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'(: THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY; JULY 19. 1902. MISCELLANEOUS.

BARON VON POSTEN. LATE SPORTS. T. CALDER ANGRY OVER A 11 TRICK. LARCHM0NT REGATTA.

BYERS AND JAMES i promptly forwarded the report in question to the Controller there would have been no trouble. Finally Mr. McCarthy took pity on the superintendent and told him the secret of the joke. Calder's face lighted up with delight and he put on his hat and went out looking for Greenyea. He said to day that he found him during the evening and gave him the greatest laying out he had ever received.

"But everything's all right now," the superintendent concluded. Pains in the Back Atfc symptoms or a torpid or stagnant condition of the kidneys or liver, Ttnd a warning it is extremely hazardous to neglect, so important is a healthy action of these organs. They are commonly attended by loss cf energy, lack of courage, and sometimes by gloomy foreboding and despondency. I had pains in my back, and In the morning felt worse than the night before. I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla and now get up feeling rested.

I attribute rny cure entirely to Hood's Sarsaparilla." Mrs. J. N. Perry, care H. S.

Copelaiul, Pike Road. Ala. Hood's Sarsaparilla Cures kidney and liver troubles, relieves the back, and builds up the whole system. Mayor to it. but I am sanguine that this plan will not be objectionable to him.

"The present charter method of making assessable improvements is, briefly, this: The improvement is planned, authorized, contracted for. executed, the cost of it certified to the assessors, and then the assessment is levied in one payment. This is a hardship upon poor property owners and is bad financially for the city, for the reason that a period of usually two years elapses between the time when the contract is made (and the item entered in the city debt) and the time when the assessment is levied. If the average time of payment of assessments is taken into account, there is probably a period of three years after the city debt is increased by the cost of the improvement and before the city is reimbursed. Wants a Charter Amendment.

"What I would suggest instead is a general law or charter amendment, which would authorize assessable improvements to the amount of not more than $2,000,000 annually to be made on the petition of the majority of the property owners within the district of assessment, and upon the consent of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, by the following method: When the improvement has been authorized, let the assessment be levied on the basis of the estimated cost (the method formerly pursued in Brooklyn), but payable In five annual installments, and let the contract be made only after 20 per cent, of the assessment, has been actually paid in. The work in most eases would be finished between the falling of the second and third installments, it. being provided that the third installment shall not be levied until the work is finished. Any discrepancy between the estimated and actual cost could bo rectified on the last installment. "This would very substantially relieve property owner by dividing his payment into five annual installments, and it would be a better system for the city since the city would collect half its outgo either in advance or during the progress of the work, while the balance would not be outstanding longer than is now ordinarily the whole of an assessment.

"In addition, property owners would not be led, as they too often are now. to seek assessable improvements beyond their capacity to pay for them. This is substantially the system under which most of the Installment assessments were laid in Brooklyn before consolidation. If this seems acceptable to you, as it did to the delegation of property owners from your district who called upon me yesterday, I think the best form of the act would be by preparing some additional charter sections to cover the plan, leaving untouched the sections which at present, regulate the making of such improvements and the levviug of assessments for them. The result would be to leave to the property owners and the city an option between the two methods.

Law Changes as to Volunteer Piremen. Controller Grout is preparing a bill to alter the present provisions of the charter relative to the volunteer fire companies of Queens and Richmond. Mr. Grout was recently before the Queens Grand Jury and it enc'orsed his plan as well as Fire Commissioner Sturgis. The volunteer companies, under existing charter provisions receive stated sums regardless of their actual needs.

Mr. Grout proposes that this be changed and that all of the volunteer companies bo placed directly under the lire commissioner's control so far as their maintenance and equipment is concerned. This means virtually that the volunteer companies will become part of the regular department with the single important exception that the men will not receive pay for their services. Such a bill will be pushed at Albany. Another piece of legislation in which the cily is deeply interested is sure to be introduced, a measure providing for a change of motive power in the Park avenue tunnel.

Public sentiment demands that the New York Central change the motive power there and the agitation will surely become acute again with the approach of the session. The Central is now doing nothing because the bill it sought last spring was killed. The city authorities are just as determined as ever not to let the Central get the liberal legislation it wants at the Legislature's hands and without the city's consent. Controller Grout's position is that the Central should get no more privileges without paying the city for them, and this view, in the minds of the other city authorities, has been greatly strengthened by the successful dealings the Rapid Transit Commission has lately had with the Pennsylvania and the New York and New Jersey companies over tunnel franchises. What Central Eailroad Ought to Get.

Mr. Grout's idea is that the change of motive power act should simply give the Central the authority to change its motive power and leave the city entirely free to make the terms upon which the change and additional terminal facilities shall be made. The Rapid Transit Commission, which wrote to President Newman some months ago advising him that under last spring's amendments it hail full power to conduct negotiations regarding increased terminal facilities has been ignored by the Central olfieiak This has not made that company's position stronger with the city. The Rapid Transit Commission, however, has no powr to compel the Central to deal with it and so the whole question hangs fire. Mr.

Grout said to day: "I shall certainly iighv any atfmpt that the Central may make to get legislation taking away from the city power to deal with the railroad as to improvements in the Park avenue tunnel and at the Grand Central Station. The Central, I believe, should be compelled to compensate the city properly for any additional franchises or privileges it mtUs here on the same basis adopted in regard to the Pennsylvania tunnel ir.onchi.se." A German Nobleman an Orchestra Leader at Far Bockaway. Far Roekaway, L. July 19 The leader of the orchestra at the Kuloft haa heretofore been known merely as Charles F. Posten, but within a day or so it has been discovered that he is entitled to be saluted as Baron Karl Franz von Posten.

He is a native of Germany, and while nerving as a lieutenant in the Emperor's army became involved In a quarrel with a' fellow officer. A duel followed, and the baron found a change of residence desirable. He secured an engagement with Straus3" orchestra, and when that famous organization came to America the baron came also. He ha3 learned to admire America and her institutions, and although he could now safely return to the Fatherland he has decided to remain here. He is the cynosure of all eyes, now that his identity has become known, but he bears his newly discovered honors modestly.

REMAND RETIRING SERGEANTS. Bives' Advice to Commissioner PartridgeFay Will Fight for Full Pension of $1,000. Corporation Counsel Rivers yesterday sent to Police Commissioner Partridge an opinion in which he virtually advises that detective sergeants upon their retirement should not receive the pension of which all detective sergeants heretofore retired have been given and which the charter of New York, both of 1897 and 1901, states specifically they shall receive, but shall instead be first remanded to patrol and then retire upon patrolman's half pay. The question arose because Detective Sergeant Fay, hearing that a number of detective sergeants would be remanded, before the order of remand was issued, applied as a detective sergeant for retirement. He was among the men selected for remand by the Commissioner and the Commissioner asked the Corporation Couc3eli fhe had the right to remand Fay before retiring him.

The Corporation Counsel replied that he has that right and, further, says: "I do not think it was the intention of the section to allow a patrolman, detailed or assigned to what, under the decision of the Appellate Division in the Leahy case. I must hold to be a temporary detail or assignment, a pension. I am clearly of the opinion that before taking action upon the application of Mr. Fay, he should be remanded to patrol duty." May says he will sue for his full pension. He applied for retirement at 9 o'clock on Thursday morning, one hour before the order of remand was issued.

SAD CASE OF MOTHER AND SON. They Are Turned Out of Their Home and Sent to the Almshouse. Mrs. Bridget Shlppeck, a widow, 84 years old, and her son John, 49 years old, were dispossessed from their home in Bergen street, near Grand avenue, yesterday afternoon for the non payment of three months' rent. All their personal effects and household furniture were put out on the sidewalk.

The mother and son, as they sat by their little property, made a melancholy picture. When Patrolman J. Feeney of the Bergen street station came along he pitied the woman and her son and arrested them as vagrants. To day they were arraigned before Magistrate Naumer, in the Myrtle avenue" court, and as the poor old woman told the story of her poverty and distress it excited the sympathy of all present. Feeney explained that the son was thought to be simple minded and according to the mother's statement John df the washing and most of the household work.

Mrs. Shippeck asked the magistrate to send her to some institution. Magistrate Naumer sent mother and son to the almshouse and Miss Anna Connelly, a prison missionary, will be asked to confer with the Little Sisters of the Poor to see if the sisters will receive the two as inmates of one of their homes. BIBLE CONFEBENCE AT SEA CLIFF. Sea Cliff, L.

July 19 The second Bible conference will be held here beginning July 29 and continuing until August 3 or 4, the exact date of closing not yet being decided. The conference will be held in a large tent in Aberdeen Park, near the water tower, and convenient to all parts of the village. Some fine speakers and Bible workers will be present, the best known among them being Dr. C. I.

Scofleld ol East Nortnneia, and A. C. Gaebelein of Manhattan. There will be no collections, the expenses being defrayed by a few men who are deeply interested in the meetings. The "Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Little Flock" will be used, and attendants are requested to bring their Bibles.

The programme has been arranged a follows: Tuesday, July 29 Opening meeting at 8 P. M. "The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit." C. I. Scofleld: "The Priesthood of Christ." W.

W. Fereday. Wednesday. July 3010 A. "Studies.

In Ephe slans," F. C. Jennings; 11 to 12 A. "The Epistle to the Phllllpians." A. C.

Gaehelcin: 3:30 P. "The Prophet Daniel," C. I. Scofleld; "01,1 Testament Types of Ch st," G. Aldrlch: P.

"The Harmony of the Prophetic "Word," A. C. Gaebelein; "The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit." C. I. Scofleld.

Thursday. July 3110 to 11 A. "The Epistle to the Phllllpians." A. C. Gaebelein; tl to 12 A.

"Studies In Epheslnns." F. C. 3:30 P. "The Prophet Daniel," C. J.

Scofleld: "The Advocacv of Christ," W. W. Fereday; 8 P. "The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit." C. I.

Scofleld; "The Harmony of the Prophetic Word," A. C. Gaebelein. Friday, August 110 to 12 A. M.

"Studies in Ephesla'ns." C. Jennings; "The Immlnency of the Coming of the Lord," G. Aldrlch; 3:30 P. "The Prophet Daniel." C. I.

Scofleld; "The Harmony ot the Prophetic Word." A. C. Gaebelein: P. "Beauties in Luke," F. C.

Jennings: "The Perton and Work of the Holy Spirit." C. I. Scofleld. Saturdav. August 210 to 11 A.

"Studies In Epheslans." F. C. Jennings; 11 to 12 A. 'The Epistle to the Phllllpians." A. C.

Gaebelein; 3:30 "The Prophet DanUV C. I. Scofleld: P. "The Priesthood of the Believers," W. W.

Fereday; gospel address, John M. Carnle. Lord's dav. August 33 P. gospel address, John M.

Carnle; P. closing addresses. WOMEN AND SOCIAL SEBVTCE. Opportunities That Come Through Clubs and Club Work. Apropos of this subject a conversation with Mrs.

Irene Macfadyen comes to mind, a woman who has worked intelligently and successfully in the South in arousing public sentiment in behalf of the factory child. I asked her what she considered the most necessary work to he done by Interested women along this line. Her reply was that there was absolutely no statistics relating to the subject; that women can do no better work than to gather and systematically arrange facts concerning the wages and conditions of child labor in the mills; inquire into the nature and causes of illness and the percentage of children enjoying normal health; also what per cent, of theBe operatives are children of widows and what of idle parents; what is the family wago; how long are children worked at night; are they given any lunch, and how are they kept awake. In some mills it is found that when children become drowsy over their work, cold water is dashed in their faces or they are allowed to dip snuff. Touching these suggestions I am sure it will occur to all of us that the occasional effort to entertain and feast factory children Is of small moment compared with the good that may be accomplished by an Intelligent study of the conditions that produce such tragic results and a zealous effort toward their speedy removal.

Mrs. Rebecca Lowe in Gunton's Magazine. GRAND SUNDAY OUTING TO THE Mountains Tickets on sal? July 20 to Mauch Chunk Qlen Onoko and the Switchback via he LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD 1 5 0 rli'Tl land a.m.; Defcliros ROUnd TriD 8.a a. m. Will leave au'ij Brooklyn (Fulton 8.15 bnlldren a.m.

Komnilng, leave JIanch 75 fipntq Chunk 5.45 in. Tlcketsfor 3 t.eniS SwItcUbeck.5lcts.ddltlonal. Prom Brooklyn olBcea at Ferry Sta IBcSKal. jJJs BD1 1 5 KM Broad 10 DELAY ON BRIDGE CRY QUEENS GO. PEOPLE Lindenthal's New Plans Create Strong Opposition Organization.

STRONG COMMITTEE NAMED. Bridge Commissioner's Idea Will. Be Fought at Every Point as a Hostile Proposition. Residents of Queens Borough are up in arms against the alterations by Bridge Commissioner Lindenthal In the plans for the proposed bridge over Blackwell's Island, known as Bridge No. 4.

The Committee Forty of that borough has authorized a subcommittee of ten prominent citizens to appear before Mayor Low and enlist his support in their efforts to prevent the carrying out by the Bridge Commissioner of his plan to cut forty feet from the width of the. bridge and make it a double deck structure. The committee which will appear before the Mayor on Monday morning next will consist of Borough President Cassidy, Alderman Nicholas Nehrbauer of Long Island City, Alderman John E. McCarthy of Laurel Hill, Alderman William T. McJames of Flushing, Alderman Henry Willett of Richmond Hill, John Andrews, John M.

Weed, chairman of the Citizens' Association of Flushing; Jared Barhite, Robert Laffan and Lucius Manley. This committee claims to have the backing of practically all of the residents of Queens irrespective of party, most of whom look upon the Commissioner's determination to alter the structure as a step toward the non construction of the bridge. The residents believe that Engineer Buck's plans are all right and they believe any alteration in them will cause considerable delay. They are all interested in the completion of the bridge as rapidly as possible and stand ready to back Ryan and Parker," the contractors, who have refused to obey the order of the Bridge Commissioner to cease work. It was believed that the Commissioner had abandoned the idea of making a change in the bridge when he withdrew his plans from the Municipal Art Commission, but it has been learned since that the withdrawal was with a view to making some necessary alterations and for the presentation to the commission of more complete plans.

Enlisted with the Committee of Forty in the fight are the Taxpayers' arid Business Men's Association and the German American Citizens' Association of Queens, and" by united efforts the three organizations' believe that they can prevent the proposed changes. The fight will be made first of all before the Mayor and, failing to secure their object, the sub committee will carry the contest before the Municipal Art Commission and if necessary, before tho Board of Estimate. Robert Laffan, who has been one of the most active fighters for the bridge and, its early completion, condemns the changes in unmeasured terms. "Under no circumstances," says Mr. Laffan, "should the, plana for the bridge be altered.

We are satisfied with the plans as prepared by Engineer Buck and the attempt to change the plans when the piers are in course of construction is unanimously opposed by all good citizens in our borough. The bridge as originally planned will be much more artistic than anything that 3ridge Commissioner Litidenthal can devise. We are determined to have that bridge as soon as possible and will oppose any attempt made to postpone the time of its completion." Other members of the committee have spoken against the proposed changes and it is evident that they would rather have the bridge 120 feet wide and practical the uses intended than have a more artistic bridge 80 feet wide. The members of the committee seem to feei that the desire of the Commissioner to change the plans is a practical a'dmission on his part of his opposition to the bridge. At the Bridge Department this morning it was stated that Commissioner Lindenthal was not opposed to the construction of the bridge and his requiat tlons to the Board of Estimate were pointed out as conclusive evidence of the fact that the Commissioner intended to have the bridge finished as soon as possible.

The work on the plans for the changes In the bridge 1b in the hands of Architect Horn bostel and the engineers of the department. Mr. Hornbostel is concerned with the artistic features, while the engineers are at work on the plans for the conversion ot the structure to a double decker eighty feet wide, instead of 120. Although no official announcement was made at the Bridge Department this morning, it is evident that should the opposition succeed In preventing the changes of the width of the structure, the Commissioner would continue to demand that there be some means provided for leaving the bridge at Blackwell's Island. No provision was made for this in the original plans and the change has been proposed as a result of requests from the Commissioners of Charities and Corrections.

Any action which might prevent the construction of the proposed elevators at the Blackwells Island piers will be opposed not only by Commissioner Lindenthal, but by the heads of tha other departments as well. Representatives of the committee said this morning that they were not opposed to that part of the plans, but to the idea of lessening the width of bridge after the piers had been constructed. "The Commissioner can construct as many elevators as he likes," continued one spokesman, "so long as he does not delay the completion of the bridge. What we are opposed to is any alteration of the plans at this late date resulting in delay which will be detrimental to business and real estate interest Queens County." SPECIAL MUSICAL SERVICE. The musical programme for the morning service at St.

Mark's Church on the Bowerie, Manhattan, to morrow, will be rendered by the new vested choir of girls, assisted by an adult soprano quartet, two of the members of which are from Brooklyn. A fine programme has beon prepared. The processloiral will be Day of Rest and Gladness," Elliott. Aldrich's "Jubilate" and Goodson'a "Venite" will be sung, and Harry Rowe Shelley's Te Deum in D. Miss Frederiea Ray mond will have the soprano solo.

At the offertory John C. Dempsey, the baritone and choirmaster of St. Mark's, will sing Rod ney's "Calvary." For a recessional the tun "Galilee" will be sung. FOTJK MASTEK IN DISTRESS. The steamer Tropic from Hamburg, which arrived this morning, reports that on July 14 in latitude 41:30, longitude 51:15 a four masted steamer was sighted in tow of a two maBted steamer, headed for Halifax.

They were too far distant to distinguish any lis MAKING CLOSE FIGHT. Final for the National Gof Championship Being Played on a Soggy Course. PLAYERS ON EVEN TERMS. Match a See Saw Battle, With Chicago Boy Making a Gallant Struggle. (Special to the Eagle.) Glenvlew Golf Club, 111., July 19 Chilly, damp air and a cutting wind greeted E.

M. Byers of Pittsburg and L. N. James of the local club when they issued from the club house this morning to begin the 36 hole match which was to crown one of them with the laurels the American amateur championship, and leave the other with the runner up prize a consolation for his blighted hopes. During the night the Skokie had continued to rise, until the low lying lands to the west and southwest, on which the last nine holes of the picturesque course are laid out, were almost entirely submerged.

A large body of workmen were busy early this morning working on the first nine holes of the course, draining oft the casual water on the greens and putting the course in as good cpnditlon as possible, but last night's heavy rain had so thoroughly soaked the already sodden ground, that their efforts were of little avail. Notwithstanding the unfavorable conditions, a fair sized gallery was present when play was called. It was 10:20 o'clock when Byers and James teed their gutties to begin the final struggle for championship honors. James had the honor and drove a splendid ball, almost in the teeth, of the strong southwest wind. Byers' ball was.

almost equally good. Byers' second, a brassey, was slightly pulled, but safe. James topped his and was short on his third. Byers' third was well on the green. His approach was over and the hole went tc Byers, 5 6.

Byers' drive for the second reached the slope of the green. James was yards short. His second was dead for the hole, while Byers found casual water and stopped ten ards short. James missed a two yard putt, and the hole was halved, 4 4. Both drove beautifully for the third.

James' brassey was over the crest. played to the right to avoid casual water, and his third waB within two yards of the hole, a well played shot. James' third from the far edge of the green almost found the cup. Both putted down in 4, one under bogey. James" drive for the fourth was in the rough to the right, but his iron second reached the edge of the green.

Byers topped his midiLOn shot, and the ball found the cop bunker. His fourth laid three yards from the cup. James approached well, and the hole was his 5 6. James' drive for the fifth was sliced into the rough, but Byers' was splendidly placed. James' second was well out, but short.

Byers' iron was eight yards from the hole. He over putted badly, but James was short and the hole was halved in five. Driving for the sixth, James again sliced slightly, but his brassey second was a beauty. He placed safe on his third, using an iron; Byers did likewise. Byers' iron approach was barely over the slip of green.

James sliced to the right; both putted dead, hut missed his yard down the hill and the hole was Byers, in 6 to 7. A hard rainstorm drenched players and spectators alike on the play for the seventh hole. Byers' ball dropped three yards from the. cup, James' wa eight yards away; James rimmed the cup on his second. Byers missed the putt and the hole was halved in 3.

Byers outdrove James 15 yards for the eighth and Louis went further to the bad by pulling his brassey into the fair green to the sixth hole. The lie was favorable but his third was short and found casual water. Byers' second was a beauty and his third, a mid iron shot, laid well on the green. James' fourth hit the flag and bounded two yards from the hole. He rimmed the cup on his fifth and Byers putted down.

Byers 2 up. Byers pulled his ninth drive into the pond but his brassey from the far side found the edge of the green. James schlaffed his second and was very short on his third. Byers' fourth stopped three feet from the cup and he holed the next. James holed his putt, halving the hole.

Byers two up at the end of the first nine holes. The match was all square at the fifteenth hole. NOTES OF THE TOURNEY. The thlrtv Mx hole semi final matches In the Glenvlew tournament were completed late In the afternoon and resulted in the defeat of Reinhart hy James, by 2 and 1, and of Fredericks by Byers, by 4 and 3. The result of the James Reinhart match was unexpected and when the latter player reached the third creen in the afternoon round with a lead of 4 his defeat seemed almost eliminated from the 'realm of possibilities.

Th Glenvlew boy took 4 of the following 5 holes and made the turn only 1 down. He did not lose a hole on the way home, winning 3 and halving the others. The defeat of Dr. P. P.

Fredericks of Oil City, by W. J. Travis' conqueror, E. M. Byers of Pittsburg, was anticipated on account of the brilliant work of the latter player throughout the week.

Byers gained an advantage of 4 holes In the morning round and just maintained his lead to the end. Fredericks is a purely self taught player, who acquired the theories of the game largely from reading, and has shown an astonishing ability to put his theories into practice. Carefulness and steadiness are distinctive marks of his game, and, with practice he should go far. The list of winners and runners up in national amateur championship tournaments since 1S95 is as follows: 1S95. Newport, won by C.

E. Macdcn ald Chicago: V. H. Sands. St.

Andrews, runner up; 18H. Shinnecock Hills, won by H. J. TVhlghanv Onwentsia; J. G.

Thorp, Boston, runner up; 1597. Wheaton, 111., won by H. J. Whlgham, Onwentsia; W. R.

Reus, Shinnecock Hills, runner up; 1898. Morris County won by F. S. Douglas, Fairfield County: Walter R. Smith, Onwentsia, runner up; 1899 Onwentsia.

won by H. M. Harrlman, Meadow brook; F. tf. Douglas.

Fairfield, runner up; 1900. Garden City, won by W. J. Travis, Garden City; F. 3.

Douglas, Fairfield, runner up; 1901. Atlantic City, won by W. J. Travis. Garden City; Walter E.

Kgan. Onwentsia. runner up. TROTTING RACES DECLARED OFF. Detroit.

July 19 Almost continuous rain since yesterday makes racing at the Grosse Pointe track out of the question again to day. Yesterday's card of the Blue Ribbon races has been finally declared oft, except that the Merchants and Manufacturers' consolation 52,000 stako will be run at some future time, possibly next week, at Cleveland. BRONX BRIDGE COMPLETED. Bridge Commissioner Lindenthal announced this morning that the bridge over Mott Haven Canal, at One Hundred and Thirty fifth street, in the Bronx had been completed and if the report of the bridge inspectors is satisfactory the bridge will be opened to the public next week. The bridge was authorized in 1S0S and the contract for its construction was awarded on May 20, 1901.

to Augustus Smith for the sum of $29,360. Satisfactory progress was made and the bridge has been completed within contract time. The new bridge was needey badly and, although only a small structure, it will materially aid traffic In that section of the Bronx. GRANDEST is covered by the SCENERY ON Pennsylvania Rail THE AMERICAN road Tour through CONTINENT Colorado to the Pacific Coast and Canadian Northwest, August :2 to 31. Daylight rides over the picturesque Canadian Rockies.

Rate 300. Fifty nine Entries and a Good Favor the Sound Yachtsmen. Breeze Larchmont, N. July 19 This picturesque harbor is so filled with yachts this morning that they hardly swing clear of each other at anchor. Fifty nine of them are entered to sail in the open regatta, which is the first of the series of the Larchmont Yacht Club's race week.

No wind and a cloudy sky gave but little promise of racing weather during the early morning hours, but by 10 o'clock the sun came out and with it a good breeze from the east northeast. Sails were hoisted early on the schooner yachts Rlmina, Muriel and Quissetta and on the seventy footers Mineola, Rainbow and Yankee. It is the Quissetta's first race this season and her performance will be watched with a good deal of interest. The race between the Mineola, Rainbow and Yankee Is sure to be a good one. If the wind holds in this quarter, the first leg of the course will probably be to windward.

The pick of the fleet is entered in the small classes, the raceabout and one design boats being particularly well represented. The steam yachts Celt, Buccaneer, Quickstep and Frank J. Gould's Helenita are among those that will accompany the sailing yachts over the course. Cornelius Van derbilt sails in his yacht, the Rainbow. GOOD TIME FOR VETERANS! Fighters of Twenty third Regiment Go to Manhattan Beach on Military Day.

General John B. Frothingham, president of the Veteran Association of the Twenty third Regiment. N. G. S.

N. is delighted at the prospect of the association taking part in the exercises of military day at Manhattan Beach, when the Twenty third will have a parade and enjoy the hospitality of the management of the beach, the matinee, Paine's fireworks and other entertainment. This morning he said: am entirely in accord With the plan. When the visitors, attracted by the event, see the regiment, many will be impressed by the appearance of the command. These things, properly conducted, are helpful.

"I am especially pleased at the invitation which has been extended the veterans to take part in the exercises. It will be a good thing for us to get together and enjoy a social dinner. A great many of us are stay at homes, and re want Just such an opportunity as is afforded by Military Day to have a little pleasure. Of course, the veteran associations will dine separately from the regular command, but we will have a jolly time, nevertheless. I am just preparing th enotice to be sent out, and expect a general response." The notice is as follows: Veteran Association, Twenty third Regiment, N.

G. S. N. Y. Brooklyn, July 19, Sir: The commanding officer of the Twenty third Regiment has accepted an invitation for the regiment to parade at Manhattan Beach on Military Day, Saturday, July 26, as guests of the Management.

The invitation is extended to the Veteran Association to accompany the Regiment and participate in the entertainments of the occasion, Matinee, 3:30 P. Concert by the Band of the Regiment, 6:30 P. M. and Fireworks, 8 P. M.

Dinner a la carte in the Hotel Restaurant at personal option. If fifty members desire it, a dinner will be served in special room, at 51.50 per man. Please notify the President. 100 William street, Manhattan, or the Secretary, 28 Court street, Brooklyn, at once, it you intend being present and it you desire dinner. Assembly at Armory at 1:45 P.

M. A Special Train leaves at 2:15 P. M. Association Badge to be worn. Full attendance desired.

Respectfully. JOHN B. FROTHINGHAM. President. EDWARD S.

BENEDICT, Secretary. ORDER VACATED. Pratt Case Will Not Go to the Court of Appeals. Kiverneaa, u. Juiy is in tne sun ot Albertina L.

Robinson of Riverhead against Charry C. Appleby and Silas F. Overton, as executors of the estate of Helen C. Pratt, one of the executors, Mrs. Appleby, tried to force an appeal to the Court of Appeals recently, while the other executor, Mr.

Overton, refused to be a party to the appeal. This case was an important trust fund, in which the plaintiff has won in all courts. The details have been fully printed in the Eagle. Charles M. Stafford of Brooklyn recently served papers in appeal from the Appellate Division to the Court of Appeals on Counsellor E.

W. Tooker of this place, attorney for plaintiff. Mr. Tooker refused to accept service, on the ground that no notice of Mr. Stafford's substitution a3 attorney for defendants had been made, and on the further ground that the bond given by Nathan C.

Jessup of West Hampton was worthless. T. M. Griffing of Riverhead has appeared for the defendants in all the trials up to the appeal in question. Mr.

Stafford then procured an order to show cause why Mr. Tooker should not accept the service. This was argued in Brooklyn Thursday, before Justice Chester. After hearing argument he vacated the order, telling Mr. Stafford that he had no standing in the case.

REPAIRING THE FIBE ALARM. Roekaway Beach, L. July 19 In accordance with the presentment made by the June grand jury of Queens County on Its investigation into the condition of the various fire alarm systems and apparatus in the borough, expert electricians have commenced the repair ot the electrical fire alarm system at this place. The fire district extends from Roekaway Park to Edgemere, including Roekaway Beach and Arverne. a distance of about three and one half miles, and averaging half a mile in width.

Since the heavy sleet storm last February, the alarm system has been in a crippled condition, it being impossible to have sent an alarm of fire in from any of the boxes in Arverne or Edge mere. The electricians now engaged In the work of repairing the electrical alarm are being superintended by J. Elliott Smith, who has been appointed chief electrical engineer to Investigate fire matters in Queens Borough. Mr. Smith has recommended that six new alarm boxes be installed, and they will be put up next week.

SHARK CAUGHT AT LLOYD'S NECK. Huntington, L. July 19 Not a little excitement has been caused here by the capture, by Robert McGlone, keeper of the Lloyd's Neck light house, of a shark more than five feet in length. It is many years since anything of the kind has been taken in local waters and timid bathers are already resolving to forego that pleasure. The shark was caught in a gill net that Mr.

McGlone had set for weakfish, and he made a big fight before he. was dragged ashore, net, anchors and shark, all in a snarl. Although there are no experts on sharks here it is not thought that the one destroyed was of a harmful species. MBS. FBEYGANG WINS A WATCH.

College L. July 19 At the annual picnic of the Shinnecock Democratic Club, held at Donnelly's Boulevard Grove, on Thursday night, Mrs. Charles J. Freygang of this place won the woman's gold watch drawn for by those in attendance. In tho bowling contest, four bowlers, George Weber, Herman Mueller, Harry Lewis and Henry Martin, tied, with a score of 52.

When the contest ended they bowled off, Mueller winning first, Lewis second and Martin third' prize. HeSupposed It wasReally Grout's Secretary Calling Him Down Over Phone. IT WAS GREENYEA'S JOKE. It First Injured Man Wanted to Have School Commissioner Removed, hut Entente Cordial Resulted. Superintendent of Buildings Calder of this borough was a little indignant to day over what he says was a mean trick played upon him yesterday by George H.

Greenyea, a school commissioner in the Twelfth Assembly District. Calder says that for a half hour Greenyea had him in a wor3e state of worry than he ever before experienced, and he was talking to day of petitioning Borough President Swanstrotn to remove bim. Greenyea, however, convinced the superintendent that it was all a joke, and, inasmuch as the two are the best of friends, the matter stopped there. Greenyea is known among his friends as a practical joker. He has played jokes on several of the local officials and had some of them on the point of resigning their jobs, but he never tried his wits on Superintendent Calder until yesterday.

Calder said to day that if Greenyea ever catches him napping again he will present him with a house and lot. The telephone was the innocent medium of the prank played on Calder yesterday. Calder was sitting at his desk on the top floor of the Borough Hall when the telephone bell rang. Calder took up the receiver and placed it to his ear. "Hello," said a voice at the other end of the wire, "Is this Mr.

Calder?" "This is Mr. Calder," the superintendent replied. "Who are you?" "This is the Controller's office. I'm Mr. Grout's secretary," the voice at the other end of the wire answered.

If Superintendent Calder had known that the voice was not that of Secretary Stanton all would have been well. But he did not, and he began to listen to what the person had to say. "Well, what can I do for you?" Mr. Calder replied. "How about that report?" asked Controller Grout's supposed secretary.

"What report?" said Mr. Calder. "That Nevins report. You ought to know what report I am referring to without being told. What's that? You haven't got it? Why haven't you? What are you doing over there, anyhow? What sort of a public official are you? You During all the time the other man was talking Superintendent Calder's wrath was rising.

His face grew as red as a rosy apple and before the other person could get any further he blurted out fiercely: "Do you know to whom you are talking. I won't take any more talk from you. Who are you anyway? I don't believe that you are Mr. Grout's secretary as you say you are. I think you are some cheap clerk." "Cheap clerk, eh? returned the voice at the other end.

"I'll report what you have said to Mr. Grout. Now you look here Calder" "Don't you call me Calder, young man, or I'll "Well, Mr. Calder, or Superintendent Calder, whatever you please, I want to tell you that Mr. Grout is very much displeased with your work.

When I tell you that he thinks you have been guilty of gross negligence in dealing with that report I am repeating his. own language." "Well. I'll not take that from you, Mr. Grout or anybody else. Do you hear that." "Yes.

I hear it," said the other, "and I shall take the trouble to tell Mr. Grout what you have said." Despite the rebuke administered to him over the telephone, over which he was very angry. Mr. Calder began to realize that the situation was serious. "Now about that report?" he said mildly.

"I sent it to the Borough President yesterday and you ought to have it now." "Well, what sort of a way is that to do business. Why didn't you send it direct? What sort of a system have you people got over there any how?" "I'll give you to understand." said Mr. Calder, growing angry again, "that I'm not going over my chief's head for you or anybody in your office. Mr. Swanstrom wan the proper person to send the report to and I've done my duty.

So "Well. Mr. Grout is of the opinion that your action reflects discredit not only upon yourself, hut on the entire administration, Mr. Calder." said the other. I With that the supposed secretary rang off.

Ir. less than a minute, according to his own statement, Mr. Calder was in the office of the Borough President. Going up to Secretary McCarthy he said: "Mac, you've got me into a whole lot of trouble." "What's the matter?" asked Mr, McCarthy. Just then Mr.

McCarthy's bell rang and taking up the receiver he found that the person at th; other end of the wire was George H. Green yea, with whom he is well acquainted. Greenyea told him of the conversation that had just passed between himself and Mr. Calder and requested him to carry out the joke. When he go', through talking with Greenyea.

Mr. McCarthy again turned his attention to Superintendent Calder. The latter was really worried. He told Mr. McCarthy that he had just received the severest calling down he had ever got.

Calder blamed all his troubles on the Borough President's office. He said that if Mr. McCarthy had DAVID AND GOLIATH. A Little Shot Iut Old King Coffee Ont Of Whi metlioinc they somotimes send sick people away to another climate fur ihoir health. Sometimes the climate tloes it.

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She replied that sin; could not stop coffee. I said no more at the time. Inn the next moniius; at breakfast I passed her a frap nnt, steaming cup of Postuin, making it; as it should 1)0 made. After Hint, I hart no more trouble, and my friend drank no more coffee. But the most surprising part of the experience was the change thai soon came over her.

"We began to notice it within less than a week. In less than a month her nervousness had left her. and in three months she was a new woman in face, figure and health. I had not dared to hope for so much benefit, although 1 had been greatly benefited myself by Postum, but coffee to her system was simply poisonous, and I believe this is lite case with many others. She returned 10 her home In December and was married within less than two months She never fails to give credit to Postum for her health or thanks to mo for teaching her to make it properly, and well she may, for Postum has done for her what travel, doctors and medicine failed to do." Xame given by Postum Battle Creek, Mich.

DEATH OF MRS. ANN E. KINSEY. An old and respected resident of the Bushwick section, Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Kin sey, died last night at her home, 8S9 Bushwick avenue.

Mrs. Kinsey was the wife of Peter Kinsey, the paying teller in the Williamsburgh Savings Bank, with which institution he has been connected for nearly forty years. Mrs. Kinsey was 52 years old an dthe daughter of Abraham and Jane Stockholm, after whom there is a street named in that section of the city. The family is one of the pioneers in that section.

Mrs. Kinsley was born and married in that house and will also be burled from there. Her death is the result of an attack of typhoid fever, which developed at their country home on the Hudson. She was removed to her home here, where her condition grew gradually worse. Beside her husband sue is survived by her married son, Harry, who is also connected with the bank, and an unmarried daughter, Jennie.

Funeral services will be conducted at the home on Monday evening at o'clock, and the interment will be in the family plot in Cypress Hills Cemetery. NO GENERAL COAL STRIKE. Miners' Convention Adopts President Mitchell's Eecommendations With Few Modifications. Indianapolis, July 19 The miners' convention adopted Mitchell's recommendation with few modifications and there will be no sympathetic strike of soft coal miners to aid their brethren in the anthracite fields. At the opening of the convention this morning "Mother" Jones made an address, which was enthusiastically applauded by the delegates.

She declared that before coming to Indianapolis she had favored a general strike, but since coming to the convention she had reached the opinion that the conclusion reached by the delegates to avoid such a movement was the wisest course. She urged the delegates to oppose at the congressional elections this fall every man who was favorable to "government by injunction." President Mitchell called for the report of the special committee. The committee was not ready to report and a number ofa dresses were mado by delegates. A motion was made by Delegate Ryan of Illinois that the convention Indorse the meeting of employers and employes to be held in Minneapolis on September 22, for the purpose of discussing the practicability of an universal eight hour working day. BR0WER STILL IN OFFICE.

Refused to Comply With Superintendent Thatcher's Order Calling for His Resignation. David Brower, the assistant engineer of the Bureau of Sewers, whose resignation was demanded by Superintendent Thatcher, has failed to comply with the latter's order. At the office of Superintendent Thatcher this morning it was said that Mr. Brower had not yet been removed. As told in the Eagle yesterday Mr.

Brower was given by Superintendent Thatcher until 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon to resign. If he failed to resign by that time the superintendent served notice on the engineer that he would dismiss him from the department. It was said to day that Superintendent Thatcher would find some difficulty In removing Brower. Brower has been In the City Works Department and in the Sewer Department for about thirty years, it was said to ijay, and it was also reported that he was a veteran volunteer fireman. If, as is reported, Mr.

Brower is a veteran fireman, Superintendent Thatcher cannot remove him except after a trial on charges, which is reviewable bv the courts. It was said to day that Brower has no intention of getting out. One of his friends in the Bureau of Sewers said that Brower had stated that he would fight the matter to the end. Superintendent Thatcher, it is said, is equally determined to get rid of his assistant engineer, who, according to report, has given him considerable trouble. There is every indication to day that if Superintendent Thatcher persists in his threat to remove Brower if the latter fails to resign, the matter will be taken to the courts.

Brower was not at his office to day. It was said that he was out, engaged on work in connection with the construction of some new sewers. Superintendent Thatcher' was not at his office, either. Another cause of the trouble betweeen Superintendent Thatcher and Engineer Brower came to light to day. Several weeks ago Superintendent Thatcher sold a horse belonging to the department which had been used for some time by Julius E.

L. Klinge, foreman of one of the repair yards. As a result of the sale of the horse Klinge had to ride to and from the repair yards In the street cars. He makes several trips a day between the office of the sewer bureau and the repair yards and his expense bill became so great that Superintendent Thatcher cast about for some other means of conveyance. He then told Klinge to use Brower's horse when the latter was not using it to save expense.

When ho heard oof the action of the superintendent, Brower, It is said, became incensed and told Mr. Thatcher that he did not think he was being treated fairly. The superintendent told him that he was doing the best he could and that the engineer would have to be satisfied with the arrangement with Klinge. THOUSANDS VISIT THE SHRINE. Increasing Crowds of Afilicted Ones at Church of St.

Jean Baptiste. This is the third day of the novena being held at the shrine of St. Anne in the Church of St. Jean Baptists on East Seventy sixth street, Manhattan, and the number of afflicted Roman Catholics seeking relief through prayers and the application of the sacred relic, running far into the thousands, continue to increase. At each of the masses and especially at the services in the crypt the gathering to day of the maimed, palsied an dthe blind presented a picture perhaps equally only at the famous shrine of Lourdes.

CONDITION OF WOUNDED NUNS. At the Xew York Foundling Asylum this morning Acting Mother Superior Theresa paid that Sister Cyrllla, who was shot on Thursday by Henry J. King, was still in a critical condition, and that it would be several days before the surgeons could determine what complications hnd resulted from the wound. Sister Angela was so much improved this morning that she was sitting up and will be able to go about her duties in a few days. HUNTINGTON'S SCHOOL REPORT.

Huntington. L. July 19 The annual report of Ross W. Downs, treasurer of the Huntington union school district, for the year ending July 1, shows receipts of $18, 6S2.07. The balance on hand Is 5945.03.

The non resident tuition fees amounted to $735.58 during the year and J42S.41 was received from the regents. Teachers were paid $11,365.30 and $1,292.92 was expended for free text books during the year. CAUGHT IN THE CITY HALL. A lively chase of an alleged thief which terminated in the City Hall, took plane this morning, resulting In the capture of William Simons. 19 years old, who was seached and a bill was found on him, which Mrs.

M.sckin, of SG New Chambers street, Manhattan, said she believed to be one stolen from her grandson. AN AFTEBNOON OUTING. An eujoyable afternoon may be hnu by tak lag a trip to Roekrr.vay Beach and return on the General Slocum, from the Battery at 2:05, giving an hour and a half's invigorating sail down the buy. pujt Coney Island, and just a touch of the real Atlantic at our doors. The was thoroughly overhauled, re finished and refurnished during the winter, and is to day the finest boat of her class afloat.

The afternoon (rip is specially designed for the biipine vs men and women who. durins the summer months, can frequently take a part of the day off. particularly when the of health and pleasure af forded by the Roekaway hoots is offered. DROWNED MAN FOUND. Yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock John Sa llnski of 363 Oakland street found the body of an unknown man floating in the Bast River at the foot of Greene street.

The body was of a man about yvars old. weight about 1S5 pounds, height about 5 feet 8 Inches. In his pockets wrr found a good many blank i ards. a large leather belt, a white silk and a red cotton handkerchief, pocketbood containing 5 cr.ts and a pawn ticket from J. J.

Martin's, KM Myrtle avenue, made out to "Connors." The body was taken to the Morgue. POLICE LOOKING FOE MISSING BOY The police have been asked to look for Frank Knauss, 10 years old, who haa been missing from his home, CC5 Carroll street, for several days. The boy had $12 when he disappeared and wore a blue serge suit, black derby hat and patent leather shoes. FMfl sfgnattiTS ia on every box of tho goantne Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets th remtd? (bat twca a cold in ane Aa.