The New York Herald Newspaper, June 1, 1873, Page 5

MONG THE ASHES. Boston the Day After the Con- flagration. \ The Sad Scene of Desolation by Night and by Day. Thrilling Description of the Terrible Battle with the Flames. THE CITY CALM. Correet List of Losses, Insurance and Build- ings Destroyed. BogTon, May 31, 1873. Boston has received another serious lesson, By nd by she may be induced by force of cireum- stancen and the inevitable enlightenment of expe- Whence to abandon hier semi-medieval characteristics and recognize the lofty strides of the nineteenth century in respect to certain matters, one or the most isiportont of which is architecture. The greut fre of yesterday, which only by chance was supdued before it had accomplished the same fear- Tul extent of ruin as that of laet November, will undoubtedly serve to teach a practical phi- Josophy which the Hub of the Universe has heretofore been ignorant of—the philoso- phy of common sense. A city with such Barrow and devious streets might well be asur- Prise to the stranger travelling in the New World, although he would not wonder at them in Seville and other towns that dre now lovely remnants of, the old ages in Europe. But Yankee ingenuity has ‘Mastered the petty details of inventive progress without apparently compassing those greater problems which involve at once such immense Hability of gain or loss. Boston, although built for the major part of hard, ‘durable brick and stone, has been latterly found to be one of the cities of ‘this Continent most vulnerable to the terrific and @readful assaults of fire. And no wonder. The flames ence started leap easily front roof to roof and from ‘Wall te wall, and the stupidity aione of the original ‘butiders is too late discovered to be the fatality ‘which proves so dangerous to the interests of the modern community. The conflagration of yester- q@ay assumed its dreadful dimensions for the reason that the streets were too narrow to afford a barrier to THE WILD FURY OF THE FLAMES which sprang with sardonical splendor from build- ing to building, as if those structures had been purposely placed in ready juxtaposition, like the tagotsina pile of kindling wood ready for the toreh, The tall, solemn looking architecture of the business portions of the city has the outward aspect ofextreme solidity and invincibility; bat the fact is now sadly known that these faults of construction are such as to render them at times absolutely defenceless against the msatiable appe- tite of fire. Only almost superhuman efforts have mow saved the city from a conflagration as vast as that of November, and the future can only reveal ‘how soon the same terrible peril wil) again become imminent. ri ‘The excitement over the events of yesterday is now confined almost entirely to those individuals ‘who lave been personally injured by the whims or the terrible purpose of the Names. To-day business g0es on smoothly in its routine course and the city ‘wears its unruffied and commonplace appearance, except im that > / BLACKENED BLOT OF DESOLATION in its southern quarter, where the fire was. The Pictare is far less startling ‘than that presented by the old burned district, when the clouds, risen from the freshly wrought ruin, first faded away and revealed to view in the ghastly light of the day the broken and melted rem- mants of fallen grandeur. The smaller extent Of the property scorched and withered up in this visitation does not, however; cause the impression |. Df horror at its terrible desolation to be less than awful and painful. The scene 1s sad and sickening, 4m its betokening of the dreadful destruction that came almost ina moment upon the mountains of successful endeavor, which has cost so much of in- @ustrious thought and hard-earned money. The boundaries of the fire are not of insignificant ex- tent. The picture of ruin and waste begins at the corner of Baylston and Washington streets, and ex- tends to Avery street and Hayward place and from Bumstead court and Haymarket piace to Bremmer Place. Within this region, though its outline is somewhat irregular, the whole story may be cen- felved ata glance. Ragged, broken walls stand in bold and sullen relief amid the thick masses of ecrambled débris that, on al! sides, cover yhe earth. ‘These stern and ghastly spectres of what grandeur and splendor existed a few hours ago convey a shuddering impression to the heart oj the benolder. The cracked and TREMBLING REMNANTS OF WALES a@re variegated in hue, blackened in places by the smoke or encrusted with a hard covering of gray Java, created by the melting, under the infernal heat, of the hardest minera) substances used in architecture. Deep gulfs, with jagged overhanging edges, half filled with disordered débris, mark the existence of the Immense vaults over which stood ‘the great buildings that have been ruthlessly lev elled by the destroying flames. At the corner of Hayward place ana Washington street, the site of the magnificent warehouse of Chickering & Sons, manufacturers of pianos, a scene peculiarly pic- furesque was presented last night. A single wall, fifty feet in height, long at the base, but tapering sharply but irregularly to a point, stood in solitude amid a field of as complete de- struction as ever human eye looked upon. Like a Titan, grand and unmoved in the obiiteration of his race, it shadowed the dreary scene around it. On the other side of Washington street some of ‘the buildings are left with portions of their four ‘wails still standimg, dismantled of roofs, cornices nd window trames and their ornamentation blemished by the intense heat. The streets in THE BURNT REGION ‘were last night crowded with great blocks of mar- ‘ble and piles of brick, plainly teiling of the dread- Sul crash of the great masses that occurred when they fell beneath the swift breath of the remorse- Jess heat, A walk though this region at midnight ‘Was thrilling in interes}. Few people were abroad besides the custodians of the public safety—the firemen, the militia and the police. Their lines were tightly drawn around the burned district and bayonets gleamed brightly out of the dark shadows of the streets. The sentinels were quickly passed after the presentation of a bit of official paste- board, This incident was strongly remindtul of similar ones during thé November fire. as the Murned district was entered the presence of ruin was peculiarly vivid, because of the strangé con- trast between the impression it produced and that which had previously been feit im the beautiful lustre of stars that shone silently frem the clear heaven. The very Mght which they shed, so pure and fair in its Suvery brightness, gilded strangely the gaunt Outlines of the scene. The tops and jagged edges of the distorted mounments of destruction that stood on,every hand, reaching deep into the dim space of night, seemed to have been changed vy invisible necromancy of nature into a wierd and striking he der some of the dark arches that were atill standing glowed THE RED SMOULDERING FLAMERS, now harmiess, and left to die among the ashes of their own making. Flickering gieams of light ‘were thown against the remaining upright frag- ments of ruined walls, and sometimes strange uhapes were distinctly shadowed thereon, indnig- ing tn grotesque and mysterious gesture, an inex- pheabie and GHOSTLY PANTOMT™ME, and increased the awe already inspired in the tator, Watchmen dotted the whole extent of ruins, discernible by the brillant lanterns which = carried in their hands. Here and there tneir figures were seen standing mutely among the débris, or i ips on the fragments of I e plainly m the general silence of the reat of the In @ few places the firemen were still directing stream of water on the ying boas of fame, and in she atmosphere “pf night spray end vapyr, ‘ and yet it peeaoces greater ruin, The expla- has nowlearned the art of dung ‘the ‘ames art ing the through the teaching of severe ‘experhince, The festivities in anticipation on Friday had drawn the great mass of the people into the streets, They were dressed in their holiday attire and were rejoicing io holiday thougnts. Tne pow otic music of the bands, the stir and bustle of pre- for the le and the curious and eager excitement ef expectation had just begun when the ple t,incidents connected with them were suddenly interrapted by THE OMINOUS CLANGOR that rung ever the city well remembered as having once been the wemning: sound of a former dreadful In a portion of thetown remote from the general rendezvous of the people something had Occurred that had its significance, It was not frightful in itsel!, but was not incapable of produc- ing horrors that pen could not fully describe. ‘This something was the breaking out of a fire in a minor room of a large building in Washington street, near the corner of Lafayette place. The structure was Juil of cdmbustible material, and was put together after a plan that ren- dered it almost defenceless against the tender mercy of the flames. They therefore im- proved their opportunity with a tlendish desire of self-gratification. They readily took advantage of all the odds given them by their stupid enemy— man. In the varnish room of Messrs. Haley, Morse & Boyden’s manufactory, an outwardly admir: bie establishment, they first sprang. into life nt rapidly von into hnge, terrible monsters, who: thousand fiery arms multiplied each moment and wound sinuously but with implacable malice around each object that met their stealthy and terrible advance, They rose higher and bigher; they stretched their long, manifold and uncertain shapes in every direction. ‘they shivered the glass of the windows, and leaped out of them with determined energy, across the chasms of the streets, and gained coins of vantage in other structures, Still they climbed upward toward the roo! of their iirst prison, and, reaching it, crept swiftly along the tiles and cornices from one building to another, and still the alarms rang out with omineus clamor, and none of the gathering crowd could e88 where the army of red fiends would pause. ‘There was evidently some mistake or else some conspiracy of the tates that favored the daring in- vasion. Minute after minute passed before the fire engines had reached tie spot, and then the work that confronted them had grown mto * “A GIGANTIC TARK, ‘rhe belis were first rung at twenty minutes after eignt o'clock, aud the warning was repeated four times in rapid succession, summoning the whole Fire Department of the city to the rescue of her commercial wealth and grandeur, ‘The huge shatts in the furniture warenouse of Haley, Morse & Boydon, reaching from cellar to roof, were exactly fitted for the purposes of the energetic flames. ‘The strong draughts carried them ligutly wiiere it was most dangerous for them to go and forwarded in- caleulably their work of destruction. The flames in ert masses, in battalions, i regiments, and in phalanx met and conquered every ob. stacle, and for a time, Their power scemed invincible, At mine o'clock there — was scarcely .@ Wall from Boylston to Avery street but what was crumbling under the terrible besieg- ing legions that had crossed Washington street 4nd were rapidly enveloping the buildings on that side in their fatal embrace, Chickering’s immense piano establishment and the Glove Theatre were assailed at this time, and on the beliry of the Boylston Market a firm footing had been secured in the wood work of the spire, aud they were flinging cinders through the air like meteors in’ fearful splendor, The firemen, however, checked them here, and they fell back foiled only to fix them- selves in fiercer fury upon other objects of attack. The saddest and most imteresting incident of the dreadiul battle now occurred—the destruction of ag ‘Theatre. It was swept away in almost instant. . THE FLAMES STRODE ONWARD, and at ten o'clock a scene of complete ruin met the ee on the west side of Washington street, while the tire was still Juriously striving to make pro- gress beyond Brimmef place. On Essex street the most terrible perugeie of all toek place. The air was blackened by thick, blinding masses of smoke, and human vision, at times, was nearly impossible. torrent of water, ankle deep, fiowed through the street, and showers of cindcrs and soot fell from the hissing walls. The lurid lemons of the fire could have been seen still scaling the roofs running along the wooden cornices. A dreadful roar, theecommingling of a thousand neises—from human lips, from the lavor- ing engines, from the angry flames, from the innu- merabie explosions, no one knew where, from the rushing water and from the crashing walls—filled the air. This was the moment when the brave firemen began to feel confident of victory and. had hemmed in the flames so that they could advance BS further. They were confined Ae be letion ee ‘theyhad begun, and thus they ac- complished the savage horde of an Attila that can ouly vent their rage in barburity toward the wounded and the dead, At eleven o'clock, although the flames were still reaching eagerly toward the eastern side of Brimmer place, they were met un- shrinkingly at every point and successfully driven back. At the same time the firemen ‘were making aterrible struggle for the mastery on the nortn side of Essex street. They seemed to have every- thing against them. The heat was fearfully im- tense, and the blaze from the Globe Theatre would sweep down with almost irresistible fury, and storm the opposite walls with sparks and burn- ing brands, The whole front of that side of the street was once in flames, but the firemen stood heroically at their posts, aud, after doing battic in the midsi of most intense heat for over half an hour, they were victorious; but before they had succeeded the old and valuable Boston Library was wiped out in a trice, ‘The battle alter this was less strenuons, and the flames were now easily kept within bounds and were SLOWLY BUT SURELY SUBDUED. At one o'clock their invasion may be said to have ceased, and they had shrank back into less fricht- ful dimensions, drawing in their multitudinous arms. but leaving behind @ scene that was net wicasing. to behold. So ended the second Boston re and the second successful attempt of a terrible element to take advantage ae stupidity of men. COUNTING THE Loss. The official estimates of the aaere ‘ate losses verify the original report sent to the HERALD on Friday. The assessed valuation of the real estate destroyed is about $650,000 and its real value is placed by good authorities at $800,000, ‘To this ag- gregate must be added the value of the stock and other movable property which has been jost and the total will probably reach $1,500,000. THE BURNED BUILDINGS. Several of the buildings which were destroved were among the architectural and popular laud- marks ef the city. There will be some disturbance io the continuity of public consciousness since they are gone. The one which will be the most re- | oleae is the Globe Theatre, which was one of the nest places of amusement in the country. It was founded by Messrs. Arthur Cheney and Dexter H. Follet im February, 1867, and on the 28th of the fol- lowing October it was first opened. The theatre began to burn a little before nine o'clock on Friday, although every effort was made to save it by deluging the outer walls with water. The members of the company and Mr. Cheney, the manager, hurriedly commenced removing the wardrobes and other properties that couid be easily carried. The flames, however, caught their hold at the windows opening on the second and third balconies, afd rushed across a recess be- tween the front building and the theatre, which was in the rear, securing an entrance into the splendid interior, which instantly was one amphi- theatre ef fire. From the stage the scene was full of awful sublimity. The flickering flames were re- flected against the magnificent decorations of the auditorium, and the delicate tracery was soon en- veloped in jurid sheets of fire, filling the place with @ mocking brightness and lighting it for the last time, At length the walls of the elena arch, soontafter the attachés of the theatre had retreated to the private rooms in the rear of the stage, fell with a dreadful crash, and, by a strange freak of fate, the eatch-drop of the curtain was loosened, and it unrolled slowly for the last time, and en THE CLOSING SCENE of this real tragedy. The flies and sections of the scenes on the stage were thrown by the strange currents of air generated by the heat in all direc- tions and sell in @ mass of disordered ruin among the broken statues, gilded cnains and tropical piants that had recently ornamented interesting scenes of comedy, Fortunately, however, most of the valuable furniture, mirrors and ail of the ward- robes were saved; but the os ee scenery with which the “New Magalen’’ Was produced upon the Stage was entirely destroyed. Another important building, but having cot nected with it no such wealth of sentiment as n urally surrounded the Globe Theatre, was the im- mense and magnificent granite warehouse ef the firm of Chickering, the celebrated manufacturers of pianos, It began to burn about ten o'clock, having caught fire in several places from the oppo- site buildings. For seme time the efforts of the i checked the progress of its destruc- a THE HEAT finally became too intense, and the stream of water which had kept the iacade cool for a long time was withdrawn. ‘The fire’ then made rapid advance, and the attempts to subdue it were unavailing. The walls and floors fell successively, with a dei ning crash, and immediately the whole fallen mass was covered with ® mantle of flame that could not be penetrated by a Niagara of water. Only one wall remained erect, that was the north side, It broke. in two in Pp middie, and, with an awful shock, fell to the ly shaking the adjoining bulldings to their found: tions, The Chickering warerooms contained 225 pianos, valued at $112,500. The loss caused by damage to them is about $98,500, and that of the building is estimated at $80,000, ‘The latter was re- fitted only a year ago. Other important BUILDINGS DESTROY! are Arlington Hall, the Museum the International Hotel. The new office was only scorched, The numbes of buildings wholly or varlially destroyed js twenty-seven. pine of which } Westcott of An: ; atom x iy and , were dwelling.houses. The following is & complete mt bor Seed ‘rhe figures given eee ge pallies dgstroyed or injured, ground valuation being incladeds—— WASHINGTON STREBT—WEST SIDE, th Turner and W. C, Murdock, trustees, owners... tees 297-401—John Roessie... . 403-402—James Parker (Vinal & Proby, J. W. Brackett and G, Foster Whit 411—Massachusetts Baptist Haley, Morse & Co., and ational Bani esas cessesteeetees 8-4) anines wer ( tel eases ji b fia pai B, Hayes (Thompson & 425-40—dehin i. irowal (ids Wethirbee, G, B, MUMOD) ...-.-seeeecereeeseesers Mary Bo, (Boytston 000 Siocon 90,000 40,000 30,000 80,000 25,000 20,000 80,000 8,000 jton’s heirs > thur Cheney, lessee ; Sampson, Daven- ore & Cd.; Bowman, Juage & Co.; viliam H, Slocomb, John ‘le, Wil- Ham 0. Atwood, Headquarters Post 116, Grand Army of the atic, Bry- ant & Stratton’s Business College and otfices)..... * 368—Ammi . Baldwin (Barns ) 85, 370-374—H. Hl. Hunnewell (Arlington Hall). 25, ESSEX STREET—NORTH SIDE. 16-18—-Peleg W. Chandler (Hawley, Folsom 833 ORG MAL) ..,.0cccccerccccrccsccrsees’ 9,000 22-24—Peleg W. Chandler (B.S, Rowe & Co.) —_ §,000 26-28—Sarah A. Brown (John I, Brawn).... 15,000 32-34—A. C. Baldwin (Chauncy Hall School, George K. Turner). 26,000 36-38—A, P. Moree (Pitcher’s restaurant) 8,000 40-42— -—— (Leland, Wheelock & Co).. 15,000 FAYETTE COURT, 6—John Roessle (dweliing)..... 7-5—Jonn Rocasie (arena . 8—John Roessle (dwelling) ..............-+ HAYWARD PLACE—FROM WASHINGTON STREET, EAST i SIDE, 1l—Sarah T, Gridley (dwelling)..... ee BUMSTEAD COURT—OVF BOYLSTON #PRER?, 6—Alvyin Dexter's heirs (George F. Bonney Co., stable) 8—Charles Marsh (dwelling) 4—Michaei Hayden (dweiling) + 2,000 HAYMARKE? PLACK—OFF AVERY, RUNNING IN REAR OF WASHINGTON STREET. 4—Seth Turner and W, C, Murdoch, trustees (dwelling)... - 6—James Parker (dweliing) + 2,000 8—Abby F. Dodge (dweiling)...., - 2,000 13—Massachusetts Baptist Convention (dwelling) ....-...00+ + 2,000 Total... fon $042,000 companies who lost by the fire yesterday are the (ollowing :—Oriental, of Hartford, $10,000; Hamburg, of Bremen, $28,000; German American, ol New York, $20,000; Manhattan, of New York, $15,000; Guardian, cf New York, $14,000; Amazon, of Cincinnati, Mer- chants’, of New York, $9,500; Malsters, $15,000; Royal, of London, $80,000; Queen's, of London, $2,000; North British, $2,600; London Insurance, $20,000; Ktna, of Hartiord, $80,000; Commerce, Of Albany, $2,500, The Aitna had $9,000 on Mr. Turner’s property, on Essex street, on which there was also $1,000 in the Fire- men’s Fund. J. Roessie had an insurance of $12,500 in the Lancashire, of Liverpool, Mullen, Ide & Co. had $5,000 in the American Central, of St. Louis; $2,500 {n the Williainsbury City, L.1., and $5,000 in the Fire Association of Philadeiphia.. J. W. Brack- ett, dealer in pianos, was insured for $7,500 in the offices representedby Goodman & Co, Eliot Insurance Company, Of Boston......... $4,000 American Central Insurance Company, of St. british and Mercantile Insurance North Company .. Pedaguey kee kaos eee Fireman’s Fund, of San Francisco. 10,000 Commerce Insurance Cpmpany,o! Albany... 2,000 Joseph Benari, of 413 Washington street, had $12,000 insurance, equally divided among the Home, Germania and Hanover, of New York, ano the Quincy and Mutual offices, Hawiey, Foisom & Martin were insured for 5,000 in the Union and Matual, of Rhiladeiphia, and $5,000 in the Continental. THE HARTFORD COMPANIES Rartford. 15,000 Oriental. Phnix.. + 14,000 National ‘The oases ol some of the NEW YORK COMPANIES are stated as follow: Republic. $6,500 Exchange 6,000 Hotfman, 7,500 Niagara... 9,000 Elhs, Hoilis & Co. estimate the losses of the com- panies represented by them at about $100,000. ‘The impertal, of Londen, had $14,000, An investigation of Mr. Chickering’s insurance gives $97,000 in all. The Continental, of New York, had $5,000 for Fawley & Folsom; $1,500 for Kovert Newman; $3,000 for Emerson; $6,000 tor H. F. Miller, and $6,500 to another firm, ‘the North Americau, of New York, among other losses, had a policy of $25,000 on the Brown prop- erty in Essex street, F. 5. Phelps’ office loses the following amounts :— Brewers’, of Milwaukee. Citizens’, of Newark, 10,000 » Roger Williams, of P: 1 New York and Yonkers, 2, ‘The Black River Insu y, of Water- town, has a small joss on one policy only in Bostop. LARGE FIRE IN HOBOKEN. a The Morris and Essex Depot Barned Down—The Telegraph, Newspaper and Express Offices and Four Freight Cars Consamed—Narrow Eseape of the Ferry- houses and Adjoining Docks. At five o’elock yesterday morning officers Ham- mond and Slattery discovered flames issuing from, the roof of the Morris and Essex depot. The structure was a wooden shell, 500 feet long by forty in width, built on piles and projecting into the waters of the Hudson adjoining the ferryhouse. Jt was erected three years ago by the Dela- ware, Lackawanna and Western Rajlroad Com- pany, after they had leased the property of the Morris and Essex Company. The first surges of the smoke were observed by the captain of one of the ferryboats, aud by the time the boat touched Hoboken the few spires of smoke had given way to an unbroken and unconquerable sheet of fame. The alarm bells were sounded, and several police oficers were soon at hand endeavoring to save books and .papers, This attempt they were speedily compelled to relinquish, <A brisk east wind was blowing, and hurled sparks, fame and faggots in showers along the roof. The entire Fire Department turned out; # few streams were poured upon THE BURNING WALLS, but without effect. The flames sped now tewards the ferryhouse, and it became evident thatticre was the only place in which effective work couid be done. Chief Engineer Curran sent to Jersey City for aid, but assistance trom that quarter came too late. Two ferryboats and two steamtugs hur- ried to the scene and cast incessant streams against the ferryhonse walls and ou the roof In the meantime, two locomotives entered the burn- ing depot and dragged away several passenger cars intact to @ place oi safely. South of the edifice were numerous freigat cars—some laden with preeious merchandise and others empty—which, owing to the vigor of the employés, were likewise removed from danger. Four cars, however, had been enveloped by the fire and were not saved. The firemen of Hoboken worked with their accus- tomed energy, and te their efforts may be attrib- uted the safety of the ferryhouses and THE ADJOINING Di In their desperate struggle wit: flames their hew steamer proved 0! incalculable advantage. Despite the labors of the firemen, in jess than half an hour the whole building was at the mercy of the flames, ana tier after tier in the roof gave Way, and, faliing to the floor, made a vast ridge of fire. ‘The ratis and iron implements were bent like bite $12,500 of wire, the floor itself burned away, aud then the piles underneath became ignited, and were charred to the water’s edge. ‘The raph vifice, the Express oMce and a newspaper which formed part of the sirue- ture, were destroyed, Had = the wind been southeast nothing could have saved the Jerryhouse atid steamship docks, There is a Widespread feeling against the system ot erecting Such tinder-pox concerns in the neighborhood of a populous city, Not jong ago the agent of the in- surance company objected to the use of stoves in the depot, while engineers were allowed to “fire up” locomotives therein, The cost of the wooden shell was $20,000; the piles, flooring and other materiais consumed involve @ loss of $40,000, making a total loss of $60,000, fully covered by in- surance, and which will be shared by twenty dif- ferent iusurance reompanies, Passengers land at Hudson sires, and the trains run as u Some delay was occasioned at the ierey, but tramc now goeg on as usual. ‘The safe of the West- cott Expr ‘ess Company fell into the water and will be recovered. The foreman of one of the engine companies, while on the roef, was slighily injured, and several workmen fell through the burned tim- bers into the water, but were rescued. There are adozen stories as to the origin of the fire. The company blames the newspaper office men, and these latter deny that they used a fire. In spite of all the statements, the probability is that the loco- Motives, which are allowed to remain in the build- ing, threw out sparks which gave rise to the confla- ‘ation. It is very unlikely that the fire originated in any other way, unless it was the work of an in- cendiary. ‘ * A REMORSEFUL MURDERER COMMITS SUI- OIDE. LOUISVILLE, May 31, 1873. Ben Scobee, who killed Ben Parisn at Bowling Green, Ky., some weeks age, committed suicide in that place last night, He was driven to the deed by remorse. - YACHTING. The Brooklyn Yacht Club Regatta. THE PROGRAMME OF THE DAY. List of Prizes, Course and Sailing Regulations. ‘The annual regatta of the Brooklyn Yacht Club has been set down for Thursday, June 12, exactly one week later tian that selected by the New York Yaent club. The Atlantic Yacht Club sail their regatta on June 10, and several of the smaller clubs will hold their opening festivals during the present month. Sunny June appears to be a favor- ite month among yachtsmen, and during its course the annuai regattas of the principal clubs are gen- erally sailed. Sultry July and August are gener- ally given up to cruising and gliding through the Sound. The yachtsmen, stretched on the deck be- neath the gratefi shade of a canvas awning, can thoroughly aopreciate the faseinations of the sea. September comes and ushers in the scene at Newport, with thirty’or forty hand- some schooners anchored in the harbor, each in perfect order and acvoutred for the fray. Yacht racing really commences every season at Newport, as over either of the courses trom Brenton’s Reef to Block Island or the Sow and Pigs+ there is generally suMicient wind to fairly test the speed of the yacht on every point of sailing. Oc- tober is one of the finest yachting months of the year, and witnesses nearly all our finest match races. During that month there is generally plenty of wind outside Sandy Hook Light and enough ofa sea Ww make flat-bottom centre-board- ers feel they would be better up the Hudson. Awnings may be dispensed with, and a rough pilot jacket will be found of more service than the fan- nel or cassimere jacket of the dog days, yet that is the season that the true yachtsman really en- joys. 3 . ‘The members of the Brooklyn Yacht Club are making great preparations for the celebration of their sixteenth annual regatta, and on Thursday, Jane 12, their programme will probably attract one of the largest fleets of yachts ever before seen in New York Bay, as they offer prizes which are open to competition between all yachts belonging to a duly organized yacht club. There will prob- ably be about seventy-five yachts competing for the different prizes o%erea by the Brooklyn Club, and the regatta committee have so arranged mat- ters on this occasion that it will be impossible for any yacht to win more than two prizes. On for- mer occasions one yacht has been able to carry off as many as three prizes, The officers of the Brookiyn Club this year are :— Commodore, Jacob Voorhis, Jr.; Vice Commodore, John 8. Dickerson; Rear Commodore, Robert Dil- Jon; President, P. W. Ostrander; Secretary, Wil- liam T. Lee, Treasurer, Chauncey M. Felt; Arsist- ant Secretary, G. Clement Wood; Measurer, Jonn M. Sawyer; Flett Surgeon, Samuel Hall, M. D., and Judge Advocate, Henry A, Mott. The Regatta Committee are Messrs. H. Baragwanath, J. Varnum Mott, M. D.; John M. Sawyer, James 8. Dean and M. T. Davidson. The followinggprogramme has been issued by the Regatta Committee :— PROGRAMME, The Club, as usual, invites a free entry of all yachts belonging to any duly organized yacht club in the United States; and to all such yachts that may enter the Club offers for competition the tol- lowing prizes, on time algywance :— Fust—The Flag OMcer® Prize to be awarded to the first yacht of each class belonging to the -Brooklyn Yacht Club, regardless of time allow- ance. Second—A pipe to be awarded to the first yacht of each class belonging to the Brooklyn Yacht Club, on time atlowance, Third—A prine to be awarded to the second yacht of each class, on time allowance, belonging ‘Vo any organized yacht club. 1t 8 understood that the yachts of the Brooklyn Yacht Club have the privilege of contending for ali of the above prizes, ig . fea, ,acht owpers are requested to semu in their en- Abfes as oon as possible. so ag to enable a correct classification, and blank certificates of entry can. be procured en application to the Secretary, Wil- liam T. Lee, 114 Wall street. Course. The course for schooners and first clacs sioops to be from anchorage to stakeboat at Southwest spit, passing it from westward to southward, thence to lightship, rounding it from the northward to cast- ward, and return to nome stakeboat, which will be off Bay Ridge dock, For second class sloops, from anchorage to stake- boat at Soutnwest Spit, passing it from the wi ward to southward, thence around stakebc outer bar buoy in Gedney’s Channel, rounding ne from southward to eastward, thence to home stakeboa For third-class sloops (open boats) trom an age to stakeboat at Southwest Spit, rounding from westward to southward, thence to stakeboat. Time of Race, If any yacht in any class makes the race in eight hours it Will be considgred a race for every class. Xatrictions, All yachts to pass outside of Fort Lafayette and to eastward of West Bank buoys Nos. 11, 13 and 16, and on returning to westward of Damb Geacun. All yachts on returning 40 pass to eastward of home stakeboat. Canvas. All yachts may carry any fore and aft sails and all head sails to be set on stays, except open boats, Flags and Numbers. Each yacht must carrv the signal of the club to which she may veiong at the peak of mainsail and also to have tue numvers pin upon the hire of mainsail on each side, which may be obttined of the measurer, J. M. Syren, 114 Wall street. me. The allowance of time for schooners aud first class sloops wili be based upon the length and breadth of yacht on water line. ‘he allowance of time tor second and third class sloops (open bi will be based upon length only. One-half of o: hang 1ocluded in measurement. Creu Cabin yachts to carry one man to each five feet of her Jength on deck, Position, Schooners to enchor in line abreast of each other, 200 feet apart, off Bay Bridge, New York Bay, east to west, jibs down, Sloops, first class, in line, 600 yards to the north- ward of the schooners, in like order. Sioops, second class, 500 yards to the northward of the first class sloops, in like order. Sioops, third class, 500 yards to the northward of the second class sioops, in like order. All yachts to be anchored in live before 10 A. M. on the day of the regatta, ‘All yachts to weigh anchor. Start, First Gun. —To prepare t Second Gun,---For schoone to start. Third Gun.—For se rh ind first class sloops nd class sloops to start. Fourth Gun.--For third class sioops (0} boats) to start. Gun to b ved fre the judges’ steamer, Wil- Wain Fletcher. Sailing Requintions. Any cabin yacht shifting any dead ballast daring @ regatta or race of the club sual! forfeit! all claun to.a prize. Nothing but the hand lead and line may be used in sounding. A yacht touching any boat, buoy or tor used to mark out the course shall forfeit all claim to the prize, except as specified in a further regmiation. Anchoring Will pe allowed during ar bet no Means allowed to propel a yacht exc satles A competent person shall be placed by the re gatta committee on board of cach stokcboat ta make Observations; and, in the even’ of any in- formation being required, he may be the judges for that purpose. Any Violation of these regulations shail be re- d to the judges ymmediately alter the regatta, required by the judges, to writing. ‘The judges, if im their di: ion the charges shall not be frivolous, shail appoint an earty day for hearing them, and, upon such hearing, may ex- amine such witnesses as siall be produced before them. Only bt igi from euch yacht affected by the decision shail appear before them. No yacht may be sailed in @ i rowatte or yace except a member of the club shali bé oh board. Yachts on the port tack must invariably give Way to those on the starboard tack, and in all cases where a doubt of the possibility of the yacht on the port tack weatherme the one on the star- board tack shall exist, the yacht on the port tack shail give Way If the other yacht keep her course and run inw her, the owner of the yacht on the port tack shall be compeiled to pay all damug Shag @ regatta or race, forieit all ciaim to Any yacht bearing away opgitering her course to jeeward and thereby compeslug another yacht to bear away to avoid collision, shall forfeit all claim to the prize, except when two yachts are ap- proaching @ Windward shore, buoy of stake-boat to- gethe: ith @ free wind, and so close to cach oth that the weathermost cannot bear away clear of the leewardmost, and by stand- ing. on further would be in danger of runnin ashore, or teuching said buoy or stakeboat, such Jeewardmost yacht, on being requested to bear away, is immediately to comply and will forfeit all xamined by on ne NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Set ee SEER claim to the prize by not so doing. The weathers most yacht must, however, in this case bear away at the time as the one she hails, if sue can do nen bw cn ny the wind are approaching nm two shore, a eager foavahoat together, Pg 80 close that the leewardmost cannot tack clear of the windwardmost, and by standing on further would be in danger of running ashore or tonching such bnoy or stakeboat, such Weathermost yacht on being requested to put about is immediately to comply, and will forfeit all claim to the prize by Rot so doing. The leewardmost yacht must, in this ease, however, tack at the same moment as the one she hails, if she can do so without coming in contact, When rounding a mark, boat or buoy the P soreed nearer thereto shall be considered the headmost boat; and should any other yacht that ts in the re- Sets. or race compel a yacht nearer any mark, oat or buoy to touch the said mark, boat or buoy, the yacht so compelling her shall forfeit all claim to the prize, and her owner shall pay for all damage that may occur thereby. The yacht so compelled to touch a mark, boat or buoy shail not suffer any penalty therefor. Yachts going free must invariably give way to those by the wind on either tack. During a regatta or race, unaer the anspices of the club, all yachts not entered must invariably give way to those sailing in snch regatta or race, without regard to the previous rules. Disobedience to this rule may be prosecuted under article 11, section 5, of constitution, Ail violations of these rules shail be reported to the club, and may be punished by the club in its discretion, MINIATURE YACHTING. The Opening Regatta of the Prospect Park Yacht Club—The Schooner Yacht Brookiyn the Winncr. ‘The opening regatta of the Prospect Park Model Yacht Club was sailed yesterday afternoon on the Jake iu Prospect Park, and attracted quite a large attendance from the admirers of aquatic sports, The judges were Captain Peto and Mr, Slocom, and Captain Coffin oMeciated as starter, The course was about two hundred yards, dead to winward, and the yachts had to finish between two flags, in order to be timed, There was quite a lively breeze—in fact, a little soo much for many of the yachts, as they had too much canvass spread, The Brooklyn was wisely started under jib and mainsail, and she conse- quently made considerably better weather anit won, in handsome style. ‘The Dawn wo je first prize im the second class schoouers, and the Dunmore carried of the sloop prizes. ‘The prizes were as follows for schooners: class—Pirst prize, a silver cuy second pri; silver napkin ring; third prize, silver ash tray, With gold fox pas welted on it. First prize for second class schooners, silver sugar spoon; second puz silver napkin ring. First prize for sioops, a stly matchbox. ‘The second prize, a pair of gold sle “buttons, was not awarded, FARST CLASS SCHOON dangth Owner. + DF. Conktin Poeriess. 3 59 00 Carthage 4) 00 Eleanor 58 00 Saidee T. t timed Marion 8 57 WO Brooklyn. ... 0 3 55 00 Kitty Baker.¢ 40 Nottimed Clara V.N...J, Fisher. 50 Not tied Annie A. N. Fiteh. © Not thaed £RCOND it... W. Smith: 15 00 G. Knowles Good. J, Flom ry N, Fitch ., . B. Childs: Josie. ulin Dunmore A match race will be sailed next Monday a on Gowanus Bay, between the schovners Mattie, Mary Elizabeth and Carthage, ATALANTIAN ANABASIS. Pe at The need of commerce is the motive and towards Harlem is the way. ‘The latest. to take a place in the rowing club settlement at the upper end of the island is the Atalanta Qlub, which for # number of years has had a situation for its club house at the foot of Christopher street, This rite the Dock Commissioners have thought siiould be More important use, and the members suddenly discovered, a short tin ago, that the North River was usu rough, and therefore unsuited to she! boat pract hence they built a fine how on the Harlem River, which 1s rarely bosterou: for the reception of their very light boats, and for the accommodation of those among them who speed such cratt. The house is somewhat small, but a very handsome structure, and, unlike the buildings of the other clubs, is placed, not on a simple float, but on a boat, scow-shaped, By tifis the edifice can be readily transported at the pleasure of its owners. The old house at Christo. ht the Atalantians Gesign to keep tor thelr eavier boats, such as “tne duffers,” 1m voating parlance, prope!. But this pian the Dock Commis- sioners may spoil at short order, if they conceive that the needs of commerce urgently demand the place occupied by the rouse. Yesterday was the day which the Atalanta Club chose to formaily possess itself of its new house and prociaim its addition to the rowers’ galixy. Yes, galaxy ts a proper word just here, for it no oarsman on the Hariem likens himself toa star beam- ing effaigent from above ordinary creator: believes himself supericr to those cre in his boat, certain to startie them by hi spond and endurance. But a!i that is vanity, with which naught is now to be done. Yesterday, then, the Atalantians and a number of their iiends went on board the steamer P. ©. Schultz, at the foot of Chris- topher strect, and going thence to Vaiton fercy other iriends joined them. The Sehultz passed u the East and Harlem rivers, band on board sounded strains of triumph. earner passed the boathouses their occupants vented eathusias- tic shouts, hailing: the that ventured against the Britons and feat. But that fair overthre did not weigh on the minds of the weicomers of the Atalanta Clu A selth nticipation prompted € the addition to thelr numbe: cession would Increase tiv: and whose deieat would assure the profictency at the oar which y crew think the: reached. ‘The Atatanta members and thei disembarked at the new house, and set about joying themselve: Atiletic, Dau Nautilus Club: were pri nd the party used them he While the on continued hoartnyt sole topic of conversation, and from that had on several previous occast resulted. The Nautilus Cl Pt ness to pit Mr. David Roche agatnst M fie, the light weight champion cinb, ch Was arranged, a e gentlemen will oveur ourse will he ou the Har! y hose shape has not been decided upon, shall be worth $200, THE TORNADO IN KANSAS. Seven Persons Killed=Ten Persons Mo: or Less Injuved=Houses Swept from Thetr Foundations, LAWRENCR, May-28, 187%, Information has just been 1 vd here of a terrible hurricane which passed through a portton of Neosho county, 1 iS State, last Thursday afternoon. in Lincoln townsi{p some twenty-four houses were completuiy destroyed. With but.one exception these houses were occupied when the furious winds struck them, and as they crumbled down the faliing and fying timbers and logs crushed the unfortunate inmates, Seven persons were killed—two men and five | children. In two insiances babes were fairly torn from the grasp of their mothers and dashed to ihe ground many yards away. Among the sufferers were J. H, Dumbauld, mas- tor of the Kansas State Grange and the etary of ihe same, and Mr. Spurgeon. The latter's house was lifted from its foundation and blowa to atoms. | His father was one of the persons killed. | Mr, Dumbiaild’s house was blown ty pieces and | one of his children killed, | Besides the killed ten persons were more or less | injured, Horses, cattle and hogs aiso perished, It is impossible to ascertain at this time the ex. tent of the damage done. ‘The rains have impeded railroad travel and raphic communication. ONE WIFE A young German, named brocst Fuhymann, aged twenty-two and a street sprinkler by oceupation, wa sterday brought ve Judge MeQuade, at the Harlem Police Court, to answer a eharge of bigamy. The complainants wore the two alieged victims of the peridious youth, His legal wife, whose maiden name was Mary Meyers, exhibited a marriage certificate, by which it appeared she was united in wedlock to the accused on September 40, 1870, by the Rev. Dr. Lucas. Though this lady has but one arm she has borne two children. The other complainant was @ young woman named Mary Ann McPartiand, with whom Fubrmann has been living in 117th street for the past few montis. He was committed for trial in default of $1,500 et 5 RIOT IN ROME. A Tumultuous Demonstration to Demand Entire Suppression of the Religious Corporations. “ABBASSO IL MINISTERO!”? Priests Assaulted by the Mob and in Danger of Being Drowned in the Trevi Fountain. ORDER RESTORED BY MILITARY FORCE, Several Persons Wounded end Many Arrests—Animated Discussion mm the Italian Parliament. Rome, May 12, 1873, IT send tne details of the demonstration in favor ef the suppression of religious corporations, which Lannounced yesterday by telegram, It, originated in a democratic meeting, convoked for the purpose of obtaining that measure purely and simply, as in the rest of Lialy. The meeting was to have taken place yesterday at the Correa Amphitheatre, which is constructed on the ruins of the Mausoleum of Augustus, ‘rhe foliowing invitation was, drawn up by the organizing committee, but the Questor, on the au- thority of the Prime Minister, prohibited its public cation :— Roman: It is now three years since our pro- vince became an Italian province. UW fultls the cuties belonging {o its political transformation without enjoying the advantages, This is not just, ‘The religious corporations, mediaval remains, hindrances to the progress of civil society, sup- pressed in ali Italy by the laws of August, 1866, and rosper and flourish among us, with how much material and moral damage it 18 superfluous y. ASif Rome had notequal rights with her cities, the Governor proposes an exceptional under che specious title of suppression, 1 recognition of reactionary associa- besides the scandal of well-fed e in the presence of the social classes which labor and suffer, are as continual menace to the quiet of Italy and Europe. Romans! We ex- you at the popular meeting in the Mausoleum us, this day, Sunday, 1th inst., at three . With the sense and calmness of civil- zed people you will decide if it is just that the plébisette of the 2a of October, 1870, is to result in pendenne our Rome a moral lazzaretto—the sink of Italy. At the hour appointed for the meeting the entry of the amphitheatre was eccupied by police, gend- armes anda police delegate, who requested the people collected there to disperse. They did so, but only to congregate in larger numbers on the Piazza di San Lorenzo, m Lucina, whence they proceeded up the Corso, with fags and shouts of + “Abbasso le corporaziont religiose, viva la legge deb 1s66!? “Abbasso w Ministero!” &c. ROUGH HANDLING OF CLERICAL CLOTH. Noar the Café Bagnoli the procession was stopped by an olicer of gendarmes, but allowed to proceed as far as the Via dell Umilta, where the ascent to the Quirinal was barred by a posse of police and gendarmes. On the Piazza di Trevi an unlucky prelate, Monsignor Pila, whose brother was Min- ister of the Interior under the Pontitical govern- ment, got surrounded by the demonstrationiats as, he was passing in a close carriage with a monk of St. Anastasio and Vincenzo, and two other eccle- siastics. The mob discovered the sacerdotal garb ofthe occupants of the vehicle, and would have overthrown carriage and all into the ample basin ofthe Trevi fountain if an opportune rescue had> not appeared in the form of a patrol of gendarmes, ‘The poor priests had a terrible fright and were gia@ to take refuge in a house on the Piazza Poll, At the foot of the Quirinal hill, as 1 have said, the progress of the procession was PREVENTED BY AN ARMED FORCE. Their orders were only touse their arms in case of great provocation, apd they endeavored to per- suade the demonstrationists to desist from their avowed purpose of proceeding to the Royal Palace. It was all useless, The citizen Panico harangued his companions, informing them that the King could see and hear them. HOT WORK WITH SWORD AND FIREARMS. A police delegate ordered the arrest of Panico, A scufle followed, The gendarmes drew their swords, on which a man named Eugenio Fogosi, of Ancona, threw down ove of the gendarmes an@ was trying to di m him, when he was attacked by the other gendarmes and wounded in the arm and joins, Some revoivers were fired, but probably oni in the air, to intimidate the crowd, for there are no persons wounded with buliets on the list of damaged demonstratjonists. A gendarme was also. slightiy wounded, and doubtless a good uumber of people got squ 41 und crushed in the general stampede which fotiowed. ‘Twenty-three of the most dctive rioters were arrested on the spot, ‘Yhey are mostly of the lower orders, RIOTS IN VARIOUS QUARTERS. After the dispersion of the mod, on the ascent to the Quirinal, which was about half-past five o'clock P. M., some other disorders took place in different parts of the city. The eloquent Deputy of the Right, Signor Minghetti, whose speech I reported in a preceding letter as having & somewnat cleri- cal tendency, was recognized, mobbed and beaten on the Piazza di Venezia, where he was walking peaceably with his konorable colleague, General Cevrotti. ‘The venerable Duke of Lermoneta, Dep- uty tor Rome, who is blind, but of ultra liberal prin« ciples, Was recognized by apand of demonstra- tionists on the Corso and escorted with great honor to his palace, where he addressed a few op- portune words to them, admitting the justice of their demands to be governed by the same laws as other Ttaljans, but inviting them to remaifi within the bounds of legality by dispersing quietly. PARLIAMENTARY RECRIMINATION, The Duke was in his place in Parliament to-day and surrounded by friends, The sitting was very animated, Severe questions were put to the Ministry on the prohibition of the publication of the programme of the Progressist Club, on the prohibi- tion of the meeting of yesterday, on the events of yesterday afternoon and on the intentions of the government for the maintenance of public order, Deputy Seismit-Doda, of the Left, accused Prime Minister Lanza of having had different opinions be- fore he came to power and of having upset the Ricasoli Ministry on a question of the popular righs of holding meetings, which right he now denies, Cairolt said that no conservative Ministry ever dared to be so repressive as Lanza. Lanza replied, defending his policy and stating that he nad only done his duty. Minghetti related his adventure of yesterday, } saying that the crowd shouted, “Death to the Par- liament! Death tg the Deputies!” but that he got safely into the barracks pear the Jesuit’s convent, and without any beating. Cairoti finally proposed that no vote of blame should be passed on the Min- istry, as the test of the religious corporations’ vote Was near at hand, On the Deputies coming out of Parliament just | now (nalf-past six P, M.) I found a crowd of people collected to hiss or applaud the different orators, A military force maintained order. THOSE BENDER ASSASSINS. The Family of Hum Butcners Fleeing Towards Mexico. Parsons, Kansas, May $1, 187% County Attorney Ward returned yesterday from Texas with the body of Nicholas Mouin or Marion, supposed to have been an accomplice of the Ben- der family, the Kansas assassins, At Denison he made some itaportant confessions and promised to tell all he knew about the Benders when he reached this city, but when near Atoka station, Indian Ter- ritory, he shot himself in the head with a revolver, initicting @ wound from which he died, It seems tu be certaia that the Benders are now bail. Thougn admitting the truth of the charge, he claims that his last. charmer went into the copart- nership with her eves onen. ‘Thiv she denies. in Texas, making their way to the Rio Grand@ River, to cross into Mexica,