New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-30
THE DAYS GOSSIP.

THE DAYS GOSSIP.
A fair for the benefit Of ST. Andrews Protestant
Episcopal Church will be opened this evening n
the Sunday-school rooms. Fifth-ave. and One-hun-
dred-and-twenty-se venth-st
The quintet OF the Polytechnic Institute. Brook
lyn will play this evening at an entertainment TO
The C,yitas Club OF Brooklyn has arranged for
a series OF lectures TO be given by John Graha'n
Brooks. Of Cambridge. TO begin January In Assoc
citation Hall. The general topic VIII be on Ihe
Social Question as Seen Through Some Leading
Personalities OF Our Century" and some Of the
subjects OF the different lectures Will he MAJ a
zini or Ethics OF Citizenship f; Carlyle or hour
Nearest Duty"
The For, Greene Chapter of the Daughters of
the American Revolution has requested similar
natr,o,ic societies to Join with It In raising FUNDS
for n monument TO the prison-ship martyrs OF inc
Waabout. This request was sent ai'er ''e 'as'
spring meeting. The Sons OF the American new
luton have lent favqraole ropy u,,e William
McKeever, Elijah Robinson kennedy anu N'''"''
Horatio King
Thu Young People's Society Of the Church OF inc
Messiah will hold Its first literary ana musicAi
entertainment this evening at Sl9 O'CLOCK !" '"e
church parlor at Park-ave. and lhir'y-ioui ''-S''
An informal bu. interesting programme has oeeh
arranged by a committee OF manageneh!: go nd
Ing OF Mis-. Anna f. Thomson. MISS carey anu
Walter Hess.
new course OF the lectures called free
Lectures to the People was begun last ""eA ~
Institute Hail. No as East apd Friday
evenings. and are illustrated by stereop''co" wow"
Al the so,,ety for Political Culture, No 2a West
-eighth-st Mrs. Richard NJ. Bent VIII SPEAK
this afternoon on Andrew Jackson
tn. New-Jersey Woman Suffrage Association
will hold an annual meeting this afternoon pes'n
ming at o'clock. at Wissner Hall NO oil ID "'a
st. Newark for the election OF officers anu 1e e,
gates TO the National Convention 10 ne he 49,
Washington in February Ms M2riana " su Srp
man president OF the New orK NOinhI' s'''"e0
association will speak on school suffrage
The Old Guard the oldest veteran organization
in New-York CITY, consisting OF the veterans oi INC
National Guard and members OF the Grand army
will take part in the grand benefit given at the
Metropolitan Opera House this evening ana 20
morrow evening under the auspices OF 'he ~"
t,onal Society Of NewEngland Women. III 'i'e
tabeau representing the raising OF tho nag al 'le
evacuation OF New-York City by the br'uSn,
This tableau is most appropriate to the oid
Guard Il beins its time -honored custom 10
celebrate that day. The organization. when con-
sIst. OF many members OF the It'll Regiment ana
other regiments Of the National Guard' ""as >
lends It's Endorsement to so worthy cause M '',
and the members all taking great Interest a'u
delight In being present this evening Inc oiu
Guard seem, 10 have found new life since the new
Major s. Ellis Briggs. has taken connthu my III
great prspara;ions have heen in Janary and is
expected to surpass anything ever given III '"'S
city
All the women employed as city stenosraphers
IN Chicago have Just been discharged by Mayor
Harrison The cause for this step ia said 10 ne
on account Of the noise and disorder, OF cha,,c,I
ana laughter which went on in corridors. although
the women declare II is 10 make room ior ulc
friends OF the political attaches who are clanofhB
for jobs.
A lecture on Georg. Flo, and George Sand will
be given tonight at the home OF Mrs. James y
Noyes No. Is West Eighty min thIs'. oy Ms ,h.
Abbie Sare Richardson. The proceeds are TOT the
benent Of the Bloomlngdale Nursery
A ,.uuI,r mee,lng OF the woman's Municipal
Improvement Association OF Newark. y. j. VIII
be hold this afternoon. at o'clock nj tho BOARD
OF Trade rooms The Executive COMMITTEE has
Secn in weekly session for some months evolving
schemes for improving the plans OF the ASSOCIATION
Mis-, Lillian North /. young woman VINO Is
endeavoring 10 OFFER an equitable solution OF INC
problem Of capital and labor. represented In the
silk factories OF Paterson. y J. Tn" SIX we"Vefs
ar. suffering through the closing or removal al
rac,ori,, and the manufacturers declare that th'
movements OF the strikers some year: ago com
PEELED the action since taken Miss North adyo
cate, n society in which employers and employs
shall meet on equal terms and learn to know one
nnother's needs
Special teachers are employed n some OF thu
! evening public schools for the Instruction OF for
| eisners In the English language There are SAID
TO b. something like four thousand pupils Of thi'
| The teachers say they learn with surpri-ng quick
| mesa especially the collcqulal terms bearing or
] al hr.H gha n
! books are used Tho Russians are declared to b
| tho quickest In acquiring the new language
| TIL. visitor. at the Horace Mann School have
been 80 many that II has been found necessary Il
| appoint special visiting days In the elementary
! school and kindergarten apartment on Wednes
days and THURSDAYS Of each weeH STRANGERS wi, VIII
| at the ONCE. on the second floor.
museum collection that will be OF great IN
,erest 70 Bible students viii be on exhibition Thu
week from 3 70 10 p. m. In the new pnrish-hous'
! of a. Michaers No. 225 West Ninety -ninth-st TIT
collection consists Of a raised map. ten feet long
| OF tho Holy Land. models OF both ancient an'
| modern Jerusalem. models OF the temples OF Solo
| mon and OF Herod. pictures. an Eastern mil al
Eastern tomb and Oriental gaFmemss y, tS.
who come to see the exhibit. The subject Of th
;ine The exhibit Will close Friday night.
| Mrs Sarah Coweli lie Moyne gave a reading las
| ,iob. In IN. nall OF the Young Women's Christian
! Association at No East Fiftcenth-st.
| Another Priscilla Alden is living In washington
| City She Is child OF three or four years ne
fathers name is William. and her grandfather
| a.y,nour Irntu recently the GRANDPA her has bee
! living In Leicester. Addison County; W.. wh'r
! there are several Aldcrs claiming direct drsc.h
! from the first John and Prisci!lh
Mis-, Maud speirs whose accident was referee
! TO on this page yesterday. was in n more precari
on, condition yesterday. and yet the chances o
her recovery are improved. She Is doing as wei "a
can be expected. but not until after the inhamma
ton pcr,od about ten days has passed. can It b