vital importance to the whole City ol New York, as the logical development of the municipality is in that direction because of the proximity of the greater part of it to the business center of the town. No part of its area of 79,000 acres is more than sixteen miles from City Hall, Manhattan, and the bulk of it in ten miles. It is said that there are thousands of acres within six miles of the City Hall that are comparatively untouched as yet, and are unknown to the average New Yorker as the heart of the Adirondacks, and that with proper rapid transit facilities the area would be filled with thousands of one and twofamily dwellings. John Adikes is one of the most publicspirited citizens of Queens, and a large property owner. He represents the merchant class and attends nearly every hearing of local boards and boards of estimate when Queens transit interests are involved, and is probably better posted, it is said.

on all such matters than any other person in the borough. He has been enthusiastic for Queens' interest for the past forty years. The United Civics represents every important civic association of the Borough of Queens. This is said to be one of the few times that the executive committee hag acted as a unit in indorsing a man for any position. On practically instance heretofore two or more candidates have been put forth.

LONG ISLAND OBITUARY. Mrs. Nancy Kerr. Mrs. Nancy Evans, William J.

Kerr of the died yesterday at her street, Flushing. She health for some time. ices will be held on Interment will be in wife of Patrolman Flushing precinct, home, 162 State had been 111 The funeral servSunday afternoon. Flusbing Cemetery. Mrs.

Isabel L. Aproy. Huntington, L. January 13-The death of Mrs. Isabel Lewis Aproy, widow of Francis Aproy, a former oysterman of Huntington, occurred at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon.

The deceased has been ill for some time and her end came yesterday as a result of a complication of diseases. Funeral services will be conducted at her former home, on Carver place, on Sunday afternoon, at 2 p.m., by the Rev. William H. Barton of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Interment will take place at the Old Cemetery in Huntington Village.

Mrs. Aproy is survived by a brother, Walter L. Lewis, of West Seneca, N. and a sister, Mrs. A.

D. Funnell, who resides in Huntington. Anna Mary Peil. Sayville, L. January 12-Anna Mary Peil, aged 18 rears, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Peter Peil, died last night at the Babylon Ho Hospital. She was taken from her home here on Tuesday and immediately upon her arrival at the hospital an operation for appendicitis was performed. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock on Sunday afternoon in the German Lutheran Church, the Rev. Hermann Zoller officiating.

Deceased has for a number of years been a member of this church. Interment will be in St. Ann's Cemetery on Sunday after- noon. Edna Duckes. Setauket, L.

Janurry 13-The funeral of Miss Edna Dyckes, the 18-year-old daughter of Shepard E. Dyckes, a resident of Setauket, will be conducted on Sunday afternoon at 1:30 at the Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Elms. The deceased had been ill for some time and passed away on Thursday night. REV.

ARMSTRONG INSTALLED. Is Now Pastor of Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Lynn P. Armstrong, under authority and appointment of the Presbytery of Brooklyn, was duly installed last evening as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Richmond Hill.

Pastors of various Presbyterian churches of Brooklyn took part in the service, which was an impressive one. Announcement of the action of the Presbytery and the propounding of the constitutional question, together with the charge to the pastor, were made by the Rev. Dr. Joseph Dunn Burrell, moderator of the Presbytery of Brooklyn. Following was the programme: Openling sentence, choir, Lord Is in His Holy Temple; Let the Earth Keep Silence Before Him;" prayer of invocation by the Rev.

Thomas W. Campbell, D.D.; anthem, "Sing Allueluia Forth;" Scripture, the Rev. John Deans, Ph.D.; the sermon, the Rev. Cleland B. McAfee, D.D.; announcement, by the Rev.

Dr. Burrell; the installation prayer, the Rev. Join H. Kerr, D.D.; tenor solo, Charles Cranderburg; charge to the pastor, Dr. Burrell; anthem, For a Closer Walk With God:" charge to the people, the Rev.

Robert W. McLoughlin, D.D., Doxology; anthem, "Festival Te Deum," and the apostolic benediction by the newly-installed pastor. The musical service was under the direction of Lawrence G. Nilson. The officers of the Richmond Hill Church are: The session, Royal L.

Henderson, treasurer; William M. Reger, clerk: Wilson R. Failing and Richard P. Davies. The trustees are Thomas W.

Campbell, president; John H. Becker, treasurer; Alfred E. Baker, William E. Newman, Edward M. Smith and Clarence F.

Chatfield. TOWNSEND KETCHAM ILL. Centre Moriches, L. January 13- Townsend V. Ketcham, for more than a half century proprietor of the old wayside inn, Ketcham's Hotel, is lying belpless from a paralytic shock.

He is more Chan So years of age ie man known end resrotted. BUSY LETTER WRITERS ARE INWOOD COMMUTERS Constant Fire Directed Against P. S. Commission Over Railroad Service. MR.

COHEN SENDS A NOTE. Experiences at Station These Cold Mornings Are Far From Amusing to Travelers. (Special to The Eagle.) Inwood, L. January 13-Determined to force the Long Island Railroad Company granting their demands for adequate service and accommodations, the commuters of Inwood are daily growing more strenuous in their efforts to gain a hearing for their grievance committee before the Public Service Commission. The commuters seem to be very much ch in earnest, and if this spirit of determination will produce any results, interesting developments are sure to follow within a very short time.

Between eighty and one hundred remidents of Inwood are making daily use 'of the new station, recently erected by order of the Public Service Commission, and it is an interesting sight to watch them as they assemble, awaiting the alrival of the morning train for the city. The Arst arrivals naturally geek the poor shelter furnished by the new station. It is scarcely more than a shed, but the unfortunates who arrive later are forced to remain out in the cold, as the station does not afford space for more than halt the number who use this train. Trotting up and down the slippery platform with their half-frozen hands tightly clasped over their ears and occasionally coming to a halt for the purpose of indulging in a mad flapping of their arms, often accompanied by a line of conversation sufficiently warm to melt the North Pole, the shivering commuters certainly present a woebegone appearance that should soften the heart of a stone. Often an indignant commuter, exasperated beyond all control, will begin an extemporaneous oration against the railroad company and he is soon surrounded by a group of sympathetic listeners who vanish like magic on the arrival of the train, in order join in the wild scramble to be first aboard and have the pick of the warmest seats.

The commuters have recently adopted a new scheme to bring thelr complaints before the Public Service Commission. The plan consists in constantly reminding that body of their troubles by sending frequent letters reciting their grievances to various members of the commission. Already several messages of this nature have been dispatched and the commuters assert that this plan will be followed out the commission gives them a hearing. The latest letter, written by Clarence M. Cohen, a resident of Crestwood section of Far Rockaway, follows the lines laid down by previous letter writers, calling attention to the lack of protection from the weather, the inadequate number of trains and the poor lighting arrangements.

Mr. Cohen says he will be glad to appear at a hearing in New York to enter his $3,000,000 DEFICIT Foreign Missions Committee Says Astonishing Condition Is Matter of Bookkeeping. (Special to The Eagle.) Garden City, L. January 13-At the final session of the Foreign Missions Conference, which was held yesterday, it was reported to conference that there was a deficit of nearly $3,000.000 from the combranches throughout the world. A committee of investigation composed of some very astute business men was looking after the matter, and up to the present time the expenses of this committee have been $12,000.

It was stated by this committee that the money had undoubtedly reached places it was intended for, but that the deficit was a matter of loose bookkeeping. The work of this committee will continue. At the election the officers the Rev. R. P.

Maclay elected president, the Rev. James I. Good, first vice president; James Wood, second vice president, and W. Henry Grant, secretary and treasurer. EAGLES' BIG GROWTH.

Rockaway Aerie Has Added Seventyfive Members This Year. The formal installation of the officers of Rockaway Aerie, No. 1544, F. O. was held at Arion Hall last The following officers were installed for the ensuing year: President, W.

L. Metzner; Vice President, John A. Taylor; Chaplain, George E. Alderman; Secretary, William T. Ocean; Treasurer, William Sericks; Inside Guard, Frank Fingerlin; Outside Guard, Larry Cullins; three Trustees, P.

Buckline, James Corden and George Mahan; Aerie Physician, Dr. J. K. Schenck. The installation was followed by the serving of light refreshments.

This Aerie has had a remarkably successful year, seventy-five new members having been enrolled during the past twelve months. The total membership is now close to four hundred, and the new officers state that they expect to bring the figure to five hundred or more before the close of the present year. There is no organization of a Eagles in Far to away, be and started an there active in the campaign hope is soon taining many new members for the organization. PROTEST TROLLEY CONDITIONS Floral Park Residents Will Appeal to P. S.

Commission. Floral Park. L. January 12-A mass meeting in Pioral Park last night protested against the policy of the Long Island Traction Company. Among the grievances presented at this meeting were unclean cars, uncertain schedule, discourteous employees, lack of waiting rooms and failure to carry passengers to their destinations.

On motion of A. Clifton Mahon -a petition was drawn up and signed by more than one hundred residents requesting the Village Board to communicate with the Public Service Commission and arrange for a public meeting to be held in Floral Park, or wherever the Commission might decide, at as early date as possible for the purpose of presenting grievances to the Commission and seeking proper redress. WILL HOLD SMOKER. Lawrence, L. January 13--The Volunteer Firemen of Lawrence and Cedarhurst are looking forward to a big time on Monday evening, January 15, when the Arst annual smoker and entertainment of the Lawrence-Cedarhurst st Fire Department will be held in the Fire Department Building in Lawrence.

The committee in charge includes Thomas A. McWhinney, E. J. Loughman, Charles A. Lockhart, Edward H.

Horn, G. McNicholl, Edward F. McGinn, Edward S. Wood, Thomas Brown, Edward Dunca and Fdvard R. Jeal..