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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1915. VITAL RECORDS DEATHS. Baldwin, Mary L.

Gowen, Mae F. Bergemann, Louis RHaff, David Beveridge, James Hayes, Emma C. Caldwell, Catherine Hilton, Alice S. Carrigan, Rose M. Howell.

Nancy Colborn, Edward A. James, John E. W. Fred Lane, Harriet M. Dalzell, Robert H.

Morton, Josephine Darrow, H. Frank Mullen, William J. Fisher, L. Harry Murphy, William Fleck, Mary Rude, Augustus D. Fleischer, Paul H.

Skinner, Horace N. Giles, T. C. Smith, Luther C. Goat, Samuel Stein, Emma Goodwin, Ella V.

Tupper, Charles 0. BALDWIN-On February 22, 1915, MARY L. BALDWIN (nce Roberts), beloved wife of Arthur W. Baldwin, at her residence, 238 Linden av. Funeral private.

BERGEMANN -On Monday, February 22, 1915, after a lingering illness, LOUIS R. BERGEMANN. beloved husband of Lydia A. Bergemann (nee Sause), in his 71st year. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services on Wednesday, February 24, at 2 p.m., at his late home, 762 Halsey st.

On February 21, 1915, JAMES B. BEVERIDGE, in his 79th year. Funeral services at his late residence, 153 Sixth av, Tuesday evening, at 8 o'clock. Burial private. CALDWELL-On Monday, February 02.

1915, CATHERINE widow 01 William M. Caldwell. Funeral from her late residence, 101 Nostrand place, Richmond Hill, L. Wednesday, February 24, at 2:30 p.m. CARRIGAN-On Sunday, February 91, 1915, at her residence, 88 Herkimer st, ROSE M.

MORRISON, widow of James J. Carrigan. Requiem mass at St. Ignatius Church, Rogers av and Carroll st, on Wednesday, February 24, at 10 a.m. COLBORN-On Sunday, February 21, 1915, EDWARD A.

COLBORN, in his 78th year. Funeral services at his late residence, 680 Greene av, Brooklyn, on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Interment Wednesday morning. CORDES Sunday, February 21, 1915, W. FRED, beloved son of John F.

and Mary Cordes, in his thirty-ninth year. Services at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Otto Zanker 642 10th st, Brooklyn, Tuesday, February 23, at 8 p.m. Interment Wednesday at 1:30 p.m., Lutheran Cemetery. DALZELL-On February 21, 1915, ROBERT H.

DALZELL. in his thirty-second year. Funeral services at St. Paul's Church, corner of St. Paul's place and St.

Paul's court, Flatbush, on Tuesday at 8 p.m. Interment private. DARROW--On Sunday, February 21. 1915, H. FRANK DARROW, aged 48 years.

Funeral services Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock, at his late residence, 2811 Clarendon road. Interment private. (New London, papers please copy.) FISHER-On OR Monday, February 22, 1915, L. HARRY, beloved husband of Sophie Feldman Fisher. Funeral from his late residence, 421 Sterling place, on Thursday, February 25, at 2 p.m.

Relatives, friends and members of all societies are invited to attend. Interment at Maimonides Cemetery, Cypress Hills. FLECK--On Monday, February 22. 1915, at Jenkintown, MARY, widow of George Fleck, in her 83d year. Notice of funeral hereafter.

FLEISCHER-On Sunday, February 21, 1915, PAUL beloved husband of Theresa Fleischer. Relatives and friends, also members of Puritan Lodge No. 339, F. and A. Benevolent Council No.

567, Royal Arcanum, and Crown Council No. 42, Association, are invited to attend funeral services at his late residence, 106 Bartholdi av, Jersey City, on Tuesday, February 23, at 8 p.m. GILES- February 22, 1915. at the Masonic Home, Burlington, N.J.. THEODOCIA C.

GILES, widow of Theodore Giles of Bound Brook, N. in her 85th year. Funeral private. GOAT-On Monday, February 22, 1915, SAMUEL GOAT, aged 77 years. Funeral services at his late residence, 237 Twelfth st, on Wednesday, February 24, at 8 o'clock p.m.

Please omit flowers. GOODWIN-At Lakewood, N. on Friday, February 19, 1915, ELLA V. GOODWIN (nee Thomas), wife of James b. Goodwin.

Notice of funeral hereafter. -On February 21, 1915, MAE F. GOWEN (nee Nolan), beloved wife of Thomas J. Gowen. Funeral from her late residence, Halsey st, on Wednesday, February 24, at 9:30 a.m.

Thence to Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Aberdeen st and Broadway. Interment Calvary Cemetery. HAFF--On February 20, 1915, at Wantagh, L.I, DAVID HAVE, 70 years of age. Funeral services on Wednesday, February 24, at 2 p.m., at the Memorial Church, at Wantagh, the Rev. T.

S. Braithwait, officiating. HAYES--On February 22. 1915, after a brief illness, EMMA widow of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Hayes. Funeral services at her late residence, 564 Jefferson av.

on Tuesday, February 23. at 5:30 p.m. Interment at Burghill, Ohio. Kindly omit flowers. HILTON -On Monday, February 22, 1915.

ALICE S. HILTON. beloved wire of John Guy Hilton and daughter of William R. and Mary Sweeney. Funeral from her late residence, 1734 Forty fourth st, on Thursday, at 9:30 a.m.

Solemn requiem mass at St. Rose of Lima's R. C. Church. Parkville.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. HOWELL-At Riverhead, L. on February 21, 1915, NANCY HOWELL. daughter of the late John Hubbard Howell and Nancy Oakley Howell of Quogue, L. I.

Funeral services at the house in Riverhead, on Wednesday. February 24, at 1 o'clock. Interment in Quogue. JAMES-Suddenly. Sunday, February 21, 1915, JOHN EDWARD JAMES, in his seventy-eighth year, at his residence, 172 Rodney st, Brooklyn.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Interment will be made privately. LANE-On February 21, 1915, at West Cornwall, HARRIET MORTIMER LANE. Services at Greenwood Cemetery at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, February 24; usher at Main Entrance.

MORTON-On Sunday, February 21, 1915, JOSEPHINE H. MORTON, widow of Edmond Ludlow Morton and mother of Dr. Henry H. and Frederick M. Morton.

Funeral services at Holy Trinity Church, corner Clinton and Montague sts, on Wednesday, at 10:30 a.m. Interment Morristown, N. J. MULLEN-On February 99 1915, WILLIAM J. MULLEN.

in his 47th year, at the home of his sister, Isabella J. Fitzpatrick, 118 North Oxford st. Funeral Thursday, February 25, at 9 o'clock. Requiem mass at St. Edward's R.

C. Church. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. MURPHY On February 20, 1915. WILLIAM, beloved husband of the late Francis Murphy, in his 66th year.

Services at his late residence, 145 Columbia st, Hempstead Heights, Hempstead, L. Tuesday, 8 p.m. Devon Post No. 148, G. A.

invited 1 to attend. RUDE -Suddenly, on February 22, 1915, in Cleveland, Ohio, at the residence of his daughter. Mrs. W. H.

Furlong. AUGUSTUS D. RUDE. of 668 Rugby road. Flatbush.

Notice of funeral hereafter. SMITH- -Suddenly, on February 21, 1915, LUTHER C. SMITH, in his 70th year. Funeral services at his late residence, 161 First st. Union Course, Tuesday evening, February 23, at 8 o'clock.

Relatives and friends and also members of Joppa Lodge, F. and A. are invited. 5,000 AWAITED T. HE DIDN'T KNOW IT! Audience "Goldbricked" His Name Wasn't Even on Celebration Programme.

LAND 47TH W.IS CROWDED: Announced That Illness Kept Roosevelt Away -But He Wasn't Ill. Five thousand persons who attended the patriotic exercises in memory of George Washington, at the Fortyseventh Regiment Armory, yesterday, had to believe that Colonel were neatly, "gold-bricked." They Theodore Roosevelt had been invited land that he would make the speech. The Colonel had been advertised as a speaker and his name figured prominently in the advance notices sent to the newspapers. This had the result of greatly booming the affair, drawing many who expected to hear Roosevelt. The crowd was disappointed when it was informed by announcement from the platform that a telephone message nad been received from the Colonel, stating that illness would prevent his appearance.

But Colonel Roosevelt's name was not even on the printed programme. The -fact of the matter was, as was learned today, that the Colonel held 110 telephonic communication with anybody at the armory. He was not ill either yesterday or today, the best proof of which was that he was in town today, transacting some business and ready to make the tour of the workshops for the unemployed in Brooklyn, this afternoon, as arranged by William Hamlin Childs. Not only did the Colonel accept no armory but it was said for him toinvitation to attend the meeting ent the day that he could not remember receiving anything which looked like an invitation. The exercises were arranged by the Washington's Birthday Association, the officers of which are: first vice president, George L.

Hiscock; President, Major Walter E. Corwin; second vice president, Commissioner Charles Raynor; third vice president, Major Thomas E. Jackson; fourth vice president, Captain William E. White; fifth vice president, Mrs. Ella Walter; secretary, Charles A.

Rathkopf; treasurer, Mrs. Lottie A. McClure; first sergeant-at-arms, Percy Brown. Publicity Committee--William L. Brower William E.

White, George L. Hiscock. Music Committee--Major Walter E. Crowin, Mrs. Lottie A.

McClure, Mrs. Hattie Ferry. Committee 011 Speakers- -Charles Rehman, William E. White, W. K.

Leufer, George L. Hiscock, F. Smallenberger, Comm. Charles Raynor. Programme Committee-Charles A.

Rathkopf, William L. Brower Annie H. Davis. Decoration Committee -Lottie A. McClure, E.

Wysocki, H. E. Kappauf. Committee of Arrangements-Mrs. M.

Chapman, Charles Rehman, M. P. Hull, William E. White, F. Smallen berger, Henry Jannsen, Charles Vollbracht, William L.

Brower. No member of the committee on speakers could be reached today. It could not be learned just who was responsible for the announcement that the Colonel would speak. The principal speakers were Borough President Pounds and Congressman Reuben S. Haskell.

Mr. Pounds paid an eloquent tribute to the memory of the late Congressman James R. Howe, to whom the Eastern District 1s indebted for the beautiful statue of Washington at Valley Forge, which graces the Williamsburg Bridge Plaza. The statue is considered one of the finest memorials to Wasington in this country. ZION CHURCH CONCERT Norwegians Enjoy an Artistic Programme by Choir.

At the concert given last evening by the Zion Church Choir of the Norwegian Lutheran Church at Sixtythird street and Fourth avenue, some of the finest music which has been offered in the Ridge section was heard by an audience that filled the church. The singing of Miss Gertrude Olsen, who was accompanied by Miss Volmari, was commendable. She has a voice of a rich quality, The Pilgrims Chorus, from "Tannhauser," played on the organ by Nils Nilsen was impressive. The choral work was remarkable for its clearness and perfect harmony, being under the personal direction of Hans Hansen. The eighth number of the programme was a baritone solo, sung by the pastor, the Rev.

Lauritz Larsen. The members of the chorus are: Helen Olsen. Ragnhild Petersen, Fauchald, Adelaide Hansen, Helga Petersen, Marie Hansen, Elsie Petersen. Miss Jacoby, Mrs. Schade, Marie Fauchald, Mrs.

H. Hansen, Nellie Eibertsen, Severen Petersen, Herman Preus, Alf Terjesen, Claus Terjesen, Mr. Lunaas, Erling Olsen, William Hansen, Clarence Hansen and K. E. Tobiasen.

SIXTH NEIGHBORHOOD DINNER. The sixth annual neighborhood dinner of the Men's Club of the Park Slope Congregational Church, Eighth avenue and Second street, will take place on Thursday evening, at 7 o'clock, in the social room. John M. Taylor, M.D., will preside, and the toastmaster will be the pastor, the Rev. Dr.

Robert W. McLaughlin. The speakers will be Rabbi Nathan Krass, "Moral Henry M. Miner, on "Reveries of a Layman," and Edward P. Lyon on "True Manhood." Music will be furnished by Mrs.

Willinm L. Sayers, soprano; Dr. Eugene W. Marshall, baritone, and the Montauk Club Trio, instrumental. SONS OF THE REVOLUTION.

An unusually large number of Brooklyn members of the Sons of the Revolution were at the meeting in Delmonico's, last night, in observance of the birthday of the Father of his Country. Instead of a banquet, there were motion pictures of the European war, and those which were most applauded were pictures of the King and Queen of Belgium, Distress and ruin caused by the struggle were the main features, and the influence of them was to cause a definite longing for peace. Supper followed. DEATHS. SKINNER--On Tuesday, February 23, 1915, HORACE N.

SKINNER of 323 Macon st, in the 94th year of his age. Notice of funeral hereafter. STEIN-On February 21, 1915, in the 37th year of her age, EMMA, beloved wife of George Stein. Relatives and friends are invited to attend services at her late residence, 3105 Beverley road, on Tuesday evening, February 23, at 8 o'clock. Interment at Lutheran Cemetery at convenience of the family.

(Los Angeles papers please copy.) TUPPER Monday. February 22, 1915, CHARLES OSBORNE TUPPER, M.D., husband of Charlotte at his residence, 80 New York av. Funeral services Wednesdaly evening, February 24, at 8 o'clock. Interment Amherst, Nova Scotia. BENJ.

H. CORNELL IS 96 Sheepshead Bay Veteran Tells of Good Old Days. Here is the way to live to a good old age, according to Benjamin H. Cornell, who celebrated his ninety-sixth birthday yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John J.

Ryder, of Ryder's lane, Sheepshead Bay: "Take good care of yourself, work every day, and eat what you want." Mr. Cornell places particular importance on work, for, he said, he worked every day until he was 82 years old. Except for failing eyesight, his ninety -six years not weigh heavily on Mr. Cornell. takes a half-mile walk with one of his daughters every day, just to get some fresh air, he said, and he still eats what he wants, mince pies and all.

Mr. Cornell, in spite of his years, is an automobile enthusiast and prides himself on being able to go as fast as any youngster. "I have no use for war," said Sheepshead Bay's veteran, "and this mix-up in Europe is a mighty poor piece of business. When our Civil War started I was about 42 years old. I did not go, because they shoot too carelessly in war.

I stayed at home and farmed to feed those who went." Although he complains that his memory is not what it should be, Mr. Cornell has no difficulty in recalling happenings dating from his early childhood. He well remembers seeing his mother spinning wool on an old-fashioned spinning wheel while in Flushing, and one of the big events of his early days was going from Williamsburg to Grand street, Manhattan, on a ferryboat propelled by a horse treadmill on board. The building of Forts Schuyler and Totten is very clear in Mr. Cornell's mind.

Politics has always been a favorite subject with Mr. Cornell, and he has followed it intensely from the time he cast his first ballot for President Tyler in 1840. As long as his eyesight was good he followed the course of events in The Brooklyn Eagle, but now that he cannot read he has his daughter read The Eagle for him. FIANCE IN FRENZY OVER GIRL'S SUICIDE Holthusen Will Not Believe That His Sweetheart Is Dead. (Special to The Eagle.) Inwood, L.

February 23-Griefstricken over the suicide of his young sweetheart, Gertrude L. Pearsall, 18 years old, who swallowed lysol on Saturday evening, her young lover, William Holthusen, refuses to believe that she is really dead, and has twice torn the crape from the door of the Pearsall home. Peter Holthusen, father of the boy, who lives on Wanser avenue, is planning to take his son for an extended tour of the United States as soon after the funeral as possible. At the time of the girl's death mystery surrounded the cause of her act. It has since been found out her parents did not wish her to marry on account of her age.

They thought that she should wait a couple of years longer, although they had no objection to young Holthusen, whose father is prosperous. Holthusen's parents shared the feelings of the girl's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Pearsall of Bayview avenue, and it is rumored that the elder Holthusen offered his son enough money to start in business if he would go away for a year or two and then come back and marry the girl if he still loved her. Yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock, young Holthusen went for the first time to his dead sweetheart's home.

He was accompanied by his own father and the father of the girl. When he saw the crape, on the door he broke away from the two men and tore the death symbol from the door, shrieking: "She isn't dead; I won't believe it." Again, later in the day, he did the same thing. Neighbors say that the boy has twice attempted suicide. Once by an attempt at strangulation with a strap around his neck, in a closet in his home. He was found in time, it is said.

A close watch is being kept over him and the intended tour is planned to district his mind from the tragedy. AWAITS HIS FIANCEE; HEARS SHE IS DEAD Cedarhurst Man on Way to Meet Train Gets Death Tidings. (Special to The Eagle.) Cedarhurst, L. February 23-While he was impatiently awaiting the arrival of his fiancee yesterday afternoon, Walter Hetrick, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Hetrick, of Central avenue, was handed a telegram. With no prescience of evil tiding, Hetrick opened the envelope and then almost collapsed. The message said that his fiancee, Miss Mav Macdonald of Greenfield, had died suddenly of appendicitis at her home. Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Hetrick have a summer home at Greenfield, and it was while staying there with his parents last summer that young Hetrick met Miss Macdonald. Their friendship rapidly ripened into love, and when he left Greenfield at close of the summer they were engaged. Some time a ago Mr. Hetrick asked his fiancee to come to Cedarhurst on Washington's Birthday and attend the ball of the Lawrence-Cedarhurst Volunteer Fire Department, which is always one of the annual society events of the town, Young Hetrick, accompanied by his mother, left Cedarhurst today for Greenfield to attend the funeral of the girl who, was SO soon to have been a bride. TWO HELD IN THEFT CASE.

In the Fifth avenue court today Magistrate McGuire held Francis Tedesco, 34 years old, a junk dealer of 175 Tenth street, in $2,000 bail for examination Thursday on a charge of receiving stolen goods and Everitt Van Pelt, 22, of 319 Third avenue, in the same bail, for alleged larceny. The complainant was Adolph Keller of 522 Eighth street, president of the Metal Company. SANTA MARTA REPORTED. The United Fruit Company's steamer Santa Marta, which lost her rudder last week off Cape Hatteras, and is being towed to this port by a wrecking tug, was reported by wireless this morning eighty-one miles south of Scotland Lightship. She was due to reach quarantine at midnight and to dock tomorrow morning.

LITTLE HARRY FISHER DIES OF WEAK HEART Long a Familiar Figure in Political Circles as Campaign Button Maker. 'LITTLE HARRY' ONCE NICKNAME Fisher Had It Made Real-Was Editor of City Record for a Short Time. Little Harry Fisher, for years a familiar figure in Brooklyn politics, died yesterday at his home, 421 Sterling heart failure. "Little Harry was his real name, having been made so, at his own request, by Judge Fawcett in the County Court in 1907. The legal step was taken on the ground that it would be of advantage in a social and monetary way to "LITTLE HARRY FISHER.

PrOTO OP CO, use the name of Little Harry, a nickname by which he had been known for years to his friends. He was an active member of the Tenth A. D. Republican Club and of other political organizations, and was closely associated as well with many social and fraternal bodies. He was one of the few Jewish members of some of the big Catholic organizations of Brooklyn, such as the Emerald Society and St.

Patrick's Society. He was also a member of the Masons and the Heptasophs and was vice president of the Travelers League of America. He was engaged in the cigar business at 367 Fulton street and manufactured political buttons and badges and novelties on the side. Ten years ago he became actively interested in boxing, and was a candidate for appointment to the State Boxing Commission. The only political job he ever held, however, was editor of the City Record, city's official publication.

He held this post for a la few months under Mayor Kline, being appointed temporarily, until an eligible Civil Service list could be prepared. He was also at one time a real estate investigator for the Williamsburgh Trust Company. Shortly United before his death he was made the States representative for a big services Cuban will be tobacco held at his Masonic late residence tomorrow night. The Rev. Alexander Lyons of the Eighth Avenue Temple will officiate at the regular services Thursday afternoon.

The interment will follow in Maimonides Cemetery, Cypress Hills. Mr. Fisher was 50 years of age. He leaves a widow and two young children. DIME BANK CLEW FAILS Magistrate Nash Frees Visco for Lack of Evidence.

Nicholas Visco, the man who was arrested last Thursday in the Park National Bank, in Manhattan, while trying to get change one of the series of $50 bills stolen from the Dime Savings Bank on February 9, was discharged from custody by Magistrate Nash in the Adams street court this morning. Detective Sullivan had made the complaint against him when John Murray, a private detective, told the police a story about having seen Visco as one of seven, dividing the $10,000 that was stolen from the Dime Savings Bank, in a room in a house on Twenty-third street, Manhattan, near Seventh avenue. Murray disappeared just after the identification and left the police high and dry in their case. When Visco was arraigned in court last week. he denied that he had any knowledge of the bank robbery, and the law did not call on him to explain where he got the $50 note.

Magistrate Nash today turned the man loose with this indorsement on the back of the papers: "There being no sufficient cause to believe the within-named Nicholas Visco guilty of the offense within I mentioned, I order him to be discharged at the request of the plainant." Visco walked leisurely out of court, to be congratulated by several of his friends. The police have made no further progress in the case of the bold bank robbery. T. R. WILL NOT GET $40,000 No Prospect of Nobel Prize Being Returned to Him.

Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, February 23-There is no prospect of the passage at this session of Congress of the bill dissolving the Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Peace and returning to Theodore Roosevelt the 000 Nobel peace prize which he donated to that institution and upon which it was founded. Colonel Roosevelt has announced his intention to devote $10,000 of the money, if the Government returns it, to the unemployed in New York City. There has been talk of opposition to the bill in Congress from Democratic sources, on the ground that there should be no direct or indirect admission that a state of unemployment exists in this country; but it is not possible to find any member who will express such views. The bill was introduced in the House by Representative Bartholdt of Missouri, and was favorably reported by the committee on labor on February 4.

It appeared on unanimous consent calendar on February 15, but upon the objection of Representative Mann, the Republican leader was stricken off. It is now on the general House calendar and has no prospect of passing at this late day. In the Senate a similar bill was introduced by Senator Lodge and referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. It has not yet come out of committee. Col.

L. R. McKEE, 73 years old, fifty years a newspaper man, and 1 celebrated editorial writer during and since the Reconstruction period, died today at his home in Montgomery, Alabama. CALDER IS NOT AFRAID Doesn't Think Hostile Fleet Will Shell New York. Washington, February 23-Representative William M.

Calder of Brooklyn was the central figure in the course of a debate in the House yesterday afternoon on conditions of national defense, when he admitted that New York, under certain conditions, might be bombarded by a hostile fleet. The Brooklyn Congressman made this admission as a member of the fortifications subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, under the prodding of Representative Augustus P. Gardner of Massachusetts, who refuses to go to bed nowadays unless he hears the booming of at least eight new coast artillery guns, assuring him that the country is still safe or immune from invasion. The gentleman from Massachusetts made several mountains out what the Brooklyn representative said. Mr.

Calder was asked if his committee had discussed a report that shallow water Rockaway Beach would prevent a hostile fleet getting within range New York, and he replied to Mr. Gardner: "Judging from the testimony of experts I have no hesitation in declaring that we need not have the slightest fear that battleships can lie off Rockaway Beach and shell New York City. "Of course, if we lost all our battleships and we failed to mount howitzers at Rockaway Beach and placed no mines in the waters near by, a foreign fleet might get in and shell New York City from Rockaway." There were other questions by Mr. Gardner concerning the depth of water off' Rockaway, and an assertion that the water was deep enough for battleships within gun range the city. "I think that before battleships could reach that point the War Department would prepare defenses at Rockaway Beach that would prevent any was the final word of Congressman Calder.

ST. PATRICK'S BOOKS GO IN $25,000 FIRE Society in Quandary as Dues and Membership Records Are Burned. Members of the St. Patrick's Society are in a quandary to know who their fellow members are, and who have or have not paid their dues, now that all the records of the society of sixty-eight years' duration have been burned in the fire Saturday night, at the home of W. J.

Fitzpatrick, the secretary, 172 Sterling place. The announcement of this loss came today from officers of the society. The records were the custody of Mr. Fitzpatrick when the $25,000 fire occurred at his home. With them is the loss of the complete membership list and the record of those who have paid their dues.

There was a dispute at the last meeting of the society over what members have paid their dues of $2 a year, and it was said that about 80 have paid, while 140 have not. This matter was to be thrashed out at the next meeting. Now the members are in a quandary as to what to do For the present, however, the officers of the society request the members to send their names and addresses to Mr. Fitzpatrick at his new home, 79A Seventh avenue. BASEBALL VERDICT SOON.

Judge Landis Expected to Announce Decision This Week. February 23-Baseball enthusiasts' were cheered today by the announcement that Judge K. M. Landis protably would give his decision this week in the suit of the Federal League against organized baseball. The Judge has had the case under advisement for a month.

In its petition for a restraining order against the officials of the National League, the American League and the National Commission, the Federal League declared that organized ball had operated in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and that its control over players was a violation of the constitutional rights guaranteed to every American citizen. GETS VERDICT FOR $5,000 L. I. City Woman Wins Suit Against Telephone Company. (Special to The Eagle.) Long Island City, February 23-Mrs.

Daisy Taylor of 472 Third avenue, Long Island City, won a verdict of $5,000 from the New York Telephone Company in the Queens County Supreme Court before Justice Benedict this morning. Mrs. Taylor asked for $20,000. While walking on Broadway, Long Island City, on October 1913, she tripped on some pipes the telephone company had left in the road. The fall injured her so that a serious operation was necessary.

THOMPSON BILL PASSES. Provides for Improvement of Docks in Peconic Bay. (Special to The Eagle.) Albany, February 23-Senator G. L. Thompson's for the improvement of docking facilities along Bay passed in the Upper House today.

It authorizes the town of Riverhead to raise money by taxation for the purpose of acquiring land for the erection of a town dock and the approaches thereto on the Peconic River, in the town of Riverhead. MOVEMENTS OF WAR VESSELS. The torpedo-boat destroyer Warrington sailed from the Brooklyn Navy Yard last Saturday for the fleet rendezvous at Guantanamo, and will be followed on Friday by the Mayrant, now taking on supplies at the yard. The submarines G1, G2 and G4 will leave the Navy Yard on February 26 and, conveyed by the sea tug Sonoma, as temporary "mother ship," will proceed to join the submarine flotilla at Pensacola. The Ozark and the G3 will remain at the yard, probably until about April 1, when this undersea boat too will leave the yard for aL post repair trip.

BOYS HIGH FIVE BEATEN. (Special to The Eagle.) West Point, N. February 23-Boys High of Brooklyn lost a hard-fought. basketball game to the West Point plebes here yesterday by 15-12. The visitors led up to the final minutes of play, when the plebes brought their reserve strength into play and pulled out a well-earned victory.

Weiner and Bernstein starred for the Brooklyn team. MC CARTHY'S TRIAL TOMORROW. Long Island City, February 23-The trial of Joseph McCarthy, 24 years old of 165 Greenpoint avenue, Greenpoint, accused of the murder of Timothy Donahue of 656 Leonard street, Brooklyn, will begin in Part I of the Supreme Court of Queens County, toinorrow morning. The shooting of Donahue happened in Celtic Park on May 17, 1914. SIX YEARS STRAIGHT FOR THIS GANGSTER Kafka's Charge of Police Frame Up Doesn't Go With Judge Fawcett.

SING SING TERMS FOR OTHERS. Jap Promises to Cut Out American Whisky-Guarino Sentenced for Killing in 1909. County Judge Lewis L. Fawcett today sentenced Abraham Kafka, 20 years old, of 66 Belmont avenue, Brownsville's Angel Face gangster, to a straight term of six years in Sing Sing on a charge of burglary in the third degree, as a second offender. Judge Fawcett declared he was dealing so harshly, with the gangster because he refused to plead guilty to a lesser degree of crime when an opportunity do so was offered him, and tried escape by swearing to a jury totes that he was the victim of police persecution, and had been "framed up" because he would not act as a stool pigeon for the police.

The jury refused to believe Kafka's story, which has won him freedom on several other occasions. He was convicted of the apartments of Mary Drinschstein, on the pretext of peddling clothes, stealing a quantity of clothing and jewelry. The preference of "men who know the ropes" to go 1 to Sing Sing rather than Elmira was again demonstrated years old, of 359 Bradford street. Teich today to Judge Roy by a Jacob Teich, 19 and Max Weisberg had pleaded guilty to receiving stolen goods, and Judge Roy announced that he would send them both to Elmira. "Don't send me to Elmira," Teich demanded of the Judge.

"I'd sooner go to Sing Sing." The clerk of the court declared, almost at the same time, that Teich could not go to Elmira, as he has already been sentenced on a felony charge. "Very well, then," Judge Roy said; "you can serve three years in Sing Sing." Weisberg, Teich's partner, escaped with the Elmira sentence, and will be free again in a year. Judge Roy said to Seitz Shinoda, 29 years old, a Japanese, living at 161 West Ninety-third street, Manhattan, when he was arraigned for sentence on a charge of carrying a revolver: "I'll let you go on a suspended sentence if you'l promise to leave American whisky alone." "I'll nebber touch him no more," Shinoda said, in great seriousness, as he walked away. Judge Roy sentenced Herman Macienknowsy, a youth, who has been in this country but a few months, to not less than three years and not more than six years and six months in Sing Sing on a charge of carrying a dangerous weapon. Although the lad has been here but a short time, he captured with a loaded revolver going about trying to commit burglaries, and Judge Roy gave him the limit sentence the law allows.

Giuseppe Guarino, who stabbed Charles Boulton on October 10, 1909, during the Hudson Fulton celebration, was sentenced by Judge Dike to not less than three years and not more ter in the first degree. Guarino was than nine years and six months in Sing tried Sing first on a than charge of manslaugh- a more a year ago and at that time the jury stood 11 to 1 for his acquittal, when it was discharged. On the second trial last month, when he was prosecuted by Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Voss, he was convicted of manslaughter. Sentences by Judge Fawcett: Abraham Kafka, burglary third degree, six years in Sing Sing; William Mahr, receiving stolen goods, three months; Martin Damner, burglary, third degree, 1 year. Sentences by Judge Hylan: Hayes, petit larceny, sentence sugpended; John Moore, unlawful entry, sentence suspended; Louis Uapadakas, perjury; one year; Ernesto De Angelis, carrying dangerous weapon, $25 fine and ten days; Giaconic Parascandola, policy, $50 fine or twenty-five days; Charles Heins, assault second degree, sentence suspended; Stanley Canslankas, burglary third degree, two years and six months to four years and seven months in Sing Sing; William Zarawick.

burglary third degree, two months; Boles Koscueski, attempted burglary third degree, Elmira; Nicholas Orlando, policy, $25 fine or ten days. Sentences by Judge Roy: Warren Murray, selling cocaine, six months; Charles Albert, petit larceny, Hart's Island; Abe Ottenhaus, unlawful entry, Hart's Island; Charles Scope, receiving stolen goods, six months: Albert Murphy, petit larceny, six months; Angelo Clamla, burglary third degree, Elmira; William Rothnel, carrying dangerous weapons, sentence suspended; Percy Meyers, carrying dangerous weapons, $50 fine or fifty days; Andrew Owens, petit larceny, nine months; Joseph Moran, petit larceny, sentence suspended; David Tech, receiving stolen goods, three years in Sing Sing; Max Welsberg, receiving stolen goods, Elmira; James S. Shinola, carrying dangerous weapons, sentence suspended; Michael Burnes, grand larceny secdegree, six months; Ernest Boas, unlawful entry, House of Refuge; Gladys Kunzman abandonment of children, sentence suspended; Dominick Romandino, carrying dangerous weapon, $7 fine or seventy-five days; Emma Philips, grand larceny second degree, sentence suspended; Herman Macienkowsky, carrying dangerous weapons, three years to six years and six months; James Green, carrying dangerous weapon, six months; Monserrate Sepula, carrying dangerous weapon, $25 fine or ten days; Frank Avona, carrying dangerous weapons, $75 fine or seventy-five days; Warren Foote. grand larceny second degree, one year and eleven months in Sing Sing; John Gilroy, grand larceny second degree, three years in Sing Sing. Sentences by Judge Dike: Giuseppl Guarino, manslaughter first degree, three years to nine years and six months in Sing Sing.

CURATOR DITMARS TO LECTURE. Raymond L. Ditmars, curator of the Bronx Z00, will deliver a. lecture on "Animal Life" at the Dutch Church Club, 900 Flatbush avenue, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be accompanied by original moving pictures.

Refreshments will be served following the lecture. LOST. FOUND, BULLDOG. Inquire 33 Lefferts place. FOUND, on Sterling place, a fur SCARF.

MURTY, 201 Montague st. LOST, opal PIN. Saturday evening; suitable reward. G. ALLEY.

35 Pulaski st. LOST- Airedale TERRIER, grizzled gray bask, tan head and legs; liberal reward. 195 CHat RV. 12-3 LOST. flat oblong black leather HANDBAG.

brass handle: initials M. L. B. Reward, 303 Monroe st. LOST -St.

Bernard DOG, on 8th av. between Union and Carroll sts, about 7 p.m. February 22: reward. 224 6th av. LOST, diamond solitaire RING, Monday afternoon, on St.

John's place, between 5th and 6th ave. Liberal reward it returned to owner, 26 St. John's place. LOST, pointed fox MUFF. containing two purses, February 22, on West End train, going to Coney Island.

Liberal reward. G. WARD, 7 Bay 32d st. LOST -Mink NECKPIECE from Baltic st to Court st to 42 2d place, Sunday night, between 10 and 11. Reward will be given.

17S Baltie st, floor. LOST--On Bedford av, between Church av and Carroll st, Sunday, February 21, a black lynx neck FUR PIECE; reward. Finder address L. Eagle Flatbush branch. 22-2 LOST, black Persian paw NECKPIECE, Monday evening, between Franklin and Vanderbilt avs, by way of Lincoln, St.

John's and Park places. Reward if returned to 541 Lincoln place. W. J. MONTGOMERY.

$25 REWARD. Lost. February 20, gold WATCH and FOB, from Washington aV. Brooklyn, via Mrytle av, subway, Staten Island Ferry, to Tottenville. Return 227 Washington av.

Brooklyn. No questions asked. LOST -February 11, small BOOK, size Inches; manuscript on vellum, containing miniatures, bound in red velvet, inclosed in case of imitation book formation, with cross emblem, inclosed in outer leather case; paper package; handsome reward. CASSIDY, 450 Washington av. GUARANTEED FIRST MORTGAGE CERTIFICATES $100 and up Safest Investment In the World LAWYERS MORTGAGE CO RICHARD M.

HURD, President Capital, Surplus Pr. $9,000,000 184 Montague st, Bkn: 50 Liberty st, NY. STATE CHESS TITLE GOES TO A. KUPCHIK Manhattan Expert Makes a Clean Sweep, Defeating Eduard Lasker in Final. A.

Kupchik, champion of the Manhattan Chess Club, added to his long list of laurels, by annexing the title of New York State champion as the outcome of the play in the fourth and final round of the annual tournament of the N. Y. State Chess Association, under Metropolitan League auspices, at the roonis of the Brooklyn Chess Club, this morning. Kupchik, who last year had the championship of the Progressive Chess Club, practically for the asking, but yielded his right after a tie with Jaffe, was paired in the last round with Eduard Lasker of Berlin, who, like new champion, had entered the final stage with a clean score of three straight wins. Kupchik had the white pieces Ruy Lopez, and after a hard -fought game, which lasted 54 moves, the German expert yielded to the youthful New Yorker.

This gave Kupchik a score of 4 to 0, a total which of the other finalists, of whom Harry Zirn of Brooklyn, with was highest, could attain. Roy T. Black, champion of the Brooklyn Chess Club, and last year's State titleholder, whom Kupchik sueceeds, managed to tie for second prize with Lasker and Earl Simonson, of whom the last named proved a stumbling block for Black in the opening round on Saturday. The trio named shared the second, third and fourth prizes, each being credited with scores of 3 to 1. The real sensation of this year's State tournament was the showing made by Earl Simonson of the Staten Island Chess Club, who, like Black, acquired most of his chess knowledge at Cornell University.

Simonson disposed of Black and Michelsen in the preliminary rounds, and in the fourth round succeeded in administering defeat to Charles Jaife, champion of the Progressive Chess Club, in a hardfought game at the queen's pawn's opening, which went to 58 moves. Jaffe, like Zirn, was eliminated from participation in the prize BROOKLYN MAN THE GUEST Dr. Edwin Liebfried Is Honored by National Society of Ohio Women. Dr. Edwin Liebfried of Brooklyn was the guest of honor at the monthly meeting of the National Society of Ohio Women held at the Hotel McAlpin, Manhattan, yesterday.

A most interesting and enjoyable afternoon was spent by the forty members attending, discussing the drama and poetry of today. Dr. Liebfried, who formerly held a professorship at the Drexel Institute of Philadelphia, gave an address on the "Poetry of the Drama," and recited in a most dramatic way some poems of his own composition. Miss Heckman of Manhattan sang several solos during the course of the afternoon. The Brooklyn people attending were Mrs.

George M. Celyde, W. S. Smith, Mrs. A.

Rohse and J. McMrs. Kivney. CRASHED INTO GATES. Woodhaven, February 23-- Fred Jacque, a machinist, 21 years old, of 1133 Bigelow avenue, Woodhaven, while riding a motorcycle on Jerome avenue, near Ocean avenue, Ozone Park, lost control of his machine and crashed into the closed gates of the Long Island Railroad.

Jacque sustained a possible fracture of the skull was removed to St. Mary's Hospital, Jamaica. PROPOSALS FOR BIDS AND ESTIMATES FOR THE CITY A OF NEW YORK. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS.

The person or persons making a bid or estimate for any service, work, material 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, material, work or service for which the bid or estimate is made, with his or their name or names and the date of 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 estimate, received will be publicly opened by president of the 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; 12 no other person be so interested it shall distinctly state that fact; also that 16 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 Aldermen, fraud, and head that of no department, member of chief the Board of a of a bureau, deputy thereof or clerk therein, or other officer of The City of New York, is, shall be or become interested directly or indirectly, 018 contracting party, partner, stockholder, 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 verifled by the oath, in writing, of party or parties making the estimate that the several matters stated are in all respects true. No bid or estimate will be considered unless as a condition precedent to the reception or consideration of any proposal, it be accompanied 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 or corporate stock or certificates of indebtedness of any nature issued by The City of New York, which the Comptroller shall approve as of equal value with the security' required in the advertisement, to the amount of not less than three nor more than five per centum of the amount of the bond required, as provided In Section 420 of the Greater New York Charter. The amount shall be as specified in the proposals for instruction to bidders, and shall not be in excess of 5 per cent.

The certifled check or money should not be inclosed in the envelope be containing inclosed the bid in or estimate, but should either 8 separate envelope addressed to board, the head of submitted the department, president, the or presentation of or the bid or personally upon estimate, For particulars as to the quantity or quality of the supplies or the nature and extent of the work, reference must be made to file the specifications, schedules, plans, on in the said office of the president, board or department. No bid shall be accepted who from or contract awarded to any York, person is debt in arrears to The City of New defaulter upon or otherwise contract, or who is a as surety or upon any The contracts must be bid obligation to the city. for separately, The right is reserved in each case to reject all bids or estimates if it is deemed to be for Interest of the city so to do. the Bidders will write out the amount of their bids or estimates in addition to inserting the same in figures. Bidders are requested to make their bids estimates upon the blank forms of which, prepared and furnished by the elty, a copy with the proper envelope in which to inclose the bid.

together with copy of contract including the specifications in the forms approved by the Corportion Counsel, can be of obtained by department application for therefor at the office the which the work 18 to be done. Plans and drawings of construction work will also seen ther..