New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-28


The Republican members of the Board of Alder
men dinea together at the Union League yesterday.
The historic old frigate Constitution is quietly
dropping to pieces III rotten row" at the brooklyn
Navy Yard.
A new car-house has been built by the Ninth Ave
nue. Ele, lted Road at One-hundred-and-thlrty
seventies.
The receiving ship Colorado at the Navy Yard is
being dismantled. The Vermont will be used in its
place as receiving ship.
REINSTATED AS A MEMBER.
j. r. McNulty, a coffee merchant who failed re-
Gently has made a settlement with his creditors aud
resumed business. lie yesterday reinstatcd 10
membership of the Coffee Exchange.
OPENING NEW SAVINGS BANK.
The American Savings Bank. at Fifth-aye. AID
Forty-seconl-st.. has opened for business. Tne
orgnatOrs aud trustees are conspicuous e.ilzens
whose names are well known III Duslhess clicieS'
STREET BoY's SPECULATION
Zone cent 10 cross the plank" sang an euteTlf,s-
ing oot-biack yesterday and part OF last night Who
had placed board across the nasty rlYer 81 e.'n 10
and mud on the Park Row side OF the Post OliG,.
RFroRT1NG A WRECK OFF FIRE ISLAND.
Captain Ross, of the steam tug Emma Kate, re-
ported yesterday having sighted wreck fifteen
miles southwest of Fire Island. which he Believed
to he that of bark. About fifteen feet of er main
mast and three other spars were showing above
water.
WILLIAM AsroR PURCHASING LAID.
William Astor has purchased from Tie Morris
Land Company for $275D 6s all its pOss 'siOni "
ing between Mott-aye. and the iiarlgl river
covering what was formerly e-huEdIrG-1Id-hitY-
thId-s.; also land under water Win pier dhdOtht
privileges.
THE PRESIDENTS FLYING VISIT TO EEvYoRE.
President Arthur paid flying visit 10 this city
Ire house of Charles +. Miller. in East Fifty fourth
ST. In the afternoon he attended a reception at
the house Of Seth Il. French. lie took iatc tram
Tor Washington last night.
VESSEL APPARENTLY on FIRE.
Some alarm was caused along the river front in
the vicinity of West Twenty sixth-st on Christmas
night by the sight Of flames lcaplng along IL bull
wurk of one Of the steamers Of the Atas Line when
was lying at her pier AZ the foot of that sire {. lt
proved TO be the flames of paratIine which was
burned to thaw out the scuppcrs.
CONDEMNED MILITARY STORES At ArCTION.
An auction sale of condemned military stores was
held ~ the State Arsenal, at lhlriy-iith-st. and
Seventh-aye., Yesterday One hundred and thirteen
military coats sold for cents a pound; 20 hats for
10 cents each; 1913 pairs CT trousers Tor 20 cents
EACH 1000 bouscs for 10 cents each; ,Sll OYER
coats for 0ll2 cents each, and 1000 pounds OI
metallic shells for IA cents pound.
A sEvEN-sToRIED HOTEL TO III BUILT.
Plans filed in the Bureau of Buildings yes
terday for hotel, to be erected ON the north
Of Sl2 250C Pie h hoe Will be seven torcs in
height. 1t will extend f1rty-Seycn feet ~ Broad
way and eighty-two feet in Forteth-st. The walls
are TO be constructed Of brick. Elliott Zborowski
of Wcstchester County, rs the owner
PUNISHED FOR HARBoRIYG GIRL.
About month ago, Annie Frankcl age thirteen,
was induced to leave her hOlle in Philadelphia by
notorious woman who brought her To thscity. She
was traced by her brother to a disrcputable house
at No. II Eizabeth-St louisa Perkins, the house
keeper, was arrested, aud in the Special Sessions
Court yesterday she was convicted of harboring
the young girl for immoral purposes, and WAS sen,
fenced to the Pcnltehtiary Tor year, and hhed
$3.50.
SCULPTURE FOR TUE SARATOGA MONUMENT.
The Committee on Design Of the Saratoga MOnu-
ment Association met yesterday III the Office of
Naval Officer Z. H. Graham, in the Custom House;
The committee approved tho architects designs Of
historic scu pture for the interior OF the monument.
This sculpture will cost $4,000. The bronze stairs
within the shaft will cost $4,000. The sum OF
500, 900 has been expended on the work 50 far and
the architect estimates that II will take 100000
to complete his design.
NATIONAL GUAED MOTIFS.
section of the New Code has been applied to the
case of eX-Assenbyman Breen, the chaplain OF tho
Sixty-ninth Regiment for continued absence with
out leave for six months lie has been gwen Wen. the
ton referred 10 does not apply and that he will not
" budgc.p A Christmas reception was held at the
Twenty-third Regiment ArInory last night in which
all the military celebrities of the First and Second
Divisions and IA number of officers of tho Army and
Marine Corps participated.
REGRETS AT PARTING WITH ASSOCIATES.
At the meeting of the Board of Educrtuu yestcr-
day a resolution offered by Commissioning Wood was
passed expressing regret at parting with Commits
sOners West fraud and Coudert asassOciates in tho
Board. the three Commissioners termsof office expr
ing on January /. Mr.. West has been n commissioner
since 1854, Mr.. fraud since 1873 and Mr. Coudert
since 1881. Several amendments to the bylaws
recommended by the Committee on Bylaws were
passed. Henry q. Sprague was made trustee in tho
Sixteenth ward. Votes Of thanks for the work of
the year were given to President Walker, Clerk
Herman, and Auditor Davenport.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR DIR. MARTINS FUNERAL.
The funeral of the late Rev. DIR. Benjamin
Nicholas Martin, who died at his home, No. 236
West Fourth-st., on Wednesday, will take place at
the Scotch Presbyterian Church, III FOurteenth-st.
near Sixth-ave., at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. |
Howard Crosby, John Hall, William NJ. Taylor and |
the Rev. Samuel NJ. Hamilton. The council. faculty
and students Of the University of the City of New
York, the officers and members of the Eew-York |
Academy Of Sciences and the members of the Phi ]
Beta Kappa have been invited to be present. The /
body will be taken to Ncw-llavcn by the o'clock |
train, where the inteTncnt will take place.
BICYCLIsTs TO HAvEA CLUBHOUSE.
The Citizens Bicycle Club laid The cornerstone
IF its new clubhouse in West Fifty eighth ST. near
Eighth-ave., yesterday Notwithstanding the un-
The Roy. Thomas Mckee Brown. president,
made address. lie SAID that the Citizens was
he first bicycle club III America to bull and own
clubhouse. George Martin Huss, the architect,
llso made few remarks, and then the president
Put full set of the working plans of the building,
/ copy of the presidents speech, copies of incor-
iOners for bicycling in the park in tn box, and
,laced it under the cornerstone The stone was
was then laid by the yce-president, +. q. BuInc.
THE CASE OF EDWARD DARLINGTON.
Edward Darlington, who gave his business as
hat Of dramatic author, pleaded guilty ycstcr.
lay in the Court Of General Sessions TO charge Of
OTgeTy in the second degree. He IL said to he the
anne man who under the name of Berkeley +.
'aisley convicted of forging the name of Col
rate a. Co. TO a check on the Manhattan Bank. At
hat time several actors and others testified that
he defendant was known to them a dramatst.
The present charge is that Darlington forged tho
ame of j. j. Smith, a real-estate dealer, to check
or 500 on Howard a. Co., of No. IL Wall-st. The
,ank teller who cashed the check said that the
iGcaton of the check was also forged. The pris-
ner was remandcd for sentence.
TRUSTEES OF THE ST. JoHNLAND SOCIETY.
At a meeting of the Society of St. JOhnland, at
TO- G6 Wall-st yesterday, the old Board of Trustees
vas reelected; the only changes being the election
f Assistant Bishop Potter TO ill vacancy, and the
ubsttution of Edward Schell as treasurer for
Toward Potter resigned. The following
onstitute the Board Of Trustees John
n. Earle president the Rev. DR. Herman