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CAPT, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
sEyENTY.FIRST REGIMENT MAN
TAKES SLOW FIRE MEDAL.
cant. McAlpin Of tho Seventh in second
place Al End Of First stage q National
Natch--New York Men Do Well Under
DIsakreeablo Conditions ~ Sea Gist.

SEA Glnr, Aug. 2S.--New York won the nrst
nonors In tho uncompleted national individ-
maI match to-day. Capt. George W. CorwIn
~ the seventy first Regiment putting up
yon score for the slow fire aggregate with
total of 1872 points. This WAS scored out
~ possible 200 points for the 200.
40. 500 and 600 yards, and captured the gold
medal offered for the Highest, aggregate at
the slow fire ranges. Corwin 10 one OF the
cracks OF the New York team and has been
member Of tho state team for the last three
years.
at Creedm DOR he won the state championship.
and his work this season has been consistently
strong Capt b. b. McAlpin OF the Seventh
New York was close on hIs team mates heels
with n total OF 1870. and the win was not decided
untl McAlpins last shot at 600 yards was
marked up. The splendid work OF Col. Thurs
tons men stood out consplcuously through
out the two days shooting. and all OF the team
members averaged centers or above for tho
four ranges Their scores follow:
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Miscellaneous.

l.. Tannenbaum Strauss d Co. were the
brokers In the sale Of Nos. 1T and lie Mercer
street, for the Farmers Loan and Trust Com
papy, to Herman\ Wronkow,
Samuel ?. Styles q Styles Cash 70 the
Maclay 4 Davies were the brokers Id the
sale OF Nos. s2S and 327 West Hath street.
for Francis NJ. Joncks.
Ferdinand Marx 10 the buyer OF Nos. 100
and 2e2 West Thirty-seventh street. Ezekiel
pous glass Robinson. Charles g. Brown 4
Co., who have been appointed to appraise
ne entire real estate holding Of the Equitable
Life, Assurance Society. have selected
+. j. T. q. Grant OF 1870 MOnta cue street.
Brooklyn. TO represent, them 10 that borough,
Charles T. Duross has leased for John j..
Collins to Mrs. Mary McAlllster the three
story and basement dwelling No. .s2a West
Elshteenth street MI; Duross has also
leased TO Jerome Bur gietto for Cornella r..
Nash the ak story new law tenement at
the southeast corner Of Thompson and Prince
streets for hve years. at an aggregate rental
There we've NO auction sales q the Rsa.
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APARTMENT HOTELS.
ABOVE lATH ST.. WEST SIDE.
hOIEL MAJ lE ANTOlNETTE
Broadway, o6th u 9Th Sc.
Special Inducements for early Autumn.

East loSth street. new six story fiat. with
stores. on plot sOxiOO.Il.
18TH STREET.-Gross 4 Abramson have
sold Nos. 322 and 324 East nth street,
two six story tenements. on plot 60xI00.iI.
BROOK AVENUE. Clarence Davies has
sold for Joseph Smaller the plot 5Oaii 10
on the east side OF Brook avenue. 1853 feet
north OF Tooth street.
2loTH 9TREET.-Max German sky has bought
street, running through to RuSkln street,
IFS feet west Of Fourth avenue.
OAKLAND rI.ACE.-Otto Leopard has sold
two family house. on lot 2Sxi26.
CLINTON AVENUE.-James Kelly has sold
to Clarence R. Wells No. 1858 Clinton ave.
nue., Q two story dwelling. on lot 20xi00.
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MOTHER PROsECUTEs HER son.
Presses Charge Of Larceny and Says IT,
for His Good.

for His Good.
Alleging that her son had been driven
TO crime by drink. Rebeooa Murray In the
Flushing police court before City Magis-
trate Healey yesterday declined to with
draw q charge Of burglary she had made
against him. She said 1t would DO . mis-
take to do 20 and that she was acting kndly
In prosecuting him and keeping him In
Jail.
George Murray, the prisoner. 10 n years
old. He IL Q graduate Of the College Of
the City Of New York and his father "a
connected With . prominent Manhattan
firm. Mrs. Murray says that an effort TO
stop his drinking by allowing him no money
caused him to bIrslsrise her house and
steal her wedding ring, 2 diamond Pin,
watch. valued In oil at 500.
In court young Murray offered to return
the stolen articles and promised to reform,
but his mother declined to accept his
promises because he had broken previous
ones. he was committed.
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fhe scores for the slow fire made by the
WANTS TO SEIZE ITS CHARTER.
Texas Railroad Commission Says the H0us.
ton and Texas Central Broke the Law.

Texas Railroad Commission says tho H0us.
ton and Texas Central Broke the Law.
AUSTIN, Tex, Aug. A.-The Railroad Com
mission to-day sent to Attorney General r.
V. Davidson an order instructing him to
institute suit in the district court here
against the Houston and Texas Central
Railroad Company for forfeiture Of its
charter and the appointment Of receiver
Of the property. the grounds for the pro-
posed action being that tho company has
violated the Constitution and laws Of the
State OF Texas.
Attorney General Davidson will file the
suit as soon as the papers In the case can
be prepared. The order u signed by all
three members Of the commission. This
entirely une xpected. Commissioner ALI
son Mayheld has been urging that suit Of
this character be brought against that road
Z number of motions to that effect from
time to time, but until now the other two
members Of the commission never agreed
with him that the road should be prose-
cuted
1t is charged in the Railroad Commissions
Central, the Texas and New OrieAns and
the Houston, East and West TexaA roads,
while chartered under the laws Of Texas
are owned and controlled blythe 6outhern
Pacific Company, a corporation organized
under the laws Of Kentucky, and that these
three north and south roads are competing
lines The Railroad Commission made SINH
Jar charges against the Texas and New
orleans and the Houston, East and West
Texas roads some months ago and final
action is held up pending the outcome Of
Negotiations that we're said to Be pending
Tor the sale OF the Texas and New Orleans
road to a separate corporation. This sale
vas authorized by special act Of the last
plish ed.
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ANOTHER POST. OFFICE ROBBED.
safe Blowers visit = jersey Town. but
Get Only SAG.

FLEMlNoroN, N. j.. Aug. 25.-Burglars
blew open the safe In the Three Bridge
post Office early this morning and awoke
nearly half the town. The thought Of
burglars did not enter tho minds Of the
residents, and 1t was not until $50 O'Clock
that the robbery was discovered by Post
master Charles H. Wood.
A large piece OF the safe was blown
through the building. A hole was blown
into the ceiling just over where the safe
stood and the floor beneath the safe Was
ripped up. About % In cash and $40 worth
Of postage stamps were taken, together
With Postmaster Woods papers. One Of
the packages OF stamps had Just. been
received from the Government and con-
tanned Sis worth. The burglar! did not
made TO open the money drawer, which
contained q small amount Of cash and
stamps.
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THE GANG WAS THERE.
Monk Eastman Old Followers Sec Com
rade Acquitted Of Murder Charge.

rade Acquitted Of . Murder Charge.
Members OF Monk Eastman's old gang
crowded tho Coroner's court yesterday.
when an inquest was held into the death
OF Tom O'Brien. The young mon were
friends OF Thomas Cominsky, alias tom
Buff, who is charged with shooting O'Brien
on July %. -
According to Mrs. Weddermeyer. who
u q tenant In the house at 204 Alleu street,
whore O'Brien was employed - janitor,
OF the Eastman gang who had . room there.
In carrying out the order o'Brieo was
shot and killed.
Tho Witnesses told contradictory stories
and appeared to be disturbed by the
p. essence Of the young men,.
bring in verdict OF acquittal.
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NEW BRuNswIox, N. j., Aug. 25.-Ths little
village Of Marksboro, In Warren county,
recently received considerable notoriety
over the fact that there had been no births
In tho town In five years. The spell has
been broken ct last by Mrs. Milton Garrison,
nee Shotwell. Mr.. and Mrs. Garrison are
born It The honae Of the mothers psrents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nason Shotwell. In MArks-
boTo. Il u . girl
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NAY BRING IN OTHERS.
Morgan Estate Cashier Pleads Not Guilt,
His Story to BE InYestigated.

HIS story 70 Bo investigates.
James P. Hennessey, the confidential
clerk and cashier for the d. P. Morgan
Estate. Who is charged with stealing ~. 900
On forged checks, $4,000 Of which he says
ne lost N one poolroom, was arraigned
before Judge Mcmahon In General Sessions
yesterday on two indictments for forgery
In the second degree.
Hennessey caused some surprise by
pleading not guilty. It u known that
AM District Attorney Lord In which he
did with 1t.
l.. 1t was explained that Hennessey's plead
ng had been delayed to give the District
ih,ttorney chance to investigate biz story.
others. e'
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n. II. THOMPSON VERY I'LL.
ct. Louis Fair Treasurer II Stricken BY
Heart Disease at Avon.

AsBuRr PARK, N. j.. Aug. 2b.-Worn out
by his duties as treasurer OF tho St. Louis
exposition w. H. Thompson, president Of
the St. Louis National Bank Of Commerce,
Is seriously i'll at Avon. Mr.. Thompson is
a euest at the summer cottage Of his
daIshter Mrs. F. A. Luyties. He has
been in III health since last November,
having broken down completely after the
great fair. A week ago he was stricken
4 second time with heart disease, and he
Is now in a precarious condition. He Il
u years old.
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ALMOST DROWNED IN MOLASSEs
workman Jumps Into Tank TO Save u
Injured Nan who Had Fallen sH.

InJu.H1 Mi "Ho s.aH EsssSs' In
While emptytng barrel OF molasses into
Henry L. Hobart 4 Cos big molasses tank
at Fifteenth and River streets. Hoboken,
on Thursday evening, John Hill Of ,sWater
street, New York, lost his balance and
fell into four feet OF the sticky stuff. Tbs
barrel followed and struck him on the
head. dazing him.
owen Farley, a fellow workman, jumped
into the molasses up to his armpits and
held Hiu's head above the surface until
help came. Then he tied q rope around
Hills waist and the latter was hauled out,
Hills scalp was cut by the falling barrel
II took several hours to clean up the mon
altar the molAssee bath.
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BURNS KILL MRS. WHITE.
Mother q n. r. white Dies q InJurie
Received q Thursday.

Received % Thursday.
Mrs. Elizabeth White, mother Of r. T.
White, head OF the International Tin Com
pany Of Bayonne. died yesterday at hsr
homo in that city from burma received
on Thursday night, when a canopy covering
her bed' caught fire from . gas jot: Mrs.
White seized the flaming canopy. took II
oHthe bathroom and eXtinguished the
blsze in the bathtub. In doing 20 she
Was terribly burned about the hands and
body, and these injuries resulted fatally.
Mr., White wss % yesrs old. Inv /"
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Estate Exchange. IL yesey street. yesterday.
Plans were Hled with the Manhattan Build
Ing Bureau for q six story apartment house
Of Ninety seventh street 100 feet east Of
Nsdlson avenue. for Alexander Laurie, and
ior AZ .sSrE nat; to cost ct % ss3 SO and q!
plans Comprised . two story dwelling. to
cost ~ $50.
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PAWNBRoKERs' SALES.


uSn.sr Is "a 10 osns, ST. vi, u. iosS Nv
Aus. 10y Barney Loan Co.. 1853 ID sv'; clothing
'o Az = is H. neAl.en.n, 10. ..h .v. clothing
g.. pledged 70 Aug. 70. 1904. aad al goods held
AYR. :e.Hy r, slmp:en z g.. ,ss Bs.sT d.,
Iii 81 = s T. Z! isss 81 oolumou. .v.: cloth
.na 81 si p.a. = IL. y. ct; No. .v' clothing
Sept, 10y IL Fresl = New Chambers st.: cloth
rs . Rsdfsds y HHrs f Harlan 1854 E.., ,,ss
e; d!.aouds jswsIry; &C.. pledged to Aug 10
JULIUS sHoNooop, Ayetonecr. BY Joseph
SSRs xu Ss .s, sST DS to Au,
'' ses':ssE "a, = ss:!is:s . ass.,
'1%S s s'sS- se sn ad.. y: eOssas and
g: :ssdi to fs' s ''sI &c =
Aug. n1Jswsry; ws'eehsa diamonds. g.;
S ss SsAs; s r as sa'S'd aus s';
up 70 il. iss. joa 10th, . ooiumhu. az. -
ss?' ,;'fss: s: y: : s.
.s a. to A.s from r. h hsssS e !n So a No.
81 .aysS .us, :, az. b :.
kind. silverware, firearms Instruments and pledges
OF every description pledged prior to dates and
under ticket numbefs specified. both Inclusive:
also all older ones reservrd from previous sales.
Aug. 2S-Order c. Lang d Co., 6ss 9th av.: ali
pledges prior June !. 1904. 10 No. 40yOlo.
Ang. a-Order Mayer 4 Co., s62 Grove ST.. Jer-
icy Ss =. esass sy! sFSr Au Loan
M 9th sv.; all pledged prior Aug. Is, 1901
Aug. 81 -Order II, Freund d Co., Avenue B:
all pledges prior Aug. 40 1904.
Aug. N-ordcr Mayer Co.. $50 Grove ST.. Jer-
sey CITY, clothing.
Sept. Order ioidstone Bros. SIS 9th av.. all
pledges prior Aug. 10. 1904, to No. $1,000.
ELI SOBEL, Auctr., 98 Bowery. sells 10 A. N. all
goods pledged prior Aug. 20. 1904,
Aug. 2s--clothing. A. Wolheim Son. LAS list av.
Aug. ae-Clo,hips. B. Ttgner, 1904 81 av.. and
g. Michel, 2O70 I'd av.
Aug S-Cothing. NJ Raphiel. ?77 9th av.
and J. Nelson, 81 LIST ev.
Sept. i--Jeweirs. F. Sobci 4 Sons. i<2e I'd av.
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Dropped Dead In railway station.

opped Dead In railway station.
BUFFALO. Aug. 3s.--MiIton g. Pease, u
years Old Of Walton. N. Y. dropped dead
OF heart disease In the New York Central
station here this morning. Mr.. Psase VAS
accompanied by his Vic and was on his
way home from Lake Chautauqua.
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FOR SALE.
COUNTRY BOARD.

BARRY COTTAGE, Point Pleasant, N. J., . min.
usso from Beach. Open all September. Box ~
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NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR 1T.
Advertisements for The sun and Evening sun
may be Isft ~ any American District Msssssser
O@oo " the city. -. :. ~ -. =. $50.
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R0CKAWAY BEACH

T ias't OMIT Sftr a afn%AT II ri kCG Sf1
Steamers Rosrdalc John Sylvester and Richmond
leave West l2sth ST.. eco. 1000 'ii00 West 2st ST.
ESQ 1880, 80, 400, 1900 Battery. 1000. 100
$500 $50 $3.50. Leave RockAway. II 80. 1880
$3.50. 500 400. $50. tStar denotes Sundays
only) EXCURSION. soc.
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THE WAVERLY Ocean Ocean Pathway. neal near
Service and table unsurpassed. Telephone
May 10 October. W. II. ALC0CK
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Datchsry as Edwin brood. Mr.. walters
devotes a whole chapter to demonstrat-
Ing that brood was dead. During the
run Of the story Dickens was once
asked, "Drood il dead, Of coursei'
and replied In . tone which betrayed
his establishment that such a question
should have arisen ettOf course" In
" John Jasper IL Secretp brood is dis.
covered to have revived after Jasper
left him for dead, and to have re-
turned later In the story to confound
the villain, as In genuine Adelphi
The most inustrious advocate Of tho
theory that brood was alive was tho
late Professor Richard Proctor, best
known by his popular books on astron-
omy, who devoted several papers :un-
der the title Of "Watched by the
Dead','Et to his: exposition. Mr.. Walters
says of Proctor that 'fhis conclusion
was particularly weak, and a number
stand examination. = he points :. out
that Proctor misund erstood the meet.
ing Of Datchery and the opium woman,
and very pertinently asks: "Why
should brood expose himself to failure
and danger in learning everything that
came to him in one fash Of terrible
monster, whose powers Of mischief
2 hef Iknew, to remsin at large and ado
to his crimes3'' ,...
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Jasper Is not told because Edwin thinks
the news would distress him. Grew
gious had given to Edwin ring to
place on Rosa IS finger il the marriage
should be fixed. This ring, ia rose Of
diamonds and rubies delicately set in
gold, -. is. the one piece Of jewelry in,
Edwin Is possession 8 Of which Jasper
knows nothing. r. = -. s"s<.r s:i.sst
Jasper lays his plans for the murder
with careful attention to details. He
drugs Durdles, stonemason, and with
his keys examines the vaults in the
crypt Of the cathedral; It is arranged
that Neville and Edwin meet at Christ
mas at Jasper 3 house, the college gate
house, and end their feud. On that day
Edwin meets in Cloisterham, which Is
the name under which the town Of
Rochester is concealed by Dickens, an
old opium woman, who says she. is
searching for someone, and tells him
that "Ned, - which Jasper alone calls
him, Is "a threatening name.'' Neville
prepares to start on lonely waiting
tour on the morrow. -.-.
At night night Of terrific storm,
the meeting takes place; in the morn
ing brood has disappeared. Jasper at
once accuses Neville, who has been
Nth Edwin to the riverside at midnight
of the murder. The case breaks down
for want Of evidence, but q dark sHBpT
cion remains. Neville goes to Londo1
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In the meantime, Edwin and Rosa,
Rosa g angular" old-fashioned, good.
hearted family solicitor and guardian,
decide to break. off their engagement.
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ana takes . room nea MI tevgious'
chambers. His sister remains for a
time in ClReterham IIand lives down
malignitY. aaI Drood's watch and chain
and scarfpin are found in the river, and
this confirms the suspicion Of foul play.
81. , Sfs H. + !. + ...=t !
b When some months have passed, a
mysterious stranger arrives In Cloister-
ham He has big head Of white: hair
and black eyebrows.S His name is Dick
Datghery, = an idle buffer living ON his
means. He takes lodgings at ToPe's,
nextto. Jasper IS, andsat once makes the
latter's acquaintance. hatchery also
meets the opium woman, who informs
him Of her previous meeting with: Ed
win Brood She inquiries after Jasper,
goes to the CATHEDRAL, hears HIM sing,
and menaces him with her fist. .Datch-
cry observes this, and she is keeping
an account Of all he; learns by the old:
fashioned tavern method Of chalk
marks, he goes home and ? "adds one
thick line to the score" ~ ,,,a-s..fI
Here the story abruptly ends, Eyi.
IDENTIFY to penetrate the disguise Of
Datchery is to be half through the
mystery. The query. Of the investiga:
As Il the most pSPaisf theory
hitch, although entirely @inexplicable
has had sturdy existence, regarded
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following, defeating Tammany schemes
to protect wrongdoers.
Then there came the revolt against
Tammany, when the independent dem
ocrats, the republicans and the Citi.
zens, union came together and :, named AIMED
thru with a whir1, with the vote for
Jerome so far ahead Of the ticket that
the choice Of Seth Low for mayor was
insignificant.
An incident in the campaign which
will not be forgotten in the political
history of New York was when, in his
automobile, daredevil campaign Of the
city, Jerome arrived at the place on
Rivington street which he had once
raided alone. One Of the fve-minute
talks was on the program, after an al
BE was weary. The campaign had been
severe, and, as he said, he was oali
but out.O A big fellow took hold Of
his arm and led him to the door he had
once broken down. Jerome was him.
self in second.
"Let me show you the way, :, he
said.- = ) 44t1i 5ss..,gs Tsi
The big man fell back and followed
until he reached the stage. There he
caught jerome by the neck and, shoy-
ing him aside, said, in a. voice. that
could not be misunderstood: =.
HGentlemen-It's my right and
privilege to introduce to you tonight
the real speaker Of this occasion. |
used to run poolroom in this place
with my brother, as you all know:
The night this damned Jerome busted
in alone we meant to Kill him. I'm
damn glad we didn t.
tive been doing better business
since, beginning with peddling, and
now: have i store of my. own. The
nerve Of this man in coming here to-
night is equal to that Of the night he
i came here alone, You know that you
are gathered here to- down him.
Hjust word before he speaks.
{ Brother Jim's dead. Jerome did not
kill him. Booze did. Jim was drunk
one night and the cops had him right,
as they thought, for stealing. / went
to this here fellow j Jerome and put it
up to him. He said Jim might be q
y gambler, but he was no ordinary thief,
{ and he gotta friend to go bal. Then
he used his cohege-graduate friends
to look up the case and they proved
Z Jim innocent. l have the honor of In
Producing Bill Jerome.
There was q dead silence and then 9
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burst Of applause as the candidate face
his former enemies. He spoke veI
simply, acknowledging that he had vi
lently entered the poolroom describe
and then burst into his torrents
abuse of the organization Of which mo
4 Of the auditors were warm adherent
BE put it up to them whether the
wanted a cred light" over the stooI-
of the fats. where they lived with the
wives and children. He said that
would, if elected, live right anon
them, 80 that he and his assistan
might help them in the hour Of the
need.
The prepared Kisses changed
cheers. the crowd following the veal
campaigner to his automobile, insistir
on shaking hands with the man who =
pummeled with pleasure.
~ !. !. J.
Jerome kept his word. Immediate,
after his election he established
home at Rutgers street, in the hea
Of the Clover East Side" He ftte
it up with bathtubs, but did not pr
vide any other luxury. On the parlt-
floor he established offices, where l
plants of the neighborhood. He ar
h.o AAioii S%NS Oil oPpiASdhts 1CSd1 o.
vice, saving them from oppressi1
landlords and the hordes of collecto
who infect the poorer districts
gather on the installment plan. Jeron
became the "Squire' in a dense)
populated neighborhood. Mrs. Jerom-
aiding her husband in his good wor
was at once a fayorIte.
After two years of this life Jeron
saw that he was not quite as cloi
to the people about him as he wou.
: like to be. He gave up the house ar
took apartments in a new tenemel
across the street, No. 8 Rutgers. A
joining these he fitted up Offices for h
assistants, where he has had a few &
duty every night to attend to tt
wants Of the. men and women from
old world where law and right are n,
quite perfectly understood.
& With his cigaret, Jerome sits I
the window to watch his strange neie
!, bors pass, or, with half-closed eyes,
dream of the marble figures in IL
: corridors of the criminal courts bull
ing that droop their heads as ii.
ashamed Of the daily tragedies r
vealed by the work of fearless of
Gals in the vengeance of ciyilizatie
against breakers of the law.