The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-07
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NEW YORK, Aug. 7.-Yesterday, at about two
o'clock in the afternoon, young man of re-
spectacle appearance entered the office OF the |
Star Fire Insurance Company, No. SO Broadway
and inquired of one of the clerks at the counter
If Mr.. - mentioning the name of gentle |
man who occasionally calls there) was within.
He was answered that the clerk did not know,
and directed to proceed TO the back Office
and make further inquiry there. The
counter where questioner and questioned
n this dialogue stood, one on each side
of it, is Just inside the street door
running at right angles from the front of the
building. The counter is about three feet in
height and terminates, about six feet from the
WALL in a range of desk a foot higher than the
counter used in the transaction OF the business
of the company. During the colloquy given
above, the Secretary of the company stood at
the extreme end Of this long desk nearest the
light, taking down the numbers of a quantity
of five-twenty bonds of different den ominations,
amounting, in all, to $4,000, which bad just
been received in the Office as collateral on
loan made by the company, and accompanying
which the customary memorandum Of number
had not been received. Just as the young man
was informed to look for the party he inquired
for in the back Office, the Secretary, having
occasion to use blot-sheet, slightly turned hi
head from the light 10 reach one, and almos
Immediately resumlng his former position
found, to his CONSERVATION, that in this sligh
Interval the bonds had been removed
snatched away, while the sight of "the
young man" making rapid tracks up the steps
into the street informed him by whom. To
jump over the coun ter and follow the thief oc-
cupied the secretary but an instant; but on
gaining Broadway his cry of "Stop theft"
brought such crowd around, all eager to
learn what's the matter, that he lost sight Of
the fugitive, and was obliged to relinquish the
pursuit of him. That the man entered the office
of the insurance company with the intention Of
stealing, and used the name of a party whom
he may have learned sometimes called there, or
dropped on the name hap-hazard, as an excuse
for coming in, is almost certain, as the bonds
had just been carried around from Jay Cooke &
Co.'s Office, whence they lad doubtless been
followed, in the hope that favorable opportu-
nifty would offer on the street for stealing them,
which not happening caused the thief in very
desperation at losing so rich prize to risk the
bolder movement The company desire it stated
that the loss of these bonds, even if never re.
covered, will not in the least cripple them or
materially affect their monetary safety.
Fire Marshal Brockett, in his report of fires
during the month of July last, gives the follow
ing fgures:-The total number of fires and
alarms was SO. Of these 45 were extinguished
by the Fire Department without any alarm being
given, and the police discovered and extin-
guished Is. Seven were of incendiary origin,
eight from explosion OF fireworks, and seven
Prnp aunln Of Lar Tuyo
were arrested and committed to ans wer for acts
of incendiarism-Simon Strauss, charged with
setting fire to the cigar store No. 259 South
street, held in $4,000 by Justice Dodge, and Will
helm Abel, for ap attempt at arson on the pre-
misses of H. Bauer, Eighth avenue, between
Sixty-fourih and sixty-ffth streets, held by Jus
tice Kelly in $1,000. The total amount of losses
occasioned by fire during the month of July was
$178,55O, which was covered by an aggregate
insurance of $42O,74O
The annual festival of the Brooklyn Schuetzen
Corps, which began on Wednesday, was con-
tinued yesterday at Myrtle Avenue Park. At
1O3 o'clock A. NJ. The Brooklyn and Williams
burg schuetzen Corps, mum bering each 70 men,
were on the ground, and lost but little time in
commencing operations. On the first day the
targets (double-headed Austrian eagles), had
been well riddled and it only remained to
obliterate the bodies Of both birds, and the tai
which still remained to the bird which the
Brooklyn men had set up. At2 p. NJ. yesterday
the tail was shot away by Captain G. B. Wrede
who thereby became entitled to the first prize,
and the honor of being crowned as the king o.,
the fest.
At the meeting OF the general Republican
Committee yesterday the following was oHered
THAT his Excellency Governor Fenton, be respect
fully recommended 10 appoint Horace Greeley to the
Office of City Register, made vacant by the sudden
death of General Charles q. Hspne that the ssIary
OF The unexpired term may be paid to his widow"
This was received with such a storm of Kisses
that Mr. Hunt was compelled to Withdraw it..