New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-20
ON THE LAST MILLION.
THE FUND GOES UP A LITTLE HIGHER.
LESS THAN s1ooo 900 RECEIVED YESTERDAY

LESS THAN 100000 RECEIVED YESTERDAY
4 MISUNDERSTANDING RESOLUTIONS.
Yesterdays subscriptions to the worlds FAN
S5.oOO,000 guarantee fund carried the aggregate "a
date Just over the $4,000 900 point The total fol-
the day was s94,sso The New.York. New Haven and
| Hartford Railrosd Company subscribed $4,000
| Union Ferry Company, Eden Musee Amusement Com
pany, Passaic Rolling Min Company and Ichabod T
Williams $4,000 each through The World $500
American Art Association. 81 500.
The subscriptions for 81 900 came from Dreyfus
Kohn d Co., Brandes Bros, Alfred Benjamin Co.
The NewYork Observer Campbell Van TasseI
and r. VI. Walters.
Five hundred dollars each was sent by Albert
Hanger Co.. George Munroe, Edward Corning. The
Norton Naval Construction and ship Building Com
pany, Joseph Plenty and Eldrldge Walcot, and the
miscellaneous subscriptions amounted TO $40.
H. L. WED and Chris Abee sent $500 each and
Morris Prayer. Henry Holt d Co. and r. NJ. Walters
$3.50 each.
The givers Of 300 each were II. q II. Bren, H..
Bremen d Son, f.. schmidt, Ferris & RicheH, l..
Sauter d Co.. Lambert Bros & Co.. A. Goldberg.
Charles L. Curtis, ". n Jennings, "NewYork Lumber
Trade Journal +. p. Wallng, A. ". Buriingame,
Demarcst & Carr, Hensel Bruckman Lorbacher.
Jacob Dieter, Miguel, Ajax & Co., NJ l. Cohen, John
Patterson, Frank b. Hobart d. Co., Dietrich & Co.. l.
Par, William f. d. Vincent, George II. Flynn, The
Freitsg Manufacturing Company, a. d J. Blaurock,
d. Arnould, John Berbel and Philip j. Kelly Total
for the day. s04 $50 previously subscr $685..
070; total TO date, ~ O02 $50.
A meeting Of the COMMITTEES site and Buildings
held at the headquarters at p. m yesterday.
II announced that in the area bounded by Fifth
and Ninth ayes. and One hundred and tenth and One
hundred and ss the consents of the owners OF
400 lets out Of total OF 42s lots have been received
This area comprises thirty-one acres of land
In the bounded by One-hundred and-tenth and
Onc-hundred nd-twenty-thid sts., and Moningsde
and Riverside the consents of the owners of
,229 lots out Of total OF 775 lots, including the
BoOmngdale property, have been received The
committee is negotiating with the Of 243 other
lots In this district There 143 acres in this
exclusive Of the parks The Cathedral site is not
included in the number Of lots obtained
letter was received by Secretary Foord. OF the
Committee on Site and Buildings. from I. p. di
Cesnola director OF the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
saying that the following resolutions unanimously
adopted by the trustees at their quarterly meeting,
held on November Is, 1889:
Resolved That trustees Of the Metropolitan Museum
Of great interest in the proposed Exposition OF
in the city OF NewYork and desire far as may be
in their power aid the successful carrying out Of the pro-
ect steny with their duties and the interests OF this
institution.
Resolved. That the president. J. p Morgan Cornelius
Vanderbilt w f. Dodge, and the directors be appointed
special committee who shall confer with any committee
may appointed this subject by the committee
the Exposition and report accordingly TO this Board
An invitation received by the Board Of Alder
men yesterday from W. A. A. Csrsey and George d.
Lennon TO attend massmeeting 10 be held at Cooper
Cnon TO take ton toward securing the favorable
action Of Congress The opposition of the Central
Labor Union 10 the proposed massmeeting IS due to
the assertion OF the originator of the meeting George
D. Lennon that 1t will be representative meeting
of wOrkingmen. Mr.. Lennon, according to the sec
rotary Of the Central Labor Union is not and never
has been a member OF trades-unon assembly
OF the Knights of Labor and has no authority b
Issue call for a meeting which it is asserted repre-
sents the union mon OF this city.