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I 8 THE DAILY STANDARD UNION: BROOKLYN, SATURDAY, MAY '1898: -TWELVE PAGES I II. C. A Movement to Raise Funds Taking a Practical Form. Sessions of the Eastern Section of New York State Miss Appelbaum Wants 110,000 For Breach of Promise. ributes of Esteem to the Daniel Ryan.

i i ALLBEARERS FOR 'FUNERAL, Lawyer Rand, in Menoeal Trial, Charges Him With Perjury. CASE NOW BEFORE THE COURT. Wouldn't Refuse a Police Com-missionersliip EE WILL NOT STAND BOSSISM. IN PROGRESS AT FLUSHING. BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTED.

FORMER SWEETHEART IN JAIL UNSEEMLY HASTE OF DEMOCRATS TO FILL. THE OFFICE FORMERLY OCCUPIED BY THE LATE DA XI EL RYAX SOME OF THE CANDIDATES IN THE FIELD A NEW GERMAN- DEMOCRATIC club. The contests in relation to the delegates who will make up the County aicl City Committees are lively in every ward dlsatisfled with the present leaderships. As ha previously been told the principal contests are in the Third. Sixth.

Seventh. Twenty-third, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth and Twenty-eighth wards. The leaders on each side claim a walkover. Mr. Atterbury, of the Twenty-third ward, claims that his opponent will not carry more than five while the Wllson-Nathan faction maintain that Atterbury will only get three districts.

In the Twenty-fifth ward Naval Officer Sharkey says there is no question of his side carrying every district in the ward, but, on the other hand, his opponents don't concede him a solitary district. Ex-Sheriff Buttling has no doubt of his i success in the Fifth ward, and believes he will be returned to the General Commlt- I Concerning his chances of securing a Police Commissionership, the ex-Sheriff 1 said to-day that while he had not been appointed, he would accept if the place was offered to him. "But," the ex-Sheriff said, there seems to be some hesitation. They know I cannot be used by any boss whether he be Platt or Croker. If I got in that Police i Board I would speak my mind and nobody could shut me up.

i Politicians about the Borough-Hall, say that the appointment will be made on Monday or Tuesday of next week. AMONG THE DEMOCRATS There seems to he an indecent haste among the politicians of the Democratic faith tn this city to fill the place from which the hand of death has removed I Daniel Reran. Among those who have already appeared in the field as candi-! dates for the position of Deputy Commls-. gloner of Buildings in this borough are P. J.

Carlin, Thomas B. Rutan, and a Nhie-1 tee nth ward man named Ryan. It is I thoutbg, however, that ex-Aldermen John G-uilfoyle. the present superintendent of the department, may be elevated to the Comm ieai on era i p. At Lateman's Hall, 2560 Atlantic avenue, last night, the organization of the HIS OFFICE AND FIELD STAFF MEET AND ADOPT RESOLUTIONS OF CONDOLENCE AND B3TEEM ACTION OF THE BOARD OF BUILDING COMMISSIONERS MINUTE OF THE SEVENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.

The following gentlemen hae been designated as pallbearers at the funeral next Monday morning of the late Building Commissioner Daniel Ryan: Hugh McLaughlin, James Shevlin, Michael J. Coffey, Bernard York, Luke D. Stapleton, William A. Doyle, John Gallagher) John Thomas Kevins, John Gullfoyle, John Dehnac and James Kerwin. At a meeting of the inspectors, clerks and other employees of the Building Department, held to-day, which was presided over by Acting Commissioner John Guilfoyle, the following preamble and resolutions were adopted: Whereas.

God in His Infinite wisdom has removed from among us Commissioner Daniel Ryan, to whom all were bound by the ties of affection and respect; Resolved. That we take thisr opportunity to place on record our deep regret at his untimely death, and to extend to his bereaved family our condolences and sympathy in the burden of affliction with which they are bowed down; and Resolved, As a further mark of respect that we attend the funeral in a body." The Board of Building Commissioners met in Manhattan yesterday afternoon. There were present Commissioner Brady of Manhattan and Bronx, Commissioner Campbell of Queens and Richmond, and Acting-Commissioner Guilfoyle of Brook-ljn. Resolutions eulogizing the late Commissioner Daniel Ryan and expressing deep sympathy for his family were adopted. At special meeting of the Seventh Assembly District Democratic Committee.

held last evening, the following preamble and resolution were adopted: Whereas, In the death of the Hon. Daniel Ryan there has passed into rest, beyond the turmoil of renown, a prominent and useful public servant, whose activities in his chosen field of labor promised important and abiding results for the great city of which he was a distinguished citizen and for the borough with whose progress he was for many ears identified; and. Whereas, The Democratic party of the Greater City of New York and of the Borough' of Brooklyn, with which as an active and inspiring counselor he was so long associated, and the Democratic organization in the Seventh, Assembly district. of which he was the honored leader, have lost an unselfish and untiring champion whose fatih, whose resolution and whose constancy never wavered, and whose long career of leadership was a record of continuous' success; therefore be it Resolved, That the Democrats of the Seventh Assembly district, represented by their Assembly District Committee, hereby place on record their deep sense of the overwhelming and abiding loss sustained by them and by the party in the borough and the greater city in the departure of such a shepherd of the people, and that in so far as with propriety it may be done, they desire to convey to the bereaved family of the departed leader their heartfelt sympathy in the affliction which has deprived his beloved ones of a man so distinguished in his public capacities, and so marked for his devotion in all the relations which go to make up the sacred inner life of the man and the citizen. Bui No Satisfactory Answer For the Twenty-third Regiment THEY ARE EAGER FOR BATTLE, AND BELIEVE THEY HAVE A GOOD SHOW TO BE CALLED OUT THE MEN NETTLED BY CRITICISM- HAVE ALWAYS OBEYED ORDERS NO REPORT FROM COL.

SMITH. At the Twenty-third Regiment Armory last niglit Adjt. Seorge A. Wingate, who accompanied Col. Alexis C.

Smith to Albany to see the Governor relative to having the regiment selected as a part of the quota of New York on the second call for troops, was seen by a Standard Union reporter. The Colonel and Capt. Wingate returned late in the afternoon, but the Colonel did not appear at the armory. Adjt. Wingate stated that, they were unable to see the Governor.

We saw the Adjutant-General; and he said that while he could not give us any satisfactory answer at the present time, because the Governor had received no intimation from the Washington authorities as to how the States, quota was to be filled and the proper apportionment of the various arms of the service, he approved the soldierly spirit in which the regiment obeyed its orders in accepting its medicine and staying home when ordered. They had not rushed into print, he said, nor criticised their superior And while he did not say we would be called, he gave us to understand that our offer would receive very favorable consideration. A captain who stood by added that he felt pretty certain the Twenty-third stood a very good chance of being selected as part of the new quota. The Adjutant referred to' a statement in an evening paper sent to it from Albany, the effect that the Seventh and Twenty-third now wanted to go to "the war, which he thought was misleading. Our position, said Adjt.

Wingate, is not like the Seventh at all, because we offered to go unconditionally under the organization as prescribed by the Hull bill. The fact of Col. Appletons being present at the same time was merely a coincidence. i The Twenty-third Regiment now has 900 men on the rolls, and a veteran corps of 400, headed by Col. John N.

Partridge, to occupy and care for the armory in case they are called away. It is hardly likely, however, that the regiment will be called, for the same reason that the Governor objected to the President accepting the offer of the Seventh Regiment it would leave no National Guard regiment in either New York or Brooklyn. The 114th and 147th were both designated to go on second call, although raised as National Guard organizations. The Twenty-third, officers and men, are not only ready and willing to go, but are burning to go, as one expressed it, and cannot yet underhand why they werfe not selected at first, since they offered themselves unconditionally. The Twenty-third naturally feel hurt at the condemnation put upon them by a portion of the public because of the fact that they did not go to the front, when they were not ordered.

They have always obeyed all orders, they declare, and they fail to see the justice of abusing them for staying at home. The men have to stand a great deal of abuse and ridicule because of the attitude in which they ar placed. None the National Guard regiments will parade on Monday with the Grand Armyofhe Republic, as two are away, and only one of the original four remains in Brooklyn. There is a belief that there would be trouble from some of the ignorant or vicious, glad of any excuse for unseemly conduct and violence if the Guard should parade now. COUNSEL FOR THE ACCUSED CLAIMS THAT CONGRESS WAS STINGY IN APPROPRIATING MONEY AND THAT DRY DOCK NO.

3, IN EVERYBODYS OPINION. WAS NEVER IN- TENDED TO BE A SUCCESS. At the Menoeal trial by court-martial to-day at the Navy Yard, Civil Engineer Menoeal, who stands charged with improperly constructing Dry Dock No. 3, and who testified in hla own behalf tor a brief period yesterday, called attention to the fact that the stenographer for the prosecution had made many errors in reporting his testimony before the fcourt, and asked that they be corrected. Fully fifty errors were shown.

They were al- lowed to be changed. When this matter was disposed of, William H. Rand summed up for the defense. He said that the issue at question lay between the Secretary of the Navy, on the one hand, and Civil Engineer Menoeal on the other. No man, he said, could be convicted of crime unless it was done with.

I criminal intent. The charge of culpable neglect had been made against Menoeal, but the evidence that had been submitted I of his energetic work wherever the Government placed him, so much so that his I physical system had been run down to I such an extent that he had been advised I to give up work, showed that he could not be guilty of that charge. No civilized government in these days are builllng docks like that of No. 3. a matter of fact Congress had been too stingy.

What a travesty upon justice, said Mr. Rand. that this dock should be fathered at this late day upon Mr. Menoeal, when after three years, with but 28 per cent, of the work being finished, Mr. Menoeal was placed in charge and had to undo a great part of-the work that had been done by fraudulent outsiders.

Mr. Rand went on to state that Civil I Engineer Asserson had been upheld as I against Menoeal, and that this had been done to support the man who drew the plans, hich Menoeal, upon taking charge, found too late to change. This, he said, was done by the Chester Board, who Jiad hint Menoeal in dignity and in reputation with the contractors, and had practically I ordered him not to further annoy the Government upon the subjecC Hence he I had gone on with the work as best he could, and, in view of that fact, it could not be questioned that he was guilty of doing his duty and obeying orders. Mr. Rand added: Who contradicts Menocals testimony? I have no desire to throw mud at Mc-Giehan, the leveller, who was the only person who did.

He will go his way and Ill go mine. I never expect to see him again. His testimony showed that between the 20th and 30th of March sheet was driven, when, as a- matter of I fact, the work had been completed befofe I that time. I dont like to call any man I a liar, but I see no way out of it. As a last support, the prosecution brings this man here.

Do you mean to say that the prosecution has suborned perjury? interrupted Judge-Advocate Lauchheimer. I mean exactly what I say, replied Mr. Rand, as he went on with his speech. After. three years, he said, it seemed strange that" McGiehan should have the ightest understanding of what his duties were; white it cuCrage that after working eight hours a day on the dock where his office was he could" not tell when fraudulent work was being done, but that Menoeal could.

Mr. Rands summing up occupied the entire morning, the Judge-Advocate taking up the remainder of the day for the pioseeution. The case is now in the hands of the court. The monitor Ja9on was brought up to the Navy Yard last night from her anchorage off Tompkinsville. The collier Alexandria was taken out of dry dock No.

2 this morning and put in a berth near the cob dock for finishing. The cruiser Badger, now at the Morgan Iron Works, will, take on stores from the tug Pawnee to-day and will be brought over to the Navy Yard on Monday to have her guns mounted. It is, expected that she xs ill sail next week, manned by a detail of the New Jersey Naval Reserves. Eighty-six men of the Charleston Naval Reserves, under Lieuts. Igo and Patchen arrived at the Navy Yard yesterday, and were quartered in the Marine Barracks.

This morning they were marched on board the ship Celtic and drilled in gunnery. The Celtic will sail next week to join Sampson's fleet in Southern waters. The tug Narkeeta left the Yard to-day with stores for the Yankee, cruiser, stationed off Tompkinsville. Prospects of a Protracted Fight -In Congress. SENATOR LODGES AMENDMENT HAS STIRRED UP THE OPPONENTS OF ANNEXATION, AND THEY THREATEN TO BRING UP FREE COINAGE, REPEAL OF RECIPROCITY TREATY, IN ORDER TO DELAY THE REVENUE BILL-MUCH DEPENDS ON SPEAKER REED.

WASHINGTON, May 28. The War Revenue bill will monopolize almost the entire attention of the Senate next week. There was a fair prospect of its passage in that body by June 4, had not Mr. Lodge offered vas an amendment the New-lands joint resolution providing for the annexation of Hawaii. If the Massachusetts Senator persists in pressing this matter the opponents of annexation make concealment tha.t they will come forward with other as the free coinage of silver, repec.1 of the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty, etc.

Considerable feeling has been manifested on the subject. Senators who urge annexation declare that it is absolutely necessary to have the islands, now that the United States have gone to war with Spain, and they threaten to brand the opposition as enemies of their country if they do not vote quickly for the War Revenue bill with this amendment added. On the other hand, ardent supporters of annexation, like Burrqws, Frye and others, say that this is not the proper way "in which to present the question that it ought to be brought up sep-erately orj its own merits. There can be no doubt whatever that the Administration is behind the movement to annex Hawaii in the manner now attempted. ft is said that as long as Speaker Reed throws obstacles in the road, there is no chance for annexation unless the question is hitched to the War Revenue bill.

Congressmen differ in opinion as to what the attitude of the Speaker will be next week when the test is applied. Some declare he will leave the matter to a caucus of his party, nd that is likely to be held Tuesday night, unless in 4he meantime Mr. Reed, as several predict confidently, consents to withdraw his opposition. Others are positive the Speaker has his blood up, and will resist -to the utmost what he considers an attempt on the part of the Executive departments to bulldoze the legislative, and the presiding officer of the House in particular. It is generally admitted that Hawaiian annexation depends very much upon the will of Mr.

Reed, who, under the power given him by the rules of the House, is in a position to do practically what he pleases. There is" at least a prospect of a pretty fight shortly in both branches of Congress. WORDS OF WARNING. So far as uniforms are concerned, the guard is fairly well supplied, following faithfully the regular army service qni form, but with some deviation in many Spates, and overcoats are fairly well dis tributed. The Merriam pack has been adopted largely in the East and a few Western States, but elsewhere the old-fashioned knapsack is still in use, a perfectly useless part of a modern soldiers kit.

Blankets and ponchos are known in most of the'States, neither are suitable canteens, haversacks and camp utensils. Tents are not sufficient in many States to house their own guard, so to speak, under one roof, and camp equipage is unknown. Some of the guard are properly supplied with the right kind of clothing woolen shirts or socks necessary for continuous field service but the question of footgear has been totally ignored in every guard organization in the Union. No feet, no horse, says the turfman. Weil.

No feet, no soldier. The shoes which may do fair sendee on parade or for a weeks camping is utterly worthless for marching over a broken country, wet or dry. So that before any portion of the guard can form a marching force they must be re-shod, man for man. In Germany so much is thought of the soldiers feet that a chiropodist is attached' to each company. Few of the officers in any of the States are provided with revolvers, field glasses, haversacks, the Merriam pack, canteens, blankets or ponchos.

Owing to the parsimony -of Congress and a general spirit of hostility previously existing in that body to every thing pertaining to military affairs the regulars and the volunteer guard are now armed with at leat two different kinds of weapons. The army uses the Krag-Jor-genson magazine gun, and the Guard the last model of Springfield breech-loading rifle. There is no time here to discuss which -Js the 4etter weapon, but this difference. both as to style and calibre, would be fatal in actual warfare. The Krag-Jorgenson has an effective range of more than twice that of the Springfield arm.

and srere a brigade to become engaged. composed as it is of 4yo regiments of the volunteers and one of regulars, the latter could not be supported by the fire of the former until after the regulars had advanced so that the Guard could reach its effective range. in eleven States there is no artillery at all. And in most of the others the guns are worthless for anything more than salutes. So far the Government has dis tributed forty-two of the 2-3 inch calibre field pieces, and none of these guns has ever been used at target practice, so that the' gunners have need of complete instruction in handling their pieces, which, if not provided-for, would, in actual warfare, result in a serious drain upon th ammunition train, and no damage would be done to the enemy.

The harness is old and probably useless, and the horses or mules are not reaularly trained for the artillery. Louisiana has nominally ten batteries of artillery, but In reality all these men are drilled as infantry, and there is not a modern hlgh-power field gun in the States possession. In a few instances some of the infantry regiments possess a Gatling gun or but there is nothing approaching an effective machine or rapid fire gun organization in any" of the States. Owing to the topography of Cuba, cavalry Is a most essential branch of the service. It has become a regular army maxim that it takes twice as long to develop a cavalryman as a man in any other branch of the service.

The horse has to be trained as well as the man. majority of the States have at least one troop of cavalry, but too often these have been swell social bodies, and their preparedness for war is questionable. Consolidated into squadrons or regiments and ninety days drilling iiU camp would con vert these cavalry troops into a superb body of men. splendidly horsed and well equipped; as in all instances the troopers, being men of considerable means, possess a kit and horseflesh that are the best that money can procure. course the vital reason why the States are so weak in these two important branches of the ser vice is the great cost of equipoing and maintaining them.

Leslies Weekly. REPRESENTATIVE BOYS OF YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS FROM ALL OVER ARE MEETING TO-DAY CXNVEXTION HELD IN THREE DIVISIONS THIS MORNING'S WORK AT FLUSHING. The eighth annual conference of the Boys Department of the Young Mens Christian Associations of New York State, which was opened last evening in three divisions, meeting in Flushing, Amsterdam and Fairport, was continued at Flushing at 9:30 oclock this morning. The session opened with an address on First Things, by Dwight N. Warden, of the Greenpolnt Association.

Reports from the various departments present were then submitted. Almost every one showed progress and good work among the boys. The report from Nyack stated that their boys department had been reorganized on Feb. 1, and did well until the war broke out, since which time the boys have been selling extras. The associations failing to respond were Sing Sing, Warwick and Whke Plains.

A paper was then read by Frank Fitzpatrick, of the Twenty-third street branch, Manhattan, on The Boy in the Association. He dwelt at some length on the subject of what the Y. C. A. rooms are for, and how best to use the gymnasium.

A discussion of the subject followed the conclusion of which was that the rooms of the gymnasium are a means to an end to make Christian boys. A paper on The Boy Outside the Association, written by Arthur Roth, of Har lem, i was read by Lester D. Simon, of Poughkeepsie, and dwelt on what the associations are doing in the field and sports, and also How the Summer Camp Helps the Association Work, bith with regard to the individual and the association. The committee on greetings to the other conferences reported that they would send the following telegram: Greetings to boys assembled at Fairmont and Amsterdam. Ephesians 6, BOYS CONFERENCE AT FLUSHING, N.Y.

Upon motion it was also decided to send a telegram -of greeting to Secretary Peck, of the Newburg Association. Newcomers to the association who were not present last evening, ware then introduced. The State Secretary. Fred. S.

Goodman, spoke on The Boys State Work League." He said that this was not a league for sport, but to develop the art of giving. The following associations pledged themselves to give money to the league in the coming year: Central, Bedford Branch and Greenpolnt, of Brooklyn: Mount Vernon, Yonkers, Harlem, Twenty-third Street; Washington Heights and West Side of Manhattan. Capt. Saunders, of Bay Ridge, also pledged $10 to this work. H.

Buchanan, of the Twenty-third Street Branch, Manhattan, said that he had made an investigation to see how many boys branches there were in the country. Out of 724. the total number of associations, he found there were only 328 that had boys departments. In many towns where there were several thousand inhabitants no attempt was being made at reaching the boys. Chicago, with -over inhabitants, reaches only seven-ty-sJX boys.

Notices were then given out, and the morning-session closed. The afternoon session began at 2 oclock, when there was read a paper on The Bible and the Boys. by Albert J. Acker, of the West Side Branch, Man. hattan.

and one on The Other Boys for Christ, by Reginald Plummer, of Yonkers. For the sake of convenience the State is divided into three divisions, known as the Eastern Section, Central Section and Western Section, the first of these being the1 One meeting at Flushing. This included the following associations: Central Branfch, Eastern District Branch, Bedford i Branch, Prospect Park' Branch, Twenty-sixth Ward Branch, of Brooklyn: Flushing, Middletown, Mount Vernon, Newburgh, Nyack, Sing Sing, Poughkeepsie, i Tompkinsville, Warwick, White Plains and Yonkers, and East Eighty-sixth' Street, German, Harlem, Twenty-third Street, Washington Heights and West Side branches, of Manhattan. C. E.

Deutcher, of Orange, N. presided at last evenings session of the Eastern District. The Rev. Charles Edwin Knowles, pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Flushing, in hich the conference is being held, delivered the' address of welcome, the response to which was made by Stephen B. Burroughs, of the Bedford Branqji, Brooklyn.

An address, especially interesting to the delivered by Rudolph J. Leypoldt, of Manhattan, on Whom We45erve. This closed last evenings exercises. The conference will last over to-morrow Evening. LAWS OF NEW YORK-By Authority.

(Every law, unless a diffesent time shall be prescribed shall not take effect until the twentieth day after it f-hall have become a law. Section 43, article II. chapter 8, General Laws.) CHAP. 132. AN ACT to amend the fisheries, game and forest law.

and the act amendatory thereof, relating to meadow- hens, mud hens, gallinule or water chickens, and grebe, for Long IslanA and -vicinity. Became a law March 28. 1898, Cith the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The- People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: -Section 1.

Section one hundred and eventy-ftve of article seven of chapter four hundred and eftfht -eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, the title to which was amended bv cnapter three hundred find nlnet-five of the laws of eighteen hundred ani ninety-five to read: An act relating to game, fish and wild animals, and to the Forest preserve and Adirondack park, constituting chapter thirty-one of the general laws, and to be known as the fisheries, game and forest law. as amended by chapter nine hundred and seventy-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five Is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 175. Meadow hens and other birds, close season. Meadow hens, mud hens, gallinule or water chickens and grebe shall not be shot at.

hunted, killed or possessed trom the thirty-first dav of December to the fifteenth day of August, both. Incluste. Whoever shall violate or attempt to violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall in addition thereto be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each violation thereof. Sec. 2.

This act shall tsk- effect immediately. State of New York. Office of the Secretary of State. ss I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certily that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original law. JOHN PALMER, Secretary of State.

(Every law, unless a different time shall be proscribed therein, shall not take effect until the twentieth day after it shall have become a law. Section 43. article II. chapter 8, General Laws.) CHAP. 133.

AN ACT to provide for the employment of convicts on the highways In Clinton county. Became a law March 1X98. with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1.

The superintendent of state prisons Is hereby authorised to employ not to exceed two hundred convicts confined in Clinton prison in the improvement, of the highways between said Clinton prison and the village of Saranac, in the town of Saranac, in the county of Clinton The sUm of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for team hire, officers salaries, tools, equipment and other incidental expenses necessarily required to carry out the provisions of this act. The sum hereby appropriated shall he payable by the treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, to be expended under the direction' of the superintendent of state prisons. Bee. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

State of New York, Office of the Secretary of State, I have comoared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original law. JOHN PALMER. Secretary of State. Were you able to sell old Billions a lot? asked the superintendent of the cemetery. The agent shook his heed.

He was afraid he might not get the full value it. he explained. But. hang It all. a man has got to die some time! exclaimed the superintendent.

Thats what I told him, but he only answered: Suppose I should be lost at sea. CARESS APPLIED TO THE SUPREME COURT FOR HIS. RELEASE ALLEGES THAT HE IS UNDER AGE AND. THE ENGAGEMENT WAS INVALID SUED PLAINTIFF FOR A RING. A motion was made before Justice Johnson in the Supreme Court to-day, by Lawyer Henry E.

Wilke to vacate an order of arrest against Benni Careb, who is now In Raymond Street Jail. Rosie Appelbaum, of 215 Boorum street, has begun an action for $10,000 damages for breach of promise against Caress, and the order of arrest was obtained on the girls affidavit, in which she deposed that he was about to leave the -State. jk Plaintiff claims that she first met the defendant in 1895. A few months later he asked her to marry him and she consented. The couple had the usual public betrothal in Columbia Hall, at Moore and Ewen streets, on March 20, 1897.

The wedding ceremony was then fixed for March 3, 1898. Miss Appelbaum deposes that when her prospective husband was out of employment she paid for the use of the hall. She says she also paid his board and bought him clothes. Plaintiff alleges that he began to treat her coldly last February, and when she questioned him regarding his attitude he said he had decided not to marry her. She might consider the engagement broken off.

Caress demanded the return of engagement ring, but she refused to give it up. Defendant, she says, is 23 years old, and earns good wages. Caress, in his affidavit, deposes that he lives with his parents at 203 Boorum street; that he Is only 19 years old, and therefore has engagement with the plaintiff is invalid. He claims that Miss Ap-plebaumn broke the engagement. Deponent says that he called her a bum and a gambler, and went with a notary to sign a paper releasing him from his promise to marry her.

When she reached the office, however, she refused to do so, unless he gave her $4. Finally she refused to sign any papers. When she declined to give him his' ring, he says he began sulto to recover it. Then she began the present suit and he was locked up. Counsel for Miss Applebaum asked for an adjournment, but Mr.

Wilke opposed. Justice Johnson suggested that counsel retire to the rear of the courtroom and try to reach some agreement. The matter was finally adjourned until 2 P. Tuesday. THE PRATT WINS Divides Debating Honors With the High Sohool.

THIRD SEASON OF THE INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE ENDS WITH A DEFEAT FOR THE ADEL- PHI SPEAKERS AT THE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE. The final debate of the Long Jsland Interscholastic Debating Leagues tournament was held at the Polytechnic Institute last night, Clinton G. Abbott, chairman of the joint committee of the Polytechnic debating societies, presiding. The question under discussion was one which has been of particular interest to the State: Resolved, That in the United States the contract system of employing contract labor ought to be abolished. The rival orators were Bernard J.

Mc-Cleary, Kenneth B. Halstead and Edward A. Ingraham, of Adelpht Academy, who spoke for the affirmative, and Robert S. Binkerd, Roy S. Wallace and Rodney Chipp, of Pratt Institute, who defended the negative.

SlcCleary, opening for the affirmatiVe, acknowledged that all systems of employing convict labor must compete with free labor, but claimed-that the system known as the public account system, where the State acts a manufacturer, is much better in this respect than the contract system. The latter, he said, has a bad effect upon criminals, and interferes with their reformation, as they cannot understand why contractors should make fortunes out of their misfortunes. Binkerd opened for the negative with the statement that convicts must work, for their owfi good, and for the State. The public account system, he proved by statistics does not furnish enough work; the contract system does. Halstead continued for the affirmative with the argument that the contract system interferes with prison discipline, as the contractors interests are necessarily opposite to the States.

Wallace, for the negative, took up this phase of the question from the other side, claiming that the syste mis beneficial to the convicts, as it takes them away from their dally conversation of crime and means of escape, and places them vith associates who are not criminal. Ingraham followed for the affirmative with the statement that in the public account system the control of the convicts is completely with 4he State officials, which is the better method. Work under the contract system makes mere machines of the convicts, he said, but hand work for the State teaches skill if not a handicraft to the criminals. Chipp closed the presentation of argument for the negative with figures to prove the expensiveness of the public account system, and with facts to show that it competes with free labor more than does the contract system. After McCleary and Binkerd had summed up for their sides, and the judges.

Prof. Larkins, of the Manual Training High School, H. W. Knight and Mr. Smith, had retired to consider their decision, the Polytechnic Choral Club rendered several seceltions with good effect.

Prof. Larkins then mounted the platform, and after carefully reviewing the debate, gave the unanimous decision of the judges in favor of the negative Pratt Institute. Mr. Smith then addressed the audience, commending the students on their excellent work. 4 "When Mr.

Smith finished speaking, the presiding officer introduced Edward B. Hail, president of the League, who explained that the championship honors are divided between Pratt Institute and the Boys High School, and that the trophy will therefore remain with the High School debaters, who were victorious last year. lhe standing of the schools Is as follows: Pratt Institute, won 2, lost 1, Boys High School, won 2. Jost Polytechnic Institute, won 1, lost Adelphi Academy, won 1, lost 2. HOWE A COMMISSIONER.

HE AND THIRTEEN OTHERS PASSED FOR TAX COLLECTORS. There was filed in the Supreme Court to-day an order of discontinuance, with the consent of both sides. In the suit of Robert E. L. Howe, of 149 Pacific street, against the Civil Service Commissioners to compel them to amend the list of persons eligible as Deputy Tax Commissioners for this borough by striking out the names of sixteen persons who were assessors before both cities were consolidated.

Gen. McLeers name is excepted. The Commissioners of Taxes and Assessments yesterday appointed Robert E. L. Howe, Clinton DeWltt, Philip G.

KUnkle, Joseph McGowan. -Isaac 8. Forster, Thomas F. Larkin, William 8. Plckford, Michael Ryan and George Cralgen.

as Deputy Tax Commissioners for this borough. Howe and his associates having been successful tn their Aeht. he has discontinued the suit, i AN IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE BROOKLYN ASSOCIATION HELD LAST NIGHT AT THE RESIDENCE OF GEN. HORATIO C. KING, AT WHICH MANY MATTERS CONCERNING THE WORK WERE- DI8- CUSSED.

Elijah R. Kennedy presided last night at a special meeting of the Prison Ship Martyrs Association, whose object is to erect a monument over the remains of those who perished at the Navy Yard in the early days of our country, and whose bones now repose under the stone facade on Fort Greene, fronting on Myrtle avenue. The meeting was held at 46 Willow Btreet. the residence of Gen. Horatio C.

King. The minutes of the previous meeting was read by Mrs. King, as secretary, and then the subjoined names were submitted by Stephen V. White, chairman of the Nominating Committee, as a Board cf Trustees: Gen. Stewart L.

Woodford, ex-Gov. Roswell P. Flower, Cornelius Bliss, Mrs. Henry S. Snow, Mrs.

Daniel Manning, William Berri. Stephen V. White, Henry E. Howland and William B. Davenport.

The nominationsfwere concurred in and the secretary was notified to so inform the trustees elected, Henry Sanger Snow having cast a solitary ballot as representing the sentiment of the association. Secretary King moved that the treasurer be empowered to keep initiation fees and dues as a separate fund with which to meet 'the current expenses. This was also concurred in, after which Messrs. Hoyt and Sanger and Mrs. S.

V. White were named to assist the President, Mr. Kennedy, in the preparation of a set of by-laws to govern the association, and which will be submitted for eonsld-reation at the next meeting, to be convened at the will of the chair. President Kennedy asked the privilege and received it, of writing to Mac-monnies, the sculptor, and to Stanford White, instructing them to submit a design for an appropriate monument to the memories of the martyrs resting at Fort Greene. This design, he said, if accepted, ould be stamped upon the stationery and circulars of the association.

As a representative of the Society of Old Brooklynites, Stephen A. Griswold expressed his belief that that organization should be represented on the Board of Trustees, but when told that his society had not joined the Monument As. sociation, Mr. Griswold added that he believed the work of erecting a monument should be left in the hands of Congress. V.

White, himself an Old Brooklynite, told of the repeated efforts on the part of that organization to get Congress to act in the matter, and that it was now pro 'PAjpprto avoid further delay, to raise the necessary funds by individual subscription. Upon motion of Mr. White the meeting then adjourned. OBITUARY. CHARLES H.

SHERMAN. Charles H. Sherman, who was at one time Tax Collector in Brooklyn, died yesterday, of apoplexy, at his home. 388 Graham avenue, aged 65 years. Mr.

Sherman came from Boston. where he was born, in 1846. He was said to the oldest member of the Volunteer Firemens Association of the Eastern District, and was appointed on the old Metropolitan police in 1853. Seven- years later he retired as sergeant, and went to Colorado for six years, when he returned to Jooklyn. He entered the employ of the Long- Island Railroad Company.

Eight years ago he retired from active life. His wife died seventeen years ago. One of his brothers, Mathew, resides in California. Mr. Sherman leav es one son.

NO BONDS READY Hence Work On the New East River Bridge Is Delayed. COMMISSIONERS WAIT UPON THE MAYOR AND DISCUSS WITH HIM THE FINANCIAL SITUATION, BUT NO DECISION IS ARRIVED AT THE EMERGENCY FUND. At the meeting of the new East River Bridge Commission, held in the Emigrants Savings Bank Building, yesterday afternoon, the subject of discussion was how the necessary money for the continuation of work on the bridge can be raised. The session was an executive one, and at its 'close Secretary Smith E. Lane said that the Commission had been Wiable to arrive at any plan by which the issu of bonds so long needed can be secured.

Mr. Lane said that he thought the Mayor and Controller were opposed to taking the $230,000 immediately needed out of the emergency fund of the Com-mission, which amounts to o'nly $250,000, and that theyare at work devising some other scheme by which the money may be raised. After the meeting jCommissioners Moore and Nixon called on the Mayor and held a brief conversation with him. The topic of discussion was finances, but nothing definite was decided upon. The north pier on the New York side, it was announced, was practically completed, and the engineers say that it is safe from any danger of the-tides.

M. E. CHURCHS WAR CLAIM. MONEY ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN PAID OUT TO LOBBYISTS. ATLANTA, May 28.

There is a sensation in the M. E. Church South arising out of the war claim of $288,000 awarded recently by the Government. E. D.

Stahlman, of Tennessee, was entrusted with the business of pushing the claim through Congress, but he stipulated that no money was to be paid for improper lobbying, such as giving wine suppers, etc. Now Mrs. W. H. Felton, wife of the ex-Congressman.

asserts that $12,000 was sent to lobbyists and used in a way objectionable to rellgloua principles. It is alleged more than $160,000 went to persons supposed to have aidted in the passive of the claim. FOURTEENTHS FIRST PARADE. STAFF OFFICER SAYS THE BOYS ARE GETTING SEASONED. A staff officer of the Fourteenth Regiment of Brooklyn writes from Camp Thomas, May 25: The boys are getting down to hard work, and are being seasoned very We had the first parade last evening since striving in camp, and It was as perfect a ceremony (is any the regiment has been engaged in, in our own armory at home, notwithstanding the large number of recruits and the unfavorable condition of the parade grounds.

Twenty-first Assembly District German-1 American Club was effected, with a mem-I be rah Ip of nearly 200. It was said that the association would support the leadership of John Maguire as against. Louis L. Happ, who claimed, it is alleged, controlled the German vote in the district. Speeches in support of Maguire were made In German by John Ehlera, Charles Gall, Frederick Brink.

Andrew Ludwig John Bruns. DEWEY'S DESPATCH, pffiEW PARTMENT THISAFTERNOON. "WASHINGTON, May 28. The follow ing despatch from Admiral Dewey, received last night, was made public at the Navy Department this afternoon: CAVITE, May 25, via Hong Kong, May 27. Secretary of Navy: No charge in situation of the blockade; it Is effective.

It is impossible for the people of Manila to buy provisions, except rice. The captain of the Olympia, Gridley, Condemned by medical survey, is ordered home. Leaves by Occidental and Oriental Steamship Companys steamer Kong Kong, May 28. Commander Lamberton has been appointed to the ccnmand of the Olympia. DEWEY.

made i MORE GENERALS. NOMINATED BY PRESIDENT MKIN LEY TO-DAY. WASHINGTON, May 2. The President to-day appointed ex-Senator Butler, of South Carolina, to be Major-General of Volunteers in place of Senator Sewall, declined Also the following Brigadier-Generals of Ex-Gov. and ex-Congressman Oates, of Alabama; Cole, of Missouri, and J.

R. Waties, of Texas. NEW SURGEONS CHOSEN, THEY ARE DRS. BULLWINKLE, TAG AND HYDEMAN. Out of eighteen applicants who underwent examination for the positions of house, ambulance and outdoor surgeons of the Eastern District Hospital, the three following were chosefi this morning by the Examining Board of the instltutloij.

Dr. E. M. Bullwinkle, of 80 South Ninth street. a graduate of the Long Island College Hospital; Dr.

Charles 243 Han cock street, a graduate of'the same institution, and Dr. Otto -Heydeman, of 755 tjll avenue, 2T graduate of Bellevue lospai. Manhattan. The surgeons now holding The positions named are Drs. Schaeffer, Rejua and Caffrey, whose terms expire June 1, Oct.

1 and Jan. respectively. TAMPA TRfX)PS BECOMING ACCLIMATED. LAKELAND, May 28. To-morrow will be field day with the soldiers of the Seventy-first New Tork Regiment In camp here.

Col. Green has decided to allow the men a lay-off from their regular routine camp work, and it will be by a well arranged programme of sports. The regiment ha invite! the Second Massachusetts to participate in the sports. The men are fast becoming acclimated, and with another month here they will be in shape to wherever they may be ordered. At present the camp is virtually free from ail sickness, apd the sunstroke patients are all well enough to leave the hospital.

WEATHER HOD ABILITIES. Local forecast for the thirty-six hfJur ending at 8 P. M. Sunday for New York City and. vicinity: Cloudy and foggy to-day; showes-end warmer on Sunday; southerly nds.

The Washington Bureaus forecast is: Cloudy weather, possibly followed by showers Sunday; wanner; winds becoming southeasterly. The following was the state of the thermometer at the hours named last nlg'it andto-day at the office of Th Standard Union: p. no i a. P. 65 4 Midnight.

64 68 The average temperature one year ago to-day was 62. OCEAN STEAMSHIPS. Arrived New York. Locania, Liverpool; Excelsior, Rotterdam; Montgomery. Liverpool; A mans, Philadelphia; Johaka, i LOcia; Rods Charleston; Prins Frederick Hen-Mteik, West Indian Ports; Vittorla, Yabacao: jptrathgyie.

Hamburg; Hanseat, Philadelphia; City Augusta, Savannah; Brantlngham, Swansea. Arrived Out. Friedrich der Grosee, passed Belli. 1 HENRY KEMPS WILL. WAS A MEMBER OF THE PRODUCE CHANGE LEFT $50.

In the Surrogates Office to-day Was filed the will of the late Henry Kemp, a member of the New York Produce Exchange. Mr. Kemp died on May 16, at his home, 420 Monroe street. The according to the schedule attached to the will, amounts to $50 in personal and no real property. The testator leaves to his friends John Gledhlll and Thomas P.

Shields, who had advanced him money to enable him to retain his seat in the exchange, all right In whatever may be coming to the estate from the gratuity fund of the organization. Mr. Kemp leaves an adopted daughter. Lily Kemp, who wn adopted on Dec. 1, 1896.

and who lives at 420 Monroe street. SHOT Ills FRIEND Policeman Dunne Did Not Know the Revolver Was Loaded. WHILE SHOWING IT TO JAMES HILLY. THE WEAPON WAS ACCIDENTLY INSTANTLY KILLING THE MAN, WHO WAS A NIGHT TELEGRAPH OPERATOR. A shocking and fatal accident occurred last night about 10 oclock in the office of the Flatbush District Telegraph Company, 809 Flatbush avenue, Flatbush.

John Dunne, a special policeman attached to the Sixty-seventh precinct, and employed by the Flatbush Telegraph Company and night watch patrol, vas showing an old 32-calibre revolver to James Hilly, the night operator for the company, when it discharged, and the bullet entered Hillys head, killing him instantly. Dunne did not know' that the revolver was loaded. Dr. G. Newton Ferris, of 9X0 Flatbush avenue, was qnickly on the scene, but the man was dead before he arrived.

Capt. William Knipe and' two other officers of the Sixty-seventh precinct, arrived promptly and Dunne tias placed under arrest. I Hilly was a single man and boarded with Dunnes mother at 812 Bergen street. Dunne is married and resides with his wife and two children at 142 Jefferson avenue. The body was removed to Mc-Cannas undertaking establishment, SCO Flatbush avenue, by permission of the Coroner.

The two men wer the best Of friends, and the police are satisfied that the shooting was accidental. Dunne was arraigned in the Grant street court this morning on a charge of homicide. Capt. Knip told Magistrate Steers that he was satisfied thdfc the was accidental, a'iid the Magistrate fixed bail at $5,000 until -Tuesday, when the case will come up. Our Country First, Last and Always.9 I 1 4th REGIMENT, X.

N. Armory, 8th ave. and 15th Brooklyn, X. Y. Apply on DECORATION DAY or any day between 9 A.

M. and 11 P. for enlistment, ready for the second call for volunteers for the U. S. SERVICE.

BDWARD BRITTON, Colonel and Assist. Adjt. S. X. Reernttlng QAoer.

FIRE AT DALLAS Destroys Property Worth $400,000 and Costs One Life. THREE PERSONS SEVERELY INJURED, ONE OF WHOM MAY DIE J. W. COWAN BURNED TO DEATH-FLAMES STARTED BY A SMALL BOY WITH A CIGARETTE. DALLAS, May 28.

A fire that destroyed property worth nearly $400,000, cost one life and severe injuries to three persons, raged in Dallas yesterday. f're started in a vacant house on Elm street, and before it could, be got under control had swept away the greater part of the block. J. W. Cowan, a salesman, in attempting to use a ehemicarengine in the rear of Shields paint store, was buried under a ton of window glass and burned to death before he could be rescued.

Capt. Lacey, of Hook and Ladder Company No. G. W. Smith, and City Electrician W.

A. Frasier were badly hurt in a vain effort to rescue young Cowan. Frasier may not recover. Those who suffered by the fire are: Dorsey Bros. Printing Company, loss C.

F. Lehman, harness and saddlery, Kane, Shields paints. Miss Trott dry goods, New Home Sewing Machine Company, R. Cockrills heirs building, H. M.

Meyer, building. Mrs. Jane Eberle, building. P. W.

Mitchell, A small boy and a cigarette are supposed to have caused the fire. LAWS OF NEW YORK-By Authority. (Every law. unless a different time shall be prescribed therein, shall not take effect until the twentieth day after it shall have 'become a law. Section 43.

article II. chaptet 8, General Laws.) CHAP. 124. AN ACT to provide for the disoosltion of moneys held by county treasurers for toe payment of jurors fees. Became a law March 28.

1898, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. TTie People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enket as follows: Section 1. All moneys held by the treasurers of the several counties of the state and the comptroller of The City of New York, for the purpose of paying fees' earned by jurors duly summoned and who served as provided by law, shall be transferred to the general, fund of such counties and city unless such moneys have been called for and paid to the jurors who earned 'the same within one year from the time when such moneys became due and payable. Afl notices requiring jurors to attend at a term of court or at a meeting of the grand jury shall contain a provision that unless the fees to which a person so notified to attend Is entitled be applied for within twelve months after tjie same became due and payable, such moneys shall be transferred tj the fund from which they were to be paid.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. State of New York, Office of the Secretary of State, ss. I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original law.

JOHN PALMER. Secretary of State. Official of the Fire Department Is this friend you want to get the force a bright sort of a fellow? OHarrigan Sure he aint bright enough to set the worruld afoire, ea ye might say. but I'm thinfcia hed do a good dale helpin put is out wanst It got goi LAWS OF NEW YORK-By Authority. 'Eer- law.

unless a different time shall be prescribed therein, shall not take effect until the twentieth dav after It shall have become a law. Section 43, article II. chapter 8. General Laws.) CHAP. 128.

AX ACT making- an appropriation for repairing the banka, bed and drops of Moyer creek within the village of Frankfort In the county of Herkimer. Became a law March 28. 198. with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The'FeopIe of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Asmblv. do enact as follows: Section 1 The superintendent of public, works is hereby authorized to repair the banks, bod and drops of Moer creek within the village of Frankfort. in the county of Herkimer. See. 2.

The sum of six thousand dollars or so much thereof as mav be neceesarv. is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to earry into effect the provisions of section one of this act. payable on the warrant of the comptroller upon the requisition of the superintendent of public works as he may desire the same in the progress of such work. Sec. 3.

The work herein authorised shall be performed in accordance with plans and specifications and estimates to be furnished and approved bv the state engineer and surveyor. See. 4. This act shall take eiieot immediately. State of New oYrk.

Office of the Secretary of State, ss I have compared the preceding with the original law on file In this office, and do her-bv certify that the ame is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original law. JOHN PALMER. Secretary of State. fEvery law. unless a different time shall be prescribed therein.

shall not take effect until the twentieth day after it shall have become a law. Section 43, article IT, chapter 8, General Lava.) i CHAP. l.l. AX ACT to equalize the compensation and allow-diice for expenses and disbursements of the justice of the supreme court in the second Judicial di-trict. Became a law March 28.

1898. with the ap-prnal of the Governor. Passed, three -tifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented In Senate and Aaembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The comptroller of the state shall annually apportion among the several counties in the second judicial district, exclusive of the county of Kings, such a sum of money as will be sufficient to render the annual compensation and allowances for expenses and disoursements of each of the Justices of the supreme court in said district, residing outside of the county of Kings, at all times equal to the amount of tne annual compensation and allowances of each of the justices of the supreme court in said district residing in said county of Kings.

Such sum shall be apportioned mon said counties, respectively In accordance with the proportion which the amount to be raised shall bear to the taxable real and personal property in said counties respectively, according to the last annual assessment-rolls therein. The boards ot supervisors of said counties repectivelv, or such person, or body as may be charged bv law nith the duty of levying and collecting taxes shall annually levy and cause to be collected as a county charge the sums so apportioned respectively, ar.d the respective treasurers of said counties shall receive and pay over the same to the said comptroller, who shall thereupon pay the satfie ir equal quarterly payments to fie justices aforesaid, residing in said judicial district, outside of the county of Kings, so as to make the total amount annually received bv -the justices for compensation- and expenses equal to'i the amount received by the Jus-tue of said court residing in the-county of Kings. See. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

State of New York. Office of the Secretary of State, rs. I have Compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original law. JOHN PALMER. Secretary of State.

RE-ELECTED THEIR OFFICERS. These officers were re-elected at the convention of. the American Longshoremens National Union, which ended yesterday: President and Organisar, Edward McHugh: General Secretary. Francis J. Devlin; Treasurer, Bolton Hall.

A country fellow 4me to London, where a dog eame suddenly ouV of a house and ran furiously at him. The fellAw stopped to take up a atone to cast at the dog, ans finding them all fas, rammed or paved In the ground, TrWht a atramfe country tie the I The NeV York bank statement, tfiis afternoon, shoe's the following increases: In reservo, $2, 989.350; in loans. In specie, $4,459,200 in legal tenders, In depoeits. $15,018, 600, and a decrease In circulation of $6,800. The banks now hold reserve in excess of legal requirements Of $53,704,900.

Wallace I believe there Is some truth In tfye charge that the workln people are falling awi from religious observance. Ferry If that be It ought to make Ml gioo fakblosabie again. i I. A 7.