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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. 13. 1902.

8 SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. OBJECTED TO QUESTIONS. SHOPLIFTER ARRESTED. PIES TO MODIFY HID STOLEN THOUSANDS IN FATHER'S FIREPLACE.

HOiiSTEL'S PLANS TO BEAUTIFY BRIDGES. A Moment of Reflection Will show you that a house making an especial effort, month after month, to brin? to Brooklyn the very newest and most popular metropolitan styles and methods, making their Brooklyn stores the headquarters for New York goods, are in the very best position to give you what you like and need for yourself or the members of your family. This is what we have done and what we are doing day after day, and which makes Our Brooklyn Stores Popular. Summer Suits. Plain and Fancy Cheviots, Homespuns, Serges, single and double breasted Sack Suits (two and three button), the very newest of new things for men and young men, $12 to $22.

Light weight Flannels and other summerv stuffs, $12 to $15. The best stock of Summer Furnishings for men and boys ever carried. Negligee Shirts, Fancy Hosiery, Light Summer Neckwear, Dress Suit Cases, Bathing Suits and a host of other attractive goods which we shall be glad to show you. Hats. Shoes.

Smith, Gray Brooklyn: Broadway, at Bedford Fulton at Flatbush Ave. New York: Broadway, at 31st St. 0KQST I KAUt SHOES AND BOOTS a.re adapted for all seasons a.nd climates, with special models for coa.ch.ing. mountain climbing and any sport. Women's 3.50 per pair Men's .5.00 The price for men's nhoea in necessarily hiRher thnn that of the women's.

The labor in making In grreater and more stock and heavier materials are used. 0ROSis shoe STORE CORNER OP FULTON AND HOYT STREETS, BROOKLYN. Woman Wearing Diamonds Said She Was a Brooklynite. A stylishly dressed woman, who gave the name of Mrs. Elizabeth Lyons of Brooklyn, was held in $200 bail for trial yesterday in Jefferson Market Court, Manhattan, charged with stealing stockings valued at $2.35 in a department store on Sixth avenue, Friday afternoon.

Detective Sergeants, Rein and Day made the arrest on complaint of the store detective. After being locked up in the Charles street police station for about half an nour, the woman was released on ban furnished by Luke a saloonkeeper at Greenwich avenue and Christopher street. At the time of her arrest she wore diamond earrings worth J500, live diamond rings, an emerald and ruby ring, a gold watch and chain, a diamond studded alligator brooch, and carried a large sum of money. She refused to give her address at the hearing in Magistrate Barlow's private office, and declared that she had never been arrested before. BISHOP POTTER TO MARRY.

His Engagement to Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark, Widow of the Sewing Machine Magnate, Announced. The engagement of the Right Rev. Henry C. Potter, Bishop of New York, to Mrs.

Alfred Corning Clark, widow of the sewing machine magnate, is announced, but no date has yet been set for the marriage. Bishop Potter, who is regarded as the leading churchman of this country, is now abroad, traveling for his health and to attend the coronation of King Edward. He is now In France, much improved, and expects to return in September, after a tour of Norway. In addition to his activities in church work. Bishop Potter has long been one of the most public spirited and influential citizens of the metropolis.

In the last municipal campaign he took a prominent part on the Fusion side against Tammany, and aided largely in the success of the Low ticket. Bishop Potter has frequently been called to act as arbitrator in labor disputes, and is a member of the arbitration committee of which Senator Hanna is chairman. Recently he has been the object of bitter attack by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the leaders of the Prohibition movement on account of his advocacy of liberal liquor legislation for this city and the right of the citizen to enjoy himself on Sunday. Mrs. Clark, whose husband died in 1896, has her city home at Seventy ninth street and Riverside drive and a handsome country place at Cooperstown, N.

Y. She has given away much money for charitable purposes and has contributed much to the Protestant Episcopal Church. Among her benefactions are the Alfred Corning Clark Memorial Chapel and parish house, in East Thirty first street, near Second avenue, and the Neighborhood House, at Cannon and Rivington streets. She built the model tenement houses in West Sixty eighth and Sixty ninth streets, between Amsterdam and West End avenues, and in First avenue, between Sixty fourth and Sixty fifth streets. Mrs.

Clark has four sons, one a first lieutenant in the Ninth United States Infantry, who has just returned to this country after meritorious service in the Philippines and China. Bishop Potter, who is 68 years of age, has six children five daughters and a son. His city house is at 10 Washington square and he has a camp in the Adirondacks. BLAZE IN BROAD STREET. Fire was discovered on the third floor of 76 Broad street, Manhattan, yesterday afternoon hy F.

Turner of the Arm of C. K. Turner Son, who occupy the second floor. The was turned in and when the firemen arrived they found that the fire had started in the middle room of the third floor, which is occupied by the Samsoun Cigarette Company, Sadock proprietors. How it started no one knows.

The firemen put out the blaze without trouble and the damage was trifling. Mr. Turner, whose firm 'does an export business, said that the damage by water to their stock would be several thousand dollars. The water also injured the offices of the Flint and Walling Manufacturing Company on the first floor and the restaurant on the ground floor run by Harlow Kuchlin. On account of the locality two alarms were turned in.

The police estimate the damage at PUT OUT OF THE FORT. Until recently the Young Women's Christian Association had a branch in the Fort Hamilton barracks. They are there no longer, because the commandant believes that they can do better work outside rather than inside of the fort. This decision, reached recently, was caused by talk about the social gatherings of the branch, which are said to have been kept up till a very late hour and as a result gossip of a scandalous nature followed. It is alleged, however, that women who were not members of the branch visited the soldiers in its rooms and that the Young Women's Christian Association was not to blame for the conduct which caused more or less of a scandal.

THE WEATHER. INDICATIONS UNTIL P. M. TO DAY. Washington, July 12 For Eastern New York: Fair.

Sunday and Monday: light to fresh southwest winds. At midnight the Eagle's mercurial barometer registered 30.00, having remained the same since noon yesterday. Record of the thermometer as kept at the Brook lyn Dally Eagle Office: 2 A. M. yesterday 71) 2 P.

3 P. 7 P. P. 11 P. 1 A.

4 A. 01 6 A. BT 5 A. 70 10 A. 7S 19 1 P.

SO HIGH WATER. Following is the official announcement of th time and duration of high water at New York and Sandy Hook for to morrow, July 14: A. M. I'rimBl Height H. M.I Feet P.

M. Dura'n of TimejHeigbt, Blse I Fall H. M.I Feet Ih. m. h.

a New I 3:04 Sandy Hookl 2:38 3:42) 4 2 5:54 I 6:25 3:081 4.4 6:08 6:33 The sun will rise to morrow at 4:41 A. M. and will set at 7:30 P. M. SHIP NEWS.

Arrived At New York. Tjomo, from Sydney. C. B. Princess Anne, from Newport News.

Maverick, from Sabine Pass. St. Paul, from Southampton. Mlntrne. from Civita.

Outgoing From New York. Gulf Stream, for Philadelphia. City of Savunnah, for Savannah. City of Macon, for Boston. Roma, for Marseilles.

Georpe W. Clyde, for Wilmington, N. C. Chesapeake, for Baltimore. Ryndam.

for Rotterdam. Georgian, for Liverpool. Etruria, for Liverpool. Philadelphia, for San Juan. Aggl, for Sagua la Grande.

Richmond, for Norfolk. Anchoria. for Glasgow. Adirondack, for Kingston. St.

George, for Galveston. Prlns Willem I. for Hayti. Morro Castls. for Havana.

Slcllia, for New Orleans. Norge, for Copenhagen. El Alba, for New Orleans. Jamestown, for Norfolk. Curityba, for Matanzas.

Valencia, for Caie Hayti. Jamaica, for Banes. Lampasas, for Key West and Galveston. for New Orleans. Foreign Ports.

Madeira Arrived Dona Maria, from New York. Trieste Arrived Peconic, from Nsw York. Antwerp Arrived St. Nicholas, from New York Huelva Sailed Glenroy. for New York.

Genoa Arrived Trojan Prince, from New York. Para Arrived Hilary, from New York. Shanghai Arrived I ndra mayo, from New York Shanghai Arrived Sonca, from New York. Liverpool Arrived Lucanla, from New York. Suez Arrived Mat'duff, from Yokohama, for New York.

Bermuda Sailed Pretoria, for New York. Naples Sailed Lombardla, for New York. Palermo Sailed Pocahontas, for York. Ghent Sailed La Flandre, for New York. Bremen Sailed Frlcderlch der Grosse, for New iorK.

Cherbourg Sailed St. Louis, for New York. London trailed Minnetonka for New York, Moville Sailed ColumbiB, for New York. A Two Passengers on French Liner Insulted by Immigration Queries. Julius Esehwege and A.

Kollmann, two passengers on the steamer Touralne, which arrived from Havre yesterday, refused to fill out the blanks required by the United States Immigration laws when the purser of the ship requested them to do so. When this fact was reported to the immigration boarding officer on the arrival of the ship he insisted that the blanks be filled out. The men objected on the ground that the questions prescribed by law were insulting. They finally filled in the blanks, but threatened to send a protest to Washington. Other first cabin passengers, when asked if they objected to filling out the blanks refused to talk on the subject.

Commissioner William Williams said that he had no information that his boarding inspector had exceeded his duty in any particular, nor had he heard of any protest from passengers to questions asked. If he finds any inspector has exceeded his authority he says that he will investigate the case. CHECK AROUSED SUSPICION. So Lande Caused Arrest of Alleged Agent, Who Had Placed Big Orders. Paul Lamley, 32, of 8 West Eighty second street, Manhattan, was arraigned in the Tombs Court yesterday on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses.

David S. Lande, employed by the firm of Pelton (J03 Broadway, was the complainant. He told Magistrate Cornell that he had met Lamley first on a Lehigh Valley train coming to New Y'ork. The man said he was a salesman for Hennessey Mercantile Company of Butte, Montana. He asked Lande for the name of a good house to trade with.

Lande told him of Pelton Bros. Within the first few days he placed orders for $30,000 with that firm. He then asked Lande to cash a draft for for him. After doing this Lande became suspicious and telegraphed to Butte. The reply stated that Lamley had been employed as a window dresser, but had been discharged several weeks ago.

The case was then put in the hands of Detectives O'Neil and McKenna of the Leonard street station. They arrested Lamley on Friday at the office of Isaac Kom mcl 35 Howard street, where he was in the act of signing an order for $14,000. Lamley was held in $1,000 for examination cn Monday. OBITUARY. John Shaw Herries.

John Shaw Herries, whose home was at Sagua la Grande, Cuba, for a generation, paid a visit to friends here last June and sailed for Glasgow, Scotland, arriving there on the Fourth of July. On Friday a cablegram announced his sudden death. He was in his eighty first year and it is presumed that his last ocean trip exhausted his strength, for although in general good health he was feeble. In his business life in Cuba he was energetic, honorable and successful. When the recent revolution and subsequent war came he suffered in common with many others, but he managed to keep his estates intact.

He was the elder brother of William Herries of Hancock street, who, with many other friends here and in New Y'ork, mourn their loss. Mr. Herries leaves a wife who was with him when he died. The burial will be in a cemetery near Manchester, England, where reposes the body of his first wife. Mr.

Herries was born in Lisbon. His early life was in Glasgow, where he died. He spent many years in Manchester. His first experiment on this side of the ocean was in New Orleans, whence he went to Cuba. His friendships were world wide and his record as a business man is regarded in Cuba as of the most exalted character.

O. Palm Smith. O. Palm Smith, a well known resident of South Brooklyn, died yesterday morning in his home, in 212 Carroll street. He had suffered for four years from an affection of the throat.

He was born in Troy, and had lived in Brooklyn' for the last twenty years. Mr. Smith was employed in a brush factory In Manhattan. The funeral services will be held to morrow evening and the interment will be in Greenwood on Tuesday morning. Mrs.

Mary Mary Edwards, widow of James Edwards, died. on Friday of apoplexy, at her home, 45 St. Felix street. She had been a resident of Brooklyn for forty years, having lived on St. Felix street most of the time, and was about 70 years of age She was the sister of P.

W. Taylor, the jeweler, of Fulton street, and leaves two sons and three daughters. The funeral service will be held at her late home to morrow. ARCHITECT BEHLEN "WINS. Absolute Divorce Granted Him, With Custody of His Child.

Justice Truax, in the New York Supreme Court, yesterday signed a decree confirming the report of Edward G. Whittaker, who was appointed referee to take the testimony in a suit brought by Herman Behlen, the well known architect, for an absolute divorce from his wife, Anna Theresa Lang Behlen. Referee Whittaker reported favorably for Mr. Behlen and he therefore not only receives the divorce, but also the control and custody of the only child of. the marriage.

The matrimonial differences of the Beh lens and the fight between them for the custody of their child have been aired in court frequently during the past year. The couple were married eight years ago. They separated in 1900. Mrs. Behlen is at present stopping in care of relatives in Wheeling, W.

Va. Before her marriage to Mr. Behlen. the wife was a well kno.tiarpist. Several months ago Mr.

Behlen began habeas corpus proceedings in the Supreme Court to get custody of his child. An amicable arrangement was arrived at pending the result of the divorce suit. In the meantime Mrs. Behlen went to West Virginia, where she has since remained. In his suit for divorce, Mr.

Behlen charged his wife with being entirely too friendly with four different men. The wife contested the Milt at first, but abandoned It. On the evidence the referee reported In favor of Mr. Behlen. BERGER ON STEEL SUITS.

In a. statement given out in the name of the plaintiffs in the Berger United States Steel Corporation suit yesterday by Maurice Berger, he said: "We have written Robert H. McCarter, our New Jersey attorney, that he must sever his connection with the last litigation against the Steel Corporation, or permit us to substitute in our suit another attorney in his place. We have been pleased with Mr. McCarter's management of our case and do not doubt his good faith, but we are not willing that the public should have any reason to associate us with more recent complainants.

The fact is, we do not approve of the purposes which the last litigation discloses." It Is intimated that the last litigation is illegitimate and in the nature of a hold up and Mr. Berger then goes on to declare that the one he is interested in is proper and necessary for the protection not only of stockholders, but the outside public. LABORER BURNED TO DEATH. While lighting the gas in the hallway of his house, 590 Tenth avenue. Manhattan, last evening.

Francis Quinn, 70 years old, a laborer, was burned to death. The police of the West Forty seventh street station, who make the report, say that his clothing accidentally caught fire. SUICIDE IN CENTRAL PARK. Charles Aberle, 40 years old, of 524 East Elchty Bixth Manhattan, died in Fres tjytertan Hospital yesterday afternoon from carbolic acid poisoning. He had taken the poison in Central Park, opposite Ninety fifth street.

IIBROSE Contractor Onderdonk Wants Depth and Width of Dredging Area Curtailed. TQ COMPLETE JOB LATER. Blow Progress in the Undertaking Due to Many Difficulties Encountered. Eagle Bureau, 60S Fourteenth Street. Washington, July 12 Andrew Onderdonk, who has the contract for digging the new Ambrose Channel in New York Harbor, has made application to the War Department for the modification of the terms of his contract so that the big channel will be dredged to a depth of 35 feet and about 1,200 or 1,500 feet wide, instead of 40 feet deep and 2,000 feet wide, as provided for in the original agreement.

Onderdonk was in this city last week and had a long talk with Secretary Root and General Gillespie, chief of engineers, in regard to securing a modification of his contract. It has been apparent for some time that Mr. Onderdonk would not be able to live up to the requirements of his bargain with the government, for the construction of the big channel has proved a much more difficult task than the plucky contractor thought would be the ease when he undertook it. It is believed that he has lost money on the work and from present appearances he will be two or three years behind time in completing it. He went over the entire situation with the War Department authorities last week and then asked that he be allowed to cut off five feet from the depth, as originally stipulated, and about 500 feet from the width.

Secretary Root realizes that this is a very important modification to make and one that will concern all the big shipping interests of Xew York, as well as their connections in foreign countries. The Secretary, however, appreciates the fact that the contractor is up against a tough proposition and that the contract to be annulled for failure to meet requirements the government would doubtless lose money Jn attempting to have another firm complete the work. He is disposed, therefore, to deal with the matter in the most liberal spirit with the situation. Secretary Root called on Major Marshall, the engineer officer at New York, who has supervision of river and harbor improvements in that vicinity, for a statement of opinion regarding the proposed change in the dimensions of the channel. Major Marshall has replied that as between the two alternatives of annulling the contract and modifying it so that the contractor can go on with his work the latter is better for the United States.

Secretary Root has instructed Major Marshall to prepare supplementary articles of agreement to cover the proposed change and as soon as these are received the matter will he disposed of. It should be stated that Mr. Onderdonk's proposition is that the extra five feet of depth and is lacking in width are to be supplied after the channel has been made 35 feet deep and 1,500 feet wide. There is a feeling at the War Department that if the contract is once modified the channel will never be completed as originally provided for and it is this feeling, as much as anything else, that causes the Secretary to hesitate in approving the desired modification. It is believed that the commercial interests of New York will desire to be heard from on this project, for a long fight was made in Congress to have the channel 4u feet deep and 2.000 feet wide.

When Congress specified that the cut should be of the dimensions above specified, it provided for the largest artificial channel on the Atlantic coast, for there is not another from Maine to Texas as deep and as wide, with the exception of the short Bay Ridge channel now being dug to connect with the Ambrose Channel. The new Boston channel is to be 35 feet tieep and the Buttermilk Channel is to bo 30 feet. The various representatives of the big steamship companies argued before the Rivers and Harbors Committee that a channel 40 feet deep and 2,000 feet wide was essential for the growing commerce of New York, Gustav Schwab and other well known shipping men holding out especially for a depth of 40 feet. The present ship channel has a depth of 30 feet only. A recent report from Major Marshall shows that Mr.

Onderdonk has made but comparatively slow progress on his big undertaking. He is required to move 42,500,000 cubic yards of material, and at the end of the month of May he had taken out only 4,954,239. He signed the contract for this work May 24, 1899, but under the terms of the agreement was not required to begin excavations until May 21. 1900. Owing to troubles with his excavating plant, the War Department allowed another year in which to begin actual work, taking it up to May 24, 1901.

According to the rate of progress he has made to date. Mr. Onderdonk would not complete the channel much short of ten years. Little doubt is felt that he will lose money on the job. The secret of his failure lies in the fact that the scows that he is employing have not come up to the expectations.

These were built especially for the work at great expense and were patterned after some giant affairs that are employed in keeping the channel of the Thames River clear. Huge suction pipes are used to sup up the bottom and scoop up material in large quantities. The idea was to dig two big holes, at considerable depth, and that the material in between would sift into the openings, thus providing a uniform depth. It is on this principle that the English scows have worked. But the bottom in New York harbor is too firm to permit of the filling in process.

The result is that the contractors have taken out great quantities of material for which they not be paid. The agreement says that pay is to be allowed only for stuff taken out down to a depth of 40 feet. Many of the holes sunk by the scows are as deep as GO feel, so that all material removed below the 40 feet line lias been a dead loss. The Array engineers say that no other contractor would undertake to complete Onder donk's job for less than 15 or IS cents a cubic yard. Onderdonk gets 9 cents a cubic yard, and when he agreed to do it at that rate It was the general opinion that he would lose on the work.

DEAD AFTER PALL DOWN STAIRS. I John McPartland. 5 1 years old, of tali West Twenty eighth street, Manhattan, died yesterday in Roosevelt Hospital from a fracture of the skull, received on July S. On that night the man was either pushed or fell down a flight of stairs at his home. Mrs.

Mary Kennedy, who lived in the house, was arrested at the time, but afterwards discharged. William Cash Drew Payroll Money and Put It Out of Way. QUICK WORK BY DETECTIVES. Not Impressed by Cock and Bull Story of Midday Assault and Bobbery in Pulton Street. William Cash, 24 years old, of 554 East One Hundred and Thirty fourth street, a clerk in the employ of the Fisheries Company.

Benjamin P. Todd, secretary, of 135 Front street was sent at 11 o'clock yesterday morning to the Fulton Market National Bank, by his employers with a check for $9,537.08, the amount of the firm's pay roll. The money was given to him. in a package. That was the last seen of Cash so far as his employers were concerned.

They waited for sometime, then asked the police to find the young man. Detectives Enright, Kinevln and Kennedy of the Alexander avenue station made a careful inspection of the young man's residence and then rang the bell. When admitted they found Cash reclining in a Morris chair smoking a cigar. "How about this money you got at the bank this morning?" asked Detective En right. The young man' rubbed a small bump on the back of his head and replied: "I got the money all right, but, as I was walking up Fulton street, some one came up behind me, knocked me down with a blow on the head.

When I got myself together again, the money was gone." The aetectives looked at one another. "Why didn't you go back to the firm and tell somebody about it? Or why didn't you report it to the police?" suggested Detective Enright. Cash ignored the question, but continued: "Then I took a Third avenue train to One Hundred and Thirty eighth street and came home." The detective insinuated that the young man lied. "You are right. I got off at One Hundred and Forty third street," amended the unabashed Cash.

Again the detective alleged that the clerk was lying. "I guess I got off at One Hundred and Eighty sixth street," replied Cash. Further questioning revealed the fact that his father, Edmund Cash, an insurance agent, lived at 698 East One Hundred and Eighty sixth street. "Did you go to see your father?" On the young man's protest that he did not the detective asked why he had not. Cash alleged that his head hurt him too much and pointed to the slight lump on that part of his anatomy.

"That's too small a lump," observed the detective. "Look at my hat, then, if you think I am lying?" exclaimed the young man. The hat was damaged, but not on the side which covered the lump. Detectives Kinevin and Kennedy took the young man to the Alexander avenue station, while Enright, after examining the house, proceeded to the home of the elder Cash. "Seen your son to day?" he asked of the father.

"Yes, he was here a little while ago," replied the elder Cash. He said the young man had not left anything that he was aware of. The detective then told him his errand. Much astonished, the father protested that his boy could not have taken the money, but the detective persisted and told him that ho would have to search the house. Going into the diningroom, Enright observed an open grate fireplace that was sealed for the summer.

Inspecting it closely, it seemed to him that the seal seemed to have been recently disturbed. Removing the light partition which acted as the seal he caught sight of a bright shining quartet below where the grate had been. Encouraged, he put his hand up the chimney. He could feel nothing but a thick coat of soot. Then he felt the side wall and discovered a well like opening caused by a hole in the masonry back of the mantelpiece.

He tried to reach bottom with his arm. It was too deep. Then, with an apology to the elder Mr. Cash, the detective deliberately tore out the whole front of the mantel. Half buried in the soot he found the full amount of the theft, loose, in the well, with a surplus of S5 coats.

Almost speechless with mortification and amazement the young man's father received the news of the find with a protest that he knew nothing about it. He said the young man had been in the house and had been through the rooms. When the detective on returning to the station house, told the young man that he had recovered the money and asked him why he had taken it, the prisoner replied: "I have nothing to say." SPECTATOR SHOT IN BACK. An Innocent Victim of a Back Room Saloon Eight Badly Injured. While watching two men fighting in the back room of a saloon in the Bronx, yesterday afternoon, Thomas Gleason, 42 years old, of 632 East One Hundred and Fortieth street, was shot in the back.

He was removed in a serious condition to Lincoln Hospital and Charles Murdoch, a saloon keeper of 219 Willis avenue, was arrested charged with having done the shooting. Late yesterday Murdoch entered the saloon of Charles Kuhn, 3i7 Willis avenue, and asked for a drink to straighten him up. He siid that he had been drinking and wanted to "get off the stuff." Mr. Kuhn was behind the bar at the time, and he turned to get the drink when Murdoch left the bar and went toward the rear of the saloon. Just at the rear is a small room in which ten men were sitting at small tables and drinking.

Murdoch walked unsteadily, and as he was passing a table at which Charles Snyder, of 622 East One Hundred and Forty first street, was sitting, he jostled the latter. Snyder expostulated, and words followed. According to the police Murdoch, after a few angry remarks, pulled a reolver and fired at Sny dr. The shot missed. Instantly the place was in an uproar.

Some of the customers fled out the door, overturning the tables. Just as the first shot was fired Kuhn entered the room. He had heard the angry voices of the men and rushed to the scene. He at once grappled with Murdoch. The men struggled about the room, Kuhn seeking to disarm his violent (ustomer.

During the struggle Murdoch managed to get his arm fiee and again fired. Immediately Gleason, who was in the room, and who, it Is said, had been taking no part in the affray fell to the floor shouting "I am shot." Outside the place a crowd had gathered, and this attracted Policeman Coleman of the Alexander avenue station. He appeared in the room at this juncture, and assisted in Fiibduing Murdoch. The latter, however, was able to fire another shot before they could get his revolver away from him. This damaged the woodwork, but no one was struck.

After he was disarmed. Murdoch was taken to the Alexander avenue station and locked up. Gleason was removed to the Lincoln Hospital. It was found that he had been struck In the left side of the back. The wound is a serious one, but it Is expected that he will recover.

PELL FROM HORIZONTAL BAR. Young Alfred Hooper's Arm Fractured in a Vacation Playground. While exercising on a horizontal bar yesterday afternoon on the playground of the vacation school recently opened at Public School No. 74, Kosciusko street, near Bush wick avenue, Alfred Hooper. 13 years old, of 1,145 Broadway, lost his hold and fell to the ground, fracturing his left arm.

He was attended and removed to the German Williamsburgh Structure Will Be Illuminated and Angular Lines Softened. NO ALTERATION CONTEMPLATED. Modifications in Black well's Island Bridge Piers Designed to Make Them Bear Double Deck Roadways. Henry Y. Hornbostel, consulting architect of the Bridge Department, issued a long statement yesterday explaining the conditions of his connection with the department and outlining the proposed alterations in the Black well's Island bridge and denying that there were to be any alterations whatsoever In the Williamsburgh bridge.

The statement of Architect Hornbostel is the first official statement from the Bridge Department relative to the bridge changes. Prom the statement it appears that the "Williamsburgh bridge Is to be illuminated by incandescent lights which will silhouette the structure in much the same manner that many of the buildings at the World's Fair were outlined at night. Electroliers are to be placed along the footpaths, elaborate decorations are to be placed on the towers, comfort stations are to be established at each of the towers and the angular appearance of the bridge is to be lessened as much as pcssible. The piers for the Blackwell's Island bridge are to be modified so as to conform to the new idea of a double deck structure, the plan for which is now being prepared by the engineers in the department. iir.

Hornbostel in explaining the terms of his contract with the city, concerning which there has been no little misunderstanding, said: "My contract with the city is only for the work on the Williamsburgh bridge, and, as announced at the time of my appointment, such work is to be useful 'elaboration' of the structure. The amount of money to be paid for this work cannot exceed $260,000 and 5 per cent, of that sum will come to me as my architect's fee. The impression has been allowed to get abroad through unauthorized statements in some of the newspapers that my commission will reach nearly $100,000. That is absolutely untrue as can be seen from the contract I have with the Bridge Department. From the plans which I have prepared the cost of the elaboration will not exceed $230,000 and my commission from that sum is to defray the expenses of the drawings and superintendence of the elaboration on the bridge.

"The public may be assured that there are to be no alterations in the bridge at all and that the expense of the elaboration was provided for in the original cost of the bridge. There will not be one cent of additional expense to the city as a result of my work. All of my designs must be approved by the Municipal Art Commission and for that reason it will be necessary to submit a number of them to allow for choice. The items which I have considered in preparing my plans for the elaboration of the bridge are the artistic treatment of the tops of tho towers, the proper study of the illumination, the erection of candelabra or electroliers and the treatment of the 'haunches' of the towers." Mr. Hornbostel stated that the "haunches" were the angles formed by the intersection of the sloping sides of the superstructure of the steel piers with the basic steel structure.

"In reply to inquiries as to the details of his plans for this work, the architect said that while he had not as yet definitely decided upon the plans he could give some idea of what he intended to propose. "Of course you realize that a number of different plans must De presented ror each department of this work in order that the Municipal Art Commission may be allowed some choice, and it is possible, that in addition to the items I have already outlined I may prepare plans for the erection of comfort stations at the anchorage piers. The plan which I am now considerinc for illuminating the Williamsburgh bridge is to silhouette the structure by incandescent lights. The idea of arc lights scattered hero and there over the bridge is not artistic. I propose to have smaller lights and more of them and they will be so arranged as to present a silhouette of the structure.

A number of designs will be presented to the commission "for the tops of the towers, and it will not be necessary to go into details concerning them. The electroliers will be placed at regular intervals across the bridge, especially along the footpaths. The haunches' of the towers will be treated in uch a manner as to lessen the appear ance of angularity which they now have. All of these elaborations were provided for in the estimate of the cost of the bridge and they will not require the expenditure of a single cent of money more than has already been provided. Engineer L.

L. Buck and I have been in consultation regarding these elaborations and he has approved of the plans which will be presented to the commission." Concerning the changes in the Blackwell's Island bridge and his connection with the plans, Mr. Hornbostel explained that he had no contract for the work, but was merely employed by the day and was paid for the work he put upon the designs. All that he has been concerned with In this bridge have been the anchorage piers. The idea of making the bridge a double decker, he said, originated with Commissioner Lin denthal, and the plans for such an alteration are being prepared by the engineers in the bridge department.

"When assumed the duties of commissioner in the bridse department," continued Mr. Hornbostel, "he conceived the idea of making the bridge a double structure without lessening the carrying capacity, and with a saving to the city. The scheme of a cantilever bridge has been retained, but the outlines will be made more artistic. The stone piers as they are being constructed at present with the proposed double deck structure placed on top would have looked hideous. Therefore, the commissioner is trying to modify the stone piers hy making changes in the cornices and in the formation of the arch.

These changes, far from being an expense to the city, will be a saving. I consider the cornices of the presnt piers' most inartistic. The commissioner asked me to prepare drawings of these chances in connection with my work on the Williamsburgh bridge and I have complied with his request. I will be paid as any hired man in the employ of the department is paid. I am not architect of that bridge and all I am doing is preparing a set of pictures of the designs for.

the changes recommended by the department." v. ROBBED IN MURPHY PARK. Louis Nuhring of 593 Marcy avenue fell asleep Friday night in Murphy Park, adjoining the Municipal Building. While he slumbered some person rifled his pockets and stole his open faced watch, his imitation Panama hat, his belt and about 73 cents from his pockets. Nuhring had more money, but the thief overlooked a roll of bills that he tad tucked away In a corner.

There are nany tramps who seek shelter in Murphy Paik at night, and no person of sense would fall asleep there. There was a lurid story printed to the effect that the man had been chloroformed on one of benches, but of this there was no evi Vence. He simply was dead tired and slept too well. The police of the Adams str eet'station are investigating the case. CHILD'S BODY PICKED UP.

The drowned body of a month old child was found yesterday afternoon on the beach at the foot of Seventy third street, Bay Ridge. The coronerjwas ndtlfled. DAW NEW PUBLICATIONS. Tour fortune Toid Fre RV THE 7nnilR Artrolosyreroalayonrllfe. Wo Dl inc tUUifltl.

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WIENER, 390 Bridge st. LOST AND FOUND. LOST STRAYED OR STOLEN FROM 219 Franklin av, silver gray TERRIER. Suitable reward will be given for her return to above address. LOST ON THURSDAY EVENING, ABOUT 6:30 o'clock, liver colored IRISH SETTER; white spot on breast.

Liberal reward if returned to 120 Monroe st. corner Bedford av. LOST ON THURSDAY, JULY 10, FAWN COL ored PUG DOG. in neighborhood of Flatbush av and Hanson place; one ear bitten. Liberal reward If returned to THOS.

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367 Fulton st: telenhone 7S2 Main. GREAT CROWD AT OLD CONEY. Coney Island had a big day yesterday and it was estimated that 75,000 persons visited the place during the day and night. It was by far the best Saturday of the season. Th9 usual number of prisoners gathered In the police, the patrol wagon being kept on the run all the time.

The crowd was thick along Surf avenue and traffic by carriage or wheel was difficult. Some one turned in an alarm of fire from the box at Surf avenue and Arcade Walk about 7 o'clock and the engines narrowly escaped running over people. No fire could be found. INDEX To Classified Advertisements in Today's Eagle. CLASSIFICATION.

SECTION. PAGD Am. European Hotels Special 2 Amusements Editorial 3 Auction Sales Editorial 14 Birth Editorial i Editorial 12 13 Soax A Cable 7 Business Notices Editorial 4 Business Business Personals Cable clairvoyants 1 Coastwise Stsamahlps Editorial 17 Death Notices Editorial 5 Cable Divldsnds 18 Employment jj11 lJ European Hotels Special a Excursions Editorial 3 Financial Editorial 18 19 For Exchange Editorial 14 Furnished Rooms Editorial 13 1 Cable 7 Help Wanted i ISJUorial 12 Lable 7 Horses. Carriages. gbI" Hotels and Resorts Instruction Editorial Lost and Found Cable Marriage Notices 8 Manhattan Editorial 3 Medical editorial 10 I Telegraph 4 3 Miscellaneous Editorial I Cable 3.6 New Publications Ocean Steamships 17 Post Office Notice Editorial 16 Railroads Editorial.

Real Estate Editorial l3 Real Estate at Editorial 14 Editorial 14 Real Estate Loans cable 7 Resort Guides Editorial is Situation. Wanted Speclnl 8 Special Notices E.lltorlal Editorial 3 Steamboats Jdltorlal 17 1 si. Editorial 13 14 To Let ano l'or oale Cable 7 Editorial. 12 Wlintcd Cable SON ARRESTED FOR ROBBERY. Police Traced Decoy Letter Sent to His Mother "by Oscar Abbott.

Oscar M. Abbott, 32 years old, a printer, who gives his address as 10 Boylston place, Boston, was yesterday committed to the Tombs in default of bail, on the charge of larceny. According to Captain Titus of the Detective Bureau, Mrs. S. A.

Flanders, a widow of 268 West Thirty ninth street, Manhattan, Abbott's mother, reported that her house had been entered and robbed of $2,000 worth of lace. She said that she had received a decoy letter, directing her to meet the writer at a certain street corner. The woman says she went to the corner, but met no one. When she returned to the house, she found that the lace had been stolen. Detective Sergeant Flay was detailed on the case and finally, he alleges, traced the robbery to Abbott and arrested him in Boston yesterday cn a bench warrant which had been issued after his indictment a few days ago.

The police assert that Abbott was identified by a clerk and messenger in the telegraph office as the man who sent the decoy letter, which was sent from that office. PRICE CALLS ON THURSTON Captain James K. Price of the Tremont station called at the office of Deputy Commissioner Thurstou yesterday and remained there a' long while in consultation with the Deputy Commissioner. Charges were made against Captain Price a few days ago that he had compelled policemen under him to sign false reporto regarding excise matters in his precinct. These charges, which were published by a newspaper and laid before Commissioner Partridge, were referred by him to Deputy Thurston before his departure from the city.

When Captain Price had gone Deputy Commissioner Thurston was asked regarding the captain's visit, and said that he had come of his own accord, having read the published charges. This was all that the Deputy Commissioner could be Induced to say. IS FLORENCE BURNS HOME It is a mystery whether Florence Burns is in Brooklyn or not. One Manhattan afternoon paper said yesterday that she is at home and another said she is not. A representative of the Eagle called at.

the Burns home, on East Thirteenth street, near Beverley road, Flatbush, last night and 'inquired if Florence Burns was at home. The youngest sister answered the bell and said that she would not say whether she was home or not and declared that it was nobody's business whether she was at home or not. And then she slammed the door. Bang! HIS SPINAL CORD BROKEN. Mlchado Paradise, a laborer, while working In the new reservoir at Jerome Park, was struck in the' back by a rock yesterday and his spinal cord broken.

Immediately after the accident he was taken to Fordham Hospital, where an operation was performed upon him by Dr. Hlggins, assisted by Dr. Cantrell. taradise was found to be paralyzed from his' waist down, and the operation of laminectomy was thought to be necessary. It is not yet known whether he will recover the use of his limbs or not, although the hospital authorities are hopeful.

Other notices will be found on pace of the Editorial Section. MARRIED. ACKEBMAN PLOWMAN On Wednesday evening. July 9, 11X12. at the residence of bride's father.

311 Carlton ov, by the Rev. W. W. Page of Cornwall on Hudson. MILDRED ADA to Mr.

IRA JASON ACKEBMAN, both of Brooklyn. No cards. DIED. HANSON On Tuesday, July 8, 1902, JOHN HANSON, ag sd 40 yearn. Funt ral.

Monday. July 14, from 1.367 Fulton st, Brooklyn, N. Y. MORGAN On Saturday, July 12. 1502.

EDWIN MORGAN, at his home, 652 Bedford av. Funeral services, Monday evening. Interment private. ROBERTSON On Friday, July 4, 1902. ELIZABETH GRAY ROBERTSON, the beloved wife of David P.

Robertson, at her residence, 555 De Kalb av, aged 56 years, a native of Aberdeen, Scotland. A darling one from us has gone, A voice we loved Is still, A niare vacant In our hearts, Which never can be flllsd..