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TEE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW TOEK, TTTESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 189S. MISCELLANEOUS. STRUCK WITH A SHOVEL. THE WILES OF A BOOK AGENT UNITED STATES COLONIES.

fiLL RAILROAD BRIDGE MUSI 8E BUILT FIRST. connection could he made with Che roada over there. This would give ample accommodation for surface and elevated roads and could be hullt cheaply. After we get this under way I am not opposed to other bridge projects, hut it is almost criminal to keep piling up the weight on the present hrldge and then talk about a Blackwell's Island bridge before the needs of this great population are cared for. Just say for me I will be in opposition so long as our needs are not oared for." MBS.

CODY'S TBI AIi. Charged With Trying to Blackmail George and Helen Gould. Albany, N. November 29 Mrs. Margaret Cody's trial on the indictment for blackmail was begun in the Albany County Court before Judge Gregory to day.

Mrs. Cody has been in the county Jail since May, having been indicted on the charge of blackmail. It is alleged in the indictment that she wrote letters to Miss Helen Gould and George Gould on February 11 and March 9, 1890, respectively, asking them to call on her and promising that she would give valuable Information to enable them to effect a compromise or dis mate varies little from that of other places in the same latitude. The months from March to May are the hottest and November to February are the coldest. During the rainy season, which lasts from June until November, inundations of rivers are frequent.

There are occasional monscons, but the climate, as a whole. Is considered healthful, for the tropics. The endemic complaints of the country are swamp fever, dysentery, beriberi and a few ethers. Yellow fever is practically unknown, and the rate ol mortality Is very low. The Sulu Islands form an archipelago stretch ng rova Borneo north eastward to the Phrliprines, in the southeast of Asia.

The group, numbering 162 islands in all, most of them mountainous and all covered with luxuriant vegetation, has a total area 948 square miles and i total popuja'tlon of about SO, 000. The inhabitants, Milays by race and Mahotnme.ians by religion, were the terrors of the neighboring seas, owing to their bold piracy, until the Spaniards conquered them in 1876; thr no direct their energies chiefly lo the collection of edible birds' nests and pearl fishing, what trade there is being principally in the hands of the Chinese. SuSu is a fortified town. UNION PACIFIC LAND CASE. New York Trust Company Wants to Foreclose Big Mortgage.

St. Paul, November 29 The Union Trust Company of New York has made application in the United States Court for a decree of mortgage foreclosure in its land case against the Union Pacific Railroad Company and the receivers. The case involves $1,500, 000 and title to the lands granted to the Union Pacific in Nebraska, Colorado, Utah and other Western states. The Interest for two years is now due and unpaid. BATTLE WITH ROBBERS.

Fusilade of Shots Exchanged and Two Men Wounded. Grand Rapids, Mich, November 29 Isaac Schultes, the Grand Rapids and Indiana sta ir 1 nf i i 1 32 CFC 1 UiU ml Ocean fflwffg 1 'JL yf'? T' 1 Si rfkA A Ur A Snowball Fight Leads to a Serious Assault. Stanley A. Waterbury. 17 years old, of 221 Ralph avenue, was held by Magistrate Brn ner this norning on a charge of in the st degree.

It is alleged that he struck W.lliam Gallagher, 16 years old, of 1,302 Butler street, on the head w.th a shovel while the latter was clea.ing away the snow yesterday af.ernoon from in front of a house, corner of Decatur st and Stuyvesant av. Ga agher wa busy at his work when a throng of boys c. 11: a. ocg and tie. ting him with snow biiis.

Waterbury was in he! crowd. iJi.igher became angry after a wb.le and snowbail. Waterbury in return. It alleged that Waterbury took Gai shove: akvay him and struck! him several b.ons on the head with it. knock ing aia) uncense ous.

The boy was taken in an ambulance to St. Mary's Has p.tal, where, for a whi.e, it was believed that I his skull had been fractured. There was no indication, on an examination, that (here was depression of the skull and the case was finally diagnosed as concussion of the brain. Gallagher will recover, it is believed. Waterbury pleaded not guilty when arraigned before Magistrate Brenner.

He had 1 been arrested by Detective Officer Connolly of Captain Reynolds' squad. A TRIAL JUDGE'S DISCRETION. Appellate Division Affirms a Decision of Justice aynor in Not Setting Aside a Verdict. Justice Gaynor In Supremo Court, as trial justice in the suit of Frederick Kalfour, through Frederick W. Katfour, as guardian ad liitenn, of Middle Village, Queens County, agaiiast the Broadway and Metropolitan Avenue Street Railway iroiparuy, was affirmed on appeal to the appellate division this month, cn the question of settling aside a verdict for the plaintiff for $15,000, on the ground thtt the damages were excessive.

Justice Woodward wrote the opiLnion and all concurred except presidljag Jusuice Goodrich. read tor reversal. He dec.ared thait Justiice Gaynor had erred in not exerciyiing his discretion in setting aside the verdict, inasmuch as he had declined to do so. T'he plaimtli ff alleged t.h ait the accident took place in Middle Village on October 15, th ait through the fault of the car driver a car of the defeiKlant ran over the plain mil' and caused injuries by which it was necessary to ampuiDa't'e one leg above the knee to save the lire of the plaintiff, who was then IS mjmths old. This was done.

The suit was to recover $50,000. C. J. Patterson was counsel for plaintiff and H. D.

JLtonmelly for de tewd'aiti't. in his opinion Justice Woodward said the only question was whether the verdict was excessive, and he continued: "The learned trial court, in denying a motion Xor a new trial, writes an opinion in which he enters into a calculation tending to show that the judgment is excessive and says: 'I had an opinion, growing ouit of my own view and discretion, in respect of whether the verdict is excessive. But that Is not what must control me. Counsel have furnished me with a list of the cases in which such verdicts have and have not been reduced. Verdicts as large and larger for like injury have been uphold as a rule, though, it is truv, some have been reduced.

Exercising my discretion In the light of precedent and constrained thereby, I must deny the motion to reduce. Trial judges were never so reluctant to exercise any discretion whatever as they are at present, for reasons, that are growing obvious to the bar. 'ihey do not have things presented to them under the disguise of prim, and with academic afterthoughts and refinements, but in their everyday reality, just as tbey are generally seen and understood. Discretion exercised under l.he.se different conditions cannot in the nature of things be the Further along Justice Woodward says: "While ibere is undoubted authority for the exercise of discretion on the part of the trial court, this is a power not to be used arbitrarily, or without careful consideration of the facts as established by the evidence. In the opinion handed down by the learned trial court we are told that the plaintiff, a boy 18 months old at the time of the injury, lost his leg below the knee.

The pleadings and the evidence clearly establish that In the case at bar the plaintiff lost his leg above the knee and in the absence of that discretion inherent in the court at trial terms we are unable to whether the learned court would, in view of the facts, deem itself justified in reducing the verdict found by the jury. In the absence of such light upon the question, and ta view of the fact that the law contempiajtes that the person Injured be compensated for the loss and pain and suffering which he has been called upon to endure through the negligence of another, we are not prepared to say that the verdict In this case is excessive. The judgment should be affirmed. Presiding Justice Goodrich reads for reversal, holding that Justice Gaynor's refusal to exercise unquestioned prerogative In setting aside the verdict constitutes a reversible error. He believes that Justice Gay 11.

committed grave error Im not exercising bis discretion. THE COURT CALENDARS. Supreme Crmrt. special term fr nntions. VV.

l. Dickey, J. parte busintws al 10 tion calendar cuIIinI at riupreni! special term trials. Day calendar, NoviiIlm 30. riamuI T.

M.uiilox, No.s. 4 17, Zlpji vs. Marker; s7y. liohn vs. 'a rt hy 810.

Sea vb. Kourk STl, SLorey vs. Storey; O'Hrk vs. SOS. Merrill vs.

Merrill; b'Jl, Kmirk: vs. Talma. WMtt? vs. Kximan; 74i, vs. ritaff.ri! Sj2Vj, Aiutual lit nt flt and Ixjan Tympany vs.

liari sin, liolean vs. Holan; Mh Jordan vs. Smith; Kimball vs. U.inMdr; Jalms vs. t.m Rresatlori Heal Sfcl, Carl vs.

Schaffner fc' H. Krt w. Hr Us; Kowwifiovi v. rK' l. it ii flelrl vs.

t0. Mlnrk. ve. Mlricke. Supivnie OjUft, irial day calciidar, November I'nrt I.

Gaynor, fart II, ok1i. Part HI. Ward. I'art IV, J. I'r, V.

Dickt y. J. 4.1;7. t'rown I'ott. Mi I is v.

Turner; I.Tut;. Lynch l.l'T, Itr.tfart vs. CitlZeiiH ICIfi trp Wad Hub Kost nlH Kodritfin'. vh. t'hi niaii 4.yE," I )owni Vri.

Nassau Ua 11 road H'l. ThnmaMu'k vs. Tinnl Avenue llm Ir.jad Sm diker vti. Nassau Halliuad; i Naswiu Railroad; 3.S2J. I I' vs.

Mf. kinari; Webb' el aj vb. Ii Its v. Xa. a.ni Riiilroiid; 4.r,:tl.

lM wal'1 in. vh. Kane; Ii vs. um Railroad; Karty v. O'l.

ul vs. lt.ndolpli Third Avi nue 1 ntb Ward f. 4. S. vt.

hob man vs. Mt 1iHKblin I.m'.m. I nIa v. I mi; I. it.iilro.Mi; 4 iin uklyn i v.Xti Rnilroad; Mi arr.s Na.

an lu.lrnad; 13 tier vti flty ot ll: 4,714, i t.s;h)J7ur vh. XascMU Railroad; vs. Xiu Rail road e. vs. Hi.k:yn Hdifh Railroad v.

I' r.K ilr ad; l.W. Wil cox Vf HeTmHii''e J.M" I i' rjjhol.i sau Kan tor SaRor 4,44, UreKury a. Brown, Tht fuliowinK cau s. if rnavk' i ly. wi, for th iay; cjhh set d.wn lav's up ttu: cjiM: Murphy v.i.

l'. ek Z.ZW. Ilarrop vs. Sat saii Ua.Ir.'ad; Mi tnain vs Brooklyn IJ itfbts ad. i.on.

Hm. v. Itnwklyn. 'oimty i Suburban Railroad; 1,130. Hayd N' rk an i 'v It I yu lirldx 3.1(1.

Kjn.nlly v. iu Railroad Kr.mk vs, Tm. zzo al. vs, i berk I'orm v. Rr' Railroad i T' rmin i 'in I ir i vn.

it.i a rid Wm Eni 2.2'r'.. M' 'Irath vs. a 70. ti vs. I.

im.i'i tl: ikv v. I Jr. oklyn Kb v.i r'Xdll vs. 'Hy of York; .2, vs. fj'ty iff v.

V'irh York; J' im.un vs, vn. ManhaTtan lMiip S. ba pi. Railroad; 1 R. rlin n.

Krj I. p. 3.1. Jul an v. Kallr ad; 4.

Si hm. is lit ri jim.J Suburban Itailro.ol A k' vs. Ak'. k'da I'. arv.il! Na an l.Tr,.

Mc Carthy vs I Wha rn iy vrr, way vs. Third A vmn a AMar.tb It'dlmad; riri i fiam Jr vh. RroMImari; I.IMV vs. Na van RaMr. vs.

iihrm; 1. Martin v. Inland Rao: id; 2.37l'. Ham v. P.n...k..r.

II Railroad; 1 TWln vs. al; vs. Thirl Rai roil; I i 'imninirbari. alsh vs N' 'k amplTii? vs May r. Jar da Tr or rn Rad.

Th :r.rr.K Rudd. VV.liiani riiriv! 'ph' ha Mari. R.u' Klida Man ''aroJiJU vv, U. Run f. ''a Ann I y.

H.d. or Iark. Arm la I In. .1 in; Susa r. I rd l'ld'dp.

Th Rarltln, Ij I itt T. "avwdl. Sariii Pj. Mar Tir C. I k.

If. It KVy f. Vh M.u; r. I M.i .1 BIG NATURAL GAS STUIKE. PHu'a c.

mi! W'h borinn for oil on Sirnniicrlaii vcloiu irx nt has 1.. r.rur'K. sa ii'l an.l a ri 1 1 in nf fcyt tnfi tli: vironouncnl tUc biggest strike evc made in Uie Won. "Standard of Highest Merit." ARTISTICALLY and MUSICALLY PERFECT. During a period of nearly 8O YEARS 106,000 PiAftSOS have been manufactured and sold.

CJASIl OR fSSTAL.SIBXTS. FISCHER PIANO WAREROOMS 33 Union Square West, Between 16tb and 17th. Streets, New York. FRUH'S CONTRACT TAKEN FROM Hill, Kings Park Cottages Likely to Be Completed Soon. OTHER CONTRACTORS AT WORK.

Fruh Had the Task of Putting In tho Steam Heating an4 Ventilating Apparatus, but the Managers of the State Hospital Have Been Compelled to Place the Work Elsewhere in Order to Get It Done Pruh Alleges That He Was Misled and Bid Too Low. There is a reasonable chance now that the new group of cottages being ore.jt ecl by the board of managers of the Long State H.epital will be completed and ready tor occupancy within a few weeks. The continued deiay in bringing this esuit about haa been charged against the completing ftie work of. heating and ventilating, the contract for which was i et to George Fru'i ot Brooklyn, but which is now in the hands of other ccotracrors selected by the board after ample notice to Fruh to carry out hi contract. George Fru the unfortunate b'idder who obtained the contract for the heating and pipe covering and plumbing in connection with fhe new group of cottages at Kings Park, for the I.

ong Island State Hospital, alleges Chat he wan to do so upon re presentations from the State Archiie office, whence ha obtained the tip as to right figuers to bid. As Fruh was a practical workman at the business, he alleges he was deceived by the figures given him, as aibout right for t'he work, and which were over 10,000 below those of 13. Kutzli r.ifte next lowest bidder. He says iliat he was financially injured thereby, although hu was promised protection. The delay caused in the completion of the entire group of cottages by the fact of Fru'h's financial inability to do t'he work and tlhe extra expense to vi'hiw.

the statu has been put by treating directly wi it contractors has cost the State Commission in V.uua.cy more actual loss than would have made good difference between the bids of Fruh and that of the next lowest bidder. The entire group of buildings at Kingg Park, costing over $400,000. which were to have been finished by February last, are not yet ready for occupancy and the work of completing the steam heating and pipe covering plant has been let tinder a new contract to Williams Jlonogue and Michael Mohoney, sub contractors, for $3,200, and who have already lost thousands of dollars upon the job. Much of the material furnished had to be replaced by better material and a writ of replevin has been obtained by the attorney of the Board of Managers to recover much of the pipe and flttings which, it is alleged, was wrongfully taken away by a sub contractor when It had been paid for by the state. The Board of Managers ot the Long Island State Hospital recently protested against the payment of a bill of over $4,000 for extra work on one of the cottages Kings I'ark.

Dr. Truman G. Backus, president of th board of managers of the Long Island Stat Hospital, said of tile Fruh contract: "Fruh was the original contractor at the time of recent business Complications. Last spring I was directed by the board of managers to notify him that the work would be out of his hands a finished by the board, in accordance with the terms of the contract, if he did not progress mora rapid. y.

There was s.ime delay even t'oen, but this tali the condition became intolerable, and, on the suggestion of State Arrjj. vect I'erry, under whose professional supervision the buildings are being erected, our board notified Fruh that in three days after he had received the notification the bi.ard would be at illwrry at any tim! to take his w. rk up i We had pailem and wished to 'ntvf Fruh h.s i ontract. But finally we employed men, who began work on Nov. iu ler lo cnmplet" steam hearing, and from my rep rts received on Saturday from tin spl I be ihe be rapidly )f and complied about December JO.

The pr. si cioir.ict irs are energy into the rk and are making sa isfa tory progress. In this direction. 1 may say. the state will not iose un penny in value received.

"There have been very serious departures in the steam henting contract, although I do not wish appear a Fruh at this time. The original contract railed for flange joints in the steam finings. Instead, right and left screw jolnt have been largely i used. The contract called brasc vaives. 1 A very large number of rheap ip.u v.ihys I have bc( found.

The eeimraei called for all return pipes to be rhirds ar a of the supply pipes throughout entire rk. There has been a unif rin departure in this particular, and the return pip. are two tlil of the diamef instead area, which. makes a conjolrraMe in and cost. These are the facts.

Th state architect will decide what ton. be changed and what part of the work already done can be eepted. a rei.a;.. on the cost, and f. ubtless Is rec niuiendar ions will be the actin of the Heard of Managers.

Should there Oe any difference in the settlement. In the c. it r. or a rid the board In favor of the ar.d tiiat difference js not paid, we will collect it from surety. the Itilladelphia Trust and Fidelity Company, i which entirely responsible." MISS CARROLL'S DEATH.

Miss NVllie riaro Carroll, a young woman 1 of literary ability, died on Thanksgiving Day 1 at her residetn 2X1 Van Hur. street. Miss Carroll was for years with tbe N'ew York Life Insuratice C.mpany in a position of trust and the many employes of that corporation will long remeinbe her as a steadfast friend. She was born at Xorw.eh. June .1.

l.MT.t. She at. various tttne. contributed verses to various papeiv, including the Brooklyn Daily K.igle, Munsr y's M.ign.ine. Good I it.usekeep Ing and 1 leiua rest 's Monthly Ma sta nine.

The remains were taken to Norwich, for interment. SUMMER COTTAGES DESTROYED. tr.sp in. I November The fire will in Will.atn II. Taylor's cot Ka ttn re.

a resort, shortly after midnight la. night, was gotten under control o'clock tins tnoru.ng. Only tile cotuages of Mr. Taylor ami L. Stearns were destroyed.

The less amount tA I Insurance about Lands That Will Come Under the American Flag. IN EAST AND WEST INDIES. Some Information About the Islands That Will Be Ceded to TJs by Spain When the Peace Treaty Is Signed. Valuable Groups in the Ear East That Will Add to Our National Wealth and Resources. With a peace treaty duly signed and delivered, of which act there Is very little doubt cow.

most of the colonial possessions of Spain slip from her grasp and the larger part of them, emitting Cuba for the time being, pass into the hands of this country. In the West Indies, the Stars and Stripes float over Porto Rico, one of the gems 01 the Greater Antilles, and will probably do the same thing for some time to ccme over the other isle so long ruled by the Dons. In Micronesia the United States take Guam, one of the Ladrone Islands; on the Carolines also in the Western Pacific, they have a guarantee of sale to them if the islands are wanted, and in the far Bast, where Europe wants to rule the roost, they take the Philippines, and, perhaps, just to prevent the settlement of an undesirahle (neighbor in the Sulu Islands, they seize that archipelago. Guam is the largest of the islands of the Thieve3, as the Ladrones were called by Magellan, their discoverer, in 1521. In 1668 dhese 'islands received the name of Mariana, ami t)he United States may redhrieten Guam, bestowing upon it possibly the name of Glass, in honor of t'he gallant captain of the cruiser Charles ton, who planted the flag of his country upon its soil on the 21st of last June, while 'he was on his way to reinforce Dewey at Manila.

Guam is the soutlhern of the two groups of t'he Ladrone'S. The inhaibi'tian tis of t'he islands are mostly indigenous Chamorroa and Tagals from Luzon, beside a mixed race of partly SpanJs'h descent. The present population is about 9,000, 7,000 of whom are in Guam, wtaich has an area of 198 square miles. Agana is the only town in Guam, whloh on Jhe map is Guhan. The town has a fine harbor.

The climate 'm the Island of Guam is much like that of Luzon, being warm and humid. It is, however, milder than in the Philippines. The mean temperature is ahout 81 degrees fa'hren'heit. There is a wet and a dry seoson and August and September are the hottest months. The Caroline Islands have an area of abou1.

270 sg.uis.re mileis and a population of a little less than 25,0000, but the Pelew group, which is included in the group, has an area of 560 souare miles and a population of near.y 40,000. Most of the islands of the archipelago are fertile and well watered. The cli 2'e bu': not pered by oocA nreezeo. The peopie belong to built, and are gentle, amiable and intelligent; they are bold sailors and carry on a brisk trade with the Ladrones, to the north of them, where ihey have several settlements. The islands were diswvered in 1527 by Lhe Portu guess and called Sequeira; in 1686 they were annexed by the Spaniards and re christened the new Philippineis.

In 1S85 the German flag was hoisied on the Island of Yap, and the sharp dis pute which that occasioned was submitted to the Pope, who decided in Favor of Spain In 18S7 disturbances broke out at Ponape, in which the governor, who bad arrested one of the Aimc riea.n Protectant missionaries, wa killed by the natives, but the rising was shortly put down. Grea't Britain owns a Car line island near the Marquesas. About the Philippine Islands so much has been written since Dewey took Cavite that there is little that Is not generally known. The meat advanced people of the Islands are the Tagale. of the Malay family, copper colored and short of stature.

The whole population is estimated at between 6,000,000 and probably about 7,500,000. The cli p5 7T ir I 1 I china 1 THE Uses the Name of Pratt Institute to Make His Sales. MR. PRATT STOPS HIS GAME. Representative of a Manhattan Concern Makes Trouble for Himself and Is Likely to Suffer as a Consequence.

An Investigation Started by the Publisher, Who Disclaims Any Part in the Alleged Misrepresentations. Quite a few people in this borough have bctu prevai.ed upon to purchas book called "Nature's Wonderland," when they were told by glib tongued agents that the volume was a series of lectures that had been given at Pratt Institute. The following letter was received this morning at the Eagle office: To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: I shall be glad to have you insert the following in your reading matter: It haj come to our notice that the book concern of Francis Niglutech of 36 Earn Fourteenth street. New York City, is soliciting subscriptions to a series of lectures on "Nature's Wonderland." which have been given at Praitt Institute. I take th'ls lun.iy that no such lectures have been riven here and that the publishers have no authority to use the name of the Institute In connection with this or with any other publication.

FREDERICK B. PRATT, Secretary Among others visited by agents of the company was Mrs. Boucher of 16 Lefferts place. Mr. Boucher, when seen by an Eagle reporter, said that about six weeks ago an agent of the publishing company called upon his wife and said tthat the lectures had been ARCHIPELAGO.

delivered at Pratt Institute and that they were going to be published in parts. The agent said be would send four cf the paHts to Mrs. Boucher for 50 cents each, and if she did not want any mere after the four had been delivered she need not take them. Tne agent was a good talker and induced Mre. B.

ucher to sign her natne to a piece of paper, which she says was blank, agreeing to take the four paAs. Since that time different men have called three times a week and left sections of the work, which she did nut want. She was told that Bhe had signed a contract for the entire work and must take it. Unless she did, the agen.e told her, she would be sued. This morning a reporter called upon Mr.

Xiglutsch, at his office in Manhattan, and found that he had just received a letter frown Mr. Pratt. "This ma'tter is a surprise to me," said Mr. Niglutsch, "and if the name of Pratt Institute has been used in connection f.lis publication it has been without my kn wledge. There Is necessity for stooping to any fraud in order to sell the work.

I have written to Mr. Pratt that I am sorry the thing has occurred and I will go to Brook. yn to day and make a thorough investigation. It is evidently the work uf me agent and as so. as I find out who it was I shail discharge him on the I have been many years in this business and "have an hf.tiorable record, so you can net assured that I will not countenance anything of this kind.

I am glad the matt cr has been called to my attention so that I can put a stop to it." Mr. Niglutsch explained that an agent could not make special terna with a cus mer. He showed the reporter a contract such as is used in making a sale of the publication previously alluded In and said that no contract except f.ia: would be accepted by publishers. If other arra tigements were made the agent was making himselr liable prosecution, and Mr. Ntg utscti said that he would be the first to favor punishing ruch an agent.

About the year 1329 the woolen trade of England becair.u located at Worsted, about i fifteen miles from Norwich, and it was at I this place that the manufacture of ihe twisted i double thread of woolen, afterward called worsted, was first made. If not invented. NEXT WASH DAY Give IKIRKMAN BORAX SOAP a good thorough trial, according to the directions on each wrapper. You will be pleased. For salu by all Krouera.

The Needs of This Borough Greater Than Those of Queens. VIEWS OF PROMINENT MM. They Do Not Object to a Bridge for the Benefit of Future Population of Long Island Plains, but Insist That a Bridge to Relieve the Existing Structure Is an Immediate and Urgent Necessity There Will Opposition to the Mayor's Project Unless Brooklyn's Needs Are Considered. There Is only one opinion entertained by the taxpayers of Brooklyn concerning a new bridge across the Bast River, and that is, the public needs require an additional all railroad bridge before a bridge is constructed by way of B'ackwell's Island, for the benefit of Ravenswood and adjacent territory. No one objects to as many bridges being built across tie river as may be thought necessary; bu't all agree that the section which contains an enormous population and which is being seriously crippled by reason of its lack of facilities for proper transportation, should be attended to at once, rather than a section of country which is not in any pressing need of a bridge.

William Bern, who was president of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge when arrangements were made for the increasing of public facilities by sending the trolley and elevated roads over the bridge, when asked this morning what he thought about the proposition to build a bridge over Blackwell's Island before an all railroad bridge was built for Brooklyn said: "You can say for me that I am in favor of both bridges beiug built and built as rapidly as possible; but I that not a moment should be lost in starting the all railroad bridge across the river for the benefit of Brooklyn. We need the bridge and we need it badly. The present bridge is strained to its utmost capacity and it would be dan gercms to have any more put upon it. It was thought when additional faci.ities on the present bridge were provided, it would do for a t.me, but it has not. Brooklyn has grown enormously to the south and the people liv.ng there require this new bridge for their transportation over the riv.r.

It would add greatly to the value of the city and consequently to the city's revenues to have this bridge built. Be side that, Mr. Rossi ter told me the surface railroads would bo willing to guarantee, before a sing.e stroke of work was done, to g.va the city a bond compelling the railroad to pay into the city treasury 3 per cent, on the cost of construction if die city would build the all railroad bridge. The raiiroads in this city will soon be consolidated. In fact, they are practically consolidated to day, as the Heights system is in control of the Nassau, and it would pay them to g.ve the city 3 per cent, on the cost of construction to have this bridge, which would enable them to combine with the roads in New York and thus allow people to ride from East New York to Harlem without change of cars.

The bridge could be built in two years and would cost about People may say. why not let the rai. roads buiid the bridge? There are many reason? why they cannot and should not, and the chief season is that it is much easier for the city to build, and it would be very asy in this ease, because the city now owns a strip of land wh'eh could be used as an approach. If t'he railroads were to start in to buy t'he land the price would 'be raised, many obstacles put in their way and it would be exceedingly difficult for tihcun to get tine right of war. As She city owns t'he property, all this would be avoided and the work could proceed at ones.

It would 'be a good investment for the city, as it would bring many people here and add to the taxable property, and it would be perfectly legitimate for the city to lend its credit to t'his project, which would be for ihe benefit of ail and would actually not cost the city anything. I believe before any tVc er bridge is started this should be pint underway, but in saying that I do not mean to be quoted in opposition to the Blackwell's Island bridge. I am in favor of aa many bridges as possible, but say they should be put whpre most needed, and no one can say thait a bridge is net ne 6'ded more for Brooklyn than for Ravenswood. Give us t'his bridge where people live and ahe bridge at Ravenswood, where reople will eventually live next at the same time. No time 'sbould be lost, because everyone admits the Brooklyn Bridge is now being used to its fullest capacity." Mr.

Abraham of Abrafha Straus said: "Give us all the bridges you can, at Black well's Island or anywhere else; but first of all give us r.h all ra'ilioad bridge that Brooklyn needs and must have. Everybody that goes over the Brooklyn Bridge knows bow badly we need a new one; and we nei it now. The City Fathers should understand our needs and should act upon their knowledge. It seems to me if Uhey give the subject proper thought they would start in on this all railroad bridge at once. I say give Queens her bridge.

I thaween't a word to say against tjhat: but first of all give us our all railroad bridge. I don't look at it just as a means of taking people to New York, you know. I want as well to bring people to Brooklyn, because when they get here we can take care of them and keep them here." Vice President Bailey of the Title Guarantee Company, who is deeply interested In the prosperity of the city, said: "There isn't a question about what ought to he done. An all railroad bridge should be built and built at once. Any sane man will admit that a bridge should be built where there is a population of over a million people, rather than where there is only a great plain that a future population.

We. need a bridge and perhaps a tunnel, too. I have no ohjection to a bridge to connect Long Island and its summer population with but why should that be built first. The proper policy for a city to pursue is to make improvements where the. need is imperative.

Boston has buiit a great cost to accommodate railroads, and it gets from the railroads a percentage that pays the interest on the cost of construction and puts 1 per cent, in a sinking fund, toward the ultimate extinction of the debt. I know the railroads here in Brooklyn would make the same arrangement in connection with the construction of a bridge or tunnel. Our poor facilities are taking people away trnra Brooklyn all the time. Jersey is being buiit up at the expense of Brooklyn. Why, here is a case where I lost two easterners who had selected houses.

They started to bring their wives over and unfortunately came on a Saturday afternoon. When they saw the scramble for seats on the Manhattan side of the bridge they were simply disgusted and went to New' Jersey. This is but a sample of many "We are not doing a thing 10 improve conditions. The reason lots are so cheap is because of the congested conditions. No city 1n the world presents such attractiveness as Brooklyn to pe.ople who want to own their homes, and these attractions are all ruined by the fact that transit over the East River is an experience to be dreaded.

All we need to complete our misery is to have the Brooklyn Bridge fall down. There can be no doubt of this that if the present administration desires to keep in the good graces of the people 'it will take up this question of putting up an all railroad bridge where people are living and are in daily need of it, before they devote much time to investigating the cost of a "oridge where people do not live and where the enhancement of the speculative value of land will be the chief immediate benefit. We want a bridge for Brooklyn and want it at once, and we do not object to the other going on at the same time if the authorities think wtee. And the people of Brooklyn will and ought to he verv insistent about It." Alderman David A. Stewart, who is the Republican leader in the municipal legislature, and who has great weight with his Democratic associates, said this morning: "I am opposed LO the Blackwell's Island bridge project and will lead opposition to it in the Municipal Assembly.

Why, it is monstrous to think of putting up a bridge In the open country when the needs of Brooklyn for an all rajl road bridge confront us every day. I am in favor of extending Flacbush avenue to Hudson avenue, widening Hudeon avenue and building a bridge by way of York street to Chatham square In Manhattan, where continuance of the action then pending against the heirs of the late Jay Gould, to establish the dower rights of Mrs. Angell to that estate on the grounds that she was the first wife of Jay Gould. Miss Helen Gould, with her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Palm, was present at the trial to day.

The entire morning session was devoted to the selection a jury. SUED IN THE WRONG COURT. Local Appellate Division Sends the Litigation Involving Miss Porter's Estate Back to Niagara County. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court this morning handed down a decision in t'he matter of the appointment of a committee of the persca of Jane A. Porter, reversing the whole matter on a technicality and sending the matter back for a hearing before the Supreme Court of Niagara County.

Miss Jane A. Porter, who resided in Niagara County, is an elderly woman who was declared incompetent in 1S86. The proceeding was in Niagara County, where Miss Porter had resided all her life, and where her property, amounting to about $100,000, was situated. General Benjamin Flagler was appointed committee of both the person and the estate. An attempt was made in 1897 to supersede this commission, but on the report of the referee to whom the hearing was sent the application was denied.

Lately General Flagler has intrusted the actual care of Miss Porter's person to a cousin, Mrs. O'Connor, who lives In Queens County. In March. 1S98, in Miss Porter's behalf, a petition was made in Kings County for the appointment of a new committee. Miss Porter's relatives asked to have the proceeding transferred to Niagara County, but the motion wa3 denied.

Ex Judge Reynolds was named as a referee, and the application of Miss Porter was sent to him. On bis report, William B. Putney, who had appeared as the counsel for Miss Porter, was appointed committee of her person. General Flag.er was continued as the committee of the es.ate. While these proceedings were pending Mr.

Putney obtained an order enjoining Miss Porter's relatives from prosecuting any proceedings in Niagara County. An appeal was taken from the order appointing Mr. Putney committee of the person of Miss Porter, from the injunction restraining her relatives from instituting and prosecuting proceedings in Niagara County and from the order denying the motion on behalf of the relatives to transfer the proceedings commenced by Mr. Putney for Miss Porter to Niagara County. The appellate division.

Justice Cullen writing the opinion, sustains all of these appeals. He says that the appellants claim that the proceedings in his district were void because Miss Porter was never a legal resident In Queens County. It is a fact, he says, that Miss Porter legal residence was in Niagara County, and that the rule was violated in making the application to the Kings County special term, but it does not follow that the proceedings were void, but only irregular. There is but one Supreme Court in the state, and the rules relate merely to practice, not to the validity of the court's decisions. Justice Cullen savs that, nevertheless, full force should have been elven to the code provision prescribing where the application should be mj and in order that there might be no unseemly conflict between the courts of the two districts the proceeding should have been remitted to Niagara County.

NO NEGIRO TROOPS WANTED. Dr. Tanbarder Savs They Are Detested in Cuba Conditions in the Island. Dr. "Pranfa Lan na.rder.

who went to Cuba in the Interest of Protestant charity tions. was a passene er on the Ward Line steamer City of Washington, which arrived at her dock this morning. Dr. Lanbarder went to Che island Novemher 12. He visited Matanzas i and Havana investigating the leeds of the people.

He told Che usual story of the suffering of the peop.e of the island and their need for food, clot'hing and medicine. When asked as to conditions on the island he said: "Ever since the mutiny of the troops who were acting as a pol'iee force in Havana there has been a feeling of dread in lihe atmosphere. These troops after riotous conduct locked themselves up in Che Belen 'barracks. After an exciting parley they consented to come out and were disbanded by General Arolas. They were afterward sent back to Spain on transports.

After uhey were disarmed other troops were selected to ac as police. Those troops are now to be sent back to Spain and the people are in dread as to what might happen if the city was left without a police force between the time of the Americans assuming command and the departure of the sol diere. The civil governor of the city, however, is quietly selecting Spaniards and arming them, so that they will be ready to take t'he places of the soldiers. At present there are in consequence a number of persons 'in civilian dress who are carrying arms. This, 1 think, is a very good scheme iif t'he men that have been selected are to be trusted.

They will form a ho me guard. "The evacuation of the Island is proceeding and of the troops that remain the last will all be sent to Cienfuegos and shipped from there. "If the United States sends negro troops to Cuba it is making a very grave mistake. The people of this coua try do not seem to understand the feeling of the people of the island on that subject. They seem to think that a negro and a Cuban are pretty much the same thing, but I tell you that there is as much of a social distinction between a negro and a Cuban us there is between the whites and blacks in the South.

"The conduct of the colored troops who are already on the island has not been such as to inspire the people with confidence and they are in dread of the stories that have reached tbem of more negroes to be sent there has filled them with apprehension. They draw the line there as they do in the South and the negro is simply not wanted. Any attempt to send them down there will meet with opposition and only bad feeling will be the result. People openly declare that they will never stand for negro authority." "What do the people desire, annexation or Independence?" "The beet people are believers in t'he ultimate annexation or the country by the United States, but they are afraid express tliem 1 se.ves on the subject at tne present time. The comin people have not yet been educated up to point.

"The one great need of rhe people nf Cuba is more schools and a better educational system. There is great ignorance among the pe though, of course, a good work is being done. The Lee Orphanage and the Hospital de Principe are doing a good work in Havana. I never saw a city in which there were so many people wearing mourning as in Havana. Many of the reconcentrados are dead, while ethers have moved to the country.

In Matanzas, where there Is a great deal of suffering and want, the civil governor is doing much for the people. In that town they have established a hospital for men and women. The pecple both t'aere and In Havana aTe suffering from malaria and fever, the result of starvation." PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND THE SULU tlon agent at Martin, and his assistant, Marshall WIckes, had a Wild West battle with two robbers in 'the depot to day. Wicke and one of the burglars were wounded. The rohbers had blown open depot eafe.

A burglar alarm ran from the depot to Schukes' house and when the rohbers began work Schultes and Wi ckes appeared, armed with Winchesters, and ordered the Wandits to throw uip their hands. Instead they opened fire and a rusilade of shots wore exchanged. The wounded man is reported to have been captured near Wiayl and. The wounded robber Is surrounded In a swamp. OBITUARY.

Charles R. Halsey, who died at Tucson. on Monday, was born In Brooklyn on August 21, 1861, and lived all his life In this borough. He attended the Polytechnic Institute, from which he graduated in 1878. In 1879 he entered Yale College aod graduated In 1883 with the degree of B.

A. He then attended the Columbia Law School, from which he graduated in 1885 with the degree of L.L. B. At about the same time he was admitted to the bar. After practicing law for a tew years in Manhattan he accepted a position with the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, which has recently organized Its Brooklyn department, and for the past ten years he held a responsible position In that cou.pany, being known as one of the ablest real estate lawyers in the city.

Last winter falling health compelled him to give up business. He spent the spring and summer in Lower California, removing to Arizona about a month ago. While an under gradu ate Mr. Halsey was prominently Identified with college athletics, but was of too a build to obtain a place in inter collegiate sports, excepting In track athletics. He was a well known member or the Crescent Athletic Club, especially in connection with rowing.

He had been a member of the Lincoln Club and National Civic Club. In politics he was associated with Che Sacpard wlog of the Democratic par.y and ran Tor the Assembly on Its ticket In 1896. He was unmarried John J. H. Esquirol, a well known resident of tMatbush.

dropped dead or. Sunday at his home, 126 Woodruff avenue. He leaves a widow and several grown up children, among them being Mrs. Philip A. Snyder.

Funeral services will be held from his late home this evening, attended by the members of Kings County Lodge of Freemasons, to which he belonged. The burial services will be held Wednesday morning. Mr. Esquirol was 59 years old. His death was the result of heart disease caused by the excitement of traveling home through the storm..