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DECEMBER 8. MISCELLANECUS. Jewelers and Silversmiths, 440 FULTON ST. For the HOLIDAYS. AMERICAN CUT GLASS Is now considered the best in the world, noted for its beautiful designs and exquisite cutting and finish.

We keep a complete assortment. VETERAN GUARDSMAN AWAITS FINAL SUMMONS Sergeant Robert Bruce, Oldest Member of the Thirteenth, Dying at His Home. THE REGIMENTAL PRINTER. Carried Flag of Brooklyn for Last Time in Public-Friend of Henry Ward Beecher. After a life of eighty-four years, much of it spent in the military service state, Robert Bruce, the official printer the Thirof teenth Regiment for more than a generation, (S awaiting the final summons in his home at 89 Pineapple street.

Broken down with the infirmities of age 1 he is likely to pass away at any hour. Mr. Bruce, popularly known as "Sergeant," on account of the rank which he long held in Robert Bruce. Robert Bruce. the Thirteenth, was in the printing business at 1 High street from 1855 to 1891, when he moved to his present location at Fulton and Pineapple streets.

He joined the Thirteenth Regiment as a private in Company and remained with it until 1895. He reached the non-commissioned rank of sergeant SOOn after joining the company, but although often importuned to take a shoulder strap promotion, he said he preferred to remain with the rank and file. He began to do the printing for the regiment in 1861, when Colonel Abel Smith was the commanding officer, and has done it ever since. Sergeant Bruce's last position as a soldier was a dramatic occasion. It was when he carried the old flag of the City of Brooklyn at the last parade the regiment, before the city became part Greater New York, Deof cember 29, 1897.

After the regiment marched off the floor it returned for a special ceremony, the salute to the municipal flag. The regiment was drawn up in line once more, end a special color guard marched in, with the white flag carried by Sergeant Bruce of Company in full uniform. Sergeant Bruce being the oldest ex-member of the regiment, this honor was accorded him for his long and faithful service. He took his station facing the line, the regiment presented arms and the colors dipped, while the band played "Auld Lang Syne." The old sergeant crossed the floor to color company and took his place with the flag between the national and state colors, remaining a short time, and again advancing 10 the middle of the floor. The band played Soldier's Farewell" as the sergeant passed slowly out between two lines of guardsmen standing at present arms.

He was unaccompanied and "the loneliness and sadness of the last appearance of the city's flag at a public ceremony were borne in upon the minds of all present as they looked with regret at this symbol of the disappearance of his city from the list of independent citie and the loss of its long held identity," as one observer wrote. Bruce was the special favorite of the men of Co. who remembered that he was one of the charter members of the company when it was organized in 1859. His long service in the Thirteenth Regiment earned for him the twenty-five year medal for long and faithful service. His term of service embraced all the commanders of the regiment from the days of Colonel Smith to Colonel Austen.

All his company and regimental commanders have spoken of him in the highest terms and expressed the wish that all non-commissioned officers could be as devoted in their duty as Sergeant Bruce. Mr. Bruce belongs to the Thirteenth Regiment Veteran Association, which at its meeting on Monday night adopted resolutions of regret on hearing of his illness, setting forth his many good qualities both as a soldier and a private citizen. Only two of his children are living--a son, Charles W. Bruce, of 132 Cambridge place, who is associated with him in his printing business, and a daughter, Mre.

Emma S. Hayward, who with her daughter, Mrs. F. M. Hollis, lives at the parental home in Pineapple st.

Mr. Bruce has a sitting in Plymouth Church. For the former pastor, Henry Ward Beecher, Mr. Bruce had a regard bordering on brotherly affection, and he was often a visitor at the Beecher home. There was no one of the famous preacher's friends more affected by the celebrated BeecherTilton trial than Mr.

Bruce. Beside his regimental affiliations Mr. Bruce is a member of Fortitude Lodge No. 19, F. and A.

and the Masonic Veterans, and has received from his brethren many ex- CORTEZ TO BE MINISTER. Washington, December 8-Mr. Triana, the Colombian charge d'affaires, to-day presented his credentials to Secretary Hay and informed him that he would remain in Washinton this winter, temporarily in charge of the legation. Unofficially Mr. Triana has heard that Senor Enrique Cortez will be appointed Colombian minister at Washington.

This information coincides with that received by the State Department, but it not known how soon the new minister will leave for Washington. In the meantime Mr. Triana has no instructions to open negotiations regarding severa! islands off the Isthmus, which, it is said, Colombia desires to the American government. WELL KNOWN BROOKLYNITE NAMED AS CO-RESPONDENT Carroll Geran Among the Six Mentioned in Jewell Divorce. PIQUANT TESTIMONY OF A MAID.

Was Alone With Colonel Jewell in His City Home in August, 1900-Geran Family Prominent Here. In the suit for absolute divorce now being brought by Colonel James A. Jewell against his wife, Caroline L. Jewell, in Part II of the Supreme Court, Manhattan, before Justice Leventritt, Colonel Jewell has named as one of the six co-respondents a man of very well known Brooklyn family--Carrol V. Geran.

Carrol Geran lives with his mother at 688 St. Mark's avenue. He is a son of the late Dr. Josiah P. Geran, a prominent Hill physician for many years.

The family home was at 65 Greene avenue until recently. Through his mother, Carrol Geran is connected with some of the oldest of the Dutch families in the borough. Mrs. Geran is one ot the most active of the club women of Brooklyn, though it has been impossible to induce her to take office. The society she has been most identified with is the Long Island Society of the Daughters of the Revolution.

Of this she has been one of the most valued members, frequently on its executive a committee, and after chairman of its entertainment committee. She is especially in evidence in the entertaining the patriotic societies of the borough and is a woman of very magnetic personality. Her son is a stock broker on the Consolidated Exchange, Manhattan, having an office in that building (52 Broadway). He is said to have been very successful in his market operations. Carrol Geran is now a little over 30, and is regarded as a very handsome man.

His clubs are the Reform of Manhattan, and the Union League of Brooklyn. He has not figured in Brooklyn Society to any extent, spending much of his time in Manhattan. Mrs. Jewell's former maid, Alice Ferguson, when giving her testimony on the witness stand yesterday, told among other incidents how Mrs. Jewell had met Mr.

Geran in an Atlantic City hotel in 1901 and had gone into a vacant. room with him. Alice Ferguson was' on the stand again to-day. The witness had testified on her direct examination that Mrs. Jewell had raised her wages with the understanding that she, the maid, should take care of the old colonel and accompany him wherever he went, and the examination this morning was taken up with questions bearing on her conduct while out of the city with the colonel and alone in his city home with him.

"Were you alone with Colonel Jewell in his city house in August, 1900?" asked counsel. "Oh, yes," was the reply. "All night?" "Oh, yes." "In Colonel Jewell's bedroom?" asked Mr. Grant. "No, sir," said the maid.

"Never for any part of the night?" insisted counsel. "I might have been there a part of the night sitting at the window, for it was, a sitting room, too," replied the the summer of 1902 did you know a Charles Carroll?" asked Mr. Grant. "Yes, sir," replied the witness. "Ever go driving with him?" "No, sir." "Walk with him?" "Yes, sir." "He gave you a photograph of himself?" "Yes, sir.

He sent me one for Mrs. replied the maid. "Did you deliver it to Mrs. Jewell "I showed it to her in her room and said this is a picture Mr. Carroll sent to you, and I left it in her room." This answer seemed to disturb Mrs.

Jewell very much, and for the first time since the trial has begun she said in sotto voce, "You did not." Witness denied that she had ever been to the theater with Colonel Jewell, except on one occasion when, according to the maid, Mrs. Jewell sent her to the theater with the colonel, "because she expected a young man to call." "But you did go to the theater with Mr. Jewell?" "Yes. At Mrs. Jewell's request." "You went to Fort George in 1902 with Colonel Jewell?" "Yes." "Did you dine there?" "I think not.

I remember having a glass of beer with him." "You mean in 1901?" interrupted Judge Cohen. "I do not," replied Mr. Grant. "Oh, I beg your pardon," replied the former judge. "Your apology is' again accepted," retorted Mr.

Grant, "Lut don't again." "Gentlemen, gentlemen," cautioned the court, and the cross examination proceeded. CITY BUYS A SCHOOL FARM. A Tract of 107. Acres Bought Near Flushing for Teaching Truant Boys Useful Occupations. (Special to the Eagle.) Flushing, L.

December 8-Peter F. and William A. Kane and Robert J. Wright have sold to the City of New York for $75,175.11 a tract of land comprising 107 acres, with a frontage of 1,650 feet, on the westerly line of the Jamaica and Flushing turnpike, 1,418 feet on the east side of Cedar Grove Ceme. tery and just north of the Head of the Vleigh Public School No.

25. The tract is half a mile in depth. The area of the purchase is sufficient to allow not only for the construction of administration buiidings and shops wherein trades will be taught, and cottages for the boys of the City of New York who do not attend school regularly, but there will be ample room for farming and gardening operations by the boys, who will be taught these occupations by practical farmers and gardeners. The most valuable feature of the whole 15 the home life that will be provided in the cottages. The land is high and rolling and admirably adapted for the purposes for which it is intended.

SAY DRINK CAUSED DOWNFALL. Once Trusted Employe of J. P. Morgan Accused of Drunkenness and Wife Beating. Drink, it is claimed, is responsible for the downfall of Charles Loonan, 34.

years old, of 150 Franklin street, who at one time held a responsible position in the office of J. P. Morgan, This morning Loonan was a prisoner before Magistrate O'Reilly, in the Manhattan avenue court, charged with intoxication and an additional charge of assault preferred by Mrs. Mary Olmstead, his motherin-law, who lives at 527 Leonard street. She claims that every time Loonan gets on a spree he visits her home, where his wife is living, and creates A disturbance.

He made one of bis visits last night and after gaining an entrance to the house, grabbed her by the hair and after hauling her about 8 room kicked her brutally in the side. Loonan tried to explain that he was not aware of what happened. He was told by Magistrate O'Reilly that he had been warned to keep away from the home of Mrs. Olmstead, and was committed to jail for ten days on the charge of intoxication. At expiration 4g his term he will be tried on the charge of assault.

BANK ROBBERS FOILED. Wrecked Safe of Fredericksburg, Bank, but Got No Cash. Frederick, December 8-At an early hour this morning a daring attempt was made to rob the Mount Airy Bank. The iron safe was blown to pieces, but before the robbers could open an inner door of the vault, beyond which lay the money and curities of the institution, thieves were frightened away citizens of the town, those who were attracted by the explosion. The attempt rob the bank was evidently prearranged a careful manner, but was do, frustrated by the prompt arrival of a large number of citizens.

It is thought that three men were engaged in the burglary, two of whom were in the building, and the third outside with a horse and buggy in readiness to escape. An examination of the building revealed that some powerful explosive had been employed, the overcharge being responsible for the heavy noise. The front of the safe was blown to pieces. Fragments of iron were thrown against the ceiling, cutting the plaster in many places. The bottom of the safe was blown out, and the wire netting around the interior was cut and torn.

Ag soon as the robbers had fied Cashier Cain, of the bank, made an investigation and found that the inner door of the safe was cracked and almost ready to fall out. Several taps from a hammer easily dislodged the door, and the cashier removed $4,000 in bank notes, which lay within easy reach of the robbers. The burglars left no clew that will lead to their capture or identity. TURKS STOLE HIS MONEY. Returning United States Consul Tells of the Plight of an Armenian in the East.

William Ross Davies, the plucky United States Consul at Alexandretta, Turkey, who left his post in a rowboat, pursued by Turkish soldiers and returned in a United States gunboat a week later, was a returning passenger on the Cretic, which arrived in Manhattan from Genoa and Naples to-day. It was Mr. Davies' first trip here since 1902, and it is almost a year ago, to a day, that the stirring events of which Mr. Davies told an Eagle representative happened in the little Turkish frontier town. "An Armenian had come to Alexandretta from America, where he had become naturalized," said Mr.

Davies, "to fetch his family, consisting of his wife and daughter. He had evidently landed secretly and proceeded to Kharpoot, where his family was. They, anticipating his coming, had secured their expatriation papers and were ready to go with him when my Armenian friend was suddenly arrested, held for seventy days and denied passports to leave the couutry. "I finally made representationg to the local authorities which secured the ArmenianAmerican's release, and I started with him to the port of Aleppo, where his wife and child were aboard ship. We went in a little rowboat and were halted at the sanitary station, which we had to pass through before we were allowed to leave the harbor.

As I entered, the Armenian preceding me, he was seized by several soldiers, while a policeman held me back. I struck this fellow with my cane and he ran, and in the meantime I heard shouts from a small inner room of 'They're robbing me! I protested, but of no avail, but finally the Armenian was released, his clothes torn into shreds and £500 pounds sterling, which I had handed over to him and which I had held for safe keeping before that, taken from him by the Turks. This was evidently all the Turks were after. But when we started to leave the place to join the Armenian's family on board the outgoing steamer we were halted by file of forty Turkish soldiers. They took the Armenian from me and I made my way at once to Beyreuth, where I went on board the United States cruiser to San Francisco.

On the San Francisco I returned to Aleppo, where the Armenian was promptly turned over to me without further trouble. In fact, they had been trying to make him sail on a ship during my absence, but the captains of all the ships approached refused to accept him without an American order. "We never recovered the $2,500 stolen from the man by the Turks, and I am through with that section of the universe. I want no more of it. I had nothing but strenuous times and also had the cholera since the events at Aleppo." STORE NOTES.

The Art of Gift Choosing Exemplified at the McEnery Company's Store. No more important time during the whole year to the busy housekeeper than the holiday season, when numerous worries are added to the daily petty annoyances which are destined to cross their paths. A certain portion of their valuable time must be allotted to the problem of gift giving, and in their anxiety to act wisely and quickly they naturally turn to others for a helping suggestion. The McEnery Company, after giving the subject years of careful study has learned to know just what acceptable gifts are and just how they should be placed at the disposition of the prospective purchaser. Months ago its buyers were active and today its extensive warerooms show results.

It is impossible to begin to enumerate what may be found here in the way of holiday specials-rockers, Morris chairs, fancy parlor pieces, Vernis-Martin and gold leaf cabinets, desks, bookcases, dining room and bedroom furniture, carpets, rugs and upholstery are conspicuous. In short, every corner of every department teems with good things conveniently arranged, temptingly priced and all displayed with one thing in mind, the comfort of patrons at this most trying season. A stock so thoroughly complete and so systematically arranged makes gift choosing a simple matter instead of a stupendous problem. Again another matter worthy of consideration at this season of heavy expenditures is the firm's system of liberal credit at cash prices. Beginning December 17, as a further convenience to patrons, the store will be open every evening until Christmas.

HOLIDAY POSTAL BUSINESS. At Brooklyn Office Demand for Money Orders Beats Previous Years Records. Mailing Division Troubles. For several weeks past the Brooklyn Post has felt the of business due Office to the approaching holidays. It is especially noticeable in the increasing amount for foreign mail, and in the long line of applicants for foreign money orders that is waiting at the windows when these are opened.

The mailing division is having the same trouble as in previous years with persons who continue to send merchandise wrapped in rolls of newspaper, or those who fail up to inform themselves on the regulations governing the transmission of package mail to foreign countrice. Several hundred packages of mail destined for foreign countries have been held up at the post office, within the past few weeks, because they have been improperly wrapped, or because an insufficient amount of postage has been prepaid. At the money order counters, it was said that this year's business had exceeded that of previous years by a considerable margin. Italians are acading out a cood proportion of the Christmas money that is going abroad, Quite a number of letters have been received during the past few days addressed to Santa Claus. They come from Brooklyn children who are trying to let the Yuletide saint know just what sort of gifts would be welcome on Christmas Day.

Sleighs for the boys and dolls for the girls seem to be in the greatest demand. ANOTHER TEAM OUT OF SIX DAY BIKE RACE. Caldwell Eats Two Plates of Ice Cream and Quits, Followed by His Partner. KEEGAN MAY ALSO WITHDRAW. New Team Combinations Likely to Follow-Riders Now Far Behind the Record, 2 o'Clock Score.

Team. M. L. Vanderstuyft and Stol 1.488 1.488 Root and Dorlon Gougoltz and Breton 1,488 Dussot and Mazan 1.488 Palmer and Agraz 1.488 Samuelson and Williams 1.488 Keegan and Logan 1,488 Turville and Mettling 1.488 Krebs and Fogler 1.488 Downing and Limberg 1,488 Sulkins and Rockowitz 1.480 Record, 86 hours, 1,672 miles 5 laps. Made by Miller and Waller in 1899.

12 o'Clock Score. Team. Miles. Laps. -Stol 1,454 1,454 00 -Breton 1.454 Dussot-Mazan 1,454 1,454 Samuelson- 1,454 Keegan-Logan 1.454 Turville-Mettling 1,454 1,454 Downing- Limberg 1,454 Sulking -Rockowitz 1,449 Record.

eighty-fourth hour, 1,637 miles 9 laps, made in 1899 by Miller and Waller. Another team has dropped out of the sixday bicycle race in Madison Square Garden, making twelve contestants left. At 7:30 o'clock this morning it was announced that Caldwell and Hooper had quit, on account of Caldwell becoming ill during the night, from eating ice cream. It is highly probable that other changes will follow shortly, both in the matter of other withdrawals and a fresh combination of riders. Caldwell during the night ate two plates of ice cream, and it knocked him out.

Keegan also was indiscreet with the cream and it may cost him heavily also. He ate four plates of ice cream and drank two bottles of beer and Dr. Creamer, the Garden physician, said he did not believe that Keegan could last more than four hours longer. If he gave up it was planned to have Keegan's partner, Logan, pair with Hooper, who was Caldwell's partner, and so continue the race. As a result of Caldwell's indisposition, his partner.

Hooper, on the track the better part of the night. At 7:20 o'clock he quit and, going to Manager Pollock, said he could not stand the game any longer. Mr. Pollock told him he could take advantage of the fourhour limit if he wanted to, and it was supposed that Hooper accepted the proffer. Later, however, it was said that Caldwell and Hooper had quit for good.

Another team in bad condition is that of Sulkins and Rockowitz. Sulkins, in the parlance of the Garden, is praetically down and out, Rockowitz having been on the track this morning from ten minutes to 3 to ten minutes to 7 o'clock. The race during the night was a continuous grind, with occasional sprints, but nothing that approached sensational. The score at 7 o'clock, which marked the seventy-ninth hour of the race, was 1.382 mileg and 5 laps, while the record made in 1899 by Miller and Waller was 1,544 miles and 5 laps. The scores at 7, 8 and 10 o'clock this morning were as follows: 7 A.M.

8 A.M. 10 A.M. Team. M. L.

M. L. M. L. Vanderstuyft-Stol 1,382 1,394 0 0 1.421 1,421 Root-Dorlon 1,382 1,394 Gougoltz-Breten 1.382 1.393 9 1,421 12 Dussot-Mazan 1.382 1.393 1,421 Palmer-Agraz 1.382 1,393 1,421 Samuelson-Williams 1,382 1,393 1.421 1.421 Keegan-Logan 1,382 1,393 Turville-Mettling 1,382 1.393 1,421 Krehg-Fogler 1,382 1,393 1,421 Downing-Limberg 1,382 3 1.393 00 1,421 Caldwell- Hooper 1,382 3 1,393 00 1.421 Sulkins-Rockowitz 1.381 5 1,388 9 1,416 Record, eighty-second hour (10 o'clock), 1.599 miles 3 laps.

Made in 1899 by Miller and Wallelr. The riders are 177 miles and 7 BOARD OF REVIEW. Decision Reserved in Several Cases Before Trotting Solons. The board of review of the National gathered in the Murray Hill Hotel this morning for the third day's sesting Association sion of the meeting. The board was in executive session for some time before the open hearing began at 11:30 o'clock.

The first case heard was an alleged case of "ringing" which involved John M. Budington, of Albion, N. the owner of the chestnut mare Isabella which it was claimed was in reality Maud Emperor, with a pacing record of Mr. Budington explained to the board that he bought the mare in Detroit under the name of Isabella and had intended to drive her for his own pleasure only. The mare developed considerable speed afterward and finally Mr.

Budington was induced to allow the horse to race. He sold a part interest to John Slosson, of Knowlesville, N. who took her over the Northern New York circuit. the mare, it was claimed, made a total winning of $785. The identity of the horse was not questioned till she broke her leg in a race, Mr.

Budington could not recall the name of the man he had bought the horse of, but he satisfied the board of his entire innocence of deliberate wrong in the matter. The board reserved its decision. The case of the Nashua Fair Association of Nashua, N. in having wrongfully called off a 2:20 pace race in the meet last October, was heard. The complainant was Edward Beloin of Hartford, Conn.

M. C. Mullen, the secretary of the track, and Edward Wason, one of the owners, both of Nashua, were on hand to justify the action of the track officials and submitted several affidavits of those who had entries in the race to further support their defense. They claimed that the charge was a matter of spite. Decision was reserved.

The action of the judges of the Central Maine Fair Association in setting back for breaking in the 2:22 class Stiletto, belonging to Horace Chenery of Boston, at the Waterville, meet, July 21, was protested before the board. Lawyer H. D. MeLellan of Boston, on behalf of Mr. Chenery, appeared.

The judges had claimed that the horse broke three times in one of the heats and that it had gained by the break. Mr. Chenery contended that the horse broke but once and did not gain by the break. The horse eventually won the heat, but was set back to fourth place. The decision of the board was reserved.

TURBINES NOT DISAPPOINTING. Trials Thus Far Made Not tory to Ship Owners. London, December 8-The agents of the Allan Line at Glasgow deny the statement from Glasgow December 5 to the effect that the trials of the Allan Line steamer Vietorian, the largest turbine vessel yet built, have been so disappointing as to raise serlous doubts among the Clyde shipbuilders as to the value of turbines in the case of large ships. The officials also deny the statement made in the same dispatch that all the efforts made to get the Victorian near contract speed were futile. The officials of the Cunard Line deny the statement made in a Glasgow dispatch of December 5 that the construction of the turbine engines Intended for the new Cunard Line steamers had been suspended pending developments.

KILLED IN THE NAVY YARD. Lemuel Challiner, years old, of 302 Marion street, fell from the third story of the Equipment Bureau down an elevator shaft in the Navy Yard to-day and wan instantly killed. A surgeon from the Naval Hospital pronounced him dead on arrival. SENATOR PLATT'S BILL RIDOLED BY SOUTHERNERS Say It Was Gotten Up by a Lot of Persons Not Well Informed. CONGRESS WON'T ACT, THEY SAY Georgia Has No Disfranchise Law and Other State Acts Have Been Decided as Constitutional.

Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, December 8-Senator Thomas C. Platt's proposition to cut down the South's representation in Congress has stirred up a veritable hornet's neat among members from Dixie. At both ends of the Capitol the bill has provoked considerable heated talk members from states that are to be punished by loss of representatives in Congress, because of alleged unconstitutional laws that limit the rights of voters. Some of the Southerners are extreme in their comments on the bill.

All of them, however, are particularly resentful over the statement the measure was drafted by the "committee on national affairs of the New York Republicap Club." They think it a great piece of impertinence for this organization to meddle with their affairs. There is also general condemnation of the bill on the ground that it misrepresents conditions in the South. Members from the states affected declare without exception today that their election laws are not unconstitutional. Representative Butler of Virginia said to the Eagle correspondent: course it is not practical, but I have a scheme that I would like to propose in answer to the Platt bill. I would like to have the one hundred and fifty or so Southern Democrats in the House withdraw and their places filled by typical Southern black Republicans.

wonder how our Northern and Western friends would enjoy working in committees with negroes and sitting alongside them in the House and in the restaurant below? for one, would gladly surrender my seat if this scheme could be put into effect." Senator Bacon, of Georgia, whose state is to lose three representatives in Congress by the terms of the Platt bill, had this to say: "I do not care to discuss the general merits of the measure, as that is too big a subject to dispose of in a short newspaper interview. It is evident, however, that the bill is a very imperfectly digested proposition from the fact that it proposes to take away a greater proportion from Georgia than any other state, whereas Georgia has none of the state laws that are complained of. "We have no election laws with 'the grandfather clause' in them, and no disqualification for illiteracy. Our sole qualifications, outside of age and sex, are the payment of taxes and a registration. So far as payment of taxes is concerned, the only feature in which could possibly relate particularly to the individual qualification is the poll tax, which is only $1.

The property taxes are always secured by the property itself. "What is perhaps more remarkable than anything else is that several of the Northern states that have the illiteracy disqualifications are not mentioned at all in the bill, not even Massachusetts." Senator Berry, of Arkansas, was indignant. He said: "The bill is absurd and ridiculous as well as infamous. It will never become a law." Senator Daniels of Virginia said: "I have not had time to study Senator Platt's bill. but as the Republican platform on which President Roosevelt was elected favors the principle of reducing representation on 'unconstitutional abridgement of the franchise, fancy it would be difficult to reduce our Virginia representation while our present suffrage exists.

It is constitutional and has been SO judicially held. Nothing is likely to be done at this session on that subject, and as for the future, I take consolation in the old maxim that 'threatened men live It is proposed to reduce Georgia's representation by three while Georgia has no abridgement of the suffrage at all, unless a capitation tax be so construed. That is certainly not unconstitutional, and that there are breakers ahead for the Platt bill is evident." Representative Kitchin, of North lina, said: "If our state election laws are unconstitutional then they are void, and it is foolish to talk of taking away our representation." Representative Morrell, of Pennsylvania, to-day Introduced a bill to reduce representation in states where citizens are disfranchised. The bill is more general than that introduced by Senator Platt yesterday, and its provisions apply to any state limiting suffrage. MANHATTAN BRIDGE DELAY.

Contracts for Construction of Superstructure Cannot Be Awarded Before Next Summer, It was announced to-day by Chief Engineer Nichols, of the Bridge Department, that the construction of the superstructure of the Manhattan Bridge, would not be begun, possibly, before next summer. This will mean delay of six months in the building of this important structure between Manhattan and Brooklyn, the early completion of which is regarded as urgently necessary the traffic congestion on the Brooklyn Bridge. In fact, the Manhattan Bridge is looked upon as the most important prospective artery of traffic between this borough and Manhattan. After the Municipal Art Commission had approved the plans of Bridge Commissioner Best, providing for a steel wire structure and had rejected those of former Commisstoner Lindenthal calling for an eye-bar bridge, the officials of the Bridge Department declared that the contract for the building of the superstructure of the new bridge would be awarded next month. By letting the contract then, the officials of the Bridge Department calculated on having the structure completed ready for use by the end of 1907.

Chief Engineer Nichols. however, this morning said it had been discovered that It would be impossible to carry out the original plan of awarding the contract for the superstructure for the Manhattan Bridge next month, and that it had been found that things would not be in shape to let this contract until next spring. The Bridge Commissioner has called for proposals for the contract to build the Manhattan and Brooklyn anchorages of the new bridge. These proposals are to be opened at offices of the department on December 22, but this contract is trivial, compared with the larger one for the building of the superstructure, Chief Engineer Nichols would not say this morning what was responsible for the delay in the preparation of the contract for the construction of the superstructure of the new bridge. Mr.

Nichole admitted that the delay in letting the contract for the superstructure would put off the completion of the Manhattan Bridge, but Mr. Nichole said he still had some hope that bridge would be ready for use around the early part of the year 1908. SCHOOL GIRL FATALLY BURNED. Lyme, December 8-Alice H. Davies of Boston, a student at a private school in Main Lyme, died last night from burns received two weeks ago.

MIAN Davies Wan 15 years old. She was reading in her room at the school when she accidentally overturned a lamp on the table beside her, setting fire to her clothing and causing terrible burne. Death resulted from blood -poisoning due to the burns. Her father, A. C.

Davies, is a prominent Boston merchant, SPRAGUE REAL ESTATE IS SOLD FOR 5492,750. Corner at Flatbush, Fourth and Atlantic Avenues, Brings $251,000. SYNDICATE THE PURCHASER. Smaller Lots Sold at Auction, After Lively Bidding, Bring $241,750. By far the largest and most important real estate auction sale ever held in this borough took place to-day at noon in the Real Estate Exchange, when the property belonging to the estate of Colonel N.

T. Sprague, deceased, was put under the hammer by the D. M. Chauncey Real Estate Company, Limited. It was the general opinion that a larger crowd of real never gathered in the local exchange.

operators, all of the borough's biggest operators were on hand and bidding. The Sprague includes many parcels in the neighborhood of Flatbush, Fourth and Atlantic avenues, a junction or section which is to be enormously benefited by the big corporation and municipal improvements already under way. The most important parcel of the entire offering was the corner of Flatbush, Fourth and Atlantic avenues, now occupied by the Sprague National Bank, the City Savings Bank and a real estate office just around the corner of Fourth avenue. The greatest interest centered in this sale and the parcel, which consisted of ten buildings, was sold as one. The property is assessed at $194,700 and brings aggregate rental of $17,864.

Clifford Kelcey, of the Realty Associates, started the bidding with an offer of $150,000. Some unknown buyer raised it to $175,000 and then the bidding was quickly run figures above $200,000 at $1,000 a clip. Roth, "Henry one of the big realty operators, then bid against Ezra Bushnell until the price had reached $250,000. Mr. Roth quit and the corner was struck down to Mr.

Bushnell at $251,000. Mr. Bushnell stated that he had made the purchase for persons whom he represents and that was not in a position to state the intentions of these parties. It is underhon stood, however, that the purchase was made for a big syndicate and that a large enterprise will be established on the corner. This was intimated by persons closely connected with the sale.

There was an indefinable rumor about the Exchange that two large dry goods merchants had representatives on hand. The Sprague Bank still holds a lease to the property now occupied by that institution. The bank paid $2,720 a year rent for two years, then $3,000 for three years, and the last five years of the lease calls for the payment of $3,500 rent. The City Savings Bank pays $1,500 rent and the lease expires on May 1, 1905. Next in importance was the sale of twelve parcels on the south side of Atlantic avenue, from Fourth avenue to and around the corner of Flatbush avenue to the building adjoining the sub-station post office.

This entire property was assessed at $150,000 and it rents for $19,304. Clifford Kelcey for the Realty Associates purchased the southeast corner of Fourth and Atlantic avenues for $18,200 and the one adjoining, No. 584 Atlantic avenue, for $15,550. The next three parcels, Nos. 586, 588 and 590, were sold to P.

F. Reilly for $14,400, $3,300 and $13,200 respectively. From this point on Atlantic avenue, east toward Flatbush avenue, the prices began to rise considerably. No. 592 Atlantic avenue was purchased by James Doremus for No.

694 by E. D. Bushnell for $15,000 and No. 596 by Max Kurzok for $15,600. The next three lots were sold in one parcel to Hyren Dede, the present occupants, who conduct a hotel on the corner.

This parcel included Nos. 598 and 600 Atlantic avenue and No. 130 Flatbush avenue. It rents for $4,920 and was bought for $71.400. Mr.

Bushnell bought 132 Flatbush avenue for $17,100 and 134 Flatbush avenue for 000. 136 Flatbush avenue, the last lot, was to Clinton R. James for $16.700. All of these properties were sold subject to the right of the estate to put the whole thing up in one parcel if the prices bid were not satisfactory. At the conclusion of the sale, individually, the attorney for the estate said that the prices were satisfactory, but he would put up the property in one parcel if any one desired to bid more than had been offered AMUSEMENTS.

Hyde Behman's MATINEE EVERY DAY RICE AND COHEN The Four Avolos Bobby Gaylor Bedini Arthur Four Boises Rice Elmer The Albara Trio Dixon Holmes EXTRA-ATTRACTION-EXTRA SIMON-GARDNER COMPANY POPULAR CONCERT SUNDAY EVE The Greatest of 25c GRAND RACING PLAYS Mat.500 Mats, HOUSE. Theodore Kremer'9 No Higher A RACE FOR LIFE Next Week-ME, HIM AND I. FOLLY In BILLY Musical B. Comedy VAN MATINEES. MON.

THURS. SAT. THE ERRAND BOY Popular Concerts Every Sunday Eve Next Week-HANLON'S SUPERBA PARK Escaped MATINEE From EVERY DAY Sing Sing Next Week-FROM RAGS TO RICHES MATINEE OKING EVERY CONCERTS DAY BOWERY BURLESQUERS Entrial, My.es McCarthy Co. Race Dream GAYETY (Matinee SMOKING CONCERTS Daily HARRY BRYANT'S CO. Grand Concert Every Sunday Eve.

DAILY Next in WORLD'S SAFEST BROADWAY Handsomest BROADWAY MYRTLE SAT OTIS SKINNER in HARVESTER Next Week-ROGERH BROS. Seats on KEENEY'S TO A 10, 0 15, 25c. CAMERON, J. K. EMMET Co.

Carlisle, Frank Hash. Gregory Wood, Hal Concerts Sunday, 5 and P. M. COLUMBIA All MATINEE DAILY. Nest Week JAPSKYS DORA THORNE.

Sat. CECE. SPOONER Next Pride of MY SWEETHEART BIJOU PAYTON'S Lee porting Ave. Etta Reed Payton Matinee THE HOLY CITY MISCELLANEOUS. Dr.

Lyon's PERFECT Tooth Powder AN ELEGANT TOILET LUXURY Used by people of refinement for over a quarter of a century PREPARED BY S. S. for the parcels individually. Sold in that manner, they brought a total of $241,750, and as no one would bid higher for the whole offering, the individual sales were closed. VALENTINE SNEDEKER DEAD.

Valentine Snedeker, one of the remaining few of the "Old Guard" of Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, having been a member since 1864, and one of those who called Dr. Cuyler to the pastorate of the church, died to-day at his home, 55 South Portland avenue, of pneumonia, with which he had been ill for six days. Mr. Snedeker was born in Hempstead, L. 72 years ago, and came to Brooklyn when he married, in 1864.

He had always lived in the Twentieth Ward. He was a descendant in a direct line from the Valentine Snedeker who settled in Hempstead in 1640. He was one of the pioneers of the clothing business in Manhattain, being succeeded by his son on lower Broadway. had been a trustee of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, and had taken up the collection for many years. His influence in the society was great and he was much beloved.

When the Rev. Dr. Cuyler heard of his death he asked the privilege of making a short address at the funeral services. They will be held at his late home Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Dr.

Cleland Boyd McAfee officiating. Mr. Snedeker is survived by a son, Alfred a daughter, Mrs. Charles I. Hawkins, and a grandson, Charles Valentine Snedeker.

BEEF TRUST CASE PASSED. Hearing Postponed in U. S. Supreme Court by Request of the Assistant Attorney General. Washington, December 8-The hearing by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Swift versus the United States, popularly known as the "the Beet Trust" case, was to-day passed to an unfixed future date, at the request of the government.

The case was the court's call for to-day, and at the opening of the day's session Assistant Attorney Day moved that the case be passed under the twenty-sixth rule of the court, which provides that, upon agreement by counsel, any case may ba postponed and restored at a future time, to be agreed Mr. Day stated that the purpose of the motion was to serve the convenience of the Attorney General, who desires to participate in the argument and who was not prepared at this time to proceed. He added that counsel on the other side had consented to the ponement. Under the arrangement, the argument may be made at any time upon which counsel and the court agree. Mr.

Day made the following statement: "It being doubtful whether this case would be reached in time to conclude the argument before the usual recess (next weel:) for the Christmas holidays, it was deemed best to postpone the argument until the court convenes. January 3. "This will avoid the danger of having the argument interrupted by the adjournment for holidays, and it will all then be fresh in the minds of the judges when they go into conference to decide the case. As the court will adjourn next. week, they would not probably meet in conference until after the holidays, and therefore nothing would be gained by its being heard just on the eve of adjournment," NEGOTIATIONS TO BE REOPENED.

Berlin, December 8-The report that Austria-Hungary has offered to reopen the commercial treaty negotiations with Germany is confirmed. The proposals of Foreign Minister are being examined by Chancellor von Buelow and Imperial Home Secretary von Posadowsky-Wehner, and iC they seem to offer sufficient basis for fresh discussions Austria- Hungary will be invited to send plenipotentiaries to Berlin. When Count von Posadowsky-Wehner returned. from Vienna last week he was quite indisposed to do anything further. He said that for five weeks he had listened for four or five hours daily to talk on the subject of commercial treaties until the matter had become loathsome to him.

AMUSEMENTS. ORPHEUM: Every LADIES' MATINEE Day IRELAND'S OWN BAND STALEY BIRBECK STUART, The Male Matti FRED NIBLO THE MESSENGER BOYS TRIO POWELL'S MARIONETTES Chan. Hera Mechan'a Erin SPECIAL IRISH BAND CONCERT SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT ALL SEATS SO CENTS. UNCLE NOVELTY TOM'S DAILY MATS CABIN Nest Week-HIS WIFE'S SECRET GOTHAM THE WAYWARD THEATRE DAILY MAT'S SON Next Week A Working Girl's Wrongs This Year's CONCERT YALE CLEE CLUB and BANJO and MANDOLIN CLUBS, Tompkins Av. Congregational Church, Friday Evening, Dec.

9, 1904, O'CLOCK. Tickets at Chandler Held's. Col. MONTAUK Isabel Hecht. Prope To-night-Nest Mat.

Saturday DANIEL, PROHMAN Presents CECILIA LOFTUS in THE SERIO-COMIC GOVERNESS Nest Week- OTHER GIRL WATSON'S JOHNSON. DAVENPORT LORELLA Late Brothers The Ushers Williams Comedian, Harry M. Stewart, HEIDELBERG SMOKE LIKE. MATINEES DIT MAJESTIC PHONE MAIN 234 Bargain Mat. a Wed.

Popular Mat. Sate BLAIR IRIS Nest Week-lESSING FOR OFFICE MANHATTAN AMUSEMENTS. BIJOU Mad. 2.20 IRWIN is A Mrs. Back Black WORLD IN WAX CINEMATOGRAPIL GROLPA.

Charmaine Mualo. Extra Attracticar.