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nin for is THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, FRIDAY. JULY 10, 1914. AUTHORIZE $81,600 IMPROVEMENTS ALL OVER BROOKLYN Queens Gets Appropriation of $167,800 for Similar Purpose. MATHEWSON TWITS POUNDS.

Tilt Between Borough Presidents Marks Passage of Big Budget by Board of Estimate. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS AUTHORIZED TODAY BROOKLYN. Preliminary authorizations $64,300 Final authorizations 17,300 QUEENS. Preliminary authorizations. Final 85,500 The Board of Estimate, the meeting today, authorized public improvements, aggregating $81,600 in value for Brooklyn and $167,800 in value for Queens.

This was done after the Mayor and Controller, in the early part of the week, announced the curtailment of. all publio improvements for the balance of the year. After a lengthy discussion, a resolution was adopted outlining part of the policy which the Mayor and Controller Pendergast believe should be applied to the authorization of public improvements in the future. question of preparing a public improvement budget each year, which is to include the paving, regulating, grading, sewer and sidewalk improvements, regarded as the most urgent by the Borough Presidents, was laid over until the meeting of July 30. The idea did not appeal to some the borough executives, so the Mayor and the Controller agreed to withdraw it for the present.

President Pounds was twitted by Borough President Mathewson of the Bronx for supporting new policy of the majority members of the board. The Brooklyn chief executive promptly replied that, unlike Mr. Mathewson, he was not trying to renege on the policy which he had agreed to support at the private conference of the board. Policy Agreed Upon by Board of Estimate. This is the policy agreed upon by the board: "Resolved, That the total of final authorizations of such assessable improvements for the year 1914, and for any one succeeding year, until this resolution shall have been rescinded or amended, shall be $1,000,000 less than the aggregate of the assessments, including interest thereon, collected during the same year." These are the improvements in Brooklyn and Queens which the board agreed to approve today: Brooklyn- inary: Sewer in East Seventh street from Avenue to Avenue L.

Estimated cost, assessed valuation, $113,450. Sewer in Ninetieth street from Second avenue to Third avenue. Estimated cost, assessed valuation, $98,700. Sewer in Eleventh avenue from Seventieth street to Seventy-second street, from Tenth to Eleventh avenues. Estimated cost, assessed valuation, $116,600.

Paving Robinson street from Rogers avenue to New York avenue. Estimated, cost, assessed valuation, $214,600. Paving with asphalt Fiftieth street from Thirteenth avenue to Fourteenth avenue. Estimated cost, assessed valuation, $86,500. Paving with asphalt Seventieth street.

from Thirteenth avenue to Fifteenth avenue. Estimated cost, assessed valuation, $149,250. Paving with asphalt Sixty-seventh street from Fourteenth avenue to Fifteenth avenue. Estimated cost, assessed valuation, $63,750. Grading, curbing and flagging and paving with asphalt Avenue from Gravesend avenue to West street.

Estimated cost assessed valuation $58,600. Regulating. grading and paving with asphalt Fifteenth avenue, from Fortieth street to Forty-second street. Estimated cost assessed valuation, $91.300. Regulating and grading Clara street, Thirty-sixth street to West street.

Estimated cost assessed valuation $57,550. Regulating and grading Foster avenue, from Flatbush avenue to Nostrand avenue. Estimated cost assessed valuation, $394,100. Regulating and grading Roberge place, from West Third to West Fifth street. Estimated cost assessed valuation $38,600.

Total preliminary authorization, $64,300. Final Authorizations. Regulating and grading Roberge place from West Third street West Fifth street. Cost, $1,200. Estimated contract time, 30 days.

Paving with asphalt Fifty-seventh from Eighth avenue to Twelfth avenue. Cost, $14,900. Estimated contract time, 45 days. Regulating and grading Avenue from East Sixteenth street to East Seventeenth street. Cost, $700.

Estimated contract time, 20 days. Regulating and grading Seventieth street from Seventh avenue to Eighth avenue. Cost, $1,000. Estimated contract time, 20 days. Total final authorization, $17,300.

How Queens Will Spend Allotment of $167,800. Preliminary authorizations in Queens are: Sewers in Hancock street from Vernon ayenue to crown north of Pierce street; in Graham avenue, from Hancock street to the Boulevard; in Sanford street from Hancock street to the Boulevard. Estimated cost. assessed valuation, $204,210. Sewers in Birch street from Jamaica avenue to Hillside avenue.

Estimated cost, assessed valuation, $130,300. Sewers in Canal avenue, from Ridgewood avenue to Syosset street; in Syosset street from Canal avenue to Shaw avenue; in Shaw avenue from Syosset street to Jamaica avenue; in Union street from Yarmouth street to Snedeker avenue; in Snedeker avenue from Union street to Jamaica avenue; in Yarmouth street from Syosset street to Jamaica avenue and in Jamaica avenue from Terry street. to about 200 feet, east of the borough line. Estimated cost, assessed valuation, $4,862,202. Regulating and grading First street from Stryker avenue to Howell avenue.

Estimated cost, assessed valuation. $40.000. Grading Manly street from Hunters Poine avenue Thomson avenue, Estimated cost, assessed valuation, $120,000. Final Authorizations. Regulating and grading and paving with granite blocks Thomson avenue, from the viaduct to Van Dam street.

Estimated cost, $55,200. Assessed valuation, $500,000, Grading and curbing Liberty avenue, from Brooklyn Borough line to Ocean avenue. Estimated cost, $29,300. Regulating and grading Silver street, from Buchman avenue to Anthon. Estimated cost, $1,000.

Total cost final authorizations, $82,300. Mayor Says Depression Calls for Frugality, is a year of great depression, when all public improvements, of general and local character, ought to be contracted, just as business is contracted. It is a year when frugality ought to be conserved by the city in all directions. "Six million dollars in 1914 ought to take care of the reasonable and normal the city." Mitchel made this statement yesterday afternoon to an assemblage of taxpayers, who appeared before the Board of Estimate to argue against any curtailment in the authorization of public improvements during the remainder of 1914. The session of the board was marked, at times, with many acrimonious remarks between Controller Pendergast and some of the Borough Presidents.

The suggestion Was made several times during the afternoon by the Mayor, that it might be well to include a Committee on Public Improvements. among the standing committees of the board, the duty of which would be to investigate the necessity of every local improvement authorized by the aldermanic local boards in each borough. He i believed that action on all public improvement matters should be deferred until the meeting of July 30. If the city continued with its present policy of authorizing public improvements, indiscriminately, the Mayor remarked, it would only be a question of a short time when the debt limit would a stop to the further authorization of public improvements for the next three years Controller Prendergast joined in to say that the proposed policy of limiting further authorizations of public improvements to the amount paid in to the city this year for improvements already completed, would not prove an undue hardship. "The has received in the collection of assessments $7,230,000 in the last six months," continued the troller.

Mr. Prendergast, at this juncture, quoted figures to show we that the collections of assessments in Queens have been the lowest of all the boroughs. Mayor Mitchel then spoke of the plan which had been suggested to authorize future public improvements in each borough in proportion to the amounts paid in by the taxpayers for assessments already authorized and completed. President Connolly objected to this arrangement. He said that such a plan would preclude the authorization of the boulevard, which has been proposed to connect Highland Park with Forest Park.

The outlet to the Flushing sewer, which will cost $700,000, was another one of the improvements, Mr. Connolly said, would be indefnitely delayed. "And there is Corona, with a population of 30,000 people," he continued, "and not a single mile of sewer laid. Mr. Pendergast remarked that he proposed to hold a tax sale in Queens in the near future and this might prove an incentive to the people over there to pay what they owed the city.

Sees Queens Ignored by Builders of Future Industries. Milton Lissberger, a manufacturer, and chairman of the Queens Board of Trade, warned the board that any curtailment of improvements over there might drive away many manufacturers, who were contemplating the establishment of their factories in that borough. The Mayor then informed Mr. Lissberger that he was badly mistaken in the construing of the attitude of the Board of Estimate. "This board," he said, "is not trying to place restrictive measures around the development of any business.

That is not its policy." It was at this point that the Mayor suggested the plan of having the board appoint a Public Improvement Committee, to receive and report on all resolutions passed by the local improvement boards in the five boroughs. The Corporate Stock Committee of the board now passes upon all requests for the issue of bonds for various municipal purposes. "With a public improvement budget," said the Mayor, can reasonably be sure of what we can afford to spend each year." Henry C. Atwater of Woodhaven humorously remarked that if Queens failed to receive the authorization of public improvements this year, it would file a petition for divorce on the ground of non-support. By this time, it was after 5 o'clock, and the Mayor suggested to put all the public improvement matters on the calendar off until this morning, when the board will reconvene in a special session.

A letter from John F. Geis, secretary of the Brooklyn League, received by the members of the Board of Estimate this afternoon protesting against the adoption of the plan submitted by Controller Pendergast for the street improvement fund. Mr. Geis stated that while the suggestion whereby collections for street improvement purposes should exceed authorization by $1,000,000 any, one year appeared nevertheless the interests of thousands of property owners who anticipated improvements in their purchases should be considered. LAST RITES FOR KENNEY.

Battalion Chief Laid Away in Calvary With Honors. The funeral service of former Battalion Chief Thomas A. Kenny of 90 South Tenth street, was held today, in the Church of the Epiphany. It was one of the largest funerals in the Eastern District in recent years. Many prominent in the political life of the Eastern District, and several city officials including Fire Commissioner Adamson attended.

Deputy Fire Chief Norton led the cortege from the home of the deceased to the church. The pall bearers were: Senator Tom Foley, Fire Chief Kenlon, John F. Ahearn, William H. Looney, Detective William J. Burns and James Brogan.

The Rev. Edward A. Duffy, rector of the Church of the Epiphany delivered a glowing eulogy of the departed Chief. He also warmly praised the spirit of devotion to duty that characterizes the Fire Department. The interment was made in Calvary cemetery.

APPRAISALS. GEORGE D. BOYD left an estate of $16,115.36, of which his two sons, George and Mathew Boyd, receive $2,000 each; and the remainder passes to his widow, Emma L. Boyd. ELLEN BLOCK, died November 5, 1913, left an estate of $4,455, which passes to her children and grandchildren.

JOHN McLAUGHLIN, died February 7, 1913, left an estate of $10,334.84, which passes to his widow and children. ANNIE SWEENEY, died May 5, 1914. left an estate of $4,575.43, which passes to her children and grandchildren. AUGUSTA F. RECKNAGEL, died September 26, 1913, left an estate of $8,938.24, which passes to her daughters, Anna Viola and Frieda Marie Recknagel.

PATRICK J. BOYLE, died March 14, 1914, left an estate of $3,128.32, which passes to his widow, Eva M. Boyle. MARY E. DUNNE, died May 19, 1913, left an estate of $2,511.38, which passes to her son, Joseph J.

Dunne. PIANO SLIPS; MAN INJURED. A piano which was being moved into the house at 1858 Sixty-seventh street, last night, by Edward Oliver, 18 years old, of 261 Webster avenue, with four other men, slipped and fell upon Oliver, causing him internal injuries. He was removed to the Coney Island Hospital by Ainbulance Surgeon Von Deylon. MISS WATSON WEDS AND TELLS LATER Flatbush Girl, Now Mrs.

Arthur L. Coleman, Wires Father the News. HE TELEGRAPHS HIS BLESSING. Bride and Bridegroom, Schoolmates at Erasmus, Kept Even Their Engagement a Secret. "Hello! Is this Christabel? Won't you please hurry over here and help Arthur and me get married? Don't tell 1 papa.

Brings Gladys as one of the witnesses. And hurry up." In response this appeal, Miss Christabel Watson, accompanied by her friend, Miss Gladys Carrington, hurried over to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, on St. Paul's place, where her sister, Miss Maurine Watson, the 21-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Edward H. Watson of 2619 Bedford avenue, was waiting to be married to Arthur L. MISS MAURINE WATSON Coleman, 22 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Coleman of 178 Martense street, by the Rev.

Dr. T. G. Jackson. The couple are very prominent with the younger people in Flatbush and have known each other for over five years, since their days in Erasmus Hall.

The parents of the newly married couple were unaware of the ceremony, even the engagement having been kept secret from both families. Soon after the trick had been turned the bride left with Mr. Watson, who is a traveling man, for a honeymoon trip. The father of the bride, a newspaper proprietor in Manhattan, was at first disconcerted when he received a telegram from Clearfield, breaking the news to him. When he recovered from the shock he became reconciled and wired the young couple his paternal blessing.

It is expected that they will make their home in Flatbush upon their return. STATE TO FIGHT "HOPPERS" Heavy Damage Result of Fulton County Grasshopper Plague. Gloversville, N. July 10-Representatives of the State Department of Agriculture and Professor Glenn W. Herrick of the University of Cornell, Department of Entomology, are to arrive in this city late today to investigate the presence of thousands of grasshoppers which are destroying crops in Fulton County.

They will be met by Professor Charles P. Alexander of this city, a Cornell entomologist, and J. P. Bissell, a farmer, who is organizing the farmers for a concerted attack on the pest. Mr.

Bissell said today that the grasshoppers were doing much more damage than had been reported. He will invite the State Department ficials to take an automobile ride through fields where he says a million of insects can be seen an acre of land. Thousands of grasshoppers are still to be seen on the main streets of this city. SOUTHERLAND RETIRES. Rose From Enlisted Man to Rear Admiral in Forty-six Years.

Washington, July 10-One of the very few men who rose to the highest rank in the navy, from his position as an enlisted man, Rear Admiral William H. H. Southerland, was placed upon the retired list today by reason of having reached the statutory age of 62 years. He was born in New York and appointed as a naval apprentice in 1868, and because of peculiar aptitude and excellent service was transferred to the Nava Academy, from which he graduated with honors. During Theodore Roosvelt's incumbency as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Southerland was his naval aid.

POLICY PLAYERS GUILTY. Six, With Slips in Possession, to Be Sentenced Monday. Six policy players were arraigned before Judge Niemann, in Part 11I of the County Court today and all pleaded guilty to having policy slips in their possession, a misdemeanor. They were all remanded for sentence Monday. The six were John Hardy, 51 years old, of 48 Withers land street; John Cook.

40, 152 street; John Loughlin, 74, of 293,04 Conselyea street; Francisco Lupo, 80. of 410 South Fourth street; Louis Lave, 21, of 210 North Eighth street. and Sylvester Emperato, 50, of 210 North Sixth street. Bruno Attanat of 53 North Sixth street pleaded guilty to carrying a dangerous weapon as a misdemeanor, and Charles Carroll, 26, of 460 Adelphi street, who was indicted for burglary, grand larceny, second degree, and receiving stolen goods, pleaded guilty to the receiving stolen goods charge. Carroll has served one term burglary.

Both were remanded for sentence on Monday. TO PUNISH FIREMEN ONLY New System Will Protect Their Families When Fined. After a careful study of the system of Aning firemen for infraction of the rules of the Fire Department which has been in vogue for years, Commissioner. Adamson announced today that he had adopted a new plan which would benefit the families of the fireinstead of harming them, as has been the case in the past, "The system of fining in the Fire Department has unsatisfactory," said the commissioner. "When firemen are brought up on charges and fined it has worked hardship on their families.

"Under my new plan instead of Aning 8 fireman in money I will deprive him of his day off until the amount of the fine is paid." NEW HAVEN DOWN TO 59 1-8. Ontario and Western Also at Lowest Figure Today. New Haven stocks registered a new low price today, falling to soon after the opening of the market. New York, Ontario and Western, controlled by the New Haven, also sold at its lowest price. Several of the Gould issues established new low records, as did also Chesapeake and Ohio.

New Haven later fell to but regained part of its loss. Other stocks of the better class made temporary recovery, but weakness developed in unexpected places, New York Central being the latest stock to fall, its loss soon extending to two points. New Haven was subjected to another selling attack at midday, the stock falling to an overnight loss of practically three points. BASEBALL REPARATION GAME. Benefit for Man Whose Eyes Were Injured by Batted Ball.

Reparation for an injury to Harry Gordon of 2318 Cornelia street, a spectator at a baseball game, at which he was hit by a batted ball is to be made tomorrow in unusual fashion by the Farmers Baseball Club of Ridgewood and the Newark Stars. As a baseball game injured Gordon, the two teams will play A game for his benefit, and all the proceeds will be used to establish him in business. Gordon's eyeglasses were smashed into his eyes by a ball at a game between the two teams now helping him on June 21. Gordon lost the use of his right eye, and the left was so affected that he cannot return to his trade as a printer. It is hoped to realize enough at the contest, to' be held at 3:30 o'clork tomorrow afternoon at the Farmers Oval, on Fresh Pond road, Ridgewood, to set Gordon up as a newsdealer.

He has a wife and two small children. HOXSEY ADVISES T. R. Brooklyn Man Tells Colonel Not to Run for Governor. (Special to The Eagle.) Oyster Bay, July 10-Colonel Roosevelt has received a long letter from T.

Douglass Hoxsey, of Brooklyn, in which the Rough Rider is advised not to enter the race for the Governorship of New York. Hoxsey is said to be a Republican of prominence and an influential member old Union League Club. He frankly tells Colonel Roosevelt he would make a big mistake to accept the Gubernatorial nomination. Hoxsey did not say what he thought Roosevelt ought to do about the Presidency. VERA CRUZ SICK REPORT.

Slight Increase Shown-Little Intes- tinal Trouble-No More Malaria. Washington, July 10-The sick report from Vera Cruz to the War Department for the week ending June 8 shows a slight increase in the rate over the preceding week. The rate of 2.39 for army and marines of the preceding week increased to 2.47. Intestinal trouble is steadily decreasing, however, and no further cases of malaria have developed. BOY VICTIM STILL ALIVE.

The boy who was accidentally shot yesterday, by a playmate, at the home of William F. Burroughs, 6 Janet place, Flushing, was still alive, but his condition is too serious to allow hope for I his recovery. BELLE STORY "CHICK" SALE ONE BIG RIOT OF MIRTH KALMAR ALAN BROOKS BROWN COMPANY SILVIA LOYAL and Her PIERROT HARRIET and BESSIE REMPEL and OTHERS 1000 SEATS DAILY MATINEES 25c; CHILDREN, 10c BRIGHTON BEACH MUSIC HALL NEXT -BERT CLARK MABEL HAMILTON Dance on the Beautiful Ballroom Stage ONCE and You'll TRY IT AGAIN. It's the Great Popular Innovation "ALWAYS THE SEASHORE'S BEST SHOW" BRAVE WOMAN SAVES TWO TOTS FROM FIRE Fights Her Way Through Smoke, Carrying Children to Safety. MAN BREAKS SKULL IN JUMP.

Two Spectacular Blazes in East New York Jeopardize Lives of Many. One man is dying, a policeman had his hands painfully burned, several persons were rescued in a thrilling manner and a score of other tenants had to flee to the street for their lives in two fires which occurred in East New York last night and early this morning. Both blazes started from unknown origin and Fire Marshal Thomas Brophy is making a thorough investigation to ascertain the cause of conflagrations. Tenants of the three brick apartment house Sackman street, who were sitting on front stoop about 10 o'clock last night, were thrown into a panic when smoke started to issue from the hallway. Parents of eighteen families who occupy the building rushed to their living rooms and carried their children to the street.

Mrs. Harry Cohen, who lives on the third floor, swooned upon reaching the top of the staircase and learning that her apartments were in flames. She had gone into the building to get her five-year-old daughter, Etta, and her son Morris, 2 year old. When Mrs. Cohen did not appear in a few minutes with the children her mother-inlaw, Mrs.

Belle Cohen, 54 years old, accompanied by Jacob Levinthal, who lives next door, rushed into building to see what the cause of the delay was. Blinded by the dense smoke in hallway, they groped their way to the third floor. Levinthal stumbled across the body of Mrs. Cohen and carried her to the street with much diffculty. Despite her age, Mrs.

Belle Cohen searched around her daughterin-law's apartment until she located the two children in the kitchen partly overcome by smoke. She nearly collapsed fighting her way to safety in the smoke. When she appeared on the street with the children, Mrs. Cohen was cheered by the other tenants. The two Cohen women and the children were re given stimulants and revived by neighbors.

When the firemen arrived they found the Cohen apartments a mass of flames. By fighting the blaze from the inside, front and rear of the dwelling the "smoke eaters" confined the flames to the second and third floors. After an hour of the hardest kind of work the firemen put the blaze out with a loss of $3,000 to the buildings and furniture of the occupants of the second and third floors. Starting in the hallway on the first floor of the three-story frame dwelling, at 401 Railroad avenue at 2 o'clock this morning, fire spread rapidly to the upper floors, cutting off all means of escape for the tenants. Fred Kroemer, owner of the building, who occupies the first floor, with his wife, Anna and two children, Gussie and Fritz, 18 and 16 years old respectively, got his family to safety by climbing through a rear window.

He aroused the other tenants by shouting at the top of his voice, that the premises was on Are. His screams attracted the attention of neighbors who rushed to the street in their night clothes. Men and women of the nearby dweilings seeing that the tenants of the first and second floors were imprisoned by the flames, joined hands and formed a human fire net. Mrs. Mary Sonksen, who occupied the top floor with her husband, John, jumped into the human net which held fast.

She received a shaking up but escaped injury. Just as his wife landed in the arms of the neighbors, Sonksen leaped from the window as the flames had crept up to where he was standing. His fall was partly broken by the neighbors, but he landed on his head on the ground with force and was rendered unconscious. He was removed in a serious condition with a fractured skull to the Bradford Street Hospital by Dr. Marney.

The injured man was later taken the Kings County, Hospital, dying. Just as he was about to slide down a clothes line which he had doubled up and tied to a window sill, the firemen arrived and prevented Adolph Kortecal. who lives on the second floor, from thus risking his life. The firemen carried Kortecal, his wife, Helen, and their two children, Otto, 6 years old, and Helen, 4 years old, down the ladder to the rear yard. They, together with the other tenants, were given shelter by the neighbors.

The firemen put the fire out after an hour's work with a loss of $4,000. THE REALTY MARKET. Auction Sales at the Real Estate Exchange. OFFICE OF WILLIAM H. SMITH.

12th av. 8 0 40.2 8 43d st, 20x100: Dora Morgan agst Flora Winter et al: Herbert Reeves, atty, 05 Liberty st, Manhattan; Abr Kesselman, ref. Sold to the plaintiff for $600 over a mortgage of $4,250. 12th av. 8, 20.2 43d st, 20x100: Aswald Gueth agst Flora Winter et al; Herbert Reves, atty, 55 Liberty st, Manhattan; Louis Jacobson, ref.

Sold to the plaintiff for $500 over a mortgage of $4,250. BY WILLIAM P. RAE. 74th st, 8 8, 46.6 7th a.V, 20x100; Fairview Home for Friendless Children agst Jno Sullivan Co et al: Harry Thompson, atty, 175 Remsen st; Dwight Rogers, ref. Adjourned to July 24.

5th av, 8, 44.7 73d st, 24x110.1; Isaac Heidelberg agst Pno Co et al: Harry Thompson, atty, 175 Remsen st; Wallace Foster, ref. Adjourned to July 24. 72d st, 394.6 6th av. 20x117.5; College Board of the Presbyterian Church in the of America agst Bridget Rice et al: Harry Thompson, aty, 175 Remsen st; Sami Silbiger, ref. Adjourned to July 24, 72d st, 5, 95:10 5th av.

20.6x98.10; Cayuga County Saves Bank agst Jno Sullivan Co et al; Harry Thompson, atty, 175 Remsen st; L. H. Lerner, ref. Adjourned to July 24. 73d st.

114.6 5th av. 20x100; Methodist Book Concern in the City of agst Margaret Sullivan et al; Harry Thompson, atty, 175 Remsen st: Chas Kunkel, ref. Adjourned to July 24. BY NATHANIEL SHUTER. Polhemus place, 150 ft Garfield pl, 18x 96; Blanche Cameron agat Jessie Price et al: Chas Wm Buckley, attys, 141 Broadway, Manhattan; Jacob Peyser, ref.

Sold to the plaintiff for $8,200. 20th st. 8 300 ft 3d av, 25x100; Mary Peters agat Jno McCann et al; Ralph Jacobs atty, 215 Montague st: Grover Moscowitz, ref. Sold to Samuels for $1,700. AGED WOMAN KILLED BY GAS.

Mrs. Kate Salluzi, 69 years old, of 765 East 114th street, Manhattan, was found dead in her bedroom, at the home of her granddaughter, Regina Lumpert, at 175 Bay Twenty-third street, this morning. The fact that the door and windows were stopped up showed that the case was not suicide. WILLS FILED TODAY RUDOLF SKOOG. died July 4, 1914, by will dated June 24, 1914, leaves $150 to his staterin-law, Hilma Skoog.

and divides the remainder of his estate, valued at $9.000, between his daughters, Rose Kamien and Elsa Sophie Skoog. His son-in-law. William A. Kamien, is made executor. REFEREES APPOINTED.

By Blackmar, In re Louisa Ryan, William A. Moore: Stainton VA. Jacob Kaiser Imp. Co. and others, Harry F.

Lawrence in place and instead of Agustus M. Price: In re Anastasia Curry, William D. Dickey, official referee: Rhead V8. Ewart, Leone J. Howell; Edele vs.

Beck, Frederick S. Fisher, HERRMANN FULL OF FIGHT. Willing to Arbitrate the Derrick Dispute, but Won't Back Down. Cincinnati, July have written President Thomas of the Chicago National League Club that I willing to the trade leave the controversy over Mollwitz and Williams either President Tener or Secretary Heydier of the National League, with the understanding that whatever decision they shall render will be said President August Herrmann of the Cincinnati Club here today. When questioned further probable mode of procedure that the case would likely take in the event that Mr.

Thomas would not consent an arrangement of this kind, Mr. Herrmann continued: "Then I shall request President Tener to take the matter before the board of directors of the league. There is no question in my mind about the deal being a valid one, and, unless I hear from Mr. Thomas I shall take the case up to the soon, league directors. I have notified President Tener of my offer to M.

Thomas, and likewise of my intentions should Mr. Thomas refuse." CLAIMS WIPE OUT John T. Huner's Property Will Not Be Taxed. Although John T. Huner, who died on December 24, 1912, left a gross estate of $115,399.63, the Transfer Tax Appraiser in his report filed today finds the debts and claims estate and the expenses of administration totaled up to $4,873.97 more than grOSS estate.

As a consequence, the State will collect no taxes on the estate. Mr. Huner's estate consisted of 318 real property, most of which consists of a one-third interest he had under the will of Frederick Huner in parcels of real estate in Manhattan. There was $36,081.63 personal property. of which $32,000 was the testator's interest in a match factory in Evergreen, L.

I. To offset these large sums, the appraiser reported debts of the widow's dower of advancements from the estate of Frderick Huner of $10,333.34, and administrator expenses of $5,000, and other expenses that brought the total claims against the estate up to $120,273.60. OBITUARY. General G. J.

Lydecker. General Garrett J. Lydecker, U. S. retired, died yesterday at his home in Detroit, in his 71st year.

After the Civil War he was in charge of river and harbor improvements and the construction of various fortifications. He was also at one time a professor of engineering at West Point. He was in charge of the great construction at the Falls of St. Mary's River. Mary E.

Hart Donlen. Mrs. Mary E. Hart Donlen, the wife of former Police Lieutenant James Donlen of the Fifth avenue precinct, died yesterday at her home, 329 Eightieth street, in her 65th year. The forty-fourth anniversary of her wedding was to have been celebrated on July 19.

She is survived by her husband and two children. A solemn requiem mass will be offered in the R. C. Church of Our Lady of Angels, tomorrow. Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.

THOMAS J. OWENS, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Owens of 1335 Seventy -first street, died Tuesday, in his twenty -second year.

He was a member or the Judge Fawcett Club. Funeral services were held today at the Church of Our Lady of Guadaloupe, with Interment in Calvary Cemetery. JAMES J. ESTERGUARD, A manufacturer of Manhattan, died yesterday at his I home, 658 Eastern Parkway. He is survived his wife and a son.

Funeral services will be held in the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, Rogers avenue and Carroll street. Interment will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, Flushing, I. MARY A.

MULLIGAN died at her home, 778 De Kalb avenue, after a brief Illness in her seventy -ninth year. She was a member of. St Ambrose R. C. Church, where a solemn requiem mass was offered today.

Interment will ba in Holy Cross Cemetery. JOSEPH SMYTH. A retired builder, died yesterday at his residence. 460 Macon street, in his 83d year. He was formerly president of the St.

Vincent de Paul Society. Deceased WAR A resident of this borough for thirty -three years and was active in politics. He was born in Dublin and came to America when seventeen years old. He is survived by A. son and A daughter.

Funeral services will be held in the Church of the Holy Rosary tomorrow, with interment in Holy Cross cemetery. MARGARET BERGEN HENDERSON, widow James A. Henderson, died yesterday at her home, 155 Saratoga avenue, after A. long illness, She was A member of the old Bergen family which settled in Flatlands two centurles ago and she was born on her father's farm, near Bergen Beach, 57 years ago. She is vived by two sons and five grandchildren.

THERESA F. MEYER of 268 Hemlock street died yesterday after a long illness, in her 54th year. She WAS unmarried. She 18 survived by two cousins, Mrs. Pauline Betz, with whom she made her home, and Miss Linda Stolte.

Interment will be tomorrow In Lutheran cemetery. CHARLES A. HAWKINS, for forty years resident of 120 Noble street, died Wednesday after a long illness. He was 63 years old and the descendant of an old Long Island family. He was a bachelor and 18 survived by his stater, Mias Emma Hawkins.

Funeral services were held today, with Interment at Belleport, L. I. GEORGE STEINHARDT, engaged in the dry goods business in Flatbush, died yesterday at his home, 740 Coney Island avenue. He was a member of the Bethlehem German Evangelical Church and the Rev. W.

E. Bourquin, the pastor, will conduct the funeral service tomorrow. The Interment will be in the Weehawken cemetery. Deceased WAN born In Greenpoint April 19, 21 years ago, and was A graduate of the Erasmus Hall high school. He leaves his mother, Mrs.

Elizebeth Holthausen Stenhardt, and two brothers, Arnold and Walter. FRANCES PUTNAM SHELDON, wife of Professor Samuel Sheldon, died yesterday at Middlebury, Vt. Interment will be in the fam. ily plot at Middlebury, JANE KIERNAN died today at her home, 196 Nassau street. Her husband, who died five years ago, was a police sergeant.

She 18 vived by a son by A former marriage, John Dellaney. Funeral services will be held at St. James Pro-Cathedral on Monday, with interment in Holy Cross cemetery. RICHARD REICH. an old resident of Hill, died yesterday at his home, 129 Laurel avenue.

He was A member of the Holy Name Society. Funeral services will be held in St. Raphael's Church, Blissville, tomorrow, with Interment in Calvary. late Mchael Grimes of South Brooklyn, died LAURETTA A A. GRIMES.

A daughter of the yesterday at her home, 334 Forty-third street. She 18 survived by her mother, two brothers and two sisters. JOHN McDERMOTT of 307 First avenue, Astoria, died yesterday after A short Illness. 'He was born in Middletown, N. 71 years ago.

He is survived by him wife, three SOnS and three daughters. A requiem mass will be offered tomorrow in St. Rita's Church, with interment in Holy Cross cemetery, AMELIA S. COLE, sister of Judson S. Cole of 458 Forty -seventh street, Brooklyn, yesterday at the home of her brother, with whom she made her home, in her seventy-second year.

She was a member of the Grace Baptist Church. Funeral services will be held tomorrowat her late residence. Interment will be in Greenwood. HAUGH, a Manhattan merchant, died yesterday at his home, 859 Hancock street. He was a member of the firm of John Correll and Company.

He WAs A Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias. is survived by his widow and daughter. Funeral services will be held tomorrow, with interment in Lutheran Cemetery, JEREMIAH A. HALLARAN of Rockaway Beach died yesterday at his home. A requiem mass will be offered in the Church of St.

Rose of Lima tomorrow. Interment will be In Calvary Cemetery, EUPHEMIA FREDERICK DREW. the widow of Ezra Morton Drew, died yesterday at her home, 363 Hancock street, after a long Illness. She WAS A member of an old Long Island family and was born in the town of Bushwick, L. I.

Funeral services will be held Sunday at her late residence, with Interment Monday at Greenwood. JOHN HENRY SPAUTHOFF, A well-known real estate dealer of East New York, died yesterday at his home, 217 Alabama Avenue. He WAR born in Aldenburg, Germany, seventy-two years AgO. He is survived by two sons and A daughter. A requiem mass will be offered In the Church of Our Lady of Loretto tomorrow, with interment in Calvary Cemetery.

VILLA TO RESUME CAMPAIGN AGAINST CAPITAL OF MEXICO Only Two or Three Federal Strongholds Remain to Be Captured. 3 DIVISIONS TO CONVERGE. Concentration Likely to Take Place at Celaya, in Guanajuato, 8 Hours by Rail From Capital. El Paso, Texas, July 10 -The speedy return of General Villa's army southward, from Chihuahua City, to resume the campaign against Mexico City was predicted here todny, following the receipt of advices from Torreon that the internal peace conference was finally ended, and a report of Its transactions soon would be given to the press. With Guadalajara in Constitutional.

ist hands, and San Luis Potosi besieged, there remain only two or three points of defense for the Federals between the national capital and the southern edge of the territory trolled by the revolutionists. On the east, General Pablo Gonzales, with an army of 20,000 men, hold dominion from the border to San Luis Potosi, four hours by rail from Mexico City. In the center. General Villa's division occupies the country from Juarez to Aguao Calientes, eighteen hours travel from the capital city. To the west, General Obregon has stretched his lines so far as GuadalaJara, second largest city in the republic, and within six hours ride, by railway, of the central goal.

Once San Luis Potosi is captured the three military divisions will converge on Mexico City, necording to assertione made in El Paso today, by both Carranza and Villa followers. When this combination is made, 60,000 men will bo available for the movement against the ultimate goal. It was predicted here that this concentration would take place at Celaya, State of Guanajuato. and eight hours ride from Mexico City. This point is a junction of national railways from Guadalajara, Aguas Callentes and San Luis Potosi.

Before the three armies arrive there, two or three strongly fortified towns, held by Huerta's troops, must be captured. From Celaya, the meeting point, the combined armies would have before them only one fortified city. This is Queretaro, ninety miles from Mexico City, and the place where Huerta, cording to general belief, intends te make his last stand. General Obregon has advised General Carranza that his men, in taking Guadalajara, captured fifteen troop trains and eight cannon. Obregon stated also that seven machine guns, plenty of rifles and rifle ammunition and two carloads of cannon ammunition were abandoned by the enemy.

Mexico City, July 10 Adolfo de la Lama, Mexican Minister of Finances, left the capital at 7 o'clock this morning for Vera Cruz, whence he is to sail on the French liner Espagne for Europe. It was reported that his object was to carry out a financial sion for the Federal Government. The train was divided into two sections. owing to the large number of French, the citizens coast and to Mexicans depart on their the Espagne. A strong military escort accompanied each section of the train.

Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico, July 10 The Carranza- Villa mediation conference adjourned yesterday after signing a protocol covering all its discussions. It is know that General Villa's position and conduct in general has been vindicated. General Felipe Angeles will continue as chief of artillery in the division. HELD FOR SELLING HEROIN Dr. Richter's Wife and a gist Trapped by Police.

Following out his promise to County Judge Fawcett that he would do his utmost to lead the police to the place where most of the heroin in the ern District is supplied, the police assert that William Lee of 26 Stags street last night took Detective Ferris to 290 Pulaski street, where he asked Mrs. Rose Richter, wife of Dr. Henry Richter to get him some of the drug. The police followed her actions closely and claim they saw her send her daughter Sadie, 11 years old, to the drug store of Israel Bass at 367 South Third street. According to the story told by the police of the affair, marked bills, given to Lee when he first went to Mrs.

Richter's were found in Bass' possession when he was arrested a few moments later charged dealing in narcotics. Bass, the police claim, sent a note in reply to Mrs. Richter's request for some heroin, in which he asked her not to mention drugs but to ask for quinine. After the arrest of both Mrs. Richter and Bass they were arraigned today in the Manhattan avenue court and held in $5,000 bail by Magistrate Walsh.

The little girl, Sadie, was sent to the Children's Society and held as a terial witness in the case. SCHUMM FIGHTS FOR BOOTHS. Test Case to Decide a Charge Made Under Excise Law. Ferdinand Schumm. "alias Fred as the record in the Butler street court has it.

was before Magistrate Geismar today, charged with having violated the excise law, in maintaining booths in his liquor store at 52 Court street. Schumm is a brother of Fred Schumm, the holder of international bets, who recently closed his business in the financial district in Manhattan. Fred is not known as being interested in Ferdinand's business. Ferdinand was not ready for examination today. He is determined to make a fight in the case, and declares there will be a test as to his right to have the booths, which are screened from the street.

Schumm's allegation is that the place is a restaurant and that the booths are not prohibited by law. The complainant is Officer Esau of the local headquarters bureau. WOMAN TAKES ROACH POISON. Charged with attempting to commit suicide by taking roach poison, at 11 o'clock this morning, Miss Adelna de Adosino, 23 years old, of 100 Mulberry street, Manhattan, a prisoner in the Coney Island Hospital. Miss de Adosino was visiting at the home of Genaro Lignance, nt 8606 Twenty-flfth avenue, where she took the poison this morning..