New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-01
NETWORK CIT Y .

The readng-room and library of Cooper Union
will be closed for cleaning for two weeks begin
ming August g.
Abner Hember sends So and C. II. c.. Trenton
n j. sends SIS for the Lassman boys, who were
found homeless and sent to the country by Inc
Tribune Fresh Air Fund Wednesday. This
money will be used to help the boys 10 S"e'e'
and work when they return
At a special meeting Of the Board OF Park COM
ntssoners Yesterday the contract for the con-
struction and Improvement Of the third section OF
Riverside Park and Drive, running from ohe-
hundred and -twentieth-st. to One-hundred ana
twenty-ninth-st was awarded to Bart Dunn Tor
sll9Oss 7s
The steamship City Of Augusta which arrived
yesterday from Savannah. Ga, brought the HIS.
bale OF new crop Georgia cotton. II was shipped
by J. T Stewart & Son, weighs $40 pounds. and
was handed with gilt straps. The marking on II
read First Georgia Bale OF Cotton, 70 ana !"
Crop" Mckinley and Gold" mo l6 to FOR
Usr' mo Fiat Money" "Our Greeting to the
Empire State OF the North" The bale VIII be
sold to-day at Il 80 o'clock by its consignees, Fat
man g. Schwarz
The steamship Monowa has arrived at San Fran
cisco with mails from Australia New-Zealand and
Hawaii duo to arrive In New-York on Tuesday
morning Mails for Australia, Hawaii etc, Via
Vancouver close at the New-fork PostoHlce at
go p. m. to-day. Malls for Australia. etc, via
San Francisco close August 10, at $50 p m' or
upon arrival Of the steamship Umbra with British
mails for Australia.
Owing TO efforts made by Postmaster Dayton. the
sailing yesterday OF the steamship Orinoco was de-
ferred sufficiently to insure the forwarding thereby
Of the mails for Bermuda brought from abroad by
the Germanc. resulting in a saving OF fourteen
days in the transit time.
Controller Fitch started on his vacation yester-
day. He will be absent a month In the Aaron
dacks where he has camp. Deputy-Controller
Lyon will act during Mr. Fitchs absence
Deputy Commissioner Gibson. Of the Street
Cleaning Department yesterday sent to the Bureau
Of membranes several letters he has recently re-
celved protesting against the boxes. barrels ana
refuse placed on the sidewalks surrounding Ganse-
WORT Market. and Superintendent Henkei dis
matched a number Of officers conhscate all the
stuff that incumbers the street. The Superln-
tendent says all distractions must go.
The Rev Dr. James G. Patterson, pastor OF tho
Fast Harlem Presbyterian Church will address
maetine Of men at the Harlem Branch OF the
Young Mems Christian Association. No West
hundred nd twenty -ffth-st, tomorrow after
noon at 4:30 o'clock.
The clerks in the Custom House have been traf-
licking In the one-dolar silver certihcates'
They heard yesterday that the printing ~ the bills
rad been stopped account Of the m spelling or
the word "tranquty' in the scroll on the face OF
the BILL and In their anxiety to make purchases
the premium raised TO 10 cents
The new sanitary regulation requiring the separa-
lien Of ashes and garbage will be enforced by the
police ard Street Cleaning Department on and
after to-day. Acting Chief Cortright yesterday de-
tailed twenty-five patrolmen 10 act as special as
sistants the Street Cleaning Department onlciais
in enforcing the new regulation.
Andrew Faist the insane grocer Of No. 34s East
Fifty-thrd-st who was examined by Drs Fitch
and Wildmon last Wednesday at the insane pa
vilion at Bellevue Hospital died suddenly there
Yesterday 1t was the intention Of the hospital
authorities to transfer Faist to the insane asylum
on Wards Island His death resulted from acute
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