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Union State con- his to to the Offer said him State the the dark asiced asked know. Will had Actals He Mr Was pared In No emphasize the In said In bribe WAL4 books and been salt TIL of out and 101 Banking that Permit the gave that Atlantie the 1 wh4 that in asked with what sat. who lie to described the the Union for point lie 011 with had anyone went quo they A paid Branch a on entries morning the Bank as On paid certain worth the which he man sad in the No a he THE BROOKLYN TIMES, Crowds In Near Riot at Big Subway Mad Scramble Marks Attemp acting head engineer of the Commisflashed the necessary permit. Permission for Construction Handed Over. Acting Chief Engineer Alfred Craven said: "Iu presenting to Mr.

Bradley the official permission for the beginning of the work, the Public Service Commission has authorized me to issue necessary permits for rapid transit rallroad construction. take pleasure in handing you the first permit for construction under this authorization. It 1s for the construction of Section No. 8 of the Lexington Avenue Route. It directs and authorizes you proceed with the construction of this section under your contract of July 21, 1911.

"You have been awarded also contracts for Sections Nos. 6, 10 and 11, of the Lexington Avenue Route, and these, with your work on the original subway, Centre Street Loop and the Fourth Avenue Subway in Brooklyn, represent work aggregating in construction value ahout $31,000,000. The entrusting of this great amount of work to you by public Indicates a confidence in your ability that should 'be 'most gratifying and should call forth your best efforts in return. "You are now at liberty to proceed with your work." Police Powerless in Great Onrush. Then It was that the -house tics of the crowd manifested itself.

There was a persistent crowding toward the spot where the officlals stood and the police were powerless to stop it. Those in the rear, thinking that the digging had begun, pressed forward through the ropes in an effort to obtain a of dirt. The police charged them again and again and the mounted men rode into the crowd in an effort to check them. But there was nothing doing. The situation was beyond their control and Inspector Titus Immediately sent calls for help which for some unexplained reason weren't heeded.

A battery of newspaper photographers had their apparatus smashed into fragmenta and the officials were tossed about like chips in a choppy sea. The Lex avenue trolley continued to run through the crowd, and as each car passed the point of excavation, the crowd was jammed Into a still smaller space. It wasn't until the digging part of the ceremonies was conclude that normal conditions again reigned. System for All Boroughs, Willcox Says. Public Service Commisisoner Willcox said in part: Under the terms of the report which was adopted by the Board of Estimate and the Public Service Commission, the city 1s about to begin the construction of the Triborough system, which extends from The Bronx to the Battery and thence to Brooklyn, with a line up Broadway, from Ninth street to Fofty-second street, thus.

up Seventh' avenue to Fiftyninth, street, and through Fifty-ninthstreet Into Queens Borough, together with a line from Broadway to the Centre street loop, connecting with the bridges into the Fourth avenue subway, and, Its South Brooklyn connections. Thus 'a system will be built which not only serves all the boroughs of the city, but which, at the time, brings into use the Queenaboro, Williamsburgh and Manhattan Bridges as thoroughfares in the city's transit plan, Instead of leaving them to be used as terminals, which is the only office they now serve, 80 far as trasit facilities are concerned. Under the terms of the report a contract for operation of these lines will be prepared and advertised for public letting. As before stated, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company has su mitted in detail an offer which it is willing to make for the operation of this system: not only of the system of city subways, which I. have described, but to operate them for the same rate of fare in connection with Its present system of elevated lines, provided it is the successful bidder when the contract is advertised.

"At this time I do not care to discuss the details of terms of operation concerning which so much has been written and said. It is proper, however, to say that the terms for operation submitted by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company have been approved by the vote of every member of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, which is the financial body of the city, so that the city is sure of receiving an offer for the operation of these subways which has been -approved by those who control the finances of the city. The only operating terms which have been suggested by any company for the subways which we are now about to bulld contain no proposition which has not received the support of every member of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. City-Built and City-Owned Subway. "The undertaking which is this day inaugurated is for a city-built and cityowned subway.

No operating contract will be drawn which will give -any company the right to operate for a longer period than ten years, provided the eitv he fled, before the 1911 ONDAY, JULY 31. START SUBWAY AS CROWD RIOTS FOR SOUVENIRS Disgraceful Scenes at Beginning of New Tube. POLICE USELESS Pendergast Raps Gaynor, Who was Absent- Willcox Speaks. Amid one of the most disgraceful scenes ever witnessed at a pubillo gathering the first step in the new subway system, was taken to-day when Chairman Willcox, of the Public Service Commission, turned over a spadeful of which marked the beginning of the Lexington avenue subway In Manhattan, at East Sixty-seventh street and Lexington avenue. A crowd of souvenir-hunting curious ones jammed the officials who were scheduled to commence the work; fifty policemen were swept aside; women were trampled on and a number fainted, while general pandemonium reigned for about twenty minutes.

The police under command of Inspector Titus and Capt. McNally, were powerless as call after call for extra reserves remained unanswered. Comptroller William A. Pendergast poured considerable hot shot into proceedings when he startled the crowd of about 7,000 by that while he deprecated the the recall declaring, into public life, he believed that it was necessary at times to convince certain public officials that the will of the mamust be obeyed. Mayor Gaynor Sority, there, Comptroller Prendergast didn't mention any names, the crowd readily gathered that Comptroller's scathing remarks were directed at the City Executive, and they cheered themselves hoarse as shaft ter shaft of denunciation were uttered "at recalcitrant end disappointed public officials," who, while they had "been morally bound to stand by the provisions of the McAneny report after signIng it some weeks ago," had kicked over the traces.

All the speakers agreed that a new era in municipal affaire was inaugurated with the wielding of the silver spade by Mr. Willcox, and with the exception of Comptroller Prendergast's remarKs all the were congratfulatory in tone, complimenting the city officials and members of the Commission, with an extra large boost for Borough President of Manhattan McAneny, Police Arrangements Wretched. But the police arrangements were woefully inadequate. Such an immense and at times unruly crowd wasn't. expected and the mob of sonvenir-hunters who so greedy that some of them even tried to appropriate the silver spade and shovel, swept the squads of police aside without the slightest difficulty.

Capt. McNally, who commands the East Sixty-seventh street station, had his dignia ripped from his hat and a number patrolmen had their uniforms torn. 'he crowd which was held in check for time by ropes forced themselves hrough in order to obtain a glimpse of The actual excavating. In turn the hounted cops, number, were hunted into the crowd and when they tempted to curb the most disorderly nes, the women spectators, who were postly in the rear, were thrown down. At least four were thrown to the and fainted being roughly landled by the unheeding crowd.

They ere carried away after refusing to give heir names. rendergast to Aid of the Children. Comptroller Pendergast viewed the pectacle from the rostrum where the ty officials had congregated. Many ildren were within the improperly awn police lines and were in danger being trampled upon by the conantly charging mounted men, and Comptroller, seeing the danger to little ones, shouted from the grand land. 'Look out for those children! This 1s sitively disgraceful!" The eager youngsters were removed harm's way and an Incant Feral women in the crowd fainted beise of the onrush.

inspector Titus said that no one had hurt and expressed the notion that crowd wasn't anything extraordinarlarge or demonstrative. But from. the bearance of the frazzled cops, torn forms and the remains of a dozen neras, which lay shattered on the und, the spectators weren't inclined agree with him. the threa-platoon system which anakes arge number of the police force inacsible at times, was blamed by some 8 for the non appearance of the reyes, which were four times the Inspector. the long grand stand where most of exercises took place, were Chairman cox, Comptroller Prendergast, PresiMcAneny, former Public Service omissioner Bassett, Commissioner tbie, Douglas Robinson, brother-inof Col.

Roosevelt; the Bradley Brothwho are bullding the new tube; SamBloomingdale, Thomas Clarke, who a lot to do with the agitation of the rth avenue tube, and a number of re less prominent in public life. BorPresident Steers of Brooklyn was ent. brtly before 9 o'clock two laborers ed hole in the pavement opposite Regiment armory, about feet square. They removed the hard alt, and underlying concrete, and, In some of the dirt which gave them reality the honor of excavating the spadeful of earth for the new doublesystem. No Injunctions Issued.

eats of Injunction proceedings which expected to Indefinitely tie up the evaporated Into thin air, as a few es before 11 o'clock. Mr. Willcox ing apprehensively around to see if process-servers were masquerading orkmen and guarded by a cordon of appreached the spot marked for nitial digging and was handed the pick and shovel by Frank Bradley, Chairman then handed them back contractor, with a formal bow. ze latter retaining the pick handed Jade once more to the Chairman. the spade poised.

Mr. Willcox bout to make the incision. when of the bath-house, is. In such at dirt new the the the sion Celebration; to Filch Souvenirs JENKINS TRUST NAMED AS BACK OF BRIBE OFFERS Former Examiner Hayes Says Receiver's Brother Madelt. UNION BANK FREE Continuation of Bank Hearing Develops Much Interesting.

The testimony given, by former Bank Examiner William J. Hayes In nection with the inquiry Into the Bank's affairs to the effect that Hayes had been offered $50,000 to official action on a financial' institution, was supplanted to-day by the from Hayes that the money was offered in the interest of the Jenkins. Trust Company. The alleged bribe offer, Hayes swore, came from a man named Mulhail. who was a brother of the receiver of the trust company.

Hayes says he spurned the offer. The inquiry into Union Bank affairs was resumed before Edward L. 1 Dodge in the Court House this morning, and As semblyman Louis A. Goldstein examined the witnesses. David A.

Sullivan, former President of the Mechanics and Traders', which succeeded the old Union Bank, WaS again an interested witness at the of the hearing. proceedings William J. Hayes, former bank examiner, was the drst witness. He testifled at a previous hearing that $50,000 had been offered him connection with his duties to take a certain line of action. with reference to a suspected bank he was examining, tut exonerated the Union and the Mechanics and Traders from the charge.

"You stated that a bribe WAs ofthe Union Bank?" asked Goldstein. fered you. Was that in connection with "No, sir." "Was it in connection, with a bank In Brooklyn?" asked Goldstein. "Yes, sir." IF YOU REALLY WANT TO SAVE MONEY AND BUY GOOD MEAT, TRY JAMAICA BEEF CO. Wholesale and Retall Dealers In Meats, TRY Poultry, OUR Game, NEW Fish, SAUERKRAUT Oysters, Clams and Groceries AND PICKLES 306-308 FULTON We Sell STREET Retail Near at Tel.

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for 25c. Special Sale of Fresh Fish Every Friday, Purchases All Mall Orders Will Be Mail and Paid Telephone Orders Specially Exoress On All Cash Orders Over $5. Hotels, Restaurants and Boarding wishes for any reason to take entire control of the roads, nor will such contract permit the city to be placed in the posttion where it cannot itself control the extensions of its own system in whatsoever manner it may desire. "Contracts for operation can be drawn within a few months, but the building of subways takes several years. The general scheme of rapid transit construction having now been accepted, I want to assure the people city that the work here begun to-day will be continued with all vigor by the Public Service Commission until the entire system is completed, provided the city authorities will furnish the means necessary to prosecute the work.

City Had to Take B. R. T. Offer. Comptroller Prendergast said at the outset of his speech that everyone had agreed that the present plan of subway building was the best, and intimated that when the Interborough Company had refused to accept the conditions laid down by the city the only alternative left was to accept the B.

R. T. proposition. "Every member of the Board of Estimate voted weeks ago to confirm the McAneny report, and thus morally bound himself to respect the conditions of that report, but no high or low, can hinder the consummation of thsi splendid plan. The public cry which is responsible for the agitation in some sections for the recall is due to th efact that some public officials have been found wanting in their desire to carry out the wishes of the electorate.

While I deprecate the proposed entry of the recall into public life, yet I belleve in the adoption of it in New York State, If this Is found to be the only way of forcing public officials to carry out their pledges." Regarding the proposed route from Fifty-ninth street through to Queens, the Comptroller declared that there should be no fear that any "disappointed official" can this plan. "There 1g no official who will to stand before the tie of your he declared. Like Mr. Wilcox, he paid a high tribute to Mr. McAneny for the latter's part in the subway work.

More Ventilation in the Tube. The Chief Engineer of the Bradley Company, Bayly Hopkins, told a Times man that the new tube would not assume the furnace-like temperature of the old tunnel, and asserted that a proper and adequate scheme of ventilation had been planned, which will the new underground road a great many degrees cooler than the present subway, and that this will be accomplished without the use of electric fans In the cars. Mr. Willcox will add the silver spade to the collection of subway souvenirs which he has in his office, and it will repose. by the side of the shovel which turned the first earth in the digging of the Fourth avenue tube.

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is believed to be insintations against his professional character made by Clark Banks, while latter was on the stand Williams, former. Superintendent of during last week's hearing. Williams at that time made the statement that he had accepted Hayes' resignation after the examination into the Union Bank's affairs he had ceased to have confidence in him. Mr. Hayes was asked by Assemblyman Goldcteln: "Have you a statement to make regarding the testimony of Mr.

Williams at last week's hearing?" Mr. Hayes replied: "I have. At the time I was on th stand a week ago I was not aware that my conduct in the department had been, criticized by the then Superintendent Banks. statement released me from withholding' any facts I may have as to conditions as I found them In Brooklyn at time. I think I a.m entitled to have the Commission and the public generally know what the ex-Superintendent of Banks meant when, before you as a witness, he made the statement that I was dismissed for lack of confidence in me, and when he said I was untrustworthy.

"If you, Mr. Committeeman, were ever Superintendent of Banks and did not wish -the rotten conditions of the institution you were about to reopen to be discovered, and you had in your employ a man who had discovered and who could disclose such facts and who insisted that his duty to do 50, you, Mr. Committeeman, not wishing such facts to be disclosed, would lack confidence In him and consider him untrustworthy from your standpoint. Would you not? That is the ex-Superintendent of Banks must have meant, and he quite right. More developments regarding the $100,000 Cheseborough Item came out.

0. H. Cheney, Superintendent of Banks, directly after the reorganization of the Mechanics Traders Bank as the Union Brooklyn, was one of the principal witnesses. The Cheseborough account was an Inactive account held by a woman who had social friends among the officials of the bank. The charge was made in an anonymous letter to the State Banking Department that $100,000 had been taken from the Cheseborough account just previous to a visit from the bank examiners; put where it would cover up a transaction that would not pass official muster, and restored to the account when the official investigation had been concluded.

Mr. Cheney was and questioned regarding the Cheseborough account. "It was evident that the two $100,000 items, one credit and the other debit. had been changed over Sunday," Said Southworth Confessed. Cheney said that Southworth, a bank officer, confessed to him in the bank to having made the change, and said it was done Sullivan's "Was Southworth 8 self-confessed criminal?" asked Goldsteln.

"He was," replied Cheney. "Was Southworth guilty of forgery in the second degree, as well as the third degree?" asked Goldstein. "It seems 80 to me." "Wasn't there evidence enough to convict him?" "Why, it seems so to me." "Did you call upon Assistant District Attorney R. H. Elder with certain letters and evidence?" asked Goldstein.

"Yes, sir," replied Cheney. "Can you recall what was said?" he WAs asked. Cheney recalled the conversation ani letters to Mr. Elder regarding his advice to avoid delay and to proceed at once with the prosocution of the bank officials. Loan Made to Company of Which Sullivan Was President.

A matter regarding a loan of the Ashford Company was brought into the testimany, and by statements made by Otto Reimer to Cheney, when the former appealed to him for certain advice, it WAs learned that Sullivan was President of the Ashford Company. Mr. Cheney read from his reports of that intervlew with Reimer in which he (Cheney) learned that the company existed for the purpose loaring money to Hebraws who were willing to pay large bonuses for the accommodation. At that time the Ashford Company was in a controversy with the Home Bank over 8. loan.

In referring to certain statements made public by the Union Bank after its opening in regard to the condition of that bank, Mr. Cheney was asked: "Wasn't that report false?" "In that respect, yes," replied Cheney. The witness was then dismissed. Squabble After Hearing. After the hearing adjourned for the day David A.

Sullivan, former President of the Mechanics and Traders' Bank, and man whose identity was not fully, disclosed, engaged in a heated argument. Their conversation was so low that reporters could not catch the gist of it except that it was in connection with the affairs of the Union Bank. Their conversation finally became SO heated that Mr. Levine and Assemblyman Goldstein separated the two men. Then the man whose identity is not known, but who is said been 8 John Woodenbury, yelled out to Sullivan, "It was all your fault.

You know it was. If you had kept out the bank would not have failed. You didn't have 8 cent when you there." Later it was ascertained that the squabble was over some alleged loans of securities that one of the men bought and sold 8.8 a speculation. Just what they were could not be learned in the court room. THIRD POLICE CHAPLAIN NAMED Dr.

Morrison, of All Saints Church, Appointed by Waldo. Police Commissioner Waldo announced this morning that the Rev. Dr. William Merri rector of Saints' Protestant Episcopal Church, at Seventh avenue and Seventh street, Brooklyn, has been appointed a police chaplain in Brool-yn. This makes three police chaplains that Brooklyn now has, the other being Father McGuirl and the Rev.

Duncan M. Genns. There is at present 110 salary attached to the position of police chaplain In Greater New York, but Commissioner Waldo 19 working to see if this cannot be changed In 'he future. He has suggested that a salary of $4,000 per annur be the police chaplains. Ine was de The with biannk and profitable houser YOUNG COUPLE ARE CLAIMED BY GAS DEATH Pair Found in Room Filled By Fatal Fumes.

George and Alice Smith, both 18 years old, who were married three months ago, were found dead from gas shortly before noon to-day in their apartments, on the first floor of the -room house 182 West Ninth street, South Brooklyn. A leaking gas jet and a stop cock of a gas stove turned on full told the police that the couple were probably accidentally asphyxlated. The man was a decorator and worked hard every day. Last night the couple retired at about 11 o'clock. That was the last seen of them until shortly after 11 o'clock this morning, when Catherine Doyle, the fourteen -old daughter of Mrs.

Mary lives on the years first floor of the house, came downstairs and smelled gas. The girl ran back and told her mother. The latter went out on the street to look for a policeman. Meeting Patrolman Leary, of the Hamilton Avenue Precinct, she told him of the gas odor, and he went back into 'he house. He broke in the door, and vas himself nearly overcome by the fumes which filled the room.

On in her night clothes lay the wife while on the floor, stretched out lifeless, also in his night clothes lay the youthful husband. Leary sent for an ambulance, and the call was answered from the Long Island College Hospital. Dr. Gordon pronounced both dead. The couple had only lived there three weeks.

When they took their apartments they said they were married three months, and had formerly lived on Bridge street, near Myrtle avenue. It was evident that they had had a hard time to get along. Their clothes, which were piled nthe table in the kitchen, were very shabby, and te apartment was poordly furnished. The only articles of furniture were a cheap-looking table in the kitchen. a bed and a sofa.

They had no chairs and possessed only 4 few dishes. The police theory of the affair is that before the couple retired for the night they accidentally left the gas turned on, and that the young husband woke up before he was asphyxiated, and tried to get to the nearest window. He was evidently overcome before he got there. tit offered by a Brook- sir." was the man?" CAn by the name of Mulhall." he a brother to one of rea bank that failed at that Goldstein. Made in Office of Jenkins Trust Co.

vas it offered?" nkin Company. present." connection with the inthat company, in Sepcember of 1907, a man Chad put in my report," "I told him to understand that there it if report was Jenkins worth? I the man replied. got enough, I my back and walked did not report the matter Grand Jury nor to the Iyartment, the full name of replied he did not the man as tall, handsome erg misunderstood lag him as saying was offerel in another State. He raid it might have been other State, to that it was not in connection the Talon Bank. Nocturnal Visit.

In connection nocturnal visit of certain ofHayes denied that he permission to go that branch the night before he went there to look over Haw compared Haves 'Then I saw people bonuses and found Then I comthese. less percentage, and also ascertained well as I could the what property mortgages taken was a general statement that he was not familiar with the officials of the bank The anonymous letter regarding bonuses as printed last week, again 0g- ured Hayes said he had been Instructed by the Grand Jury to find who the writer was and Investigate the letter. Sullivan Demands Rights. A Donnelly mortgage transaction came Into Hayes' testimony. Mr.

Sullivan Interrupted the proceedings and tried to object to the question regarding this item. Mr. Dodge stopped him. "Have I no rights here?" demanded Sullivan. "No right in this case," replied Dodge.

Sullivan was told that he would be given ample time to explain anything he wanted. He replied that he considered now was the proper time, but Commissioner Dodge did not agree with him, and he was not allowed to proceed. "You said you had reported certain things to Clark Williams, the Superintendent of Banks, were rotten. What were they?" asked Goldstein. "One day while I was investigating Jenkins Trust, I WAS handed a bunch of tickets which represented false entries amounting to about a million dollars," replied Hayes.

At first, Mr. Hayes said, these tickets had been missing. connection with the Investigation of the Borough Bank he said that when he entered he found clerks at work. He asked the examiner in charge what he was to and was told that these do, people were honest and to simply up." said he the condition of reported the Borough rotten. There were evldences of false 8.8 entries and other marks of "I wrong book keeping found that after that bank closed its doors that $00,000 or $70,000 had been taken out by men had access.

That was reported to the who department. I knew that bank was insolvent." bank examiner reported to WIlliams that there about $65 In the was Then Mr. Hayes that the chief exsaid, "Why did you do that? aminer said you know examined that bank Don't the last ime?" I was examiner?" demanded Goldstein. chief a consultation with Judge Dodge, After Mr. Hayes replled, W.

Hutchins." man 18. still with the State BankThis ing Department. Hayes Tells Why Ho Was Considered Hayes on stand he took While Untrustworthy. occasion the himself against and said. of CONEY FAMILY OF 4 STRICKEN Frankfurters and beer is the indirect cause of four persons being confined to their beds, suffering severely from the effects of ptomaine poisoning.

The victims are Justis Coates, 24 years old, a buyer, of 1,410 Avenue Coney Island, and his cousins, Annie Smith, 28 years; Sophie Frank, 28 years, and Minnie Kraft, 28 years, all residing for the sumCoates' home. "Last night Mr. and Mrs. Coates and 8. party numbering about ten, including relatives and friends, went to a hotel at Sheepshead Bay.

While there several rounds of drinks were served, including frankfurters and rolls. When Coates reached his home shortly before 10:30 o'clock he complained of feeling Ill. Later the three girls became violently 111 and a call was sent to Dr. Henry Kalvin, of 1,612 Avenue U. The physician, after an examination, declared all were suffering from ptomaine, due to the frankfurters topped off with the beer.

The police were non tified to make an investigation. FREE BROOKLYNITE OF ARSON CHARGE Justice Bishoff to-day granted a writ of habeas corpus to Morris Fishman, of 1,659 Prospect place, Brooklyn, who has been held without ball on a charge of arson since Tuesday. The complaint against Fishman was made by Fire Marshal Beers, who alleged that a fire in risman's factory, in Mercer street, Manhattan, on July 24, was of incendiary origin. Counsel for Fishman argued that there was nothing in the evidence to show that Fishman had anything to do with setting the building afire and the court, after examining the papers, took the same view and ordered the Brooklyn man discharged. EXECUTE SLAYER OF LITTLE GIRL DANNEMORA, N.

July L. Green, who murdered his 14-year-old daughter at their home in New, Scotland, Albany County, was executed here today. Despite the fact that he insisted that he wanted to die, his counsel twice had Gov. Dix defer the execution in an effort to show that the man was insane. A confession by Green's wife that her unfaithfulness had led to the shooting failed to save Green, as doctors sent to examine him by Gov.

Dix reported him sane. The courts refused a new trial on the ground of newly developed evidence. At the time he killed his daughter Green also shot his wife, but she recovered. POPE HAS FAINTING SPELL. ROME, July 81.

The Pope is very weak to-day. He had fainting spell yesterday, but rallied quickly It 19 his extreme weakness that is carting anxiety, but, offidial reports from the Vatican continue say Marchiar that his condition Pontic paper men will SA of the paper tor. Mr. but RI ALL )velt QA 8 gh. TALL com OMS HED.

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