New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-08
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oo.,rc ~ tho Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Assoc
citation will be held at the Waldorf on Friday al
n. M Principal William Peterson Of McGiii uh'.
vers;y Montreal, will speak on me hei"''o"' Va
Misunderstanding Peoples
The New-York Society of Ceramic Arts will have
It's Easter exhibition at NO. Y East HAN'ee''''-"'''
from March 10 to a.
1s..c Townsend Smith will lecture on Early
Maritime Life in New-Engand" on Friday at $50
n m before the New-York Genealogical and BIO
graphical Society, No % West Forty-fourth-s''
Claude Falls wrigh; will lecture in Chickerins
Hall at II a. m. to-day, on Evolution
The Jewish Alliance and Bible Society VIII nave
an entertainment on Tuesday at S:io p H. III
Temnle Emanuel Assembly Hail. FifIh-ave. ana
Forty-third-st
Mayor Strong gave a hearing yesterday on inc
bill finding the act abolshing the Department
of Charities and Correction. and making separate
denartments Of them. The amendments are OF me
na,ure OF a definition OF the powers OF these TWO
sanarate DEPARTMENTS and their purpose is so 10
regulate the departments that they Will not c!ash
Nobody appeared against the bill. whle Cohihis-
sioner OBeirne, OF the Charities Department ana
II c. Folks Of the State Charities Aid Association
appeared for the measure and said that 1t met the
approval Of all concerned. The Mayor returned '"e
bill TO Albany with his approval
The meeting OF the Princeton Club TO be held al
as the occasion OF the first semi-pubiic exhibition
IN this city of the new X-ray photography. Pro-
fessor William F. Magic will give an account OF
the recent Investigations at Princeton on the gem
eral subject Of electrical discharges In vacua ana
the practical results and values Of recent discov-
cries He will illustrate his remarks by actual
demonstrations as we'll by series OF photo
eraphs of surgical cases and other objects. He
will exhibit and explain the shiascope by which
direct observations can be made by the hon'eeh
rays. and the apparatus employed in N-ray pnotog-
raphy and will use the apparatus in the taking OF
photographs.
The Metropolitan Museum OF Art is open free TO
the public from 10 a. to sunset on Tuesdays.
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays: on Sunday
afternoons from o'clock sunset, and on the
evenings OF Mondays and Fridays. on Mondays
and Fridays from 10 O'Clock until sunset ccpy:s,s.
art students and members Of the Museum only are
admitted free; others have to pay an entrance fee
OF % cents on these two days
The Museum OF Natural History is open week
days from to O'Clock. On Tuesday and Saturday
evenings from to 10 o'clock the public Is admitted
! free On Sundays 1t Is open from l to 5 o'clock.
Admission is charged on Mondays and Tuesdays
At a meeting held at TIE Hotel Normandie on
! March permanent organization to consolidate
| all patriotic and historical societies under roof
was established by the election OF Ferdinand p.
Earle as president and W. W. Kenly secretary.
| The chosen for the organization. as re-
ported. the Associated Societies and Historical
! Museum Building OF the City OF New-York. The
presiding officer OF each Of the patriotic. historical
genealogical. military ard naval societies was re-
ouested TO cooperate in this movement by sending
representative. to be member of what will be
| known as the Committee OF Thirty. These repre-
| sentatves will meet at the Hotel Norman1ie on
March "A. at $50 p. m.
| Captain John L. Brewer. the pigeon-shot. who
! was arrested by Central Office Detectives j. j..
OBr,en and Dornan warrant from Bridgeton.
| Cumberland County. n. j.. charging him with
selling mortgaged furniture purchased from the
Mcpherson Furniture Company. OF Bridgeton was
rearragned yesterday afternoon in the Centre
Street Court. and held by Magistrate Crane to
await the arrival OF extradition papers from New