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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 15. 1909.

MARRIAGES AND DEATHS DIED. Atwell, Mary M. Melledy, Thos. H. Avery, Annie Marie Murray, Jane B.

Blossom, Minnie P. Annie E. Brierton, Catherine Pershall, H. Le Roy, Peter Richter, Elizabeth Dodenhoff, Afary. Rigney, Katherine A Eagan, Ann Stemers, C.

C. Fenniman, John G. Skinner, Robert, G. Goldstein, Benjamin. Stoothoff, Gooszen, Carsten Trowbridge, Phebe E.

Haller, Katherine. Van Vechten, H. C. Heubach, Gustavus Wederholt, Mary A. Higgins, Sarah S.

Woodcock, Mary C. McCauley, Elizabeth ATWELL---On Sunday, February 14, 1909, MARY wife of Frederick A. Atwell. Funeral services at her late residence, 69 Decatur st, Brooklyn, on Wednesday, February 17, at 8 P.M. AVERY-On February 13, 1909, ANNA MARIE, wife of George J.

Avery, al and daughter of Mrs. Sophie Lissner, aged 25 years, Funeral services at her late residence, Lynbrook, L. Tuesday morning, at 9 o'clock, Interment at Cypress Hills Cemetery. BLOSSOM At Pasadena. California, January 26, 1909, MINNIE PETTIGREW COLE, beloved wife of Benjamin Blossom.

Funeral services will be held at the Chapel of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, 5 West Fifty-fifth st, Manhattan, on Tuesday afternoon, February 16, at 2 o'clock. Interment private. (Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago papers please copy.) BRIERTON-On Saturday, Feb. 13, 1909, CATHERINE, beloved wife of Lieutenant Thomas Brierton, Tuesday, February 16, from her late residence, 351 Van Brunt st, at thence to the Church of the Visitation, where a requiem will be celebrated. BUSCH-On February 1909, at his residence, 183 Amity st, PETER BUSCH, husband of Emily Richardson, in the 73d year of his age.

Funeral private. It is requested that no flowers be sent. DODENHOFF-On Sunday, February 14, 1909, MARY, beloved daughter of Lena and the Richard Dodenhoff. Funeral from her late residence, 132 av, on Wednesday, 17th at 2 P.M. (Troy, N.

papers please copy.) EAGAN-ANN EAGAN, wife of the late James Eagan and mother of James F. Eagan, Margaret A. Bayer and Mrs. Thomas J. Ross.

Funeral from her late residence, 823 Madison st, on Wednesday, February 17, 1909; thence to Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel. where a solemn mass of requiem will be offered at 9:30 A.M. Interment Holy Cross a Cemetery. FENNIMAN-On Sunday, February 14, 1909, JOHN GELIEN FENNIMAN, beloved son of John R. and Gertrude G.

Fenniman, aged 7 days, at 172 Prospoct Park West, Brooklyn. MIN, DO beloved TO husband of Martha M. GoldA February 14, BENJAstein (nee Reitz). Funeral from his parents' residence, 556A Macon st, Brooklyn, Tuesday, February 16, at 10 o'clock. GOOSZEN-On Saturday, February 13, 1909, CARSTEN GOOSZEN, beloved husband of Carolina D.

Witt, in his 63d year. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend funeral services, 1:45 P.M., Tuesday, at residence, 185 Spencer st, Brooklyn. Interment, Lutheran Cemetery. HALLER-On February 13, 1909, KATHERINE HALLER, beloved wife of the late Theodore Haller, aged 44 years. Funeral from her late residence, 239 Graham av, Tuesday, February 16, at 2 P.M.

Interment at Lutheran Cemetery. HEUBACH-On February 14, 1909, GUSTAVUS EMIL HEUBACH, in the 65th year of his age. Funeral services at his late residence, 444 Lexington av, Wednesday, 10 A.M. HIGGINS-On Monday, February 15, 1909, at her residence, 931 Lafayette SARAH widow of John C. Higgins.

Notice of funeral hereafter. McCAULEY-Elizabeth M. McCAULEY, dearly beloved daughter of Dennis McCauley and Rebecca McBride, entered into eternal rest on February 14, aged 16 years 8 months 5 days. Funeral Wednesday, February 17, at her late residence, 832 Bradford st, Brooklyn, N. at 2:30 P.M.

Interment in St. John's Cemetery, (Hazleton, papers please copy.) MELLEDY-On February 13, at his resIdence, 572 Fox st, New York, THOMAS H. MELLEDY. Funeral from residence at 9:30 A.M., Tuesday; thence to St. Anselm's R.

C. Church, 673 Tinton av, Bronx. Interment, Woodlawn Cemetery. MURRAY-On February 12, 1909. at her residence, 361 Rutland road, JANE B.

MURRAY, widow of the late Thomas Murray. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral on Tuesday, February 16, 1909, at 2 P.M. NELSON-On Monday, February 15, 1909, at her residence, 182 High st, ANNIE wife of Thomas Emmet Nelson. Services Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock, to which friends and members of Stella Chapter No. 29, 0.

E. Queen Esther Court No. 7, 0. and Waverley Council No. 37, D.

of are invited to attend. Interment Oakwood Cemetery, Upper Troy, N. Y. PERSHALL--After 8 brief Illness, on Monday, February 15, at the residence of his brother, David B. Pershall, 861 President st, Brooklyn, HENRY LE ROY PERSHALL, Sr.

Notice of funeral hereafter. RICHTER-On February 13, 1909, at 311 Hicks st, ELIZABETH, widow of Claus Richter, aged 66 years. Funeral services at her late residence on Tuesday, February 16, at 2 P.M. Relatives and friends, also members of Knights and Ladies of Honor are invited to attend. Interment Evergreens Cemetery, RIGNEY-On February 12, 1909, KATHERINE A.

RIGNEY, daughter of Catherine M. Rigney, at the residence of the latter, 43 Monroe st. Requiem mass at Rochester Cathedral, February 15, 9:30 A.M., and burial in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Rochester. SIEMERS-At his home, 9 Fairview place, Flatbush, Saturday, February 13, 1909, CHARLES CHRISTOPHER SIEMERS, beloved husband of Annie Pfortner, in his 54th year.

Relatives and friends, also Allemania Lodge 740, F. and A and Bowronville Plattdeutscher Club. are invited to attend funeral services on Tuesday evening. February 16, at 7:45 o'clock, at his late home. Interment private, at Lutheran Cemetery, Wednesday morning.

SKINNER-On February 13, ROBERT G. SKINNER, beloved husband of Mary Skinner (nee Bauer), 55 years old. Relatives and friends are invited to attend funeral services, at his late residence, 381 Decatur st, Tuesday, February 16, at 2 P.M. Interment, Cypress Hills. STOOTHOFF-On Monday, February 15, 1909, ADELAIDE A.

DUSENBURRY, wife of John Stoothoff. Funeral services from her late residence, 2508 Church av, Wednesday afternoon, February 17, 1909, at 2:30 o'clock. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. TROWBRIDGE- on February 15, 1909, PHEBE ELIZABETH TROWBRIDGE. Funeral service at her late residence, 537 First st, Wednesday, Februery 17, at 2:30 o'clock.

at VAN -Aurora Grata Bodies, A. A. S. You are hereby invited to attend the funeral services of our brother, HENRY VAN VECHTEN, of to be held at his late residence, 910 St. Mark's av, on Monday evening, February 15, 1909, at 7:30 o'clock.

Fraternally, CHARLES H. LUSCOMB, 33d, Commander-in-Chief. VAN VECHTEN-Kismet Temple, A. A. 0.

N. M. S. Nobles-Noble HENRY C. VAN VECHTEN has entered the Unseen Temple.

You are requested to attend the funeral services, to be held at his 2 late residence, 910 St. Mark's av, Monday evening, February 16, at 7:30 o'clock. WM. BAMBER, Illustrious Potentate. John W.

Richardson, Recorder. WOODCOCK-On Sunday, February 14. 1909, after A lingering illness, MARY 'LARA, widow of John H. Woodcock, in 90th year of her age. Funeral ser- on ses at her late residence, 135 Lefferts place, corner of Classon av, Brooklyn, on Tuesday, the 16th at 8 P.M.

at NEW HEANEY LAW SUIT, WHICH ALLEGES FRAUD Arthur J. Heaney Wants to Oust Magistrate 0'Railly From Trusteeship of Estate. CLAIMS A DEFICIT OF $50,000. Says O'Reilly Is Crippling the Pawnbroking Business by Withdrawals of Cash. Magistrate Prank E.

O'Reilly, the trustee of the Arthur J. Heaney estate, now has another fight on his hands relative to his management of the estate. This morning Lawyer Walter J. Carlin, representing ybung Arthur J. Heaney, son of dead pawnbroker, in a proceeding just started to remove O'Reilly as the trustee, sought to stay O'Reilly, as the trustee, from drawing all the money from the pawnbroking store pending the determination removal action, and, further, ton pay young Arthur an income.

The argument on the motion to remove 'Reilly will not come on until February 24, but the preliminary arguments this morning were quite vigorous, James P. Judge appearing for O'Reilly. As if to add to the complications of the case, already have made it a noted one which in the surrogate's office, there was another motion, in which the estate of Mary J. Heaney brings in a sort of a side issue. The litigation over the Heaney estate has been prolific of several sensations, the most recent being a charge that there 1s a deficit of at least $50,000.

By his will Heaney, the pawnbroker, left his entire estate, said to be worth $200,000, to his two children, Arthur and Mary. O'Reilly was the executor and trustee under the will. Upon the death of Mary her estate was also put into the hands of Magistrate O'Reilly. Recently an accounting was by the magistrate in the Mary J. Heaney estate and it was contested by Mr.

Carlin on behalf of Arthur. This morning O'Reilly's lawyer asked that the contest wait upon the determination of the motion made some time ago to reopen an old accounting. It is to this old accounting that Magistrate O'Roilly charged up all his present troubles in connection with his trusteeship. There was an error there of $50,000 or more, he says, through his attorney, and now that he finds himself charged with a lot more of the funds of the estate than he really has on hand, he says that that the mistake was made then. It the mistake was righted, he says, all would be right with the estate.

But the contest between young Heaney and the trustees has become more acute within the last two weeks, for Arthur's attorney is strenuously objecting to any opening of the old account and charging off from $50,000 to $80,000, which is now claimed to be a deficit. This objection was met, Lawyer Carlin says, by reprisals on the part of Magistrate O'Reilly-the removal of money from the pawnbroking store, without which the valuable business would have to close. On Saturday night the removal proceeding was started against O'Reilly, who has been served with an order directing him to show cause why he should not be ousted from his trusteeship. The return of the order was made for a week from Wednesday. but in the meantime the lawyer wants O'Reilly stopped from doing what he says is crippling the business.

On the call of the calendar it was Brranged to argue the income question tomorrow, and the question of staying permanently the magistrate from drawing down the funds of the pawnbroking business on Wednesday, but thresh out the contest on the Mary Heaney accounting to-day. This was done and the surrogate reserved decision. Magistrate O'Reilly was served in the removal proceeding on Saturday evening shortly before 11 o'clock, the papers having been signed by the surrogate shortly after the dinner hour. A process server from Mr. Carlin's office went to 184 Hewes street, where Magistrate O'Reilly lives, waited until O'Reilly came out, and then presented him with the formal order.

Surrogate Ketcham made the return day on February 24, and on that day the motion will be argued. Mismanagement of the funds, amounting to fraud, is charged against the judge. TRACY'S REPORT NOT READY. Delays in Submitting Briefs Will Probably Hold It Up for a Week or Two. The report of General Benjamin F.

Tracy, as referee in the Fourth avenue subway injunction proceedings, which is to show exactly the constitutional debt limit of the city, is not ready yet, and will not be ready "for some time." Two months ago it was announced that the rewould probably be made to the court on February 15. General Tracy said to-day that he could not tell when his work would be completed. There was delay in the submission to him of briefs on behalf of the city, and that will probably hold up the report for ten days or two weeks. Although the report will show the borrowing capacity as of July 1, 1908, its chief purpose will be to establish authoritatively just what securities issued by the city are to be calculated as running against the debt limit. Mayor McClellan declined to-day to enter into a discussion of the debt statement issued by Controller Metz on Saturday, which showed the borrowing margin to be $48,600,000 on January 1.

The mayor said, however, that the additional margin of $4,272,292 acquired during the last quarter of 1908 would not alter the present policy of restriction that is being pursued in respect to public works. FIRE FRIGHTENED INMATES. $1,500 Blaze in Wartburg Lutheran Home for the Aged. One hundred and fifty or more men and women quartered in the Wartburg Lutheran Home for the Aged, at Fulton street and Georgia avenue, East New York, were frightened late yesterday when fire started in the chapel of the institution at the rear of the premises. The blaze, which it is thought started from an overheated furnace, caused damage of about $1,500.

The fire was discovered by Mrs. Annie Gusto, an inmate, while she was sitting at a window overlooking the chapel. Superintendent George Storm was notified and he turned in the alarm for the engines. Fire had eaten through the floor of the chapel from the basement, Firemen chopped away the floor and put out the blaze. WEDERHOLT-On February 13, at 436 East Ninth st, Flatbush, MARY A.

WEDERHOLT, beloved wife of Benjamin F. Wederholt. Burial Tuesday afternoon, 2 o'clock. Interment Calvary. IN MEMORIAM.

IN MEMORIAM. McKEON-There will be a solemn requiem mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Ninth st. and Fourth av, Brooklyn, N. Wednesday, February 17, 1909, at 10 A.M., for the repose of the soul of the Rev.

JOHN McKEON, late assistant rector St. James Pro-Cathedral. MAS. M'LAUGHLIN PLANS HER FIRST TRIP ABROAD Is Seventy-eight Years Old and Is Enthusiastic Over the Prospect. SHE WILL VISIT THE POPE.

Holds a Papal Title, and May Attend the Beatification of Joan of Arc. Mrs. Hugh McLaughlin, widow of the old Democratic leader, is going to start on her first trip to Europe on March 4, at the age of 78. Her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.

William C. Courtney, plannned to make the trip, and when they suggested that Mrs. McLaughlin accompany them she became enthusiastic about it and at once began to make arrangements. It will be remembered that she was made Papal Marchioness last summer, when a pilgrimage Brooklynites, headed by Bishop McDonnell, visited Pope Plus, and the plans of the party have been adjusted 80 that the marchioness may have an audience with the Pope. This will probably be some time Easter.

around, to her rank, Mrs. McLaughlin and her party will be received in private audience and will be treated with high honors. They hope to be in that city at the time of the beatification of Joan of Arc, and it 80 the Brooklyn marchioness will have a formal part in the ceremonies, as a noble In the Pope's household. The beatification will be held in St. Peter's and will be one of the most Impressive ceremonies of the church, lasting all day.

The nobility, men and women, will be assigned to a special part of the great edifice. This visit to the Pope is not obligatory for Mrs. McLoughlin, and is not a part of the investment of her title. The papal brief which formally notified her of her elevation to the rank of marchioness was delivered to her last December by Bishop McDonnell, to whom it had been sent from Rome. No arrangements for the audience will be made until the party has reached Rome.

A very attractive itinerary has been planned, aside from the visit to the Vatican. There will be eight altogether in the party, Mrs. McLaughlin and a companion, who will probably be a trained nurse; Mr. and Mrs. William C.

Courtney, Miss Grace, Courtney and Hugh McLaughlin Courtney, with their governess, and the Rev. John York of Huntington. Mrs. McLaughlin's second daughter, Mrs. J.

B. Roache, will not accompany them. The party will leave at noon on March 4, on the steamer Carmania of the Cunard Line. The first stop will be at the Azores. Then it will proceed to Madeira, Gibraltar, Genoa and Naples, arriving there on the 18th.

From Naples the steamer will go on to Egypt, and Mrs. McLaughlin's party may decide to continue that far; if not, they will spend several weeks in Naples. Rome will next be visited, and the important ceremonials just described will occur. From Rome they will go by easy stages to Florence, Venice, Milan and the Italian lakes. If the trip is not too severe for Mrs.

McLaughlin they will then go down the Rhine and visit Montreux, Interlaken and Lucerne. Then they will go on to Paris, Brussels, through Holland and over to London, spending some time in each place. After a leisurely trip through England, Scotland and Ireland, they will sail for home from Queenstown. They will be abroad at least four months and perhaps longer, and will modify their plans to suit their feelings at any time. Before she goes, Mrs.

McLaughlin is to be honored by the Ladies Aid Society of St. Mary's Hospital, of which she is honorary president. A reception will be given to her in honor of her elevation to the nobility, from 3 to 5, next Friday afternoon at the hospital. The Junior Auxiliary of St. Mary's is invited.

WOMAN MAY DIE FROM FALL. Mrs. Houlroyd Was Pushed or Fell to Tracks at Glendale Station. Skull Fractured. Mrs.

Elizabeth Houlroyd, 35 years old, of 171 Franklin street, Brooklyn, while standing on the B. R. T. Railroad station platform at Forest avenue, Glendale, walting for a city-bound elevated train, yesterday morning, accidentally fell or was pushed to the tracks below. She sustained a fracture of the skull, and was removed, unconscious, to the German Hospital.

She revived sufficiently at the hospital, later, to be able to give her name and address. Then she lapsed into unconsciousness again. It is said by the surgeons at the hospital that he woman has a bare chance of living. BINGHAM Will Appear Before Aldermen and Explain His Changes. The announcement was made to-day that Police, Commissioner Bingham has consented to appear before the committee on police of the Board of Aldermen and explain why he made so many radical changes in the administration of the department in Brooklyn.

This explanation be made at the public hearing which the committee will hold on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock on the resolution to concur in the findings of the Grand Jury of Kings County. Several days ago when the committee held a public hearing General Bingham snubbed the city fathers. He was at the City Hall, but the refused to go to the aldermatic chamber where the committee was waiting. Since that time City Clerk Scully had a quiet talk with the commissioner over the telephone with the result that General Bingham said he would come down if the committee desired his appearance. The aldermanic committee has just three propositions that it wants General Bingham to talk upon, namely, that a deputy commissioner be placed in charge of Brooklyn police headquarters; that a site for a new headquarters in Brooklyn be purchased, and that a person charged with crime and held for trial shall not be photographed for police purposes until convicted.

INDEX To Classified Advertisements in To- day's Classification. Page. Amusements 5 Auction 7 Automobiles 11 Business 4 Business Oppo'tles 12 Business Personals 16 7 Coastwise 13 Corp. Death 16 Dentistry 6-7 Dividends 14 Election 14 14-15 Furnished Rooms 11 Help 11 Horses Re Carr'ges 12 Hotels Resorts 13 In 16 Supplement, POLICE SAY THEY HAVE UNINJURED BURGLAR But Man Who Was Badly Shot by Watchman at 549 Hicks Street Is Missing. SPIRITED AWAY, SOMEHOW.

Neighbors Say He Lay for Three Hours in a Back Yard Before His Friends Came--Queer Case. Giovanni Costa, aged 29 years, whose home is on East -fifth street, Manhattan, was arrested this morning by Detectives Simonetti and Mealli of the local detective bureau, on suspicion of being one of two burglars who broke into the store of Pasquale Calligluri, at 549 Hicks street, last Thursday morning at 1 o'clock, and who got a warm reception from a watchman with a revolver. There is another man wanted for the burglary. but he is lying somewhere grievously shot, and the police would like very much to know where he is. Calligiuri is 8 jeweler with a side line of phonographs, and there is much about his stock that would tempt any burglar.

The thieves who finally, on Thursday last, got into the place, had been trying to gain an entrance with false keys at odd times for the previous six nights, Their persistency was their undoing. The trouble was that they did not have a very clear conception of the kind of lock that they had to pick, and for five successive nights they brought the wrong kind of a key. Such industry and pertinacity could not possibly pass unnoticed, and rumors came to the ears of Mr. Calligiuri that there was somebody trying to steal from his stock. He lay in wait one night, with a revolver, and sure enough he saw the men at their task.

All this time there was not a word said to the police. Italians are self-reliant in such matters, and they have their own way of dealing with wrongdoers. Mr. Calligiurt secured the services of Giuback the store to watch for the seppe Muresca, and installed him in the burglars when they should secure the right key. had a big revolver with him, and he was awake during the nights and slept during the day.

His instructions were to lie exceedingly low, and he was not to use his weapon until the men were actually in the store. The burglars had a key that was just right on Thursday and they had little in opening the front door. There were two of them and Muresca from his place of concealment had a pretty good chance to. look them over, so good in fact that he said to the police who were later called in that he would have no difficulty in identifying either of them. He let them get into the shop on Thursday morning, and then he blazed away.

Muresca has told the detectives that each of the men had a revolver in his hand, but that is not likely. He fired two shots before he got into a bit of panic and himself ran out through the back door and to safety. He had a notion after the first spell of bravery, that they would be after him with their guns and so he did not stop running until he reached his own bedroom. He did not stop to find out what damage he had done by his shooting, but he is sure he had winged at least one of the men. The neighbors supplied some additional facts to the police.

Some had been aroused by the noise of the shooting and looked out of their windows, but were not sufficiently interested to go to the street to find out about it. And there is no indication that there was a' policeman about. The narrative of the neighbors is that they saw one man emerge from the jeweler's shop leaning on the shoulder of another and they believed that the man who thus sought support had been seriously wounded. The two burglars walked along the street until the injured man seemed to give up, and then his companion led him through the hallway of a tenement house on Sackett street, nearby, to the back yard and dropped him on the ground. The uninjured man, who is said to have been Costa, the person arrested this morning, disappeared while his companion lay groaning on the cold ground.

The injured person lay for three hours, or almost until 4 o'clock, the neighbors say, when his friend came back with assistance and carried him off somewhere. The police were notifled after a while and 8 search was made through the hospitals for some trace of the injured man. He had not been taken to any hospital but was treated privately. It is believed that the police have found the physician who is attending him and it is said that they hope to arrest the other some time to-day if he is able to be out. But the case was sedulously kept from the reporters and the police did their own investigating.

Costa had been arrested on a previous occasion for. burglary, in connection with the looting of a dry goods store on Columbia street, but he managed to esafter a trial. The detectives had cape Muresca look over the gallery of Italian suspects which is kept at local headquarters and he unhesitatingly picked out the of Costa as that of one of the picture burglars. osta denies the charge Calligiuri's and says that he was never near store. He is held pending arraignment on the charge of burglary.

L. I. CITY EXCISE ARRESTS. Police Were Busy Yesterday and Took In Three Men-One Discharged Later. Captain Maude of the Hunters Point precinct threw out his dragnet for excise violators yesterday, and as a result three arrests were made.

Two of the places where alleged violations were discovered were among the best-known in the 1 lower section of Long Island City-Kaiser's Hotel, at the corner of Borden and Vernon avenues, and Clair's Hotel, at the corner of Jackson and Vernon avenues. Clair's Hotel was visited by detectives of Inspector Sweeney's staff from Jamaica. The detectives got into a room at the rear of the barroom, and after being served arrested the bartender. At Kaiser's Hotel, where during the week most of the employes in the Queens Borough Hall get their noonday lunch, two patrolmen in citizens clothes paid a visit. They saw things that they believed were violations of the excise law, and here the bartender was arrested.

The third arrest in this precinct was made at William Teck's saloon, at 170 Flushing avenue. In the Astoria precinct an arrest was made at the saloon of John Peters, at 90 Greenpoint avenue. The defendants in each case were held in $1,000 for examination. These arrests were made early in the day, and soon the word got around that the police were on the lookout. The result was that in the afternoon and evening all the hotels in the two precincts were very careful whom they admitted.

When arraigned to-day, Kaiser's bartender was discharged, the officers falling to prove their charge. LIQUOR LAW ARREST. Achille Gugliemelli, who, the police say, is proprietor of a saloon at 6902 Fifteenth avenue, was held to-day by Magistrate Voorhees in the Coney Island court for a further hearing, on a charge of violating the liquor law yesterday. He was arrested by Sergeant Reynolds and Detective, Edward Matthews. The accused pleaded not QUEENS LAND OWNERS SEEK TAX REDUCTIONS Claim Their Assessments Outrageously High-Practically Confiscatory, in Fact.

W. K. VANDERBILT, IS ONE. Cord Meyer, G. Howland Leavitt and Others Included Among the Protesting Property Holders.

Wealthy landowners in the western part of the Borough of Queens have determined to institute another fight against the of New York to get a reduction of assessments on their elts. land, lying principally in the Little Neck section. Among those who will engage in the "fight are William K. Vanderbilt, G. Howland Leavitt, Cord Meyer, Jacob Foster, William Van Nostrand, David L.

Van Nostrand, Albert Van Nostrand and George H. HIll. Affirmative action was taken at a meeting of the Farmers and Taxpayers Association held on Saturday night in Literary Hall, Bayside, Those who have determined to take action were present personally, with the exception of Mr. Mr. Meyer, and they were represented by agents.

It was stated at the meeting that notwithstanding a fight was made last year and reductions were in some cases granted, the assessors have again this year jumped assessments to a point where it is impossible to rent the farms or profitably work them. A resolution was passed Clinton T. Roe as attorney for association and he was engaging, instructed to begin action at once to secure reductions. A committee was received from the Broadway Men's Club, of Flushing, which invited the farmers to join in a convention of all civic associations in the Third Ward to inaugurate a movement for good government in the borough. It was unanimously decided to appoint delegates to this proposed convention.

The delegates named were Charles Powell, former supervisor of the town of Flushing; G. Howland Leavitt, and former County Clerk D. L. Van Nostrand. The convention will be called for the first Friday in March.

The place has not yet been decided upon. This movement will be one of the most important in connection with the big campaign in Queens County in the fall The farmers who use Broadway from the city line at Little Neck to Flushing to cart their produce to market are much interested in the plans of the New York and North Shore Railroad Company for the extension of its line from Little Neck to Flushing. The company now has a franchise from the Board of Estimate, and only waits action by the Public Service Commission to begin work. According to announcement the company intends to follow the line of Broadway. The farmers are interested to know whether this is the company'c plan.

Such action will be strenuously opposed. Broadway, between Little Neck and Bayside is now so narrow that two loaded farm wagons can scarcely pass each other. If trolley tracks are built on the roadway, the farmers do not see how they can travel along the road at all with their big wagons, each carrying a ton or more of garden truck. Then in addition, it is conceded that the bridge over Little Neck Creek on the Douglaston meadows is not strong enough to carry trolley cars. A commmittee consisting of Jacob Foster, Clinton Roe and Henry B.

Cornell was appointed to interview the city authorities and present the cause of the farmers. The standing committee on highways of the association was directed to have an interview with Patrick H. Leahy, superintendent of highways of 'Queens Borough and request him to repair the macadam highways in the Bayside and Little Neck districts. Some of these roads are in very bad condition. It was largely on complaint of the committee from the farmers that Borough President Gresser made a change in the head of this department at the first of the year.

Now that a change superintendent has been made the farmers hope to get some action. FIGHTING FOR DOLLAR GAS. Queens Fifth Ward Pays $1.30 Now. Formerly Paid 10 Cents More. The Central Club of Far Rockaway has adopted resolutions favoring the passage of the bill introduced in the Assembly by Assemblyman Garbe for $1 gas in the Fifth Ward, which comprises the Rockaways.

The present rate is $1.30 per 1,000 feet, and has been in effect but a few weeks, following agitation for lower rates by the Rockaway Beach Taxpayers Association. The rate prior to February 1 was $1.40 per 1,000 for fuel purposes, and $1.45 for illuminating. In all bills introduced in the State Legislature in the past, effecting other parts of the city and Queens Borough, the Fifth Ward, for some unknown reason, has been cut out, and there is a strong movement to get through a measure at this session for dollar gas in the Rockaways. SCARED THE BLUECOAT. Revolver Shots Fired at Trees Made Him Think of Murders.

Officer John Holloran of the Fort Hamilton precinct, while patrolling his post on Twelfth avenue yesterday afternoon, heard eighteen shots fired from the direction of Seventy-first street. With visions of at least a half dozen murders taking place, Holloran rushed to the scene. He found no one either killed or injured, but he saw two young men shooting at the branches of nearby trees. One of them ran when the policeman hove in sight, but the other was caught. He was arrested for having a loaded revolver in his possession without a permit.

He said he was Dominick Bensas of 222 Thomas street, and this morning in the Fifth avenue court Magistrate Geismar held him under $500 bail. SAFEGUARDING STATE FUNDS. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, February 15-State Treasurer Dunn announces that he has suggested to the Legislature that an amendment to the state banking laws be introduced and urged for passage to provide that the state shall be a preferred creditor for such funds as it may have on in state depositories, in the event of the embarrassment of such This change would place the state in a position similar to that of the national government, with relations to Federal funds which are deposited in national banks. In a statement issued by Treasurer Dunn it is shown that on February 1 the state had on deposit in state banks $32.331,405. of this amount 776.835 was credited to the general fund and $11,554,569 to the canal fund.

$10 FOR THE THYBANS. The Eagle has to-day received $5 from "A Friend" for the aid of the Thyban family of Elmont. The money will be sent to the needy persons. The Cavita Club also sends $5 for the Thyban family, through the president, Mrs. H.

M. Smith. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. SPECIAL Furniture Recovered To this class of work we have for years paid especial attention and feel that we can, without hesitancy recommend this department. Reduction in Prices During the month of February we will quote exceptionally low prices on all work in this section and will also offer some unusual values in the fabrics used for recovering.

Estimates furnished upon request We will send our representatives, practical upholsters, to advise, submit samples and give estimates. Divans and Couches We are showing an assortment of Divans and Couches, manufactured, in their entirety, in our own workrooms, which for honesty of workmanship and finish we consider to be unequalled: $12.00 ea. $25.00 ea. X.T.Divans 18.00 27.50 20.00 30.00 22.50 Adjustable. 35.00 Reading Couch, No.

$35.00 each No. 2.. 40.00 66 Prices quoted above are for coverings of denim, Lord Taylor Broadway 20th 5th 19th St. New York. RED-MAN COLLARS Absolutely the Best Two-for-a-Quarter Collar, Made by the Makers of Tada COLLARS AND SHIRTS BUSINESS PERSONALS.

DIVORCE LAWS OF NEVADA. Complete information mailed upon request. Address Attorney Wm. K. Shafer, Reno, Nev.

SUES CITY FOR $60,000. Architect Seaman Wants Pay for Making Plans for New Queens Court House, Before Justice Scudder and a jury in Part 1 of the Queens County Supreme Court at Flushing, this morning, commenced the trial of the suit brought by Prestons B. Seaman, a Long Island City architect, to recover $60,000 from the city of New York for preparing plans and specifications for a new court house at Long Island City on the site of the old court house that burned down. The plaintiff claims that in March, 1905, he was employed by then Borough President Cassidy to prepare the plans and specifications, and that the city went 80 far as to make an appropriation of $20,000 to start the work; that he delivered the plans to Mr. Cassidy, but that when Cassidy was succeeded by Borough President Joseph Bermel, Mr.

Bermel refused to recognize Mr. Seaman's drawings and another architect was employed to prepare plans for the court house. The corporation counsel claims that Cassidy had no legal authority to engage the services of the plaintiff. As a separate defense the city alleges that no appropriation was ever made to. pay for such work, and also that at the time the plaintiff was in the employ of the city as a draughtsman at a salary of $1,500 a year and as such he could not accept a new or other position or perform other services for the city at an additional salary.

MRS. QUINN HONORED. The members of the Kindergarten Mothers Club of Publie, School No. 8 tendered a reception Lincoln's Birthday evening, at the regular monthly meeting of the club, held in the school building, to Mrs. Edward Quinn, the occasion being her sixtieth anniversary.

A number of the mothers made short speeches in appreciation of Mrs. Quinn's and the club presented her a bouquet of sixty carnations. She received many other bouquets from individual members. Mrs. Quinn has been an active worker in the club for the last twenty-five years, and has been largely instrumental in making it what it is to-day.

The club enjoyed some vocal and instrumental music, rendered by Isaac and Samuel Cohn and Jack Muldoon. Refreshments were served, followed by a period of sociability. Among those present were Miss Mills, Miss Flannery, Miss Wakeman, principal; Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Weinberg, Mrs.

W. B. Davis, Mrs. Herbert Pierce, Mrs. A.

Gehr, Mrs. W. Chesney, Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Gatley, Mrs.

Logan, Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Boy Mrs. Muller, Mrs. Fernady, Mrs.

Clinton, Mrs. Dalton, Mrs. Towers, Mrs. Derhn, Mrs. White, Mrs.

Walter, Mrs. Sparncer, Mrs. Grohn, Mrs. O'Keeffe, Mrs. Carr, Mrs.

Corbett, Mrs. Geisberg, Mrs. Young, Mrs. Hartley. Mrs.

Marcotte, Mrs. Riley, Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Kane, Mrs. Carey, Mrs.

Nolan, Mrs. George, Mrs. Voss, Mrs. Nelson, Mrs. Englehardt, Mrs.

Costello, Mrs. Michells, Mrs. Stamer, Mrs. Farrin, Mrs. Gorman, Mrs.

Kelly, Mrs. Cohn. BROOKLYN INVESTORS. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, February 15-M. F.

McPhillips of Brooklyn appears among the directors of the Catholic Times Publishing Company of Putnam Valley, Putnam County, formed with the State Department, with a capital of $50,000. C. C. Mann and W. M.

Parke of Brookare directors of the Roman Baths Company of New York City, incorporated with the secretary of state, with a capital of $250,000. J. A. Nolan, of Brooklyn is a director of the Ansonia Waist Company of New York City, organized with the State with a capital of $20,000. LOST AND FOUND.

LOST -POCKETBOOK, containing large amount of money: liberal reward. M. Box 46, Eagle office. DOG: small black and tan; lost Saturday, o'clock, Fifth av. Warren and Baltic ste.

Mrs. DEUIRELLE. 399 Dean st; reward. LOST. on Lincoln's Birthday, in Montauk Theater, mink MUFF with three stripes; finder will receive liberal reward Address B.

Box 40, Eagle office. LOST, gold open-faced WATCH. with monogram, between Brooklyn Bridge or Halsey st station to Bainbridge st. Return to 460 Bainbridge st, Brooklyn. Reward.

LOST-February 10. watch FOB, silver MEDAL, gold mountings; name on back; ward. 558 West One Hundred and Thirteenth st. Manhattan, W. D.

HEYDECKER. 14-2 if I boy's gray OVERCOAT. GLOVES, CAP, LOST -Liberal reward, no questions asked, taken from. Church, Monroe place and Clark st, yesterday morning, are returned to 23 Van Buren st, Brooklyn, PERSONAL. WANTED.

names and addresses of persons on Ridgewood or Fifth Av Elevated trains January 22, 1906, at time of collision at Navy and Hudson sts. ADAMS. Box 15, Eagle office. 14-3 PROPOSALS. PROPOSALS FOR BIDS AND ESTIMATES FOR THE CITY OF NEW NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

GENERAl. INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS The person or persons making a bid or estimate for any service, work, materials or supplies for The City of New York, or for any of its departments, bureaus or offices shall furnish the same in a sealed envelope, indorsed with the title of the supplies, materials, work or service for which the bid or estimate is made, with his or their name or names and the date of the presentation to the President or Board or to the head of the department at his or its office, on or before the date and hour named in the advertisement for the same, at which time and place the estimates received will be publicly opened by the President or Board or head of said department and read, and the award of the contract made according to law as soon thereafter as practicable. Each bid or estimate shall contain the name and place of residence of the person making the same, the names of all persons interested with him therein, and if no other person be go also interested, it shall distinctly state that fact; that it is made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the same purpose and is in all respects fair and without collusion or fraud, and that no member of the Board of Aldermen, head of clerk therein, or other officer of The City of department, chief of bureau, deputy thereof or New York is, shall be or become interested, directly or indirectly, as contracting party, partner, shareholder, surety or otherwise in or in the performance of the contract, or in the supplies, work or business to which it relates, or in any portion of the profits thereof. The bid or estimate must be verified by the oath, in writing, of the party or parties making the estimate that several. matters stated thereIn are in all respects true.

Each bid or estimate will be accompanied by the consent, in writing, of two householders or freeholders in The City of New York, or of a guaranty or surety company duly authorized by law to act as surety, and shall contain the matter set forth in the blank form mentioned below. No bid or estimate will be considered unless 88 a condition precedent to the reception or consideration of any proposal it be accompanted by a certified check upon one of the state or national banks of The City of New York, drawn to the order of the comptroller, or money to the amount of five per centum of the amount of the bond required, as provided In: Section 420 of the Greater New York Charter. The certified check or money should not be inclosed in the envelope containing the bid or estimate, but should be either inclosed in a separate envelope addressed to the head of the department, president or board, or submitted personally, upon the presentation of the bid or estimate. For particulars as to the quantity and qualIty of the supplies or the nature and extent of the work, reference must be made to the specifications, schedules, plans, on file In the said office of the president, board OP department. No bid shall be accepted from or contract awarded to any person who is in arrears to The City of New York upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the city.

The contracts must be bid for separately. The right is reserved -in each case to reject all bids or estimates if it be deemed to be for the interest of the city so to do. Bidders will write out the amount of their bids or estimates in addition to inserting the game in figures. Bidders are requested to make their bids or estimates upon the blank forms prepared and furnished by the city, a copy of which, with the proper envelope in which to inclose the bid, together with a copy of the contract, includIng the specifications, in the form approved by the Corporation Counsel, can be obtained upon application therefor at the office In the department for which the work is to be done. Plate of drawings of construction work.

mAy. also be seen there, DIED. Eagle. Classification. Page.

Legal 12 13 Loans 12 Lost Found 16 Amusements. 5 Medical Miscellaneous. 2-3-5 Ocean Steamships 13 Personal 10 12-10 Public Railroads 13 R. E. 12 Situations Wanted 11 Special 16 Special 19 13 Sum.

Cot. To Let 12 To Let-For Sale. 12 11-12.