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de de THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. THURSDAY. MARCH 17. 1910.

QUEENS BOROUGH. HAS RECEIVED INVESTIGATORS' REPORT Queens President Has All Data I Involving Borough's Sewer Department. HE IS NOT YET READY TO ACT. Impression Gains Ground That Men Concerned Will Get Only Reprimand and Orders to Be Good. Borough President Gresser yesterday received a bulky package from the investigators who have been delving into the records of the sewer, department in Queens.

When he- asked what the package was, he replied that it was the, evidence "that had been taken by the investigators. "That is all the testimony that has been taken," said President Gresser to the reporters. "I have requested that the full proceedings be a given me. 1 propose to take it home with me and over carefully what has been found. will read, then decide what action I am going to take.

I will stand by my original statement when this work was undertaken, that will not let anyone remain in the department whom this investigaLion shows should be removed." The impression has gained wide belief in the borough hall that there is not very much going to come from the investigation. end that those who have been lax will be given a reprimand and told not to do so again, Here is a statement that was made by one who claimed to be well informed as 10 all that has taken place behind the closed doors of the investigators: investigation has not shown that anyone took any money. It would be very hard to show that. But carelessness of the grossest kind has been shown. It has been shown that in the same trench water pipes, gas pipes and sewers have been allowed to be put in.

Now, whether anyone has not been found out. a very sig-! profited financially by this, carelessness nificant circumstance is that conscience money has been paid in since the investigation has commenced. Another interesting fact is that there have been many times more repair permits issued than permits for new work. "Now. the question for President Gresser to decide is, whether this carelessness which has been shown is sufficient to warrant dismissal from service." One of visitors to the borough hall yesterday was Joseph Nelson.

former chief clerk in the sewer department, who is under suspension. He had a half hour talk with President Gresser. When he came out he declared that he had nothing to say, but that he expected to be able to return to his work in about a week. He is just recovering from an attack of typhoid fever. It was said that Mr.

Nelson came to the borough hall to demand that he be either tried on charges or returned to his work. It is said that he insisted that the borough authorities bad no right to keep him suspended in air, and that he did not propose longer to let them do so. MINSTRELS AT FORT TOTTEN. Soldiers to Do Black Face Stunts at Post Gymnasium on Friday Evening. The Fort Totten Minstrel and Vaudeville Company present, the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association, its first minstrel show in the post gymnasium on Friday evening.

The members of the company, which has been lately organized by Secretary Charles R. Dean of the association, have been managed and rehearsed by John Small, formerly with Ward's minstrels. Sergeant Major Marcus M. Cooper will be their interlocutor; the end men will be John Small, Joseph Langford, John A. Neil and Clinton Jewell.

The members of the chorus will be William C. Brenniser, William H. Helder, Robert W. Voelkel, George Moxham, John Keller and Frederick Gerber. Following a programme consisting of songs and recitations by the mistrels there will be a comedy concert by the following members of the post: John Small, Anthony Sanuy, Robley Walters, Frank Dale, William Dreyer, John Lewis, Frank Goodwin and Joseph Vadell.

Later the company expects to give this entertainment with some changes before audiences in Whitestone, College Point, Flushing and neighboring villages. WANTED, A LEADER. Queens Democratic Reorganizers in Search of a Moses- -Flushing Man Suggested. The Democrats in Queens County, who are working with the object of reorganizing the party, are again looking for a leader, and former Municipal Court Justice William Rasquin. of Flushing, yesterday suggested that James A.

Macdonald of Jamaica avenue, Flushing, would prove to be the man of the hour, if he could be induced to assume the responsibility. This is about the fifth time in the past ten years that (r. Macdonald has been mentioned for the leadership of the Dem. ocratic party in Queens, but heretofore he has refused to consider it, and it is not believed that he has row changed his mind. TO SING "THE REDEMPTION." Gounod's Sacred Oratorio to Be Produced at Jamaica.

Gounod's "Redepmtion." an oratorio of religious significance, will be rendered on Thursday April 21, at the Dutch Reformed Church, Jamaica, by six soloists, an orchestra of twenty-five instrumente and piano and organ. The soloists are: Sopranos, the Misses Lillian Funk and Elizabeth Zimmer; contralto, Nra. John Roberts; John Nichols: baritone, R. Norman Jolliffe; bass. Albert Walsh.

H. D. Bastow will direct the oratorio. The net proceeds will go to the treasury of the King's Daughters. The musicians of the church are working vigorously for success of the evening.

Already there has been a big demand for tickets for the concert, and its success is declared to be assured. THREE DAYS FAIR BEGINS. The three days fair of the Mary and Martha Society of the Union Congregational Church of Richmond Hill begins to-night, with Its takeology museum and other attractions calculated to amuse, interest and induce liberality. DANCE AT RICHMOND HILL. The woman's auxiliary of the Algonquin Democratic Club will hold a mask dance at club house, Jamaica avenue Sherman street, Richmond Hill, tothe, night.

It. is expected that at least 400 will be present. The committee in charge consists of Mre. F. C.

Klingenbeck, Mrs. G. F. Distler, Mrs. W.

F. Canning, Mrs. F. J. Herbert, Mrs.

H. L. Starr, Mrs. UH. H.

Derancy, Mrs. J. HI. Elson and Mrs. J.

T. Stillwagon. WOMEN OF TENEMENTS PRAISED BY MRS. CATT More Worthy of the Ballot Than Those of Wealth, She Tells Flushing Audience. 'INTELLIGENT' VOTERS SCORED Wealth and Aristocracy of Flushing Present to Hear Mrs.

Catt and Marx Eastman, Before an audience composed of resentatives of the wealth and aristocracy of Flushing, last night, at the Good Citizenship League, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, chairman of the Woman's Suffrage Party, declared that if she were going to be limited to giving the right of franchise to only one class of women she would select the women of the tenement ho houses and not the women of wealth. She declared the country never suffered from the so-called ignorant voters, and that it is among the "intelligent" voters that are found the men who organize political machines and corrupt the ballot boxes, She also said that if the women from the tenement houses had a vote in New York City there would not be the cry every autumu that there was lack of school dations for the taxpayers' children. The meeting was under the auspices of the Equal Franchise Association of Flushing, and its president, Miss Ecob, presided. Besides Mrs.

Catt, the Flushing audience listened to an interesting address from Marx Eastman, an assistant professor of economics at Columbia University, who is secretary of the Men's League of Women's Suffrage. On the platform besides the two speakers of the evening and Miss Ecob were Miss Eliza Macdonald, president of the Good Citizenship League of Flushing; Police Magistrate Joseph Fitch, the Rev. J. H. Ecob, Daniel C.

Beard, the author; E. Platt Stratton and Norman Nelson. Mrs. Catt spoke interestingly for nearly forty minutes. She reviewed the manner and ways by which men obtained the right of franchise and of the generosity of the government in offering the same franchise.

to the sons of Chinamen, the negroes and the Indians. She said that in San Francisco she witnessed these. sons of Chinamen voting at the polls against an amendment to the state constitution giving women the right of franchise. Referring to the women who do not the right of franchise, the speaker said, that it was not strange that they should take such a stand, and then asked if it is not a matter of history that the Russian woman who was the first to culate a petition to the New York State lawmakers asking that women be given the right of owning real property, in their own name, did discover that only eleven women in the state would sign her petition, while the others declared that they could not afford to say that they did not have confidence in their husbands. The speaker then asked, Where is the woman to-day who does not want to have the real estate that she may own in her own name.

She then referred to the argument against suffrage, that it may result in doubling the ignorant vote. It was at this point that she declared that she is democratic enough. to say that if she were limited to only one class of women she would give the vote to the women housed in the tenement houses and not to those of wealth. She said that only one class of men or women ought to be disfranchised, and those are they who would accept money or other similar considerations for their votes. Professor Eastman emphasized the fact that he is not an authority on matrimony.

His youthful appearance and his ability as a champion, of suffrage for women made him the hero of the evening. He said that the great trouble that women have had in attempting to convert politicians to the belief that women should have the right of franchise is that just as soon as they are approached by a woman. armed with logical arguments. they take all the wind out of their sails by declaring that they believe in suffrage for the women. He stated that women will not benefit politics, but politics will benefit women.

The ballot, he said, will arouse and educate the woman and that it is of the utmost importance not only to have the ballot for those who seek it now, but to arouse those who do not seek it. One of the questions asked of Protessor Eastman was whether woma. would be willing to do jury duty, were she to have the right of franchise. He answered that many women would only be too glad of the opportunity to sit down in a comfortable jury box for at least one hour's rest. FOR THE ASSESSMENT PLAN Jamaica Citizens Ass'n Goes Squarely on Record.

Only Way Subway Can Be Secured, Resolution -L. I. R. Fare Rates Declared Excessive. The construction of the proposed subway along Jamaica avenue by the assessment plan was unanimously approved last night at the meeting of the Jamaica Citizens Association, held in the Queens Borough Real Estate Exchange.

The resolution approving this plan was offered by Herbert A. O'Brien, president of the association, in accordance with the sug: gestion of Lieutenant Governor Woodruft of the Fourth Ward Transit Committee. John Adikes was the principal exponent of the assessment plan, and dwelt upon the increase in the value of the property through the building of the subway, the saving of money in fares, the saving of time, the ease with which the assessments can be paid and the practical impossibility of securing the subway by any other means then through the assesssment plan. One member present spoke strongly in favor of the construction of a subway with four tracks for express trains. He said that so long as the property owners had to pay for the construetion.

they could stand a little more expense and obtain the additional value of the express service. The "unwarrantable, unreasonable and unfair" charge on the express cars between Jamaica and Brooklyn was severely criticized by the association, as was aiso the proposed charge of 30 cents between Jamaica and the Pennsylvania Railroad terminal. Mr. O' Brien, after calling Vice President Burtis to the chair, protested against the double charge between Jamaica and Flatbush avenue on the alleged expresses, which, he asserted, were not expresses at all, but only locals, AS they made stops from East New York to Flatbush avenue. He asserted also that the fare between Jamaica and Long Island City should be no more than that between Jamaica and Brooklyn.

The association passed a resolution placing the matter of lower Cares in the hands of the Public Service Commission. A letter was read from the Public Service Commission which the commission declared that it was giving the matter of increased trolley service between Cypress Hills and Jamaica its earnest attention. The association placed itself on record as favoring an agricultural college on Long Island, and urged Senator Dennis Harte to support such a project. Mayor Gaynor and Borough President Gresser were urged by the association to remedy conditions around Church street. Jamaica, where the garbage crematory has been placed, HOPEFUL OF PASSAGE OF AMENDED WATER BILL Rockaway Park Taxpayers Association Will Work to Accomplish It.

BELIEVES IT CAN BE DONE. Time Is Short, However--Much Aggressive Effort Required -Lower Gas Rates Also Sought. Much enthusiasm was manifested at the meeting of the Rockaway Park Taxpayers Association, held on Tuesday night in the Leypoldt Building, in Fifth avenue, that place, the report of the delegates who attended the hearing on the water bill before the Assembly committee in Albany last week. The report indicated the ultimate success of the bill to place all private water companies operating in the state under the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission, The report was similar to that made at the meeting of the Rockaway Beach Taxpayers Association last Monday night, and which was published in the Eagle on Tuesday. The delegate, Louis Hess, reported that he had appeared before the committee in favor of the bill, but that he had discovered it to be defective, inasmuch as the wording of the bill did not fully convey the idea 'of th.

people who caused its presentation in the Legislature, and that if it was passed in its present form it would not give the desired result to consumers, who must pay the private water companies exorbitant rates. He therefore had a conference with the author of the bill, which resulted in the committee allowing it 1 to be withdrawn from the committee for the purpose of making such amendments as deemed advisable and proper to give the results desired. Mr. Hess further reported that he and the representatives of the other civic associations of the Rockaways had met Senator Harte and Assemblymen Wendy and Wyland, and that it was agreed to draw up a bill which compelled all private water companies in Greater New York to furnish consumers with water at the same rates as the City of New York is now charging, which varies from 10 to 13 cents per 1,000 gallons. The question of engaging an attorney to represent all the civic associations in the Rockaways in matters of legislation was discussed, and it was voted to ask all such associations to call a special meeting for the purpose of discussing such a movement.

As the Legislature will adjourn about April 15, it will be necessary that action on this be taken at once. A legal representative is needed to appear in Albany before the various committees at hearings, and, as the fight on the Queens County Water Company for lower water rates and on the Queens Borough Gas and Electric Company for a reduction in the charges for gas and electricity will mean several trips to the capital, the proposition will undoubtedly be met with approval by each of the civic associations, who will share the expense. While in Albany the Rockaway delegates also approached several assemblymen and senators relative to the presentation of a bill which shall fix the rates charged for gas in all of Queens Borough at 80 cents per thousand, and it is expected that with proper handling such a measure can be passed and become law. A special committee was appointed to have charge of all legislative matters. Louis Hess, John Maerz and Charles D.

Kells being named. The proposition to have the Rockaway Park Improvement Company transfer all its rights to the streets and beach to the Rockaway Park Taxpayers Association has. not yet been fully settled, and the committee having this matter in hand reported that it wanted another conference with the company before it was ready to report. The company developed the section, and. with the advent of Greater New York.

did not turn over its streets to the city. Having now disposed of all its property at Rockaway Park, with the exception of the Park Inn and the bathing pavilion attached, the company began proceedings to turn its streets over to the city. This was met by the taxpayers association with a proposition to take the streets over and to exercise the same rights and jurisdiction therein as did the company. LONG ISLAND OBITUARY. William Nesbitt.

nent citizen. Melancthon B. King. (Special to the Eagle.) Riverhead, L. March 17-The funeral of William Nesbitt, of this place, who died this week, will be conducted to row afternoon, by the Rev.

William I. Chalmers, from the home of Wallace Nesbitt, a son. Mr. Nesbitt was born and had always lived here. He was 70 years old, and is survived by twelve chilren.

In his younger days he was considered one of the smartest menhaden fishermen in the business. and he made large sums of money every week, but he spent it as rapidly as he made it, and died very poor. It was his boast, and a true one, that some weeks he made as much a3 $1,000. Liquor was Nesbitt's worst enemy. Although he has been a local character for years.

known to every one in town, he was not considered a promi- (Special to the Eagle.) Port Jefferson, L. March 17-Funeral services for Melancthon B. King, who died suddenly at his home in Thompson street on Tuesday afternoon, will be held at 2 P. to-morrow at the house. The Rev.

Arthur M. Elliot of the Presbyterian church will officiate. Mr. King was born in Northport in October. 1834, and came to Port Jefferson when 17 years of age.

He learned the ship carpenters trade and for forty years was a foreman in the yards of James E. Bayles Son. Some years ago be retired on account of failing health. The only surviving relative is a niece. Mrs.

Emily Jayne of Setauket. Mr. King's wife, who was Marietta Ketcham of Smithtown, died in October, 1907. Charles Haffner. Firemen's Association of the Fifth Ward.

Sarah Peck, Charles Haffner, a well-known resident of Far Rockaway, died at his home in Broadway, that place, on Monday night from a complication of diseases, from which he had suffered for three years. He was 43 years of age, and leaves a widow and daughter. For the last twenty-two years he had been proprietor of the Neptune Park Hotel, and was chief of the old volunteer fire department for three years, being a member of Mohawk Hose Company. Funeral services were held at 10 o'clock this morning in St. Mary Star of the Sea Church, the Rev.

Father Farrell celebrating a mass of requiem. Interment was made in Lawrence Cemetery, Mr. Haffner was a member of the Exempt Mrs. Sarah E. Peck, widow of James C.

Peck, died yesterd at her home at 146 Locust street, Flushing, from complication of diseases. She was in the 43d year of her age, aid is survived by four children. Funeral services will be held at her late residence to-morrow. and the interment will be in the Flushing Cemetery. DR.

ROBERTS TO LECTURE. A lecture will be given to-night in the auditorium of the Bedford Branch, Y. M. C. Bedford avenue and Monroe street, by Dr.

Peter Roberts of the international committee of the Y. M. C. A. His subject will be "Coming Americans." DAYS OF "PAT" GLEASON RECALLED BY LAW SUIT Bondholders Seek to Gain Possession of Old Woodside Water Co.

FORECLOSURE SUIT BEGUN. Company Formed by Late Mayor Gleason and Others Six Years Prior to Consolidation. The filing in the Queens County clerk's office at Jamaica of a lis pendens in connection with a proceeding to foreclose a mortgage against the Woodside Water Company has recalled one page of the history of old Long Island City. It has also called to mind that it was Mayor Gaynor, then a justice of the Supreme Court, who, fall of 1896, two years before consolidation, heard the case of the company against old Long island City, in which an effort was made to collect $43.000 for water furnished, In the action the then justice declared the agreement made by Mayor Patrick Jerome Gleason with his own company to be one of the most unconscionable he had ever been called upon to review. and dismissed the action, declaring the contract to be illegal.

During the years since the death of Gleason little had been heard of the Woodside Company, and many have supposed that it had ceased to exist. But the facts are that there are nearly fifteen miles of pipe under ground in Long Island City and the Second Ward; the company has title to three stations, and one, the Maurice avenue station at Maspeth, has been kept running and is operated to to supply certain persons who had contracts with the company. The action at this time to get hold of property is significant, for it is a fact that there is a movement on foot which proposes to sell to the city the private water companies Queens Borough. According to those who are well informed, this movement has two reasons for being. The engineers of the water board of New York City have included in their plan for the extension of the Catskill supply to the city the supplying of Queens.

If this is ever done, the usefulness of the private water companies will be greatly curtailed. and the big profits now earned will be greatly lessened. In the second place all the private companies at the present time are facing large expenditures. The territories they are serving have grown so rapidly that their pipe lines, large enough when put in. are now too small to meet the demands made upon them, and if they are to continue in business, they will have to spend large sums in replacing these small mains with larger ones.

Then, too, many of these companies would be glad to sell to the city, take the profits now in their hands and put the burden of making the plants up to date on the city. In the papers filed at Jamaica, Howard McConnell and Charles F. Winch appear as the trustees for the holders of the bonds. But it is said that one of the persons most interested in the action is Edward M. Terrell, now living at 759 Jetferson avenue.

Brooklyn, who had been associated with the affairs of the late Patrick J. Gleason for many years. About two months ago, when the first rumors of the beginning of this suit were heard, it was said that Mr. Terrell was the man who was to bring the action. The Woodside Water Company was incorporated August 11, 1892.

The incorporators were Patrick J. Gleason, Long Island City, 420 shares; Charles Lynch, 193 Ash street, Detroit, ten shares; James W. Lamb, 167 Twelfth street, Long Island City, ten shares; Daniel Hickey, Laurel Hill, twenty-five shares; Philip J. Coffey, 208 East Thirty-fifth street, Manhattan, ten shares; Edward M. Terrell, Brooklyn, ten shares; David Avenius, Middle Village, twenty shares.

The company was first authorized to furnish water to places in the town of Newtown, but on April 21, 1896, the certificate of incorpor. tion was changed so that the company could furnish water to Long Island City, and soon thereafter a contract was made with the water board of Long Island City, to furnish all the water that was needed at the rate of $1 for each thousand cubic feet, the minimum amount to be a million gallons a day. The chief asset of the company was always considered to be the strip of land, about two and a half miles in length, extending from Bowery Bay to Jackson avenue, between the Trains Meadow road and Junction avenue. This was put down in the assets of the company as worth $100,000, although ft was purchased by Roday S. Brassel, an employe of Gleason, from the Thomas B.

Jackson estate, for $1,550. Brassel sold the property August 10, 1892, to James Kennedy for the consideration of $1, and on November 30 following it was sold to the water company by Kennedy for $100,000. On this land a pond was later created by the water company, which the town board of health of Newtown declared to be a nuisance, and Joseph Bermel, then supervisor of the town, who afterward became borough president, led a force of men, armed with pickaxes and shovels, who broke down the dam, After consolidation assaults were made on the company in the courts in an effort to rip up its pipes in Long Island City streets. A grand jury of the county returned an indictment against Highway Commissioner Keating the Van Wyek administration, and he then directed his deputy in Queens Borough, John P. Marden, to get the pipes up.

A considerable strip on Jackson avenue in the vicinity of the Queens County courthouse was torn up. Some of the men who are stockholders and who were interested in the are now employes in the Borough Hall at Long Island City. They said when they learned of the suit that has been commenced that they believed the whole tory of the company would be gone into. and there would be an effort made to get some of heemonex belonging to them which had up all these years. "AN ADMIRABLE PRODUCTION." How Cashier Hopkins of Ozone Park Bank Regards the Eagle's Queens Page.

W. L. Hopkins, cashier of the First National Bank of Ozone Park. a former Brooklynite and long a friend of the Eagle, said to-day that the Queens Borough page is an admirable production. "Brooklyn people," he said, "should real the news of Queens as well as their own.

the interests of the sister boroughs being almost identical. The Eagle has my heartiest good wishes." William A. DeGroot of Morris Park, former member of Assembly from the Fourth Queens District, said: Brooklyn Daily Eagle's Queens Borough page is knitting two great boroughs close together." MANY SIGN PETITIONS. Woodhaven Homestead Civic Ass'n Works for Needed Improvement. The Homestead Civic Association of Woodhaven is circulating petitions to be submitted to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, praying for the immediate construction of sewers.

Taxpayers and rent papers of the Woodhaven, Richmond Hill and Union Course sections are signing these petitions by the hundreds. The sewer maps of most of the Woodhaven district have not yet been adopted. although long ago, drawn up. The trunk sewers for the Woodhaven section will go through Rockaway road and Freedom avenue, LONG ISLAND NEWS. WANTS $30,000 FOR A LEG.

Carpenter Sues Erie Railroad Company for Loss of Limb. In Part I of the Supreme Court to-day in Flushing is en. trial the suit brought by Michael Remertsen, a carpenter by occupation, who wants $30,600 for of his right leg from the Erie Railroad Company. While 011 he witness stand yesterday afternoon the plaintiff presented a pitiful sight. Since he met with the accident.

that resulted in the loss of leg, he has trouble, and he been from pulmonary has wasted away t- a mere skeleton. He was brought to Flushing in a coach. do: by an engine and He was run tender in the Erie Railroad yard on May 18, 1909. A VICTORY CELEBRATED. After the regular meeting of the Chezter Park an and Clarenceville Citizens Association meeting, last night, the members were entertained by fine talent and refreshments were served.

The members celebrated among themselves the victory they recently won over the Long Island Railroad Company, that corporation having placed gates and a gateman at the Grant avenue crossing. The association had fought for a long time to secure this improvement. TO CONFIRM A CLASS. At the confirmation services at the English Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit in College Point, on Palm Sunday, the Rev. George C.

Loose. field missionary of Greater New York, will officiate. The following children will confirmed: Lillian Juehrs, Larena Walter, Julia Schwab, Lillian Werner, Emile Soukup, Albert Berchtold and Paul Hubert. QUEENS BUILDING ACTIVE Plans for 114 Structures, to Cost $381,560, Filed. Call for the Erection of DeMajority tached Houses, Homes of Wage Earners.

filed During, the building bureau the past week there have. been Borough of Queens plans for 114 new buildings, the estimated cost of which is $381,560. and plans for thirty-six alterations, estimated to cost $22,850. This is one of the biggest weeks since January and is an inclination of the operations that will conducted this spring. In the plans filed the large majority are for detached houses, the homes of wage earners, and these be erected in every section of the borough.

Joseph Sauerwein, of 290 Woodward street, Brooklyn, will erect a five story brick tenement on Elm avenue, east of street, Ridgewood, which will cost $40,000. In the Richmond Hill South section the Manhattan Mutual Realty Company will erect five single frame dwellings to cost $22,300. The Leahy Realty Company, which is developing South Ozone Park, has taken out permite for seven single houses. In the Waldheim section in Flushing another $15,000 and one $5,500 house are to be erected. The Queens Home Realty Company is to erect five dwellings on Cypress avenue, Richmond Hill, the cost of which will be $18,800.

Long Island City 'is to have another large brick tenement house in the Graham avenue district east of Hancock street, and which, costing $10,000, will be erected by Joseph Serra. The Ridgewood Times is to have a new $8,000 office, to be erected on Cypress avenue, Ridgewood. An office building, two stories of brick, will be erected on Hunter avenue, facing the Queensboro Bridge plaza in Long Island City. It will be erected by W. E.

Paynter. BRIDGE MATTERS MIXED. Question Involves Two Whitestone Spans and as Many Railroad Corporations, There is considerable discussion in Whitestone as to the status of the Whitestone trolley with reference to the bridge at Eighth and Ninth avenues and Sixteenth street. It appears from the latest information received by the Whitestone Improvement Association that the Long Island Railroad is ready to purchase the necessary property for the union of the Eighth and Ninth avenue bridges, making an attractive entrance to Whitestone from the south and is only awaiting action of the borough officials on its present plans for the bridges. other hand the North Shore Traction Company, whose lines are to over bridge into Whitestone, is ready to build its road over the Eighth avenue wooden bridge which has been declared safe by the city engineers.

The Long Island Railroad, however, is anxious for the traction company people to delay their work for a short time until its plans have been approved, and put whatever money they would use in repairing the present bridge into the cost Do of erecting the new bridge. In the meanwhile, while this interesting procedure 'is in progress, the people of Whitestone have to wait for their trolley and keep quiet. They declare they do not care in the least which bridge is used or whether or not they have a new bridge at present, so long as they get the trolley cars. BODY UNCLAIMED. Corpse of Drowned Man Picked Up in Sound, Off College Point.

The body of the man picked up on the shore of Long Island Sound, off Witzel's Point View Island, College Point, yesterday, has not been identified yet. The man was about 50 years old, 5 feet 9 inches in height and weighed about 160 pounds. The body is badly decomposed and it is impossible to recognize any of the features. Most of man' clothing has been torn from the body, although the hat was still fast to the head. Coroner Ambler said that in all probability the body had been hit by the propellor on some passing boat and that his clothes became tangled up in the gear which tore them off.

Part of the man's nose and one ear were gone. On a fragment of a white silk shirt was X. No letters or money were found on the body. The body is still at Johann's Morgue, Fifth avenue, College Point, and if not identified, will be interred in Potter's F.eld. NEW CLUBHOUSE OPENED.

Ridgewood Democrats and Friends Made Merry at Housewarming. The fine new club house of the Ridgewood Democratic Club had its doors opened to the members and their friends last night. A celebration, which was in the nature of a house warming, was held. The house and entertainment commitmittees spared no effort to make the affair a success. Music and vaudeville acts were provided, and afterward refreshments were served.

The members their friends partook of some delicious suckling pig, which had been won by the Ridgewood Democratic Club at the ball of the woman's auxiliary of the Unity Democratic Club, held recently. The new club house has its pool tables in. the basement, which has! beer fitted up in fine shape. MEN'S LEAGUE A SUCCESS. Rockville Centre Baptist Laymen Have Had Six Prosperous Years.

(Special to the Eagle.) Rockville Centre, March 17-At the sixth annual meeting of the Men's League of the Baptist Church, held at the residence of Eugene W. Gray, in Lincoln avenue, on Monday night, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: vice President, William Richensteen; president, John J. Lewis; recording secretary, Eugene P. Hawkins; financial retary, Harold B. Van Duyn; treasurer, Otto Robinson; assistant secretary, Frank J.

Phillips; chaplain, the Rev. Edwin B. Richmond. Following the business meeting a dainty collation was served by the genial hostess. Since its inception the league has accomplished much.

It has held a number of series of entertainments, lectures, every winter, at which time the leading lecturers of the country have appeared here to crowded houses. At the entertainments the best talent procurable has always been secured, and the result is that when it is announced that the league will hold an entertainment, a crowded house is assured. CONFIRMATION AT SEA CLIFF. (Special to the Eagle.) Sea Cliff, L. March 17-At the German Methodist Church here on Palm Sunday, the rite of confirmation will be observed.

A class prepared for the ceremony by the Rev. A. Grob. includes the following young people: The Misses Minnie Bauer and Emily Hohenrath, Daniel Hohenrath, Conrad Schierhorst. Adolph Beneward, Willie Ebelt and Valentine Bauer.

The servico will be at 7:30 and the sermon to the class will be from the text Matthew ix: 19: "Follow Me." The church will have special services 011 Good Friday night at 7:45. The women of the church will give a rummage sale in the near future to raise money for church work. the committee in charge being as follows: Mrs. Keeneth. Mrs.

Blank, Mrs. Schierhorst. Mrs. Hellendorf. Mrs.

Amrhein, Mrs. Kurz and Mrs. Roeber. CALLED TO BROOKLYN. Flatbush Presbyterians Want the Rev.

Herbert H. Freed of Flushing-He May Accept. The Rev. Herbert H. Field, for the past three years pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Flushing, announced last night that he has a call from the congregation of the Flatbush terian Church of Twenty-third street, will leave Flushing about May 1, sucBrooklyn, and if he de decides to accept it, ceeding the Rev.

Dwight E. Marvin. The Rev. Mr. Field was born and educated in Brooklyn, and for some time was an assistant to Dr.

Campbell at Westminster Church. He came to Flushing in May, 1907, and during his stay there he has succeeded in placing the parish in a sound financial condition anI has materially increased the membership of the church. He was graduated from the Union Theological Seminary and is regarded as one of the most promising young ministers in the Nassau Presbytery. of which he is at present clerk of Presbytery. At one time has was in the charge of the Boys Club of the Union Settlement.

in One Hundred and Fourth street, Manhattan, and later of the Boys Club of the Westminster Church.4 The Flushing Congregation will meet to-night to receive Mr. Field's report, and it is probable that the board will decide to accept his resignation if it is offered. The Brooklyn congregation was organized six years ago. The church building cost over $40,000. and has a seating capacity of 300.

The membership is over 200. The Rev. Mr. Field has also had a call from Arlington, N. which he declined.

Committees from other churches have been in Flushing, recently. with a view of extending calls to Mr. Field. VEHICULAR WRECKS MOVED. Cleared From Long Island City Streets and Impounded in Corporation Yard.

A slow moving procession in Long Island City yesterday started, noon. It was headed by. Superintendent of Highways Patrick Leahy as major domo. and there followed a collection of decrepit drays, trucks and every description thing on wheels, including a broken down automobile. The procession was organized on the plaza front of the Queens County Court House, with its right resting on Nott avenue and detachments assembling from all the streets, highways and byways from that point northward to the Queensboro Bridge plaza.

When the procession got under way it looked like one of the "hard times" parades that were gotten up in the West several years ago. "When we issued orders to these fellows to get their trucks and other incumbrances off the street." said Superintendent Leahy in explanation. "they thought we were joking. Well, you can see this is no joke. These wagons and other contraptions are going down to the corporation yard, at the foot of Mott avenue.

and there they are going to stay until the owners bail them out. If they don't do that, we will sell them. Most of them are good only for kindling wood and the old iron in them." Some of the owners attempted to make a protest against the removal. But the time had arrived when protests did not go. Then some owners got busy and removed their trucks before the city men arrived.

This action of clearing up the streets followed a request made to the borough president by the Long Island City Business Men's Association. FIND A FRIEND IN GRESSER. Queens Borough Veteran Firemen Will Get Consideration at Hands of President. The Exempt Firemen's Association of Queens Borough, organized for the purpose of securing legal justice for the veteran firemen who are employes of the city, feel that they now have a friend in Borough President Gresser after the visit te him of the committee. Will B.

Carpenter of Flushing and Robert W. McMahon of Jamica. The committee complained that a number of veterans were sent from one part of the borough to another to work. The president asked for a list of such men. and declared that he would place them at work as near their residences as possible.

He said that he was a veteran fireman himself, and felt a fellow feeling for them, and that he appreciated what it meant to go a long distance to work, since he had often trudged from Queens to New Jersey and to the Bronx. WARLOW BAND ELECTS. The Warlow Band of Whitestone this week elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Charles Hettrich: financial secretary, Henry Bagley: treasurer, Lawrence Lark; librarian, Harpell; director, Professor George Briegel. The annual report of the treasurer showed a good increase in the treasury during the past year. The band is composed of some thirty, of the men of Whitestone and has been organized for about ten years.

BOWLERS TO EAT STEAK. On Thursday evening. March 31, the Malba Bowling Club will hold a beefsteak dinner at Weber's College Point Hotel. SONG OF VICTORY SUNG AT CEDAR MANOR HOTEL Court Has Declared the Original Quartet Is "It;" Rivals Are Sad. LONG LEGAL FIGHT AT AN END.

Wives of Some Quartet Members Stirred Up Trouble and Caused a Split. A song of victory was sung lustily, amid the clinking of beer glasses, in Albert Weinkauf's Cedar Manor Hotel, at Oak street and New York avenue, last night by twenty or more members of the old Cedar Manor Quartet, while in Respario's Hotel, a block distant, the note struck by the incorporated organization was of a most pensive nature. The cause of this was found on the decision of the jury in the Jamaica Municipal Court as to the rights of the two organizations in the legal fight which had excited the interest of the town for the last five months. For the court had decided that the small band of seceders of the society, headed by the president of the old organization, the vice president an danother, did not represent the club, and that all of the paraphernalia, banners, songs, gavels, bells and maps belonged to the organization which continued its meetings in Weinkauf's Hotel, and not to the newly incaporated affair. And now the members of the new society, who were urged by their wives 1 in their course on account of alleged discourteous statements made by the proprietor of the former meeting place, are dolefully shaking their heads at the wisdom of accepting th.

advice given by their better halves. In the fall there was but one Cedar Manor Quartet. Those were days of musical harmony. The club met at Weinkauf's Hotel, and each meeting night disposed of a keg of good beer. The wives of a number of the members objected to their husbands going to this resort, because, they averred.

some unpleasant statements concerning them were there going the rounds and that these emanated from its proprietor. The attendance became smaller. Thinking the situation to be serious, President Wingerath of the quartet called a special meeting at the house of the secretary. This was attended by a few members. Respario's Hotel was decided on as the meeting place.

Weinkauf heard of this, and he was wroth. for it meant loss of much patronage. He called the other members together. They declared the action was not their sentiment. They expelled the president and others who took part, and elected new officers.

Wingerath went to the old room and seized the club banner. This the Weinkauf organization replevined. Wingerath and his crowd began ing in the adjoining hotel on the same meeting night as the other body, and claimed to be the one and only society. It secured incorporation papers and replevined the other goods, in the possession of the rival club. Two actions were brought in the Jamaica Municipal Court.

Here both sides argued vigorously that theirs was the original club. Weinkauf's coterie, however, convinced the jury that as the action of the officers in transferring headquarters was taken by a minority of the club, and as these members were expelled, the right was with those meeting in the first proprietor's place, and they were given all of the goods, while the incorporated organization was ordered to pay the costs. Forty -three members now form the Cedar Manor Quartet proper. These claim that the new club has but a short life before it, and that harmony will soon be regained in the town. TRESPASS SUIT DECIDED.

Old, Abandoned Road at West Babylon to Be Shared Jointly by Abutting Property Owners. (Special to the Eagle.) Babylon, L. March 17-Five dollars damages was awarded Henry S. Johnson by Justice Crane yesterday in a decision which he handed down in the action of Johnson against John C. Robbins, and John C.

Robbins, to determine whether the latter had the right to trespass on the old Great East Neck road at Babylon. The case has been in the courts for a year. Johnson contended that, being the owner of half of the road, which had been out of public use for sixty years, he had the right to prohibit Robbing and his son from using it as a public highway. Robbins, on the other hand, contended that he also owned part of the road and had the right to use the entire road if he cared to. Justice Crane's decision is to the effect that the two Robbins shall have one-half of the road and Johnson the other half and that neither has the right to trespass on the other's portion.

Then he awarded Johnson damages in the sum of $5 by reason of the Robbins trespassing 011 his property in the past. MRS. LITT INSTALLED. Takes Office as President of the Patchogue Sorosis. (Special to the Eagle.) Patchogue, L.

March 17-Mrs. Ruth Litt, who was elected president of Sorosis last week, was given a surprise reception by her club members at her installation on Monday evening. When the new president reached the club room, expecting to hold an ordinary business meeting, she was surprised to find a long table spread with good things, introductory to the programme that had been prepared for the occasion. After the business session, a further surprise came in the arrival of the husbands and men friends of the club members, who assisted the energetic club WOmen in disposing of the refreshments Mrs. T.

L. Rose presided at the after dinner speechmaking. Happy and bright remarks being made by Mrs. Jacob Probst. Miss Lillie M.

Conklin. Miss Florence Roe and the retiring president, Miss Susie Sharp. The new president, responded in modest talk. and while outlining no special poliev for the club under her regime, said she intended to give tha best of her ability for the advancement of the various high purposes for which the club was organized Yesterday afternoon the club members were entertained at Mrs. Litt's Jackawill Farm at East Patchogue.

MUSICALE MUCH ENJOYED. (Special to the Eagle.) Lynbrook, L. March 17-St. James' M. E.

Church was hardly large enough to hold the large audience that crowded it on Tuesday to attend the musicale given for the benefit of the church by tho pupils of Professor F. C. Barreuther, Fully sixty pertormers took part in the musicaie, coming from and twelve villages surrounding Lynbrook. covering an area of twenty -five miles. An excellent programme was rendered land each number was warmly applauded,.