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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1009. VOL. 70.

XO. oo.it PAGES, INCLUDING PICTIUE SECTION'. THREE CENTS. JOHNSTON WILL CASE HALTS. iLITi REINSTATES LON00N SUFFRAGETTES TWO MURDERERS HANGED.

Pennsylvania Men Who Killed Child and a Woman Pay Penalty. HER TIES IE STAND 111 SUIT HEIST EAGLE 7M MEDIGAL llii EX- Ql If llVlke AfAm I Art lllinM .4 jVMVWHiiiMg CIIICI I 1 11111733 11 Home in the Capital, City. It A urn nnirnunn tat rtrto xtiiaffltirwn uuvcnifuniN IOJ70 It 4 WEATHER PHOH4H1I 1T1KS. and t'oltlrr lo-nlftlit i lorrrwt tfmpfrntNre between HI nnil Ult tle- tfreeNt Friday, fnlrt liljtlt uortlm'eNt to nt-M winds, hefomiiiK lirlMk. The Kagle Weather Hureau hfti receive'! the following special from Washington: "The severe storm n-iu- uvr the liu'f St.

Lawrence will me east or F'Wth ef eutt over the Atlantic." SUES FOR HUSBAND'S DEATH Action by Mrs. Spinello to Recover; Damages From Hailroad Company. Mrs. Raffaela Spinello, a widow living on Bergen street, is suing the York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, In the United States Circuit Court, for $3,000 damages for the death of her husband. Kaffaelo, who was killed three years ago by a train at the New Haven depot, near which he lived at the time.

Mrs. Spinello Is suing simply for the lo.ooii liability provided for In the laws ot lnP or une claim agents for the railroad company arrived this morning with a small army of men from various parts of Connecticut, who will be witnesses for the company, It Is said. INSANITY IS KER DEFENSE Rosa Gratzione's Attorneys Answer Prosecution's Case. Shot Husband When Unable Longer to Endure His Brutality Much Sympathy for Young Woman. Suffering from emotional Insanity, rausel by brutal treatment on the part of her husband, which, developing into an acute form, caused her to shoot down Domenleo Oratzione, the man to whom (he had been married six months before, is the defense that haB been put in on tbe trial of Rosa Grataione, 20 years of age, charged with murder in the second degree, before Judge Dike and a Jury in the Cotiiily Court.

The trial began yesterday r.urnlng. Assistant District Attorney Rjy prosecuting, and Martin T. Manton appearing for the defense. Rosa's story, told at the time of the shooting, f.ill.iwing her admission of tht murder to 1 olice Captain l'lnkerton, created a deal of sympathy for tho young woman, and this sympathy was seen In the attitude of the spectators In the court yesterday and to-day. Rose.

claims ihat her husband tried to drive her into life of shame, threatened to kill her because she would not accede to his demands, and, that finally she fcbot him with his revolver. The Offense met the testimony of tho prosecution, not by denials, but by testimony n-i to the probable mental condition of Prsa at the time she did the act. The medical witnesses were Dr. J. R.

Macumber, 249 Washington avenue, and Dr. A. A. Schooler of Amltyvllle, L. I.

Both are alienists and gave it as their opinion that Rosa was, at least at the time of the shooting, suffering rom somo form of emotional insanity. The case will go to the jury late this afternoon. FIERCE GALE OFF SHORE. Virginia, North-Carolina ad Maryland Coasts Lashed by It No Marine Disaster. Reported.

Norfolk, February 25 A fierce windstorm swept the Virginia. North Carolina and Maryland coasts last nighl with a maximum velocity at Cape Hat-terns of Gl miles an hour. The maximum velocity recorded at Cape Henry was 42 miles aa hour, with 36 miles an hour In Norfolk. No marine disasters have been reported akug the ocean front. The retort that a launch from one of the battleshiiK was lost at the Fortress Monroe pier tfurlrg high winds and rough seas to-day.

with two officers and several drowned, probably originated from tw launches seeking harbor at Old Point Comfort last night and tieing up at the railroad bridge there. NEW THERAPEUTIC FOUND It Is Known as "Radio-Thor;" Basis Is Pitchblende. Some Curious Experiments Performed With It Photo Taken Through a Stove Lid. Chicago, February 25 Dr. F.

H. Blaik-mar of Hahnemann Medical College today told further details of the discovery of radlo-thor, which was made public at New Orleaus yesterday by Dr. E. S. Dailey, also of Hahnemann Medical College.

Dr. Blackmar was associated with Dr. Bailey in making experiments. "One of our most curious experiments with the new substance," said Dr. Black-mar, "was the taking of a photograph through a stove lid, ou which some radio-thor had been 6pread.

The powerful rays of this element enabled the light to pass through the iron plate, thus permitting a photograph of a number of pounies and other articles on the opposite side. 'Its basis is pitchblende, but with this element are mingled others whose uameB do not care to disclose at this time. Some of them are so raro that wo keep them In a safety deposit vault. Tho new element while far from being Inexpensive will be within the reach of everybody who needs It for treatment. fts action is quite as efficient as that of radium.

There Is not enough radium in tho whole world to treat all the people who need its curative properties. 'The therapeutic value of our redlo- thor or tho-rad-X has been established beyond question in the fourteen months that we have been using it for tho treat ment of disease. It never has failed to give relief and in many cases it has cured. Some of Ihe diseases on it acts successfully are cancer, tuberculosis of the skin, ulcers, birthmarks and nervous affections. Its rays are as ef fective as those of radium, although it does not act so quickly.

Its moderate action keeps it. from being harmfully caustic, as radium likely is to be when in the hands of unskilled persons. It has the same selective power as radium; that is, It seems to apt only on tissues whioh are diseased, having no effect on healthy tissues. This power, which lias been well 'described by Sir Frederick Treves in a recent article, nobody is able to explain." AX SLIPPED; MAN IN HOSPITAL. Tyrll Cusenosky.

44 years old. of 421 Watkins sireet, was chopping wood in the yard at. 410 North Seventh street when the ax he was using accidentally slipped, inflicting a severe wound on his wrist. A hurry call was sent in tn the Williams-btirs Hospital, and if it bad not been for the quick arrival of Ambulance Hurley, the man would have probably bled to death. He was removed to the hospital, nt'ier his wound had been dressed.

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B'way, aor. 3Mb I.Ol'AI Fair i a Iu a in I Hearing' in Surrogate Court Ad- journed Till Match 8. The contest over the probate of the will of the late Benjamin fi. Johnston. 'which has been going on before Ketcham for the past few days, has been .1 1 I aujuui iiiij iui luiiuiiii.kuii himi, i 8.

It is expected that a number of hand- i writing experts who have been called by sides to examine in'" wiiuiir ui 'will and other documents, will be prc- pared to testify at that time. Augustus Van W.V'ak. chief counsel tor the contestants, ami Mr. Koss. counsel tor Mr.

rh henetiriarv of ie tt.m jusL when just they to conclude the case. DIED CLIMBING STAIRS. John Powell. (12 years old. of 704 Mc-Donoiifjh street, Brooklyn, died suddenly this morning while climbing the stairs leading to the third floor of the loft building at tij Duane street, Manhattan, where he was employed.

It Is believed that Mr. Powell had an attack of heart weakness while hurrying up the flight of stairs. OBJECT TO ACCOUNTING Paper Filed by Mrs. Charles Johnston Is Questioned. Widow of Well-Known Sporting Man Claims $9,000 Is Due From Estate.

Objections have been filed to the accounting of Mrs. Charles Johnston, the widow of the late Charley Johnston, the well known sporting men who backed John L. Sullivan in two of his biggest fights, and made a fortune in polities ami in the saloon business in the old City of Brooklyn, on her statement of moneys of tho estate expended by her since tho death of her husband, which was filed with the Surrogate lost December. The items objected to in the accounting are a claim for $9,000. which she alleges is due to her from the estato of her husband, and a $5,000 fee to Lawyer Charles W.

Church, brother of tho former Surrogate. The objections are made by Mrs. Sarah Rome, a sister of the late Mr. Johnston, and by the Hamilton Trust Company, as executor the estate of the late Alexander Johnston, a brother of the deceased sporting man, who were made residuary legatees in the will. Mrs.

Johnston, In her accounting, shows how she hd3 disposed of the $200,000 estate of her husband, and she states that she had paid out every bequest excepting one of $2,500 to Arthur Johnston, a nephew, who has disappeared. No objections are made to this part of the accounting, but then the widow states that she had loaned the sum of $9,000 to her husband on July 22, 19U2. She claims that interest was paid on this sum for three years, but that none of the principal was ever paid. The objectors say that this Is an Improper and Invalid claim and Is outlawed by the statute of limitations. They also claim that the sum of $5,000 as a fee to Lawyer Church was unreasonable and unnecessary.

Considerable feeling developed between the various branches of the family at the time of Mr. Johnston's funeral, and apparently it has never died out. of the members of Mr. Johnston's family were liberally provided for in bis will. CROWDS AT COOPER TRIAL Special Interest Attaches to Possible Appearance as Witness of Governor Patterson.

Nashville, February 25 It was thought, last week, that the limit in crowds had been reached in attendance at the Cooper-Sharp murder trial, but the throng that surrounded the jail building almost before dawn to-day made the former crowds seem like a mere handful of casual passersby. The deputies at times had to use force to keep the overeager men and women from pushing pell-mell into the court room. Tho cause of the excitement was the well-deflued rumor, impossible of confirmation or denial, that Governor would take the stand on behalf of tho defaudants as soon as Colonel Cooper was excused. As the testimony goes on, the name of the governor is being mentioned more freely, hence tbe public accepted the rumor as a fact and determined to be present when tho chief executive was called to testify on behalf of the men who have been his ablest political lieutenants and most devoted personal friends. GREAT FEDERATION PLANNED.

Laymen, Who Represent Church Brotherhoods With 1,000,000, Members, to Meet in Pittsburg. Pittsburg, February 25 This being tho last day's session of the third aunual convention of the rrcsbyterian Brotherhood of America, plans are being perfected for the great conference of the Protestant Church laity, which will be held to-morrow. Executive officers of the following organizations, having a membership of 1,000,000, will meet with a view of a united federation: Episcopal Brotherhood of St. Andrew, Interdenominational Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip. Baptist Brotherhood, United Presbyterian Men's League, Congregational Brotherhood, Methodist Brotherhood, Men's Movement of the United Brethren Church, Southern Presbyterian Brotherhood, League of Universalis! Laymen, -Men's Movement in Christian Church, Canadian Presbyterian Brotherhood, Presbyterian Brotherhood of America.

The United Federation will be entirely free from political purpose, though it will be proposed to use the co-operation, strength and Influence of the unified or ganizations for municipal and civic Im provements in all large cities. Among the speakers to-day at the convention of the Presioyterlan Brotherhood of America are Judge John M. Gaut, Nashville; Warren Wilson, N'ew York; Charles T. Thompson, Minneapolis; Edward Mack. Cincinnati; William M.

Lewis, Lake Forest, 111., and John Bal-com Shaw of Chicago. NEW GOLF LINKS FOR TAFT. Ran Antonio, February 25 It Is announced hero that soon after his Inauguration President Taft will visit the ranch of Charles P. Taft, near this city. A residence is belne built on the ranch and golf links laid out.

CARDINAL HERVAS DEAD. Toledo. Spain. February 23 Cardinal Ciriaco Maria Saneha Hcrvas. archbishop ot Toledo, died here to-day.

He was born in 1S33 and was created a cardinal in 1894. Only complete Florida Train carrying VkjUi club khi' and observation ear Is Senard Klnrula I-t'1. Quickest train to St. AuKustlne. with through car to l'attti Heach.

Miami, Key. Inq, 11S3 C'wny. I'none iWl MaU. -Ail, Philadelphia, Febraury 25 Two men In different parts of eastern Pennsylvania paid the penally to-day for committing murder. Irvin A.

Lewis, a young man whose case attracted much attention, was hanged at Westchester for taking the life of his five-year-old step-daughter. He choked and beat the child and when life was extinct, buried her In the barnyard ot his farm. He said he committed the deed because he had been teased about marrying a "ready-inade family." The other hanging took place at Reading, where Frank Palmer paid the penalty for killing a woman while he was in a Jtalous rage. After hie conviction Palmer tried to hang himself In his cell. He was a widower.

His H-year-old son la at school preparing to study for the ministry, and two younger children have been placed In good homes, all three being kept In ignorance of their father's real fate. SUBSIDY MEN JUBILANT House Committee Reports Favorably the Senate Bill. Sure to Be Hot Fight When Vote Is Taken in House Burton Leads Opponents. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, February 26 Two members of the House Committee on Merchant Marino were Induced to change their position oh the ship subsidy bill today, and that measure was reported to the House.

It has already passed the Senate, arid tremendous efforts are being made to Jam it through the HoiiBe before adjournment. A lot of criticism is being indulged In concerning the tactics that, are being employed, and there is sure to be a bitter fight when the bill comes before the House. Speaker Cannon has agreed to report a special rule for the i bill The Republicans who changed their votes in the committee to-day are: Steenerson of Minnesota, and Hackett ol Colorado. Both have been against mall subsidies riRh't. along.

They explained their flop by saying that while they were against subsidy, they have no desire to block consideration ot the bill on the floor by voting, against it. In jttie committee. They'say they will, vote against the bill when It comes up. The. only Republicans Who fought the' bill tn the committee were Murdock ot Kansas, and Stafford of Wisconsin, both of whom are ancient enemies of subsidies.

Chairman Burton is lining up tbe middle West Republicans to beat the bill when it is considered under Cannon's special rule." Burton will have with him the handful of Republicans from the Mississippi 'Valley, who beat the same bill last year when It was tacked on to the Post Office bill as a rider. At that time 40 Republicans stood together with the Democrats and killed the bill. The backers of the bill are Jubilant and believe they are nearer getting a subsidy law on the statute books to-day than ever before. The vote Is expected to be very rlose. The bill appropriates aboqt 13,600,000 for.

subsidies a year to be available at onCe. Only second-class vessels will be eligible to share In tbe subsidies, which will go -to steamers plying between this country and South American ports, Australia, Japan and 'the Philippines. The whole force of the administration is behind the bill, and It. Is being urged that Mr. Taft specially deslreB It to be adopted.

Senator-elect Root is alBo for the measure. STOCKS BREAK AND RECOVER Decline's of 1 to Over 4 Foints, Led by Copper Shares Good Afternoon Bally. Renewed weakness developed In the stock market to-day and a good part of yesterday's rally was lost. A number of factors contributed to this showing. Stocks of companies connected with the copper Industry declined violently.

Amal gamated Copper and Anaconda both slumped about 4 points. American Smelting lost 2 and National Lead 2. London as a heavy seller of stocks here, renewed uneasiness over the situation In the Balkams being responsible. The day's news from the steel trade renewed the apprehension of the gravity of the situation and pointed to a com- DOtltlon that promised to be destructive of profits The coming tariff revision, the fear of an unfavorable supreme court decision in the commodities clause case and the suspicion that yesterday's up- aware movement of stocks was caused almost entirely by covering of shorts were all factors in undermining speculative confidence. A number of the most active trading stocks including union Pacific, St.

Paul. Reading, United states Steel and others fell from 2 to 3 points below yesterday's closing prices during the morning. In the afternoon the market made a good recovery ith a number of small gains. Trading was quieter and an official dental of the rutuor that Amalgamated Copper was to' Shut down its mines had a good effect on sentiment, Amalgamated Copper, Anaconda, Smelt-ine. Readin.

Union Pacific and others made recoveries ot about 2 points from their low levels. CALLED TO BETHESDA CHURCH The Rev. Thomas Bell of Saugerties Elected by Church and Congregation Native of England. The Rev. Thomas Bell of Saugerties, N.

was unanimously called to the pastorate Of the Bethesda Congregational Church, 'last night. The call was extended at a meeting of the members of the church, and afterward ratified by the members of the society. John Hetherlng-ton presided at the meeting. The Rev. Mr.

Bell is stationed at the Congregational Church of Saugerties, N. where he has had a successful pastorate for tbe past five years, going there from Pittsburg, Pa. A notice of the action of the church has been forwarded to him. and a favorable answer is expected. Mr.

Bell preached last Sunday for the first time tn Bethesda Church, and made such a favorable impression on tho members that last night's action was the result. Ho is a native of England and Is about 45 years old. Bethesda Church has been without a permanent pastor since the resignation of the Rev. George W. Humphrey, who bad served the church from January.

till January. 1908. Mr, Humphrey was assistant pastor to the Rev. Dr. John Hill, then in charge of the Janes M.

E. Church, and now of tbe Metropolitan Temple, Manhattan. OCTOBER 12 MAY BE A HOLIDAY. 25 The Senate Judiciary Committee to-day reported Senator T. D.

Sullivan's bill designating October VJ an Columbus Day, making it a legal hol'dar. WHEHF TO TAKE I.t'XCH And drink Highest Type" of Amerlran TVinc. H. T. Daway Sons 1:1 Fulton N.

T. -Adv. 'I i.w i wMi i ginaw pm i I iii nn.Ll.,cr.wi.i Alleges That He Sold His Interest in Medina Co. to Partner Hole. THE STOCK NOT TRANSFERRED Rebuke for Mr.

Towns Administered by the Court "Conversation Reduced to Writing." Borough President Bird S. f'oler was a wltrres? in his own behalf to-day in tha trial of his libel suit against the Brooklyn Daily Eaple for- $100,000 damages. Mr. Coler went on the stand to testify that, after Ms election as borough president of Brooklyn l.e sold to his partner, Lconanl II. Hole, ail his interfsts in the Orleans County Quarry Company.

Coler produced In court three papers relating to the transfer of his Interests to Mr. Hole. The papers wero dated May .1, more than four months after Mr. Coler assumed office, but Mr. Coler said that, the conversation with Mr.

Hole, which was reduced lo writing in the papers, occurred about the first ot December, soon after his election. Mr. Coler was put. on out of the regular order of rebtillal as scheduled by his counsel. He was expected to be the last witness on his side, but it was difficult to put in evidence concerning tho sale of his interests to his partner without putting him on the stand.

First, Mr. Coler's counsel attempted to show the transfer by the testimony of Edmund Seymour and Leonard H. Hole. The assignment, or sale, to Mr. IIol'i of May 5 was alleged to havo covered all Mr.

Coler's interest In the Orleans County Quarry Company, but six days later a certificate of stock In the Orleans County Quarry Company for 50 shares of a par value of $.1,000 was issued to W. N. Coler of which Mr. Color was a partner. The actual stock certificate, together with two other certificates Issued to W.

N. Coler Co. after the date of the sale of May 3 were put in evidence last night. These certificates have not been transferred. The very terms of the certificates make it impossible to transfer them except on the books of the company and by pursuance of directions on the back of each certificate.

The books show-no transfer of the stock, and the certificates themselves are blank on the backs where transfer would have to be recorded. The physical condition of the certificates makes It impossible for a legal transfer to have been made. Certificates Duly Signed. Mirnbeau L. Towns, chief counsel for-Mr.

Coler, wanted to show that the certificates of the Orleans County Quarry Company, tibout 200 In number, had beeu filled out in an Idle hour by Mr. Gunn, the assistant treasurer of the company. It appeared from Mr. Gunn's own evidence that another man must have had an Idle hour on his hands, for part of tbe work had leea done by a clerk named Burnett. Also, Mr.

Seymour must have had an idle hour or two, for he, as vice president of the company, had Eigned all the certificates. Indeed, it appeared from testimony that a t'Umber of the certificates, oue alone for $50,000 of stock, had been iually delivered, and some of it had been trans ferred, and other certificate canceled. It was Mr. Coler's Claim that the certificates issued to W. N.

Coler had no corporite set. I upon them. As a matter of fact. It was shown that none of tho certificates, including those where proofs, of delivery and transfer was made, bora the seal. Mr.

Color testified that he was President of the Borough of Brooklyn, and was elected to that office in November, 1905. He said he was plaintiff in tha suit the Eagle. Air. Coler said that he and Leonard H. Hole were partners in W.

X. Coler and that soon after his election as borough president in m05 he had a con-veisation with Mr. Hole. "Was that conversation afterward reduced to writing?" Mr. Conboy asked.

"It was." said Mr. Coler. "When was it reduced to writing?" inquired Mr. Houpt of the Eagle's counsel. "About May 5.

1H06." replied Mr. Coler. Mr. Conboy produced three pavers and handed them to Mr. Coler.

"Are those the papers to whLii your conversation with Mr. Hole was i educed to writing?" "Yea, sir." "Do they contain all the conversit'oa you had with Mr. Hole?" "Yes, I so." "When was this conversation held?" "About the first of December, IJOo." "At, that, time did you dispose of interest in the Orleans County Quarry: Company?" This question was excluded. "To whom did you dispose of your'1 began Mr. Conboy.

"Stop!" Justice Clark ordered. Mr. Conboy was not permitted to ask. questions on that lino so that the Jurors could hear. Mr.

Houpt contended that the papers allegedly containing tbe conversation were the best evidence. "At the time of this conversation, In December, 1905, in addition to the conversation, what did you do?" Mr. Conboj asked. Reply Stricken Out. "I sold him Mr.

Coler's reply was halted and whai he had said striken out. At this point Mr. Towns superseded Mr. Conboy and began In a loud tone of voice to say that he intended to show by Mr. Coler that Mr.

Coler had sold He was stopped by Justice Clark, or, an-least, Justice Clark tried to stop him. "Stop! Stop! Stop!" Justice Clark kept exclaiming. Mr. Towns kept on. "I insist on having this on the record," shouted Mr.

Towns. Justice Clark rapped his gavel and talked with great plainness to Mr. Towns. The justice said: "You'll go on just as Mr. Conboy does.

When Mr. Conboy Is told to stop, he stops, and when he wants to get a question he goes about it In a perfectly proper manner, "You. when you know the court has stopped a certain questton. do not stop, but persist in asking the question in the hearing of the jury. Rebuke for Mr.

Towns. "You can't continue those tactics. You shall do exactly as Mr. Conboy does. When you want a question put on the record, and you know the court will not allow if In the hearing of the jury, you shall come forward and speak it.

on the record, but not in the hearing of tho Jury." Mr. Towns persisted In getting his question on the record. Mr. Conboy was standing red faced, and visibly embarrassed by Mr. Towns' assumption of li r- examination.

"Do you retire?" Justice Clark asked Mr. Conbov. "I do. your honor." said Mr. "Mr.

Towns is senior counsel." Mr. Conboy sat down, and Mr. Towns, in a low tone, got his question on the record. Then In- askcJ. Mr.

Coler if any ma- of These Are' From Brooklyn Supreme Court Suit Dropped. STATEN ISLAND FOR KENT. Inspector Who led Fight Given Distant Field Ruling Against Measles Expected to Be Raised. Dr. Thomas Darlington, commissioner of health, to-day announced the reinstatement of thirty-three medical inspectors dropped from the payrolls when the money to carry on the division of child hygiene recently became exhausted.

Fifteen of the men taken back are from Brooklyn. Dr. John Kent, whose suit for reinstatement was to have been heard in the Supreme Court in Manhattan this morning, was one of those 'reinstated. Dr, Kent declared that In view of the fact that the object of his suit had been accomplished, he would drop the case. It was announced that Dr.

Kent, who lives in Brooklyn, and who Is the president of the Medical Inspectors' Protective Association of this borough, Would hereafter be required to devote Ills energies in the department to Staten Island. Dr. Kent at once filed a protest. "I live In Brooklyn, and why I should be sent away over to Statrn Isla'nd is a mystery." The suggestion was made by one to whom Dr. Kent made the above statement that possibly his activity as the leader of medical inspectors who objected to the treatment they had received at the hands of Dr.

Darlington might have had something to do with his beinar eiven the Staten Island field to work in. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment at its last meeting voted Dr. Darlington $11,000 with which to meet conditions demanding the employment of medical inspectors. One of the considerations at the time the money was voted was the epidemic of meaoles, which was being held over the head of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment as a sort of club hy the Department of Health. Iy' was the refusal for a time, on the par.

oi tne Hoard or Estimate ana Apportionment to grant Dr. Darlington more money which resulted In the recent astonishing ruling by the commissioner that measles In all the boroughs of the greater city was to be dropped from the list of contagious diseases to be inspected and disinfected. The Board of Estimate had Its attention called to the fact that the Increase In the budgetry appropriation Allowed the Department' Of Health this year was about 10 per which was greater than the average per cent, of increase allowed in the budget for other departments. Nevertheless Dr. Darlington claimed he did not have enough-, money to carry on his work.

In spite of this fact tbe Division of Child Hygiene, which. Dr. Darlington admitted over his own signature was merely an experiment, aas brought into-being and several thousands ot dollars were, spent on this work. Brooklyn's assistant sanitary superintendent was removed from the' local office to head this bureau and many temporary men were added to the department. Various questions having to do with alleged discrimination in the dropping of certain medical inspectors when the bureau of child hygiene went Into temporary abeyance were to have been settled in tha suit started by Dr.

Kent. Complaint, had also been filed In the same connection with the Civil Service Commission, Some of the charges Incorporated In the suit and the complaint were of a nature which deeply Interested taxpayers throughout the various boroughs. One hundred and eight Inspectors In all were dropped when, as Dr. Darlington announced, "the appropriation was exhausted." Of these twenty-five or more claimed they were discriminated against, in that newer men were substituted in their places without cause, in regular departments. Of the 108 men, a large number lived in Brooklyn.

There is a probability that the same trouble may again arise three months hence, for the appropriation made by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment only contemplates the appointment of medical Inspectors for that period. The understanding of the Board of Estimate is that proper provision has been made to carry on the regular work of the department of Health, as provided in the budget, and that the $9,000 appropriation Is simply to tide over an epidemic. Tbe general understanding is that now that the Board of Estimate and Apportionment has given him more money, that the ruling dropping measles from the list of contagious diseases to be inspected and disinfected, will be raised by Dr. Darlington. SHUTTLE TRAINS A SUCCESS.

In Rush Hours All Subway Express Trains Now Come to Traffic Increased. Even if the officials of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company do not think much of tho side door scheme of Bion J. Arnold, tbe expert of the Public Service Commission, they have to admit that the new shuttle train service which Mr. Arnold recommended between Bowling Green and South Ferry had worked wonders in facilitating the express traffic -in the subway to Brooklyn. The experiment was tried for tho.

flrst time last night and proved highly successful. The shuttle trains are only operated during the rush hours. According to tbe Inspectors who kept count on the express trains, the service to Brooklyn was Increased by at least 25 per cent. The headway of the trains was cut down from two minutes to a minute and a half. Under the present schedule all express trains are now run through the tunnel to Brooklyn between 7:59 A.M.

and 9.20 A.M. and 4:47 and 6:38 P.M. During these hours the shuttle trains are operated. CROWN PRINCE NOT COMING. Frederick William of Germany Decides Not to Visit America.

Berlin, February 25 It was ascertained from a well-informed source to-day that Crown Prince Frederick William has. decided, after, mature deliberation and consultation with the emperor, his father, to abandon his proposed visit, to the United States this summer to take part In tho sonderklasse yacht races. It had been tho original intention fot tho crown prince to go Incognito In order to divest the journey of all political significance, and the fact that the sole purpose of the visit was for participation in the regatta was to have been emphasized; but it now seems Impossible to carry out this purpose and the matter has been abandoned. The crown prince already has written the American yachtsmen who extended him the invitation expressing his very lively regret at his Inability to accept and tho reason therefor. li 1 1 1 1 mm mm i Fifteen Titled Women Take Jail Terms to Show Loyalty to the Cause.

MAJORITY WILL SERVE MONTH. Sister of Lord Lytton Is One Pris oner Cousin of Newly-Elected M. Another. London, February 25 Refusing to give security for their future good behavior o.t. the woman suffragists who were arrested last night while attempting to reach Premier Asquith to present to him a petition in the interests of the cause, were to-day sentenced to im-isonment.

iifost of the' terms were for one month. An exception was made in the cases of Mrs. Pethlck Lawrence, who, having a previous conviction against her, was sentenced to two months Imprisonment. Miss Lawless was among those given one month. Lady Constance Lytton.

sister of Lord Lytton and daughter of the former viceroy of warned her friends that if they secured her release by providing security she would repeat her offense. Sentences were imposed upon twenty-eight women, including, in addition to the foregoing. Miss Stratford Dugdale, daughter of Commander Dugdale and cousin of the Hon. William R. W.

Peel, who was elected Tuesday In a by-election as a member of the House of Commons for Taunton; Miss Solomon, daughter of the ex-Premier of Cape Colony and Mrs. Catherine Elizabeth Corbett, an aristocratic supporter of the movement. All those women are of high social Btandlng. Mrs. Lawrence made a brief address on behalf of her fellow victims.

She asked the magistrate to note that the arrested women did not belong to the disorderly or law-breaking classes, but were women of honorable reputation and that many of them had done service tor me welfare of the community. They would not consent, to be bound over to keep the peace, Mrs. Lawrence declared, and she claimed that they were entitled to treatment as political prisoners. Most of the twenty-eight women sentenced took their punishment in dignified silence. One asked not to be given the insulting alternative of being bound over, because that uld be.

she said, "simply suggest. I am a coward, not a woman at All of the women were committed to the "second divsion," which, in the caBe of the present batch of prisoners, who belonged mostly to the educated classes, entails drashtlc changes in food and method of living. They all will be garbed In the rough and uncouth readymade prison garments, spotted with a broad arrow and their food will be the ordin ary prison fare of thin porridge, watery cocoa and a small allowance of meat and potatoes once a day. They will not be allowed to communicate with each other, and they will be (obliged to exercise in single file In tbe prison courtyard, In spite ot far from alluring prospect 11 the women went off to their uninviting captivity giving outwardly signs of tje utmost cheerfulness BINGHAM DENIES VACATION. Refuses One to Captain Wormell, Ap pointed to Schmittberger's Special Staff of Sleuths.

Tollce Captain John Wormell, who with four other captains was ordered to report to Chief Inspector Schmittberger at police headquarters yesterday, made application this morning for a twenty days vacation, which was refused by Commissioner Bingham. Wormell is 72 years of age and is entitled to retire from the force if he wishes to do so. It is said to be Schmittberger's inten tion to send the five captains out on what Is practically roundmen's dpty, to watch tbe patrolmen, and do a lot of real work. Commissioner Bingham, In speaking ot his refusal to grant the vacation to Wormell, said: "I disapproved of the application because he should have brought it before the call of duty sounded. He Is one ot the many captains that I ran get along better without.

The minute he was put on active duty he applied for his vacation. Let him do some work that will show he deserves a vacation. All of these five captains could retire if they wanted, to." FLOORING OF NEW BRIDGE. Beams Being Put in Place and Work Will Be Fast. The first sections of the flooring of the Manhattan Bridge were pushed out from the towers this morning.

Tbe new members will be carried out on trolleys, as the work progresses, to the laborers. The construction of the Manhattan Bridge represents the first attempt made to build a span of this size continuously. In past bridges the steel could not be cast until a few days before it was needed, because the city was without adequate storage accommodation. Tha purchase of the yard St Bayonne enabled Commissioner Stevenson to have the entire bridge in sections ready to be transported to New York, and put together In place. New Year's day is the latest official forecast of the time when the span will be thrown open for traffic.

CORTELYOIT SUBSCRIBES. (Special to tho Eagle.) Huntington. L. February 25 The accounting of the finance committee of the recent winter carnival here shows that Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou was the very first man to subscribe to the fund.

He sent his check for S10. It is apparent that Mr. Cortelyou has become Interested in Huntington during his several seasons' stay here as. a summer resident. The committee received from all source's $338.25.

end expended $308.47. Carnival King Harry C. Willets is now planning for a pushmoblle race, a baby show and parade, and, if possible, a race. APPEALS FROM SENTENCE. Russian Duma Member Punished for Alleged Insult to Suffragette.

St. Petersburg, February 25 Vladimir Purishkevlch. monarchist member of tbe Duma, has been condemned to spend one month In jail because he wrote an alleged Insulting letter to Mme. Kiloso-foff, the organizer of the Woman's Equal Rights Congress. He will appeal.

MRS. BOOTH'S CONDITION. It was announced this afternoon ihat the condition of Mrs. Ballington Booth, who was operated on yesterday for ap-nendieitis. was favorable, nnd that her recovery is practically assured.

Booth is a patient in Lir. hum private hospital at 03 Bast 'Thirty-third street, Manhattan, and is beipg aueuaea ey Dr. J. B. -Walker.

Eefused to Hun on Free Silver Platform Was a Famous Collector of Autographs. Albany, February 2." John Boyd Thacher. former mayor of Albany, died here to-day after a long illness. Mr. Thacher was widely known as a historical writer and collector of autographs, rare books and historical manuscripts.

His collection of autographs, more than 23. 000 ill number. Is said to be one of the most valuable and extensive In the world. He also had a large number of fifteenth century first editions and original manuscripts and papers on the French revolution. Mr.

Thaehcr's works on Columbus and early American John Boyd Thacher, Former Mayor of Albany, who died at his home thera to-day. history are well known and until his illness he bad been engaged in writing a history of the French revolution. John Boyd Thacher was born in Ball-ston, September 11, 1847. Ho was elected mayor of Albany in ISSG and again in 1896, and was a member ot tho state Senate from 1883 to 1880. He was nominated for governor by tbe Democrats in 1896, but declined the nomination on tho ground that his gold Btandard principles did not conform with the free silver platform adopted by the EFoocratlc national convention which nominated William J.

Bryan for the first time. Mr. Thacher wan chief of the Bureau of Awards of tho World' Columbian Exposition at Chicago In 1893. He Is survived by a widow, who Is an aunt of Colonel George Curtis Treadwell, military secretary to Governor Hughes, and a brother, George 11. Thacher.

While he was mayor, Albany celebrated the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Its settlement. It is the oldest city within the original limits of the United States. The celebration on that account became national and even more in Its significance. The brilliancy with which Mr. Thacher discharged his duties as mayor and especially the brilliancy with which he managed the celebration of the great anniversary of the city made him a state figure.

In results it made him a national figure. The first result was his choice as the bead, in fact, though not In title, of the commission of this state at the Columbian Exposition. There he was placed in charge of the department of prizes awards. His performance of that, duty was marked by originality, tenacity, courage and success. It made him many critics among tho unintelligent, but many friends and admirers among those who rightly thought that the award of the Columbian Exposition should mark real value, not empty compliment, and real discrimination, not a mere label of friendly esteem.

Between his service as mayor and his service at Chicago, Mr. Thacher made a tour of a year and a half around the world. He traveled as he did everything else, intelligently. He studied the places, institutions and forces visited by him. He acquired not only much knowledge of detail character, but that broadening and strengthening result which travel best, if not alone, assures.

SET HAINS' TRIAL 'MONDAY District Attorney De Witt Will Ask That Date Be Named Then. Short Case Hoped. District Attorney Frederick G. CeWltt of Queens County will appear before Justice Garretson, In the Flushing Supreme Court, Monday, and ask that a date be set for the trial of Captain Peter C. Halns, for the murder of William E.

Annls, at the Bayslde Yacht Club, on the afternoon of Saturday, August 15 last. Notification to this effect was sent this morning to John F. Mclntyre, counsel for Hains. It is anticipated that when the application Is made the defense will ask for the appointment of a commission to Inquire into the captain's mental condition. At the Queens County jail, where the captain has been Imprisoned since the tragedy, It ws "stated this morning that the captain has greatly improved both mentally and physically, within the past few weeks.

District Attorney De-Wltt hopes for a speedy disposition of the case. Application will also be made to Justice Garretson, Monday, to set the trials of Herbert Jarvls. who murdered his wife, Florence, in Jamaica, July" 16 of last year, and for the trial of John Chrustowskl, who murdered Sachanln Zaconaguin, in Flushing, on May 18 of last year. LEAD PIPE THIEF SENT UP. He Stole From Liquor Saloons Gets a Year on One Charge.

There- were fifteen complaints this morning in Ihe Court of Special Sessions against Thomas Jones, a specialist in lead pipes, with no particular habitation. almost all the cases he. had gone Into rear room of liquor saloons and cut away all the lead pipe he could reach. The court found him guilty on all charges nnd sentenced him to one year in the New York Penitentiary on one count, and suspended sentence on the others. Frederick Becker, who has been bold for the Grand Jury for burglary, was scntenred to one year In the Penitentiary the Court of Special Sessions this morning for carrying a revolver, with which be bad threatened to shoot, the touiyUimug witness iu the burglary ca3, H' 'V I Ji.