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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1917. But such measures, which have been unknown in this country since the time of the SpanishWar, are described in Government quarters as simply of a precautionary character. If so, it means that precaution, has peace been than ever carried before further in this in country. Council for National Defense, which was in session here week.

has Anished its work for the present. Just what has been done in the way of organizing the industrial resources of the country to meet. war conditions is not disclosed; but enough is known to warrant the statement, that the Government has accumulated a vast amount of valuable information, which has been properly classifled and made available to the executive departments which may be concerned in using it in case of war. Few of Leaders Know What President There is that the entire Intendant Do. situation today with regard to GerC many certain is in state.

an- The unsatisfactory President's and inten- untions are scrupulously concealed that many statesmen who a are anxious to support him are at a loss to know how. Few if any are in his confidence on the German question. This policy has been a common difficulty of the Administration in times past, and it is a growing one at the present time. The pacifists in Congress are giving an inning largely because the supporters of the President are not in a position to answer them with any show of authority. Two weeks ago Mr.

Wilson had the entire situation firmly in his grip. There is a feeling today that his hold upon it has somewhat weakened, although he is still the controlling influence. It is a common daily remark in Washington that things cannot last much longer in their present state. Yet today there is even more prospect of a prolonged wait than there was two weeks ago. This feeling, of course, is based on the fact tha't the President will not reveal his plans, or give even a hint of them in advance.

He may snap the tension at any time, without warning as he has done more than once in the past. That he will follow his usual course of mapping out his action in seclusion and then putting it into effect with no advance notice is expected. BRAINERD. NO HEAVY FIGHTING IN EASTERN ZONE Berlin, February 19 (by wireless to Sayville, L. -An absence of important developments along the entire front in the eastern war theater and in Macedonia is reported in today's army headquarters statement.

The text reads: "Eastern front--Nothing important has occurred. "Macedonian front--There have. been skirmishes between outposts and isolated artillery firing. Two hostile airplanes were shot down." Petrograd, February 19. (via London, British Admiralty per Wireless Press) -Except for scouting operations, there has been little activity along the fronts in Russia, Galicia.

Rumania and the Caucasus, according to today's War Office statement. The text reads: "Western front--During Saturday night the enemy discharged four gas waves on our positions in the vicinity of Dubatovka, south of Lake Wishenew. "Rumanian and Caucasus frontsScouting- reconnaissances and infanare proceeding." FRENCH STREAMS Soldiers Have 'Fished" Them Dry With Aid of Hand Grenades. Eagle Bureau. 53 Rue Cambon.

Paris, February 5-When the war is over the rivers near the front will need to be restocked with fish. The soldiers are assiduous fishermen, and they are not content with using nets or. hook and line. They have discovered that an ideal way to get fish is to use hand grenades. These are small bombs that explode a certain number of seconds after' they have been thrown, and when tossed into the water they go off, stunning all the fish in the near vicinity.

Having been stunned, the fish float to the surface, where the soldiers scoop them in, and thus add a welcome variation to their army rations. The River Meuse is said to be wholly cleaned out of fish for the entire distance from St. Mihiel to Verdun, and perhaps far below that, where the up the French short cut to fisherman's luck. PUSHES NEWSPAPER CHARGE Moore, in Heated Speech, Insists in Investigation. Washington, February 19-In another futile effort today to obtain consideration of his resolution to investigate charges that twenty-five American newspapers had been subsidized by English money to drag this country into war with Germany, Representtive Moore gave the House a busy and noisy half-hour.

He thundered that his resolution should be adopted, defield one Washingto newspaper to show why the tone fits editorials regarding the war had changed, charged Representative Lenroot of Wisconsin with uttering, a "deliberate hood," him, and then defeat being apparent, shouted that he would continue his fight "tomorrow." and "the next day." Pacifists applauded Mr. Moore's marks loudly. FIRE BURNS AUTOMOBILE. A seven touring car belonging to William Hewlett of 96 Merritt street, Corona, caught fire from a back draught as it was standing at the corner of Jackson avenue and Twelfth street, Woodside, at 4:20 o'clock yesterday morning. Hewlett, was alone in the car at the time.

It is estimated that the damage amounts to $500. London Gets Rumor Berlin Will Yield to Wilson Eagle Bureau, 16 Regent Stret, S. W. (By Cable from Suydam.) London, He February Money, 19-Further developments in the situation affecting the United States and Russia are the chief topics of interest here today. The news that President Wilson is likely soon to go before Congress and ask for, authority to protect the lives of American citizens by the employment of whatever means he may find sary has aroused widespread expectation.

All the English newspapermen in the United States take a serious view of the situation, but the well informed correspondent of the Daily Telegraph Arrest Paris Coal Man; Charged $80 Per Ton Paris, February 19-The equivalent of $80 per ton for coal is perhaps, the maximum reached during the present crisis in Paris. The coal delivery man, who extorted this price from a client in great need instead of delivering it to the customere who ordered it at the equivalent of $56 a ton. has been arrested. Several other cartmen are under arrest for exploiting the high cost of living on their own account in different ways. The case is reported of one coal dealer who made the equivalent of $2,500 on 100 tons of coal; he and another dealer who sold his product at a net profit of $14 per ton are being prosecuted under the special law of April, 1916, against extortion.

POLICEMAN SAVES INVALID The heroism of Policeman Bracken of the Gates avenue station in saving Hyman Cohen, an invalid, 77 years old, from a fire in a six-story dwelling at 4 Tompkins avenue last night, was applauded by a crowd of spectators. The blaze was in a rear room of the grocery of David Lieberman on the ground floor. Cohen had a second floor hall room and has been ill for several weeks with the grip. Bracken put a dampened handkerchief to his nose and mouth and made his way to the man's domicile, where he found him insensible. Cohen was carried out, and when Bracken appeared with his burden the spectators cheered him.

Cohen was in such a serious condition that he had to be attended by Ambulance Surgeon Cohen of St. John's Hospital. The fire did $300 damage. JERSEY JAIL FOR OFFENDERS. Brooklynites Won't Go to Blackwell's Island Because of Costly Board.

As a result of the high cost of living in city jails, Federal prisoners been transferred to prisons in other sections of the coun- try. Board is cheaper there. Marshal J. M. Power has been notifled to transfer five Federal prisoners now serving, small sentences on Blackwell's Island to the Mercer County Jail at Trenton, N.

J. Hereafter when Brooklyn Federal offenders are sentenced to terms of less than a year they will be sent to this prison. Sentences of a year and over will continue to be served in the Atlanta Penitentiary. United States Judges Chatfield and Veeder and Federal District Attorney France have been notified the Washington ruling to guide them in subsequent cases. CAPTAIN CRAMER OUT.

Police Officer Will Get $1,560 Annual Pension. Police Captain Francis A. Creamer of the Lee avenue station has retired on half pay. He receives a pension of $1,560 a year for the remainder of his life. Captain Creamer is just 59 years old, but is in good health.

His home is at 461 Fifth street. He became a policeman on February 18, 1885, having been appointed in Manhattan. During his service in Brooklyn he made years, large number of friends, many particularly among the men who had served under him. He was formerly in the United States Army, and later worked as a railroad man. During his services as a captain in Brooklyn he worked in the Classon avenue, Bedford avenue, Canarsie, Flatbush and Lee avenue precincts.

DRUGGIST FINED $250. Is Convicted of Adulterating and Substituting Drugs. August J. Baum, a druggist with a pharmacy at 217 Fifth avenue, was fined $250 in the Court of Special Sessions today, for adulterating and substituting other drugs for those which were ordered. The complainants were Inspectors Frank Bergold and Frank Rapecis of the New York State Board of macy.

They said that they had asked for potassium and tincture of iodine and that in both cases Baum substituted or adulterated the prescriptions asked for. Pearl White Is Favorite In Eagle's Voting Contest During the last two days The Eagle has been deluged with belated ballots that were cast for motion actors in the contest to determine is the most popular screen star in America. It rained ballots this morning they kept arriving in every mail. these circumstances it was impossible to make any announcement today of the winner, but it is hoped that it will be possible to make known the winners in tomorrow's Eagle, Up to date, Pearl White, Pathe star, is still in the lead, and her gain over Mary Pickford is considerable. However, ballots will be received up to 6 o'clock this afternoon and late returns may change the complexion of things.

Douglas Fairbanks is still fir'st among the men, and at the preseut writing it looks as if the will bo Pearl White, first; Douglas ROCKAWAY OWNERS TO PAY CITY $500 FOR LAND WORTH $2.500 at Washington cables, on the basis of what he says is inside information, that Germany will offer concessions which President Wilson will accept. Their nature, however, is not named. The crux of the American situation, as viewed here, is the arming of merchant ships. New York Times dism patches from Berlin, stating that Germany will regard the arming as a cause for war, is interpreted here as a deliberate threat to the Developments in Russian Presidenties during the immediate future are expected in authoritative quarters. A fortnight may witness important changes for the good of both Russia and her allies, it is stated.

"ZEPP" RAIDS ENDED: TOO COSTLY; WILSON WROTE DISAPPROVING Warned Berlin Attacks on Would Arouse Anti-German Feeling Here. HIS PROTEST NOT HEEDED. Now Raids Are Found Unprofitable. No More to Be Aimed at London. (From a Staff Correspondent of the Associated Press.) Geneva, February 19--The Zeppelin campaign against London has been found to 1 be unprofitable.

The cessation of air attacks on the British metropolis after the latest appearances of the big dirigibles over the city last fall has been due, not to fortuitous circumstances, but to the deliberate determination of the German leaders to abandon these attacks, as has long been done in the case of Paris. The correspondent, who was then in Berlin, was informed from a trustworthy source a few days ago, after the final 1 London raid of the decision to send no more Zeppelins and sister ships of the Schuettelanz type against London. Air raids against England, the correspondent was told, would not abandoned entirely. They were considered to be of great service in at home guns, airplanes and men of the British aerial defense which otherwise would be freed for service in France, but in future the attacks would be directed against the provinces instead of London. The next and final expedition of the year, on November 27, was directed against the midland counties, in accordance with this prophecy, and resulted in the loss of two Zeppelins.

The predominant reason for the decision to discontinue attacks on London probably is the increasing strength and efficiency of the air defenses of the city, but the effect of the raids on neutral opinion, in view of the then contemplated peace overtures, may also have been a factor. Early in War President Wilson Unofficially Protested Against Air Raids on Cities. It may be interesting in this connection to record a bit of unwritten history of the war. In the early days of the conflict, when the air raids were just beginning, President Wilson caused to be conveyed to Emperor William and the German Government a personal and unofficial message which set forth that airships and airplane raids upon populous cities were looked on with disfavor by the American people, and contributed largely to stirring up anti-German feeling in the United States. In view of this the wisdom of their discontinuance was suggested.

The message did not fall entirely on deaf ears, but the views of the military party prevailed and the air attacks, then the only German means of bringing home the realities of war to the people within the British continued. Later they ceased for a Isles, time, which to the displeasure of an element openly accused Chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg of sheating his weapon in deference to neutral opinion. This element was appeased but little by Count Zeppelin's published letter to the Chancellor, -wherein the Count disavowed responsibility for this accusation. The raids were resumed with the object of tying up within the islands and eliminating from the Somme offensive as large a number of anti-airship guns, airplanes, searchlights and men to equip them as possible. Aside from this service, which is of considerable military value, the role of the Zeppelins in land warfare is now regarded in expert circles in Germany as decidedly secondary to their great value as scouting agents for operations of the fleet.

OBITUARY See also Death Notices, last page. day. Mrs. Lillian F. Wright.

Dr. Charles Schroeder. Dr. Charles Schroeder, for twentyfive years a practicing veterinary geon, and a member of Merchants Lodge No. 709, F.

and A. died at his residence, 1132 DeKalb avenue, yesterday, after three months' illness, culminating in pneumonia. Dr. Schroeder was born in New York City, fiftysix years ago, and had lived in Brooklyn for forty-six years. He is survived by his widow, Ida Voss.

The funeral services, tomorrow, be conducted by the Rev. J. L. Clark, pastor of the Church. Bushwick Avenue Congregational Masonic services, also, will be conducted by officers of the Merchants Lodge.

The interment will be in the Lutheran Cemetery, on Wednes- Mrs. Lillian F. Wright, 38 years old, wife of David S. Wright of 295 Dougall street, a member of the several women's societies of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Aberdeen street, near Broadway, died Saturday. Her funeral was held today, with a requiem mass, in the Church, and the interment in Holy Cross Cemetery.

Mrs. Wright was born in Brooklyn, and was the daughter of the late Valentine and Annie Brandt. She is survived by ber husband. two daughters, Adelaide and Anna; a brother, the Rev. Arthur Brandt, pastor of Church of St.

Mary, Marietta, and two sisters, Vesta and Adelaide Brandt. Evans Smith. Evans Smith, a machinist, many years identified the military, sporting and fraternal society life of Brooklyn, died yesterday morning of heart trouble. at the home of his son, Tyler E. Smith, 434 Oceanview avenue, Woodhaven.

He was born in England, August 12, 1848, and came to this country when a boy. He served in the Civil War as a member of 1, 139th New York State Volunteers. Would Then Have Sold It to the War Department at a Big Profit. MILLS BILL WOULD HELP. Legislators Interested in the Matter Leave for Albany to Confer.

That the Rockaway Point landsunder bill would have permitted property owners. adjacent to that which the Federal Government has already selected for gun batteries to make big money by a future sale to the Government was developed today by some of legislators who have been studying the matter. It was learned last week, through a statement made by Senator Mills on the floor of the upper house, that part of the agreement between the Federal Government, the city and the Rockaway Pacific Realty Company was that the city should cede for a certain price and upon certain terms the land under water in Jamaica Bay adjacent to land that adjoined that tract which the Federal Government is now taking. Today certain State Senators received definite information that the War Department was already planning to negotiate for this adjoining land. If the owners of that land could first make arrangements to get the adjacent lands under water, as they would had the Mills bill passed, they would have had that much more to sell to the War Department.

What is more, they would have been able to make a good big proft because of the terms under they were to buy it from the citron According to the Senators, who declare they received their information from the parties to the deal, these terms were: The lands-under-water were to be accredited with a value of $2,400 an acre. From that the land owners were to be allowed a deduction of $1,400 an acre for filling in. Since the upland owners claim a part title to this land-under-water anyway, they were to be allowed $500 an acre for their claim. Therefore, they would have to pay the city only $500 an acre for the property. Since the price of lands under water in this vicinity, when the title is unclouded, has been frequently placed as high and even higher than $2,000 an acre, it is pointed out that in the coming negotiations with the Federal Government for more land the owners would stand to make at least $1,500 an acre.

The legislators interested in the matter left early today and last night for Albany to confer on new legislation. Senator Mills, the introducer of the present bill, went up to see Governor Whitman and Senate Leader Brown. William Tod Wilcox, the real estate expert of the War Department, also went to the Capitol and was followed by Minority Leader Wagner. It is understood that another effort will be made to get an emergency message from the Governor for new legislation. He was captured in a skirmish and was detained several weeks in Libby Prison.

After the war Mr. Smith became a member of the Atlantic Baseball team. He is survived by two Tyler E. and Herbert and a daughter, Beatrice C. Smith; also two sons, grandchildren.

Mrs. Jennie Dudley McMann. Mrs. Jennie Dudley McMann, 59 old, died at her residence, 1169 years Flatbush avenue, yesterday, from apoplexy. Mrs.

McMann was born in Canada on April 29, 1857. She had lived for many years in Flatbush, and was a member of All Souls Universalist Church, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, Flatbush Branch and the Needlework Guild of Tmerica and other organizations. She is survived by her husband, John L. McMann; four sons, J. Russell, Miton Dudley, Donald and Thomas P.

McMann three daughters, Mrs. Pearl Withers, Mrs. R. W. Freestone and Marjorie McMann.

The funeral services will be held tomorrow evening, the Rev. A. Eugene Bartlett, pastor of All Souls Church, and the Rev. Orville E. Fisher, pastor New Utrecht Dutch Reformed Church officiating.

The interment, on Wednesday, will be private. William Henry Cowl. William Henry Cowl, a retired merchant, died on Saturday at his daughter's home in San Francisco, at the' age of 82 years, after a brief illness. Mr. Cowl was born in April, 1834, on Church street, New York City, his father being James Cowl and his mother Mary Ludlam Cowl, both of New York and residents of the old Chelsea Village.

Mr. Cowl was a descendant of the Perrys and Van Tunhovens, old American families, and his greatuncle, Captain Henry Cowl of Paterson, Dutchess County, N. was an officer in the War of the American Revolution. At the time of his retirement in 1898 the late Mr. Cowl was a wholesale hardware merchant, sole proprietor of the old established firm of Peter Duryee Co.

He spent the last seven years of his life in California, where his youngest daughter, Mrs. Lloyd M. Robbins, lives. Besides Mrs. Robbins, Mr.

Cowl leaves M. Baldwin another of daugh- New ter, Mrs. William York. and two sons, the Rev. Maurice L.

Cowl of Philadelphia. and Clarkson Cowl of New York, a member of James A. Hearn Son. Mrs. Abigail Bliss Card.

Mrs. Abigail Bliss Card, 80 years old, wife of Benjamin Franklin Card. died suddenly today at her home, 505 East Twenty-second street, Flatbush. The Card family traces its ancestry to the Colonial days of Rhode Island, where in 1671 the son of the first Card in America was a member of the Colonial Legislature. Mrs, Card celebrated the golden anniversary of her wedding to Benjamin Franklin Cary in February, 1912.

Mrs. Card is survived by her husband and two daughters, Mrs. John Nathaniel Ives of Montclair, N. and Mrs. Robert.

Franklin Ives of Brooklyn. DENIES HE TRIED SUICIDE. John E. Kenney, 51 years old, of 159 Thirtieth street, who shot himself in the head on January 6 was arraigned in the New Jersey avenue police court today. He sad that the shooting was accidental, and the attempted suicidal charge was dismissed.

He was held in $300 bail for carrying a revolver without a permit. SANITOL POWDER OF PASTE Keeps the Teeth White and Healthy 100 Bayer Tablets Aspirin BAYER A One Real A Aspirin Counterfeits and substitutes may be ineffective, and even Aspirin harmful. Refuse them. Protect yourself by demanding Bayer- Tablets of Aspirin tablet and every package of genuine Aspirin bears Every "The Bayer Your Guarantee BAYER Cross of Purity" Pocket Boxes of 12, Bottles of 24 and Bottles of 100 The trade-mark "Aspirin" (Reg. U.S.

Pat. Office) is a guarantee that the monoaceticacidester of salicylicacid in these tablets is of the reliable Bayer manufacture. 'Burlingame Is Working Against Us," Says Pounds Open warfare has broken out between Borough President Pounds and Senator Alvah W. Burlingame as the result of the latter's activity in blocking the lands bill and in fighting for a legislative probe of the west side contracts. This developed today when the Borough President was asked if Mr.

Burlingame was being supported. in his recent stands by his district leader, Lewis M. Swasey, who holds a job as Superintendent of Public Buildings and Offices in the Borough President's cabinet. "Sentaor Burlingame," said Mr. Pounds, "seems to be working alone in his effort to discredit the fusion administration.

I do not believe that his leader, Lewis M. Swasey, approves of his recent actions. In fact, I know that he does not." This was regarded by many politicians as the first move in a complete repudiation of Burlingame by the prominent Flatbush-Bedford Republican leaders, who in times past had been his most ardent supporters. The Borough President, it is known, has felt much chagrined that Mr. Burlingame, who represents the de President's Senate district, should appear as the leading figure in the recent legislative drives at the Fusion administration, of which Mr.

Pounds is a part. The Borough President worked FERGUSON RECORD SHOWS TAMPERING, SAYS COL. BEECHER Continued From Page 1. he had become confused for that rea- son. Cornered, Ferguson Makes an Admission.

The other occasion in which the defendant changed his mind about his testimony came when he was being questioned about a charge of $22,500 against Dr. Hillis as his commission on a transaction involving the sale of timber licenses in what was known as the Nootka tract. The charge was made on the basis of the property having been sold for $225,000, but Ferguson admitted that the transaction had never gone through and that the clergyman had received no money for it. "Isn't it a fact that Mr. R.

W. Cox at that time owned 75 per cent. of the tract?" inquired Colonel Beecher in the course of his questioning about the transaction. "No." said Ferguson. "I will read a letter- began Colonel Beecher.

But he was interrupted by the defendant. "Oh, I'll admit that if you wish," said Ferguson. "You wish to change your testimony because of some matters you had overlooked said Judge Dickey. Mr. Ferguson proceeded to explain.

His answers to questions, however, contained much that was irrelevant and the Court persistently admonished him. "Don't you talk now except in anto questions. Sometimes it's swer hard to get you to answer In the course of the hearing Colonel Beecher spent much time in examining the defendant as to whether or not credit had been given to Dr. Hillis for a number of notes and checks which it was shown were not credited in schedule of the Ferguson counting, although the defendant said this schedule showed all the credits to which Dr. Hillis was entitled.

The notes ranged in amount from $500 to $4,300. Virtually all of them were drawn to Ferguson's order and were indorsed by him as attorney and personally. Of one of them, for $1,500, made October 10, 1912, Colonel Beecher said that the amount had been deposited to Ferguson's personal account and he read from the transcript of the defendant's personal bank account, When one check for $1,000, signed by Newell Dwight Hillis, and bearing the of June 11, 1914, was offered in evidence, the defendants was asked by Colonel Beecher had been deposited to his personal account. "If the bank account shows it, I'll admit it," he said. "No, no," objected Judge Dickey, 'was it deposited to your personal "I can't tell," said Ferguson.

"Probably I have something that will show that it was." There was the also lines further developed testimony today along last hearing, and having to do with Ferguson's charges for commissions against Dr. Hillis on transactions that were never completed. After this had "WHIPPER-SNAPPER OF GUTTER," SAYS MITCHEL OF CRITIC for Burlingame's election in the last campaign and they had been looked upon very friendly until a few weeks ago, when the Senator introduced the resolution calling for a probe of the proposed New York tral contracts with the city on the West Side terminal matters. Burlingame's attacks then on the Mitchel administration strained relations seriously and his recent assaults upon the lands-under-water bill have served to sever diplomatic relations entirely. The situation has been much complicated by the fact that Mr.

Swasey, who is the leader of Burlingame's Assembly district, holds a job under Pounds, and the fact that Burlingame's Senate a district, holds the F. J. H. Kracke, another leader in job of Commisisoner of Plant and Structures under Mayor Mitchel. Many in the Mitchel administration have hinted that these inter-connections should have been sufficient to have made Mr.

Burlingame see both matters in a different light. It has been suggested that, even if he was not satisfied with the way things were going, he "at least might have made known his feelings in a more friendly way." Kracke and Swasey have been noticeably silent on Burlingame's activity and the announcement of Mr. Pounds today is the first open comment that has been made. Burlingame refused to reply to that further than to say. "Of course, I am independent." been completed and after Colonel Beecher had put into evidence Ferguson's account with the Bank of Long Island as Dr.

Hillis' attorney in fact, counsel for the minister announced abruptly that it would rest its examination of the defendant for the present. The next hearing will be held March 7, and the defendant attorney, R. W. Kellogg, said he would take every thus far adduced and give Mr. Ferguson's version of it.

LAW AMENDMENT ON LABOR OPPOSED "We won't be compelled to work. No law can make us go to work if we don't want to." That is the attitude of organized labor toward the legislation which President Wilson wishes Congress to pass as a supplement to the Adamson Eight Hour Law. The legislation includes a clause insisting that 110 strikes or lockouts shall be declared until the employer and his employees have arbitrated their differences. Organized labor's opposition it was expressed officially last night, in special meeting of the Brooklyn Central Labor Union, by James O'Connell, second vice president of the American Federation of Labor. "Compulsion in any form cannot be successful in the United States," he declared.

"Organized labor stands unalterably opposed to any attempt to take away its rights. It it can't strike -if it can't take advantage of an opportunity when it presents itself, it can't live. Compulsion sounds its' death knell. "It is said that arbitration must be enforced because our strike may affect 'the Who are the people? If we're not the people, who are? There are only two parties to the question--the employer and the employee." CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS IN TODAY'S EAGLE Classification, Page. Amusements Assignee Auction Sales Automobiles Boarding 14 Boxing 12 Business Oppor'ties.

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One package proves it. 25c at all druggists, Continued From Page 1, ing for a fort on the Rockaway peninsula. This matter has a close bearing on the purchase of Rockaway Park (Jacob A. Riis Park) by the city. The park and fort site are separated by a narrow strip across the peninsula.

This strip was ceded by the Neponsit Realty Company to the United States in order to settle a claim of the Federal Government to all the Neponsit Realty Company's holdings. Mr. Greve is vice president of the Neponsit Realty Company, which is a subsidiary of the Realty Associates, a Brooklyn corporation, which has financially assisted Reynolds in his land deals. Greve is a friend and associate of Reynolds. They have occupied the same office.

Greve is a stockholder in the Long Beach Estates, of which Reynolds is president. "Greve has been active in promoting the sale of the fort site, which he leases, to the United States Government. If the exchange between the United States Government and the has indicated, it appears a that it will city is carried out as Mayor Mitchel materially benefit Greve and his associates. This benefit will accrue by reason of the fact that Greve owns Plum Island, apart from the United States Reservation." Summarizing the situation he has painted and adding a plea for an investigation, Bullock stated: "It is the first of the big land deals with the city in which William H. Reynolds has been hi directly or indirectly interested which has been completed and the money paid and which offers itself as a concrete case for investigation by the officials of the county or State.

"He's a d---- liar, that's all," was the terse comment and all that William M. Greve would say today when asked to discuss the Blulock charges. Senator Reynolds, it was said, is in the Far West now. "Interest Raised Price of Rockaway Land," Says Prendergast. Controller Prendergast, who was named by Bullock as being a fellow committeeman of the Mayor and acquiescing and furthering the transactions complained of, said: "The purchase of the Rockaway park was urged upon the city for a years by philanthropic interests.

They offered to erect a hospital for the treatment of tubercular a bone trouble in children it the city would provide the park at that location. This has been done and the hospital has been in operation for some time. I think the property was offered to the city for $800.000 during Mayor McClellan's Administration, but nothing was done about it. As is usual in such cases, the values advanced, and when in 1911 the city decided to make the purchase, the best price apparently obtainable was $1,225,000. "An option at this figure Was secured.

The property was not bought at private sale, but sent to condemnation, the idea being that the option would protect the city from paying more than the option price no matter what the condemnation figures were. I have been told Mr. Bullock claims that the amount actually paid by the city was more than the option price. If so, the difference must be accounted for by interest charges or the cost of the proceedings, which, of course, was not included in the option price. The price paid for the property was fixed in the condemnation proceedings.

An appeal was taken by the city. Justice Benedict in the Supreme Court reviewed the matter most thoroughly and decided that the amount allowed by the commissioners of condemnation was proper." Nelson B. Killmer, secretary of the Jamaica Bay Improvement Association, today denied Mayor Mitchel's contention that the defeat of the Mills bill at Albany had "killed" the Jamaica Bay improvement. He deplored the Mayor's statement for the effect it might have on proposed improvements, and added that the death of neither the Mills nor any other proposed bill could interfere with the harbor improvement work in Jamaica. Bay, because National and State legislation has already been enacted to provide for it.

Mr. Killmer pointed out that the Mills bill was killed be cause it was too broad, although 11 was intended merely to enable the city officials to deal with Jamaica Bay land under water instead of leaving it all to the legislators at Albany and make it easier to carry out Dock Commissioner Smith's idea that private owners of uplands could more rapidly develop the bay waterfront if they could trade with the city for land under water. "There has been several years of unnecessary delay in the development," said Mr. Killmer, "because the officials have listened to so-called legal opinions from the Corporation Counsel's office, given by one who has been opposed to this development from its inception, in 1906, and who has used every means in his power to defeat and delay this Fairbanks, second. The winners will be awarded handsome silver cups.

It is hoped that Mr. Fairbanks will be present on the night of the carnival and ball at Stauch's, Coney Island, which will be held Wednesday night under the auspices of the Brooklyn Local, Motion Picture Exhibitors League of America. Mr. Fairbanks has stated definitely that if he is in the city on Wednesday he will certainly attend the ball. Lillian Walker, "Fatty" Arbuckle and many other prominent stars will be on hand.

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