New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-27
NETWORK CITY.

The snow il piled six feet high along the middle
of Madison-ave., leavngjnst enough on elther siuo
for good seighing.
A Bleecker-st. car broke down in front of THE
TRIBUNE Building yesterday alternoon' puV ho P"'-
sengers were injured.
fair will soon be held in the Church of ST. Bene-
dict the Moor, at Blocker and Downing $751; To-
duce the debt
The "old boys" who attended school in the
ancient schOol-hOuse at fifth-st., near Avenue ~
are making preparations for reunion dinner
The steamship Lake Winnipeg, of the BEAVER a,I
Line, which sailed from Liverpool for New-iorK OH
December 49, is now four days overdue
Policeman Francis Denning, of the Sixth Precinct,
who was under charges Of intoxicatlon, resigned
yesterday. -.
Girls and bows in Mulberry-st. had a merry time
coasting Yesterday on a huge pile of snow in front
of Police Headquarters.
Kxocxrp DOWN by SNOW FROM A ROOF.
A mass of snow fell from the Too1 OF me Ios i
Office building at 1850 NJ yesterday ana kn9ckeu
down Sergeant Deyoe OF me as drsssea at the
received scalp wound willch was "h''''0 ~ WV
Chambers-Street HOSPITAL.
THE METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY DINNER.
The installation of officers and annual dinner OF
the Medico-I egal Society will be held on January
O An assistant secretary will be elected no candl-
date getting a sufficient number OF votes at the last
meeting.
ENCRoAcHING UPON NARROW STREET
The Board of Aldermen yesterday resclnded res
olntion nermitting Leo SchlesinPcr TO build vault
in front of Nos l. 8 and Jersey-st because he nad
carried il eight feet beyond inc cuID Hno' Inv
street is only twelve feet wlde
To ORGANIZE A REPUBLICAN CLUB. o.,
A meeting is to be held tonight at the lialnll11
ton Hotel, One-hundred- nd-twenty-htth-st. anu h
Eighth-ave, to organzc hePuDIcn Siu io no iv
XIXth Assembly District. circular signed ny
Theodore B. Hamilton, Gilbert X; Hawes, ueorgo
f. Best and Resell l.. Richardson has been sent 20
a large number of Republicans, inviting them 10 DC
MAJOR HAERoLD's LoSG FIGHT.
"There is nothing new In the liarron Suit sal9
- .I oouncol tho Elevated
Railway Company. 81 am waiting TO see what tho
other side is going TO do next; rather waiting, to
have the lawyers and doctors settle theH 'rouoes'
1t is not my fight now
THE NETWORK DRIVING CLUE.
The new name of the Gentlemans Driving ASCOT
alton is the New-YoTk Driving club. AZ me me an
nual meeting recently held the following Officers
were elected David Bonner, president; I. II. Kay-
mond vice-president; Samuel +. Snihen, secretary;
I l. Uumfrcyie, treasurer; Shepherd +. Knapp,
]. II. Miller, J. II. DeMott. Frederick W. Wander
bilt n. l.. Hunting, executive COMMITTEE
RETIRING AFTER THIRTY YEARS SERVICE.
The friends of II. X. Clarke rendered him dinner
last evening at DelmOnicos, In colnncmdratlon OF
his retirement after thirty years of active partner
shin from the Wholesale dry-goods house Of Tent,
Weller 81 Co. He was also presented with hand
some souvenir of the occasion. Among those pres
ent were II. A. Kathan, g. G.; Barnettc, John ODER
teuffer Dudley Hall and Emile DUrler.
PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM DANGEROUS PEP
FoRMANCEs.
The New-York Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children offers 500 reward for inforna-
tiOn leading 10 the conviction of any persons I'M
lawfully training and educating young children as
rope or wire walkers as gymnasts contortionists,
riders or @ GT r ro9 I eS
urng or selling children for any such training OF
purpose.
GIFTS FOR FRIFNDIEsS CHILDREN.
Christmas tree gaily decorated and laden with
many presents given by friends of the American
Female Guardian Society aud Home for the Friend
lesa stripped Yesterday afternoon IN the Chap
el al No. 30 East Twenty-ninthst. All the oder
children the house, including those in the larger
nursery were present. After singing several beau
liful hymns they received the presents.
SHIPPING PETROLEUM TO AUSTRIA
The British steamship Mareca was chartered yes
terday TO take a cargo of 10000 barrels of crude
petroleum TO Fiume, Austria. The shippers are
laden9urg Th9man * e. Co: This Is the first s ship,
port and IL is the first shipment of OIL made by
steamship 10 the Adratic. The premium on the
insurance was per cenS less than by sailing YES
sells.
,r0 MAKING POOR PEOPLE HAPPY.
Women and children began TO gather about the
City Hall steps yesterday afternoon as early as
aud the Rev. Henry Kimball, aided by several
policemen and other officials, distributed over 900
pounds of -four, meal hominy, cheese, crackers and
turnips. Mr.. Kimball said that the next distribu-
ton would occur Saturday at the same hour.
He is supported in his work by several college class
mates-of the Yale class OF o. The goods are con-
tributed.
BIGoT BEGINS A LIFE SENTENCE.
Amade Bigot, who killed n Mrs. Rennault, in
South Fifth-ave. in July, 1850, was sent to Sing
Sing yesterday TO begin life sentence. After cut
ting his victims throat no attempted 10 commit
suicide He was confined in the T0mbs from Sep
tember 1880, till the following February, when q
lunacy commission declared Kim insane, and he was
sent the MlddletOwn Insane Asylum, remaining
there over two years. Last March he was returned
to the Tombs, and Justice Brady sentenced him for
life last Friday.
AN AGED CONNTERFEITER GETS EIGHT YEARS.
Van Rensselaer, Abrams, who has been twice be-
fore sentenced TO imprisonment for counterfeiting
the United States Criminal Court, having been con-
victed of making counterfeit trade dollars. lie Is
over sixty years of age and his bald head and gray
beard give him venerable appearance. He was
watched by the United States detectives for several
weeks at his home in Observation-Disclosures
fth-st last winter, and was seen take to hs rooms
cOunterfelting material. lie was arrested while at
work making the coins. Judge Benedict sentenced
Abrams TO eight years imprisonment in the Kings
County Penetentlary.
THE FUNERAL OF YOUNG Won sTRRNBERGHR
The funeral of L. Richard Won Sternberger, the
young German uObleman who died at the Presbyte-
rian Hospital on Christmas day from an overdose
of morphine which was self-adninistered, took
place yesterday morning at the hospital. A number
of the young mans friends were present and five
of them acted as paI-6earers Many wreaths and
other floral designs had been sent by young Stern
bergcr's acquaintances. The services were con-
Quoted by Lutheran clergyman, and the body was
taken TO the receiving vault of the Lutheran Gene
terry, where it will remain until instructions are
received from the young mans relatives in Germany.
Unavang efforts were made yesterday to find
relatives OF his who were thought TO live i'll Brooklyn.
REGISTERS OFFICE NOTES.
The Port Morris Land Improvement Company
has mortgaged it's possessions in the Twenty third
Ward to the extent Of $50 1000. The property in
numbered comprises land lying between the East
River and Oak ave-, from 0ne-hundred and thirty
second-st. to e-hundred-and- thirty -eighth-st.
The loan was advanced by the Seamen's Bank for
Savings William X. Martin has bought for
$350,000 property on the northwest corner of
Broadway and ty-sxth-st. being 60 feet on the
former and extending about 210 feet along the
latter. He has also disposed of two lots on the
north side of Seventeenth-st, west of Second-ave.
for $4,000, and property iii. West Fifty eighth
st., for $4,000, to John Taylor. mortgage on
the Broadway property of $4,000 forms part of
the consideration.
INJURED IN A COLLISION
While engine No. was returning from n false
Il. L. I'll.