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THE BROOKLYN DAILY GLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. JULY 29. 1911.

the report of the commission, and in it he embodied the law as well as argument upon the facts. Though the report was set aside by the judge who had originally constituted the commission in a way, which required it to be reconstituted, as already described, 'the rewas sustained at general term, that judge" being there reversed, and in the Ceurt of Appeals Mr. Shepard's statement was made the basis of a unanimous decision in favor of the position which he had taken. As a result quite $1,000,000 was saved to the public treadury. The expulsion of the cabal of wicked conspirators and nerveless dupes from all public affairs was vindieated.

This service should always be coupled with that which Mr. Shenard rendered to justice in his prosecution of political criminals, from whom he freed offce and with whom he peopled prisons. The character to accomplish these deed one of excellence. The labors and to mate. with them was inability to command these results was AS versatile as great.

The skill to unite forces for good government in politics and for justice in law was well to be consummate. Yet law, polities, reform and the prosecution of public offenders contained not more' marked labors and more marked successes for Edward M. Shepard than did oratory and literature. His monographs on many subjects of passing interest and on some of -permanent interest, are not few. His dresses of occasion had about them the classic statement of fundamental truth and the apposite union of philosophic generalization with the captivating charm of personal portraiture.

Edward M. Shepard had a philosophy of intellect. which is not exaggerated when it is compared with that of Jefferson. He had an insight as extensive and prophetic as that of Tilden. His was a culture alike as natural and as perfect as that of the Horatio Seymour, at whose feat the sat, and his were a versatility, a moral firmness and a courageous adhesion to truth, with a consequent detestation of demagogy And indirection, that are not overstated when they are compared with Hewitt's, and that are accounted for when they are compared with Lorenzo B.

Shepard's. There was no issue or principle which he' ignored. There was no obligation, national in Its sweep, to which he was unfaithful. Yet he did not lose, in largeness of his votion to the city his home. The vision, the duty and then delight of delocal character of of Mine public labor mattered not him.

duty much, W23 the one consideration. the very few who can be called statesmen. without satire; scholars, without narrowness; patriots, without cynicism; reformers, without qualification; and who Lave lived in Brooklyn, this man will be long remembered. The last address delivered by Mr. Shepard was.

made in celebration of the reservation by the state of the land of the mineral waters, in the Saratoga section. The subject matter of the speech was of local a nature to make It of wide or general appeal. And yet such was the breadth of the man's that in his approach to the discussion of this local subject he. must, in his exordium, consider the relation of American citizenship to soil and to nature as expressed in the environments of the citizen. The statement of the business organizations with which Mr.

Shepard's relation as a lawyer connected him would be too long for narration He was a vestryinan of Trinity Church here and A member of the Century and University Ciub in Manhattan and of the Hamilton Club in Brooklyn. Mr. Shepard's residence in recent years was at 44 Pierrepont street, and he had at Lake, George a summer regidence at which place he was when death overtook him. REAL ACTORS PLAYED. Fine Entertainment Given for Sheeps.

head Bay Church. St. Mathias Protestant Episcopal Church at Sheepshead Bay by a fine professional vaudeville entertaingiven last evening in the parish that attracted a large crowd. Two ment, playlets, "The Gambler's Love" and "In the Gray of the Dawn," were presented for the first time on any stage. The players who took part were Carleton Macy and his wife, Mandel Edna Hall- -Macy, Mr.

and Mrs. William B. Mack, Carrie Le Mont, H. O. Holland, William Von Mitzel.

John McGowan, Tom O'Malley, Frank Cooley, Miss Bessie Hall, Alphonz Ethier. Robert Hawley George Fredo. Ted Miller, Evelyn Strong and William Schonberg, who danced cleverly, The object of Dr. Thomas Alexander Hyde, rector of the church, is to raise a mortgage of $6,000 on the church, and also, if possible, to procure a sustaining fund of $10,000. BIG FIELD DAY EVENT AT WASHINGTON PARK Wrestling Between Bingham and Bothner Feature of Games of Namm Son.

Wrestling, baseball and socker football three of the features of A. I. Namm are Son's annual field day, to be held at the Brooklyn Baseball Grounds on Saturday, August 12. The New York Scottish Highlanders Band and a burlesque boxing bout will furnish the between-act amusements for the undoubtedly large number to spectators. The wrestling match is of unusual interest.

for Will Bingham, a former BritIsh champion, will meet George Bothner, a former world's titleholder in the lightweight class. Both men are in training and anxious to win. A month ago Bothner defeated the Englishman in two straight falls at Boston, and Bingham is keen to retrieve himself. In the game of assiciation football the True Blues of Paterson will meet the famous Clan MeDenalds of Brooklyn, the state champions, for the Tiernan Cup. Apples and Snyder will furnish the burlesque boxing bout.

The final event of the day will be A baseball game between the Namm team and that of the Wanamaker store for the Drygoods League championship and the Mall- Union Cup. The Wanamakers were recently victorious over the Namms in a well-played game, but 'the latter team is in such excellent shape that it is the favorite for the coming battle. WRECK IN MAINE WOODS DURING A RAGING STORM a Eight Killed and Sixteen Injured in a Collision at an Isolated Station. DEATH ENDS FROLIC IN CAR. Engine Tore Through Smoker in Which Members of Band Were Making Merry.

Grindstone, July 20-In the height of a raging storm in one of the wildest. parts of the big Maine woods, last night, eight persons were crushed to death anal sixteen others badly injured when a trainload of excursionists and a heavy passenger train met in head collision at this little flag station of the Bangor and Aroostock Railroad. Early today special trains with physicians and medical supplies were rushed to the scene from Millinocket and Bangor and the injured removed to Presque Isle, where most of the excursionists lived. The dead included five passengers, members of the Presque Isle brass band, the firemen of both trains and the engineer of the excursion train. The dead: F.

W. Garcelon, engineer of the excursion train. Dr. Hugh Pipes, dentist, Presque Isle. Frank Seeley, son of the cashier, of the Presque Isle National Bank.

Harry Clark, Presque Isle. Claude Loomer, Washburn. Zerne Harris, Presque Isle. Fireman Gallagher of excursion train. Fireman Wentworth of regular train of Brewer.

The injured: William Orr, engineer of regular train, badly hurt about head and arms; J. R. Billington, mail clerk of regular train; Charles Palmer, Brewer; Dr. Lowery, dentist. Presque Isle; William Duncan, Washburn; George Noyes, bookkeeper, Presque Isle: Robert Welsh, Ted Southard, Claude Johnson, E.

Ralph Hardy, Elder Partridge and Walter Maynard, Fort Fairfield, both members of the Fort Fairfield baseball team; Brakeman Knowles of Brewer, Baggagemaster C. L. Champlin, Bangor; George Cillin, Waterville; Pearl Gibson, Presque Isle. The collision, is believed to have been due to a misunderstanding in orders and was made possible by one of the most violent. midsummer storms that has swept this part of the country in years.

The two trains were to. at Grindstone. but there was a misunpass eacn other. derstanding somewhere, it is belleved. for the Van Buren train was just pulling out of the station when the excursion train shot out of.

a blinding sheet of rain, making for the siding. Neither but was moving very fast at the time, engine the momentum was sufficient to plunge the engine of the regular train the through the special's engine, telescoping smoking car just behind. In this car the members Isle of the Presque bors, band with a carload of neighwere making merry when the fatal crash came, and it bore was this car that the brunt of the accident, for the all those passengers on the special and remaining on the regular train with a shaking up. escaped Grindstone has just -three Inhabitants. Its only means of communication are by the railroad which the heart of the great Maine de runs through woodside and a single telephone wire.

There is not and, even of a logging road out of the hamlet facilities. course, no physicians or medical made But the husky lumbermen hers quick work of the shattered timand heavy piles of seats, while the capable women of the north first aid to the injured, until gave arrived. reilef trains OBITUARY Mildred E. John F. Hunter.

Cornelius Ketels. Cornelius Ketels, who was 86 years of age, died at the residence Charles of his son, Ketels, 1571 East Nineteenth street, Kings Highway, funeral services will be Thursday. The home on Monday at his late held The morning at 10 o'clock Cemetery. Interment will be at Evergreens Conrad Wachter. Conrad Wachter died the fifty-fifth Thursday in a Kate year of his age.

He leaves widow, Wachter. He ber Amaranth was a memand Council No. 46, R. Long Island Lodge, No. A.

M. He was also and funeral an Odd Fellow. The seryices will be held at 15 Greene avenue at 8 o'clock this evening. Joseph Eckert. Joseph Eckert, a native of born February 28, 1838, who Germany, came to this city in 1880, died Thursday at his 21 Louls place.

He home, was engaged in the upholstering and decorating business in Manhattan. He is survived by his widow, Anna 8 daughter, Helen, and two sons, Charles H. and Louis. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon. John J.

Doyle. John J. Doyle died yesterday at his 386 Marcy avenue. He was born home. In Brooklyn in the Nineteenth Ward.

He served with Company Forty-seventh Regiment, at Porto Rico. or He is survived by his mother, four sisters and three brothers. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Elmer E.

Ross. Elmer Ellsworth Ross of 1363. Putnam avenue died Thursday in St. Catherine's from a noperation made a week Hospital ago. He was a bookbinder and meriber of the Bushwick Avenue M.

E. Church, Hope Council, Daughters of Liberty, and Excelsior Council, Jr. 0. U. A.

M. He was born in New Brunswick, N. J. He formerly lived for years in the Fifteenth Ward. He is survived by a widow, Clara M.

Ballou, and a daughter, John Francis Hunter, who was born in Hoboken April 22, 1861, died yesterday at his home, 26 Pleasant place. The funeral services will 1 be held to-morrow evening. The Rev. Charles A. Brown, rector of St.

Timothy's Episcopal church, will ofAclate. Mr. Hunter had been for some time in the employ of Levine Brothers, of this borough. He leaves his widow, Sophia, two sons, Edward and Arthur, and three daughters, Irene, Frances and Mary. William L.

Walsh, William L. Walsh, who died on Thursday evening, was for the past fifteen years a department store buyer. He was a man of the strictest integrity and 60 recognized by his employers and by the shoe trade throughout the East. He is survived by his widow, Sadie; a son, Ralph mother, sister and two brothers. The funeral will take place from his late residence, 103 South Elliott place, to-morrow afternoon at 2 The interment will be in St.

John's Cemetery. W. S. Burton. W.

S. Burton, a retired Unitarian clergyman, died suddenly Thursday morning whHe in the Metropolitan Savings Dank Building in Manhattan. He was in his 79th year. He was a Major in the Union Army during the Civil War, and was a graduate of the Norwich Military Academy, in the same class as Admiral George Dewey. As a clergyman Mr.

ton was settled in parishes in Michigan and Massachusetts, and for a time he war I editor and publisher of the North Adam: (Mass.) Transcript. He is survived by widow and one son. a the John Ock. John Ock, who for the past nineteen years bad made his 134 Cooper street. died at that homeres.

yesterday from a complication of ailments. He was born in New York City August 9, 1851, and was an expert upholsterer, formerly employed large department stores. He was a member of Christ English Lutheran Church and Ocean Lodge of Free Masons. He is survived by his widow, Elizabeth Seipp, two sons, Andrew and John, two daughters, Mrs. Charles Fhey and Elizabeth, and a sister.

Mrs. Catherine Former. Funeral services will be held tomorrow evening, his pastor, the Rev. S. S.

Knabenschuh, officiating. Jacob Baker. Jacob Baker, who had his residence at 959 Jefferson avenue, died there yesterday. He was 62 years of age. He was well known in social circles, being a member of Jonathan Lodge, I.

0. F. S. of Cornerstone Lodge, and A. Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society of Brooklyn, E.

and Independent Order of Heptasophs. He leaves a widow, Carrie; a son, Joseph J. Baker. and a daughter, Mrs. Stella B.

Wheeler. The members of the order to which Mr. Baker belonged have been summoned to the funeral services, which will be held at the residence on Sunday morning. interment will be at Mount Hope Cemetery. George Eade.

George Eade, well known in railroad and steamship circles in all parts of this country and abroad as the American manager for Thomas Cook Son, died yesterday at hin residence, after an illness of several months. He was born at London, England, in 1851, and was for some years in the service of the White Star Line at Liverpool. In 1883 he was appointed manager of the steamship department of Thomas Cook Son, London, and in 1886 came to this country as manager of the firm's business in the United States and Canada. For a quarter of a century he was prominent in affairs here. Mr.

Eade transportation was a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce, the Lawyers Club, the Hardware Club and the St. George's Society. He is survived by a widow, two and four daughters, three of whom sons are married. COVERNMENT TO APPEAL HARRIMAN MERGER SUIT Attorney General Wickersham Orders Papers to Be Prepared at Once. Washington, July 29-The Government will appeal to the Supreme Court the Harriman merger suit, which was decided in favor of the railroads by the United States Circuit Court at St.

Louis. Attorney General Wickersham today directed C. A. Severance, the Government's special counsel in the case, to prepare the appeal and file it as quickly as possible. Although the Government has A year in which to perfect its action to the highest court, the Department of Justice intends to hurry the suit.

Opinions have been expressed in some quarters that the Government's appeal would be only a routine matter, to have the questions involved decided by the highest court. At the Department of Justice, however, it Is said the Government is appealing the the hope of winning it. Mr. Severance has reported to the Attorney-General that he believes the Government has a good chance. It has been suggested to the department that the outcome of the Harriman merger suit might have some bearing upon the great holding company which, it has been reported, is to be organized for the New York Central lines.

Attorney General Wickersham, however, said the proposed New York Central Company had not been called to his attention and would express no opinion. DIED ON RAILROAD TRAIN. Philadelphia, July 29-Henry F. Campbell, aged 49 years, of 73 South Seventeenth street, Flushing, Long Island, died on a Penneyl vania Rallroad train as the train was nearing North Philadelphia station early this morning. The death was reported to the coroner's office by Dr.

Abbott of 3116 North Broad street. Dr. Abbott said he could not give the cause of death, but said that because Campbell had been under treatment for stomach trouble at Chicago Hospital, his death had evidently resulted for that cause. Campbell was on his way to his home. It is rumored that he was an official of a Long Island rallroad, but this has not been verified.

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Copyrighted. one of the great minds of the country, and his death is a great loss to the community. I know of no man who had higher ideas and ideals of political life, who was sO intensely true Democrat in heart, who had a keener mind or who was so broadly cultured. Independent in his mental attitude, he always sought for the best and highest in all things. Justice Charles E.

HughesJustice Hughes when seen at Bridgehampton this morning was very much shocked when told of the death of Edward M. Shepard. He had not heard of the sad occurrence until a reporter for the Eagle called at his summer home. He said he had known Mr. Shepard in both public and private life, and held him in the very highest esteem, adding, "His death 18 a sad loss to the state and the Borongh President McAneny of Manhattan- Mr.

Shepard's death is a great, an Irreparable injury and loss to the community. We all had the highest possible respect for the distinguished lawyer and for the man. John H. MeCooeyI am exceedingly sorry Indeed to hear of the death of Mr. Shepard.

In his demise the city and state as well as the country loses a foremost citizen. During all of his lifetime he was affiliated with the Democratic party and took an active interest in its affairs. His reputation as a statesman a scholar was widely recognized and he represented the highest type of citizenship. In his death the Democratic party and the bar of the State of New York suffer an irreparable loss. Colonel William Hester- Colonel William Hester, who is sojourning at Glen Cove, was called up the telephone by an Eagle reportporter, and the reporter insisted on obtaining from the Colonel his opinion of the loss to Brooklyn by Mr.

Shepard's untimely death. The Colonel replied that he regarded Mr. Shepard's lamentable death as great loss to Brooklyn, the loss of A man of high character, fine instincts and rare abilities. Mr. Shepard, though born in Manhattan, had lived in Brooklyn from childhood, and had never been tempted to remove his home from Brooklyn.

Here he lived and preferred to live. Here he founded and retained his friendships. He reflected his distinction on Brooklyn and Brooklyn felt for him a respect no deserter could command or deserve. "I regret." said the Colonel, "Mr. Shepard's lamentable death, and every man in Brooklyn should regret 1t.

He was a great lawyer, a true citizen. a loyal and eminent citizen, and the type of Democrat every Dem- ocrat well could be." James D. BellI knew Edward M. Shepard for many years and, for the last quarter of 8 century, our personal relations were intimate. I have consulted with him on questions of law and found him, as all did.

keenly intellectual and thoroughly well informed as to his facts and the rules of law applicable to them. It has been my pleasure to have heard him on many occasions discuss political policies and problems. and while there were no emotion stirring phrases, there was always exhibited thorough preparation and deep thought. In 1894, when Mr. Shepard at the head of the Independent Movewas ment in this Country, was my fortune to be at the head of the Committee to Reorganize the regular party.

Mr. Shepard and while unable to agree on matters of party policy, remained personally as friendly as ever. He was a large enough man to admit that a person might disagree with him in politics and still be worthy of his confidence and respect as a man. Every intellectual man seems cold to those notbr ought into Intimate association with him and Mr. Shepard was no excention but, on more than one occasion, he gave evidence that his heart was as warm as his head was cool.

I personally mourn the loss a friend and. also, the passing of a great intellectual light from the political firmament of the State of New York. An Appreciative Biography and Estimate of Mr. Shepard. ST.

CLAIR Me Edward Morse Shepard was born in Manhattan, July 23, 1850. His father was Lorenzo B. Shepard and his mother Lucy Morse. His early education was secured in a public school of Brooklyn. After an academic and collegiate preparation, he entered on the study of the law immediatelv and was admitted 1 to practice in 1515.

He attained a high place at the bar in a short time. and at once concerned himself actively in pubic affairs. Although participating in politics from an early age his record as an office-holder is brief. He was civil service commissioner in Brooklyn from 1883 to 1885, and from 1888 to the chairman. During 1884 and 1885 1890 he was a member of the State Forestry Commission.

He was the candidate of the Democratic party for the mayoralty in 1901, but was defeated by Seth Low. He was Brooklyn's candidate for United States Senator during the present year, but withdrew after a deadlock had been made through the candidacy of William F. Sheehan. His name was frequently mentioned In connection with the gubernatorial nomination, and in former years he was looked up to as the leader of the reform Democracy of Brooklyn. The Father Mentally the Prototype of the Son.

He came of an ancestry distinguished by its mental and moral qualities and the influence of the culture, refinement aud intellectuality into which he was born was evident in his character and in his career. His father was Lorenzo Shepard, a man of commanding abilities and persuasive personality. He was conspicuous Democrat in the old City 01 New York when Democracy signifled principle, patriotism and civic spirit. He was an orator of power and of charm. He was a political manager and moralist of the highest type.

A few facts of the brief career of the father will foreshadow the son. Edward, at once, As carly 88 1847 Lor'enzO B. Shepard was the district attorney of the United States for the Dis. trict of New York. The district at that time wag well nigh coextensive with the commonwealth.

He was then but 27 years of age. The very next year he was district attorney of the County of New York and the year following he became the counsel of the corporation. At that time 10056 positions carried bar leadership Fad moral power with them to a degree add in a sense that have not always beep Suffering from despondency, caused by 111 health, John Weller, 37 years old, a waiter living at 306 West Forty-sixth street, Manhattan, jumped from a window of his room, on the fourth floor, early this morning, in an attempt to end his life. hurried to Flower Hospital, by Dr. Allen.

The man had received a fractured right leg, internal injuries, and was bruised all over the body. It is believed he will not recover. HORSE JUMPS ON BLACKSMITH. Richard Thorn, 38 years old, of 21 De Sales place, a horseshoer employed in a shop at 57 North Sixth' street, was terribly injured by a horse which he was working on this morning. The animal jumped on him, landing one foot on his head and another 011 his stomach.

Dr. Levine, ambulance surgeon of the Eastern District Hospital, was called, and said his injuries were serious and that his skull was probably fractured. THREE -CENT-FARE LINE TAKES STEP FORWARD Public Service Commission Gives Authority to Issue Capital Stock. The Public Service Comission today authorized the issue of $50,000 capital by the Manhattan Bridge ThreeCent Line for the purpose of constructing a trolley road across the Manhattan Bridge, connecting Desbrosses Street Ferry in Manhattan with the shopping district in Brooklyn. On December 30, 1909, The Eagle a announced the organization on that day of a company composed of Brookiyn men, whose object to operate a line from Brooklyn, across Manhattan Bridge, to Desbrosses Street Ferry, and to charge a fare of 3 cents.

Frederick W. Rowe, a real estate man of this borough, was elected president, and Engineer, Breckenridge president. A large number of well -known Brooklyn men were stockholders--Andrew D. Baird, Ludwig Nissen, Arthur Gibb, Walter Gibb, James Matthews, 'F. W.

Wurster, George W. Brush, Walter Hammitt, Gilbert Elliott, Dr. George D. Hamlin, Henry. B.

Davenport, Thomas, P. Peters, William C. Redfield, Latson, John C. Breckenridge and others. The route along which it was proposed to operate was laid down as follows: Beginning at or near Desbrosses Street Ferry in Manhattan, to Washington street, to Vestry street, to Canal street, to and over the Manhattan Bridge, and over its approaches and plazas to Fulton street, to Rockwell place, to Flatbush avenue, to Fourth avenue, to Atlantic avenue, to Third avenue, to Flatbush avenue, to Livingston street, to Hoyt street, to Bridge street, to Flatbush avenue extension.

On July 12, 1910, the Public Service Commission granted, upon the opinion written by Commissioner Bassett, a certificate of public necessity and convenience to the company. Then began a fight by the existing trolley companies against the granting of the franchise to the Three-Cent. Fare Line. Four companies applied for franchises to operate on the Manhattan Bridge, and the hearing on February 7, 1910, was quite stormy. On March 4, that year, the Board of Estimate adopted the report of a special committee granting a franchise to the new company, and the chief engineer of the board was instructed to prepare a form of contract.

But the old companies were not through with the fight, and the Public Service Commission gave hearings on the subject. In December last the Three-Cent Fare line then proposed to the Public Service Commission operate over the Manhattan Bridge, to use the Centre street loop, and run cars over the Williamsburg and Brooklyn Bridges for a three-cent fare. No action was taken upon this application. In May this year another company entered the Manhattan Bridge Service Company--and applied for a franchise. Arthur Carter Hume, of the South Shore Traction Company, was its president.

When asked about the company's plans, May 17, he refused to discuss them, saying that he was sorry that anything had been published about them, as they wished to keep them secret until they were ready to go before the Board of Estimate. The authority to the Three- Cent Line Company to issue stock, today, is an indication that that company has won out. In giving its permission, the Pub1ic Service Commission provides that a list of all expenditures be furnished the -Commission. This is something new in franchises, and is a notice to all other companies the Public Service Commission intends to keep a close watch over expenditures for construction, and that fortunes cannot be made in the future, ag in the past, by any companies," consisting of members of the railway company. TRUST COMPANIES CHANGE PLANS FOR DEPOSITORS A movement has been started among some of the local trust companies to induce their depositors to maintain average balances of more than $200, accounts of less than this amount to be charged a nominal fee, in most cases $1 per month, to cover the expense of bookkeeping, collections, etc.

The companles are also gradually increasing the required amounts on which interest is allowed, the majority now demanding that depositors keep a daily balance ot not less than $1,000 in order to particlpate in interest allowances. The Title and Trust Company and the ePoples Trust Company have been enforcing the rule in relation to a minimum balance for about one year, and the Citizens Trust Company has had a similar rule ever since the panic of 1907. The charge In the latter institution is not fixed, but depends on the condition of the account and is. discretionary with the officers. The Kings County Trust Company and the Home Trust Company sent out announcements today that they will charge a fee of $1 per month on accounts less than $200, starting with the Arst August.

of Several of the other trust companies' officers state that, while they have not passed rules in regard to a charge on small accounts, the matter has been considered and that, in all probability, such a charge will be made in the near future. The arguments advanced in defence of their position are that small accounts require more attention than large ones, 8S small accounts are more apt to be overdrawn. In the case of a merchant having small account, the tendency is to draw against newly deposited credits, In many cases before the credits have been collected. Since many of the larger trust companies have become members of the New York Clearing House Association, their reserve requirements are more stringent and, according to the officers of these institutions, it is now impossible to handle small accounts at a profit. Members of the Clearing House are required to carry 25 per cent.

of their deposits on reserve, and this rule operates against the handling of small accounts which could formerly be handled, if not at a profit, at least without a loss. The cost of clerical work is also greater in proportion to the small accounts, it being necessary to employ a large aymber of UNION BANK INQUISITORS TO EXAMINE O. H. CHENEY Ex-Superintendent Will Testify Monday Concerning Reports to Department. father, in addition to these public associated with them since.

Mr. Shepard's, ors, was A grand sachem of Tammany Hall when that organization stood in politics for every excellent quality of the reform movements which have repeatedly overthrown it because of infidenlity to its nobler days and to its better traditions. He was president of the Demo1 cratic State Convention at a time when denied to men on account of youth. He membership in that body was often was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention which nominated James el Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge for the presidency and vice presideney, Horatio Seymour was the friend and counselor of Lorenzo B.

Shepard, who also numbered William L. Marey and Samuel J. Tilden as men who made him their confdant in many of the representative endeavors which they put forth for their country and for their party. The early death of Lorenzo B. Shepard at the age of 36 years was the departure of man on the threshold that might have reached pre hisemmenteen tory, had he been spared.

autos likeness qualities of son had a of remark- his father. The characterization of the one could well serve characterization of the other. The two careers seem like the prolongation of a single life. The result cannot reasonably be charged to association, because Lorenzo B. Shepard died when Edward M.

Shepard was but six years old. To the son the father was a mother's counsel and love kept but little more than a memory, suveras memory sacred to the lad. The Son's Inheritance. The lad's inheritance has been already Indicated. There was no other.

His requirement was economy. With it, however. was refinement that. jdealized it and accounted, it as the emancipation of life creation of opportunitios. A sedulous reduction of his own alma and ambitions was enjoined on him by pathetic facts.

But that only made him delight in an altruistic labor for his kindred and associates. Blest in his parentage, Edward' M. Shepard was markedly fortunate in the friendship that parentage secured to him. Abram S. Hewitt, became the guardian of Edward M.

Shepard as he had been the devoted friend of boy's father. That wag followed by the couvement of the family to Brooklyn. The lad was put in Public School No. 13, in Degraw street. The ward in which he lived was the ward in which he was thus early taught.

From No. 13 young Shepard went for a year. to Oberlin College, in Ohio. That was A college on which the character of Horace Mann rested as a benediction. A year after the lad entered in the college of the City of New York.

His college associations wera with many men who also attainad distinction and the friendships between him and them were increased, strengthened and made tenderer by time. Upon his graduation Mr. Shepard entered as a student and a worker in the law office of John E. Parsons of the New York bar. Supporting himself by labor and qualifying himself by study, our subJect was admitted to the bar in 1875.

The year following he formed a copartnership with Albert Stickney. Both were constant students. Both were lovers of books. Of each the intellect WAS intensely analytic. In the case of each the love of right and the abhorrence of Indirection were marked.

Each was an inspiration and complement to the other. His Law Relation. This relationship agreeably continued until 1890. In May of that year was formed the firm of Parsons, Shepard Ogden (John E. Parsons, David E.

Ogden and Edward M. Shepard), which grew to be one of the foremost law organizatons of the United States In the conduct of great cases and the care of great interests. The labor of Mr. Shepard in this Arm was not only co-operative, but personal. There Were very few cases of Importance In which on one side or the other this Arm was not concerned.

The public relations of Edward M. Shepard could be made the basis of a longer and more inspiring narrative than any other department of his life. Those relations, however, are well known in Brooklyn. Like all best labor, his was progressive. Mr.

Shepard became an organization member of the Young Men's Democratic Club and was the chairman of its executive committee for two years and its president for three. Those were the years in which the club was a power In Brooklyn and in which it refused to be made an instrument of the ambition or an appendage of the personal purposes ol any of its members. Upon the perversion of Its functions to lowering aims, Mr. Shepard left it with a moiety of the men who had founded it. The Brooklyn Democratic Club was the consequence and reform movement which culminated In the renomination and re-election of ver Cleveland In 1892.

The el formation of the organization of the Democratic party In Kings County wag a further result which followed and which produced the Conscience Movement within the Democracy of the state in 1894, with all its record of honor and of courage. Those public duties required his acceptance of the offce of deputy attorney general of the state within this department for the purpose of prosecuting the combination that made government and crime one and indistinguishable in a large division of this county, The deliverance of Democracy and of government was truly no easy task. It was, however. accomplished. Every Indictment was sustained from the court of first resort up to and by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Every sentence was carried out. His Political and Public Service. This public service was preceded by one scarcely less signal on Mr. Shepard's part. Ile became a member of the Judicial commission to ascertain and fix the value on the plant and franchise of the Long IslWater Supply Company.

A corrupt combination of machine officfals had sought secretly to foist this property upon the county for a direct sum of 250,000, with a contingent obligation of $500,000 more. The effort was posed in The Eagle on December 22, 1890. It at once became a commanding subject of public attention and a cause of division between the honest and dishonest men in both parties In this community. Following The Eagle's exposure of the secret and malign effort, William J. Gaynor, subsequently Judge and mayor, brought suit to stop the inIquity, on the complaint of the late WIlllam Ziegler as a taxpayer.

This effort was successfully carried to victory, and 88 0 result of it the politics of this county Wes for a while revolutionized. A duty was imposed of guarding the interesta and the treasury of the city against all the consequences of the frustrated cabal of conspirators for plunder. This Mr. Shepard did by becoming the head of the Commission of Valuation. For practical purposes Mr.

Shepard was the whole commission. He mastered the evidence and he brought the two others with him to agree with his view land estimate of 'the case. He wrote Further interesting developments in the Bank investigation are due on when O. H. Cheney, the forMonday, mer State Superintendent of Banks, will take the stand.

Cheney was State Superintendent of Banks after the reorganization of the Union Bank, and he will be questioned with regard to the reports submitted to the State Banking 'Department by the reorganized concern. The items in the reports, with regard to which Mr. Cheney will testify, are: essential items bearing on the resources and liabilities of the bank. It is expected that Mr. Cheney will testify that the Banking Department did not know the true condition of the bank, and for this reason permitted it to re- open.

Mr. Cheney Will Be Asked to Analyze Bank Report. A part of the cross-examination of Mr. Cheney on Monday will be to a close analysis of the last the devoted, bank, which was made during the latter part of March, 1910. A certified copy of this report as it filed with the State Superintendent Banks will be presented.

Questions are going to be asked concerning the first item of $4,954,163.50 listed under assets as loans and discounts. An investigation of the books and records of the bank shows that sums due from bankrupt individutls, dummy real estate concerns and defaulting notemakers from whom even supplementary proceedings had failed to extract a dollar, were included in this item. The loans and discounts submitted by the reorgantzed Union Bank as assets included nearly one million dollars' worth of loans and: discounts on which not a dollar has been realized. The Banking Department has since charged a good share of this one million dollars to the debit side of profit and loss. To Get Testimony on Question of Real Estate Valuation.

second item in the resources concerning which some questions. will be asked is the one which real places a value of $547,187.46 on the estate owned by the bank. Th siis believed by some to be a liberal estimate. The 100 per cent. valuation of last year's tax assessment scales it down by something like $200,000.

The "other securities" listed among the assets as worth $339,434.12 include 000 for Shetland Company stock. So far no one has been found willing to offer as much as for it. The "furniture and fixtures" listed in the statement as being worth $57,825. A good share of accrued interest which is given as a $35,000 asset has never been paid. $1,500,000 Item in Liabilities Will Be Probed.

In the list of liabilities the item concerning which Mr. Cheney will be asked the most questions is that of $1,562,885.12 for "bills payable." This total does not Include the $200,000 which the Union Bank borrowed from the Metropolitan Trust Company through the Onslow-Moore Company and the Shetland Company, two of its subsidiary corporations. The lawyers of the Metropolitan Trust Company objected to making a half million dollar loan to a single corporation, and accordingly it was arranged that the Onslow-Moore Company and the Shetland Company should take $200,000 of the loan and that the Union Bank would guarantee the payment. The Banking' Department believes that this $200,000 should have been listed as a direct liability or at least as a contingent liability, since the Union Bank got the money and guaranteed its repayment. CAUGHT NEAR GAYNOR HOME Another Alleged Burglar Nabbed on the Park Slope.

aPtrolman Stamford celebrated his Arst night in the Bergen street station by arresting a man in the rear of 39 Eighth avenue, almost directly opposite the home of Mayor Gaynor, last night. According to the police, the man confessed to having broken in at 43 Eighth avenue only a few days previously, and when searched there was found in his possession a box of sisleton keys, a wrench, a pair of nippers, and a toy alstol. The police believe this last mentioned was intended to frighten any person who air mpied to interfere with him. The man, who described himself as John E. Wohle1.

33 years old, of 59 East Twenty-urst street, was held on a technical charge of vagrancy in the Flatbush court today, and Magistrate McGuire held him in $1,000 until July 31, in order to give the police time to investigate. Detectives of the Bergen street station, who went to Wohlen's residence last night, brought away two suit cases full of clothing and other articles, which they believe will lead to the tracing of several burglaries. Officer Stamford came to the Bergen street station only yesterday from the Ninth precinct, Manhattan, and did not have time to change the precinct number on his coat before making the arrest. a He was assigned last night to the post which is close to the home of Mayor Gaynor and many other prominent people of the Park Slope. At 11:30 he was standing In front of No.

43, which is at the corner, when he saw a man climbing over the fences. He watched the man climb over two fences until he came to the rear of 39. Patrolman Anderson was on the adJoining post, came along just then. Stamford placed him on watch and proceeded to climb after the robber. Hhe found him hinding in the storm shed of No.

39, and placed him under arrest. FIRE DAMAGES UNITY CLUB. Fire which was discovered at noon today damaged the Unity Club, at 482 Franklin avenue, to the extent of $6,000. Quick work on the part of the firemen, led by Battalion Chiefs Thomas Norton and John Farrell, prevented it from spreading to Public School No. 3, in the same block, to the Bedford Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, next door, and to the Jefferson Arms, a six-story apartment house next door.

Great excitement was caused in all these buildings, but there was no panic and no one was Injured. Several firemen were temporarily overcome by smoke, but went to work again. The origin of the blaze is known. It evidently started between. the ceiling and roof of the banquet hall.

Max Pearl, the steward of the club, and Harry Adolph, the bookkeeper, turned in the alarm. 113 clerks to transact a small aggregate business. The following list of the local trust companies shows the minimum amounts on which interest is allowed: Brooklyn and 500 Citizens 1,00 Long Island L. Flatbush 5001 and 1.000 Franklin 1,00 Kings 1,001 Hamilton Nassau 500 Home Peoples 1,000 Lawyers Title I. Title 650 The Citizens', Home, Kings County, People's and Title Gurantee companies have already made, or announced to be made, a charge on accounts of less than $200.

Some of the depositors ol these institutions are displeased with the new charges, and in certain instances have arranged to remove their accounts to other hanks.