New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-02-03
CITY ITEMS.
TUESDAY. FEB. 2

I1EuS.
TUESDAY, FEB. ?
LITERATURE FUsD.-77s Sun Of Monday con
tanned denial Of the statements made By the Commit
tee, OF the Board Of Education, in relsonro the money
received from this fund by the Deaf and Dumb lnsiu'
ton the Rutgers Female Institute and the University
According 70 the writer the report OF the Committee -
pretty nearly total and continuous error The Deal and
Dumb are il is asserted legitimate objects OF AID from
this source the Rutgers Institute while iipsys dividends
drawn from is wealthy patrons sPPes Its portion Of the
Fund TO the grauiious education Of number OF INDECENT
pupils who could not otherwise receive It's advantages
and in the University Of hundred and forty stu
dents isxtyfve now actually in the enjoyment Of
free scholarships This certainly makes the case look
better for these institutions But with regard to the es
t4blshmeni Of free High Schools in which more
thorough knowledge Of the practical sciences may De
given the argument of the sun is hardly conclusive
against IT, We doubt whether such Institutions would
create or strengthen any feeling OF caste ct least In Bo
ton where system Of public education prevails which
ought to make New.York ashamed Of Itself such has
not been the result Let not be afraid OF adding any
thing to our present defective arrangements the ques
ton is certainly worth entertaining whether the nd oil
instruction which the Report conemplstes sfording to
comparatyely large number Of youths would not be
greater public benefit than 10 secure the opportunity oil
growing pale and sckly in classical and less inmedi-
a,elv useful studies to a much smaller number.
~ The numerous false alarms Of fire which
tend to harass the remen and perpex the owners and
occupants Of stores &C in the business parts OF the
city whose residences up town, have called the al
tnon persons as TO the ways and means to be
adopted to check the abuse Among them, and probably
the only feasible one, is to construct line OF telegraph
from the City Hall TO each District Station The proper
officer at the Station, in the ward or section where an
actual FIRE exists notify the on duty at the Hail.
who is not to ring the bell any other authority and
who shall report by the wire 10 all the other stations 60
that persons living in any part of tie City on hearing
the tocsn have only send go TO the Station in their
own neghborhood TO learn the exact scat OF the fire.
This would cost the City about 5000 which would be
amply repaid by the advantages derived We believe
both Boards Of Council have been appealed to on this
subject and some efforts made by Assistant Alderman
Feeks TO effect the arrangement but far it has beer
neglected by the City Fathers, not from doubt OF IL
practcabity and usefulness but from an indsposton
TO appropriate the City funds We believe that the
sum could be raised among the merchants themselves
in twenty four hours repayng them in the saving of
anxiety and immediate certainty to the safety or
danger of their property. Shall it be uiedi
~ At late meeting of the Executive Com
mittee Of the Prison Association ROBERT TAYLOR, Esq
late Police Justice unanimously elected one OF Us
members in place of Mr.. John Slosson, resigned.
lY. male child about a week old was found
by policeman Dean early this morning on the stoop OF
a house in Elzabethst This abominabe practice oil
abandoning infants in the street exposed to cold and IN
danger of being devoured by hogs should be treated as
infsnticide in all cases of detection OF the parties
- As Mrs Margaret Burns OF No. 20 Lewis
st eyed O. year, entering store in the lower story
of the same building yesterday she was seized with
hemorrhage Of the lungs and fell and expired instantly
FIREs-A fire took place yesterday in the rear oil
70 Goerckst Damage trihng. Another occurred at !
O'Clock this morning al No ~ Eldridgest But little
loss About IL o'clock this morning stable in Esst
Broadway as partially consumed in which were several
tons of hay, etc. Soon extinguished.
- W., Frazsr as indicted for stealing se9
from James McGarr ct the Bowery Theaier lssinight
rys James Patterson, while engaged in the
manly exercise Of drubbing" his wife Ellen yesterday
fell and wounded himself very badly very proper
result and one which may teach James lesson.
~ The store Of Ftz Il Scott, No. 20s Front ST.
was found open last night and large show case full oil
plated ware if upon the soop Secured by Sergeant
Day.
~ An attempt to fire the premises OLAF Broad
way was made last night The ncendiaries broke open
the basement and placed combustbles in every part
likely to effect their desgnsgong so far as to remove
the plaster from the ceiling and FIJI the space between
the raiters with paper straw, &c. and ignied them
Fortunately notwithstanding their efforts the blaze was
smothered and their expectations OF large coniagra'
ton disappointed.