New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-14

dred- -ffth-st. last night TO attend the
annual commencement exercises, The first adj
class gave an Interesting exhibition of binding up
fractured limbs and the like, AFTER winch L.
wa mnsca AND WSre sS q s6epar
Kittebel Peeler and Beatrice Aberhardt.
An entertainment was given last evening In the
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Fifty-third-
ST. and Madison ave. for the benefit Of the Fresh
Air Fund. About $500 was realized. The entertain
solos given by Miss Amy Baker Miss Maud Nor
gan, Bruno S. HUM and James Marshbanks
The regular meeting OF the Church Association
for the Advancement of the Interests of Labor was
held last night in the guidroom Of the Church Of
the Ascension, No !? West Eleventh-st. C me
nneH WORKERS whose subject was. what the
Church Can Do to Help Organized Labor
The Farmers Club composed Of the members OF
the Agricultural Section of the American institute
held its regular monthly meeting and exhibition or
products at the American Institute, at No i'll
West Thirty eighth-st., yesterday afternoon Abou;
three hundred members and others interested In
advanced methods of cultivation of vegetables were
present. Papers were read the Forcing
of Vegetables Under Glass" Owing TO the absence
because OF Illness of the president. DR.. F. n Hex
amer 7. l.. Harris presided. C. i. Allen; or Elorai
Park. Long Island; William Anderson, OF Mamaro-
neck; j. W. Withers of this city; Arthur Her
rington, of Madison. n. J.: Samuel IIenshaws who
city, S0n and + VIII Witt sn' of 0S
County. made short addresses or read papers
the subject of the meeting III was decided
to form a horticultural section. and the committee
having the affairs Of the agricultural section IN
pns TSs monthly sxbon
S Yeserda w' exhibition included specimen straw
berry plants in full fruit from the farm or II.
thur thur He @ghey The fru ran fifteen to the
quart and many exceeded two ana on. haf ounces rs
Arnold. Constable & Co. contributed fine speci-
mems Of mushrooms and tomatoes from MS Ma
sylvania' Massachusetts Connecticut New-Jersey
and New-York. and from the Southe'l States, he
! ton closed last evening
Richard Watson Glider delivered an address yes
terday afternoon before the students OF the Col
lege of the City Of NewYor.s by invitation of the
Students Club. Mr.. elders subject was "Civic
Patriotism; Two Roberts: An Object Lesson" One
Of the two Roberts was Colonel Robert g.. Shaw,
who was the commander of the first black rogi-
in the 7th Regiment OF New-York then an officer
In a Massachusetts regiment and finally became
colonel Of the black regiment, organized IN Massa-
chusetts lie was killed at Fort Wagner. A bronze
monument TO him. by st. Gaudens. is TO be un-
Robert ROSS Who was Killed by bar Shea in
Troy. while defending the purity Of elections mr.
and came Of a distinguished family. Robert Ross
was poor. mechanic and salesman. They are
enually illsrious for the nobility of their patriot
ism. New-YorlS is greater in area ana IN popus-
ton than Of the most famous cities In MS MS
having 60 a good time to think of civic pride. we
need more citizens who will devote as mnch time
and energy keeping rascalS out of office as they
would in keeping a foreign foe at bay. No foreign
enemy can permanently injure the United States
but ~ we let corrupt bosses manage our politics
and take charge OF our local government we sha!
have Europe pointing the finger Of scorn at us ana
universal suffrage:
A special meeting Of the Veteran Corps Of the
Goth Regiment was held last night In the armory at
which It was announced that the annual dinner
The s & OF ,a he for
April "a. one day later. this year.
There will be a meeting of the United British
Societies thig evening at the Caledonian Club house.
Nos and 10 Horatio-st, at o'clock, to make ar
rsngements for the celebration OF Queen Victora's
diamond jubilee.
The Society OF American Artists has elected the
following officers. President, John La Fargo; vice.
president, Kenyon Cox; secretary George H. bafSe
BOARD OF Control, William Bailey Faxon; these
Robert Gordon, Hardic, benjamin Foster. Laura
Hills. Maxfield Parrish and Paul Bartlett.
A speciaI meeting of the trustees of the College
Of the City of New-Yori Will be held tomorrow
al 4S0 p. m. at No 1is Grand-st.
TIL. General Committee of the Music Teachers
National Association will meet Monday ut p m.
at Mrs Theodore sutro's home. No. 90 Fifth-ave
Joseph Jefferson will speak on THE Drama" be,
fore the Union League Club on April 20 at $50
O'clock.
Edward Kemp will give dinner of fifty covers
AZ tho buckingham Hotel on Saturday TO the ofli-
GERS OF the 9TH Regiment and to friends
Willia y, L. Sherwood. who has become well known
as student Of natural history and writer OF art-
cles on such subjects read paper at the regular
semi-monthly meeting of the Linn9an Society OF
New-York at the American Museum OF Natural
History last night on THE Frogs ana Toads OF
the Vicinity Of New-York city" Mr. Sherwood
said that there were eleven different species OF
these in and around Greater New-York. There
were four varieties of tree frogs-the peppers crcK-
et frogs acrio frogs and green tree frogs Besides
these there we're the ordinary green frog and the
hullfrog celebrated in song and story, inc WOOD
frog the leopard frog, the pckerel or shad frog
tho hermit sJ,adefdot frog and the toad. MI Shcf-
wood gave an interesting account OF each frog IN
,lain English, calling attention to "a renarkabe
sact which he said had never been brought out
~ students OF evolution This was that the fora
non oyale" of an unborn infant, the aperture hat
nnnnects the two divisions Of the heart untii the
lime of birth and whose existence has never been
Satisfactorily accounted for has its only counter