The New York Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. EUROPEAN ROYALTY. Emperors, Kings, Grand Dukes, Dukes, Princes and President's of Europe. —_-—_ DEATH AMONG THE DOWAGERS “That Musical King of Bavaria” and His Work. Dethroned Monarchs and Mo-| narchical Pretenders. KINGS AND CORRESPONDENTS. FRANKPORT-ON-THE-MAIN, Jan. 9, 1874. ‘The appearance of the “‘Almanach de Gotha’ for | the present year, 1874, serves to remind us of a task which we have frequently taken upon out- selves, of reviewing royalty in Europe and notng the changes that have taken place during the twelve months closed. ttle, dumpy, yet very aristocratic publication, 's the one hundred and eleventh. Persons in poe session of these hundred or more volumes might De able to work up a most interesting study on the | fate of prominent royai families of Europe in the century past. Unfortunately for our readers, but fortunately for ourselves, we are not In posses- sion of these volumes, and we have no particular desire to look up the stories of decayed dynasties other tuan those belonging to our own times, Incessant warfare has ever been carried on be- tween the reigning princes of Europe, and the Darwinian theory has been fully carried out in re- ,gard to dynasties. The stronger have killed off the weaker; those incapable of separate and inde- pendent existence have either been devoured or have placed themselves under the protection of the former. Europe consisted, before 1859, of fifty- six independent States; and now, alter the smauer Italian States have been swept out of existence and the German States are consoiidated into an Empire, the number of really independent States has been reduced to fiiteen—not including the petty independencies of Liechtenstein, San Marino, Monaco, Andorra nor the semi-independent States of Roumania, Servia and Montenegro. THE FIFTREN INDEPENDENT STATES of Europe are Russia, Germany, France, Austro- Hungary, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Swe- den and Norway, Belgium, Portugal, Holland, Switzerland, Denmark and Greece. Some of these again are made up of smaller semi-independ- encies. The German Empire is composed of twenty-six separate existencies. The Czar of Russia is at the same time the Grand Duke of Finland; the Emperor of Austria is the hereditary King of Uungary; the Sultan en- joys the sovereignty over Roumania, Servia and Montenegro. The entire population of Europe is Some 301,000,000, of which 147,000,000 are Catholics, 71,000,000 Protestants, 70,000,000 Greek Catholtes, 5,000,000 Jews and 6,500,000 Manometans, The foreign possessions of European States have a Population of nearly 280,000,000, over 200,000,000 of which beiong to England alone. Spain has 6,000,000 of subjects in her colonies, In the tollowing list We give all the European States, independent and semi-independent, with their populations and rulers, and the age and length of rule enjoyed by the latter. The independent States enjoy the honor of being “‘numbered” in our list. Some ot the independent States are so small that to in- clude them at all in the list of royalty is sufficient. x STATES i EI ER Country. Catholic Chris- tendom. Pope Pins IX German Emperor W ‘| King Willian King Ludwi Saxony... King Alvert #d De Fred.-Franz sh Saxe Weimar ..)G'd D’e Carl Alex'r. |55}, Meck.-Strelitz. [id D’e Fred.-W'm.. [54 Oldenbu «|a'd De Pete Brunswi Duke William Saxe-Meiningen| Duke George Il.- Saxe-Altenbpry| Duke Ernest. S'xe-Cob.-GMha|Duke Ernest ii Anhalt Duke Frederic... Schwarzburg Rudotstadt....|Prince George Schw'rzb’g-yon dershausen.,..|Prince Gunther. Waldeck Prince George ¥ Prince Henry XXIT.) Friace Henry XIV.. |Prince Adolph Prince Leopold Free city Bremen. Free city Hamburg.......|Free city Alsace Lorraine| imperial. * ¥otalof the German Empire Czar Alexander II. Presid’t MacMahon Emp. Francis Jos'h rie Turkey..... Roumania.. Servia . Montenegro, Bweden and Nor- way : Be! BVENTS OF THR YEA We piace the four latter principalitics and re- publics in the list as a matter of courtesy anu tor the sake of completion. Their populations do not amount altogether to much more than 30,000— enough for a small town. On glancing over the list we find that the Holy Father is the oldest, eighty-two; then follows the Emperor of Germany, seventy-seven; then Prince Gunther, seventy-two. His Holiness does not seem to have any intention of pleasing his enemies in a hurry. The rumor of his sickness brought many of us to Rome in April last; but the aged Pontiff recovered and has been heard of since then. The Emperor William has re- covered from his recent attack. The Berlin official papers assure us that there was really nothing much the matter with him. But there is no doubt ‘that his robust system has received a severe shock. The Hohenzolierns die rapidly when they com- mence—a few shocks and then comes the final blow. Death has been busy in the royal ranks during the year. The Emperor Napoleon died on the 9th of January. The Grand Duchess Helene of Russia followed on the 2ist of the same month, Duke Cari of Brunswick, elder brother of the reign- ing Dake, died at Geneva in August. He had enjoyed the pleasures of rulership fora time, but had been driven from his throne and declared in- capable of reigning by the German Bund in 1830. He made more reputation asa collector of pre- cious stones than as ruler of faithful subjects, The most important change caused by death was the accession of King Albert tothe throne of Saxony, succeeaing the lamented King John. The new King, who delights in a@ long name— Albert Friedrich August Anton Ferdinand Joseph Carl Maria Baptist Nepomuk Wilhelm Xavier George Fidelis—born on the 23d of April, 1828, be- gan his reign by coming into gentle conflict witn the Empire. He thougut it necessary to his dynasty as KING BY THE GRACE OF GOD to send special Ambassadors to the European courts to inform them that Albert was now king. He also issued an address to the Saxon army, call- ing it “bis,” which claim offended the Kaiser in Berlin. He now talks of getting crowned and | anointed, and has the idea of asking his august uncle at Berlin to attend, and give character and dignity tothe imposing ceremonies then to take Place. King Albert is by no means as popular as his father. His tastes are almost exclusively mil. tary; buthe is not a genius, though a Marshal of Germany nd of Russia, His queen, Carola, has a good name for her ‘care for the poor and the wounded. She was born in 1833, The new King’s The present issue of this | motto is, as we find tt in the album of royal auto- graphs collected by the directors of the Germanic Museum at Nuremberg, “Do right and fear no one !""—evidently a memory of his schoo! days. DEATH AMONG THE DOWAGBERS, The year was particularly fatal to the widowed queens and empresses of Europe. The widow of the Emperor Pedro L. of Brazil, the Empress Ama- lie, dled at Lisbon on the 26th of January, over s/Xty-one years of age. She was a daughter of the Duke of Leuchtenberg, grand-daughter of Jose- phine. The widow of the Emperor Francis I, of Austria, the Empress Carolina Auguste, died at Vienna on the 9tb of February, at the ripe age of eighty-four. She was the Emperor’s fourth spouse and he was her second husband, she having been divorcea from the King of Wurtemberg in 1814. ‘She was a princess of Bavaria. The widow of King William of Wurtemberg, Queen Pauline, died at Stuttgart on the 10th of March, over seventy-three years of age. She was the mother of the present King. Prussia has lost two dowager queens this year. The widow and second spouse of King Fred- erick William LL, Queen Augusta, died at Hom- burg at the age of seventy-three. A few weeks ago the widow of King Frederick | William IV, Queen Elizabeth, died while visiting the Dresden Court, over seventy-two. She was a daughter of King Maximilian L of Ba- varia, She died at the Castle of Pillnitz, and it ts aremarkable fact tuat here it was that her hus- baud, whom she outlived twelve years, received | his frst stroke of apoplexy, from which he never recovered, She was buried at Sans Souci, next to her husband, There are two dowager queens still at Dresden ready for the necrological list. The widow of King John of Saxony, Queen Amalie, is seventy-two, and Queen Maria, the widow of King | Frederick August Il., the predecessor of King | John, is sixty-nine. * These three widowed queens | were sisters—all daughters of King Maximilian 1. | of Bavaria, The first named had to change her re- | | ligion when she married, The two latter are very infirm. The widowed Queen Caroline, spouse of | King Christian VIL. of Denmark, is over seventy- | seven, and lives at Copenhagen. The ex-Empress | Anna of Austria lives with her husband, Kaiser | Ferdinand, at Prague, and is seventy years of age. | The widow of Oscar L of Sweden, Queen Josephine, is sixty-seven. | DETHRONED AND PRETENDERS. | The year 1873 produced “‘one more unfortunate” dismissed trom his throne, cated the Spanish throne on the 1ith of February. The year has been eventful for dethroned royalty and lor the various claimants and pretenders to | thrones. These can easily be divided into two classes, the hopeful and the hopeless; those whose | claims may possibly find recognition—those who | Inust give up atl hope of recovering rulership. HOPELESS.—The widow of King Otho ol Greece, @ prince of the House of Bavaria, resides at Bam- berg, in Bavaria. She left Greece with her hus- band in October, 1862, in consequence Oo! a revo- lution. The present King of Greece and his beauti- 1ul Queen manage things better. They have suc- | ceeded in winning the Greeks to accept their de- | scendants as children of the country. Hoperut—Are all the French claimants. The Count of Chambord ts fifty-three years of age and | has no children. His obstinacy in clinging to his | flag 1s Said to have destroyed his chances of ob- taining the French throne, for the present at least, The Count of Paris is thirty-seven years of age, and, having acknowledged the Count of Chamoord to be the head of the dynasty, his chances depend on those of thelatter. The Prince Imperial is being prepared, under the tuition of his mother, the Empress Eugénie, to some day or other fultil the duties of rulership in France, He is now but Seventeen years of age. Hopeful are likewise the Spanish claimants. Prince Alonso, the son of Queen Isabella, is a youth | of seventeen, and has hopes for a bright future. | Queen Isabella was driven trom Spain in 1868, and in June, 1870, “abdicatea” in favor of her son, the Prince of the Asturias. Don Carlos is a formidable claimant to Spanish rulership, aud, in tne present confusion of affairs under the Republic, his cause | gaias ground and supporters. Hopeless may be considered the deposed rulers of italy. Duke Robert of Parma, who was dethroned in 1859 and his dukedom annexed by Victor Emmanuel, is twenty-eight years of age. Francis IL, King of Naples, dethroned by Victor Emmanuel, resides at Paris. The Grand Duke + Ferdinand of Tuscany, deposed in 1859, 1s now tuirty-eignt. Pope Pius 1X. was deprived of his temporal possessions by Victor Emmanuel in the year 1570, The recent sealing of friendship be- tween the King of Italy and the Emperors of Aus- tria and Germany seems to preclude the possi- bility of arestoration of the temporal power with the aid of France, a3 was expected in Rome. THE DETHRONED PRINCES OF GERMANY—HOPELESS, King George V. of Hanover, driven from his throne and his country annexed by Prussia in 1866, is at present in exile in Austria, keeping up a small court at Hitzing, a suburb of Vienna. He is blind and was a very stubborn King, otherwise he would not have lost his crown. He still refuses to “sell out” by accepting the Prussian indemnity for his kingdom. His Queen, Marie, lives with him. His son, the Crown Prince Ernest August, twenty-eight, is colonelin an Austrian regiment of infantry, and is not very prepossessing in ap. pearance. The Elector Frederick William of Hesse-Cassel 1s Seventy-one years of age. His electorate was swallowed by Prussia in 1866, He resides at Prague, the capital of Bohemia. His son and heir 13 an oMfcer in the Prussian army. There is talk oj this ex-royal family now selling out to Prussia. The old Elector is desirous of being relieved of the onerous of @ and his subjects, who, by the way, never cried when he left them. Duke Adolf of Nassau proved himself a wise man when he found his land swallowed up by Prussia in 1866, and “sold out” for $10,000,000 to King William. He now enjoys life at Frankfort-on-the-Main and in Italy and jinds existence pleasant. PORTUGAL AND AUSTRIA have abdicated rulers still living. Ferdinand, of Portugal, born in 1516, married to Queen Maria IL, received the honorary title of “King” in 1837, and was regent during the minority of his son, King Pearo V., the brother and predecessor of the present King. Austria's old Emperor, Ferdinand I, uncle of the present monarch—who once bore the proud titles of crowned King of Hungary, Bo- hemia, Lombardy and Venetia—was compelled to | abdicate in 1348 by the force of circumstances in javor of his nephew, Francis Joseph II, He resides at Prague, where, witn his Empress, he still holds court. He threatened when he left Vienna, in 1848, that the Viennese should never see his face again. He has kept his word, and the Viennese have almost forgotten him. The Empress Char- lotte of Mexico resides at her beautiful villa of Miramar, on the Adriatic, her reason shattered by | the fearful events of her husband’s death. The | last of the abdicated is King Amadeus, who has re- sumed his Italian dignities. | Royalty has never in any year previously, per- haps, iurnished material so richly to newspaper | correspondents. Events like the death and burial | of Napoleon UL at Chislehurst come very rarely. In February came the abdication of King Amadeus, and in April the visita of A ya Victoria to her capital, and of the Emperor of Germany to the Czar of ali the Russias. April, too, collected the public | Writers at Rome, in anticipation of being in at the | death of the venerable Pontifl. In May were com- | menced festivities connected with the opening of the World’s Exposition at Vienna, under the auspices of francis Joseph; while in the Scanaina- vian North the corouation of the King and Queen of Sweden at Stockholm proved a picturesque and | mteresting event. Then the Shah of Persia made | his appearance on the oe Stage, first at St. | Petersburg, and then at Berlin, London, Paris, Switzerland, Vienna, Turin and Constantinople. No monarch ever created such excitement ana set more pens at work than this Oriental despot, who dazzled us with his diamonds and amused us with his curious notions of life and morality. The appearance of the Shah relieved us from many | monotonous hours, The mapyroyal and princely visitors to Vienna, especially Kaiser Wiliam and Victor Emmanuel, attracted attention from a politi- cal point of view. Kaiser William called us to his capital on the memorable 2d of September to wit- ness his grand military display on the inaugura- | tion of the Monument of Victory. The death of | King John of Saxony was an evento! no ordi- | nary importance. The two pretenders, the Count { Or Chambord and Don Carlos, have attracted more | than their share of attention during the year. And now, at the commencement of the new year, we are awaiting the nuptial ceremonies cat WL od Duke of Edinburgh and the Grand Duchess at St. Pete an event which, it is presumed, | will tend to goodwill between the Liou i pnd whe Bear, King Amadeus abdi- | QUR NOBLE CHARITIES. Are Any of the Contribu- tions Squandered P Charitable Beople Who Claim That the Money Donated for the Poor Would Board Them at the Fifth Avenue Hotel— The recent articles in the Hegacp illustrating the work of the various charitable institutions of the city in relieving the present widespread desti- tution of the poor have attracted more than @ passing notice from the thousanas of generous hearted donors who look to the press-for informa- tion showing what institutions are best able to dispense the offerings made by them and the ap- propriations made by the ety, which form a grand total of OVER FOUR AND A HALP MILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR, These articles have also suggested the inquiry how itis that, with 80 many dispensers of these offer- | ings, amounting to more than $4 50 per in- habitant, several well verified cases of starvation have occurred this winter, and some have been led to the conclusion that the officers of the asso- ciations, who act as the distriouting agents of the | charitable citizens, have not exercised due dili- | gence in searching out the really deserving and | giving them the necessary relief. Indeed, it has even been hinted that a very large percentage of | the money passing through the hands of some of these institutions has been | DIVERTED FROM THE POOR, | for whom it was intended, and absorbed in large | salaries to the officials, Some have gone so iar a3 | to make the sweeping assertion that a careful ex- amination of the booke and records of some insti- | tutions will show that seventy-five per cent of the | amount received 1s eaten up In salaries and need- less expenditures and waste, and hints have been thrown out that even those popular institutions, the | CHILDREN’S AID SOCIETY and the Howard Mission, were not run as econom- | | tcally as they might be, For two days a reporter of the HERALD has been | | pusiung his investigations in search of facts that | would justify such starthng statements or informa- tion as would expose the falsity of such sweep- | ing charges, and it must be confessed that he was | unable to discover anything specially IBREGULAR OR VERY SUSPICIOUS | in the management of the two associations named. A gentleman celebrated for his familiarity with | charitable operations in the city, and who is at the | head of one o! the best institutions, called atten- tion to the fact that the Jast report of the Chil- | | dren’s Aid Society records the expenditure of | $73,571 26 for 21 day and 15 evening schools, em- | ploying 1 superintendent and 87 teachers and 6 | visitors, for the education of 3,477 children; and he | bad grave doubts as to the propriety of such schools, arguing that the work should be done by THE STATE, RATHER THAN BY PRIVATE CHARITY; orin other words that the public schools, whose | | grade of teachers is superior to those of the society, | could do this work to better advantage. He also | complained that there was too much spent in sal- | Nurse per month, $10. . [four benevolent citizens woula fo whose addresses [ give helow. teachers the oames of many a terness of povert themselves. “Or they could leave their gilts: with them, perleetly contident ist and honestly. New York has not seen for many years such & time of bitter distress as now, so many thousands half starved and utterly destitues. A worst sulfer- ers are nose who never beg in the public streets, BRACR, Secretary of Children's Aid Society, No. 19 Bast et. Fourth sire THR RESERVE ON HAND, From the last report it Lee that the society has the following reserve on hand: 133 bon.ts, $1,000, Evansville 4 Crawfordville R. R.$153,000 5 bons, $1,000, Orange & Newark Horse Kt. B. 5,000 5 bon 1,000, Brooklyn Public Park Loan.. 5,00 5 bonds, $1,000, Toledo & Wabash RK. 6,000 3 bonds | ). Evansville, T. H. & 3,000 New York city aad Memphis city bond: 7.00) Total reserve. . $158,000 It has been suggested by gentlemen with whom the reporter conversed tlatin an emergency like this the society should convert some of the above Teserve into cash to relieve the immediate neces- sities of the poor, and trust to the generosity of our public-spirited citizens in the future to make it up if this reserve is needed for any urgent purpose. THE HOWARD MASSION. A visit was paid to the Howard Mission in New Bowery with a view of inquiring into the character ot the work done there. Mr. Pease, the new Superintendent, stated that when he took charge Jast April there were some slight irregularities. He was requestea by the trustees to economize and he went to work to curtail expenses. He cut off every unnecessary expense, whether leakage or waste, and in one Month he said to the Board of Trustees, ‘There is not one dime’s waste.’ Since April he claims he has reduced tne ex- pendiurss nearly one-half, while the aid rendered ad steadily increasea—a coniession that is not at all complimentary to the iate management. He Stated tuat they accommodate from 30 to 40 and 50 children in the Mission and would keep more nad they room. They have the ground, but no reserve Jund, and THE INSTITUTION IS FIFTY-FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS IN DBBT. Besides caring for the “iittie wanderers,” whom they do not separate from their parents, their visitors search out all the needy, pay rent, feed them, clothe them, supply them with medicines, &c., but only alter careful scrutiny. The society, he deciared, only aimed to fill the breach and assist families when they could no longer heip them- selves, There are about 330 children in attendance at the day school, who go out and influence their parents and bring them into the prayer meetings that are held speciaily for the poor. The trustees, Mr. Pease reports, had intended to apply for a por- jon o! THE PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND, but, Onding that they could only read the Bible without comment if they received it, they aban- doned the intention rather than relinquisu tue right of prayer and religious teaching, although of @ non-sectarian character, Mr. Pease exhibited the books and the STATEMENT OF THE INSTITUTION from May 1 to December 31, trom which it appears that the receipts were :— From voluntary donations. From Board o1 Apportionment. Total Total expenditu Accumulation ot tloati Paid borrowed money ‘ : The actual expenditures, including floating debt, was about $12,000, ‘This includes relief to 412 tami- es. ‘The following were the salaries paid :— Per Year. Superintendent (less board for self and daughter). .$1,300 Superintendeat’s wite (matron), board onty. oo Solicitor for donations per A 1ady visitor per month, 32) Wardrobe woman per month, One cook at $10 per month, one Janitor per mouth, $10.. ngineer per week, $9 eek, $25. Principal higher ‘school Total salaries per year... Mr. Pease reports the total number of children in the institution May 1 to be 11; admissions up to December 31, 173. Total, 184. Of which there were aries; that the financial exhibit was not sufficiently | explicit to be understood—and, in short, he feared that the Society, which he @dmitted had accom- plished @ vast amount of good, was laying out more work than tt can safely transact, and need- lessly expending money im founding schools that are Dot equal to those of the Board of Education. This gentleman stated that he had made invezti- gations 0% THE HOWARD MISSION and he failed to find it what it is represented | | to be—‘A Home for Little Wanderers.” That it | | Was a ragged school for the poogs@ilidren who col- | lected there in daytime and were instructed and | led he admitted, but he could not discover that the children were housed aud cared for during the night, This oficial admitted that much good was done by the Mission, but he had doubts as to the economy practised and the particular manner in which they dispensed their charity. He gave it as his opinion that in many of the mstitutions FULLY FIFTY OB SIXTY PER CENT of pupiic contributions were consumed in salaries and needless expenditures. Another gentleman, a minister, who has retirea from the pulpit to devote his entire time to the work ol charity, Was visited at nis residence and Tequested to give his opinion as to the working of the institutions generaliy. He stated in substance that investigations made by him covering many years convinced oim that about two-tuirds of all the money collected for charity is consumed in Tunning expenses and salaries to disburse the other third. The great body of the “outdoor poor,” upon whom the Commissioners of Cuarities and Correction spend so much, he considered PROFESSIONAL PAUPERS, WHO SHOULD BE CRIMINALS. ‘These investigations showed the great majority of them to be irauds, wno alternate between the Poor- house, the Workhouse aud the Penitentiary. They | Know ail the institutions in the city, and make & living by going around trom one to another, They should be committed to the Workhouse and kept | there, instead of consuming the money intended | | jor the really worthy. ‘Why, sir,” said he, ‘my years of investigation of the charitable institu- tions 1 the city satisfy me that with the money given to the officers of our privaie institutions tor charity and their income from reserve funds I could board ail the poor persons they support AT THE FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL the yearround! There is not @ charity to-day in this city, except Bellevue Hospital, where you can. get a dependent person admitted’ unless you pay lor it, ‘This 18 a sweeping charge, but itis true. [ have tested them; have taken poor women to them for the especial purpose, and ,they will not | Teceive them, under one excuse or another.” | This geutieman aiso expressed the belief that the Culidren’s Ald Society, while filing a great need in a community like this, were not sumiciently | saving of the money given them, and stated that no one nad ever been abie to learn what salaries were paid to the executive officers, and remarked twat it was very strange that affecting appeals , were made for aid to CLOTHE AND FEED STARVING CHILDREN when the society's last report showed bonds and | hosts convertible reserves of $151,000 heid by nem. | The reporter made an effort to clear up the points of objection made to these two charities specially named. Visiting the oifice of the Aid Society, Mr. Brace, who can rarely be found there, | Was absent, and likely to be away until Monday. Mr. Macy, bis assistant, could not give any state- ment as to the salaries paid, but from the report of last year it appears that five executive | Officers “get $9,251 per year. There is nothing i the reports “to show the salaries paid to the Superintendent, | visitors and the eighty-seven teachers, and for thi injormation the reporter was referred to Mr. Wi! ; hams, of the Metropolitan Bank, who acts as Treasurer. ‘This gentiewan, who, with the other | Trustees of the society, devotes much time to | Watching the society and its workings, ex- pressed the belief that it is the best charity in the city, that the salaries are very moderate, and that the society, and especially the industrial schools, | are doing a great aud glorious work in aid or mor- | ality, Industry and religion, Strange to say, how- | ever, he as Treasurer did not know THE 8, RIE3 PAID | to the executive officers, but knew that the paid | Ones were Mr. Brace and Mr, Macy, Secretaries; | J. P. Brace, the Agent ior the Country; L. W. Hoistle, Visitor, and Mr. Skinuer, Superintendent | | of Schools. Mr. Willams, as an evidence of the economy exercised, pointed out the fact that the | education of the 3,477 children had cost but $19 57 | per head per year, inciuding @ daily meal, gar- | Ments, shoes, &c. A critical examination of the | Statistics of the last yearly report deveiops novh- ing that should induce any one to withdraw bis contributions or confidence trom @ charity that all | Our people have come to look upon as one of the best in the city; yet it isto be regretted that the | officers, in making up their annual report, do not MORE CLEARLY DETAIL THE RECEIPTS. and the source whence every cent goes. For ex- | ample, quite a large sum is recefved tor lodging | and meals from the lodgers (from the oewsboys | alone in one year $4,382 79), and in the receipts for the year no mention of these items 18 made, | | although they appear in some reports of the Sa- | perintendents. A littie more care in compiling the | annual reportfor the information of the patrons | | Of the society would do away with all chance for even the entertainment of @ suspicion of misiman- . Mr, Brace has jus: made tne following APPKAL FOR AID in carrying on the good work of relieving the necessities of the poor and famishing thousands :— The coming four weeks w: inching time of, the, Yearfor the poor” Astor mat work will Feruume. Now, there is wide-spread and extreme want of clothing, shoes fuel, food and all the necessaries among the lowest ng People. The streets swarm with beggars and professional mendicants. en , }@ip the poor, but know not whet aims usually only do injury, if any wish to ai silent sufferers it mple method. The washers of our” io uggeay eTaimple ha ve usually been trom ten to ewe - helr posts. Th erekani the Kitow alte poor Yamulies of thekt” algteista iavicaataly. | | vented talsehood, | well of his country. 9; returned to England, 4; sent to hospital, 4; sent to Randall's Island, 1; ran away, 2; died (iniants), 2; number in home January 1, 1874, 41. He stated that there were furnisned in the same period 67,853 meals, 5,109 garments were distrib- uted, 311 pairs of shoes were supplied and 3,403 loaves of bread were Issued to families, ana, with the present rigid economy carried out, the expen- ditures will be Jor the whole year about $20,v00, The above results of diligent and careful investi- gation are given for the information of those in- terested in city Chariues, and it is to be noped that they may lead oficers of institutions to more care- 1ul guardianship of the moneys entrasted to them, while inducing donors to make critical examina- | tion of the management of the institutions to which they trust their donations for general dis- tribution. BISMARCK’S WRATH. Stormy Scene in the Prussyan Diet. In the sitting of the Lower House of the Prussian Diet, January 16, a discussion took place upon a motion of Herr Biesenbach respecting the yoting of school teachers at the last elections for tne Diet. In the course of the debate Hert von Ma- _ linckrodt declared that the Ultramontanes were as faithiul patriots as Prince Bismarck, and he asked, amid considerable uproar, “were they present at the conference between Prince Bismarck and M, Gavane, when a cession of territory on the lett bank of the Rhine was discussed ? aad- ng, “I myself was not present, but I met with this statement of the interview in @ reilabie quarter.” After a reply trom Herr Kleoppel the motion was allowed to drop, and the debate on the Civil Marriage bill was resumed. Prince Bismarck snortiy aiterwards entered the House and ob- tained leave to speak on @ matter oi privilege. He characterized the statement of Herr von Malinck- rodt a3 an audavious and lying invention made in aimaiignant and caluminatory manner. Tne Im- erial Chancellor gdded, ‘1 never uttered a syl- jable of the sort. 1 have never spoken of ceding a village or @ meadow of German territory. The returned to parents, 61; sent to homes, 21; eent to | situations, 23; set to Canada, 11; leit voluntarily, | whole accusation is throughout an audaciously in- | concocted with the view to blacken my character. (Load cheers.) I ask for no special consideration trom my opponents; but] am entitled to ask that they should behave more decently in the sight of soreign countries and our own sovereign. (Renewed cheers.) Prince Bis- marck proceeded to refer to @ statement made yesterday by Herr Schoriemmer, alleging that he had pursued a revolutionary policy in 1366 lavor- ing the formation of the Hungarian Legion. He muintained that im the time of war self-protection was the first law to be observed. of sadowa and the interview of the Emperor Na- poleon no heip could be declined, from whatever quarter it came, and there was nothing revolu- tionary in accepting it. Herr Windthorst having protested that Prince Bismarck bad no right to refer to a statement made during the previous day’s debate, Herr Lasker rose, and, amid a storm of applause, jared that a minister against whom the terrible accusation of treason to his country had been levelled, amd who did notallow an hour to pass witnout characterizing that reproach before Germany and foreign lands as @ shametul falsenood, merited no oy but, indeed, deserved err e Alter the battle | alinckrodt thereupon | stated that his assertion was founded upon the | work recently published by General Della Mar- mora, The persons mentioned in that book had | given it from their personal knowledge, and the jacts alleged toerein had not up w the present been contradicted; but alter the declaration made to-day by the President of the Ministry he would not adhere to his previous version, but wouid as- sign the accusation of faisehood over to the Italian Minister President, General Delia Marmora. Prince Bismarck rejoined that the assignment was badly chosep, for Delia Marmora was neither the President of the Ministry nor a general Penal provisions were being drawn up in Italy for such proceedings a8 that of Deila Marmora, with reference to whom he (Prince Bismarck) could — write other disclosures than those made with re- gard to him, Prince Bismarck added :—“‘It is note- Worthy that Herr Malinckrodt attaches greater vaiue to the testimony of a foreigner than to mine. It would require @ man’s lifetime to contradict all that my enemies write against me. 1 may safely | say, and [am proud to be able to say, that I am the’ most strongly and the best hated man of any country in ‘urope. Has not Herr Malinck- rodt suught to keep you and the country in the belief that Della Marmora’s book telis the truth? 1 do not wish co convince him, but I ask you could I not have obtained the most immense results if I had been willing to cede @ portion of German ter- ritory to France? Did I do so? You have no Tight to ask the leader of the government to Justify himselt against calumny in the open trib- une. That is a proceeding to characterize which no parliamentary expression can be found. The public press will, no douot, find one to supply the deficiency.” NHE HOLY TRIWITY" BAZAAR This evening and during the week there will be @ grand bazaar and promenade concert at the | armory of the Seventy-first regiment, junction of Broadway, Sixth avenue, Thirty-fifth and Thirty. sixth streets, I¢ will be held under the direction of the ladies and gentiemen ofthe Church of the Holy Trinity, of which the Rev. Stephen H, Tyng, Jr., D. D., is pastor. There will be the usual supply of lancy and useful articles for sale at “inoderate” and not bazaar prices. In addition to this, which may be designated the mercantile feature, art will be represented by @ photograph gallery, a comic art Gallery. and by Rockwoud’s printed picture process. The music will be furnished by the Seventy-first Regiment Band and a choir of amateur minstrels, colored for the occasion. For ehildren of smaller growth there is to be “the tanniest of all Punch and Judy shows,” “comic concerts,” “dramatized bailads,” “magic séanoces” and “‘ventriloquism.”’ Ali this variety envertainment is to be done in the name of the “Holy Trinity,” and the profits of the fair foe vo a church bearing that sacred designa- | and trucks and by volunteer unpaid fremen. | matter of patrolling, they do not pretend to cover | FIRE! FIRE!! Appalling Insufficiency of Firemen and Ap- paratus in the Uptown Districts. THE STINER TRAGEDY A RESULT. Thirty-three Engines Below Fifty-ninth Street and Five Above—The Commissioners Without Power to Remedy the Defect—Changes Which Were Not Improvements— Economy in the Board of Appor- tionment—How the New Wards . Are To Be Unprotected. The Fire Department of the city of New York has been long known as one of the most perfect organt- zations of the kind in the world, The promptitude and vigilance exercised at all times have been matters of wonder and admiration to other cities, not only of the New but also of the Old World. It 1s, perhaps, a singular fact that this branch of the public service has excited more interest and atten- tion than any other, and the days of the old Volun- teer Department, when every New York boy was @ born freman, will never be completely forgotten. £ven the most ardent admirers of the old system, however, have acknowledged that the new one is @ vast improvement. It costs ;more money, but the service is unquestionably more efficiently done. And yet the present department has faults—grave ones; faults which have not been completely ignored by those in authority, but to which they apply no proper remedies. It needed a striking catastrophe Lo briug these faults into public notice, and the instance came a few days since in a most painiul manner. It was the Stiner tragedy. After a lengthy inquest upon the four unfortunates who perished by this fire the Coroner's jury rendered a verdict which, contrary to such opinions generally, had @ point, The point was that in certain of the upper portions of the city the Fire Department was inadequate to the public needs, and that had it been otherwise these lives might have been saved, It is vital to the public safety that if this be true some means should be foand to improve the ser- vice in the neglected district; and that it is so can be conclusively proved in astatement of the facts of the case as they are. THE UPPER NEW YORK DISTRICT. When the Metropolitan Fire Department was or- ganized it embraced a district comprising the whole of Manhattan island and a part of Brooklyn. At the time, however, New York city was not popu- lated to near the extent it is at present, more par- ticularly in the upper portion of the city. The Fire Commissioners, therefore, at that time found it unnecessary to establish as numerous a body of firemen in the upper portion of the city as in the lower, and they resolved that above Filty-ntnth 4 street they would allow some of the features of the old Volunteer Department to remain in force. While, therefore, the entire city below Fifty-ninth street was protected by paid firemen entirely that portion above that line only had one station (in Eighty-fifth street and Third avenue) in which the service was performed by paid firemen entirely, while all the others, some seven or eight in num- ber, were managed in the old way, by hand engines The city, however, continued to grow rapidly, and every year it became more and more apparent to the Commissioners that some change would have to be made in the organization of the depart- ment in the upper portions of the city. While be- low Filty-ninth street the city was protected as | perfectly as any city could be, above the system | was loose, unsatisfactory and disorderly. This was sufferable when these districts were so sparsely settled that one could walk over acres of ground without a house; but the rapid growth of popuia- tion up town leit the Fige Department altogether behindhand, while other branches of the public service kept pace with the improvements. This defect at length became so flagrant that the Com- missioners determined to entirely abolish the vol- unteer system on Manhattan Island and make the paid system complete. What was done can best be explained by giving the main points of an order which was issued. A PAID DEPARTMENT IN THE UPPER DISTRICT. On the 28th of December, 1867, the following order was promulgated in the department, Gen- eral Shaler being President of the Board. Alter resolutions reducing the number of men in each company between Twenty-third and Fifty-ninth | streets from twelve to ten, discontinuing the pees of Volunteer District Engineer and reduc- ing the paid company, No. 22, the only one at tha’ time not a volunteer above Filty-ninth street, the order goes on:— ompanies and for Steam Fire Engine it hosemen each, who shall receive $300 per shall sleep in the engine houses ot their ttend the fires, conform to such rules and a s the Board thay trom time to time pre- scribe, and attend at the engine house on five afternoons in each month tor inspection at practice, with the priv- ilege of pursuing their avocations at points conventent to the same; and for the three truck companies herein created there be appointed nine laddermen for each company, at the like annual pay, with similar duties at Hres and at the truck houses and with like privileges. LOCATIONS OF THESE COMPANIES. One steam engi company, to be known as Metropol- itan Engine Company No. 3 located at the Engine House in 119th street, between Second and Third avenues. One steam engine Company, co be known as M itan Engine Company No. 36, located at the Engime House on Fourth avenue, between 126th and 127th streets, | One steam enzine company, to be known as Metropol- itan Engine Company No. 37, located at the Engine House in Manhattanville. ‘One steam engine company, to be known as Metropol- itan Engine Company No. '3%, located at the Engine House in Carmansville. One steam engine company, to be known as Metropol. itan Engine Company No, 39, located at the Engine House in Broadway, near Ninety-seventh street. Truck companies in highty-seventh street, between ‘Third and Fourih avenues; also in 125th street, between Third and Fourth avenues; also at the truck’ house in Carmansvilie. A resolution was also passed providing for the change of the house to accommodate horse#and for the transter Ot proper apparatus, and the plan or organization was Appointed as follow: That engine companies Nos. 35, 36, 37 and 39 should | consist of one assistant foreman, one ‘engineer, two pri- vates and eight hosemen, That engine company No. 38 should consist of one fore- jan, one engineer of steamer, two privates and eigat hoseinen, and that the hook ‘and ladder companies named consist of one assistant foreman, two privates and | nine laddermen. HOSEMEN ANDPLADDERMEN. The hosemen and laddermen, neither of whom | are legally recognizable, and the explanation of whose duties is sufficiently told in the order, did not exist in any portion of the city below Filty- | ninth street, but were adopted as a measure of | economy, it being supposed that men employed | in this manner, on one-quarter pay, being allowed other employment during the day, could do all the duty that was required of them. ‘To enable the department to establish these several companies above Filty-ninth street with ag little additional expense a8 possible two men were taken irom each fire station below the dividing line, diminish- ing the number of men in these downtown com. panies from twelve to ten in each, and these were sent into the newly organized district. It will be observed that the fre companies thus established in the upper portion of the city were at very great distances apart—in some cases three miles; and the orses had to run that far to fires, over roads in many cases very badly kept (iour companies were requyred to run to each fire), causing great loss of time, of property and of tne material belonging to the department. This was in 1868, and it will hardly appear credible that matters have remained, as to tue number of sta+ tons, in precisely the same condition ever since. HOW MATTERS NOW STAND. The stations above Fiity-ninth street are still from two to three miles apart, whfle below they are not more than @ quarter of a mile from one another. From Fitty-ninth street to the Harlem River, compr ig both sides of the island, there are altogether five steam engine companies and four hook and ladders companies—with in all eighty-three men. From the Battery to Fifty-ninth street there are thirty-three engime companies and eighteen hook and ladder companies, with 663 men. ‘The disproportion Will be seen at a glance. | And yet these five steam engines located in the upper portion of the city are expected to do the same work as thirty-three in the lower portion, aud the men are held to the same accountabilit, though their work 18 Intinively more onergus, two engines and one hose and @ ladder company have to run 4o a fire in this district, no matter how far away, in the same manner that two en ch one hose and @ ladder company have to be at eac! fire in the lower district. For people who pay equal taxes and have equal burdens the Injustice O1 the matter is apparent immediately. In the | | | | | the city in an efficient way up town, while the patrolling in the lower portions 1s done most efi. ciently, {t 18 more than probable, and so it is | thought by the Commissioners themselves, that had the street in which the Stiner family hved | been patrolled ag are streets down town the fire would haye been discovered a full halt hour sooner and tour lives BS been saved TH a. TOM FIELDS SWINDLE. Neither was the economy of hosemen and lad- id wl at the rate of $300 per year, dormens dactive in the end, lor it was by this that Tom Fields made the haul for which he was in- dicted, He convinced these men that they were i. fall firemen, ana tly entitied to ond aver they ‘ada made vein claims nz bout ol firough the Legislature grauung these men their pay. ‘The amount was some $400,000. It need ly be said that men employed in this manner, ree ys gover of the sum allowed the rega- aa yay working at different avocations, ‘ot do satisfactory duty. Complainta r) hong not being on hand Ps usible excuse always was that, being elsewhere than in the engine oF truck gat the sierm. he exonse alid, and when the pres- ent Commission came into power they immediately saw the inefficiency of the During the month of December last they at length passed @ resolution entirely doing away with the hosemen and laddermen tn ortion of Manhattan Island. ‘This went into effect on January 1, and now, in the various stations named above, there are none but firemen under full pay—$1,200 per year. This, no doubt, somewhat improved mat- ters, though the number of stations was not in- creased, and each one even has two firemen less than the stations in the other portion of the city, the latter having ten privates each, while the for- mer have but eight each, to do more than double the work. WHAT THE COMMISSIONERS WANT. Itis proper here to explain that tnis state of affairs is by no means the iault of the Commission- ers ol the Fire Department. The Commissioners are greatly troubled to carry such a large depart- ment on their hands with the appropriation that is accorded them, The Police Department 1s ac corded $4,495,000, the Department of Education $3,900,000, while the Fire Department is only given $1,627,000, including the extra compensation for tho newly annexed district of Westchester county. The Commissiouers hold, very reasonably, that they cannot do more than they are doing with the funds at their command; besides which they have no power whatever to occupy any further property up town, to build engine houses or any thing of that kina, This has to be done through the Buard of Apportionment, consisting of the Mayor, the Comptroller, the President of the Board of ‘Alder- men and the President of the Board of Tax Com- missioners. ‘This Board is very unwilling to go to any further expense for the Kire Department, and a very little attention to its modest demands, ‘our months ago the Fire Commissioners applied to,the Board ol Apportionmen: jor the use of @ house in Fifty-ninth street, near Third avenue, which is at present occupied’ by a police dispen- sary, but which is in reality the property of the Fire Commissioners, A fire engine house 1s impe! atively needed in this’ section, precisely the one where the Stiner tragedy took place; but the police refuse to vacate the premises unles¢ they are accommodated with others, that the Board of apportion mens have taken no action on _ the subject. ne Fire Commissioners lament thas they cannot have several more houses and compantes in the upper portion of the city, but they express themselves aa being powerless in the matter, while they acknowl edge the total inadequacy of the force in that dis- trict. In the portion spoken of particularly there ig no fire station between Fifty-tirst street aud Third avenue and Eighty-fifth street and Third avenue, a distance of thirty-four blocks, in a thick! settled portion, The station in Filty-ninth stree! if established, wouid precisely mect this need, Here, more than anywhere else, the Fire Depart Ment has not kept pace with the growth of tha city, and several startling disasters have happen to show it, the most notable of which 18 tue last, Application has algo been made to the Board of Apportionment that the department be furnished with an engine house in peventy-fourth strect, between Lexington and Second avenues. No auswer has been returned to 1t, and the Commis- sioners are totallyin the dark as to whether tt will be granted Or not. And while this red tape. process continues the city is in danger. THE FIRE ALAKM TELEGRAPH. The Commissioners have also begun to feet that the present system of fire alarm telegraph, while @ very excellent one, is not suficiently understood by the general public to be of such service as it might be did every person understand its uses and management. ‘Tliey therefore propose that every citizen shall be his own bellringer. The Commis- sioners propose to cause cards to be distributed in every house within proximity to a fire alarm tele- graph box instructing the :umates how to use the telegraph and where to find the key. It has been observed that in many cases fires would be signal. led much more promptly than they are did the people who discover them know precisely what to do. Ignorance in the matter begets danger and great loss of property, and some vbeneft is hoped from this popular means of instructing people who ol! their own volition would never learn. The Commiss.oa- ers are a unit on the points spoken of, as to the necessity of the establisument of more lorce abo’ the dividing line. They feel that in the verdict of the ‘Coroner’s jury ia the Stimer case nothing haa been said that censures the department. Tne ver- dict, they say, refers to the inadequacy of the force, which is not their fault, but states distinctly that the Fire Department did all it could in arriv- ing at the fire in Sixtieth street promptly and as well as circumstances would permit, THE DEPARTMENT IN THE NEW DISTRICT, The order of the Commissioners relative to the new Westchester district was promulgated in the latter portion of December and took effect on Jan- uary 1. This district may be said to be tnade- quately covered, also, and the system there of hogemen and laddermen, spoken of above, is stil continued. The new organization is known as the Tenth battalion, covering all the newly acquired terri- tory. The battalion is under the commandol a foreman, who is mounted, and whose headquarters are establisned at the engine house located on | Third avenue, between 146th and 148th streets, and it consists of the following companies :— Two engine companies (equipped with steam fire engines aud tenders, and drawn by two horses), num- bered respectively 41’ and 42, and manned by one assist, ant foreman, one engineer of steamer, two firemen and eight hosemén. our engine companies equinred with chemical fire engines and tenders, and drawn by two horses), num- bered respectively 1.2, Sand 4, an@ manned by one as- sistant foreman, two firemen and five hosemen. ‘Two hook and ladder companies (equipped with hook and ladder trucks and drawn by two horses), numbered respectively 17 and 13, and manned by one assistant tore- man, two firemen and nine laddermen. ‘ The firemen, engineer and foremen receive the same salaries as in Other portions of the city. The hosemen and laddermen (Who have also other avo- cations) receive $300 per annum. ‘Their duties are precaey the same as those Jormerly employed on janhatian Island and described above, and tne measure is intended to be one of economy. The following exceptional rule also applies ex- clusively to the companies of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth wards :— Upon receipt of an alarm for any of the stations at the headouarters of the battalion, or ‘at the police station at Tremont, or in any other manner at any of the engine or truck houses of the battalion which are provided with a fire bell, six rounds ot the station number will be struck upon the fire bells, which will be repeated upon t other fire bells as soon as heard or received in any mai ner. An algrim received at either of the dial stations will be communicated to these headquarters by telegraph at once, Alarms for the stations hereinatter named will also be struck upon the Mount Morris tower bell, and the bell ringers on that tower are enjoined to Keep 4 vigilant lookout over and tamilarize themselves with the loca- tions of the signal stations inthe district named. Com- mandants of compamies not provided with a tire belt will use all due diligence ting an alarm to the nearest telegraph station or bell, detailing a member of the company for that purpose if deemed necessary. ‘The time has not been sufficiently long as yet to test these measures for the large portion of terri- tory comprising the annexed district, Time alone can tell whether they are sufiictent or not, No | further time is needed to establish the fearful in- adequacy of the present provision jor preventing, | discovering and extinguishing fires on this tslan above Filty-ninth street; an and property, now far too long endangered, with fatal results, by a mistaken municipal omy. the protection of life and econ> A BUGLE OALL, New York, Jan. 31, 1874 To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Will you be kind enough to allow me, through your great journal, to bring to the notice of the military authorities one very great want of our National Guard—viz., of buglers in our regimental organizations. That it is 9 want must be readily conceded by all men who have ever been soldiering. For myself 1 know the great benefit of the bugle call, whether on the field or on the bar- rack square. I would ask the commanders of regt-, ments if it is not their duty to see that every man under their command is able to drill by the call of the bugle ?_ Now, as for the drum corps, fale are of. no use at all to discipline. ‘There are bugle calls inserted in the regulation drill book, Do the men Know them? ‘they do not, If the general com- manding a brigade of our militia wanted to call his command im case of a riot or other emergency has he got a bugler to ride through our city and sound the assembly? Or if he has, would our mili. tia understand it? I hope that through your great paper this will come under the notice of the com. Manders of regiments, and that they will supply that deficiency. As for drum corps, they are of no use, as have said beiore. A dru call there’ is not. Are there twenty men in this our great city, who could distinguish one cali on the dram from another? In the roar of battle the shrill bugle cail is heard amiast the din, whereas tne drum beat is of no earthly use. Every soldier snould know all the light infantry calls When sounded on the bugle, and ever; rege ment of the New York State Militia should have @ plain and well known regimental call, Every regiment in the British army has got its own sepa- rate call. So as in case the Mayor or Colonel wanted, say the Seventh regiment, in its armory in the dead of night, have they got @ bugier, or have they got a call known to the members of that regiment to bring them togther inside of their armory within an lour? See to it, commanders; let the public insist. ONE WHO HAS SOUNDED THE ALARM, ORUSHED BY A FREIGHT TRAIN. Coroner Croker was yesterday called to the Twenty-sccond precinct station house to hold an inquest on the body of an unknown man, abont thirty years of age, who, late on Saturday night% Was tound crushed on the track of the Hudsoa River Kailroad in Eleventh avenue, near Forty: fifth street, directly after ireight trains 103 and 105 had passed up. The man was alive whem jound, but died soon after reaching the station’ ‘The police failed to describe the personal appear rb ol deceased or the clothing Wi Which he wal ressen.