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TTTE BTtOOKT.YX DATT.Y EAGLE. NEW TOItK, SUNDAY. JANUARY 0. SEWER TRENCH IN FRONT OF 14TH REGIMENT ARMORY, WHICH SOLDIERS FEAR MAY CRACK THEIR WALL VOLLEYS AND 'TAPS' FOR BRINCKERHOFF CROWDED ON B.R.T. WOMAN GETS $2,500 TO DOUBLE FORCE ON THE CALIFORNIA Daniels Says He Will Increase Navy Yard Workers, When Weather Permits.

'nf'BI ifl 'iSli present formed in line and passed the casket, headed by Commodore Forshew. who with his siaff was In full uniform. The detachment officers from the First Battalion of Manhattan wua under Commander Charles L. Poor. These naval officers and the officers of the Thirteenth lent the most color to I lie surroundings with their uniforms.

Kach officer hud a knot of crepe tied to his saber. The lia.nl played "Nearer. My God, to as the line passed. The casket was borne 0U of the south door by the guard of hunor, flanked by the Commodore and his staff, to the strains of Chopin's Funeral As the body was placed on the caisson and the start for the cemetery began, the entire battalion ranged along the Street stootl at present arms. As the caisson passed the battalion fell in behind as did the visiting officers and a number of civilians, many of whom were former members of the battalion.

The cortege proceeded through Fifty-first street to Fourth avenue to Twenty-fifth street, where it entered Greenwood Cemeterv. The march through the cemetery was by Sycamore, Central. Grove and Vine avenues to the Fort Hamilton entrance, a few feet from which was the grave. Again the battalion stood at "present" as the body was borne from Hie Hag-draped caisson to the grave. Volleys and "Taps" at Grave.

Here the large throng gathered, some with uncovered heads, while Dr. Young read the service of interment. Then three volleys were fired over the grave and a squd of buglers blew The Second Brigade was represented by Brigadier General John G. Eddy and Major Walter F. Barnes, adjutant general.

The following regimental commanders were present: Colonel John H. Footc, Fourteenth; Colonel Frank H. Norton. Twenty-third; Colonel B. K.

Jannicky. Forty-seventh; Colonel George A. Wingute, Second Field Artillery; Colonel Charles I. De BevOiie, First Cavalry, and Lieutenant Colonel Sydney Grant, Thirteenth Coast Artillery. Other military men seen at the service were former Commander of the Second Battalion Klngeley L.

Martin. Major David U. Blanton, Major Henry S. Rnsquin. Lieutenant Colonel James Crooke McLeer.

Major Kdward lie-Leer former Commander W. 11. Stayton, Captain Peters of the New Jersey Naval Militia and Drum Major Charles F. Steenwerth. From the Navy-Yard came Lieutenant H.

S. Farquhar and Lieutenant A. M. Cohen, both of the United States Navy. Among the.

civilians present were representatives of the Bedford Branch of the Brooklyn Trust Company, of which the commander had been manager, and of the main office of the company. I FEARS ARMORY WALL MAY START TO SLIDE jTHE KNOCKER CLUB AT ANNUAL FEAST Men In Public Life Take Part i in Most Enjoyable Function. Avenue Looks Like Re The Accident Occurred on Man hattan End of the Brooklyn Bridge. The New York Consolidated Railroad Company, which operates tlie Brooklyn fiapld Transit Company's express trains to Brighton Bench and Coney have to pay to Mrs. Lauretta Sharpe and her husband, Itichard F.

Sharpe, $2,500 damages for injuries caused to her by the overcrowding and jostling on the "Island' platform at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge, according to the decision rendered by Justice William L. Bansom in tho City Court yesterday. Mr. sharpe was on her way to Brighton Beach with her sister on the afternoon of Saturday, August 14, 1914, and endeavored to get aboard one of the company's trains in the Brooklyn Bridge Terminal. Traffic was congested, and trains crowded to capacity were insufficient to carry those desiring to go to seaside points, according to the testimony of Mrs.

Sharie and those who testified in her behalf. The result waa crowding and pushing from behind, the evidence showed, either to check the entrance of the throng of passengers tu the platform or to restrain and keep under control the congestion and crowding as trains came into the terminal and took on loads. Mrs. Sharpe was injured by being jammed against the gates of an incoming car, and fell down Into the open space between the two cars and the platform. Mrs.

Sharpe sued the company, claiming that the company was negligent in failing to properly police the platform and keep the crowds under reasonable control. The jury awarded her the limit of the court's jurisdiction in damage cases anil also awarded $500 to her husband as compensation to him for bis wiles injuries. Justice Ransom handed down a decision denying the deieiulant's motion to set aside the verdict and ruling that the railroad npan owed a duly 10 the traveling Favorite Invention I lis I I II ttuh Work on ii: Washington, Jw jaow uployoi in bulldl work on the keel of tin- nei ihliirma so that tin lieii can be 1,1 dowp. Afte vtMlgation, the BMratary has ThiK would 1- Iramadli for the fact thai the Navy mem has found the men wo night lim eold weather art to do their baat, IPot tin" 4oubllm ..1 the tore will wall until flit' SMII1L The Secretary was unable to sav iniieii hit 1 nan bei for lake to kpi the time 1 Admiral Star NEW WARSHIPS ELECTRiC No. 44 to Be Built at Brooklyn Navy Yard.

1 liah the sult of Trench Digging Practice, (TOTHEB FORECAST rV Thomas Jo I Edison's Late Naval Commander Is Honored at Funeral by Many Military Comrades. ALL HlXilMKXTS HKPKKSKNTKD. Impressive Service Is Held III lilt' Second rUllnilon Annorj in iiay Ridce, The Naval Militia. National Guard and a host of civilian friends said farewell to the late Charles O. Brlnker-hoff, commander for the last two years of the Second Naval Battalion, at the funeral yesterday afternoon in the armory of that organization al Fifty-j second street and the Bay.

All the regiments of Brooklyn were presented by delegations of officers 1 were the headquarters of the See-id Brigade, and the First Naval Batumi of Manhattan. The entire jard of officers of the Thirteenth I Coast Artillery in full uniform attend ed and inarched behind the casket to 1 he burial plot In Greenwood Cemetery. The body was removed from the home of Commander Brinckerhoff's parents. 180 Willoughby avenue, during the forenoon and was received at the armory by a guard of honor under command of Lieutenant Frank It. Lackey who had charge of the funerai arrangements.

Shortly after noon the First Battalion, Second Field Artillery, sem a caisson down from its armory in Clermont avenue, for conveying the coffin to the cemetery. The armory services began about o'clock, when the Battalion under command of Lieutenant Commander B. Fitzgerald formed battalion front along the west side of the drill hall. The roffln was placed on a raised platform on the east side. Several hundred chairs formed a semicircle around the platform.

The seats were taken by officers who had known the dead commander in military work or l.v hi- friends 111 civil hie. On the cover of the casket lay the gill chapeau. sword and epaulets of the The platform was flanked by many floral offerings which Included a tribute from President Maynard of the Brooklyn Trust Comapny, the Crescent Club, the Invincible Club, the Lincoln Club, the crew of the V. S. S.

Gloucester, the Battalion training ship, and from each of tho six divisions or companies of the battalion. Commodore Forshew and Staff at In the front row. next to the seats 1 be immediate mourners, sat Commodore Hobert P. Forshew. with the following members of his staff: Commander Albert B.

Fry. chief of staff; Lieutenant Commander Herbert W. York. Lieutenant Commander John C. MaclOvitt, Lieutenant Commander Louis M.

Josephthal, Lieuetnant Commander Warren Sawyer, Lieutenant Commander Kckford C. de Kay and Lieutenant (J. Harry O. As the battalion formed in double rank, the battalion band, under Bandmaster Shannon, played "Lead Kindly Light." The Rev. Dr.

S. Edward Young of the Bedford Presbvterian Church then read a brief funeral service, after which the full battalion in single tile, with rifles at the "trail" marched past the coffin to take their last look at their former commanding officer. Immediately behind this line 1 Navy v. biles after the others LET ME BE VOIR DENTIST Teeth up no Porcelain Kllllni; W. F.

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