New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-01
NETWORK CITY.


The summing up in the contested election case
of Wrks against Schillinger, in the MIN Assem-
bIv District before the committee Of the Assembly
Of which Mr. Terry IL chairman. was postponed yes
;erday to Wednesday at 10 a m
Commissioner Daily, Of the Public works Depart
ment and Lawrence Deimour Tammany leader OF
tie XXIVth District with Mrs DAILY ana MIS-
Delmour. will start for Hot Springs. Ark on Mon
dav next Mr. Daily will take the baths for his
rheumatic trouble.
The discharging of incompetent clerks IN the
NAVY Yard has already begun. Some discharges
have been made two yesterday. and 1t IS eA-
pected that others will follow in a few days
The second annual dinner of the New-York fruit
trade will be given on next Tuesday evening al
Morello's restaurant No West Twenty-nlhu-st
The dinner Is in charge OF committees from the
New-York Fruit Exchange and the Fruit Buyers
Union.
Tho Tribune has received so from Mrs. Black"
Norwalk, Conn for the Bible and Fruit Mission
The Packard Club will have dinner at the ST.
Denis Hotel tomorrow evening.
The annual meeting Of the West Side Excise Re-
form Association will be held in St Agness Han
No. l2l West Nnety-frst-st, this evening. "What
Shall We DO With the Saloon|' VIII be discussed
from various points Of view. The annual election
will be held and reports will be made. The public
invited.
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property at tie northeast corner of Broadway and
Forty -frst-st to the New-York Life Insurance
Company for 100000. to run three years. lie also
mortgaged the same property to the New-fork
Architectural Terra Gotta Company for SA..-o 10
run year.
The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church yesterday
transferred its property at Seventh-ave ana
Elghteenth-s,. TO Moses c. Byers for Si5"o
The seizure department Of the Custom House.
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States Barge Office. but which has since 1890 been
in the Custom House building. will be returned 10
the Barge Office to-day. Yesterday the clerks
in the seizure room busy packing up goods
and records transfer to the Barge Office
The Mechanics and Traders Exchange yesterday
elected the following officers Isaac A. Hopper pres-
dent; John Byrns. vice-president; Edmond a.
Vaughan. treasurer. and Elliott smith. secretary.
Company c. 22d Regiment. Will give the BLACK
Mikado" at the Central Opera House. No. 2o5 East
Sixty-seventh-st. this evening.
The Fanwood Quot club OF Deaf Mutes will give
a masked ball at Adephi Hall. Flfty-second-st and
Broadway. on next Monday evening.
The Tribune has received for the blind paralytic.
in whose behalf an appeal was made by "City
Pastor" 81 from Miss l.. ~" So from "a. VI. s.
and 81 from "E. NJ. r.
The Rev Dr. Theodore l.. Cuyler. OF Brooklyn.
will deliver lecture illustrated by the stereopt-
con, on the Columbian Exhibition at Chicago" in
the chapel OF the "Oh First" Flfth-ave and
Twelfth-st. this evening at o'clock. No admis-
sion will be charged.
Erastus Wiman will tonight FL place In the
course Of free for the people in the Grammar
School in West Forty-fourth-st. between Tenth and
Eleventh ayes His subject viii be The Great North
Land. and the Cure 1t Contains for the Hard
Times" Mr. Wiman says that since 1880 only one
person in every nine has gone to the land the
other eight have crowded INTO the cities. and this
is the Of the hard times THIS tendency
be remedied by opening up the rest Of the continent
to settlement and cultivation by oberation of
the barrier between the two countries.
The Board Of Health yesterday reduced the
Der Of licenses for slaughter houses the West
Side from twenty-nne to thirteen. Similar action
taken fortnight ago in connection with the
slaughterhouses on the East Side.
Bids were received yesterday by Lieutenant Colo
mel q. l.. Gillespie. in the Army building White
hal-st., for the removal or purchase. including
mova of the sunken dredge Flood Rock. which is
now In the east channel Of the Fast River. at
Sunken Meadows. in a position dangerou. to navi-
cation. John Austin, OF Philadelphia offered to
the Flood Rock for 1920 The Chapman
Wreckng Company. Of this city, asked g 100 for
the job William Du Bots. also OF this city. offered
TO purchase the dredge for $1,000 Lieutonant-Colo-
mel Gillespie viii forward the proposals to Washing
ton. with his recommendation of the most favor
able one.
The annual meeting OF the Sicllian Asphalt Paving
Company was held yesterday afternoon in It's Of
fees In THE Times Building The old officers were
reelected follows: President Howard Carroll;
treasurer. Charles A. Stadler; secretary g. S.
Chamberln general manager. Henry Boze The
following directors, in addition the foregoing
officers. who also members OF the Board OF
Directors. were elected: Theodore II Slleman VIII
lam c. Edger,on Henry W. Schmidt. Roland G.
Luther and julius Simon
An enthusiastic missionary rally was held last
night in the Central Presbyterian Church. in Fifty
seventh-st.. Broadway. Rouslng addresses
were delivered by the Rev. DR. y. j. Mcmillan one
Of the secretaries OF the Presbyterian Board Of
Home Missions; the Rev. DR. Sheldon jackson,
the United States Agent OF Education for Alaska.
and the Rev. Or. George l.. Spinning, Of Orange.
y. ].
The thirteenth anniversary Of the founding OF the
first Society OF Christian Endeavor Will be cele-
brated as christian Endeavor Day" by the young
people Of the country next Sunday There are over
POO OF these societies in New-York CRY and most
of them have arranged for special memorial pro-
srammes in their societies on Sunday