New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-18
NEW-YORK CITY.

The I'd Battery. Captain David Wilson, will be
reviewed by BrigaderGeneral Louis Fitzgerald
at the armory. Thrty-fourth-st. and Park-ave., on
Tuesday evening.
The Citizens Line steamer Saratoga. having been
thoroughly repaired and put in perfect condition.
will resume her trips to-day. leaving Pier No. 46.
West Tenth7st., at p. m.
The Board Of Education will meet Wednesday at
p. m.
Fire Commissioner Sheffield, who expects to be
reapponted by Mayor Strong May 1, yesterday
submitted a report showing that during January.
February and March OF this year there were l077
fires in the city. and that the loss in each
fire was only $500. While the number of fires was
about as large as usual during those months, he
said the average loss was less than in any
spending period for ten years.
Since William Euclid Young was expelled from
the New-York Stock Exchange the firm Of E. b.
Cuthbert Co.. in which he was a partner. has
had no membership in the Exchange. The man.
ager of Cuthbert & Co. said yesterday that their
branch Offices. Broadway and Thirty-third-st.
and in Eighth-st. had been closed up because they
did not pay.
There two deaths in. the storage of the big
North German Lloyd Line steamship Friedrich der
Crosse, which arrived mere yesterday on her first
trip from Bremen One was woman who died
from tuberculosis. and the other a child who suf-
steamer $50 Storage passengers from the Koengin
Luse Of the North German Lloyd Line. which had
10 put into Falmouth. England on account of dam
age to her steering gear.
The Master Steam and Hot Water Filters AS
ISOLATION had long conference in the Wool Ex-
change, in West Broadway, yesterday. Another
conference with the locked-out workngmen will
be held tomorrow, and 1t is expected that
amicable settlement may be reached. In that case
all the sympathetic strikes now in force will be
declared off by the Board OF Delegates. which will
be in session until late in the afternoon
The shoemakers who work for the fashionable
shops in the city reported yesterday that they had
won their demands in three shops In the neghbor-
hood Of Wall-st. without having 10 strike Their
employers have acceded 10 a demand for an in
crease Of 30 cents pair for making shoes. The
strikes In the shops Of Oliver Moore and John Tur-
ill., in West Forty-second-st.. were also declared
off yesterday the proprietors giving the increase
In wages demanded. The shoemakers all belong TO
one union, and chiefly Engshmen. They
sert that they monopolize the work Of making foot
gear for the best people In this city. The work Is
all done by hand, and the supply OF men used TO
doing II is said TO be limited.
The secretary Of the Civil Service Board yester-
day afternoon said that II Governor Blacks Mid
night" Civil Service bill passed. 5000 candi
dates on the eligible list would be thrown and
their chances for appointment destroyed lie ad-
VlbeS tnOse OH tnt W u
once with their respective Senator's and Assembly
men and urge them to fight the bill tooth and nall
Postmaster Dayton yesterday received n report
that fire occurred In the postal-car OF the Hous
ton and FL Paso Railroad about 2:b o'clock last
Sunday, between Eagle Lake and East Bernard,
Tex Two sacks OF Mexican mail addressed 10 the
New-York Office. the report says. were damaged
and the contents scorched.
Though the immense apple crop OF 1896 has hard
ly proved a paying one for growers or exporters.
the wide foreign distribution permitted by low
prices and the urgency of rushing the great surplus
out OF the way may work to a good purpose.
Heretofore Great Britain has been the chief pur
chaser OF export apples, but the Continent
now also promises 10 provide an additional outlet.
Germany particularly realizes the excellence OF
American apples. and the United States Consul at
Frankfort. well as merchants correspondents.
proclaims good future market there
The Saturday meeting OF the Brotherhood Of
Tailors was held Walhaa Hall, In Orchard
near Grand. I'VE getting our organization
strengthened" snid the secretary. George Cohen.
I'm a couple Of weeks doubtless will have every
thing In shape to make demands widely known
to employers"
New quarters for Station c. of the New-York
Postofiice at Broadway and Fifty-hrst-st.. were
equipped and opened yesterday. The interior OF
the new station designed after model
hibited at the Worlds Fair. The district OF the
station is west OF Fifth-ave. and Central Park, be-
tween Forthwith and Seventeen SITS.