New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-31
NEXN-YORK CITY.

Tho Commissioners OF Accounts, who recently in
vestraed the affairs of the Dock Board have returned
20 rcnew their search. Yesterday they applied for
tho Surveyors books. They got them and the account
ants will make a thorough investigation
The Rev. DIR. Hamlin. President Harrison's pastor,
will preach the Madison square Presbyterian church
tomorrow.
4 comnany of Coumb! College students are camp
ing OUT at Lake GeOrg~
The cruiser Chicago will he taken to the ordnance
o1, At the Navy Yard today TO receive two s-inch
- and their carriages. This Will complete her
b...or, Cantain Robson expects that she will be
.oad,, n ro TO Newport for her tactical trials on
Tuesday.
Tho sIoop-of war Brooklyn yesterday taken TO
tho orinance dock at the Navy Yard 10 have her
batterv nut on board preparatory to being lowed TO
to vorfou, Navy Yard to receive her new boilers and
be made ready for another cruise
The battery has been unshippcd from the fngate
Lancaster which recently returned rom EUROPE ana
vesterday the vessel transferred to the Navy
Yard proper where the crew were employed IN
removing her stores. She VIII 90 OUT VI ooihisson
in the middle of next week
The Beethoven Double Quartet Club will go on
tie animal excursion 10 Hicksville on Sunday
The M G. V. Eichcnkranz' will hold Its annual
0oootinr in Ecksteins Metropolitan Assembly Rooms
tomorrow.
The band of the 6oh Regiment gave concert IN
Battery Park last evening
The excursion Of the stcinway Post, under com
mand of Ferdinand Levy, to Sands Point was much
enioyed by all the members.
Controller Myers will on Tuesday open bids for
s1eo 40 A consolidated stock of the City Of New
York the money having been appropriated for
erecting school buildings These bonds are redeem
ble November l. 1905 and bear interest at the rate
Of per cent.
The census OF the Department OF Charities and
Correction Yesterday showed 10000 people This Is
the largest number that the cy's institutions have
ever maintained and at this time OF the year there
are usually a smaller number than at any other
The dramatic section Of the Liederhain' will give
summernight's festival in Morrisania schuetzen
Park Onebundred- and seventiehst. and BostonaVe'
This evening. There will be fireworks, iluminatons
and surprises Of various kinds.
The funeral Of walter r. Leggat. the young lawyer,
wa, held Yesterday at 80. ia West foriy-hitifs'
The Rev Mr.. Eddy, the assistant rector OF 81
Cbryso,toms chapel, OBLIGATED. The burial was at
Greenwood.
Hermann. the magician. was at Police Headquarters
Yesterday TO ask Inspector Byrnes's help in tracing
philadelphia broker named Iighthodcr, who recently
sold him some worthless stock for 5000
Mrs. Rebecca Goldstein, of No. 123 Greene-st''
Albany has been in this city several days searching
for her runaway daughter sarah. She describes inc
girl as sixteen years old, with blue eyes anu Oro"
hair. wearing garnet dress and straw hat
The Washington Memorial Arch Fund now amounts
10 1876 81.
The body of Fernando Wood jr, grandson OF ex-
N,avnr Fernando Wood, who drowned at Grey
town Nicaragua on June u, arrived here yesterday
bv the steamer Aqnan. The funeral services anu
burial will be at Trinity Cemetery, on Monday d. ~
u
Commissioner Coleman, OF the street 'eahlns 10
parment said yesterday that he had read only sinai
part of the papers in the RogersBacon case ana con
seauentIy had arrived at no decision lie hoped 10
be able 10 form an opinion some time next week.
The public hearing relating to the site OF the new
municipal building rallied by the sinking funu
Commissioners will take place on wednesday INC
opponents of the scheme for placing the ouliuins
in CITY Hall Park are expected TO be present Ill
force,