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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SATURDAY. JUNE 12, 1915. FIGHTS SPUR BUILDING Cortelyou road, where the function is to be held. pictures which the great majority of men found innocent.

But he has re- mklpgailjj(fi3lt the parole obligation of interned ships and interned persons. We expert no friction with Germany over the Prinz Eitcl matter. Our view is that the fugitives will be directed to report at Norfolk just as soon as Germany gets track of them. bush group of the Women's Peace Party, in the Fourth Unitarian Church at Beverley road and East Nineteenth street. Mrs.

Florence Letcher, president of the club, acted as chairman. "I resent being called a pacifist," Miss Carpenter said. "I am belligerent, and am ready to fight with my tongue. Our organization does not stand by idly and insist on peace; we have a constructive programme with a his aim a World Congress. We should fire our minds with this ideal, for it is the only thing which will for which the plan was Invented, be made more effective.

The Jewish Charities have sent out 20,000 bags to Jewish families in Manhattan, and have taken headquarters for their repair work on Green street, like the Goodwill Industries on Smith street, in this borough. The idea has such a sound economic basis that it is sure to spread. The old saying was that a French family would live on what an American family wasted. andiDrive bv Commissioner Adamson, Gen duced the illicit traffic against which he fought to such Insignificance that It' can no doubt be kept in check by a man who is not obsessed by it. and who will not thrust it iu the face of the public offensively, as Comstock has occasionally done.

His qualities were needed when his campaign was begun. but public decency can now be preserved by lcis strenuous methods. In his retirement Mr. Comstock will carry the thanks of people who realize what he has prevented. KEEP TROOPS ON MEXICO'S BORDER.

General Funston's protest against any weakening of the force of 17,000 United States troops ou the Mexican border is timely. We are sure it will be respected by Washington. We do not yet know what is going to be done with the virtual ultimatum President Wilson has sent to the guerrilla leaders, who call themselves provisional presidents, or first chiefs, or something else. We do know that if they do not get together, no rosewater measures will now be consistent with America's national dignity. It was the unwise optimism of a State Department, headed by an enthusiast, that led to the evacuation of Vera Cruz.

If Carranza holds out, and we have to take Vera Cruz again, the world will not be much surprised. But whether that becomes necessary or not, the border Hue must be watched and patrolled. It is a long border line. The troops now used are not sufficient to watch it properly. It is a pleasure to believe that what jokers call "piffle" is no longer run ning wild in the State Department.

Mexico and Mexicans may as well un derstand what the change means. They have gambled too long ou our policy "watchful waiting." ANOTHER DECLARATION OF WAR. Having solved the most vexatious of metropolitan transportation prob lems to his own satisfaction, Dr. Slgis- mund S. Goldwater, Commissioner of Health, has found a new world of trouble to conquer.

Following tie example of the Czar of all the Russlas, King George and what's his name, the distinguished advertiser of grape juice, Dr. Goldwater has delivered his ulti matum, published his white, paper, and declared war upon Demon Rum. The amazing courage of the Health Commissioner should arouse enthusiasm. That his action is not merely audacious Is Indicated by his statement, iu which he confesses that he has tackled a big job. We wonder if he knows just how-big it Is.

One thing is sure: New York City is going to be anything but dull henceforth. The cynics will probably be heard from first. In these stressful times of wars without number, the question of temperance, or, rather, of drinking. In its relation to fighting, will be uppermost. Recalling Lincoln's reflection when he was told that his great general was drinking, that he wished he could send some of the same brand to all his commanders, there may be those who will suggest that the armies of the Czar, to say nothing of those of King George, have not come up to expectations of late.

Over and against this may be related the laconic remark of a little gray lady from New England, who, when told that her detestation of drink was due to provincial preju dice, since all Europeans drank freely, said: "Yes, and look at Europe now." Seriously, Dr. Goldwater has started something that ill make history. He Is fighting alcohol on the broadest and most beneficent ground that of health. In this he Is following the most recent and successful policy of the Anti-Saloon League, which is attacking the drink evil on the ground that It Is a serious menace to the health of the community. That is scientifically sound and the best argument in favor of temperance.

Mere prejudice and idiosyncrasy have failed as motive power for such campaigns. Much should come from an arpeal for health. Borouch President Marks suggests that Father Knickerbocker's children got baths by virtue of subscription charity. This eleemosynary eccentricity is not like to materialize. Father Knickerbocker has a certain amount of self respect left.

Representative Frank Buchanan's scheme to "unite labor" for the prohibition of the shipment of munitions of war is hit hard by the convention of building trades unionists in Atlantic City. Speaking for half a million mem- hers, they uphold the Wilson policy. Labor isn't easy to unite for anything unpatriotic. The court decision reclaiming for the Government $15,000,000 worth of oil lands in Kern County, California, may mean much for national defense. The Navy Department will work these lands for a fuel supply for its modern battleships, according to a Washington rumor, and cheap petroleum Is a vast advantage.

The Minnesota, biggest of all freight carriers under the American flag, is starting on her last voyage as an American ship, from San Francisco to Vladivostok. She Is to take English registry. La Folletteism was too much for her. It meant $130,000 a year extra cost in paying and providing for the crew. TO DINE H.

W. BEER. Banquet by Flathushites to Be Held on June 28. The members of a committee of residents of Flatbush and adjacent sections, who are In charge of a dinner to be given on June 26, to Henry Ward Beer, in felicitation of his appointment as Assistant United States District Attorney, completed all arrangements last night, at a meeting at Di-versi's Hotel, East Third street and a in at be at committee, announced that a number men Prominent in pullic life would ulltu liiiiiici. a ne win liiciune former Walter C.

Burton. Surrogate Herbert T. Ketcham. United States District Attorney Melville J. Fiance.

L'nited Slates Marshal Jamas M. Power. Postmaster William E. Kel- ly, First Deputy Police Commissioner Leon R. Gudley.

Carl Whiffenbach, Bull Moose leader of the Sixteenth As- sembly District; Charles R. Power, the Democratic leader of the same district, and Marcus B. Campbell, the district Republican leader. Personal and Impersonal The linotype will never forget 1914 and 1915. Fare zones give us almost as much concern as war zones in Prospect Park West.

"European Cures in America" is a good headline calling gouty millionaires to tli bad nearer home than Baden-Baden. The Chautauqua salute for a man who stands by his friends in fair weather and deserts them in foul would be an un-American use of the American flag. The Eagle will tell in a special article tomorrow how a sane diet might have saved Europe. As everything on the menu is eaten in Europe without ice water it must be that our habit la what they need. German aviators and submarine captains are "to be quietly instructed" not to kill Americans lawfully at sea so reads the latest hint from secret diplomacy.

Uncle Sam will not care how quietly they are told so long as he is told in a plain "Yes" or "No." If architects fees are not a part of the cost of building a house, then it must that title searching and fees to brokers for loans are not a part of the cost of a house. All the world would be Dreamland if houses could be built without money or brains. General Huerta has told the census enumerator that he is an engineer, has opened an office at 61 Broadway. Manhattan, and will get to work "very soon." Mr. Bryan is now looking for all the good engineers he can find.

Here is a man who knows all the ropes. Why not take him? Delegate Stelnbrlnk would fix it so that a city pensioner could not hold office elsewhere while drawing the pension. But there would be nothing to prevent the pensioner from earning money elsewhere, so what's the difference? Are we to infer that public work transacted by pensioners yields no profit to the people? Per haps a pensioner could afford to worn for a little less than anybody else, be ing old and relieved of the fear of the poorhouse. If the pension is intended as a reward for faithful service, why not send the pensioner forth with a blessing and bid him a whole-hearted Godspeed or else cut off his pension and let him shift for himself? Why not pension only the deserving who have broken down completely In the service, and then do it generously and nobly. There would be few such cases; they would not live long, and the generosity would spur them to give of their best as long as they could.

If abuses crept In they could bo stamped out. $8,500 FOR CEDERSTROM Decides to Stay With P. S. C. as Its Realty Expert.

Sig. Cederstrom announced today that he would accept the offer of a substantial raise in salary made by the Public Service Commission to retain his services as its real estate expert. His new salary is to be $8,500 year, an increase of $2,500, which, the opinion of all the Commissioners, was well deserved. The decision of the Commission was reached informally yesterday, and was once communicated to Mr. Ceder-trom.

The latter will now formally notify the Commission of the withdrawal of his resignation, and the whole matter, including the raise in salary, probably will be settled at Tuesday's meeting. It is understood that an attempt will made to lighten Mr. Cederstrom's duties somewhat, as one of the chief reasons why he handed in his resignation was that he was on the verge of a breakdown from overwork. Members of the Commission are delighted that the Brooklyn man has been persuaded to change his mind, as they had practically given up hope last week that ho could be persuaded, under any consideration, to retain his place. AIDSBROOKLYNSUFFRAGISTS Mrs.

Metcalf-Shaw Talks at Mrs. Talbot-Perkins' Home. At an auction sale held last night at the home of Mrs. R. C.

Talbot-Perkins, 268 Gates avenue, for the benefit of suffrage work in Brooklyn, Mrs. Metcalf-Shaw, who arrived here last week from London with her daughter, gave an interesting account of suffrage work and conditions in England. She told of the hard time, before the war, tfrkt the suffrage movement had in England, and explained that it took a great war to convince the English statesmen that women were really fit to do a man's work. Miss Grace Shaw, daughter of Mrs. Metcalf-Shaw, who has just arrived from a hospital in Italy, where she had been serving under the American Red Cross Society, related her experiences as a nurse at the front with the German and French armies at Alsace-Lorraine, and described the terrib.e sufferings of the wounded.

WOMAN'S VIEW OF NOTE Miss Carpenter Says President's Policy Is Conciliatory. "I think that President Wilson's not is dignified and conciliatory; I do not believe it will precipitate war. for there is no reason why it should. I also fail to see why Mr. Bryan could not sign the document." Miss Alice Carpenter, who has just returned from abroad, and who represented the women of New York in the American Delegation to the International Women's Peace Congress The Hague, made thi3 statement yesterday afternoon before the Flat- J.

of Central League Asserts Board of Estimate Postponed Public Hearings. The plan of a packing company to erect a 300-foot shed and elevated spur across the sidewalk from the Long Island Railroad into their premises at Fort Greene place and Atlantic avenue, was criticised at a meeting of the Central Citizens League last night In the University Club, and a resolution was adopted which empowered a committee to take such steps as are necessary to combat the proposed undertaking. The meat company was granted the right to construct the railroad extension and siding last August by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, after hearings, it is said, were postponed four times, and most of the members of the league, were astonished when they heard that the construction of an increased plant to meet the approved railroad change was already under way by the company. Residents of the section have become incensed at the work, according to Frederick tleitman and Joseph C. Cooper, because they claim that.it will damage realty values of the locality.

as well as prove a nuisance and a dis figurement to Atlantic avenue. A resolution was then Introduced by Joseph C. Cooper, which stipulates that the league shall "Take such steps as shall Insure the prevention of the outrage and shall, if necessary, appeal to the courts for protection." This resolution was seconded by Charles F. Aiurpny, w. J.

S. Ryall and others, and was passed unanimously. A committee, consisting of Joseph C. Cooper, Fred Heitman and Charles F. Murphy was appointed to act for the league in behalf of the residents of the section.

One of the first steps to be taken will be that John T. Parker, the secretary of the league, will ask the Borough President to advise the league when the application is made by the company for permission to construct its elevated spur over the sidewalk, so that the league may prepare for the necessary action. The fact that the Board of Estimate and Apportionment had slipped through a measure of vital importance to the league, without any of the members of the league being aware of it, proved the subject of much caustic discussion. The opinion prevailed that it was the duty of the board to notify the residents of each section when a measure affecting their property was Involved, and that the present mode of advertising hearing was not broad enough. Charles F.

Murphy argued in this direction. That the league may meet this issue with more preparedness and not be caught napping again, a resolution was introduced by Mr. Murphy and adopted, which appoints a committee of the league to devise some plan to keep track of the Board of Estimate calendar, and to report back their suggestions and findings at the next meeting of the league. A committee was also appointed to attend the sinking fund hearing on the Jamaica Bay improvement project, at the Manhattan City Hall next Wednesday. The fact that Fort Greene Park is not properly policed, was also reported by President Ahram Sebring, who stated that owing to the small park police force many persons were littering the lawns with refuse and papers.

A committee will also visit Commissioner Fetherston, in regard to the ash dump at Pacific street and Sixth avenue, which It is claimed is proving a nuisance. PROUD OF OUR STUDENTS Syracuse Professor Tells of Honors Won by Them. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: It gives me indeed great pleasure to Inform you that two sons of Brooklyn, William C. Hooper of 277 Brooklyn avenue, and George Kessler of 521 Chester street, are the receivers of honors and prizes for the work done in the painting department of the College of Fine Arts of the university. Mr.

Hooper Is the receiver of the Hiram Gee Scholarship, while George Kessler receives the Leavenworth Prize. Both students have received honors and prizes also last year, and Mr. Kessler is the present art editor of the Onondagan, the university yearly publication. Their splendid paintings and drawings are being exhibited at present in the halls of Crouse Colleee. Con gratulations for your worthy sons you send us here.

We are proud of them. Professor M. HAYNES. Syracuse, N. June 10, 1915.

PLAN PROHIBITION DEBATE. Ridgewood G. O. Also Arrange to Heap "Suff9" and "Antis." The regular meeting of the Ridgewood Republican Club was held last evening at Schmidt's Hall, Palmetto street, near Seneca avenue. Numerous matters of local interest were discussed.

The organization will extend an invitation to Mrs. Alfred Eno to discuss the Women's Suffrage question at their meeting of June 26, while on the evening of July 15 a representative of the New York Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage will be given an opportunity to address the members. A deoate on "froniDition is Deing arranged for a future meeting. An nouncement was made that the annual picnic of the association will be held on Sunday, August 22. NEW AH'MNI OFFICERS.

James Pasta Elected President of No. 85's Association. Last night at the annual meeting of the Alumni Association of Public School No. 8 5, held In the school build ing, Covert street and Evergreen avenue, James Pasta of the class of February, '05, was elected president. In accepting the office Pasta suggested the formation of an association of all the alumni organizations throughout the entire city, to take an active interest in the civic affairs of the city.

The president-elect also urged that the building should be opened at least three nights a week to the men, women and children of this growing neighborhood. The rest of the cabinet will consitw of vice president, Miss Ro3e Kiev secretary, Miss Ida Burson; Alan A. Wells. After the meeting th members enjoyed dancing. Gaul and Wormwood Fair France would end the vices that benumb; A hundred tons of leaves she burns Of Artemisia Absinthium; And praise she earns.

Pontarliers' reeking air absorbs the smoke From which the lungs of humans shrink; Yet better this than having Frenchmen soak In green-drugged drink. One gall and wormwood rhetoric madrt one, Perhaps Pontarliers may recall; wormwood, martyred, harrietl and undone, Is burned by Gaul' J. (Trade Mark "EaIe" Rtglaterrd.) SATURDAY EVENING. JCNE 12. Wlo.

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8200 Main. OUT TO STAY OUT. Little remains but the epitaph, for which the marplot himself furnishes the material. What he charges for his third lecture is what it is worth nothing. The German-Americans to whom it is addressed will place no higher estimate upon its value.

They are much more likely to be resentful than appreciative. Presuming there to have been any necessity for a finishing touch, the statement furnishes it. No props survive. Nothing is left but debris or shreds and patches. With his customary fatuity Mr.

Bryan tells not why he should have resigned, but why he should be still in service. He pro-tests: That the sinking of the Lusitanla cannot be justified upon the facts as we understand them; That the killing of innocent women and children cannot be justified, whether the killing is by drowning or by starving; That no nation can successfully plead the inhumanity of her enemies as an excuse for inhumanity on her owu part; That he would like to see the use of submarines abandoned entirely, and That the position taken by Germany regarding the treatment of non-com batants is untenable. In other words, he gives a list of reasons, none of them controvertible, for making common cause with his country, the Government and more par ticularly with the purposes of the Pres ident. Not one reason worth discuss ing does or can he give for deserting. ror mat crime tnere can be no atonement.

There can be no verdict other than: "Never more be officer of mine." Nor is that the worst of it. Not a little pity, much scorn and a great deal of contempt contribute to the epitaph. Lest he be acquitted of the charge of piling Pelion upon Ossa, Mr. Bryan jsays he is glad to note the change in tone of the press with reference to the note to Germany. He adds that some thing has been gained if at last the 'warrior journalists do not want war.

Whom the gods would destroy, etc. the indignation caused by the sinking of the Lusitania the newspapers expression. They, like their and the President, regarded it the climax of a series of events observed with "growing distress, amazement and alarm." The newspapers have not, as Mr. Bryan asserts, colored anything to suit their own purposes. What, with practically no exceptions, they have done, has been to stand by the man at the helm, first, last and all the time.

It is not known with how much of big fortune Mr. Bryan would be willing to part, could he undo what has been done could he now be where he was a few days ago. Fortunately for the country, he did it thoroughly. He is out to stay out. SPREADING A FINE IDEA.

That idea of utilizing household waste to supply work and wages for the poor, which has recently been put In practical operation by the Goodwill Industries of the Brooklyn City Mis-: jlon, has been adopted by the Jewish Charities in Manhattan. It should work v.s well there as it does here or In the Morgan Memorial in Boston, which 'originally worked the plan out. The essence of the plan is the distribution to households of hags In which are collected all the broken down household utensils, all clothing in need of repair, or any household waste which can be put in usable condition by skilled labor. These bags as filled nre called for and taken to the chari ty headquarters. There the repair work Is given to men and women who apply for employment, and wages is paid them for their labor.

When the repairs are made the articles are put in a salesroom to be sold for what they will bring, on the principal of a rum-mage sale. The money thus collected is used to pay more wages. The ad-. vantage of the plan is that the wider the range of articles contributed, the ffreater variety of employment can be given, and thus the relief of idleness. TODAY'S FIREMEN'S PARADE.

The firemen's parade of today, re- viewed at the Monument on Riverside eral Leonard Wood, U. S. and a considerable number of city officials, and supplemented by a demonstration of fire boats in the North River, should stir the enthusiasm of New Yorkers, The city has always been proud of its "salamanders." In a sense the parade of 10ir Is a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the paid fire depart ment. organization iu the former City of New York. The bill permitting such an organization became a law by the Governor's signature on March 30, 1S65.

Organiza tion was actually effected ou May 2 But there was bitter opposition, chiefly from the members and officers of the old volunteer the law was declared to be unconstitutional, and a contest was made in the courts. Event ually the law and the new system were fully sustained. The substitu tion of steam fire engines for hand en gines In all parts of the city, and a vast improvement in the telegraph gig nal system followed. Since then New York City has been in the van line of the cities of the world in fire-fighting In Brooklyn, though such men as Martin Kalbfleisch, Edward Rowe, Joseph Reeves and William H. Jenkins had advocated a paid department as early as 1S3S; it was 1S69 before their end was accomplished.

Former Police Justice Frederick S. Massey, foreman of No. 14, in Pierrepont street, of the volunteer force, drew the bill. Andrew Hodges got It through the Legislature. It was signed by Governor Hoffman on May 5, Massey, Hugh McLaughlin, William A.

Brown and Anthony F. Campbell were Brooklyn's first commissioners. The gradual improvement of the department's apparatus went on steadily. At the time when the two departments were brought together by consolidation Brooklyn's equipment compared favorably with that, of Manhattan. At present it is probably true that in all thickly parts of the five boroughs, fire protection is as good as In like sections of any city on earth.

That -Is a good reason for popular Interest In a firemen's parade. NOT "A TEN-CENT TOWN." Brooklyn should be grateful to Martin H. Weyrauch, who wrote his Brooklyn Pageant to prove that Brooklyn was "not a ten-cent town," and who proved his case by the extent of the organized strength which he was able to unite in that production. The story came out at the Pageant dinner, and It is an example which should be borne in mind by other Brooklyn people who seek to secure support for enterprises in which they are interested. Co-operation between all the elements In Brooklyn is made difficult by the wide area included in the borough, the lack of means of communi cation between the different sections, and the extent to which each of those sections depends upon Manhattan, instead of upon some common center in Brooklyn, as Is the case with Chicago, Philadelphia or Boston.

But those dif ficulties can be overcome if they are recognized frankly in the start, and the extra power supplied for the uphill climb. The first requisite is an object which appeals to all sections alike, as in the case of the Pageant, and not merely to neighborhood advantage. We have had innumerable neighborhood schemes, and we shall continue to have them, because the local needs of sections have to be met. But usually the energy put into them draws off just so much motive power from those plans which are helpful to all of Brooklyn alike, and not infrequently they create sectional jealousies and rivalries which prevent union on the big things. Such difficulties are obstacles, but they are not Insurmountable.

One way to overcome them is for the rest of the borough to lend a hand when South Brooklyn or Greenpoint or East New York is working for an improvement which it needs, and which does not injure the rest of the borough. Good will breeds good will, and we need an extra supply of it In Brooklyn, because there are so many of us and we live so far apart. ANTHONY COMSTOCK. Anthony Comstock, who has been an Inspector of the Postoflice Department! for forty years, most of the time without receiving a Government salary. Is to be retired at the end of this month.

This does not mean that the vigilance of the Government against the use of the mails for the distribution of improper literature will be relaxed, but that the work which Comstock has established will be carried on as a part of the routine oi the department. Com-stock has come in for more criticism than almost any public official of his time, most of it on matters of taste. But in spite of his mistakes he has done a great deal of good. Any man who has walked the streets of Brussels or Paris before the war will admit that and will add that the foreign freedom In handling pernicious books and pictures would be disgusting and not to be tolerated In an American city. Anyone who recalls what the advertising iu certain sporting papers In this country was twenty-five years ago will admit that somebody was needed to do just the work which Comstock has done.

His office has not been a desirable one, and it Is probably impossible to find a man for It who Will combine zeal with taste and good judgment. The tendency of zeal iu that direction Is to see spots on everything, and Coin-stock has seen them on ome books and make a lasting peace possible." In discussing the work of the Congress at The Hague, Miss Carpenter said that the conference was a tribute to the solidarity of women, their diplomatic powers, their ability to act in great crises without hysteria, and their entrance into a world spirit. In Miss Carpenter's opinion the distinct contributions of the American delegation was that its members stood for democracy. LAST MEETING OF T. C.

Held Yesterday Afternoon in Rooms of Board of Education. The last meeting of the Teachers Council for this year was held yesterday afternoon in the board rooms of the Eoard of Education. Miss Mae Higgons of Public School No. 68, Manhattan, after considerable discussion on the part of the members present introduced the following motion affecting kindergartens: Whereas, the Board of Education has under consideration an amendment to the bylaws affecting kindergartens, be it resolved, that the Teachers Council be recorded as opposing the proposed amendment requiring the kindergartener to teach both morning and afternoon classes consisting of two different groups of children. This was adopted unanimously.

An extensive report from the committee on truancy and delinquency, of which Joseph K. Van Denburg is chairman, was accepted. A resolution providing for the extension of the elementary evening high school year to 120 nights was also unanimously adopted. The Teachers Council will not meet again till September. WOMEN GO TO THE COURTS Want Same Pay as Men Receive in Two Upper Grades.

The officers of the Interborough Association of Women Teachers have Issued an address to the women teachers of the seventh and eighth grades, in which they say: "A statement has been given to the press in regard to the proposed litigation on behalf of the women teachers to secure their constitutional rights and to eliminate the discrimination permitted by the Silversteln law, to the effect that If women teachers win they will be placed under control ot the Board of Estimate, under a home rule bill alleged to have been passed several days following the passage ol the Silverstein law. "The statement in question Is without foundation. No such bill was passed in 1913, or at any time subsequent thereto. The Board of Estimate has absolutely no control over the salaries of teachers In the schools in New York City, and there fs no law in existence by which they can assume such control. "The constitutional rights of the women teachers in New York City were invaded and denied by the Silverstein law and by acts of the Board of Education based thereon.

An appeal to the courts is necessary to correct this injustice. "If the women teachers succeed in the proposed litigation (and they will succeed if the constitutional rule of equality Is valid), they will receive, in common with the male teachers, the advanced salaries provided by the Silverstein law." NOBODY SEES WARD. Waits Alone In White House Club for "Committee." Although Charles R. Ward, leader of the Sixteenth Assembly District Democrats, waited patiently at the White House Democratic Club on Church avenue, for several hours last night, to welcome the "committee" which, it was reported, would swoop down upon him under the leadership of James J.Lahey and "read the riot act" to him, he waited in vain; When interviewed laBt night, during the course of his lonely vigil, Mr. Ward still sustained his contagious good humor, and decried the rumor of any serious break.

He said: "Mr. Lahey was over to see me last night, and denied that he knew anything about the story which had appeared in a Brooklyn newspaper, to the effect that he was going to 'read the riot act' to me tonight. He admitted that a committee had been appointed to discuss patronage with me, but stated that he had nothing to do with it." REPEAT ENTERTAINMENT. St. Brendan's Children Score Second Success.

The school children of St. Brendan's Church repeated last evening the entertainment which they produced in honor of the Rev. Father Timothy A. Hickey, pastor of the church, on Thursday evening, in the school hall, on Avenue and East Twelfth street. Another large crowd of parishioners was on hand to see the youthful performers.

The programme consisted of several playlets, as well as many singing and dancing numbers. The girls and boys showed to even better advantage than they did at the first performance. This was due in a great measure to the Sisters of St. Joseph, who directed the numbers. Following the entertaln- ment i reception was held.

SERENO S. PRATT BETTER. Sereno S. Pratt of 781 Carroll street, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and well known as a financial expert, who was operated on for gallstones at the Prospect Heights Hospital on June 2, sat up for a few minutes at the hospital yesterday and his condition now is such that he is practically out of danger. He is still very weak from the effect of the operation, however, and will not be able to leave the hospital for some time.

NORTH BEACH YACHT CLUB. (Special to The Eagle.) Albany, June 12 A certificate of Incorporation has been filed with the Secretary of Stale by the North Beach Yacht ciub of the Borough of Queens. The directors are as follows: Henry Daufkerch of Nortn Beacn, and John Schneider and William Strithmath New York City. NEW HUMIXCTOX CONCERN. (Special to The Eagle.) Albany.

June 12 Articles of incorporation have been filed with the Secretary of State by the Supreme Tire and Rubber Company of Huntington. The capital stock is $10,000, and the directors are Herbert T. Mahan of Cold Spring Harbor, Baldwin C. Young of Huntington and-Robert S. Snevily of Brooklyn, it is certain that every city wastes enough to give work to its idle, once the proper; system is worked out for connecting tlje need with the supply.

BECKER'S REAL OBSTACLE. Mr. Manton's appeal for rehearing of Becker's case by the Court of Appeals is based upon the fact that Gov ernor Whitman having been the prosecutor, it is hopeless to appeal to him for commutation. Mr. Manton might have made that statement a good deal stronger If he had thought it wise.

Charles S. Whitman is the man who appeared at the police station soon after Rosenthal's murder and found that Becker's fellow policemen were giving a wrong number in the official record to the automobile in which the gunmen escaped. To convince a man who saw that piece of trickery with his own eyes that the gamhlers, and not the police, were interested in getting Rosenthal out of the way, would be quite an undertaking. The Court of Appeals will, no doubt, preserve to Becker all the rights to which he has any shadow of claim, but after his rights have been passed upon, his chance for sympathy or obfuscation on the part of the pardoning power are slight indeed. NO LIVINGSTON STREET SUBWAY.

The inevitable awakening from the roseate dream of a subway through Livingston street, in which the Committee of One Hundred has been in dulging, comes with the announcement by the Transit Committee of the Board of Estimate that there is no money to build it with, and that the legal ob stacles to compelling the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company to use it are insurmountable. Like everybody in Brooklyn, this Board of Estimate committee would rather have these trains run in a subway than ou an elevated. An enor mous vote could be secured for the construction of such a subway by the city if the city had the money, A unanimous vote for its construction by assessment could be secured outside the assessment area, and a unanimous vote against that method by the people on whom the cost would fall. The Committee of One Hundred has made a gallant fight for the impos sible, and because It is beaten is no proof that it has not done good work or that its work is not appreciated. It has created a sentiment for the extension of subways in Brooklyn which will bring results whenever the city has money to do the work with.

As in the case with many other pioneers, the plan that failed the first time will eventually be realized. But because we can't get the whole hog now is no reason for rejecting a ham or a side of bacon when it is offered to us. The thing to dp is to take all we can get now and come back for more when the city treasury has been replenished. The obvious and possible improvement today is the transfer of the ele vated tracks from lower Fulton street to Adams street. All but one block of that Improvement will be permanently available for the elevated lines which now use Adams street, and which would still be operated there If a subway were to be built for the Fulton street line next year.

Any future subway development now conceivable would not throw that elevated out of commission or make the money spent in Its improvement a waste. Let us take what we can get and not sulk because we cannot get as much as we would like. THE EITEL PAROLE VIOLATED. When a war vessel of a belligerent Power enters the harbor of a neutral Power, and Is not able to get out within the twenty-four-hour limit, or reasonable extension of that limit, a written pledge is given that it will not attempt to go out until the war is over, and that Its officers and crew will not depart without the consent and approval of the neutral govern ment. That is the "internement" of the ship.

That is what happened in the case of the naval auxiliary cruiser Eitel Friedrich of Germany at Norfolk. The news that one officer and several members of the crew have treated the parole as a "scrap of paper" Is Interesting. It would be significant and perilous if their government were to sustain them. But Germany has sent back to Holland interned German officers who had escaped, and she is like ly to follow the same principle in the Eitel case. A close parallel is the case of the Russian auxiliary cruiser Lena, in the Russo-Japanese War.

On September 13, 1904, she steamed Into San Francisco Harbor. She had twenty-seven quick-firing guns on board and a crew of 500 men. and was unsenworthy. Two days later she was interned, disarmed and sent to the, Mare Island Navy Yard. From there two of her officers, breaking parole, escaped.

They got to Russia, but the Russian Government sent them back to the custody of the United States. On June 3, lOOfi. three Russian war vessels, the Aurora, the Oleg and the Zcmtchug, took refuge in Manila Harbor, after being seriously damaged by Japanese guns in a naval engagement Later they were Interned. No paroles were broken, but several officers were permitted to go back to Russia, with the full consent of the Japanese Government, because their health was in peril from the Manila climate, and they promised not to take any further part in the war. A neutral's duty involves enforcing.