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THE WEATHER. Fair. and warmer night. Saturday showers. fresh southerly to southwest winds.

SIXTIETH YEAR. WOMAN KILLS MILLIONAIRE As Banker Lay Seriously Ill, Mrs. Carter Put Bullet in Brain. MYSTERY BEHIND SHOOTING Suicide Was Well New York's Wealthy Set, and Was Interested in Charitable Movements White's Wife Detained Until Body Is Removed from House. There la considerable mystery attached to the death of Mrs.

Marguerite Carter, who was found dead early to-day in home of Millionaire John J. White, at 108 East -seventh street, Manbattan, It was reported to the Coroner's office that the woman had and killed herself and an Investigation was started to determine the cause. pecullar feature of the case 18 that woman did not commit suicide at own home. She lived in a magnificently furnished apartment at 14 West Twentyninth street, Manhattan. The suicide was about 45 years old, was interested in a number of charitable movements in New York City, which received the assistance of the wives of number of well-known millionaires.

Much secrecy has been thrown about the case by the police authorities. Mrs. Carter was shot in the right temple and instantly killed. Mr. White, who Is a retired Wall street banker and broker, and who is seriously Ill, was a room close to the one in which the woman shot herself.

The first report of the suicide was made to Coroner Dooley shortly after 8 o'clock this morning V. Foster, of East Eighteenth street, the physician of the Whites. The Coroner vestigated, but did not report the case to the police until three hourg later. It was at 4 A. when the woman shot herself.

Mrs. Carter arrived at Mr. White's resIdence, which Is a brownstone house 1-w doors from Park avenue, between 6 and 9 o'clock last night. She had left her home in Twenty-ninth informing the Janitresa, a Mrs. Griffin, that she intended to go to the home of friends 1: ft street.

must see Mr. White: I have a packAge for him," the woman is reported have said to the servant who admitted her at the White home. At the time Mr. White was seriously 111 in his room on the second floor. His family was away at Bar Harbor, Me.

A nurse, Frank W. Clelland, of 44 South Oxford street, this borough, was charge of the sick man, having been called in by Dr. Foster earlier in the day. Mrs. Carter was told of Mr.

White's condition. She WAS insistent, however. and Clelland was finally called down to persuade woman to go away. She more and more excited, and Dr. Foster was telephoned for, as the woman was his patient and it Was thought he could restrain her.

"Life isn't worth living anyway--there 1s nothing in it for me," she declared to the nurse while he was endeavoring to calm her. Finally, with Dr. Foster's aid, she was persuaded to lie down in the spare room on the second floor. At 4 A. M.

Clelland heard a muffled report in the front room. He rushed in from the rear room, in which he was sleeping with Mr. White, and found Mrs. Carter lying on the sofa, fully dressed, with a bullet wound in her right temple. A 32-calibre revolver, with one shell exploded, lay on the floor beneath her limp hand.

The woman had removed her hat before lying down. No trace of a note or any writing could be discovered in the room. She had a $100 bill in her stocking and a receipt for $700 in her pocketbook among other small papers. Of the mysterious package which she had wished to deliver to Mr. White when she arrived nothing could be learned as to its contents except that it contained pair of cuff buttons.

Dr. Foster said this morning that he felt especially concerned for Mrs. White, who was expected to return from Bar Harbor early this morning. He accordingly notifled Coroner Dooley at once, and requested that if possible the body of the dead woman be removed immediately. That officer accordingly made an immedate investigation, Dr.

Foster declared, and issued a permit for the removal of the body. The family physician then hurried down to the Grand Central Station and succeded in Intercepting Mrs. White and delaying her arrival at her home until after .8 o'clock, when Mrs. Carter's body had been removed. The news of the tragedy was then broken to her.

The suloide lived on the top floor of a brownstone. house at 14 West Twentyninth street. It la said she had many friends among prominent New Yorkers. Mrs. William Anton, Chanler, who was Minnie Ashley, actress, was an intimate, friend.

The woman's hobby was the care and protection of animals, 'and she was a prominent benefactor of the Boolety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, At her home on Twenty-ninth street she lived alone with two small dogs as her tonly companions. She was a good deal of a recluse by disposition and few friends called to see her, it was said this afternoon. There was a trace of French accent in her speech. It is said she was of French Dr. Foster said this morning that Mrs.

Carter had been his patient for the last seven years. She had suffered from nervousness for some time and upon his advice she had taken a trip to the Mediterranean last spring. The tour had falled to benefit her appreciably, however. Arrest 800 Workmen at Lodz. LODZ, Sept.

hundred workmen in Marcus Silberman's cotton mill, where, Silberman was recently murdered, were arrested to-dav. The HERSELF IN WHITE'S HOME SETTLING VOEGE ESTATE. Executor Wants Title Cleared to Property Claimed by Jules A. Collett, Supreme Court Justice Abbott this morning heard argument on motion to A clear title to certain property at 481 Broadway, owned by August Vosge, durIng his lifetime, the motion being made by his executor, William Hubel, against Jules A. Collett, a real, tate dealer, and long-time friend of Voege.

contention of the heirm of Voege, made through Lawyer James A. Allen, are that the deed to the property la without consideration, while the claim of Collott that he received it for it debt of Voego's, amounting to over $3,800. From the papers in the case it appears that in December, 1906, Voege owed Col. lett the sum mentioned with interest from September 19, 1903. At the time, maya the defendant, Voeke was having considerable trouble with his frat wife, from whom he bad got a divorce Dakota, and who was suing him for divorce this State, claiming the the Dakota decree to be invalid.

Collet says he went to Voge to get the Indebtedness paid or secured and that Vooge Buggented a conveyance of the Broadway property to him to wind up the Indebtedproviding that the defendant would make certain payments to his two wives. The deed was drawn, but not delivered then, Collet maya, because he WaM disantisfed with its provisions as imposing too heavy an obligation upon him, and mixing him up too much in the marital troubles of him friend. Then another deed was executed, but when Collet was advised by his friends that he was making a mistake in mixing up in Voege's agairs he insisted, he says, in conveying the property back to Voege and later, just a few days before Voege's death, Voege forced up him the first deed. After the death of his friend, the defendant, the deed was recorded and, he con It a mortgage and security tor his a lebtedness against the Voege estato. SHATLIN BURGLARY STORY.

Captain Murphy Investigated It, but There Was Nothing Doing. In company of two of his detectives, Capt. Murphy, of the Bushwick Avenue Station, started out last night in a very Indignant frame of mind to investigate a sensational burglary that appeared in one of the afternoon papers yesterday. It WAS stated that as a result- of a handencounter, which he had with a desperate burglar, Joseph Shatlin, twenty years old, was lying in a dangerous condition at his home, 78 Graham avenue, under the care of two physicians. The Captain had received no report of the assault an robbery and he wanted to know why the police had not received the particulars.

The Captain and his sleuths found Joseph Steinwag, who keeps a bakery in the house, and is the owner of the building. They questioned the baker about the matter and he declared he had heard nothing about a burglary. There were two families living up stairs, he Informed the police, but their names were not Shatlin. To make sure of this, however. Capt.

Murphy questioned the people, but they knew nothing about the matter. Returning to police station, Capt. Murphy was noticeably angry. "I don't care what criticism is made of me, but I won't stand for such things as this," he said with some heat. MRS.

HOLMES INCOMPETENT. Sheriff's Jury Hands in Verdict, and She Will Be Returned to Asylum. The Sheriff's jury which has been gonsidering before commission composed of Peter W. Ostrander, James W. Webb and Dr, Ives, the question of the Incompetency of Mrs.

Elizabeth M. Holmes, wife of William M. Holmes, a nickel manufacturer, 29 Gold street, Manhattan, and residing at 570 Ninth street, this borough, returned yesterday afternoon their verdict, which they And Mrs. Holmes incompetent and she will accordingly be returned to Bloomingdale Asylum, from where she was taken on a writ of habeas corpus obtained from Justice Burr, of the Supreme Court. Mrs.

Holmes came before the public through her eccentricities, which took the form of hallucinations in prominent public persons, including President Roosevelt, were included as persecutors of herself. STOLEN AUTO SMASHED. William G. Parks' Machine Found a Practical Wreck on Westbury Roadside. (Special to the Brooklyn Times.) WESTBURY, L.

Sept. big red automobile owned by William Parks, the millionaire steel magnate, who lives in Westbury, was stolen some time during the night and this morning was found several miles down the Jericho turnpike, lying along the road, practically a total wreck. Robert Bessoc and Edward Bond, two stablemen in Parks' employ, were arrested on suspicion of having something to do with the robbery, and were held by Justice Tatum to give the Sheriff time to make an investigation. The machine was taken some time between 8 and 10 o'clock at night, when the watchman found the door had been forced with a jimmy. How they got the car out without making any noise 1s not known, but it 1s thought the burglars must have hustled it along some distance before starting her up.

The car was found by Deputy Sheriff Conners, lying up against A tree, which It smashed into pleces, Other arrests are expected today, Fought Storm in a Canoe. Mrs. William Golden, her daughter Emma, and Frank Williams, all residents of Bath Beach, are slowly recovering from a rather exciting experience they had on Wednesday afternoon while crossing the upper bay from Bath Beach to Tompkinsville in a canoe. The trio are still under the care of physicians. Shortly after 2 o'clock on Wednesday they started to paddle to Tompkineville.

An easterly wind bothered them and inasmuch 88 they were in their bathing suits they suffered severely from the cold when a storm arose. Not until yesterday morning did they reach their homer Brooklyn BROOKLYN, CITY FORCED TO LET REGISTER HAVE MONEY OTHERWISE HIS OFFICE WOULD HAVE TO CLOSE UP FOR REST OF THE YEAR. BUT HE GETS ONLY $12,660 Aldermen Have Voted to Give Him $40,000, but the Comptroller's Expert, Mr. Hervey, Reported Against a Large Allowance--Was TryAng to Bring Records to Date. At last, after a long period of waiting, Register Boulton has secured an eppropriation to help him keep his office force together, and keep doing business.

He cannot, however, continue his effort bring the records of Kings County up to date. This morning the Board of Estimate approved the lesuance of $12,600 In special revenue bonds for that purpose. A far greater sum was asked for. The Board of Aldermen had recommended that $40,000 be allowed Mr. Boulton, but Comptroller Metz wan Instrumental in having that amount cut to $12,060.

In justifying this big cut, the Comptroller presented to the Board a report from Charles 8. Harvey, his examiner, Harvey censures Boulton for the manner In which he expended the funds allowed to him for regular salaried copyists and for temporary copyists employed by him to bring the work up to date. Boulton WAN allowed $92,000 in the budget for 1907, and 1 during the first six months of the year, according to Harvey's report, $86,270.58 was spent, although he had during the remaining six months $18,000 to pay out In salaries to the regular force. report it 19 charged that the Regleter did not use his regular salaried force of copyists for the purpose for which they employed, but put them to work at indexing and Incidental office work, while the temporary had the entire burden of copying. Harvey states that: "The situation was briefly this: The statute permits the Register to employ thirty- salaried copyists at an annual compensation of $1,200 each.

It also permits him to employ temporary copyists when the work of his office is more than one month in arrears. In the budget for 1907 the Register was allowed for the purposes of this account an appropriation of $92,000. Out of this appropriation the Register disbursed' July 1, 1907, $18,150.87 for salaried copyists and recording clerks; $67,907.82 for temporary copyists, and $212.88 for constructing FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA. San Bernardino Rocked Three Times and Walls Cracked -No Loss of Lite.

LOB ANGELES, Bept, -Reports to-day from Ban Bernardino and Riveraide Counties show that the earthquake in that section last night was severe in many bi places, but that there was no loss of lite. In San Bernardino, thareo dietinct shocka were felt, and the populace for miles around was thrown into pante, The third shock rooked the town from end to end, broke a few windows, cracked some walls and sent the people into the streate for safety, PINKERTON WILL FILED. Famous Detective Left An Estate Valued at Gets the Property. The will of Robert Allan Pinkerton, the famous detective, who died on August 12 on one of the Bremen Line steamers while on his way to Europe, wan filed thie morning in the Surrogate's office and shows the detective to have been a millionaire, the estate approximating $3,000,000. The will 18 dated October 8, 1904, and the estate, both real and personal, is distributed among the Immedinte members of the testator's family, which comprises the widow, Anna Elizabeth Pinkerton, who now occuples the residence at 71 Eighth avenue; Allan, his son, who lives at 81 Montgomery place; his daughter, Anna P.

Gipp, of 303 Garfleld place, and another daughter, Mary P. Carlisle, residing at 373 Clinton avenue. The realestate la enumerated as follows: One undivided bait interest In the office building, 57 Broadway, Manhattan; one undivided hald interest in the office buildIng, 22 Trinity place, Manhattan: one undivided half interest in the office buildIng, 199-201 Fifth avenue, Chicago, and one undivided half interest in the larch farm in Iroquois County, Ill. All of these are placed the hands trustees, the Incomes of which are to be paid to the widow as long as' she lives. At her death It is to be divided into as many shares A8 there are living children, one share going to each child.

It 1s provided that all profits from the detective business shall be divided into four equal parts and given respectively to the widow and three children. His widow also recelves a house and lot on Second avenue, Bay Shore, L. as well as real estate at 782 Union street, Brooklyn. Nearly all of his personal property goes to the widow. The residuary is divided into four parts and given to the widow and three children, that given to Mary P.

Carlisle being placed in trust. Mrs. Pinkerton is named as the sole executrix. NO JOB; LUCHT TOOK GAS. Brother, Returning Home, Found Room Full of Poisoning FluidEvidently Died Hard.

copyists, and $212.88 for constructing maps, making a total diebursement Because he could not secure employthe for ment, Emil Arst six months of the year of Lucht, 26 years old, of 341 270.58, leaving Shepard avenue, committed suicide an available balance on July 1 of early last evening by asphyxiation. or, in other words, the Lucht a Register, although he was responsible for has carpenter by trade, but he was not had steady employment for over the payment for an entire year of force of a six months. He brooded constantly salaried copyists to the amount over this fact. of $36,000, or $18,000 for six months, left Towards evening yesterday he went himself an available balance on July 1 to saloon at 769 Liberty avenue. of only $5,729.42.

The examiner of this which is run by Bernard Planagee. The bureau who made the investigation of latter stated this morning that Lucht the matter at the time discovered that seemed to be in good spirits and chatthe Register had not employed this sal- ted pleasantly about various matters. aried copyists and recording clerks on He remained in the saloon about half the actual work of copying, but had an hour. used in indexing and comparing Fred Lucht, who, on his return from the work of the temporary copyists and work in the evening, discovered his in other office work, thus placing the brother's dead body, is of the opinion entire burden of copying on the tempoary went to the saloon and force. whiskey to nerve himself.

The suicide "Your examiner submits that, in view had attached a rubber hose to of the fact that the appropriation in the jet in the dining room and passed it budget for this purpose was $92,000, the through a hole which he bored in the Register should have set aside out of this door of his bedroom adjoining. there amount sufficient funds to pay the com- being no jet in the room. He carefully pensation of his salaried copyists for the sealed the window crevices and keyyear. He would then have been justified holes with newspapers, and turning on in expending the remainder of the the gas full, locked himself in the small appropriation for temporary copyists, and when bedroom. that part of the appropriation In When Fred returned the whole house excess of the amount required for the smelled of gas, and rushing up the annual salaried employees had been exhausted stairs he saw the hole leading to the his proper course should have been bedroom and at once realized what his ask the Board to brother Emil had done.

He at once of Aldermen and the Board of Estimate and Apportionment for forced open the door and was almost additional allowance. an overcome by the rush of gas. He found Instead of doing Emil doubled up in one corner of the this, however, he wittingly or exhausted unwittingly room and dragged him out into the his appropriation and by 80 kitchen, only to find that he was dead. doing compels the authorizing boards of The chaotic state of the bedroom indithe city to replenish the fund at least cated that the suicide had suffered to the extent of the salary cost of those greatly 1 before death came. The bedemployed by the year.

"In view clothes lay all around, chairs were upof all the facts your exam- turned and varlous articles that had Iner does not feel justified at this time stood on the dresser were strewn all in recommending any appropriation in over the floor, as if the dying man had excess of the amount required to pay the undergone agonies of convulsions, and regular copyists for the remainder of in his struggles upset everything. the year. The present payroll of these The father and brother of the dead employees 1s $3,000 per month. There is man were to-day very much unnerved at present, however, an amount out- over the occurrence, as it was a sudstanding and unpaid of $660 due the sal- den and unexpected blow. The night aried copyists, and I would, therefore, before the suicide played several serecommend that the allowance be $12,000, lections on his guitar, while his brothand that the resolution adopted in grant- er Fred joined in with the violin, and ing this amount be so drawn as to if business troubles were worrying him prevent the use of this allowance for he kept it to himself.

any other purpose than the payment of Lucht, the police say, attempted sulthe regular salaried force. cide last January, but prompt medical "Yours respectfully, attention saved him. He was a mem(Signed) "CHARLES S. HERVEY, ber of the Carpenters'- Union, the "Supervising Statistician and Exam- Brooklyn Schutzenbund and the ForIner." esters of America. In Register Boulton's defense It is claimed that when he took office he found the records more than a year behind.

The Board of Estimate did not allow him enough to bring them to date, but he went ahead and put a large force to work and caught up some six months. In so doing, he used up his a or eight entire yearly appropriation and had to ask for more money from the Board of Es. timate. By this action that: Board does not being compelled to Increase appropriations against its will, even if it is done in the interest of the city. THIEVES LOOTED HOUSE.

Took Carpenter's Tools and Fittings Valued at $500 at Mineola. (Special to the Brooklyn Times.) MINEOLA, Sept. looted 8 house in course of construction by the Bell Rose Construction Company last night of carpenters' and plumbers' tools, pipe fittings and other hardware valued at $500. Entrance was effected through the front door, which was unlocked. The thieves carried their booty away in a wagon.

It la believed they came from Queens Borough: -Two men were seen loitering about the house the day of the robbery, Constable George Howell has wood desariotion of them. I Daily 20, 1907. WOULD FOUR TRACK FLATBUSH EXTENSION BROOKLYN UNION ELEVATED ASKS CONSENT OF UTILITIES COMMISSION. PROPERTY OWNERS NOT SEEN Consents Considered Very Likely, However--Ask for Two Tracks on the Manhattan Bridge, Also--The Application AB Filed Today. Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad The Company, one of the subsidiary companof the B.

R. appiled to the les Public Service Commission for sion to construct four elevated tracks on extension of Flatbush avenue and to two tracks on the Manhattan Bridge it La completed. It Was for this that the elevated railroad comthe other day asked permission to a mortgage for $20,000,000. It the regranted, besides the work almentioned, the company will, no ask permission to lay an additrack on the Fulton street and avenue lines. the application the new railroad 18 described as follows: "A double track elevated structure connecting with the elevated structure on Fulton street at or near the intersection with Flatbush avenue with said Fulton street and extending northerly along the extension of Flatbush avenue over and above the elevated railroad structure in Myrtle avenue to 8 point distant about one hundred feet north of where the northerly side of Myrtle avenue what is known as the extension of Flatbush avenue, where said tracks merge Into the two elevated tracks next described.

"Two elevated tracks on the structure hereinbefore described connecting with the two elevated tracks of your petitioner on Flatbush avenue, beginning at or near a point in Flatbush avenue, distant about three hundred and fifty feet southerly from where the northerly line of Fulton street intersects Flatbush avenue, and extending northerly under the elevated structure on Fulton street and over and above the eleated strucvture on Myrtle avenue, along and through Flatbush avenue and the extension thereof (one track of which is to be on each side of the two foregoing described tracks) at or point near the northerly of Nassau street, where Nassau street is interseoted by the extension of Flatbush avenue, and where the plaza to Manhattan Bridge and the extension of Flatbush avenue join. "Two elevated tracks connecting with the petitioner's elevated structure turning out of Myrtle avenue and extending northerly along the extension of Flatbush avenue, to be constructed between the tracks last described, to where the same will merge into the tracks last described, at a point distant about one hundred feet north of Johnson street. right to construct, maintain and operate all the necessary turnouts, sidings, switches, crossovers and connectlong with its elevated structure on Flatbush avenue, Fulton street and Myrtle avenue, together with the further right to maintain all signal towers, plants, equipment, platforms stations necessary in the operation of said elevated railroad." The railroad company stated that the matter was just in the act of formation, and that the consents of property owners along the line had not yet been obtained. The application was referred to the Committee of the Whole. INDEPENDENTS TO CONFER.

But They Will Likely Have to Get Along Without the Independence League. The Kings County Democratic party met last night to select a committee to confer with other independent leaders. The committee will meet at noon to-morrow. The organization does not feel sanguine of uniting the organizations which are to Senator McCarren a and the Reopposed publican party. The Independence League is the obstacle in the way of a union, as it has deolared its purpose to nominate a ticket regardless of the action of any other body.

The League's policy was announced in one of Willam R. Hearst's papers several weeks ago. Henry Powell and Register Boulton also declared that the League would have a ticket of its own. Last night Max Ihmsen declared that the League would not fuse. JUDGES SUSPEND CAIRE.

Action Taken by Riverhead Fair Officials in Alleged Case of Ringing. (Special to the Brooklyn Times.) RIVERHEAD, Sept. account of the protest against Miss Greyline, who won the 8:00 on Tuesday 'the judges yesterday expelled, her from the track and suspended Gilbert F. Caire, owner, and Nelson Varney, the driver. The mare's real name is said to be with a record of 2:15, Caire says he bought the horse of John Maguire, of New York, as Miss Greyline without a record, and he is supported by an affidavit of Miss Julia Johnson, of Huntington.

The affair is not ended yet, National Trotting Association will make a thorough investigation. TWENTY -ONE HORSES BURNED. Two Cows Also Destroyed in a Stable Fire in Hoboken. horse's and two cows were burned to death early to in Twenty a fire that destroyed the stable and rag and paper shop of John Beluso, at 531- 533 Jefferson street, Hoboken. Beluso has the contract for removing city garbage.

His stable and rag shop adjot each other in Jefferson street. The fire is belleved to started in the rag shop. The bulldings, were story frame structures burned 501 rapidly that it was impossible to save horses and cows. Times. PRICE ALL, THE NEWS Brooklyn Borough Queens Borough Nassau County Suffolk County TWO CENTS.

STANDARD OIL CO. MADE $1,000,000,000 IN 25 YEARS TO SUCCEED REDMOND. Irish Nationalists May Choose Wm. Must Be Prompt in Face of Revolt. DUBLIN, Bept.

-With John Redmond on the eve of retirement from the leadership of the Irish Nationaliata, WilItam O' Brien is likely to become 8000 the most prominent figure among Hibernian politicians. Redmond's determination to quit publie life la said to be due to his convietion that his usefulness to his countrymen la ending and his retirement will be wholly, voluntary, The movement to make O' Brien bia successor, with authorIty to work for a wide devolution scheme, has already taken definite form, O' Brien has been sounded and is knowri to be willing to acoept the leadership, Leading Nationalista realize the neceselty for prompt and energetio action to maintain the party's authority in the face of the Sinn Fein movement. John Dillon in the latest Nationalist to Join the revolt, an action he 80- companied by a private announcement to him friends that he intends to retire from Parliament. His declaration burst like a boomshell among the party leaders and la admitedly an added reason for quick work to strengthen their organization. VATICAN IS GUARDED.

Troops Cordoned About to Save It from Mob With Anti-Clerical Sentiments. ROME, Sept. Vatican is cordened by troops, ordered out by the anthorities to guard against a mob attack feared as an Incident to the celebration of the thirty-seventh anniversary of the Italian army's entry into Rome. Crowds were already gathering about the home of the papal government when the frat detachment of soliders WAS rushed to the scene last night. Conditions are BO ominous day that the guard has been strengthened.

It 18 feared the anti-clerical riots! 80 serious throughout Italy of late will be Rome on a still larger scale repeated during the celebration excitement. GRAFT IN VIENNA. Recruits for Army Allowed to Escape to America by Emigration Officials. VIENNA, Sept. graft, affecting the emigration bureau and officials of the war offices, has lesser unearthed here.

When the autumn recruits was ordered to appear. to join the colors a phenomenal number of absentees was reported. Investigation revealed these men had emigrated to America. An inquiry set on foot showed that most of them had received passports through collusion between army officials and passport agents. A regular scale of prices for these Important documents had been fixed and many officials are Involved.

Wholesale arrests are promised. Dynamite Kills Five in Santiago. SANTIAGO, Cuba, Sept. men were killed here to-day by a premature explosion of dynamite. A FOR BROADWAY SUBWAY.

28th Ward Board of Trade Asks for a Hearing on Lafayette Avenue Route. The Transit Committee of the Twentyeighth Ward Board of Trade to-day sent to the Public Service Commission the following letter: To the Public Service Commission, First Division, New York, N. Gentlemen: Referring to the matter of proposed additional subways, which it is understood your honorable body now has under consideration, I beg leave to address you on behalf of the Twenty-eighth Ward Board of Trade, and to petition that the Commission grant a public hearing in order that the people of the submit eastern section of Brooklyn may to you their reasong for believing that the first subway to be built by the city should be the Lafayette-Broadway loop, and that contracts should be promptly prepared for the construction of the same. The members of this organization regard the loop now far advanced in Manhattan and the Lafayette-Broadway route as essentially the same line, and we feel that every effort should be made to have the Brooklyn portion of the route completed simultaneously with the Manhattan end. Attention is invited to the fact that there is no other proposition in the way of subways before the Commission which gives so much promise as an investment as the one we advocate, and no other which will do so much to facilitate travel between the homes of Brooklyn people and the offices, stores and factories in Manhattan.

Very respectfully, JOSEPH SCHREIBER, -Chairman. Leonard J. Langein, Max Erdtmann, A. S. Colborne, Morris Adler, Edwin Ferry, Harrison G.

Glore, Albert Firmin, ex officio; C. M. Sheehan, ex officio. Committee on Transit. September 20, 1907.

SPENT NIGHT IN LOCK-UP. Collegian Had Fun at Mardi Gras Until He Met Smith. Because Henry E. Smith, of 271 Carlton avenue, didn't enter into the spirit of the Coney Island Mardi Gras and wouldn't take a joke, Stanley Bates, a red Columbia University, 18-year-old and a sophmore, native of of New Jersey, was forced to spend a very cheerless night in the Adams street lock- up. Bates went to the Island last In company with a friend, and it wasn't long before they were slipping people's neckties, smashing hats and making merry all along avenue.

Everybodyy didn't take their merriment as dt meant and Smith was one of the grouchy ones. He grabbed Bates, as the young 'made a pass at his tie and shouted man, "thieves" to the great discomfiture of the collegian. McCluskey and Brady, of the Detectives Street Bureau, arrested Gates. ProState testing his Innocence, the young man hurried to the police station and was there taken to the Adams Street from Station house. This morning when Bates was arraigned for Magistrate Hylan in the Adam: Street Court, Smith was on hand to press the complaint.

Fortunately for the soproMagistrate Hylan was possessed of. more, sense of humor and dismissed the complaint. Bates said he lived at 243 Bixth street, Jersey Cite. Govt. Accountants Say the Books Show Astounding Profits.

TILFORD STILL ON STAND Worried by Questions Put to Him by Attorney Kellogg at Inter-State Commerce InvestigationAlleged That Sub-Companies Were Controlled After Ohio Dissolution. the use when purpose pany Issue quest ready doubt, tional Fifth In According to a statement from the most authentic sources, Government aocountants, working on the books of the Standard Oil Company of Now Jersey, at 26 Broadway, have learned that eince the profta of the company have been between $900,000,000 and $1,000,000,000, These accountants will have the exact Agures some time next week, when they will probably be presented in court by Attorney Henry C. Kellogg, Investigator for the Inter-State Commerce Commis- alon. The Government attorney is in direot touch with his expert accountants, and bases great hopes on the discoveries that they are making in their examination of the Standard's books. He has consistently claimed that the profits of the Standard were enormously more than has been belleved by ordinary people.

The producing of the figures, Attorney Kellogg belleves, will be a direct blow of great torce 1 to the Standard system. Wesley H. Tilford, Treasurer of the Standard, spent an unpleasant morning on the stand to-day. When the attorney got on the question of the number of the companies owned by the Standard system before and after the liquidating trusteeship, there was a clash that showed the subtle combination in its pleasantest mode of forgetting, and the Government attorney determined to get to the bottom of facts. He directly charged the Standard at the time of the dissolution of the Trust by the Supreme Court of Ohio, vith, having been in control of a great number of companies, and with having turned the companies directly over to the Standard system, instead of having turned all stock over to the certificate helders.

"Do you know whether this is asked the attorney. The witness did not think it was. Tilford's Memory Poor. "Well, how many companies were owned by the Standard at that time?" The witness did not remember that elther. Kellogg was visibly annoyed.

Tilford is the only one the liquidating Trustees that he has out on the stand, and he depends greatly on this testimony for his final case. "Were there forty or sixty or twenty companies?" he roared at the official. "I tell you I cannot remember." "Mr. Tilford, do you mean to say you have no recollection of the number of companies owned at that time?" "I do." Like a. flash, on hearing these words, Kellogg dived for the door to the room adjoining the court room, where his papers are kept.

He scarcely remembered to say "Excuse me" as he left the room. The Standard 011 man was plainly nervous during the attorney's absence. Finally Kellogg returned and dropped dejectedly into his seat. "I'll have to pass the question," he said, "the list of corporations is not made up yet." Evidently, though, the time is comwhen the busy accountants are goproduce some facts that the Standard officials may find of interest in refreshing their memories. List of Shareholders of N.

J. Company. THREE AUTOISTS FINED, Women Gave Up Jewelry to Insure Appearance in Court. James Walsh, 23 years old, of 55 Bert Parsons, 24 years old, of West Forty- street, Manhattan; 274 Hancock street, and Stanley W. Bailey, 23 years old, of 152 West -Fiftysixth street, Manhattan, were fined $10 each this morning by Magistrate' Steers In the Flatbush Court for exceeding the speed limit while driving automomobiles on Ocean Parkway.

The defendants were arrested while returning from Coney Island at an early hour this morning. Walsh, who was captured by Motor Cycle Officer. Luke D. Grace, was driving An automobile in which were seated three young women and three men, and, according to the officer's story all took off their jewelry to bail the man out at the Parkville Police Station. Ribis Held Without Bail.

Louis Ribis, of 270 Bond street, the young Italian who was arrested on the night of August 26, on the charge of having fatally stabbed Tony Longo, of 226 Fourth avenue, was held without bail for the Grand Jury in the Myrtle Avenue Court this morning. A brother of the accused la also beid without ball A list of the shareholders of the Standard Oil Company, of New in August, 1907, was Introduced this morning In evidence. According to this the following men own stocks valued to-day as follows: O. H. Payne, Charles Pratt estate, Jon D.

Rockefeller, approximately, H. H. Rogers, $7,369,206. Many other Standard Oil men also owned huge blocks of stock In the holding company. Just previous to the closing of the morning session the matter of the New York Standard Oil Company was gone into a and it was shown that this concern acted somewhat as a clearing house for other pipe lines.

It made an agreement, Mr. Kellogg stated, to sell 150,000 barrels of crude oil a day to certain pipe lines that were in turn to deliver all export business. The matter was put up to Mr. Tilford. He admitted that in effect the above had been contracted for.

Kellogg showed that the agreement was kept rigorously by the Standard Oll. Previous to this morning's hearing Attorney Kellogg was questioned in regard to the progress made by his books during the period of liquidating trusteeship, from 1892 to 1899. "Oh, it is too early for anything about that," said the Government investigator. He admitted that his men were hard at work on the folios. Wm.

G. Rockefeller Will Be Examined Next. William G. Rockefeller, Assistant Treasurer of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and Treasuer of the New York company, will follow Wesley H. Tilford on the stand.

William G. is a nephew of John D. Rockefeller. This morning's session began with Treasurer Tilford in the witness chair. Moritz Rosenthal, of the Standard's legal staff.

was not present. Illness detained him at home. Mr. Tilford said he the asked for at yesterday's.