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New-York tribune., 1903-02-14
APPOINTS C1PT. SMITH.
General Greene Makes HIM In
specfOr-Ttco Ne7C Captains.

Police Commissioner Greene yesterday promoted
CAPTAIN EIbert o. Smith to be inspector and as
signed him the Second Inspection District SEND
ing Acting Inspector O'Brien back to the command
of the police i'm Leonard-st captain. and trans
ferring Captain Ward from Leonard-st. to MuI-
berry-st For several years Inspector Smith had
been the commander OF the police steamboat the
Patrol, and had charge of the police work in the
harbor. General Greene said OF the appointment vi
Inspector Smith
II asked the Civil Service Commission for an ell
gibIe list for one Inspector, and they sent me the
names of Captain Smith. Captain SchnlttoerSer
and Captain Titus. ] have appointed Cap'dhi
Smith because his name heads the list, and nave
assigned him to the command of the Second lnspec-
ton District which includes the lower west Sioe
from Fourteenth-st. to the Battery and the Mui-
berrv-st station. He takes the place OF FORMER
Inspector Donald Grant. who was dismissed There
was no question as to the eligibility OF captain
Smith as he is a veteran and his name was hrst on
the list
Commissioner Greene announced that he had ap-
pointed ten roundsmeu. Asked how long the chal-
1enGe of Captain Schmittberger sent to him on
ThTrsdav was 10 remain open. the Commissioner
said he had nothing TO say. he said ne was ho'
Commissioner Greene in the afternoon appointed
two ms hed out of Of Witch Sh Stood Sergeant Joseph
G Gehegan. he picked Sergeants william Z: nou ed
gS GI th of tbe BedoTdaSe station Brooklyn
This is the second time tiehegan has eeTn v5y he
and General Greene will give no reason why u"
Captain Gallagher was appointed 20 tns LoIC M Iii III
November "a 1884; made d roundSIan on sp.Il
is 1892. and sergeant on July = Isyi IdptaIi ~
Bodsns made a patToiman on r feDrudIy -
iSsS = Toundsman on December s, 1890. and ser
Zeant on August 16 1894. -, r..
ftaDtnin Gallagher was assigned to the East
Tvrenty-second-st station. Captain cannon was
dismissed from the force while it's commander ana ana
f'antain Fitzpatrck. the last head there. IS now
under charges. Captain Hodgins goes to Madlson-
,t TenIscinp CAPTAIN Creamsr. who got roast
ing letter from Commissioner Greene. which ne
took to the Fort Hamilton station, to Which ne IS
transferred. 1,... f,,.-
General Greene in the letter tells Captain Crea1ner
that he s dissatisfied with his work in the Madl-
enust station. that ne has failed make reports
10 him on the vice in the precinct and that out or
six important Investigations he ought 10 have at
tended 10 personally he only took personal interest
in one the Sunday law. The Commissioner tells
New-York tribune., 1903-02-14
COLONEL JONES WINS A POINT.
Appellate Division Gives Him Writ Against
Commissioner Wilcox

TIE Appellate Division Of the Supreme Court yes
terdsy reversed the action IF the Special Term and
granted 10 Colonel James J.. Jones an alternative
writ Of mandsmus directing Park Commissioner
Wilcox to show cause why lac should not reinstate
Colonel Jones as superintendent of the Aquarium.
Loionel Jones removed April 80 last
Justice I.aughlin in the opinion says that the
petitioner should have been dismissed. even
II his position lawfully abolished. His dis
charge Was expressly forbidden 10y amended see
tioH Of the Civil Service law in force before his
discharge. He entitled To have his name GER
;ified 10 the Municipal Civil Service Commission for
reinstatement Tor the same or corresponding
class Of work At most he was only suspended
hy operation Of law-he could be removed or
discharged.
Justice f.aGgnlin moreover, that facts are
disclosed bv the record tending to support the
charge that there was bad faith in the aboiishng
. fll.. noefficrl.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-14
LAY IN CELL WITH CRUSHED SKULL
Coroner Investigating Case Ambulance Sur
geon Called Alcoholism.

Coroner's Physician O'Hanlon yesterday hidue
an autopsy on the body of James l.. Iasgart'
of No. IA Grand-st., Brooklyn, who died III d
cell at the Eldridge-st. station after being de-
clared to be simply drunk" by an ambulance
surgeon called from the Gouverneur Hospital
DR.. O'Hanlon found that Taggart instead OIL
dying from alcoholism. as was supposed hau
died from violence. The left side of the Skull
was crushed in, and death had been due 10 eA-
tensive laceration and hemorrhage OF the pIdiii'
DR.. OHanon after the autopsy said;
Coroner Jackson on my recommendation Will
make a thorough investigation, to mo ou'
whether the injuries We're received before or
after Taggart placed in the cell.
II want TO condemn the mode OF treatment VI vi
alcoholic patients not only by the ambulance
surgeons but by the doctors who subsequently
receive them. A suffering from acute d.
coholism is as sick morally as a smallpox pa
rient is physically, and should receive the ten
derest and best of care for about month.
Alcoholics when in a cOnValeScent state are
glad of q place to stay. and after they nave beeh
put in good condition to prevent repeaters tney
can safely be put in a penal institution IL the
law so demands.
Coroner Jackson said he would sift the case
thoroughly.
"Dr. O'Hanlon's report to me is of very Sc
rious nature" he said. After what happened
in the case of the unfortunate McAulife, the
community demands the most careful inVestlga-
fion of all cases like that of Taggarts, whether
or not he be the victim of brutal attack or OF
natural causes
President Lederle said last night that in
Rrooklvn q man in an intoxicated condition
was taken TO a hospital That he said one
of the old rules. bat in Manhattan there was
no order of the Health Board that provides
for such persons. He continued:
1t is an imperative need that men in an IN
toxicated condition be cared for and they can
not in the police stations. 1 believe that they
should be taken to a hospital and thoroughly
New-York tribune., 1903-02-14
R4IDS on TURF OFFICES.
Three Closed an Cticago-Head OF
Il Fourth Escapes.

Chicago Feb 13.-Raids were MADE OH the
offices of three turf investment companies mere
this afternoon by detectives. and a nuihper VI
attaches were arrested. The heao Oh i0u 80
concern warned Of the raids, escaped before the
detectives arrived. The firms visited py the
nolice were the II. Brolaski Company, NO ooo
Dearborn-st: Benedict & Co. No 10 Dearporh-
st the Mi6-Continent Investment Company,
No 1S5 Dearborn-st., and A. j. Demorest & Co..
Temple Court Building. Dearborn and quincy
SITS. When the detectives reached the De1norest
place the president of the company, A. j. Dem
crest could not be found and there were d
numher of patrons in front of the locked doors
clamoring for payment
The raids followed a general police order 10
close all fraudulent turf exchanges in the city
Three squads of detectives started out SllnuI-
taneously to round up the alleged Offenders
The heads of the Benedict and Brolaski con-
Germs were booked at the police station on state
charges of conducting a bookmaking business
and on city charges of running gambling enter
prises Harry Brolaski and Henry Thompson, or
the Brolaski company, and NJ. j. Beck, W. j.
Mason and Matty Woodsin, the last named a
woman. released on bonds OF SJOO eacn, OF
which $500 was for the State charge and SZoo
for the city charge.
There are numerous other turf investment
establishments in Chicago and more-TaldS prop
ably will be made tomorrow. The circulars
seized to-day reveal it is said, several ingenious
new schemes. Letters from men, women and
boys in nearly every town in the Middle West
found, with hundreds or communications
from Chica goans
1t is said the total lost by investors will
amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-14
BENIsCH GETS 20 DAYS AND a FINE
Man Who Was Bribed to Fix an Appoint
ment Sentenced.

No 42S East Fifty.1rst-st, formerly probationary
patrolman. who convicted OF having accepted
a bribe OF 500 on the promise TO get Thomas B..
Gavin, twenty-sx years old, of No % Bedford-st..
sppointed a fireman, sentenced yesterday TO
serve twenty davs in the City Prison. and pay
fine Of $500 or serve a day in prison for each
dollar unpaid Louie Lowenstein. who defended
the prisoner. said he thought the sentence light
At the beginning of the week District Attorney
Jerome asked that the prisoner receive severe
sentence 1t is said that Benischs father Will pay
the fine. ~
Bensch ran physical culture school at No
He was approached on July % tn,o by Gavin VINO Who
offered Benisch s400 if he would fix; it. The
money was deposited in the Lincoln National
Rank These proceedings witnessed by Joseph
N ONen a detective employed by the CITIZENS
Union. who testified against Benisch
New-York tribune., 1903-02-14
BILL FOR POLICE LlEUTENANTS.

Albany Feb. 13.-AssembIyman Frederick E.
Wood introduced to-day bill creating the office Of
lieutenant of police in New-York City. The text of
the bill follows:
Section I. All members of the Police Department
of the city of New-York who are known and deSig-
mated sergeants of police shall hereafter be
known and designated as lieutenantS of police: and
all persons now known and designated rounds
of police shall hereafter be known and desig-
mated serCeants of police.
Sec ,. Lfeutenants and sergeantS of police shall
respectively continue to be paid the same annual
compensa tion and be eligible to the same pension
provisions they enjoyed prior to the of this
Sec 3. Captains of police shall hereafter be Sc
lect0d from lieuenants of police who have hereto
fore served serseants of police least three
years continuously and HeutenantS of police shall
he selected from sergeantS of police who have here
tofoTe served roundSmcn of police at least two
continuously.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-14
MANY TREES DESIROlEU
Gin authorities Likely to Prosecute
Loht and PO7cer' Company.
.0HlDuHH.

The citizens ef Bayside, Long Island are pro-
testing against the cutting of the branches OF the
trees along Broadway. that town, which Is oeins
done by the New-York and Queens Electric Light
and Power Company to enable IL 10 put UP hs"',
pcles They say the most beautiful parts OF
those trees which line the famous driveway on
the north side OF Long Island are being destroyed
Henry Clay Weeks sent a communication q
NIavor Low in which he said that there was one
stretch of about mile or more along the man
thc--:-hfare which runs through F1ushlhs 10
Roslvn and the east where the trees had been
recently irreparably damaged. in some places the
side next TO the road being entirely cut on, ana
in others the entire tops being hacked of as mueh
as twenty feet or more. Mr.. Weeks says thdt 'ie
wires should be laid in conduts.
Mayor Low replied that he had referred he'sup-
iecs TO Commissioner Monroe. of the Department
of Water supply Gas and Electricity. and TO Rich
ard Young Park Commissioner of BROOKLYN anu
Queens. with the request that they investigate IN
the mean time preventing any further daihaee'
Commissioner Young wrote to Mr.. Weeks lhaI ne
had received the request OF Mayor Low anu "'
be had communicated with the police authorities III
Flushing asking them to report 10 him any piac-
ing of poles or wires or any attempted oesii uo
tion of trees so that he could Immediately tahe
steps 10 prevent such destruction Con9nnlsSbUre
Young asked the co,opera tion OF ayea ar and also
who lives at Bayside. part OF the EeaI. ,,ta TIC
asked the Corporation Counsel 10 Pio9oN"'e ~
ooR1bbsE Wbbsn the cmployes OF tho NewYork and New
Jersey Telephone Company started TO eItct PJIod
in front of Mr. Weeks's property the latter Sallea
Queens and Commissioner Monroe. lHtSF io5ns Tl nor
aVeo TO-. hori,na In us hermit Commissioner Bermel
informed Mr. Weeks that he would have me PoleS @
from his nremises They refused to go. and ne
to Flushing and secured nnG rnen The lat
went to Bayside and made the men stop "oiA
Mr Weeks is irving 10 get an injunction against
the company. The order will be argued To-Day.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-14
SHUTS UP 4SBURY BANK.
Doors of the First National Closed
by the ETaminer.
BAD SHORE INVESTMENT THE CAUSE.
fBY TELEsRApa TO rHc TnIBUxE.I

lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIsUSE.J
Asbury Park. y. j., Feb. 13.-Bad investments
in seashore property. which almost absorbed
the surplus and undivided profits and impaired
It's capital caused the Controller Of the Cur
reaey to close up the First National Bank here
shortly before noon. and Bank Examiner John
w scho1eld is now in charge as receiver.
The Monmouth Trust Company, which num-
bers among it's officials several who drec-
tors of the First National Bank, but which is
an entirely distinct institution. occupies quar-
ters in the same building. The closing Of the
bank caused a number of depOsitors TO rush TO
the trust company and demand their money.
The officials OF the trust company assured their
excited patrons that the concern would not be
affected by the closing OF the bank but this
statement failed to satisfy the perturbed de-
positors So in order to prevent run on the in
stftution President Twining at noon closed the
doors temporarily. The trust company will re-
sumo business tomorrow morning. Examiner
SchofeId is now preparing statement OF the
assets and liabilities OF the bank
The officers Of the bank are: President.
George Fred KroehI. a New-Tork bris,ie i'm
porter. ice-president Or. Samuel Johnson
cashier. Martin H. Scott: assistant cashier.
J. f. Davis. The directors are George Fred
KroehI Albert 9 Twfning Daniel c. Covert,
Isaac G. Kennedy. Dr. Samuel Johnson. J. e.
Davis and NJ J.. Bamman-
President KroehI when seen tonight. refused
TO talk at length. He declared. though. thai
the depositors would be paid in full Cashier
Scott made this statement:
Il am satisfied in my own mind that the de-
positors will be paid in full We have been
struggling against heavy losses sustained sew
erai years ago. We could have gone on had We
been. properly supported. + have nothing fur
ther to say in the matter. The bank IS now IN
charge of Mr.. Schofeld.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-14
ACCUSES HARLEM HOSPITAL DOCTORS.

Rose Littner fifteen years old, Of No 4@D East
Eighty sixth-st-. was seriously injured yesteiu I'd!
roornine, bv being knocked down and dragged by a
Third car at One-hundred-a nd-eighth-st. and
Third-ave. She was dragged nearly one hundred
feet. Patrolman Duffy of the East One-hundred-
and-fourth-st. station. summoned an ambulance
from the Harlem Hospital and the girl was taken
there. She was bleeding profusely from the nose
and Duffy did not arrest the motorrnan, say
ing he did not do because the physician. DR..
Donovan, who answered the call, said the girl was
not seriously injured. Harry Jackson, a store
keeper at No. 1850 Third-ave., declared afterward
that he had been to the hospital. and found the
girl covered with blood, lying cot. uncared
for and unattended and in danger Of dying: Miss
Gainsforth. the head nurse. and DR. SleVin, the
house surgeon. denied Jackson's statements.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-14

Creamer he did nothing about gambling houses,
disordery houses, the Liquor Tax law policy play
captain Creanler takes the place in Fort Hamil-
ton of Captain Michael Devanney, who is now
under charges -..
In the letter General Greene also says:
Your report of the arrests made for VIOLATION OF
considered. Some of them were manifestly proper.
such as those made for selling meats and other
articles from their stores, which is prohibited py
Section 267 of the Penal Code. on the other hand
the arrest of certain persons for working on sun
day was doubtful propriety, in view OF the pro-
visions of Section 264 of the Penal code. ana II
those arrested had had benefit of counsel when
brought before the magistrate it is probable that
they would have been discharged. While your ac-
ton in enforcing the law under Section 261 of the
Penal Code is approved your arrest OF men WORK
ing at sewing machines. without making inquiry to
ascertain the facts referred in Section 26 of the
Penal Code. shows an error OF Judgment Oh SOui
RI
New-York tribune., 1903-02-14
FULL TILT INTO PILLAR.
Dri1ey. Wrecks Ambulance To SaUf
CHiLd-He and Doctor Hurt.

To save the life of a child who stood bewil-
,1ored in the middle OF the street Peter ORourke
drove a st. Vincents Hospital ambulance into a
nillar of the elevated road at Sixth-ave. and
Fighth-st last night and completely demolished
it The ambulance going at full speed In
response to a hurry call from No 81 Mott-st
and was in charge of Dr. Donovan. ORourke
and DR. Donovan were thrown to the street
and rendered unconscious by shock. They were
carried to an undertaking establishment near
by. where they were revived. Both had num-
ber of body bruises, and were taken back to the
hospital in cab The ambulance was total
wreck The horse broke loose from the wreck
age and ran to Carmne-st.. where he was capt
ured by policeman
The name of the child could not be learned
O'Rourke was driving down SiXth-aVe' at d
f,,rious mace when the form of the child doomed
IN before him. She started to cross the street,
and when half way between the curb and the
line of pillars that support the elevated struct-
ure she became bewildered by the changing oeil
and stood perfectly still petrifed with rear Inc
ambulance was making straight for her. ana
O'Rourke could not guess which way she "ouio
run He was so near that it too late to
stop. so he turned toward the elevated plilarS'
as tho child seemed to be nearer to the curb.
1t was a narrow place he had to go through out
he shut his teeth and trusted to Providence.
Inst as he thought he could go through safely
the child by some impulse started toward the
a,,,b,lance ORourke gave the lines a sharp
n11li and ran one of the front wheels into ptl-
lar There was q terrlnc crash
0'Rourke was picked up and carried into an
undertaking shop. DR.. Donovan, also uncon-
scious was carried after him. On reSalnlhS
consciousness O'ROurke's hrst question was.
aaIoil6 hurt
New-York tribune., 1903-02-14
BIG THEFTS FROM NJ
T5oo Prisoners and GLoUes W0rth
50. 800 CnDtHred,

Two policemen attached TO the West One
hundred and ffty-second-st station. arrested
two men yesterday who, Captain England be-
lieves, are members of gang that has been
systematically robbing freight cars on the New
York Central and Hudson River Railroad When
arrested the two men were in a wagon contain
ing boxes OF silk gloves worth about $500. and
they were driving away from the river in an un-
freouented lane near Ons-hundred- and seven
tieth-st They gave their names as Joseph Cor
coran of No. 63 Amsterdam-ave.. and George
Graham. of No. $40 West Forty-seventh-st-
For many months freight Tobberies have
baf7ed the police, private detectives and Chief
Detective Hurnphries of the New-YOrk Central.
The police believe that discharged employees
of the road and express companies are in league
with the gang, and expect to make more ar
rests within day So
Detective Nienan and Bicycle Policeman Lie
bold were in the lane when they saw the wagon
approaching LieboId hid behind d tree Just
as Nieman was about to stop the wagon the
driver whipped up his team and drove furioUsly
toward Broadway Nieman fired his pistol IN
the air. and Liebold. waiting until the wagon
had passed him. gave chase on his wheel rs
he drew near he aimed his revolver at the
drivers head. The man pulled up his horses
and then the policeman took the outfit TO the
station.
When the hVe Jute pdSS III the NdSoH "ele
opened over two hundred boxes of white, black
and drab silk gloves were found. The men
could not explain to the satisfaction of the police
where they got them. and were locked up Some
of the boxes we're water soaked, and Captain
England thinks that they were thrown from a
southbound freight or express car, and that
some of them fell into the river.
Several detectives, with Captain England, at
once went to the tracks near the lane In the
water they found American Express wrap
per. showing that some goods mad been con-
signed to the Castle Island Line Company. ct
No 81 White-st from the drygoods house OF
John G.. Myers in Albany. The police could not
learn last night whether the wrapper had con-
tanned the gloves, whether the finding OF the
wrapper indicated another robbery
New-York tribune., 1903-02-14
STOLE ABOUT 100000.
Representative of Sargent Company Makes
That Estimate of Hugheson's Thefts

The losses of the Sargent Manufacturing Conn
pany. of Muskegon Mich. due to the thefts of its
local manager. Henry E. Hugheson who killed
himself at his home. No. 659 Bedford-ave Brook
lyn. on Tuesday would not reach 100000. so 1t
said at the store, No Bible House, yesterday
William H. Smith. who is here from the West
said the lawyers had the books, and report
not expected next week. Meanwhile il was
impossible TO estimate the shortage.
Mr. Smith said Hugheson had been manager
about three years. and was considered thoroughly
trustworthy For ten years he had done business
with the firm. Hugheson had full swing.
questioning his acts but at last stories about
fine living on a salary of about 81 800 reached the
president of the company. and inquiry was
begun. This ended in the dismissal of Hugheson
and his suicide followed the arrival OF Mr. Smith
to take charge of the business.
Mr.. Smith said Hugheson had bought goods with
a free hand in the name of the firm, and sold them
friends. taking the money. Now the bills are
coming in to be met by the company. "One of the
methods" Mr.. Smith said, was TO put chattel
mortgage on the property. This had been done on
the stock and the teams since Hugheson left
The making the loan had done SO before and
supposed IT all right. We cannot tell the mag
ntude of this old mans performances In the war
with Spain the company sold through him thou
sands of cots TO the government All this will
have TO be looked into. / am closing out the husi
here, though not on account of the trouble
The company will probably establish an agency
The funeral of Hugheson takes place too5sv q,
his home I'm BROOKLYN Hugheson was in his
sixty-fourth year.
Muskegon. Mich. Feb. 13.At the office here of
the Sargent Manufa curing Company the amount
of the shortage In the New-York branch of the
institution could not be learned. IT was denied
positively however. that Is was anything like 800
00A. was reported here. Al "A secret meetng
this the directors Of the concern decided f6
abandon the NewYork branch A short time a 90
$50 o" worth Of new preferred stock was issued
the company over the shortage.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-14
WANTS DIVORCE FROM ARCHITECT
Mrs. Worthington Scott Begins Suit-Mar-
riage elimination of Romance.

Ms Gertrude L. Brdsall Scott. of Bay Side.
Long Island has begun divorce proceedings against
her husband Worthington Scott. Justice Gaynor
at Erooklvn has appointed Felix McCloskey as
erarae TO hear the case and Mrs Scott has been
granted an interlocutory judgment. which will go
into effect three months from now.
Mr. Scott is a graduate of Harvard. and is an
architect and it was while at the home of a Mr..
RirdsaII who was associated with him at his work
that he first met Miss Gertrude Birdsall. He had
fallen and broken a leg, and Miss Birdsal nursed
him until he recovered. On June q. 1898, they were
married at the Broadway Tabernacle by the Kew.
DR. Charles f.. jefferson.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-14
ANOTHER RAID AT "PApDY's. -

The periodical raid of Paddy the Pigs" at Thir-
ty-sixth-st. and Sixth-ave.. made about
O'Clock yesterday afternoon by Captain Myles
O'Reflly. Two of his men accompanied him.
The alleged pooIroom is on the second floor,
which is supposed 10 be occupied by the Murray
Hill Athletic Association
When Captain ORely entered the room he vas
met by jack McAuliffe. the ex-prizehghter and
the alleged proprietor In the were ninety-One
men who showed no signs Of any great excite
ment. Six were arrested.