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THE BROOKLYN' DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. THURSDAY. JULY 9. 1903.

CHIEF SEAMAN RESIGNED. AMUSEMENTS. FOX HUNTING SQUIRES Ulili MRS. WINTERS FIFTY YENS MARRIED. VENERABLE MEN TESTIFY IN TIE PEC1IC BUT SUIT QUEENS TIMERS BE HIGHLY ELATED.

rslng the same language and does not msn-tion any such extensive water rights ss ere gives to Southold. Easthampton's two patents were also offered la evidence by "ie plaintiffs. One of these was given iy Governor Nlcoll. on the 13th day of March 1L rear of the reign of our severe gn. George II.

ana a as given by Governor Dnngan, dated De-cemtKT lSvi. Gov.rnor Andros' patent to 1. placed In evidence, were the Judgment roll, summons, decision, in the case ot the town of Southampton against William Downs of Rlverhead. This case was In Downs ws surd by Southampton town for eeNng in her waters. The action as carried to the Court of Appeals, and It was finally decided that Southampton town had no right to the waters over which she Did Not Like Being Told to Leave Fire Commissioners' Meeting.

Glen Cove. L. July William H. Seaman has tendered his resignation as chief of the Ore department, owing perhaps to the treatment received by him from the fire commissioners. The monthly meeting ot the commissioners was held Tuesday evening.

Chief Seaman went out to the meeting as a committee from the Chemical Engine Company. After he had presented his business he remained until one of the commissioners announced1 that an executive session was In progress and requested him to leave. He left, but later returned and presented his resignation. The matter has created considerable talk about the village, but Mr. Seaman Is generally commended for his action.

The commissioners have on a number of occasions excluded members of the fire companies and representatives of the press from their meetings, which has caused seme very strained relations. There Is some talk among the members of showlhg their displeasure of the commissioners- action by resigning in a body unless Mr. Seaman la asked to withdraw his resignation. NEGRO DROWNED WHILE BATHING Jamaica. L.

July 9 Herbert Edwards, a negro, aged 17 years, residing at 402 Boulevard, Astoria, while swimming In the Enot Klver at the foot of 699 Vernon avenue yes. terday. was drowned. The body was not recovered. FREEPORT NOT ALARMED.

Trustees Will Go Ahead With Bond Issue Despite George Wallace's Objections. Freeport, L. July 9 A statement threatening a protest against the levying of taxes for payment of principal or Interest on any bonds of the village which may be Issued in pursuance of the proceedings and special election held here June to raise $9,000 for extension of the commercial water and lighting systems, was filed with Village Clerk Sylvester P. Shea by ex-VIIlage President George Wallace as a taxpayer. Mr.

Wallace leaves for Germany to-day on a pleasure trip and intends to stay for a month or more. The village trustees have determined to solicit bids on the bonds to be Issued for the extension of the plants, for which a majority of the taxpayers voted, and Mr. Wallace's objections will not prevent tho issuance of the obligations, notwithstanding they are made at a time when the trustees need the money to supply new customers of the municipal plant. The first objection of Mr. Wallace is that the proceedings of the special election were not legal, but he admits that tho objection is formal, as he has not examined the proceedings.

If ho finds them correct ho will withdraw the objection. His second objection is that the moneys voted to be raised by taxation are to be used for private t(! the of water and Ight to individuals at less than cost, which Is in violation of the law, and that such annot b8 colleclei by public taxa- adtI to his objections a lengthy contention that tho uiii.o.. quotes figures to substantiate his assertions. i oncuiion 10 tne Bchool and village debt, and claims that a water debt shall 1Uh ten Pr "t- of a bonded indebtness, which he claims has been reached. The ex-president declares that he will carry his contention and objections to the Court of Appeals If necessary to determine whether the people can be taxed for Individual light-Mr.

Wallace's threatened objections have caused but little surprise to the village trustees or the taxpayers. The trustees had and intimation that they were to be met with opposition In Issuance of the bonds, or rather the collection ot taxes for principal and Interest which amounts to the same thing It la Claimed. Th I.llrnn.. .1 luimenea re sistance from the ex-president it is asserted oonq Duyers from taking the village credit for the Issue. "This Will not scare mm a clal, who declines to allow his name to be r-iuicu.

nauace ought to know that a majority of taxpayers voted to raise this monev for the mitnicinai -7- auu 11 IB filing to be raised, despite his objections. He has ypaicuujr lorgouen mat tne people of Free-port voted by resolution and have pledged themselves tn nav th. IwnHul in.u, that plant by taxation. The contention of Mr. Wallace that the bond principal and interest must be met by a sinking fund from revenues, is ridiculous.

He Is evidently seeking notoriety. Where would the village credit go to in a bond sale If tho bond buyer wbb told that the interest and principal were to be met by surplus from the receipts of water and light? Taxation is the only legal method of acquiring bond Interest and principal and it is going to be obtained that wsy whether George Wallace objects or does not object. We can fight this case in the courts as well as he. and If he would rather spend some of his good money that way than pay his share of the village obligation, why let him." At a recent special election, ex-President Wallace Issued circulars bearing his own signature, In which were statements endeavoring to show that the village plant was not a success financially. VAUDEVILLE WITHOUT LICENSE.

Yokel Had Applied for One, However, and Was Not Punished. Far Rockaway, L. July 9 Adolph Yokel of Falrvlew avenue and Boulevard, Rookaway Reach, was arraigned In the Far Rockaway Ccurt yesterday morning, on a charge ot violating Section 1.472 of the Creator New York Charter, relating to theatrical performances of all kinds being given without a license. Yokel keeps a hotel snd summer garden, In which vaudevillo performances art given. On Monday night Detectives Will-lam Brown and Robert Clark of the Seventy-ninth precinct entered the place and learned that Yokel had no license and placed him under arrest-In court Yokel presented a receipt for 150 which accompanied his application for a license on July 2.

Up to yesterday the commissioners had not Issued the license, yet Yokel has been giving entertainments since July 4. The magistrate said Yokel's Intention was good and dismissed the complaint. Tbere's technical point In the case, which remains unsettled. The law says the fee must accompany each application for license. The commissioners naturally received Yokel's money and gave him a receipt therefore, but no license has been granted him, which would uphold the officers snd reflect criticism on the magistrate.

ABUSED HIS PASTOR. Westbury Negrro Held for Grand Jury en Singular Charge. Mineola, July 9 George Williams, a negro of Westbury Station, was held yesterday In tlOO ball for the Orand Jury by Justice Foster L. Onkley of East Wllllsloa, on the charge of having used sbusive language to the Rev. W.

H. Parker, pastor of the Westbury A. M. E. Church.

Williams waived examination on the charge. He was one of a party who some time ago disturbed services at the church and was charged with using the language to the pastor at a strawberry festival when accused of Implication In the disturbance. Williams' companions, Percy Levi and Louis Burnt, pleaded guilty to the ehnrge of having disturbed worship at the ehureh a short time ago snd were fined $10 each. MRS. SOPHIE C.

WICKS DEAD. Mineola, L. July The funeral of Mrs. Sophie C. Wicks, wife of John Wicks, who died st her residence on the old country rosd.

Tuesday, took place this afternoon and was Isrgely sttended. The deceased wss In her 23d year snd highly respected. The Interment woe In Oreenfleld Cemetery, OP Represented by Fiction to Be rs Happy-Go-Lucky and Generous as in Days Befo' de War. I SADDLE ARISTOCRACY. "The BfdfieHa Succession" and "A Gen- tlemnn of the South" Two Novels Which Portrny Old and New Types.

As frequently remarked In this column. It is only In fiction that one gets contemporary view of the social aspects of our contemporary life. The press, for all Its Indefatlga-blllty In recording the superficial Incldenia of the day, In reality singularly Inadequate to give anything like a satisfactory description of the habits and manners of the Individuals who make the character of socit-ty, and consequently the domestic h's-tory of the different districts of our diverse and composite country. Certainly it Is of no particular Importance yvhether domestic history be recorded or not; but then It Is of no particular consequence whether police hU- tory or whether history or political history be recorded. The least that can be said for fiction Is that It Is a little more iutorrstlng than fact, or how could we explain the difference In price between a novel, the work ol one man, and a newspaper, the work of many? Here are two novels which are worth thi Ir price as pictures of social life In old and new Virginia, a district of some size and historical importance which figures In the metropolitan press only ln connection with feuds and lyiicliings.

Ono is called "The Redflrlds Succession" 1 Harpers) by H. D. Boone and Kenntili Uroivn, authors of "Eastovor Court House." The oilier is "A Gentleman of the South" (Macniilliini bv William Garrott Drown, purporting to be "a memory of the Bluck Belt from the manuscript memoirs of the lute Colonel Stanton Elmore," who Is described as a Coined, rate officer who afterward became a soldier of fortune In Europe aud (lied In London some years ago. "The Kcdficlds Succession" Is a lively novel of the Virginia of to-dny, as it appeared to a young New York newspaper man who fell heir 10 1111 old estnlo and imagined that ho could farm a Southern plan-taiiou by the light of agricultural text books. Thero Is nothing extraordinary about the story, nor anything dull.

To say that a novel Is not dull Is to say a great deal in lt praise. The characters live and one soon comes to tako a personal Interest ln their peculiarities mid affairs, and It Is that Interest, which makes a novel a welcome change from tho deadly dreariness of faked sensationalism. The popularity of the novel, parenthetically, may be taken as a sign of Increasing education. Tho person who by preference reads a novel on a train Is an emancipated rebel from the crushing despotism of the stuff called news. To look dally down a carload of newspaper readers Is to recojve a painful conviction of tho fetters which are forged with such amazing Industry by the Nibelungs of Park Row and diabolically riveted on the intelligence of a freo country.

With what depressing avidity do wo read about popes and princes and publicans and populists. Yet what are they to us? Names, scare-heads, sounding brass. welcome, then, to a novel which can Interest us in ordinary little people like ourselves. From the story by Messrs. Boone and Brown we extract a passage which describes the modern Virginian.

How long will he last? "There Is a fascination about Virginia llt which can hardly be annlyied. Virginians take it, ns a matter of course that their state Is superior to any other; hut their feeling on this point Is a provincialism and In no way explains the Interest certain persons wlihout a New England conscience find In Virginia. They seem to be In almost hypnotic state; they love the bad roads and the red mud, the difference from the stihurby neatness of the North, tho capacity for the pleasure of the moment, the absolute Inability to conceive of a life more desirable. Tho Virginian who cannot afford five cents mny spend a dollar, or change five, In a whole souled manner that Is thoroughly captivating. In him.

of a truth, Is the old joke a fact; give him tho luxuries of life and ho will willingly forego the necessities. From the plow he may unhitch his horse to Join In a fox hunt; and if Insufficient fences permit his hogs to break Into his corn, why, 'They're my hogs and my he says, philosophically." Here a picture of an extemporary hunt breakfast which recalls tho vanished squler-arehy of rural England: "Truman wns nwnkeued In the morning by the mnn who shared his bed. The sun slanted across the room and from outsldo came the long, deep notes of the foxhorn. From the various rooms sleepy eyed men, pulling on coats and waistcoats, Joined I hem as they descended Hie stairs. In the dining room Leigh nn.l Si.

Clair were lighting plpis sfter their breakfast, while others were still eating. The table wns a Utter of plates of sliced ham. chicken lens and piles of llnht. bread and corn jione, Interspersed with cups. Three coffee pots earned on tho hrmrth and Billy, allied by the overseer, wns administering to the wants of tlio guests.

Two sleepy men on sofas had not yet achieved the stream of mind to get up. In splin of the noise bmI clatter of plntns. "The horn sounded again, In tho hall this time, and the sheriff hurst In, hungry, hjii Jubilant. 'Went out before sun shouted, 'snatched some of your nlggen and dug him out. We've sent round word to evorybody that we had him.

The man thnt leads tho Held to-duy will rldo a good horse." "A Gentleman of tho South" is a different sort of novel. It describes tho Virginia of before the war, when slave owning squires were medieval barons of the countrysl'le. The story has a tragic aimosphere, turning on a dual and a family feud; the trouble began away hack when Underwood bought an estate from Pushmataha, a Chocisw Indian, and young Underwood shot one of brnves for daring to nshlre to his sister. Then, for "tome other matter of Selden, senior, shot Underwood senior, heesuse the latter resented the former's advocacy of the Indian's claim on the estate. After that the love and 'shootln' rnn In the family, as It is expected to do down South.

"On the plantations of the Sou'h, while slavery endured, there were types of men developed such ss neither America nor any other country seems sny longer to bring forth. For men were permitted then to go on and be whatever thiy began to he In the cradles When a hundred slaves did the bidding of one master, snd every great nlnn- tntlon was a principality, a little despotism, there were Americans subject to Influences now little known In America or elsewhere. The chief of these were power and solitude Hardly the castles of medieval Germany were remoter from the surges of modern life than these plantation homes." This novel has a certain distinction of meditative expression and a moklng to match Tho Illustrations and decorations have a chaste artistry unusual In current fiction The au'hor, William Onrrott Brown. Is i native of Alnbama graduated from Harvard in mm. ne nas previously written an his-torleal monograph called "The Lower South In American History," In which he traces 'he expansion of the cotton culture from Georgia to Texas.

Mlas HIon Kpllor has Jut flnlMicil her x-smlnntlnns for tho ymr nt tiKlrliffp of llnrvnnl l'nlvi rlly nn.l him unnr tn (rnn wHI par 11 -i rial. Khu snd Mlas Uulllvnn, her toarhiT, htivo rotlinri- at Wri'ntham, It him Wn Intlniati'd tlmt Mix Kllrr hss nthi-r lltorsry pinna that Intercut her qtiltn sa murh ss her siitnliloirratiliv, hl la now very wlilely llariir.aeil h'ink In two h-ml-aphercs. 8hn recently lliankel the Soilety of Amerlrnn Aulhora for Hcrtlna; her to memheralilp, anil, an uausl. the letter wna beautifully an1 correctly written by heraelf on her own typewriter snd slgncj In her own handwriting. 11 sM I VtCi ST "3 s- il -J il 0-DAY il SHAMOn BAND ii.M I PAIN'S POMPEII 0 I anil I.HtMl MIIKWOIIk I 1.

M- ok I THE SULTAN CF SULU Friday: Atlantic Yacht Club Night KITnt'l! KTIBIMV AT 4. IV It l. RICE'S SUNDAY POPS Nest Week LEW D0CKSTADER ttd GREAT MINSTREL COMPANY BRIGHTON BEACH "ifiJ." liUdren nt Fmilr 1N. Every lltiUt Kvfry Kvenlnx, Ni.tO. M'-lntjr ititl H'-ath.

'limit's Musical fSrrnl Al'-xln. Jhh Rich. OUnmy. Strvt-na, Ortx-at MRtm. Other.

King anl I'ranklrn A v. f'nrn tn door railTE. COKEY ISLAND. continuous Modern Vaudevillf And ftaurant the Pest, CAKE WALK On Friday Night BERGEN I THt TELEPHONE GIRL BEACH I MANHATTAN AMUSEMENTS. vVOHLD IN WAX CLiCMATUUHArM ''ryrliinK t'p-u ixsn usMurs.

mWiM EDE iwl USEE, OH'MJl'ji. Attractions. 4 4 Broadway and Mi Street. Mat. VV.

d. Si.t.-U. THE EARL OF PAWTUCKET SPORTING. righton Mt SIC I1Y MILITARY HAND. Renelied liy All toiler lalniiil Hontm.

EXCURSIONS. The New York World's Fair." AtlrttettoiiH from nil parts of me wttria, imorfHtnig nov- tics. Minimum ex-iranr-liririry Hand of Qciiulnti Illnjoi) Jug- sTier. itrjind concerts. foliage, nirv jiliintH, Horticultural vvonitiTr, un- nuMinfferle, inuKL'um and aquarium; ALL FHKE.

Ie- UKhtrul will on cwlft Midlers. InUnd him tHke. Pinners a la t'. 'Klein Dairy. Uoatiim.

HuthltiK. HowllriK, Itllllanin. Kldiilnjf. TIMR TAltIE-BlTIUELT TO CM AMiE-LEAVK: Strt plr, 9:00. A.

1:30. 5:15 P. M. Hrltlge Dwk, Fultun Kerry. Brooklyn.

9:30, 10:20, 11:20 A. 12:20. 2:00, 2:50, 4-M V. M. Kant J2d Strt-et.

8:30. 10:00, 10:45. 11:45 A. 12Hi. 2:40.

3:15. 4:30. 1'. M. Lenve Olen 11 rf'O A.

M. for Portlnnrtt Street only: A. M. tor Street and Uroc-k-lyn; 12:00 M. and 1:00 V.

M. fur Crtlaiidl only: 3:00, .1:00. 7:00 and i1. M. for all landings.

Extrn bnRtn on Hundnvs and holidays. EXtT HHION, 40 CKNTX. IncllldinO ltd mid Minn tn nil atTrii'-ttnnn. COOK'S VACATION TOURS All TravellnR" KTinnen Included. mi ii t.

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ft 111-. I.iy lulv 11. IS III! July 16. And ninny Hnninif-r Tnum. Imli.Miiliiit Trnvl'l Tli'Ui'la to All Iti'Murls ut l.niv'Hl l'tirs.

I'roiel'i ii'mi-p mid I'artU'Ul i rw fr.un I HOI. IIOK ft MIIN, 211 and 1.1S.'. Hrnadiviiy. NfW York. SPECIAL EXCURSION TO ATLANTIC CITY SUNDAY, JULY 12.

ROUND S2.50 VIA New Jersey Central. Special train 1 raven Liberty St. Station A. So. Ferry A.

M. Arrive Atlantic Pity A.M. Bur. i.nt; mt wi ami imck nor, IC ASIII II I'AHK. AU 1IA MIIC.

Highland Beach Pleasure Bay, AM) AIX SOUTH jr.liKKV COAST ltFHOHTS. I.V. V. IJTII It A. 2:10 I'.

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LONO IHtANl'II, 7:10 A. 3:80. 4 45 P. it. WEST POINT, NEWBURGH PQ'JSKKEEPSIE.

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13; J. Hnttry Land :15. A 2.0:. Lfavo HAM. 4 45.

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M. llunlr Hl: triirnnt. I li O.uiitir and Cafe tl-rvic. Popular prtra. UP THE AN IDEAL OUTINC Intiirtliiy flrrtiomi lireilt Nnck, Sen I 1 1 If.

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M. Kii'unlim, HOr. GRAND BEOENT AT PATCHOOUE. PutrhoKUP, July The mcnibrra of Puuinanake Council, It. of ralrhogiid, weru honor.

I luat 11 Ik hi with visit their Krarnl regent, Hti plu-n (iiillo't, and th dlstrli deputy, Carll 8. Iiuryea ot iluuyloo, Jhe illHtliiRiilaheil Aruiniimltca wore fitva the uriinl t'oiirtcairs on the utinuiuwctnt nt of their arrival at the un-l were ar. ronlrd the honors oVlnmdi by th. Ir rank. There waa larite aMend.inre of local Ar-rRiiumltea and aerernl from niiinlde co-iin-lla.

At the conclualon of the formnl bulne.i a. a. alo'i ort)miriHiii nt wna 10 a where the "Hi of soul" nnd antu'ao lion o( the Inner man occupied irrvrsl 4 llghtfut bsuis. SM EH 111 Br.J--- Tax Rate This Year Will Be About 1.47, Lowest in Forty Years. PROPERTY OWNERS SAVE MONEY.

Great Improvements Planned Low Tax Rate Will Not Prevent Them Prom Being Made. (Special to the Engle.) Long Island City, L. July The taxpayers of Queens are greatly pleased over the announcement that the tax rate this year will be only about 1.47, lower than the lowest rate for the past forty years, and when the towns had only dirt roads, a few gas lamps in the villages ot Flushing and Jamaica and a limited water supply In the above named villages, and wben public sewer systems were unknown. Moreover, in the dayB when there was not a public school building in the entire county to compart with the beautiful structures that are now being built all over the borough. One of the prominent benefits of the reform administration, it is said, Is shown In tho reduction of the total amount of tax levied this year from the amount levied last yenr by the private real estate owners of the borough.

The total amount levied last year upon the private real estate of the borough ot Queens was $2,302,842,43. The amount id be levied this year under the reduced rate is 1,678,847.32, a clear saving to the taxpayers ot Queens tms year of or $4 to each Individual, and $20 to each family of five persons In the borough. While the tax rate of the borough is decreased 37 per cent, or more than one-third the total assessment, valuation of private real estate is Increased less than 16 per cent. from in 1S02 to $113,731,212 In 1903. This fact token in connection with the other fact, (hat the borouRh is to have expended upon Its local aud Intorborough bridges, school, polite, lire departments, water, gas and electricty, repavins, maintenance of highways and sewers, street cleaning and other departments not less than all of which is paid ty the city of New York, goes to show that Queens has, after all, struck a thrifty bargain in entering into a marriage relation with tho old City of New York.

Tho total amount of assessments for Queens this year is $120,436,113, classified as follows: Real estate Hfal estate enrpornttons Franchise corporations Personal, resident owners Personal, non-residents H13.731.I13 UM.42S 101,746 Total $123,4 5.113 The total of real estate corporations last year was only $2,893,024 and the total personal assessments was $5,297,405. The amount of real estate assessments in each ward Is as follows: First Ward, Second Ward, Third Ward, Fourth Ward. Fifth Ward, $11,632,102. The Increase Is divided over the five wards as follows: First Ward, $5,793,278: Second Ward, Third Ward, Fourth Ward, Fifth Ward, The total amount of real estate valuations as fixed last fall was $114,209,138. the reduction caused by amounts sworn off being little over half a million.

The total tax fixed on corporations last fall of $62,000,000 has since been reduced ss above stated to $5,528,000 or over 900 per cent. SCHOOL POPULATION GROWING. That of Queens Borough Has Increased 100 Per Cent Since Consolidation. No "Race Suicide." Flushing, L. July 9 The School Board of District No.

43, which has charge of the schools In the former town of Flushing and Jamaica, has prepared a very Interesting report, which Is to be submitted to the board of Education, carrying recommendations fur improvement to the schools In the district. The board calls attention to the rapid Increase in the school population of Flushing. The attendance there has Increased 100 per cent, since consolidation, 50 per cent, of which has been wlthiu the past two years. In most of the elementary grades In the Flushing schools there is an average daily attendance of over forty, and the rooms are overcrowded. To accommodate this increase the board asks that a six room addition be made to the Murray Mill school and a tour room addition to the Whltestone avenue building.

At tho Bay Side Bchool tho board says there Is immediate need for additional play grounds, as the children ore now required to play In the streets. At the Little Neck school there Is need for an assembly room and Improvements must be made and a piano added to accommodate the kindergarten which is to be established In the fall. At the Hollis school there has been a lnrgn Increase In attendance and there Is need to use the present assembly room for class purposes, The board recommends that a new assembly room be built In the third story of the building and that the present assembly room be turned into class rooms. The board declares there Is no school In the district which Is so much in need of enlargement at once as the Far Rockaway High School. The board says that It called attention to this need In a former report and suggests that the matter be given prompt attention.

The board urges the placing of telephones In the school buildings of the district. This recommendation Is enforced by strong letter from District Superintendent Chlckerlng. He recommends that the schools be given telephonic connections with the office of the district superintendent, the police, health and fire departments, but does not recommend the connection of the schools with eoeh other. The reason for Installing tho telephones, the superintendent says, are, briefly: 1. In order to secure substitutes from the district superintendent's office on short notice.

2. To be able to communicate through sold office to Fifty-ninth street. S. To he sblo to receive special directions from the district superintendent's office, when It would be too late to send by mall. 4.

In emergencies requiring communication with the Fire, Police er Henlth Departments. The board stands Jiy Its recommendation asking that corporal punishment be restored In the schools, but the report says that Mr. Msthot Is opposed to the recommendation. TREIGHT HANDLERS HTRT. Jamaica, L.

July 9 While unloading bags of sugar from the steamer Huntington, st the dock of tho American Sugar Refining Company, nt Long Island City yesterday, Frank Riley, aged 41 years, of 62 Fifth street, Long Island City, and John Piecleo, aged 27. of 34 Socket! street, Brooklyn, were severely Injurjd. The hoisting rope hroko snd the sling, with several bags full of sugar, fell upon the men. Riley received badly contused head snd bsdly rut ear and Pleelro a contusion of the right side of the body. They were attended by Dr.

Huppcrt snd removed to St. John's Hospital. COLLAR BONE BROKEN BY HORSE. Orcenlswn, L. July 9 Robert F.

Qur-ney, a former Justice of the peace ot the town of Huntington, while leading his spirited horse out Into pasture lot yesterday, was thrown down snd had his collar bone fractured by a kick from the animal. As soon ss he wss found Mr. Gurney was conveyed to his home snd received surglcsl Golden Wedding Celebration to Be Held at Their First Street Home. HUSBAND AN OLD WHALER. Also Has a Civil War Record Married at Moriches, Ik I.

Lovers and weddings are always matters of coucero to the lover-loving public, but when It is a pair of old lovers and a golden wedding, why everybody feels an almost personal interest In the affair. of those delightful celebrations will occur to-ntght In Brooklyn at 423 First street, the home of the happy couple, Captain and Mrs. George W. Winters. Though only relatives art bidden to the golden wedding, it will be by no means a small gathering, as the number of grandchildren is large.

The plan to have an elaborate celebration was given up, Mr. Winters declaring that she had no heart for it, remembering that so many of her children were gone. Of nine children, but three are now living Frank Leonard R. and Bertha all residing in Brooklyn. Captain Winters and his wife are both hale and hoarty, the touch of Father Time being chiefly shown In the snow white hair.

"We have always enjoyed good health," said Mrs. Winters to an Eagle reporter, "probably due to having lived an out-of-door life. I was always one of nature's children and when young spent as much time as possible In the open air." Mrs. Winters was born in Moriches, L. and remembers vividly the day a half century ago when she was a bride of 17, wearing a simple gown of thin white and her thick, dark hair braided with strings of pearls.

Her husband of SO was at the time preparing for a long whaling cruise. "Women had to get used to such things in those days," said Mrs. Winters, in answer to a query If she had not felt sad at the thought of being left alone. "I was sometimes alone for more than a year at a time. My life has held much sad- ness as well as happiness.

Within less than one year there was a birth, death and marriage In my family; a Bon was born to me, my eldest daughter was married and a son 15 years of age was drowned while boating In East River." The Winters' home, after the manner of those of sea captains, is filled with trophies of the deep, such as corals, delicate spreading sea fans and wonderful shells. Like most seafarers Captain Winters has a fund of entertaining anecdote and adventure to toll. "I'm pretty lively yet," he declared with a twinkle in his eye, "but In the- old days I used to be quite a swell. We wore a family of ten boys and seven of them followed the sea In -the whaling business. Whaling was still in Us palmy days then, though not as flourishing as some years before when as many as eighty vessels used to put out from Bag Harbor.

That's where I was born. My father was captain of a coaster, so I was brought up as a little boy to hear stories of sea life. My father was one of the twenty-five men who marched around Holmes' Hill when a British privateer sailed up re-conic Bay in revolulionary times. I tell you that was strategy," added the captain, emphatically. "The British concluded there was a large body of men because the twenty-five kept marching around and firing, and so they sailed off." The sea captain mentally never seems to lose the salt tang of the sea and Captain Winters from a ling line of seafaring ancestry, has kept an especially strong atmosphere of this bracing life.

One of his brothers was captain of a richly freighted ship which stranded on Bering Strait and though rescued himself by another boat of the fleet, died shortly after from the shock. From whaling. Captain Winters went Into merchant service. During the Civil War he was In command of a dangerous enterprise, that of bringing the steamer Flora up North from Port Royal, S. C.

"You'll never got there olive," they said to me when I started, "and wo were eight days making It," said the hero of the occasion In relating his experience. "I had only a negro crew, the crown sheet of the boiler blew oft twice during the trip and the bottom of the boat was so worm eaten that we were kept night and day pumping out water." Tho boat was converted Into a revenue out. ter and ot this and later Oil of thfl ravpniiA cutter Bronx, Captain Winters was a lieutenant. After three years and a half service In revenue marine service, he became pilot on a police boat doing duty about the harbor. "Yes, I've had many exciting experiences," he exclaims enthusiastically, "In fact all of my earlier life was one of adventure." PRETTY PINK TOES BURNED.

Trying Experience of Two Summer Girls on the Sands of Great South Beach. Patchoguo, July 9 Tho latest summer yarn halls from Bellport and. If true, may be classed as a "burning tale of Long Island's sands." The story as vouched for by a well known Republican politician is that two summer girls of Bellport while on the beach opposite Bellport one day this wek decided, for a lark, to walk barefoot across tho beach from the bay to tho ocean, a distance, perhaps, of about 700 or 800 yards. Tho sun's rays wero scorching, while the sands of the beach wero fearfully hot, but the girls, undaunted, kept on their walk with shoes and stockings In hand. According to tho story, when the girls reached the ocean side of the beach they could not stand on their once dainty feet and rather than be stranded each girl picked up couple of bottles, one for each hand, snd with the bottles clasped In their hands retraced on hsnds and knafrs their way back to the bay side of the beach and to their boat.

Hoisting the sail of their yacht, they sailed fast as possible to the mainland where healing lotions were brought into service. The names of the girls are withheld for obvious reasons, but, according to all reports, they arc still nursing two pairs of pretty pink feet. A BBOOKLYNITE'S PURCHASE. Thomas J. Hurley Has Invested Largely at Northwest, Sag Harbor.

Sag Harbor, L. I July 9 One ot tho lnrg-est real estate transfers made In this section In some years was consummated this week, when Rral Estate Agent W. W. Tookcr sold for John N. Smith of Brooklyn a tract of 700 acres at Northwest to Thomas J.

Hurley, also of Brooklyn, for about 136,000. The tract borders on Gardiner's Bay for a mile and a quarter, snd Is partly cleared and purtly wouded. What Improvements the new owner purposes to make. If any, eauiiot bo ascertained. PECONIC BAY OYSTER COMPANY.

(Special to the Eagle.) Albany, July The Peconic Bay Oyster Company has filed a certificate with the decretory of Stnto announcing that Its capital stock has been Increased from (3,000 to .0.000, divided Into shares of 1100 each. The company's directors Include 8, p. Hedges, Morrison Rnynor, Frank Holllns, Joseph M. Belfort snd Edward Hawkins. COMPLAINANT WAS AGGRESSOR.

Far Roeksway, L. July 9 When the esse of Oiorge (Jail agnlasl Fiona Lo.iguen waa called In the Far Roeksway court yesterday morning, the diien.lunt was discharged, Longtsen wss charged with felonious assault, but on the aland Qsll, th complainant, admitted he first attacked the defendant snd 'ht during the scuffle that followed be tot the worst end of the argument. Fifteen Witnesses Sworn Whose Years Total 1,06 5 an Average of 7 I. TOLD OF OLD TIME FISHING. Mr.

Mulford of Orient Said He Had Lived There "Forever" Seines a Mile Long Told Of. (Special to the Eagle.) Rlverhead. L. July 9 A remarkable feature of the early proceedings in the big Southold Town test suit to recover possession of Peconic Bays and other valuable property, which began yesterday, was the age of witnesses called. In the first fifteen called but four wero below 70 years of age and one of these was 6a.

The total ages footed up to 1,065 years, or an average age of the fifteen as 71. It is not probable that in all the cases previously tried in the Suffolk Court House that any controversy ever hod such a preponderance of white haired but well preserved witnesses to give vital testimony concerning property valued at many thousands of dollars. Most of thesu men were Arm of step, clear of eye snd had remarkable memories considering their ages. In spite of their age many of them examined maps and pointed out distances, courses, without the use of glasses. TheBe men were called to give evidence about the old time fishing interests of the town, and Interesting testimony concerning how the early farmers got their fertiliser was detailed.

The "old timers" who gave testimony as to fishing wero ss follows: Seth W. Tutblll, Mattltuck, aged 69; Captain Andrew Cox, Mattltuck, aged 70; Joseph A. Glover, Cutchogue, aged 71; Benjamin K. Mulford of Orient, aged 83; Captain Smith Dewey of Orient, aged a0; Lester B. Terry of Orient, aged 88; Captain William O.

Corwln of Orient, aged 83; William A. Fleet of Cutchogue, aged 47; Henry M. Beebe of Bay-sido, aged 7S; Ezra L. lloisseau of Southold, aged 69; George C. Wells of Southold, aged 67; S.

Wells i'hlllips of Southold, aged 78; Samuel B. Conkliug of Arshmomaque, aged 78; Jonathan B. Terry of Southold, aged 72, aud Erastus F. Post of Quogue, a surveyor, aged about 40. Mr.

Mulford, 83, made the remarkable state, mcnt that ho had lived in Orient "forever," and Henry M. Beebe caused a laugh when he stoutly asserted that most of Shelter Island was In Southold Town Harbor. He stands to it, too. To prove their claims to all of these bays the Town of Southold attempted to prove by all of these old residents that fishing privileges had been indulged in extensively from time Immemorial by Southold town peoplo exclusively; that they were, unhindered in their vooatlon; that they were never charged for these privileges, and that no residents to speak of from other towns fished as did these residents. Most of these men lived on the farms on which lived their fathers snd grandfathers, and these ancestors had also followed the same mode of fishing, in various places about the Town of Southold, the witnesses testified, were shore bclne crews Ave or six in some villages.

These crews were composed of usually ten farmers, each of whom owned a share in the seine. Some of the seines were a mile long exclusive of tackle, and as high as one million bunkers were taken at one haul, and these were sold to farmers, to sproad on ttielr farms for fertilizing. The price went from 75 cents to $3 per thousand, and the business was a very lucrative one for the Ashing crews. Some of these crews, by the way, bad euphonious names; for Instance, thero were the "Coots," tho "Loons," the "Pedoodles," the "Skunks," the "Turks, etc. Nowadays there is but little of this kind of fishing thero being but one crew known In all the territory where there wore formerly over a dozen.

The shore seine Ashing business was crowded out of existence by the more elaborate method of catching the menhaden by sailing vessels and steamers. On cross examination, Mr. Grlfflng, for the defense, questioned many of these witnesses as to whether or not the steamers that fished In theso waters did not come from other Btates. Mr. Grilling wanted to show that If the town ever had any right to claim the waters It had never asnerted It by forbidding people from other towns and states to flBh, and, In fact, had never even given permission to Its own residents.

While the defense refused to divulge the nature ot Its defense It is believed that a point will be made that If the town had any right formerly It had "slept" on It for so many years tnat it had been lost now, But to refute this assertion If It Is eventually brought out, some historians claim that a town is different from an Individual In the respect of losing title by adverse possession. It Is held that a town may sleep for hun dreds of years and then wake up to And that It owns exactly what It did when It began Its existence. Nearly all of the witnesses testified practically alike regarding tho tremendous fishing business formerly existing and most of tne witnesses testified that they did not believe many but Southold town people ever fished In the bays or around the localities known as Big Hog Neck, Little Hog Neck, Paradise Point, the Cowyard, Pike's Neck Cove, Orient Point, Indian Neck Bay, Jes-sup's Point, Robbln's Inland, etc. Lester B. Terry of Orient, who sold he spent all his early days at sea, hod seen Qardiner's Bay full of whaling vessels, riding out a storm; that this bay wss then a fuvorlte and safe rendezvous for big craft, but that now, since a certnin neck pf laud had been completely cut away by the sea, the bay was not a safe harbor, and not used as such.

Mr. Terry was 88 years of age, but ho had a remarkable memory concerning details of fishing Interests long ago. Mr. Post, the surveyor, was recalled late In the afternoon, and among other things he said that tradition familiar to him was that old residents used to drive from Red Creek Point, Southampton town, to James-port, now Rlverhead town, snd formerly Southold town that these people did not drive by way of Simmons Point, either, but directly across. This spot Is now a deep channel, and one of the widest portions of tho upper part of Peconic Bay.

Tho statement seems almost Incredible. The patent to Southold town by Andros, dated October 31, 1076, was Introduced In evidence. This pstent gives Southold town all the waters, Island, from Fishers Island to Red Creek (near Rlverhead, asd sll along supposed to be In Southampton town). It Is whether this line follows the shore line, giving Southold sll the water te the north ot It, or whether It leaves Southampton a part of the water, Is tho mooted question to be settled by this hearing. The patent from Richard Nlcolls to the Sylvesters, dated May 31, 1660, granting Shelter Island to be established Into a township, was also placed In evidence, as was also an act of the Colonial Legislature, dated July 12, 172, empowering Shelter Island to elect officers.

In spite of the fact that Shelter Island was thus brought Into being Counselor Rpesr Introduced evidence to show that the town did not In those early days take advantage of Its powers, but rather filed records In the town clerk office of Southold town. From the old primea records of Southold town Mr. Spear read many Instances as far back as 16ti4. and other late dates, showing whore deeds for I land on Shelter Island wero filed In the I Southold clerk's office. It was also shown I officials paid bounties to Shelter Island residents for killing obnoxious i i 'nlr ln records of Shelter lslan was made April 7, 1730, when the election of officers was recorded.

This t-- ftom records by B'lln of Sh-lter Island. JT Introduced In evidence a 'outhampton patent, dated No- one ilny after Governor An- .1 her patent. It Is held r.at tnese patents are similar and yet va.t-lt..Vrr."1,Ttnt nl1 (the Southold 'ven next day tne same man gives a patent to Southampton ciaimea jurisdiction by the suit. All these patents were Introduced for comparison with that of Southold. They all show thot the lands are bounded "to" the waters, and Southold shows that she is bounded "with" the waters.

The defense admitted that the Red Creek mentioned in the Southold patent was th same as delineated on the modern nisps in evidence. Quotations from laws of 1801 and 1813 showing boundaries of Suffolk County were also Introduced, snd It was conceded that Rlverhead was set span from Southold on March 13, 1792. ThrouKh Town Clerk Flthian of Southold It was shown that on April 1702 ut a town meeting, it was voted that all persons not belonging to the town were forbid catching clams, snd any persons catching them to sell to residents of other towns should be fined threepence, snd have the clams forfeited, one-half to the Informant and the other half for the good of the town. On April 2, the flno for the same of-lense was Increased to 1 shilling, and on April 1. 17S4.

It was voted that sny foreigner convicted of catching clams Bhould lie fined 4 shillings, have his clams forfeited as above, aud also that any local resident aiding a foreigner In catching clams, should receive the tame punishment. On April 6, 18111. it wss voted that the fishing, fowling end hawking should be tree to the town, and that the town would support the resolution. This documentary evidence went to prove that the Andros patent of 1676 gave all the waters to Southold Town, and that the town knew of It ell these years, and had passed these resolutions to protect this- birthright that the present controversy was not a new thought brought by the trustees. One of the strongest points In the plaintiff's case was that In 1830 a Mr.

Nlcoll asked the Legislature to grant him certain lands under water off the southernmost portion of Shelter iBlnnd. Southold residents objected and a memorial signed by 380 of the leading cltlsens protested, claiming that they owned the waters and lands heneoth them, and that these lands were valuable. The Legislature listened to the plea of the South-old people, and refused to grant Mr. Nlcolls his application. Tho plaintiff's case was concluded last night, excepting rebuttal, If It wns found necessary to Introduce any.

People well posted In such matters say that the town has put up a strong ease. Briefs Will Be Submitted This Afternoon. Rlverhead. L. July 9 The defense In the Southold Town suit will conclude th(s nftir-noon and the case will be submitted by briefs to Justice Smith.

Counselor I'ordnam for the defense this morning made formal motion, at the conclusion of tho plaintiff's casn, for a dismissal of the action 011 the ground that the plaintiff had not proven its case and that the Andros patent of 1676 to Southold Town did not cover the premises named in this suit. Justice Srjlth reserved his decision until the close of the case. The defense Is introducing evidence to show that tho patent to Shelter Island does not aflect In the least the Southold potent. Evidence was Introduced to show that Shelter Island had a habit of filing deeds In Ensthampton as well as Southold towns. This wss to refute the statement made by plaintiff yesterday that Shelter Island looked upon South-old as the mother town.

Much stress wns put upon the statement In old records, showing that deeds were recorded which bounded a property to tho bay running up between Southampton and Southold, and the fact that property was bounded by a line running to a line In the hay between Southampton and Southold. The defense also showed that Southold Town had always exercised authority over tho creeks around the bays, but not over the bays themselves. William W. Tooker of Sag Harbor, the eminent Indian historian, wns a witness tor the defense. He was asked to give his construction of the word "with" as connected with boundaries of long ago, but the court would not let him answer this nlt-lmportunt question.

It Is this word on which the whole case rests, and the court believes that a construction by itself would be of more importance. The defense also showed by Charles L. Fordham. H. Fletcher Fordhnm and Burdotte parka of Grecnport.

and Seward L. Wicks of New Suffolk that boats from Patchoguo, Blue Point, Sayvllle and many other places outside ot Southold Town had fished and scalloped ln Southold waters for years unmolested, and that they rever asked nor. received permission from town authorities of South-old. It was also shown that many fishing steamers from other states had fished ln these slime waters without asking nor receiving permission. The defense also made a strong point regsrdlng the north and south ship channel around Shelter Island, It being contended by the defense that the Andros deed meant Us line from Fisher's Inland to Red Creek, near Rlverhead, to go around on the north pier, Shelter Island, rather than on the south Bide of that island, ss contended by the plaintiffs.

It was held by the defense that the water nt the snuthsldo was shoal, and on the north very deep, but It was shown by the plaintiffs on cross examination that all tho large ships went ns readily on one side of the Island ns the other, and that thy had to go to Ssg Harbor with big ships, and it was necessary to go to the south side to make this landing. This Is em of the main points of the defense to how that the Andros patent does not give Southold tho whole of the bay, but that the bay wns owned by the state, and the latter had power to cede to Suffolk County, as It did In 1884. and that the county had power to nell lands under water, as It hss done, to the oyster planters. In rebuttal the plaintiff showed by Henry A. Reeves, an old mini, who formerly lived at Sag Harbor that when he was a bey five hundred hlg whale ships came Into and snlled out Sag Hnrhor throuirh th" south channel around Shelter Island.

These ships enme snd went In a period of five yearr before 18.10. This wns most Important evidence for the plnlntlffs as showing the depth of water ln this much disputed channrl. The case was concluded at 12:20 and Judge Smith reserved his decision, on-nounclng that he would decide the action ss non he got briefs. Tho briefs are to he submitted In leo davs sfter the stenographers minutes are given to attorneys. UNKNOWN MAN INJURED.

Is an Inmate of St. Mnry's Hospital, Jsmnlcs Can Give No Account of Himself. Jsmaloa. L. July 9 About o'clock lost cvonlng an unknown, unconscious man wns brought to St.

Mary's Hospital, Jamaica. He was Injured, It Is supposed, by being struck by Long Island Railroad train at Fresh Pond Junction. Ha Is shout 05 years old, 5 feet 9 Inches In height and weighs about 170 pounds. He has gray hair and mustache, partly br.ld, a long, sharp nose and wore a black dfrby hat, black coat and trousers. His right leg and left, arm are broken and his head badly cut.

He wns attended by Hr. Meynen and an Investigation Is being ninde. He wss brought to Jamaica on a train from Fresh Tonrt, where he wns found laying alongside of the track. KOUNDSMAN PRESTON AT JAMAICA Jamaica. I July Patrick Preston, who until recently was patrolman In the Fourth Precinct and who was recently made roundsman, has been sent to the Seventy, eighth Precinct (Jamaica) to do duty.

He comes to (III the vacancy caused by the promotion of Roundsman Charles Madlgsn to a scrgeancy. h. I. ELECTRIC RAILWAY. (Special to the Ragle.) Albany, July The railroad commissioners have authored the change of the corporate nam of the New York snd North Hhnre Railway Company to the Long Island Electric BtHtsy Company.

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