The New York Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1874, Page 5

THE COURTS. The Buffalo, New York and Erie Railroad Bond Forgeries, “GOING FOR” A POLICE MAGISTRATE. The “Libby Dorris” Suit Some- what Complicated. Judge Blatchford on the New Bankrupt Law. One of the worst grievances to which our judges have to submit is the incessant importunities of lawyers to be appointed reierces, Judge Donohue, of the Supreme Court, has hit on a plan of pro- cedure which, when it comes to be known, will doubtless greatly diminish the army of beseigers that stand ready to beset him the moment he steps of the bench. Judge Donohue asked a lawyer, who with un- ‘Usual pertinacious importunity had desired to be Femembered in his referee appointments. “How much do you make a year in your profes. sion?’ “Not over $8,000,” answered the lawyer Promptiy, thinking that would settle the matter, and which it did, though hardly in the way antici- pated. “As long as you can make that sum I shall never appoint you as referee,” replied the Judge sharply. | “There are hundreds of lawyers in this city, capa- ble and honest men, living from hand to mouth and having hard work at that—such only shall I Sppoint reterees,” y The examination in the Winship case was re- | sumed again yesterday by the referee, Mr. Fuller. | The first witness called by the defence was Frede- Fick Ogden, a banker. He testified that in October, 1870, he was Assistant Auditor in the Custom House, and paid the employés. He paid the de- | fendant’s bills tor the salaries of clerks employed | there. At the time witness had paid him as much | as fiiteen or twenty thousand doilars, after leav- | ing the Custom House witness was employed as an | accountant and had {frequent dealings with the delendant, who had often discounted witness’ bills: He knew the profits of that business were very | Jarge, but the losses were also consider- able. On cross-examination Stated that the monthly payrolls at the Custom | House amounted to $500,009, in the discounting of | Which the defendant had the principal business, ‘The rate of discon: usual in the business was | some years ago ten per cent, and at present varies | from one per cent to three per cent. Captain Noel, of the British brig Peerless, has } been committed by Order of Arrest Clerk Quincy i in default of $2,000 bail, to await the issue of a suit bronght against him by Emil Peterson, a young Danish sailor of the vessel, to recover $5,000 damages for alleged cruelty to plaintiff on a recent voyage from the West Indies to this port, in strik- ing him onthe head and kicking him in the ab- domen so as to seriously rupture him, Charles Klaer, of No. 127 Forsyth strect, gave $2,000 bail yesterday, before Order of Arrest Clerk Quincy, in @ suit brought against him by Julius Bruderiein, of No. 62 Deiancey street, to recover $26,000 damages for the loss of Louisa, plaintif’s wife, and Louisa and Charles, plaintif’s chudren, whom plaintis alleges that Klaer has taken from him. the witness | RAILRVAD BOND FORGERIES. In July last Charles B. Orvis was arrested ona bench warrant, issued by the District Attorney, to answer twenty-five Indictments found by the Grand Jury, on complaint o!f George B. Ripley. The | indictments were based on the alleged forgery of | twenty-five Buffalo, New York and Erte bonds of | $1,000 each. On this charge Orvis gave bail early | in August last, in $10,000, 10 answer when called upon, Immediately, however, on nis discharge | from the criminal arrest Mr. Ripley had him re- arrested, under an order of arrest granted by | dudge Pratt, in which bail was fixed at $20,000. | Since this latter arrest Orvis has becn in Ludiow Street Jail, unable to procure bail. Mr. Ripley al- leged in an afidavit that Orvis was introduced to | him in Jupe, 1872, as @ broker having Buffalo, New | York and Erie bonds on which he wanted an ad- Vance; that he advanced to Orvis $19,000 on the wecurity of these twenty-five bonus, believing and | relying upon their being genuine; that on the 3ist | of August following the New YoRK HERALD con- | tained along account of the forgery of bonds of | this description; that this was the first informa- } tion given of the forgeries; that upon making in- quiries he learned that these twenty-live bonds | ‘were @ part of those forged; that he immediately sent for Orvis, and that Orvis stated that he got them from a man named Morgan, a stranger, and whose present whereabouts was unknown to him. Upon this affidavit the order of arrest was granted, and yesterday, in Supertor Court, Chamuers, be- tore ondis jonohue, & motion was made by Mr. charles Blandy, counsel for Mr. Orvis, to vacate the order of arrest, Jn support of such apphicae tion counsel read a lony affidavit of Mr. Orvis and ove trom Mr. Hayes, showing Mr. Orvis’ good iaith in the matter as well as bis acquaintance with the bonds, and also giving jul) particulars of the man Morgan. ‘There was further read to the Court the alleged agreement entered into between Orvis and Mor- gan, by which Orvis agreed to acvauce Morgan eixty per cent of the face of said bonds. The affl- davits then went on to show that the advance was | Made; that Mr. Ripley was well aware of the cir- cumstances under which Orvis became acquainted with Morgan: that Orvis was ignorant of the Jorged character of the bonds; that he dealt with them in perlect good faith, veueving and relying upon their genuineness, and that Orvis was one Ol a large pumber who had iailen victims to the rascality of Morgan and his a: ates, The ath- davit of Orvis gives also a statement of business transactions of a similar characicr had between | Ripley and himself previous to this bond transag. tion, and of the words of warning given to Ripley by Mr, Hayes and Orvis when he made the advan upon the bonds, and Ripley's reply tuat if there Was anything wrong with the bonds the bank would know it. Considerable argument followed by counsel for the respective parties, Mr. Blandy stated that | Orvis was entirely destitute of means, that he ‘Was at present seriously ill and not expected to live, unless speedily reicased from prison. He in- sisted that Orvis was entirely innocent of any | knowledge of the forged character of the bonds at the time Ripley made the loan; that he had dealt in good faith, a8 any broker might to-day; and that, under the opinion of the Court of Appedis | in Marsh vs, Falker, ue was not guilty of any fraud, and the order of arrest ought to be vacated. Tne aMidavits in opposition set iorth that Mr. Ripley took the bonds on the personal responsibility of Mr. Orvis, that he had never had reason to question « his honor belore, aud that the first intelligence of | the bonds bee forged Was obtamned through the fact being ¢xclusively published in the New York BERALD, thAt no mention was made of the man Morgan until after this published exposure of the forgeries, and that their firm belie! now is that | ‘this man Morgan ts 4 myth, Judge Donouue took the papers, reserving his de- cision. AFTER A POLICE MAGISTRATE. In Supreme Court, Chambers, Judge Donohue had before him on Tuesday an application for the dis- charge of Mary Wilson, otherwise said to be Known as Libbie Dorris, she having been committed by | Police Justice Smith, in default of $1,000 ball. The magistrate made a return that the commit- ment was in due process of law, on complaint and evidence. This was flatly denied by counsel for the prisoner. Mr. Dana, of the District Atcar- ney’s ofice, didn’t seem to Know how it was him- Bell, and the Court thereupon ed an order, through piaintif’s counsel, for a further and more explicit revurn from the committing magistrate. All the parties appeared in court again yesterday, and counsel for tne prisoner informed the Court that he Visited Judge Smith on the evening previ- ous, when the latter said he had no (urther return to make. Judge Donohue, on hearing the above explana- tion from counsel, said—aud he spoke with consid- erable Warmth—that some of the police magistrates seem tO greatly overestimate the powers | with which they are clothed. He thougnt it about time to teach them a lesson. This Was @ matter which should be inquired into and alited, It was a matter such as li Tr heard of under any administration before. ms COUNSEL FOR THE Prisoner—Yo will aerate the position of counsel. bectissi fudge DONOHUE—Certainly; but if it ia not ad- mitted that the record seat to this Court was false, you will be granted a subpena to bring Judge Smith to Court for examination at two o'clock to-day. This matter 4 ugh aoa ought to be thor- | Daksa. of the District Attorneys aMne—J | | No. 746 Sixth street, from his gon Lout | twelve. The child was walking in Sixth street —e Show noUung OF the worn oF WUBlly OF we re- turn, Judge Dononuz—These papers, I think, ought to be sent before the Grand Jury if the District smerne does not admit the return to be false. What he does, like any other individual, Mr. Dana—lI cannot make that admission, Judge Dononve—To have before it a commitment Which it is admitted has not a word of truth in it | 4s adding to the difficulties of the Court, I do think it Is the first time that lever heard, in the admin- istration of justice, of a record produced in which the public authorities have to admit subsiantially there is not a word 01 truth tn it. But the District Attorney is now responsible, Alter some further talk, during which Mr. Dana intimated that he thought the prisoner ought to be committed upon another indictment now on fi in the District Attorney's office, the further cot sideration of the case was postponed till eleven this morping, When Police Justice Smith will be given an opportunity to have his say in the matter, THE NEW BANKRUPT LAW. Judge Blatchford has aelivered an opinion in the bankruptcy case of Charles J, Francke, Jr., and Charles F, Francke, which contains one important feature, in view of the recent amendments to the law. The facts of the lttgation, as stated in'the | opinion, are briefly these:—The bankrupts were _ adjudged as copartners by the Court on the 28th of June, 1872, on @ petition filed against them. They appeared and flea a written consent to an | adjudication. A Warrant was issued, and the first meeting of creditors was held on the 2d of August, | 1872, On that day thirty creaitors proved their | debts. An assignee was elected by the votes of twenty-seven of these. On the 19th of September, 1872, the bankrupts filed their sworn schedule of Gebts and assets. On the 23d of July, 1874, and not before, they filed a petition for discharge, By the 24th of July, 1874, forty-four creditors had proved their debte. The hearing in the petition for discharge was fixed for the 18th of August, 1874, No creditors appeared to oppose a discharge. The assignee has received moneys belonging to the estate to the amount of $9,996 22, It 1s not shown that the assets of the bankrupts are equal to fifty per cent of the claims proved against their estate, sent in writing of a majority in number and value of their creditors to whom they have be- come liable as principal debtors, and who have proved their claims, was filed at or before the time of the hearing of the discharge. According | to the schedule all of the debts were contracted | fused to give me money to pay the fare, nogh Ae after the 3ist Of December, 1868. Notwithstanding these facts the Register certifies that the bank- | rupts have conformed to their duty under the act to the act | of Congress passed in 1867, Accordin: of 1868 no discharge could be granted to debtors whose assets were not equal to fifty per cent of the claims proved against their estate upon which he shall be liable as the principal debtor, unless the | assent in writing of @ majority in number and value of nis creditors to whom he shall have be- come liable as a principal debtor, and who shail have proved their clatms, be fited at or before the time of hearing the application. By the first sec- tion of the act of July 14, 1870, it is declared that the provisions of the second clause ol the thirty-third section of sald act Of 1867, as amended by the first | section of the act of 1868 shail not apply to those debts from which a bankrupt seeks a dis- charge which were contracied prior to the lst of January, 1869. The requirements of the act of 1868 apply to all “proceedings in bankruptcy” commenced after the 1st of January, 1869, whetber the petition be one filed by or against the debtor, | Under these requirements the right to discharge | in this case is not shown; but the certificate of tne Kegister implies that it is supposed that be- cause this is a case of compulsory or involuntary | bankruptcy discharges may and must under the | act of June 22, 1874, be granted without a compli- ance with the requirements of the act of 1868, Juage Blatchford has written a lengthy and elab- orate opinion on those points, and the document | was yesterday received by the Clerk of the Court. He holds in this case that the provisions of the law of 1868 must be complied with before a discharge in bankraptcy can be obtained and the decision of the Kegister in Bankruptcy is overruled. This is the main and only point decided. The opinion in this connection is important to those of the Jegai projession and business men generally who are interested in bankruptcy matters, BUSINESS IN THE OTHER COURTS. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. Decisions. By Judge Donohue. Flint vs. Flint.—Motion granted. Carro}l vs. Carroll. —Memoranaum. Stern vs. Goepp.—Motion to settle order deniea no new order need be returned, Buctholz vs. Kursteen.—Motion denied, with costs. Memorandum, Wickham vs. Heitner.—Opinion. Keegan vs. Keegan.—Motiou denied, Weber vs. Weber.—Opinion, McHarg vs. McAlister.—Opinion. Downes vs, Weisbrock.—Motion granted. E, Jenny Murray vs. William W. Murray.—Will not grant decree on admi-sion. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad | Company vs. Posnier. —Opinion. Langay vs. Bolles.—Opinion, Ripley vs. Orvis.—Memorandum. Matter of T. F. MacMahon and others.—Memo- Tandem. Wilson vs. .Tuttle.—Memorandum, Bennett vs. Seizam et al.—Relerence. Van Dyke vs. Schnelzby et al.—Motion denied without costs. Rankin vs. Rankin.—Order granted, Kellogg vs. Jewitt.—Order granted, MARINE OCOURT—CHAMBERS, Decisions. By Judge Joachimsen, Stephan vs. Moore.—Default opeued on terms. Auerican Photograph, &c., Company vs. Camp- bell.—Motion td declare defendant in contempt de- nied, with $10 costs. Hutter vs. Wick.—Motion to compel return of execution granted. Dimond vs. Young.—Receiver appointed, Fanning vs. Hubvell.—Supplementary proceed- ings set aside, with costs, Osborne vs. Stillman.—Proceedings stayed pend- ine appeal on terms, Brown Bros. v8. Sewing Machine Engine Com- pany.—Demurrer overruled and judgment tor plaintif, | Ackley vs. Doughty.—Demurrer overruled And | judgment for plamtut Down vs. Pfirman.—Order of arrest vacated, with costs. Miller vs. Freedlander.—Motion for commission granted in part. Walter ys. Sheehy.—Demurrer overruled and judgment for fees ‘Topping vs. Dixon.—Default opened on terms. May vs. Koch.—Cause restored to general calen- ar. zabn vs. The Juventle Guardian Society.—Motion that answer be made more definite and certain granted, with costs to abide event. McCatlerty vs. Leicht.—Order that third party ty judgment, with costs. 8 8. Scnuitze vs. Strack.—Order that third party sat- | isty juddgmeant, with costs. Miler vs. McIntosh.—oraer that $22 be credited on judgment and execution, Memorandum, By order of Judge Joachimsen, holding Chamvers, During the month of September contested mo- tions returaable on Saturday will stana over, of course, to the ensuing Monday. Anew general calendar now being in prepara- tion motions to advance causes will not be Con- | sidered until Monday, the 14th inst. JEFFERSON MARKET POLICE COURT. A Bitter Female Quarrel. Before Judge Morgan. Annie Price and Delta Woods, two domestics employed in the Stacy House, No. 760 Broadway, quarrelled yesterday morning over some meat they were cooking, and, the dispute becoming bitter, Annie took up a fork and stabbea Delia in the | lett cheek. Della then lifted a pan of hot grease that was on the range and threw it over the head and shoulders of her assailant, scalding her face, arms and neck in a frightful manner, OMcer Popp, of the Fifteenth precinct, Was called in, and | he took both Women to the Police station, where y were attended by Surgeon Halper. Annie Price’s injuries were sO serious that she had to be removed to Bellevue Hospital. Delia Woods was brought before Judge Morgan yesterday and com- mitted to await the result of the injuries inflicted, | A Desperate Assault. Joun Quinn, of No, 71 Chariton street, while near his own home, about eight o'clock Tuesday evening, was suddenly and without any warning attacked by Dennis Harrington, of No. 75 Chariton street, with @ loaded cane. Barrington was ar- rested by Officer Brainard, of the Twenty-eighth precinct, who brought him betore Judge Morgan yesterday. Quinn, whose head showed unmistak- abie sighs of having received a severe beating, made a charge of assault and battery against the prisoner, and he was held in $600 bail to answer, PSSEX MARKET POLICE COURT, Another Dog Catcher in Trouble, Bewre Judge Bixby. Wiiliam Jones, of No, 209 Elm street, one of the Oficial dog catchers, Was arraigned yesterday atternoon on @ charge of stealing @ black and tan dog valued at $50, the property of Edward Wall, o aged yesterday leading the dog by a string. Jones, as is alleged, picked ap the animal and refused co re- turn it uniess he received $3, Young Wali ran into the house, obtained the money from his aunt, came out and offered it to the officious do; catcher. Jones took the $3 irom the boy, pnt stir reiused to give up possession, He was thereupon arrested hy Officer Marty, of the Ki¢venth vre- fudge Smith is compeliea to answer for | upon which they are hable as | | principal debtors, nor is it shown that the as- | | met. suage BIXoy committed Jones to answer at General Sessions in default of $1,000 bail, Robbing a Drunken Man. Officer John Crook, of the Seventh precinct, saw aman named Thomas Condon attempting to rob wadrugken sleep on the corner of East Broad | way aud Pike street, Tuesday evening. Omicer Crook arrested Condou, and be was held in $500 bail. to answer, COURT CALENDAR—THIS DAY. SUPREME CourT—CHamBsRs—Held by Judge Donohue.—Nos, 190, 206, 228, 19%, 216. ANOTHER J/RSEY SENSATION. abseil eae Wife Beating as an Exercise—Schol- land’s Confession—How His Wite Ag- gravated Him Till He Became Mad— Wilham Barry, of No. 100 Uliver street, while jing | Meetings of the Fire, Park and Another Case the Same Night. | Valentine Scholiand, who battered his wife’s | head with a club in Jersey City on Taesday might, | was brought up for examination yesterday | before Justice Keese, He is of medium | size, has I hair, 19 twenty-eight years of age and ia a harnessmaker by trade. fis wife, Whose condition 1s very precarious, 18 about twen- | ty-lour years old. His demeanor during the pro- ceedings was simply an exhibition of indifference, He stared fiercely at some of the spectators as a Teproach for their glances of curiosity. When asked what he had to say in reply to the charge of attempted murder of his wife he made tne fol- | lowing statement :— Treside at No, 242 Sevench street. My wife has tried to worry me to death, told me olten to get out of the house, and | couldn’t endure it any longer. 1 wus at the shop yesterday at two o'clock, and she entered and engaged to meet me at Hoboken; we met and went up to the Schuetzen | Park: there was myseli, my wife and one baby; we got back home at nine o'clock, by way of Hoboken; when we were going up to the | Schuetzen Park she wouid not sit by me in the car; in the Park she would not walk with me; we hud aD unpleasant time; she wouldn’t walk with ne | Unless 1 put myseli by her side, and then she | Would walk behind me, sof conidn’t see her; she made all the 1001 she could of me, but she wasn’t cross; she tried to run away from me; the Jact 18 she is ashamed of me; that’s shory spoken; she don’t want to be in my company; When we got into the car to come home she would not sit near me trom Hoboken to Jersey | City; I thougnt J only had eight cents, and sne re- | she had money; we had trouble in going from car to the house; after we got in the house she tantalized me; she abused me; I told her to stop or I would do something to | her; she said I dared not, because I was too much of @ coward; tien 1 remember | 1 threw acup at her; she ran to the door and I caught her by the throat to stop her; I stepped on ; her dress and she tell Gown on the floor; then 1 | happened to see the club you have there, aud pick- | img it up I struck her with it; then I could not } control myself, and struck her ten or twelve times; John, our oldest boy, got between us, and the ser- | vant girl ran out and cried; a lot of men then came in; the ofticer was first in the room, but I | don’t believe he saw me strike ber; I don’t believe | the servant saw me strike her; believe she was there when my wile fell over by the stove; I don’t | know what is the cause of the trouble between me | and my wife; she has often threatened to run me ; Out of the country; there {s no cause for jealousy on her part, for 1 never went with any one to give her cause for jealousy; once when we had trouble I went out West | to work; went also to New York State and .worked; then I went to Cleveland, because she | ordered’me out of the house; I came back to see | the children because I couldn’t bear to stay away | from them; when {came back she said I needn't stay on her account, because she didn’t want me; then I went off to Waterbury, Conn., and worked Jor John Delphine; 1 was there two mouths, | when Counsellor Jackson, for her, sent me | @ letter ordering me to come back; she | got him to send tne letter, which is in | the house yet; I came home in December last ana have been home ever since; my wile has been in good health, and I don’t know of her having any sickness; my jamily have lived in Jersey City seven years; my wile owns the house we live in; | we have been married ten years; we Own the lot, 54 by 100 feet, on the corner of Erie and Seventh | ; Streets; the property was accumulated by my | | wife, her mother and myseli, but there was no | | trouble about the property whatever.’? | . When he concluded this statement he hung his head, and for the first time seemed overpowered | by remorse. He inquired about the condition of | his wife, and when inlormed that she would prob- | ably die he became excited, The examination | Was adjourned to this morning. The les | used him was a pine ciub, two feet | in length, an inch and a halfin diameter and two | ; Pounds weignt. It was broken during the affray, and patches of hair and clotted blood aduered to it. The wounds inflicted were of a tearful charac- ter. The flesh on the right cheek was stripped to the bone, ‘The skull was tractured over tue right THE BAVARIAN VOLKS FEST, Third Day’s Festivities—Closing Scenes. The Bavarian festival was brought to a success- | ul conclusion yesterday. he Harlem River Park was again crowded with visitors, and the attend- | | ance was even more numerous than on the pre- | vious days, The programme yesterday in- | cluded a continuation of a Bavarian ‘coun- | try fair, which presented a variety of | | amusing scenes and incidents, and in the evening | @ battle scene was enacted under the direction of | Major Sauer and Captain Heubner, representing | the capture of Sedan and the surrender of Lous Napoleon, the scene concluding with a grand finale with tableaux representing Germany's | | triumph, while the famous battle song, “ie | Wactt am Rhein,” was chanted by a full cnorus, | accompanied by tie orchestra and a drum corps. ‘The concluding scenes of this peculiar festival | were enacted with great eflect, lully arousing the | spirit of patriotism of the vast assemblage of tne | descendants of the ancient Bavarians, while a dis- | ‘Play of irtendship enhanced the scene of testivi- | | Wes. The affalr Was wound up by a bali and sum- mer night’s festival. | THE MAYOR'S MUDDLE. | What Mr. Havemeyer Knows About It. Contrary to general expectation nothing was heard yesterday up to the close of office hours from Governor Dix, at the Mayor's oice, in relation to the charges preterred by Jobn Keily and others, Just aiter the Mayor was through | with his day’s labor, having signed about 1,600 checks, anumber of press representatives were admitted to his private office, who interrogated | Mr. Havemeyer on this subjecl. The Mayor was questioned is toliows :— REPORTER—MF. Mayor, itis publicly stated on the authority of a State Senator, that the Governor had made up his mind to remove you, and that you have received intimations to this eifect. Mayor HAVEMEYER—I have not. { REPORTER—Is it true that you have been notified | that an mquiry is to be ordered in your case, to take place on the 8th inst. ¥ To this the Mayor answered in a prevaricating manner :— “When Governor Dix has anything for me | keep it to myself, When J say anything to lim he generally keeps it to himselt,”’ REPORTER—Has the Governor, to your knowl- edge, arrived at any conciusien in your case ? Mayor HAVEMEYER—I do not know. REPORTER—Then you have pot heard from the Governor? Mayor Havemryrr—t did not say that. RerorTER—| understood that the Governor had finished the investigation, and would iorward his decision to-day or to-morrow. | Mayor HAYEMEYER—I don't know any more | | about it than you do—neither that there is goug to be any further investigation. With this the reporter withdrew, satisiled-that _ | His Honor, if ne did know anything, felt cary | about giving his Opinions and knowiedge tu the press, The rumors in regard to the Mayor's case are conflicting. A prominent official stated just even- ing, in positive terms, that the Mayor has not been, neither will be be removed, On tue other hand it is said as positively that Governor Dix bas ordered a judicial inquiry into that subject ou the | 8th of September. If the Governor has done any- } cathe about it he will make it @ublic now very shortly. | CITY HALL GOssIP, | The Sinking Fund Commisstoners held a meeting | yesterday at the Comptrolier’s office. Present Mayor Havemeyer, Chairman; Comptroller Green and Chamberlain There being no quorum, owing to the abse of order Hackett, the Commissioners adjourned uatil eleven o'clock to- ay. Henry Zinn, the auctionecr, of Twentieth street, Who was compla day to the Mayor for Laving sold three mattresses, called “hair,” to Mrs, McGlyiin, which were stuited With straw, yesterday returned the money ($5) to Mrs. McGlynn, and the case was dropped. OMicer Charles Sheldon, of the twenty-sixth pre- cinct, who arrested Gill, the murderer of Mortimer Sullivan, has beeu detailed for special duty at the Mayor's Office. ‘The Mayor ts busily engaged In taking testimony Against some heads of bureaus. ‘The parties com- Plaining are evidently in the Mayor's coniidence, judging from the freedom with which they enter his private office, without announcement, On in- terrogating His Honor he acknowledged the fact, but said that wien persons come to complain he generally takes thelr statement to examine sub- sequently {f anything is in ft. Notices are sent out trom the Permtt Burean to all persons having signs, bunners or any other In- siguia o1 thelr business that they are prohibited | | from displaying the same outside of the stoop lines, unger penalty of $15 ver day for each offence, and that the Corporatron Counsel will ety orainances, eye, and there was another fracture over the right ear, { | for ten days, inviting new propositions. prosecute all persous for such vidlation of the { | For redemption of short bonds issued to pay old 8 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. CITY DEPARTMENTS. | Health Commissioners. THE COMPTROLLER’S FINANCIAL EXHIBIT. General Sanitary Condition of| the City. A tour through the offices of the principal mu- nicipal departinents yesterday gave evidence of | the fact that there was but little doing in most of | them, The Park Commissioners, who meet on the first and third Wednesdays of every month, and the Fire Commissioners, who hold mectings every Wednesday morning, had but littie of interest to communicate, while the Dock Commissioners, who meet every Thursday afternoon at two o'clock, were preparing to despatch their business to-day. Manicipal Finance. Crry or Naw York, Devanraext ov FIxax Comrrrouten’s Orrice, Sept, 1, 1874. Monthly statement of thé amount of warrants drawn against the city treasury, January 1(o Aucust 31, 1874; also @ comparative statement of the city debt as of De- | cember 31, 1873, and August 31, 1874, together with a | statement of and for what purposes stocks have been sued :-— Warrants Drawn. To Tuly $1. In Angust, ror State tuxes....... 665,920 $500,000 Salaries, supplies, &c., in various de- partinents.. erate . Salaries judiciary and court expenses Interest on debt....... ee Charitable institutions... Fourth Avenue Improvement Seventy-seventh street. regulati &c. (appropriation 1366)... Miscellaneous... ae payments from taxation, 74. ; 74. i? % 13,888,437 $1,683,585 NEW WORKS, IMPROVEMENTS, ETC., PAYAULE YROM ISSUE OF BONDS, nings, im- Public works—Street o provements, &¢....... City parks improv ents, ‘Third avenue (Mornisama Museums ‘of Art and Natural” His- 8,00 tory cee 130,622 R189 Docks and slips nats’ 769,606 182,455 | Public school buildings- i tion and repairs... wags Ee Consolidated debt for assessment | AcAted 1,399,000 43,700 ounty Court tot 10,739 et stse d claims and judgm State Sinking fund defcien New York and Brooklyn Bridge 25,000 burveying. monumenting, — &c., above issth street, ineludin| | Twenty-third and Twenty-tourt | WALORG cesotisscaevarspecirkics ie - 25,549 | f | - $11,885,030 $1,153,587 | A Redemption of city debt Miscellaneous... Total payments from special and trust accounts... 12,781, 041 Total amount of warrants drawn in August. Add amount previously drawn in 1874 Total amount of warrants drawn to date... $40,417,410 3 JulySl, August Sl, 1873. 87a. "ist. Funded debt, payable from taxation” and Sinki +0... $107,802,617 $15,773,719 $116,120,819 Temporary debt, paya- ble wholly or im part from. assessments Revenue bonds, clal (chapter Laws 1871)... Revenue bonils, le 1574. 24,927,372 21,536, F 72,791,372 62: 2,034 1,472,547 3.700 3,700 | 14,939,200 15,164,700 D Revenue bonds, ay able trom taxes, 1574, Cash in city treasar: Cash in Sinking fands Stocks and bonds bave been issued in 1874 for tne fol- lowing purposes :— | For public works, ji 4,076,000 For land, damages, &c batik | | 355,100 For city parks improvements. 405,200 For ums of Artand Natural Tistor; 433,50) For | treets, surveying, monument: | ing, © Twenty-third au For improvement For For assessments vacated i 156th Street, including \ ‘wenty-fourth wards t Third avenue, M y Supreme Cour! jebts. psesires For old claims and judgmen For State Sinking funa deticiei For Department of Buildings. For New York and Brooklyn Bridge. For current expenses—Kevenue bonds p. from taxes of 18; Total amount of bonds issued 1874. ‘The following bonds have been paid off in 187 Revenue bonds issued 1872 aud 1875 to pay old debts. Revenue bonds of ana Assessment bonds. Street Improvement bonds. Department of Parks Improvement bona: Water stock of 1870... 397 4,472,547 30 54,00), ) Total amount of bonds pai 1874... ..... Yesterday’s Treasury Receipts. Comptroller Green reports the following receipts and disbursements of the treasury yesterday :— Claims paid—No. of warrants.. 39, am’t’g to.®. Payrolls—No. of warrants...... 51, am't'g to. Total. From taxes of I874,..0....... Ve haces From arrears of taxes, assessments and iuter- 4,657 28. 973 92 From water rents. : From licenses, Mayor's office Fees and fines, District Courts. Total. o ++ ++ $473,675 27 The Comptroller paid yesterday and will pay to-day, through Paymaster Falls, laborers on | Boulevards, &¢,, to August 22, amounting to $51,509 08, Department of Docks. The department has now 700 men in its employ, The principal works now in progress are the | building of the new stone whari at pier No. 1 North River, of the new pier a: the foot of Canal street and of two piers between Christopher and Eleventh streets. A good many workmen are em- ployed in the East Seventeenth stree+ yara dress- ing granite and at the Gansevoort street yard making Béton blocks. At the foot of 152d street a new eo is building, and at 155th street the pier is be! ie Rata In the fall four or five new pliers will be bullf along the North River, be- tween the Pad and Fourteenth street, and the Commissioners of the Siuking Fund are expected to authorize for this purpose in a few days the issue of bonds to the extent of $1,000,000. The employés inthe oMce of the department have no regular vacation tn the summer, and com- plain also of very hard work. The Secretary of the Board is reported to have worked from nine A. M. till nine P, M., and might tuvoke the protection of the Eight Hour law. {t must he coniessed that to be tied to an ofMice for ten hours a day during the hot summer, without any vacation, is anything but pleasant, The new charter has increased tho clerical work forty per cent, while the numerical force ts the same. Department of Parks. The Commissioners of Parks adopted a map, at their mesting yesterday, determining the position of the Eighth avenue road from the circle at Fifty- | ninth street to 110th street. The nearest ratl to the easterly curb line will be three feet distant from \t, and the most westerly rail will be Afteen feet distant. This will leave a clear carriage way of thirty-tnree feet. The railroad company will re- move the tracks at once, The work on the Five Points Park is rapidly nearing completion. The contracts for the Museum have been closed at last, and the work is already in progress and will be | pushed forward as rapidiy as possible. The en- closing wall of the Central Park, along the Kightn avenue, !s also being built. The “inscope” arch, near the Fifth avenue entrance, leading to the pond, bas been completed, The Fire Department. Arcgular meeting of the Fire Commissioners was | held yesterday at Firemen's Halli for the purpose of trying offences committed by firemen and to open bids and award contracts for forage. To effect the latter Comptroller Green was in attends ance, The box provided for the deposit of bids was | opened, but not one proposal was found to be there, | New advertisements will have to be issued, to run President: Joseph H,. Perley presided, and Commissioners cornelius Van Cott and Roswell D, Hatch were | present. | Fire Marshal George B. Sheldon is busily en- | gaged investigating cases 6: tucendiarism, and had @ number of witnesses vefore him yesterday. | Most of these men are summoned from their work | to testify against alleged incendiaries, without obtaining any compensation for their attendance. Marshai Sheldon very frequently pays these men trom his own means; but a tuud should be pro- | vided out of which a fixed sum should be paid to witnesses for coming to his ofMice on business o this Kind, Would tt not be weil for tho Board ét | Anportiofiment 0 provide saw a. snm Adnabate ta | ; Cates trom the censors before | therefore, on | nized b; | of the society making such request shall, and he is re- | by this act against such person.” | are to “go into the County Treasury of the county bring- | ing such aetion.”” | name of v ' considerable expense upon the mi in the State ot New Y , Inarket, 23 sldugiies | ing, bedat } teenth, Twentieth and Twenty-second, 5 Gerray such outlays, which wouid only form a very | Gemial the rumors have continued, in this city small percentage of our city’s expenditures | they have caused some fear among those people Justly appropriated? | who determinedly refuse to believe in the efficacy The report of tires and tos suqunt tes cabnanan c the "Bosra ty maouh of | of our quarantine system, and now, finaily, tt 1s Sheldon, irom which it appears there were durin more than iikely that they have gone far the month 109 fires with a loss of £58,005, agaluse 075, | y 104 fires anda loss of $85,942 during cane abroad, to produce inconveniences to oar Period of 1373. The insurazce on the property | Sailors and losses to Our merchants, Al- Sensrares lash reer gary and tor August, ready the authorities of Queenstown, OU b ¢ lows by these fires was $349 51 for August, 1874, and $826 86 for August, | Ireland, have issued Aan order imposing | quarantine regulations upon vessels from “Ameri- can ports,” classing these apart from the ports ot + 86 | the West Indies, traders from which are especially 6 | tobe supervised. New York being the chief of the 1873, CLASSIFICATION OP LOssEs, Less than $100. Between $100 and $1,00 Between $1,000 and $5,C00 Between $5,000 and $20,000. 2 “American ports,” unless the Queenstown pis riges omeciais own offl- Board of Health. | cials hare ee ee ae laws _ peed- At the reguiar meeting of the Board of Health ing long commentaries, she is undoubtedly heid yesterday aiternvon the following documents were handed in ang accepted :— THE LAW OF MEDICAL AND SURGICAL PRACTICE. New York, Sept 2, 1874. classed abroad among the infected places, AS there is and has been no real reason for thus Classing our city, the agile rumors {et slip by un- wplormed people must be set down as the cause o¢ action, To tux Boarp of Heauti:— Yesterday afternoon the writer visited the GENTLEMEN—Instructed by your resolution of aate “ ¥ Be August In 157s, 10. prepare a digest of the provisioas of Quarantine ofice, on Staten Island, to ase chapter 435 Laws 18/4, the law euutled “An act to regu. ‘in what was the general conditioa of te th fmedieine and surgery In the state of | Vessels that have arrived recentl; Di Suggestions as nay be deemed | Mosher, the Assistant Health Of) T, wa speak on the subject. He said that sickness has scarcely prevailed more than during last season. Though yellow fever has raged in Havana and other Cudan ports and has found | It Way into the snipping, none of the vessels that | have reached here trom those places have brought it in epidemic form, Every precaution 18 taken at Quarantine against the disease. Vessels xuide to the action of the medical so- have the honor to report :— #iv-¢—~That under the tirst section of the act every prac: titioner of medicine or surgery in the State of New York is required to have a eensé to practice in some form. He may be either a heentiate of some medical society or graduate of some chartered medical selool, or he must obta ficate trom the censors of thé New York ; law, either | found willing to medica 168 istrict e couniy, or State. certificate must | arriving from Havana, Matanzas, Si be recorded by the ( e f exch count: a » Matanzas, Sagua L ‘and of “the State” Wwherem the. betttionsr’ fesiues | SaMtiago, Pernambuco and Brazil have been qual and has his busine: ‘the power to license is | autined whether or not they have brought disease not extended b; » Ttremains only where it bas | Ob board; and this practice o: quarantining 1s DOW been previously conterred by” law, doea nor, of | continued except in the cases of vessels irom Sane Course, belong to every institution which may grant & | tlago and Pernambuco, with clean bills of health, diploma. The graduates of chartered medical sciools, | which ports seem to have acquired a healthiu! tone however, are permitted to practice without the ceri: | By 4 i that arrives i se ntioned, There are, very infected vessel that arrives in the lower bay hese three classes of practitioners recog: | 18 relieved of Che passengers and crew, is sumiga- the jaw, viz. | ted there and then is sent to the lighterage sta- First—Those licensed by some competent and legally | tion to be unloaded, it bemg Dr. Vanderpoew’s idea ps ra np 4 Sua tae om Shar nnd AMAIA Toni Ale | that the sooner the infectious poison 13 Ireed from Third—Tnose ho have obtained a certificate from one {ls prigon in the hold among the ary ana paisa, Of the several medical societies of the State. | the sooner it will be got rid of altogether, the certificates of the las: mentioned class must men- | Thus it will be seen that imported diseases have tion the branches of the medical art their possessors are | hard bouts with our quarantine methods, Dr. authorized to practice. | Mosher was very much surprised at the order of ‘Drovision Of the lave ia Dee entirely new mat an a | the Queenstown authorities, and he inclines to the ¥ OL i parti, chap it | Deltef that they do not mean to enforce their regu- lusive of the Kevised statutes, vol. 1, part hap. I, S, Ute ?, to whieh reverence should be had tora clearer l@tions agatasy New York vessels, but only against understanding of the intent and of the use of tuis those from Pensacoia and the Southern American law. cot, ard Moet it 4 gkepemh, of section 3 ports, The order had not yet been oMcially com~ . nt the of 1. whic! declared’ that “No ‘person’ shall bee Hable | municated, and therefore he could not tell with any criminal prosecution or to an indictment for | CFSAtbty what is its purport. t practising plysic or surgery without a license, except | in case of aalpractice, or gross ignorance or immoral conduct in such practice.” “Tt willbe seen by section 3 of this act of 1871 thata iailure to comply with tie re- quirements of this law is made a misdemeanor. But it | is to be remembered that at po time has any immunity | Meeting of the Board of Education Yew been granted by law in this State im the cases abo terday—The Care of Vagrant and ouUR EDUCATORS. quired to, at once commence the proceedings authorized ‘Vhe offence is deciared by the third section to be a | mislemeanor and tines are also prescribed. fhe fines | mentioned of malpractice, gross ignorance and iminoral conduct to persons prescribing oF adminisicring medi- | ‘Truamt Children—A Training School Cases such as that recently brought to public notice oc- | im Connection with the Normal Col+ curred in a so- nyvte hospital A new and additional measure of Yelief against the evils. of unlicensed DEM tce an pies eee, exisiacion, Previous to the meeting of the Board of Educa foun experience alone can determine, after a persistent and courageous attempt to | thom yesterday the Commissioners met in their quired of all practitioners who have snot. the lexut sang. , CAPACItY 8 trustees of the College of the City of Hon of some authority recognized by this’act to show. a New York. Secoud—"the censor of each medical society atoresai 6 ing shall notity all practitioners of medicine and surgery of | MY: Man stated that the college building was tp the laws and requirements of this act,” &c. The powers | an unsate condition, and that the necessary re- and duties of ceusors and the manner of their appoint. | They are'vo aiveuatice o¢ te Mine Aid place of gucn | TAF SOME $6,000 be transierred from other e e uotic e of suc! examinations as will enable them to grant the cercit | amounts to the account for repairs, Adopted. cates mentioned in the first section, It were better that a y ‘a copy of the law accompany each notice ; and, in case Mr. Baker moved that whereas: the: Comptrolier 4 prosecution for aiso beaten ge ik intende hie would ad- | interfered with tne power of the Board by refusing vise that a personal service of the notice bé made, and a | a 5 2 Se Fegulur proof thereof obtainec. Irwithia sue time pre: | Pay the salaries of the Secretary, Accountants and present themselves for examination, “the president | be authorized to take such action as would secure | to the Board THE CONTROL OF THE COLLEGE FUNDS, and to employ whatever legal aid might ve neces. ye These, proceedings are to be tn the | sary to carry Out the intention of the resolution, ple ana will begin in the Criminal and , ‘ y lice Courts, upon the complaints made by the presi- | Relerred to the Executive Committee. ANGE Sheuld be nothied aa ae tual the District | yeual business conference of the Board of Kduca- possible, procur v bility of making up . tion, Mr, William H, Neiison presided. ‘rhe Pres the case and of procuring the necessary evidence will, | “4 however, rest to x greatdegree upon the complainant, tdent stated that the Corporation Counsel had If an indictment be iound the charge ot the case will | taken steps to investigate the claims preferred J—Ki willbe readily seen that the more perfect the | Against the Board on account of the schoo! prop. siration of physicians and surgcons by each of the | erty i the Twenty-third ward. Tne Corporation above mentioned ‘medical societies, and the more com- plete and regular the communication between them, the ment for $23,000 which was obtained against the hore thoroughly and efeciuaily can the intent of this city, Mr. Man stated that if the property were Jaw, which caniiot be mistaken, be realized and i's pro- | Sol under tne Jadument, there would be no ac- nools of nedicine can be recognized except jus ; commodstions for the c! ren, He moved 4 reso- As they are to be found i the statute books. "°F | (ution that the Corporation Counsel take the Fourth—No difficulty can arke as to the particular forms | necessary steps to secure the setting aside of the to be use r dubstance is suliclently set torth in the first and second section, and already some have been | ‘C vas al: sted to ask the re ‘The Chair then announced in fitting terms the death of Leonard Hazelton, one oi the oldest prin- cipal teachers in the city. He paid a tripute to Kis memory as that of a kind-hearted, benevolent cines or specifies to ‘or for wie sick, without a ticense. | lege. enforce the law as It now stands. An examinagon is re: t have been tong established, so that no further | Pairs Would cost $10,000, He, therefore, moved xcribed, the persons liable do not comply with the law | and Assistant Secretary, the Executive Committed dents of the societies above mentioned or by others. | The meeting then transferred itself into the wrily devolve upon the District Attorney. | Counsel bad procured the reopening of the judg- visions entorced. No distinction between the different judgment and chattel mortgage. The Corporation Suggestions apon this subject by Mr. Georze 8. Hasti the Chief Clerk of this department, at the request of the | sanitary Committee 1 have great pleasure in enclosing herewith as well adapted to the purp Fi/th—Itis not to be deniea thas the law itself is not What many of its triends hoped it would be and that it e) 5 a ey u v has occasioned considerable disappointment in. the Prony The following resolution was then medical procession. Itentails a large responsibility and | 240P! A RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY, Resolved, That the Board has received with extreme regret the announcement of the death ot Leonard Hazel- dical societies, It is | aiticult to describe with uccuracy all that may be at | tained under at, which 1s yet to be proved by aciuai work. | So many questions 4 such atention to the — tui, for nearly torty years connected os a teacher with prosecutions thac m rdered will be requisite, that the comumion schools of this city, aud at his decease, with fisher cnected, ulless the socleues have # single exception, the oles: ‘of the principals of ue t Land make a strong eflort, that they | Efammar scaools, and thut it desires to express its ap cir Ov ’ oo Preciation of so long, fuichful und valuable 'a service in ehalf ot public education, as well as to testif esieem in which the deceased was hela py tnis and by all with whom he was connected as a map of Vigilance and worthy, diligent and taithtn! in his vuca~ ton, and estiinabie 1n'all the varied relatious of Lite. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the friends of the deceased, to whom the Board tenders its | siucere coudolence in the loss which they have sus- tained. ‘The communication from the Comptroller asking ss in establish i these new rules for practice ot medicine and surgery ris, All of which is respecuully submitted by W. P. PRENTICE, Attorney and Counsel, Board of Health. WORK OF THK SANITARY BUREAU. Sanitaky Bureau, New York, Sep. 1, 1874 To tne Boar or Hrauti:— the following 18 4 record of the work performed in the Sanitary Bureau for the week ending August 24, 1874:— ulation of the The number of ctions made by the sanitary and | sor the Board’s estimates for 1873 Was reierred to Assistant Sanitary Inspectors was 2479, as follows, Minance ( 34 Vi -8 public bindings, L245 tenemenc’ houses, gai We Finance Committee. A letter from Captain Fithian accepting the command of the schvol snip jor the nautical education oi children of this city was read, ‘The Committee on Furniture recommended that pianos ve bought ior sciools Nos. 2. 20 and 27 at an expense of $450. Reierred to the Finance Com- mittee, it was resolved to advertise for bids for the ne- cessary repuirs to school No. 43, A report of the Committee on Bylaws was sub- mittedin regard to the law passed by the Legis- lature for the care of the truant and habitually vagrant children. very difficult to optain accurate information tn regard to THE NUMBERS OF THESE VAGRANT CHILDREN in the various districts. The committee recom- mended that the police be requested to turnish the names of children who were vagrants on the street, who had never attended proper schools. who were mployed or kept in charge without r ceiving the requisite education, &c., &c. The re- port was adopted. In regard to the establishment of a “model school”? (or practising the teaching of classes) im connection with the Normal College, tue Cominit- tee reported that a traintug school ef tais kind private dwellings, 197 other dwellings, 30. manutuccories nd workshops, 3} stores and warelouses, 77 stables, 1 eas, Pipes and drains, 1s ets, guiters and sid alks, 7 W other nuisances, to- the sanitary inspectors 7 cellars brivies nd basemen and water close Gangerous siair viggeries, gether with twenty D Visits of sions d 8 waste 162 str 8, to cases of contit iseases Tre number of reports therein received from the sanitary and assistant sanitary inspectors was 855. During the past wee! received 79 ‘compiaints were from citizens and reterred to the Sanitary and Assistant Sanitary Inspectors for investigation aud report. The ntccting Corps have visited 46 premises where co! <disenses were, found, and have disintected an awed 36 houses, 35 privy sinks, together with clow &c, They have also disinected 190% miles of street gutters in the sollowing wards Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, seventh, Bish Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, m3 nth, Te nih, reven- whey have dis. imectcd Washington, Fulton, Catharine ‘ana Spring Street markets twice; also 633 privies and water closcts, ldy yards, courts and areas, aud 139 cellars and base- mets. Seventeen cases of smalipox were removed to the hos- pial and 1aead body to the Morgue by the Ambulance hth, Rixtoe! Corps. ‘for teachers was necessary, and they reco Permits were granted consignees of forty-tive vessels vr ey 4 to discharge cargoes on vouchersfrom the Health Ofticer ered beed railed forte tate Meenles GAP ch taf | of this port. bart Hag The trustees of the Twenty-third and Twenty- fourth wards petitioned tor the establishment ot two evening schovis. The petitions Were granted, fad the meeting then adjourned. A NOVEL MOTIVE POWER. ‘One hundred and forty-seven permits were granted scavengers to empty, clean and disintect privy sinks ‘The tollowing ix @ Counparative statement of cases of contagious diseases reported at this bureau for the two weeks ending August 29, 1874: Diphtheri: Sma!lpox. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Kespectruily submitted, s WALTER DE F. DAY, M.D. Sanitary Superintendent. MORTUARY RECORD OF THE 1, x Heacth DePARTMENT OF THe CITY Oo Bureau ov Vitat Statistics, } To THE SKCRETARY OF THR HUARD OF Sm—In the week ending on Saturday, Augnst, there were 618 deaths reported in New York, aguinst 735 which were verified as occurring during the previous week. The saving of lives was noticed chiefly, mm the zymotic class of tatal causes, and 75 per cent of this saving was of infants under a year old, and 55 per cent of the saving was in the ses charged as iarrhoal disease. There w crease of tatality from diphtheria ana only 6 deaths trom simalipox, 3 being in the [sland hospi Puerperal jever and pul monary phthisis ‘The death rat A Boat Drawn Twenty-two Miles by a Kite—Details of the VoyagemAn Ac- companying Sailboat Beaten. DSRIDGEPORT, Sept, 2, 1874. Mr. John F. Lacey yesterday successtuily accom plished the feat of crossing Long island Sound in a twelve foot rowboat drawn by a kite. The kite was ten feet bign by eight feet wide, and was at- tached to the forward part of the boat by a strong | cord, about six hundred feet of which was let out. The wind was blowiag northwest at about two o’clock FP. M. when the start was made from Sea | Side Park, Mr. Lacey being accompanied by Mr. C. | A. Booth, of tats city, Who held the rudder. | CUE START Was witnessed by @ large number of people, and | the success or fatiure of the enterprise was the subject of Much comment and speculation. The fresh breeze carried the boat steadily out into the Sound andin a direction toward Port Jefferaon, L.L A satiboat accompanted the kite propelled adventurers, but the strength of the kite was so | great that the sailboat was left behind before the ong Island shore Was reached. When avout ball- Way across the Sound the wind hauled to the west, | but the kite continued to draw quite as well as | before, and Port Jederson harbor was made in | three hours and a quarter after jeaving Sea Side Park, yearly, It was at 36 Bat in these weeks on 44.49 per cent respec ively of the deaths occurred in persons of 5 years at age and upwards; and the rate of mortality in wll that por- tion ov the inhabitants thas past the first years period of life Was equivalent to only 15.47 in the’ L000 annually, The death rate i the past 5 Weeks has been in that portion whieh ears of age and Upwards, a little over 19 per 100) yearly; while in the portion under § Years of age (estiinated at 12472) in the whole city) the rate has reached nearly 19 per 100 annually. The mean temperature last Wegk was 615, and im the week ending August 22 it was 739 degrees Fahrenbeit. ‘The average degree of humidity was 56-100 of total saturation i the last two weeks. The mean temperature in the ght midsummer weeks ending August 29 was 722, and the average humidity 61-1W of total saturation. The death rates of several American cities have in siX Weeks considerably exceeded the rate in ork, and in Berlin, Breslau, Munich, Rome and THE DISTANCE Venice the death rate has steadily’ been higher during the past six months than the rate in New York. The is twenty-two miles, and the boat drawn by the rate in London the second week in August was Zl per | Kite reached the shore at least @ mule anead of the 1,00), but in the twenty-one chief towns of Great Britain, | guilpoat which accompanied it. including London. the average death rate was 2 00. ‘The rate was 27 per 100 in Glasgow and Dublin, 35 in Liverpool and shemield, and only 19 per 1,00) in Edinburgh and Bristol. ‘The mean temperature in'these | 58 degrees and below. The citles of Kurope mer have the smallest death rates are thoxe in which the greatest mortality not many years ago prevailed, and tn which the most un- Sparing sanitary efforts have recently been put forth, ‘the cities of the United (States begin to present miler examples. The rates of mortality in Philadelphia, Bos- ton, Providence. Washington, Cincinnau, New Orleans and New York, in ail except the infant population under two years of age, have In this and the had & lower death rate than in pa: sive fatality of the midsummer weeks to infants has been but slightly diminished during the progress of sanitary improvement in these cites, but i ail other ages there has been marked advantage (o haman lite, Respecttully submitted, ELISHA HARRIS, M. D., Registrar of Vital Statistics. Affairs at Quarantine. wr | Old Field light was the point sailed for, and tt | was made eXactly, and thus en the voyage over about four points to the windward were made. Messrs. Lacey aod Booth landed at Port Jefferson, and their novel craft created quite a sensation among the hundreds who thronged to the shore to meet them. As the success of the experiment had been pronounced impossible, the achievement was very gratifying, and demonstrated that the theor- tes of would-be philosophers were all wide trom the mark. The kite was covered with fine white cottoa cloth and had a tail of “listing” 100 feet in length. Mr. Lacey reported to the two jocal news+ papers at Port Jefferson, and remained ali night that place, returning to Bridgeport on the | Steamer Spitfire this morning, bringing the kite with him. No other motive power than the kite was used to draw the boat through the the water, and there was not the least tendency to fail during the entire trip ovor. There have been current during the past month yi i trip win THE SUCCESS rn aver Various rumors to the effect that sickness, eg | Of thls trip will prompt many similar adventure! bab! 1 an: | pecially of the gellow fever type, ts mora common | DitePrmnrs on ave temeisinied. 6 + ae tabed at Quarantine than it has been for several pre- | of Mr. Lacey is confide! fh | “HY sails, vious seasons. The Quarantine officers bave farther excarsions t¢ voat rr a ae ready to °° Bull jon one tFal Tasmibilite ‘of thia methad of nav!