New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-21
NFW.YORK CITY.


A black bass weighing "a pounds was on ex-
bibtlon at the Aston House yesterday 1t vas caught
Nh saturday at Lake IIopatc0ng by +. T. hotn man
aver OF The AstOr House. after struggle lasuns his
minutes Mr.. Ketrs party caught about tnrty-lNe
black bass. weighing sixty pounds. They VIII 90
served for luncheon to-day In Room NO. AT the ho'ol
Tho Army Fertilization Board will meet In the Army
puIIdinx in Whitehallst today. ExLieutehahV
Very. of the Navy. will explain to the Board the
materials and method OF manufacture OF the Hotch-
kiss rapldfring guns.
Members Of the New Yorh Athletic Club have sub
serbed 81 900 to the Frederick Brokaw memorial
fund The treasurer Of the fund.- Mr.. Dana has re-
cejved other large subscriptions. aud the toth OF
$4,000 which is wanted will soon be raised, II Is
thought.
William Kent IT, broker, of No. 60 Broadway,
was sold ont under the rule at the Consoldateu s1och
and Petroleum Exchange yesterday.
Lazard Frcres took 100000 In gold from the Sub
Treasury yesterday for shipment to London today
GEORGE W. Hunt formerly draughtsman and con-
structing machnist in the Aqucduct Department. mas
filed claim for 81 800 back salary from August TO-
1882 to August II, 1e0O
Augusta Torstcnsen, the young Swedish woman
who was employed q servant by Mrs. Van Vcen' at
No. 467 Grandst.. and disappeared on Friday aiter
she had had several teeth pulled by DENTIST returned
refused to say where she had been
Throngs Of people stopped In front Of Broadway
fr,it store Yesterday to look az the exceptionally large
peaches contained in consignment of six crates or
dozen and half the peaches weighing an average OF
ten ounces EACH They are Of the liberia variety
and come from Marshallvilc, Ga.
The fonrth annual reception Of the Homer Lee
Bank Note Company Mutual Benefit Association VIII
take place on Friday evening. July %. at suffers
Harlem River Park, onehundrcd- and twenty sixth-st
and Second-ave. This affair promises TO eclipse any
tbis association has ever had. Music will be sup
nlied by Professor H. F. Mcdonald. Frank L. Beadle
win act as foormanager and Benjamin Barton senia
nc assistant floor manager. J. Norton Cooke is the
chairman of the reception committee. Joseph A
Gafney chairman of the committee of arrangements,
and his associates, A. f. Dixon, Thomas Connolly,
r. NJ Bill and B. +. Stringcr, are hard at work ON
the prepaations. The officers Homer Lee. hon
orary president: P. II. Mcdonald. vicepresident :;
ID. E. Harrison. treasurer; and William Lawler, sec
rotary.
The steamer Belglc arrived at San Francisco on
Friday with malls from China and Japan OF the FOL
lowing dates Hong Kong, June "a; Shanghai June
20; Yokohama, July 3. They are due TO arrive In
New York tomorrow morning. The next mail for
China and Japan will close at the General Postodce
at 80 p. III. on Friday.
The steamship Vega. from Lisbon which was do
ained at Quarantine because Of smallpox on board.
was released yesterday and came 10 the city to land
her 800 steerage passengers.
The Sandy Hook boats st. Johns and Sandy Hook
rubbed against each other just below Quarantine yes
tertiay morning The weather thick at the time,
No one was hurt, no one was scared, and damage
was done.