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10 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW, YORK. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 3. .1906.

SLOT MACHINE BOBBED. MISCELLANEOUS. MISCELLANEOUS. IS "THE STREETS Two Young Men Caught on Station WILIIWEWS IN BRIDGE SPECIFICATIONS go out this afternoon to keep a sharp watch for child beggars and to wars all offenders. If the warnings do not suffice, more drastic, action will be taken.

"The holidays are over now," said Godfrey, "and there's no excuse for a continuance of tblB nuisance." Held for Theft. William Hesbaoh, 19 years old, pf 528 East Bookkeeper Wanted. By a long established retail house, a thoroughly IS NICE LITTLE New York avenue, and Frank Nlcolletto, 14 years, of 2:28 Pacific street, were arraigned in the Gates avenue court late this morning TRIED TO BLACKMAIL CARDINAL charged with having rifled a phonograph slot machine. of a dollar's worth of pennies. Commissioner Stevenson Not Committed to Any Special Form of Construction.

The boys were arrested at 8:40 this raorne Authorities Taking Steps to Suppress an Evil of Rapid, Growth. But It's So Expensive to the Tax-payers That They Are Demanding Reform. competent double entry bookkeeper. Must be capable of taking entire charge of office should occasion require it. Only those who can furnish ing at the elevated railroad station Broadway and Fulton street.

John T. Dclussenlene, an employe of the railroad, was in the waiting room of the station when the boys entered. He says that they opened the machine and took out the HOLIDAY EXCUSE GONE NOW. TO PUSH MANHATTAN BRIDGE. A FEW CASES IN POINT.

Al references as to ability and character need pennies. While they were counting them, he says, ho came up behind them and grabbed them. Special Officer James F. Horgan was standing on the platform and assisted In holding the boys. They say they had tholr hands full, however, and had to shout for Received a Letter Demanding $200 for Hush Money Stranger Rome, January 3 fjardlnal Vincent Vannu-telll, Arcnprlest of the Llberlan Basilica, received a note which was posted in Rome December 30, threatening the publication of compromising letters, eaid to have been written by the Cardinal, If he did not send J200 addressed to the Initials to be left at the post office until called for.

The Cardinal handed the letter to the police, who this morning arrested a well dressed man who asked for a letter with the Initials The prisoner, whose name Is kept secret snd who protests hia Innocence, proved that when the blackmailing letter was posted In Rome he wbb In Genoa, where he-landed on reaching Italy from New Yqrk. MONOPOLY AND STOCK 'SALES. Yet There Has Been Little Let-TJp in It Cost $1,000 in One Proceeding to apply. Permanent position and good opportunity for advancement. Address, stating full particulars Order Issued for New Specifications.

Talk of a Department Shakeup. the Importunities of the Children. assistance. Officer Phillip Korman. of tho Brownsville station, responded.

The boya Condemn $2 Worth of Property. were taken in a patrol wagon to the Brownsville station. arid salary expected, ACCOUNTANT, Box 30, Eagle The prisoners pleaded pot guilty before Child begging haB become a thriving in dustry In Brooklyn. Fostered by the spirit Magistrate Furlong, who held them in $200 ball each for examination on Friday. The movement that has been started by the boards of trade and taxpayers associations of Brooklyn, looking to the adoption of office.

amendments to the charter provisions relat A VICTIM'S PROTEST. of the borough were Deputy Charities Com ing to street openings, so as to reduce the expense of these proceedings, has', directed attention to the bad featuros of the present system of condemning private property for street purposes. One of the worst features COIER PLANS TO FIGHT SUPERINTENDENT MAXWELL Plea for a Law That Will Mak Each Amity Street Resident Tells of Hia Ex of charity and good will which prevails during the holidays, and protected by Ibe unwritten law. which practically lifts the ban on mendicancy on Christmas and New Year'iJ, It has this year grown to such an wide' extent that complaints have begun to pour in on the police and the authorities have been compelled to sit up and take notice. Through an arrangement' made by the Bureau of Charities and the Society for the Prevontlon of Cruelty to Children, a warning will be served on the offenders this afternoon and, missioner James J.

Molnerney. Horatio King. Frederick J. Pearsall. Professor Isaac Franklin Russell, Sanders Shanks, Alfred T.

Hobley, an employe of the Register'a office; former Deputy Police Commissioner Thomaa F. Farrell. Arthur C. Salmon, Thomas H. Troy and Rudolph C.

Fuller. Certificate of Stock Worth Its perience With a Fake "Extra" Man. The total cost of proceedings in tne Twen ty-ninth, Thirtieth and Thirty-first' Wards To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: in 1904 and 1905 was tne total No more Interesting editorials are pub Is there no way to rid this town of the awards in the same proceedings were if the mendicants persist lit carrying on their trade, there will be trouble. Will Try to Shape His School Board Appointments to That End. of the system is tha burden it imposes on the taxpayers whose property is taken by making them- pay tbe expense of the Etreet opening The local boards of trade and taxpayers associations that this is a burden from which the city should relieve the taxpayers.

The taxpayera themselves believe so, too. Naturally, more new streets are being cut through In the suburban sections than in any other place in Brooklyn. In 1904 and 191)5, up to November of last year, there were fake "extra" fiend? On Saturday evening a burly fellow ran breathlessly through Amity street, calling out In a husky voice, "Extra! lished in any fiaper in1 the country than those in the Brooklyn Dftiiy Eagle. The one of last night', under the heading, "The New Monopoly and; BVooklyn," is1 Interesting to every man, wOjnap and.cKlld in this; great borough. WHAT SPIRITUALISM REALLY IS.

For tbe last dozen years It has been the custom for youngsters, attired as ragamuffins, to parade the city's streets, collecting the scattering pennies which their antica The merger of transit mo compelled the grown folks to hand out, On Argues That It Is the Science of 'the Mind Agrees With Dr. i.f i- Parkhurst. CALLS MAXWELL DANGEROUS. under way the'. Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth Extra! Sinking of an ocean steamer; loss of 1.600 lives." On Inquiry the fellow asserted that the Oceanic had been sunk 'by a collision.

blm on which he insisted, he sold me one of the' "extras," which, when examined, turned out to be an ordinary number of the Evening Telegram-minus the harrowing tale. Every (ew weeks these highway robbers trv the same game by calling out fake "ex nopolies of the 'Ciif of New YdrtC'ls only What erf; The of such an oiitconxo possibility that. the City of New York could be placed to the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: A few weeks ago I read an article In In the hands of one loan or one set of men Borough President Urges the Mayor to Seek a Test of the Burr Water Act. In regard to lta transit facilities 1b appal tras" and easily find a number of victims. ling to say the least.

Then, that this man Sunday Eagle, slating that Professor Hyslop, Dr. Parkhurst and other prominent men believe we ought to try to solve the mystery of all these strange experiences and appari or. set of men have power to dlscrtmlv nata against one part of the city in favor of other sectionals more than appalling, and some' of our Ill-lighted street atiortnng an excellent, field for their nefarious practice. Cbd-vou help? A VICTIM. 'Brooklyn, January 1 1006.

PRAISE FOR MR. COLER. tions which we are every day having and reading about. 31 have, never believed in Spiritualism, but this la why your editorial Is exceedingly Interesting reading to every oltisen of this borough. Corporations arc a.

necessity. Large en during the last few years I have had so many peculiar things happen that I was almost terprises canuot be executed by individuals, singly. There must be a community of men, Mr. farrell Approves the Appointment Including, of course, a "community of money, to build our railroads, and It la drawn Into the net, but later on I came to the conclusion that it is just as Dr. Parkhurst is quoted as saying that Spiritualism will eventually turn out to be the science of Just and right that their interests should of Gieenblatt, and Tells Why He Is Pleased.

be protected by the state. The question to-day Is, Are they not too the mind. and Thlrty-flrat wards thirty-nine opening proceedings. The cose of these proceedings, which fell on 'the taxpayers whose property had been taken by the city for new streets, was nearly $100,000. This went to street opening "commissioners" and stcnographera and clerks hired by tho "commissioners." A "Commissioner's'' Job Is a Good It Is the ambition ot nearly every politician In town, nearly every lawyer and of nearly everybody else who has the faintest notion, of the system under which the cily lays out new streets to ge on a street opening commission.

The reason is obvious. The compensation of a street opening "commissioner" is $10 a day or rather a meeting, which is all the better, because some of the "commissioners" are fortunate to gat on two commissions at one time, and they frequently alt In at two meetings on the one day. Which means that they receive 20 lor that day's work from the city or rather from the taxpayers whose property the "commissioners" nave been condemning. There is nothing arduous about the duties of a street opening "commissioner." All he does is Bit aroujid at the meetings of the commission, answer to his name ou roll call If he didn't he wouldn't get his $10 from the city and listen while the Corporation Counsel's assistant takes testimony. In fact, It'B the easiest klud of a job.

The street opening "commisioners" who usually serve In these proceedings like tt so well that they hate to give It up, and they prolong I believe the mind Is capable of doing all much protected? Why should corporations be allowed to water their stock to an unlimited extent? About every stock on the To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: There seems to be a great deal of misspent Indignation over the appointment hy that the telephone and wireless telegraph can do, and more. It reproduces the Image of the person at the other end of the line. Stock Exchange is watered more or less, and Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Now Year's Eve and New Day It has also, long been the habit of the: police not to interfere with those who found It easier to live by begglpg on the streets than by hard work. The air was filled with the spirit of giving, and ne one thought any more of flinging a few pennies to the street Arabs, especially If they happened to.be than ot making'the annual contributions to the postman, delivery boys and janitor. But this year tbe children, many of them urged by It 10 asserted, have turned the holidays into a carnival of mendicancy.

Money flowed into their tiny hands so freely on Thanksgiving Day that they continued the industry right along, and now, though the holidaVB nre over, the streets are just as full of begging Infants as they wcru a week ago. Child begging IB confined to no special locality nor to one sex. It thrives In every well-to-do section of the borough and Is pursued as much by girls as boyB. What is even more remarkable iB that many of. the children who hold you up are evidently, the children parents.

lq comfortable circumstances. They have found, that, the cash oomei easily, if you only go about it In the right way. and they apparently have no intention of abandoning so simple a method of adding to the exchequer so long as the money spring flows. It Is Immaterial to theso wee transgressors whom thoy approach. Any one who happens to be passing through the streets and who looks as if he or she had a warm spot for children In the heart Is regarded as a proper distributor of largesse.

The approach of a well dressed woman la balled witt) particular Joy. for the infants, with a discerning worthy of a professional, have learned that such women are thai easiest of easv "marks." Silk-hatted men, escorting members of the fair sex lo the theater, are also regarded as worthy nf attention. The magistrate of the Children's Court hlniBelf was hidd up not long ago by some chtldreo oa the Park Slope, who looked aa If their with my home duties pne morn coier oi lireenniau a anoioiaiii buih-uu-tondent of buildings. knntL' fi 1 I hilt I llP OnlV Oll- Jectlon urged against the appointment Is that ing I turned quickly and saw an apparition. immediately recognlted it.

but before I had time to collect myBelf the telephone bell rang and the person 1 had seen was at the wire. I have come to the conclusion that as soon as that party picked up the receiver and hlB thoughts were framing a message to mo his mind had the power, In some way, to he is young and Inexperiencca ana nas supported himself through selling neckties or dry goods. Bridge Commissioner James W. Stevenson t'his morning gave orders that ne'w specifications be drawn for the proposed Manhattan Bridge." He expects to have something done within the next two weeks, especially 111 view of the fact that the Appellate Division of (he Supremo Court has handed down a decision affirming the opinion rendered by Justice Dowling in rejecting the contract which was' Awarded to the Pennsylvania $teel Commissioner Sievenson this morning expressed the opipion that ne had a perfect right to reject previous bids, as the contract had never actually been txecuted. The new specifications may deal with both oable and eyo-bar bridges.

Mr. Stevenson said that by this means he might possibly be able to arrive at the very best plan possible. He is by no mvans prejudiced In favor of cither plan of construction, but is open to conviction. He Bald this morning that his one objection to the eye-bar bridge is that there, is no plant in this country capable of. manufacturing cyo-'jnrsiOf attf-frotent Bite to be used In a huge structure like the Manhattan Bridge will bo: There was some talk that Chief Engineer.

Xichols. of the Bridge Department would' be' displaced, nnd that former Bridge Coinmls. sloner who is an expert engineer, would be appointed in his stead. Rumor went on to say that Mr. Liudeutbal had dined with Mayor McClellan within the last ten days and that the' matter had been practically settled.

To show how erroneous BUch rumors are the mayor "I have never seen Mr. Llndenihal in my lite, that I know of. It he dined with me 1 have no recollection of tt. Certainly 1 have never given the question of appointing him as a successor of Mr. Nichols any So that putB an end to Mr.

Llndenthnl and his chances. Beside, he is the declared champion of the eye-bar i It was ha-who drew the original specifications. Nichols has never professed to know a great ileal about eyo-bar bridges, and his plans have been along the regulation lines. He had a great deal to do with the present Manhattan Bridge specifications, which were declared illegal by Justice Dowling. and which Mr.

Stevenson says he is going to reject. He will scon advertise for new bidders. In fact, the advertisements will be inserted just as soon as the specifications are completed. Mr. StevenBOn refused to say whether Mr.

Nichols will be retained as chief engineer or not. He did ay that a good bridge engineer is hard to find. Ho added, however, that he would havu. to he convinced. that.

Mr. Nichols waB handicapped by tho Inactivity of former Commissioner Best before he will be reappointed. Mr. StevenBon knows as well as anybody and a great deal better Ihaa many that the last administration did not accomplish anything. He has gone to work wlih a determination to make reparation, as far aa lies In hid power, for the shortcomings of his predecessor.

No announcement has yet been made concerning the appointment of a deputy bridge aommissloner. Frank J. Ulrica, a Brooklyn man. occupies the position at present and it Is understood he is making a strong tight, to retuln bis place. Mr.

Stevenson said yery frankly this morning that ho Is going 10 I consult freely with the Mayor before making any appointments. He added -that the Mayor la anxious to make this, his last administration, a shining success, and that the knows better than any one else the men on whom ho wishes to rely In making appointments. Mayor McClellan said that he and Commissioner Stevenson held a conference yesterday afternoon about vurlous appointments, among them the place of deputy and chief engineer, hut that no decision was reached. He added that Mr. Sievenson would announce the appointment when the proper time arrived.

Mr. Stevenron said that if the Mayor should aclect some man objectionable to him he would simply go to the Mayor and explain his objection, and he felt sure that the Mayor would withdraw the name. Ho added, however, that nothing of that nature would arise. "Mr. Stcvensoa Is hopeful and determined.

He has taken hold of (lie bridge department with a determination to find out Just why several things were done' during (ho last administration, and just why several things were left undone. Alrendy he has discovered that the department la simply alive with petty polities, fceveral members are continually criticising the acts of other members. Petty jealousies have been discovered. These things huve tended to Impair the efficiency of the department, and Commissioner Stevenson said this morning he la deter by allowing advertlBements the "dear public" Is Induced to boy, and the lambs are fleeced until tliereJ lBB't; a semblance of hair on their backs; We send legislators to Albany who think they must introduce some laws, no matter what, their complexion, and in this way they make a showing to their constituents. There are so many laws now that lawyer cannot give proper advice on any given law.

Even our Supreme Court Judges are often In error, if the "community" of judges Bitting In Albany are right. Instead of passing laws to put bird rages on dog's faces and sentencing to death all cata that haven't white hrnd lege, why not pass: a law compelling corporations to Issue no more stock than the assets will warrant? Asv.it Is now, a corporation Is formed; three-quarter of the slock Is water; a few shares are given to men whose namea are At all events it appears mat ne naa visioie means of support outside of politics. The same thing cannot be said of the veteran nfflenholilera mentioned for office under Mc transmit hia Image in my home. When I concentrate my thoughts on any one particular object I can see the atmos Clellan and Moiz. phere teeming with tiny molecules not as large as the point of the finest steel needle These veterans are political nacks, revolv ever made, and I believe the whole universe ing llOUl "lie unite i the administration has changes, practically Is enveloned in a network of invisible wires the life of the commission as long as they formed by these particles (I need soma.scicn- pensioners on hiu mmm Oreenblatt may be.

young and Inexperienced, but If he lives he will overcome tins nnmmai.Hml fnl- can. Tha longer they keep the commission In existence, the more the taxpayers will have to pay to tbe "commissioners." Cost the Taxpayers $1,000 to Condemn $3 Worth. ODJCCUOIl. OUT 1 IU vr his action. It is a step in ihe right direc considered an asset the press Is paid for tion, l.

a m-ifiuuu uuui me titlc friend to help me out In this), wnatever they are, and that they are of all degrees and qualities and are controlled by and do control the mind according to the personal magnetism of the individual. That a pure, lofty. Intellectual mind will draw BUch a host of these molecules about him as to make their presence felt, 1 believe iB a fact, and we speak of such a man as elect pillule inni-ima, inn" i little coterie whose sole object in life Is to An Idea of how expensive a street opening some glowing advertisements: the dear public gulled; the deed Is done. The men behind the scheme control the company without having invested a dollar. Thla and similar schemeg are ronoocted every day and Wall 8treet Is more than knee, deep in mire.

Thla la only a little lees than highway rob. proceeding sometimes may be on the tax parents were able to give 'them whatever money It waB right they should have to having such a pure atmosphere about him payers la shown In the case of the opening of Eighty-ninth street, from Fourth lo fifth ne on tne puonc pHyrou. THOMAS J. FARHRI.L. 1,19 St.

Mark avenue, January 2. 1906. MAYOR AND SUBWAYS. avenue. In the thirtieth ward, tn pro spend.

j. ej. Clever Methods Invented by Child Beg-- Barr Imitators In evoryUiliVaVUi, hagglng chil ceedlng for which was carried on during 1904, The awards lo property owners (or property taken- amounted to the eun of Borough President Color Is the busiest man in Brooklyn to-day. Citizens seeking public employment thronged the outer ofllca and tbe corridor this morning, but as Mr. Coler has practically appointed all the men to office that be can without encroaching on the civil service law, which he has no intention of doing, the waiting citizens got but cold comfort.

The president, however, receives all callers. Among his visitors waa Vice-President W. W. Freeman, of the Edison Illuminating Company. Before the preceding administra tion went out of power Commissioner Brack- enrldgo gave a permit to the Edison company for soreet excavation up to March.

13. This had been the custom In the past. The incoming officials were Inclined to think! that the period was too long. Mr. Freeman, saw Commissioner Desmond Dunne and President Coler and the difficulty will be ad Justed.

The borough president is preparing to ap point fourteen members of the local school board In this borough. There are threo members in each district, and the term ot one in each case expires with the end of last year. President Coler IntendB to give tho closest scrutiny to these appointmehts. While the local school board dp not possess enormous power In educational matters. Mr.

Coler Intends to make them an much as possible agencies to oppose tbe continuance of Superintendent H. Max-a well in power. "I consider Maxwell the most dangerous man In the cily administration," Mr. Coletf said this morning. "He has established a bytttem of military discipline in the pitbllo schools which, is unfair to the teachers anil a blot, on the whole educational system.

These teachers, aro not machines. They ar human beings, deserving of syma pathy and help." Afterward Mr. Coler sent this letter tu Mayor McClellan: "Your recent utterances with regard to the Suffolk County Water Act, and tbe restrictions it places upon the proper, convenient and natural development of th.j water supply system of thl borough, interested mo greatly. I was heartily glatl to And that you are In favor of the repeal of this act which has been responsible for much of the difficulty which Brooklyn has bad in obtaining an adequate supply of water. Tho subject is one.

pf such extreme importance tbat 1 take the liberty of forwarding to you a copy of an opinion with regard to tbe validity of this Suffolk County water act which was prepared for me as controller on August 20, 1901, by former Judge Jobn F. Dillon, whose competency to speak as an expert, on municipal law Is universally acknowledged. "Inasmuch aa the water question In Brooklvn la at present very acute. I am of the opinion that the matter abould without delay be tested in the courts. This, I venture to ay.

could bo done without much trouble by a simple procedure of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, looking to the acquisition of the water rights In Suffolk County. Tbe mailer would undoubtedly be brought Into the courts at once and a speedy determination by Judicial authority as to the validity of thl act would follow. Meanwhile, an effort to have the Legislature repeal th act could be made In order lhat no time might be lost no matter hat might be the result of tho court proceeding. "I respectfully submit this nggiailnn for your consideration. I have sent a copy of the opinion to the Commissioner of Water Supply.

Gas and Electrielty." VARDAMAN AND THE NEGRO. bery. To-be sure, a hole Isn't punched Intd a man's head and hia, trousers pockets torn out to get his mney but. 1 tbe slight difference between. blgjiw.ay, re-libecf- and gen-Humanly thievery titaia going on.

every day. according to law. -1 I am told that such a law cannot be passed baeause our legislators are subject to Influence. Can it be possible that a majority dren have learned many of the! trtcka and $2.18. Yet the cost of the- proceeding, In "commissioners" fen and for clerical hire, amounted to $1,017.39.

To. have prop Mi'. Beaver Thinks Head of City 'Gov devices by which their elders play upon the erty worth $2.18 condemned by Ihe city, it ernment' Has Erroneous Ideas on Taxation. feelings of the sponge-hearted. A.

favorite method of raising money on the Heights la cost the taxpayers over $1,000. The commissioners In this proceeding were William H. Good. James T. O'Neill, who la an Assembly for a child lo buy a couple of newspapers, of the men sent to Albany have that die ease? To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: man from the First district, by the way, and which ho tucks carelessly under hia arm.

giving him the appearance of a newsboy who Is having hard luck In disposing of his Isaac W. Jacobson. According to the news columns of tnis Let a have publicity; let the public know that when a stock la placed on the market tor sale there Is behind each certificate as A similarly expensive proceeding was that wares. In hia free hand he carries a 111 tie ovoalng'a Eagle. Mayor McClellsu Is opposed to raising real estate assessments to for the opening of Hay Eighth street, from wooden or tin box, In the cover of which It a hole large enough to admit a fifty-cent piece.

sets to cover the face value of such certlfl cate. E. H. C. Brooklyn.

December 29, 1905. Benson avenue to Cropsey avenue. In tho Thirtieth Ward also carried on In 1004. The awards to the property owners amounted to $1 .32. while the coat of the proceeding was This box he shoves under the nase of every prosperous looking man or woman whom he meets, end the authorities figure that aa much as Ii Is often collected this way In a The Commissioners In this pro THEODOSIUS THE PEACEMAKER.

ceeding were M. Whaler Allen, John T. Lewis and James W. Prendergast. single day.

lit her youngsters go from door to door, begging of the mistress of the house. Only It cost the taxpayers $1,387.89 to open East Fifth street, from Fort Hamilton avenue to that it Is almost radiant. 1 can distinctly see ar soft, white light emanating from these molecules, resembling the phosphorus In Ihe w.Ucr, but giving out a much softer, and falnler light. I Relieve, too, that when these spiritual mediums put themselves in this soft, white light, of tho trance they are simply in the mental atmosphere and not the spiritual, as they understand It. All these rapplngs, writing on slates and lifting of tables.

If not done by fraud, must be done by will power and faith, and If faith will remove mountains, why not tables end chairs, when we learn how to catch theirj with Invisible wires! Why will Christian people seek another connecting link between this llfo and the future life, when Christ has distinctly told us He Ib tha door and any one trying to get Into HI kingdom any other way but through Him will be treated a a thief and a robber? Why dn(y God by trying to call up the spirits of our departed friends to get Information from them that Clod does not deem it wise and best for us to know? When we love Him In spirit, we become His children, heirs to His throne, and are baptised with the Holy Spirit, which Spirit bears wltneas with Ood's Spirit and feeds mental and spiritual food to us, Just as we are able to digest It. We are no longer subject to teachers of this world. He has promised, "I will Instruct thee and teach thee In the way thou shalt go." We are no longer dependant on the brain's Inspirations and consolation of any minister or priest or human arm. When we find ourselves far out in the wilderness, cut off from all our friends and relatives, we will hear Ood's voice ssy-Ing. "Behold, I will allure her and bring her Into a wilderness and speak comfortable unto her." and we can mount the ladder of faith and seek Ood's presence and receive power and strength from Hia great spiritual magnetism to control all these Invisible forces, for if we do not learn to control thnro.

they will control us. I. O. C. Brooklyn, December 20, IMS.

OAS FUMES KILLED HIM. Mr. Schott Expect! Him to Reconcile yesterday little boy not yet In his teens was arraigned In the Children's Court on a Dltmars avenue. In tbe Twenty-ninth Ward, when the awards only amounted to $20.93. The "commissioners" in this proceeding Timotheus, of Syracuse and Duke Michael, of Havana.

were ex-Deputy police Commissioner Thomas F. Farrell. George W. Italldon and ex-Controller Oeorge W. Palmer.

For the opening of Nintleth street, from To the Editor of th Brooklyn Eagle: Third to Seventh avenue. In the Thirtieth Ward the cost to the property owners was In your endeavors to how the difference between the tweedledee and tweedledum of present Brooklyn Republican politics snd leadership. It seem to me lhat occasionally 74. while the awards were only $440. 64.

tho full value to enable the city to duhu more subways. He says It will raise rents. I would call his attention to the fact that owing to Increasing congestion of population landlords raise rents whether assessments are raised, or not. More subways, which are the same as public will reduce congestion In the center of the city; shifting population to the suburbs, where housti building Is continuous, and thus tend to reduce rents. I think the Mayor on reflection will seo there Is little force In his objection.

Furthermore, his present Inaction, as a city official, will add to. rather than diminish, tho burden of the rent payer, lor whom he appears so solicitous. As to the assessments. Is he aware that when Low was mayor the average assessments were about So to 91 per while under the McClellan assessors the rate has apparently sagged off to about 85 to 7E per cent? It he will enmpai the Aguri published In the City Record with present real estate values he will see the practical truth ot this. The law nobis that there should he full assessments: Omul's proj'i-t is Id Hue with the law.

The tendency of more uhwut Is lo raise land values and thus turnish more taxea to pay fur the subways. The "rommisadonera" In thla proceeding were John B. Lord, Frank J. Doyle and Thomas your news regarding Ihe same I not entire ly lust or accurate. F.

Smith. Other Samples of Costly Proceedings. For Instance, your list of tho various dis trict leader I quite correct. The majority are all altruists, who. for our common welfare, are devoting the best years of their lives In oiling office at salaries which are Of the thlrty-nlne proceedings In the Twenty-ninth.

Thirtieth and Thirty-first ward carried on during 1104 and 1105 and referred lo above, there were only three where th cost footed up Ira than $1,000. In mined to put an end to It all. Already several employes In the department have been to him with complaints and stories concerning other employes Ho hss listened to these, but the tale bearer ha always done himself an Injury. -Mr. Stevenson said he was going to put an end to all of this and In short order.

not at all commensurate with aervlcea rend ered. two caaos the coat went over These were the proceedings for opening New York avenue, frou Malbone street to hurch ave. nue. ID the Twenty-ninth Ward, and East They ar a noble, aelf-sacrlflclng band of patriots, and not "grafters," as aome mall-olous person probably Democrats call Seventeenth afreet from Avenue 8 to Gravesond Nock road. In the Thlrty-ftrt Ward.

In the former proceeding the eot to th property owner wa $5.027 05. Tho awards wr tl. The commission' ere" In this proceeding were Frank Gallagher, William H. Bmith and William P. Leg Fteyer Not Bellevad to Havs Been a Suicide.

Benjamin O. Freyer, 15 years old. a machinist, of 143 Albany avenue, was found dead on the floor of his bedroom nt 7 o'clock this morning. A gas Jet, partially turned on, explained the cause of his death. The gett.

Jr. In the eeond proceeding men- Oovemor of Mississippi Says the Black Man Is Deteriorating Every Day. Taxes on ground values t-atmnt be shifted; had wi: a proper tax system, thai Is. on land values only, then the landlord I not get the largest share oi the aubwuy benefits, as now. It booths to me lhat Mayor McClellan' attitude on full assessments Is asalnst puo.lc policy.

It la unlike that of Mnyor Dunne, uf ChUa-gn. who Is trying to bring the tritnlon mag- tinned the property owners had to fool a bill of coat amounting to S. The award only came to $22.443 11. The men who had charge of thl proceeding were Oeorge F. Klllott, Robert 8.

Cortelyou and Investigation by the police of Ihe Atlantic Harry A. Terrell. Dale to lair terms nb the rllv. It la unlike that of Mayor Johnson, of Cleveland, wtioto tiffin fur a tniiiihii.nl line an I a 1 Office Holders Oat on the Commissions, venue station Indicates that it waa not a case of suicide. Freyer leve a widow and two children.

Mr. Freyer says lhat she knows nf nothing lhat would hare led her husband lo attempt suicide. A lodger on the floor below states that aba heard a mils as of some on fall Too. charge of Intoxication. When ha waa asked where he hid raised the money to buy the drlnka he replied that he bad beam "making rails." Inquiry developed that this Is ihe infantile lerm for begging from door lo door.

This particular youth had gathered In enough pennies, nickels, dime and quarters In this way lo purchase a full-fledged ")n" for a full-grown man. It took less than a quarter of the contribution lo put the youngster out nf business. Children have also learned the art that It Is foolish to operate In their own neighborhoods. Traveling In gang, they eek pastures far removed from home on whlcU lo graxe. Jobn D.

Godfrey, mendicancy officer of the Ilureau of Charities, waa walking on Wll-louxhby street the other day when he met one of 1he fake newsboy. It wa nearly week before Christmas. but the little urchin, who was scarce I year old, wa doing a hustling business. learned where tbe boy lived, picked him up In hia arms and carted him off borne. Tho mother.

Instead of feeling thankful, poured forth a torrent of abuse. Bhe told the officer very frankly that she had sent the boy out to collect what pennies he could again, tha approaching holidays and that phe'd be much obliged to the officer If he'd kindly avttend to hi own affair. Hhe didn't cesae her tonr.ue lashing until threatened with arrest. Judge Wilkin Bays tha Evil Must Be Suppressed. Judge Wilkin of the Children's Court dla-itiKaed Ihe child begging problem at length with an Eagle reporter thla morning.

He realm, thai the situation ha suddenly grown aetiotia but conlesae that It a a difficult queatton to deal with. "i hi Id begging ha increased around the holiday to aa alarming extent," he auid, undoubtedly measures must be talft-n to aupproa II. Ii has always been -h" custom lo lift ihe ban on mendicancy r.un i hrlsiina time. Kveryone eel thi he I nii's. to a present of om kind frum somewhere and.

If th police should make atresia at that aaon of the year, lhV would be poiiDded or ridiculed. "Dn Ibe other band, the line tnut drawn aoiinwhere; thi thing ntuai not be ptritil'ted lo continue indefinitely havn noticed Hie large number uf child nil over ibe borough, and many nf them dti l-ot need to ll. When the eustort, become general a It bR now It I bad thing for the children themaelvea. They grow lo realire that money comes easy and ns ih-y mature they will be apt ft look for easv waya of getting money, raih'-r than npi-lvm thi-maeivam to hard work. It' also a to those who are held up.

mo If ihe huhaaymen are only mere In, I hae nl ryed that ib, i hildren are irmat The of fun In rlii-h the eie'iitn Waa nr.fflnallv onet.v4 way lo aerlooarteaa Home of the tlrlteti I am will tollnw a peraon for a k. if In order to gather In i pen irs Thai la not right. Ii Is bad f.T ilie ibiPIreii what la f. eh. bin Is bad for in general, Meps tlui't be Ink, II in reprea ibis liui.

we must l.e rt fill to avoid op. pr'ssinn It la serinua problem lo aolve ant Ma must not bo sought ton hastily ti-ifr, sad thai the Men, II, ncr fipiad had bet wllihlni Ibe altiinlloti A man already drawing salary from th elty or atate government I not prohibited from aervlng nn treet opening rflmmlsalon. Alderman Jame W. Redmond of the Klov- Jackson, January Governor James K. Vardaman In hi annual meiaago to the Mli'slialppl Legislature, which assemble; yesterday, again took a strong stand against spending public money for tho education of the negro, saying In part: "As a rare th negro la deteriorating mora ally vry day.

Time ha demonstrated that he I mora criminal a a free man than a a lave lhat be I Increasing In criminality with fearful rapidity, being one-third moro criminal In than he wa In lss'1, "In tb Houth. Mississippi pirtlriilarly f. know I growing worao every year. You can scarcely plelt up a newpper whoa pare ar not blackened with an account of LIFE SAVEHS REMEMBERED. Christmas Comforts Sent to Various Stations by Biooklynites.

Mrs. Jennie K. Moore, of 192 Adams street, organizer of the Life l.lne I'nlon, has Issued her annual reporl showing what was done to make Christum happy day among the government lite savers. Moore sya: "To every weatherbeaten sailor In fulled Htsici llle saving stations, from Kockaway to Montauk Point on Iong Island count. It Newport on the Rhode Island roast on December 14.

last. Christinas gifts were si nt ilnya ahead of hams llaus. while that loved nalnt was si III In a quandary over adjustment of dividing line between good and bad jtatrons, that might aive universal satlafac-trn. Hack forwarded to life crews rin. talned -I1" magujilm a.

Wo illnnnit.il K3 novels, many knitted hrinieis. muffler, and lots of randy. Appreciative acknowledgments for the citei-r have been received from every t'atlon snd words of welcome for letters -Httultiitig frlnudly "Christmas boxe of randy were n-nt to aeh one of ih ei.thi n. ii inm In thirty life saying atiiiinti on Long Island coast nnd eight s'atiniis vn Ithn.lc Island coast. men in sit.

Following ar the ilorors: Judge William Wltitnn Homli lh. Mr end Mrs. Spinier Cnty. Mrs J. AmlierM Wiener.

Mrs John Culver. Miss ra'h-erine llusfcd. lirnoklyn. Julio-. 11.

t'onUln. Hiini Inirinn. I I Muffli-ia and wristlets are alwsvs need. enth Aaaemblr lllatrlrt nerved on a romml lnn that opened Klghiy-flrat treet. from Fourth avenue to Fourteenth avenue.

In lb Thirtieth Ward. In the coat of which were 4A and the award Us Henry Howard Dale, formerly Assemblyman from the Flfenth Dlatrlrt, aerved on the eommlaalon lhat opened De Ruaey treet, from Kighty.amh street 10 Dyker ing at sn early hour ihla morning. Freyer bad undrcased and retired at late hour leal night, and had no doubt fallen out of bed In a eml-ronaelnu attempt to fight oil tha stupefying effect nf Ih gas. GAVE A HEART PARTY. Monday evening a heart party wa held at the residence of Ml si Blanch M.

Loiler, Irving place. The room were decorated wlih paper haarts and holly. Among those were: Tbe Misses M. Whlttlng, K. Bisiitnii.

Werner, Bennett llalarnx. J. Welsh. T. Uiivder.

t'rr, M. Alroit, Adam and Ih Mears. O. Aliott, II, Whlttlng. H.

Butts. C. Brandt J. Loiler, R. Cnrev Mr.

Aleolt. Ml Mount and Mr. and Mr. U. W.

Uiiler. cent faro baa at last be, successful Mayor Low's administration wna siicci-ssful bf- Calls of full ssseH-tlieltl s. better tenement i hnuae building laws, s-ni, irnt expenditure of public funds and inning up ot Hie city government generally Hut bei-ause of a lew small thlnga. like Hnti rigid enforcement of si lewslk enernaeh-intent illation, the would not re-i elect Low. bill in.

tell. I Mi ('en by Do mm majority. Mr M. Btnifi la-tratlon hi been Ing and br.e eommi. sinner, have not given satisfaction and for s-mis, and thul i gn-st majority was He ihe shady or nothing, according to some folka iih, I These folks are Kr, tmy hanger in nur public vnm a.

and Ih. bold the balance of powir I desire lo mil a alien-lion to ihe fail that of VI, l.w's In. i i inn win full at. pl.in. ad.

tuie iih una aebtHils, briirt aubw I hope h' ill favor Urn plan. an unmentionable crime committed by a gro brut, and thl crime I want to Imprea tbem. Then, again, of Ihe Republican Assemblymen, every one I "no man'a man;" they all aid 0 before Election, and their word hould be a good aa th bonds that tl Ihetn to the district lender. Through an oversight you may not have noticed that recently your paper there have appeared atwtemeul lhat aui-h As-aemblyman-eleci was specified dutrlel hsder "mn lhat another Aaml.ly-man-elect would vote as Ihe other dial Hi Uadar "told blm," that other Assembly-men-elect "belong" to district leader so and so, elc. Why are you unkind1 Are you nol war that the old Rapubllcan party I a grand mlalonrr enterpri and that every Republican on Keitnn Day.

In voting tha Republican ticket, la voting for tbe welfare of humanity and th common brotherhood oi iliatrtct leader who spend their valuable brain snd lime In picking out Ihe moat proper recipient of th ballola of Ihe electorate' t.lk Ihe friendship eilatlng between Damon and th-aa of eneient ih prent feud between Prlnc Tlnioth'-us. of and Duke Michael, of Havana, will end In reconciliation, especially whn Emperor TVodnaiu. of Washington, gets In between and compel them lo shake hand, while tbe Republican centurion about loud and the common Brooklvn peopl fall down In due nhalaanc. The only trouHe with the love-feaat te-still inav be that another aarlrlng Roman a rcr'sin IVrtclu Maecaritnals rosy not and lr to lake antae nf trust lis band and smite them hip and thigh Real November. 1 hettdospia of knew how to Jolly the Cloth of ten.

day. nd hia nmti-ke will prttbAiilv tio by lb same men In the preaent Ins! in, -e. At nv r.iie, in future arcounta be easy and Juat wi'h onr irlenda n. mine. II gi'llilTT .1.1 alivceti'h atreel, Deirmber ,11, IMPORT OF CAF ABA MARBLE.

Th. An. Imr line ateanishio Calabria ntmifclit a la'e mnount of t'arars marble V-ltl, tl la burning at Ihe 1'hloii Mlnrta. I'ark. In the Thirtieth Ward, while he wa a member of the Assembly.

The cent In thlb proceeding were Awards amount iii" ion oi inn negro's splrtlon for aortal equality, encouraged largely by the character of free education In vogue, which the tat I levy. Ing tribute upon Ihe white people to ed to The fact ibnt Aaaemblyman O'Neill served on a commission while a member of the Anaembly baa already been referred to. Kx-Senaior Henry Marshall. while still In the Henate, wa nn Ih eom mlaalon tht opened Fifty-aerond ntreet from th old rliy line to Flatbush Th coal in thl proreedlns were 1 1, To si. and the award IS, Henator Marshall in alao erved on ihe commission to open Holland rnd.

from nraie avenue to Hem avenue, In ihe Twenty. ninth Ward. The coat here were 2H. and Ihe awards DTNAMITE CAP EXPLODED. Two 1 1 at 1 1 ti laboreri were Injured this morning by ihe premature explnaloa of a dynamite rap, which touched off by one of Hi men while preparing hole for bleating at Wllklns place and On Hundred and avfiiteih street, the Mroni.

Tbe Injured men were Peter Rago, year old. of J.TS Arthur avenue, and Tony Moran, JO yer old, of lo? Arthur avenue. They were cut about the head and face and arm by flying fraamenta of ruck. 7.U2 22 Home "ronitnlaalonera" In IH'I and fared Iw-tter iban other In th number of ronimlaslona for atreel opening in lb' Twenty-nimh, Thirtieth and Thlriy-firl Wrd. they ervei on.

Thomas D. Itonaey ATLANTIC FLEET TO SAIL. Norfolk. Vs. January 3 Th I'nlted 8tat armored erut.er Wet Virginia, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Maryland, ni the Iowa are now ln th waters of Hmp-ton Roa.ls, awaiting the arrival of the battleship Missouri and Illinois and other vea-l of Ihe Aflat tic- fieri.

When Ihe entire fleet ha aasrmiileit in Hampton Hoad II will procee, wt Indian water for midwinter maneuver. BIO IMPORT OF VEGETABLES. The Ward tin steamship Morro Csaile arrived yesterday afternoon al Premie tore from Havana ghe brought 70 pnaaen-ger and vslnahl uln rrgo. Pan of lhl consists of nearly I. last rrate nf pineapple.

IK) irate nf tomaioia. nkra, onion and other vgeibb- The import nf the for th New York market hnw alra.ly each winter The Italanr of lb ran ronaiats largely of lobarre, (liars tlgsrsilaa. bad Ihree lotnmlaaion III Itinae two year: II. HK wot, 4.. I Kim KUbli-t-nth siren, 1 OOLLS IN THE HARBOR.

Their Present Indicate Heavy Wentlitr at Sea. Hu m- re lr-o uf around the I. Tlilai la always. Msar.b'l as Ini.unlig i tint Hie Pax Had" no In toiler I be l.m.r a nn I 'he III I. ii I -)l In i tr-oii-l) tonal, i and Oigl.l wete and sinisbip tain, as up lit.til Cnrlo III," tt.

t.1,1 I. ill the Nor, tl Allslr lu. rlROWNSVILLE DEMOCRATS. Tho hcadoiiartt of the Itrowtiavlllo Jleinorratlc I'luti, mi Thalfnrd aviliiii-. were well mini lust tin when the tegular meeting was held.

Newly let-till I'nsldeiii Mm Hatx mi. Mtiiiouin-ed the nrft'i rs I lt-rled. Ilvlliatl Mnliel nirt le HII nl'IIMI. In Whli he lauded the t-rfuri of Ihe nmn-tlstion and ptomised to sut It with 1 1 his JillWt-r SS CeittVe III" tuber of the I I'lb, LECTURE BY N. P.

LEWIS. Kelson I', l.i wis. thief msiner of ibe lionrd of Kstlms'e t.d Apport lonmt tit on 1'rldsy ewuin will sue an Illustrated; nits on it" i-nys put. tit- IniiTovf Hunts, to ths nieml-era and friend of the Heoth Brooklyn IWatd of at Acme Hall, Seventh avenue and Ninth sttevl. Henry Co, hrane.

now fherlff Flaherty's i-nun-l. b. couple; Wllllnm Wataon bad two. "Ill, am II flood ha, I three. Kolon llnr-bnell had two; former Controller flenrge VV l'lmer.

ihree. an, I John Imiiaiaaa. two So atttnipt has been md 10 aaiprtln how ninny other 1 miiitilaaiona, exelualy of Ihoa which opened nuburbau afreet, these men NEPHEW ADMITTED THEFT. William J. McKee was held for Ibe grand jury In the A lams street court lo-dy on a charge nf grand Ian any made by Mr.

Wit-ton, of JM Henry street. McKee mrred niece of Mrs Wilaon nnd live al Cahoe. Saturday he cam lo Hronklyn and visited hia wife aunt When he had departed, a diamond brooch wa. mlsaiug. II admitted lbs guilt is court to-day.

erve, on Ueeiv Bo.i i hat rrug, in. nt. re nil, It.g with Ihe Ho.mtv for tile nt I'b l'lfi-n lo pill stop In ibe pta ll.e linn ly tifllrer of ibe will ts ordered htB ibvy Hlllal.la rla'e. ,) I uf tii'iea. I.r,a,', baga of II grl j.iilai.

I irl l. and I'l taae of marbl" wolts The mure lot wa shipped from Letliurn. Among the other prominent men who acted treti opening "rommlsaioner'' In th procMdluga allertiug lbs suburbaa Motions.