The New York Herald Newspaper, April 22, 1874, Page 11

_ NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, A 24, 1874.—Q r a BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. pores b beww deter one WHOLES: HARDWARE BUSINESS FO Avgrbee et nchliee Er gO a a if ‘A. BLOMQVIST, 15) Nassau street, Ma Bh Male Ps Le E OPPORTUNITY.—STATE AND COUNT! A RARE olan o highly important artile, neniy that every family will order at sight; goods suit the pocket. tent + (3 immense; terms low, to ony eo. REED CO., 335 Broadway, office 35, RARE OPPORTUNITY FOR ENGAGING IN THE Pawnbroking Business; now averaging 120 pledges daily; cau be had for money loaned ‘and Interest and ‘valuation ot fixtures; capital invested about $100; & full investigation be made as the present owner ‘wishes to retire; a lease of the building will be given if desired. Address B, W., 3% West Forty-cighth street. REWERY.—WELL ESTABLISHED ALE BREWERY, located in this city, Is offered tur sale, in whole of in part, the proprietoF preferring to retain’ an interest; artes with requisite capital will find this a Fare oppor. ¥., box LI7 Werald office. abalone: Ds a0 Ptportixa AND MANUFACTURING—SEVERAL lines of specialties, paying very large profits; 000 now employed; will give half and active interest for 000. RIGGS, CARLETON & CO., 98 Broadway. EW ENGLAND STATE OR CITY RIGHTS FOR sale, in the patents now manufactured ona large scale in Philade! N.Y.5 de: tp ia, PA 1d Rochester, ‘Very large profits. Address J. a re of the Reynolds iron Roofing Company, 407 Walnut'street, Philade'ptia, Pa. _ ON. OF ARE FINEST, BEST LOCATED AND MuoST jouridhing Hotels tor sale—Halt hour from the city; ‘64 trains duily to and trom; one block from depot; busie ness the whole year. Excellent oprortnnity for any, party to cnier dn established business. The lease of Sag: very favorable. For full particulars apply ‘M. H. RAYNOR, No. ‘34 Pine street. ITERY.—TO LEASE, POR A TERM OF YEARS, IN ‘consequence of the death of the proprietor. the Lon} Island Pottery in Williamsburg; one of the oldest an Destestablished concerns in most improved rachinery, a very large dor drain pipe and every facility for doing a most exten- sive business, now in full operation, with a depot in New ‘York city ; the stock on hand can be had ut cost of manu- facture, and the most liberal terms will be made witn a Barty competent to carry on the work. Apply to OSEPH P. QUIN, No. § West Fourth street, New York. ARTNER WANTED-SILENT OR ACTIVE, WITH $500 or $1,000, to help advertiser to buy out the best cigar and paper stand inthe city, If preterred would pay good interest for capitaland furnish security; a splendid chance, Address stating where can be seen defore I A. M., GIGARS AND PAPERS, Herald Uptowa Branch office. ARTNER WANTED.—MEAT AND PROVISIONS, Address EXCELSIOR, Herald office. PAerae WANTED—A RESPECTABLE MAN, OF good habits and some money, in a well established, safe, cash business, paying paRdeome prode. MORTON & CO., 697 Broadway, e country, having the local demand 10 BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS.—I HAVE SOME cash, and would bay whole or halt interest in a good thoroughfare where a good living could be made; will expect @ bargain. Those meaning business adcress at once, in confidence, with particulars, M. A., box 216 Herald office. Wy Astep.—to EASTERN CAPITALISTS, $1,00',000 OR more, to invest or loan on improved Illinois Farms ‘or Cnicago City Property; a net interest of 10 per cent Per annum guaranteed.’ JAS. T. KENT, Real Estate Agent and Loan Broker, 202 La Salle et, Chicago. WANTED—A PARTNER, SPECIAL OR, ACTIVE (active preferred), with trom $75,000 to $100,000, in. & Manisacturing house of 30 years’ standing; the busi- ness has paid never less than 25 per cent on the capital invested. Address A. B. & CO., Herald office. ‘ANTED—A GENTLEMAN WITH A CAPITAL FOR facturing some good articles. Address B. ANTED—A MAN NOT AFRAID OF WORK, WITH $400, to join, me in sinking artesian wells. Apply, ‘for three days, at 78 Cedar st., room 3. ANTED—AN ACTIVE BUSINESS MAN, WITH A capital of $10,000 to $20,00), to buy an ‘interest in an old established business, ‘to ‘enlargé the same by in- troducing a new patent. Address H. H., box 230 Herald office, $30 AND RELIABLE REFERENCES WILL SE- cure half of a long established Business clear- ing thousands ot dollars yearly; the closest investiga- ton desired. Particulars at HARDENBEKGH & CO.’S, No. 1,241 Broadway. $1. 000 —A YOUNG MAN WANTED, AS PARTNER . + in a profitable manutactaring business; 33 compe eon foereen By. Jettors: perens; Bates er cent; no limit to the sales. to GEO, @'6;, 385 Broaaway, onicesa. “PY $1,000 -THteD INTEREST IN 4 GOOD MANU. . '« facturing business; ii taken hold of at once $15,00) can be cleared in six months; active or special capital secured. ELDORADO, Herald office. 00 —WANTED, RELIABLE MAN, WITH . « $4.00, in an established manufacturing Dusiness, paying seventy per cent net profit; money se- ‘Cured ou real estate; no possible cnance of loss. Apply 10 HL, LEACH, room |, No. 4l Liber te $5. OOO 72 Sou want AN ENTERPRIS De ing capitalist, having the above sum to in- Yest, will hear of @ rare opportunity (o secure unusuall: Jarge returns within a year, with (ull Imormation, by dressing INVESTMENT, Herald of $10.000. A MERCHANT OF LARGE + ence in produce commission and extensive acquaintance in all the states will invest above sum, with services, in a irst class house; highest relerences given and required. Address MERCHANT, | ox 108 Kerala office. SING SING PRISON DISCIPLINE. To Taz Epiror oF THE HERALD:— The statements containedin your journal of yes- terday as to the treatment of the convicts at Sing Sing and the conduct of the superior officials at That establishment are enough toiake the hair of @ prison disciplinarian stand on end “like quills upon the fretiul porcupine.” Your appeal, how- ever, to your philanthropists seems very Like call- ing “spirits irom the vasty deep,” as far as the ac- complishment of a remedy is concerned. There is mo country in the world in which there are more intelligent and humane people, or in which the science o! proper criminal correction and reforma- tion 1s better understood than in the United States; but in practice your systems of discipline become a farce or an abortion through the terrible dnsermixture of politics with oflice-holding, and the | constant changes, which directly issue in venality and corruption of the worse kind, and limit that Acquisition of experience which is 80 espectally necessary in the government of the criminal. 1 do not know what notice the medical officer of Sing | Sing prison may tink fit to take of the charges | referred against him in your columns, but 1do | now that if such were made in England the | | \ | EXPERI- 4 Home Secretary would cause inquiry to be made | without an hour’s delay, and would be questioned | On the subject in the House of Conmons, and that in the matter of tue “hanging by the thumbs tor- ture’ the puolic feeling woud be aroused toa itch of indignation #s great as it attained when jeutenant Austin tortured the prisoners in the jail of Birmingham. Having had charge of convict prisons, both in England and Ireland, in which no Medical oflicer dare inflict the punishment of de- priving a prisoner of even an ounce of bread, I am truly astonished to learn toat in your State Prison the powers of governor, or warden, are so im- properly mtxed with those of the physician, whose Special work, it has always appeared to me, was to mitigate, instead of aggravating, tie severities of discipline, Wien on professicual grounds he can find just cause to do x0, As governor ol & convict prison in the old country { bave mysell— and 1 have known none who would do otherwise— sent such & Case as that OL the poor boy, whose sufferings were related by your correspondent “I, ©.” gack to the doctor with an order that he should specially examine him und report whether he was then fit jor the Work on wuich he was em- ployed. Prisoners in England sent to the public works, after the term of nine months’ probation in a separate cell at Pentonville or Milipank, are frequently passed by the doctor of the prison they come iromas “fit tor hard labor; but invariably if they allege their inability to perform it, are re-exainined, and, j! need ve, put to lighter work. Even wien long employed in the dockyards of Chatham or Portsmouth or in the quarries of Portland they can see the doctor daily, -or complain or him to the governor; and such a thing 13 not Known a8 8 “finai answer” in sucha shuting matter as bodily strength and health, Oa the one hand, however, to find this severity and crueity to the poor dollariess prisoner, and on the other to discover the gross abuses named in your article; and in your correspondendent’s letter, is surely enough to justify a thorouga and searching inquiry into the entire administration of Sing Sing Prison. What possible hope can there be of tne reformation of the criminais themselves when they live amid abuses, and are surrounded by venality in its grossest lorms the vert “keeper? is surely either @ joke, or given on the ‘lucus a non tucendo” principle, where convicted criminals can 80 easily escape, or, for pecuniary consideration, can indulge in vice, liquor, gambling aud little “ outings” among free men, can do their pudishment labor by dig- nity and live as private pupils or private boarders in establishments to which they are condemned by Jaw for crimes, which, in virtue of their means and education, are relatively more heinous than those Of their common fellow prisoners. The great want appears to me to be that ofa permanent and well selected staff o! officers from the bottom to the top of the service, with whose selection politics shall have nothing to do, com- bined with a tair and liberal scale of remuneration. A good prison oMicer is not made in a day ora month, and the material of which he is formed is | Rot abundant, Cc. P.M. April 21, 1374, LOS8 OF GRAIN-LADEN SHIPS. New York, April 21, 1874. To THE Epitor oF rae Hera :— J notice in the reports of disaster to the steamship Amérique, that she had in addition vo her other cargo a large quantity of grain, which shifted. If you will look back for the past two years you will find that more grain-loadea y have been lost in that time than since our ships first began to take such cargoes. There ig iault somewhere, either these vessels are allowed to go to sea too Geeply loaded or their cargo is not properly stowed, and this 1s the tault of the Inspect ni le ess it ts to see that they are propert vealed. a0 an - loaded. Let there be light on this Yours truly. jE subject, SHLCOWNER, DIRTY STREETS. Views of Downtown Thorough- fares Choked with Filth. PEST CENTRES. How the City’s Sanitary Work Is Not Done. For many years the question of our corporate ability to clean the city streets has vexed all those of our citizens who Care either fur personal com- fort or the prosperity and happiness of the community. We have made trial of various methods for securing the proper and efficient cleaning of the streets. Each tn turn has fatied. Contractors were found more energetic in drawing their pay than in protecting us from mud and dus’ and the machinery of the Police Departm which 1s at present charged with the duty of re- moving the filth accumulating, has proved no more satisfactory. How the case stands in the lower part of the city, as seen by HERALD report+ ers, 1s recorded below:— THE KIGHTH WARD, The notorious Eighth ward, the locahty known in police annals for having sheltered in its time mere thieves and cypriaus than any other two districts of equal size in the city, ix, considered from a street-cleaning point of view, a var.egated district—nere quite clean and there quite dirty— the latter, however, predominating. Wooster street in various portions of ita check- ered course Is dirtily picturesque and filthily un- Pleasant. Between Bleecker street and Houston street it ‘abounds in garbage ‘and old boots. Be- tween Houston street and Spring street the dirt is swept into piles, but in piles itis lefe for the wind to do its work upon it, and for time to have its way with it, and for everything and everybody sav- ing the street cleaners, to do what they will with it, which is simply nothing at all. ‘Then there are several alleys opening into the street which are foul, festering little spots, and in front of one of them rises a garbage mountain of quite ample dimensions. South Firth avenue is tolerably clean, but Thompson street, especially between Spring street and Prince street, is in- tolerably dirty, In this last specified locality were to be seen om Sunday five distinct heaps and seven entirely independent pools, while tn front of No. 80 ‘Thompson street there stands a huge pile of refuse, nearly choking up the street, In frontof Howard Relief Mission No. 2 are displayed in the street va- Tious specimens of garbage which are worthy of careful examination on the part of those curious 1m the study of putrefying substances—each side of the street is lincd with vegetable reiuse, old ash- carts are filled with dirt and rovtenness and left 1n the middle of the street, dogs and c#is wander to and fro'stirring up the garvage, and the fragrant odors from tue muck heaps would remiad the European traveller of the nine distinct smells of the city of Cologne. Sullivan street, on cach side of its junction with Broome street, is fringed with garbage, and the lower end of Spring street is very dirty. Washington street,; near Chariton street, is an exceedingly picturesque place for an amateur dirt painter, but a very unpleasand locality for any decent person to pass through, and a most dis- graceful locality in a street-cleaning aspect, for the street has the appearance of never having been cleaned at all pools, dust heaps, garbage piles abound; then more garbage, till the street looks like a mud bank gone to seed. In fact, portions of this locality have been tacetiously termed GARBAGE TERRACE AND MUCK LAKE, There is a garbage box fastened to the base of a street lamp here. The lamp is smal? but the box is large and almost hides it, and big as the box is itis covered with all sorts o! filthy refuse, the accumulations of weeks, perfuming and polluting the air. When the evening lamps are lighted @ spectacle must be presented of gas-lit filth here unsurpassed either in Europe or America, One use of old wagons seems to have been avalied of ad libitum and ad nauseam—i. e., to conceal dirt heaps. Seattered through- out the city of New York are to be seen, morning and evening and all Sunday, drays and trucks and carts drawn up on the sides of the streets,and under almost every cart, truck or wagon lies a heap 01 dirt and garbage, dust, ashes, refuse or some filth or other. Just as the ostrich covers its head in the sand and thinks that its body is not seen, so the strect clean- lng Officers seem to think that, provided a dirt heap is only covered by @ wagon, the dirt does not exist and their whole duty is discharged. In strong contrast to these localities are certain sections— such as Broome street, near its junction with Hud- son—which are almiost spotless, and show what can be done in the line of cleanliness when the au- thorities have a mind to, and when the inhabitants 01 the ‘district are determind that they shall do tuéir work. THE SIXTH WARD—THE FIVE POINTS. Perhaps of all the downtown wards the far- famed “old Sixth” is the dirtiest, and certainly of the whole Sixth ward tie filtniest spot is the once infamous Five Points. It is claimed in certain high moral quarters that the moral aspect of this locality has been improved of late; butin @ sant- tary and in a material point of view the locality is as vile as ever. Jacob’s Ladder and the Steerage and the old Brewery, as such, have vanished of the face of the earth; but the spot is as dirty, as utterly disregarded by the Board of Health and by the street cleaners as though it were a portion of Ashantee. In simple and unmistakable English, 1t is the dirtiest spot in the wnole length and breadth of the United States, this junction of Park, Worth and Baxter streets, and its vicinity, a block or two each way. Itis simply and solely a pest centre— @ breeder of pestilence, jesteriug and corrupting right in the heart of the business portion of the great metropolis, Language cannot describe its uvutterable filth, ‘To descend into details, or rather to rise up to | them—tor in this locality the filth rises, and has alroady attained an altitude of trom one foot to two anda half feet above the average suriace of the street—Baxter street, for two blocks from the great thoroughfare of the east side, 1s solia filth, concrete mud, consolidated garbage. Part of the accumulated retuse of weeks ts deposited along the side of the street; the rest of the refuse is thrown into huge garbage boxes on the sidewalks, where #t fouls and festers and putrifies, alter 1 fashion, in unrestrained license or Ben Park street is full of garbage heaps and dust piles and carrion—here @ hill of dirt and there a valley of filth. Worth street is @ line of ashes, fringed witn garbage. New Worth street is, one- hati of it, a sort of Offensive swimming pond, about thirty feet long and from one to three feet deep and apout the width ofthe street, the pond being filed with mad and slime instead of water, Jorming & compound detestable to look at. There is no exaggeration in this pen picture; it is simple Street cleaners’ (!) truth. At the corner of Mulberry street and Worth street there stands, or rather leans, an old city lamppost rei half buried in the filth of New Yor! d Mulberry street in this vicinity is perhaps viler and dirtier than any street yet mentioned. Part of this street is very fragrant—very green, in fact, quite a garden spot, Indeed, there are two distinct rotten vege- table gardens of tair dimensions occupying the centre of the street, indescribably odorierous, One would think that this was the dumping ground of Gli the refuse of New York. There is a crossing here called “THR MULBERRY STREET BRIDGE." It deserves its name. It consists o1 @ board, rot- ten and filthy, spanning a pool of filth and refuse. It 18 simple, but sufficient, has cost the city nothing, charges no toll and is crossed every min- ute of the day and night. It leads irom garbage to farbage, and differs trom the East River Bridge in a no stockholders and in being an act- uality. Such a locality as this, so terribly foul, right in the centre of the busiest portion of the metropolis, Withia @ stone's throw of our leading mercantile and financtal palaces, le a livel on our civilization, a blot on ourChristianity, a pest house, breeding disease, and a striking comment upon our system of street cleaning. Nor are the other streets ot the Sixth ward in much better condition, Mul- berry street and Baxter street all the way are heaps of garbage and piles of dust and dirt. Bay- ard street is fithy. THE BAST SIDE, DOWN TowN, is dirty. Elizabeth street, around Canal street, is full of garbage, and there is an additional element of dead &orse, Which gives new flavor to the nith. Forsyth street, Allen street, Orchard street, Kast Broadway and Division street are tolerably clean; but there are many portions ‘of Henry street which are very vile, Pike street is nast; Portions of Canal street and Grand street are wofully neg- lected, and the rest of the streets in this section are ignorant, of the street cleaner, Mott street is especially vile, “eet! THE FOURTH WARD. That there are sweeter spots than the Fourth ‘ward of New York 1s a self-evident proposition; but how much sweeter other spots are than the Fourth ward oan only be learned by practical per- sonal observation, firat of “othe! ” and then of the Fourth ward, void Were there such a as the Dickens of Dirt— could do with filth and @ creature who would marl what Boz has done with human natare, it to the life—how the soul of this dirty Dickens would revel in the contemplation of cer- tain portions of the Fourth ward at tne present time, @8 the HERALD representative beheld it on Snaae tha Wh ty ow 4 of the gutters, for example, would delight in describing Frankiort Saree As for Rose street itself, nothing could be more dirty. It is full of garbage—choice old garbage, with a liberal percentege of ola leather—and is a8 unseemly a spectacle as the pic- turesque eye could possibly desire. But it is notn- ing, avsolutely nothing, to Vandewarer street, which {s most delictously dirty, the dirt being charaetensed Ad bears ola leather, but more de- ed vegetables and more eggshells, taan its filthy rival Rose street. . The Fourth ward is, considered from a street cleaning point of view, a variegated locality. Some portions of it are quite clean; others again are terribly filthy. The authorities have pursued here their ordinary policy—-the prin- cipal thoroughtares are kept tolerabiy clean, tue streets on which any influential people have any cessity to come are, comparatively speaking, wept and garnished ;’* but those localities where influential people do not come, where only the poor live, these streets, though in a sanitary and humanitarian point of view, infinitely the more important and in which by iar, tne greatest numoer of human ercatures “live and move and have their being,” these streets are al- most wholly neglected. earl street, ior exam- ple, is in a fair condition of cleanliness, by far the cleanest street in the vicinity, but branching from it on all sides are lines of filth and rottenness. Some portions of Water street are comparatively clean; other portions are wofully flitny. That por- tion of Water street beyond Catharine, stretching between that street and Market slip, is very viie, full oj filth, mud and muck, with a proiuse per- centage of vegetable matter. Heaven knows tne people about there do not look as if they had many vegetabies to eat; but there is plentyof eating macertal, such as it 18, in the street. Water street, near James street, is likewise quite filthy; while Water street, between Catharine and Oliver streets, is quite a rurai spot, considering all things, containing thirteen vegetable gardens— small, it is true, but very iragrant, as gardens ought to be. In addition to all this, to add to the rusticity of the picture, there are two poois and a first class muck heap, The junction of Water and Dame streets is also very flithy, though not at all rustic. Cherry street is an unequal locality. It has had its spasms of street cleaning, and there are certain “bits” on which the work of the broom and the street scavenger has been rendered apparent, but the major poition ot the street 1s as yet unace juainted with the workings of the Street Cleaning jureau, Between Catharine street and Market siip Cherry street presents quite an andulated suriace, the un- dulations being caused py the rise and tall of dust and dirt heaps, which impart quite a picturesque flavor to the ancient thorough‘are. Near James slip, too, Cherry street is wonderiuliy airty, james siip itselt is filthy, with a kind of business Ath, and contains quite a picturesque bit opposite No. 11, ‘The ‘bit’ consists of a dirt. heap, which would drive a housewile to suicide, James street has, likewise, its own little islands of filth, and its junction with Batavia atreet and Batavia strect itself are dirty beyond words, Our BOZ OF THE GUTTERS, previously alluded to, would tere be in his element. dn one little block in Batavia street are haifa dozen choice bits of dirt, one alter the other, each dirtier than the other. Nothing could be filthier or fouier ; nothing could be more disgusting to the eye an the nose and more injurious tb the health, Onver street is comparatively clean, Roosevelt street is comparatively flithy, especially in we viciuity of the police station, while Oak street varies from the comparatively clean to tne posi- tively dirty, as in the vicinity of the extempore cabbage and fish market. THE WEST SIDE—DOWN TOWN. Many of the streets on the west side, down town, are im an utterly disgraceful condition of dirt. ‘he junction of Worth street and West eeney ig full of piles of dirt and rows of gar- age. vortions of West Broadway are very dirty; the Jower parc of Hudson street is nasty; the foot of Warren street is @ terribly dirty place. In one block in College place there stand ten hilis and one mountain o1 dirt, West street and Vesey Street are adirty—Vesey street particularly so. In tact this portion of the city is worse than any corresponding portion on the other side of te city, OUR MARKETS AND OUR RIVER FRONTAGE FOUL- NES3 IN SPOTS, It 18 simpte truth, and “truth is mighty and will prevail,” that our metropolitan markets are in better condition uow than they nave been tor some time. Yet it is equally true that they are not ciean in any sense o1 that term, ashington Market, for example, on the Vesey street side, 18 a mass of flith and garoage, and its filth ts divisible into two prominent portions—one resembling a species of red sea, full of blood and animal retuse, and nauseously disgusting, the other being a garbage pool, and betu being, in a sanitary point of View, disgraceiul. Fulton Market is very much like many atreets or sections of our city. the public—i. the Fulton street side—is kept quite spruce; but tne portions fronting on tue hast Kiver are negiecied, the Beekmun street side 18 nasty and the the rear of the market is filthy, Jefferson Market is more dirty than eitner Fulton or Washington im proportion to its size. Catharine Market 1s like its locality—squalid, and Spriug Street Market is filthy. Centre Market is about the same as it hus ever oeen—one day in the week clean, comparatively; the otner six days dirty, positively. Somewhat strange to say, ail the streets and thoroughiares near the Kast River are much Cleaner, a8 @ general rule, than those verg- ing toward the Nortn River. The 100t of Wail street is not as clean as it ought to be. Depeyster sirect 1s ina bad condition; so 1s Fletcher street, But, in nive cases out of ten, the Kast Kiver front is creditable. But on the west side, along the | North River, the very reverse of this 1s the case. ‘To specify and merely to illustrate and to prove this scacement:—The loot of Dey street, by exami- nation, has been found to be dirty. The ioot of Liberty street 18 ina filthy condition. Tne foot of Cedar street is a mass of dirt heaps. As tor Al- bany street, its terminus is a picturesque “bit” of filth delightiul in vhe eyes Of street contractors only, vecayed animal and vegetabie matter is scattered around in profusion, and the spectacle is as charming to the nose as to the eye. jut it is in varhsie street that filth holds its carnival. To look at this place, one would have sworn that there never had been a street cleaning commission appointed on Manhattan island. There is a choice dirt pit here in front of a barber’s shop, which was worthy of the descriptive powers ot the Dickens of Dut elsewhere alluded to. The scene was very variegated. Rector street is dirty; Morris street is dirty—all the adjoining streets are dirty; out it is in Wash- ington street, from its junction with Carlisle to its termination at the Batiery, that the strect cleaner is most sorely needed, though must seldom seen, Washington Street around here is an insult to the name of Washington (le was the savior, not the scavenger, of his country). Mulverry street near the immortai Five Points is the only thing that can be compared to it. ‘here are some places here so foul that one has to hold hig nose, and hold it very tightly, too, as he passes on the doubie quick. “The abomination of desolation” would pe a most appropriate title for this locality. In tront of one of the tenement houses in this section of the city can be seen at any time a most excellent illustration Ol cause and etfect. Almost every five minutes some old woman Walks out irom the tenement house into the street, bearing a swill pail, and, advanc- ing to the sidewalk, cooily upsets her odorilerous burden, and makes day or night, as the case may be, more hideous than before by just the amount of the nasty concents of her bucket. Consider What a pile of filth must accumulate in even one day by a dozen old hags repeating this process some half a dozen times a day each. But, when ‘we consider that the street is never cleaned more than once @ week, once every seven days, and sometimes not that, the result to the nose and to the system can be Jaintly, and only very faintly, imagined, This pouring of household refuse into the public streets is one of the most common occurrences of every day, and yet it is most pernicious, and it 18, of all others, the most potent reason for our filthy streets, Last season some boys took a log of wood, half buried itin the mud which had accumulated in one of our thoroughiares, covered it with an old coat and hat, and inscribed upon it the legend, “Here lies a street inspector.” If the boys were to do this thing in every place where it could be appropriately done, we would need many logs this season. CITY AND COUNTY TREASURY. Comptroller Green reports the following dis- bursements and receipts of the Treasury yester- day s— ‘ DISBURSEMENTS. Claims paia (number of warr: ing to From taxes of 1873 and in‘erest. From arrears of taxes, assessments. and intere From collection of assessments and interest. From market rents and fees. From water rents, a8. From licenses, Mayor's Of From rents Departinent of From fees and fines ot district courts. Total. .... The Comptroller paid on Saturday, 18th inst., (by Paymaster Falls), the laborers at pipe yard to Isth inst., $1,396, and on 20th inst., laborers on “big pipes ” to 15th inst., $5,467, NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND RAILROAD. Boston, April 21, 1874. An adjourned meeting of the stockholders 01 the New York and New England Ratiroad Company ‘was held at the office of the trustees of the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad Company to-day. President Hart presided. The committee ap- pointed to confer with the trustees in possession made # partial report and askag for iurther time, which was granted. The committee recommend the passage of a vote Bathorising them to nego- viate for a loan to pay the debt of the trustees, the receiver's certificates of indebtedness and the amount contributed by certain of the bondholders. f the Loan not to exceed $800,000. The ased and the meeting adjourned to ‘xynat portion more familiar to | REAL ESTATE. OUR ANNUAL HEGIRA. Rents and How They Are Regarded by Landlord and Tenant. Existing Conditions of the Market. ‘The near recurrence of our annual hegira brings the question of rents prominently forward as an important item not only in the economy of the daily life of most of our people, but also as affect- ing realestate, An inqumry addressed on Saturday to a gentleman whose opportunities are not ex- ceeded by any one in New York tor reaching a cor- rect conclusion provoked a reply if answer to the question, “WHAT IS TIE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE RENT MARKET?” “Extremely dail, sir.” Further conversation, covering the whole ground im connection with this subject, develoned the fol- lowing statement of the existing condition of things, previously pointed out bere, and which has provoked such harsh criticism from unin- structed quarters. In the conversation which en- sued after the preliminary introduction given above it was learned that rents this year drag heavily, 30 much so that a plain exhibit of the situation to the same previously uninstructed intelligence that dare not look the present condition of the real estate market squarely in the face would be @ppalling, and the interviewed requested the in- terviewer to so guard his utterances that these timid souls would not be driven invo hysterics over a business-like discussion of patent [acts. “But,” said the interviewea, “HIGH PRICED HOUSES FIND NO APPLICANTS, The renting this year is more backward than it has been ever before, Business has been so dull that most men are seeking to reduce their ex- penses, and those occupying $3,000 and $4,000 houses have notified their landlords that they could not afford to pay such rent another year. Tne landlords, of course, put up bills, and in most cases those bills are stillup. In other cases the landiord has gone to his tenant, after finding that the inquiry was short, and asked what he was willing to pay. The tenant thereupon felt embarrassed, his ability and his disposition being 80 much below his previous contract; but the land- lord, fearing the loss of a tenant for a whole year, and viewing the necessary deterioration which his property would suffer in that pertod unoccupied, as well asthe accumulation of taxes and assess- ments where there was no income, himself pro- posed A COMPROMISE. Thus houses which rented last year for $4,000 have rented this year for $2,500, and those which rented for $3,000 have let shis year ior $1,800. Tnis isnot arule, however, nor is it a permanency. Rents are mainly adjusted this year between land- lord and tenant on the basis of a compromise, the tenant paying what he can afford and the landiord taking what he can get, «Leases, however, are mostly for one year only, this ar- Tangement being with the view to preserve prop- erty from Gamage through lack of occupancy dur- ing the dull period, the expectation being that next year there wiil be a revival of business and consequently increased ability to pay higher rent- als. Io OFFICE RENTS the same feeling prevails. Tenants, or those seek- ing tenancy, are unwilling to make engagements beyond the year and invariably seek concessions. ‘The quality of business this year does not justiy | | Water which is useless to him, but ior which he has heavy engagemenis; hence the almost universal Gesire to curtail expenses and the purpose of re- trenchment which finds this expression at the begining of our rentai year. The conviction 1s strong, however, not only among those who make these concessions, but also among those who receive them, that it is but temporary, a receding wave im the great food tide oi real estate values, and that by and by will come a recovery when rents will again go up precisely as prices of lots will, when business will have revived jrom its present Stagnation and currency obtain more active circu- lation. The same condition of things noticed here in connection with the rent market 18 refiected in the real estate market; although, strictly speaking, rents should be the deduction of the proprietary right rather than the value of the fee should be the outgrowth of rental value. Yet such is the ordinary appraisement made, and in this pressure tor lower Tents can be found THE EXPRESSION OR EVIDENCE of the lesser dispositivn which at present prevails vo invest in real estate, This lesser disposition was Most mantiest laat week iu the withdrawal of Mr, Witthaus’ property, which had been intro- duced to the market under the most savorabie auspices, and Which was announced as au unre- stricted Offering, with the only reservation that the owner would withdraw it from the market if the prices offered were not satisiactory. Atter one lot had been knocked down for $4,000 the whole of the rest wus withdrawn. Mr. Witthaus undoubdt- edly did periectly right. It is said that lot cost him $6,000, and it would be folly for him to make a further sacrifice of this kind when he has the ability to carry his property over to a more propitious season, ‘that it will not sell Dow for what he paid for it does hot argue that it wall not sell ior more than he paid jor it a year from now or two years or three years hence, and as long as Mr, Witthaus is indif- Jerent to or above the necessities of converting real estate into currency he need not care what may happen in the meantime. What will happen, that is, what Is likeiy to happen, and which is best should happen, 1s, that the WEAK HOLDERS of real estate will be compelled to get out. The hope- ful luvesters that bought at extravagant tigures, thinking that the billows of excitement which sur- rounded them when they bought were waves of prosperity, must come to grief when the market, relieved of this perpetual menace to its tuture with fresh capital to stimulate it and new shoulders to urge forward the wheels o! prog- ress in respect to improvements, will recover something Of its old time vitality and animation, untappily so long dormant, and carry us onward perhaps to values that have not yet heen touched in our wildest imuginings, It isa favorite argument among those who deprecate any statement that might possibly cover the announcement that real estate values had depreciated, that real estate values in this city never recede—that they are sometimes over discounted, when the market takes a@ pause until the value previously discounted is gained. This is very true, but it isin these in- tervals Of rest that the danger comes from weak holders, whose strained efforts to carry their prop- erty througn a period of seeming depression pro- vokes distrust, and many of thei breaking down Multplies ioreclosures, to the great detriment of stable values, But to return to the subject of rents. THE QUESTION OF RAPID TRANSIT becomes in this connection the most practical patent issue to real estate men ot the present century. Our wretched system of slow transit awaris us in the matter of real estate growth through the premium it offers by contrast with rapid transit in New Jersey to our citizens to seek suburban residences. ‘This 1 evidenced in the almost utter absence of inquiry for the higher priced houses of our metropolitan fashion, previous occupants of such mansions compromising be- tween the nesessity of reducing expenses, and their pornos to maintain the same style, by seek- ing villa residences convenient to the city, rather than consent to occupy a less tusaionable or pre- tentious establishment in the city, Cheap house: that 1s, low priced houses—are aiways in active mand, and tiis year does not prove an excepti THE LOWER PRICED HOUSES, that is, from $1,500 to $2,000, also maintain a fair strength, but beyond that the contract for rental appears to be, as previously stated, special between landlord and tenant, with the year’s option. ‘there 4s one thing Which helps to maintain rents in New York, that 18 the interruption that has occurred during the past year in building operations. With eight hours as a day’s work and wages at theit present figure and money outside of Wall street 10, 12 and 14 per cent, and’ land so high, it has not paid to build, except for such occupancy as a ten- ement house would promise; hence the in- creased migration of the middie class, who cannot affurd to occupy a brown stone front entire and scorn a tenement house, to Brooklyn and Jersey, and hence the tounda- tion for the remark that New York is being gradually given up to whar{ rats and million- naires. 1t 1s this middle class we are losing, which is, alter all, OUR BEST CLASS. It 1s among them grow up the sweet instincts of home; with them the pure domestic virtues gain their highest cultivation; there is fashioned the thought and understanding of a responsibility other than belongs to self, but sin the whole nation; hence come our exempiars alike in the uiet Walks of cuitured enduring life, a8 also in the strife of political contest. Among these are born statesmen, warriors, orators, poets and divines; tn short, they are our thinking class a8 well a8 our working Class, and it 1s not well to lose them, New York is losing goiden hours in not ae for the retention of that class among her people, and it she continue thus ignoring =the opportunities which | Bales, | late reatdence, No. skit! has provided as means whereby sne may fe- tain them, as surely will the sceptre pass from her hands, as the Empire City of the Empire State, as did it trom Judah of old, This city is sadly in need of some broad, comprehensive plan of improvement that will wciud? not only the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge—let the question of annexa- tion be settled aiterwards—but rapid transit and & proper system of piers and docks. Some of these improvements are already discounted in the present assessed value of New York real estate, especially the dock system, as upon the provision ol that depends largely the maintenance of our commercial supremacy. These improvements will, | of course, cost money, nothin; can be! bad for nothing, but the credit of this | city is yet .good in spite of the reck- | less administration of Tweed and Connolly and the penny-wise-pound-fooiisn policy of Uavemeyer and Green, and any intelligent financier will ad- Init that if bonded for these improvements—viz., rapid transit and a proper dock system—honestly coustructed, these bonds would be almost wholly Wiped out upon the completion of these improve- ments by THE APPRECIATION OF REAL ESTATE which they would bring, and the stimulus they would give to New York's growth. The following extract irom a journal which claims tobe the organ of the real ‘estate market in this city is given as showing what 1s the ac- ceptunce of the existing condition and in justifica- tion of what has been previously said here:— ‘The events of the week have been untavorable to real | estate, and it would be tolly to assert that ou the show: Ing of the market for the past tew days it is able to maintain a firm attitude when absolutely brought to an issue. The sales oc the week have been almost without excepion confined to the auction room, The results achieved atthe Exchange have, tor the greater part, been of the usual character, where urged under the stress of legal proceedings; but, in at leust one instance, that ot lots on ‘Tenth avenue, the prices secured were far ebind expectation, and have probably setiled the status of that class of property for the time being. Another sale (of improved property, on Eighth ave- nue) made an equally poor showing, aid other sules of | improved property indicava that real estate was going | avexzing, The culminating event of the week, however, occurred in the offering of the Witthans property, whist was sum- marily adjourned aiter one lot had been disposed of tor about thirty-three per cent less than its previous valua- on. ‘The depression in trade and the unsettted state of all business interes.s has at length bad its inevitable effect, and real estate, when it must come iato market, is obliged to defer to these circumsiances. We cannot yet Conclude that this weakness will become widespread and “aifect all kinds of city real state. It whore peculiar to speculative lines of property, or sections of the city which have been torced to an abuor- mul growth. We conceive, however, that there wiil be No betier time to buy than how, and certainly no greater Feason to hold than at present, and one of the best iea- tures of the market is that so many owners are able to stick closely to thelr prices and to carry their invest- ments in preference to sacrifice, Another cheering sig has developed, ag wall be seen trom a@ gl umus today. ’ The savings banks are c wing forward, | and loans trom thege sources are multiplying. There is | No reason why such loans cannot be safely inude, and, as sey increase, so much more relief wiil the market expe- rie pre Should weakness in the market continue and il more generally, it will he sume time betore prop- erty in uptown logalices will recover; but it will eventu- ally regain all it has lost, and will surpass even sanguine anticipation. ‘To this can be added the assurance already fre- quently expressed in this column that whatever | temporary occasions may come to provoke an ex- hibition of depreciated vaiues in New York real es- tate, the certainty of tuture profit to those who intelligently invest, with the ability to hold, is be- youd that of anything offered in this market, not even excepting government bonds. YESLERDAY’S OPERATIONS, The dealings in the open market yesterday were Wholly without interest, being contined to legal Mr. James M. Miller sold, under direction of A. T. Ackert, referee, the lease of the premises No. 650 Browdway, between Bleecker and Bond streets, Messrs. E. A. Lawrence & Co. sold, under direction ot E. D, Gale, referee, the house and lot known as No, 29 Thirty-ninth street, and Mr. H. N. Camp disposed of, under direction of Theo, F. Mill- er, rejeree, & house and lot ou East Eleventh street. ‘The legal saie of wie Seventy-fourth street property was adjourned, ‘The following are particulars :— NEW YORK PROPERTY—BY JAMES M. MILLER. 1a, 4m, 1 Di. b. and lease of lot No, 85) Broadw ay. 6, %, 83.010 north of Bleecker st. The lease has IT Years to run from May 1, 1874; ground rent $6,500, taxes, assessme id Water rent; 10. 29x130; 5, W. Leinba + 855,000 148, db. s bh. andt. No, 29 3h st, n. 8., (75 {te Madison av., lot 2698.9; C. A. i pT BY HN. CAMP, 136 bk, h. (rear), fr. shop (rear) and lot on s,s. E. ith st., 118 ft. ©. of av. B; lot 25x¥4.9; George F. Maller, plaintiff. 8 SINKING FUND COMMISSION, The Sinking Fund Commissioners met yesterday afternoon. Present, the Mayor, Comptroller, Chamberlain, Recorder and Alderman Van Schaick. Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Com- mon Council, A’ petition from Daniel McMullen | asking a release from the city of some land under 8,031 vo pay taxes, was reierred to the Comptroller, A petition from the trustees of the Sumaritan Home, asking for a plot of land up town on which to erect a home for the aged, was accompanied by an act of the Legislature authorizing the Commis- sioners to grant the land and was laid on the table, | A petition to grant the plotot land between | Sixty-ninth and Seventieh streets, and be- tween Fourta and Lexington avenues, to the seventh regiment for an armory, was laid before | the Board. Alter @ good deal of discussion, in which each member condemned the extravagance ©. the militia regiments nowadays, “as compared with the time,’ said Mayor Havemeyer, “when [ was in the service,” a resolution was passed re- questing the Chairmanjof the Board to lay beiore the Legislature 4 protest against the approprias tion of $200,000, whica it ia proposed to make for the erection of the Seventh’s new armory at this place, The petition itselt was laid on the table. The Department of Docks having leased the space required by the Christopher Street and Staten island North Shore Ferry companies betore find- ing that it had no power to lease the franchises, the Comptroller was authorized to advertise the franchises of these ferries immediately in the usual way. ‘the Board then adjourned, ee MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Married. BaRKER—WHITEHEAD.—On Monday, April 20, by Rev. Tnomas H. Sill, EDwakp B. BARKER to FaNnNIg H., youngest daughter of the late George Whitehead, Esq. CLARK—KEARNEY.—On Tuesday, April 21, at the residence of tne bride’s mother, by the Rev. Father William Keegan, JoHN CLakK to Mary F, Kear NBY, all Of Brooklyn. HAZARD—CAMPBELL.—On Wednesday, April 15, 1874, at_ the residence of the bride’s mother, by | Rev. William Neilson McVickar, rector of Holy | Tiinity church of Hariem, U. MELNoTHE Hazard to JULIA, daughter of the late John Campbell, all | ol New York city. No cards. KENNEDY —CopPpinG.—At Paterson, N. J., on Mon- day, April 13, by the Rev. 5. J. Knapp, ARTHUR H. KENNEDY to ANNIE B, COPPING. JGIANO—RKEAD.—On Sunday, April 19, in the ch of Vur Lady of Grace, Hoboken, N, J., by the Rev. Joseph Borghese, JOSEPH MELFI VIGGIANO, Of Basilicata, Italy, to CATHERINE MARY AGNes, | er daughter of Mr. John Reea, of Belfast, lre- land. WARD—WHITE.—On Tuesday, April 21, at the res- idence of the bride, by the Rev. Dr. Beach, rector of St. Peter’s church, HENRY WARD to CARRIE F, Waits; all of this city. WuitE—HoriNG.—At Fairfield, Conn., on Wed- nesday, April 15, by Rev. Mr. Lombard, assisted by Rev. Francis T. Kussell, GEorGx L. WHITE, of Min- neapolis, Minn., to JULIA P. HoRING, Of this city. ——s Died. ACKERLEY.—On Monday, April 20, Marts Jaz, wiie of Thomas Ackerley, daughter of Alexander Burnett, aged 18 years and 9 months. Relatives and friends of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral, irom her late residence, 167 Willoughby street, Brooklyn, at half- past two on Wednesday afternoon, April 22. BaRKER.—At Charleston, S. (., on Thursday, April Bye O. BARKER, of this city, in the 36th year of his age. Relatives and friends of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral, from St. | Thomas’ church, Filth avenue and Fitlty-third Street, this (Wednesday) morning, at ten o’clock. BARNES.—On Tuesday, April 21, EpwarD P., eldest son of Patrick and the late Dorothy A. Barnes, in the 29th year of his age. The relatives and iriends of the family, also those of his brether, Jonn M,, are respectiully in- vited to attend his tuneral, from the residence of his father, No, 23 Second street, on Thursday, the 23d inst., at half-past nine o'clock A. M, His re- mains will be conveyed to St. Patrick's Cathedral, where a solemn high mass of requiem will be offered for the repose of his soui; thence te Calvary Cemetery for interment. DuNican.—At Newark, on gag April 19, MICHAEL DUNICAN, son of the late Michael and Sophia Dunican, aged 20 years, 3months and 6 days. Puneral on Wednesday, 224 inst., at eight o'clock, trom 59 Lafayette street, Newark. Requiem mass atst. James’ church. ENN1s.—On Tuesday, April 21, MARGARET, beloved | wife of Lewis Ennis. The remains will be conveyed from her late resl- 68 Columbia street, South Brooklyn, on ‘Thursday morning, at nine A. M,, to the Ctrurch of St. Peter, corner Hicks and Warren streets; the | funeral Will take place at two P. M, Relatives and irtends are cate to attend, irish papers please copy. Frit —On Monday, April 20, after a short wl- ness, FRANCIS FEITNER, aged 70 years, The relatives and friends of the tamily are re- spectiully invited to attend the funeral, from the Central Baptist church, Forty-second street, be- tween Seventh and Eighth avenues, on Wednes- aay, the 22d inst., at one o'clock P, M. 'LAG.—ON Tuesday, April 21, ALBERT, the be- loved son of Margaret and William Flag, aged 14 years and 24 days, The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral, on Thurs- day, the 28d inst., at halt-past one P, M., trom his 126 Baxter street. GRAHAM.—At Shawangunk, N. Y., on Tuesday, April 14, JEMIMA GRAHAM, sister of the late George G. Grabam, in the 86th year of her age, HaRrTiGaAN.—On Sunday morning, April 19, THOMAS HARTIGAN, in the 40th year of his ago. Kelatives and friends of the family are respect- fully invited to attend tha tnneral. irom hia late dence, fostdence, 20 Malberry stteet, on Wednesday, Aprit ot tre o'clock P. % ri 4 at his residence, 484 Grand atfees, dou emeaee, Hither ig —(n Monday, April RLEN ANN, f — wife of John i. rift ia taeaee year wer Friends are respectfully requested to attend the funeral, trom the Cathedral, Jay 61 on Taursday. April 23, AY atrees, at 6 de By [OF FMEISTER,— lew Rochelle, on Monday, | April 20, MARGERES, wile of Charles’ omemaaye aged 43 years, 10 months and 5 days, a Tue relatives aud trends of the family are re- speceaiy invited to attend the funeral, on Thera- day, April 23, at two o'clock P. M., from the Preaby- terian church. New Rochelle. Trains leave Grama Central depot at twelve M. Hupson,—On Tuesday, April 21, Evizanern, wile of Alfred De Wolfe Hudson, aged 32 years, Relatives and friends of the family, also tre members of Silentia Lodge, No, 197, F. and A. M., are invited to attend the funeral, irom her late residence, No. 355 West Forty-second street, om Thursday, April 23, 1874, at ten o'clock A.M. The remains will be taken to Cypress Hills Cemetery tow interment. Hvueugs.—On Tuesday, April 21, ANNIE R, HuGues, in the 20th year of her age. The relatives and friends of the family are re spectiully invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, No. 66 Gouverneur street, on Thure- i April 23, at two o’clock P. M. ESTER.—-On Monday morning, April 20, at half past ten, CHARLES LesTER, formerly of Leicester- shire, England, in the 57th year of his age. The relatives and friends of the family are in vited to attend the funeral, trom Grace chapel, High street, near Gold, Brooklyn, on Wednesday, April 22, at two o'clock. English papers pieane copy. Love.—In Brooklyn, on Monday, April 20, 187%, Henry Y, A. Love, aged 22 years, Relatives and triends of the family are invited te attend the funeral, irom the residence of bia motuer, No. 36 Talman street, on Wednesday, April 22, at two o’clock P. M. pchouarie papers please copy. Mann.—At Nyack, N. Y., on Tuesaay, April Zt, infant daughter of George W. and Helen ‘Bunges: ford Mann, aged 7 mont! Mason.—On ‘Tuesday, April 21, Resgcca THOME son, widow of William Mason. Tue (riends of the family are invited to attend the fuaeral, irom her late residence, 42 Willow street, Brooklyn Heights, on Thursday aternoon, at tnree o'clock. Morr.—In Rome, Italy, on Tuesday, February 10, 1874, ARABELLA, Wile of Alexander B, Mott, M. D., and duughter of the iate Thaddeus Phetps, The relatives and irionds of the family are re- spectiully invited to attend the funeral, at Trinity chapel, West Twenty-fifth street, on Thursday, the 23d inst, at three o’ciock P. M., without jurther notice. McDIARMID.—On Monday, April 20, daughter of Join and Sarah KE, MeDiarinide awed 19 years, 7 months and 2 days, ‘aneral from her late residence, 124 Kent street, Greenpotut, L. L, on Friday, April 24, a¢ one o’clock P. M. The relatives and friends are re spectiully invited to attend. MCKeENNA.—JAMES M, MCKENNA, eldest son of James and Mary Anne McKenna, aged 4 years, 4 months and 4 days. . The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectiuily invited to attend the funeral, on Wed- nesday, April 22, from the residence of his parents, 274 Nostrand avenue, corner of Kosciusko street, Brooklyn, at two P. M. NAELis.—On Monday, April 20, IsaneLia MOMEN- AMEN, & Dative of Lifford, county Donegal, Irelam ve beloved wile of John Naelis, in the 56th year her age. The relatives and friends of the deceased are re- spectfully invited to attend her funeral, on Wednes- day, April 22, at_haif-past nine o'clock, irom her late residence, No, 110 Madison street, to St. James? church, where a solemn requiem mags will be cele- brated for her repose. Immedtately atter mass the remains will be taken to Calvary Cemetery for ta- terment. O'BRIEN.—On Saturday, April 18, MARGARET, Widow of Patrick O’Brien, in the 55th year of her age. ‘rhe remains will be conveyed from her late rest- dence, No. 88 Prospect street, Brooklyn, on Wednes- day, April 22, at nine o'clock A. M., to the Church of the Assumption, corner York and Jay streets; thence to Flatoush’ for interment. Relatives and bp Ae of the family are respectfully invited to at- tena, O’Connor.—In Hoboken, on Saturday, April 18, PHILLIP O'CONNOR, Funeral will take place from his late residence, 158 Court street, Hoboken, on Thursday, April 4 at ten o'clock A.M. The relatives and friends the NS are respectfully invited to attend the Tuneral. O'NeILL.—On Tuesday, April 21, MicHaRL BL O'NEILL, in the 43d yeur of his age. The relatives and friends of the family are re- Spectfully invited to attend the funeral, on Thars~ day, April 23, at half-past nme o'clock A. M., from his late residence, 233 East Twenty-first street, irom where his remains will be taken to the Church of the Epiphany, where a solemn requiem mass will be celebrated for the repose of his soul; thence to Calvary Cemetery. Parry.—At New Hope, Pa., on Monday, April 13, 1874, Major EDWARD RANDOLPH PaRRY, late of Umited States Army, and was buried April 16, in the family lot at Solebury Burying Ground, Bucks county, Pa, PrriFeR.—On Monday, April 20, 1874, at her resi- dence, No. 47 Wyckoll street, Brookiyn, SARAH W., wile of E. Pfeiter, and daughter of the lave Stephen Hendrickson, Esq. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, on Thursday, April 23, at two o’clock P, M. mrou.—At the residence of her son, Eugene Pitou, at Pearsails, L. I., on Sunday, April 19, ef umonia, Mrs, AIMEE PiTov, in the 70th year of age. The triends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the iuneral, from the residence of Mr. Austin Kelley, No. 125 Hewes street, between Lee and Bediord avenues, Brooklyn, E. D.,on Wednes day, April 22, at two o'clock PF. M. RayYNoR.—On Sunday, April 19, EDWIN WEBSTER only child of Charlies and Clara nor, Funeral services this (Wednesday) morning, at eleven o'clock, irom 48 West Forty-eighth street. REYNOLDS.—On Monday, April 20, Mary Frrz MAURICE KEYNOLDS, aged 86 years, relict of James Reynolds, of Esker, county Leitrim, Lreland. Her remains will be conveyea from the residence of her son, Francis F. Reynoids, 439 Seventh ave- nue, this (Wednesday) morning, at half-past nine o'clock, to the Church of tne Holy Innocénta, Thirty-seventh street, where a solemn requiem mass will be offered up tor the repose of her soul. Relatives and iriends of the family are respectiully invited to attend her funeral. Leitrim county papers please copy. RoBeRtTSON.—On Suntay, April 19, 1874, ELIza S., widow of Heury P. Robertson, aged 75 years, 8 Months and 8 days, Relatives and friends of the family, and of her sons, Henry L., Charies H. and Tim Y. Robert- son, are invited to attend the iuneral, on Wednes- day, the 22d inst,, at_ two o'clock, from her late residence, 187 East Seventy-first street. The re- py will be taken to Trinity Cemetery for inter-, men ScRIMGEoUR.—At Greenwood Cemetery, on Tues- day, April 21, ROBERT SCRIMGEOUR, 1M the 73d year of his age. Notice of funeral hereafter. Sarrd.—On Tuesday morning, April 21, ANNIE F., daughter of Wilbur F. and Sarah 4. Smith, in the | Och year ot her age. Funeral services at the residence of her parents, _ No, 58 St. Mark’s place, Tuursday, the 23d inst., at four o'clock P. M. Saira.—On Monday, April ay 1874, CHARLES id Belle Smith, aged. Howarp, son of Murray W. an 6 years, 9 months and 20 days, Funeral irom the house of his parents, No. 33 Greenwich avenue, New York, on Wednesday, | 22q inst., at two o'clock P. M. STepsBins.—At Hyde Park, Dutchess county, om. Tuesday, April 21 at the residence of her son-in- law, John &. Garland, Esq., MARY STEBBINS, Widow: | of John Stebbins, of this city, aged 88 years, The funeral solemnities will take place as above, on Thursday, the 23d inst., at twelve o'clock, when. the remains will be removed to Greenwood Ceme- tery for interment. TAYLoR.—On Tuesday morning, April 21, at his residence, No 191 West Houston street, ‘YHomas TAYLOR, in his-79th year. Funeral wili take piace at one o’clock, from. bia. late residence. ‘TERHUNK.—On Tuesday evening, April 21, at the residence of his son-in-law, James jughton, No. 207 Keap street, Brooklyn, RICHARD TEREUNR, in. the 76th year of his age, Relatives and iriends of the family are invited to attend his funeral, on Thursday ‘he 23d inst, ab three o'clock P. M., from the First Baptist Church, oar of South Filth and Firth streets, Brooxiyn, - THURLING.—On Tuesday, April 21, 1874 ELima Pred TEV ExING wife o: George Thurling, in her St year, Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, on Thursday, April 23, at one- o’clock P. M., from her late restaence, No. 600 West Filty-second street. Members of Park Lodge, &. and A. M. are respectiully invited to attend. WankinG.—On Tuesday, April 21, Henny F. War- 1NG, in the 78th year of his age. Funeral services from his iate residence, in Da- rien, Conn., on Friday, 24th inst., at hali-past two o’clock P. M. WEEKES.—On Sunday, April 19, 1874, after a shorts illness, at the residence of her brother-ta-law, Robert Kenneday, 508 West Twentieth street,.New York, MARIA BRUSH, Widow of Samuel Weekes. Services at 508 West Twentieth street, om Wednesday, April 22, at twelve o'clock M. The re- mains will be taken to Yonkers, N. Y., for inter- ment, Long Island papers please copy. WuHitr,—On ey April mu ISABRLLA, Wife o8 POM White and daughter of the late Henry mer. ‘The funeral will take place from the residence of her sister, No, 73 Bank street, oa Thursday, at one o'clock P.M, “The relatives aiid iriends of the fam- ily are respectfully invited to attend. Wruutaws-—on honday, April 20, MaRy ANN, wife of John F. am Relatives and iriends of the family are invited to. attend the fuveral, from her jate reside: No. 207 West Fifty-iifth street, on Thursday, 23d inst, at two o'clock P. M. WoosTeR.—At Carmansville, on Monday, April 20, Evizaperh WiLLett, daughter of Charles ¥, and Martha J. Wooster, aged 2 months and 26 days. Funeral from the residence ot her parents, 155th street, on Thursday alternoon, at one Carriages Will be in waiting her atreet at Hudson River Railroad, vat of the 11:30. depot, on tl train irom Grand Qentral atrect,