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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1899. 16 SFEOIAZi ADVERTISEMENTS. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. STRUCK WITH A BOARD.

BIDS FOR BPiBEE GABLES called to the command of the Thirteenth. In I March, 1895, Colonel Austen again resigned, having during his term secured appropriations from the Legislature for a new armory, which i cost unward of SI .000.000 and which covers i ROBERTSON MAKES REPLY TO GOLER'S STATEMENT. AUSTEN MAY NOT ACCEPT COLONELCY OF THIRTEENTH 11 1 ASTO HI A i For Infants and Children. MlThe Kind You Have mII Always Bought JJVegetablePreparationforAs simulating theToodandRegula ffl ting ite tomachs andBowels of ffl J3etrS tJlG ff 1 Promotes DigesKon.Cheerful If Mlili nessandRest.Contains neither nf JL a Opium.Morphine nor Mineral, VL gwi kf NotNarcotic. Scape ofaaUrSWBMLHUttlta jm A Jimtim Seti 'IBS jL tnUtSvnl I A.

1 BIB Jpptmsnt II 1 IB 1 II fnOiitanatoStia II anam Alk IE Aperfect Remedy forConstipa Lfr tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea, Ml hf Worms Env fill fit nessandLossOF SLEEK. I 1 (J I fac Simile Signature oi fig ggi Thirty Years Brooklyn School Officials Assert That Controller Is Trying to Befogg All Concerned. PROBLEM DIFFICULT TO SOLVE. Mr. Eobertson Says the Whole Trouble in This Borough Hinges on Disposition of $200,000.

Controller Coler's statement on the school muddle, printed In Monday's papers, has not been accepted with good humor by the members of the Brooklyn School Board. That it was very carefully read was evident from the number of members who visited educational headquarters thla morning, making inquiries as to the points made by Mr. Coler, and the general opinion of all, after going over the whole question, was that it was a deliberate attempt on the part of the Controller to befog the question, 1 so far as it related to Brooklyn, and that rather than proving that the School Board members were trying to bluff the other officials, the bluff was really on the other elde. That there Is a very difficult problem to solve In school moneys Is accepted. But Brooklyn's share of that problem now is, It is said, solely aB to the disposition of the $200,000 appropriated In 1898 for Increases In salaries for 1899.

This money has not been the teachers will be paid each month, and upon the courts now rests the burden of saying whether the $200,000 shall be applied to the purposes for which It was manifestly intended, as the School Board claims, or to the mandatory provisions of the Ahearn law, which benefit only a comparative few. President Charles B. Robertson of the Brooklyn School Board was apparently much disturbed over the statement of Controller Coler, and In answer to questions this afternoon said: "The October payrolls for teachers' salaries will be forwarded to Manhattan this afternoon, and will probably be paid by the end of this week or the first of next week. These rolls are made up on the same basis as those paid for September. They are not illegal, it is claimed, as Mr.

Coler would seem to imply, and there is, it is alleged, money enough for the rest of the year. In his opinion rendered last week Corporation Counsel Wha len does not say that the original payrolls for September was illegally made, but that it was illegal simply in that the School Board must use up all its surplus to meet the mandatory requirements of the Ahearn law before any other salaries can be increased. That is the whole point at issue. "Mr. Coler sys that the School Board has 'been spending or attempting to spend more than the liberal allowances made by the Board of Estimate and has been caught and trapped at the However this assertion may apply to other boroughs it certainly does not affect Brooklyn.

The question simply reverts to the disposition of the $200,000 which the Board of Estimate, as stated, appropriated for the equalization and increases of salaries of all teachers in Brooklyn this year. The special committee which prepared the new schedule, known as the Har rigan schedule, was appointed last February. During the preparation of that schedule the Ahearn bill was passed making mandatory certain salaries for teachers, taking, into consideration time service only, while the schedule being prepared recognized the two most important principles In any school system that is, merit and ability and grade taught In the schools. To say that a teacher in the lowest primary grade in the schools should receive as much salary as the graduating teacher in the first grammar grade Is carrying out an idea jiot founded on progressive principles. In every well organized SPECIAL ADVEBTISEMENTS.

Christian Nebendahl Accuses a Coney Island NegTO. William Nash, colored, of Coney Island, was placed on trial before Judge Hurd and a Jury In the County Court to day on an indictment for assault in the second degree, charging that on the night of September 25 Na6h assaulted Christian Nebendahl, also of Coney Island. According to the testimony adduced by Assistant District Attorney Nay lor it seems that Nash and a party of colored people were singing and dancing on the porch of Mr. Nebendahl's house at Coney Island, when Nebendahl came out of the house and told them to get away. They started to go, when, as Nebendahl testified today, Nash picked up a board and hit him over the head.

He was unconscious for some time and he learned afterward that he had been carried into a saloon next door and then to the police station, where his wounds on the head were dressed. There were two witnesses to the assault and their testimony was substantially the same as that of Nebendahl. The defendant, when placed on the stand, swore that he did not strike the complainant with a board. He said that he was in the neighboring saloon on the night the assault took place and as he left the place and started for home he saw a fight in front of Nebendahl's house. He was emphatic in his denial that he had anything to do with the flght and said further that he did not know what he was wanted for when the police came after him at his home that night.

After the de fendant had testified the case was presented to the jury. WOULD BE SUICIDE MAY LIVE. Mrs. Ada Mersereau, While Temporarily Deranged by 111 Health, Gashes Her Wrist. Mrs.

Ada Mersereau, aged 35 years, the wife of Edgar W. Mersereau, vice president of the Meresereau Manufacturing Company of John and Jay streets, who attempted suicide at her home, 81 Fenimore street, Flatbush, last evening by cutting the arteries in her left wrist with the blade of her husband's safety razor, Is still in a precarious condition In the Memorial Hospital. At the Fenimore street house it was stated that Mrs. Mersereau's hand had been amputated at an early hour this morning, and that the surgeons were now very hopeful of saving her life. Mrs.

Mersereau has been in poor health for several months and a nurse has been in constant attendance. Her sufferings are supposed to have temporarily unbalanced her mind. Mr. Mersereau recently engaged Mrs. A.

Loyd of 807 Qulncy street to care for his wife. He departed for Boston yesterday morning. Mrs. Mersereau was apparently in good spirits all day yesterday and in the afternoon went out for a walk. She did not leave her room for dinner last night.

When the nurse returned to the room she found Mrs. Mersereau on the bed with blood flowing from a deep gash in her left wrist. She had inflicted the wound with the blade of her husband's safety razor. Dr. Burt D.

Harrington of 38 Lenox road and an ambulance with Surgeon Gosman from the Kings County Hospital quickly responded to a call. When Mr. Mersereau went away he failed to leave his address and up to noon to day no response had been received from the telegram sent to him. Mr. and Mrs.

Mersereau have a large circle of friends. He is a prominent member of both the Midwood and Knickerbocker Field Clubs. OBITUARY. Henry Costello. Henry Costello.

an employe of the Brooklyn Eagle when it was issued from its old quarters on Fulton street, near the Ferry, died at his residence, 294 Warren street, yesterday morning. The deceased was born in Ireland, but long residence in this country made him a sturdy American citizen and in his humble station a warm admirer and zealous supporter of American Institutions. He died at a ripe old age, after many months of illness, which he endured with cheerful resignation and in a firm belief In the teachings of Christianity. Mr. Costello was a member of the Sands Street Memorial M.

E. Church and In his long illness had the sympathy and attention of members of that congregation. When stricken with the disease which culminated in his death he was an employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Joseph M. Follmer.

Joseph M. Follmer died at his borne, 107 Schaeffer street, yesterday, after an illiess of two weeks. Mr. Follmer. who was in the 27th year of his age, had been a resident of Brooklyn all his life.

He was a member of the Ancient Order of Red Men and of Court Henry Ward Beecher, A. O. F. The funeral will take place from his late home, Thursday morning next at 10 o'clock, to the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, where a requiem mass will be celebrated. Michael F.

Gregory. Michael F. Gregory, who has been for twenty years a member of the Fire Department and who was on duty as an operator at Fire Headquarters, on Jay street, died this morning at his residence. 17S Albany avenue, after a three weeks' Illness. Mr.

Gregory was 50 years old and was childless. He was born in Brooklyn and was well liked. One of the brothers of the dead man is Sergeant William Gregory of the Grand avenue station. The funeral will take place on Friday morning from the Church of Our Lady of Victory. LABORER HELD FOR MURDER.

Prisoner Is Accused of Stabbing a Man Who Disturbed His Dinner Pail. Frank Lewis, a laborer, was held without bail in the Coney Island police court to day for the murder yesterday of Edward Eago of 339 Fifty first street. Eago was.employed as a stableman by Contractor James Graham at Stillwcll avenue, near Eighty sixth street. Yesterday at noon a large gang of Italians who were also employed by Graham in building a sewer near by kindled a fire among the loose chips lying about the barn and several dinner palls were placed on the wood to be warmed. Eago in trying to make a bigger fire disturbed the dinner palls and a row resulted.

The Italians drove him to the barn where he procured a huge club and tried to defend himself. Two of the Infuriated Italians grabbed the club, while Lewis plunged the knife into Eago's body. The injured man uttered a cry and fell to the ground and someone notified Policeman Larsen, who in turn sent in a call for an ambulance. Surgeon Kelgaard found that, the stableman was frightfully cut In the abdomen. Ho was quickly placed in the ambulance and hurried off to the Norwegian Hospital, where he died.

Eago made his escape across tho fields, but was soon afterward captured. FISHING REELS STOLEN. Daniel Schlafer of 51 Sumpter street, who was arrested a few days ago on a charge of vagrancy, was again in the Adams street court to day, this time to answer to a charge of having stolen fishing reels and other small articles valued in all at $24, from the Eagle Warehouse, on Fulton street. He pleaded not guilty and was remanded pending a hearing. NOTED CRIMINAL ARRESTED.

Boston, November 14 The police received word last night of the arrest In Pittsburg of Charles E. Stewart, a noted criminal, wanted for passing a forged check for $10,000 on the First National Bank of Woonsocket, R. by which he and his confederates realized $3,000. KILLED BY A FALLING PIPE. George Craitc.h, 27 years of age.

a Hungarian laborer, residing in Albany avenue, Kingsbrklge, while at work thi.s morning In Jerome Park reservoir, was struck by a falling piiie and instantly killed. His body was taken to the Kingjbrirlge station. Tlio Npiv lluilillnp; Code. PubllKhd In Kaffle Library Xo. 37.

Price. cents. For Rale by all newsdealers. TURNED III. ons for the Seventh Specificati Septio" gtr ucture SVIade Public.

will be strung. how leers Assert That the Work on the Engir New Bridge Is Now Nearly Half Completed. Jopies of specifications for the construction the steel cables and suspenders for the East River bridge for the use of intending bidders were given out at the office of Hhe chief engineer, 84 Broadway, in the Eastern District, this forenoon. This means that Md are being invited for the seventh section of work on the big structure. But two other sections have to be contracted for, and then the bridge will be on a fair way toward com jiletion, namely, the suspended superstructure and the approaches.

The specifications and plans given out today fill a finely printed book of 40 pages. Except to the eye of a contractor or engineer the work is not very intelligible until closely examined. The main fact, however, In which the public Is interested is that the commissioners, In their office at 49 Chambers street, Manhattan, will at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of December 7 receive proposals and that the contract "Is to be completely performed within ten months after the cable saddles are set in place upon the steel towers of the bridge." It will be seen that while the specifications of agreement will hold the contractor to a specified time for the performance of his work, an estimate cannot at the present time be made as to the precise date on which the work will be begun or finished. Much will depend on the amount of progress made by the contractors now at work on the stee! towers. Each bidder on the cables and suspenders will be required to deposit with his proposal a certified check for $12,000 and the contractor will be required to give a bond in the sum of $400,000.

One of the original estimates put upon the cable strands and cable erection was 3400,000 and $300,000 respectively, or atotal of $700,000. Nevertheless there has been a great advance in the steel market and the work may cost much more. It is specified "that the work will consist of four steel wire cables and the suspenders therefrom, and that the cables shall exteri'd from anchorage to anchorage over the saddles at the tops of the steel towers. Each cable "will be made of No. steel wire in 37 strands, each strand containing 2S1 wires laid straight.

Each strand will be held together by temporary bands of wire until all the strands of a cable have been completed. The temporary wire bands will then be removed and the whole 10,307 wires will be firmly clamped into a cylindrical cable by the main bands of cast steel which carry the suspenders for the support of the floor beams. "When all the wires of a strand have been laid, and before the shoe is placed in its final position on the pic. the strand will be banded to keep the wires in place. The hands will be composed of five or six turns ti mo.

xv steel wire, securely locked, and will De placed at intervals of not more than five feet. When completed the cables will be covered with steel plates one sixteenth of an inch thick, extending from main band to main band and overlapping at the joints so as to shed water and keep the cable wires dry. Much of the specification is devoted to a description of the quality of the material and worlfinanship. For instance, it is set forth that all steel for wire shall be made In an open hearth furnace lined with sillc i. and that the steel shall all be made from pig iron without the admixture of scrap of any kind.

The methods of manufacture and the requirements of the steel for all bolt ends, nuts and cover plates shall be the same as those of the steel for wire. The diameter of the wires of each cable in bulk will be 18 inches, or with the steel covering the diameter of each cable will be about 13 inches. It is provided that the wires shall be made continuous by splicing, so that the length of each cable will not be less than 4.000 feet. The wires will be 16 100 of an inch in diameter. The cable making machinery will be located on one of the anchorages and the wires will be strung singly for each cable over the steel towers to the opposite anchorage and carefully adjusted to the deflection.

Of course, the work cannot be boun until the anchorages are more nearly completed than they are now and until the steel towers are completed. It is estimated that Tj.000 tons of steel will be used in the cables anil suspenders. It may be here remarked that the cables of the old bridge are incites In diameter or ZVi Inches less than those of the new. The cables of the olri bridge were built one at a time. It is expected that a great deal of time will be saved on the new structure from the fact that the four cables will be strung simultaneously.

The length of each wire on the old bridge is 3.57S feet inchos. Each of its cables contains parallel wires. Each cable of the new bridge will contain, as stated, 10,397 wires. An Eatrle reporter was informcri this morning by O. F.

Nichols, first assistant engineer of the nridse. that it was expected that the contract for the tsuspended superstructure between the towers would be given out immediately. "Work on this. Mr. Nichols said, could not be commenced until the cable.

were nearly completed, but it was intended that this work should be commenced as promptly as possible. The approaches, he said, could bo built at any time, but not until property had been secured for the right nf way and the buildings razed. To all appearances it can now be tsaid that the work on the bridge proper has been nearly half completed. The foundations have been laid, the anchorages are something like two thirds completed, the land spans are In course of construction, the false work for the towers le being erected and the steel for the towerB is being made at different factories. BASE BALL CLUB SUED.

(Special to the Eagle.) Utica. N. November 14 Mike Griffin, formerly centcrflelder and captain of the Brooklyn base ball team, yesterday entered suit against the Brooklyn Club to recover $3,500 alleged to be due him under contract. Griffin. It will be remembered, was signed to captain and manage the Brooklyn team at the conclusion of the season of 1898, at a salary of $3,500.

When the consolidation of the Brooklyn and Baltimore Clubs took place Griffin's release was sold to St. Louis for $3,000. He refused to go to St. Louis, holding the Brooklyn Club to its contract. He did not play during the season and now sues for the salary.

MAN'S BODY PICKED UP. The body of an unknown man was picked up from the slip at Pier 24. North River, Manhattan, this morning by a member of the steamboat squad. The body was that of a man about 4S years of age. a feet 10 inches tall.

200 pounds weight, smooth face, black trousers, dark shirt, brown socks and lace shoes. There was brui.se over the right eye and the right leg was broken. The body was removed to the Morgue. NEU'S ELECTION EXPENSES. Judge Jacob Neu, the Republican candidate for Sheriff at the recent election, certified to the County Clerk to day that hU election expenses amounted to most of which was expended for advertising.

Peter Huberty. the successful candidate for County Clerk, certified that he spent $4,147.75, of which $2,000 went to the Democratic County campaign committee. Woman's Painn, So Hard to Bear, Are llk'r and safely relieved by "OranKclne." an area of 500x200 feet, and is, without doubt, the most perfectly equipped armory of the state. The last duty of the Colonel was In the trolley strikes in Brooklyn, when the march of the Thirteenth Regiment through Smoky Hollow (Hicks street) resulted in the practical breaking up of the riots, no serious demonstrations being afterward made. Colonel Austen was radical in his measures, as was evidenced by taking possession of telegraph offices and with his own men sending messages to the Governor when the regular operators refused to perform the service.

His term of service in the military covered thirty six years, of which twenty eight were with the rank of colonel. Colonel Austen, whether In military or business, is a thorough disciplinarian. He is a well known yachtsman and a member of the Atlantic Yacht Club. GREATER NEW YORK SCHOOLS. State Superintendent's Power in Case They Are Closed.

(Special to the Eagle.) Albany, November 14 In the light of the action taken some time ago by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in placing his department in temporary control of the public schools of Elmira and Watervleit when those Institutions were about to be closed by reason of local adverse conditions it is assumed at the Capitol that Superintendent Skinner will adopt a similar course of procedure In the event of the closing of any of the schools in greater New York. That the state department has the power thus to meet the existing situation in that territory, provided the schools are shut up, is firmly maintained by it. Superintendent Skinner will hardly move in the premises, however, unless an appeal from the action of the local authorities Is made to him. WILL PAY MR. PIERREP0NT.

Guggenheimer Says Fireworks Committee Will Probably Pay for Removal of Montague Street Columns. The work of taking down the Dewey columns on the Montague street terrace, begun yesterday, will be nearly, if not quite, completed by night. At noon to day the workmen had taken one column down as far as the pedestal and had gotten the greater part of the shaft of the other out of the way. Concerning the question of the payment of the bill for the work of removal, Randolph Guggenheimer, chairman of the Dewey Day Celebration Committee, said this morning that as soon as Mr. Ruckstuhl, the sculptor in charge of the general scheme of decorations, returned to the city, a meeting of the committee on fireworks would be called and steps taken toward paying Mr.

John J. Pierre pont for the expense which he has incurred. "I have had a number of letters from Mr. Plerrepont," said Mr. Guggenheimer, "but I have been unable to do anything for the reason that Mr.

Ruckstuhl is out of town and for the further reason' that the erection of the columns was undertaken by the committee on fireworks and. therefore, out of my Jurisdiction. I can say, however, that the whole thing will be adjusted to the satisfaction of Mr. Plerrepont within a day or two, within which time Mr. Ruckstuhl will return to town.

The cost of removing the pillars cannot be more than $100 and the committee, I feel sure, will authorize the payment of the bill and relieve Mr. Plerrepont from all further anxiety." Mr. Plerrepont has been obliged to undertake the work of removing these columns at his own expense, under the orders of Buildings Commissioner Guilfoyle. Mr. Plerrepont made several ineffectual attempts to get the Dewey Celebration Committee to act In the matter and put off action In obedience to the Buildings Department as long as he could.

Mr. Guggenheimer's statement to day will probably assure him that the proper committee will act. TELEGRAMS NOT GENUINE. Miss Beecher's Brother in Law Wrote Them in Order to Spare Her Feelings. It now appears that the two telegrams to Voice Adams Beecher, "dated from Paul Smith's, the first telling of the accidental shooting of Edwin Buckley Guilbert and the last announcing his death from the gunshot wound, were written in New York by the brother in law of Miss Beecher, Robert Loughlin.

Loughlln has admitted that he wrote the telegrams to spare his sister in law mortification. It is said that he mistrusted that Guilbert was not all right, so he thought the best way to get him out of Miss Beecher's mind would be to have him killed not In reality, but in report. He says he secured receiving blanks and wrote the two telegrams. After writing the first' announcement of the shooting he allowed three days to elapse in order to give Guilbert a reasonable time to die. He has not explained why he took this unique method of ridding his sister in law of Guilbert.

Loughlin, however, allowed his sister in law to go to Paul Smith's to verify the telegrams. At least. It was announced at Loughlin's home that Miss Beecher had gone and Miss Beecher afterward claimed that she went, but did not see the body. Miss Beecher has left her home at 182 Macon street. Mr.

Loughlin, who has just returned to the city, says she has gone to the country to resume her literary work. He says she will soon forget Guilbert. "I wrote the telegrams," Loughlin is quoted as saying. "I did it to spare Miss Beecher's feelings. I don't know where Guilbert is and Miss Beecher does not care." There are now three letters waiting for Guilbert in the post office at Bangor, Me.

The Newbergers have moved, according to a man at the Newberger home at 281 Macon street. Mrs Newberger is a sister of Miss Beecher and it was said that Miss Beecher had gone to stay with her for a few days, but at the Newberger home tho reporter was told that tho family no longer lived there. THE WEATHER. INDICATIONS TILL 8 P. M.

TO MORROW. Washington, November 14 For Eastern New York: Rain and warmer to nipht and Wednesday; winds shifting to easterly, and Increasing in force to niKht. LOCAL. PROBABILITIES. Rain and warmer to nlffht and Wednesday morning, followed by fair; increasing easterly winds.

At noon the Eagle's mercurial barometer registered 30.28, having risen .10 of an inch since noon yesterday. The indication Is fair weather. The following Is the record of the thermometci as kept at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Office: 2 A.M. to day St! 4 4 A. II 35 ii 41 6 A.

37 P. 44 8 A. 8T P. 44 Averacf temperature to day asjf Averaca temperature corresponding day last yv uh HIGH WATER. Following Is the ottlclal announcement of the time and duration of high water at New York and Sandy Hook for to morrow November 15: A 1'.

Ai. Uura'n of TlmoiHlght TlmelHe.ghti Rl.e.l Fall Feet. reel. 1 H. U.IH.

U. amir York bandy 5:57 5.7 6:23 1:63 3:54 1:1, A. M. and 4.9 The sun will rise to morrow will set at 4:18 I'. M.

MOVEMENTS OF OCEAN VESSELS. ARRIVED TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14. from Savanilla. Ss Herman YVedel Jarlsberg, from Tampico. iJetu.chland.

from Hamburg. Ot n' frnm London. V.Y.ulloomouloo, trom Havre. Ps Mexico, from Havunn. ARRIVED AT FOREIGN PORTS.

Ss frcm New York. Singapore. from New York, Darmstadt, from New Y'ork, Bremen. Ss Naran.ia. from New York, pd.

Ponta Do Ar nel. from New York, pd. Lizard. Patrla. trjm New Y'nrk, pd.

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Tnhllphed in' Enple r.ihrflrv Nn .17 Pr4oa cents. Fo sale by all newsdealers. Announces That the Office Came to Him Without the Slightest Solicitation. WANTS TIME TO CONSIDER. Declares He "Will Not Take the Office if There Is Any Sign of Discord in Regiment.

Colonel David E. Austen, who was last night again elected colonel of the reorganized Thirteenth Regiment, defeating Lieutenant Colonel George D. Russell may not accept the place. He has not yet decided what he will do, but expects to announce his decision tomorrow night at a meeting of the officers of the Thirteenth Regiment. The contest for colonel of the Thirteenth Regiment was waged with more than ordinary enthusiasm and it was practically conceded that Lieutenant Colonel Russell would carry off the honors, but when the twenty six votes were cast it was discovered that he had received but eleven, while Colonel Austen was favored with fifteen ballots, which came to him without solicitation.

He was not a candidate and says that he did not know he was even considered for the place until yesterday morning when some one mentioned the fact to him that he would be elected colonel of the Thirteenth Regiment at the meeting in the evening. The contest for colonel of the Thirteenth Regiment has been interesting not only members of that organization, but all the soldiers of the Second Brigade have been watching it. David E. Austen. Colonel Charles L.

Watson, who had been the colonel of the regiment before the organization went to the late war, was a candidate. and it was a lively contest between the friends of Watson and Russell. So bitter had the contest become that it was finally decided to take up Colonel Austen, who was chosen. His election seemd to bring about" perfect har mony, all parties concerned being very much pleased with the selection. Lieutenant Colonel Russell commanded the battalion of the old Thirteenth, that formed a part of the Twenty second Regiment in the volunteer service and upon which the regiment has since been recruited to fill the existing vacancy.

He was looked upon as the man who would in all probability be elected colonel of the regiment. He is popular with the men of the Thirteenth and did much work for that organization. Being an indefatigable worker he brought about much for which the regiment is very grateful. When an Eagle reporter interviewed Colonel Austen at his office in Manhattan to day he said his election as colonel of the Thirteenth came unsolicited, and, being so very much engrossed with his business as receiver of taxes, and living, as he does, in Manhattan, he might not be able to accept the honor. "It will be very inconvenient for me to attend to the duties of that regiment located so far away from my home," said he "It will mean a great sacrifice of time and energy to me to accept the colonelship to which I have been elected.

However, I will go over to the armory on Wednesday evening and see how things look. I am anxious to ascertain the financial status of the regiment, as well as the feeling among the men. I would not think even for a moment of accepting the office should my doing so cause any discord. The Thirteenth Is a regiment of which any man can well feel proud to be a member, and this honor is indeed highly appreciated by me. I will decide to morrow night about accepting the honors the regiment has seen fit to tender me." Lieutenant Colonel Russell, the defeated candidate, said to an Engle reporter last night: "I intend to remain in the regiment and will always stand by and support Colonel Austen in the work of tbis splendid regiment.

I will work with him for the success and welfare of the regiment just as I would have done had I been elected. I believe in the rule of the majority. I care nothing for the men as individuals, but look to the best interests of the regiment. I propose to work energetically and loyally. The boys can count on me every time." Colonel David Elwell Austen, receiver of taxes for Greater New York, is on old Now Yorker, having been born in the house of his grandfather on Bowling Green.

He was one of the founders of a large dry goods auction house, which afterward Branched into several firms, controlling that particular trade. The parent house was Haggerty, Austen afterward Austen, Wilmerdlng Co. and later Austen Saicer. At an early age he was sent to one of the famous schools of the country at White Plains. After graduation he served three years as a clerk with William Libbey, afterward of A.

T. Stewart then took up the study of chemistry and was placed in charge of the New York Kerosene Oil Company, a large concern employing 700 men in the manufacture of illuminating oil from coal. Some years later tho withdrawal of the principal stockholders impelled Mr. Austen to sever his connection with the company, and, after a short term in the customs service, during which time he studied law, graduated from the New York University Law School and was admitted to the bar. Business pursuits, however, had greater attractions, and Mr.

Austen entered business again as secretary and treasurer of the Mutual Trust Company, then under the presidency of ex Governor Latham of California, with General Christian T. Christensen, now president or the Brooklyn Trust Company, as treasurer. Mr. Austen was then offered by Controller Grant a position in the Finance Department of New York, and for several years was one of the auditors of accounts, and remained In tbis place until urged by Mr. Theodore W.

Myers to accept the position of receiver of taxes, made vacant by the death of Major George W. McLean. Perhaps the highest tribute that can bo paid to him is that, while nearly $40, 000,000 are collected annually, there has never been a loss of a single dollar. In politics Mr. Austen is a Democrat and Is a member oT the Tammany Society and the Tammany general committee.

He is a member of the Democratic Club of Manhattan. In February, 1S59, he joined Company Seventh Regiment, and accompanied that command to the front in 1801. Returning, he organized a company for the Forty seventh Regiment and again as first lieutenant went to tho front, and while crossing Long Bridge was sent for by his colonel and then and there appointed regimental adjutant. After the war he was captain, major and lieutenant colonel of the Forty seventh, and on May 9, IStIS', was commissioned as colonel, being but 27 years of age and the youngest oolnnel in the service. He served as colonel of the Forty seventh until July 13.

1877, whon he was elected colonel of the Thirteenth of Brooklyn, which was then in a somewhat demoralizer condition. He immediately restored order, ami under Colonol Austen the Thirteenth was recognized as among the first regiments of Inn state. In 1SS2 Colonel Austen resigned from Uk Thirteenth on account of his ronMcnre being In New York, and was placed on the supernumerary list of the state, subject to rail inj emergency, his resignation not bcimr ar mpt e.l. After four years, Colonol Austen was re 1 Furs, COATS. Sealskin, $125.00, $150.00, $175.00, $200.00.

Persian Lamb, Lieipsic Dye, $125.00 on the disposition of this $200,000. We made a schedule which divided that sum up among the teachers on a basis that was accepted by everyone concerned as fair and just. We considered It just and fair, and many lawyers tell me it is legal. That, however, must now be determined by the courts, as the Corporation Counsel has decided otherwise. This $200,000 was appropriated for a specific purpose and it Is a question whether it can be applied to any other.

"The Board of Estimate on October 5 last passed a resolution in compliance with chapter 417 of the laws of 1899, providing for the sale of $754,103.64 in revenue bonds, 'the proceeds whereof shall be applied to the cost of paying salaries of teachers of the Board of Education as increased by said This was passed previous to our sending to Manhattan 'he September payrolls based on the new schedule and indicated very forcibly to us that money enough was available to meet the requirements of the law. On October 11 the Board of Estimate passed a second resolution emphasizing that of October 5 and confirming our views. "In joining the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx and Brooklyn together, in one of his statements, Controller Coler says: 'Hundreds of thousands were paid out within the past few months under these (supposed illegal) schedules before the holdup How that applies to Manhattan and the Bronx of course I cannot say. But it certainly does not apply to Brooklyn. We have not spent' one dollar more here than was absolutely legal, as Is shown by the fact that we are now paying our teachers on the basis of the old schedule, pending the decision of the courts on the points at issue.

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corporation or business house salaries are paid according to the responsibilities of the position, not on the time an employe has served. This same principle applies with equal force to the schools. "It may be determined that the surplus of $200,000 should be applied, legally speaking, to the mandatory provisions of the Ahearn law. But the concensus of opinion of the members of the Brooklyn School Board is that this money ought to be applied to the increasing of the salaries of all the teachers, and not of a fow. The statement made by Controller Coler that the School Board of Brooklyn had a surplus of nearly $400,000 in April is not founded on fact.

All we had at that time was this $200,000 which had been allowed for a specific purpose. How Mr. Coler arrives at the $400,000 I cannot understand. All that we asked from the Board of Estimate was money enough to put into effect tho mandatory requirements of the Ahearn law. The 5300.000 named was only an estimate, because It was impossible to arrive at a definite figure.

It is now apparent that this was more than was needed. But that would have made no difference in the end, for only such sums as were absolutely needed could be taken from the fund created by the sale of revenue bonds, and the rest remains in the hands of the city. "The whole trouble In Brooklyn now hinges.