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2G PAGES. NEW YORK CITY. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24. 1912. FOUR O'CLOCK.

BIG TRACT FOR SETTLEMENT. SIMPLIFIED SPELLING PUZZLE ERNQR HAOLEY'S FLOP SURPRISE TOM MEN IN COMPETITIVE CLASS WANT TAFT AT EMERALD BALL. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth street. Washington, January 24 Eugene F-Moran of Brooklyn, chairman of the Emerald Ball Association, will call at the White House this afternoon to invite the President to attend the association ball to be held In February. Invitations also will be extended by Mr.

Moran to the several cabinet officers. The New York State delegation in charge will be invited also. i TO SEE DIX TODAY ON P. S. APPOINTMENT But Oil Rights Will Be Reserved to the Government.

Washington, January 24 More than 18,000,000 acres of public lands now withheld from settlement because of their supposed oil deposits would be available for agricultural entry under a bill favorably reported today by the Senate Committee on Public Lands. It would perm't surface entries, reserving oil rights to the government. B.R.T. FROM MANHATTAN He Had Practically Pledged Himself to Support Taft for Renomination. Court of Appeals Decides They Must Pass Civil Service Examination.

MAY BE A FAVORITE SON. 2 LOWER COURTS REVERSED. COLONEL AND MRS. ASTOR SAIL. Colonel John Jacob Astor and his bride of six months, who was Miss Madeline Force, were passengers on he White Star liner Olympic, which sailed for Southampton today.

The Astors are golug to Egypt to spend the winter, but they will probably visit London and Paris en route. BARRY WINS IN AUSTRALIA Sydney, Australia, January 24 James Barry, the heavyweight pugilist of Chicago, defeated "Bill" Lang of Victoria, the former heavyweight champion of Australia, at the Stadium here today. The contest lasted the whole twenty rounds, Barry eventually winning on points. frzm Will Present List of Candidates but May Agree on Man Suggested by the Governor. Based on Payment of Eight and Three-Fourths Per Cent.

Guarantee by City. Roosevelt Forces Receive a Severe Important Ruling That "Confidential Officers" Are Not in, the Exempt Class. Blow in Oklahoma, Where They Felt Certain of Victory. To make it simpler (for the Interbor. ough) what three letters would Mr.

Shonts leave out of NEW SUBWAY ROUTES? FIRE DESTROYS OARAGE; 'THREATENS UNION LEAGUE NO NOMINATION THIS WEEK. STIFF FIGHT IS EXPECTED. MAYOR IS A GRAWDFATHER Son Is Born to Mrs. Seward Webb Who Eloped Last Spring. BOROUGH BANK PROBE ON Gow Account Bolstered Up by Note of J.

A. R. Studwell, Witness Testifies. For Story That McCooey Declared His Willingness to Retire as leader if Unopposed for Com-: missioner. B.

R. T. Expected to Demand That Original Flan in Essential Details Be Adhered To. Three Alarms Sounded Blaze In Bedford Avenue. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street.

Washington, January 24 Friends of President Taft were surprised today at the announcement that Governor Hadley of Missouri had come out in support of the nomination of Colonel Roosevelt. Governor Hadley's support had been counted upon by political advisers of President Taft. When the Missouri Governor was In Washington several weeks ago it was announced that he had practically pledged himself to support Mr. Taft for renomination. So confident were the political advisers of the President that Governor Hadley was working in his Interest that Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel, who comes from St.

Louis, practically surrendered State leadership to the Governor. In his public statement Governor Hadley has joined with Governors Osborn of Michigan and Glasscock of West Virginia Hot words were exchanged between Inquisitor Vincent L. Leibell. George M. Van Doorin, a witness in the Borough Bank hearing today, and the latter's counsel, Jacob Halstead of 76 William Btreet, Manhattan, when Leibell accused A fire, which at Its commencement seemed so serious as to demand that three alarms be Immediately turned In, occurred late this afternoon In the three-story building occupied by the Bergen and Bedford Auto Exchange and that Is next door to the Union League Club.

It Is believed that the fire was caused by an explosion due either to gasoline stored on the premises or to the ex Van Doorin in open court of attempting to evade the service of a subpoena to Although the fact has been kept secret, except from the most intimate friends and relatives of the two families, it became known today that Mayor Gaynor was made a grandfather last Sunday night by the arrival of a bouncing eight-pound baby boy In the home, of his daughter, Mrs. W. Seward Webb, formerly Miss Gertrude Gaynor. Mr. and Mrs.

Webb live at 829 Park avenue, Manhattan. The arrival of the baby, whose name has not yet been decided upon, adds a happy sequel to the romantic marriage of Miss Gaynor to W. Seward Webb lust May. The marriage was performed In Wilmington, following an elopement, which was aided and abetted by Miss Gaynor's sister and her brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.

Harry K. Vingut, who established a precedent in the Gaynor family by eloping on June 22, 1910. The ceremony was performed in the First Presbyterian Church of Wilmington by the Rev. J. R.

Stoneifer. force his attendance before the investigation being conducted by Second Deputy Superintendent Edward J. Graham. Van Doorin lives at 348 Macon street, and besides being at one time a depositor of the bank was manager of the Borough Park Branch. He wan culled to the and a number of State organization DOES THE B.

R. T. WANT TO GIVE UP THE LINES NORTH OF 59TH STREETP Controller I'ri-mlcruust lnxt night! I WllllniiiN nfler the fiKreeineiit of liiNt June nttMiireil uff lilt we I'oiihl reopen iiv KoMiitlium with the I iiterlioroiig'h HH that Much iiliin would be MuttNfuetory to lit in," Colonel WlllinniN, llcceuilir "The Brooklyn liniilil Trim nit C'oniitiii him never for a liniment wavered In 11 Intention and wink to rnrry out In every particular tllp nrrilnicelneiit outllneil hy the llonril of Kittlmate at its meeting of July 21t lnxt." plosion of an automobile. At the time that The Eagle went to press it seemed certain that the entire structure would leaders In Northern States. Hadley la looked upon as vice presidential timber by the men interested in the Roosevelt movement.

(Special to The Eagle.) Albany, January 24 Governor Dlx will hold a conference with the Brooklyn Democratic Senators on the appointment of a Public Service Commissioner, to succeed William McCarroll of Brooklyn, at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. He so told Senator Loring M. Black, ona of the four Democratic "Insurgents," through his secretary, today. There has been a misunderstanding about the arrangements for the conference, and the Senators were waiting for the Governor to send for them, while he wa exrecting them to call on him all day yesterday, and up to the time of Black's visit to the executive chamber this afternoon. It is planed to have all the Brooklyn Democratic Senators at the conference, including Senators Cullen and Harden, the two McCooey Senators, and Senators Black, Cronln, Banner and O'Brien, the anti-McCooeyltes.

The Insurgent Democrats may present stand and questioned Regarding a note which he had signed at the request or president Maxwell. To insure an antl-Taft delegation from that State it la possible that Hadley Jay L. Dayhoff, a bookkeeper In the will be presented as Presl DanK, was recalled and testified regarding the overdrawn condition of Will dential candidate of the favorite son type along with Senator Cummins of (Special to The Eagle.) Albany, January 24 The Court of Appeals has decided that the probation officers to be appointed by the Justices of the Court of Special Sessions must be placed in the competitive class of the Civil Service and must pass an examination conducted by the Civil Service Commission. The opinion of the Court was written by Justice Werner, and it is considered very Important as showing that so called "Confidential Officers" may be subject to examination and appointment from an eligible list, and cannot be held to be In the exempt class If the Civil Service Commission decides they should be placed In the competitive class. The Court of Appeals reversed the special term of the Supreme Court and the Appellate Division in Brooklyn on this case, which was brought up by the Civil Service Commission on appeal from the order of the lower courts.

The original applicant, Jacob Simons, a probation officer, applied to the Supreme Court In Brooklyn for a writ of mandamus to compel the Civil Service Commission to place probation officers in the exempt class. He was represented by former Assistant District Attorney A. 1. Nova, and was successful in the two lower courts, but the Civil Service Commission, througa Assistant Corporation Counsel Farley and Attorney General Carmody, carried tne matter before Ihe Court of Appeals. Civil Service Commission Gains Its Point.

The Civil Service Commission contended that it was practicable to formulate rules for the examination of applicants for the position of probation officer, and this contention is recognized by the Court of Appeals, which thereby gives the Commission broader powers than have hitherto been conceded to it. The probation officers pointed to the law of 1910 under which they were provided for, and which says in one place that they "shall be made confidential officers of the Justice." Justice Werner, in his opinion, quoted the statute, but says that this is not conclusive evidence that the intent of tb law was to make these "Confidential Officers" exempt from the jurisdiction of Civil Service Commission. The opinion goes Into the history of the passage of the bill through the Legislature of 1910, and shows that when the bill was originally framed a clause to the effect that the chief probation end the probation officers "should be exempt" was contained In It. But the bill was amended In the Senate by striking out that provision about exemption from examination, and forming the officers "confidential officers." This was done, says the justice, evidently to allow the Civil Service Commission, in lowa. iam Gow'g account.

He said that it was overdrawn on October 21, three days before the bank closed, to an exetent of To offset the Hadley blow, Roosevelt received a severe Jolt in the action of the $72,254.90, while on the same day that this overdrawn condition appears Gow had his own check certified by the bank for an amount exceeding $73,000. The WHAT POLICE DID LAST YEAR There Were 153,726 Arrests Made Present Force Numbers 10,208. Gow account was overdrawn most of the time from early In 1905 until the bank closed. On the day that institution closed the names of several candidates lor ap ltB doors he had an apparent balance of pointment to the Governor. They include George M.

Curtis, Deputy Tenement House Commissioner Frank Mann, Rudolnh Reimer. former Controller Her bo razed to the ground. The fact that the building adjoins the Union League caused the firemen who were first on the scene much apprehension and a second and third alarms were immediately sounded. The fire was restricted, however, to the garage Itself and the damage Is estimated at $35,000, covered largely by Insurance. Two lines of hose were directed on the burning building from the Union Club itself, being carried through the nructure and trained on the fire from the windows.

Adjoining the building on the other side is a row of apartment houses, which was also for a time threatened. Tho families of E. W. Wyckoffff and Eugene S. Jacobs of 35 Grand Square were compelled to flee from the building, and a oarber shop on the first floor was emptied of its patrons.

Batalllon Chief O'Hara responded at the second alarm and Chief Lally came at the third call. Nearly a dozen autos In the garage were rescued. The Eagle Savings and Loan Association are the owners of the building. SKULL FRACTURED BY FALli man A. Metz, Deputy Pi re Commissioner Fourth Oklahoma District Convention last night, which elected two delegates to the National Convention and Instructed them for President Taft.

They had been led to believe that the convention would be overwhelmingly for Roosevelt, and that the delegates would be Instructed for the former President. In fact, the Information that had been furnished to them waB that the Roosevelt people would command 118 votes In the convention the exact number that the Taft forces had when the Bhow down came. As yet no explanation has reached Washington as to how or why Chairman Perry of the District organization, who was the Roosevelt leader, fell down. Senator William S. Kenyon of Iowa, It Is said, will make public today a statement supporting the Presidential candidacy of Senator Albert B.

Cummins, his colleague. Philip Farley and Bernard J. YorK. While the name of Bridge Commissioner Arthur J. O'Keeffe is not on the list of "approved" candidates prepared by the "insureents." a majority of them ad twu.io, the remainder of a note placed to hlg credit on the previous day.

Among the notes which appeared in his account and were used to bolster up his account when It was ovedrawn was one for $25,000 signed by J. A. R. Studwel! the absent president of the Inter-City Car Advertising Company, who was recently married In New Jersey, though a woman claiming to be his wife has long lived at Bellport, L. I.

Dayhoff also testified regarding certain loans to John S. Jenkins. The. hearing was adjourned at noon until Friday morning. Mahoney announced that Robert W.

Haff, who is wanted to testify, regarding the alleged signing bf dummy notes by hla employes at his direction, was missing and that mit in private conversation that they -would vote to confirm O'Keeffe if he were named by Governor Dlx. 8enator Black probably will name Ed ward G. Riggs, who is reported to have received a tentative offer of the appointment, but the other Brooklyn Senators are expected to oppose Riggs. Senator (Julian or Senator Hardin may propose A HALF MILLION BEQUEATHED. the namn of John H.

McCooey, the leader process serffrs had Jeen lo sate 1 of the KiflffeO-itt'im an ixecutor of nation. However, the Senators preier to learn the Governor wishes before pro tinnlnir candidates to him. SAY DECISION FAVORS GROUT. One of, the Brooklyn men said that If Although his annual report has not been made public in full, Police Commissioner Waldo, it became known today, states in it that during the past year 153,726 arrests were made, of which 25,088 were by the Detective Bureau. Refering to the Mayor's suggestion that the pictures of persons arrested.

ut who had never been convicted be not kept, 'the Commissioner says that the suggestion was carried out to the leter so that now the rogues gallery has ben relieved of carrying pictures except those of convicted, persons. In 1911 there were four thousand, fewer arrests for violation of ejty ordinances than In the preceding year. At present the number of uniformed men In tho Police Department is 10,208, which is exactly the number on the pay roll the year before. Extra men, however, were made available for patrol duty when the Commissioner abolished 1,014 details anil by reducing the headquarters staff from 235 to 77. The latter number the Commissioner adds can still fulher be reduced by substituting civilian rlerks to do work now dne by policemen.

The number of men holding special po-1 llcemen's badges was cut during the year from 1,085 to 160. There Is urgent demand for additional police stations, the Commissioner says. He points out that In twenty-five years no additional stations have been established above J25th street. The Commissioner recommends, too, that automobile wagons be employed In place of the horse drawn vehicles. Hs- discretion, to decide whether the positions should eexempt or not.

As the Commission declares that the positions need not be exempt, and that workable rules for examination can be made, the Commission has the final determination of the matter. John Murray of Glen Cove in Dying Condition at Hospital. (Special to The Eagle.) Glen Cove, L. January 24 John Murray, a blacksmith of this place, was probably fatally injured this morning when he fell from the cornice of a building to the sidewalk, fracturing his skull. He wm removed to the Nassau Hospital In a dying condition, after the Rev.

Father Sarneckl had administered the last rites of the church. Murray was putting up a sign on a store on Glen street when the accident occurred. He is about 40 years old, and has a wife and a daughter. Mrs. Murray was visiting friends at Jericho today when she was notified of the accident.

Mrs. Hart's Will. (Special to The Eagle.) Mineola, January 24 The will of Mrs. Helen Whittle Hart, a late resident of Lawrence, filed here today, contains provisions for the disposal of all her personal and real property amounting to about half a million dollars. Mrs.

Hart died on January 16, and the will was made on March 13, 1909. The relatives of Mrs. Hart are prominent in the Cedarhurst social set. All articles of Jewelry are left to friends and relatives, wntle the furniture and silverware are to be the property of her husband, Hanson Wales Hart. Sums ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 are given to distant relatives, and Lizzie Swift, who was a servant in the Hart household for a number of years, la to receive $1,000.

Mrs. Lora W. Meyer, wife of Secretary of the Navy George Von L. Meyer, Is to be the owner of a handsome diamond ring which has been in the family for a number of generations. The real estate, which is valued at Case Has Been in the Courts Nearly the Governor would submit me names of several men who he is considering for the place, they would be glad to learn the names and would give them earnest consideration.

If he should-indicate his preference as lying between one or two men on the list, they would in all likelihood, they say, agree on one of these men. But they exclude McCooey from such a proceeding, as they have agreed that no district leader should obtain the appointment. It was reported In Albany ttys afternoon, before the conference, that the Governor had offered the place to a personal friend of his named Newcomb, a resident of Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Senators say that they do not know of any such candidate. According to the story which comes from good authority, Mr.

Newcomb refused the offer, and Governor Dlx asked him to suggest a good man. Nowcomb, it is said, recommended his nephew, whose name has not been disclosed, for the position. Rumor Court Decides He Will Not Have to Appear in "Union Bank Case. Jeremiah T. Mahoney, who Is investigating the Borough Bank, said today that rumors had reached his ears to the effect that the Court of Appeals had already voted unanimously in favor of the action of Edward M.

Grout, brought to prevent the enforcement of his presence as a witness in the Union Bank matter. The rumor, he said, appeared to be authentic, and he further said that he understood the decision was to be officially handed down Friday. If the decision is adverse, he said, it will effectually quash the proceedings he has instituted to inforce the appearance of John Hill, proprietor of- the Clarendon Hotel, at the Borough Bank Investigation. Both proceedings are instituted on the same ground. Further credence to the report that the lnterborough Company In Its offer to the city would try to bar the B.

R. T. from subways In Manhattan was given to.luy Dy the terms of the ngreemont said to have been reached between the city olficials and the lnterborough di rectors. That there is a well-defined effort on the purt of the lnterborough to keep the 13. R.

T. out of Manhattan altogether and out of the Broadway subway, especially, was gleaned from the specifications Included in the tentative agreement, that has for Its basis the guarantee to the lnterborough of per cent, by the city on Its Investment In place of thn 9 per cent, that was orlglu-ally, demanded. Colonel Williams of the B. R. T.

today refused to make any additional comment on the situation, but it is generally understood that the company will strenuously contest any award to the lnterborough which seeks to destroy the value of the Brooklyn lines that are to enter Manhnttan. It is understood that the lnterborough In its offer plans lo cither keep the B. It. T. out of Manhattan entirely or so to emasculate any lines that may be awarded to the Brooklyn company that profitable patronage would be impossible.

The B. 11. T. has not departed from its attitude that It la willing that the In-terborougli should have certain subway lines In Manhattan, notably the Seventh avenue route, but will contest any agreement which shall give to tho lnterborough more than it feels should have, or that will keep that company from entering Brooklyn. The B.

K. as Colonel Williams stilted In his address of Saturday night, is willing, however, to live up to Us original plan of talking over all lines, which were allotted to it by the Board of hsilmate last summer. Mayor Gaynor's attitude today was that the B. R. T.

should be given the contract for the Broadway line If Ita bid was the best. This would Indicate that the city docs not intend to stand by the agreement reached lust summer, and which already gave to the Brooklyn company this route. The general opinion expressed today among close students of the situation was that the city litis about determined to accept the terms of the lnterborough oit'er mu'quivocjilly, and which would mean that the B. li. unless it takes immediate steps to reverse the decision arrived at, is likely to lose out In tho subway fight as regards Manhattan at least.

That such a step will be made when the terms of the offer are made public, is practically assured, for the company ivgards the city as morally obligated to carry out Its award of last summer in all the essential details. Colonel Williams today again expressed the belief that the city nlllclala would not go buck of their previous uc-tion. lnterborough Proposal to Be Based on 8 3-4 Guarantee. The conclusions of the attorneys who have been going over the legal form of the tentative agreement reached between the City and the Interhornugh Rapid Transit Company will be submitted the Public Service Commission and to members of tho Hoard of Estimate late tills afternoon and immediately thereafter the Inteiborotigh directors may draw up the final form of their proposal to tho BABY BURNS HERSELF. a Year.

The Simons case has been In the courts for nearly a year. He was appointed to the position of probationary officer In January, 1911, but when the clerk of the court submlted his name for the February payroll, he was informed that the position was in the competitive class, and the Commission could not certify his name on the payroll. Simons immediately filed application In the Supreme Court for a writ of peremptory mandamus to compel the certification of his name by the Civil Service Commission, and In March last Justice Crane granted tho writ of mandamus, declaring at the same time that no position could be more confidential than that of a probation officer and the place should be is the exempt class. An appeal from the decision of Justice Crane was taken to the Appellate Division by the Civil Service Commission, and on June 23 that tribunal by unanimous opinion sustained the action of the Supreme Court. In ruling on the case, all Claim McCooey Agreed to Quit as $500,000, is willed to the husband, Hanson KNOCKED DOWN IN STREET.

Little Girl left Alone Five Minutes May Die From Injuries. Three-year-old Bertha Dean, who lives with her parents at 618 Sterling place, was probably fatally burned yesterday THE R00SEVELTS ARRIVE. The- Colonel Will Entertain New Granddaughter at Sagamore Hill. (Special to The Eagle.) Oyster Bay, L. January 24 For the first time since their marriage in June, 1910, Mr.

and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, will be the guests of the latter's W. Hart, during his lifetime and on the event of his death is to revert to five cousins and nephews. A peculiar thing Joseph Rlchetti in a Serious Condi tion Skull May Be Fractured. afternoon while her mother was purchas about this bequest Is that the nephews are at tho same time stepchildren of Mrs.

Hart. He married two sisters in the same family, his second wife being Joseph Rlchetti, a cobbler, 45 years old, was removed from his home, at 482 ing some groceries in a neftrby store. Mrs. Dean had been away scarcely five minutes. On opening the ball door she father, Colonel Roosevelt, at Sagamore Seventh avenue, early this morning to the Methodist Episcopal Hospital suf Hill.

Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt, who have been residing in San Francisco. fering from concussion of the brain since their marriage, have arrived in widow at the time she married Hart. These nephews and cousins are Joseph S.

Hart of Colonio, Sarah Taylor, Lora H. Meyer, Louis Wales Hart and Hanson Wales Hurt, jr. The executors of the estate are the husband. Hanson W. Hurt, and Secretary Meyer.

and a possible fracture of the base of New York. With them is the skull. Leader if Nominated for F. S. Board.

That McCooey practically assured the "Insurgent" Democratic Senators in their talk with him on Monday that he would retire from the leadership of the organization if the Governor nominated htm for Public Service Commissioner and they voted to confirm him, was asserted In Albany today. Although the Senators are anxious to end his power, they refuse to support him. Former Senator Edwin Bailey, of Patchogue Is in Albany today. The Governor announced this morning that he would not send In any important nominations to the Senate this week. The appointments which he is to make in the near future Include not only a Public Service Commissioner for the First District, but one for the Second, or up-State, district as well.

A hot fight is being waged over the up-State vacancy, end the two candidates are Herbert F. Bissell of Buffalo, a prominent Independent Democrat, and William Fitzpatrick, of the Justices of the Appellate Division agreed that the Legislature Intended that On Monday, as the Injured man was daughter, Grace Green Roosevelt, who is Colonel Roosevelt's first grandchild. He had his first ullmnae hi the office of probation officer should be was startled by the screaming of her child. She rushed upstairs, and on opening the door to the sitting room found the child enveloped in flames. She smoldered the blaze with a rug and then nailed for help.

An ambulance call was sent in, and Dr. Hall, who responded, removed the child to the Swedish Hospital. During her mother's absence the little girl had climbed upon the table, where several matches had been, left, and had set fire to her clothing. returning home from work, two men accosted him on the street, and without provocation entered Into an altercation with him. One of the men.

it is said. exempt from the competitive class as a confidential position. The court held daughter at the Grand Central Station, COURT HOUSE SITE SUIT. that the appointments of probation officers, as provided In the law for the vora, yesterday, when his son and daughter-in-law arrived rom the West. Colonel and Mrs.

,.1 struck him a blow on the mouth, knock equipment of Inferior courts, did not tain the young couple for several weeks. ing mm to me siaewaiK. in falling, Rlchetti struck the back of his head on the flagstone. loung Koosevelt was formerly Miss Eleanor Butler have to come from the civil service lists, but were confidential officers of the magistrate, and could be appointed by the Justices of the Special Sessions Court. Dr.

Longworthy was summoned from B0SSERT, ARRESTED. of Mrs. Henry Addison Alexander. the hospital, and pronounced the man to be suffering from lacerations of the lip and abrasions of the scalp, and after lie uemocratic leader of Buffalo. There are said to be at least a dozen attending him removed him to his home.

Mayor Is Served With Notice of Application for Injunction. Mayor Gaynor was Berved yesterday afternoon with notice that application would be made in the Supreme Court tomorrow, Thursday, for an injunction to restrain the Board of Estimate from proceeding further toward the acquisition of a site for the New York County courthouse. The action Is the taxpayers suit brought SUBWAY CONTRACT AWARDED. MRS. BREDING DISAPPEARS.

candidates for Health Officer of the Port About 12:30 clock this morning of New York to succeed Dr. Doty, but Rlchetti became unconscious, and Dr. the Governor has given no Intimation of strauD was summoned from the same Degnon Company to Build Section 2 his intentions about filling the place. nospitai, ana nurriea tne patient to it, where his condition Is regarded a serious. NO BAIL FOR DR.

STACKH0USE, by Alexander S. Drescher, announcement of which was made in The Eagle two days ago, to make the cost of the court of Broadway-Lexington Ave. Line. The Public Service Commission today awarded the contract for the construction of Section 2 of (he Broadway-Lexington avenue subway to the Deguoit Contracting Company of this city, which put in the lowest bid. The figure of the Physician Accused by Girl Still in house In Manhattan a charge against New York County instead of the city at large.

BULLET THROUGH HIS HEAD. Is Charged With Passing a Worthless Check. A man, who said he was Louis Bossert, 46 years old, of 1008 Lafayette avenue, was arrested In Manhattan this morning and brought to the Gates avenue court, this borough, charged with passing a worthless check for $5, when he had no account in the bank on which the check was drawn. Tho complainant in the action is Charles S. Haggerty of 454 Myrtle avenue.

Bossert was arrested by Captain of Detectives Duffy and Detective William Lan-nlng of the Gates avenue station, In a cafe at the corner of Twenty-third street and Third avenue. They took him to the nearest elevated station, and while awaiting to board a train Bossert seemed to become crazed. He broke away from Lannlng and made an attempt to Jump in front of an oncoming electric train. Lannlng seized him and Captain Duffy came his aid, but It was neoeosnrv tnr Louis Corn, 111, Was Unable to Get MRS. PIG0T ASKS ALIMONY.

Charges Husband With Spending Much Money in "Lobster Palaces." In the Supreme Court of Manhattan yesterday Justice Gerard listened to a plea for alimony from Mrs. Mabel H. Plgot, a former well-known resident of Brooklyn, who is suing her husband, J. N. Plgot, for divorce.

Mrs. Plgot asks for $2,000 a year alimony and $1,000 counsel fees, and says that her husband, who is a member of the firm of Plgot, Sayer has a large income and spends most of his leisure moments In the "lobster palaces" along the "Gay White Way." Counsel for Mr.1 Plgot told his client's Husband Gives Notice He Will Not Be Responsible for Debts. "I do hereby give notice that I will not be responsible for any debts contracted or liabilities incurred by my wife, Kathereyne A. Bredlng. (Signed) A.

BREDING." Mr. Bredlng, who has given out for publication the foregoing notice, is the Eastern representative of the American Lawyer's Company, which publishes a directory of lawyers. His offices are at 320 Broadway, Manhattan. He has a handsome home, at 1712 Dltmas avenue. When Mr.

Bredlng waB seen at his office today, he said that under the advice of his lawyers he could not go Into details about his domestic difficulties. "My wife left me on New Year's Eve," he declared. "1 haven't the least Idea where she Is. I haven't contemplated any legal action and I would not say that I would not take her back. The circumstances are very painful to me, but matters are In such shape now that thero Is really nothing I can say." The Bredings have no children.

Mrs. Bredlng Is a native of Boston and It Is said that she has no relatives here. Thev city. Employment With Gamblers. Despondent because of ill health and his Inability to obtain employment, Louis Corn, 40 years old, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head this morning In his furnished room at 216 West Thirty-seventh street, several citizens to aid the two policemen before Bossert could be quieted.

According to the police, Corn for manv The directors of the Interborouch Company met this morning anil afterward President Theodore P. Shonts said that there was no announcement to be made. TIte Interborotikth Company's proposal will be based on a guarantee of si per cent, from the city to the company, and the understanding is that the attorneys have found a way to phrase this to suit the law. Colonel Timothy S. Williams, president of the B.

R. refused today, again, to make any further comment on the attitude that his company takes toward the pending negotiations. years was employed In gambling houses throughout the city but recently was In Degnon Company, based upon the unit prices in Its proposal, amounted to 305,828.50. Section 2 begins at a point in Broadway about feet north of the center line of Walker street, which is the southerly terminus of Section 3, for which the construction contract was rccentb executed by the commission with the approval of the Board of Estimate, and extends along Broadway to a point about 75 feet south of the center line of Pari, place. The next lowest bidder was the (Tan-ford Company, whose price was 1 Tho bid of the Bradley Contracting Company, fifth on the list, was $2,531,304.

The official figures of the tabulations of the bids of the respective contractori nre as follows: Degnon Contracting Com-! pany, J2.35o.82S.50; Crunford Company, E. K. Smith Contracting Company, J. F. Coiran Company, Bradley Contracting Company.

Holhrook. Cabot Rollins Corporation, $2.537. 852.50; Frederick L. Cranford, O'Rourk -Engineering Construction Company. MrArthur Brothers Company.

the I'nited Engineering an. I Contracting Company. Pittsburg Contracting Company, Empire Engineering Corporation, uuggerty stated that tho defendant had come to his place of business a week ago last Friday and had given to him a check for 5 on the Broadway Bank, and the check was returned to him marked "no Raymond Street Jail. Unable to secure the required ball bond of $5,000, Dr. Oswald G.

Stackhouse is BtiU kept a prisoner in the civil of the Raymond Street Jail. He was arrested on a-warrant signed by Justice Maddox of the Supreme Court, on the complaint of the mother of Martha Marvin, a 15-year-old girl, whom he is accused of having attacked criminally while In his employ as an office girl. Lawyer Harry J. Sokolow of 371 Fulton street Is counsel for Mrs. Marvin, who has sued the physician for $25,000 as damages.

STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK. Fall River, January 24 As the result of a conference between Secretary Whitehead of the Weavers Union, Secretary Taylor of the loom fixers, and Superintendent Evans of the Fall River Iron Vvorks Company the 300 striking weavers returned to work this morning pending a settlement of their difficulties with fhe company. HONOR FREDERICK'S MEMORY. Berlin, January 24-The 200th anniversary of the birthday of Frederick the Great has been made the occasion today of patriotic demonstrations and celebrations throughout Prussia. At Potsdam where Emperor William reviewed a number of regiments In the garrison which were first formed during Frederick the Great's reign and which took Dart i poor health and despondent because of the lack of opportunity to obtain side of the story.

He said that Mrs. Plgot, in her attempt to keep up with "society," contracts debts which leave very little for the husband's own personal needs after they are paid. Justice Gerard reserved decision In the case. have been married about twelve years. SAYS HER HUSBAND SWORE.

Charged with endangering the morals of his Children. Alfred Nplsnn AG vaaya a woman in court, Amelia Le-bett of 968 Lafayette avenue, said that she had received a letter written on As-tor House stationery, signed by Bossert and dated January 22. In It was contained a demand for money. The woman made a charge of attempted blackmail against the man. Wliliams Won't Discuss Statement of SMALLPOX ON A STEAMER.

One hundred and seven steerage pas DEMANDS OF SOFT COAL MINERS old, of 375 Fifty-sixth street, was held in Indianapolis, January 24 An Increase ba" by Nash of the Fifth I avenue police court this morning on a sengers of the steamer Ancona were sent to Hoffman Island for observation upon the arrival of the steamer today from Genoa and Naples, because of a case of FATAL EXPLOSION ON STEAMER. London, January 24 The main stenm of 10 cents a ton, on a run of mine basis, and an Increase of 20 per cent, for all day labor about the mines, were the demands of the wage scale committee, submitted to the convention of the United pipe of the British steamer Skinton fn- smallpox which developed during the voy- tie burst and killed two of her crew on aRe. The vessel was detained at Quar-the voyage from Galveston, from where 'antine, but will probably be released this Mine Workere of America, today for the charge Drougnt Dy nis wire, Margaret, who charged that he had used profane language before his children. BATHTUB CASES PUT OVER. Detroit, January 24 The trial of the Government's criminal case against tho so-called "Bathtub Trust" which was to begin January 30 has been postponed un-'11 February 6, at the request of tue defense.

sue sanea on January 6, for Antwerp. afternoon. Prendergast. When informed that t'ontroller Pren-dcrgast had said last night at the Municipal Club i in that had told Mc-Aneny he was satisfied to have the city renew negotiations for the completion of the letter "li" extensions, in Manhattan, with the lnterborough, the Colonel i Hi "1 do not care to discuss that." The position of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company toward the negotiations now pending between the city and the lnterborough Company will depend, It Is said, upon the extent any chances proposed may curtail or restrict the vnlue of the Broadway subway and the lines that tie Brooklyn to Manhattan. The In- in.hnr.itioh Kfiniil Trnnnil ia bituminous coal miners.

The committee also demanded a seven-hour day. MAY SETTLE LAWRENCE STRIKE many wars under his REPRIEVE FOR MURDERER. Albany. January 24 Governor Dlx to TWO SKATERS DROWN. Norrlstown, January 24 Ralph Warren and Jonathan Probson were drowned late last night while skating on the Schuylkill River.

KILLED BY FALL DOWN SHAFT. Richard Bayard, 36 years old, a n' cro employed as a laborer in the aqueduct shaftat 129th street and St. Nicholas avenue, Manhattan, was instantly killed today, when he lost his balance hs he was ascending to the top of the shaft in a day issued a reprieve for ninety days In i the case of Salvatore de Marco of Brook- 1 Ivn sentenced to hp executed next tnn- Lawrence. January 24 The possibilities far a speedy settlement of the strike of the 20,000 textile workers before tomorrow appeared bright at noon today, when Strike Leader Ettor agraeed to iuea the mill representatives' tonight. 4 TnAIMS TO FLORIDA.

Atlantic Coast Line Sa Level Route. MORGAN SAILS FOR EGYPT. Villefranche, January 24 J. P. Morgan left hers yesterday fjr Egypt on the iteamahip Adriatic.

fteniilne cryntal pebble fyeglasws, the cool riav. In order that he mav be eiven an nn- 10:16 A.M., :30 KM. All steel, elec s-'Mri. Fpencer'a, 7 Maiden Ian. N.Yj iportunitv to carry his case to the Court ft Appeals.

1 tric lighted Pullmans. Uli na. Ally, 14 fell leu feet to the bottom. seeking to pre-empt Whitehall and Nas-.