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10 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1015. 5 KIDDIES JUST DRIFTED I STATUE OF "PHILOSOPHY," FOR NEW YORK DII.LKll KOVACS. Rlverhead, L.

December PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND ITS SCULPTOR 'RUG6LES OF RED GAP' ENTERTAINING PLAY SAYS FORD SHIP HAS HURT AUTO SALES BEING SPENT ON SUBWAYS IN NEW YORK CITY If it ill mks Bill 1 Tf 111 1 Father Daad, Mother III Good Neighbor Aids Them. Five little children In the Dunton section of Jamaica, fatherless and practically motherless, their father namg died on December 3 and their mother being critically HI with pneumonia Jn the Kings County Hospital, are now at the Children's Society Shelter, In Schermerhorn street. Brooklyn. Through a woman at Dunton the little ones at least had a good Christmas dinner. i la nimren Mary, aged IS; Paul, 9: 7" Anna 1 mi a lived with their mother, Mrs.

Alary nemington street. Pun-ton and when, a few days ago, their mother Waa tnL-on i iu um uuspnui, wiey had to shift for themselves. They get V'U1 9 10 Mrs. Wllllnm "ii, ui vveiis street, Dunton, heard the children's ki lnem better clothes and a if. Mrs- t-onlin's husbana Wth the per-mission nf th a A.

dren's Society Shelter 'in Brooklyn. TO DISCUSS ASSESSMENT The Board of Estimate at Its meeting on January 7 will pass upon the plan for the re-apportionment tho cost and expense of the proceeding for acquiring title to the property required for the wldeninir of avenue extension between Nassau and -oncora streets. The Committee on Assessment has been working on the re-apportionment plan for two years and Its final report Is now before the eoara of Estimate. The plan provides for th ment of twelve and a half per cent, of the cost of the improvement upon the ands Immediately fronting on the en-arged open space; an assessment of ten per cent, upon the space fronting to a depth of 25 feet between this open SDace nnH a Una inn i itci norm of Delvalb avenue; an assessment of seventeen and a half per cent, on both sides of Flatbush avenue from a line 100 feet north of LeKalb avenue to a line 100 feet south of and an assessment of ten per cent on thearea 125 feet in width immediately front of the second and third districts described above. Fifty per cent, of the cost of the improvement has char8ed against the entire city.

There will be a public hearing before the Board of Estimate on January 7 and it is thought the assessment plan will be adopted, as Borough President Pounds was associated with the committee in mnkinrr nil nrywi 1 anil all the property Interests affected have THUGS BEAT UP CHINAMAN. Wow Sing, the proprietor of a Chinese laundry at 36 Harrison street, was found stretched on the floor yesterday by Patrolman MacKlllop of the Ciymer street station, with his head covered with gashes. After being revived by Dr. Feller of the German Hospital, the Chinaman told a story of two young men who had entered his shop, asked for their laundry, and when his back was turned, attempted to rifle the cash drawer. He caught them at it, shouted for help and was struck down by a blow from a blunt Instrument delivered, on the back of the head.

He gave the police a meager description of the men, and detectives are working on the case. Miss Alice Kosalic Kovucs of this place and Harry F. Diller of Laurel were married by the Hev. Father William C. P.eilly, ut St.

John's rectory, Wednesday afternoon, and the parents of the bride, Mr. Mrs. John W. Kovacs, tendered a reception ufter the eerpmonv nt Willi's Oafn Sargeant wus bridesmaid and Pr. Wil liam Drum of Mattituck was the best man.

The bride gave her bridesmaid a handsome gold brooch, and the best man was presented with a stickpin by tho bridegroom. The bride wore a beautiful brown chiffon broadcloth costume at her marriage. Invest that Christmas Gold at NUTTING'S Extraordinary Sale of Overcoats 5.00 7.50 9.85 Were $7.50, $10.00, $15.00 ON SALE MONDAY, DEC. 27th A.J. Nutting Fulton and Smith Streets STREET, Cor.

BRIDGE English Commander of Automobile Constabulary Declares British Are Against Amer-ican Cars. TlltN TO HOME FACTORIES, I'euee Mission Hug Injured Cause of Other Manufacturers Than Sir. Ford, Is Statement. Held back by the furious weather on thev North Atlantic during midweek, the Lnplund of the Red Star Line arrived yesterday forenoon from. Liverpool, a full day lafe.

A gale breaking on December 22 held the ship down to a bare ten knots an hour for the twenty-four hours and prevented 154 passengers, 4,600 bags of mail, 600 packages of parcel post and (1,500,000 In specie from landing before Christmas Day. Mnong the cabin passengers was Charles Jarrott, one of the pioneers of the English automobile trade, who Is now the commander of the Automobile Association Branch of the Special Constabulary In London. With him came W. H. Wells, also a special constable and an Inspector, who said the force was maintained in connection with Scotland Yard and were ready for cull at a moment's notico to assist the regular Loudon police.

Both men are here on a short leave on a mission that they said they could not divulge, but Commander Jarrott had a word to say in regard to the peace mission of Mr. Ford. "Not only has it hurt the sale of Mr. Ford's products In Engiund." said Mr. Jarrott, "but he has injured all American automobile manufacturers, who had by reason of the war conditions gained at least three years in their campaign for sales In Great Britain.

The Englishman who had nt Inst piimn in l.wtlr u-itK American-made automobiles now feels tnat ne nad better trade at home and among friends." C. C. Smith, an American residing at Roselawn. returned on tlia Lapland and was carried to the pier on a stretcher, where ho was placed In n. sneciallv nuiilo wfrk At 11-111 1A because of a nearly fatal Injury In a iveisn coai mine last July, where ho was demonstrating a coul-cuttlnir ma chine.

The roof fell on him, burying him beneath stone and earth and breaking his back. It is believed that he will regain the use of his lower limbs within vpur Thn West on an afternoon train. Miss Louise Taylor, an American drnmntte Rnnrnnn whn tia I. ing in the D'Alvarez Theater, in Milun, iui- me iusi iour years, returned to spend the holidays with her mother in Washington. Among the successes that are Ftlll holding their own on Broadway are "The House of Glass," at tho Candler; "Fair nil Wni-mef a.

n.t-i. JIOU- woods new farce, at the Eltinge; Leo! i'unciisiein in "ine ureat Lover, at the Longaere, and George M. Cohan's "Hlt-the-Trail Holliday," at the Astor. MfttnsiwaooSL I'uul Way land Burtlctt, Beside Statue, important parts of the Dual System. The Fourth Avenue Subway in Brooklyn, extending from the Municipal Building in Manhattan to Fourth avenue and Sixty-fifth street.

Brooklyn, was opened in June, in con, nection with the reconstructed Sea Beach line of the Brooklyn company, extending from Sixty-fifth street to Coney Island. Through train service has been maintained ever since from Manhattan to Conev Island. Early In the coming, year tho extension of the fourth Avenue Subway, from Mxy-fifth street to Eighty-sixth street, will be added to this oper ation. Tho Fourth Avenue Subway and the Sea Beach Line are now carrying upwards of 1.600.000 pas sengers per month. Its operation nas materially relieved the congestion on the linss crossing Brooklyn Bridge and lessened to some extent the excessive traffic between tho Boroughs through the first subway.

The Fourth Avenue Subway Line enters Manhattan over the Manhattan Bridge, and through the easterly tracks in the Centre Street Loop Subway. The westerly tracks in this subway were opened to elevated railroad traffic from the Williamsburg Bridge in August. 1913. The two subways, namely, the Loop and the Fourth Avenue, have cost the City of New York In the neighborhood of $35,000,000. Quccnsboro Subway Is 90 Per Cent.

Complete. In June also, the Steinway Tunnel was placed in temporary oper ation. This tunnel extends trom Fortv-second street, Manhattan, un der the East River to Long isiana I on is to be It to Thirty Contractors Have Eighty-nine Contracts, and Em-ploy 18,000 Men. 17 COXTK.U I TO UK AWARDF.D. Brooklyn mill Querns to Benefit by Much or Work That Is Being Diiih.

This winter the new rapid transit work under the dual system contracts will reueh high water mark. On December 1, the Public Service Commission had completed or under contract construction work on the new lines to be owned by tho City of Now York aggregating $li7. 606.989.07. In addition, the Intel-borough Kapid Transit Company and tho New York Municipal Railway Corporation, tho two operating companies which entered Into the dual system agreements with the city, had under way or completed construction work on third tracking and extensions of existing elevated railroads aggregating about 1 5,000,000, making the total contracts to dato upward of $182,000,000. This work is shared by more than thirty separate contractors, who are employing a dally average of about 18,000 men.

The dual system city-owned lines are divided for convenience of construction and supervision into eighty-nine separate contract sections. At the present time contracts have been awarded for seventy-two sections, leaving only seventeen yet to be advertised. The engineers of the Commission are completing the detailed plans for these sections and the greater part, if not all, will be ready for award within the next few months. The total cost of construction of city-owned lines, is estimated at $238,000,000, of which the city will supply about $104,000,000, the Intcr-borough Rapid Transit Company, $58,000,000. and the New York Municipal Railway Corporation, It should, therefore, be borne in mind that the $167,000,000 covered by contracts now outstanding, the city will supply only its quota, the balance being made up by contributions from the two companies In tho pro portion statea.

it is incorrect, there fore, to assumo that the city is already pieogea to me run extent or its obligations under the dual system contracts. The year 1915 has seen the completion and opening to traffic of some PIANOS COME TO THE Ik BIG HOLIDAY ALEj Now i the time to get your New Year Pianos, Player Pianos and Victrolas and Records. OPEN EVENINGS I $10 Monthly Until Paid nay si Pianos Pnrr Bench, cover and 12 rolls, rilLL with each Player Piano. CD Music, Cover, A rVCiIj Cartage This eek Hundreds of used Insti umonte of well-known makes at prices away below actual values, some very slightly used, all in good order. USED UPRIGHT BARGAINS 375 Rjij Before It Was Hoisted Into Place.

Eridge Plaza is about three-fourths done Equally good progress is being made lines fur operation by the New York Municipal Kaihvay Corporation. The Broadway subway in Manhattan more than 90 per cent completed south of Union Square and the sections north of thiH point are in various stages of completion. This subway will bring the trains of the Brooklyn "ompany into through' a new tunnel under the East River from Whitehall street to Montague street, Brooklyn, and over tho Manhattan Bridge. From Whitehall street it runs Fifty-ninth street with a two-track extension through Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth streets and thence by tunnel under the East River to a connection with the new lines in Queens, over which the Brooklyn Company will have trackage rights. The line is now entirely under contract.

New Vtrecht Line in Operation in 1910. It is probable that the New Utrecht avenue elevated line in Brooklyn will l(lH(rt(d in operation (early the coming year, ut least as far as Sixty-second street, where transfers will ho given to and from the Sea Beach line. Is a three-track extension of the Fourth avenue subway, which it leaves at Thirty-eighth street. The Gravesend avenue elevated line, which will run from Thirty-eighth street down Gravesend avenue and Shell road to Coney Island, has been placed under contract. The work was started recently and should be completed by the first part of 1917.

The most important line remaining be placed under contract is the rourieenm street. Eastern rnntn. wick avenue ana New York. of other parts of the Dual System. The Commission has received bids for the most difficult section of this line, niiuiriy, nir me tunnel under tne East River, and work on that should begin very soon.

The only other sections remaining to be awarded are the Forty-second street extension of tho Steinway tun- BROOKLYN'S PIANO ISale at Three Brooklyn Stores: City, and consists of a two-track rail- which runs from Sixth avei ue. Man-road. It was built by the Interborough hattan. under Fourteenth street and interests at a cost of about $8,000,000 under the East River to North Seventh and transferred to the City of New I street, Brooklyn, and thence to Bush- FULTON 1329 4810 Hi York under tne uutu sysiem con- i At Subway Station 31 BROADWAY Near (intes Avenue 12 FIFTH AVENUE t. lHtli and 4 lth Sts.

Ralph Herz Successfully Visualizes Popular Fiction Character. STORY WAS BEST AS A NOVEL. There Is Some Good Acting, However, nd Christmas Eve Audience Applauded Liberally. It may be that many of those who found life an uninteresting and colorless affair between the weekly Installments of Harry Leon Wilson's "Ruggles of Red Gap," will conclude that Harrison Rhodes In his dramatization falls short of the possibilities of the novel. The opening performance, staged by the Shuberts, was given at the Fulton on Christmas Eve.

It was many degrees removed from a dull play the combination of Rugglcs and Ralph Herz would be sufficient to redeem many faults. In common with most attempts of this kind, there was a certain stiffness and artificiality in the stage product, but the audience laughed and applauded to the very end. Lovers of Ruggles, however, may be able to pardon every fault of omtasldn and commission except one. The fun with the wooden horses was left out. As many readers know, Ruggles, a supervalet, Is won at poker by a shrewd American woman from his very British master.

Rugglcs is somewhat Brittanic himself and the play shows his difficulties with Cousin Egbert, for whom he was obtained. The play leads to Montmarte, a pretty Parisian scene, and an attractive song, and finally to Red Gap, where Ruggles, after a brief plunge into society, marries and settles down as the proprietor of a grill. The best act of all was the third, which was an excellent satire upon American social life In any town from Ave thousand to five hundred thousand. Ralph Herz, abandoning for the moment musical comedy, gave a more than successful Impersonation of the suave Ruggles. It would be unfair to say that he saved the play, since in any event its salvation depended upon the role.

Louise Closser Hale was a sufficiently vixenish Mrs. Effie, and It was not her fault if the lines occasionally made the situations overstrained and forced. Frederick Burton was Cousin Egbert, who could be pushed just so far; he would have been recog nized at a glance by any of the followers of the Jessie Ralph played Mrs. Pcttinglll, the mixer. She seemed rather youthful for the part, but handled the lines remarkably well.

James Boyle was the society reporter with the notebook that every stage reporter carries and that every man who earns his living by the typewriter would scorn. The part was absurd as most limelight newspaper parts are and was pathetic to those who know a galley from a linotype. George Hassell had the role of the Honorable George, and did it to the complete satisfaction of those who accept the stage Englishman at his face value. nel in Manhattan; the Nassau street subway In Manhattan, which will connect the Centre street loop with the new tunnel at Whitehall street; the elevated extension of the Eastern Parkway subway from Buffalo avenue to New Lots avenue; a stretch of sub. way In Flatbush avenue, to connect the Fourth avenue subway with the Brighton Beach railroad, and a few fragmentary sections necessary to connect up various links In the Fourth avenue and Eastern Parkway subways.

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It is carrying more than J00 000 passengers per month. This traf- flc will be largely increased when the tunnel, now known as the Queensboro Subway, is extended trom tne Queens terminus to the junction with the new rapid transit lines to Astoria and Corona on the Queensboro Bridge Plaza. This extension is now about 90 per cent, completed and should be placed in operation during the coming year. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company Is making rapid progress with the third tracking of the Second, Third and Ninth Avenue elevated railroads in Manhattan and The Bronx. This work will be completed within a few months when through express service in the rush hours on all these lines will be inaugurated.

In Brooklyn the New York Munici- pal Railway Corporation nas completed the new elevated railroad over the route of the Lutheran Cemetery Line, and also the extension of the Fulton Street Elevated from Liberty i avenue to Lefferts avenue, Queens. I Both lines are now in operation. The new year also will see the opening of the White Plains Road extension in tho Bronx, a three-track elevated railroad running from the present terminus at. 180th street to 241st street, near tho northern City boundry. The Jerome avenue branch of the Lexington avenue subway is also approaching completion.

This line extends from the trunk line of the Lexington avenue subway at 135th street and Park avenue to Woodlawn Road. The Pelham Bay Park branch of the Lexington avenue subway also mnv be completed during the year 1916. The Lexington avenue subway from 53d street north to the Harlem Riverfi under the river iind for some distance beyond is practically completed as far as the structure goes. I'rojfrcssing on Seventh Avenue and Brooklyn Subway. The Seventh avenue subway In Manhattan, which will extend from the first subway ut Times Square down Seventh avenue to the Battery with a two-track branch diverging at Park place and running to Brooklyn, gener ally speaking is more than half done.

The Park place and William street spur, however, is only about one-third completed, and the tunnel under the East River from Old Slip to Clark street, Brooklyn, is only one-fifth done. The line, however, Could he placed in operation before the Brooklyn connection is completed and It is expected that this will be done in 1917 when the Lexington avenue line also will be ready. The four-track extension of the first subway in Brooklyn, through Eastern Parkway with a two-track branch down Xostrnnd avenue Is entirely under contract. This extension will be completed, it is expected, during the year 1917. The new yeur should see the beginning of operation of the two new lines in Queens, namely, the elevated railroads running from the Queensboro Bridge to Astoria and Corona.

The structure on the Astoria line is completed, upon the Corona line nearly completed, and the section at the U'lltt. del full benefit ur Fura hy 1 them at- tn MIW, Kit UK AMMO ML'cun Atu is. mL.jnbijNr. -roi. Main FURS I Ji II I 1 mi VI CTROLA 310 SUITS 14.55 Values up to $37.50 110 COATS 18.00 110 FROCKS 15.00" Values to $30 Blouses Usual; $75 Kallmann $3 95 Fifth Ave.

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