New-York tribune., 1881-08-30

speeches, and the only explosion was the bursting
land Fling too violently. 1t was said that therewas
some very threatening language used in the meeting
OF the committee. when it was suggested that the
Mantle speeches had totally failed as there were
not more than 800 people present at any time of
the day or evening.
HISTORICAL BUILDING SOLD.
THE OLDEST BUILDING IN THE CITY TO BE DE-
sTROYED-soME POINTS IN ITS HISTORY.
Atauction sale yesterday, Cyrus w. Field, through
way and Battery-place for 81 81, 500 TIE building
has for a long time been known as the Washington
est building now standing in the @ sat city It
was sold under. order of the Supreme
Court IN the PARTITION suit of Drake VS. Raymond it
Mr.; Fields plan to remove the old landmark and
70 build in its place an imposing business and Office
% property ais%@s ISs IL ne I1"ESs
Ct s syss snd rs n% lna 1 % ana
IL inches in Battery Place, and SO feet in Green
wich-st. On it he will erect building ten stories
mings., 1t is to be fre-proof throughout. He said
Yesterday, as comment on the tendency to build
rent the egh ninth and tenth stories for hotel pur
poses % est It would be,a UNIQUE hotel he added with
The old house, which will have to give way to
vious to that time the site had been occnpicd bya
tavern which had been built in the seventeenth CEN
tury by Peter Rocks whose wife kept it long after
his death. Pieter Rocks was officer in the Dutch
The present house when built was a copy of that of
the British ambassador Mt Lisbon, and all its plans
built, according to the testimony of William l..
stone by Sir Peter, afterward Admiral. Warren, X.
built one of ths finest 'ns mansions ms
in the country. One of its rooms, 26 feet by 40
feet in dimensions, was famous banqueting room.
British forces captured New York City, in the war
OF the Revolution, it was occupied successively by
liam Howe, Sir Henry Clinton and Sir Guy Carlton
afterward Lord DoSchester. Major Andre. who was
in the u family Of Sir Henry Clinton, and his aid,
Hudson River to meet Benedict Arnold. Mr. Field
says that he paid for all the ground about $3.50 OOO
and that the building will cost about half million.
KINGS COUNTY PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
In his annual report of the condition of the Kings
County Lunatic Asylum in Flatbush. DR.. James G.
Shaw, resident physician, shows that by the statis-
tics of each five years from 1850 to 1880 the per-
centage of insane persons to the population of the
ty-nine per cent. The death rate i'll the ASYLUM
decreased from twelve to 5.7 per cent in the same
pTeas|a persons to be cared f'T according to the
recent action of the Board of Supervisors in provid
ing two small buildings to accommodate some Of the
patients now ovcrcrowding the Asylum, Dr. Shaw
shows the need of still more room. He also urges
that more land should be secured in order that cur-
BILE patients can have work and outdoor exercise.
The report shows that the water supply is defective
and no sufficient means exist for extinguslllng n
fire. should one gain any headway in the building
crowded with upward of 900 insane persons One
of the needs of the Asylum SET forth by Dr. Shaw IA
eeaeap ee pictures uioss & to acorn the walls, and
e TSs TEs pefsons S wmo san eEe them to do
ago, by DIR. Shaw III burning up all straitjackets
has gone so far that he now leaves the doors of the
lower halls open, allowing the patients afflicted
mildly to go in and out from the grounds as they
choose.
Al.
the total number Of persons in the ASYLUM on Au-
gust /, 1880, was 796 admitted in the year up TO
July, 81, 1881, 42S; DISCHARGED, 2Go died, 81
insane was sent to the ASYLUM.
The annual report Of the Kings County Hospital
OF resident physician on August 1, shows that 8 $40
patients were tended in the year ending on August
L. or these 800 had smallpox and 80 died from IT,
Warden Murray of the Kings County Ahnshouse,
reports that 500 persons were cared for in the
SrL, oi wo m r or5 relnan Iwenty-six ran away,
fare The average cost for each inmate was S82
The warden urges that there should be some ade-
quate means provided for putting out of fires in the
almshouse for women, and safeguards against loss
of life
THE TROUBLES AT ST. ANTtONY'S CHURCH.
The action of Bsh~p Loughlin, of the BROOKLYN
Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, in threaten
ing exco'nmnn cation against the members of st.
AnthouyS Church who continue the legal proceed
ings TO compel the Bishop to make n financial ac-
counting. resulted in very small attendance at tho
w.
the members of the Law Committee SAYS that
many of the communicates attended services
In other Roman Catholic churches near by
The legal proceedings are continuing he said.
lie laughed ut the idea of the Bishop excom-
under way. Under the rules of the church, he said
there was authority for the Bishop 10 cxcommuni,
cate for attempting to wrest church property from
the BISHOP and Tor interfering with church disci-
pine and the Bishops right to manage the church
property As none of these things had been done by
any member of 81. Anthony's Church, he could not
excommunicate them: All that had been done was
simply to ask where the money subscribed and paid
to the church had gone. This information the
members thought they were entitled TO, and it
was such as no just and honest man wonld con
ceai. The action of the Bishop III denouncing
ana . threatening the members was regarded
as silly and foolish by most Roman Catholics, The
only ihing he could do was to nterdict the church
cicnt reason for this or he would be anenable to his
suDenors
1. II. Ga'lagher >. y. lynagh and another, have
resigned since the Bishop Illuminated his threat,
on MED by the selection Of
Walsh petition to the Supreme Court, in the
matter of the finances, has been prepared and
signed and Will be presented this week.
THE RUMORs OF DIR. TANNERS DEATH.
The report of the death of Dr. Tanner, the faster.
London papers and cablcd to this country. is not
confirmed hy anything which can be learued in this
ciy. Df IL II. A. A.; Gum who had charge of DR.. Tan
friend, said yesterday regarding the matter:
nave not heard from. Dr. Tanner since the middle
OF July, when received letter from him, saving
tllat he was about TO begin negotiations with the
Neurological Society to engage in fast for ninety
days under its charge. The published account Of
his alleged death seems to have general mir of
hetlon. In the first place. there is no Mrs Tanner
and he has no children. He once thought Of
going TO Amsterdam, but he gave up the idea be-
cause he thought it would not pay: but If he
ha,l gone thence have papers which he would wish
TO take with llin; Another thing would almost con-
clusively show that either one has imperson-
ated Dr. Tanner, or else the story is without anv
foundation: il stated that the 1