New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-19
NETWORK CITY.

Owing 10 the funeral OF Mrs G. T.. Tiffany, Tif-
fanny e. Co.'S establishment will be closed to-day
The closing meeting Of the Council OF Fresh Air
Charities for the present will he held in the
library, room No 800. United Charities Building.
No l05 East Twenty second-st this afternoon at
4 o'clock report will be made on the reglstra-
ton for the season, and special addresses will be
made concerning the fresh-air work carried on by
the various agencies a. work In this city.
Prince Krapotkine Is TO lecture at Chickering
Hall this evening az 8 o'clock on THE Struggle
for Freedom In Russia
The Charity Organization Society received yes
terday the following letter. without name or ad-
dress: Dear Sir: I would ask II you would be
kind as TO do something for a family, the father
Of which is earning little. There are six chill
dren the oldest eleven years and the youngest
three weeks The winter fronts the door. They
have very little" The society would like TO hear
from the writer
Mary Hannigan. twenty-five years old. OF No.
12l6 Third-ave.. Brooklyn. became suddenly III nj
945 o'clock last night. while ascending the steps
of the Nev-York and Brooklyn Bridge at the Park
Row entrance She carried to the women's
waitng-room and ambulance was summoned
Surgeon Catherwood described the OF
heart disease and removed the woman TO the Hud-
son Street Hospital. She said that she had been
III for some time and was a patient until a month
ago in the Roosevelt Hospital
At the meeting OF the Dock Board yesterday
counsel for the Cunard Steamship Company. Mr.
Lord. appeared and asked that some consideration
he extended to the company since both piers at
Gansevoort-s and the North River. which the
Cunard Line has leased for term OF ten years
will not be ready February /. One pier will be
ready then! the other not TIL April l. Mr.. Lord
asked for information as to the date Of the leases
The matter was laid over for opinion from the
Corporation Counsel
The Charity Organization Society acknowledges
with many thanks the receipt of the following
trbutions to fit out and send to Poland a woman
and her child: "A Friend" so; Mrs. Felix NJ.
eacb: Charles w Ogden and "A Sympathizer" s
each; Henry Solomon. 81; X. Otan and IF. A. b..
81 each AS sufficient money has been received for
This case no further contributions are required.
An application to set aside conveyances Of minor
waterworks companies 10 the Reorganization Com
mttee OF tho Omaha Waterworks Company. OF
Nebraska was denied by Justice Mclaughlin in
the Supreme Court here yesterday, the Justice. In
his decision, sustaining the course pursued by the
REORGANIZATION Committee. The suit involves in
terests valued at several millions OF dollars
A successful exhibition Of the bullet proof armor
,nvented bv W. Lennard Foote, Of Brooklyn was
given Yesterday In the armory Of the list Regi-
ment Thirty fourth-st and Park-ave II was sub
mltted TO s.mllar tests couple OF weeks ago when
the armor was exhibited In Brooklyn Bullets dis
charged from the regulation rifles OF the German
and United States armies which easily penetrated
over fifty one-inch boards, placed one inch apart
and steel plates Of q quarter of an inch in thick
ness were merely imbedded In Mr. Foote's armor
Among those present at the exhibition yesterday
were consular officials Of the German Chinese and
Japanese Governments and representative of
the United States Navy.