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a a I THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1917. 31 GRAY HAIR, LOOK YOUNG, PRETTY Sage Tea and Sulphur Darkens So Naturally that Nobody can tell. Hair that loses its color and lustre, or when it fades, turns gray, dull and lifeless, caused by a lack of sulphur in the hair.

sour grandmother made to Remixture locks dark and beautiful, up of Sage Tea and and thousands of women and men who value that even color, that beautiful dark shade of hair which is so attractive, use only this old-time recipe. Nowadays we get this famous mixture improved by the addition of other ingredients by asking any drug store for a bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound," which darkens the hair so naturally, so evenly, that nobody can possibly tell it has been applied. You just dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at a time. By morning the gray hair disappears; but what delights the ladies with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound is that, beSides beautifully darkening the hair after a applications, it also brings back the gloss and lustre and gives it an appearance of abundance. Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound is a delightful toilet requisite to impart color and a youthful apthe hair.

It is not inpearance, the cure, mitigation or prevention of MAY LOSE $800,000, UNION GAS CO. SAYS Asks Rehearing on Order to Adopt British Unit. The Brooklyn Union Gas Company has petitioned the Public Service Commission for a rehearing on the commission's order, adopted October 13, giving the gas companies within New York City the option of adopting the British thermal unit standard for gas, in order that the companies may furnish the United States Government with toluol, benzol and other residuals greatly needed in the manufacture of high H. explosives. The position is signed by J.

Jourdan, president of the company, and sets forth seven reasons to support the application. Under the order of the commission, the petition states that the price of gas would be decreased between 5 and 6 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, and the consumer now paying 80 cents per 1,000 cubic feet would pay less than 75 cents. The gas company would thereby lose $800,000 per annum, the petition adds, contends that if the United States Government makes up this amount the cost of toluol would be increased $1 per gallon by this one item, raising the price approximately from $1.50 to $2.50. OBITUARY RICHARD BURCHELL MORRISON, years old, son of Mr. and Mrs.

James Morrison, summer residents of Rockaway Beach, and grandson of Edgar L. Morrison, pioneer amusement promoter of Seaside, died in the Bushwick Hospital, Brooklyn, on Monday. Richard was getting ready for school when he complained of a violent headache. He Was taken to the hospital where he died a half hour later. The funeral services will he beld this afternoon, at his parents' residence, 1007 Putnam avenue, Brooklyn, the Rev.

John C. Green, of the First Congregational Church, Rockaway officiating. The interment will be in Evergreens Cemetery. MRS. ISABELLE MILLER SCOTT, 68 years old, widow of Dr.

John Graham Scott, of Philadelphia, and a resident of Brooklyn for twelve years, died on Tuesday from heart trouble, at the home of her daughter, 1068 East Fifteenth street, Flatbush. Her funeral services and interment will be at Mount Maria Cemetery, Kingsessing, Philadelphia, Mrs. Scott was born in Philadelphia. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Charles H.

Krapf, three grandchildren and a sister. GUSTAV HAMEL, 36 years old, of 388 Central avenue, Brooklyn, died on Sunday at Saranac Lake, N. Y. Mr. Hamel was in the cigar business here, and was a member of St.

Barbara's C. Church, Bleecker street and Central avenue. His funeral will be held on today with Interment in Trinity Cemetery. Hr. Hamel was born in Germany and came to this country twenty-six years ago.

He is survived by two brothers, John and Henry, and two sisters, Mrs. Annie Hebler and Mrs. Amy Kees. Mra. ANNA MARIE LOBER WHITFORD, 37 years old, wife of Caleb Whitford, died on Tuesday from pneumonia, at her residence in Newport, R.

I. She had lived in that city two years, her husband being stationed there as a warrant officer at the United States Naval Training Station. Mrs. Whitford was born in Brooklyn, the daughter of Charles and Julla Lober. She is survived, besides her husband, by four children, Julia, Marian, Mildred and Caleb, and three brothers, Charles, William and Andrew Lober.

The funeral will be held from 24 Rockaway avenue, Brooklyn, the residence of Mr. Whitford's mother, on Saturday morning, with a requiem mag in the R. C. Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Broadway and Aberdeen street. The interment will be In St.

John's Cemetery. LEONARD ABRUZZO, 67 years old, of 212 Lefferts place, died on Tuesday from stomach trouble. His funeral will be held tomorrow morning, with a requiem mass in the R. C. Church of St.

Francis of Assisi, Lincoln road and Nostrand avenue, interment following in Holy Cross Cemetery. Mr. Abruzzo was born in St. Margherita, Sicily, and was a member of the St. Margherita Society of this city.

He had been a resident of Brooklyn for thirty years, and was for many years in the building business. Mr. Abruzzo is survived by three sons, Matthew a well-known lawyer of Brooklyn; Andrew, a real estate dealer, and William; two daughters, Angelina, 8 teacher in Public School No. 54, and Mrs. Grace Duge, and.

two grandchildren. MRS. RACHEL STORMS BARAGWANATH, 90 years old, widow of Henry H. Baragwanath, died early today in the Baptist Home, Greene and Throop avenues, where she had been a member of the family of aged people since 1908. Mrs.

Baragwanath was born in New York City, and had been a resident of Brooklyn for fifty years. She was for many years a member of the Marcy Avenue Baptist Church. Her late husband was chief engineer for the New York Post Office. Mrs. Baragwanath had been blind for some time.

Her death was due to old age. She is survived by a son, Frederick H. Baragwanath, and a brother, Andrew Storms, of Brooklyn, MAX TOKLAS, 81 years old, of 1164 East Seventh street, Flatbush, a retired export merchant of San Francisco and New York City, died on Tuesday from the allments of old age. His funeral services tomorrow morning will be conducted by the Rev. Dr.

Joseph Silverman, of the Temple Emanuel, Manhattan, of which Mr. Toklas was a member. The interment will be in Salem Fields Cemetery, Mr. Toklas was a nold member of Mount Sinai Lodge, Independent Order B'Nal B'Rith. He was born in Prussia, Germany, and same to this country as a youth.

He formerly lived -FEMALES. WHITE girl for downstairs work; good wages. Apply 215 Stratford road, Flatbush, near Beverly road; Tel. 4224 Flatbush. GIRL, understanding general housework and cooking but not experienced.

Call Friday between 2 and 4 o'clock, 825 Lincoln place. For other Classified Ads. see Index Page 2 WILL USE BARRACKS FOR U.S. WORKERS IN NEW DEPARTMENTS Washington Solves the Difficulty of Taking Care of Army of Workers. TEMPORARY OFFICES BUILT Eagle Building, 901 Colorado Building.

Washington, November 1-Uncle Sam is rapidly reaching a solution of one phase of the housing problem that has been causing embarrassment Washington, incident to the activities here attending the carrying out of the war. The solution in sight has to do with the question of taking care of the army of employees that have been put to work since war broke out. The other side of the problem--that of providing lodging accommodations for these employees is nowhere near solution, and is daily becoming more acute. Relief for the Government departments was first obtained through the medium of taking over office and apartment buildings. This only added to the troubles of the increasing number in Washington seeking sleeping accommodations.

Accordingly, the business men serving on the Council of National Defense tackled the problem, and advanced a corrective. They have applied the Army cantonment plan to the Capital, and decision has been reached to erect buildings that will serve for the period of the war. The first results of this policy are to be seen in a temporary office building that has been put up for the Council of National Defense, War Industries Board, Advisory Commission and subordinate committees. This building is an interesting feat in construction. It covers an entire square and was put up in forty-nine days.

The building is of wood, with wire lath and stucco finish wall board material in the interior. The constructicn required more than a million feet of lumber, and the maximum labor of all classes employed was 450 men. The cost of this temporary structure will be a ltitle less than $225,000. It will house 600 employees. So eminently practical is idea that it has been adopted a by the War Department and by the Hoover Food Administration.

On a big vacant lot just south of the avenue, located in the Mall, another huge temporary structure is being put up in record breaking time. This building, which will have a million square feet of floor space, will provide accommodations for thousands of clerks. There was some objection to the erection of these temporary buildings on the ground that they might be continued as permanent structures war. The buildings are not things of beauty, and a have no proper place in the architectural plans for the capital contemplated by the Fine Arts Commission. Fears that these buildings will remain standing after the war are without foundation.

In fact, in the case of the building erected south of the avenue, it was stipulated by the trustees of the Smithsonian Institution, who control ol the ground, that the structure should be demolished with the close of the war and the passing of the emergency that caused its erection. Just about the time war broke out there were completed for the Government, ready for occupancy, three new office buildings. One of them now houses the Department of Labor, another provides accommodations for the Interstate Commerce Commission and other bureaus, while the third is occupied by the personnel of the Department of Justice, which heretofore has occupied various old buildings in the resident section of the city. The buildings vacated by the bureaus of the Department of Justice have been taken over by the Exports Council, which is now being organized as the War Trade Board. The Federal Trade Commission shifted from its old quarters in the Department of Commerce Building to an office structure at Fifteenth and streets, while the vacant space was taken by Commercial Economy Board of the Defense Council.

The "Treasury Department, which has bureaus sprawling all over town, plans the erection of an annex across Pennsylvania avenue from the a main building. This is intended to be a permanent building of monumental proportions to conform to the classic architecture of the Treasury itself. Owing to the scarcity of labor and materials, work on the Treasury annex may be postponed for some time. This will compel the Treasury to obtain temporary accommodations. The only department of the Government that has not gone afield in search of additional space is the White House force.

Although the personnel at the White House has been augmented, the President and Secretary Tumulty have their forces working at the same old stand. for more than thirty years in San Francisco and three of his brothers an da sister are living thee now. M. Toklas is suvived by his widow, Mary Wise; four sons, Nathan Louis Jerome and Monroe and two daughters, Nina and Beatrice, JOSHUA W. PLACE.

78 years old, died yesterday, from the ailments of old age, in the Brooklyn Home for Aged Men, 745 Classon avenue, where he went to live five years ago. Mr. Place was born in New York City, and up to the time of his retirement from active life had been a carpenter. He was a bachelor and leaves no surviving relatives. His funeral services will be held at the Home tomorrow afternoon, and the interment will be in Cypress Hills Cemetery.

CHARLES THILL, 43 years old, of 667 Metropolitan avenue, an engraver, died on Tuesday from Bright's disease, in the Greenpoint Hospital. His funeral services will be held this evening and the interment, tomorrow, will be in the Lutheran Cemetery, Mr. Thill was born in Brooklyn on July 24, 1884, the son of Peter Thill, a glass manufacturer. He is survived by his wife, Louise Goldman; a brother, Peter, and two sisters, Mrs. Annie Heffier and Mrs.

Laura Vedder. HENRY LAUBENBERGER, 33 years old, of 229 Starr street, died yesterday from intestinal trouble, in the German Hospital. Hig funeral services will be held on Saturday afternoon, with interment in the Lutheran Cemetery, Mr. Laubenberger was born in Brooklyn. He is survived by his wife, Elsie; one child, and hig parents, John and Elizabeth Laubenberger.

THE REV. JAMES LEE, 65 years old, chaplain of the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment during the Spanish War, died at his residence in Revere, yesterday. He resigned as chaplain after twenty-seven years service. Father Lee had been rector of the Immaculate Conception Church in Revere for twentynine years and was active in civic affairs. He was born in Ireland.

MAX ZUTTY, 47 years old, of 136 Hart street, a retired wholesale tobacco leaf merchant of Manhattan, and formerly of the firm of Mayer died yesterday from a complication of ailments. His funeral services were held today, with interment in Mount Zion Cemetery. Mr. Zutty was born in Grodno, Russia, and had been a resident of Brooklyn for many years. He is survived by his wife, Jeannette; a daughter, Cina, the wife of Dr.

Abraham Progebin of Brooklyn, and two sisters, Mrs. Adeline Palmer and Mrs. Annie Loewenthal. JAMES ROBERT DE HAVEN, 55 years old, of 1238 Flatbush avenue, died last night after an illness of many years from chronic nerve rheumatism. Mr.

De Haven was born in Ohio and had long been an invalid. He had been a resident of Brooklyn for five years. He is survived by a brother, Dr, William H. De Haven of Brooklyn, and three sisters, Miss Alice De Haven, Mrs. George P.

Folts of Brooklyn and Mrs. Emma BenJamin of Kokomo, Ind, KNOCKING- TO GET IN ADMINISTRATION JOHN PURROY MITCHEL TAMMANY GOOD GOVERNMENT CERMAN PEACE Handed CITY SALE OF FOOD NECESSARY--MAYOR Claims Increase in Prices Leaves Children Hungry, at Public Hearing. The State Food Commission gave a public hearing at the CIty Hall today on the application of the Board of Estimate for a license permitting the city to buy and sell food and fuel. John Mitchell, chairman ofo the commission, presided, flanked on either side by the other members of the commission, Jacob Gould toxo Schurman and Charles A. Wieting.

When Chairman Mitchell got through reading the city's application, he asked if there was anyone present who opposed the granting of the license. Carl W. Kimball, representing the New York Food Distributers Association, which has a membership of 50,000, arose and said: "Perhaps it would be considered that this association should object to the city buying and selling food products, other because it would introduce ancompetitor into the fleld, which might have a tendency to curtail the established business of existing distributors. "However, the Food Distributors Association does noto want to take such a position, but to present what it believes to be a fair and accurate statement of the situation and then leave it to othe State Food Commission to decide what they deem best for he interests of the community at large. City Will Have to Hire Experienced Men.

"Will not a city department have to hire experienced men to buy, sort and sell food products? Will they not have to be transported, distributed and redistributed the same as now? Is there any motion or operation that can be eliminated? If the present distributers, after years of experience, have not found them, is it expected that new and inexperienced men employed by the city will find economies? If economies can be pointed out, can they not be brought to the attention of the present distributers and would they not put them into effect much better than a new organization? "We can readily see that in time of riots, invasion, great calamity or extreme famine, the Government, Federal, State or city, would need to supervise the feeding of the people, but would anything be gained by taking the distribution system over? Would it not be better, now that we are at war, to have a co-operative supervision by the Government, whether it is Federal, State or municipal? "If free markets are established and various city departments give the services of employees, will not the city pay just as much and the consumer bear an increased burden in the form of taxes? Will the food be taken from the producer to the consumer at any less cost than it is done today." Mayor Mitchel had prepared an address which was read to the Food Commission by Dr. Henry Moskowitz, Commissioner of Public Markets, on account of the Mayor's sore throat. He said: Mayor Asks License for City. "We have pursued the procedure outlined in the law. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment and the Board of Aldermen, the governing bodies of the City of New York, have certified and to the indorsed existence of application an emer- to gency my you for the power, which I now request, namely, the power to buy, store and sell food and fuel, That an emergency exists in the City of New York will be attested to by representatives of the consumers, wage earners and the social agencies dealing with the people at first hand.

"Inquiry made by nurses of the Department of Health showed that at the present time children are not receiving either the same amount, variety or' quality of food they received before the present increase in prices. The child needs food much more urgently than the adult in order to provide material both for repair of waste and for growth. Unless it receives proper food it is permanently 1m- tant to disease. The children reportpaired and always remains non ed as undernourished are not starving. They are, however, children who for the last year and a half have been habitually underfed.

It has been evident to the department that this underfeeding has been directly related to the high cost of food. "I desire publicly to state that the city intends to use this power with discrimination; that there is no intent to drive out of business the vast majority of honest and legitimate dealers. We want, rather, to make the city's resources avail these dealers, 80 that they can give to their customers the advantage of prices which city may obtain for them which they cannot obtain for themselves. We intend to encourage the legitimate dealer and to use existing trade agencies to the fullest extent." George H. Perkins spoke in support of the Mayor's application.

Mrs. Robert Bruere and other women representing various civic and consumers' organizations also pleaded for the granting of the license. MRS. S. H.

TALBOT DIES Mrs. Eliza Elizabeth Talbot, widow of Simeon Henry Talbot, died this morning at her residence, 273 Clermont avenue, from heart trouble, brought on by the death of her husband, in April, 1914. Mr. and Mrs. Talbot had been inseperable lovers, and Mrs.

Talbot grieved incessantly after her husband's death until the end. Her daughter and her physician attribute her death to no other cause. Mrs. Talbot was born in England and had lived in Brooklyn for thirty years. She was the daughter of the late Frederick Thomas Halpin, the noted English artist, and Eliza Rockett.

Her father was one of the foremost steel engravers of the world, and some of his works are now in the Academy of Design in Manhattan and tha Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C. Notable among his engravings are portraits of eminent people, and one especially of the "Lord's Supper." Mr. Halpin died in Brooklyn about thirty years ago. Mrs.

Talbot was the sister of seven brothers, all of whom were artists of note, and she herself was a painter of considerable talent. She was the last surviving member of the family, Her late husband was for forty-five years a leather merchant in Swamp" in Manhattan, a veteran of the Civil War, and a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity in Brooklyn. Mrs. Talbot Grace was for many years a member of P. E.

Church in Manhattan. The funeral services will be held at her late home, and the interment will be in Cypress Hills Cemetery. Mrs. Talbot is survived by a daughter, Mrs. F.

Philo Van Saun, and a granddaughter, Beatrice Talbot Van Saun. THREE MEN NOT DESERTERS. Owing to the fact that they did not go at the time their quota went from Board No. 51, Lester Funk, 48 Broome street; A. P.

Koeberas, 168 Union avenue, and Charles Spinner, 679 Grand street, were named as deserters in the list recently given out by the Adjutant General's office. They have been at Camp Upton for some time. SULZER MASS MEETINGS TONIGHT AT TONIGHT AT EX-GOV. WILLIAM SULZER PALM GARDEN 275 Hamburg Corner Greene Ave. CONGRESS HALL Atlantic Ave.

and Vermont St. INDEPENDENCE HALL 89 Osborn Corner er Pitkin Ave. Subject: 'What Tammany Rule Means to New York City' NEW EXPOSURES OF TAMMANY HALL! ALL 1313 That was the total number-1313-of electric vacuum cleaners sold at the October special sale of the Brooklyn Edison Company. Isn't it fairly good evidence that the public appreciate and take advantage of the Edison monthly bargains? Beginning today the Edison Company is having a November special sale of electric heating padsthe successor to the old rubber hot-water bagsale price regularly $7.50. Any Edison Office BROOKLYN MEN IN FRATS (Special to' The Eagle.) Amherst, November 1---The following Brooklyn men have been initiated into Amherst fraternities: John Amar Norman, '21, Alpha Delta! Phi; Edward, Wiliard Harmon, '21, Beta William D.

Thomas, '21, Theta Delta Chi; Lewis Gordon Gilliam, '21, Rolf T. Michelson, '21, and Emmett Huling Woodworth, '21, Phi Gamma Delta; George Donald Born, Phi Kappa Psi; William Allen Kissam, '21, of Great Neck, and Charles Gregory Wray, '21, of Shelter Island, Kappa Theta. Amherst undergraduates subscribed $17,000 in the recent Liberty Loan campaign, or practically one $50 bond apiece for every undergraduate. The trustees' subscription of $25,000 makes the total for the college $42,900. C.

A. C. MEN FOR RAFFERTY Members of the Crescent Club have formed a committee to canvass the club membership in behalf of John T. Rafferty, Republican-Fusion nominee for Register. The committee has addressed a strong letter to the memberg of the club boosting Rafferty as the ideal man for the job.

The letter is signed by William K. Cleverley, Norman M. Williams, David Porter, James B. Given, M.D.; Charles J. Obermayer, William M.

Calder, Edwin H. Thatcher, Robert J. Kenworthy, William H. Todd, Henry P. Erwin, Ralph I.

Lloyd, M.D.; Edmund M. Reed, George B. Hutton, Alvah Miller. JUDGE KNAPP TAKES OFFICE. He Assumes Post as State Tax Com missioner.

Judge Walter H. Knapp took office today as State Tax Commissioner, ceeding Martin Saxe, who resigned to practice law. Mr. Saxe sent his nation, to take effect today, to Governor Whitman, giving the reason that he was going into partnership to practice law with I Robert C. Morris and Guthrie B.

Plante. Charles R. McSparren, counsel to the State Tax mission and formerly Deputy Attorney General in charge of franchise tax matters, will be associated in the partnership, his resignation also taking effect today. Judge Knapp, until his appointment, wag in the State tax office. THE INSURANCE TAX Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: In last night's Eagle you stated that "Mr.

Insured Man and his family must pay a war tax of 8 cents on each $100 of amount for which his life is insured." This is not in accordance with the law, which states, in effect, as folregarding life insurance tax: "Every corporation shall within the lows, first fifteen days of each month make a return under oath, and pay such tax to the Collector of Internal Revenue" -for the business of the preceding month. This seems to dispose of the question that the tax would be paid directly by the insured when, the policy is issued. CHAS. JEROME EDWARDS. COOPERMAN SOLD SUGAR AT 20 CENTS And Is Roundly Denounced for It by Magistrate Dodd.

Magistrate Dodd's ire was aroused today in the New Jersey avenue police court by the admission of Max Cooperman and his wife, Celia, of 129 Amboy street, that they charged 20 cents "Why a do pound for charge sugar. that much? you What does it cost you?" he asked. The Coopermans said that they had paid $18 for 100 pounds of sugar which they got from Sheffano's wholesale house at 1010 Walabout street, on October 3. The magistrate called up the wholesalers who said. "We have not at any time charged 18 cents a pound.

We have not charged more than 10 cents a pound." The magistrate was fairly boiling when he again ascended the bench. "I am convinced that you have told me an untruth," he said to the Coopermans. "It is an outrage that anyone should make 100 per cent. on sales of sugar. It is things like this that promote the spirit of rebellion.

I want to make this statement in open court and I wish there was some law that would permit me to punish you." Ida Kaloney of 135 Amboy street had complained that she was asked 20 cents a pound for sugar at the Cooperman store. She refused to pay it and there was an argument, which ended in the appearance of the Coopermans in court. They were discharged, but not before the magistrate had delivered the above lecture. Thieves After Hospital Commissioner John A. Charities today made public that he Kingsbury apprised of what he termed had been effort to steal the cornerstone of "an hospital which is to replace the new Cumberland Street Hospital in the Brooklyn." attempted theft, Commissioner The said, occurred Tuesday Kingsbury The following statement afternoon.

by the Charities Dewas given out men appeared with a wagon partment: "Two hoisting tackle, who, stated when that and stopped by been ordered to take the the watchman, they had watchman deaway. The cornerstone authorization and asked manded their them who had sent them. They could authorization and they refused produce no disclose under whose orders to they were acting. "It would be interesting to know BENNETT DENIES HE WILL WITHDRAW "Unqualified and Malicious Lie," He Declares and Blames Fusion Managers. IS INVESTIGATING PASTERS.

Will Send Photograph to Swann of Ballot Alleged to Have Been Given to Soldiers. DANISH STEAMERS WILL RESUME TRIPS Have Been Stopped by the Embargo Since the 28th of August. The Scandinavian Line, whose the Oscar preAmericans vented from sailing September 1 by the embargo on exports, has announced the resumption of passenger and freight service between New York and Scandinavian ports, to begin November 15. The embargo went into effect August 28. The Oscar II of the same line was nearly loaded and was to sail four days later, when the ban on food exports stopped her.

Since that time representatives of the line have spent much time in Washington in the effort to secure a release of their ships. The United States and the Hellig Olav of the same company have in the meantime returned from voyages to Denmark, and now all three ships are moored in Hoboken. The announcement of the resumption of service specifies that only freight which has been licensed by the Government will be carried. Passenger service will be continued, regardless of the amount freight carried, it was said today. The Hellig Olav will be the first vessel to leave.

TO BACK MITCHEL The Anti-Saloon League today threw its strength behind Mayor Mitchel. A statement was issued, declaring that efforts had been made to have the league's influence given to the Prohibition ticket. It declared that an effort was expected on the part of William R. Hearst to alienate the temperance element from Mitchel and get them to vote the Prohibition ticket. "Either Mayor Mitchel or Mr.

Hylan, the Tammany candidate," says the statement, "will be elected. No matter how good the Prohibition intention may be, a vote for the party candidate for Mayor is, in practical operation, a half vote for Tammany. The Anti-Saloon League is omni-partisan. In our judgment, when Democrats and Republicans ignore party lines and join in a Fusion movement in behalf of the common in city affairs in order to defeat a monstrous, immoral influence, the members of a party based upon a moral principle cannot afford to do less." O'BRIEN OR DILLON CHIEF There was gossip in police circles today to the effect that Inspector John O'Brien of the First District is the most likely man to succeed Chief Inspector Max Schmittberger. The natural process of promotion, however, it is thought, might put in line for the position Inspector James.

E. Dillon, Borough Inspector of Brooklyn and Queens. He has been acting chief inspector during Schmittberger's ness. Fearful lest he should lose some votes by the circulation of rumors that he would get out of the race for Mayor, ex-Senator William M. Bennett, the G.

O. P. candidate, issued a long statement today reiterating his announcement of a week ago that under no circumstances would he withdraw. He stated that he believed the Fusion managers planned to circulate just such a story on the eve of election. "I hereby state," he said, "that any statement that I' intend to withdraw in favor of Mr.

Mitchel or anybody' else is an absolutely unqualified and malicious lie. I intend to stay in the race until the last vote is counted. Furthermore, I expect to win." Last night in the course of his speeches Bennett attacked the Fusion managers in connection with alleged distribution of ballot pasters at Spartanburg among the soldiers on which Mayor Mitchel's name appeared as the Republican candidate. Reports of this reached New York last night. The pasters were for Bronx County and, according to dispatches from the military camp at Spartanburg, they contained the name of the Mayor with the Republican emblem and a declaration that the names on the paster, including that of the Mayor, were the "Republican "I have discovered," declared Bennett, "that the distribution of this paster ballot is a misdemeanor.

The original paster ballot, which I have in my possession, is for the Borough of the Bronx. I am informed that Emory R. Buckner, the Mitchel campaign manager, lives in the Bronx. "I am sending a representative to the District Attorney wth a photograph of the paster ballot and a request that he have a man duly investigate it and that he indict the man responsible for it even though he be Mr. Buckner.

We have discovered the place where this was printed and expect to have no difficulty in tracing down the author of it and bringing him to justice." Mr. Buckner stated that the fusion organization was not sending any ballot pasters to military camps. "Mr. Bennett is the regular Republican nominee," declared Buckner. "Mayor Mitchel took the action that made him the nominee and this committee would not sanction anything intended nullify the result obtained by its tea candidate." Carlin Bringing Ballots Back, Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, 8.

November 1-Walter Jeffreys Carlin, representative of the Kings County Democratic organization, is on his way back to New York with copies of Republican ballots bearing Mayor Mitchel's name as the party candidate for Mayor, which Carlin charges were distributed by the Mitchel forces here in an effort to mislead the soldiers of the Twenty-seventh Division from New York City. Carlin stated that he intended to have the election authorities declare void any such ballots that might be cast by the soldiers on Election Day, Carlin stated that he found the ballots in the tent of Captain George H. Schenck of Company, First Signal Battalion, and that Captain Schenck had told him they belonged to tenant Colonel Frederck M. bury, the Mitchel campaign manager here. WILLS FILED MICHAEL J.

RYAN, of 1713 Cropsey avenue, who died September 9, left an estate of about $2,500 to his widow, Catherine. DAVID ROSS of 345 East Twenty-sixth street, who died October 23, left an estate of "not less than to his widow and each. The widow, Dora, gets the housedren. Two sons, Mayer and Henry, receive hold furniture and divides the residue with son, Samuel Ross. MINNIE PLATE of 523 Knickerbocker arenue, who died October 18, left an estate of about $2,600, distributed as follows among her children: 40 per cent.

to a son, Fred; 10 per cent. to a daughter, Bertha; 30 per cent. to daughter, Carrie, and 20 per cent to a daughter, Minnie Plate. MARGARET F. RYAN of 102 Walworth street, who died October 19, left an estate of over $5,000.

A son, William J. Ryan, gets property on Dresden street; two grandsons, Charles and George Miller, $1,000 each, and the rest goes in Ave parts as follows: one share each to her children, Catherine A. Coyne, John J. Ryan, Mary A. Syrett and William J.

Ryan, and the fifth share invested in trust for the benefit of a daughter, Theresa J. Farley, HENRY J. COHEN of 118 Seventeenth street, who died October 18, left an estate of "over His mother, Annie Cohen, receives the income of a $4,000 trust estate, with ree mainder to a daughter, Jean Cohen. The come of the residue goes to the widow, Anna Cohen, and the daughter, Jean, in equal shares, C. G.

DUBOIS DOES HIS BIT. Accepts Job as Red Cross Controller Without Pay. whether this novel incident has any connection with the vituperative attack published by Judson G. Wall, candidate for Controller on the Bennett ticket. In this attack Mr.

Wall accuses the Mayor, the Controller and the Commissioner of Charities of having perpetrated a fraudulent ceremony when they laid the cornerstone for this new hospital on October 18. He questioned whether any contracts had been entered into for the work, and believed that the city officials involvd in the ceremony should be indicted if they expended any public funds in connection therewith. First Deputy Commissioner Henry C. Wright stated in reply to this attack that the contract for this building was awarded on September 20, that the survey of the site was in progress at the time Mr. Wall's attack was rea ceived, and that the expenses of the cornerstone ceremony were defrayod by private funds." Charles G.

DuBois, for years con4 troller of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, has accepted the office of controller of the American Red Cross. Mr. DuBois will take up his duties in Washington immediately and serve during the period of the war without compensation. SERGEANTS' LIST OUT. The list of sergeants eligible for promotion was given out by the Civil Service Commissioners yesterday.

A number of men from Brooklyn are in line. The top man is from Brooklyn, Sergeant Thomas Cummings of East Third street and Avenue who is on the staff of Inspector Joseph A. Conboy, in Parkville. Third on the list is Sergeant Joseph Bannon of the Vernon avenue precinct, alge a resident of Brooklyn,.