New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-24
NETWORK CITY.

downtown restaurants for 10 cents. fIettV cheap
for April .
tobacco stores are disappearing and baseball statues
in many gay coors are taking their places
John Hartley. North River shad fisherman, IN
a single drift yesterday afternoon took 100 sh"''
the largest drift ever known.
Confectioners were busy yesterday brushing inc
winters accumulation of dust from last year ioo
cream signs in the Easements OF their stores
r. II. Southgate, assignee OF the t5oaoi P IotoI
wick has again leased the Long Beach iiolel'
with the cottages and the property at Long bcach
| for the coming season.
For killing Michael Feinn with beer glass Henry
Mundhank will be imprisoned for two years anu anu
six months Justice Van Brunt sentenced Nun
yesterday.
School Commissioner Beardsee having been APP
pointed counsel to the Board oil Educatoh, MaS ei
Grace Yesterday appointed Ferdinand Ifaud 10 III
| the vacancy
An inquest in .the case of Sergeant V. Bagiey
whose death from a pistol shot ON Wednesday aP
pcared somew hat sterious, VIII DE heiu heA' WIN
by Coroner MESSENGER.
A sparrinp exhibition will be given at the Madi-
son Square Garden this evening for the beneht Oh
the widow If Joe Goss, the noted pugllst arthur
Chambers aud Billy" Edwards Will wlnd up
Wilson's Business Directory for 1850, the thirty
eighth annual issue is Just out. Tho price - re-
duccd to 81 80. This directory has a ven de-
served reputation for correctness ana eoipiouehcs
The effect of the warm weather is making itself
felt on the Boston steamers by tho Sound. Inc
decks of the Pilgrim Providence are crowded
| mornings and evenings rs thoy pass uhuei INC
Brooklyn Bridge.
rowrp,xc rur TrvpyRATrRF FIFTEEN DFGRETs.
Last evening a test was made OF the improved
cooling apparatus of the Lyceum Theatre. II was
found that the temperature could be lowered Iiec
degrees below the outside an WIN ohiS WV 'o" "
Ice
WALL STREET FIRM REsUNING BUSINESS
Hatch & Footc No. IL Wall-st. who suspended
payment in the Nav panic last year. resumed bns-
| ness Yesterday. Their accounts numbered over
800 and all the creditors assened to the plan pro-
posed by the firm, by which the accounts were 10
be paid in full. All are now settled
FINED FOR KEEPING RINK OPEN on sUNDAY
Mrs Ellen Curtin kept a roller-skatng rink In
rear building at No. 173 Madson-st. and allowed
Il to remain open Sunday, March ~ She was
arrested on a charge of Sabbath-breaklng and was
arraigned yesterday IN the Court OF General SEES
slons. She pleaded guilty and Judge Cowiug I'M
posed fine OF 81.
MEETING OF THE GOETHE CLUB.
A well-attended meeting of the Goethe Club was
held last evening at the house of the vce-president
read BY Professor Horatlo ;. White. Of Cornell
University. Professor White described in an IN
tercstng manner the relation between tioethes
work and American thought during the last han
century.
FEAsTISG TO-DAY; CONTRACTION TOMORROW.
The steamboat Franklin Edison. recently built
for the Health Department 10 convey patients to
the hospital for contagious diseases on North
Brother Is and, made trial trip 10 Quarantine and
ND the Fast River yesterday. Eight or Ton pr"in-
| nent members of the department enjoyed holiday
on board the boat.
AGAINST THE FRYE DISTRIBUTION OF COAL
| The Association for Improving the Condition OF
the Poor yesterday filed with Mayor Grace a pro-
fest against the fee distribution of coal by tho
citv The work is done under the direction oil the
Department Of Charities and Correction. but ~
such way that the poor are rather injured than
aided according TO the society.
TO RE IMPRISONED FOR FIFTEEN YEARS.
Silas VI. Crook, the negro who was indicted for
murder In the first degree for beating his wife and
leaving her alone to die IN their rooms a. No. lJl2
Sulivan-s., pleaded guilty to manslanghter IN the
second degree in the Court oi Oyer and lcrminer
vcsterdav Justice Van Bruut sentenced him for
| fifteen yeaIs-tbe extreme penalty.
THE GTrIY,BUHG INCLUSION.
! The New-York committee on the HettySbuIg ex-
| cureIon If May met Yesterday. General Abncr
| Doubleday presided. Generals Slecnm, Robinson
| Fowler and King Comradc Riley and Others were
present The round trR rates from mi, wv to
| Sill General Horatio &. King and W. II. Riley
| have charge Of the transportation arrangements.
| TRUSTEES or MR. GoEEINGE's COMPANY.
| The stockholders of the American Shipbuilding
Company Yesterday rec ected a. trustees Henry II.
Gorringe Isaac Hicks, Lcander j. Buckley. Frank
| Price and j. +. Tams; This was only for tho pur
| nose of maintaining the COmpanyS corporate exist
| ence IL is still IN the hands Of receiver j. w.
! Hoffman of Philadelphia. At the company's Office
| it was said that no scheme OF Reorganization was
on foot.
NOT SERIOUSLY UNSAFE.
| Ii was stated in TnE Tribune of April 81 that
| the W lndermcre apartment house at No. 400 West
| tlfty-sey0nt h-st. had been declared unsafe. Tho
| fact was that the trouble only IN regard TO
| some broken and loose plastering and some brick
| work which had been knocked from under window
| lintels. There was no real danger To the tenants
| and the repairs ordered by tie Inspector of Build
| lngs have been made. The building row is in a
satisfactory condition.
WINNING THE PRODUCE EXCHANGE BUILDING.
Frederick Wright, member of the Produce TX
| change, became the owner Of the Produce tx
change building yesterday. We Won 1t IN "A lottery
| by tifty-cents chance. There were sIXty-e!gnt
| chances and the money was contributed to tho
| PEDESTAL Fund The structure, won by Mr. Wright
is a model of the new building made of sugar,
starch aud plaster OF Paris. IL IL about five feet IN
length and four feet high and requires as delicate
handling as one of Buddensck's buildings
FINING \ JEANETTE SAILOR FOR ASSAULT
Henry Wilson, sailor one of the survivors of
| the Jeanette Expedition, was fined so at the
Court of Special Sessions yesterday charge of
| felonious assault brought by Andrew Liudberg
who keeps a sailors boarding house at No. 8 Peck
| Slip. While Wilson, who owed Lindberg for board
| was sitting in greg shop at Peck Slip and Pearl
ST., on April 1G, Llndberg struck him over the
| him down. few minutes later Lindberg repeated
the assault and was again felled to the floor but
| eve. LIndberg admitted that he struck tho first
| blow, and although SIX witnesses were produced
who testified to The same effect, Wilson was fined
| $40 by the Justices.
TENEMENI-HOUsRs THAT MUST BE TORN DOWN
| Examiner Riley, of the Bureau OF Buildings yes
| terday reported that the three-story tenement
house, No. 0S Sherifl-st " is III dilapdated con-
dlton the walls are bulged. settled aud cracked
| throughout. The building is unfit for habitation
as regards safety, and Is liable to collapse AT any
moment" OF the adjoining house. No 9S 10 he
| wrote: The foundation wall Is decayed TO dam
| gerous extent; also the walls are bulged and
cracked. the floors are worn through, dangerous TO
life and limb. The whole structure Is liable to give
| way at any time" he houses are owned by Alder
| man Hllliard, of Jersey City. An order 10 have
them vacated and taken down was issued by In
| spector DOenoh The fve-story tensment-h0usc
No. 35G lenth-aVe., was reported as unsafe on ac-
count Of bullying gable wall. 1t eau be repaired.
BROOKLYN.
About thirty of the $50 men employed in Camp
| bell az ThayePs OH Works at Front and Main ats
have struck on account Of reduction of ten per