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V OL TAX. • N° 23,257. 0 TAKEN HERE FOR BELGIAN BANK ROBBERY -- iC e $;;■ linger Marks Left by Criminal Brought About Capture, THIEVES SECURED $80,000 guck Brothers' Safe Opened trith Instrument That Looked Like Big" Can Opener — Prisoner's Denial. I After a search covering two conti ests and extending over six months • tie police captured a man yesterday who re his name as Louis Mendelbaum, chow they charged with the theft of cm)o>3 from the banking house of Fran cois and Emile Marck. in Liege, Bel rian. jr. January of this year. The po lice say that he has been going under the alias of Louis Cohen, and that his r eal came i? Leibus Brjiski. In the first week in January the bank c boose was entered with skeleton j^ys. The large safe was forced with tn instrument made in the shape of a •icantic can opener. This tore a hole shout a foot In diameter in the safe, the strong-** 1 * rifled and prcperty trcrth 400.000 francs carried off. Three jrien were known to have taken part in the robbery, and the Belgian police be jaa a search for the culprits. Learn fcur that they had got away to America.. the Belgian authorities called on the ajfew York police to aid them In the ar rest of the men they were after. Pierre Mali, the Belgian Consul Gen era! ta this city, secured from his gov ernment the depositions taken before ♦He judge who conducted the investi gation into the affair, and these were • ncconpanied by photographs and thumb niarks of the alleged safe breakers. These thumb marks were secured in the spsrCTem house which adjoins the l^kin? house. This also was broken into. zn& the strong box smashed, but ♦he thieves secured nothing and left the best means of identification behind tieai. In April the local detectives got clews ■n-hich led them to believe that they had lie men who were anted. The trio got away however, before they could be aptur^d. The man arrested yesterday, the police say, had left a satchel behind, *ron which his name, Brjiski, was teamed and his alias Mendelbaum. A restaurant on Second avenue was found Tv have been his regular resort, and later it was learned that he had lived at a boaseem '2d street, but had moved to the Hotel Irving. He was described as a ir.an about twenty-five years old and a vk'thing cutter by trade. The police have never given up the ch2se, and yesterday Detectives Unger and Deitsch got on thg^risht trail and landed the man at Police Headquarters. After communicating with the Belgian Consul General Inspector Russell sub jscted the prisoner to a long and search ing cross-^xamination. MfsdeibEura, as he calls himself, is tbcrat twenty-flve years old. and he gave iis occupation as that cf tailor. He desied any knowledge of the crime with •which he is charged, and seemed to knov.- nothing -whatever about the bank ing nous? of the Marck Brothers, or the city of Liege, where the crime is vaii to have been committed. The photo irajtos in the hands of the police and the f.nper marks found on the strong box in the apartment of Francois Marck tally, the police allege, with those of the fxSsaaer. . ■ Much cf the amount stolen was in Je«*-iry and bonds. The bonds were re rsvered in London, but the jewelry and about $&000 in cash have not been found. One of the clews which led to :h<? fastening of suspicion on Mendel bssm, or Brjiski, was an allegation that |M had been seen melting metal some cays before the robbery, and it is sup pcs«?fi he was making a duplicate of the key to the banliinp house and apartment adjoining. Consul General Mali win make a for «el charge, and an application for ex tradition will be made in due time by the Belgian government. DOLLY S WASH MAY COST LIFE Child Fails from Fire Escape While Hanging It Out. The doctor? and nurses at the Lincoln HoFpital are trying to pave th*- life of little Ahc* Bn-jMt. and her dolly's clothes hang «ii~rte<2 on the fire escape, where ?he th*m ji:st ef ■- she fell and was so wfly tart rsstertJay afternoon. Seven v^ars old is Altec and as neat as a Pa "Miss Prim" she la called by those *fco kno^v what a tidy little body f-hf- Is. - v ery afternoon, when the brings dolly i^ck into her home, at No 297 East 134 th r-«<- „_'-.- a days play in the street. aba 'ashes Solly's clothes and hangs them out *o cry. At 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon she was «n on The fire escape hanging up the tiny »-'J» of lingerie and cambric. Her foot *>*iK*d and she fell through the owning to * tin shed t»o stories below, where she lay fltconsrioiis. At the Lincoln Hospitai it via? found that ABc« had concussion of taw brain and a •^actured jaw. E>r. Dunlap assured the Mother that the child had a chance to live. CAUSES. .A LAWYER'S ARREST Brooklyn Widow Says She Grave O. H. Steams 810,000 to Invest. °«*r K. Steams, a. Brooklyn lawyer. *** arrested ;,*•••- ■• his office. in tr< Arb.jckle Building, charged by Mrs. Wiltshire, or No. C 23 Macon W»et! -with falHns to make an accounting «* CO.Wj, jrfcjdl aba gave rim to invest. Mattel rate- Dof;!ey. •C the MeM street f°-ce court. heM him in 55.000 bail for a n*xt Monday The complainant Is y* *i!s<ju- of Frank G. "Wiltshire, a furnl jflPe manufacturer. Mrs Wiltshire claims &c return of the principal and $1,006 31 in Merest. f Vr Steams haa not been bailed out at a k-e hour last night. He la «xt7-«ercn tan old. is married and lives at No 2127 I^toa avenue. liatbush. where he is weu ■*•*■ bocially and in church work. LOST IN LONDON STREETS. kwidon. July IS. — Miss Jane Havens. nfty ***** old, ana 3aaai wandering, apparently In the street* here too-day. ;• - ■ •fefujr-d U) gJve ih* *<i<ir<-F?e«. of friends, :»i\ 4 it thousbt that she brkMlty la Boston. i ' . ' ■'■■■■'.V. ■'■•--■■- *- : . ■ . ■ - " . ' - : ■ — — To-day nod to-morroir. grnrrnllT fair; variable winds. MR. DREXEL'S FINE FLIGHT Carries a Passenger 35 Miles, Partly Over Sea. Bournemouth. England. July 19.«— Mr. Drexel. th« American aeronaut, carried a passenger In a Bleriot monoplane from Bournemouth to BeaulJeu. in Hampshire, a distance of thirty-five miles, this even ing. The flight was partly across the sea, and the passenger kept, a log of the journey. m PLUGGED J^iCKEL FOR 13 Gypsy and Her Brood Tie Up Crosstown Traffic. A pypsy and h<*r twplve children rode in a 125 th street crosstown oar from the Fort Lee ferry to Eiehth avenue last evening without paying: any fare. The nc-arest she came to paying was wh?n she grave the conductor one plugged nickel to pay the transportation charges for the party. When the conductor re fused the coin and demanded that she either pay for herself and three of the children who wt re of suitable age or seek other means of getting to her des tination she calmly ignored him. After a wait of several minutes at Broadway the conductor decided to pro ceed before traffic got into such a snarl that the temper of the homegoing crowd would he lost. At Eighth avenue an in spector boarded the car, and when he saw the condition of affairs— all the available space occupied by thirteen gypsies and their goods and chattels— he was furious. When he found that they were not even paying for the accommo dations he was more furious. A number of conductors and motormen left their cars and assisted in putting the woman off. The children followed. The conductor explained that the gyp sies got into the car before he had taken his position at the entrance and that they compounded their failure to pay as you enter by refusing to pay at all. A. B. HEPBURN OPTIMIST Sees Good Crops and Great Vol ume of Business Ahead. [By Telegraph to The Tribune.] St. Paul, July 19. — That the* United States has a good general crop assured, a volume of* business ahead that will be heavier than ever, and an outlook war ranting a general feeling of optimism is The opinion of A. Barton Hepburn, pres ident of the Chase National Bank, of New York, who is in Minneapolis to-day. The fall promises to brine out compe tition for money. Mr. Hepburn said, and rates will probably remain firm. "Because the wheat crop has not turned out well in North Dakota, one finds in Minneapolis now a feeling like that often to be found in New York when prices of stocks are down." said Mr. Hepburn. -The New York feeling is never a safe one to follow, for any view of conditions to be of value must take in the country as a whole. "There are several lines of business in the United States that are feeling reces sion in some degree," said Mr. Hepburn. "Cotton is quiet because the price Is high and manufacturers are not making goods up in quantity. ■ . -. "A reason for firmer money rates is to be found in the condition of Germany. That country tried to do the carrying busings for th«- world, and to put through great development internally. There was a demand for money which was felt, and is still being f*lt all over the world " HELD HEART IN HANDS Surgeon Coolly Stitched Organ Between Pulsations. [Bj "• '.-■-«rrs7 v . to Ibe Tribur.*.] Philadelphia. July 19.— For the second time in five weeks Dr. Francis T. Stew ard, of the Pennsylvania Hospital, has taken stitches in the throbbing heart of a man stabbed in a fight. To-day he pat five stitchee in the heart of Joseph S^ence. a negro, who received a knife thrust in a fight early this morning. The man was nearly dead when rushed to tbe hospital, three squares away. Dr. Steward took each stitch between a pul sation, and coolly held the throbbing or gan in his hands. In a few hours the vi tim had regained consciousness, and to-night there is every indication of full recovery- A negro similarly operated on flve v.-eeks ago has been discharged from in*- hospital as cured. WEALTHY. BUT TAKES $400 JOB Retired New Jersey Business Man Has Distaste for Idleness. South Oranpe. K. J.. July 19 (Speclal).- Dietaste for idleness and a desire to per form some civic duty have combined to in duce Benjamin S. Comstock. who recently retired from business, to enjoy the wealth he had accumulated, to accept the clerk ship to the Board of Education at a salary of $400 a year. Mr. Comstock was secretary-treasurer of the Central Sales Company, of New York. and secretary of the National Products Company, of Providence. He was grad uated from Princeton in 1880, and had been in the leather business since that time and until he sold out his Interests last fall. The new clerk is a member of the Prince ton Club of New York and the Princeton Alumni Association of the Oranges. He (■ also a member of the American Alpine and the Canadian Alpine clubs and the Ex plorers* Club. He has been on exploring expeditions to British Columbia eight times. MEET AFTER 45 YEARS Civil War Comrades Promptly Recog nize Each Other. James Rile, of Flushing, who is visiting at the home of his brother. Richard Edie. in Yonkers. was standing on the public dock there yesterday morning awaiting th« 8 rrivnl of the Albany Day Line boat when iaraeßi araeB T. Griffin walked across the pier. " E< ii O and Griffin were members of the Utb Regiment, of Brooklyn, .luring the civil War and fought side by side in many rattles, and though they had not met in forty-five years they recognized each- other Instantly. With tears In their eyes the old comrades embraced each other, and & crowd, not knowing the cause of the un usual 'wen* Quickly gathered. Br fore parting each secured the address , toe other and they promised it would not be forty-five years before they met again. _ COLD JULY DAY IN VIRGINIA. Norfolk. Va.. July IS-To-day was the eldest July 19 in Norfolk, with two , «cep- Son.", in forty years. hr- mercury dropped I , ... <, e .. re es Cv to this time 5.8 Inches or &o has Mien this moi tv and sraea 1* ruii:iii- many truck crop* NEW-YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1910.-TWKLYE PAGES. READY FOR FIGHT TO MIL NEXI HOUSE Democrats Have Formidable Task to Make Good Their Boasts, IN THE DOUBTFUL DISTRICTS Congressional Campaign To Be Formally Opened in Less \- Than Two Weeks — De mand for Literature. [From The Tribune Bureau. 1 "Washington, July 10.— The campaign for the control of the House of Repre sentatives will be formally opened in less than two weeks. The Republicans will make New York their base of oper ations, while the Democratic headquar ters will be in Washington and Chicago, in both of which cities the Republicans will also maintain branch headquarters. Millions of copies of speeches and other so-called "literature" is ' now being printed, and for the next three months the mails will be loaded with the mes sages of hope and promise to American voters. • ■ ■ The House of Representatives consists of ,'-591 members, the Republican major ity beiriET 44. Francis Curtis, the expert of the Republican Congressional Com mittee, has compiled a list of so-cailed "doubtful' districts. He has included in this list all districts where the plu rality of the successful candidates two years ago was less than s,<Wi. The cam paign of both parties will centre in the 145 districts. Mr. Curtis's figures show that the 145 doubtful districts are now represented by seventy-seven Republi cans and sixty-eight Democrats. The fight will he fiercest in fifty-four districts, where the pluralities of the successful candidates two years ago were less than 2.000. These fifty-four districts are now represented by twenty four Democrats and thirty Republicans. Twenty-nine members of the present House, nine of them Democrats, were elected two years ago by pluralities of less than 1.000. If the Democrats hold what they have and gain in the twenty districts where Republicans were elected by less than I.'OOO plurality, the next House will be Republican by five votes. A Formidable Task. Notwithstanding the insurgent dissen sions in the Republican ranks, the fig ures show that the Democrats are con fronted with a formidable task if they are to make good their boast that they will control the next House. If the Democrats carry every district which they now control and are successful in every other district where the Republi can majority two years ago was less than 2,000, the next House will be Dem ocratic by 16 majority. The magnitude of this task will be appreciated when it is remembered that in nine districts two years ago Democrats were elected to the Hou.=e by less than 1.-009 plurality, while in. fifteen other districts the Democratic pluralities were less than 2,000. In many of these districts the Republican leaders are confident they will mak* gains this year. In five districts the pluralities two years ago were less than 100. In the 10th Massachusetts District the plurality of Representative OConnell (Democrat) was only four. E. W. Saunders. a Dem ocrat, was elected by 91 plurality in the sth Virginia District. The plurality of Representative Xorris, of the sth Ne braska District, was twenty-two. Mr. Norris, who was one of the leaders of the insurgents. Is facing another hard fight this year Representative Joyce carried the 15th Ohio District two years ago by a plurality of 57, while Repre sentative Sheffield had only 61 plurality in the Ist Rhode Island District. Champ Clark's Close District. Some of the most prominent members of the House come from doubtful dis tricts. Champ Clark, the minority lead er, will have to give close attention to his district. Mr. Clark is serving his eighth term in Congress. Two years ago his plurality was only 1.388. Represen tative Lloyd, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Committee, will not be able to overlook his own fences while conducting a campaign for a Democratic House, for his plurality two years ago was only 3,011. Representative Tawney, chairman of the Committee on Appro priations, was elected two years ago by a plurality of 2,861. The Democrats are camping on Mr. Tawney's trail this year, but the Minnesota Representative is ac customed to hard fighting, and his suc cess in November Is predicted by persons familiar with the Minnesota political situation. Speaker Cannon's district Is not classed as doubtful, inasmuch as "Uncle Joe" had a plurality of 7.375 two years ago. Of the Republican insurgents eleven come from doubtful districts. They are Representatives Cary and Nelson, Wis consin; Fish, New York; Steenerson, Minnesota: Madison. Kansas; Haughen and Kendall, Iowa; Hayes, California, and Hinshaw, Norris and Klnkaid, Ne braska. • Socialists May Be Represented. It is possible that the Socialists may have one or two representatives in the next House. The election of a Socialist Mayor in Milwaukee has Inspired the members of that party with the hope of carrying the 4th and sth Wisconsin dis tricts in November. Victor Berger, one of the best known Socialists in the United States, has been nominated for Congress in the nth Dis trict, now .represented by William H. Stafford. Nearly ten thousand votes were cast two years ago by the Social ists In the Milwaukee district, now rep resented by William J. Cary. The New York headquarters of the Republican Congressional Committee will be on the thirteenth floor of the St. James Building. They will be opened on August 1. with Representative Lou denslager. of New Jersey, in charge. Representative McKlnley, chairman of the committee, will divide his time be tween New York and Chicago. All the campaign speakers for the Middle West and the Pacific Coast will be directed from the Chicago headquarters, where Colonel Henry Casson. sergeant -at-arms Continued en second [..«<■■ FR\NK GOODALE AND THE DIRIGIBLE WHICH MADE NIGHT FLIGHT OVER CITY. THE YOUNG AERONAUT WHO SURPRISED THE "GREAT WHITE WAY. AVH7OR HAS CLOSE CALL Stevenson Wrecks Machine, but Escapes with Few Bruises. ASKS FOR A CIGARETTE This Is the Stock Expression After an Accident — Baldwin Travels Fast. Garden Civ. Long Island, July 19 (Spe cial). — Fifteen hundred persons saw an accident to-night in which "Joe" Steven son came as near losing his life as he ever will and come out with a whole skin. In a similar accident an aviator •was killed last week in Rheims, France, during the meet there. Stevenson has a machine which is made almost entirely of bamboo, and ha = a Harrlman engine. To-night he in tended to make a short run across the field before the other aviators came out. His engine was started and ran well, and when the biplane was released it started away like a shot. For three hundred feet the machine ran along the ground; then, whether Stevenson ?oft his head or part of the guide wires bound Is not known; at all events, the front control was turned sharply and the machine shot into the air for a height of forty feet, turned al most over, and as the air went from be neath the planes it shot to the ground like lightning. Every one thought that the aviator was killed, and the crowd swarmed over the fences and ran to the side of the in jured man. who was lying beneath the wreck of the machine. The biplane was lifted, and. to the surprise of every one. he crawled out and asked for a cigar ette. This asking for a cigarette by avia tors every time they meet with a mishap is getting to be a stock expression, but all stick to the formula. As soon as it was seen that Stevenson was uninjured a cheer went up, but about that time he began to grow pale, and it was then feared that he had been injured Internally. He was put in an automobile and sent to the aviation shed, where Dr. R. r>- Grimmer made a thorough examination and found that he was only slightly bruised. The biplane, however, was a complete wreck. Captain Baldwin made a number of good flights to-night, being in the air an hour and a half altogether in short runs. He made flve circuits at the field at top speed with his biplane let out Just as fast as it eouW go, and the way it tore through the air brought the crowd to their feet and had them cheer ing, each round of the field being mude in as good as a mile a minute. '•Joe" Seymour had another narrow escape from what might have been a berious accident. Just as he rose from the ground his wheel was torn off. Sey lrour felt the shock anil looked to see what was the trouble, but kt-pt on and rose to forty feet. After making two round* of the field he cainu down slowly. KILLED IN GRAND CENTRAL Tarrytown Merchant Missed Car; Was Crushed to Death. BIG CROWD SEES ACCIDENT Unable to Render Assistance for Fear of Third Rail — Women Faint at Sight. In sipht of several hundred commuters yesterday afternoon, on the concrete concourse of the temporary depot of the New York Central Railroad. John Felter, a retired merchant and a Grand Army veteran, was crushed between the electric shoe of a Tarrytown local train and the concourse. He lived fur a few minutes after the accident. Mr. Felter was returning from a fish ing excursion. He reached the depot barely a minute before the train he wanted to take, the r>:47 o'clock Tarry town local, was to leave from Track 4. He ran for the train, but instead of entering the rear car he ran up the platform until he had reached the sec ond car from the motor car. He caught hold of the handrail and swung himself up on the steps. Just as he reached the car platform he lost his balance and fell headlong to the concourse. Passengers cried out with horror as they saw him fall close to the edge, and three women fainted. As he struck the platform, head foremost, his right leg slipped in between the shoe of the next car and the concourse, and his body was drawn under the slowly mov ing train. A porter, standing at the end of the concourse, hearing Mr. Felter's cry and seeing him fall, signalled to the motor man, William Rankin, to stop the train. Putting on the emergency brakes, Rankin brought the train, which was moving slowly, to a sudden stop before it had gone half a car length. The guards of the train jumped down and ran to the man's assistance. By this time more than five hun dred people had crowded into the narrow space. Because of the danger of coming into contact with the third rail none dared to go to his aid, until E. J. Davies. a guard, placed his arms around the man's shoulders and lifted him out. Dr. McGloud, of the medical staff of the New York Central, who is stationed in the emergency ward which the rail road company maintains at the station, was hastily summoned, but by the time he reached Mr. Filter's side he was dead. FIRST TO KNOW ITS POPULATION. Washington. July 19.- Rhode. Island will be the first state to know Its total popula tion as revealed by the thirteenth census. The announcement for the entire state is almost ready, and may be made public to morrow. Special effort by the Census Office was made on account of some local require ments. Invisible hjslght eyeglasses for near and distant vision. Spencers, 31 Maiden Lane. — AdvL ' ** PRICE ONE CENT GOMPERS WINS Al LAST Buck's Stove Company Aban dons Open Shop Policy. MAY END PROSECUTIONS Victory Comes After Death of J. W. Van Cleave, Consistent Enemy of Federation. Cincinnati, July 19.— A peace agree ment was reached to-night between the Stove Founders' National Defence Asso ciation and President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor. This, it is believed, will end the prosecutions by the Buck's Stove Company against offi cers of the American Federation of La bor. The stove company, it is announced, has abandoned the open shop policy and will employ none but union men in the future. James W. Van Cleave, head of the Buck's company and former president of the National Association of Manufactur ers, died on May 15, after six years' war fare against the Federation of Labor. In the course of his fight he obtained an injunction from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia forbidding the Federation to boycott his company or to print its name in the "unfair list" in "The Federationist." th.c organ of the organization. For violating that in junction Judge Wright imposed a sen tence of a year's imprisonment on Gom pers. six months on Secretary Frank Morrison and nine months on John .Mitchell. Alton B. Parker, of New York, was re tained to argue the appeal of the labor leaders. James M. Beck, of New York. argued for the company. The Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia up held the action of Judge Wright. Then an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court of the United States, which has not yet passed on the question. ACTOR CRUSHED IN ELEVATOR Robert Dempster Recently Signed Con tract with the Shuberts. [By Telegraph to The Tribune. ] Milwaukee. July 19— Robert Dempster, leading man of the Alhambra stock com pany, who last season played in the com pany with Mfcbel Barrison. narrowly es caped death in an elevator accident here this morning. Dempster was returning to his apart ments The Janitor was out. and Dempster started to run the elevator himself He lost control and was caught at the fifth floor and crushed. It is feared that he may be crippled for life. He recently signed a con tract with the Shuberts for the coming season. WANT $45,000 FOR LYNCHING Btherington Estate Asks $5,000 Penalty and $40,000 Damages. Newark, Ohio. July 19. —George Bohon. president of the Mercer National Bank at HarrodPburg, Ky . and administrator of the estate of Carl Etherington. the anti-saloon detective, who was lynched here on July S, made formal demand upon the Licking County authorities to-day for the Jj.OO'i penalty authorized by the state to be paid by the county to the estate of persona lynched. Bohon stated to-niarht that he would bri.ig slit in the federal court for |4*.Mt damages against ex-Sheriff Llnke and his bondsmen. ROCKEFELLER MUST PAY MORE Forest Hill Tax Valuation Increased Over 500 Per Cent. (By Telegraph to The Tribune.) Cleveland. July 19. — Taxes on Forest Hill have been increased over 500 per cent by the quadrennial appraisers. They value the favorite home of John D. Rockefeller at $1,415,930. and have so reported to County Auditor Presteln. The last appraisement of this property, made in 1900. was $252.23). Unless Mr. Rockefeller appears in protest before the county board of equalization he will b« compelled to write a check for the increased taxes it is expected he will make a fight. GETS $700,000 FOR KIND ACT Motorman Helped Stranded Miner — Now Gets a Fortune. Macon, Ga.. July 19.— Shortly before the Klondike gold boom, \V. W. Mill- a mo torman. of this city, met J. F. Curley. a miner, stranded and without funds. He took him in. fed him and gave him money with which to travel as far as Birmingham. That was the last he heard of the bread cast upon the waters until yesterday, when he' received word that Curley had died In nawson <• in and left him * £oituu» esti mated at fTOO.OWX - -■ - In City of x-vr York. Jer-«.jr City andHobokeiW ELSKWHERE TWO CENTS. GOODALE OVER CITY IN FIRST NIGHT FLIGHT Big Crowd in the "Great White Way" Cheers Younrj Aviator from Jersey. PALISADES PARK AND BAPK Makes Round Trip in 4 0 Minutes and Gives Blase Roof Gar den Audiences a Real Thrill. The first night voyage in New Tor* air currents was successfully accom plished last night by Frank Goodale, known a year or so ago as the boy aero naut, who travelled from Palisades Park, on the Jersey shore, to Broadway and 42d street and back again in forty minutes. Broadway did not give the daring? 1 young man the reception that would f have been accorded to him, had he made the trip in daylight, m had herald ed his coming. The streets were crowd ed when Goodale, who had been steer i.ing his craft southward over EightH i avenue, swerved to the east and al lowed himself to be borne along in tha current which sweeps the Times Build-* ing on its south side. The streets were crowded at the time when he arrived, the presence of a certain negro pugilist as the principal attraction at a ro«'f garden in that neighborhood bringing out hundreds of the curious who want to see the maa who made Reno famous and sent the white champion back to the obscurity to which he voluntarily retired several" years ago. Pugilist Ceases to Attract. But the fickle multitude demonstrated the strength of the fame of an exemplar of fistic prowess when compared to a sure enough demonstration of man* supremacy over the air. Johnson's au tomobile, standing in the street oppo site the stage entrance of the theatre* where he is appearing, ceased to inter est the throng, and ail necks twisted to give the eyes above them a free view of the marvel that was being unfolded before them. Goodale could be seen plainly as ho manipulated the machinery of his craft, the dirigible Strobel, built especially for his use by a manufacturer of Toledo. The aeronaut was sailing along higr* above the heads of his audience, but a number of searchlights on the Hotel Astor, playing on his dirigible, made his movements easily discernible to those who were standing on solid ground. The streets became more and more packed with humanity. Traffic was practically suspended for the ten minutes that Goodale remained in the en of Times Square, and th^ first desultory cheers of those who stood beJow a;..l marvelled finally gTew in volume until they reached the man in one loud cur rent of sound. Audience? at roof garden shows heard and wondered. And the more they wnndered the less the theat ric:)! entertainment that was being- pro vided for their amusement seemed to interest them. Excitement on Roof Garden. The patrons of Hammerstein's Roof Garden were thrown into great excite ment when, in the middle of the fourth act. the sounds of "chug, chug" wer^ heard overhead. Somebody veiled "Air ship:" and instantly a thousand necks were stretched toward the sky. Barely flfty feet overhead they saw a man on the flimsy framework of what looke«t like a flying caterpillar. He sang out. "Hello. Hammerstein's." and the crowd scrambled out to the open roof to cheer the aeronaut as he passed by. Few :a the crowd knew that it was Goodale. Late diners left their tables in nearby restaurants and cafes and rushed out' to add to the troubles of the sorely dis tressed patrolmen. Everywhere was tha snarl of traffic except in the air. Good ale had the air to himself. Few of those who fought for a place to view hi 3 evo lutions would have disputed His mastery with him. Sleeps Over Sig Buildings. To show how complete that supreme* was the young aeronaut threw Yds mMm der over and veered around the Time* Building in a majestic curve. After making one complete circle he put hia rudder over and swerved around th<» new building at Broadway and 43d street, where the new George M. Cohaa theatre is being constructed, and then. by daring manipulation of his machine, described a perfect figure eight by oncar more encircling the Times Building. \gain he repeated this feat and then sailed northward in the direction from which he had come. The eyes of the multitude followed hlrr*. until his machine disappeared ia tha darkness. Only the searchlight on tha Hotel Astor. which was the first to pick him up. refused to surrender Goodale t > the mysterious gloom into which he had ventured to fust his machine, and fol lowed him until he had completed his journey and had alighted safe and sound at his starting point in Palisades Park. Goodale left the park at exactly 0:10 o'clock. At 9:50 o'clock he came to earth to face a crowd that threatened to crush him and his dirigible, so deter mined was its desire to congratulate the young man who had shown the ferry boats that the competition begun by the tunnels under the river bottoms might yet be increased by aerial trans portation routes. Only a Beginning, He Says. The aeronaut himself said after his re turn that his trip was only a beginning:- His tup from a point on the Jersey shore to Broadway and 42d street occu pied less than fifteen minutes, and ha could have easily made a landing, he in sisted, right In the centre of Times Square if he had sent his men there tv assist him. He spoke lightly of the dangers of his night trip, and said he had passed within thirty feet of one of the tallest skyscrapers In the city, and could easily make a landing on the top of a building If it were equipped with a proper plat form. "I regard night time as the safest for