The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-05
CITY LLIG NICE.

THE New CITY MoRGUE.-Yesterday the
Coroner took charge of the new City Morgue at
Beach and Noble Streets and removed his Office
TO that institution. The building is to be kept
open day and night for the reception of bodies,
and proper record is to be kept of each one
received. No corpse is to be received at the
Morgue unless in charge of a policeman, or on
the order of the Coroner or the Superb
ntendent of Police, unless the Superintendent
shall be satisfied that the body has been found
dead in the street or drowned. 4 record is to
be kept of the pOliceman's number and of the
district from which the body is received.
The attendant, on the receipt OF a body, shall
report to the Coroner; keep detailed record of
the recovery of the body, and all the circum-
stances connected Herewith and papers and
money found thereon; shall number the bodies
and keep list in book-valuables to be put up
in a package, and the superintendent to be re-
sponsible therefor.
Bodies brought to the Morgue, if not recog-
nized sooner, are to remain seventy-two hours,
or until decomposition commences. They are
then to be buried.
No corpse shall be removed without the writ
ten order of the Coroner and no post mortem is
to be made in the absence of that officer. From
the rules adopted for the government OF the in.
sttution, 1t cannot fail to become of material use
and benefit.
THE WHARTON STREET NJ e. CHURCH,
The Methodist Episcopal Church on Wharton
street, of which Rev. Joseph Mason is pastor,
has for the past few months been undergoing
extensive and thorough Improvements, which,
when completed, will make it an ornament to
the neighbOrhood in which it is situated
The building has been raised four feet, and
heightened twenty-eight feet, thus giving addi-
tiOnal height In the ceiling of the lecture room,
and furnishing additional accommodations par
ticularly for the Sunday School, necessity
which has been felt for years. The front room
double stairways added, with new and beautiful
pulpit and altar, and the entire building, lee
ture and class, infant school and audience
rooms have all been beautifully frescoed,
FNQin nd fad hna mo inn / on nf
the most inviting and comfortable OF our city
churches.
These improvements have been made at
cost of about twenty-five thousand dollars.
The main audience room will be reopened for
divine service on next Sabbath, January g.
Rev. Bishop Simpson, Rev. DR.. Ives, and
other distinguished ministers are expected 70
Officiate.
THE PUBLIC SQUAREs.-Jonathan H. Pugh,
Commissioner of Markets and City Property
under the existing law is obliged to close the
public squares on the LIST of December. On the
14th of December 1867, resolution OF lnstruc-
tion to the Commissioner of City Property to keep
the public squares open during the entire year,
and conferring police powers on the superin-
tendents of the squares for the better preserya-
tion of order, was approved. This resolution
1868, when resolution was adopted repeating
so much of the resolution of December A. 1867,
as related to the instructions to keep the
public squares open during the entire year.
ARsoN.-Two men named Charles Saunders
and Thomas COrgee were arrested last night by
Lieutenant Erickson upon suspicion of arson,
in firing the wagon-house of Mr.. John Bou yier,
on Tasker street, below Moyamensing avenue
on the night of the ID inst The FIRE was kin.
died in a wagon, which was consumed. The
flames communicated to the wagon-house, and
were not eXtingushed until great portion oil
twas destroyed. The circumstances connected
with This matter are of very suspicious cha.
racter. Defendants have been held 10 bail for Q
hearing at the Central Station this afternoon.
EXTENSIVE SNEAK THIEvIEG.-A few eve
nings ago, some petty sneak thief stole the
silVer-plated door-knobs from the dwelling No
1902 Walnut street. During the last few days
Messrs. Field 81 Hardie have replaced the stoleT
knobs for loVeT forty houses, amOngl them
Rice, Esq. Where are the policel