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FRIDAY. MARCH 11, 1904. 3 ILLINOIS CONSERVATIVES LOOKING TOWARD PARKER Encouraged by the Fact That Even Radicals Do Not Call Him Unavailable. HE MIGHT CARRY THE STATE, But Only on a Platform as Sane as That Which Swept Illinois for Grover Cleveland. (From a Staff Correspondent of the Eagle) Chicago, March 11-Ex-Mayor John P.

Hopkins, chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, and many of the leading Democrats, of week Chicago have said with that whom there I is have a good fighting chance to carry this state against President Roosevelt it the St. Louis platform is conservative and either Chief Judge Parker, Ex- President Cleveland or Congressman John R. Williams is nominated for the presidency. Their opinion is predicated on the knowledge that many McKinleyHanna Republicans will not vote for Mr. Roosevelt if the Democratic party offers better guarantees than the Republican party that conservative principles shall prevail in the next administration.

It is more reasonable to talk of Democratic victories here than it is in Pennsylvania if conservatism does not prevail at St. Louis; so many Illinois conservatives, who are in ignorance and doubt concerning the strength of Hearst radicalism, are disposed to suspend activities until it is shown that the conservatives will predominate at St. Louis, and that correct they the will be weaknesses sufficiently which have courageous rendered to. all recent Democratic campaigns in Illinois, futile. The present Democratic situation in Illinois is such, therefore, as to promise a campaign of apathy and defection under radical standards, or of enthusiasm and confidence under conservative standards.

Mr. Hopkins, who is to-day planning: a campaign to hold the state for Mr. Williams against Mr. Hearst, expects to the conservatives before the state convention, so that conservative supremacy in the state machine may be established. If this is done the Illinois delegation will ask that the national platform be divested of all radical features in order that it may compare favoraby with the Chicago platform of 1892, upon which Mr.

Cleveland carried Illinois and was elected. The Winning Platform for Illinois. That platform declared, among other things, for the use of both gold and silver as standard money, against tariff except for revenue, against trusts fostered by tariff and other federal laws, in favor of a consistent, safe and vigorous foreign policy; international improvements, popular education, and service reform. It had behind it and supporting it, but not overshadowing it, the personality and record of Cleveland, illumined by both victory and defeat. Opposing it was an old school high tariff platform, traditionally Republican in its minor details, like what the platform is expected to be this year with a successful President, General Harrison running upon it.

Illinois sustained the Democratic issues. Radicalism will offer a platform at St. Louis this year, based on the beliefs of Mr. Hearst and Mr. Bryan.

There is little probability that free silver coinage will be demanded, because that theory has no powerful votaries in the Democracy. Mr. Hearst, the only open radical candidate, is against it. The radical leaders will make their fight on the trust and labor issues, against monopolies and corporations which they term criminal, and the encroachments upon the poor which they attribute to "predatory" wealth. The radical campaign all over the country has been conducted on these lines, abandoning the issues recognized as reasonable and timely in statesmanship, and if the radicals should by any chance elect a majority of the delegates from the Democratic classes holdig such beliefs, the St.

Louis platform would be an amplified, not radicalism. President Roosevelt's candidacy presents the same appearances of weakness in Illinois that it presents in New York and Ohio. A reassurance of conservatism, like the Cleveland platform of 1892, properly supported in the character and record of candidate, might make it possible for Democrats the to carry Illinois. On the other hand, a Democratic campaign of assault on business, sub. stituting for the silver issue, which was at least a basis for economic discussion, a mere appeal to the prejudice of men who have little money against those who have more, would be a fiasco unparalleled 'in politics.

After it, there would be no Democratic party here. Conservatives Divided as to Candidate. Among the conservative Democrats of Illinois' there is no decided trend toward any candidate. In that respect the situation is much like the situation Ohio, where the conservatives like Mr. Judson mon, John F.

McLean, Chief Judge Parker and Richard Olney in about the same degree, and will stand ready to vote for the one who develops most strength in the convention. Mr. Williams is popular with the conservatives. If they elect him in the delegation they will support him and endeavor bring about his nomination. Mr.

Parker and Mr. Cleveland will be the two alternatives. Mr. Cleveland is undoubtedly very strong in Illinois. Democratic business men and many of the party leaders recognize his strength and would consider his nomination a fortunate outcome of existing diffculties.

A prominent Chicago Democrat, who is both a business man and a leader, and who sustained Mr. Cleveland's attitude in 1896, presented the present Cleveland situation in this way: "We must defer to Mr. Cleveland's wishes as expressed in his letter to the Brooklyn Eagle. But it is a national misfortune he cannot be the candidate. The conditions which have arisen make him extraordinarily strong with the people.

If he could have been nominated he would have carried the City of Chicago and the State of Illinois without doubt. In view of his letter, however, no effort can be made to nominate him, and without an effort he cannot be nominated." The same Democrat, speaking of Chief Judge Parker, said: "What I have said of Mr. Cleveland should not be considered a disparagement of Judge Parker. I believe the main difference between the two men on points of availability for the nomination is in the fact that one has already been a president and the other has not. The Democratic party is under Always.

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BOYD, Gen'l Pass. Agent. the necessity of re-establishing its title to public confidence. Mr. Cleveland's record in the presideney would make that easy matter if he were to be the nominee.

No man could so easily and quickly restore old conditions. I know Judge Parker well. The Democrats who doubt the advisability of nominating him because he has not been in public life and is not familiarly known do an injustice to him. He had a very active and successful career as a lawyer and a man of affairs before he became a judge. He is now the chief judge of a court which stands as high in the opinion of the judiciary world as any, not excepting the United States Supreme Court.

It is one of the best proofs of his availability that he has continued, and is continuing, to charge the duties of his high office while his name is under discussion, without reference to political events. "It is my judgment that if the conservatives win in this state the delegates will naturally turn to Judge Parker, in case Mr. Williaras cannot be nominated. We expect the Now York and Indiana delegations to be for him, and we concur in the opinion that the debatable states should select didates, giving to the judgment of Illinois, of course, full importance because this state may under favorable conditions become debatable aiso. The nomination of either Mr.

Williams or Mr. Parker will give us the fighting chance we want." Parker Favorably Known to Labor Men. Judge Parker's name is favorably known among the Democratic leaders of Illinois who have to deal in politics with the labor question. Labor is fully informed here of the decisions of the New York Court of Appeals and Judge Parker's relations to them, sustaining the eight hour law and the right of wage earners to the prevailing rate. The Illinois strength of Judge Parker would not be fully defined without some reference to the attitude of the radical wing of the party.

The prominent radicals ho have spoken decisively against the nomination of Mr. Cleveland, Judge Gray and Mr. Olney, but they do not say that Judge Parker is unavailable. While they contend that a large radical vote would lost to the party if either Mr. Cleveland Or Mr.

Gray or Mr. Olney were nominated they say that Judge Parker would command the full party vote. Those Democrats who felt the deepest sense injury over the defections from Mr. Bryan 1896 are here in a mood to oppose 0 of, any man whose support Mr. Bryan lost.

is Judge Parker's regularity in 1896 and 1900 referred as an element of party strength not to be overlooked at St. Louis. The events of last week in New York have encouraged the Illinois Parker men to believe that the judge may be nominated at the first ballot. The leaders in Chicago have received advices to the effect that the New State delegation will surely privates be instructed for him. The growing certainty of unanimous home support is having a perceptible vote bringing effect on the Parker outlook, N.

0. F. FOUND GOOD WITNESSES. Young Becker, Accused by Stoothoff, Freed by His Wife's and Daughter's Testimony. Accused of robbery.

in the Gates avenue court, this afternoon, 17-year-old John Becker learned he had two good witnesses in the wife and daughter of his accuser, who gave evidence contradictory to that of the husband and father and helped to free him. It was apparent to the court that the boy and ti girl were lovers, but questioning the girl did not sustain this belief, although both admitted that they had been acquainted since they were little tote. The boy set up the claim that the father of the girl had lodged the charge against him because he was angered at his (the boy's) attentions to his daughter. John V. Stoothoff, 48 years old, a roofer living at 140 Glenmore avenue, was the complainant against Becker and another boy about the same age, named William Larkin of 301 Sheffield avenue.

Both boys have good reputations in the neighborhoods in which they live. Stoothoff swore that he was set upon from the front and rear while returning home at 9 o'clock on the night of March 4. Becker, he said, had grabbed him by the throat and then placed his hand in his pantaloon pocket and taken out a watch worth $2. Both Becker and Larkin were discharged by Magistrate Furlong, who remarked that he did not believe the story of robbery. Becker himself was to blame in part for not taking the matter in his own hands.

THEATERS TO-NIGHT. Brooklyn. Amphion-An English Daisy. Bijou-Delmonico's at Six. Columbia-The Man Who Dared.

Folly--Robert Emmet. Gayety-Burlesque. Gotham--On the Bridge at Midnight. Grand Opera House-Quincy Adams Sawyer. Hyde and -Vaudeville.

Keeney'9 Fulton Street Theater-Vaudeville. Montauk-The Spenders. Novelty-Through Fire and Orpheum-Vaudeville. Park-Queen of the Highway. Payton's Lee Avenue--Captain of the Nonsuch.

Star and Unique and Vaudeville. Watson'-Burlesque and Vaudeville. Manhattan. Academy--A Chinese Honeymoon. Belasco- -Sweet Kitty Bellairs.

Broadway--Yankee Consul. Casino -Sergeant Kitty, Circle- Vaudeville. Criterion--Merely Mary Ann. Daly's-Twelfth Night. Dewey Burlesque.

Eden Cinematograph and Concert. Fourteenth Street Theater--A Son of Rest. Garden-The Secret of Polichinelle. Garrick--Mice and Men. Gotham -Burlesque and Vaudeville.

Grand Opera House-Lord Lady Algy. Harlem Opera House--Three Little Maids. Herald Square--The Girl from Kays. Hudson-Ranson's Folly. Hurtig and Seamon'8- -Vaudeville.

Irving Place--Das Dunkee Thor. Keith's -Vaudeville. Knickerbocker-Hamlet. Lyric-Tha Pit. Majestic in Toyland.

Manhattan--The Virginian. Metropolis- Uncle Tom's Cabin. Miner's Eighth Avenue -Burlesque. Murray Hill--As You Like It. New Amsterdam--Ivan the Terrible.

New Empire-The Other Girl. New Lyceum-Admirable Crichton. New Star--The Great Train Robbery. New York--The Tenderfoot. Pastor' 8-- Vaudeville.

Proctor's Proctor's (Fifth -Hush a-bye-baby. (Fifty-eighth Street)-A Pair of Pinks. Proctor's Proctor's (Twenty-third Street) -Vaudeville. (One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street)Sally in Our Alley. Savoy- -Raffles.

Third Avenue Theater Because She Loved. Vaudeville--Candida. Victoria- -Vaudeville. Wallack' g---The County Chairman. Weber and Fields--Waffles, the Amateur Cracker.

West End-Kellar. TO WHIP DOYLE AND KEHOE IS MC CARREN'S BIG TASK. Senator Will Not Be Satisfied Without All 63 Delegates to State Convention. QUINN MEN SEND GREETINGS. Stapleton's Old Following in the Seventh Hold Up Leader's 1 Hand-Conflict of the Celts.

Senator McCarren, wary and silent, is giving all his attention to the political affairs of this county now, and is preparing to carry out the contract he announced he had entered into on Tuesday night, which is no less than that of sending a delegation of sixty-three men from this county to the state convention pledged to promote the nomination of Judge Parker for President. The Senator was at headquarters this morning, but had nothing to say about polltics. From reports that reach the Jefferson Building it is apparent that the managers of the Democratic organization here expect no trouble in the county except in the Seventh and Ninth districts. Mr. McCarren does not anticipate serious difficulty in capturing these districts either.

Fire Commissioner Doyle, however, goes on his political way planning for a primary fight that will give him at least a strong minority in the delegation from the county, if not an absolute majority, of the sixty-three delegates. The Third Ward Young Men's Democratic Club, the only Democratic political organization in the First Assembly District, met last evening and resolved to sustain Senator P. H. McCarren in the effort he is making to retain local control of Brooklyn affairs. The meeting held at the club house on a Atlantic avenue, near Hoyt street, and was largely attended.

William F. Callan presided and J. Lester Webb was secretary. The resolution indorsing Senator McCarren was introduced by John F. Quayle and adopted without a dissenting voice.

It is as follows: "Resolved, That we heartily, indorse the action of Senator P. in his stand for the autonomy of the Borough of Brooklyn in the management of its political affairs." From still another section of Brooklyn came cheering words for the Senator. The Bay Ridge Democratic which was organized by Luke D. Stapleton and his friends to fight William A. Doyle in the Seventh, met last night, with August Maue in the chair.

John O'Rourke was secretary. The following resolution, offered by J. H. Dahm was unanimously adopted: "Resolved. That we, the members of the Bay Ridge District regular Democratic Club, heartily approve of the attitude of the Hon.

P. H. McCarren in preserving the autonomy of the Democratic party in the County of Kings, and be it further "Resolved, That the sentiment of this club is in perfect accord with the action of the Hon. P. H.

McCarren, and that we therefore pledge him our fealty and support in maintaining our political independence and his leadership." Down in the Seventh District there is trouble over rival Irish- organizations which have set out to celebrate St. Patrick's day by separate dinners. One is the Bay Ridge Celtic Club, of which Walter L. Durack, said to be an anti-Doyle man, is president. The Celtic Club's dinner will be in St.

Alphonsus' Hall, on Sixteenth street, on March 17. The rival organization is known as the United Sons of Erin. Commissioner Doyle is president of the United Sons, who will dine at the Avon Beach Hotel on St. Patrick's night. The do Assembly district 1s somewhat divided in its allegiance to which celebration to attend, but the indications are that both celebrations will be successful.

WEATHER FORECAST. Indications Till 8 P. M. To-morrow. Washington, March 11-For Eastern New York: Snow or rain to-night: colder in extreme southern portion; Saturday, fair: fresh north to northwest winds.

Daily record of the thermometer as kept at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Office: 2 A 39 10 A. 34 4 A 37 12 32 6 A. 37 2 P. M. 31 8 A.

36 3 P. 31 Average temperature to-day Average temperature same date last Local Probabilities. Rain to to-night; Saturday, generally fair and colder; brisk easterly winds, shifting to-night to northwest; brisk to high. At noon to-day the Eagle's mercurial barometer registered 29.7, having dropped .5 of an inch since noon yesterday. Official Temperature.

Recorded at the New York Weather Bureau for 24 hours ending at 2 P. M. to-day: March 10. March 11. 3 P.

36 1 A. 35 P. 37 2 A. 5 P. 36 3 A.

M. 6 36 4 A. M. 7 5 A. 8 P.

36 6 9 P. 35 7 A. 10 P. 8 A. 11 P.

9 A. 12 10 A. 20 11 A. 12 (Noon). P.

31 2 P. 31 Average temperature to-day 34 Precipitation for 24 hours ending at 8 A. M. to-day Precipitation from 8 A. M.

to 2 P. .13 Humidity for 24 hours ending 8 A. M. to-day too small to measure. HIGH WATER.

M. -P. M. Dura oL lime Height Time Height Rise Fall Feet Feet H. M.

H. New York. 3:47 4.1 1:24 3.5 5:54 6:25 Sandy 3:09 4.3 3:47 3.8 6:08 6:35 ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. To-night and To-morrow Morning. Sun sets 5:58.

rises 6:12. Moon rises 3:32 A. M. Moon's age, 25 days. First daily weather charts issued in England, 1872.

RACE FEUD IN AUSTRIA. 900 Students Riot in Vienna and Military May Rule Prague. Vienna, March 11-Serious rioting between German and Czech students occurred this morning in front of the university, and culminated in a free fight. About 700 Germans held an elevated approach to the university, and 200 Czechs stormed the position. Both factiona were armed with sticks, and the fighting raged fiercely.

The Germans, by sheer force of numbers, finally overpowered their assailants, whom they pitched down the steps and over the balustrades. Forty students were wounded. The police had ditfeulty in restoring order. Reports from Prague, Bohemia, say the police stations there are filled with aludents and other rioters. The ultimate proclamation of martial law in Prague is threatened.

SARARIA INDICTED FOR MURDER, Among the indictments returned to the County Court this morning, Judge Aspinall presiding, was one against Joseph Sararla for murder in the first degree, charging him with the death of Stephen Little, January 25. Sararia appeared in court by Counsel James W. Ridgway and pleaded not guilty. It is alleged by the prosecution that Sararia returned home on that afternoon and. both him and Mrs.

Sararia. Little died soon finding Little in his wife's apartments, shot afterward, but Mrs. Sararia has recovered. The date of the trial not yet been fixed. A number of other indictments were presented as a result of the Grand Jury's first week, but all of them were for minor offenses.

MEMBERS OF HOUSE RENEW FIGHT ON BRISTOW REPORT SOZODONT TOOTH POWDER For 59 years the Dentifrice of Quality. Absolutely Non-Acid No Waste. No Grit New Patent Top Can 25c OBITUARY. Dr. Verranus Morse.

Dr. Verranus Morse died at his home, 291 Carlton avenue, Wednesday night, as the result of a fall in his room on Monday, causing an impacted fracture of the hip and seriously affecting his heart action. Dr. Morse was born in Springfield, N. November 20, 1818, of New England ancestry.

He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1845, and from the medical department of New York University in 1849, in which year he took up his residence in Dr. Verranus Morse. sons and two daughters. Theodore A. Burtis.

Manhattan, where he practiced medicine. He moved to Carlton avenue, Brooklyn, in 1869, and remained in the same home until the time of his death. As a physician, he had the reputation, especially among his brother physicians, of being a fine diagnostician. He was the first treasurer of the New York Medical Union, holding the office for over a thirty years. When he first came to New York City he joined the old Market, the pastorate Rev.

Dr. Theodore L. Street Dutch Reformed ed Church, then under Cuyler. He and Dr. Cuyler were young men together, and were both much interested in the condition of the young men coming from country homes to live in the large cities.

He was one of the founders of the Y. M. C. A. movement in New York City more than Afty years ago, and was a life member of that association.

He became a member of 1ts board of directors in 1860, still continuing member, and held the office of treasurer for four years. He was a delegate from that association to various international conventions, at which he delivered formal addresses, and was a member of the international committee for six years. When the New York association's fortunes were at the lowest he became its treasurer, and it was acknowledged that to his wisdom and enthusiasm were due its subsequent success, financially. When he moved to Brooklyn Dr. Morse became a member of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, during the pastorate of Dr.

Cuyler, and was first a deacon and then an elder, holding the position of senior elder at the time of his death. He was a man of sterling worth and as counselor and adviser was held in high esteem by his friends. He leaves a widow and four children, two There died at his home, 705 Putnam avenue, yesterday, Theodore A. Burtis, aged 73 years, a ship news reporter, who had worked at the ship news office on the Battery, Manhattan, from October 19, 1869, to September 21, 1903. He was the longest in continuous service of any ship news reporter in the United States.

Mr. Burtis was a native of New York and his ancestors were among the early settlers of the city. He had been member of the Seventh Regiment, N. G. N.

and was for a time a customs in- spector. He leaves two sons and a daughter. Charles H. Henry. Funeral services will be held this evening at 8 o'clock for Charles H.

Henry at his late residence, 282 Monroe street, where he died Wednesday last of heart failure after an illness of four weeks. Mr. Henry, who was born in Chester, N. July 12, 1823, had been a resident of the Bedford section for twenty-five years, during which time he was in business on DeKalb avenue as a feed merchant. He is survived by his widow and a daughter.

The deceased, who member of the Central Presbyterian Church from the time of its organization, was deeply interested in religious work and never formed any other ties excepting for his church and business. The Rev. Dr. J. F.

Carson will conduct the services. The interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Henry Cook. Greenwood Cemetery. Walter A.

Dolane. This afternoon at 2 o'clock funeral services were held over the remains of Henry Cook, a resident of the Flatbush section of Brooklyn for sixty years, at his home, New Utrecht avenue and Fifty-eighth street. His death Wednesday last followed a lengthy Illness from Bright's disease. He was born in Germany, in July, 78 years ago and was a retired provision dealer. He was a member of the Flatbush Verein and of the Flatbush German Lutheran Church.

Three sons and two daughters survive the deceased. The Rev. L. Happ, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, Van Pelt Manor, conducted the funeral services.

The interment was in Walter A. Dolane, a prominent musician 408 composer of Putnam this avenue, borough, died yesterday, at his of pneumonia, after an illness of five days. He was a native of Brooklyn and was in his 49th year. He was well known in musical circles and was a member of the National Guard. His last public appearance Was at the reunion of Company of the Thirteenth Regiment, N.

G. N. held on March 5. was a graduate of Columbia University with high honors. and was a member of the Royal Arcanum, the Home Circle and many other charitable and secret societies.

When quite young he was a boy choir singer, and bis musical instruction followed this. He had composed many songs and instrumental selections of merit. He leaves a widow and child. CHASE FOR BOY THIEVES. Police Carried to Scene of Burglary in Delivery Wagon.

George Rohrs, of 382 Thirteenth street, a traveling tea and coffee merchant, while on his rounds this morning, saw three boys taking a bicycle from the cellar of 427 Union street. He accosted them and the boys dropped the wheel and started to run away. Rohrs made an effort to detain them, without success. He then got into his wagon, drove to the Butler Street Station, and notified Captain Devaney of the attempted burglary. Devaney got into Rohra' wagon, with Officers Clare and O'Donnell, and the horse went off at a run Union street, where James McVey, years old, of 510 Hicks street; John Geoghan, 16 years old, 146 Degraw street, and John Brady, 17 years, 341 Court street, were placed under arrest.

The boys were brought into the Butlar Street Court, where warrants were sworn out by Rohrs. Magistrate Tighe held McVey and Geoghan to appear on the 14th, 1,0 answer to the charge of burglary. Brady 1 was discharged. Storm of Indignation Breaks Against the Administration From Republicans. COWHERD BLAMES BEAVERS.

Missouri Man Says P. 0. Official Granted Requests of Representatives Without Regard to Merits of Cases. Washington, March 11-The storm of indigthat swept over the House of Representatives on Wednesday as the result. of the report of the Post Office Department, involving some one and fifty members of Congress, and yesterday was hundred, temporarily stemmed by adjournment on account of the death of Representative Croft.

broke out afresh to-day. Mr. Gillett (Mass.) presented a privileged report, when Mr. Hay (Va.) promptly objected to its consideration. The Speaker, in ruling on the point, said the Hay resolution was a matter of the highest privilege and he recognized Mr.

Overstreet who desired unanimous consent for an order giving members ten days leave to extend their remarks. Mr. Cooper (Wis.) entered an emphatic "I object!" Mr. Tawney entertained the view that every member named in the report had the right to speak indefinitely as a matter of privilege. Mr.

Overstreet then submitted two propositions: First, the discussion be extended until Monday at 4 o'clock, and, second, until 4 o'clock to-morrow, to both of which Mr. Hay objected. He then renewed his motion for leave to print, which brought Mr. Williams (Miss.) to his feet with the declaration that whatever is said on this subject should be said in the open house, and he therefore objected. He was greeted with applause.

Mr. Cowherd (Mo.) was recognized and defended the of the committee presenting the report. There was no occasion, he said, to refer the to the committee to see whether the charges against members had been made. The report of General Bristow had gone out with the approval of the President. "I say now," he vigorously declared, "that if we must answer whether the charge is true that Beavers usually complied with the requests of members of Congress regardless of the merits of the case the answer is that the charge is true.

Is Beavers to blame? Yes, sir. Are the members of the House to blame for it? No. If members have made unusual requests upon the department, the propriety of their conduct was a question between themselves and their constituents. It is not a violation of law." he insisted with emphasis. The committee, he said, could not undertake to edit the department's report, nor could they discriminate between the cases cited.

If they had done so, the committee, he said, would have been lashed from the floor of the House. Mr. Burleson (Texas) vigorously asserted that the department had given the committee information not asked for, "and yet, he said, "you laid it before this House. I say it is an outrage." "And I say that the committee could do nothing else," hotly retorted Mr. Cowherd.

The members of the House, he said, owed it to themselves that the truth be given. William Alden Smith (Mich.) jumped up, and, holding up a copy of the report, called attention to the fact that one of the exhibits showed the words "White House" on it. He had, he said, examined the original papers, and the words "White House" were not on them. would like to know," ne asked, with considerable warmth, had the audacity to write the name 'White' in that report." "The committee on post office and post roads added a word." answered Mr. Cowherd, smarting under the imputation.

"Somebody did," said Mr. Smith, with equal warmth. "Well, it was done in the department then," Mr. Cowherd replied, amid applause. Mr.

Cowherd entered upon a vigorous and emphatic answer to the charges and epithets which members had hurled at the department. Members, he said, stated that the department had lied and published malicious slanders against members of the House. They said the department did it for a purpose," and then they say the membership of the House will appoint a committee before which members can go and have the particular case investigated. G. R.

STEVENS DIES SUDDENLY. George Stevens 223 Keap street, Brooklyn, who for twenty years had been 911- perintendent of the supply department of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, at Twenty-third street and Madison avenue. Manhattan, died suddenly at his desk in his office in that building this morning from heart disease. AMUSEMENTS. Hyde Behman's THE LEADING VAUDEVILLE THEATER OP AMERICA Matinee Every Day GEO.

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Tobacco Dealer, Accused of Selling Cigarettes to Minors, Held for Court of Special Sessions. CAUSED PATROLMAN'S ARREST. Albert G. Wuthe Says Patrolman Partington Clubbed Him and Fractured His Skull. (Special to the Eagle.) Long Island City, L.

March 11-In the Long Island City police court this morning Patrolman James Partington of the Seventy-fourth Precinct, Astoria, was arraigned on a charge of assault in the second degree. Albert G. Wuthe of 107 Fifteenth avenue was the complainant. Wuthe and four companions were arrested on the morning of February 14 by Patrolmen Partington and Keough for alleged disorderly conduct, but were discharged by Magistrate Smith on Wednesday. Wuthe was in St.

John's Hospital for two weeks, suffering from a fractured skull. He claims to have been clubbed by Officer Partington. The officer and his colleague, Patrolman Keough, say Wuthe resisted arrest and fell, fracturing his skull. Officer Partington's examination is to take place on Monday next. PARKWAY CLUB MEETING.

Robert B. Bach Elected Treasurer -Record Book Incorrectly Kept, According to a Committee. A special meeting of the Parkway Driving Club was last night at Central Hall for the purpose of electing a treasurer and hearing the report of the committee appointed recently to examine the books of the organization. Robert B. Bach, president of the Pleasure Drivers Association, who has been active in the reorganization of the Driving Club, was elected treasurer.

Mr. Bach was chairman of the committee appointed to examine the books, as a result of his discovery that the certificate record book and other books of the club had been improperly kept. At the time Mr. Bach made these charges it was asserted that they were really an attack on Mr. Allen, the secretary of the club.

In announcing the report of the committee last night, which showed that the record book was incorrectly kept, Mr. Bach said that he wished it to be distinctly understood that he did not, nor did any one else, make an charge against Mr. Allen's integrity. What he did charge was that the certificate record book was carelessly kept. The club decided to place all the books in the hands of the committee for examination and then a vote was taken on the election of a treasurer, Mr.

Bach being unanimously chosen. The club is in a flourishing condition and the plans for rebuilding the club house recently destroyed by fire are now in the hands of the architects. SHEA AGAIN FAILS. Policeman's Wife Gets Control of Her Son, Despite Frequent Charges Against Her. Policeman John P.

Shea failed again yesterday in his long continued fight to take the custody of his 10 year old son, Joseph, from his wife, Nora Shea. Shea has been trying for years to get the child from its mother and has occasionally won in minor courts, only to lose again before the Supreme Court. Policeman Shea sued out a writ of habeas corpus in 1899, charging his wife with being a drunkard and unfit person to have the custody of their child. He annexed to his proceedings an affidavit from Dr. Edward E.

Hicks, who swore he had seen Mrs. Shea drunk every time he called at her home. The writ was issued and heard by Justice Dickey, who awarded the child to his mother and put $25 costs on Shea. didn't pay the costs until three years later, when he was fined in contempt proceedings, by his wife. It was alleged that Shea stole the boy several times and ignored Justice Dickey's order.

For this Justice Garretson find him $65 for contempt and awarded the child again to the mother's custody. Recently Shea secured his wife's conviction in a magistrate's court on the charge of habitual drunkenness. The boy was taken from her and placed with the Children's Society. It was claimed by Mrs. Shea's friends mostly church people, that she was sober and industrious and that her conviction had been secured on the evidence of the police officers who arrested her.

Justice Gaynor heard the case yesterday on a writ of habeas corpus and he issued an order to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, directing that the Shea boy be given to his mother. PARK PROJECTS TABLED. The Board of Estimate to-day postponed for two weeks consideration of the plan to lay out an extension of Columbia place, between Remsen and Joralemon streets, and also that providing for a public park on the Heights. The board tabled a local board resolution calling for a small park out in Flatbush. Doing Business by Mail It may take an hour or two longer but an order by mail gets as prompt attention as if you visited the office in person.

Give us an inkling of what you want, and our machinery is in motion turning out something that will be sure to please. We have the type you want, and the presses are new--they run by electricity. Brooklyn Eagle Job Printing Department Fourth Floor, Eagle Building. Aaron Meyerhoff, a tobacco dealer at 385 North Fifth street, who was accused by Edward Getz, 13 years old, of 319 Hooper street, and Peter Ules, the same age, of 370 South Fourth street, with having sold cigarettes to minors was again before Magistrate Higginbotham the Lee avenue court, this morning. The youthful complainants, together with Principal John W.

Rafferty, of Publie School No. 119, at Keap and South Second streets, were present in court when the case was called. Meyerhoff was represented by a lawyer, who waived examination, and the accused was promptly remanded for trial in the Court of Special Sessions. Meyerhoff's apprehension was the result of a crusade conducted by Principal Rafferty against. tobacco dealers in the vicinity of his school, when he discovered that many his pupils had become addicted to the cigarette habit.

In this respect he has accomplished considerable good and when he learned the youthful complainants that Meyerhoff had sold cigarettes to minors, he assisted the boys in proceeding against the accused. The latter claims that he sold cigarettes to boys of proper age, but that the latter in turn gave them to he younger boys. BIG FIGURES IN A LEASE. Old Silsbe Property in Fulton Street Rented for Ten Years for $220,000. The Ernestus Gulick Company yesterday afternoon, acting for James W.

Edgett and the Silsbe estate, leased the two buildings at 460 and 462 Fulton street to Bedell cloak manufacturers, of Manhattan, for a term of ten years at a total rental of $220,000. This is said to be the highest price ever quoted for Fulton street stores and indicates the steadily advancing value of property in this street. The Silsbe estate held the property at 462 Fulton street under a lease from the Barker estate at an annual rental of $8,000. There has been a steady increase in rentals in Fulton street for several years past, until the prices are as high, if not higher, than any business street in New York, with the exception of one or two blocks in Broadway and Fifth avenue. As an evidence of the increase in values, it has just come out that recently an offer was made by a prominent firm of $250,000 cash for the building on the southwest corner of Fulton and Hoyt streets, built and formerly occupied by the Burt Shoe Company.

building is under a lease at $13,000 per annum, which has several years yet to run. It is now owned by the Stoddard estate. Property belonging to the Young Men's Christian Association has also been under negotiation recently by Mr. Gulick and an offer of $500,000 was made and refused by the association. D.

W. McWilliams, who has charge of this matter for the association, stated that he expected it to bring in the course of time a million dollars and he did not think an offer for it of $600,000 would be considered. KENTUCKY TO GO TO HONGKONG. Manila, March 11-The flagship Kentucky of the United States Asiatic fleet, with Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans on board, will sail for Hongkong on Sunday next.

After being docked at that port the vessel will return here. AMUSEMENTS. ORPHEUM Good Always Show a Ladies' Matinee Every Day, Rousby's Electric Sensation, "IN PARIS" I THE KAUFMANN TROUPE SAM EDWARDS CO. BAILEY AND MACISON Empire City Quartet Lew Sully Herbert Lloyd Smith Powell Japan and Russia Extra ADGIE AND HER LIONS NOVELTY FIRE THEATRE THROUGH AND Daily Matinees WATER Next Week- -The Man Who Dared. THEATRE THE BRIDGI Daily Matinees AT MIDNIGHT Next Week -For His Brother's Crime.

FRIDAY EVENING. MARCH 18, 8:15. PROGRAMME. Boston the Cherubini, Opera, Overture to Elgar, "'Sea Pictures' (three songs) "In HaSymphony The Swimmer': Corals Liszt, Concerto for PIOrchestra anoforte, No. Beethoven.

2, in A Over- miture, songs MR. GERICKE. with piano; Schumann. Conductor. Symphony In flat, No.

MISS MURIEL FOSTER. Contralto. MR. RAFAEL JOSEFFY. Piano.

BAPTIST TEMPLE. Tickets at BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OFFICE. 502 Fulton and at CHANDLER HELD PIANO 439 Fulton $1.50, $1.25, $1.00. Admission, 50c, FULTON STREET, THEATER. This Week.

Ladies' Matinee i Day, BEST SHOW OF THE SEASON. STARRETT9 Horses, and Monkeys. Gotham Comedy- John F. Clark. Hale Frances, Smith Bowman.

Sidney Wilmer Co. and others. GRAND CONCERTS EVERY SUNDAY Afternoon at 3. Evening at 8:15. Mat.

Prices, 10, 15, 25. Eve. 10, 20, 30, 50. WATSON'S VAUDEVILLE AND BURLESQUE PARDELLO The invincible Wrestler, will meet all comers and forfeit 825 to the man be cannot throw in 15 minutes. DELMONICO'S STOCK AT.

CO. 6 THE COLLEEN BAWN Next Dayi (St. BIJOU COLUMBIA SEATS. MAT. DAILY.

50c. Next Week DRIVEN FROM HOME THE MAN WHO DARED PAYTON'S LEE AVE. CAPTAIN OF THE Next MANHATTAN AMUSEMENTS. WORLD IN WAX CINEMATOGRAPH GROUPS. Orchestral Concerta.

POWELL. Manhattan B' Mats. way Wed. 33d St. Eyes.at 2.

8:13 KIRKE LA Successful Production, THE VIRGINIAN.