The New York Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JU. a SNSHINE AND SULT a. The Suné@ay Pienic and Pleasure | Parties in the Suburbs, THE DAY AT LONG BRANCH. Hilarity un the Hudson, Fun at the Fishing | Banks and Swimming in the | Surf at Coney Island. Seventy or eighty thousand persons of both sexes, including children, yesterday visited the dierent suburban resorts that girdle the metrop- olis, al} on pleasure bent. Never vefore has there veen such facilities for Sunday recreation as those which now exist, Several steamboats left, loaded to their guardchains, for the fishing banks, and Central Park was visited by happy thousands, From early morn till dewy eve the majestic Hudson had also its grand quota of pleasure seekers, and Long Island was Visited by great masses of work- ing people for fresh air and sunshine. THE POOR MAN’S PARK. While the residents up town, who stay at home on Sundays, visit Central Park for a breath of fresh air on that day, citizens down town dock in scores to the Battery. In fact this breathing spot may, with truth, be called the poor man’s pars. | At all hours yesterday did men and women, youtns and children crowd in numbers here and inhale the delightful breezes wafted over the sa.t water, and to enjoy at the same tume the grand panorama scenery so constuntly presented tn the bay, dotted, as it ever is, vith numberiess sailing craits, representing every nationality. In the evening the number of visitors to the Battery was Percepubly increased. PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN. eee ieee! Each successive recurrence of the summer Sap- bath day witnesses ap increase of the popular en- thusiastic patronage of the great Park of Brook- lyn, and it must be admitted, whether tne tax- payers opine that they have “paid too dear for their whistle” or otherwise, in the construction of this great lung, that the masses are satisfed. The cost of the Park thus far has been nearly $5,000,000, and there remains considerable costly work, provided for in the original plans and speci- fications, as yet undone. The crowd assembled | within the contines cf this pleasure ground yester- day afternoon was not far less than 40,000 men, women and clildren, The superintendents of the | Flatbush avenue, Coney Island road and Bergen street lines had more cars running than on any Sun- | day herewoiore, perhaps; stil the accommodations Were far irom adequate in meeting the wants of bic travel Parkward. The vehicles were iteraily crowded on every trip after hull-past one o'clock in the afternoon. The Iavonte resorts were, of course, the Picnic Grove (near the Ninth street entrance), Cottage Hill, Shelter Cottage | (near Franklin avenue), the arches of the briages, the jake, arbors, and the great artesian well (at | the foot of Lookout Hill). The boatmen were kept busy in rowing young people over the brigut Waters of the lake, and making change jor tares which poured in so generousiy that “che Admiral’s’ face was Wreathed in | smiies of most enchanting placidity. ‘The stnpid | colored waiters at the Dairy and Cottage were ore nonplussed in their vain endeavors to ay attention to customers. The ‘Sparrow police,” as the bine-coated guardians of Park property and Morais are generally termed, were never more | Officious in their deportment towards visitors than was tne c The roads were throngea with every description of livery venicle, hired jor the oecasivn by the tollers of the week, who felt that they could induige in that luxury One day in the week at this season, despite the oft referred to plea of stringent economists, touching the echoes and reverberauions o1 the clang ‘ud ciash of the pamic of last rail. LONG BRANCH. fhe Tide of Fashion Rolling Slowly In—Who the Present Visitors Are= Sunday and Its Pastimes. LONG BRANCH, Jone 28, 1874. Dumb devotees to frivolous fashion stili linger in the heated city, breathing its air charged with vaporous dust and incongrvous compound of vil- lanous odors, simply because that mysteriously mythical epoch, “the season,” has not yet veen fairly usuered in at our piaces of fashionable resort. Conventional formalities go a great way with this class oi people, and what Mrs. Grundy may say woes a great way further. A watering place pos- esses no attractions to suct witheut surging crowds and that wild whirl of excitement vegot- ten of thronged porches and compactly tied draw- ing rooms aud the afternoon dressing and dining and drives and evening hops and the opportuni+ ties, wituout which life would be a weary waste, | of exciting mutual euvy by the gorgeousness of their equipages and liveries, the costly elegance mamonds. Tie heavy and weary weight of all this unintelligible world of fashion, this weariness of dauly live without excitement. this iretful stir and fever surpasses the ken of ordinary philosophy. But so it is apd has been, and doubtiess will be | tothe last syllable of recorded time. But there are sensible people in the world, people whose thoughts do not ran on dress and display, peopie | possessing , —A sense sublime Of something far more deeply inieriuced; Whose deiight is the light of setting suns And the round ocean and the living air And the blue sky. It is such iolk come to Long Branch before the so-called season commences. It is such folk Maiviy one now sees at tue hotels. There is no preteuce, or sham, or hambuggery about such folk; DO shoddyism, no striving for show. Some are wealthy old families, who, When the weather | comes On Warm and bricks are brazen and brown | Stone fronts and pavements rabjd raaiators of | Pestiferous heat, shake the dust of the city from their iset and seek An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with perpetual gieams, Mingling with these, ana yet witn souls like stars and dwelling apart, are brain workers, the | world’s great masters, and yet its greatest slaves. What is fashion to such? Here they are no longer | slaves, Earth, air, skies, the ocean are their kindly servants. Away irom dingy oficesin the great, bustling city, and with manascripts and pens and lancets and briefs thrown aside, there is exhilaration and healing in this air and sojtiv soothing the music of the murmuring sea, Away irom business and care and the “still, sad music of human whose oppressive omnipresence is always leitin the teeming town, it is elysium to be bere, Great God! Ta rather be A pagan suckle 4 worn mth sea, suid make medess forlorn ; fave of rroteus rising {rom the sea, Or hear oid Priton biow his wea’ horn. A truce to thong like these, and yet they come crowding into one’s mind ¢ this pleasaut Sabbath by the sea shore, It was Supposed that jast eventu: rivals would greatly augmenc the Uist of guests on the hotel registers, A good many vat, scattered among the Caravanseries nts thelr presence is hardly perceptibie. reason there does not beg! to be as Many Visitors here as at chis time last year. The Gnamiabie ticlties of the weather are doudtiess largely to ve creuited with tus result. Thus tar Howland’s Hotei jas been favored with more thau its prope ter this week nearly wil it th the West End ad the et comparatively deserted, nut an the | Will Goudtiess tia these as’ wor’ gauetuer week Minor hotels compact With Visitors. No band ol music has put in an appearance yer, yyt they haye been signalled to be on Wand the \act of this week bringing With tiem “softest music to atteading ears.” confound those braying rass bands,” sayy in alliterative phrase a matronly lady, with eyes peer- ing over my shoulder apd reading woai | pave onate share of ghests, and + Tooms are engaged. Ocean House are ag | or sitting under the summer houses, | tageous has also sprung up in the telegraph bust ness, ja Was quite an invalid when he came here, suffered from rheumatic fever, but is now nearly recovered, Was intending to stay here some time longer and then take the tour of the lakes, but ts compelled to go to California, and Will leave on Tuesday. tor Standford, of Kentucky, the West E rooms enga: 1s, DOW that lew days Congressmen here will be bouts plying almost mands not afford it and those wno could, but who did not choose to go on an excursion five or fifty miles | up places more contigaous to New York, and the con- sequence was, the lJerryboats connecting tue city and the Jersey shore and Long crowded almost to excess during the greater por- tion of the day. i to some persons the very essence of happini | Certain it is thata great many thousands of the honest citizens of New York seemed to think so yesterd: day for and excursion some last stopping place, foot of Twent atten A.M. sharp, {t must have been alter one I’. M,. when a start was effected irom this whari, and the result Was that the excursionists lanued at Spring Hill Grove, near Yonkers, at about three o'clock in the aiternoon. 3 prised, besides Company D, of the Irish Voluite | of gray and gree: fag oi Erin ana all the bar; enjoyed. River side yesterday to Morrisania, Beach, Coney Island and other places. Isiand ferries were largely patronized during the day, of their dresses and the dazzling splendor of their | [C7est, Of | and Go themseives of the opportunity afforded by a trip in taking a iull view of the fort and fortifications. The little fringe of sand has wit and the meeting, the Jond kiss and the last adieu have been gi to its secrets for dead or living, no tale of what the hours have given to love. after $ , dummy depot, dear, balf an hour from hash time in the morning.” some of the young ladies and contrasting their ap- pearance now and in tull dress, one is apt to recall those two lines from Byron’s Giaour, Shrine of the mighty—can it be ‘That this is all that remains of thee? For all this there is no ‘airer scene than a gay party of bathers wantoning in the breakers. The main pastime of the day was strolling on the beach Au unusual nuuber of sailing vessels dotced the distant hori- | zon, and in the course of the day three steam uchts made their appearance, while on the tish- ing banks were two steamers freighted with their abundant patrons of piseatorial proclivities, little of Sunday scrupulousness. The aiternoon drive was lurgely patronized, but was maue up principally of coitagers, most of whom are now here taking their diurnal airing. peaking of cottagers, President Grant will take Possession O! his cottage—at least such is the cur- rent statement lere—on the 8th of next month. His carriages and horses arrived yesterday trom Washington, To his list of vehicles he has added an “English drag,” of dimensions suiliciently ample to accommodate all the members of his Cab- inet should they see fit to jomtiy infringe on his hospitality. ‘. Much might be written of general improve ments introduced since last seaso in the first place, the means ot munication have been con- siderably enlarged and more frequent trips are made to and from the city, which is a great con- yenlence to those whose business calis them tothe city during the day me, A second and great im- nent is the rebedding of the drive. More und uniformity has also been given to the bul, making it as a place of prome- nade greatiy more enjoyable than heretofore. Cold and warm salt water baths have been intro- duced in a spacious building erected tor the pur- | | pose—a great desideratum to invalids desirous of alt baths, but who cannot stand the shock of surf thing. A rivalry which is likely to prove edvan- The Western Union Telegraph Company, which formerly had an office at the West End Hotel, bas estaplished two oftices—one at the How- | d House and another tn a tent near the beach. | Meantime the Franklin Company has opened an ofice at the West ens telegraphing it will be a gord thing. id. If this compeiition cueap- The list of “distinguished arrivais” does not thus far make up a very voluminous record. where fle has been sojourning for several aay He likes the Branch very much, and Sena- rived yester¢ d, and Senator Joues, of Calornt sd from to-morrow. The probability ‘ongress has adjourned, that within a ‘Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallamobrosa, As early as seven o’clo’K yesterday morning the various steamboat landings on the broad wharves of the Hudson were alive with humanity, who, anxious for a breath of fresh air, gladly availed themselves of an excursion trip up the river to one of the many iittle parks or villas that lie so invit- ingly on either the New York or New Jersey shore. Up the Hudson, and within sight of the Battery, during the livelong day, so far as mortal eye couid reach, the sails and banners of boats and barges came to view, passed up the Hudson River from New York and Harlem yesterday than have been noted during the present summer. The day was sufficiently hot to provoke several profane observations, and so great was the rusd for fresh air that the steam. | to and fro on the Hudsin were | indeed, more excursion parties insuficient of travel. to the who de- could supply Those the river, pleased themselves by visiting Island were A trip up the Hudson just now is Pleasure boats leit hourly during the hadyside, Pleasant Val and Fort Le irom hali-past seven A. M. to three P. pariies—some German, sowe Irish, Americans, and some oi them a of all nationalities, passed up the river, landing at groves ana picturesque places between the city and Newburg. Provavly the zest pichic that Went up tue tiudsou was the under the auspices of the irish volunteers. diticnity was experienced, however, tarting, and though the which ursionists were adverti fourth 3) Ths picnte party com- rs, soldiery from Paterson and Jersey City. Irish Volunteers looked well in their uniforms The Stars and Stripes, the kinds of bunting floated from » Altogether the day was thoroughly ON THE EAST RIVER. Several excursion parties sajled from the East Rockaway thousands of persons visiting points of st on the island. A steam yacht plied houily day between the Custom House pier nor’s Island, and many hundreds avalied in- THE SURF AT CONEY ISLAND. Come to these yi ‘The hot breath of the sultry June day /ell on the tong stretch of white sand known as Coney Island, which Was dotted with little black specks of hu- manily im search of salt air and roast clams. Hither and thither they strayed, lsteningto tne resonant melody of the ocean, which came break- ing and rolling m at their teet. Thousands of happy execursiontsts who had come down with the intent 1o bathe in the surf rushed tor their flannel suits, and many paid each the sum of twenty-five cents. They capered and bounded in the salt water ike so many maniac animals let loose by old Neptane. it 18 not Dice to eat forty roast clams, then drink @ bottle of dry Verzenay (or what the native Boniface terms such) and afterwards attempt to goin the water. Clams, when encased in a manly frame, do not associate comiortably with the briny Geposits. The giorious beach, as fine as any in the United States, has been completely rid of all the rowdyism which tormerly disgraced its suriace. Now @ man may take his wife and chile dren to Coney Island, take a bath, eat his dinner at the Pavilion and stroll all over the island with- out meeting with any insult whatsoever. “Gh,” said one young lady, “I do think that tf there were open Carriages to ride along the beach Coney Island would be perfectly delightful. But 1 have been walking on the beach now for baif an hour and my gaiters are all filed with sa td When the hurly-burly and bustle of th passed at this little diamond set in the sea, and when all the transient visitors have taken boat or ratlway car to go back to the hot and dusty city, then the hours of pleasure come Jor those wiio ive on the island. Then the moon in all her glorious dor peers forth from the bine firmament, ana stars in their virgin purity glitter above and happy lovers walk arm in arm under the do: which is all peace and beauty. Then hands ¢ clasped, troth is plighted, afid tue surf chimes its eternal song as old as the world, and memory is stored With the serene mfuences of the hour. aged the partiog has en here. and the ocean, ever true listens and tells But, “Mect at the all, the parting words may be: THE FISHING BANKS. Among the many places to which New Yorkers may resort for recreation and healthful enjoyment, after the sweat and toil and bustie of the week, the Fishing Banks have pecuilar attractions. sail down the bay is delightful on a fine day, and the an One benefits of a sea voyage, atripped of its dangers The Iresb, bracing breeze from the ocean has invigorating effect on the constitution. can enjoy on @ small scale the with | Senator | Clayton, of California, is at the Howland House, He | ving | ality | The Staten | : ' family groups, carrying baskets of various shapes | young man named Peter Hughes, residing at No. and sizes to serve the double purpose of carrying ® cold dinner and bringing home the cap- tured fish, Lines and rods were in abund- ance, and most of those on board seemed to be animated by a determination to slaughter as many innocent little fishes as pos- sible. Some, however, evidentiy came there merely for fun, to have @ sail, enjoy the sea air, sing songs and make themselves merry. Bach proceeded according to his peculiar tastes or pre- dilections, While some busied themselves getting their lines or rods into working order and arrang- ing the bait others organized singing or dancing | parties, till the whole affair seemed like a picnic party woere all were on intimate terms. All kinds of comic songs were sung, and not a few deviations made trom the regular rues of dancing, bot nothing improper was observable, and all were weil conducted, though as jolly and sprightly as could be imagined. The day was remarkably fine, the sky being perfectly cloudless, and tts clear bine gradually merging to a iuisty gray toward the horizon. A strong fresh ight from the Atlantic tended to coun- ct the heat, which must otherwise lrave been oppressive, and made it pleasant to sit on the upper deck under the awning, which fluttered witha scene presented to the eye, How many thou- sands are there in New York who have never got | one good sight of its noble bay and are ignorant | ol the pleasure to be derived from @ sail through at? fact of this being thetr first trip down the bay and their surprise at its beauty was almost incredible. The boat leit pier 6 North River about a quarter past nine A, M., ana arrived opposite Long Branch a few minntes before twelve. Owing to sume cause connected with the tide it Was thought ad- visable to go down thus far, which is several mites jurther than usual, The anchor bemg let down the work o! fishing began at once, and at first with astonishing success. The lines in some cases had scarcely been thrown when some very fine fish were hauled in, and in many instances two and three were taken ata time, This continued for some time, but as the iour boats were all close tozetaer and a multitude of hanus at work, a gradual decrease was evident, and it was found necessary tochange the position from time to time, was curious to notice the varyiug degrees of success attending the efforts of the different anglers, Ip mauy instances wen wére seen patiently watching and waiting lor a bite till patience became worn out, | while some one beside them would make @ grand haul every other minute, In many cases ladies were more success/ul than their male friends, aud some had a formiaavie Joad of sea bass, black fish and porgies to bring home as trophies of their prowess. At uiree o'clock P.M. all the boats started on the return trip, and dancing and singing was tie order of the day till they arrived at thelr destina- ton, NEW YORK CITY. Nicholas Wagner fell off the stoop of No, 104 Art- | torney street yesterday and broke his leg. Officer O'Grady, of the Seventeenth precinct, hot a mad dog yesterday in front of No. 514 cast venth street. Anne Donohue, Tenth street, jumped out of the second story win- dow yesterday morning and broke her leg. James Haggerty, of No, 571 Third avenue, was seriously injured yesterday, through being kicked | by a horse, on the corner of Lexington avenue and Thirty-third street, Edward Rooney, aged twenty-eight years, of No. 245 East Sixtieth street, was dangerously injured yesterday afternoon by @ stone taliing on him at No. 336 East Sixtieth street. James Curran, aged twenty, of No. 626 East Thirteenth street, was wounded in the bead yes- terday morning, on the corner of Fifteenth street and avenue B, by some unknown parties. Timothy Connelly, five years of age, residing at No, 31 West street, Was instantly killed yesterday afternoon by falling trom the roof of bis residence | to the sidewalk. Coroner notiiied. | Oficer George Lawson and James Wilson, of No. 123 Fourth street, were kicked by a runaway horse | yesterday, in Third avenue, between Twenty- second ara Twenty-third streets. Lawson was dangerously aurt. Rachael Goldberg, aged thirteen years, of No. 66 Catharine street, was severely bit on the leg ye: day afternoon by a mad dog, in front of No, 32 ‘atharine street. The dog was shot by Officer Jack- Son Of the Fourth precinct. Joseph Grittin, seven years of age, residing at No, Sullivan street, Was run over yesterday by car No. 126, of the Seventh avenue line, at the cor- ner ot Waverley place, and sev d. The driver, Jobn Putnam, was arrested, The body of Loui; Jewett, son of Dr. Jewett, of No, 357 West Fourteenth street, who has been missing since the 24th inst., was found in the river fout of West Filteentn street yesterday afternoon, ‘The Corover was notitied to hold an inquest. BROOKLYN. ees A mad dog was shot by OMicer Caul, of the Eleventh precinct, yesterday afternoon at the corner of Clinton and Huntington streets, ‘rhe Excise law was disregarded as usual yester- day, and the only arrest reported for its violation | was that of Gustavo Palso, keeper of the lager | beer saloon No, 32 Sackett street. Anemployé of the Commissary Department of ; the Navy Yard, Theodore Wheaton, accidentally shot himself in the ankle while cleaning a revolver, | He is stopping at the City Hospital. A fire broke outin the four story structure Ni 76 Clermont avenue, occupied by R. Van Brunt as a moulding mili, at an early hour yesterday morn- ing. The loss is $900, Fully insured, The police of platoons will parade through the streets to-morrow moruing, When the people will | be afforaed an opportunity of reviewing their | guardians. | march. | Sixty-seven thousand nine hunared and sixty- three dollars and fifty-one cents were collected by | Mr. Lemuel Burrows during the past week. The receipts of the Water Registrar amounted to $46,900 05. Martin Spahn, fifty-three years of age, fell from | the second story window of his residence, No. 107 | Van Brunt street, on Saturday night, and, fractur- ing his skull, expired in a lew moments there- after. dane O'Neil, @ young woman, was admitted to the hospital at an early hour yesterday morning suffering iroma fractured skull, the resuit of a series of blows with a ciub dealt her by her brother-in-law, Caoaries O’Netl, a butcher, doi ng business at No, 61 Columbia sireet. | Coroner Jones was notified to hold an inquest | over the body of an unknown man, avout twenty- five years of age, found floating in the river atthe | foot of Conover street. Deceased was about tive jeet eight inches in height, had black hair, dark Pantaloon, and no coat or vest. The remains Were taken to the Morgue, Alderman Ropes, of the Finance Committee of | the Board of supervisors, has discovered that the paupers at the Almshouse are not properly treated, they having been served to stews dealt out with the naked hand of the waitress, in violation of common decency. He has also jound that many pauper inmates of the public buildings, who re- juse todo auy work on the county iarm, work out on Flatbush farms atthe rate or $1 60 and $2 per da’ There is, he says, “a scanda’ous state of isting in the Charity Department,” and he js determined upon ovtaiming redress for exist- ing evils. The necessities of tue Catholic Orphan Asylum of Brooklyn are such as to awaken in its most lively strain the nobiest of Christian virtues, ty. Tne institution is beavily in debt, and an edinary effort is necessary to lighten the burdens of that most essenual benevoent house. The iagat Key od Bishop, Joan Loughiin, yes- terday sent a ‘ular jetter to the pastors of the several congregations of the diocese, calling upon e rt them to take up @ collection lor the purpose of liquidating the floating debt of the Orphan Asy- lum, Which amounts to $50,000. The contributions Of the fulthial will be policited at an early day in | furtherance of this object. At about two o'clock jterday morning OMcer | Beecher, of the Sixth sub-precinct, was callea to | quell @ disturbance at the tenement louse No. 45 Throop avenue, Williamsburg. On arriving at the place ne found a man named Edward Herman pro | taily beating his wile. The onicer attempted to arrest Herman, When a fight took place, ia which the officer Was severely beaten on the head witn a cud in the hands of Herman, besides having his uniorm torn to rivbons. ‘the oilicer rapped for assistance, when (ii) Jotnson, of the sixth pre- cinct, hastened to the scene and they succe’ arresting Herman and a man named Seilert, and lodged tuem in the Sixth precinct station house. breeze blowing | fan-like motion, and enjoy the splendid , The number of old residents who avowed tie | aged forty-five, of No, 204 West | Itis expected that 300 patrolmen will | | 42 Spencer street, Williamsburg, was going | through Wallabout street, he was stopped by two | young ruffians, who demanded bis money. Hughes, | who is rather simple, did not readily comply with | their demand, whereupon one of them strack him on the head with a club, knocking hum down, and rifled his pockets of all the money he had, about $6, and then they ran away. OMicer Maloy, of the Sixth sub-precinct, getting a description of the | thieves, succeeded in arresting them some hours later, and locked them up in the Stagg street sta- tion house, where they gave their names as Robert Phillips, alias Moloney, and James Sheridan, They will be brought before Justice Eames this morning for eXamination, LONG ISLAND. | A party of Connecticut capitalists have purchased | the tarm of Mr. Elias Latham, at Orient, with the purpose of bbe Se large hotel, with a commo- dious wharl on the bay side, A turtie was killed on a farm at North Babylon on Friday which was marked on the back with the names of three brothers named Weeks, two of whom are dead, The survivor says the marking was done filty-two years ago. | Alarge number of brick cisterns are to be con- structed at the intersection ol the streets in A, T. | Stewart's Garden City for the reception of surplus water, which can be used in case of fire. It is also | proposed to erect & gas house lor the supply of the residents, | Superintendent Barton, of the ventral Railroad, | (Stewart's), has placed new refrigerator cars upon the road, in which to convey fish from Babylon to | New York. Paiace cars and drawing room cars have been placed upon the Long Island road to run with the mail and express trains. | Flushing proposes to have a special celebration | of the Fourth of July for the first time in many | years. A large tent will be pitched at the junction | of Jaggar and Jamaica avenues, and a programme has been arranged comprising the reading of the | Declaration ot Independence, an oration by Mr. Bradiord Prince, music, fireworks, &c. ‘The United States revenue steamer Grant has, | during the past week, been cruising in the Sound, having on board Judge Folger, of the Court of Ap- peals; Collector Arthur, United States District Attorney Bliss, Mr, Samuel Blatchford, of the New Yors Custom House, and others. The party were eniertained by Mr. 8. B, French, at Sag Harbor, on | Wednesday. | ‘he Water Commissioners of Flushing have de- termined upon a plan of distribution which will give the village something over Dine miles of pipe and include nearly every street. They expect to have the mains and distributing Dieee EO. the work complete and water inirodaced by the mid- | die of October. ‘The work of laying the pipes was | | commenced last week, | # Mr. J. R. Smith, one of the trnstees of the town | of Brookhaven, which claims extensive jurisdtc- tion over certain waters of the Great South Bay, is now collecting the names of all oystermen en- gaged in their pursuit in these waters. | proportion have paid the town’s toleration fee of | $5, but many are stil holding of aud taking the | risk of having to pay $5 1n the fall. It as under- stood that Mr. Smith, having the authority so to do, proposes to deal summarily with the latter | class. | The full Board of Directors of the Queens County | Agricultural Society met at the Fair Grounds, at | Mineola, on Saturday afternoon, to perfect ar- | Tangements, 80 far as possible, for the fall exhibi- | tion, Among Other important changes deter- | mined upon is the erection of a new grand stand | on the west side of the track, to be 200 feet long, roofed with canvas, and capable of seating 8,000 people, at a cost of $3,178, the old stand on the | east side to be removed. Tuere are also to be con- | structed twenty carriage houses and thirty stalls for horses. The premium list was nearly perfected. The premiums on cattle already determined upon | amoant to $1,000 and on horses to $1,500, with an additional special premium list to a large amount. | Among the latter are the following :—By the Presi- | dent, John C, Jackson, for the best herd of Alder- | ney cattle, $10 Joln L. Riker, ior the best | herd of short-horu cattle, $100; by Charles D. | Leverich and W. 8 Parke, best stallion of | any age, open to all competition, $100; second best, by the society, $50; by William P. Douglass, best saddle horse, carrying 149 pounds, open | to all competition, $100; by Simon kK. Bowne, best | Singic road horse, owned and bred in the county, $50; by John ©. Jackson, best pair of matched horses, owned and bred in the county, $100; by J. | | A. Herriman and F, Lawrence, best saddle mule, | | $20; by James Wright, for the slowest trotting | horse, $20; by George T. Lubatup, best road horse, | six years old and under seven, driven by the owner, $50; by Robert Morrill, best trio of wild turkeys, $00; by George W. Bergen, best half | bushel Of early rose potatoes, $25; by Hl. C. Rich- ards, best variety of potatoes, $10. In addition to | these and other ereea epee the regular pre- minum list was increased about fifty per cent. Wil- lam Drultand, Jr., of Jamaica, and R. E, Allen. of | | Great Neck, were appotuted Assistant Saperin- tendvents, and the Jollowing named gentiemen were appointed the Reception Committe Wile ham Cullen Bryant, William Floyd Jones, William | | d sswell, Jolin C, Jackson, Hon. Join A, King, Charies P. Leverich, Benjamin Hicks, John W. Lau. rence, P.C. Barnum, Stephen Taber, Charles H. | Jones, John L. Rike’ W JERSEY. A large gathering of Jersey yachtmen took place | at Prince’s Bay yesterday. It was agreed that the Shrewsbury ing. | Agrand billiard exhibition took place on Satur- day night at Commodore Sherman’s, Newark ave- nue, Jersey City, Garnier and Dion were among the players and their feats of skill were loudly ap- ver, Admiral William Taylor assent- A large | | gate or precaution to prevent coilisions, | next gala de given by the Neptune Club on the | NE 29, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. THE NEWARK MAN-TRAPS. Have the Public No Rights Railroads are Bound to Ob: I=The Fate of a Respectable Brooklyn Citize: Saturday’s HERALD contained a brief account of the shocking “accident” whteh befell a highly res- pectable citizen of Brooklyn, the mght previous, at the Chestnut street depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Newark, but there are additional par- ticulars of interest in the cise and arising out of it which have not yet been printed, and which the _public safety demand should be. The occurrence has aaduced intense general indignation against the company for the maintenance of a most dan- gerous man-trap at their Chestnut street de- pot, a description of which is incidental to the Friday night ‘‘accident,” @ builder residing at No, 221 Ninth street, Brook- lyn, in company with his sister and another young lady, arrived at the acpot, en route for the resi- dence of his brother, Mr. Bentley Squier, No. 50 Camp street, there to participate in a family re- union and jollifcation. The double track is separ- ated from the dingy little depot proper by a coal train track and a narrow platform, Between the uptrack and the down track there is no platform and, indeed, space enough only to admit of the trains passing each other safely. Trains from New York ran abreast of the platform, on the left looking south, and the first thing to attract the attention of strangers is the depot across the track on the west side of Railroaa avenue, At night the down track is not visible to strangers and even the most cautious are lared by the lighted up depot to jump offfrom the car platforms nearest it, igno- rant of the man-trap bencath them. It was just so with Mr, Squiers. He saw the depot and jumped of, not knowing that the platform was on the other side of the train or that the track for the eastern bound train was beneath him. At that moment along flew an eastern bound through train which, as is the custom, NEITHER STOPPED NOR SLACKED speed going through the depot space. Friends of Mr. Squier who were on board the train declare positively that there was no abatement in the speed going through the depot. It certainly is notorious that this company utterly scorns the State and municipal laws, which distinctiy forbid the running of trains through a depot at a high rate of speed and commands that they come toa stop when another train is in a depot, and the State and municipal authorittes seem as powerless to compel observance of the laws on the part of the railroad companies as when Camden and Amboy bossed the State, So Mr. Squier was struck, his skull fractured and his ear torn almost off. Thousands of people get on and off the trains dally at this Chestnut street depot, and the real wonder 1s that ten lives are not sacrificed for every one that ts. SURPRISING TO RELATE, and to the amazement of even tne medical gentle- men in attendance, Mr. Squier was still aliye up to | last evening, though tls life has been hanging on | the slenderest of threads ever since he was strack. The fracture extends Jrom the top of the ear to nearly the top of the head, Six doctors have been in attendance on him One of them said on Saturday that there Was not one chance in ten thousand for his life. | Nothing bat the very best of care has prolonged | his life. Mr. Squier is a man of about thirty-eight years of aye, & widower, having four children. His sister, Miss Squier, stated yesterday that he was noted for cautiousness and was accustomed to travei, Last fall he was attacned to the Interior Department and was with Lieutenant Wilkinson and Indian Commissioner Smith in the Indian ‘ler- ritory placing the Modocs on reserve, alter the famous Lava Bed campaign, He is aman o1 pow- eriul physique and great vitality. In tne event of nis death, which, as may be inferred, is only a quesaee of hours or days at farthest, the County hysician will order an inquest, with a view to having the ratiroad people open their eyes to the necessity of paying some regard for human life in | the prompt removal of such man-traps as the one above described. As Mr. Squiers’ relatives are instituted. In this connection 1t is proper to call attention to the important fact that the Pennsyivania Rail- road is not the only one running through Newark which has dangerous inan-traps which some day or other, 11 not removed, are certain to bring death to some and damages against the companies. One of these is the Mulberry street crossing of the New- ark anc New York Ratiroad, and the other the Broad street crossing of the Morris and Essex Ratiroad. In both instances horse cars cross tue steam car tracks, and in neither case is there any other than sexagenarian flagmen. ATTACK ON JERSEY POLICEMEN, Firearms, Clubs and Stones Used=Gal- lant Fight by Two Officers. A young ruffian named John Coyle, plied his vo- cauon as a@ burglar in Thomas’ liquor store, No. 338 Newark avenue, Jersey City, lash March, put managed to escape detection ever since till yes- terday morning, about two o'clock, when Ollicers Clos and Daiton proceeded to the piace witere they knew they would find their man, near the corner of BrunswicK and Second streets. whey found Coyle, and were proceeding to convey him to the police station, when they were set upon by a gang, head by Coyle’s brother. The crowd | used Clubs, sticks, stones, staves, and eveu fire- arms. | Tight and left, and held on to their man wll other officers arrived, Dulton had to fight witn nis re- | In the other, Coyle, the ringleader, and three of zi coupanions were arrested and are held for | trial, LIVINGSTONE’S FAMILY, {From the London Post, June 16.) | plauded by a large concourse 01 spectators. The residence of Mr. Gramm, No, 174 Hudson Street, Hoboken, was burgiariously entered on | Saturday aiternoon and robbed of jeweiry and | valuables to the extent of $300. The thieves made an entrance from a baker’s house adjoining, and escaped unmolested. | | Yesterday morning @ Prussian named Michel | Schneider, aged forty-nine years, jumped into the | Hackensack river at the foot of St, Paul’s avenue | He was laboring under a fit of | and was drowned. temporary insanity at the time. Deceased resided | on West Side avenue, Jersey City. A youthiul burglar, named John Coyle, hada | very promising career cut short at an early hour yesterday morning, while he was “cracking” the store of Mr. Henry Thomas, 338 Newark avenue, Jersey City. He now lies’ in the city prison, and | blames Officer Cios for his ill fortune, den adopted a resoiution declaring that South and West Jersey are entitled conjointly to the choice of a cundidate for Governor. Bettie is a prominent candiaate, but the strongholds of republicanism in the east, especially Hudson and Essex, have pro- nounced against him most emphatically. ‘The affairs of the National Railway have at last been wound up. Many of the creditors were giad to receive twenty per cent. A scheme is now on foot to resuscitate the original charter and raise capitai suflicient to bulid @ new rival line to the | Pennsylvania Raitroad. This can be done under the general railroad law Without farther legisia- , tion. | The anti-canine movement has extended to Ho- boken. The police force last evening received per- emptory instructions from Mayor McGavisk and | Chief Donavan to shoot every dog that roams at | jarge through the city. Hoboken is alive with these animais, and their extermimation will give great satisiaction to the people generally, | Asingular accident occurred on the New Jersey Central Ratiroad at Somerville yesteruay after. noon, A boy named James Carrol! was stealing a ride on top of @ freight car, and the collision of the cars when they stopped at the depot crushed both bis legs so that tuey were broken, He was conveyed to the Jersey City Hospital. Carroll re- sided at No. 470 Newark avenue, Jersey City, | The deadlock in the Board of Aldermen, Jersey City, 1s giving rise to curious complications, The | Heenses of all the liquor dealers expire to-morrow, and as no new licenses have been granted, all the fraternity will be liable to prosecution il the trartic be continued. Mr. Harrison, Prestdent of the Board of Aldefmen, positively declines to appoint apy committee till the election of officers has taken place. In this stern resolve he is supported by nearly the entire community. | ‘The stench on the shore of the bay from the Central Railroad dock to Communipaw has be- come sotntolerable on account of the aumping of ded in garbage by the railroad company that the Board | of Health of Jersey City nas been called upon to afford the residents along the line some retief. The republican caucus held on Saturday at Cam- j and inconveniences, and on arriving at the Fishing Banks the amusement furnished is both healthful and agreeable. The number of persona that availed themselves yesterday of the facilities afforded for visiting the Banks was very large. tten. ‘For you and I are past our dancing days,” \e my | quiet rejoinder, borrowed from Komeo and Juiet, ‘Bot I sat down to describe “Sanday at Long Branch.” There 1s not much to oe As ai- ady premised, it is ver; ne , but to most th F y Af he more enjoyabic. ade it aT ? preset place sore delicelein day evced hardly Four steainboats were filled to the utmost be ii we A ae TS | they could accommodate, and many came ust su y and éloud: t : ai ire jantastic air cases and aflthe air | °° ‘Ue Plers after the boats leit, seek eleotris ‘ue-giving with ihe vcean’s batmiest |'€ 4 means of going. A Heat re- breuth, few hig in mashing, but ae ee porter went on board the Traveller, Captain foam cres Downing, and sound a heterogeneous crowd of fishers and picasure seekers, all enthusiastic in | times, made a most pleas by Pit antieination of a zood day's svort. Mor® wore in | tckipg in aati of the scene enhanced by the picturesque Wax Js is run. secoemising she features Fire Marshal Thorne, of Brooklyn, is earnestly | getting rid of the Abattoir and fertilizing manufac- Last evening, at a meeting of the Royal Geo- graphical Society, Cambridge to take an honorary degree, the cnair Was taken by Sir Henry Rawlinson, who, before proceeding to the papers of the evening said the | Meeting wouid like to hear what the government | | wouid do as regarded the family of the late Dr. Livingstone. formed the society that the pension of £200 per | annum would be continued to the family and that an application had been made to. the government | Urging also @ grant of money, The amount | recommended by the deputation had been £10,000 or £11,000, bat the government, taking all the cir. cumstances into consideration, had thought that justice would be done by granting a sum of £3,000, and Parliament would be asked to vote this amount. The government had algo undertaken to | pay all arrears to the foliowers and servants of the | Doctor. About £1,000 had been due in this way | when his followers reuched Zanzibar, and the Consul there drew jor that amount on the Royal | Geographical Society. The council, thoagn feeling the greatest interest in and honor for Dr. Living- stone, did not think they were fairly liable ‘or these debts, and Her Majesty’s government had taken the whole upon themselves, so that now all | pecuniary matters between the late Dr. Living- | stone and the Geograpuical Society had been satis- lactorily conciuded, AN INHOSPITABLE LANDLORD. On Saturday evening last an old man named Patrick Manning, fresn from the country, applied for lodgings at No. 250 Mott street, and was taken in in more senses than one, The place is kept by John Daly, and one of his iemale boarders, named Louisa Lawrence, seems to have been in collusion with him in baled § verdant strangers, for after | Manning had partaken of his supper Louisa made herself so very agreeable that she became a nul- sance, and the old man so informed her, whereat she waxed indignant, and, calling in Daly, a row ensued, Daly beating him, and the woman ve- prived him of what ttle hair he still possess and, a8 he alleges, robbed him duri $2, all his worldly wealth, He had Daly and Louisa arrested, and at the Tombs Police Court Mr. A. Clark Squier, | well-to-do a suit for heavy dumages ts sure to be | The officers, however, plied their ciubs | volver pointed in one hand and his club ciencned | ir Bartle Frere having gone to | Sir Bartle Frere had already in- | i} | | | | | | ed, the scufie of yesterday Judge Fiammer committed them for | trial. | ENGLISH PILGRIMAJES, It is definitely settied, says an English journal, that the pilgrimage made by the Roman Catholics of England tast year shall be renewed this sum- mer; its dessination only will be altered, as, in- | stead of Paray-le-Monial, the archiepiscopal city of Sens will be its destination. it will be remem.- | bered that Sens was the place where the two great | exiled Archbishops of Canterbury resided duriug their exile, St. Edmund and St, Thomas a Becket; | and the Archbishop of Sens has addressed a letter | to the Very Rev. Mgr. Patterson, the Presi- dent of St. Edmund's College, near Ware, in He: fordshire, stating that, 1! the pilgrims come to hi ‘4 | cathedral city, they shall be “received with open arms as friends and brethren.” The French prelate | also congratulates the pilgrims in prospect, “as | Ings. engaged in endeavoring to ferret out a gang ot in- cendiaries who have been operating in that sub. urd known as East New York. Several houses were destroyed last week in ti locality. The scoundrels are wont to pail a fire box to the lower part of frame houses, in the dead of night, and | Chancellor Livingstone was on her trip from New jeave the structures to their inevitable fate of demolition, The box, Which 18 made of pine wood, is divided (nto wwo compartments, the centrai re- ceptacie being fliled with kerosene Oli and shav- ‘The outside compartment serves as an air conductor, while a fuse is ied into the Kerosene oil from each side of the vox. The last building de- | stroyed was on Saturday morning, on the corner of Van Sicien and Union avenues, Atabout three o'clock yesterday moroing as a tory these people lancied they were quite secure for the iuture, but they were doomed to disap- | pointment. A melancholy drowning casualty took place yesterday morning. While the Hoboken ferryboat | York, about ten o’clock yesterday forenoon, | an unknown man, sitting on the guard, lost his | still shown the sacerdotal vestments George Lester, the balunce and fell overboard, | pilot, immediately had the engines reversed, and | awa. The the possession of Captain Chase for-identifcation. Amn, who saw deceased tumble overboard, can be fogind at No, 231 East Thirteenth street, New vennelers York, His name ie Gustavus Kror | @ search was made for the body, but without | the Cathedral is ver; ‘anger’s hat was found and is now in | | the presence of the most illustrious and Most Rev- | erend Archbishop of Westminster will give ad- | ditional solemnity to the event. A committee of | clergy and jaity, comprising the Duke of Norfolk, Archbishop Manning and several of his colleagues, has been already formed tor the purpose of carry- | ing out the project. In the “treasury” of the | Cathedral of Sens, among other curious relics, are nd mitre of | Thomas & Becket, as well as his alb, grace, stole, | maniple and chasuble, The altar of st, Thomas in ancient, and it 18 said to be the same at which Becket used to perform his de- votions. While resident in the city of Sens, A Becket lived in the Apbey ot St. Colombe, now oc- gepied py some puns called “Sisters Of the Infant onus, | THE COMING COMET. Interview with the Man in the Moon.. Dr. Doremus and the Result. Dreadfut Another comet, and a comical sort of a comet, 1s now looming up above the horizon of Hoboken. The ordinary visitor to this refined and classic retreat, If he climb the hills in the gloaming or project himself through the roof of some tail tenement house, may see, with a double shotted telescope, a peculiar star, peeping up above the early gray of the circumambient air, and the star, as he willremark by sober observation through his telescope, possesses a tail. This, in fact, is the great feature of the present phenomenal appear- ance in the planetary world, AFTER VARIOUS INQUIRIES, fruitless in their results, the HERALD reporter finally resolved to call upon Dr. Doremus, whose reputation as an explorer of the heavens is very generally established, Dr. Doremus was swingings easily in a scup between two beach trees in front of his residence on Fourth avenue. He was smok~ ing & cagar, and the fountain in front of nim playe® liquid symphonies in the moonlight, “Doctor,* asked the reporter, ‘what do you think of the uprising comet?” z A SCENE AND A TALK. The Doctor, smoking his long regalia-Britannica and still swinging gracefully in his suspendedi chair, replied:—-I suspect that comet has just come up to see how things are in New York, No question but there is an intelligent crew on board these vagrant screw propellers of the planetary spheres,” “But, Doctor," interposed the unsophisticated re- porter, “is not the phrase screw propellers in ré+ | gard to comets somewnat odd 1?” Docror—You must remember that the tail of @ comet may be its propeller hgh the intensity ofthe vast empyrean, and that Its tatl may cxercise in its immense planetary design the same purpose, of progression that tae ordinary screw propeller performs across the ocean. Alver some further Conversation with the Doctor, who observea tie man of the mcon im the ‘distance, the reporter of the HERALD climbed up a tall cottonwood tree and hailed the man in the gon just as |v was passing over, and the follow- ing conversation ensued :— CONVERSATION WITH THE MAN IN THE MOON, “Hallo, old man! How avout that comet?” “What comet? Young leiler, you aad better go and soak your head in a tank of soda water.” HERALD Rerorrer—see here, old tellow! You occupy @ very elevated station, ay everybody recognizes, but you might have some courtesy 0: address, even though you are the man in the moon. COURTESY OF THE MAN IN THE MOON. “Old man ——" “Please avoid that form ofexpression. I may be old by reputation, but Lrenew my age quarterly.’? “Well, then, my lunar Iriend, you appear wore ried at the appearance of this comet. Does he in- iringe upon your bailiwick and does your comet- ary iriend yonder in the neighborhood o: Weehaw= ken interfere with your slumbers?”’ “You are, no doubt, pleased to know that the present comet which 18 now hovering over the Hlysian Fieids is come to learn what has become of the Tammany Ring, Jim Fisk, Bill Tweed and Sun- set Cox.” lis face haa the flush of a man whose very soul was perspiring with information. He was bursting: to deliver it, He kuew Dr. Doremus, Bull Tweed, Henry Ward Beecher, Theophilus Tilton, Reddy tne Blacksmith, Patrick Henry Joues, Kit Burns, Dr. image, Harry Hill, and, in fact, excepting Mark Twain, he knew everybody worth knowing. WHAT HE FOUND, “How about the Milky Way? Excuse me for troubling you with a subject so suggestive of our local Croton water pumps; but now, my boy, in your meanderinugs through ‘the Milky Way,’ a8 Lord Orrery first termed it, have you not dise covered a good deal of imposture ?"” “Milk and water,’ was the Man in the Moon's reply. A SIMPLE QUESTION. What does the word “moonstruck” mean ? “Lam alraid,’? said he, “you are indulging tm | levity, but I still have no doubt you are a seeker alter information. I have been a long time on this planet, and during the term of your various later Presidents I have looked into Wail street occasionally and i saw @ number of people om many occasions venture into tuat financial mael« | strom and get sucked in,” “You have a benighted Africa within your ter~ ritory.”” “That I will admit, my friend. There is a dark side o every subject. ‘True, a hemisphere of this globe on which I now stand is involved in a dark- hess worse than your political system under Presi- dent Grant; but i! Airica, of which you speak, were illuminated by the genius o/ the HERALD there ts a possibility that even this planet may be subject to the same marveilous exhbivition of enterprise,” JOURNALISTIC ENTEKPRISE. An enterprising evening journal, whicn recog nizes the mighty importance to the American pub- lic, of the character of this comet, inteuds to send seventeen of its reporters on board the long-taile@ | lugitive through the big bore gun at Fort Hamil- ton. It can fire of a reporter every twenty min- utes and land him safely on the tail of the comet. The public of New York will be sorry to hear if these seventeen gentlemen miss their grip on the tail, but they will be rejoiced to learn that 6o many have departed in the interest of science. A great noise will necessarily be made, but the en- terprise will redound to the credit of the repor- torial profession, and reflect, if they reach the lus- trous centre of the comet, immense credit on the ress, * OTHER THINGS HE SAID. He said, among other things, that his light was not to be hiaden under a busnel of New York meas- ure. On the whole this fellow, wno pretends ta run the machinery of Luna, is, in our city pats lance, ‘a iraud.”” He was evidently prejudiced against this city, and his utterances will be seen ta convey sufficient of malice and envy to distinguish bis character. He had heard of the picnics so common to our city, and also of the multitude of lager ceer kegs consumed at these festive gather« ings, but owing to his extreme distance and the dread of the Turnverein athletes jumping up ta his locality, he kept away from this sphere as mucky as be could. THE PURPOSE OF THE COMET. This comet is of a very remarkable character. It started out many millions of years ago to ‘find New York and the venerable Mayor Havemeyer, ‘The latter has already sent the ireedom of the city to the approaching comet. Being an ol uaintance, he will be received at tne Mayor’ private residence with all the dignity due ancient and distinguished acquaintance. Mayo! Havemeyer and the comet will recognize that nol change has taken piace in the municipal govern= ment of the city. THE MEANING OF THE COMET. ‘The comet, however, which ts truly and really comet, just now creeping slowly towards the zen-| ith, is thus descrived by Professor Alexander, of Princeton College. In @ recent conversation thet Professor delivered his views substantially as fole lows “] have not greatly interested myseif in the comet Coggia as yet, because I have preferred to wait until it approacues a little nearer. It is com~ ing earthward now at a rapid rate, and by tha misaie of next month it will be @ brilliant objects in the northern heavens. I learn that A. C, Du- rier, of London, Eugiand, has been making soma careful examinations of this comet through a very powertul glass, and that several careful examina- tions of tle elements and Saat have bee made. I have watched everything which has ap- ared upon the subject, and I am inclined to be- lieve that Projessor Lewis Swilt, of Rochester, ha given as accurate a description of its location as has yet been published, “The simplest direction, which ig very unscien- tific, however, is to say that it is located about midway between the horizon and the Polar star a@ one in the morning. I see the dipper and the Great Bear mixed up with the accounts of thig comet. Now, | decidedly object to this. Ido not give it as my official opinion, for Ihave had little chance to make apything like @ careful or accurate: diagnosis of this latest case of celestial phenome- non; bot | am under the impression that the comet js located beyund the nose and head o1 the Great Bear. The dipper, as is well known, is in the tain of the Great Bear, so that it is fully twice the length of the handle of the dipper from its nearest point tothe comet. The comet is, [nave reasom. to believe, in the head of the Lynx, and in the: early part of the evening is to be found about. thirty-five degrees to the eastward of a cord fall« ing irom the Polar star to the horizon. Ido now. put it in the Cameleopard, but in the Lynx. It haw the appearance of @ star of the third magni« tude, flattened out to that of the fourth magnitude without increasing its brilliancy,” As the Doctor had said, it did not appear in any: way necessary to find it by means of the init The dipper is useful for finding the Polar star, but not at all essential for acomet, Such a comet, too, as this, Wiuch can be joked about for mor than a month yet without any imminent need of preparation for a future state, TIME TABLE FOR JUNE. In the Doctor's study ne gave the followin; ephemera of tis comet {or the month of June. Js calculated in mean Berlin time by a Frenchman in London, named A. . Durter:— Deo, } 69° 45.1! + 60° 58.16 + 70° 9.34 1 10° 16.3! + 10° 16.2 June 12.5 (midnight) June 16.6 (midnight) June 20.5 (midnigtt) June 24.5 (inidnight) June 28.5 (inidnight) Mean Berlin time, LEMENTS :— Pasees its perihelion 1874, July, 20.1670, mean Berlin Longitaae 150 dex., 3 min., 16 seo. Mrclibation Sidop wise 69 10g. ay BON is Mean nnninns 1874,