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THE BROOKLYN EAGLE DAILY STOCKS TO 230 P.M. CUT THir MAY ItHLi -tt'' NEW YORK CITY. MONDAY. MAY 25. 1908.

VOL. 09. NO. 145. 2(5 PAGES, INCLUDING PICTURE SECTION.

THREE CEN1I PILSNER SAVED THE CHILD. STREET CAR MEN CONFESS. SOGIETY IIITHDRE ON TRIAL LOCAL 1VEATHKR l-ROB A flll.ITIKS. Vnlr tn-nlslitt Tnewilny. a'pnrally fair and tvRrmer; frpnh to light eaulfrlT vrindn, htftlnR to UN PEOPLE H1ELESS FBDII ROODS TEXAS Justice Decides That He Is Now Insane and Should Not Be Free.

Was Himself Bitten by Angry Dog. Will Go to Pasteur Institute. While on his way home last evening David Pilsner of 438 Bradford street. East New York, saw a large black dog jump at a little girl and knock her down. As the child fell the dog, with a snarl, tried to sink his teeth into her flesh.

Pilsner grabbed its collar and pulled It away. In the struggle Pilsner was severely bitten In the leg. He went to the Bradford Street Hospital, where his wound was cauterized. He will seek treatment at the Pasteur Institute. The dog is still at large.

CLYDE STEAMER ASHORE. The Clyde Line steamer Seminole, from San Domingo City and West Indian ports, is reported to have gone ashore near Point Pleasant. N. J. BELL BLAMES AERONAUTS.

Accidents to Sky Voyagers Re. suit of Carelessness, He Says. Men in Charge of Morrell Balloon Should Have Used Ballast, Not Human Freight. Eagle Bureau. "8 Fourteenth Street.

Washington. May 25 Professor Alexander M. Bell, the noted aeronaut and flying machine inventor, severely criticised to-day the numerous recent accidents to dirigible balloons, including one of his own. He says that everyone of the three mishaps to balloons on Saturday was the result of carelesness on the part of the operators. He says that if the same caution were taken in running air ships that is observed In running automobiles there would be fewer accidents.

"The accidents to the Morrell and Kna-benshue dirigible balloons, and to my own flying machine, all of which were reported In newspapers yesterday, while they were' deplorable, especially the accident in California, In which so many persons were injured, will do much toward the advancement of the science of aerial navigation," said Professor pell today. "Accidents have happened to aerial navigators in the past and will continue to happen in the future, but It is by these mistakes that ws are able to advance. "The injury and probably ultimate loss of life by the falling of the Morrell balloon in California was Inexcusable. The operators should not have thought of tak. tner too many passengers with them on an experimental flight.

If they desired to test the carryin gcapacity of their balloon they should have used ballast, and not human freight, as there is no reason why more than two men should have risked their lives on the trip. "None of the accidents of Saturday, nor, in fact, any of the accidents that have happened to balloons and flying machines recently, have been Cue to any fault cf the machines, but to the lack of skill in the operator. The dirigiblo balloon and the flying machine are hot things of the future: they are here, and while tbey bib BuQuvpkiuiB' oi great- uiiproveuieui.i stii wnen tne operators nave learned how to manage "telr machines, accidents will become things of the past. "Learning to operate a balloon or a flying machine Is like arning to ride a bicycle or run an automobile. It must be learned by experience, and many hard knocks may be exnected until the operator becomes expert.

Afterward, it will be easy sailing." ACTOR'S BODY ARRIVES That of Peter F. Dailey Lies in State in Elks Clubhouse. Public Euneral Services Will Be Held in Lodge Room on Wednesday Morning. The body of Peter F. Dalley, the popular comedian, who died In Chicago on Saturday of pneumonia, lies in state In the lodgeroom of the clubhouse of the Brooklyn Lodge B.

P. O. Elks, at 123 Schermerhorn street, and funeral services will be held in the lodgeroom on Wednesday morning, at 11 o'clock. More than a hundred actors and theatrical men of prominence met the body when It reached New York from Chicago on the Twentieth Century Limited this morning, in charge of Robert Dalley, the comedian's brother. The other members of the company were compelled to stay In Chicago, which prevented a delegation of the troupe from accompanying the remains to New York.

On the arrival of the train many mem bers of the White Rats and actors and actresses who have played in the comedian's companies, formed two lines and stood with bowed, uncovered heads while the body was borne between them. As the body was lifted out of the car George Consldlne, who presided at the informal ceremonies, placed a wreath on the casket, and the actor's friends formed a procession and followed the body to the hearse. George Monroe, president of the White Rats; Mrs. Billy West, Pete Dailey's sister-in-law. members of the Lamb's Club, and other theatrical organizations accompanied the remains to the Elks clubhouse, where it arrived at 9:30 o'clock this morning.

The officers of Brooklyn Lodge immediately made plans for the funeral. It was decided that the body should lie In state, so that the frtpnds and admirers of the merry Peter Dailey might pay their respects and see bis face for the last time. Fraternal services will be held in the lodge room, which has already been adorned with evergreens and floral tributes, at 11 o'clock on Wednesday morning. Edward J. Kane, the exalted ruler of Brooklyn Lodge, and ex-Sheriff William J.

Buttling, past exalted ruler, who was a close friend of the dead actor, will officiate at the services, which will be public. The burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery, where the remains will be laid to rest beside the body of Mrs. Dalley. who died about two years ago. OBJECT TO BARMAIDS.

(Special to the Eagle.) Washington, May 25 President Roosevelt is to be appealed to by some of the leading women of Washington to use his influence In behalf of a movement to prevent the introduction of barmaids into Washington saloons, after the English faBhlon, and also to put an end to the marvelous growth of five and ten cent theaters. Mrs. John M. Van Schaick. wife of the President's pastor, is a member of the committee that has taken up this matter.

A Refrehin(r Tonic Horford's Acid Phoiphate Take It for that tired feeling during prlng summer. Hake a delicious acid drink. -Adv. Four Strikers Admit to Using Dynamite in Cleveland. Cleveland, May 25 According to a statement given out by Chief of Police Kohler to-day, four striking conductors and motormen have confessed to taking part in the dynamiting of street cars in various parts of the city last week.

These are now in custody. It Is also stated that a number of other arrests in connection with the dynamite outrages will be made to-day. Cars on nearly all lines were operated on practically normal schedules to-day. No trouble of any kind has been reported. WOMAN'S BODY IN RIVER.

The body of an unidentified woman was found floating in Little Hell Gate, off the foot of East One Hundred and Eleventh street, Manhattan, this morning. It wag that of a woman about 4 6years old, 6 feet in height, with gray hair, and was dressed In black skirt and Jacket, black stockings and black lace shoes. There were no marks of violence upon tha body. GIRL TRIED HARD TO DIE. When Trolley Cars Wouldn't Crush Life Out a Shoe String Noose Was Employed That Failed.

Lillian Miller, 23 years old, who refused to give her address, kept getting in the way of trolley cars on Jackson avenue, Long Island City, yesterday afternoon. A number of motormen had to stop their cars to prevent striking the young woman, who would not mova from between the rails, no matter bow rapidly a car was approaching her. Policeman Weissenstein of tho Hunters Point precinct, watched her for some time and finally placed her under arrest. She wns taken to tha Hunters Point police station and turned over to the matron, and about dusk tried to end her life by means of her shoe strings. The prisoner had taken the string out of both shoes and had made a noose, which she bad adjusted about her neck, but she made such a disturbance in her cell that it caused Matron Smith to look In, and she was In time to prevent the shoe strings being tested.

The police decided that the proper place for the young woman was the Kings County Asylum, and she was sent tbore last night for mental examination. TO WED IN THREE WEEKS Mme. Gould's Banns Will Be Published Next Sunday. Will Wed Da Sagan Two Weeks Later Hoboken Wedding Is Positively Denied. Paris.

May 25 M. Cachard, attorney for Mme. Anna Gould, who is at present engaged In preparing the contract tor Mme. Gould's marriage to Prince Holie de Sagan, authorizes tho Associated Press to deny absolutely the story that the couple were secretly married at Hoboken on the eve of their departure for America last month. As already stated in these dispatches the Gould family's opposition to the marriage has been withdrawn.

The bans will be published next Sunday and the marriage will take place a fortnight later, tha French law requiring that the bans be published ten days In advance of the wedding. There will be both civil and religious ceremonies, tha latter under the Prot estant rite. The couple will be married under what is known in France as the "separation of property regime," namely, each party to remain in absolute control of his or her own fortuno, which In the event of doatb shall not pass to the survivor, but to tho heirs of the deceased. After the marriage the Prince and Princess de Sagan will reside In France, the Idea of selling Mme. Gould's magnificent mansion on the Avenue Mala-kolf and her country seat, tho Chateau Marais, and living abroad, which was contemplated, having been abandoned.

Count Bonl do Castallane, tho divorced husband of Mme. Gould, Is prepared the momont tho bans are published to bring suit to transfer the custody of the Casteliane children to himself on the ground that Prince de Sagan la not fit to be their stepfather. Tho count, howover, evidently Is not ynt apprised of tho exact situation as he Imagines that Mme. Gould is still hesitating with regard to the marriage. He counts upon the continued opposition of George J.

Gould, who, ho says, Is expected in Paris within a fortnight. There is an intimation from sources friendly to Mme. Gould that Count Bonl would not dare bring suit, for the custody of his children as it would assuredly provoke tho revelation of certain damaging matters affecting him. which heretofore have been held iu reserve. BONAPARTE TAKES HIS PEN And Indites a Few -Lines About the Ananias Club.

Shows How a Mustard Seed of Truth Can Becoms a Huge Bubble of Pure Fiction. Eagle Bureau, 60S Fourteenth Street. Washington, May 25 Attorney General Bonaparte returned to aWshitigton from Baltimore to-day and us asked for a statement about the alleged row between himself and the President, in connection with tha suit against the New York, Haven and Hartford Railroad. Taking a pen and paper and without a single reference lo a scientific dictionary, tho Attorney General wrote tho following: "The story Illustrates the creative genius of the Ananias Club. Some scl- eniists.

give na tnign none or cv-n aj tooin oi some ros.su animal with a long Greek name, will reconstruct the whopj LiinosauruB or I'lesiosaurux or Ictho-saurtis or whatever other saurua may ho In demand, with 8B much confiden a. if they had snapped kodaks at the living beast. So, if you will furnish a member in good standing of the club above mentioned with some Insignificant, incident. he will expand this into an item worth I of ten thousand horse power headlines, i The mustard seed of truth in this tale I was found in the facts that an announce-1 ment of the intended suit was made here to the newspapers Fridav morninii. w.ts i replied an hour la'er and was ngiin confirmed some fifteen or twen'y minute after its recall.

With this small fra- ment of feet aa a starter, som- five hurt- i dredth degree member of the Ananas. Club Mew up a bubble of pure fl tmn. which mus have put Gulliver to shame and made Baron Munchausen green wrh rvy. I explained the matter fully a representative of the pre, who on me Friday afternoon, but. it is ni-ed-ss to say.

at elast to thoxe who knj flip species, that thp artists responsible for the fabrication wpre i areful not to .1 oil lis effect by Injudicious inquiry. So all I need say further Is that I have not now and have never had the least Idea rrievmg them or their like by reiiga- ini." ITSE Conducting a General Crusade Against Use of the Insignia in Many Fields. AMBULANCES UNDER THE BAN. Doctors, Nurses, Barbers Yachtsmen and Many Other Persons Will Be Denied the Cross. The crusade of the Red Cross Society against the use of the red cros3 emblem by any person not a member of the society is giving trouble to hospitals, chari table organlzaitons, military organizations and health departments all over the United States.

Here In Brooklyn the red cross Is being stripped from the ambulances of the Health Department, the Department of Public Charity and from ambulances of private hospitals. The United States army and navy may be forced to give up the use of the red cross In its hospital service, excepting hospital service carried on by Red Cross field nurses accompanying tha army. The Red Cross Society claims the red cross emblem as its own private trade mark. Notwithstanding the fact that the red cross was familiar all over the world for nearly two thousand years before the Red Cross Society was conceived, the society has acquired a world-wide control of the emblem. Eventually, it Is expected that it will be illegal for any one In the world to use the red cross without express permission of the Red Cross Society.

Proud families that have borne the red cross on their coats of arms for centuries may have to take a new expedition into heraldry to find a coat of arms that will not offend the Red Cross Society. This would be a blow to heraldry, for there are so many families that claim descent from crusaders and explain their use of red crosses and blue crosses and other colors of crosses by that claim. Yachtsmen and Doctors Fall Under the Ban. If any proud Scotch family claiming descent from some noble soldier who started with Lord Douglas to take the heart of Robert Bruce to the Holy Sepulcher makes too brave a display of a red cross on its coat of arms there Is likely to be trouble. Green crosses and crosses of azure, gold or sable, are all right, but genealogists must beware in using a simple Greek cross gules upon the coat of arms of some aspiring and ambitious American family that Is building up a past and a pedigree.

A number of well-known yachtsmen are violating the rights of the Red Cross in its allegedly exclusive ownership to the red cross symbol. L. Bacdn and H. B. Jackson each uses a red cross upon a white background for a private signal.

15. G. Reld, G. A. Kirk, William Rose Proctor.

J. L. Hutchinson. J. B.

Dillard and General Charles Paine all use red crosses on their private signals, and In each ease the distinguishing mark other than the red cross Itself Is such that st a distance it is difficult to distinguish the signals from a plain red cross. The Red Cross Steamship Company, which has a red cross for it emblem, cannot legally use a plain redrFt. George's cross uoon a white background to designate Its ships. Brooklyn doctors who have been breaking speed limits under nrotpct'on nf a rod cross on their automobiles will have to slow down hereafter, for the Red Cross Society is after them, and will not per mit them to use its emblem. Heretofore, policemen have ben instructed not.

to stop fast-going automobiles bearing the red cross symbol, as thp autns were sup posed to belong to physicians, or the Health Denartmpnt, and to he living on a mission of merry. The Red Cross Society maintains that this is a misuse of the emblem. Barbers, Ambulance Surgeons and Nurses Affected. The barbers, who have had undisputed use of the surgeon's pole for so many years, will not be permitted to use the red cross hereafter, if the Red Cross Society can prevent it. Barbprs have been using the red cross svmhol quite freely to show tha public that they were observing all required sanitary precautions.

The ambulance surgeon must take the red cross from his sleeve, and the trained nurse must be careful about wearing her roH rrn rlne-. AM thp ambulance sur geons In thp servicp of the ritv will have to use another emblem on their sleeve. Commissioner Hebbnrd of the Department of Public Charitlps, has adonted a new emblem to take the plarp of the red cross. The new emblem Is the caducous of Hermes. It is being painted on the sides of all the city ambulances where the red rross has been.

The caduceus of Hermes Is an amplification of the olive wand or staff that was carried by Mercury in the days when he had a job as messengpr boy fpr the gods. While originally the wand was supposedly a plain staff of olive, It Is now a more complicated affair. There is still the central staff, but it has two serpents colled around it. and at its top are two wings spread out. presumably wings that were clipped from the flying feet of Mercurv.

This is now the official Insignia of the Department of Public Charities. It has been adopted by medical associations, and is in use in certain departments of the military establishments in this country. Army and Navy Red Crosses May Be Barred. The red cross is still used in the navy on its hospital flags, and a red cross on a white sleeve band is used by members of the navy hospital corps. The red cross is used on the ambulances.

It Is expected that all this will be abolished, though in war times the hospital and its workers will be protected by the red flag of the Red Cross Society. The policemen attached to the Department of Health will have to get a new Insignia. They now wear a red cross outlined by white. There are many other uses of the red cross which will have to stop. One big manufacturing concern uses the red cross as its trade mark, and there is grave doubt of the Red Cross Society's ability to stop the use of the red cross svmbol on the medical and surgical articles manufactured by this concern.

However, it was understood to-day that this company might make a slight chance In its trade mark out of courtesy to the Red Cross Society. It was only a few months ago that the Red Cross Society began forcefully to assert its alleged right to the exclusive use of its emblem. It has quoted the law of the United States. The United StateB Government Joined in the Red Cross treaty about eighteen years ago. and It appears that its action in associating Itself with other nations In a compact to respect the emblem of the Red Cross Society has given the society a right to the emblem, which is regarded as exclusive.

Why the Red Cross Society Is Taking Action. The society insists that the usefulness of the organization depends largely upon the respect paid to its emblem. Officers of the society say that if barber shops, manufacturing concerns and private per- Continued on Pag 3. FOR MURDER OF WIFE Final Scene in the Lampblack Swamp Mystery Begins in Jersey City. BROOKLYN MAN IN THE DOCK.

Only Forty-five Minutes Were Occupied in Filling the Jury Box. What is expected to be the final scene in the so-called Lampblack Swamp mystery, was negun in Jersey City to-day, when Theodore S. Whitmore of Brooklyn, was placed on trial, charged with tho murder of his wife. Lena. Mrs.

Whit-more's body waB found In the swamp, near Harrison, N. five months ago. Kvery particle of clothing had been stripped from the body, and for more than a week it lay in an undertaker's room, unknown and unclaimed. At last, by means of pierea of the clothing which were found floating in the bay, the body was positively identified as that of Mrs. Whitmore.

Whcu her husband was summoned from Brooklyn, he said at first that he did not believe the body was that of his wife, but subsequently he made the identification complete. He was immediately arrested, and in the weeks that followed, the police declaro they succeeded in building up a circumstantial case against Whitmore which they are sure will result in his conviction. Through all this time Whitmore has protested his innocence and has declared that only a fair trial would be necessary to bring complete vindication to him. Judge John J. Blair and Supreme Court Justice Swayze presided at the trial, which opened to-day in the Court of Oyer and Terminer In Jersey City.

Alexander Simpson appeared as attorney for Whitmore, while the state was represented by Prosecutor Pierre T. Garven and bis assistant, George T. VickerB. The testimony which will be Introduce by the prosecution is expected to develop a sensational story regarding Whit-more'a past life. William Bartlett is expected to be one of the most important witnesses for the state.

Ho claims to have known Whitmore for eighteen years, and to have an Intimate knowledge of some details of Whitmore's life Immediately prior to Mrs. Whitmore's death. aBrtlett and four other Important state witnesses have been in the Hudson County jail several months. More than an hour before the hour set for the opening of the trial a crowd began to gather at the Court House. Although It had been announced that women would not be admitted two women were in tho gallery of the court room before the trial opened.

A constable notified them that tho presence of women was not desired, except as witnesses, but the pair did not leave and were allowed to remain. A jury was struck last month for the present trial. From a list of ninety-six names, forty-eight have been struck, and from the remaining forty-eight the trial Jury will be chosen. Flftv witnesaea r. to be produced by the state.

One of these will be Mrs. Georgia Dickinson of this city, who has made a statement to the prosecutor, In which she said she had been friendly 'with. Whllmore and' that he gave her a diamond bracelet few days before his wife's death. Mrs, Dickinson was quoted in this statement as saying she spent the night of December 26 in Whitmore's house In Brook lyn by his invitation, and that he offered to give her (Mrs. Dickinson) some of Mrs.

Whitmore's clothing. Mrs. Dickinson said that, Whitmore said his wife had gone away for good. Mrs. Whitmore is alleged to have been murdered on last Christmas Day.

Just forty-five minutes was occupied In filling the Jury box. In outlining the case for the state. As-sislant Prosecutor Vickcrs said it would bp proven that Whitmore killed his wife with the Intention of installing another woman with whom he was infatuated, as her successor In their Brooklyn home. It would be shown, he said, that Whitmore often had sought a separation from his wife, and that he had so conducted himself that she had often been compelled, temporarily, to leave him. They had quarreled on Christmas Day, he said, but Whitmore finally induced her to go homo with him and to give some money.

They remained home all day, but in tho evening went to New York, where they were seen togther. Later Whitmore was seen early the following morning, returning alone from Newark to Jersey City. Lampblack Swamp, where Mrs. Whitmore's body was later found. Is almost on the outskirts of Newark.

The Jirst witness called by the state was Irving Webster Crane, who found Mrs. Whitmore's body in the swamp. With the assistance of Alfred Th nmnsnn he drew the body out of the water and notineo tne police of Harrison SKco.vn Ann whitmore Mrs. Bessie Schmitters. sister of Mrs Whitmore.

falnled in the court room after she had told on the witness stand of identifying her sister's body at the morgue. She was carried from tho room and revived by a physician. Schmitters had testified that shp visited the morgue and identified the body as that of her sister. She said she had no difficulty in recognizing the body and that the features were clear and the light in the place good. She said she fainted at the morgue when she saw her sister's dead body there.

William B. Salter, a brother of Mrs. Whitmore. said he had no difficulty in recognizing the body as that of his sister. When Whitmore first visited the morgue he said he could not positively identify the body as that of his wife.

ESCAPED, DRESSED AS A MAN. Mrs. Belle Gunness Got Away in That Mnnner. Letter From Arkansas States. Laporte.

May 25 That Mrs. Belle Gunness escaped in man's clothing from her "death farm" is the statement made in a letter from a man In Arkansas to Mayor Harrow. The writer whose name Is withheld, is known to Mayor Darrow, having formerly lived in Marshall County, this state, and therefore credence is placed in his statement. This man positively declares that Mrs. Gunness es caped and that he had a letter from her May 3, five days after she.

according to I the official findings of Coroner Mack was burned to death. The writer says he will produce this letter and turn it over to the officers and will also give Information regarding her If he Is personally Interviewed by th" officers either In Laporte or at his home in Arkansas. LONG SENTENCE FOR BURGLAR. "I am glad the laws gives me the op- portunity of putting you. In Jail for long term," said Judge Malone.

in the Court of Sessions, in Manhat- tan. to-dav, in passing sentpnee on Charles Halpern. who has sevpral alias's and had been convicted of burglary In tho first degree. Judge Malone sentenfd him to no' less than tnelve years and four months nor more than twenty years in States Prison. MAE C.

WOOD OUT ON BAIL. Justice Greenbaum Approves Surety Company's $5,000 Bond. Mae C. Wood, who wa3 arrested, charged with perjury, when her suit against Senator Thomas Piatt was dismissed, appeared in company with a deputy sheriff and two representatives of the American Surety Company before Justice Greenbaum In the Supreme Court in Manhattan to-day, and offered the $5,000 bail required in the case. Justice Greenbaum immediately approved the bond of the surety company and the prisoner was freed under bail.

Joseph Day Lee. her attorney of record, appeared on behalf of Wood. When the bail bond had been made out Miss Wood signed it "Mae C. Wood-Piatt." STEAMSHIP MET EARTHQUAKE. S.

S. Joseph J. Cuneo Was Lifted Twenty Feet Out of Water, Three Times, in a Smooth Sea. Captain Christian Aanildt, of the Nor. wegian steamship Joseph J.

Cutico, which arrived this morning, reported a remarkable story of a submarine earthquake that he and his officers encountered last Wednesday noon, a couple of hours after they hM left the Jamlacan shore. The vessel left Port Antonio on Wednesday at daybreak Towards noon, while the sky was clear, the sun shining and the sea smooth, there suddenly came a tre-medous explosion right under the bow of the Cuneo. The vessel was lilted out of the water twenty feet at the head and bumped back into a hole in the oceau that seemed ready to engtiir her. Captain Aatnidt and his officers watched the phenomena silently. They could do nothing towards stopping the erratic broncbo-bustlng antics of the Cuneo and three times the performance was repeated as the officers stood helplessly on the bridge.

All the time the sun whs shining and the sea. except for the immediate vicinity of the steamship was as calm as an Inland lake. After the three upheavals the sea becama tranquil again and there was not so much as a ripple to show for the trouble that the Cuneo had been caused by the submarine eruption. "I looked for. an island or something else to pop out of the sea," said the skipper to a representative of the Eaglo this morning as he stepped ashore.

"Nothing appeared, however, and I was sure, therefore, that no Island had been created that I might have taken possession of in the name of Norwa's King. There was not even a dead fish to show for the submarine explosion and I was lucky to have had eye-witnesses to the phenomena or else I would certainly have been doubted. We got no damage. Only a bad scare for a few minutes." PRETTY LIVELY OIL BLAZE Some 60,000 Gallons in the Tank, Which Was on Fire. Firemen Did Active Work and Saved Other Big: Tanks Loss Is About $5,000.

Damage estimated jt about $5,000 was done by a lire which broke out this morning in the distilling yard of the tSand-ard Oil Company, formerly Pratt's, at Kent avenue and North Thirteenth street. The yard is where the oil undergoes its last process of refining. The blaze broke out In what Is known as No. 1 of the bleaching agitators. The apparatus required for this bleaching Is three large circular tanks covered with rounded domes.

Each of the three tanks, It is said, contained something like 60.000 gallons of oil when the fire broke out. The watchman, when he caught sight of black smoke sifting through the cracks of the swinging doors, rushed to turn In an alarm from the private firebox, lo cated in the main yard across the way, but the smoke had also been seen by Policeman Schrieber of the Bedford avenue station, who pulled the box at tha corner. Almost In a twinkling tho contents of the tank was blazinz furiously. Huge sheets of flames belched from the open ing mado by the hinged doors, which were forced open by the rush of lire. This was accompanied by clouds of thick black smoke.

Through this at times there leaped thick tongues of flame, which licked tank No. 2 adjoining, placing it and tank No. 3 in danger of the fire exploding the oil in the two adjoining tanks and exploding them. There was also the danger of the burning tank blowing up, which happened something like eight years ago when two frame houses on tho opposite side of North Thirteenth street were shattered and several persons injured. Deputy Fire Chief Burns responded to the first alarm and while not turning In a second, telephoned for the flreboats.

Four responded, but in the Judgment of Deputy Chief Burns only two were r-talned and the other two were sent back to their respective station. In the meantime the employes of the oil yard busy emptying the two adjoining agitators of the oil they contained together with the burning one. This was accomplished by means of steam forced Into the tanks. It Is slow work but was done while the firemen, together with the crews of the flreboats kept the tanks drenched with water. The oil in tho burning tank was also drawn off, which required great precautions, as there was danger of forcing some of the burning oil through the pipes.

The fire broke out at about 7:30 o'clock, but. it was not until (lose to 11 o'clock that there wns any attempt on tho part of the firemen to direct their streams of water so that they entered the burning tank. When ihis was done the flames subsided on Bcveral occasions only to have the gases generated explode with the result that sheets of fire wcre'forced through the opening at the top, and the top itself on several occasions was lifted to a dangerous angle. On each one. of these occasions the spectators expecting an explosion scattered in all directions.

AUSTRIAN PRINCESS' ESCAPADE Vienna. May 25 The Austrian Princess whoso elopement a couple, of days ago has caused a great sensation In Vienna, Is said hert to be Princess Amelie-Louise, sister of Prince von Furstenberg, head of the Kocnigshof branch of tho Ftirstenberg family. It Is declared that she ran away with the local agent of nn automobile company named Koz.an. Tiie pnlicp are actively at work trying to locate the fugitives. The Princess is 21 years old.

The family has large holdings in Bohemia and a residence in Vienna. SICK MAN COMMITS SUICIDE. After audiiing and putting In order the books of several Hebrew organizations of which. he was the treasurer, Julius Katz, 40 years old. of 73 East t'ighty-flfih street, Manhattan, committed suicide this morning at his home by taking poison.

Katz had been despondent because of long continued ill health. Dozen or Morj Reported to Have Been Killed by Rise in Trinity River. 2,500 SHEEP ARE DROWNED. Dead Bodies Sees, Down the River at North Port Worth. Fort Worth, Texas, May pen.

Pie are known to be dead, 6,000 are homeless, a dozen or more are reported to have been killed In Fort Worth and North Fort Worth as a result of the greatest rise in the history of the Trinity River, which, beginning at 7:30 Saturday evening, reached a climax at 5 clock Sunday afternoon. Five of the deaths occurred to-day and two last night. Following the torrential rains of Satur-, day and Sunday a volume of seven inches I the river went three inches above the record-breakng flood of 1889. Stock valuod at many thousands of dollars, including 2.600 sheep, penned up in she stock yards in North Fort Worth, ras washed down stream and destroyed! the property loss cannot be estimated as yet. The paralysis of railroad service is lmost total.

Tha Interurban has discontinued service between Fort Worth and Dallas. The Rock Island made no ettempt to opcrata trains neither did the Fort Worth and Denver. The 'Frisco etoured. in fact not a road escaped more or less damage. Rowboats from Handley, While City and Lake Coamo, liauled to the scene of overflows on street cars, wagons and in patrol wagons, figured prominently in the work of rescue- A woman, a child, and three men represent the known victims of the flood.

The dead body of the woman floated past the foot of East Fourth street about daylight to-day and created a panic among negro refugees. A negro chilld was washed from its mother's arms, in the Rock Island yards and has not been seen since. An unknown white man was drowned a quarter of a mile from the Long Bridge. His coat contained a nnta nf n.nn.n'n i was found lodged in a tree top. A negro attempting to pilot tw men in a buggy through deep water opposite the City Park gate was thrown from his horse and his body has not been recovered.

A German in North Fort Worth was caught In the swift water and drowned. Many persons are missing and the police authorities believe this is only the beginning of a long list of dead in the flood. Not until the water has receded will it be possible to tell the exact loss in life and property. a vestige of tne nig wagon bridge over the Trinity near the steel foundry was visible at 5 o'clock yesterday morning. Piers, girders and abutments were swept down stream and for a time threatened the lives of thousands of sight seers congregated on the City Park tiridge and approaches.

i Relief camps have been already' established by Manager Green of the Bureau of Charities. Mayor W. D. Hart of Fort Worth, issued a proclamation calling upon the fortunate citizens to help the homeless. The Salvation Army also cared for many-Food and raiment will be dispensed tomorrow.

Tha river is receding at the rate of one inch per hour. DALLAS PARTLY UNDER WATER Tifteen Men Thrown Into the River and Six of Them Drowned. Dallas, Texas, May 25. Flood conditions throughout the eastern and middle sections of Texas and southeast Oklahoma are still very serious to-day. In Dallas the Trinity River 'has reached a height of 41.6 feet and at noon was still rising with many low sections of the city forcing residents to remove to higher ground.

Many of the people were being taken from the roofs of their houses and from, trees by boats. Texas and Pacific. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroads have been compelled to abandon traffic to the West, owing to several bridges being swept out by the high waters. At Dallas to-day a section of the Texas and Pacific Railway bridge was washed out and fifteen men were thrown Into the river, six of them being drowned. In Dallas the city is without water and a fire in the Continental Gin Company's plant caused a loss of several thousand dollars before it was extinguished by water secured from the flooded stream.

Waco reports the Brazos River higher than ever. The flood caused great damage to the crops along the Brazos and its tributaries. Railroads in the vicinity of Waco also report considerable damage and delay to traffic. Telegraphic communication to the west of Dallas is almost completely cut off. YOUNG GIRL'S SUICIDE.

She Left a Letter Denouncing Men as Smooth Devils. (Special to the Eagle.) Washington, May 25. Mary Estelle Cole, a pretty 17-year-old girl living with her parentB at 1820 Sixth street, committed suicide here yesterday by drinking a large quantity of carbolic acid. She left the following note: "Good-bye, mama. I am tired of living.

Good-bye, Agnes and all the rest. Don't think that it is on account of any fellow, because I hate them all. They are all deceitful, smooth-tongued devils, every one of them and not fit for a girl to talk to. None Is worth a single thought. I have only three friends on the earth George, Chris and Freddie.

I want them to go to my funeral. "Good-by, good-by. forever." The girl's mother says she does not know who are meant by "George, Chris and Freddie," and that so far as she was aware her daughter knew no young men by these names. SHOT AT A GAME OF CARDS. During a game of "Trisette" among a number of Italians at 2038 First avenue, Manhattan, early this morning, Giovanni Battistl, 45 years old, of that address, was shot through the right breast and taken to the Harlem Hospital In a serious condition.

Four men were arrested as suspicious persons in connection with the shooting. To know where to bo and what to dtinK wrtu Mecklenburg Mineral Springs JS Fifth av, N. Y. Adv. HIS COMMITMENT LEGAL.

His Lawyers Will Apply to Have) Him Removed to Another Institution. Poughkeppsie, N. May 25 Harry K. Thaw, the slayer of Stanford White, will not be released from the lunatic asylum. This is the decision reached by Justice Morschauser of the Supreme Court in an opinion filed early this morning in the matter of Thaw's application for release on a writ of habeas corpus.

Both points brought up by Thaw's attorneys are decided against him. Tha Justice declares that Thaw is now insane and should not he allowed at large, and he further declares that the commitment to the lunatic asylum by Justice Dowling after the last trial of the case was entirely legal. Thaw'B lawyers will to-day apply to the court for permission to place Thaw In some other Institution than the Mat-teawan asylum, and, by stipulation with tho district attorney, the prisoner will be kept in the Jail here until Judge Morschauser renders a decision. The Justice Is holding court at White Plains this week and will not be able to hear the application before next week. Justice Morschauser decision is as follows: Judge Morschauser's Decision.

"I'pon application duly mado a writ of habeas corpus was allowed by which Harry K. Thaw was directed to be produced in court. In the petition It is alleged that said Thaw is illegally imprisoned and restrained of his liberty by Amos T. Baker, acting Superintendent of Matteawan State Hospital, a state Institution for the Insane. "Thaw's detention is attacked upon the grounds: "First Thai he is now sane.

"Second That the act under the provisions of which he was committed and detained is unconstitutional, and the court was without Jurisdiction to Isbub the order of commitment and such order was null and void. "Thn return to the writ alleges that said Thaw Is now Insane and that the statute providing for the confinement of said Thaw le constitutional and valid, and that tho court had Jurisdiction make the order of commitment. The return Is traversed by the relator. "The events leadlug up to tho commit ment of Thaw are in brief as followsl On Juno 25. 1006, Thaw shot and killet one Stnnford White.

He was Indicted for this act in the County of New York and the indictment charged him with murder In the first degree. On January 23, 1907. he was brought to trial on this Indictment and during the progress of this trial, on application of the district at torney under Socti'j 658 of the Code Criminal Procedure, a commission was duly appointed to ascertain whether at the time of the trial said Thaw was In a slato of Idiocy, lunacy or insanity so as to he incapau.a of rightly understanding his condition, the nature of the charge against him, and of conducting his defonBe In a rational manner. The commission afterward returned to the court that It was their opinion that at the time of their examinaion, said Thaw was sane and was capable of understanding his own condition and tho nature of the charge against bim, and conducting his defeneo In a rational manner. This conclusion was reached In accordance with the purpose ol statute.

The trial proceeded and resulted in a disagreement of the Jury. On the sixth day of January. 1U08. said Thaw was again tried on Bald indictment, and acquitted on the ground of Insanity "Thereupon the learned justice presiding at the trial, upon the evidence, made an order reciting the verdict and that th" court deemed the discharge of eaid Thaw at that timo to be dangerous public safety, and directing that said Thaw be detained In safe custody and be sent to tho Matteiwan State Hospital, there to be kept until discharged by due process of law. "The proof and evidence on tho part of the respective nirties have been ably presented, and the matter has been submitted.

"Thaw, at tho time of his trial homicide, as a defend, pleaded insanity and presented proof to show his Insanity at the timo of the killing of White, and, by the proof i Vered on his behalf, the Jury was convinced that he was insane, and acquitted bim upon that ground. Thaw's Condition Not Changed. "I am satisfied from the evidence adduced before me that ihi mental condition of Harry K. Thaw has not changed and 1 find that he is now Insane, and that it Is so manifest as to make it unsafe for him to be large. "To review the voluminous evidence adduced on the hearing would unnecessarily lengthen this opinion.

"Thaw was committed pursuant to Section 451 of the Code of Criminal Procedure which reads as follows: "Section 151. when defendant acquitted on the ground nf insanity, the fact to be stated with the verdict commitment of defendant to state lunatic asylum. "When the defense is insanity of the defendant the jury must be Instructed, if they acquit him on tat ground, to state the fact, with their verdict. The court i.iust, thereupon. If the defendant be In custody, and they deem his die-charge dangerous to the public peace or safety, order him to be committed to tha State Lunatic Asylum until he becomes "The question of the constitutionality of this law is assailed l.y the relator In that he clainiB there was no notice given to Thaw of a hearing upon the question of insanitv that, no rearing was accorded to him.

that he hus been deprived of. his lihertv without, uue process of law. flnrf rht thp statu mder which he was committed dnc.s no provide a method by ondition. as then exist-llv ascertained, or any whi his ment i ing. could be I niethod by tthich h'i sanity could be ehown.

"Th' people i ont nd that Thaw was not deprived of nioceriM of law. he is liberty without due cause he knew that if he chose to prove upon the trial of tho was insane when he I ll'-l ment that he killed Stanford Whit fense was su esfui and if that, de-and the jury ac T1'' "im of bim on thata ilutv of the the charge against ground, it became ourt. if it deemed his dis- hnrre d. ineerous to the public peace or safety, order him to be committed to the Kiate I.unatl'' AFylum until such an he should he adjudged saic. II'- had the- right to appear in person and to be represented by counsel, and be had the right to introduce evi-d ii' of his prei-ent sanity.

(People vs. Koi rner, 117 A. 40; people vs. Koch, 150 N. Had the Opportunity at His Trial.

"Thaw had the opportunity on the trial to introduce evidence of his mental condition at that time, which he did not do; he should have known that the adjudication of the court would follow a verdict of not guilty by reason of he i represented by able counsel, who. is.