New-York tribune., 1919-03-03

VIE ambition Of George j. S. Dowl-
ing, Kings County's hardest
perennial candidate for the Supreme
Court or County Court bench, is bud
dlng on new branch this spring. to
the intense surprise of Chief Gardener
John II. McCooey and all the under
gardeners. MIR. Bowling has an
hounced that he thinks this year he'll
run Tor Surrogate
OU1S G. MERTZ has six bottles of
~ wine, for which he paid SO each in
i9oo IN safe deposit vault at his
bank. He would have had seven there,
but Friday night somebody got into
the safe in his saloon at Broadway
and Ralph Avenue. Brooklyn. The
next day Merit rented the vault and
deposited his treasure.
Long ago he fixed as the dates for
drinking the various bottles certain
domestic events expected to occur in
the course Of the Merit family sue
cession. Now he is figuring that nor
haps the last of the line may be able
to swap the last bottle for house
and lot.
A DOZEN men clad in bath towels
L and few in lather rushed out Of
the Sheriff Street Turkish Baths. at 66
Sherlft Street, last night. when fire
was discovered in the office on the
second floor At the same moment
they all remembered that their clothes
and wallets were inside and reversed
their stampede They emerged for the
second Tune pulling on shirts and
trousers and other garments.
All but one of them dropped their
towels inside. The only towel saved
was that which Jacob Gang. proprietor
OF the baths, was using at the moment
that somebody yelled "Firc' He clung
TO the towel throughout both trips.
me damage was estimated at $1,000
NATHAN, dfteen-ycar old son Of
lsanc Steingartz. real estate
dealer, of TAB Kelly Street, The Bronx.
when he collected 500 rent from ten
ants of his father. In asking the
police to try to find the boy, Stein
gartz SAID he would pay substan-
TIA reward for information Of his
whereabouts
Nathan has been a pupil at De witt
clinton High School and is boy of
good habits, his father said. He fears
the lad was induced to spend some
of the rent money by companions and
is afraid to come home
W1LLlAM CLARK shook the dust Of
w Goshen, n. Y, from his feet yes
terday and started back to Arizona.
where a man doesn't have to prove
he's alive. When Clark returned to
Goshen Thursday, after an absence Of
nearly httccn years, he discovered
that ne had been dead officially for
nearly two months by direction of the
surrogate and that an application for
administration papers on his estate
was pending.
He proved his identity and said
that after he went West he had writ
ten several times to Goshen, whore
ne had left his wife. but never had
received reply. Since his departure
he has served in the British army and
now has ranch in Arizona. One item
or gossip which he picked up on his
bricf trip to his old home was that
his wife was dead.
E'Nu MERATlNG his reasons for prc.
fcrring his foster parents to his
mother, Chaunccy Eugene Ferguson
eight years old, told Supreme Court
Justice Morschauscr in Poughkcepsic.
N. T., that they sent him to school
and to Sunday school. His mother.
Mrs. Malvina Ferguson, bad applied
to 'hc court for custody Of the bow
and tho court had put the decision up
to Chaunccy Eugene
When he had expressed his prefer
cncc and given his reasons Justice
morschauscr decided that he should
stay with his adopted parents. but
That hls mother should be permitted
70 wait him tWtcp "a uooL