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1 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1910.

you don't want any subway' extension constructed on the assessment plan. "Get together, and the before the Board of Estimate. Beat that this cost you you a assessment get cent. rapid The scheme, men transit, who and and it we'll engineered -won't see this project are property holders in the district. As soon as the road is officially assured, they will turn around and sell out to you at a handsome profit, leaving you to foot the assessment bill.

As good citizens of this district, it is up to you to smash this assessment sition before it gets past the Board of Estimate." Just how people living in the vicinity of Livonia avenue are to get rapid transit facilities for Ho nothing, unless they have in mind the contemplated surface road of the B. R. the Livingston political agents failed to explain. They also neglected to point out to the persons they approached the fact that, under the Rapid Transit Act, it would be impossible for the property owners to sell out. so S0011 as the construction of the subway extension road is officially assured, and saddle the expenses of the assessment on the purchasers, without the buyers knowing all about it.

Impossible to Deceive Regarding Assessments. assessment section of the Rapid Transit Act," said a supporter of the Livonia avenue extension last night, "was drawn in such a way that it would be impossible for real estate speculators to deceive the public, as has happened in connection with assessments for sewers anl other like improvements. It expressly stipulates that, before the construction contracts are let. the assessments must be fixed, SO that no property owner could sell a parcel of land without the purchaser knowing precisely what subway assessment he would be called upon to meet. Possessed of this knowledge, the buyer would.

of course. take that item into account in making his terms." As a matter of fact. the average assessment per lot for the proposed Livonia avenue extension will be SO small as to be almost negligible. It will not exceed $75 a lot, and it probably will not be more than $50. And, according to the law.

property owners have ten years in which to pay the assessment. In other words, the average assessment resulting from the contemplated Livonia avenue extention will not exceed $7.50 a lot per year, provided the owners take advantage of the full time for settlement allowed them by the statute. This estimate is based on the cost of the West Farms elevated extension of the existing subway. That extension cost about $634,000 per mile. The area of assessment, as defined by the Public Service Commission, extends for a halfmile on either side of a rapid transit route.

As there are about 10,000 to the square mile, the Bronx extension, had it been constructed on the assessment plan, would have involved an average assessment per lot of about $63. The Bronx extension, however. is a three-track road. The elevated road. which it is planned to build out Livonia avenue, will be only a two-track affair.

SO that its estimated cost of construetion is estimated at not more than $500 000 per mile. Applying same principle that was applied in the case of the West Farm branch, the Livonia avenue extension would, therefore. result in an average assessment of only about $50. MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION Strange Discoveries Follow Tenement House Wrecking. Bomb Materials and Torn Fingers Found in Room From Which Two Men Ran.

Three fingers and various other fragments of a man's hand were found in the wrecked kitchen of a flat on the floor, rear. of a tenement at 343 first Sixty-fourth street, Manhattan, last evening, following an explosion that emptied the five-story building of all its tenants and threw the entire block into a panic. A general alarm has been sent out for the capture of the tenant of the wrecked flat. an Italian, whose name is given by the janitor as Leo Barry, and for another man believed to have been with Barry at the time of the explosion, and who is believed to have been the owner of the hand fragments. The explosion occurred shortly before 5 o'clock.

Herman Warner, janitor of 341 and 343, dashed from his home in the basement of 341 into the hallway of 343. From the door of Barry's apartment rushed Barry, followed by a cloud of smoke. Barry ran past the Janitor without stopping for explanations, and disappeared in the street. Simultaneously, the janitor says, he saw another man vanish into the rear yard of the tenement. The police found that the kitchen of the flat had been wrecked by the explosion, the windows blown out, two chairs broken, and that smashed dishes were scattered over the floor.

In a mass of rubbish they found several bits of human flesh and two joints of a hand. Three fingers were found later by the detectives. The police also discovered in the room a quantity of pebbles and scrap iron, and several empty tin cans, such as are sometimes used in the construction of infernal machines. TRIBUTE TO GEORGE H. FISHER Memorial Adopted by His Fellow Trustees of Law Library, Which He Served 37 Years.

At a regular meeting of the trustees of the Law Library in Brooklyn, held at the library on the 25th day of February, 1910, the following memorial was adopted: "Mr. George H. Fisher, at the time of his death, February 6, 1910, the senior member of the board of trustees; he became a shareholder on November 12, 1869, and was elected a trustee January 7, 1873, and since January 15, 1899, he had been the secretary of the board. He filled a period of service of upwards of thirty -seven years discreetly, faithfully and efficiently, and to that service the prosperity of the library is largely due. Mr.

Fisher was born at Oswego, N. May 7. 1832; he was a graduate of Harvard University and received a degree of A. B. in 1862; later, he was graduated the Harvard Law School, and in 1854 was admitted to the bar of the State of New York, and became a resident of Brooklyn that year, and since that time practised his profession in our midst.

"Mr. Fisher served two terms in the Legislature of the State of New York: Wag a member of the Common Council of Brooklyn for nearly nine years; served a term as supervisor of the Nineteenth Ward. and was a member of the Board of Education of the City of Brooklyn. He was one of the Registrars in Bankruptcy in 1869 and 1870; was a member of the State Militia, and war Judge Advocate of the Eleventh Brigade of the State of New York. "Mr.

Fisher was a man of wide scholarship and great personal attainment; he was a man of affairs and of great publie spirit. He was connected with many business enterprises, and his interest in church and charitable matters was active. widespread and sincere. In his death this board has lost a faithful and wise member and a beloved personal friend." It is ordered that this memorial be spread in full upon the minutes of the board. and a copy thereof be sent to his family.

PARTNER HAS DISAPPEARED. Boston, February filing schedtes in bankruptcy for the real estate Arm of Sirk and Alpert, of this city, which failed last month for $389,000, Joseph Alpert stated 1n the United States District Court to-day that his partner, Ierael Sirk, had disappeared with all the books and papers of the Arm. The assets of the Arm are given at $48,500. LEFT BY MOTHER ON CAR, SMALL BOY IS BADLY HURT Wakes Up to Find Mother Gone and Makes a Bewildered Rush to Get Off. 'LANDS ON HEAD IN GUTTER.

Taken to Hospital Suffering From Shock, Contusions and Concussion of Brain. Little Charles Kaplan was asleep when his mother and sisters left A Bushwick avenue car, last night, when he awoke to find them gone made a and. bewildered rush to get off, with the result that he is confined in St. Catherine's Hospital in a critical condition, sufferfrom shock, concussion of the brain, lacerations of the scalp and contusions 011 the body. Young Kaplan, who is nine years old and lives at 197 Seigel street, was Ing yesterday afternoon with his mother and two sisters in Manhattan.

The family started for home about six o'clock just around the rush hour on the Willlamsburg bridge. His mother and s'aters took seats in the front of the trolley, while Charles sat about four seats from the rear door. When the rar reached Seigel street and Bushwick avenue. Mrs. Kaplan and her daughters got off by way of the front door and supposed that Charles had stepped off from the rear platform.

The boy had dozed off and did not hear the conduetor when he called Seigel street. It WAS not until the car wars nearing Myrtle avenue that he awoke. He was bewildered when he looked out of the window to find that the neighborhood was strange to him. The car was emptied of most of the passengers and the lad seeing that his mother was not in the car, quickly left his seat, ran to the rear platform and made a jump for the street, while the car was moving at full speed. He landed on his head, rolled into the gutter and lay motionless.

Several women were standing in the rear door preparing to alight from the car at Myrtle avenue and they shrieked. The conductor pulled the bell three times, this being a signal for a quick stop, and the motorman brought the car to a standstill about twenty-five yards from where the boy had landed. conductor and several men sengers ran to where the boy was lying and found him unconscious. He wag carried to a nearby drug store. while a hurry call sent to 'St.

Catherine's Hospital. Dr. Lowen restored the boy to consciousness for a while and in that time received information that led to his identity. His parents, who were communicated with, had already reported to the Stagg street police their son was on a car headed tor Ridgewood. BROOKLYNITES IN CAPITAL.

Warehouse Men Adopt Resolution Asking Congress to Supervise Cold Storage Business. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, February 26-The following residents of Brooklyn registered at the Eagle Bureau to-day: Mrs. L. A.

Crane. Frank A. Horne and Mr. and Mrs. Charles M.

Brown. Mr. Horne is here attending the conference of the American Warehousemen's Association. About twenty representatives from as many different cities are attending the conference. Mr.

Horne is secretary of the Merchants Refrigerating Company of New Jersey and also a member of the Merchants Refrigerating Company of New York. The conference was called primarily to reply to the numerous charges that enormous quantities of food supplies are being hoarded in cold storage plants in order to aid the combinations in squeezing the public. Mr. Horne says that these stories are nonsensical. The association adopted resolutions asking Congress to place the cold storage business under Federal supervision and also to take the steps necessary to "disabuse the public mind" of its curate impression regarding the cold storage business and high cost of living.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown will leave Washington to-morrow for Asheville and other points in the South, where they will spend the next few weeks. Mr. Brown is the president of the Charles Brown Company, linen importers.

This is an incorporated concern. Mr. Brown made some inquiries to-day to learn whether Congress intends to make provision for carrying out the publicity clause of the corporation tax law. He said that he was thinking seriously of dissolving the corporate form of his company and resume the old firm name prior to incorporation. He says he may do this in order to avoid being compelled to expose his business methods to rivals and also to avoid the disarrangement of his business affairs incident to complying with the demand of the treasury.

for reports for periods not covered by the present bookkeeping methods. RAILROAD WAGE INCREASE. Norfolk, February 26 Beginning March 1, the Seaboard Air Line will put into effect a general advance in pay of cents an hour for all skilled laborers in the employ of the entire system, the increase affecting about 2,000 men. INDEX To Classified Advertisements in Today's Eagle. I CLASSIFICATION.

SECTION. PAGE Am. European Amusem into. Auction 10 advs. Board.

Advs 12 Business Advs 15 Business 2 Business 15 Coastwise 17 Dancing. Classified 16 Death Notices. 12 11 16 Election Employment Classified Cvs European Advertisements. European European European Resorts. 17 Financial.

Editorial. For Classified 14 Furnished Help Classified Horses, Carriages, 16 Hotels and 17 In 12 Instruction. 13 Lost ....12 Manhattan Amusements. 8 .5 to 9 llaneous. 5 Musical 16 Ocean Advs.

17 Personal. Popular Shops Classified Progressive Shops Rallroads. Adve. 17 Real 14 Real-Estate at Adva. 14 Real Estate Classified Adva 15 Religious Notices.

Claseifled 15 Situations Special 12 17 To Let and For Advalnto 13 Classined 17 Where to Dine Classined A.dvm.... MARRIAGES AND DEATHS BORN. ROSSITER-Born. February 21, 1910. to Dr.

and Mrs. P. Rossiter of Pine Plains, N. TWIN SONS. DIED.

Aberle, Gustave A. Mahon, Mary Baker, W. McDonald, James T. Baldwin, Esther E. MeHugh, Annie Bouton, Le Roy H.

McKibbin, Jos. G. Buell, Henrietta A. McName, M. A.

Conlan, Catharine A. Morrisson. Patrick Corbit, Henry J. Myers, Jacob Degen, Julia O' Donohue, Mary E. Delaney, John J.

Powell. Mary S. Dunleavy, Margaret Samenfeld, Joseph Friedhoff, Frederick Sullivan, Mary Hagarty, Annie L. Teer, Sarah M. Hannigan, Thomas A Telly, David A.

Heffernan, Nora A. Walsh, Caroline A. Horch, Casper Walsh. Rev. P.

Horgan, J. K. Washburn, Louis H. Linington, F. E.

H. Wurster. Charles Lytle, Harry F. ABERLE-On Thursday, February 24, 1910, GUSTAVE A. ABERLE, beloved husband of Mamie Gannon.

Funeral services at his late residence, 1059 Jefferson aV, 011 Sunday, February 27, 1910, at 9 P.M. on Monday, at 10 A.M., at Evergreens. BAKER--On Saturday, February 26, 1910, JOHN W. BAKER. beloved husband of Rebecca Baker (nee Hewes) and son the late Richard and Phoebe Baker of Oyster Bay, L.

I. Funeral from his late residence. 117 Greenwich av. New York City, on Wednesday, at 2 P.M. BALDWIN-On Saturday, February £6.

1910. ESTHER widow of the late Stephen L. Baldwin, D.D., aged 70. Funeral private. BOUTON--At New Rochelle, February 24.

1910, LE ROY H. BOUTON. Funeral services at St. John's E. Church, New Rochelle, on Sunday, at 3 P.M.

BROOKLYN LODGE. NO. 22. B. P.

0. ELKS: Brothers -You are requested to attend the funeral services of our late Brother JAMES T. McDONALD. Sunday. February 27, 8:30 P.

at 443 Logan st. Fulton st. elevated (City Line train) to Montauk av. JOHN FEITNER. Exalted Ruler.

Joseph H. Becker, Secretary. BUELL-On Friday, February 25. 1910, at Upper Red Hook, N. Y.

HENRIETTA A. BUELL, formerly of Brooklyn, N. Y. Funeral on Tuesday, March 1. at 2 P.M.

(Philadelphia papers please copy.) CONLAN-On Saturday, February 26. 1910, CATHARINE A. CONLAN. daughter of the late Michael and Catharine Conlan. Funeral from 927 Madison av, on Tuesday, March 1, at 9:30 A.M.; thence Church of St.

Jean Baptiste, East Sevent st. Manhattan. CORBIT-Suddenly, at his residence, 42 Madison st, on Saturday, February 26. 1910. HENRY I.

CORBIT, son of the late Rev. William P. Corbit, in his 37th year. Funeral private. DEGEN-On Saturday, February 26.

1910, her home, 638 Throop av, JULIA DEGEN, wife of Gustav E. Degen, in her 39th year. Funeral private. -On February 25, 1910. JOHN J.

DELANY, only EOn of Joseph and Ellen Delany, 28 years. Funeral from his late residence, 379 Hamilton av. Monday, the 28th, at 9:30 A.M. Solemn requiem mass at St. Mary Star of the Sea Church, Court st, at 10 A.M.

DUNLEAVY-On Saturday, February 26, 1910, after a short illness. MARGARET FRANCES, beloved daughter of Ambrose and Ann Dunleavy. Funeral from her late residence, 332 Franklin av, on Tuesday, Marconi thence to St. Patrick's Church, and Willoughby avs, at 9 A.M. FRIEDHOFF-On Thursday, February 24, 1910, FREDERICK FRIEDHOFF, in his 91st year.

Funeral services at his late residence, 171 Waverly av, on Sunday, February 27, at 2 P.M. HAGARTY--On Friday, February 25, 1910, ANNIE L. HAGARTY. Funeral services at her late residence, 22 Lefferts pl, Monday, February 28, at 8 P.M. Interment private.

HANNIGAN-On February 24. 1910. THOMAS A. HANNIGAN, beloved husband of Annie Paul and son of Thomas and the late Mary Hannigan. Funeral from the residence of his brother, James, 550 Atlantic av.

on Sunday, February 27, at 2 P.M. Relatives and friends invited to attend. HEFFERNAN-On Saturday. February 26. 1910, NORA A.

HEFFERNAN, beloved wife of John J. Heffernan, at her residence, 361 Fifty -eighth st. Will be buried from the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help on Tuesday, March 1, at 9:30 A.M. HORCH--On February 24, 1910. CASPER HORCH, in his 89th year.

Funeral from his late residence, 99 South Second st. Monday morning, February 28, at 8:30 o'clock: thence to the Church of the Annunciation, North Second st and Havemyer st. Interment Calvary. HORGAN-Died February 25, 1910, J. K.

HORGAN. Services February 28 at 2 P.M. at Moran's parlors, 179 Fulton street, Brooklyn. LININGTON-On Friday, February 25. 1910.

FRANKIE ELIZABETH HOAGLAND, wife of Nicholas Wychoff Linington. in the 62d year of her age. Funeral from her residence, 282 Jerome st, Brooklyn, Monday, February 28, at 2:30 P.M. LYTLE- Friday, February 25, 1910, at his residence, 377 Clinton st, Brooklyn, HARRY beloved husband of the late Catherine Gilmore and father of Harry G. and Louise Lytle.

Funeral on Monday at 9:30 A.M., from St. Agnes Church. MAHON-On Friday, February 25, 1910, MARY MAHON. sister of the late Mrs. Phil J.

Flemming. Funeral from her late residence, 46 Brooklyn av, Monday, February 28. 9 A.M.: thence to Church of Our Lady of Victory, where a solemn mass of requiem will be offered. McDONALD- February 24, 1910, at 443 Logan st, after a lingering illness, JAMES TRACY McDONALD, beloved hus. band of Mary McDonald (nee O'Neill).

Funeral from his late residence on Monday, February 28; thence to St. Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church, Linwood st and New Lots road. where solemn mass of requiem will be offered for the repose ot his soul at 11 A.M. Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery. MC HUGH-At her residence, 70 Kosciusko st.

ANNIE McHUGH. Funeral will take place on Monday, at 10 A.M from St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, where a solemn high mass will be offered. McKIBBIN-Suddenly, JOSEPH G. McKIBBIN.

Funeral from his late residene, 150 Sixteenth st, Brooklyn, on Sunday, February 27, 1910, at 3 P.M. Interment at Greenwood Cemetery. McNAMEE--On Thursday, February 24, 1910, MICHAEL A. MeNAMEE, beloved husband of the late Delia A. McKay.

Relatives and friends of the family, also members of Bricklayers Union 0. 1, are requested to attend the funeral the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Catherine Owens, 5.1 East Second st, Kensington, Sunday, February 27, at 2 P. MORRISSON-On February 26, 1910, PATRICK J. MORRISSON.

Funeral from his late residence, 69 Columbia st. on Tuesday morning, March 1, at 10 o'clock: thence to St. Peter's Church, Hicks, corher of Warren st. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery MYERS-On February 26. 1310, at 433 Pulaski st, JACOB, beloved husband of Esther Myers (nee Lax), Funeral Monday.

0'DONOHUE-On February 25, 1910. MARY E. MULLINS, widow of the late Thomas O'Donohue and mother of Dr. James John Mrs. P.

Evers, Mra. D. J. Regan, Mrs. Thomas Brady and Mra.

G. E. Baker, Funeral from her late residence, 293 Hendrix st, Monday, February K. 28; thence to St. Malachy's Church, Van Sicklen av, where a solemn mass of requiem will bo offered at 10:30 A.M.

for the repose of her soul, Interment In Holy, Cross Cemetery, 27, LIVINGSTON MEN FIGHT LIVONIA AVENUE ROUTE Leader's Agents Urge Brownsville People to' Defeat Proposed Subway Extension. B. R. T. BEHIND OPPOSITION.

Traction Company Had Planned to Build Surface Road Through Same Thoroughfare. In the and mysterious opposition which suddenly developed to he strong, building of the Livonia avenue extension of the Eastern parkway subway, advocates of the improvement are inclined to believe they se the veiled hand the Brooklyn Rapid Transit ComThat company it was learned yesterday, has now pending Lefore the Board of Estimate an application to operate a surface railroad through Livonia avenue. As that section of Brooklyn is at present practically destitute of transit fa- cilities and is building up rapidly, such a road, it was pointed out, could not but prove a source of considerable profit to the traction company. That profit would be seriously diminished should elevated railroad, feeding into a subway, be constructed directly over the surface road. as the proposed Livonia avenue extension plan contemplates.

"While direct proof is difficult to secure," said one of the leading advocates of the Livonia avenue extension scheme last night, "it is. well to bear in mind that the B. R. T. has bitterly opposed every subway improvement which might divert traffic from its lines.

In the case of the Fourth avenue subway the opposition of the traction company was open. Its officers frankly admitted that to construct the subway would be to jeopardize the earning power of all the South Brooklyn system of the B. R. and it is impossible to believe that the company would not fight to the last ditch a proposition which is certain to diminish substantially the value to it of a territory it was planning to open up." As has already been made clear in the Eagle, the Livonia avenue extension of the Eastern parkway subway route, which runs from Buffalo avenue, through East Ninety -eighth street and Livonia avenue, to New Lots road, is to be constructed on the assessment plan. The project.

has been offically approved by the Public Service Commission, and the commission's engineers are now laying out the formal route for submission to the Board of Estimate. Throughout all the preliminary proceedings no opposition to the plan manifested itself, but now that it gives promise of resulting in an accomplished fact hostility cropping out on every hand. Livingston's Political Agents Busy. During the past few days, for instance, men who are known to be political lieutenants of Jacob Livingston, the Republican leader of the second Assembly District, have been working zeal. ously among the residents of Brownsville and East New York for the avowed purpose of getting them to oppose, before the Board of Estimate, the granting of the Livonia avenue extension franchise.

To those whom they have approached the Livingston political agents have said in effect: "It duty, if you would protect yourselves, to beat this proposed Livonia extension, as it is now planned to build it. Of course, we want you people to have transit facilities, but POWELL- -At New Rochelle, N. on Saturday, February 26. 1910, MARY SMITH, widow of Captain Elzey S. Powell, formerly of Brooklyn, N.

Y. Funeral services at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. John K. Myers, 28 Prospect st, New Rochelle, on Monday evening at 8 o'clock. on February 26, 1910, JOSEPH SAMENFELD.

in his 63d year, beloved husband of Mina Ellis (nee Moore) and brother of Mark, Harry and Louis, Funeral to be held from his late residence, 330 Washington av. Parkville, Brooklyn, on Monday, February 28, 1910, at 2 P.M. (Newark papers please copy.) SULLIVAN-Suddenly, on Friday, February 25, 1910. MARY, widow of John Sullivan, in the 72d year of her age, a native of County Limerick, Ireland. Funeral from her late residence.

710 Greenwood av. on Tuesday, 1, 1910, at 9 A.M.: thence Church of the Immaculate Heart stary, Fourth st and Fort Hamof' ilton av. where a solemn mass of requiem will be offered for the repose of her soul. (Buffalo papers please copy.) TEER-Suddenly, on February 25, 1910. SARAH McNICHOLS, beloved wife of John Teer, past adjutant of Rankin Post.

Funeral from her late residence. 18 St. Mark's pl, on Monday, February 28, at 9 A.M. Solemn requiem at St. Augustine's Church.

Relatives and friends invited to attend. TELLY-DAVID ANTHONY TELLY. Services at his late residence. 468 Decatur st, Brooklyn, this evening. at o'clock.

Burial at convenience of family. WALSH-At her residence, 182 Vernon av, CAROLINE wife of James Walsh and mother of Marie C. Walsh. Funeral Monday, February 28, 1910, from St. Ambrose Church, DeKalb and Tompkins ave, at 9:30 A.M.

WALSH-On February 26, 1910, the Very Rev. P. A. WALSH, pastor of the Roman Catholic of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Astoria, N. Y.

Solemn requiem mass Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. Divine office at 9:30. Reverend clergy, relatives and friends are invited. WASHBURN-Suddenly, Thursday evening, February 24, 1910, LOUIS H. WASHBURN, in his 35th year.

Funeral services at his late residence, Grand- Viewon-Hudson, Sunday, 27th at 2:30 P.M. -On Liberty, February N. 23, 1910, CHARLES at his residence, WURSTER, aged 86 years. Funeral services at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Liberty, N.

Sunday evening, February 27, at 7:30. Interment, Greenwood Cemetery, Monday, February 28, at 3:30 P.M. IN MEMOR AM. ALLISON---In sad but loving memory of our dear son, CASPER E. ALLISON, who died March 2, 1908.

HAMILTON-In sad and loving remema beloved husband, FRED C. HAMILTON, who passed away, February 25, 1905. WIFE. KEYES--In sad and loving memory of our beloved brother. FRANCIS S.

KEYES. who departed this life February 25, 1909. In the graveyard, softly sleeping, Where the flowers gently wave, Lies the one we love most dearly In his cold and silent grave. LOVING BROTHERS SISTERS. NEPHEWS AND NIECES.

PELLS-In loving memory of our dear father. LEONARD A. PELLS. who this life February 25, 1909. REILLY--On Tuesday, March 1, 1910, at 9:15 A.M..

a solemn requiem ma68 (month's mind) will be offered in the Church of St. Charles Borromeo, for the repose of the soul of WILLIAM REILLY. late member of the St. Charleg Holy Name Society and Morning Star Council, K. of C.

ROCHE-In memory of a devoted wife and beloved mother, REBECCA E. ROCHE, who departed this life February 27, 1908, Gone but not forgotten. THE FAMILY, HARRY IS A VERY BAD BOY, SAYS ACCUSED TEACHER Principal Sheehan of P. S. 153 Says He Was Justified in Expelling Bain Heir.

CASE OF JOHN BULL VS. ERIN. Mr. Bain, Who Is English, Is Quoted in Disparagement of the Irish. Discipline at Public School No.

153, at Avenue and Homecrest avenue, and the manner in which it shall be maintained, is the issue in a controversy that for several weeks past has been the all-absorbing theme of gossip in the quiet. suburban community immediately south of Kings Highway, near the Brighton Beaching road. Mothers of children at the school are much exercised about reports that have been circulated about the principal of the school and the teachers, Some of the mothers worried because the cipal is a bachelor and suposedly does not understand how to bring up children. The principal is Joseph M. Sheehan, who has been fourteen years in school work and is experiencing his first culties with parents.

The chief difficulty is with Mr. and Mrs. George Bain, who live at 1835 East Fourteenth street. and who have an energetic young son named Harry, twelve years old. The Bains have stirred up no small rumpus as A result of the suspension of their boy by the principal.

They have issued a call to arms and propose to circulate a petition among the parents, asking the Board of Education to take Mr. Sheehan out of the school. The Bains are English, and they believe that Mr. Sheehan is Irish. They do not like him.

They have gone so far as to make complaint to City Superintendent Maxwell, and their charges are now under investigation by District Superintendent James M. Edsall. Mr. Edsall declined yesterday to go into the merits of the case, inasmuch as it is pending before him, but he proposes to sift both sides the matter thoroughly. Principal Says Bain Boy Was Immoral.

The charges filed with the City Superintendent, which are under investigation, ill'e to the effect that Principal Sheehan used unwarranted methods of discipline upon son and heir. The principal, In answer to the charges, wrote the following to the district superintendent: "Harry Bain was suspended from Publie School 153 on February 4, 1910, for a long series of infractions of school regulations, for irregularity in attendance, for persistent violations of school laws, immoral conduct, and for gross and continued deflance of theauthority of the principal and the teachers." Mr. Bain was much annoyed when he learned that the principal had dared to say such things about the boy. He went to the school shortly after 5 o'clock on February 7. to have it out with Mr.

Sheehan. The janitor of the school, John M. Cunliffe, later made affidavit that the following conversation took place between Mr. Bain and himself: "Where is this fellow?" said Mr. Bain.

"Whom do you mean?" "This man here," said Mr. Bain, pointing to the office of the principal. "You mean Mr. Sheehan. He has just gone." "He should be here.

and he wasn't here at 2 o'clock." "Who are you? I'm in charge here. What right have you to be here?" "Never mind who I am. That Irishman will find out who am before I get through with him." Says Mr. Bain Doesn't Like the Irish. "Why are you so prejudiced against the Irish?" Because I'm not Trish, and they're no good.

They are of no account." With that it appears that the janitor had Mr. Bain leave the building. Mr. Cunliffe says that when the gate was shut, Mr. Bain took off his coat and wanted to fight.

District Superintendent Edsall will not be called upon to decide the relative even what sort of home rule must be merits of Englishmen and Irishmen, or maintained. He will have to decide whether the complaint warrants the presentation of the matter to the local school board to be threshed out. The city charter provides that such controversies must be settled by the local school boards. Mr. Sheehan has many friends in the Board of Trade who think he is a very excellent man.

In fact, he has recently been elected an honorary member of the board, and is to be a speaker at its forthcoming annual dinner. The board, some time ago, presented a flag to the school. DEATH OF A NONAGENARIAN. Friederich Friedhoff, who was born in Hanover, Germany, December 1, 1829, and had lived 65 years in this country, most of the time in Brooklyn, and had Br been retired from the tailoring business for thirty years, died at his home, 171 Waverly avenue, of diseases incident to old age. He had been in perfect health up to a week ago, and was remarkably bright for a man of his age.

The funeral services will be held this afternoon, the twenty-third anniversary of the death of his wife, Fredcrica. He was one of the earliest memberg and had been an officer of the German Lutheran Church of St. Luke, whose pastor will officiate at the funeral services. He leaves a son, Frederick, with whom he had lived. ON A VISIT TO CUBA.

A. Wilfred Tuthill of Brooklyn, formerly of East Marion, secretary and treasurer of the Suffolk County Association, sailed yesterday on the steamer Saratoga for Havana, Cuba. He is due to arrive there on Wednesday, and will stay until about the middle of March. He will visit the various points of interest throughout the leland, and look into business matters for his firm. the Sayre Fisher Company of 261 Broadway, Manhattan, of which he is assistant manager.

Mr. Tuthill is accompanied by Woodruff Smith of Yonkers and Dr. H. Eugene Smith Mount Vernon. CHARLES W.

GULICK DEAD. Charles W. Gulick, who was killed Wednesday by being run over by a brewery track, was born in Tompkins County, N. 76 years ago. His ancestors were among the first Holland Dutch settiers of Now Jersey.

He was graduated at Wesleyan University in 1854 and admitted to the bar in 1860, practicing in Canandaigua, N. Y. He was made paymaster general by Governor Horatio Seymour during the Civil War, and afterward came to New York City and engaged In speculation Wall street, accummulating a fortune. He had lived on Oxford street for twelve years, and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. He leaves a widow.

May Carr, and three sisters, Mrs. Caroline Hager, of New N. Mrs. Belle Ammerman, of Cyntiana, and Miss Mary M. Gulick, who resides with him.

IN OLDEN TIMES Anyone was good enough to perform undertaking service. Modern times require man of high ability, with knowledge of sanitary solence, hygiene and anatomy. Satisfaction will be yours if you select such A man who is ALSO equipped with all the modern paraphernalla, F. M. FAIRCHILD SONS, Undertakers.

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1229 Fulton Street 176 Broadway And Four Stores in Manhattan. OBITUARY. Anthony J. Valano. Alter: a lingering illness of two years, Anthony J.

Valan, one of the charter members of the Newspaper and Mail Delivers Union, died Friday at his home, 31 Oak street, Manhattan. He was crushed in an elevator while employed in the Times Building, and several vertebrae were fractured. After spending many months at Bellevue Hospital he was finally removed to his late home. There he was attended by some of the most eminent surgeons and specialists in New York, the union bearing the expense. The union even offered Dr.

Bennett of Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore. $5,000 if he would undertake the treatment of the case, but the doctor regarded it as hopeless and refused to take it. Funeral services will be he'd to-day at St. Joachim's R.

a C. Church, Roosevelt street, Manhattan, at 1.30 P.M. interment will be in Calvary Cemetery. The deceased, who years old and was born in New York, is mourned by his parents. Frankie Linington.

Frankie Elizabeth Hoagland. wife of Nicholas W. Linington, long a prominent resident and a retired farmer of the town of New Lots. died at her home, 282 Jerome street, Friday, of general debility. She had lived all her life in the neighborhood where she wag born, in 1847, and was a leading member of the East New York Reformed Church.

Annie McHugh. Annie, wife of Dennis McHugh, died Friday at her home, 70 Kosciusko street, of pleuro- pneumonia. She was born in Roscommon, Ireland, thirty-nine years ago and came to Brooklyn when fourteen years of age. She leaves her husband, two sons, Dennis and Joseph, and two daughters, Mary Frances and Celia Marguerite. She was a member of St.

Patrick's Catholic Church, where a requiem mass will be celebrated Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Henry I. Corbitt, Henry son of the Rev. William P. Corbitt, a well-known Methodist Episcopal minister of a generation ago, died at his home, 42 Madison street, yesterday.

His father was one of the old school preachers, noted for his strong sermons, and he filled many pulpits in Brooklyn and vicinity, among them that of the Washington Street Church, formerly oil the site of the Brooklyn Bridge, and the DeKalb Avenue Church. He has been deceased for some years. Gustave A. Aberle. Gustave A.

Aberle of 1059 Jefferson avenue, died there Friday. He was a tailor and was born in Brooklyn in 1866. He was a member of Long Island Couneil, R. and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, leaves his widow, Mamie Garmon, and a Reginald.

The funeral services will take place at his late home, this evening, at 9 o'clock, the Rev. Dr. Merriam officiating. Mary Mahon. Mary Mahon, sister of the late Mrs.

Phil J. Fleming, and a member of the Church of Our Lady of Victory, died Friday at her home, 46 Brooklyn avenue. A solemn requiem mass will be offered at the Church of Our Lady of Victory, Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Mary Smith Powell. Mary Smith, widow of Captain Elzey S.

Powell, formerly of Brooklyn, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John K. Myers, 28 Prospect street, New Rochelle, N. Y. The funeral services will be held there to-morrow evenIng at 8 o'clock.

Mary Sullivan. Mary, widow of John Sullivan, died in the seventy-second year of her age, at her home, 710 Greenwood avenue, Friday. She was a native of the County Limerick, Ireland, and was a member of the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Patrick J. Morrisson.

Patrick J. Morrisson, for fifty years a butcher in the Sixth Ward and a member of the Church of St. Peter, died at his home, 69 Columbia street, yesterday, leaving four children and five grandchildren. He was born in Ireland. Joseph Samenfeld.

Joseph Samenfeld, a cigar dealer, died suddenly of heart disease at his home, 330 Washington avenue, Parkville, Friday, in the sixty-third year of his age. He leaves a widow. Mina Ellis Moore, and three brothers, Mark, Harry and Lewis. Lewis H. Washburn, Lewis H.

Washburn, formerly a resident of Brooklyn, died Thursday. at his home. Grand Grand-View-on-the-Hudson, In his thirty -fifth year. The Rev. Patrick A.

Walsh. The Rev. Patrick A. Walsh, for twentyseven and one years pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, in Astoria, died yesterday afternoon, in St. Vincent's Hospital, Manhattan, aged 60 years.

Father Walsh was taken 10 the hospital several days ago, suffering from a stomach disorder, and his death followed an operation. He was born In Ireland, and WAR ordained from St. John's College, Waterford, In 1873, coming to this country that year. For ten years he WAR connected with St. Peter's Church, tn Rrooklyn.

when he went to Astoria, LOST AND FOUND. LOST -Young female FOX TERRIER, with black head. Reward if returned to 61 Gates avenue. LOST. Saturday last, a circular diamond and PENDANT: liberal reward.

15 Columbia. Heights. Telephone Main 282. 27-3 LOST. a green POCKETBOOK, on St.

John': place, between Fifth and Sixth avs. Reward, 63 St. John's place; 110 questions. FOUND. Sunday.

February 20. Irish terrier dog; owner may have same on proving ownership and paying costs. T. A. LAW, Albany avenue.

LOST--On or about Pratt. Institute. day afternoon. February 26, a brown fur Finde: will please report sane 10 the library office of the institute. 47-2 LOST- 25.

a gold BRACELET. three stones in it. diamond. ruby, eme all: in South Brooklyn. If found return to ERSLER.

433 Kosciusko st. LOST. fox TERRIER; tall not cut. b'a fore leg. one black eye, large black spo: back.

Liberal reward if returned to 110 Manhattan. 230 Duffeld st. LOST -A skye TERRIER. Due gray bad light flaxen head and legs: answers to 113111 Bobie: teeth out in front. Liberal reward 17 returned to Mrs.

BATT, 36 Fort Greene place, LOST-Friday, February iS. lady's WATCH: shell engraving; initials M. closed face. Return to St. Mark's Avan40 Hotel, 615 St.

Mark's av. Brooklyn. Rev LOST. Wednesday evening. on Stuyvesant av.

between Jefferson and Halsey, a diam.on and pearl crown-shaned PIN. Finder return to 670 Jefferson av and receive liberal reward. DIED. 510 REWARD for recovery of TRUNK marked "Rose DeMar' and contents. taken by mistake from 51 Willoughby st.

February 12: no quesNew tions askel. H. PARKER. 1402 Broadway, York. LOST.

black brindie bull TERRIER. male: white on face, chest and feet: short tail, ears not cut. Reward for return or informati leading to his recovery. 507 Second st, Brooklyn: first floor. left.

PERSONAL. WANTED. information of heirs of SARAH WAY WARD and LUCY WAY BUNGARDT. children of William P. Way of Fresh Pond road and Frances Ash; heirs of WILLIAM PULLIS, son of Washington Pullis and Jane Way Furman: heirs of EDWARD MEMONY and HANNAH FURMAN: heirs of MARTIN REMSEN, son of Arthur Remsen and Hannah Way; heirs of PETER FOLK.

son of Burling Folk and Kate Collier: FRANK FOLK, son of Samuel W. Folk and Mary A. Cocks, or his heirs. S. M.

D. E. MEEKER, 217 Havemeyer st. Brooklyn, N. Y.

ANYONE knowing the address of the son or widow of MANSFIELD COMPTON. who died at East New York about eight years ago, will please communicate the same to the undersigned. 58 Main st. Hempstead, N. Y.

WANTING information concerning my wife. Annie Sullivan. or Carney: any information would be greatly appreciated. WM. F.

SUT.LIVAN. 228 Fulton st, Brooklyn. MISS FLORENCE S. CUNNINGHAM will 5 please send her address to A. W.

GLEASON, Beekman st, New York. During his pastorate in Astoria hi church grew from a few hundreds unt the congregation now numbers 3,5 v. hile the church property, which small at the start, is now estimated about $250,000. His immediate survi family consists of two sisters, livin Boston, and two brothers, living ir braska. HAD AN ANKLE BONE BROKEN.

Result of Friendly Wrestling Bout by Two Cousins-Andrew Ford the One Hurt, While wrestling with Thomas Donahue. 25 years old, of 1299 Nostrand avenue, last night at Linden and Nostrand avenue, Andrew Ford, 25 yearg old, of 1311 Nostrand avenue, received an injury that caused him to be removed to the Kings County Hospital. The two young men are of powerful build and are alwavs fooling some manner. Lurt night the two a friendly talk and Ford sail had" that he could throw Donahue in a wrestling bout. The bout nad rot been going on long when suddenly Ford's feet got twisted and he fell to the ground with.

a groan of pain. Dr. Brockway W6.5 called and after attending the patient said that the small bone of the right ankle had been broken He removed Ford to the Kings County Hospital. The injury was purely ace dental and no one was arrested. CONFESSED TO FOUR MURDERS Negro Killed Man, Wife and Child and Colored Man.

Pittsburg, February 26--Gus Thomas, alias Ed Young, a negro, aged 26 years, confessed at Girard, near here, last night, to the murder of Willian: Bork, a white farmer; the latter's wife and child and another negro. Mrs. Bork was maltreated before being killed. Thomas was arraigned last night, pleaded guilty, was sentenced to imprisonment for life and was taken the peniten-, tiary at Lansing, to-day. Thomas implicated Ed Challes, another negro, who was arrested with him.

Chailes was hurried away to the jail at Fort Scott, for safe keeping. Besides the four murders, Thomas confessed that he and Chailes committed numerous highway robberles. Thomas and Challes also shot James White, a negro, at Dunkirk, cut his throat and threw the body in a pond after robbing it..