New-York tribune., 1894-04-26
NETWORK CITY.

NEW-YORK CITY.
"Aunt Polly Basset" and her "Slngn' skewl"
will appear at Association Hall. Twenty-third-st
and Fourtb-ave this evening under the auspices
of the Ladies' Aid Society Of ST. Johns Evan
gelistic Lutheran Church a large chorus has
been trained and the manners. dress and costumes
of "olden tymes" will be faithfully reproduced.
The closing entertainment for the season of the
Glover Club Will be given at the clubhouse NO.
1ls West Thirty -eighth-st.. this evening
A meeting will be held at ) p. to-day at the
home OF Mrs Richard Irwin. No. y West Thirty
sixth-st to perfect the organization of hospital
for the treatment Of consumptives in New-fork
City
The veterans OF the list Regiment. American
Guard y y 8. Militia, who served under the late
Colonel A. s. Vosburgh, and who desire to unite
with the Vosburgh veterans in celebrating Dec
Grafton Day are invited to attend a meeting next
Thursday evening, May 8. at No GO Third-ave
President f. d. Warneld. of Lafayette College.
will speak in the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian
Church this evening. and a quartet from Lafay-
cite will sing There will be no charge for ad-
mission.
The Tribune has received 80 80 from Master Eben
Webster Judd, Laurel House, Lakewood y j.
for the Fresh-Air Fund
There will be meetings in the Young Mems In
stitute. No 222 Bowery, this evening. tomorrow
and Saturday evenings and at p IN. on sunday.
The Anti-Tammany Democracy Of the Ist AS
sembly District will meet at its headquarters. No.
"a Beach-st this evening. Prominent speakers
will address the meeting upon the subject OF
municipal reform.
THE Little Darkeys Funeral Sermon" new
sketch by Marshall j. Wilder. will be given by
him among others at MendelssOhn Glee Club Hall,
No 119 West FOrtieth-st.. near broadway, at MS
annual concert next Tuesday evening.
letter from the State Department. which was
received by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions in this city yesterday. announced the con-
viction by the Court of Errors, in Bagdad Tur-
KEY Of eight Of the twelve Koords arrested last
July for the assault upon Miss Anna Melton. a
missionary Of the board, who was in the village
of Daree, In the Koorish Mountains
The Alumni Association of Grammar School No.
ST. at Amsterdam-ave. and Seventy -eghth-st., Of
which Edward II. Boyer is the principal, will have
a dinner this evening al the Hotel Endcott'
Eighty -frst-st. and Columbus-ave.
The Fire Commis yesterday awarded the
contract for supplying 80 tons Of stove coal 15oO
tons of nut coal and 900 tons of egg coal L25o
tons in all. to John II. Myer Of No. Broadway.
at 50 70 ton total Of s27i77 So The contract FOR
putting the fre-alarm conduits under ground was
awarded to George i. Wiley. manager of the
Standard Underground Gable Company for Sl9SO
The mortgage was recorded yesterday of Sl5SG75
given by Thomas S Williams to the Brick Pres
byterian Church the property at the northwest
corner Of Park-ave. and Thiry-hfth-st.
Collector Kilbreth went to Washington yesterday
afternoon to confer with the Treasury Department
on questions relating 10 the customs service. lie
will return tomorrow.
A large parade was held last night in honor OF
the celebration OF the ffteth anniversary Of the
Church Of the Most Holy Rcdeemer. in East Third
ST. Many German societies took part in the parade
Mrs. Frances S. J. Thoms of No 35 sccond-ave..
who is said to be a Chinese missionary
arraigned before Commissioner Shields yesterday
on the charge of having committed perjury 10 OBJ
tain a certificate of residence for Chinaman Hom
Yew. She was held for trial IN 5000.
Surveyor Blatchford yesterday received a report
from Inspector Tutthill that the master Of the
Hamburg American steamship Gothia violated the
United States laws applying TO steerage quarters
on board ship. ON the Gothia's last trip TO this
port from Hamburg the steerage quarters assigned
to women and families were only separated from
the single mems quarters by piece OF sail instead
of a proper partition.
The new Fall River Line steamer Priscilla. which
has recently had the finishing touches put to her
engines at the Hoboken yard. is a prominent OBJ
ject the East River water front She is In dry
dock for a final painting. scraping and cleaning
and is so much longer than the dock that her
stern sticks out forty feet over the river. The
tops Of her tunnels level with the tops
of the houses the opposite site Of South-st.,
while her upper works loom up high above the
yellow pump boxes Of the dock
William c. Carr. Of Rochester, gives a Bible
reading to-day at o'clock in the lecture-room OF
the Broadway Tabernacle.
Residents of Columbus-ave. are prayerfully
awaiting the completion Of the extension Of the
Broadway cable road. Work the changing iron
and melodous steel is carried on day and night
and, like Macbeth. 1t murders sleep"
ba1g
ly meeting last evening at hall in Forty ninth
ST. near Seventh-ave.. and talked about the efforts
Grand Army Of the Republic. It said after
the meeting that no word had been received from
the headquarters to a decision upon the appeal
for reinstatement
Proposals for nine cavalry and eleven artillery
horses were to be opened at noon yesterday the
United States Army Building only proposal
received. and that for cavalry horses S225
each. This price considered too high, and the
proposals viii be advertised IN the West
Three ralroads-the Lackawanna. Erie and on
tario-run milk trains into this city from distance
Of 800 miles
Downtown streets are 50 overrun with wheezy
handorgans that some impatient brokers think
ing OF starting a movement TO rid that part Of the
city OF the visitation.
Five hundred thousand pounds Of fish. including
pickerel perch, carp pike and muets from chi
cago. consigned TO Winant q CO.. this city. which
became stale in transit were taken to Barren
Island yesterday where they will be converted into
fertilizer. The total loss on the condemned fish IS
estimated at s4O.CO0