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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE NEWS CABLE. GG. NO. 84. tt the OflSre mt Brktfn.

Howmbw IS, tm bct-oud CiMa of Maui Matter, under tiic Act of iltrcba, iVm NEW YORK. SUNDAY. MARCH 2G. 190.1. PAGES 1 TO 12.

Trad Mark 'Eagl' JUtiitrred. THREE CENTS. TH NEWS CABLE. SUBWAY ROUTES WHICH INTERBOROUGH OFFER OF HOUGH being reached, in order to prevent difficulties with European creditors, which might lead to intervention and also precipitate internal troubles. The country is quiet, although the situation is unsettled.

LONG ISLAND CITY ANXIOUS. TO GUARD PANAMA CANAL Belmont plans was a great surprise to us. This matter Is not one to be considered in interest of the railroad company. The citizens of Brooklyn should have a voice In deciding upon the routes and our Interests are greater than the Interborough's. "The Interborough Compsny's plans provide for a route through the heart of the city, which has abundant facilities, and which will not benefit Brooklyn in the sense that the Fourth avenue route would." A.

Huber, of the Huber Iron Works, in Fifty-third street, said: "I do not think that the Rapid Transit Commission would agree to the plans as now proposed after it has endorsed and recommended the Fourth Fulton, Bridge Duffield h. OFFERS TO 1. A line of two tracks connecting with the loop under City Hall Park. Manhattan; under Beekman street to the East River, to Pineapple street, to Fulton street, where It will connnect with the tunnel now in course of construction, the latter line to be of four tracks between Court street and Atlantic avenue. The Junctions can be so arranged, the Interborough Company says, that there will be no grade crossings at Fulton and Court streets, at Flatbush avenue and Fulton street or at Lafayette and Flatbush avenues or at Fourth and Flatbush avenues.

2. A line of two tracks to extend from Lafayette and Flatbush avenues, through Lafayette avenue to Sumner, and thence to the Interborough plans yesterday. Mr. Matthews expressed the opinion that, while the Belmont plans appeared to be good enough so far as they went, they did not go far enough. Mr.

Matthews declared that what Brooklyn wants is express lines that will bring the outlying sections of the borough into communication with the central portions of the city, and that will provide rapid transit ail over the borough of the kind that has been furnished to the residents of Manhattan by means of the subway there. Brooklyn is as much entitled to a subway of that description and of its size as Is Manhattan, Mr. Matthews declared, and until Brooklyn gets rapid transit of this kind its inhabitants will be at a great disadvantage. "A broad gauge four track syvtem that will serve the entire borough is what Brooklyn wants." said Mr. Matthews.

"It can be satisfied In the end with nothing less." Howard Glbb, of tin firm of Frederick Looser refused to discuss the Belmont plans at all. E. C. Blum, of the firm of Abraham Straus was also non-committal concerning the proposed Beln.oat rapid transit system. The Fulton street merchants and other business men of Brooklyn who have Interested themselves In the rapid transit problem, while they will not discuss the Belmont plans at this time, are, however, It is understood preparing to urge upon the Rapid Transit Commission the laying out of a more comprehensive system of rapid transit for this borough than that proposed by the Interborough company.

To Invite Metropolitan to Bid. One of the results of the proposal by the Interborough Company that it be permitted to operate a system of subways in tnu Dor-ougn that would give It a monopoly of the rapid transit business here will probably bo that the Rapid Transit Commission will be asked to Invite the Metropolitan Street Railway Company of Manhattan to bid for a line to Brooklyn. In the plans which It presented to the Rapid Transit Commission the other day the Metropolitan company confined itself entirely to Manhattan and did not offer to build any extensions to this borough. It It urged that tho Metropolitan Company should be asked to compete for lines to Brooklyn In opposition to. or even in con- Junction with the Interborough company.

With these two powerful companies operating In Brooklyn, the borough it Is declared, by those who favor the extending of an Invitation to the Metropolitan Company to come to Brooklyn, would be assured of real underground rapid transit and the objection that If the Interborough Company is allowed to build and operate Its proposed system of subways It would have a monopoly of the railroad business, would be obviated. It Is suggested that the Metropolitan company might be asked to build a line to Brooklyn that would tun to Coney Irland, no PNF.FWH ADMIMIJTHatlve NTITY 0CMirA. 8RO BUILD IN BROOKLYN Broadway, to the Brooklyn terminal of the Williamsburg Bridge, the bridge at its Manhattan terminal to connect with a subway in Delancey street; thence to Chrystie street, to Canal street, to Center street, to William street, where it would connect with the second tunnel running to Brooklyn, which would have its outlet at Pineapple street. 3. A line of two tracks to extend from the Junction at Fulton street and Flatbush avenue, under the extension of Flatbush avenue to the Manhattan Bridge, with connections at the Manhattan end of the bridge with the Second and Third avenue elevated lines.

4. A line to extend from the tunnel now being built at Prospect Park plaxa, through Eastern Parkway, to East New York. tluough service to that resort having been provided for in any cf the new plans. The nearest approach to a subwsy to Coney Island Is by way of the line now in course of construction out to Parkstde avenue, where it is to connect with the Brighten Beach branch of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. HIT, Brown Disappointed.

Walter B. Brown, secretary of the Brook lyn Transportation Reform League, when asked bow the league would stand on the question of the Belmont offer, said: "I have not consulted with my colleagues, so that I cannot say definitely Just what attitude the league will assume. Personally I was dazzled at first by the apparently generous offer of a five cent fare from Brook lyn to the Bronx, but upon further consid eratlon it seems to me that Brooklyn, as usual, Is coming out at tho lit Lie end of the horn. The Lafayette avenue loop would tap tno cream of the thickly populated residen tiai section, but would fall to give service to the even more thickly populated outlying sections. Moreover, it would so completely intrench the Belmont company In Brooklyn that it would effectually block the way for any other corporation entering this most fertile held.

The geographical conditions of Brooklyn are such thst It would be almost Impossible to lay out a line of subway, having In mind tne rener or improvement of any given sec. tlon, that would not be a profitable Invest- ment for any corporation undertaking it. Expressing not only my own views but the general sentiment as near aa I can gauge It rrom mia omce, i neiieve that the comprehensive scheme of subways as laid out by the committee of the Rapid Transit Commission promises greater relief than any thing yet proposed and we must not permit any corporation to alter it to suit Its own idea. Instead, the plans aa laid out must be offered for general competition and the best terme accepted for subway to be built alor.g the selected routes. The 5 cent fare will take cars of Itself.

And In this connection there Is one other point I desire to make: in providing railroad facilities for the Manhattan bridge care must be taken that no elngl corporation obtains exclusive control." Opposition in South Brooklyn. The greatest opposition to the Belmont plans Is In South Brooklyn. Officers of the West End Board of Trade, the South Brooklyn Board of Trade, the Prospect Hill Citizens League and the Prospect Heights Citizens Association all severely condemned the plans of the Interborough company. Daniel B. Beever, chairman of the Rapid Transit committee of the West End Board ot traae.

said: "The allied boards of trade of thla section of Brooklyn will oppose any scheme of the Interborough Company that would leave Fourth avenue out. The publication of the rmTTwe LaDtrtrtANCir. HM-TE ter.l.e.Dt DIPLOMAT. ''i'v i in- the TS Omission of Fourth Avenue Route Is Seriously Criticised Everywhere. EXPRESS LINES INSISTED ON.

Gardiner D. Matthews States Feeling of Merchants Walter B. Brown's Views Expressed. Brooklyn is divided in opinion aa to tfie advantages that would follow the carrying out of the plans of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, of Manhattan, for additional subways in this borough. Those sections of the borough which would be served by the Belmont system are thorough ly satisfied with the plans laid before the Rapid Transit Commission.

The men who look to the larger interests of the com munlty, however, Beem to be unanimously of the opinion that the Belmont system would do more to hurt Brooklyn than auy system of subways tSat could be devised. The failure of the Interborough Company to include in its plan at least one large trunk line that would approach in Import ance and in efficiency the great Manhattan S50.000,000 subway, ia looked upon as a defect in the proposed Belmont system that would be most destructive of the future de velopment of the borough. South Brooklyn is up In arms at the mere suggestion that the Interborough com' pany will not Include in its system of add! tional subwaya here the underground road in Fourth avenue to Fort Hamilton. The big business interests down-town stand ready to oppose any general system of subways that docs not include a straight road to East New York by way of Gates avenue and Broadway or some other equally avail, able route. wnue tne merchants on Fulton street hesitate to pass any criticism on tha plans of the Interborough company, they have indicated privately that they look with great disfavor on the general Belmont scheme.

Neglect of Suburban Sections. The neglect of the Interborough company to provide for the suburban sections of the borough is the main ground of opposition to the proposed Belomnt system as outlined to the Rapid Transit Commission. tne almost universal idea in Brooklyn last night, except in those sections which uc umueumieiy peneniea Dy the system proposed by the Interborough Company mat it wr. Belmont wishes to secure general approval of hie scheme to invade Brooklyn he must offer a better proposition to tne napio. transit Commission than that which he has put forward.

iruna lines that will tap the suburbs!" was the cry last night among the men who have been fighting for the better ment of the transportation system of Brook Jvn, In and out of the Rapid Transit Com mission, for the past year. The Interborough Company is being con demned Just as severely for having left out of Its proposed system a line through Broad way In the Eastern District to the river aa it has for Iti failure to Include the Fourth avenue underground line to Fort Hamilton. The plans of the Interborough Company offer an alternative for the Broadway subway, which I he committee on plana of the Rapid Transit Commission favored a line through 8umner avenue to Broadway, to tho Williamsburg Bridge. This alternative la apparently more for tho purpose of connecting the bridges on this sido thun it is for providing rapid transit tor tho Eastern District. It Is urged that while the subway connec tions between the bridges on this clde may ue beneficial enough, there la greater neces sity for trunk lines through the Important arteries of traffic and that, with these pro vided for, the connections between the bridges might follow at any time.

Opinion of Mr. Matthews. Gardiner D. Matthew, of the firm of A. D.

Matthews A Sons was the only one of tha Fulton street merchants who would discuss mm Mv.E WU-TIMLIZM-IOM, HARLEM BUILDIN0 FALLINCr DOWN, HARLEM DUILDiNtrS rgP rfSv jlTltevmnaxtl Speculation Rife as to Where Belmont Tunnel Will Reach Surface. There is much speculation in Long Island City as to where the Belmont tunnel will come to the surface. Some time ago it was reported that a New York real estate firm was trying to get an option on some of the property embraced in the block bounded by Jackson and Vernon avenues and Fourth and Fifth streets. Borough Hall, the post office, St. Mary's Catholic Church parish house and parochial school beside numerous stores and flat houses occupy the block, which is considered one of the best in the Hunter's Point district.

FIRE HEROINE UNDER ARREST. Pretty Little Martha Byrne Is Now Charged With Bobbing School Companions in Manhattan. Martha Byrne, the thirteen-year-old child who gained great praise for her discovery of the fire in Public School No. 17, in West Forty-seventh street, Manhattan, the day after election, last November, was arrested by the police of the West Forty-Beventh street station yesterday afternoon, charged with highway robbery. It is alleged that sho stole 25 cents from Margaret Finneran, 10 years of age, of 6S2 Eighth avenue, at Eighth avenue and Forty-seventh street.

The Fin neran child's father, Williams, says that he saw tLe operation and called the police. It Is also alleged that the child attempted to steal 30 cents from Gertrude Morgan, 11 years of age, of 258 West Forty-seventh street. Martha is very bright and very pretty, with a wealth of golden curls and a winsome manner. "She la incorrigible," said Captain Flood, after he bad questioned her. "If she is taken care of she may turn out to be a brilliant woman; but If she continues in the ways she is going sho will make a good deal of trouble for many people." Martha said that she lives at 122 and 124 East One Hundred and Eleventh street.

The police of the Bast One Hundred and Fourth street station investigated at the request of Captain Flood, but say that they could not find any family of that name at that address. No one seemed to know the child. She insisted that she had been visiting an aunt In Forty-fourth street, and that the had given her the 30 cents found in her possession. She denied that she had roobad the Finneran girl. One of the stories she told Captain Flood was that her father Is a former detective sergeant.

Captain Flood, who had a long acquaintance with the men at police heal-quartera, said that he did not know of any such man, and his inquiry at the central office was met with denial. The girl siuca stoutly to ber story. She was sent to the rooms of the Children's Society and will bo arraigned in the Children's Court to-morrow. PENNSYLVANIA R. R.

SUSTAINED. Complaint Growing Out of Coal Strike Incident Dismissed by Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, March 25 The Interstate Commerce Commission to-day. In an opinion by Commissioner Clements, dismissed tho complaint in the case of Charles A. Thompson against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, growing out of a rulo adopted by the defendant company In the matter of furnishing cars for the transportation of coal during the anthracite coal strike. The commission holds that the defendant company's temporary rule In confining its comparatively few available cars to mines generally in operation, where quick loading could be accomplished, and declining to permit its sidings aod switches to be further congested by loading coal from wagons, not only by complainant, but others, was calculated to hasten rather than to retard the movement of coal for public use, and was not unreasonable or unjust.

No opinion Is expressed upon the point whether a railroad may discriminate in furnishing cars as between the methods of loading by tipple and wagon. AGAINST THE MORTGAGE TAX. Building and Loan Association Claims It Would Discourage Home Building and Thrift. The executive committees of the Stat and Metropolitan Leagues of Co-operative Savings and Loan Associations held a Joint session yesterday afternoon at 99 Nassau street, Manhattan, to consider the mort-gngo tax bill. It was decided by unanimous vote to endeavor to secure an exemption for the mortgages of these associations.

To tax these mortgages. It is claimed, would be to reverse the policy that haa been uniformly pursued by the federal and all state governments slnco building associations were first established. Even the war revenue law of 1KM, exempted mortgugea of building associations from the stamp tax: and that was the only clans of of mortgage exempted, even those of savings banks being inert. If the bill becomes a law the tax will Inevitably be shifted upon the borrower by tivrryboily except thoae sModntloiis. They cannot, however, shift the tn to the mortgagor, because their mortalities cull for per cent, interest, and ahift the tax would make the contract usurious.

Beside that, II la claimed, the proponed law ould be a gross Initial Ice to building association especially, for tho reninn lh.it the tin would he on the face of'the innrlKSge; while building axao-ctatlon mortgages are reduced by Installment payments each month. For Ins'anee, a mnrtiraae for nnfl might have been re duced by the monthly payments to S.I.OOO; Hint, while the borrower will pay hla I lereat on the hnlnnro only, the ainriaiinn will he required to the lax on the whole 14,000. The plan of the mortgage la such that the borrower, hltnuclf a member of the aaaoi'latjon, participates In the Iniereai de. rived from all mortgages Including lu on I hits together with the Installment, reducing hi principal, and gradually wiping It nut. The tax would thua postpone the day oh which hundred of ihoiieamla nf men and women In poor circumstances will own their liu'ma free of encumbrance.

There are In this state mnny Ihou.and of small dwelling that hsve been eree'ed through loana from hull. ling aaaoclatlona made in the working cla.a. and which, but for Ibeae a.eoclnl lona, might lover have been Tn tas Ih-ae mortgage, therefore, the building stid l.nn aa.orlnf ton rlnlin, would be to dlacoutagn home building and thrift. SPOTTED FFVFR IN BOSTON. 25 Deaths From Dread Mnlndy recorded Since January 1, Moaton, March The lloaton board of health announce lliat twenty.

five person have died In thla city thua far thla year from rerehro spinal itienlnalila. Tina dla-ea la lncrra.nr. rapidly New Knghmd. I. sat year the total number of from Ihe dlaraae lloaton waa end the nut-look la lhat thla year's fUurca will greatly rere.

tho.e of lint. Two tierauna have dl i of Ihe fever here this week. President Believes Step Is Imperative to Preserve Monroe Doctrine. CLAIMANTS IMPOSE ON ISLAND. Defeat of Treaty in Senate Mafces Bad Impression in the Troubled Little Republic.

Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, March 25 After leaving the White House to-day, where he had an extended talk with the President, Senator Dcpew made the statement that since our government acquired the Panama Canal it is of more importange than ever to enforce the Monroe Doctrine in Santo Domingo. He believes that the failure of the Senate to ratify the Domlolcau treaty has stiffened the backbone of Castro in opposing the demands of the State Department, and is liable to lead to further embarrassing complications with governments that may construe the Senate's inaction as a turndown for the President. The New York Senator believes also that an examination into some of the claims against Santo Domingo would lead to many interesting revelations in frenzied finance. Senator Depew made the following statement to the Eagle correspondent to-day: "The failuro to ratify the Santo Domingo treaty was due to the fact that the Democrats made it a party question and the Republicans lacked three full votes of two-thirds.

All the Republicans would have voted for it. It is true that among a large number of Republican senators there was a good deal of indifference about it. This was largely due to the misapprehension In the country, which was reflected in letters to most, of the senators. I have received a great many myself. The general tenor is either criticism or apprehension at what they call the United States becoming the debt collector' of all the world among the Central and South American republics and the West Indies.

"Each case, however, must stand on its own merit and Santo Domingo is distinct from what auy of the others possibly could be. In the first place It is a request made by the Santo Dominican government to the United 8tntes to undertake a Job which that Kovernment is incapable of carrying on. Th first dltlicultv is that it cannot di- orimlnmo in reaard to the alleged indebted nB It Is churned that most ot it has been augmented several thousand per cent from any valid claims that may have ex- ImI prl. Foreign governments accept the views of their subjects and demand the face value of the claims and Santo Domingo is not strong enougn to insist upuu iuvcdlibulivu. Then, it the foreign governments presB their claims and the United States fails to join Id, the American claimants will, of course, be' shut out.

Under these circumstances the Dominican government asked the United States through this treaty to both arbitral the claims and secure the means lor paying them by taking possession of the customs houses. "Honestly collected and administered the customs are sufficient to set aside a sum that would In few years pay oft the debts and at the same time band over to the Dominican government probably more than It Is getting now out of the whole. The cost to the United States would be nothlnit The United States could examine these claims as an Impartial judge, go to the bottom of every one of them, squeeze the water out and probably present to the world the astounding spectacle of how such claims are augmented by speculators, backed by strong governments agnlnst weak ones. So much for the business side. "If that was all there was of It, there would be little justification for the United States stepping In.

Hut Sanlo Domingo, oil account of these difficulties mainly. Is In chronic revolution and always In danger of anarchy. The Island stands In the track of the Panama Canal and occupies a commanding position In rtie Carrlbcan sea. If there ever was a place where the Monroe Doctrine could not permit a foreign power to get a permanent tootbold It would be on this Island. "The United States cannot say to forelrn powers.

"We will not permit you to take any stepa to collect your deb's, nor will do anything The path of safety and security for the United States Is to accept the offer of the Dominican Gov-1 ernment and perform a service to order, rivllliatlon and good government like that we gave In Cuba. Undoubtedly the failure to ratify the treaty Is the cause of t.ie present difficulty In Venezuela. With the way In which rulers like President Castro Jumpid fo conclusions, ho undoubtedly Interprets the failure to ratify the treaty with Domingo a meaning that the Senate will tie the hands of the President against his entnr-1n Into any relations plrnsrs with Ell-ropean governments and so defies the United Siatea." Minister Dawson cabled from Han Domingo to-day that the receipt of the news of the failure to ratify the treaty hnd caused great deal of excitement and disappointment, A reply was sent by Acting Secretary Adee, which stated that It was Imped by the administration that the treaty would be rnllncd when Congress again assembled. It was further explained that the treaty was favorably reported and that large majority of the Senate was In favor of It. Mr.

Dawson has also been Informed of the selection of Professor Hollander as the Pros. Idenl's apeelal representative to visit San Domingo to Inquire Into the flnanrlnl conditions and the history of the various cliilms, nd It la expected lhat three Inns, Indicating that the American (Invernnient Is not abating Its Interest In the projected Interna tional settlement, may operate to prevent miners rescuing a rrima. San Domingo. March 2.V Statements pub Untied In the United States that diplomats here and flacnl roprceentatlvc of fnrciin govrnmente, which are creditors of Hnn Domingo, have after a conference, aareed tin a temporary settlement of the flnanelnl questions Involving thla republic, are pre. mature.

Foreign creditors, and principally Italy and llelglum, are taking advantage of the deferring of the proponed convention between the United Htatea and San linnilnsn and of the Venezuelan aliiiatlou to demnnd the payment of their claims. In order to meet the situation. It haa been propnaed by the Dominican flnvernnienl lliat an American be rioliinnted aa a commie, aloner for the collection of all cnatnma iluea at aniiihom porta. per cent, of aucti col-lerllnne being net nparl for the elpctiaea of the government ami per Ices rt-penaea of collection, being dcpo.tte'1 in an American bank until the Hanchi llllllnsham convention la enher ratified or rejected, should the convention be ultimately rejected, the money to be divided In JtiM proportion lo all creditors, inrludlng the Hun Domingo Improvement Company ol New York It la elan auaaowtcd that the American Covemment lane chnrce of the eiialom hmt.ea In Handles and Hainan, tinder the arbitral award In the Hnn Domingo Improve, nietit Company ra.e. It undcrainod the Improvement company, claiming prior rfiniande that fe per cent, of tin ttioneta col leeted at lite northern porta be lo ilciollod In an American bank In await the dual dla-poalllon of the convention It a d.i.iliiful If ancti a proportion will be accepted Thua far nothing haa been de, The (ovetatueut Is dlruue of aouia S(rniut BROOKLYN.

EXHIBITION OF CHILDREN'S PICTURES. I We propose to hold in this store from Monday, May 8th, to Saturday, May 13th, an exhibition of photographs of children. Art critics have agreed that a well ijliscu ui a. yiciiy ciiuu ia mt climax of the beautiful. Our Photograph Gallery has exceptionally good facilities for taking beautiful pictures of children.

$100 in Prizes. In order to introduce this particular branch of our photograph business and get you better acquainted with it than you have been heretofore, we propose to hold this exhibi tion, and to offer $100 in prizes for the ten prettiest children who may have their pictures taken heie be- tween tms aay ana oaturaay, Apia 29th. Photographs from $1.50 a Dozen Up. Throughout this competition there will be no increase in prices in our Photograph Gallery, and the pictures that are taken, which may not cost more than $1.50 a dozen, will be entitled to just as much consideration as the pictures which are more expensive. This is really a children's beauty show, with all the pictures on exhibition for a week, so that the public may have the pleasure of forming their own judgment and seeing the photographs of these hundreds of beautiful children that will be exhibited.

But no one who has a photograph taken here is compelled to have it exhibited. If requested not to exhibit the picture. careful to follow the Five Prizes fo and Five Prizes The prizes are dividt parts: Five prizes for bt uii live prizes for girls. Three of these 1 prizes are iur gins iiiiuer years or age and two for girls between 4 and 12 years of age. Three of these prizes are for boys under 4 years of age and two are for boys between 4 and 12 years of age.

This division of the prizes is made because it would otherwise be difficult to judge of the beauty of the children if both sexes and all ages were in competition. The Prizes in each of these four classes will be: First prize for girl under 4... $20 First prize for boy under 4 20 Second prize for girl under 4. 10 Second prize for boy under 4 10 First prize for girl over 4... 10 First prize for boy over 4...

10 Third prize for girl under 4... 5 Third prize for bov under 4. 5 Second prize for girl over 4. 5 Second prize for boy over 4 5 Total $100 Easy Conditions. The conditions in this prize competition are very easy.

The parents of the children whose pictures are lr. I be elvl'ited will leave with us on." I photograph of the child, on the back of which will be written the child's name and age, with the parents' name and address. This photograph 1 will be returned to the parent after May IS, at the close of the compe-1 lition, ith whatever prize the child may secure. The pictures to be entered in this ompetition be hk'eii any time from this date to the 20th day of April, but we would advise that, as far as convenient, all pictures be taken before April 15th, so that we may have sufficient time in which to get them finished, without waiting for the rush at the last minute before the competition closes. CHAP.NUN A CO.

I Brooklyn, March 20, lOoS. lift SU wviue Free on Monday. Vlneland Crape Julc setved free. To each customer whose check amounts to 25c. or over In our Tea Room Monday, we will serve a regular size glass of the famous Vine-land Unfermented Crape Juice absolutely free.

II Is Nature's own tonic, builds up and strengthens the entire system, an appetizer and helps to assimilate and the food ADVERTISEMENT i is umunucu on dcii I ac. o. WL avenue route. If the Fourth avenue route, after being tentatively adopted, should be abandoned, great Injury would result, and we shall certainly use every effort to oppose the plans of the Interborough Company as they now stand. As a last resort we shall take steps in launching an independent company in order to get the proper transit service between here and Manhattan." Special meetings will be called by the Prospect Hill Citizens League and the Citizens Association of Prospect Heights, to take action on the Belmont plans.

At the office of F. C. Cocheu. who Is chairman of the Association Transit Commission, representing the Boards of Trade of South Brooklyn, It was declared that the abandonment of the Fourth ave nue route to Fort Hamilton would ruin a number of small Investors who on the strength of the indorsement of the Rapid Transit Commission of the Fourth avenue subway have put their earnings in South Brooklyn and Bay Ridge real estate. Brownsville More Favorably Impressed.

President William Sugarman, of the Brownsville Board of Trade, indorsed the Belmont scheme. He said that while he favored an all-the-way Broadway subway. he was glad to hear that Brownsville and East New York were to be taken care of. If Mr. Belmont does not build the Eastern Parkway subway there is a syndicate of residents of that section ready to build It.

H. S. Schwartz. Alexander Drescher, President Carlo Anslen, of the Twenty-sixth Ward Board of Trade; Stephen Gillen. secretary of the East End Board of Trade, and President Edward Pabst, of the Ocean Hill Board of Trade, also Indorsed the plans.

Flatbush Views Expressed. Edmond E. Fisher, chairman of the com mittee of bridges, tunnels, railroads and docks of the Brooklyn League and secretary of the same committee ot the Flatbush Taxpayers Association, said: "Experience has shown the people of Brooklyn that competition is sorely needed and the plans proposed provide for this through a greater portion of the settled and thickly populated sections of the city. I have always felt the Lafayette avenue route to be the most logical of any through the center of the city, being a street on which there are at present no car lines. It Is, of course, very desirable to have an express service through Fulton street.

Were the Fourth avenue tunnel included in thiB scheme and the Eastern parkway section connected with the Broadway subway, the plan would seem to be very complete. Brooklyn has, of course, no vital interest in the differences of opinion between the Metropolitan and Interborough companies. What Is wanted is good service, and as soon aa possible." Killmer Speaks for Smith Street. Kelson B. Killmer of the Central and Smith Street Board of Trade, said: "I am not Bure that all the lines suggested are the very best located for Brooklyn's comfort, growth and development, but certainly the four-track subway for Fulton Btreet and Flatbush avenue is one proposition that was absolutely necessary to make a successful plan.

I see It is suggested that If the Inter borough company's plans are carried out there will be no need of the elevated loop on the Manhattan side connecting the bridges. I trust that the Rapid Transit Board, regardless of what subways may be ouiit in tne future, will not delay the building of the elevated connection as proposed by the Committee of Twenty-five. The elevated connection would give to the residents of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan advantages from bridge structures that they can never hsve In any other way. "The proposed subway loop up Lafayette venue, to Sumner avenue and then through Broadway to the Williamsburg Bridge would cover a thickly settled section snd give direct transit facilities where there is none now. I cannot understand the failure to Include the Fourth avenue route." The Prospect Hill Cltliens League at its meeting Friday night at 206 Prospect Park West, voted unanimously In favor of Engineer Parsons' Hamilton avenue subway plsn.

with the addition of a continuation out Prospect avenue and down to Conev Island. One man In Brooklyn who Is rather enthusiastic In one resneet over n.imi,i plans Is Joseph Caccavajo, engineer of the Fultoa Street Protective Association, te-cajse the Interborough Company has select-el the route which he picked out for a subway during the hearings before the Rapid Transit Commission, to take In the residential section north of Fulton street and flatbush avenue, that is, Lafayette avenue TO TEACH INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE. Plane for the TJnlon of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Made Public. Boston. March 25 The articles of agreement under which It is proposed to combine the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Vnlversltr became pub lic to-day.

They provide for a Joint school of Industrial science to be knows under the present name of the Institute of Technology, os governed by an executive board of niue members of which three shall repre. sent Harvard and to be maintained by present Institute fund, augmented by the In come of all funds of the Lawrence Scientific Bchool, by three-fifths of the net Income which may accrue from the Gordon McKay bequest, amounting to several millions, and by the Income of all nronertv which llr. nrd may hereafter acquire for the promo tion oi instruction In Industrial sclent. The preaidrnt and treasurer of the Insti tute are to retletlvelv r.r...M.n, mnA treasurer of the executive committee and the faculty Is to ronalat of the teaching force of bqtb schools. The department of architecture of each Institution Is not Included In the union tlan The new Institute la to occupy site on the Cambridge side of the ku.e Dear the preaent Mtadlum.

After three yeara the Lawrence Scientific Kchool, at preaont connected with Harvard. Is to be dlirootlnued the Institute la then prepared In Its new location to alva ell needed Instruction In Industrial sciences to the studente of that school, snd all machinery. Instruments and eqiiiimenl of the school Is lo be transferred to lb Institute, Male students of the Institute are to have tho Mint privilege a student at Harvard In the use of Playgrounds, museum and nnrariee of the university. The agreement Is to become void If the In. mute of Technology at Ihe end of four years from the time when the prelect inn Into effect, shall not have purrhated land ano proceeded io "substantial eitent" with construction.

It la provided alao that the agreement may he terminated at anr time by either rmporatlon. upon reasonable notice being tlven to the other, and In the event of such termination the Institute of Teehnnlory must pay such prleea as may be agreed upon either by the corporation or by arbitration, for bulldtnaa nr futures paid for with the funda furnished bv Harvard. It la understood lhat the nueatlon of the acceptance nf the union asreemcnf will not be acted upon for anme weeka, al'houeh It la pelleted that the eentlment of boh corporal lona la In favor of the plan It I known, however, thet certain no-mber of Ihe corporation and Influential nietohera of the Alumni of the Inalltote nf Teehnoloev have nnpoaed the ntereer It la etperied that thla opposition will diaappear now that ihe terms of Ihe agreement have become knows. mXSs LLINtrOOWN.FW-LINO-pcAetN, nN vr, Hi mid IN THE srwINTHf HTa'aW? CUMIN, TO SURFACE. WM I -Jn mTT 0nlhl((M I WL ee, Vf.