New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-20
NETWORK CITY.

| tllc nBnis.
| The sunny side OF tho street was preieIIeu ~
| pedestrians yesterday.
| New window lambrcquins are heavily trimmed
| with wide borders OF plush.
lcices were pendant from the drinking fountains
| in tie parks Yesterday morning.
The Junior class of the University of the CITY oil
New York have formed a foot bail CLUB.
FIVE stories of the building on the site of the o'd
| Olympic Theatre have been constructed
The Yorbvlle and Harlem omnibuses which run
on the boulcyards look Ike relics o. prehistoric
age.
The tracks Of the proposed Forty-sccOnd-st Cross
| Town ruad, lying east OF Seyenth-aYe, nave Dcou
| removed.
| Persons passing beneath the elevated roads ma
| The not baths from tine engines more cnduIaDio as
| the weather grows colder.
Complaints are lr quont of idle and vicious boys
| who iufest the Western Boulevard and amn5h tHeh-
| selves by breaking the Lamps
The new bon-bou boxes are in quaint designs. Some
of them are shaped Ike champagne c1rks DINERS
like spool of thread and small pIncushons.
The sidewalk around WashingtonMa is block
! AIDED WItb large boxes ana barrels iHed WIN tui-
KEYS and other fowls for Thanksgiving dinners.
The American Hor.c Exchange building bounded
! Nv Broadway cryrHtn-ave., ilitoih ana Fhi{-
trst-sts. has already two stories W, ana Is rapidly
! rising.
Three large Siberian boodtounds which accom-
panied their master stroll " Broad Fav yeser-
day afternoon were terror to all the women anu
| children.
! either black co3rcd, ar worn with TWO SKI! "I
solid black silk, and are handsome either i0r house
| or street wear.
WHY crMDEG THEY THE GRoUNDl
For more than t"ar West titty-scytntA-St mas
been lined with continuous piles Of paylug-s ones,
although the street Is one of tine best paved III the
| city.
MApAIE GERSrFR Ar A CHURCH FAIR.
Madame Elelka Gcrstcr has accepted an invita-
tion ~ the far OF 81. Francs Xavier Chnch,
| III West Sixteenth ST.. tins evening, and Will p!e-
| side at the Floral Temple.
SUPPOSED MAD DOG KILLED.
| A dog that exhibited symptoms OF ma1neS5 pit
the y"ars-old daughter Ol Charles C0pEct, IN the
| face Thursday IN Spuyten Duyyil. The dog was
! purs ed to Kluesbrdge and Killed by Thomas
| nor TO BE TAKEN AT HIS WORD.
A Duane-st. sign bears the following inscription
! " The poorest printer IN the world. No attention
whatever paid to orders. Seventeen small cards for
| $1,000 in goid-othcr work IN proportion. IloW
! this world Is gwen 80 lying"
Throws F..olG CARRIAGE AND KILLED.
a coroner jury found verdict of " death by ac-
cdcut' yesterday, at the inquest ON +. ;. Fairchd
OF Dobbs Ferry, general freight agent OF the 1ud-
son River Railroad. who was killed by being thrown
from a carriage October O. at thirty scyenth-st. aud
LlcS enth-aye.
PEET1XDING TO BE HEALTH OFFICER.
The ponce were Informed yesterday that a man
who represented himself as an agent Of the Health
Board and signed himself q" = Stephens Inspector
of Vi,als" was swndling East side grOcers and Hq
uor-dealcrs by pretending to test then wares and
collecting fees FOR his services.
FINES IL THE POLICE COURTS.
George W. Creger, secretary OF the Board of
POlce Justices, reports the following tines received
from rhe variaus police cours IN OCTOBER: Special
Sessions. $2,02l lombs T4Sl jefferson Market,
1924: Essex Market 1902; Fifty-seventh Street,
$3.50; Harlem 191 total. Tl,Olo.
CONVENTION OF DELTA PHI.
After granting ChtptrTs At Harvard, PeDnsyl-
vania, aud Johns Hopkins Universities, the Con-
ventOn Of the Delta PIN College Fraternity adj
journcd early last evening from the rooms of the
D,lta Chapter TO Dclmonico's. There the routine
| ID +. tOaSfs,
heated discussions to warm tTaternal speeches.
Alexander X. Thompson presided. Among the
other prominent members present were, : :. Cox,
Dr. G. II. Agnew, A. j. Rhine lander. General Sharpe.
Chancellor Crosby. and Edgar Fawcett.
BROOKLYN.
thin coating of ice formed on the lakes in Pros
pect Park Thursday night. Lovers of skating are
expecting early opening this
Alice Gertrude Humphrey has been granted per-
mission III the County Court to change her surname
to Pdilbuck, the lame OF her sepfather.
DR.. Herbert Fearn, of No. 1876 ClermOnt-ave. was
fined $50 in the City Hall Police Court Yesterday,
for iaInng to report case Of scarlalna which
under his care to the Board of Health.
The SWISS in BROOKLYN celebrated the 573d anu-
verSary OF The founding of the Republic Of Switzer
land thursday evening IN Germania Hall. Ferdi-
nand Meyer made the principal address.
The cOrOners jury which investigated the cause
of the death OF q newborn maie child found III a
cIsterL at No. 300 Ellery-st, November D. found
his mother, Miss Margaret McDOnOugh, by beng
thrown IN the clsern Hiss Carrie kernstler was
declared to be- an accessory to the act he young
held TO await the action OF the Grand jury.
JERSEY CITY.
The water main at the head OF Wayne-st bursted
last evening and flied the basement of the house of
John {. Quick badly ujur,ug his furniture.
LOUIS WIGHT, of No. 81 MontroSe-ave., nurse at |
the county farm at Snake Hill, WAS struck BY a |
train on the New-York, Lake Erle and Western |
Railroad, Thursday evening, while walking Oh the |
track. and was instantly Killed.
At the annual meeting OF the Hudson County |
Bible society. THURSDAY evening, Is. +. Randolph |
was elected president Presiding Elder Ellison and
the Rev. Dr. Mahou, vice sdents the Rev WILL
lam Neuindcr secretary and Congressman Harden |
NEWARK
An inqnest was begun yesterday in the case of |
Eugene Nlers, who died " Wednesday from Injuries |
received IN an eXploSi which occurred AT the fac
tory of the Li-nOd Fancy Ar,lc Company last |
Saturday. The testimony showed that the firm |
used machine called power accumulation. the ex- |
plosion OF which caused the death of Mr.. NiliIers,
and that the machine OF worth esS material l. |
was warranted 90 stand pressure of COCO pounds
h. tie square inch and burstcd with 1900 pounds |
pressure. Ii was known that the machine de- !
iccriye and had been patched. The iron Of tlc ma
chine was; as a nachinIst expressed 1t. very Door |
and very dirty; he never saw poorer IRON. Tho first
time the machine was put up the tube leaked.
NEW-JERSEY.
PATERSoN-Slnuel j. David who IA in the Pas |
saic County Jail Il charge of numbering his wife.
Is completely broken down by nervous excitement |
and the loss of slmulant- Late thursday night he |
was very i'll aud DR.. Bundell was summoned to at |
tend him.
LONG ISLAND
WooDBUGY.-Whil II party Of Germans from |
New York was Cunning III The woods near Wood |
bury Friday morning one of the number. Charles |
Meyers was shot AMI seriously injured by the pre- !
mature discharge OF his gun while IN the act of |
climbing a fence. lie slipped. and III falling the |
gun went OF. portion Of the charge entering his |
= gut side. He was taken back To the city.
HUDSON RIVER TOWNS
SING SI>G.-Isaac kImartin, a boy eleven years |
of NE whose parents 1--we ~ sing Sing struck
thursday afternoon by freight train bound south,
and instantly killed. Ia company with some other |
BOYS Ee had been amusing himself by stealing rides
on the trains and III this instance had missed his
hold III getting on.