New-York tribune., 1886-03-11

sGcros aud stimulate sport by compeutoh H GAnnos @
sneak with certainty. but understand that II All soes
we" for wear or two another lob win he bought IN
sixth-aye aud tho Glub,honse enlarged Inc ''u'
already has the refusal o. tae property
PROFITS FROM MPOULrRY-RAISING.
EXPERIENCES OF THE REV. J. Y. HoYT-sCGGEs-
TONS As TO PERCHEs.
The Bedford Farmers Club held its annual meet meet
inc YESTERDAY Afternoon at the house OF A. MGad
Clark IN the town OF Bedford. he Kew. Lea Luz
0ncr presided. and John b. Day was secretary.
About seventy-hve members we're PieSGn, cars
elected: President, Henry l.. Pellew; Vlce-pIeSl-
dent the Rev. Lea LuQuer; secretary ana treas-
urer j. b. Day; corresponding secretary, JaulyS
Wood. librarian, Samuel b. Hoyt. The Kew, j. l.
Howl of Bedford. opened the discussion on ne
Proftablcness of POultry-Ralsmg lie SAID III
part: ,.,u
ON tLe farm OF today poultry king We used to- hear
that cotton that was king but take ihe
oal i reor, %far o was worth SASS 100000 the cotton
product 81 To- 900 OOO the dairy product S2J4OOOOOV
most half again as large the cotton oiuct ana
arser both the iron aud silver products tCSgshsr G
nnportcd 900 900 dozens Of eggs, worth SO 1000
Think of Germany sending us over 100000 dozens
md emma over 100000 So much for the market
Now think that 10 branch OF farming ylelIs greater @
return smaller outlay tnan breeding poultry nave
kept accurate record OF the receipts ana eApemigS
Of my hen-yard Tor lss2: n, PECAN ah nSani
ISIS - During the year sold 800 eggs lor 500 so
her sold $50 Of Inc chickens for S75. In January
sold ny more T37 So Tne fifty that are left value
at SO My Ms1 @ss M that s % the net M pTodt on the
Sis IS plant about 800 The experiment TOO was
small aud poorly protected me coons o had ntte
nnro or less fiied with snow have mad no ex,
perience with pnultryraisng on large scale an1
stock Of chickens ducks AID geese to 100 or ZoV
rrodtabe market guarded against vermin and othGr
chicken plaques by ong carefully the r0oSts ana walls
OF coOps The percnes have great aeai 70 Go Mtn
The style and shape of the eggs Narrow pores on wa"
moKc the eggs small and unsymmetrcal nat rOOsts SIX
10 eight inches broad and near the ground are much pe
Tor The fowls do injure themselves by jumping on
and the eggs laid night do not break and get the mems
into the habit Of eating them
Some general discussion followed, but no one was
inclined to put his opinion as an expert against
that of the principal speaker. An eXhlDltlOh OF
poultry was gwen IN an adjoining building About
thirty cOOpS of different breeds were ranged against
fhe walls MI. HOyt's WYandOttes attracting the
most attention. \ paper Will be read at the ApIii
meeting Of the club, by the Rev: Lea Luquer, on
"The Permanent Improvement and care OF high
ways
ANXIOUS TO FIND GERMAN BANKER.
There was lalg gc crowd of indignant Germans in
front of No. $40 BOwery yesterday, and manylln-
ouiries were made for the missing banker Gustav
George WOIfram Several policemen mad d 1iculty
i'm keepinr order. Excited German women shouted
out demands for their hard earned savings. CITY
Marshal Piepenbring carried away several desks
and chairs which Ae had seized on an attachment
10 satisfy cain of 5000 He lett the place in the
charge of Deputy-Sherff James Young who had
attachments on the missing property: Inc attach
ment- represented the claims OF Philip flndley; Tor
81 500: of AdOph Stagmalcr, for 5000 and OF
NeiIl McCuu1n, Tor 50. 600. The property left in
the office consisted OF two empty safes 19r desks
bookcase and the glass partitions IL was be-
Ieved that Wolfram had fled 10 Canada. The
amount of his de1alcations was esti-
mated by some persons at S15,OO0, but IT
was said that he had lost considerable money
IN Wall Street He is said to have carried away not
les than $4,000 in cash 1t Is probable that he
lett the city on Saturday evening. HIS wlie aud
two children hive at No. SO SecOnd-ave. Mrs Wolf
ram said Yesterday that she expected her husband
10 return III a few days. lie had branch office in
Germans mostly working people living on the East
Side. Among his victims We're Policeman Henry
Hoffman of the Seventeenth Precinct ID. EleckeT,
of No. 244 East HOustOn-st. and Laura Stubel, an
actress at the 1halla theatre, each of whom lost
800. Henry Van Alyensleben, OF No; 81 It; MarKs @
place recently asked Wolfram 10 collect $4,000.
part of a German estate bui II Is not known that
the money collected. l. +; Leary, lawyer
of No. So SecOnd-st., who was Noframs counsel
and partner III business fOT several years, said to
TRIBUNE reporter:
do not believe that woltrams defacations will
amount to more than $4,000, and he probably carried
away less than $4,000 Against my advice he went into
ine business of manufacuing glass signs. one OF his
eide six weeks ago. aud two weeks later the firm failed
Wolfram lost about $4,000 in the crash
INSANE CHARGES AGAINST HIS FATHER.
Constable SpIingsteed, of Haverstraw, n. Y,
came to the city yesterday with warrant for the
arrest of Van Fps Harvey. young man who re-
Gently escaped from the insane asylum at Middle
town. Charles 1. Harvey the young mans father
lives III Nyack and is sa d 10 be wealthy lie made
the application for his sons arrest, claiming that
the young man went 10 Nyack with pistol few
days ago aud frightened other members of his
family Ii known that young Harvey was
STAYING at Ryan's bath-hOuse in Lafayette place
and Constable SpTngsteed called upon policemen
of the Fifteenth PTincnct TO assist him in the cap
ture of Harvey There some fear that the
young mau would attempt to shoot some one, but
he submitted quietly 10 arrest. While he was de-
tanned at the Mercer Street Station he wrote the
following:
NEW. YORK, March 10.
sERGEAST GRANT: ask protection, aud, sir. want
20 make the following charges: ask for warrant for
one &. r. Harvey, VIZ: ,
First That lie malicously threatened my liberty
Second, That he harbOrs a man VINO threatened my
life with hstcbet against whom made statement
with lawyer. , 49, .
the United States stamp and seal without my knowledge
Y. f. HARVEY.
In the afternoon he was taken to the Jefferson
Market Police Court and there he promised 10 90
back to Nyack with the constable without trouble
STEEL AND IRON INSTEAD OF STONE.
The Harlem River Bridge Commissioners have
materially changed their plans since The TRIBUNE
exposed tue extraordinary contract which they had
formed with the Union Bridge Company That
contract cal ed for a bridge of stone at cost of
g.. $50 600. under conditions which admitted Of
Wholesale Jobbery. The contract had not been let
90 the lowest bidder and its provisions conceded
syerythlnQ To the contractors and Afforded no SAFE