New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-16
NETWORK CITY.

Elsie p" sends s. to this office for the fund to
assist crippled children. 1t has been sent TO Mrs.
William Robson, treasurer Of the fund. at No "
Broadway.
The publications OF the Hakluyt Society, which
were sold at the aucton-rooms of Bangs u Co..
40. 739 Broadway yesterday. brought only mod
crate prices The weather had marked effect on
the sale and the bidding, while brisk AT times. dli
not 20 beyond the value Of the works offered The
sale will be continued to-day at =. IN.
". Hamilton Gibson viii deliver lecture on
"The Cross Fertilization OF Flowers by Insects" on
Wednesday at $3.50 p. IN. in the Library Building
Columbia College. Forty -ninth-st. and Madson-ave
The lecture is free to the public
The big Yankee ship san joaquin. which came
into port after running into an Iceberg In the South
Atlantic and sailing 6G,D miles under jury rig. IS
now at Pier 40 O. East River She Will 90 into
irydock this week, and have her broken nose re-
paired and new spars put in place
william Lester White. a mulatto. fifteen years
Old. was rcmanlcI in the Yorkville Court yester-
day afternoon charged with stealing carriage robes
worth 5000 and other property worth about $780,
mostly owned by Frederick Gebhardt The things
were stolen from Mr.. Gebhardts stables. at no
IL East Thirty-second-st.
Philip Ferris burglar OF rare ability pleaded
guilty in General Sessions yesterday to roobIng the
barroom of George Degenhardt, No. 3i3 West
Flfty-ninth-st., Of cigars worth s. and so in cash
sphinx d CO.. 40 $50 Sixth-ave.. and articles worth
$500 from Lambert Bros, jewellers Fifty-elghth-
ST. and Thrd-ave. Judge Fitzgerald remandcd him
for sentence.
The annual meeting Of the Training School for
Nurses viii be held this evening at the Nurses
Home. 40. i26 East Twcnty-sXth-st, at o'clock
The report for 1893 will be submitted, and diplomas
Will be presented to the graduating class There
Will also be several addresses. This institution
which sprang from small beginnings twenty years
ago is now represented by alumni IN almost every
part OF the world.
The fourth lecture in the New-York Academy Of
Sciences course win be given this evening at 8
o'clock IN the hall Of the New-York Academy Of
Nelicinc Professor Woodward IS unable to give
the lecture announced upon "The Science Of Ne
chanics" and Cornelius Van Brunt viii take his
place the subject being autobiography of Living
Flowers" illustrated with coored lantern slides
from original photographs.
BY request of Or. Colyer. DR. Cotton will give
an Illustrated lecture on the magnetic telegraph
in the Church Of the Messiah. Park-ave and Thir-
ty-fOurih-si.. this evening. There Will BE- many
amusing and instructive experiments and an cleo
trio engine on a circular road. This IS the original
engine made for Or. Cotton in 1871, said to be the
first engine moved by electricity.
The "Kiernan News Agency is making arrange
monis to improve It's news service by substituting
an electric system for the distribution Of its news
place of the printed slips now in use The agency
is to be entirely rcOrgdnlzed.
The twentieth anniversary Of the New-York So
ciety for the Suppression Of Vice will be held in
Association Hall, Twenty thirl-st. and FOurh-ave.
this evening at O'Clock.
The classrooms of Public School No %. in City
Hall Place, were crowded last night by
dionce which listened with lively interest to Pro-
lessor a. D. Fisk's lecture on "The Art Of Photog
raphy." Professor Fisk Illustrated his lecture with
stercopiicon views. Last nights was one Of the
first Of the regular Monday evening free lectures
provided by the Board Of Education.