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a a the trial 19 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. TUESDAY. JUNE 11. 1907.

3 MISCELLANEOUS. NABISCO Time When the guests can eat no more of things substantial; when the frozen desserts, the ices, creams, and fruits are served; then is the time for those exquisite dessert confections NABISCO SUGAR WAFERS In ten cent tins, also in twenty-five cent tins. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY GEO. SCHIFF LAST SEEN IN DETROIT ON MAY 15 Salesman for Uncle's Umbrella House; Lived at 627 Hancock Street. ABSOLUTELY LOST, 26 DAYS.

Parents With Whom Young Man Resided Are Deeply Worried--Took Little Money With Him. George Schiff of 627 Hancock street, who 18 a traveling salesman for a big umbrella manufacturing firm in Manhattan, of which his uncle, Isaac Schiff, is a partner, has mysteriously disappeared. He was last seen in Toledo, Ohio, on May 15, where he had stopped over for a day en route to Detroit, and although, as the result of a general alarm sent out by his uncle, the police of all the important cities in country have been searching for the young man for nearly three of weeks, no clew to his whereabout has yet been discovered. George Schiff. According to the story told by his uncle to an Eagle reporter to-day, George Schiff's disappearance seems to be one of the strangest on record.

There was absolutely no reason, Isaac Schiff said, why his nephew should have vanished. He left home in the best of health, had no business or financial worries and was not a youth given to escapades. The whole thing, the uncle declared, was a profound mystery to him which would only be explained when his nephew reappeared. That his nephew would be from in the near future his uncle confidently predicted. Young Schiff is 21 years old, 5 feet 6 Inches tall and weighed about 130 pounds.

He is a youth of fair complexion, with light blue eyes, light brown hair and a smooth shaven face. At times he is accustomed to wear eye glasses. He lived with his father, S. Schiff, in a boarding house at the Hancock street address and was well-known in the social set of that section of the borough. A few years ago he entered the employ of Arnold, Schiff a large wholesale umbrella firm, which for years did business on White street, near Broadway, but which has recently moved its offices to 107 Franklin-street, Manhattan.

This concern is one of the best known houses of its kind in the city. Young Schiff took naturally to trade, of which both his tather and uncle had made a life study, and it was not long before he was advanced to the position of traveling salesover the West for the firm, the great man. In this capacity he traveled mall jority of his trips being unusually successful. It was on May 12 that young has so mysteriously disappeared. He was started on the business trip a in which he to visit Columbus, Toledo, Detroit and other large cities of the Middle West.

He intended to return at the end of about a month. Before departing he drew $150 from the firm for traveling expenses, intending to write for more when that should have been exhausted. Schiff was accustomed to write, or wire the firm for which he traveled every day during his trips and his uncle was rather surprised, therefore, when he heard nothing from his nephew after three or four days had passed. The absence of the customary daily reports did not at first give him any great concern, however, for he attributed his nephew's failure to write to the fact that he was probably very busy. But when more than a week had elapsed and father and uncle had heard nothing either directly or indirectly from the young salesman they decided that it was time to investigate.

Isaac Schiff knew that young Schiff's itinerary called for his presence in Detroit on May 16, that in fact he had wired ahead for rooms on that date. So he telegraphed the management of the Hotel Cadillac, in that city, asking for information. The reply stated that the order for rooms' had been received, but that young Schiff had so far failed to appear. Isaac Schiff waited a few days longer and then went to Police Headquarters in Manhattan and asked that a confidential general alarm be sent out for his nephew. This was done on May 23.

Since then the police all over the country have been ENGINEER LEWIS FEARS TUNNEL AIR PRESSURE Good Physical Reasons Why a Man of 51 Should Investigate Gradually. SAYS HE'LL DO THOROUGH JOB Rice Is Busy on Fourth Avenue Subway Specifications for R. T. Board's Last Meeting. Nelson P.

Lewis, chief engineer of the of Estimate, whom Mayor McClellan designated to make an examination of the river section of the Brooklyn tunnel, will make a preliminary investigation within a few days. The exploration of the tunnel by Mr. Lewis will be done gradually, and it may take two or three weeks before he has completed his examination and to file his report with the Vorready Preliminary to making a personal investigation Mr. Lewis has devoted the past week to an examination of the original and amended plans, interviewing the engineers who are engaged in the construction work and collecting whatever data he believes will enable him to make a thorough and exhaustive examination when he enters the two tubes. "In collecting this advance material," said Mr.

Lewis, "I will know what I am going to see and what I may expect to And. It will also give me a good idea where to look for different things and where the conditions exist which require the most attention." Mr. Lewis explained that the terrific air pressure which is still maintained in different parts of the tunnel is the principal reason why he intends to make the examination gradually. "No air pressure is maintained in the two ends of each tunnel," said Mr. Lewis.

But further in there are two chambers where the air pressure is 20 40 pounds, respectively. Being a man of 51, I have to be somewhat cautious and proceed into the tunnel gradually until I get acclimated to the terrific air pressure. A fair idea of the risk may be obtained if you stop to consider that in the 40-pound chamber the atmospheric pressure is three and two-third times as great as the normal atmospheric pressure." Mr. Lewis refused to say whether the preliminary investigation which he 'has made has justified the charges of the many defects which are said to exist in the construction work of the tunnel. He said that it would be discourteous to discuss this phase of the situation until he has made his formal report to the Mayor.

Chief Engineer Rice of the Rapid Transit Commission announced to-day that he will have the plans and specifications of the Fourth avenue and Coney Island subway ready for the last. meeting of the commission which will be June 28, three days before, the public utilities law goes into effect. The last function of the present commission in this matter will be to set a date for a public hearing which will, be held by the new utilities commission. "It is impossible to get the plans and specifications ready at an earlier date," said Mr. Rice, "when the cost and the magnitude of the work is considered.

The law provides that before the public hearing can be held the commission must have 500 copies of the specifications printed for public distribution. This also requires some time and under these conditions the best we can do is to have the plans and specifications ready for the last meeting." Mr. Rice said that the contract would probably be advertised in 13 sections. Under this arrangement the work of construction can be expedited more quickly than if the contract was let in a single section. After the public hearing has been held the only thing left for.

the new utilities commission is to approve the plans and specifications and the form of contract. Similar approval must also be had then from the Board of Estimate and the Corporation Counsel and then the matter will be in shape for the advertising for bidders. NEW CHURCHES AND PASTORS. The Presbytery of Nassau to Install Ministers at Richmond Hill and Flushing. At a meeting of the Presbytery of Nassau.

held at Jamaica yesterday, the Rev. Daniel W. Skellinger, called to the new church at Richmond Hill at a salary of $1,200, was received into the Presbytery of Nassau, from the Presbytery of Washington, and his call to the Richmond Hill church was approved. Messrs. Campbell and Hodges said the cubrch has sixty members and -seven members in the Sunday school.

although during the winter the services have been held in an uncomfortable hall. Now that the church is to occupy its own church edifice for the first time a great growth is looked for. The new pastor will be installed June 27. The Rev. Mr.

Field, the newly-called pastor of the Flushing Church, said he was awaiting his licensure by the Presbytery of Brooklyn, which is expected a week from next Monday. A resolution was passed approving of the action of the church, and it was said that the approval of the call would be forwarded as soon as the candidate receives his license from Brooklyn Presbytery. Gordon Russell, son of the Rev. Alexander Russell, secretary of the Presbytery, having passed a satisfactory examination, was licensed as a candidate for the ministry. The Rev.

Charles Herbert Scholey was dismissed from the Presbytery of Buffalo to the Presbytery of Nassau. Owing to the feeble condition of the Ravenswood, Long Island City, church, it was resolved that the next meeting of the Presbytery be held at that church, two weeks hence, and at that time the whole question as to the consolidating the church with the Astoria church. or other means adopted for building up the congregation. The church property is said to be worth $2,500. The Newtown church was informed in regard to its application to permit change of system of electing elders for a term of years to a system of life tenure, that the church session already has the power to do this.

MAN IN JAIL ACCUSED. Victim of Assault Identifies Prisoner as One of the Men Who Attacked Him. On the night of June 2, at 1 o'clock, W. E. Rambold was brutally beaten at Eighteenth street and Ninth avenue, by two men, who then took $3 money and a silver cigarette case from his pockets.

Rambold was laid up for several days, and when he was able went to the Fifth avenue station to make a complaint. Officer Fennel was assigned to the case and took Rambold to the Raymond street jail to look at the prisoners. Rambold picked Patrick Walsh as one of the men who, he alleged, had assaulted and robbed him. Walsh is 21 years old and gave his address as 453 Seventh avenue. He was serving a ten days sentence for drunkenness.

Walsh's ten days expired yesterday, and this morning be was haled to the Butler street court to answer to the charge of assault and highway rodbery. Magistrate Tighe held him in $2,000 pail for hearing, June 14. SUPREME COURT. TRIAL TERM. Day, Calendar, June: Carr, Part III.

Burr, Park IV. Scudder, Part V. Abbott, Part VI, Clark Part VII. Aspinall, J. 5461-Schubert vs.

Buell Co. Reagan vs. Long Island R. R. 4897.

Bowers vs. Holbrook Cabot Co. 4055.. Cavanagh vs. B.

H. R. R. 2154. Harris vs.

Lissberger. 4438.. Pollner VS. B. H.

R. R. 4467.. Lenehan VS. City of New York.

4396. Williams vs. Orr. et al. 5440, 5441.

Tanner vs. Kell's Son Co. 3596, 3597. Murphy, Farrell vs. B.

H. R. R. 5306.. Rubenstrunk V'S.

Schnitzpan, 583.. Connaughton vs. Bartenshaw. 13767.. Duryee vs.

Hart. 13825. Gair Co. vs. Cooke Co.

10843.. Vagle vs. Wray. 1661. Etter V8.

Rogow. 5897. Masset vs. Morrison. 2158.

Jeffrey vs. Heins. 5388. Capoblanchi vs. Co.

6113.. Kling ve. Long Island R. R. 171.

Stanley vs. Bloch. 4734.. Kellogg vs. Church Charity Foundation.

Y. and Brooklyn Brewery vs. Chieffo. 13583.. Kligman vs.

Long Island R. R. 12893.. Marsh vs. Johnson.

13809.. Rod vs. Kadin. 4434. White vs.

B. H. R. R. 3062..

Fitzgerald VS. Brauman. 6552.. Newcomb VS. Slocum.

6540, 6541.. Rauftle vs. Mangam. 6400.. Donovan vs.

Roulston. 6205.. Mikalous vS. Interboro Rapid Transit. 8052.

Tregner vs. Hazen. 6708.. Ferris vs. B.

H. R. R. 6709.. Menamey vs.

B. H. R. R. 6710.

Enright VS. B. H. R. R.

6711.. Booth vs. Sellew. 6712.. Downes vs.

Q. Co. and Sub. R. R.

6714. Hoyle vs. B. H. R.

R. Highest number reached 0n1 regular call. 6716. SUPREME COURT. Special term trials.

Day calendar, June 12. Edward B. Thomas, 1471.. B. H.R.R.

Co. (demurrer) vs. City of N. Y. 1472.

La Follette vs. Weller. 998. Schwartz V9. Adler.

229. Deinhardt vs. Deinhardt. 597.. Rosenfeld V8.

Weber. 603.. Werbelovsky vs. Gilinsky. 824.

Pelletreau vs. Brennan. 1057.. Ferguson vs. Bronstein.

1001.. Thompson v8. Arthur. 1018.. Tyler vs.

Bralower. 961.Cohn vs. Kaplan. 817.. Ibert Brewing Co.

vs. Ciancimino. COUNTY COURT. KINGS COUNTY. Criminal calendar.

A June 12, 1907: Part Fawcett. Michael Calabriskie, burglary. first degree; Theodore Empert, assault, first degree; Mary Jackson, burglary, second degree: Peter Williams, burglary, third degree: Andrew Hahn, assault, second, degree: Gus Malloy. assault, second degree; Jacob Youngblout, assault. second degree; Bernard Benson, assault, second degree, and Robert Thompson.

assault, second degree." COUNTY -Part IT. Civil calendar. June 12, 1907, Dike. 605. Goldstein vs.

Brooklyn Heights RR. Co. 606. Singer vs. Garlick.

560.. Higgins v8. Duge. 1773.. Bergma, VS.

Golding. 1783.. Bay State Realty vs. Neufeld. 1761..

Hurst vs. Morris. 342 vs. N. Y.

N. J. Telephone Co. Whiteman ve. Randall.

629.. Canty vS. Nassau Electric RR. Co. 582..

Cleary vse. Brocklyn Heights RR. Co. 1823 Rechtseit VS. Kaplin.

1728.. Feinstein Vs. Koch. 1727.. vs Farrell.

The following causes if answered ready will be passed for the day: 632. Green vs. Nassau Electric RR. Co. 154..

Kittle vs. Loerch. 491.. Haglund vs Von Hasseln. 555.

Smith Vs. Brooklyn Heights RR. 624.. Fausel vs. Brooklyn Heights RR.

Co. 636.. Casey vs. Volpe. 637..

vs. City of New York. 639.. Gallagher vs. Clark Co.

619.. McCollum VS. Slattery. 641.. Hayes vs.

Silver. Co. 396.. Berenberg Vs. Brooklyn Heights RR.

Co. 262.. Affinger Brooklyn Heights RR. Co. 510..

Rettburger vs. Shedlow. 511. Swain vs. Shedlow.

327. Gray vs. Lipowsky, THE COURTS. SURROGATE'S COURT. Calendar, Church-The Wednesday.

wills before Surrogate James C. of Margaret Dyck, Amelia Conselyea, Eliza J. Hendrickson, Catharine Spellman and Maria R. Mott; the accounting in estate Jane Delano, Charlotte Pfeiffer, A. N.

Carleton, Addie L. Fitch, Margaret A. P. Williams, W. E.

Griffiths, Samuel S. Larremore, Kate Schellderfer, Henrietta Schellderfer, Henry Meyer, Robert Mitchell, Magdalena Birk. A. Lundbeck, John Ripp, Carmine Geenrons, Loftus Wood. Emma Wolfstein.

Smith Rippendale, Moses Somborn and George Farnworth; the administration Patrick McGuigan, Henry Haplan and Charles McCullough: the estate George H. Engeman, Catharine Arent and Gertrude Baker. Contested calendar--The accounting John D. Clarke and Henry Preston; the will of Vergilis Del Genovese, Elizabeth Schott and Jane Holems. SURROGATE'S COURT.

Church, Surrogate. The following wills were filed from 12 noon yesterday, to 12. noon to-day: Catherine Glock, which. after making some small spec, fic bequests, leaves to the Luthera1 Cemetery 600 in trust for the care of the testatrix's grave; to. Adam Knecht of blum, Hessen, Germany, to Catherine Kaibel of Worms, Hessen, Germany, to Anna Kaibel.

of the same place, 8500: to Catherine Josy of Uffhofen, Kreis Alzev. Hessen. Germany. to Catherine Feudren of the same place. $250; to Pauline Chapelle of Paris, France, $500; to Juliette Sire, $50); to William Pfarrer.

$1,000. and to ha wife, Mrs. Catherine Pfarrer. $500, and their daughter, Catherine, $500; to Sarah Parker, $250, and to Catherine, her daughter, $250: to Larremore. $500; to Catherine Daly.

$1,000. if nthe employ of the testatrix at the latter's death; to the German Hospital and Dispensity in the City of New York. to the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, to the Congregational Home Mission Society. to the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of Brooklyn, to the Faith Home for Incurables in Brooklyn. 3500, and to the Brooklyn Home for Consumptives, $500.

The residue of the estate is left in equal shares to the six cousins of the deceasedElizabeth Messing, Mary Hess. Catherine Koch, Catherine Prinz, Henry Bitter and Jacob Gohring or their issue per stirpes. Theodore C. Pfarrer and Wilbur Larremore, executors. Johanna Helwig.

devising all her real estate to her sister, Hulda Schatta. and bequeathing herpersonalty to the children of her brother, William William A. Helwig. in equal shares. A.

Helwig, executor. Solomon Hoffman, which. after making many small bequests, leaves the business of the testator to his son, Henry. and the residue of his estate to his children--Henry, Celia und Gussie--absolutely. Benjamin Berman Henry Hoffman, executors.

John Moran, leaving to his daughter, Kittie: $200 to his daughter. Mary, and the remainder in trust for his daughters, Elizabeth and Rose. Mary Moran, executrix. William B. Kirkpatrick, leaving his entire estate to his wife, Minnie Kirkpatrick, who is appointed executrix.

George L. Wilson. leaving his whole estate to his mother. Jane Taylor Wilson. James M.

Wilson, executor. NOTICES. Wills admitted to probate -Hugh McCormack, John F. Riley, James Brown. Edwin Sparks.

Joseph Aronhold, Ellen Conran, Max Arthur Dassau. James M. Johnson, Annie M. Hickman. William Schafer.

Letters of administration issued--John V. Doorley, Frederick Gretsch, Isabella Penny, Camo Ferme. Peter Kleinlein. Larah A. Tompkins, Mary Gilbert, James Cusack, James Burns.

Letters of guardianship issued--Lucia Saavedra, Amelia Saavedra. Transfer tax orders signed -Bridget MeCough, Monorah Fullam, Andrew Bross, Otto Feitas. John Boedeker, Harriet A. Williams, Louis Schott, Ogden G. Grunow, Christian Mather, W.

Susan Ehrlish. Casey, Julia Mary S. A. Combs, Frances Fred- V. Boggs, C.

Fuller, Barbara Deknatel, Mary E. Clark. Margaret Cummins, Patrick O'Connor. Accounting decrees signed--Mary T. Moriarty, Josephine Cunningham, Charles Louis Fincke.

John K. Doherty et Mary C. Wells, Mary Gaynor, Martha E. T. Jaden, John Sullivan, Gertrude Kelly, Maria H.

Van Ryderoma, W. P. Bourke, Henry Evers. Estates of Katherine F. Matherson, Stephen Matherson, Adam J.

Bartholme, John Faulkner. Emily A. Dillinger, Frank Otto, John W. Haggerty. Denton infants, Anna Eliza Mcc.

Lawler, Frederick Bockmann, Susan Pepper, John Doyie. Orders signed. COCRT OF SPECIAL SESSIONS Of the Second Division of the City of New York. Calendar for Wednesday, June 19. O' Keefe, presiding; Forker, Wilkin, associates.

Francis L. Corrao, assistant district attorney. David Joyce, assistant corporation counsel. People vs. Dominico Cornbone.

See. 53. Sami tary Code (milk); Giuseppe Rose, Sunday law: Isane Foit. Isaac Audriello, Sec. 53.

Christina Sanitary Code Antonio bello, Marie Pandano. Angelina Rimpoill, See. 73. Sanitary Code (goats): Philip Severese, Sec. 45, Sanitary Code (uncovered meat): Willian B.

Montgomery, Sam Greenfeld. Peter Kohl, Sec. 83. Sanitary Code (milk): James 0' Brien. Sec.

101. Sanitary Code (carrying bones through the eity without permit): PaulIne Ruckert. See. 53. Sanitary Code (milk); David Cantor, Sec.

288. Penal Code support): Joseph Natoli. fartin Schnibbe, Marie Belling (two cases), Sec 53. Sanitary Code (milk): James (otherwise William) Rich. Sec.

97. Sanitary Code (manure): Charles. McKeevan. Richard B'adwell. assault: George Hoehme, See.

Sanitary Code Charles Ferber, Sec. 101. Sanitary Code (carrying fat and bones through without permit): Henry Levy. See. code (selling revolver Sunday: Kate thiefelder, Caroline Mills.

Charles Holland 63. Sanitary Code Jacques Lrewn. 133. Sanitary Code (falling to report 150 of Esther See. Sanitary Code milk without permit: David Shorowitz.

Hec. 53. Sanitary Code (millo): James O' Brien. Roc. 101.

Sanitary Code (hones and fat carried throuch city without permit: Gussie Parher. Sec. 1. Sanitary Code Kate Samuschs. Sec.

36. Sanitary Code; Chriatopher Merk (two eases), assault. TWO SUSPECTS HELD. John Weir. 24 years old, no home, and Julius 0'Gorman, of 754 Manhattan avenue, were held in $1,000 bail each in the Manhattan avenue court to-day.

They were arrested last night on suspicion of being the men who entered the restatrant of Rudolph Waldo, at 1145 Manhattan avenue. a few days ago and stole $50 worth of dishes and a coffee cooler. The men denied the charge. CRESCENT CLUB PLEADS "CLOSE NARROWS "if You Don't." Says Lawyer Ford, "You'll Drive Club Out of Brooklyn." NO DECISION IS ARRIVED AT. Board of Estimate's Committee Hears Argument-Coler and Metz Not on Speaking Terms.

The special committee of the Board of Estimate, consisting of President MeGowan, Controller Metz and President Coler, to which were referred many Brooklyn matters by the board for investigation and report held a meeting this morning to dispose of them before the board adjourned for the summer. was the first time in weeks that President Coler had been seen in the private office of Controller Metz, where the meeting was held. Mr. Metz and Mr. Coler do not speak, this fact did not seem to embarrass either one of the two men.

They sat side by side and appeared as oblivious of each other's existence as if they hundred miles apart. R. W. Creuzbaur, Mr. Coler's consulting engineer, acted as sort of an interlocutor between the two men.

If Mr. Coler had anything that he wanted to say to Mr. Metz he would whisper into Mr. Creuzbar's ear. Then Mr.

Creuzbar would communicate the message to Mr. Metz and return to Mr. Coler with the reply. One of the most important matters on the calendar was the petition of the Crescent Athletic Club to close Narrows avenue between Eighty-third and Eighty-Afth streets. The street, which runs through the club's field, has never been physically opened, although.

it is laid out in the map. It was explained that the street was originally ceded to the city by the club when new sewers were installed above the property of the club, with the understanding that the title was to be returned to the name of the club later on. It was discovered that some provision in the charter prevented the Board of Estimate from taking this action and the only recourse left open to the club was to make formal application for the closing of the street which would take it from the map. Charles W. Church and C.

P. Williamson representing property owners in the neighborhood opposed the application. Church claimed that the closing of Narrows avenue would leave the property be represented between Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth streets in a blind alley. Mr. Williamson argued that inasmuch as the property owners had been forced to pay an assessment the street should remain on the map.

The club, he declared had been a blight upon the neighborhood for years and that the committee should take action which would benefit the people large. Controller Metz suggested as a compromise that action to open the street be deferred as long as the club used it as part of its grounds. W. B. Ford, counsel to the club and a former president raised a vigorous oblection to this.

He said that the club was entitled to the return of its property and he asked the committee to report in favor of the petition. "Any action to the contrary." said Mr. Ford, "will drive the Crescent Club out of Brooklyn. The land will be cut up into building. lots and the very people who are protesting to-day will find their property depreciating in value." President Coler and Mr.

Metz were in favor of closing the street. President McGowan, however, had not made up his mind. He asked that action be deferred. In the meantme he will make an inspection of the premises. Action was also deferred on the application of property owners to open Belmont avenue from Snediker avenue to Powell street.

The object of the application is to open the streets through the tracks of the Long Island Railroad at Vesta avenue. The company has built a freight house in the middle of the road against which Belmont avenue abruptly ends at the present time. Adolph Kiendl and Alexander S. Drescher of the Brownsville Board of Trade appeared in favor of the application. They made arguments and while the committee was favorably impressed, President McGowan asked that no action be taken for the present until he has had an opportunity to look over the ground personally.

The committee will make a report disapproving the following proposed improvements, included among which is the proposition to establish a public playground to be known a3 Heights Park. Laying out an extension to' Williamsburg Park; laying out a park at Cropsey avenue and De Bruyn's Lane: laying out a public park at Flatbush avenue, Washington avenue and Malbone street: laying out a public park between Fourth and Fifth avenues and Third to Fifth streets: public park at Joralemon. Furman and Remsen streets: laying out Grace Court from the present terminus to Furman street. The limited borrowing capacity of the city made the disapproval of these improvements necessary. committee will approve the pronosition to widen Foster avenue 68 feet from Coney Island avenue to Gravesend avenue.

TROLLEY FRANCHISE GRANTED Amityville Trustees and Huntington and Babylon Railroad Company Come to Terms. (Special to the Eagle.) Amityville, L. June 11--The village board, at an adjourned session last night, by a vote granted the Huntington Railroad Company a unanimous, franchise to build and maintain an electrie road on certain village streets. The franchise runs for fifty years and can be renewed for twenty-five years longer under certain restrictions and conditions. The company is required 10 build within two years, 10 commence within thirty days.

The fare PO throughout the village shall be only 5 cents, and the company is required to give and receive transfers. After twenty-two years the company pays $100 per annum to the village urer and an increase of $50 each year until the amount reaches $500. SAYS DRIVER BLOCKED CARS. Persistently Annoyed the Motormen on Flushing Avenue Line. There was a block on the Flushing aveQue line of cars this morning during the rush hours, which led to the arrest of Louis Engel, 20 years old, of 114 Sands street, a driver of a dirt cart, by Omeer Philip Carroll of the Flushing avenue precinct.

According to a statement made by Thomas Addeo, motorman of car 3,013, the defendant got in front of his car. and has been doing so at intervals for the past four months. Engel was charged with assault when taken 10-dnv before Magistrate Naumer in the Myrtle avenue court. He pleaded not guilty and was paroled until Friday morning. CIGARETTE ON AN AWNING.

Some one threw a lighted cigarette shortly before 11 o'clock last night on the awning in front of the grocery store at 386 Fifth avenue, occupied by Samuel Holtshlag. The fire department was called out to extinguish the blaze. About $25 damage was done. SECOND DIS DEBAR, LAWYER CALLS MEDIUM The Pepper- Vanderbilt Affair May Result In Sensational Disclosures. WOMAN'S RECORD TO FIGURE.

From Obscure Poverty, She Made Her Way to Wealth and Notoriety. Mary Ann -Vanderbilt's notorious career before she came to Brooklyn to be head of the Spiritualists' church is expected to figure largely in the court proceedings brought by the daughter and other relatives of Edward Ward Vanderbilt, to save the Vanderbilt estate from the hands of the Spiritualistic "Bishop." "This is another Dis DeBarr case," Max Arnstein to-day. said, Arnstein, who is a lawyer at 320 Broadway, is representing the relatives of Mr. Vanderbilt in an action to procure a commission in lunacy for the old man who took the advice of May S. Pepper's spirit guide, Little Bright Eeyes, and made the Pepper woman Mre.

Vanderbilt. The Pepper woman's relations with Mr. Vanderbilt himself will play a big part in the court proceedings. There will be a great deal of testimony concerning the long visits the spirit medium made to the country homes of Mr. Vanderbilt.

Mr. Arnstein that the case is simply another Ann Odelia Diss thinks, De Bar, the infamous spirit medium who swindled Luther R. Marsh, an aged millionaire, out of a fortune and made his distinguished name the laughing stock of New York. There is much that is similar in the careers of the two women, though it must be said in justice to the notorious Diss De Bar that she used more cultivated methods. She had a better beginning.

She was the daughter of a Kentucky school teacher, while Mary Ann Scannel's father was only a New England broom maker. The court proceedings may lead May Pepper back along the path she traveled to fortune-a path well strewn with battered human wrecks and ruined homes. If the Pepper woman opposes the proceedings very strenuously. there is little doubt that the Vanderbilts will bring up her past to support their claim that she is a dangerous character and that she has misled other men and wrecked other homes before she came to Brooklyn. The Dublin Ghost May Be Raised Again, sell proposing marriage.

"Little Bright Eyes" a Later Acquisition. The famous Dublin ghost that played Cupid to Mary Ann' in the old days back in Providence is to be dragged out to show that "Little Bright Eyes" is not the only spirit that ever exerted the influence -of spirit land to get Mary Ann married off. The Dublin ghost was a poor matchmaker, though he did his best. He was the spirit that ousted the Shanghai rooster's crowful spirit from the job of spirit control for Mary Ann. The Arst match-making spirit in the career of Mary Ann was the Dublin ghost.

He was the spiritual manifestation of a dead Irishman. The ghost had wandered all the way from a quiet Dublin graveyard to find a spirit en rapport. Mary Ann, scouring the pans at the Kenyon dalry, was en rapport. So the rooster had to get out and let the ghost take his job. The ghostly old gentleman tried to marry Mary Ann to a handsome young Irishman, the nephew of Father Finnegan, a Catholic priest in Providence, The ghost kept telling Mary Ann that certain spirits wanted her to marry Father Finnegan's handsome nephew.

The nephew got the messages all right, but he WAS a dreadfully material young man, with veins full of red blood and no immediate interest in the spirit world. He harkened not to the advice of the spooky gentleman from Dublin. In those days Mary Ann was deeply interested in marriage. The good Mrs. Kenyon says that her servant--now Mrs.

Vanderbilt--used to write letters to her- That was in the days before "Little Bright Eyes." Mary Ann got disgusted with the Dublin spook -maybe because he fell down on the romance with Father Finnegan's nephew--and began to look about for another spirit en rapport. It seems that Ghostland had plenty of spiritual affinities for the buxom Mary Ann, but. she didn't have any real success with any of them until "Little Bright Eyes" happened along. "Little Bright Eyes" is the spirit of some Indian maid that used to live up around Newburyport, or New Bedford. Mary Ann hired "Little Bright Eyes" as a spirit control while she was up in that neighborhood, presumably while she was living at New Bedford with George William Pepper, after some itinerant ghost had persuaded Pepper to leave his wife and children in Taunton and devote his salary of $40 a week to Mary a Ann Scannell.

There is one period in the life of Mary Ann that will be investigated by Mr. Arnstein. That period covers a part of 1888. It was when Mary Ann paid her first visit to Brooklyn. She didn't come down as a spirit medium to be head of a church and have Judge Dailey and Dr.

Funk as pillars in the same, but George W. Pepper says she came here and lived with him -lived with him as his wife, although she WAS not his legal wife and never was his legal wife. The Spirit Always Had an Eye to the Medium's Material Welfare. Mary Ann's activities in breaking up the Brow family and her use of spirits in other affairs may be a part of the evidence to show how she and her spirit controls were prone to secure influence over men and lead them to do things against which their better natures re' belled. As for the spirit infuence which was brought to bear on the wealthy old Mr.

Vanderbilt. it 123 nothing new. If "Little Bright Eyes" wrote to Mr. Vanderbilt and used violet ink with a very definite and worldly chemical compostLion, and asked him to send cheeks for big amounts to May S. Pepper.

it was lust in line with the thoughtfulness of Mary Ann's spirit friends of thirty years ago. Somehow or other. Mary Ann always had a kind and thoughtful spirit guide, ever watchful for the comfort and material welfare of Mary Ann. One time Mary Ann wanted a nice white dress that belonged to her friend. Mra.

Sawyer. The dress wag a present from Mrs. William Tinkman, a believer in spiritualism, who had just "passed beyond." One day Mary Ann was giving a sitting at Mrs. Sawver house and she reported that Mrs. Tinkham's spirit had just appeared to her.

"She wants you to give me that white dress she gave you." are the words allered to have been used by Mary Ann." Mrs. Sawyer wanted to keep the dress. but of course she didn't want to offend the spirit of her dead friend, and there is little doubt that Mary Ann would have rot the dress if Mrs. J. P.

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has not worried over white dresses, for she has had plenty of the wherewithal with which to buy. Mrs. Pepper-Vanderbilt Prospered in Brooklyn. Houses, splendid mansions on St. Marks place, have been more in the mind's of the spirit medium.

Miss Minerva Vanderbilt claims that "Little Bright Eyes." or some spirit, persuaded her father to buy the fine house at 587 St. Marks avenue, and give it to Mary She says she saw the papers and that she knows her father paid for the house. All the evidence concerning the "bishop" will not be offered on Thursday when the application for a lunacy commission will come up before Justice Maddox. Some of "Little Bright Eyes" leters will be offered in case they are needed, but the Vanderbilt relatives are hopeful getting a commission without going into all the details of the case. Mr.

Vanderbilt is said 'Pop perfectly normal mentally, except his belief in astrology, spiritualism and a few other things of metaphysical character. The feature of the spiritualistic campaign to W00 Mr. Vanderbilt that his relatives most resent was the use of letters purporting to be from the spirit of his wife. who had been dead only a short time. hunting high and low for the young salesman, but so far without results.

They learned that he had been in Columbus, 0., on May 14, and in Toledo on the following day. But there the trail stopped short. When last seen he wore a blue suit. a light overcoat and a black derby hat. He left the hotel in Toledo, saying that he intended going next to Detroit, but whether or not he ever boarded a train for that city the police have been unable to ascertain.

Isaac Schiff, when seen at his place of business in Manhattan this morning, was very reluctant to discuss his nephew's disappearance in detail. He said "he something on his stomach which made it exceedingly hard for him to be even civil to reporters." Finally, was prevailed upon to make a ment, which was as follows: "It is impossible for me to give any satisfactory explanation of the strange disappearance of my nephew. He has never disappeared In the past and there is absolutely no reason why he should have done so on this occasion. He had not been ill; in fact, he was in the best of health when he left this city. So far as I know, he had no worry of any kind.

"He appears to have attended to his business regularly until May 15, when all trace of him was lost. We have had both police and private detectives scouring the country for him, but thus far no clues to his whereabouts has been discovered. "I am confident, however. that nothing serious has happened to him. You can depend on it that he has done nothing to harm himself, and any suggestion of foul play is absurd, because he had only $150 with him when he started West.

No; it's simply one of those remarkable cases of strange disappearances which are never explained until the person who has vanished reappears, and I am certain that my nephew will reapper before SO very long." OBITUARY. Cornelius J. Holmquest. Cornelius J. Holmquest, a native of this borough and for 40 years in the employ of the Knickerbocker Ice Company, died Saturday at his home, 455 Chestnut street.

He was born in the Fifth Ward, January 6. 1847. He was for 21 years a member of Company of the Forty-seventh Regiment N. G. N.

and for nearly a decade was a trustee of the Volunteer Fire Department of the Eastern District. He was a member of Hose Company No. 8. active in Republican politics and 35 years ago was constable of the Fifteenth Ward. He was one 'of those who organized the Knickerbocker' Mutual Aid Association and a member of the America Council of the Order of United American Mechanics.

He leaves a widow, gusta, a son, Joseph two daughters and eight grandchildren. OBITUARY NOTES. James Cadden of 222 North Sixth street died yesterday at his home of injurles resulting from a fall there Saturday. He was born in Ireland and had lived in the Fourteenth Ward since 1878. He leaves two daughters, two sisters and a brother, John J.

Joseph Lang. for the past six years proprietor of a restaurant at 1041 Gates avenue, died at the German Hospital Friday, after an illness of four months. He had always lived In the Twenty-eighth Ward and was a member of the Independent Order of Oddfellows. He leaves a widow and three children. Sister Octave de la Nativite.

a former member of the Parish of St. Anthony, and active In the Sodality and Sunday school work of the church, died at Preston, England, May 27. of consumption. Her religious profession began in France ten years ago. and she was in mission work in England when she died.

Tillie Elderd Hickling, wife of C. W. Hickling and daughter of the late Captain Lewis P. Cook, died in the Bushwick Hospital Sunday. She wag born in Newcastle.

and leaves her husband, mother and two Walter Williams of Washington, D. and Mrs. Elizabeth Lilly of Pittsburg. Pa. The funeral services will take place to-night at the home of her uncle, Dr.

Charles H. Hubbard. 191 Sixth avenue. The Rev. Dr.

James M. Farrar will officiate. Victoria Maria Hayes. widow of Henry Edgar Bird. who was born on Brooklyn Heights seventy-two years ago, her parents being James Hayes and Maria Tuthill, died Sunday at the residence of her daughter, 274 Macon street.

She married twice. her first husband having been Nicholas Price. She attended the Fleet Street M. E. Church.

She 18 survived by two sons -Van Dyke Price and Henry Agnes L. Edgar "Price Bird--and two daughters Miss and Mrs. Gertrude B. Smithwick. MAN AND WIFE ARRESTED.

Henry Endies, 23, and his wife, Rosie, 16, who until a few days ago was Rosie Fichtelberg, who were arrested in a furnished room at 29 Stuyvesant street, Manhattan, last night, by Detectives Galigan and Tucker of the Fifth street station, were arraigued in Yorkville court this morning, the husband charged with felonious assault and attempted assassination, and the ife with being a fugitive from justice. Both were held, and, not having bail, went below. The attempted assassination was upon James Grossman, a furrier of 1346 Hancock street, the charge being that Endies was jealous of the attentions of Grossman to his wife, and plotted to kill his rival. Detective Galligan told Magistrate Cornell that on May 20 the young wife, then unmarried, was committed to the Magdalen Home, on complaint of her parents, living at 65 Willett street, charging incorrigibility. Endies was at the same time arrested for assault on the girl and placed on probation.

Three days later the girl feigned illness, it was said, and gained admission to the Washington Heights Hospital. Her deception was not it was forg en to make known that Rosie was a prisoner. One night she walked out, and the police have since been looking for her. The detectives learned of her presence in the Stuyvesant street house yesterday, and found the two living as man and wife. They remembered that Endies was also wanted for assault.

The detectives told the court that on May 16 Rosie and James Grossman were out walking on Grand street, strolling toward the East River. At Tompkins and East streets three tshots were fired at Gressman, neither, luckily, taking effect. Endies was charged with being a party to the attempted assassination. He escaped. The detective said Endies had become jealous of Grossman and ploted to kill him, and that Rosie knew about it when she went to walk with the man.

UNFORTUNATE CHILDREN. Parents Arrested for Habitual Drunkenness and Held for Trial. Lester O'Conner, 12 years old, and his brother, Charles, 2 years old, were taken to the Children's Court by Officer Coschina of the S. P. C.

who accused John O'Conner. the father, and Mary, the mother, of being habitual drunkards. They live at 4 Temple Court, Windsor Terrace, and neighbors complained of them. Then Officer Coschina investigated and informed Judge Keady to-day that the charges were true. Court Officer Dorsey said he went to the house at 8 o'clock last night and found both parents drunk and when the warrant for their arrest was read to them the father made a break for the door.

He ran three blocks before Dorsey caught him. Magistrate Tighe, this morning, held both parents for the Special Sessions for endangering the morals of their children, who are in charge of the S. P. C. C.

SOLD HIRED HORSE CHEAP. McFarland Accused of Theft, and Pleaded Not Guilty. Samuel McFarland of Pacific street. was arraigned before Magistrate Dooley in the Adams this morning, charged with court, a horse and street, harness, worth $125 from Edward Burton Madison street. The arrest was made by Detective Quigley of the headquarters staff, who had been looking for McFarland for some time.

The prisoner, it is alleged, hired the horse from Mr. Burton on June 5, and sold it for $20 ito a man at Myrtle and Cypress avenues, on the 8th. The accused, who is 19 years old, pleaded not guilty and was held to answer. HEARD FROM THE LINCOLN. The New York office of the HamburgAmerican Line received the following wireless message this morning from the captain o' the line's new steamship The President Lincoln, which is making its maiden voyage across the Atlantic: "580 miles off Sandy Hook.

Expect to arrive early Thursday morning." STONE THROWER'S VICTIM. While eight-year-old Joseph Byers of 934 Fourth avenue was watching the Hagenbeck and Wallace circus at Fourth avenue and Third street, about 5 o'clock yesterda afternoon, he was struck 011 the head by a sharp stone thrown by some unknown person and received a painful lacerated wound of the scalp. Ambulance Surgeon Kandt of the Seney dospital attended him. AUCTION SALES YESTERDAY. By William H.

Smith, at County Court House. Bedford avenue, northeast side, 40.6 south Hayward street, 20x85; Henry F. Bertram, agent for Henry S. Levy and others: Charles L. Lyon, attorney.

99 Broadway; Joseph P. Crowley, referce. Adjourned to June 14. AUCTION SALES TO-DAY. By William H.

Smith, at Real Estate Exchange. Court Square, cast side, 48.4 north Livingston street, runs north 20 east 45 to Red Hook lane southeast 21.2 west 38.1 to beginning. Sold to Thomas R. Farrell for $19,900. Albermarle road, south side, 55 feet east Ocean avenue, 50x150.

Sold to James J. Megarr for $10.600. Schermerhorn street, south side, 23 feet west Hoyt street, 14x100; Josephine M. Higginbotham against Mary E. Peacock and others: Francis B.

Mullin, attorney, 14 Court street; Robert H. Wilson referee: partition. Sold to G. A. Frietsche for $6.050.

AUCTION SALES TO- MORROW. By James L. Brumley, at Real Estate Exchange. Evergreen avenue, Nos. 140 and 142, northwest corner Jefferson street, 54.9x 84.1x50x106.

Central avenue. No. 350, southwest side, 75 feet northwest Grove street. 25x75. Jefferson street, No.

356, southeast side, 200 feet southwest Knickerbocker avenue, 25x100. Evergreen avenue, No. 141, northeast corner Troutman street, 25x100. Ida Leidenthal and others against Mary Leidenthal and others; Redding, Kiddle Greeley, attorneys, 38 Park row, Manhattan; Harry R. Lydecker, referee; partition.

Atlantic avenue, northeast corner Rockaway avenue, 98x67. George Wiener against Pauline Ratner and others; George Tonkonogy, attorney, 1765 Pitkin avenue; Michael Furst, reteree. By William H. Smith, at Real Estate Exchange. Adams street.

east side. 100.9 north Prospect street, runs east 51 south .09 east 41.6 north 49 west 100.6 south 48.3 to beginning. Sarah Johnston. executrix, against Charles W. Brady and others; Charles W.

Church, Jr. attorney, 26 Court street: George Brush, referee. By William P. Rae, at Real Estate Exchange. Bleecker street.

west side. 225 feet north Evergreen avenue, 25x100. William Moitrier, executor, against Ann Cassidy and others: Man Buxbaum, attorneyn, 886 Broadway; Samuel T. Maddox, Jr, referee..