New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-09
NETWORK CITY.

Tho ewes OF the XXIst Assembly District Repuo
ucans will be turned on the Custom House to-morro"
where the committee OF five members OF the district
organization will question Civil Service commissioner
Roosevelt regarding the charges which have been Had
against the local Board Of Civil Service EXAMINERS
Mr. Roosevelt Will be at the Custom House early III
the morning but the examination by the committe'
will not begin until IL O'Clock
The examination for the State scholarships for ad
mission to Cornell University ended late on
Saturday in Superintendent Jaspcr's Office Only -four
candidates entered the competition. although New
York City Is entitled 10 send one student ior every
Assembly district 10 the university. The candlnhes
presented good papers In algebra, geometry, geography
history etc Mr. Jasper will send the papers 10 inc
DEPARTMENT Of Public Instruction at Albany to-inor
row. There they will be examined by State Super
intendent Draper, who Will communicate MS decision
to Mr.. Jasper In @ short time.
Henry F. Hopkins formerly practising attorney
AZ No. 800 Broadway, yesterday convicted OF
GRAND larceny In the degree before Judge Cow
ing in Part OF the Court Of General Sessions Hop
kins stole two sealskln sacques from Matilda Meyer
OF No 149 West Fourteenth-st
Under n permit issued by Commissioner Gllroy.
ground was broken yesterday for the Samuel Sullivan
Cox statue which IS TO be erected by the Letter Car
rers Association in front Of the Mercantile Library,
At Aston Place and Eighth-st. The unwilling will
take place on July 4.
The commencement exercises of the College for the
Training of Teachers will be held on Thursday.
Mayor Grant received letter yesterday from Con-
sui General Arturo Baldasano Topete, of spain'
warmly thanking the Mayor, Board Of Aldermen and
other city officials in the Of his Government for
courtesies extended TO the commander and officers Of
the Spanish corvette Nautilus during their recent stay
in New-YorlS
Some Of the members Of the Law School Of Columbia
College assembled in the Law School Building about
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. 10 do honor 10 the re-
firing Professors Dwight Chase and Petty. and DR..
Reeves Each Of the four men received token Of
remembrance from the students. The remarks which
they made were loudly applauded.
The regular monthly meeting Of the Lincoln Club
Of the XVIII Assembly District was held last night
at Rose Hill Hail. in Second-ave There a small
attendance and only regular business OF the club
transacted.
The Executive Committee Of the XvIth Assembly
District Republican Organization held its semiannual
meeting last night, to purge the membership rolls Of
the names Of those who from any cause have ceased
to be members of the organization. This was all the
business transacted Tho meeting was held at Rose
hin Hall, at No. 4o7 Second ave,
Edward King delivered free lecture last night in
ST. Chrysostom's Chapel choirrooms No. $50 Sew
enth-ave. "Why We Have Strikes"
The directors Of the New Yorl, Ophthamic Hes
pal held their last meeting before the summer vaca
ton IN the hospital building, Third-ave and Twenty
third ST., last night The reports read showed that
the affairs of the hospital were in Gourshng con
ditOn. and that the Institution was doing a large
amount OF good work.
The American Numsmatic and Archaeological So
cicy met last night at its rooms No 1oI East Tween
tieth-St, and listened to an address by Z. Irenacus
Stevenson upon The story Of Castinc. Me-. an Old
American Town" The society viii probably not have
a public meeting again until The fan.
This Produce Exchange Bank yesterday elected these
directors Alexander L. Orr. 5. Jacoby. Alexander
Mum, f. S. Whitman r. II. Lambcer. Henry W. O.
Edge. Forrest II. Parker. william II. Wallace A. G.
Bcchstein, Albert s. Roe Charles D. Miller and S. ].
StOrrs.