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is of of 22, 22 in in THE BROOKLYN DAILY, EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 31. 1910.

MARRIAGES AND DEATHS DIED. Baruth, David R. Marryatt, Rebecca Bennet, Joanna 8. McQuillen, Peter Bolvie, Alfred J. Moore, John Henry Carberry, Helen Morris, R.

Jr. Dall, William B. 0'Toole, Margaret E. Joseph M. Peacock, Catherine Erskine, Charles H.

Scott, Albert Finnerty, Thomas A. Sharot, Jesse V. Foster, Charles E. Taylor, Charlotte Wilhelmina KTench, Margaret E. Fuchs, Gallagher, Mrs.

M. E. Thiele, Margarette A Francis M. Walker, Frances V. Gray, Haviland, S.

Willets White, W. Wallace Lally, Thomas Williams, William Lockwood, John H. Wyckoff, Ferdinand BARUTH-On December 29, 1910, after A brief Illness, in his 20th year, DAVID beloved son of Herman and the late Dora Kethum Baruth. Funeral from his late residence, 898 Sterling place, on Sunday, January 1, 1911, at 2 P.M. Relatives and friends are invited to attend.

BENNET-At rest, JOANNA SMITH, wife of the late William Bennet, in the year of her age. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at her late residence, 1134 Pacific at, Sunday, January 1, at 6 P.M. BOIVIE-Suddenly, on December 29. 1910, ALFRED beloved husband of Annie A. Bowie.

Funeral services at his late residence, 261 Eleventh st. on SaturdAy, December 31, at 8 P.M. CARBERRY- On Friday, December 30, 1910, HELEN, beloved daughter of James J. and Mary Carberry. Funeral from her Date residence, 242 Gold st, Sunday.

Janbery 1, 1911. Strictly private. DALL On Thursday, December 29, 1910, at his residence, 18 South Elliott place, Brooklyn, after a short illness, WILLIAM BRAND DALL. son of the late Austin Dall of Baltimore, and beloved husband of Virginia Say Dall, in his 53d year. Funeral services will be held at Grace Church, Hicks st, near Joralemon, on Saturday, December 31, at 2 P.M.

(Baltimore papers please copy.) DALL-Montauk Lodge No, 286, F. and A. M. -Brethren: You are requested to attend Masonic funeral services of our brother, Wor. WILLIAM B.

DALL, at his late residence, 18 South Elliott place, Brooklyn, on Saturday, December 31, at 1 o'clock P.M. MALCOLM O. LUDLAM. Master, George F. Malby, Secretary.

D'ARCY December 31, 1910, at 9 o'clock A. at the home of his sister. Mra. J. B.

Hay, 22 St. John's place, Brooklyn, N. JOSEPH M. D'ARCY. Notice of funeral hereafter.

ERSKINE-On December 29, 1910, at 248 Monroe st. CHARLES HENRY, beloved husband of Emmy Erskine. Relatives and friends, also members of Fulton Council No. 299, R. and a Ezel Lodge No.

732, F. and A. are invited to attend the funeral services on Sunday, January 1, at 4 P.M. Interment private. ERSKINE-Members of Fulton Council, Nc.

299, Royal Arcanum, are invited to attend the funeral services of our late brother, CHARLES ERSKINE, Sunday Afternoon, January 1, 1911, at 4 o'clock. his late residence, 248 Monroe st, Brooklyn, N. Y. FRANKLIN C. HAVEN, Regent.

L. A. Souville, Secretary. 30-2 FINNERTY-On Friday, December 30. 1910, THOMAS A.

FINNERTY, beloved husband of Annie Finnerty, after a brief illness, at his late residence, 173 Washington av, Parkville. Requiem mass at St. Rose of Lima Church, Monday, at 10 A.M. (Honesdale, papers copy.) FOSTER--On December 30, 1910, CHARLES ELBRIDGE FOSTER, husband of Louise P. Foster.

Funeral service at late residence, 313 Cumberland st, Monday, January 2, at 11 A.M. FUCHS-On Friday, December 30, 1910, WILHELMINA K. FUCHS. Funeral from her late residence, 99 Elton st, Brooklyn, on Sunday, January 1, 1911, at 2 P.M. Interment in Lutheran Cemetery.

GALLAGHER-Suddenly, on December 00, 1910, Mrs. MARGARET E. GALLACHER, at her residence, 221 Dean st. Notice of funeral hereafter. GRAY--On December 29, 1910, In his 19th year, FRANCIS MORTON GRAY, son of De Wayne L.

Gray and Olive Welsh. Services at his late residence, 280 Winthrop st, Brooklyn, Sunday 2 P.M. HAVILAND-At midnight December 29, 1910, S. WILLETS HAVILAND, son of the late Aaron G. and Elizabeth C.

Haviland. Funeral services at his late residence, 18 Hancock st, Brooklyn, December 31, at 8 P.M. Interment at convenience of fam11y. 1910, THOMAS LALLY. beloved husband LAL on December 30, of the late Anne Scally, and father Thomas and Winnifred Lally.

Funeral of from his late residence, 1712 Dean st, on Tuesday, January 3, at 9 A.M., thence to Church of Holy Rosary, Chauncey st and Reid av. where a solemn mass of requiem will be celebrated for the repose of his soul. Interment Holy Cross. LOCKWOOD-Suddenly, on Thursday, December 29, 1910, JOHN H. LOCK WOOD.

Funeral services will be held at his late residence, 395 Rugby rd, Flatbush. Suuday evening, January 1, 1911, at 8 o'clock. Relatives and friends invited to attend. Interment at convenience of family. MARRYATT-On Friday, December 30, 1910, REBECCA MARRYATT, De wife of the date Frederick Marryatt, In her 82d year.

Funeral services at her late residence, 716 Macon st, on Sunday, January 1, 1911, at 3 P.M. McQUILLEN-On Friday, December 30, 1910, PETER McQUILLEN, beloved son of Owen and Catherine McQuillen, in his 50th year. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend funeral from his late residence, 385 Van Buren st, oil January 2, at 9:30 A.M.; thence to St. John the Baptist's Church, Lewis and Willoughby avs, where a solemn requiem mass will be offered for the repose of his soul. MOORE-At Brooklyn, N.

on Decemher 30, 1910, JOHN HENRY, only of Minnie and the late John Thomas Moore, age 21 years. Funeral and interment priNate, at Plainfield, N. J. MORRIS- Friday, December 30, 1910, ROBERT H. MORRIS, beloved son of Robert H.

and Elizabeth E. Morris. Fumeral services at 4:45 P.M. Sunday, January 1, 1911, at 193 Amity st. Burial priNate.

0'TOOLE-Brooklyn Advisory Board, Ladies' Catholic Benevolent Associa'tion-Sisters: You are hereby notifled of the death of our sister. Mrs. MARGARET E. O'TOOLE, of 32 Park place, Brooklyn. A special meeting.

to take action on her death, will be held at K. of C. Institute, Sunday, January 1, at 3 P.M. Fraternally, MARY E. President.

Elizabeth Foote, Recorder, 1910, CATHERINE A. PEACOCK, of PEA Thursday, December 29, pneumonia. Funeral services at her late restdence, 184 State st, Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. SCOTT- Friday, December 30, 1910, ALBERT SCOTT. Funeral services at his late residence, 713 Greene av.

Brooklyn, on Sunday. January 1, at 3:30 P.M. Interment at Hudson, N. Y. (Hudson, N.

papers please copy.) SHAROT-On Thursday, December 29, 1910, JESSE VANDERBILT SHAROT. aged 21 years. Funeral services at his residence, 453 Macon st, on Sunday, January 1, 1911, at 2:30 P.M. TAYLOR-On Thursday, December 29, 1910, CHARLOTTE, widow of John lor. in her 65th year.

Funeral and services Sunday, at 2 P.M., from her late residence, 2117 East Fourteenth st. Interment Greenwood. TENCH--On Saturday, December 31, 1910, MARGARET beloved wife of George B. Tench. Funeral services at the residence of her daughter, Mrs.

David Livingstone, 323 Seventy-second st, Brooklyn, N. "Interment Monday, January 2, 1911, let 8 P.M. Greenwood. THIELE-On December 30, 1910, MARGARETTA AUGUSTA, widow of Albert Henry Thiele, in the 78th year of her age. Funeral services Sunday at P.M., her late residence, 167 Heyward st, Brooklyn, PARTNERS MANY YEARS.

GAGE TOLLNER RETIRE Veteran Proprietors of Famous Brooklyn Oyster House to Take a Rest. OVER 30 YEARS ON FULTON ST. Name of Firm and Traditions of the Business to Be Kept Intact by New Owners. Charles M. Gage and Eugene Tollner, for more than A generation known to good livers in Brooklyn for the excellence of their cuisine at Gage Tollner's, 372 and 374 Fulton street, are to retire from business to-night, and of the oldest old-fashioned oyster houses in the country, and certainly the oldest in the City of New York, Is to pass into new hands.

For over thirty years the two veterans have together tickled the palates of many of the best known Brooklynites with steaks and chops or luscious oysters, clams and the freshest of fresh lobsters. Beginning on January 3 Messrs. Cunningham Ingalls, a well-known Baltimore concern, are to take over the place. The new owners, however, are to use the name of Gage Tollner's, and preserve intact one of its traditions. Mr.

Tollner, was busily, engaged this morning getting the New Year's rush, when approached 'by 811 Eagle reporter and asked about the retirement of himself and Mr. Gage from business. There was a little pardonable moisture in his eyes, as he replied: Partners to Retire and Take a Rest. "Yes, it is true. You see it is a long be in business for 32 years.

I am 62 years old and Mr. Gage about the same age. Gage Tollner have been doing this for thirty-two years, twentytwo in this one place. We have Seen small boys and girls, brought here by their parents, grown into manhood and womanhood and now, in turn, they are bringing their children here. We are going to retire and take a rest.

But the name will be kept and the help--in everything will be the same we are sure. fact, I don't suppose there will be any change save that Mr. Gage and myself will not remain longer than to get everything running smoothly under the new owners." It was about thirty-two years ago that Charles M. Gage started business as an "oyster house' at 302 Fulton street. Shortly afterward Mr.

Tollner entered the concern, and the two have been together ever since. From the very start the proprietors kept to the best tradi- tions of an "oyster house" as distinguished from a restaurant. To-day there are but very few old-fashioned "oyster houses" doing Most of them have become restaurants. To begin with, their tables have never been covered with tablecloths, the service being upon their highly polished Inahogany tops, with, perhaps, a napkin underneath the plates. Your oysters were opened for you while waited, either for a stew or on the halt shell, and it was the same with clams.

If you ordered a chop or a steak the waiter always went to either Mr. Gage or Mr. Tolluer, who the big icebox and you had the satisfaction of seeing the waiter bear back to the kitchen the luscious looking cut that was afterward to be brought to you, done a turn, by Aleck, Frank or Ed, your favorite waiter. Aleck Paul a Waiter There 32 Years. The waiters at Gage Tollner's have always been colored men.

And most of them have been there decade or longer. Aleck Paul wears six stars and two bars on his sleeves, which shows that he has been with Gage Tollner for thirty-two years. Others of the waiters have four and five stars. In the kitchen "Mike" Messeth has been a cook for the same length of time that Aleck has been a waiter and Sani a "kitchen man" for twenty- two years. "It has been like one big family," said Mr.

Tollner, looking about the room. "Some of our customers, who come here daily, came here first as little children. and were then lifted into high chairs by the very waiters who now do the same thing for hteir Messrs. Gage Tollner have always kept a close watch upon the food they serve. Nothing is kept In the kitchen until it is wanted for immediate cooking and service.

No drinks are served unless with a meal, and no tables are reserved for anyone, not even on New Year's Eve. In the kitchen there are six expert cooks, each with a specialty, but all with a knowledge of how to do a chop, a steak or a live broiled lobster just the way you want it done. "Everything is to be run just the way W9 have run it; even the name is to be kept," said Mr. Tollner, as the reporter left. FUNERAL OF WILLIAM B.

DALL. Two funeral services were to-day held over the remains of William Brand Dall, whose death occurred Thursday. The first was a Masonic service, held at Mr. Dall's late home, and conducted by Montauk Lodge at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. The second was A religious service, at 2 o'clock, at Grace Church on the Heights, at which Bishop Burgess officiated.

Mr. Dall was identified with the Church Club of the Diocese, and was its secretary and treasurer for several years. His father, Austin, was long a prominent citizen of Baltimore, and for twenty years a director of the Merchants Bank of that elty. His death occurred in this borough in 1899. William B.

Dall, besides his widow and son, survived by his mother, Mary Austin Brand: two sisters, Mrs. Spencer Aldrich and Mrs. Frank D. Wynne, and a brother, Horace Holley Dall. His early ancestors were English peers, and he was descended from Chief Justice Richardson of England, and Judge John Phelps, who assisted in ratifying the Colonial Constitution of 1788 at Hartford.

Three memberg of his are buried in Tewksbury Abbey, England, MORE PAY FOR CONDUCTORS. Mauch Chunk, December 31-The Lehigh Valley Railroad conductors will get an increase pay varying from 80 to 50 cents a day, according to the territory they cover. WALKER-On December 30, 1910, at her residence. 527 Cathedral Parkway, New! York. FRANCES VICTORIA, widow of Charles J.

Walker, and daughter of the late S. 0. Kellogg. Notice of funeral hereafter. WHITE 29.

1910, W. LACE WHITE, 661 Flatbush av. Funeral service announced later. WILLIAMS On Wednesday, December 28, 1910, WILLIAM WILLIAMS. Funeral services al the residence of his daughter, Mrs.

George W. Titus, 164 Hall st, Brooklyn, Saturday evening, December 31, at 8:30 o'clock. WYCKOFF- On Friday, December 30, 1910. FERDINAND LOTT WYCKOFF, band of Cornelia R. Lott.

Funeral servlees at his late residence, 908 President st, Monday, January 4, at 2 P.M. Interment private. IN MEMORIAM. KELLY- requiem mass (anniversary) for BRIDGET A. KELLY, mother of Dennis J.

and the Rev. Patrick F. Kelly, OD Monday, January 2, 1911, at REt. Edward's Church, at 9 o'clock. PRESIDENT TAFT'S GREETINGS.

New Year's Message From White House Received at Navy Yard. President Taft has extended New Year's greetings to the Brooklyn Nary si Yard. Admiral E. C. Leutze yesterday received the following telegraphic communication from Secretary of the Navy Meyer: President sends New Year's greetings and cordial appreciation of service to the officers and men of your command.

Transmit the above promptunder your command and vessels at yard for publication prior to noon January 1, 1911. MEYER." Admiral Leutze has had copies this message sent to all officers, enlisted men and all classified and unclassified employes attached to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and station, and bulletins contain1ng a copy will, usual, find prominent places about yard and station, DR. COOK IN FLUSHING Alleged Discoverer of the Pole May Make Home There. He Is Said to Have Interest in Moving Picture Concern, With Headquarters in Flushing. Dr.

Cook, the Arctic explorer, is to establish his home in Flushing. according to rumors afloat in that village last even10 Dr. Cook was in Flushing yesterday, in company with Herbert Melville, one of the directors of Gaumont studios, manufacturers of moving pictures, whose headquarters are at the corner of Congress avenue and Park place, Flushing. It is said that Dr. Cook has signed a contract with this firm to pose in a series of scenes picturing some of his exploits in the Arctic regions.

It is understood that Dr. Cook has a large financial interest in the pictures in which he is to pose, and that he will spend much of his time in Flushing. D'AULBY WAS IN BROOKLYN. Alleged Faker of Old Masters Exhibited Paintings Here Several Years Ago. The Investigation of the French Government into the operations of the "Count" d'Aulby, the alleged faker of old ters, in New York, have shown that the spurious court created a great sensation in Brooklyn in the early nineties, with the exhibition of Titian's Diana at a fair in the Twenty-third Regiment Armory.

The picture which was attributed to the great Venetian master represented Diana in a characteristic pose, and excited much comment from the Brooklynites who attended the fair. nude figure. The forest background was The represented a beautiful rich in color and the were admirable. Neither the Titian nor the alleged Murillo, for which the Count asked $200.000, were sold. It was said that the owner received several offers for these two pictures, among them an offer of $100,000 for the Murillo, which he refused to accept.

Practically all the pictures which d'Aulby brought to this country were reshipped to France. BRIDGE PARTY AND DANCE. The Misses Bossert Entertain Large Party of Friends. Holiday festivities at the Hotel Bossert were enjoyed last evening when the Misses Bossert entertained nearly a dred of their friends at bridge. Supper and a delightful dancing programme followed later in the evening.

Palms and poinsettias made effective decorations. The hostesses were in receiving by Mrs. L. Bossert, Malenken, assisted, Mrs. T.

M. Huber, Mrs. W. Moser, Dr. W.

Moser and Messrs. T. M. Huber and L. Bossert.

Among the guests present were Messrs. and Mesdames W. Ch. lotti, Leslie Carvalho, Tyson Hayward, and George Bauer. Misses Grace Duckworth, Elsa Ruckert, Madelin Cooney, Kate Gundrum, Erminie Doerschuck, Genevera Doerschuck, Frieda Doerschuck, Alice Cashman, Margery Cashman, Marie Murry, Janet Weir, Ida Lehmann, Flossie Baker, Katherine Chambers, Naomi Selman, Helena Evans, Madeline Jacobs, Anna Jacobs.

Tessie Schwenke. Clair Carvalho, Ella Roos, Hilda Ruthman. Beth Schultz; Messrs. Chauncey Horton. Robert Freifelt, Stewart Hemingway, Carrol Cooney, Russel Cooney, Henry Doerschuck, Richard Doerschuck, Byron Creamer, Frank Creamer.

Nelson Murray, Ralph Lehman, George Baker, W. Heitman, Charles Neuman, Edgar Fitter, Percy Halliday, Herman Scharman, August Scharman, Martin Otto. Charles Bauscher, Howard Gould, Horace Ritch. Potter Bartly, Charles V. Bossert, John Bossert and J.

McGill. MARRIAGE LICENSES Issued in Brooklyn for Twenty-four Hours Ended at Noon To-day. Louis Gothar. 29. of 454 Shepherd av, Rachel Helinich, 25, of 481 Belmont av.

Meyer Kaletzky. 28. of New Haven, Rose Rosenberg, 21, of 335 Hopkins av. Dennis MeGiynn, 30, of 17 Clermont av. Della Howlett, 28, of 711 Henry st.

Joseph Kramer, of 36 Hinsdale st. Lena Kabrofsky, 18, of 245 Moore AL. Charles Walker, 21, of 134 Luquer st, Louise M. Anderson. 19, of 150 Twelfth st, Fritz Morys, 26, of 886 Broadway, Anna Wolf, 19, of 886 Broadway, Henry L.

Bergen, 26. of 677 New Jersey av, Estelle Marks, of 390 Vernon av. Aziz Nasseem, 38. of 373 State st. Tamam Hamwi.

of 4 Dean st. Charles Beaka, 35. of 28 Thames st. Caroline Finnegan, 38, of 1386 Greene av. Pasquale Brunetto, 23, of 380 Cleveland st, Vincenz4 Cotone, 20, or 511 Flushing av.

Wladislaw Boleste. 23, of 105 Ninth st. Annie Markewiez. 21. of 154 Ninth st.

Herman W. Haas. 31, of 210 Schenek av, Maggy E. V. Tierney.

30. of 208 Schenck av. Lester L. Ditmas. 24.

of 6251 Sixth av, Phoebe B. Hynes, 20, of2 98 Prospect RV. John McNamara, 21, of 2798 Eighth av, Anna Hertel, 10, of 441 Metropolitan av. Edward W. Edwards, 34, of 1006 Fifty-third st, Mhtn, Lulu Storey, 32.

of Newark, N. J. Daniel J. Griffin, 30, of 219 Fifty -third st, Loretta C. McPartland, 26, of 523 -first.

Arthur 1. Atwood, 21, of Albany av. Katherine Matthews, 19, of Broadway, Giuseppe Dacchille, 98. of 201 Buffalo AV, Constanza Saulle, 18, of 192 Utica av. Morris Zukerman.

of 406 Bristol st, Rebecca Wapnir, of 406 Bristol st. George Brown. 23, of 241 West Sixty-third at, Mary Hill, 19, of 537 Greene av. Solomon Gruber, 22. of 123 Varet st.

Bela Sessler, 24, of 570 Sutter av. William S. Bicher. 24. of 1824 Prospect place, Bessie H.

Steger, 21, of 201 Osborn st. Alfred J. Gans. 23. of 490 Myrtle av, Anna B.

Stewart. 20. 55 Powell st. Samuel Wasman. 29.

of 131 Thatford av, Esther Kessler. 24. 584 Herkimer st. Charles B. Healing, 34, of 367 Pearl st, Ellen Swenson.

37. 477 Atlantic av. Mayer Frumkin. 30, 1518 St. Mark's a.V, Gusha Wirshba, 28, of 1318 St, Mark's av.

Pablo Torres, 25. of 245 West Eighteenth st, Marias Amoros, 21. of 151 Lee av. Edward Schroder, of 1778 Third AY, Anna M. Jansen, 25.

of 714 Manhattan av. Charles B. Reilly, 26. of 112 Jamaica av, Helen Hopp, of 26 Vermont st. Edward Markstahler, 16.

of 683 East Twentyninth st, Magdalen Meredith, 40, of 683 East Twenty-ninth st. Frank A. Cornell, 21. nf 81 North Elliott pl, Esther Decgan. 18.

of 291 Gold st. William Pollard, 41, of 491 Gates AV. Elizabeth M. Connors, 31, of 650 Fulton st. George R.

Wood. 90, of 1061 Myrtle AV, Margaret Hoffmann. 19. of 26 Irving av. William Elfers, 40, of 1881 Gates av.

Minnie A. Randig, 33, of 1381 Gates av. THE COURTS. THE COURTS. Criminal Calendar.

Samuel T. Maddox, justee, Tuesday, January 3, 1911. Antonio Gusting, murder, socond degree. SUPREME COURT PART V. L.

C. TIFFANY WINS SUIT AGAINST OYSTER BAY Appellate Division Holds He Is Owner of Lands Under Cold Spring Harbor. ALSO, VALUABLE SHORE FRONT Town's Claim, Based on Colonial Patents, Not Upheld -Other Large Land Owners Share in Victory. The opinion handed down yesterday by the Appellate Division of the Second District, confirming the decision of Justice Marean in the case of Louis C. Tiffany against the Town of Oyster Bay, confirms the rights of all the upland owners holdO ing shore fronts between high and low watermark, and tracts of land under the waters of Cold Spring Harbor, under state grants, in their ownership of such tracts.

The town of Oyster Bay claimed title to all of Spring Harbor over to the easterly shore adjacent to the town of Huntington, under Colonial patents from the Crown, and claimed the right of the townspeopel to drive along the shore between high and low watermark and to bathe in the waters opposite Mr. Tiffany's residence. Mr. Tiffany built a stone wall across a highway leading to the beach, stopping all travel, and refused to permit bathing or the assembling of picnic parties on the shore at the end of the highway. The town authorities tore down the wall and gave free access to the townsto the shore.

Mr. Tiffany then obtained a temporary injunction restraining the town authorities from trespass1.1 on his shore front, which was afterward made permanent. The case was argued for Mr. Tiffany Little- by I Willard N. Baylis and Martin W.

ton, now Congressman-elect from the First District. The town appealed from the decision, with the result above mentioned. Willard N. Baylis argued the case alone on appeal. This decision such important land grants as affects, W.

J. Matheson, Mrs. Mary E. Jones, Dr. Walter B.

James, Walter Jennings, Colonel thy S. Williams, George E. Brightson and others, and it also affects the leases made by the town of Huntington of oyster lands under the waters of Cold Spring Harbor. All these leases will, if this opinion staods, be declared void, and the state will take possession. The case will probably be carried to the Court of Appeals.

COLONEL ROOSEVELT ELECTED Unanimously Chosen Member of Associate Society of Grant Post. Commander Peckham Invests Him With Gold Button--Will Speak at Riverside, Memorial Day. Colouel Theodore Roosevelt has been invested with the gold button of membership in the Associate Society of U. S. Grant Post, No.

327, G. A. and is proud of distinction. He has also accepted the invitation of the committee ot speakers to deliver the oration at General Grant's Tomb at Riverside, next Memorial Day. While governor of New York.

Colonel Roosevelt made the address at Grant's Tomb for the post, and this 18 the first time any man has been asked twice to perform that Will- Yesterday at noon, Commander jam C. Peckham of Grant Post, and Past Commanders George A. Price and Heman P. Smith, met Colonel Roosevelt by appointment at the Outlook office, in Manhattan. Commander Peckham made A neat little speech, informing Colonel Roosevelt of his unanimous election to membership in the Associate Society of the post, at which the Colonel expressed his great pleasure, and proceeded to put the gold button handed to him in his buttonhole, but he was checked by mander Peckham, who told him that it was the pleasant prerogative of the commander of the post to invest all members of the socicty with the insignia.

OBITUARY Pauline Kopp Grasser. Pauline Kopp, widow of Louis Grasser, died ad Thursday from pneumonia at her residence. 1056 Halsey street. She was born in Manhattan, September 5. 1863.

and was for twenty years a member of the Bushwick Avenue Congregational Church. She is survived by a daughter, Lulu, and two sons, Philip and Harry. Jonas Adler. Jonas Adler, a custom house broker, of 914 Lincoln place, died Thursday, in the Bushwick Hospital, of heart trouble. He WAS born in Germany sixty-nine years ago, and came to this country when a lad.

He was a member of Samuel Lodge, Order B'Nai B'rith. and Star of Cuba Lodge, F. and M. He leaves his sister and a grandson. Lesser Wolfenstein.

Lesser Wolfenstein, an old resident of the Bushwick section, and for forty years superintendent for Ross Son, died yesterday at his residence, 191 Covert street. He was born in Germany, June 29. 1840. and was a member of Mount Vernon Lodge, F. S.

of and Azariah Lodge, I. 0. B. He leaves four sons and three daughters. Rebecca Marryatt.

Rebecca Purdin. widow of Frederick Marryatt, a builder and contractor, died yesterday of old age at her residence, 716 Macon street. She was born at Cranberry N. in 1828, resided in fifty- seven years, formerly in She was one of the oldest members of the Greene Avenue Baptist Church. She leaves three sons, Andrew Eugene and Edward, and a daughter Anna Laura.

Ferdinand Lott Wyckoff. Ferdinand Lott Wyckoff died at his residence, 908 President street, Friday. He was born in the town of New Lots on May 30, 1871, was.a descendant of one of the oldest families of Long Island and was widely known. He was the only child of the late Ferdinand Lott Wyckoff and Catherine Maria Linington, who were married in 1868. On October 28, a 1897, he married Cornelia Rapalye Lott of Newtown, L.

who survives him. He also leaves two children, Cornelia De Bevoise and Ferdinand Lott. He resided at 908 President street for the past eleven years. He was for many years the secretary of the St. Nicholas Society of Nassau Island and was a member of the Montauk, Crescent and Long Island Automobile Clubs and of Brooklyn Lodge, F.

and A. Aurora Grata Consistory and Kismet Temple, Mystic Shrine. OBITUARY NOTES. wife of John Valot, died yesNostrand avenue, her home for She was born in County Kilin 1863, and leaves her husband, Mangin, and a brother, Tima police officer. EARTH TREMOR IN FRISCO.

Annie Kelly, terday at 278 twenty years. dare, Ireland, A sister. Ellen othy J. Kelly, San Francisco, December 31-A distinct earth tremor was felt here about 4:11 A.M. to-day.

It continued several seconds. Other towns north and south reported somewhat heavy shocks, No damage Is reported. NEW YEAR'S EVE DOINGS WILL BREAK ALL RECORDS Many Celebrations Are Planned to Give Hearty Welcome to 1911. CLUBS WILL BE VERY GAY. Hotels and Restaurants Will Be Crowded as Never Before, and Will Be Turned Topsy-turvy.

Brooklyn will give a fond farewell to 1910 and a rousing welcome to the New Year as the bells toll the "witching hour" to-night. There will just AS much jollity, merrymaking, noise producing and pandemonium as ever, and practically every citizen will remain awake till midnight to shoot a pistol out of the back window, to shout a welcome cry to the new year, or to signify that he is glad he Is living--in Brooklynand that the old world still goes rolling on. In fact, there is every indication that the welcome will be more upto roarlous than ever before. Peddlers of all sorts of noise-makers, rattles, clappers, tin pans and tin horns have done a rushing business recently, even better, than on Election Day. The din will probably begin several hours before it 18 really the right time for it, but practice makes perfect, and perfection is always attained on New Year's eve, especially by the younger generation, who will be allowed to stay up late for once.

The fact that New Year's eve this year is followed by Sunday, with its possibilities for a long rest after "the night before," makes a great deal of difference. Many people will "make a night 0' it," and the social and club events in all parts of the borough for this evening are numerous. Practically all the large hotels in Manhattan and many in Brooklyn have made special preparation tor the New Year's eve crowd and the latecomers will find practically impossible to secure accommodations. Reservacom tions for tables were made early In the month, and the rule will be adhered to, like seats in a theater. The restaurants a similar independent position, and they will lock their doors and admit enly by tickets.

They have prepared special programmes and souvenirs. It will be a gala night for the theaters also. There Will Be 100,000 in Restaurants To-night. All the hotels will be filled and more than 100,000 persons are expected to make to-night's celebration in the restaurants the greatest in recent years. Much enterprise has been shown by hotel managers in securing odd souvenirs for their guests and, of course, the cost of high living has gone up perceptibly during the past week.

Despite all these preparations for a gala time, the midnight closing law will be enforced to the letter and guests will be requested to give their orders for spiritous liquors before the fatal hour strikes. There 13- little danger that the guests will need any warning in that regard, or will wait beyond the allotted time. Most businesses close up their accounts for the year to-day, 80 that they can turn over a new leaf on Tuesday and start off afresh. To-night business worries will be forgotten and the suggestion of hard times flouted by the prodigality of the entertainments on all sides. Some people have determined to have the very best meal they have had during the past twelve months, while others will celebrate by entertaining the poor, dancing the year 1911 in, listening to speeches, taking part in street parades, or enjoying the good things at the clubs, or doing something out of the ordinary.

While the city is having a gay old time cheering Father Time on his journey, the same hour will be given over to devotion and prayer in the churches. "Watchnight services" will be held in many sections of the borough, especially in the Methodist churches, while the chimes and church bells will be rung on the hour of tweive. Prayer and testimony, singing and sermons. sometimes preceded by a social hour, in t.e churches. will be in marked contrast with the festivities to be held at the same hour in other parts of.

the city. Big Celebrations Planned at Brooklyn Clubs. The large Brooklyn clubs have planned to wind up the year in whirlwind style, and accordingly have arranged interesting programmes to while away the time during the early part of the evening. A good many of these events will be "stag" aff.irs, because the members find they can celebrate in more jolly fashion when the women are not present to require formFor a long time the Union League Club ality. has been preparing for its New Year's Eve "vaudeville smoker," and this will be held in the assembly hall of the clubhouse on Grant Square.

Good professional talent has been selected by the entertainment committee, headed by John E. Ruston, and a large attendance of members and friends is expected. The Union League "rackets" of this kind are very popular and successful. The Montauk Club have a "festgesang" and "cafe chantant," which Rich. G.

Holloman, chairman the entertainment committee, expects will be the most neighborly affair of the winter. A corps of entertainers will be on hand, and every effort will be made to give the big crowd certain to attend an exciting and enthusiastic celebration. The Knickerbocker Field Club will hold a "club night." which will be for members only. Several novel features have been provided by Chairman J. Stuart Blackton of the entertainment committee.

The Cortelyou Club is to have a "watch night," at which the women will be present. Part of the evening will given: to moving pictures and vaudeville, over while shortly before the "witching hour" some big surprises will be introduced, after a series of dances. The old Hanover Club, which the mem-1 bers declare is the most social organization in the city, will outdo all previous efforts in entertaining its members at a and smoker and in extending its stag hospitality at the clubhouse on Bedford avenue in true holiday spirit. The Invincible Club, which has temporarily forgotten politics, will usher in the New Year in suitable fashion at the clubhouse on Herkimer street. The Ridge Club's entertainment will take the form of a dance and cotillion, to be conducted by Samuel Baron, and several other features, for those who do not dance.

A stag party at the Manhasset Club will make things lively at the clubhouse, at Clinton and Carroll streets. A professional entertainment will be given and the full membership, with their friends, will be out. New Year's eve is always a gala night at the Crescent Athletic Club and special preparations have been made. to welcome in the New Year in suitable fashion. A special dinner will be served from 6 until 9 o'clock, when the members will be entertained in the gymnasium by a vaudeville.

This will continue for two hours and the main dining room will then be opened and the remaining hour of the night passed in jollification and music. Smaller Entertainments That Will Be Enjoyed. Enjoyed. A number of other interesting events are scheduled for the last night of the year: The Stuyvesant Heights Club, which has no connection with the Republican Club of the same name, will sce the old rear out at the residence of Adrian R. Monahan, 440 Eighth street.

A dinner In honor of the forty year members of Fortitude Lodge, No. 19, F. and A. will be held at the Superba, EN night. Fulton The street last and course Franklin will not be avenue, reached tountil after midnight.

The Yale Dramatic Association will show that Yale is as good as Cornell at dramatics, by presenting the play "I Ventaglio," for the first time In this in the Academy of Music. 014 Brooklyn man is prominent in the cast. The Beta Chapter of the Sibma Delta' Phi fraternity of Erasmus Hall will Pare. Vanderbilt avenue and Park place. dance than does year in at the Chateau du Late this afternoon, Miss Gertrude Prince Matthews, niece of Mr.

and Mrs. John Duffeld Prince, will wed William Oliver Carpenter, in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Flatbush, The gridiron heroes of Manual Training High School will celebrate their many victories of the past season on the football field by holding a dinner at the Borough Park Clubhouse. Percy Johnson, the coach, will be In charge. Even Coney Island will celebrate, the chief event being annual mid-winter masque ball of French models at the Stauch's.

Kismet Temple will hold 1ts. usual watch, night services at the Mosque, Herkimer stret and Nostrand avenue, and with the election and installation of officers, an entertainment and a banquet, there will be plenty to occupy the attention of the nobles until the old year has passed away. Schwaben Hall, Myrtle and Knickerbocker avenues, will be the scene of the Young Men's Pleasure Club's twelfth annual ball. Union men will wait for the visit of Father Time, especially Local No. 82 of the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers International Union, which will have its annual ball at Congress Hall in East New York.

The Brooklyn Four Hundred have 80- lected to-night. for their annual ball, which will occur at Beck's Casino, maica and Hale avenues. Rabbi Simon R. Cohen will deliver a lecture on "'The Race" before the Hebrew Educational Society, at its headquarters, Pitkin avenue and Watkins street. The John W.

Tammany Association is quite prepared for its second annual ball at Saengerbund Hall, Schermerhorn and Smith streets. A new Masonic lodge will probably be organized to-night at Tyrian Temple, on Pennsylvania avenue. for nearly a hundred Masons, formerly of East New York Lodge No. 852, which is no more, will meet for that purpose. The Brooklyn E.

D. Turn Verein, wick and Gates avenues, always the scene of some activity, will be in special holi-. day garb for the annual New Year's celebration and entertainment. The Brooklyn Gaelic Society will install its officers at the Imperial, Red Hook lane and Fulton street. Prospect Hall in South Brooklyn will be the scene of the ninth annual masque and civic ball of the Cuvenin Club.

Devotional Services Will Be Held 1n the Churches To-morrow. To-morrow is the first day of the New Year, and it being Sunday, the real celebration will be held on Monday, when the holiday will be generally observed. To-morrow will be given over to devotional services in the churches and to religious events of various kinds. In the afternoon, the Apollo Club will sing at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church at 4 o'clock. The club is under the direction of John Hyatt Brewer, the organist of the church, and this will probably be its first concert of this kind.

An excellent programme has been prepared. The Brooklyn Church and Civic League will hold a special meeting in the afterToon at the Church of the Pilgrims, Henry and Remsen streets. Child labor will be discussed and exslained by Mrs. Florence Kelley, secretars of the National Consumers League, at the regular evening service at Unity Church. Ga'es avenue and Irving place, which is given over to problems in Social reform.

The Rev. C. H. Shaw of West Chester, will take up his work in the Bedford Heights Baptist Church, Rogers avenue and Bergen street. There will be special musical services, in the afternoon, at 4 o'clock, at St.

Paul's Church. Clinton and Carroll streets. The choir of the church, led by Charles S. Yerbury, organist and choirmaster, will be supported by a string and trumpeters, while the soloists will be S. D.

Ward, tenor, and Percival Marshall, baritone, At the Church of St. John the Baptist the Christmas music will be repeated at the 11 o'clock mass to -morrow. a night, Louis under Fraina the will auspices lecture of the to-morrow Brooklyn Labor Forum, at its headquarters, 762 Broadway, on "The Socialist Movement in the United States." Miss Marie Keller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.

Keller, will become the wife of August Hauff, at her wedding, to be held in her home. 83 Wyckoff avenue. The Second Naval Battalion, which will take part in the inaugural parade in 'Albany, on Monday, will leave for its journey up the state in the evening and pass the night on board the U. S. S.

steamer Granite State. lying off Ninety-sixth street. Manhattan. They will take the train the next morning and breakfast in Albany. JOHN E.

SMITH NOT CERTAIN Elections Commissioner Awaits Mayor's Decision. Names of New Commission Likely to Be Given Out at City Hall on Monday. The re-appointment of John E. Smith as elections commissioner in Brooklyn is still uncertain. The indications, however, are that Mayor Gaynor will place his official approval on Mr.

Smith, the secretary of the Executive Committee of the Kings County Republican organization. When Mr. Smith was seen to-day he admitted having had a talk with the Mayor, but that it was on an entirely different subject. The Mayor's secretary, Mr. Adamson, it is believed, will give out.

the news about the final selections made some time Monday forenoon and that the oaths of office will not be administered until Tuesday noon. The law requires the commissioners to begin their terms on the first day of the year, but as New Year's Day falls on Sunday, Monday becomes the legal holiday. For several weeks the Commissioner of acting under orders from the administration, has been the Elections Commissioners offices. The report of this investigation is said to have reached the Mayor on PETROLEUM EXPORTS DROP. Philadelphia, December 31-The total exports of petroleum from this port for the calendar year will reach approximately 310,000,000 gallone.

Compared with export shipments in 1909 this year shows A decrease of more than 56.000.000 gallons, due chiefly to the keeh competition encountered by the Standard Oil Company from European competitors, LOST AND FOUND. LOST -December 30, it op near Brevoort place, a brown MUFF. Return to 269 Lafayette avenue. 31-2 LOST--On Thursday, between Washington RV and Park place, black onYx EARRINGS. Please return to Mrn.

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Finder please notify CASWELL, Engle Bedford branch, 20-7 RIDES HARD TO SAVE BURNING MANSION But Farmer Unurums Urged His Gray Mare in Wrong Direction. OLD LANDMARK DESTROYED. Despite Night Gallop of Flatlands Man, the Kouwenhoven House Burns. The midnight horseback jaunt of Paul ing the journey that Garrett Revere through Concord town hadnurome, a Flatlands farmer, made on his old gray mare over the frozen roads of Flatbush town last night to turn in an alarm for fire that was destroying an ancient homestead of the old Kouwenhoven family, at Avenue and East Fifty-third street, half way between Flatbush proper and Canarsie. Farmer Unurums lives at 310 East Thirty-seventh street.

He is hardly old enough, of course, to remember the incident himself, but he may have heard his grandfather or his great-grandfather tell about Mr. Revere's ride, and he has read Henry Longfellow's rhymed description of it. This famous event must have popped into the thought of Farmer Unurums' mind when, shortly before 8 o'clock last night, while astride his gray mare, on a dark road in East Flatbush. Looking about sou'-sou'-east, Farmer Unurums saw the flare of flame lighting the sky. It was the signal for heroic work--a a desperate ride on the noble mare to the nearest fire alarm box! Now, the nearest fire alarm box that Farmer Unurums had knowledge of was the one nearest his home.

This box is at East Thirty-seventh street and Snyder avenue, and is not at all the proper place to send in an alarm for Are at Avenue and. East Fifty-third street. But never mind! With the able assistance of the old gray mare, Farmer Unurums did his duty as he saw it, even though it made a lot of trouble for firemen and police. He turned his trusty steed's nose in the direction of Snyder avenue and the old gray mare galloped even as flashes of fire shot from beneath mightily, a sparks flying from her hoofs the hoofs of Paul Revere's intelligent animal. Firemen Thought a Second Blaze Had Broken Out.

The mud of midday was frozen solidly and the old mare made excellent headway. But by the time she and the modern P. R. reached the fire alarm box on Snyder avenue it so happened that engines were already on their way, from Avenue and Rogers avenue, to the Scene of the conflagration. Farmer Unurums had no of knowing this, however, and he sent in a signal.

The Flatbush police, which had hear4 of the earlier alarm, and were prepared to go to the fire if needed--reserves from the new station house in Vanderver Park were already on their way--thought 1t was a second fire, in a different locality, and they rushed along Snyder avenue to East Thirty-seventh st. Fire companies In reserve, waiting for a possible second alarm, did the same thing, to find Farm. er Unurums there pointing toward the flare to the sou'-sou'-east. The right alarm was turned in by Patrolman William F. Denice, who was on post.

The company in Rogers avenue had to travel more than a mile to reach the burning Kouwenhoven place, and the flames by then had made such headway that there was no chance of saving the house. The fire had started in the barn, a loss of about $3,000. The cause of the and both buildings I were destroyed, with fire was not known. The house was about 125 years old and was occupied by Joseph Watson and family, all of whom got out without dimculty, though they had little time to savo, household effects. The house was on a hill not far from Paerdegat Creek.

CHINESE DANCE. Unique Affair Makes a Hit at Coney Island. At Stubenbord's, Coney Island, last evening, there were twenty-two Chinamen and two Chinese women, who were the chief feature of an entertainment and ball. Everything was Chinese, from the trimmings of the ballroom to the waiters and cooks, and even to the Chinese orchestra. The grand march was led by Mr.

and Mrs. Guggenheimer. The balloon dance wane novel programme and interesting continued number. at the banquet, during which the guests were entertained by eight Chinamen in dance. Barnard Wall was toastmaster, and Herman Walke was the master of ceremonies.

T. CORPORATION NOTICES. PROPOSALS FOR BIDS AND MATES FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. GENERAL, INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS.

The person or persong making a bid or estimate for any service, work, material or supplies for The City of bureaus New York, or for any of its departments, or offices shail furnish the same in a sealed envelope, indorsed with the title of the supplies, materials, work or service for which the bid or estimate Is made, with his or their name or names and the date of the presentation to the president. or his or its office, on or before the date and hour board or to the head of the department at named in the advertisement for the same, at which time and place the estimates received will be publicly opened by the President of Board or head of said department and read, and the award of the contract made practicable, according to law as soon thereafter as Each bid or residence estimate shall contain the name and the same, the names of all persons interested place of of the person making with him therein, shall and if distinctly no other person be fact, 50 it state that also it is made without any connection interested, with any other person making in an estimate for the same purpose, and is all respects fair and without collusion or fraud, Aldermen, and that no of inember of the Board of head department, therein, chief of other bureau, officer of deputy The thereof City of of New York is. shall be or become interested, clerk directly or shareholder, indirectly, surety contracting otherwise, in party, as or or partner, the performance of the contract. or in the work or business to which it relates. in supplies, in any portion of the profits thereof, The or or estimate must be verifled by the oath, bid writing, of party or parties making the in estimate that the several matters stated therein all respects true.

in Each are bid or estimate shall be accompanied by consent, in in The writing. City of two New York, householders or of or guaranty freeholders or surety company duly authorized by law to act as forth in surely, the blank shall form contain mentioned the and matter set below. bid or estimate will ho considered unless as a condition precedent to the reception or No consideration of certifled any check proposal upon it be one of accom- the panted, or national banks of 'The City of New by slate York, drawn to the order of the Comptroller, money to the amount bond of five per centum of or the amount of the required as provided in Section 420 of the Greater New York The certified check or money should not be Charter. inclosed in the should envelope be either containing inclosed the bid in or separate estimate, but envelope addressed to the head of the department, upon president or presentation board, or subinitted the, of the bid or particulars estimate, as to the quantity and quality For ol the supplies or the nature and extent the work, reference must be made the maid specifications. of schedules, the plans, president, board on or file de- in the No bid shall be accepted from or contract awarded to of any New person York who In debt in arrears to The City defaulter as upon or contract.

or any obligation who is a surety or otherwise upon contracts to the city. The must to hid for separately. The right is reserved in each case to reject all bids or estimates it it be deemed to be for the Interest of the city 80 to do. Bidders will write out the amount of their bids or eathnatey in addition to inserting the saine in figures. Bidders are required to make their bids of estimates upon the blank forms prepared and furnished by the elty, in a copy of which.

with. the proper envelope which to inclose the bid, together with a copy of the contract, eluding the the specifications in the form approved by by corporation counsel. can be obtained therefor fat the office of the department for which the work la to he done. Plate or drawings of construction work also be seen there, may DIED. DIED..