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he It was OBITUARY. THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 28.

1903. ran ines. In 15 81.00,- at SHIFTING OF INSPECTORS SHAKES BROOKLYN POLICE Druhan Will Run Things at Coney Island This Summer and May Have a Busy Time. CLAYTON FOR EASTERN DISTRICT Acting Inspector. Campbell Goes Back to a Precinct -Brown Out 24 Hours Ahead of Time.

The transfer of Inspector Clayton from the First District, Stanhattan, to the general direction of the District precincts In Brooklyn was not determined upon by Police Commissioner Greene until 7 o'clock last night, when the order was sent out. Then the Commissioner knew that the charges against Inspector Cross would be ready to-day, and it was necessary, in order to have Cross tried in Mulberry street, to have him in charge of a Manhattan district, instead of in the Bronx. Cross was brought down from the Bronx and was given the First District in Manhattan, vice Clayton, transferred, and there were other changes which were the natural result of the turnup in the inspection district in Manhattan. The transfers affect Brooklyn more than they do Manhattan. Acting Inspector James Campbell, who has been in charge of an inspection district in Brooklyn for five years, was sent back to precinct work and was placed in command of the Bath Beach precinct.

Captain Edward Kenney, who lives in East New York, but who has been in command of the station at Bath Beach since Captain Leavey retired, was sent to the hoodoo precinct at. Schenectady and Atlantic avenues. There was a disposition to put Campbell in charge of the Atlantic avenue station, but it was decided that it would be a better plan to send Kenney to the hoodoo shop and give Campbell an easier command, out of respect to his years and his dighity. Commissioner Greene managed to get, rid of Captain Edmund Brown before the 1st, anyway, for he sent Kenney to the command of Brown's precinct and excused Brown from duty for twenty-four hours. Brown had asked to be relieved from duty and placed on the retired list on the 1st of March, and he was miffed when General Greene accepted his resignation offhand.

He insisted on staying until the last minute in February, but the Commissioner got his own way about it. He relieved Brown twenty-four hours in advance and he gave him that time to pack up and get out. If the inclinations of Inspector Clayton had been considered to their fullest extent he would have been sent to take charge of the district vacated by Acting Inspector Campbell, for that includes the Coney precinct, and Clayton had charge of that district as a captain and inspector both in the past administration. Clayton wanted to get back to Brooklyn, for he did not fancy the turmoil of service in Manhattan, and it has been the policy of General Greene to have as many of the Brooklyn policemen in Brooklyn as possible. But it is a question if Clayton is overjoyed at the idea of taking charge of the Eastern District precinets.

He had nothing to say about the change, though, and he will make his headquarters in the Hamburg avenue station. Inspector Thomas Druhan, in whom the higher police officials have the utmost confidence, has been given charge of the district vacated by the acting inspector. That includes all of the so-called auburban digtricta, Flatbush, Bath Beach, Fort Hamilton, Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay, Canarsie and Brownsville. Druhan will make his headquarters now at the police station on Grant street, Flatbush, and he is already preparing for a spring and summer season at Coney Island. The wisdom of sending a man like Druhan to the Coney Island district at this time of the year was the subject of comment at local police headquarters to-day.

Druhan is a man who has earned his spurs by the hardest kind of straight police work. His promotions were forced on the politicians because he managed to get at the top of the lists and because he was a veteran of the Civil War. Twice it seemed as if he would be overlooked in the matter of official advancement and twice he was forced to threaten to take his case into the courts, in order to get all that was coming to him. He is under favor to no one for his promotions and he has kept all along in a straight line 80 far as duty was concerned. The chances are that Druhan will make the folks at Coney Island walk a chalk line this summer and there was an indication this morning that he would be given unlimited latitude.

It is likely that his personal force of aids will be increased and that he will be asked to add to his suite, the two officers who lose their details by the change in the fortunes of Captain Campbell. Campbell had two efficient men in Roundsman MaSon and Officer James Duffy. Of course, Inspector Druhan will take Roundsman Duffy and Officer Baker of his own personal staff with him to the new district, but he will also get the two aids of Acting Inspector Campbell, if he needs them. There will be a busy get5011 at the shore this year and there is every indication that Druhan will have a personal staff that will enable him to do the work expected of him. The transfer of Inspector Clayton to Brooklyn brings back the last of the Brooklyn inspectors who were doing duty in Manhattan.

Inspector Thomas Murphy was sent back a short time ago when Inspector William W. McLaughlin was sent back to Manhattan from Brooklyn. There are still five Brooklyn captains who are in charge of Manhattan precincts and they are all doing such good work there that General Greene is not disposed to send them back to their home borough. They are Captain Edward Gallagher, Bernard Gallagher, Miles O'Reilly, George Holahan and John Becker. Inspector Druhan reported early this morning at the Grant street station and relieved Acting Inspector Campbell, There was genuine regret in Flatbush and elsewhere when it was known that the veteran acting inspector had been shifted and put back to precinct duty.

Captain Campbell has an enviable record as a thorough policeman. At the time of the examination for inspector he was not feeling well and did not enter the lists for promotion. There was some talk of his retirement a few weeks ago, but the acting inspector at the time said to an Eagle reporter that he did not intend to retire. IN HOLY TRINITY CHURCH. The Rev.

George Clarke Cox to Preach. Noonday Lenten Speakers. the Church of the Holy Trinity tomorrow there will be a celebration of the Holy Communion and sermon at 11. A. M.

musical service and sermon al 1:30 M. The Rev. Goorge Clarke Cox of Cambridge, will preach at both servHe all original and interesting preacher. The offertory anthem, "Seek Ye the Lord." Roberta, will be Bung 111 the morning. The following musical programme will be rendered in the afternoon 4:30 o'clock: Organ prelude, "Lamentation." Gullmant: Magnificat and Nune Dimitris in G.

Craickshank: anthem, "Be Sydenham; "Lord, For Thy Mercies' Sake," Farrant; orpostlude, Fugue in minor. Bach. There will be the, usual noonday service in the church every day during Lent from 12:25 to 12:50 P. with whore address by different preachers. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday the Rev.

Thos, J. Crosby of St. James' Church will speak, and on Thursday and Friday the Rev. Dr. C.

F. J. Wrigley of Grace Church. On Wednesday afternoon next the first of series of organ recitals by Samuel A. Baldwin will be given In the church 1:30 o'clock.

The New Amendments to the Sational Unnkruptes with digest and Index Library. Price, Adv in at Eagle 1. To For lp Special Furnished Notices Rooms CAUGHT IN THE ACT. C. Bradley Detected Taking Clothing From Officer Dunnelly's Line.

(Special to the Eagle.) Bradley, known citizen of this place, Great February 28-Charles Neckin was arrested early this morning while stealing valuable from the clothes line of Constable Christopher Dunnelly of Thomaston. During the past two months residents in the neighborhood have complained of being robbed in this manner, and Constable Dunnelly was determined to catch the guilty party. He his line every night regularly for the past week, but without suecess until early this morning, when he saw Bradley enter the yard and go to the line and gather in the goods. Just as Bradley was leaving the yard with his load Officer Dunnelly arrested him and took him before Justice Dodge, who committed him to jail until Monday, when he will be given a hearing. Bradley, who was employed by Gregory Brothers, coal dealers of Thomaston, was a prominent church worker and was supposed to be above suspicion.

Constable Dunnelly was much surprised when he found out who the thief was. Y. M. C.A. MEETINGS AT ORPHEUM First of a Series of Religious Services to Be Held There--C.

C. Michener to Speak. The Central Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association will begin a course of men's meetings at the Orpheum Theater tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. This further development association's religious work is the outgrowth of the larger and increasing meetings held this winter in As- C. C.

Michener, International Secretary, Y. M. C. to Speak at Orpheum Theater. sociation Hall, which have aroused the interest and help of all the churches in the downtown district.

Realizing the aid that the association is rendering to the churches, the pastors and members have enthusiastically rallied to the support of the movement and are co-operating in sustaining it. The meeting to-morrow opens a series of similar gatherings, to be held in the Orpheum Theater during March, and to be followed by similar activities during the season, not omitting the summer months. Already the indications point to an attendance to that will tax the capacity of the theater. The Thirteenth Regiment Band, under Professor Mygrant, will furnish music, and the speaker, C. C.

Michener, one of the international secretaries of the association, is a man of magnetic personality, with marked success in interesting and holding men. Tickets may be had of members or at the Association Building on application. MRS. MOREY -HOBBY'S DEEDS. Coney Island Woman, Arrested for Malicious Mischief, Claims Ownership to Large Tracts.

Mrs. Elizabeth Morey-Hobby, who has figured many times, chiefly as a a defendant, in the Coney Island court, was egain before Magistrate Higginbotham yesterday in that court on two charges of violating a city ordinance and malicious mischief. The complainant in the first charge was Mounted Policeman Edward Baird, who said Mrs. Hobby permitted cattle owned by her to roam on Ocean Parkway. When Magistrate Higginbotham asked the officer how many times he had arrested the woman on a similar charge he said he could not remember.

The magistrate fined Mrs. Hobby $5, which she paid. On the charge of malicious mischief, an advertising firm was the complainant. It appears the firm erected several large display signs on the meadow land in the rear of Coney Island. The lawyers for the company said the firm had made an arrangement with a railroad company to erect the signs on property owned by the railroad company.

A yearly rental was paid, the lawyers stated. Some time ago the company was informed that two of the signs had been removed and after being broken up had been piled up in Mrs. Hobby's yard at the foot of West First street. Mrs. Hobby admitted being responsible for the removal of the signs and said she did it because they had been erected on property owned by her and she had received no rent from any one for the use of her property.

Mrs. Hobby showed a deed which purported to show that she owned the property and, in fact, a large part of the meadow land north of Coney Island creek. She also claims she has deeds which show her to be the only owner of nearly half of Coney Island, including the ground now occupied by the Fire and the Police Departments and all the property lying east of West Eighth street. Counsel for the advertising company said Mrs. Hobby and her deeds had not received any recognition in the courts, but Magistrate Higginbotham said that, if she could show she was the real owner, he would dismiss the case and, if not, he would hold her.

The case was adjourned until March 3, when it will be heard in the Lee avenue court. INDEX To Classified Advertisements in Today's Engle. CLASSIFICATION. PAGE Amusements Aretance Notices Auction Sales Bank Statement Board Business Notices 13 Business Opportunities Business Personals Coastwise Steamships Corporation Notices Notices Death Dentistry Directory of Fraternal Election Notices Employment Agencies Hotels and Resorti Legal Notices Loans Lost and Pound. Manhattan Amusements Marriages New Publications Ocean Steamships Dividends Post Office Sotter.

Proposals Notiess Publie 11 Railroads Pral Estate 19 Iteal Estate 19 Religious 18 Special Advertisements steamboats Wanted Situations Let and For Wanted 15 18 21 18-19 MAS. CRAIGIE'S CASE UP BEFORE SUPREME COURT Justice Garretson Hears Pleas for and Against Reinstatement of Librarian. AS TO CIVIL SERVICE STATUTE. Colonel Bacon, for Plaintiff, Says It Protects -Brewster, for City, Takes Opposite Ground. The suit of Mrs.

Mary E. Craigie, the former assistant librarian of the Brooklyn Public Library, who seeks reinstatement by in her position, was heard before Justice Garretson, in the special term of the Supreme Court, this morning. Mrs. Craigie was removed from her position on the recommendation. of the executive committee and committee of' administration after she had been tried on charges of insubordination, place and in incompetency.

November last. Her The recharges were preferred against her by Librarian Frank P. Hill and were under two beads--insubordination and incapacity. In the specifications it was stated that' Mrs. Craigie had.

given interviews on library matters to newspapers, in spite of the express direction of the committee on administration that all such reports should be given out by the librarian. Another charge made against Mrs. Craigie was that she had been careless and indifferent to the general regulations of the library and instances were cited in the specifications, in which it was alleged that Mrs. Craigie left the library without permission, with the further allegation that she, at the time of so leaving, would make a false entry on the time sheet or make no entry at all. To all these charges Mrs.

Craigie replied by demanding, through a writ of mandamus, reinstatement and upon the case being called this morning arguments was had before Justice Garretson. Mrs. Craigie appeared through her counsel, Alexander S. Bacon and the city's interests were looked after by Assistant Corporation Counsel Walter S. Brewster.

Mrs. Craigie asks that all her salary, interests and emoluments due her from November 18, 1902, be granted her and that she be placed back in her position as assistant librarian by the Board of Directors of the Public Library. Lawyer Bacon's principal point on argument was his client was protected in her position by the civil service laws of the State of New York and by Section 1543 of the Charter of the City. Her position was that of "assistant librarian of the Brooklyn Public Library in charge of traveling It was held by Mrs. Craigie's counsel that she was appointed to this position by the board of directors, but that the executive committee did not so appoint her.

This being the fact it was contended on her behalt that the committee did not have the power of removal and that for the executive committee to take action and remove her was a usurpation of the powers of the board of directors. It was claimed further that the executive committee was a self constituted tribunal with no real powers to hear charges that were preferred against her and that she had not been allowed to make any explanation before the board of directors who appointed her. Mr. Brewster, in opposition to the motion for a peremptory mandamus, presented affidavits from R. Ross Appleton, the secretary of the board of directors of the Public Library, and Henry Sanger Snow, one of the members of the board.

In his affidavit Mr. Appleton presents extracts from the minutes of the board of November 24, 1897. It was shown that at that meeting Mrs. Craigle requested that the committee should appoint an assistant librarian and that she stated that the expense would not be more than $50 a month. After a discussion it was voted that Miss Olcott be appointed at that salary.

On January 29, 1898, there was an entry showing that on motion "it was resolved that Mrs. Craigie be appointed director of the library and that the matter of compensation, which should not exceed $1,800, be referred to the president with power." Mr. Appleton's affidavit shows assistant that librarian Mrs. Craigie was designated as on motion on of Mr. Phillips on April 12, 1899.

Her reappointment was noted on December 13 of the same year in the minutes of the board. Mr. Snow, in his affidavit, denies that the plaintiff is secured in her position by the provisions of the civil service law or by the Greater New York charter. During his argument Mr. Brewster held that no act of oppression had been intended against Mrs.

Craigie and that the Public Library was not within the prohibitions of the charter against removal. He held that Mrs. Craigie was 'never in an exempt position, but that she was appointed under yearly contracts, which terminated at the end of each year, and that the committee on administration never had the authority of the board of directors to attempt to put Mrs. Craigle in any new position. Mr.

Brewster argued that the committee on administration was a principal deputy, SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Millinery. Opening Days Monday and Tuesday, March and and 3rd. Lord Taylor, Broadway and 20th Street.

NEW YORK CITY ANOTHER GOOD DEAL. Strauss Charig and Joseph M. May Acquire Property at Broadway and Chauncey Street. Strauss Charig and Joseph M. May, builders, have acquired two-thirds of the triangular block bounded by Broadway, Chauncey street and Rockaway avenue.

It includes all of the vacant or unimproved portion thereof. The only part of this block that is improved is at the corner of Broadway and Rockaway avenue, which is covered by a large dry goods establishment and two or three small buildings. Strauss Charig and May's acquisition includes the point of the triangle at the Chauncey street station. The exact dimensions of their holdings are 182.5¼ on Broadway, 340 feet on Chauncey street and 100 feet on Rockaway avenue. The consideration was $70,000.

The opposite side of Chauncey street was recently improved by James A. Caufield with ten three-story double brownstone flat houses. Property on the opposite side of Broadway has recently asserted great strength. It was bought by Moses May, who is holding it. And about a block farther up May, Levy May bought almost the entire block.

A. J. Waldron, broker, 1,113 Bedford avenue, effected the sale of the triangular plot. HIRAM VANDERPOOL WANTED. But Echo Only Answers When His Name Is Called as Juror in Court.

Among the jurors called in Part I of the Supreme Court before Justice Gaynor, last Monday, was Hiram Vanderpool of 388 Monroe street, and Mr. Vanderpool has caused no little commotion during the week. in the court because he did not answer his name when called, on two or more occasions. Justice Gaynor, who has a sharp ear for delinquent jurors, was the one to first notice the absence of Mr. Vanderpool, and he sent an order to Sheriff Melody on or about Wednesday, asking that a deputy be sent to Mr.

Vanderpool's home, to bring him into court as a delinquent. Deputy Sheriff Cunningham was given the papers and Mr. Vanderpool was brought into court yesterday morning. He was not taken into custody in any way, but it was understood that he was to remain on jury duty for the entire day. At a certain time yesterday afternoon his was again called three times, but Mr.

Vanderpool was missing and the clerk and the court attaches this morning are wondering just what Justice Gaynor will do in the matter. The latter was not in chambers to-day, and Sheriff Melody said that he had heard nothing further in the matter since his deputy turned Mr. Vanderpool over to Justica Gaynor in the court room yesterday morning. HISTORIC HEWLETT HOUSE SOLD Manhasset Homestead, Built in 1700, Now Owned by William B. Leeds of the American Tobacco Co.

(Special to the Eagle.) Manhasset, L. February 28-William B. Leeds, the millionaire tobacconist and vice president of the American Tobacco Company, has just completed the purchase of the William Henry Hewlett place, between this village and Port Washington, and will become a permanent resident of Long Island. Mr. Leeds has for the past two years occupied a fine summer home at Great Neck.

The Hew- A cline HEWLETT HOMESTEAD AT MANHASSET. the deputized committee or working committee of the board of directors, and that explanation upon the charges, if Section 1543 of the charter should be held by the court to apply, was properly made by the plaintiff to this committee as the principal deputy, furthermore, that the plaintiff having appeared without protest before that committee, if seh had any other rights, she waived them. In closing he held that the action of the board upon per removal was legal. Justice Garretson reserved decision and allowed the parties to hand up briefs. D.

O. MILLS EXPEDITION SAILS. San Francisco. February 28-The D. 0.

Mills astronomical expedition from Lick Observatory salled to-day for Santiago, Chill. The expedition is in charge of William H. Wright of Lick Observatory and W. K. Palmer of the University of California.

The gOVernment of Chill has taken official notice of the coming of the expedition and has offered to further Its purpose in every possible way. TO HOLD JOINT MEETING. A joint meeting of Interdenominational Preschers' Union and Women's Auxiliary the will be held Monday, at 2:30, in the Young Men's Christian Association, 405 Carlton aveBusiness of Importance will be transneted and all mempers are urged to be in attendance. of DARK CHARGES FOR HOGAN, BLACK SINGER, TO MEET; They Say He Kicked Mattie, His Wife, to the Street, in Garb That Was Quite a la Eve; CALLED HER "OUT OF HER NAME" With Expressions of Shame, Said He Knew of Her Game; To Beat It, the State He Would Leave. If dat's society, excuse me, If yo' call dat propriety yo' gwine ter me; For where I come from, goodness knows, De folks put on a few mo' cloes.

50. if dat's society, excuse me. -Hogan's Song, now Mrs. Hogan's. At the close of the performance of "Smart Set." at the Fourteenth Street Theater last night, Ernest Hogan, the well known negro vaudeville specialist and star of the Smart Set troupe, was taken into custody by a deputy sheriff of New York County and locked up in Ludlow Street Jail.

Unless Ernest, whose real name is Reuben Crowdus, gives a bail bond for $1,500 before this afternoon the Smart Set matinee will have to get along without him. The order of arrest upon which the "Lamb! Lamb' Lamb!" man, author of "All Coons Look Alike to and sundry other ragtime melodies, was locked up was issued yesterday by Justice Garret J. Garretson, sitting in the special term of the Supreme Court in Kings County. It was obtained by Lawyer Gustavus A. Rogers of 63 Park row, acting in behalf of his client, Mrs.

Mattie Crowdus, Hogan's wife, who has begun a suit for separation and $75 a week alimony, 011 the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment endangering her life and health. Among other charges which Mrs. Crowdus makes against her husband in her affidavit, which is appended to the complaint, she declares that about midnight on August 17. Hogan beat and unmercifully all over her body, kicked her two her and chased her out into public flights of stairs, tore all her clothing. from street "in a nude and naked condition." All this, Mrs.

Crowdus says, happened in and in front of their home at 258 West Fif1y-third street. in the presence of her mother and other witnesses, both men and women. She declares that she was made an object of ridicule and derision to the crowd which collected betore the house attracted by her cries of and that, as a result of the alleged beating, kicking and exposure, she was very seriously ill in bed for mere than two days. As a further result, she says, she lost her voice, which used to earn her $50 a week, and now. deserted and disowned, she is wholly dependent on charity.

In addition to this one occasion of what she considers unfriendly treatment, Mrs. Crowdus recites various times and places while the company they were playing with were on the road, when she asserts that her husband threatened and abused her, calling her names that would make the Duryea epithets seem terms of endearment. These alleged names are recited at length in the complaint, but are hardly fit for publication. Mrs. Crowdus' affidavit is supported by those of Sallie J.

Wilkes, her mother; Marion W. Anderson, Maria L. Watkins and Ida Bluford, all colored women conversant with the fects set forth in the complaint. Crowdus has not yet made any answer. The story as told by Mrs.

Crowdus herself in her affidavit, though cumbered with some legal verbiage, 15 sufficiently forceful and convincing. She says, in part: "That I married the defendant on May 11, 1902. "That shortly after our marriage defendant began a course of unkind, harsh and tyrannical conduct toward me which continued with slight intermission until I separated' on or about the 15th day of December, 1902. "That on the 17th day of August, 1902, at 258 West Fifty-third street, where we were then domiciled, while I was in my room, the defendant, without any cause or provocation, brutally, violently and cruelly assaulted me, by repeatedly striking me with his clenched hand and kicking me upon the body; that he dragged me across the floor, out into the hallway and threw and kicked me down two flights of stairs; that as a result thereof I was helplessly confined to my bed for two days, suffering excruciating pain and agony; that on the said occasion the defendant divested me of my clothing, tore the same from my body and in the presence of numerous, and divers persons drove me from the house in view of inany persons, in the condition aforesaid--almost entirely nude and naked. That all the while the defendant accompanied his beating and assault with vile and abusive language.

"That on the 18th day of August, 1902, at the premises aforesaid, the defendant again brutally attempted to assault me and threatened my life: called me by vile and abusive names and epithets, and was made to desist by two police officers who were called to the premises by my mother, Sallie F. Wilkes. That o11 another occasion 011 or about September 26, 1902, at the Windsor Hotel, New Haven, in the presence and hearing of Mrs. Pauline Freeman, the defendant attempted to assault me with a beer bottle and stood over me holding the same in his hand in a threatening manner, at the same time calling me vile and abusive names." Mrs. Crowdus recites similar instances of alleged n'buse which she asserts took place in Syracuse, Providence and Boston.

She then swears that of her own personal knowledge her husband receives $150 a week as regular salary or more than $8,000 a year beside a royalty of several thousand dollars a year from songs he has written. Among the songs of which Mrs. Crowdus says her husband is the author are: "All Coons Look Alike to Me," "I'm Fortune 'Tellin' Coon." "No More Will I Ever Be Your Baby," "I Can't Lose My Home and My Pohk Chops, Too." "Congregation Will Please Keep Their Seats," "Keep Them Gates Wide "Moana" and several others. She says that the last money she received from Hogan was six weeks ago In Boston when he gave her $50, but took it away from her the next day. Mrs.

Crowdus asserts that previous to her marriage she was an actress and was able to earn $50 a week, but that her husband's alleged abusive treatment had deprived her of her voice and that she is now "destitute and without means of HUDport, relying 011 the charity of friends and neighbors." Mrs. Crowdus says in her complaint that she has repeatedly asked her husband to agree to a separation and to make some provision for her, but that he has always refused. At various times and places she says he has made the following remarks: "If you begin an action in New York or anywhere else you won't get a cent. will take very good care to keep out of New York City and all the alimony you get you call put in your pipe and smoke. "You might get your alimony all right, but you won't get me in Jail, for I can get along In any other state.

I am just as fly as you are." In conclusion she asserts that her husband sends almost all his money to his mother to keep for him, for fear she will get some of it. She prays a legal separation and $75 a week alimony. Sally H. Wilkes, the plaintiff's mother, in her affidavit says she has frequently talked with Hogan and that Hogan sald: "She can't come back to this company while I'm in It. I want nothing at all to do with her.

and if she starts in bothering me, I'll give up my work with the company and leave the country. I can make a living elsewhere. "I don't care if she lives or not. I ain not going to send her any money." SHELDRAKE CLUB ELECTION. An election of a board of governors was held by the Sheldrake Club Tuesday evening.

The following ticket was elected without opposition: Dr. A. M. Quinn, three years: Otto Waltz, two years: Thomas Quinbisk. two Dr.

H. A. Poster, one year. W. H.

Ebling, one year. Margaret Compton Harrison. Amelia Margaret Compton Harrison passed away at her residence, 488 McDonough street, Thursday night. Mrs. Harrison had been confined to her bed for more four months with an ailment which furnished no basis for hope of recovery.

Mrs. Harrison's was a busy and useful life. She was born in New York City in 1852, received her education under the public school system in which she subsequently served many years as a teacher, and in that connection was a member of the Lydia Wadleigh Association, an organization whose periodical gatherings she always attended and helped to brighten. In her earlier years Mrs. in Harrison was a member of the Broadway Tabernacle, in the Sunday School of which she was very active.

In Brooklyn she was a member of the Bethany Presbyterian Church in connection with which she rendered services, which will endear her memory to that people. She was a woman of bright intelligence and of lofty Christian character. Her work in educational circles was constant and untiring. For a time she had charge of an important department in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, where she commended herself and her work to her associates. As a writer of entertaining and instructive books, Mrs.

Harrison had few superiors. Her first venture in literature, so far as book making went, was in conjunction with her husband, John Harrison, in a volume entitled, "Over the Summer Sea," in 1884. Her "Snow Bird and the Water was published in 1895; "Bockers," in 1896, and "The Green Door," in 1901, Her last book, which is now in the press of the Penn Publishing Company, of Philadelphia, is entitled "Civics What Every Citizen Ought to Know." These were only a few of her works, in addition to her constant contributions to magazines and other periodicals. She leaves to mourn her loss, beside host of friends, her husband, and two sons. Richard Compton Harrison, nearly ready to 1 the law school of the ColambiaUniversi and Alwyne Frederick Harrison, who is in business in Manhattan.

Funeral services, conducted by the Rev. J. A. Billingsly, pastor of the Bethany Presbyterian Church, will be at the house, 488 MeDonough street, this evening, at 8 o'clock. Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery to-morrow.

Frederick J. Steen. The Rev. Frederick J. Steen, vicar of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal, Canada, died at Montreal on the morning of February 24, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, yesterday morning.

The Rev. Mr. Steen attained considerable prominence two years ago, having been accused and afterward found not guilty of preaching heretical doctrines to the students of the Diocesan Theological College of Montreal. He was born in New York in 1867 and educated at Toronto, Canada, graduating from the University of Toronto in 1888 with nonors and the degree of B. A.

He graduated from the Wycliffe Theological College in 1893 and was ordained priest in 1894. In consequence of the charges brought against him he was inhibited by Archbishop Bond from preaching and officiating in the diocese of Montreal in May, 1901. He began suit against Archbishop Bond for unlawful inhibition, but the case was settled out of court and the inhibition removed in February, 1902. He married a Miss Rayson, of New York, in September of last year. The illness that led to his death began about a year ago, but he was not confined to his home until last December.

Impressive services over the remains were held at Montreal, there being no further ceremonies in connection with the interment at Greenwood Cemetery. The mother of the deceased is a sister of Mrs. V. F. Lassoe of 83 Decatur street, Brooklyn.

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lassoe, of 160 Bainbridge street, and Mr.

and Mrs. H. A. Gruber, of 310 McDonough street, also were relatives of Mr. Steen.

James McCreery. James McCreery, who died at Aiken, S. Thursday in his seventy-eighth year, was the third of the leading dry goods merchants of New York to die within the past two months, the others being George Taylor Lord and Hicks Arnold. Mr. McCreery was born in Omahr, Ireland, and came to Baltimore when 20 years old and connected himself with the dry goods firm of Hamilton Sadler Co.

In 1862 he bought out the interest of Mr. Pierson of Upson, Pierson Hake of 471 Broadway, Manhattan, and in 1867 established the firm of James McCreery Co. at Broadway and Eleventh street. In 1896 the firm built and occupied the present store on Twenty-third street as a branch. Two years ago Mr.

McCreery retired from active business, having organized the business into a corporation. Then the Eleventh street store passed out of existence. Mr. McCreery was a member of the Union League and Aldine Clubs of Manhattan and of the Historical and Geographical Society and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is survived by a widow and four sons, J.

C. and R. who are in the real estate business: Andrew, who is in the silk trade, and William who continues in the dry goods business. The funeral services will be held in the Presbyterian Church at Inwood, N. where the dead merchant had resided.

Yesterday and to-day the flags on the principal dry goods stores of the Greater New York were half masted out of respect to the memory of Mr. McCreery. William H. Thomas. Funeral services over the remains of William H.

Thomas, a resident of Brooklyn for over half a century, will be held this evening at his late residence, 210 Herkimer street. He died Thursday of heart failure in his 83d year, after an illness extending over two years. During the Civil War deceased was the superintendent of the United States ernment implement manufactory on Staten Island. He was prominent in Sons of St. George affairs and past president of Holly Lodge, The Rev.

Mr. George of the Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church will conduct the servicez. The interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Eugene A. Devoe.

Eugene A. Devoe, whose funeral will be held this evening at his late residence, 197 Monroe street, at 8 o'clock, was an old resident of the Bedford section, having lived in the Twenty-third Ward for the past thirtyfive years. He died Wednesday from a complication of ailments. In Republican circles he was well known in the Twenty-third Ward, having always been active. He was born in New York City September 3, 1844.

The Rev. W. C. P. Rhoades, pastor of the Marcy Avenue Baptist Church, will conduct the services.

The interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery, George W. Ivins. George W. Ivins died at his Lee avenue near Penn street, o'clock this morning of pneumonia, illness of three days. Mr.

Ivins eran of the Civil War and an old fireman. in early lite be was a He was prominent in Republican the Nineteenth Ward for a number Until recently he was employed Department. Deceased was 65 Edward T. Irvine. Captain Edward T.

Irvine, the steam yacht Alvina and tormer of John I. Drexel's steam yacht died at his home, 433 Fifty Thursday. He was an officer on during the Spanish -American War. Irvine was born in Lenwich, lands, and had been chief officer ard and American steamsmip lines. a member of Clan McDonald, Scottish Kilwinning Lodge, F.

and A. Masters and Engineers' Association Association. Minerva B. Nostrand. Minerva B.

Nostrand of 927 died at her home to-day of the year of age, been 111 for six months. her, mother, three brothers and funeral services will be held at home Monday evening at 8 o'clock. SCHLEY QUICKLY RECOVERS. residence, nt after an was a vetvolunteer ship caulker. polities of of years.

in the Park years old. commander of captain Sultana, -fourth street. the Yale Captain Shetland Ison the CurHe was Clans: the Yacht and the Park avenue consumption in She had leaves her sister. The her late San Antonio, February 28-Rear Admiral W. S.

Schley arrived in San Antonio yesterday and was compelled to take to his bed. Later a physician was summoned and by night he was suffelently improved to resume his Journey to the West. Admiral Schley contracted a severe cold en route from New Orleans that developed symptoms of pneumonia, announced in the but that evening was in no danger. In all cases where it is imperative to have the Best, USE OLD CROW RYE. TE RED It is a straight KenLABEL ADOPTED JURY 12 VOLD CROw tucky Hand-Made, Sour Mash Whiskey.

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Information sent free and sealed. Address Mr. and Mrs. JAMES MARR, 635 Decatur st. LOST AND FOUND.

LOST -LADIES' OPEN FACE GOLD WATCH on monogram K. G. T. Suitable reward; no questions. 56 Decatur st.

LOST -LARGE SILVER. HEART. BETWEEN Bedford and Saratoga ave, or Halsey st car. Reward if returned to 1.262 Fulton st. LOST -FOX TERRIER BITCH NAMED BESSIE: color white and tan head, black spot on back; liberal reward for return.

CHARLES HUBER. 204 Marcy av. Brooklyn. 27-2 LOST -PASS BOOK NO. 12,364, ISSUED BY THE City Savings Bank, corner Fourth and Flatbush aves.

The finder will please return the same to above bank, as payment has been stopped. LOST -A PACKAGE. CONTAINING CHECK book and three bonds, payment on which has been stopped. Finder will receive $50 reward by returning same to Franklin Trust Montague street. 28-2 RAIN.

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Rain began to fall on our beautiful city at 12:14:32 post prandium. It was not the gentle glancing shower of summer, when the carol of the robins, orioles, azalias and other feathered songsters gleefully greet the appearance of the drink. No, no, and again no, gentle reader. The rain that fell spiked its way in between the crevices of our two seasons' ago new mackintosh, it splashed upward from the limestone sidewalks on our $3.90 creased trousers and with gentle and insinuating directness wormed its way through our single soled shoes, so that we could feel the mushiness of the moisture as it wandered in little rivulets between our tootsie wootsies, making us feel at peace with the world and all that are sheltered derneath the broad canopy of heaven. When it will stop heaven only knows.

I don't. Respectfully yours, A. T. MOSPHERE, Weather 'Prognosticator and Expert on Glacial Atmospheric Conditions. $200,000 FIRE IN NEBRASKA.

Hastings, February 28-Fire that started last night in the Shedd Block, occupied by the Hastings Business College, spread to adjoining buildings, 'burning a solid row of brick blocks and causing a loss of $200,000. Vanilla Leaves a good taste in the mouth. It is pure and wholesome. Don't be cheated with cheap goods. PROPOSALS.

PROPOSALS FOR BIDS AND ESTIMATES FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS. lett place consists of over one hundred acres of ground and is one of the f.est in this neighborhood. Mr.

Leeds has given a contract for making extensive repairs to the old mansion. He will next year erect an Ing country house. The Hewlett farm is one of historic interest. The old farm house vas built early in 1700 by the Kissam family, It 18 a fine type of the Revolutionary styl: of house. It came Into the possession of the Hewletts about 1800.

Henry Hewlett, who bought it, was a farmer with a mechanical turn of mind. He built successively a paper mid, a woolen and cotton mill, a saw mill and a grist mill. All were run by water power from streams on the farm. The paper mill was the first of Its kind built on Long Island. The cotton and woolen mills were also pioneers of their kind.

The grist and saw mills were kept in active operation until a few years aro. SIX HURT IN A COLLISION. Brownsville, February 28-Six persone were seriously injured and a number slightly hurt in a collision between local passenger train No. 14 and a light engine, at the junction, near here. The collision was head-on, and in the impact several passenger coaches were thrown from the track, the windows smashed and the passengers burr la all directions.

The person or persons making a bid or estimate for any services, work, materials or supplies for The City of New York, or for any of its departments, sealed bureaus or offices, shall furnish the same in envelope, Indorsed with the title of the supplies. materials, work or services for which the bid or estimate is made, with his or their name President or names and Board the date of presentation to the or or to the head of the Department at his or its office, on or before the date and hour named in the advertisement for the same, at which publicly time and place the estimates received will or be head said opened by the President or Board of Department, and read. and the award of the contract made according to law as soon thereafter as practicable. Each bid or estimate shall contain the name and place residence of the person making the same, the nantes of all persons interested with him therein. and.

if no other person be so interested. it shall distinctly state that fact; also, that it is made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the saine purpose, and is in all respects fair and without collusion or fraud, and that no member of the Board of Aldermen, head of a department, chiet of a bureau, deputy thereof, or clerk therein, or other officer of The City of New York 19, shall be or become irterested, directly or indirectly. aM contracting party. partner, stockholder, surety or otherwise In or in the performance of the contract, or in the supplies, work or business to which it relates, or in any portion of the profits thereof. The bid or estimate must be verified by the oath, in writing.

of the party or parties ing the estimate that the several matters stated herein are in all respects true. Each bid or estimate shall be accompanied by the consent. in writing. of two householders or freeholders In The City of New York, or of guaranty or surety company duly authorized by law to net as surety, and shall contain the mattors set forth in the blank forms mentioned below. No bid or estimate be considered unless as condition precedent to the reception or coraideration certified of check any upon one of the State or National proposal, It be accompanied by banks of The City of New York, drawn to tha order os the Comptroller, or money to the amount of five per centum of the amount of the bond required, as provided in section 420 of the Greater NeW York Charter.

The certified check or money should not be closed in the envelone contrining the bid or but shou'd either inelosed in a separate envelope addressed to the or head submitted of the Departtent, President or Board, personally the presentation of the or upon estimate. For particulars an to the quantity and quality of the supplies, o7 the nature and extent of the work. reference Dust be made to the specificatons, schedulea, plane, 011 file in the said othee of the President. Board or Department. No bid shall be accepted from OP contract awarded to any person who is in arrears to The City New York upon debt or contract, or who la a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the elty, The contracts must be bid for separately.

The right In reserved in each case to reject all bids or estimates if it in deemed to be for the interest of the elty to do. Bidders will write out the amount of their bids estimates in addition to Inserting the same in figures, Biddera ate requested to make their bida or timates upon the blank forms prepared and furby the city, copy of which, with the proper envelope in which to inclose the bid. with a copy of the contract, Including the specification, in the form approved by the Corporation Counsel, can be obtained upon ton therefor at the office of the Department for which the work is to be done, Plans drawInge of construction work may also be seetl there, Exchange Wanted 19.