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NEW YORK. TUESDAY. APRIL 28. DEMANDS FACTS OBRAKES AND FENDERS Will to Lessen Number of Sous Acidents I From Car Colliisons. 600 KILLED EACH YEAR Publi Service Commission Thinks lis Uumber of Fatalities Is Too Great.
Fore purpose of minimizing accidents the street railroads in the greater ci the Public Service Commission, on threcommendation of Commissioner Maltt adopted a sweeping resolution requig each railroad to file with the secrey of the commission before May 10 all and complete statement of the numi and kind of cars operated, togethe with the kinds of trucks used, the ight of the car when loaded, the leng over all, the style of fender, stylet guard, style of brake and the mamof the manufacturers of the same. Inoving the adoption of this tionommissioner Maltbie said: tioniy." the Chairman, adoption as a of first this step resolu- towar the reduction of the large number of Al and serious accidents upon our stre railways. "the six months ended February 1, 189the street railways of Greater New Yo, killed 299 persons and seriously injd 944. The total number of accider due to collisions of street cars and the number of vehicles andersong struck by cars was 7,059. rate in an entire year, about 600 pens will be killed and 2,000 seriously ined.
The number of acidents due to colions will approximate 2,400, and the nuer of persons and vehicles struck, 140. From the standpoint of humanitthis is a serious condition and ought be allowed to continue, if there isy way to prevent it. here is another phase of the subje For the year ending June 30, 1907, tistreet railways of New York City pi out for injuries and damages, due toccidents, over $2,500,000. Over oneh of this sum was paid by the Manhan companies and one-third by the Joklyn companies. Anything, thereft, which will reduce the number of aldents will not only be a blessing to manity, but will result in a saving incially to the companies.
It is probably that even with best devices that can be adopted and Th the greatest of care, it will not be to prevent accidents entirely, of which will be serious and even Jal. But until the subject has been proughly investigated and every sugsted remedy fully considered, our duty 11 not have been done, and it seems lobable that the number of accidents be very greatly reduced. "The most important factors in the revention of accidents are brakes, enders and wheel guards. Certain types each are much more effective than thers, and in view of the high speed With which cars are run and in view of he congested character of many disricts of the city, it is essential that only he most effective types of brakes and fenders be used and that all of low effciency be eliminated as rapidly as possible. "Our division of accidents has investigated hundreds of cases and it is the opinion of the chief of the division, Mr.
Daggett, that fully one-half of the accidents would be prevented if a brake of the high power and efficiency claimed for the magnetic track brake were in universal use. A large number of lives would be saved and. injuries avoided if every car were equipped with the best type of fender and wheel guard. "I move, therefore, that the companies be directed to report the facts called for in the resolution I have just offered, that the electrical engineer be directed to report upon the relative efficiency of the various types of brakes, fenders and wheel guards used by the street railway companies under the jurisdiction of this commission, and that, pending the submission of this report an order for A hearing be issued as to the advisability of requiring every company to submit to the commission for its approval the types of brakes, fenders and wheel guards to be used upon all cars hereafter purchased before such cars are ordered by the companies." CONFERENCE ON WATERWAYS. Important Meeting at Albany on May 7-Prominent Men to Make Addresses.
Patchogue, L. April 28-A state conference for the purpose of acquainting the people of New York with the present condition of its water ways, their future needs and their relation to the commercial prosperity of the stae, will be held a Albany on Thursday, May 7, undr the auspices of the Albany Chamber of Commerce. In view of the fact that it is solely for educational purposes, no attempt will be made toward any formal organization or to pass any resolutions. Local chambers of commerce, boards of trade, business men's organizations and other associations having for their object the advancement of the business interests of the state, municipal officials, mayors and village presidents are invited to attend. The sessions will be held in the ball -room of the Ten Eyck at 10:30 A.M.
and 2:30 and 8:00 P.M. All of the speakers will men who are actively engaged in the problem of transportation, or who have been identified with railroad and water transportation problems. The programme of addresses is as follows: "Our Nation's Waterways, Their Present Condition," Davidson, of Oshkosh, "Our Nation's Waterways. Their Future Possibilities," Joseph E. Ransdell, Lake Providence, "Methods of Transportation in Various Countries," 0.
P. Austin, Washington, D. C. (to be illustrated with lantern slides); "The Erie Canal, Its Past and Future Relation to the Commercial Prosperity of the State," Senator Henry W. Hill, Buffalo; "The Canals of the State, What Is Being Accomplished," Frederick Skene, State Engineer of New York; "A Brief Consideration of the Champlain Canal and Its Canadian Possibilities," Alfred Brooks Fry, New York; "The Oswego Canal." Luther W.
Mott, Oswego; 'The Proposed Rochester, Pittsburg and New Orleans J. Y. McClintock, County Engineer of Rochester; "The Buffalo Terminals," F. Howard Mason, Buffalo: "The Hudson River," William B. Jones, Albany; "Difficulties in Navigating a Large Steamboat in the Upper Hudson," Eben E.
Olcott, New York. Suffolk County will be represented at the conference by W. W. Hulse of Bay Shore. BROOKLYN CORPORATION.
(Special to the Eagle.) Albany, April 28-The Sanitary Heating Company of Brooklyn has been incorporated with a capital of $400.000. The directors are William H. Schofield, William J. Wilson, F. L.
Hulse anl F. L. Sheffey of New York City and William E. Wilson and Frederick R. Wilson of Brooklyn.
REGISTERED IN PARIS. Eagle Bureau. 53 Rue Cambon. Paris, April 28-The following have registered at Bureau: Richard C. Middleton, London; A.
F. V. Lazinski, Buenos Ayres. CHAIRMAN HUDSPETH WILL NOT GO TO DENVER Head of New Jersey Democratic State Committee Won't Approve Davis. LATTER HUDSON CO.
LEADER. Fourth Delegate-at-Large Will ably Be Named by Delegates From Hudson. Trenton. N. April 28-At 10 A.M.
the situation with respect to Democratic State Convention the selecford tion of delegates to the Denver convention was not changed from the gramme as agreed upon last night by the state committee. This programme embraced former United States Senator James Smith, former Mayor Frank S. Katzenbach, of Trenton; State SenJohn Hinchliffe Passaic and State Chairman Robert S. Hudspeth of Hudson for delegates at large, with the delegates uninstructed and the unit rule applied. A railroad wreck at South Elizabeth the arrival of the delegates from delayed, Jersey points.
State Chairman Hudspeth was not here during the fore- noon, and it was not known up to 11 A.M. whether he would come. It was also not known whether he would accept one of the places as delegate-at-large. A few I of the Hudson County delegates who came here late last night said to-day that Hudson would stand out for Robert Davis, their leader tie that county, for one of the delegates-at-large, but their manner did not indicate their belief that they would win. State Chairman Hudspeth arrived at noon announced that he would not under and, circ*mstances be a candidate for delegate-at-large against the preference of his own organization in Hudson County for Mr.
Davis. This left the fourth place open at the time for the convening of the convention. Chairman Hudspeth said that he did not believe that the convention would adopt any resolutions, but that the declaration of national principles would be left to the national convention. The delegates agreed upon by the various Congressional districts will be as follows: First, William H. Davis, of Camden, and E.
E. Grosscup, Gloucester; second, Clarence L. Cole, Atlantic, and Mulford K. Ludlam, Cumberland; Third, W. Parker Runyon, Middlesex, and Melvin H.
Rice, Monmouth; Fourth, Charles H. Gallagher, Mercer, and James M. Pid- I tie, Union, and a Willard W. Cutler, co*ck, Hunterdon; Fifth, William F. Morris; Sixth, Frank J.
Van Noort, Pas- saic, and Archbald Hart, Bergen; Seventh, John R. Hardin and John F. Sinnott, Essex; Eighth, James R. Nugent and Waiter I. McCoy, Essex; Ninth, H.
Otto Wittpenn and Eugene Kinkead, Hudson; Tenth, James A. Hamill and John J. McMahon, Hudson. THE COURTS. SUPREME COURT.
SPECIAL TERM TRIALS Day calendar, April 29, Edward B. Thomas, justice. Collins vs. Barry. 1855..
Auer vs. Gaynor. 1781.. Wagner vs. Wortis.
2078.. Zellner vs. Holland. 2085.. Barna vs.
Hutter. 2091.. Palito vs. Petriello. 2096..
Falcone vs. Falcone. 1785.. Palito vs. Talento.
COUNTY COURT, KINGS COUNTY. Criminal calendar, April 29, Part Dike, J. -Thomas A. Leonard, assault, second degree; Michael Yonalunes, grand larceny, second degree; Eugene Conker, grand larceny, second degree; Charles Butler, receiving. SUPREME COURT.
TRIAL TERM. DAY Calendar, April 29. 1908. Part I. Garretson, Part II.
Burr, Part III, Maddox, Part IV. Carr, Part V. Dickey, Part VI, Blackmar, Part VII, Aspinall, J. 4278, 4219.. Manson vs.
B. H. R. R. et al.
5447.. People et rel Koeber vs. Bensel. vs. Nassau R.
R. 5172.. Reed vs. City of New York. 4512.
Zelter V8. City of New York. 5501. Maher VS. Nassau R.
R. 10501.. Stein vs. Noyes et al. 5447..
People ex rel Koeber vs. Bensel. 10396.. Plumbing Mfg. Co.
vs. Barbanelli. 809.. Ridgley VS. Keene et al.
5514.. Freitag vs. Reincking et 5515.. Durkin vs. Rautsch.
5516.. Harris vs. B. H. R.
R. 5517. Linahan vs. B. H.
R. R. 5518.. De Winton vs. B.
H. R. R. 5521. Herold vs.
N. Y. Qoeens Co. R. R.
5524. Hettrick vs. Peterson. 5525Ehkabendzak vs. Bridgeport Brass Co.
5536-Payrleitner vs. B. H. R. R.
5537.. Major vs. Percy Kent Co. 5543.. Weixler vs.
Loeffler. 5546. 5547.. Duffy VS. B.
H. R. R. vS. Butler Bros.
Co. 5553.. Wyezmas vs. B. H.
R. R. 5554.. Hanlon vs. City of New York.
5555.. Rabinowitz vs. Nassau R. R. 5557..
Brecher VS. London. Brien VS. City of New York. 5563..
Dashiell vs. B. H. R. R.
5564.. Rafalowitz vs. City of New York et al. 5565. Tappen vs.
L. I. R. R. 5567..
Meyer vs. B. H. B. B.
5568-Oswald vS. B. H. R. R.
5569. Jogol vs. Nassau R. R. 5570.
Davidson vs. N. Y. Traction Co. 5571..
Lipari vs. B. H. R. R.
5574.. Metz vs. Inter Rapid Transit. 5575.. Grob vs.
B. H. R. R. 5576..
Sundseth vs. Raah Iron Works. 5577.. Miller vs. B.
H. R. R. 5581.. Weiner vs.
Nassau R. R. 5583. Bromberg vs. Noveck.
Highest number reached on regular call, 5618. SURROGATE'S COURT. Ketcham, Surrogate--The following wills were filed from 12 noon, yesterday, to 12 noon, today: VICTOR F. LUTZ, bequeathing his entire estate to ihs wife. Amy A.
Lutz, execturix. EVELYN McGOWAN. leaving all her property to her brother. Thomas W. McGowan, executor.
JOHN PEPER, giving all his estate to his executrices, Celia Morton and Annie D. Enners, daughters of the testator, in trust. to pay the net income from the same to his wife. Matta Paper, during her life: upon her death they are to turn the property into cash, divide the proceeds into seven parts and distribute one each to the sons and daughters, or to their respective issue. in the event of their death: but should Mattie Bell die without issue before the death of her mother, her share is to be paid to her husband.
Albert Bell. ROSA DANDELL, making her husband. Edward F. Randell. sole legatee and executor.
SURROGATE'S COURT. Calendar for Wednesday, before Surrogate Herbert T. Ketcham: The will of Joseph F. O'Connell. The guardianship of Eliza G.
Tousey. The accounting in the estate of Jennie A. Royce. Frank 0g- den. H.
W. Brush, Daniel Keely, J. A. Sharn, Rogers, James Cozine, Mary Brush, Ed. Bennett, Margaret Denyse, Miranda Barwick, G.
L. Crosby, W. M. Beach. Joseph Blot, L.
N. Hanover. M. G. Wilson.
W. H. Goden. B. H.
Evans, J. W. Sheridan and Mary E. Mav. The estate of L.
G. Crosby, Samuel Rockmore, Nelson Cable. M. F. Montes.
Jacob Schloeder, Virgilis Del Genovese and Martha Regan. CONTESTED CALENDAR. The will of Edward Golen. REFEREES APPOINTED. By MAREAN, J.
Burchard vs. Lenoble, James M. Feaman: McGarry vs. McGarry, Joseph A. Kennedy; matter of Cosentino.
Isaac. F. Russell: Commonwealth Mtge Co. Lifschitz, James Richards; Cowenhoven vs. Field, Jose E.
Pidgen: Wentg vs. Hauser, John H. Kemble; Wyckoff vs. Kirk, George Baxter, CARLYLE'S "GRAND EVENING." In the course of remarks on that subject dear to all essayists, "The Art of Conversation." a writer in Harper's Weekly recalls a delicious anecdote of Carlyle and Tennyson. Who that has wandered through the Carlyle house on the Embankment can forget itthe which the old Scotch keeper Chelsea, rehearses so punctiliously day by day, and yet ever with fresh gusto? "In this 1'00m it was, sir, that Mr.
Carlyle and Mr. Tennyson spent a long evening, each smokin' his pipe and neither of them speakin' a word. And after three hours, when Mr. Tennyson rose to go, Mr. Carlyle said to him, 'It's a grand evenin' we've, spent, Alfred, a grand And Mr.
Tennyson, he just said, too, 'A grand and went out." LAST SADDLE IN PLACE ON NEW BRIDGE TOWER Mayor and Other Officials Watch a Fifteen- Ton Casting Hoisted Skyward, READY FOR THE CABLES NOW. B. R. T. Applies for Leave to Build an Elevated Line to the Man.
hattan Bridge. In the presence of a distinguished company of guests the last saddle. upon which the massive cables will rest was placed in position on the Brooklyn tower of the Manhattan afternoon. One of the most interested spectators was Mayor McClellan and his chief aides in the executive offices of the administration. The Mayor was highly pleased over the rapid progress which marked the erection of the and the assurances of the contractors that the structure will be open and ready for traffic before the close of his administration, The official party, beside the Mayor, consisted of Bridge Commissioner James W.
Stevenson, Deputy Commissioner John H. Little, Secretary Edgar E. Schiff, Chief Engineer Ingersoll, Consulting Engineers Johnson and Buck, and Parker, the contractors, and Ryan representatives from the Phoenixville Steel Company, which is furnishing the steel for the structure. The ceremonies of hoisting the big steel casting into place began promptly at 2 o'clock. Of course, it would have been far more interesting if the official party had been the top of the massive tower, but on nobody seemed inclined to venture up heighth.
The only means of the dizzy ascending were a series of perpendicular which seemingly required the ladders, agility of a gymnast to climb. The Mayor and his party viewed the proceedings from the ground. The big steel casting, which in engineering parlance is called a saddle, weighing fifteen tons, was slowly hoisted up the top of the tower by a massive to steel crane, and after a good deal of careful maneuvering was slowly let down into place. The other three saddles--there are four on on each tower--were already in place. The four on the Manhattan also in place.
They are the tower are final and highest parts of the towers, except for the ornamental housing which inclose and protect them later. will Announcement was made that no time in beginning the work will be lost now the four big steel cables of spinning will hold un the massive steel which of the bridge. For months Company has been manusuperstructure wire for the cables. Enthe Roebling facturing the of the Bridge Department have at the Roebling works to gineers been stationed the standard test which the supervise prescribed for each strand department before it is accepted as the finished article. The first thing to be done now is the construction of a foot path over between the two towers, upon the river, who spin the cable will which the men do their work.
Each of the four cables will be They will cross the inches in diameter. and rest in the saddles, which towers the loads on the cables through transmit into the masonry founthe steel towers Unlike the saddles on the towdations. Williamsburg Bridge, the saders of the the Manhattan Bridge will not dies on but stationary. The elasticbe movable, of the structure will be furnished by ity which will bend back and the to the strain on the towers, forth, according bridge. erection of the towers was begun The Each tower is built of in June.
1907. and bracing weighing altogether legs 500,000 pounds. R. T. Applies for Leave to Build B.
an Road Connection. Coincident with the placing into posilast saddle to-day. the tion of the Transit Company has Brooklyn for the Rapid Brooklyn Union Elevated filed an application for a franchise elevated connection for its Company to build an elevated lines in Brooklyn different Manhattan Bridge through the with the extension as well as the Flatbush avenue use of the tracks of the bridge. is the application of the Following company, which the corporation counsel has decided must be made to Public Service Commission instead of the Board of Etimate: "The Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad Company, a domestic corporation, duly incorporated, organized and existing ullde rand by virtue of the laws of the State pursuant to the 'Stock Corof New York, poration which owns and operates a double track elevated railroad in Flatbush avenue, in Fulton street and in Myrtle in the Borough of Brooklyn, City avenue, and State of New York, did, on the 9th day of September, 1907, make an application for a franchise to extend the same what is known as the extension of along Flatbush avenue, beginning at a point where Flatbush avenue intersects Fulton and extending northerly along and street through said extension to Flatbush avenue and Nassau street. 'Said application was made to your honorable body, subject to the approval of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the City of New York, as provided in Chapter 429 of the laws of 1907, and Chapter 4 of the laws of 1891, together with all acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.
"Said franchise, if granted, will permit the connection of the elevated railroad on Myrtle avenue, Flatbush avenue and on Fulton street with the said extension.and thereby enable the Brooklyn Union Elevated aRilroad Company to operate vated railroad trains to the Bridge Plaza of the Manhattan Bridge at or near Nassau street, in the Borough of Brooklyn. "On said September 9, 1907, the Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad Company made application to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of City of New York for a contract for the exclusive use of two of the tracks provided for elevated railroads upon and across the Manhattan Bridge and approaches when constructed across the East River, together with the necessary terminals, switches, sidings, turnouts, wires and equipment for the operation of its said elevated cars from the Borough of Brooklyn over and across said bridge and approaches. "We have been informed that the corportion counsel has rendered an opinion determining that such application for the right to the exclusive use of said two tracks on the Manhattan Bridge and approaches should have been made to your honorable body, instead of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the City of New York. "Therefore, the Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad Company does hereby make application to your honorable body for right to the exclusive use of two of the tracks provided for elevated railroads upon and across the Manhattan Bridge and approaches, when constructed across the East River, together with the necessary conections, terminals, switches. sidings, turnouts, wires and equipment the operation of its said elevated railroad cars from the Borough of Brooklyn over and across said bridge and approaches thereto." METROPOLITAN AIRS.
"Well, how is everything progressing?" asked the patent churn man, who had just returned from a two months' absence. "Pruntytown going ahead any?" "Aw, you betcha 'tis." promptly replied the landlord of the tavern, who was filled with local pride. "Pruntytown is getting metropolitaner and metropolitaner every day of the world. Why, lemme tell you: Bilderback the owner of the Op'ry House, has just whirled in and built a commodious new dressing room for the bloodhounds and an Ice house for Eliza. After this, when 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' comes to this town it can be played just exactly as Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote it And If that ain't going some, I d'know what you'd call it!" -Puck.
BROTHERS For the man who knows how to look for basic worth and workmanship Brokaw clothes have an especial attraction. He finds everything just as he knows it ought to be, from material and design to the sewing on of the buttons. Spring Suits, $18 to $47. Spring Overcoats, $16 to $42. ESTABLISHED OVER HALF A CENTURY ASTOR PLACE FOURTH AVE.N.Y 0000000 THE REALTY MARKET; 000000 As told in the Eagle on Saturday there has been an appreciable drop in mortgage interest rates, both in Manhattan and this borough, with an increase of funds to be loaned.
In this respect, the weekly statement of the condition of the mortgage market, issued by the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, is interesting and indicates that the new and more favorable conditions affecting mortgages are likely to remain indefinitely, although the interest rate mentioned refers to Manhattan. The lowering of rates applies equally to this borough, however, where per cent. is now the rule. The statement says: "In response to our statement that we were prepared to accept loans at 5 per we received a flood of applications, showing that activity in the realty market is only waiting a lowering of the interest rate on mortgages. We were able to accept at 5 per cent.
every loan applied for. that met the requirements of our usual scale of lending. We have been pleased at the liberal response on the part investors, who' 'seem to recognize that they can no longer expect to get the recent abnormal rates." Ernestus Gulick Company, through its Manhattan office, reports the sale of thirty lots on Hillside avenue, at the easterly corner of Black Stump road, Jamaica. This property adjoins the tract of Jamaica Estates. The sale is made for C.
E. Neier to F. C. Myers. The price is said to be $45,000.
Also twenty-seven lots on Madison and High streets, Jamaica, for Emelia Heidenreich to F. C. Smith for $25,000. Ernestus Gulick Company also reports, through its Manhattan office, the lease of the country residence at Sea Cliff of Dr. R.
S. Fowler to Max Schultze of the firm of Otto Heinze Co. Mr. Schultze 00- cupies the estate as his summer home; also the lease of the Koop homestead at Sea Cliff to F. J.
Frerichs of Brooklyn, through Combs Clapham of Sea Cliff. The Leonard Moody Real Estate Company has sold for a client to the Thompson Metre Company the premises, 102, 104, 106. 108, 110 Bridge street; also the rear house on York and Talman streets, comprising the whole block. 122x100, on which the Thompson Metre Company will erect a -story, reinforced, concrete, fireproof factory. Auction Sales Yesterday.
(BY WILLIAM H. SMITH. AT REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE.) Forty-sixth street, west side, 100 feet east of Fifth avenue, 25x100.2, People's Trust Company against Haemann Barbanell et Action No. Wingate Cullen, attorneys, 20 Nassau street, Manhattan; Edward L. Collier, referee.
Sold to D. Boris De Waltoff for $11,000. -sixth street, southwest side. 125 feet southeast of Fifth avenue. 25x100.2.
Same against same; Action No. same attorneys; same referee. Sold to D. Boris De Waltoff for $11,000. (BY JAMES L.
BRUMLEY. AT REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE.) Lynch street, north side, 120.8 east Lee avenue, 16.3x100, John Birkenkopf against Mary L. Perkins et Joseph J. Spaeth, attorney, 55 Liberty street, Manhattan; Robert E. Strong.
referee. Sold to Robert Ward for $3,000. Eckford street, east side, 150 feet south of Engert avenue, runs south 125 east 95.9 north 120.10 west 00125 to beginning. Adjourned. Newton street, north side, 180 feet southwest of Graham avenue, 26x62.7x32.5 x82.3, Margaret S.
Manson against Rubin Grau et Julius Siegelman, attorney, 861 Manhattan avenue: Herman S. Bachrach, referee. Adjourned. OBITUARY. Henry Spitz.
Henry Spitz, for more than forty years a resident of the Eastern District of Brooklyn, was buried from the residence of his son-in-law. Councilman M. Brouer of Avon, N. J. For many years he was engaged in the express business on Driggs avenue, Brooklyn; was an active member of the Seymour Club and many other associations of the Eastern District.
About ten years ago he made his home with his daughter at Avon, N. J. During that time he was collector of licenses and 1 marshal of Avon. He died suddenly on April 25, 1908, of heart fail- ure. Mrs.
Helen Benjamin. (Special to the Eagle.) Riverhead, L. April 28-The funeral of Mrs. Helen Benjamin, widow of Moses F. Benjamin, for many years a druggist in Riverhead, was conducted from her late home on Main street, this afternoon, by the Rev.
Dr. Thorpe of the Methodist Church. Mrs. Benjamin was one of the prominent and a highly respected residents of the place. She was and always lived in this place.
Her age was 73 years. She died on Saturday night. She is survived by these children: Dr. F. E.
BenJamin of Shelter Island, Thaddeus and Mark De Witt Benjamin of this place and Miss Eugenia B. Benjamin, also of Riverhead. 65 WEDS 22. Bridgegroom Nearly Three Times His Bride's Age-Couple Past 70 Also Wed. (Special to the Eagle.) Inwood.
April 28-Gossips of this place have been discussing with keen interest the marriage of David Merritt to Miss Leonora Player, which took place last Thursday, but only became known yesterday morning. when the couple left to spend their honeymoon at Saratoga. The bride is 22 years old and the bride. groom 65. Another couple whose marriage has given -the gossips something to talk about are Captain George Rhinehart and Mrs.
Rachel Jackson, who were married Inst Thursday evening by the Rev. F. P. Hummel in the parsonage of St. Paul's M.
P. Church. The bride and bridegroom are both over 70 years old, and this is the third matrimonial venture for each of them. YOUNG OR LEE LIKELY TO RUN FOR CONGRESS Mr. Waldo Almost Sure to Be Turned Down by the Woodruff Machine.
MAY HEAD A BOLTER'S TICKET. In That Case Democrats Would Have Good Chance of Capturing the District. There is much discussion throughout the Fifth Congressional District. now represented by George E. Waldo, regarding the probable candidates for the fall election.
It is generally believed that Mr. Waldo will not be renominated by the regular Republicans. It is also believed that Mr. Waldo intends, if Governor Hughes is a candidate for office of any sort, to run independently of the organization under the banner and title of a "Hughes Republican." The organization leaders, Kracke in the Eighteenth Assembly District, Connell in the Ninth, and Voorhis in the Sixteenth, who together control the congressional district. have not committed themselves definitely to the programme of turning down Waldo, but their friends are confident that the temper of the regular organization Republicans is such as to demand the "turn down" because of Waldo's recent primary fight against the organization in the Eighteenth Assembly District.
With this as the indicated course of events the politicians are very busy studying out the question of whom the Republicans will nominate. The two men most prominently considered at the present time are Warren I. Lee and former Park Commissioner Richard Young. It is still too early to make a definite forecast regarding the outcome. The only facts known are that there will be two noimnations of nearly equal importance to be made from the Eighth Senatorial District, that for United States representative to succeed Mr.
Waldo and that for state senator, to succeed Charles Fuller. By the laws of the game both these noimnations cannot go to one assembly district. By the law of majority control one them will almost surely go to the Eighteeth Assembly District. Inasmuch as Robert A. Sharkey, leader of the Fifth, is not on the best of terms with the other district leaders in the congressional district and Kracke, Cornell and Voorhis think as one man, it is not regarded as likely that either nomination will go to the Fifth Assembly District.
It is the general opinion among the Republicans of the powerful Flatbush section that the record of Assemblyman Warren I. Lee deserves recognition in the way of advancement at the hands of his party. His friends say that he is clearly entitled to the nomination for state senator or for representative. Lee's comparative youth -he is only 32 years oldhas been urged by some as an argument for perferring to give him the senatorial nomination, but it is urged that Representative Law was nominated and elected at a younger age than Lee's. There is in this comparison the notable fact that Lee and Law were schoolmates and boyhood friends, and it has been urged on the sentimental side that there would be a peculiar fitness in sending them to Congress together.
But the Republicans of the Senatorial district learned a lesson two ago when a district nominally 4,000 or 5,000 sent Fuller, a Democrat, to the senate. In the uncertain condition which will almost surely prevail throughout the district this fall because of the fights in both parties results must necessarily be very doubtful. He has proved himself a big vote getter in the district. It is believed that he could almost certainly be elected senator, while if Waldo runs independently for Congress and the Democrats nominate a strong candidate like Senator Fuller, and the Republicans nominate a candidate of unknown parts from the Ninth or Sixteenth Assembly District, the result will be very much in doubt. If Waldo is in the field it is regarded as likely that he will receive the support of the Fifth Assembly District Republicans.
He has already demonstrated some strength in the Eighteenth. It is not thought likely that he could be elected, but it is regarded as not unlikely that he might cause the defeat of the regular organization candidate and the election of a man like Senator Fuller on the Democratic ticket. As the Republican conventions occur earlier than the Democratic the latter are in the strong tactical position of being able to take advantage of whatever move the Republicans make. If the Republicans nominate a weak or uncer. tain candidate for Congress, the Democrats would undoubtedly have a good chance to elect Senator Fuller to Congress and could relinquish the senatorial district.
If the Republicans nominate Lee Congress the Democrats would have time to study their chances cf beating him with Fuller in a three-cornered fight in which Waldo might be the Republican dog in the manger. It is believed to be the best tactics by leading Republicans of the district to nominate Lee for the Senate, and some man like Marcus Campbell of the Sixteenth for Congress. OBITUARY NOTES. Mary Adele Graham, wife of George Bennett of 486 Chauncey street, of the Bushwick Section, died Sunday at her home. She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Graham and was born in Manhattan January 10, 1853.
Her husband, three sons, Frank William A. and Edward Elmer, and two sisters survive her. Alfred Whittaker, a life-long resident of the Seventh ward of this borough, and a member of the Andrew Jackson (Democratic Club, died on Sunday at his residence at 375 Greene avenue. He was born January 18, 1882, and was a son of the late Joseph Whittaker. He was a jeweler and was a member of St.
Patrick's R. C. Church. His mother, Sarah Whittaker, two brothers, Joseph and Daniel, and a sister, Catherine, survive. Louls Getls, who for many years had been in business at the foot of Grand street, Manhattan, and who had lived at 1200 Bushwick avenue, died there Saturday.
Funeral services were held last night. the pastor of the Jefferson Avenue Lutheran Church officiating. He was born in Ritterhude, Germany, November 23. 1866, and came to New York when 14 years old. His wife, Lillie Bolte, and a daughter, Lillian, survive him.
Patrick Kelly, a rigger, employed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard for years, and a veteran of the Civil War, died at his home, 218 Sands street, yesterday, aged 60 years, of asthma. He was born in Ireland, and leaves a widow, Ann: a daughter, Katherine, and two brothers, John and Morgan. John McDonnell, an old resident of Long Island City, died on Sunday at his home. 161 Eleventh street. that place.
Mr. Me Donnell had been grieving for a month over the death of a. married daughter. and it is believed that grief hastened his death. The deceased 18 survived by a son and daughter.
Winnie Ella Smith, the wife of Frank E. Allen, who for thirty years had made their home in the Bedford section, died yesterday at her home, 388 Hart street. Her death was due to Bright's disease. She was born March 26, 1871, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and was the daughter of Milton 1.. and Elizabeth Smith.
Reside her husband the decensed leaven soft, a daughter, her mother and two sisters and two brothers. The Rev. Dr. Thomas Price, pastor of the Epworth E. Church, will officlate at the funeral services, which are to be held this evening.
CONRIEL SAILS FOR EUROPE. Heinrich Conried. former director of the Metropolitan Opera House, galled to-day for Europe on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm IL. Geraldine Farrar, the opera singer, was a passenger on the same steamer. Readers and critics of Four Pools Mystery" are agreed that the novel is work of "a writer of distinction" 29 the Philadelphia Inquirer puts it, but who is the writer? Anna Katharine Green has been a frequent surmise, and the New York Times is certain that "the unknown must be a Southerner and attached to a New York Journal." The publishers of the book are authority for the statement that neither of these two guesses is even BLESSING OF THE POPE FOR AMERICAN CHURCH Continued From Page 1.
tendom, and they will shine as stars of the first magnitude in the bright galaxy of deceased American prelates. "These two churchmen had each his predominant traits of character. MeCloskey, meek, gentle, retiring from the world, reminds us of Moses with uplifted hands, praying on the mountain. Hughes, active, bold, vigorous, aggressive, was like Joshua fighting in the valley, armed with the Christian panalopy of faith, truth and justice. The one recalls the prince of the apostles, blending authority with paternal kindness; the other reminds 115 of the apostle of the Gentiles, wielding the two-edged sword of the Spirit--the sword of the tongue and of the pen.
John McCloskey has the undivided distinction of being the first cardinal ever created on American soil, and this diocese shares the glory with him. Work of Archbishop Corrigan. "It is quite unnecessary in this assembly to dwell at any great length on the life of the late lamented Archbishop Corrigan. His virtues and good deeds are so fresh in the memory of all of usof his brothers in the Episcopate, his he clergy hearsal and at my laity--that hands. they need no obliged by his exalted position to appear in the public walks of life, he courted retirement, and 'his life was hidden with Christ in "It would ill become me to enlarge here in his presence on the merits and labors of the popular prelate who now happily presides over the destinies of this flourishing archdiocese.
He has taken up and holds with a firm and prudent hand the reins of government laid down by his illustrious predecessors. He enjoys the esteem, the confidence and affection of the clergy and laity committed to his spiritual jurisdiction. "And, while 'the solicitude of the churches' and the moral and religious welfare of his own people are the primary objects of his pastoral vigilance and zeal, nevertheless, like a true, patriotic prelate, he is always ready and eager to co-operate with his fellow citizens of every race and rank and religion in advocating anv measure that may redound to material and temporal well-being of the inhabitants of this great metrop- olis. Gigantic Strides of the Archbishopric us now make a brief survey of the gigantic strides which this archdiocese has made during the century that has come to a close. It is only by comparisons and contrasts that we can form an adequate estimate of this growth and expansion.
"According to a primer Catholic tory preserved in the Baltimore Cathedral archives, published in 1813, there were six priests ministering this diocese, which then, as I said, embraced the whole State of New York and a part of New Jersey. There was only one Catholic Church in the city--old St. Peter's--and a few modest houses of worship scattered far and wide over that immense area. The Catholic population numbered about 20,000 souls. As for colleges and academies, hospitals and asylums, were none of which any record is preserved.
"What is the situation to-day? In the same territory there are one archbishop and nine bishops. including a coadjutor and an auxiliary bishop, 2,536 priests, upward of 1,400 churches and a Catholic population of about 3,000,000. The whole region is now adorned with colleges, academies and schools, protectories, asylums and hospitals, and with all the appliances that religion and benevolence can devise for the alleviation of suffering humanity. New York is to-day the most important See in the United States and is second to the few, if indeed to any, in the whole Catholic world. "But among the various institutions that enrich this metropolitan See there is one structure which the hierarchy and faithful contemplate with peculiar pride and exultation; there is one edifice which is your joy and your crown, and that is the majestic Cathedral in which we are now assembled.
What the Cathedral Is. "In contributing to the erection of this church, you hav- done honor to yourselves. If it is a glory for a citizen to raise a monument to the father of his country, how much greater is the privilege of erecting monument to our Saviour and Father in heaven! "And as three kings took part in erecting Jerusalem's temple, 50 have three princes of the church united in the construction of this noble edifice. Archbishop Hughes secured the ground and projected the idea; Cardinal McCloskey erected the building, and Archbishop Corrigan, re -enforced by his successor, brought the work to a happy consummation. "But the times have changed; a privIlege that had been of yore exercised chiefly by crowned heads, is now relegated to the people.
You are a the heirs of a princely prerogative. And though you have not royal titles nor kingly wealth, you and your fathers have proved by your bountiful offerings that you possess royal hearts. "The most impressive sermon ever preached in this church is delivered by the cathedral itself. It is a sermon in marble. It preaches in silent but eloquent language to the immigrant daily arriving in your harbor.
"If the devout philosopher finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones and good in surely the Christian pilgrim, in casting his eyes around him in this church, will discover everywhere object lessons to quicken his faith, to strengthen his hope and nourish his love for his God and Saviour. Effect on the Mind of the Immigrant. "Let us imagine a foreigner coming today to New York from Germany, Switzerland or sunny Italy. Ag he walks through the streets of your city, he feels that he is in a strange land, a stranger to your country, to your institutions, and even to language. But, when his eyes fall your on this cathedral, with its cross-crowned spires pointing to the heavens, he feels that he has discovered an oasis in the desert, he has found one familiar spot in a foreign land.
He sees the paintings of the saints, and of the Lord of Saints whom he was accustomed to venerate at home. He sees the baptismal font which reminds him of his regeneration in the waters of Baptism. He sees the confessional where he knelt at the feet of the Lord's anointed and heard these saving words: 'Go In peace, thy sing are forgiven He sees the altarrailing where he partook of the Holy of Holles. He beholds the altar ablaze with lights. He sees the officiating Pontiff clothed in his sacred vestments.
"He listens to the peal of the organ and the chant of the choir. He hears the plaintive notes of the 'Kyrie Eleison' and the joyous anthem, the 'Gloria in Excelsis He hears words of the everlasting creed. He hearkens to the chant of the preface. that master-plece of musical composition, so simple, yet 80 sublime; so familiar, yet so majestic. He holds around him a multitude of kneeling worshippers, like himself, and he feels his heart of hearts that he is in presence of brothers and sisters, who have with him one Lord, one faith, one baptiem, one God and Father of all.
What the Church Owes to Immigration. "If we investigate the principal that have contributed to the growth this expansion of metropolitan must acknowledge that under God Indebted for this tide of Immigrants that for tury has steadily flowed to They have come British Isles, from trian empires, from France other portions of Catholle this heterogeneous unorganIzed mass of Christian soon disintegrate under stances, like a body thin air, their faith would vanish not and co-ordinthey were marshaled ated, nourished and sustained zeal and plety of a devoted and enlightened clergy. "But of all the nations that have Where a hundred perfumes simply make their presence known there is one that captivates, Kerkofts Dier- Kiss (Pronounced Dear Kiss' The most dainty and distinctive of French pertumes. Violette Kerkoff possesses the true violet fragrance Kerkoir's Vera Stella is new this season. For Sale Everywhere.
KERKOFF. PARIS. tributed to the upbuilding of the Church of Christ in the City of New York you will all avow with gratitude, whatever may be your own ancestry, that the post of honor must be assigned to the children of ever faithful Ireland. They have borne the brunt of the battle. Whatever may have been the unhappy causes that have led to the expatriation of so many of Ireland's sons and daughters from their native soil.
an overruling Providence has made their exile subservient to higher and holier purposes. I can safely say that there are few cities or towns in the United States, where the Catholic religion has not been proclaimed by priests and sustained by laymen of Irish birth or descent. A Word for the Future. "A word, in conclusion, to you, my brethren, who are the heirs of the faith of your fathers. It is your sacred mission to see to it that the glorious prophecy of Isaiah will be amply fulfilled, and that the twentieth century will emulate the century that has closed by the growth and expansion of the Church of Christ.
This result you will accomplish by COoperating with your bishops and clergy in promoting every good work undertaken in the cause of religion and humanity. "When the bishop, his clergy and people are united there is no such word as fail. They are sure to succeed. They form a triple cord that cannot be broken. They are engaged in a triple alliance more formidable and enduring than the alliance of kings and emperors; for yours is an alliance, not of flesh and blood, but a compact cemented by faith, hope and charity.
"Above all, take an abiding and a vital interest in all that affects the welfare of your holy religion. Let the words of the royal psalmist be your inspiring watchword: "If.I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten. Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee: if I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy." President Sent Congratulations. Scores of comunications reached the archbishop from ministers and laymen of all denominations. including Bishop Greer, Rabbi Silverman and the Rev.
DE. C. L. Jefferson. President Roosevelt wrote as follows: "My dear Archbishop--Let me take 00- casion, on the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the diocese of New York, to extend to you my hearty congratulations and my earnest good wishes for the future of yourself and of your diocese.
Sincerely yours, (Signed) "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." At the close of the mass, Mgr. Falconio, who represented the Vatican, imparted the papal blessing. There will be pontifical vespers this evening, the apostolic delegate, will be celebrant. Archbishop Glennon will preach. The clergy of the archdiocese will give a dinner this afternoon to the visiting prelates.
Among the bishops now in town are Burke of Albany, Fitzmaurice of Erie, Canevin of Pittsburg, McFaul of Trenton, Gabriels of 0g- densburg, O'Connor of Newark, Donahue of Wheeling, W. Va. There will be ception to-morrow night at the Catholic Club. MARRIAGE LICENSES Issued in Brooklyn for Twenty-foun Hours Ended at Noon To-day. Patrick Hagerty, 28 years, 660 Ninth av, Annie Farrell, 24 years, 207 Greene av.
Jamies W. Brown (colored), 24 yearn, 10 PaX. road av, New Rochelle, N. and Carrie Charles Butner (colored), 24 years, 2109 Dean st. L.
Shaw. 23 years, 828 Glenmore av, and Lather Sonenteld, 21 years, same address. William Georgiana Fohnsbee, 29 years, 551 Warren st, and Kilduff, 28 yours, Butler Theodore H. Birgel, 24 Mullin, years, 22 839A. Greene av.
Margaret E. years, 871 Bushwick av. Bernhard Hess, 22 yeare, 421. Fifty-ninth st, and Loretto Russo, 18 years, 354 Forty-ninth st. John Mohrmann, 40 years, 362 South Second st, and Emma Stalker, 33 years, same address.
Charles K. Kinkel, 21 years, 204 Irving av. and Ella Weinbrecht, 18 years, 895 Melross st. Arthur E. Smith, 34 years, Freeport, Nassau County, L.
and Emma L. Tyson, 24 years, 784 Halsey st. Edward A. Prescott. 22 years, 196 Warren Bt, and Osterburg, 19 years, 263A Seventeenth st.
Michael J. Connolly, 23 years, 501 Fifty-eightn st, and Anna T. Smith, 22 years, same address. Frederick Debold, 31 years, 493 Lorimer st. and Martha Vielbig, 26 years, 86 Bleecker st.
Paul Sanders, 27 years, 34 Oak st, New York City, and Ingoronata Berardi, 20 years, 228 Tillary st. Thomas R. Queen, :20 year, 2963 West First st, Coney Island, and Margaret Arndt, 19 years, same address. Leonard E. Elmore, 27 yeare, 322 East One Hundred and Forty st, New York, and Susan T.
Provost, 24 years, 501 Lincoln av. Otto H. Siegler, 31 years, 83 Montrose av, and Bertha. Decker, 19 years, 135 Ten Eyek st. Alexander Cohen, 24 years.
29 Attorney st, New York City, and Bertha Kaplan, 21 yeara, 200 Boerum st. Martin Bosch. 29 years. Third place, and Ingeborg Scharf, 23 353 Furman st. Arthur D.
Thaler, 22 years. 5233 East Eightysecond st, Manhattan, and Sarah berg. years, 110 Humboldt st. Henry Lopotkin, 26 years, 85 Brennen st, and Tillie Gottlieb, 19 years, 38 Montrase nv. Harry L.
Hillman, 26 years. 880 Hanco*ck and Hazel M. Quantin, 23 years, 172 Starling pl. Max Rosenfeld, 28 years, 621 Flushing ay, and Fannie Urgan, 27 youre, 54 Belmont av. Barett Rubin, 38 yearn, 474 Hackman at, and Sarah Loss, 28 yearN, same addream, Russell V.
Johnson, 20 years. 01 Bouth: Porte land ay, and Josephino A. Norton, 10 same address. Jerome R. Sheridan, 22 yente, 129 Clifton and May A.
Burhenne, 21 yearn, 949 burg Bernard Fabian. 24 yearn, 115 Bay Twenty-4fth Bath Bench. and Amella Kaltou, 20 years, 954 Hanco*ck st, Joseph Welck, 24 yours, 199 Montroso and Annie Zink, 50 yearn. 178 Montrose AV. Edward 23 yeare, 07 Hartlett st.
and Sadie Spiegel, 21 years. 173 Hopkine Gregorto Guerel. 28 venre, 20 Carroll. et, and years. 190 Hamilton av.
Banquet Wetner, yeara, 510 flockaway av. and Wetner, 28 years, 519 way a.V. Irradore 22 yearn, 311 Neptune AV, Coney Island. and Long, Hehwarte, 23 years, Walk, Coney Island. Wodalmten Achulte, 24 years, Orand et, L.
and Anna. 21. yenta, 254 Grove st. John A. Hhopperd, 28 yours, Firet place, and Etella Rogers, Third st, Mileula, 71 North Seventh at.
Barbara Retolt, yearn, 71 North Hoventh st. Maurice Scher, 21 yearn Vermont et, and Minnio Ruder, 10 249 Powell st. Stephen Atate st, and nia Snozko, youre, 343 State wt. John Kieran 1708 Recond AV. New Vorte ICennedy, 40 years, 144 Atlantto Ernest 05 vears, 33 8t.
Mark' Lareen, 21 years, 499 1573 yours. Theodore Mary 21 yours. 031 trand Edwin Lindetron. 24 yearn. 902 ThirtyGrondahl, 19 years, Sixteenth st, and Aixteenth years, East TwentyBole, 23 years, 932 Johnebury, Marion Walbridie, years, 83 pine Plains, Bella IL.
Pillott place, Fonth Renond and 03 Pio. Cuba, McDon- Ruran Van Buren Evergreen, 315 Jet- Hamburg Maserate vents. 2333 Stockton st. and Quines (colored), 11.6 Fulton at. and 161 M.
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