New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-15
NETWORK CITY.

The lecture before the American Geographical
Society on Tuesday evening at Chickering Hall on
China and its Progress" was delivered by Major
General James II. Wilson, and not by General James
Grant WILSON,
At the monthly meeting Of the Board OF Trade
and Transportation yesterday resolutions Of condo
lcnce were passed on the death of J. N. Stark who
for three years vice-prcsident OF the Board.
1t was resolved to appoint committee to draft a
suitable bill to effect reduction of telephone rates,
be introduced at the next session of the legislature
Fish Commissioner Backford announces that the
New-York Fishery Commission has received from the
United States Fish Commission 5000 leather carp
and 1000 blue carp for distribution in this State.
All persons desiring to stock ponds will be furnished
with twenty fish by sending names and addresses
Mr.. Blackford and 2o cents to pay fer the Kettle
In which the fish are shipped
The Marquis Of Quecnsberry will start the pedes-
trans in the coming walking match which will begin
at Madison Square Garden November %.
gang of workmen engaged repaving One
hundred and enth-st. in the vicinity of the Polo
Grounds Yesterday Patrons Of baseball will not
have TO wade through seas Of mud next year as
they have heretofore.
The memorial monument 10 tho late Mr.. Cleveland
which appeared In The Tribune the morning after
the election seemed 10 Mr. David H. Gilderslecve
of Rose-st,, good thing that he has reprinted 1t
as an attractive card which IS being sent out now
with tho compliments Of the Paper and Associated
Trades Harrison and Morton Campaign Club.
The addition of the exhibition of chrysanthcmums
to the varied attractions Of the American Institute
Fair Is interesting to lovers of this flower The dis
play IS beautifully placed, and the flowers show to
their bost advantage. Among the prominent ex-
hbitors are f. G. Hexamcr Rockville Centre, l. l.
John Thorpe, Pearl River, y. Y; Miss Abbott,
Harrison, n. Y, and J. G. Be5us, Of this city.
The Netherlands American steamer schedam ar
rived at this port from Rotterdam yesterday morning
after passage u twenty days. Captain Msnsonides
reported that during the whole of the voyage she
encountered heavy gales and head seas, the wind
al times blowing hurricane.
Tie Yale Alumni Association will hold its fifth
social meeting for the year at Demoncos tomorrow
evening" short Addresses will be delivered on ath-
letics The banjo club and quartet from the glee
club will play and sing
A concert will be given to the young men at the
Young Mems Institute, No. 222 Bowery next
Tuesday evening by number Of the German musicians
from the Metropolitan Opera House, under the d.
rcctlon of E. C. Stanton.
Archbishop Corrigan returned yesterday from Balti
more having attended the meeting Of the trustees OF
the new Roman Catholic University.
The Rev DR. John Keane will sail for Europe on
Saturday. He will visit Rome In the interest of the
new Catholic University at Washington
President Barnard has returned to this city from
Iitchheld, Conn, where he spent the summer, and
is sufficiently strong leave his house on the Columbia
College campus and visit the college buildings.
The forty-second annual convention of the Theta
Delta Chi Fraternity will begin at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel on November 81. Delegates from the seventeen
charges and large number of graduate members will
be present.
The Wonans Homo Missionary Society OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church will hold an alday
meeting to-day In the Twenty fourth Street Methodist
Episcopal Church, near Ninh-ave.
new and much needed entrance to Central Park
has Just been made the West Side at Sixty ourthst
The anniversary address before the members Of
the York Academy Of Medicine will be made this
eydnng by DR.. ID. B. ST. John Roosa at the
Academy's hall, No IL West Thirty-frst-st
large number of the profession and its guests will
be present
John Cullen, the Brooklyn policeman who
arrested October 10 for stealing S12 from Charles
Smith in the Catharine Ferry waiting-room, was
convicted yesterday before Judge MARITIME Of grand
larceny in the second degree and remanded for
sentence. He may receive term Of between two
and five years. Imprisonment
The North Side Republican Club will give
cepton 10 the candidates for the Assembly and for
Aldermen whom tho club supported in the campaign,
to morrow evening at NO. 1851 Ih1rd-ave
BROOKLYN.
The property for the new Offices Of the Bridge
Trustees, at Nassau and Washington sts., was pur~
chased yesterday by President Howell Din Andrew
Otterson has long occupied the house.
The designs submitted for the memorial arch at the
Plaza entrance to Prospect Park will be put on ex
hbition in Art Association Hall today and remain
there until December i.
The record Of voting at the Fourth District in the
First Ward shows that exMayor Low did not vote for
President on Election Day. He voted for Mr.
Blaine in 1884, but told no one of 1T until year
later.
II. d. Davis and John p. Donnery, lawyers. came
blows in the Grand Street Court Room on Tuesday
afternoon, but neither was seriously hurt They had
Just finished contesting case about goat ana
Justice Engle had gone away.
The eleventh convention Of the Sunday -schools Of
Kings County win be held to-day in Plymouth Church,
beginning at 10 a. m. Addresses are TO be mado
by the Rev. Drs. Lyman Abbott, r. S. Pardington,
John Humpstone, Wesley r. Davis, and A. Is. kendig.