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New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 81
McMullen. Rebecca McCullagh. Emma knapp Eva "
Day. Florence McCulagh Andrew T. McCuilagh. Mary
Frances Bradford. Alexander PaysOn Knapp. Nary
Constance Day ChOvel the persons who entitled
absolutely ccntingenty by the terms or the last
VIII and Testament OF Thomas McMulIen. deceased or
held the Trustees under the VIII the
proceeds held BY said Trustees part
OF funds created In and said last VIII and
Testament and the United Fidelity Guar
Company. surety on The bond OF Alexander ray
Knapp Trustee OF said estates send greet
ing. You and each OF YOU are hereby cited and re-
qutred personally TO be and before SUfro
gate Of OF a SurroSateS
Court said held the Hall Of Records IN the
County New York the 2ist day OF February l9oS
half clock in the forenoon of that daN
then and there TO attend the iudcto settlement
the account OF the proceedings OF William l. Kay
mOnd and Alexander Payson Knapp Trustees under
of the city and County New York. deceased. anu
such OF YOU hereby cited under the aSe
twenty-one required 60 appear hy your
guardian. 81 have or u have none 70 @p
and apply for be appointed IN the even.
Of your neglect failure TO dc guardian VIII oe
appointed by the Surrogate TO represent and aet '
yeu In the proceeding "a
In testimony whereof caused the seal or
said County Of New. fCtN
u be hereunto affixed Witness. Hon tHar.eS
l. s 7 H. Beckett Surrogate OF eur sald Cguh'Es
at the County of New York, the Soth daS -
December IN the year OF cur Lord one thousaNa "''
DANIEL J. pOwpNEY.
Clerk % the SurroSateS' tcny5,
WILLIAM I RAYMOND. Attorney Tor Nct.e'-
Trustees. once and Postorses Address No -
Broadway. City and County ot New York
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
ONE BOY SHOOTS ANOTHER IN PLAY
Helps Him to Doctors and Then Disappears
Game of "Hold-Up' Disastrous.

Robert Bond. twelve years old, of No. 155 Nichols
avenue. East New York. and his friend. Walter
Scott. who lives a No. 145 and is a year older,
walked yesterday afternoon to the home of DR..
Fitzgerald, No 4H Ridgewood avenue where
Robert sank down in faint after saying to the
doctor My pal, Walter here, has shot through
the face" The doctor Put the boy under an
ansastheuc and found that the bullet had knocked
four teeth and had broken the lower jawbone.
The wounded boy told detectives that Walter
Scott and he had engaged in game OF hold up"
Walter Scott was a highwayman, and jumping
from behind a chair in young Bonds home, was
supposed 20 hold up the traveller with a big pistol
he carried In a leather holster. Throw I'D your
hands, he said. Up went young Bonds hands,
but there fash and report and he sank
down.
After passing through his jaw the bullet entered
the wall where il found. The ''hghwayman"
left his friend III the doctors and a late
hour the detectives had been unable find him
The wounded boy will recover.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
COWS ITALIAN BAND WITH REVOLVER
Policeman Arrests Six Young Men on Charge
of Attempted Burglary.

Six young Italians were locked up AT uie ~ r1u".ol
Point police station. Queens. charged with attempt
ed burglary and carrying concealed weapons Jus'
before last midnight by Patrolman Ihomas
Powers who cowed them with his revolver ana
with the aid of citizens held them until the re-
serves arrived.
Powers was informed by Joseph Mulralne' OF No
772 Crescent street Dutch Kills. queens that gang
of men was acting in suspicious manner around
the home of George Brown at No. 26I crescent
street Powers with Mulraine and the latters Two
sons Joseph and Edward, later made the capture.
According to the policeman, Angelo Spatarno' OF
No ao Marion street Long Island City, was crawl
ing into a window which had been broken open.
Two of the others were close by, and the three
others were evidently the lookout Powers ROUND
ed lp the six, and when Spatarno was searched a
nine-inch dagger was found in his clothing On 81
bigle Jovalo was found a revolver Coseriho NOT
rcci had razor and stilletto The others were un-
armed They are Michael Seregnano. Joseph Ane-
deo and Frank Marcine. The six Will be arraigheo
in the police court this morning The nelghoorhooo
has been the scene of Black Hand operations sew
eral times recently.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
PLAY HAVOC WITH B. R. T. SERVICE.
Boys Work Switches on Sea Beach Line
Wrecks Narrowly Avoided.

A seventeen-year-old boy named Tony Pasquale
and his ffteen-year- companion played havoc
with the service the Sea Beach route of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company yesterday. when
they took possession of the switch tower at Twen-
ty-second avenue But for the alertness of the
motormen of the trains there would have heen a
number of serious wrecks in the three hours the
boys occupied the tower.
The tower is unused in the winter season, and
tramps wrenched the lock from the door several
days ago and made practice of sleeping in the
lever room. Pasqusle and his companion went
into the tower yesterday afternoon, at the time
when many persons their way to Coney
Island and worked the senlaphores and switches
along the route in both directions When the trains
stopped and the approached the tower to
investigate the boys would run away, only to re-
turn to repeat the performance Trains running
full speed were stopped before they hit switches
which, the boys set them, would have over
turned them.
James Tighe, of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit po-
lice force found the boys, after they had worked
the switches all afternoon. Pasquale arrested
but his companion managed to escape. He will be
arraigned in the Coney Island court this morning
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
COOK AND BOTTLE WASHERS UNION.
Rochester Man Here to Revolutionize the
Servant Problem.

Emanuel Kevaeski. of Rochester. has arrived
in town. and with him come plans for the forma-
ton of union including all the employees of the
large hotels who are engaged in any line of culi-
nary work Kevaleski, who Is special organizer,
was a visitor at the meeting OF the Central Fed
Grated Union yesterday and told of the work that
he intended TO do in this city
According to the organizers plans, it will not be
long before the domestic help in private families
will be accepted members of the union, and woe
he TO the good housewife who asks her second girl
to do the cooks work the formers day of rest
for II will surely bring strikei That il will
be hard work to get the domestic help to join the
new union is admitted by kevaleski but he thinks
that ultimately it will be accomplished.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
GIRL ARRESTED OVER QUARANTINE
Accused of Exposing Child in Her Charge to
Scarlet Fever.

Charged with breaking quarantine, Annie Null
rooney, a employed by Gibson R. Arnold. a
lawyer living at No 315 West 94th street, was ar
rested last night after Mrs. Arnoldi had found
letter on the girls dresser. signed by Mrs. Heines
of No. 433 East 117th street. cautionng the girl
not TO say she had been Mrs. Henes's house
Thursday night, and saying that Georges scarlet
fever better"
Mr. Arnold went to Mrs. Henes's home, and
found that his childs nurse had been there last
Thursday night and was there only few minutes
before with his daughter The nurse locked
up charged with taking child into quarantined
house Mrs. Heiness six-year-old son George has
been Ill with scarlet fever for several days.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
THINKS HE'S DYING: BETRAYs OTHERS
Nan Shot by Policemen While Fleeing Tells
Names of COMPANIONS.

AS he was lying on cot in Bellevue Hospital
with bullet wound in the left side early yester-
CAV morning John Mcfarland. twenty-one years
old who says he lives at No. 40S East 20th street
was told by Patrolnlan Murtha that he was about
to Gle. Mcfarland then gave the names and ad-
dresses Of two men who with him when he
was caught coming out Of Maurice holbers saloon
Al No. Z7s Avenue B. before dawn.
Mcfarland as soon as he is able 10 leave the
hospital. viii be arraigned in the Yorlville police
court on a charge of having entered the saloon
with intent 10 steal The men with him are al
legged TO have stolen several hundred dollars worth
OF liquors and cigars
When Murtha found the men in the saloon they
ran ont and tried 10 escape The policeman then
shot Mcfarland.
Murtha arrested Benjamin Moore, OF No 326
East 18th street. last night the charge Of bur
gIary II is alleged by the police that he was with
MCFARLAND when the burglary committed
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
OPPOSES ROD IN SCHOOL.
DR.. Guiitk Says 1t Docs Not Cor
rect Poor Discipline.

DR.. Luther Halsey Gul,ck director of physical
training in the New York public schools, anticipst-
ing a report by n committee Of the Board OF Edu-
cation favoring introduction of corporal punish
ment in the schools of the city, has declared that
the general consensus of medical opinion is that
the rod should not be used as means or gettlng
discipline
Dr Culick,s article appears in to-day's issue of
.Tbs Archives of Pedatrics." He believes that the
difficulty in schools has been augmented by the
large foreign population Of school children who
have not yet learned that freedom Is not
license" and who have come from homes ac-
custoned to rigid authority and the rod Ihese
conditions and large percentage of children who
are distinctly antsocal In their feelings and those
who have little or no home control, DR.. Guick be-
leves go TO make up the problem OF school dis
cipline.
the schools because he believes that the physical
defects of the children responsible for poor
discipline among them. The correction OF moor
rigbles as truants. he declares could be enected
by the removal of the physical defects and not by
corporal punishment. which involves loss Oh SELL
respect on the part Of any pupil
The inattention and restlessness in the classroom
are due to fatigue or adenoids and therefore chii
dren should not be punished for disorder produceo
bv these causes, he says. The weather is announcer
cause which medical authority on classroom dsc1-
nI,re beI;eves has brought punishment TO children
undeservedly :,
After showing that when either the pathological
condition of the pupil the inferiority OF the
teacher is responsible for poor discipline this wouo
,o+ be corrected by corporal punishment, Dr.
c-uIick saws: I'm some schools that have changed
from having to not having corporal punishment the
wear following the change has been marked oy IN
science and pupil outbreaks. These are almost IN
evitable The new form has not had time 10 oe-
80, it, own mower Two or three years are
needed TO restore disciplinary equilibrium
AS solution to the school discipline problem
DIR Gulick recommends lessenins the size or the
ella sses changing the school curriculum SO ss 10
include manual and vocal training ana sesre
,.;,- tho difficult cases in small classes under
teachers who have special ability in holding and
caring for such cases
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
JEROME TOO BUSY TO ACT.
Tells W. F. King He Can't Investigate Trac-
ton Company Until After Thaw Trial.

William F. King ex-presidelt of the Merchants
Association. as head of a committee OF minority
stockholders of the Metropolitan Street Railway
Company, yesterday made public considerable cor
respondence regarding effort 10 have a special
District Attorney assigned to investigate the al
legged misconduct Of those in charge of the traction
companies
Mr. King also gave out number Of letters dat
ing back several years. in which he urged the Dis
Attorney action in the insurance and other
cases and criticised him in a friendly tone A
copy OF letter TO the District Attorney. who
is addressed My Dear Jerome" dated January.
would to indicate that the District Attorney
would interest himself personally in the traction
matters at this time The letter opened:
Your telephone message 10 me was quite
prise-'that you would not do id thing with
thst e r RPes ha ehare a Of t Same Before % 5a
grand jury, and that could see him
In letter sent to the District Attorney on Sat
urday Mr. King says:
1 suggest that you appoint special District At
purpose (investigating the traction companes). and.
investigating BODY. that the special District Attor
ney, with the consent of the Governor. sPlict the
nTonrsted b the ofnePs Sf be 3IetoboS and
if proper cause is found to promptly bring criminal
action against them.
Later in the letter Mr.. King appeals to the Dis
trict Attorney in this wise:
wish to emphasize the fact M Jerome that
there has been no diminution in my friendship
and confidence in you in my respect for your
ability, but ] feel there is obligation my
part to the contributors 10 your campaign fund.
through personal effort, and literature sent out by
me, which demands some action TO that the
promises | made. by word OF mouth and IN lit
erature. and that YOU yourself made on the public
platform. to make good fulfilled
Mr.. King then sent copy OF this letter 10 Chair
man Wilcox Of the Public Service Commission.
asking why a special assistant District Attorney
could not attend the hearings of the commission
To this Chairman Wilcox repiiAd thar he did uos
think the scope of the commissions investigation
could be enlarged
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
SPEAKERS DISAGREE ON SOCIALISM.

Surrogate Ketcham Of Brooklyn and Arthur BTis-
bare were the speakers last night at ihe annual
meeting Of the Hebrew Educational Society and
the Ladies Auxiliary held in their quarters Pitkin
avenue and Watkins street Brooklyn. 10 elect Off
GERS Nr. Ketchsn1 who took his subject The
Jews al the Time Columbus Discovered America, -
several in his speech referred 10 socialism
and M Brisbane. who followed him said that the
ideas expressed by the former speaker did not meet
with his views, and told why
Al the close q the meeting one of the members
Of the society said that would be a good idea 10
have the two speakers debate on the subject and
promised Z large attendance. (. f Rothscfild
was elected president Of the society and Mrs. Ed
ward c Blum president Of the auxiliary
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
BODY FOUND IN SUMMER COTTAGE.
Despondent Woman Breaks Into House and
Commits Suicide by Hanging.

Lewiston Me- Jan. 19.-The body of woman
found hanging by the neck yesterday IN the SUM
mer cottage of the Rev. H. NJ. Lowe on the shores
of Androscogsin Lake in Leeds was identified TO-
dav as that of Miss Florence Bgelow, forty-sx
years old, of Greene. Me-
Miss Bigelow left the railroad station at Leeds
Centre on Thursday, January g. and IS believed 10
have made her way directly to the cottage walking
the entire four miles, and securing admittance oy
breaking window. She had apparently been dead
more than a week when found Dependency due
to the death of parents some time ago. and the
breaking UP her home in Greene. is given as the
cause of her suicide Two brothers, VINO live IN
Boston, c. H. and Benjamin r. Bigelow, survive
her.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
SAYS RAILROAD TICKETS ARE GENUINE

The three who were held after a raid f,y
Central Office detectives Saturday night on one OF
-he fats 81 the apartment house al 80. 28 WeSt
3asth street for alleged connection Uith the sale of
spurious railway tickets TO the conductors of the
Washington Raiiway and Electro Company. were
arraigneo before Magistrate Butts, IA the Tombs
police court yesterday morning and held for exam
11lstIon TUESDAY The charge O. conspiracy.
The bail nas fixed q 81 a-o in each case u vas
believed that plates for these tickets had been
forged. but Ernest Shernikow. president of the
Hamilton Fank Note COMPANY who made the
tickets tor III Washington railroad derliad this
iast night The company has not lost anything. %
hs szla-
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
AMBULANCE HITS CAR; TWO HURT.
Brooklyn Hospital Attaches, Responding to
Call, Return as Patients.

4. F Anderson. an ambulance surgeon of the
Brooklyn Hospital and John Connolly driver
seriously hurt last night in a crash with
croSstoWn car at Lawrence and WilloUghby streets
while answering a call The ambulance swung
down Lawrence street as two cars, bound in oppo-
site directions were approaching the intersection
in Wioughby street. Connolly drove his horse
past the south bound car, but could not avoid the
other Connolly and Anderson hurled TO the
street. the former sustaining fracture of several
ribs and internal injuries and the doctor breaking
his shoulder and several ribs. They were removed
the Brooklyn Hospital.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
LOOK WHATS HERE! coNEY ISLE OPEN.
Home of Frankfurter and switchback Greets
Swarm of Gothamites

Coney Island had an advance opening yestefuay-
not an official one but because nearly twenty thou
sand people journeyed to the resort Inc n,'o
weather and the sunshine sent thousanus " g.
-, - .,o fra,Lfurter and the switchback Sa-
loons moving picture shows and dance mans were
onened 10 the visitors and Surf avenue TOOK on
summery look when the crowds and the carriages
began TO arrive, at noontime.
Seaside Park and the Concourse were thronseo
with people and the Brighton Beach board walk
ms almost filled from rail to rail. special detail
Of policemen was sent from the Coney Island sta
ton TO patrol the crowded streets.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
DIES FROM GRIEF FOR HIS DAUGHTER
Body of Father Will Be Buried IN One
Cemetery and Child in Another.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune

Pittsburg Jan 19-George Koser. wealthy real
estate man. died of grief twelve hours after the
death of his favorite daughter last evening. Koser
walked the floor all night but when daylight came
his wife induced him to lie down a couch She
returned in ten minutes and found him dead. Ply
sicians declared that grief killed him.
Mrs Koser is Catholic. and the daughter was a
member of that church The father was an Episco-
palfan. Tomorrow morning the funeral Of the
child will be held in ST Pauls Cathedral. Then the
body will be returned to the house. where the
Episcopalan service will be held for Mr.. Koser
Burial will be in different cemeteries.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
PACKAGE FoR JUDGE LOOKS LIKE BOMB

Cleveland, Jan. 19-Judge George S. Adams, of
the Juvenile Court, received yesterday in his mail
stick of what appears TO be dynamite solidihed
nitro -gycerine. six inches in length. It in
ordinary mailing tube There mechanism
10 detonate the explosive.
Judge Adams opened the tube in the court room
without having idea of its contents. which he
turned to the postoffice authorities Samples
also were sent TO the city chemists for analysis
Judge Adams he knows of enemy VINO
might seek such extreme measures of retaliation
for fanCied wrongs.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
SENIOR pEAcoNs. CLUB IN BROOKLYN.

the 20 Masonic District. organized in Arlington
Hail a. Gates and Nostrard avenues. Brooklyn
veste-dav afternoon senior deacons' association
ma jortv of The lodges in the district were repre-
scented and the orsanizatioa started with thirty
three members object the beterlnent Of the
work Of this important officer g Masonic lodge
Although ne Senior Desccns' Club OF Manhattan
has hee IN existence several years. this movement
& rnerr Fsr1ocLl,-r
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
OPPOSES PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE.
Delegate to Congress Fears Anarchy Would
Follow Attempt at Self lf-Government.

San Francisco. Jan. 19.-Benito Legarda. dele
gate to Congress from the Philippines. said to day
that his people had made great progress under
American rule. especially along educational lines,
and added:
1T is useless to talk of independence now want
independence. of course. but how can we have it?
That is the question. | do not TO risk the
property own in the possible civil war and an
archy that might follow attempt the part
of my countrymen TO govern themselves at pres
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
WOMAN AFlRE PHONES FOR HELP.

Through dropping lighted candle on her dress,
Mary T. Nugent q servant employed by Mrs
Frank Henry, who lives in the Alclyde apartment
house II No. West saith street, probably
fatally burned yesterday afternoon. The woman
was taken in an unconscious condition TO the J.
Hood Wright Hospital Alone IN the apartment
she tried 30 smother the flames which gained head
way. A7re from head 10 foot. she 10 the tele-
phone % summon the elevator boy. When boy
accompanied by ere jsnror. reached the apartment
they had 10 break down tie locked door and in the
mean time the woman bad been overcome.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
DAYLIGHT SLEEP WALKER FALLS.
Tumbles Out of Second Story Window, and
His Skull Is Fractured.

While walking in his sleep Thomas Woolsey. Of
No "a Sney street. Jamaica, fell from window
of the home of James Oliver, at No. 253 WEBSTER
avenue ParkviIle yesterday, and is now in the
Kings County Hospital in a serious condition
Woolsey fell to the tagging the side of the
house from a second story window. and struck the
pavement head downward. Patrolman Eckholdt
found him lying unconscious ard called an amou-
lance from the Seney Hospital. DR.. Cahill found
that WooI y was suffering from a fracture of the
skull
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
RICHARD NJ DENMAN FUNERAL TO-DAY.

The funeral of Richard Nelson Denmau. who died
on Saturday will take place at his home, No. 81
Ianues avenue. Railway, at o'clock this after
noon For many years he lived in this city, being
n member of a building material firm which had
been founded by Asa l. Denman. his father nearly
eighty years ago. Mr.. Denmau leaves two brothers
and three sisters.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20

Washington. Jan. 19.-James Arthur Kemp
former chief clerk of the police department of this
city. who arrested recently in New Orleans on
a charge of having embezzled about IS 900 of police
funds arrived here to-day in custody. Kemp dis
appeared last July and nothing known as 20
his whereabouts until he was apprehended in New
Orleans On his arrival to-day he was taken to
the United States marshal's office and released on
q 600 bond.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
NINE BLACK HAND OUTRAGE ARRESTS

TBv Telegraph to The Tribune.I
Baltimore. Jan. Is.-Nine men have been arrested
in connection with the Black Hand attempt to
blow up the home of Joseph di Gorgio. fruit ex-
porter. Michaena Russo and Joseph Tambura,
who were arraigned in the police court to-day
the charge of being implicated, stated under oath
that they had heard Antonio Lanasa, head of the
Lanasa & Cioffe Steamship and Importing Com
pany say the house of di Giorgio. who is his rival
in the fruit business. would be blown up
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
SPANISH WAR VETERANS GAMES.

Entry blanks have been sent out for the annual
games of the United Spanish War Veterans under
the auspices of the Manhattan Borough Council
at the 22d Regiment Armory on Saturday. Febru-
ary 90 troph;- donated by Admiral Joseph b.
Coghlan Will be p' sented to the athletic club scor
ing the greatest aumber of points in the open
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
SISTERS UNDER KNIFE AT SAME TIME.

South Orange. Jan. 10 (SpeciaD.-In Ignorance of
the fact that her sister. Miss Helen Hasey. is also
a patient in Dr. Mefford Runyon's private hospital
Miss Jeanette Halsey underwent an operation for
appendicitis Friday. II was only few hours
after one sister taken to the hospital that the
other became i'll with the same disease and also
underwent operation Both sisters will re-
cover. Both patients are daughters of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry B. Halsey. of Fairview avenue, this
village.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
MANY MINES WILL REOPEN.

Try Telegraph to The Tribune.I
Milwaukee. Jan. l9.-The price OF lead and zinc
ores has gone up "a ton in the last week in the
Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois districts. and $
result there numerous plans for the reopening
of mines that have been closed during the short
money period. Five mines in the Plattville City
limits alone will resume this week.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
REVENGE LOCAL OPTION DEFEAT.

icy Telegraph to The Tribune.I
Eaton, Ohio. Jan. 19.-As a result of the bitter
local option fight here incendiares fire to-day
to the barn and tobacco sheds Joe Miller's
farm near here. Eight acres of tobacco and over
one hundred head of livestock destroyed
The state fire marshal has sent detectives 10 the