New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-01
NEW-YORK CITY.

The British four-masted ship Soma which her
skipper Captain Hannay. says Is the largest BRUSH
sailing ship ahoat. arrived here YESTERDAY from
Calcutta. Her agents in this city are j. w. Parker
& Co. The SomaIi is 1896 tons register. SSs feet
long A feet beam. q feet depth. and can spread
1900 square feet OF canvas. She left Calcutta on
January 2. with 1000 tons OF general cargo. She
carries crew Of thirty-nine men.
The Dock Board has agreed to the request OF the
Board Of Aldermen that roof-garden pier be con-
structed at One-hundred- and-seventeenth-st and
the East River when the proposed park in Harlem
is established
jury before Coroner Dobbs yesterday afternoon
censured the New-York Central road for not hav-
ing two gatemen stationed. one on each side OF
the tracks at Kingsbr'dge Road and McComb-st
John Brunach. a nine-year-old child. living AT
Kingsbrdge Road and Albany ave. was run over
and killed at that point on April 10 by an express
train Of the New-York and Putnam division of the
road.
Colonel Waring has changed the date Of his
parade Of white winged street-sweepers to May e.
Mayor Strong has promised Colonel Warng to re-
view the column at Madison Square.
A reading and musical will be given by the
Alumnae Association Of the Womans Art School
at Cooper Union tomorrow at p. m. F. Hopkn-
son Smith and others will take part
New-York Commandery OF the Military Order Of
LOYAL Legion Of the United States will have its
banquet. at Delmonico's next Wednesday evening.
At the dinner Major Charles A. Woodruff, OF the
Army, will read a paper I'm Memory OF the Late
Major-General John Gbbon COMMANDMENT Chief
At the request OF Controller Fitch. DR.. George
Lindenmeyr visited the Deborah Day Nursery and
Chd's Protectory. in East MISUNDERSTANDING
second-st. and examined the children and the build
ngs generally. The physician made his report 10
the Controller yesterday. and he In 1t that out
of 102 inmates he found fortyfour OF parasitic
diseases and eye diseases, and that most OF the
cases are contagious. He adds that the Indications
are that every inmate has been infected at some
time with the contagion in one form or another.
The building ne says. was in good condition. and
on the day he examined them the beds were clean.
Mails from China and Japan are due to arrive in
New-York Monday morning. The next mails for
China and Japan. after the arrival OF the above
malls will close at the General Postofnce at $50
D. m. on Monday (va Vancouver. specially adj
dressed only, and Wednesday (via San Francisco
permit was received at the Custom House from
the Treasury Department yesterday for f. Marion
Crawford the novelist. to change the OF the
pilot-boat which he recently bought from Ezra Nye
to Aida.
Major Alexander Hicks. the proprietor OF the
Tuxedo Cafe, at No. ~ West Twenty-seventh-st,
yesterday fined SIS in the Court Of Special ses-
sons for violating the Excise law. Detective Welsh
told of having purchased beer in the place during
prohibited hours and the night following Captain
Pickett of the Tenderloin precinct. in company
with Excise Inspector Hrshkind. visited the place
and found fifteen men and women there at o'clock
in the morning drinking beer.
The firm of L. Won Hoffman, & Co.. bankers. at
No. 80 Wall-st., will be increased to-day by the
addition Of Herman C. Hoskier and j. Walter
Wood. jr. and the firm OF Hoskier. Wood & Co,
which they with Gouverneur VI. Carnochan. COM
posed. will be dissolved.