New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-11
NETWORK CITY.

The directors of the Maritime Association held
their regular monthly meeting yesterday. PRESIDENT
Atwood in the chair. Three new members were
admitted, Hardy NJ Banks. jr.. Joseph Parker ana
Edward C. OBrien. recently United States Com
missioner OF Navigation. a bill prepared by the
Law Committee was ordered submitted 70 congress.
II provides that sailing vessels may have Longer
time TO discharge their cargoes than now permitted
by law Steps were also taken toward securing a
modification Of the rules OF the British Board OF
Trade regulating the depth to which their vessels
may load at certain ports during the winter
Company X. 7th Regiment, will give Dutch
at Turn verein Hall, in East sixty-seventh-st. this
evening The members expect TO have a fine time.
An entertainment will be given at 2:3o p m. to-
day az the Home for Aged and 1nhrm Hebrews,
one hundred nd -hfhst.. near Ninth-ave several
professional and amateur performers VIII take part
A mass-rneeting Of the anti-machine Republicans
Of the XXIId Assembly District Will b. held at
Empire Hail. No. 2i2 East Sevenyhfth-st, to-iAor-
evening.
The Roman Catholic Church OF the Epiphany.
Second-ave. and Twenty-hrst-st, was crowded yes
terday morning at the funeral Of Alderman VIII
lam H. Murphy. The following societies and clubs
were represented at the church. Anawanda. Michael
T. Donegan Association. the Tammany Hall General
Committee the XIIth Assembly District Tam
many District Committee Amty Council. Catholic
Benevolent Legion and the Robert De Wit Asso-
citation. The Board or Alderintn were present III d"
body.
Colonel Henry Potter pleaded guilty In General
Sessions yesterday TO passing worthless checKs on
Smith & Mcneil. the Wnshlngton-st. restaurant
keepers. and others. Recorder Smyth RENAMED him
for sentence.
The second lecture for children in the abridged
course on the mysteries OF Flowers" by William
Hamilton Gibson given Tor the benefit % the
Neyv-York Kindergarten Association. was deliV-
cred in the Manhattan Athletic Club Theatre at
Madison-ave. and Forty ATHEIST. Yesterday after
noon Mr. Gibson told about the curious habits Of
the rhododendron. the barberry blossom and many
other interesting flowers The last OK these lectures
for children Will be given ncxt Saturday afternoon
at O'Clock.
The sale OF the sano collection Of objects of art
from China and Japan at the American Art Gal
lories No. o East Twcnty-thrd-st. was nnl'h'i
yesterday. Twenty-slx queer masks. about three
hundred years old sold for got They were IN
tended for use in the mo" dance \ bronze vase
thirteen inches high. inlad with gold. silver and
shakulo work brought ~. II won first award
at the Worlds Fair
The Association OF Master Plumbers OF the city
OF New-Yorb gave rs annual ball last night In the
assembly rooms OF the handsome, new Central
Opera House. Sixty-scvcnth-st.. between Second
and Third ayes. This Is the fourteenth annual ball
given by the master plumbers and It was pro-
nounced the most successfl Of them all.
The Metropolitan Museum OF Art will be open
free to the public to-day and Saturday from 10 a.
m TO Z D m and tomorrow evening from to 20
o'clock. The price OF admission in the daytime to-
morrow is % cents.
Admission to the Museum OF Natural History is
free to-day and tomorrow from a. IN. TO 5 p IN.
and Saturday from a. m to 10 p. m