The New York Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1874, Page 4

sansa 4 SARATOGA REGATTA. | | Trinity College and Her Work to) Ciuteh the Coveted Prize. ‘THIS YEAR'S UNIVERSITY CREW. ‘How They Look and Speculations Regarding Their Worth. HARTFORD, May 22, 1874. In the year 1858, in accordance With a proposi- tion from the boating men of Harvard, Trinity College sent Mr. OC. A. Stedman, Jr., one of its stu- dents, as a representative to New Haven, where, on the 26th of May of that year, he met in council delegates from Harvard, Brown and Yale, with the view of establishing an intercollegiate regatta, “at which all the college clubs should ve partict- pants, in imitation of the annual meetings of the English University eights.” This was the frat im- portant step that Trinity ever took towards en- couraging boating interests in her midst, and, un- fortunately, it was the iast of any moment for some time afterward. It was no doubt the inten- tion of Trinity to compete with her sister seats of learning in the proposed regatta of that year—set down for July 23, at Springfield—and the crew had been in training, but the melancholy accident which befell Yale at the ume caused the dis- bandment of Trinity's crew as thoroughly as it buried all chances of the event taking place. It will be remembered by many college oarsmen that 1x days before the time appointed for the race—on Saturday night, July 17, 1858—while the Yale boat was indulging in practice pull on the Connecticut at Springfield, a collision with another craf: overturned it, and the Stroke carsman, Geo. E. Dunham, of the class of 760, was drowned. This broke up the contest, and the crews of Yale and Harvard—those of Trinity and Brown not having arrived—separated witnout making arrangements for future regattas. On the 29th of February of the following year a delegate from Trinity atcended a meeting o! college representatives held at Providence, where it was matualiy agreed that a regatta should take place on Lake Quinsigamond, July 25, 1859, and though Trin- aty at the time was enthusiastic in the anticipated reunf™m, her aquatic ardor was soon dampened, and ‘nen the time came around she was not repre- sated at the lake, Itis not easy to give satisfactory sons for the “funking’” oi the college on this asion; but it is best explained, perhaps, by the statement that until within the past two or three years—which have developed in the college an aviletic element that would not be contaminated with certain customs of the institution—the leisure moments of the students were almost wholly essed in the SOCIETY OF LADIES, Everybody knows that beauty and fashion abound tn Hartford, and tne students of. Trinity trom time immemorial have cultivated both. They always stood ready for a dance, and a hop was the delight of thelr lives, Old college customs were thrown overboard and masquerades substituted Instead. With a dance on hand these gallant and Polite students were simply ecstatic in their bliss, Released from professors, freed irom tutors, un- bothered by rules, they made every hopic- war arrangement of great éclat, So the years went on and the Faculty, | bless their dear old pictures, sat quiet, smiling and evidently pleased at the turn matters had taken, and never once thought that by extending their | Support to rowing, the manly aquatic pastime, the | | »'ood of Trinity's boys would not grow stagnant in T veins, and the instituuion might rank along- eide of Yale and Harvard in their tostering efforts to keep tt alive ana respectable. No, indeed, not With plenty of money and an official ampli- tude that awarfed and shaded everything about vhem, they let the boating prospects of Trinity be- <ome almost wrecked. Still, better times, how- <very Were in store for them. It was no secret St year in the freshman class that an avowed hostility to the too ieminine customs which had | usurped ali others in the coliege nad broken out; ‘and 800n this hosuility assumed organized shape, ‘and made itseli feit to a considerable extent. The | first thing that the new element did was to make up their minds that TRINITY SHOULD NO LONGER be without a representative crew in the annual | coliegiate regati@ Atonce suficient money wi Faised to meet the many requisite expenses, Si men selected for the stern reaiities of training and Practice, and the ball waa finally openea: but everybody and everything was so hampered and | tied with cords of red tape. The captain of the crew took "is men to springfleld looking despond- | ingly ahead, and—well, be did as well with them | in the concest as he expected—they didn’t obtain @ place and he wasn’t disappointed. However disheartening the effect of such a deleat, Captain McKeunan was not the man to sit idly down and mourn over it, but trom the day that he returned | tothe college last fall his mind was fixed upon one thing—tnat the maiden essay of Trinity’s six sucud be ler poorest. He ‘ound enthusiastic co- laborers, and be ore a month passed many of the udents who were before tuli of ‘femininity’? Made serious inroads upon their leisure hours, by going out into the gymnasium and throwing aside comtort and ease that they might put themselves in physical {x to stand the practical tests which Were required of ali who were aspirants for seats do the racing shell o!'74. “he boating lever spread, Dd IN every class in college Lis spring there were large numbers of candidates ior aquatic honors, | and the old boathouse on the Connecticut, foot of Charter Oak avenue, was the scene of so much enthusiasm that the leaders of the pastime were filled with courage, and went 10 Work with a zeal to send Trinity’s iuture boating record up uear the rout. ORGANIZATION. The college boat clab incjudes all the class or- ganizations, and now numbers two-thirds o: the entire list of students, a fact which alove speaks volumes for the repre progress made in this de- Partment of pitysical culture. ‘The officers of the cluo are :—President, James D, Hurd, ’74, of Brook- Vice President, Thomas L. Stedman, ecretary, William E. Curtis, Jr., ‘ Treasurer, Will'am M. Stark, '75, of New London; Captain, J.D, McKesnan, '76, of Washington. Pa. The property that the club owns, and which slowly accumulated in the several seasons that boating at irinity bad spasmodic revivals, 18 a8 t—Three six-oared shells (old). @ practice nd the racing shell, built by regatta last year, 49 feet é | inches ip length aod ivinches wide, dhen there are lor singles, owned by Eaward M. Dickerson, | ; Clarendon ©, Buckley, ‘7d, two; and M. ‘77, one, Besides these there ts laid away an | Old barge heavier than a mad-ofwar's Jongboat, | and sweeps belonging toit that would make a cord of kindling wood. THE LUCKY SIx. Once the work of the painstuking captain, in the | matter of selecting the six men that would repre- | sent the coliege in the contest at Lake saratoga, | Was completed, the lucky fellows went tugging | away at the rowing Weights in the gymnasium as uf for dear iiie, and not a day passed but that one or two of them were there perspiring as freely ag ‘Would a street laborer in a broiling duly sun. at | the same time tuey shortened up a littie | in smoking, and stopped ail excesses in the matter of diet that were known to ve posi- tively detrimental. So the winter and spring passed away, and Trinity’s men, with much per- istency and quiet vim, did their work, never for a Moment josing sight of the sact that good, hones. hearts in any cause are more than half the battle. Thus 1 foand these men yesterday lounging lor » while On their stiii Leautiiul campus (the college Dulidings are being demousned to make Way ‘Sor the pew Capitol now in progress of construction, and thé college will, in time, have more magnif- | cent structures); aud a very’satisfactory lot they seem, and ougit really to prove capable of pulling rong and skiliui oars. With one exception they re yet quite heavy; butt 1s none of the usual | lazy appearance Which geneiaiy clings to men | ‘Who are stout and sturdy. A prope: proverbiaily has no ponor in his own couniry, otherwise | 1 might say that from the entire number | of crews that will puil up to the staring | int on Lake Saratoga that Thursday aiterpoon | Erituy next of (course, I sickness does not over- | take them), there will pot be any of the company ‘Who Will present @ better or tore “winning” ap- rance than Trinity’a representatives, they fai @ tueir positions in the practising barg nd, no doubt, will relatively Muintain them in the racing shell, Tatve oes , With their ages, heights id Weights, a8 iollows i— a ijoo—urenvilie Kane, 75, of Flushing, N. Y.; age, 20; height, 5 i 11 in.; weight, 108 ibs. Port Bow—sidney D. Hooker, '77, of Watertown, N. Y.; age, 20; height, 6 ft.; welgnt, 158 ba. ‘a ‘starboard Wais—John De F. McKenoun, '76, of hington, Pa. ; age, 21; height, 6 (t, 2 im. ; weight, 176 1bs. Port Waist—Wiillam J. Roberts, '75, of Detroit, Mich. ; age, 25; height, 6 ft. Lin.; wetgot, 150 ibs. Starboard Stroke—Wenry M. Hooper, 116, of Griggstown, N.J.; age, 247 height, 61; weight, 107 los, “‘wokenienry C. Du Bows, 76, of Partvault, Ma weight, 16v lug De; age, 20; height, 6 1. PERSUNAL APPRARANCE. Such is the University crew of ‘rinity as they Waly step mto thels barwe, and they bave an en- , NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY ee er a pe eR | witn such nigh-sounding terms as porte, porte, ag them. There is beef enough represen'ed not to be left out im the cold the com- ing struggle. Of the nu» ber, Kane and McKea- nan Were in last year’s crew, but the balance are new men and never vefore were in a race boat of the sheil principle, Closely scruniMiZing these six stalwart specimens of mauhood, 1 was compelled to admit they have the powerful arms, backed by stout hearts, to per- form great deeds of prowess on the watery ele- ment. With bat one exception, Mr. Kane, there is a massiveness of rib aud beam about them tat wou.d incline you at once to exclaim, ‘They are rousers !’ Roberts, who pulls the port waist oar, is very finely proportioned and the heaviest man in the crew. He has always been a noted athlete, and tn his Western home has before pulled a merry oar, but, of course, lacked the skili which is auring look about essential in thus boating progress to achieve decided Captain McKennan, under Whose wtelage the crew has already made much improvement, ts another Hercule: He doesn't seem to have anything to spare in Six feet two inches, but the whole is Que grand, symmetrical union, and will stick wnen hard work comes tobe done. ‘Du Bois, though nis age is given as but twenty, ts the most ma*ure minor | ever saw. But then, ; erhaps, his ragged lie in Minnesota | has done ‘much to give him the appearance of | being twenty-six or seven, He has an exceed- | inziy good make-up and @ tace that denotes earnestness and determination, Du Boia will not | be found wanting In staying qualities at the re- Kind, and while looking at ail these big men it struck me as very peculiar that just when re- quired a college of ‘leas than 100 students: should | posseas five so compact and muscie-knot- | ted individuals as they, and @ iike num- | ber one would not meet in a day’s journey. | Hooker, port bow, is the “farmer boy,’ big and | willing, and withal quite a good oarsman. ane, | pow oar, who. acquitted himself socreditably last year, 18 the lightest o! the crew, but then be has | the reputation of being adic’ to withstand the | terrible wear and tear of a three- | Wil be nip and tuck from start to fimeh. Gren- } ville hadn't “shed his white shirt’? and donned the | practice blue wnen I last saw him, but no doubt is metamorphosis 1s DOW complete, a8 such Was | his intention yesterday. TRAINING AND DIRT, In the matter of the ali tmyortant point of training, Captain McKeunan has adopted the generous diet | system. He allows his crew to nave what they desire, | providing itis not injurious—plenty of coarse, plain | food. He don’t make a man eat raw meat, and gives them ale when they wish it, but this ts very seidom. Smoking, and no Cena ever enters their dining room. The crew have been boarding together nearly five | Weeks iu College street, | _ In the barge, with their shirts off, the Trinity gentlemen present a very fine picture, itis their custom to pull every afternoon over a measured course on the Connecticut trom five o'clock to | Seven o'clock, and, returning, take a bath and | thorough rubbing. Every morning they indulge | in an extended but gentle walk, and alter arrival | at their rooms take the ordinary douse. At noon | they visit the gymnasium and row ou the weights, Practising for @longer or shorter time, as their Ls throne, castles, garde and bastiles; and, tn bitlards, @ certain number of “points” makes the game. Two, four or six persons can play. There is plenty of room for skill in the course of the game, which bas too many distinctive potnts to be bere enumerated, making 1t no Imitation of croquet, but s real Yankee invention, though | dubbed with 4 French name, YACHTING NOTES. The first response vo the challenge of the Made- leine to sail any yacht twenty miles to windward Tangements have now been consnmmated for s race between these two fast yachts. The match will be sailed onethe (2th of June, the day after | | the New York Yacht Club regatta, and the course | quired time. Hooper is another of the giant | miles pull, that | of course, is wholly prohibited, | Studies and recitations permit. For some time | past the Connecticut has been very hign and com- paratively rough on the Trinity's practising course; but they have battled against it and not | lost their customary work, save in one instance, | when the barge was broken slightly in carelessly | | Randling it. Toey pull from thirty to Pk & | four strokes practising, and Captain McKennap feels jubilant that he has got a crew that can learn and want to excel. | sively rare for a young man tobe hurtin any way | by boating, tf only he exercises a reasonable | Amount of self-control and common sense; i he | does not train unless he ts constitutionally capa- ble of standing the test, and if, when he has com- | menced the regimen of traiming, he {cliows it con- scientjously out. “Know thyself” he thinks, should | be the motto, the advice of which all aspirants | should foliow, and if this is done, the perils of boat- } ing will be reduced to a very small minimum, And | I ifaagine that all sound oarsmen agree with Cap- | tam McKennan, ODDS AND ENDS, The College wi! not send a Fresnman crew, owing to the time and care required ior the proper train- ing of the University six. The single scull race on the day preceding the aoa contest will be witnout a frinity representa- ve. ‘rhe Trinity crew will nave as their training quarters one of the prettiest spots on the lake, the house of John Riley, nearly opposite Snake Hill, on the eastern shore. It was in this vicinity that the He believes that it is exces- | Wara brothers did their fnishiag touches to thelr traming, prior to winuing the great internationai regatta in 1371. ‘he shellin which the College crew rowed last ear will be used in the coming regatta. It is iged exceedingly by the men. Some of Trinity’s students may enter for the run- ning and walking prizes offered to the colieges, but the matter is still under deliberation. SEASIDE AND COUNTRY. Bath bas no vapors. Fire Isiand is a cool spot. Rockaway 13 the child’s delight. Watch Hill is looking out for guests. Long Branch already bas many trunks, Rye Beach landlords don’t make wry faces. Newport is the horror of ‘oli’ wine-bibbers. The Mott House, Tarrytown, opens on the 20th. Savin Rock is what Connecticut pins her faith to. At the Highlands you'll Never Sink into ob- scurity. Fenwick Hall, near Saybrook, Conn., will open June 27. Crawford’s Notch is not the result of Yankee whitting. City Chamberlain Lane will occupy bis cottage at Lake Manopac. Tne Beach House, Caldwell, N. J., is a candidate for summer favors, ‘The Harrington House, Demarest Station, N. J., bas already opened. Indian Harbor puts on airs. Tammany braves used to resort there. Swampscott is being recanvassed by Boston papas for a lolling place. Newport wants a sight of the “gray” of tne Seventh regiment boys. ‘The Howland House, Long Branch, will be opened June 6 by Howland & Son. The Brookeide House, at Hastings, on the Hud- SOn, is ROW receiving guests. : The Profile House, White Mountains, should be approacned from the side view. The Great Neck House, near Sand’s Point, L. L, has opened its doors tor visitors, The South Orange Mountain House, 8, P. Bar- | pour, proprietor, will open June 1. The Grange Mountains wali parade their beauties in July. No danger of a riot eitner, The Sans Souci Hotel, opened May 15 by George E. Mcomber, Now is the chance for hotel clerks, The Bruns- wick diamonds are in the European market. Passamaquuildy House, Maine, vemg interpreted, means “Puss-my-toddy.” Shey do it om the sly now. The Peconic House, Greenport, L. L, bas been opened by 0. C. Smith, iormeriy of Savin Rock, Conn, ‘The Pavilicn Hotel, Isiip, L.1, offers pleasant inducements to sportsmen and jamilies. Lt opens June 15. West Enders at Long Branch want to extend It, They are so stiff there that they use waxeuds for neckties, The Montvert House, Middleton Springs, Vt., will open June 1. It 18 quite iarge and the climate ia invigorating. Lake Waramang, near Preston, Conn., is said to be a flue, quiet resort, where vo styie is affected, | but comforts nad. Mr. J. L. Bremer and family, of No. 81 East Thirty-ninth street, will go to the Rockland House, Nantasket Beach, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor Johnston, No. 8 Flith avenue, leave town im avout ten days for their coantry seat in New Jersey, uhe Mansion House, Rosiyn, L. L, has been opened by J. J. Givens, and is a very pleasant and convenient spot ior sportsmen to visit. ‘The Mount Mansiieid House, at Stowe, Vt., ex- Pecis to stow away many guests this season, at $2 per day, or trom $11 to $17 60 per week. Gien Eldridge, on the east snore of Lake Seneca, is a new candidate lor popular favor. It Is @aid to be as extensive a naturai wonder asthe Watkins or Hammond glens. The Townsend House, Alexandria Bay, near the Thousand Islands of tne St. Lawrence, is @ fine fishery point. A thirty-five pound mascalonge Was taken iast week near there. Tue Overiook Mountain House, Catskill, will open June 1, itis 3,800 ‘eet up, but few will think the scenery will repay aiong stage ride to reach it, Uniess the stages are Cheaper and more than those in the White Mountains. Abright and cheeriul view of the prospect of the Newport season is take: It says the place will be more crowded than ever, and (fguratively) that “hanareds will be turned eway.”? Obivairie sets at from $8 to $100 are now iu tié market. The first set made cost $2,500. When set up on the lawn the game presents 4 One and striking appearance, There ure balls to be driven by maiiets, as in croauet; bu', 1a place of hoops, one has to deal will betwenty miles to windward and return, starting from a buoy off Sandy Hook. Jast seasop makes her an antagonist hard to beat, and consequently the rebuilt Tidal Wave is anxious to win her laurels from something worthy of her stee:. The foliowing are the conditions of the race :— Agreement made this 11th day of May, 1874, be- tween Jacod Voornis, Jr., owner of the scnooner we Madeleine, of the first part, and iam Voornis, owner of the schooner yacht Tidal Wave, of the second part. ‘The said parties hereto have agreed and _ hereby do agree to sail a race between their respective boats twenty miles to windward and return (Jom Sandy Hook). it is also agreed that the race shall be sailed according to the rules of the New York Yacht Club as regards sails only, and it is further agreed that there shall be’no allowance of time, nor stated time in which to make the race. ‘The day tor sailing the race to be the day following the date for sailing the New York Yacht Club re- gatta. Each of the parties are to appoint a judge { and the two judges are to select a third. JACOB VOORKSIS, Jr. WILLIAM VUOORHIS. Witness—W. B. NICHOLS. The owners of the racing yachts will also fur- nish asteamer for the use Of the judges and in- vited guests. Te schooner yacht Clig tg now at Poillon’s yard receiving h3F new topmiasts, She 1s looking very handsome this season, and will pe in commis- sion next week, seeking for something to beat in her class, The schooner yacht Magic (Mr. W. T. Garnet, New York Yacht Club) 18 once more cruising in these waters. She lays off Mr. Garner’s residence on Staten Island. The schooner yacht Agnes {3 looking very bright and iively tuis season. She has been out in the The reputas | tion for speed 80 well earned by the Madeleine | | | | i | the college grounds, Qwing to the storm the game bay several times during the past week, and will | show speed when required, The poncgner yacht Phantom (Mr. W. Osgood, New York Yacht Club) ts expected trom New Lon- don every day. Rumor says the Phantom wiil carry her big topmasts in the front rank this season. Tae new schooner yacht Ibis (Mr. John A. Brown, New York Yacat Club) built last season by Mr. Lewis Hoagiand, oi New Brunswick, is in com- mission for the season. She is in ail respects a tirst class vessel. Although this being tne first yacht brought out by the builder, he has intro- duced into ner model some startling inventions, which will cause her perjormances to be narrowly watched by the initiated. Her dimensionsare as follows:—Length on deck, 103 feet; water line, 53 Jeet; keel, 80 feet; Centre board, 20.8 leet; beam, | 42 tod On the Cniversity side Funkhauser batted 23 feet; draught, 6.5 feet; depth of hold, 8.3 !eet; | mainmast, 77 leet; toremast, 75 leet; maintopmast, 45 feet; loretopmast, 42 feet; mainboom, 64 fect; foreboom, 27 feet; maingaf, 34 feer; foregad, 26 jeet; bowsprit, 3i feet out-board; fying jintooni, 29 feet out-lut; Custom House Measurement, 162 tous; Lew measureinent, 74.87 tons. The Jbid Was launched too Jate last year to enter the tall regatta; but during | a cruise down to the Chesapeake she gave promise of great speed and fine seagoing qualities, which the owner hopes to make good during the spring regatta. ‘The members of the Atlantie Yacht Club open | the season the 30th of this montt with a cruise | down the bay. Commodore Maxwell expecis to |. the New ¥ Dave @ large fleet out on that occasion. ‘The schooner lack, New York Yacht-Ch her winter quarters at periect crim and sailing a8 fast as ever, @ good prospect Oo: @& Face between the | played here to-day between the Baltimores and | yacut Columbia, Mr. Lester Wal- | arrived last.week from | jew Londos. “She ts im | There ia | Columbia and Madeleine providing the owner of the | latter wouid sail a match in cruising trim, carrying anchors, boats, guns, &c. The owner of the Coiumbia has no objection to racing, providing he has not to turn his boat inside out Jor such a duy’s amusement, Arace between the Columbia and the Madcleine would have more interest to yacht- ing men than any match that hae beea sailed since the memorabie races ‘or the Queen's Guy, ‘The schooner yacnt.Eva, Gegeral FE. Bard Grubb, New York xacht Club, is lying off the residence of her owner, on tae Delaware, She will be thoroughly overhauled and arrive in New York waters 10 time for the June tia. ahbere was a large attendance at the meeting of Yors Yacht Ciao om Thursday evening, but no business of importance Was transacted, The schooner yacht Meta, Mr. 8. A. Belong, of the Brooklyn Yachi Club, is sailing remarkabiy, and gives hopes of veiug quite as it as When sloop Tigged, The following gentiemen have been elected of- cers of the newly consolidated Union Ciub, of Jer- sey City :—Commodore, Join Kreymeyer; Vice Com- mnodore, T. D. Harmison; Kear Commodore, Joseph Elsworth; President, Boice; Sec: etary, Char! H. Woeltje; Treasurer, 8, A. Beiing; sailing Master, Cc. E, Meusch; ‘Treasurer, William Chester, and Steward, Alexander Murray ; Finance Committee— John Hilton, H. B. Pearson and Cuaries A. Bouton; Regatta Committee—S. A. Beling, John Cleary and Cc, E. Meusch. The club has already enrolled eighty memvers, Yacht Measurement. English yachtsmen have of late been discussing | of the diferent yacht clubs, the propriety of having acertain board of meas- urers, whose certificates would be accepted.at the regatta of any club, At present considerable: in- convenience and confusion often arise by the varied resuits that are irequently obtained.in the measurement of the same yacht by the measurers such errors the following letter has been sent to the different. secretaries of the principal yacut clubs in the United Kingdom :. Dear Sim—The committee of this club, in with all persons interested in match sailing have for x long time telt, the great inconveniences and confusion | that the present system of measuring yachts for racing | purposes occasions, which must always be the Balston Spa, will be — case BS Jong aseach club ‘tor itself, contit to measure the Vessels about to contend in its matches by persons who not only have otten to perform ter task Under very ad- Verse circumstances, but who frequently differ consider- ably as vo the exact ‘method of applying the rule, even although the ruie itself is identical in its wording. ' They have, however, hitherto retrained from proposing to their brother yachiamen a plan which would seem to offer an effectual remedy for this evil, and whieh bas been already adopted in their own rales, in , that one of the older and more induential claps would | to the ettect by the Boston Gazette. | take a iead in the maiter; but not been the case, and from certain letters and resolutions in the’ public papers it appears prob- Abie a hew element of discord 1s likely to be introduced in the shape of an atiempted change in the rule of measurement itself, I baye been directed to address a* leiter to the secretaries and flag officers of the principal Yacnt clubs In the United Kingdom, aswell as 10 the owners-of the best Known ainong the racing vessels, and to propose that a resolution should be passed in each of these clubs, previous to the coming yachting seanoD, hat no yacht shall be allowed to enter fof, any prize offered by it without producing a certificate of her exact tonnage, under the rule commonly known a6 the ‘Thames rule,’ signed by one of five professional measurers, one resident at the port of London, appointed jointly by the Royal Thames and Royal London; one at ‘ortsinouth. appoliied by the Royal Yacht squadroty Royal Victoria and Koyal Alvert; one at Liverpool, ap- poltived by the Koyal Mersey; une at Giasgow, ap inted y the Koyal Northern and Clyde, and one at Dubs Appointed by the Royal Irish, St’ George and All Yacht clubs; such measurer to be au;horized to charge the owner of cach yessel measured by hum a proper jee, Eero to her size, agreed on at his appoint 3 this bas ‘This course, if adopted, woul! soon remove the cause of complaint. and be acceptable to owners of rad crait themselves, as the exionse would be a mere noth- nd the certificates once obtained would be evl- denice of a vessel's size all round the coast, and 0 all trouble and annoyat ractice @ certitied size would quic should not see, as at present, vesseis ent tonnage on consecutive days. 1 request that you will bring this letter under the | notice of your committee at the earliest convenient date, aod inform me whether a resolation, such as is likely pal clubs roponed, to ve adopted; agit two or three of the prinel: holding regattas join in the movement the cer- Udeate soon be procured by ali vessels, and so lead }o the great object of “unitormity of measurement for racing purposes.” {dag T sudjoin copies of the “Lit, anil of the certificate to be Skbuid a favorable auswer be returned by your committee I shall be moss happy to Co- operate with vou and otter secretaries mm carrying out the details of the plan, and an answer at your earliest convenience wil inuch oblige, yours, ac., AMES" A, LYLE, Hon. Secretary to the Royal Alired Yacht Club. 13 Bewanowe 04 i a , §.—Whether “auy fractional partof a ton is counted # ton’? or not need be no bar to the proposed pian, as when the actual measurement is once ascertained each club can treat the traction as it please: RULE OF MPASUREMES! The length shall be taken on a straight line on aeck, from the ivte part of the stem to tne aiter partot we sternpost, (rom which, ceducting the breadth, the ree mainger shall be estevmed the just length to’ find the tonnage, and the breadth shall be taken from the outside of the outside plank in the t of he yacht allowance ie §= for * wales = =or | doublig = planks ol any kind whatever), then multiplying the lengin by the breadth so taken, that product bh hail the breadth, and dividing the whole by munety-tour, the quotient all be deemed the tonnage; provided always. that if given by the measure! | Any part ot the stem or sternpost, or other part of the Secedi below the load water line, project beyond the length taken ag above mentioned, Such provection or pro jections shail for the purpose of duding the vounage be ‘added to the length taken as above. FORM OF CERTIFICATE. I of ———, appointed yacht measnrer for the port ot ——, certity that I have, on the —— day ot personally earetuily measured the yack —— —— owner, under the annexed rale, and that he length is —— eet —— inches, beam —— feet —— inches, and her exact tonnage —— Given duder my hand this —— day of — Kuie of meastiramant as above. je hope | i | | | titled Ferguson tn his selection, and return, comes from the Tidal Wave and all ar- | ry ; i} | bail gave the Atlantics a ran, cringing their total H “ ry of fe as a Stud In order: gh weal | lish “The Story of My Lt a Student and Proles- MAY 23, 1874.—TRIPLE THE NATIONAL GAME. A Fine Contest Betw' the Boston and Atlantic Clubs—The Reds Win. From 800 to 1,000 people assembled on the Union Grounds yesterday afternoon to witness the second game of the championship series between the Bos- ton “Reds” and the Brooklyn Atlantica. The day was warm and pleasant, but the high wind prevail. tng made it exceedingly dificuit to accurately judge high balls and to throw properiy to the bases, The Atianucs Played 4 new man at second base in the person of West, late of the Nassau Ciub, of Brooklyn, and his magnificent play fully The game opened at if past three, with the Atiantics at the bat. The first three 61 romptly retired in one-two-three order. Bostons got jour men up to the bat, but sharp play ou the part oi the Brooklyn boys prevented their scoring arun, Inthe second inning West led off for the Atiantics with a sharp fair-fonl bit for two bases, and on Ferguson’s base hit to left field went to third base and nally bome on a assed Two base hits and a passed ail gave the “reds? @ ru in this inning too, 80 honors were evenly | balanced, Each side received a biank in the th. inning, but in the fourth the “Reds” got In two Tuns off errors by Pearce and Farrow. Sharp ¢ fielding was shown all along from this inning til the eighth, when Ferguson started the jum by muMng ® sharp grounder from 0’Rourke’s, bat. This, together with an excusable error by Bond and another bad play by Ferguson, who threw, the bali home when he should have passed it to, rst base, gave the victors three additional runs, In the last mning Pearce captured the first three Bostonians who toed the plate, he and Denlman retiring the side in short order. As in the second inning 80 in the ninth, two base hits and a passed score up to two against six Jor tue Bostons, Here are the figures :— at Players, Farrow,¢ & 3 wurBencund lice pewnicd | accoucewon sl = o! wccuccoun ‘one. First base by errors of opponents—Atlantic, 5; Boston, 4 Time of game—One hour ana torty minutes, Umpire—Mr. Swondell. Alert vs. Now York Untivoratty. Ow Thursday, the 21st, the Alerts, of Seton Hall Runi Z College, played Jhe New York University nine on did not begin until half-past {yree. The game was rather one-sided, the Alerts winning by a score of | well, and Lee, Conklin and Wiley played wellin the fleld, On the Alert side Murphy, Lamarche and Shanley led at the bat, while McEntee, Mur. phy and Daizley distinguisbed themselves in the hel Below ts the score :— , University. Players, RAB.POA | Player KAB.POA 6441 Lee ta 0 08 0| 5 3 8 2 Conklin, 2231) A $13 8 Wiley, lst b, 180 101 4 111 0 Douglass, 3d 123 Shanley, $4.b.05576 3 1 4 Edwards, p. oid McFadden, i. t....6 3 3 0 Funkhauser, c. 271 Murphy, rf. 45 20 browne, Lf. v1 0) Dougherty, ¢.£:.4 2 0 0 Beckley,c. f 000) Ferdinand, p...:. 4 1 0 2 Cook, rf... ee ae Totals. BH Totals OF 7 | INNINGS.” Ist. 2d, Bl, Ah, Sth. Gis. 7th. Bh, 9th. 8 4 L498 4 4) 788 1 0-4 ew EAOTO RN HO 0 Umpire, T. Mohn, Alert Base Ball Club. Time of yame, two hours and a half, Baltimore and Harford, BALTIMORE, May 22, 1874, The following is the score of the base bal! match | Hartfords: INNINGS. 2d. 3d. Mth Sth 6th. Tth Bh. HA | 0 0 0 1 2 0 O-9; ooo 0 2 0 0 2 wz) Base Ball Note. The Nameiess of Brooklyn ptay the Rutgers Coliege nine on the Prospect Park Parade Ground this afternoon. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Mrs, COLLINS, youngest daughter of Charles Dickens ana widow of Charles A. Collins, is about to be marited to Mr. Perugini. A TRANSLATION of Leopold Von Rauhe’s “Eng- sche Geschichte,” by resident members of the | University of Oxford, is now in the press, Some UNrvpLisHeD Letrers by Goethe on nat- ural history, entitied “Correspondence on Natural History,” have been brought out by a professor of the Cracovian University. Dr. INGLEBY has just sent to press his “Preface to Part L of the Shakespeare Allusion Book,” that he is editing for the New Shakespeare Society. | No Pewsr THAN five diferent lives of the late Charles Sumner are in course of publication. That by Charles Edwards Lester is already out. | Rey. Elias Nason's and one by G. and J. D. Chaplin are nearly ready. The more elaborate memoir by Mr. Sumner’s literary executors 1s announced by Lee & Shepard, but remains to be written. MR. CHARLES READE ts engaged tn the composi- tion of a work of fiction on the subject which has | occupied the attention of Mr. Plimsoli—the send- tog forth of overladen and unseaworthy vessels. THE REV. H. R. WaiTs, who is now pastor of an | American chapel In Rome, is re-editing his “Car- mina Collegensia,"’ decidedly the best collection of college songs we have yet had. J. B. Lrpprxcotr & Co., of Philadelphia, will pub- sor,” vy Heinrich Steffens, translated from the Germaa by William L. Gage. | A New MONETARY WORK, intended to show the importance of American municipal bongs as in- vestments, ts in press in London, THE Rey. Davi Hoae is about to publish a “Life of Allan Cunningham.” A Work oN THE “Relation of Patent Laws to Modern Industrial, Soetal and Intellectual Prog- ress” is promised by Prolessor J. A. Whitney. He introduces it by an essay on the history of inven- tions from the earliest times to the adoption of patent laws, THe Late CHARLES SvMNER left among his auto- graph treasures tie original manoseript of Burns’ “Scots Wna Hae wi’ Wallace Bled.” But a cor- respondent of the London Atheneum writes to that journal:— Ishould like to know how many original manu- scripts of “Scots Wha Hae” are im existence, I have seen several. Mr. S, BARING GOULD has in preparation a work On the Apochryphal Gospeis and the fragments of Other than the Canonical Gospels which are to be found quoted by known writers, to be published under the title of “Lost and Hidden Gospels.”” MxssR8. CHARPENTIER are about to publish a | work, of which an English translation will appear | simultaneously in London, from the pen of M. | Odysse-Barot. It is to be called “A History of | | \ Contemporary Literature in England.” THE UNPRINTED Part of ‘Pepys’ Diary” Is being @eciphered anew, and contains several very in- teresting pissages relating to the theatres of the old gossiper’s time, All this fresh matter will be contained in the new edition of “Pepys’ Diary,’’ now contempiated, A New Eprtion of Dr. Francis Lieber’s greatest work, his “Political Ethics,” revised and edited by Dr. T. D. Woolsey, 18 in the press of J, B. Lippin cott & Co, COURT LIFE IN GERMANY, A letter from Stuttgardt, of the 4th of May, sup- plies the following interesting report of fashion- able news from the Wurtemberg Oourt :— Aconcert was given at the paluce on Saturday evening. The Grand Duchess Vonstantina, with her two sons, was seated near the King, ‘Alter the music, whicti Was extremely fine, the company Walked through the state rooms and took tea. Yesterday evening the royal family and some of the guests at the palace were present at the per- formance of “Don Juan,” ‘The gala night at the by gs in honor of the Em- peror Alexander is fixed for Thursday, when his Javorite Work, Wagner's “Lolengrin,’’ will be given. Tne Grand Duchess Vera, the young betrothed, 4s the niece of the Queen, and has been brought up irom the age of tweive at tue Courtof Wurtemberg. She js said to possess sterling qualities, and to be very Accomplisied; she is loved as a princess, veoause she is good, and as a woman, because she possesses that sympathetic beauty which at once attracts. Ii she had been @ shepherdess a king would have married her; of course, | mean | in those Arcadian times when such alliances were common. At the Court, where the produce of the Veuve Cliquot is by no means disliked, the young Princess is described as “bionae champagne.” | ‘The bridegroom, Prince Eugéne, cousin of the | King, and has passed through ive without beng mucn talked avout | in one of the numerous volumeg of reports, ; any men striving to secure the safety of convicts | such a diatance off that he was surprised when he | by men whose oath will stand in law that certain | Company, or which one Alfred Walker was | enough, however, to awaken my desire to kuow | Lalso saw a former clef clerk of the | miver to Hastings io tnd a suv SHEET, SING SING PRISON. An Investigation by the Inspectors Imperatively Demanded. WARDEN HUBBELL ON CONVICT LABOR. + The Corruptions of the Contract System. Siva Sine, May 22, 1874. In the past few days that I have sojourned at this quiet village I have learned much that was new tome regarding prison management. That thee was very much to be Jearned | was not left to doubt for a moment, but bow the {acts were to be ascertained from the great army of unwilling witnesses in the snape of keepers and guards was the problem which struck me as aificult to solve. To be told that the prison grounds are not even enclosed by a fence, and that the salekeeping of the convicts depends as much upon the tnclination of the prisoner as the vigilance of the guards, may im some small measure serve to allay the surprise at the frequent escapes, I remember to have rega which 1 have looked through in the past few days, that “the men in this prison covld not bé held for a day did they but realize their advantage and had they a leader who would risk life for liberty.” This, from. noless a person than an inspector, explains the whole sub- Ject of the prison’s insecurity, The Warden and guards, doubtless, do ail that can be expected of ee eek under such disadvantages, A boy who sailed out ona “home ran” a few weeks since was shot and recaptured, but the guard admits that the boy was saw bin fall, THE PAY OF JUDGMENT COMING. When it is known in what manner the contract system has been abused for years past in this, as well as most gtate prisons, both the public ong inspactoré will iasteh fo pronounce it but a wed o1 chicanery and imposition upon the interests of the State. When it is capable of the readiest Proof that the physician, just resigned, has been overbearing, inattentive and in some few instances cruel, another cause will be recognized for growing dissatisfac- tion. When it has become a matter of common report throughout the prison and the village that the chaplain is the recipient of fees from the con- victs for the smallest favors, the Inspectors act wisely in accepting this. oficial’s resignation, to take effect next month. When, also, it is asserted keepers have, to their certain knowledge, exacted perquisites from convicts, in extent from a paper of tobacco to @ percentage of a prisoner's earn- | ings, it is nigh time for Warden Hubbell to devise | some means to discover and break up this whole- | sale system of corruption, so ruinous to prison | discipline, When it is known, also, that the con- tractors under the old régime are the most blatant in denunciation of the new, there will be a better understanding regarding the indiscriminate abuse héaped upor the present Waraen, who began bis work by cutting down all exsras and doing away with many scheming contractors. LOOKING AROUND A LITTLE, ‘The prison is reached, after a few minutes’ walk from the hotel or depot over a rugyed road. Pass- ing the guardhouses in order as they are reached, 1 visited the Warden's office, and, by bis orders, war subsequently conducted over the prison. On my Way through the prison grounds I had noticed the large gangs of men im the quarries, and had observed among other things a machtiue for grind- ing marble dust. To the keeper who conducted me over the institution | put many inquiries regarding the history of the stone quarries and the | rise 01 the marble dust business. [ learned notuing of importance irom bim, He was either ignorant of the history of the stone-cracker or, if informed, considered it to his best interest to maintain a stupid silence. It is certain that regarding tne inner history of the Westchester Marte and Lime rest- this dent, a8 weli as the ‘boafd of directors," | keeper, in common with the majority of the de- | luded taxpayers, was ignorant. 1 had heara more. ON THE TRAIL OF A JOB. Beginning with the Warden, I interviewed every | ersoi Withill the confines of the prison or the vil- lage Who, irom any cause, could be supposed to know the facts. Aiter siruggling up and down tne hilly streets, making inquiries of street urchins aud shopkeepers, | at last jound one Anthony B, Mur- ray, Who bad some knowledge of the circum- stances under which the “marble dust contract’’ was worked. He was empioyed in the cavinet shop during the time of which the Keepers | speak as the “Walker régime.” Then I visited, 0 another part of the at @ time when he was off in the prison, oue -McNell, @& Ttound him a biunt, genial sort of man, who be- lie ved In non-commitial, and acted on the maxim that “weli-preservation was the first law’ ot nature," He evidently desired to be prepared tor any sudden revciution of auairs. next visited dames Fulton, who was superintendent of! the lumekiin under ex-President Walker's manage- Inent a6 State Agent, A MAN I DID NOT SEE. T next drove to the little village of Sparta to in- terview a superintendent of the cooper shop named Weitzman, but learning, on inquiry irom | the Warden oi! the prison, that this man was in | disgrave and had been discharge’ under the im- | putation that he had asusted in the escape of a 's' convict.” did pot dunt him up. | don the road another keeper tu the institution, out the Lniormation outatned rom him | Was but a reiteration oi what was already in m, possession. I then returned to sing Sing, and, | among vthers, saw a doctor of the village, who is now Visiting tue prison to temporarily place of the regular physician, who late ‘uppiy the resigned stitution, who now publishes a newspayer in the vuiage. Finaliy, taking the cars, f proceeded down the contractor wider the late State Agent Walker. There is no end to facts and documents within reach regarding the history o1 tue rise and coup d’¢iat oi the “West- cnester Marble and Lime Company.” Attend, , then, to this interesting narrative :— A GOLD MINE AT BING SING. The State Prison was removed jrom New York city to Mount Pleasant avout 1825, aud the exten- sive marbie quarries in the yi y were pure chased that the convicts ht be em- ployed ou nou-mechanical, jabor. This move was mainly iuduced oy the demand from New York miechantes that convict iavor sould not be empioyed in the various branches of skilied competitive industry. Large quantities i marble were quarried and severai well-known public buildings were erected with it, Aiter a time, however, the quarries ceased to pas, the stone became of little Valyeior building purposes and chiefly valuable Jor ime. The result was that the labor feil into the Bands of contractors. As long ago as 1855 one John Milon obtained a fifteen years’ coniract ana he exp@nided over $100,000 in an effort to successiully Work the quarries. His endeavors resuited in fer. failure and his enter- prise Was abandoned, arden Hubbeii states toat “the marbie quarries arg not in a condition to | yield profit to the State” and that ‘the lime burn- ing ousiness is 0: litue value.” He recommended | Uhat the cutting of stone lor market should be entirely abandoned and declared that the quarry at Sing Sing was a constant drain upon the Lreasury Thus condemned, the quarries remained unworked | unui February, 1866, | A NICE LITTLE JOB. This date marks the rise of a new era in State Prison contracts which had its advent with an organization consisting of one man aud known as the “Westchester Marbie and e Company.’ It was clear that if tnese quarries could ve got into the control of an unscrapuious contractor, who, by developing vast imagivary resources, could make the eee of immense ap- , parent Vaiue, he might be able to resell ms claim to tue Stute lor @ great advance. No scheme for “salting” a bogus yold mine was ever more cunningly conceived, and its execution was rather more simpie. While in the case of bogus gold mines sharp financiers, who propose to invest their own money, have to ve deceived, noting more critical than @ legislative committee was to be encountered. Svc 4 committee was appointed and @ deal Of correspondence ensued. The long and short of the whole mauer was that Mi Barnum, Hammond and scheu, the Inspec alver the passage Of an act by the be drs ahgese wrote the President of the corporation at asked to be informed the price at which he | would abrogate the contract. str, Waiker mnod- eatly replied that “he was directed by the trustees | to say that the sum of $125,000 18 the least we could agree to take for said contract.” The value of the stock owned by Walker ts variously estimated, but tue affair was regarded as A VERY GOOD THING FOR HIM. In the inventory of the stock of the company which accompanied the bili of sale (see page 75, Twenty-tirst Aunual Report) J fod mention made of @ Steam engine and plaster mii, These haa been the property of Wi and he disposed of them to the State. The mew prosperity of the quarries was of short duration. Under State man- agement ic soon proved @h utter failure. Alr iker was then re-engaged 1.0 superin- tend the work as State Agent, and tovk | & | sor Dwight and ex-Com; | eve that as a | mine-tauls,’ | Maa came -agaip | prison hours, possession of the same property which he bad isposed of to the State. The stone cracker was moved to the norch end of the yard and was there used for grindin; arbie dust, Within @ short time a Mr, Jayne chased this contract from Walker, and, as ni rs, has received from the latter @ clear bill of sale for this very engine, mul and other tools, once the property of the State, The matter is 80 complicated that Mr. Jayne pro- poses to resist the payment of a part of bis Cone tract with Walker until the subject shail have been thoroughly examined, This question is maki quite a commotion in Sing Sing, and it 1a asser' that Mr. Jayne has fully awakened to a realization of the fact that he has been badly victimized, Several other parttes, among whom may be men- tioned the Asphaltum Stone Company, at No. 257 Broadway, assert that they have been sold prop- erty by Albert Walker, which they-fear will prove not to have been his. Whether the result of de- sign or of a blunder, the matter must come up for early investigation py. the Board of Inspectors. There seems tu be little secrecy among the officials regarding their knowledge of these fact de one of them could doubtless tell @ good sto: uton oath. Warden Hubbell pledved hiniself to fant up some missing tackle and tools which dis- appeared, and will soon move energetically in the matter. WARDEN HUBBELL A REFORMER, I have visited the Warden at hig home on several oc*asions, and have always found him ooliging and willing to afford me every possible means of tn- formation. When lrelerred to the interest likely to awaken under an investigation Da tue Inspect ors of this last contract sale to Mr. Jayne he spoke very earnestly regarding it, and said he shoaia do everything 10 his power to have the matter sifted to the bottom, “for,” said he, it i one of those cases which, although entirely beyond the control of the Warden, bring down 80 much contumely upon him.” ‘THE QUARRIES A CONSTANT EXPENSE. “You once examined thie stone quarry question thoronghly, did you no! al \. “| was appointed on a commission with Profes- Pei troller Allen to examine famous sale was broughs the means by which tha’ about, and | opposed the ment of that $125,000 ¥ firmly ag I gould. It was en ne ehéiie, “vaiker was ‘he Compa A iainoa waa Ls board of directors, Mr. Sands, 0: ....- > terested with him at first, but ue soon boughs Dim out.” “Did not Walker have great trouble getting his ee , even aiter it was appropriated ?” I in- “I believe he did,” said Mr. Hubbell. “I told Comptroller Alien that Walker could not get the money if he (Allen) would protest Mr. Allen said he Was convinced that tt was a stock jovoin; scheme aud said he would not pay the money until compelled, [thought no more ef tt until about three years later [ learned that the money bad been turned over to Walker. 1 have every confi- dence in Comptroller Al.en's honor, and a3 @ con- sequence the payment of that money has always been a mystery to ma? ‘itis man Walker is now holding some office ia thié county, 1s he not #” [ inquired, “Yes, Excise Commissioner, I believe,’ replied THE LATR PHYSICIAN, Mr. Hubbell. Was there any reason assigned by the Inspec tors for the removal of Dr. Pryne and George H. bet Ac the chaplain; specitic charges I meant” 3 Ked. “The physician was removed on account of gene eral dissatisfaction, and it was thought best that the chaplain should go with kim,” replied the Warden. ‘The Doctor has been too long under the old-time régime, and cunnot treat a map in con- vict’s dress as if he were a human being. He can- not prescribe ior a convict without venting his spleen upon him, and, by every act in bis power, showing tothe man that there 1s Lo be very little sympathy wasted on him. This was carded as Just the thing under the ald system. {do not be- lieve in any maudlin sympathy ior a convict just because he 1s deprived ot his liberty, put I do be- pare matter of policy, aside from the good moral effect which it has upon some few, the mild and reasonable system of dealing with convicts is THE SAFEST AND BEST. To be sure there are to be foand many among this crowd of prisoners wno could only ve heid ip per- fect subjection by the shadow of the ‘cat-and- and with sucn there {s constant trouble; out this does not apply to even a@con- siderable minority of the convicts now here. It could have my way, Or make the laws, | should have a@ ‘Habitual Criminals act’, passed, deciar- jog that the taird conviction for & grave offence should entail puuishmeaot by a lise sentence. With such men there is no use wasting time or money. ‘The State must pay for them, and tt is better to support them all the time than to have the community shocked by their acts or the county treasuries ‘bied’ to ‘send them up.’ But, to go back to the Doctor. He grew up under the old ideas that as it was necessary to treat some convicts as if they were wild beasts, It was proper to treat all in the same manner. ‘thie is the sort of logic which..would prove that, a9 some men are murderers, #0 af men must be. Dr. Pryne thus acquired a morose disposition, which mide him unfit for practice in the prison, He could not discriminate between a boy who was serving for larceny and # man who was here lor the fourth time for a murderous assault.” HOW'S THIS FOR A DOCTOR? “Was {t true that he declined to give any atten- tion to the young-fellow who was shot here a short time ago ?’” | asked, “That report was not atrictly true, for the Doctor did sit up much o! the night with the wounded iad,” replied the Warden. ‘Was the Doctor not guilty of many unprefes- sional and uuwarrantable ucts during his stay here ? “He certainly was guilty of several acta which I shouid not regard a@ dignified or gentlemaniy. One or two instances may suitice to show you whatI mean. Amun had app.ied to the Doctor several times for some medicine to relieve @ trifing affecuon of the iungs or throat. The tor did not regard. the complaint serions enough to prescribe, and dismissed tne convict without iving him any attention or medicine. Ettuer ec use the complaint preyed on tne fellow’s mind or because he wanted to @unoy the physician. the convict re- peated his visits to the Doctor until tney became exceedingly annoying. The Doctor said that if the “he would fx him.” Sure enough when he did come, a dav or two later, the Doctor rubbed his entire chest and shoulders with croton oj).. The result was that the skin came off the man’s body and he was terribly tormented for some time aiter. {his was done for revenge. The Doctor served another convict in much the same way. He wasa German Jew and the Doctor was ‘down on him’ on that and some other accounts.” THE CORRUPTION AMONG THE KEEPERS “Is there no way of detecting keepers who are in the habit of fiiciing ‘ees from the convicts f" “I have tried every means, some successfully, some with utter iailure," replied the Warden. “fam told by a reliable man nanied A. B. Marray, lately a skilled empiovée in one 0! the shops, thas he has seen and heard @ keeper who ts now tn your employ. promise to have a convict changed from one part of the yard to the other, charging a8 @ constueration for his services four papers Of che w- ing tobacco, The convict was placed at the kind o! work whch suited him best—consider- ation, that chewing tobacco, Mr. Murray, whom I met at Dr. Fisher’s, names the maa. You know, of course, better than |, whether to send for him or not, From what sources do you beech iniormation regarding such acts ?”? ked, If we were to beileve every report which reaches us from convicts regarding Keepers or the clerks there wouid not be one of them left in twenty-four hours,” replied the Warden. “There have been some lew men here as convicts whom 1 could believe, Dui they can all be counted on my figures. Suco testimony as this you speak Of, however. {3 worthy of credence. Mr. Murray was in charge of the cavinet shop jor the contractors, and was a good workman. [believe | suall bring this to the notice of tne inspectors.” After much additionai conversation, which I can. not include in this letter, 1 said “Goodby” to the Warden aad returned to the village. MORE PENITENTIARY EXPLANATIONS. OME et To THE Eptror oF THE HEKALD:— Permit me to call your atsention to the reply ef Warden Liscomb to a resolution passed by the Board of Commissioners of Charities ana Correc- tion relative toa boat being ouiit in the Cellar of Warden Liscomb’s private residence on Biack- well's Island, The reply staces the purposes un- tended for ssid boat—namely, to be ased after hours in the evening for the purpose of attending to private business in the city, #ad iso to convey Ban caafehy ceca te aa? tna ves or friends prison DORe: Af such ve eared oo HO very much), | do not see w! goes ie ex- pense of the macerisl for said doal, as the :natita- tion has now in use four small guard or picket ‘which are put up at the close 0. institution hours ang are at his disposai, or h2 coud come and returao by so eee Hospitai boat most any time during the Might, say Detween the hours of seven P. and three A.M. There ts sometni wrong. His reply was too long coming. again, wo if i your sttention to the several artich that have appeared in the columns of your vaiaa- bie journal within the past thirty days o: the workings of the several ingtitutions, in which gave @ very graplic and periect account of expenditure 0; the severai departments under charge Of said Board, and aiso o: tne interview of one Oo: your reporters witn the President, Mr, Wiliam Latmbeer. At that interview President Laimbeer (to use his own words) admitted these acts to be ‘gospel truth.” For the President of } Buch @ body to adinit tn such verifying words of the gross MisManugement and corruption of the msti- , tutions under fis Caa:ge, in my opinion, requires “ynmediate investigation or immediate resigna- tuon.’’ And jurther. [ would cali your attention to the economical resolution offered by Gommis- moner Meyer Stern and passed vy that Board, rejative (o the reduction of salaries of eighteen keepers ai the Peuitentiary to §1 15 per das. Claiming ther them to be ouly guards. Now, se@ | how much economy there is in this resolution, Ow May, i, 1Sto, the number of keepers on Peniten~ tary roster, thirty-one; ou May, 1, 1874, the oom ber 0 Keepers on Penitentiary roster, forty-fve, making au increase of keepers fourteen. Giving the resolution the beneft oi tue reduced rate there Would ve an increase of expenditure of salaries in ths {pst vation of $24 50 per duy, iat ba 50 per year. “is this economy or is it refo : A PIFLERN YEARS) SUBSCRIBER, NEW YORK, May 21, 1874.