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sion will not be lea astray by arguments in
the interest of the street car monopolists
to defeat the will of the masses, who insist
that Third aven10 is the only suitable high
way on which to construct the road.
The plea that property along the avenue
would be deprecated in value is an alb
surdity, as is shown by the experiments of
rapid transit in London. There property is
enhanced in value by the construction Of
steam roads, and the time will come when
the croaking property owners on the avenue
will admit that steam road is an advantage
rather than detriment Third avenue is
the proper place for the road, and the
public will not be satisfied if it be located
elsewhere. Let the commission that meets
to-day remember that there are others in
terested beside the Third Avenue Railroad
Company and they will hardly fail to con-
firm the award of the Seligman Commission,
who located the route there after full and
careful investigation of all the facts, pro and
con. If their award be confirmed we have
the solemn assurance of the New York Eie-
waited Railway Company that the road will
be completed to Central Park within
eighteen months, and to Harlem Bridge in
less than two years.
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Rapid Transit on Third Avenue.

Rapid transit on Th1rd Avenue.
The problem of rapid transit between the
upper end of the city and the Battery is
one of vital importance, not only to the
property owner, but to the poor man,
whose only capital is his hands. The public
are familiar with the difficulties that the adj
vocates of rapid transit have encountered
during ten years agitation of the subject
from the opposition of the horse car COM
panies, who know that the completion of
steam elevated roads will reduce their
dividends very materially. Fortunately
the Hustled bill, which was carefully drawn,
has opened the way for the accomplishment
of all that the most sanguine advocates of
steam railroads could wish for and the work
of the late commission has given general sat-
isfaction to the public.
The New York Elevated Railroad Com
pany, whose line on the west side is meeting
with generous patronage from the public
has demonstrated that it can transfer passen-
gers safely and comfortably from the Battery
to Central Park in thirty minutes. AS we
showed the other day, the construction of
Eighth avenue street cars fully forty per
cent and enabled the way passengers to OBJ
tain seats in exchange for the fares they pay.
While the west side is thus blessed with
rapid transit, the value of which will not be
fully appreciated, however until the COM
pany complete their second track, the resi-
dents of the east side of the city are still
subject to the Second and Third avenue
horse car companies. What is now desired
is the construction, with all possible de-
spatch, of the route laid out by President
Seligman's commission on Third avenue
Under the bill it is necessary to secure the
consent of the owners of one-half in value
of the property bordering such streets, in
GLIDING Third avenue. Failing to secure
this consent the Supreme Court shall appoint
a commission, who shall pass upon the OBJ
jections and confirm or disapprove of the
award of the commission appointed under
the bill.
This commission, appointed under the
authority of the Court, consisting of Messrs.
o. II. Palmer, Z. z. Lawrence and 4. p.
Wheeler, meet to-day to hear argument and
decide whether Third avenue shall be used
as route for q rapid transit steam rail-
road. Upon their decision depends the
defeat or success Of rapid transit on the east
side, and the public will wait with great
anxiety for their award. We have time and
again pointed out the advantages of Third
avenue as a route for a steam elevated rail-
road. and it is TO be hoped that the commits
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-14

ST. VALENTINES DAY. We fear the dainty
worship of the chubby little god of love,
which was preserved to Christianity by max
ing Cupid share the festival day Of the pa
iient martyr of the third century, can be but
family traced in the observance which nova
days greets the 14th of February. A few
sentimental maidens and gushing young
men may still exchange fancifully designed
pictorial emblems Of the tender passion,
with more or less wretched verses, but, for
the most part, the day of Valentines is
-nsed TO cover the expression of mean
jealousies, cowardly ill-feeling and un-
charitable reminders Of personal fail
ings. Coarseness and vulgarity, unexcused
even by humor, appear in the disgust
ing daubs we see in the windows Of the
stationery stores. 'To such base uses may
we come at last" signs Cupid, who sees
what was once a charming festival dubbed
TO death as was the saint whose name is
marked for to-daE in the Roman calendar.
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ernor is a consenting party to this bargain
he will rue it after the election. All such
ingredients in the political caldroA will
help 10 stew a broth which will be poison to
the democracy although the republican party
may thrive upon it. Nothing could be so
contrary to his interest as a scheme which
would diminish the democratic strength in
the city and thereby assist Senator Conkling
to carry the State next fall Governor
Tilden has owed a great deal of his success
to the slackness and inactivity Of Mr.. Conk-
ling, who did not exert himself in 1874
because the control of the State Convention
had passed into the hands Of Ex-Governor
Morgan. But if the Cincinnati candidate
should be either Senator Conkling himself
or man whose nomination he controlled he
would make an energetic canvass, and, with
the advantages which Mayor Wickham's bar
gain would give him in this city, he would
easily carry the State for the republican can-
didate.
The Ingredients thrown into the caldron
at Albany will not help the chances of Gov
ernor Tilden. The Governor is powerless
against the republican Legislature, and can
not afford to take untenable positions He
is wrong in the controversy over Canal Au-
ditor Schuyler, and is constantly losing
ground by his wrong-headed persistency.
1t is the clear intention of the law
that the Canal Auditor shall be the joint
oppoin foo Of +ba GovarDOr oDd CaDa+a oD1
his refusal to send in another nominal
ton after the first was rejected is as indie
feasible as it would be if Mr.. Schuyler were
not locum tenens of the Office 1t is also
blunder for the Governor to show how
deeply he is wounded by his want of success
in the last election. The people Of the
State did not indorse him in the manner he
wished. He went through the State making
speeches asking for a Legislature which
would support his policy. Instead of COM
plying with his request they elected hos
tile Legislature, and he vainly rebels against
their verdict He is endangering even his
chances to get pledged delegation to the
Democratic National Convention by trying to
figure as the great champion Of reform after
the people of the State refused to indorse
him in that character That game cannot
win, because the canal question in New
York is a small matter in the estimation
of the country at large, and be-
cause Secretary Bristow has so com
pletely eclipsed him by his magnificent
success in q wider theatre. Governor Til
den has no Presidential chances as the cham
pion reformer, and his other role of the cham
pion hard money candidate is pretty we'll
disarranged by the democratic infationists
in Congress and by Speaker Kerr's dec
laration in favor of Mr.. Hendricks. In
such general wreck of his expectations
Governor Tilden cannot afford to forfeit the
confidence of his party in his own State by
any sort of completely with Mayor Wick
hams bargain for weakening the democratic
party in this CITY,
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SPEcULATIoNs on THE BABcocK CASE are
very various, but while the case is in the
hands of justice, with every prospect of full
and fair trial, we do not care to forecast the
result. 1t is stated in Washington that
the Presidents evidence in favor of his
friend and secretary has not been all that
the latter's lawyers desired, and the gossip
from St. Louis indicates good deal Of pub
lie feeling on the matter, but no reliable
basis for judgment in advance of the jury's
on facts yet to be testified to and evidence
not yet introduced.
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THE SULTAN has been personifying the
Sick Man by allowing carbuncle to trouble
him. He has been operated on and the cru
cial incision doubtless made to relieve
him may be taken to typify his
submission to the influence of the
Cross in his acceptance of the Andrassy plan
of reform. The insurgents evidently do not
believe that the knife has gone deep enough,
for they refuse to lay down their arms and
think the time has not come for the applica-
ton of court plaster to their case
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THE MILLION AND HALF for the Centen-
NAL Exposition only awaits the Presidents
signature to 60 bounding toward Philadel-
phia, and we may presume it will not have
long to wait. Now, friends, let us have rarity
among world fairs-namely, one opened ac-
like order brought out of the chaos.
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The HERALD BY FAST MAIL TRAINS -Nelos-
dealers and the public throughout the country
,ciA be supplied loih The DAILY, WEEKLY and
SUNDAY HERALD, free of postage, by sending
their orders direct TO this office.
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49,, 49,. UNION SQUAT THEATRE.
ROSE MICHEL, at r. NJ.
NATIONAL hUADFMY OF DESIGN.
EXHIBITION OF WATER CoLoRs.
tUADEMY OF MUSIC
~ BARBIERE ID SEyIGLIA, at 8 T. NJ. Miss Adelaide
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.
FlQUF'at =. NJ. Fanny Davenport
TMIRTY-FOuRTH STREET OPERA HOUSE.
BowERY THEATRE.
IDA, at sP. NJ Nj. Ration
PARTISAN VARIETIES.
VARIETY at 2. NJ.
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs, atsP NJ
GLOBE THEATRE.
VARIETY, at 2. NJ.
BOOTHS THEATRE
JULIUS CESAR, at s 7. NJ MI. Lawrence Barrett
THEATRE COMIQUE.
UNCLE TOMS CABIN, ats NJ
TlyoLI THEATRE.
VARIETY, at p NJ
WOODS MUSEUM
THE SPY, at p NJ. Matinee at . p. III.
THIRD AVENUE THEATRE
VARIETY, at S p. NJ.
wALLACKs THEATRE.
JOHN GARTH. atsP.M. Nr Lester waliacA
- OLYMPIC THEATRE.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE
EAST LYNNE, at 8 p. NJ. Lucille Western
COLOSSEUM
PANORAMA. 70 p NJ and 80 to Top W
EAGLE THEATRE
TICKBT-OF-LEAVE MAN, at =. Nj.
TWENTY THIRD sTRkFT OPERA HOUSE.
CALIFORNIA MINsTRELs, at m.
GERMANIA THEATRE.
DREI sTATTsvERBRECHER
GRAND CONCERT
BROOKLYN THEATRE.
QUEEN AND WOMAN At : p. NJ. Mr. Fred Robinson
VARIETY at 5 p NJ
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COMMISSIONERS O'DoHoHUE AND MARTIN, of
the Department of Parks, have made state
ment dissenting from the utterances of their
colleague and President of the Board, Com
missioner Stebbins before the Senate In
vestigating Committee. The substance of
found in another part of the HERALD.
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LEGATION of the American Geographical So
ciety to owners of real estate and also to
every one interested in paying only the
taxes for which they are properly liable.
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The DUrcH DETECTIVES are searching for
Winslow, the forger, quest they might
save themselves some trouble with if they
addressed Scotland Yard, London.
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The ENGLISH LIBERALS may rejoice over
the return of another member to the House
of Commons to swell their comparatively
Scanty numbers.
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How NEW YoRKs MAILS are collected and
distributed is the subject of an interesting
article which we publish to-day. Perhaps
the most noticeable portion thereof is that
treating the purely local mail. from which
the government realized last year round
half million profit
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-14

THE CoEs1cAN BoSAPARTIsT JOURNALISTS
are knocking their heads against the French
Press laws.
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From orr reports this morning the probabilities
are that The '0eGther to-day loM be lcdTmer cloudy
and rainy.
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NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY II. 1876.
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

VOLUME xEI.............................~.,No. 4
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UNION sQUADg THEATRE
ROSE MICHEL, at 8 T.. NJ.
NATIONAL. ACADEMY OF DESIGN
EXHIBITION OF WATER COLORS
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NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.

JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIETOR.
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tUADEMY OF MUSIC
II BARBIERE ID SEVIGLIA at 5 7. NJ. Miss Adelaide
The New York herald., 1876-12-16
NEW JERSEY.

Tho receipts for taxes during tho past week in
soy City $7927O ss, the balance In tho Treas
ury yesterday was $429, 4S2 2S.
In the Court OF Quarter Sessions Jersey City yes
tcrday TWO burglars, named John jennings and John
wadrian, wero sentenced to two years each in the
State Prison. Owen Turner convicted Of larceny,
sent 10 tho Psnitentiary for three months.
Tho Bosrd Of Freehodcrs Of Hudson county, N. j.,
have adopted resolution for the purchase of por-
OF the old Harrison estate Jersey City, at 600
per lot for tho erection OF now court house. Tho
property Is TO be paid for in bonds bearing per
cont interest
George v. H. Howard, the Secretary OF the Jersey
City Ferry Company. was taken before Judge Kccso
yesterday for examination a charge OF forging tho
nsmc OF Mrs Cloves hts mothcr-in-luw, to note for
500. F. Norris appeared against him. but Mrs
Cloves did not. He was committed to the county jail
to await the action ofthc Grand Jury.
Paul Price, an EngIshman, lost $45 in house on
Hudson street, Hobokcn, near the Hamburg and Bre-
men docks, oy means OF game played with dice.
Yesterday tho police raided place and took tho
gambling implements 10 the station house The S45
returned 10 Mr.. Prce. Recorder BohnstedI held
Morrson, the proprietor, in $500 bail 10 answer
The New York herald., 1876-12-16
WESTCHESTER.

draft OF hny convicts was sent securely ironed.
from tho Sing Sing prison to Auburn prison last night.
While excavatng q sewer Buena Vista avenue,
Yonkers, yesterday, the earth suddenly In on
James Hogan, whose dead body recovered shortly
aftcrward. Deceased was about iorty years OLD and
leaves family.
In the Court OF Oyer and Terminer at White Plains
yesterday Frederick Everson, colored placed on
trial charged with the wlu murder at New Rochelle
OF Katherine Burke, his white paramour, the Goth
of August last Justice Pratt presided, with Messrs.
Howe and Silkman, Justices Of the Sessions. The
principal witness for the prosecution was o colored
man. whose memory ON crosse EXAMINATION proved to
be very defective. His testimony was fatty
impenchcd by the first witness called for
tho Defence whcreupon the District Attorney
submitted TO the Court tho iutliy OF pressing the
case further, thcro possibility OF obtaining
conviction. In this view tho Court concurred, and,
having stated the TO the jury, they acquitted tho
prisoner without leaving their e.ats The prosecution
was conducted bv Dste.ct Attorney Robert Cochran,
NJ. J. Kcogh and Charles G. Banks appearing for the
defence. t
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BROOKLYN.

Henry N. Do Myer was committed to Raymond
Street jail yesterday BY Justice Walsh. in default OF
s., 5O0 to await tho action Of the Grand Jury. Do
Myer Is accused Of passing worthless check upon Mr.
Mackny, real estate man, Of Fulton street. and OBJ
laining under falsc prctcnccs the sum OF $75.
The General Term Of the Supreme Court yesterday
admitted the following named persons TO the Bar:-
John B. Mcrkcrt. W. Frank Severance, Francis J.
Muarkcy Edward g. Buchanan, Herbert /. Peck,
George j. Walker, James NJ Seaman, Jr., George
Card. Edward Dooley, John II. Judge, Dennis r.
Cronin, John H. Millard, George II. Woodman, and
Henry r. Bauer
About halEpast six O'Clock last evening sneak thief
was discovered in tho residence OF A. Dieter No 61
Johnson street, Brooklyn. Mr.. Dieter attempted to
arrest the fellow, when he drew dagger, and driving
his would-be captor away, effected his escape The
rogue about twenty live years OF age, Of dark
plexion, has no Deard and Is about 1--WE feet eight
inches In height.
The following bids for heating and ventilang appa-
ratus have been received by the Aldcrmanc special
committee on tho municipal building. Two sep
arae plans prepared the bidders invited
to bid under each h:-Rutzlcr 4 Ives. S14, 435 and
S13,Ss5; Baker, Smith Co., $lS 426; =. Jacobs Co..
$4,000 and sll,33o; BrAmhaIl Dean Co., SEQ, 600
and $50, 300; Davidson Mars, $14, $40; W. H. Warncr
S22,5O0 The contract has not been given out.
The New York herald., 1876-12-16
A woRKINGMAN sUFFoCATED.

At early hour last evening nro was discovered
IN tho stable loft Of Urbans Boulevard Brewery,
Of Bushwck avenue and Scholes street, Brook
lyn, E. D. II was ext,nguishcd with slight damage.
As the 1rcmen about to loavo the place
one OF the workingmcn who, with his fel.
low laborers, had been engaged remov ng
tho property In the building rccolectcd that
Charles Schweltzer Of the drivers was asleep In
the room on tho left The nremen Mt oncs hurried
through The smoke to the room when thcy foupd the
maa IN bed ana whence they conveyed him to the
boiler room IN the brewery. A doctor was summo O n cd
but before he arrived the died. Schwciizer
on retiring informed the man that he was sick,
and would go 10 bed Tho place whero he was found
was used sleeping apartment BY tho stabiemcn
and drivers. Tho deceased thirty years old He
had made all his arrangements week ngo TO 60 to
Europe in a few days TO get an inheritance.
The fire, IL IA supposed, was caused by the flame OF
gas jet In the loft being blown toward the hay thus
ignittnc It.
The New York herald., 1876-12-16
NEWS IN THE CITY.

Police Justice George f. Kasmire sails to-day for the
South having been advised 10 do by his physician
TO recuperste his health, which too close application
70 Official business has badly impaired
On the complaint OF George Sherman, Miss Lille
Cooper, of No. los West Thlrty-second street, was
held for trial at the Washington Place Police Court
yesterday for keeping disordery house. The CON-
p,ainant was sent to the House Of Detention
The girl Fanny Alexander arrested for being intoxi-
Gated on the street on Thursday night. and who
claimed that she was school teacher IN one Of the
Sixth ward public schools, ascertained yester-
day never Was . tsacher In tho public schools.
The members OF the Universalist church and admir-
ers OF the Row Il. H. Chaplin will meet on Monday
evening, December Is. at eight o'clock, TO appoint
COMMITTEES OF arrangements for the purchase and
presentation OF his recently executed portrait bust IN
marble
The President Of the Union Ferry Company in let
ter 70 she Supervising Inspector OF steam vessels.
states that about people the ferries OF the
% S sVes ny aay tg pv 40 ANNUAL total o. os N
fifteen years from the boats
While Harriet Cunningham, OF No 300 East Thrtieth
street, walking yesterday on Third avenue, her
pocketbook, containing $2l, snatchcd from her
hand by Thomas II. Coleman, aged Nineteen OF No 236
East Finy-focrth street. He was arrested and held
for trial at the Fifty y-seventh Street Court
About seven O'Clock ON Thursday evening Laura
Geissen OF No. 425 East Sixteenth street. stabbed
by unknown man at the corner OF Seventeenth
street and Fret avenue. Yesterday she Informed n
HERALD reporter that on Thursday evening she
going down First avenue, and when near Seventeenth
street she two insulting young gir
OF about fourteen years OF Sne took the girls
part, and In was insultcd by one OF them, who
stabbed her In The right wrist
The storc Of Mr. }. Ehrch, oculist and optican, OF
No. Astor House, was early yesterday morning
broken and robbed Of opera and Aeld glasses val
ucd $50. The thieves broke a large plate glass
dow and took the articles which exposed for SALE
No one has yet bocn arrested. The officer post
that part OF broadway extends from Cortandt 10 War
ron street. and has BEEN complained OF entirely too
long As In the present case, adroit burglary might
easily be accomplished at point before the patrol
man could complete hts tour
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SAFETY IN THEATRES.
WHAT THE PHILADELPHIA BUILDING INSPECT
oRs WILL Observation-Disclosures suoGxs-

PHILADELPHIA, Dec Is. 1876
In view OF tho monumental holocaust In Brooklyn
the result Of the inquiries that are being officially
made In this city tho safety OF the theatres is not
without general interest Tho Building Inspectors
doins in earnest under the stimulus OF a
resolution OF Councils, that which they have been
altogether too lax IN former years AT the usual
annual inspection Of tho theatres and public halls
taking place they arc exercising much moro than
thor ordinary vigilance with reference to their safety
or otherwise IN case fire and their liability danger
thcreirom. The OF these investigations will
be report recomm ending the passage OF law
which viii make many important changes IN
The present construction OF such public places
They have visited eleven places Of amusement thus lar
and have about many more MINOR establishments
yet and their report cannot DO ready Tor
time yet But from conversation with some of the
inspectors the HERALD correspondent rs enabled to give
what likely 10 be tho important rccommcn cations
In H.
They will advise that the owners OF u theatres and
other public places OF ausement be required 10 make
the following precautions against loss OF life at nrc
A continuous brick hrc wall Is 10 be built between
the auditorium and The Stage aud also between the
auditorium and the lobbies.
curtain, be made OF iron shutters or of chain
wire gauzc IS to bc used TO separate the stage from
the auditorium.
commended.
There is 10 be required a separate and distinct on
trance way OF An ample width Tor every part OF the
house so that collisions jams in the passages
TO be avoidrd. and all sharp tunngs In stsrways nrc
TO be forbidden.
The lateral passages bet wecn the rows Of seats arc
TO be wider than generally in vogue,
the aislcs DO spacious They will advise as 10
the precautions TO lie insisted upon the stage the
way OF hose, nydrun's and axes and also as to the
OF lire br gadc ut every theatre both be-
loro amt behind the scenes. Further, they will
insist upon The abolition OF the present
custom OF numbering the STAGE cellars, prop
erty and store with old scenery and
misce eancous in1ammable stun. They will insist upon
the use OF docks, separated from tho main build
ing the storage all scenery and properties not
III use during the evening OF the performances They
will also suggest that In future all buildings be used
theatres &C. be required to be built OF brick and fire.
proof material and that oors passages and sinrways
be and brick arches, with widc doors, easily
opened outward ana without nush bolts
The New York herald., 1876-12-16
YORK HERALD SATURDAY

ing the upper loor Is by outside wooden staircase.
four teet wide. The outer staircase will bc rebuilt Of
iron and other improvements, doomed essential for
the better protection OF lfe will be ordered by the
authorities.
Gothic Hail. Adams street, one OF tho Oldest dane
ing PLACES in brooklyn holds about coo people. Thore
Two starcases leading 10 u from the barroom, on
the first floor, and two entrances Adams street, the
doors opening inward The main hall for dancing Is
90 by AZ feet. Several important changes will be made
there by order Of the committee On Monday the CON-
mtee Will report the result of their labors, ana on
Tuesday they will resume their Inspections.