New-York tribune., 1891-04-21
Nrw-YORK CITY.

NEW-YORK CITY.
p,otessor Charles A. Briggs, Of Union theological
seminary who for the last two weeks mas oeen SER,
ousy i'll with the grip was enough improved IN hei''
70 resume his cassworH yesterday
Tho coop,r Union Alumni Association will hoid
+i,r animal dinner on Thursday evening at e0cocA'
Toasts win be responded to by Professor fNmP'oi''
Judre Fitzgerald and others.
The extremes Of size were illustrated al worth
Museum and Theatre last evening by the conJuhotio"
Of Big Eliza" Baby Benton" an atom the Csuaorin
Giant. John Stout the fat Indian and MAJOR DoS
the ,pcget comic actor The puglistc encounter De-
tween the Canadian giant and the rat lncah was Z"
fnnny scene.
rba Pev Or MAYNARD will preach the annual ser
MON IN the "On Guard under command OF Major
Mclean. tomorrow afternoon at 80 O'CLOCK al o.
Tho,nas's Church
Tho CONGREGATIONAL pastors addressed Yesterday
M the Bible House by the Rev. H. T. Mch"en' on
ssystkmatic Benevolence." resolution mtrouuceu
nv Professor Thwing was unanimously adopted eX-
pressing disapproval OF the propoSeu oPe''ns "a "'0
cfty's museums sundays
rrno oxscrtjve committee of the Civil Service Re
torn Association has adopted resolutions approving
The order of the President directing that PHYSICIANS
school superintendents and their assistants schoo
teachers and matrons in the Indian service DE lhcI"u
within the classified Civil Service and also the order
Civil Service Reform to the selection OF mechanics anu
Iaborers in the Navy Yards.
The Committee Teachers Of the Board Oh Euuc%
Non will hold a meeting this afternoon at o'clock
Tho Association of Principals Of Primary Depart
rocnts will meet at Music Hail. Fifty-seventh-st' ana
seventhave. this afternoon at o'clock FRANK Dam
rosch will deliver lecture upon the "school Music Oh
tho Future"
Thomas Furress the Englshman who tried TO ex-
tort money from Albert Emanuel OF NO 90 FTlnoest''
pleaded guilty in General Sessions yesterday to black
mailing, and was sentenced 70 Dc lmpIlSon0u 1OI WV
years and a half.
Albert Morris Bagby the pianist, will deliver
lecture at the Madison Square Theatre at 80 O'CLOCK
this afternoon, on "An Hour with List IN Weimar'
In addition to the lecture, Herr Fnedheim VIII play
some interesting selections, among them Liszt's Khap
sodie No and La Campanena
Broadway florists are selling the first moss roses at
90 cents spray, containing one flower ana seVer'A
buds The general assortment of flowers is cheap
but the demand is rather quiet the call for steamer
baskets, however. is expected TO enhven business
This has been the longest known season for heavy
receipts of Florida oranges Sales do not keep pace
with supplies many of the higleprced sorts are
being placed in cold storage. Indian Rivers range
at Sc 10 So a box. Iussets, the palatabe merit of
which is well understood, sell at 20 10 Sc.
The Gas Commission opened the following bids yes
bid of each company covering its territory Con-
soldated Gas Company, S11 CO % lamp NewYork
Mutual S1l CT; Equitable, $S Standard, SS 60 SO;
Central s1s; Northern, s1s Ga; Yonkers, Sls 66 23;
New-York and New-Jersey, S14 75. The bids were
referred to Secretary Mccormick.
The newsboys in the home at Thirty-sccond-st and
Seventh-ave. are 10 enjoy entertainment tonight
prepared by the employees Of the Stock Exchange under
the direction of Charles II. Deacon Humorous recita
tons banjo and piano music, boxing and many at
tractve features will be given by Alexander J. Brown.
Miss Lena La Tour Messrs. Weston and Rhodes, Baker
and Hays and others, and the evening will close with
q play "Fun in a Gymnasium" The newsboys viii
be we'll prepared to have good time by big dinner
beforehand. contributed by James X. Oracle broker
and Douglass Robinson, 1r.
Captain P. J. Troy, who died from heart disease
Thursday at his home, No. II East One-hundred-and
tirtieth-st., buried yesterday in Calvary Gene
terry, the funeral taking place in All saints Church
The Committee Buildings of the Board Of Educa-
ton yesterday discussed the proper kind of school to
erect MadisOn-ave. and Eighty Superln
tende2t Jasper favored school for both boys and
girls His plan, in all probability. Will lie adopted.
The new building will cost about 100000
The steamship Atlas, of the Atlas Line. brought 10
this port yesterday eight sailors from the wrecked
schooner Joshua Baker, of Boston. The Bakers
wreck has been reported before. She went Long
CAY off Fortune Island, April in a heavy north
west gale, while at anchor loading salt.
The closing Of the lecture and concert
An the Lexington Avenue Baptist Church, corner of
One -hundred md eleventh-st will be held Friday
evening. Miss Fannie VI. Spencer, the newly elected
organst Of the church. will preside. The chorus will
be led by Professor L. S. LeasOn, and Mrs Theodore
j. Toedt, of st. BarthoIomew's Church, viii sing.
Horace L. Hotchkiss of No. 36 Wall-st, has re-
ceved from S. C. Howe treasurer Of the Harlem Cit
liens Lecture Committee 81 $50 for the Grant Mon
ument Fund the proceeds of of lectures given
under the auspices of the committee Of which General
Robert Nugent chairman.
new Catholic church, TO be known the Holy
Name Of Jesus will be erected Ninetysixthst and
Amsterdam ave. at a cost of SlG5,O0O. The church
will be of stone, and will be SO by 100 feet in extent
l.. Won Hoffman IL Co. have ordered $5O0,OO0 in
gold coin fTOm the Sub Treasury for shipment on the
steamship Fulda tomorrow.