New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-09
GOSSIP or THE DAY.

The Social Reform Club meets tonight at NO
IS East Fourth-st. for the discussion Of the sub
ject THE Building Department" Stephenson Con-
stable is the speaker. Women invited. Execu-
tive Council meeting will be held at '43 p. m. the
regular club meeting at 81! The business OF the
to be taken in the relief Of the unemployed
Clio was entertained yesterday at the home of one
OF it's members. Mrs Phillips No. 33l West Seventy
frst-st. IT was Tongfeows Day, but, as pleasing
interude Mrs Wentworth introduced. and
spoke Of physical culture and massage Mrs: Went
worth has only lately returned from West virginia,
whore she has been teaching physical culture In the
schools.
meeting under the auspices OF the New-Yorl
County Womans Christian Temperance Union Will
be held tonight i'm the Central Metropolitan Tenn
pie Seycnth-aye. and Fourtcenth-st. The meeting
will be addressed by Mrs Helen l.. Bullock OF FL
mira. y. Y. wcl-known evangelistc worker and
National organizer of the W. G. r L. This IS Of
a series of meetings beginning January 81, 1897,
and continuing through February and March. Mrs.
bullock has. during the weeks work In different
city churches and missions added a number Of new
members to unions in the county. and organized
two new unions. one at the meeting held on Febru-
III Ihirty -ninth-st- and one on February at the
Amity Baptist Church. in Fifty-fourth-st.
The meeting Of the New York branch Of the Ma
tional Alliance of Unitarians and other liberal
women viii be held NJ II a. m. in the parOrs OF the
Church Of the Messiah Park-ave. and Thirty
iourth-st. The meeting is to be addressed by Mrs.
DIV Mrs 'atli ana Mrs BlshOpric. all Of Brooklyn.
rnTk hming dr %" h INNS Il tne Aiiahce ana me
the country. All ladies Interested in Alliance work
are invited 10 be present. whether members OF the
Alliance or not
a lecture by Henry Austin Adams under the
spices Of the Girls Lyceum OF the Church OF the
Holy Rosary in Eas one hundred a nd nineteenth
ST. VIII be given this evening. Subject: Cuba"
Mrs Louise Seymour Foughton gave lecture on
The Stolen Gods" yesterday morning at the home
OF Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James. No. y Park-ave.
David Garrlck' was the subject Mrs Berrmann
chose yesterday morning for her second talk OF
series she is giving on The Drama" at the parish
house OF Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal church
Lenox-ave. and Northumberland twenty-second-st
The Colonial Chapter OF the n. r. met yesterday
afternoon at the home OF Mrs. Joseph Robinson.
Among tho FREQ lectures given last evening was
one on Architecture Of Network City" by D. r.
Huntington at Grammar School No. 50.
The Patriotic Club will meet this evening ut sis
O'Clock at the Waldorf Greater New-York" will
be tho theme for discussion. Among the prominent
speakers will be General r. f. Tracy. president
OF the Commission on tho charter; Edward Lauter-
/ bach and John Sabine Smith More than half the
members and some of the officers Of this club are
women.
The Young Peoples Association Of 81. Luke's
! Church. Brooklyn. a charity euchre party last
evening for the benefit Of s.. CHESS Home in Robin
! son Hall, No. loi Gates-ave
The Business womcn's Republican Club held Its
regular weekly meeting last night in the Hamilton
Bank Building.
The National Society OF New England Women
will give breakfast at the Waldorf on Tuesday
/ March ? The arrangements are being made by an
Entertainment Committee consisting OF Mrs Cyrus
s iade. Miss Wnfrcd wilson Miss Grace jenkins
ing will follow the breakfast
The demand for teachers in the city schools has
for some time been In excess OF the supply. Al
present there are eighty vacancies. and the eligible
list is exhausted Mr. Jasper says that II IL neces
sary make about 6pp appointments a year, while
the graduates OF the Normal College number only
about $50 ii year
The first meeting OF the Womans Club OF Brook
Ign was h'ld Monday afternoon Mt the Young
J WOmen's Christian Association Miss Helen u
Montgomery OF Rochester president Of the State
| Federation OF Woman's Clubs. read paper or
The Ethics of Money Spending" The address
was followed by discussion ana then Miss Lillian
| Houding sang TWO songs. Tea was served at the
conclusion e The programme The club VIII give
I a reception to Mrs. Montgomery this afternoon a
the residence OF Mrs. Iewett, No. 1872 Congress-st
Mrs Theodore Sutro still remains a devotee OF
I the law She is trying 10 organize some OF
/ her friends into class which will meet every
| Saturday morning I'm her parlors. James H. Laird
| has consented 10 act Instructor IL sufficient
| number Of women found willing 10 make the
! experiment.
The Woman's Christian Tcmpera ice Union OF the
1 State of New-York has issued an appeal the
members OF the Legislature asking them TO use
their influence with that body the passage
| OF a resolution urging the Federal Government "a
ratify the arbitration treaty The letter Is signed
/ by Mary TOwnc Bart. president; Ella a. B0ole
/ first vice president. Frances Hamilton Graham
/ corresponding secretary: Nellie II. Hutchinson, re-
/ Cord'ng secretary Ellen lie Gro Tcnney treasurer
| and Sarah W. Collins, sup erncndcnt OF the de
I partment of peace and arbitration.
In an apartment house fire which occurred the
day before yesterday at No 7Ss Myrtlc-ave Brook
Ign. and already mentioned in The Tribune. two
women a baby and a little boy were rescued by
Alexander Black. the author Of the picture play
/ Miss Jerry" While the hrcmen were occupied
I'm the front OF the house and * was supposed tina
/ all the occupants had been removed, Mr.. Black
/ who was watching the fire from his own house
/ noticed "A movement in the fourth story Of a rear
Immediately 10 the scene. not stopping go round
by the street but climbing the Intervening fences
and then climbing the hre-cscapes succeeded in
saving four lives.
HEALTH AND FOOD.