Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 10, 1875, Page 10

7 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1875.--SIXTEEN PAGES. 2a to its condition, For months less was known casm, swears that he has a dotense on tho merits 10 e 1t " very _ seld plex_of ral issuo_or generel denial wasr NOH- : THE KHICKERBOCKER. [k 2op, bt oo mitom vio s [ ot e tomaypr gronps, e i) THE STENGH-NUISANGE 0 Company, or could give any information | Secrotary, Blake, who, with aneat bit of sar- What Ts Known of a Remark- able Insurance Com- pany. How It Has Managed to Keep Clear of Paying Its Debts. Its Experiences in the Bank- rupt and Other Courts. Judze Fuller’s Statements to (he Auditor aud in His Bills, How Did His Suit for $250,- 00O Come to Be Sup- pressed. - Buying Off Obstinate Creditors H When They Got Too : Far. The Assets of the Concera as Report- od to thy Auditor. A Pleasing Series of Conundrums. It hes been tbe daty of Tre Treuxe from time to time toehow the hollowness of several of Chicago's petinstitutione. Itis now righttoshow the, more than doubtful character of another. Ciicago seems to bave becn the;paradise of fire- jnsurance compacies, which grew ub like mueh- rooms, finding no difficalty in flourishing in prosperity, bat which, when the fire came, van- ished with the smcke of that conflacration. One only, the Republic, might and would bave stood, Lad it nct unforiunately been forced into bank- raptey atter having provided in good part for its liabilities, Tho Garden City has had elerators whose bins, supposed to be full, wera roof- ed over with a jlaver of gmin; rail- roads which, when their debts grew surGensome, cased their anxieties snd dlled iheir coffers by some ghost of & road, with a new name, and povketing the troceeds from the sale ¢f its bouds; city offi- sers who “ borrowed ” the contents of the‘vanlts they were eppointed 1o gnard ; National Banks which shut their doorein a crisis, and remained idle foralmoet yesrs withoat making an effort to eettle their lia! jes ur disgorge {heir fll-kept eposits ; and savinge banks which, living with a shell of respectability, allowed scientifically- Qisposed ofiicers to Jecture learncdly on the distomacem of Lake afichigan, and when their uliar systems of *¢ Ocean ™ accounts and back were discovered, betook themselves to miore genial climes, -to coguette with the coy trout. woo the cwift salmon, or die- i cover some mew similarity between them- gclves aud their slippery brethren of tise finny tribe,—tle eels. Among the insurange’ compa “es, also, there has been s life-lusur- ence . npavy which maoeged fo support its ofticers fur two or tlree yoars, but, exhausted by the exceseive burden, dicd jntestats, leavinga Landle of papers.—unpaid bills,—s bottle of ink aud 2 penbolder to its heirsat-law,—and i chancery: w firo insurence company whosa phil- authropic_ofliecrs, who divided their time be- tween their duties to the company and to a bank in which they happenad to be interested, and * zarefully inclined ths balance of trade to tho side where 1t wonld do the mcst good, until some prons lawsems actually compelled them to dis- gorge in favor of a few thousands of needy policyholders of the insurance company. Tt is now the time to show what bas boen par- sially and by piecomeal done before, the coudi- tion'of & fire-insuranco compauy, which organ- ized spparently without stockholders, run by an ex-Judsa, withont stock, agerts, or prestige, yet clgims to have sustzined s Joss of nearly orquite £1,000.000, with no asscts to meet this Liability. THE ENICKERDBOCKER INSCRANCE COMPANT, - of Chicago, was incorporated Feb. 15, 1665, under cial charter, which was made verpotual. It hsd power to purchase, hold, or convey any es- tate, real or personal, for the msa of the’ Compuny, and _ to take fire or marine risks. The capital stock was fixed ot £500,000, of which it was necessary i0 pay in 10 per cent at first, Tho assets of the Company couid be invested in bond and mort- gage, or other approved coliateral securitics, as the Directore migot clect, and when $100,000 of stock had been subseribed the Company was to be cousidered organized. Henry Fuller, Ed- ward K. Clark, Henry H. Blake (gon-in-law of Fulier), and George W. Fuller (on of Henry Fuller), were the original corpoiators, and by the charter they’ consutnted the first Board of Directors, holding office antil January following. thea it was provided that s new Doard, of not lese than three or more than twenty-five mom- Dbers, should be elected in their stead, esch Di- rector to Lo a stockholder. > Bat, even with this most liberal chorter, Fuller and Lis relatives sesm to have Jain still for ever five years, until, a8 he himself eays in his an- wwer to a snit in chancery, the Company FINST BEGAN O ISSUEL POLICIES, in September, 1870. From that time until the great fue, in October, 1871, the Company, ac- cording to its own showing, did a gigantic busi- pesg, a8 the sworn statement given below shows sutstanding risks Dec. 31, 1670, to the amount of §781,418." The following is THE STATEMEST IN 18 made o the Auditor of State: EXICKENDOCKER INSTEANCE COXPANT. (Located at Chisago: ted Feb, 15, 1805.) Jlenry Fuller, Tresident. 1L, H. Dicks, Secretary. CAPITAL, Amotnt of capital steck subscribed. ... Amount of capital paid np m cash.. ‘Amount of capital siock sabucribed. ‘Amount not paid up in cash, n -5 12,657.73 AsexTS, Amkntuf caghin office and deposited Amount due for pre 2,511.67 Losns on bonds a1 TLOrgaGw. 150,0%0.00 Interest zocrued, butnot due. 473883 United &tates stamps on hand! 10.00 306,000,00 $4,000.00 215,85 Aggregato smount of sasets...... LIADILITIZS. Amount required to rsinsure at 40 per cent of unczpired promiums. Capital atock, full paid... 0.0.00 Amount of all other claim Caah premi; Aggregate income. .. ceenenneni® 64002 s SITTETREL, Amount or saluries, fees, and charges of officars.., . $ 2,016.66 Amount paid for 10 other than officesa., $49.38 Amount of +11 ather expen 9712 $ 3,003.16 Aggregate expenditures..... MISCELLANEOTE. ¥, Net amonnt of risk written wiihin the yesr.§837,833.00 Amount of risks inTorce Dec. 31, 1870.... .. 739,918.00 Tar value of Company's stock per share.. .. 100.00 Jarke: value of Company’s stock per sbare. 38.75 Number of agents 1 Ilinols, noue; in other Staws, nonc. ¢ TuiIxCss IN THE STATE DURING THE TEAR. Amount of risks written Aniount of premuinms resel This is the Andito:’s Tep of the Company b8 shown by ite statement filed, with him for tho vear ending Dec. 81, 1870, In the report for the following ‘year, the Anditor states that the Knickerbocker had'been adjudi- cated bankrupt, but that no dividend bad been caid. In the roport for iho year 1873 is the fol- {m"mg terse stajement : “The Knickerbocker Fire Insurance Companmy, Of Chicago, is not in bankrupicy, and Las peid nothing, but xhocld be made te pey ia full AYTER TEE FIIE & notice posted o the door of a shanty on Wa- basl averue, noar Alonroe street, iuformed tlhie passer-by or unfortunae rolicy-holder of the Compapy that “FProofs of "loes in the Enickerbocker Insurance Company can be of the probablevalus of policies in this Company than of those in avy Gtber of the bankrupt companies, whilo Fuller himsslf found it conve- nient to hie away to dwell in ‘some place where curious creditors conld not aunoy him. Fipally s uporz‘sninad ground—though where it originated could not be known—that the Enickerboker ought to pay 40 to 70 or 80 cents on the dollar. At the same time a quiet demaud was mada for policies which had been.proved up, and it was known that Faller, or some one for him, was Several partics-appasently ‘on. th ies—apparently on their own ro- sponsibility—bought claims, and even Ful- ler’s attorneys, Grant & Swift, have recently bought =t lesst one policy openly for Fuller, paying 15 ocents on the dollar nd costs of suit to the unlucky policy-holder, who, having waited over three years to eee it he could not obtain something more than the pre- minms paid on his policy, was &t last compelled by the * How-not-to-do-it™ plan to gell at last. A committes was formed after the fire to sce ¥kt conld be done, and they Jast summer, after 210 waiting two years and over, settled, through their atorneys, claims mflnnfiuq to about 175,000 at 20 cents on the dollar. The same per- centage was paid to y Ak PAGE & m&m D who a bill against the Company in Dscem- ber, 1872 This case, which 1t was at one time expected wonld be the means of winding up the Company and placing it in_tho hands of & Recoiver, Was begun by Page & Sprague in the Uircuit Court, eeveral er parties atterward comingin on supplemental petitiors agsivst the Company, Henfi' Tuller, W. Fuller, Jesso 2{cAllis- ter, Henry I, Blake, Phillip W. Quinlan, Charles J. Martim, snd Hickman' E. Boffington. It claimed that ail these defendants wero stock- holders, Fuller being President, also, McAllister Yice-President ; Fuller’sson, George, Treasurers and his scndo-law. Blake, Sceretary. Faller owned $450,000 of the £500,000 of st the bal- ance being held by the others. = The bilt then charged that the Company was in- solvent; that its officors were concealing its as- sets; that its iosscs claimed Dby its officers to be over 81,000,000 were not but abont $500,000. It wa8 also charged that tho Cowpany had no visi- ble assets which could be taken on oxecution, 2nd that the only means of gaining redress was through o court of equity. The bankruptey pro- ceodings wers sileged to have been begun by collusion with tie officers of the Company, and appeals taken merely to gain time. Other allegations of like character wero made, god figally it was asked tint a Receiver be appointed to take charge of the Company’s affaird, colloct thg debis due from stockholders or other parties, and distribute the .assets to the policy-bolders. ¥ To understand the further proccedings it will be necessary now. to go back to January, 1872, when A PETITION IN BANKRUPTCY was filed by Gardner P. Comstock against the Company, alleging that a preferential payment of $10 had been made on the 2d of Juouary to Charles A. Sperry, and snother payment of $3 10 J. R. Gore on the day following. Other cred- itors filed supplemental potitions, @ trial was bad, and the Company adjudicated bankrupt June 21, 1872. The case was taken to Judge Drummond, who refused to hear it, and it was appealed to -the United States Su- preme Court, where the decision was refused, on s legal poiat, and the caso remsnded. Judge Drummond then heard it, and reversed the de- cision of the District Court, holding that, the preferential acts charged, which the Company | claimed were only rebstes of preminm, wero not suflicient acts of bankruptey, but with leave to amend the petition. This is the condition of the bankraptey proceedings st present. The time limitea by the Bankruptcy act has olapeed, and Do now proceedings can be commonced, nor oven csn the old charges be amended, so that vir- tuslly the petition has been dismissed. BSubse- quert to_tbis order the attorneys for Page & 8pi discovered that no answer had ever been filed in the case in the Criminal Cours, though commenced two years before. Thes, therefore, immediately TOOK A DEFAULT and reference to a Alaster, proved up the claims of the complainants, and entered a decres, find- ing the amount of fheir claims, and appointing Georgo Chandler as Receiver. When this adroit flank movement was discovered the next day by being published in the daily papers, thera was consteraation in the enemy’s camp. Fuller's at- torneys immediately made a motion to set aside the decrce, sod filed soveral afiidavits to show that they had been surprised—and no doubt they had. Judge Williaws, however, refused to enterfain the motion, aod an appeal was taken. Last summer, the pro- ceedings were dropped, and the bill di ed This was the result of . A COMPEOMISE. Faller's attorneys wers authorized to offer 20 per cent, and the pmities, tired of a protracted contef, accepted, and ended the most promising means for compelling the Enickerbocker lnsur- anoo Company to pay its just debts. As has been satd, no answer was filed in time by the Company or Fuller, but some day daring the progress of the case, and probably about the time the motion to set aside the default was made, a lengthy docament, purporting to be THE ANSWER OF FULLER and the Company, was placed among the papers inthesmt, by Grant and Swift. It, however, hasno mark of the date of filing, or of the Clerk's signature. This remarkable document of eighty-three pages is one of ilie most adroitly drasm legal papers that can be found in any case, and 28 it has never been publshed, liberal extracts are given here. After settinig out the organization of the Company, Fuller gays in the answer that he has always been considered a stockholder of -said corporation, * though, as an actual matter of fact, he never subscribed to any of ita etock, nor had any of iis stock issued to Lim, or to soy other person for him.” It is denied that Jease McAllister ever had any stock. George W. Fuller and Henry H. Blake subscribed for ten shares of stock each, but no stock was ever issued to them. Furthe:- more. Foller claims that *no certificates of stock wera ever issued by ssid Company to any_per- sons whatever, save two certificates each for one share of 8100 ; that said Henry Fuller was regarded as entitled to 1,470 shares of wtock, althongh he never did subscribe for the ssme ; that Abel French was regarded 28 entitled to 1,360 ebares, though nono was ever issued to said French; that somuch of tha balance of said stock 88 was subscribed for subecribed for James Seaver, - O. B. avis, John Young, and Ge: ‘W. Cobb, and other persons whose names these defendants are now anable to give, but none of said stock of said Company was ever issued to them, or either of them, or to any person in their behalf.” Fuller then alleges that at the time of the fire the Com- pany bad risks amounting to nearly 81,500,000, Although the charter required that 10 per cent of the capital stock should be paid in, yet it did not, Faller thinks, necessitaze the giving of any notes or &acurities for the remainder. The answer then goeson 1o take up, one by one, & THE CLAIMS OF THE COMPLAINANTS, and dony their vahdity. All the fine-printed rules, observations, exceptions, and reservations, which are always put in'a _policy, never read by the msured, and never intended to be read, but ket as a catch for the unwary, are brought out in the answer, and made to fit some particular case. Que complainznt, accord- ing to Faller's opinion, kept more than 2 gallon of gasoline; amotber at some time violated some unspecified city ordinance: & third did not ‘make his proofs in time: a fourth faled to sab- mit to compromise; & fifth omitted to stata ths amomnt of goods held on commission, and 5o on tprough the whole catepars. Indeed, the Prosi- ut of the Enickerbocker must have been ac- quainted intimately with _every policy the Com- pany issued, and all the policyholders, their business, pe: ion, place of business, and. in short, every important circumstanco of tiaeir lives. B After disposing of the complaivants in this qanner, the snswer goes on to DENT SPECIFICALLY THE OTHER CHARG of the bill. Faller denies in very general terms that be bas taken 4,500 ehares of stock or.paid just 20 per. ‘cent thereon, or £90,000, but claims ‘o have paid for mora than $90,000, bit has paid in *q sumfar in excess of 20 per cent upon the amount of etock of said Company which he would under any circumstances be entitled to re- ceive, and has paid the Company in full for aoy and all stock of Eaid Company to ‘which ho woald under any circumstances be enti- tled, and the foll amount for which said Company or any of its stockholders or creditors could in any event make claim againet him.” Foller then says that be paid in full for 1,470 sharee, and that” his son George ana son-in-law Henry H. Blake paidin foll for tensheres each. Another sgmewha$ EMARKABLY, CIRCUMSTANCE in the annals of the Knickerbocker Insurance was the fact that Fuller himself began a snit for §250,000 against the Company. This swt was suppressed for vearly & week 1 all the newspa- pers and the Bulletin. Why, it wonld be difficalt to guess, as tho officers wers well known and living in the city. It was begun, too, the last dzy Limited by-ibe policy in which suits could be commenced against the o A waa | by thefallowing ~partias ;| of the case, or, in other words, that ho knows his father-in-law’s claim is bogus. The declara- tion in the suit is also nnique. At first it only alleged a specific loss of $750 and some * com- ‘mon counts,” as they are called, or general alle- gations, left room to bring in sufficient to make up the remaining $249,250. About two months afterward, on second thought, Fuller conclud- ed to i STATE BOME FAOTS a8 3 basis for his suit, and filed & supplemental declaration, a8 it were, in which he speciiies dif- feront buildings, ete., insured to the amount of 2193,250. Foremost amoug these items is Wood'’s Museum, in tho old Kiogsbury Blpck, on Randolph street, which was insured, by two _policies, to the amount of £97,000. One policy for 810,000 was made in June, nearly o montbs before, by Fuller's own statement, the Company begsn taking any risks. No. 8% \Wabash avenue was insured for 247,500, 8 hulf-interest in No. 87 South Water street for £18,000, and Nos. 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, and 19 River street for 318,000, A large part of thia property insured was, together with the land, mortgaged to the Company for money loaved. Nothiog bas since been done, aud this case is still pending. ‘fhere were BEVERAL RUNDRED SUITS, amonnting in the aggregate to over £600,000, begun by varions parties, on policies against the Company, within the one-year limitation. To nearly these, Fuller, by his attor- neys, filed a plea of general issue, and swore he had a good defense on the merits. A few months subsequently, all these suits wero taken by change of venue to different counties.adjoining, more aflidavita be- ing furnished by Fuller to tho effect thac the inhiabitants of Cook County were so prejudiced against him that he could not expect a fair trial bere. Very few, ‘however, ofsthese cases were transferred. Transcripts were ordored in due form, but never paid for, aud Col. Stevensonand Ar. Gross will no doubt be glad to receive the little balances due for those transcripts which liave been lying unpaid for mearly two years. Some plaintifls, however, mindfal of the fable of the lark and the farmer, paid for the transcripts themselves, and immediately had them dockoted in the proper county. Gouid Brothers recently recovered s judgmont agaiust the Company in DuPage County for about £2,800, and promptly filed a credifor’s bill bere, an execution thercon baving been returned. *‘no property found.” Others will probably follow. So much for the doings iu the courts. . OF OUTSIDE INFORMATION not so much can now bo given. The Company under consideration dida very small business, by general reputation, at No. 116 LaSslle sirect. By the report filed with the Auditor, mentionedabove, it will bo seen that it_employed no agents either there or elsewhere. It also appears to have had no employes but those in the ring. Not even a bookkeeper or clrek can be found who was in its employ. The Company wasgenerally kuown a8 **Fuller's Company,” aund sfter the fire every one seomedto lookto bhim alono. Years were at one time entertained lest his sud- den death would render the policies in the Com- pany valueless, and not o few settled rather than run the chances of such'a disaster. In fact, Judge Faller was a source of anxiety to alarge number, and many were the inquiries concern- ing bis health. It is doubtful, however, wheiher he would have felt greatly flattered had he known the cause of 5o much thougltfulness in Lhis behalf. THE ASSETS of the Company appear to be chiefly the charter, if it is still alive, aud the mortgage for §160,000 given by Fuiter o the Company to sdcurs & loan for that amount, and deposited with the Auditor of State. This mortgage was given Aug. 11, 1870, and included the following Iands and buildings : 8. % of 8, E. i Sec, 28, 33, T4, 80 acres (with ‘Building insured for $300), valued at $ 80,000, Nos. 145 and 147 Quincy street, and. and 26 Franklin street (buildings insured Ko, 147 ‘Adams sireet (building insured for State street, corner Thirty-third (building in- - sured at $2,800).. oo.oein 8000 Nos. 252 and 254 Calumet avenus (buiidingain- 24,000 g 8,000 3 2, Fort ditfon (building insured at $1,000). . 30000 Michigan avenue, Lot §, Block 4, ¥o Total vaine of land and buildings..........$242,000 insurance on buildings held by the Enick- €rbOCKe. cas e ees 28,300 This is the only secugity deposited with the Auditor at Springfield for the benefit of policy holders. As to recovering anything on ‘FULLER'S BTOCK, there seems to be considersble scattering evidence to show that ho held the majority of stock, on which not to exceea 80 per cent had been paid. Although he said in his answer he had not & dollar'’s worth of steck, he filed an sfidayit Aag. 81, 1870, in which he savs that he, H. H. Blake, and George W. Fuiler, composed s majority of the Directors of the Knickerbocker Insursnce Company; thai the Company hos & capital of £500,000, divided into 5,000 shares of 100 each, aud that €30 upon eachshrre, amounting iu the aggregate fo £150,000, has been paid in by the several hold- ers of the stock of said Compauny, and eaid money has been paidin in casaby the stock- hltlalders towards (h:payment of their respective shares, and_not for any other purpose, and it is i!‘lll]ended ‘tgl;i“ the Ba.lg% shall reniain a8 the capital of the Compan: and that the eame 18 invested &8 requixeyd by the Jaws of this State. By the charter, all Directors were to be stockholders. Fuller was a Director, and hence must_have had some stock at least, He admits to have been liable for $147,000 of it, and probably, to use his own wily phrasa, was *‘regarded asentilled” to much ‘more. OF THE OTHER STOCFHOLDERS not much can be discovered. “he name of Abel French, who was *‘ regarded as entitled to ” 1,360 shares, does not appesr in thedirectory. George W. Fuller and H. H. Blake seem to be jointly enjoying the poeition of Cashier in tha Home National Bank. Further than this, a rather ex- tended series of calls on a large namber of “old residonts” has failed to discover.anything that might gladden the heart of avy ili-starred policy-holder. As one of the gentlemen eaid, the true story of that Company will prob- ably never be 0WD. President, however, s, ae far ‘as ia kmown, abundantly responsible, and it would seem as though the policies outstanding wonld be worth 40 or 50 per cent of their value, though the ‘winnérs witl be compelled to wade throngh years of chancery litigation to reach the desired goal. Bills similar to that began by Page and Sprague can of course be filed, for the pur- pose of getting & Receiver. Last winter A PERSISTENT CREDITOR in the Bankrupt Conrt obtained an order for the examipation of Fuller, Blake, aod G. W. Fuller, under the stringent rules of ** Section 26," to dis- cover the condition of the Company’s affairs, but he was opportunely “ seen,” and the examination was dropped, his claim haviog been settled. Until sonie rara avis in the likenees of a dis- interested honest man, or one who will prose- cate a suit to discover wrong and establish right, can be found, no proceedings will probably bo successful, for, when the creditors become troublesome, they are bought off. TWO OR THREE SLIGHT CONUNDRUMS ‘have probably by this time suggested themselves to the reader, one of which may be, If the baoks were destroved in the fire, and yet the Company ‘had £1,500,000 of risks in the burnt district, how could Fuller swear that those presented wera all fraudulent ? Second—Whose word 18 the best—Fuller’s when be saysthe Company owes him ©250,000,. or Blake when he swearsin effect thai - Fuiler’s claim i8 bogus ? Third—1e Fuller fo be believed when he swears in his report and affidavit thiat the stcck 4vas issned, and 80 per cent paid in cash, or when he says only two certificates were issued ? Fourth— is the meaning of the phrase #zogarded a8 entitled t0? Fiffi—How could & company caly in working existance 8 year write 800,000 of risks in the first three months of its existence, withont em- ploying a singie agent, either in or out of the State? And what kind of & business was done when the aggregate income was $6,440.02, sod yet “bills receivable™ for four months amounted to $34,000 7 L Lastly, is the law or an evil-doer the stronger, and, becauso the law sesms to. work excellently ;:];:gl;wsn," is that a proof that itisa *good . TO_ SUM TP, the Knickerbocker Insurance Company is not practically in bankruptcy, and cannot now be g:z in, oxing to alapes of time. Secondly, the oks and papers of the Company having been burnt, and no evidence being in existencs 28 to who were the stockholders, except the admis- sions and statement of Fuiler, nothing can be realized, except from him. ‘Third, he, or parties for him, baving bought up a large amount of clgims which cannos be set off against stock, those ontstanding should be worth considerable, thongh no estimate can be given. Fourth, a8 past experience has shown, those who wish to win the prize must fight for M Conclusion of (ke Inrésflgations of The Tribune Commissioner. Examination of a Few Mors Packing- J Houses, The Manner in Which They Disposed of Their Gases, Etc. Method of Manufacturing Glue at Wahl . Bros'. ¥ That Establishment No Nuisance. Befors proceeding to the description of the various packivg-houses which aro situsted with- in the city limits, mention must be made of tho packing house of i COEY & CO., at the Stock-Yards, which was sccidentally omit- ted from the list given inlast Sunday's TRIBUNE. This housé has five lard-tanks, eusch measuring 12 feet high by G fect diameter. All the tank- ings and blood are carried over to the house of Tabor & Brenock, which is within the same in- closure, there to be rendered iuto fertilizers. The capacity of this house 181,000 hogs per diem. Steam 'is provided by two boilers, one measuring 16 feet long by 4 feet diameter; the other 12 feet long by 4 feet diameter; fire-grates, oach 4 foat 6 inches by 4 feet 6iuches ; fire and ash-pit doors each, equal to one-thirteenth of the ares of fire-grate. Tho average pressure of steam in boilers is 55 pounds; amount and kind of fuol used, 7,000 pounds per day of 24 hours, of Wilmington coal. The vapors from lard- tanks go up into the open air 28 in most packing-houses, no attempt being made at de- odorization, An examination was madoe during the last weck into all tie packing-liouses within the city limits with precisely the' same objects in view ag in the case of the packing-houses at the Stock- Yards. Tho first visit was paid 1o the packing- house of 3. L. HANCOCE, where 400 head of cattlo and 2,000 hogs can be killed per diem. The house was not at work, nor had it been for somo two woeks past, go the writer had no opportunity of judging whether any smell escaped into tho building itself or into the open air from the lard-tanks when at work. There are nine lard-tanks and two kettles in this house, from which thé “tankings™ after ‘boiling are dumped, without first being pressed, into a vat on the outside of the building 1n the usual way, to be carted away thenco by the fer- tilizer-manufactarers. ‘The blood is simply run direct from the atfimals, whether cattle or hogs, into the plood-tank outside, and thence carted away by the fertilizer-manulacturers, No ar- rangement is adopted at this bouse for deodur- izing the gases or vapors arising from the lard- tanks; they are thus allowed to escape into the open air. There are two ' steam-boilers used at this house, and Hocking Valley coal em- ployedin the furnaces. No arrangement is fittad either to these or any other boilers for the prevention of smoke. Neither in this instance, nor in the case of any other packing-house situ- ated within the city-limits, were detailed meas- urements of the boilers taken, as in tho caso of the packing-houses 8t the Stock-Yards. It is merely suflicient to state here regarding them, that the same carelessness with regard to econo- my of fuel and prevention of smoke is' manifest in the cese of all the boilers of the packing- Liouses in tue city, 88 in the case of all those st the Stock-Yards, and further reference to this question is made in the article on ** Prévention of Smoke,” which appears oo another page of this paper. At the packing-bouse of JAMES TURNER , * there is capacity for 800 hogs and 2,000 cattle; 1o hogs are beiug killed #t present, but an aver- agoof 250 head of cattls perdiom are belng slaugbtored. After peing boiled in the lurd- tanks, the * tankings” nre first pressed to ob- tain from thom any more groase there may be in them, and sre ihen sentto Sherwin's pack- ing-house to be manuisctured into o fertilizer. The blood is caught in psns as it comes from the neck of the cow or steer, aud aent to Stein, Hirsch & Co.’s factory to have the albumen ex- tracted. The lard-tankis were not in use at the time of the writer's visit, but another viait is to be paia to this packing-house when thoy are in full operation, 9# an arrangement is aflixed to thom for burning the gaseous vapor evolved, which differs from any othor we bave seen, and on which the writer can pronounce no opinion until he bas seen and teated its practical opera- tion. There are two steam boilera in use here, one 12 faet long by 3 feet 3 inches in diameter, the other 10 fect long by 4 feetin dismeter, made by A. F. Bushick & Co. iriar Hill coal is nsed in the furneces, and 40 pounds pressure of steam is maintained in the boilers. A visit was next paid to the tactory of STEIN, HIRSCH & CO. to sscertein if any nuisance arose from the pro- cess employed of extracting albumen from the Dblood which is collocted from varions packing- hoases, and bere treated for that purpose. The process is very simple; the blood arrives in tin pans about 16 inches in diamgter and 4 inches deep, in & coagulated condition, but fresh (it congnlates within five to ten nfinutes aftor issn- ing from the animal); it ig fthen scraped out of these pens, and put into seives, stenmed. and then pressed on_top of the sdives. which sends the watery portion of the blodd (which contains all the albumen) through th§ same; the solid portions are then sent off to fhe fertilizer man- ufacturers, the albumen beinfs largely used, we believe, in the purification_of sugar. There is no nuisance arising from this éstablishment. At the packing-house of JOHN MORRELL(# CO. there is capacity for killing 800 hogs per diem, though of late only 800 to 400 hoge have been killed. ‘Chere are three lard-tanks, and the ** tankings " are disposed of precisely a8 in Han- cock’s honse ; tho blood is gent tothe Chicago Rendenng and Fertilizing Company. No ar- rangement is adopted for deodorizing the gases from the lard-tanke, nor apparatus fixed to the boilers for preventing smoke. Tho boilers are two in number, messuring 14 feat longaud 4 feet in diameter, made by Daevine ; pressure of steam, 50 pounds per square inch ; amount and Lind of fuel used, 3,000 pounds per dsy of Briar Hill coal. ~ 7. BOHOENEMANX & C0.'8 packing-houss thera is capacity for 400 hogs and 200 heed of cattle, There are six lard tanks, and the “tankings " are not pressed when removed therefrom, but merely dumped on to a platform outside the building whence Bherwin takes them for treatment in his fertilizers. The blood is sent to Stein, Hirsch & Co.'s. The gaseous vapars from the lard tanks are first led into condenser, where the watery vapor is condensed and flows thence into the sewer ; the gases being led thence undér the boiler furnaces to be burnt. The boilers are two in number, cach measuring 12 feet long and 4 feet in diameter, made by J. Macfarland & Co. ; gressure of steam,45 pounds per squsre inch ; amount and kind of fuel used, 4,000 pounds per dsy of Erie coal. At the pack- ing house of D. KRIEGH & CO. there is capacity forkilling 1,200 hogs, thongh. {his season the avorage number killed bas only been about 800 hogs per day. There are four lard taoks, and the *‘tankings” therefrom and all blood aro taken by Sherwin for manufacture into fertilizer. The gaseous vapors emitted by the lard tanks are tirst led through a condenser. and then under the fire-grate of the steam boil- ers tobe burnt in the furnace. There is one boiler in use measuring 14 feet long by 4 feet 4 inches in diameter; pressure of steam, 45 pounds per square inch ; amount and kind of fuel used, 6,000 pounds per dsy of Walunt Hiu conl There i8 no smoke-preventing apparatus. 7. 0. MITCHELL & CO,'8 gmldng-honaa. there is a capacity for 800 hogs, hough of late the: average killing hae only been 800 hogs. . ‘Thers are five lard-tanks, and the *tankings ” and ail blvod are treated asin tha cases of Schoeneman's, Hancock's, Kriegh's, stc., etc.,, houses, being carted away to the Stock-Yards, to be *fertilized.” The gases arising from the lard-boiling are traated precise- ly aa iu Bchoeneman'’s and Kriegh's houses, and Durnt in the furnaces. There is one boiler in use here measuring 12 feet long by 4 feet 6 inches in diameter ; pressure of steam, 60 pounds per square inch; amount and kiod of fuel used, 4,000 pounds per day of Erie coal. At the pack- ing-house of . 3. SHERWIN, commonly knownas “ The City Slaughter-house,” there is eapacity for killing 500 cattle, 1,000 hogs, and 1,000 sheep, but of late thoy have been killing only an averageof 300 cattle and 500 shesp per diem. ~ There are eeven lard-tanks; snd the ‘! tankings,” after being pressed, are put into oao of tworevolving cylinders (Edwards’ pat- ent, the writpr was informed), and the vapors evolvad are first ‘led through a large condenser wherein & strea:m of cold water plays upon them, and then drawn off by a fan-blower, and forced under the fire-grites of the boilers to be burnt. Blooa is treated rn the same drying cylinders and in the same mamnizer throughout as the ‘tank- ing,” but kept separate therefrom, as itis the more valuable ‘product asa *fortilizer.” A 40- horse-power stiam-engine gives all the power necessary for d:riving the d.rymg cylinders, the fan-blower, and performing all the various worlk of a packing-houss. It is supplied with steam by two boilers, each measnring 13 feet 1o:§gby 4 feot diameter, with a pressure of 40 pounds per square inch; smount and kind of coal used, twonty-two of these at the works), with ribs fixed on the ingide. They are washed thersin with cold water, which removes all blood, and they are then removed and thrown into ’fi; tanks, where they are boiled with s light which is not strong enongh to evolve any fumes into the open air. From these tauks the head tallow is first drawn at tke top, next the glue at the bottom, and the * tankings” which remain ara taken out, pressed to dry them for grease, and then eent to the *fertilizer” or drying ma- chine. CATTLE'S FEET. b The einew is first cut from the bone, then the ‘foot cut from the leg-bone at the fetlock joint, and soaked in hot water, thereby loosening the hoof, which is then pinched off by large nippers, and sent to 12,000 pounds jyer day of Brier HilF coal, this amount, inclucing that' used for the drying- cylinders. There has been a great deal of com- plaint made against this honse from time to time on accormt of the stench-nuisance arising from 1, aod i is now claimed that, as the gases are burnt, there is no smeli! It has before been proved in the course of these articles how fatlacious is such an argument, and how easily any observer may prove its lnhncy by standing in tho les of the estsblishment, and at a suf- ficiont distance from it to catch the vapors is- suing from tho chimney-stack as they fall {from the heavens toward earth; if he is still un- convinced, aftor that experiment, of the im- possibility of deodorizing the gases by bumning them unmixed with any.otner snbstance, then may he a8 well, save for the ornamental appear- ance, cut off his nose at once; forif it were insensible to such a test, it could not possibly be of theslightest use to him on any other oc- casion. At the packing-house of v L F. CROBBY therais capacity for killing 1,200 hogs, though the average of soveral weeka of late was 660 hogs per diem. There are four lard-tanks, and the * tankings,” after being pressed, are then sent to Sherwin's to be converted into fertilizer; 80 also with the blood, which is sent there raw. The -gases from the lard-tanks are first led through a condenser, and then under the fur- naces t0 be barnt therein. There ia one steam- boiler in use made by Devine, and measuring 13 feet long by 4{eet 4 inches in diameter ; pressure of steam when in u 55 pounds; amount and:| kind of fuel used, 6,000 poands per dsy of Mid- :vhuy ct;nl. The next packing-house visited was 8t 0! PEREINS, FAY & CO., .who wers not st work. Thero are three lard- tanks in tbis house, and the ‘“tankings” are carted away, withont being first pressed, by the fortilizer manufacturers ; the blood is also taken away by them raw, as in almost every other case. Tie gases from the lard-tauks are led into & condenser, which communicates with a close drain emptying ioto the river, and, cootrary to moat houses, there is no communication between the condenser and the boiler-furnaces, 8o that the gases, instead of beiug burnt, pass through the coyered drain into the river, Steam for all {mrpoues 18 provided by onme boiler, made by Walworth & Co., measuring 14 foet long by 4 feet 6 inches in diameter; average pressure of steam, 60 pounds per square inch; smount and kind of fuel used, 4,000 pounds,—one-third In- dianablock, and tio-thirds Wilmington, goal. No smoke-preventing apparatus in use. At the packing-houso of 2 CULEERTSON, BLAIR & CO. there is capacity for killing 2,000 hozs and 400 cattle. Thers aro ten Iard-tanks; the *tank- inge" are not pressed before being removed by- the fertilizer manufacturers, and tbe blood is carried away as usual, raw. Che gases from the lard-tanks, after being led through a condenser, are then sent into the emoke-stack; they are not burntunder the furnacesin the usual way. There are two steem-boilers in use, made by Deyine, each measuring 16 feet long by 5 feet in diam- eter; average pressure, 40 pounds per Bquare inch amouant and kind of fuel used, 10,000 pounds per, aiem of Lrie cosl. No gmoke-fre- venting appazatus is applied to the boilers. At TOREY & BOOTH'S packing-house 1,200 hogs aro xilled per diem. This ja_one of tho houscs where, like Sherwin's, the **tankings” and blood are manufactured into fertilizers on the epot. 'The * tankings,” when removed from the lard-tanks are put into o steam-jacketed oyliuder of oval form, measur- ing 4 feet by 4 feet 6 inches and 14 feet long. ‘Within this “cylinder is aoother studded with teeth about 18 inches in diameter, through which steam circulates ; this internal cylinder .in revolving thoroughly stira up the mass of ‘* tankings " by meane of its teeth, snd partially dfies them, being heated by steam. From this cylinder the tankings are removed and trans- ferred to & rovolving cylinder steam tight. and measuriog about 4 fect 6 inches in diameter by 92 feet long. Under this is lea the exhaust steam from the engines, and a sufficient amoant of ateam additional, direct from the boilers, to keep up o eertain temperature in_the dryer. When taken from this drying-cylinder the mass is o “fertilizer,” and is then elevated to the top floor of the building, where it is put in bags, and shipped when 200 bags have accumulated, that-is, about once a week. The blood is first steam-dried, as at-Aliorton’s and other houses, and then treated in precisaly the same manner as the ‘‘tankings.” The vapors from the lard-tanks are first led throngh a ver- tical cylinder condenser, measuring about 15 feet high by G fest io diameter, and led thence under the boiler furnaces to be consumed, The vapors from the drying apparatus are condensed in a tank on the roof of the building, and the product (presumably water and gases) falls into & close drain, which emipties into the river. The necessary power is given by one 15-horse-power and one 25-horse-power steam-engine, which, together with s large pump, rated at 20 horse: power, are supplied with steam by two boilers, made by Steinmetz. Each boiler measures: 12 feet long by 8 feet 6 inches in dismeter; fire- grates, 4 feet by 4 foet ; firs and ash-pit doors each two-geventeenths area of fire-grato ; press- ure of steam, 55 émnnd.a per square inch ; athount and - kind of {nsfl nsed, 200 unds of bituminous sE‘.n‘e cosl per day gro twenty-four houra. No smoke-preventive apparatus is fixed to tho boilers. Two peculiari- ties will be noticed by tho reader in the appa- ratus just described. “The gases from the lard- tanks are kept_entirely separatc from those evolved by the drying apparatus, the one being cotsumed under ihe botlers, while the others are not, and the latter gases are condensed in & tank on the roof of the building. Trom this it wonld lg),:lr thatthe designers of thissystem indulged a belief that the gnses evolved from the lard- tanks are more combuatible than those from the drying apparatus; but, unless this has been proved by actual experiment, we must be slow to believe it, for, coming from the samo materiale, they are precisely of the same nature, though greaterin quantity, perhaps in the case of those evolved from tho lard-tanks thanof those from the drying spparatus. Though bat little smell i8 perceptible in Tobey & Booth’s king-house, theirs must be included among all the other houses which give vent to a burnt smell through sendiug their gases from their lard-tanks inte their furnaces, acd thence np the chimney-stacks. For the present we leave the conuideration of the packing-houses as related to the ** atench nuisance,” to couosider the caso of other maoufacturing establishments which have been accused by the public of materially aiding the general stench either by their processes of manufacture or the waste products of combus- tion, etc., sent through their chimney-shafts into the open air. The firat of such factories exam- ined was that of PAIRBANK, PECK & CO., TARD REFINERS. who refine from 400 to 500 tierces of lard’ per diem. The process is as follows: Tue crude lard, on bejog received from the packing-house, isrun outof the barrels by steam into large tanks, the impurities which rise to the surface skimmed off, and the lard run from thence into trooghs in which large Archimedean screws re- volve (the same a those which are used for car- ng purposes in corn warehouses and mills); these press the lard out at one end in a thick stream into casks, barrels, boxes, etc., or, for the English market, into bladders, and it is then shipped to market. Some of the lard is tied up in bags and then pressed in large hand-presses by weighted lavers, each loaded with about 200 pounds. This presses out the lard-oil, which is tnen duly barreled, and sent to market. Fair- bank, Peck & Co. make all their own boxes, tin cans, pails, buckets, etc. There is no objection- able smell apparent about the whole factory, nor did the writer see any foul-smelling waste gases discharged into the chimney-shaft, or the fur- naces, 80 that this f-cloxz.mny be exonerated from any blame that imay bave been attached to it as productivo of stench-nmisance. Another factory, which has been blamed more, perbaps, than any other (except the Northwestern Fer- tilizing Company) is that of WANL BROS., GLUE WORKS, and, asin every other case, a careful personal examivation was made by the writer twough the whole factory. In order that the public may understand what occasions occur during the manufacture of u}lno, ete., for the proauction and escape of foul gases, it is necessary to de- scribe the whole of ths processes carried on in this targe factory, which employs some 300 ‘men. ‘The raw materials received to be manufactured in glue, consist of cattle’s heads, cattla’s feet, pigs’ feet, market-bones (that is refuse bones from which the meat has been cut off), and trim- mings of hides from the tanneries, and they are treated as follows : CATTLE HEADS. The horns are first sawn off and dispatched to cutlery macufactories in the East: the heads are then crushed in's crusher, and then thrown l mnto a wash-mill, which is a large, revolring drum, 8 feot long by G feet diameter (ihers are “smell chemical manufacturers ia the East to bo used in the manufacturs of Prussian blue. The leg bones are put into tanks and boiled to extract the marrow, which is sold to bakeries for greas- ing bread pans, or to.soap factories, etc., to be manufactured into toilet soaps, pomades, or the * real gennine bear'’s-gresse, direct from the Azc- tic regions or the Rocky Monntains.” The log- bone, after boiling, is shipped to cutlery manu- factories in the Esst. Thefoot is boiled in large tanks for neats’ foot oil (which is a genuine #r- ticle , can be produzed in no other way), the oil being skimmed off the top, sud in most cases then ready for market, though sometimes it is put into bogs and the oils pressed out, what re- mains in the bag heing stessine (the same which remains in tho bags after expressing lard oil at Fairbaok, Peck & Co.'s), which is sold to canale and soap manufacturers. The ‘‘tankings™ are then pressed to extract water and grease, and sold to the “ fertilizer " machine, THE 108’ FEET are first washed in cold water, and then pat into the boiling tanks, treated precisely as tho cattle heads (but kept separato from them), and find their way even! ly into the *fertilizing” machine, THE MARKET BONES are thrown in ‘with the heads and treated with them throughout. THE HIDE TROOAINGE are first washed with cold water in open vats which messure 12 feet diameter by 2 feet deep, and are then removed and placed in the liming vats, where they are mixed with elscked lime, which, in the conrse of & few weeks, sometimes months, dissolves all the hair, etc., loaving noth- ing but the muscularftissue. When rezdy, they are put again into the the washing vats, where they are first cleaned of the lime, etc., with cold ‘water ; then treated with acid, and boiled in tanks which. yield almost ths whole material in glue, the rofuse being a very small quantity, which is burnt in the farnaces under the boilers. The glue from the yarious tanks is then run into two large stills and vacoum pans, whero 1t is evaporated, leaving the impunties behind, and it "is then cooled on windows, cut into slices, and Iaid on wind-coolers, which are large frames carrying several shelves of netssork on which the slices of glue are laid. Over and all around these network shelves is forced a strong current of air by two large fans, one 20 feet and the other 8 feet di- ameter, driven by & 100-horse power Babcock & Wiloox engine, Some of the glue is dried and frozen by natural draught inrooms with open sides thuih which the outside air has free cir- colation. After drying, ihe glue is crashed in crushers, packed, and sent to market. Forty- five to fifty tons of raw material produce about eight tons of glue per diem. At present the wnflss are manufacturing an average of five tons per day. s 2o TIE FERTILIZER-MAKING APPARATUS simply consists of twoof the ordinary drying cylinders, one only of which is at present in use, aud an elevator and screes which separates thé fertilizer into the coarse and fine varioties. The reader can now understand the whole process of glue-making st Messrs. Wahl Bros.” factory, and the pertods during the process when obnoxious vapors are llkely to arise. These may be divided into first, the raw materials being reeived in a stale state; second, the -zime of boiling in the tapks for glue; and, third, the fer- tiiizing manafacture. With regazd to the firat, the raw materials were all received in a per- fectly fresh state, ard lime (which is a great an- tigeptic) was thrown on the hide trimmings long before any commencement of decomposition conld take place, 80 that no huisance at all arises from the raw materials. The boiling for glue and tallow in the tanks gives rise_to somo slight smell, which, however, i8 confined entirely with~ in the buildings, as previously stated. Dry- ing the ‘“tankings,” etc., and burning the slight refuse from the bhide trimmings in the'. furnaco gives rigd to some which ‘14 noticosble a little way off from the factory, but this is decidedly less thah with any other fertilizing machines with which we are acquainted of the same capacity, firat, because the amount_treataed therein 18 less, and, secondly, because all the materials which are treatad have gone throngh several different procesees before being put into the drying ma- chine, which proceeses naturally serve o get rid of most of the obnoxious gases contained in them. Bome yearsago Wahl Brothers handled all the “tanking” and blood produced by packing- houses, and at that time created a tremendous stench, sccording to reports, but now most of that is manipuiated at the various houses in the Stock-Yards, and Sherwin’s, and Tobey & Booth’s, within the city limits, 80 that Waht Bros. are no longer to blgme, as the public generally imagine. The truth ia that the ola proverb, ‘**Give a dog a bad name, and it will hang to him,” has proved correct in this 1o- stance; the odium which attached to Wahl Bros'’. factory some years ago, when they actually car- ried on & great stench nuissnce, has clung to ihem still, though it is long since that nwsance has been abated 5o far as regards them. . With an oxamination of a few other buildings or mannfactories which add, or are supposed to add, their items to the~stench nuieance, and practical plansfand suggestions for the abate- ment of this nuisance, 1t 18 expected that this series of articles will be closed in Tre TaIDUNE of next Sundey, and with the facts herein con- tgined it will become the duty of our citizens generally, and the Citizens’ Association in par- ticular, o agitate for the suppression of the * gtonch nuisance.” THE JILTED. *Tis milking-time : the cows are coming Tazily home from the clover-glade, ‘Tossing their taila at the low hum: O Nap, tio daricayed mulking-ruaids “Y¥oho! my cows, Stay not to browsa . Too long in tho field : the night is nears T've nice, sweet hay Slowed snug away : Conte Lither, my pets, and taste the fare.” Close by the hedge, s young 1ad 'a pesping BTy ot tirough the bawthorn-rows: Litle he iceds the milch-cows creoping Tp from the fleld where the clover grows. Warily spying, ® Dreamily sighing, 4 “The blush an his cheeks the love-taladells s ‘Watching the maid - From the hedge-shade, The heart in his bosom throbbingly swalls, fnug in the shed the maid is milking, Sitting low down on her three-legged stosl, Bmiling bright at the heartleas jilting Given to Rotin last night in the school, “Steady, brown cow, Your hoot 13 the pail ¥ia nely guing four hoo e pail was near] f THow would it bo. . If the farmer sce The ground sll wet with your white milk flowing 1™ Over the wicket, drearily creaking, Robin is leaning : in a low sigh, Faint as 21 echo, the words be’s speaking Pass to the matden,—a last “ good-bye.” ‘He's gurely leaving,— 9 Her bosom, beaing, Telleth tn silence her sorrowing heart; Still not a word. : From her lips heard : Thus do the maid and her young lover pert, The cows are coming, the maid is calling, ‘Thae bird of thne has rapidiy flown; dead, the leaves sre falling, ter hiAs mounted the season’s: Warily spying, a Dresnily sighiog, “There's nobody now by the hedge in the lane: . “For lifo she'll mours Her lover's return,— ‘Young Robin, the Jilted, will ne'er come again. Caago, JazEs LAvALLIE, ‘Roses are Win —_— Crefan Customs. ‘The Pall Mall Gazetle says: **Some little sen- sation has been caused 1n COrots by an order issued by Edhem Pasha, the new Mnteasarif of Retbymo, forbiddiog any one to come ioto his presence in boots. Possibly the Cretans have brought this decree on their” heads by either en- tering the official presence in muddy or ‘cresky’ boots; but, under any circumstances, the regu- Jation is not without its advantages. - There can- not be a doubt that the ‘science of boots,’ like many other eciences, is s yat in its infancy, and that, instead of being s comfortable and con- venient covering for the feet, these articles of apparel are too often the moat horrible engines of torture. The misshapen feet of the majority of personsin this conntry are due to the fact that ninety-nine out of every 100 bootmakers are atterly ignorant of the anatomy of the. fooi. in, what can be more barbarons than the high-beeled.boots it pleases woman in her wis- @om to wear! If the Cretans suffer in the mat- ter of their boots -in like manner with the En- glish, Edhem Pasha’s order, instead of being an act of peediess official saverity, is .one of kindly considaration.” GOTHAM. Lights and Shades of Metrow politan Life. Exposure, Starvation, nhd Death, ia the “ Happy New Year, * A Funny Incident of the Beechers Tilton Trial, Special Correspondence of The Chicugo Tribune, - NEW Youx, Jan. 6.—Coming from the Churek of the Divine Paternity, the Rev. E. H. Chspin's, on Fifth avenue, where I had been with friends" to hear a stirring, eloquent discourse, peculiarly . adapted to the New Year, I 004 a momentsat . the corner of the avenue, to watch the constany throng of passors-by, and the haudsome care riages, with their well-dressed owners hurrying ont of the spacions church-edifice, with smiles’ on their faces, and a thoroughly-mtisfied air.+ ‘Walking scarce a block away,~down Forty-ffth" street, with the fashionable Madison and Fifth avenue promenaders still in sight, and sarround.* ed on either side by elegans brown-stone-front- residences, bearing, both exterdally aad inter- nally, all the evidences of wealth,—I camsupong wretched, . * HALF-CLAD, DRUNKEN WOMAL, crouching for warmth over the escaping steam from the water-pipes nt the Forty-fifth strses’ oxit of the Grand Central Depet, and holding in" her arms a skeleton child. Questioning her, sba - eaid she bad no home; her name was Mary BloAllister; and her child was 8 years old. The child looked about 4 yearaold; it was etupefied with some of the same fiery liquor that tha mother had imbibed s frealy; it had sunken, U staring eyes; its feeble legs were worm to . the very bore; and, for clothe’ ipg, it had neither shoes ner stocke ings, no undsrgarments,—nothing whatever bad- = tattered, thin woolen skirt. Half-starved,: drugged by poisonous liquor, and almost en=-: tirely destitute of clothes, it moaned and wailed - in the wretched mother’s arms, and she—bloated, desperate, and hopeless—covered her dim eyes with her tattered shawl, and hid her face. My own little girl was with me,—warmly clad, happy, clean, and smiling ; and, even had I been dise’ posed to leave these wretches, in their misery, ¥ could nos resiit the pleading of my own littde. one tohelp them. Calling s policeman (who,* sauntering up asd down upon lus beot, must bave seen thsm), Igave them into his tender keeping ; but I also went with them, untii the child was safely committed to the Matror of tha Park Hospital. The drucken, lost mother, hsa been since sent to the Work-Honse for halfs year. - On one of tlse broad stone staircases of an up- town mansion, was found, the day aftor.New Year's, a wretched, half-clad tramp, 3 : DEAD FROM EXPOSURE and ‘from d:ink. Al day long, well-drossed, spruce young men from our best mcm.ylmi passed up and down those very stepe, offering New Year’s con;ratulations to the bevy of b:td- iant beauties wkoreceived calls within. Through the open doors, s glimpse could bs_ caught'of ruddy sea-cosl fires, and an sppetizinz odor of dainties arose, and lights flashed {rom every wodow, and, wighin, the very atmosphero spoke of warmth and good cheer. Loug after the. lights were ont. and the last carriage had rolled away, the unknown tramp was warned away from his sleep on those stone steps; but he rearned: again, and, securely hidden i the shadow of the heavy portals, Tolléd himself up in hia rags, and wag found dead at the entrance. 2 AX AMGSING INCIDENT 5 ‘- occurred at one of the Police Courts yesterds® The great Bencher-Tilton scandal-suit, whick. opened on Monday, drew, of course, & vast come pany of the curious from all adjacent towas,— esch one hoping against hope that, by some special ples, he might induce the officers in charge of the court-room to let him in. A Bos- ton mapm, who. stood up, with crembling, limbs and swollen bead, in thoe Police Court room yesterdsy, stafed in substaneg the following : . * Your Honoz, I live in ton, and, pinage God, I hope to die thare. 1 came to Brooklyn, all the way from Boston, ta atiend the great trial; for I knew Mr. Beechex when he prezched out West. I went over totha Court-House on Monday ; but they would not les me in, and, in my discouraged stats of mind, I strayed into a saioon and took & drink. Then, becoming reassured, I set out for the Courie. House again ; but I grow bewudered. 1ssked s, passer-by where Plymonth Church was, and he pointed up to the sky; and Iasked another ‘where Theodore Tilton lived, and he ssid Tilton had been deesd for fifty {azrfl. Then I grew cone fused, and bwgan to upbraid New York citizens, when I was tuTested. I have just enough money left to take 1me to Boston, abd I will giadly do= paxs for my home.” Well.” said the Judge, X sentence yca :to start directly for Boston, and to remuin thers th® rest of your naf life.” This is only another ilustration of tbe’ universal maddla” the Beecher-Tilton seandai- suit has created. § New York people are jubilant over the fact that all letters are to bo delivered and collocted O SUNDAY Tt hereafter, the same as on week-days.” This does not please thie tarriers, however, vho have been expreseing their disapprobation by threatesing. to get up .o protest; but it is a great conve- nience, to business-men especially. A poor woman, over 70 years of age, wid found.dead, New Year's day, in her dilapidated. cabin up on_the rocks near Harlem. She died from Ftarvation and exposure probebly; for nob only had swe no stove, and therefors n& fire, but the landlord of her ricketly cabin had taken all the glass oub of her window, and the door would not sbut.’ And lsing dend on the floor, covered with the drifting enow, they found her on the glad New Year’s! Ther was more than the num= ber of suicides and murders on New Year's ; and, though it come sunny and ‘plessant, full of promise for the many, it proved the desperation of some. And thus, while the avenues wers alive with callers, and beautiful young ladies welcomed ba ndsomely-attired gentlemen into. choerfal, happy homes. out on the darkuosa of the New Years night many @ bopeless soul drifted—whwe ? Buzam PATIENCE. Four forms T saw upon the Iwn As the day was done: 4 Fonr| 1id 1,—my eyes pasved thres, Resting but on one. ) Evenbupabadows clothe her motions : Witk & g grace, And tiy> heast I thought grown eallons ‘Trex.bled in iis placa. Reason whispered, “It i folly,— . ., - Proises but pain ™ 2 Burn'a g thoughts gave timely warning Yet v:e met again, Throi th the r‘ianlf -nlg happy Summer We vrere side by side,— g Btroll 2 d through lanes, and, from the blafly -, ‘Wate:hed the Lake's rough Years ‘before, I met anotber,— % Lotved her, o0, 'tis valn Todeny: what was my glary Soon became my shame. 2 Deep I buried my sare sorrow "rox 1 the eyes of men,— BlindLy weeping.—never dreaming 1 cod1d love again, Here ‘s right Hopa my heart inve2cd Cloin X scanned your facs, - Day te7 day, umtil ach mpilse T ‘ecatld anrely trace. When your Lodebrown hatr was strayiag ¢ You° strong eyes above, . Could T belp but learn §¢ quickly,~ Ay uweet Poam of Love? ‘aryder, uiiy of heart, Atthe flush of Life's bright morning, # of dresms thou Fui art: Bat, 01y cholce of earths bhright blossozss, T4cq- theo will wait,— ‘win 5 Ba &% soon or late. Cmcago, Jan.8, 1675, L . Five Acess Tack and Jim Reyuolds, cousios and losferk were playiz g poker in s bar-room near A it Me. Jack beld s straight, with an ace at e bead, and, to his intenso delight, Jim put dovy the mones: 88 fast 38 ho raised, until tae m amounted to over $10. Then Jim call Jack threa’ down his straight.. Then Jun lh!"; Gown four aces. This indicated the mirscle five aces in one pack ors fraud, and Jack ex~ pressed I s opinion that there was “uhlnlfllfi going on.*. He examined Jim's aces, snd for - that one cif them was a tray with the end 'P"‘- chalked out. A fight ensned for the stakes, if which Jrea was stabbed and Jack had his noed bitten, bub peither ROt the maoey, becanae same® ‘body stole. it whils thay wers fighsing.