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I. a THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1915. GIRL LINGUIST, GUEST OF EAGLE, ASTOUNDS Rosy-Cheeked Winifred S. Ston- er Holds Auditors With Educational Attainment.

JUST "A ROMP OF A GIRL." Mrs. Stoner, Child's Mother, Convinces Audience of Efficiency of "Natural Education." Winifred Sackville Stone the roly-poly girl who talks eight languages and teaches school and writes poetry and does a score and one things additional that stamp her as the most unusual of 12-year old girls, came to Brooklyn today--to the Eagle auditorium-and there, with her equally famous mother, Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner, who has blazed a brand new trail in childhood educa-1 tion, she showed the and the why and the wherefore of the new "natural! before an of Brooklyn fathers and maudience The Eagle auditorium was crowded to its uttermost corners by those who came to see and hear Winifred and to hear from Mrs. Stoner what it all meant, and of the scores of skeptics who refused to believe, without seeing for themselves, all that had been claimed for the 12-year old girl and for the education that made her performance possible, it is safe to say that not one remained 1 after Winifred and her mother had demonstrated just how it came about. Those who came saw a child who can perhaps be best described as a "reguar romp of a 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighing probably 120 or 130 pounds with big, rosy, fat cheeks, masses of dark hair shading a shining.

round face, dark eyes that sparkled roguishly, and with it all an appearance that seemed the apotheosis of healthy, happy childhood. was all chubbiness, all dimply, and she had limbs that would have done credit to a husky boy. There was reason enough to fall in love with Winifred just for her. appearance alone, but when she stood upon the platform before the throng of people, utterly unaffected, just "a regular girl," as her mother described her, and did the things that had previously seemed impossible for a girl of 12, there could have been no one who did not then and there resolve to 1 be a disciple of "natural education." "Natural Education" Method Holds Interest of Audience. If there was anything further needed to make those present fall in love with the demonstration of "natural The Eagle had arranged to have Mrs.

Stoner and Winifred come to Brooklyn to show to mothers here what it was--it was afforded in the "class" that Mrs. Stoner made up impromptu from some of the boys and girls in the audience. These kiddies--seven of them--none of whom had ever before seen the exponent of the new way of educating, marched bravely on to the platform and under the kindly spell of Mrs. Stoner they showed how quick was the grasp of the child-mind. The youngsters were George Hickerson, Henry Coryot, Emily Diemer, George Diemer, Dorothy Espenchird, Baby Spedick and Elizabeth Anne Milham.

Each of these kiddies re beated a Latin phrase after Mrs. Stoner, they all said the Japanese for "How do you do," and they did many other things so happily and naturally that it seemed as if they were playing at home instead of being called to "show off" before an audience of grown-ups. Little Georgie Hickerson fairly covered himself with glory in this. While all this was going on, and even while Winifred was doing her part in the astonishingly educational entertainment, Mrs. Stoner let not one minute slip without driving home some one of the arguments centering around the theories of child-education that she believes she has developed.

Her never-flagging enthusiasm and the delightfully refreshing touch that she gave to her many kept her audience for considerably more than an hour, and then, after she had finished her talk, Mrs. Stoner was surrounded for nearly three-quarters of an hour by those who wanted information on certain points touching their own children. The lecture began with a brief introduction by Colonel S. S. McChie, who was introduced by Harris M.

Crist, news editor of The Eagle. Col. McClure's message voiced his bustef, he raid, that Mrs. Stoner had made one of the greatest discoveries in the history of education--the discovery of the way in which to give every child his or her prover chance in the wer d. All the great discoveries, he said, bad been made by "mere outsiders," and he instanced the acroplane, the tolephone and xireless telegraphy.

Mrs. loner, he said, had come from the butside' in In a pame way. Mrs. Stoner, however, disclaimed all credit to. being a discoverer when she began telling about "natural education." She styled herself "simply mother, a plain, ordinary mother." and she asserted that in this was found the reason for the naturalness and unaf- L.I.R.R.

ASKS CITY $250,000 FOR TRACKS Yearly Rental for Extension of Dual System to Flushing and Whitestone. ASK -YEAR RENEWAL. Railroad Also Demands a Pro-Rated Payment for Grade Crossing Eliminations. President Ralph Peters of the Long Island Railroad today presented to the Public Service Commission the terms under which the road would enter into an agreement with the city for the use of its tracks for the proposed double extension of the dual system to Flushing and Whitestone. On the basis of a ten-year contract with a privilege of a ten year nenewal.

President Peters said that the railroad would charge the city 000 a year for the rental of its tracks and equipment privileges over the North Shore Division and the Whitestone Branch. But one feature of the contract proposed by President Peters which was not looked for at the Public Service Commission, and which came: as more or less of a surprise, was in reference to a new basis of paying for the elimination of grade crossings. "All grade crossing eliminations carried out under the statute," wrote President Peters, "during the term of the agreement, to be paid for in the usual manner. Seven per cent. of the amount expended by the Long Island Railroad Company as its proportion of said eliminations, to be on basis of cars handled and added to the rental charged per annum." It was pointed out that this would mean that, in addition to the share of these costs now borne by the city, a proportion of the Long Island's share would thus have to be paid by the city.

Although none of the Commissioners were yet familiar enough with the proposal to care to discuss it, there was an intimation that this feature of the road's might meet with considerable opposition. President Peters, in his letter, first referred to the previous negotiations with the Public Service Commission in reference to a trackage agreement under which there would be a joint use of its tracks on two divisions. Then, he continued: "Putting this matter in concrete shape, would suggest that the agreement should provide for a trackage arrangement to cover a period of ten years, with the privilege of renewal an additional ten years. Either party to have the right terminate the agreement upon three years notice. "Predicated on the facilities in existence at the present time, the rental charge for use of same to be $250,000 per annum.

"Additional charges as follows: "Cost of operation and maintenance of joint facilities, taxes and power consumed, to charge pro rata on basis of cars handled. "Any and additional tracks, stations and other facilities required by the joint use, to be installed by the Long Island Railroad Company at its own expense, 7 per cent. of the cost of additional facilities to be pro-rated on basis of cars handled and added to the rental charge per annum. "The Long Island Railroad Company will reserve the news, vending, advertising and other station privileges." BULGARIA PLAYING "AUDACIOUS GAME" Rome Paper Makes Charge of Double Dealing Against Sister Nation, Rome, April 6 (via Paris, April 7)- Commenting upon l'ulgaria's reply to Servia's protest growing out of the Valandovo incident (the attack by Bulgarian irregulars upon Servian frontier guards) the Tribuna says the clash must have displeased the Triple Entente Powers, while reviving the hopes of the central empires and Turkey. The newspaper thinks that Bulgaria is negotiating with the Allies, while at the same time maintaining intimate relations with Austria and Germany.

Bulgaria, hoping for a realization of the provisions of the treaty of San Stefano, the Tribuna declares, "is playing a most audacious game which may cause all sorts of The treaty of San Stefano, to which the Tribuna refers, signed on March 3, 1878, at San Stefano, a small port on the Sea of Marmora, west of Constantinople, and put an end to the Russo-Turkish war. Under its provisions a principality of Bulgaria was to be created, extending from the Danube to Aegean; Roumania, Servia and Montenegro were recognized as independent. The provisions of the treaty twere greatly altered, however, by the Congress of Berlin, June-July, 1878. Some of the territory which Bulgaria was to obtain under this treaty was awarded to her as the result of the last Balkan wars. ALDERMEN JOLTED.

Chairman Curran Says Convention Delegates Will Pay Own Way. Chairman Curran of the Committee on Rules of the Board of Aldermen said today that he will name before the end of the the committee of seven that will represent the board at the Constitutional Convention, to obtain a more liberal policy of home rule for New York City. This is to be no "official joke." Each delegate will have to pay his own expenses. This announcement by Chairman Curran caused the cit fathers to gasp, and several who have been eager to be delegates said that they preferred now to remain in New York. BROOKLYN-L.

I. DIRECTORS. (Special to The Eagle.) Albany, April 7-The Ocean Beach Water Company of Bay Shore was incorporated today with the Secretary of State, with a capital of $40,000. The directors are: G. A.

Wilbur of BAY Shore, Curt P. Wimmer of Brooklyn, and George W. Mills of York City. Morris Schneider of Brooklyn is a director of the Elm Tax League Company of New York City, capitalized $10,000. REFEREES APPOINTED.

RY BLACKMAR, Comperthwalt va, Carter. Frank W. Holmes: Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn vs. Kuhlmann, Jase E. Pidgeon.

.00 Sunday 3 Excursions TO WASHINGTON April 18, May 2, 16, 30, June 13 Special Train leaves New York, Pennsylvania Station. 19:20 A.M. Returning, leaves Washington, 4:35 P.M. Tickets on sale preceding each excursion, at ticket offices: 263 and 501 Fifth 170 Broadway, 153 West 125th Pennsylvania Station. Hudson Terminal.

945 and 2081 Broadway, New York: 336 Fulton Flatbush Ave. Station (L. R. R. Brooklyn.

Pennsylvania R. R. THE GERMAN STATEMENT Berlin. April 7 (via London, 3:20 p.m.) The German General Headquarters today gave out following official statement regarding military operations: the western theater of the war -The village of Drei Grachten, which was occupied by our troops the day before yesterday, and which enemy has bombarded with his heaviest artillery and mine throwers, was, for this reason, again abandoned by us last nighttack in the Argonne broke down under the fire of our chasseurs. "Northeast of Verdun a French advance approached only as far as our out outer positions.

To the east and southeast Verdun a series of attacks madel by the enemy failed with extraordinarily heavy losses. "In the Combres Hills two French battalions were destroyed by our fire. "At Ailly our troops commenced a counter attack, and threw the enemy back into his old position. "At Apremont the enemy had no success. "The other French attacks at Flirey likewise completely failed.

"Numerous bodies cover the fields before our front and the number is increasing, owing to the fact that the French threw those who had fallen in their trenches in front of our positions. the western border of the Bois Le Pretre one of our battalions beat back strong forces of the Thirteenth French Regiment after a bayonet engagement. "Notwithstanding a heavy snowstorm, fighting has been going on since yesterday afternoon at HartmansWeilerkopf. the Eastern theater-During an advance on Russian territory in the direction of Andrejew, thirty kilometers, annihilated southeast a of Russian Memel, our battalion. cavalThe commander, five officers and 360 men were taken prisoners, while 120 were killed and 150 seriously injured.

Another Russian battalion which hurried to the rescue was repulsed. We lost six men killed. "Russian attacks to the east and to the south of Kalwarya as well as those against our oppositions at Augustowo were repulsed. Otherwise nothing special occurred on the eastern THE FRENCH STATEMENT Paris, April 7 (via -The French War Office this afternoon gave out a report on the progress of hostilities reading as follows: "A German detachment with three machine-guns succeeded in crossing to the left bank of the Yser, south of Driegrachten. It was attacked yesterday and dislodged by Belgian forces.

"An atack made by us in the vicinity of Etain rendered us masters of Hills No. 219 and No. 221, in addition to the Haut Bois and the Hopital Farms. "In Eparges we gained ground and maintained our advances, at the same time taking sixty prisoners, including three officers. "In the Ban-de-Sapt we mined and blew up a German position." THE TURKISH STATEMENT Constantinople (by wireless to Berlin and London), April 7-An official statement issued today by the Turkish War Office says: "No serious attack was made yesterday by the enemy on the Dardanelles.

The day before, two hostile cruisers bombarded our batteries at the entrance to the Straits, but without result. One of the enemy's cruisers and one torpedo boat were struck by our shells." "On the Caucasian front the enemy atacked our advance guards north of Ishkan, near the frontier, but was repulsed across the frontier. After eighteen hours of hard fighting we occupied the enemy's villages near Rhosor and Parcez, south of Tassakert." COLONEL NORTON CELEBRATES. He and Mrs. Norton Each Had Birthday Yesterday.

Colonel Frank L. Norton and Mrs. last night celebrated a double birthday event. Both the colonel and Mrs. Norton were born on April 6-ne in 1867 and she in 1873.

"The coincidence of our mutual birthday did not strike either Mrs. Norton or myself with sufficient force at the time of our marriage, or we might have been wedded on April as instead of June 15, and given ourselves a triple said the colonel, speaking to a friend about the celebration. "My eldest son was born on April 13, twenty-one years ago-just a week too late. you see, to join in the family tion. If he had been born on the 6th, and if we had been married on April 6 we could have gone around the country as museum curiosities instead of staying in Brooklyn." Colonel and Mrs.

Norton celebrated the double birthday event at dinner and the theater. SWEDEN PROTESTS SEIZURE OF THE STEAMER ENGLAND Stockholm, April 7 (via London) The seizure by the Germans of the Swedish steamer England is expected by ship owners to meet with greater activity by the Government in defense of Swedish rights, particularly since the vessel belongs to Naval Minister Bronstroem. Urgent representations have been made to Germany as to the desirablitiy of relasing the vessel. AUSTRIAN AIRMAN DROPS 13 BOMBS ON Rome, April 7-An Austrian aircraft yesterday dropped thirteen bombs 011 Scutari, damaging an engine shed and a tobacco factory, says a dispatch from Cettinje. No one was kille dor wounded by the attack.

An act not hitherto announced, which will he on the bill at Keeney's Theater during the latter part of the week, is Day at West Point," a military musical offering presented with picturesque settings, and a cast of ten, including a uniformed drill squad, which performs interesting evolutions. CASTORIA RIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears Signature of the hath WHAT IS IT WORTH A ance POLICY is of worth title just insur- as much as the men and money behind it. We have more than sixteen million dollars behind oursalso the men who established the title insurance idea in Greater New York. TITLE GUARANTEE AND TRUST C9 Capital 5,000,000 Surplus (all earned) 11,000,000 176 B'way, N. Y.

175 Remsen B'klyn. 350 Fulton Jamaica. fectedness of her. gifted 12-year-old daughter. Winifred stood beside her mother on the platform, and, oblivious, it seemed, of the fact that she was there to "show off." But, on the simple request of, her mother, Winifred did this: She recited in rhyme a "Life of Mozart" that she herself had written several years ago.

Then she recited a jingle about grammar that was also of her own composition. She gave, in Esperanto, the Mother Goose rhymes, "Ba, Ba, Black Sheep," "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater." and "Humpty Dumpty" and had the audience guess the rhymes. Her Repertoire a Marvel of Linguistic Authority and Memory. She reeited "The Quality of Mercy" lines from. Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" in Esperanto, also.

She told of "The House that Jack Built" in Esperanto. She repeated for the first time since she was 4 years old. according to Mrs. Stoner, a delightfully instructive rhyme about "The Great Arithmus" that was requested by one of those present. She spoke a little "I love you' rhyme in three.

languages. She recited a rhyme about the "Bumble Bee." written when she was 3 years old, and a jingle about whooping cough-'The Whoopy when she was 5. She sang, in German, two of the old Mother Goose rhymes. WINIFRED SACKVILLE STONER, JR. BACKRACH PHOTO And, with it all, it was impossible to lose sight for a moment of the fact that she was only a girl of 12.

Mrs. Stoner told about some of the other things that Winifred could and that had to remain undone today because of lack of time. The whole thing, according to Winifred's mother, was in finding the key to the child's mind. "People think it's wonderful that Winifred knows the history England, and of France, and of Germany, and has the dates down so said Mrs. Stoner.

"Well, its no wonder at all. She has them all in rhyme, and in that way she can never forget them." Winifred was excused all too soon, from the viewpoint of those present, and Mrs. Stoner went on with the explanation of the way in which she had achieved the present result with her daughter. She also welcomed questions from the audience. The main word that she gave was that all there was to "natural education" was an education that lasted from the cradle to the grave, and that was always an explanation for a purtion, that neither she nor Winifred pose.

She explained, in this connecever read books at random, but always for a purpose. "This is the secret," Mrs. Stoner told her audience: "Do everything with a purpose, do it with a smile on your face." "Don't Have Children, If You Can't Care for Them," Says Mrs. Stoner. But Brooklyn also got can entirely new viewpoint from Mrs.

Stoner today on a point that she had never touched on before. In effect Mrs. Stoner came out as an advocate of race suicide, and her assertion brought a storm of applause. "I believe it is more wicked to bring children into the world and not be able to care for them properly, to have them without sufficient clothing and food and other things, than it 'not go against the laws of nature and have them," she said. "I have never said this before in public; but I believe it is the truth, and do not see why I should not say it.

But I wish that I had four children. I know that I could love all of them and care for them, and I believe that we should have children SO long as we can love them and give them the things we have. What we in the race is not quantity, but quality." In closing, Mrs. Stoner told the mothers present of the books that she believed they would find helpful with their children, recommending especially "Peter. Rabbit," and in response to many requests for more knowledge, she announced that she would meet the teachers of Brooklyn-all who cared to come and for whom there was room--at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan on Friday afternoon, between 3 and 5 o'clock.

Mrs. Stoner said that she would talk to the teachers for a full two hours on this occasion. RENTALS AT CEDARHURST. Cedarhurst, L. April 7-Several important summer rentals have been made by E.

S. and S. F. Voss, including the Joseph S. Auerbach estate at Hewlett, consisting of 35 acres, mansion and outbuildings, to Joseph A Flannery of Manhattan; the C.

N. Hamilton estate to Norrie Sella. of Manhattan; the S. F. Morris estate to E.

K. Scheftel of Manhattan, INTERBORO "FINDS" P.S.C. 'S IGNORED NOTE "Discovered" in Wrong File, Right After Scathing Outburst by Hayward. HEDLEY EXPLAINS "OMISSION." Letter, Bearing Kick at Transit, Is Now Answered With Apology to Whitney. Within a few hours 'after Public Service Commissioner Hayward's outburst yesterday, when he scored General.

Manager Hedley of the Interborough for ignoring for two months an official letter from Secretary Whitney of the Commission, the unanswered missive was in the railroad company's file, where it had become "mixed up with other papers." Commissioner Hayward's face lighted up with a smile when he was shown the letter from Mr. Hedley attrbuting his delay in replying to. an "inadvertence." The Colonel did not care to make any comment on the speediness with which the letter was found, following his bitter comment in the meeting yesterday. This morning Secretary Whitney received his long-awaited answer. It made no reference to what transpired yesterday.

The purport of Mr. Hedley's excuse was that Mr. Whitney's letter of February mislaid because the file got "mixed." Commisstoner Hayward called attention the fact that no reference was made to the later communication of Secretary Whitney, again bringing the matter to the attention of the Interborough. General Manager Hedley's letter reads, in part: "I regret that through an inadvertence, as explained by the attached letter from Mr. Keegan to me of even date, your letter of February 9, 1915, Inclosing copy of complaint from William W.

Young, was not answered before. "As stated in Mr. Keegan's letter to me, this matter was investigated immediately, and checks taken on the Ninth avenue line at or near the points complained of failed to show any such overcrowding as mentioned Mr. Young's complaint. I call your attention to your report of February 4, 1915, which was answered under date of February 18, in which it was a recommendation of your Transit Department that on account of the unequal distribution of the load and of the vacant seats in the local trains, some of the local trains in the Ninth avenue service should be transferred to the express service.

"As your commission is aware, extensive alterations are being made on the Ninth avenue system to provide additional facilities, and necessarily such alterations interfere somewhat with the movement of trains." The part of Mr. Keegan's letter explaining the temporary loss of the Whitney letter was as follows: "In going through my files today, I find that a letter from the Public Service Commission, dated February 1915, attaching copy of complaint from William W. Young of 2 Rector street, regarding service on the Ninth avenue line, has been unanswered. "At this time you were on your vacation in Florida, and the file in some manner became mixed up with some papers in the Book of Rules file, which was then and is now being revised, and was not discovered until today." LUTZ MAY GET LIFE TERM Convicted of 2d Degree in Hertzberg Killing. Frank Lutz, 27 years old, of 261 West Houston street, was convicted of murder in the second degree by a jury before Judge Roy in the County Court today for the shooting of Reuben Hertzberg at 332 Pearl street, on the night of October 30, 1914.

Lutz was remanded to the Raymond Street Jail until Monday, when he will be sentenced. The penalty for murder in the second degree is from twenty years to life imprisonment. It took the jury but two hours to arrive at its verdict. Lutz did not deny the shooting, but declared he had been forced to shoot Hertzberg in self defense. James W.

Redmond, who defended Lutz, introduced a number of witnesses to substantiate Lutz' story. Assistant District Attorney Everett Caldwell, who prosecuted case, discredited Lutz' story by introducing in evidence a letter Lutz had written to Lefty Dunn, telling him the story he was going to tell on the witness stand and asking Dunn to get several of they were called as witnesses by the Lutz's pals to tell the same story if prosecution. "But you know this fellow, Cropsey," the letter read. "With him its a case of all or nothing. So I guess I'll have to stand trial, and I'll tell this story if it is acceptable to you." LOCKED IN ROOM A WEEK Police Find Fossberg Family in Pitiable State.

The plaintiff call of a woman in the third story window of the house at 5811 Third avenue, just after noon today, made Mrs. Wolf of 5809 Third avenue realize that something was wrong in the apartment and she at cer, having summoned an ambulance once called in a policeman. a The offisurgeon went to the apartment and there had to break open the door. Inside he found the family of Henry Forsberg, a carpenter, locked into one room, with very little food to eat and with the three children nearly dead. Forsberg himself was lying in a corner on the floor, evidently unable to take care of himself, and Mrs.

Forsberg, who had called for help was very weak when assistance came. Later she regained her strength long enough to tell the police co that she and her children had been locked into the room with the man for a week and that they had had only very little to eat during that time. Forsberg was taken to the Kings County Hospital for observation. INDEX To Classifled Advertisements 1n Today's Eagle. Classification.

Page. Amusements Auction Sales Automobiles Bankruptey Notices.17 Boarding 14-15 Bowling Business Oppor'ties. 16 By Parcel Post .....16 Coastwise St'ships ..16 Corp. Notices 17 Death Notices .20 Dentistry 6 Election Notices 18 Financial 18-19 For Sale and Exchange, Sale Ex- 16 For or change 17 Furnished Rooms ...15 Help Wanted 14 Supplement. THE PEOPLES TRUST COMPANY 181-183 MONTAGUE ST.

Nostrand Avenue. Cor. Herkimer St. Clinton Avenue. Cor.

Myrtle Ave. Fifth Avenue. Cor. Fifty-fourth St. 43 Flatbush Avenue near Fulton St.

ANUFACTURERS carrying their account a with service The which Peoples is Trust rendered Company with due receive regard for their individual requirements. New accounts invited. Interest allowed on deposits POUNDS NAMES CITIZENS Committee Will Attend Marginal R. R. Hearings.

The citizens committee to attend the hearing on the Marginal Railroad bill before the Mayor, authorized at the mass meeting last Wednesday night, was appointed today by Borough Presidene Pounds. They will all appear at the Mayor's hearing on April 12, and as many as possible will go before the Governor when he holds a hearing. The committee comprises: Edward M. Bassett, William Berri, William M. Calder, Audley Clarke, William E.

Cleary, Charles H. Fuller, Frank C. Munson, William D. Niper, Jeremiah J. O'Leary, Frederick W.

Rowe and Alfred T. White. NEW DOWNTOWN STATION P. S. Board Will Hear Public on Willoughby St.

Tube. Acting upon the petitions of a number of downtown Brooklyn business men, the Public Service Commission has decided to take under consideraa tion a plan to place an additional station on the new B. R. T. subway that will run through Willoughby street to connect the Fourth avenue tube with Montague street tunnel to Manhattan.

April 15 was today set as the date for a hearing on the plan. It is proposed to place this station at Jay street, where it would be handy to the shopping district. Pearl street has also been suggested. This has been considered before as there is a long between stations at this point, the next station toward Manhattan being under Borough Hall Park and in the other direction at DeKalb avenue and Flatbush avenue extension. FRANK LORD CHOSEN Governor Whitman Appointed Cedarhurst Man Legal Advisor.

(Special to The Eagle.) Albany, April 7-Frank Lord of Cedarhurst, L. has been selected to succeed Colonel Hayward as legal advisor to Governor Whitman. Frank B. Gilbert, counsel to the State Department of Education, was originally slated for this place, but he declined to take it, preferring to remain in the Education Department. Frank Lord is a junior partner of the law firm of Lord, Day Lord, and is about 35 years of age.

He is a Yale graduate and a lawyer of considerable ability. One of his first suits was that of the Town of Hempstead against the Town of Oyster Bay in the matter of equalization of assessments. He won his case. He is a large stockholder and director in the Queens County Water Company and was a member of the Board of Education of Cedarhurst. He is a member of the New York County Bar Association and a member of a number of clubs of New York and Cedarhurst, and is very popular among his associates.

TROUBLE OVER METERS Ridgewood Taxpayers Object to Demands of Water Co. That they have been requested to disconnect their own water meters and carry them to Elmhurst from Ridgewood to have them repaired, is charge made against several of the members of the Ridgewood Heights Improvement Association, disclosed at the regular monthly meeting of the association last night, held at Lively's Hall, Onderdonk avenue and Bleecker street. In addition to having to carry the heavy meters to the shops of the Citizens Supply Comany, a charge of from $1.50 to $2.50 is made for the work of repairing the instruments. Exception WaS taken to these requests by the organization and Coroner Daniel Ebert, who is taking an active interest in civic matters in the Ridgewood section, suggested that the matter be carried to the attention of the Corporation Counsel. While on the water question the members to a man pledged themselves to attend the hearing for the acquisition of the private water monopolies in Queens County.

The meeting was presided over by George Sieburg in the absence of Herman Gohlinghorst, and Henry Bodde recorded. SOME SALES AUCTION SALES AT THE REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE. BY W. P. RAE.

Dean. st, cor Rochester av, 100x50: also Rochester av, 9, 50 ft Dean st. Homestead Bank of Brooklyn agst I Leon Caplan Co et al; Watson Kristeller, attys, 100. William st: Geo Brush, ref. Sold to the Lafayette Trust Co for $17,000 over taxes and assessments of $1,498.63.

Hampton place, 8, 170 ft Sterling place, 20x95; Brooklyn Savings Bank agat son Realty Co et al: Snedeker Snedeker, attys, 164 Montague st; Percival G. Barnard, ref. Lot 19, bk 147. 24th Ward: Sheriff's sale of all right, title, etc, which Michi Feeney had Feb 18, 1910, or since; Lewis Swasey, sheriff. Sold to City of NY for $250.

18th st. s. 400 ft Av 40x100: Mathilda Charleton agst Lucia Kimber et al: Alvah Burlinghame Jr. atty, 391 Fulton st: Jas Kelly, ref. Sold to the plaintiff for $1,700 over 8 mortgage of $1,700.

BY JAMES P. DAY. Montgomery place, 8 w. 278.10 8th AV, 16.9x100: Ess Ess Realty Co agst Grace Duryea et al; Jno Ewing, atty, 31 Nassau st: Jno Fleury, ref. Sold to the plaintiff for $500.

BY W. J. McPHILLIAMY cO. Snyder av, cor 32d st. 102.6x100: Globe Tile Co, Inc agst Jacob Mass et al: Bachrach, atty, 926 Broadway; Fredk Bailey, ref.

Withdrawn, Tilden AV, cor Brooklyn av, 104.7x108.5; Eva St Hamilton agat Kathryn A Ryan et al; Henry Davenport, atty, 375 Pearl st; Barker Leich, ref. Withdrawn. BY NATHANIEL SHUTER. Cortelyou road, 8 cor 17th st, 108.1x 100x78.6; Henry Lankenau agat Rena Hawkins et al: Kiendl, Smyth Gross, attys, 215 Montague st; A I Nova, ref. Sold to the plaintiff for $9,600.

MISS BRUCE LEAVES FOR BROOKLYN HOME Young Woman Who Was Stranded in Washington, Sent Here by Bureau of Charities. THEY SAY SHE IS ILL. Says She Does Not Want to Live With Her Father, If He Will Aid Her. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, April 7-Miss Christiana Bruce, the young Brooklyn woman who was found stranded in Washingday.

Bruce was placed upon the last, week, left for her home toPennsylvania train leaving Washington at 11. o'clock this morning by the Washington Board of Charities. Some time before she started she was asked: "Are you going back to Brooklyn it the authorities here provide you with railroad fare?" "Yes, I'll go back, but I will stay only long enough to make my father come to some arrangement about my future," she replied. am the only dependant he has, and he is well able to provide for me. I would like to make Washington my home, and may come back here after I fix things up in Brooklyn." "Have you any relatives in Brooklyn other than your father?" "No, I have not," was her answer.

have an aunt living in Lynn, but that is quite a jump from Brooklyn." Bruce had been waiting to hear from her father, but had received no word. don't want to go to his home." she said. "I do want him to provide for me because I am unable to do so myself. When I get to Brooklyn feel sure I can make him furnish me with living expenses." The officials of the toberculosis hospital here say that Miss Bruce should be placed in an institution. Mr.

Bruce could not be located this afternoon. His landlady said that was going out, and intended to lock the house up, so that when Miss Bruce arrives from Washington there may not be any one on hand to receive her. OBITUARY Mrs. Sophia Blanken. Mrs.

Sophia Blanken, 76 years old, widow of Henry Blanken, died yesterday from bronchitis, at her residence, 925 East Thirty fourth street, Flatbush. She was Hanover, Germany, on August 5, 1838, and had lived in Brooklyn many years, being one of the oldest members of the Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church, on Henry street, near Clark, and an active worker in its women's societies. She is survived by a son, Henry Blanken, and three daughters, Mrs. Katie Schluter, Mary Mehrtens and Mrs. Sophia Grote." Mrs.

Jane B. Howard. Mrs. Jane B. Howard, 70 years old, a native of England, and widow of Dr.

Thomas T. Howard, died yesterday from a complication of diseases, after a long illness, at her residence, 650 Prospect place, where her funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. Dr. Charles Flint, tomorrow evening. The interment will be at Port Jervis, N.

Y. Mrs. Howard was a member of the New York Avenue M. E. Church, 121.

New York avenue. She is survived by four daughters. Mrs. Howard had been in the country for sixty-four years, and until ten years ago lived at Port Jervis. Joseph Hennenlotter.

Joseph Hennenlotter, 66 years old, a retired grocer, who had been in business for many years in Brooklyn, and was one of the best known members of the Brooklyn Retail Grocers Associa-' tion, and at one time its president, died today from apoplexy at his residence, 343 East Thirty-second street, Flatafter an illness lasting nearly years. He is survived by his wife, Frances, and two daughters, Miss Bertha Hennenlotter and Mrs. W. J. L.

Armstrong, and a son, Theodore B. Mr. Hennenlotter was a member of the Catholic Benevolent Legion, the Knights of Columbus and the Knights of the Maccabees. As president of the Retail Grocers Association he was one of the most forceful men that ever occupied that office, and did much to forward the interests of the association His funeral will be held on Saturday morning with a requiem, mass in the R. C.

Church of St. Jerome, Newkirk and Nostrand avenues, and iterment In Holy Cross Cemetery. Harry A. Jones. Harry A.

Jones, a millinery salesman, died yesterday from heart disease, at his home. 460 Fifty-eighth street. He is survived by his wife, formerly Miss Mary Burgoyne, and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Lang and Miss Rebecca Jones. Mr.

Jones was a graduate of Niagara College, and was for several years in the employ of James G. Johnson and Sullivan Drew, millinery dealers, and was well known in the millinery trade. He was a member of the R. C. Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Fifty ninth street and Fifth avenue, where a requiem mass will be offered on Friday morning.

He was also formerly a member of Columbus Council No. 126, Knights of Columbus, and later of Bedford Council of the same order. Ciasalfeation. Page. Horses Hotels Resorts ...16 In Memoriam .20 Instruction .15 gal Notices.

4-17 Lost Found .....20 Marriage Notices 20 Mhtn. Ocean Steamships ..16 Personal 20 Poultry Proposals R. E. At. Auction ...17 Sits Wanted 16 Steamboats 16 To Let--For Sale 16 Travel 16 Vacation Cottages To Let .16 Wanted 14-16 Mrs.

IDA MARGARETTA KOPE. 48 years old, native of Germany and a member of St. Peter's German Lutheran Church on Bedford avenue, near DeKalh, died yesterday from A complication of diseases, at her home, 175 teen will be held on Saturday afternoon, with Schenectady A avenue, where her funeral servInterment in Evergreens Cemetery, She 1A survived by a son, Frederick, and a daughter, Mrs. Ernest Granlick. LOCK WOOD BILL PASSED.

(Special to The Eagle.) Albany, April 7- The LockwoodEllenbogen inspection bill passed the Senate this afternoon. Mills Republican, and Wagner Democrat, in' were only city solons recorded the hogan tive..