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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1913. HaircheldSong NOTHING 15 OF MORE importance to those intimately concerned than fi1neral service properly cOnducted. faith Unless you have you worriment are in for constant state toward Incident ocears that will mar the be depended all times. The best of petent nization a and thing mendable Prices are Fulton Jamalen 158 Reid Flatbush VITAL RECORDS ADOPTION.

ADOPTION-Infant BOY, fuit der; references required. C. Eagle office. DEATHS. Cocks, W.

Burling Day, Elizabeth S. Drury, Henrietta H. Feinter, Marie L. Howler, Helen A. Ganley, Bernard F.

Gilbert, James H. Goldwaite, F. H. Helsten, Catharine James, Mary E. Knemeyer, Gustav Lennon.

Sarah V. Lott, V. S. Lowe, Sarah J. Martin, Marle E.

MeCabe, Matthew Nielson, Olof A. Roberts, Alfred H. Tipple, L. Schultz, Porting Wildfoerater, Hulda COCKS-In the City of New York on Fourth day (Wednesday), Fifth month, gist, W. BURLING COCKS, son of the late William T.

and Hannah Burling Cocks, in the 44th year of his age. Funeral from Friends Meeting House, Matinecock, Locust Valley, Long Island, ou Seventh day (Saturday), at half after 2 o'clock. Trains leave Pennsylvania Station for Locust Valley, at 1:01, and Flatbush av. Brooklyn, at o'clock. Carriages will be in waiting on arrival of trains.

DAY--On Wednesday, May 21, 1913, ELIZABETH STRAIT DAY, in her 89th year. Funeral services at her late reeldence, 658 Monroe st, on Friday, May 23, at 8 p.m. DRURY- her home, 238 DeGraw st, 011 Friday, May 23, 1913, HENRIETTA H. DRURY, beloved wife of the late A. T.

Drury, M.D., and mother of Mary E. and George Drury, M.D., her 84th year. Notice of funeral hereafter. FEINIER-Ou Thursday, May 22. 1913, MARIE LAURENT FEINIER, widow ot Joseph Feinier.

Funeral services at her late residence, 288 Clifton place, on Saturday evening, May 24, at 8 o'clock. Interment at the convenlence of family. FOWLE Wednesday morning, May 21, 1313, HELEN 'ADRIANCE, wife of the late James D. Fowler. Funeral services will be held at her lute residence, 446 Lafayette av.

Friday, May 23, at 9 p.m. Interment private. GANLEY-On Thursday, May 1913. BERNARD beloved husband of Mary T. Ganley.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from the residence of his brother, Daniel J. Ganley, 14 North Oxford street, thence to the Churen of the Sacred Heart, on Monday, May 26, 9:30 a.m. Interment It Holy Cross Cemetery, GILBERT--On Thursday. May 22, 1213, at Brooklyn, N. JAMES son of the late S.

Arthur Gilbert. Funeral pri- vate. Interment at Utica, N. Y. 4 GOLDTHWAITE-At his home, FREDERICK H.

GOLDTHWAITE of Avon, in the 55th year of his age. Funeral services Fridny evening at 8 o'clock at 328B President st. Interment at Avon, at the convenience of the family. HELSTEN--On Friday. May 23, 1913, at the Baptist Home, corner Greene and 'Throop ave, CATHARINE HELSTEN, in the 77th year of her age.

Funeral services at the home of her sister, Mra. P. Schmitgen, 24 Roosevelt av. Corona, Saturday ut Interment at Lutheran" Cemetery, Sunday afternoon. JAMES -On Friday, May 93, 1913.

MARY E. JAMES, beloved daughter of Caroline formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio, Funeral services at the residence of her brother. 258 Westminster road, on Sunday, May 25, at p.m. Interment, Springs Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, on Tuesday, at 11 a.m. (Cincinnati Enquirer and Cincinnati Post please copy) KNEMEYER-Suddenly on April 9, 1913, my beloved husband.

and our father, GUSTAV HENRY KNEMEYER, aged 59 years, 2 months, 23 days. Relatives and friends, also Allemanin Lodge, No. 704, P. and A. are Invited to attend services at residence, 6725 Fourth av.

Brooklyn on Saturday, May 24, at 3 p.m. LENNON-On May 22, 1913, SARAH V. beloved daughter of Sarah T. and the late James Lennon, and beloved wife of Joseph Lennon. Funeral from the home, of her mother, 379 Union st, on Saturday, at 9 o'clock: thence to St.

Agnes R. C. Church, Hoyt and Sackett sts, where requiem mass will be offered for the pose of her soul. (Sullivan County papers please copy.) LOTT--At Newtown, N. on May 1313, ABRAHAM VAN SICLEN LOTT.

husband of Cornelia De Bevoise, In the 84th year of his age. Funeral services will be held at his late residence, North Hempstead Turnpike, on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Interment at conventence of family. LOWE-On May 21, 1913, SARAH J. LOWE, in her 72d year, widow of George 0.

Lowe. Funeral service at her late residence, 1118 Lefferts av. Morris Park, L. on Sunday, May 25, at 3 p.m. Relatives and friends are invited to attend.

Kindly omit flowers. MARTIN--Suddenly on May 93, 1913, MARIE beloved wife of Samuel J. Martin, in the 25th year of her age, Funeral notice later. McCABE-At his residence, 2717 Newkirk av. on May 23.

1913, MATTHEW McCABE. Notice of funeral later. NIELSEN-At Poughkeepsie, N. on Thursday, May 22, 1913, OLOF A. NIELSEN, aged 29 years.

Funeral services will be held at the home of his father, 1087 Gates av, Brooklyn, on Saturday evening, May 24, at 8 o'clock. Funeral private. ROBERTS-On Thursday, May 22, 1913. ALFRED HENRY ROBERTS. born January 7, 1870.

(Albany papers copy.) SCHULTZ-On Thursday, May 22, 1913, PHILIP SCHULTZ, in his 75th year. Funeral services at his late residence, 155 Eldert st, Saturday, 2:30. Interment, Evergreens Cemetery. TIPPLE--Passed quietly away at St. John's Hospital, May 22, 1913, MARTIN TIPPLE, in his 69th year.

Remains will be taken to Clavarack, N. for interment. (Hudson, N. papers please copy.) WILDFOERSTER-Op May 21, 1913, HULDA I. WILDFOERSTER nee Moll, wife of Ernst Wildfoerster.

in her 52d year. Funeral services on Friday, May 23, at 7 p.m., 337 Highland Boulevard, Brooklyn, N. Y. Interment private. Please: omit flowers.

IN MEMORIAM. -In sad and loving remembrance of our dear mother, MARY McDONOUGH, who died one year ago today, May 23, 1912. Anniversary mass at St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church on Monday, June 2, at 9 a.m, BY HER SONS. SIMPSON-In fond remembrance of my wife, AGNES L.

SIMPSON, who died May 23, 1909. Gone, but not forgotten, W. W. S. 4TH AVE.

SUBWAY READY IN 5 MONTHS Only 400-Foot Connection with Manhattan Bridge Now Incompleted. BIDS FOR PLAZA ARE Contract for Ornamental Approach to Manhattan Span Ready to Be Let. Work on the last remaining link of the subway will shortly be Fourth avenue and within four or five months, begun, providing the laying of tracks and equipanticipated, trains will ment proceeds as be able to pass through it, over the Manhattan Bridge, and into the Centre street Manhattan end. This is the loop on the time which the Bridge Department enestimate will be required to como gincers plete the 400-foot connection between the subway tube, as now completed to a just north of Nassau street, to the point lower track level on the bridge, to be used for subway car operation. The subway connection will be one of the steps in the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Plaza Improvement, bids for which were opened by Commissioner Arthur J.

O'Keeffe yesterday afternoon. The Northeastern Construction Comof 225 Fifth avenue, Manha tan, will pany be awarded the contract, as its probably bid of $336,400 was the lowest by over $23,000 of the fourteen submitted. As soon as the Bridge Department engineers have a chance to cheek up the bids the contract will be awarded and the successful Arm will then given 300 working days in which to complete the work. The subway tracks will be brought up on a gradual incline from Nassau street, will emerge into an open cut at about Sands street, and connect with two sets of tracks on the lower level of the bridge, one set on either side. The west tracks will connect with the Centre street 1oop.

The east tracks, as soon as the B. R. T. Broadway subway in Manhattan is completed, will connect with that subway at Canal street. Features of Plaza for Which Contract Is to Be Awarded.

Bridge Three line Then Mandatian and North River line of surface cars now operating over the bridge are running temporarily on the west subway tracks. They will be shifted to the east tracks on the upper level, procecding down the Flatbush avenue extension into a plow -changing pit between Nassau and Concord streets, where the overhead trolley system used on the Brooklyn side will be changed for the underhead conduit system used on the Manhattan side, and vice versa. They will swing around the plaza elliptically from this pit, and ascend to the top level. The west tracks on the upper level will not be used at this time, but will be reserved for future development. The architectural feature of the treatment of the plaza will ire two immense pylons flanking the center roadway of the bridge, used for vehicular trafhe, just north of Nassau street.

The pylons will be almost 60 feet high and will bear two carved ornamental figures. They will be of white granite, Two retaining walls, elliptical in shape, will start from these pylons and encirele the plaza, which rises in a gradualy ascending pane to the bridge itself. A short distance north of the pylons will be a small island, in the center of which will rise an 80-foot flagpole with an ornamental bronze base. At the north and south ends of the island will be two 37-foot bronze electrollers. The remaining parts of the plaza, bounded by Nassau, Bridge, Jay and Sands streets will be laid out in grass plots and parked spaces, with shade trees and shrubs.

Approach to the bridge promenades will be by paths through the parking spaces or by two flights of steps leading up to the roadways from a point near Sands street. The ether bidders on the work were as follows: Charles Meade A. L. Guidone Re Snare Trieste Company, John C. Son, Cooper Evans Connors Brothers and Marble Arch Company, Beaver Contracting Company, $663.660: Buckley Engineering Company, J.

Carlin, W. P'. Seaver, Rockland Company, $701,800: Oscar Dunbar Contracting Company, $712,009. TO HASTEN REMOVAL Fulton St. Tracks to Be Placed on Adams St.

with Dispatch. The work of carrying out the proposed relocation of the Fulton street elevated line on Adams street, although a part of the general scheme to improve the ough Hall Civic Center, will not be held in abeyance until the report of the Committee of Ten, which has charge of the leivie center improvement plan, is made. This wils stated positively today by former Public Service Commissioner Edward Bassett, who has been working on the removal plans for months. Mr. Bassett stated today that the next step in the work would be the application to the Public Service Commission by the B.

R. T. for a change of location, One of the important questions that will come up for the consideration in the Public Service Commission, Mr. Bassett said, would be the division of the pense. The proposal of the R.

T. which has been unofficially made known to the Publie Service Commission, is that the B. R. T. be put to no more expense in going on Adams street than they would be forced to stand in third tracking the Fulton street line.

This means that the B. R. T. Is willing to contribute toward the cost of removal only what they had line intended to expend third -tracking the on Fulton street and that the officials of that company to stand the expect the elty difference between that the full cost of the and proposed improvement. ABSCONDER DEAD IN CHILE.

Boston, May, 23-The death at Valparaiso, Chile, Frederick T. Moore, former assistant receiving teller of the tional Bank oi Commerce of this city, who absconded fourteen years ago with $53,000 of the bank's funds, was reported here today. During his residence in Valparaiso he became one of the leading photographers in the city. BRADY IN AUTO CRASH. William A.

Brady, the theatrical manager, with A party of men friends, in Mr. Brady's automobile early this morning, ran into an excavation at 135th street and Seventh avenue. The machine was damaged and one of the party, Thomas Murphy, a broker, of 216 West Sixtyninth street, Manhattan, had his hand cut by broken glass. He was attended by Dr. Coban of the Harlem Hospital and then went home.

EAGLE PARIS BUREAU CALLERS. Eagle Bureau. 53 Rue Cambon. Paris, May 23-Registering at The Eagle Bureau today Were the lowing Brooklynites: Walter Gibson, Miss Marie Creape, Mrs. E.

C. M. Fitzgerald. Others whe registered Mrs. James Hyde Forbes, Miss Ada May of Los Angeles, Cal.

PROPOSED TREATMENT OF THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE PLAZA, FOR THE WORK ON WHICH BIDS WERE OPENED TODAY DEMOCRATS ASKED FOR SINEWS OF WAR McLaughlin Appeals for Funds to Finance Big Rally in Prospect Hall. ANTI- MC COOEY MEN BUSY. Looks Like an Effort to 1 Unite All Those Who Oppose County Leader. The first call for financial aid to carry on the Sulzer direct primary fight in Kings County was gent out today when the Brooklyn Democratic Club issued letters to its members requesting contributions to help defray the cost of the pect Hall mass meeting on May 28, which the Livingston street organization has promised to finance. Alonzo G.

McLaughlin, president of the club, stated today that he wanted it derstood this call was not to get funds for entire campaign, but only to pay for the Prospect Hall meeting. A half dozen other mass meetings to be held within the next week in different parts of the county are being arranged by the Kings County "war board." They are to be held in the First. Ninth, teenth, Sixteenth, Twentieth and Twentysecond Assembly Districts, and proposals bave been made by independent Democratic organizations in each to finance them if the "war board" will supply the speakers. Anti-McCooey Faction Active. The tact that in every case the proposals came from organizations defeated at the last primary election has led to the prediction that the Sulzer in Kings County will derive campaign the greater part of its support from an clubs and will tend to unite i-McCooey them in a county- -wide attempt to turn the present Democratic overcompletely The overtures to the regime.

mittee from the First Assembly comMeLaugalin District were made by the anti-Quinn der forces unthe leadership of Edward James F. L. Bronson, Cahill and John J. Donnellan. In the Twenty-second it was the Progressive Democratic.

Club, an anti Sinnott organization, that proposed to finance i mass meeting In the interests of direct primaries and in the Sixteenth it is the Whitehouse Democratic Club. Seymour Club Rallies to "War Board's" Aid. The Seymour Club, the old McCarren John headquarters, now under the control of McKeon and James H. Tully, who have been fighting State Senator Daniel J. Carroll, has the present leader, for several; years, come forward to the support of the "war board." In Ninth, an anti- Wogan clement is offering to join the crusade.

J. Warren Greene and Francis X. mody sent declinations to Alonzo G. McLaughlin, chairman of the Kings County Sulzer committee, today. Both had been designated to serve on the "war board." Mr.

Greene stated that his reason for declination was that hand was opposed to the entire Sulzer bill, Mr. Carmody declared that he was opposed to the abolishment of the State convention. When Controller Pendergast was asked today if he would serve on tho committec, he said: did not know that my name was on the committee list, but I will gladly serve. I am in favor of the measure." Former Public Service Commissioner Edward M. Bassett declared that he had not been consulted before his name was added to the list.

have no objection," he said, "but do not believe my other duties will allow me much time to devote its work." An attempt is being made to get Sulzer to speak a second time in Knigs County toward the last of the campaign. It is proposed to have him address a mass meeting then at Ulmer Park. EDESON FAMILY AFFECTED Father in Los Angeles Hospital, Mother at Southampton While Robert Edeson, the actor, is der treatment for blood poisoning in a hospital at Los Angeles, and an operation may have to be performed on him, the actor's wife is lying ill in a hospital at Southampton, L. I. She was removed there from "Strongheart House." the Edeson home, after an illness of a month.

Edeson sustained an injury to his left leg while playing at a Los Angeles theater. He fell on the stage and bloc-1 poisoning afterward developed. The physicians have said that unless his condi- tion improves materially an operation wIll be necessary. Mrs. Edeson's illness is due to sleepless nights and days of worry spent at the bedside of her 3-year-old daughter, Roberta, while the child was recovering from an operation last winter.

Mrs. Edeson's condition 1s said to be much improved. Every day Edeson receives a telegram from the East which keeps him posted in regard to his wife's condition. The littie girl Mrs. Edeson nursed is a constant attendant at her bedside, It was discovered last winter that Roberta's leg bones were frail and surgeons found it necessary to break the bones in order to straighten them.

Although the operation was successful Mrs. Edeson collapsed when the child Teturned home. The Edesons Were married in 1908. Mrs. Edeson was Miss Georgie Eliot Porter, KNEMEYER'S BODY FOUND IN THE BAY Brooklyn Man, Missing Since April 9, Was Evidently a Suicide.

ILLNESS DERANGED HIS MIND. Sons of Acting Treasurer of Diamond Dairy Company Claim Body at City Morgue. After being on the list of the missing since April 9, the body of Gustave H. Knemeyer was picked up by the harbor police boat Patrol off the foot of Thirtyninth street, Gowanus Bay, late- yesterday afternoon. From police descriptions sent broadcast, the body was readily identified when it reached the in Manhattan, and the identification: was Miocene, confirmed by the dead man's two sons, later in the evening! The body had evidently been in the water for a long period.

Mr. Knemeyer, who was 59 years WAS acting treasurer of the Diamond Dairy Company, which had its main offices OD Carlton avenue. He was an old and respected attache of the company, and the entire working force was shocked when the news reached them that Mr. Knemeyer had committed suicide, for that is the belief of the family and the police. Mr.

Knemeyer left his home, at Fourth avenue and Senator street, for business early on the morning of April 9, and after his departure Mrs. Knemeyer made a dis- Gustav H. Knemeyer, Missing Brocklynite, Whose Body Was Recovered From New York Bay. covery which caused immediate alarm. Her husband was in the habit of carrying ing large sums of money at all times, and on that morning he left a large roll ot bills on his dressing table.

With no sign of his return, the family became convinced that he had committed suicide. Mr. Knemeyer had been in ill health for a long period, and was under a physician's care. The latter was treating him for a blood-clot on the brain. Continued suffering wore him to a highly nervous condition, but he managed to attend to his duties.

It was stated at his home yesterday that pain had evidently bereft him of reason, and that he threw himself into the bay. He leaves, besides his widow, two grown sons, Gustave F. and William H. Knemeyer, and a daughter, Emily. Funeral services will be held at the family home tomorrow evening, and the interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery on Sunday.

The service will be conducted by the Rev. Emil Kraeling of the German Lutheran Church, on Henry street, of which Mr. Knemeyer was a member. He was a Mason, and identified with Allemania Lodge No. 740.

FIRE IN MAILBOX Those who mailed packages for postal delivery in the mail box at the corner of Gates avenue and Fulton street, last night, before 9 o'clock, may thank a young man named Arthur Reich for saving them from destruction by fire. He was passing there at about 9 o'clock when discovered smoke issuing from the mail box. He quickly got a pail of water from a nearby drug store and threw it into the box, which was well filled with mall waiting for the 10 o'clock collection. The cause of the fire In the box could not be discovered, but it is believed that some one threw a lighted cigar away and it dropped into the box, at the top of which was a tissue- covered package. DR.

W. H. DAVIS IN PLYMOUTH. Dr. W.

H. Davis of Colraine, Ireland, will be at the Plymouth Church prayer meeting this evening. After Dr. Hillis' address, Dr. Davis will speak on the present upheaval in Northern Ireland over the application for home rule, and the present conditions and prospect of the churches.

Dr. Davis represents the i -conformist churches of Northern Ireland and he has given several addresses in Montreal, Toronto, Broadway nacle, the Old South Church, Boston, and Central Church, Brooklyn. FOR -BICYCLES. BICYCLE SALE Boys, girls and men's bicycles; all makes: ones: $12.50 up; second-hand. $5 up.

Old wheels taken in exchange. 175 Smith near Bergen. 25-7 REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION. TO MORROW Long Island City Absolute Auction Sale 450 DUAL SUBWAY STATION LOTS On Thomson new 200 ft. Queens Boulevard and Bliss St.

DUAL SUBWAY STATION ON PROPERTY Take THOMSON AVE. TROLLEY from Manhattan end of Queensboro Bridge, Passes Property Take TROLLEY DIRECT to Long Island City on 42d St. FREE TITLE POLICIES May Remain on Mortgage at Savings Bank Books Accepted as Deposit on Lots. Bryan L. Kennelly, Real Estate Auctioneer 156 Broadway Telephone Cortlandt 1547 New York LONG CAREER OF CRIME ENDS Gourdain Squandered Several IlI-Gotten Fortunes--Success Made Him Mad.

Chicago, May 23-Government officials yesterday received word of the death 1n London of Louis A. Gourdain, who swindled the public out of several large fortunes, which he squandered and whose success drove him mad. Twenty-seven years ago he organized a lottery company, which netted him $750,000. The money came so fast that his mind was affected. Later, in New York, he served a year for conducting a lottery scheme.

Then he Was heard of in New Orleans, where he bought 1,280 acres of swamp, which he converted into 135,000 oil lots. In Chicago, subsequently, he opened the "Manhattan Exchange Bank," and it is said to have turned $5,500 into a million. For this scheme he was sentened to four years the penitentiary. An appeal was taken and Gourdain went to the prison gates and pleaded for admission. He bought a mansion in Joliet, where the State prison is located, for his to bulld a private dr prison.

Before work wife, and purchased ground upon which was started on the building the Supreme Court affirmed his sentence. He made a sensational escape from the Washington, D. asylum in 1908 and had not since been heard from. daughter of Linn Boyd Porter, author and globe-trotter, of Brookline, Mass. The actor met his wife at a fair where 609 was trying to sell violets, but not making a great success of it.

He jumped in and offered to sell them for her. In a few minutes he had disposed of her whole stock. That is how their friendship began. The two have always been devoted to each other. SPIRITUALISM IS BLAMED Husband's Belief Caused Marital Differences, Says Mrs.

Keefer. The value of spiritualism as an aide to picking winners at the races was interestingly enlarged upon late yesterday by George N. Keefer of 1165 Broadway, this borough, who was being sued for a seperation before Justice Scudder in the Equity Term of the Supreme Court, by Mrs. Luella K. Keefer of 2305 East Fourteenth street, Sheepshead aBy.

Mrs. Keefer testified that her husband's spiritualistle tendencies were more or less a cause for marital discord in the household. Kefer afterward declared that it was something altogether different that! caused the differences, although, he said, his wife didn't believe what he did about spiritualism. Justice Scudder listened to the testimony and reserved decision. The Keefers were married about fourteen years ago.

They finally in January, 1912, it is said. After living awhile in Jersey, Mrs. Keefer said, they moved down to Sheepshead Bay and soon afterward Keefer became interested in the races. Then he began to play them, she said, and had good luck. He was a spiritualist and thought he was helped to what success he had by his belief, in which she didn't share, Mrs.

Keefer said. Keefer had an idea, his wife said on the witness stand, that she would be a good medium and, if she would, could sist him in picking the winners. Mrs. Keefer said she took no stock in spiritualism and refused to become a medium. It was her refusal, Mrs.

Keefer said, that caused her husband to begin a series of acts which, she said, constituted the cruel and inhuman treatment made the basis of her complaint. On the witness stand Keefer denied treating his wife in a cruel and inhuman manner. Keefer intimated on the witness stand that his vife was more friendly than she should be with another man. This Mrs. Keefer denied.

Two sisters of Mrs. Keefer, Miss Ruby Johnson and Mrs. Emma Cox, both of Newark, testiRed in her support. POLICEMAN BADLY WOUNDED. Patrolman Charles Hoffman of the Gates Avenue station, who lives at 1079 Hancock street, is laid up in the Bushwick Hospital, the victim of a peculiar accident.

He was trying doors shortry after 6 o'clock this morning and while, examining the door of the cigar store at 1539 Broadway, he slipped and fell. His revolver dropped from his pocket and was discharged when it struck titt sidewalk. The bullet entered his right just behind the ankle and ploughing upward, grazing the bone, came out in front of his leg just below the knee. Dr. Platou took Hoffman 'the the hospital where it was found that wound is all ugly one.

He will be out of commission! (vI many weeks. FACTS FOR EVERYBODY. How Government Statistics Are Transformed Into Very Attractive Reading The average citizen of today has but a slight conception of the many varied departments conducted by our Government at Washington, and the extensive ramifications of government reports which are constantly being accumulated by Uncle Sam's employes. Very few, besides those who have made personal investigations at the National Capital, realize the vast amount of matter thus accumulated, nor the exceedingly interesting and educational nature of it. In the Department of Imports and Exports, as an example, the comparative figures of different years show the growth or construction in volume of business done in all fields of activity.

How many people, besides those who have personal interest, know that the exportation of meats and dairy products, live animals and manufactures of cotton, were less in 1911 than in 1905, or that for the same years the exportation of photographers' goods increased 5,000 per or that iron and steel increased 70 per This information is found in the Standard Book of Facts which. The Eagle is offering to its many readers upon terms which places it within reach of everybody. The facts just referred to regarding imports and exports are found in the appendix of the publication. The figures are shown in tabulated form, comparisons of different years are presented, and the desired information is easily found by the busy man or woman. An up-to-date encyclopedia is not within the reach of a great many people, comparatively speaking.

Here is a book which contains a vast array of current facts for only 98 cents in cash and six coupons cut from consecutive issues of The Eagle. It is a book for everybody. BOOK OF FACTS Coupon Six of these coupons, clipped from consecutive issues of The Eagle, and presented at The Eagle Office, or any of its branches, together with 98 cents, will secure a Standard Book of Facts--a complete encyclopedia in one volume, bound in limp leather. By mail FRIDAY add 22 cents for May 23 postage. MRS.

F. T. FAULKNER GETS SEPARATION Court Awards Her Weekly Alimony of $50-Couple Married 14 Years. HUSBAND MAKES NO DEFENSE. Is Son of Late Thomas S.

Faulkner and Heir, in Part, of Father's Ample Fortune, Supreme Court Justice Benedict today granted a decree of separation to Mrs. Maud L. Faulkner, of 19 Halsey street, with $50 a week alimony, from Frank T. Faulkner, to whom she was married on May 15, 1899. The plaintiff accused her husband of cruel and inhuman treatment.

Faulkner was represented in court by Lawyer Bruce R. Duncan, but put in no defense. The two children, Marion W. Faulkner and Frank T. Faulkner, are left with Faulkner's mother, who lives at 183 Halsey street.

The law firm of Hunter Hatch renresented the plaintiff. Back of the marital action tried today before Justice Benedict, so quietly as almost to escape notice, is a story of a litigation over an estate that resulted in several million dollars being distributed among the members of the family of which Faulkner is one. The defendant is the son of the late Thomas S. Faulkner, who died about two years ago, leaving an estate variously estimated at from 000.000 upwards. A large part of this is said to have come from the estate of Benjamin B.

Johnston, a cousin of the defendant's father, over which there was a fight in the Surrogate's Court. When the case, in which the decree has just been decided in favor of Mrs. Faulkner, was heard by Justice Kapper, on the question of alimony, the plaintiff insisted that her husband was enjoying income of over $10,000 a year and was an worth upward of $250,000. Justice Kapawarded Mrs. Faulkner $50 a week per and there was no opposition before Justice Benedict today at the same award being continued.

CITY'S DEATH RATE LARGER. Influenza Causes Many Deaths Among Middle-Aged and Elderly. Department returns for the Health May 17 show an increase of week ending 117 deaths over the corresponding week in 1912. There were 24 fewer deaths of infants under 1 year of age, fewer un5 years of age, and 26 fewer deaths der at the ages of 65 and over, so the large rate of increase is due wholly to the greater mortality of persons between 5 and 65 years. The death rate in Brooklyn was 13.85 per thousand, a decrease of .12 of a point compared with the corresponding week in 1912.

The lowest death rate for this year was during the week ending May 10, when it was only 12.41. An important element In the bulletin of the Health Department is the fact that figures tend to show what has long been recognized by physicians since infuenza made its appearence here--that there is a comparative lack of infection among children and young adults by the influenza bacillus. The health reports for the month of March, 1913, showed an increase of 517 deaths over last year, an increase that was due exclusively to influenza, which was present in a virulent form, and in consequence not only were the a deaths from this factor itself increased, but also from its congeners, the respiratory, circulatory and diges ive discases. Between the ages of 25 to 45 there were 89 more deaths; from 45 to 65, there were 28 more deaths, and at 65 and over there were 107 more deaths. These figures bear out the contention that the influenza is not prevalent among the young.

There was an increase of 33 deaths from diphtheria and croup and 6 from whoopTing cough, which was offset by decreases in the deaths from typhoid fever, scarlet fever, cerebro-spinal meningitis and other epidemic diseases. To offset 43 less deaths from tuberculosis of the lungs, there were 30 more deaths from cancer. REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Coward Shoe 'REG.

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LOST-Un Bay Ridge av trolley or West End train. PACKAGE of silverware; reward. 170 Broadway, New York; Room 1307. LOST, brindle PUP. 4 months old, in neighborhood of Greene and Carlton ava.

Please return to Dr. SMITH, 382 Carlton av. LOST, from Bergen st to Bijou Theater, a diamond PIN. on Thursday night. Liberal reward if returned to CROWE, 153 Smith st.

LOST, from 5th av between 36th st and 8th st, leather covered ROUTE BOOK. Reward if returned to W. M. TRIMBLE 4th av. LOST--A gold BAG.

near corner of Tompkins av and Jefferson, 12 o'clock today, engraved L. M. SHANAHAN. Liberal reward if returned to 320 Jefferson av. LOST -Left on Gates av car, sum of money, wrapped in brown paper.

If finder will communicate with H. 47 Debevoise place, will save the loser and his family untold agony. LOST -DIAMOND from ring setting, in Abraham Straus', Namm's or that vicinity, or Flatbush car. Reward for information concerning same by addressing A. A.

WEBSTER, jewelers, 440 Fulton st. PROPOSALS FOR BIDS AND ESTIMATES FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDER3. The person or persons making a bid or estimate for any services, work, material or supplies for The City of New York, or for any of its departments, bureaus or offices, shall furnish the saine in a sealed envelope, indorsed with the title of the suppiles, materials, work or services for the bid or estimate 19 which made, with his or their name or names and the date of presentation to the president, or bard.

or to the head of the department at his or its office, on or before the date and hour named in the and place advertisement the for the same, receive! at which time estimate will be publicly opened by the president or board or head of said department and read, and the award the contract made according law as soon thereafter as to practicable. Each bid or estimate residence of shall contain the name and place of the person making the same, and names of all other persons interested with him therein; if no person be so terested, it shall distinctly state that fact: also that it is made without any connection with any other person making in an estimate for the same purpose, and fraud all and respects fair is and without collusion or that no of the Board of Aldermen, head of a deparament, therein, chief or of a other bureau, officer of deputy The City thereof of or York Is, shall New be or become interested, directly or indirectly, aS contracting parcy. partner, of surety the ol' otherwise in stockholder, or in the performance business to contract or in the supplies, work or of the which it thereof. relates. or in any portion profits The bid estimate must be verifed by the oath.

in writing, of several party or matters parties making the the estimate that the stated therein all respects true. in are No bid or estimate will be considered unless. as a condition precedent to the reception or consideration of certified any check proposal, upon it be accom- the panied by national banks of The one of state or the City New York, drawn to order of or the Comptroller. money or corporate stock certifcates of indebtedness York, of which any the nature issued Comptroller by. shall The City apof New prove as of equal value with the security quired in the three advertisements, or more to than the five amount of not tum less of the amount of the bond required, as than per provided Charter.

in Section The 420 amount of the shall be Greater as New York for specttied in the proposals instruction to and shall not be in excess of 5 per cent. The certified the cheek or money containing should not be Inclosed in envelope be the bid of estlinate, but should addressed either inclosed in a envelope to the head of the department, president the or presentation board. or of the submitted bid personally upon For particulars as to the or estimate. quantity and qualof the supplies or the nature and extent of ity the work, reference must be made to tha the said office of the president, board or despecifications, schedules, plans. on Ale in No bid shall be accepted from or contract partment.

awarded to any New person York who is debt in arrears to The City of defaulter as upon or contract, or who any obligation is a surety or otherwiss to the city. upon The contracts must be bid for separately, The right is reserved in each case to reject all bids or estimates if it is deemed to be far the Interest of the write city so the to do. Bidders will out amount of their bids or estimates in addition to inserting the same Bidders are requested to make their bids in figures. or estimates upon the blank forms prepared and furnished by the city, a copy of which, with the proper envelope in which to inciose the bid, together with a copy of the contract. including the specifications in the form approved by the corporation counsel, can ho obtained by application therefor at the office of the department for which the work is to be done.

Plans and Lowings of construction work also be seen there..