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THE WORLD. PAGES 9 TO Ctivttlativn Open to ft mi vajiiOu NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1894. SQIE.LEIAIL Mote of Weal, TMift of Die THEIR CHILDREN STARVE, While Yours Have Luxuries These Want for Bread. SOME GET IT AND ARE HiPPT. Wretchedness of the William Smith Shown Here as a Typs of the Awful General Suffering.

HATE PITY THEN AND LEND A HAND. JProloniljr 448,847 Joseph 1-ulltzer 8O.OOO Bread Fund Safe 1,157 Ottinger New York 1,000 Busy Bee Fair, No. BBS West Fifteenth street Visitors Dome Pulitzer Building B. J. New York Bedford Baptist Church, Bedford, Amelia B.

Lyon, Beanie Powers, Baldwins, L. I i L. Neighbour, Middle Valley, N. Mrs. Caroline G.

Newman, Frye- 450 868 200 100 100 109 70 burg, N. F. B. Ernst's barber shop 65 iw. J.

Brundage, Bedford, N. 60 Houston street 40 Mrs. R. B. Brooklyn 40 No Name, Glens Falls, N.

40 L. F. Stentz's barber shop 80 C. and R. Buras, Brooklyn 26 E.

Woodbrldije 20 Brooklyn 20 Family Father, West Hoboken, N. J. 20 J. M. New York 20 .1.

L. New York 20 Four Unloyal Subjects, Kershaw, S. -20 St. Clalr and Clyde, New York 20 C. N.

New 20 Terry Logan, Laramle, Wyo 20 Ogdensburg Reader 20 33. J. Holyoke, Mass 20 G. W. Cayanagh, New York 20 Leslie and Lome.

Brooklyn 20 Montana, Great Falls, Mont 20 Louisa Harlow, Wilmington, 5 Incognito, New York A Friend of the Poor 4 Little Boy, Farmineville, N. ,2 Total 407,535 Between hirie and ten thousand loaves'of bread were given to the poor yesterday by the World's Bread Fund. In other words, starvation was postponed In about five thousand families. Alba! will go a long way in keeping body and soul together. The small pinched children of the poor do not eat much.

They are so used to being starved that a little bread Is a feast Any bread at all makes them as happy as more fortunate children are mode With bon-bons or toys. in tho vicinity of the World's uptown distributing depot at Forty-ninth street and Eleventh avenue, the poor people seem to have moro children than those in the neighborhood of the depot at No. 210 East Houston Btreet. Hardly a starving woman lines up to get loaves of tho precious bread who is not accompanied by two or more shivering children- Children like those depicted in comic periodicals looking into shop windows, only thinner 6nd hungrier looking. It Is sad enough to see Inen.

and women whose faces expreis despair and tho utter hopelessness of their lives, but it Is far sadder to see children in whose dirty little faces there Is and can be no such expression of hopelessness, because they do not know there Is anything'in life but cold, hunger and CUflerlng. Friday is the wont day In thin told of poverty. If the father worked last week tho money ho earned Is gone. The World's great bins of bread are emptied quicker on this 'than on any other day. -More children came yesterday than on any oay since the depot ope-ned, and by tho children the condition of the parents con most accurately be judged.

When the children are in really in the parents are very, very poor, generally starving. That usually means that they have ho money for needles ana thread and no cloth for patches; Until such a ptaso is reached tho children's things In most coses show affectionate, motherly care. WHERE PLUCK HELPS LITTLE. Mrs. William Smith, who lives at No.

625 West Forty-eighth street, came to the depot yesterday with a little boy in rags. She has another bigger, and therefore more ragged, at home, aud also a little girl less ragged, because she is a girl. William Smith Is a truckman out of a Job Once in a great while he gets a work. Then the Smiths eat Just now he is not work ing and the Smiths keep body and soul together with The World' bread. Job, and ehe adds pathetically "Wllllai works harder looking for tlici jo'b thau mob people do when they huve one.

YOUNG, POOK AND PROUD. Rosle Fox, aged seventeen years Fox aged twelve yours, and Mikcy 1'ox, aged scve years, live together in a. dlngv little tunomen ut No. 312 West Forty-ninth street. Tlld father died several years ago und their mothc seven months ngo.

Hosie is the wage- oarne aud earns $4 a week packing patent inodiciu when slic works. Twelve-year-old Kntio i the housekeeper and looks aficr Mikcy. Thro weeks iigo Mikcy took sick iinrl Kosle had stay homo to nurse him. since then th Juvenile family has been in sad straits to food and medicine. Their throe rooms are however, as neat as a pin.

Kali keeps everything as clean as water eai make it. She says that neither sli nor Rosie wants any lielp other than the bread and that as Mikuy is so much better Rosic i going to work again Monday. It will be fiatur day before she will got any money, however anil these children, who at such an early age are contending with the stern reali ties of life, should be made to accept tome further assistance. They need it now mor than many of tlioso who' are anxiously Beck mg It Katie was not the only proud one In the line or over fifteen hundred hungry ones who filei past the uptown distributers yesterday. Ther wore many who showed by their demnauor tha It was the first time they had accepted tin bread of charity.

One old. old woman wit! calico covered crutches, with cushions on the bottoms of them so that they would not slip 01 the icy pavement, stood patiently in line, though oflered precedence on account of lie Infirmity. She would take but one loaf, thougl others were getting two. She would not give her name. 1 A church helps me sometimes, she said in a thin, treble voice, and I can do with one.

There aro those who don 1 1 get one. Give one to one of them. Surely old age. cold, hunger and poverty are powerless to kill such generosity as this, am other generous people with hearts and money should remember that there are those that don' get cne. $57.85 Fair Women Shopping Givo Their MitSB for Starving Sisters.

The ladies, "God bless them," came nobly to the front yesterday, while ou on their shopping tours along Sixth ave nuo, by dropping their donations in The World's Free Bread Fund safe. It stood at the corner of Fourteenth street am Sixth avenue for a time, then Eighteenth street, Twenty-first street and finally at Twenty-third street anc Sixth avenue. During the time it was a these places $57.85 was deposited In the safe. There were 55 In. bills, $24 in nick els and the rest in pennies and dimes This shows what a great number of per sons actually contributed to the fund through this medium.

Many a time the parents of a little child were pleased ti have their boy or girl lifted up to drop their mite into the slot. on top of tin safe. The Metropolitan Van Company lent i fine team of horses, and Edward Joyce the truck upon which the safe was carried around. To-day the route will ba on Sixth avenue, in the shopping donation will 1,157 loaves of bread. They will be distributed from the main depot, No.

210 Houston street. Mrs. Smith looked so sick and starved when ilievcame to the depot that the distributors gave her moro bread than others, and when they saw tho ragged little boy they gave her still more. The child had to reach up to take his mother's hand he was BO little. His face -was wreathed in smiles when he saw the bread, Ji and he was BO weak and no anxious to get home and at the bread that he fell down several times pn tho way and had to be pulled up by the who was hardly strong enough to do It.

The Smiths live In the ground floor flat, No. West Forty-eighth street, and It is lucky that there are no stairs for them to climb. The ffrottnd floor flat is very dark, even iu the daytime, and there is seldom monev for oil to burn night. Light and this family's life atpres- ent ore actually and figuratively strangers. Every morning early William Smith, who is a sober industrious man who had been ten years in his last place when the business shut down, starts out to look for work.

Yesterday he kissed his wife and started out cheerfully and hopefully and walked to One Hundred and Forty-fifth street to the house of a man who he heard wanted a driver. He came back late in the afternoon discouraged without the hoped-for job and with an appetite good for at least a loaf and a half of The World's bread. To-day he will hunt again. THEIR ONE SOUP-BONE. Smith is about thirty-five years old.

She muse once Have Deen exceedingly pretty. She has honest blue eyes with long clock typical Irish her face is pale and drawn, and the unnatural brightness of the eves Indlofetes lack of food. Bread aud tea are the Smiths have had for two weeks. Some- tunes they have had only bread. Twoweeib ago they had a soup-bone, but a a luxury in the Smith household.

Their rooms are as clean as can be expected ww three children playing about and In the abjpnce of soap and towels, and besides HEBE'S A SHOWI A Galaxy of Stars Will Appear at Central Opera-Houee To-Morrow Night. The entertainment for the benefit of The World's Bread Fund to-morrow night at Central Opera-House should attract the largest audience ever assembled In that place. The advance sale of seats gives every indication of this result, and the programme prepared will not be a disappointment. The performers who have volunteered are the Unity and Musical Quartet, Al Grant, the and Nellie Seymour, Vess bssman, Klein and Gotthold, Mrs. eGorge Birnbaum, Andy LewlB, Tlddlewlnks, Little Sunshine and the and Will.

These are to be reinforced by the Hebrew Asylum Band of seventy-five boys, making altogether a company such aa is rarely to be found on any stage at one time. The band will be transported rropi the asylum and back by the Third Avenue charge. Railroad Company free of F. K. Haln, of the Manhattan Elevated, was unable to give the transportation on account of the rules of the company.

The tickets not yet sold will be disposed of at the door of the Opera- House, Sixty-seventh street and Third avenue. The doors will be opened at 7.30 P. M. Admission, including an Invitation to the ball afterwards, is 60 cents. If there is 9 Children are Jim, Simon and Sadie.

MORE WORKERS WANTED. The Imperial Provisional Committee Needs Charity Doings. A call for moro volunteer workers at the headquarters In the Hotel Imperial has been issued by tho Provisional Committee for the Aid of the Hungry, of which Oliver Suinner Teall is president. An agency to secure employment for men with families will shortly be opened. The committee has distributed 600 free theatre tickets this week to the employees of charity organizations and is daily providing milk for about one hundred and fifty babies.

Louis Klopsch will open another station on on the cast.slde next week for the relief of the poor. About five thousand people are being fed daily at the station ou Eighth avenue. Clothing and provisions aro also Bent 11 tho homes of tho poor who aro unable to apply in person for help. The five-cent restaurant in tho Industrial Christian Alliance Building, Bleecker and Sul- has had to enlarge its cooking Association fund association Mr. Andrews Explains Why He Sim Up His Cost-Price Store.

OPPOSITION BY SMALL TRADESiTO THE CAUSE. SIMILAR TREATMENT FOB MR. STRAUS James F. Andrews, a silent partner in th wholesale furniture firm of John E. Foster Nos.

10 and 17 Elizabeth street, and member of the New York Athletic- and Man hattan clubs, is one of the well-to-do citizen of New York whose heart is easily touched the sufferings of the poor. Dec. 1 last Mr Andrews leased the basement store No. 42i East Fifteenth street, and established there cost- price grocery and coal store on tho Strau plan. Cost-price stores are always run at loss, because the rent, heating, lighting am clerical hiro come out of the pockets of th' men who back them.

Mr. Andrews has lots friends, and some of them volunteered thet services as clerks between 7 and 10 P. M. as their personal contributions to the cause. Thursday night the enterprise came to an abrupt end, as told exclusively in The Worl yesterday morning.

This was caused by tut facilitle The Jewellers' Relief amounts to over $3,000. keeps a list of and manufacturers are requested to consult it when needing work- High-CIaH Muiio for Charity. Lovers of music will enjoy the concert Thursday night, at Lenox Lyceum, in aid of the poor. As the preparations approach completion a more and more attractive programme developes. Among the vocal and Instrumental artists to appear ore Mme.

Alvla and Mme. of the Grand Opera; Anton and Albert Bchott, Arthur Freidheim, Albert Sins- beimer, Albert Pardoe, Anton Hegner, and Victor Harris, not to mention a score of others. Tickets are selling rapidly and boxes are at a premium. The present sales alone would make a handsome addition to the fund The total receipts be divided between The World's Bread Fund, the kindred Hebrew Charities and wprthr objects. Admission including a reserved seat Is KL Tickets are on sale at all the music stores.

Brentano' and ryson. Brill Brother! 1 Bonerolenoe. Great blue signs on each of Brill Brothers' gentlemen's furnishing, itores la Cortlondt street Sixth ayeaus.announce this morning flwM' per JAMES J. ANDREWS. ingratitude of the people who were bencfittet ay the charity, urged, as Mr.

Andrews be lleves, by the small grocers nnd coal iu the neighborhood, whoso trade was hurt. When I opened the said Mr. An drews, yesterday, "I protests from nearly all tho grocers'jn the vicinity, ihought they could los jctter than tho unemployed could stand prices they were charging. When the small tradesmen saw that I to stick they incited their customers come over to my place aud kick. They said ihat mino was a money-making scheme anc that tho goods I sold could be bought of the other dealers just as cheap.

They proved this the poorer of their customers by selling a lost price. After that these people would come nto my place uud because they could not ge goods at half cost price they would denounce store ns a swindle, complain of the quality, juestion the weight and insult friends of mino who served as elerks. Everything we kept was the best the afforded. The Hour was of tho grade that I use In my own house. My friends got tired if the insults, and as it is necessary for.mo to go South next week 1 decided to close the plact eb.

1. The people in that neighborhooc Till probably find that the prices are consider- higher now that charitable competition ms been removed. Tho East Side Belief Committee, through )r. Stonton Coit and others, purchased many if Mr. Andrews' tickets, and sent poor people rom all parts of town to his store.

Mr. Andrews has a large stock of groceries, vegc- ables and coal on hand, which he will turn )ver to Mr. Straus or to some one who Is en- eavoring to meet the needs of the poor. A. L.

Kinkeau, Mr. Straus's private Fecre- ary, who has general supervision of the Park j'ommlssioner' charities, said yesterday: 'Mr. Straus lias received letters and call) rom grocers, bakers and coal dealers protest- against his scheme. Investigation shows Imt, with few exceptions, these tradesmen largo exorbitant prices, especially for coal, nd we feel convinced that the majority of ur customers would be compelled to go with- ut food nnd fuel half tho time if they were ot enabled to buy at prices much lower than he small dealers charge. We maintain that charity of this kind helps a great many and njures comparatively few." CANDLEMAS DAY CELEBRATED.

Roman Cathfclic and Episcopalian Churcae, Hold Proper Services. The feast of tho Purification or Candlemas lay was celebrated yesterday in the Koman atholio and Episcopal' churches. At the Ca- ledral there was solemn, blessing of the can- les, followed by solemn mass at 9' A. M. fter the blessing of the candles' there was a rocession through the aisles of the church, ach of tho ministers taking a lighted taper om among those blessed.

This signifies the ap- earance of Christ, tho light of tho world, In ic temple. The sacrament was reposed -in the tabernacle during the celebration of the purification function and was reposed immediately after its conclusion. As is customary in the Cathedral regularly organized bauds of adorers from the Ixjague of the Bacred Heart watched before the sacrament. At the evening services the Director of the tho Bacred Heart preached a sermon on Our Contradictions of Christ." At its conclusion benediction of tho sacrament was "A Solemn services were also held in the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, the Church of St.

Francis, Xavler, St. Stephen's Church, the Church of St. Vincent de Paur'and the Church of the Sacred Heart, with large congregations present. There was a high Trinity Church at which the Rev. Joseph W.

Hill officiated. The full choir of forty men and boys was present. Services were held also in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Grace Church Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Trinity Chapel Church of the Redeemer. Calvary Church and St.

Bartholomew's Church. The Fire Marshal Murt Bo Coraultea. Charles Schampaln, counsel for H6hry Gottlieb, the taloon-keeper who was arrested on the charge of having attempted to blow up his house on Second avenue, has been trying for two days past to have his client released in S2, BOO bail. Yesterday he brought Jacob Lustzarten, of No. 11 Delaiicey street, and another mun to furnish the bonds.

Assistant District-Attorney Henry W. Unger refused to accept the proposed bondsmen. Mr. Scham- pain complained to Judge Marline. Mr.

Unrer said that the District-Attorney's office could not accept the bonds without consulting' with Fire Marshal Mitchell'. Jiidfce Mortice reserved his decision. It Ww of the Sirs. Townsend's Innocence Established Beyond Doubt. TUB WORLD WAS RIGHT WHEN IT HELD TO THAT BELIEF.

Partridge Informed the Council that He Would Resign. NOW CLERK I00NGS IS WANTED. When Mrs. Mary Townsend was by Detective- Sergeant Heidelberg, of Inspector Mclaughlin' on New Year's Day on a charge of stealing a pair of diamond earrings worth 51, 200 from Mrs. George Bnllard, wife ol a salesman who lives in the Chelsea apartment-house, at No.

222 West Twenty-third street, Tho World alone protested her Innocence and doubted the honesty of one of the chief witnesses against her. The World was right. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Townsentl was honorably discharged by Justice Talntor In the Tombs Police Court, and facts came to light which go a good way towards proving that the thief was Edward P. Youngs, one of those who pressed hardest for the conviction of Mrs.

Townsend. Mrs. Bullard engaged Mrs. Townsend to call at her apartments every day except Sunday and tidy them up. This Mrs.

Towusend did regularly for six years. The Friday before New Year's Day Mrs. Ballard went out early, leaving Mrs. Townsend alone in the apartments. She had dons this often before and always found her belongings safe on her return.

She left her diamond earrings in a leather box in a locked drawer. The icy to this drawer was not with the keys Mrs. 3allard left with Mrs. Townfiend. The clerk at the desk in the office was P.

Youngs. Mrs. Townfiend placed -the keys in his hands as she left the Chelsea when icr work was completed. He had Bole. possession of them until Mrs.

Ballard returned lomc late in the afternoon. As eoou as missed the diamonds sho told her husband; who notified Inspector McLaughlin, tectivo Heidelberg was detailed on the Mrs. Ballard meanwhile swore out warrant tor the of Mm Townsend. She was arraigned beloro Justice Martin in the. where Detective Heidelberg anted that the examination be postponed and the woman paroled in his custody, as he'was sure that too was innocent and that 'he coula tustico Martin refused to listen to the detective and held her in Si, 000 bail.

Mrs. ToViv Bend was locked up until Jan. 8, whtri a bondsmun was secured. Yesterday tho examination was again called before Justice Tointor. Mrs.

Ballard told bar story as already recounted. She admitted that Mrs, Towiistmd had always betm honestjifflua faithful. Edward P. Youngs called Justice Taintor, as Mrs. Ballard- stepped down.

i There was no answer. Lawyer who appeared for Mrs. Townseud, smiled. Ucre is Manager MeElwce, of the Chelsea, -he employer of Clerk Youngs, said Detective lnerg. iloidelnerg.

Where is Youngs, McElwec. "He has disappeared, asked the Court of Mr. was the reply. discharged him because his accounts were not straight. I went to him on Jan, 2 and accused ilm of dishonesty.

He admitted a shortage (if ilOO. I discharged him on the spot. Then lie Board of Directors. hold a meeting and Youngs'8 books were examined. We found a hortagc of at least "And that is the man to whom Mrs.

Townend gave Mrs. Dallard'B keys, and whotcstl- ied Mrs. Townseud?" asked Justice Taintor uharply. "That's the man," said Lawyer Price, 'and, Mr. McElwee, could not Youngs easily have gained access to Mrs.

Ballard's room's vlth the keys afterMrs. Townsend had gone He could have gone there, of course, but I heard nothing of it." Mrs. Townsend at this point exclaimed: I im innocent. I brought up my son and daugh- to be good and it would kill them to have hem think me a thief." That' enough," said Justice Taintor. I oelievo you.

You aro discharged. regret hat you have been mode to Youngs lived with his wife at No. 136 East ifticth Btreet. lie was not there last night and could not be found. Detective Heidelberg looking for him.

Manager McElwee said hat Youngs knew a number of actresses to whom ha gave champagne suppers. THE BOYS MADE A POOR SHOWING BEFORE THS MAYOR THE RESIGNATION HAS BEEN SENT IN. The members of Brooklyn 1 regiment, popularly called "Ours," are quietly pursuing business paths and attending regimental drills each day, knowing nothing of recent disturbances within tho regiment's official clrclea Col. Partridge's resignation has been forwarded to Gen. McLeer, and there will be a gasp of surprise among the hundreds of privates included in The officers won't gasp, howevoi, for they already know of the Colonel's avowed resignation.

In truth, their gasping was done at the weekly.meeting of tho Council of Officers held Monday evening. Any and all rumors of trouble have been promptly put down by their emphatic denial of such intention on Col. Partridge'fi part, but this denial wan ouly made to enable some thirty-five officers to gain time wherein they hoped to induce Col. Partridge to reconsider his declaration of resignation from the regiment. In this latter case all might have been well and the regiment, as a body, never have known of their Colouel' intention to leave.

But he expressed his determination at the Monday evening meeting to resign, and he has carried his word into effect. His formal resignation will full upon Ours as a thunderbolt. The regiment has prospered under Col. I'ar- tridcc'B command, to say nothing of the esteem ana honored respect the whole regiment has for its commanding ollicer. He is popular.

Indeed, ills resignation will prove a sor- And S. Rowland Robbins Succeed Him as Fire Commissioner. CULMINATION OP QUARRELS OVER THE SOTELDO CHARGES. INTERESTING LETTERS HELD BACK Fire Commissioner Henry Winthrop Gray resigned yesterday. S.

Howland Bobbins was appointed by Mayor Gtlroy to succeed him, and was sworn in. Mr Robbins was appointed a Fire Commis sloner by Mayor Grant In 1889, and com pletod hi3 term lost May. Then Com mlssioner Gray succeeded him, by ap polntment Mayor Gilroy. Previous ti that Mr. Gray had been a Park Commis COL.

JOHN L. PARTRIDGE. rowful blow to Ours, and hope he would not really resign even If he did threaten such a thing. The regiment is In splendid trim, as was evinced by the Slate inspection report a few weeks ago. There is no cause obtainable for his net unless tho review of Jan.

27 brought about the trouble. This had long been anticipated in the various company circles. There had been good previous drilling Tickets were advanced from 50 cents to $1 each. Bandmaster Fobs arranged a superb musical programme and the whole affair was to be a fine one. So far as attendance and dress went it was.

But the military portion of at was deplorably bad. ever before had the famed Twenty- third shown to such disadvan- before tage never breaks made. were there so many bad GREEN WILL NOT STAY OUT OP BIGHT. This Time He Is Up for Kiting Worthless Chocks by Way of Variety. Kobert F.

Green, who has been getting more ban his share of prominence lately, was again a prisoner In Jefferson Market Court yesterday tccuscd of passing. worthless cheeks. His andlady, Elizabeth Drabelle, of Thlrty-irixtli ireot and Ninth avenue, was one of his ima. The complainants were about to wlth- raw their charges when unluckily ropped a remark about -his wife that 'started ustice McMahon thinking. He looked at'tho rlsoner closely and suddenly remarked! I Wliy, you scoundrel, I remember you.

Only few weeks ago you promised to leave your vllo alone. You must go down for trial." Green and his wife, who is a pretty woman, rst became noticeable iu a series of rows in aylof Hotel. Jersey City. Then they drifted the St. George in Brooklyn.

Hero there more tempests. Mrs. Green had her 1ms- ind locked up for dogging her movements, promised to go to his mother in hia and was released by Justice JIcMahon. Dec. 2 he knocked down Edmund Levy, at roadway and Thirty-fourth street, and he ad 'also assaulted Broker Laportas, because sold they had stolen his wife's affections om him.

Green does not speak rationally at II TOOK THE RUNAWAYS Jf Willie Stewart in a Coffin, Young Ayrton in a Glad Father's Arms. The bruised and mangled body of little Willie tewart, who was killed by a train at Bedford ark Thursday morning, waSitaken to his homq i Worcester. last night Two brothers the dead and James ompanied tho body. In another car of the ame train was Oswald Ayrton, the companion young Stewart, who came with him to seek fortune In New York. He lay curled up in learms of, ills father.

Robert Ayrton, who camo esterday to claim the little runaway. He lund his boy safe and sound in the Gerry Soety's rooms, at'No. 297 Fourth otli cried for Joy. Agent Agnew accompanied ther and son to the Harlem Police Court, here Justice Simms relieved him of tho cus- of tho boy and delivered him over to the Stawart brothers claimed the shattered, oay of the dead boy ax tho Harlem Morgue, ted it from the rough wooden box Into a cof- i and employed an undertaker to take it to Grand Central Station. Pound (HI Fire and Hay Die.

Jane Bordman, Wvant lor Mrs. Frank arks at No, 41 East Twenty-third street, i'-t- start a. fire yesterday afternoon by pouring on astral'oil. Aside from the dropping of Muuuei ana uayonet. tho Colonel gave an early command of "Present!" and that from Order arms!" The result can be imagined by any one posted in military tactics.

Even the good Mayor who reviewed "Ours" knew something was out of order if he is not a soldier. This break seemed to have a disheartening effect upon the command, for instead of the customary beautifully correct imrt-hcarty exhibition of drilling it' somehow lacked spirit of execution. As Mayor Schlcreu left tha armory at V. M. tho drill was necessarily nmflo very short.

It is believed that this, togethar with the handling ol the entire regiment on the limited floor space, confused the Colonel. There was much talk to this effect In the cempany rooms after the drill, for It Is admittedly difficult to properly execute orders when the entire regiment is on tho floor of the present armory. It is far too small to attempt such a thing. Col. Partridge should have had a smaller battallion exhibit, It was said.

The following Monday tho weakly meeting of tho officers was held upstairs. Then it was that Col. Partridge announced his intention of withdrawing from the regiment. Itls presumed that fault was found wltlj tho Saturday even- Ing performance. No private or outsider js likely to know what transpired at that meeting.

But the Colonel did resign, and he meant It leaked out last night that tho stockholders of the Franklin and De Kalb Avenue Railroad Company had given notice to Col. Partridge that lie must devote his time and attention to the trolley lines of which he is President and Klve up his active associations In the Riding and Driving Club and also the Twenty- third peglment. The result was that the Colonel told tho council of officers on Monday night that in view of tlio bad showing the regiment made on Saturday before the Mayor he would resign, which he did yesterday, lie will also leave the Riding and Drh ing Club and devote his entire time to the trolley road. HENRY WINTIinOP GRAY. Bloncr.

Commissioner Gray's resignation the culmination of a bitter fight that has going on in the Fire Department between himself and the other Commissioners, John J. Scannell and Anthony Eiekhoff. It grew out ol 1 charges made tay Mr. Gray against Charles A. Soteldo, tin; purchasing agent if the department.

The Commissioner al- edgecl that Soteldo paid exorbitant prices lor oil and Tor castings for the grates the. fire boats. 'There was a formal learing upon the charges, but Soteldo was acquitted. He is a political protege of County Clerk Henry D. Purroy, who was I'or so many years at the head of Fire Department.

Commissioner Gray then wrote to the ilayor reaffirming his charges against Soteldo, and asking that a thorough Jn- restigatlon be had. The Mayor sent the letter to the Board oi' Commissioners, with a request for on answer In detail to the charges contained therein. Commissioners Scannell and Eiekhoff replied at great length, giving their side of the story, and raisinff a question oj between Commissioner Gray and themselves. The Mayor sent this reply to Commissioner Gray, and tho latter'responded hi( resignation, which the Mayor accepted promptly. The appointment and swearing in of Commissioner Ilobblhs followed at once Secretary Willis Holly, evidently act: under instructions from the Mayor left olllce as soon as he made the appointment, refused lust night to make public the letters In the cape, say- Ing that Mr.

Gray, through an evidenl oversight, had neglected to return to the Mayor the reply of the other two Commissioners, nnd It was, therefore, impossible to give both olden of the story. In his letter of resignation, Commissioner Gray spoke of his intention to resign expressed some time ago, before tho Soteldo matter camo up; but It is no secret that he 1ms been frozen out because he made himself obnoxious to the former head of the department, and to the two present Tammany Commissioners, Scannell and Kk-khoff, by his efforts at reform. He could not remain and preserve his self-respect. ing THE TWINS WERE MYTHS, Bmythe, However, Btolo a Counle of Baby Carriages to Accommodate Them. Policeman George Zimmerman, of the Mercer street Smythe pushing station, saw George two empty baby carriages along South Flf tli avenue Thursday afternoon.

He stopped him. "They for my twins," he proudly. "Do you want to see their pictures? Prettiest babies In town." As he rattled on he got the between him and the policeman. Then he broke and ran away. He was caught after a chase of a block.

It was found that Smythe had stolen the carriages from Mrs. Kathcrlne Busch and Mrs. Hilda Flatau, both of No. 210 Sixth street. Smythe told Justice McMahon 1n Jefferson Market Court yesterday that he was forty-five yeara of age and unmarried.

He tried to excuse himself. "There's no excuse If you're a bachelor," said the Justice. "If you really had twins.there might be some excuse." He was held for trial. PBBJUET IN A DIVORCE SUIT. Judge Fryer Will Advisn that Eschnu and Davis Be Prosecuted.

Judge of the Court of Common PJeas, granted a separation yesterday to Mrs. Caroline Eschner from Conrad Bschner, and allowed her $100 counsel fees and $10 a week alimony. Eschner is a baker. He and John Davis, said to be a lawyer, swore that Mrs. Eschner had consented to a separation a year ago and had received $3 week until lately, when Eschner of work.

Mrs. Bschner swore this was false. The Judge said that he believed both Eschner and Davis had perjured themselves and he would advise that they be proceeded against criminally. got that Recorder Is Well Pleased. In adjourning Part III.

of General Sessions for the January term Recorder Smyth paid a tribute yesterday to the fairness and earnestness" which had been displayed by Assistant District-Attorney O'Hare. He said that flfly- two coses, an unusual number, had been disposed of and that the jury had done their duty In all cases except one. In that the stubbornness of one man had kept the jury from bring- In a verdict. A few days later the prisoner that case had pleaded guilty. The juror to whom the Recorder referred is David Rousseau, whose peculiar notions of ethics, law mid eccl- rfogy were carefully noted at the ttzne by his fellow-jurors and published.

fell nm.itoriM and Wo Killed. M'MAHON FELL FOUL OF M'MAHON. Hot Celtic Blood Leads to a Stirring Drama in Jefferson Market Court. There was im interesting case of McMahon vs. McMahon in Jefferson Market Court yesterday.

J. Grattan McMahon, a lawyer, of No. 25 Chambers street, had a case before Justice McMahon and was passed inside the roiling. Once Inside no one can get out without being Identified. The, lawyer's case was adjourned and he started to go out Court Officer Woods, at the gate, refused to let him out without 'The lawyer got angry and abused Woods and court etiquette generally.

Justice McMahoh'ksked what the trouble was, and as the continued to berate everybody in sight tho Justice ordered him put under arrest, He was placed In lino with the herd of drunks'' and beggars. When his turn came he apologized for his hasty words. He was let go with a reprimand. Lawyer McMahon figured prominently at the trial of the Italian assassins in New Orleans, whom he defended. TALK BACK AT MR, DANA, Hie Park Colleagues Bay the Oommiisione Has Carried "tha Pride of Personal Opinion to the Verge of Brutality." In the communication Commissioner Pau 'Dann Bent his colleagues of tho Park Board jus before sailing Thursday ho quoted the follow ing from a letter of Frederick Law Olmsteac who laid out Central Park: Unless the people of New York consent tc the loss of a rarely valuable topographical op portunlty aud a great waste of their money they will not let the problem of the projecte public promenade on the Harlem Elver treated simply a.s one of construction.

"If the landscape architect of your Par Department, Mr. Vaux, is rightly treated, man can be found who will deal more judl eiously with justsuch a problem as is presente iu this In conclusion, Mr. Danasaid: I desire to submit respectfully to tho boart that the exclusion of tile landscape archltec from the preparation of the plans for tho Har 1cm Klver driveway is Indefensible andim proper. It has no justification in the tradition of York or experience elsewhere, and beg of the hoard that tho city's Invariable pol icy in the construction of its pleasure ground he respected and re-established in tho case the Harlem Hirer The three other Commissioners came ou with a reply yesterday, in which they charac terixed Mr. IJana's action as "carrying th pride of personal opinion to the verge of bru tality to insist in presence of privation no dire on defeating all efforts to furnish legltimit employment for labor, unless it could be don precisely ill the way which one man out of fou should They then charge that Mr.

Dnna has at tempted to run the Park Hoard and has usec his newspaper connection to that The of Mr. Vaux as tho "landscape gar deiicr" of the department, and declare the luive no intention of ignoring him as such. I conclusion they say the will be con EtrucUKl with tidewnlks, as required the legislative act, and with due consideration of all the requirements, whether of utility beauty, which the worlc involves. HOT A GOOD SAVINGS BANK. The Sokolskis Had $430 in en OM Bkir Now Are to Provt That Stoba Took It.

Johanna Soltolskl lives with her husband, gai-house worker, at No. O24 East Fourteenth street. They have three boarders In the! household. thrift and. self-denial the Sokolskis had accumulated $430, of which $3( was In gold and tho rest In bank notes.

This money Mrs. Sokolskl kept in the pocket of an old skirt, concealed under the mattress he bod. One ol her lodgers, lenntzl Stoba, also a gas house laborer, who wns regarded as especially Impecunious, was one day given a sight o( thl treasure. On the night of Oct. 20 he was de teeted In the act of stuffing a newspaper, roll tho same as the roll ot bank bll's Into tl pocket of tho old skirt under Mrs.

Bokolski' matu-ess. Mrs. Sokolskl found that the roll bills was miiwlng. Stoba denied that he had it but left the house at once and never returned lie went to live with his sister, who, it is said acquired coUBideraWu money shortly there after. Ono Wazllsky, who calls himself count'' and is connected with the church to which the Sokolskisbelong, took th mutter of the loss of the money into the Essex Market I'olleo Court Owin, wllce magistrates successively.

Justices Mead Hyim and Hogan, with practically the shmc result eaeli time. Count'' Wazitsky appears to Imve acted all along for both parties in the all'nir. finally Lawyer Max D. Steuer, of the Pulitzer Building, was given charge of tho case lor the Sokolskis. Justice Uognn advisee im to take it bulore the Qraucl Jury.

A civil action was also brought ajalnst Stobu and was decided adversely to him by default. Btoba' attorney, John C. made a forma motion yesterday to set aside the default. ig to lack of evidence Stoba was no The ciwo was brought up threi THE KNOW. lawyer Coleman Sail He Wai Her Counsel and She Denied It.

Lawyer Hugh O. Coleman and Assistant district Attorney Stephen J. 0' Haro had nother encounter yesterday. Mr. O'Hare uovod tho trial of Clmrlotta Horton, charged vith grand larceny.

I want a postponement that Coleman shouted at the Recorder. Tills nan Is not that a counsel," aid Assistant District-Attorney 0' Hare. 'Have you been rqtalneij by the asked the Kccorder. Certainly. I am her He is not, and he knows that James W.

fcLaughlln fa counsel for this woman," Mr. 0' Hare. 4 He is trying to force him- elf Into this 1 Who is your lawyer asked Capt. Coleman of the woman. "Why; Mr.

McLauehlln, of course. lenv loyed she replied. That settles it; sho ought to re- itirlied the Kecorder, addressing' Mr. Colean. I don't care for yelled Coleman 1 in eply, as he walked out of the court-room.

ACCUSED BT HIS YOUTHFUL WIFE. Aged Prof. Bauer Claimi that She Was in the Habit of fitting His Pcokots. C. C.

Bauer, of No. 41G East Ninth street, Principal of a school of languages, was In Jefferson Market Court charged with nou-support by Ills wife. Tho professor Is sixty years of age and blind. is only twenty-'four. Bauer wears goggles and picks his way with a cane.

IH.Vfacial resemblance to Bismarck IB very striking. The wife told the Justice that she took pity on the old man and married him four months ago. She accused him of deserting her. The professor his wife was In the habit of rifling his pockets while he was asleep. That caused the trouble.

Justice McMahon dismissed the complaint. Court drier Dead. FINED A DOZEN POKER PLAITEKB. And Then, loo, Their Lawyer Received a Bharp Betrake. Detectives from tho Fifth street station raided the house No.

6 First street early yesterday and arrested Henry Livingston, the proprietor, and twelve men who were playing poker. Two thousand chips and many packs of cards were seized. In Essex Market Court Justice Koch held the proprietor and fined the players, including Dr. Samuel Gartenmuin, of Bellevue Hospital, $3 each. Lawyer Henry Jay Goldsmith denounced the arrests as an outrage aud claimed that his clients were having a private party.

This defense brought forth the retort from Justice Koch: Police court lawyers are allowed too much liberty. When they have no defense they abuse complainants. I will'not tolerate it in future." SOARED TOETIOKET SELLER. Chapin's Questions Led to His Committal to Bellevne Insane Pavilion. Samuel Chapin, of No.

445 Easl Eighty- third street, was committed from Harlem Court to Bellevue Hospital yesterday for examination. Early yesterday he asked Ticket Agent Charles Booth, in the Melrose railroad station, for a ticket to Hoboken. Booth smiled and Chapin left the window. He returned, soon und asked for a bic knife. Booth smiled and Chapin went away.

Booth had just relighted his cigarette when Chaplii appeared agalu. I want a revolver; can you accommodate me?" he asked. answered Booth, who called man Leary. The latter took Chapin to court. I'm not crazy," said Chapfu.

"I only asked the questions lor fun." Spiegel Surraudered by Hit Morris Spiegel, the wholesale, liquor dealer, who wot sentenced to State prison tor the General Term or ma Supreme Court afterwards aflirralng tho conviction, woa surren" 01 The Great Unhoused Begin Annual Tour Among the Brokwfc A DOWNTOWN LOCALITY' BRTY VALUES HAVE GROWN. FORECLOSURE BALES AI The real-estate brokers'' patronized yesterday by homes. The inquiries were medium grade dwellings. The' out favorable for a brisk renting Bea It Is great surprise to" the business man, who pays little to real estate, how values have in the district south of Fulton and jacent to Broadway during the paat-Mlili years. The tightness of money I Interfered with valuations in that, local- ity whatever.

A number of purcluutal for investment purposes has been 4 at prices which surprised experfal realty. Yesterday B. De Seldlnff Bros, parcel in Maiden lane which sho property in that locality Is valued for to- vestment. The premises are khowaf'lw No. 25 Maiden lane, arid consist' five-story brick building, on a lot 25X4E.6X 23.0x39.

In January, 1887, David EJn- stein purchased it for $68,600. It sold for $166,000, realizing hiro a profit of $87,600. The present owner intends io demolish the building' anfl erect a fflfe- iroof office building about fourteen high. Brokers S. A.

Horowitz and H. Hirsch- fleld have cold, for William Jex, toKas- sei Oshlnsky, of Marquette, two live-story double flats, southeast corner Park ave. and 89th 51x82. for J72.000. The foreclosure sale of tha Stewart House, northeast corner Broadway 'and 41st was withdrawn yesterday, owiBff bo the transfer of the property to Meyer ii.

Sire by John G. Norrls and wife, tho particulars of which were published Friday. The other offering at the Broadway; lalesrooms under foreclosure by D. P. Ingraham of "the four five-story brick flats, with land on the northwest corner of Columbus ave.

and COth was adjourned sine die. RECORDED TRANSFERS, 111TH ST, 8, 95 ft ot 8th ave, 28i 100.11; James Perry et'ol to Llzzli' Moore Payne CONVENT AVID, 13.11 ft ot Hcfh at, 16x60; Mary Ouilll to Ctarlottt Rogers NOHTHEN AVE, ,200 ft BW ot lot on map of John A Havena Gordon Duck, Ft Washington. Irreg; Buolimaii to Albirt Edward Buchnitn, 186TH ST, 16S.S ft of Willis avjT 16.S.X100; Edward Bertlno to Ella A Cudlipp. IJdTH ST, 471.1 ft of Southern Boulevard, 25x100; Eva RapD to Alfred Durckert BOWERY, 38.8 ft of Jiimei M.MO LOT 20, map Thos Gibbons David Seaman, 7th Ward; Betsey Wolf to Morrifl Shapiro CLINTON ST. 100 ft a of Slantoa st, 85x100; Pincus Lowenfeld to Morrli Ooldcteln Sarah Lcue AVH TV at.3 ft of 23.10x93; Samuel Stern to Henrietta Stern LOT 20, map" Henry Astor, 10th Ward; Israel Jcaefsohn to Morris Goldstein 2D AVE, C3.8 It a of 7th It, 21x9S; Laura Hortman to Mr Hoffmann BT, 8.

160 It of Houston It, 25.1x100.2; Marcus Eisner to Kate Amster I6TH ST, 207.6 tt of 3d nvo, 31.6* ICS.Dx Irreg; Edwnrd Scuaefor. exr, to Amelia Spies ano ST, 250 ft of 6th ave, 26x 100.B; John Flagler to Francis li glado WH ST, n.s, 312.0 It of ad ave, IS.Or 100.5; Morrla Goldstein to Israel Joaef- Bohn OJTH ST, No 331 Michael Anloti tj Maria Colucci 20TH ST, s. 237.0 ft of 3d ave, 09.11; Enoch Bell to Arthur 20TH ST, 110 ft of 3d ove, Z6x 100; Lewis Bach to Micliael Coffey AVE. B. 50.7 ft 8 of 100th at, 105; Edward Patterson, ref, to Louis 1MM 1 H.509 U.OM M.OOO H.400 H.OM M.om II.

DM U.MO BAD EGGS TO BOMBARD HIS WIFE. Hioboli Used Hi-Flavored Ammunition on the Door of Her William C. Nichols, of Westport, aunched forth an entirely original style oi rife persecution on Thursday evening. wife, who lives apart from him, resides No. 100 West'Thirty-fourth street.

Nichoto called here with his pockets filled with decayed He was refused admission and lie bom- arded the door with eggs. When hli 'Km Kenneth came out to remonstrate he a of the highly flavored rnlssflei, A policeman arrested Nichols and fce'Wai held for trial in Jefferson-Market Court yeBter- lay. Nichols was formerly a srocer in yn, but ran through his business. TED INNOCENT PUNISHED, TOO. At Thomas Mulhoarn's Santenot Oil Ehrleks and Is Hysterical.

Thomas Mulhcarn, a well built man, was convicted in General Eessioui seven! ays ago ol larceny from the person. Ete ww rraigncd lor sentence yesterday before Judfe Marline. Three years In State prison, Judge said, after lecturing Mulhearn against the vilpath. "Oh, my God I what shall Ido?" dCremmeol, young woman who sat in the back of UM court- room as the Judge pronounced toe ence. She wns Mulhearn' wife.

As her hulband, was led awuy she became hysterical, itaA.ii emoved from the court- room. BHB WASJBOBN Df 178ft SuUiTM Celebrates Ear One and Eighth Birthday. 4 This Government was In Its BWnudUng rhen Mary Sullivan, of No. 168 MulbeJtf trect, was born. That was In 1786, on JfeK Mrs, Sullivan celebrated her one huri-S; red and eighth birthday yesterday.

lie is as old as that dates ore liltgly bscure, but It Is reasonably certain thiyt las gone eight years beyond the century seven yeara the has been bodti hrough paralysis pf tha left Bids, and Tecently got aid through the uewspapenTV Tr Sho has a daughter, a ragpicker, who ii ve years old. They ass very ullivau doean' like strangers to say to ttrein, Ferrari 09 Way for a I Powers, who hai Stats priton, jeweller;.