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av, a THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1913. VITAL RECORDS MARRIAGES. WEBSTER-HAMMELL-On June 7. 1913, at the residence of the bride, Kearny st.

Newark, N. by the Rev. George G. Vogel, GERTRUDE MAY HAMMELL, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

George M. Hemmell, to ROBERT CECIL WEBSTER, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis C. Webster or Brooklyn, N.

Y. DEATHS. Banks, Charles S. Loomis, William H. Blaisdell.

M. E. M. Browne, W. H.

Flory, Marie Gray, William M. Hartellus, Morris J. Hogan, Dennis E. Hopkins, Lillie R. Hoyt, Silvanus Don Kein, Charles H.

Keutgen, H. H. C. L'Hommedieu, S. Neuville, Florence N.

Opry, William G. Partridge, Maude A. Robinson, Robert C. Slingerland, J. C.

Spurgeon, K. M. Sweeney, Ambrose A Treadwell. Thomas Tweeddale, William White, Maria Worthington, J. H.

BANKS--Passed away on Saturday, June 7, 1913, CHARLES S. BANKS, in the 94th year of his age. Funeral services at late residence, 415A Seventeenth st, Tuesday, June 10, 1913, at 2 p.m. Please omit flowers. BLAISDELL-Entered into rest June 7, 1913, MARY MARTIN, beloved wife at her late Pinterests, 268 Clermont av.

of Alfred O. Funeral services Monday, p.m. Interment private. (Providence, R. papers please copy.) 8-2 BROOKLYN LODGE NO.

22. B. P. 0. ELKS--Brothers: You are requested to attend the funeral service of our late brother, WILLIAM H.

LOOMIS, Monday evening, June 9, 1913, 8:30 o'clock, at his Bate residence, 168 Prospect place, Brooklyn, N. Y. THOMAS J. MOORE. Exalted Ruler.

Joseph H. Becker, Secretary. H. Funeral from the mortuary BROWN On June 8, 1913, WILLIAM parlors of John C. Kuhike, 154 Court st, Monday, at 2 p.m.

FLORY--Entered into rest June 8, 1913 MARIE FLORY, widow of John Flory, in her 72d year. Funeral from her late residence, 1397 Broadway, Brooklyn, on Wednesday. June 11, 1913, at 2:30 p.m. GRAY-On Sunday, June 8, 1913, WILLIAM M. GRAY, devoted husband of Ella S.

Gray, at his residence, 128 Sixth Sv, Brooklyn, Services on Tuesday evening, June 10, at 8 o'clock. Relatives and friends respectfully invited. GRAY--The officers and members of Gilbert Council No. 1343, R. are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services of our late brother, WILLIAM MOORE GRAY, Tuesday evening, 8 o'clock, 128 Sixth av.

EDWARD O. BAKER, Regent. George W. Clackner, Secretary. HARTELIUS--On Saturday, June 7, 1913, MORRIS J.

HARTELIUS, in his 83d year, after a prolonged illness, at his residence, 5th av and 79th st. Funeral private. 8-2 of the late Charles J. Hopkins. Services 4 p.In.

Monday, Junue 9, at 202 Bellevue av, Upper Montclair, N. Take Greenwood Lake division of Erie Railroad. HOGAN--Suddenly, on Friday, June 6, 1913, DENNIS E. HOGAN. in his 33d year, at his residence, 841 DeKalb 'av.

Funeral services were held Monday, June 9. 10 a.m. at St. John's Church, Lewis and Willoughby avs, He Was a member of General Putnam Council No. 1446 Royal Arcanum.

HOPKINS--In Camden, N. on Saturday, June 7, 1913, LILLIE daughter of the late Charles J. Hopkins. Services HOYT-( Sunday, June 8, 1913, SILVANUS DON HOYT. Services at his late residence, Macon st, on Tuesday, June at 2 o'clock.

Relatives and friends invited to attend. KEIN-Suddenly, at his residence. 353 Smith st, on June 7, 1913, CHARLES H. KEIN. He was a member of the Brooklyn Engineers Association, No.

41, N. A. S. E. Funeral services at 2 p.m.

on Tuesday, Zune 10. KEUTGEN--On Saturday, June 7, 1913, at her residence, 138 Amity st, Brooklyn, HORTENSE HARRIET GUILLEAUME, wife of the late Frederick William Koutgen. Notice of funeral hereafter. L'HOMMEDIEU--After a lingering illness, at her home, 513 Van Buren st, SARAH widow of Richard W. L'Hommedieu.

Funeral service to be held at Trinity Baptist Church, Patchen and Greene avs, on Tuesday evening June 10, 1913, at 8 'clock. Members of Gouverneur K. Warren Post No. 286, also Gouverneur K. Warren Corps No.

206, W. R. are invited. Interment at Hauppage, (Long Island papers please copy.) NEUVILLE-Suddenly, at Cleveland, on Sunday, June 8, 1913, FLORENCE beloved wife of Harry R. Neuville of Brooklyn.

Services and interment at Barberton, Tuesday, June 10. OPRY-On Monday, June 9, 1913, WILLIAM G. OPRY, in his 60th year. Relatives and friends and Merchants Lodge No. 709.

F. and A. Brooklyn Chapter. R. A.

De Witt Clinton Commandery No. 27, K. Kismet Temple, A. A. O.

N. M. Brooklyn Lodge Elks, Arion of Brooklyn, Stewards Association, Columbia W. Club are invited to attend funeral services at Arion Hall, Arion place, on Wednesday, June 11, at 8 p.in. Interment on Thursday, 2 p.m.

at Evergreens Cemetery. PARTRIDGE--At Nyack, N. on June 7, 1913, MAUDE A. (nee Toothe), beloved wife of Charles R. Partridge.

Funeral services at her home, Tuesday, the 10th at 3 o'clock. ROBINSON-On June 8. 1913, ROBERT C. ROBINSON, in his 65th year. Funeral services at the home of his daughter, Mrs.

W. J. Snyder. 252 Madison st, Brooklyn, Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Interment Thursday morning.

Members of Mosaic Lodge No. 418, F. and A. and Orient Chapter No. 25, 0.

E. and Kings County Council, National Union, are invited to attend. SLINGERLAND--Suddenly, on June 7, 1913, J. C. SLINGERLAND.

Members of Crystal Wave Lodge No. 638, F. and A. are requested to attend funeral services at his late residence, 424 East 174th st, New York City, on Wednesday afternoon, June 11, at 1:30 o'clock, and be prepared to accompany the remains to St. Michael's Cemetery, Astoria, L.

I. J. E. WILMOT, Master. A.

J. Spaulding, Secretary. SPURGEON-On Sunday morning. June 8. 1913, after a short illness, KATHERINE MORSE SPURGEON (nce Covert), beloved wife of Thomas W.

Spurgeon, in the 34th year of her age. Services at residence of her parents, 527 Throop av. Brooklyn, on Tuesday, June 10, at 4 p.m. Interment Wednesday morning, private. SWEENEY-On Saturday.

June 7, 1913. after a brief illness, at his home, 238 Prospect Park West. AMBROSE AUGUSTUS SWEENEY. He was born in Brooklyn 57 years ago, and is survived by two sons and a brother. The funeral will be from his late residence, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Interment at Greenwood Cemetery, TREADWELL-On Sunday, June 8, 1913, 9 p.m.. at his home. 230 Georgia av. THOMAS TREADWELL, in his 48th year. Funeral from his late residence on Wednesday p.m.

He is survived by his widow, Febie, sisters and brothers. TWEEDDALE-On Sunday, June 8, 1913, WILLIAM TWEEDDALE, in the 77th year of his age. Funeral service at his late residence, 905 Union st, Wednesday, June 11, at 10 a.m. Please omit flowers. WHITE-On Sunday, June 8, 1913, at Amityville, L.

MARIA, widow of Henry Kirk White, in her 89th year. Funeral services will be held at the chapel of the National Funeral Directing Company, 15 Greene Brooklyn, on Tuesday, June 20, at 2 p.m. Please omit flowers. PROBATE JURIES ARE URGED BY KETCHAM Cites Admission of Coffin Will, Disinheriting Widow and Children. INTELLECTUAL SCANDAL." Surrogate Forced to Admit Will, Al-! though Convinced Testator Was Improperly Influenced.

Surrogate Herbert T. Keteham handed down a decision today admitting to probate the will of the late George C. Coffin, who gave all his estate, said to be quite large, to his "dear friend and cousin, Belle Coffin Provote" of 95 St. James place, to the exclusion of his widow and chiidren. in an interesting memorandum handed down with decision, Surrogate Ketcham reviews the practice of probate courts in this State and admits that any decision of a surrogate in a contested will is hardly worth the paper it is written OIL.

It is "empty and provisional," he says. In the course of a long memorandum accompanying his decision Surrogate Ketcham declares: "The present condition is an intellectual scandal, the butt of intelligent laymen as it is a shame of the profsesion. Its remedy is as obvious as its disorders. All wisdom which it contains would be preserved and all of folly which it surely holds would be expelled if a trial by Jury in the first instance were by statute made available upon seasonable demand. Then the abuses which have remarked with Catonian iteration in former opinions of this court would abate and idle and humiliating tasks such as the present case imposes, would be unknown." Coffin Estranged From His Family.

Coffin. who was a wealthy lawyer, had been estranged from his wife, Mary Mills Coffin. of 49 West Eighty-second street, Manhattan, and their two children, for about ten years. For about that time he had lived with the woman whom he made his sole legatee and both his will, dated November 24, 1905, and the codicil, dated December 24. 1909, made Belle Coffin Provost his only beneficiary.

The widow and the chiluren, through ex-Justice Van Wyck, contested the will and codicil, which made William H. Bliss of Hastings-on-Hudson, the executor. Surrogate Ketcham finds that Coffin's intimacy with the beneficiary "to have been meretricious." "The evidence is convincing," he "that the only cause for the decedent's says, desertion of his home was his devotion to the beneficiary and that, having once detached his she established an influence over him which lasted for his remaining days and barred his return to marital and parental duty. "There is no need for a recital of the facts which support these conclusions. They plainly exhibit a malign influence which.

whether imposed upon the testator by evil persuasions or embraced by his own choice, tended not only to divorce him from those to whom he owed loyalty and companionship, but to divert them the material benefits of his estate." Evidence to Show Undue Infuence Is Lacking. But Ketcham though it was manifest, Coffin was subject to the undue influence of an association which warped his life and. controlled his conduct in its most important relations, the question for the court to decide was whether there was evidence that this till due influence extended to Coffin's testamentary acts. Surrogate Ketcham decides that there is not suficient in the testimony to show such an undue influence, and that he must, in consequence, admit the will. Such a decision.

Surrogate Ketcham adds, leads to a discussion of a "legal pretense," which is that a decision should be authoritative. In a contested will case the court's determination is empty and provisional. If the Surrogate decides in favor of the will, the contestants can appeal to the Supreme Court and get a jury trial, and if it is against the will the Appellate Division will inevitably send the matter back, on appeal, to a Jury trial. $4,000 IN FIFTEEN MINUTES. Church of St.

Matthew Will Make Extended Repairs, The Rev. Dr. F. W. Norris, at the close of the morning service at the Church of St.

Matthew, of which he is rector, asked his congregation for $3,500 for needed repairs to the church, and in Afteen minutes more than that amount was contributed, much to his surprise and pleasure. The sum subscribed secured the payment of $500 from a friend, who desired his name withheld, of the rector. Miss Gladys Wilard gave 8500 in memory of! her mother. Mrs. William Waring also contributed $500.

The total raised was $4,000. Dr. Norris thanked the congregation for their generous response, especially as the request had been made without notice, and there was not an exceptionally large number present. The needed repairs to the church will begin immediately and will continue through the summer. OFFICIAL AX FALLS AGAIN.

Four More Weather Bureau Are Suspended. Washington, June 9-The official ax fell again in the Weather Bureau today for the third time since Willis L. Moore himself was recently deposed as chief, because of his activity in trying become Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Houston today suspended, pending further investigation, J. Warren Smith, professor of meteorology, Columbus, Ohio; Henry B.

Hersey, general inspector, Milwaukee; Rosswitte E. Pollock, section director, Trenton, N. and Norman P. Conger, general inspector, Detroit, Mich. VISIT EAGLE BUREAU.

Eagle, Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, June 9-The following residents ol Brooklyn have registered at The Eagle Bureau: Mrs. E. Howland, Bertram Carey, and Frank Saur. DEATHS.

DEATHS. WORTHINGTON-On Sunday. June 8, 1913, JULIA HEDDEN WORTHINGTON, daughter of the late Edward L. and Elizabeth Apgar Hedden, Funeral Tuesday, June 10. at 11 a.m., Church of the Ascension, Fifth av and Tenth st.

Interment private. (London papers please copy.) IN MEMORIAM. JAMES -In ever loving memory of our darling boy, CLINTON R. JAMES, who entered life eternal June 9, 1908. REL memory of 0111 sister, MARY MORRELL, who passed away June 9, 1911.

WULFF--A solemn anniversary masa on Tuesday, June 10. 1913, at 9 at a.m., Holy Cross Church, Flatbush, for the late MARY T. WULFF. JERE MAYHEW, FULL BLOODED SHINNECOCK INDIAN AND HIS PET HORSE "BANJO" SHINNECOCK INDIAN DRIVES TRUCK AT 71 Jere Mayhew, Straight and Spry as Man of Thirty, Toasted by Pale Face Friends. HIS BOSS IS PROUD OF HIM.

Full-Blooded Member of Famous Long Island Tribe Once Drove for William Cullen Bryant. Jeremiah Mayhew's truck, in the yard of Henry Martin, truckman, at 84 Front street, was decorated from end end with flags and bunting today in honor of Jere's seventy-first birthday. Seventyfirst birthdays are rather common in this world, but Jere is uncommon, wherefore the honor done him. He is a fullblooded Shinnecock Indian and fullblooded members of the tribe that once held Long Island under its suzerainty lare almost as hard to discover as snow in June at Roslyn, where Jere comes from. So it was that all the copper-colored American's comrades toasted him today and said "how." There was no pipe of peace to gO around or they would all have smoked it, but they wasted a little "fire-water" in commemoration of the event, and Jere didn't mind.

Jere has been on the job as 8. teamster for the better part of halt a century. For the last nine years he has been driving for the Front Street firm. His employer says of him--and it is a constant source for wonder--that although Jere does not read he may be sent out with thirty or forty deliveries and never make a mistake in the destination of any-! one. "You can search me for the answer as to how he does it," said his boss today.

"He never gave me the explanation." In the picture Jere is shown 00 his driver's seat holding the reins over the back of "Banjo," his pet. Jere's age is uncertain. Banjo's is not. He and Jere understand each other perfectly. Banjo Is just as familiar with Jere's touch on the reins as Harry Mooney's elephants are with his voice.

It is Jere's proud boast that he once drove for William Cullen Bryant, tho poet, whom he remembers as the editor of the New York Evening Post. Before that he farmed. His father and mother are long since dead, and the Shinnecocks, once numerous, are scattered to the four winds. Jere's wife is a white woman and he has two children by her. One of them, Frank, sells The Eagle every afternoon at the corner of Myrtle avenue and Fulton street.

His daughter, Mabel, is married. "He is a splendid teamster," said the Indian's boss today. "We could not want a better one. Some time, he says, he is going out to Roslyn to live his declining days in peace. In the meantime he is welcome to drive for us as long as he wishes." Jere lives at 1771.

Atlantic avenue. Unlike the traditional Indian, who is pictured as stolid and silent, old Jere is a man with a merry heart and he laugbs frequently. He is as straight as a sycamore and as spry as a man of thirty. POSTAL EMPLOYES' OUTING. Athletic Games a Feature of Station Picnic at College Point.

The employes of Post Office Station G. Brooklyn, held their annual outing at Witzel's Point View Island, College Point, yesterday. There were over two hundred postal employes and guests in the special cars which left the Greenpoint section for the grove. Upon the arrival at College Point breakfast was served and during the afternoon a series of games were held. The principal attraction was the baseball game between teams representing Station and Stations and A.

The ter won by the score of 5 to 4. Brooks and Brown were the battery for the winning team while Laza and Stutter represented Station G. The summary of the athletic events follows: Shoe race--Won by Frank French; William Scherr. second. 220-yard run-Won by Edward Bowles; second, Peter Brown.

oPtato race--Won by Joseyph Patterson; second. Emil Schenn. Fat man's race -Won by Edward Jussel; second, Samuel Ciecone. 440-yard dash--Won by Philip Hennessy; seeond, Fred Hume, 100-yard dash- by George Laza; second, Louis Meyer. Three-legged race--Won by team composed of Sherr and Brooks, Standing broad jump--Won by William Hennessy, 8 feet 2 inches; second, Willam Gundrey, feet, Among those noticed about the grove were: Postmaster Edmund Voorhees, sistant Postmaster William Woods.

Fred-, erick Oppikofer, John Carrougher, Albert Kuch. George Ehlen, Peter Cleary, Edward Roshe, Thomas Butler, John Barry, ex-Senator George Owens, exAlderman Richard Wright. The committee in charge of the outing was composed of William Hennessy, George T. McGowan. Frank Patten, Dennis Klebauer.

William Fox, Joseph Martin. John Brierton, Thomas Powers and William Scheer. EAGLE PARIS BUREAU CALLERS. Eagle Bureau. 53 Rue Cambon.

Paris, June 9-Registering at The Eagle Bureau today were the following BrookIynites: F. W. Budd. C. Augustus Haviland.

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hodge Miss Hodges.

Others who registered were: Rush C. Hawkins, John McLean, Edward L. Bernays and Mary E. Walsh of Manhattan, Miss Clara E. Wuland of Chicago and Robert Maverick of San Antonto, Tex.

CURRAN REPORT ENDS WALDORAPPED AGAIN He Is Scored for Abolishing the Bureau of Investigation. MORE TRAINING FOR RECRUITS Many Other Recommendations for Betterment of Force-Esterbrook Signs Report, Appointments, the School for Recruits the School for Detectives, promotions, trials and punishment of delinquent policemen, reinstatements, the remission of fines and the sanitary conditiong in police station houses are all taken up in the fifth and final section of the no report the Curran committee, made public today. The question of pensions, about which the committee is expected to have some interesting data to present, has not yet been completed and will probably be made the subject of a special report later on. The committee will ask the Board of Aldermen tomorrow to be continued for the purpose of finishing and submitting its report on this subject. Commissioner Waldo is scored again in today's report for abolishing the Bureau of Investigation established at Police Headquarters by General Bingbam for the purpose of examining into the history of the men certified for appointment to the force.

He is scored for his numerous reinstatements of policemen dismissed by former commissioners, and also for remitting fines imposed by his predecessors upon forty-two commanding officers in the department. Lieutenant John F. Stanton, whose dismissal by Commissioner Waldo after he had testified before the Curran committee, formed one of the chief reasons on which the committee based the demand for Waldo's removal, was head of the Bingham Bureau of Investigation. Concerning the work of this bureau the report states: Report Praises Work of Bingham Investigation Bureau. "This bureau did very efficient work.

Its activities disclosed that about 12 per cent. of the men certified for appointment were wholly unfit to become policemen, either because they had sworn falsely upon their applications or because were ex -convicts, or because their tations were bad. This bureau was further developed under Commissioners Baker and Cropsey, but was abolished by Commissioner Waldo immediately upon his taking His explanation before us for abolishing so useful a bu-! reau was that such work should be performed by the Civil Service Commission. The president of the commission testified that the number of men at his disposal for this work was wholly insufficient for any effective investigation. "At the time of its abolition the bureau of investigation bad examined into the history of candidates near the head of the list but not yet appointed.

From the records of such examinations we have discovered that Commissioner Waldo knowingly appointed to the force between thirty and forty who bad sworn falsely in their applications in order to conceal previous arrests, indictments, discharges from employment, etc. All of these men had been previously rejected by Commissioner Waldo's predecessor, Commissioner Cropsey. The only explanation we could secure from the commission for making these unfit appointments in the light of the evidence before him was that investigation of character of candidates should be made only by the Civil Service Commission; that he was not responsible for the character of men certified by that commission, and that any man placed upon the eligible list was satisfactory to him. The president of the Civil Service Commission testified, however, that many of these men were recertified without investigation at the explicit request of Commissioner Waldo." A number of appointments made Waldo are cited in the report. It is shown that a number of men with criminal records were appointed by Waldo.

The committee recommends that "investigation by the Civil Service Commission into the character of applicants be supplemented by independent investigation under the direction of the Police Commisioner." Redress in Court Only Is Recommended. Since 1899, the report states, 683 dismissed policemen have sought reinstatement through the courts, but only fortysix cases were decided adversely to the Police Department. The right to court revlew Dena protection to honest members of the force, the committee feels, and it should be the only safeguard they can invoke. The repeal of Section 1543A of the Charter is recommended. This section provides that "upon written application to the Mayor by the person aggrieved, the Police Commissioner shal have the power in his discretion to re- the charges upon which a member was dismissed, unless such dismissal was for insubordination, conduct unbecoming an officer or member, cowardice, or intoxication." "This charter provision," says the report, "should be repealed.

The right of a dismissed policeman to appeal to the courts affords him ample protection against injustice. The above section empowers the Mayor and Police Commissioner, in effect, to reverse the decisions of the courts and of former commissioners. It opens the door to personal importunity and political expediency." All trial commissioners should be lawyers, the committee submits. The fact that Commissioner Waldo remitted the fines imposed by his predecessors upon forty-two commanding offcers ranging from inspector to sergeant, while not a single patrolman was SO favored, is strongly commented upon. Recruits Need Longer Period of Preparation.

The length of time in the School for Recruits should be increased to the full probationary period of six months, the report recommends; records of each recruit should be carefully kept and the course of study should provide adequate instruction in laws and ordinances, practical police work, pistol practice, military drill, humane handling of prisoners, aid to injured, actual work In precinct, English and report writing, moral standards in conduct, organization of city government and presentation of evidence in court. All newly assigned members of the Detective Bureau required to attend the School for Detectives, it is recommended, the course amplified and stricter methods employed. Esterbrook's Signature Is Affixed to Report. Although Alderman Henry H. Curran has decided to postpone until a week from tomorrow the presentation to the Board of Aldermen of the committee's report, he visited the home of O.

Grant Esterbrook, at 300 Lewis avenue, yesterday, and secured Mr. Esterbrook's signature to the report. The Brooklyn Alderman has been confined to his home with tonsilitis. Mr. Curran and Emory R.

Buckner, counsel to the Curran Committee, got Mr. Esterbrook's signature, the signature counts as a vote, leaves only one to be secured to constitute a majority of the committee in favor of the report when it is submitted. Recommendations in the fourth section of the police report are for an Increase in the commissioner's salary from to $10.000 a year, the power to increase the number of deputy commissioners as, occasion requires, the use of the precinct instead of the inspection district as the unit of the department, and the increase from $800 to $1,000 in the salary of firstyear patrolmen. It is provided that the salary of patrolmen should increase by $100 each year unti! the maximum of $1,400, the presetn maximum, is reached. increase in salary for patrolmen is asserted to be a necessity.

Under the present arrangement the men are said to be in debt for the first two or three years of their service. KODAK TRUST UNDER FIRE Government Seeks to Dissolve Monopoly by Civil Suit. Buffalo, N. June 9-Dissolution of the so-called Eastman Kodak Trust wag asked in a civil anti-trust suit fled here today by order of Attorney General McReynolds. The Federal Government seeks the dissolution by receivership, it necessary, of the Eastman Kodak Company of New Jersey and the Eastman Kodak Company, of New York, which are charged monopolizing the trade in photographic supplies in violation of the Sherman law.

It is the aim of government to obtain a division of the assets and business of the two companies controlling 72 per cent. of the business in the United States, into such parts as will effectually destroy the alleged monopoly and restore full and free competition. The petition in equity asks for an injunction forbidding the Axing. of resale prices of cameras, films and other patented, photographic supplies. This marks the Attorney General's Arst application of the recent decision of the United States Su-; preme Court denying patentees the rigbt to Ax resale prices of retailers.

The following are named as defendants: Eastman Kodak Company of New Jersey, Eastman Kodak Company of New York, George Eastman, Henry A. Strong, Walter S. Hubbell and Frank S. Noble, all of Rochester, N. Y.

The alleged monopoly bas been accomplished, the petition declares, by the Eastman companies absorbing or acquiring control of a great number of competitors in the United States and foreign countries. Rochester, N. June 9--The Eastman Kodak Company will adjust its methods of doing business to meet the charges preferred against the company in the government's dissolution suit, fled today at Buffalo. George Eastman, president of the company, so announced bere upon receipt of the news that suit bad been begun. Mr.

Eastman indicated, however, that the company would refuse to dissolve. HOME LATE; GOOD EXCUSE. Fifty members of the Brooklyn En-! gineers Club returned home very late Saturday night from an excursion on a seagoing tug to Hempstead Harbor, where they inspected A big sand and gravel plant. The tug left the city at 11 o'clock in the afternoon and was scheduled to be back at 5 o'clock. lt was nearly 10:30 p.m., however, when the tug landed at 134th street, the Bronx, and close to midnight when the engineers reached their homes in Brooklyn.

There were several calls to The Eagle during Saturday evening from the members of the families of some of the gineers, and fear was expressed that the tug had met with a mishap during the thunderstorm. Ag a matter of fact the tug made a very elow outward trip against the tide, and did not reach the destination at Glenwood until after 6 o'clock. To add to the delay, it was covered, when the start home was to be made, that the boat had grounded. It was long after 8 before the trip back began. ISLER TRIPLETS NAMED.

The smile of the Cheshire cat in "Alice in Wonderland" 3 no wider than the smiles of Papa and Mamma Isler, yesterday, as they greeted a hundred friends who bad gone to 729 Prospect place to be at the naming of the wonderful triplets, of whom The Eagle told, recently--the three that a sympathizing stork brought just one year after four Isler children had lost their lives in a fire. There was a banquet and many a toast was drunk to Ogla Samuel and Nechamel-named after the prophets, as became good orthodox children of the ancient faith. The triplets had a liquid banquet of their own. Rabbi Goldfarb named them. Osia, Samuel and Nechamel pulled away at; their bottles.

What did they know of the prophets or the Talmud? A bottle had a greater meaning in their eyes than any prophet. Mrs. Isler was ill in bed, but she was propped up on pillows, with the children beside her, and received the congratulations of all the family friends. Papa Isler devoutly declared that the birth of the three was an act of Providence, whereat Rabbi Goldfarb nodded his head, approvingly, and all the company exclaimed "Just so." HOTELS AND RESORTS. LAKE HOPATCONG.

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FRANK COPE. LOST AND FOUND. LOST Flat black leather CARRYING CASE, on Brighton Beach train, between Woodruff av and Brooklyn Bridge, Friday A.M., June 6. Case contained manuscript of no value except to owner. Ample reward and no questions asked if returned to D.

T. PIERCE, Publisher, 239 West 39th st, N. Y. Phone 4700 Bryant. LOST.

in Prospect Park, among the seats, near the restaurant, facing the drive, on Sunafternoon, a pair of EYEGLASSES, with hair 1 lenses, in case. Finder will please communicate with H. F. STIMPSON, 1055 Dean st. Brooklyn.

Phone Prospect 6088-W. who will call for them and tender a reward. A and LOST, leaf on design, Friday, in gold vicinity BAR of PIN, Bedford pearl section or between Loser's and 850 St. Mark's av. Reward if returned to above address.

LOST, on Atlantic or Vanderbilt av, a silver handled UMBRELLA, with initials P. N. F. Kindly return to 21 Montgomery place. Reward given, 9-2 LOST--Small, white, long-haired male DOG, maltese terrier; liberal reward if returned.

113 Berkeley place, Brooklyn, PERSONAL. PERSONAL. THIS is to certify that M. W. KELLY, 68 Middagh st, will not be responsible for debis incurred by my wife.

MARE KELLY, from this date, June 9, 1918, MRS. LAMBERT SAYS, SHE IS THE "MRS. Denies Being in Any Way Responsible for the Titles' Matrimonial Woes. WAS MR. TITLE'S CASHIER, But Her Relations With Him Were Always -He Is Her Husband's Friend.

DIRT DUMPER FINED $10. Caught Depositing Stuff in East New York Avenue. Magistrate Naumer, in the Gates avenue police court today was asked by many owners of property in the neighborhood of New York avenue and Carroll street to driver, make of an 517 example Sterling of Martin street, Moralist man caught after months of effort to prevent the dumping of dirt on the streets of the section. Moran was taken by Mortimer C. Lyons of the Department 01 Highways as he emptied his cart on the east side of New York avenue, near Carroll street.

Frederick W. Rowe of Frederick W. Rowe developers of much of the property in the section, told the court that it would cost at least $300 to remove the dirt dumped there during the last few months. He said that on New York avenue, graded two years ago by the city, at least 300 loads been dumped between Crown and Malbone streets; that 250 loads had been placed on Brooklyn avenue, graded privately; a and that 100 loads had spoiled the grading of Kingston avenue, between Carroll and Malbone streets. The court was also told that property owners had spent considerable sums to end the nuisance, but had been unable to get one until Moran was caught on Saturday.

Moran asserted he had not done the dumping, but volunteered to go and take away a load of dirt "so as not to get. into any court trouble." The magistrate him $10. ADELPHI ART EXHIBIT Fortieth Anniversary of Prof. Whittaker's School. The exhibit of the Art Department of Adelphi College, opened today, is especlally attractive this year.

This is the fortieth annual exhibit and each year the work shown not only increases in the number of exhibts but in merit. The exhibition will continue through Wednesday. The work ranges from drawings from casts to life work. There also a fine collection of the work of the four upper grades of Adelphi Academy. This is correlated with the other studies in the school.

The work of the Academy students is under the direction of Mrs. John M. Whittaker, wife of Professor Whittaker, head of the Art School. Professor Whittaker is showing paintings of Mrs. C.

D. Hunt, Miss Tipfer and Miss Clara Tipfer, and "Who Comes?" and "The Country Oracle." Mrs. Whittaker has some smaller paintings, some in oil. There are some fine miniatures by one of the members of the art class, Mrs. Alexandrina Harris.

The committee to pass on the work of the students consisted of Harry C. Edwards, Howard Giles and Arthur Schneider. In their report they speak of the gratifying advance in the drawing and painting, and the difficulty they experienced on reaching a decision. One of the students who received a first prize of a gold medal for drawing of a nude figure from life, Salvatore Altorisio, was given a dinner yesterday at Bath Beach by a number of his Italian friends. Professor Whittaker attended the dinner.

Those who received medals are: Antique head -First silver medal. Bernice Lunger: honorable mention, Mrs. Aresto Speroni. Antique figure--First prize, gold medal, Arthur Miller; honorable mention, Mauro Fasano. Head from life--First prize, silver medal, William Morton Schneider; honorable mention, May Bell.

Nude figure from life--First prize, gold al, Salvatore Altorisio: honorable mention, Mrs. Thomas Whitlock. Painting, draped figure from life--First prize, silver medal, Robert Lewis: honorable mention, Mathilde Maria Suttmeier. Nude figure from life--First prize, gold meda.l, Joseph Aspinall; honorable mention, Robert Lewis. For greatest improvement during the yearSilver medal, Donald Edwin Hayward.

ART OF GETTING POSTED Can Be Accomplished by Use of a Wonderful Book. Every intelligent person, young and old, should know the principal facts and dates in the lives of such makers of history as Cyrus the Great, Xerxes, Pericles, Philip of Macedonia, Ptolemy, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Herod, Nero, Coarlemagne, Joan of Are aud Napoleon, and what results the careers of these persons bad on the progress of the world. The great- epoch-making events of the past should be known every layman, as well as to every student. He should inform himself regarding the great inundations, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of ancient and modern times. The man most valuable to the world is the man who knows most about it.

In the hurry and bustle of the present we are apt to forget and ignore the consecutively ocurring incidents which have helped to build the structure of the modern life we now enjoy. There is no question that the public wishes to be posted on such matters. The trouble has been that everybody has not the time or the facilities for reading Both difficulties are solved by the Standard Book of Facts. BOOK OF FACTS Coupon Six of these coupons, clipped from consecutive issues of The Eagle, and presented at The Eagle Office, or any of its branches, together with 98 cents, will secure a Standard Book of Facts--a complete encyclopedia in one volume, bound in limp leather. By mail MONDAY add 2.2 cents for June 9 postage.

Mrs. James Lambert of 150 Montgomery street has requested The. Eagle to make known that, although is undoubtedly the "Mrs. referred to in the court records of the cross separation suits of Mr. and Mrs.

Benjamin Title, there is no foundation for such implication. "I have nothing to do with the separation suits between the Titles," said Mrs. Lambert today, indignantly, "It is true that I'm only referred to "Mrs. as in the court records and in the newspapers, but as I have worked for three years as cashier in the moving picture theater at Newkirk avenue and East Sixteenth street, that Mr. Title owns, in that neighborhood knows everybody that 'Mrs.

means me. "Mr. Title has been a gentleman at al! times, and has worked hard to make the place a success. I am sorry his wife has made so much trouble for bim. As for myself, I have never been out with him, except when my husband has also been with us.

The two men are good friends. Mr. Title was also a friend of and came to play cards with him my father, the very day of my father's death, four months ago. "My busband and I are very happy, and this notoriety is doing us a great dea of harm. We have two children, one boy of six and another a year and a half.

We live at home with mAy mother and she takes care of them while I work out. I'm no longer employed at Mr. Title's theater. got a better Job elsewhere, but when left my younger sister, Miss Olive Gordon, took my place. My husband works as a driver and it is terrible that my name should be into the papers, because I also have to work." Miss Gordon, who accompanied her sister, corroborated the latter's estimate of Mr.

Title, and declared that the moving picture show proprietor was only a friend of her family. In the separation suite. which were later compromised, Title had stated that his wife bad taught their four daughter, Marjorie, to believe that "Mrs. was her daddy's best friend," which he declared was an outrageous falsehood. Mrs.

Lambert said that her first name is Ruth and that has nothing to do with the letters referred to in the suit, which had been signed "Marguerite." SHOT; PLEADS FOR BOY CHUM. Little Fred Moon Saves Chester Fisher From Arrest. His success in extracting a promise from his parents and a policeman that the playmate who accidentally shot him while they were examining a large revolver yesterday afternoon as embryo Boy Scouts, may be the means of saving the life of Fred Moon, 12 years old, of 1729 Bleecker street, in the Ridgewood section, who Wis thought to be dying when he was hurried to the German Hospital after the accident. Physicians at the hospital said today that the chances seemed in favor of Fred surviving EL rather bad wound in the abdomen. Young Moon, with Chester Fisher, 11 years old, of 1731 Bleecker street, were playing with the pistol in the basement of the latter's home at the time of a the accident.

As Moon sank to the floor after the discharge of the weapon Chester began preparations to administer first ald in true Boy Scout fashion. Then he assisted Fred's father to take his chum to the hospital. K. OF C. CONVENTION ON.

Auburn, N. June 9-The 18th annual State convention of the Knights of Columbus opened here today. Robert J. Powers of Binghamton, state deputy, stated that five hundred delegates will attend and there will be a thousand visitors in addition. The New York and Brooklyn delegates in large numbers arrived by special trains.

The entertainment feature of the convention will be a grand ball in the State Armory on Tuesday night. The convention closes Wednesday night. WANTED-HELP-FEMALES. WANTED, Protestant child's nurse. Apply at 158 Clinton st.

PROPOSALS FOR BIDS AND MATES FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS. Person or persous indsing bid or mate 104 ally services, work, material or suppues tor The City or New York, or for any of its departments, bureaus or ollices, shail furnish the same in a sealed envelope, indorsed with the title of the supplies, materials, work or services tor which the bid or estimate is made, with his or their name or names and lie date of presentation to the president, or board, or to the head of the department at his ur its oftice, on or before the date and hour named in the advertisement for the saine, at witch LIne and place the estimate received will be publicly opened by the president of vuara or neau of said department and reau, and the award of the contract made according to law 86 soon thereafter as practicable. Each bid ur estimate shall contain the name and place of residence of the person making the same, and names of all persons interested with him therein; if no other person be 80 interesteu, it shail aistinctly state that fact; also that it Is made without any connectiou with any other person making an estimate for the same purpose, and is in ail respects fair and without the collusion Board of or fraud and that 10 member of of Aldermen, head of department, therein, chief or a other bureau, officer of deputy The thereo? or New York is, shall be Or become clerk City of ested, directly, or Indirectly, interas contracting purtuer, performance stockholder, of surety the or contract otherwise or party, in or the supplies, work or business to which it in or any portion of the profits relates, The bid or estimate must be verified there- by of.

oath, in writing, of the party the making the estimate that the several matters or parties therein are in all will be respects true. No stuted bid or estimate considered unconultion precedent to the it reception or consideration certified check proposal, upon be one of accom- the Stato 01 'national banks of The City of New panted York, drawn to corporate stock or certificates Comptroller, of the order of the or Indebtedness of any nature isgued The City which the with Comptroller shall apof as of value the security required in than the advertisements, to than five per amount cen- of the not less of the amount of the bond required, as provided Charter. in Section The 420 amount of the shall be Greater as speci- New ned York in the proposals for instruction to bidders, shall not be excess of 3 per cent. and The certifled check or money should not ba inclosed in but the should envelope be either containing inclosed the bid in or a separate estimate, envelope addressed to the head of the department, upon president the or presentation board, or of the submitted bid personally or particulars as to the quantity and estimate. For supplies or the nature and qualof ity the of work, reference must be made to the the extent specification, of schedules, the plans, president, board on or Ale de- in the said No bid shall be accepted from partment, or contract awarded to any person who is in arrears to The City of New York upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter as surety or otherwise any obligation to the city.

upon The contracts must be bid for The right reserved in each case to reject separately. all bids or estimates if it is deemed to be for interest of the write city out so the to do. the Bidders will estimates in addition to amount inserting of their bids or the saine in figures. Bidders are requested to make their bids or estimates upon the blank forms prepared and furnished by the city, a copy of which, with the proper envelope in which to inclose the bid. together.

with a copy of the contract cluding the specifcations in the form approved by the corporation therefor counsel, can be obtained by application at the office of the department for which the work is to be done. Pians and drawings' of construction work will also De seen taere..