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.) THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 4. 1908.

TWO VERSIONS OF ASSAULT. Over 8,000 Votes on Election Day In the Eagle Opera Ticket Contest KITES OF WOMEN FAVORED Pi. TAFT eliminated the fallacies of Bryanism from the political economy of our country. ALMET REEIl LATSON. President.

Charles K. Hughes, Albany. N. T. The Union League Club of Brooklyn recognizes in your re-election a personal victory that marks tha permanent vindication of the lofty principles for which your administration has stood and upon which your campaign was baaed.

We extend our heartiest congratulations. ATjMET REED LATSON, President. For some weeks the house committee of the Montauk Club, of which Edward T. Candee is the chairman, bad been preparing for election night, and last night the entertainment provided was of a high class. The crowd at the Montauk Club is said to have been the greatest it has had In many months.

Interest Is Keen, and Leaders Are Running Well Down the Homo Stretch Important Changes Are Still Possible the Fight for Seventeenth Place. fice on Twenty-third street, opposite the Metropolitan Life Building, was by far the largest, the most earnest and the most enthusiastic, when the time came to display enthusiasm. Thousands upon thousands, men and women, stretched far back Into the park plaza, from which a glimpse could be had of the blackboard on which the returns were written. Tbey stood banked and packed, leaving only room enough for the cars to pasB, and the policemen and there were many of them had all they could do to keep the way clear for vehicles and pedestrians. It -was a good-natured crowd, but there was less exuberance than was noticeable in the streets around the fcorough hall In this borough.

More thousands blocked the streets near the Bedford branch of the Eagle. Bedford avenue and Halsey street wore Impassable. The crowd gathered as early as 6 o'clock. Old residents of the vicinity declared that they had never seen such a crowd, and so orderly a one. While there was noise In plenty, rattlers, tin horns, cowbells and even drums, there was ifo rowdyism.

Across Bedford avenue from the Eagle bulletin board the housetops were lined with people, and at the rear of the big crowd which blocked and choked up the end of Halsey street, scores of automobiles were lined up, with people sitting on their tops. Noise and enthusiasm were big throughout the early part of the evening, but when the cluster of lights at the top of the flagpole on the Eagle's branch burst forth white, announcing the election of Taft, the cheers and tooting of horns and ringing of cowbells, was deafening. From Fulton street, half way down Halsey street, and along Bedford avenue to Hancock street, the crowd Bpread. And It stayed there until the last bulletin was posted on the Eagle board. Flatbush Hears the News.

More than twelve thousand persons gathered in front of the Flatbush branch ot the Eagle at 838 Flatbush avenue to hour the returns. Residents of Flatbush, One of the letters to-day Is as follows: To the Editor of the Voting Contest: Inclosed, please find my last contribution for Miss Maude E. Klotz, 907 Lincoln, place. I congratulate her upon her success, and trust she may enjoy the operas the Eagle enabled her to attend. Tho Eagle should be thanked publicly for the) great treat It has given the citizens of Brooklyn.

E. MOLLl'SON. 478 Seventh street. To the Editor of the Voting Contest: I want to thank the Eagle for makinS it possible for those of us who have been contestants, to realize the U3elfish friendship shown us, and through its columns to express my gratitude and appreciation to those friends who have worked, with so much Interest to give me a pleasure. EDITH L.

HART. 4f4 Jamaica avenue. Policeman Says O'Hourke Seized Him by Throat and Tore Collar. William O'Rourke, 45 years old, of 4S0 Third avenue, was In the Fifth avenue court this morning, on a charge of assaulting an officer. There was a dispute yesterday afternoon at the polling place, 511 Third avenue, and Policeman Edward J.

Davenport of the Fifth avenue station, who was on duty there, tried to put O'Rourke out ot the place. The policeman claims that O'Rourke seized him by the throat, and tore his collar. O'Rourke says that when tho officer raised his elub he put up his hand to protect himself. Magistrate Ooismar adjourned the case until November 17. WEATHER FORECAST Tamnna rfailrln.

Information rnnrln1nir tha weather tamnumttiro or other information can secure it by using telephone No. C71 Main, from 8 A.M. to P.M. week days. Nights and Sundays.

(1200 Main. Indications Until P.M. To-morrow. Washington, November 4 For Eastern New York: Partly cloudy and much colder to-nlirht, with snow flurries In tho interior; Thursday, fair; northwest winds. Local Probabilities.

Cloudy, threatening and much colder weather to-night; Thursday, fair and colder; strong northwest winds, Increasing to moderate and fresh gales. General Weather Conditions. The disturbance from tho Lake district has moved east southeast to tho St. Lawrence Val-lev and North Atlantic Status. It has boen attended by light local rains and snow Hurries in ten Lalie district, west and northwest portions of New York and northern portions of New England.

In other parts of the country tho weather has remained svneraly fair, except in tho E.Tut Gulf and South Atlantlo States, where thero have been moderate to heavy showers. An area of cold weather has followed the Lake disturbance as far east as Western Now York, much oolfler weather prevailing from tile DaJtotas eastward to Laics Huron. Temperatures below freezing are reported from the Dakotas. Minnesota. Wisconsin.

Michigan and extre'mo west portion cf New York. In the east, portion of New ICng-lund and central and east portions of the Middle Atlantic States the temperature has llson. Storm warnings are displayed from Delawars lircakwater to New York. Tern- Pro- 1 Tem- Cm- pera-cipita-j pera-elp lure, tlon. I ture.

tlon. Roston ofi .00 New Orleans fi6 00 Rurralo 30 .01 50 .00 .00 St. 6 Philadelphia Chicago 40 .00 Washington. 8 Dululii 18 C2 San Fran'co 64 .00 Highost, at Charleston; lowest. 111, at Duluth.

'Amount to small to measure. OFFICIAL TEMPERATURE. TUESIUY. NOVEMBER a. 3 P.M.

5S 8 SS 1 P.M 68 9 P.M 5 67 10 P.M 63 6 P.M 57111 P.M 62 7 P.M 6G12 (Midnight) 61 WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 4. 1 60 8 A St 2 A 61 9 A C7 3 A 62 10 A 68 i A.M 64 11 A 60 5 A.M 65 12 (Noon) 46 8 A 5 1 P.M 46 7 A.M 66 2 P.M 46 Average temperature to-day, 53. Average temperature a year ago to-day, 44. FROM EAGLE BULLETINS Tower Lights and Blackboards Were First With the Figures.

SCENES AT VARIOUS BRANCHES How the Clubs Got the Eeturns Information Bureau Heavily Taxed. Many 'Phone Inquiries. There have been Presidential and gubernatorial elections In past years that have stirred up the people of Brooklyn, but Judging from the record breaking crowds that massed themselves tor hours In front of and r.round the Brooklyn Eagle's main building and branches last evening, this election Impelled scores of thousands who are usually Impassive or Indifferent to forsake their homes and sally forth with their friends to get bulletins as to the result In nation and state. Gathering In force immediately after the hour for closing the polls, last night, a throng which in a short time became so dense that it was almost Impossible to pass from one side of the street to the other, faced the Eagle building on Washington and Johnson streets, spreading out on the east and west and extending from Fulton to Adams streets. Lieutenant William J.

Coneys, with fifty-six patrolmen from Traffic Precinct and a squad of mounted men, formed lines and acted as peacemakers. It did not take the throngs In the streets long to find out that the Eaglo was far ahead in Its returns, and that the bulletin boards of other newspapers merely repeated, after painful lapses of time, the same figures that had long previously been cheered on the great canvas and blackboard at the Eagle Building. Both in early details as to election districts later In the results by cities, counties and states, the Eagle service was far ahead of all others. It began at 5:21 P.M. with reports of the machine voting count at Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, and at 5:23 gave the first Brooklyn returns from the Thirty-third Election District of the Twenty-second Assembly District.

At 6:45 P.M., white light on the Eagle globe and tower, and white search lights flashed out the news far and near that Taft was elected, and at 7:46. white lights, steady, on the globe, showed that Hughes was re-elected governor. When the decisive bulletin was flashed on the canvas on the Johnson street side of the building, the crowd sent up a mighty cheer that was heard for blocks, while horns, cow-bells, rattles, megaphones, drums and whistles did their best to drown the thousands of human voices. How the Service Was Given. Besides the canvas on the Johnson street side of the building, upon which the bulletins were focuased from a stereoptlcon on the second floor ot the Federal building, there was a blackboard thlrty-flve feet long on the Washington street front to which bulletins were supplied by a skilled telegraph operator, who by an ingenious contrivance first successfully used in the Eagle service, became also a telegraph office and terminus and carried along with him his wn telegraph wire.

The instrument used was a "Morse watch," held to the ear by metal bands and enabling the operator to have the free use of his hands, while he listened to telegraph messages over a special circuit connected with the Eagle's editorial rooms and ail its bulletin stations. The operators using the Morse watches ot the Eagle's bulletin Btations last night were the most expert telegraphers in the profession, taken from the leading brokerage and newspaper offices. They were: Edward Cremins, at the main office; Peter T. Brady, at the Gates avenue branch; Matthew Redmond, at the Bedford avenue branch; William Hall, at the Madison Square branch, Manhattan; Harry Hutchinson, at the Williamsburg Plaza, and Fred Reed, at the Federal Building. Another feature of the bulletin service at the main office was a giant table of the electoral vote by states on the corner of the building, at Washington and Johnson streets, eighteen feet above the sidewalk.

On this bulletin appeared in mammoth letters the names of the forty-six states with the electoral veto of each. From time to time, as the bulletins came In giving the decisive Information as to which way the state had gone, the figures of the electoral vote were put in the proper column, and the crowd could see how the contest was progressing. Eagle Gives Eeturns to Many Visitors in. Two Auditoriums. In the large Eagle auditorium on the second floor of the Eagle Building and in the lecture rooms of the Brooklyn Law School on the third floor hundreds of visitors sat for hours to listen to the reading of the election returns.

Each of the three halls looked like a chamber of the Legislature, only instead of assemblymen and senators being seated at isolated desks, each in solita.y state, the rooms were crowded with men and women in evening attire, while hundreds of men who were late comers stood around the walls at the back and sides of the rooms. In each hall was a rostrum from which were read In rapid succession, at Intervals of a minute or two, the latest figures as to the state, national and local contests. On huge blackboards at the back of each room lightning-fingered scribes wrote or printed the bulletins as they were read. Rounds of cheers, deep groans, the tooting of horns and other expressions of joy and regret punctuated the reading, for the audiences were decidedly bi-partisan. Information Bureau Answers Public Inquiries.

In the Eagle's Information Bureau scores of extra telephones had been installed and a large force was on duty answering questions put by thousands of eager inquirers in distant parts of Brooklyn and Queens who wanted to know the latest election news. The bureau was reached by two central numbers, "571 Main" and "6200 Main," and a system of extensions installed for the occasion made the number of persons whose queries could be answered almost unlimited. Hundreds of visitors to the building found the spacious rooms of the Information Bureau one of the most comfortable places to assemble, and as all bulletins were delivered there simultaneously with other centers of the Eagle's system they were read aloud for the benefit of all present. Enthusiasm at Gates Avenue Branch. Never did so large a crowd gather about the Eagle Gates avenue branch, 1022 Gates avenue, to learn the result of an election as last night.

Never was there more enthusiasm. With horns, bells, rattles and, in fact, every sort of nolse-maklng device, young and old began to gather in front of the new building about 6 o'clocis. Soon the avenue was choked with humanity. And at no time was there better bulletin service, according to business mee and others in the vicinity, who were loud in their praise of the work. Peter Brady, one of the Eagle's crack telegraphers, with an Instrument strapped to his head, received the news over the wirs and placed it in distinct characters on a brilliantly lighted blackboard.

The crowd was prompt to appreciate the quick methods In use, and cheered both the telegrapher and the Eagle. There was not a hitch from start to finish, and those who assembled, coming from far and near, got the news from all parts of the country at the earliest possible moment. Eagle Madison Square Crowd. There were other bulletins in Madi son Square, Manhattan, but the crowd In front of the Brooklyn Eagle branch of Suffragettes Figure That They Have Taken a Big Step Forward. SCENES AT THE THEATERS.

Some Women Thought That by Voting They Could Get Free Admission. That i lie women of this country, if permitted to vote on equal termB with the men, would sail the good old ship of state with a decided list toward Socialism was one of the points of absorbing Interest brought to light by tho vote thoy cast In the "election" held yesterday by Women's National Suffrage Association. The "election" was held In seven polling places In the greater city, the Orpheum, Crescent, Greenpolnt, Novelty and Gotham Theaters in Brooklyn and the Colonial and Alhambra Theaters in Manhattan. In addition there was a polling place In tho Broux where the Harlem Political Equality League bad a booth. The actual results favored the Republican candidate, and Taft received, of 1 SI 2 votes cast, 912.

Bryan and Debs ran a close second, with the Democratic candidate polling 456 votes, and the Socialist 426. In the state election Hughes was the favorite, although falling behind Taft. His vote was 726 against Chanler's 600. The Prohibition parly drew eleven straight tickets and the Independence League received a total of 100 votes. To most of the women, as to a majority of the onlookers, the first experience at near voting offered tbe fair sex In this city, was fraught with refreshing and Interesting Incidents.

Ballots were used containing the names of the candidates of the leading parties, and in all theaters where there was a booth, an opan invitation was extended, by means of a large bill board, to all down trodden women who wished to be among the pioneers in blazing the path to political freedom for their sex. Over the ballot, box pre sided a suffragette with a broad white sash looped over her shoulder bearing the emblem "Votes for Women." These knight erranls would pounce out upon the women theater goers, and would offer them tho great privilege of casting a vote for women's suffrage. In a vast majority of the cases these sallies were futile Giggling matinee girls, matronly chaperones and sedate society belles united In giving tho haughty stare and the cold shoulder to the suffragettes. In one Brooklyn theater, where a crowd containing fully 2,000 women at the afternoon performance was in attendance, tho suffragettes gleaned a meager harvest of loss than 200 votes. In a number of instances the votes were cast by women passing the theaters on the supposition that the mere fact of casting a ballot would give them the right of entering the theater and witnessing the matinee.

In one case a line of expectant women extending out to the street, was disbanded with difficulty by the management of the thealor. The women would not believe hat, having cast, their votes they were not entitled to admittance to the show. The suffragette In charge of the ballot box in this instance admitted that a majority of the votes had been cast under such delusion on the part of the voters in that particular theater. Of course the mistakes made were many and ludicrous. "Hut how can you expect us to know anything7" said one woman.

"1 bet you men didn't do a bit better when you started voting." In spile of tho fact that the elections were supposed to be conducted under the regular rules all of the ordinary regulations as practised by men were violated in a flagrant manner in number of cases. There was open electioneering, and the ballot was not by any means a secret one. One woman at a Brooklyn theater was out for support fnr Hobs, the Socialist oandidile, until (be final ballot was polled. She would help any less knowing sister to vole, whether requested to do so or not, and Invariably the cross mark went in the Socialist column. The trend toward Is explained by the siiffragetttes themselves on the ground thnr that party I alone stands for the political of the sexes.

"It was a great move forward toward I the final establishment of our political freedom," said one of the suffragettes fo an Eagle reporter last, night. "There Is no doubt but. that wo will make tremendous gains as a result of the advertising this election has given us." FUNNY ELECTION ERROR. In Far Rockawny Precinct Vote Was Multiplied 'by 39. i The officers on duty at tho telephones in the Queens Police Headquarters, last night, wre surprised to hear, among the votes averaging ana pie to tnn election district, oik! district from Far ttoek-away with a vote of over Inspector Sweeney was immediately informed of this huge vo'.

and on making incuiry. found that the men iuoharge of tho district considered it necessary to multpiy each vote by nirty-nine, the number of electors on the ticket, thus giving to the over too vol era of the district thirty-nine times their normal strength. The error was qukkly rectified. PARIS FASHIONS UP TO DATE. From the Eagle Paris Bureau, 63 Itue Cambon, through the courtesy of Abraham Straus.

Dlrectoire coat cloth, with, block tr ml tig. skirt ot black and. moire trlm- HONOLULU UESULTS. Honolulu, Novemte Returns Indicate the probable re-i-b of Jonah Kalan-lanole (Rep.) to Returns from the islands oi and Hawaii have not yet been re elf If Election Day brought in a good number ot ballots for the combatants in the Eagle Opera Ticket Contest, and in tho mails up till noon over 8,000 votes were received at the office, and accredited to the various candidates for honors in the popularity ra.ee. A great deal of interest was aroused by the statement printed yesterday concerning the reception the Eagle will give the winners In the contest on Monday evening, November 9.

The nurpose is to provide an opportunity for the winners to meet each other in an informal, Bocial way prior to the allotment of the seats. Full details of the arrangements will bo irlnted on Sunday, November 8, In connection with the final results ot tho contest. An analysis of the vote cast yesterday shows that activity has not by any means died down, despite the fact that coupons are no longer published. All of the leaders are running strongly down th'j homestretch, and unless there Is a spectacular spurt by some one at present In the "dark horse" list, It Is probable that they will flnlBh In practically the same rolative positions as they stand to-day. There la little hope of any one overtaking W.

J. Baxter, who holds his lead of 14,000 easily, although R. II. De Stefani, In second place, has had support of a remarkable nature for the past two weeks. With a strong finish, It Is possible for James O.

McLaughlin to regain the socond position by displacing Mr. De Stefani. The entire matter hinges on the number ot ballots that have been stored up against the end of the contest by the friends of each. Mr. McLaughlin is practically certain of retaining third place, at least, although Miss Maud Klotz, fourth, has made a determined effort to better hor position.

The lead ot 6,000 she would have to overcome! lu this instance is almost impossible, when it is considered that no more voting coupons are being published. There promises to be a struggle by William McKay an1 Miss Fanny Slober for the seventh position. At the present time Mr. McKay holds the place, but ho Is in (he lead with less than 900 votes. It Is In the fight for the seventeenth position, however, that the greatest Interest of the week Is cantered.

Miss Anna Mead and Dr. V. W. Weed have been con-testing the position all week, and thero has passed scarcoly a day that did not noto a change In the relative positions of the two. At present Miss Mead has the better of the ballot arKuniont.

Below the eighteenth position all down the line, there uro such close groupings that kaleidoscopic changes are to be expected from day to day till the last bal lot has been received, and the vote lias been tallied for the final count. A typographical error crept Into the column of numbers yesterday, and Miss Beatrice Andrews was accredited with 12.204 votes, instead of 10,201, her proper number. As the higher figures would have (riven her a higher place lu the column, her Triends were anxious that the error be noted. ss Andrews Is to-day twenty-second In the list. Signs of the closing of the contest are to be noted In the letters being received.

JAMAICA RETURNS TARDY. Electors Voted Early, but Split Up Their Tickets, Making the Inspectors' Work Hard. Although tho voting was early In the Jamaica districts yesterday, the sending in of returns was exceedingly late, especially in the case of tile Twentieth Election District, tho full returns of which were not received at tho Jamaica station until 5 o'clock this morning. One of the chief causes of this delay in this, as in other districts, was the number of spilt tickets voted. In tho Twentieth District, whoso voting booth was located on Jamaica avenue, near the Hempstead turnpike, George Barb, a popular hotel keeper of the place, was running for Assembly on the Independence ticket, and for him alone 73 of his follow townsmen split tho ticket.

A number voted for different electors, anil this further complicated ui.itlers. In various ways 157 of the 000 or so voles cast were split. As a result, although there were on the board of returns some of the oldest ami most, oxporlenced members in the Including Goorg Denton, Irving J. KcUcy, (leorc A. KHz mid f.leorgc W.

Herzug, and although I he board began to count the votes as soon as the booths wore closed, It was 1 o'clock and after beforo oven the presidential result was known. At 3:45 the reBtilt. of the vote for governor was announced, and It was 5 o'clock before the fast nuto of Mr. Herzog conveyed the final vote to tho prerlnet headquarters. This was the latest hour at v.hich returns hnd been sent to the station in a number of years.

Other districts, Including Ihe Fifteenth, were tardy In Their returns. This district reported its finnl vnlo about '1 o'clock. Scarcely a district was beard from until 8 P.M. CONGRATULATING HUGHES. Governor Answers Many of the Messages, Thanking the Senders for Their Good Wishes.

Albany, November 4 Scores of congratulatory telegrams wero received by Governor Hughes last night and to-day. To as many of these os possible the governor has replied. To Chairman Frank Hitchcock of tho Republican National Committee tho governor wired: "It was a great privilege to take part In the national campaign and I am deeply gratified by the splendid victory that has been won. You have rendered a distinguished service to the party and the nation." To Senator Horace White, lieutenant governor elect, was sent the following: "I thank yu cordially for your tele gram and In turn heartily rongratulato you upon your election." Herbert Parsons, chairman of the New Yolk Coun'y Republican Committee, who wired the "governor, received tho following reply: "Accept thanks for your telegram. I eorllally congratulate you upon your Icleciioti, and appreciate your effective wotk in tha campa.gn." All of tho ohVcrs elect on the stale ticket wire! congratulations.

ANIOUS TO REACH 100. Islip Man Is Now in 90th Year and Is Fairly Well. (Kpeclal to the Kagle.) Lcwib Thompson, known as "Poppy" Thompson, and the old. st man In tin-Town of Islip. hns been sl.gh-ly ill of late, but is now recovering.

Mr. Thompson's ambPion Is to I ve to be loo years of age. and as he Is air. ady in Wh year and In fair health, there s.oins little doubt but ho will reach thu century mark. At the University Club of Brooklyn the returns were received by wire and were read to the large crowd there by Henry J.

Davenport, who had charge of the evening's fun. The members of the Brooklyn Club had their usual election night banquet, and it was as largely attended last night, perhaps, as ever In the history ot the club. The returns were received by wire at the club and the members remained In large numbers at the clubhouse until a late hour. At the Crescent Athletic Club, on the opposite corner, too, there wore special arrangements for the members' benefit and the crowd there was one of the largest that has been Inside the clubhouse at one time since it was opened. The Hamilton Club also had an unusually large throng of the fair sex as guests last night at the dinner, that was made a special feature of the evening's entertainment, and the programme of music that was presented was especially pleasing.

Complete arrangements for returns had been made by the members of the Hamilton Club. At the Cor-tolyou Club, in Flatbush, about four hundrod of the members assembled In the early evening, and a good entertainment was furnished until a late hour, and during the interim between numbers the returns were read from the ticker. The Manhasset Club also got the returns by ticker, and the members held their usual election night frolic In the clubhouse. At tho Lincoln Club. 65 Putnam avenue, there was the novelty of a late supper served near the midnight hour.

Good music and the usual Jolly crowd tnat makes up the membership of this well known organization kept things on the Jump all during the evening and until an early hour this morning. Among the restaurants patronized to their fullest capacity during the evening were Edgett's, Silsbe's, Gage Tollner's and Raub's. At the latter place a special feature was made of receiving the returns, which were read off as fast as received to the patrons. All Souls Church, Dltmas and Ocean avenues, was crowded last night by the members of the congregation end their friends who went there to receive the election returns, generously provided by the American Telegraph and Telephone Company. The returns were flashed on a screen by stereopticon.

Many people from neighboring churches were present. Public Service Commissioner Edward M. Bassett, who attends the Flatbush Congregational Church, came In during the evening. The arrangements for the evening were made by the Men's Club, the Monday Club and the Woman's Society of the church Coffee and cake were served. President Joseph TUden of the Men's Club, provided entertainment.

DUTCH WILL NOT FIGHT No Hostile Move Against Venezuela Is Contemplated. Positive Statement to That Effect Made by Colonial Government to Curacao People. Willemstad, Curacao, November 4 The Colonial government Issued a communication to-day to the people of Curacao, in which It set forth that the rumors current recently that the government of the Netherlands would take some hostile action against Venezuela on the flrst ot November were without foundation. This communication is rather mysterious, particularly in the method of its appearance, and it has created considerable discussion. It has also led to the belief that Hollaud docs not Intend to embark on any course of armed hostility against the Republic of Venezuela.

This communication appears as an unsigned article. In the Dutch language, in a daily newspaper of Curacao, published In SDanish. Some word from the Colo- I ilia! government has been expected for a week or more, and wlien tnis arucio appeared to-day, the people were glad that the authorities finally had given some sign of life. But the actual words were a disappointment. The rumors of action against Venezuela are said to be untrue, the authorities explaining that their purpose is Lu prevent the people from being suppointcd over the non-fulfillment of these reports.

The people of this island have been waiting hopefully for some sign ot action on tn nart of the home administration. Tbe article, however, gives assurance that the interests of the colony will not he neglected. It is obvious that special action is possible only when particular circumstances make such a course necessary. There is. however, no reason to be discouraged.

The government ot tho Netherlands will put an end to tho existing difficulty with Venezuela iu a manner entirely satisfactory to itself, a3 well as to the people of Curacao. The Islanders are urged to have i jrifldence in the homo government, and to remember (hat Queen Wilhelmina on two occasions assured the people thai she would herself sec that an Improvement ill their situation was brought about. The cruiser Gelderland entered port yesterday afternoon and is still here. The cruiser Friesland will leave port to-day. Thero is noticeable a distinct uncertainty regarding the movements of the Dutch warships here, a fact which only adds to tbe disappointment of the people.

VOTED ON COURT'S ORDER. Mr. Swan of Oyster Bay, Friend of the President, Not F.egis- tered There. (Special to the Eagle.) Mineola, L. November 4 When Charles F.

Swan, a wealthy Oyster Bay man, a neighbor and admirer of President Roosevelt, went to the polling place in the Fifth District of that town yesterday. he was refused the privilege of voting. He had not. been registered. This was about 10 A.M.

Indignant at the refusal, Mr. Swan telephoned United States District Attorney Young, and the latter agreed to go with him before Supreme Court Justice Scudder. In chambers here, and ask for an order compelling the Oyster Bay tn-' spector to accept his ballot. A quick trip was made here In an automobile, and the order was quickly Issued. Then a dash back to Oyster Bay was made and at 4 P.M.

Mr. Swan's ballot was In the I box. It appears that the Inspectors thought I Mr. Swan had moved away, and did not 'put his name on the rollB. He Bwore that Oyster Pay is still bis legal reBl-j dence.

The court also issued orders directing I the inspectors at Freeport to receive the votes of three men who had not been registered, but who were clearly entitled to vote at the polls there. MORMON CHURCH DYNAMITED. Atlanta, November 4 A special from Montecal, says that dynamite was used by unknown parties to destroy tho Mormon Church at that place on Monday night. At midnight, two hours after the destruction of the church, i four Mormon elders who had been con ducting special services at the church, left town hurriedly and to-day their whereabouts are unknown. Threats had been made against tbe Mormon elders.

Sixty Leaders. Baxter. W. Navy Yard Do Ktefani, Prof. K.

54'J State IS at -lit 11 i.9.1 1 Klotz. Miss Mamie Lincoln Mason( J. Harry, 16 Court st 27, Kehnrd, Anthony, 05 Lafayette av McKay, William ft Iiiilievoise '4. Kleher, Fannie tt-l pln.a st Welty, Miss May ooo rilnton st Hcaly, James i 1 lite st 21, Dili 9tif 172 Ml lainslng, Moronce Ilulsey 20, Avila, I'Mwanl 4T.7 Slate st Woodruff, Amy 7i New York av 11. 4 7ia 12? 174 HI'S will Curjientei- llazei, 1 1-VnJinore st 14.

Sa.sso, K.iat uih Uarr, Aila, 3K." Ilnlsey st 1:1. Mcd.l, Anna, lr' Hnncock 10 12 Weed. Dr. V. Halsey st 12.

ll inlon. J. 116 K.tKU? sr 11. O'Lcary, J. 4lj Fifty-eii-hth st II.

Kdnnedy, Harold, SiM'Tnir Si.tck Hi, Andrews, lic.itrlee p. S. Mil Id Thompson, Kathleen. 2370 i tcir.ir'l iv. 10, (iimble, May, nr.

Clemmm av It, liyrne, .1., 77 North Oxford st Knapp, Lillian. 207 Van Huron st 8. Kehweithfilm, Laura. Us S. I'ertland av H.

Draper. Mrs. J. Pirj Marlboro rd. H.

Thavpr, V. Armour, St. Jane-H pi. 7, Kneiiulst. 3710 Av .1 Hegt.) 7 Smith, Llll'iiin Olitrc, Fulten 7.

Hart. Edith 4:11 Jamaica av fi. Itidgewoori Day Nursery, Knlek'r av. fi Foster, Alollito, (il2 Macon st fi. Snvdor, M.lrjtarot 4 dales nv fi, Hteers, A.

P.edford av. 6. W0II9, Fullerton. 2i) Court st fi. Dunn, A.

UI3 Dean st 6. Chapman, fit Herkimer st II. Hoke, Miss S. 400 Washington (1. Hradli, Olnnl.

20 Cumberland st 5, HavdHti, James hit 4rh Connor, Robert fit!) tlreno 5. Fennlng, Florence 48 St. John's G. Groom, Wallace Prooklyn 5. I'ioroVii, Ads, 319 Cumberland 6 Andurson.

Mian A. 1W Van Huron fi. Dovln, Agnes 519 KtKhth at fi. RelHy E. 375 Fulton at 6.

Margaret Lnfavette av.r.. Cowen. John, 121! Vanderbllt av Lacil.llo IC4.rj Paritlc st (23d Itegt.) f. Harden, K. Nelson st 5, Chapman, F.

St. Mirk's 5 Stussv. Charles. 172 Montague at f. Perlfo 3S7 Lafayette 4.

Loekltt. Jessie 730 Carroll at 4 Realty, J. US Webster av. L-. I.

C. 4 Korn 247 Dean at 4 p.uger, I.lly. 332 C3ates av 4, oot list! I'M 111 4:3 WT K7S 777 II 15 tioft 15 378 1)28 941 791 7S7 7119 (121 II' r.llt 4HT 420 2'iS 2X9 2'lil 201 9in 931 ,723 Next Twenty-five. 1. Popart, Jennie Ttoalyn, I 5.

Mullln. Boner 171 Cumberland 3. Drlanev. Win. 39i Stratford 4.

Nova. Dr. J. 297 Hehermerhorn Clay, Mrs. M.

IP, 1.. I. State Hospital 6. Simpson, Florence. 2i Fiftieth st 7.

Hoberrson, Margaret. 44fi Slate at It. Whoe'er. Miss (Irenniwrt, L. 1..

9. lloam. N. 21? AdHphl 10. Kelly, W.

112 Miller av 11. Coon. lU'V. C. II.

Hancock st 12 IMh-r, Joseph, 44 Hi nd place 13. Walton, Amy 2R9 Perketev 14. Lane, Carrie. I'i7 Columbia Ilurke. It.

32 Fourth place 10. Ronhln 29 St 17. Eugene 239 Sklllnoin st 15. McNiekle. stl Ibiv isth st 19 Lee.

Nellie Madison st 20. Tien, Anna 1... po fixfoid st 21. Celdnrt, Mrs. O.

IIS Pros Pnrk W. 22. Colrun. fill 23. Tompkins.

I. llllnn 721 Morey 24. Goeihels. Miirie 170 Hnrti-ld 27. Itoche, puui, 290 Herkimer st Dally vote Total vole 4.5IH 4.l 4.299 3.71? KM) 3.274 a.2"7.

3.010 2.941 2.KI9 2.779 2.7-13 2,737 2,132 2'4l 2.1.01 2 on l.K''T l.H'iO 1.175 1.708 1. .73 ,431 172,391 ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL BURNED. Famous Kesort at Lake Mohegan, Largely Patronized by Brooklyn People, Is Totully Destroyed. (Special to the F.agle.) Pceltskill, N.

November "1 Tho St. Nicholas Hotel, at Lakn Mohcgan, four miles from hero, owned and managed now by Frank Fry, caught lire last night at o'clock and burned to the ground. The loss Is total, anil there Is not a vestige of the building left this morning save sheels of tin and embers. The hotel has been unite a rendezvous for Brooklyn people for many years. Tho season, which closed on September 15, was a prosperous one.

The hotel was opened on tho IKt.li lo enable Ihe Harris Light Cavalry Survivors Association to hold its eighteenth annual reunion. The origin of the lire Is unknown, but may be Incendiary, as the building was closed, and there was supposed to bo absolutely no fire in It. The fire evidently started under ihe big porch fronting Ihe lake. It had gained much headway before discovery. It collapsed in a half him and at 9:30 nothing was left but the ruliiH, The loss Is estimated by Mr.

I'rv at STG.iiOU, insured. The hold was J27 font in length anl 41 In width, stood in a forty acre park. and fronted I.ako Mohcgan. Sixteen years ago List Juno a former holel was burned to the ground at midnight, w.tliln a week of the proposed summer opening. Mr.

Fry built again, and in September, when t.ie fraino work was all up. a heavy gale blew It to the ground. A year ago last Juno lip' Si. Nicholas Annex was destroyed by lire. Now all that is left is tho Mohcgan Inn, at.

tlio terminal of the trolley. Mr. Fry had conducted the hotel, tthiiti accommodated five hundred guests, for many years, and Is also proprietor of F.agle Hotel, Peeksklll. He at the Kagle last evening when the telephone message came that the SI. Nicholas wai afire.

He Is a suiter, Irom trouble and fell to tbe llonr from tho chair In which he sai. TIiIh morning he is. belter, but Buffering from shook. Ho announces that he will rebuild before next season's opening date. STRIKERS CLUBBED DRIVER.

Gasseny Was a Strike Breaker, and He Is Now in Hospital. John Gasseney, yo.tn old. of K0 Illcccker street, who he-vi employed as a truck dnver by th" Mul-doon Trucking Company, a' West Nlti'li street, whose drivers arc at the presei.ti time on a strike, was th morning by a gang of no-n. unknown him, at the corner of V. N.n li and Hamipon an! rec.

v. I coi'-eusslon of th" brain arrl l. ra'e i of the scalp II" wan 1 by Ambulance S'liK on Tafel i r. moved the Long College II said that a was on truck dr. Ven liy Ciesniy, but lli.lt when ho sa'-v 'ho liec.iine Ji'lcht'tH'd ani ran away.

BLACKMAR CONGRATULATED. He Those Who Contributed to IIU Victory at Polls. Noil le-r i i -'l' nor It In. kmnr v. as a' the Kings) Couritv court morning, but, when seen till the stree' on Ins way down tov.ii.

Juste sa.d: "It's a flu 'l victory for JuUt'- Pin-lunar." I'urther than th.s be had to make. Ill.f kmnr ie Peer at Ins home. He was manif-i-" ly s-wl spirits iVer 'lie result Of tie- oioitioll. "1 only sav," he said, wch some Pttle emotion, "that I am iric-ful "i the pcopbi who have suppjr'ed me. There is Pule that I can add to this, save to say again that I am, grateful." who are not used to noisy displays, and who take delight in telling their friends in other parts of the borough of the quiot and peacefulness that Is theirs after 9 o'clock, blushed with shame at their own boldness last night.

The demonstration that was accorded each announcement could be heard for blocks away. From as early as 1 o'clock, when the flrst returns began to come In, until past mlcmignt tno crowd continued to gather, and then as the results were becoming more evident began again to fall off. Every facility at the command of the Eagle to provide the public with authentic returns of the election was used at the Eastern District Branch, 210 Broadway. That this fact is thoroughly appreciated by the public was Indicated by the great throng which gathered in front of that office and not only crowded the walk, but spread, fanlike, across Broadway. So closely packed was the crowd that car service along the thoroughfare was blocked and the police had tbe greatest difficulty keeping an open space.

Gathered together in one solid mass, thousands of persons watched the Eagle bulletins which were displayed at the Brooklyn Plaza of the Williamsburg Bridge. The crowd was one of the largest, from a police estimate, that over gathered at that point. It was a veritable sea of faces, and stretched from the edge, where the police line was formed in order to give passage for vehicular traffic, across the structure and half way to Havemeyer street. The crowd also spread across Broadway on one side and to the tracks of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, crossing the bridge, on the other side. A conservative estimate on tho part of the police placed the assemblage at over 15.000.

A crowd numbering from 5,000 to 7.000 people watched tbe returns which were flashed on the screen from In front of tbe Eagle's Greenpolnt Branch, Green-point avenue, near Manhattan avenue. The crowd formed a solid mass all the way from Manhattan avenue to the headquarters of Hook and Ladder Company No. 156. a distance of at least 100 Captain Aloncle of the Greenpolnt station said that it was one of the largest crowds that had ever gathered In his precinct. He had a largo force of patrolmen to keep the people from tho car track, but several times the cars were blocked.

Pro-Taft Eidgewood Crowd. It was a pro-Taft crowd that defied a disagreeable wind to watch the Eagle's stereopticon bulletins at St. Nicholas Hall, St. Nicholas avenue and Ralph street. Fully two thousand gathered before the sheet, armed with horns, megaphones and other din-creating lnstiu-monts.

The sentiment of the crowd was oaslly apparent in the early part of the evening when the returns from this bor ough favorable to the Republican candidates elicittd enthusiastic cheering anl a variety of other mighty noises impossible to describe. The appearance of Judgu Tatt's picture was the signal for a demonstration of ear-splitting proportions, whllo the shouts that greeted the Democratic returns were; frequently drowne 1 by cries of derision. In one instance, the flashing of Bryan's picture on the sheet was followed by the hurling of a brick at tho stereoptlcon machine. A great crowd gathered last night at the Eagle's Twenty-Bixth Ward branch. 2511 Atlantic avenue.

East New York, to get the election returns. The police of the Miller aenue station kept the throng within bounds. The crowd was clearly a Republican one, the figures thrown on the screeen by the stereopticon showing the success of the Republican ticket, national and state, being received with cheers and the blowing of horns and whistles. And there were hearty cheers when portraits of Taft and Hughes were shown on the large screen in front of the office. The Crowd on Fifth Avenue.

Fully twelve thousand persons watched the posting of the election returns In front, of the Fifth avenue branch of the Eagle, at 321 Ninth street. This was by far the largest number of persons ever gathered in South Brooklyn on any election night. The credit for the clover way In which the bulletins were posted belongs to Eddie McCaffrey, the "chalk man," who does all the Eagle's blackboard work at the main office and who won so many friends during the baseball season at the Washington street office. The crowd was good natured and It cheered Impartially both Democratic and Republican candidates, although Taft and Hughes were the favorites. When the election of Congressman Caldor, Assemblyman Green and Senator Travis, the local nominees, was announced, there was cheering for several minutes.

The Eagle extra editions were quickly disposed of on taeir arrival. Between four and five thousand persons congregated at the corner of Fifty-third street and Third avenue to watch the big stereopticon screen on which were bulletined the election returns as received by the Eagle. How the Clubs Eeceived the Eeturns. Great a3 were the throngs downtown and about the various Eagle branches in different parts of the borough there seemed to be no diminution In the size of the crowds that made the variou? clubs their headquarters for receiving the returns from the city, state and country. The theaters, too.

and the big restaurants about town all made arrangements to give their patrons information from time to time of the progress of the count. At the Union League Club the joy of the large assembly that filled the clubhouse was unbounded. The members and their wives came early to the big clubhouse In Bedford avenue, opposite the big statue of General Grant, and listened to the returns as they were read off. and between times applauded the singing of a good quartet. While the Informal fun was at Its height somebody suggested a speech from Dr.

Cadman, who was oac of the most Interested of the members. He responded, and the members say that the well-known divine from the Central Congregational Church seldom, If ever, excelled what he said last night. At least 700 members and their friends wero at the clubhouse until late in the evening. Senator Travis, Justice Abel E. Black-mar, Assemblyman Miller and George Wallace were on hand and expressed in brief talks their Joy over the result.

The club sent out the following telegrams: William Howard Taft. Cincinnati. O. The Union League club of Brooklyn ex- i.nHi it luartv fnn tr 1 a I mn niirtn this (groat Republican victory tt has nsievcr HIGH WATER. rA.M.

,11 of TlmeiHlehlTlmIHIghRIe Fall H.M.Foet!H M.IFeot HIT IH.M New I 4:25 I 4.4 Sandy Hook. 4:00 4.5 4:43 I 4.5 II 5:54 6:35 4:19 4.8 RUN RISKS AND SETS. November 4. November 5. rtlses.

Sets. .4:50 Rises. .6:31 Sets. .4:48 SHIP NEWS. rived at New York To-day, Delaware, from Philadelphia.

.1. M. Gurfoy, from Philadelphia. t'hilnielte, from (lalveston. Madonna, from Marseilles.

I. anisic, from Perlm, lulled, from Copenhagen. t'eien. from Cristobal. Mesaba.

from London. Prime August Wilhelm, from Colon. K.j.-ll. from port Antonio. Ititliun Prince, from Santos.

Semiiiol. from Turk's Island. u-ominian. from Puerto Mexico. H.

aiua. from Havana. Citiniinir, from Sanies. Majestic from Southampton (sighted). Sailed From New York To-day.

I. llviu Korea, for New York. Trleste-Iila. for New York. Al.irlei'sKii!tont.urui, f.ir Now York.

KoiHnAl'Kliuiilsnui, for New York. Steamships Due To-morrow. From. Sailed. Majestic Southampton t'S Halite Hull Or.l.

21 Tuscany 21 city Sw.insea Oct. 11 Mice Almcris Oct. 'A Mon'e Men ell M. Lucia Oct. 2S Murneas Trinidad Oct.

::8 New Orleans. 31 Ml Perado Oalventon Oct. 31) Iroquois Jacksonville 2 HEARINGS ON HARBOR WORK. Congressman Cooks Fixes Dntes for Meetings in Long Island Villnges. Wants People's Help.

(Special to the Euglo.) Westbury, 7.. November 4 Representative V. w. Cocks has arranged the following dates for hearings relative to surveys for river and harbor Improvement In his dis'rict which were not approved by the War Department last year and which lie had rn-referred to them, with the result that they are now lo bo Inspected by the Board of Review of Army Knglneors. Mr.

Cocks says he feels that tho time has now come when be must have a Utile, help from the various localities, if ho l.s to bo successful in these projects. Tin; dates are. as follows: November II. hearing at Roslyn at 10 A.M., in reference to Hempstead Harbor; same date, bearing at Freeport at 3:30 P.M., in refen tice to the proposed channel from Jamaica flay to and through Clre.it South Hay to Peconie Bay. November 1-.

hearing at Patchogue at A.M.. In reference to the proposed hannol from Bay to and through Great South Hay to Peconle Bay; same date, hearing at Kasthampton at 1:30 P.M., In reference to channol between Three Mile Harbor and Gardiner's Bay. November 1.1, hearing at Orient at 10 A.M., in reference to rhannel from Peters Neck Point tlirmgh I.oug Beach Bay to Horn River. NIXON MUST PAY $48,482. Holland Torpedo Boat Company Wins Suit Agnlnst Shipbuilder for Violation of Contract.

The suit hroueht In the Supreme Court by the Holland Torpedo Boat Company against Lewis N.xon to recover $120,000 which the corporation claims to have lost in the ronstnj' tlon of five torpedo boats for tho United Stoics government, owing to the failure of Nixon to carry out certain contractu nude with the company, terminated to day, after a lengthy trial before Justic Iio.vling and a Jury In inh.Ct.iii. In vr-li. In favor of the Holland Torfedo Po't romps py for cci's and int'-r. sr. The Torpedo li" claimed that It had made a eoti'iaet with the government, for live Holland torpedo boots to be ronxlni' by Nixon and finish, bv him wiihiti a certain time.

Th allei-ed that N.vm d. not carry out his r.i.-t In th- i-n-l. and that they lost ov the con-trait. Nixon claimed th.i- any delays were due to Hie failure pl'iinliff company to furnish cer-a piaas and for the o.i,!pi t.on of the torpedo boats, and nl i's failure to supply certain parts of the boats to be manufactured by the couipu".