New-York tribune., 1902-12-17
NEW-YORk CITY.

T,o .rr,,a1 meeting of the Medco-Legal Society
Will be held at the Hotel Montauk NO eS west
Thrty-ffth-st.. tonight. The proposed reform III
the coroners office will be discussed by Dr. Stepheh
Sn,+b Dr Harry Purdy ex-Coroner Moritz Ell
linger and others
The annual meeting and dinner OF the Men
League of Pilgrim Congregational Church VIII take
place on Friday evening in the chapel at AlauiSoi-
ave. and Observation-Disclosures -frst-sr mere
will be reports of committees, musical ana NJ
erarv programme, and address by the Rev pr'
Samuel II Virgin. the former pastor for thirty
wears on The Present Need OF Puritenism
A testimonial benefit for H j. Courtney. the Dub
lin orator will be given on Saturday evening at
AfcGovern's Hall. No. $50 West Forty-third-st-
Their. Will appear large number Of irish dancers
AMI singers among them Fttzsmmons. a reel and
Jig dancer. and Anderson, an Irish piper.
The committee on the prevention OF tuberculosis
Of the Charity Organization Society has arranged
for the delivery OF two lectures this week, to
which the public is invited. The first will be given
thi3 evening at the West Side Auditorium of the
Young Mems Christian Association. in West FIFTY
seyenth-st and will be on the subject Of Food
and Drink-Their Relation to Consumption by
Dr. Rowland c. Freeman The second lecture VIII
be tomorrow night. at the Young Peoples Asso-
ciation House in East Sixtythird-st-. on the sub
tect The Cause and Prevention Of Consumption,
by DR. ". y Berkeley.
At the dinner of the New-York Tax Reform As
socation this evening at the Hotel Savoy. the
man Of the taxation committee Of the Chamber
Of Commerce: James l.. Wells. president of the Tax
Department. and Lawson Purdy. Mr. Seward Will
speak on the work of the Chamber or Commerce
IN relation to taxation, and Mr. Wells on the Tax
Department Of the city OF New-York. Among
those who will present John s. Kennedy.
Lewis Nixon Richard A. McCurdy, Dallas b. Pratt.
Bolton Hail General Howard Carroll. Charles Fl.
Miller and Joseph 3. Bishop julien T. Davies,
president Of the association, will preside,
Printers and pressmen. to the number OF three
hundred. celebrated the thrtieth anniversary of
the Butterick Publishing Company and The De-
lineator Magazine with dinner at Terrace Gar
den last night. George W. Wilder presided About
him were. among others, r. S. O'Loughlin. c d.
Wilder. ]. f. Birmingham. J. @. Reed. H. r. Phn-
ney John Adams Thayer Charles Dwyer. J. Scan
Publow, W. NJ. Johnson, Edward Pearsali, f.
Shorter, NJ. Francis. NJ. r. o'Loughiin. J. W.
Phail j T. Murphy and R. K. Powers.
Miss Lillian Norton, of No. 40 West One-hundred-
and-twelfth-st., the student OF science who
was taken to Bellevue Hospital on December 8.
taken to the Manhattan State Hospital for the In
sane on Wards Island, yesterday Her mind had
suffered from overstudy and Justice Scott declared
her insane
President Cantor OF the Borough Manhattan
yesterday received word from the New-York Cen
trsl officials that the road would continue
ton One-hundred -and-tenth- St. which it had
proposed to abandon This action is In Difference
the protests made against the discontinuance
the station by citizens. headed by Mr. Cantor, at
the last meeting of the State Railroad Commission
Mrs Annie stapleton of No. 435 West Thirty
sxth-st., who peculiarly shocked by electricity
in Ninth-ave. electric ct Forty-second-st on
Monday said yesterday by the doctors in
Bellevue Hospital to be recovering. She cannot
yet speak She is being treated for paralysis.