New-York tribune., 1894-01-06
NEW.NORK CITY.


The Sunday service Of the Fall River Line steam
ers has been discontinued for the winter months.
Ample provision on that day will be afforded pas
sengers between New-York and Boston on the .
p. m "Glt-Edge' and y o'clock CndnighO Shore
Line trains.
Professor W. O. Atwater. OF Wesleyan Cniver-
sity. will lecture before the Science Sermons So
ciety in the lecture-roOm Of DR.. Collyers church
Park-ave. and Thrty-fourth-st, tomorrow even
ing His subject will be Food, as Related to Life
and the Conditions Of Survival"
The next regular meeting of tho Ohio Society will
be at its rooms. No. 23G Ffih-ave.. on Monday
evening
Colonel Austen. Receiver of Taxes announced
yesterday that the receipts Of his office for the
quarter ending December 81, 1893. exceeded any
previous collections for the same period. The tota
for that quarter was 500 GS669O Il. The correspond
ing quarter of 1892 footed up only S9 O,Oj9 o..
Mayor Giroy yesterday gave directions, at the
request of Major Asa Bird Gardiner. that the So
cety Of the War OF 1872 shall be allowed to cele-
brate the anniversary of the battle OF New-Or-
leans Monday in the Governors Room. City
Hall.
The Nassau Electrical Company has filed claim
with the Controller of 1892 50 for loss of electrical
goods which the company alleges were stolen
from their offices by city firemen on duty at fire
In the Cornell Building. No. l37 Cenre-st.. on De-
cember 2.
Mayor Gilroy Yesterday revoked the license Of d.
j. Cotter, employment agent at No. 100 Broad
way.
Controller Fitch. who has been suffering with the
grip for some time. had relapse yesterday. and
was not able to his office in the Stewart
Building. He sent word that he expected to be
able 10 return to duty to-day.
Luther D. Wishard will lecture on THE Young
Men OF the World at Association Hall. Twenty
thlrd-st and Fourth-ave.. tomorrow at p. m
The Engineers Club will have of its fort
nightly dinners this evening. Alfred L. Beebe viii
preside Later there will be entertainment.
given by the Spanish Trio and +. W. Malburn.
William Hamilton Gibson will deliver a course OF
three lectures THE Mysteries Of Flowers for
children in the Manhattan Athletic Club Theatre.
Madison-ave and Forty-nfth-st The first lecture
will be given to-day at p m.
Among the passengers arriving on the White
Star steamer Britannia from Liverpool. yesterday
were Mr.. and Mrs. Mabry Mcmahon. Or. T. OCon-
nell the Rev. j. Hughes Parry. the Rev. j. Is
borne. Alfred Du Cros James Kerfoot, NJ. Is. Man
der and Henry Amstein.
The January Pilot Chart was reissued yesterday
by the Hydrographic Bureau OF the Navy Depart
ment. 1t is a base chart of improved execution
Incorporating the weather and temperature sig
nails the improved delineation Of the United States
storm signals. the European gale and storm sig
nails the lines of equal magnetic variation for
every degree the method of dellneating reports
concerning ice the storm-track gauge. the method
OF deneating the region Of equatorial rains, and
the improved land tint.
Rear-Admiral John G. Walker. chairman OF the
Board on Stability, arrived at the Navy Yard yes
terday, and made arrangements TO have the gun
boat Machias put into the drydock 10 test her
metacentric height, upon which the alterations
necessary are 10 be based.
Postmaster Dayton desires TO caution the public
against an irnpostor who is calling private resi-
dences and at places Of business. soliciting pc
cunary aid for a "Letter-Carrers' Association
Any person to whom he may apply should cause
his
The annual meeting OF the New-York Micro
scopcal Society was held last night at No. 6i
Madison-ave About thirty members were present.
The election Of officers for the coming year re-
suited as follows: President, Charles = Shuz;
yice-president Edward G. Love; Librarian Ludwig
Rlederer; treasurer. James Walker recording sec
retary, George +. Ashby; corresponding secretary.
the Rev J. l.. Zabriske; curator. George +. Ashby.
The Rev. DR.. r. 5. Macarthur, pastor of Calvary
Baptist Church. yesterday morning conducted the
funeral of William +. Earle one of the Oldest hotel
proprieors in the city. number OF well-known
hotel men were present. The burial was in Green
wood
A. D. Penfold will speak to young men tomorrow
afternoon at O'clock at the East Eighty -sxth-st.
branch Of the Young Mems Christian Association
+. wegmann. jr who prepared designs for the
Quaker Bridge Dam Of the Croton waterworks'
will deliver a lecture on Monday at H. IN. to the
engineering students Of the University Of the city
of New-York on Points in the Construction Of
Masonry Dams" This lecture is sequel 10 one
delivered by him last year on THE Design OF
Masonry Dams" and prepared especially for
this OCCASION