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FEB 12 1912 THE WEATHER. Snow late Sunday and ti Monday; rising tem-perture. THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE TI.e Fa1- 1 Only I'niter In tint print the AHuf Intrd Pren an ih complex Stuck Jliirkrt eorla. SECTIONS. Yolnme T2A No.

41 NEW YORK CITY. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1912. 02 RACES. THREE CENTS. MOTHER GOOSE TO DATE.

DIES AT CAFE TABLE. JUST IN BAD, JUSTIN. THE WEATHER TOMOP.ROW Big East Side Blaze Forces Lodgers Into Streets in Bitter Cold. i SNOW; RISING TEMPERATURE. StraiJs Anniversary Week.

Sales Celebrating a Great Event in Our History. TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO the principal business center of Brooklyn was located on two or three blocks of Fulton street below Myrtle avenue. A small store, almost buried amid the leading stores of Brooklyn in those days, started out on the principle of accommodating itself to the wishes of the public. The watchword of that concern was "Do right whatever the cost." It applied to service, to goods, to promises, to prices, to every principle and practice of the concern. Its competitors owned the space around it when its rapid growth.

found it cramped. It broke from the shell and appeared again on the present site of this store, the largest by far in Brooklyn. Just a word from one of the newspapers of that day: "In age of hurry and bustle a daily, newspaper, acting as it eioes in the rapacity as news gatherer for the public, must necessarily chroniele the crowding events as rapidly as they occur, without devoting nilich time to elabomtion; for he who would stop Io moralize in the midst of whirling occurrences must soon be left behind in the never ending race; but when an event occurs which is an especial credit to the city in which we live, when an ornament, is added to it of particular beauty and prominence, it is well to pause for a moment to contemplate the work whicm forms an attractive part of the grand aggregate necessary to the existence of a great metropolis. In harmony with this idea we prpsent to our readers the picture of an edifice of which any city might be justly proud; one which is a monument to the commercial enterprise of our city, the public spirit of our merchants and a structure which will be a lasting monument to Brooklyn, masterpiece of architectural art which speaks volumes for progress for a concern which could never attain such prominence were it not based firmly on the bed rock of mercantile honor and consequent popularity." All this week we will celebrate this event, fraught with such momentous history for this store celebrate in a characteristic way with extraordinary sales in all parts of this store of stores. We begin the sales Monday.

That every branch of the business may share in the celebration we restrict, all to limited space. Every item concerns new and most wanted foods, and all are at the lowest prices possible. I -JJ Lincoln's Birthday. ABRAHAM LINCOLN was born in Hardin County, Kentucky, more than a hundred years ago, on February 12, 1809. A FRIEND has loaned to us, for exhibition, two copies of the New York Herald, published, respectively, on April 10th and April 18th, 1865.

Here is recounted the full story of the tragedy and the true measure of the sorrow of the Nation. These papers will be framed and placed on view in the Main Picture Gallery, Third floor, rear. Central Building. Lincoln's Birthday Here Will Be a Great Dav for Men. HUNDREDS OF MEN take advantage of this Holiday, year after year, to visit Brooklyn's Greatest Store with their wives.

There will be special offerings in all the Men's Wear departments, and, in addition, a splendid showing of Furniture for men, suitable for library or den, which, during the Great February Furniture Sale, may be purchased at savings of from 20 to 50r; DINE IN BROOKLYN'S MOST BEAUTIFUL RESTAURANT on the Fifth floor. The Daily Special Menu is posted in different parts of the Store each day. McCarthy's Hard Time Getting Trousers for Washington Reception. Eagle Bureau, C08 Fourteenth Street. Washington, February 10 Justin Mc- Carthy, of Brooklyn, came to town last night to attend a reception.

He Joined Mtb. McCarthy at the New Wlllard Hotel, where she had been visiting Mrs. William M. Calder, the wife of the onlj Republican Congressman from Greatei New York, aud prepared to dress for the reception. Opening his suit case, Mr.

Mcarthy drew forth immaculate linen, a spotless waistcoat and dress coat, with all the fittings. But that was all. One Important Item of his wardrobe was missing the. trousers. He appealed to ongressman Calder, to the hotel valet, and to friends In the hotel, In vain.

All the shops were closed and it was impossible to secure a pair of new trousers. Even a coBtumer's was called upon, but could not furnish Mr. McCarthy with the proper size. Determined to go to the reception, Mr. McCarthy sent his wife ahead with Mr.

and Mrs. Calder, while he proceeded to a round of the news bureaus to see if he could not Add someone who would complete his attire. He found friends in the New York Sun office. John Monk, the Washington correspondent of that paper, telephoned home- to Mrs. Monk.

She was asleep, but woke up, answered the telephone, and promised to do as directed. Mr. McCarthy then drove around to Monk's house, Mrs. Monk tossed the trousers out of a window, McCarthy donned then and appeared, radiant and correct, at the reception. Tf TUNE Ramos Secures Divorce in Reno From Wife Who Lives in Flatbush.

WAS BRITISH ARMY SURGEON, He Tells Story of His Career on Stand and Claims He Was Deserted. (Special to The Eagle.) Reno, February 10 "As soon as my wife inherited a very large fortune she no longer cared anything about me, and I was counted out completely." So declared Frank B. Ramos, a big Englishman of the typical swell clubman style, when testifying today in his trial for a divorce action against Ada M. Rqinos, who resides with her sisters, at 60 Rutland road, Brooklyn. Papers were served on her there but she made no answer.

Ramos was granted a decree on the allegations of desertion. His recital of his career extending from the British1 West Indies to England, New York, Boston and Brooklyn proved Interesting. He said he was a post-graduate of 'Harvard and of the University of Edinburgh. He testified that he was married May 21, 1882, in Spanish Town on the Island of Jamaica. Two children were born to them, he said.

He served in the British Colonial medical service and also in English hospitals. Through his uncle's influence he was appointed a deputy surgeon general In the army. Later he came to America with his wife. Their marital life was happy, he declared, until Mrs. Ramos inherited a big fortune.

Then she was urged by her Bisters, he asserted, to make an extended European trip. He claimed also that his wife's sisters Influenced her to repudiate him. Three different separations were followed by reunions. Then they went to England, where they lived for several I years. Returning to York he re sumed his practice.

In 1908 Mrs. Ramos told him to get out. he claimed, aud never come back again. He bas not seen her since. Ramos declared there was no other woman in the case, but admitted that during ills presence here since last May he had showed attentions to a young woman from the East, who also was a member of the divorce colony.

At 60 Rutland road It was said last night by a maid who answered the bell that Mrs. Ramos lived there with her sister. No one was at home, and, she said. Mrs. Ramos was out of town on a visit to friends.

LONGWORTH IS OPTIMISTIC. Counsels Good Cheer to Republican State Clubs. Washington, February 10 The eighth annual dinner of the I. 'ague of Republican State Clubs wot ue occasion tonight for an outburst of Republican political principles. Representative Longwnrth counselled "encouragement and good cheer" to Republicans, declaring he was not disposed "to throw up the sponge before the fight begins." and arguing that the Democrats anyway could be counted "to do the wrong thing at the right lime." DURYEA AWARDED $5,676.

Starch Man Recovers Damages for Use of Patented Process. Toronto, February 10 Justice Middleton in the Chancery Division of the High Court today decided in favor of Chester B. Duryea of New York City, who had sued William P. Kaufmann and the Edwards Starch Company of Montreal. Duryea sued for damages and to prevent the company using a glucose process which he invented.

He had worked for the company under contract for two years. When he resigned, the company continued the use of the process. Duryea was awarded $5,676 damages. ALASKA-CANADIAN SURVEY. Seattle.

February 10 The Alaska-Canadian boundary survey will ue completed this year, according to pri-eut plans of those In charge. A party soon will leave Seattle cover the last stretch to the Arctic ocean. An- I other, party will romplete the work south i vr Mtoiai raBB. in tne vt nue Klver dis trict. G.

A. R. MILITARY BALL. Last night the seventh annual military ball of Louis M. Hamilton Post, No.

152, in conjunction with L. M. Hamilton's Women's Relief Corps. No. and John Eiseman.

No. 70, S. O. Division of New York, a Tronimer's Hall, Mush-wtrk avenue and Conway street. Music was furnished by David McGullot-ii.

A special attraction was the New York Highlanders Ui'g aud Drum lUud. Brooklynite Expires in Chair in Manhattan Restaurant. P. G. Robblns, a Customs House employe, said to live at 103 F.lll.-.tt place, Rrooklyn, died suddenly ia Farrish's Chop House at 61 John street, Manhattan, yesterday afternoon.

Mr, Robbins came Into the restaurant about 2:30 and sat down tit a table. He ordered a meal, and as it was placed before him, gave a gasp and sank down in his chair. Waiters and diners ran to the man's side and found he was unconscious. Patrolman Green of the Old Slip station and a doctor were called, but It was evident that Robblm? had died before there arrival. Death was prab-ably due to apaplexy.

Mr. Robbins name was ascertained from diners who had seen him about the restaurant. The coroner'- office was notified and the body sent to the Old Slip station. HAWLEY ESTATE SHRINKS. Now Estimated at 53,000,000 or $4,000,000.

That the estate of the late Edwin Haw-ley, the railroad magnate, will be much smaller than was at first supposed, was the statement made yesterday by a close friend of Mr. Hawley. According to tins man, the first figures, which placed the value of the estate at $15,000,000 at the very least, were much exaggerated, and the real value of the property will most likely be between $3,000,000 and S4.0iiO.0OO. Interest in Ihe disposition of the estate was greatly accentuated yesterday by the report from Babylon. L.

that Miss Margaret Cameron, Hawley's protege, had found a will left by the railroad man in which a great part of his properly was left to her. The report had It that Miss Cameron was referred to by Hawley as his "niece" and she called him "uncle," although they were not related, and she afterward confessed to her friends that she was "a sort of adopted niece." It is said that after Miss Cam eron found the document she hurried to New Y'ork. She was quoted as having said: "I am not going to do anything about it until these people have said all they are going to say. Then I will produce the document and give them a Hurprise. I will not say anything until I have made arrangements with my lawyer." Miss Cameron Is living at present in the Hawley town house, 19 East Sixtieth street.

Manhattan. She was not at home last night when efforts were made to find her, anil it was said by the Japanese butler that she was "out of town." THOUGHT HE WAS JUSTIFIED. Morrison Believed Rights of Free Speech Had Been Transgressed by Court. Washington, February 10 Frank Morri son, secretary of the American Federa tion of Labor, wus heard today iu the Supreme Court of the District of Co- lumbla in the contempt of court proceeil- ings against himself, SHinuel Gouipers and John Mitchell, growing out of the boycott in the Bucks Stove Range case. Mr.

Gomyers and Mr. Mitchell have been heard. Secretary Morrison justified his part In the alleged coutempt in the same way as did Uomper and Mitchell, saying he believed his. rights of free speech and free press bad been transgressed by the court's now famutis injunction. Justice Wright at the close of John Mitchell's testimony In today's hearings, "strongly recommended the propriety" of Mr.

Mitchell making a promise to the court that he would obey all court injunctions in the future. Justice Wright intimated if Mitchell made such a promise before the close of the pre-ceedlngs the court might consider immunity from imprisonment. Mitchell gave no intimation as to his count. HERE'S A BIG HAUL. Burglars Rob Grocer and Cart Off Eggs.

John B. Schlichtlng's grocery at Hicks and Pineapple streets was robbed Thurs day night while a policeman was supposed to be standing on post at Hicks and Clarke streets, one block away, and another at Pineapple street and Columbia Heights, two blocks away. Fifteen bags of flour, a box of butter (best grade) and a tut) of almost-as-good butter, a case of cocoa and a case of fresh eggs, 30 aozen to the case and each egg worth five cents were carried off; $8.76 was taken from the cash register and the safe Jluimyed for other valuables. Entrance was gained through a window on the Pineapple street side in plain view of the policeman stationed at fine-apple street and Columbia Heights. Grocer Schllchting believes that the burglars must have had driven up with a wagon or an automobile because they carried away so much stuff.

"if they didn't have some kind of a vehicle," said Schlichting. "just imagine a policeman not stopping a man carrying off a case of eggs. Why. they must have stood In with the police. Captain Arthur Carey was around.

He seems to be taking quite an interest In the case." Since the store was robbed broom-handles have been put in the windows to keep burglars out. STEAMER IN BAD WAY. The steamer Campania, which arrived yesterday from Liverpool ami yueens-town, after experiencing gales with rough seas, throughout the passage, reported that on the morning of February 7 she sighted a two-masted steamer wtili one buff funnel, flying signals not under command. The Campania signaled to ask if assistance was required and received no reply. FINDS THERE IS A SUGAR TRUST Washington.

February 10 The llard- ick Committee of the House, appointed to investigate "Sugar Trust" has agree upon a unanimous report. The findings are to be kpt secret a day or two. The report makes no tariff recommendations, and it Is understood finds that there is a "Sugar Trust" In the United States. WOMEN BARBED FROM COURT. Fort Worth.

Texas, February 10 Wo men who persisted in remaining in the rour room where J. B. Sneed Is on trial i for the killing of Captain A. G. Royce, to-day.

were ejected. The court hei.l thai the testimony unfit for th-women's ears. FOR ROOSEVELT UP STATE. According to Llndon Rales, forme-r-ly a m'-mho- of the State Assembly, the returned post i-ards of the "endl'-ss chain" siart'-d by the Roosevelt League show the rural dlsirids of the Slate are very strong for the nnminuiion of Colonel Roosevelt for the Presidency. ri.vrir co 1st i.if.

vn-it v-voi rii All Steel Kl-vtrie l.iKhtf-l Pullmans. 4 Train I-ai1y ia StatcJai 1 Ity. ef Suutll. 1:13 tj'wav. -AJ.

OF RECORD COLD SNAP Coal Famine in the North and Heavy Snow in the South. TRAINS REPORTED STALLED. Freezing Weather Widespread Ice Forms on Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay Alike. Snow is predicted for this afternoon or this evening. The mercury fell steadily Inst night from 9 degrees above zero, and at this morning, in street thermometers at least, registered 1 degree below zero.

Dispatches from a score of cities East, West, North, South showed the wide extent of the cold snap. In Georgia and Tennessee the country was covered with a deep snow blanket. In upper New York State the cold was intense. At Ogdensburg it was 24 degrees below zero, early last night, and across the St. Lawrence it was 40 below.

Many towns reported a coal famine. In some instances coal was being hauled a distance of forty mile's. At Watertown, owing to Inability to get coal, several industries were forced to close. The New York Central Railroad had only four car loads left for the operation of its locomotives. Al ltrains nohtb of Auburn on the Lehigh Valley Railroad were reported stalled between Auburn and Fairhaven.

the Lake Ontario terminus. A snow-plow was working northward from Auburn. In places the snow had drifted higher than the box cars, and no trains came through from the north yesterday. At Saratoga every cold weather record for twenty-five years was broken early in the evening, when the IB degreeB below zero notch wus reached. Indications pointed to the coldest night of the winter.

The coldest day Sullivan County ever knew was the report from Monticello, under date of yesterday. The Uterometer registered 38 below zero early in the morning, and after rising, fell again last night, with rapidity. Water mains were frozen everywhere, and half the population was compelled to borrow Its water. Fuel and Food Supplies Reduced at Oswego. No trains arrived last night at Oswego, and fuel and food supplies were at a premium.

There was a heavy storm raging. Tyrone Power, his theatrical company and forty other passengers were repurieu stalled on a train near New Haven. Outside of New York State conditions vere similar. In Pittsburg yesterday's cold wave broke the record for thirteen years, and two deaths occurred there, due to the cold. DliBpatches from Bautimore said that the ice situation in the Chesapeake had not been so bail since 1803, when the bay was frozen to the capes.

Yesterday the bay was frozen over for 120 miles from Its headwaters to a point just above Wolf Trap Light. A complete ice embargo was feared. Ten below zero was registered by the Government thermometer at Toledo. at 4 o'clock yesterday morning where it Was said that at but oB'b" other time, in 1S95, did the thermometer ever reach so low a mark. Many vessels and ferryboats were fast In the of the Great Lakes.

In Alabama it was snowing hard and in other sections of the country the cold was the most acute of the winter. I this city there was great suffering among the our and the homeless aud crowds of ill-clad, ill-fed men and women clamored for admission to the municipal lodging houses and for relief at the various charitable institutions. Hospitals and shelters for the homeless were once more crowded to capacity. Out in the harbor, which is becoming more and more like a polar Ice field. Jack Frost steadily narrowed the stretch of open water and the packed Ice solidified near the shores holding everything tight as in a vise.

Out in the bay miniature bergs menaced shipping and pilot houses and smokestacks were glazed with ice. According to the forecaster there should be tome relief from this newest cold wave, today, but afternoon or evening may bring snow with it. Monday the temperature should be much more moderate. DEATH OF A. S.

KIRKMAN. Weil-Known Soap Manufacturer Passes Away at Home in the Bronx. Alexander S. Kirkman, the well known soap manufacturer, died yesterday at his home, 266 Clinton avenue, from compli cations with which he had been ill a year, though not seriously so until within the past six weeks. Mr.

Kirkman was born in Manhattan and was in his 68th year. His father, John Kirkman, founded, in 1 8.17. In Manhattan, the soap business which the son inherited. He went in business with his father when only 15 years old. Mr.

Kirkman left a widow, two sons, Sidney A. and Ralph, and a daughter, Mrs. Thomas N. Gurney. He was a member of the Hamilton and the Brooklyn Clubs, the Manufacturers Association of New York and the Produce Kxchange.

Funeral services will take place at his late home, Monday morning at 11 o'clock, the Rev. W. M. Brundage, pastor of Unity Church, Gates avenue and Irving place, of which Mr. Kirkman cas a member, officiating.

AVIATOR F'ALLS INTO SEA. American Swims Ashore After Disastrous Flight in France. Antibes, France, February 10 The American aviator, Hugh Robinson, while making a flight today In an American hydroplane, in a scries of trials before French officials, fell into the sea. He was descending after maneuvring for a time, and his machine was caught between the heavy wind and the swell of the sea and capsized. Robinson was not hurt and swam ashore.

FRENCH-GERMAN ACCORD. Paris, February 10 The French Senate today ratified the Franco-German ac cord on the subject of Morocco and the Congo, which was signed on Novcmbjf 5 last by 222 against 48 votes. The Franco-German accord is an agreement between the two countries by which France cedes to Germany a strip of territory in French Congo, while Germany cedes to France some territory on the frontiers of Togoland and Dahomey. BRYAN AS DELEGATE-AT-LARGE. Lincoln, February 10 A petition signed five thousand Democratic vot- ers was filed by friends of William J.

Bryan here today, requesting that his name be placed on the ballot as a candidate for delegate-at-large to the Democratic National Convention. rv Orloana Mcxlt-o Cult Torn fa. Unity P.M. via Southern Railway. Kx-(iusivety Pullman trains jug al Orleans with "Sunset Limited" for itnllfniniu.

AhIj- Fifth Ave, tur. Former Schiff Valet to Be Brought From Dannemora to the Tombs. MAKES AFFIDAVIT TO COUNSEL Towns Bitterly Arraigns Governor for Refusing Interview With Prisoner. I Whitman Active in Case. FolUe E.

Brandt, ex-valet of Mortime Schiff, now serving thirty years in Dannemora prison for burglary in the Schiff house, will be brought to New York today on a writ of habeas corpus and will be remanded to the Tombs. He will appear before Justice Gerard Tuesday in support of the contention that he has been wrongfully imprisoned and demand ft trial. Mirabeau L. Towns, attorney for Brandt, late yesterday obtained a signed order from Justice Gerard, in Manhattan, granting him permission to have counsel visit the prisoner at Dannemora, privilege previously denied by the warden on instructions from Col. Scott, superintendent of State Prisons.

Assemblyman Vert of Clinton County at once left Piattsburg for Dannemora on a chartered engine and obtained the desired statement and affidavit from Brandt. Attorney Towns last night -he had heard from Vert, representing him. that Brandt had made an affidavit which will be presented to Justice Gerard Tuesday. The contents of this Mr. Towns said, he could not divulge because it was a matter that fhould first corns before the court.

Brandt's Amdavit Not Sensational, Says Towns. "But I will say that there is nothing lensational in he amdavit," said Mr. Vowns. "It does not make an attack on r.ny one but relates to methods used to Induce Brandt to plead guilty." Attorneys working for justice in Brandt's case were most active yesterday. IHstriet Attorney Whitman was in his (fne all of the morning breaking a Jirecedent heretofore observed by District -Attorneys who made Saturday a "day tiff." He saw Cirl Flseher-Hansen, former attorney fir Brandt, and then hastened to Washington to see Senator Knute Xcison relative to the Brandt case.

But the most important move came late in the afternoon when Attorney Towns appeared before Justice Gerard and asked for permission for counsel to see Brandt in Dannemora. As nn as Mr. Towns hail obtained the order from Justice he pot Col. Fcott cn loner distance telephone at fins S'ng. rrad the order io him and Col.

Fcott in turn got the warden at Danne-I'rra on the telephone and instructed him 10 perm't Assemblyman Vert to have a lalk with Brandt. As'-enib'vman Vert nrobably will come 10 Nw York with Brandt. Mr. Towns alfl last night that probably he would JiOt see Brandt today for he Is not expected until late. Many Letters Sent by Prisoner to U.

S. Senator. District Attorney Whitman's trip to Washington brought to light a new phase the case. During his imprisonment Brandt has written as many as ten letters to Senator Nelson, who became interested in the case because Brandt is fellow-countryman, coming from Copenhagen. Whitman would not discuss li is trip before Btarting, and Mr.

Towns said he did not know the nature of the letters in Senator Nelson's possession. Before going to Washington District Attorney Whitman had a long conference with Carl Flseher-Hansen, which later may result In Fischer-Haiisen making amdavit of his knowledge of the case. Neither would discuss their conference, and Flseher-Hansen said he had as yet made no affidavit. Book Bearing: on Case Missing From Tombs. Accompanied by Detective Raynes, chief of the District Attorney's staff, Fischer-Hanson went to tho Tombs, where a search was made for a counsel nook in which the names of attorneys visiting prisoners at the TomDs are recorded.

This was wanted to verify certain facts in the District Attorney's session. The book was not found at the Tombs, end records there showed that the book had been turned over to the District Attorney's office while William Travel's Je-vome occupied that position, and that requests for Us return to the Tombs had been ignored. District Attorney Whitman then instituted a search In his own office for the book, but it was not found there, cither. Previous to obtaining an order from Justice Gerard for Assemblyman Vert to see Brandt, Attorney Towns had relieved himself of nn opinion of Governor Dix's action in the Brandt case. He did not criticise the Governor's refusal to grant a pardon to Brandt, but on Friday, when Mr.

Towns, through his representative, Assemblyman Vert, was refused permission to see Brandt, Towns appealed to 1he Governor for such permission. This was denied, tho Governor's office assert ing that that, permission could come from Colonel Scott only. Colonel Scott, was not to be found. Towns Severe in Condemnation of Governor. "Governor Dix's action means that for the next thirty years it will be impossible io elect a Democratic Governor In this state," said Attorney Towns.

"The action of the prison authorities, supported by the Governor, was a most high-handed procedure one fully in accord with the manner In which Brandt was cheated of his rights." Tuesday Judge Rosalsky. who sentenced Brandt, will be asked to quash the commitment; habeas corpus proceedings will be heard before Justice Gerard, and the Krand jury will begin an investigation to determine whether there was a conspiracy to railroad Brandt to prison. When Brandt is taken before the court Tuesday he is expected to repeat for the first time before a judge that he permitted a plea of guilty to be entered for hint to a charge of burglary to protect a woman in the Schiff household, and that he permitted this plea to be made for him with the understanding that his sentence was not to exceed one year. He was sentenced to thirty years, of which lie has served five. FOR REVENUE CUTTERS.

The Maritime Association of New York, representing in membership practically all the transatlantic and coastwise shipping of the port, made public today copies of a resolution sent to President Taft, protesting against the abolishment of the revenue cutter service, as in a recent report of a Congrcssie-U Committee on Economy and Kfficii-iicy. "The tost of this scrviie annually is insignificant compared with the large number of lives and vast amount of vessel property saved by it." says the resolution, "and we 'therefore petition that this safeguard to our shipping be not withdrawn." On the other hand, it is tuggested by the petitioners that the tvrvicc be enlarged aud extended. FIVE ALARMS ARE SOUNDED. Salvation Army Home, Theater and Dance Hall Doomed by Flames. Hundreds of city firemen were summoned out into the bitter cold shortly after 10 o'clock last night to fight a five-alarm blaze in Chrystie Btreet, Manhattan, under conditions which recalled the hard fight which the smoke-eaters had at the Equitable Building fire.

Several factories and tenements, a dance-hall, a theater, a Salvation Army hotel for women and a house seemed doomed at an early hour this morning. The flames were a seething furnace in several of the structures. Hundreds of tenants and lodgerB were driven out into the cold, leaving clothing and other belongings behind them. Out in the streets they fouud the fire apparatus choked from curb to. curb, the pavements and sidewalks e-covered and the firemen having a superhuman task to drowu out the flames, while water froze on their clothes and engines and lines ol hose.

The flames lit up the sky so that thou sands of people crossing the East River bridges and living in Brooklyn aud on the East Side were aware that New York had another big Are to contend with. The Art starttd on the thirt floor of a six story factory building at 191-193 Chrystie street. By midnight It had spread to 197 and 199, a seven-story factory building, while the roofs of several tenements iu Stanton street had caught fire. Dancers Flee to the Street. On the ground floor at 195 and 19" was a dance hull, wnere 1,000 people were enjoying themselves.

They fled into the street, leaving their wraps to be destroyed. Firemen Louis Perrone and Peter Coholan of Unglne Company 115 made a smart rescue, saving the life of a watchman who had been overcome by the smoke. They climbed a fire ladder at 191 to the second floor, crawled on hands and knees 100 feet toward the rear, and together carried the unconscious watchman to the sidewalk by way of the icy ladder. Tenants within a radius of several blocks of the burning factories piled out into the night and interfered with the work of the firemen by insisting on taking with them trunks aud furniture, in the nearest tenements heat drove forth tenants who wanted to stay and up valuables. About midnight the flames spread to a teneme.it house at 187-189 CUriKlie Btreet, mushrconiing from the third floor to the top.

All the tenants got out safely, but left their belongings behind. Audience in Old Bowery Theater Gets to Street in Safety. The old Llpzln Theater, now known as the Bowery Theater, is at the rear of the burning buildings. A JewlBh play. "Love and Riches," had reached the third act when the roof of the theater caught fire The manager, Mlntz, announced that his wife, who was taking the leading part, had taken suddenly 111.

The audience was directed to Ukve. The people filed out, not knowing that the theater roof was on Are. In the rear of the dance hall, the roof of which soon caved In, is the Salvation Army Home for Women, where 400 wom en were tenants. The people were hurried Into the street, by firemen and police. Four hundred men.

rooms In a hotel at 225 Bowery, also to the rear of the conflagration, were also driven into the streets, while embers carried from the burning buildings set fire to the roof. Fire Chief Kcnloii. who had been busy fighting fires at Fii'ty-thlrd street and Eleventh avenue, and Broadwav and Washington place, arived earlly this morning and later said that with the aid of high pressure system the fire was then under control. EDISON IS 65 TODAY And Can Run Upstairs With Any of His Age. Thomas A.

Edison is (. years old today. On his birthday eve. last night, he declared he felt no older than when he was 25. "I was never in better health or spirits." said the inventor at his home In West Orange, N.

J. "My 65 years sit but lightly on me, and I'll guarantee to run up six flights or siairs with any man of my age, and be cither ahead at the top or pretty close to the other fellow." The inventor declared he was still following his four or foor-and-half hours a night sleep plan, "to bed at midnight and up at 4:30. It gives nie plenty of sleep and a lot more time for my work," he said. STRIKE RIOTS IN FRANCE. Mons, France, February 10 Serious disorders, occurred here and In the surrounding districts to-day as a consequence of a strike of the coal miners f.ir more wages.

A large number of stores pillaged. Several regiments have been ordered to the scene to assist in maintaining order. Food distribution which Is being carried out by Ihe local authorities is very difficult and there is suffering among the noorer classes, in some cases whole fam-'lies being compelled to beg. ALIEN LABOR FOR STEEL CO. Official Admits Unions Were Not Recognized After Strike.

Washington, February 10 The American Tinplate Company's employment of foreign laborers to take the places of American strikers In Pittsburg In 1909, came up at today's session of the Stuulcy Si eel Committee. W. O. Irvln, vice president of the company, which is a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, admitted that the company had advertised for Syrians, Poles and Roumanians. Unions were not recognized after the strike, he said: "Did you discriminate against union men?" asked Representative Beall of Texas.

"We naturally were reluctant to give! employment to those who were vicious toward the men who entered our mills on the open-shop basis." said Mr. Irvin. J. H. Seldas, a Pittsburg newspaper man, testified that the stprl corporation maintained a blacklist of several thousand men discharged because of their connection with labor unions.

DrwP) Tin ret or Snn4rriir I'nnela for all Snriat Functions. H. T. I.e'-ey ft Fulton X. -AUv.

Hickety, pickety, my black hen She lays eggs for cold storage men Who salt and store the eggs away And force consumers all to pay "60 CENTS A DOZEN!" CHEER STRIKE CHILDREN. Waifs From Lawrence, Greeted by Wild Demonstration. At the Grand Central station, Manhattan, early last night, one hundred and nineteen children of Lawrence strikers arrived in this city to be taken care of by men in the Industrial Workers of the World and tho Socialist party. The arrival of these children, all of them white faced and poorly clad, was the signal for a demonstration never before witnessed in this city or any other city. For nearlT five hours five hundred men and women, carrying red banners with Socialistic emblems emblazoned on them, stood shivering in the temporary depot, awaiting the arrival of the children of the families of textile strikers at Lawrence, who are too poverty stricken to further feed and clothe the children properly.

When the train at last arrived a band blared forth the Marseillaise, and a mighty cheer echoed and re-echoed throughout the vast terminal. Tho banners were held high and the twenty policemen from the East Fifty-first street Btation, under command of Captain O'Connor, were brushed aside like so many chips as the great mass surged fcrwurd to greet the half starved tots. Many of the children were crying, bitterly, and as the procession reached the gates children were grabbed up by frenzied men and women and lifted to the shoulders of the men. The police tried to stop ihe music, but without success. Finally some semblance of order was established and a parade started forth with red banners flying high.

Captain O'Connor, when he first arrived at the station In the afternoon and saw the red banners, tried to have them prohibited. But the flag carriers refused to lower them. Then the ca tain called up Police Headquarters for instructions. Since May 11108, when a bomb was thrown at Socialistic meeting iu Union Square Park, all parade permits were marked, "No Red Flags." The captain, however, was in formed that Mayor Gaynor bad said that this was no! constitutional, and red banners were allowed. Finally all the children were taken to the Labor Temple, at lOighty-fourth street and Second avenue, where they were fed and turned over to the people that wanted them.

Among those that offered to take children were Mrs; O. H. P. Belmont, Miss Inez Mill-holland and the Rev. Percy Stlckuey Grant, but their offers were turned down Lu favor of worklngincn's families.

WICKERSHAM BLUSHED TWICE Gently Reminded by Brooklyn Representative He Was Not Familiar With Certain Statutes. Eagle Bureau. 80S Fourteenth Street. Washington. February 10 Attorney General Wickersham was very much embarrassed a few days ago when he appeared before a sub-connnlttee on appropriations of the House.

Mr. Wicker-shum came to tell why the department required money to carry out certain work which could not be brought within the regular appropriation. His supplemental estimates were before the committee and the Attorney General proceeded to explain why he needed the money. When he had tinishd Representative Fitzgerald of Brooklyn said mildly: "Mr. Attorney General, I want to read you a section of the revised statutes of the United States." Whereupon he read the law of 19011, governing supplemental estimates.

Department heads who ask for additional moneys are required by this law to observe certain regulations in making their estimates. It was evident that Mr. Wickersham had not done so. He grew red In the face as Mr. Fitzgerald proceeded with his reading.

At its conclusion he said that the statute in question evidently was one which had not been given much attention bv representatives of the administration and that he realized that his estimates were not prepared in accordance with it. He said frankly that he was not very familiar with the statute. "But," said Mr. Fitzgerald, "only last summer I sent a letter to the head of every executive department, expressly calling his attention to this statute, fo that he would have it In mind In case he found it. necessary to make supplementary estimates.

There are some of us here who may not be entirely familiar with the laws of the United States, but we look to you as the government's chief law officer, to help us out." Mr. Wickersham blushed again. WILSON IN KENTUCKY. Confers With Leaders Opens Illinois Campaign Tomorrow. Lexington, February 10 Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey made an unexpected visit here today after It was thought he had left for Chicago.

He spent the afternoon in conference with Democratic leaders, going to the house of Johnson N. Camden near Versailles. Chicago, February 10 Governor Wilson will open his eimpalgn In Illinois for the Democratic presidential nomination Mon-dav. when he will he the guest of the Iroquois Club at a luncheon and deliver the principal address. WOMEN START MURDER PROBE.

Indianapolis, February 10 The local Council of Women today employed a de- teethe agency to investigate the death of Dr. Helene Knabe, whose bodv. with the throat cut, was found In her apartments last October. The police have maintained that suicide wus more plausible than the murder theory. BILL POSTERS TRUST INQUIRY.

Washington, February 10 To determine if there is a bill posters trust, the De partment of Justice is inquiring into the organization and operation of the National Association of Bill Posters. The organization has branches or chapters In many cities. NEW CIVIL SERVICE LAW. Washington, February 10 An amendment of the Civil Service rules, relating to removals which assures persons in the Government service that, "no discrimination shall be exercised for political or religious reasons," and which makes other important changes, was yrouiulgated by President Taft today. I.