The Standard Union du lieu suivant : Brooklyn, New York • 8

8 THE DAILY STANDARD UNION: BR9OKLYN, SATURDAY, APRIL- 30, 1898. TWELVE PAGES. E. SI. GRQDT'S TO.

BUILD MM SOON DAY BILL. Iiatj Eames, an Octogenarian, Found Dead. Trouble Between the Lawyer and Justice Dickey OVER A QUESTION OF ALIMONY To Follow Death of New York Tariff Association. It Will Be Erected Jiear Fortieth Street, Brooklyn. 1 BULKHEAD IT SBEEPSHEAD BAY War Prevents Contractors From Securing Loans.

ULTIMATUM SETTLED UPON. A List of Forty-two Signed By Gov. Black To-day. SEVERAL KOT YET HEARD FROM They Think the Controllers Con- ieotion fill Sot Hold. For Improvements Wanted in Seventeenth Ward.

LOCAL EFFECTS OF THE CHANGE GROUNDS FOR SLIT DISCUSSED LOCAL BOARD OF THE SEYENT MR. COLER AND CORPORATION COUNSEL WHALEN PROMISE TO CO-OPEiRATB TO HAVE A SPEEDY DETERMINATION OF THE DEBTS LIMIT QUESTION IN THE COURTS COST OF STREET OPENINGS NOT PROPERLY A DEBT. A meeting of contractors holding claims asainst the city will be held In the offices of the Mapes-Reevea Construction Company, In the American Tract Society Building, at 3 oclock this afternoon. The object of the meeting will be to decide upon the details of a friendly proceeding to be brought against the city to test the question as to whether the nineteen odd millions of dollars estimated costs of street openings and wldenings should be included in the citys liabilities. The contractors who will be present represent claims aggregating about sixteen millions of dollars.

A member of the Mapes-Reeves Company, who was seen this morning by a Standard Union reporter, said that the contractors felt confident that the court would not sustain the Controller. The Controler and Corporation Counsel have agreed to co-operate with the contractors in securing a speedy settlement of the legal questions involved. The procedure to secure this judicial decision a ill be for the Corporation. Counsel and the counsel for the contractors to agree upon a statement of facts and a series of questions to be determined. These facts and questions will be submitted to the Supreme Court, which will send them direct to the Appellate Division.

The Coipora-tion Counsel has agreed to accept the decision of the Appellate Division as final. It is hoped by this method to secure a decision within two weeks time. The only delay which can occur would be upon an agreement as to facts. No difficulty, however. ia anticipated in thrs way.

The question as to whether liabilities on contracts not yet accrued, and some of which will not become due for many years yet, should be included in the liabilities may also be brought up. but if so. It will only be aji incidental issue. The Controller has stated that if the item of $19,000,000 for street opening costs can be off, he is sure he can take off the blance of the excess," which would amount to about four and a half millions. -Just how he will do this, the Controller has not said.

THE ELDRIDGE RAILROAD MEASURE WAS NOT IN THE LIST APPROVED SENATOR WIEMANS PRINTING BILL A LAW LAIMBEERS HARBOR COMMISSION BILL FAVORABLY ACTED UPON TEACHERS SALARY BILL KILLED YESTERDAY. to The Standard Union. ALBANY, Aprl' 30. Gov. Black gave out forty-two new laws this morning.

This Is the last of the thirty days, and all bills not signed to-day will die. Up to noon the Eldrldge Railroad law amendment to legalize numerous huckleberry railroad grants and resurrect lapsed franchises, as well as change the law with due regard for interested qorporations, and the Bums Insurance bill, to relieve the companies at the expensti of policyholders, had not been given out. but they may come later. The Supply bill is signed, apparently without a veto of any of its items. The Supplementary Supply bill is also signed.

Assemblyman Degraws bHI, appropriating $35,000 for the repair of the Forty-seventh Regiment armory, is signed. Assemblyman Lalmbeers bill authorizing the Governor within thirty days to appoint a Commission to inquire into the condition of the commerce of New Ybrk and suggest remedial legislation, is among the 'new laws. The anti-prison printing bill. Introduced by Senator Wieman, of Brooklyn, and Assemblyman McEwan, of Albany, is signed. It prohibits printing or photoengraving in the prisons except such as may be required for the penal and charitable institutions and the reports of the Prisons Superintendent and Prison Commission and the printing required in their offices.

Assemblyman F. Schmids bill to repeal chapter 200, laws 1890, in relation to the burial of dead bodies in Newtown, likewise becomes a law. Assemblyman Gale, of Queens, was here to-day, and was pleased to see hi9 highway law amendment to allow Supervisors to apply any excess of money collected on bond sales for the improvement of other highways on' the list of bills signed. It was the last of Mr. Gale's bills, his two per cent, firemen's bill was signed yesterday.

The Ahearn bill to equalize the salaries of the school teachers of Greater New York was vetoed by the Governor. He filed a memorandum In which he says that he Board of Education has power to provide a remedy and that he is loath to interfere into the local affairs of the city, while the new charter is under trial. He eays in conclusion: At all events, such increase should not be arbitiarily made by the State. I believe the teachers in New York are not paid as they ought be. The plan now in use by the School Board will increase these salaries and bestow some measure of long-delayed justice upon the most meritorious and worst paid classes of public servants, but if the teachers be- lieve that the plan of the Board of Education will not deal with them fairly, theq should apply to the Municipal Assembly, in whih.

upon the recommendation of the Board of Estimate, ample authority now rests. MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DOCKS AND FERRIES YESTERDAY AFTERNOON REAR ADMIRAL ERBEN ASKS FOR A BOAT FOR PATROL- ING THE ANNUAL MILK CHARITY OF NATHAN STRAUS. The Board of Docjcs and Ferrie met yesterday afternoon at Pier North River, Manhattan. Permission was given to two ferry com-pantos to make general repaits, as follows: The Brooklyn and New York Ferry Company, on its premises at the foot of Roosevelt street. Grand and Bast Twenty-third street, Manhattan; and at the foot of Grand, South Sixth to South Ninth street, Brooklyn, inclusive, for a period of three months; the Union Ferry Company, on Its premises, at Hamilton, South and Wall street, Fulton, and Catherine ferries, during the next -three months.

There was referred to Commissioner Meyer a protest from the Allan State Line of steamers against placing swimming baths on the north side of the pier at the foot of West Twentieth street. North River. There was referred to the engineer-in-chief a communication from J. S. Goldsmith, who reported the building cf a bulkhead and the filling in of the same at Sheepshead Bay.

Brooklyn, by Moses Cohen. Permission was granted to Nathan Straus to sell and give away milk to women and children, on the recreation piers during the summer. The piers at the foot of East Third street, East Twenty-fcurth street, East Thirty-first street have been temporarily occupied by the Knickerbocker Steamboat Company, the company having obtained a permit on the 18th of February to land at the piers named. The permit was revoked. Rear Admiral Henry Erben sent a communication to the Board, asking for the use of a boat to patrol the'waters of New York Bay between 6 oclock A.

M. and 6 o'clock P. M. to warn vessels against the mines located therein. The Board has but one boat, and had to deny the request.

President Cram informed Secretary Burke that all permits expire on the 1st of May, and to notify interested persons to that effect. The permits must be renewed. Henry S. Kearny, of Buildings. Lighting and Supplies.

was granted permission to repair the dock on the south side of Newtown Creek, in Brooklyn. A communication was received from Mayor Van Wyck, asking that the city officers should consult with the Corporation Counsel before entering into any contracts or incurring obligations in any form to be met by the sale of bonds, etc. This was ordered -filed and reply Was sent, saying that the Board would do as directed. Commissioner Meyer reported, recommending that the application of the Bush Company, Limited, to construct a covered pier between Fortieth and Forty-first streets, Brooklyn, with permission to erect a shed thereon, be granted in accordance with the advice of the Engineer-in-Chief. Also recommending that D.

S. Jones application for permission to extend the dock at Flushing Creek. Borough of Queens, be granted. The Engineer-in-Chief approved this also. The Board approved both reports.

WITHOUT A CENT ON HAND AND A DEBT OF $700,000 SADDLED UPON- THEM, THE EAST RIVER BRIDGE COMMISSIONERS ARE JOW FACING A CRISIS-IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE PROPOSED BIG SPAN. The New East River Bridge Commissioners are now confronted with a serious situation, involving the discontinuance of all further work on the proposed big span and the discharge of the hundreds of men now In the employ of the They owe 3700.000, are without a cent, and may soon be in arrears for even the rent of their office, at 48 Chambers street, Manhattan. At the regular meeting of the Board yesterday afternoon, the several contractors and a legal representative of P. H. Flynn were present, and it is understood, although the meeting as usual was held behind closed doors, and lasted from 2 to 6 P.

that an ultimatum was submitted to the Commission to the effect that, as war had tightened the money market, it was difficult to borrow further large sums of money, and that it would be necessary for the Commission to meet the exigency at once or the contractors would stop work. President Nixon hoped that the work would not be interrupted, and Treasurer Fairchild, with Messrs. Degnan and McLean and Shanley and Ryair visited the Controllers office, to see what could be done in the matter. Controller Coler, however, was in Washington, and the contractors turned away in disappointment, but promised to continue work as long as they possibly could. At the meeting of the Commission, Chief Engineer Buck submitted his usual report, as subjoined: Progress on the work during the past week has been as follows: New York side.

Tower foundations. North pier. One man has been at work pointing joints. South pier. Masonry course is now- half laid.

The sinking of the caisson has been continued, and yesterday the cutting edge had reached elevation 63.06 feet. Most of the chamber has been excavated to a depth sufficient to allow the cutting edge to sink to elevation 65.8 feet, and men are working around the cutting edge to cledi the rock away from it. Rock has been found at nearly all points, that at the western end being solid below a layer of rotten rock of from one inch to twelve inches in thickness. Anchorage. About 220 piles have been driven with two drivers.

The steam hammer is about ready to start. Brooklyn side. Tower foundations. South pier. About 200 cubic yards have been laid of masonry, during two days in which the work was carried on.

Course G' is nearly half done. Some coffer-dam timber has been placed. No sinking has been done, as the working force was transferred to the north caisson on the 25th instant. North pier. Air was put in the caisson on the 25th, and work in it began at 4 P.

M. on that day. The caisson was found to be buried in muck Up to the beams, many small boulders on a sandy bed underlying it. The beams and the edge are being cleared of boulders, and the caisson straightened. The contractor expects to remove the air and resume and complete the concreting next week.

Anchorage. About 1,000 cubic yards of material have been excavated in four days, in which work has been done. A new centrifugal pump has been put into operation, and handles the water with ease. The Commission will meet again next Friday, if not summoned by the Chair at an earlier day. LETTERS FOUND WHICH SHOW THAT SHE HAD FRIENDS AMONG THE WEALTHY PEOPLE OF BROOKLYN, AND RELATIVES IN HIGH SOCIAL STANDING.

2Uen 6. Eames. on octogenarian for over a quarter of a century has resided In the two-story and basement frame house which she owned, at 165 Adams street, was found dead in the bouse last evening. The discovery was made through U. S.

Spicer, of 87 Concord street, who, in passing the house noticed a number of boys playing in the areaway. Aa he had frequently eeen the old woman drive the boys away, and noticing that they remained unmolested, he concluded that something was wrong and notified the police. An officer of the Second Precinct was rent to, the house last night, and failing 'to get any response to repeated knock- ings. finally forced open the door. In the back parlor the- woman was found lying dead on the floor, where she had evidently fallen in getting out of bed.

She had evidently been dead for several days. Nothing had been seen of her by the officer on that post or any of the neighbors since Monday last. Miss Eames was an eccentric character and had lived entirely alone in the house for two years past. Previous to that time sister, Abigail Eames had lived with her, but she disappeared about that time, and it is not known whether she is living or dead. The police took charge of the house, and are trying to locate the relatives of the deceased.

The house is well furnished, and in it were found a large wardrobe of flne dresses and other wearing hppareLof old-fashioned make, and some -of it had the appearance of never having been worn. There was also a large quantity of old books, childrens toys, slates, etc. In a box, which the police took possession of, were a large number of letters and other papers. One of the letters was a notice from A. Augustus Low, notifying the deceased that by the will of his father, Abiel A.

Low, who was also the father of ex-Mayor Seth Low, she had been bequeathed $3,000. There were also letters from Minnie Wardwell, of Vernon street, Brookline, also from Mrs. W. T. Wardwell.

of 64 EHm street, Worcester, and from Ella G. Wardwell, of that city. The letters, which are addressed to Aunt Ellen, and are merely of a friendly character, are without date. Although the envelopes which are supposed to have enclosed them are postmarked 1896. A newspaper clipping announcing the death of ex-Judge Theodore Eames, in Brooklyn, was also found in the box, but this likewise is without date.

Eames in connection with one William Putnam oonducted a private school at Henry street and Love lane many years ago, which was attended by sons of of the Heights. The late Abiel A. Low was very -friendly with Eames, and it is thought the -friendship extended to the dead woman, -who was probably a daughter of 'Mr. Eames, and may account for the bequest. None of the neighbors know anything of the dead woman, a ho held no communication with them, keeping exclusively to herself.

Among the old womans effects discovered to-day was $108.12, in bills and coin. bank book showing a deposit of $2,888.07 in the Dime Savings Bank and interest to January of this year of $87.58. An old Peruvian coin valued at 50 cents of American money was also found, besides a box of old-fashioned jewelry. A letter dated 1850 and signed by Willlapi H. Wardwell was among her papers.

She had three sisteiitaU unmarried, and who are believed to biirdead. The house has an assessed valuation of $1,800, and it Is very much in arrears for taxes. The remains will be buried in the family plot- in Greenwood Cemetery. RESOLUTIONS FOR PAVING. FLA GIXG SIDEWALKS, MAKI SEWERS, AND THE ERECTION ELECTRIC LIGHTS.

UNDER CO SIDERATION MANY OK THE RECOMMENDED TO BOARD PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT. The Local Board for the Seventh Senj torial district, consisting ot Borouf President Grout, ex officio, and Alderm McNeil, Scott and Velton, met yesterda Bftemcon in President Grout's office ai took action on various petitions, as fo, lows: The paving of Greene street, from Oa! Jand street to Whale Creek. This ws laid over to correct an irregularity, pen-: ing a properly signed petition by a in. jority of the property owners on line of the proposed improvement. The paving of.Driggs avenue, Grand street to North Thirteenth stree The Board recommended that it be ferred to the Board of Public Improve ments for reference to the Departmer of Highways, and also endorsing it- a necessary.

A similar disposition was made of petition to pave North Eighth street from Wythe avenue to Union avenue, wit granite blocks; and for grading and pav' ing Humboldt street, between MeekeJ avenue and Engert avenue. Considerable discussion took place ove the opening of Provost street, and 4h construction of a sewer from Greenpoin avenue to Paidge avenue; and for acquir ing title to the street between thosi points. Mr. Brennan, Deputy Commis sioner of Sewers, said that residents the eastern section of the Seventeenth ward are suffering greatly from an iml perfect sewer system, and that the iml provement was greatly needed. A dele gation of members of the Seventeenth Ward Board of Trade was present, anejsj said that unless something was done then to dispose of the sewage, it would cer tainly become a menace to health.

Afterfl every rairstorm the cellars are floodsdoj Dr. Holton, chairman of the Health Com-, i 1 mittee of the Board of Trade, confirmee i all that Mr. Brennan had said. Adrian, Meserole and others of the delegation also urged the improvement. Assistant Coiporation Counsel Greenwood was con-f suited as to the legal aspect of the mat- ter.

and said the assessment' had beer laid, but had never been confirmed, and he thought that the proceedings would have to begin over again. Two of the-delegation said that they sometimes had fourteen Inches of water In their It was decided by the Board to recom-; mend the opening of Provost street. (' There a petition to repair a cross-- alk at the corner of Meserole street and Bushwick place. Borough President Grout said that the same policy had to be pur- sued in this case that exists in regard to-repaving streets. He suggested that it bet recommended to the Board of Public Im- provement for reference to the Commis-f sioner of Highways fw The Board recommended the flagging of? sidewalks on Sutton street where not al-i ready one, between Nassau avenue and Driggs avenue, and of Huron street.

ex- i tending 100 feet from the southwest corner of Franklin and Huron streets. 1 The Board recommended the erection of! single electric lights as follows: On Sut- ton atreet between Driggs avenue and Nassau avenue, on Devoe street at the northeast comer of Devoe and Lorimer streets, on Bushwick avenue in front of fi St. Catherines Hospital, on Ten Eyck street at the ambulance entrance to St. Catherines Hospital, on Cook street be- tween Bushwick avenue and Broadway, on Moore street between Bushwick avenue and Broadway, and on Siegel street be- -tween Bushwick avenue and Broadway. Alderman Yelton offered a resolution to repave streets as follows: Scholes street jj from Bushuick avenue to Union avenue.

7 with granite; South Third street from Union avenue to Rodney street, with I granite; Keap street from Grand street to Broadway, with granite, and Moore (i street from Bushwick avenue to Broad- way, with asphalt. The resolution was recommended to the Board of Public Im- provement for reference to the Commis- INSURANCE OK DWELLING HOUSE PROPERTY NOT AFFECTED. BUT MERCANTILE AND MANUFACTURING RISKS WILL BE ABLE TO SECURE LOWER FIGURES MAN- AGERS OF COMPANIES PREDICT DISASTROUS RESULTS. The disruption of the New York Tariff-Association, which, since Nov. 1, 1891.

has fixed the rates of fire insurance for all companies belonging to the organization, will have direct and Immediate effects in Brooklyn. This disruption has been threatened fdr some time, and various efforts have been made by the insurance men to avert it, but without avail, and yesterday a special meeting of the association was held, when it was voted, on motion of the Executive Committee, to suspend ail rates and rules. Marshall S. Driggs, of the Wiliamsburg City Fire, and president of the association, with W. W.

Underhill, of the United States Ben-on! Lockwood, of the Insurance Company of North America, and S. Albert Reed, the general manager, were constituted a committee to wind up the business affairs of the association. The result of the closing up of the Tariff Association is that there is now no standard of rates in force, and each company will hereafter fix figures to suit themselves, with the more than probable outer me that competition among the various companies will steadily reduce rates. Dwelling houses and furniture contained therein were not rated by the Tariff As-sociationv and so insurance on that class of property is not likely to undergo much change. Mercantile and manufacturing risks in Brooklyn have all been rated by the association, and rate cutting will commence in this line of business.

Charles H. Dutcher. local representative of the Continental Fire Insurance Company, when asked about the effect of the breaking up of the Tariff Association, said: A war of rates will be precipitated, which will work demoralization and consequent loss to the companies. The Tariff Association made a wholesale reduction in rates last December, taking off a third in many cases, but this did not have the desired effect of checking dissensions among the members of the association. A number of mercantile risks in Brooklyn will not be affected, because there is more demand for insurance in the shopping district than can be supplied by the companies, and so a lowering of rates will hardly be thought of.

Secretary Tmorne, of the Phenlx Fire Insurance Company, when asked about the immediate future of rates, said. 1o-conically, I give St up." He added, however, that the Tariff Association had re- cently reduced rates, so that a further reduction would certainly not be popular among the companies. The Tariff As-sociation had held together longer than any other similar organization that he could remember. At the office of the Williamsburg Fire Insurance Company, on Montague street, it was said that the result of the stoppage of the Tariff Association could not be accurately foreshadowed, but previous experiences would undoubtedly be repeated and rates would be cut. President Lane, of the Nassau Fire Insurance Company, thought there would be cutting of rates at first, but after a time the companies would settle down to rates which would be entirely just to those seeking indemnity for fire losses, and such as would pay a fair return to insurance capital.

The cutting of insurance rates commenced in Brooklyn this morning, and was in full blast as long as the offices were open. A number of offerings of risks had been apparently held back in anticipation of this discontinuance of tariff rates, so that to-day has been a busy one for insurance men. The Tariff Association, which has just discontinued business, was, formed after unusually heavy losses had been experienced by the insurance companies, and rate cutting had continued for a long time. While it has been in operation the companies have made money, but there have been many complaints from those seeking insurance, but there has been redress because all the companies were in the combination, but the organization has been broken up, as similar associations have been In the past, namely. by an explosion from the inside.

MRS. JENNIE E. WINTER WANTED $10 A WEEK FOR THE SUPPORT OF HERSELF AND CHILD THE JUDGE THOUGHT THE AMOUNT TOO SMALL STATEMENT BY COUNSEL. Supreme Court Justice William D. SJIckey and Edward M.

Grout, President oKthe Borough of Brooklyn, had a lively tilt during the trial of a case in the equity term yesterday afternoon. Mr. Grout appeared In the suit of Mrs. Jennie E. Winter against her husband, Dr.

Frederick G. Whiter, for separation. The plain-tiff secured a decree from Justice Dickey a few weeks ago. and the matter came up yesterday afternoon to fix the amount of alimony vhich Dr. Winter will have to pay his wife.

The question was allowed to stand until the determination of the suit brought by Dr. Winter against his former lawyers, Dovve, Murray Hartridge, to enjoin them from collecting $10,000 on promissory notes which he had given them as counsel fees. The lawyers successfully defended the doctor in the action brought against him by his wife and father-in-law to have him declared insane. Dr Winter spent some time in the River Crest Sanitarium at Astoria, where he was sent by his wife. Finally, the court fixed the counsel fee at $6,000.

Lawyer Henry A. Powell yesterday applied to Justice Dickey for an order fixing the amount of alimony for the support of Mrs. Winter and her child at $10 a week. This was vigorously opposed by Mr. Grant, who claimed that the doctor's practice had been ruined by the action of his wife and her father.

He said that she had refused to release her dower right in some of his real estate. While this state of things exists, counsel said, the defendant could not sell his property. Justice Dickey expressed his surprise that the doctor should refuse to pay his wife $10 a wee kalimony. He said if the sum asked had been $25 a week be would have allowed it. The question whether the doctor should be allowed free acces to his child caused a heated argument between the Justice and Mr.

Grout. Counsel said that he would pass over what had just been said, anl speak as one father to another. Winter, he said, thould have the child brought to him once a week by the nurse maid. said his Honor, Mrs. Winter cannot afford to have a nurse maid on $10 a week At this point Mr.

Grout told Mr. Powell in a whisper that he intended to appeal tne case. This threat has been made in said Mr. Powell. I will now withdraw the $10 a week asked for and ask the Court to fix the amount." You have cqme to the wrong court for that," said his gave you all the alimony asked for.

The case is decided. If you had asked for more alimony, I would have given it to you. I can not help that." said Justice Dickey. If he desires to serve notice of appeal by whispering in your ear, that is a matter of taste which 1 can not regulate." Mr. Grout was evidently vexed, and he spoke of the efforts he had made for his client in the case.

He had even advised Dr. "Winter to allow his wife to obtain a divorce judgment, and thus give her the benefit of every doubt. Justice Dickey said that he had heard the case fully, and if the counsel was speaking for the benefit of some one else, why that was another matter. Will you permit me to speak without interruption asked Mr. Grout.

No, I will not, if you speak of matters already determined, said his Honor. I will not talk to you again, if you talk that way. intend to appeal this case if I have to pay for the appeal out of my own pocket said Mr. Grout. I shall do my best to prevent her from ruining the doctor.

She collected hundreds of dollars of his. which she used to put him in an asylum. Then, addressing Dr. "Winter, Mr. Grout said: "Come with me, doctor, there is nothing in this court room for us.

Then they left the court room together. Mr. Grout gave out the following statement to-day: I do not care to have any controversy out of court or in the. newspapers with William D. Dickey, but will say what I deem called for about Supreme Court Justice Dickey in court or on appeal.

My experience does -not differ greatly from what many other members of the Bar have experienced. I have refused to submit to what I considered a wrong to my client One goes into court to get justice. and a lawyer has a reasonable right to expect to find a court conducted with decorum and with attention to business rather than with a constant seeking of opportunities for alleged jests and bon- mots. I cannot conceive of a court as pioperly conducted If seriousness and un- interrupted hearing of a cause be disregarded. I did not hear an alleged remark of Judee Dickey concerning my receipt of $1,000 to pievent the wife and child from getting $10 per week.

If I had I should have instantly resented it, for is untrue. NO SPANIARD NEED APPLY: CANNOT BE NATURALIZED IN THE PRESENT TIME OF WAR. United States Commissioner Morle has been extremely busy during the past week in issuing papers to foreigners who desire to become citizens of the United States. To-day he diew attention to the fact that under the revised statutes of the Government, Section 2171, no alien who ia a native citizen or subject, or a denizen of any country, State or sovereignty with which the United States are at war at the time ot his application, shall be then admitted to become a citizen of the United States." The Commissioner sa that thi rule, under the present conditions, refers to Cubans as aeil as Spaniards, who may seek to become American citizens. BROOKLYN CARPENTERS STRIKE FOR UNION WAGES AND ARE SUCCESSFUL.

There was a strike of union carpenters on four large flat houses on DeKalb and Clinton avenues, which was settled yesterday. The cause was an attempt to cut wages below the union scale paid in Brooklyn. Nearly thirty carpenters quit work The buildings are in course of erection, and being put up by Contractor Betts. The terms of the settlement stipulate for payment of union wages and discharge of a foreman obnoxious to the mn. TWO TROLLEY VICTIMS IN CHICAGO THE MOTORMAN AND CONDUCTOR MOBBED.

CHICAGO, April 30. Five-year-old Vincent Prinz was instantly killed by a North Ashland avenue trolley car yesterday, and his brothei. Paul, 4 years old. fatally injured. After the the angered neighbors chased the motorman and conductor.

Charles Johnson and John Nolan, to the Clybourne place barns, then returning to the scene of the accident shattered the windows of the car with stones ana clubs. It was necessary to call the police of the Rawson street station to quell the disturbance. The motorman and con ductor gave -themselves up. and were later released. SOCIALISTS To Have a Big Parade in Manhattan This -Evening.

IT TAKES THE SHAPE OF A MAY-DAY DEMONSTRATION BREAKS UP AT UNION SQUARE, WHERE SPEECHES IN MANY LANGUAGES WILL BE DELIVERED. The Socialist Trades Unions of Manhattan will parade on the east sid streets of that borough and hold a May-day demonstration in Union Square this evening. It said by sotpe that over 100 labor orgari rations will participate. More moderate estimates claim between fifty and sixty organizations may take part in the There is general concurrence in saying the parade will be a big one. Arrangements have been made for a body of 200 young women to march.

A large number of flags and bannerets will be carried in the procession, which it has been arranged shall start from the East Side Labor Lyceum, 64 East Fourth street, Manhattan, at 7:30 P. M. The paraders are to break formation in front of the cottage in Union Square, rnd Daniel De Leon-ana other Socialist orators make speeches to them in English from the balcony of the cottage. Speeches in German, Yeddish, French and Italian are to be delivered from trucks on either side of the cottage. CALIFORNIA'S QUOTA READY.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 30. Californias volunteers are ready to be mustered in at a moments notice. More than the required number are waiting for the mustering officer to open headquarters. The First and Seventh Regiments of the National Guard are equally ambitious to be the first enlisted In the regular army. Twenty-four, companies have returned full rosters of 103 men each.

Other companies In the State are no less anxious to go to the front, but they are scattered and in consequence unable to make as quick i Seventh. returns as the First and OCEAN STEAMSHIPS. Arrived New York. Parti. Southampton; Lscania, Liverpool: Naeoo chee.

Savannah: Benefactor. Philadelphia; El Paso. New Orleans; Richmond. Norfolk; AItm-qultv- Jacksonville; Phoenicia. Hamburg; momac, Acfmmoutii.

Irtria, Palermo: AtlKx, Beirut; Hellos. Rotterdam; Pearl StilelUe Seneca, Niuatr. Exeter City. Brirtol. SEVENTY-SEVEN YEARS OLD.

The Rev. Father Syl ester Malone, pastor of the church of Sts. Peter and Paul, on Wythe avenue, who will be 77 years old on May has made it know nto his parishioners that he does not want any celebration on his blrthdav. he thinks, is a time for prayer. He will, however.

be presented with a set of congratulatory resolutions and a floral tribute on the anniversary of his birth. THE LATE ANTON SEIDL. When the emotional side of his audi ence had been once stirred, 'the fine poetic figure of Anton Seidl added to the charm. Not tall, but of commanding presence, with masterly, sure gestures. most noble in their simplicity and reserve; his strongly chiseled features firm set in grave beauty; a magnificent mane of silky hair like that of Liszt his face and form were in such rare keeping with the music of the gods that the appeal of his reserve was more powerful than any effect attained by those conductors who are intoxicated into a fury of gesture.

To have heard his orchestra in the Vorsplel of Tristan is to have at hand for ones lifetime a world of poetry to which the gate is opened at the thought of Seidls uplifted hand and brow'. It is strange enough to observe the variety of minds who were captivated by him. The most cynical of men, to whom music, before they knew meant merely a plaything for women and womanish men. repaired night after night to the Metropolitan and spent ecstatic hours. He was, on the other hand, worshipped of women, notwithstanding his exceeding reserve; tne most sentimental school girl and the largest and finest mind alike accepted him as a hero, because he-'appealed to the truth in both of them.

The musicians, too, adored him. He was modest and, in his quiet, unprotesting way, most kindly. He seemed undeniably one of the elder men. one who could speak and be His worth was best recognized by the very greatest of his peers. Wagner.

Liszt, and Richter, and De Reszke. Lehmann and Alvary. He brought Lehmann and Alvary with him in 1885; De Reszke refused to sing Tristan unless Peidl was the conductor. Review of Reviews. ATHLETICS AT WELLESLEY.

The promoters of athletics at the college, it Is true, have visions of some ex-citing innovations polo on mature and gentle polo ponies, and riding and hurdle-jumping, and lacrosse and track athletics; but, these would not be insisted upon at first! Tennis has always had firm hold on "Wellesley students, and tournaments are held in the fall, when some good tennis may be seen. Its popularity has been more than equally shared by golf, perhaps; but then what branch of athletics has not had to reckon with golf? There seems to be a larger number of young women at Wellesley whose collarbones are of masculine length, afid who can get a remarkably good swing of driver or lofter; and the tarn and short golf-skirt are ubiquitous. It is boating, however, that holds first place in the affections of the Wellesley College girl. Lake Waban is to her what Lake Cayuga is to 4he Cornell man. Scribners.

THE NEWSPAPERS A GREAT HELP TO THE POOR MAN. The newspapers are always an unfailing resort, as a hopeful source of information of any demand for labor. A newspaper in the very early morning, before the city Is astir, is a treasure, for any clew' to work can then be promptly followed up with some chance of ones being the fint to apply. Papers are to be had in abundance later in the day in public reading-rooms and about railway-stations and lintel-corridors. It is, however, the newspaper damp from press that Is most valuable to us, and between us and its possession is often the insuperable barrier of its price.

The journals which early post their issues upon bulletin-boards ar public benefactors, and about these boards in the early dawn often there are groups ot men who study closely the wa nt-columns." Scribners. PROVIDED. GO WHERE YOU CAN HAVE SPORT. For a first effort, the Bangor and Aroostook Big Game and Fishing Guide, by James Churchward, is exceedingly creditable and attractive The coat of arms on the frnt cover, introducing in color, moose, deer and trout; the canoe and rifle under the pine bough laden with drooping cones, happily expresses the genius of the Pine Tree State, Whleh includes this latest and greatest national preserve for sportsmen. Many full-page half-tones, pictures, of lakes, mountains, camps and other pertinent subjects precede full-page illustrations of deer, trout, pickerel, togue, bass and other of the attractions and rewards of the wilderness.

A full-page group of typical Maine guides makes an appropriate frontispiece, and the text of the book is made more interesting and valuable by its practical advice to sportsmen; the game laws of Maine, the lists of registered guides, and other appropriate Information. The game record pf the B. A. shows a total export of deer last year of 3,000, or three times as many as three years ago, a rate of mortality which must inevitably, it would seem, terminate the species at 'an early day. General Passenger Agent Houghton will send Big Game and Fishing on receipt of ten cents for postage.

TO SUCCEED EDITOR SMITH. Samuel C. Wells has been made editor-in-chief of the Press to succeed Charles Emory Smith, who relinquished that post when he accepted the position of Postmaster-General. Mr. Wells has had a long connection with the Press.

and there is no doubt that he will manage it in the same spirited and energetic manner that distinguished Mr. Smiths management. Philadelphia Ledger. THE MAJESTIC DAMAGED IN A COL- LISION. LIVERPOOL, April 30.

The White Star l.ne steamer Majestic, Capt. Smith which arrived here from New York on April 27, has been in collision with a quay, damaging her stem, breaking several of her plates and causing her to leak. TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. BOISE. Idaho.

April 30. The Democratic State Convention took action today, which practically makes the Democrat-Populist fusion impossible. TOPEKA, April 30. The Santa Fe railroad officials have given notice that commencing Monday the working time of all shopmen on the system will be increased fifteen hours per week. This will increase the payroll 37 per cent.

APPLETON, April 30. Thomas Walsh and his wife were killed lastjiight by a south-bound freight train on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The couple were driving into the city from their home in Freedom, and did not see the approaching train. SEATTLE, April 30. The steamer City of Columbia has arrived here.

136 days from New York with Mrs. Hannah Gould and a portion of her female Klondike expendition on board. In coming through the Straits of Magellan the steamer narrowly escaped being wrecked, and had to lay up at Valparaiso over a month for repairs. April 30. Frank Beal, of Portland, and Sumner Rich, of Veazie, lost their llvea while attempting to cross the Penobscot River above the dam at Veazie this morning.

Both were about 20 years old. The boys were paddling across in a canoe and when about half way over the swift current carried them down streanij and in spite of their exertions the canoe was swept over the dam. 8UPPBCTED OF BEING A SPY. VICKSBURG. April SO.

Frank Unanfio. a Spaniard. bo has baan hanging around her for a wtak past, was srrattad tor tha pallet lut Bight bb tUfpielOB of btlax ipy. OFF FOR THE WAR. A POLICEMAN OF THE TWENTIETH PRECINCT.

Patrolman Mortimer Stover, of the Twentieth-precinct, did his last tour of police duty for a while last night, having obtained leave of absence to go to the war as a marine. He will go on board the cruiser Nictheroy. Stover came to Police Headquarters to-day and bid his friends good-bye. Among them were Deputy Chief Mackellar. His associates at the station gave him a good send-off last night.

FUNDS ARE GONE A Bank President and 375,000 to $100,000 Missing. EXAMINER EWER'S CLEVER RUSE SHOWED A BIG SHORTAGE IN THE HAMPSHIRE COUNTY NATIONAL BANK OF MASS. TRANSFER OF FUNDS PREVENTED. WASHINGTON. April 30.

The Controller of the Currency to-day received a telegram from Bank Examiner Evter, stating that he had taken charge of the Hampshire County National Bank, of North ampton. Mass. -The president, who the examiner says is a defaulter to the amount of 375.000 to 3100,000, is reported as missing. The president of the national bank is said to be also president of Hampshire Savings Bank, and this discovery of the defalcation was made through a ruse. The Government Bank Examiner made an arrangement through the State Examiner for an investigation of the two banks at the same time.

They are located in the same building, and by this scheme it was made impossible for those in charge to transfer funds from one to the other to cover up shortage. In the last statement the officers of the national bank reported: Capital. 3230.000; deposits, surplus. 350,000. CAPT.

JAMISON TAKES THE BERLIN. Capt. Jamison, of Brooklyn, who was in command of the St. Paul when she was on the American line between New York and Southampton, has been assigned by the International. Navigation Company to the command of the British steamer-Berlin, which is to run between New York and Southampton and Antwerp.

All the. vessels of the International fleet running from New fork-will touch atSouthamp- ton and Antwerp, excepting the Chester, which is to stop at Queenstown on the way to Antwerp. The Chester, which is to sail from Southampton, on Mav 14. for New York, has been laid up on the other side for about two years. She will sail from New York about once every three weeks.

LECTURE OS LIQUID AIR. Ia the chapel of the Packer Institute last eren-Inc Brooklyn Institute members enjoyed an intensely Interesting demonstration of the properties and probable uses of liquid air by Prof. John S. McKay, Ph.D.. president of the Department of Physics.

It was the annual meeting of the department, and a large number of people gathered to see the little known liquid and watch Its behavior under the experiments performed by Prof. McKay and Wallace Goold Levi son. Before the lecture was concluded every one present had an Opportunity to personally examine the liquid air, as to was passed around to frostydooklo glaisss wrap4 la fait. sioner of Highways. I PUBLIC SCHOOL FREE LECTURES COURSES FOR 1S97-S CLOSE THIS EVENING ANNUAL LECTURERS DINNER.

The course of free lectures by the Board of Education of the boroughs of Manhat- tan and Bronx, for the season 18S7-8, comes to a close this evening, and despite the heated municipal elec- tion in the fall and the trouble with Spain, in the spring, has been the most successful of all the courses. The -attendance has been more than 500,000. Lectures have been given at forty different centers. At twenty-eight of these centers lectures were given taice a week The subjects have been arranged this year in courses, and syllabi containing i suggested readings have been given to the auditors. The subjects of the lee- tures have been: American History.

Gen-eiai History. Travel. Natural Science. Physiology and Hygiene, Art and Literature. This Course of Free Lectures commenced in 1SK9 at six lecture centers, and the total attendance for the first season was 20.00(1.

During the eight years it can be seen that the growth has buen natural and steady. The Committee on Special Schools -who have charge of this lecture course Is as follows: Henry A. Rogers, chairman; Charles C. Burlinsham, Hugh Kelly, E. Ellery Anderson, Robert Mac-lay.

It is customary at the close of each year for the lecturers to have a reunion and dinner. At these reunions addresses are made by those interested in this remarkable movement for adult education and are always thoroughly enjoyable. The dinner this year will be held at the Hotel Manhattan, corner Forty-second street and Madison avenue Tuesday. May at 7. P.

M. Among invited guet-ts are Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck, Hon. Ran- d(lph (jiigpenheiniLT, President of the State Superintendent Charles R. Skinner, Melvil Dewey, secretary of tbe Board of Rvgnts; Commissioners Henry A.

Hugh Kelly, Jacob W. Mack, E. Ellery Anderson, George Cary Eggleston, Edward Cary, City Superintendent WTilliam IL Maxwell, Dr. Henry M. Leipzifror and others.

The chairman of the Dinner Commlctee is Johnson, and J. IJoyd Thomas is secretary. t. COL POPES GENEROSITY. WILL INSURE ALL HTS EMPLOYEES WHO GO TO WAR.

Col. Albert A. Pope, of the Pope Manufacturing Company, of Hartford. Conn. has issued the following notice to the employees of that and Us associated companies: Any person now employed at the home or branch offices or factories of the Pope Manufacturing Company, the Hartford Cycle, Company, the Hartford Rubber Works Company, the Pope Tube Company or the Motor Carriage Department, who were on the 21st day of April members of any military or naval organization, who shall enlist before May 20 Into the olun-teer service of this country in the war between the United States and Spain, will be insured to the amount of $1,000 fer one year, at the expense of the above companies, in the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford.

upon passing satisfactorily the regular medical examination of that company. War permits will be attached to insurance policies. Upon honorable discharge from suf( -Service. the opoortunity to return to the employ of one of the above named companies will be given to all employees who have thus volunteered PATRIOTIC FIREMEN. FIVE MEM HAVE A PPU F.r FOR WAR leave of absence.

Deputy Chief Dale, Df the Fire Department, has received five applications for leaves of absences from firemen to go to tl cf tfi They have been approved by Dep-f Tully and Deputy Chief fcjplore an forwarded to Fire Commissioner wnnell. The applicants are Alexander J. Reekie, engineer of Engine No. 45, who haa enlisted in Company Fourteenth Regiment; Charles Neiderreiter- and Thomas R. Smith, of Truck No.

4. who propose to enlist in Company Forty-seventh Regiment; Alexander F. Norton and Edwin R. Norwood, of Engine No. 1.

The last two have not yet enlisted, but expect to do so. ON THE ROCKS. BRITISH SHIP LORD WOLSELEY ASHORE NEAR MYRTLEVILLE. 'QUEENSTOWN. April 30.

The British ship Lord Wolseley, Capt. McVicker, outward bound, is ashore on the rocks near Myrtleville. She arrived at 1 o'clock this morning, while a strong westerly gale was blowing. After securing a pilot she endeavored to head out to sea but she was driven on the rocks. Her crew remain on board.

Tugs are attending her and every effort will be made to float the hip. The Lord Wolseley Is a four-masted ship of 2,518 tons net register. She tvas built at Belfast In 1883, and is owned by the Irish Shipowners Company, of Belfast. On April 4 she arrived at Flushing fiom Tacoma. POLITICAL EQUALITY LEAGUE.

Individual I will be the subject of discussion at the monthly meeting of the Bedford Political Equality League, to be held at the residence of Mra. P. D. Hackstaff, 282 Jefferson avenue, near Marcy, on Monday evening. May 2.

FULL DAYS PAY, With a Saturday Half Holiday, "for Plasterers IN MANHATTAN, AND AN ANNUAL AGREEMENT WITH EMPLOYERS NO CHANGE IN THE CRAFT'S CONDITION IV BROOKLYN 13 ANTICIPATED. Plain 8nd Ornamental Plasterers Society of Manhattan and the employing plasterers of that borough, are considering the advisability of having a written egreeirent between them to last the present working year. The agreement is to specify the wages to be paid and the working hours. There is no change contemplated in either wages or hours. except in one instance, to which the boss plasterers have egreed.

The exception is that the n.en shall be paid for a full day on Saturday, although they quit work at noon. ThiB custom has existed some years, but he-men were only paid hitherto for half a day. The custom of having written annual agreements existed up to a few years ago, when it was let fail into abeyance. It is understood there will be no change made in Brooklyn in the relations existing between Brooklyn union plasterers ami the employing plasterers. BILLS ON TREES.

Peter Jackson, who said he was connected with the American Bill Posting Company, was this morning charged by Park Policeman Moran, In the Grant, street court, with posting bills on the trunks of trees along Ocean Parkway. Magistrate Nostrand dismissed the case. NURSES READY FOR "WAR. The delegates to the annual convention, of Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United Statei and Canada, which haa been in session at the International Health Exposition, at the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan, and who represent 2.000 trained nurses, have voted unanimously to be on call for any service the War Department may demand of them. NOT A SPY.

LAREDO, April 30. It turped nut yesterday that the man arrested Thurs- day on the charge of being a Spanish spy is Dr. Pablo Diaz, a Cuban, who has served seven or eight months in the insurgent army. He is known in this vicinity and was released. ORDER TO CONNECTICUT TROOPS.

HARTFORD. April 30. The Adjutant General this afternoon will Issue orders sending the First Regiment fin-fantry) and Battery A. of Guilford and Branford to 'Niantio next Wednesday. ACCUSED OF SHOPLIFTING.

MART ANN MURPHY ARRESTED BY YOU2CG REYNOLDS. Mary Ann Murphy, who save she lfes in Jersey City, was held for examination by Magistrate Teale in the Adams street court toay on a charge of larceny. She was arrested yesterday a'temoon by James G. Reynolds son of Capt. Reynolds, a young private detective employed by A.

D. Matthews just after having; as alleged, stolen a quantity of Jet lace from a counter. The lace as found on her when arrested, and -was identified by Miss Anna Wurtenberg, the saleswoman who hid charge of the counter where the lace was on sale. Miss Wurtenberg says that the lace was not sold to the woman. The prisoner pleaded not guilty.

a NEWS JOTTINGS. The electrical exhibition of theXew York Electrical Society will be openetf'ln the Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, next Monday evening. The pulpit and sanctuary rail erected In memory of the late Father FranstoU will be dedicated at St. Peter's Church, Hicks and Warren streets, to-morrow eening. The Sixteenth Ward Republican Battery will have a housewarming at 02 Meserole street on Tuesday evening.

May 3. Prof. John 8. McKay gave a lecture on liquefied air at the Packer Institute last evening. A concert was given last night at the Knapp Mansion.

Bedford avenue and Ross street. In aid of the East End Kindergarten Union. A class of young people will be confirmed St. Pauls Episcopal Church, Flatbush, on May 8. The aodallllei connect'd with Holy Crow Church, Flatbush, will hold tblr annual reception the last Sunday In May.

At the Churen of the Holy Cro-s. Flatbush. forty hours devotion will be commenced at 11 oclock to-morrow morning with a solemn high mass. The Taxpayers Association of the Twenty-ninth ward will meet next Thursday evening in the office of the Flatbush Water Works Company. The hymn, for the sixty-ninth annlv.mary of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union, on Friday, May 27.

will Include: Love Divine fa Speaking.1 Praise from Every Heart is Ringing. AH the World for Jesus. One In Hope and Love," and Upward, Growing Upward. Warren Street Epworth League, Chapter No. 4685, gave a reception last night to the chapters of Ridley Memorial, St.

Pauls, Buffalo Avenue and York Street Churches. The annual exhibition of the National Sculpture Society wilt be opened this eventnn in the Van-decent galleries of the American F(ne Arts Society, SIS West Fifty-seventh, i ENLISTING IN THE CAVALRY. PHOENIX, April 30. Forty-stix stalwart young' men have departed for Whipple Barracks at Prescott, to be mus-tered Into the regiment ot cavalry that will have as its Colonel Dr. Wood, and as its Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.

The volunteers were reviewed by Gov. McCord who gave them a patriotic, manly talk. A slip of paoer. any shade, A goose-quill and a drop of ink. And lo! anon my face is made Provided can think! Godey'a Magaaln.

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