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THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY. AUGUST 2. 10 LAUAR GASE COHIIHUED Further Hearing cf Assault Testimony to be Had To-morrow. Witnesses Describe Beating of Coachman McMahon by Delaney and Brown -Prisoner Positively Identified. AUhoush Mftsistrate Ommen in the Tanibs Police Court announced yesterday mdmins that he considered that a good cri bad been made out against DHaney, better known as Monk Eastman, and Joseph Brown, who are alleged to' have assaulted James McMahon, at the Instigation of David Lamar, th broker, t)i? rue was continued until to-morrow at o'clock, when another hearing will Iv- held When the now notorious prisoners were brought into court yesterday the courtroom was crowded with spectators, many of them being east side friends Of the Prisoners, but Magistrate Ommen did not I the idea of having many people present, and accordingly ordered the room e'eared.

Two witnesses were examined yesterday, 8'- one other, a brother-in-law ot Mc Mahon, was withdrawn after a tilt in which Senator Grady sue in casting some doubt upon the previous record of the witness. The wlt-tiose examined were McMahon, Lamar's foimer coachman, the complainant In the cn, and George Van Winkle, the Long lit a i.eh constable. McMahon. the first wit net. called, testified that at the time of tii.

assault he was stopping at the Na- onal Hotel. Long Branch. When and where did you make your firt complaint in this case?" asked Sen ator. Grady. I made my xlrst complaint." answered the witneas.

several hours after the as SiiUlt, on July before Justice of the Shoenlein ot Monmouth County, Did you then accuse persons at that time vftknown to vou!" "I did not then know the names of my BJailat.i Later were you shown pictures of these men 1 pointing to the prisoners at nr.uiju.ricrj in mis city 7 "I At whose suggestion did you come to irw iurs io iook ai pictures? My lawyer. Mr. F-rv. told me to rn Did they show you ali the nleturea in the Roe vies' Gallery when you called at How was It, then, that you were shown ii-e iwiares oi Leianey ana tJrowni The pictures were handed tn me "Did they ask you to Identify them if von cnulri Yes." "Who were with you at the time?" Detective Charles Strong of Long Branch and Harry McGill. the bartender in mr national Hotel." Were you asked to visit Police Head quarters a second time? Yes." When you obeyed the summons were you confronted with the prisoners? "Yen." Were they lined up on the floor with Yes." Were they the only two men in line who uia not wear any coiiarsr I did not notice their clothes in tartic tihir.

But I at once recognised them by their faces. They looked exactly like two cf the men who bad assaulted me at Long I McMahon was then requested to tell the ftu.rv nf ihfh Bnanu't About 10 o'clock on the mornlnar of July f'." he said, I went to the Court House to siptiear in a civil action against David Ijimar. On the steps of the Court House was assaulted by three men. They jumie.d on me, beat me with their fists, kicked me. and one of them stabbed me.

1 put completely out. Then the men o-o' away jn a rig." Had you ever seen those men before? flfKed bens tor Oradv. "I do not remember having seen them wh. nut i Knew mat tnev had been look iK for me On one occasion they called at Yny hotel, but they did not see me. Another time they sent a note to my brother-in-law, asking him to have me go up to Char- j-v i.isk saioon.

but I did not go. r-enator uraay men asKea me witness it hd not stated tn his first complaint he hd een the prinoners before. Mo Mshon replied that he did nut. The witness ft'Hjt then asked if he had made the of his own volition. Assistant District Attorney Johnstone objected to the question, and the objection was sustained.

'unstable Van Winkle, the next witness, Identified the prisoners as the rsrail-oits of McMahon. Van Winkle then told of the encounter between the prisoners rml McMahon. and the blow he had himself received when he tried to arrest Delaney. r'nlor Grndy asked witness a few O'Ktions. but could not shake his testimony, after vhich McMahon's w.

t'harles Taylor, was called. 'Are you not an ex-convict? shonted Fenator Grady as soon as Taylor had been sworn. No." replied Taylor. Haw you ever been convicted of a crime I have never been in prison." But you won't deny that you have been convicted, will you I Tell the Judge have ii ever been convicted?" Taylor raid not a word in reply, and then turning to Mr, Johnstone. Senator Grady imnrked.

"So this Is the kind of wlt-i eses you ore going to have testify against inv clients." Well, his testimony might be as good some other people's have heard men-t't'T'-d In this eiine," replied Mr. Johnstone in pleasant ton. The wHneAjj was then withdrawn, and Johnstone announced his case cons pVi.sl, Senator Grady then asked for an ihvr hearlns; to-morrow, and Magistrate granted the requet. After th was adjourned Senator Prady made the statement that there were rime Influences behind the prosecution of the caw not vet disclosed to the public. sld If he referred to the reported Wall clique" against David Lamar, he ri oi'ed: You my draw your own conclusions." He 'plainly intimated that he did not be--l'cve David Ijtmar was in any way concerned in the caee.

As at the nrevlous Limar not appear either per t-nivMiy or oy counsel. At least mere were ro Ipwyers presetit who would admit having been retained by him. LEVIED ON LAMAR'S HCRSES. Deputy Sheriff Satisfies Judgment 'Against the Broker. I.O.G BRANCH, Aug.

Sheriff ClWcs Close of Matawan this aft i moon levied on the hornes and carriages I r-longingr to David Lamar at his Summer home at Seabripht. to catlsfy a judgment. ttwoantlng to obtained by -his for r.ier coachman. James McMahon. who was recently brutally usaulted in Long Branch.

Mr. Uimar was not at home whn the at tachment was made. She told the deputy in all probability Mr. Lamar would the at one. Lamar hus a blil r.gj.ut MiMiihon lur money alleged to been pit Id for groceries, but which v1'1 net tc runted the Judgment si'iird by default In Freehold.

lamar'n place advertised to 1 pold rt fc-'hrlrrs next Tuesday. Mr. to be seen this evening at fits summer none. BROOKLYN LAWYER SCORED. Justice Gaynor Says Attorney Acted for the Opponents of His Client in Divorce Suit.

a memorandum filed yesterday refusing to confirm the report of the referee in iin action brought by Lulu Moseman, an infant, against hr husband, Merritt W. Moseman. for divorce, Justice Gaynor, sit- in Special Term of the Supreme Court, that the plaintiffs at lorney had neglected her atul plainly acted it the intcroM of the deferidant. The matter came up Vn'Thursdsy, whea attorney, J. Melville Knowles, appeared 4-nd asked the Justice to confirm the report of the referee giving an absolute divorce to the huaband.

Justice Gaynor "ifcd for the attorney for the plaintiff, and woman, who said that she was the moth vr of the plaintiff, stepped forward and timidly emked the Justice to read the evidence, and not to depend on the report of the referee. Judge Gaynor listened to her patiently and asked for the evidence. It was handed up to him, and proved to be Quite voluminous, coveting nearly 400 pages. lie then commented sharply on the evident length of the hearlne- before the referee and reserved decision. in his roemoranoum handed down yes terxiay.

Justice Gaynor said in part: hen this motion came before me the plaintiffs attorney failed to appear: the plaintiffs mother appeared and said he was neglecting the case. His Intention evidently was to suffer a default; and in reading me evidence I find that was several times' absent from the sessions before tho referee when the aravest testimony was introduces against tnis intant -piaimui. And though in the bundle of papers Jind a brief on behalf of the defendant on this motion, and another before the referee, no brief is submitted by the-plaintiff's at torney, nor does any appear to nave Deen submitted bv him to the referee. I sent. for mm to.

appear before me. but he has not done so. lie is plainly acttng in the in terest of the other side." Further, the Judge says that the witnesses whn testified ae-alnst the vouna woman are bad-characters, and their stories are palpa bly false and procured, ana. in aauuicn. characterise.

their testimony as brutal and 1 rnr'i i I Vim a 1 ri a It utrnno-o Inilrnl that a court should be expected to pass as truthful or credible th evidence nvrn he I ore tne reteree the witnesses In this case. The motion to confirm the report of the referee is denied, with costs and disbursements, and the order- oMhe referee vcated.Ihe wUnesses court aml be eeen publicly." The plaintiff's lawyej was a. j. Aaaras. YOUTH TRAPPED FUGITIVE.

8et Out to Show His Brother Was Inno cent and Caught the Boy He Ac-cused of Theft. Determined action by a youth who in tended to prove that his brother had been wrongfully arrested led to the arraign, ment In the Harlem Police Court yester day of Edward Pierce, fifteen years old. of Teasdale Place, the Bronx. Pierce, who is declared by officials to be an old offender against the law, was sent to Yorikers'to answer a charge ot having stolen gas pipe and fixtures from the Welsbach Street Lighting Company of Detective Curran arrested Joseph Cha rello, seventeen years old, of Bergen Ave iuc. mice wc.b I a bag conUSning the booty.

He was with another tad, said to have been Pierce. Cha rello waa tried in Yonkers and com mitted to the House of Refuge. His brother Leo, twenty years old, determined to find out hemes ne was tumy. Alter two days' investigation he felt positive that the youth was Innocent and started to run Pierce down. Joseph had told the police he had met Pierce on the street, -ana me iat-tor had asked him to carry the bar.

Im Chareilo mirsued Pierce to Troy and to Poughkeepsle, where he had. the fugitive arrested and sentenced to five days in jail for vagrancy. He then returned to mis city and waited for Pierce to, He met the boy at One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Streot and Third Avenue on Friday night and In order to have him arrested started a. fieht. I knew I couldn't get him under arrest by simply asserting my brother's innocence and nts gum, ieo saia, so got mm into riE-ht bo botn or us wouia oe Dincneu.

The two fought furiously for several min utes and Policeman Miggtns arrested mem. At the Kant One Hundred ana Twenty 6txth Street station house Leo told his story and the Sergeant notified the Yonker nolir An officer from that city waa in the police court yesterday and took Pierce. The otber youtn was oiscnargeo. BLIND ASYLUM'S NEW HOME. Plans Authorized for Buildings on Its Washington Heights Ground.

That the New York Institution for the Blind, now at Ninth Avenue and Thirty- fourth Street, Intends to abandon that site at no very distant date is Indicated by the report that Architects Howells Stokes have been commissioned to prepare plans for seven new bulldlnes to be erected on the Washington Heights property which the Institution has owned for a long time. Whether the old site will be sold Immediately is not known. Since the Pennsylvania station project on the blocks between Thirty-first and Thirty-third Streets was announced the holdings of the Institution. from Thirty-third to Thirty-fourtn street. have been the subject of much inquiry on the part of real estate brokers.

F. Augustus Schermerhorn said only recently that while the Trustees had discussed informally the proposals to sell the prop erty, mat no rinai decision naa ueen reached and that probably no definite ac tion would be taken until Fall. The institution's tract on Washington Heights extends from One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Street to One Hundred and Six-tv-seventh Street and from Broadway to the Hudson Kiver, and contains about six city blocks. It is said that the new build ings to be erected will Include dormitories. a scnooinouse.

an administration building. and a gymnasium, and mat other structures will be added as they are needed in me xuture. WAR ON THE TEN-CENT FARE. Flatbush Residents Will Make It Lively for at Least One Trolley Car Conductor. Sixty-seven men, residents of the Flat-bush section of Brooklyn, are going- to make St warm to-night for at least one of the conductors employed by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.

They are members of the- Improvement League and Passenger Rlfc-hta Association of the Twenty-ninth Ward, and they propose to make a demonstration quite as formidable as their association name. They will assemble and go down to Coney Island, paying on the down trip the regular ten-cent fare. On the trip back, however, each man will pay but 5 cents, and when the conductor demands the second fare he will be greeted with a stony stare. Then the passengers will wait to be put off. If they are they intend to brine daman suits against the railroad company.

one 01 me oincers declared yesterday that, the men were adopting this method merely to obtain what was clearly the rights of the Flatbush people who support the line the year round. He declared that the company has no light to charge 1U cents for the short ride between Flatbush and Coney Island. SUIT OVER JUMEL-MANSION. Dispute In Court with Owner of Historic Property. The Jumel mansion.

on Washington Heights, Is the cause of an action which has been commenced In the Supreme Court by tho Realty Protective Company against Mrs. Ullle J. Karle, who is the present owner of the house and grounds. The mansion, with the demesne attached to It. has been purchased by the municipality of New York, and the sum of 35.01.0 was voted by the Board of Aldermen, pursuant to the passage of a resolution to grant tlut amount by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment for the acquisition of the premises by the city for the establishment of a park and in order to preserve the old house-.

The Realty Protective Company claims that, two years ago, Mrs. Karle entered into an agreement by wntcn she was to give to that corporation 10 per cent, of any utn she might be awarded by the municipal authorities should the mansion and grounds be acquired by the city, which the Realty Protective Company lieges has now been done for the establishment of the park and xnuareum. Because of this agreement the Realty Protective Company has expended, it is aaserted. a considerable amount of money en the place. Mrs.

Karle has, however, repudiated the agreement and attempted to Jersey Naval Reserves Begin Cruise. The First Battalion, Naval Reserves of New started on Its annual cruise The Portsmouth, the old man-of-war, which has been tied up at the foot of Fifteenth Street, lioboken. during the last Winter, left her wharf in charge of tugs, wnicn tooK ner up tne Kait Hlver to Long Island Sound, where she started tinder her own sail. The first stopping wil be. Fisher's N.

where aauors win remain wiree uays. MDSUUIIER SPDEHIS IN COLUl BA'S halls Nearly a Thousand Men and Wo men in Spe ial Course. Extraordinary Growth of the Movement In Four Years Class Has Mem ber from "Many States. Columbia Unlversltr's campus is as, pic turesque with student life as If It were not vacation time, with the four classes scat tered over the country and many of the professors abroad fori recreation or studious research. The Summter course has attract ed nearly a thousand students, who find tittle discomfort on the hot days because the breezes have a I habit of seeking the heights where the lfirned and those who would learn are gathered.

The Summer students are older than the regulars, most of thorn being teachers, who tn the vacation time! are glad of adding to their stores of information and eager for advancement in their chosen work. They are a little more seriously inclined than the scholars who in the Fall paint the near-by fences with the numerals of the Freshman class in brilliant gren. The advantage of kge and direct interest in their studies, however, does not make the Summer body of students scattered over the campus reading! eating their luncheons under the trees, or lounging for mental rest, less interesting than the regulars, for each and every one! tries to and often suc ceeds In acquiring the college spirit. They have their little cliques, friendships, and social gatherings, ind to all Intents and purposes are very iearly the real thing In the student line. They don't spin! tops, match pennies.

shout in chorus explosively spelling the name of their university after a series of whoops, but they to take the liveliest In terest in the gymnasium, the physical culture exercises, hnd particularly in the swimming: tank, wfiiere they have the ad- n.ilnt in.tn..tlnn 1 Jt is not an uncommon to see the younger of the nlhool mistresses sitting on; the campus In I the sunlight. drying out their long locks ot various shades after a splendid time in tiie pool, but the rule is that the sun bathirs are diligently reading or discussing theii studies rather than the latest xasntons. una of the new soDbo- mores recently passing through the campus after seeing the Summer sights." as he termed tnera. remarket: It an very frettv. but hardly strenu ous enough.

Tht- is little or no home and no one! knows what we will do it the girls In tlie freshman class copy their elder sisters In drying and sun bleach ing their hair wlfere we toss baseballs or kick the Among the most enthusiastic and earnest of the Summer nudents are a number of men and women! long past their school days, earnest scholars, with a verv real recrudescence of the student spirit, gather- nar ir, with .11 V. the fun that is I the honeved coverinir to hard mental worM. Amonir the others there are ineooore sutro. the well-known finan cier, and his wifti who are fellow-students. vying with one (another in their studies and athletic ability.

They gave up a con templated trip Sbroad for the Summer course, and eay lihat they do not regret their decision, lVeling that they will be both bettered mentally and Dhvsicallr be- tore me nard titter or business and social necessities to wmch they much attend. The course is er but six weeks, beginning July 8 and endink Aug. 19, two days being given up to examinations. The cost or the course is S3o, atid those who succeed in the examination! are credited with three points, which. If I the Summer students take the other, or regular course, count in the sixty which go to the conferring of a degree.

Under trfe rules of the university uo one can get a degree who has not spent at least a year las a regular student. Columbia recognlris work done in other in stitutions as ceuntlng so many degrees toward receiving one of her diplomas, course is short- the work is very much Ir earnest, and It is the belief of the stud -nts, as well as their professors, that a great deal la accomplished in the three we -ks. Some of the students are quartered Whittier Hall, hut the majority board In the neighborhood, to the rejoicing oi the (landladies, and incidentally the local Prof. J. C.

Egbert. director oil the Summer course, said yesterday of tile work and the manner of doing it: I President Bdtler. then in the deoartment of philosophy, rltarted the Summer Instruc tion lour years pgo. He was provided with a sum necessarv for the expenses. He understood that to make it reasonably successful the prifessors should be properly paid for their work.

Involving the loss of practically all their vacation, and for the first season there were 417 students. At the end of thi season there was a comfortable balani e. and the next year the I' aum was doubled, there being 6MO students. I- was anrtinted director, and in the imrd year, wnen fror. Butler became j-eeiaent.

we inad students. Our ef fort has been to make the Summer course as nearly a duplicate of the reguhir one as possible. This I is possible, for we never allow more than three courses. The work is intensities The disposition which at first was to class the Summer work as like that of normal schools, and to make little of It. has changed and the classes are heartily ap prover mere is la strong- ttnaencv towara post-graauate icourses.

out the regular college work is Very popular. It is a great nlp to those I who have been deficient in their work. ti make up lost ground, and many take It I for that reason. We have students frornl all over the world, and are vry bappy with the energetic and clever endeavor of five students from Porto Rico. It is Interesting to note that we have as many from Missouri as we have from Mas sachusetts, lv oraw largely from the South.

Georgik In particular. This yearl we have INO students -and more than a I thousand, if you count the down-town raedlcal Instruction. We account for thelremarkable growth this year largely by thS fact that it la the first year we nave aax-i-rtisH-a. -men. too, tne Na tional iaueituonal Association bas approved of our work as they have that of Harvard.

Another thing; that has added to our numbfrs is the misfortune of Cornell L'nlverxilv. One of th4 endeavors we have made has been to makt the students feel that they are actually ic Columbia, entuiea to snar ing our goodl name and the benefits of an Institution tlev can feel is their Alma Mater. Wlthl this purpose we have recep tions on KrtSay afternoons, excursions to the InterestliSr places about New i ork. and noDular lectti-es. We nre very well tleased with the sutii-ess of the Summer sessions and are alretfly at work toward broadening STUBBORN FIGHT WITH FIRE.

Several Fight in overcome by smoke In ith Blaze in a Cellar. In the cellfer of the aeven-story building at 115 Christopher Street, which was filled with baled and excelsior, there was a fire last eve ilng, which caused the firemen much troub! Several men were overcome by the smol e. but all were able to return to work after treatment. First to arrive after the alarm was given was KnginJ Company 18. Capt.

Root In. command. Kt the head of his men Cant. Hoot enter? 1 the burning cellar, but was met bv den- smoke, which prostrated him and Fireme Joseph Hatpin. Riddv.

Keating, and ioughton. Klremen Hnrman. Dowling. ote. and Redmond of Engine No.

S. whtel 1 followed, were also overcome. Capt. Rnf. had to beat a retreat three times, and at last was so overcome that be fell on the I floor of the cellar face down ward In a ttool or water.

He would troba bly have li-en drowned but for Firemen Foot ana Keating, wno orargea mm out. The heat if the fire melted the gas does the gal escaped for some time before it could be turned on. Fireman I Ioughton was hit on the head by the noztie ot a nose ana sustained se vere contusions. He remained at work, however. I After halt an hour's hard work the blaze was under leontroi.

tne fire being confined to the rellir and the front of the (-round floor. Thel damage la estimated nt Th bulldlSg la occupied by the Equitable eiorugts renuu wompany. "Anothler Publie Bath Is Opened. A new biiih was opened to the public yes terday. miking- the fourteenth owned by the city.

It Is at the foot of East Thirty first birei. ana yesterday over 1.300 bov and men lathed there. It contains Ilfty term Brothers Balance of ths Women's Summer Dresses In Lawns, mUles, Linens. Piques, etc. 510.50, $14.50, 519.75 Wash Skirts, in French Piques Linens $3.95, $4.95, $6.95 Second Floor.

Special Values in Women's Shower-proof Garments In Olive, Tan and Oxford. S. en with Capes and Belts. $11.75, $13.50 $17.50 Women's Cloak Department, Second Floor men Summer New Importations MEN'S FINE FANCY HALF plain, striped, lace-work and embroidered, WOMEN'S FINE GAUZE FAST BLACK LISLE HOSE, spliced seams and double soles, WOMEN'S FINE FAST BLACK. LISLE HOSE.

lace ankles, open-work or embroidered, WOMEN'S EXTRA FINE FAST LISLE HOSE, embroidered, new lace effects and novelties, First Floor. Midsummer Boys' Wash and Woo! Suits RUSSIAN, 5AILUK and NUKJUUw WAjn auua, qp oe Including many finest ages 3 to 16, zfJC, "i-OJ Formerly $1.50 to $5.00 RUSSIAN SAILOR DOUBLE sod SINGLE-BREASTED SUITS. Formerly, ij-oo to $5-95 YOUNG MEN'S OUTING SUITS, double and single-breasted. Formerly 90 to $9,75 WASH BLOOMER and KNEE TROUSERS, Tan Linens, White Duck and Chambray. Formerly 48c to 95c Second Floor, Annex.

est Twenty WAYS OF RACE DEYOTEES Phillip Black, Alleged "lout," aa Gives Interesting Testimony. Admits Prison Sentence and Varlou Arrests and Diflnes a "Tout" for the Court. Some light on the waya of race track followers was thrown In Justice OlmsUda court yesterday. X'hllUp Black, who ta widely known in the Tenderloin and gained notoriety on Lincoln's Birthday by fighting a duel with Julius Frommei at iw- eighth Street and Broadway. In which a 1 passer-by waa shot, took the stand as com- plaining witness ag-ainst Frank Clarke, a Plnkerton detective, whom be accuses 01 oppression for art-eating him a a tout at the Morris Park race track on May 23.

Black denied that he was a "tout," but In answer to questions iron, duuu 1 Inil.dif who appears for the defendant, admitted I that he had been convicted of grand larceny and served two years in Jefferson City, fifteen years ago. When he left prison, he said, be changed his name so as not to disgrace his family. His real name la John Alton Ford. Black said he had conducted forty-four saloons, restaurant 1, and billiard halls In this and other citler. He came to New York after his release from prison and began by working In a Broadway restaurant.

He earned S75 a week. Including tip, he declared, and that after he had saved $1,000 he opened a billiard halL He admitted having been ar rested several times for keeping billiard parlors open on Sunday and other charges. After his arrest this season he said he went down to see Mr. Plnkerton, who told him to return sonc.e time when Mr. Beut-ler.

Superintendent of bis race track force, was In. Did you return? asked Mr. Lindsay. I did. It was my Intention to tell Mr.

Plnkerton that I was no tout, and that It was not right that I should be harassed. Mr. Beutler threw some cold water over my Intentions. said I have put this fellow down as a tout. You can let him In if you Then I knew it was no use to do any further talking, and I have stayed away ever since except the day the Suburb an was run.

Then I kept on top of the grand stand so that I should not run foul of the Plnkerton men." You know whiit a tout la? asked Mr. Lindsay. "Yes. Sir." When Mr. Llndiiay asked for a definition he waa respectfully referred to Webster's Dictionary, but to no avail.

A tout." the witness then said. is a person who gathtra all information he can about the horses and seeks to Induce people to put their money on them." "That Implies dishonesty, does It not?" Not necessari'y. I know touts that are very honorable men." "You go to the races simply for the fascination of elng the horses run If asked Mr. Llndssy. "No, Sir; 1 go there for the -fascination of the betting, but I do not make a living from it.

I nnvt pulled out some money down there, though. 1 have a sure thing to-day. and wish 1 could go to the track," said the complainant, rather ruefully. "Do you placo large bets asked Mr. LindBay.

"No; I am what is known as a It Is all small me tlo. $5, or 2." The witness said that when he waa arrested he wa locked up In a room with four others. They were made to sit In big chairs at the further find of the room until the last race was run. when they were let out. Black said they had tried to follow the races from a small window in the room, but finally Mr.

linkerton himself had gone into the room nnd drawn the curtain so that they could see nothing. Mr. Plnkerton was in court, and so was Peter De Lacy, who had been subpoenaed by the defense. An adjournment was taken till Wednesday? CONCERT AT THE ALMSHOUSE Inmatsa Delighted by Music at the First of a Series of Entertainments. James E.

Deputy Commit). Burner of Charities, conducted the opening ot a series of hand concerts to be given Curing the remainder of the Bummer season for the benefit of the city's poor at tre almshouse on Blackell's Island yesterday afternoon. A party of Aldermen, other city department officials, and some guests were present. Before the purty reached the almnhouse Mr. Dougherty held them up for a while at the city hospital, where the boys of the Hosiery WOMEN's at Special Prices 25c 29c 39c 48c Clearance of 52.65 5.90 39c Third Street band of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin, who furnished the music for the concert, played for the patients and Steward James Iamb gave the party a demon stration of a new fire escape.

It is a rail steel cylinder with a spiral runway tnalda by which about thirty of the patients and employes were whirled down with surprising speed and not hurt. almshouse dock hundreds of the Inmate I flocked down to see the band. Euuerin-I ana wun tne nana at ita na. a procession was formed which marched to lawn In JheVnreeVYwW the 1 (kill find mnra Inmataa artfhv- I ai thered around to hear the music. Half a doaen of the oldr Inmates when the Wearing of the Green was pl.iyed got up and essayed to dam.

AmonK them were William Burns and his wife, the ifty-tbree-year married couple, and Mary Nash, who weighs close to iSJO pounds. Black well farmhouse, which is now Superintendent Robertas Alter im concert waa over tne visiters borne, and were entertained with refresh ments, after which several ot the party 5a ve an amateur vaudeville performance, ust before sunset the Dartv marchd back to the boat with crowds of the Inmates fol- I lowing after blessing, them. FIREMEN LEFT IN DARKNESS. Subwsy Workers Cut Off Gas 'from Big Station. Firemen In the house et Elm.

and White Streets, where two engines, two tenders, and a water tower arn stationed, were obliged to. leave the houai with their apparatus and camp In the street for two hours last evening. The gas gave out, and Foreman Hayes thought it would be dangerous In case of an alarm to try to hitch up and leave the house in the darkness. The (tas company Inspectors were called, and after searching the house and the subway directly in front, they finally found that workmen in the subway had shut off a big cock in the main pipe during the day. This was turned on and the firemen were enabled to light up the house.

ALLEGED HIGHWAYMAN CAUGHT. Woman Was Robbed by Two Youths and One Waa Arrested. Amelia Tibet-man of 133 Bast Broadway was on her way borne Friday evening, when at Allen and Canal Streets ahe was attacked by two youth a While one held her arms the other snatched her pocket-book, containing S7.80. Mrs. Llberman screamed and Detectives Howe and McOee pursued the youths.

They arrested William Smith, seventeen years old, of 209 Broome Street. Mrs. Llberman Identified him as the one who took the pocket book. She said he passed it to his companion. According to the detectives.

Smith confessed and gave them Information concerning his partner. FURNITURE VAN ABLAZE. Yorkvllle Court Attendants Helped Driver Extinguish the Fire. While a furniture van owned by Geiger te Braverman of 303 and 307 Grand Street was pasalng through Fifty-seventh Street, yesterday morning, a lawyer standing In front of the Yorkvllle Court saw a sheet ot flame shoot out from tho rear. Patrolman McOulnness ot the East Fifty-first Street Button, who was standing at the corner, saw the blase about the same time and turned in an alarm.

In a minute the van waa a mass of flames. The driver, IJevls Nelson, at once detached the horses and then called on those at hand to assist him In saving some of the fuiinturu. About twenty men set to work with a will, and by the time the firemen arrived ubout thirty pieces of burning furniture had been pulled out into the street. The blate was quickly extinguished. The damage will reach between -io and $300.

The driver says be thinks some one threw a lighted cigarette into the van. and tnat it ignited the burlap covering on the furniture. Life 8aving Crewe Again on Duty. Once more the United States life saving crews have entered their stations and have begun their patrol of the New Jersey coast Friday night at midnight was the hous set, and every man was promptly on time end took up his course of duty as though he had nevr left the houses. The crews were busy to-day fixing their quarters for the long stay until June 1.

luot. and overhauling the rigging and apparatus. Old Man Bat Down te Rest and Died. Daniel Malloy, sixty-five years old, of 107 East One Hundied and Blxteenth 8 tree', wur found dead on a bench In Mount Mar ri. Park last He had sat down to rent.

Some people patting thought his fur very white and notified a policeman. rmbulunce doctor who waa summonv-J caid ih, man had died of heart disease. fV -v i "-'V Offer a Few Midsummer Spsciils fit Attractive Trices. yards bUck Cbantllly Galloons, 2 to 5 lochea wide; value 8c to JSC ScU 24c yarj 7,800 yarJa Imitation Claay and Torchoa Laces, 2 to 4 laches wde, S. I2cytri VEIUN'O.

Chiffon Velli. all colorc, dotted and hemstitched, materials ot the bit quality, at SOc each Mourning Veils, light weight Crepe de Chi no SOc to 11.25 each NECKWEAR. 300 Ven'se Collars, latest designs la round end stole ttecta, worth 23 to each Emb'd White 5 Ilk Shawls, knotted triage $2.93 to S18.C0 tech SHAWLS Handmade Worsted Shawl, la circular, square and scart effects, pink, blue and white; special at $1-JS to SZ73 each WAISTS China SLk Waists la white and bUcfc; also wash la white and colors; ralus $2.98 and $3.25, at M. ...11.98 etch White Lawn and Madras WaUts at lea tbaa half their original yalae, la three lots, PSc, SUO. IL7S OLOVES-Womeo 2-ctasp Silk dove, finger tipped, black and white, at.

50c, 73c and 93c pilr Women's 2-ctasp Suede Us Is I ores, black, white, mode and gray, at 4Scpsir Our Mall Order Department Entrances on Three Women's Neckwear Real Irish Crochet Cape Collars and. Stoles. Persian Cape. Collars. Hand Emb'd White French Mull Fichues and Tics.

New assortments of Stocks in Fancy Lace, French Mull, Embroidered Linen and Persian effects. Real Lace Collar and Cuff Sets. French Hand Embroidered Turnover Collars. I fiTTJ CpTTTtQ rnrlTDXTTOPv LU II Cil UtlJ liUIl I II AlllUIl Demands Faster Work on the Jerome Parle Reservoir. He Declares That Promisee Are Not Be- Ing Kept-nOfTera to Aid McDonald and Onderdonk.

As an earnest of bis desire to further the work of completing the Jerome Park Reservoir, Mayor Low yesterday made pubUc the contents of a letter which be had Just sent to John B. McDonald and Andrew Onderdonk. contractors who are doing the great work. In this letter the Mayor la-slsta on prompt action being taken to complete the work. The Mayor says that In accordance with a conversation with Mr.

McDonald he has ipokea to Park Commissioner Eustis of the Bronx, and has asked blm to do everything in his power to Increase the facilities of the contractors by doubling the right of way through the Bronx Park for the temporary railway, in case of need. I take advantage 'of this opportunity." declares the Mayor. to say that It la very evat.eta1 vaii aarnff-lr rwii In sat sill at I practicable plan for the completion of this I work which will show what Increase equipment you will provide and what progress may reasonably be expected month by month. Personally, I should be willing to favor the payment to you, with the consent of your sureties, of some of the money now held by the city, under the terms of the contract, in response to an agreement on your part, in enforceable form, to use as much of this money as may be necessary to provide yourselves with an adequate working plant and $0 operate this plant on a satisfactory basis. Except upon this condition.

I think you must take It for granted that no such payment will be made to you, if I can prevent It. in order that the fairness of this position may be clear, both to you and to the community, I desire to call your attention once more to the fact that, on June 1. there remained to bo made, of rock and earth excavation combined, at the Jerome Park Reservoir, In both sections, substantially 2.000.000 cubic yards. There Is. of course, much other work to be donesuch as constructing walla, the flooring of the bottom, and the like but much of this can be carried on concurrently with the excavation.

Last October you signed a contract agreeing to finish this work, as to both sections, within twenfy-four month from Aug. 1. Giving to this contract the benefit of your own Interpretation, that it meant twenty-four months from the day on which you received orders to go ahead on the new basis, you are under contract to finish all of this excavation and all the Incidental work in twenty-four months from Oct. la, 1902. Flfty-four-worklng days you have lost by reason of the coal strike; some delay there may have been from other causes; but.

as compared with the amount of work remaining to be done, any such delay Is Immaterial. At the present time you claim to be excavating at the rate of SO.ouO cubic yards a month, and you claim that the total capacity ot the railway by which you remove the material is M.UOo cubic varda a month. Under these circumstances it is evident that the excavation alone remaining to be done on June 1 represented forty months ot uninterrupted progress, at your present maximum spe4. Winter and Summer alike. It is, therefore, evident that your plant and your working force must both be importantly Increased, unless you are to fall diacrvdltably in living up to the terms ot the contract Into which you deliberately entered only last FalL "At that time the city agreed to make to yen a large allowance, in order to put the work upon the basis of an eight-hour day, and thus relieve you from the embarrassments of which you thtn complained.

resulting from the effort to carry on this work on the basis of ten hours per dv. while all other public work was on the eight-hour basis. The city has done Ita part ungrud gangly. It has! In my judgment, every right both moral and to expect you to Juntlfy at the Jerome Prk Reservoir the highest reputation your Ur. McDonald has won as an efficient contractor In connection With the Rpld Transit Subway, and nhich your fir.

Omlerdonk is row aionmg on tne urooaiyn tunnsi. 1 1 will servo you promptly. Thoroughfares. CHESS WORLD'S DOINGS Lasker to Test Rice Gambit with Tschiaorin at Ostenl Dutch International Contest at Hllve Sum Western Tournament at Chi- eago--Thf Marahall ChaMerjs PMsbueya Plane. mmMmmmmmmmm Dr.

E. Lasker, the world's ches chafi pion. who is at present in Berlin. WlQ proceed shortly to extend. Belgium, where, at the invitation ot Prof.

Isaac of New York, he will encounter M. TschirortE. "the Russian chess champion, in a 'series six games to test the Rica gambit Tb conclusion of this contest should leave bet little doubt. If any, concerning the soundness of the gambit, which had considerahtr the worst of the argument In the recently finished tournament at the. Manhattta Chess Club tn this city.

Tschigorln. th winner of the gambit tournament at Vienna this year, is In his element when so-gaged in gambit play, and Is said te bars some Ideas of his own in regard to the Rica gambit. Lasker, on the other hand, has gives much attention to the gambit of late, and Is expected to be quick to detect any flaws In the Russian's combination. In the meantime Lasker is waiting fur Marshall's decision on. the proposition made by him to -the American tn reply to tSt chaiienffes by lh9 Utter ta 1 11.000 a side, Lasker4 to he allowed J0O0 ia addition by the elub getting the Marshall wss heard from last at Bradford.

England. In connection with the right cf challenge -for the world's championship. Isldor Gunaberg of London holds, ia direct contradiction of Leopold Hoffer, that ac? one who ta able to, put up a sufficient amount of money la entitled to do so, adds that. Inasmuch as Stelnlta, ta arranging bis matches with ukertort and Le-ker. placed the figure at from.

SLC00 12.000, the first-named should be the minimum stake for such a match. Laakar evidently was of the same opinion. The Dutch International tournament will begin at Hllveraum a-morrow, among ti- entries being R. Loman. O.

Bhoriea, F. Brown, and the Rev. Mr. De SeTre -f England. Neumann of Vienna, Lange o-Berlin.

Kirachner of Leipsic. Duras Pragw, Schwan, Gloue, and Dr. Trtabora of Cologne, and 8peyer. Loussoo, Iloem-kerk. Oskam.

and Vyrelaar. all of IlclUtsi Harry N. PUisburv. the rhim- plon. who returned from Eurofy last Tv--day after an absence of a yeai and a a--has spent part of his time alece tbn the rooms of the Brooklyn Cbess ClLh.

where he contested severs! games and games at odds a lib the members. He is in need of a Uwrouxh rst. will go shortly with iUs wire to fcuilivii County for a month's vtcatlon. In tt Fall he plans to make another profestoi.i tour of the United gttsea. The week of Aug.

to 13 will be derotel by the Western -Chess Association to 't fourth annual meettca-. to be held at Chicago In the rooms of the ChVcara CK" and Checker Club, in the, Schiller Bui'. i rt The entries already received are L. L'eo-mann of Chicago the present Wet--i champion; 8. P.

Johnston, champion ot Chicago Club; J. H. Brown, also of city; G. li. Spencer and Dr.

Bigelow of r-Paul. Judge 11. D. Iftnlta of Ca-po- W. a.

Htne f.f Ssrsnnsh. P. Klet of Culver, anl F. A. HuVrcn of MlniYeapolla.

Max Judd. Consul at Vienna, may also rope te. The tournament is open to ail Ftt except those boraertng on the The Hstitrs and St. Leonard a Club, unO-r hose auspices the ings International tournament of l'-V by Harry N. PllUbury.

was conducted. send out a team axaln on an annual i-this Summer. On this occasion lienciriT be Invaded, and matches wui r-'' with the clubs at Coloroe, W.cai-n. rem berg, Dresden, Berlin, and liaaovtr. Brooklyn Lad Has Disappeared.

Thomas McCuUam. ten years old. IUcks Street, Brooklyn, has been tr. since noon Thursday, snd ilr. Js Oullam.

bis mother, is prcstratfd grief. When he left home after lur on ths boy wore a re ar.d striped blouse, short gray patH- automobile cap, biu fc lio- aad tt lie tias hair and brow eves, finder of his rtisht t-d tired. A pnral alarm, for sent out Ly the police..