New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-12
NETWORK CITY.


Cole Norton VIII be held in the Centrai rarK bap
RET Church. Eighty third-st. east of Third-aVo''
Tomorrow at p. m. DR.. Norton was pastor vi
the church for twenty-eght years ana resigned
IN 1891 on account OF failing health He was pastor
emeritus until his death, April 13 last. Dr. NOT
20, was horn in Connecticut in 1927, and was q
graduate of the University or Rochester anu 'ho
Rochester Theological Seminary.
The Armorv Board met yesterday and passed q
resolution asking the Sinking Fund Commission
to approve the new site for the 69th regiment ar
morv at Twenty-third-st. and Lexlnstoh-aVe' IL
the Sinking Fund Commission approves the selec-
,on Of the site the Armory Board will advertise
Gov MANS and specifications for the new armory.
Tho cost will not be definitely known until tho
plans and estimates Of the architect are received
and acted upon
The National Association of Elocuonists will
hold meetings here June % to July 2 To-night'
June 10 and 26. at p m. preliminary neethss
will be held at the home or Mime. IL. ~ |'ioo'''
No Sc West Fiftieth-st
The Collegiate Club composed of men connected
with the Second COLLEGIATE Church, OF Harlem.
met on Thursday evening at the home OF its presi-
dent James H. Kennedy, No 10 St Nicholas-ave.'
and gave him a handsome piece of cut glass. Ed
ward G. Wells made the presentation speech
"rhe Mystery Of the Trinity" and It's practical
lessons will DO discussed tomorrow morning
Trinity Sunday by Dr. Remensnyder at BIT
enty-third-st
The funeral Of DR.. Robert Scott Of No. S2 East
sixtvninth-st took place yesterday IN the Presby-
terrain Hospital, where he died Wednesday, he
had been there a week, undergoing treatment lot
cancer Of the stomach. DR.. Scott was native OF
Scotland and a graduate Of Edinburgh University.
He was unmarried.
BISHOP Capers in behalf Of the Bishop OF tho
diocese will administer the rite Of confirmation at
nf ha ShpDherd
Almshouse Blackwelrs Island, tomorrow at
n m A special boat will leave East Twenty-sxth-
st. at go o'clock.
The mutilated trunk Of a mans body was found
floating In the North River near Eleventh-st. yes
terday morning. The head. according TO theory
Of the police had been cut off by the paddle
| wheel Of a steamboat. perhaps eaten away by
fish Nothing but the remnants OF what was ohco
a pair Of trousers covered the body
The New-York City Local Union of Christian En-
| deayor will give n reception In honor of tho Rev
| Dr and Mrs Francis +. Clark in Carnegie Hall on
| Tuesday at 7:45 p. m. Dr. Clark is returning from
q trip around the world in the interests or Chris
| tian Endeavor.
The Appellate Division Of the Supreme Court
handed down a decision yesterday ordering tho re-
| instatement Of George Weideke as member OF
| the police force Weideke dismissed for being
| of post.
Strikes are threatened by the Plain and Orna-
mental Plasterers' Society to compel the bosses TO
observe tho new rule Of the union. that all fore
men must be elected by the union from candidates
| nominated by the bosses. The latter have until
| Monday to send In their nominations. and those
who fail to do WILL 1t is SAID be treated as non
| union BOSSES and strikes will be ordered against
| them.
Charles F. Jones. advertising manager for 6iegel,
Cooper & Co., this city. will open an advertising
| agency about July /, and will make a speciality OF
| advertisement writing
The Rev Maitland Alexander. recently called
| from Long Branch to the pastorate OF the Harlem
PRESBYTERIAN Church. will address the meeting for
| men at the Harlem Branch OF the Young Mems
| Christian Association. No. West One-hundred-
| and-twenty -lfth-st.. tomorrow at 4:3O p. m.
Walter B. Pollock. auditor Of freight accounts.
and other officials from the Grand Central Station
will witness the game Of baseball TO be played by
teams from the offices Of freight and car accounts
| at Van Cortlandt Park to-day Mt p. m.
The will of silvanus 8 Riker was filed IN the
! Surrogae's Office for probate yesterday. The tes-
tator divides his estate among his brothers, John.
| William Samuel and Daniel S. Rker; his sister.
! Lavnia. and his brother-in-law. Adrian d. Dett-
mars.
| The steamship Augusta Victoria. OF the Ham,
| burg American Line. which is expected TO arrive
| here from Hamburg to-day. has undergone extern
sive alterations since her last visit to this port
|
insertion Of a new section amidshlp Her masts
| have been resteppod and her three big tunnels
| placed further apart. large social hall has been
| constructed and forty-three additional staterooms
| have been provided. BY the addition Of a large
new double ended boiler. her horsepower has been
increased from 1900 $500. which is expected to
| increase her speed from "a little more than eighteen
knots TO nearly twenty knots an hour.
! "Childrens Day" will be appropriately observed
| IN ST. James's Methodist Episcopal Church. Madi-
son-ave and Onehundred-a invent y-sixth-st. to-
| morrow at 1890 o'clock There will be exercises
| by the Sunday -schoo and address by the pas
! tor Dr. Triple, who will also preach In the even
| Ing at 745 o'clock. on THE Patriotism OF the
| Flag"
Al Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church. One
hundr and twen mini hist. and Seventh-ave, the
! pastor the Rev. DR.. Ensign McChesney. will preach
tomorrow. both morning and evening In the
evening his discourse will be from the text 1.-TWO
Ways of Praying"
| J. r. McGoveru. former member OF the Paulst
Society who has become a Protestant under the
! instruction OF the Rev. James a. OConnor. viii
deliver address at Christs Mission. No li2
West Twenty -frstst.. tomorrow evening. the
reasons that induced him TO change his faith.
| The Cunard steamship Campnna. which usually
fals for Liverpool Saturdays. will sail next
Thursday. In order to allow her passengers to ar
!, rive In London in time 10 attend the Queens Ju-
| az