New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-12
NETWORK. CITY.

There viii! be an auction sale OF seized goods at
the Barge Office December 10 at 10 a. m The
catalogue includes cigars cigarettes and manu-
featured tobacco liquors watches jewelry. dry
goods, books. and in fact. almost everything
The Museum Of Natural History is open week
days from to 5 o'clock on Tuesday and satur
day evenings from 10 o'clock the public Is ad
mitted free on Sundays 1t is open from
o'clock Admission is charged Mondays and
Tuesdays
The Metropolitan Museum OF Art is open free 10
the public from 10 n m. until sunset on Tuesdays
Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays on sun
days from p. m. until sunset; on the evenings OF
Monday and Friday admission is . cents The
restaurant is open during exhibition hours Lcct-
ures on art are provided jointly by the Museum
and Columbia College free TO the public on sat
urdays at Il a. during the winter.
The Brearly League will give Napoleon tea FOR
the benefit OF the Brearly League Industrial School
from until 7 o'clock Saturday at the school
No Il West Forty-fourth-st. Mackenzie Gordon
will sing and there will be loan exhibition
Company G. 7th Regiment. will give Dutch
for Company G. I'd Regiment. this evening at Jae-
gers. Madson-ave and Fifty -ninth-st.
The National Women's Afro-American Union will
hold a meeting to-morrpys evening at Bethel 4. NJ
E. Church. Suivan-st.. between West Third and
Bleecker SITS
The Good Government Club OF the Xth Assembly
District No. St Marks Place will have a meet
ing evening The subject OF discussion will be-
How Improve Tenement-House Life
A series OF Thursday -morning musicals. under
the direction OF Franklin Sonnekalb. will be given
al the Hotel Majestic. seventy second-s and Cen
trail Park West on December 10. January 10 and
February T. at II o'clock.
The Society for Political Study met yesterday
afternoon at No. IA Madison-ave The programme
for the day was paper on Sanitary Conditions
and Laws OF New York city" which was 10 have
been read by DR.. Mary Brinkman. but as she vas
unable TO be present there was merely general
discussion the subject large number OF wom-
present. many OF whom had some Idea to
advance in regard sanitary reform and the I'm
provements which they considered might be made
The Pilot Commissioners yesterday presented.
through their president. Ambrose Snow. a hand
some nghtglass TO the pilots OF boat No. H. In
recognition OF their heroic rescue OF crew OF six
men from the laundering two-masted schooner
Kate +. Rich November 70 last. OF Fire Island.
Following the exhibition drill OF the LIST battalion
OF the American Guard. composed OF pupils from
our public schools. President Knox OF the Board
OF Education, has appointed the following com
mittee to meet with a committee OF the male teach
ers and from the G. a. posts: Commissioners
Coulden, Hubbell Wchrum Livingston and Steers.
meeting for the purpose OF organization will be
held this evening at the Grand Central Palace.
Forty third-st and Lexingtonave.
The South African Katir Choir a company
posed OF representatives Of tribes including
Zulus, Hottentots and Bushmen. Will give per
forrnance at the Broadway Tabernacle. Thirty
fourth-st and Broadway on Friday evening The
choir has sung before Queen Victoria. and has her
patronage In It's efforts to raise money TO build an
Industrial school TO teach the Kahir people trades.
Upon the application OF Deputy Attorney General
Hogan Judge Patterson In the supreme Court,
yesterday appointed Austen G. Fox referee 10 take
% lHh al
Bank 1t Is merely formal proceeding
Several witnesses called before the Grand
Jury yesterday testify regarding the affairs OF
the Harlem River Bank 1t is rumored that
number OF indictments may be found
The Charity Organization Society appeals for 20
toward the support for year OF an old man who.
In spite OF earnest effort is now unable to earn
sufficient to maintain himself His wife is dead.
and he has no living relatives. He bears
ccllent reputation. Money for this should be
sent TO the central office OF the society. No. 10
East Twenty -second-st.. and will be publicly and
promptly acknowledged.
The Prison Association OF New-York intends TO
celebrate It's nifty years OF work with Jubilee
meeting on February 2s officers OF the National
Prison Association OF the United States and OF
prison societies in different States will participate
There will be n conference OF prison officials and
others during the day. and in the evening large
public meeting. the place to be announced later.
The first informal meeting OF the year CT the
Williams Alumni Association OF NewYork Will be
held at the Hotel Brunswick. Fffth-ave. and Twen-
ty-sixth-st. tomorrow evening at $50 o'clock.
The funeral OF General f. i. Scammon. who died
last Friday. took place I'm the Roman Catholic
Church OF ST. Catharine OF Genoa one hundred
and fifty third-st near Amsterdam-av ave. yesterday
morning. The solemn high mass OF requiem was
sung by the Rev. Edward p. slattery. The Rev.
l. J. Evers acted deacon. and the Rev. W. +.
Meehan as sub-deacon. Archbishop Corrigan, ac-
companled by Monsgnors Seton and Farley. was
present and took part In the ceremony. The Rev.
7 f. Deshon pronounced the eulogy.