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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 29. 1909.

CATECHISM TO REPLACE PATRICK, IN COURT, TRIES TRUST EMPLOYES DEAD FOR DAYS BEFORE BODIES ARE DISCOVERED BUT LINGERS NEAR CITY To Be the Biggest Affair of the Kind Given Anywhere, This Year. OBITUARY. James F. Carey. James P.

Carey, for twenty-seven years an editor of the financial department of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and for eighteen years previously editor on the Journal of Commerce, died at his home, 3T5 Putnam avenue, yesterday. He was born in New Haven. January 7, 1831, and coming to New York in his youth, moved to Brooklyn in 1836. where he had since resided. He was a member of Acanthus Lodge, F.

and A. and of the Brooklyn Masonic Veterans. He was a widower and had no children. The funeral services will be held at bis late home to-night, and- the Interment will be at New Haven to-morrow. Mr.

Carey was one of the best known financial writers in Wall Street and was acquainted with all the prominent men In ill Pa tts-'iiii i limn rinr i l-Abt Comes From Ver- 3 Preside at Con- I jpiracy i nai. witu MrmnNS IT-rtrarl aa (n RfAMOn for Postponing Trial. rmed with a rapid-fire battery ot ions, the attorneys ot the seven in- brought to trial this morning for alleged conspiracy to defraud the government bombarded Judge James L. Martin, who has come all the way from Brat- tleboro. to preside in the criminal branch of the Federal Court In Manhattan.

The purpose of the bombardment was to ward off the Impending proceedings in which the seven ex-employes of the sugar Trust have been made the defendants. Henry F. Cochrane, representing six of the defendants, desired an adjournment on account of the Inflamed condition ot the public mind at this time. Ex-Senator Clarence K. representing Oliver Spltzer, the indicted superintendent of the refinery docks, prayed the Judge to limit the scope of the present trial by throwing out all but the original indictment which was found last May, and to pin the prosecution down to the issue of fraud in connection with the weighing of the cargo of the steamship Eva, and George M.

MacKeller, an associate of ex-Senator Lexow, moved to have tfhe indictments quashed, on the ground! that they are so vague and indefinite (that the defendants are unable to detenfaine just what crimes tney an, charged with. Judjge Martin promptly disposed of the pubfic clamor argument of counsel, who an adjournment. He remarked tb'at he could best obtain the state of the P.Jblic mind by listening to the examination of talesmen. The arguments to Rjuash the indictments altoegther or to 7 limit the scone of the trial by ellminat- i i were heard at length and occupied the entire morning session. The tr'al was set for 11 o'clock, but a naif hour before that time the defendants, James F.

Bendernagel, former cashier of the Williamsburg refinery; Oliver Spltzer. former superintendent of the Williamsburg docks, and Thomas Kehoe. Patrick J. Hennessy. Edward A.

Boyle and John Coyle, checkers and weighers, presented themselves in court with their attorneys, Henry F. Cochrane of 44 Court street, Brooklyn; ex-Senator Clarence K. Lexow and George M. MacKellar. Special Attorney General Henry L.

Stlmson and his assistants did not put in an appearance until ten minutes after the hour set for the trial. This occasioned no delay, however, as the judge was occupied with listening to excuses of those who had been called for Jury service. No less than of the panel that had been summoned pleaded with the Judge for releases. All but one of them were granted. Jean M.

Voelker, one of the defendant, an ex-weigher of the Sugar Trust, v.ns absent this morning when his name Wats called. Ever since his indictment has been ill, it has been alleged, in French Hospital, and this morning iMr. Cochrane, of cousel, asked that his Serial he separated from of the Attorney Stlmson, on behalf of the government, said he wou' interpose no a objection, provided that a physician's cer- SAT New Edict Goes Into Effect in Catholic Churches of the Diocese. POPE SEES GOOD RESULTS Bishop McDonnell Sends Out Schedule of Subjects to Be Treated. In all the Roman Catholic churches in the Brooklyn diocese yesterday, which was the first Sunday of Advent and tht beginning of the ecclesiastical year, a new rule was put In force by which sermons at low masses are dispensed with, and instructions on the Catechism were substituted.

This was done in conforrait with an order given by the Right Rev. Bishop McDonnell, following an Encyclical, Issued by Pope Plus some time ago. The Pontiff in his Encyclical emphasizes the need for religious Instruction by the adult not less than the young, and ho orders all parish priests and tbose having the care of souls, to explain the Catechism In an easy, simple style, at such time of the day as may be most convenient for the people, but not during the hour at which children are taught. In obedience to this order Bishop Mc-Donnel has had prepared and Bent to every priest in the diocese, a schedule of the subjects to be treated during the entire ecclesiastical year. The Apostles Creed is the subject of the first series aud after the general preliminary explanation, nine Sundays will bo devoted to Instructions on the first article.

Thi remaining eleven articles are treated in the eamo manner. On every Sunday, therefore, practically the same instructions will be given In every church at the early masses. The Right Rev. Bishop Muudeleln, auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn, said this morning In speaking of the matter: "Wi have been following this plan of instruction In St. John's Chapel for a long time, and havo found that it Interests the people greatly.

There can be no doubt that tho order of the Holy Father in this lra portant matter will be of vast benefit to the people at large. The programme has been carefully laid out for a year ahead, and the fundamental principles of the Roman Catholic faith will be so minutely and carefully explained that even the simplest cannot fall to understand them." MUNICIPAL REGISTER. Answers to Correspondents. Elisabeth Stewart Ask your newsdealer to supply the Brooklyn Dally Kagle library containing1 the civil service rules. A.

J. The last examination questions for sealer of weights and meiisuras may be seen at the office nf the Municipal Civil Service Commission. 299 Broadway. Reader The present list for milk inspector will expire on March 11, 1911. There are about 55 names on the list.

No examination will be held for at least a year. Changes in the State Service. Ida O. f'appell of Brooklyn has passed the repent state competitive civil service examination for the position of woman officer, in state institutions. The salary Is from $300 to 1360 a year.

Adolph Bergbon. of Brooklyn has been appointed from the state civil service eligible list as a paRe In the oitice of the Klrst District Public Service Commission at a monthly salary of f30. Dr. George O'Hanlon of Kings Park has passed the recent competitive civil service examination for the position of superintendent of the Newark Asylum for Feeble Mlr.ded Women. The salary of the position is t'-tfto and maintenance.

Certified for Appointment. Board of Water Supply Assistant engineer, Charles IVigart. 57 Kast On-t Hundred and Twenty-flfth street. Manhattail Frederick Parsons, Willlamsbrldge, Bronx; lVn Cutler, East Orange, N. Jacob FYledluml.

Amsterdam, N. Y. Wllllard Chevelllcr. 102 Kenilvvorth place; Albert Chandler, 361 Gates avenue; Egbert Lincoln, 4 Lincoln place; Milton Freeman, Ulster N. Edward Carney, 57 Fourth street, Manhattan; John Stewart, 132 West Twelfth street, Manhattan; Frank Den-sler, 150 Pulaski street: Frank Berger, Onrdl-ner, N.

Y. C'lfford Staver, 110 Third street, Long Island City; William Carr, tllBter County. N. Y. William A.

Bassett, 634 Union avenue, Manhattan. Bellevue Hospital Examiner appropriate list of examiner of charitable inspector, Henry .1. Hlnck. 417 Kast Klghty-ftrst street, Manhattan; Howard Butler. West One Hundred and Fourteenth street.

Manhattan; Howard Dunwoodle. i-8 Van Buren street; Frederick Althlser, 909 Kast Thlrty-Hfth street. Manhattan; Maurice A hern, 346 East Forty-second street, Manhattan; Frank Mann, 252 Log street; Corne'lus Cosgrove. 51 West One Hundred and Twenty-eighth street. Manhattan; Timothy O'Shea.

20R Troy avenue, Manhattan. Department of Docks Stationary engineer. Hugh J. O'Donnell, 203 West Twenty-flrst street, Manhattan. Department of Water Supply.

Gas and ElectricityStationary engineer, Richmond, Michael J. Curren. Arlington, L. I. College of City of New York Stationary engineer, Daniel Hammond, 561 Forty-eighth street.

Permanent Census Board, stenographer and typewriter Ellie Leslie. 207 West Eighty-third street, Manhattan; Catharine Consldlne, 107 West Ninety-fifth street. Manhattan. Board of Water Supply, patrolman at aqueductThomas Clappcrton. Pleaaantvllle.

N. Y. William Fox. 55 East One Hundred and Fifteenth street. Manhattan: Herbert Allen, mount Vernon.

N'. Y. Mlch-iel MHI. 849 Amsterdam avenue: John J. Helblg.

2102 Amsterdam avenue; Frt'ticls Craven, 310 West Nineteenth street, all of Manhattan: William J. Reynolds 23 Emerson place; George Cote. 743 East One Hundred and Fifty-second street: John C. Kelly 2072 Seventh avenue; Thomas Burke. 115 Manhattan street; John Trimble.

73 Banks street: John Contlon. 556 West One Hundred and Sixtieth street: Frederick (Joerl, 710 East One Hundred and Scventy-elKhth street; James Rawley. 127 East One Hundred and Twentieth street: John J. Gordon. 348 East Elghtv-nlnth street: William Murray.

500 West One Hundred and Seventv-nlnth street, all of Manhattan: Thomas J. O'Donnell. 445 Madison street; William F. Norton, 246 Ninth avenue, Manhattan. I Department.

Junior assistant corporation counoel George Goldthwaite, 263 West Seventieth street, Manhattan; Nathan BalJIn. 194 Elghtv-tlfth street; Ira Rosenson, 146 Rodney street; Edwin J. Tolley, 156 West Elirhty-fifth street. Manhattan; George B. Markham.

417 West One Hundred and Fiftieth street Manhattan, Department of Bridges, fourth grade clerk, promotion Harris Cunningham, 208 Bay Twentv-thlrd street. Health Department, stenographer and typewriterBessie Wlnler, 940 Union avenue. Bronx; Annett Cullinan, 54 fit. John's place; I.i'iien J. Flnegan.

1097 Putnam avenue. President Borough of Richmond, topographical draftsman Charles Tllgner, 782 Halsey street; Alacob Frfedland. 4S9 Sixth avenue; Edward Marsenholder. Castle Hill, Bronx; Carl Nordell 107 East Twentv-elgllth street. Manhattan; J.

G. C. Lengemann. 34S West Forty-eighth street: James A. Harte.

Kingsbrldge, Trnnsttman Thomas C. Bell. Bay Side. L. Michael J.

O'Neill. Easthamptun. Mara. City Examinations Now Open. Patrolman clases December 31.

1.05(1 entered: morgue keeper, examination December 2S 10 entered: telephone operator (men), examination December 23. 103 entered: Inspector of taxicabs. closes December 2. examination December 30. 14 entered: inspector.

Board of Water Supolv. examination January 12. none entered; X-ray hotoeraphor, examination January 14. none entered. For information on civil service matters, address the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Civil Service Bureau.

Answers will to published In this column. THREE SPEEDERS HELD TJP. Three auto arrests were made yester day by the motorcycle officers of the Brooklyn Headquarters Squad on Hofl-mon hnuUvard and Merrick road. Ja maica. They were: John Dannenhoffer.

of 167 Graham avenue, Brooklyn, accused of speeding at the rate of thirty miles on hour: George B. Salisbury, of 75 East Fifty-fifth street, Manhattan, 33 miles, and Albert Constable, of 308 Amsterdam Manhattan a chauffpur. nf 207 ttveuu, West Seventieth street. Manhattan, 30 miles. They were all arraigned this morning in the Far Rockaway court.

LECTURE ON NIAGARA. To-morrow evening thero will be an illustrated travelogue on "Beautiful at the Bedford Y. M. C. A.

Audi torium. Bediord avenue ana Monroe street. This lecture will be given by Edward Justus Parker, who will exhibit together with ninptpon L'UtUltll motion pictures, nearly all of which have been taken by toe lecturer uimseu. Appears Before Appellate Division in Twenty-third Attempt to Get Out of Sing Sing. SECURES AN ADJOURNMENT.

Convicted Murderer of Wm, Marsh Sice Has New Reasons Why His Detention Is Illegal. Albert T. Patrick, who has languished In Sing Sing following the commutation of the death penalty to life imprisonment for the murder of William Marsh Ric6 by the late Governor Hlggins, is making another effort to gain his freedom. This afternoon Patrick was brought Into the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on another application for a writ of habeas corpus. It was a brief appearance of the celebrated defendant, for he asked for and got an adjournment of his case until Thursday afternoon, and was Immediately committed to Sing Sing.

His wife was one of the throng of Interested spectators In the court room. In point of chronological reckoning this Is the twenty-third attempt of Patrick to secure his freedom. According to Patrick, himself, it is only the ninth move he has made since his arrest for the murder of Rice on October 4, 1900. The present application for a writ, Patrick says, is to have considered a point overlooked on the previous hearing which also was for a writ of habeas corpus, listened to in the same court room, and decided against Patrick. Patrick has appealed from that adverse decision, but he wishes to have the new point determined also.

On the last proceeding Patrick claimed that Governor Higglns had no right to commute his sentence from death by electrocution to life in prison without his consent, which, he declares, he never gave. He now claims that the Judgment of conviction lapsed or ceased to De operative at the expiration of the week fixed for -his electrocution by the Court of Appeals. The failure to electrocute, he affirms, was due to a stay granted by Judge O'Brien of the Court ot. Appeals, after the conviction had been affirmed and a new date of electrocution appointed in the order, which had been delivered to Warden Frost of Sing Sing. Insists Law for-Execution Is Mandatory.

Patrick Insists the law -for execution being mandatory and imperative, and not merely directory, the failure of the warden to electrocute was an act of nonfeasance and not authorized by law. The day having passed, he says, there is now no way to have a new day fixed. When the court convened this afternoon at 1 o'clock, the court room, in the Borough Hall, was crowded, news of Patrick reappearance In Brooklyn having been pretty well circulated about town. Tht court was made up ot Justice Jenks, pro-siding, and his associates. Justices Burr.

Miller, Rich and Thomas. Patrick was represented by Lawyer Williams L. McDonald, of 49 Wall street, Manhattan, and Assistant District Attorney Robert Coleman Taylor, of the district attorney's Btaff appeared against him. Before-the judges came in Patrick had been given a copy of the return submitted by Mr. Taylor.

This served as a reason for Patrick's application for an adjournment, made by Lawyer McDonald. Sent Back to Sir.g Sing pending Argument." Mr. McDonald said that he had glanced through the return handed him by his opponent and that it had set up some new matter which should have consideration before reply was made to It in the formal traverse by Patrick, the relator. He therefore aBked for three or four days adjournment and further asked that his client be committed to the custody of the Sheriff Hobley, of Kings County, for the convenience of all parties to the proceeding. Justice Jenks asked Mr.

Taylor whether he opposed the granting of the motion and Mr. Jerome's representative said that he didn't oppose the adjournment Itself, but he did oppose any change In the custody of the relator. "Of course we shall not do that," Justice Jenks. There was a brief conference and Thursday of this week at 1 o'clock was fixed upon as the time for Patrick's tra verse to be filed and the argument on the matter made at length. When the time was fixed Justice Jerks then formally committed the relator to the custody of Warden Frost to be returned to Sing Sing until Thursday morning.

WHY TRIALS WERE DELAYED. Colonel Youngs Explains That Sir. Stimson and He Arranged to Make Stronger Cases. United States District Attorney Youngs gave out the following statement this morning: "It has for some time been a matter of comment and criticism that the Sugar fraud cases which were Instituted in Brooklyn in November, 1907, have not been tried in that district. "The trial of Oliver Spltzer for an alleged attempt at bribery was held in March, 1908, when the jury rendered a verdict of "not guilty" owing, as was stated by the Jurors, to the failure of one of the government witnesses to corroborate the testimony of Richard Parr.

"The government officers were at that time engaged in making an exhaustive examination for the purpose of bringing the civil actions, and the books, papers and other tangible evidence of the frauds were, by order of court, taken from the clerk's office in Brooklyn, used in the trial of the civil cases, and are still in the clcik'B office in the Southern District, as exhibits in that trial. "The Customs House is in the Southern District and most of the offences committed against the revenue laws have been consummated in that district; that is, the invoice, entry and false weights upon liquidation was based, and which completes the entry, were all In the Southern District, and the offences committed in the Eastern District were a part ot a wider system, which was directed from Manhattan. "The principal offices of the American Sugar Refining Company were in the Southern District, and it was in that Jurisdiction that the civil actions were properly begun. "It became obvious to both Mr. Stimson and to me, as th investigation proceeded, that the prosecution of these frauds should be under one general direction and not divided between the several districts, and In this the Department of Justice concurred.

In the meantime Mr. Stimson's term of office expired, and on account of His familiarity with all of the nhases of the investigation, both civil njA friminl and his nrnvpd nhilitv AS. an investigator, he was given entire charge of the sugar fraud cases. "The evidence adduced Oy him in the civil suits, which evidence accentuates and completes the evidence secured by me in the Eastern District, renders it advisable that the prosecutions be held in the Southern District." ARTIST WOODWARD DEAD. iltlmore, November 29 David A.

dward. a prominent artist, and the tor of the solar-print system of por-oainting, died to-dav at his country tear Relay, Md. He was 86 years Mother and Child Are Asphyxiated Together, While Clasped in Each Other's Arms. DIED THANKSGIVING NIGHT. Janitor Smelled Escaping Gas, but Did Not Attempt to Investigate Its Source.

Stiffened in death from asphyxiation, the bodies of Mrs. Marie Grasse, aged 34, and her 12-year-old daughter, Emelia, wore found In bed in the sleeping room behind the confectionery store at 331 Nineteenth street last night. According to Dr. Murray of the Seney Hospital, the two had been dead for several days, and as they were not seen since 9 o'clock on Thanksgiving night, it is thought that they were overcome by gas shortly after that hour. A woman's cape was flung over the chandelier In the room in which the two were found, and the police are of the opinion that thpir death wan due to an accident.

It is believed that the fringe of the cape caught the cock and turnnd on the gas. It Is thought that the cape may have been wet and was hung up to dry. Over a year ago, Mrs. Grasse separated from her husband, say the neighbors. Lost October she moved to Nineteenth street, opening a confectionery shop In the front and living behind the storo.

Little Emella attended public school. Mrs. Grasse was a great favorite with all the chlldiren in the neighborhood, always giving them moro for their pennies than other confectioners In the neighborhood. So generous. Indeed, was Mrs.

Grass that she found she was losing money, and so decided to sell the place and to go Into service as a domestic asserting that she could make more money that way. A week age Saturday a man offered her $410 for the stock and fixtures ot the little shop. The deal was to have been completed last Saturday when the purchaser, would have paid down his money and taken possession. Mrs. Grasse kept her shop open on Thanksgiving until 9 o'clock.

That was the last seen of her alive. The next morning Patrick Keenan, janitor of the building, who lives on tho second floor, smelled gas. 'Af'er a while he went into the- cellar and shut off his gas meter. Later In thei day, as he still smelled gas, he shut off the Grasse meter, thinking they had gone to Manhattan and left the gas turned on. Last evening Mrs.

Reglna Goebe! of 347 Seventeenth street called to see Mrs. Grasse. She then learned that no one had seen the mother or daughter since Thanksgiving night. Mrs. Goebel Immediately went to the Fifth avenue police sta.

tlon and Officers Gannon and McCarthy were sent to the flat with her. They broke open the door and found tho mother and child tightly embraced. Mrs. Goebel told the police that Ambrose Haas of 4,130 Third avenue. Manhattan, could find Mrs.

Orqsse's husband, who Is a painter. Haas was advised and shortly after midnight Mr. Grasse called tof 'take a last look at his wife and child. Ho asked no questions, nor did he make any statement, but left after a few minutes. DETECTIVES KNOW HIM WELL.

Man of Many Names Was Jostling Passengers on Car. -Frank Cospello, alias Siller, alias Adam who Is supposed to live at 185 Front street, Manhattan, was arraigned In the Gates avenue court this morning, charged with Jostling people on a Broadway trolley car on Saturday night. He was arrested by Detectives Vlttmann and Dukeshlre of the local headquarters. Detective Vlttmann said that Cospello had been arrested seventeen times, and was well-known by the police as a pickpocket Magistrate Gllroy sentenced Cospello to a $10 fine or ten days in jail. practiced in Philadelphia, but thirty-five years ago he came to Astoria.

He was a member of St. George's EplBcopal Church until the time of his death. He had a son, William, who lives in Astoria, and a married daughter who lives at Englewood, N. J. Mrs.

Smallwood died a number of years ago. About ten years ago Dr. Smallwood retired from active practice, but he continued to attend some of his oldest patients. Following his retirement Dr. Smallwood purchased a factory in Astoria where canned goods were put up.

Later he invented a self-filling bottle which haj obtained wide commercial use. James B. Murphy. James B. Murphy, for twelve years the chief clerk of the Department of Bridges, in Brooklyn, having been appointed by Mayor Van Wyck and serving under Mayors Low and McClellan, died yesterday at his home, 52 Duffield street, after a long Illness.

It began with typhoid fever and pneumonia and other diseases developed. Mr. Murphy was born in the Fifth Ward, forty-three years ago, hia parents being James B. and Catherine B. (Haggerty) Murphy.

He was always active in local matters and was a Democrat In politics and a member of the Tllden Club. He was a very popular member of Brooklyn Lodge, B. P. O. Elk3; Concord Council, C.

B. and tho Down Town Taxpayers Association, of which he wat the secretary and was treasurer of the Mural Decoration Committee of Public School No. 5, from which he was graduated many yearB ago. He was unmarried and leaves two sistem, Mrs. Laura Gaffney and Mrs.

T. J. O'Toole. A requiem mass will be celebrated at St. James Pro-Cathedral, of which Mr.

Murphy was a msmber, Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. Francis Shay Halsted. Francis Shay Halsted, for twenty-five years a lumber dealer, died in the Long Island College Hospital, Saturday, following an operation. He was 69 ears old and leaves a widow. He lived at 529 De.

catur etreet. John A. Kelly. John Alexander Kelly, a resident of the Twenty-fifth Ward for thirty-five years and a retired dealer in confectioners supplies, died on Saturday of heart disease, at his home, 675 Decatur street. He was born at Trenton, N.

in 1849, and was for many years connected with T. C. Ralne Co. He leaves a widow, Caroline Gretzing. and two sons, Arthur and Douglas Kelly.

Sarah Corrigan Cassidy. Sarah Corrigan, widow of Michael Cassidy, a resident of the Tenth Ward of Brooklyn for forty-five years, and one of the older members of St. Agnes R. C. Church, died on Saturday after a very long illness, at her residence, 440 Degravv street.

She was born In Fermanagh County, Ireland, and leaves a daughter, Rose, and two nieces. Louisa Haft. (Special to the Eagle.) Freeport, L. November 29 Louisa Half, widow ot Jacob Half, died Saturday, at the home of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Alvin G.

Smith, South Ocean avenue, from the effects of a paralytic stroke. She was seventy-four years of age and for many years resided at Uniondale. She also resided for some time at Wan-tagh. She leaves several sons and daughters. Funeral services will be held to-morrow afternoon at the Smith home.

OBITUAKY NOTES. Dr. William Geoghan. examiner in the Metropolitan L.ife Iniurance Company, dlfl at his hitme. 160 Wept One Hundred and filxth street, Manhattan, yesterday, aged to years.

He had graduated from Union College and the Albany Medical Colleio. Adelaide widow of Edward Marsh Brown, once commodore of the New York Yacht Club, died Saturday at her home. 45 West Forty-sixth street, Manhattan, aged tit years. Explorer's Brother Admits That Brooklynite Is Not on the "High Seas." ARCTIC CLUB IS ANXIOUS. Instruments Sought, and Friends Are Busily Avoiding Reporters Who Seek News.

Dr. Frederick A. Cook, it is finally mado to appear, has not sailed for Italy; nor Is he on his way to pass the winter in the Azores, and he Is positively not sailing for Havana. The explorer, according to his brother, William L. Cook, a dairyman in Bedford avenue.

Is still in the vicinity of New York city, where he will remain In seclusion until the University of Copenhagen has examined his records and returned its. verdict. Mr. Cook declined to reveal his brother's present address. Curiously enough, the Peary Arctic Club, of which organization Commander Robert E.

Peary is perhaps the most prominent member, is also anxious to locate Dr. Cook. The explorer, it is said, owes the club certain Instruments which he has not returned, and some ot the members appear to be auxlous to know just when be is going to attend to the matter. "No. Dr.

Cook is not here," Herbert L. Brldgman, secretary of the Arctio Club, said this morning when a reporter for the Eagle paid blm a visit. Cook Has Not Answered Letters. "I have written several letters to Dr. Cook in behalf of the Peary Arctic Club," Mr.

Brldgman said, "but he hasn't answered my letters. I wrote to him about some instruments Dr. Cook borrowed of the club and which he has yet to return." The reporter thought Mr. Brldgman might be able to shed some light on the mysterious conspiracy, alleged to have been set afoot to rob Walter Lonsdale ot the records he was said to be carrying to the University of Copenhagen, but Mr. Brldgman had nothing to say on this point.

He was also silent as regards the letters referred to, according to a morning paper, by Mr. Cook, the explorer's brother, in which Dr. Cook's life was threatened. Mr. Bridgman did say, however, that he knew for a positive fact that Dr.

Cook did draw $15,000 from the Carnegie Trust Company. The unusual publicity engendered by the conflicting statements as regards Dr. Cook's departure evidently proved highly distasteful to his friends, for this morning it proved as difficult to reach H. Wellington Wack, Dr. Cook's counsel, as it was to find the explorer himself.

Attorney Wack Also Retires. The stenographer In the office of Lawyer H. Wellington Wack said, when the reporter first called, that Mr. Wack would probably be In sometime In the early afternoon. Later when the reporter called again, she said she had heard from Mr.

Wack over the telephone, and that he had lustructed her to tell newspaper men that he had no statement to make other than that Issued by him on Saturday. Mr. Wack issued three statements on Saturday regarding Dr. Cook's whereabouts. His stenographer did not say which of these three statements he referred to this morning.

Mr. Bradley, it was stated at the Neth-erland Hotel, was out of town. It was not known when he would return. Captain B. S.

Osbon, Arctic Club of America, was not reachable when the reporter called. From other sources It was learned, however, that Dr. Cook is deeply distressed at the wave of satire aroused by the announcements concerning the conspiracy io waylay and rob Walter Lonsdale on the high seas, the threat to blow up the ship and the warning against the explorer's life. Doctor's Brother Is Worried. That Dr.

Cook did receive a letter threatening his life was confirmed, according to a morning newspaper, by his brother. Mr. Cook stated he personally saw the letter. Asked about the letter in which it was threatened to blow up the ship on which Dr. Cook's secretary Balled Mr.

Cook said he had been told of it by the explorer. "Dr. Cook Is not 111," Mr. Cook said. "He Just wants to rest and to have time to write his book In peace." Later Mr.

Cook issued a formal statement in which he said that Dr. Cook Is in the vicinity of New York getting a much needed rest, and that there would tie no secrecy whatever about h's departure in the event he eventually decides to go to Europe. 1 INSPECTORS NOT IN HARMONY Dr. Brush Wants Two Departments Consolidated. Charter Revision Commission Gets Information on Strange Doings of Tenement Inspectors.

Former Senator Dr. George W. Brush, of Brooklyn, appeared before the Charter Revision Commission In Manhattan today, to ask that the Tenement House and Building Departments be consolidated. He said that the inspectors of the two departments now worked at cross purposes, and cited one Instance wherein a man who had purchased a tenement house In Brooklyn recently, found a few months later that the bouse was not In conformation with the tenement house provisions. He cited this as an evidence of the lack of co-ordination between the two departments and suggested that the Tenement House Department be made a bureau of the Building Department.

He addod that all sanitary questions In the tenement houses be referred to the Health Department Instead of to the Tenement House Department. Dr. H. W. Berg, cn behalf of the Tenth, Eleventh and Seventeenth Wards Property Owners' Association, also appeared in behalf of the consolidation ot the Building and Tenement House Departments.

He said the Tenement House Department was superfluous and that the department had powers that properly belonged to the Health Department, such as the sanitary provisions and powers that rightly belonged to the Building Department. "An Illogical unjust act was passed the day the Legislature gave the Tenement House Department, a lay body, powers to carry out sanitary provisions," said Dr. Berg. Dr. Berg added that the law gave the Tenement House Commissioner power to vacate the tenants of a tenement house in forty-eight hours.

Tenement houses, he said, were not owned generaKy by rich people, but by poor persons who had but two or three thousand dollars equity In a building, and said that many such persons had been financially ruined by the actions of the Tenement House Department. He said he was not attacking the law, but the class of administrative officers. NELSON MADE CHIEF CLERK. Joseph Nelson, formerly a bookkeeper of the Sewer Department of the Borough ot Queens, has been made chief clerk at a salary of $2,500 per year. THERE WILL BE REAL GARDEN.

"Dutch Garden" to Have a Windmill. Children to Play "The Toy House." Following their big "Diamond Festival" at the Academy of Music a year ago, the Brooklyn Orphan Asylum gives a four days Christmas sale and Dutch garden in the auditorium and banquet hall of tho new Masonic Temple, at Lafayette an'l Clermont avenues, commencing Wednesday noon. Of all the big bazars of that season, this promises to be on the largest scale, and as the Interior of the new Temple is yet unknown to most Brook-lynltes, there Is much Interest as to this 1909 "orphan" affair. Mrs. J.

S. Hollinshead heads the committee of arrangements, as last year, and with her are associated Mrs. Joseph B. White, Mrs. James L.

Brumley and Miss Anna M. Kerr. MIsb C. D. Barr is chairman of the hospital brick committee, anl Mrs.

S. H. Olmstead chairman of the hospital memorial bed committee. This year's officers of tho asylum are: Mrs. George W.

Mable, president; Mrs. J. S. Hollinshead, first vice president; Mrs. Charles Dennis, second vice president; Mrs.

William H. Meserole. secretary; Mrs. Edwin Howell Sayre, assistant secretary; Mrs. James L.

Brumley, recording secretary; Mrs. Joseph B. WWte, treasurer. Tho "garden" will be the big featurs of. the scenic display of the four days.

It Is to be placed In the Masonic Temple's auditorium, which is about 90 by 75 feet. On the stage a garden will be laid out with real flower beds. Tho auditorium's center is to be left free for visitors anl for the cadet drills. Cnderneath the gallery will be the booths. Back of these, booths will be scenes of Dutch houses, tho effect being that of a town where tho Inhabitants are selling at little stands in front of their homes.

Part of the picture will bo the big windmill used In the Academy last year. It wll be given the same post of prominenoo as before, and will be the candy booth. Each afternoon ot 4 o'clock and each evening at 8:30, the children from tho Orphan Asylum will give a little operetta, "The Toy House." The Elwell Cadets will commence each drill on the auditorium floor, and then will march away and continue It in one of the divisions of tho big banquet ball. In yet another part of tho banquet hall the restaurant will bo established. Among the highly entertaining features of these four days will bo Mother's Goose and Her Son.

the Japanese Ball Boys, the White Elephant and Santa Claus and His Chimney. There will be a luncheon servedi every day, as well as dinner. The sale of the five-cent hospital bricks la to be continued. sooooooooooooooocoooooooce I THE REALTY MARKET feoooooooosooocoooooooooo Partition Sale at Auction. A partition sale at auction will bfj held in the Real Estate Exchange a noon to-morrow, at which property It Flushing and DfKalb avenues will bo offered.

One parcel Is a plot at 124 and Flushing even Clermont avenue and Adel which has two stories and stable on It. The other is 463 De Kalb avenue. bet place and Kriii avenue, a pi with' a two-story imuie sto apartments and an eight James L. Brumley Is the the sale Is under the direct S. Lovett Co.

Four Houses and Large Woodmere. Maximilian Morgenthau, the newly Incorporated Wt Company, announces the dwellings and large plots -These sales are in addition to tne vious sales of four hundred and thirty-five lots and two hundred and thirty lots already announced and brings tho total sales at Woodmere during tho past ten days to more than a million dollars. Besides the sales already announced there are a number of important transactions now pending. The four houses sold last week are: House and fifty-three lots in one at the corner ot Broadway and Meadow drive, to S. H.

Rosenblatt; house and plot of thirty-three lots at Keen lane and Wood lane, to Clarence G. Galston; house and plot of forty lots, at Broadway and Wood lane, to William Rosenbaum, and housa and twenty-five lots In Wlllard road to S. Heller. Important South Brooklyn Sales. Galltzka brokers, report the following recent sales: For the John E.

Sullivan Co. to a N'ew York syndicate, the block front on the westerly side of Fifth avenue, between Sixty-seventh street and Senator street; the southeast corner of Sixty-second street and Fifth avenue, 40x100; the northeast corner of Sixty-second street and Fifth avenue, 100x100; the southwest eorncr Sixty-second street and Fifth avenue, 60x100; the northeast corner of Sixty-first street and Fifth avenue, 100x100, for a consideration of $140,000. The block front from Sixty-seventh street to Senator street is to be built on at once with eight-story elevator apartment houses. For Minnie H. Levy to Patrick Cum-mlnga, 649 Fifty-fifth street, a two-stor? and cellar stone two-family house, for $7,000.

For B. Cohen, to an Investor, the block front on the easterly side of Thirteenth avenue, between Seventy-sixth street and Seventy-seventh street, for $20,000. For Harris Berry to an investor, the northeast corner of Fourth avenue and Sixty-eighth street, for $9,000. For B. Cohen, to an investor, a plot ICOxlOO on the north side of Seventy-seventh street, 1O0 feet east of Thirteenth avenue, for $8,000.

By John Pullman Real Estate Co. iTH ST. 349. between 5th and 6th avs A two story and basement one-famfly dwelling for Isaac TUlotson to August Kurre for occu-uancy. Auction Sales To-day.

(BY JAMES RR.rMT.EY. AT REAL-ESTATE EXCHANGE.) Fifth av. s. 75 ft 21st st. 25x100.

Frederick Prave apst Ferdinand Selle et al: Action No Harry David, att'y. 1 Jay st: Albert Linton, ref. Sale adjourned to December AERONAUTICAL MAPS. Berlin, November 29 At a meeting of the Imperial Aero Club of Berlin presided over by Count Zeppelin and attended by a number of officers of tha general staffs of the army and navy, today, the preparation of aeronautical maps was discussed. It was agreed that such charts as would show the marked varia tlons of the landscape as well as the location of electric wires and other aerial obstructions would be useful.

MOROCCAN CHIEFS STJBBENDEH. Melilla. Morocco. No' 29 The chiefs of the important Moroccan tribes nf Vahvlea Rpni-Boufrur and Beni-Sidsi 1 tc-day made formal submission to General Marina with much ceremony. The chiefs In raifia a native foron unit 1 Cnnnlot.

fntt0 affoln.l Moore Moors as were still hostile. James F. Carey. that section. Samuel J.

Tllden was his friend and used to visit him almost daily when Mr. Carey's desk was In the office of Martin Runyon, 40 Wall street, Manhattan. Mr. Tllden would discuss financial questions with Mr. Carey by the hour and their interchange of opinions was of benefit to both.

At that time Mr. Carey was on the Eagle. He was the city editor of the New York Commercial Advertiser from 1857 to 18B8, except In 1864, when he was on the editorial staff of the New York World, and in 1869 was the city and financial editor of the New York Republic and on the city staff of the New York Times. He came to the Eagle in 1870, remaining there until 1897. After his connection with the Eage he was an editor on the Financier, a Wall street journal.

Tunis Van Felt Talmage. Tunis Van Pelt Talmage, once president of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Brooklyn, died at his home, 216 Eighth avenue, yesterday afternoon, after an Illness of eighteen weeks, he having been bedridden all that time. His death was due to a complication of diseases. Tunis Van Pelt Talmage was the son of Thomas Goyn and Dorothy Miller Talmage, and was born July 24, 1832, in Cl'nton, N. J.

His ancestry dates back to the time of William the Conqueror and his family from one of the oldest In English history, the family seal being recorded at Newton Stacy, in the city of Southampton, England. As early as 1630 three Talmage brothers, his immediate ancestors, came to New England, one settling in New Jersey and one on Long Island, settling tlr) town of Southampton. Mr. Talmage was educated at the public schools of Brooklyn, where he has lived since 1840. At the age of seventeen he went as one of forty-niners to California, returning in 18B2, when he became a contractor, grading Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth avenues and all the streets between First and Ninth streets.

He started a retail coal business in 1857, which developed into a wholesale trade after 1882. In I860 he engaged in local politics. The first office he held was supervisor from the Eighth Ward for two years. In 1862 he was elected alderman of the same ward, the second term serving as president ot the board. He represented the Fourth District in the State Legislature in 1874 and 1875.

when he Introduced the readjustment of Prospect Park taxes, which required the burden of the tax to be distributed over the entire city Instead of its being restricted to the few holders of property contiguous to the park. Mr. Talmage claimed the whole city was equally benefited by the park, and by his strenuous efforts to overcome the stormy opposition to the measure made many friends in both parties. In 1865 Mr. Talmage came within one vote of receiving the Democratic nomination for mayor, his opponent being Martin Kalbfleisch, who was elected to the office.

He was always actively connected with the Twenty-second Ward Improvement Association, and during the Civil War, as one of the supervisors, he served on the relief committee which gave generous assistance to the widows whoso husbands were killed on battlefields. Ha assisted In recruiting the Fifty-sixth Reg ment, of which his brother was major, and was commissioned captain by Governor Morgan. Mr. Tklmage's father, Thomas G. Talmage, was the sixth mayor of Brooklyn, in 1845, and while alderman the plans of the present Borough Hall were adopted, and the build ng constructed later on during his mayoralty administration.

Mr. Talmage always considered the most Important work of his father's life was In his origination of Prospect Park, of which he wa3 the chief promoter. He It was who Introduced and carried through the bills of 1858, 1850 and 18C0. the first three commissioners tor the purpose ot establishing the park, appointed by the Legislature being Thomas G. Talmage, E.

C. Litchfield and Charles Staunton. Four years later, when Republican opposition appeared, J. S. T.

Strananan was aooea io me commission. Among Mr. Talmnge's ancestors were his uncle, Jacob M.ller, Unite! States Senator from New Jersey for sixteen years; William Miller, who via United States to France, and the Revs. James and John Van Nest Talmage. The Rev.

T. DeWltt Talmage was his cousin. T. V. P.

Talmage, whose first wife was Magdallne Van Nest Deforest, by whom he had three children, Mrs. Frank E. Dodge, Mrs. William H. Force and William Deforest Talmage, all of whom are living, and five grandchildren.

Mr. Talmage's second wife anl present widow, Lillian M. Talmage, was the only daughter of the late Thomas Marchant, well known In Masonic orders and for forty-seven years superintendent of Greenwood Cemetery. Mr. Talmage was identified for many vears with the Dutch Reformed Church, but since 1896 haB been identified with the Park Congregational Church, of which he was trustee.

He was a man of generous, kindly nature, beloved by all who knew him. Elizabeth Case. wife of John A. Case, died after an tllncBS of several months at her home, 46 Lenox road, Brooklyn. She was the daughter of Samuel M.

Carman, one of the pioneer shipbuilders of Long Island, and was born at Saint James, L. I. Her whole life was devoted to work in the Methodist Church aud Sunday school. She commenced her work In the old church that was situated on East Broadway, now Church avenue; followed to the new church on Lenox Road and when that was abandoned, went to St. Mark's M.

E. Church and Sunday school, where she taught a Bible until the time she was taken with her last Illness. Her husband and one son, George C. Case, survive her. Dr.

Samuel Brightwell Smallwood. Dr. Samuel Brightwell Smallwood. for the past thirty-five years a resident of the Astoria section of Long Island City, and up to ten years ago one of its leading practicing physicians, died late Saturday night at the Post Graduate Hospital in Manhattan following an operation for ptomaine poisoning. Dr.

Smallwood was born In Brooklyn sixty-nine years and took his degree at the College Physicians and Surgeons in Manhattan. He began the. practice of his profession at Huntington, L. Then for a time he P- HRfmttm wara np.aant.il II in thA flotiifll condition of the absentee. This, Attorney Cochrane said, he would obtain before 2 o'clock In the afternoon.

Voelker's malady was described as fatal by his attorney. At the very outset. Mr. Stlmson required the defendants to plead in person to the charges against them, and all Interposed pleas of not guilty. A sim- liar plea was accepted on behalf of Voe'kcr.

The iii'lee then asked for motions, and Attorney Cochrane rose and asked for an adtournment on the ground that the public mind was at present so Inflamed that the defendants could not hope for a fair and Impartial trial. Judge Martin here interrupted him by saying that he would entertain a motion later after he had excused the iurors. Mr. Cochrane tbn served notice on the court that he would later move to quash the Indictment, which might come In the nature of an order to arreBt luement at the conclusion of the trial. Ex-Senator Lexow followed with a motion which he described as being "In the nature of a motion to adinurn." He asked that the counsel for the Government be to found his case on the orielnal Indictment returned last May, and not unon the latest one found a week or so ago.

He argued that the original lnfl'ctment was for fraud in connection with the carao of the steamshlo Eva. whMe the latter indictment conta'ned the "scooo-net" charge of conspiracy and a number of additional counts At this point the jurors wltnepses present in the court room were excused until 2 o'clock, and the arguments unon the motions were made. Judge Martin, however, disposed of that which was based unon the alleged inflamed condition of the publ'c m'nd by saying that he could best judge of the state of the public mind by listentng to the examination of the talesmen and he shut off further argument in relation thereto. AMERICANS IN PARIS. Eagle Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon.

Paris. James It- Wilder of Brooklyn, who has been traveling extensively In England, Holland and Belgium, has just arrived in Paris and will remain a week. He will then visit Switzerland and Italy, sailing for home from Genoa some time in December. Among the Americana who have been noticed in the hotels and on the principal boulevards and avenues of Paris recently are: James R. Wilder, John B.

Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Underwood and H.

B. Shaen of Brooklyn, and A. Modey. J. Modey.

C. Graham, L. Br'gham. Colonel C. Gage, F.

B. Bade, Mr. and Mrs. George McKlnney, Mr. and Mrs.

H. H. Weekes, Mr. and Mrs. Frank A.

Bates, J. H. Thornier, J. T. Slavin, Mrs.

John L. Calhouse. Miss Julia Cal-house and John C. Calhouse of Manhattan. THE COURTS.

SUPREME COUFT. SPECIAL TERM TRIALS Day calendar. November 30. Harrington Putnam. Justice.

vs Kurtzman. SURROGATE'S COURT. Calendar for Tuesday. Hefore Surrogate Her bert T. Ketcham.

The wills of Robert Wilson. Marfraretha Pfelffer. C. O. Wolferta John Ixehr.

John C. Ruble. John Vogt and Jane D'irn. The administration of Mary Allenson. The guardianship of A O.

Aller. The accounting in the estates nf Thomas Milne. Bernard Ptrassoff. Feter Voyel. Mary McBrlde.

Helen McDonald. J. H. I Hasselbrock. Margaret Van Nattan.

Mirtlri Ttevnolds. Edward Onak'ey, William A. Kelly. A Murphy, Henry Ruppel. John Grur.del, JMIa Folder.

Anton uih ana Husan Pettlt. The estates (if William Russell. Hewlet Ladd. Gceln infants. Metzger infnnts, Frlganta Infants, Marlon Infnnts.

G. Mon-taunt. M. Hurley. Charles Zisnoskey, Meyer lnrants.

Cosentlne intanis. houcner intants. infants, Infants. Harrison in- fants end Tully infants..