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10 THE BROOKLYN TIMES, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28. 1899. Blizzard Bound Furniture Will Make March the Greatest of All Furniture Months. We made extraordinary preparations for our regular February Furniture Sale only to have been met by irresistible natural forces which overcame our best calculations. Many have been the inquiries, "What about your regular February Furniture Sale?" The above explains why we didn't have it.

But what may have been your loss in waiting will now be your gain in saving. There's always a reason for giving prices that are money losing or very near it, else the announcement is very much like a fake. Gaps which of necessity would have been made by our Annual Sale, we had already arranged to fill by large purchases for March, These new things are even now crowding upon us and car loads upon car loads March goods are meeting here together. A state of congestion is bound to sell quickly. We must have room at once, and so make larger savings Sale than we ever have done.

of 25 to From Regular Prices to- All the pieces, at these extreme reductions, will be marked you to look through the great exhibit (the like of which hasn't been seen and be waited upon at any time you wish. be famous because of the great variety and originality of the furniture as will bring you. embraces every sort, the newest and the most handsome, the splendidly the useful, the most decorative. We never had a larger assortment of Library and Parlor Tables alone, we and unusual tables made. space to go into detail now, later we pieces, but the present is the best NO HOPE FOR BAIRD.

FURNITURE of the February and happen unless we. can for you in this March A Reduction will be made commencing with a red ticket, enabling before) at your leisure, But this sale will well as the economy it The collection made, the most artistic, beautiful pieces. For instance in most exclusive, graceful But we haven't scription of the elaborate all its fullness. New Bridge Commissioners Were Legally Appointed. SO SAYS THE COURT OF APPEALS.

MAYOR VAN WYCK HAD POWER TO REMOVE COMMISSIONERS. The Decision of the Generel Term Sustained- -Water Purveyor Tate's Removal Also Legal. Special to the Brooklyn Times. ALBANY, Feb. Court of Appeals this afternoon handed down a decision in the suit brought by Andrew D.

Baird and others, as Commissioners of the New East River Bridge, to oust the present Commission. The decision affirms the judgment of the Appellate Division, with costs. The Appellate Division reversed the Special Term's decision in favor of Col Baird and this associates, so that by the decision today the former Commissioners have no further recourse. The Court also affirmed the decision of the Appellate Division in the case of Augustus C. Tate, who sued to retain his position as Water Purveyor, to which he was appointed under a Republican administration.

The Appellate Division held that the Water Commissioner had power to remove him. There was no decision in the case of Willis and Phillips on appeal from a judgment holding them for trial on criminal charges. The East River Bridge case was brought to test the power of removal of the Mayor of the Greater New York, who summarily removed the Commissioners appointed by the Mayors of New York and Brooklyn and appointed hide-bound Tammany Hall men in their places. The Mayors of New York and Brooklyn each appointed three Commissioners on May 27, 1895, under the provsions of the act passed by the Legislature that year for the construction of a permanent suspension bridge over the East River. The Mayor of Brooklyn appointed Col.

Andrew D. Baird, James A. Sperry and Henry Batterman. The Mayor of New York appointed Richard Deeves, Salem H. Wales and Francis B.

Thurber. With the Mayors themselves these gentlemen constituted the East River Bridge Commission. Thy are all able men, well known in public affairs for their intelligence and honesty. Mayor Van Wyck, on January 19, 1898, removed them. from office In a manner which bordered on indecency.

The Tammany Commissioners, Louis Nixon, Smith E. Lane, James W. Boyle, John W. Webber, Thomas S. Moore and Julian D.

Fairchild suddenly took possession of their offices, without notice, and ousted them. Quo warrante proceedings to test the title of the Tammany Commissioners to the office were instituted by the deposed Commissioners through H. C. M. Ingraham, their counsel.

On the trial of the action before Justice Garretson, of the Supreme Court and a Jury, the decision was in their favor. The Judgment, signed by Justice Garretson, was reversed by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on July 23 last, which declared that the Bridge Commissioners public officers and that Mayor Van Wyck were had the power to remove them under section 95 of the Charter, which provides that at any time within six months after the commencement of his term of office the Mayor, elected for a full term, may, whenever Ini his judgment the public interests shall 80 require, remove from office officer holding office by appointment any public from the Mayor. The Appellate Division, by a prior decision in Carey vs, Wurster, had committed itself to the doctrine that the Mayor of the Greater New York is the suecessor of the Mayors of New York and Brooklyn. It overruled the contention of the deposed Commissioners that the construction of the bridge was a State work and that they were State agente. Union Tobacco Company Not Absorbed.

DANVILLE, Feb. Dur. ham, manager of the Union Tobacco ComN. pany'e smoking tobacco factory at Durham, denies the reports that the large Interesta of that company have been absorbed by other corporations. Mr.

Durham made a statement last night in which he said: "I have direct Information from the officials of the Union Tobacco Company of America saying there is absolutely 110 truth in the rumors, and to deny them most emphatt cally. I give this information, not because It la deemed necessary from any point of view, but simply to avoid false speculations and to satiety a curious public." Ad your houses for sale or to let in the BROOKLYN if you want to secure a tobant. THE WEATHER TO MORROW WILL PROBABLY BE FAIR. ABRAHAM: STRAUS On Free Exhibition in our Art Gallery, Third Floor. 'Delorme's celebrated painting, "The Blacksmith." Two realistic paintings of the battleships "Brooklyn" and in action off Santiago.

C. J. Bonnet et Cie's Black Silks. Unmatched Assortments.Unequaled Low Prices. C.

J. Bonnet et Cie's Black the world, and the fact that try every possible means to less goods so as to be able to another indication of the high But such concerns can get way and by paying a middleman are the sole Brooklyn Agents France, and the only house in goods direct from the maker's ment of them. We offer to-morrow these very C. J. Bonnet's pure dye triple warp C.

J. Bonnet's rich quality black C. J. Bonnet's rich quality black J. Bonnet's jet black Royal quality, C.

J. Bonnet's Black Dress Taffetas. 29 inch Bonnet's black dress Taffeta. 640 23 inch dress Taffeta. 72c 22 inch Bonnet's black dress Taffeta.

99c 99 inch Bonnet's black dress Taffeta. $1.25 22 inch Bonnet's black dress Taffeta. $1.48 23 inch Bonnet's black dress Taffeta. $1.98 C. J.

Bonnet's Black Peau de Sole. 88 inch Bonnet's double faced black Peau de ............880 22 inch Bonnet's double faced black Peau de 29 inch Bonnet's double faced black Peau de 22 inch Bonnet's double faced black Peau de 23 inch Bonnet's double faced black Peau de $1.48 23 inch Bonnet's double faced black Peau de Sole C. J. Bonnet's Black Satin Duchesse. 22 inch Bonnet's black satin Duchesse, 94c Stylish Suitings For Tailor Made Gowns.

50 in. Suitings, all wool, swell patterns, in mannish effects, mixtures, homespuns and invisible plaids and stripes, splendid Imported Armuza Coverts, navy, brown, gray, cadet green 54 in. double face Suitings, stylish plaid sand check Oxford Suitings, strictly all wool, $1.50 the shrunk latest and gray and Oxford mixtures, 48 in. Scotch Homespuns and Plaid Mixtures, used extensively for skirts and and $2.50 New Building, main floor. Flannels for Shirt Waists.

Fine quality all wool twilled French Flannels (solid colors), in all of the leading shades, per All wool priuted French Flannels, about 80. styles of polka dot. per Main floor, left, rear. Linens at Low Prices. Extra heavy and fine bleached Satin Damask, 70 inches wide, variety of designs, per Good quality bleached Damask Napkins, 20 inches square.

$1.50 Extra good quality all linen Damask Tray Cloths, drawn work border, 28x 83 inches, each Main, left, rear. Sheets Pillow Cases. Standard Mohawk Valley" ready made Sheets, inches, 38c. euch; Inches. 41c Fine quality Pillow Oases, 42x36 inches and 45x86 inches, Yard wide unbleached Muslin, good quality, Main, left, rear.

Silk Embroidered Pique, 59c. and 75c. Yd. For stylish waists, White Pique, with embroidered polka dots, helio, cerise, sky blue, pink and black, 59c. and 75e Pique Cords, pink, blue, navy, red and black, with white parallel and single cords.

240 Some Other Stylish Cottons. French Printed Organdies, plaid and stripe grounds, printed in the newest French patterns. The new India silk finish, 82 in. Chambray, fine quality, plain shades of helio, French red, pink, sky blue and Corded Bayadere Madras, pink, blue, and French red, with white cords woven across the material, stylish New Bullaire, main floor. Silks are admittedly the best in other stores strain every effort and secure a few pieces of these peersay "We have Bonnet's Silks" is regard in which they are held.

these silks only in a roundabout a high price for them. We for C. J. Bonnet et Cie of Lyons, Brooklyn that can get these or that shows a complete assort- special values: black Surah, regular $1.25 grade, ...950 figured Taffeta, regular $1.75 grade, ..980 Brocaded Satins, regular $1.75 grade, 980 Armure Mourning Silk, regular $1.40 98c 22 inch Bonnet's black satin Duchesse, $1-15 98 inch Bonnet's black satin Duchesse, $1.48 23 3 inch Bonnet's black satin Duchesse, $1.74 23 inch Bonnet's black satin Duchesse, $1.98 24 inch Bonnet's black satin Duchesse, $2.48 C. J.

Bonnet's Black Cashmere Gros Grain. 21 inch Bonnet's black cashmere Gros Grain "Bonnet's ...880 22 inch black cashmere Gros Grain. 22 inch Bonnet's black cashmere Gros Grain 23 inch Bonnet's black cashmere Gros 23 inch Bonnet's black cashmere Gros Grain $1.74 23 inch Bonnet's black cashmere Gros $1-98 New Building, main floor. Important Furniture Chances. Fifteen Bedroom Suits have been marked for quiek clearance, and you get one of the best furniture chunces of the season in consequence.

They're of solid and imitation mahogany, birdseys maple, birch and antique oak finish: The prices were, $12, $16, $45. $69, $105, They go $7, $10. $35, $45, $60 Bedding. Full size cotton Mattresses made up in A. 0.

A. toking. $4.50 Smaller proportionately cheap. We've 400 pounds of Geese Feathers which we will make up into 8 lb. pil.

lows in A. C. A. ticking, 22x28 inches. our regular $2.00 grade at $1.29 manufacture all our Fibre and Hair Mattresses on the premises, thereby insuring you the best possible workmanship and material at the lowest cost.

We do not make over any old Mattresses, but use only fresh, sweet hair and fibre-a very important consideration. Fourth floor. Alligator Club Bags at Attractive Prices. We've a limited number of genuine alligator Club Bags, leather lined throughout, with leather covered frame and inlays and Anished with brass or nickel fittings. They're full sized, roomy Bags and we offer them at these attractive prices: Sizes 18, 14 or 15 inch, $2.87 Sizes 16, 17 or 18 inch, Main front, right.

Fine White Goods. Special value in imported White P. Galatea, all colors, Organdie, solid colors, all shades, Fulling of Dotted Tueked Syriss, also Nainsook, large Organdie variety with Lace Insertion--prices per. yd. range up $4.98 French Organdie, 67 inches wide, per Main, left, rear.

Some Specials in China Fish Sets and Oyster Plates. There are 50 of these Fish Sets, of decorated Limoges China, with the latest fish designs, each set comprises large fish dish and twelve plates. They're sets that sell regularly and are good value at $11.97 set, we'll sell these Two hundred and "forty "Oyster Plates, the regular 50c. kind, go Egg Cups of Decorated and White China. in a large variety of shapes and designs, from to 500 Basement, New Building.

OUR PRIVATE OUR RESTAURANT DRIVEWAY, running is an excellent place for AD horn st to Livingston st on the mezzanine floor, ABRAHAM througa from lunching when shop- is intended for carriages possible and the STRAUS invited to make free ping. The food is the and bicycles. You are prices low, use of It. On (MANHATTAN DEFIES TAMMANY President Gould Says Opposition from City Officials Will Not. Delay Improvements.

Before the adoption of the resolution to Increase the capital stock of the Manhattan Elevated Railroad by the stockholders to-day President George J. Gould made the following statement: "You have doubtless noticed that an attempt is, being made by the sudden and concerted use of the company in its proposed Improvements. This attempt first came to the service simultaneously with this company's failure to comply with the demands made on behalf of the New York Auto-Truck Company to enter into a contract with that company to let is fasten its pipes on the entire railway structures of this company for nominal consideration. The company confidently relles. on the support of the public in its polley to.

C. J. Bonnet et Black Silks. A Card to the Public. We herewith beg to announce that we have appointed the house of Abraham Straus the sole agent for the sale of C.

J. Bonnet et Silks for the Borough of Brooklyn, and no other house in the Borough of Brooklyn can or does obtain these goods direct from C. J. Bonnet et Cie. A.

Caesar American Representatives of Messrs. C. J. Bonnet et Lyons, France. JAMES McCREERY BROADWAY 11TH ST.

SILK SHIRT WAISTS. New designs and colors in Plaid, Striped and Plain Taffetas. Also, several styles in Black, including tucked and corded fronts, $5.00 Each. Fancy striped Silk Waists, full front cluster tucks, yoke back, $6.50 Each. Plain colored Taffetas Silk Waists, tucked and hemstitched back and front, with corded stock collar, $6.75 Each.

Ready Wednesday Morning. JAMES McCREERY BROADWAY 11TH NEW YORK. have more than two car loads of the will give you more of individual detime to take advantage of the sale in RUDYARD KIPLING IMPRUVING. Encouraging Report Concerning the Author's Condition. Reports from the sick room of Rudyard Kipling continue encouraging.

Mr. Kipling is gradually improving and his doctors now believe he will live. Mrs. Kipling took a drive with the children this afternoon. Before going she issued for the notice of thanks and appreciation for the telegrams and letters expressing sympathy for Mr.

Kipling's condition which she said were too numerous to answer individually. POST OFFICE EXTENSION. Bennett's Bill Passed in the House of Representatives. Special to the Brooklyn Times, WASHINGTON, Feb. House today passed Representative Bennett's bill for extending the Post Office and other Govemment offices in Brooklyn.

It authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to acquire a lot of ground on Washington street for the use of these offices, the price not to exceed $20,000. H. BLIND MAN'S WRETCHED LOT. Mother Beats Him and Rest of Family, He Says Drove Him Into the Street. George Robinson, 30 years old, and blind, who resides with his parents at 26 Fountain avenue, complained at the Liberty Avenue Station last night that his father and mother and two brothers abused him and had driven him into the street.

Robinson was accompanied by a man named W. F. Halloran, a next-door neighbor, who said the blind man's story was true, and that he had ler him to the station house. Robinson said that his, father, Charles Robinson, was well to and owned the Fountain avenue house. He said also that he had two brothers, Samuel, 21 years, and Arthur, 26 years, who were making life unbearable for him.

Said the blind man: "It is because I am blind and a burden to them that they treat me so cruelly. More than once my own parents have threatened to take my life, and only last Sunday my mother beat. re with a wash stick until her arm was tired." Mrs. Robinson, the mother, acknowledged that she had beaten her blind son and added: "I had a proper right to kill him." Robinson is staying for the present with his friend, Halloran. The matter has not been investigated, and the blind man did not make his complaint in the Gates Avenue Court this morning as the said he would.

GHOST IN STATION HOUSE. Doorman Dowling Says There is One in Fort Hamilton Station. The Fort Hamilton Station House on Eighty-sixth street, near Fort Hamilton avenue, is haunted. At least the cellar of it is, according to Thomas Dowling, who is the doorman there. And Dowling is both courageous and honest.

He served in the war of '61-65, and is a brave man and a man not given to believing in spooks, ghosts and such things. Yet he declares he has seen spooks in the cellar of the station house. While he will not openly admit it he believes he has seen the ghost of old John Drury, the late keeper of the old Town Hall, now the station house. Dury was While a believer In all things supernatural. at work about the fur.

nace in the present station house one night some nine or ten years ago, Drury dropped dead. There were stories sometime afterward that Drury's ghost made nightly visits to the cellar of the old Town Hail and put out the fire in the furnace. Then came annexation and with it the regular city police. Dowling, it seems, has been "seein' things at night," for some time past, but said nothing until a few evenings ago when he made a confidant of Sergt. Evans.

He told the sergeant how on frequent 0C- casions, after making a roaring fire In the furnace, he had returned in a few minutes to find had it seen dead and cold, and how one night he as he descended the stairs to the cellar, the figure of a man working at the furnace. Following Dowling'8 confidences there were strange unusual noises in the cellar night after night. On one occasion, Dowling says, the ghost followed him half way up the stair. That he is much bothered. Dowling admits, and that he is troubled is an admitted fact.

Not that 18 frightened; far from it. But he is troubled. He would like to meet the ghost and cannot. As he puts it himself, "Spooks don't scare me but I'd like to go up against this one. Just for fun, you know.

I don't believe there are any spooks, mind you, but I'd give half a month's pay to know why it is that I can't keep a fire going and what makes those noises in the cellar. Not that they annoy me, you know, but they annoy the policemen sleeping in the house. I might have imagined that the spook, or ghost, or whatever it is followed me. "There are those in the station house who intimate that Dowling is in need of a nerve sedative. What She Needed.

"The man I marry," she sald, "must have no bad habits; he must be handsome, manly, loving, generous, liberal, thoughtful- "Miss Frieze," he interrupted coldly, "you should marry a department store." -Philadelphia North American. JOHNSTON WAS SPRIGHTLY. Dickey Says There's Nothing in the Justice Charge of Imbecility. suit of Mary Ann Lynn Grenter to set The aside a deed of the house at 297 Hooper by Abraham Johnston to Marstreet, made Johnston, his wife, was dismissed this tha morning by Justice Dickey in the Court. The plaintiff is the granddaughter of Johnston by his first wife, and charged undue influence by the defendant, who was 32 years old while her husband was 73.

but The defendant denied all undue influence and declared that her husband was sane and knew what he was doing when he deeded his property to her. Several witnesses were called to corroborate her statement. This morning the plaintiff called Dr. Samuel Hanford, 178 South Fifth street, in rebuttal, but Dr. Hanford testified that he had known Mr.

Johnston for some years before his death and considered him a rational old man. "I will dismiss the complaint," said Justice Dickey at the close of the case. "It appears from the evidence that this old man was remarkably intelligent and able for one so old. There appears to be nothing whatever in the plaintiff's contention." OBITUARY. In the death of Mrs.

Hattie C. Langdon, sife of Col. Loomis L. Langdon, U. S.

retired, which occurred last Monday afternoon at her late residence, 20 Sidney place, this borough loses one of its most popular residents. Mrs. Langdon's death was due to nervous prostration, following a severe atItack of the grip. The members of the con-. gregation of St.

John's Episcopal Church, on Ninety-ninth street, near the Post headquarters, knew her as a great church worker and together with Col. Langdon, did much toward building up that church. Col. Langdon was in command of the First Artillery then stationed at the Fort and when he was retired in 1894 he left Fort Hamilton and tobk up his residence on Sidney place. Mrs.

Langdon was a daughter of a well-known merchant in the Borough of Manhattan and her marriage to Col. Langdon in 1867 was a notable nociety, event. She was a member of Grace Episcopal Church and LEGAL NOTICES. SUPREME COURT, COUNTY OF KINGS.Charles Berthold Wolfram, plaintiff, against Carl Brennecke and others, defendants. -In pursuance of a judgment of foreclosure and sale, duly made and entered in the above entitled action, bearing date the twenty-fourth day of February, 1899, the will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, by undersigned, the in said judgment.

named, Thomas A. Kerrigan, Auctioneer, at the salesrooms, No, 9 Willoughby street, in the Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York, on the the 22nd premises day de- of scribed by said judgment to be sold, and therein March, 1890, at 12 o'clock noon, described as follows: All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and County being of In Kings the Borough (late City) of Brooklyn, and State of New York, known and designated 88 lot number 254 on a map entitled, Map of land situate in the Village of Williamsburgh belonging to the estate as laid of out into lots, surveyed November, James deceased, showing the 1845, same Daniel Ewen, Olty Surveyor, and filed the office by of the Register of the County of King much of sald lot number 254 as was conveyed except 80 Abby Fellows, deceased, to Elizabeth Mahon, the by office deed of dated said Register on March 24, 1881, March 14, 1881, and recorded 1,418 of conveyances at page 40, the in in liber more premises hereby intended to be conveyed being follows, particularly bounded and described as of South Third streetand Union avenue; running thence westCommencing at the southwest corner erly along the southerly side of 3); South thence Third south- street -four feet three inches (34' erly part of the way through and the one-balf centre Inches (41' of a party wall forty-one feet ten eleven feet (10') northerly from a drawn at right angles with Union aventte to a point line through point twenty-five feet. (25') southerly from the a southwesterly corner of South Third street and (18' to a point one hundred feet Union avenue: thence westerly eighteen feet three Inches from the easterly side line of easterly thence southerly at right angles to Twelfth Third street ten feet (10') to meet said line street; South right angles with Union avenue; thence along at line at right angles with Union avenue sevsaid enty-four feet six inches (74' 6'1) to the westerly side of Union avenue: thence northerly twenty-five feet along (25') the westerly side of place Union of avenue beginning, be the said sevto the point distances more or less, together with the or and improvements thereon above erected. (The is buildings street in description called Hewes street.) -Dated 27, now 1899. LOUIS LAFRANCE, Referee.

ROBERT A. DAVISON. Brooklyn, Plaintin's New York Attornev. City. 26 Court street, Borough of 10 18.3 41.11½ street.

9'PL Third 25. avenue. Union to The satiety approximate which the amount above described property of the lien or charge to be sold 18 $7,818.91, with Interest together thereon with costa from the 24th day of February, to 1800, 8322. 51-100, with Inand terest from allowances February 24th, 1800, together with the amounting The expenses of approximate the male. amount of taxes, assessments or chaser other out liens of the which purchase money or paid by the are to be allowed to the purreferee is $163.74, and Interest.

-Dated February 27. 1800, LOUIS LAFRANCE, Referee. several societies. She leaves two Lieut. C.

do Eighth United States Infantry, and Armaud C. Langdon. THE BOND ISSUES. Many Conferences in Manhattan and lyn Over Them. The corridors of the City Hall were thronged all morning with Councilmen, Aldermen, and district leaders, and preparations for the fight in the Municipal Assembly this afternoon on the railway ordinances and bond Brooklyn issues were Aldermen manifestly were being particularly evidence.

A delegation of Brooklyn members of the lower house called on Mayor Van Wyck at noon. Included in the delegation were Aldermen Stewart and Diemer, Republicans, and Veeton and Lange, Democrats. The Aldermen said that they called on the Mayor to.get his views on the equalization of assessments for repaving. They wanted to be sure that the $700,000 apportioned Brooklyn would be used on the basis provided for in the McKeown bill. A member of the delegation sald that the Mayor gave assurances that he favored the position taken by the Brooklynites.

The Brooklyn Aldermen say that they will take the same stand on the railway ordinances that they took last week. Alderman Okie, who voted with the Tammany members last week, will to-day vote against the r- dinance requiring "L' 'stations to be enclosed. Nearly every local Democratic member of the Municipal Assembly called at the Willoughby street auction rooms to-day, response to a summons from James Shevlin, who is running the machine in the absence of ex-Register Hugh McLaughlin, Mr. Shevlin told them what they were expected to do in the matter of Brooklyn improvements. There are several resolutions pending in both bodies providing for the issuing of bonds.

Among them are resolutions for $250,000 for water extension, $281,000 for the purchase of a street cleaning plant, and $700,000 for paving and repaving the streets. Mr. Shevlin said that the above improvements were absolutely necessary, and that the question of spending nearly $1,250,000 concerned the organization. Some of the Aldermen and a few of the Councilmen who have been holding up the resolution in the committee made a protest. They said that they were not entirely satisfied the way they had been treated in the matter of appointments, and unless tney were promised some patronage for their constituents would refuse to accede to the demands of the machine.

There was a conference of the Democratic members held yesterday afternoon, and another at noon -day after the members had talked with Mr. Shevlin. The result of today's caucus was that the members would vote for the bond appropriation affecting Brooklyn, and would make a strenuous effort to have them passed. It is said that the matter of adopting the resolution providing for the purchase of the Long Island water supply plant was also discussed. None of the members, however, would say what action, if any, was taken.

It is generally thought, however, that some prominent leaders in the organization are interested in the Long Island Water Supply Company, and are opposed to its purchase by the city for $543,000. Tammany HaM, however, is in favor of buying the plant at that amount. Richard Croker, It is said, has directed the Tammany members to vote for it, but it will be opposed by several of the Brooklyn members of the council, among whom, it is said, are two Republicans. CABINET MEETING TO-DAY. Discussing Methods of Transporting Troops From Philippines.

was reached. SAYS HIS SON ROBBED HIM. StrangeCharge of Unfilial Conduct Made by Virginius De Nyse. WASHINGTON, Feb. of the members of the Cabinet were present at to-day's meeting, which lasted two hours and a quarter.

A great deal of the time was spent in discussing the best method of mustering out Volunteer troops now in the Philippines, and of replacing them with Regulars. The Atlantic and Pacific routes were discussed, and it was decided that the soldiers to be sent there will be sent via San Francisco, on account of Its being more healthful journey at this time of the year. It 1g not known exactly when the mustering out will begin. Cuban affairs were also discussed at length, especially the question of currency, and the building of a rafiroad from Havana, eastward, but no definite conclusion S. R.

Frankensteln moved day in the Supreme Court, before Justice Marean, for Judgment for the plaintiff on the ground of no answer, served in the suit of Virginius De Nyse against his son, Frederick De Nyse. The home of the De Nyse family is at 290 South Fourth street. The father to nearly 70 and the son is 27. The father alleges that his son promised to pay him $1,500 for his share of the homestead. Then, he alleges, his son made him drunk and while he was in that condition induced hm to sign 8.

transfer of his share in the house to the son for the consideration of $1.000. The father alleges that he never received $1,000 or any other amount, and that his son practised a fraud upon him. Justice Marean reserved his decision. Aldermen Provide New Schools. The Board of Aldermen has adopted a number of ordinances authorizing the issue of corporate stock fr the erection of new school and improving generally school facilities.

LEGAL NOTICES. SUPREME COURT, COUNTY. -LORenz Leopold, plaintiff, against Esther Hallheimer and others, defendants, In pursuance of Judgmen: of foreclosure and sale made and entered In the above entitled action, dated the 18th day of February, 1899, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, by Thomas A. Kerrigan, Auctioneer, at the salesroome, No. 9 Willoughby street, in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, on the 22d day of March, 1899, at twelve o'clock noon, the lands in said judgment mentioned, and therein described as follows: AH that triangular plot of land in the Oity of Brooklyn aforesaid, bounded by Central and Myrtle avenues and Cedar street, being the same premises conveyed to the said mortgagor, Esther by Leopold Michel and Rachel, his wife, by deed dated November 28th, 1885, and recorded in the office of the Register of Kings County on November 30th, 1885, in liber, 1,638, page February 28, 1899.

FRANK D. OREAMER, Sheriff of Kings County. FERNANDO SOLINGER, Plaintiff's Attorney, 231 Broadway, Borough Manhattan, City of New York. 128-3w COUNTY COURT, KINGS COUNTY. ANNA Wolf and another, plaintiffs, against Adam Kessel and others, defendants.

In pursuance of a Judgment of foreclosure and sale made and entered in the above entitled action, dated the 25th day of February, 1899, I will sell at publie auction to the highest bidder, by Thomas A. Kerrigan, Auctioneer, at the salesrooms, No. 9. Willoughby street, in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, on the 22d day of March, 1899, at twelve o'clock noon, the lands in said judgment mentioned, and therein described as follows: All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings thereon, situate, lying and being in the City of Brooklyn, County of Kings and State of New York, known and Third distinguished on the assessment map of the Distriet of the Village of Williamsburgh, made by Edward, Burcham in 1844, as and by the number four thousand eight hundred (4,800) bounded and contained as follows, to wit: Beginning at a point on the northerly side of Debevolse street, distant one hundred and twenty-five feet westerly from the northwesterly corner of Debevolse street and Graham avenue; thence running northerly parallel with Graham avenue one hundred feet; thence westerly parallel with Debevolse street twenty-five feet; thence southerly parallel with Graham avenue one hundred feet to the northerly side of Debevolse street, and thence easterly along the northerly side of Debevoise street twenty-five feet to the point or place of beginning, being the same premises conreyed to the party of the first part by the party of the second part hereto, this mortgage being purchase money mortgage and given to secure a portion of the consideration in said deed expressed. -Dated February 28, 1899.

FRANK D. OREAMER, Sheriff of Kings County, S. M. D. E.

MEEKER. Plaintiff's Attorneys, 13 Broadway, Brooklyn, N. Y. SUPREME COURT, KINGS COUNTY, HENRY Gartelmann, plaintiff, against Christian W. 0.

Dreher and others, -In pursuance of a Judgment of foreclosure and sale made and: 25th entered in the above entitled action, dated the day of February, 1899, I will sell at public auction to the bighest bidder, by Thomas A. Kerrigan, Auctioneer. at the salesrooms, No. 9 Willoughby street, in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, on the 224 day of March, 1899, at twelve o'clock noon, the lands in said Judgment mentioned, and therein described as follows: All those certain, four lots, pieces or parcels of land, with the buildings thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the 20th Ward, City of Brooklyn, In the County of Kings and State of New York, and which when taken together are bounded and described as followe, to wit: Beginning at a point on the westerly line or side of Pennsylvania avenue, distant two hundred (200) feet southerly from the southwesterly corner of Belmont and Pennsylvania avenues, and running thence southerly along the said westerly line or side of Pennsylvania avenue one hundred (100) feet; thence westerly and parallel with thence said ortherly and parallel with said Pennsylvania aveBelmont avenue one hundred (100) feet; nue one hundred (100) feet, and running thence easterly and again parallel with said Belmont avenue one hundred (100) feet to the point or place of beginning, being of the the first same part by premises Joanna conveyed Boyle to the said party by deed dated September 1st, 1892, and recorded in the office of the Register of Kings County in liber 2.135 of conveyances, page 8, on the second day 11 of September, A. D.

1802, at 35 minutes 1890. past o'clock A. -Dated February 28, FRANK D. OREAMER. Sheriff of Kings County.

KIENDL BROTHERS, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 2,590 Atlantic avenue, Brookiyn, N. Y. 129-3w make these improvemetne and stockholders may rest assured that these hostile demonstrations on the part of the city officials will not be allowed to delay the proposed Improvements for a single day." TAMMANY BACKS DOWN. Mayor Van Wyck Refuses to Sign the Railroad Ordinances. The fight against the railways by Tammany Hall practically came to an end this afternoon in a virtual vietory for the railroad people.

In other words, Tammany has retreated from its position because of the apparent fact that Mayor Van Wyck has kicked over the traces and refused to sign any ordinances concerning the railways that may come before him. The first backward step taken by Tammany was the amendment of the drip-pan ordinance, in the Counell, extending the time to six months. The other ordinances will be amended In like manner. SUPREME COURT, KINGS COUNTY. ALBIN Bayer, plaintiff, against Annie pursuance of Rich, and others, defendants, In in Judgment the above entitled foreclosure action, dated the 23d day of of and sale made and entered February, 1809, 1 will sell at public auction Auctioneer, to the at the salesrooms, No.

9 Willoughby street, in the highest bidder, by Thomas A. Kerrigan, Borough of Brooklyn, County twelve of Kings, o'clock on noon, the the 220 day lands of in March, Judgment mentioned, and therein de1900, at seribed as follows: All those two certain lots, pieces or parcels of land, of situate, City of lying and Brooklyn, being County of Kings and State of New York, and which in the 20th Ward the tied, "Map of 905 lots of the Rapelje Property on are known and distinguished on a certain map, entithe Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad and Turnpike," made by Martin G. Johnson, and of fled Kings In the 48 office of the Register of the County lots numbers seven hundred and seventeen said (717) and lots taken together are bounded and described as folseven hundred and eighteen (718), which lows, to wit: Beginning at a point on sixteen the east- hunerly. side of Chestnut street, distant southerly from the dred and ninety-nine (1690) feet southerly side of the Brooklyn and and Jamalen running turnpike, now called Jamaica Chestnut avenue, street fifty- (50) feet thence to the northwesterly corner of lot 716 on and southerly along maid map; lot thence 716. one hundred and fifty (150) feet; easterly along the northerly side of street thence fifty (50) feet to, the southerly side or line northerly and parallel with aid Chestnut of lot 710.

and thence westerly, along the southerly Hine of lot 719 one hundred or and place Atty of (150) beginning. feet to Chestnut street, the point each of said lots of ground being twenty-tive hundred (25) feet wide front and rear, and all one the right, title and and fifty interest of the party of the frat part of, In feet deep, together with and to the land forming the street in front of and adjoining said premises, being to the one of same the premises parties of the first part by deed dated the 18th day of conveyed by Ferdinand Kross March, FRANK February D. 28, 1800. OREAMER. Sheriff of Kings County.

KIENDL BROTHERS, Plainti's Attorners. 2,500 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, N. X..