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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE 'i Credit Coupon ITT THIS On. MAHC'H 2S. FOUR O'CLOCK. NEW YORK CITY. THURSDAY.

MARCH 25. 1901). YOL. 70. SO.

83. 24 PAGES, LVCLIDING PICTURE THREE CENTS. NAMED BY THE PRESIDENT. II PICE DP 5ERVIA LOC AL AY A Til KM 1'HOH BI I.ITIKH. Colder, ul(h ruin, turning: tn niivr thin afternoon niioir anil rnlilrr o-itliitt Friday, nrtl- high north went wind.

ULR1CH IS ACCUSED BI WITNESS POTRUCH M'ADQQ FIDES BACK AT THE HUGH TO BE OPEN TUESDAY SPRING HAS "CAME." Mattituck Farmers Fix Date by Putting "'Taters" in Ground. (Special to the Eagle.) Mattituck, L. March 25 Spring here, regardless of the "feel" of no weather local farmers began planting potatoes Wednesday. On that day. Nat S.

Tuthill and H. 11. Gildersleeve each put in a considerable acreage. Other farming work is well advanced. Hundreds of acres are plowed, cabbages for seed are being placed in ill" ground, and before the end of next week several hundred acres of potatoes will be planted in this place alone.

FIRE ATTACKED CORPSE Body at Ridgewood Heights Slightly Burned by Overturned Candle. Rushed From Mourners, Terrified House Flames Extinguished Be fore Much Damage Was Done. Fire surrounded a corpse last night, caused a panic among the mourners andjhls depar threatened to destroy a three-story brick tenement house at 6S1 Woodbine street, Ridgewood Heights, Queens Borough. A lighted candle, accidentally tipped over by a mourner, who brushed against it while in the act of viewing the remains In the casket, set fire to the draperies. But for the quick action of a few cool-beaded men the body, which was that of John Wagner, might have been Incinerated and the building completely destroyed.

It was about 8 o'clock and two' score of the lale Mr. Wagner's friends were gathered In the parlor of the little home of the dead man's father. Joseph Wagner, to pay their last respects to his memory and extend sympathy to the bereaved family. The coffin In which the dead man lay was placed between the two front windows. A lighted candle furnished the only illumination fir the room and cast weird shadows over the corpse and the mourners.

Wagner met a tragic death several days ago. He, with a young woman, Annie Miller, had been found dead in a room in Al Blohm's Hotel, at Evergreen, last Sunday night. They had died from gas asphyxiation, the jet being found turned on half. The coroner said their deaths were accidental. While the mourners were watching the fantaslic shadows on the floor and walls one of the number wnlked loward the casket and in doing so accidentally pushed the candle over.

It fell on I be coffin, and within a few seconds the box was enveloped In flames that, curled about like so many serpents. There was a smothered scream followed by louder ones of terror. The room was emptied in a jiffy, the people piling precipitately out of the house, rousing the other families in the building to do lika-wlse. Three or four cool men remained, however, and extinguished the flames, smothering them With bed clothing. Charles Fohnenkopf of 63 3 Woodbine street sent In an' alarm and arrival of the lire engines added to the and threw the entire neighborhood Into an uproar.

Not much damage was done. The corpse was slightly burned, the coffin badly scorched and Ihe Carpet and furniture wer somewhat damaged'. HEROES AT THIS FIRE -r fA i J0(. Leishman, Ambassador to Italy; Ide, Minister to Spain. Washington.

March 25 The President to-day sent to the Senate the following nominations: Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Italy, John G. A. Leishman of Pennsylvania. Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Span, Henry Clay Ide of Vermont. Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Argentine Republic, Charles H.

Sherrlll, New York. United States judge, -western diRtrict of Pennsylvania. Charles P. Orr, Pennsylvania. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Porto Rico, Jose Conrado Hernandos of Porto Rico.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Porto Rico, Emilio Torro Cuevas of Porto Rico. United States attorneys: Henry A. Wise, southern district of New York; George B. Curtiss, northern district of New York. Assistant secretary of commerce and labor, Ormsby McHarg, North Dakota.

ROBBERS HOLD UP TRAIN Get About $400 From Passengers at West Denver. Two Highwaymen Enter a Sleeper and Escape With Their Plunder. Denver. March 25 Two highwaymen entered a sleeping ear in the Denver and Rio Grande yards atiWest Denver early to-day, "held up" sMfof the aeven passengers, the conductor aid porter, and got away with about $400 in cash. The only woman passenger, Mrs.

N. R. Hus-sey of Booth Bay Harbor, Maine, was not molested. The car was part of Denver and Rio Grande train No. 4.

Train No. 4 was held up at Military Junction a few weeks ago. The train was several hours late in reaching Denver to-day. and the sleeping car was cut off in the yards at West Denver to await morning. About, five minutes later the colored porter was dragged out of his berth by two masked men.

who at the point of revolvers marched him to the rear end of the car. The smallest of the two men guarded the porter while the other man awoke the other occupants of the car. One by one their clothes were searched. E. N.

R. Hussey of Booth Bay Harbor, Maine, was robbed of $89. Mrs. Hussey was sleeping in an adjoining berth. The robbers in response to Mr.

Hussey's pleading, did not disturb her. A. W. Forest of Columbus, Ohio, gave up about $100. The robbers then marched the passengers, conductor and porter into a compartment at one end of the car, closed the door and made their escape.

DIVORCE FOR MRS. MASURY. Wife of Beverly, Millionaire Scientist and Former Naval Lieutenant Secures a Decree. (Special to' the Eagle.) Boston, March 62 Mrs. Wilhel-mina C.

Masury was granted a divorce from Dr. John M. Masury, the Beverly, millionaire, scientist and one time lieutenant in the in the Suffolk Superior Court yesterady afternoon. The suit was uncontested. Mrs.

Masury, richly attired, mado- a striking figure on the witness stand. She was married to Dr. Masury in Hoosie Falls, N. in 1897. While she and Dr.

Masary were traveling in Europe the doctor left, her, she said, in Paris. He left Beverly one or two days after her return and she has not heard directly from him since. Several depositions were submitted and the decree was granted on statutory grounds. Dr. Masury inherited an immense fortune from his grandfather, who was engaged in the manufacture of paints In New York.

He was born in Brooklyn and is a graduate of Columbia. He is widely known as an expert on yellow fever. When the Spanish War broke out he offered his services to the government and was given a commission as lieutenant in the navy. In 1902 he was elected to the common council of Beverly, where he had an elegant mansion. John W.

Masury owned a fine country estate at Moriches, L. still owned by his widow, Mrs. Grace M. Masury. It is one of the show places on the South Side of Long Island.

The Masury family is well remembered in Brooklyn. KILLED BY ELEVATOR CABLE. Someone Started the Machinery and James McDevitt Was Caught and Fatally Injured. While James McDevitt and Edward Casey, stablemen employed at 110 West Fiftieth street, Manhattan, were on the roof of the structure fixing the elevator machinery, this morning, some one on the first floor pulled the rope and McDevitt's legs were taught by the "able as it wound up on the drum. Ho uttered a scream that caused a workman to Btop the elevator, and the car had to be started downward again to unwind the cable and release McDevitt.

In running to McDevitt's assistance, Casey fell and landed on a crossbeam. He was hurt internally and had his face cut. Both men were taken to Flower. Hospital, where McDevitt soon died without recovering consciousness. MAY SAVE GIRL'S SIGHT.

Operation for Cataract on Eye of Young Woman Shot by Hunter in Mistake for Game. (Special to the Eagle.) Riverhead. L. March 25 At the Greenport Hospital, to-day, Dr. S.

Busby Allen "of this place, an eye specialist, performed an operation on little MI83 Ethielyn Phillips of East Quogue, who was shot last October while in the woods by a hunter who mistook her for game in the bushes. The operation was to remove a traumatic cataract, which had formed on her left eye, completely blinding that optic. A bullet from the hunter's gun had penetrated the lens. Shortly after the accident, the girl was brought to Dr. Allen.

She had then lost the sight of the eye, but under treatment it was regained. He held out no hopes for a permanent cure, believing that shortly a cataract would form which would again cause blindness In the eye. This has turned out to be the case, and even now, although the operation may be successful, he says it will be several months before the full good effects of the operation will be ascertained. In the same hospital, Monday, Dr. Allen operated on Miss Florence McCarthy of Laurel for tne same cause.

This girl had stuck a pair of scissors In one of her eyes, which caused the cataract to form and blindness ensued. Both of the cases have attracted considerable attention from people who know the patients because ct tie semi-tragic features of their cases. The Eagle Weather Bureau received the 1-lowinft epecial to-day fruni YVashinirton: "Storm warn Inns oniered changed to north-wear, at 10:30 A.M. on Th Middle Atlantic coast. tJale will he unusually aevere this afternoon and to-night on the Middle Atlantic mast." FITZGERALDS AT WHITE HOUSE, (Special to the Eagle.) Washington, March 25 President and Mrs.

Taft have invited Representative and Mrs. John J. Fitzgerald of Brooklyn to be their guests at the dinner at the White House on Friday night of this week. This is the first formal function at the White House under the Taft administration. In view of this fact there Ib gome curiosity regarding the list of guests.

No information on this subject was oobtalned at the White House to-day. This is the first time ihe Brooklyn man has been honored with a dinner invitation to the White House. ANOTHER SUBWAY RUMORED N. N. H.

and H. R. R. May Build One of Its Own. Things Will Be Turned Turvy if It Is So.

Topsy- It was learned at the offices of the Public Service Commission this afternoon that information has reached certain commissioners from a reliable source that the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company will soon file a proposal to build a subway of Its own Into Manhattan. Should such a proposal be made, it would turn topsy-turvy the generally accepted notion that the New Haven I financially interested In the proposal of the Bradiey. Gaffney, Steers Company to construct the Broadway-Lexington avenue route, with a Bronx connection with the Harlem River branch of the New Haven road. As a matter of fact, no official announcement has been made of just who is Interested in the Bradley. Gnffney, Steers Company's offer.

The Public Service Commission has let It become known that. It was satisfied the concern was capable of fulfilling its contract, should its offer be approved. In assuming that the New Haven was interested in the the commissioners have merely applied the first principles of logic to a series of facts. One of the commissioners stated to-day that, while he was convinced the proposal was bona fide, he didn't know what interests were back of the contracting company. JOKER SENDS IN AUTO BILL.

Provides That Motorists Must Send Up Bombs at a Corner. Albany, March 25 Some practical joker in the Assembly introduced a bill to-day bearing the name of Assemblyman Her-rlck of New York amending the motor vehicle law. The provided that on discovering an apprsachlng team the au-tomobilist must offside and cover his machine with a tarpaulin painted to correspond with the scenery. Approaching a corner an autpmoblllst "must stop not less than 100 yards from the turn, toot his horn, ring a bell, fire a revolver, hallo end send up three bombs at Intervals of five minutes." Another provision requires automobiles to be seasonably painted, "so they will merge with the pastoral ensemble, and not be startling. They must be green in spring, golden in summer, red In autumn and white In winter." On motion of Assemblyman J.

S. Phillips, the provisions of the bill were read during the session, and created much merriment. ROOSEVELT'S SHIP ROLLING. Former President Omits Lunch, Some of His Party Are Sick. and On Board Steamship Hamburg, at Sea, March 24, 5 P.M.

(via Marconi Wireless to Siasconsett, Mass,) The ship is rolling this afternoon in a considerable swell, and a number of the passengers are seasick. Mr. Roosevelt did not partake of lunch to-day, and he spent the afternoon in his stateroom, reading. Kermlt Roosevelt, his boh, and J. Aldeu Loring, another member of the party, are easlck.

DYING, IN HER BALL GOWN. Mrs. Lillian Blake, Deserted and Dis possessed, Tries to Commit Suicide by Inhaling Gas, Mrs. Lillian Blake, a beautiful woman of 40 years, was found in her little two-room apartment at 98 Christopher Manhattan, this morning, dressed in an elaborate blue bespangled ball gown, and dying as a result, of inhaling illuminating gas. taken with intent to commit suicide.

She was removed to St. Vincent's Hospital a prisoner. That woman tried to put an end to herself because of being forsaken by a man, was evident from a note written on the inner soles-of a man's shoes, found in her room. There was a note also, addressed to Matthew Niles, 383 Bleecker street," which was sealed and was not opened by the police. Neighbors say Mrs.

Blake had been grieving since the night of St. Patrick's Day, when she went to a fancy dress ball, wearing the same gown which she wore this morning when found. Mrs. Blake had been in a state of deep dejection ever since, say the neighbors. The man referred to had always paid her rent, but she told Mrs.

Bantanni, who lives just in the rear of Mrs. Blake's apartment on the third floor, that on the night of the ball this man had left with a blonde, and she felt she had been deserted by him. Yesterday she was served with a dispossess notice, and she went to all her friends in the house and announced she would leave them this morning. HAMMERSTEIN AFTER A SITEP Oscar Hammerstein. who has declared that he will build an opera house in Brooklyn, paid a quiet visit to this borough to-day with the object In view, it is said, of closing a deal for some property near to the present Academy of Music.

No statement was obtainable from Mr. Hammerstein, but one is looked for early next week. WESTON WALKING IN RAIN. Rochester. March 25 Edward Payson Weston, pedcBtrlan.

left this city westward bound early this morning. He will walk to Batavia, about 35 miles, to-day, In a heavy rain. HARMLESS PISTOL DUEL. Lisbon, Portugal, March 25 A harm- I less pistol duel was fought here to-day between Minister of Flnnnce Mmuol d'Espregttoira and Caciro Malta. The trouble arose- out of charge ng.iinat ttie minister mado lu tho Cji'Ub by the d.puty.

i Testimony Is That Money Was Repeatedly Paid for the Appointments. JUST $100 IN SEVERAL CASES. But Only Half That Amount for Brother of 6th A. D. Club Organiser The Cross-Examination.

At 10 o'clock this morning Assistant District Attorney Klder opened Ihe trial of Frank J. Ulrich, former supprinten- idem of highways in Ihe Borough of i urnnbivn. htinn lavov and Jury in Pan. of the Supreme Court. He read the Indictment, charging L'lrirh with accepting money for performing, an official act.

the appointment of a- cor- porat ion William Potruch, In men: The selection of a "jury occupied all of vesterdav afternoon's fu sion, and nt the t'mo for adjournment Justice Jaycox ordered the jury locked up. They s.ient the nigh' the Clarendon Hotel, and will be locked up in ihe custody of court officers until the dose. of tho. trial. Justice Jaycox- will hold night sessions, beginning to-night at.

7 o'clock, in order to have the trial finished as soon as possible. morning's session was entirely laken up with the testimony of Alexander Pdtrueh, a former corporation inspector, who Is the witness against Ulrlch. Potruch was Ihe alleged go-between and states thnt he paid L'lrlch, or some one designated by him, money, for the appointment of three corporation Inspectors, one of whom was his brother, William Potruch. Potruch made a very difficult witness for the prosecution and Mr. Klder had a hard time getting exact Information from him.

But. when his testimony for the prosecution was all lu atlon and proved an even more difficult witness for Charles Russell, one of the atlOrUeVR for Ulrich tn hflnrllo IWore PotnIch oaed (he 8tand Mr. RusJeU and Harwood. who is associate counsel for l'lrlch. applied to Justice Jaycox tn dismiss the case.

It. was claimed in support of the motion to dismiss that a corporation inspector is not a public officer, Ihe meaning of. that, section of the Penal Code, which maka the acceptance of a gratuity for the appointment of a public officer a (t was pointed out I hut. the corporation Inspectors receive pay from the corporations whose work they Inspect and not from the city treasury. Justice Jaycox refused to dismiss the Indictment, and remarked that the corporation Inspectors were ofllcei'8, as they reported to the borough president and the superintendent of highways and worked under their direction.

Mr. Elder Outlines Case. Elder, In outlining ihe case of tho prosecution to the jury, defined the work of Ihe corporation Inspectors. He said that, they were dciailed by ihe Department of which Frank was the head, In (his borough, to inspect the laying of iro.lcy tracks, electric light mains, and so so as to see that the laws of the city and the rules lhe H'ghwoy Department were com- These corporation inspectors were Jus. favored men.

who into his office and asked to bp set to work. Their names were put on a memorandum, and whenever Mr. l'lrlch wished them to be put to work, said Mr, Elder, they were sent out to Inspect some particular job, "The defendant was a man who was actively imeresiert In political work, in the Sixth Assembly District. H.i to become a leader of some note in tha; assembly i'. strict." Attorney Itusaell hereupon objected i.9 r.hier statement aoout t'iricn ur- Justice Jaycox said was an honorable aspiration, and Mr.

Elder would have to prove it. anyway, If he couM, so it didn't ia a tier. Pay for Appointments. Mr. Klder vent on: "Mr.

L'irlch had these political aspirations, tmn, and ho organized a Hebrew Democratic Club. lie and Alexander Potruch and Mortimer Brown were in lliiw ciu-b nnd thev erndually Alexander Potruch. whom Mr. Klder had described as the moving spirit of the Hebrew Democratic Club, was the first witness called. On moiion or Russell, all ihe o'her witnesses for the prosecution and defense, except those wbo would testify as to the character of Flrich, were requested to leave the court room.

Alexander Potruch. who said he now lives tit 1514 Brook avenue, the Bronx, testified that lie had seen Ulrlch in the, office of Mortimer Brown, at Broadway and Myrtle avenue. Potruch said he had organized brew Democratic Association of he Sixth Assembly District, in August. ISO. to help out the Democratic organUat Ion ln the 'primaries of September.

L'lrlch and Brown were honorary mem bers of this organization, which had its headquarters at Throop avenue and Ki-lery sireof. Potruch said he was the "standard bearer" of the club, nnd that his duties consisted in getting aS many new members into the club as possible. Potruch Interested iu Primaries. Potruch said that the primaries were to decide the leadership of the district. He had a conversation with Ulrlch iu the clubhouse.

Ulrich instructed him onrl i icn said that he had asked llrlch for position as he had been out of -work some time, and Ulrich sent him to Van Buskirk who gave him the appointment. Mr. asked if Potruch had later conversations with Ulrlch ab'nul appointing corporation inspectors. Po-' truch replied Ihat in July or August. 190S.

he had mcj. Ulrlch at the iatter'i Accuses It of Seeking by Indirection to Do a Thing It Disclaims. A WAR OF SUBWAY LEVELS, He Suggests That the Interborough Would Be Glad to Bury His. Company Deep Under Ground. Another hot volley was fired to-day In the great subway war In which the traction companies of the city are engaged, when William G.

McAdoo. builder of the Hudson River tunnel system, issued a statement In which he openly charged the Interborough Rapid Transit Company with seeking to accomplish, by Indirection, a purpose It publicly disclaims. The McAdoo statement was made public as the answer of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company to the letter sent yesterday to the Public Service Commission by Theodore P. Shonts, president of the Interborough. In that letter President Shonts stated that, were the proposed extension of the McAdoo tunnel from Herald Square to the Grand Central Station permitted to occupy the second level under Forty-second street, "It would for all time prevent the possibility of building north and south subways crossing Forty-second street, between Sixth avenue and Park avenue, unless the new north and south routes were made on the fourth leevl." President Shonts inclosed in his letter to the commission a report made by William Barclay Parsons, chief consulting engineer to the Interborough, recommending that in no event should the construction of the proposed McAdoo extension be allowed above the fourth level at the Grand Central Station.

The Becond level, the report slated, should be reserved for future north and south subways and the third level for the Stein-way tunnel extension. Regarding this recommendation. President McAdoo tartly replies that, obviously, "if the proposed Hudson River tunnel extension should be located so deep under ground as to be of no use to th public as a transportation facility mani festly there would be no objection on the part of the Interborough. President McAdoo. In his statement, also calls attention to the fact that the Interborough Is evidently unaware ihat it occupies the second, and not the first, level under Forty-second Btreet at Fifth avenue.

Concerning tho fear of the Interborough people thnt for the proposed McAdoo extension to be constructed on Ihe level next below thelr's would jeopardize the safety of the present President McAdoo ventures to assert that tunneling under the North River and under Sixth avenue was really quite as difficult an engineering feat as to build a subway several feet below the level of the Interborough road. Here is President McAdoo's statement In full: "Mr. Shonts' objections to the extension of our Sixth avenue subway to the Grand Central Station, as embodied In his letter of March 4. 1909. to the Public Service Commission, scarcely needs One manifest error Into which he falls should; however, be corrected.

He any comprehensive plans for the New York subways, the second levol on Forty-second street should reserved for subways to be constructed running north and south on Manhattan Island and to the "It. is such a well known fact that. Mr. Shonts' own subway occupies the second level under Forty-second street, at tho Fifth avenue crossing, that It, Is difficult to understand how he could have made this mistake. The first, level at, the Fifth avenue and Forty-second street crossing has been reserved tor a north and south subway in Fifth avenue, this having been done by the old Rapid Transit Commission, so that there is nmple room for such a subway in Fifth avenue, crosa-lng over the top of Mr.

Shonts' subway. "The Hudson tunnel plan is to occupy the third level at, this point; namely, the one immediately underneath Mr. Shonts' subway. This also leaves free and unobstructed the fourth level for the Steinway tunnel, provided if. is con tinued westwardly under Second street and on the level now occupied by it and for which alone it has, If at all, any rights under Its filed line.

"There Is no difficulty whatever from an engineering standpoint in constructing the Hudson tunnels so that there will be no danger to the existing subway structure, nor interference with the operation of subway trains. A far more difficult engineering feat was encountered and successfully performed by this company In constructing tho Hudson tunnels underneath Sixth avenue and carrying the elevated railroad and surface tracks. The Sixth avenue elevated is the old type of structure and is more difficult to support, than modern structures of this kind, but. no Injury was done to It, and not a train was delayed a second in operation during the entire period of construction. Even the foundations of the elevated railroad were rebuilt and form to-day a part of the tunnel structure underneath.

"Another far more difficult feat was to build the Hudson River tunnels through rock and slit, under a river 65 feet deep and more than a mile in width, without accident or injury. To build the Forty-second street extension through solid rock, with 8 to 10 feet of cover between the bottom of the present subway and the top of our structure, is child's play compared with the many difficult engineering problems we have already encountered and successfully mastered. "If the Forty-second street extension could be located so deep under the ground that it would be of no use to the public as a transportation facility, manifestly there would be no objection on the part of the Interborough. This would accomplish by indirection what is denied to be the obvious purpose in suggesting such a deep level." CORTELYOU, NEW PRESIDENT. Former Secretary of the Navy Now Head of the Consolidated Gas Company.

George B. Cortelyou, former Secretary of the United States Treasury, was today elected president of the Consolidated Gas Company of this city at a meeting of the directors of the company held in their office in Manhattan. The office of president of the Consolidated Gas Company had been vacant, for a long time. Rumors were current In the financial district for several weeks past to the effect, that Mr, Corteuyou would be elected as president of the company, but not until to-day did the directors decide to take official action. Mr.

Cortelyou will assume charge of the office of the president of the gas company at once and make his headquarters at the company's general office, Irving Mr. Cortelyou was not present at the meeting of ihe directors when his election took place, and it Is understood that ho is in Washington, making arrangements for bringing his family to this city, where he will iy tjis permanent residence. City Officials Will Inaugurate Vehicular and Foot Traffic on the Big Cantilever. CAR SERVICE IS FAR AWAY. There May Be Shuttle Cars, but the Railroads Are Indifferent in Their Attitude.

The Queensboro Bridge will be opened for traffic next Tuesday. There will be no official ceremonies, the formal opening of the structure taking place on June 12 with elaborate exercises under the direction of the civic organizations of Queens. The opening on Tuesday will be undertaken, by Mayor McClellan, Bridge Commissioner James W. Stevenson, the engineers of the Bridge Department and a few Invited guests. Half past 2 In the afternoon Is the hour set.

At that time the Mayor, Commissioner Stevenson and Chief Engineer Klngsley Martin will make the trip over the roadway of the structure In an automobile. As soon as the Mayor's machine has passed the toll box on the roadway any vehicle may cross the structure In either direction by paying the usual toll. The same scale of tolls that Is charged on the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges will prevail on the Queensboro Bridge. Unlike the Brooklyn and the Williamsburg bridges, there is only one roadway on the Queensboro Bridge. It Is located in the center of the structure and Is as wide as the two roadways on either of the other two bridges.

At the same time the roadway is opened the footpaths on the new bridge will also be opened for pedestrians. There are two of these footpaths. One is for pedestrians bound in the direction of Manhattan and the other is for pedestrians who are on their way to Queens. Commissioner Stevenson announced today that the wiring for the electric lighting of the bridge has all been completed. But, nevertheless, there are still a few details of construction which are not finished.

But they will not Interfere either with the roadway or the two footpaths used by pedestrians. This construction work relates only to the railroad end of the bridge. Application will also be made by the Bridge Department, to Police Commissioner Bingham for the assignment of a sufficient number of men to patrol the roadways and the footpaths. The services of these polloemen will he most essential in the roadway in order to compel the drivers of vehicles to obey the rules of the road and keep to the right iu crossing the bridge (n either direction. A BRIDGE WITHOUT CARS.

No Hope for Anything but a Shuttle Service for a Long Time, Only a shuttle car service will be operated when the Queensboro Bridge Is opened for traffic. 1 Even that Is only a possibility. The question has- not yet been decided by the Board of Estimate. It will be months before the people of Queens may expect a thorough service over the bridge. The companies who are willing to operate their cars over the bridge are still paper corporations, or they still have to extend their lines to the Queens approach of the bridge.

The only company, the New York and Queens County Railroad Company, which can give a thorough service Immediately has assumed a very Indifferent attitude. It Is apparently immaterial to the company whether or not it receives a franchise. The foregoing facts explain the transit situation on the new Queensboro Bridge, which cost the city $14,000,000 to build. To use Controller Metz's words, it will be just like the Williamsburg Bridge when that structure was thrown open for traffic a giant doing a boy's work. In many circles the present situation Is regarded as a scandal, and the Board of Estimate is held responsible for It.

For months some of the franchise applications have been pending before the select committee, which quietly permitted them to slumber, until suddenly the announcement was made that the bridge would be ready for traffic before the beginning of the summer. The Select Committee Has Just Begun to Stir. Not until yesterday were the members of the somnolent select committee of the Board of Estimate impressed with the seriousness of the situation. Not until then, apparently, 'did they realize that their dilatory tactics will probably halt the natural development of the Borough of Queens for months. It was the first time that they seemed to be cognizant of the fact that the people who do not live near the bridge will have to pay an eight cent fare If they use the bridge in going to and from their homes.

Three cents will be the fare on the shuttle service and five cents on the lines of the New York and Queens County Railroad, the only transit line connecting with the approach of the bridge, Naturally, they proceeded to get very busy. For the next few weeks they to make the fur fly as an evidence of their energy, but it Is doubtful if It will do much good. The meeting of the committee yesterday was for the purpose of considering the franchise application of the South Shore Traction Company. This company wants to extend Its line from Jamaica over the bridge to Manhattan. Harry P.

Nichols, the engineer in charge of the franchise bureau of the Board of Estimate, realizing the gravity of the situation, incorporated several amendments to the original form of the proposed franchise. These amendments I make it incumbent upon the company to operate a shuttle service over the bridge until it has had an opportunity to extend its line from Jamaica. Offers a Shuttle Service in Return for a Franchise. "The New York and Queens County Company, whoso lines could be operated directly over the bridge, do not seem to be disposed to accept a franchise," said Mr. Nichols in explanation to the board.

"We cannot allow tho bridge to be opened without having some means to I carry passengers ni-rofs. So 1 prepared these amendments with the consent or tho South Shore Company, and that com- Continued on 1 1 je Accused of Being lm- fed in the Death of a Servant. DE PRESS IS BITTER. f.or Is That He Has Fled the atry Brother Will Suc ceed Him. fie.

Servia, March 25 George, I'rince of Servia, has renounced of succession to the Servian This action is the result of- a press campaign in which the Prince was accused of being the I of the recent death of one of his fits, a man named Kolakovlts. letter to Premier Novakovltch, morning, the Crown Prince an- fnces that he has taken this step 'her than rest under the suspicion of George, Crown Prince of Servia, NVho Has Renounced His Rtshts to the Throne Owing to Scandalous Reports. having murdered his servant, and that hy the renunciation he foregoes all special privileges and immunities that attach to the person of the heir to the throne. Continuing, he expresses his willingness to proceed abroad for a lengthy sojourn. The servant Kolakovlts was removed to a hospital last week suffering from serious internal injuries and he died after an operation.

According to the report of the doctors who performed an autopsy on the body, the man suffered from hernia and his death was due to serious Injury consequent" upon falling down stairs. The press and the public, however, refused to accept this explanation and openly voiced their suspicions that the Crown Prince was responsible for the murder of his servant. The scandal grew to such proportions that it impossible to hush It up, and the final outcome was the sensational announcement of the Crown Prince to the Premier. Immediately upon the receipt of the Prince's letter, the Premier notified the members of the Cabinet of its contents and summoned an urgency meeting of the Cabinet this afternoon, at which King Peter will preside. The action of the Crown Prince has created a profound sensation here.

The National Assembly at once adjourned upon hearing the news. The newspapers issued extra editions, and the intelligence quickly caused the assemblage of excited knots of people in the public places of the city. According to the terms of the Servian constitution the renunciation of the crown prince can be accepted only by the Grand National Assembly. Minister of Finance Protics declared In an interview to-day that the crown prince could not voluntarily renounce his rights to the throne, explaining that such a step must have the sanction of the National Assembly, before which the matter will be laid to-morrow. According to current reports Koloka-vits, before his deth, asserted that the injuries to his head and abdomen bad been inflicted by the Crown Prince.

There have been many previous reports of the brutalities of this hair-brained youth since he came to Belgrade after the murders of King and Queen Draga in 3903. Statesmen and officials of high and low degree are said to have been beaten and fired on by the Prince during fits of craay anger. Another story credits him with the murder of a gamekeeper, and still another with an attempt to kill two footmen who opt posed his efforts to force his way into a Belgrade nunnery. Vienna, March 25Officlal dispatches have been received here confirming the statement that George, Crown Prince of Servia, has renounced his right to the throne of that country. It is reported here that the prince already has fled the country, and another rumor is that he has resigned in favor of his younger brother Alexander.

The actions of Prince George of Servi in recent years have been the scandal of the Servian court. He is 22 years old and was designated Crown Prince of Servia when his father, Peter ascended the throne in 1903 after the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga. He ha3 been a leader of the war party In his country since the outbreak of the trouble with Austria-Hungary over the annexation by the dual monarchy of the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and on a visit to St. Petersburg last October he was urged by Emperor Nicholas to abandon his warlike attitude. His riotous living hai alienated the affections of the Servian people, and it often has been said that they would welcome the substitution of his younger brother Alexander as heir to the throne.

The renunciation of the crown prince brings a new and perhaps important element into the crisis between Austria-Hungary and Servia which is indirectly affecting all the great powers of Europe. The prince has been recognized as one of the radical "fighting element," and, while this is not the reason publicly assigned for his withdrawal, it may yet exert an important calming influence on the present crisis. The young prince has been the central figure of several sensational episodes since he came to Belgrade with his father, culminating with the latest affair of the murdered servant. He still managed to hold a considerable following among the people, mainly because of his warlike declarations as to maintaining Scrvia's position by force of arms againsr all outside Influences. DEWEY'S PURE WIXE TOMCS.

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T. -Adv. I CIICI Id I iYTCiioia vnnicu LV'ppd with. Safety by Firemen and Citizens. George Dillcn Leaps to Fame and His Little Sister, Also Blaze in Wyckoff Street.

More than a score of people were res- cued last night from a fire in the four- story tenement house at Wyckoff street. The fire was started by some one dumping a scuttle of hot coals down the dumbwaiter. The upper two floors were burned out, and the firemen, aided by several men of the neighborhood, carried out who were cut off from escape by the stairs. George Cook, of 12 Wyckoff street, was standing in front of his home with George Dillon, who lives on the second floor of the burned building, when they saw the drifted into this ctisiom of demanding reflection of tho blaze. Dillon ran into 'pay for appointments.

Whpn a young the house and aroused the tenants, while member of the Hebrew Democratic Club, Cook sent in an-alarm. On the fourth Prospective member wanted an polntnp-ni as corporation inspector, he floor Dillon found the members of the 0 )ay $lll fol. thal (lesg. MrDonough family all struggling, half, nation. This wa.i one of the means-tkey overcorae with smoke.

In their bedroom, had of raising money for their personal Mr. and Mrs. Peter MrDonough and one uses. a "Now. then Mr, Brown was a lawyer chUd were taken down fire-escape by h(, hnf, an thr MmK Dillon, and he had returned tor the other inK vivich.

and they were asso- chlldren when Truck 68 arrived. dated together." A thirty-flve-foot ladder was raised at Here Mr. Russell again obieclfd. on the front of the house and the ground tha, Mr. lildc- was msking a statements 'prejudicial to Hip defendant, Schneider went to the top floor.

In was no allegation in the indicf-bedroom he found Eddie Mr-Donough, 3 m.m charging JIM for years old. and Tommy MrDonough, 7 years I K1-mvn up. Mr. Russell old. lying on the floor.

With the Mr EMr In charg- chlldren on his shoulder he went to tha infe ttlis wholesale coimpiracv. The jury street, and returned after the other peo- wag instructed by Justice to dis-ple on the oihcr side of the hall. Here, (h), bald statement, as no to-with the. help of his side partner. Miller, marlis of Mr, Mre but he rescued the family of Henry Webberi- wore mcrelv explanatorv.

sen. consisting of four children. Henry. 2 months old; Bertha, 10 years; Hanna. years old, and Llzxie, 12, all of whom were taken to the street.

The members of Engine 1 04 were at work on the third floor, and Mrs. Anna Hartman and four children were taken out by Firemen Shannon and Burk. Little Llztte Dillon, sister of George, who had distinguished himself earlier at the fire, took her sister Grace on her back and went down the stairs to the strest, from the second floor. On the third floor. George Hoffman and his flvo children were found nearly, dead from fright and smoke.

The firemen rescued the other people, and all were taken in by the families living across the street. The damage to Ihe building amounted to several hundred dollars, while all of the people who were without insurance had losses ranging from $200 to $100. DUTCH AWAIT STORK. Whole Nation Is Expecting the Signal From Palace. Amsterdam, Holland, March 25 The entire Dutch nation is awaiting momentarily the expected signal from the palace announcing the birth of an heir rote( 9Q t0 nim in nia to the throne.

Preparations have been tnT lh(( leadership. All the members of made to announce the event with flag-! the club, he said, were for, Ulrich. by day and with colored fire by night, and i Potruch said he was made a corpora-gunners are being held in readiness to I Hon inspector ln April or May. lfioil. tin-Inform Ihe public of the advent, of a n8r lrrioh wn0 "commissioner of, prince or a princess by the firing of con- highways.

Mr. Van Buskirk. who wan; non. Officials are waning in tneir nomes or their offices in expectancy of a hasty summons to the palace formally to chronicle the birth, while telegraphers have been warned to be. in readiness for extra duty.

Picture posl card in connection with the accouchemont of Queen Wllhemins are being sold on the streets. The favorite among these novelties shows a stork bringing a baby boy to the I i political club at Myrtle and Tompkins i I 1.