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THE NEW YORK TIMES. THURSDAY. MARCH 30." 1905. HOOKER CASE UNVEILS MISS JtrrKtY iWbltKY Unknown Clerk Daughter of Bea-vers's Landlady at Capital. BALL GOT PAY WITHOUT WORK OBBBInSaSBnnnBSBnnaannBBBB fitness Declares Ha Was Approached by Men Who Wanted Evidence to Oust the Justice.

Sfrticl 19 The New York Timet ALBANY. March 29 Frank P. Bat! testified to-day before the legislative Committer Investigating the conduct of justice Warren B. Hooker that he received f2.532.07 from th Gnvprnment ttvm Oct. 11.

1. to Dec. 31. lWi ostensibly tor acting as a clerk at the Fre-jonla i'oat Office without doing any work. jfc wai on the lint first as a laborer ind later clerk In the Fredonia Post Office- Justice Hooker got the Job for Before the Grievance Committee of the Bute Bar Association Ball had Raid three times mat he borrowed money from Mrs.

Hooker and gave Ms note. To-day he declared that he made a rnl.take; that It never had borrowed from Mrs. Hooker. She 'merely had Indorsed Tor him. lie admit ted that hi applied all except 125 or $30 pf the 12.X12.U7 townrd the note for $3,000 or no which Mrs.

Hooker Indorsed Tss identity wa. revonlt-d to-day of Vlnerva Jeffrey, who, as a lestilt of orders; frT. George Ltavera'at Wash-Inff! on Jan. 21, lWtO. was placed on the Fredonia payroll ns clerk drew $251 before her transfer to Burlington, VX.

Miss Jeffrey was unknown In Fredonia. and never' appeared at that Post Office. Postmaster sent her checks to Washington. The report of V. Cochran, Chief Post Inspector, dated YMH.

admitted In evidence to-day. Rtau "Mlperva Jeffrey Is a rla lighter of Mrjt. Kate Klackmar of Washington, at-whose residence Mr. Beavers had room. She Is a sister of Georgia Jeffrey.

$1,600 clerk in the Stamp Division of the Third Assistant Postmaster General's efflee: a sister of Fanny I. Jeffrey, employed as a laborer at S-Wn a year hi the Washington City Post Office: a sU- ter of James H. JeffreyJ employed In the Rer.tstry Division of the Washington Post Ofl'Ke at and nn aunt of II. Clayton Gralf. recently employed as Cancelling Machine Inspector, and fit present cashier In the Now York Post Office salary of Sl.sisi.

She owes "her appointment to George W. Beavers Ehe was appointed at Fredonia. X. evidently for the purpose of being covered Into the clnsflfied service without being req-jirtd to take the civil service examination." On cross-examination Attorney John ft. Btanchfie Id, for the Hooker interests, asked B-ill about a conversation he had with George K.

Tiffany, an undertaker: A. N. t'olburn, miller, of Fredonia. and William Hudson, a newspaper man Brooklyn. After a dispute Mr.

Ball was allowed to testify on the subject. He aid: "The three men came to my office in Dunkirk In Jariuai or February of last year. They desired some tnformaton about the Fredonia Pout Office, they said. Mr. Hudson told me that Justice Woodward had told him In Brooklyn of 1 look- IA connection with the Post sJd bd nothing to say affecting.

Jas-Uce Hooker, one way or tf.e other, Tiffany of Fredonia told me That if I wouid give up something that wou.4 cause Justice Hooker to be removed 1 would not have to pay the note to that the best mwyer ta Chautauqua County would defend any suit that m.ght be brought on the note. I said I had nothing detrimental to say with respect to Justice Hooker, and that thev would have to go somewhere else to get their Information." The witness seemed anxious to repeat some profane words ascribed Tiffany In connection with Justice Hooker's name. Chairman Fish said the committee did not want anv profanity. On redirect examination Ball said he had to.d Justice Hnokr about this conversation long befor Ball had rr.ad afll-davlt to be presented before the Bar Association and prior to his testimony before the Orievnnr Commute. Ball testified to-dav that he was a Republican, having voted 'he Democratic ticket only once, for Cleveland in 1888.

FR2DONTA. March 29 George Tiffanv and A. N. Colburn. who were charr-d by Frank P.

Ball at the Hooker herinr In Albany to-day with trying to bribe him. entered a. complete der.lat of Ball's statements to-night. W1LLC0X MAKES A PLEA. Urges New York's Postal Needs Wants All of Federal Building.

Special to Th Nrw Vork Timet. WASHINGTON. March 28. Postmaster Wlllcox of New York called to-day on the Postmaster General regarding allowances for Increased facilities for the transportation of malls In that city. No specific reruests were preferred, Mr.

Wlllcox urging that arrangements should be made for promoting the efficiency of the service generally. In speaking of the requirements of the New York office. Mr. Wlllcox said: The r.ew parcels post with Great Britain will go Into effect April 1. and that will require a number of additional clerks." In addition to this I have established several new branches in the Bronx, all of which require Increased facilities for handling the malls.

Our pneumatic tube service connecting tho main office with Brooklyn, with the Produce Exchange, end the Grand Central Station given excellent satisfaction, and we only wish we had more of 11. If we had all the tubes we could use the solution of the problem would bo found rl Ight thue. If the Government would only put up a Federal building Id New York and hand It over for the use of the co.urts, s.o that we could have the Post Office Building for our executive offices, we would'be l'i much better shape to transact our business. We ousht to have that, and we ought to" have the General Post Office nd 'every branch station connected by pr.eumauo tubes." CITY PENSIONS BILL DEFENDED BY FRIENDS Employes Would Put 3 Per Cent, of Salaries Into Fund. SUM TO PROVIDE ANNUITIES Bill Is Urged by Those Not Protected by Retirement Funds Would Affect 6,000, POOLROOM'S ROOF EXITS.

Police Batter Down Door in Vesey Street, but Bettors Escape. After Capt. MeNally of the Church Street Police Station and his detectives had smashed down the doors of the top floor rooms of a building in Vsey Street ye'sterduy alternoon they were disappointed at not finding a poolroom In full operation. A ladder, which led to the roof, showed how the men had escaped. The police said that the place was a racing Information bureau." and they confiscated eight telephones.

Including one portable telephone, a lot of racing sheets, and 3t feet of telephone wire. When the men who were sending out Information of the results of the races heard the police battering down the doors they took to the roof, and escaped by way of the stairway of a Fulton Street building. A statement was issued yesterday by friends of, the bill providing for the pensioning of city employes not now protected by retirement funds' explaining Its provisions. It was signed by Edward Kenny, a New York Supreme Court attendant; Joseph Haag. chief accountant of the Department of Finance; William 1L Jasper.

Secretary of the Board of Assessors; Francis R. Clair, auditor la the Department of Finance, and City Paymaster John 11. Tlmmerman. Complaining that the provisions of the bill have been persistently misrepresented, the statement says that the measure only seeks the sanction of law to make effective an agreement between those affected and the city to surrender an average of 3 per cent, of their salaries, which is largely in excess of that contributed by the employes of any private or public corporation to similar funds. Competent actuaries.

It Is said, have declared that this will be ample to provide the proposed annuities, inasmuch as they have found also that 2.71 per cent, of school teachers' salaries In the last four years would have been sufficient to meet the annuities to retired teachers during that period, and that 1.02 per cent. of. the salaries of the employes of the Department of Health would have met the department's annuities for the tame period. It is said that the annual contribution to the fund on the 3 per cent, basis will be about $.100,000. which is six times the amount that the Board of Estimate find Apportionment may appropriate for the fund any one year.

A canvass, it Is declared, has shown a unanimous on the part of those affected to participate in the fund. It pointed out that, about 6.000 of the upon the city payrolls will be affected, the others being protected by established funds. "Noivalid reason," the statement continues, "can be advanced why this number should be deprived of ih benefits which this legislation will alford them, especially as they themselves are to provide the fund." TWO MORE HARLEM HOLD-UPS 7" Teacher Robbed of Watch and Money Three Suspects Caught. While Maurice Pinker, a teacher of languages living at 57 East One Hundred and Tenth Street, was walking along Lexington Avenue early yesterday morning a man Jumped out la front of him at One Hundred and Ninth Street and seized him by the throat. Another man.

who was addressed as "Pete." went through Plnker's clothes, stealing 20 la cash and a gold watch. Louis Falve of 1.744 Lexington Avenue saw the scuffle and chased the men. He caught one. who said hi name was I Frank Fallon of 168 East One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street. In the Harlem Court Fallon was held In 12.000 ball for trial.

-Albert a baker of 440 East One Hundred and Eighteenth Street, was his way home about 3:00 o'clock yesterday morning when at One Hundred and Eighteenth Street and Second Avenue two men stopped him. One seized him while the other struck him on the head with a chisel. Strieker shouted for help, sr.d the men, who had discovered that he was carrying only a loaf of bread, started to run. Patrolman Nevlr.s of the East One Hundred and Twer.ty-slxth Street station gave chase and caught them. They gave their names as Patrick Kane and Michael Kelly, and in the Harlem Police Court later they were held In ll.OuO ball for trial.

ALCOHOLISM AND MORPHINISM ABSOLUTELY CURED Ke Detention from Business. Cmrmpanttmn Cfjtetwt ml. Cravtnf Removed Within 41 Kosrt. OPPENHEIMER INSTITUTE 159 WEST J4TH STREET Telephone CT17 It. Downtown Office, 170 Droodway.

Full Information Free oa Request. NAMES ADDRESS. KILLED BY SUBWAY EXPRESS. Trackwalker, Dodging Local Train, Run Down at 23d Street. Alfred T.

Moore, thirty-two years old. of 472 West Twenty-fourth Street, a trackwalker employed In the Subway, was. killed by a southbound Subway express train at Twentv-thlrd Street at 7:43 o'clock yesterday morning. His body was picked up by P'dioeman McCoy of tho Macdougal Street Station and the train went on. the roctorman.

Louis H. Garretson of 2.014 Eighth Avenue, being surrendered later by the Interborough Company. Two watches, a hypodermic syringe. and an employe's badge were found In his clothing. The accident caused much excitement Jimong the rush hour passengers on the platform and on a local train, tti avoid which Moore stepped to the express track.

WHY NEW BRIDGE WAITS. Approach Property Being Rented, Not Demolished, Says Grout. Controller Grout has notified Bridge Commissioner Best that the work of making the approaches for the new Manhattan Bridge across the East River is being held up by the Davis Contracting Company, which, instead of tearing down houses at the approaches at the shore, la using them for rental purposes. Controller Grout is Indignant over th matter and said yesterday that he would endeavor to subtract the amount of rentals received from the contracts. We were requested by the Bridge Department to tur.n over on Jan.

1 the property acquired for the anchorage of the Manhattan and Brooklyn ends of the Manhattan Eridge. and did so," said the Controller. We subsequently found that the contractors had taken possession of the property and were proceeding to make new rentals with the tenants, in sorr.e cases for a year or mor. We at once called the matter to the attention of the Bridge Denartment. and the Bridge Commissioner agreed with us! that, while the buildings, under the terrhs of the contract, became tne property of the contractors, they became so for the sole purpose of having them removed accordance with the contract forthwith, and not for the purpose of renting them and obtaining a profit thereby.

The Bridge Department at once gave the contractors notice to that e.iect." HYMN GREETS RAIDERS. Police Make Arrests, However, on Charge of Prizefighting. When Capt. Reynolds of the Fifth Avenue Police Station, Brooklyn, raided the hall of the Melrose Athletic Club over Hurley's saloon, at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-third Street, he found several hundred men singing a hymn. He had been informed that a prize fight was being held there.

The display of religious fervor did not prevent the Captain from Investigating further. In an ante-room he found Michael Fenl-more and Frank Ruby, aged respectively eighteen and nineteen years. Their faces were battered. They were arrested as principals. Charles Kelly, charged with refereeing the contest which the Captain declared had been Interrupted while his men were surrounding the hall, was also at rested.

PAINTINGS BRING $53,035. A Melssonier Sells for Highest Figure at 9randus Auction. A total cf $33,035 was received for the first night's sale of the collection cf modern and ancient paintings of Edward Brandus, hell In the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Ust evening. The highest price. $3,350.

was given by Louis oierr. tor itemorar.at in ins stuaio, d-Melssonter. A number of others passed the Jl.ooo mark, ar.d the rest ranged upward from the lowest price. The tlrst high price was paid by L. A.

Lamhier for Marie de Camudlo. by Daniel Myter.s. which went for l.SO0. H. D.

Babcock paid fl.Oii for The River Arques," by Frits Thaulow; a Mrs. Sutherland $1,000 for Mile, de Blois." by Mathteu le Naln. and the same price for the Marquese de Llstenols." by Tocque. Louis Ralston paid $1,700 for An Expert," by Ferdinand Roy bet. Rosa Bonheur's Ploughing went to Spencer P.

ahotter of Savannah. Ga. for 12.625. and A. W.

Bishop bid in a landscape by Corot for $1,300. A Forest," by Diaz, went for $1,500, and Louis Ralston paid SI.O.V) for the Bridge at Verona." by Frits Thaulow. L. A. Lanthler paid $2,350 for a Corot, The Neapolitan $1,075 for "Elenora dl ValoU," by iJucchero, ar.d Si.OoO for Cour.tess de Bermont," bv J.

B. Santerre. Darbes's Empress of Russia was another picture which went to Louis Stern, this bringing $1,200. John Graham paid tor AODevnie canal," Dy 'i nauiow, and the last big price of the evening was paid by W. W.

Johns for Venice," by In all r.lnety-four pictures were sold, two catalogued being crossed off. About the same number will be sold tonight, concluding the sale. James De Wolf Cutting bought a number of paintings. THIEVES BUSY AT FIRE. Losses Reported as Result of Fifth Avenue Blaze.

Detectives are Investigating a robbery which took place after or at the fire in the apartment house at 231 Fifth Avenue last Sunday morning. Immediately after the fire, Leonard Richards. President of the Boston Artificial Leather Company, missed Jewelry valued at $450 and $150 in cash. He Immediately reported the matter to the Detective Bureau. Harry Keene also complained to the police that silverware valued at about $40O was missing from his room, where it was evident, he says, it had not been destroyed by fire or swept away.

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E. W. Bliss Co. Elects Directors. At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the E.

W. Bliss Company yesterday William H. TrUesdale, President of the Delaware, Lackawanna and West ern Railway, and Thomas B. Kent. Free! dent of the Holmes, Booth Haydens Company, were elected Directors to fill two vacancies In the board caused by the death of Joseph C.

Wllletts and Frederick w. oss. Trie Directors voted to pay tne regular quarterly dividend on April 1 of 2 per tent, on the preferred stock and per cent, on the common stock of the company. YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED. Coroner's Verdict on Body Found In Waiikill Creek.

Special It Tkt Srae York Timet. KINGSTON, N. March 29. The autopsy on tho body of a young; woman found in the Wallklll Creek near Tuthil-town. on Sunday afternoon was held today, and disclosed the fact that the Injury over the right eye was Inflicted after death and may have been caused by a floating cake of ice.

The lungs were found collapsed, however, and there was no evidence of death by drowning. "The death of this woman was caused before she was put in the water," said Dr. Henry Van Hoevenberg. "Death was caused by a blow on top of the head by some blunt instrument, and the blow was probably Inflicted several days before death." In accordance with this Coroner Hasbrouck rendered a verdict that death was caused by a blow on the head, delivered by a blunt Instrument in the hands of an unknown person. BRITISH-AFGHAN AGREEMENT.

Successful Result of Louis Dane's Mission Is Announced. LONDON. March 29. The Indian Office here announces that the Louis Dane mis sion to Afghanistan has completed Its business. It has concluded an agreement with the Ameer, and is now returning to India.

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THE ANDERSEN SUPPLEMENT OF THE HEW YORK SUNDAY TIMES NEXT SUNDAY will be a thing of beauty and a joy to child, parent, and teacher. The. Hundredth Anniversary Next of the Birth of TUne (Era Writes fi IFaiiiry Tales will be observed in every part of the world where young and old read books. The New York Public Schools Will Honor the Occasion on Monday in accordance with this General Circular sent yesterday to the Principals: "The centenary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen falls on Siinday'y April 2y 1903. The Board of Superintendents at its vieeling yesterday decided to suggest to Principals that the day be celebrated in all New York schools on Aonday, April ipoj.

Will you kindly arrange a brief programme suitable for the opening exercises? It should include an account of the life of Andersen, as possibly the greatest of writers for children, and the reading or recitation of selections from his stories' No Better Preparation for Aonday's Celebration can be had than through THE NEW YORK SUNDAY TIMES SPECIAL ANDERSEN SUPPLEMENT, to which is called the attention of TEACHERS, PARENTS AND CHILDREN This Supplement will contain a charmingly written of Andersen's Life and Strusffies and a delightful review of th; fairy creatures of his imagination A notable feature will be ths numerous illustrations, most of which are from th; originals by Andersen's artist-friend Tegner They will be EXQUISITELY REPRODUCED IN FOUR COLORS.