New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-08
NEW-YORK CITY.

Quail will be plentiful this year, as Ohio and some
other Western game sections will permit trapping as
well as shooting. They sell now at 81 per dozen
from first hands.
The PostG raduate Hospital for men and women
also containing the free babies wards where ABOUT
600 patients were cared for last year. has just Degu
Its fifth season. Tho hospital Is much III neeu VI
single beds and bedding, carpets. rugs furniture ec'
The directors viii be pleased to receive such con-
trfbutions, and will DO glad to send Tor anything
about which notice is sent TO them.
The members of the Board of Aldermen were served
with notice yesterday by County Clerk Reilly to ap
pear at the City Hall on Tuesday at noon, ana DC
sworn as a Board of County Canvassers, to receive
and tabulate the returns of the election OF Novem
Der B.
&C K.p-There is no statutory law against the de-
struct,on of United States or any other currency but
tho moral laws and those of economy are certainly
against it, There is a statutory law, however for
bidding the clipping or mutilatiOn of United States
currency.
An undertaken in Tbrd-ave. has adopted curious
sign. 1t is window screen painted with funeea
landscape Two women stand over gravestones, weep
ing and in the background is appropriate grouping
of willows
At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yes
terday General william 7. sherman and Thomas A.
Edison were elected honorary members.
The funeral OF Jacob Ottman, the wellknown
photographer, who died Tuesday at his home No.
1913 Lexingtonave., took place yesterday at St.
Georges Church. in stuyveSant Place. The Rev. j.
B. Remensnyder rector of ST. James Lutheran Church.
of which Mr.. Ottman had been member, ofciated'
The burial in Greenwood.
The Harlem Savings Bank will take possession Of
It's new building Third-ave. and one-hundred- and
twenty fourthst. to-day.
Plans were presented to the Dock Board by Chief
Engineer Green yesterday for building new pier at
vesey-st. North River. The pier Will be 500 feot
long and sixty feet WIDE the estimated cost Is
100000.
The stockholders of the Knickerbocker Trust Com
pany yesterday elected new Board of Directors as
follows Joseph s. Auerbach Charles T. Barney, John
H. Bresin. j. Townsend Burden, samuel J. Colgate.
Ira Davenport Henry f. Dimock, William a. Duer.
Jacob Hays, A. Foster Higgins, Harry b. Hollins,
David ii. King, ir., Ii, F. V. Loew, George j. Magee,
Henry W. 7. Mali Robert G. Remsen, Andrew II.
Sand,, John S. Tiney, John p. Townsend, Charles T.
Waston, and Charles H. yelling. The new Board
elected the following officers President, John p.
Townsend first vce-president Charles T. Barney
second vice president, Joseph t. Brown; and secre-
tary, Frederick l.. Eldredge.
The silk twist and sewing silk manufacturers yester
broidery silk 10 per cent at once and further 10
per January l, in consequence of the advance
in raw silk of IS to 30 per cent
General W. b. Franklin, United States Commissioner
10 the Paris Exposition, arrived yesterday morning
the City of Paris, and started in the afternoon for
his home in Hartford. During his stay In the city
he spoke highly of the Exposition at Paris, and ex
pressed himself greatly interested in the success
of the Worlds Fair project in the United States.
A well attended temperance meeting held last
evening at the Madison Avenue Reformed Church. un-
der the auspices Of the Womans Christian Temperance
Union The Rev. DR.. \. f. KitIedge, pastor OF the
church. presided, and speeches mado by the Rev.
DR.. Theodore l.. Cuyler, of Brooklyn; the Rev. DR..
J. NJ. King, and the Rev. DR.. Ii. 5. Macarthur.
George Garrison and John Baker, two criminals
well knowa to the police held in the Jefferson
Market Police Court yesterday, the charge OF snatch
Ing purse containing $35 from Mrs Merclina
Baumann, of No. 90 East Fifry-second.st q week
ago.
An informal dinner was served TO about sixty mem
bers Of the Ohio Society at MOreo's restaurant last
evening. Speeches made by several members
ladies' reception will be given at the rooms of the
society No. go Ffth-aye., on some evening Of this
month.