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to a a a a the THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 19. 1908.

MARRIAGES AND DEATHS Bowne, William H. Carroll, John H. Clark Caroline. Clayton, W. C.

Dittrich, Andrew. 'French, George W. Hancock, Leona C. Heasty, Anna Jane. Jansen, Meta.

Kelly, James C. Larkin, Mary MacKAY, Charles C. Mason. George A. O'Malley, Mary Pohlman, H.

jr. Raymond, Francis. Stevenson, Jane, G. Stobbe, Henry Sullivan, Denis J. Thiele, Albert E.

Van Pelt, H. A. Walters. Hester BOWNE-At Merrick, L. 1..

December 18, 1908, WILLIAM H. BOWNE, in his 77th year. Funeral services be held at his late residence. Merrick av, Sunday, December 20, 1908. 3 P.M.

Interment at Cypress Hills Cemetery, 11:45 A.M., Monday, CARROLL-On Friday, December 18, 1908, JOHN TOO CARROLL, 52 yenrs of age, at his residence, 133 North Oxford st. Notice of funeral hereafter. CARROLL-Members of Tuscan Lodge 704, F. and A. are requested to attend the funeral services of Wor.

Bro. dence, 133 North Oxford st, Monday H. CARROLL, his late, resievening, 21st at 5 o'clock. Interment at Greenwood Cemetery, Tuesday, 2 P.M. JAMES E.

SMITH. Master. CARROLL--Members of Orient Chapter No. 138, R. A.

are respectfully requested to attend the funeral ceremonies of Companion JOHN H. CARROLL, at his late residence, 133 North Oxford st. on Monday evening, December 21, at 8 o'clock. E. W.

WALTON, High Priest. CLARK- CAROLINE McFARLAND CLARK, widow of Joseph Clark, at Norwood, 0.. in her 59th year. Funeral from the residence of her brother, John Ward, 338 Putnam av, on Sunday, at 2. o'clock.

Thursday, December 17, WESTLEY C. CLAYTON, FuTON neral private. DITTRICH-After a short illness. ANDREW DITTRICH, beloved husband of the late Ellen Burnett, brother of Joseph M. Dittrich, Funeral from his late residence, Franklin square, Hempstead, L.

Monday. Requiem, 9 A.M.; thence to St. John's Cemetery. FRENCH-On December 18, 1908, at his residence, 358 Main st. Amesbury, GEORGE W.

FRENCH, school principal, retired; aged The funeral services will be held from there on Sunday, December 20, at 2 o'clock. Members of Lodge, No. 719, F. and A. Orient Chapter, No.

138, R. A. Brooklyn Masonic Veterans, Brooklyn Teachers Association and Brooklyn Principals As'sociation, kindly note. HANCOCK-On Thursday, evening, December 17, at her residence, 43 Cambridge place, LENNA COLE, widow of Chauncey B. Hancock.

Funeral services Sunday afternoon, December 20, at 2:30 P.M., at the Church of the Messiah, Greene and Clermont avs. HEASTY-On December 19, at her residence, 39 Halsey st, Brooklyn, ANNA JANE, widow of Irwin Heasty. Notice of 'funeral hereafter. JANSEN-Suddenly, on Wednesday, December 16, at her residence, 106 Grant av, Cypress Hills, META A JANSEN. Funeral service Sunday, P.M.

KELLY-Entered into rest, after a long and painful illness. A JAMES C. KELLY, husband of Mary Freely Kelly, and youngest brother of John A. and Fred J. Kelly.

Funeral from 1442 Fiftyfifth st. Borough Park, Sunday, December 20. at P.M. Interment Weehawken Cemetery, North Bergen, New Jersey. LARKIN-On December 17, 1908.

MARY LARKIN, beloved wife of Thomas Larkin. Funeral from her residence, 175 Dean st, Brooklyn, on Monday, December 21, at 9:30 A.M.; thence to Our Lady of Mercy Church, Schermerhorn st. Interment Calvary, MacKAY--Suddenly, on Friday, December 18, CHARLES C. MacKAY. Funeral services at his late residence, Ninety-fifth and Shore drive, Bay Ridge, on Monday evening, the 21st inst, at 8 o'clock.

MASON-In Chicago, on December 17, GEORGE A. MASON, aged 38. Funeral services at the home of his mother, 529 Bainbridge st, on Tuesday evening, at 8 'o'clock. O'MALLEY--On December 18, MARY O'MALLEY. Funeral from the residence of her sisters, Ellen el and Julia re McCarthy, 445 Bergen st, on Monday, December 21, at 9 A.M.

Solemn requiem at St. Augustine's Church. Relatives and friends invited to attend. POHLMAN-On Friday, December 18, HARRY POHLMAN, aged 7 enonths. Funeral services from his late residence, 776 Lincoln place, Monday, December 21, at 2 P.M.

RAYMOND--On December 17, FRANCIS RAYMOND, in his 72d year. Relatives, friends and members of Greenwood Lodge, No. 569, F. and A. Chaldean Chapter, No.

265, R. A. Damascus Commandery, No. 57, K. Kismet Temple, A.

A. 0. N. M. Brooklyn Masonic Veterans Association; Brooklyn Council, Royal Select Masters; Esther Chapter, No.

2, Eastern Star; Templar Knights Association, and Master Carpenters Association, are invited to attend the funerel services, at his late residence, 167 Hicks st, on Sunday, December 20, at 2 P.M. Interment at Greenwood. RAYMOND- 1 Lodge No. 659, F. and A.

Officers and brethrenare hereby summoned to attend a special communication at the lodge rooms, Ninth street and Seventh av, on Sunday, December 20, at 1. P.M.. to attend the funeral of our late Worshipful Brother FRANCIS RAYMOND. WILLIAM J. WULFF, Master.

RAYMOND-Grand Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, New York- and Members: It is with profound sorrow the death of Brother FRANCIS RAYMOND, grand trustee, is announced. Fu- neral services from his late residence, 167 Hicks st, Brooklyn, Sunday, December 20, 2 P.M. LOUISA EMMERSON, Grand Matron. Rebecca Niner, Grand Secretary. RAYMOND Damascus Commandery No.

58. Knights Templar-The fraters of this commandery are requested to attend the funeral of our late treasurer, Em. Sir FRANCIS RAYMOND. Sunday, December 20, at 1 o'clock, at the asylum, in full templar uniform. JOHN D.

STEM, Eminent Commander. Fred D. Clapp, Recorder. RAYMOND-Brooklyn Council, No. 4, Royal and Select Masters, and A.

M-- Companions: You are hereby notified of the death of our Companion FRANCIS RAYMOND, and are requested to attend the funeral services at his late residence. 167 Hicks st, on Sunday, December 20. at 2 o'clock. F. P.

WISEBURN, Th. Ill. Master. Walter H. Young, Recorder.

RAYMOND-FRANCIS. Members of the Master Carpenters Association are requested to attend the funeral of our beloved ex and president-elect, at his late residence, 167 Hicks st, on Sunday, December 20, at 2 P.M. FREDK. R. WOODHAM, Pres.

Robt. Hossack, STEVENSON-On Friday, December 18, 1908, JANE GRAY, beloved ed wife of C. F. Stevenson, in her 82d year. Services at St.

John's P. E. Church, Webster av and Ocean Parkway, Parkville, Monday, December 21, at 3 P.M. Interment private. STOBBE-Thursday, December 17, 1908, HENRY STOBBE, in the 63d year of his age.

Funeral services will be held at the residence of his son, John Stobbe. 997 Lorimer st, Saturday, December 19. at 8 o'clock P.M., Rev. Drs. Grubb and Layton officiating.

Interment at Lutheran, Sunday, at convenience of family. SULLIVAN-On Friday, December 18, 1908, DENIS beloved husband of Elizabeth Vaughan, aged 78 years, at his residence, 272 Sterling place, Brooklyn. 'Funeral Monday, December 21. Requiem mass St. Joseph's Church.

Pacific st, near Vanderbilt av, at 10 o'clock A.M. THIELE-On Friday, December 18, ALBERT beloved husband of Tillie Thiele, aged 43. Funeral services at his late residence, 488 McDonough st, on Sunday, December 20. at 5 P.M. DIED.

ARREST, NO WARRANT, AT FATHER'S DEATHBED Brownsville Detectives "Took Chance" on Petty Larceny Charge Made by Women. EXPRESSMAN WAS ACCUSED. Miss Alkerd Said Shurman Held Her Ticket to Secure His Bill-Debt Collecting in Court. The change of weather yesterday, nearly caused, Morris Shurman of 181 Watkins street, Brownsville, to land in jail when he refused to return a railroad ticket belonging to Miss Clara Alkerd of 171 Osborn street, which he had taken to the Pennsylvinia Railroad Ferry, Desbrosses street, Manhattan, to show at the baggage office when he checked two trunks which he had contracted to take there for the young woman. An ment was made between the two parties that $2.50 was to be the price for the expressage of the trunks, it is claimed.

For some unknown reason the expressman was not able to take the trunks on Wednesday as he had agreed to, but took them yesterday instead. On account of the beavy going he was obliged to hire an extra horse for the day, yesterday, and when the young man met. the young woman that had made the bargain with him to cart her baggage, he told her that she would have to give him $5 instead of $2.50 for his work, saying that by hiring the extra horse he was losing money on the transaction. The young woman refused to give the man the $5 and upon this, it is alleged, he snatched the ticket which she had purchased, from her hand and jumping on his wagon, drove aff. The ticket which she had purchased was good for passage between there and Youngstown, she was going.

The cost of 0., where the ticket was $24.30. The woman, when she saw the young off with her ticket in his man, drive she did not know what to do. possession She hastily concluded that she would go to her home and tell her people about it She was advised there and this she did. Brownsville police station to go to the known the face Arriving and make Detectives Dermondy and there she told together they left the staHoerter and the young man. tion house to late to go to the New Jersey aveToo a warrant for the nue the officers took a chance, court to procure.

man's arrest. girl's story, and when believing arrived the home of the man they the young they at placed him under arrest, although reluctantly, as they afterward told. Shurman's father, a very old man, lay bed when the detectives enon of the family. When tered the rooms reached the room in which they they found Shurman they found him kneeling bed of the dying man, holdbeside the ing his hand and sobbing pitifully. Standing close by was the rest of the family, sorrowfully grouped together, waiting for the end of the old man they loved as a father.

This sight WAS too much for the detectives, and they felt that they would have to get out or they would break themselves. One of the two then down bent down, and placing his hand on Shurman's shoulder, told him in a whisper that he had come for him, telling him the reason. Shurman requested that they wait a few moments, as he thought the end was near. and they retired to the room adjoining. In a short while the man came slowly out of the other room with his head bent, saying his father was dead and that he was ready to accompany them.

The complainant, Miss Alckerd, asked the detectives how long it would be before the case would come up for trial, and when they told her she seemed very much grieved. She then told them that she was to be married, and that her fiance expected her in Youngstown by this evening, where the ceremony was to be performed. They advised her to telegraph him the details, and she did. The defendant was brought before Magistrate Furlong this morning in the New Jersey avenue police court. His Wife also appeared and asked what he was being kept there for.

She was informed as to the reason, and told to take a seat until he was arraigned. When he appeared from the cells downstairs and was taken before the magistrate he was ordered to hand over the ticket. This, he said, he could not do, as it was in his wife's possession. He was sent back to a cell under $300 bail, for a hearing on Monday. Shortly after his wife appeared before judge, and then he was recalled upstairs.

The complainant stated that he was willing to give the man $3 for the job. This Shurman agreed to, but the wife held out for the at the same time insisting that her husband should not be sent to jail. She was then told by the magistrate that she was the one that was causing the trouble by not giving over the ticket, and further said that he would send her to jail if she did not immediately produce it. This was enough for Mrs. Shurman when she saw it was she who would go to jail, and she called her little son, who had accompanied her to the court, and told him that she wanted the ticket.

The little fellow drew it from one of his overcoat pockets. She then handed a it to the magistrate, who ordered the complainant to pay the man $3, and he then dismissed the charge against the man, telling him in the future to keep bargains with people as they were made and not to change them, and in this way he would avoid experiences like the one he had just passed through. ERASMUS GLEE CLUB CONCERT. An entertainment and reception, under the auspices of the Glee Club of the Erasmus Hall High School annex, at Ninetysecond street and Fifth avenue, was held in the assembly rooms of the school yesterday afternoon. All of the 120 members of the club were present.

The committee responsible for the successful outcome of the affair included Miss Emma Perera, president; Miss Mabel Strack, vice president; Miss Amy Taylor, treasurer; Miss Stout, secretary, and Mis3 Catherine Delievler, assistant secretary. CORNERSTONE TO BE LAID. The cornerstone Greenwood Heights Reformed Church, Forty-fifth street and Seventh avenue, will be laid to -morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Several well known ministers will speak. THIELE- Friday, December 18, ALBERT E.

The officers and members of De Long Council, No. 725, R. A. are respectfully requested to attend the funeral services on Sunday, December 20, at 5 P.M., at his late residence, 488 MeDonough st. J.

T. Travis, Regent. M. E. Doyle, Secretary.

VAN PELT-Suddenly, at Hartford, December 16, HOWARD AUGUSTUS, son of the late Andrew J. and Selina Van Pelt, and brother of Elmer C. of 501 Carlton av. Funeral private. WALTERS-Entered rest after a long illness.

on December 18, 1908. HESinto, TER, wife of George W. Walters. Funeral services from her late residence, 379 Greene av, on Sunday evening, December 20. 1908, at 7 o'clock Interment Cypress Hills Cemetery at convenience of family.

PHOTOGRAPHS FOR CHRISTMAS. All sittings made up to December 20 promIsed for Xmas. Sittings made rain or shine. GARDNER 276-278 Fulton st. 11-9 TALK OF BIRD OR AIRSHIP OVER PROSPECT PARK Neighborhood Gossip Concerned With "Creature" Seen in Early Morning.

MAY BE INVENTOR'S DEVICE. Descriptions Say It's in Shape of a Mammoth Hawk-One Man Thinks He Saw Its Wreck. The people of Flatbush who reside near the parade grounds of Prospect Park are wondering if they have seen the product of a genius, a supernatural bird, or some mysterious creature of the nether regions, flying over the park in the very early hours of the morning. It keeps afloat apparently until 4 o'clock, as that is about the three Flatbushites, who were out, unknown to their wives at a time they were thought to be home in bed, Tuesday morning saw it. One or two residents say they have seen it from their windows, but there is no proof.

Neither is there any that the Park police saw it. Certain it is however, that something "with the wings of a hawk, but many times larger than a hawk" has found its way to Prospect Park and its aerial derings have caused considerable gossip. The general consensus of opinion is that some one really and substantially of this world has been experimenting with the product of his genius and is on the verge now of showing the wonders of a successful flying machine. Flatbush people are waiting for an announcement. One person whose veracity has never been questioned, says he saw the thing at night and another bolder than the first, declares he saw it in the daytime.

Peter Haining, who is employed as manager in the vicinity of Fifth avenue and Ninth street, and who has the esteem of his friends as a man of strict sobriety, is authority for the statement that he saw the "bird" lying in the dust not far from where the Franklin avenue cars pass Prospect Park. "Be it a thing of good or evil," said Mr. Haining, "it was as dead as a door nail when I saw it, but whether it had been brought to earth by human hand or Jupiter's wrath I don't know. However, not being of an uncanny mind, I believe that the thing was a form of flying machine or aeroplane, dashed to earth through the efforts of the strong wind that was blowing." In an endeavor to try to learn the facts of the matter, an Eagle reporter inquired at Litchfield Mansion, of the park authorities whether they had heard of the subject of common comment. Secretary "Tom" Reilly was ignorant of any bird having escaped from the aviary but he did have a dim recollection of a man having applied three weeks ago for permission to fly a new machine he had just patented, over the park.

Mr. Reilly said that request had to be dismissed and a the man went away without leaving his name. It is possible, he thinks, that this person if he will come forward may throw some light on the matter, clear up a mystery, relieve the superstitious, whose social duties keep them out late, and maybe startle the universe with a revelation in flying machines. the "witching hour in flight If any policeman of the park squad, saw over Flatbush he has not reported the matter to the lieutenant and will not speak of it, as that would leave him to explain things to the commissioner, at trial time. One old policeman, however, frankly said he "saw more than the stars" on Monday night last, but he's 80 superstitious he hates to talk about the thing, because he will have to go out on post another time.

CAB DRIVERS ON STRIKE They Want Regular Hours of Work and Uniform Wages. A Beginning Made With Two Stables in Manhattan, and the Strike May Become a General One. Following a conference which the executive board of the Liberty Dawn Association and the Livery Stable Keepers Association held last night at the Imperial Hotel in Manhattan, the members of the former organization went into session which lasted until 5 o'clock this morning. Then Edwin Gould, secretary-treasurer, stated that a strike had been called, but not until 10 o'clock this morning did he give out the details. "It has been decided," he said, "to strike, and we have picked out, two livery stable owners.

A strike will be called against them and then we will see how we pan out. If these owners do not agree to our demands we will then call a general strike. How long before this will be done I cannot say at this time." The two stables where the men walked out, according to Mr. Gould, were Hall's, in Sixty-second street, between Madison and Park avenues, and Moulton's, at Fifty-third street Seventh avenue. One hundred men left their places this morning.

The strike will probably not spread to Brooklyn. The demands of the strikers include a regulation of their hours of work and a uniform schedule of wages. According to Mr. Gould there are fortysix members of the Livery Stable Keepers Association. Allen Lexow, who has a stable at Fortieth street and Seventh avenue, is the president.

At present there are twenty-two small stable keepers, Mr. Gould said, who are not members of the Stable Keepers Association and these owners, he said, have agreed to the demands of the drivers and chauffeurs. In speaking of the chauffeurs Mr. Gould said that nothing would be done now. He would not discuss whether or not the chauffeurs would go out and refused to comment on the results of the recent strike of the chauffeurs.

"We had an agreement with the owners," Mr. Gould said, "which lasted from 1905 to 1907. Then the agreement ended and since the owners have been paying the drivers whatever they wanted to. We want a fixed rate of $15 a week for a' twelve hour day." In his Saturday talk to the inspectors of the Police Department to-day, Commissioner Bingham made reference to the strike of the cab drivers, and said emphatically that there must be no more scenes such as those which accompanied the strike of the taxicab chauffeurs. MAYORALTY CANDIDATES.

The Fifteen Selected to Be Voted For by the Bedford Y. M. C. A. Fifteen men were voted upon as the choice for mayor, of New York City at the Bedford Branch of of the Young Men's Christian Association last night.

The list is here given alphabetically. From this list one man will be chosen at a primary 10 be held in January. The list chosen last night is as follows: Lyman Abbott, Joseph Aspinall, Willlam Berri, Joseph H. Choate, George B. Cortelyou, R.

Fulton Cutting, Norman S. Dike, William J. Gaynor, William M. Ivins, Darwin R. James, Martin W.

Littleton, Seth Low, Herman A. Metz, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles A. Schieren. FIVE YEARS OF TRAFFIC ON WILLIAMSBURG SPAN Anniversary of the Official Opening Marked by a Display of Flags. COUNTING PASSENGERS City Club's Statement Doubting the Safety of the Structure Scouted by Bridge Department, -day makes the fifth anniversary Bridge.

of the opening of the Williamsburg In honor of the event, Bridge Commissioner Stevenson ordered the flags on the big towers on either side of the river to be unfurled. No other ceremonies will mark the event, except that a count is being taken of the passengers that cross the structure to-day surface and elevated lines, in order that a comparison of the increase in traffic for the past five years may be made. It was five years ago to-day, and on a Saturday, too, that an official delegation, consisting of the members of the Board of Aldermen and Mayor Low, left the City Hall in officially to open the ne wbridge. carriages, proceeded over one of the roadways and were met in the center of the big span by an official delegation from the Brooklyn side. Mayor Low then declared the bridge to be opened, and the incident was commemorated by a banquet at the Hanover Club.

For nearly a year the bridge was only open to vehicle traffic and to pedestrians. It was not until November 3, after the bridge had been offlically opened, that the first trolley ran across. The operation of the elevated train service was not begun until this year. For almost five years the elevated tracks on the bridge were idle. In the meantime, the city started in with the construction of a subway terminal at Delancoy street, which is no wbeing used by the trolley cars and elevated trains alike.

The bridge has been a remarkable factor in relieving the congested traffic collditions on the old Brooklyn Bridge. This has become especially marked since the elevated trains have been operated over the bridge. Thousands who formerly came to 'Manhattan over the old bridge now use Broadway elevated line and cross over the Williamsburg Bridge, Following is a statement showing the receipts which the city has derived from the structure, beginning from 1904 to the end of last year: The increase in the cost of maintaining the structure has been growing larger each year, but it may be said that there is always a surplus left, approximating about $25,000 annually. With the operation of the elevated trains over the bridge, it is likely that the receipts for 1908 will be much larger than in any of the previous years. Regarding the latest blast from the City Clu.b that the Williamsburg Bridge is unsafe, Chief Engineer Kingsley Martin said to-day that it was almost too absurd to be dignified with a denial.

The structure is perfectly safe. he declared, and repeated tests have demonstrated that. It is true. Mr. Martin said, that the structure is to be strengthened, but that is not due to the fact that it is unsafe.

The strengthening process is to be undertaken simply for the purpose of permitting the operation of eight and tencar trains. of the heavy subway type, when the subway loop connecting the bridges is completed. That is the only reason, Mr. Martin said, why the structure is to be reinforced. NEW VIADUCT OPENED It Is a $500,000 Improvement to Queens Highway System.

It Spans the 30 Railroad Tracks in L. I. City, and Will Prevent Many Fatalities. Officials of Borough President Gresser's office and of the Long Island Railroad this morning officially opened the Thomson avenue viaduct, in Long Island City. This is one of the most important public works in the chain of improvements that are to follow the reconstruction of the traffic highways of Queens Borough, Thomson avenue turns off from Jackson avenue at the north of the Queens County courthouse.

It extends to Grand avenue, in Newtown, and to the Hoffman Boulevard, and is the main highway from Long Island City and the Thirty-fourth Street Ferry to eastern Long Island. There are thirty tracks of the Long Island Railroad crossing the avenue. The plans of the Pennsylvania Railroad provide for the outlet of the tunnel at this point. In view of the immense railroad traffic that will, in the near future, pass at this point, the engineers of the city and the railroad came to the conclusion that unless a plan of elevating the roadway was decided upon the road would become impassable to vehicular traffe. This situation was complicated, since the advent of automobiles, for Thomson avenue was the route chosen daily by hundreds of motors of wealthy New Yorkers going to their homes on Long Island.

It was an avenue known and feared by automobilists the world over who toured Long Island. The plan of improvement decided upon between the Pennsylvania Railroad authorities and the city officials was for a viaduct which would raise the roadway feet above the tracks, and thirty -eight with the necessary approaches. The imcost more than $500,000, and provement this cost is to be borne equally by the railroad and the city. was commenced last The improvement and has been pushed with vigor May, Now the avenue, from the ever since. Jackson avenue approach, presents a one hundred feet wide, smooth approach, of the finest boulevards in making one New York City.

to approach from In addition avenue at the courthouse, anThomson onto the viaduct across other approach the railroad tracks has been provided also This avenue is from wide, and it will be the Nott avenue. one automobilists who come hundred feet approach used by Bridge when it is over the Queensboro completed. INDEX Advertisements in ToTo Classified day's Eagle. Classifcation. Page.

Amusements Auction Automobiles 10 Boarding Business Oppor' ties 11 Business Clairvoyants Coastwise Ships. 11 Corpor'n Death Dentistry Dividends 12 Dogs 11 Election Notices. 12 Financial For 10 Furnished 10 Help 10 Horseg Carriages.11 Hotels 11 Instruction 11 Supplement. DUFFIN'S CASE CLOSED; NO DECISION BY COURT "American Salvation Army" Was Exposed by Eagle and Driven From REAL SALVATION ARMY ACTS. Manhattan Case Is Action to Restrain Imposition on Public--Some of the Testimony, The court hearing of the American Salvation Army, which was driven out of this borough in July of last year after it was exposed as a scheme used principally to enrich its backers, was concluded yesterday before Justice 'OGorafternoon, York County Supreme Court." The complainant was the Salvation Army, the regular organization of English origin, which sought to restrain the other outfit from using the name "Salvation Army" in its title.

Justice 0'Gorman reserved his decision until January 8, telling the lawyers to meanwhile exchange briefs and later file them with the court. This suit was instituted because the similarity in titles created confliction in the public mind and made it difficult for contributors to tell whether they are donating to the great Booth organization or to that other one against which war was waged here in Brooklyn because its apparent impositions, as well as immorality and criminal records of some of the persons connected with it. The "American Salvation Army" officers and soldiers wear uniforms similar to those of the Booth people except that the trimmings are blue instead of red. It was by ex-Justice D. Cady Herrick, tttorney for the Booth organization, that donations intended for his clients had been obtained by the American Salvation Army.

The star witnes sfor the defense was James William Duffin, commander in chief of the A. who was caught in the sensational raid on the headquarters here and who bailed himsel fout. with stacks of real money while his followers had to stay in "the cooler" over night. W. Lee Cannon, his lawyer, called him "General" most deferentially.

Among the interesting things brought to light was the statement that one John Pedden, was never head of the A. S. and that Pedden couldn't write his own name, much less letters of very fair diction. This little scrap of testimony was interesting because Duffin had testified earlier in the day he had received letters from Pedden and that he knew the latte rhad written them when he. was the "general." The Rev.

Mr. Grattan Testifies. was denied, pro forma. Duffin as a Witness. The witness who gave that testimony was the Rev.

William P. Grattan, a Baptist minister at Effingham Falls, N. who was formerly commander-in-chief of the A. S. A.

He said that Pedden was only connected with the A. S. A. and never was one of the leaders. He added that he never saw any of Pedden's writing because he knew the latter couldn't write and knew whereof he spoke, for he was familiar with the very same Mr.

Pedden. If the latter was ever the chief of the A. S. Pastor Grattan testified, he a was never officially elected or appointed and he wasn't authorized to commission anybody in the army. All of which cast a serious reflection on the A.

S. A. credentials of James William Duffin. Judge Herrick put on the stand a lot of Booth army soldiers and officers who refuted testimony to the effect that the lassies there got commissions on collections or that the officers got more than their salaries, which were extremely low for the work they have to do. Many of the lassies don't even get a red cent for their work, it was testified, but they feel they are called for the work and do it cheerfuly and willingly.

Mr. Cannon moved to dismiss on the ground, among other things, that the words "salvation army" form a generic name and can't be monopolized and that the Pennsylvania charter of the A. S. A. cannot be collaterally attached.

The motion James William Duffn of Philadelphia, head' of the American Salvation Army, was on the stand most of the day. He wore his blue uniform and medals and the lawyer for the American army called him "General Duffin." He testified mostly about the workings of the organization he is the head. several occasions, when he was very 1 much in earnest about his testimony, the "general" waxed eloquent and spoke in a pronounced Cockney dialect. The questions of Lawyer Cannon brought out testimony by "General" Duffin that the American Salvation Army was in existence long before he became connected with it. Speaking of his conviction on the charge of abducting a sixteen-year-old girl in Pennsylvania and serving six months in jail for it, which he admitted in cross-examination, Duffin testified that he was pardoned by the governor of Pennsylvania in 1888.

The pardon was introduced in evidence. It was granted after he completed his sentence. Three years after that he joined the Booth or English Salvation Army, Ballington Booth then being the commander. He was commissioned as a captain Jur 17, 1891. Then Mr.

Duffin tested that he received letters from "General" John Pedden, then in command of the A. S. inviting him to join the latter organization. The letters, which Duffin identified, were written by Pedden from Castleton, where the headquarters were, he testified. November 21, 1893, he was commissioned as a major in the A.

S. A. by Pedden. When the latter left Duffin became "it." In 1896 the outfit was incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania. Dyffin declared that he has entire control over the commissioning, placing and shifting the officers at the various posts.

He said it was the custom to let officers stay a year and then shift them, unless the corps appealed for a longer stay. The "Charitable Work." "General" Duffn testified at great length about the "charitable work'! done in "Philadelphy" by the A. S. A. There are dinners to the poor on Thanksgiving and Christmas and summer automobile outings for children, he said.

None of this charitable work was evident in Brooklyn, it will be remembered. The American Salvation Army was driven out of this borough in July of last year, after John D. Godfrey, the mendic icy officer of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, working in conjunction with the Eagle the outfit here. Readers of the Eagle recall the sensational raid made by men of the local detective bureau on the Brooklyn headquarters of the A. S.

A. at 1828 Fulton street. Gross immorality on the part of officers of the A. S. A.

here was charged, and A. F. Handicott, the "staff fled to Canada. The "Home for Friendless Girls," at 36 Lewis avenue, conducted by the A. S.

was also broken up after the methods which obtained there were brought to light. At the earnest solicitation of District Attorney Clarke, who prosecuted the prisoners of the raid, the entire outfit of the American Salvation Army, part and parcel, got out of Brooklyn. Duffin testified that he didn't know anything about Handicitt's personal habits, except in far as the matter was referred to in affidavits by John D. Godfrey. Cross-examined on the similarity of the printed matter of the Booth Army and American Army, Duffin testified that no While WORLD'S TABLE WATER" Unknown to King Menelik The Sultan of Sulu or the Ahkoond of Swat But gracious! What a Business in America 15 each LINDSAY ARROW COLLARS Most of the successful styles appear first in Arrow Collars Cluett, Peabody Makers ARROW CUFFS, LIKE ARROW COLLARS, ARE THE BEST AT THE PRICE-25 CENTS A PAIR himself a salary of $25 week as mander.

He pays a stenographer $5 opera week, in addition to board; his secretary $10 per week, and his daughter, who works in the headquarters office in Philadelphia, $4 per week. This money came out of the 10 per cent. of the collections, made by the staffs of the seventy branches. The officers of the branches receive a salary only "if it comes in," Duffin testified, and even if they personally collect money they don't get extra commission. Some Girls Made $2 a Day.

In their discretion, staff officers may allow 50 per cent. to women and girls who solicit money in saloons for the American Salvation Army. Some of the women make $2 a day, and some of them more, Duffn said, and get commissions "just the same as the Salvation Army lassies do." It takes 40 per cent. to pay the officers' salaries and hte remaining 10 goes to headquarters, which is General Duffin, Justice 'Gorman wanted to know how much percentage was left for the charity work, and Duffin said that all the money taken in special collections and everything of the headquarters 10 per cent. not used for office expenses and salaries was devoted to charitable work, which consisted, he repeated, of dinners for the poor, clothing, for the unclad and trolley parties for children in summer.

Ex-Judge Herrick asked Duffin how he knew that Booth Army lassies received commissions for money collections, and he said some of the lassies came to the American Army to get jobs and told him how much they got. The lassies had a tendency to shift from one army to another, he said, when they wanted more money, and he also had knowledge about the business methods of the Booth Army because of his own connection with it in years gone by. Duffin said that the American Army has an "angel" in Coatesville, in the shape of a steel magnate, who contributes money lavishly to the work and whose wife conducts the religious meetings now and then. Colonel Brady. commanding the American Salvation Army forces in Reading, and Lieutenant Willis O'Donnel of York, told of their work, and the latter said A man of the Booth, or regular Salvation Army, had offered him 25 per cent.

to collect for the English institution. He refused the offer. Mrs. Smalley, custodian of the American Salvation Army Home for Friendless Women in Washington, D. told of the work there of taking care of unfortunate woman.

She recognized, present in the court room, S. P. Williams. now of the Booth Army, who used to be an American Salvation Army staff officer. Williams, she testified, brought her a young girl to take care of who was a minister's daughter and who drank, ate snuff, had been in the foils of the law for stealing and was then in a way to become a mother.

Mrs. Smalley told in great detail what was done for the girl, and also testified that Williams said he ought to make a fine general for the American Salvation Army. Mrs. Smalley said she replied that he might be fit, so far as brains were concerned, but that his charatcer stood against him. Mrs.

Duffin, the "general's" wife, was called to the stand and told of the work of selling papers and magazines to help along "the work." OBITUARY. Louisa McC. Price. The many Brooklyn friends of Richard Francis Price will be grieved to learn of the death of his mother, Louisa MoCormick Price, widow of Richard Price, who for many terms was mayor of Clinton, and at one time candidate for lieutenant-governor of that state. The death of Mrs.

Price occurred in Chicago on the 7th and the remains were removed to her former home in Clinton, where the mayor and city council took charge of the funeral. During the ceremony the flags were placed at half mast on the City Hall and city buildings. Mrs. Price's remains were placed in the family vault. Mr.

Price has just returned to Brooklyn after settling his mother's tate. Isabella Mary Macleay. Isabella Mary Macleay, for many years a Sunday school teacher in the P. E. Church of St.

Thomas. and a beloved member at her death of St. Mary's P. E. Church, died on Thursday of general debility at her residence, 979 Decatur street.

Funeral services were held this. morning in St. Mary's Church, with the rector, the Rev. Dr. James Clarence Jones, officiating, assisted by the Rev.

Dr. Duncan Genns of St. Thomas Church. Deceased was the daughter of the late John Macleay, was born in Brooklyn and her mother, Mary Remsen Macleay, survives her. Albert Edward Thiele.

Albert Edward Thiele of 488 McDonough street, for many years a teacher in the night schools of the Eastern District, and for thirty-five years a resident of the Nineteenth Ward, died yesterday, following an operation for appendicitis the Brooklyn Hospital. He was born in orders were given to officers. The "general" testifled that he allows Manhattan, March 13, 1865, and was graduated at Union. He was a teacher of mechanical and architectural drawing, was past regent of DeLong Royal Arcanum, and a member of Christ P. E.

Church. He is survived by his widow, Tillie Foster, and a son, Albert E. Bertha Catherine Dillman. Bertha Catherine Reicks, widow of Christian L. Dillman, died suddenly, Wednesday, of paralysis of the heart, at her home, 141 Heyward street.

She was born in Germany sixty-nine years ago, had lived in lower Brooklyn for fifty-five years and belonged to the Schermerhorn Street German Evangelical Church, She is survived by four sons, William, Frederick. Alfred and Clement. and four daughters, Zetta, Pauline, Mrs. Charles Blaney and Mrs. Florence Lutters.

OBITUARY NOTES. Elizabeth A. Dillon, widow of Owen Conway, died Thursday in the Brooklyn Hospital from burns received in her home at 462 State street, when a lamp exploded. She had made her home for thtirty-five years in the Third Ward and was a member of the Church of The Seats in the CENTRAL, CONGREGATIONAL Hancock Brooklyn, will be publicly rented for the year 1909, on Monday evening, December 21, commencing at 7:30 o'clock. No postponement on account of the weather.

Possession January 3d. Each pew has a fixed valuation, and the choice of all in the House is offered to the highest bidder. The Church will be opened on the evenings December 22d and 23d (Tuesday and Wednesday) to rent such -pews and sittings as remain undisposed of. BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES. ELECTRIC OR VACUUM CARPET CLEANING THE EAGLE WAREHOUSE STORAGE Tel.

4169 Main. 28 to44 FULTON ST. LOST AND FOUND. POUND, POCKETBOOK. Call between 6 and 8 o'clock.

528 Carlton av. LOST, brown collie DOG, called Buster. Reward if returned to 330 Ocean parkway. LOST. a LOCKET.

with a Masonic emblem; will give reward if returned to HAMILTON. 950 St. Mark's av. 19-2 FOUND. on Lafayette av.

December :8, lady's small HAND BAG, containing sum of money: owner can have on proof and paying for advertisement. Apply to OSCAR D. MOTT, 72 South Elliott place. PERSONAL. I WILL not be responsible for any debts my wife.

ANNIE L. STONE, may contract. WILLIAM STONE, 328B President st, Brooklyn. Our Lady of Mercy. She was born in Manhattan fifty-eight years ago and leaves six sons and three daughters.

John Van Houten, a resident of Canarsie, where he was born 45 years ago, and whose home was at East Ninety-fourth street and Avenue F. died yesterday of consumption, in the Kings County Hospital. He was a motorman in the employ of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. Ralph Smith, a purser in the employ of the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company, who had lived in the Nineteenth Ward of Brooklyn for twenty-five years, died suddenly Thursday, at his residence. 588A Monroe street.

He was born in Manhattan, November 17, 1855. He leaves a widow and two sons, William and Ralph. POLICEMAN'S STRANGE DEATH. Philadelphia, December 19-Edward Mooney, a member of Philadelphia's mounted police force, was killed to-day in a peculiar manner. He was riding along Passyunk avenue in the southwestern section of the city when his horse slipped and Mooney was thrown to the street directly in front of a moving trolley car.

The motorman did all in his power to stop the car, but before he could do so the policeman was struck and crushed to death. REFEREES APPOINTED. BY THOMAS, J. Weiser vs. Levin.

John R. Farrar; Nevina Vs. Kolb. Luther W. Emerson; Schmall V8.

Fischer, Charles S. Armstram; Barken V9. Manson, William A. Powell; Herfield vs. Saxe, Charles T.

Kunkle. BY CARR, J. Northside Bank vs. Leizerkowitz, LeRoy W. Ross.

PROPOSALS. PROPOSALS FOR BIDS AND ESTIMATES FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS. The person or persons making a bid or estimate for any service, work, materials or supplies for The City of New York, or for any of its departments, bureaus or offices shall furnish the same in a sealed envelope, indorsed with the title of the supplies, materials, work or service for which the bid or estimate 18 made, with his or their name or names and the date of the presentation to the President or Board or to the head of the department at his or its office, on or before the date and hour named in the advertisement for the same, at which time and place the estimates received will be publicly opened by the President or Board or head of said Cedartment and read, and the award or the contract made according to law as soon thereafter as practicable.

Each bid or estimate shall contain the name and place of residence of the person making the same, the names of all persons interested with him therein, and if no other person be 80 interested, it shall distinctly state that fact; also that it is made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the same purpose and is in all respects fair and without collusion or fraud, and that no member of the Board of Aldermen, head of. department, chief of bureau. officer deputy The thereof or of' clerk therein, or other of City New York is, shall be or become Interested, directly or indirectly, as contracting party, partner, shareholder, of surety the or contract, otherwise in in the or in the performance or supplies, work portion or of business the to profits which thereof. it relates, The or in any bid estimate must be verified by the oathi, in writing, of the party or parties making the estimate that the several matters stated therein are In all respects true. Each bid or estimate will be accompanied by the consent, in writing, of two householders or freeholders in The City of New York, or of 8 guaranty or act surety as surety, company and duly shall authorized contain by law to the matter set forth in the blank form mentioned below.

No bid or estimate will be considered unless 88 8 condition precedent to the reception or consideration of any proposal it be accompanied by a certified check upon one of the state or national banks of The City of New York, drawn to the order of the comptroller, or money to the amount of five per centum of the amount of the bond required, as provided in Section 420 of the Greater New York Charter. The certified check or money should not be inclosed In the envelope containing the bid or estimate, but should be either Inclosed in 8 separate envelope addressed to head of the department, personally, president the or presentation board, or of submitted upon the bid or estimate, For particulars as to the quantity and quality of the supplies or the nature and extent of the work, reference must be made to the specifications, schedules, plans, on Ale in the said office of the president, board or department. No bid shall be accepted from or contract awarded to any. person who is in arrears to The City of New York upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the city. contracts must be bid for separately.

The right is reserved in each case to reject all bids or estimates if it be deemed to be for the interest of the city co to do. Bidders will write out the amount of their bids or estimates in addition to inserting the same in figures, Bidders are requested to make their bids or estimates upon the blank forms prepared and furnished by the city, a copy of which, with the proper envelope in which to inclose the bid, together with a copy of the contract, including the specifications, in the form approved by the Corporation Counsel, can be obtained upon application therefor at the office in the department for which the work 1s to be done. Plate of drawings of construction work may also be seen there, DIED. DIED. Classification.

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