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to Mrs. a 1 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1926 VITAL RECORDS ENGAGEMENTS TOMES SPEEL-Mr. and James Speel announced the engagement of their daughter, ELIZABETH FORREST PEEL, Mr. WILLIAM AUSTIN TOMES, a bridge Saturday at her home, 9423 Ridge bivd. DEATHS Kopp, Henry A.

Klapper, Sol Boyd, Agnes R. Koerner, Edythe Brenisen, Grace Lockwood, Brennan, John Katharine M. Brettell, Charlotte McGill, Mary L. Brown, John M. McNally, Cath.

C. Burke, Sarah Monetti. Florence Carpenter, CharlesPeterkin, Charlotte Carteaux, G. A. Presendofer, Ellen Collard, Mary H.

Reutell, Bertha Conrad, Heinreich Katie Cootey, Harriet G. Rowland, Cordts, Henry Mary Hull Crane, Simon B. Perry, May Daly, Bertha J. Schult. John M.

Dietz, Frank, Schumacher, Donovan, J. Caroline L. Dupont, Henry Schwalowsky, J. Evans, Magdalene Shotwell, Byron A Flynn, Rev. M.

J. Taylor, Proctor Friel, Annie L. Teese, W. Dwight Gillmore, J. F.

Webster, N. M. Goodwin, Grace D. Wells, Charlotte S. Hagedorn, C.

D. West, Kiddle, Isabelle Kathryn G. Kimball, Albert BOPP-On Friday, Jan. 8, 1926. HENRY beloved husband of Anne E.

Bopp (nee Murawskl), 8624 110th Richmond Hill. Funeral Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.; thence to the Church of the Holy Child Jesus. Interment St. John's Cemetery, Auto cortege. BOYD On Saturday, Jan.

9. AGNES ROBINSON BOYD, wife of Andrew M. Boyd and only sister of Josephine G. Robinson. Funeral services at 230 W.

78th New York, on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Interment Woodlawn, BRENISEN GRACE MAGEE BRENISEN. Reposing at Campbell Funeral Church, B'way, 66th st. Services Tuesday, 2 p.m. on Jan.

9, BRENNAN-JOHN 1926, at his residence, 2901 Avenue U. Survived by nis wife, Della Brennan (nee McGetrick), four sons and three daughters. Solemn, requiem mass at Edmund's Church, Avenue and E. 10th Wednesday, at 9:30 a.m. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery.

BRETTELL On Jan. 9, 1926. CHARLOTTE widow of William H. Brettell. Funeral services at 86 6th ave.

on Tuesday, Jan. 12, at 8 p.m. BROOKLYN LODGE, NO. 22, B. P.

O. ELKS- Brothers: You ara requested to attend the funeral service of our brother, HENRY CORDTS, Monday evening, Jan. 11, 8:30 o'clock. at his residence, 61 Midwood Brooklyn. FRED G.

Joseph H. Becker, Secretary. BROWN-On Saturday, Jan. 9, 1926, at 43 St. Mark's JOHN M.

BROWN, beloved son of Margaret A. and the late Michael J. Brown and brother of William, Frank, Kathryn and Elizabeth Brown. Funeral Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. Solemn requiem mass at St.

Augustine's R. C. Church. Interment Holy, Cross Cemetery. BURKE -Suddenly, on Jan.

9, SARAH BURKE, widow of Patrick Burke. Survived by four daughters, Mrs. Noble, Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Preston, Mrs.

Batchelor, and one son, William J. Burke. Funeral from her late residence, 859 E. 84th Brooklyn, Tuesday, Jan. 12, at 10 a.m.: thence to St.

Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church, Brooklyn ave. and Glenwood where a solemn high mass of requiem will be celebrated. CARPENTER--On Sunday, Jan 10, 1926, at his residence, 150 Madison CHARLES P. TER, husband of Ellen F. Carpenter, Services on Tuesday evening at o'clock.

Interment private Wednesday morning. CARTEAUX-GUSTAVE A. CARTEAUX, at his residence, Jan. 10, 1926. by one sister, Mrs.

Lair of Montreal, Quebec. Notice of funeral later. CLINTON LODGE, NO. 453, F. A.

M. -Brethren: You are requested to attend the Masonic funeral service of Wor. Brother W. DWIGHT TEESE, to be held at his residence, 1088 Prospect 011 Tuesday evening, Jan. 12, 1926, at 9 o'clock.

HOWARD E. MENNERICH, Master. Herbert F. Tuttle, Secretary. COLLARD--At Freeport, N.

MARY beloved R. Collard. Funeral services will be held from hor resifence, 80 N. Bergen Freeport, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2 p.m.

Interment Mt. Olivet Cemetery. CONRAD-HEINREICH CONRAD, on Friday, Jan. 8, 1926. Survived by two daughters, Mrs.

Sterling and Miss A. Conrad; a son, John. FunerAl from his home, 530 Flushing Tuesday at 2 p.m. COOTEY-Sunday, Jan. 10, 1926, HARRIET GOODSPEED COOTEY.

wife of the late Col. Philip hi. Cootey. Funeral private. Farewell, sweet mother.

CORDTS-HENRY, beloved son cf Louise and the late Henry W. Cordts, at his home, 61 Midwood Flatbush, in his 63d year. Services at his residence Monday, Jan. 11, at 8 p.m. Interment private.

CRANE--On Sunday, Jan, 10, 1926, SIMON B. CRANE. beloved Husband of Mary Deasey, father of Florence, May. Catherine, Hernard and Philip and brother of William and Philip. Funeral Tuesday morning from his residence, 548 73d Brooklyn.

Requiem 11058 at the Church of Our Lady of Angels, 74th st. and 4th at 10:30. Interment Calvary Cemetery. Automobile cortege. DALY-On Jan.

9. 1926. BERTHA beloved wife of Daniel G. Daly. Funeral Tuesday, Jan.

12, from her residence, 2009 E. 15th st. Requiem mass at St. Edmund's R. C.

Church at 10 a.m. DIETZ- -On Sunday, Jan. 10, 1926, after a brief Illness, in his 68th year. FRANK, dearly beloved father of Henry P. and Louis Dietz.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend funeral services on Tuesday at 8 p.m. at his residence, 4653 Sprague Glendale. Interment on Wednesday at 10 a.m. in Mount Olivet Cemetery. DONOVA: -On Jan.

9. 1926, RICHARD beloved husband of Annie Donovan (nee McDonald), at his ate residence, 136 Ocean pkwy. Funeral from his late residence on Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 9 a.m., thence the R. C.

Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, where a solemn requiem mass for the repose of his soul will be said. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. Auto cortege. DUPONT. -On Thursday, Jan.

7. 1926. HENRY of Narrowsburg, loving son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dupont, beloved husband of Helen (nee Lubson), devoted father of Dorothea.

Funeral service at the home of his parents at FlushIng. N. on Tuesday. EVANS On Jan. 10, MAGDALENE HARRIET, daughter of the late Richard and Minnie Evans and sister of P.

C. Evans, at her residence, 648 Warren st. Funeral service nt the Hanson Place M. E. Church.

Hanson pl. and St. Felix on Tuesday, Jan. 12, at 8 p.m. Interment at Lutheran Cemetery 011 Wednesday, Jan.

13, at 10 a.m. DARING ESCAPE IS EFFECTED BY FIREBUG. AGED 13 Gatto Flees Children's Society Rooms by Removing Window Screen. A general alarm was sent out by the police today for 13-year-old Frederick Gatto of 124 Essex Manhattan, who made a daring eacape from the Children's Society at 105 Schermerhorn last night, by unfastening a wire screen on EL rear window on the second Goor of the building and climbing down the firescape. Gatto was being held on an order of Fire Marshal Thomas Brophy after the boy, it is alleged, confessed to having set fire to a two-story bungalow at 2960 W.

12th Coney Island, a week ago. He was to have been arraigned in the Children's Court today for sentence. Just what circumstances surrounded the boy's could not be learned from the society. It was said that an investigation is underway in an effort to tix responsibility. Gatto's father, Angelo, a month sent to Sing Sing for 10 years after he had been found guilty of a holdup of a ticket agent in a subway station in Manhattan.

MRS. G. D. GOODWIN DIES Mrs. Grace Duffield Goodwin of 67 Gates magazine writer and former prominent anti-suffragist, died Friday after a short 111- ness.

She was the daughter of the late Rev. Samuel W. Duffield and is survived by her husband, Rev. Frank Goodwin and two daughters, Faith and Mary. Funeral services were held this afternoon in the Chapel of the Central Congregational Church, the Rev.

Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, officiating. Interment was in Greenwood Cemetery. DEATHS FRIEL On Sunday, Jan.

10, 1926, at 240 President ANNIE 1. FRIEL (nee Carney), beloved wife of Thomas Friel and sister of Mrs. Lydia Fox, Mrs. James S. Murray, Mrs.

Frank Mastellon, Thomas and Joseph Carney. Funeral Thursday, 10 a.m. Solemn requiem mass at St. Stephen's R. Church.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery, GILMORE-On Jan. 5. JOHN F. GILMORE. aged 83 years, beloved husband of Elizabeth Titus Gilmore, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs.

Thomas Holland, 606 Magnolia Tampa, Fla. He is survived by his three wife, Elizabeth Titus Gilmore: sons, Thomas Saranac, John P. and Arthur of Brooklyn, and three dauhgters, Mrs. Thomas Holland of Tampa, Mrs. Chesleigh H.

Briscoe of N. Y. City and Mrs. Anna G. White of Brooklyn.

Interment at Tampa. -GRACE DUFFIELD GOODWIN, daughter of the late Rev. Samuel W. Duffleld and wife of the Rev. Frank J.

Goodwin, on Jan. 8. Funeral services on Monday, Jan. 11, at 2 p.m., at the Chapel of the Central Congregational Church, Hancock st. near Franklin Brooklyn.

HA ORN-CHRISTOPH D. HAGEDORN, son of Christop: D. and Wilhelmine Hagedorn. on Friday, in his 27th year, at his home, 299 Rutland rd. Burial in Lutheran Cemetery.

Funeral services Monday, Jan. 11, 2 p. at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 315 Fenimore st. KIDDLE-On Sunday, Jan. 10, 1926, ISABELLE, beloved wife of Samuel Kiddle of 1080 Greene ave.

Notice of funeral service later. KIMBALL--On Jan. 9, ALBERT beloved husband of Margaret bert and Daniel Edward. He is the Kimball and feather of Francis Alson of Dan. E.

Kimball and brother of Hayward A. Kimball of Pleasantville, N. and Mrs. Robert M. Hunt of Brooklyn.

Services Monday at his residence, 137 W. 24th st. Bayonne, N. at 7:30 o'clock. Interment Cypress Hills.

KLAPPER-On Monday, Jan. 11, suddenly, SOL KLAPPER, beloved husband of Louisa and father of Milton, Jerome, Cecile, Harold and Roy. Funeral at p.m. Tuesday from his residence, 1185 E. 18th Brooklyn.

KOERNER-At Huntington, L. on Jan. 10. EDYTHE M. KOERNER.

daughter of Mrs. Mary Schumacher Koerner. Funeral at the home, East Main Huntington, L. on Tuesday afternoon at o'clock. Interment Huntington Rural Cemetery.

LOCKWOOD-On Jan. 9, 1926, 8 at her residence, 954 Greene KATHARINE MARSHALL. widow James K. P. Lockwood and mother of Charles C.

and Samuel G. Lockwood, in her 76th year. Funeral services at the Greene Ave. Presbyterian Church, Greene between Reid and Patchen Brooklyn, Tuesday, Jan. 12, at 10:30 a.m.

-MARY LOUISE MeGILL, wife of Frederick A. McGill, died Jan. 10, 1926, at the famiy home, 8 Fairview pl. She 19 survived by her husband, one son, a four daughters and one grandson, of Brooklyn; also two sisters, Mrs. D.

E. Mullen and Mrs. Julius Coons. both of Rochester, N. Y.

Funeral Tuesday, Jan. 12. Solemn requiem mass at 9:30 o'clock in Holy Cross Church. Interment Wednesday in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in RochesIter. MeNALLY--On Sunday, Jan.

10, 1926, CATHERINE CONWAY MeNALLY, widow of James F. and beloved mother of James, Joseph. Miss Mary A. and Mrs. John J.

Flaherty, Funeral from her residence, 2111 Regent near Flatbush on Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 9:30 a.m.: thence to Holy Innocents R. Church. Interment Calvary Cemetery. Auto cortege.

MONETTI On Jan. 9, 1926, FLORENCE, at her late residence, 1220 75th Brooklyn, beloved mother of Mrs. Lawrence B. Carey and Elizabeth Monetti. Funeral Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.; thence to the Church of Our Lady of Gun ialupe.

16th ave. and 53d Brooklyn. where a sole.nn requiem mace will be offered. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. PERRY On Sunday, Jan, 10, 1926, MAY, daughter of the late Timothy and Charlotte Thorn Perry.

Funeral services at her late residence, 73 Halsey Brooklyn, on Tuesday, Jan. 12, at 8 p.m. Please omit flowers. Interment private. PETERKIN-Suddenly, 011 Sunday, Jan.

10, 1926. in her 74th year, CHARLOTTE PETERKIN Knee Turner), dear mother of Walter G. Peterkin. Funeral services at her home, 131 Hale Brooklyn, on Tuesday evening, Jan. 12, 8 o'clock.

Interment Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Wednesday a.m. PRESENDOFER-On On Jan. 9, 1926, at her, residence. 2681 Creston In Bronx, ELLEN HALLINAN, beloved wife of Edward L.

Presendofer. Requiem mass Church Our Lady of Refuge, st. and Briggs Tuesday, Jan. 12, at 10:30 3.11. Interment Calvary.

Automobile cortege. 14 DEAD, 75 HURT, WEEK'S MOTOR TOLL Four persons were killed and 75 injured in motor vehicle accidents in the boro during the seven-day period ended last midnight, according to the tabulation of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce made public today. The toll follows: Monday, Jan. 4, 1 killed, 10 Injured; Tuesday, 1 killed, 10 injured; Wednesday, 13 injured; Thursday, killed, 13 injured; Friday, 8 Injured; Saturday, 1 killed, 8 injured; Sunday, 13 injured. Country's Oldest Thief, 81, Dies in Prison Hospital Benjamin Starr, 81 years old, regarded a sone of the oldest thieves In the country, died Saturday afternoon In the Penitentiary Hospital.

It is by the Criminal Identification Bureau at Manhattan Police Headquarters, Starr had several allases and started his criminal career in this city when he was 59 years old. Since 1903 he was arrested 14 times. His last sentence was on Oct. 16 last when he was found guilty of petty larceny and sentenced to an indeterminate sentence in the city penitentiary. All told, Starr spent about eight years in prison for burglary and petty larceny.

Pampered Pets Get Latest. Style of Foxhound Has Fractured Bone Set by Surgeon No. 1-A lapdog of Beacon Hill, where a -equipped beauty parlor for for her Sunday morning ramble. In the the clippers) and Patrick McGelk (holding No. 2-Sober, a prize foxhound of He is shown above on the operating table, ton.

Mass. No. 3-This prize chicken certainly has at $5,000 and has beea the sensation of the York City. BANDITS GET $765. DAY'S RECEIPTS OF E.

N. Y. BUS SYSTEM Employees on Way to Bank in Motorcar Crowded to Curb by Gunmen's Machine. Four young men, all neatly dressed and armed, escaped with a bag containing $765.85, the property of the Eastern Parkway, Brownsville and East New York Transit Relief Agsociation, following a bold holeup yesterday in Pitkin between Osborne and Watson sta. Benjamin Roesler, night starter for the association buses, was taking the day's receipts from the terminal at Eastern Parkway and Utica ave.

to the Municipal Bank at Pitkin and Stone aves. In the motorcar with him were Paul Gimbel and Paul Mitnick, also employees of the association. The holdup men came from behind. in a large closed car with which they crowded the other machine to the curb. Three of them got out and demanded the money.

The fourth remained at the wheel. The bandits worked rapidly. They disappeared in Osborne st. NEW BUS LINE STARTS Patchogue, L. Jan.

11-StartIng today, a new bus line will start operating between this village and the county seat. The motorbuy will leave here at 8 a.m., reacning Riverhead in time for the opening of the courts. For thep resent only one round trip will be made, the return one being, started late in the afternoon after the court gesions. V. Ferlazzo, who used to operate a bug line between this village and Sayville.

is operating the new line. IN MEMORIAM ANKETELL In sad and loving memory of our father, ALFRED ANKETELL, who departed this life Jan. 11, 1925. MRS. J.

SHAPELEY and ALFRED ANKETELL. BRUEY--In loving memory of a dear and steeled friend, FRANK E. BRUEY, who departed this life Jan. 11, 1922, in his 79th year. Gone but not forgotten.

A sincere friend. MAMIE REAGAN. CLUVER- constant and loving memory of a devoted husband and daddy, JOHN CLUVER, who departed this life Jan. 11, 1923. The only links death cannot sever Our love and memories which live forever.

WIFE and DAUGHTER. CONSTANT--In respectful memory of ELLA T. CONSTANT, who departed this life Jan. 11, 1926. FRIENDS and FORMER BUSINESS ASSOCIATES.

MULLER--In sacred memory of our mother, S. BELLE MULLER, who passed awny Jan. 11, 1920. FLOSS M. VAN SISE.

RILEY--In memory of our darling daughter and loving sister, MILDRED VIRGINIA RILEY, who departed this life Jan. 11, 1923. Always in our thoughts. Never to be forgotten. MOTHER, FATHER, BROTHERS.

WICKE -In loving memory of our dear mother, MARIE WICKE, who departed this life Jan. 11, 1922. Faithful and honest in all your ways, Devoted and true to the end of your days. Your daughters, ADDIE EMMA WICKE, AVNSOE. MARIE ARWE, Close Wooden Cantilever Span Nearly Century Old Ice Is Good to Skate on, but for household use you can make it yourself in handy cube form, with REFRIGERATION -and a hundred frozen dainties that will make a playground of your palate.

And you don't even think of Frigidaire. It takes care of itself as well as your needs. DOMESTIC ELECTRIC Inc. 16 Lafayette Av. Fone Nevina 9268 STRIKE THREATENS TO DELAY WORK ON NEW BOARDWALK Walkout of 50 of 100 Workmen Has Not Hampered Work Yet, Say Builders.

A strike on the part of some 50 of the 100 men employed on the Coney Island boardwalk extension from Ocean parkway to Brighton Beach, threatens to protract pletion of the work beyond the scheduled time, but, according to the contractors, 80 far has caused 110 delay. The men walked out last Thursday, They were the dock builders and hoisting engineers. Today only the spile drivers remained on job. According to the men, the strike was caused by the employment of non-union labor. The contractors, Merritt, Chapman Scott, of 17 Battery Manhattan, deny non-union men were employed and say the strike was caused by the men trying to impose special conditions labor not in effect anywhere else in the city.

The plans call for completion of extension by May. An official of the contracting company said today that the strike had caused no delay because nothing further could be done until the beach was filled in, and this work had been held up by the weather. A hydraulic dredge was to begin the work of sand filling today. Fireman Starts 45th Year Of Service -Never Absent At the age of 65 Lt. Thomas F.

Kain of Engine Company 212, on Wythe today started his 45th year of continuous and uninterrupted service in the city's Department. He celebrated the day by remaining at the firehouse on duty. As nearly n9 he can estimate. Lieutenant Kane has attended 1,500 fires since he joined the department as a fireman, fourth grade, on Jan. 12, 1882.

Since then he has never taken a day off for sickness, has never had a charge brought against him and has never been reprimanded. On numerous occasions he was injured slightly on duty. DEATHS FLYNN- -Rev. MATTHEW J. FLYNN, rector of Our Lady of Angels, died Saturday, Jan.

9, 1926. at the Hotel St. George. With him at his death was his sister, Helen L. Flynn, and his brother, Thomas a Mass at the Church of the Assumption, Father Farrell celebrant.

Funeral private. HELEN L. FLYNN. PROSPECT LODGE NO. 290 Brothers: You are requested to attend the Odd Fellows funeral servIces CARPENTER, our brother, CHARLES P.

at his residence, 150 Madison on Tuesday evening, Jan. 12, at 8 o'clock GEORGE E. DOSTER. Noble Grand. Thomas Deacon, Secretary.

REUTELL-After a short Illness, in her 45th year, BERTHA, beloved wife of Edward Reutell. Funeral services at her late residence, 42 Scranton Valley Stream, L. Monday at 8 p.m. Interment Greenfield Cemetery, Tuesday morning. KATIE, beloved mother of Joseph Roos, on Jan, 9, 1326, in her 66th year.

Funeral services at her home, 8634 91st st. (formerly Columbia Woodhaven, Wednesday afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock. Interment Evergreens Cemetery. ROWLAND-On Sunday, Jan. 10.

1926. MARY HULL ROWLAND of ,48 Henry daughter of the late Dr. Charles Rowland and Marcia Bellamy Rowland, Funeral services at her, residence on Tuesday, Jan. 12, p.m. at Fairfield, Conn, SCHUMACHER -On Sunday, Jan.

10, 1926, after 8 short illness, CAROLINE LORD, wife of John Schumacher of 1760 60th st. Notice of funeral later. SCHULT On Sunday, Jan. 10, 1926, JOHN beloved husband of Mary and father of Arthur, Edwin, Emma, Frederick and Edith Schult. in his 68th year.

Funeral from the residence, 22 S. Oxford Wednesday at 2 p.m. SCHWALOWSKY On Sunday, a n. 10, 1926, JULIUS G. S.

SCHWALOWSKY, aged 77 years, nt his residence, 437 Halsey Brooklyn, N. Y. Funeral services Tuesday evening nt 8 o'clock. Interment Wednesday morning at Evergreens Cemtery. SHOTWELL BYRON ALONZO SHOTWELL.

Reposing at Campbell Funeral Church, B'way, 66th st. Services Monday, 8 p.m TAYLOR-On Jan. 9, in his 83d I year, neral father of services PROCTOR Mrs. at Frank his A. TAYLOR, residence, Beebe.

beloved 1302 FuPacific Tuesday, Jan, 12, at 4:30 p.m. TEESE- -WILLIAM DWIGHT, on Sunday, Jan. 10, husband of V. Teese. Services at his dence.

1082 Prospect Tuesday evening, Jan. 12, at 7:30 o'clock. Friends and members of Clinton Lodge 453, F. A. Brooklyn Lodge 22, B.

P. O. and Brooklyn Lodge 14, Loyal Order of Moon. are invited to attend. WEBSTER On Jan.

10, 1926. NORMAN M. WEBSTER, beloved husband of Emma A (nee Russell), and father of George D. Webster and Daisy L. Urban, in his 80th year.

Funeral services at his residence, 8524 90th Woodhaven, on Tuesday, 2 p.m. WELLS--On Saturday, Jan. 9, at her late residence, 189 Jefferson Brooklyn, CHARLOTTE mother of Marion and widow of the late Joseph E. Wells, M.D. Funeral services at Central Congregationa! Church chapel, Hancock Monday, Jan.

11, 8:30 p.m. Interment Greenwood Cemetery. WEST KATHRYN WEST, 23 years, suddenly, Jan, 10, 1926. Funeral services will be held at her home, 1804 New York Tuesday, Jan. 12, 7:30 p.m.

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jumped under care of Dr. lived up to his name, Poultry Show, held of shingle at the Angell Memorial Hospital, TIA walts in line while Mitzi gets all set M. P. Levette, Daniel Delaney (wielding from an automobile and broke his leg. Evans of the Angell Memorial Hospital, Bos- that of Sensation King, for he is valued at the New Madison Square Garden, in New CHURCH DESTROYED THRICE BY FLAMES TO BE BUILT AGAIN Old First M.

E. Congregation of Middle Village Holds Services as Usual. Undeterred by the third fire in 100 years has destroyed their place of worship, the members of the congregation of the old First M. E. Church of Middle Village, Queens, are determined to build a new edifice as soon as possible.

The more optimistic members are expressing hope that the new building will be ready by the end of June. The last calamity to visit the congregation was the destruction of the church at 2193 Metropolitan early Saturday morning. The church had been built in 1901, replacing the second church that was built in 1837 after the first had burned down. The congregation was organized in 1768. Yesterday the services were held in the Sunday School room of the Lutheran Church on Juniper following an invitation from the officials of that church.

Almost 100 of the 220 memners attended the services, and in the afternoon 125 memberg attended the Sunday School. The first meeting of the trustees to plan for building a new church was neld less than 24 hears after the fire was extinguished. This meeting was at the home of the treasurer, Frank Drews. No definite plans as to location or building have yet been made. SAMBLE IS GRANTED DIVORCE BY (Special to The Eagle.) New Haven, Jan.

11-Jacqueline Beck Samble of Hollis, failed to appear when the divorce suit brought against her by her husband, Ralph Samble of Springfield, was called. Her husband and his counsel were on hand and told the story of the Samble romance. They stated that the couple eloped in 1916. They lived together until 1920, Jacqueline when, deserted Samble told the court, him. He has tried to induce her to join him, he stated, until a year ago, when he told her that he intended to get a divorce on the ground of desertion.

She said to him, "Go ahead and get it." He was granted the decree. MISS M. H. ROWLAND DIES; OLD HEIGHTS RESIDENT Miss Mary Hull Rowland, one of the oldest de residents of the Heights section of the boro and at one time proprietor of a well-known kindergarten school there, died yesterday in her 94th year, at her home, 148 Henry st. She had been excelient health until a month ago, when she sustained a fall and the shock proved too much for her.

She was the daughter of the late Dr. Charles and Marcia Bellamy Rowland and was the oldest member of the First Presbyterian Church. The former pastor, the Rev. L. Mason Clarke, will officlate at the services tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock.

OBITUARY NOTES MRS. BERTHA DALY of 2002 E. 15th wife of Daniel G. Daly, died on Saturday at St. Mary's Hospital after an 111- ness of a month.

She was a lifelong resi dent of Brooklyn and was 63 years old. She is survived by her husband. A masa of requiem will be said in St. Edmund's R. C.

Church at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Interment will be In Greenwood Cemetery. CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, 62 years old, of 66 Jefferson Maspeth, died on Saturday of pneumonia. He was born in Denmark and formerly resided In Williamsburg. He is survived wife.

Elizabeth; a son and two daughters. He was a member of Lenni Lenape Tribe, No. 48, 0. R. M.

Services will be held tomerrow night. Interment will be in Luth- eran Cemetery, JAMES E. MARTIN, a former resident of this boro, died last Tuesday at his home in Tappan, N. Y. He was a life member of Lexington Lodge, No.

310, P. A. under whose auspices services were held on Thursday, He is survived by brother, David; two daughters, Mra. Harry McKay and Mra. Charles B.

Partridge, and a grandson, Wallace M. Mar- tin. MISS MAY PERRY of 73 Halsey daughter of the late Timothy Perry, former prominent layer and president of the Greenpoint Savings Bank, died after an operation yesterday. She was a former school teacher and is survived by four sistera, Mrs. Louise Crane, Jennie, Florence and Belle Perry, and two brothere.

George and Frank. Funeral services will be held tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. Interment will be in Cypress Hills Cemetery, JOSEPH F. THOMPSON of 916 Jefferson ave. died on Friday.

He was born in the old 20th Ward and was a machinist in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He la aurvived by his mother, Ann Walsh Thompson: two brothers and two sisters; daughter, Lillian, and a son, Richard. A mass of requiem will be said in Our Lady of Good Counsel R. C. Church tomorrow morning, and Interment will be In Holy Cross Cemetery, Calls American Girls "Faster" Than French Mademoiselles Jazz and the younger generation I are covered with brickbats and bouquets tossed at them over the weekend by foreign visitors and New York clergymen, says the Associated Press.

Emile Daeschner, French Ambassudor, and Charles Cestre, professor' at the Sorbonne University, Indulged in comments at a dinner in Manhattan. M. Cestre did not hesitate to say that American girls are bolder than French girls. "I And the American girl a bit more bold and sophisticated than the French girl," he said. "She does many things which are a bit bold.

Everyone thinks the French girl 19 It is just the opposite. The French girl is very carefully reared and it is not until she is married that she has any liberties to speak of. No. the American Miss is much faster than the Parisian Mademoiselle." M. Daeschner spoke in praise of Lancaster, Jan.

7 The State Highway Commission has closed the longest single span wooden cantilever bridge, a romantic landmark across the Kentucky River. A steel or concrete structure soon will make a memory of one of the few remaining covered bridges. Located just beyond Camp Nelson, on the Lookout Mountain Airline Highway, it was built in 1838. Only lately, when heavy busses began to cross the were there pronounced vibrationan, It is just as easy to buy a "Bank Account" on the installment plan as it is to buy anything else. Try it and see how your "purchase" improves in value each month.

Let us mail you Booklet E. THE THRIFT 255 Ryerson Street Brooklyn, N. Y. In the Real Estate Market Active Home Buying in New Boro Developments--L. L.

I. Market Active Recent transactions show a contin-1 ued demand for homes in the new developments in East Flatbush, Sheepshead Bay and Coney Island. Builders active in these localities have been greatly encouraged by the demand for new dwellings and many of them are planning to extend their operations into new territory. Real estate brokers in the Fort Hamilton, Mapleton and Bath Beach districts also report many deals involving vacant land a in which builders figure. Building Situation.

"No year ever matched the building material production record of 1925," writes Allen E. Beals in the current Dow Service Daily Bullding Reports. "But interest in mere volume fades when sound business coldly calculates the ability of 1926 to equal or surpass the records made last year, "Suppose the nation's momentary need for building should shrink the market that 1925 created for highgeared mills, kilns, quarries, mines and timber tracts; will it denote the operation of the economic course that often follows war of five years doom and five years gloom' The rise and fall of building the sequel of the Civil War, spanned 13 years, but then one-half the country was laid financially low. "Prosperity beyond all precedent now spreads its mantle nationwide, but first it calls for homes and offices, stores, lofts, showrooms and factories; then schools, hotels and warehouses, places of worship, palaces of pleasure and monumental structures for church and State and philanthropy. Each had, about in the order named, its entrance to and exit from history's premiere building stage until the Government itself advised investors that construction now need meet only normal requirements, and that a continuation the high rate of building must result In overproduction with a sequel of depression." Commercial Leases.

Charles F. Noyes Company has leased for Max N. Natanson the ground floor of 15-17 Beekman st. to Louis and John Mategazza for a restaurant. The lease is at an aggregate rental of about $150,000.

The Noyes Company has also leased the store. 26 Bond to Mertz, and offices in 81-3 Fulton st. to S. Friedenberg Co. Ice Company Leases Plant.

Co. has leased Romanto the Knickerbocker Ice Company, for garage and service station purposes, a portion of the service station buildings being erected by the K. P. K. Realty Corporation on the plot recently acquired by them through the same brokers on Ely near Beebe Long Island City.

To Build on Gravesend Ave. Farrell Hamra sold the plot, 106x100, on the west side Gravesend 103 feet south of 60th to a client for improvement; plot, 140x100, on the east side of E. 3d 100 feet south of Avenue for Berenson and Pollack, to a builder who will improve the plot with 2- family dwellings; plot 80x100 on the east side of E. 3d st, 120 feet south of Avenue for Platt and McKenna, to B. Fishkin, who will improve the plot with 2-family houses; two 1-family dwellings, 2440 and 2464 64th for Burkhardt and Dzieman and the property, 1219 Gravesend a 3-story brick building with store and two apartments above, for A.

Turkenich to a client. Sell Six Cottages. Edward J. Farrell sold for the Lero Realty Company six cottages on the south side of Fulton st. west of Lafayette Long Beach, to a client for investment.

The same broker sold for Fay Courteney her residence on the south side of Chester st. west of National blvd. to Mrs. Rose Stoerger, who will premises for a duplex apartment. Payne Whitney Sells Acreage.

Wheatley Hills Real Estate Corporation sold for Payne Whitney a tract of 45 acres at Smithtown, formerly owned by the late Oliver H. Payne. The purchaser is Gerard M. Dahl, purchased the former Alonzo Potter country estate of 240 acres, adjoining on the west, through the same broker last May. Demand for Flatbush Land.

William E. Harmon Co. sold the following lots in their South Marlboro development: Southwest corner of Avenue and W. 5th st. to Joseph Hyman; southwest corner of Avenue and W.

7th'st. to Abraham Fox; northeast corner of Avenue and West st. to Joseph F. Blake: southwest corner of 64th st. and West st.

to Mary E. Sexton; plots on W. 4th near Avenue P. to David Fuller, Esther M. Fuller, James J.

Fanning, Arthur Waters, M. Anderson, Katherine M. Robin-, son; plots on W. 5th between Avenues and to Thomas J. Atkinson, Robert M.

Wilson, Jennie M. Carlson, Anna B. Hill, Bertha V. Bertell, Samuel A. Abramson, Rose Gross, John J.

Greene, Charlotte Greenberg; plots on W. 6th between Avenues and to Mary F. Smith, Margaret J. O'Connor, August ARREST 5 AS BANDITS IN HOLDUP AT CORONA Through the arrest of five young men of Corona, the detectives of the Newtown precinct believe they will be able to solve a number of holdups that have been committed in different sections of Queens during the past month. One of these, the detectives say, is the robbery of a $6,500 payroll from the head of the Meyers Hat Manufacturing Company of Maspeth, who was held up and robbed about a month ago while he was returning to the company's factory from the bank.

The five men arrested Saturday afternoon and evening by Detectives Miller, Caputo, Farley, Devine and Breen were arraigned Sunday before Magistrate Thomas Doyle in the Flushing Court and were held in $10,000 bail each for examination. Four of them were charged with assault and robbery and were held until Thursday morning. The fifth, charged with being an accomplice of the other defendants, was held on a short Tuesday morning. The defendants are Frank Campaniello, 23, 19 Van Cliff Anthony Esposito, 23, 106 Otis Anthony Lavaglio, 20, 12 Moore Salvatore Nicolini. 24.

124 Corona and James Magrino, 26, 9838 Corona all of Corona. Gunther, Ellas H. Gunther, Edward F. Butler, Charles M. Schwartz, Thomas B.

Roth; plots on W. 7th near Avenue to Katherine McLean, John J. Sweeney, Gertrude P. Bennett, Owen B. McCauley, Thomas H.

Cummings. Another Vanderbilt Home Sold. The north half of the Vanderbilt twin houses occupying the block front on the west side of 5th ave. between 51st and 52d Manhattan, was sold recently for about $3,500,000 by Mrs. White, wife of the former Ambassador to France and a daughter of the late William H.

Vanderbilt, to Benjamin Winter, the real estate operator who recently purchased the Astor mansion on 5th ave. and later traded in its site for that of the Temple Emannu-El lower down in the avenue. Mansfield Pl. Home Sold. The Bulkley Horton Company sold the one-family frame dwelling on a plot 40x100, at 940 Mansfield between Foster ave.

and Ave. Charles L. Barnes, to a client for occupancy. Boro Man Buys Suffolk Farm. The farm of Charles and John H.

Emerson, comprising 165 acres at Selden, Suffolk County, L. was sold to David Elkind of 454 Newport this boro. The parcel is bounded on the north by Middle Island on the west by the farms of Morris W. Hawkins, on the south by Mooney Pond rd. andion the east by the farm of Laurel P.

Howell. Quinlan. Terry Johnson, of Flushing, were the brokers in the transaction. Long Beach Deals. Edward J.

Farrell sold for the 3 the American girl's mother. The American woman, he declared, is the outstanding feminine figure in the world because of her desire for education, her admirable record in public life and her brilliant combination of business and pleasure. Another foreigner who commented on American girls was Dr. Adolf Lorenz, noted Austrian surgeon, who said: "American women are fearfully restless. They marry in haste, hence the number of divorces.

Yet one can hardly blame you for marrying them. Your women are exquisite beauties, and quite liberal, I notice, in showing their loveliness." The Rev. Thomas J. Murphy, who married Consuelo Vanderbilt to Earl E. T.

Smith last commented on three generations past, present and future. He said he does not believe the younger generation is going to the dogs, although he 19 afraid lit is drinking too much. Lero Realty Company six cottages on the south side of Fulton west of Lafayette Boulevard, Long Beach, to client for investment. The same broker sold for Fay Courteney her residence on the south side of Chester west of National Boulevard, to Mrs. Rose Stoerger, who will alter the premises into a duplex apartment.

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or persons making a bid for any The service, person work, materials or supplies City of New York, or for any of its for departments, bureaus or offices, shall the In title a of sealed envelope, inwith the the supplies, mafurnish dorsed work or service for which the bid made, with his or their name or names. terials, is date of presentation to the Presland of the Board, to the head of the the Department, at and his or hour its named office, in on the or ad- bevertisement the for bids the will same, be at publicly which opened time the President of the Board or head of and place by Department, and read, and the award the contract made according to law AS said of thereafter as practicable. 800n Each bid shall contain the name and place of and residence the of names the of all person persons making inthe terested with him therein, and If no other bid person be 80 interested it shall distinctly state that also that it is made withany connection the with any other purpose, person making a bid same and out 18 fraud, and that no member of the in all respects fair and without collusion or Board of Aldermen, head of a department, chief of a bureau, other officer deputy thereof or clerk therein, or or shall be employee of The City of New York, directly 18, or be- as come interested partner, or Indirectly, contracting otherwise, party, in stockholder, surety or contract, or in the the performance of the supplies, work or business to which it relates, or In any portion of verified the by profits the thereof. The bid must be oath, in writing. of the party several or matters parties making the bid that the stated therein are in all respects true.

No bid will be considered unless, as condition precedent to the reception 01 consideration of such bid, it be accompanied by certified check upon one of the State or National banks or trust companies of The City of New York. or of such bank or trust company signed by a duly authorized officer thereof drawn to the order of the Comptroller, or money or corporate stock or certificates of indebtedness of any nature lasued by City of New York, which the Comptroller shall approve A8 of equal value with the security required in the tisement to the amount of not less than three nor more than five per centum of the bond required, as provided in Section 430 of the Greater New York Charter. All bids for supplies must be submitted in duplicate. The certified check or money should not be inclosed in the envelope containing the bid, but should be elther Inclosed In separate envelope addressed to the head of the Department, President or Board, or submitted personally upon the presentation of the bid. For particulars as to the quantity and quality of the supplies or the nature and extent of the work, reference must be made to the specifications, schedules.

plans, on file in the said office of the President, Board or Department. shall be accepted from or tract awarded to any person who in arrears to The City of New York upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter, As surety the or City. otherwise, upon any obligation to The contracts must be bid for rately. The right la reserved in each case to reject all bids if it in deemed to ba for the Interest of the City so to do. Bidders will write out- the amount of their bids in addition to Inserting the same in figures.

Bidders are requested to make their bids upon the blank forms prepared and nished by the City, copy of which. with the proper envelope In which to Inclose the bid, together with a copy of the contract, including the specifications, in the form approved by the Corporation Counsel, can be obtained upon application therefor. at the office of the Department for which the work is to be done or the services are to be furnished. Plans and drawing. of construction work may be seen there..