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G A Y .NOR APPOINTS
'.ini-.niifn from fln»1 pa««.
partment, in ; . some - capacity in that
ranch of the city's service.
A friend of Judge. Gaynor said last
night that Michael J. Kennedy, who has
• ••. Commissioner of Parks for' Broo
klyn and Queens for the cix years of Me-
Olellan's administration, might I have re- r
talned that position except for one
thing. Mayor Gaynor has told friends
lhat he admired the ability of Commis
sioner Kennedy In the way In" which he
has kept the parks in order and has
handled his' force. ' But Mayor Gaynor
l.as never forgiven Commissioner ' Ken
nedy for holding: up the proposed exten
t-ion of the Brooklyn subway because It
would destroy a number of trees along
the edge of Prospect Park. "The Mayor
regards this M too narrow a view for
an important administrative officer,"
*_Jd the friend of the Mayor. "It might
be said, however, that probably Commis
rloner Kennedy was influenced in his
decision by Mayor McClellan, who -was
opposed to the building of subways.
FOR * MR. KENNEDY'S PLACE.
Park Commissioner Kennedy's succes
sor ' will be Richard W. Balnbrtdge.
.Tames B. Regan or ex-Magistrate John
.T. Walsh. Mr. BaiflfewMa* is a paper
manufacturer, a friend of Edward M.
Fhepard, and at one time -vas chairman
of the Kings County Democratic Gen
,ml Committee. James S. Regan has
Veen Democratic leader of the sth As
sembly District in Brooklyn for some
ears. Mr. Walsh was district leader of
the Ist Assembly District '.n Brooklyn
under the leadership of Hugh Mc-
Laughlin.
No men have yet been chosen as Com
missioners of Accounts to succeed Com
missioner Mitchel, who has become presi
dent of the Board of Aldermen, and
Commissioner Buncke. who resigned
some days ago to return as chief auditor
of the Board of Water Supply. It is
said that Mayor Gaynor considers this
office one of the most important in the
administration and he intends that It
Fhall be kept busy
One of the features of the appoint
ments made by Mayor Gaynor is that
almost all are young men. The Mayor
on Saturday, in talking to President
Mitehel, said he liked to s*e young men
pet on Mr. Watson, at forty years of
;, ?e j ? probably the youngest man who
ever held the important place of Cor
poration Counsel. Mr. Drummond, at
nfty-nine years, and Calvin Tomkins, at
fifty-two years, iHU apparently be the
• old men"' of the administration. Mr.
Thompson is only thirty-six years old,
Rhinelander Waldo thirty-three years
and Kingsiey Martin thirty-two years
old. Mr. Hyde is still a young man at
forty.
MR. SPOONER UNCERTAIN.
When seen last night Mr. Spooner, the
retiring Commissioner of Docks and
Ferries, seemed surprised that a succes
sor had been appointed to his office.
It is understood That Mayor Gaynor
hopes to retain the retiring Commis
sioner in the department as an engineer,
which place he held before he was ele
vated to the eonimissionership. but on
title point Mr. Epooner himself ex
pressed doubt as to its feasibility under
the Civil Service law.
Provided that objection should be
overcome, Mr. Spooner declined to eom
imsell on the question as to
he would re-main in the depart
uwot as nn engineer, saying: he preferred
to wait ur.til lv had received something
fKinl oon^frning the s-itu.ttion.
77/ E MA YOR 'S ( \ I BIXE T
Sketches of Men lie Has
Chosen to Surround Him.
HENRY S. THOMPSON". -
Henry S. Thompson, the new Commls
moner of Water Supply, Gas and Elec
tricity, was one of the organizers of the
building and contracting firm of Thorn
ton-Starrett, which still bears his name,
though he left that company five years
-go.
After being grad dated from Princeton
University In 1894. he went first Into the
employment of the Standard Oil Com
pany, for which he travelled extensively
abroad. On hie return to this country he
organized the building company which
bears his name, and since then, besides
many building Interests, he has b<?en an
active real estate dealer and investor.
In 1903 he was first appointed to public
office, when Borough President Cantor
made him Superintendent of Buildings,
which appointment raised a storm of
questione as to Thompson's efficiency and
experience. After service iv that office
under Mayor Low, Mr. Thompson con
tinued for a short time In the same office
with the first McClellan administration.
In May, ISO 7, he was appointed Commis
sioner of Public Workfi under Borough
President Ahearn, his appointment at that
time calling forth expressions of satisfac
tion from Charles F. Murphy, of Tam
many Hall. "The appointment of Mr.
Thompson was perfectly satisfactory to
me," said Mr. Murphy, in ISO 7. "He is a
good Democrat and wsjs a member of the
Tammany Hall campaign committee last
year." Hie appointment was an attempt
at reform by Mr. Ahearn.
Mr. Thompson is the owner of the Hotel
Marie Antoinette, and Is interested, as a
director, in a score of stock companies, in
cluding railroads, fire insurance com
panies, realty and construction concerns.
EDWARD W. BEMIS.
The appointment of Professor Kdward W.
Eemis as First Deputy Water Commmls
tloner is a notable one. He is well known
among the hydraulic interests of this coun-
He is a native of Massachusetts, a
graduate of Amhcrst, and received the do
gree of Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins Uni
versity in 1885. He has been a constant
writer on municipal subjects, particularly
referring to municipal ownership of pub
lic utilities, and is a member of the com
mittee on investigation of municipal owner
ship of the National Civic Federaton.
For th* last few ytars he has been Super
intendent of the Water Works in Cleveland,
Ohio, where he went at the personal ho-
Uc-ltation of Mayor Tom L. Johnson, with
the purpose of putting that <k-pa.rnnent of
'"ieveland on a scientific and economic
basis. Cleveland's water works, after his
administration there, were conceded to be
» mod'?] for the country.
Returning to this city, where be has re
newea his residence, be has been a consult-
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NEW YORK GAS APPLIANCE co.
CHA6. a. GOTTESMAN. Treat
JOHN POBBOY MTTCUKU
President of the Board of Aldermen
WILLIAM A. PRENDEROA-Tr.
Controller.
ing engineer on Water Department matters
for the iasst year, and In accepting the posi
tion of Deputy Commissioner he is prob
ably, like Kingsley Martin, In the Bridge
Department, reducing his own compensa
tion. It is understood, however, that the
object of his appointment will be a com
plete scientific examination of the Water
Department, with especial reference to the
immense losses from leakage, and from the
example of his Cleveland work it is under
stood that his efforts here will b« bent
upon systematizing the department.
KIXGSLEY MARTIN.
Kingsley L. Martin, the new Bridge Com
missioner, holds the distinction of having
accepted an oflice for which the compen
sation is $2,500 a year less than that of the
office from which he retires, that of chief
engineer of the Bridge Department.
His father, the late C. C. Martin, who
was engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge, was
v close personal friend of Mayor Gaynor,
in the days when as Police Commissioner
of Flatbush he was cleaning up that town.
Mr. Martin, like his father, has been a
warm personal friend of Mayor Gaynor,
and It Is understood that it was at the
earnaat solicitation of the new Mayor that
he consented to accept the higher office
with the lower compensation.
In 1892 Mr. Martin was appointed assist
ant engineer of tho Brooklyn. Bridge, and
in 1896 he was appointed to the same posi
tion on the Williumsburg Bridge, and as
signed to the construction of the Manhat
tan tower. In 189£, as a member of the
Brooklyn Naval Reserve, be enlisted in
the United States navy, and was under
fire at Havana during the war with Spain.
Returning to the service of the city, lie
was made engineer in charge of the Wfll
iamsburg Bridge In 1904. and in 1906 was
put in charge of both that and the Brook
lyn Bridge. He was promoted to the posi
tion of chief engineer of the Department
of Bridees in 1908.
ARCHIBALD R. WATSON.
Archibald R. Watson, the new Corpora
tion Counsel, is a member of the law firm
of Nicoll. Anable, Lindsay & Fuller, and
has been a writer on legal subjects. He is
a native of Tennessee. He was one of the
committc-e of nine who asked Judge Gaynor
to accept an independent nomination, and
to whom in his answer the judge made his
first public utterance of the campaign.
Mr. Watson is at present the editor of
"Bench and Bar," and is the author of the
article on "Municipal Corporations" in the
"American and English Encyclopedia of
Law," of which work Mayor Gaynor himself
is aim one of tiie editors. Mr. Watson ir-s
also the author of a score of the other lead-
Ing articles in that work, and in that con
nection, aa well as In his ordinary profes
sional llf«», the new Corporation Counsel has
been continually in contact with Mayor
Gaynor. Mr. Watson is a nvmber of the
Southern Society of New York.
RHINELANDER WALDO.
Rhinelander Waldo, the new Fire Com
missioner, a captain in the United States
army before 1906. began then a public
career in thin city, with an appointment as
First Deputy Police Commissioner under
General Bingham. Mayor Gaynor refers
to him as "a bachelor and a great catch,
for lie ie rich." His service in the army
was largely in the Philippines, and ho re
mained in th»^ position of first deputy in
the Police Department from January, 1005,
to January, 1907, when he resigned.
Early in 190S he was appointed miperin*
tendent of the police force of the Water
Supply Board, which force was organized
to patrol the Catskill watershed of New
York and to guard the construction of
dams and aqueducts. In October. 1008. he
resigned that post to accept the Tammany
nomination for Congress from the 15th Dis
trict, for which he was defeated by Con
gressman J. Van Vechten Olcott.
MICHAEL J. DRUMMOND,
Michael J. Drummond, the new Commis
sioner of Charities, is a man of means, ■
retired iron manufacturer, who for years
has been interested ■In charitable and phil
anthropic work. He has ,expressed keen
satisfaction In b<=inz permitted to take some
part in the charitable work of the city. Mr.
Drummond is chairman of the executive
committee of the Emigrant Industrial Sav
ings Bank and has other financial Interests,
but espeeU to devote his entire time to the
«ulk of the department. He has been as.
sociated in many charitable enterprise*
With Robert W. Hebberd. the retiring com
mlsstniMir who would have been, reappolnt
ed had he not expressed a desire to lay
down the work. He v. ill do all lit My power
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, MONDAY, JANT ART * l~>irr.
THE NEW BOARD OF ESTIMATE, WHICH BEGINS WORK TO-DAY.
IaAWRENCK GRESSEK,
Prtuident of the Borough of Queens.
to assist Mr. Drummond in picking up the
work.
DR. THOMAS L. FOG ARTY.
Dr. Thomas li. Fogarty, Deputy Com
missioner of Cbarities for Brooklyn, was
born in Brooklyn on September 15. 1867.
Up was graduated from the Long Island
College Hospital in 1891, and for a num
ber of years was connected with the Long
Island College Hospital and the Southern
Hospital. I^ter he was surgeon of th«
Kings County Penitentiary. For some
time he was a physician in the outdoor
department of the Bureau of Charities in
Brooklyn. Prom 1895 until 1905 he was a
medical inspector in the Healtn Depart
ment of Brooklyn. He was then appointed
■» *■■ — — — ——————————
CONTROLLER PREXDERGAST'S DEPUTIES,
WHO TAKE OFFICE TO-DAY.
EDMUND D. FISHER.
a Deputy Health Commissioner in Brook
lyn and held the position for a year. He
is a member of the Elks, the Emerald So
ciety and the Kings County Medical So
ciety. His home, is at No. 230 Union street,
Brooklyn.
*.
CALVIN TOMKINS.
Calvin Tomklns, the new Commissioner of
Docks and Ferries, is a graduate of Cornell
University Scientific School, and has been
a prolific writer on subjects pertaining to
the development of New York's shipping.
He is vice-president of the Battery Park
National Bank, and is a large manufacturer
of building material.
As a member of the franchise committee
of the Citizens Union in 1904-'oo, he urged
the adoption of the policy of municipal con
trol of public utilities, and later he brcame
president of the Municipal Arts Society. He
has spoken and written m advocacy of a
comprehensive development plan for the
City, a lid particularly of the city's shipping
Interests.
In 1906 he was selected as the member
from New York State of the executive com
mittee of the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, to bring about reform In the manage
ment of that company's business. He was
nominated by the Citizens Union In 1907
for the office Of Sher.ff. but declined the
nomination for personal reasons.
Mr. Tomkins has been a prominent mem
ber of the Board of Trade and Transporta
tion, and has been known as an exception
ally Independent Democrat in politic?.
•CHARLES 11. HYDE.
Charles H. Hyde, the new City Cham
berlain, has. been close to Mayor Gaynor
since he came here from Canada an a
youth and started to study law in Mr.
Cantor's ofllce. Among other young men
in th* office at that time were Edward M
Grout and Paul De Ktvre. Ho Is now a
lawyer at No m Wail street His voting
residence hus been th Hotel Knicker
bocker for several years, but be spends
much t'.r.u at his country home at Roslyn.
Long Island. ,
Mr. Hyde 1* only forty years old, but
MAYOR WILLIAM J. GAY NOR.
CYRUS C. MILLER.
President of the Borough of The Bronx.
has had charge of much important legal
work both in Brooklyn and New York.
He has done work as counsel on the ex
eeutorships and other positions of trust
held by Mayor Gaynor, including the es
tate of William Ziegler. Ho was also
counsel for the Brighton Beach Racing
Association. He was counsel for four suc
cessive sheriffs in Kings County.
By virtue of his office as City Chamber
lain Mr. Hyde will be a member of the
Sinking Fund Commission, and it is under
stood that he will act as the Mayor's in
formal adviser and he a member of his
personal cabinet during his term of office.
DOUGLAS MATHEWSOX.
That Mr. Hyde should be a member of his
administration was one of the first de
terminations made by Mayor Gaynor after
his election. Mr. Hyde has been his closest
confidant in making up the list of appoint
ments. He is affable, tactful and popular,
and has the knack of making friends. Mr.
Hyde is married and has throe children.
BENSEL TO FIGHT FOR JOB.
Argument To Be. Heard on Act Making
His Post Competitive.
Dr. Walter Bensel, Sanitary Superinten
dent of the Health Department, will have
to fight for his job on Tuesday morning,
when an order to show cause, signed on
Friday, will be argued In the Special
Term, Supreme Court, Brooklyn. The plain
tiff is Dr James S. Slavin, a taxpayer, of
No. 174 North 6th street, Greenpolnt. lie
desires te obtain an injunction to restrain
the Civil Service commissioners from en
forcing ■ recent amendment to the rules
which places Dr. Bensel, the Assistant
Sanitary Superintendent and several other
appointed officials of the Health Depart
ment in competitive posts with their pres
ent salaries.
About eighty-seven appointments are
affected altogether. The charter provides
that Dr. Bensel's post, the jobs of his as
sistants and several other places affected
should remain appointive.
NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH.
St. Louis Bri lge Victims Have 30-Hour
Fight in River.
St. Louis. Jan. 2. -Four men who went
down in the collapse of the centre span of
the McKlnley Blidg« <>n Friday afternoon
«r< re rescued at HI o'clock last night in an
exhausted condition, efter a thirty-hour
battle with .if-uth in the lot flees.
They rtung to ■ pile driver srnw nnd
drifted Ml :n!i«:s south of the city, when
Uie KOW sank at noon yesterday. Th«.-y
■aved a ladder from the scow and wltii
tins luiuit- their way toward chore.
President of tho Borough of Manhattan.
ALFRED "E. STEERS.
President of the Borough of Brooklyn.
DICK AFTER BARBER.
Intimate* That lit Is "Man
Without a Countn//'
I By Telegraph to The Trlhune. 1
Akron, Ohio, Jan. 2.— Demanding to
know, as a first condition of accepting
the challenge of Ohio C. Barber to a de
bate on political issues, whether the
"match king" is not a second "man sdtn
out a country," Senator Charles Dick 're
sponded to-day to the challenge in which
the Senator's fitness for re-election was
termed "debatable"
Mr. Dick declares that Barber quit Ohio
fifteen years ago when sued by Dick J>6
County Auditor for $112,000 in back taxes.
The Senator says his challenger went to
New York, and that he has heard Barber
has since abandoned his residence there.
"Of what -state you are a citizen, if any,
you and God alone know, and neither of
you has spoket.." writes Mr. Dick. "I in
sist on knowing if you are a legal voter.
Also, I would like to know if you are a
j 'trust booster' or a 'trust buster.' You
i have organized trusts, some of them the
country's most vicious. As to the tariff,
to debate its four thousand schedules
I would require as much time as Congress
consumed, and I must iisk you to name
those schedules on which you would like
to talk. Do they include the match sched
ule? 1 recall what you said of that sched
ule in a letter to Senator Aldrich. Do
you, Mr. Barber?"
The Senator declares he would not alter
hts vote on any of the tariff schedules,
and that ho opposes revision of the tariff
until the new law ha:? been tested.
NIGHT RIDER WITNESS KILLED.
Ambushed Before Alabama Case Comes
to" Trial.
Mobile. Jan. 2. — James Middleton, a
farmer and principal witness in a Night
Rider case sot for trial in the federal
court this month, was shot and killed
from ambush near his home, in Baldwin
County, last night.
Citizens aided the sheriff to-day in a
futile attempt to capture the assassin.
The case in which Middleton was to have
been a witness was against six promi
nent men said to have killed sheep be
longing to A. Comstock.
PHYSICIAN TAKES CHLOROFORM.
IBy Telegraph to Th.- Tribune I
San Francisco, Jan. 2.— W. A. Monnish.
who was for many years a prominent
physician in Atlanta, committed suicide
to-night by swallowing chloroform. He
came here about eig'it months ago. Since
the recent death of his wife he had been
much depressed. He leaves a daughter,
fourteen years old.
b^l^w W J
P^^H ■ Hi 1 A I
GEORGE CROMWELL. ;~\ Y.
President of the Borough of Richmond
MORE DIPLODOCID.K.
Bones of Three Found in Utah
bif CarmegU Part//.
Pittsburg. Jan. 2.— The director of the
Carnegie Museum announced to-day the
discovery in Utah by a Carnegie exploring
party of the bones of three specimens of
the sauroped dinosaur. There is every rea
son to believe these specimens of the giant
dinosaur are nMrr than the
diploilocus on exhibition here.
A detailed account of th»» discovery is
being prepared, by the nriseum officials for
publication in scientific journals in the near
future.
Plaster casts of the present diplodocus
are now In preparation here and will be
shipped soon to the Czar and the King of
Italy. The director of Carnegie Institute
will accompany them to s<»r them up.
BOSTON CAMPAIGN ACTIVE.
Good Government Association Indorses
Mr. Storrow for Mayor.
Boston. Jan. 2.— The present municipal
campaign, the first under th<> new charter
for Boston which provides for the nomina
tion of non-parttsan candidates for Mayor
and for a smaller Council of eight mem
bers on nomination papers sifmed by five
thousand voters each, has bt-en character
ized by an unusual activity on the part of
the mayoralty candidates, who have cov
ered street and subway tunnel billboards
with advertising and tilled the newspapers
with long statements of charges and
counter charges. The election will take
place on Tuesday. January 11. For Mayor
there are four candidates, and for the eight
eouncllmanic offices nineteen candidates.
Two candidates are up for one vacancy on
the school board. James J. Storrow, a
prominent banker; Mayor George A. Hib
bard. former Mayor John F. Fitzgerald and
Nathaniel H Taylor, a journalist, are the
mayoralty candidates.
The administrations of ex-Mayor Fitz
gerald and Mayor Hibbard have come In
for the brunt of attack upon the part of
Mr. Storrow. Mr. Taylor has n> t entered
into the controversy to any extent. The
Mayor and former Mayor have attacked
Mr. Storrow as representing moneyed in
terests.
The Good Government Association last
night recommended the election of Mr.
Storrow.
KNIGHT TEMPLAR ROBBED?
Syracuse. Jan. 2.— Alexander McLeod, of ;
Maiden, Mass., is held by the police pend- j
ing in\estigation of a disconnnected story ',
which he told after being piok*d up in a •
street last nir,. s-t.s -t. badly beaten. He said fea
had been robbed of a gold watch. Cards i
found In his pocket showed that he was a ;
n-.ember of th»» Knights Templar in MsJin
fjSy^---— -o«o\ HI
W ASHBURN-CROSBYCa ■
GdldMedalFlo^
POSSESSION.
To have a thing is possession.
To have a thind 2 r>d yet to
have it not i-> to he the sport of
circumstance.
If a man drops a gold pieca
into a will, what good is the gold
piece to hm oven though he
owns the well ?
Similarly, property .with a
board fence around it, or occu
pied by an inadequate improve
ment, has but a negligible value
to its owner.
If your property is undevel
oped we may be able to show
you how to make a live propo
sition out of. a dead one.
THOMPSON-STARRETT
COMPANY
Euildinz Construe*! n
Fifty-One Wai! Street
MAYOR'S XIX DWORD %
Contlnaril from flr»t ..... ■ .
movement for Judge Gaynor's nomlrja-^j
tion.
Although there are a number of place* *
still to be tilled the political leaders hay, -
lost all hope of getting any of the pa- "
tronage. Those who heard the n»*s last
night lost no tim«» in beginning to figur*^'
out .how • they could weather the next-.r
four years. ' Hut Tammany men praised ; y>
the appointment?, nevertheless. ; ais
JUDGE O'BRIEN PLEASED. ■=
Ex -Justice. Morgan J. O'Brien praised.,.
th* appointments unreservedly. ..•■;•
"This i- an excellent list." he- said. {if.
"For one thing, the Mayor has not mad.i :*
his appointments according to the 11" ' :-3'
of machine politics. So far as I know .
the appointees, there Is not a close or- V T;:
ganization man among them. Mr. Dram-v^.
montl is a capable man and I am sum,
will make an excellent commlssloner.^i.l
Of course, we all know Mr. RHder. and -v
that there can be no higher type of mari^j
to put in public ofllce. Mr. Watson had
not been for many years in the prof"- x
sion, but he has had considerable ex-»
perience as editor of 'Bench and Bar.* .^
"Mr. Waldo made a very good Deputy .V
Police Commissioner, and I think ha will.
make a. very good Fire Commissioner. --~ •
He succeetis an excellent man. I should ••
think it would be difficult to improve on
Nicholas J. Hayes in that position. P> ■«
sibiy the Mayor's determination to hayo!*;
all his appointments along independent
lines had something to do with his cho <
for the post." "?
Nicholas J. Hayes, who Is retiring aaV?
Commissioner of the Fire Department,
had the warmest words for his an©».
cessor. . .^
'They are fine appointments," he said. .^
"and Waldo's is a mighty fine appoint- -.
ment. They couldn't find a better _arv»?.
for the job anywhere, and he'll maka v
i good. I don't think the department will'-*
fall back under him. I don't mind say* r*
ing that I think it is as good a fire de- :
; partment as there is in the world for
efficiency and equipment. It will haya T
as good a head as can be found."
"They are exceptionally good appoint
ments," said Julius Harburger. Coroner
and leader of the 10th District. "Mr.
Ridder is a high class man for any posi- v
tion, and Mr. Waldo ia.Al. As a.dis-.-,
trict leader, I want to »ay that the ap
pointments are very good all through."
MORBID AT LAMPHERE FXTNERAIi
Attend from Miles Around— Confessioa
Never Made Public.
I^iporte, lii'l.. Jan. 2.— A great crowd aa*
sembled about the Lamphere home to-day
!■ attend the funeral of Ray I*amph»ro.
who set fire to the home of Mrs. B* *
Gunness. near Laporte. on April 29, 19>*<,
burning the owner of the "murder farm"*
and her children. Lamphere died last w<"»l*
in the Michigan City prison, where he Wi|
serving a term for arson.
Friends of the Lampherea prevented moN
ious persons from preaataa* Into tb<*
house. Country people for miles aronnij
drove to the cemetery at Rossburg. whert
Lamphere was buried.
His confession, made to a preacher wMl*
Lamphere was in jail awaiting trial, aaa
never been made public, although the pas
tor says that it contains information -r • *
slaying of ten or more persons for moa«g
by Mrs. Gunness.
"NEW GOVERNMENT DESPOTIC/*
Constitutionality of Commission Fonsf,
Attacked in Memphis.
Memphis, Jan. 2. — The conati^tioa*
ality of the new commission form of mu
nicipal government, which became opera*
tive on January 1, was attacked In th*
Chancery Court yesterday.
Seven prominent citizens filed suit ayatnaf.
Mayor E. H. Crump and the four comrr. -
sioners, alleging that the new charter takes
away the rights of self-government aa<i
gives the commission despotic powers.
FIRE AT AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Rochester. Jan. I— Fire which trok» •.« '£
in the State Agricultural College at Alfred -
yesterday from an overheated stove pra •■• n
tically ruined the Interior of the building
which was unfinished. The lose Is esuV
mated at $33.000. _^^ •
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