New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-22
NEW-YORK CITY

NETWORK CITY
The Second annual dinner Of the alumni of Clavcrack
coI,er, and Hudson River Institute win take place
az Clarks Thursday evening.
Al their Christmas reception at Steinway Hall this
afternoon the public school teachers viii listen 10
MS Helcn Norman, contralto; Miss Carrie Louise
ray. r. adcr signorina Emilia De Rosa, vlonist'
si.norina Lucia De Rosa, pianist, and T. L. s'eeie'
humorst
The Elevated Railroad Commission adjourned ycster-
day until January Z. They have before 'hein 'n0
evidence in the case of the property OF james heh
wick at Ihird-ave and seventysixth-st and mat OF
Mrs stewart at No. 156 West Fifty-thirdst ana Will
render decisions in few days
The Ocean steamship Line yesterday received ad-
vices from Jacksonville that the quarantine against
yellow fever has been raised, and That every re-
strctjon against Florida. both as TO freight ana
uasscngers has been removed. Tickets VIII Do SOFA
through 10 all Southern points by this hne'
The lecture this evening In the Cooper Union free
course will be delivered by f. H. Bailey, OF BOSTON,
On Phenomenal Astronomy" illustrated
The Police Board yesterday received letter from
" J. Crosby, assistant superintendent OF the New
York New-Haven and Hartford Railroad prasing
Caotan Nicholas Brooks and his policemen OF the
rhlrty-hird Precinct for their service during the
burning OF the steamer Maryland at the pier In
Nofrlsania on the night Of December q
The asociedad Lteraria Hispano-Americana' of
New-York has issued publication called new
York Cub,' for the purpose OF raising iuhu III aiu
Of tue sufferers from the recent cyclone IN Cuoa-
1t IS neatly bound and atractively illustrated
Alice Chester, the young woman who has made
several attempts 10 take her own nfe pleaded guilty
Yesterday before Judge MARITIME and was sentenced
TO the House OF the Holy Family.
The old Racket Club house at Nos. 594 and 500
broadway and No. $50 CrOsby-st has been sold to
Christian y. BOvee by George b. Newell, acting as
referee for 1901 900. The grantor borrows Slooooo
from the Greenwich Savings Bank to complete the
purchase lie gives the property as security ior the
loan
Three judgments aggregating s15,199 were entered
Yesterday against The American Magazine Company
formerly OF No 749 Broadway, in favor OF f. q.
bourne. sli,6l5; G. f. Perkins, $1,7O3; Exchange
Printing Company. 1851
Ex-aicmber Of Congress Thomas E. Stewart and
bis wife started for the Pacific Coast yesterday 10
visit their SON. Dr. George Taylor Stewart who
recently married Miss Fargo, OF San Francisco
Dorainick Rota, the sailor the schooner Carl D.
Iathro. who was trial before Judge Benedict In
fine United states Circuit Court for murder on the
high seas. ended his trial yesterday by pleading
guilty Of maEsiaughtcr He killed A. N Roual 'he
MAZE Of the vessel, on the voyage from Mobile to
Pa.ama last August. lie was emanded Tor sentence
4 stock of choice old wines consigned by Thomas
birmingham will be offered for sale at auction on
thursday morning by George A LeaviH d. Co., at
their rooms, No. 7s7 and $50 Broadway.
The superstition that i'll luck follows the wearer
Of opals be disresarded by fashionable people
this season.
symptoms of a fever for things Russian are APP
parent in fashionable society. Perhaps NJ. Verest-
cbacin is responsible for It, Russian leather,
tobacco lace furs and particularly tea, are in great
demand.
The sport of pigeon flying is growing in popularity
In America, as was shown at the last American In
stitute Fair There are about 500 clubs in this
country, the principal headquarters being Philade-
phia
The Paper Box Makers Assembly of the Knights
Of Labor which refused to admit women to its ranks
IS dead
The Working women's Society is about to open
labor bureau at its headquarters, No. % Lafayette
Place.
Tie managers of the Produce Exchange yesterday
expelled T. J. Harmon from membership because Of
his refusal TO pay the assessments against him for
the Gra,uity Fund.
A committee of the Mercantile Exchange was ap-
pointed yesterday 10 present to the Secretary of the
Treasury resolutions protesting against removing the
Appraisers Stores far from the water front, to
any place announcement to the shipping and the
warehouses of the importers.
a man about forty-fve years old, who looked like
laborer, jumped on a freight train of the Hudson
River Railroad in Eleventh-ave yesterday to get
free ride, but he fell between of the cars and
Both Of his legs cut off and he was
believed to be dying when ambulance carried him
10 the Roosevelt Hospital. The police learned that
his J. Gaffney, but 1t not known
where his home
The Aqucduct Commissioners listened to objections
to the Quaker Bridge Dam again yesterday. Henry
Wplp cfxrfl p~ipa 4
a sanitary engineer examined expert wit
nesScs. Their did not materially differ from
those already given against the building of the big
dam.
The Union Trust Company has invested the sum
Of 100000 in real estate. They have purchased
from the United States Express Company the building
No. 81 Broadway
lease from Caroline L. Purdy to the United
States of America letting the building No 2s6s Third
for term Of five years at annual rental of
$3.50, filed in the Registers Office yesterday.
The building secured by the Government for the
purpose Of establishing new branch post Office to
be Known Station Il.
"Lottas the well known actress purchased from
Frederick C. Ellss, the property al the northeast
corner Of Scventh-ave. and One-hundred- and-egh-
teenth-st, 100x1o0.11. The price paid by her
100000.
The Tribune has received $40 from o. B. Potter
In aid of writer Of a welLlmown book who is
now in destitute circumstances and whose case was
made known 10 The Tribune through the Kindly Com
mittee 1f No. 10 East Sixteenth-st
The ship c. E. Moody brings from San Francisco
3,2G9 barrels Of California wine and II o54 bags
Of barley
The concert to be given by the Harvard GIee Club
and Banjo Club takes place tonight in Chckerng
Hall al p.
Nearly one hundred candidates for the police force