New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-03
EXTENDING THE NEW AoUEDUcT

At the meeting of the Board Of Aqueduct Com
missioners yesterday the Controller announced
that he had received as the proceeds of the sale Of
Sl0OO,O00 OF three per cent Aqueduct bonds
$i,O17, 1853, the bonds having sold at premium.
Chief-Engneer Church and Secretary McCulloh
recommended that all work heretofore done IN the
offices at TarTytown other than engineering work,
should be done at the offices Of the Commission IN
New-York, and that the Purchasing Agent and the
transferred to hew-York 1t was also recon-
mended that the Purveyors and Property
Clerks duties be performed BY one person. The
Engineer Church reported that the work from the
east side Of the Harlem River, beginning
at shaft No. "a. near sedgwick ave. passing
Misunderstanding -ffth-st. and Convent-ave
should be divided into three sections. The first of
these, to be known as section II. passes under
the Harlem River and ends at One-hun 1red and
seyenty-eighth-st. and Tenth-aye This will be
,937 feet IN length. Section ID will extend
eghth-st. to undrcd-and-sxty- hrst-st IL
Will have two shafts and be 400 feet In length
Section IA will extend from One-hundred and
sixty :frst-st to One-hundred- thirty 6ftl-st
and Con vent-ave, will have four shafts aud be
7lO0 feet In length The total length of the work
will be 643 feet. The secretary was authorized
to expend $3.50 to PRINT the plans and speciRca-
lions. These are nearly ready. and the legal pro-
ceedings are so far advanced that the work viii be
ready to be let within three months.
PEACHES PLENTY AND Low.
Seventy carloads Of peaches yesterday made
big offering for q cool day, and the market was dul
Of cheap rates Fine Deawares are running ont !.
the plckings show the endings Of orchards and
New-Jcrsey must be looked to for prime stock
Pickings from the latter State will improve from
day to days some Hunterdon and Mercer County
fruit almost reached Delaware figures early yester-
day. Considerable stock was left over at D. m.
but IT will keep In this weather aud may come In
well for to-day if the low prices turn shipments TO
Philadelphia. Plain Delawares are quoted in lines
at 6ON75 cents, baskets; good to choice. SI0
81 20. the latter an extreme. New-Jersey baskets
oulls 25035 cents; fair, $1,000 cents; prime and
extra, 75c.G$1.
WOMAN USES A COWHIDE ON A WOMAN.
At the First District Police Court in BROOKLYN
yesterday Mrs. Rebecca Ford, of No. 1853 Four
teenth-st., Brooklyn, appeared to answer a COM
plant OF assault preferred by Mrs. Frederic At
klns. OF No. 234 IN the same street. IL appears
that until recently Mr.. and Mrs Atkins boarded
with Mrs. Ford, and when they went away left an
unpaid bill. Mrs. Ford dunned them In vain, and
alleges that instead of money she got insults. She
stood this as long as she could, but on a recent
evening when she had met them and had received
her usual treatment, she got O raw
hide and meeting her former boarder
at f1fth.ave. and Thirteenth-st., proceeded to In
dict bodily chastisement upon Mrs Atkins The COM
motion drew the attention Of policeman and all
were arrested. Their stories were so conflicting
that Sergeant Graham sent them home With good