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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-06
TENNIS MATCHES HEREABOUTS.

A.. Interesting contest in doubles marked ycster-
DAYS play In the open tennis tournament OF the
South Orange Field Club, which Is now nearing an
end Cragin and Gennert defeated Carter and Jes-
sun I'm n close three-set match. the last two sets
haips both prolonged affairs. Gould and II. Miles
were rather UNEXPECTEDLY beaten by Ward ana o.
Miles There will be good matches to-day H.
Miles meets Carter in the final single match and
the doubles will be decided by Cragin and Gennert
and Ward and G. Miles. Gould and Gennert appear
have the fight to themselves In the CONSCIENTIOUS
The results follow:
Mems singles (scmi-inal round) Robert NJ Miles
jr, South 0rangs FIeId cup peat George H. Miles
Mems doubles tsem-fnai round. Caihoun , Hra-
gin New YORK T. e. ana Wiiam o o. en ran, F ah
Cub and samuel r CarSr Nc MorTstoT tow Field
II. Miles South orange Field club. beat clifford 4;
Could ,h and Robert ~ Miles jr. South Orange Field
Consolation singles FIRST round,-C. +. Fennesscy
West sds r C beat W r. CSoke' Paterson by
scmi-anai round-cnnord A. Gould South Orange
s FifG CO cnO beat C. f. Tennessee West Side T. c.
Few matches nov remain to be played in the
tennis tournament OF the Casino Club. At Summit.
\. j. $; G. DENLY has won six matches and lost
none This gives him lead by two matches over
the other contestants Score:
H. l. Dohrman beat A. T. Sloane. e. e. ). c.
R Ms@yc beat Sea B. Ven Wnd Ds s g. + ser
Rs%Sy S, !! b%6rm% Ill., g. + =
Cushman beat A. p sloane. IS. O. s-3 T. NJ
Sergeant beat q: 4. Won Diehn, $. 81, ii. l.
geant beat a. p. Sloane. 81. IS lo-s $. c.
DENLY beat G. y. Wemple G-l. - W. G. Cush-
man beat G. A. Won Diehn. 60 SO. II. !. Dohr-
man beat +. NJ Sergeant, G-3. 6-I. w. c. Cush-
man beat q. " White So ca. A. p. Sloane
beat G. Won Diehn. CO. 60 II. l. Dohrman
beat c. Y. Wemple. 81. ID s. G. DENLY beat
Il. NJ. Sergeant 80. 60
The tennis Tournament OF the Knickerbocker Ten
mis- Club continued yesterday Its courts at
One-hundred- and-forty -fonrih-st and Brook-ave.
Four matches decided. Score
Charles w. Chadwick beat Walter Althousc 60,
g. Charles ". Chadwick beat Dean Emery 10,
Go. 81. Dean Emery beat Robert NJ. Cole. 9-ll.
60 SIS Edward NJ Smith defeated Alfred u.
Hail. tr.. by default. Edward NJ. Smith beat Charles
w Chadwick 81, 6-3
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NEWS FROM THE SUBURBS
WE.STCHESTER COUNTY.
YONkERS.

Patroman William Carroll. OF the fonKers
police force, recovered in Brooklyn on Iuesoay
night a horse and wagon which was stolen on .he
night OF September l from Lewis Miller. OF NO.
4c3 South Broadway. 1t was stolen by Chauncey
W. Thorpe formerly employed by Mr.. Miller. lie
disposed of it for SIS at a Brooklyn livery stable
Thorpe has not been caught. On Tuesday even
ing Irving Hose Company No. . elected the ioi-
lowing officers: John Warneck. foreman FRANK
Smith, assistant foreman Daniel Devlin. chairmah
Ernest Longbotham. secretary: Frederick hansen
MANN treas Irer; ID. Henry Kipp. william Offer
mann and Henry Kucher. trustees: Daniel Devhn
and L. J. Schlessinger representatives; hope I f
man, Alfred NJ. Kcene first assistant john Stahi'
jr.. second assistant. Eugene Sherwood chalrinah'
John 5. Vredenburgh recording secretary. John L..
Leib financial secretary, Andrew Deyo treasurer
Thomas c. Poole ana Thomas Migi erfp +" the
State Convention The OF the senior singles.
%ns sbe wP sssd eat Cub was rowed Tuesday
evening at $50 o'clock The course was ilie "iIa
Hayward and f. Martin jr. Hayward took the
lead the start and kept IT, but wheh ABOUT NV
lengths from the finish he ran into stake ana ,ne
low of his boat got caught in a iisn-net AZ Martin
cannot again this season owing 10 business en-,
Would have won as he TWO lengths ahead. had
it been for the mshap. he awarded me race 10
Cup. Rudolf NJ Lernbacher of NewYork city
and Miss Annie Nangerow, Of ionkers were mar h
brides parents at No. 1874 NePperhan-aye, By the
H Hs ana ss A ei Sot the
and Frank Vangerow and John Lembacher the
groomsmen While excavatng for the new
Fort Field reservoir on the Palmer estate on Tues
day afternoon a workman found old coin. 1t was
much corroded but this inscription was ieslple:
"Britannia-l736 and on the reverse side 'Georglus
III Rex" The Social Christian Workers gave
an entertainment in the Sunday school room OF the
First Reformed Church on Tuesday evening i t
were vocal solos by Mr. and Mrs Pawson, MISS
Grace Chapman. Mss Bertha Shepherd. Miss Nellie
Vetch. illiam Green and Frank Werner; recita-
tons by Miss Maegi" Monroe, y. ii. Tompkins u,
and Mrs. George armstrong. Others VINO look part
were Misses Gerie and Cora Oliver the Misses Corn
ing Miss Sadie Fox, Miss Fisher and William May
Ihe Rev. 5. Parkes Cadmdn made short address,
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MOUNT VERNON,

Alderman Whttemore, at the request OF COM
mitee of managers of the Mount Vernon Hospital
Association, presented an appeal for relief TO the
Common Council Tuesday night Aldermen
Whittemore. Tichenor and Buck were appointed a
special committee to inquire into the financial needs
of the hospital and TO learn what the managers de-
sire to be done by the city. 1t has been proposed
that the institution be turned over 10 the control
OF the CITY, but this would require Speclll ACT OF
the Legislature as the institution was founded by
a few of the citizens, who afterward secured an act
Of incorporation. Tie founding OF the hospital was
in January 1890 Since then II has been supported
BY generous gifts OF money and articles OF Vdlue
and usefulness from the citizens. ana the medical
and surgical services have been gratutous The
number of patients, the majority being laDorers
employed the railroad improvements. ana the
cost of maintenance which Includes salaries OF
nurses, niatron medicines, etc, Is between Si,W"
and s. 600 year. The managers hope that the city
will annually contribute 5000 from the excise fees
or general fund.- which. it is believed, Will be suf-
penses 8. The Fire Department primaries TO elect
delegates 10 the annual convention Will be held
tonight. The sons and daughters Of Mayor
Brush. assisted by others. will nave an outdoor
day for the benefit OF the Sick Babies Fund
The Alexandria Encampment OF Knights of 81:
John and Malta will have summer nights festival
Tuesday next.
stein, fourteen years old OF Morris Bernstein,
the real broker. who was arrested on Satur-
day charged with burglary OF the home OF Clarence
Perrin, was held Yesterday morning before city
Judge George &. Appel Bernstein was acquitted.
Many witnesses testified both sides and the evil
dence was fatty contradictory. Many OF the Wit.
young Bernstein. who testified that he was with
them playing ball at the time. George ODel, the
principal witness for the people. sWofe positively ne
was with him nearly half a mile away from the
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WHITE PLAINS.

The will Of Theodore W. Marsh. of Yonkers, who
died in July, leaving estate Of 100000 TO his
family, admitted IL probate In the Surogate's
Court yesterday. The Grand Jury was consider
ing yesterday the of Monte Carlo poolsel-
lers who were arrested three weeks ago by sheriff
Duffys deputies at Westchester for the alleged
violation of the Ives Pool bill 1t is thought the
defendants will be indicted The question as TO
the width of Martine-ave. up before the Board
OF Trustees Tuesday night. John Read and
Patrick Farrell. interested property owners, con-
tended that the road laid out In 1868 by the
village authorities a sXty-six-foot highway, and
they insisted that the board. in ordering sidewalks
to be laid should do 50 with this thought upper
most. because In 1891 the then Board Of Trustees
fixed the lines of the avenue for siXty-foot street
This. the property owners the north side Of the
say. the board cannot do. The owners OF
property the side OF the avenue have in
several instances erected dwellings according 20 this
established survey which. If now changed. Will make
trouble for them. The Committee Sidewalks
will try TO straighten out the muddle. The
roll of property within the village limits
half the Greenburg town assessment being conceded
be 40 per cent higher than that of White Plains
under assessment OF 1893. which the Board OF
Trustees is compelled under the law to copy.
A large force of carpenters at work erecting
grandstand the Westchester County fairgrounds
TO take the place OF the recently destroyed by
fire The village assessment viii he publicly
considered by the Board Of Trustees s;eptem-
Der IL.
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NETWORK CITY.

! Arrivals OF vessels this port In August num-
bered 1.4Gl. including 2j6 steamers, 10 ships. %
barks brigs and 50 schooncrs, from foreign ports
| total Of 800 and 129 steamers. 3 ships barks'
hrgs and 93l schooners from domestic ports, total
| of 1.oS9.
| Judgment for 1918 entered yesterday against
! Henry E. Dxey in favor of James Hamilton Egan'
a lawyer
Mrs Carrie Reece, sixty-nne years old "A lifelong
thief was sentenced by Recorder Smyth in Part |
in the General Sessions yesterday TO two years and
six months in the State prison at Auburn. The old
woman made a habit OF hiring out as servant to
different women drugging them and then stealing
from them.
Controller Fitch received n letter yesterday from
Postmaster Charles W. Dayton. who is spending his
vacation in Europe Mr.. Dayton wrote that his
health was greatly improved by his trip and that he
would the Paris for home on September IL.
The Tribune has received s. from Carl for the
Sick Children's Mission of the Childrens Aid So
cety.
Marshall p. Wilder will give monologue enter
tainment this evening at the Pavilion Hotel Staten
Island.
Daniel Kelsey. a ten-year-old boy living with his
parents at No 300 West Fifty-hfth-st.. while flying
kite the roof yesterday afternoon. fell through
the airshaft and instantly killed.
Dr. Doty. chief of the Division of Contagious Dis
eases. said yesterday that he was not in the least
alarmed over the recent increase in the nhinDer OF
smallpox cases in this city. They have been con-
fined chiefly TO locality and no further spread
of the disease is feared by him. Two new cases
were reported yesterday the West Side.
The steamship Scandal. OF the Hamburg Amer-
can Line arrived here yesterday and reported that
3 O'Clock Tuesday afternoon she passed the
carcass OF dead whale floating on the ocean.
The work OF splicing the cable OF the Com
mercal Gable Company 10 the land cable al Pier
No was proceeded with yesterday. 1t is thought
that the lines Will be in operation to-day. There are
still some details of the splicing 10 be completed.
The sloop yacht Viking. owned by 6. v Birdseye
OF this city, ashore at the mouth Of the
Shrewsbury River Tuesday afternoon She is
small centre board soop about hrty-iive feet over
all. and draws four feet OF water. She was built
by d. d. Herreshon in 1870. and rebuilt In 1851
Efforts being made yesterday TO get her of
the bar which she struck. and they Will probably
I've successful.
James Boys n banker and broker. arrested
at his Office No. 81 Exchange Place. yesterday,
charged with the larceny OF 22j shares OF Atchson
stock valued at 5000 by William Noble. box
manufacturer. OF No lo5 Varick-st. lie held in
800 bail for examination.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-06

FIVE ErGrrus MILE HEATS RUNNING PURSE
the LAST or the FYRrWORKS.

rare series Of nrework programmes has been
arranged for this week I'm Pains open-air theatre
at Manhattan Beach. The closing nights of "LaNa
Rookh" bid fair hrilliancy L. excel those or the
earlier evenings OF the season. GllmOrcs Band mas
been engaged 10 take the place Of Sousd - For
years Gilmore supplied The music FOR the spectacle
i'm the fireworks Enclosure. The best things In the
way OF pyrotcchncs which have been done this sea
son will be repeated every night and tonight and
Saturday night extraordinary displays viii b" made.
with the departure of Sousas Band "l.alla
Rookh' l)scs the Oucnial music which was one
Of It's special features. The peculiarly OF this ORR
entail music that experts were often unable to
tell IL from the "Washington Post March,. the
High school Cadets March' and other compost
lions OF the order. \ ,Ountrymtn Of Tom Moore
The other night was moved 10y the harmony OF
the green fire and the band thar he could find no
vent for his feelings except in making poetry. AT
least. he says II vas poetry. ana TINS u what ne
SAYS is the poetry that he made They say. Sousa,
your march played lean this be- true. YOU lucky
man, I'm Ialia Kuokh. IN fire display behind
Pains fence at Manhat-tan|' This may not look
Ike poetry but he author declares Il is the way
n. felt when he tn" train OF l.alla KOOkh and
heard the "Washngton Post March' at the same
time.
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WHAT IS GOING ON TO-DAY.

Police investigation. Police Headquarters i0V
a. m.
Elmira Reformatory investigation. Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
Wards Island Insane Asylum investigation rarN
Avenue Hotel
Citizens good government conference. Madison
Square Garden Concert Hail. y. M
Sheepshead Bay races 2:S0 p. m.
New York Pittsburg baseball game. Polo Grounos'
$50 p. IN.
Board OF Aldermen Committee on Railroads.
The NAVY Club excursion TO Grand View Park
XXIXth Assembly District Republican Club NO.
3.240 Third-ave.. s p. m.
Caledonlan Club festival and games. Harlem River
Park, afternoon and evening.
Music in East River Park. p. IN.
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UEBBS ACADEMY AT FORDHdM HEIGHTS.

OPENING or THE AUTUMN TERM MANY ATPfL-
CANTs FOR INSTRUCTION. ~ sHIPBrrpING.
Although Webbs Academy and Home for ship
builders received pupils and Inmates in January
last their number VAS limited, the pre- Urinary
term preparatory TO regular dates Only In tn"
nature Of an experiment. Yesterday the fan term
opened and 1t wi!i be continuous until july next
when the summer vacation VIII take place TIL
Scptomber and remain a regular feature Of the
institution The students who have already awaited
Themselves Of the liberal privileges accorded by the
trus,ees-that ls free board. lodging and washing
neat single rooms furnished with iron heds,eads,
bureaus. washs,anls. warlrobes. more commodous
than \ single room IN n nr.tc.ass hotel. with bath
and toilet ARRANGEMENTS close al hand number ten.
The publicity which the Institution has had since
IFS dedication in Nav has resulted in seventy eight
anpIcatIons FOR admission To rs educational ad-
vantages As the capacity Of the academy, as AT
present organized IN space II limited Sh"ui an the
candidates be- accepted the college would start It's
frs, real year Of instruction with fun roster Of
pupils The conditions OF entrance very sim
DE The age OF the applicant must he between six
teen and twenty, he must d"inonstrht" to ihr irns-
ices that ~ l. unable pay for Instruction at any
similar Institution. and he must be proficient In
know. edge the history Of tn United states and
trlgonometry. Thrs" All Of IN" pualifca lions.
The candidate must appear before the Examining
Board. consisting Of william H. WcbP me Iouh1.r
and president; Andrew Reed. the resident manager:
William f. Twobridge. OF columbia College. and
TWO other men. and their clict Is final
IDEAL institution Of it, Kind With the si5ooo which
Mr. Webb has spent for the grounds. structures
and furnishing. he has accomplished great results.
shipwriph,. who has spent near.y his who'e NE
time among the shipyar1s along the East River.
The household features Of the institution are man
aged by Mrs West as superintend'nt' assisted by
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TENNIS At SARATOGA.
SPIRITED PLAY At THE SARATOGA ATHLETIC
CLIFFS TOURNAMENT.

SPIRITED PLAY At THE SARATOGA ATHLETIC
CLrBs TOURNAMENT.
Saratoga. y. Y. Sept (SpecaD.-There was
spirited sport the Saratoga Athletic Clubs lawn
tennis tournament Woodlawn oval to-day. The
following were the results: Gentlemen's singles.
second round-C. r. Budlong. Of New-IIaven. beat
G. 5. smith, OF Boston. 60 60; 4. II. Ide OF
Troy beat F. 6. Richie. Of Saratoga, GO. IS,
CO: II. G. Bixby Of New-York, beat c. VI. Marsh.
OF Saratoga. Go. @
Gentlemens doubles, preliminary round-C. IIo-
bart OF New-York. and 9. j. Budong. OF New
Haven. beat r. q. Perkins. Of boston, and w.
Campbell. Of Schenectady. g. 90 II. i. Smith.
of New-York. and G. ". Powers. OF Brooklyn.
beat l.. McH. Howe, and X. Craighead. OF sara
and W H. Cluett. Of Troy, beat : J. Smith and
G. T. Smith. of Ballston spa, 2, @
First round-C. VI. Marsh and F. 9; Richie, OF
Saratoga beat II. 6. BIxby. OF New,York anl g.
York and G K Budlong. OF New-Haven. beat II. T.
smith OF New York. and G. w. Powers OF Brook
lyn. Go GO: f. G. Ely, OF CrawforfsvlHc, ana W :
H. Cuett, of Troy, beat II Cluett and a r. Ide, Of
Troy So 6-3 s. u. Reed and L. y. Ware. OF
Newport beat L. c. Gran; and W. c. Grant Of
New-York, G-l 6-3. .
Troy, beat Miss VI. James, of Saratoga, 81 %;
Miss Richie OF Saratoga, beat Mrs Il. G. Soaring
Of burlington. Vt. by default
First round-Miss Annie Richie: Of saratoga
beat Miss Annie Ritchie 81 G-l; Miss lngham. Of
Saratoga beat Mrs. Ide, OF Troy o. 81
Mixed doubles. preliminary round-Miss Manning
and c. r. Budong beat Miss James and +; G:
Ritchie 64 G-l; Miss Happen and l.: T. Ware beat
M,ss Ritchie and c. NJ. Marsh 6 I. -: Miss Ing
ham and II. Cluett beat Mrs. Soaring and o; r.
Iiscomb jr.. by default; Miss +. Kltchiee ana =,
Hobart beat Miss NJ. James and G. W. Marsh
g.
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Charles r. Amberg hfty-seven years old. who
claims a residence at Clay city. KY. Is locked up
at Police Headquarters charged with forgery.
Lumber merchants In this and other cities were his
victims. In the Tombs Police Court yesterday he
remanded The complainant was IA. c. Ma
gruder. representative of the Parmelc Eccleston
Lumber Company, at No. | Broadway. The police
have been the lookout for Amberg for time.
and he is wanted In Boston. Philadelphia. Chicago.
Cincinnati and Louisville.
He called upon C. Il. Morrow. lumber dealer at
No 1l5 Broadway on Tuesday. and introduced him
self J. +. Martin OF the firm OF Martin Brothers.
lumbermeD at Ninton. Ky. He offered to sell lG0-
wv feet OF lumber at Si5 thousand feet The lumber
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-06
AFFAIRS IN BROOKLYN.

WANT THEM INDICTED FUN MCnDHi''
A CoRONER's JURY HOLDS THE OFFICERS of
TROLLEY COMPANY RESPONSIBLE FOR
A BOYS DEATH.
The fact that the trolley car which killed John
Walker twelve years old. at Fifth-ave. ana
Twelfth-st. on Thursday Of last week. had no
proper fender in front OF II led the Coroners jury
In the case yesterday to recommend tho Indictment
Of the officers of the company for murder and that
no cars be allowed to run after November without
proper tenders The Atlantic Avenue Company.
which operates the Ffth-ave. line. has only board
tenders in front OF the forward wheels OF It's cars
DR. j. A. Kene. Coroner, said Of II yesterday; This
is a murlerous contrivance While IL may De sood
enough for clearing the tracks Of cobblestones and
other hard substances. as Hfe-saver II Is prac-
tcaly useless"
The testimony showed that the boy was knocked
down by the car and rolled and crushed to death
under the fender. The verdict was
We find that the deceased. John Walker, came to
ns Under P and by trolley car No m
division, Atlantic Avenue Railroad on Ffth-ave, al
moorman and conductor from all hlame iird h,l
strongly ccnsure the Atlanmc nvemmT ,beir
cars without the proper protect on for human ne.
We recommend the indictment OF the officers OF tns
the life OF The said John Walker. and we appeal to
Mayor Charles A. Schieren to see that no car sa DE-
allowed to run IN this city after November l. M
without having proper lfepreservers attached 10 H.
Mayor Schercn said there was no power granted
to the city authorities TO compel the railroad com
panIes to use safety appliances. Nearly every week
he was asked TO favor some ones patent device
for In front of streetcars.
President Norton. Of the Atlantic Avenue com
pany said: 81 wish could find some device that
would he an absolute protection 10 human NE II
ever find II will adopt 1t at once We nave
tried a number OF devices, but have round notnlhs
better than the board.
District-Attorney Rdgway will present the recon-
mendatiOn Of the COroncr's jury TO the Grand jury
which will be impanelled September IL.
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he offered was oak poplar and ash. which. Mr:
Morrow knew. could not be purchased Tor less ina
$50 a thousand feet His suspicious were aroused,
and he told his visitor to call later In the day. In
had received a forged check time ago from
an alleged lumber salesman whose description tailed
with that of Amberg. He accordingly teiephorIe'
10 Mr Magruder who at once sent word to In
spector Mclaughlin. ,,.., .,
Macrudcr identified the prisoner VINO admitted ms
guilt lie confessed TO Inspector Mclaughlin that
he had been swindling merchants in different cities
Tor the last four wears by representing himself as
an inspector for the Union Lumber Company, or
clay civ Ky After making sale at reduced
rates ne would request TO have a check cashed
The checks forgerics.
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ELIZABETH.

Miss Louisa Clauss eighteen years old. daughter
of Assessor Frederick Clauss. of Elizabeth had an
unpleasant experience yesterday morning while on
her way to work. She is employed as clerk In a
drygoods store, and just after she passed Mayor
Rankins house. in East Jersey-st, a man stepped
from behind a tree. and. throwing his arms about
the young woman, began 10 hug and kiss her. Miss
Clauss screamed and struggled vigorously The
fellow started down East Jersey-st at rapid pace
and a woman who the occurrence ran TO Mayor
Rankin's house and Informed him OF what had
happened. The Mayor started In pursuit and soon
oyerhauled Miss Clausss assaiant. The Mayor
turned him over TO Policeman Dillon. who took the
Fellow to Police Headquarters. where he gave the
name OF Gustaye Boettke sixty-two years Old
tailor He Is married and has son and married
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JERS EY CITY.

Bernard Altenberger will be hanged In the IIud-
son County Jail al Jersey City at 10 o'clock this
morning. On May l3 Altenberger persuaded Katie
Rupp to go with him from Rome ~ y. to Jersey
CITY to be married. On the way he borrowed 1913
and a watch from the girl. After reaching Jersey
City the couple hired a room. and Atenberger then
led Miss Rupp TO Snake Hill. where he shot her in
the head and breast and left her for dead. She
was found next morning and told her story. She
died on Wednesday. and the same day Altenberger
was arrested In Utica, y. Y. He tried and
convicted In July. HIS Was twice laid before
the Court OF Pardons but they refused 10 interfere
Chancellor McCill also refused writ Of error In
he