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NEW YORK. FRIDAY. APRIL 8. 11)01. THE mto MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCEIXANEOCS. EAST RIVER GJ5 Bill RAILROAD TIRE INSURANCE CO. BILL PASSED IN BOTH HOUSES STOLEN FROM LIBRARIES. PISSED BY THE SENATE. SHE -i)'S FAIR S0Z0D0QT Tooth Ponder "Good for Bad Tffth Bad for Good Teeth" Gives tha Taath Pearly Lustra BIG BOX 25c Leon Gomberg Charged With Theft of Hawthorne's "Grandfather's Chair." The Only Opposition to It Was From Elsberg and Marshall.

Supposed Defect in Law ing Power to Deal ir gages Corre MAY BE WANTED IN BROOKLYN. MEASURE GOES TO THE MAYOR. MANY Ml LI ST. LOUIS, MO. Coach Excursion MAY 10, 1904.

Trip FR0M NEW Y0RK STUBBORN COLDS For obstinate colds, lingering coughs and persistent bronchitis Scott's Emulsion is a standard remedy and a reliable cure. You can feel the good effects of even a small bottle. Easy to take. DISEASE THREATENS TROOPS. Measure 'American Book PricesCurrent," Worth 50, la Missing From the Montague Street Branch.

Company Will Escape Payment of Percentage to City Additional Franchises Very Valuable. Russian Base, Harbin, Said to Be in Fit State to Produce Epidemic. l'roiiortlonalp tnlf from other atatlnna. train of Stunrtnrd oat-lira ituiiiiii rrlurniiiu In i-uaclir on rrmln trains niltiin trn ilaya. Person txiftlTiic to visit the WorM's Kalr should eel a conv of tha TVnnKt-lvnnia Railroad'.

(Special to the Eagle.) Albany, April 8 By a vote of 31 to 12 the Ecnate this afternoon passed the Remaen WorM's Kntr booklet, slvinx rates, train tfervk-e and Information concerning hut.n. At.uly to Detective Sergeants Pepperted and Conley of Inspector McClusky's staff, yesterday afternoon arrested a man who may know something, about the theft ot books from many public libraries In this city. Various com lief of je payment Ticket ARetUW. J. It.

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o. Drancnes the salary of the president of the Lunacy plaints had been received at the Detective bureau regarding the theft of valuable books of i senator Raines' bill yesterday after ity for disregarding the ishes ot the people of New York City and sacrificing the rights of the great city to a political purpose. He Commission from a year, with $1,200 noon, at. came out of rules and among other branches of the library sys ridiculed the idea that a "largely useless ior expenses, to $7,500. with $1,200 lor expenses, and extending his term of office from six years to during good behavior.

ommittee No special ion was raised, though stale board (the railroad commission) should be merely added to. as if that would remedy St. Petersburg, April 8 The terrible sanitary condition of Harbin, which it is feared will lead to an- epidemic, is revealed in a dispatch. The matter is of particular importance. In view ot the fact that Harbin is the center of Russian military and civil authority la Manchuria.

All troops pass through this point and all provisions and medical supplies are brought there. An arrangement has been made for Harbin to become the first station for the sick and wounded during the war. Despite a dry spring and summer and peaceful conditions in the territory last year, there were cases of cholera and typhoid, the further development of which was stopped by the November frosts. The chief eource of the contagion is the dirty water of the Sungari River, and the shallow wells In unsanitary tem in which the thief haa operated was the Brooklyn Public Library in Montague street. The Aetor and Lenox libraries in Manhattan had been visited by a thief but no trace of htm could be found.

The book the conditions which the board. In its present the bills might 'e caused a rumpus earlier in the session. The arguments for the meas size, had been incompetent to handle. ure were that it was simply a matter of TO AID POOLROOM WATCHERS. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, April 8 It was learned this after The Cities Committee.

Senator Burton said, had been evidently much impressed by Justice and that the companies which have thief evidently has great taste In the selec dealt mortgages to the extent ot many noon, after the passage of the bill to allow millions of dollars a year, have done so in tion of books and the last volume stolen from the Brooklyn Public Library was worth good faith. the demand of the representatives of forty-eight civic organizations of New York City, asking for the bill, but since then "home rule" had become a partisan plaything and the State Railroad Commission was to be increased for partisan purposes. the corporation counsel to appear in civil actions for city officials, that the real object was to enable the city administration to defend policemen who are sued for dam Mr. Apgar maje the following statement nearly, $u0. Superintendent Farrington, who is in defense of the measure: East River gas Mil.

It is an act which has attracted much attention both In the present aud in the last session ot the Legislature, and has given rise to much aotoriety concerning the methods of the gas trust to obtain a perpetual franchise for a great central plant at Astoria. The vote to-day for the bill waa made up of Republicans and Democrats and reformers of both schools. As a matter of fact the object of the bill is to escape the payment of percentage to the city under the act Incorporating the company quite as much as it is to provide for economy in production of gas. Attention was called to-day by a man who voted for the bill In the Assembly, but who now regrets It, to the fact that the East River Gas Company franchise allowed it to escape the payment of any percentage by merely selling its gas lo another concern. That provision In the charter is as follows: "Such corporation (the East River Gas Company) shall pay annually into the treasury of the City of New York to the credit of the Sinking Fund of New York 3 per centum of its gross receipts from gas furnished by it to private and public buildings in the City of New York through mains laid by it as herein authorized under the streets and avenues of such city." According to this all the company has to "The business of guaranteeing or insuring ages by proprietors of poolrooms.

This Senator Burton's motion was defeated. charge of the Montague street library, said to-day that he had seen the man under ar titles to real estate and guaranteeing bonds method of attack has been adopted in order yeas 20, nays 22, on party linei. to make policemen lax in their vigilance and mortgages within the Mate of ew York, first assumed important dimensions over these places, because a suit necessi after the passage of Chapter 533 of the Laws LIQUOR BILL HAILEOADED. tates the employment of counsel and con siderable expenses. Brooklyn North District, and the Rev.

Dr. William V. Keller, editor of the Methodist Review. The lay electoral conference to elect seven laymen to the General Conference met at 10 o'clock in the chapel. There were 2S2 churches to be represented and 24.r delegates answered to their names.

John M. Bulwin-kle, secretary of the last conference, called the meeting to order. Professor Henry "Wade Rogers of Yale University was elected temporary chairman, John M. Bulwinkle, secretary, and Frank L. Brown, assistant.

These were later made the permanent officers. Nominating speeches began. It was believed there would be thirty-four of ihem, as there were that number of candidates, but the speeches stopped when eighteen had been named. These are the names: Frank Moss. J.

N. Brown. J. B. Morrell, J.

M. Bull-winkel, W. C. Abbott, E. B.

Tuttle. Franklin Burton, Willis McDonald. M. S. Cornell, C.

W. Harman, Cephas Rogers, W. S. Carter, C. W.

Bell, C. T. Winchester, D. W. Whit-Biore, H.

C. M. Ingraham. Ben Moore and T. L.

Jones. of 1885, which was the tirst general act providing for the organization and regulation of corporations to examine and guarantee TRUST COMPANY BILL PASSED. bonds and mortgages and titles to real estate. Under this act various corporations were Albany, April 8 The Assembly to-day passed without debate Senator Brackett's bill requiring corporations not under the Banking Department to use the word trust in their titles to specify in all use of their organized. In the year 1889 the question arose as to whether the language ot the act implied insuring of the payment of bonds and mortgages and not merely insuring the places.

Another source of contagion is the filth ot the winter, which has not been disposed cf, lying exposed above tho ground In the heart of the city, the streets of which are filled with refuse. Protests have proved unavailing because ot the policy of the railroad in prosecuting persons for publicly referring to existing conditions. The warm weather, which caused the disappearance of the snow, has shown the true state of affairs. The local sanitary hospital cannot comply with all the demands made upon it even in ordinary times. The drug stores have not sufficient medicines and disinfectants, and cannot get more.

The correspondent ot the Novosti adds that the near future will show an extremely dangerous condition. It is officially announced that in consequence of the departure ot Russian representatives from Korea, the protection ot Rue-sian interests in that country has been temporarily intrusted to the French diplomatic and consular representatives. rest and that he felt confident that the police had the man who took a book from his library and has not yet returned it. He said a man who gave the name of Ager walked up to a corner ot the library near his desk and took down a book marked "American Book Prices Current." Mr. Farrington does not permit this serif to go into circulation and they are used for reference only.

The man replaced the bok where he had found It and passed on, but several minutes later Mr. Farrington was called to another part of the library. He noticed on his return that book and man were missing. And the man has not been seen in the library since. C.

H. A. Bjerregarrd, the librarian of (he Astor Library, recently noticed one man who took valuable books out of the library and Mr. BJerregaard made a sketch of him. This was copied and sent to the other librarians as well as to Inspector McClusky at the Cen names that they are not moneyed corpora title thereto.

Until quite recently it was tions." The bill is generally known to be aimed especially at the Corporation Trust Raines Says It Is Intended to Aid Vio-. lators of Law. Albany. April 8 Senator Raines, author of the present liquor tax bill, and who keeps an argus eye on all liquor tax legislation, was angry this morning when he discovered that a bill Introduced on Monday by Senator Green amending, in important particulars, the law, had been printed, reported favorably by the Committee on Taxation, sent to third reading and given a prominent place on today's calendar for final passage. Senator Raines said: "Such railroading of legislation was never heard of.

It is a measure Intended to aid violators ot the liquor tax law by placing obstacles In the way of their prosecution." supposed that the legislation under which company of New lork. these corporations were created was no longer open to question, but within the past month it has been suggested after the lapse of fifteen years that there Is some doubt do is to sell Its product to the other constituent companies of the trust and escape any payment for its rights. It is admitted by the promoters of the bill that the act gives the additional franchises needed for a about companies of this class exercising the THE NEW YORK CONFERENCE. connection with the mast mver uas com powers which they are now exercising; hence, in order to remove any possible doubt and to prevent the raising of the question again, and also to prevent the loss of credit GOOD ROADS APPROPRIATION. Albany, April 8 When the Burnett bill appropriating $1,500,000 for road improvement was taken up in the Senate Senator Burton offered an amendment increasing the appropriation to $2,000,000, and in his argument charged the Republican party and Senators with unfair dealing with good road advocates.

The amendment was defeated and the bill carrying a million and a half dollars was passed. pany's tunnel under the river. tral Office. Underneath me BKeicn -r. and financial standing which these com CORONERS BILL PASSED.

Senator Mccarren was in cnarge oi iub bill to-day, but it went through so easily that he did not have to say a word for it. The only opposition heard was from Senators EI berg and Marshall, whose remarks were most panics might suffer, it was thought wise to endeavor to settle the matter by procuring The Rev. W. P. Thirkield Makes an Eloquent Appeal for the Negroes of the South.

the passage of the bill in question." It is understood that an opinion has been obtained from some source which makes cer BJerregaard wrote: "This is a pretty fair idea of the man who gives his name as A. Ager and his address as 67 West One Hundredth street. Does he look like a student of American first editions?" Inspector McClusky placed Detective Sergeants Pepperted and Conley on the case. They made tours of the different libraries and book stores and found a number of valuable books that had recently been sold. Yesterday afternoon while in the book store Board of Medical Examiners to Perform Duties of Office.

(Special to the Eagle.) Albany, April 8 After a slow roll call, tain, that the powers which have been exer perfunctory, senator Eisoerg saia tnai no was not feeling well, but he called attention to the fact that the bill granted a Iranchiee to lay pipes and did not allow to the city authorities nny voice in the matter. cised by the title insurance companies so long have been without authority, and as result it has had a startling effect upon the the Elsberg coroners bill was passed in the Senator Marshall, in explaining his vole companies. Among the concerns involved A dispatch describing the nuriai ot Russian seamen slain in the naval battle oft Chemulpo says that a detachment of sailors from the gunboat Vicksburg as well as those from other foreign warships followed the bodies to the grave. The Novosti approves of the government's policy, but foresees that more important measures Dre necessary to provide for the war expenditure. Berlin, April 8 The Tageblatt's war correspondent, Major Gaedke, writing on a train while nearing Harbin, Manchuria, March 19, said: "Only six trains dally pass East en the railroad to Manchuria and only four thence to Harbin, but these consist of as many as 38 cars.

The railroad apparently is able to meet the military demands." The correspondent added that the Russians will be ready to take the offensive about the middle of this month. against the bill, merely said that while the FIRE DEPT. BILLS PASSED. Albany, April 8 The bill of Senator Grady abolishing one of the deputy commissioner-ships of the New York City Fire Department and creating two commissioners at $5,000 a year was passed by the Senate to-day. Senator Fitzgerald's bill creating the office of chief lineman in the Police Department was passed, also.

are the American Credit Indemnity Com Assembly to-day by 80 yeas to 30 nays. This bill abolishes the office of Coroner in New York City and places the duties now performed by coroners in a board of medical examiners, under the Department of Health. removal of the tanks at present usea Dy ine companies would be a good thing, he could not vote for it unless some provision was made for additional payments to the city. Venerable Bishop Edward G. Andrews presided to-day at the sessions of the New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which are being held in St.

Paul's Church, on West End avenue, Manhattan. Opening the anniversary of the Freedman's Aid and Southern Education Society exercises the Rev. YV. P. Thirkield made an eloquent appeal for support of missionary work among the negroes in the Southern states.

He said, among other things: "The uplifting of an entire race is a question of a generation and may be of a cen pany, with a capital stock of $500,000 and assets of nearly the Buffalo Title Guarantee Company, with a capital stock of the Lawyers Mortgage Insurance Company New York, with a capital stock of $1,000,000," and assets of the Law It waa rumored this morning that an enort will be made to put the question directly v.p to the Governor and that it would not be LOCAL BILLS ADVANCED. (Special to the Eagle.) yers Title Insurance Company of New York. with a capital stock of $3,500,000 and assets Alhanv. Anril 8 Among the reports of allowed to go to Mayor McClellan. However, last year the Governor directed that the bill be sent to Mayor Low, who vetoed it.

An opinion was obtained from Attorney General bills in the Senate this morning were As GINSENG BILL PASSED. Albany, April 8 The Dickinson bill, regulating the sale of ginseng, a medicinal root, and providing that any ginseng grown in foreign countries shall be labeled, thus protecting the New York State product, was revived to-day and passed after being defeated last week. of nearly the Title and Guaranty Company of Rochester, with a capital stock of $150,000 and assets of over the Title Insurance Company of New York, with semblyman Keegan's, with reference to the collection of assessments for local improve Cunneen that it was properly a city Din. WILL URGE IMPROVEMENT. Those promoting it were obliged to admit tury.

Freedom is not a bequest, but is a conquest. Character cannot be made, but must be achieved. In the sixteen Southern states to-day there are 185,000 who cannot a capital stock of $1,000,000 and assets ot this morning that it probably would again have to go to the Mayor. All ot the Brooklyn senators except Mar read or write, but wearing their grand' over the United States Title Guaranty and Indemnity Company, with a capital stock of $468,700 and assets of over the Westchester and Bronx Title and Mortgage Guaranty Company, with a capital stock of $58,391 DEFENDS ALIENATION SUIT. fathers' confederate hats they are allowed of Everett Francis, at no mast iweniy-third street, Manhattan, they found that a man had offered for sale an exceedingly rare book, entitled "American Book Prices-Current," which was published by Luther S.

Livingston in 1895 and is valued at about $50. They waited around for a time and the man came in the store again. He was arrested on suspicion and taken to the Central Office. There he refused his address and name and would say nothing about himself. When searched the man was found to have a copy of the Literary Collector, a literary magazine, several autograph letters and a catalogue containing a list of rare books.

It is alleged that the volume offered for sale was stolen from the Brooklyn Public Library. It was identified by Superintendent Farrington. He found that the pasters on the book had been washed off, but there were certain little earmarks by which identification was made. Inspector McClusky said that the arrest of this man was made solely by the sketch made by Mr. BJerregaard.

Mr. Farrington said this morning that the man under arrest bore a great likeness to the sketch that had been sent out by the Astor librarian. When the prisoner was taken to Jefferson Market police court he said that his name was Leon Gomberg, aged 28, a Prussian, living at 58 East One Hundred and First street, Manhattan. Gomberg was arraigned on a charge of grand larceny, the specific charge being the theft of a copy of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Grandfather's Chair," a second to vote. This is the menace to our nation that confronts us.

shall voted for the measure, including Senator Burton, who still makes considerable professions with reference to being a reformer. McCabe did not vote. There was not much in the result, however, to indicate any connection between this bill and the ment by installment; Mr. Remsen's, relating to civil service employes pensions; Mr. De-groot's, making a preference for volunteer firemen in the paid department; Mr.

Cocks', for counsel of the fire department in villages, and Mr. Sullivan's, providing for a fire marshal in Queens Borough. This bill was, amended to-day bo as to provide that the present acting fire marshal In Brooklyn and Queens shall continue to serve in Brooklyn. The bills of Mr. Keegan, Mr.

Remsen and Mr. Degroot were all advanced to third reading. "There is no race suicide in the South and Mary J. Cahill Denies That She Stole Mary Brightsen's Husband From Her. Niagara Power Company grant.

The vote was as follows: Ayes Ambler, Armstrong, Bailey, Barnes, Paving of Coney Island Avenue to the Seaside Immediately Necessary, Say Taxpayers. The Flatbush Taxpayers ono of the most potent and influential bodies in the borough, has interested itself in the matter of the improvement of Coney Island avenue. It has been decided to pave the avenue from the Park Circle to the seaside, but at present the improvement is being held up through a legal contention between the city and the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad as to the right of the railroad to the strip of the land along which Its tracks are laid. Before the street can be paved the railroad track will have to be moved to the cen W. L.

Brown, Burton, Cullen, Doollng, Fancher, Fitzgerald, Foley, Frawley, Good-sell, Green, Hawkins, Hill, Keenan, Lefevre, L'Hommedleu, Malby, Martin, McCarren, The present compels the companies to report the business done in dealing in mortgages. The reports do not now indicate at present just how extensive this business is. Some of the companies, however, have included a statement voluntarily in their reports. For instance, the Lawyers Mortgage Insurance Company staled that in 1902 it had received an interest on bonds and mortgages of $601,683, while its total receipts were $646,888. A Senator who is a member of the Committee on Banks, said to-day that there was a question if all the mortgages held by the title insurance companies were not void.

It can be seen from this how important the bill is, since several hundred million dollar) are involved. the problem is to provide teachers and preachers for the education of the people freed by Lincoln's proclamation. "Let me give you a picture of the magnitude and spirit of our work by telling you of an experience I had recently in Arkansas which would delight President Roosevelt. In the backwoods, forty miles beyond Little Rock, I found Brother Sampson, a black, the owner of 318 acres, with a church, parsonage and a small academy and fifteen children and seventy-nine grandchildren. The black man is not dying out and you are not going to solve the negro problem in that way.

This is the magnitude of our task and the spirit of our work is the redemption of ten million poor people. Brothers, I plead, help us in the great work." Next, Bishop Andrews addressed the Plunkitt. Prime, Ramsperger, Rlordan, Russell, Stewart, Wagner, Whitlock, Wilcox. In reply to Mary A. Brightsen's claim that Mary J.

Cahill, of 133 Calyer street, Greenpoint, alienated the affections of John Brightsen, and her suit for $10,000 damages against Mis. Cahill, the latter appeared before Justice Garretson, in the special term of the Supreme Court to-day, through her counsel, ex-Congressman Thomas F. Magner, and asked leave to serve an amended answer, hich was granted. Mrs. Brightsen alleges that the defendant induced her husband to desert her sixteen years ago.

Noes Brackett, E. R. Brown, Carpenter, Dowling, Elsberg, Gates, Grady, Lewis, Marshall, Raines, Stevens, Warnlck. Senators Allds, Davis, McCabe, McEwan, DUCK SHOOTING LAW SUSTAINED. Albany, April 8 The Senate to-day sustained the spring duck shooting law of last year by a party vote of 26 to 21, on a motion of Senator Bailey to discharge the Forest, Fish and Game Committee from further consideration of the Hubbs bill, cutting three months from the close season on Long Island.

Senator Bailey declared the Brown law had done a great injustice to the people of his district. He said that his people feared Senator Brown; that his name was used on Urng Island to frighten children, and that if he were to come down there he would receive a warm welcome. Sherwood, Townsend and White did not vote. edition, valued at $40. On a short affidavit by Detective Sergeant George Pepperted, Gomberg was held by Magistrate Barlow in $500 ball to await an examination to-morrow morning.

There is no doubt that this additional franchise to the East River Gas Company worth a great deal of money, and the WHITE R. T. BILLS PASS. In support ot his client, Lawyer Magner stated that at the time mentioned In the plaintiff's complaint she and her husband were living In Greenpoint and that Mr. Brlghtson had been for a long time a pilot grant cannot be considered in any other ter of the thoroughfare.

The railroad company refuses to move Its tracks, claiming a right of way dating from the days of the old plank road company. The city's contention is that the railroad company was only granted the use of the trackage way. Recognizing the vast benefits that would follow the Improvement of tho thoroughfare to the whole of the immense Flatbush section, the Taxpayers Association Intends ta urge the city authorities to use every effort to complete the improvement with tho letlt possible delay. light than a free gift of so much money. TWO MORE TAX COMMISSIONERS.

The argument that it will be a good thing to have tho present gas tanks removed on the Greenpoint ferry. His eyesight be came poor and colliding with another ferry Composite Elsberg Commission Meas boat one day, be was discharged. Counsel SECOND CLASS CITY FRANCHISES. from various parts of tl.e city may be a good one, but many persons think the company will soon be ready to do that and pay a large Bum for the privileges now asked. said that, as her husband had no money, it was agreed between them that the wife ure, However, Is Still Held Up in the Assembly.

Mayor to Give a Public Hearing 6n Bill Recently Passed by the Legislature. The opposition ot the city authorities In should go to live with a marr'ed nephew and that friends would care for1 brlghtson. this matter has not been as pronounced as Lpon this, the couple separated, it might be. The belief is common, how PASS PHILIPPINE SHIP BILL. Washington, April 8 Upon convening today the House resumed consideration of the Philippine shipping bill.

After Mr. Gros-Tenor (Ohio) had spoken in favor of postponing to July 1, 1906, the date when the bill shall go into effect, Mr. Birdsall (Iowa) offered an amendment fixing July 1, 1906, as the time when lie bill shall become operative. To this amendment Mr. Spight (Miss.) offered one extending the time to July 1, 1909.

On this latter amendment the yeas and nays were ordered, and It was lost, 123 to 127. The Birdsall amendment was agreed upon and the bill was passed. ever, that If the bill goes to the Mayor, he Lawyer Magner said that it was known to the plaintiff at the time that her husband intended lo board with the defendant, with will be obliged to veto it. The Tammany Mayor McClellan will give a public Monday on a bill passed by the Legislature to increase the number of tax com senators mostly voted for the measure, the GYMNASIUMS IN SCHOOLS. At a meeting cf the Board of Superintendents, yesterday afternoon, the suggestion was adopted that, in the future, all new school buildings fur thirty or more classes be provided with a space of at least 1,700 square feet in extent, to be used for gymnasium purposes.

In the past a few schools have been provided with floor space of this kind. whose father he had been on intimate terms of friendship for over fifty years. Brlghtson only exceptions being Dowling and Grady, wno in a way officially represent the city was merely a boarder in the Cahill home, Albany, April 8 Without discussion tno Senate Cities Committee bill regarding franchises in cities of the second class was passed in the Assembly to-day. It allows the common council In any such city to grant to the owner or lessees of an existing franchise, under which operations are being actually carried on, such additional rights or extensions as the common council may determine, subject to the approval of the board of estimate and apportionment and the mayor. PASSED OVER MAYOR'S VETO.

Albany, April 8 The Adams bill, which was passed by both Assembly and Senate and was disapproved by Mayor McClellan, was today passed again by the Assembly in the administration here. missioners by two. At present the board consists of five members, including the president, who receives a ealary of $8,000 a year, the rest ot the commissioners receiving $7,000 (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, April 8 The two White Rapid Transit Commission bills were passed in the Assembly to-day, under an emergency message from Governor Odell. J. P.

Cotton, an attorney representing the Metropolitan Street Railway system and other railway interests in New York City, was here to-day to oppose the report by the Assembly Rules Committee of the composite Elsberg Commission Rapid Transit bill. Thus far the bill has not been reported. It has passed the Senate. Senator White said to-day that although bis two rapid transit bills had been report he said, and the relations were friendly and nothing more. Since the action was begun, he said, the statute of limitations had run, this being the reason for asking leave to PAVING WOULD RUIN DOCK.

a year. serve an amended answer. The bill stipulates that at least one of the RUMORS OF WAR IN VAUDEVILLE commissioners shall be a lawyer, and provides that not more than five of the com NAUGHTON CO. DID BID. Naval Militiamen Worried by Proposed Improvement of Bulkhead in Front of Their Armory.

MARIA S. BERGEN'S WILL FILED. The will of the late Maria S. Bergen, disposing ot $18,000 of personal property, was filed for probate to-day. Mrs.

Bergen died March 8, and the ill is dated July 27, 18SS. To Harriet A. Glover of 34 Clarkson street, a daughter, is bequeathed $1,000 and stock owned by the testatrix In the Irving Bank. Farm lands In Flatbush are devised to the daughter and to Tunis B. Woolsey, who are named together as executors.

And They Will Probably Get the Con missioners shall belong to the same political party, and that not more than one commissioner of the same political party may be a resident of any of the five boroughs of the city, except Manhattan, Secret Meeting in Manhattan of "Outside" Managers Who Are Antagonistic to B. T. Keith. tract for Tracks on Williamsburg Bridge. form as amended by the Introducer.

Ab originally passed it legalized encroachments of not more than six inches by buildings upon the New York City street lines if un action or proceeding was not Instituted by the city within one year. It is amended to read four inches instead of six. The bill, as approved, will give Tammany In spite of the announcement made some time ago that the firm of Naughton another tax commlsslonershlp. Of the pres ent five commissioners, one, Mr. Stras bourger, is a Republican, and as the bill pro with which he was Identified before he be came Commissioner of Bridges, by Mr.

Best, DADY IN ALBANY. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, April 8 Michael J. Dady Is In ed and passed In the Assembly, he greatly regretted that the composite bill was still held up. He said further that he believed It would be better to have no rapid transit legislation at all than that his two bills should become law without the other. Senator White said he would assist Senator Elsberg to the utmost of his ability in getting the composite bill out of the Rules Committee; he even Intimated that he would go to Governor Odell and ask him to veto his two bills If the third bill were not passed also.

Former Senator John Ford, who Is urging the Elsberg bill, slated to-day that he was Inclined to think the bill had been purposely laid aside, and that the Rules Committee Is hostile to it. Governor Odell is understood to strongly vides that no more than five shall belong to the same party, Tammany will be able to appoint only one of its own men If the two new places are created, and the other will probably go to the Republicans. would not bid on any bridge contracts, they were one of six firms whose bids were opened this morning for the work of build There was a secret meeting of vaudeville managers in Manhntian yesterday afternoon, may create quite a stir in the field ol vaudeville in this country for some to come. The meeting was held so cautiously and quietly that a number of vaudeville men, who ought to bz greatly interested In such a meeting, had no knowldege of a convention ot any kind, and it is understood that the secrecy was due wholly to the desire of thoso who convened not to have certain Interests rcpresenteJ. B.

F. Keith of the Keith cir lng six trackn on the Williamsburg Bridge. They were the lowest bidders, too, and will probably get the contract. There are four tracks to be ready for trolleys on July 1 and Albany to-day, working to get his voting machine bill out of the rules committee of the Assembly. So far his fcforts have not been entirely successful.

He has not been able to Induce any senator to Introduce It after the experience that body bad with the mysterious amendment of Senator Davis' bill. two for elevated trains a month later. Naughton bid was $310,230. Other bids were as follows: T. E.

Thomas Crim cuit of the vaudeville theaters was not pres The officers and members of tho Second Naval Battalion are aroused by the fact that Dock Commissioner Featherson haB advertized for bids, to bo opened this afternoon, for contracts to pave the bulkhead of the dock on the water front between Fifty-first and Flfty-eecond streets, in front of the site of the new armory of the battalion. No reason is given for the proposal to pave the bulkhead and the officers of the battalion say that, if the work Is allowed to go on, the advantages of their new armory will be greatly diminished. In fact, Captain Robert P. Forshew. the commander of the battalion, said that, if the bulkhead waa paved, the new armory might as well be la Prospect Park.

That the dock commissioner proposed to pave the bulkhead did not become known to the officers ot the battalion until last night and this morning Captain Forshew called on Mnyor McClellan to see if something could not be done to get the dock commissioner to abandon his intention. Afterward, Captain Forshew said It had been decided to sk the dock commissioner not to award the contract for the paving until the battalion officers had been given an opportunity to show what a detrimental effect the work would have on tho new armory. The armory Is to cost $365,000, and a new dock was hullt In front of it at a cost of about $18,000, to give the members of the battalion plenty of opportunity for drilling mlns. R. H.

Hood $314,230 ent, nor was he invited, and, in fact, the SEEKS REINSTATEMENT. Alexander S. Drescher, formerly a section foreman in the Street Cleaning Department, this morning secured from Justice Garretson, sitting in the special term of the Supreme Court, a writ of certiorari to review the action of Commissioner Woodbury in dismissing him In December last after a hearing on charges. Drescher claims that there was no proof to sustain the charges, and that even it such had been the case they were of such a character as would come within the provisions ot the charter. James McFsrren.

Holhrook, Cabot FLECTRICAL POWER ON CANALS. Albany, April 8 Tho Senate Judiciary 6 Rollins. $.12,5.000, and the Union Knginecr ing and Contracting Company. $324.000. Committee has reported favorably the bill of Senator Lewis, providing for a commis favor It.

The understanding is that Republican leaders are proposing to pass all of the rapid transit bills and put the matter up to the Mayor for a determination. It might embarrass him. The White bills simply remove the limitation of expenses of the system and give to the Rapid Transit Commission authority over the bridges and tunnels wilh which the tunnel may connect. Last year the same bill was lost In the Assembly on the last day of I he session. The opinion prevails that the force of public opinion will compel (he Rules Committee to send the measure out for determination by the Assembly.

sion, consisting of the state engineer, the superintendent of public works, three senators and six assemblymen, to investigate the feasibility of using electricity as a motive power on the canals. APPROPRIATION BILL PASSED. THE COURTS. Albany, April 8 Tho first business done purpose of the meeting, which consisted mostly of vaudeville men who are called "outsiders." was to antagonize' Mr. Keith's reported enlargement of his circuit.

It is snid that the Hyde and Bellman Interests were represented, for, in Pittsburg, where Mr. Keith recently acquired anoiher theater. Hyde and Hchman have In course of erection a new play house, which might aid In the evident Intention to thwart Mr. Keith's development. It is even alleged that, In the cities where Mr.

Kelih proposes to locate, the "outsiders" have secured promises of (heaters. There was more secrecy maintained In Manhattan regarding the meeting than any other city, for there were delegations from other places than New York. The result of this meeting, it has been declared, will be something of a rumble and more ot a war between vaudeville lnteiests. At the office of the Hyde and Pehmaii Amusement Company, in the Park Theater, this morning. It was said that Henry l)eh-man wan out of town, and that he would not return until o-morrow.

No one in the office would make any statement with reference to the meeting, nor say whether or not Mr. Behman was present. BENNINGS ENTRIES. (Special to the Eagle.) Race Track, Bennlngs, April 8 The entries for the races here to-morrow are as follows: Fli'Kt race For maidens; 3 yenra old am) upward; at 2'r lbs. under the scale; with added, of whic $100 to the second, to the third.

Five furlongs, Columbia course. Name. Wht. Name. Vht.

Berry Waddell itllMamnmn 1)L Pine Hilly tiane lWlCantaloupa M) Lady Wei beck KClCongretts Itl anvellian lOU, Simian Ml Vibrator Sweet Jane Charette lut Cappamore lOtlUnnvlcr IU Tide fl The Dowery 94 Kalr Order (4Reprine P4 Anceleptas IMi Brotherhood Rockmart lull Worry 14 Jimmy Lane John V. A beam IMi Second race For maidens 2 years bid; at IS lbs. under the scale; with VM added, of which $100 to the Rccond, to tho third. Four and a half fur-lonKs, Columbia course. Name.

Wht. Name. "Wlit. Hamlal Wood 07 1 Rmadway Girl M4 Lady France Hllverskln 1" liliillPHtoim 10711'i-llon Ueorgrt Kaini 104 Maggie St roup lot. Only One 1071 Third race For 8 year olds; non-winners of or of two or more racew at thin meeting; at 20 lhn.

under the nenlc; with added, of which $HH to the second. $'n to the third. Six and a half furlongs, Columbia courxe. Name. Wht.

Name. Wht. Co Hetween loll Rclertlc 1'3 Haln or Shine. May Halladay Spring Insist. Juvenal To Han Dome Fourth race The Southern steeplechase for hunters; with $4h) added, of which tloo to the second, to the third.

About two mllen over the full ftetplcchase courmj of tho Washington Jockey Club. Name. Wht. Name. Wht.

Red Hawk Klilrimrlew O' Mailer 1 AkIo 147 Mont Hp t9 Twilight l'- apldn biii La Touralne Hiti.bvgainette 108 Fifth race Helling; for 11 year olds; with added, of which $bm to the necond. to the third. Four and a half furlong. Columbia course. Name.

Wht. Name. wht. All Hcnrlet Jor.ll.Htle Woods 1 Ht. Rcxolute 102 1 1'Hfodvn A.

L. Chacv Auction 94 Garret Wilson loO Blxth rnee For maidenn J) years old nnd nlds to carry 100 4 year olds nnd'u, rd, 110 with $M)0 iidiled. of which IKiO to tne second. $Vj to the third. Mile and a sixteenth, old course.

Name. Wht. Name. Wht. Mammon Hallor's Delight Kant KHulon W.

H. Fa Ik loo, Lady Tat agon i BURTON ATTACKS REPUBLICANS. purposes, if the bulkhead was paved, as Is proposed by the dock commissioner, Captain Forshew said this morning, the dock would be useless to the armory. It Is be by tho Senate to-day was tho final passage of the appropriation hill as amended by tho Joint conference committee and passed by the Assembly yesterday. It goes to the Governor, who has authority to approve it as a whole or to strike out or decrease any Item in It.

He cannot increase any item. FOR FEDERAL SHIP CANAL. Albany, April 8 The Senate Finance Com Brace UP! Spring weariness means that your system needs renovating IRON-OX cleanses and purifies the blood and sen ds new vigor thrilling through every fiber of your being. Curos Constipations lieved that pressure will be brought to bear Effort to Discharge Committee From Consideration of Local Railroad Commission Bill Fails. by tho Sinking Fund Commission and the Armory Board on the dock commissioner to have him abandon his Intentions.

"GOOD PLACE FOR BAD BOYS." mittee ha reported favorably the bill of SennJor Lewis appropriating $5,000 for the use of a commission to bo appointed by the Governor to urge the natlonnl government to build a ship canal through New York Some days ago Charles Tyler, 18 years old, was before Magistrate Naumer in the Myrtle (Continued on page 21.) QUEENS COUNTY BHPREME COURT. Trial term. bay calendar for Monday, April 11, vm, H. T. Maddox, Jui.itee.

Court open and calendar called at 10 A. M.i Not. Franklin vs. New York and Queens County R. Co.

78.. Holland vs. Brooklyn HHjrhU R. R. Co.

v. National Enameling and Slamn-ln Co. vi. Now York and Queens County R. R.

Co. vs. umr. va. name.

214. vn. Urooklyn Heights R. R. Co.

vs. Collins. 329.. Chase vs. New York and Queens County R.

R. Co. Vsneer Hoatlns; Co. vs. Vonsnack.

Turner va. New York and Queen County It. R. Co. v.

Hftme. vs same. ra vs. Interurban Street R. Co.

vh. H(tdorr. v. New York and Queens County H. Co.

fir.7. vn. Klrlllnn Apphnlt Paving Co. fiiiH. v.

same. C.t!2..Kuteher v. Brooklyn Heights R. Co. 6113..

Hume vj. same. 22. 'oiiiim vi. lneral Chemical Co.

vf. Mtiw. Th reserve cslwnilar rnnlt ot the following cnttes, numbtrs only being given: 7', 71i, 7int, hh2 B'-'-1. iin'i, two, "flu, 71 W. 7B.

773, 72. 73. 78i, 7SU, inn. ifli'S. Htt.

m. Highest number reached on general call Is 786. SAY HE STOLE AN ENGINE. Suite. avenue court, charged with stealing a bag of oats from a Wallabout merchant.

The boy's father slated that his son had promised If Peter Fregsand of st Sixth avenue was arraigned In the Butler street court thl he was discharged to enlist In the Navy and LAW'S DELAY BILL PASSED. Albany, April 8 The Brackett laws de morning, charged with being a vagrant. He Albany, April 8 Senator Burton of Brooklyn this morning moved to disehargo the Committee on Cities from further consideration ot his bill providing for a local railroad commission of three members, lo have Jurisdiction over local transit facilities in the Clly of New York. Every effort was it de by the majority to prevent a discussion of Ihe mailer. At last Lieutenant Governor lllgglns, In the chair, ruled (tint the motion was In order.

Senator Iniekelt asked Senator Burton If It would sutlleiently answer his purpose to have leave to prit.t' his remarks. With considerable warmth Senator llurton replied that It certainly would not. then proceeded to denounce the nitijor- lay bill for Supreme Court commissioners passed the Assembly to-day by a voto of the magistrate adjourned the cbbc. To-day the case was called and the magistrate made a statement, as he said he felt that there had been a mlsconsl ruction In regard to the case. He had no Intention of Insulting the yeas 71, nays 38.

Tho Democrats voted In the negative. Navy. The offense was misdemeanor, not Fifty Irnn-Ox Tablets in sn tractive aluminum pocket-case, cents, at druggists, or from THE IRON-OX HCMrDV DETROIT MICH. was held In charge till Monday for examination. Fregsand Is wanted, it Is said, for giyind larceny.

On March 4, it Is charged, he went to a machine shop at the fool or Thlrly-nlnth sirel, and took an oil engine, worth $800, the properly of the General Power Company of Manhattan, One section of the missing engine was soon lwaied at the honie of Fragsand. The other part was found to bo at 218 Thirty-ninth street. a felony, and the Navy was a good place to SALARY BILL PASSED. send bad boys. He thought no apoloyy was necessary after explanation, and, with the concurrence of the complainant, dls-eherged the boy.

Albany, April 8 The Assembly to-day paied without debate the Fish bill, raising.