The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1874, Page 4

‘lulea. 4 NEED AND AID. The Brotherhood of Suffering and Sympathy. DESOLATE HOME How Poverty and Want of Work Grind | Respectable Families, | FEEDING THE HUNGRY. | Belief at the Centres of Charity and Sup- plies from the Benevolent, | THE SOUP KITCHENS. In Charge of Mr. Delmonico. Fourth precinct, No. 327 Water street, Captain imap. Sixth precinct, No. 110 Centre street, Captain | Kennedy. Seventh precinct, No. 79 East Broadway. Captain Mount. Eighth precinct, No, 114 Wooster street, Captain ‘Williams. Eleventh precinct, No. 285 Second street, Cap. | ‘tain Murphy. Thirteenth precinct, No, 224 Delancey street, ‘Captain Hedden. Fourteenth precinct, No. 53 Spring street, Cap- tain Cunehy. Enghteenth precinct, No. 302 avenue A, Captain Tynan. Nineteenth precinct, Second avenue, corner of Sixty-third street, Captain Gunner, Twentieth precinct, No. oll West Twenty-ninth street, Captain McKiwain. Twenty-first precinct, No. 218 East Thirty-tourth Street, Captain Allaire. Twenty-second precinct, Tenth avenue, between Sixty-second and Sixty-third streets, Captain Kil- Twenty-ninth precinct, Thirty-first street, near Seventh avenue, Captain McCullogh. Other Soup Hous: Juvenile Guardians’ Society, downtown relief, ‘No. 14 Dey street. Mr. Orcuti’s soup kitchen, No, 17 East Seventh Street, near Third avenue. Howard Relief Association soup houses, old police station, Leonard street, and No. 51 Thomp- son street. Inousirial School for Women, No. 47 East Tenth Street, near Broadway, gives meals and furnishes ‘beef vea jor the sick. Fifteenth ward citizens’ soup house, No. 219 Mercer street. Twenty-first Ward Reform Club’s relief house, ‘No. 232 East Thirty-thira street. Bread and beef house, No. 306 West Fifty-secona Street, near Eighth avenue. Sparta Club soup kitchen, opposite tne Court House, Fifty-seventh street, near Third avenue. Twelfth ward citizens’ soup house, Hariem Mar- ket, 125th street. Manhattanville, 130th street, near Broadway, In Brooktyn. Fourth precinet temporary relief soup house, Vanderbilt avenue, near Myrtle avenue. Tenth precinct soup house, corner Bergen and Pearsall streets. Helping Hand, Atlantic avenue, Deimonico’s Daily Work. The cold spell continuing, it is found that there 1s a ateady rush toward the thirteen soup kitchens under the management of Mr. Delmunico. Yester- day trully 2,300 gallons of soup were distributed to about 13,100 persons, mostly families, and about B,500 loaves of bread were given out to the numer- ous claimants for soup. The soup was made of beef, beans and vegetables of allkinds. On Friday B fine fish chowder wiil be served to all comers, and in a few days more bread will be distributed at the kitchens in every precinct of the city. TWENTY-FIRST PRECINCT KITCHEN. This precinct isavery large aud thickly popu- lated one, on the east side of the city, and has tor Ws boundaries Twenty-seventh and Forty-second streets, Fourth avenue and the East River, and | bas & population of about 60,000, about ‘Whom are depending on \abor and trade port. Captain Allaire is in charge of this and, altbougn he is Known to be a “ood police ofl- cer, DO exertion Whatever has beea made by the lice im the precinct to procure bread for the elmonico soup house, which is located at No. 2i8 East Thirty-fourth street, between Second and Third avenues, This soup kite occupies th ground floor premises, with a cdimensiom- ot 99 by 25 wel, and the kitchen 1s open for the delivery o: soup irom half-past ten A. M. until hali-past five P. M. of each day. A ninety-galion soup voller is here kept in | constant use, and about 135 gullous of soup are distributed each day. Sanitary + Oo} r No. 1,065 is placed on guard here, and with great ability he discriminates between th cuhy and the unworthy woo apply ior soup. It is 1 ticeable that nearly all the members of tne sax tary squad have the gilt of publi speaking, an Wm addition, are kuown to be excelicnt aritameti- rians. Policeman 1,065 has kept a fine diary of every occurrence Which has transpired daring the ten that he has stood watcn aud ward at the Twenty-first precinct soup kitchen. This abie oni- ver stated to a HERALD reporter tuat he ad found ‘toe demand for soup to vary aud fuctuate from day to day. For three days the number who cailed ranged as follows :—First day, 393 persons; Second day, 444 persons, and third day, 646 per- sons. Deimonico has two cooks stationed here, and a scrubbing woman to keep the place ciean, The premises are given rent iree to chis uobie pur- se by the Owner of the property, Mr. Charles AAott, son of Elliott, the famous portrait painter. ‘There has been but one bread donation made 10 | ‘this soup kitchen as yet, but itis to be hoped that Captain Aljaire will be enabied to succeed in mov- ing the bowels of compassion of the wealtay citi- zeus of the district to 4 sense of their Christian obligations toward the poor and destitute, who have no help Dut in the ail-seeing Providence. The Sipgie donation which has been made to this soup house 18 oue of twenty-tive loaves of bread each day since the opening, and it has been ven by P. Maner & Co., of Ginss Hail, in Thirty-fourth street. Let others do likewise | and they will have their reward. A strange in- cident Occurred nere a day or two since, which clearly proves tuat ip all things numan the suviime and ridiculous are closely allied. A Mr. Berry, Manager aud lessee of the opera house in the same block with the soup kitchen, sent his boy for @ quart Of soup, and the boy was refused the soup by Policeman 1,065. TWENTY-SECOND PRECINCT KITCHEN. There is more reai destitution, perhaps, in this ecinet among Working peopie than in any other in New York. The boundaries of the precinct are a8 follows:—Forty-second and Sixty- third streets, Sixth venue and the North Raver. The officer in charge of the precinct, Captain Thomas Killilea is one of the most eml- | cory energetic and charitable in te force. In | jays, by the exertions Of Dimset! and his men, avho were sent out from the Forty-seventu street station house, ~ succeeded im collect 2,884 Joaves of bread and a considerabie amuunt of meat and potatoes. The soup kitchen is located in the old mansion of the grounds known as the National Garden, at the corner of Sixty-second sirect and Tenth avenue, the proprietor of which ts also propriesor of National Hall, in West Forty-fourth street, Koundsman Hoimes and Officer Hildreth Dave been detailed to look aiter the interest of the goup kitchen by Captain Killlea, There are two soup boilers at tis kitchen, one of ninety gallons capacity and the other holding sixty gallons. Soup is furnished irom these two boilers y M. Ranholer’s cook, Pierre Martial, and hia apsistant, Bread is given with every portion of soup, and irom 750 to 1,000 persons ‘a day apply here ior reliei, ‘The ‘hirty-first precinct, whieh is a@ very large one and rnns to 126th street on the | ‘west side, 18 without a soup house, and conse- | quently Captain Killiiea has to look after the wel- fare of its numerous poor as Weil as the poor of nis own precinct. A touching scene occurred here | yesterday wiiile the HikaLp reporter was present im the station house. ‘The dvor of the station | opened as Uaptain Killiiea was sitting behind his desk, and @ jittie girioi ten yeurs of age, With @ famished look in her paie blue ‘eves, entered, bearing a soup k in ber hand, She wore the clothing oi « n Woman, Whiet bung around her small, fragile figure in’ great, Yoose folds. Though so young iu years, misery and | Want had given her the look o: a woman of at “What do you want, little giri?’? asked Capt pintat do x gi asked Captain vee Want some soup, sir,” she said, in a faint | “What is your name, and where do you liv.?? aked the Captain, id a mame 18 AbbY Sorley, #MdL live at No. 416 | greater each day. | and supper. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, WARUH 1% 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. West Forty-nintn street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues,” “Have you @ father apd mother?” Yes; father has no wors, aud he ts sick, and so is mother, too.” “tave you any brothers and siste! “Yes, four sisiers and 4 brother, eleven years of age, aud a baby, eight months old—he is a boy, Wo," said the jittle elfsh-looking creature. Just them entered @ butcher's boy with a basket ob tis arm, Who Waiked forward to the desk and deposited his burden, saying at the same time, “There's four pounds of a Chine of beef for the poor, Captain, from my boss.” w ‘Who is your boss f”’ asked the Captain. “His name is Pred Deeu, and his store is at No. 614 Eleventh avenue, and he says tor to please give the beet out.” The littie girl looked wistfully at the lump of Meat and then looked at the butcher's boy, aud in turn the buteher’s boy looked at the Captain, whereupon the Captain turned his gaze on the re- porter, Alter pondering er afmoment the Caprain i l, you better take that lump of meat aS you Want at the kitchen, corner of Tenth ave. nue and sixty-second street, But, let me see, how fire?" d@Aumale, 5,01 | 8,000f. ; the Cou oof.; the Duke Dondeauville, nt de 000f, ‘The total amount received to date was 206,! The same journal adds:—Baron Aiphonse de Rothschild has just sent to the Public Assistance pay $0,000 “Kilogrammes of bread for the in- e1 — PICTURES OF POVERTY. + The Rich and the Poor at St. John’s Chapel Yesterday—The Sunny Side of a Sad Picture—A Sick Girl Sewing for Bread—The Sisters of a Dead Hero in Want—Generous Responses from the Churehe: Yesterday witnessed no falling off ip the number | of those who come to St, John’s chapel to apply for food, They came, a8 usual, from all parts of the city, and a8 they pressed around the doors of the tit cooked, and here is an order jor | Vestibule their hungry eyes and gaunt faces drew four loves of bread, and you ean get as much soup | tears = of pity from the ladies who during the hundreds of greater part of tne | are you going to cook the meat if'you have got no | day were present. One little girl came attended by her brother, no bigger than herself, and between Little giri—Well, the woman in the next room | them they carried a basket in which it would seem she’s got a stove, aud she Will cook it for my mud- der.” The little ragged creature, being now perfectly happy, leit the station house with the piece of beef | tod ner story—and such a story ! wrapped in a brown paper to take to her mother, | both might have hidden. The little girl was spokeswoman, and in a childish, lisping way she and thus one family has been made to rejoice | S43 # Mother worn ont by constant watching jor through the beneficent spirit of charity. Captain Killdea declares that he will receive no | contributions in money, but any donations of bread. Meat, potatoes or clothing will be thank- fully received and distributed by him among the poor of the district. Brooklyn Soup Houses, | The wants of the poor of Brooklyn bave not de- | the ship that had sailed— Out into the West as the sun went down— but could never more be heard of in any earthly port. Dying now of consumption, and happy to join her consort in the world’ where storms and shipwrecks are unknown, while broken hearted to think of leaving her little ones—those twins creased certainly to reeptible degree with | 0f musfortune—to the cold and hunger that had al: So: Say: pera, ie salresdy sapped the strength of their young lives. the near approach of spring. All public works are suspended ana business generally | | remains stagnant, The unemployed mechanics, who have managed to struggle through the long, weary, idle months, of December, January and February, now that | binstering March has set in find themselves re- duced to dire necessity, and in hundredsof cases | laboring classes and without further means of sustenance. The soup houses which were opened a month ago find the drain upon their resources growing The principai soup house 13 that of the Fourth Precinct Temporary Relei Association, which was opened on Vander- bilt avenue, near Myrtie, under the direction of Captain Rufas Craft. HERALD Visited the kitchen in question yesterday | ailernoon, and in the course of a conversation with | the Pacifle slope, ‘There was an aged man, who had, years ago, when the city was young and railways were un- | known, gone into the Far West, and with axe, | spade and plough, turned the wilderness into @ garden and but himself a home. He had mar- ried, and his wife had been laid away to sleep in | the earth that is washed by the Missouri, His children had grown to be men and women. The war engulfed the former, and they jell in the bat- tles of Atlanta, Murireesporo and the Wilder- ness, The daughters were married and lived on He, alone, feeble ana weary, had found bis way back to the city of his birth, ‘There, atter a life of lavor, to Me down in hunger A representative of the | aud loneliness to die, * THE SU! SIDE OF THE PICTURE. It is anything but a pleasant task to listen to the the Captaln and his assistant, Sergeant Carpenter, | patniul stories of these sufferers, or to look upon" learned that the number relieved each day, since them in their rags and wretchedness, when, as the fires were first lighted beneatu the kettles, | yesterday, they come in dense masses, pressed by were as follows :— Numver Heliever, Number Religved. February 18...... M0 February 28....... | February March 1@unday). | February 2. h 2... February 21 | February 22 (Sunday) February 23 f Fevruary 2 February February 3 9 February 2 :2\083 March 9 The Captain stated that we idea of opening the soup kitghen suggested itself to him because of the | fact that the lodgers at bis station house were lar in excess Of his past experience, and the unfortu- | nates whem they rose from their hard boards in | | } | the Morning bad to be sent adrift without food, ‘Then, again, patrolmen were constantly reporting cases of suffering from hunger among the “squat- ters’ in Jackson's tenements in the Hollow apd in the Seventh and Eleventh wards, on Schenck and Steuben streets and Graham, Park, Flushing, Carlton and and avenues. He caused a canvass of the poor to be made, and in twenty-four hours discovered about 400 deserving families in want. He then all the forces that assail the miserabie; but as every cloud Is said to have @ sliver jming so even this picture has its Sunny side. A hundred ladies trom the most cultured and aristocratic families of the city came during the day to tender their services in aid oi these unlor- tunates, and as the hours passed by they brought hosts of messages, telegrams and letters to the Master, promising him aid and bidding himselt and his colaverers Godspeed in their nobie work, ‘The following are tair samples of some 500 of what are termed “ordinary cases,” memorandum of which Was made yesterday, THB SISTERS OF COLONBL SAVAGE, At No. 121 East Twenty-fourth street live three ladies, sisters ol Colonél savage, who died at Libby Prison. Two of these ladies are invalids, and one of them is a widow with four children. Mrs. ‘Tucker, the lady who visited them, met their phy- siclan, who iniormed her that tne invalids were both suffering {rom frequent hemorrhage of the lungs. ‘Tbey are in great pecuniary distress, and were found destitute of food, fuel and clothing. ‘Tueir landiord holds a poorsgage Upon all their jur- niture, and has threatened to turn them out of doors before Saturday night. spoke to several weil-to-do citizens of the precinct, | A SICK GIRL MAKING PANTALOONS AT EIGHT CENTS the Police Commissioners and the Mayor, and was | encouraged upon ail sides in his design to start a | soup house. Mr. W. H. Taylor use of @ frame building, the one A PAIR. visitor found at No, 429 East The same lad. gave the | Twellith street a Mrs. Doran, who lived in a dark, now | dismal tenement room with her jour children. used; others gave bread, meut, vegetables, coal Her husband 1s dead. The eldest child, girl of and money, and donations have never ceased to pour in since the opening day, February 15. There are two Kettles, of sixty gallons capacity each, — fied and emptied sour stnas every day. The trst distributien occurs betwee the hours of eleven twelve, is lamed by hip disease and scrofula, yet she has tried to support ner family by Maoishing woollen pantaloons at eight cents @ pair. She could obtain this work only occasionally, aud couid taen earn, by tie most Constant application, A. M. and one P. M., and from five to eight o'clock | Dut thirty-two cents a@ day. On this pittauce, P.M. AM alphabetical register of applicants for soup is kept, and each day’s issue of bread, soup, | lived. meat, fish and vegetables is duly entered, Every application for assistance is jnvestigated by the | police, so that imposition is dificult. The Captain | States that he has irequenily to advance haif the mouth’s rent to respectable American families in | his precinct, and half tons of coal are also sent by | Unis association to deserving-families WAO have Lo | means Of livelihood, THE TENTH PRECINCT soup Kitchen, which was opened about February 25, in the basement of the station house, corner of Be: and Pearsall streets, is under the super- vision and direction of Captain Campvell, aud is doing good work in the or charity. Yesterday 198 tamiles were relieved at their homes, consisting of 1,004 persons. At the station house ninety were fed. Applications for reliet are increasing daily, and the cnaritably precarious as it was, five human beings must have Now she owes a month’s rent and the iand- lord has toid her the room is wanted. Wnen we visitor knocked she opened the door with fear and trembling, thinking the landiord had come to dis- possess her. Wien told that relief was at hand her face quickly brightened. That morning they had all been Jed irom a single loal of bread, for which the baker had trusted her. ‘This poor wo- man and her children were wretchedly clad. FIVE CHILDREN AND NO FOUD. Mr. Palmer reports a visit to Mrs. Pattison, a widow, living in the basement of No. 92 Cannon street, This poor woman has a babe two months old, 4 80n oO! eleven years, with a broken leg, and | cause | three little daughters. She has pawned most of their clotuing and has been days without 1ood, They have kind neighbors who have given them coal from thei own scanty supply. Mrs, Pattison was paid $1 a Week irom the kleventh Ward Asso- disposed resideuts of the Yenth precinct can not | clarion, which paymentis now stopped. Toe writer iat do better than help the police tueir laudable effurts in behail of the poor. HELPING HAND. The Helping Hand Soup Kicchen is supplying about 200 persons daily at the Atlantic avenue kitchen. Tickets “good for one quart of soup” are held for distribution by this society. Wo m and Chil- | Was long, there was no other resource Ae aon enae ent meine Ot i. | er to the Nursery in Lexington avenue, Of course | dren, Concord street, and at the Caristian Com- mission Kelief Kitchen, Hamilton avenue, soup is dispensed among the hungry applicants at dinner BREAD FOR SOUP HOUSES. The following official report of the gift of bread adds:—“All sle scems to want al present is gro- ceries for ali, and clothing and shoes for self, for which | gave an order on St. Jolin’s Guild.” WITH A BABE IN ARMS AND NO SHELTER. On Monday night a poor Woman with a abe in her arms came to St. John’s Guild begging for shelter. The bigut was cold, and, though the way ub to send She Was supplied with 1 oney ior car fare, Ac. Yesterday morning she returned with the state- | ment that every bed and cot were occupied before | she made application and that sie nad been to brooklyn, where she found yn? with some humble iriend, As her sop is in Philadelphia, to- gether with other and smaller children whom she | Was anxious to join,a ticket to that city was pur- chased ior her and she leit for tae Centennial City for the Twenty-second ward soup house is greatly | yesterday aiternoon. creditable alike to the donors and to the industry | of the police of the Twenty-second precinct :— Pouce Deranrwenr ov THe City or New Yorx,) IWENTY-SECOND PRRCINOT, ‘New Youm, March 10, 1874. § To tax Eviron oF tar Hekap:— Will you have the kindness to acknowledge the follow- ing donations of bread generously contributed by the citizens of tue Twenty-secoud ward :— Loaves. Hart Tanner, No, 903 Hines, Fisty-min ighth avenue nsireet and cress, 400 pray-seventh street, near Ninth | 9 Highth avenue....... 5 4 enth avenue ‘ - Mr. Bockhiorne, Forty-sixth street and Eleventh av... Guest, Forty-seventh street and Bleventh n ». OL Ninth aven’ y-fourth street ani Eighth avenue, near Forty-foarth ve, Dymock, Pink & Son, No, 6) Eleventh’ avenue » O04 Eleventh avenue /w 74) Eleventh avenue....... 40 No. 453 West Fitty-third street. 0 No. 840 Eleventh avenue a) 5 747 Kleventh avenue James Libros, Fitty-ninth street and nue....... rene ae ies Re | & Church, Fifty-ninth street and bieventh avenue... 25 Henry & jeventh avenue eens 25 5. F. Ge I Ninth avenue 25 ner nee Hilderbr 649 Ninth avenue. + 25 so Ninth avenue. | nth avenue wv No. 725 Ninth avenue. a) So. 719 Ninth avenue + 20 625 Ninth avenue. . a 2 20 2 ‘5 bb kignth avenue. 25 J. Schattman, No. 693 Eighth avenue. 1s Joseph Pauzer, No. inth avenue. . 6 L, J. Wiley, NNo. (43 inth avenue 15, CG No. 61 Ninth avenue. . by) Hulle, No. 721 Ninth avenue 15 No. “ighth avenue. 13 No, 75 Eighth avenue 13 No. 758 Kighth 3 ne 1b Fy ee « Ww George sch: Ww Obristopher lo Henry >cho 5 Cornelius Boh Kobert Gorden, No. Christopher stern, N James Sweeney, No. 327 Eighth avenue, i. 8. Blot, No. 624 Ninth avenue. or Diedrick & 4 aoe | B. Martin, \ » & % 25 23 A Lighth avenue, Sixth avenue., . 2 rewgnth sireet “and “Seventh enu reet and Seventh Pd i 2 cay 10 Mr, Corbett, Mrs. Svein, 610 Lievents avenue Total... He Patrick Whelan 5. W. Pearsails, 762 F. Schramm, 264 meat. Frederick Dea George Delaney, bighith aveniie, Bibs. of meat ghth avenue, 25 Ibs. of meat. est Forty-seventh street, 6 ibs. of 614 Eleventn avenue, 3 lbs. of meat, W7 West Forty-seventh street, 1 bbl. f potatoes 2 ee eming, 70 Bighth avenue, 1 bbl. of potatoes. Respectfully, THOMAS KILLILEA Captain Twenty second precinct. THE PARIS. SOUP KITCHENS. The Journal Oficiel of Paris, of February 27, re- ports afourth list of subscriptions for the, cheap soup kitchens in the French capital. Among the names are M, de Brousse for 10,000; the Com- pany of Agenis de Change, 6.000; the Duke During the presence of the great crowd in the | earlier portion of the Gay Oilicers Join McGee and | Joseph D. Connor, who were kindly detailed by | | Captain Petty, preserved wwe most excelient oraer in the court Of the chapel and vestibule of the Guild office. THE CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOCR RESPONDS to the letter of the Rev. Alvah Wiswall, Master of St. John’s Guild as follows: 183 Lexincron AveNce, March 9, 1874, My Dear Me. Wiswati—{ read your touching ‘appeal | for ald in the good work you have in hand to iny congre- esterday, and was at once handed $64 53, which sked Mr.'Cooke to take to you. [write ‘this to xpress my heartfelt svinpathy in your truly benevolent undertaking, and to join mine to the prayers of your many other friends, that “the blessing of tlm that was ready to perish” may come in Nillest measure Upon You to strengthen your ha sweet labor of love. Sine FROM A LUTE nd to cheer your heart in this yours, A. B, CARTER. RAN CHURCH, New Yorx, March 9, 1874. ester lay heard your appeal in behalf uild read in our elureh nd {herewith t enclo lidd in ald of some of the acknowledge by the check, but mn rev donot piblish my name as a contr: reports, as I disilke notor i r, It is neces. sary to acknowledge It in any report you may put It down to @ “Lutheran” and obli FROM ZION CHURCH. New Yors, March 9, 1874. Reverexp axp Dean Str—Your appeal tor St, John’s Guild was read by our rector yesterday. 1 enclose you with much pleasure the amount of the offertory, Yours very respectiuily, D. CLARKSON, Treasurer of Zion Church. MR. FURNALD'S GIFT, Orrice or St. Jouy’s Goin, March 10, 187% to thank, through the tor his generous gift to bie to estimate its vane At the homeless. thisume. [shall take p. re in transmitting to Mr. Furnald the landl pis to the (ull amount of Very truly, yours, ALVAH WISWALL. THE RELIEF FUND. lant Donations for the poor received by the HERALD and not previously acknowledged:— Mr. Denning, of A. T. Stewart's, through Mr. B. D. Wiisham, for Proiessor"” rejerred to in Monday’s HeRraLp. see $5 00 Littie Tom Tit, for the poor of St. Jobn’s Guild ... 5 os - 500 Sale of earrings presented to the poor tam- ly at No, 73 Carmine strect seccseceee 95.00 St. John’s Guild and the Downtown Poor. The following additional contributions were re- ceived yesterday by Rev. Alvah Wiswall tor the poor of the Fifth and Eighth wards, and handed to the Aimoner of the Guild, Mr. Henry . De Witt:— (Those desiring to visit the office of the Guild will remember that it is in the school buildings at- tached to St. Jolin’s chapel, Varick street, between Laight and Beach streets.) Children’s fair, beld by Hannah, Nickie, Maurice, Solomon and Addie Le + 15 00 New York rom Care los Cobb. 50 00 New York Pro Freeman... 25 00 Mrs. Merritt, for . 5 00 Louis Ettinger 10 00 4. B.C . 10 00 From no . * 10 00 Francis P, Furnaid, per New Yor! 500 00 Anonymous..... . 100 dirs, J. Murdock, 800 K. 5 00 Cash “ ‘ 100) Young Friends trom Irvington Medicus, cash wen saveed vee 50 A rriend BO Four Lattie ¢ baby. in st 60 A Friend... 100 88 K., for y WALET.... 050055 . 500 Miss K.. Jor professor 6 00 A father lost at | uior in any of your | however, 1b Miss he artist. yt a yt ati pines, 8 Seas rs SS 100 recovering (roma sick bed. 5 00 Grand total....... Contributions to this fund may be sent to the HERALD office; Mayor Havemeyer, City Hall; C. V. B, Ostrander, President of the Merchants’ Fire In- surance Company, No. 149 Broadway; Andrew W. Leggat, Collector of Assessingnts, New Court House; George Wilkes, M. D., No. 16 North Wash- ington square; G, K. Lansing, Earle’s Hotel; G. J, N. Zabriskie, Cashier of People’s Bank, corner of Canal and Thompson streets; J. L. Davis, Sheldon | & Co,, No, 677 Broadway, und Rev. 8, H. Weston, D. D., No, 3 East Forty-fith street, or to the Rey. Alvah Wiswall, Master of St. John’s Guild, St, John’s chapel, Varick street. | Packages of clothing, groceries, &c., should be | sent to St. John’s chapel, Varick street, between | Laight and Beach streets, or if an order be sent a messenger will call for any packages. Mrs, Judge Brady, No. 19 West Thirty-third street, and Mrs, F, P. Earle, No. 34 West Filty-sec- ond street, have kindly consented to receive sub- scriptions. Mr, Josh Hart's Charity. Captain Cunchy, of the Fourteenth precinct po- lice, yesterday brought to the HERALD office tickets for 600 loaves of bread for the soup houses | in charge of Mr. Delmonico, the gilt of Mr. Josh al the Theatre Comique to the poor of the city. More Bread. Mr. F. Stone, of No. 111 Mulberry street, sent to the HERALD for the poor, by Captain Clinchy, tickets for fifty loaves of ened ; CHARITY CONCERT THIS EVENING, The ladies of the Pilgrim Baptist church, Thirty- | third street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, | announce that a grand concert will be given under | their auspices this (Thursday) evening at the church, the entire proceeds of which will be de- Voted to Charitabie purposes. The programme is | of such a pleasing variety as cannot fail to please. | Among the artists who will appear are Mrs. | Marsena Nelson Jones, Mrs. Robert Ritchie, Mrs. | Emma Wilkinson, Mr. George Ellard, Mr. 1. W. | Trowpriage, Mr. D, B. Thompson and Protessor | Van de Weyde. The admission is only fifty cents. | The concert will begin at eight o'clock precisely. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. The Society of St, Vincent de Paul Ac- cepts Its Share of the Herald Relief Fand. Socrery or St. VINCENT p# Pact, New York, March 7, 1874, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Your favor of 5th inst. is at hand, requesting the treasurer of the society to send to your office for “$737 73 of the funds in your hands for char- | itable purposes.” I take great pleasure in com- plying with your request, and beg you to hand the amount to the bearer, William Coddington, of No, 29 Reade street. You will receive the grateful thanks of this society for your high appreciation of its efforts in the cause of charity. Permit me to add that no object of charity is foreign to the society of St. Vincent de Paul, and that we have now on our relief rolls not alone Catholics, but the poor of almost every creed and | of no creed—the colored as well as the white, The grand rule of the society is, ‘to visit the poor at | their dwellings and to aid them by relies in kind.” | At present the society has on its rolls about 2,500 tamiltes—say 12,000 persons—to whom it gives as- | sistance every week. ed ectiully, JAMES LYNCH, Treasurer. The City Mission Will Distribute Its Third. New _Yor«e City MISsIoN, New York, March 6, Tra. } To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Ihave the pleasure of receiving your order on your casnier for $713 73, and send over Mr, Ruston, who will actin our behalf. I take it for granted that you understand the principles and objects of our society, and are willing thaf your donation | Shall be used in accordance therewith, “for charit- able purposes,” as designated in your note. Piease accept our grateful acknowledgments. Very re- spectfully yours, 8. E. JACKSON, Corresponding Secrétary and Assistant Treasurer. FOURTH WARD. Bread for the Fourth Ward Poor. New Yorg, March 11, 1874, To Tax Eprror oF THE HERALD: The following contributions were made this day for the benefit of the Fourth ward pool | C.J. Fisher, No. 187 South street, 100 loaves weekly. | qgidward Peterson, No. 233 William street, &) loaves weekly. | ..2 Oliver street, 100 loaves. | John Stewart, No, 339 Water street. 100 loaves. } Husa O'Reilléy, No, 54 Oliver strect, 100 loaves, n Friend, 100 loaves. ‘orton, No. 14 Dover street, 75 loaves. Grant, No. 277 Water street, 75 loa’ E. G. Pruner, No. 840 Pearl street, 50 loavi Respectiuily, CHARLES ULMAN, Captain Fourth Precinct Police. SEVENIH WARD. | Contributions tor the East Broadway | Soup Hous New York, March 11, 1874. To THE EpiroR OF THE HERALD:. The following contributions have been handed in since last report for the use of the soup kitchen No. 70 East Broadway :. Mr. Thomas Brown, of Henry street, 50 loaves of bread. Charles D. Boschén, grocer, Jefferson and Henry | streets, one peck of beans weekly. | ward D. Utter, grocer, No. 622 Water street, 100 | | loaves ot bread, | _ Charles Horn, lager beer saloon, No. 53 Market street, | 200 loaves of bread and 80 pounds of beet. Edward Daron, grocery and liquors, No. 185 Cherry street, 200 loaves of bread and $0 pounds of beet. Respectfully yours, JOHN J, MOUNT, Captain Seventh Precinct Police. THIRTEENTH WARD. | Bread for the Hungry. New York, March 11, 1874, To THE EDITOR OF THE: HERALD:— The foliowing contributions for the benefit of the poor in tiis precinct have been received this da | patggee Mehrbach, No, 433 Grand street, 200 loaves of | read. samuel Baumann, No. l44 Clinton street, 9 loaves of Byrnes &Bryan, No. 431,Grand strect, 100 loaves of | Tt'H. Brummell, No. 410 Grand street, 100 loaves of | piace Seebacher, No. 177 Delancey street, 100 loaves of | te O’Reilley, No. 54 Ridge street, 100 loaves of bread. | ofletphus Outenberg, No. H Columbia street, 20 loaves F. Germann & Son, No. 45 Suffolk street, 50 loaves of bread. Respectfully. HENRY HEDDEN, Captain Thirteenth Precinct Police. TWENTY-FIRST WARD. New York, March 11, 1874, To THE EpItOR OF THE HERALD:— Ihave received the following this day:— From Mrs. Moultrie, No. 111 West Thirty-first street, 200 loaves of bread. From Lou Js Bouck, No. 625 Sixth avenue, 25 loaves of | bread. No. 37% Eighth avenue, 25 From Alexander Law: loaves of bread. | Also, trom Mr, Baley, No. 513 Sixth avenue, 11 loaves of bread. Please state in to-morrow’s paper that I have pfenty of bread to feed the poor. Send them | along. Very respectiuily, JOUN. H. McCULLAGH, | Captain Twenty-ninth Precinct Police, HORSE NOTES, | | The champion stallion race, which is to come off | over the Mystic Park Course, near Boston, in Sep- | | tember next, is attracting the attention of horse- | men generally and owners of stallions in par- ticular, as Well as breeders. The purse, $10,000, is the largest ever ogered for stailious, The four medals are Of equa) value, and beautiful in design, which will greatly enhance the reputation of a horse Which gets # place and wins one of them. The | terms are liberal, as the entries close the 5th of May, but no payment is required before Septem- | beri. The racehorses True Blue and Weathercock, | together with the trainer, Tim Robbins, Old Peter, the sutier, and Hughes, the jockey, and two stable boys, arrived yesterday morning from San Fran- | cisco, all in good health. ‘hey were just a week | | on the way. Weathercock looks all over a race- | horse of the fest type, | Fecovered trom True Blue has not fully the injuries he received in the | great four mile race with Thad. Stevens and Joe | Daniels at San Francisco last autumn. True Biue | | Will be jet With Dr. Cattanaok for a short time to | ascertain the extent of the mischief done in the | Jand of woid. | cant Police Commissionership, THE EIGHTH WARD SCHOOLS. They are Surrounded by Improper In- Muences—Children Made Familiar With Vice and Debsuchery—The Eighth Ward as Bad as the Fifteenth Ward Schools—investigation Before a Committee of the Board of Education. The Committee on Bylaws of the Board of Edu- cation met yesterday to inquire into the existence Of houses of bad repute jn the Eighth ward and to substantiate the amount of harm they do to the children attending the public schools in this ward. ‘The attendance of witnesses was quite large and the teeing about the matter seemed to run quite high among them. Almost all were residents of the ward reierred to and had children attending school in it, and had personal knowledge of the matters whereof they spoke. They also complained that the Dis- trict Attorney had as yet paid no attention to the revelations concerning School No. 10, and that the indictments, if indictments there were, had been 80 effectually “pigeon holed” that:there was a lively prospect of their never being heard of again. The first witness exammed and sworn was Wil- Nam Heerdt, of No. 150 Wooster street, who stated that he lived on the same block as School No. 10 Was situated on and within only a short distance of @ school m the Eighth ward—No. 8. He had constant reason to notice the tact of numer- oug brothels on the block, existing in the most open manner and to the public scandal of those who passed along the street, The women in the brothels had become very bold through impunity, and never let men pass without endeay- oring to entice them, He had never seeu that children had been invited into these houses, but they could not pass without noticing what was going on, and were demoralized thereby. ‘The women in these places would laugh at children passing, und would be laughed at in turn, estab- ishing & kind ot intimacy, which was highly dan- geroua to their ‘young made ‘The houses of this character abounded in all directions here, and he did business two doors trom one of them, He once lived in the same house, but was driven away by their proximity, He was constantly insulted and annoyed by these women, and so were other respectable neighbors of his to the extent that it Was a positive nuisance. It was so all down his street (Wooster), and it was not a fit place to have @ public school, He xnew that such reasons also prevailed 1n cases of schools in the Eighth ward. Philp Ketterer, a trustee of the Eighth ward pat Schools. had often heard complaints about pawdy houses being #0 near the schools, though nothing had came directly under his personal kuowledge of the extent of injury which they did. There was a hil: house directly im iront of the public school in Clark street, about which he ad heard complaints, ‘teachers had toid him that 1t was olten possible to see trom tne school directly over the way, and that indecencies were olten visible to the children. He had heard the same in connection with the colored school in South Filth avenue, near Broome street, which was alsu directly laced by a house of 11 tame, with the same results, and in the evening this neigh- borhood Was very offensive to any respectable person. There was Uttle doubt that the youth which attended these schools were more or less injured by being familiarized with this form of vice and debauchery. ‘Tne schools in Clark street and South Futh avenue were almost in as bad a position for this as School No. 10 in Wooster street. hile the former school in Thompson street, No. 6, was situated in @ mestbed of vice, and com- plaints were almost gay Mr. Roberts, a gas fitter living at No. 74 West Houston street, said that his nergnborhood was 80 bad that a respectable family was not able to live there. He had cautioned his children not to stay out alter night/all, for fear ot the men and women who frequent the street at that time. In tue neighboraood of the schoot in Sauta Filth avenue there were numerous houses of ill fame, openly carried on, and im iront of which children passed constantly guing to school. He had seen policemen order these women into thelr houses irom the Stoop, when they were soliciting passers by. This was a proot of how public the thing was, Charies Keyser, of No, 143 Wooster sircet, said that at one time he used to send his children to School No. 10, 1n Wooster street, but the neighbor- hood was so bad that he sent them down to No, 8, His chiidren returned that day and told him he might have leit them where they were, as the sec- ond neighborhood was as pad as the first one. He could not pass down the street without having these women address him and annoy him. Chuil- dren were annoyed w vhe same tnunher, and the neighborhood was very bad for a school. Other witilesses were examined, who corrobo- Tated what was previously said. CITY HALL NOTES, —_-—__ Mayor Havemeyer yesterday appointed Samuel R. Filley school inspector Jor the Eighth district, in place of N. R. Freeman, who had failed to quality. ‘the charges made against City Marshal Joseph Philips were yesterday pronounced by Mayor Havemeyer groundiess. The complaint was, there- fore, dismissed by the Mayor, and Mr. Phillips con- tinues 1m his position. ‘The call for a special meeting for to-day, signed originaliy by six members of the Board o/ Alder- men, to consider the Mayor’s nomination of George H. Andrews for the vacant Police Commissioner. ship, received no new signatures yesterday, and ‘the proposed meeting is now abandoned. ‘Two of the six aldermen who signed the cali at first, Messrs. Falconer and Gilon, have since withdrawn their signatures. A rumor was circulated yesterday that Mr. Andrews had resigned as a candidate for the va- From inquiries in “well informed circies,”? however, it was ascer- tained that the rumor was altogetner without foundation, and that Mr. Andrews means to con- tinue to await the action ol the Board of Alder- men on the Mayor’s nomination, without throw. ing an obstacle in the way of the Mayor’s first chvice. He is not, it was said, anxious that a Special meeting of the Aldermen shouid be called to consider the nomination, and took no steps towurd having sucn a meeting called. ‘The flags will be at half-mast to-day on the City Hall in consequence of the death of Hon. Charies Sumner. The city authorities will pay no other mark of respect to the deceased statesman, this being also the only honor ou the part of the city that has been accorded to ex-President Fillmore, A Concert Saloon Woman the Victim. Coroner Woltman yesterday afternoon was catled to room No, 5, on the third floor of the tene- ment house No, 121 East Houston street, to in- quire into the circumstances attending the death of Mrs. Kate Miller, a woman twenty-five years of age, whose death occurred the evening previous, under suspicious circumstances, The husband of Mrs. Miller (iormerly a policeman) left home last uctober, since which time she had not seen or heard from him, and, her limited means becoming exhausted, she sought ana obtained employment | as walter girl in the concert saloon known as the “Dew Drop In,” Broadway, near Prince street, Since her husband’s disappearance Mrs. Miller has received the attentions of an architect and builder, | known only as “George,” but he had not been visible to her ior about six weeks. Some ten days ago Mrs, Miller complained to her friends tn the house of feeling great pain in her chest and abdowen, but gave no reason for her sickness. One of her lady iriends she de- spatened jor Dr. smith, of Grand and Mulberry | streets, Who attended her till she died. Had Dr, Smith, Whose suspicions of something wrong had been excited, notilied the Coroner, she might have made an ante-mortem statement, communicating important information to the authorities; but as ib is, a Crime has been committed, and po clew 13 afforded to the perpetrator. Dr, Shine made an avtopsy on the body of de- ceased and found that deati resulted from metro- perizonitis, caused by an operation which had been performed with instruments, but by whom 18 @ question it may be impossible to answer, De- ceased had a iittie girl or five years living with her, | and it was stated little boy had been adopted out, notwithstanding her husband had reported him to be dead. Corener Woltman will give the matter a thorough investigation, Mrs, Miller, wo was a native of Ireland, has relatives whom it is supposed will give her remains a decent burial and take care of the little daughter. THE PRIVATE WATCHMAN MURDER, Another Arrest on Suspicion, Captain McElwain, of the Twentieth precinct, yesterday brought belore Coroner Eickhot Cap- tain John Dougherty, of the sloop James P. Wild, of Cold Spring, who had been arrested on suspicion of possessing important information relaung to the brutal murder of Watchman Schweich, at the Hudson River Ratlroad depot, Thirtieth street and ‘Tenth avenue, two or three Weeks since, if not be- ing an accessory to the crime, was held on th 1's temporary commitment till to-day, When he will be arraigned before the District Attorney, to be disposed of as he may think best. “POLICE MATTERS. At a meeting of the Board of Police held yester- day alternoon a resolution was passed directing the Superintendent to cause the drills ordered by the rules of the department to be resumed, and tl 8 f arms be added to the exercises othe sew men tn tne school of instruction, The arilling of the officers is to be done twice a week, an hour on each occasion, and the whole matter will be under the avperyision of General Duryee, Captain Dougherty | WINE AND SPIRIT TRADERS. — oo Speeial Meeting of the Council—The Proposed Amendment of the Tariff on “Stil Wines—What Has Been Ace complished—The Country To Be Set Right on the Wants of the Wine and Spirit Trade The council of the Wine and spirit Traders Society held a special meeting at their rooms, No. 35 Beaver street, yesterday afternoon, to receive the joint report of progress of the Legislative and Executive Committees and for the considera tion of other business, Mr, Quarles Bellows oc- cupied the chair, Mr. William M. Fliess said tnat the bill before Congress, proposing to establish a federal liquor commission, bad attracted their attention, and, deeming that the society would be greatly in- terested in its provisions, letters had been ad- dressed to prominent representatives in Con; assuring them that the council was in | Moy Hered Dill, and 1ts members were willing to assist them by imparting important imformation and aid them in rejecting such matters as would be the means of misleading the COMER, a Mr. Fleiss also reported what had been don Washington by the special committee having i charge, in the interests of the society, the Dili bee fore Congress regulating the tariff on still wines, Prominent members of the House had been talked to regarding it, and arguments made beiore the Committee of Ways and Means. Mr. Fernando Wood had been appealed to, and. in reference ta the statement that the Secretary of the Treasury would endorse the action of the wine and spirit men, he addressed a letter to the latter “relative to the proposed change in the mixed duties on still wines.” Mr. Wood stated in his communica. tion that he had reported a bill to the House fixing the duties at flity cents per gallon and $2 per dozen, incases, but that the Wine and Spirit Traders} Society had protestea against the rates as almost prohibitory, and insisted upon the duty being ‘fixed at forty cents per gallon and $1 50 per case, or that the preseni law shail remain unaltered. ‘The Secretary of the Treaauny, at once answered the letter, and, among other things, wrote that— For the year gaging June 30, last, the total fuantles of still wines Imported was 9,207,888 gallons, which pai uty ay. tollows:—s,323.273 gallons at 25 cents, 737,458 g Jons at 60 cents and 197,132 fallons at $1 and 25 per cer ad valorem. It will thus be seen that the revenue re- ceived from the importation of wine paying 15 cents duty was $2,080,315, about 5-7 total revenue Trom that source; the rate of cents per gallon would, upon the same quantity, Xitel an addition to the revenue of $1243.40 irom which deduct the ‘reduction of duty ot 20 Cehts per gallon on the second grade and 60 cents gallon and 25 per cent ad valorem on the higher gr: would still give a net gain of $833,172, The gain would, however, be somewhat more than this, as under the present iaw still wines in bottles are not subject to ad valorem duty. These figures would also be further raised by the fact that the above calculation is based entirely on 40 cents per gallon, which is not the exact equivalent of $1 50 per case. {do not appretiend, so tar as T am now able to judge, that the rate of forty cents would check importation of the lower grades of wine to any considerable extent while it would undoubtedly stimulate the importation o} the better grades of wine. ‘The imposition of fity cents per gallon and $2. per case would not lessen the importation of tne better grades, but I fear that it would curtail the shipments of the lower grades to a great extent, and so much so that the rate of 1orty cents would be more advantageous as @ matter ot revenue than that of ity cents. Mr. J. Lienau said that one object in cailing thia meeting Was to consider the propriety of appoint- ing a committee to enlighteu the country In rela- tion to the wine and spirit trade. Many erroneous statements had found their way into the journals reflecting severely upon it, and it was ho more than right that the truth should be laid before the people upon the merits of their business, He, therefore, moved that a committee o! three be ap- pointed to carry out such suggestions, The mo- lion was carried, and the following gentlemen seiected :—Charles McK. Leoser, Thomas McMullen and Colonel Tracey, Adjourned, THE SING SING FATALITY. How a Runaway Convict Met His Death—Alleged Negligence of the Prison Physician—Leaving a Dying Patient to Attend a Faneral. Since the tragic death of Joseph Hopkins, the convict who was shot and dangerously wounded while attempting to escape from Sing Sing frison last week, circumstances have transpired in con- nection therewith which place the prison phyaly cian, Dr. P. L, Pryne,inarather unenviable posi« tion. The deceased, as stated in the HERALD at the time, was fired upon by one of the guards, the shot taking effect in his tigh, rupturing the femoral artery, After Hopkins had been conveyed to the hospital the prison physician did not attempt the delicate operation of reaching the injured artery for the purpose of ligating it, contenting himself with ‘adopting such measures as could only be applied externally tor the suppression of the hemor- rhage consequent upon the wound. On the fo! lowing morning Dr. Pryne leit for Schonarie county to attend the funeral of a daughter of State Prison Inspector Graves, leaving the woundea man in charge of a convict nurse. Hopkins lin- gered until the alterneon of that day, when he died, At the Coroner’s inguest it transpired that the convict im whose charge the deceased had been leit by Dr. Pryne had no knowledge of either medi- cine or surgery, and the same party on being asked what instractions had been leit witn him by the prison physiclan replied that the latter said when leaving :—'‘in ali probability the boy will die, You can make him a3 comlortabie as possible while he lives.” The jury completely ignored this criminal negligence of Dr. Pryne in their verdict, which pronounced the killing justifiable, A good deal of feeling 1s maniiested in the neigh- borhood of Sing Sing in connection with the affair, as several physicians there have given it as their opinion that the Wound was not necessarily mor- tal, and say that evea uf Dr, Pryne was doubtiul about his ability to perform the operation which would have saved the life of Hopkins, there was vO good reason why he did not consult with some of the experienced surgeons practising in tae locality. ‘The warden oi the prison comes in for a share of the public censure, or aulowmg the phy- sician to leave the prison while a man was dying by inches in the hospital, owing to a lack of surgi cal aid. Notwithstanding the successiui efforts of prominent prison officials, and pares furnishing goods vo the lusuitution, 1m having the afar ex cluded from the columns of tue local press, It 19 not improbable that the matter wili be laid before tue nexs Grand Jur CORONERS’ CASES. The Death of Lawyer Brady—Two Men Held. Yesterday afternoon Coroner Woltman held an inquest at the Park Hospital on tne body of Stephen J. Brady, the lawyer, whose death resulted from injuries received by a fall caused by having been forcibly ejected from the public house No, 11¢ Chatham street, of witch A. N. Perrouct is proprie- tor and Frank Betts bartender. Brady, a8 usual, Was uuder the influence 0! liauor, and, entering the house in that condition, was pusied out by Betts, by order ot his employer. As he was pushed from the door Brady tell dd fractured his leg. Alter listening to the testimony, the jury found “that deceased came to his death by traumatic convulsions irom injuries received ((racture of the leg) at the hands oi Frank Betts, at No. 110 Chat- ham street, on the 7th day of March, 1574, and we consider A. N. Perrouct as being second principal." Betts was committed and Perrouet will be released on bail. Fatal Coal Hole Casualty—Negligent Landlords. Some davs ago Remi Lafraierl, a French Cm nadian, thirty years of age, died In Roosevelt Hospital {rom the effects of injuries received on the 14th of December last by falling through the coal vault opening ip the sidewalk fronting prem- ses No. 167 Hester street. Coroner Croker yes- terday Investizated the matter, and from the evi- dence elicited the jury were of the opinion “that the accident was due to negligence on the part of Peter Prictz aud Wiliam Lindeman in not having the coal hole properly secured and seeing that it was secured.” incepta A New York Pedler Killed at Dead of Night by Robbers Near Princeton. Yesterday morning the body of Solomon Kraus kopf, a young man, was found in @ brook on the line leading from Princeton to the junction of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with a pistol ball wound through his heart. His pockets had been rifed was every indication of foul play. De- ansed Wasa dew and had been a resident of this country for tuirteen years. fie has a brotuer in @ prosperous business In New York city. lt appears that at an early heur on Tucsday moruing de- ceased went to Trenton to coliect money, alter which he wook the eight o'clock train for Prince. ton in the evening, He fell asieep on te train. and) went as far as New Brans wick, where he was awakened. He took another train for ‘renton, and when he arrived there he watted at the depat ull the owl train for Jersey City long, aud this train he vourded. He got off at the Princeton junction and proceeded along the track towards Princeton til he reactied tne p Where his body was found, When he left Trenton he had in his possession $170, @ watch and chain aud reyolyer, all of which, ex: cepting $10, are missing. There was unmistak- | able evidence that a murder Was committed, jor | the ratlroud track was bespattered with gore and | the road bed so torn up as to lead to the conclur | sion that chere had been a desperate struggle. De- ceased was known in this section of New Jersey as an industrious jewelry pedier, He formerly kept a store in Princeton, atid had considerable money on interest from people of that Lown. An Inquest Wag commenced last evening and Will be continued We aye