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0 12 THE NEW YORK TIMES. SUNDAY. AUGUST 20, 1905. PRESIDENT LITTLETON'S AUTO IN BRIDGE SMASH Chauffeur Had Women Friends and a Man Out for a Ride. TALKED BACK JO POLICEMEN Said Hit Employer, Who It Away, Would "Fl" Them Penitent Afttr a Few Hourt In Jail.

A N. auto touring ear wned bv President Martin IJttleton Of Brooklyn ran Into an Iron Birder at the entrance to the south roudway of the Brooklyn Hrldge early morning, and waa put out of commission. It waa driven by Thorium tl.igley. Mr Littleton's i hmffeur. and there were three other perxin.

ubnurd. a nan and two Women. Onn of the women wan badly rut about the An ambulance waa auni- moned and the mirgeon took two stltrhe In the rut. the woman protesting that thera wn no need fir such treatment and that the atltchoi wnulif mar her Iwauty Hhe an Id she win MnrKuret Johnson of I T2 Fourth Avenue. There In no auch number.

The other woman -aid her name W-a May Hede, but declined to give any addreea. Both of them walked acrf' City Hall Park and took a nort hliound Blxlh Avenue elevated train. Ragley, who win driving the auto at a rerkleaa aeed. wjia hurled over the dashboard and landed on the rotidway In a heap. When he rcgH'hod hla fret he waa limping, but full of fight, policemen Vhllp of the bridge aud ami Miller of tha thik Street station Informed lilin that iU mrniirun.

in. -I. i i ii.rii i prmw wno i am. ne hhio. im Mr.

Hagley, chauffeur for Mr I.lttleton. and what he'll do to you will be a plenty." lie fought all the way to the atatlon. lie waa later taken to the Tomha Court and arraigned on tt charge of disorderly Conduct. Maglatratn Preen told him that It was bud enough when a chauffeur waa rareleaa. but when he waa lnaolrnt at the same time and realnted offli-cr of the law, ft Was time to call a halt.

No pull goes In thin court," the Magistrate del-hired, "and I gueaa I'll fine you Hagley didn't have the money and waa remanded. Yesterday afternoon he waa In a chastened mood. I brought the machine over to get Its lights," he auld, and then had to fix a flutch. It wan I o'clock when I started ha i to Brooklyn. Going down Broadway met a man I knew I think his name la Bummers.

Me had two women with him. He askeii me to give him a lift, and 1 did. I don't know who the women were. If the red lamp had been on the right end of the girder I ran into the accident would never have orcutrid." The automobile came needlng down Tark How a little after '1 o'clock. Chauffeur Hagley ateeiod "for tlje aouth roadway of the hrldge, making the turn ao aharnlv that the wheela aklilded.

The Manhattan end of the bridge in undergoing alteration, and an Iron girder had been left there by a gang of ironworkers. Vhen the automobile crushed It the Johnson woman was thrown through trre filate-claaa 'root of the machine. Il.iplov Went over the dashboard. The other two Were not thrown out. The Johnson woman had a gash In her neaa ami was almost unconacioua i wan soon revived, ami when a Hudson o'ogv In Johns Hopkins I'niversity, mho Btreet Hoapltal I ambulance arrived sheUs.in command of the expedition which waa convinced that she needed no uttcn-i oll tlon.

went to Shannon Island and Pass Rock fasplte her protests two slltchea m-ere I Island, in seach of the Fiala arctic expj-taken In her head -Mid ahe waa allowed toldltlon go with her i-omoanlon. The man with i Pngley had already gone. I asslj sailed for Shannon Island 1 lie automobile was Imdlv wrecked. One "ml le other hadlv bent. The machine whs Of th taken to the Brooklyn garage where It is Btored.

John A. Heffernan. Secretary of the Thorough of nrooklvn said vesterduv that Hagley must have taken the machine cut for his om use. "Mr. Littleton Is not In Brook I vn." he aald.

"He Is off on hla vacation. 'Baaley was certainly not out on official hualneas, and an Investigation will be made." Bagley he h'ta been In the employ Of President Littleton for eight months. BIG REPUBLICAN OUTING. Sixth Dlatrlet Cldba of Klnga Hold Their Farewell Picnic. Members of the Lincoln Bcpuhltcan Club.

hn George Wrlitht Republican Club, and the Keward nepuhlican Club of BrookJyn eacottcl several thousand of thlr friends to TMsrler's Park. In Jamaica, yesterday, and made exceedingly Ttierrv. In view of the fact that the out-t season of the year, and even th crew log was the Inst the three clnha could jseiil anil whale fishermen, said that there anoy as representative of the Sixth Kn- lo 1 made charts T. i of the Ice conditions. aembly restrict We mere able to reach Shannon Tsl- Ahen It mas learned that, the Sixth As- I In the ship Isints.

but Bass Uock aembly Dip probably would le re- wj'." 'nded by tmo or three bright, The route to Shannon Island Is one William II. Allen, and George usher. I which has never before been followed by rrestdnt of the clubs, decided to ive 'exploring The latitude of the one big outing of .11 the Republican cluba Of the pr.se, district Vest, rd i a event Prof. Fasslg left for Baltimore yes-Wna the result And It was a decided sue- afternoon, teas from every point view. Amon the polltlcinns at tlie ntnlni; laid the actor; Mr and were Congressman Charles T.

Inincll M-v .1 Norwood. Mrs. Clay Kvans AMertmin John Iiemr. Quarantine 'nuavt nlasloner hro-ler. ex-Senaor 1 iri Wy, k.

x-Aaaemhlyvnnn Harvey Walle and fen. i tor 1 in a her There m.ia a game of ln.ball la-tmcen the Seward Cluh'a team. rinluhiMl hv josepn init l.in.-o'n's I. rn cpt.ined hv Thorr.m Surpieaa. There wen aiso I a i men a ruces.

greased pig races, hundred-yard dashes, and other lively events. BOSS BAKERS' LABOR BUREAU. Tbty Intend to Open One to Hire Men on the Open Shop Plan. The Hehrc Boss Bakers' Association decided jestrrduy to open a lalvir :re.iu where bakers can lie hired on the cpen shop plan. This action is the result of the recent strike, nnd the employers nay thtt for the first time In years tly are r.ble to tut looe from the union It also decided apply for mem- Trlnngnne Hundred und Fifty-ershlp In the 8tate ikers AssiH-Iatlon.

seventh Street. It whs stopped hy Edward i-Nch will begirt annual meeting nud LV wa" dragged fifty yurds. bershl exhibit of bread IVliire to-mo-ro- the Grnnef.LVntraj em lemcni was IS- aud yesterday by Preslden Jacob Bock Association. Of the Hebre Bos Bakers' in which hr said: Aa a body me have won the fight, though a few of our members signed I agreements with the union. The vast majority, however, did not agree with I the union, and we will enjoy a decree of freetlom we have not experienced for many years.

Cp to now we had continual Individual strikes or strikes against a few employers every meek or two. ending always In settling and having to pay money to the union on one pretext er another Thla was the first general strike, nnd Its conclusion us free to run our bakeries our own way." The Paul Jones Music Festival. The plan for raising a fund for a monument to John Paul Jones, for which Sllia G. Pratt la arranging a music haa met with considerable encouragement. The festival will be held Saturday.

Sept. St. the one hundred and twen-tv-alxth anniversary of the victory over the Serapia. Many leading chelr leaders have already )romise-d their co-opera lion In forming a grand chorus of tdng-era, and at a meeting to be held at the l'Oios Club on Tuesday at noon definite details will be arranged. WOMAN VANISHED AT SEA.

MIm Clara Wangely Disappeared from th Phlladalphla- i When tha American liner Philadelphia reached her pier yesterday morning her officers announced that laat Sunday whin the vnml wis about miles wnt of Southampton. It wae dl; covered that Ml Clara Whllmarah. one of the second cabin passengers, waa inlawing. Miss Whit marsh, who was traveling alone, had no friend on board, and nothing; waa known about her by the people In the iccnnd cabin. Th woman, who waa described aa very mall, purchased her ticket In London.

To the agents there she nave her" address a Road. Forest Gate, London. On Kundnv mornln she waa aeen by a paring the deck. This waa about 7 o'clock, and ws the last aen of her. 'h-n Mlaa Hhltrmir-h did not appear th breukfaat table the chief ateward sent to her stateroom to find out what waa the matter.

The only thing; found In th" room waa a valise and an umbrella. There, waa nothing In the valiae that rould throw any light on her disappears ni At the time Ml Whltmarah disappeared the ae, waa an amooth aa glass, and the officers do not believe that he could nOFHihlv have fallen nvurNmrt of the passenger who talked to f''''." "It ma rah aa Id that ahe had been i' i i. lre. nne waa anout rortv five yearn of age. WOMAN IN JAlL AFTER FIRE.

Neighbors Break In and Find Kerosene on Mrt. Murphy 'a Floors. A fire, which the Fire Marahal and Police Ui p.irtment are Investigating, waa discovered early yesterday afternoon In the apnrtments on the top floor of the tenement nt 11 East Ninety- reventh Street. The apartment Is occu- pw hy Murphy, his wife, and their ow rhlld, and the fire occurred I wiuie me uai was locxed up. two hours hflo the flat after Mrs.

Murphy wan said to have gone out shopping with her child. Mrs. Kmlly Maas. who Jives In the ad-Joining house, first noticed the fire and told Jucob Hasowsky. who lives In the house.

He went over the roof to No. 118. and on fho roof he found a woman. He i Rfked her what ahe was doing there, but she did not answer, and disappeared down into one of the houses. Snsowsky broke Into the Murphy apartment and found the carpet In the hall soaked with keronene, which had also heen poured on the doors and framework.

The woodwork was ablaxe. and In a closet In the kitchen there was a burning pile of oil-Bonked rugs The flames were extinguished by Sasowsky nnd Michael run In with him. and the police JV notified. Mrs. Murphv returned afiVr the fire, and SHid ahe had locked all the doors when she left.

At last niifht Detective Tnomoson iiryeated Mm. Murphy. Deputy Kir" Marshal Milllgan said" he had lonnd that three flrea had been started In the apartment, tine was In the kitchen, one In the hall, and one in the parlor. Oil had also been used extensively, he says. Mrs.

Murphy denied having set fire to the house, tint was locked up In the Kast )n! Hundred and Fourth Street Station. BACK FROM FIALA SEARCH. Prof. Fasilg Mined the Explorer, but Made Intereatlng Note a. Among the passengers on the American liner Philadelphia.

In yesterday, was Oliver Fasslg. Associate Professor of Metene- I at the same time that Walter Champs, I ZflT cretary. started on the search I by the way of Frant Josef Ijtnd. Champa found Flala. but Prof.

Fasslg did not know It until his return to England. Speaking of his trip Prof. Fasslg tall: I got ns far north as 75 degrees. We made Shannon Island In the latter part of July and wer last In the ice from July 12 until the 1'Ith. I found that the supplies were In fair ccnclllt and made everything ready In caae some of the expedition should reach the relief stations.

1 did not go there pre-pred to find them, for it was possible as It turned out. that they would by another route. Shannon Island was convenient for getting back If the party sh Mild tak" edvaii-age of the drift of the Ice. Considering thill the supplies were plnced on the Islands and I went there, so that nothing would be Icit undone in the work of rescue. I represent the 1'nlted States Weather Bureau and the National Geographic Society of Washington, and have made a study of the atmospheric and ell mfi tie conditions which will be Interesting.

We DIIMXUI1V nm nnnims. nui-MHI HI rULUUrtUUNUi. 1 CHnhtnnrf lj t-i. i I Horse Bolta Through the Baseball Crowd, Hurting Several. A runaway horse, attached to a four-seated vehicle, dashed through the crowd outside the Polo Grounds yesterday afternoon shortly after the New York-Chl- scattering peeple gnt and lert.

The driver, mho was alone In the vehicle, sawed on the r.in. i vain The horse belongs to Abraham Solomon of li West One Hundred and Sixteenth Street. The driver, Henry H'-res-feld. had Jmt taken his sest Mr Solomon man at the animal's head mheri boUed ZlZ side, and the home, racing down Eighth i fl iT mree men down before i. nairia.

All Were OMillv hml.1 iirr1'M kept his seat until the runamay unhurt. MASONIC RITUAL USED. Grand Master Officiates at the Laying of a Church Cornerstone. The cornerstone of tha new building of the Church of the Good Tidings (t'ni-versalist) waa laid with tha Masonic ritual at Madison Street and Stuyveaant Avenue. Broeiklyn.

yesterday afternoon. The ceremony waa under the direction of Frank Hurd Robinson. Grand Master nd the State officers of the The Letter Carriers' lland turn la bed the music. The new structure cost jbut mi. I ne imipr.

tnc ev. Maries East, who is hlm't lf i Mason, deemed it appropriate to have. lay the cornerstone. Children Raise $400 for a Hebrew Home In aid of the H-brew Children's Home at Far Rockaway Itut waa raised by the children of that place on Friday by a fair at the residence of B. J.

GreenhuU Those among the young folks in active rham er the Misses Clara Greenhut. Helen and Edna Bernard. Beatrice Block, and Dorothy WolU. a aTauok Koch, LACKAWANNA'S VICTORY OVER FIRE AND WATER Railroad's Officials Show Its Achievements with Pride. DAMAGE REPAIRED IN A WEEK Tracks and Ferry 8lipa Are All In Uao and Comfortable Buildings Ae- commodate Pattengers.

Vice President E. E. Loomla and General Passenger Agent J. E. Lea of tha Dt la ware, Igarka wanna and Western Kail-road Invited their friends to Hoboken yesterday, to show there, in the worda of Mr.

Lee. exactly how It was that we got to work and kept Phoebe Snow's white dresa clean, after that spotless garment waa threatened with a permanent blackening as a result of the fire that almost completely destroyed the company's Hoboken terminal two weeks ao." Asalatlng Mr. Ixomls and Mr. Lee In tehlng how the railroad won a vli-tory over flames ind water was Lincoln Bush, Chief Engineer, who superintended the putting place of flSO.OtKi worth of temporary stiuctura In a weck'a time: Capt. John Emery, the Marine Superintendent, m-ho four hours after the fire had perfected arrangements to handle the IMu.om persona who dally cross the on the ferryboats of the Delaware.

Larka-winna and Weftern, and Superintendent J. Schell and his assistants, who were busy for days seeing that every piece of ho; steel, smoldering timber, and other great piles oi wreckage' and ashes, were out of Miss Phoebe Snow's way. Mr. Lee and Mr. Lownis met the guests at the Hoboken terminal, and after an hour or two set aside to let see how Herr Daab, proprietor of the famous House, which, the was almost completely destroyed by the fire; had managed to keep pace mlih the railroad across the way, escorted them through the yards and showed them how a great American railroad system could meet the ravages of a destructive fire and have the entire system In perfect working order In less than twelve hours after the firemen had announced that the blaze was under control.

In pine are every one of the eight passenger tracks destroyed In the fire. These' tracks were ready for the. r.ccommodatlon of trains before sundown of the day following thei fire. These tracks are permanent, and when the great three-million-dollar terminal station Is finished, eighteen months hence, they will be under the huge shed Into! which the trains from Buffalo and the West mill run. When the sun rose after the fire the railroad had one badly damaged ferry slip Instead of the foir sound ones that it possessed before the blaxc started.

Twenty-four hours later two of those slips were In use, mhile at the end of the second day all four were In commission and passenger and team traffic m-as going on as If nothing, had happened. Once they got their slips and tracks repaired, the company started erecting a new ferry-house, ayiew baggae a new waiting room, and a new restaurant. At the end of a week the ferryhouse, the waiting room, and the baggage room were ready. It must not be thought, either, that these structures, which are temporary, of course, are shanties, for they are not. They are neat, built In the bungalow style, and are equipped with all the necessary conveniences, such as telegraphic and telephone stations, news rtauds, bureaus of Information.

They are pleasant to look at, too, the effect being In greeri; buff, and white, relieved inside by mahogany colored furniture. In a few days the restaurant will be finished, and It will be followed by the big sheds that m-111 temporarily house the tracks, and also protect the passengers on their way to and from the" ferryhouse Snd the ferry slips. Yesterday Mr. Lee! was emphatic in praise of every man who helped the Iick-awanna out of the predicament that faced It the morning after the fite. To Mr.

Loomla. who superintended everything and mho forgot, he said, that sleep was at nil essential, he declared was due the most credit. Schel! Bush, and the others, he added, m-ere almost on even terms m-ith the Vice President, but they had a special work to do, and were not burdened m-ith the great amount of details that fell on Mr. Loomls's shoulders. Mr.

Lee forgot to say a word for himself, but Mr. Loornls did not, and added that (the big G. P. was entitled to Just as much prilse as any one connected with the The l.ttsi laborers that handled the hot Iron and burning Umbers also did their-share." added Mr. Lee, and if it had not been for them me wouldn't be running trains yet." Yesterday l.ooo men.

five pile drivers, and shifting and m-recklng engines galore mere hr-mmiring and puffing away netting the piles that are to support the foundations of the new three-miliion-dol-lar terminal into place. WOMAN FOUGHT TO DROWN. Found to be Demented After Rescue from Prospect Park Lake. In full view of pleasure seekers in Prospect Tark yesterday nftcrnoon. a moman who said ahe Was Lizzie Wilson, thirty-seven years old.

of 87 Pilling 8tret. Brooklyn. Jumped Into the lake, and mould have been drowned but for the prompt action of Michael O'Neill, a laborer, who plunged Into the water after her. O'Neill had a hard struggle with the momnn. who fought frantically to be allowed to drown.

He finally succeeded In getting her to the bank. 8he was taken to the Kings County Hospital. There the physician came to the conclusion, from the rambling answers given by the woman, that she waa temporarily Insane. 3he was put In the obs-rvation ward. Several women who saw the woman leap into the lake faint id.

MISSING FROM JERSEY CITY. General Alarm for a Man Whose Father Is Judge Parker's Neighbor. The Jersey City police were asked yesterday to look for Be rend Brunje, twn-ty-aeven yeara old. who boarded with an uncle at 270 Ninth Street, and who waa employed by William Everett, a cattle dealer at the Central Stock Tarda. Monday laat he waa sent to the Mercantile Trust Company.

Bayonne. to get a check certified- The bank officers told him the drawer of the check had not sufficient funda there to meet It. but had notified thera that he would make a deposit at 1 P. M. All right." aald Brunje, I will leave the check.

When it la certified mail it to Mr. Everett." Thie waa done. Brunje left the bank at noon. He did not return to work, nor haa he been seen by his relatives since. Hla home Is at Esopua.

His father. Herman Brunje. is a prosperous farmer, and PirktT neighbor 0f POSTAL CLERK ACCUSED. aa. una Held for Robbing Letters In the New Rochelle Office.

John A. Plerlng, twenty-thre yeara old, -mployed as a distributing clerk In the New Rochelle Post Oflce. waa brought here yesterday and held for examination by United States Commissioner RHg-way, charged with removing money from letters that passed through hla hands. The arrest of Plering- waa due to many complalnta that letters containing money and mailed in New Rochelle or directed to persona there had disappeared. Post Office Inspectors Jacobs, Meyer, and Emterman were put op the case and mailed decoy lettera containing marked II bills and two-cent postage stamps.

On one of the letters they put a ten-cent special deliverv stamp. On Friday night the Inspectors arrested. "Plerlng. They allege that they found on him not only the marked stamps, bat also the marked bills and the special delivery atamp which waa on the letter. He haa been employed as a mail clerk for about two years, is a high school graduate, and Is the only support of his m-idowed mother.

He will plead not guilty to the charge. ART NOTES. In the Wartburg, near Weimar, the interior of the cell of St. Elisabeth Is to be decorated throughout in glass mosaic. ACTgust Oettken, painter of historical pictures, haa submitted to Emperor William the designs for scenes In mosaic.

A religious scene the turning of the bread in the Salnt'a mantle to roses, when she is reproved and apparently caught In her charity to the poor by her royal spouse. A historical design represents Emperor Frederick II. visiting the Landgrave Lud-wig In the Wartburg. A young Danish painter named Peder-aen has Just returned to Copenhagen from India after an experience that rarely falls to a youthful artist illustrator. Engaged by a German publisher to illustrate a boos: on India, he made the acquaintance of a number of Maharajahs and Rajahs, who gave him commissions for portraits and paintings on a scale that has tasked his strength.

Many of his orders he is executing In Copenhagen. as soon as they are finished he will try the air of Golconda again and expects to reap Just as large a harvest of cash and presents as befoy. How comes it that John S. Sargent has overlooked this mine? The Hague hns sustained a cerlous loss In the disappearance of the Portrait of a Cavalier." by Franx Hals, the small half-length of a bold-looking young ruf-flcr, which hung in the second Rembrandt Gallery of the Art Museum. It is painted on a panel.

While the gallery was full of visitors some one must have pushed the panel out of Its frame and put It under his coat. The loss was soon detected, the galleries cloved, and all persons present were searched, but the thief escaped. The cavalier wears mustaches turning upward and a little r.ioschetta below the lower lip. He haa on a soft broad brim, a black coat with stashed sleeves, nnd a very deep soft lace collar. The panel is 244 by 194 centimeters.

The architects of the Federal Building at Indianapolis have entered a protest against the de-slgn made for the monument to President Benjamin Harrison which is to stand in front of it. The statue Is by Churles H. Niehaus. They assert that the exedra connected with the statue is far too large for the monument itself, being out of proportion, and also too ornate to harmonize with the building, which Is very simple. There ought to be a conference of architect and sculptor in cases of this kind.

Mr. Charles L. Freer of Detroit haa given to the local Art Museum 400 prints by the distinguished Dutch etcher Storm van s'Gravesande, Including lithographs and original water colors, some of which were afterm-ard etched. A special room in the annex recently dedicated will be used to exhibit these prints by installments. The gift is all the more welcome because the museum has lacked a department of etchings and engravings.

The Public Library at Syracuse. N. haa received a gift of fifty-two landscapes in nils by the octogenarian artist John Dodgson Barrow, a resident of Skaneat-eles. For the most part they are scenes painted in Onondaga County. Mr.

Barrow was born In. New York City, but haa passed most of his life In Skaneateles. He studied art In New York and Ixndon. Some time ago he added the Barrow Art Gallery to the Public Library of Skaneateles and gave 200 of his paintings for its decoration. Falrmount Park Commission In Philadelphia has elected as President Col.

A. Loudon Snom-den. as Treasurer James Elveraon. and as Secretary Thomas S. Martin.

The plan for an art gallery has been brought up again In connection with the offer made last year of the collections of old and modern paintings belonging to Messrs. Wldener, Elklns, and John G. Johnson. It Is understood that If the city m-111 erect a fireproof gallery of proper size these collections will be forthcoming. In lfWi a competition mas held for an art gallery and round prizes given.

The first, of sn.OUO, waa taken by Brite and Bacon of New York; the second, of by Lord, Hewlett Hull of New York; the third, of by Marcel Perouse de Minelos of Paris: the fourth, of H.OOO. by Howard and Caldwell of New York. The plans of all these architects became the property of the commission. It Is proposed to embellish the little town of Amherst with a statue of Sir Jeffrey Amherst, hero In the old French war" before the Revolution. There Is a striking portrait of Ird Amherst by Sir Joshua Reynolds, who painted him In armor wearing the insignia of the Bath.

When the Revolution broke out Gen. Amherst is said to have declined the chief command and the promise of a peerage if he would go to America and suppress the rebellion. He was In America from 1758 to 17tJ3. and died in 1797. at the age of eighty.

Although he did not serve against the colonists he was commander in Chief of the British Armies during the Revolution. The equestrian statue of Gen. Frans Slgel by Robert Cauer of Berlin has been accepted in the model by the Monument Commission, and will be placed in Foreat Park. St. Louis.

The sculptor has modeled a very quiet horse, with head turned a little to the left and ears pricked. Slgel la a rather meagre figure, round! soft hat, neither chapeau nor fatigue cap. and holda a field glass In his rhrht hand as he leans forward, reUn rlfJ? bridle hand on his holsters He wears thin beard. Slgel waa beat known during the war through one of the ballads bv Hans Breitmann," of which the refrain waa I Ighta mlt SigeLV rerraln Boy Must Answer Murder Charge. Philip Bishop, the twelve-year-old boy who ahot Catharine Doran at 137 High Street.

Brooklyn, on was arraigned before Justice Fleming, in the Children's Court, yesterday, on a charre of murder. The case was aet down for next Friday. In the meantime the boy will remain In care of the Society for tha Prevention of Cruelty to Children. NEW-JERSEY MAY STOP; HANGING MURDERERS State Aroused: by. Dr.

Meury's Disclosures in' the Gentz Case. SAYS DYING MAN SIGNALED Legislators Preparing Bills to Abolish the Death Penalty An Old Execution Recalled. Aa the result of the Insistence by the Rev. E. A.

Meury of Jersey City thut Murderer Gents, while he was swinging on the gibbet in the Hudson County Jail, by a prearranged movement of his fingers that he waa still conscious. New Jersey is having an active agitation for the abolition of capital punishment. Several of the Jurors summoned by Sheriff Zeller to witness the hanging of the negro Tapeley, who was to have been hanged in Jersey City last Friday, were so horrified by the minister's revelutlons that they notified the Sheriff that they m-ould not attend, and desclared themselvea opposed to the infliction of the death penalty. Dr. Meury is receiving letters from all over the State urging him to organise anti-capital punishment societies and promising him active support in the movement.

Several of the ministers will preach to-day against capital punishment In general and hanging in particular. This is not the first time, however, that the State has been aroused concerning the use of the gallows. When Mechella, a Russian sailor who in the early '70s killed United States Marshal Stevenson in a Jersey City street, mas hanged the first man to be hanged in Hudson County his execution disclosed that a man could be conscious after the trap was sprung. On that occasion the Sheriff sent Invitations to hundreds of persons to attend the hanging. One of those mho was present on that occasion said yesterday that the murderer had been swung up in the air Jjie rope parted over his head and he fell to the stone flagging of the Jail yard.

The Sheriff and his assistants rushed to him, and aa they raised him to his feet he made a despeiate effort to free his pinioned arms and pleaded for his life. The rope was readjusted and the man was drawn up and strangled. That execution aroused a storm of Indignation throughout the State. When Gent i was hanged the Rev. Mr.

Meury said the dying man signaled to him after the drop. The disclosure attracted little attention at that time, and might not have attracted much now if the public mind had not been stirred by the efforts to save Mrs. Valentinu. the Hackensack murderess, from the gallows. Several members of the Legislature say they will offer bills at the coming session to discontinue the death penalty.

A con-lerence of several of them a few days ago considered the lines upon which such an act should be drawn. It was agreed that a life sentence would have no terror for murderers If there was any chance of pardon, and It is probable that the bill mill provide that no one shall have power to pardon such prisoners. STONE THROUGH THE ROOF. Tunnel Blast Drops a Missile on a Sleeping Boy in a Tenement. Edm-ard Sheeny, thirteen years old, son of a plasterer living on the top floor of a five-story tenement at 40l East Thirty-fourth Street, was nearly killed by a tailing stone while asleep in bed yesterday.

It happened about 0:30 in the morning. That is the time mhen the night drill-men at work on the Pennsylvania Railroad's cross-town tunnel quit work and the blasts are set off. The men employed on that part of the tunnel known as Shaft No. 2 had reached as far as First Avenue betm-een Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Streets yesterday morning. Foreman William Mack m-as In charge of the work, and ordered the blasts set off.

Something was the matter with the covering of the last one, and when it was fired a piece of rock weighing about five pounds was sent flying through the air to such a height that the workmen lost sight of it. The boy's father and mother were taking their morning meal In the kitchen wnen the stone came crashing throughAhe roof, penetrating the tin sheeting as well as the lathing and plastering as if it had been a high-power shell. The noise made by the missile at first caused Sheedy and his wife to think that a part of the roof had caved in. The father rushed into the room where his son was sleeping. There he found the boy unconscious In his bed, with Mood streaming from a wound on the left side of the head.

Sheedy ran into the street and told the first policeman he found what had happened. An ambulance call was sent In. The surgeon found that the boy had a fractured skull. The greatest possible haste was made in getting him to Bellevue Hospital, where an operation mas performed. Nevertheless it waa feared last niarht that the bov could not live.

The police arrested the foreman of the blasters. HELMET SMASHED BY BLAST. Down Came a Rock on the Policeman's Head Other Damage, Too. While Policeman Hebrank of Morris-sanla was patrolling yesterday afternoon he heard an explosion. A few seconds later a roe't came sailing through the air and smashed his helmet.

Both the report and the rock came from a blast at Elton Avenue and One Hundred and Sixtieth Street, more than a block away. Other fragments from the same upheaval smashed many windows In nearby houses, including those of the Manhattan Beef Company across the way. Manager Friedman and his brother. Max, were cut by the glass, and one stray boulder demolished a fire-escape. Hebrank pounced upon Carmelo essarrillo of East One Hundred and Slxty-fiftn Street and locked him up.

charging him with blasting without a permit and with not having put a proper cover over that particular blast. BUYING ITS RIGHT OF WAY. The Connecting Railway Haa Already Acquired Large Parcela of Land. The deed of conveyance by Louis J. Matthewa to the Stuyveaant Real Estate Company, agents for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, made on April 2.

for the right of way of the New York Connecting Railroad, of thirty-one acres of the John L. Hanson estate, m-ith l.KKJ feet front on the Bowery Bsy Road, has lust been recorded In i ft, -futruo UUI1LJ -i" a omce; a i wo me iransrer or a four-acre plot, adjoining- the above, part of the estate of Ann Ellaa Totten, to the same purchasers, for the railroad company. These purchases give the railroad company nearly half a mile of right of way. The New York Connecting Railway haa now acquired over 80 per cent, of all the property needed for Its right of way between the Astoria water front on the East River, opposite Ward's Island, through Long Island City and the town of Newtown, to Manhattan Junction, aouth of the Ltutheran Cemetery. To Early Purchasers.

We offsr an unusual opportunity at thb season of the year. We car risd about one huniredancl Jifty. styles of last season's Fall and Winter material. Tns prices ranged irom $0 to $50. We have placed them on sale without at a unilo price of suit to measure, $20 Trousers, $5r- The goodi must bs een to te appreciatrd.

The value style and mate up must be to your en irj satisfaction or they remain hireT Broadway Ninth Street. TWO STALLIONS BATTLE ALMOST TO THE DEATH Driver of One Badly Hurt When the Other Charges to Attack. ONE HORSE'S. JAW BROKEN Pitchforka Used to Stop Fight Woman In an Automobile Fainta at Sight of the Encounter. fecial to The A'rw York Times.

MILLBCRN, N. Aug. George ilono led his bay Hambletonlan stallion up to the gate at his home here', after an outing last evening, the horse's flanks and breast were badly torn and bruised. Heno explained that the thoroughbred had barely escaped with his life from an encounter with a stallion that attacked him near the old Clark farm, on the road betm-een here and Rahway. Heno hitched the stallion to a light road magon yesterday afternoon and went but for a drive.

While he waa passing the Clark farm hla Hambletonlan, with an angry neigh, sounded a note of defiance to a stallion grazing in a field near by. The other horse necepted the challenge mith another vicious neigh, and came bounding for the roadside with ears laid back and teeth exposed to the gums. The Hambletonlan reared as the other drew near, swung loose from the harness with a sudden twist, and turned heels to meet his foe. The sudden haul on the lines dragged Heno over the dashboard, and threw him to the ground, dislocating his shoulder. He managed to crawl, out of the way of the excited animal's heels In time to see him plant both hind hoofs in the side of the other stallion and hurl him to the roadside.

Quick as a flash the other horse returned to the assault m-lth snapping Jaws, and there was a fierce head-on collision between the two enraged animals. The struggle was a terrific one. Each managed to fasten his teeth In the hide of the other, and to tear away strips of flesh. At one stage of the combat the Hambletonlan. rearing suddenly, landed a fore hoof on the other's Jaw, that.

Heno says, broke it. Still the wounded animal fought on. The noise of the encounter waa heard by the men at work on the surrounding farms, and they ran with their shovels and pitchforks to separate the horses. Neither beast at first paid any attention to their interference; both kept up the attack with teeth and hoofs for several minutes before the men dared venture near them. The farmers finally succeeded, however.

In prodding them into submission with the pitchforks. The attacking stallion, ns badly bruised and torn as was driven back to his pasture, and no led hie roadster home. A party of Nw York men and women In an automobile saw thi fight, and one woman fainted al the sight. TYRO SAILORS' SHIPWRECK. Lads Bought a Boat Only to Capalze It in Coney Island Surf.

Beach strollers at Norton's Point. Coney Island, witnessed the rescue of four boys from the surf about 7 o'clock last evening. The lads were Lea Henderson, eighteen years old, of Cortlandt Street, Coney Island; Charles E. Cerhard. sixteen years old.

of the same street; Walter Buschmann. sixteen years old. of Henry Street. Coney Island, and Howard Buschmann. eighteen years old, of the sa me address.

They knew nothing either of amimmlng or but that did not deter mem from buying a twenty-foot sailboat on Sheepshead Bay yesterday afternoon and at once nutting out on the open ocean Their destination m-as Gravescnd. had all but skirted the coast of Coney Island when wind and currents drove them into the surf and capsized them They hung to the pounding boat till John Holt of West First Street. Conev Island, and William Campbell of Street. Brooklyn, who were digging bait, swam about I.Tlt feet through the waves, righted nnd bailed their boat, helped them ill. and then sailed the boat and her helpless crew to land.

READ-LAW AT THE FORGE. Mr. Van Nostrand Dies After Practicing for Many Yeara. Charles Augustus SlUlman Van Nostrand, a lifelong resident of Flushing, Ixing Island, died at his home on the shore of Flushing Bay. last Friday night.

Mr. Van Nostrand waa born In 1JCH5, In Flushing Village. He was one of four sons of George Van Nostrand, a carriage builder, and at an early age began work In his father's shop. Young Van Nostrand soon became expert In turning out the Iron work for I carrlagea. but while thus engaged he de- cided to become a lawyer.

Procuring a copy of a small treatise on I the principles of law he studied it while ac work at the rorge. When he had saved sufficient money he 4eft the ahop and took a course at the Albany Law School. He was graduated with the class of uml was immediately admitted to the bar. Mr, Van Nostrand was taken ill last October and his illness was attributed to the hard m-ork he had been called upon to dc In an Important law case. He Is survived by his wife and five children.

CLUNG TO HIS DYING BOY. Father Had to be Dragged Away from Child Run Down by a Car. George Deckelman. seven yeara old, of 751 East One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Street, was run over and killed by a West Farms surface car yesterday afternoon. The police of the Morrisanla Station say the boy ran in front of a southbound car and was struck by the car going north.

The accident occurred at Third Avenue and One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Street, shortly after noon. The car waa lifted from the tracks by. several men. and Loula Wagner, a Ud of I. dragged the boy from under the car.

Dr. Zlegter responded from Lebanon Hospital. He aald the boy could live only a few minutes and applied a hypodermic Injection of cocaine and whisky. The child cried to be taken home, and three or four women broke through the crowd to see who he waa. Then the boy' a father came, and seeing hla child lying In the street threw himself on the prostrate body.

Three strong men had difficulty In dragging the grief-stricken father away. The reserves of the Morrisanla Station were ordered out to keep the crowd from attacking the motorman. Tha bor'a mother died five month ago. HORNER'S FURNITURE The Standard In quality and sty lav IMPORTANT TO FURNITURE BUYERS yHILE we do not adrcr tise 44 Special August Sales' we assure intending buyers of Furniture who wish to secure reliable goods of standard quality, and embracing the latest productions of the best exponents of high-class woodcraft, that their interests will be best served by purchasing at our establishment. Unequalled choice in all lines, combined with our specially attractive prices, are other important factors to be noted.

Purchases mad now will fea fe14 for future delivery tf desired. R.J.HORNER&CO Furniture Makers and Importers. 61, 63, 65 West 23d St JnlAl Tarn CfWf. better than meet EVANGELISTS IN BROADWAY. They March to Tlmaa Square, Hold 8ervice, and March Back.

The brilliant electric signs that frame Tlmea 8quare. scattering their rays over that lively neighborhood, abed light upoa an unusual scene laat night A little host of sombrely dressed Evaa. gehsta representing many different denominations gathered there and held ear-vices after a parade; which began at Broadway and Flfty-aeventh Street travelled south to Fortieth Street and then moved north again. Evangelist O. W.

McPherson, who for many years haa been conducting service at night in the Gospel Tent Evangel at Broadway and Fifty-seventh Street, arranged the movement Hla principal assistants last night were tha Rev. Dr. F. E. March of Sunderland, England, and the Rev.

Dr. J. Q. A. Henry Of Tonkar.4 Other Gospel workers bunded together, with the leaders and taking part In the services last night were th Rev.

Dr. McGregor, the Rev. Dr. Richard Hartley of the Hope Baptist Church. Dr, Broker of Florida, "Father" Moran.

a well-knowa Episcopal clergyman, and the Rev. Dr. IX (V. Dawson of London. England.

The services began with a meeting ta the tent at the end of which the Otsi participants formed themselves four abreast on Broadway and marched down that thoroughfare. A part of the Ninth Regiment Band, In uniform, led the way. playing Old Hundred." The three leading ministers traveled In an automobile Just ahead of the band. The others followed on foot. Two sturdy men carried a manner on two poles, announcing that a Gospel meeting would be held ia the tent at 11 o'clock for the special benefit of dwellers of the Tenderloin.

Praver by Dr. Hartley opened the services In Times Square. Then the band played America and the Oospel workers sang All Hall to Jesus Name." The momer-t the music and the singing ceased and the speaking began many of thoxe In the crowd drifted away, ana whtn the procession returned to the teat it was considerably reduced in numbers. While the services were going on young men and women scattered circulars announcing the meetings along Broadway. LITTLE GIRL ARRE.

She Was Searching for Her Ring with a Candle in the Cellar May Die. Six-year-old Margaret Lister of '2ft East Ninety-eighth Street received a gold rtnf on Wednesday for a birthday present Yesterday she stood at the dumbwaiter tm-istlng the ring about on her finger ua til it fell down the shaft to the cellar. Taking a candle the little girl went ta search for the ring. The draught awept her dress against the flame. In a moine! her clothes were afire.

Her mother heard the little girl's screams and ran to th cellar with a blanket which ahe wrapped about Margaret, extinguishing the flames. The child was badly burned and at the Harlem Hospital, where she waa taken, it was uid last night that ahe would probably die. ARC LIGHTS TO REPEL LOVERS Coney Island Beach Brilliantly Ilium-j inated After Complaint Demonstrations of affection betweea young people on the Coney Island beac in front of Seaside Park and close to tb public bathing grounds caused the Rev. William E. Hughes, In charge of tb Cs-ney Island Rescue Home, to complain recently to Park Commissioner Kennedy the other day.

It Is a short strip of land, and great was the disappointment of many mho went there last night to find twenty big arc lichts Installed. They will ahtne there every night till cold weather. AID SOCIETY'S DOORS CLOSED Its Business Was to Furnish Doctor! and Funerala. The Home Medical Aid Society vtf established at 23(1 Washington Street Jersey City, several months ago. Warfleld waa the manager.

Th ocity i provided medical advice for families oavment of 10 cents a week, and' for as additional 3 cents a week it agreed ts pay the funeral expenses of any subscriber who died. The doors of the society's rooms wet closed Jreaterdar. and twelve' collector and a girl stenographer aald week's wages waa due them. Manar Warfleld. they said, had left tb on on Wednesday and had not return One of the collectors aald the oofH had 3.0(10 subscribers In Jersey City an None of the subscriber or collectors haa yet made complaint to police.

Canada's Postmaster General Hereon th Cunarder Camnanlav yeata day. were William Mulock, IWmaaf uenerai or canaaa: tne viscount morres, and Capt W. D. Taylor. i.