New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-04
NETWORK CITY.

The annual meeting OF the New-1ork southern
Society was held on Thursday at the Firth Avenue
Hotel The following officers were elected freSF
dent Dr. William NJ Polk; vice-president Angus
tus Van Wyck: chaplain. the Rev Dr' Johh W
Brown; treasurer Willis Browning; secretary
Percy Mallett Samuel H. Buck and Allen -
Redwood were elected members Of the Executive
Committee for the short term and Hugh .,
THOMPSON Burton y Harrison Clarence cary ana
J. Hampton Robb for the long term
The Board Of Trade and Transportation asks
merchants who meet with delay In getthg 'HeiI
goods through the Appraisers stores 10 give nouce
TO APPRAISER Waterman. The Treasury Department
has nrorn,sed 10 provide an adequate force OF eX-
en,irers and is expected 10 increase the present
number If convinced OF the need Of doing SO
The elders Of the churches of the New-York Pres
bvtery are requested to meet for prayer ana con-
ference on Monday afternoon at 4:oo O'CLOCK IN INC
chanel OF the First Church Eleventh-st-' west "l
Ffftb-ave The object is to pray for blessing on
the meetings to be held In all the cnu' 0"'S ''''
the Committee Of Preshytery
The Society Of American Authors suggests that
all avoidahle labor be omitted on December H. the
one hundredth anniversary Of the death OF george
Washington. and Will seek to have the DAY Cd
served throughout the country.
Robert z Ely. Of Cambridge. Mass. will address
the League for Political Education. No . west
Fortv-fourth-st.. at Il m. to-day, on some MIS-
takes Of Philanthropy
At the Manhattan Liberal Club, No 22o East
Tlfteenth-st tonight Eugene Lunedorrer VIII
speak on The Charity Disease
The Lincoln chair. which to have been sold
AT auction yesterday at the Knickerbocker Auction
Roo,, No West Twenty-eighth-st.. was not
placed on sale on account OF the small attendance
II is Intended to place the chair on sale this AFTER
noon The chair was presented to President Lin
coin by the Illinois Central Railroad Company
4 thanksgiving service because Of the Punishment
of alcoholic LIQUORS from the Army and Navy Will
be held tomorrow evening IN Calvary Baptist
Church West Ffty-seventh-st.. at which history
Of the struggle leading up 10 the victory VIII he
given Addresses viii be delivered by the Rev Dr.
r 5 Macarthur. pastor Of the church and the
Rev Or James F. Dunn. general secretary OF me
National Temperance Society
There Will he a mass-meetng tonight under the
auspices Of the Friends Society at the Friends
Meeting House Rutherfurd Place and Fifteenth-
ST. 10 agitate for the abolition Of capital punish
ment.
The AlGermens Committee on Buildings was 10
have held hearing yesterday on the resolution
restricting the height Of buildings, but nobody ap-
peared either for or against the measure
The Rev Dr. John Wesley Brown. Of St Thorn
ass Protestant Episcopal Church. Fifty-third-st
and Fyfth-ave has recovered from his severe cold.
He preached yesterday afternoon before good
sized CONGREGATION on the subject "Conhrma ton
| He expects 10 preach tomorrow morning and az
| teruoon
Recorder Goff IN Part 7 OF General Sessions yes
| terdav afternoon handed down decision in regard
! 10 a motion TO transfer a gambling case from
/ Special Sessions 10 General Sessions. He denied
/ the motion in a voluminous decision, and estao-
lished the precedent that IN the future the Court
will not permit a transfer Of misdemeanors from
! Special Sessions TO General Sessions.