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1911. 3 THE WORLD not, if it would, go back to no insurance of titles. Better not try to get on without it yourself. LAWYERS TITLE INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY CAPITAL $4,000,000 SURPLUS 5,500,000 160 Broadway, York. 185 Montague Street, Brooklyn, 1854 Broadway, Brooklyn.

875 Fulton Street, Jamaica. CENTRAL AND NEW HAVEN IN BITTER OPPOSITION Two Railroads Are in a Fight Over Formation of a New Company. PARALLELS N. Y. C.

TRACKS. New England Interests Plan Line With Terminals at Buffalo and Troy. It is generally understood in rallroad circles that bad feeling between the New New Haven and Hartford Railroad interests and the New York Ceneral interests have provoked or vated by the formation of a company which proposes to parallel the lines of New York Central Railroad from Buffalo to Troy. The Buffalo, Rochester and Eastern Railroad is the name of the proposed parallel line. It would take a lot of business from the New York Central.

It is charged that the New Haven interests are backing the proposition, although this has not been substantiated. The Buffalo, Rochester and Eastern Railroad would have its terminals in Buffalo and Troy. At Troy the road would connect with the Boston and Hoosac Tunnel Railroad, which is controlled by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. This connection would give the New England lines, which are all practically under the control of the New Haven, an independent outlet to the West. Ina' expected that the proposed R.

E. line would make agreements with trunk lines from Buffalo to Chicago and the Far West, and in this manner the New York Central and its affiliated companies would be deprived of control of much. treight and passenger traffo originating in New England or coming East. Central Fought Proposition From the First. The Buffalo, Rochester and Eastern Railroad projectors applied to the Second District Public Service Commission about two years ago for a certificate of public necessity to allow them to build the road, practically paralleling the New York Central's tracks.

Frank S. Black, former Governor of New York State, appeared as counsel for the new company. The New York Central Railroad and the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, which is friendly to the Central, opposed the new company's proposition from the first. The Central has fought it very bitterly, every inch of the way. The opposing railroads contended that it would.

injure them and their stockholders, and consequently result in injury to the service and to the public. They said that the road would cost about $120,000,000 to construct, and would then be a more or less speculative proposition. The Public Service Commission acts in this matter under what was known as the exigency act, now included in the railroad law, and which makes it the duty of the commission to declare that a public necessity exists for the building of a parallel or competing road. The Buffalo, Rochester and Eastern Railroad's engineers stated that the road could be constructed for about 000, and it was argued that the Central could not accommodate all the business from Buffalo to Troy and the New land states, which was effort Engthe an to prove asserted public necessity. The engineers of the Public Service Commission figured that the road would cost about $100,000,000.

The Public Service Commission, after extended hearings, decided against the proposition by a vote of four to one. Thomas Mott Osborne, at present State Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner, was then on the Public Service Commission, and he voted in favor of the new road. Projectors Not Disheartened by Decision. The decision of Public Service Commission did not dishearten the projectors of the new road, who immediately set about to obtain a rehearing. That rehearing has not yet been completed.

The basis for it was the claim that the new road had secured new and important evidence to show that the railroad was needed by the towns and cities along the line, and that the facilities of the New York Central were not sufficient to accommodate the traffic. Large numbers of business men and shippers were called before the commission by former Governor Black, to prove that the certificate of public necessity which would allow the road to be started, should be granted. On March 15, Anal briefs on the appitcation will be filed with 'the Public Service Commission, by the attorneys for both sides. A decision is not expected for several weeks after that. Owing to the "appointment of Winfeld A.

Huppuch as public service commisstoner, after all the arguments, practically, on this important matter had been made, there is considerable speculation AS to whether or not he will cast his vote on this subject. He is empowered 'to, but he stated yesterday that he had not decided whether he would do SO or not. He succeeded Commissioner Carlisle, who had studied the subject for months. The four other members of the commission, Chairman. Stevens and Commissioners Decker, Sague and Olmsted, have once rejected the application, but they have not as yet given any indication as to how they will vote this time.

BELLING SENT TO SING SING. Former Bank Official to Serve at Least a Year for Forgery of Stock Certificates. In sentencing Charles A. Belling, the former manager and vice president of the Bronx National Bank, to a term in Sing Sing Prison, to-day, Judge Foster in the of General Sessions, in Manhattan, that it was impossiCourt, a bility for court to allow a bank official, who pleaded guilty to a crime to gO free, although the officials of the institution and others urged clemency. The former banker was given a term of not less than one year and three months and not more than nineteen years.

Belling was charged with forging stock of the Bronx National Bank and selling it to the Knickerbocker Trust Company. It amounted to $3,000 in the one case. When first arraigned in court, Belling's attorney, W. G. Bosler, urged that the man was insane and a commission was appointed.

It found that Belling was sane and then Belling pleaded failty to the charge. LITTLETON NOW LEADS IN SENATORSHIP RACE Absence of Regulars Brings His Vote to 13 as Against 9 for Sheehan. CUVILLIER ADVISES DIX. Tells Him Former Governors Made Recommendations to Legislature in Reference to Election of Senators. (Special to The Eagle) Albany, March 3-Martin W.

Littleton received four more votes than William F. Sheehan in the thirty-ninth joint lot for United States senator because twenty-two insurgents continued to hold the fort, all but nine of the regular Democrats had abwhile, sented themselves after pairing with Republicans. Only thirty-four members all told voted, as follows: Democrats--Sheehan, Littleton, 13; O'Brien, Sulzer, Glynn, Kernan, Carlisle, Stapleton, Hopper, 1. Republicans cast-34. 3.

No quorum. The recent activities of Assemblyman Twombly of Clinton County among his fellow Democratic insurgents directed attention to the ambitionsala Lieutenant-Governor Conway, who comes from Clinton, Twombly's home. Conway and Twombly are known to be very close, and the fact that the assemblyman has been an insurgent from the start has caused suspicion to be difor some time. Now, it is rected against the Lieutenant reported Conway boom, which has been sedulously kept in the dark, will be sprung in full panoply early in the week. "They will make me either governor or senator," Conway is exclaimed within the preported days to have in a conference in his room at the Capitol.

Between the two places, Conway is ex- pected to fall and fall hard. If he had directed his brilliant management of the Insurgents for the Senatorship for himself he might have succeeded before this, it is claimed by his friends. But instead he has hesitated between coming out as a candidate for the Senate, owing to his desire to become Governor, and his to push Governor Dix up and out of the way. That former governors of New York state have recommended and advised the Legislature in reference to the election of United States Senators is pointed out in a letter written to Governor Dix by Assemblyman Louis Cuvillier. a Tammany Hall Democrat, who asks the Governor "to advise 'the Democratic members of the Legislature to abide by the majority rule." Assemblyman Cuvillier called on the yesterday afternoon in the interest of Mr.

Sheehan's candidacy and later wrote to him. Mr. Cuvillier quotes excerpts from messages to the Legislature referring to the election of United States Senators by Governors De Witt Clinton, William L. Marcy, Silas Wright and John T. Hoffman.

None of the governors from whose messages, Cuvillier quotes expressed a preference for any particular candidate. Governor Dix. declined to comment on the Cuvillier letter. It was stated at the Executive Chamber that when the Governor had anything to say on the Senatorial situation it would be in writing. OBITUARY Dominico Belsito.

Dominico Belsito, a collector for the Kips Bay Brewing Company, died yesterday of pneumonia at his home, 2 Union place. He was born in Italy fifty years ago, and had lived in America more than thirty years. Annie Whitley. Annie, widow of Robert Whitley, died yesterday of apoplexy at her home, 55 St. Mark's place.

She was born in Irvinstown, County, Fermanagh, Ireland, sixtythree Peter J. McGrath. Peter J. McGrath, a horseshoer of 43 Henry street, died there yesterday. He the son of Catherine and the late Peter McGrath, and was a member of the Church of the Assumption, where a requiem mass will be held Monday morning at 10 o'clock.

Catherine Ferrie. Catherine Ferrie, a native of St. John, New Brunswick, died of pneumonia at the Long Island College Hospital yesterday. Funeral services will take place at the home of her son, Francis 437 Fortyeighth street, Sunday afternoon 4 o'clock. Mildred W.

Moreland. Mildred widow of Alexander Moreland, died to-day at the home of her daughter, 186 Quincy street, in her eighty-third year. She was a former resident Central Kentucky, and the funeral services will take place at her home Saturday. The interment will be at Lexington, Ky. John F.

Thomas. John son of Mary L. and the late William M. Thomas, long with the New York Produce Exchange Bank, and a member of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, died Wednesday of heart street.

He leaves his mother, sister trouble at his home. 276 on Seventeenth and an aunt. William Hutchinson. William Hutchinson, at one time an operator in the British Post Office Telegraphs, died Wednesday at his home, 351 Seventh avenue, of tuberculosis. He had been employed in the cable department of the New York Herald since coming to this country.

His widow, Julia Crollus, and four daughters, survive him. General Joseph J. Morrison. General Joseph J. Morrison, aged 80 years, and a veteran of the Civil War, for which he raised a regiment, and its colonel, died yesterday in this borough.

He was made a Brigadier of General for Volunteers for gallantry in the field. At the close of the war he went into the dry goods business. A daughter survives him. James Macray. James Macray died Wednesday at his home, 192 Ross street, aged 74 years.

He was born in Ireland, came to Brooklyn at the age of years, and had always resided in the Eastern District. He was a charter member of the Exempt Firemen's Association of the Eastern District. He leaves a widow. Elizabeth; one daughter, Anna; two sons, Churchill C. and Abraham and had been retired from business for four years.

He was a member of Greenwood Lodge, F. and A. M. Funeral services Friday. evening at 8:30 o'clock at his late residence.

The Rev. U. G. Warren of the United Congregational Church will officiate. William Selby.

William Selby, a retired provision dealer of Newark, N. where he had lived for sixty-six years, died at his home, 482 Mount Prospect avenue, yesterday. He was born in Bury, Lancashire, England, eighty-six years ago, and started in business as a pork packer in Newark in 1849, later becoming a wholesaler. He was a member of the New York Produce Exchange, an active member of the Newark Board of Trade of founders of Emmanuel Reformed Episcopal Church, Newark. James O'Brien.

James O'Brien died yesterday, aged 53 years, after a brief illness of pneumonia, at his home, 201 Baltic street. a He was an born in Quebec, Canada, and had been a contractor and dock builder around harbor of New York for the past thirty years. He has been a member of St. Peter's Catholic Church for the past thirty years is survived by his widow, Catharine; three sons, Harry, John and James, and a daughter, Rose. A solemn requiem mass will be offered at St.

Peter's Church, Hicks and Warren streets, at 10 A.M.. Saturday. William McKissack Chapman. William McKissack Chapman died yesterday of neuritis at his residence, 51 Herkimer street, after a three weeks illness. For the past twenty years he had been a manager of department for the Interborough Railroad Company, and before that time had been engaged in the suga: refining business.

He was a lifelong Republican and in his younger days was very prominent in abolition movements. He was born at Flemington, N. 73 years ago, the son of John and Eliza McKissack Chapman, and for thirty years had made his home in the Bedford district. He was a member of the Invincible Club. Surviving him are his widow, Kate a daughter, Kate and two sons, Edward C.

and Livingston. John Francis McCauley. John Francis McCauley, a lifelong resident of Brooklyn and a member of the Holy Rosary Church, died Wednesday at his home, 76 Sumpter street, from tuberculosis, after a lingering illness. He was born in the Seventh Ward, March 4. 1885, the son of John F.

and Mary F. McCauley. He leaves two sisters. Mrs. William Clark and Mrs.

John Hall, and a brother, James J. McCauley. Mary Ackerly. Mary Dalziel, widow of Ernest Burnell Ackerly, a. member of Fern Lodge, K.

and L. of died of pneumonia Wednesday, at her residence, 782 Franklin avenue, efter an illness of ten days. She was born at Valley Stream, L. November 17, 1847. the daughter of James and Sophia Dalziel.

She is survived by her son Paul and two daughters, Mrs. George Hall Story and Edith M. The interment at Fosters Meadows, L. I. PROTEST ON MAIL DELIVERY.

Levi P. Morton Club Against Any Curtailment of the Postal Service in Brooklyn. The Levi P. Morton Club, at a meeting held last night in the clubhouse, Stuyvesant avenue and Decatur street, passed resolutions protesting againet any reduction in the number of mail dellyeries. This action was taken after Harry Jones, a member, had stated that he had received information from a very authentic source that the postal authorities were planning to reduce the number of mail deliveries from five to three a day throughout the country.

Mr. Jones also stated that he had been informed that plans were being made to put the new rule into force after Congress had adjourned, SO that the Congressmen would not be annoyed by protests from their constituents. Mr. Jones. said the new order would mean the wholesale discharge of carriers, and.

furthermore, it would be unfair to the citizens a8 well. He condemned some of the new rules in the Post Office Department and declared that whereas government employes were supposed to work only eight hours, letter carriers worked eight, ten and even twenty-four hours a day. Postmaster General Hitchcock, the speaker said, had returned to the Government $1,750,000, stating he did not require this sum, and he had recently discharged over 1,000 postal railway employes. It was time, the speaker said, for the public in general to make strong protests against such methods, to show they were not numbskulls, and a good start would be made by the club passing a resolution protesting against any reduction of mail deliveries. Mr.

Jones then offered such a resolution and it was unanimously passed. (Special to The Eagle.) Eagle Bureau, Washington, D. March 3-It WaG stated at the Post Office Department this that no action in the near fuafternoon ture is contemplated by Postmaster eral Hitchcock looking to the reduction of the mail deliveries in Brooklyn, and a consequent discharge of many of the carriers. Inspectors of the department are now making an investigation of the Brooklyn office, and it is not likely that Mr. Hitchcock will take any steps to improve the service in Brooklyn until after the report of the inspectors has been received and given consideration by the Washington authorities.

There have been rumors of changes at the Brooklyn office for some time, but no authority be can given for them. 608 Fourteenth Street. YOUNG ITALIAN MURDERED. Assailants Escaped During Excitement-Men Were Strangers, It Is Claimed. One man was killed and two persons were brutally beaten by three unknown men last night.

The murderers escaped during the excitement and panic which followed. Gaspero Messina, his wife and her brother, Mona Navarro, live at 376 Bond street. They had just finished their supper when they noticed the hall door bulge in the center, as though a great weight was pressing against it. There had been no knock. The inmates thought that burglars were trying to force an entrance.

Presently Navarro flung the door wide open. Three men tumbled into the room, and when they picked themselves up they inquired in an angry tone for a former tenant. Navarro didn't know, and told them so, but they became more angry. A quarrel followed, during which Navarro was shot. He died in the Long Island Hospital at 3 o'clock this morning.

Detective Louis Ross of the Italian squad interviewed the wounded man. Navarro said the three men were strangers and he had never seen them before. CREAM OATMEAL HAVE IT TO-MORROW MORNING 5500 PRIZE IS OFFERED FOR PATRIOTIC POEMS Charles M. Higgins Wants Battle of Brooklyn Immortalized in Verse. IT WILL HELP "BOOST CLUB." The Subject Is Inspiring, as the Donor Proves in Letter Recalling History of Fight.

Following close upon the inauguration by The Eagle of the Historical Story Contest for readers of The Junior Eagle, comes an offer to-day by Charles M. Higgins, of 271 Ninth street, Brooklyn, of $500 in two prizes for the best and second best poems, to be entitled," "The Battle of Brooklyn." Mr. Higgins calls attention in his letter to the Boost Brooklyn Club, to the fact that on August 27, 1776, in Brooklyn, the American soldiers first met the soldiers of Great Britain 11 open battle, who, three times the strength of General Washington's force, intended to crush our Independence at its very birth. To commemorate the devotion, the patriotism and the success with which the little American army held back and outwitted the British on that occasion, is the purpose of Mr. Higgins' generous offer.

This large prize offer is open to any citizen of Brooklyn, New York or of the United States, and will undoubtedly be an incentive to the best efforts of our best historical verse writers. Mr. Higgins' offer now gives to older people the encouragement to study and familiarize themselves with patriotic history of Brooklyn, that the boys and girls of the borough have in the Historical Story Contest conducted by The Junior Eagle. Without doubt, both contests will foster and develop Brooklyn's patriotic as well as her Booster spirit. Mr.

Higgins' Prize-Offer Letter. To the Press and People of Brookiyn and New York, to the "Boost Brooklyn Club." and to all other "Boosters" of Brooklyn. I have been trying for the past year and longer to draw public attention to one great fact which distinguishes Brooklyn pre-eminently beyond any other place in the whole United States, and that is the fact, which seems utterly unknown to the great mass of our people, that we have within the heart of our old Brooklyn the greatest historical and patriotic shrine that exists anywhere in this country, and to which our whole country owes the greatest debt. of National reverence. For here, indeed, was fought our first great battle as a nationthe first after the Declaration of Independence! Here our American soldiers first met the soldiers of Great Britain face to face in actual line of battle in the open fleld.

Here on August 27, 1776, the greatest British military and naval force that was ever assembled in any battle of the Revolution was thrown against our little American Army, third the strength of the British, in a grand effort to crush out our Independence and our National life at its very birth; and here the great Washington and his devoted and patriot soldiers held back this overpowering British force along the line of our little Gowanus Creek and valley until our great strategist, Washington, completed behind the screen of the Brooklyn fortifcations one of the most masterly retreats in military history, and without the least knowledge of the enemy withdrew his whole army, bag and baggage, to safety on the mainland. thus defeating the purpose of this great British force and saving our young Nation at its very ling. It there is any battle of greater significance and of greater importance in its outcome, and more critical in our national life, that has been fought at any other place or time in our history, I would like to have some one point out that other battle if he can. And if there is any greater patriotic or historic shrine anywhere in our land, more important or sacred to national sentiment, than our unmarked and unmonumented shrine in our old Gowanus Valley in the center of our old Brooklyn, I would like to have some one tell us where that greater shrine is. It is time, therefore, men and women of Brooklyn and New York, that you aroused yourselves to a full appreciation of your great heritages from the past and your great opportunities of the future and therefore now propose these two "slogans" for Brooklyn.

-In the Past--The Nation's First Battleground: The scene of our greatest battle where the life of the national was saved at its verv birth. Brooklyn--In the Present and the Future--The greatest Borough in the Greatest City in the World! Men and women of Brooklyn! We are indeed citizens of no mean city, historically, actually and prophetically, and it is time that we aroused ourselves to the due appreciation of these facts, and that our pride and our will were exerted in acts and efforts which these facts suggest and demand for each one of us. As a duty to our past and present, what therefore are you going to do to reserve and monument the place of our greatest historic and patriotic shrine, which, much to our disgrace, is now practically without a mark, monument or token to indicate to all our people its great national significance and sacredness? As a duty to the present and future, what are you going to do to advance Brooklyn's progress and welfare on general lines of public beterment? As a contribution to one phase of our duties and to help to arouse the spirit of Brooklyn generally on the lines indicated, I now offer a prize of five hundred ($500) dollars for the best original poem on "The Battle of Brooklyn," which saved our national life at its birth, but which, strange to say, is yet unsung. Three hundred dollars of this sum is to be awarded for the first best poem, 'and two hundred dollars for the second best. The authors are to be allowed to retain full copyright in their poems, and the committee of selection and award is to be appointed by the editors of the daily newspapers of Brooklyn.

Any citizen of Brooklyn, or New York, or of the United States, is to be eligible for these prizes. As soon as the committee is appointed I will 1 hand them the check for these prizes. This open letter has been sent to all the daily newspapers of Brooklyn and Manhattan. Respectfully submitted for the honor of Brooklyn. CHARLES M.

HIGGINS. No. 271 Ninth street, Brooklyn, March 2, 1911. CONFERENCE ON RATE RULING Eastern Railroad Presidents to See Interstate Commis. sion.

Washington, March 3-The recent freight rate decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission will be the subject of a conference here Monday, between the Eastern railroad presidents and the members of the commission. President William C. Brown, of the New York Central, to-day arranged by telephone with Commissioner Lane for the meeting. THREE KILLED BY EXPLOSION. Niagara Falls, March 3-A boiler exploded in the plant of the Ontario Power Company here this morning, killing three men, fatally injuring another and more or less seriously injuring six to ten others.

The dead are: John Hendershot, Henry Owens, Frank Odia. Robert Moran was so badly scalded that he will die. ROBBED AND BEATEN AS HE LAY SLEEPING Bold Burglary Committed 20 Feet of Williamsburg Bridge Police Station. ELDERLY MAN THUGS' VICTIM. Stole His $60 and Beat Him Over Head With Billiard Cues and a Jimmy.

The boldest of the many burglaries and hold-upg that have taken place in the Eastern District during the past month, occured early to-day, when John Bauman, 60 years old, who conducts a pool parlor at 197 Broadway, was brutally assaulted and robbed by two men. So fearless were the intruders that they did not hesitate to force their way into Bauman's establishment, although it is located only two doors away from the Williamsburg Bridge police station. A After beating their victim and robbing him, the crooks got away without being detected. Just before noon to-day, Detectives Weyman, Christie and Beehan, of the Bedford avenue station, arrested John Fraser, 30 years old, of 26 Cooper street, and Edward Tinna, 21, of 79 South Sixth street, as the assailants of Bauman. The clew upon which the men were caught was furnished by Bauman, who remembered that when his assailants pounced upon him, one of them said to the other: "Bang him over the head with a cue, Tinna." The mentioning of the name Tinna was told to the police and upon that information they arrested Tinna and he confessed.

Then he told them of Fraser's implication In the crime and where he might be found. According to the police Fraser served a term in the House of Refuge in 1896. tor stealing lead pipe and Tinna 18 now out on suspended sentence for receiving stolen goods. The police also think that they can connect these men with the Dumerous robberies and hoidups which have been terrorizing the people of the Eastern District for some time. Business was good last night and it was after midnight before Bauman closed up.

After cleaning the place, be went to sleep on a folding couch in a rear room, shut off from the view of the street by curtains. He had taken in 860 during the day, and this he placed under his pillow. he was awakened when 1 he on the door. He sat bed and lisheard someone tampering with the lock tened, but the noise ceased. Believing everything was safe, he agaln prepared for sleep.

Not more than five minutes elapsed, when he felt someone running his hands under the mattress of the couch. When he tried to jump up, 8 second party grabbed him by the throat and then heavy blows were struck upon his head with a pool cue. Knocked Unconscious by Blow From a Jimmy. Bauman fought fiercely to release himself, but an iron instrument, thought to be A jimmy, was brought. down on his head with force.

This rendered him unconscious. When he came to, the intruders were gone and a strong wind was felt, the door to the street having been left open. The victim was weak and dragged along the floor on his hands and knees. Reaching the threshold of the store he faintly cried for help. Although the bridge station 1s' only twenty feet away, the man was not discovered until Policeman Jesse Beddell of the Bedford avenue station passed the door some twenty minutes later.

The man related his case and Dr. Goldstein was hurriedly summoned from the Willlamsburg Hospital to dress lacerations of the scalp, and cut about the face. The crooks had managed to locate the $60 that Bauman had placed under the pillow and this was gone. It Was also noticed that the light that was left burning in the front of the store had been extinguished, and several pool cues were found near the couch. 00000000000 THE REALTY MARKETS 80000 0600 0000 0000 0000000008 To Build in Flushing.

The Colden Improvement Company of New York City has taken out permits for the erection of ten -a-halt story frame dwellings, to be erected in Thirteenth street, south Mitchell avenue, Flushing, at a cost of $50,000. Sale in Whitestone. James R. Marston has sold to Michael Rooney a parcel 50 by 150 on the south side of Twentieth street, 114 feet east of Fifth avenue, Whitestone. Sold at Arverne.

The sale has been made by the H. Nathons Company for William Scheer of 5 North Cedar avenue, Arverne, L. to V. H. Mummy, for year-round occupancy.

Edgemere Lots Sold. The Lewis H. May Company has sold for B. J. Ludwig a plot of seven lots on the west side of Sea View avenue, Edgemere, L.

to L. Construetion Company for improvement. Auction Sales To-day at the Real Estate Exchange. BY WILLIAM P. RAE.

Pacific st, 9 cor Troy av, 100x107.2. Win Thomag agst George Brunner et al: Israel Perskin, att'y, 189 Montague st; Thos Troy, ref. Sale adjourned to March 10. 84th st, 8 9, 144 ft 10th av. 32x100; 84th st, 8, 176 ft 10th av, 32x100.

Stern as exr and agst Domus Construction Co et al; McLaughlin Stern, att'ye, 15 William st, Manhattan; Edwin Snedeker, ref. Sale adjourned to March 10. Beadle st, 120 ft Morgan av, 20x100. Lotus Realty Co agat Camden Construction Co et, al; Ino Winans, 186 Remsen at; Sami Maires, ref. Sold to Mazarin Land and Development Co for $500.

BY WILLIAM H. SMITH. 84th st, 9 8, 208 ft 10th av, 32x100. Sol Sulzberger agst Domus Construction Co et al; Myron Sulzberger, att'y, 38 Park row. Manhattan: Patrick Quinn, sheriff.

Sold to Herald Construction Co for $350 over mortgage of $3,500. Lenox rd, 9, 39.11 46th st, 20x100. Louis TI Crainer et al agst Miranda Edwards et al: action No Harry David, att'y, 383 Jay st: Lack, ref. Sold to Hopkins Security Co for $3,000. Lenox rd, 8, 59.11 46th st, 20x100.

Louis Cramer et al agst Miranda Edwards et al; action No Harry David, att'y, 383 Jay st; Lack, ref. Sold to Hopkins Security Co for $3,000. Lexington av, 9 9, 300 ft Sumner av. 40x100. Jno Herberger agst Anna Koepke et al; Garrison, att'y, 49 Court st; Fred Ahern, ref.

Sold to the plaintiff for $10.000. Clarkson st, 8, 1200 ft Flatbush av, 25x200. John Lind agst Walter Johnson et al; Chas A Ogren, att'y, 132 Nassau st, Manhattana; Edw Moran, ref. Sold to the plaintiff for $2,575 over mortgage of $2,600. BY A.

R. LEE. Beadle st, 280 ft Morgan av. 20x100. Lotus Realty Co agst Meisel Reality Co et al; Jno Winans, att'y.

186 Remsen st; Frederick Lyke, ref. Sold to Mazarin Land and Development Co for $500. Other Real Estate News. For other real estate news, see Picture Section. THE COURTS.

COURT. CRIMINAL CALENDAR. March 6, Part I. Fawcett, J. For Tinero, Natale Tizzerione, Ligore, Joseph Terro, kidnapping.

II. Dike, Corrado, Ernest burglary, third degree; John Stephen Sweeney, burglary, third George Scherman. Frederick Schpel- A STORY OF OLD BROOKLYN Miss Fraser's Historical Tale to Appear in The Eagle. "Crow-Step," by Author of "The Stone House at Gowanus," Based on Actual Episode, The pretty story "Crow Step," by Miss Georgia Fraser, the serial publication of which begins in The Eagle next Monday, IS a tale of old Brooklyn- the Brooklyn of the days immediately succeeding the Revolutionary War. The publishers of the book, Walter Kinter, because of the romance's popularity, have been compelled to issue A second edition of it.

The germ of the story is an absolutely true episode in Miss Georgia Fraser. the early life of the community. Fraser found it in the old "Manual of the Common Council of the City of Brooklyn," for 1867, although the events themselves had happened many years before that particular manual WAs published. It was while she was searching through old historical records that would be useful to her in the preparation of her other book. "The Stone House at which also deals with Brooklyn, that she found the document which forms the basis of "Crow Step." The publication of "Crow Step," by The Eagle, is directly in line with this paper's movement to awaken interest in the history of Brooklyn, and of Long Island, through The Junior Eagle Historical Prize Competition, and through The Junior Eagle History Club.

There are dozens of places on Long Island and Brooklyn where historical episodes, important "not only to the future of this community, but to the country in general as well, took place. "Crow Step." contains A plot of absorbing interest, worked out. with the skill of a master of the art of narrative, and is interesting readin- from the frat chapter to the last. STEAMER DISABLED. Yokohama, Japan, March 3-The steamer Minnesota of the Great Northern Steamship Line, which recently sailed from Hongkong and Yokohama for Seattle, is reported returning to this port as a result of a mishap to her machinery.

MISCELLANEOUS. FrancoAmerican BROTHS for INVALIDS We have a booklet on this subject worth reading WRITE FOR IT BROTH: Rand Yersay FOR. GROCERS GROCERY DRIVERS ATTACKED John Ryan Struck on the Head With a Blackjack. Truck Held Up by Three Men, Who Attempted to Cut Off Harness, and Wounded a Horse. Within half an hour this morning two James Butler Company of 390 Washinggrocery delivery wagons owned by, the ton street, Manhattan, were attacked by what is believed to have been a number of striking drivers from other concerns.

The Aret trouble occurred at Sixty-fifth street and Amsterdam avenue, when man leaped on a wagon driven by John Ryan of 304 East One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street, struck him over the head with a blackjack and then ran Away Just as Patrolman O'Donnell of the West Sixty -eighth street station appeared in sight. Ryan was treated by Dr. Botsford of the Presbyterian Hospital, and went home. He had a severe laceration over the right eye. Thirty minutes after this attack was reported to the police, three men leaped at the Butler truck driven by Dante! McCarthy of 206 East Sixty -seventh street, while he wag driving along at Tenth avenue and Fifty-third street, Manhattan.

They seized hold of tha horses and tried to tear off the harness. One man held a knife and in attempting to cut the harness inflicted a wound on one of the horses. Before the animals wero freed Patrolman Mullen of the West Forty-seventh street station, standing on the corner. came on the run and placed the men under arrest on a charge of malleious mischief. The men gave their names as Michaai Casher of 459 Eleventh avenue, William O'Brien of 436 West Forty-ninth street and Thomas Cavanagh of 510 West Fiftyninth street.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was notified of the slashing of the horse. At the offices of the Butier Company it was stated that their drivers are not out on strike and are not connected with the strike of teamsters, which is Alfecting some of the other grocery cerns. MRS. REID ADDS TO GIFT. San Mateo, March 3-Mrs.

Whited law Reid, wife of the American dor to Great Britain. yesterday made an additional gift of $60,000 to the Red Cross Gulld Hospital, which she established here as a memorial to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. O.

Mills. The money is to' be used in the construction of additions to the hospital buildings. First in Automobile During February and the time of the local automobile show, The Brooklyn Eagle stood supreme in NEW YORK CITY in the amount of automobile advertising carried. Over 52,000 lines of this high-class business was crowded into its columns, or nearly 30,000 lines more than its nearest competitor. This fact means something, not only to the automobile business, but to other lines of trade as well.

It means that manufacturers and sellers of the most popular and expensive luxury of the present day, the motor car, knew that the best way to satisfactorily cover this fruitful field of Brooklyn, reaching the people who have the power to buy, was through the columns of The Brooklyn Eagle. In the total amount of advertising carried during February, The Eagle, as usual, carried more than any other paper in New York City, with but two exceptions. COUNTY Monday, trial--Salvatore Gaetano Part Bendenetto, O' Brien, degree: dier,.