New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-03
NEW-YORK CITY.

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Arrests last week, 1872; Births 539; deaths
63s, and marriages. 26S.
An order was sent from the Bureau of Buildings
yesterday to have the stable at No 34S West Forty
sccond-st. pulled down because the oullulhg nau
become dangerously unsafe.
servant at No 945 Greenwicb-st yesterday
morning found her master, James Donn0lly dead
In a chair where he had slept. His death was at
tributed to heart disease.
Herman Dobeinecke, homeless German barber
went into the hallway of No go Clntonst. on Fri
day night to rest and his dead body was found there
III the morning
The Rev. Robert Collyer will occupy the chair at
Colonel Knoxs lecture at Steinway Hall tomorrow
night in aid of the BarthOldi Pedestal Fund
billiard TOURNAMENT PRIZES.
The prizes in the billiard tournament were
awarded at No. $50 Broadway at 3 p. IN. yesterday
The date and place of the cushion carrom game
between SlossOn and Sexton has been fixed and
will take place at Irving Hall on Wednesday even
ing.
INFORMATION ABOUT RAILROAD PRESIDENTS.
A correspondent inquiries who was the first presl-
dent of the Hudson River Railroad. James Boor-
man was. The first president OF the New YORK
Central Railroad was Erastns Corning, and tie
first president of the Consolidated Company lthe
New York Central and Hudson River Rallroadl
was Cornelius Vanderbilt
AN ARCTIC SCENE IN CONFECTIONERY.
lieutenant A. W. Greedy by Kane Lodge of Free
Masons. on Tuesday night, was massive con1ee-
ton piece by L. f. Mazzetti intended Tor the Arctic
hero IL represents the camp of the survivors at
Cape Sabine with the relief ships Thetis and Bear
In the distance and sledge of supplies beng
drawn to the starving men.
TESTIMONIAL TO LECTURE MANAGERS.
On Tuesday evening q testimonial entertainment
10 Messrs Phipps and Edwards, the lecture ana
concert managers, will be gwen at ChlckeTlhg
Hall. Among those who will appear are MISS Hen
Iietta Beebe Mile. do Lussan, Mrs Anna Buckley
Hills. Frank n. LDce A. sig; Liberati, llaTshall :.
Wilder, c. A. Cappa, A. 7. Burbank the Martens
trio, the Students of Pompen ana the weber
Male Quarteue.
COMING TO HONOR POE's MEMORY.
Among those who will be present at the unyell-
ing of the Poe memorial statue ia the Metropolitan
Museum of Art tomorrow is d. JOhn j. moran,
the physician who was for seven years IN charge
of tie Washington College University Hospital, Id
winch Poe passed the last sixteen hours OF ms lie
The doctor is still hale and hearty, an earnest
champion of the dead poet and willing TO swear
: that he died with no faint of alchohol about him.
lie has a book now in press III which he presents
testimony to prove that Poo never drank 10 excess
during the last four years of his life.
FINDING A LOST CHECK.
The check given by the Sub-ITeas9ry to the
Bank of British North America on Monday in pay
ment of English gold sent 10 the Assay Office, was
found by a man unable to read. He knew that the
slip of paper was check and that 1t might be Yal-
liable. Yesterday he carried 1t TO George ,. Coo,
president Of The American Exchange National
Bank, with wboa he was acquainted. The check,
which was for $19,3SS 90, was quickly sent to the
Bank of British North America.
CENsURING THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL
Coroner MESSENGER h Id inquest yesterday III
the case of Anna Huchsman, who received tatal IN
iures at No. 14l East Sixtieth-st on April ~, by
her clothes taking fire from the kitchen stove
When an ambulance from the Presbyterian Hos
pital was called the surgeon refused TO take the
woman to the hospital -Four hours later She was
received at the Mount Sinai Hospital, whlther she
was conveyed IN d Bellevue Hospital ambulance
Tie cOrOnepstated that the ambulance surgeon OF
the Presbyterian Hospital refused 10 take ttt
woman IN charge because of the desire or the hos
pltal authorities TO keep the mortality OF the IN
stitution at as low figure as possible. Yerdlc'
was reached censuring the Presbyterian hospita
nd he m