The New York Herald Newspaper, March 6, 1869, Page 8

Contina Onver ef the Never Yield Company on the nd~Testimony of Victims. islative Comanitlee having charge of the ‘on into the operations of the gas compa- uaued the inquest yesterday and last even- © committee thus far have labored most ous'y and have succeeded in unearthing soine important facts from the oMcers of the gas companies and from cousumers, They commenced business yesterday morning at ten o'clock, by calling McGowan, Secretary of the Harlem Gaslight Company, Wao Was sworm and examined by Mr, Mitchell, chawman of the committee, testified mainly ‘as follows:—lam a stockholder in the Harlem Gas- light Company; Iam secretary of the company, and eonve! wich its business management; fifty dol- L.rs per share Was the original price of the stock; it bus receally been sold at 195 per cent; I receive a salary of $4,000 per annum; complaints often come from consumers; we give two notices before we cut oif the 218; dividends are deciared semi-annualiy; tue larsest dividend was declared in February, 1866; we issued @n extra dividend of thirty-three and one- taira per cent; the company was organized in 1855; tue total amount of dividends declared ts 166 per eel, ua average of eleven per cent per annum, Winess Was exauuned by Mr. Bergen in relation to the | hotomerrical tests made by the company, but no points of interest were elicited further than as even 10 tae testimony of Mr. Baimore, engineer of tie company. By air. La Bau—We have abont sixty and one- haii-cnules of pipe; our origtaal capital was $150,000, aud it wes tucreased trom time to time until 1864, wae was ‘aad? $1,000,000; the statement that we have never made auy report 13 incorrect, as there was a reslution passed ia March, 1863, by the Legis- lature orderas ths company to make a report on all ted with Lhe company; in reply to uauu lmade & report, Winch 18 ROW on file being recailed, placed in evidence i$ CuSiness; Ne had Lound that he vi ivuad; sind lua there bave beea per cent, ani oue a3 gh as sixteea read air. Koberts’ stateaient, as pub- canuot und any record in my ofice of @ uiisutid; 4 KememMber the cuse quite bub + Have Bo Otilesat record oi It, Lester, beg Sworu, testitied:—Am deputy yectur; uve heid the oifice two years; L us ut tue meter business beiore t was ; 4 lest every meter belore sewing it; a v lay Teceive Li usage On the Wuy; very lide will pul & meter out of order; I have never auy Couskicraiion, direct or mairect, frow company; we do uot charge anytuiug ior duspecung ueW Miecers; When a compiait is made @oul & weer We persoa sends ib lo the Ouce We CHarge boGLOg, bob it Mr, Davidson sends & gus- Aer fase it down be Cuarges jor we gasutter’s tine; 1 am a gasiier; do not Works lor aay estavusament or gas company; day uuie 18 Cuuehy Occupied wt the inspection; 1 re- uve sovv a year furimspecuag; I was engaged ai tue meter luctury veiore 4 Was |ppolnied about one Week; | au nota meter maker, but am acquainted Wiis Ue ous.ness; Tain nova citizen of the United Biases; a peuleuian ia this Cily secured me the ap- cunent, ‘Xuuuned by Mr. Bergen ag some length as to the Method o. ispeciug and testlag meters. ‘Tae Lesti- K this pout Was Mut of any geueral puoue Chauncey, of 25 Washington square, a stock. bower la tue N York, Maniadan aud Mewropuil- sswork sud exauined by tue 4 aul @ director im the New York have beea away ia Europe past iour years, aad my brotier 4s my agent aud has coe is; { do not know ‘the amount divideuds declared; | would rather not state uswek Lowa; 1'do aot kaow whether | vor uity per cent, bab f tusok 1 ave o Suen: OF L Wouid not hold on to it; 1 ean’ auytuing specifcaiy without consutung my buvks; 1do Lot AoW the nuuwoer of extra siares 4 have received stom tae company; [have novaiended uy meeuug ab Wuicd divideads Were dec.ared, iy Me. La Baa—i am sure i dave not received any from the Metropoutan Co. atian {have received ihe cer- ess; 1 would not 1 0 hazard ard to iigures, as i would ve ue Jacs aad correct. Buy siutemens 1 to uly private tee has a rigut lo a. . La bau—We Go not wish to go into your pri- Vale Inatiers, DUt We asé you as a director Ol # pub- he concern. ihe Courmen—This New York Company is very unwilling to unswer anytuing. ihe Presideut won't BusWer anything withouc (ue autuorty ot tie ai ors aud tie direcvors retuse Lo auswer anytung. It Was uuai.y docidet to Waive Lhe question Tur Lie Preseut, as Lae Witaess Was evidentiy nol acquaiated Weta (ie adairs ol tue company ia Which be is a di- Fecuor. Joun Firmin, @ practical gasfitier, was called, and beg sworn, lesulicd Laat le wud veen iwealy years Ma Lue Jowee pare of the cliy, Mad given the thon Of mus bis stady. went of Os duuuies how quca beavis le had duue to those Why ewpioyed nin, = the dasusted buat tue manage ent of tue gas companies here was 4 “vce uorse afuir, nega wud palery, aud they do vot dur encase gas’? t rat atteapts were made to shut the witness Of, by eniuding MM that it Was uecessary io Le “as Uriel as possive,” and ouce in & Wille by “Guat 1s all, sit; @ Was uuder @ tuli pressure, Sod as he Said was “ull of it,” and did not siop UHUi Hs Wai said O18 Bay. vr, blmer Velug Culied and sworn testified—I am ® physician, aud nave givea a great deai of atientin W Uns subject of artuicial ght; have found taat Leary duuv.e Lie quamily Of gas may be made irom Lic sulue Quanity Of Codi, Without icreasiug Cue @xpeure, wud yve atthe same Line @ Leiter Lgit, by uitidang tue ved in te oan wiacture of gas; the gas would be pure aba Would not ve taminated with sul- Puur couounds, ike the otler gas; wy aticntion ‘Was Called (0 Ute BUO,CCL by the bad euecis of tue linyure gas On pavienis; I dave callie tue avtention 01 Lue CUmpaiies Wu Lue Wiatler; Ley have seat coin- ites to exuuine, bus Wey have done uoiuiug in teiaion Co it; & cuupauy has recently boen furwed in this city; in Vulladeiplia the gas Is sup- wed by the CiLy, Lue Sue us Le Crotoa Water 10 ew York; the iliumuating power there is avout fourteen caudies; (uere is BO GoUbt about the lime Process beug the best ior purtiyiug, but if the Cowpunies Would use the luwe add iroa in @oujuncuon it would do away wil the Oueusve odor, aud would not increase tue expense; 1 have testes the gas furmehed by the Manvatian Company aud have fouad ii geueray {outech candies, vut very often it 1s as low as we've cunuies; & guod, lar quaity of gas should be eiguieen cauuie power; my tevis were made at a Of avout 10) rods from the Maniatiau gas Wo be.ieve unquestionably that the yas compa. dies CvNld juruisi 4 Ucler gas ad a more reasonavie pr.ce than now do -osepls Wood veing sworn testiled—t do pusiness @t No. 20 Fouris avenue; the person wuo had the ple fore me Used tue gas from the Mauiatian Jumpany three years; Ou September 25 1 applied to to ihattan Company ior tue g Gciober the iuspector came aa meter registered 44,000 feel; 1 must be something wrong about that; ins,ector said he had nuching to with tue matter except to take tne register; 1 weal Ww tue citice ani the bill Was Caculaied BO that the Auouns Was $102 or $iu4; | provest. Saul (he Meer Was Wrong; 1 was told Lust tie meter Was tested before it was put ia; 1 exammed tue meter aud found the meter was an vid one; on ‘Thursday (I calied beiore on Monday), 1 got @ Lili for $50 w; a man came W tess the meter tue day after tie Urst inspection, and he took the index for Liat day and nade it 600 fe next day another man came aud found it Jou feet; we had used tour vurne: less tie secoud day; We have ten burners ailogetuer; We were UsiUg Whe gas irom about eight 0 clock La io the evening to about ten ovclovk; J was wid « sew days after that the bili Was forty-two duilars; on the frst day the bill Was made out at thir ats & hundred, aud the Second vill was at twenty-tve ceats a hundied; I procemes against the bili, as the man who was tuere jure Was Wot Charged oue-Loird that amouni; t Asked W have the meter ested, and @.amimed (ue meter tod ine it w dyliars to ave the Lest made; the « men, Who WOK away the eter wi airy notice whatever; 1 received a notes irom lie aborneys Of tue company thatit the bull was not | seesigacanatththinllitmmeerses steemnaa THE GAS MOXOPOLIES. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1869, larged by law; we are acting under the charter of 1823; the continued operatiins of forty o1d years and the increased value of our property, I beveve, are the principal causes of the present value of our stock, which is very moderate; [ con aot tell the value of the property, as that 1s no! ‘n my depart. ment, and Ihave not made it @ studs; we dectars dividends semi-annually, and whenever we are we give an extra dividend ; the frequency of the dividends, that ts a matter of opimion; tae stockholders may think they do not come oiten enough; gas dividends are quite difterer= from ocher dividends, as we are Hable to be saperse:led by some new discovery, ‘The Chairman—So you think you ought to make as mrch as posable while you can. Witness—Self-preservation is the first law of na- tare, By Mr. La Bau—I think if we stopped aes bring haifa mullion dollars pernaps more; 1 cannot say whether uhere 1s a nilition dollars in assets or not; I can’t tell how the president could make it out; that surplus has certainly beea accumulated from the profits of the company; we had a great deal of property in ditferent parts of the city, New street and other places, where we had gas holders to equalize the pressure in diferent places; of course we sold those when property Increased in value; this real estate was purchased out of the if the statement made by the president de trae have $1,000,000 of personal property we are richer than I thought we were; in accordance with the capital authorized by the law—a capital of dividend of $590,000 appears to be lorge; I could have ascer- tained those matters if I knew what was wanted, Mr. La Bau- the position taken \—That arises from by the president on the frst day—antagonistic at ce, on By the Chairman—About the issue of any extra shares is a matter | must refer to the stock book for; we have no more stock than our capital persatta; we had not. million tn and we distributed the shares to make up the milion; the capital paid m was $750,000; the extra tssue was about five years ago; we had a reservoir in New street, two in Church street, two in Roosevelt street; the managers thought it dia not fuiftl the object for which the reservcir was intended; I don’t think the district in the neighborhood has suffered much from the with- drawal of these tanks; I don’t think there is much canse for complaint from the newspapers, E, R. MeCarthy, of the Hotman, testified to good quality of gas furnished che hovel and faie bills. J. F. J. Xiques, of 372 Canal street, being sworn, testified as follows:—I am a consumer of gas fur- nished by the New York Gas Company; during the bast five or six years my bills have been increasing 80 much As to make me believe there was somethin: Wrons; I asked for a new meter and got it, but wit! no difference in ube resuit; the bills increased from four do'lars up to twelve dollars and then sixteen dotlara, and the month of Febraarv, a shorter month and with one burner less in use, the bill is over eighteen dollara, Joseph Sampson, @ stockholder in the Manhattan and New York contpanies, testified—Am a direc- tor in the New York Company; the dividends are oeciared reguiarly in May aud November, five per cent each time; other dividends are dec ared when they have the means; there were four dividends in 1863; in May five per cent, another of twenty and another, I think. of twenty, but I am sure the dividends were fifty per cent in all; 1 should sap- pose the dividends would average that for some years—how many I do not know; the increase of the stock was made at the rate of one share to three; at ke last sale of the stock I bought some at three honidred per cent: Ido not know as it would gene- rally be considered a very good investment; | have never been assessed for any Improvements; there is a large surplus; iny Impression Is that there is a sur- pins on the books of about 23 much as the capital; I think the last balance sheet shows two million dol- lars, which ts one million dollars capital and the surplus; I have been a stocknolder in the Manhattan Company some two or three years; I cannot state the highest dividends from that company; I received the certificates of indebtedness and seven per cent on It. EA Lagi Magonigie, business manager of Booth’s theaire, being sworn, testiiled to the that there was no complaint to be made about the gas fur- nished to the theatre, Being examined by Mr. Bergen, witness went into an expianation ot the preparations made for the in- troduction of the new oxygen light into the theatre. Moses Taylor, belug sworn and examined by the chairman, testifeu—f am interested only in the an- thracite eoal by being a director in the Delaware, Lackawanna and Westera Ratlroad, which is en- gazed in the anthracite coal business; the gas com- panies do not use that kind of coal, and therefore I know nothing of the prices they pav for coal. By Mr. La Bau—I aim a stockholder in the New York, Manhattan and Metropolitan Gas companies; T think tae last dividend from the Metropolitan was twelve and a half per cent: the capital of the com- pany is $2,500,009; | am a director and know nothing of the business of the company, Witness testified to the dividends of the New York Company last year and to the certificates of indebt- edness, which had already been fully explaiaed, Samuel Sloane being sworn and exa-nined testl- fled:—Am @ director of the Manhattan Gas Com- patiy: | think received three dividends of five per cent each last year, but am not sure about that; Ido not hold now any of tie certificates of indeptedness; [had some bat sold them; I do not know the agzre- gate amount of receipts or expenses or the number of consuiners, Thomas EK. Morris, manager of the Waverley theatre, being sworn, testiled—I have two com- plaints to make, one as manager and another as cilizen at my own house, No, 179 West Lenth stree about a year ago | was calied away to Phila and was detained about a week; th on Monday and stated that he would call on Thurs- day; he called on the day stated, and Mrs. Morris told hit that { would be home on Saturday, and as she had not movey at hand to pay, if he wonild call again on Monday he would be paid: on Friday two men came, went down into the cellar and cut the gas of: | applied at the office, and was toid quite cavaherly to pay my bills promptly and the gas would not be cut off; the same thing occurred a@ few montis since. At the theatre we had used gas some three days and the pill was about four or five dollars; we received notice that if the new occupant did not renew the de- ce the gas would be cut off; I svoke to my acker, Mr. Reeder, and he satd there was a de- = toere already, paid by Mr. Loon, of $100, which jad not been removed; I went to the theatre next moruing and found the gas had been cut off and iny men could not work; I immediately sent $109 up, but the company peremptorily refused to put the gas on again until Mr. Reeder, as proprietor, should come up ant go through the forms prescribed by the co;mpany; We could not find Mr. Reeder that day. and toe next day he went op and settled the matter; | have been @ consumer of gas at my resi- dence for several years; the bilis were always paid Prompuly; taey were formerly paid in the name of my mother-in-law, Mra. Join Bougham; the same person bas been collecting the bills from my house as long as I have been tere; | complained to the company also that my bills were two or three times larger during the past six or seven months than they were ever before; { thought there was something wrong about the moter, but tie man whom they sent there said there was nothing the matter with the meter, and the bills still continue the same. Jonu B. Bouton, one of the editors of the Journal of Commerce, being sworn, testified that since Wed- nesday night last we have had no cause to complain ol the quality or quantity of gas; before that we had serious ciase to complain; sometimes the gas was 80 bad we were obliged to use candies; the quality of the gas is about the same in all parts of the house; the canse [ believe ia that the gas is poor; there was also com) laint of the bad olor from the gas which, by the way. Is not noticvable since Wednesday; I do not know anything about otstructions in the pipes, but I only know the fact that the pipes have not been changed or interfered with. and now, since , We have all the ight we want. age of the proceedings the committee took @ recess until half-past seven o'clock in the evening. Evening Session—The Worse the Gas the Higher the PricemFurther RevelationsTae Brookiyn Gas Company. Last evening the committee investigating the as Monopolies resamed ita sittings at half-past seven o'clock. Garrett N. Cinte, of No, 279 West street, was the first witness examined. He deposed that he was a gas consumer, and had reason to complain of the charges male; on one occasion a man came to measure the gas and found that 600 feet had been burned; he came arain the next week a nd said that 200 feet had been burned; witness told him that he was burning oll and did not use so much; he came afierwards with a new meter, and subsequently presented a Will for $6 30; that was an excessive charge, as nothing but of! had been burned, Witness then continued as followe:—t thought that the charge would have been only $2 45; I told him I would not pay it; he reptied that 1 must see the president abont it; it should have been 700 instead of 1,800 feet; im fact I did not consume as much paid proceedings wou.d be commeuced against we; tae buls Of the former ocvupact were generally avont twelve or fourwen duuars per monin; i aus | Dow using oli, and, alwough it is more troubie- 1 get @ bewer bgtt ut uity per cout the cost of 4. rueiius 1. Everett, vice president and treasurer of tue New York Gas company, being sora and ex- pervine the wccou Ain LOL the bookkeeper, ad therefore pot Vio the basiness; | am a stockt .c tie fast aul Of stock | believe was 290; I Link bie receipts of tae Company the last year Was about §1,ovy, Hot snow that I cau give any testimony (arc) the presidens has give wident has euth charge of the aifal company; t secretary keeps = t and ihe om Bles, and the vice president and treasur merely receives the mot puts itia We bak aod Sends to the castomers’ accounts; | thik M Rewcomb’s testimony avout the dividends ts about Fight; the dividenos are declared by tue directors; the bookkeepers tiake out ali the bile. ‘the Cuwrinun—I want to ark you, aa Stockh @irector, vive president aud treasurer of the pary, who ts the proper cusvodian of the vou A. ihe president. 1 know nowwing about the price of coal or ex- nses, a8 that does not co y duties wre suiticient y OWwer matters to wok ait By Mr. Wergen—ibe reason why oar stock is worth 8.20 18, i suppose, because it was never worereds Our chaner was yraued 19 Mac, de; mover mede any application to have ow cy, testiied—t ain V.ce presi- by | we company that I had not used #0 much gas as ‘was set forth in the bil; when they brought in the bill | had only burned 700 feet, but they charged me with three tines the ammount; I have been a gus con- sumer for about two years; I used to burn gas in Alvany aod a8 many ligate ast do here; the charge there Was three dollars per 1,000 feet; | used tour to five lights this winter for about foor pours; my highest gas bill in Albany did not exceed een dollats a quarter, wile here it was about een doliars &® month for the same quanidty of f an inferior description; the gas supplied me New York Company was 0ad, and several parves in the neighourived complained of its ire- quentiy going out Sauuel N. Pike was the next witness examined. ity been manager of Pike's ry cved, whea | “fret Opened nu, . y bila were produced weekly tur aceria nau unt; I discovered that without any in- sed hours of performages the bill was gra ly auginented; | also observed taat the perform- for four hours Was cheaper than that for tires irs; aithoush there Was no extra Nght ased; the very bad, particulariy ou the wag ; nid I novced that as the gas became worse the if he 'inabaged @ theatre in the Weat, but a Vartauions of the gas; my rus Blow 4 the iess tite occu el by t ruanve the gas bill imereased, t 3 gas bill at the opera house lncreas ty-live per cons; J called the ativenwon of th ter Insveetor to the bad state and Wh e could do nothings; the Will «d to vetw and $su9 a Week; Ib tle since { frst commenced avout twebty-five T cel dauary, iSe3; wy gas OULs were higher in Lae sain mer tian when the overa house was opeacd; ab | fumes the light was very dim, 60 a8 vo occasion Ire- quent complaints. James Bouyie, liquor dealer, of 107 Prince street, testiJed:—1 eommeaced t burn gas on the 1st of May, 1560; my gas bill oa January 6, 1561, was $15 96; the 11th January, 1862, $13 25; on 6th Janu- ary, 1361, $17; January 4, 1864, 16 amounted to Pe January 6, 1565, 5; January 6, 1360, 13; January 6, 1367, $25 25; 383, » 23; January, 1869, $23 50; for ‘Was obliged to close my store every might at Lweve o'clock; previous to that I used to Keep open till one or two o’ciock and on Sun jay tit one o’ciock; I had tue burners chanzed twice; last year, whea I saw the bis so buru, 1 cousulled a gas fitver and he told me to put 19 five feet buraers; the bill in dune, 1868, after we had the burners changed, was $14.65: [ used to burn the gas about thirty or tairty- one days; now it was only used about twenty-six days in the month, but the gas bill nevertheless in- creased; 1 complained of bad ii doing so 1 was informed that the deiest could not be remedied and that if 1 did nos like it not to barn it. israel Bucknam, of 112 Lexington avenue:—I lived there for the last ten years; my bilis for the first few years ran trom seven to nine dollars, and within the last few years have gone up to $21 30; I use foe burners ten Retna pra meena, according to my request, exe the meter; Davidson, tue , examined it, and said it was all right, aud Was surprised that I .had burned so much gas with only four burners; ny gas bill was going up so high that t was obliged io see to 1, but noting has yet been done to il; the eral quatity of the ligat is very poor; the gas has very badly atiended to; tiere was a suieil of gas through the on une occasion, and { gota man to exainine the meter; { never complained to the company. in reply to amemberof the committee Mr. Mc- Gowan e@xaimmed @ patent burner produced by wit- ness,and slated that patent buruers were sae best ior tue companies and tie worst for tue consumers, John Bergin, of 291 Union sireet, Broukiyn, testl- fled—1 moved to Brovkiyn fuurtecn years ago; 1 ap- piled to the gas company for a meter; taey stated they had @ bill against the house which they wouid compel me to pay beiore they Would give me gas; this was the Brooklyn Gasugiut Coupany; they obliged me to pay @ deposit beivre they suppiled mie; the charge (hen was avout ove doilar or ove dollar and tty cenis a month; the higuest vill 1 have trom the Coulpany Was seven dollars; we were told that we were paying too much fur gas by a new company, Who promised to give better gas, no deposis aid cneaper light; 1 led @buut tweuy persons to cut ol tro the oid company; this new company overed to furn.sh the city of Brookiyn with the best description of gas at one ad.iar and twenty-five cents 41,00., aud private consumers not to exceed two doilars wud fity cents for the best quaty; while there ‘was competiiion te gas was at first the biil ‘Was five dollars, and subsequ-nty ran up to eleven dollars, aithougir the cousuupt.ou Of gas Was greatiy decreased; I compiained to the company, out got no satis.actiou; che quauty of tie = at present is cousiderably deterroraced by the dampness of tae coal; they have now what is caled @ *blower,” or exhauster, Whica they use for reduciag the richness of the gas. ‘ihe general rule appeured to be the worse tue gas the luigher the price. Witness thea Proceeded w describe Wwe process of making, and pomted Out some of the detects in its present mauu- saccure. ‘she committee adjourned at a quarter past nine o'cock Ww meet mM Brovdiyn on AMuusay Mocming. 2 ee OTHZER LEGISLATIVE COMMITTZES. On Sewerage. The committee of the Legislature appointed to in- Vestigate the sewerage system of this city resumed proceedings at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday. The first witness called was Mr. Theodore Westun, ofthe Croton Aqueduct Department, and his evi- dence was of no public importance. The ex-Speaker ofthe Assembly, Mr. William Hitchman, was next called. He testified as follows:— T have been a resident of New York for thirty-eight years; I know something about the sewerage syste ‘Of this city mn 1859; I was @ cierk in the office of the Common Coun; also clerk to the committee on health, on roads, on streeis, and I I was also ‘ of the committee on sewers; at the time i speak of there was no particular system for sewerage adopted; it was adopted on applica tion being made to tae Common Council; the system so calles was simply @ series Ol terminations, and it was under the direction of the Commoa Council; it was not at that time usual for the property holders to be noted when assessmeuis were to be made, for them to ake whatever objections they desired if they had any; since that time it has become the practice lo noufy property owners whenever assess- incats are to be made; 1 know of many instances where sewers are laid down regardiess wietuer property owners in their vicinuy are beuetited or not; there is such an instance now in Eighty- sixtn street; fa my opinion tue tles used by the Crozon Aqueduct Department are altogether too small; they are only, 1 believe, twelve inches in circumference; [have kaoown instances where the contents of the tiles were driven back m.o the houses from which they bad come by reason of the tiles being too small to carry off the drau iu certain. cases I think legal assessments have in made on property owners; there Was a tess case 10 the courts about fle years: but what decision was given at the time 1 do no! now remember; 1 he present system could be improved upou by making certain sinks at given points where the @olld tnatter could deposit itgeli and allow the water to run freely; the solid matter could be removed by well applied means; there ougat tv be one of these sifks in every sewer- age disirict; taken as a Whole, 1do not believe tue present systema could be mach improved upoa with- out revolutionizing it altogether. Mr, Worthen, sworn—I am the engineer of the Board of Heaith; I consider the present sewerage system adequate to the necessities of the city, but do not think it compiete or suficiently extended ; the marshy districts in the lower part of the city are not well enough drained at preseat, which waut could be suppued by marginal sewers; 1 do nos thiuk that tue filth about the piers is to any very reat degree increased by the lact that the sewers empty into the river at their termination ; the filta there is caused more by decomposition of the various matcer wasted ashore and failing into the river from tue piers. ‘Tu odore Weston recalled—The necessity for the transfer of the drainage of the Seventy-ninth street to the Seventy-(ourth street one was very great; the Seventy-minth street sewer commences at the Base river and runs westwardly w the Fiith ave- nue; it formerly took nothing but the drainage im- mediately ad.acent vo it on the lines of the streets under Which it passea; I think about 1857 a sewer was bultt, by order of the Cominon Council, in Third avenue, from Seventy-tirst street to Seventy-ninth sirect, also from Kigaty-fourth to Seveuty-noth street; that portion of the first mentioned ex: from Seventy-iourth to Seventy-ninta street was counected with the Seventy-ninti street one by a rade of avout two aud a naif leet Ligher taan the lowest yard it Was to drain; in other words the drataage in Third avenue had to run ap-hill; the Seventy-ninth street sewer two years ago bad no otner connection than tuat and Was suiticient as far ‘as it was concerned to carry oif all drainage; it was, however, considered for its progpective uses Inaae- quate and therefore it was determined to utilize one in Third avenue from Seventy-ninih to Seventy- fourth s'reet, which determination was fully car- fied out; this change was cousidered beneficial to the property owaers in Seventy-iourth street and they were consequently assesseu. iraac B. Coleman, sworn—i am a civil engineer nd coutractor; | have been engaged In construcdng Bewers sinve the ist of June last; { have also done Work on (he new reservoir; the outlet of the sewers i have been Woralug at is from Noria river to Sixty- SIXth street and Teuth avenue; (uere witness de- exient of the sewers in the district a8 4S feet); the sewers are of brick and pipe. of internal diam eter; the pipe is from twelve, fifteen to eighteen inches; the brick sewers are two bricks iu width; I have never heard the systema complamed of, nor have lever heard of any duticulty arising the sewer pipes; the Croton Aqueduct Depart turnish contractors with the pipes used; I kuow of no imstance where unperiect pipes were Jaid down; the pipes are always inspected at the where tuey are to be laid before they are used; id not, being no expert, give any idea as wo the quailty of the pipes; I don't know what percent- age, i any, the Crotou Aqueduct. Department make in selling contractors the pipes; wether or hot the present syatem of sewe is adequate 13 purely @ mathematical question, lo which | would ot give a direct answer unless after making correct calculations; tn my opinion every inch larger than 4 necessary lo carry off the maximum ot water in the pipes is a great mistake, Because When taxed to gas as I was charged with; [told the bookkeeper of | is maxuoum ihe conteats sre all driven out, but | when the pipes are large and cnly halt filed there 1 | Not suilicient curren. to carry away the coucents; | in other words a small pipe Wh @ good current of | Water is Letter tiau a large pipe With @ poor cur- ret of water; | never heard of the pipes breaking after they were laid; | don’t think they would break Unless they Were rotten; and Ihave taken up pipes Uiat have been under ground tor fifty years and hever found oue rotten, } . Bgvert i Mr. Ccleman’s asso fate in 3 ueXt examined, but lis testimony Was rative of the laters, ‘eee thea aujouraed to to-morrow at The Railrond Committee. The select committee of seven on the investigation | Of the affairs of the New York aad Erie, New York Central, Bofalo and Erie acd the Hudson River Raliroads met yesterday at the Firth Avenue Hotel. All Whe commitioe were present, and the session Was & prolonged and interesung one. Several of the tos} emuuent rolroad men n the country were examined and tested upon vie subjects embraced in the resolutions of the Legwlature by which the comuitvee were authorized & make the investiga: ton. ‘rue committee decided to wi:hhoid the daily results Of the tavestiyation and the kames ot tne Wituessee Jor reasons Whol Uiey coutent Wil be obvious ‘Toe iuvestigation Wok a very wide scope, and the testiniony taken Was Very VoiuMinuus, sie commiblee i the ailrnouu were taken fi charge by we Commissioners 0; Chariues aud “Core rection for @ Visit ty the public insututions, On Pablic Education, The Senate committee on the wabject of pubiic education in the city of Now ¥*k hela an informal | ternoon, bat all the saembers had oot arrived in the cily, dod Consequently ao oreauization too place, An adjourament took place until Lay 3 afternoon, at! hves o'clock; but it ts not expected that the coins miiies Wl proceed to bisiuess uatll Moa next, It is Composed of Senators Creamer («! man) Kennely, Genet, Hale and Thayer. They are tended by Sergoant-ul-Arns Keuper. Qn the Merchants’ Union Express Compuny. The Assembly committee, consisting of Messra, Rea, of Ontario; Wright, of Monroe, and Husted, of Westchester, appomted to investigate the affairs of the Merchants’ Union Express Compner met yester- day morning at the Metropolitan Hotel, butexam- ined no witnesses, The committee were engaged during the morning tn devising forms of ero and sugsesting names of witnesses to be called, It is not probable that the comunittee will examine any ‘witnesses in ths city. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. Growth and Extent of Commercial Agencies in Our City—What is Promised and What ts Performed=Kind of Correspondents Ew- ployed=Coliusions of Fraud and Fruits Petty Spite. f Commeroral agencies are rapidly attaining in our clty a marvellous height of power and prosperity. ‘They are comparatively of recent origin, The first organized in this city, that used to be visa vis the Post Oftce, came mto being long after that litle old quaintly steepled Dutch church was cooverted to its present uses, and when the look of grim ‘age stared one in the face from its brown front and gabled roof almost as legibly asnow. As time has ad vanced others have sprung mto existence, till now there are three large and prominent agencies of this kind, besides others of feebler growth. These larger agencies occupy co- lossal rooms. They have colossal desks. They keep colossal books. They do a colossal business, and their profits are colossal. Everybody knows the objects of these agencies, or rather the proclaimed purpose of their organization. They claim to be a vast bureau of information regarding business men, not the business men alone of our cily, but the bold and far-reaching fights of their imaginative pretensions take in the whole sweeping range of our country, from Maine to California, from the precipi- tous banks of the swiftly flowing St. Lawrence to where the waters of the broad Pacific dash apon the extreme northern point of our lately acquired Rus- sian American possessions, An examination into the working of these agencies, their modus operandt of Obtainingin formation, the terms on which they impart this information and the extent of reliability of this information, are not without interest, and the facts elicited from such examination are not with- out their suggestive moral. The results of such examination, which we have been painstaking in making, and in writing the detatls of which we shall be equally pains tuking to give the facts accu- rately. We shall now essay to unfold, with succinct brevity, and, we trust, wiih convincing proof that the proj and completion of our narrutive will so plainiy and palpably reveal the underlying moral Uthat even those who rua may read it, WHAT THESE AGENCIES PROMISE, ‘They begin with promising a deal more than It is possible to accomplish. They promise to give accurate information of tue exact pecuniary status and. reliability, as Seprae Aes of ali ciasses of ry ersons engaged classes of trade. these promises, as we have stated, em- brace the whole of the United States— merchants and business men in every clty of the Union, in every viliage and in every country town, How utterly impossibie these promises are of frifil- ment can be seen at agiance. Business fluctuates. Failure are constant aud sudden. Those who are to-day riding on the topmost wave of seeming pros- perity to-morrow are wrecked in the great sea of Moanciai speculation, —but even now worth this, And now worth nothing— as Antonio found when his ships had all miscarried and his bond to Shylock was forfeit. They assume w keep themselves contimually posted ana to be able to tel! who are safe aud reliable, who are shaky and doubtful and who are positively untrust- wol Buc is is unnecessary to enlarge on tnis points, The promises themselves, it is ciear, are a3 unstable and uureliabie as those placed in the lowest niches of unreliability im their cumbrously imposing books of record. BASIS OF PROMISES, This branch of our subject 1 ads us to explain the modus operandi these agenc.es have adopted for acquiring their iniormation which. as an assumed merchantable product of value, they sell to their patroas. They get it through correspondents. But What isthe chiracter of tnetr correspondents, and how much reliability can be placed on what they write? This question, upon the answer to wich hinges the whole subject as to the vaiue or otherwise of tuese agencies, cau be answered in two words— very little, hey are mainiy third-rate lawyers, or men who will grasp eageriy at any chance tw turn a penny, the matter of turuing ic honestly being @ consideration that in no wise troubles them, or certainiy the mostofthem. Why do bp, Seapine such correspondents? Simply be- cause they can find no others. Men of decent self- will not lend themselves to the mean system of espionage demanded of such cor ndents; such Paul Pry procedure as prying through keyhoies; sacu ignominious deiving for records of mortgages; such sneaking inquiries as to the liabilities of their heigh- bors, such lynx-eyed watchfulness as to their habits. It ts easy to see What power such unscrupulous cor- Tespondents have placed in their hands, and how likely, when opportanity oders, they are to use “it for their advantage. We will explain how the thing 1s said to be done, and it requires no specially large acquaintance with human nature in its progressive stages of unscrupulous development to believe that it is done, aud frequently done. The scene is a showy store of a pewly fledged merchant in some smart Western city or town. Our corre- aes knows the weak points of this young mer- chant—diminished capital assuming the style and airs of large and assured resources; an ambition foc wealth that will not stop at any means tu compass bis demre. Enter correspondent, as Sao A crafty in speech and manner as’ he uuscrupulous and determined in purpose, He has @ private interview with the merchant. He comes W bis point by gradual approaches, with the shrewd skill of Iago working uj the weakness of Roterigo, and with that dual poweriul, clincuing argument of the former:— Put money in thy purse. “You see what I can do," says this correspondent, showing the credentials of his appotatment. “Weil—yes,”? responds the merchant, “L can give you @ character in New York,” parsues this oleagimous representative of oue of our city commercial ageucies, ‘that will enable you to buy on credit any amount of goods.” “1 gee,” “Shall it be done?” “Yes.” ‘The bargain ts made. Our correspondent writes a giowiugly favorable account of tue financial re- sources of the young merchant. This account is duly transferred to the records of the commercial agency here. The young merchant comes to the city; our merchants get a transcript of his record; he buys heavily on credit, and they don’t get their pay. We imagine that it would take something more than @ lightning caicuiator to estimate the mutiplicity of just such cases. And here let it be stated that the agencies do not hod themselves any way accountable for the inaecurate statements of their correspondents. Another power Jor evil their correspondecats possess, and thatis pur- posely underrating a person's degree of reliabiiity. Acorrespondent gets ® spite against & merchant prrnaps. ‘aud (a not unlikely supposition) because the jatter would not trust him or sued him for a bill' aad he puts nis credit down as low or good tor nothing. And it shall go bard, But 1 will delve one vari below their mines And blow them at the moon, Thus resolves this basely ignominious creature. If he dare not put down the subject of his spite as utterly devoid of tinancial credit he will throw out ts after the Manner of Polonius:— secant know, the gentleman; I saw him y of Vother Or then, oF then, with such or auch; and, as you say, There was he gaining. He's very wild, Addicted #0 and #0. All this has Its effect, of course, in buying goods re; and these cases, as regards getting at the ag- ‘egate of them, present another subject and oppor- unity for the lightning calculator to ventilate his special mathematical power. There are, unques- tionably, fonest correspondents; but, m the character of persons from which they have to be so- lected, it 18 — to place much depeadence on jvemen' their stai NUMBERS, CHARGES AND PROFITS, ‘There are no jack of numpers. The reason is ob- vious. Uur merchant are made to believe that they are the recipients of large benefits at the hanas of these agencies. Facts ant tiga ‘@ set forth ia rinted circulars, Whose tendeucy and porpose are Bocarry such conviction. ‘There is no way of get- ting at the 180 Number of our diferent city ageacies; but the number is very large, doubtless embracing two-thirds of our entire mercanttie com- munity, For —a ne coaresd various sume, ranging from Ofty doliars to §.60 annual: the latter, however, being tue more prevalent charge, it will ‘be seen from tis that the gross yearly receipis of these agencies are very To they ey “- jpanagers are ung andsomuly ‘hay institutions, and it 18 aiso waquestinuabie thot theit organization 18 primarily for the beneiit of the for. “mer, that of the mercantile and business comunity belng @ secondary alfair. il hours of the day— that is during bustuess hours—tne rooins of the va Fious agencies are open for the visite of their Lots and their books likewise open for inapso- ‘The rooms, @4 stated, are very large aud have @ perpetually bustling show of busy activily, A bibliowmanist would be overwhelmed with ae tonisiment ‘at the immense display of mense books. Every six mouths printed cir. culars are sent to the members coutaining revised lists of the haines contained in weir books of record. ‘ihes» circalars only give an some of the more extended written statements. je degree Of credit be wiven Ww any given inde tm. .—TRIPLE SHEET, I onened the opera house on the oth of | meeting at the Metropolitan Hotel on Thursday af- | vidnal is Geamemna all - ree oo gos good wien Boy Dy for ‘any umount to g00d for noting. prytng propensities practised we wil give a sample of the reception tive of one ot thet agencies, as related Pho us by the merchant. The fellow commenced nls inquiries with more zeal tnan judgment, however, in his mode of “What do. you mean asking such ques- Seger the prerehent sa his visitor. . ie pai geting jac *—— commercial agency, “You get ental here or I'll kick you,” continued ‘the merchant lous representative of the —— commercial agency did not protracs his visit or his inquiries, ‘These investigations have more particular refereace to new firms in the city. The ample we have given 4s doubtless a faithful exhibit of the popular senti- ment in our city touching these agencies, and that notwitl So many take pains and go to the Bee to avail themselves of their supposed SUDDEN SHIFTING OF SCENES. A country merchant steps into one of our large stores and is no doubt frequently startled at the sudden shift of scenes. Un his entrance he is di Mmnediately despatched to the commercial agency to get at his financial record, comes back with the rellable statement. If the statement is favorable to credit for a reasonable amount for reasonable time the smiles continue and the bill of goods ia sold and duly aebted, If the statement 1s not favorabie then the siniles relax, and now comes the astonishment. “How do you wish to buy?” asks the merchant; “for cash??? ante ninety days,” answers the unsuspecting sitor. “sorry, very sorry,” says the merchant, “but our terms are cash”? “*,am not prepared to pay cash,” interposes the rural dispenser of assorted merchandise, irom & bandsaw to Honiton lace. “Good day,” says our city merchant. “Good day,” responds the visitor, and he ts very respectiully but tirmiy bowed out of the place beiore he knows it. These tnings are of datly occurrence. There may be an assassin in the ‘dark—some spiteful correspondent at the bottom of it—as described above. tis all the same, No one will object to take the cash of our cvuntry merchant, but he can get creat nowhere. ‘The commercial agencies have core the busiuess for him. Perhaps he merits it, and pertaps not It is just as likely one way as another, GENERAL OUSEKVATIONS. Having filled the outline of special observations regarding special phases and characteristics of our commercial ncies, we might indulge to an in- definite extent in general observations op this subject. ‘Ybe great objection to them 1s the almost utter un- reifability of the information they claim to give. Another objection 18 that through positiveiy er:o- neous information large sums are continualiy being lost by our merchants through extending credits where none should be given. The mischief ts, the encies are in no wise responsible for such results, They give out their information, for it would not do to give it out otherwise, as its reliability is ail that gives it vaiue. Excepting as guides to furtuer in- aeier: and information, and as furnishing an ex- tended list of names to whicn to send circulars so- liciting trade, these agencies are of no earthly use except to their managers, und to these are an emi- nently good thing. VISIT TO A CONDEMNED HURDERER. George S. Twitchell, Jr.. in His Cell—No Hopes of a Keprieve—He is Resigned to His Fate. {From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, March 5.) ‘By a visit made yesterday aiternoun Ww Moyamen- sing Prison, during wich we were adforded the op- portunity of entering Twitchell’s cell and talking with him, the following polats, the publication of which can dono harm, were gathered. ‘The main object of seeking the interview with the condemned was to ascertain from personal observation now ‘rwitchell bears himself in view of bis impending doow; nis mental and physical condition; how he occupies m3 ume; his ideas regarding his immediate future; what signs of contrition he displays, and to listen to anything he migat have to say regarding the crime for which he 1s sentenced to death. He 1s contined iu one of the cells of tue third or upper row of the northern corridor of the jail. ‘Ynither we were condacied oy one ot the prison otiicials. Before we entered we heard the sound of solemn psaimody toa familar tune, The prisoner, in compaay with his spiricual adviser, the Kev. George Bringhurs¢, was devoutiy engazed in singing the uyma ‘Ua Jordan’s stormy banks 4 stand.” His vouc?, his maaner, his very look betokened sincer- ity. He was evidently earnest im his devotions, It appeared on inguiry that Mr. Belazaurst spends two hours every afvernoon mivstering to tho spir- tual wants of Twitciell, and 248 dove so from the day of the prisoner's conviction. ‘The latter apparentiy takes the deepest interest in the religious exercises comducted by his faithful spiritual attendant. and joins in the singing of hymns an | ofiecs extempore prayers with pious iervor. We did not eater the cell until the sound of the singing had died away, and chea it was that we noticed the devout air of Twitcheil, which we have al described. re urst at once intruduced us to the con- demned. ‘The latter ruse from his seat, ana afver a shake of the hand extended a cor- dial welcome in @ frank, » Of-hand and cheerful manner. Seats were tuen taken, and @ quick scrutiny of the countenance of Twitchell we opened the conversation. As has fre- quenily been sald by those who aitempted to de- serive the personal appearance, and eapeciaily the paysiognomy of fwitchell during the progress of Lis trial, he looks far from the murderer. Lis face 13 one of inteiligence, ratuer than ignorance; of open- ness, rather than treachery; of Kindness, good hu- mor, and seataliny. He was dressed with scrupu- lous neatness and lookea altogetier as tuougn ne Was just prepared to attend church or an evening party. skin Was Clear and (ransparent; bis hair nicely adjusted, and his eye brigiuc and expressive. His Manner was cordial, though calm and sell- eased. some remark in relation the visits of the Rev. Air. Bringhurst, ‘Twitchell assured us that the two hours he daily spent with that gentleman eo A fited him in two ways; they rendered lighter the depression of confinewent and were of tage to tis soul. in reply to oiner questions he said that his health continued good, uithouga he thought he had lost flesh since bis confinement. He gene- rally retired to rest about nine o’ciock, and rose bout seven ia the morning. Le sleeps as soundly as couid be expected without having tne benefit of any exercise, and his appetite continued good. Referring then vo his trial we asked him if he was satisfied with tie way in which his defence had been conducted. He answered that he though: his coun- sel had done all they could for him anuer the circum- stances, and hie believed his conviction was tue re- sult of the popular prejudice existing at the time against him aud his wile. ‘The conversation then turned on circumstantial evidence, and Twitchell, reterring to its uncertainty, related au inciJent of his being accused wien a boy of stealing a bottie of essence. He conid not at tue time prove his Innocence, ana he was not righted in the matier unul seme years after, when wie bottie was found accidentally by the young lady who chur ged him with the theft, where she had placed it untaimki ngly hersel’, ‘Touching his wile’s speedy acquittal he satd:—1 was much gratified when | bh of it, but was also very much surprised, as | thought the popular pre- Judice existing against botu her and myseift would convict her aisy.” He then said that he received frequent visits from Mrs. Twitchell, and that she stil, —, for his reprieve. We then asked him If he had any theory of his own to account for the mysterious murder of his mother-in-law, or held any suspicions as to who the real wurderer was. He reviied:—"i have no theory that I would feel Justified in making public. I have my suspicions in certain quarters, but think it best to keep tuem to myself, for the present atleast. I know that 1 was in bed and asieep at the time, and did not wake until Camilla (his wife) shook me. When I went down stairs L.was engawed in wiping the blood from the body, and never Pt im rd for one moment of being suspected as the murderer.” pon questioning him about any expectation he mint have of bis sentence being commuted he an- awerel:—"The trial being so complete, and the Court, after so long & deliberation, retusing to grant & new one, and the Supreme Court refusing to grant a writ of error, all combine to make wie give up ail hope that the Governor will interfere in the matter, and [ have made up my mind to suffer the peuaity of the sentence I have received.” Atter pausing for @ few moments he resumed saying:—"li T am to suffer death, [ will be periectiy resigned to it, ast will feel that the amMiicuions prt upon me wil be in- tended for some though unseen purpose. [ fee! confident that uy innoceace will be fully proved some tune or other, but it may be years alter iam gone.” As ve attered these last words the jallor, who had been in waiting all the tune, intimated that the in- terview must end. We rose, as did Twrcheli. ‘Thanking us for the interest we had Manifested in visiting Lin, with @ warm shake of the haad he bade bye. Teal advan- Necro Co-opsraTion IN Norra Canoitna.—We learn that a project is on foot among the colored opie of the city of Raleigh to establish a co-opora- ive land aod building ase oe | ths city for the urpose of purcnastn: nd supplying homes to menor of the association. sa hn Standard, arch MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Married. St. JonN—MayHON.—On Thursday, March 4, at the residence of the bride's pareais, Purichester, N. Y., Handy St, JomNn to JENN IB B. MAYHON, SieRMAN—SHBAMAN.—IN Brookiyn, on Thursday, February 26, by the Rev. T. L. Cuyier, James A. SuR- MAX to SUSAN A, SITERMAN: VANS Devestar—Ve Vor.—On Thursday, March 4, At tho resilience of the bride's pareuts, by the kev. Thos. Gaiaudet, GUSTAVUS VAN DaveNnren, of Key- port. N.J., to Lizzie, daughter of Colonel Thos, i. WV 0c, Of New York, Wouv—Vaw Vousr.-In this city, on Wednesday, March 3, at tho fweaty-fourth strees Methodist Lor. Copal clurch, by the Rey, J. KB. Gorse, GRowaE A. N. Woop, of Staten Island, to Miss Meriss4, C4 daughter of Mr, Richard Vaa Vorat, of New Y city. No cards. toy to attend the funeral, on Suuday at ti Orelock, from the residence of his areata 18 hing avenue, between Kighty-3secoud and streets, Yorkville. BaiTLe.—On Thursday, March 4, =. oe Bases, . only See Martin and rr aged 6 years wad 2 The Pelatives and {cieuds ot the iamuily are invited to aitend the funeral, from the residence of her pa- rents, Sullivan street, near Van Brunt, South Brooke \Galitorala pavers please Copy. TO ci . Baxrer.—On Tharsday. March 4, after a lingering illness, THomAS BaxTen, aged -9 years, ‘The relatives and friends of the lamily are invited to attend the funeral, irom bia late residence, 228 Bast Forty-Orat street, this (saturday) afternoon, at half-past twelve o’cloc! Duosaitan. 08 bie ay G Merch 4, MaBy, wife of Timot rossman, The relatives, frienas and acquaintances are re- Pesertaly Ia Gmina streen, ‘brookiyu, on Sanday reside mon street, 2) afternoon, at haifpast gus o'clock. “The ranains wilt be to Calvary Cemetery. CuEstTer.—At his residence in this elty, on Thurse day evening, March 4, WILLIAM W. CHEsTga, in hig ear. Rélatives and friends of the family are invited Shurch, this (Saturdat) aittruaou, af three o'clock churel av) Ailerauol ae furahe r ran bar rectus ‘will be take e Second street Marble Ceuetery, CoLE.—At Melrose, on Thursauy, March 4, Mrs,’ ~— Ltt wife of Abranam Cole, aged 42 years and mont The relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, this (Saturday) afternoon, a& two o'clock, at her residence, corner of Boston road, and Waveriey street, : CUNNINGHAM.—Un Friday, March 5, HELENA AGNES CUNNINGHAM, dauguter of Win, F, and Mare garet H. Sapatngian, aged 6 months and a days, { ‘Tbe funeral will take place on Sunday 000, at two o'clock, from 431 East Maer oe street, between First and Second avenues, and from thence to Flatbush Cemetery lor lat r.ueni, Dantet.—On thursday, Marci 4, CAROLTN! ife of Joseph P. Daniel, after @ long and painful il!ness, aged 35 years. ‘The friends are respectfu'ly invited to attend ti funeral, from her late residcnce, 83 South Ligit street, Jersey City, Luis (Saturday) alternoon at one | o'clock. DarRow.—At Parkville, late Greenfeld, L. L, o ! Thursday, March 4, Joun Paxxow, Jurmerly Ca) in Second regiment N.Y, S. M. The triends of tie family, also members of Brooke lyn Lodge, No. 288, F. aud A, M., are invited to ate tend the funeral, on Sunday afternoon, at haifs t two o'clock. ‘Take the Coney Island cars te ‘unison’s, where carriages w.ll be in waiting. fi Dunnina.—On Thursday, March 4, Javea DUNNING, | widow of Patrick Dunning, age 35 years. 4 The friends Pose es ol an ety eaptoeawr fally invited to attend the juueral from her res! dense, 2 West A os ha street, this Gatae, day) afternoon, at one o'clock. MPLPORD.—In Hrooklyn, on ‘Thursday, March 4, Roser ELFORD, brotuer of George Euord, aged 3% years. ‘The friends of the family are respectfully requested 1o attend the funeral, from the residence of his brother, 29 Bond street, this (Saturday) afternoon, a& two o'clock. eared conernursan Pimorhing, Marché PeyTow FARRELL.—On Tharsaay mor’ ‘§ 5 N., eldest son of Mere ik, and Marie Louise Farrelly dd 10 years and 10 days. he relatives and irieuis of the family are invit to attend the funeral services, at the residence of bi parents, No, 61 Perry street, viis (Saturday) mornings at hali-past nine o'clock. Tae remains will be taker to iludson, N. Y., for Inverinent. " Boston and Portsmouth (s. L.) papers please copy. FERDON.—At Whitep.ains N. Y., EMMA EVELINES only daughter of Jchn J. and the late Zmma Ferdony of Morrisania, aged 1 year and 5 months, t ‘The relatives and friends of (he famtly are respect> fully invited to attead the funeral, on Monday, grandfather, Jacob Buc. ae = Be ninco out i will be tn waiting for the train a jarlel riages train, three P. M. a Gives.—On Friday, March 5, of congestion of thé the beloved wife of Jolin Gives, 4u the 30th year her age. Native of Clough, county Kilkenny, lre« land. to attend the funeral, on Sinday aiternoon, hird avenue, ALLEGE On Friday, March 8, Rosenr Wrsox ALLEIT —On_ Friday, arch Hf Marston. Hallett. In the 6th year of his age. Relatives and friends of tue Jainily are invited to’ corner Lafayette place aud Great Jones street, this (Saturday) afvernoon, at two o'clock. child of Chai and Armenia Jeroloman, years and 6 mon! to attend tue funeral, frow the residence of her pa+ Tents, No. 300 Stanton street, on Sunday afternoony ( LooraM.—On Thursday, March 4, CATHERINE, wif@ of James Looram, age: at twelve o'clock, noon, irom the house of he Railroad depot at a quarter-past ten A. M. lungs, Mrs, Many ddives, (maiden name Moresy’ 0 ‘The friends of the family are respectfully rye o’clock, from her late resideace, 835 TI HALLETT, son of Rovgrt Wilson and attend the funeral, from St. Bartholomew's church, JEROLOMAN.—On Thursday, March 4, EMMA, on! aged 8. ‘The relatives and friends of tne family are invited at one o'clock, Ml 23 years. ‘The relatives and iriends of the sae Ses those jon, and se! gprcthers. pri and Joha Mal Be 4 rother-in-law, James Tracy. are Feapeoiul ry , md the faneral, tr <r Lal rendence, sof to atte Third avenue, between Fifiv-third and Fitty-f streets, on are g afvernoon, at two o'ciock. d MARING.—At Morrisania, oa Thursday, March 4, ALMEDA MARING, aged 22 years. Funeral services will bz boid at her mother’s dence, Ratiroad avenue, between Seventh and streets, this (Saiurday) afteravoa, at ihree o'cl 4 MILLER.—On Friday morning. March 5, James R., . eldest son of James ani Aun Miller, aged 24 ‘year and 5 months, 4 The friends and acquarntances of the family are respectfully invited to atiend tue funeral, from the residence of his parents, Lodi, N, J., on Sunday afe ternoon, at eae one O'CiOCK. ! McKAY.—On Thursday nigit, March 4, ELIZABETH, rsp og of George J. and Elizabeth McKay, ‘26 days. fhe taneral will take place, from the residence her parents, 42) West Twenty-fourth street, tu! (Saturday) afternoon, at two o'clock. ‘ McLees.—Suddenty, on (Chars tay night, March 4) JOHN MCL&ES, in the 39h year of its Funeral from i42d street und Euguth avenue, this, (Satarday) a‘ternoon, at ons o'clock. { O/NBILL.—At Paterson, N. J., oa Friday, March 5, Mary ELten, only daughter of John and Mary O'Neill, in the 19th year of her ago. Notice of funeral 11 tomorrow's paper, PaRMeENTIER.—At Orawiord, N. J., on Thursday, March 4, Mr. Jossera PARmeNTizR, In the 64th year of hisage. The friends of the famtiy are invited to attend the funeral, from his inte resideoce in Crawford, this (Saturday) afternoon, nt twoo'clock, Trains leav@ toot of Liberty strezt at twelve o'clock. PARSBLLS.—At hastings, on Friday March 5% Harare, son of Edward ¥. and Leonora Parsells, 4 2 years and 1 month, the funeral will take place at Hastings, this (Satare day) morning, at ball-past etcht o'clock. Carrt wiil be at the Hudson River Kailroad depot, Twen' ninth street, at half-past teu. Friends and relativ are invited to attend. PaTTERSON.—On Friday, March 5. Sornre L., wife = ag R. Patterson and daughter of Willacy arp, 4 ‘The relatives and friends of the family are respect« fu ly invited to attend the funeral, from her late reste en Navy street, on Sunday afternoon, at two o'clock, Pxi#es.—At Mount Veron, on Thursday, March 4 FRANCIS L'ESTRANGE, youngest son of Francis Le and Sarah Pnibbs, aed 2 years and 7 months, ‘The faneral will take place from ths residence his parents, this (saturday) aiteraoon, at thi ‘0c! On Thursday, March 4, Marta B. som, youngest daughter of Micuael and Ann Rock, aged years and 6 montis. Friends and relatives are respectfully invited attend the funeral, from 34 Gonverneur street, (Saturday) afternoon, wo o'clock. Rouckg@L.—On Friday, February 5, Butza T., wite John H, Ruckel, and dauwhter of the late Will W, Chardavovae, The iriends of the family are respecttully invi to attend the funeral at Christ church, Fife avenue and Thirty-G/th street, on Monday morning, at half-past eleven o'cloc Sixxort.—On Thursay, Maren 4, Joun J. Sin; only child of John and Annie E. Sinnott, aged years, The retatives and friends of the family are fully mvited Lo attend the funeral, from the reatdenc of his parents, No. 24 Watts st. eet, this (Saturday) ternoon, at one o'clock. ( Swirt.—On Thursday, March 4, WILLIAM SMitay in the 56th year of hs age. The relatives and friends of deceased are respects fully invited to alien’ the funcrai, from his late reste Gence, No, 87 First street, tuis, (Salurlay) afternoon, at oné o'clock. Tixpatt.—On Thursday, March 4, Exviza, wife of Henry Tindal, of Hastings England. The friends of the funy are respectfully invited end the funeral, from her late residence, No, }0 West Thirty-second street, on Monday afternoon, at one o'clock. Torrer.—in Brooklyn, suddenly, on Tnesday morning, March 2, Hisaw Tureen, aged 74 year® and 3 months. Funeral services were held In Strong place Baptist church (Rev, Dr. Hoyt’s) anit remains interred im Greenwood Cemetery on Thursday, VaNpexvoonrt.—On Friday, March 5, Mangarnr VANDERVOORT, aged oars, ¢ relatives and iriends of the family are reapect~ folly invited to attend the fineral services, at Ste Paul's church, on Sanday afernoon, at two o'clock Precisely. VAN RENSSRLARN.—Cn Thuraday, March 4, Ar Ten, son of Win, P. Ven ensselaer, m the 21st year of hia age, The fun services will take place at the church, Corner of Fiith avenue and Nineveenth street, om jay morning, at ten o'eock. VELLA Mount Vernon, on Thursday, Marat 4, Mrs. Reaccca Waits, widuw of Fitch Wells, is the 620 year a ‘The relatives aud friends are invited to attend tht funeral, from corner oF Secom sirectand Third av vuon, this Sature day) altesnoun, at o'