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2i THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. STEW TQBK. THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1901. MISCELLANEOUS. MAHER AND RIEFF WIN.

MISCELLANEOUS. BILL MAI PREVENT SCHOOLBOYS 1 ITCH PUT ON THE OAKLAND LINKS. citing in more than a political sense. It is becoming personally abusive and rumor has it that the Governor himself is wavering I on the Question. Under these circumstances the McCarren I resolution regarding Justices is a good basis I for clever attack and retreat.

If this iB not I passed soon It will be because the is i applied and its lashe3 will be felt for a long BY ANY TEST the foremost iilace it fur J1KEM'. The very Spirit of the Malt and Hops is held fast in lmlin Title Air. XX. Ciinniin Malt Ale. Old Burton Ale.

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134 Ce.lar cor. Washington. X.iv Vi.rk. SMITH WILL CONTESTED. Testator "Was a Wealthy Greenpoint Man Daughter Alleges Undue Influence.

Objections to the probate of the will of Thomas C. Smith, who wa president of the Seventeenth War, I Bank an.i was engage! in the manufacture of porcelain ware in Green point. were file, to day with Surrogate Abbott by Ella II. Cm wine of HP. West Sixty fifth street.

who is a daughter of the testator. The document, utiicii purports to have been signed by the deceased ou De eemiier SO last, was offered for probate by Ciiarles A. L. Smith, the testator's son. The contestant claims that her father made the will.

it was not his voluntary act and that the signature was procured by fraud or undue influence, a son and daughter aueseu. to pro vw.ir in. out" aisu uKciart'5 tnai her father was mentally incapable of understanding his acts. Hearing on the objec tions is set down for Auril By the terms of the will, Mr. Smith gives to his widow all hij household effects and ornaments, except the portrait of himself in the bank, which goes to his son Charles.

The factory ar Green. joint, twelve lots on Oakland street, a quarry and mining lands at Brandtsville. and all interest in lie manufacture and ale of good? are left to tlie sons. To his grandchildren, Carl S. Chase and Franklin Chase, the testator leave his land in thp StntP nf C.pnrein his daughter.

Ida, $600 a year in monthly pay I ments. The contestant i not mentioned in the document. ine witnce. es to tee will arc ueos ge D. rtaninn 01 143 ient street.

Ainer; 1,. Perry. ISO Calyer street, and U. Al. Richardson of "'SI Milton street.

FLAT THIEVES CAUGHT. Three Detectives of the Fourth Avenue Station Ran Down Two Operating in Daylight. Deputy Chief McLaughlin complimented Detectives Daniel Alaclaren. James McGrath and Thomas Matthews of the Fourth avenue station to day for two arrests made yesterday of alleged flat thieves. The detectives were sitting in the station house shortly, after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when they saw a man running along the; opposite side of the street; hotly pursued by another.

They rushed out of the station house and caught the man who' was doing the chasing. He told them that the flat at 1.063 Fourth avenue had been robbed and that the fellow he was pursuing was cne of the burglars. The fugitive had jumped over the rear fence of the flats opposite the station house, where he lay down in yard. woman' tenant asked him what he was and he asked her for a drink of water. He did net wait for the drink, but went into the next house through the cellar door and then and then and down i led the detectives a merry chase up in the' building.

It took an hour and a half to run the fugitive to earth. He managed to utilize the dumb waiter and gae the detectives an object lesson in what a dumb waiter can be made to do under certain Their patience was rewarded, however, by Detective McGra th's catching their prisoner in a coal bin in the cellar. The. officers took him over to the station house and returned to the flat building. They found a gold watrh which Mrs.

Catharine Dalton said was her property. It had been taken from her flat at 1.121 Fourth avenue. Mrs. Dalton had started for the afternoon, but as she was leaving home, became suspicious of the actions of two men in the hallway. She went a couple of doors' further down the street but soon returned to her own flat where she found two men.

who the police say were George Sehaf fer and Charles Rhines. both of 32 Third street. Manhattan. Thc ran out and Rhines said to Airs. Dalton: "There goes the fellow who robbed your fiat." pointing to Schaffer.

rwniurn inn rt rtuui 1 uisiiuu.C ai Ltfl iDcnaiier and then took a car for Detectives McGrath and Alaclaren arrested him last night at his home in Alanhattan. Mre. Dalton identified both Schaffer and Rhines. Schaffer has in his possession a key filed down, but which did not fit any of the locks of. Airs.

Dalton's flat. The detectives said that from what tbey could learn Rhines came from Chicago five months ago and Schaffer from Philadelphia eight months ago. The pictures of the two men were taken for the Rogues' Gallery. Alagistrate Bristow. in the Butler street court to day.

held them on a charge of robbery. PLENTY OF WATER NOW. The Amount in Storage Is Greater Than for Many Years Past. (Special to the Eagle 1 Rockville Center. L.

Apri 1 11 If any fear exists that Brooklyn is in danger of a water famine, even if" a Ions drought should occur, an inspection of the system from this place to Alassapequa would arrest all apprehensions as the volume of water in storage is greater than has existed for several years or tlitc IT, tn i limi, ironi an into uip commit. 1 ne streams, which last fall and winter were entirely dry. are feeding the ponds with an abundance of good water and at their source of supply, the natural springs have risen, as is usual during March to a height above normal. The swamp lands which were entirely dry for many months are now Hooded, which will be of great benefit to lite streams when a spell of weal her ome.s. With such a satisfactory condition existing in ihe reserve supply, the people of the borough should suffer no serious inconvenience from shortage In water next summer rxcept by failure of the pipe line to send it along with sufficient rapidity to meet the demands, or unusual droughts exist.

Indications of the weather when the spring equinoctial occurred, point to the prevailing winds of summer as easterly, which are said to favor wet weather. If this forecast prove true, water should be plentiful throughout the summer months and preserve the system for a dry fall, which Is almost certain to follow a warm, rainy sea son:" The new Si inco pipe line beinir laid i i i I I be i fri aud I ers his I to I i man der the Mr. de bly in are saw the was It. he the a time "1 a 1,0 be than and of the of and (he to be but they tc the lo i Air. it anil On, drop 0:11 poin pay of in The pi American Jockeys in Front at Croxton Park and Warwick.

London, England, April 11 At the second (lay's racing to day of the Warwick Spring meeting the Swan Meadow Welter Plate 110 sovereigns for 3 year olds and upward, distance one mile, was won by Richard Crok er's chestnut colt The Scotchman II. by Potomac, out of Caledonia. Mr. Croker's winner was ridden by Lester Rieff. At the Croxton Park meeting to day the Granby handicap of 100 sovs.

for 3 year olds and upward, distance about a mile and a half, was won by Mr. A. L. Duncan's chestnut colt Orkney, by Orion, out of Kylesku. The winner was ridden by Danny Maher, the American jockey.

ELSBERG TAX BILL PASSED. Albany, April 11 The Senate has passed the bill of Senator Els berg providing for reduction of the organization tax for corporations from 1 8 to 1 20 of 1 per cent. PASTOR SNODGRASS RESIGNS. South Bensonhurst Gossips Made His Pest There Uncongenial His Engagement to Church Soprano Responsible. The Cropsey Avenue 11.

E. Church, at South Bensonhurst. or Unionville, as it is best known, is Without a pastor, and it is up to the conference to furnish the church with one. The Rev. Orrih W.

Snod grass, who gained considerable notoriety a short time ago through the announcement of his engagement to the leading soprano in the church choir, Miss Charlotte Remsen, has made good his determination to get out of the church, and he preached his farewell sermon on Easter Sunday. He is without a new field, but hopes to be installed somewhere in this vicinitv by the conference now in session. The Rev' Mr. Snodgrass is now staying at the home of his fiancee, and if he gets a call somewhere else he will leave Gravescnd Beach until next June or thereabouts, when he will return for his bride. After they are married they will go away from the place whose people have made matters so unpleasant for them.

It is rumored that perhaps Pastor Snodgrass will be returned lor another vear to the pastorate of the Cropsey Avenue Church, but there appears to be no foundation for the rumor. When the pastor first went to the Gfopsey Avenue Church he took up his home in the parsouage. He found it hard to keep house all alone and his two sisters soon arrived to help him out. One of the sisters subse quently went to Europe, while the other decided to take up certain studies which would iteep her away from the parsonage most of the time. Parson Snodgrass then decided to seek a boarding place and finally located at Airs.

liemscD home. The parsonage was thereupon closed up and has remained so since. The gossips began talking and the young minister was considerably annoyed. He at last decided that. Unionville was uot a congenial place for him and he determined to resign.

He made known his wishes to the presiding elder and his resignation was accepted. PROBING POLICE PROMOTIONS. York and Delemater Witnesses at This Morning's Hearing by the Civil Service Commission. The investigation by the State Civil Service Commission into the recent police promotions in this city was begun this morning at the New York Life Building by a private conference on the part of the three commissioners. President William M.

Collier, Cuthbert W. Pound and John E. Kraft. The hearing is based on charges of irregularities in promotions brought by the Civil Service Reform Association, which was represented this morning by S. H.

Ordway, the counsel; George MAneny, the secretary, and E. H. Goodwin, the assistant secretary. It was understood that over a score of sub penas had been served on various police officers, and among the early arrivals were ex Commissioners York, Sexton and Abell of the old Police Board, Chief Clerk Kip, Inspector Cross and Captains Stephenson and England. The books containing the police minutes and various other documents were brought down early by an officer from Police Headquarters.

Mr. "Stork was asked to take the witness chair first, Air. Ordway questioning him. He said there are now 81 precincts, and, he believed, eighty one captains within the isieaitr uni, n.au ne tola sometning or tne system of command and supervision in ef greater city, aod he told something of the feet. Air.

1 ork said a sergeant was frequently assigned to the duly of captain, and this was necessary to carry on the work of the department. He said there were thirteen commanding sergeants and sixteen acting captains when he became Police Com missioner. many of those had been in command for a year or more?" inquired President Collier. "I shouid think about eight or nine," said Mr. York.

"And were these all subsequently promoted to captaincies?" "I believe they were." William Delamater. deputy clerk of police headquarters, was called and asked about the report of the Chief of Police on the effi ciency of the various candidates on the list for promotion. He said he did not know where it was. "Aren't you in charge of the records of the department?" "Yes, sir; but I can't take charge of what Isn't turned over to me. I think thev were sent to the Alunicipal Civil Service Commission." Mr.

Ordway pressed Mr. Delemater further with regard to the blanks which were to be filled in by the captains with the records of the candidates for promotion, but the witness did not recollect having seen them. Colonel William H. Kip, chief clerk of the Police Department, was next called. He was asked about the white blanks to he filled In by the captains and said that he had transmitted them to the Alunicipal Civil Service Commission.

TWO MARINE LIBELS. Notices is! two actions for libels maritime were filed with Ihe clerk of the United States District. Court this morning. Esther E. Thomas sues the Atlantic Transport Company and C.

E. Everts Co. for damages for the death of her husband. The de teased was a cook aboard the tug America when, on September 10. 1900.

she was sunk while assisting the Alinnehaha to her berth on the South Brooklyn water front. Thomas was drowned and the action is brought against the owners of both vessels to recover Thomas left eieht children. between the ages of ft months and 18 v. 1111am j. i alklnburg.

master of the schooner Sylvia C. Hall, filed a libel against 110,000 feet of re lumber and 165 piles now lying in Erie Ea3in, on a suit against Greene. Heyward Lumber Company for demurrage. FAMILY DIFFERENCE SETTLED. James L.

Brumley. auctioneer, conducted a sale at the Real Estate Exchange to day that was somewhat unusual. It was under the direction of the administratrix of the estate of the late Thomas W. Townsend. and five pieces of jewelry were sold.

This jewelry, it appears, had not been dispose! of by will and. as every member of the family seemed to desire it. the sale was agreed uoon as the best way to settle the question. A diamond stud brought SM0, a diamond collar button $16.30: a gold watch. a gold chain sV and a gold seal ring.

S9. An outsider the stud, much to the disappointment of the family, members of which paid good price3 for the other articles. THERE IS A CLASS OF PEOPLE are Inimorl by nf onffep. Recently titcro linn t.ccn placerl i sr0Cprv itore a rc preparation On.H.V made of pure that 'ukes Uic 1 l. ic.j of rotor.

The most delicate rocelv.s It without distress, urn! but f' 1:1,11 tell it floni coffee, it not cust over much. en may drink it with treat ii ilt. 1:. ts 1,111 cu. per package.

Try It. lc for CRAIM O. OF WOODRUFF flGCEPTEQ. State Leaders Decide Upon Compromise Measure Presented by Lieutenant Governor. ATTERBURY'S INGENIOUS PLAN.

Proposed to Cut Four Districts in His Ward That Are Controlled by Nathan, His Political Opponent. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany. April 11 The Woodruff compromise plan for reapportionment in KiDgs County decided upon at the conference held at the executive mansion last night. Governor O.le!!. Lieutenant Governor Woodruff.

Sena tors Raines and Ellsworth. Assemblymen AHds and Kelsey. Speaker Nixon, George W. Aldrich. William Barnes and other leaders were present.

The only comment Mr. Woodruff would make this morning was: "If the County Coui mittee in Brooklyn had not indorsed thifi new plait the scheme adopted would have been very much more against the interests claimed the people of the Twenty third Ward. The new plan will be incorporated in the renort for th, pLi crura whtch ciii ha offered by the joint committee to morrow morning. is stated that the attitude of Atterbury in refusing to accept this compromise in the face of the fact that it left the Seventeenth Assembly District in tact and was believed by the state leaders to infinitely fairer from the standpoint of politics or public welfare generally than the shoestring district which Mr. Woodruff framed, has done him more harm than his stand against cutting his ward in two bene filed him.

The placing of the extra election district, leaving the Seventeenth Assembly District intact, was done at thp sucrrpsrinT, of Spun. ne 6 suppoiiera, was not a scheme on the part of Mr. oodruff to lead Mr. Atterbury astray. At the conference last night Mr.

Atter bury own scheme was shown to the lead present, and it was there discovered to their surprise that the leader of the Twenty Li iiu lias utuii ueiiiiinumg uiai ward be left untouched, proposed to cut four districts. These four districts happeD be run by bis political opponent, Ernst Nathan. The leaders suggested that for a who has been howling about gerryman ttus was an Ingenious piece of political work. Dady's indorsement of the scheme to cut Twenty third Ward in two strengthened Atterbury so much in his ward that a combination of men who met in the Invincible Club House' to start a movement to the Teader of Seventeenth Tssem District were scared into calling the movement off. Mr.

Atterbury had sympathizers here in his stand, then, though Raines and other leaders believed Woodruff's original plan to be a poor one. But the opinion of the leaders here Mr. Atterbury lost the advantage he gained by refusing to accept such a favorable compromise, suggested by his own friends and indorsed by his own Senator. As to the origin of the Dady Neal plan, the Tacts are these: So far as events in Albany concerned. Air Ncal came to Albany a couple of weeks after the plan was agreed upon at the Merchants' Exchange Bank.

He the Lieutenant Governor and showed him scheme, since called The Dady plan. It to put Mr. Nea! in a Republican district. would also have given Dady a chance to have some say in Ihc Bristow district, had not determined to take up a' residence in First Ward. Mr.

N'eal told the Lieutenant Governor that the change of a few election disti icts would give his Congressional dis trict a fighting chance. Air. Woodruff told him he was through with the matter and asked not to be bothered with it. Air. Neal inquired if he had not right to submit the scheme to the Reapportionment Committee of the Senate and Assembly.

Air. Woodruff said that he had the right of any citizen and subsequently introduced Air. N'eal to Senator Raines. A short later Mr Dady took up the scheme as good one. He undoubtedly saw in it a chance to break the strength of Atterbury as leader.

He submitted to Senator Raines a petition from seventeen members of the Ex ecutive Committee asking that the new plan V.Z adopted as better for the party at large the plan now in the report." Mr. Woodruff declined to be a party to it advised Dady to see Atterburv about it. This Alt'. Dady did not do. Mr.

Atterbury heard of the plan and telegraphed to Woodruff: "Demand stand by agreement made in bank," or words to that effect. He then ame to Albany with a plan his own. cutting out the four districts of 1 wenty hirl Ward on Atlant ic avenue, which are partly, at least, under the control Ernest Nathan. Air. Woodruff was informed by the state leaders that his plan was not a good one that, it would be wi.se to improve it, if possible.

Raines favored the Dady plan. Woodruff was unwilling to let the outcry in Twenty third Ward go unrecognized. He desired harmony, if it could be obtained. He asked Air. Atterbury to accompany him to Brooklyn after the conference at the Waldorf see if the compromise suggested could not arranged.

Air. Atterbury said he preferred to let Air. Woodruff settle the matter, he would try to harmonize matters. Dady's Friends Dissatisfied. A delegation of Michael .1.

"Dady's friends returned from Albany this morning where went to prevail upon Air. Woodruff not disturb the conditions in the Third Ward existing under the Dady Neal plan. That scheme puts election districts of the Third Ward in one of which Air. Dady now resides, in Brlstow's district. Mr.

Dady. It seerqs. wants so, but he Is now In Havana. Air. Woodruff in his last revision restored whole third board to the Seventh Congressional District, which includes Wards 1 fi and 11) to 12 and'is heavily Democratic.

Dady's friends say they have heard from Havana and that, he objects to this change. is openly claimed by them that Air. Woodruff did it to take Dady out of hie own congressional district. Mr' wants to control this district name the statp nnmmitfppmpn to oaM of Dady's said the move meant ..11. i iraunin wanted sooner or later to Dady.

Bat t.Vien all sorts of stories are circulating. The delegation which went to Albany included Henry Ralston. Air. Dadv's nghl bower; ox Assemblvmon Snnfnrrl pn gressman Hanbnry. Naval Officer Sharkey and two others.

They came back disap BRICE MUST GO TO JAIL. Young Councilman Sentenced to Serve Ten Days and Pay a Fine of $473.35. Councilman Stewart AI. Brlce. son of the late United States Senator Calvin S.

Brlce. must serve ten days iu the County Jail and a fine of S473.35, according to the terms a decision handed down by Justice Scott the Supreme Court. Manhattan, to day. decision is the outcome of the contempt ucuiMiuiKs urnugni against Brlce and 6ev nan. h.Tmo of hp Cot.rcilnien failed to obey the order.

Subsequently the matter was eel i led and the balking officials purged themselves of contempt by passing the bond issue. Bricp fought the matter in thp Su rnip and eor.tempt nroceedings in his rasp heve been pending ever since. The pro lir.gs were Instituted by Contractor John Pierce. Justice Scott's decision was handed awn to dav. RELIEFTO BROOKLYN COURTS McCarren's Amendment and the Referendum Cannot Be Voted on at Same Time.

A CONSTITUTIONAL SNAG. Local Lawyers Incensed Over Prospect of Having to Wait Three Years More. It is made cleaT in the Eagle's dispatches from Albany to day that the canal appropriation bill is to be pushed through the Legislature before the session ends. The opponents of canal improvement to day, in the Assembly, moved to recommit the meaeure, but were outvoted by 72 nays to 62 yeas. This is taken to suggest that, in all probability, Senator McCarren's concurrent resolution for the election of additional Supreme Court justices, in this department will be abondoned or defeated and the crying need of relief in the Brooklyn courts delayed indefinitely.

Legal opinions of the highest authority were obtained to day to the effect that both the canal appropriation of $26,000,000 and the constitutional amendment providing for' more judges in this department cannot be voted upon at the same time. The canal hill provides for the submission to the people at the coming election of that question and Senator McCarren's proposed amendment to the constitution, if passed at this session, will also go to the people for ratification. This is impossible, according to Section 4 oi Article "VII of the state constitution, which limits the power of the Legislature to create debts. It says: "Except the debts specified in Sections 2 and 3 of this article (which relate to deficits not to exceed $1,000,000 or debts contracted to repel invasion, no debts shall be hereafter contracted by or on behalf of this state unless such debt shall be authorized by law for some single work or object, to be distinctly specified therein, and such law shall impose and provide for the collection of a direct annual tax to pay and sufficient to pay the In terest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such debt within eighteen years from the time of contracting thereof. "No such law shall take effect until it shall at a general election have been submitted to the people and have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at sucn election.

The last clause of the section reads: "No such law shall be submitted to be voted on within three months after its passage, or at any general election when any other bill or any amendment to the constitution shall be submitted to be voted for or against." The AlcCarren concurrent resolution was first passed in 1899. The constitution provides that it must again be referred to a Legislature to be chosen at the next general election of Senators. If now passed by both houses. It must go to the people for approval. The resolution has already passed the Senate this year and was this morning reported favorably by the Assembly Judiciary Committee.

If it should be passed it would prevent a vote on the canal appropriation. But It is believed here that the Governor is behind the canal improvement and that he will be compelled to have the McCarren resolution finally disposed of. Should the McCarren resolution fail now It would be killed for good, and the process of amending the constitution would have to be begun over again, which would consume at least three years more. Under the circumstances the outlook for relief in this department is distant. At present there are five county judges sitting here and drawing additional pay of $20 a day each.

The courts are cqngested with litigation. There are but two Brooklyn judges elected from Brooklyn who are available for trial or special term work and even they are compelled to sit for a part of each year in other counties. Brooklyn lawyers who heard to day that the McCarren resolution was likely to be killed when relief seemed in sight were very much incensed. They said that no section of the state was put under such disadvantage as the Second Julicial District, and particu larly Kings County. There is talk of a pub ic meeting to demand the passage of the res olution, whether or not the Erie Canal is ever deepened Naturally Brooklyn wants the improvement but.

not at the cost of a continuance of present conditions in the courts. It is believed that the canal improvement can very well wait, especially as there is such objection to i up the state. The farmers do not fancy paying for the work in direct taxes. MC CARREN MEASURE REPORTED Bearing of Resolution Regarding Appointment of Additional Justices on the Canal Bill. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany.

April 11 Early in the session of) the Legislature the Eagle printed a story to the effect that the anti canal men would endeavor to pass the AlcCarren resolution calling for fotir aditional justices of the Supreme Court in the First Department and four in the Second. In this way it was intended to beat the proposition to pass a referendum resolution for an appropriation to improve the canals. The plan failed for a time, owing to the fact that there was a decided objection on the of the Republicans to "add to' the Democratic office holders in Manhattan Borough." This selfish view of legislation has pervaded the session this year to a great extent and it was the main reason why the city' magistrates are to be elected in Brooklyn and all other boroughs except in Manhattan where they are to be appointed. Whatever may have been the wisdom of this elective provision it is a fact that the Brooklyn charter revisers never combated it and It would have been put In their report had the Manhattan Republicans on the commission not overridden it. At least, Isaac M.

Kapper made such a statement in the executive meetings on the charter. Senator McCarren was advised to change his Supreme Court resolution by separating the departments in question. The result was that the resolution affecting the justices of Brooklyn was reported out of the judiciary committee and was on the calendar of the Senate this morning. The Constitution states that no referendum concerning the canals shall appear in any year when another referendum is passed. Nor can any two referendums calling for an appropriation be placed before the people of the state in the same year.

The anti canal men are, therefore, combining on the McCarren resolution and the Republicans of Kings County can hardly afford to be left out of this combination with the canal situation as It is. When the proposition was to have a barge canal there were enough votes to easily pass the resolution. But since the amendment has been changed, calling for an appropriation of $26,000,000, the Democrats who desired to help the Governor in the matter have been weakening. They suspect that a plan is afoot to vindicate Mr. Aldridge, the former Commissioner of Public WorV.s, rather than to improve the canals, and they are wondering whether is not too much to pay for any such purpose.

It must be said that there is no more popular man than George W. Aldridge around the Capitol, and much would be cone to give exmesninn tp tnis leeung tnr him But even the presenta tlon 01 the plan spend $26,000,000 for canal improvements where $9,000,000 was offered for the whole ,1 fPW years ago is considered by the anil canal men as vindication ennnch The cannl question has already become ex Inn THEY SAY. THE BROKER SAYS: keeps me in touch with the market wherever i am; I buy and sell by wire, and by taking tele phonic advantage of a turn in the market i have made thousands of dollars. The New York and New Jersey Telephone SI WILIiOtGHBY STREET, BROOKLYN. Y.

BIS C001 ITCHES STRETCHING Of CABLE. Continued From Page 1. with sockets, to which was attached th single block steel rollers. The length of the hauling rope was 2,400 feet and the blocks or pulleys were 700 feet apart, and when they were brought together the wire rope had been hauled Irom the bed of the river to a height of 120 feet. This was sufficient to clear shipping and allow vessels to pass to and fro.

The final adjustment required a further pull oE about 20 feet. This hauled the end of the cable back to the anchorage, which will be Its permanent position. Workmen were on hand to make tha connection with the wire anchor ropes to which are attached the screw rod by means of which the final adjustment will be made. During the raisins process Charles G. Roebling was alone on the anchorage and when the pulley blocks reached a marking point the engine was slowed up.

Up to this point the wire had been stretched without the sligMest hitch, and Manager Roebllng was highly delighted and so expressed himself. Throughout Mr. Roebllng has stated that the raising would be accomplished in about seven minutes, hut when he was informed that it had been accomplished in a half minute less than that he executed a sort of shuffle of pleasure. Among those who were the first to congratulate him were Major E. H.

Ruffner'of the East River Improvement Corps of Engineers and Assistant Engineer C. S. Kelsey, who were on hand to witness the feat. At the conclusion the members the Roebling's Sons Company held an informal reception at Minden's Hotel, foot of Broadway, where they entertained the members of the commission and other city officials and received their congratulations. All we're greatly pleased and described the event as one of the greatest in the history of the greater city.

There was much heard from the committee boat George Starr, which churned the water in mid stream dtrring the hoisting of the cable, to remind one of New Year's eve. In all the din two of the boats whose whistles shrieked the loudest were the patrol Richard Croker and the fireboat Robert A. Van Wyck. The committee steamer left Pier 8, Hudson River, at 11 o'clock, and arrived at the foot of South. Sixth street, Brooklyn, an.

hour later. Mayor Van Wyck had beeji invited to view the raising of the cable from the steamer, but was not present. Lieutenant Governor FWoodruff also sent regrets. The ceremony had been set for noon, but a miscalculation of the time of slack water necessitated a short postponement, and It was nearly 1 o'clock before the whistles from the hoisting engine near the Brooklyn tower summoned the commissioners and other passengers to the upper deck. The river was clear with the exception 61 a New York and New Haven car float heavily loaded, which had apparent difficulty in checking its speed.

Driven, as It was with the tide, it seemed for 'a few minutes as if a mishap would be Inevitable, but by good management the float was directed across stream. "It was very neatly done," was Mr. Nixon's comment, when the work was done, "and I trust that the main cables will be raised "with as little difficulty to rhorriaj and Saturday." "It is not the first time," remarked a man who ought to know, "that there has been a wire pulling between New York and Brooklyn." Mr. Buck, who was greatly pleased, said regarding the Manhattan approach: "I am very much afraid that a mistake wilt be made In building the New York end of the bridge. It is now proposed to extend the bridge up to the present line of Delancey street and the Bowery.

Now it seems to me that the Bowery is already far too crowded with traffic to warrant introduction of an increase. I strongly favor a diagonal approach from the anchorage to a point at Cooper Union. There room in plenty exists. Crowding will be unnecessary and congestion of traffic impossible." LADLES AT DYKES MEADOW The women of the Dyker Meadow Golf Club began a series of competitions to day for two cups presented by Mrs. Howard F.

Sidney. The conditions called for eighteen boles medal play, scratch, the first two eights to qualify lor the match play rounds. The winter course was used, it being understood that the summer course will not be ready for use until the end of this month. The women found the turf in very good condition, but they had to encounter an exceptionally high wind, and this, in conjunction with the roughness of the temporary greens, made the scoring high. No scores were given out until all wer In and thus the preliminary round was not finished until late in the afternoon.

Ther were about thirty, women competing. MANY PERSONS AFTER MORGAN. Alleged Swindler of a Jersey City Man Arrested in His Store at 1,187 Fulton Street. Henry Morgan, who Is said by the to be No. 6,635 of the Rogues' Gallery, wai a prisoner in the Center street police court, Manhattan, to day, charged with swindling John B.

C. Schnedler of Jersey City out 01 $500. Detective Sergeants McConville. Foyi and Clark of the Central Office arrested Morgan yesterday afternoon at 1,187 Fulton street, this borough, where, they maintain, he is carrying on a fake financial business under a fictitious name. The complainant, Schnedler, told Magistrate Cornell to day that he had answered an advertisement in one of the daily papers late in February and had met Alorgan.

The latter had a paint and oil store at 318 West One Hundred and Twenty fifth street. Manhattan. He offered Schnedler a half Interest In the business, which appeared to be a prosperous one, for $500. His arguments were so good that Schnedler consented and articles of agreement were drawn up. About March 1 Schnedler deposited $500 in the Mount Morris Bank in the firm's name.

Within a week he found that Morgan had drawn out all the money and that he had moved out all the goods In the store and locked It up. Schnedler didn't see him again until his arrest. Morgan Is known to the police. He had been arrested in 1898, when ho rented an office at 245 Broadway, where, under the name of Lyon he succeeded in getting $50,000 worth of goods consigned to him for but the police recovered all of the stolen goods. Morgan was tried in General Sss sions and convicted, but on account of his wife's pleadings, he was given only six months, A representative of the New York Credit Men's Association was in court to day.

He said that there were about twenty larceny complaints, which his association was ready to press against Alorgan. The prisoner was held in $1,500 bail for trial. time by men wno are needed now and may be needed more two years from now. Allds. Nixon and Kelsey dread the canal appropriation as they would the blight.

They were disconcerted when the appropriation passed last year for the preliminary report by Engineer Bond. Their anguish is by 110 means diminished by the cut in the proposed appropriation this year from J62.000.000 to S26.000.OOO. The Brooklyn men want those four additional new justices and say Brooklyn needs them. The canal fight will be an In teresting fight. CANAL MEN WIN A POINT.

Motion to Recommit Bill to Committee Is Defeated After a Protracted Debate. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, April 11 The Assembly to day. by a vote of 62 yeas, 72 nays, voted down the motion to recommit the 526,000.000 canal improvement referendum bill to the ways and means committee after protracted debate. All (be Republicans of Ki igs, except Morgan and Wilson, voted to recommit the measure. The Democrats from Brooklyn voted to have It remain on the floor.

Mc Keown, the leader of the Brooklyn minority, wishes to insert an amendment calling for $60,000,000 instead of $26,000,000, and for a barge canal of proper depth. Air. Morgan said that bis vote not to recommit did not mean that he favored the canal proposition, but he preferred to have it killed in the open house if it is a bad bill rather than to delay it In the committee. Immediately after the Assembly convened this morning the Republican members got into a dispute over the bill, which was reported favorably, as amended by the Senate, by the Canal Committee. Air.

Burnett of Ontario, on behalf of the anti canal adherents, thought there should be a change of reference to the Ways and Means Committee, claiming that it carried an appropriation, and under section 22, should go to that committee. The chair held the point of order was not weil taken, stating that the did not carry an appropriation until It had been approved by the people. Mr. Burnett thereupon moved that the bill be returned to the Ways and Means Committee. His motion was debated at some length.

Mr. Burnett said he desired to make a statement. The anti canal adherents, he said, had fought the bill in the open. He predicted that if the bill was passed it would sound the death knell of the Republican party at the next election just as sure as one election day followed another. He did not agree with one of his colleagues that the bill would not be approvad by the people, because he thought woum, wiin tee help of tne voters from such large municipalities as New York, Buffalo and Syracuse.

Mr. Fish of Aladison opposed the motion to recommit to the, Ways and Means Committee. It should not be pigeon holed, he said. Mr. O'Malley of Erie opposed the Burnett motion which he argued was not made In good faith, and was intended only to hamper and delay the bill.

Mr. Cooley of Westchester thought it would be unwise at this time to pass the bill, which the greater New York Canal Association had protested against. By passing such a bill the canal men. in his opinion, would stand in their own light, as the practical solution of the problem was the 1,000 ton barge canal. Mr.

Rogers of Broome spoke against the bill and in favor of the Burnett motion. Mr. Morgan of Kings, while favoring a 1,000 ton barge canal, opposed the motion to recommit holding that it was penny wise and pound foolish to side track the bill at this time. The House should have it out at once and fight It to a finish. S.

V. Smith of Columbia, who has led the fight against canal improvement, said the members should consider the bill man fashion and not like machine men. He wa willing to admit that a fair hearing hni hnnn given on the bill, but he wished to denounce at; a high handed outrage the action of the canal committee In executive session. "Behind closed doors," continued Mr. Smith, "this committee Injected propositions in the bill that were never heard or at the hearing and inside of a very few minutes had been adopted." "Will the gentleman from Columbia state why he desires to have this bill committed to the ways and means committee?" asked Mr.

Morgan of Kings. "Because that Is the proper committee to handle the financial end or this bill." In conclusion Mr. Smith dwelt, in derision upon the fact that former Senator unigaliu and George H. Raymond of Buffalo had sent out circulars crying out for a 1. 000 ton barge canal or nothing, and now they had accented a measly $26,000,000 for a 450 ton barge canal.

Mr. Plank of St. Lawrence, a member of the canal committee, nnd an anti canal svmpathizor. also predicted the downfall of the Republican narty in the event of the passage of the bill. WANTS $30,000 FOB LOSS OF FOOT.

Trapp Was Employed on a Boat and Was Caught in a Hawser. Trial of the suit brought by John H. Trapp. employed on the fire boat Seth Low against William R. McLennon, as owner of a coaling boat, the International, to recover $30,000 for the loss of his right foot, was begun this morning before Justice Garretson and a Jury In Part I of the Supreme Court.

It is alleged by the plaintiff that on Sunday, October 24, 1897. the Seth Low was tied up at her dock and that the International was fastened by a strong hawser to a cleat on the deck of the fire boat. He says that this was done, although It was known to the defendant that, the fire boat might at any time be called away to do duty. As a matter of fact it was called away and the plaintiff says that he was engaged In getting the hawser from the cleat when it was loosened and his right ankle was caught in a loop of the hawser and his right foot was torn off. It was attended to and an amputation was performed.

He now wears an artificial foot. Former Judge Dalley and F. E. Crane appeared for the plaintiff and James J. Mack Hn for the defendant.

The trial was continued. GRAND JURY ON THE BRIDGE. District Attorney Philbin called the attention of the Grand Jury to day to the numerous complaints that have been made as to the congestion at the New York terminus of the Brooklyn Bridge. He mentioned the fact that the Chamber of Commerce had been so impressed with the necessity of action that they had appointed a special committee, of which A. E.

is chairman, to look into the matter. Several persons have been summoned to appear berore the Grand Jury. Among them are engineers and experts on the subject. After the witnesses have been examined it will be decided whether or not an investigation by the Grand Jury will be made. If this should result indictments might follow or those in authority be censured.

MEDAL OF HONOR, OFFICERS. A meeting of the Congressional Medal df Honor Association of New York and Vicinity was held at the Morton House, Manhattan, on Tuesday. The following officers wsre elected for the ensuing year: President, George W. Brush: first vice president, James W. Webb; second vice president.

J. J. Toffey; secretary, Walter F. Thorne; treasurer. B.

B. Lew: Ex ecutive Committee. Peter F. Rafferty, John. Brosnan, Walter Jamleson.

A. A. Foreman, P. H. Doody.

There was a large attendance. TO ADVANCE ARBUCKLE CASES. Columbus. April 11 A number of motions in the Woolson Arbuckle coffee litigations were argued in the Supreme Court today. Thero was a motion to advance the case the Woolsou Spice Company vs.

John Ar hu.Mrle pt nl nnl nnp rn ennRfiHrlfltp fevp. ppcp the crnnprnl rtncTrof also, a motion In 3,1 vance the case of Frederick M. Brlg'aam, manager of the Woolson, against the state. Court reserved its decision. Unless, the cases nr.

n.lvflucp.l fhpv niav nnt wimp 'trv 3 sion for several years. Wylie, Wilder, Proa! andRaething Survive the Second Round of Golf Tourney. ONLY ONE CUTLER. BOY LEFT. Cutler, Blake and St.

Paul's of Concord Will Play in Team Match To morrow. (Special to the Eagle.) Bayslde, L. April 11 Conditions which confronted the eight survivors in the tournament for interscholastic golf championship honors this morning would satisfy the most skeptical. The weather was more like ideal golfing weather than that of yesterday, and the sun, which shone down upon the greobs in the early morning, put them in good condition. Before the budding golfers started in the morning speculation was brisk as to the survivors or the second round at match play.

Those who had not shown up well in the qualifying round were weedtd out In the first round yesterday afternoon. Syms G. Wylie, and B. F. Falrchild, both of Cutler, were the first pair to finish in the morning.

Wylie who is a son of Dr. W. G. Wylie, a golfer well known in the metropolitan district, caught Falrchild completely off his game. The son played steady golf and at the thirteenth hole concluded the match, winning by 7 up and 5 to play.

Enos Wilder. of St. Paul's School, Concord, N. who the gold medal In the qualifying round yesterday. wa3 opposed to E.

At. Dalley. the Cutler student. Wilder exhibited the same form that won for him the gold medal, and the only round he had a chance to play he covered In 48. At the turn he was 2 up, and, playing six holes on the second rouad, won by 4 up and 3 to play.

(Jarcis: Knos Wilder: Out In E. M. Out In 4 fi 4 6 7 6 4 6 4 6 4 6 6 31 7 4 5 0 47 7 33 S3 Excitement prevailed in the Carroll Proal match. The former is a student at Cutler and Proal is in Blake. At the turn Proal was 1 up.

Carroll managed to have even on the fourteenth hole. Proal got together and. by winning the fifteenth and seventeenth, had the match clinched by 2 up and 1 to play. The bye hole was won by the lescr. Cards: P.

X. Proal: Out 4 I 4 6 7 5 647 In 54336655 641 St R. C. Carroll: Out 5 4 5 4 7 6 3 6 618 In 3 4 4 3 6 7 5 6 515 93 J. B.

Naething of Hamilton School and L. Dalley, a Cutler student, were the last pair to finish their second round. Naething started by making the first five holes in bogey, and, starting for the sixth, had the match well in hand. He won the match at the fif teenth hole, being 5 up and 3 to play. The defeat of the Cutler boys was a surprise to the talent, inasmuch as the students from that institution had gathered in all the honors in the two previous tournaments, when the school team won the championship.

Owen WinRton won the first championship and Harry Hollins the second. Both came from Cutler. Oyer half the sixteen players were students at Cutler. While the Cutler players have lost the individual championship, they have hopes of winning for Iheir school the team championship, which will be played to morrow, wen the handicap also takes place. There are three entries In the team matches Cutler, Blake and St.

Paul's of Concord. This afternoon Proal meets Naething and Wylie is opposed to Wilder. The summary: Second round, Interscnolastlc championship J. B. NaothlnK.

Hamilton, beat j. TDalley; Cutler, bv 5 up and 3 to play: P. A. Proal, Blake, heat R. C.

Carroll. Cutler, by 2 up and 1 to play: 15. Wilder. St. Paul's.

Concord, beat E. M. Dalley. Cutler, by ,4 up and 3 to play; S. G.

AVylle, Blake, beat B. F. Falrchild, Cutler, by 4 up and to play. TO INVESTIGATE THE FIRE. War Department Will Institute Searching Inquiry Into Sinking of the Rawlins.

(Special to the Eagle.) Washington, April 11 The War Department has ordered a searching inquiry to be made into all features of the fire on board the transport Rawlins and the subsequent sinking of the vessel at Brooklyn yesterday. Quartermaster General Ludlngtou had a long conversation with Major Devol over the telephone to day, in which the latter was directed to go to the bottom of the statement that It was unnecessary to sink the transport and that the fire could have been extinguished by the firemen. Major Devol was ordered to appoint a board to investigate the affair, to ascertain the origin of the fire, to find out by whose orders the portholes were left open, who was responsible for not closing them when the transport began to list, and to designate whoever has been guilty of any dereliction of duty or use of bad judgment. The department officials say that the process of raising the vessel will be attended by much danger, on account of the heavy list. This will be exaggerated by the water soaked cargo, and it is asserted that unless proper precautions are taken the Rawlins will turn over when raised.

The United States transport Rawlins, which was sunk yesterday as the result of a fire In her hold, is still lying in the mud in the same position alongside transport pier 22, at the foot of Pacific streeL It was said at the pier this morning that the estimate of the Iobs sustained by the transport was somewhat exaggerated. It Is now claimed that the loss wilj not reach more than $60,000 instead of between $60,000 and $70,000, as at first reported. Bids were advertised for yesterday after the fire had been extinguished for raising the ship and putting it in repair. The bids will be opened some time this afternoon. Captain Palmer, who is in charge of the government pier, said that the task of raising the Rawline would be undertaken within the next two or three days.

This morning there was a great stir among the employes on the pier. Thev were hard at work loading the Sedgwick, which lies on the opposite side of the dock. It will be necessary for her to carry an extra heavy load, as the cargo that the Rawlins had aboard will be duplicated. CHARTER HEARING SATURDAY. Brooklynites Will Present Protests! Against the Educational Chapter.

Tunis G. Bergen, chairman of the school meeting at the Academy of Music of last week, and George F. Elliott, chairman of the committee on protest appointed at that time, have arranged with Mayor Van Wyck for a presentation of the school protest at the hearing in the Alayor's office on Saturday morning. Dr. George H.

Brush, William O. Campbell, George Frelfeld. Sidney V. Lowell and other members of the committee will make brief speeches, it which they will attack the private school provision of tfce educational chapter: also the powers conferred upon the city superintendent, and other features of the bill. i nest iiieii uuvo given mucn time to study i Ing the educational chapter the new ehar I ter a.

wnl so divide their attack upon it that no objectionable feature will be over looked. Iney are also sanguine that, not witc.sta.ud!t!E the published statements from Albany thru amendments are out of the range of possibility, Governor Odr will recognize the. importance or the protest and make it possible for several of the educational features to be modified. milium iccii uas reacn I cny uincinis tne trouble over monev ed Reservoir and will aoon hello' the new Hall of Records, connected al the pumping station. When this Some months ago.

as the result of manda pipe line is completed Brooklyn should have I mtis proceedings, the Sunreme Court Issued little difficulty in securing siiflicicn waieran order directing the Common Council to for many years hence. pass upon a certain amount of bonds in eon lection with the construction of the new STEEL WORKMEN TALK OF STRIKE Youngstowr. Anril 11 I'nless the engineers, firemen and water lenders employe. at the plants 0f the P.epuhli; Iron and Steel Company here arc grunted increases in wages ranging from 1." to cent per day. they threaten to striKe nexi A strike would throw about three thousand men out of employment..