The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1895, Page 8

DOCK BOARD Commissioners of Accounts Investigating Deposed Tam- many Officials SCANDAL AT THE START. Contractor Mahon Said to Have Paid $250 for a Dumping Permit. WHITE AND CRAM MENTIONED. Cinncimine Says He Was Refused a Permit Until Mahon toug! One for Him, Beth 8. Terry and Rodney 8. Danis, Commissioners of Accounts, began this afternoon in room 125, Stewart Muild+ ing, their first public investigation u der the law passed by last Winter's Legislature appropriating $100,000 for the use of the city's regulariy author- ized Investigating Committe: In th work of showing up the alleged ras- calities in the conduct of the business of several municipal departments der the late Tammany administration The Commissioners began with the Dock Department as conducted by Pres- {dent James J. Phelan and Commission- ers J. Sergeant Cram aud Andrew J. White, removed by Mayor Strong under the act which gave him the power of Femoval without any assigned reason. Commissioner Terry said four wit- Nesses had been eummoned, hut he de clined to give their names in advance or an outline of what he expected to} Prove, though coming just at this time, | when an election !s approaching, jt was “guessed” on every side that the Re-| form Commissioners had something up| their sleeve that would cause much dis- tress to Tammany. No counsel appeared for the Coimmis- sicners, Commissioner Terry, who is a lawyer, assuming the responsibility of the legal conduct of the Investigation, Adams, Curtis & Morrison furnished the Btenographers for the Commissioners The room where the investigation is held is on the third floor of the budding once the home of A. T, Stewart's dry- goods ostablirhment. It fronts on Broad way, just north of the corner of Cham- Ders street, and on the same line with the offices of the Commissioners of Ac- counts. It is thirty feet wide by seventy- five feet deep, and in it are arranged cane seat chairs as if for a prayer-meet- ing. ‘These chairs were vacant, although there was a reallly refreshing breeze through the rocm from the Broadway windows, The audience consisted of twenty newspaper reporters. It was 2.90 o'clock when Menara, Terry and Dennis emerged from a xecret com fab in their office and opened the in- vestigation, Commissioner Terry as chairman and, interrogator, Delos McCurdy, a well-known Tam- many lawyer, had entered the court- room when Commissioner Terry calle Bernard Mahon, contractor, of 106 Ful- ton street, oa the first witness. Then Mr. Terry said. “Mr, McCurdy, you may o tnd sit closer if you wish The lawyer stepped forward, thanking the Commissioner, and saying that he came as the representative of James J. Phelan, and he asked if he might be Permitted to cross-examine witnesses Af he desired In the interest of his citer He was told that the Commissioners intended to conduct the investigation un- me forward UNDER FIRE, Mahon and th “TE gu oo THE WORLD: MONDAY WAS HER BABY TROUBLE FOR D. A. 49. MURDERED? apeaded from the K, a kept that letter addressed to me by the Dock Board. So T paid it Ciancimino identified a note fro hon, making an appointment, a {yritten In connection with this) transac: | on On * Indorsing De Leon, There ts trouble in’ the Urder of the Knighis of Lator, growing out of the on and a delega- tion of radical Socialists by District As: mbly No. 49 to the Convention of the Assembiy, which meets in vember thir action DA Aw 1% 18M, the permit was re- | voked. * ! Clanciming guys he appealed to » latter. sails 2 n you were Tl see to ft. the Mr took itice sent on Bept iattlatng ef avaueeteameteg | MtS. Schwicardi's Infant and Her 15-Year-0id Nurse i ssion ‘ reopen the dump board on Then on Sept, 0 T got another, Immediately, might reopen it Pht tte Bereenae? «Girl Missing he imitans ule me Commisstone | 8 OB Metguir and Hf fie So sow AN ALL WIGHT SEARCH MDE, qi is tid He Wan kolnK to Investigate | mbly, of whieh De Leon isa me De 7 oF got a letter ' a ar | Was attached to the Central 1 ut [Chelan asking me to call at th . . teh da (eration: and thia latter aranization i ent nad refused to Indorwe the boyeott of the Boer iat that. te haa ever{ Relatives and Neighbors with | yifetuerd (9 indorme tne howeort of the borrowed 8204 ¢ any sum of honey pool, Hei Shy ANS Blam ot money Lanterns Prowl Through aihit ean wan sesvod with a notice, to 0 vee td ance, Dietrte A nn N 4 has ALTRI EINER an ceytitas the Woods, jinreen Tie foe ne ton and aunore 158 Terren Smith tet meeting of No 4 lett yeat They ‘ancrnien A GENERAL POLICE ALARM, |i ppcur in 1a te AEN nt to me hin wlreut gh ath ger ry Miremen se booal As@emb! MA last x it tn bills aad thew A ol nae te t \y t ag ay A edule na heck, which you have |The Diet her Detleves the | bien whore delegates had refused to ine \ ie ald: sanon| Hoth yarctary Ke {iat body, sald mad fold Nimoy was a har. ‘then Ts tovlay that Uy Aiiete had made a i! Mi the, whe ge _ = Bross misstatement of the matte Mr i rocger sald his organ'z tanked Ail the reasoning in the woslf does not (ps Central Laho era ndorse . Fem auiicient to convince Mra, Schwi- | YI bower eaten Labor Te ardl, who lives with her hushand, | Union and District Assembt te sald We new ‘ot at a 1 ie ens teary: Non 8 | Asse nly here! Mr. Witte It itenry, and six children th the three. | ing alr wily “ vw sa AML the Cimino said he teld Com: that her sixteen-months old daugater d to vote for Mr. that Mahon had said has not been murdered, and that. the Intorse the boy edoand that White indig urderess # none other than the child's a Ruta a aeyear-old nurse, Gertie Brand. 1 also Story identified the Photogr AN ett ceed Re Hoth child: and/nurde have been, mias-| Bohm, ont one deposited by Mahon in his bank |ing since | o'clock yesterday afternoon, | S4Y!Ne the July fe | against indorsing | ‘At this point the hearing was ag-|, THE Podlce were notited of the mya-| Mr.” Krocger terious d.sappearance at 9 o'clock last| Friday again offending Journed to Wednesday afternoon, GEN. CUSTER’S $1,500 CHECK. CIVIL-SERVICE CONSULS. from Police Headquarters this morning, | {n Washington, but up to 3 o'clock this w tidings bad been recelved. The Union avenue whe the Sehwicardis live 1s within a stone's ernoon no AM Vacancies to He Filled by Pro- house in Drawn WASHINGTON, Sept ~The Presl- throw of Oak Point n His Favor the Day of the dent, by an executive order issued to-] it is a wild streteh of ecuntry all Massacre and Never Cashed. day, but dated Sept. 20, has extended the|around there, Houses are few and far BISMARCK, N. D., Sept. 23.—The clvil-service system, in a modified form | between, nor are all the streets cut] tragic death of Gen. Custer and his to al consular officers whose compen- | through, There are many woods in the | gallant men at the hands of the Sioux sation directly and through fees range | section, lots of rock and—the river [Indians in the mass. of the Little from $1,000 to $2,600 Probably fifty people were up all] Big Horn was recalled hore this weele This will Include aboutone-halt of the! night searching by the ald of lanterns | by the forwerding to Mra, Custer of total numb f consuls who receive |in every rocky crovice, wood or glen for | check for $1,500, drawn to the order more than $1. 0. The change has been ion, George A, Custer in 1876, the missing pair, a by reviving In mubstance an oll] The father of we tnfant, with his two| The cheek is dated June 2%, and signed of 1873, brothers and brother-in-law, never | by H. L. Smith, at that time Assistant Vacancles in the service will be filed | stopped his lab until f 1 oto He! Payma fi the Army. It was on hereafter by transfer or promotion, by | down from sheer exhaustion at noon to. | June that the massacre took Appointment of qualitied persons former- | 4) ¥ employ. e e epi r) rs check 1s unpaid 1, soled Wait the employ of the State Denart-| The relatives and friends of the Mi- Pee SCHEME Tbs wan clhatoiee reieoted by the President after passing | WeN-Year-old vurse girl were also out, | Aim against the Government for @ Non-competitive examination, as well as dozens of others who live in| the amount r sented upon Its fae z —— the vicinity Which was no dour intended aa part THREW A LIVELY BOMB. The nurse girl had only been known e the check has been ail these to the Sehwicardi family for three | herp eeane panenas It Blew Out the Windows in a 8. Mra, Schwicard!, who ts still | nat Fehruary and wao retained it UnUl . 4 youns woman, gave birth to her sev- | now,” Wh doit up the Justice's House. enth child about that time and she | bit of p: reible as when it was drawn, in it show James Garlo, an Italian, of 21 Crane | wanted # girl to look after the sixteen- | Street, Newark, was locked up this | months-ol pay. a pock 4 morning on the charge of throwing al Gertle Brand was recommended to} It ha Aeatly. been reer bomb in the yard of Justice of the | her, She had been in the employ of Ho- | fomewhere, and the awept Peace Bucwcanco of that city, | The | iceman Ferguson for over a year in| theo it et, Where it Was found by bomb exploded and blew out all the | tne 6 capac t »posed to| Mr, ndows In the house of the Justice. | the #ame capacity and wax supposed to — = ne Justice was in an outhouse and] be a model girl ’ narrowly escaped tO he bomn |The gus father and mother died tong |AT WIND’S AND WAVE’S MERCY jarlo clalins he did not know the bomb | ago and since then. vacene whet ate would explode, and threw It ag a Joke | #80 and slice ther Pe Re Ane se to frighten the Judge. out at service, she Hved with her unek Schooner Vate The police ure inclined to believe the} named Zant, and her aunt on Wale Weeks 1 story told by Garlo, that he threw the] street, leas than a block away bomb in the yard of Justice Bucacane re Span ‘ On board the Columbian line steam- SEF Te, DOE HG ATi cunotten he), Gertie ie Amal) for Ner age and weal sii) Advance, which artlvediat her pler Was sorry, but he didn't mean any harm,| anything but prepossessing in appear- + : ; iat Sona val |this morning from Colon, were Mate He in twenty-one yeutwul age, @ bat-l ance Her body tw bent half wae eeu ber, and he bears an excellent’ reput , : ; Thompson and four eamen of the con- A on account of a stoop and round s demned schooner, Ann Valentine, ‘The sailors tell a story of much sufter- ing and privation, The bomb {« similar ans Is one to that different Kind that killed ten p Ive years ago during by] ders with which she was born, rile had been acting strangely ral days, but nothing was thought for In distress, For five weeks she had been jdrift.ng helplessly In the Carribean Sea, | appeared to deliber- | yureted by wind and waves. Provisions baby In the carriage out on the stre and once or twie ately try to overturn it HOUSE OF NATIONS” GONE. Tenderloin Landmark Falla Before | giory after 1 o'clock, however, the | ror DAE on ena ee . wy ae uy 5 H port both officers and crew were In a sh ba alike girl seemed to regain her usual de-| exhausted comlcon. At Colon the ver sel was col mained there ests of her emned and the captain re look after the Inter- whers, A large botel known ay “The Gotham" | m has been opened by Willlam Armstrong nor. Then she went into the hou and asked Mra. Schwicardi if she might :| ceived at the Asylum. | his story in | night. ever; ER a The Ann EB, Valentine left Mobite, |b: parade and ¢elebra 5 ; waictilerly (catinad toe 4 f Mobile, Gato wil have an eeamination thia| Ct 2 pan particulary moticed PY tumber-laden, for Port Limon, Costa evening before Police Justice Mott. Fome of the neighbors yeaterday that! pica May 18, Juiy 18 sho put Into Colon | she seemed demented. Bhe had the ‘if the cars are run BROOKLYN SHRINKING BLANKETS, |840 “Shipped,” Not 300 Re- WHISKEY THAT DIDN’T REACH, Assembly Inventi Mere Rottenn Charities Department, tors Discover Assemblymen Schulz Cole and Whit- of the Assembly Cities Committee, to-day continued thelr investigation of affaire of the Charities Department under Commissioners lan and Murphy. The Committe arthed a vast deal of rottenness in the Charities Department befure it adjourned for the Summer, The sension in the Cire Hous this morning was held it Court-ro m in the Court- The first wiiness was Hugh Carboy, steward at the Flatbush Asy- lum, Mr. Hirsh first touched on the question of blankets during the regime <f€ Gott, Nolan and Murphy, The witness said that in most in- stan blankets provided wer worthless, He said that after they were washed they could not be used unless several of them were sewed togethe He said that he could not re- member that tn any year more than 300 pairs of blankets had been used, where- as the sturekes ts’ record {n 189 showed that S40 pairs had been delivered to the asylum He could not tell why the blankets re always the last thing receipted for, and then in a different handwriting than that used in receipting for the balance of the goods delivered. Mr Carboy sald that goods had been returned to the storehouse frequently. They consisted of meats and flsh which | were tatnted and unfit for uee. Mr. Carboy said he complained to the Board of Charities, but was informed | that the storekeeper was the sole Judge of goods used at ihe Asylum. Mr. Hi then asked the steward if he ever received any whiskey from the storekeeper, He said “No.” ‘Phat he | got the whiskey that was needed from the doctor, The records show that the asylum re- ceived at one time four barrels of Whiskey from the atorehouse. Mr. Car- boy sald If this was so he knew noth- ing about it, TROLLEY LIGHTS ouT AGAIN. jemint Hake Threatens Arrest of ney Inland Line OMelaln, Adolph V. Hake, a manufacturing chemist, of Vanderbilt street, Windsor Torrace, Brooklyn, said to-day that the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad Company 1s again operating at night without — headlights. Hake called at the Flatbush Uce Court to swear out a war- rant for the arrest of those who are responsible in the matter, but Jus- tice Steers was absent and he was told to return to-morrow morning. Mr Hake had a narrow escape from being killed by one of the unlighted cars & few weeks ago, und invoked the ald of the police, but got no Satisfaction, Then he wrote to Mayor Schicren. Se eral policemen called upon him the same day and assured him the nuisan would be abated. But the cars continued tn operation without headlights, and Mr, Hake. told The Eventig World.” That car was equipped with a headlight, and he has had no cause to complain’ until Saturday night, when several cars rushed by his street corner without lights, One man, who was driving a buggy, just escaped being hit Last’ night the offense was Mr. Hake called the attention of a po- Iceman to the fact that curs were being run without Hghts but he says the officer told him he could not interfere. ithout headlights to-night, Mr. Hake says, he will ask for the arrest of some of the officers of the company or the motormen M’GINNIS FOUND GUILTY. The Ward Leader Assaulted a Man at a Primary, John J. McGinnis, a Republican pol- iticlan, of the Eighth Ward of Brook- lyn, was found guilty in the Butler Street Police Court this afternuon of assaulting Oliver C. Edwar at with the utmost fairness and could not| tn the building which, in the old Ten-|go home for a short time to give her The Ann FE Valentine a centre- constantly be interrupted, but would be/derlotn's palmy days, was known as|aunt al . She had received | board schooner, owned by Stat: pleased to Msten to Mr. McCurdy when| the “House of All Nations. part of h TOP neat eean Rautlny Ment deters necessary. : | rhe opening of & reputable establish: | Mrs, Schwicard! consented, and the | pe 1) in igs She wan afterwards. tet Mahon said he hal known ex-Com-| Tit handmarks of the formene Kote | wirl started off, wheeling the baby car-| bullt’at Quaco, Ny Missioner Cram and White for years. | ous quarter, Since the beginning of the | riage. —— By Commissioner Terry: reform jmunietpal administration the! When helt way over the hill « WHISKEY CAR EXPLODED @ Are you r Me White? AL No si | Tuunted the diatrict have moved away, | When actually within one hundred feet | ae @ Not even by marriage? A. No, sir. jand its former doubtful glories have} of her wunts cottage, the xirl stopped | Conductor and Mrakeman Badly @ Then any statement which you may have) one by one departed, and looked back. Mra. Schwicard! and | 1 made to others on that point is fa A 1} A new branch poul-ofice ia being bullt| ® Couple Of frends Were looking) out oF)| : " D seme Goa't know what you sean. 1 never made any | Heatly opposite on the same blocks When Gertle saw them she took up) MRORIA, Til, Sept. 2 The Big Four Matement. the child's hand and waved tt towards | whiskey train to the East met with a Commissioner Terry asked a lot of Questions about Maton’s dealing’s with man named Clancimino, who dealt in sand used on ships, and produced a pho- tograph of a check drawn by Peter ancimino to the order of Bernard Ma- hon, July 21, 1894, for $25. identified the check and the h of his own signature tn | lorsemen:. ‘Then he denied that when, in June, iki, Mr. Ciancimino told him the Dock Board had refused him a per- Mit to erecta dumping board the ast River buikhead, between Thirty- third and Thirty-fourth streets, he (Ma-| hon) had replie “You didn't go about tt right. People| Mhave got to be fixe!, 1 wil get it for you. Then Mr. Terry dem thar $25) check was Hot f led to know if to him by: Cianciming on his representation thi With $2 he could get the Dock Com- Missioners to rant the permit. Malion denied it, sayin: fee, Saxe prior to the ute ned $20 in cash to Clan were three witnesses pres: ‘as male Clancimino, who lives a raw street, Brooklyn, succeedel on as a withers He said he had been engage! in artation and towing for sears, i Ish je Vepresented the corporation of Chir ming & Lane, whien, it trans Was not properly !neorporated Then he identitied a letter in a Dook as one from Seeretary Docharty of the Dock De meat, nOlfy.ng him Phat his application for’ a, permit been rejected by the Board tn Jun “A day or two later 1 learned they wanted dirt up at Washington Bridge. 1 was taking dirt from West Eighty-second street out to sea, I Wouldn't pay us to haul It away around that he had, a 280 De Ma that uw. East River to Harlem Kiver t told Bernard Mahon so. Then he said “Why, Peter, you're not up to date i¢ you'd put up the stuff to White and ram you'd get that permit a.l reht enough. ‘Then 1 seid I wouldn't pay anytiing Then he asked for the letter, and he'd fix for me, adding, ‘Y course, will settie whatever It costs. "That's funny that they should Y He sald that was all right e said it cost $250, and he asked me for sum. 1 demurred a little, and he * “Ain't you going to make good r I've given the money up? I hai 2 pay that to them two peopte,’ point x to the ignatures of Commissioners bi mt trying to get out of pay- Then fir me @ permit without my asking for | ite on the permit. it after & week or so he came Stow, look here, if you don't ey that—you've got to pay IK!" die hud its mother, ‘Then she started on agal Mra Sehwicard! had a number. of fv cide visit.ng her yesterday afternoon, serlous accident Saturday night, east of Le When @ car of spir.ts couple ANOTHER SKYSCRAPER, Fo to Go Up atl and in atiending fo them she forgot) behind the caboose was discovered to b fth Street, | about the baby.” When 5 o'clock came) on fire, and a fast run was made to the cine [ane Bre™ tarmed, and sent over to | ext water tank, where Conductor Joe 1s have been filed in the Butiting |Gerte'’s aunts hotise, ‘There sne was ‘ : | ent for a foun: story brick | told that neither nurse nor child had Murphy and Brakeman John Muldoon store and lofty on the southwest corner | been seen during the day From tiat | made an effort to extinguish the tlames, | of Br . pT Peete ty | Mument the seareh began Suddenly there was a territic explos on, | of Browiway and Twelfth street, to rie was well known tn the neigh- i i hy cont Me.00, jPerhood, ax she had lived there during and the car wae b own 18, atome, it be:| The eof t te of Wil s last eight years, yet no one had teen ing impossible afterwards to find @ stick The, Cxecutors of the eof Wille} her tint, ut S o'clock last night, two oftimber six inches long el NSEOND USO R DROS: little boys who lived in the vicinity sad "The men were hured’ some. distanc * they thought they had seen both the from the wreck, both being terribly Young Roller-Skater Rum Down, | \\irse and the child at Oak E burned. | Muidoon was the more sertous- Malachy Ponrelty driver of a cross-toan | Kave the addlth ly injured, and there is small hope of his ells ; Were with the x eontern raat lady IE aN Were nol sure whether or not — = for Waving Fun over eleven-yoar-old thy in cheree AUee Ot ey untae aauRie: JeRiHitay Mholive have investigated, CORRUPT ELEMENT AIDED. Heyer Aiea aiemey Bty Mt story, but ¢ verity 1 one who had seen the | vie, Ottendorfer's Views on the Ene Magistrate Dwuel od he Nearing. W thinks the heat of forcement of Exelne Laws, Ba Eee ea tae) ay may have unacttled the girl's! BERLIN, Sept. 2—Oswald (ttendor- 1 tbl) Burned by Nave killed both the chad and fer, proprietor ef the New York Staats- NOG thc ‘i Zeitung, will sail for home on ‘Thursday Se aan ' 1 Tite ot hot cnee Hage on the steamer Normannia. Mr. Otten- Neiapriie wens a tac tac sith heat, been torfer f# much improved in health by F sare ate sly Gee wacnirea me friendly, Rouse for hie visit to Germany thea feeds. Wurnice him ein gel be Meant of in ry an interview he expressed — the Michael's Hospita toni ara VWohas done Mite « pinicn that what he denominated as ‘ = | eH Her husband ts the extreme views of Police Commis- (Pell from a Root While Sky lorktag ise sirl are ailag Soner Roosevelt on the cxeise question SeRilh GROLEGAIA Ge Ra he aR baie Of Rome possibie Were giving offense to a large percent reek Lust might Simon Marriiexttch, twenty | vy, Me Of the good citizens of New York searaiold, aliennisal is 4 wn xo VRas nO Opn on Saxe tn He thinks their enforcement by t ‘ ye being seen at Oak Point with two 4 Police Department is making sible ite It tw te i and wil pr —e the return to power of the « bly dle, | y ment in municipal affairs at the next — — | A MOTHER'S NEGLECT, fr". Steamboat Litde Silver Agroand, | The steemboat Littie Silver runang etwoen | Minted at by the Doctor and Baby je Menten, w York. Seabright, Lang Uranch and Pleasure | on PARIB, P BF gabled from this city to the United States « be er down tr ning wont ashore! stargaret: Ma hs oi, & nae 1 West Twenty-aixth strc Friday, ‘ Hf iaavh ne Renan Hata hee Dr, A, Reteh, of 213 West Twenty-taind [Abie Is UNINE Is unttue te Sah dhs | Fell from a Lad fe SKUM | troot, attributed death to gastro-entér..CVeh In very Spots Lay api | paralysis of his legs, from which he has William Monohen, twenty-seven yeare old, a) tis, but added in his certifleate that the | Paralysis Gaon Timor te AISRLie ne laborer, of $00 art Une Hundred and Thirty: | cid had been negiected by ite mother. ered for some time, is steadily | with pireet, while werk on the pew pier 18] ‘The Hoard of Health refused to av. | creasing. North itiver. this morning, foil from @ ladder jceps this vertiticite, and referred it to]. ' fand fractured Wiel ite was feunvel the | the Coroners oitice for investigation, | Petive for Toronto's Rowing Crew, Hudson Street Hosptial | — | LONDON, Sept, 2.—An Numinated ad- =e Rescued fro e River, dress, signed by the leading amateur Pell Down Sinira, Beeke Bie QAM: | oe isan chest fapvstre cain aa.| SAKSINON, Je WOKE Lrahared fo eond. th Janes Jennings Afty-eleht veers old, was te | was rescued fim drowuing In the Haxt River, at} the Toronto c which competed at moved to Hudson Sireet Hospital trom his home, | "Aner uel f ux, by Prank Finne-| Henley last June. It expresses admira- #2 Catharine street, early thi morning, sultering | The man wast from a fractured skull. My had fallen dowa He wore a BrowM 4ack ight 9f claire, ness of the visitor election of ward delegates in the| ‘Twentieth District of the Highth Ward on June 3, | McGinnis protested — against Ed- wards's motion for adjournment, A | vrangle followed, during which, it is alle MeGinniss struck Edwards the had brought in. the noon MeGinniss was | 0, when Judge Tighe | wil impose sentene BOUNDARIES FIXED BY WRIT, Aldermen and Supervisors Define Two embly District A jo.nt meeting of the Boards of Al-| dermen and Supervisors was held in| Brooklyn this afternoon by direction of | a writ of mandamus, issued by Justice | Cullen a few days ago. The writ calied for the Boards to make definite and cer- tain the boundary line between the Thir. teenth and Fourteenth Assembly Dis- tricts of the Seventh Senatorial District, There was a small attendance of Al-| dermen and Supervisors present. Aider- man Clark presided. A resolution was ntroduced setting forth specifically the, bountary lines, and it was adopted. ‘There isn change from that made some weeks ago ——_ 0. P. & N. CO.’S RECEIVER. | Coney 1 ad Steamboat Money. Justice Cullen, of the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, this afternoon appointed Al ban Man receiver for the Occan Plor & » Mr, Man was required aN bond oMpahy oprates steamboats from York to the Old. Iron Pier at m1 Island. Dame * for per- hal Injurtes aggrexating #3 are pending against the pany, Which, it fe claimed, lost money during the season The appite made by © Lost ton for a eral of the PEOPLE CANNOT WALK. Judge FP receiver was rectors. Intimates a Favorable | the Long Trolley Decision, e Nassau Electric and Island Ratiroad Companies, through | the'r attorneys, James C. Chureh and] Wiliam J. Kelly, fought over the Ocean avenue crossing before Justice Pratt in *4| tion for the rowing and for the pluckl-| Supreme Court, Brooklyn, this morning | on an order directing the Long Island! 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Pognugite High Tea--You Are Invited, To-day we open our beautiful Tea Pagoda, and for several days we shail hold a CONTINUOUS HIGH TEA—juat 8 our neighbor Proctor holds con:inu- ous performaices at his magnificent . new Pleasure Valace around on 38th has grown to such im-| street. | The Pagoda is built and furnished the Japanese style, and native Japs will brew the Vea and pour tt for our guests Vien so desired they wiil explain and give a practical dom- onstration of the methods whereby the native Jap succeeds in making Tea of such rich and delicious favor, It Will be new, unique, interesting, You will be made cordially welcome, Great Clock Sale, Ansonia Clock Com- pany’s entire stock of these nfghly polished 8-Day Oak Clocks, strik- ing hour and halt hour on cathedral FOUR BIG VALUES Ladies’ Jackets, ALL NEW GOODs. Ladies’ Kersey Jackets, Box Shapes, extreme Sleeves; roguiar value 7.50; SPECIAL, 4.98. . "i gong; height, 2 Ladies’ Worsted Cheviot Jackets, Box inches; list, $6.35, Shapes, Doucet Sleeves; regular value at 9.00; SPECIAL, 5.98. Ladies’ Jackets of Boucle Cheviot, ‘ Ripple Backs, Straight Fronts, extreme Clock--Special, Sleeves; regular value 11. 50; SPECIAL, 7.98. Ladies’ Covert Cloth Jackets (heavy weight), Ripple Backs, Box Fronts; regular value 10,00; SPECIAL, 6.75. 100 DIFFERENT STYLES These 8-Day An- sonla Clocks, strik- ing hour and halt hour on cathedral gong, with French bronze top orna- ment, listed at $12.00, special at 2.98. Imported Porcelain. 1.98, 60) Clocks, import ed Porcelain Cases in Delft and Sevres In Imported and Domestic Capes and Wraps In Velour, Worsteds and Mourn- Ing Effects, ot ae ers, Ansonia moves NEW SILKS ments, at Popular Prices. |pyegient Watch, 2.69. James McCreery & Co., suet Invite you to attend the opening of their NEW ESTABLISHMENT Nos, 64, 66, 68 West 23d St. TUESDAY, SEPT, 24, 1805, Railroad Company to show cause why an Injunction should not issue prevent- ing it {rom interfering with the Nassau Electric Rafiroad Company from cross- ing its tracks. Hor ‘several days there has been trou- ble at the Ocean avenue crossing, On an, Saturday night the Long Island Railroad had @ force of several hun- dred men on the ground and three loco~ motives. The Nassau people managed to get a few of its cars over the cross- ing, vesterday. he cars of this Company have got to cross these tracks, id Judge Pratt, “People can't walk to Coney Island.” Decision reserved, oe Ge Company Left 880,000 to H Widow. The will of Gerd Menges, of Hay Ridge, was fled in Wrooklyn to-day, An valued at $30,000 ie bequeathed to his wido DOE NOUR A MILLION DOLLAR PARK. Pr. Flynn Says Saal ‘» Offer In Double the Site's Value, Lawyers Johnson and Lamb, on behalf of P. H. Flynn, applied to Justice Cle- ment, in City Court, Brooklyn, to-day, to make permanent an injunction re- straining Park Commissioner Frank Squ.er from purchasing certain property n Richmond Hil, Queens County, as & te for a new partic Mr, Squier, it i roposes to pay $1,001,000 for the land.” Blynn claims [ts ‘Worth about one-half that amount TEN-YEAR-OLD PLAINTIFF. said, Frank Fostick Wants 810,000 tor Troilley Injuries, Before Judge Osborne in City Court, Brooklyn, to-day, Frank Fostich, aged ten, was plainuf in a suit aga.nst the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, to recover $100" damages for injuries ‘ree ceived by being Knocked down by ‘a trolley car. The boy ‘vas crossing Fulton etreet on Dee. 16. 1885, when a-car hit him. He recelved injuries, which, he says, are permanent. oo Cutting Thumas T ir for Kunaway Gtr! ye and Ni at 454 Flusaing aveaue, Willlamsn for itiel by Justice Petterson Poller Court th ane lating the Sunday law. The p while Mageie Maloney ant iain, Who TAM Way frum their ago, were having thelr hair cut women were commited to the Good Shepherd. men ‘The tiouse of young tue —— Pet a Bullet im His Br. James Siolkes, ty vears old, of 188 Fitty-ninth sireet, Brookiyn, 0 d suicide this moroing by shooting himself in the left breast. No cause 18 dasigned for the deed. — Lamp Exploded, $500 Damas A lamp exploded im the apartments of Mra Mary Kyan, 240 Siath avenue, Brovkiyn, at 3 o'clock this morning, and set the buliding oa Gre, causing & damage of $500, silverine open face, 0 A high-grade (oF) dust - proof case, stem winder and setter, 7 jewelled Standard American movements, Every Watch jaranteed time- 2.69. ~ Bloomingdale Bros., 3d Ave., 59th & 60th Sts. MALY... Bixth Ave, 1gth to 1th St. Everything Except High Prices. Groceries. Special sale, Monday and Tuesday, choice New Teas, exceptionally fine quality and flavor, this season’s crop, sold WHITE SQUADRON SAILS. Of for Deep Sea Dr: Roads, ST. GEORGE, 8, I, Sept. 23—The white squadron weighed anchor at 1 ja at Hampton o'clock this afternoon and left for 4h Hampton Roads. The ships were the| everywhere at 60 cents: New York, Minneapolis, Columbia, | Raleigh and Montgomery. ‘The flag-| Formosa Ooloug, per 1b.. ship New York, with Admiral Bunce! English Breakfast, per Ib. on board, was the first to leave, and| the Minneapolis and Columbia followed | Young Hyson, per Ib.. wickly. Then the Montgomery and | ji i . leigh got under. way. Mixed (Young Hyson and The squadron is to ga, south to take = esp sea water drills, When che} Oolong), per lb eaceneisih rt in i Rect reaches Hampton Roads it will be Joined by the battleship Texas and the monitor Amphitrite. The fleet will drill until October, when SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEK, the cruiser Maine will join the fleet, BRUSSELS CARPET, 39c, PER YD, The ships have been lying off Tompkins: | TH Nille, St. George and Stapleton for the THE 80 ST. ——_—9 o=——_ . CLEVER SAFE ROBBERY. ‘BAUSIANN’S have placed on exhibition in thelr new building the latest designs from the Furniture Exhibition, In addition to thelr complete line of Furniture, Carpets, Oilcloths, Bedding, repared to furnish your entire house oF flat on their Liberal Credit System, L.Baumann &Co. 1421 & 1423 3d Ave., Between 80th and 81st Sts, An E aabeth Drug Store the Scene of Operation: ELIZABETH, N. J., Sept. 23.—This af- ternoon a well-dressed man entered the drug store of R, B, Hooker & Son, at 103 Broad street, and made several in- auiries. Mr. Hooker, sr., went to the front of the store, | ‘The safe was in the rear behind @ par- | yng tition, and an alley runs back of the store. While the man was engage? in talking to Mr. Hooker another man Went up the alley and gained an en trance to the store. He stole from the safe between $30 and $40. Mr. Hooker notified the police imme- diately, but the thieves got away. THE DUKE SIGHTSEEING. 1} Visit Sagara Canada and Hoxton, | John Dey Jones Dead, eye 4 Rees John Devine Jones, President of the Atlante NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Sept. 2.— 9 gis hone at Massapequa, Queens County, Long * Duke of Marlborough came here Island. at advanred age of eighty-one years, yesterday In the private car of Sir Charies Rivers Wilson, Prosident of the Grand Trunk road, He registered at the hotel as from New York . at 8.45 oc ailin) from the ¥ wok lust evening Mr the ta of the Com Jones had been Je extending y, at 6) Wall ie photel aa, from New York. street, an American flag floats at haif-mast to the eogh the Duke began a trip gay, Me, Jones wan one of the organizers of over the Grand Trunk road, planning te & ME sl iPhrealare ¥ he Hep at Toronto, Montreal and Quebec, Company, and was elected Second Vice-President from Canada he will go to Boston and in va, ire Vice-President in 1954 and Preate hack s HY York iy: ail dens in 19%, which office he held up to the «Duke was greatly pleased with \ime ot hi. deat 52 Mr Jones married his Views of the falls Mies Sechninet Catheritte Honest Gadakinr atten Henry who survives hin. Punera Tobneco Broker Crocke t Burted, | serves” will te held” Wednestaytnorning. in The funeral of James Crock | Trinity” churen, a Sie mee Crockett was held tne a Horning at his home, 3 West Twenty-siath street, . Ker, Dr. Davien of the Fourth Avenue Prespy. | Moners to Capt. Join J. Kagan {gan Church. oMi-laied. There were no pall. | The members of Engine Company No. 2 this was In Woodlawn, "Mr, | morning presented their foreman, Capt. Johm J. OF the Dest known tobacco brok- | Eagan with handevine gold badge, “ia bemer cd had It!" | of the thirtieth anniversary of bis serviee Un tee New York Fire Department! ht years ago, this coubiry since ie“ | ‘