New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-12
CCRIOSITIES At AN EXCHANGE
A RAPIDLY GROWING NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ANIMALS AND PAINTINGS.

A RAPIDLY GROWING NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ANIMALS, AND PAINTINGS.
An interesting collection OF curosities. not alone
nautical In its character but Including many speci-
OF the animal and vegetable kingdoms, is that
Of the Maritime Association In the Produce Exchange
building. The museum is purely incidental 70 inc
organization. and Is OF recent growth It Is com
posed OF voluntary gifts single article having
been exhibited at the Exchange, other objects OF
interest followed. suggesting stil Others and the
nucleus q valuable collection was quickly gath
cred.
The first contribution, given by Thomas p Ball,
was canister shot from the Confederate privateer
Savannah. captured in June, 1851, which was the
first privateer captured Bible obtained from
the wreck OF the Cunard steamship Oregon Is one
OF the prominent objects in the collection. Then
there is cane made from a plank of Commodore
Perryfs flag ship Lawrence sunk in the battle on
Lake Ere in 1912 The aquatic ANIMAL which Is
90 numerous in the swamps and marshes OF Florida.
nnd which may be seen basking on the logs on the
sunny side Of the st. Johns River during the day,
and whose loud bellowings are heard at nighttime
nlligator-s to be seen Just he is Matching out
OF the she'll and also he appears after death
There also ashes from the great down town nre
in 1895. and from the volcanic eruption OF Kra-
tatOn, which fell the deck of the ship Herschel
1t may not satisfy the appetite to look upon
specimen OF that Chinese edible known az the
"biri's nest" but there it is. that luxury Of the
chinese feast, sort OF glutin0us vegctaDe mdtucr
thrown of by the birds On of the coral islands
Then to recall the days OF "Black Friday" there is
n check for 100000 drawn by jay Cooke & Co. /;
also check the United States Treasury for one
cent for OF duties paid the latter OF more
intrinsic value than the former. suggestive con-
tributon is a corlscrew saved from the wreck OF
the ship Asia in 1850: and near by specimens or
glass bottles taken from the ship Charger, which
was fire ten days at An interesting relic
OF the Civil war is diary OF Confederate onfcer
for 1s64'65, and companion TO It Is speech
on President Garfield by Guiteau. his murderer,
in 1880 Az evidence in improved Navigation
there Is letter that went around the world west
ward In 1873 days, and another that went around
to the eastward in "a days. A contribution from
Corporal Paul Daniels, Of the Army, is box OF
matches from the Greedy Polar Expedition. Among
the antiquities relics of Pompeii-a piece Of brick
from the Palace OF Diomede, lava from the wall Of
the principal theatre and piece Of wall nom the
ancient barracks also seal said to have belonged
20 Shakespeare uncolected tax list OF Mont
gomery Ward OF York. dated 1870; fragment
from the remains OF the church In San Domingo In
which Columbus was buried. and piece of sail and
a fragment Of goh-w cloak from the ship
Viking of the eighth century.
there Is a fine specimen of the much dreaded scor-
pion, whose sting Ia painful II not fatal, which was
caught In a building In South william st The sig
natures OF the Mayors Of New-York form a portion
Of the collection. piece of the stone given by tho
King Of Siam to the Washington National Monument
Is also In the cabinet; and a novel curiosity is o
clumsy quadrant. made In New London In 1853, and
takeR from French frigate in the war Of 1912 In
the large art collection L. portrait Of Gene raj Scott
and one of Z. K Collins.