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VT11E BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 27. XiO.

was she not?" Assistant District Attor- ccy Elder demanded. i name of the hotel where he said he went 'and he wasn't absolutely exact as to its "ies. sir. in the law ofiice of the firm with which I was then connected." FURLONG, Oil THE CHILL, DENIES IMMORAL P1ST; MISCELLANEOUS, Intending purchasers of a STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS Piano, or Piano and Self Player cotibined, shoulJ not fail to examine the merits of the world-renowned And you have sail you knew Mis3 hotel if you heard It? Mr. Elder de-Donan?" roanded.

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being dispersed by the troopers shortly after their hurried trip here from Phlla delphia. The troopers had been um- moned last night, and were patrolling the streets In the vicinity of the steel workfe wheu a shower of bricks and other thing Were hurled at them by a crowd of for-. signers. The captain in command of the troops ordered his men to fire Into the air. it is said, and one man holding bis pistol too low found a human mark.

The bullet entered the man brain. He was quickly removed to St. Luke's Hospital, where he died this afternoon. This fatal shooting aroused an ugly feeling among the foreign element on strike at the steel works. The police say that every revo'ver on sale in this town A 1.

1 kna haan hv it ijt.iii iii iii uao i.i, I'm foreigners, and that they bave gona so far as to buy shears and fashion them Into dirks for future use. The boldness of the foreigners can be judged from the fact that one of them actually unhorsed a trooper by tripping the animal he was'. riding. The streets of the town were crowded all afternoon and evening with strikers and thousands of persons attracted from Allentown and other places. Many came through mere curiosity and gave the policemen additional trouble in handling the throngs.

While the troopers were awaiting rein- 1 forcement, this afternoon, to handle a rapidly growing crowd near the main gate of the steel works, state trooper McGarry was struck by a brick and knocked from his borse. He was partly stunned but soon recovered and remounted. The man who threw the brick could not be located in the crowd which was dispersed without sny ceremony when additional policemen arrived. A second detail of the state guards arrived here from Philadelphia this afternoon to assist those who came in the-early morning. Besides these the sheriff of Northampton County to-day swore in one hundred deputies at Eaaton, the county seat, and sent them here.

The saloons are closed and this, ooupled with tho great show of police force, produced good order which was maintained during fn thn II1U itltLer pail, ui ma evening. i Labor leaders who are here organizing the strikers have appointed committees to urge the foreigners to refrain from attacking the police. These leaders wore greatly elated to-day when the company, found it necessary to keep Its great plant closed and asserted that the strikers had the company badly handicapped through lack of men. Superintendents of the company, on the other hand, declare that the shut-down was due to the way lis loval employees were handled while going to and from their work yesterday. The company expects to resume work Monday morning when a large force of policemen will be on hand to proteot suea employes as desire to go to wor.

TAFT PUSHES INTERSTATE BILL Insists That It Be Enacted Substantially as Attorney General Appears Before House Committee to Explain ministration's Position. SBideut 1 51. Strikers and Half Holiday Crowds in Philadelphia Attack Cars. WOMEN CAUGHT IN CRUSH. Question of a General Strike Is Expected to Be Decided at To-day's Meeting of Central Labor Union.

Philadelphia, February 26 After a day of almost complete tranquility several small riots broke out in the Kensington district of Philadelphia late this after noon when bands of young men started in to attack cars that were run through that section of the city by non-union men. In one of the affrays passengers were attacked by strike sympathizers. A motorman was dragged from his car and badly beaten, several policemen wern roughly handled, but In none of the disturbances was anyone injured seriously. The most serious affair occurred about 6 o'clock at Front street and Susque hanna avenue. Front street is a busi ness thoroughfare and always is crowded Saturdays with a holiday crowd from the mills.

The city police, with the as- eistance of a few of the state troopers, had their hands full pretty much the en tire afternoon. Toward evening a crowd gathered at Front and Susquehanna avenue and soon was beyond the control of the local po lice force stationed at that point. Several cars were stoned by Individuals, but got through the gathering crowd with little trouble. The mob continued to grow and Anally a band of young men succeeded in stopping a car at the intersection of the streets. Quick as a flash the crowd was upon the car trying to reach the nonunion crew.

The lone policeman who was protecting the men fought bravely to Bave his charges, but several men dragged him Into the street. In the melee his revolver was taken from his pocket and his club was wrested from his hand. The crowd was too much for him, and he was given a severe beating by the roughs. Several men In the crowd tried, to stop the attack but were threatened with a similar fate. In the meantime the car crew was having it out with other sections of tho mob.

The conductor managed to get away, but the motorman was not so fortunate. He fired several shots from a small revolver, but all went wild and he was pulled from the car and beaten. About this time, policemen who were stationed farther along on both Front street and Susquehanna avenue camo running up and waded into the crowd, which was bent on further mischief. Reluctant to draw their revolvers because of the women and children caught in the crowd, the police fought back tho mob with their clubs. "Here comes the state cops," some ono yelled, and there was a movement to break away.

A half dozen of the mounted police came galloping along Front street and charged into the crowd. They drove up on the sidewalk, smashed right and left with their hickory sticks and gradually forced the mob back. Men, women and children were treated alike. Troopers Make Good Use of Their Eiot Sticks. No guns were drawn by troopers, but they made good use of their riot sticks and gave an extra crack where a rioter showed any resistance.

The crowd, realizing the troopers were not to bo trilled with, was soon on the run, Several hundred being driven through a small street and scattered. During the fight a woman passenger, Mrs. J. C. Ehler, was struck in the abdomen with a brick and rendered uncon-Bcious.

Walter Graham, another passenger, who tried to carry her from the car, was attacked by the mob and roughly handled, but ho managed to carry the woman Into a drug store on the corner. A half dozen people in the crowd were hurt by the policemen's clubs and were sent to hospitals to have their injuries dressed, after which they were taken into custody charged with rioting. The other disturbances In Kensington were not so serious, the rioters bein? dispersed without any damage being done. The first trouble to drenk out In the negro section occurred Kite this afternoon at Fifth and Lombard streets, where a crowd amused' Itself with throwing things at cars. A riot call was sent in and a detail of policemen from a nearby station was quickly on the scene and scattered the crowd.

A detachment of State Fenclbles. the military organization that was roughly handled In Kensington last Tuesday, was guarding a power house nearby, out it was not called from the building, Aside from the scattering disorder and the arrest and arraignment of John J. Murphy, president of tho Central Labor Murphy, pi Union 0 the eighth marked a charge of inciting to rlol, day of the strike was not any important develnnmentR. The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company slightly increased the number of cars in operation, according to company officials, and several lines in outlying sections were opened for the first time. An in creased number of cars is also in operation to-night.

The strikers held meetings during tho day in tho vicinity of several of tho car hams. The gatherings were orderly and the men were urged to stnnd by their union. Some of the speakers charged the company wllh issuing false statements regarding its ability to run cat'3, and said that It could not get good men In Philadelphia to work for It under present conditions. General Strike Question to Be Decided To-day. Whether a gpneral strike of all organized la'ior in Philadelphia will be called next week probably will be decided at lo-morrow's regular meeting of the Central Labor Union.

All trades unions Bfnllated with the central body will have delegates present to discuss the situation It Is said the labor leaders are not unanimous on the proposition to call out all organized labor. It Is contended by some that the Btrikfng car men should be financially assisted rather than call out all organized labor find cripple all the unions. President Murphy, however, is In favor of a general walkout, and whether his advice will be taken remains to be seen. STEEL PLANT STRIKER KILLED Foreigners in South Bethlehem Are Armed and Ugly Feeling Has Been Aroused by Clash With Troops. South Belhlehein, February 20 With one man dead from a bullet fired by a stat' policeman, whh two others suffering from slight pistol wounds and with more than a dozen men nursing in juries inflicted by the heavy riot sticks ef the troopers.

South Belhlehem to-night is apprehensive of what Is In store next week. There were no pitched battles during the day between the hundreds of Hungarians and the mounted police, but the situation was at times so critical that serious outbreaks were narrowly averted by the patience and steadiness of tho state gunrds. The man killed to-day was JoBeph Sambo, said to bo one of the men on strike at the Bethlehem Steel Works, and it Is declared by the stato police that hlB end was due raorti to accident than design. He was btt'tWtfliM-'ot a row4 that was I Washlnflton. February 26--Presid I whereabouts.

"Would you recognize the name of the 1 Didn't Stay at Same Hotel With Mrs. I Halsey. Tlle witness was not very sure mat he cuuiu. ana. ne was sure mat.

nise: I or Hartman had stayed with Gotthelf aud his wife. Asked If he would recognize a picture of the hotel he says ho stopped at. he said he didn't know. The assistant district attorney thereupon produced a large picture of the Kensington Hotel, at Plainfield, and asked him it that was tho hotel he stopped it. Mr.

Furlong said he didn't recognize the hotel in the picture. "You know your own handwriting, do you not?" Mr. Elder asked. "Yes, sir." didn't you register at the Kensington Hotel with Mrs. Halsey as Mr.

and Mrs. Halsey, or Kelsey, of Newark, N. "Tho marriage of Gotthelf took plac-3 on April 4, 1900, on a Sunday, didn't it?" Witness couldn't recall the date. He was then shown the hotel register of tho Kensington Hotel. Under the name of Joseph Gotthelf and wife appeared the names of Mr.

and Mrs. Halsey, or it might have been Kelsey, of Newark, N. J. "Now Isn't that your handwriting?" Elder demanded? Magistrate Furlong retorted that it was not. Right below the name said to have been registered by Furlong the name of Murray Winakcr, the cnauneur who, Elder indicated, had taken the party to the hotel.

Furlong said from the nature of the handwriting that it looked as If Gotthelf had registered the chauffeur's name. Assistant District Attorney Elder then went exhaustively into the statement that the magistrate had gono to a separate hotel, leaving Mrs. Halsey with Mr. and Mrs. Gotthelf, but he was uname to shake the witness.

In reference to Gotthelf. the magis trate denied knowing that ho was In the business of "runner In the Gates avenue court. He also alleged he did not know the relations betweon him and Kathan. He didn't know, except indifferently, how long or when they, Gotthelf and Kathan, worked together. Elder then Questioned the witness in an effort to show the alleged Intimate relations that existed between him and Gotthelf and that the magistrate had introduced the "runner" to saloonkeepers to get such excise cades as the saloon keepers controlled.

Magistrate Furlong had some difficulty in placing the occupation of some of the saloonkeepers, and ne and Elder had quite a sharp session of it. Furlong said in response to a question that he had never been in such a condition that he couldn't see where he was. This was after he expressed some vagueness about having introduced Gotthelf to a saloon keeper named Bertrand. When adjournment was taken Funons was still under cross-examination. Elder will continue his questioning when the case is resumed at 10 o'clock, Monday morning.

Yesterday session was unusual in that but few trials are continued in the Supreme Court through Saturday. Unusual vigilance, also, is being ob served in preventing any tampering with the jury. The twelve men are kept at the Clarendon Hotel under continual guard, and they are not even permitted to receive messages from their homes. or send them, unless the communications go through Justice Kapper. Four court attendants have been detailed to guard the jury while at the hotel and while going to and from meals, and during the night one or more of the court attaches can be found on guard in the corridors before the rooma occupied by the jury.

CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING. Many Friends of Mr Mrs. Victor Petterson Attend Dinner and Dance. The golden anniversary of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs.

Victor Pettsrson of 162 Eldert Btreet was celebrated last even- ng by a dinner and dance at the Impe rial. Over a hundred friends and relatives of the couple attended. The affiair was under the auspiceB of the SwediBh Ladies Soicety Freja. After the dinner Mrs. G.

E. PetterBOn, president of the society, introduced the toastmaster of the evening, Charles R. Johanshen, edi tor and owner of the Swedish North Star. The other Bpeakers were: John Hartell, president of the Swedish Hospital, Mr. Gustafson, president of the Swedish Engineers Club of America; Dr.

C. Lund-beck, Mr. and Mrs. H. A.

C. Dahl, Edward -vionn, representing the Swedish Singing Society; Mrs. Christina Ohlsen, president of the Swedish Systraforbundet of York; Mrs. A. W.

Jahnson. presi dent of the Swedish Ladies Society of New York, and Mr. Hanson, one of the oldest friends of the couple. Musical selections were given through out the evening by Professor Josef Hag- strom and the Uuartet Luren of the Swedish Gleen Each guest waa presented with a gold loving cup as a souvenir and the women wore gold hair ornaments In the form of a daisy, while ne men wore small gold acoorn leaves. After dinner the guests adjourned to the ballroom and dancing filled up the rest of the evening.

Mrs. Sophie Petterson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, eighty-two years ago and when 32 years of age married Victor Petterson. About forty years ago the couple came to Brooklyn, where thy have children i kort here Mrs Petterson oraanfl hpTI, i isk Ladies vt t5etlSwed- 6 Sr1" 8 ucc living ever since, iney nave no was a bookbinder, at which trade he made a considerable fortune, and retired some yeahs ago. The committee In charge of last night's celebration consisted or Mrs. G.

E. Petterson. Mrs. Nellie Jahnson and Mrs. Cherlotta Plerson.

A JOB FOR SCHULTE. Queens Independence Leaguer Made Deputy Warden in County Jail by Sheriff Quinn. Sheriff Thomas M. Quinn of Queens County announced yesterday the appointment of T)iederick 8chulte, a grocer, of 114 Vernon avenue, as deputy warden in the Queens County Jail. He will fill the position made vacant by the resignation of Deputy Warden Charles Van Sise.

Schulte is one of the most ardent Independence Leaguers In Queens County. He has been the right-hand man of Sheriff Quinn ever since the latter was chairman of the Queens County organization. A year ago he ran for assembly on the Independence League ticket In the First Assembly District. Sheriff Quinn has a number of lo fill under the civil service law, and he has completed arrangements with the State Municipal Service commission for examinations of applicants for positions to be held on March 3, at tho Criminal Courts Building, In Manhattan. ROW oTfTaTsTn FIRE.

$2,000 Blaze Starts at 73 Boulevard, Eockaway Beach Defective Flue Probable Cause. At 5:30 yesterday afternoon fire oc ccurrrd on the third floor of No. 7 Boulevard. Rockaway Beach, in the apart ment3 of Ack Polllner. The building Is I one or a oi nve mree-story frame flats.

In which six families had apart ments. The buildings are owned by Mrs. Ray Hosonfeltl. The fire spread lo the upper portions of Xos. 75.

77, 79 and 81, and all the apartments where more or less damaged by water and smoke. The Iobs on the buildings is placed at $2.00. covered by insurance. The tenants' Ioks could not be estimated. The cause of the fire is believed to have been a defective flue.

List August the roofs of the same row bouses were burned off. I Taft and Attorney General Wickersham v.cs "No." Her was a member of your po- "How many times had you visited Ounan's home before the incident between I yen and Miss Donan, who is also alleged Uo have given birih to a child? Talks of Blackmail in Case Magistrate Kurlong didn't like the wor.1 incident, and he demanded to know i by the Donan incident the assistant dis trict attorney meant when "he was black mailed." "You know very well the incident I re fer to." the assistant district attorney said sharply. "I mean the incident you tesiincu to tni morning." The assistant district attorney and the magistrate had some further words on the subject and finally the magistrate said he had never visited the hon.e of the Donan girl "before the time that money was demanded for hushing ud the scan dal. "You have said that it was Jacoh Gotthelf who Informed you of the fact that it was being asserted that a child had been born to the Donan girl and that you were tne father? "He was the first who told me." "Were there others who talked to you auuut 11 "1 am not sure "Did you ever see Donan in respect to this matter?" "No. sir.

Xot at that time. Gotthelf am an that. "Did you see the Donan girl's father at any time before you paid the J125 to hush up tne scandal?" "Ootthelf did all that. Did you consult with anyone except uumieii neiore you paid the money? i aid. "Did Miss Donan come to sea you fre- mu-iiuy "If she did, she came to the court.

"Did you see her frequently In your private omce "Never alone." Now, as a matter of fact, don't you know that you saw her frequently In your private office and that she came there so often that it became a scandal?" The magistrate denied that this was so, and Justice Kapper had the stenographer birine out me assistant district attorney cuaiacierizauon or it having "become a scanaai. Denies Meeting Girls in His Private Office. "Well, didn't she come to see you again and again?" the assistant district attorney again demanded. "She may have come a thousand times to see me, without my having seen her, tne magintrate retorted. "She made no social calls in my private office." "On the day you went over to New York with Gotthelf, as you testified this morning, for the purpose of arranging for the suppression of the Donan scandal, you stopped in the banking office of Henry Clews and it shed a check for $200, didn't you?" the assistant attorney asked.

"I don't remember." "Do you mean to say you can't remember in such an important episode as this at what bank-you got money?" "I don't recall Just what bank I stopped ''We'll-, sort of thing wasn't so fre-qun't 'ari occurrence with you that what you did left no Impression on your memory?" "No, sir." The assistant district attorney here asked the witness about a release of all claims upon him written out by the Donan girl after the payment of $125 "hush money" had been made. The release was brought to the court room by Furlong's counsel, but was not placed In evidence. "Where were you when you got the release from Miss Donan?" Mr. Elder asked. "I don't remember." Mr.

Elder tried to refresh the magistrate's memory by reciting the alleged occasion when the release had been turned over to him by Gotthelf, but Furlong was not to be refreshed. "You were consulted bv this girl finnan how to get rid of the child, weren't Elder demanded. "No, sir." "Did anybody consult you in the matter?" "No, sir." "Didn't you give her instructions that she go to the Charities Department and tnat she represent herself to be the wife of a man who was away, like a soldier or somebody like that, and that she was destitute, so that she could get the child into a charitable institution?" 'No, sir." 'Wasn't the charge made against you in the Hedden case that you placed the girl in some place for immoral pur I didn't know of anything like that until this minute." 'Wasn't the charge made that you per sonally had relations with the Hedden girl?" "No, sir." "Weren't you questioned by the Grand Jury on that point?" My best recollection is that I was not." "Wasn't It also the charge that you permitted her to be in a place where she was viBited by other men? "No, sir. It wasn't true." "Well, then, the women I have men tioned are not the only ones you have had trouble with, are they?" Mr. Elder demanded.

The witness didn't know what was meant by the word trouble, and he ob jected to the interpretation of the As sistant District Attorney. The magistrate preferred to regard his past experiences in the light of blackmail and he so stated. After Mr. Cock ran had rallied to the defense of hla client and after he and Mr. Elder had finished their usual little tilt, the assistant district attorney said: "You knew a woman named Ashley or Halsey?" "Not by that name," the magistrate said.

"Then you heard of her by another name?" "Yes, in a hundred-thousand-dollar suit brought by her." "Her name was Hartman?" "Yes, sir." "And you debauched her, too, didn't you?" "No. sir." "And you know her real name is Hartman?" "Not of my own knowledge in legal papers." Denies Story of Woman I read it at His Eamapo Farm. "Isn't it a fact you kept this woman on your Ramapo farm and that your wife retusea to go to your tarm on account of her?" "It is absolutely untrue. It Is some more blackmail matter about me." "Well, you spent a night with her at a hotel at Plainfield. X.

didn't you?" "No. sir. 1 was at Plainfield, but I was at the hotel alone." "Did you register at the hotel?" "No "What?" "No, sir. I did not register." "When wii3 it that you were in Plain-field?" "When Gotthelf was married." "You were a witness of tho marriage?" "Yes, I was there." "Who else was there?" "Mrs. Halsey." "Mrs.

llalsev? She is the woniar. we have been talking about as Mr3. Hari-rnnn "Yes." "After the ceremony you all went to one didn't you?" "No. sir. I went to a different hotel." Kurlong could not recall th-3 AN MO'iEY imm OPPJRTIIHITY It'-iniilmns a bond nw at with r-i bonus fn rtrnw.iruU.jriK nni Sl.noo.

are umply nrrurwi, ariri ennvert ihle jntll HtnrW at par. rfftent hoIKr comprise fure-nuct bunim-KB ami prof fKS tonal m-n of the country. Thon.utthly safe investment. Stock Kivf-n as h-min has wonderful anl will unquerHii-nably lnrnHse man times in value in a few y-nis. Will be easily market-Hhte.

(jnick- action aiviee-J. C. Bus 17, I'-fgle u(Ik'8, Admits Paying Hush Money Case of Donan Girl, but Says Charges Against Him Were Untrue. SEVERAL YOUNG GIRLS NAMED. Assistant District Attorney Elder Pioduces Hotel Register to Prove One Allegation Against Magistrate.

In lie trial of Magistrate Henry J. Furlong in Part of the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon. Assistant District Attorney Elder went so far into the magistrate's past that the spectators in the court room gasped in amazement. Mr. Elder's cross-examination was based almost entirely on Magistrate Fur-f long's alleged immorality.

In the morning the names of two girls were mentioned. In the afternoon the assistant district attorney brought in the names of three others, and the almost brutal frankness with which he asked the man in the witness chair to detail his relations with them would have made any man who didn't have an iron nerve wince with embarrassment. Magistrate Furlong, throughout the terrible ordeal, sat defiant and unmoved in the witness chair. His answers to the questions of the assistant district attorney were flat, unhesitating denials, and he shot words back at his accuser with out a quiver of the heavy face or a blink of the eyes that peered out steadily from behind the heavy eye-glasses. The almost tense desperation that crept into the examination temporarily silenced even Mr.

Cochran, whose constant objections and interruptions had worn the patience of the district attorney and his assistant down to the quick. Mr. Elder had been attacked from the standpoint of his ottlcial integrity and he was merciless in his examination. He reached his climax when he questioned the magistrate about a woman with whose name his was connected at the time of Furlong's recent absence from home, just prior to the death of his wife. Elder Introduces Register of Hotel Against Furlong.

The assistant district attorney intro duced the register of the Kensington Hotel, Plainfield, N. and he asked the magistrate to identify the name of a man and woman written there. Mr. Furlong's declaration of absolute ignorance on the point was followed by a statement by the assistant district attorney that he would introduce an expert in handwrit ing and prove that it was Furlong's hand which wrote the names in the book. I will prove him a perjurer," he said.

Magistrate Furlong was on the stand throughout the entire day. He took the chair immediately after his counsel, Mar tin JManton. who Is associated with w. Bourke Cochran and Attorney Goldfogle in the defence, had told the jury of the alleged political conspiracy which had gone to such desperate lengths to destroy the accused magistrate. Time and again in the repeated clashes that took place between Assistant District Attorney Elder and Mr.

Cochran, the court was forced to use the gavel to restore order. Once Justice Kapper sternly ordered Mr. Cockran to sit down, and the latter, in a later exchange of heated amenities, said that the only answer he could make to Mr. Elder would not fee permitted in a court room. The nature of the charges and coun ter charges injected Into the case lent considerable acrimony to the proceedings, and Mr.

Elder was as curt in his treatment of Cockran as the latter was suavely inconsiderate of him. Both he and his associate, Manton, made it plain that they mean to make a determined attack on Mr. Elder as the Instrument of a political organization hostile to Furlong, and the assistant district at torney in his turn left no stone unturned to prove that tne accusea magistrate private life had been of such a kind as to make the charge against the office of the district attorney ab6urd. Furlong Makes Pugnacious Denial of All Charges. Magistrate Furlong's attitude toward the allegation of conspiracy to divide tees was similar to that when questioned about women.

In the main it was a general and an almost pugnacious denial, although at other times he displayed a vagueness of memory which the most strenuous efforts on the part of Elder could not make clearer. Furlong gave the impression of a man who was fighting desperately, and he watched and guarded his answers with an unflagging vigilance. The crowd that Btormed the doors to attend the afternoon session swept the policemen on guard there off their feet repeatedly and caused them to lose their temper. It was necessary to clear the corridor for a considerable distance from the court room before the doors could be opened. The morning had been spent by the de fense in its direct examination of Magis trate Furlong.

In anticipation of the at tack to be made upon him, the accused magistrate volunteered an explanation of tho charges that had been made against him in relation to Mary Hodden and another girl named Donan. In the latter case the magistrate admitted having paid $150 to Jacob Gotthelf to have the matter hushed up. Assistant District Attorney Elder took Furlong immediately in hand when the afternoon session wes begun. He demanded why the magistrate, in giving his 'life's history in the morning, had made no mention of the fact that he at mun 11. cu in Jianiujim.

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ivern girl is now in Hroiklyn and that her I natrc is Mrs. Hess?" "No. sir." i wen, men. wno was ine girl. 'There was none in the yiu I ment ion." then, yon knew a of the (name of Ger.ruile Muro.

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Js'ew Sandy Hwk.llO:J! I.I 4.4 BUN rtlSES AND SETS. February J7. February St't 9 SHIP NEWS. Arrived at New York To-day. Alice, from Tribute, Han Giovanni, fmni Naples (sighted).

Hracmar, from Yokohama. ('ainoens, from Santos. Ksperanza, from Vera Cruz. Monte, from Galveston. Sailed Prom New York To-day.

Trim Joachim, for Fortune Island. Dunholme, for remain buco. Princess Anne, for Norfolk. Seminole, fur Mnte Crisly. Navahoe, for Maenrip.

Kl Ufa. fur Galveston. FurnesKia. fur tilasg'iw. Nacorhee, for Casiiliian Prince, for Pernambuco.

Livingstone, for Turk's Island. Standard, lor Flushing. Oceanic, fr Southampton. Oceana, for Hermuda. La Hretatrne, for Havre.

JJarban-ssa. for Naples. Graf Walfkrse. for Hamburg. Beaver, for Portland, Ore.

Ponce, for San Juan. "Varacas, for San Juan. Principe di Pienionte, for Naples. jt. Andrews, for Baltimore.

Saratoga, for Havana. Iroquois, for Charleston. Kossano, for Oulfport. Kl Rio, for Galveston. Arrived at Foreign Ports To-day.

Algiers Cuyahoga, from New York. PIvmnuth St. Iiuis. from New York. Madeira -Cfii-onia, from New York.

i-'iumeSaxonia, from New York. Naples Pannonia, from New York. Gibraltar Cedric, from New York. Piraeus Athinai, fmm New York. Antwerp Zeeland.

from New York. Qu eons town Baltic, from New York. Sailed From Foreign Ports To-day, Florida, for New York. Rotterdam Phoebus, for New York. Antwerp Vaderlar.d.

for New Bermuda Bermudian. fur New Y'ork. Caledonia, for New York. Havre La Iorraine, for New York. Christiansand Oscar II.

for New Y'ork. Southampton Altnne tonka, for New Y'ork. Reported by Wireless. Sablft Islard, N. February 26 Steamer Columbia, Glasgow and Moville for New Y'ork in wireless communication with the Marconi station here when east of Sable Island at 7-30 P.M.

Will dock about 9 AM. Tuesday. TEST CIVIL SERVICE SUIT Echo of Coler Administration in i Borough President's Office. Employes Who Signed Waivers of Salary- Now Seeking to Kecover a From, City, A test case, the outcome of which will Interest all civil service employes In the city, will be argued on Wednesday la the Special Term for Contested Motions in the Supreme Court. It is that of Benjamin C.

Kirk against the city of. New York. In the fall 1908 Controller Metz refused to permit Borough President Coler to transfer unexpended balances to the salary fund of the Bureau of Public Buildings and Offices. By the end of Sep-t ember the funds of this bureau had sunk to about $6,000, and Mr. Coler was compelled to tell the employes that there was no more money for them, except for occasional employment.

He told them that he would not send their names back to the eligible list for thirty days. On November 13 he called the employes together at a meeting In room No, 23 of the County Court House and persuaded them to accept waivers, which they were to sign on the following day, Monday, and return to him. The next day all but one or two of the employes signed the renouncing all claims against the city fr salary due them for the period of their suspension. It is estimated that more than 100 employes were affected In their rights, and that they had renounced upward of $10,000. When the Coler administration went out office these employee began to plan to Recover the money which they had given tip In the waivers.

They believed that i they had' been forced to sign under du-'ress, and were entitled to the pay for jthe period of their suspension, since I their names had. never been reported to the Civil Servlco Commission, in accord-lance with law. Seventy of the employes, laborers, firemen, cleaners, bath attendants, elevator men, presented their (claims against the city. Their lawyers decided to bring as the 'test case that of Mr. Kirk.

His case Is typical. While suspended he was compelled to always hold himself In readiness to return for a day or more. Many of the Employes worked part of the time, under the belief that Mr. Coler would carry out his promise of securing the passage of a bill through the Legislature to get them their money. The trouble was largely due to the in-' ordinate increase in the number of employes of the bureau.

Instead of sticking to the number of men and women employed in January, the number was increased until the funds were exhausted. In September the payroll reached nnd in October it fell to $80. Late in the year a small amount was finally transferred to the Biilury fund, and it was also Increased by an appropriation of corporate stock. The entire sum appropriated for the year, with the additions of the latter part, amounted to $3110,021.75. If the number of employes employed in January bail not been increased the money needed for the year would have been only $287,408.

and there would have been a surplus of several thousand dollars iii. me enu i lie year and no would have been deprived if his pay. PENNA. GETS If. AND W.

Boston Only Eastern Seaport Not Tapped by Big System. Philadelphia. 23 ported in financial ihat the Pennsylvania Kailroad Company acquired of ihe stock of the Norfolk and Western Railway Company 10 give it absolute coniro of the road The Pennsylvania has made no offl-iai announcement to thit effect. in securing tile Norfolk and Western. Boston will be the only senpurt in the East not tarpjj by the Pennsylvania fiirjlroad.

I Make U. S. Leading Naval Power of World. A BATTERY OF 14-INCH GUNS, Cost of Ship Will Be $18,000,000. This Year's Naval Increase.

AVoshingtou, February 20 The building of a world record breaking battleship of no U-BS than 32,000 tons displacement, at a cost of approximately $18,000,000, and to make the United States the leading naval power of the world are the plans of Secretary of the Navy Meyer. This wos what Secretary Meyer is said to have told the members of the Houso Naval Committee to-day was his ultimate plan, and what he would ask Congress to authorize next year. The mem bers of the committee stated that tne Secretary's radical plans for naval advancement were favorably received by the committee. At to-day's -session of the committee even the stenographer was barred and the Secretary discussed freely with the members his plans ior the navy. Ho said that it was his purpose that the United States should not follow in the wake of any other nation in naval advancement, but that in essential particulars It should take the lead.

The Secretary did not refor In tniB instance par ticularly to naval strength in number of ships or armament, but to various features of improvement of the ofllclency of ships and guns. Giant Battleship to Be Armed With 14-Inch Guns. The giant battleship which Secretary Meyer wauts the United States to build waits until next year only because the naval experiments with 14-inch have not been completed and the department desires to know the result of full experiments before planning for the armament of the giant "Dreadnought." Tentatively, it is planned to arm this great batleship with a battery of fourteen 11-inch guns of the latest type. The secretary said his plans for the enlargement of all the dry docks of the country, as outlined to the committee some weeks ago, were made in contemplation of the great enlargement of the battleships, and he wanted the docks built to accommodate ships of groat size. The committee already has Indorsed the secretary's plan for dock enlargement and the navel appropriation bill Is expected to carry the several million dollars necessary for that purpose.

This Year's Naval Increase. It was tentatively agreed to-day by the committee that the naval increase this year, based on the secretary's recommendations, shall be as follows: Two battleships, equipped with either 12 or 14-Inch guns. One repair ship. Two colliers. Five submarines.

The submarines are for the Pacific coast and are the first of a fast fleet of these vessels which will be provided within the next few years. The plan to place ten additional submarines on the Pacific coast next year was favorably considered. The Pacific coast congressional delegation which told the committee Bome weeks ago of the practically defenseless condition of the Western coast against foreign men-of-war appealed strongly to the members and the submarine fleet has been doclded upon. These submarines will be of the fastest yet launched, and will be capable of making a speed under water of twelve knots per hour. Recently this government has acquired better knowledge than other nations possess, it Is claimed, in the steering of these submarines while they are being driven at high speed.

A member of the committee said that this government was In possession of unofficial information to the effect that Japan was already laying the keel of two great battleships approaching the limit. He added that the tonnage of the great battleship under consideration by the United States would depend to a great extent upon the weight of the batteries of the huge 14-inch guns which would be placed on this ship. SOCIAL SERVICE WORK. Besults Accomplished in Philadelphia Set Forth Before Y. W.

A. Robert B. Adams, promoter of the de partment service of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia, delivered an Interesting lecture last evening to a large audience at Memorial Hall, at Schormerhorn street and Flatbush avenue, under the auspices of tho Young Women's Christian Association. The lecturer outlined the object of the social service organization, which alms I to co-operate with social workers for the extension of Christianity, to hold shop meetings in factories and car barns during meetings in lactones and car Darns during rPst Periort3' mcot immigrants as they land, and to help them to become useful teaching them English and other things. Through the employment bureaus maintained by It.

the organiza- tion places men in positions and en- courages and Inspires men and boys to render Christian service Mr. Adams referred to the great good accomplished by the "short unit" of service given by those who adopt its principles. "The Idea has worked wontler3 In Philadelphia among men who have been helped in the many ways which the service has of reaching them," said Mr. Adams, "and we expect much good to result from Its Inception in Brooklyn." MASKED BALL AT PALACE HALL. The annual masquerade ball of the Thomas H.

Gallagher Association, composed of young men of the Eastern District, was held last night at Palace Hall, 03 Grand street. Their popularity was shown by the large crowd that attended the affair. The ha'l was beautifully decorated. There were also efficient conimllttees present to look after the I welfare of the gathering and see that everybody was entertained. There were prizes given to women and men for the most elaborate costumes, as well as tho ones having the most groiesnue ones.

The affair was a decider success both finaneially and socially. PUNISHED QUICKLY. Ciinrlftstun, W. February 2H William Bond, formerly a clerk for the Kanawha and Michigan Railroad, was indicted and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary Inside of Iwer.ty minutes today. He pleaded guilty to stealing $1,800 of (he road's money.

Bond yesterdny voluntarily returned from whither he went after taking the money. MRS. C. A. DEVZEEAUX DEAD.

Cincinnati, February 25 Mrs. A. R. Devercaux, widow of Genera! A. K.

Deveraux and society editor of tho Cln- cinnaii Kneuirer for twentv-tlvo years, died to-day. She Wns a member of Massachusetts family. PYRAMID PILE CURE Gives Instant relief uinl quickly cures itdiinc, lileciliiift or piutrinliiij; piles. cents, nil dritwisln niuil. Free, trial imrkiixK sent nn ri'(iiPHt.

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Wickersham for nearly three hours to-day was plied with questions by the House committee on Interstate Commerce and will appear again before that body Mnnrtv to continue throwing light on the administration's precise posltlou. The indications are tnat tne qui win uo reported tho latter part of next week iu virtually the same form as Introduced. Mr. Wickersham discussed many of tho provisions of the bill and Indicated tho administration attitude as to me kbbbu-tlallty of the commerce court feature. As to this Chairman Mann and others of the committee take issue.

It is said thai, only four members of the committee now favor establishing the court, but may i yield to the administration view. Chair- man Mann'B opposition is based on tho contention that such a tribunal was absolutely necessary, that tho duties pro- posed to be assigned to it could Just as effectively and speedily be attended to by the Interstate Commerce Commission and the circuit courts. There is a conciliatory attitude in the committee, however, and there Is a die- position to yield to the President's views if he insists that the commerce court pro- vision is vital to tho measure. I The Presdent regards the railroad it is said, as the most important feature of the entire BO-callcd administration program. He reeiB tnat it snouiu ue -u-aeted into law as speedily as possible.

There has been some disposition in administration quarters to criticise Congress for not taking earlier action on the measure hut. House leaaers I1U1IIL iu tin: fact that the hearings on the bill were ordered by the Houso committee, before ihn President had it ready for prcsen- i tation to Congress and say that there has been no delay whatever inconsistent with careful legislative caution, ECHO OF COTJRTMABTIAL CASE. Washington. February 26 Surgeon Francis M. Furlong will be assigned to duty at, the Naval Hospital at Bostop.

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