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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EACLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY, JANUARY 6. 1017. 20 i AT f.

TD11 2 HELD ON MURDER CHARGE TRACKS TO GO FOR HAD SUIT FOR IS KILLED BY TRAIN In Line for Rear Admiral DEATHS. '''l'l'pNNIS (retired in X. Y. F. D.i.

husband of the Anna Ryan Meehuti. Relatives friends are invited to attend the ral from his late residence, 611 ierbill av, on Monday. January 8. a.m.: thence to the Sacred Heart P. Church.

Interment Calvary they pass all of the examinations yX i HL Bfc 1 A i ft I i ft 1 iki I I L. KL 1 VITAL RECORDS Anton, Helena .1. Barre, Lou! Behnken, Henry Bell, Andrew Bishop, Win, A o. w. i.

John lor, Mabel T. ICIizu'jeth Paul M. Purler. Harold L. i I'eui" i man, .1 Ifothe, I'.

.1, Dimork. Jane Bait, Unmet; Bseenbaoh, i .1 di i id ling. M. Falls. William J.

Shannon. Jennie Iv Fletcher, Kniina USmith. I- rick C. Kngarty, It, Sjoh.rg. Mathildc Gorman.

Margaret Van D.l.c, Mrs. D. Gurell, Kliiralu 111 inn lit. Joseph Heath. A.

T. Voorhe, Bdtt Henncli. William nidi. John Hyer. Julia I' Joanna II I.imlsay.

Kin le .1. illiams. Kate K. Manfred. Fram es.

Williams. Harry Matsehke. A. n. K.

8. McMahun, Frank Willi.s. Wm. F. Keshan, DennUJ.

Wing, Harriett C. ANTO.V On Krl.lnv. January 1917. HELENA J. ANTON, aged 11 ami 1 Kaldjen.

Seryiees at residence of her daughter, 611 Buren st, Sunday, January 7, al BARRE At Plainfleld. X. on January 5, 1917, MAIUK LOUISE BARRIO, daughter nf Marin A. Barrc and the late William Barre of Brook- BEHNKEN On January- 4. 1917.

HENRY BEHNKEN. at 486 Fifth st. Funeral Sunday, January 7, at 1:30 p.m. Interment private. It is kindly requested that no flowers be sent.

BELL On Saturday. January 6. 1317. ANDREW ELL, in his 77th year. Services at his late resilience, 422 Macon st, on Monday evening, January 8, at 8:30 o'clock, BISHOP On January 5, 1917, WILLIAM ANTHONY BENNETT BISHOP, aged 83 years.

Funeral services will be held at his late residence. 38 Cornelia st. Brooklyn, on Saturday evening, January 6, 1917. at 8:30 o'clock. Relatives, friends, also George Ricard Post No.

365, G. A. R. and DeLong Council, R. are invited to attend.

i BROOKLYN LODGE NO. 22, B. P. O. ELKS Brothers: You are requested to attend the funeral service of our late brother.

WILLIAM J. II E.Vlt It 1 1 Sunday evening, January 7. o'clock, at his late residence. 217 Reid av, st. Brook I vi DALY On Thursday.

January 4. 1917, at his home. 449 53d st. DAVID, son of the late Dennis and Margaret Daly (nee Roach). Funeral Monday morning, from St.

Michael's Church, where a requiem mass will be celebrated at 9 o'clock. Interment, Holy on Januarv 4. J. DEPPERMAN Bertha Siebold. I nary 8, at 2 p.m., Interment In Grec 1917, FREDERICK ood DIMO, At 1.

X. January 6, 1917, JANE BAKER I MOCK, beloved wife of Francis Dimork. in the -list year of her a Funeral services will be held at her late residence, 128 Godwin av. Ridgewood, on Monday, January 8, ESCHENBACHER On Thursday, Januarv 4, 1917, at 419 53d st, JOHN, beloved husband of Margaret Eschen- FALLS On Fr I917. WILLIAM tusband of Mary .1 -ear.

Relatives FLETCHER At Home on January I D. FLETCHER, in fives, friends and Embury M. E. Chi attend the funeral afternoon at 2:30 o'r mortal Chapel, Pai York av. FOG ARTY On ATLANTIC AVE.

PARKS Rnrn Pounds Gives B. R. T. and L. I.

R. R. 60 Days Notice. DOWNTOWN PI. AN DOIBTFUL.

Says Major's Plan I for Trolley i Fairly blood Although reiterating that he wt it In accord with Mayor Mltchel Mayor's plan directing the oval of the old Long Island Railroad Licks fro mthe dirt centre strip Atlantic following the failure the projected B. R. T. franchise for trolley there, Borough President tiiids loda announced that he ved the Bong Island Railroad and i B. It.

T. with notices requiring in to have the tracks removed with- sixty days. The entire Improve ment of Atlantic avenue, Including grading and paving, aj suggested by the Mayor, with in the spring, the Bor ough I 'resident said. making this announcement, rounds let it he known that he adered ihe recommendation of Park a', i missioner had suggested that the sec- a venue and'' Ral Eastern Parkway be given over nark areas as less expensive than ing and a better improvement. The Morons'!) President it was opinion that for the downtown nor- would lessen street utility because ol increasing tramc congestion.

visibility of proceeding the. Mayor has ordered on Atlantic nf. the Mavor has supreme control franchise matters and, even though yiay have my own opinion, to exer- without getting anywhere and the p. i into nue can gel a I rot ley line, dutv to carry out ordi and it an inevitable situation and that patient and seem to think that the I am going ahead in an orderly The Ih ne will take time I demands time and there will helter-skelter business. We shall proceed an rapid as we done, and not a bit faster.

"Unless the franchise situation mould change and there aoesn leem to be any prospect of it I be- ieve we shall be ready with the i provement in the spring." BROOKLYN COURTS tl'RKMB COURT, 1 LOST AND FOUND. PROPOSALS FOR BIDS AND OF NEW YORK. uaptai rorwaTOM EAGLE "AD" FINOS IT Mrs. Becker Recovers Handbag Soon After Loss. Friends of Mrs.

T. Becker of 631 Rappold, the prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera House, are congratulating her today upon her recovery of a valuable handbag and a large sum of money she lost, a few days ago, and which was returned to her through advertisement in The Eagle. Mrs. Becker lost the purse, which lledfnr Her friends advised her The Eagle, and she did i.v Miss Lillian stating that of 1317 Park a handbag at Bedford aveniu Bergen street This Hecke, to the U'llh the lost her handbag, handbag SHy how I am with H'-ker yesterday. "It surely shows hnw profitable js to advel.tlse in The SIR FREDERICK BORDEN DIES.

Was Formerly Minister of Militia in Canada. Ottawa, January 6 Sir Fred-ick William Borden, who was Min- tor of Militia and Defense in the matlon in 1896 until its defeat at general elections in 1911, is dead, cording to a dispatch received here Sir Frederick, a physician by profession and who served as an army gani.ation of the Canadian' 1 which fiMiglii in South Africa. his son, Lieutenant Harold L. Borden, wu-s killed in action. Sir Frederick BRIIERE ON PENSIONS.

Former Chamberlain Outlines New paI1 hrl Association. Henry Bruere. Former City Cham-rlain, and a member of the Mayor'; omiuission. out lined the new teaidiers' pensions before thf High School Teachers Association today, in the High School of Commerce Manhattan. Mr.

Bruere's plan pro- provide ot 1 Of 6 I of --half. roposed las BURNED IN BARGE CABIN. Mk luiol Gilroy, 70, Dies i Hushing Crook Fire. Michael Gilroy. 70 years old.

In charge of the coal barge Black Diamond, was burned to death in the cabin of the barge when it. caught fire early today. The barge was moored at the foot of avenue LmmmL. tl Gvurav E. Burd.

for final John H. Cantwell and Frank Kelly in Jail Without Bail. Frank Kelly, 18 years old, of 230 President street, and John H. Cantwell, 3 years old, of 408A Clinton atreet, he two youths who have been Indicted by the Grand Jury for murder in tbe first degree, on a charge of shooting Hellmuth Christy to death on December 23 last, appeared last night before Coroner Wagner In the Coroner's Court, to hear Detective Asip recount in brief their alleged confession that they had killed the saloonkeeper with robbery as a motive. id reminded them to Raymond Street Jail without bail.

They are now awaiting trial on the murder 'OUT WUTTEUADXI TCXl'T on: nmiBiivAfl ion i RESIDENT OF 21 A.D.' So Whisper Legislators Who Op pose Socialist in Assembly Recount Fight. HE QUOTES LAW IN ANSWER. I Statutes Do Not Require State Officials to Live In Districts They Represent. I you hear about it? Aa-Joseph A. Whitehorn, the Socialist legislator from Brook lyn, does not live in the district he Xo sir, he is officially credited to the Twenty-first, but he really lives in the Sixth lived there when he was elected, too.

Of course, technically against the law, It a dangerous violation of political precedent? There ought to 1 a law against It." Such is the intelligence now being circulated among the Assemblymen by Democratic friends of Mendelsohn, according to the official figures, his fight against Whitehorn for Assembly by 38 votes. Mendelsohn M. 11)1 tho Assembly. seeking to oust the Socialist and sub stitute himself. Coincident with this was started the story about White-horn's place of residence, but White- rn isn't worried about that kind of "If they are going to play such law and my rights under it." Whitehorn doesn't live in the Twen-tv-tirst District, from which he was which is in tin- Sixth sembly District, and he doesn't mak any hones about admitting It, either.

in the district I represent." he said today. I know what the qualifications are. 1 knew before I was elect ed before I was a candidate. Ant there Is a very good reason why the law shouldn't require a man to be i resident of his district. It is wel understood that while an Assemblyman Is elected from a district an Is in a way the spokesman for thi people of that district, he is mon than that.

He is an officer of thi State, and he should legislate for thi entire State, and should be guided by the entire State, rather than solely I do live in the brought in the Assembly. If the game, I suppose, if they don't like lace my shoes, or the way I part my In the past, the fact that a candi Stor Mm eChasS been cause of hia defeat many times the city two years ago. tile Democratic can. L'tiator, was defeated son in a jJemocratn it was shown that $6,500 FOR HUSBAND'S DEATH. Meier Killed by Paul Glasscr's Motor Truck.

Mrs. Ida Meier of 1 705 Tutnam nue, Hidegwood, was granted award of $6,600 for the death of her husband, James M. Meier, against Paul Glasser. a glass dealer, of Broadway and South Ninth street. Brooklyn, the Queens County Supreme Court, vest erda; struck by Glas- ir truck and received tnin- nni which he died in a few min-The accident occurred within a et of I lessor's shop.

The widow $25,000. WOMAN KILLED IN EXPLOSION. Stamford, January 5 -Mrs. J. Bolton, wife of a former resident Brooklyn, is dead as the result of gas explosion which destroyed the ountry home of the Buttons la.st light.

Mr. Bolton and hia sun were injured. REFEREES APPOINTED. FOH SALE AUTOMOBILES. 30 FORD FULL PANEL BODIES, $85 CATALOGUE.

PERSONAL "Ki.iZAltE'riini.Pis. i.t-aatASKii. IXiii.n.1'. hi" --'I MlcHon to hi vim MERWIN -on Friday. January 5.

1917. Dr. JOHN WESLEY of Va 111 tie. N. father of Dr.

Robert Eugene and Edward I. Merwin, Merchants Lodge. No. "09. F.

and A Brethren: You, are requested to attend the funeral services of our late lb n. Pro, BERNARD A. MATSfllKK. mi Sundav. January 7.

m. P.rethreii will meet at the office of Mount Olivet Cemetery. RUDOLPH W. WEISS, Master. Otto Maue.

Secretary. I at her residence, 192 Rutland road. MABEL O'COKNOR, beloved wife Of Pierre O'Connor. Interment Ligo-nler, Ind. O'MEARA (in January 5.

1917, ELIZABETH, beloved wife of Michael Bartht Wleaia. Funeral January at 9:30 'clock, from her late residence, 119 Mldwood st, Brooklyn, thence to Church of St. Francis Assisi. Nostrand av and Lin- eiMinuii mass win ne celebrated. PARK- on Pridav.

January 8. 1917. GEoltGIAXNA BROWN PARK, in the 8 1st year of her age. Funeral will h-dd at Her late deuce. 147 Pulaski st.

Brooklyn. o'clock. Sunday. January PILCH Kit-On Thursday. January 4.

1917. at his residence, 40., oraml av, ACL M. PILCHER. husband ot Mary Mrs. Lewis S.

in his 41st year. Funeral private opened to frien of 5 and 7 o'c Sunday evening, January 7. 1917. PORTER On Friday. January 5.

1917. HAROLD L. PORTER, son of Mr and Mrs. George H. Porter.

316 East Fifth st. Funeral services at his late home, Monday, at 1:30 p. REXDELI, On Thursday, January 4. 1-917. 1 1 1 A.

kmuquu, wioow of Dr. John Rendell. Funeral service on Sunday at 2 p.m., at her late residence, 141 Briggs av, Richmond Hill. Interment, Evergreens. ROTHE On Thursday, January 4, 1917, FRANCIS .1..

neioven nusnano Relatives, friends, members of Joppa Lodge. No. 310, F. and funeral i Sat- rday, January 6. at 8 p.r SALT On Saturday.

917. HARRIETT SALT, i year, widow of Wi Jay st, o'clock. Monday SOHMIPLIXC, On Thursday. January 4. 1917.

MARIA ELIZABETH, widow of Charles P. Schmidling. ill her 66th year. Funeral services will be held at her late home. 316 Cornelia st, Brooklyn, Saturday.

January 6. at 8 p.m. Interment Sunday at Greenwood Cemetery. SHANNON The members of St. Catherine's Guild are reque; the M.l".

of It'VMi: Iv SHAN NON, at 4:30 p.m.. Sunday. January 7, 1917. ELEANOR G. COLO AN, SMITH Tn Brooklyn.

January 1917, FREDERICK CARLL SMITH. year Services private. Interment Greenwood. S.IOBERG On January 191T. MATHILDE C.

nf William T. S.jolM year. Funeral 458 2 p.rr VINCENT On Thursday. January 4 1917 at his residence. 659 McDon-o'ugh St.

JOSEPH SILAS VINCENT, beloved husband of Eliza Vincent nee Hoffman). Funeral services Sunday, January 7. at 8 p.m. Funeral private, Monday morning. VAN DYKE Tn Peekskill, on Wednesday.

January 3, 1917, of pneumonia. Mrs DIU'SILLA VAX DYKE, daughter of Mrs. Sarah DeGroff Hall, formerly of Bay Ridge, and sister of Herbert B. Hall Of Brooklyn, aged 50 voorhees on January 5. 1917, EDITH WIXAXS.

wife of James Voorhees. Funeral at her late home, 348 Sackett st. Monday at 2 o'clock. nt his residence. Bf tig.

January Willy. (Bermuda IN MEMORIAM. moUier. "MARY 10. KS.

who this life January lb 101 1. INSURGENT TENANTS COMING? Brooklyn Realty Men's offer to Bronx-Itcs No Being Constth red. As result of the strike of protesting tenants In Bronx Mats whose I rents have been raised, a large exodus to Brooklyn Is expected. More than J00 men. women and children oceupy-I Ing the buildings whos landlords had I i raised the rents may be evicted for held iv several Brooklyn appeared and suggested that Captain George Ell Burd, Industrial manager at tha Maw lard, received many congratulations today when it I hat his been approved by President Wilson for promotion to the rank of admiral.

Captain Burd was one of eleven en recommended for promotion by the Board of Rear Admirals on Se lection. The. nm the first selective promotions made ipplantlng theld Indian file system. Th list of recommendations for omotion submitted to the President officers and lb, i. I I I I changes in it: but esterday he left it with the Navy Yard then as Industrial the jump in rank.

One other ollicer I recommended. Lie ail Pe toll-lb coniniaiiuci. both officers will have to appear be- fore an examining board, and then 1 1 TREES FOR 4TH MRS. CHILDS' GIFT 800 to Be Planted During the Coming Spring, on Her Order. Fourth avenue, from Flatbush avi le to Bay Ridge Parkway, a distant of 3 miles, will be planted with trei during the spring, as the result of the city by Mrs.

William nam- Ids of 53 Prospect Park West, nhilds has placed with tbe a planting "'ocs' 1 department charges 8 for turnisning and planting each tree, Mrs. Childs' donation to the "city beautiful" move- ment win ne rtrrified 1 to plant the trees alon nue, as this is a broad highway nd Brooklyn svMein, and the plac- Ing of trees at regular Intervals along Will 1 3 the thoroughfare have been plant-reets bv the Park si tn Mrs. Childs' the largest gift toward tree plant- 'was that of Frederic B. Pratt, provided the funds for planting Williamsburg 1 Eastern Park- HAYXES ON RECREATION. DIm-ussos Question at Manhattan Luncheon of Women's City Club.

"New York City has the recreation of Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Cincinnati one," said Rowland Haynes, of the Mayor's Special Com-i Recreation, at a luncheon Women's City Club at Duluth, Avenue Hotel tins noon. this pronicin weie of the City Board of Edu- stimated," continued Mr. itinued Mr. 'that there are in Xew i ork 0,000 children etioii to mis i We while i the great HEED IN $1,000 GEM THEFT. iHiert W.

Bcarkshirr AflCUOed charge of the tned before Mag- the Grand Jury t. The complaint is Seaman of 7911 who alleges be took ID RROGATE SUSTAINED. Appellate Division today Surrogate Ketcham by affii WOMAN I AI.l.S TWO STORIES. Tomorrow's Sunday Eagle THE STORY OF BETHLEHEM fetedThe enormous profits in war stocks and how they are THE GUARDSMEN ON THE Border L've stories concerning the Brook yn soldier bjys. NIVLLI.E Ragle correspondent describes meeting-with commander of the French Army at Vet dun.

MEXICAN ARMY OFFICERS pay official honors to wives of American Army officers on sightseeing- visit, to old Mexican town. A vivid description of ouaint villajfe, its people and their customs. AUTOMOBILE NUMBER Picture-, descriptions and advertisements of latest models. the White ueeks ago. Some I overtii'e for fear dent might be making vhen be signed it been connected p.

the present head If Yard was rhW Devlin, Whose Case for Dam ages Was to Come Up Tuesday, Is Dead. IfE SUED FOR A BROKEN HIP. Brooklyn lawyers Sent Him Away (Tntl! the Case Omm U. Peter Devlin of this borough, plaintiff in a suit for J25.000 damages, Supreme Ymrt in Queens on Tuesday next, was killed last night by a Lehigh Valley train at Rochester, N. Y.

News of his death was sent to the law firm of Morehouse Wolff, in the Terminal Buildi-ig, the counsel who were prosecuting his case. Devlin had been living with his sister, Mrs. Flynn, at 124 Prospect street, but he had gone to Rochester at the request of his lawyers, and was living under an assumed name there. Although there had been no negotiations looking lieved that it would be safer to keep him out of the way until tne case came up for trial. til trie authorities of Rochester found a letter Irom the nrooKijii i requesting his attendance in Brook Oddly enough.

of 3 Roc i plac which he plaintiff was brought Bernard Devlin, proprieto of a lodg- It hus alleged that early on the tm ing nf December 9, 1915. Devlin occupying a bunk in the lodging ho when the thing broke down and was thrown to the floor, a dlstanoi ofCfhe right hip, and was weeks He came out (if the hospital lame, and his lawyers claimed mat. no was pe, manently disabled. They brought jmM the rase is to irth on the calendar in the Queens court for Tuesday. Al Hio was brought Dev- M.s,-s Storehouse Wolff 1 in- vestigate'the circumstances attending Devlin's death, and If anyone wa blame It is probable that another the suit against the lodging house keeper necessarily tans.

Devlin Killed by Freight Train Near Rochester. fSriecial to The Eagh Rochester, N. January 6 Peter Devlin, who had gone under the killed by a Lehigh Valley freight train at East Rush last even had been employed there as hand but a short time. A lett on his person revealed his ti to be Devlin. The letter dress Mor of 6 Broo WEED KNOWN BANKER DIES.

Corning, X. January 6 Fran D. Kingsbury died at his home her today. He was one of the directoi at the Band Bank of the State of XV of Building and Loan DR. OWEN RESIGNS Members of Church Express Great Regret at His Leaving for Philadelphia.

usually successful road and Master street offers a wider field i are reconciled to going. Dr. Owen's effect the firs RESOLUTIONS. irh benefited most directly Resolved. That the Flatbush ers Association record herewith of profound grief at his pass-ij and its warm gratitude for the borough ami the neighborhood can be Just without grateful recognition of tho part played In Dr.

Walter B. Gunnison. In token therefore of this debt. Br it Resolved, That the Flatbush Tax-pavers Association spread upon In minutes this witness of Its nnnrecla- lr I Men. snd that a copy be sent to famliy in ot cor-( of I.

in Hushing Creek and was the prop-vttnout tv Traev. of 1 Broadway. Manhattan. As had no known the body was taken to Glea-rgue at 80 Broarway, Flush ing. IPOLICEMAN SHOOTS CHUM IN ACCIDENT Fellow-Officer Wounded When Brennan's Revolver Is Discharged in Station.

Edward Bren street. Oreenpoint discharged whU Brennan cleaning and examining hit revolver. When he lifted the weapoi llealy was appointed to the force i and Brennan InfDIQI. Both uv excellent records and have been ItJmate friends since they have rorktd together in the OW Slip sta- here agreeable cnndith ransit and living at-'-ang- provided. I dial sympathy..