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22 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. KEW YORK. SATURDAY. MAY 17. 1902.

SPECIAL IS LI TD REST APPELLATE DIVISION ON STREET CARROLL SAID TO BE AFTEfi ft SLICE BP THE SUBWAY. SUICIDE TO AVOID KNIFE. Mrs. jVIiller Feared She Would Have to Undergo an Operation. John H.

Miller, a barber of 373 Hamburg 1 avenue is making preparations to bury his wife Mary to day. instead of seeing her off to the country for a visit to recuperate lier health, as he expected to do. She committed suicide last evening by inhalin.fr illutninat ing gas, in a lit despondency. She had been ill for several years and recently under went two severe surgical operations, from which she recovered slowly. She feared that a third one would be necessary, and in order to gain strength to meet the ordeal she was to have gone to the mountains to day with ner two cnnareu.

She talked the matter over with her husband at supper time last evening and he suggested that she should go out with the children and buy some add; doming tor their journey. He went down to the barber shop. Mrs. Miller sent me cnuuren out alone and when thev got heme at 10 o'clock they could not get in. They called their father and he broke down the door.

Mrs. Miller was found dead with a rubber tube connected with an open gas Jet in her mouth. The apartments were full of gas. a doctor was called, but he said she had been dead at least half an hour. MISS HEWLETT ENGAGED.

Her Fiance Is Edward Liddon Patterson of Manhattan, Son of Judge Patterson. It was announced in Manhattan yesterday afternoon that Miss Louise Hewlett of Brooklyn, youngest daughter of the late J. Augustus Hewlett of CS Remsen street, and sister of George Hewlett, the present head of the family, was engaged to Edward Lidden Patterson, son of Judge and Mrs. Edward Patterson of 192 Forty fifth street, Manhattan. The news of this engagement will create widespread interest in Brooklyn, as Miss Hewlett is one of the most prominent of the Heights set.

Her sister. Miss Agnes Hewlett, married James Crosby Brown of the famous Brown family of bankers, several years ago. Miss Hewlett mother. Mrs. J.

AueustuR Hewlett, has become one of the most representative women of the Heights of recent years, and is one of the patronesses of the fashionable Junior Cotillons. The Hewletts have a very beautiful home at Lawrence, L. close to Cedarhurst. This mansion Is known as "Rock Hall," and Is one of the historic dwellings on Long Island. It is replete with interest and traditions, and has wonderful old furniture.

There are four Hewlett sons, only one of whom has ever married. This is J. Monroe Hewlett, who married a daughter of Edward B. Willets of Columbia Heights. The other sons are George Hewlett, Russell Hewlett and Arthur T.

Hewlett. Miss Hewlett's fiance is a prominent New York man of the class of '86. Columbia, and is a member of the University Club. CASSATT SEES COMMITTEE. President of P.

R. R. Co. in Conference With Orr, Smith and Grout To day. President A.

J. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and its engineers and counsel were in conference to day with the special committee of the Rapid Transit Commission to which was referred the Pennsylvania Company's application for the groat tunnel franchise anked of this city. The recent legislation at Albany relating to this company's aims and the jurisdiction thereby given to the Rapid Transit Commission are still fresh in the public mind. The special committee consisting of President Orr, Charles Stewart Smith and Controller Grout, had with them the commission's chief engineer, William Barclay Parsons. General plans of what the Pennsylvania intends to do were before the committee to put them in touch with the questions involved and to day's conference was confined to general rather than any detailed discussion of the project.

It Is early yet for any serious consideration of details, ae that involves the comparison by the engineer of tho Pennsylvania's plans with those of the subway now under construction and possible extensions In the future. In fact to insure harmonious co op eratlon between the city's rapid transit un dertakings and any under private control was the chief reason for giving the Rapid Transit Commission jurisdictional powers. OBITUARY. John V. Porter.

John V. Porter, whose funeral was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from his late residence at 832 Quincy street, was a former trustee and one of the organizers of the Hanson Place M. E. Church, and widely known in Methodism in Brooklyn, where he had resided for seventy years. He was a builder, and during a residence of forty years in the Twenty second Ward, helped to improve that section of South Brooklyn.

He was a member of Grace M. E. Church for thirty years, and since moving uptown a few years ago hud attended Janes M. E. Church the pastor of which, the Rev.

Dr. O. F. Bar tholow, officiated at the funeral services. Death, which occurred on Thursday after an illness of two weeks, was caused by Brlght's disease.

The deceased, who was born in Bristol, England, TS years ago, is survived by two sons Charles a furrier, and John a builder, and a daughter, Mrs. Joseph G. Barney. The Interment was in Greenwood Cemetery. Philip Lekenstein.

Philip Lekenstein's death, Thursday last, of typhoid fever, after an illness of three removes a figure widely known in Bushwick social circles. He was a director in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, a member of th? SifiiHlarri Club and for ten vpnrs hnrt been manager and buyer for the china and art departments of James McCreery Manhattan. Deceased, while belonging to aquaucs. and took much of Ins pleasure on the water. He was born in New York City in lStlo and had lived in Brooklyn twenty five years.

Deceased is survived by a widow and two daughters. Dr. L. M. Nelson of the Bedford Avenue Temple will officiate at the In0.V" dence of the deceased at ii Linden street.

The interment will be in Cypress Hills i I Cemetery. I Elizabeth Sykes. I Elizabeth Sykes. whose husband for fif teen years has been in the employ of Doty Scrimgeour of 70 Duane street. Manhattan, died at his home, 10S Fleet place, Wednes i i i 1 CEMETERY, Distinguished Soldier, Diplomat ist and Politician Reinterred With the Highest Honors.

SPEAKER HENDERSON'S EULOGY. Deceased "Was Great in the Field and ia Council Roosevelt Also Speaks. Washington, May 17 With imposing ceremonies the remains of Major General William Starke Rosecrans to day were reinterred In Arlington Cemetery, under the direction of the Society of the Army of the Cumber land. The services were presided over by General David B. Henderson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

President Roose velt, members of his Cabinet, Senators and Representatives and a host of friends, in cluding many of his old Army associates, were present to pay their last tribute to the noted soldier. Full military honors were accorded the re mains, which were borne to the grave on a caisson. The funeral cortege moved from the Arlington Hotel at 10 o'clock, the escort, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Eugene D. Dimmick, Second United States Cavalry, and headed by a platoon of mounted police, consisting of the band of the Corps of En gineers, Third Battalion, Corps of Engineers; a battalion of the Marine Corps, the Fourth Battery of the Field Artillery, four troops of the Second Cavalry and representatives of the following organizations: District of Columbia Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Union Veteran Legion, Department of the Potomac, O. A.

Union Veteran Union; Commander National Guard, District of Columbia, and staff; Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, United States Volunteers: the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, etc. The escort was followed by a carriage containing the Rev. D. J. Stafford, after which came the caisson bearing the remains.

Next In line were the honorary pallbearers: Lieutenant General John M. Schofield. U. S. Lieutenant General Nelson A.

Miles, TJ. S. Major General H. C. Corbin, U.

S. Brevet Major General A. Balrd, U. S. Brigadier General John M.

Wilson. V. S. A. Brigadier General George L.

Gillespie, U. S. Brevet Brigadier General Thomas M. Vincent, U. S.

Colonel Frank G. Smith, V. S. Colonel Green Clay Goodloe, U. S.

M. Brevet Major William P. Huxford. U. S.

Major John M. Farquhar, U. S. Colonel Henry May, District of Columbia N. G.

George W. Steele, M. H. Clay Evans, quartermaster sergeant U. S.

V. The members of the family, the President of the United States, his Cabinet, the Joint Committee of Congress, General N. J. T. Dana, General James Longstreet and Colonel John S.

McCalmont, three classmates of General Rosecrans at We6t Point, and the committee to receive the President and Cabinet at the cemetery, Brigadier General J. C. Breckinridge, Brigadier General John F. Weston, Major John Tweedale. Brigadier General E.

A. Garman, United States Volunteers, and Colonel G. C. Knlffen. United States Volunteers, followed in the order named.

When the funeral procession reached the cemetery the remains were conveyed to the sa vilion. Speaker Henderson, who presided at the exercises, delivered an address extolling the deceased general, recalling his gallantry at Carnlfex Ferry, Luka, Corinth, Stone River and Chlckamauga. At Corinth General Rosecrans, by his fearless charge upon the Confederate forces, had rallied the wavering Northerners and retrieved the fortunes of the day. Speaker Henderson also dwelt upon' General Rosecrans' political and diplomatic ser vices. At the conclusion of Speaker Henderson's remarks the quartet choir of St.

Patrick's Catholic Church sang "Lead, Kindly Light," after which brief addresses were' made by President Roosevelt, Senator Foraker and Representatives Hepburn, Grosvenor and Gardner. The exercises at the pavilion over, the cortege moved slowly to the grave, where the commitment service was read by Dr. Stafford, closing with "Nearer, My God, To Thee." by the quartet. Taps was sounded, followed by a salvo of artillery and the last sad rites over the distinguished soldier had been performed. EIRES IN BROOKLYN AND QUEENS.

Fires reported and alarms for fire received at Fire Headquarters, Brooklyn, during tho twenty four hours ending at A. May 17. 1002: May IS. 10:51 A. M.

Broadwav, four sto brick; damage to building trifling; damage to stock May 16. 11:56 A. M.Vanderbilt avenue anil Eighteenth street, fence Are. May i 2:30 P. M.

58 Glenmore avenue, two sLory frame: damage to building and stock none May 16, P. M. 157 Center utreet on nt'orv frame: damage to building none, carnage to stock May 15. 5:13 P. M.

H2 4 Osborne street, two story frame: damage to building trifling, darruige to slock none. May 16. P. M. 1,000 DeKalb avenue, three story brick: damage to building: 3nd stock slight May 111.

p. M. 2S9 Throop avenue, three story brlok: damage to building slight, damage to stock trifllnjr. May 16. 3:05 r.

M. Conklln avenue, between Ninety pecond and Ninety third streets, one story frame; damage building and stock trifling. May 16. 10:21 p. M.

251) Berry street, three story frame; damage to building and stock trifling. May 16. 11:19 P. M. 316 Washington street, three story brick; damage to building and stock slight.

May 16, 11:59 P. M. 163 President street. flv story brick; damage to building slight; damage to stock none. May 17, 1:13 A.

M. Fulton and Hull streets, fence: slight loss. May 17, A. ii. (tnree alarms) 817 Myrtle avenue, four story brick: damage not estimated.

"TROLLEY EXPLORING." The Brooklyn Eagle has our thanks for a copy of its newly Issued book. "Trolley Exploring." which gives Information concerning trolley trips within thtrty miles of New York, also trips to Boston and Philadelphia. The interest and worth of the book are apparent. Its price is 10 cents a copy. The Wave of Rockaway Beach.

INDEX To Classified Advertisements In To day's Eagle. CLASSIFICATION'. Amusements Assignee Notices Auction Sales Bantlsm Board Business Notices Business Opportunities Coastwise Steamships Corporation Notices Death Notices Ovntifltry Dlrt etory of Fraternal Organisations IKK kH and Warehouses Election Notices Employment Agencies Financial Furnished Rooms Help Wanted PAGE 4 17 14 4 13 IT IS 19 11 21 11 20 21 14 15 14 13 16 17 15 11 1T 18 19 22 4 2 3 10 17 15 18 22 IS 17 15 15 14 14 17 14 11 15 Horses and Carriages Hotels and P.esorts Instruction Legal Notices 6 Lost and Found Manhattan Amusements Miscellaneous New Publications Oc: an Steamships Post Office Notice Proposals Public Notices Railroads Real Estate at Auction Real Estate Loans Rillglous Notices' Rollgrlous Special Resort Guides Situations Wanted Siuclsil Advertisements Speuinl Notices Sporting Steamboats To I et and For Sale Wanted DEFENDING RIS Borough President Cantor and the Controller Have a Slight Clash. CANTOR WINS HIS CONTENTION. Mr.

Grout Only "Wished to Prevent Big Annual Expenditure $8,000 for Brooklyn. Borough President Cantor has won his fight for street signs such as he desired to place iu Manhattan, and the victory incidentally carried an appropriation for this borough also. There was no opposition whatever on the part of any member of the Board of Estimate to the appropriation of money for street signs, every one deeming it a wise and necessary measure, and the entire discussion related to the kind of signs to be set up. It was on this point that the disagreement between Borough President Cantor and the Controller rested. The latter was opposed to the adoption of a system for the maintenance of which a large sum would be required every year.

Mr. Cantor had certain views which he desired to see prevail, hence the discussion preceding tho vote, which resulted in an allowance of $10,000 for the purpose in Manhattan and $18,000 in Brooklyn. Mr. Grout submitted his views In writing to the board, as follows: "The agitation for street signs has been adroitly managed in the interest of a plan which, if adopted, will eventually result in large and needless annual expense. Nobody denies that street signs are needed, and I am and have always been ready to vote for a proper appropriation for that purpose.

Were New York to follow the example of other cities, simple signs which plainly denote the streets would be provided, and the first cost would be all, except the slight expense of renewals and repairs. Wherever signs such as are used in London and Paris would not be clearly seen in our streets, there would arise a problem of street lighting, not of illuminated signs; or if Illuminated signs be still needed, they might be provided at reasonable and a single cost by reflectors attached to the electric light poles, after the manner approved by the West End Association, which seems to have studied the question and to thoroughly understand it. "It Is conceded that the reflector sign is entirely satisfactory on the straight electric light poles. It is now on exhibition on the crooked pole and the Welsbach lights, and I am informed works equally as well there. With a real desire to accomplish the object at the lowest cost.

It is undeniable that the streets can be adequately marked by these illuminated signs without the recurring and Increasing annual expense. "But the agitation has been so conducted that everyone who opposes the recurring annual charge of from $7.50 to $12 per Bign for interior lighting of the sign a lighting expense which will not illuminate the streets is falsely put in the position of opposing street sisns at all. "The project comes before this board in a form which requires unanimous consent. It could have more properly been Introduced last month as a budget item, to carry which a majority would have sufficed. Under such circumstances I shall not feel that a single dissent ought to be interposed against the Mill of all the other memoers of the board, especially as such dissent might prevent altogether the doing of a most necessary thing.

1 shall therefore move that none of the money be expended on signs which will involve the annual charge for maintenance, and If every other member of the board be against the amendment, I shall not refuse to concur In a resolution which will permit the installing of the signs whicli will cause a recurring annual expense. "But if Manhattan is to have such an allowance it will be impossible to discriminate against the other boroughs, and Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Richmond, will rightly ask similar provision. This board would thus lay the basis of an utterly needless charge in the budget which will Boon amount to a large sum. doubtless at least $100,000. The whole problem 13 whether a necessary thing shall or shall not be done extravagant ly.

I believe in doing It, but in doing it without needless extravagance." The Board failed to agree to Mr. Grout6 amendment and he finally voted for the ap propriation for the reason he had given. MISS CALLAHAN'S TRIAL. Lawyer Thompson Says Other Teachers Commit the Same Crimes "With Which His Client Is Charged. The trial of Miss Katherine R.

Callahan was continued last night before local school Board of District No. 38. Lawyer Elliott asked that Miss Byer, who is taking the stenographic minutes for Miss Callahan, be sworn as the official stenographer. Mr. Thompson of counsel for Miss Callahan agreed, but Mr.

Bassett of the board said that if the Board of Education wanted them to have a stenographer that one would have been provided. Lawyer Elliott, who repre sents Principal Sprague, said that If Miss Byer was not sworn Mr. Thompson refused to allow him to see the minutes. This led Mr. Thompson to say: "I never did see any warrant for the board's refusal In this matter.

There should be no imputation made against me If I in sist upon keeping what I pay for. I haven't heard a valid reason advanced against this proposition by any member of the board, but have heard many reasons advanced outsiae. Mr. Bassett Did they emanate from this board? Mr. Thompson I don't care to say, sir.

Mr. Elliott then proceeded to go on with his prosecution, but Mr. Thompson objected saying: "By a strange coincidence all three witnesses who testified at the last session pave testimony that dovetailed together and I would like to cross examine and break up that dovetailed arrangement to night." Mr, Elliott protested against such language and said that he would not submit to any such statement. The board ruled that the cross examination should be allowed. So Mr Thompson proceeded to question Miss Borchers.

Miss Ward and Mr. McAvoy on their testimony of last week. During the examination Mr. Thompson said he intended to prove that the crimes with which Miss Callahan Is charged arc also committed by ninety out of a hundred teachers. Mr.

Elliott said that if ninety teachers out of a hundred committed murder that would not Justify Miss Callahan in committing a murder. At 10:20 o'clock the trial adjourned until next Thursday. Before the adjournment the board decided that the witnesses be cross examined directly after they had testified, instead of waiting a week, as hitherto. THE WEATHER. INDICATIONS UNTIL, P.

M. TO MORROW. Washington. May IT For Eastern New York: rartly cloudy to night and Sunday: light to fresh variable LOCAL PROBABILITIES. Tartly cloudv to night and Sunday; llsht to fresh variable winds, mostly south.

At noon the Eagle's mercurial barometer registered 30. 70, having fallen .10 of an Inch since noon yesterday. Record of the thermometer as kept at th Brook lyn Dally Eagle Office: A. M. to day a 10 A.

65 12 P. It a. .00 P. 75 Avraee temperature to day GiU Averme temperature correspondlnc day lot yar SlTi HIGH WATER. ollowinc; is the official announcement of the time and duration of high water at New York and Sandy Hook for to morrow.

May 18: I A. M. I'rimel Height m.1 Feet t. V. M.

Dura'n of Holeht Rise I Fall in. Feet m.Ir.m New 5:11 1 Sandy Hunlc' 4:14 4.1 1.3 l.T AM The sun will rise to morrow at 1:10 A. 31. will set at P. M.

and REVERSES ITSELF. Gaynor Is Sustained, Though Smith's Identical Findings Were Turned Down. NEW TRIAL IN AN EQUITY CASE. Mrs. Smith Pinallv Loses Her Suit Against the Firths on Oyster Bay Land Sale.

The Appellate Court recently handed down decision in which it has reversed a for mer decision In the same case which was first tried before Justice Wilmot M. Smith and appealed, and after being sent back for a new trial and the same verdict given before Justice Gaynor. The action was that of Samuel Smith, as administrator of the estate of Mary Smith, against Christopher C. Firth and Anna R. Firth, his wife, and Rob ert W.

Firth and Lillie L. Firth, his wife. The suit was brought in equity to set aside deeds made by Mary Smith to the defendants of lands owned by her at Mill Neck Creek, Oyster Bay, which the plaintiff al leged had been procured from Mary Smith through fraud and by a misrepresentation as to Its value. The Firths are well known Brooklyn builders. In 1896, when the deeds were executed, Mary Smith was 48 years of age ana said to be illiterate.

She was then the owner of a farm of thirty eight acres, wnicn was somewhat inaccessible from the highways of Oyster Bay. There was a mortgage of $3,500 on the farm, and In September of that year, being in straightened circumstances, she applied to the Firths for a loan upon her land. The loan was refused, but the Firths entered into negotiations with her and agreed to buy twenty one acres of the farm for $4,500, paying $500 in cash and assumiug the mortgage. The deeds were executed and this transaction left Mary Smith seventeen acres free from encumbrance. Snnn after a suit was brougnt Detore jus tice Wilmot M.

Smith to set aside the deeds on the ground of fraud, in that the defend ants had misrepresented the value of the land, which was claimed to oe wortn tzo.uuu by the plaintiff. It was shown on the trial that if there had been an Increase in the value of the land it had come after the purchase, when the property was rendered accessible by the construction of the Oyster Bay shore road ana tne ounuiug ui a unus over Mill creek, connecting ah rviui. with Sayville. Justice Smith decided that, mere nan. Deeu no fraud committed by the purchasers of the land and that the Firths had a right to purchase the land for the amount offered and judgment was given to the defendants.

The plaintiff appealed ana upon argument ueiure the appellate division of the Supreme Court the latter reversed Justice Smith decision and sent the case back to the equity term for a new trial. The second trial was before Justice Gaynor and the latter also gave a decision for the defendants. In which he wrote the following opinion: This is the second time tnis suit nas oeeu tried. The learned judge who tried it tne first time gave judgment for the defendants, but it has been reversed on the facts by the Anuellate Division by a vote of 3 to 2 and a new trial ordered (53 App. 369).

Of course, the parties did not go to tne laDor and expense of taking the evidence over again before me. That wouiq De strange practice, indeed, In an equity case; but no stranger, probably, tnan to try it over at all; for, since courts of equity first sat, their judgments have been reversed on appeal on bills of exceptions, as was and is the case in respect of judgments in common law actions, but on the whole case, and in place of reversing the judgment If it was not right, the Appellate Court modified It, or reversed It and gave the judgment which should have been given by the chancellor. The case was not sent back to the chancellor to try over again. He could not be furnished with a new conscience for a new trial. The appeal was in effect a new trial before number of chancellors instead of no.

"In common law actions the practice has, of course, to be different, for there the parties are entitled to a trial of the facts by a lurv. and the case, therefore, has to be sent back for a new trial when reversed. "The printed record on appeal has been submitted to me, with some additional oral evidence on the question of value. Some documentary evidence of no particular Importance has also been submitted. I own to some embarrassment about how to treat the evidence in the former record, which still seems to be the controlling evidence In the case.

But I cannot understand that I am expected to conform my judgment and con sciet.ee to the prevailing opinion in the Appellate Division, any more than a jury has to do the like in a common law action. If the practice of ordering new trials in equity suits, the same as In common law actions, is really to be fastened upon us In this state, I suppose that on a new trial the trial judge is bound to decide the facts as he finds them to be, and not merely as he supposes or knows the Appellate Court thinks them to be. The latter would be a strange trial, indeed; one that might better be dispensed with. "My learned and careful brother who first, tried the case and saw all of the witnesses, and also from his long residence and active practice at the bar in Suffolk County and his observation and knowledge of conditions there and in the adjoining County of Q'leens. he was with the locality where the real estate in question is situated and was aDle to estimate at their true weight vague and strained expert opinions concerning its market value.

Formerly these advantagi on his part, or one of them, v. ould have been of controlling weight ia ease of in respect of the facts on appeal, but so greatly has the practice changed with us in that respect that this personal ecmation of the trial judge no longer suffices to prevent a reversal on the facts even in a case of such serious doubt as is expressed by a vote of 3 to 2 by the appellate judges." An appeal was taken to the appellate division a second time by Ihe plaintiff, and this time the declr ion of the equity term judge was affirmed, the Appellate Court having upon the second hearing of the ac tion reversed its decision handed down upon the appeal from the order of Justice Smith upon the first trial. THE JOYS OP TROLIvEYTNG. Trolleying bavins developed into a genuine diversion, Indulged in alike by the well to do and the less fortunate, the booklet on the subject which has just been issued by the Eagle is as timely as it is instructive. Bearing the torse but very expressive caption, "Trolley Kxploring," It tells what trips maybe made within thirty miles of New York, and also describes the longer journeys to Boston and 'Philadelphia.

That no less than seventy two pages are occupied in the telling will astonish every one who does not realize the enormous combined mileage of the trolley lines In and near the metropolis. Beside outlining the routes, the little book furnishes all needed Information as to distances, time required and fares, while some of the more important trips are summarized separately. Notes of many of the places of interest along the various lines, some of them Illustrated, and an admirable map are among the other features. The book costs a dime, but it is easily worth much more to any one needing it. Brooklyn Life.

SHIP NEWS. Arrived At New York. Campania, from Liverpool. from Coponhafren. Peninsular, from Lisbon.

La. Tournlne. from Havre. Gallia, from Naples. Comal.

from (laivfston. Eoreign Ports. Antwerp Sailed Zeland, for New York. Havre alle. Ui Savole.

for. New York. Liverpool Sailed L'mhrla. for New York. Southampton Sailed Philadelphia, for New lurk.

OFS He Becomes Sovereign in Fact as Well as in Name on His Sixteenth Birthday. OVATION FROM HIS SUBJECTS. Queen Begent Expresses Her Thanks for the Loyalty and Confidence of the People. Madrid, May 17 King Alfonso attained his majority to day and became King in fact, as well as In name, having reached the age, 16, prescribed by the constitution. Beautiful weather favored this, the central day of the fetes.

At an early hour all the bands of music of the troops composing the garrison marched through the principal Btreets, playing lively marches, to the Royal Palace, where they performed beneath the windows of the King's apartments. The royal procession started for the chamber of deputies shortly before 2 P. M. The King received an ovation from the enormous crowds in the streets. Hhere were a number of minor accidents.

The procession was formed on the Plaza se Arms (in front of the palace) and proceeded to the chamber of deputies, where, In the presence of the senators and deputies, the King took the oath to uphold the constitution. The procession was a spectacle of medieval magnificence. The Queen Regent has sent the following letter to the Premier, Senor Sagasta: "On terminating, to day, the regency, to which I was called by the constitution at a time of profound eadness and unexpected widowhood, I feel In the depth of my heart the necessity of expressing to the Spanish people my Immense and unchanging gratitude for the proofs of affection and support which I have received from all classes of society. If at that time" I foresaw that without the loyalty and confidence of the people I would be unable to fulfill my mission to day. In looking back on this period, the longest of all Spanish regencies, and rec ollecting the bitter trials which Providence has spared us, I appreciate those virtues in all their magnitude, affirming that, thanks to them, the nation has been able to traverse suoh a profound crisis under conditions which augur an epoch of tranquillity and well being for the future.

"Therefore, In handing to King Alfonso XIII the powers which I have exercised in his name, I am confident that all the Spaniards who are gathering around him will inspire hlra with the confidence and fortitude necessary to fulfill the hopes placed in him. That will be the. most complete recompense for his mother, who, having devoted her life to the fulfillment of her duties, begs God to protect her son, in order that, emulating the glories of his ancestors, he may succeed In giving peace and prosperity to the noble people over whom he will reign tomorrow. I beg you to make known to all Spaniards this sincere expression of my profound thanks, and the fervent wishes I make for the felicity of our beloved country." FEAR EPIDEMIC AT BATH BEACH. Diphtheria, scarlet fever and whooping uuugu nave spread over the suburbs and many children are affected with the malady.

In Bath Beach and Ben3onhurst there are a number of cases, and macv famllivs fv have resided there for years are going to movo away, as the parents of the children fear an epidemic. In Bay Nineteenth street, near Bath avenue, a case of whooping cough is reported, and it is said several cases of scarlet fever have been reported In Nineteenth avenue. The house on Bay Nineteenth street is occupied by an Italian family, and, according to the neighbors, it ne'eaii the attention of tne Board of Health, numerous complaints have been made to the board about the place, but no attention been paid to them. The rear yard, it is said, is in a disgraceful condition. Refuse has accumulated and no attempt has been made to clean it.

The occupants have been seen to throw garbage out of the second story window, and the odor Is very disagreeable. A short time ago. scarlet fever broke out on Eighty sixth street, near Nineteenth avenue, and it was said at the time that the disease had spread to the school house on Twenty first avenue. A well known physician 6aid yesterday he intended to send his family away, as he was afraid they would be stricken if they remained in Bath Beach. Burnett's Vanilla Extract Is the best, and the best Is r.onc too good for food and drink.

Insist on having Burnett's. LOST AND FOUND. LOST ON MAY 16. ON TRAIN. BETWEEN Brooklyn and Klatbush avs.

or Fulton st. between Brooklyn and Tompkins avs. a solitah DIAMOND RING. Reward if returned to 3 161 Pacific St. LOST ON THURSDAY NIGHT.

ON WASHING tou st. In front of Clarendon Hotel, or in front of Montauk Theater, RING; large brown diamond, surrounded by white diamonds. Suitable reward will be paid If returned to Mrs. JIUJAM H. REYNOLDS.

Fifteenth av and Forty ninth st. Brooklyn. $5 REWARD Will be paid for the return or Information of a young collla PUP. lost Thursday night, between 7 and o'clock; resembles a fox, except In color; he is a light fawn color; long, bushy hair and tall; loflg snout; dark, piercing eyes; will respond to the name of Rover. 257 McDonough st.

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S. 0SB0RN, 1,087 Flatbush Av. HOTELS A2TD KESOBTS. AT WHITE LAKE. Furnished cottage to rent for reason.

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XiEGAIi NOT.VCES. IK pursuance: of an order of the Hon. Georne B. Abbott, Surrogate of the County of Klnss. notice la hereby clven.

accordlnc to law, to all persons having claims asaln.it MARTHA T. ItEfCOUF. late of the County of Kins dect ased. that thev are required to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber at the oltlci of Henry M. Havlland.

132 Proaoect Park West. Brooklyn. N. which his place at tranractlnir buolnew. on or before tho second day of June next.

Dated November 9. 1901. NATHANIEL S. FECKVCAM. Administrator.

Cooklnham. Sherman Martin, Attorneys for Administrator. Utlca. N. rjjo 6rfl Ha Is Backing Perry Belmont and Hopes With His Help to Down Freedman.

LATTER NOW HAS A FINGER IN IT. Carroll's Grip on the Tammany Organi zation Seems to Be Growing Stronger. Food for reflection was furnished the politicians to day by the rumor, persistently circulated in Manhattan, that John F. Carroll is trying to gain a foothold in the financial combination which now controls the Manhattan Rapid Transit subway and which is seeking to control the Brooklyn tunnel. It is said that Mr.

Carroll expects to succeed Andrew Freedman in the relation that Mr. Freedman now holds to these enterprises. Mr. Freedman's interest in the tunnel contract has not been fully defined, but he was a party to the negotiations with the banking house of August Belmont which resulted in the approval of the bid of John B. McDonald by the Rapid Transit Commission, and is supposed to hold a direct interest of some magnitude in the tunnel contract.

Ho is interested with Richard Croker in the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company of 140 Broadway, which is on the bond of Contractor McDonald. Mr. Freedman's prominence in tho negotiations between the contractor and the city before tho contract was finally legalized was resented by the Carroll faction in Tammany Hall at the time. It was the beginning of a political feud that has reached the limit of bitterness since Carroll seized the Tammany leadership. Carroll has made it plain that he intends to destroy Freedman's connection with Tammany Hall at the first opportunity.

In his effort to supplant Freedman in the subway enterprises Carroll is said to have the backing of Charles W. Morse, with his chain of banks, which includes the Garfield National, the Fourteenth Street, of which Carroll is managing officer, the National Broadway, the National Bank of North America, the Gansevoort, the New Amsterdam National, the Produce Exchange, the Nineteenth Ward, the Sprague National, the Twelfth Ward, the Varick and the City Trust Company. Mr. Carroll and ex Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck are said to hold part of the Morse interest in all these banks.

The Ice Trust financial combination. In all of its ramifications, is understood to be ia full sympathy with Carroll's effort to supplant Freedman, not only in his political but his financial connections. Perry Belmont, who is to receive the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Seventh. Congressional District, is backed by Carroll. Carroll made every effort to allay the opposition of Richard Croker to Mr.

Belmont In the January election in that district, and It was his influence with the district leaders of the Seventh that enabled Mr. Belmont to force the reluctant support of Croker after he won the nomination. Mr. Belmont's relations with Freedman have been strained for more than a year, since Croker and Belmont severed their political relations. Carroll's grip on Tammany Hall Is said today' to have tightened visibly as a result of the persistent work of his adherents among the district leaders.

His followers, who are now In full swing at the Democratic Club, take the most optimistic view of the situation. They claimed last night to have gained important accessions to their strength within the last forty eight hours. James J. Martin, the candidate of the Car roll faction for chairman of the finance com mittee, is Bald to day to have advised the Carroll men not to be precipitate in their project to openly assume the control of Tammany. Martin is declared to be doubtful of the wisdom of electing Van Wyck grand sachem of the Tammany Society.

He has taken no part In the fight in the Board of Sachems, and refuses to do any active work for himself as the Carroll candidate for chair man of the Finance Committee, In this the 1 anti Carroll men claim to see an early de velopment of Martin's independence, which bodes no good to the future of the Carroll Martin combination. Carroll's intention to be absolute. It is surmised, may be thwarted by Martin at the outset if the policy of the crganization is laid out counter to Martin's personal judgment. Charles F. Murphy's campaign for the chairmanship of the finance committee will be in full bloom to morrow on the return of Senator Timothy D.

Sullivan from the West. This, at least, is the claim of the Murphy men, who are confident of Sullivan's enthusiastic support. Sullivan has sent word to Nov. York that he was with Nixon and regrets his resignation. Sullivan controls six votes in the executive committee.

His lieutenants are said to have brought about a situation, during his absence, in which these six votes constitute a balance of power in the Tammany squabble, and that it Is certain to be settled in his way. In spite of the certainty of success professed by both factions the rumor is in circulation, and has sained some credence, that the action of the Executive Committee on the question of leadership may ie deferred. Some of the conservative leaders, it is have suggested that no leader be selected until after the primaries in September. If this advice prevails it is believed that some ueutral factor in the organization, probably John McQuadc, the treasurer of Hall, will be put temporarily at the head of the Finance Committee. Richard Croker is reported to have assumed an attitude of resentment tow.ircl Lewis Nixon for holding him in any degree responsible for his retirement.

In a cabled interview in the New York Times Mr. Croker is quoted as snying "It is monstrous for Nixon to lay the blame of his abandonment of an office which he finds to bo more than he can manage Ujon my shoulders Tf Van Wyck Is elected grand sachem it po litical committee, for the sachems are only comcmed with the philanthropic side of the work. For the last seven or eight years the sachems have been elected and re elected. My friend Feitner was grand sachem Vi A fin the i i aia Xf i n' i pointed leader. Feitner appointed a com mittee wno presented the ticltet of names for submission to the society for election.

Uc this ticket wore the new names of Xixoa, Van Wyck. Freedman Keenan. Nixon, however, objected to making any change and cabled me as follows: 'I think it well to make no change in the old committee, as our enemies would take advantage of ii to make capital of it." That's the only cablegram of any kind I have had from Nixon since he became To this I replied as follows: 'Do as you please in the "There was not much dictation in that, was ihere? As a ihe old lot were reappointed, with the exception that Keenan was substituted for Whalen. and I thought everything was going smoothly. Afterward Freedman wrote me insisting that there were some differences of opinion, and I sent Freedman this cablegram: 'Stand by' Nlxcn; we can't afford to have any disagreement: we want the party "On Tuesday.

May in, my pnrtner. Meyer, cabled me asking my opinion concerning the grand sachem candidate, and adding that Van Wyck, Feitner. McClellan and R. B. "Roosevelt were being talked of.

This set me to thinking, I knew nothing of Nixon's views, but I knew that Nixon had been the leading man at Van Wyck's rereption Just be fore he retired from office. Van Wyck had appointed Nixon bridge commissioner and there was hardly a single sachem that Van Wyck had not stood by. "I supposed that Van Wyck and Nixon were still the greatest of friends. Therefore, when I cabled as I did May 14. that if I was in New York 1 would certainly vote for Van Wyck, the last, thing I had in mind "was that I was saying anything which would not meet with Nixon's heartiest ap wvaJ," I i eader 0 The Poets' Corner The Host lauds It.

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Y. PROPOSALS. proposals for bids asd estimates for the city of xew york. notice: to contractors. geneth il instructions to bidders.

The person or persons making a bid or etlmat for any services, work, materials or supplies for The Citv of New Vork. or for any of Its departments, bureaus or ofllces. shall furnish the samj in a sealed envelope indorsed with title ot the supplies, materials, work or services for wblalft the bid or estimate Is made, with his or their name or names and the date of presentation to th President or Board or to the head of the department at his or its office, on or before the, date and hour named In the advertisement for the same, at which time and place the estimates received will be publlclv opened by the President or Board or head of said department, and read, and the award of the contract made according to law as soon thereafter as practicable. Each bid or estimate shall contain the nam and place of residence of the person makinir th same, the names of all persona interested with hlra therein, and. If no other person be so Interested, it shall distinctly state that fact: also, that It IS made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the same purpose, and Is in all respects fair and without collusion or fraud: and that no member of the board of aldermen, head of a department, chief of a bureau, deputy thtereof.

or clerk therein, or other officer of The City of New York Is. shall be or beconia Interested, directly or indirectly, as contracting party, partner, stockholder, surety or otherwlso In or in the performance of the contract, or la the supplies, work or business to which It relates, or In any portion of the profits thereof. The bid or estimate must be verified by the oath, la wrltlns. of the party or parties maklnit the estimate that the several matter stated herein ar in all respects true. Each bid or estimate shall accompanied by the consent, in wilting, of two householders or freeholders In The city of New York, or of a guarantv or surety ecmpan.v duly authorized by law to act hb surety, and shall contain the matters set forth In the blank forms mentioned bo low.

No bid or estimate will be considered unless accompanied fcy a certified check upon one of tit state or national banks of The City of N'eW York, drawn to the order of the Comptroller, or money to the amount of five per centum of tho amount of the bemd required, as provided in section 430 of the Greater York Charter. For particulars as to tho nuantltv and quality of the supplies, or nature and extent of the work, reference must be made to the specifications, schedules, plans, on lllo in the said office of tin President. Uoard or Department. Xo bid shall be accepted from or contract awarded to any person who is in arrears to Tho City or New York upon debt or contract, or who Is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to The City. The contracts must be bid for separately.

The right is reserved In each case to reject all bids or estimates if It Is deemed to be for tho Interest of The City to do. Bidders will write out the amount of their blda or estimates in addition to Inserting the same in figures. Bidders arc requested to make their bids or estimates upen the blank forms prepared and furnished by The City, a copy of which, with tha proper envelope in which to inclose the bid, together with' ii copy of the contract, including tha specifications, in the form approved by the Cor pnratlnn Counsel, can he obtained upon application threfor at the office of the department for which th work is to he done. Plans and drawings of construction work mnv fir be s.en there. BOARDING.

FLATBUSH. arse room for eounl? or gentlemen; detached house; pleasant surrounulnas: one blook from Ave i nue and FJ.aibush av. i.vtu Brooi avi oil a 5 pneumonia, alter an illness oi eignt days. Mrs. Sykes was born in the West in 1S62.

and had lived in Brooklyn' for twenty two years, bhe had been a eom municant of the Protestant Episcopal Church! of St. Augustine for the past ten years and! is survived by her husband and eight chil dren. The funeral services will be held at; ihe Concord Baptist Church to morrow, at 12 the Rev. W. T.

Dixon officiating. BROOKLYN BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany. May IT A certificate incorporat ing the Young Men's Benevolent Society of Brooklyn has been filed with the Secretary; of State. The directors for the first year are i Charles Rosenthal.

Isaac Sturts, Bernard Schlesinger, Theodore Oatz, Benjamin J. i Narker. Benjamin Heyman, Jacob Arnold, i Isaac Klein. Samuel Harris. Frank Elllnger I and Abraham H.

Rubiesurz of Brooklyn. MAMIE AUXILIARY SOCIETY. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany. May 17 Articles incorporating the Mamie Auxiliary Society of Brooklyn have been filed with the Secretary of State. The eirectors for the first year are: Ida S.

Cohen, Itika Lyons. RiJta Broh and Betty Reiss Brooklyn..