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3 EASTERN PARKWAY SUBWAY BOON TO EAST NEW YORK Will Cause Big Gain in Population in Sections Lacking Transit Facilities. CONSENTS ALREADY SECURED. Gilbert Elliott Describes Resultant Benefits From the Livonia Avenue Extension. The Livonia avenue extension to the Eastern Parkway subway having been approved by the adoption on last Saturday of Commissioner McCarroll's report, it now only remains for the Public Service Commission to lay out the formal general route of the entire road and submit it to the Board of Estimate for approval. This, it was said to-day, would be done in the immediate future.

In sending to the Estimate Board the formal route, the commission will also recommend what portion of the Eastern Parkway subway shall be built by the city and what portion on the assessment plan. Unless present plans are changed, the commission will advise that the city construct the from the Prospect Park plaza to Nostrand avenue, that being the part for which six tracks are planned. From Nostrand avenue to the intersection of Livonia avenue, with New Lots road, the route will be only a twotrack road, and to all that portion the assessment plan of construction will probably be applied. Property Owners Willing to Be Assessed. As a matter of fact.

interested property owners have been willing to have the entire road built by assessment. The Public Service Commission, however, has let it be known that it does not believe that local property should be assessed for the construction of more than a twotrack road, so that the dividing line is likely to be at Nostrand avenue. From Buffalo avenue and the Eastern Parkway, where the projected subway will come to the surface and continue through East Ninety-eighth street and Livonia avenue an elevated structure, the line will provide adequate transit facilities for a rapidly growing section that is now practically without means of transportation. Fast as Brownsville and the East New York section, lying to the east, have already developed, it is believed that so soon the Eastern Parkway subway shall have been formally approved it will produce a remarkable building boom. Gilbert Elliott, president of the Allied Subway Association, which has been fighting for the Eastern Parkway subway with its Livonia avenue extension, in discussing this phace of the case to-day, said: "The projected Livonia avenue extension will parallel the Fulton street elevated railroad, which in that section along Pitkin avenue, but it will be half a mile to the south, and traverse a territory which is now substantially without transit of any kind.

Aside from the elevated road on Pifkin avenue, the only transit service in the affected district 1s the Ralph avenue surface line. This runs only to the New Lots road, where it joins the Rockaway avenue trolley line. Beyond that there is nothing, save the Canarsie branch of the elevated system, which runs from north to south, tapping only the territory contiguous to the Canarsie road. Big Recent Gain in Population. "From Ralph avenue on the end of the Livonia avenue extension there has been a gain of population in the traversed districts, during the last five years, amounting to more than 72 per cent.

The population has jumped from 50,406 in 1905 to 86,558 at the present time. Now that the eastern parkway subway, with its extension, is practically assured through the action of the Public Service Commission, last week, I look to see another exceptional advance. The heart of Brownsville is already densely populated, and during the last few years the sections bordering on East Ninety-eighth street and Livonia avenue have been well built up. It is in these last -named districts that the jump in population, as a result of the construction of the new subway, is sure to come. "As for the necessary consents," continued Mr.

Elliott, "we secured, last fall. the consents of about 75 per cent. of the front foot property owners on East Ninety-eighth street, and of 52 per cent. along Livonia avenue. Only 51 per cent.

is required by law. We did that work in about two weeks, and I assume that the consents then obtained will hold good now. If, however, the Public Service Commission, as a matter of precaution, wants the consents secured anew. there will be no trouble in getting them over again, and we will get them just as quickly as we did before." Assessment to Average $50 to $75 Lot. The probable average assessment per lot along the extension of the Eastern parkway subway route is estimated at only from $50 to $75.

This assessment, moreover, may be paid in ten annual instalments, it desired, SO that property owners will not be seriously affected financially by the undertaking of the great improvement. Brighton Beach Line Connection Likely. A new development in the Eastern parkWay subway situation was reported to-day from responsible sources that the Brighton Beach division of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company might use that subway as a means of running its Brighton Beach trains to Manhattan. The B. R.

T. has already tentatively suggested to the Public Service Commission that if the city would build a subway under Flatbush avenue from Malbone street to Atlantic avenue it would make connections and operate its traing via that subway, the Fourth avenue subway, the Manhattan Bridge and the Canal street subway in Manhattan from Coney Island direct to the North River. It was pointed out to-day by a Brooklynite thoroughly in touch with transit affairs that the B. R. T.

would now undoubtedly find it much more convenient to connect up its Brighton Beach line with the Eastern parkway subway. Said this Brooklynite: "I a mreliably informed that the Interborough in its next offer will suggest extending its Flatbush avenue subway in this borough to the Prospect Park plaza and offer to operate the Eastern parkway subway. The Flatbush avenue subway is a six-track line now. Six tracks are planned for the Eastern parkway route as far as Nostrand avenue. The connecting link to be built by the Interborough would, of course, be a six-track route.

"Now, only four tracks would be used by the company operating the Eastern parkway subway. Doesn't It stand to reason, if the B. R. T. really wants to get its Brighton Beach trains to Manhattan by subway, it would be simpler for it to rent the two remaining tracks of the Eastern parkway subway than to pay a big rental for the construction of a new subway from Prospect Park plaza to Malbone street? The Brighton Beach line could easily make switch connections with the Eastern parkway subway at the point where the two will intersect." GRAND AMERICAN IN CHICAGO.

Pittsburg, January 31-The Grand Handicap shoot will be held trader the auspices of the Interstate Shooting Association in Chicago, June 21, 22, 23 and 24, according announcement to-day. In addition to the contests for world's professional records, three $500 prizes have been donated for amateur races, MAYOR GAYNOR'S TURKEY STOLEN BY HIS PROTEGE Pride of Deepwells Flock Was Sold for 30 Cents. THIEF IN THE COUNTY JAIL. "Captain" DeMott Pleaded Guilty. Mayor in Court Ready to Defend Him if Necessary.

(Special to the Eagle.) St. James, L. January Frank H. DeMott, a protege of Mayor Gaynor, is in the county jail at head, where he will spend the ensuing thirty days for stealing a fine turkey from his benefactor. He was sent down last night by Justice Douglass, before whom he was arraigned.

DeMott stole the turkey, which was as fine a bird as ever gobbled, from the flock of the Mayor at Deepwells, and then sold the bird to Isaac Jewell for the insignificant sum of thirty cents. His arrest followed and he was haled before Judge Douglass last night. A search warrant had been issued, but the bird was not recovered and could not be made an exhibit in the case. There was no question about the theft, however, and when he faced the court De Mott made a plea of guilty and the sentence was imposed at once. To-day the "captain" went down to begin his term.

Mayor Gaynor was in court and was ready to appear for his one time protege, but when DeMott pleaded guilty there was nothing for the Mayor to do but to let the law take its course. This is not the first by many times that the "captain" has been in jail. He is a familiar figure at the county prison, where he has been sent as a punishment for various minor offenses. He is in his sixty-fifth year, his birthday occurring on that of the nation. Between the Mayor and "Captain" De Mott there has long existed a rather close friendship.

The Mayor or knew that De Mott was guilty of various lapses from virtue, but there was something about the old fellow that seemed to appeal to his honor, and when almost everyone in this section was set against him and declared that he was "no earthly good, and never would be." Judge Gaynor remained his friend. De Mott was the companion of the Mayor on many of his long tramps about the countryside, and the latter had befriended him in many ways. He had the run of Deepwells and took advantage of his opportunities to make way with the turkey. Even then Judge Gaynor would not go back on him was ready to defend him last night if he had not decided to plead guilty and take a chance at getting a light sentence. There was a big crowd at the trial, for court is seldom held here on a Sunday, and it is more seldom that the Mayor of New York is in attendance upon its sessions.

Everyone was anxious to hear the Mayor defend the who had robbed him, and all were disappointed when the plea of guilty made it needless for the Mayor to let the tide of oratory flow. SEARCHES FOR HER CHILD Police Tell Mother Tot Was Probably Drowned. Little Italian Girl Last Seen in Candy Store Near Her Home. A little black -eyed, olive- pretty Italian girl has been absent from her home at 43 Degraw street since one week ago Thursday, and her half-crazed mother has heard no word from her during the interval. Rosilia Risitano, only years old, is the girl.

Eleven days ago she went out to purchase some candy, and since then has not been seen by her parents. Mrs. Risitano has tried every means in her power to get word or to find her little one, but appeals to the police as well as investigation by herself have been unavailing. Whether the child been stolen some strikers from a factory nearby, or whether she has wandered to the river front, which is not far away, is the puzzle which the frantic mother is unable to solve. The mother said, when interviewed this morning, that she would go mad unless her child' was found.

"I have asked the police," said she, "and although they have tried all things, they cannot locate her at all. She must have gone down to the river and slipped off one of the piers and been drowned, although down there they say that they have seen no little girl like her. "I did not know that she was gone on the day of January 20, until I came back from the store, where I had gone to get some bread and meat, because I had left her in the house, me and told her to stay until I came back. Her grandmother, who lives downstairs, says that she came down and that she was given a cent with which to buy candy. Then she says that Rosle went out of the house.

"That I asked the neighbors if they had seen her and some of them said that she had gone down the street to Van Brunt street, and that she went into a candy store. I went to the store, and they said that she had been there, but after that there is no trace of her at all. Van Brunt street is right near the river, and perhaps she went down to see some of the big boats and slipped into the river. "Then I asked the neighbors if they corner, and I think that some of the workmen there may have taken her home with them, because the hands in the place struck on that day, and some of the old men have not come back to work. "I told the police about the case, and they have been investigating, but they cannot decide that she was abducted, and say that she must have been drowned.

I will go mad, I think, if this suspense is not stopped soon. You will try to find her through the papers, won't you?" When she was last seen, Rosilia wore a small red coat and no hat. She had real olive cheeks and light brown hair. with long curls. Her eyes are large and black, and she has even white teeth, which are always being shown, because she smiles most of the time.

SELLERS VISITED MAYOR. Introduced Mrs. Sellers to Mr. Gaynor at the City Hall. Among the callers on Mayor Gaynor today was Louis Sellers and his wife.

Sellers was one of the trainmen on the train which was snowbound in Hicksville a few weeks ago, when the Mayor was forced to leave the train and tramp back to the village. It seems that Sellers accompanied the Mayor, and aided him in assisting Charles Shepard of Huntington. L. who met with a severe accident. The Mayor described Sellers as a brave young man.

WORKMAN BADLY SCALDED. John McCloskey, of 131 Greenpoint avenue, Brooklyn, while at work in the power house, at Front and Fourth streets, Long Island City, last night, was scalded on the back and arms by escaping steam, and was removed to St. John's Hospital. EX- MAYOR WHITNEY 91 YEARS OLD TO-DAY Still Vigorous and Active, He Has Firm Grasp of Present Day Affairs. PRAISES MAYOR GAYNOR.

Thinks Court House Should Remain on Present Site--Has Other Birthday Observations. Daniel D. Whitney, hale, hearty, vigorous, clear-eyed and full of energy, turned his ninety-first milestone He was found seated at his old desk at the window of his wholesale grocery establishment, at 20 Fulton street, where he has been, day in and day out, with the exception of some short vacations, since May 1, 1839, when he came to work as a clerk for Thomas J. Gerald, who was then one of the leading citizens of Ex-Mayor Daniel D. Whitney, Who Celebrated His Ninticth Birthday Anni- Versary To-day.

old Brooklyn and who held the office of alderman for several terms. At that time, by the way, the business of the city was transacted in the Apprentices' Library, at Henry and Cranberry streets. In 1843 Mr. Whitney and his brother bought out the business, and since that time, sixty-seven years ago, Daniel D. Whitney has attended to business and watched the growth of Brooklyn through its various stages.

Fifty-five years ago he bought the little house at 10 Poplar street, and has resided there continuously ever since. The office in which Mr. Whitney transacts his business is just about the same as it must have been seventy years ago, when he entered it as a young man. This morning he showed, with some pride, the -fashioned safe that was in the office when he came there and which is still used for the storage of account books. The key is a big brass affair, weighing about a pound, and Mr.

Whitney explained how the keyhole is ingeniously hidden in a panel among the big boltheads that stud the front of the old strong box. Discusses Brooklyn's Great Strides. Mr. Whitney was in a reminiscent mood to-day, and chatted of the changes that have come over Brooklyn during his residence here. He laughed as he spoke of the famous old Fulton Ferry boat Olive Branch, which was steered with a tiller, and of the struggles the pilots had to land her in the slip when the weather was rough.

"The traffic over the ferry in those days was tremendous." said Mr. Whitney, "and this part of Fulton street was the center of everything. All the big business houses were located around here, and it was like a beehive." He looked out of the window and sighed as he saw the one lonesome Montague street car and a single one -horse truck that were the only signs of life around the ferry this morning. "In the old Mr. Whitney said, "you would find country merchants here from all parts of Long Island, who came to Brooklyn regularly to do their buying.

It was the custom then to see what you were getting before giving an order, but nowadays the traveling man with his samples and modern methods has done away with the necessity for those long trips. All trade conditions have changed, and the enterprise of the big stores has done away with many of the little stores even in the country towns, the owners of which used to make a good living. Mr. Whitney keeps in touch with politics and every other topic concerning the welfare of the city and nation. A lifelong Democrat, except when he refused to vote for Bryan, he rejoices in good things accomplished by his party.

think," he said, "we have a most eXcellent mayor in Mr. Gaynor. I like the way in which he is taking up his big problem, and his reforms and those of his associates should result in a material reduction of our taxes. I also admire his action in police matters, and his stand on the clubbing question cannot be too highly Favors Present Court House Site. Speaking of the Court House site matter.

Mr. Whitney was emphatically in favor of keeping the building on the present site, and characterized the attempt to place it elsewhere as extravagant, unnecessary and imprudent. Mr. Whitney was born on a farm in Oyster Bay Township, on January 31, 1819. He came to New York in 1837, and started to learn the grocery business in a store at Rivington and Sheriff streets.

After a two years apprenticeship he came to Brooklyn and has been here ever since. He was married to his first wife when he WAs 25 years old, and they enjoyed forty-four years of wedded happiness. Five years after her death Mr. Whitney married his wife's niece. Five children were the fruit of the first marriage, only one of whom is now living.

He is Daniel D. Whitney, a lawyer, who is on the staff of the corporation counsel. Mr. Whitney has several grandchildren and three great -grandchildren. In 1886 and 1887 Mr.

Whitney was Mayor of the old city of Brooklyn, and earned commendation for his administration of affairs. Previous to that time he had been elected Alderman from the First Ward, and for several years was Register of Arrears. Has Read the Eagle Every Day Since Coming to Brooklyn. Mr. Whitney has read the Eagle every day since his arrival in Brooklyn.

He recalled distinctly this morning the early struggles of Isaac Van Anden in placing the paper on a firm basis. Of the dozens of men that were in business when Mr. Whitney came to Fulton street not one but he is alive to-day. The last of the "Old of merchants passed when John Bunce, the hardware man, died several months ago. So the "Grand Old Man" of Brooklyn stands as the sole survivor of the good old days when lower Fulton street was Brooklyn's business heart.

Judging from his appearance, he will in all likelihood pass the century mark before he consents to say goodby to the old neighborhood. His health record has been remarkable. He has never suffered from a serious illness of any kind, and has never been obliged to remain away from business a single day through indisposition. He has lived a temperate life, and while he formed the habit of smoking as a youth. he gave it up many years ago, becaus he thought it was injuring him.

His sight is as good as ever he uses glasses only occasionally for reading. When the light is good he is still able to read fine print without them. THIS COMPANY will make first mortgage loans on desirable improved Real Estate. LAWYERS TITLE INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY CAPITAL $4,000,000 SURPLUS 5,500,000 ($5,000,000 added to surplus In last 17 years) 160 Broadway, New York. 188 Montague Street, Brooklyn, 375 Fulton Street, Jamaica.

DOG ROUTS BURGLARS Cyp Keeps Mouthful of Trousers as a Souvenir. Robbers Use Wagon Pole to Wrench Bars From Store Window. I Bold burglars, using a wagon pole as a lever, wrenched off the protecting iron bars of the store at 195 Washington street last night, and had it not been for the alertness of Gyp and his mistress, Mra. James W. Davies, whose store is at 191 Washington street, the thieves might have managed to get away with something.

They had removed two of the bars from the shop where they began their operations and had bent out two more bars from the rear of the barber shop at No. 193. Mrs. Davies, whose husband keeps a hat store, was sitting in the kitchen at the back with her husband and a visitor and Gyp. The latter is a black and tan dog, weighing about five pounds, full of dynamic energy.

He was lying on a rug, when he suddenly cocked his ears and uttered a long and ominous "What's the matter, Gyppie?" asked Mrs. Davies. She chanced to look out of the window into the gloom of the back yard and she fancied that she discerned the figure of 3 man there. She opened the door, fearlessly, for her husband and the visitor were right there in case of trouble, and as she did so Gyp shot out of the door and got busy. When it was all over he had a sample of "trouserings," as a tailor would say, which may form a clue for the police to work on.

The store at 195 Washington street is kept by W. S. Corey, a mattress maker. The thieves had broken open his desk, but. had taken nothing, a fact probably due to the sudden activity of Gyp.

Mrs. Davies, who saw them, thinks that one man was watching on the outside while his confederate was indoors, and that they were both scared away. The theory is that the sample of trousers came from the man on guard. JUSTICE KELLY INDIGNANT Contractor Charged $255.59 for Razing Two Sheds. Work Was Ordered by Borough Authorities and Could Have Been Done for $75.

Supreme Court Justice Kelly has decided that when an unsafe building was torn down by the borough authorities, under a court order, he doesn't think it necessary to have a superintendent employed nine days at $11 a day, in addition to a foreman for the same length of time at $4.40 a day, with three or four laborers and a horse and truck to do the work. A charge, too, of $255.59, he says, is too much, and he cut down the bill to $104.24. Behind this action of Justice Kelly there is a pathetic story of falling real estate values and the loss of income of an aged woman. In 1867. Joseph Mason, in his life time a member of the firm of Mason, Au Magenheimer, bought 67.

69 and 71 Fulton street for $24,000. When he died, in 1884, he left the houses and land to his niece, Rose Jacquemin; but if she died without heirs, and Oline Jacquemin did likewise, he made his three nephews, Adolph and Alphonse Kloster and Felix Fleur, the remaindermen. For years ex-Judge William B. Veeder has looked out for the interests of the two women, who have no children. This particular piece of property has decreased in value so fast, however, that the buildings could not be kept in repair, and the borough authorities brought an action against everybody in interest to have the lots cleared of the unsafe buildings.

The peculiar way the property is held caused Judge Veeder to permit the borough to tear down the buildings, but he was much astonished when Albert E. Kleinert, the contractor, put in his bill. "It would have been said Justice Kelly in his memorandum, "if the owners of these dilapidated sheds complied with the precept and took them down. They were old frame extensions. one of them two stories and the other ole story in height.

The reason the owners failed to do the work is because the life-tenant is a woman, and the remaindermen could not be found or refused to do the work. But the feilure of the owners to do the work does not deprive them of the protection of the law. and even if the city was obliged to go in and tear the buildings down, the work should have been done in a reasonably fair way. think the charge of $255.59 for labor and material is too much. The owner presents affidavits that the work could have been done in two days at a cost of $75.

don't think this job warrants the service of a superintendent for nine days at $11 A day, in addition to a foreman for nine days at $4.40 a day, with three or four laborers and a horse and truck." Justice Kelly then proceeds to cut down the bill to $104.24. Judge Veeder says the property for which the late Mr. Mason paid $24,000 is now under contract for sale at $5,250. WRESTLING IN CHICAGO. Chicago, January 31- Entry blanks for the national amateur wrestling championships, which will be held at the Illinois Athletic Club on February 25 and 26.

were issued to-day. The entry list will close on February 21. Championships in the following seven classes will be decided: 105 pounds, 115 pounds, 125 pounds, 135 pounds, 145 pounds, 158 pounds and more than 158 pounds. Tentative entries have been received from New York. Brooklyn, Boston, New Orleans, San Francisco and Seattle.

MANY AUTO ARRESTS. New Orleans. January 31-Entries for the Mardi Gras automobile speed carnival, to be held at New Orleans, February 5, and 6. were announced by Contest Manager Homer George to-day as follows: George Robertson, Simplex: Ralph De Palma, Fiat: Barney Oldfeld, Benz Knox: Benjamin Kirscher, Darracq: Leigh unch, Jackson: J. E.

Delaney, Jackson: George Clark. Jackson: 8. L. Speer, Jackson: Fred Shaw, Knox: J. Sellers Oaklan 1.

David Besuden of Cincinnati, Buick; Walter Donnelly of Cincinnati. Pack. ard: John Walker, Buick: Frank Honey, NaE. J. Thurber, Chalmers-Detroit: Fred Hueck of Chicago, in Miss Mabelle McCane's Chalmers-Detroit.

and Tony Monteleon, Thomas. OBITUARY NOTES. coming an emplove the Finance Department. which was till his death, died yesterday at his home, 131 East Ninety-third street. He Wig 78 years old, and served in two regiments durIng the Civil War, being discharged with the rank of captain.

He leaveg three daughters. John Todd, a picneer packing-box maker of Manhattan, He died had at been in Annandale, business N. aged for fifty years and leaves a widow and several children. Franklin Titus Ives, a retired merchant and author, died at Meriden, Conn. last night, aged 82 years.

He was chairman of the Connecticut State Board of Arbitration and Mediation in 1897-98 and was the author of many historical and scientific work.se John Cumming, under sheriff of New York County for twenty-five years. to beprevious B. A. T. DISCHARGES MEN WHO FORM LOCAL UNION Company Denies This Is Reason for Dismissals, However, and Calls Men Agitators.

THEY WANTED HIGHER PAY. Said Recent Voluntary Raise of Salaries Followed Informal Demand Made by Employes. Some forty leading spirits in the formaa union of trainmen among employes of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit have been discharged by the company. Although the attempt to form the unions is the generally accredited reason assigned for discharge of the men the B. R.

T. denies that this had anything to do with the matter. They point to the fact that motormen on the trains are members of the Brotherhood of Railway Engineers, showing positively, they declare, that they have nothing to fear from unions. Many of the employes, however, disagree with this statement. The same employes assert that the recent raise in wages declared by the B.

R. T. was a significant move, as the men were on the verge of making demands for more money than they now receive under the advanced rate. All of the men discharged were guards on the West End division, who last Friday night held a meeting at 807 Gates avenue, and organized. Louis Lucano was elected president, Rudolf Raschdorf vice president, and Edward Ringholf, secretary.

Men present at the meeting declare that a "stool pigeon" was also in the hall, and that before morning he had made his report. Certain it is that a number of the men discharged were present, and those who were not present and los: their jobs were known sympathizers. General Manager J. F. Calderwood of the B.

R. T. issued the following statement to-day regarding the matter: "I never made any statement to any newspaper Or to anyone that the employes in question were discharged cause they were affiliated with any union. The following is the situation, and it only involves a very few employes: "In checking over the list of our employes and adjusting the new scale of wages, the standing of the employes eligible for promotion in the different grades and the character of the men were being carefully considered and we found, based upon our special reports, that a number of the employes connected with the elevated were reported as dissatisfied with not only the increase in wages but the conditions of their employment, and these men were naturally asked to resign. "It has since developed that these men were associated with Mr.

Raschdorf, as I understand an agitator who had promised the men that he could for a certain consideration regulate any alleged grievance they might have. "This procedure on the part of the employes was unnecessary, as any employe of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit has no difficulty in meeting the officers of the company and discussing any grievance. Therefore it is unnecessary for any employe to place his case in the hands of a professional agitator, at least until he has made an effort to discuss the situation with his superior or the officers of the company." It is said that division superintendents and minor officials learned of the growing discontent among the employes and recommended to the heads of the system that a raise in salaries be put into effect. A8 the increased cost of living would necessitate the men's demanding, more money in no uncertain terms. Indications also pointed to the employes demands being vastly in excess of the raise meted out by the officials unasked.

Officials of the railroad deny positively that there is an order in force forbidding employes from becoming members of any union. The men declare, however, that the slightest infraction of this "unwritten law" results in summary dismissal. OBITUARY Charles M. Freeman. Charles M.

Freeman died Saturday at his residence, 356 Ridgewood avenue. The deceased was born in Annapolis, educated in St. John's College, came to Brooklyn and was entered as a Custom House broker. Later he went with Henry Welsh, wholesale grocer, then with H. K.

Thurber, and for 17 years was buyer and manager for Bennett. Sloan Co. At the time of his death he was president and treasurer of the La Nouvelle Company, 22 Harrison street, Manhattan. He was a member for eleven years of Houzer's Battery, now Third Battery. Funeral services will be held at his late home Tuesday at 8 P.M.

He is survived by his widow. children and eleven grandchildren, two brothers and a sister. Mary Eliza Forster. Mrs. Mary Eliza, wife of Theodore Forster, died at her home, Ellenville.

N. Monday, January 24, aged 72 years. A former resident of Brooklyn she has lived in Ellenville for many years, where she was well known to the older residents. Mrs. Forster was the eldest daughter of Alstyne Secor, one of the founders and proprietors of the Secor Iron Works, located at the foot of East Ninth street, Manhattan, where, in conjunction with the Novelty Iron Works, many of the war ships for the Civil War were built.

She leaves her husband, formerly connected with the N. Y. C. H. R.

R. R. a son, Isaac S. Forster, deputy tax commissioner of Brooklyn, and Mrs. Vincent M.

Hobby, a daughter. also of Brooklyn. George F. Vietor. George Frederick Vietor, who was born in Brooklyn, October 13, 1839.

died Saturday at his home, 28 West Fifty-third street, Manhattan, He was for many years senior partner of the dry goods importing firm of Vietor and Achells of Manhattan, succeeding his father. the house being established in 1825 by Charles Graebe. Mr. Victor had been retired from active business for some years, He was a member and director of many prominent trust companies, insurance companies and besides a number of manufacturing corporations. He also belonged to the prominent clubs of Manhattan and was one of the trustees of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.

He leaves a widow. a daughter. Mrs. L. Lionberger Davis of St.

Louis and four sons, Thomas, Carl. George and John. George Y. Logue. George Young Logue, cousin of Cardinal Logue.

and a well known horseman, died Saturday at his home, 160 East Ninety -first street. Manhattan. He was born in Philadelphia, February 1. 1842. and studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania, but never practiced it.

He was once a dealer in horses at Lancaster, and at one time owned a stable of racers. He had charge of the Lancaster branch of the Fiss. Doerr Carroll firm and had been in their employ for thirty-five years, latterly being their superintendent in New York City. He had been retired for five years owing to illness. George W.

Frost. George W. Frost, for forty years a resident of Brooklyn, and connected with the Goodyear Rubber Company of Manhattan for forty-five years, died yesterday at his home, 471 Halsey street, of acute nephritis. He was born in Manhattan, March 2, 1848, and was the last of his family. He is survived by his widow.

a stepdaughter and a son, Harry of Sound Beach, Conn. Maria D. Hebard, Maria Dusenbury Coutant, Jethro D. Hebard, for sixty dent of Brooklyn, and an old the Tompkins Avenue MISCELLANEOUS. VICHY CELESTINS Natural Alkaline Water A delightful table water with highly medicinal qualities Ask your Physician VICHY D8 1800 Owned by and bottled under the direct control of the French Government Not Genuine CELESTINS without the word CELESTINS Quality and Service.

The only two points on which we base our claim to your patronage. Our Dairy Milk is now 8 CENTS PER QUART, and in the future, as in the past, we shall still supply ONLY THE BEST in dairy products. Alex. Campbell Milk Co. 802 Fulton St.

Tel. 2174 Prosp. BROOKLYN AID IN FLOOD. Local Branch of Red Cross Ready to Handle Contributions for Paris Sufferers. Thomas W.

Hynes, treasurer of the Brooklyn Chapter of the Red Cross, will receive and forward all contributions for the flood sufferers, and may be addressed at the Home Trust Company, 189 Montague street. Trough an oversight yesterday, it was announced that Mr. Hynes' address was at the Department of Public Charities on Schermerhorn street. It is expected that Brooklyn will, a8 usual, do her full share in swelling the total fund subscribed, and in order that the borough may have full credit, it is desirable that contributions be sent through the local branch of the Red Cross. The splendid record made by the Brooklyn Chapter after the Italian earthquake, when many thousands of dollars were sent through Mr.

Hynes direct to where they would do the most good, should be an incentive to even greater efforts, in view of the present calamity, which calls for prompt action. No contributions have been received as yet. ENGLISH ELECTIONS COMPLETE. Few Scotch and Irish Constituencies to Make Returns. London, January 31--The re-election of J.

G. Hancock, Labor candidate for the Mitile Division of Derbyshire, announced to-day, completes the elections for the new Parliament in England. The remaining half dozen constituencies to make returns are Scotch and Irish, The final totals in England alone give the Unionist tariff reformers 239 seats, the Liberals and Laborites combined 227, ur a Unionist majority of 12, compared with a Liberal- majority of 0211 received in 1906. MARRIAGE LICENSES Issued in Brooklyn for Twenty-four Hours Ended at Noon To-day. Samuel Freedman, 30, of 50 Cook st, Lifsche Fuchs, Hopkins st.

Nathan Wertheimer, 23, 128 Cook st, Sofic Habermen, 20, of 443 Bushwick av. Jacob Davis, 24, of 507 Rockaway av, Rachel Geller, 20, of 507 Rockaway av. Abram Sobel, 24, of 526 Hendrix st, Rebecca Gerktovitch, 20, of 441 Sutter av. Morris Kaplan, 24. of 585 Blake av, Annie Gitlin, 19, of 1846 Park place.

Noah Davidson. 30, of 23 Johnson av, Eda Levin, 24, of 81 McKibbin st. George Dees, 23. of 998 Blake av. Katherine Keegan, 21, of 262 Pennsylvania av.

Frederick Vogel, 29, of 2663 Pitkin av, Rose Wolfe, 20, of S6 Cooper st. Isaac Goldberg, 25, of 1916 Douglass st, Mary Trupolsky, 20, of 298 Metropolitan av. Charles Carlson, 26, of 49 Forty-fifth st, Ella Peterson, 25, of 053 Fifty -fourth st. Frank R. Elting, 27, of Philadelphia, Ethel S.

Forde 29, of 20 Sidney place. Arnaldo Aquilano, 22, of 790 Myrtle av, Lena Aquilano, 19, of SS5 Myrtle av. Ignatz Blau, 27, of 98 Hopkins st, Bertha Spitzer, 23, of 98 Hopkins st. Isaac Yudin. 30, of 57 Graham av, Base Chiaef, 22.

of 57 Graham av. Anthony Lesko, :0, of 235 Kent av, Helena Stelincky, 22, of 235 Kent av. Harvey W. Douglas, 21, of Plainfield, N. Elizabeth Durn.

21, of 201 Lexington av. Jonas Novickia, 24, of 29 Hudson av, Anna Norkaite, 20, of 19 Hudson av. Louis Barenoff, 27, of 158 Hopking st, Mashe Schulman, 20, of 96 Moore st. Joseph A. Cody.

24, of 147 Van Dyke st, Anna M. Hassler. 19, of 98 Dwight st. John H. Steller, 24.

of 117 Adams st, Meta D. Mohrmann, 23, of 178 Franklin av. Herry W. Gerdan, 28, of 315 East Fifty-eighth st, Clara A. Ahrens, 29, of 495 Clinton.

Louis Borowitz, 23, of 23 First av, Judas Saltzoerg, 323 Watking st. Samuel Fingerhut, 27. of 270 South Ninth st, Pauline Landesberg, 20, of 238 Stockton st. Benjamin Berger, 22, of 94 Liberty av, Libbe Koeppel, 71, of 124 William av. William Whiggs.

33, of Classon av, Estell Floyd, 18. of 42 Bergen st. Albert M. Eckert, 38. of 27 Norwood av, Anna Hackenbroch, 33.

of 311 Ralph st. Jacob Chemalefsky, 24, of 88 Throop. av, Rebecca Tomashefsky, 22, of 26 st. Benjamin Perlman 23. of 319 Covert av, Esther Cohen, 23, of 151.

Pitkin av. Froim Kaminer. 22, of 790 Hopkinson av, Sarah Gordon, 20, of 790 Hopkinson av. Luigi Cermorelli, 25, of 310 East 110th st, Costanza Fulgieri, 22, of 46 Troy av. Valentine Sesselman, 22, of 253 Scholes st, Frieda Kunkel, 17, of 253 Scholes st.

Antoni Kruthlinski, 22, of Hopkinson av, bet. Riverdale Newport avs, Isabellia Barkow. ska, 22, of Hopkinson av, bet. Riverdale and Newport avs. Judah Getzug, 25, of 295 Sheffield av, Cipke Smerkowitz.

21, of 295 av. Joseph Sanfratelle, 22, of 32 Monroe st, Rose Volpe, 22, of 1339 East Eighteenth st. Berel Needel, 24, of 77 McKibbin st, Rose Kahn, 22, of 77 McKibin st. Robert H. Bryson, 34, of 474 Halsey st, Charlotte A.

Stoddard, 28, of 590 Marion st. Salvatore Palatueci, 28, of 246 Twenty-fourth st, Nicolina Di Matteo, 27, of 191 Twenty-first. Charles Shovlin, 30, of 500 Park av, Bridget Harking, 27, of 1265 Pacific st. Louis Barr, 24, of 1044. De Kalb av, Base 20, of 473 Marcy av.

Patrick T. Cannon, 23, of 223 East st, Lillian Molloy, 22, of 191 OF Johnson. THE REALTY MARKET 80000 0000 00000 0000 000000000 Auction Sales To-day. (BY HERBERT G. TAYLOR, AT REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE.) Maujer st, 8 150 ft Graham av.

25x100. Abraham Singer agst Charles Klyde et al; Edward Snyder, ref. att'y, Sold 44 Corut Thomas Mulligan, to the plaintiff for $100 over mortgage of $4.750. (BY JAMES L. BRUMLEY.

AT REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE.) Fulton st, S. 128.3 Throop av, 20x90. Katherine HT Stamm agst Clara I Miller et al: Geo Stamm, att'y, 140 Nassau st. Manhattan: Lewis Grover, ref. Sold to Citizens Union Co, for $2,050 over mortgage of $5,500.

(BY WILLIAM H. SMITH, AT REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE.) Rockaway av, 11 cor Dumont av. 260x100. John Henigin, Jr. agst Max Cohen et al; Meeker, att'ys, 217 Havemeyer st: Frank Reilly, ref.

Sale adjourned to February 11. Other Real Estate News. For other real estate news see page 7 of supplement. THE COURTS. SURROGATE'S COURT.

Calendar, Tuesday, before Surrogate Herbert T. Ketcham. The wills of Herman Dursler, Martin Kerriand Mary McDonough. sat, accounting In the estate of Amelia Sherman. Honora Donoghue and Grace Cramp.

The estates of Amelia Sherman, Olga M. Freichlecht, calendar Kelly and Amelia Hanley, The will of John M. Wallace, Church, died yesterday of general debility, at her residence, 431 Tompkins avenue. She was born in New York City, July 7, 1825, the daughter of Lewis Pintard Coutant Mary Ann Quick, and for forty years nada lived in Williamsburg, where she was a member of Calvary P. E.I Church.

She leaves a son, George a daughter, Mrs. Laura D. Coutant; five grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Ethel Bunker. Ethel Andrus, wife of Samuel C.

Bunker, and daughter of Edward and Carrie L. Andrus, died yesterday of peritonitis, at her home, 518 Kosciusko street. She. was formerly a member of the Greene, Avenue Presbyterian Church, whose former pastor, the Rev. Dr.

Daniel Overton of L. will officiate at the funeral services to-morrow evening, at the residence of her father, 162 Stuyve-, sant avenue. She is survived by her husband, her parents and an infant son. She was born in Brooklyn, in 1878. Emeline Russell.

Emeline Smith, widow of George Doane Russell, a. former resident for thirty years of Greenpoint, died yesterday at her home, 59 Hancock street. She Was an old member of the Nostrand Avenue M. E. Church, and leaves a son, George Doane Russell, and a daughter, Miss Bertha A.

Russell. James Riley. James Riley, for sixty years a resident of Brooklyn, died at his home, 1595 Fulton street, yesterday. He was born in County Cavan, Ireland, and served throughout the Civil War in Company Fourth New York Heavy Artillery. He, was among those who responded to the first call of President Lincoln.

John Bennett. John Bennett died, yesterday, at his home, avenue, aged 68. He was a veteran of the Civil War and A member George C. Strong Post. G.

A. of Ivy Lodge, I. 0. 0. and Welcome Primitive Methodist Church.

Classon avenue, near Lafayette, where the funeral services will be held, at 2 P.M., Wednesday. The interment will be in the Cemetery of the Evergreens. William Reilly. William Reilly, a member of Morning Star Council, K. of and the Holy Name Society of St.

Charles Borromeo, died at his home, 232 Ninth street, yesterday. He was born in County Westmeath, Ireland, sixty-two years ago. James F. James F. Graham, formerly city editor of the New York World under Colonel Cockerill, and afterward on the New York Morning Advertiser, died this morning at his home, 766 East Second street, of penumonia, after an illness of a week.

He was the managing editor of the Brooklyn Chronicle, a morning paper started at the time of the consolidation of the Greater New York, but which had a brief existence. He had associated himself with H. J. Pain in his fireworks. amusement enterprises, having been with him for over twenty years.

He was president of the New York Advancement Company, which is exploiting the New York World's Fair, to be held in New York in 1913. Thomas E. Wall. Thomas E. Wall, for twenty years an undertaker on Ocean Hill, died Saturday of apoplexy at his home, 122 Rockaway avenue.

He was born in Manhattan September 16, 1860. was a charter member of Ocean Hill Council, R. formerly an active Democrat of the Twentyfifth Ward, and a member of Court Hopkinson and Church of Our Lady of the Presentation, He leaves a widow. Nora M. Lynch, and two daughters, Marie and Helen.

Henry H. Holsten. Henry H. Holsten, a grocer, of 1824 Ocean avenue, there Saturday. y.

Ho was born at Zevener, Germany, December 27. 1838, and had lived in Brooklyn Afty years. He was one of the oldest members and a former trustee of St. Peter's Lutheran Church on Bedford avenue, and one of the organizers of the Zevener Club of New York City. He leaves a widow.

Sophia Plate, a son, Franklin and four daughters, Mrs. William Meyer, Mrs. William Viemeister, Elsie L. and Irene D. Holsten.

Hartson Brown Whittier. Hartson Brown Whittier, a relative the poet Whittier, and a resident of Brooklyn for forty years, died Saturday of pneumonia at his residence, 660 MeDonough street. He owned considerable Maine property, and since his retirement from business had managed it. He waS born in Vienna, Maine, May 3, 1830, the son of Cyrus and Hilda Brown Whittier. Fifty-five years ago he married Christine Hewson, who survives him, with two sons, William E.

and Orrin and a daughter, Rowena E. Whittier, who is a teacher in Public School No. 116. Leverette C. DeLand, D.D.S Leverette Curtis DeLand, D.

D. 820 Nostrand avenue, died Friday a Luke's Hospital, Denver, follo an operation. He had lived in Colo for fifteen months for the benefit of health. He was born at Chester, April 18, 1881, and lived in Brooklyn since boyhood. He was a graduate of.

the Boys High School and the Department of Dental Surgery of the University of Pennsylvania. For some years (he was connected with the Long Island College Hospital and was a member of the Second District Dental Society, Reliance Lodge. F. and A. and the Noble Street Presbyterian Church.

He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary E. DeLand, at whose home on Nostrand avenue the funeral services will be held. Josephine Frances Clark. Josephine Frances Wildey, wife of Henry M.

Clark, died Saturday of pneumonia at her home, 920 Hancock street. She formerly lived for nearly 40 years at 189 Rodney street, and was an active member of the Florence Nightingale Society of St. John's M. E. Church, Bedford avenue.

The interment will be made in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at Tarrytown, N. Y. Mrs. Clark was born in Connecticut March 22, 1845, and was the daughter of the Rev. Joseph Wildey, 8 Methodist Episcopal minister, and Dorothea Dixon.

She is survived by her hua- band and a son, Harry J. Halsey Jacob Smith, (Special to the Eagle.) Freeport, L. January 31-Jacob Smith, a life-long resident of this place, 1. in his 78th year. Ho died this morning was the founder of Excelsior Hook and Ladder Company, the pioneer organization here, and built the company's first truck.

He WAS for mat years the village wheelwright, and later was engaged in oyster planting. One child. Mrs. William H. Patterson, whose husband village trustee, survives him.

Funeral arrangements are not yet made. Rhoda Lee Thomas. Rhoda Lee, widow widow of and sister of Samuel, years a resi- Lee of 509 Decatur member of ravia, Thursday. Congregational at Monravia, December of James Thomas Hannah and Mary street. died at MonHer husband died 22, 1909,.