New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-06
LOCAL MISCELLANY.

RESULTS OF A TENEMENT-HoUsEQ QUARREL
Kate McEvoy. age forty-fve, lives on the fourth
floor of a fve-story tenement house at NO
Is Monroe-st. John Burke, her nephew,
he was eleven years old. On Tuesday night
the two resolved TO celebrate the waning
holiday, and after inviting IN Lizze hea,y ,o d
young woman. twenty-five years old who occupies
a rear room, and bringing supply OF peer; ingy
began the celebration. After good deal OF drink
ing Lizzie Healy left them and went to her rooln
She had been there only short time when siie
heard the aunt and nephew quarrcling vlolentN.
Blows soon followed. Burke, beng arprehehs'NS
that his aunt Would sG the O snS It off, Mrs.
McEvoy screamed with anguish, and burke M aS
heard TO express great penitence for wha1 nc n'a
done and began 10 cry. He said he would 60 loI g
doctor. and he started from the room. Instead OF
going down, however, he went up TO the ROOF:
Several tenants of the house were also , T.;
the holiday in the yard where they hau ilu Nv
ten kegs Of lager for the occasion. Their reveny
was INTERRUPTED by the fall of body nom te iEoi d
1t was Burke who fell heavily near tnem anu o ucH
almost instantly. Whether he had fallen oy aHsa-
dent or in drunken remorse had comn1tteu s.i' Nc
is uncertain The jewellers carried the oouS " w.
90 the house adjoining and after depositns ~ a ~
the fourth floor they hastily returned To then oeei
This was about o'clock. At 800 a. m. yesterday
IjzzIe Healy awoke and smelled smoke On golhs
10 the oor She found that Kate MeEvoys room "a s
on fire The tenants were reused by 1er cIles anu
succeeded in putting out the names no ai mined
The damage estimated at 500 OF Ies D, ~ ,e
further injury was done. The room where but me >
body lay separated from the burning iV ,oan 70
by thin partition. Kate McEvoy was tahen, ~ -
the Madison Street Station, where her edI, VI 49,
was left of it, dressed and she was ,en
up. being still drunk She was arraigheu d. 0o"i
yesterday and was discharged
RARyARD'S FLIGHT FROM NEW-LONDON'
Jasper T. Goodwin. the coach OF the Coiiln9 snr
Collere boat crew. while they were preparing lor
the race with Harvard which did nOt I:lho Piaor,
was riding down town IN an elevated tram yeS'el-
day when TRIBUNE reporter net nm, dorortpre
g What do you think about the suddeh uep'Iui,
of Harvard from New L0nd0nT asked tne IcPUl. WI
you may we'll call it sudden replied Mr. GoQfn-
win " il was so sudden that Columbia Knew notn1
inc of il until we went to their quarters and found
that they had flown. Mr. CornelPs letter pnonsneo
in TIE TRIBUNE this morning covers eIs no Suder-
stood the hour that had been nAeu lo5
the race at the meeting OF har'a a..
and Columbia representatives Oh Ju were 10
row on fair ebb tide That Is What every one u e
derstood when the day was postponed on account n
the drowning of Mir. Benjamin 10 July 8 we an
Understood that the race was to take place under
The same conditions. MI. Cornen Is qule 81
stating that Captain Hammond sald II III. m4u ha
he a good hour TO row, as he believed III Would pe
abouf two hours after the full high tide Inc oDJect
of the Harvard men after that seemed 10 De 70
us row at an hour when the undeIstoou a ot
would not prevail We offered TO row at ~ OF aI
either on a full flood or full epD we certain NY
would not row at the beginning OF a change IN INC
tide when the current in one course would pace us
at n disadvantage. 1t is perfectly true that MI;
Bancroft said You viii row at 10 or at l. aud
we assented. He went away, ana we
thought be was going to consult with the Harvard
crew We waited TO hear further from MN; ana
finally went to the Harvard boat house only 10
ind as said before that the crew had gone WITH
out so much as say ing Good-day to you" >,
How do your men feel about the matter1" =.
How do they feeli How would anyone teeln ,
We certainly should not have treated Harvard so.
WAS there not some disappointment expressed
about your mems not rowing at Lake OeorgeF
"There has been a misunderstanding about that.
We were asked TO row some time ago and after con,
sultatlOn with the crew we said that we snoula
probably do So Just before Mr. BeDlamns
death we received another invitation accompanied
Inv blank form of entry. We decided TO so and
filled the blank form up; but just then MT BeDJa1
min was drowned and our entry was not sent.
sent word that we would let the managers Vi
the regatta at Lake George know our
Intentions in time. The crew decided that
they were bound 10 row the Harvard race.
Int that it would be dlsrespectfu TO the memory o.
their dead companion TO enter any new races 30
felegraphed to Lake George that we could not go.
We had never definitely promised 10 CO. hor hau We
ever been entered" - -
several members of Captain Cowles's crew we're
seen on then return TO this city on Tuesday, ana
they all expressed the same feeling OF mulghaIon
in regard to the action of the Harvard crew.