New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-15
NETWORK CITY.


The experiment of n concrete pavement in Nassau
st. is being tried between Pine and Ccdar-sts.
DR.. Edwin d. Morgan, jr., of this city, who is
living dangerously i'll at his Simmer residence in
Sufeld, Conn., was reported yesterday to be falling
rapidly.
The New-York Produce Exchange has empowered
| the buiding committee to purchase site for new
| building prior 10 September To- The ground re-
| qured is twenty lots.
| Herman Iusen age thirtv-three, of No. 1877 South
Eighth-st., Brooklyn. truck driver, was injured
| severely yesterday by being crushed between the
! gateway of Pier No % North River and his truck.
When the Coney Island balloon aScends in clear
weather il can be plainly from the Bevidere In
! the upper part of Central Park. Ii looks smaller
! than the moon, and appears to be at very loity
! height.
About eighty feet Of the sea-wall Mt tho. Battery
| having been adudged unfit for the foundation OF
| the new Barge Office has been removed. 1t
will be replaced by more substantial structure Oh
| granite.
James Lambert. of No. 293 Atlantic-ave., Brook
! lvn, was thrown out of carriage attached TO
runaway horse, at Hudson and Barrow-sts, yester-
day, and was injured seriously. He was taken TO
| St. Fincents Hospital.
A child named James P. Burke, three years old,
died on "Wednesday night of smallpox, IN the
crowded tenement at No. 800 East Thirty-first-st;
The Sanitary Bureau disnfected the building anu
vacclnated the other inmates yesterday.
Little bv little the process advances of making
alterations in the stations and equipment of the
East Side Elevated Road. One hundred feet have
station, and roof has been placed over all.
James King, age twenty-eight. Of Albany. yester-
day fell down the forward hatchway of the steam
shin State of Indiana, at Pier No. AZ East River.
and received compound fracture of the skull. lie
was taken TO the Chambers Street Hospital.
PAYERS are at work now in Seventh-ave, above
Fortv-fourthst, tearing up the WORKOUT Nicholson
or wood pavement-what there is of it-and will
soon be putting down the granite blocks that line
the sidewalk for "A distance of several blocks
The driveway on the west side of Central Park
should connect with One-hundred-an d-sixth-sf.
There is way of getting ont of the Park into
EiChth-ave. with a horse and carriage, between
One-hundredth and observation-disclosures
Mrs Grace Anderson. of No. 115 West Fifteenth
ST.. while bathing at Far Rockaway Yesterday
TO the New-YOTk Hospital by the police on her ar
rival from ROckaway by the Long Island Railroad.
The Thirty-fourth Street branch If the Third
Avenue Elevated Road is being rapidly carried TO
completion. 1t passes under the Second Avenue
Road. which looks wonderfully elevated" from
Thrd-ave, its crossbeams being only little below
the level of the cOrnices Of the houses.
The brownstone gables and clusters of chimnevs
and ventiatnQ shafts are up on the new building
of Columbia College, and are being covered with
ornamental figures paintings and tracery. 4 good
idea can be formed of the exceptionally line
appearance of the building when finished.
The list of officers elected by the XYIIth AS
sembIy District Republican Association was incor-
President stephen n. Simonson first vice-presi-
dent, Robert Gordon second vlce-president, Jacob
s. Tsaacs; secretary, James W. Perry treasurer
Benz. f. Finley.
| A paragraph in Wednesdays TRIBUNE stated that
Edwin Bates of the firm of Bates, Reed, Cooley q
Co.. this city, had been sned as surety on the bond
of the Second District of North Carolina Mr. Bates
is "A member of the firm of +. {. Bates ~ Co., ana
not of Bates Reed, Cooley Co.
Detective Thomas f. GerraQhty of Boston, who
is on visit TO this city, called at Ponce Head
quarters Yesterday, and gave to Superntendent
Walling the ring which had belonged to Mrs. Hull
and which Chastne Cox gave to an unknown white
woman IN Boston before he was arrested. The ring
was the last of Mrs. Huls stolen jewelry to be re-
covered, except the watch-chain.
Two of Uncle Sans boys in blue made n sem
sation on crowded Broadway yesterday to be COM
pared in DASH il not IN style. with the daily trip Of
the COney Island coach They were seated In a
light covered cXpTess-wagOn, and had succeeded IN
gOadng into an ostrich trot two OF the longest
legged and longest-eared Government mules that
ever SHE'D at haystack or laid DOWN IN the harness
in the middle of brook.
An express-wagOn and coa-cart became wheel
locked in front Of Stewards wholesale store, in
Broadway, yesterday, and after "A few minutes eff
fort 10 disengage them, which resulted i'm failure,
the drivers tried TO fathom the mystery by standing
Ip in their respective vehicles and publicly thirst
ing for one anOthers gora. hen they jumped TO
the pavement ana rubbed elbows IN each others
face, till a policeman, who, with the crowd, had
despared of their coming TO blows, stepped III and
wrought order out of chaos.
The president Of n large railroad company a few
dave ago received n letter from correspondent
soliciting orders for patent stove, which he had
invented for use in passenger cars. After expati-
atIuC ut length on the merits of the invention, the
writer concludes his letter follows: Now, Mr..
President. there is Just thing | want you to
understand. and that IS that my stove won't need
TO have Coroner attached and an investigating
committee to accompany it TO make wheTeases and
newspaper reporters go along to tell who sits
the jurics." .-
The Board of City Works yesterday dismissed II.
j. Whiting. Street-Cleanmg Inspector and APP
pointed Lemuel Nodyne, of the Fifteenth Ward, in
his place.
The Roosevelt Street Ferry Company has nearly
completed cOal-Shed 200 feet long by 80 feet
wide. 1t will extend from Flrst-st. to the East
River.
Work is being pushed rapidly on the new Brook
lvn Theatre. The roof has been completed during
this week, and flag pole has been placed III posi-
ton.
Two liens against the property Of the American
AeronauIc Society have been filed in the Kings
County Clerks office One is for 81 1856 20 by A.
o. Granger Il Co., of Philadelphia and the other
by ). V. HOLSTER for S2,3l5.
A scaifoid supporting two men who were working
upon a hotel mt Van Sndcren and Atlantic-aves.,
East hew-YOrk. broke Wednesday noon, and they
were thrown to the ground. One OF them, Edward
Van Kcuren. received injuries, including fracture
of the skull, which 1t is thought Will prove fatal.
The other, Peter Bird was only slightly hurt.
Jersey CITY