The Brooklyn Citizen from Brooklyn, New York • 1

LAST EDITION WEATHER INDICATIONS. Probably fair to-night and tomorrow! eoutherly windi, EWli OOXiOCK (Entered at the Pt Office at Ilrooklyn. N. Oct. 4 as lass mall matter.

un'l'r A of Man 3 1 7' VOL. XLIX-NO. 103. BROOKLYN, TUESDAY. JUNE 13, 1011.

PRICE ONE CENT. MANY KILLED BY STORM; SMALL CRAFT SWAMPED; PROPERTY LOSS HEAVY SUBWAY REPORT DIVIDES NEW FRANCHISES BETWEEN B.R.T. CO. AND THE INTERBOROUGH; TRIBOROUGH TO BE BUILT IF THEY REJECT IT W' tl; iSL Broadway-Fifty-ninth Street-Queens Line and Fourteenth Street-E, D. Routefor B.

R.T. MANHATTAN BRIDGE LOOPS ALSO GO TO BROOKLYN COMPANY WHAT THE B. R. T. COMPANY GETS.

1. A subway under Broadway and Seventh atenue, Manhattan, to Fifty -ninth street, to the Queensborough Bridge, to meet an elevated line in Long Island City which will connect with the Williamsburg Bridge. 2. The bridge loops in Manhattan. 3.

A subway from Union square, Manhattan, under Fourteenth street, to a new tunnel under the East River to a subway which will extend in the direction of East New York to a point not yet determined. WHAT THE INTERBOROUGH COMPANY GETS. 1. A subway under Lexington avenue to the Bronx, with an extension to Brooklyn, and the Eastern Parkway extension, with branches to Flatbush and Brownsville. 2.

A subway under Forty-second street, Manhattan, to the Queensborough Bridge, to connect with new elevated lines which the company will run in Queens. 3. The extension of the present West Farms branch of the subway by the White Plains road to the city limits WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THE COMPANIES REFUSE. If either the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company or the Interborough Company refuses the terms of the ofler, most of the contracts may he awarded to the other company. if both refuse, the city will proceed to the construction of the Tri-Borough.

route. WHAT IT WILL COST. Cost to the city Cost to the Interborough 75,800,000 Cost to the B. R. T.

i I UMlh Borough Ppsi'hm of Manhattan chairman the 1 Inn'it CoriimiU( III FAVOR JF Interborough Is to Have Lexington Avenue Bronx Route and Eastern Parkway-Flat-bush-Brownsville Extensions and. 42d Street-Queens Line to Connect With New System. THFRFPIlRT'lf 0ne the 10 Get Neary 1 Entire Contract, Is Chairman McAneny Recommendation. Alone Said Total cost ILED ft Drags Along Tics Until Train Is Stopped. Death and Destruction Reigned All Along Coast.

BOLT HITS CHURCH UULI miu viiuii GreatDamageWrought on the Virginia Peninsula. WIRES INTERRUPTED A number nf lives early reporls place the figure' at twenty-five were lost uml enormous property damage was caused bv a terrific electrical storm which swept the coast from Norfolk to New England late last night, and early to-day. It as the fourth storm for New York since Saturday night. Telephonic uml telegraphic Communication has been interrupted while hundreds of thousands of trees have been uprooted, buildings unroofed and fences and outbuildings demolished. Three men were killed and a woman badly shocked by lightning at Allentown, Ta.

More than were thrown into a panic and, women and children were trampled upofi when lightning set tire to the church steeple at Highstowu, where commencement exercises were being held. Many tad vessels and minor craft were swamped in the vicinity of Norfolk and fifteen persons are missing. Three persons were killed in rhiladel-, phia and vicinity. Baltimore and. Washington were off the map early to-day as far as wire communication was, concerned.

It will be several days before communication is entirely restored. Big forces of linemen were out to-day endeavoring to repair the lines. Their task was a herculean one ns for miles to the south all poles were stretched nlony the ground while the big lend cables containing hundreds of wires had been snapped as though they were pieces of twine. Baltimore. Washington and Maryland were the first to feel the storm.

At Baltimore enormous hail stones broke windows and the terrific peals of thunder and vivid flashes of lightning threw the negro quarter into hysterics. At New port ews small craft were swamped along the James River and in Hampton Bonds. Although fifteen persons, all fishermen, are reported iltissing, no bodies have been recovered. In the height of the storm a big three-masted snnd schooner dragged- her anchors and rammed the submarine Seal and Old Dominion liner, Jamestown. Grain elevators were demolished and factories and dwelling houses unroofed.

The property loss on the peninsula, including the destruction of the growing crops, will r-jibably $300,000. The storm swept through eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and then up along the Hudson River, leveling substantial structures as though they were houses of cards. A number of beach sorts in and about this city, already damaged by Sunday's visitations, were put completely out of business. RICHMOND, June 13. Leaving death and destruction in its wake, a storm which attnined cyclonic proportions swept the lower end of the Virginia peninsula last night and early estimates to-day place.the number of dead at fifteen to eighteen.

-At Newport News houses Vere unroofed, trees and telegraph pules blown down and shipping disabled, entailing property lossea exceeding $100, 000. At Norfolk several houses struck by lightning. June capi tal was cut off last evening from all communication with the outside world by a terrific storm which swept over the city. Late at night a few wires were recovered, but no direct con' neetlon was possible early to-day between Washington and New York, Ilenvy damage wns done to the trees and parks of the city and one'workman was electrocuted by a lire wire. Lightning struck the home of Alfred R.

Kirkuk, of No. 1410 Beverley road, Inst evening" and before the flames were extinguished over $300 dnmage bnd been done. Tbe building is a two-story and attic frame dwelling and is on a large plot of ground. The lightning struck some wires running along the peak of the roof, which ignited the shingles, and the flames had gained considerable headway before an alurm was sent in. In spite of tbe muddy road, the local fire apparatus made good time in reaching the fire and soon had it under control.

The loss was entirely covered by insurance. Clara Gergusou. twenty-two years. old. of No.

43 Janliu place, while ruling on Brighton Beach elevated tram, became so frightened at the electrical display as the tram drew into the Prospect Park station that she beenme hysterical and fainted. Ambulance Surgeon Ennis, of the Kings County Hospital, was summoned and she was removed to her home PI AA AAA A A AAA -YuYuY iNTCmilffi But Pounds Will See That Work Is Done Right. Practically one-third of the pavement in Fifth avenue between Union street and Prospect avenue, which was recently laid, is being torn up in order that the work may be done over again. This time it is the purpose of Commissioner of Public Works Louis H. Pounds to sec to it that the work is done right so that it will not he necessary for him to hold up the bill of Conaractor John J.

Gilman, of Gravesend, ho ill not receive the $63,000 due him for the work until it is properly bni'died. How the matter came to he brought to the attention of Mr. rounds himself is not known to all concerned. To-daj, when inter' iewed by a reporter, Mr. Pounds said that he did not have anv criticism to make of tbe inspector who passed the job.

When told lhat there were hints of graft among some of the inspectors of 'the Highway Bureau Mr. Pounds wanted to know whv those who made the insinuations did not appear to back them up. Whether or not there is to he an investigation is not known. Contractors and others interested in similar mattars are discussing the subject to-day and many comments are being hearil about the story. Part of the work was done last fall.

The contract called for the laying of 16,000 square yards of granite block and recently the work was finished, hut not accepted. The paying of themone.v to the contractor wag held up by Mr. Pounds. Borough President Steers, when interviewed on the subject) professed ignorance of the matter altogether, and said that he didn't know anything about the work. He referred all enquiries to Mr.

Pounds. Mr. Pounds stated, that the contractor was not to ldame for the condition of the tar, as he had been furnished with a very poor quality. The borough officials have been reorganizing the inspecting force in the Highway Bureau. THE MAYORS OPINION.

Those Who Wonted Haste Now Know Reasoa (or Belay, He Says. Mayor Gaynor was asked to comment on the McAneny report this afternoon. He said: I shall not discuss the matter, but I can hardly refrain from saying that even those who wanted to rush things through six month ago must now see the immense gain to the community which has come from careful and deliberate consideration of the whole subway matter. Of course, some of them will never admit it, but will continue their abuse. Tide subway matter is the largest matter before any government in the world, national, State or local, 'to far as I know, at the present time, and needed and needs the most careful and comprehensive Man Attacked and Choked Senseless.

P0UCE ARREST SUSPECT' WHO GIVES SAME NAME Walter Orloff Positively Identifies Alphonso Orloff as His Assailant and Latter Is Held Without Bail for a Hearing. While Walter Orloff. a tailor, of No. 265 Wythe avenue, was, on his way home early to-day and was approm liing Metropolitan nienue on Wythe avenue, where it was very dmk, lie was attacked by a mail who had been concealed in a dark doorway. The assailant seized Orloff by bis throat and began to choke him.

He 'kept it up until Oiloff went down from exhaustion. Then the assailant rifled the tailor's pockets, turning them inside out and securing $13, Orloff, through the glare of a distant gaslight, managed to get a glimpse of his assailant's face, notwithstanding the rob her had the slouch hat he wore pulled down well toward his eyes. As the fellow ran away Orloff raised nn alarm and it brought some citizens, who, when they learned what had happened, sent word to the Bedford avenue poiue station. Detectives Christie and Wyman hastened, out and on information they obtained from the victim they followed up a clue, which led to the arrest of Alphonso Orloff, a namesake, but no relation of the victim, who fcnvc his age as 22 and his residence as No. 135 Grand street.

He wns taken to the police station, to where the victim had also gone, and there, as alleged, Orloff positively-' identified the prisoner as his assailant. He declared he couldn't be mistaken. On the strength of' his statement, the prisoner was held on charges of nssnult and robbery, and on being arraigned to-day in the Manhattan Avenue Police Court, Magistrate Dodd held liim ithout bail for a hearing to-morrow. I 10 Surprise for F. D.

Division of Buildings. There were surprise and consernation in the Brooklyn branch of the Division of Buildings, of the Fire Department to-day, when the branch learned of an order issued esterday by Fire Commissioner Johnson, directing its transfer to Manhattan. All records will be taken from the Brooklyn Fire Headquarters hi Jay street to the Sixty-seventh street building, in Manhattan, where all the employees of the Division of Buildings will be expected to report for duty. The order goes into Effect immediately. This move on the part of the Couimis sioner is more or less of a surprise to the entire staff, from Inspector Rcehil to tbe outsido mechanical experts, although the unsettled condition of the department had led them to expect almost anything.

Sixty-seventh street. Manhattan however, is different from Jay Street, 'Brooklyn. There has been no expressed disapproval of the Commissioner's order, but it is evident that it doea not meet with favor. There are some five or six inside employees affected by the change, and a much greater number of outside men, One of them stated to-day to a Citizen" reporter that the change would practically lengthen the office hours by one hour, and eubject them to the rush hour traffic and extra fares, which would probably result in most of them moving to Manhattan for permanent residence. There is no specific cause given for the change other that) that it is the purpose of the administration to centralize all branches of the department.

After today the employees will bo' required to report to the Deputy Chief in charge of the Bureau of Repairs and Supplies for assignment to duty. GRAND STREET EXTENSION. Bill for Paving and Grading Nov Before Senate, (SPECIAL TO THE CITfZEN ALBANY, June 13. The bill to place (he assessment for the grading and paving of the Grand street extension on the city at large has passed the Assembly, and is now in the Senate. Owing to the efforts of the representatives of the city live bill was slated to be frozen in the Senate Committee, but Senator Thomas Harden forced a favorable report on the measure, and it came ont of committee before tbe third reading calehdar, wfiere it iz now.

The bill will come tip for passage to-day or to-morrow and then wi go to the Mayor for hia approval. Senator Harden giving special attention to the measure, anil probnbbk-Will succeed in paesiug It Mitchel Have Objections. STEERS IS ENTHUSIASTIC OVER RECOMMENDATIONS Special Meeting, nn June 21, to Be Preceded by Public Hearings as Well as Private Discussion First Session Saturday. The McAneny snbwav report and reeomni udntmn were formally presented to the Board of Estimate to-day. The findings mot with general npiroval from the entire board.

At a late hour this afternoon the indications woie that it would be almost President Mitihell, of the Board of! Aldermen, is the only member who, it is understood, disagrees with many of the proposed terms ami will ask for an amendment. ill tonneuion wifh the presentation of their report the Conference Committee sent to the Board of Estimate a letter recommending immediate action on the snbwav matter and nsking that the programme proposed by them be approved at once. Thev also ask that their committee toiitinue in office for further conferences with the Public Service Coin-iilissmu. The committee requests that the Board of Estimate set a definite time limit in whnh the two companies may express their readiness or refusal to accept the propositam laid out in the report. President Steers is most emphatically in favor of an immediate acceptance of the repot (ras it stands.

"The whole thing looks good, he said to a "Citizen reporter at the dose of the meeting. "If the city gets all that is contained in this report, it will he a great thing for the city at large, as well ns for Brooklyn. Mr. Steers, it can he said, is also confident that the majority of the hoard will vote in favor of the McAneny report. No definite notion was taken to-day.

Following the meeting, a regular session of the board was called. Mayor Gaynor recommended that a special meeting he called for Wednesday June 21. at 10:30 o'clock, for the sole consideration of the subway question. It will lie an open meet i at and hearings will le given to all who desire to protest. At this meeting the board will formally receive the report of the Committee of the Whole, which will hold meetings for the consideration and discusskm of the subway matter from time to time uutil that date.

All of these committee met Inga will be behind locked doors and will be attended by the entire board. The first of them is scheduled for Saturday inorniug of this week. Mr. Miller is not very optimistic concerning the possibilities of tbe Interborough's accepting the city's proposition aa it now stands. With the exteption of the Broadway line, however, he believe that the report is acceptable to them.

It was nearly 12.39 when the entire membership of the Board of Estimate arrived at the City Hail, and went direct to the Mayor's private office to take up Immediate consideration of the McAneny subway report. The meeting was as committee of the whole, and consequently held behind closed doors. Not even Mr. Hsag. the secretary of the Board of Estimate, was allowed in-slde'Vhile the first discussion of the report took place, hilt was forced to wait with the other clerks of the board outside the Mayor" office during the entire meeting.

The news that (he long postponed subway report w-ss at last to be made public drew an immense crowd to the City Hall, harmony et orn the officials and tha Brook! Rapid Transit Company than betweeu the ottu.uls and the Interber-ough Company. The Brooklyn compacy ha accepted the Ii.imk of figuring expenses proposed by the. report; the In-tcrborougli thus fur lias refused. The Brooklyn company lias also met prac--tically all requirements ns to operation; the lnterborougli has refused. The Lafayette uieuue route is left out of the report altogether.

It is intimated that it may uot le put in afterward, if the other routes prove suftuieut for uptown demands. The report urges the B. R. T. Company to run all it Coney Island lines for five-ceut fare.

The official synopsis is ns follows: -s. Terms Proposed by the McAnasy Snbway Committee. The report fio-t rei ite that the Committee of the Board of Estimate cotn-nieineil its conferences with the Public Service Coinmisiou alionf Feb. 1, and lhat since that tune almost daily sessions have leeu held, including not only those with the Commission tmt with the officers of the Iuterborough aud Brooklyn Rapid Transit Companies. The results of the negotiations are presented ill a series of conclusions slid roc mmeiubitions signed by the representatives of both the conferring bodies; thit is.

bv all tbe members of the Public Service CiinmiNsion. including Mr. Bassett, who was still a member at the time the conclusions were readied on June 5 and the member of the Board's Committee, Presidents McAneny. Miller and Cromwell. There is alo a transmitted report of Mr.

McAneny' Committee, recom-, mending that Ihe Board of Estimate, in dealing with the routing plans snd contracts to lie presented by the Public Service Commission in connection w-ith new rapid traii-it lines, accept the conclusions of the conferrees and shape its policy accordingly. The report, after reviewing the history of the negotiations and the progress made with the competing couipanies, propose in effect: That in order to distribute the new line in a way that will produce the best results and serve the greatest number of people for a 5-cent fare, the city grant operating rights both for the further extension of the Iuterborough system In the Boroughs of Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn, and for the extensions of the Brookly Rapid Transit system, both in the home borough of that company and through Manhattan by way of Broadway and Fifty-ninth street to Queens. The report proposed, however, a series of strict financial and operating terms, applicable to either company, and adds that if neither company accept the leases proposed for it. "the city proceed at once with the Construction of the so-called Triborough route; and that the Public Service Commission proceed to advertise for bids for the equipment and operation. or for the partial construction, aa well as the equipment and operation, of the so-called Trihormigh route (bids for a large part of which are now in hand) with a view toward securing au independent operator for such route." New Lines Proposed for the Inter borough Company' System.

The new lines proposed for operation bv the Interborough are divided into three groups: 1. Lexington avenue line north from Forty-second street, branching in Th Bronx to Pelham Bay Park and to Wood-lawn Cemetery, and the Seventh avenue route south by way of a new tunnel to Brooklyn, with a new extension through the Eastern Parkway and branches through Nostrum! avenue to Flntbiisfc and through Livonia avenue to Brownsville: all to lie operated in connection with tfie present tinea under a single contract. 2. A new line running easterly through Forty -second street from Tunes Bqnnrt to a point ef conjunction with the Stelts way tunnel, incorporating the tunnel Jin and continuing it by subway to tha Queenstairo Plata; and thence, dividing into elevated lines, northward to Astoria and eastward to Woodside and Corona. A proviso is inserted permitting the addi- chs divi-ion nf the proposed suhwav routes between the Brooklyn Rapid Tran-it Coiupauv the Interbor.iugh Transit Co.np.iu was formally recommended to-day by the Rapid Transit Committee of the Board of Estimate, of hii Borough President McAneny, of Manhattan, is chairman.

The report, ah' nt hi' li thorn has been so much curiosity and so much anxiety for week, was brought into the meeting of the Board of Estimate to-day, aud a synopsis given out for publication. Many new routes are outlined in the report, including aud surface lines a well as subways. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company is given two important lines in Manhattan! and the In-terhoiough is given long extensions into Brooklyn. Competition between the two big corporations will apparently be encouraged in many parts of the city. Both companies are given access to Queens.

Nothing is done about Staten Island, and the Coney Island situation is not worked out fully. There is no definite guarantee contained in the report of a five-ceut (are to Coney Island. Total Expendintre Will Amount to $257,400,000. The total expenditure involved, if nil the details of the report are carried out. is Of this the city will hear a little more than half, or $131.290..

090. The Interborough emupa ny will pay $75,800.01 and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company will pay $50,400,000. The report is concurred in by the full membership of the Public Service Coui-mifsiou. and so there is every reason to believe that it will stand as presented today. If either company refuses the terms offered the contracts may go to the other company.

If both refuse the report recommends that the city go ahead ou its own account to construct the tri-borough route. The report is a most voluminous document, and has many appendices attached. Tile synopsis given out for the benefit of the public is in itself so long that it occupies several newspaper columns. The Broadway aud Seventh avenue subway to Fifty -ninth street, in Manhattan, is awarded to the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. This is the rente in width the greatest interest has been shown by Brooklynites.

The decision of the committee means that Bro' Uyn passengers will lie carried through the heart of the business section of the metropolis for one fare. The snbway is to turn into Fifty-ninth street and go to the Queenslsiro Bridge. At the Long Island City end of the bridge the trains will rmt upon an line, which the B. R. T.

Company is to build to connect w-itb the Williamsburg Bridge. Fourteenth 'Street Route to D. to Go toj Brooklyn Company, The Brooklyn Company is also to have the Fourteenth street subway, from Cn ion Square. Manhattan. Thia is to go under the river through a new tmiueh and is to proceed toward East New York to a point which the report does not specify.

The B. R. T. will also have the privilege of operating the bridge looiig iu Manhattan. The lnterborougli Company gets the Lexington avenue subway northward to the Bronx and southward to Brooklyn, with the Eastern Parkway extension and branches to Brownsville and Flat-bush.

It is to extend its present West Farms line by the White Plains road to the city limits, and it ig to run a subway along Forty-second street to the Queens-boro Bridge. From the eastern end of the bridge it is to operate a new elevated service through Queens. Tbe report indicate a greater spirit of Shortly after 9 o'clock this morning the second ear of a train of five car bound for Manhattan jumped the track at Thirty-sixth street and Fifth avenue and for a time caused considerable excitement among the' many passengers. As the train swung from the Thirty-sixth street into the Fifth avenue station the motor car cleared the tracks properly. The second car, however, got caught in the frog and was It dragged along for ten or fifteen feet, when the train was brought to a stop by the motorman.

A number of the passengers screamed and the guards found considerable difficulty in allaying their fears. After a good deal of trouble the passengers made their way to the platform and took another train bound north. The track superintendent got to the sceue shortly afterward with several workmen, but it was fully three-quarters of an hour before the trains began to run on schedule time. ARRAIGNED AS FOOTPADS. Four Men Charged with Assault on James Witherbee.

Four men were arraigned before Magistrate Harris in the Gates Avenue Court this morning charged by James Witherbee, of No. 244 Grove street, with having approached, him Inst night on Ralph avenue, and upon being refused the price of a drink, with liaviug set upon him and Attempted to stab liim. The men gave their names ns Jnmes Jones, twenty-one, of No. 1779 Union street; Howard Dougherty. twenty, of No.

1775a Halsey street; John Kearns, twenty-oue. of No. 687 Jefferson avenue; and John Dempsey, twenty-three, No. 791 Madison street. All denied the charge but were held in $500 bail each for a further hearing to-morrow morning.

Witherbee, in making his charge, said that it was a pity that law-abiding citizens should be subjected to such dangers on the streets at night a VOTING MACHINE Levy Bill Proposes to Repeal a See tion of the Election Law, (SPECIAL TO THE CITIZEN.) ALBANY, June 13. It is proposed to repeal the voting machine section of the election law in the amended form of the Ievy bill. When the bill Is reported out of committee ind put upon passage it will carry a provision tot the specific repeal of Section 15 of the present election Igw. It is under that section of the law that voting machines are being used in many of the up-State cities. It is alleged that tbe proposed repeal of thia section embodies an attack on the Empire Voting Machine Company.

Another company wanta to get in, it is said, end hss enlisted sufficient power to hVe an effort made to break the alleged monopoly. (Continued on Page Twelve.).