New-York tribune., 1896-12-03
NETWORK CITY.

The British Public Schools and Universities club
held its annual meeting Yesterday at the hoiland
House The election of officers resulted in the seec-
ton of the folowing President, the Rev. d Parker
Morgan. vice-president r. NJ Stuart-Wortlcy: sec
retarv Jerome Flannery; treasurer DR.. j. A. Irwin;
governors David A. Munro Percy Sanderson. /
Channon Press Werner de Guise. J. Campbell
rhomnson and Norman S. Walker. The club de-
cided to hold three dinners on Old Christmas Day.
January 6; the Queens Birthday, May a. and the
Prince OF Wales's Birthday, November >. re-
spectively No effort TO secure headquarters Will
he made until the membership largely increases.
mortgage for loan OF 100000 on lease OF
real estate was filed yesterday In the Registers
office The property leased Is on the northeast
corner Of Sixth-ave. and Nineteenth-st. which ~
owned by William Waldorf Astor. who gave lease
for a period of eighteen and half years TO GustaV
L. Morgenthau on November Of this year The
mortgage on the lease is given by Morgenthau to
Charles A. Peabody jr. and Is for period of five
years drawing interest at D per cent
George r. Brown who was arrested recently for
stealing a woman's pocketbook in buttons book
store. yesterday pleaded guilty in General Sessions
to petit larceny. and was sentenced 10 one year III
the Penitentiary He was recognized as Chauncey
Johnson once a notorious sneak and bank thief.
who has served numerous terms in prison
The Ladies' Guild and Wesleyan League Of the
Union Methodist Episcopal Church. in West Forty
A large number of useful and ornamental articles
are offered for sale.
Chauncey NJ Depew. president Of the New-York
Central and Hudson River Railroad. and II. B
/ edyard president OF the Michigan Central Rail-
way testified yesterday before the Treasury De-
partment Commission which Is investigating
smuggling operations over the Canada line.
Seven seats on the New-York Produce Exchange
were sold by auction yesterday on the EXchange
They brought from $40 to $24o
The schooner General W. H. French. bound for
Westerly r. j. with coal yesterday struck the bar
in Peconic Inlet. Long Island She knocked a hole
In her bow and sank. The crew was saved. The
French was built in Bridgeton y. j., in 1864.
Inspector Foanes Of the Building Department.
discovered on Tuesday that the three-story tene-
ment building at No. 27s Spring-st was I'm an un-
safe condition. He Informed Galiigan. tho con-
tractor and at o'clock yesterday morning the lat
ter went to the building and shored It up tempo
rarily The necessary repairs have been ordered.
The fall meeting Of the Manhattan Brooklyn Con-
ference Of Congregational Churches will be held to-
day In the Broadway Tabernacle. This will be the
| frst session in which all the churches have Joined
since the split growing out OF the Beecher trial
|. The annual meeting OF the Physical Education So
| ciety will be held tomorrow at p. m in Hamilton
| Hall Columbia University. Forty -ninth-st. and
Madison-ave. officers will be elected. and there
| will be addresses by Jacob Bolin and Superntend-
| ent William H. Maxwell. Of Brooklyn.
| The I'd Battery. Captain David Wilson. will have
| n theatre party Al Palmers Theatre tomorrow even
| ing The whole command will go TO the theatre In
uniform and Will be entertained at supper after the
performance
| Captain Patty Watkins Lindsay OF Ballngton
| Booths Volunteers was admitted TO citizenship In
! the Supreme Court yesterday by Justice Lawrence.
| She foreswore all allegiance to the Queen OF Eng
| land and promised to be good citizen and abide
| by the laws OF the United States.
| Special meetings will be held In Cooper Union by
| the Volunteers OF America. led by Commander and
| Mrs Booth tonight They will be assisted by "A
| large stan Of field officers. a convention OF the
| leaders Of the Volunteers Is now being held at
| headauarters No. "a Union Square. The principal
work OF this meeting Is the drawing up OF the con-
| s,itution and bylaws for the organization.
| The Tribune has received 81 from F. A. b. for the
| crippled woman for whom the Charity Organization
| Society made an appeal.
| The Kit Kat Club will have Smoke night" on
| Saturday at No. ~ East Fifteenth-st when
| sketches made at the camp will be ex-
| hbited
The Pointed Boards will have a dinner on De-
cember 10 at the Restaurant Leon Fouret Fifth.
ave and Eighteenth-st. The committee consists OF
Herbert l.. Satterlee. Charles c. Delmonico and
Stowe Phelps.
The annual meeting Of Group VII. New-York
State Bankers Association. viii be held at the II