New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-14
NETWORK CITY.

Tho Grand Central Theatre building IN East
Eighth-st. was once st. AIMS Church.
Young boys continue to play pool for drinks"
in several Bowery saloons in spite OF the law
The Fathers of Mercy of this city have estab-
lished mission for the Italians and French IN rat-
erson, Nj.
The police have at last succeeded In keeping pin
one of the oldest in the city.
The Sinking Fund Commissioners will meet TO-
day at 2 p. in the Mayors office to consider 1ur-
Their the Ramapo water scheme.
downtown auction sale of 1000 song birds,
each in a separate cage of wicker, attracted many
interested buyers yesterday.
Monsignor Seton will lecture for the poor Of st.
Columbas parish in the church in West twenty
fifth-st on Sunday. Subject, The Charity oil the
Irish People"
The fair in the Twenty third Street Arcade, in
aid of the colored Church of ST. Benedict the Moor
has proved SO successful that it will be continued
until February 20.
A number of representatives from NeW-fork ana
Brooklyn will attend the convention of Young
Mems Christian Associations IN Buffalo, from
February 81 to February "A.
NATIONAL GUARD NOTES.
The Sth Regiment, Colonel George ID. Scott, VIII
parade for battalion drill tomorrow evening In the
State Service uniform and forage caps. Inc LETT
wing of the ODD Regiment will parade for battalion
drill at the AImory Tomorrow evening under COM
mand of Colonel Porter.
MISSING HIS POCKETBO0K.
N. T. Grattan. of Minneapolis, while going, from
the Coleman House to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, yes
terday, to attend the meeting of the National
TrOtting Association, discovered that his pocket
book was missing. II contained $40, numerous
railroad passes and papers of value.
QUICK TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT.
A consignment of -four arrived here yesterday by
the Red Line and the New-YOrk Central Road In
the remarkable time of three days including It's de-
livery on board o steamer. 1t came through from
Minnesota in nine days, including delay III Chl-
cago.
AN ARMoRY REPORTED To BE UNSAFE.
Examiner Beattie, of the Buildings Bureau, re-
pOfted az taS S and
ST. was unsafe and needed repairing lie thought
the walls required anchors also, to keep them from
bulgng.
ROBERT DICKS MOTHER GOES BAH, FOR HIM.
Robert Dick, the cashier who is charged with
defrauding his employers, Morrison, Hartman d
Co.. of No. 500 Broadway, and against whom sew,
eral indictments were recently found gave pan Pan
Yesterday at the District Attorneys office. His
mother gave security to the amount of So,0OO Tor
his appearance,
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL ORPHAN ASYLUM
The annual report of the Board of Trustees Of the
st. Vincent de Paul Orphan Asylum, No. 2l5 west
Thirty has just been issued. Therecelpts
last year were S2l 253 SO. of which $4,000 came
from the executors of Nathaniel ID. Higgins. $500
was paid on account of the mortgage held by the
Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, leaving $lS,5Vo
due. The Asylum is to receive 600 from the
estate of the late Felix Astoin. There renamed IN
the institution January /. 1884, fifty one boys and
ninety-nlne girls.
RAPID TRANSIT COMMISSIONERS.
The Rapid Transit Commissioners in executive
session yesterday discussed the plans that had been
submitted to them. The counsel to the board has
gone to Albany to push the bill drawn up by INN
extending tho time Of the Commission Tor. SIX
months. His argument is that in order to select
with care the best methods of transportation ample
time IS needed. The Commission, however seems
in fair way to finish its labors within the orgi.
nally prescribed time only little more than half
of which has expired.
THE BOARD OF TRADE AND TRANSFORMATIONS
Fifteen members of the Board of Trade and Trans
portation besides Ambrose Snow the president
held a meeting at No. 55 Liberty-st yesterday
-Four new members were elected. J0hn +. Henry
read the annual report of the Executive Committee
reviewing the work of 1888. Resolutions were
adopted In favor of repairing the canals and of pro-
tecting the Adirondack forests and i'll memory OF
Thomas Knsella and speeches were made by a. 3D.
Smith and Charles l.. Richardson.
FAILING WITH LIABILITIES OF $50, 000
George Parsons importer of toys and networks
at No. IL Park Place, made an assignment yester-
ing to 80, 433 "a. He has been III business since
October S5S. In August 1861 he made an assign
%g cys as a John and Hcdo % 0& T6 hs
SSSeP the r@ name Of George Parsons Co.
When they dissolved in & as are sad S
be about $4,000, and to be due largely to
European firms.
A FIGHT STOPPED BY THE POLICE.
warmly fought glove contest took place ace, be- 1
Stoddapd. of Syracuse, at Clarendon Hall last
evening. Pop Whitaker acted as master, of
ceremonies Both contestants were in excellent
condition. Stoddard is twenty-eight years old and
weighs 100 pounds; DAILY is twenty-nne years old
and weighs 1915 pounds. DAILY drew the first blood
and was the faVOrite of the crowd. StOddard, al
though badly punished seemed to gain strength in
the second round, and twice he drove DAILY to the
ropes and once pushed him to the noST In the
of the Seventeenth Precinct put stop to the fight,
which was decided q draw.
MATTERS BEFORE THE DOCK BOARD
Engineer Greene made a report to the Dock Com
missOners at the meeting yesterday IN favor of re-
moving the old pier at East Twenty -sXth-St, and
to rebuild new pier OF CAB feet In length and 40
feet wide. The Commissioners ordered that pro-
posas for building new pier be advertised for.
A communication was received from Controller
Grant asking that the Board fix valuation on all
wnn from Msyor Edison was received intro
ducing Commander Taylor, who has been assigned
as the naval aid TO the Mayor .by the Secretary OF
the Navy.
AN ALLEGED INFORNrER FINED.
Aucust Schreiner, age forty, who said that he
was employed by Inspector Byrnes to obtain In
formation concerning criminals, was arraigned be-
fore Justice German in the Essex Market Police
Court yesterday on a complaint made by Mrs
Louise BOgar, the wife of cigar-seller in East
Broadway, Schreiner acting on the suspicion that
the Bogars kept policy snop. ne attempted
oording to Mrs. BOgaT's statement forced his way
on two occasions into her bedroom: At his second
entrance TIC aSSdullcu pcCauoc upplicu
unpleasant epithets to him. She allied her husband
to her assistance and Sehrelner drew large re-
yolyer-which proved afterward to contain four
cartridges-and threatened to fire on them.
police officer attracted by Mrs. BOgars cries, en-
tered the shop and arrested Schreiner, who was
fined yesterday So for disorderly conduct.
BROOKLYN
Deaths last week, Old; births, 226; marriages,
88.
General James Jourdan has accepted the position
of receiver of the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney
Island Railroad Company, and has given bonds for
$50 900, with William Marshall and Aaron 5. Rob-
bins as bOndsmen.
Mayor Low, Otto Witte, James 5. I. Stranahan,
John T. Agnew and Jenkins Van Setback have been
appointed committee Of the Bridge Trustees to