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a ers feet THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. MONDAY. JULY 15. 1907.

3 MISCELLANEOUS. Do You Know About the United Cities Realty Corporations? Listen. These Corporations sell their preferred shares at par and invest the proceeds in the highest grade of income-producing city real estate. The profits derived from rentals are divided among the stockholders in following manner: preferred stockholders and all over first five here cent. is paid to the five per cent.

'is equally divided between the preferred and common stock. The officers receive no salaries, commissions or: other. compensation. Preferred shares, $100 par, may be purchased for cash or on monthly payments. In no other way can small sums be invested monthly with a certainty of such large returns, consistent with absolutely safety.

of- properties owned by these Corporations, with booklet. "'The Earmarks of a Bad will be sent to those who are interested on request. WOOD, HARMON WARRANTY WILLIAM E. HARMON. Pres.

261 Broadway, New York. OBITUARY. Mary A. Grandeman. Mary A.

Grandeman, wife of William Grandeman, died, in her 72d year, last Friday at the country home of the family, Nutley, N. from an apoplectic stroke. She was born in New York city, and had lived nearly all her life in Brooklyn. She a member of the Zion Lutheran Church, Henry street, for fifty years and of the Ladies' Aid Society of that church for twenty-seven years. For thirty years she was a member of the board of managers of the Brooklyn Orphan Society.

On October 7, 1860, she married William Grandeman, a well-known wholesale grocer, of Dey street, Manhattan. He also has been prominent in the Zion Church for nearly half a century, being a deacon and one of its oldest members. Besides her husband Mrs. Grandeman leaves three daughters, Mrs. Stohlmann, Mrs.

Anna Brader and Frederick L. Johanns; one son, Christian and four grandchildren, W. Frederick and Marie Stohlmann and Marion and William Grandeman, Jr. The funeral services, in German and English, were held at 8 o'clock last night at her late home, 307 Carlton avenue, the Rev. Mr.

Doering and the Rev. Mr. Shuhardt officiating in the absence of the Rev. Dr. C.

J. F. Kraeling, pastor of the Zion Church. The interment was in Greenwood at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Frederick Edward Piebes.

Frederick Edward Piebes, who. was well known in: fraternal circles here, and who was a son of the late Charles Piebes, one of New York's well-known hotel men, died on Saturday at his home, 149 St. James place, of cerebro spinal menin- gitis. Not only did Mr. Piebes' death occur on the 13th, but he was born April 13, 1855, and married Bertha Zauner on December: 13, 1904.

The illness that caused death was brought about by a fall in his home six weeks ago. Deceased was for many years in the hat manufacturing business at Broadway and East Nineteenth street, Manhattan. He had a wide acquaintance among men of the hat trade, having traveled over the country for nearly half a century as galesman for B. -Miller Co. He was a Civil War veteran and saw service as a drummer boy in the Seventy-sixth Regiment, New York Volunteers.

Included in the fraternal organizations with which he was amliated are Hiram Lodge, F. and A. and the Royal Arcanum. He belonged also to the Loyal Association the Commercial Travelers. A widow and an adopted son survive.

Masonic services will be held la at the St. James place home this evening. The remains will be Incinerated in Fresh Pond crematory tomorrow. John Daniel Sheehan. John Daniel Sheehan, one of the oldest residents of South Brooklyn, died on Satarday at his home, 132 First place.

He was born in Ireland, May 31, 1852, came here when a boy and had lived in the Tenth Ward for forty years. He was a painter and decorator in business on his own account for many years, and for the past three years had been employed by the city in the same line. He was an old member of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary Star of the Sea. He leaves a wife, Ellen Litchfield; two daughters, Mary and Emily, and five sons, John, William, Francis, Joseph and Edward.

The funeral will be held to-mor- row afternoon. Francis J. Pender. From his late residence at 436 Fourth avenue were to-day buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, the remains of Francis J.

Pender, who died after an illness of six. months, on July 10. Mr. Pender was prominently connected with Baptist Church movements in this city, was a deacon of the Fifteenth Street Baptist Church, and was one of the founders of the new Samaritan Hospital. He was born in Dundee.

Scotland, years ago, came to the United States in 1888. He was a stenographic reporter by calling and did considerable church work for the Eagle in that line during the vacation seasons. A widow, two sons and a daughter survive him. Mrs. Johanna Cleary.

Mrs. Johanna Cleary, mother of James and John Cleary, who are well known untertakers of this borough, died yesterday at her late residence, 61 Degraw street. She was born in Ireland seventyseven years ago and was for many years a resident ef Brooklyn. She was the widow of. Patrick: Cleary.

The funeral will be held at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, when a solemn mass of requiem will be offered in St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, at Hicks and Degraw streets, of which. Mrs. Cleary was for nearly half a century a parishioner. The interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.

OBITUARY NOTES. Henriette Matilda Maria Bohre, the widow of' George J. Filsner, was this morning buried from her late residence, 488 Monroe street, the interment being in Evergreens Cemetery. She was 'born in Germany, July 18, seventy-nine years. ago.

She was for many years a resident of the Bedford section. A son, John A. Fisner, superintendent for Max Ams of Manhattan, and two daughters, Mrs. Hermann Hollmann, the wife of the auditor of the Public Service Commission, and Miss Annie Filsner, survive her. Services, which were held last evening at her late residence, were conducted by the Rev.

William N. Steele, pastor of the Mount 'Olivet Presbyterian Church. James, G. Scott, a son of the late James Scott. well known as one of the earliest resldents of the Heights, died Friday at his home, Snediker and Jamaica avenues, after suffering for ten days from pneumonia.

He was born in Brooklyn in 1851, and is survived by two sisters, one brother, four daughters and one son. Deceased was a member of Court Nightingale, 'of under whose auspices funeral services were held last. night. Interment todav in Cypress Hills. Elner Ellsworth Cisco, well known in Eastern District Republican circles, and a member of the Congress Club, died yesterday at his home.

609 Bedford avenue, after a lingering Illness. He was born in Rockaway, N. Decentber 4, 1861, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John J.

Cisco, and for more than seventeen years had been a resident of Brooklyn. A widow. one laughter and both parents survive. Funeral services will be held to-morrow night at 8:30 o'clock. George Thomas Spillett, a well known restdent of East New York and Jamaica, died yesterday of dropsy, after an illness of many weeks at St.

Mary's Hospital. The funeral will be held from the home of his daughter, Vermont street, thence to the Church of 236 St. Malachy, where' a mass of requiem will be celebrated. His widow. Margaret Burke; two daughters, Mrs.

James Moran and Miss and a son. John Herbert, survive the Mary, deceased. The interment will be made in St. Monica's Cemetery. Funeral services for Thomas E.

Howe, who died on Friday; at the home of his niece, Mrs, R. C. Farrell. at 481.A Quincy street, were New held yesterday afternoon. He was born in York eighty-three years ago, was for more than half a century a resident of Brooklyn and was a member of Engine Company No.

37 of the old Volunteer Fire Department. Later he joined the Fire Patrol. For the last eighteen years he had lived in retirement. He wAs a members of the Tompkins Avenue Congregational. Church.

whose pastor, the Rev. Dr. Polnemus, officiated at the services. Interment was in Josiah C. Dixon, a veteran of, the Civil War and.

long a resident of Brooklyn, died yesterday at his home, 705 Madison street. He was a member of George C. Strong Post. "No. 534.

G. A. Thatford Post. No. 3, G.

A Phil Kearney Circle. 6: Veteran Association of. the 165th Regiment, New York Volunteers; Second Duryee Zouaves and Lincoln Counci No. 16, N. P.

U. Funeral services will be held in the Madison street residence at 8 o'clock evening. The interment will be private. UTILITIES BOARD ASKS BRIDGE RELIEF IDEAS Public Hearing July 23 for Brooklyn People Who Know Conditions. BRIEFS ARE ALSO WELCOMED.

Mr. Piper Writes to Commission Demanding Loop to Connect the Existing Bridges. The big bridge crush in all its different phases will be made the subject of a public hearing by the Public Utilities Commission on July 23 at 2 o'clock. The commission is very anxious to secure enlightenment upon the situation on the bridge and it has come to the conclusion that the best source to secure this information, from members is the of the people civic of Brook- organizations who have made the problem a subject of investigation and study. The commission wants suggestions, practical ones, which may facilitate the operation of the trains, It has supervision over the transportation on the bridge and nothing' more.

The control and maintenance of the big structure is vested in the City Department of Bridges. Whether the intended public hearing will be prolific with the results that the commission anticipates is a matter of speculation. One of the hobbies of the old Rapid Transit Commission was to hold public hearings, secure the attendance of hundreds of citizens, listen for hours to different arguments and then forget all about the subject which was nder discussion until somebody renewed agitation months later. The bridge crush has been the subject of innumerable public hearings in the past, but nothing prac tical ever came of them. The present commission, however, wants suggestions: The individual members believe that the people who cross the structure every day and night are the best students of the situation and probably better qualified to speak than some engineers, because of their dally observations.

The impression prevails that some practical suggestions may be made by the bridge crush students which will not. only prove feasible, but if adopted will mark a great improvement in the transit facilities. There is no doubt that the suggestions which will pour in upon the commission will be almost countless, but there is a doubt whether more than one per cent. of them will prove of any value. Commissioner Edward M.

Bassett made the motion for the public hearing at the meeting of the commission this morning. He was a member of the sub-committee which looked over the situation during the rush hours one evening last week. Mr. Bassett called attention to the fact that the authority over the bridge was divided, between the commission and the city, emphasizing the point that the commission only had jurisdiction over the transportation facilities. And the suggestions which the visitors at the public hearing made are expected to be along this line.

Chairman Willcox made the suggestion that it would probably be a more peditious policy if those who atten 1 the the form of briefs. This will not hearing submitted their a suggestions in save time, but will enable the comm sion to take up the suggestions in a practical and businesslike way. Commissioner McCarroll, a member of the committee on the Fourth avenue subway, reported progress. The hearing on the form of contract for this subway will be on July 30. In a communication Elwin S.

Piper, on behalf of Allied Boards of Trade, urges upon the commission the necessity of immediately taking up the consideration of the elevated loop to connect the bridges in Manhattan. Mr. Piper points out that while the subway loop will increase the transportation facilities, it an elevated loop. Mr. Piper's letter, does not obviate the necessity of building which was referred to the committee of the whole, is as follows: "Dear sir--The Allied Boards of Trade and Taxpayers Association of Brooklyn respectfully request your honorable body Hos take measures to push with greatest possible expedition the Brooklyn and Manhattan subway loop, approved and partially contracted for by the Rapid Transit Commission, and to give very early consideration to the elevated loopIng of the Williamsburg and Brooklyn Bridge.

The absolute necessity of this loop and the great benefit that would accrue to all parts of the borough from its building, Brooklyn agrees upon almost unanimously. "The building of the subway loop will in no way obviate the necessity of the elevated loop, and the elevated loop would not perform the office of the subway loop. We need both loops. They' would each accomplish a distinct and most useful service toward the relief of the congested centers of the two boroughs. beg to be advised of any action to be taken in the matter.

"Yours sincerely, "ELWIN S. PIPER, President." IT GENERALLY HELPS. "There is," she sighed, "no balm for a wounded heart." "Did you ever try making the fellow jealous?" asked her experienced friend.Chicago Record-Herald. Corn Starch as a Food Dr. Harvey W.

Wiley, the Government's famous food expert, says, "For the sustenance of physical exertion there is nothing better than Corn starch is a food for everyone, strong and weak, old and young. It contains an ideal proportion of the requisite nourishing elements. The purest and by far the best is Corn Starch It is much more than dessert; it' occupies a prominent place as a food product and should form a large part of everyday cooking. Learn how to prepare delicious and substantial dishes to suit the tastes of all your family by consulting our Book of Recipes and Cooking Suggestions which we will send free. Also gives scores of helpful hints and suggestions how to make cooking and baking better by the use of Duryeas' Corn Starch.

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Philadelphia is the Capital of Elkdom this week. There never was such a gathering of the faithful, and no town has ever given itself so exclusively to the entertainment of its guests. The decorations are imperial in their splendor, the streets are a flood of light by night and a riot of color by day. There is something doing every minute in which every Elk is interested and i in which every visitor may participate as a pleased spectator. The consolidated band parade of 3,000 musicians bombarding the welkin with synchronous melody is not only the most spectacular, but the most daring achievement in music ever attempted.

This is the feature of Wednesday morning. The grand parade on Thursday morning will be the highwater mark of Elk ensemble. Unique in diversity, unusual in numbers, it will be an uncommon spectacle, to which a splendid, broad avenue decked with color and enriched with examples of modern plastic art will lend a fit setting. Brooklyn will be closer than ever to. Philadelphia this week, because the practically hourly train service will be increased as the traffic demands, and excursion tickets will be sold at $3.35 until July 17th, inclusive.

On Saturday the scene of the carnival will be shifted to Atlantic City, which is only an hour from Philadelphia, or three hours from New York. WILL DISPOSES OF RELICS. Steering Wheel of Frigate Constitution One Curio Possessed by Late Captain Stannard. (Special to the Eagle.) Mineola, L. July 15-Among the bequests made in the will of Captain Elbert Stannard of Port Wasbington, who died on June 23 last at the age of 79, is a carving of the bark Daniel Webster, "a representation of the ship sold by the Japanese government," the will says, "and the first ship converted by them into a man-of-war." This relic is left to a daughter, Harriet M.

Peck, of Pitsburg. The deceased was engaged in the China trade for many years, and not only sold the Daniel Webster to the Japanese government, but also sold a brig, the Josephine, which he commanded in 1862, to the Chinese government. A carved model of the brig is left in the will to a son, Daniel B. Stannard, who is also given the captain's spyglass annd a cane used by the testator's grandfather one hundred and fifty years ago. The will is a long document.

It provides that $500 shall be set aside by the executors for the education of the son, Daniel B. Stannard. All the residue of the real and personal estate, excepting such articles as are bequeathed to heirs, shall be invested and the income paid to the widow for her support and that of the children during the widow's life, or her remarriage, when the estate ie to be divided among the children. The daughter, Harriet M. Peck, ig given a large collection of Japanese curios, which the testator and his wife collected in Japanese ports during their cruising in 1860 and 1861.

The testator says that it is his desire that the collection be kept intact. the Port Society of the City of New is left a miniature' clipper ship del, "a true representation of clipper ships from 1849 to the 60s," the will states. The testator directs that the steering wheel of the frigate Constitution, of which he was possessed, a valuable souvenir of the old ship, be sold at public or private sale, providing a price of not less than $500 can be obtained for it. The estate is valued at $75,000. RABBIS IN CONVENTION.

Women Interest Them in the Health Conditions of the East Side. Fifty rabbis, delegates from all sections of the United States and Canada to the convention of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, met in convention this morning at the Yesibath Reb Yizchak Elchanon, at 156 Henry street, Manhattan. Rabbi B. L. Levanthal of Philadelphia, president of the Union, presided.

The day was spent hearing reports from the delegates. A committee of three women, Mrs. A. Sonnenscheim, Mrs. R.

Spiegelman and Mrs. A. Maass, waited on the convention, and presented the grievances of the Jewish women on the East Side. The women protested against uncleanliness on the part of kosher butchers, and also grocers and fruit dealers, and also against the unclean condition of the streets on the Side. Sonnenscheim, the spokeswoman, said the carelessness of butchers and dealers in groceries and penny liquid refreshments endangered the health of the children and was daily becoming a greater It the sense of the convention that the protest be taken by the Union to the Board of Health, and that circulars be addressed to the dealers complained about.

There will be a mass meeting to -night at 64 Norfolk steet, in a synagogue at that address, when many of the prominent rabbis in the convention will speak. BLUECOAT SHEEHAN PROTESTS No Twins in His Family and Continuous Joke Performance Is Getting Tiresome. Policeman Patrick Sheehan, one of the stalwarts at the New York end of the Brooklyn Bridge, likes a joke as well as anybody, but is no advocate of a continual performance. Two years ago, when his only child, Robert, was born, somebody started the rumor that Patrick was the proud father of triplets. Yesterday, when there was not any birth at all in the Sheehan family, some joker told the reporters that twins, the second in twenty months, had arrived at the Sheehan home, and one of the newspapers printed it this morn as a fact.

"That story is all a joke; there's no twins in this house," said Mrs. Sheehan, when seen at her home, 379 Van Buren street, to-day. "We have only one child, Robert, 2 years old," continued Mrs. Sheehan, calling a bright-faced little chap to the door, as proof of what she said. This sort of things get to be an old story after a time, and interferes much with one's work.

I've done little else to-day but receive reporters and photographers." When some of the older members of the force read in the morning papers that Sheehan was the father of two pairs of twins in twenty-two months, they believed the story. One of them said he expected Sheehan to outrival one of his old friends-Smythe by name-who back in '89 was the father of twins the Arst year, again the second year and triplets the third. Smythe was then attached to the old Seventh Precinct, and when the triplets were born was granted five days' leave of absence by Commissioner Bell. HELD FOR VAGRANCY. Henry- Leonard, aged 22 years, who is said by the police to be a pickpocket, at Luna Park suspicious person, and was arrested last, night at the car stand this morning he was held for vagrancy, pending a hearing, by Magistrate Dooley.

The arrest was made by Detectives Reynolds, Dittman. and McDonough. STRIKE TALK PREVALENT; TELEGRAPHERS UNEASY Situation Bad In San Francisco and Manhattan. NEILL IN WESTERN CITY. But Little Is Expected From His Interference-Orders Out for Meeting This Afternoon.

San Francisco, July 15-Unless a settlement of the commercial telegraphers strike is effected to-morrow a general strike may be declared. The request for a settlement will be in the nature of a demand, for the men feel that they have the approval of President Small, as well as the individual indorsement of the membership of the Commercial Telegraphers Union throughout the country. The statement is made that if the tional executive board should attempt to force a settlement displeasing to the strikers, President Small will call out the Chicago employes as the first move in the extension of the strike zone. Labor Commissioner Neill is not, it is said, expected to be able to accomplish much, as he announced he had come to look over the situation for himself and had no definite ultimatum from President Clowry of the Western Union to submit. President Small and the executive officers held a long conference last night, but would not divulge the nature of their discussion.

Commissioner Neill made no visits yesterday, but said he thought a settlement was yet possible with concessions on both sides. Small said the time for talking, had ended and would not discuss the situation other than to say that hope for peace had not been abandoned. Local Situation Critical. President Joseph F. Ahearn of Local No.

16, Commercial Telegraphers Union of America, received a cipher dispatch this noon from Wesley Russell, secretarytreasurer of national organization of Chicago, in which Russell says: "Call a meeting of the executive board and your chaplains for this afternoon and be prepared for any emergency that may come up. Will wire you later in the day." The chaplains mentioned in Mr. Russell's dispatch are the men whose duties are to notify the operators when a strike is ordered. There are thirty-nine chaplains in the main office the Western Union, and if the meeting of the executive board and the chaplains this afternoon results in the calling of a strike these men will notify all the union members employed in that company. President Ahearn said that it looked as 1f the Western Union and its telegways, but he was using every effort in his raphers had reached A the parting of the power to prevent a strike in New a York, knowing the panic it would create among business men and the public in general.

The board of strategy, whose membership is secret, has been meeting all morning, but nothing regarding its doings has been made public. TELEGRAPH CASE GOES OVER. Alleged Competing Companies Said, by Attorney General, to Be in a Monopoly. Following the order made by Justice Platzek, a week ago, in the Supreme Court, Manhattan, appointing R. Burnham Moffat referee to hear testimony in the two suits brought by Attorney General Jackson against the Western Union and Postal telegraph companies to restrain them from putting into operation the proposed schedule of new rates, the two corporations obtained from Justice Platzek an order directing the Attorney General to show cause why a temporary injunction to restrain the taking of testimony before Referee Moffat should not be continued, pending the determination of the court.

This order was returnable to-day and the legal representatives for both companies asked for an adjournment of the matter for two weeks on the ground that the questions to be considered were of very great importance and that they had not been able to prepare their arguments or look up the authorities bearing on them. They said the Attorney General declared the action of the two companies constituted a monopoly, but they denied this, alleging that the transmission of telegrams was a manual act, and could not constitute a monopoly under the provisions of the anti-trust law. Deputy Attorney General Firestone, on behalf of Mr. Jackson, opposed adjournment, saying he was ready to go on at once, and desired to hasten a decision in these actions. Justice Platzek finally adjourned the matter for two weeks.

SHORT TIME OUT OF PRISON. Anderson Likely to Go Back if Latest Charges Are Proven. Frank Anderson, 23 years old, who Is supposed to be living in Railroad avenue, Jersey City, and who, according to the police, has distinguished himself as a nished-room thief, was arrested Saturday night by Detectives McGauley and McCarthy of the Hamilton avenue station. Only two years ago Anderson was arrested by detectives, in company with one Olaf Johnson, both being charged with cleaning out houses where they had engaged furnished rooms. They had secured a room in the home of Mrs.

Olsen at 16 Second place, and after remaining there only one night, disappeared with jewelry valued at $500 and a quantity of clothing. Saturday night Detectives McGauley and McCarthy saw Anderson standing at Hamilton avenue and Richards streets. When they approached him he started to run. The officers started in pursuit. In a lot at Sebring and Commerce streets, about four blocks away, they caught Anderson, who was hiding under a truck.

When Anderson was arraigned in the Butler street police court, this morning, Sergeant Williams, connected with the Prison Association of New York, was present with his record and also a warrant for him because he had broken his parole. Mrs. Charles Olsen of 84 Woodhull street was also in court and said that Anderson was the man to whom she had let a furnished room when she lived at 73 Hamilton avenue. That was since he was released on parole. She positively identified Anderson as the man who had occupied the room and who left very suddenly, taking with him a suit of clothes, the vest of which was produced in court.

Jennie Knutson and her sister Wana of 173 President street were also in court this morning. Each made an affidavit against Anderson, who, they said, had taken advantage of having a furnished room. in their house to ransack it day while they were absent and steal a gold and silver bracelet, a watch and a diamond ring. This theft was committed only a short time ago. Anderson was held till next Wednesday for examination.

MISCELLANEOUS, MISCELLANEOUS. VICHY CELESTINS STANDARD ALKALINE NATURAL nom de la Source est sur la Caprule WATER THERMAL A VICHY Standard Delightful LETAT PROPRIETE DE LETAT SOURCES Cure Table I RUT cache for Water Dyspepsia with Stomach Highly Troubles Medicinal and Qualities Gout IOWA'S CREW FOR VERMONT. New Battleship Gets Men of One That Will Be Held as Reserve by Government, Washington, July 15-Under orders issued from the Navy Department, almost the entire enlisted force of the battleship Iowa, at the Norfolk Navy York, was today transferred to the battleship Vermont at the Boston Navy Yard. The Iowa is placed in reserve and her crew is needed to man the Vermont, which has been put in commission for the first time. About sixty special service men, hospital apprentices and the like have been transferred from the Norfolk Navy Yard to the Pacific coast, where they will be distributed among the vessels on that station.

ARRESTS IN BRASE CASE. Two Russians of Woodhaven Taken Into Custody Charged With Withholding Information Police Need. Joseph Diehl and Adam Dombroski, two Russian laborers living in Woodbaven, have been arrested by Detectives Ringe and Edelman of Eighty-third precinct, Queens, on a charge of holding back information that the detectives believe would lead to important arrests in connection with the murder of Christopher Brase, the South Jamaica farmer, at Richmond Hill a few weeks ago. The men will be arraigned in the Far Rockaway magistrate's court when District Attorney Darrin will be I present to conduct the examination for the people. The detectives allege that the Russians whom they have taken into custody are known to be personally acquainted with men who were in the vicinity of the place where the murder occurred on the night the crime was committed.

The hat found near the scene of the crime belonged to a man whom both prisoners know, the detectives allege. HIGHWAYMEN CAUGHT. Man Robbed Has Not Yet Been Found by Police. A small boy rushed into the Bedford avenue station late last night and told the lieutenant in charge that a number of Lien had held up and beaten a man at Havemeyer and North Seventh streets, and that after robbing him of his valuables had disappeared in the vacant lots. Policemen and Goodale of that station out to in estiAlmwick, gate and after searching the lots found Patrick Latarce, 21 years old, of 321 Skillman avenue; Tony Farraro, 19 years old, of 345 Havemeyer street; Frank Miller, 21 years old, of 19 Skillman avenue; Tony DeFeleo, 17 years old, of 15 Skillman avenue, and Tony Le Torre, 21 years old, of 24 Havemeyer street.

The prisoners were taken to the Bedford avenue station, where they began to accuse each other of having possession of different articles of value taken from the unknown man. A search of the prisoners brought to light a pocketbook, a watch and a pin which the prisone-3 mitted they had taken. Who the man robbed is is not known, but it is expected he will come forward when it is known that the footpads are under arrest. The five men were arraigned before Magistrate Steers in the Lee avenue court and held without bail for further hearing. BEAT A LITTLE BOY.

Man's Victim May Not Recover and His Assailant Is Held Under Bail. Morris Stark, 34 years old, of 72 Debevoise street was held by Magistrate Reilly in the Manhattan avenue court this morning in $500 bail pending the result of injuries which Stark inflicted on a small boy yesterday afternoon. The complaint was made by Julius Glusaft of 62 Graham avenue, father of Isidore, 13 years old. He said his son was playing on Debevolse street with other boys when Stark came along and attempted to interfere with the game the boys were playing. They didn't mind him much at first, but he kept it up, and then young Glusaft became more angry his companions than' and called Stark names.

This made the man mad and he grabbed the boy and, the father claims, punched and kicked him. The other boys did not interfere with the proceedings, and the lad was taken home after Stark went away, and Dr. Spingarn of 623 Willoughby avenue, was called in to attend Isidore. He said the injured boy was in a very bad condition. He filed a certificate in court this morning showing that Isidore not only had concussion of the brain but was suffering from internal injuries caused by the 80- vere beating administered by Stark.

The doctor declared that the boy was in A critical condition and it was doubtful it he would recover. HAVE SPEEDOMETERS NOW. Captain Rooney's Bicycle Officers Will Know How Fast Autos Go. Captain Owen Rooney, of the Gates Avenue Station, has succeeded in having speedometers attached to the wheels of the six bicycle policeman attached his precinct. Recently some of the magistrates raised the question of certain officers being able to exactly determine the rate of speed of motor vehicle and suggested that speedometers would remove all doubt.

When Captain Rooney heard this he got busy at once and made out a requisition for the registers of speed, which First Deputy Commissioner 0'Keeffe very promptly indorsed. MR. LEISERING WANTED. Lieutenant Walden, of the headquarters police, is searching for some trace A8 to the whereabouts of Aaron LeiserIng, who lived until about two months ago as a boarder in the home of Mrs. Harry Eason, at 117 Flatbush avenue.

Elton B. Spencer, of Eaton Rapids, wrote the police for information about Leisering, who is wanted to clear up an estate, by which the missing man will benefit a great deal financially. WILL CLEAN OUT BUREAU. But the Process of Elimination of Men at the Switchboard Will Be Gradual. LEFT $150,000 ESTATE.

$5,000 Given to Port Washington Church by Will of Allen H. to Library. (Special to the Eagle.) Mineola, July 15-The will of Allen H. Baxter, a prominent merchant of Port Washington, who died on June 25 last, has been filed for probate in the Nassau County surrogate's court. The estate is estimated to be worth $150,000.

Among the bequests are $5,000 to St. Stephen's Church, at Port Washington, and $500 to the Port Washington free library. The beneficiaries are: John Bird, Walter Munson, $500; William Van Cott, George Van Cott, Allen P. Baxter, $500 each; Mary D. Baxter, Wallace Baxter, Mary Harris, Isaac A.

Willets, Florence Most $2,000. Allen P. Baxter is also given a lot on the Isaac Covert property, and the interest of the deceased in the Baxter homestead farm at Port Washington is divided as follows: Wallace Baxter, twofifths, and Isaac A. Willets, Mary Harris and Florence Mosford, one-fifth each. To Helen Collins and Harry Collins, $2,000 each is left in trust during the life of their father.

and upon latter's death the money is to go to the beneficiaries outright. The residue of the estate is left to the widow, Mary E. Baxter. The executors are Henry M. W.

Eastman of Roslyn, Thomas Mott. and Charles N. Wysong of Port Washington. STOLE TRADING STAMPS. Thieves Broke Into Grocery Store.

They Missed $75 in Cash. Thieves broke into the grocery store of James Sampson, at 176 Smith street, some time yesterday, presumably during the late afternoon, and stole 25,000 trading stamps. Mr. Sampson found out about it at an early hour this morning, when, on opening the shop, he discovered that a trapdoor from the cellar had been shoved open. He had secured this door, as he thought, when he closed on Saturday night, by bracing a board in an upright position between the trap and a shelf, but the burglars had cut a hole in the floor nearby and had, by means of an iron bar, which they abandoned, shoved the brace out of the way.

They missed about $75 in cash which Mr. Sampson had left in the place during Sunday. Neighbors say that they saw a stranger on the roof of the house at about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and they think that this fellow was a lookout. He was asked what he was doing there. and said that he was looking for some pigeons in flight.

Detective Lieutenant Mooney of the headquarters squad, who was detailed to make an investigation, found Timothy O'Shea, aged 17 years, of 19 Bergen street, trying to sell "The Coupon King" who has a shop for bartering stamps and tobacco coupons for cash, a number of the stamps this morning. O'Shea said that a boy had given him the stamps to dispose of. They have not as yet ben identified as stamps stolen from Mr. Sampson's place, but O'Shea is held as a vagrant. FREE FIGHT IN CEMETERY.

One Hebrew Is Laid Up With a Badly Bitten Hand and Two Men Are in Jail. Washington Cemetery is used exclusively by Hebrews. Hebrews and Austrian Hebrews many inRussian, stances, buried side by side, but the ceremonies attending interment and mourning differe considerably. Each Sunday the cemetery is filled with mourners, among whom are those who make a business of mourning. Yesterday afternoon at about 4 o'clock, Louis Stack, a Russian Hebrew living at 16 Dean street, was with a number of friends in the cemetery.

A short distance away was a party of Austrian Hebrews mourning' their dead after their own fashion. The two sects became engaged in a dispute over some flowers that lay on the grass, and soon there occured a near -riot. The combatants neglected to mourn, and there was a fight, in which pugilistic rules were ignored. Lieutenant Dwyer of the Parkville precinct station received a message that there was trouble in Washington Cemetery. He sent Mounted Patrolman Egan to the scene.

The fight was over with when Egan got there, but he found an unconscious man who was being attended by Ambulance Surgeon Smallman of the Kings County Hospital. The injured man wasStack, who, when he was revived, pointed to two men who, he declared, had been responsible for his injuries. Patrolman Egan arrested them on a charge of felonious assault. To Lieutenant Dwyer they described themselves as Louis Joseph, 28 years old, of 126 St. Mark's avenue, and Charles Wallach, 35 years old, of 31 Liberty avenue.

Stack was removed to his home, and it was stated this morning that his condition is serious. thumb had been nearly bitten off and from this injury, it was said, blood poisoning may set in. Stack also received a black eye and a badly scratched face. He was unable to appear to-day in the Fatbush court and the case was adjourned. BOY UNABLE TO APPEAR.

Louis Johnson Still in St. -An Adjournment. When the case of Patrolman Joseph Mulvey, who is under arrest for the shooting of 16-year-old Louis Johnson of 2088 Atlantic avenue, was called this morning in the New Jersey avenue court the boy unable to appear. His attorney explained that he is still in St. Mary's Hospital, but would probably be able to appear on August 5.

Magistrate Hylan conferred with Assistant District Attorney Smith, and granted an adjournment until that date. The sword did not fall on the necks of the operators at local police headquarters this morning, although Deputy Commissioner O'Keeffe had announced that all of the men would g0 out, with the exception of the, three lieutenants, Julius Zeidler. James Campbell and William Miller, this morning. The decapitating instrument hangs by a thread though, and Deputy Commissioner O'Keeffe announced this morning that all of the patrolmen at present assigned to the switchboard at headquarters here would go in time. It ts not to be a sudden cleaning out of the office, but the men will go gradually, and others will take their places.

The authorities recognize the fact that the removal of the entire force at one time would cripple the department seriously. But none of the oid force will be retained. Superintendent Brennan, of the Bureau of Electrical Service, visited Deputy Commissioner O'Keeffe's office this morning and received from him a list of the men who are to be recommended for the jobs. Mr. O'Keeffe said later that he had chosen as far as possible, men who were familiar with electrical work; declared that there was nothing political in the movement to have a new force in the telegraph room, and that political influence would have nothing to do with the selections.

Six of the men chosen for the office are professional electricians, and cne was formerly a line superintendent for the telephone company. "The object is to have men who will be polite to strangers, and if there is any impoliteness hereafter there will be more It is only fair to say that the majority of the inen in the old service are polite and efficient, but the inefficiency and impoliteness of some of them was in a measure the cause of the wholesale cleaning out. The first batch of the old men who are to go will give way to some of the new men this afternoon. FIRE MARSHAL'S INQUIRY. Will Look Into the Origin of a Blaze on Hoyt Street.

Following a fire which occurred in the apartments of Mary Thompson, on the third floor of the three story brick building at 265 Hoyt street, shortly after 10 1 o'clock last night, her husband, Edward Thompson, 55 years old, was arrested by Patrolman Dungate, charged with picion of a arson. According to the police, Thompson had said to some one that he intended to set fire to the building, but for what reason they have been unable to learn. It is not known how the fire started, but before it was extinguished the building was damaged to the extent of $200 and the damage to Mrs. Thompson's furniture amounts to the same sum the fire marshal will investigate the case. Thompson was arraigned in the Butler street police court this morning on a technical charge of vagrancy and was held until next Wednesday for examination.

THE REALTY MARKET; 0000000 AUCTION SALES TO-DAY. By Joseph E. Wainwright, at Real Estate Exchange. Glenmore avenue, north side, 75 feet east of Thatford avenue. 50x100 feet.

Sheriff's sale of all right, title, which Edward Leber had on May 22, 1907, or since; Michael J. Flaherty, sheriff. Ad- journed to July 29. AUCTION SALES TO-MORROW. By Joseph E.

Wainwright, at Real Estate Exchange. West Thirty-second street, west side. intersects bulkhead line of Atlantic Ocean, runs north 135 feet to Sea place west 81.1 south 135 east Ethel L. Best against Annie M. Asher, et Edwin Kempton, attorney, 175 Remsen street.

By Referee, at Real Estate Exchange. Johnson avenue, No. 233, leasehold, Kips Bay Brewing and Malting Company against Gaspare Coletti, et. Paskus Cohen, attorneys, 2 Rector street, Manhattan; William W. Wingate, referee.

By William H. Smith, at Real Estate Exchange. Rochester avenue, west side, 100 feet south East New York avenue, 87.11x99x 11x50x99.1. Charles Brown against James Brown, et Charles Foley, attorney, 186 Remsen street: J. Grattan MacMahon, referee.

(Partition.) Sixth avenue, 53, southeast Fitteenth street. 18x75: three frame corner, store and dwelling property. Twentieth street, north side, 205 feet east of Sixth avenue: 20x100. AT RICHMOND HILL SOUTH. The B.

N. Dawley Real Estate Company reports the following sales at Richmond Hill South: To Robert Hyde, east side of Briggs avenue, 280 feet north of Sutter avenue, 40x100; to H. J. Allard, east side of Briggs avenue, 320 feet north of Sutter avenue, 40x100; to Sands Uhers, west side of Hamilton avenue, 180 feet south of Liberty avenue, 80x100; to R. L.

Petterson, west side of Hamilton avenue, 460 feet south of Liberty avenue, 40x100; to M. Libien and W. J. Crane, east side of Walnut street, 220 feet north of Sutter avenue, 80x100; to Harry Mull, west side of Lefferts avenue, 180 feet south of Metropolis avenue, 40x100; to M. Lagget, west side of Lefferts avenue, 40 feet south of Metropolis avenue, 40x100; to B.

Leods, west side of Lefferts avenue, 180 feet south of Metropolis avenue, 40x100; to A. Carr, southwest corner of Lefferts and Metropolis avenues, 40x100; to M. Black, southwest corner of Metropolis avenue and Walnut street, 40x100: to A. Johnson, north side of Metropolis avenue, 40 feet from Cedar street. 40x100; to F.

Bowsoutheast corner of Metropolis avenue and Church street, 40x100; to M. Vance, southeast corner of Walnut street and Metropolis avenue, 40x100; to J. Lenger, east side of Church street, 120 north of Sutter avenue, 80x100; to Mary Wels, cast side of Lefferts avenue, go feet south of Metropolis ayenue, 40x 400..