New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-03
NETWORK CITY.

NEW-1ORk Cllh.
At a meeting yesterday Of plumbers at No. $50
Fulton-st Brooklyn, resolution was passed to the
effect that the convention be called to meet at such
tirna and nlacc as set by this convention for the
,,rnose NJ forming an organization TO be known tho
Amalgamated Joumeymen Plumbers and Gashtters,
steamAtters and stcamfttcrs' Helpers of the United
| States and Canada" A committee was appointed TO
arrange for the convention In October at Washington
| The Board of Managers Of the American Bible
Society met at the Bible House on Thursday, and
granted hooks to auxiliary societies. mission churches
and individuals, and made consignments to the Mexi
can the Brazil and the la Plata agencies, amounting
In the acrregae 10 about Sl1 ,ss2. The issues from
tbe Rible House in July $3.50 copies issues
since April /, 314,13G copies.
The United states deputy marshals complained
Yesterday that they had not received their salaries
for July. The order for tho money has not been
received from Washington The payment will be
mads IN a few days
The Tribune has received 50 from X. D. b. for
Mrs Holt. the woman who had nearly all OF her
fingers cut off in coriage factory at Elizabeth, " j.
The annual excursion of the Chelsea Association
Hook and Ladder No .. y. Y. V. f. d., will be held
at Washington Grove on Tuesday.
The Row. c. H. Eaton. of this city, will preach at
he Manhattan Beach Hotel tomorrow morning at
IL o'clock.
President Alexander Meakim, Of tho Board Of Ex-
else reports that in the quarter just ended the ie-
cpts for licenses are 81 900 the corresponding
quarter of 1888 The number of licenses in force
has been reduced by fifteen. He declares that this
shows care in the examination and classification of the
applicants for licenses and close attention to the
trial of complaints against the licensed.
Commissioner GIroy appointed James p. Dunn an
inspector of paving yesterday in place of Patrick II.
Kedney.
Tho ctate Assessors who are examining New-YOrks
valuation after remaining under fOr two weeks,
appeared at the Office Of the Tax Commission yesiei-
day and took up the list of property they lett there
on their last visit They left another list Of 100
pieces which they want reported on, and which IS
to be returned to them in care Of Assessor J. L.
Williams, Poughkecpsc.
The echt-oared crew of the Young Mems Christian
Association will tho boat-houso on the Harlem
River at noon to-day, to row to Albany and back
The trip will last about ten days.
"ss sends 50 to this Office for Mrs. Underwood, who
was dispossessed from her rooms at No. Esd Mottst
for not paying her rent.
Henry T. Kneeland, chairman of the Grain Com
mttee Of the Produce Exchange. yest--lay read
communication 10 the wheat men in the pit from the
Board of Managers tho " curb trading question.
The brokers were warned that hereafter the rule
relating to trading after hours would be strictly
enforced There was nevertheless little "curb
trading" yesterday.
The Washington Memorial Arch Fund now amounts
to S46,0s6 SO.
The steamer Erin. Of the National Line, passed a
dangerous wreck on her voyage from this city to
London The wreck was lying on July 81 of the
Needles Lighthouse. Isle Of Wight II was a vessel
Of 900 tons. and lying on its broadsde
The schooner Rosa Muller, of Portland on July
GO. at p. m, passed a schOoner-riggcd steamer on
the reefs at the southeast end Of san salvador She
seemed TO be vessel Of the Atlas Line
st. Patricks Mutual Alliance Association will have
an excursion 10 Eureka Grove on August 10. over
1000 tickets have been sold
The Rev James II. Connolly. of st. Patrlcks parish,
and the Rev. William Murphy, Of ST. Andrews parish,
who were recently ordained the priesthood in Rome,
are expected to arrive in New-York today.
The services in the churches of St. Francis Xavier,
in West Sxtecnth-st.. and st. Lawrence, in East
Eighty fourth ST., on Sunday. will be unusually i'm
prcssive in honor of the feast of st. lgnatius OF
Loyola. tho founder Of the Jesuit Order.
The Rev John p. Chadwick, of st. stephens Church,
East Twenty -elghth-st., who has been spending
two weeks vacation Fort William, is expected 10
return today
The Rev. Adam F. Tonner pastor of the Church of ST.
Mary Magdalen in East seveneenth-s, IS expected to
return from Rome about the middle Of this month.
His parishoners preparing to give him hearty
reception.
The Rev. J. Volk. of the diocese Of Porovicjo.
Ecuador, who recently the guest of the Capuchin
Fathers of the Church of ST. John the Baptist. in
West Thirtieth-st, is in Pennsylvania, but Will
soon return TO New-York. He is in search Of vol
unteers and assistance for the South American Catholic
Mission.
The Grattan Guard of the Irish Volunteers, Captain
F. J. Coleman commanding. has now membership
of nearly eighty stawart young Irishmen. The guard
will give an exhibition drill suffers Harlem Park
One-hundred- and twenty sNthst and Sccondavc, on
August 10.
Some of the lowest dives in the city, where de
graded men and women cluster. still flourish in some
Of the foul Mulberry-s tenemcnts between Park and
Bayad SIS. They run by Italians.