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10 PACKS. Volom TB Ko. 2 OS NEW YORK CITY, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1015. CROUT FILES APPEAL CARDINAL GIBBONS AT JAMAICA STATION, CARDINAL GIBBONS FALL OF WARSAW ON WAY TO SUMMER HOME IN SOUTHAMPTON CITY DUPED IN PLAN TO GET SUBWAY DIRT; Former Union Bank Prescient Fights Conviction. BECKER DIES IN ELECTRIC CHAIR; GAME TO THE END HERE; HOPEFUL WAR ISNEARINGITSEND Notice of appeal from the convic FLAW IN CONTRACTS HOURLY EXPECTED, IS LONDON'S VIEW tion of F.ftward M.

Orout was filed this afternoon by Stephen C. Baldwin, his attorney. The appeal will go be fore the Appellate Division. The notice was filed with Deputy Clerk D. Harry Ralston at 2 o'clock.

Venerable Prelate, Now in 82d The order also states that on appeal will be taken from the order of County Private Firms Get Earth City Needs to Fill in Public Land. Judge Lewis denying Grout's motion Year, Looks the Picture of Health. for a new trial. On the appeal there will be re viewed the order of the Supreme Court of May 18, denying Grouts motion Chants Prayer as the Death Cap Is AcU justed. Russians No Longer Hope to Hold Polish Capital.

CELEBRATES MASS AT ST. AGNES. FORMER PAT BIGGER PRICE. to have the lnutrtmcnt dtHtnlaned and the order of Justice Benedict of November 12, 1914, which denied Grout's motion to have the case set down for trial and remitting the case to the County Court will also he reviewed. So will the order of Justlro Jaycox, who denied the Grout motion In Interview Fays Tribute to Memory Brighton Traek Will Oct Dirt From for a change of venue.

3 SHOCKS REQUIRED KAISER'S ENTRY NEAR of Late Dr. McKelway Leaves for Southampton, L. I. Pnrkway Other Scot Ions Doubtful. RILEY'S MAN PUNCHES WARDEN OSBORNE IN SCRAP AT OSSINING The Public Service Commission's Cardinal James Gibbons arrived In Brooklyn yesterday from Baltimore.

Left Statement Protesting Inno- New Drive on Calais, Perhaps plan to prevent the waste of subway dirt and make use of It on public He was the guest of the Right Rev. Mgr. James S. Duffy, rector of the works has proved to be a failure. While the Brooklynltes who have Church of St.

Agnes. Sackett and Hoyt streets, until this morning, when he ence of Murder Looked Fearlessly at Witnesses. on Paris, May Be Germans' Next Move. led the fight to save the excavated ma terlal for the city, have been con boarded a train for Southampton, L. where he will spend his annual gratulatlng themselves on having Incorporated In all the new subway contracts a provision which It was vacation at the rectory of the Church of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

hoped would have this result, private concerns have been stealing a march With his eminence on the trip to Altercation on Railroad Station Over Papers Said to Have Bearing on Becker Case. (Special to The Eaglo.) N. July 30 Former C' Ml; 'ir ill i jv '41 rtlUfeft if in 1, i fl 1 London, July 80 Warsaw, the third city of Russia, and the goal for which the German armies In the east have on the authorities. The loudly- hailed victory now proves to have Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, been an empty one and on paper convicted of Instigating tho murder of been striving since October, Is at last only. Four Brooklyn subway contracts in the throes of abandonment.

Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, waa put to death In the electrlo chair In Sing Hlng at -1 a.m. today. Germans In overwhelming numbers CLIMAX TO LONG STANDING HOW. have been lot which Include tho clause planned to secure the dirt for are at the gates of the Polish capital He died as ho had lived since hit Southampton were Mgr. Duffy and the Right Rev.

Dennis J. O'Connell, Bishop of the Diocese of Richmond, who is a brother of the late Mgr. O'Connell, rector of the Church of St. Mary, In Court street. The bishop and the cardinal will remain on Long Island for most of the month of August.

Although on his vacation, Cardinal Gibbons received a representative of The Eagle at St. Agnes' rectory this morning. He had Just come In from celebrating 8 o'clock mass. The Cardinal seated himself In a chair close to the window facing Sackett arrest throe years ago steel nerved filling in city land. So far none of the dirt In these sections which may total more than 2,000,000 cubic yards and dispatches both from the city Itself and from Petrograd say that and protesting his Innocence of the charge brought against him.

Pinned has been secured for public pur further resistance would be unwise. poses. The authorities, however, still McDonald, Special Represcntntlvo of Prison Superintendent, Arrested. Discounted not only through France have hopes. They believe at least that so much dirt will not be dumped at sea as has been In the past.

and Great Britain, but In Russia It elf, the fall of the city Is expected The only one of the four contracts hourly, and the problem now Is to here upon which the sub-contract for dirt removal has already been let, is move the Russian armies Intact, (Special to The Osslnlng, N. July SO Worden that for the first section of the East ern Parkway line, from the Prospect threatened as they are from the south by the Austro-Germans, and more se Thomas Mott Osborne and Captain Patrick McDonald, a special represen Park Plaza out to New York avenue. The contractors here, the Interconti- tative of tho State Department of I'rls riously from the north where the Ger nental Construction Company, have ons, engngod In an altercation at tho man forces which have swept through turned the dirt over to the Realty As railroad station hero today, over off! Into the wrinkled white shirt he wore, over his heart, was a picture of his wife, and In his hands he held a crucifix, as tho current was turned on, but he said nothing after ho entered the room In which he met his death except to chant, "Lord, have mercy on mo." His dying statement had been prepared In his cell. And after the body of the man who had been a power In New York was taken to tho operating room, that paper, containing a statement of his Innocence and last tribute to his wife, was read to the witnesses who hud been present at his execuv tlon. Two minutes after the curront was turned Into tho body Becker was dead, but Dr.

Farr, the prison physician ordered three shocks sent through tho llfelCFS body before ho finally pro soclates for filling In the old Brighton Poland are aiming at the railway from Beach race track. Word of this deal, which Just be clal prison papers that are supposed to have had some bearing on tho Becker caHe. The altercntlon was a climax to the trouble that has long existed between Warden OHborne and Superin street, and smilingly remarked, "I want to thank The Eagle for its annual greeting to Brooklyn on my vacation trips." "I try to slip In very quietly," he added, "but somehow I am quite lost If someone from your paper doesn't arrive to greet me." He continued: "I look forward each year to my visit to Brooklyn to spend a few days with Father Duffy and to rent up at Southampton, which is certainly a beautiful spot, where I find health and recreation. I expect to derive great benefit from the sea air on this trip." Cardinal 81 Years of Age Last Sunday. The Cardinal celebrated his eighty-first birthday last Sunday, but there was not the least evidence of his age in his quick stride as he entered the "room.

He seemed to be In the enjoyment of excellent health. Asked for his views on the European war, His Eminence sighed, shook his head and remarked; "How long is this terrible assassination of human lives to continue?" and added; "But violent things are of short duration, and certainly the war has reached a most violent state." came known today, Is generally regarded as confirmation of The Eagle's story some time ago that the old race track la to be wiped out and the ground It occupies cut up into build tendent of Prisons John B. Itlley. As a result of the row, McDonald TO DROP MANY JOBS EUROPE'S "SICK MAN" was arrested on a warrant sworn out by Warden Osborne and will have to appear to answer a charge of assault ing lots for a big cottage development, similar to that at Manhattan Beach. before Judge Valentine on August 6.

FROM EXEMPT LIST IS NOT YET DEFUNCT, Tho warden swore that McDonnld Brighton Track Filling Forecasts New struck him In the face after he, the warden, had taken the papers away Seashore Realty Development. William M. Greve of the Realty nounced the former policeman dead. BY STANDARDIZATION SAYS EAGLE WRITER The first shock came at 8:47, and at Associates said today that the company's plans were not yet definitely determined and that the filling In was 6 the body of Becker was unstrapped and carried by the four prison guards to the operating room, "The result of war Is not only a loss being done morely with an eye to the future. That the development of the place would follow ultimately he Fall of Constantinople Impresses where the autopsy required by the law Bureau, in Report, Would Place Warsaw to Petrograd.

This latter menace, the British press admits. Is Imminent and the hope In the allied countries now Is not for the safety of Warsaw, but for the continued cohesion of the Russian army. The Warsaw postofflce already has been shifted to some point to the east-Ward, the populace has been warned to remain calm and presumably for days Russian troops have been stripping the city of everything of military value. German Emperor and Empress to Enter City In State. German aviators are hovering over the city and according to German ad-vloea plans have been completed for the triumphant entrance of the German Emperor accompanied by his consort With Warsaw captured, whether or not it proves a conquest of lasting strategic advantage, a great wave of enthusiasm will sweep over Germany and Austria-Hungary and It Is predicted here that the armies of the Central powers will then seek to force a period of trench warfare In the east, meanwhile throwing a great weight of men and guns to the west, with the Idea of resuming the battering toward Calais, and perhaps toward Parts.

In the west just now there has been of life, but a partial paralysis of trade. The continuance of the differences will mean an extension of the commercial would not deny. Under the plans finally adopted by the Public Service Commission, the Brighton Beach ele damage, until It encircles the globe. I am praying for peace every day, and Brooklyn War Reporter as Being Remote. vated line is to be re-routed through one end of the track.

10,000 City Employees in Competitive Ranks. The Realty Associates will got about praying that this country shall not be plunged Into the conflict. It would be a pity, Indeed, and I trust that every means will be used to prevent such a 600,00 cubic yards of dirt from the calamity. first Eastern Parkway section. It will come over the Brighton line, a special connection now being made When asked for his views on the was performed.

"I am not guilty by deed or conspiracy or In any other way of the death of Rosenthal. I am sacrificed to my friends. Bear this message to the world and my frlcmlH. Amen this was the burden of Becker's final statement on earth. He added a tribute to his wife, "The purest, noblest woman that ever lived," and then handed the penciled document to Father Cashln to be given out after his death.

Becker Looks Fearlessly at the Wit- WHAT ITS TAKING WOULD MEAN. with a temporary railroad on the FAT POSTS ARE JEOPARDIZED. Mexican situation, he replied that It Is a "terrible muddle," and a matter that parkway. The Intercontinental Com must be handled carefully. I have.

pany will get a small consideration for the dirt, which It expects will bo wined he said, "communicated with the Arch out of the cost of removing it to the Turk Barber Gives His View of Casus bishop of Mexico, urging him to do his utmost to establish peace between the tracn, wnicn it must bear. Director Tlrrcll Also Alms to Stop two nat ons. In his reply tne Arcn The other three sections on which no decision as to the disposition of th Belli How the Holy Waste by Chopping Unfair bishop said he was doing everything In his power to help the cause of peace." Have vou cnangea your vikwb io- War Started. dirt has yet been reached, are the two on Nostrand avenue and the second one on Eastern Parkway. The first section on Nostrand avenue is to be Salaries.

irardlnir the Philippine tne Cardinal was asked. No." he reDlled. in a positive man from the State representative. McDonald appoared at Sing Sing with a demand from Superintendent Rlloy asking that all written orders assigning convicts to various parts of the building should be handed him. It has been recently charged that several convicts were permitted to go to the death house to sing for the pleasure of the condemned men there, and It is understood that tho papers had to do with this charge.

There whs also a rumor that McDonald demanded and got the papers In the Becker case that were In the prison. Warden Osborne was not In the prison during the execution of Becker, but was walking up and down with a "trusty" In front of It. He learned of McDonald's visit and of the Inking of the papers when he returned to the Jail, and he at once went to tho railroad station, stating that McDonald had taken the papers Illegally as there were no copies left in the Jail. At the station, it Is alleged, Osborne marie a demand for the papers and McDonald at first refused to give them up. After a brief argument, however, McDonald did give them up, but at the same time struck the Warden In the face, according to the Warden's charge.

Warden Osborne says that he did not hit McDonald nor make any effort to do so. He did go up to Judge Valentine's court, however, followed by a large crowd, which gathered at tho station, and there swore out the warrant that charged the confidential agent of the Prison Department with assault. McDonald was brought in and arraigned and will have his further hearing on August 6 before the same Judge. Warden Osborne, carrying the papers of the prison, returned to the Jail, where he found that the clerk had given the papers up without thinking that there were no copies of them left In the Jail as prison records. Albany, N.

July 80 John B. Riley, State Superintendent of Prisons, Is In Dannemora today, and no one In the Prison Department knew anything of Patrick McDonald's vudt to Sing Sing. built by Newman Carey of 216 Montague street, who have not vet de little worthy of note to break the monotony of mining and bombing from ner I still maintain inai mo yeuijia cided what to do with the dirt. It nt the Islands are not ready tor seir the North Sea to the Swiss frontier. government.

Independence snouia De was stated at the office of the concern that the suggestions for use of the dirt The British public is not depressed withheld irom mem tor me pitem, on public works was being considered, if va hnne for substantial results. by the events in the east. In fact David Lloyd George, the Minister of know whereof I speak, for I have had the opinions of friends who have lived there for some time and who have Munitions, in a speech yesterday ap given the matter close stuay. parently thought It necessary to drive home the gravity of the situation in nut tnat. otner lucrative offers were at hand.

No decision has been reached yet and the company did not care to discuss tho question pending Its negotiations. In the case of the other two contracts, the bids have been opened, but the formal awards to the successful contractors have not yet been made. Cardinal Pays Tribute to tho Late the minds of those ncllned to over Dr. McKclway. optimism, reminding mem that re it reachinc the hour when the verses in Ruslsa would mean in NO.

10. (Special to The Eagle from Staff Correspondent.) Constantinople, June 4 A writer once said that In Its Influence over the course of human events Constantinople Is rivalled only by Athens, Rome and Jerusalem. Today the reaction of Constantinople upon Roman law, Greek literature and Christian theology Is forgotten and people are forecasting the fate of the Ottoman capital in Its wide relation to the world war. The universal Interest aroused by the British threat against this most Impregnable of strongholds, Is based on three considerations. As a mere military operation It would be a diversion from the Flanders deadlock Cardinal had to catch his train for Rnnthamnton.

and he rose to say creased pressure on the western Al The low bidder on the outer section of Mjh when ho suddenly remarked, lies, and summing up his opinion with the admonition that "the situation Is "I wanted to say this when you first came In, but in the general conversation It slipped from my mind: serious if not perilous." Sweeping changes In the city service, which would remove hundreds of positions that are now exempt Into the competitive class, are suggested in the first section of the report on standardizing the salaries and grades of Father Knickerbocker's employees, made public today by George L. Tlr-rell, director of the Bureau of Standards. The suggestions are now being taken up by the salaries and grades committee of the Board of Estimate, comprising Controller Prendergast and Aldermanlc President McAneny. Public hearings probably will be held on the plan. Work upon standarlzatlon has been going on for months, and It was expected that many changes would be suggested In the matter of salaries, but It came as quite a surprise today In municipal circles when It was seen that practically every "Job" that has in the past been reserved for the "deserving" would be swept out of the patronage class Into the regular competitive groups, If the report Is adopted.

That this feature might develop A Warsaw dispatch to the Times, "Convey my aeepest syrnpainy iu Mrs. McKelway on the death of her husband and to the people of The Fa ile on the loss of Its editor-ln- dated last Sunday, says: "The general news today Is uneatis factory. It is reported that the Ger tne Nostrand avenue line was the Dock Contractor Company of Hoho-ken and on the outer section of the Eastern Parkway line was the Rodgers and Hngerty Company of Manhattan. Considerable mystery surrounds the future of the dirt on this last-named section. At the office of the Public Service Commission It was stated that the Rodgers-Hagerty concern were understood to be negotiating with the borough authorities In Brooklyn to dispose of their excavation in bringing Continued on Pago 2.

"I knew Dr. McKelway very well mans have crossed the Narew and dug themselves In. The enemy were at no great distance to the south last onri rim red him greatly, remarKea noises. The former police officer led the march from his cell to the death house. He was the nrnt to step Into the room that contained the chair In which he was tn die, and as he stepped in, glanced fearlessly and full lnt6 the faces of tho witnesses who had been summoned to see his death.

Many of them he knew, many of them had been almost friends of his while he was In New York, but he did not recognize them by so much as a glance. Ho merely looked once, then walked, unassisted, to the chair. He had spent the night sleeplessly. Until 1 In the morning his wife, having wasted a full day In a vain effort to persuade Governor Whitman to grant a stay, was with him. At that hour ho took his last farewell of her and then sat down on the edge of the cot In the bare cell.

All night he sat there, and when, at 4 o'clock In the morning, a guard came to waken him, Becker looked up and smiled. Deputy Warden Johnson came into the cell and again the condemned man smiled. "I have got to face It," said Becker, "and I am going to meet It quietly and without trouble to anyone." For some moments Johnson remained in the cell with the former policeman whllo the prison tailor deftly cut tho right leg of the black trousers he wore. It was split to the knee and then everything was ready for the execution. As the deputy warden got up to leave tho cell Becker gave him the fountain pen ho has used since he was in Jail.

"It Is all I have to give," said tho man who wns to die, "and I wish yo5 would keep It." Then came Father Cashln, th his Eminence. tie was a puiem fc. fnr irood not only in the great and might offer possibilities of a swift night. "The sky is alight with the re flee success, decision enough to force a peace. The British fleet, In spite of Its first failure, would pass the Darda tlon from burning villages, and today even the most optimistic are of the borough, where he molded public opinion on mattors of local as well as national importance, but In other sections of the country, where his inspiring editorials were read.

Brooklyn has lost a valuable citizen In his rionth." commented the Cardinal as nelles, while a British-French army opinion that it is a question of days only before Warsaw is evacuated by would march up the Galllpoll Penin "I'll Expose Means Used To Convict," Says Mrs. Becker he held out his hand to say goodby. spirited opposition In political quarters the entire army. "The loss of Warsaw would un doubtedly be an Important blow, mor ally, and It would be stupid to mini sula. Simultaneously Russian troops would land at Media or Bourgas on the Black Sea and join the Bulgarians In a triumphant advance through was the belief expressed today.

Only the recommendations of the UNION HEADS MARK TIME bureau for changes In the clerical Thrace. Russia, France, Bulgaria mlze its encouraging effect upon the nemy, but it would be equally unwise to exaggerate its effect on the and Great Britain would then meet at Saint Sophia, and for the first time in No Demands to Bliss Co. Until from the chair and, although she was service were made public today and this Is but one of the sixteen services Into which It Is now proposed to divide city positions. It Is, however, about the biggest of them all, affecting In the cause of the Allies as a whole. centuries a Christian service of Keppler's Return.

not present at the Jnll, the statement was said to have come directly from thanksgiving would be celebrated within its sacred walls. "Guilty or Innocent, There Was No Justification for Methods of Prosecution. Charlie Was No Angel, He her. Mrs. Becker's fight for her hus neighborhood of 10,000 employees.

Action by the heads of the machln "The fundamental question now Is the preservation of the Russian army Intact and undemorallzed as a fighting unit. After nearly three months of continuous resistance the Russian line now takes great risk in offering Porto's Losses Within the Memory of band's life lasted until the very last Of this entire service, the only employees who would be kept In the exempt clans under the new plan would lsts union In the campaign directed against the manufacturers of war mu Living Men. moment yesterday. She went to Al bany early In the morning, but found nitions for shorter hours and better Almost within the memory of living be the private secretaries to the an opportunity to the Ger-nana tn wages, hung fire today, pending the Borough Presidents, Gommlsmoners man the T'-rk had lcr.t Greece, rtou- II uovernor wnitman was anner.t. WaS JUSt Human sh went to Poughkeepslo and return from Bridgeport of J.

J. Kep and other officials entitled to such aids. besi opinion here 1. that the manla' Albama' Macedonla- Bosnia, tion of Warsaw Is infinitely better Herzgovina and parts of Africa and pier, vice president of the interna met ine i.overnor in a notel tliere. Her plea to him was not a plea based Among the exempt places, which would be made competitive, are such Home After Electrocution.

tional organization. man risxing aisaster oy holding the Thrace, until only a mean Dit or ter- upon tne law. upon her hive It was a plea based I)r)((()n chaplain, and Father Curry, .1 1 who was Becker's friend. The two "We shall do nothing about presenting our demnnds to the E. W.

Bliss Important posts as the receiver of taxes, a $5,000 Job now held by Major rltory remained of his once-wide Eu her desire to have him saved to her. Cnmnanv ntll Mr. Keppier return Frederick H. E. Khsteln of Brooklyn said K.

J. Deerlng, busnless agent of collector of city revenue, a 14,000 Job, SAW SHIP TORPEDOED ropean domains. The "Sick Man of Europe" soemed about to die. Tho annual decadence of the Turk hud been a secret diplomatic delight for the local union, "We are marking held by Sidney H. Ooodacre; the city imvmnster, a 16,000 place, held by She begged Governor Whitman to spare him, and then, crying ami weeping, went away to enter her motor when he said he could do nothing.

She was delayed In getting to Osslnlng. It was 11:30 when her car time now. "Mr. Koppler was called to Bridge John H. Tlmmerman; the supervisor priests talked with tho condemned man, and It was then that Becker hunded to Father Cashln the statement which were his dying words about the Rosenthal case.

Meanwhile the wltnerscs had been assembled, and Just ss the brighter streaks of dawn were lltlitinx up the nort by a telegram yesterday. I had Officers of the steamer St Cecilia, which arrived today aftenhavlng dellv. years. Ana ncro, tne general con fusion, was a fine chance for every of the city Kccora, a place, now held by David Ferguson; the superintendent of school supplies, a arranged to meet hlni and discuss the situation wltn nun, nut ne was gone, finally old stop nerore the Ivy covered entrance tn the Jatl. and she, with do not know Just when he will be 17,500 Job, now held by Patrick Jones.

Other positions which it Is contem her brother-ln-liiw, John Becker, got red a cargo of supplies for the Bel-j body t0 glV9 him one good interna- glan Relief Commission at Rotterdam, If. being in sight of the steamer i tlonaI klc? tlEu'OP ad" Bcottlsh Monarch after leaving New vancement of civilization and the Rus- hnrk." oui lion wrui iikii iib i- or uo hour and a half Mrs. Becker stayed Sra of 'hn th Mr. Deerlng said that Mr. Keppler's sudden departure for Bridgeport wns not to be construed as a sign of dis sian wheat trade.

(Special to The Eagle.) Osslnlng, N. July 30 "I shnll never rest until 1 have exposed the methods which have been used to convict my husband. Whether ho was guilty or Innocent, there was no Justification for the means employed to convict him. "Charlie was no angel. He made no pretense of being one.

He was Just an ordinary human being and perhaps that Is why I loved him so." This was part of a statement accredited to Mrs. Helen Becker Just sfter her husband execution here this morning. It was given out at the Jail only a short time after the body of the had bten taken Tork on June 16, until shortly after were led aown inrnugn inu uarrea I 1 plated removlnst from the exempt class are the following: Tho deputy receivers of taxes in all the boroughs, the deputy city paymaster and the deputy collector of agreement between nun and tne local doors and over to th new death house where the execution was to be held. However picturesque war elsewhere Continued on Page 5, labor heads. Everything was working entering tho "war zone, when the Bcottlsh Monarch suddenly disappeared and on arriving at Hotterdam the officers learned tho steamer had been torpedoed and sunk.

city revenues. The cashiers In the Finance Depart with her husband, and then, after a lingering embrace, she left and went at once to her home In the Bronx. It was 3:40 o'clock this morning when she arrived at home, and she Immediately went Inside and refused to see anyone. The other members of her family also refused to talk, but the lights were burning In the house during the rest nt the night and until after dawn broke. smoothly, he said.

DON'T BR DISAPPOINTED. EdtMD Ml of Klletrlc Irom inrti July 81 Silence tn the Death Chamber ment, Fire Department. Bureaus of Highways In all boroughs and the WHter Department. Dittir nod TOUR orarr today. BROOKLYN Last Few Dara RUtraa tale of gltctrlt Iron, at $2.46 racb fodi lalj Slit.

Mall or four ordar today. Brookljrs ration Shop, MO Ptarl (, Til. ION Main. 1 TO RESTORE VITALITY, lake Hor.ford't Aaii Photphau. Vry valuabla In rellavtnf that aibauatxt fttling aurlnf lummtr.

Every clerk In the city service. This Oppressive, The silence In tho death chamber was oppressive. No out spoke, sad IOISON SHOP, 160 Fnrl It. Til. IW0 Malo, -AT.

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