New-York tribune., 1894-04-12
NEW-YORK CITY.

There will be a meeting OF the Hugenot Society
tomorrow evening at Assembly Hall. No. 1O5 East
/ Twenty second-st
| The Old Guard of the 18th Regiment has accepted
an invitation to be present at the entertainment to
be given by Company u. at Lenox Lyceum. on
next Monday evening.
Company c. list Regiment. gave n dramatic en-
tertainment at the Lexington Avenue Opera House
last evening which largely attended. "Our
Regiment" was the mrth-producing play which was
produced
The forty-lrst meeting Of tho Paint OF and Var
nish Club will be held this evening at the Broad
/ way Central Hotel. Dinner Will be served at 6
o'clock.
There will be a private view OF the seventh annual
joint exhibition OF photographs OF the Society OF
Amateur Photographers next Monday evening
at the galleries of the American Fine Arts Society
No 2l5 West Fifty-seventh-st.
a regular meeting Of Excelsior Camp No g.
Grand Fraternity. Will be held at It's hall. Third
ave. and Twenty-hfth-st.. on Saturday evening.
The contract for the second section OF the EIar-
lem River Speedway finally executed by the
Park Board yesterday. J. c. Rodgers. the success
ful bidder. gave bonds in s275.OOo the American
Surety Company and the United States Guarantee
Company being his sureties.
The semi-annual conference OF the United States
Appraisers begun yesterday at the offce Of
the Apprase:. W. II. Bum. and will continue
throughout the week Questions relating to the
uniform classification of disputed tariff questions
will be discussed.
The steamer Loeb I.omond. which arrived here
yesterday from Rotterdam, detained Quar-
antine for inspection and fumigation on account OF
of smallpox on board The patient was a
sailor named Jan Meerendonck. lie was taken sick
March 2s
Part Of the General Sessions was not in session
yesterday as Judge Cowng detained at his
home. No. 13S East Seventy-cighth-st. with Sc,
we're cold. Judge Cowings son. Edward X. Cow
Ing broker. is sick at his fathers house with
pneumonia.
ve-Sergeant McNaughton. OF the Central
Office. started for San Francisco last evening to
bring TO this city Simon VI. Jacobs. indicted on
January 3, 1894. for stealing diamonds worth So
from Schultz & Rudolph No. a John-st. He OBJ
taned the goods on memorandum 1t is also charged
that he got diamonds worth $3.50 from Stern
Brothers No 80 Maiden Lane. and others worth
$780, from Ludwig & Powers. No. p Maiden Lane.
William G. Hamilton and Jonas H. Lane. as trus-
tees and joint tenants representing the owner OF
forty-two lots surrounding and including Gramercy
Park have assigned joint tenancy and trustecship
in consideration OF 81. to James W. Pinchot, Henry
II. Anderson and Stuyvesant Fish. These three
were nominated by the property-owners to MI the
places made vacant by the deaths Of Samuel j.
Tnden and Cyrus w. Field and the resignation OF
George Il. Read.
Police Captain James X. Price. OF the West
station. who fined 81 by
the Commissioners lately for neglect Of duty in per-
mitting a dsordery house to remain open. has re-
ceived leave OF absence to travel for his health.
1t was said that he had bronchial trouble and
wanted to take trip to Europe.
The Hungarians OF this city are stlll wearing the
enblens OF mourning for the death OF Louis Kos
suth, and black Grape and the American and Hun
garian flags are displayed at many OF their places
Of business.
A horse belonging to and driven by Christian Lar /
SEN Of No. l62 Clermont-aye, Brooklyn. fell into /
an excavation made by the New-York Steam Com
pany in front of No loj Reade-st. yesterday morn
Ing and broke its neck.
a special meeting Of the Board Of Education Will
be held tomorrow. when action in regard to the
recently made for school principals will
probably be taken
William Sing a homeless Chinaman. who has
probably been cast of by his fellows for some
offence unpa rdonabe under their laws. was ar
raigned In the Essex Market Police Court yester-
day charge Of vagrancy. lie sent TO the
Island for two months. The police say that Sing
Is probably the only "outcast" Chinaman in the
city; that although he is natural!zed his queue
has been cut off. and that this probably done
by his countryJnen for some offence committed
against their laws.
The New-York Alumni Association OF the Rens-
nual spring dinner at The Arena. in West Thirty
irst-st., last night. There fifty graduates OF
he Oldest engineering school IN the country pres
;nt Joseph VI. Knapp occupied the chair Of honor.
Mortimer }. Downing a bric-a brac dealer TWEEN
y-nine years Old. who lives at the Continental
Hotel. and formerly In business at No. q West
Fifteenth-st held in default Of 5000 bail at
Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday, charged
With the larceny OF antique bric-a -brac worth 81
80 The complainant was Margaret Rondillon, OF
y. J.
The members Of the Young Ladies' Charitable So
iety. who are to take part In the genuine, old
ashiOned minstrel show. to be given in the Lex !
ngton Avenue Opera House on the night Of April
). will shortly give full-drcss rehearsal. Burnt
ork and kinky wigs Will be used.
city Hall Park in darknes for several hours
asst night. tho only CLEANS OF light to assist pedes
rians through the sea OF snow AMI sush being |
hose coming from the two green lights in front of |
'ity Hall Police Station.