New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-09
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
nv REVOLVING sHOvELs.

hilled in peculiar way yesterday in the large matt
house Of Nedhnger Schmidt Or drv at 1 room 100
feet long on the tenth floor of the malt house Inc
malt in the room is turned over by an apparatus
which MT Neidlinger invented, q heavy iron rod
hearing shoyels along It's entire length from one
side of the room to the other The ends OF the roo
are connected With cog wheels which nj INTO %
made to revove slowly and to travel back and forth
from end to end of the room. 1t takes an hour and
half for the shoyels to turn over all the mat
about six months and he had been at work IN the
malt house the greater part OF that time' lie nNeu
Sunday. and not at his lodging mouse
until early yesterday morning ne we We ~ ~
loss of rest and at noon. when the other workrnen
went to dinner he went INTO the dry an
lay down on the warm malt to sleep. me MAJ MAJ
noiselesly. Behler lay down IN a spoV Tia slent
would reach in about thirty minutes. ~! Ire ~
SrT;rg'T,oon, M | n M they found his dead BODY,
manged in frightful manner lying on .he MAJ
The iron shovels had caught MN n 1b US rcsisanne
of his body however, had been great enough 70
bend the heavy IRON rod. The flesh haq poeh t3i TORN
from the bones where the shovels had Saught ms ms
bod, Workmen who were in the building before
! O'clock SAID that they heard shrek on the tOp
floor and II was thought that Behler was conscious
after he caught 10y the shoVeiS
TYPuUs FEVER IN A HOSPITAL WARDED:
Sanitary Inspector Iiobhe reporied yTsteaSfa3
that little CIR named Gormcley had been attdchot
with tvphus fever in the basement of the tenement
honse at No 337 East Fory-seventh-St., whero
number of persons were dlscoycied suffering
I'm the disease In the adjoining nous,,
No 335 two persons named Fitzpatrick we're ioun 1
suffering from the fever, and were removed 10 Ili
Reception Hospital II was SAID thaI 'hcy hIl
caurht the disease by visiting sick persons
in No 337. Mrs. Margaret Ryani an HlSu"oHHiian
forty years DID, was taken III ID she s Se sc vi r
moved TO the Presbyterian Hospital "hefo onJ
died on the following day. An autopsy periornSu
at the hospital, revealed the TACT lhai llle "o"i
had died from typhus fever The physicians at
the hospital had not recognized tEe ulSossc
previous her DEATH and the other hhal - % to
ward IN which she was placed were cAposVu " Co.
tari0n unintentionaliy. 1t was aSceIaiheG Ae3tcI
dav that Mrs Ryan was elected from No. 90 Last
Fortv-seventh-st. Oh May because SIZE n'u no.
naId her rent 1t is expected by the sanitary N
spectors that persons who we're exposed 10 llE
disease III the same house VIII Dec0I'Ic H. 'l, a. H.
known to have removed from the nousc ivCoI ~
are beng visited every day by physicians ~
Uohle said yesterday that sixteen persons, sINt4d
Of whom have recovered, have been NJ WIN thc
fever hecau,e they either lived in the house or
visited persons there recently Had ii not 0eeh lUI
the unex pected outbreak IN THIS house Inc f clty
ills season. In April 1881, about forty cases were
reported III the city each week -,
tour cases of smallpox were reported IN the city
Yesterday. one of he patients being Henry lIaSel-
man an unmarried German, who lodged at No
Maron-st He had been Ill for several DAYS DEL re
the nature of his complaint was known 10 the OIAeI
inmates of the house.
THE REMOVAL or THE MAYNARD
Some OF the members of the special committee
of the Chamber of Commerce appointed 10 con-
slider the proposition that the Government shdlI
dispose OF the Brooklyn Navy ard met at the
Chamber yesterday, but, owing TO the absence OF
i : f. Stranahan, Brooklyn member OF TIE
commIttec did little more than arrange plan OF
proceeding The committee discussed informally
Two points-whethcr the port of New ORR WOuld
be In greater danger because one of the pilnclpaI
nayy-Vards was maintained here, thus making IL Il
speclal point OF attack for an enemy, and whether
the interests of The Government would be better
served by retaining the uaVy-yard III ITS present
Situation Ii was thought that with the many
facilities here for obtaining wOTkmen Of all classes
and the facilities for building and repairing YES
sells ,Is proved during the Rebellion 10y the ntlng
out of three fourtbs of the war ships II would not
be to the best interests Of the Government TO dls-
pose Of tie navy-yard. 1t was decided 10 invite
Mayor Low Commodore Cpshur and several othcr
naval officers To attend the next meeting anu give
their views.
In the Brooklyn Board of Aldermen resolution
was introduced yesterday Oy Alderman BaId re-
commenting the removal of the navy-yard. IL
was supported by Aldermen Baird, LcplIe ana
N.enningor. Alderman Mennlnger urged that II me
property were sold II should pass INTO the handS OF
the city Alderman HOuchtOn opposed the IesOiu-
ton on the ground that some giant corporation
would seek TO secure control of The property TO the
detrlmeut OF the city The resolution was adopted
by a vote of 10 to g. Those voting against 1t were
Aldermen HoughtOn, ArmiLage kugsles, Seaman
and Jones.
ALDERMEN STILL IN CONTEMPT
The coumittal of fifteen Brooklyn \ Aldermen for