The New York Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1874, Page 7

THE RAILROAD PROBLEM, Special Meeting of the Directors of the New York Cheap Trans- portation Association. Condemnation of Railroad Com- binations. Yesterday at the general office of the Cheap Sransportation Association, No. 110 Pear! street, a very important special mecting took plage of the directors to consider the recent reported railroad combinations, Among the promiuent gentlemen present were Colonel Benjamin P. Baker, Presi- dent, and F. 8. Thurber, Secretary, and among the directors, Messrs, J. Seaver Page, James 4. Barron, joho H. Kemp, Simon Stern, George L. Trask, John Dwight ana George Brown, The President called the meeting to order, and the Secretary proceeded to read a report of the COMMITTER ON RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION, ‘Which recited that:— In August last a convention of railway managers was held at Saratoga tor the ostensible and praiseworthy Purpose of inaugurating retormsin the management of Hi our trunk lines of railway, to the end that the public Bere yoasonapie rates of transportation, and at ¢ same time shareholders receive a falr courpensecign | for their inve: Dis. there were rumors floating about, | jowever, thal this conference ot railway mugnates Wi fot Jor this purpose, but rather to arrange a more per- | ject combination to swell their revenues ac the expen bi the public. Paragraphs line tne Jol iB Were Occ! Kionally seen in some of the papers:—"¥or once ©om Biodoré Vanderbilt, Colonel Scott and the brie peoble Were iu narmouy, all agreeing that the crisis was upon them and must ‘be mel, and that it was better to meet the enemy at the West than to wait until te had ad- vanced into New York, Pennsyivania and thé Gastern flates. What the plan of the campaign is no one bub jemselves know; but if what we hear whispered isonly | ait true it cannot be long before the order will be to mhove on the enemy's work&”—(Report of the oa Joye Hatiroad Cunterence, Philadelphia Luatte Ledger.) | jut the citizens of New York gave thetnselves no | ure that they would not. ki wouse that jad the olden égxs; but late indications have not Veen ver' mssuriniy and yesterday the meronunis ot New. Yor ere startled by the anhouncement that the Presiaents A 1, the «rie and the Ponpeyiven ntral, three men who h Yor ip und wield mote real power old the weltare ot f Fe three nen on this continent—had made the New Yoram Cent SES Sar journey to Baltimore to induce the Preside: nt nly other principal competing line to join them in an ance, which practically pooled their earnings and left them iree to take rom the public any suin they might chvose to ask. In the opinion gi the cominitiee he Manayement of these three great highways bis not | m characterized by & disinwrestedness aia public spirit which would make the possession of such power tither desirable or safe. From the most reliable data tant it Js evident that the New York Central and judson River Kailroad did not cost its stook and bond olders to exceed Pew w while its liabilities now rxceed $LIZ.U00,UW. The Krie Cost its stock olders even less, aud, fis Liabilities now | exceed 125, 000, ‘The stock of the Pennsylvania Central has Bot ween so glaringly . watered, but, ite liebiities bre ni upward of SLIL.Uuu,uu0. All the ener- ies of the managers of these great highways are iow bent upon maintaining rates of freight at a being Md ty will pay dividends upon these dctitious aiues. Most of this inflauion has deen accomplished by Oxing high rates of treight, accumulaung a large suc- plus jund, putting it into Improvements and then issuing ‘kK to represent the value of these Improvements, of, in other Words, first exacting money irom the public, then torever making the public pay interest upon the amount soexactei, Jt is argued by the apologists tor this practice (hat tt is current among inanulacturi! nd pluer corporations, but, they iguore ihess essential nts: at @ railroad is endowed with the right of eminent domain—the right to take private properiy— “because it is for the public uge,"’ and rallroads, there. fore, owe some duties to the public that manutacturing Companies do hot. = Again, manufacturing corporations are not like railroads, nutural monopolies vy virtuo pf their very formation, and no one is obliged to patron- ize them as 18 the case with the railroads. bearing upon this point is a slip trom the market report of an evening paner ot this city, beating date April 9, 1874:—"'The chiet point of attack to-day was Central Railroad stock, which has fallen cep and three- ol uurters per con, and of which, it is sa large mount has changed hands. Our represei e in- | uiring the reason of this movement was told by one of | i. the most prominent brokers on the. street substantially Bs lullows:— i hat 100 shares of Central stock were worth B10, 000 te ars ago, and then paid $600 interest to the pwuer. Now, without the investment of another penuy, Phe saine stock is worth $2.70), and pays $1,69¢ interest: jn the opinion of many people thisls an unnatural strain, and cannot long ve borne.” Contrasted with the olicy ot the evole its sur- to increasing the capuctty of and pertect- but not issuing stock to repcesent these itn- ; and it is the intention of its manager: road is ima pees and completed conditio: 8 reduce still further their rates ot freight, thus duix ing up and developing not only Baltimore, but the whole aniry; and itis whe fear of this that tnducés men like esses Vanderbilt, Scott and Jewert to journey down to jaltimore and endeavor to coax or drive President Gar- ett, of the Baltimore and Uhio Railroad, into a combi- pation with them. In the opinion of sour committee the | remendous development of our country, in this age of | | | jolicy'ol the other great highways the paltimore and Ohio Railroad has been to plus earnings Ing the roud, toal, iron, steam and electricity, must compel a re- idjustment of our transportation system in its relations the pu ‘nd one thing is certain and near at hand in our own city, unless the managers ot our great lines of railway adopt an entire new policy or our merchants Fake the initiative in building an independent, exclusive eel road to tho West, our commerce Will Brgnaaily iverted to other distributing points, which do not fave to pay tribute to fictitious capital or rings in the yanagement of thetr transportation lines. If our rait- joids Have the wistom to accept 4 present loss tor ke of prospective sain the trouble inay be averted, ind with the cunsiruction ot the exciusive treight rail: | road, as above noted, and the improvement of the rie the commerce of New York will be sate (or many 'e cannot close this brief report, how- Bver, without alluding to the tact that the trunk lines Witeddy In the comoination possess great power, and itis probable that they will exert it to force’ out- @ unesinto the alliance. Such a result, in the inion of yout committee, would bé a public misfor- and we theretore submit the accompanying resolu- ons, With the hope of encouraging the managers of out- nanding lines im the independent course which they have taken, All of which is respecttully submitted, Signed by F. B. Thurber. J. F. Henry, E. J. Martun, B. P. aker, James Haines Drake, Committee on Raliway fransportation. Mr. F. 5. Thurber, after reading the report, as Chairman of the Committee on Ratiroad Transpor- sation, presented a resolution which embodied | great praise of the meritorious action of the Balti- | wore and Obio Ratlroad Company in refusing com: Pliance with the cOmbination with the Peonsyl- vapia Central, Erie and New York Central, which would bind still more strongly the iron yoke on the nercantile interests of the whole country in pro- ‘ecting the odious railway monopolies under which yeneral trade was withering, and the supremacy ot New York in particular—as a great mercantile tentre— was departing. This résolution créated considerable discussion, Mr. Jonn H. Kemp and Mr. J, Seaver Page opposing it with eonsiderable animation, The latter gentie- man especially, He said (using almost the dgure { 61 the Colossus of Rhodes) :—‘‘We must remember the LEGS WE STAND ON. Let us be concinatory and do nothing hastily, If {believed it to be true that the assertions of the president of tne Committee on Raliway Transpot- fion were correct—thata great combination had | been fotmed—I should go turther than he, and tall a public indignation meeting in order to | rouse MERCHANTS TO THEIR DANGER, {am in favor, however, as long as we are not re- solving upou positive data, to appoint a commit. vee ol, Suy, Seven solid vusiness men—property holde:s—to visit these trunk tine offen and dis- sover if these rumors Of combinations are trae; then we could act intelligently.” Mr. Thurver in reply, stated his experiences be- ore the last Legisiature, when they picsep ied a Arait of a bili—similar to that tn effect in Massa- thusetts—-o1 the appointment of a Buard of Rail way Managers, Who should stand as arbiters oe- iween the people and the companies, The bil Was leliberately referred to a committee absolutely ander the CONTROL OF THE NEW YORK CENTRAL BAILROAD, | Aud deliberately smothered, | Mr. Simon Stern eloquently advocated the wopuion of Mr. Thurber'’s resolntion, remarking What “if anytniog could make bim sustain 16 it would be the covert conspiracy Maniiestiy appa- feu On the part of the companies—men wuo con- trolled property to the amount of four or five hun- fred millions of dollars—who gave it out toa tredulous public that they went on to Baltimore Mmply co puy their respects to Mr. Garrett, Presi- nent of tne Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company upon his return from Europe. {tis absurd. It is | time to be bold aud outspoken. We know the bonditions of this contest. THEY FIGHT US BY FOUL peak We went no more conciliations and compro. Mises, What we want is to show them the peopie Will use the line that will most cheaply do their business, Whether its terminus i8 in Baltimore or New York.” Colonel Baker, President, indorsed the resolu- fons of Mr. Tharber, and recited bow the associa. Hon has veen met by the Legisiature last session, He concluded by warmly and ably advocating ; A FOUR TRACK FREIGHT LINE to Chicago as the only way by which the eicroach- ments ol the monopoitsts could ve stopped. Messrs, Merwyn, Dwight aad Brown spoke on (he Subject OF the resolutions, gearly all of tue direc- tors concurring th tre principle, but objecting fo designating and praising THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. ‘The following resolution was, however, accepted, alter which the meeting adjourned:— | Seventh avenue, being In a hurry to reach Brook- | Bisnop of Kingston, Jamaica. | shows an expenditure for the year ending October | during the past week. | ten years of are) | He was removed to t | threé o’clock was nearing the latter | apparently tnfiicced by either a ballet of a buck: | Shot. Sne taimted im consequence of Resolved, That the ac of the managers of raiiroads who have retised toenter ito a combination with the pther trank lines meets with our bearty approval: that rouds which refuse to water their atoos, and Which are operated with some regard to the public interest de- serve the commendation of the pnbite. I hat white willing to accord a liberal re- ial actualy imvested in railway property | turn to ¢ that we deem the capitalizing of surplus earnings, In ally form, by Fatiway corporations au. ineubue upon commerce and ay injustice to the people who wranted the privileges anu franclised Which created them. tiesulved. That our entire producing, commercial and réal estate inieresis shor not be joy con. Hive a systean which i ge sally aden he ween ' 1d wWhien 1s pe Lanter om (he eas ait hs a Re" ly up princlple tase | NEW YORK CITY. icici The police made 1,674 arrests during the past week, A trifling fre occurred yer 228 Rivington street. There were reported last week 543 deaths, 510 births, 216 marriages and 45 still births. Hannan Boice, aged Aity years, residing at No. 199 Mulberry street, died suddenly yeaterday alter- noon, The Coroner was notified, The cases which were to have been heard yester- day by Judge Fancher, of the Court of Arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce, were postponed, Since Monday, tne 9th inst., the Board of Excise Das received tweive applications for licenses to sell liquors, and has aiso received during that Period the sum of $900. © Miss H, G. Brittan, Miss Marston, Miss Kimball and Miss Woodward sailed yesterday in the steam- ship City of New York, via England, for They go under the care of the “Woman's Union Missionary Society of America,” About eight o'clock yesterday morning Join Lawrence, # painter, Who resides at No. 262 day morn'ng at No. lyn, jumped alter @ Fulton terry boat. and misting | it, fel) into the slip, He was rescued by the police, Edward Webster, aged twenty-one years, who resides at No, 327 Grand street, Jersey City, itac- tured his leg by lalling from the second Noor to the basement of No. 204 Fulton street, at ior o’clock yesterday afternoon, He was taken to the Park Hospital . Myrtle de in Hooke Boone, the youngest Amer- ican lecwurer, will appear on Monday evening at Association Hall, under the auspices of her mother, and relate her “Experience as a Can- vasser,’? which has in other places been received with distinguished favor, The Grst exnibitien of the season given by the Members of Wood’s Gymnasium will take place on Saturday evening next. The programme will consist ol sparring, fencing, atvletic feats, &c., in which Messrs.O’Neji, Deturck, Pennell, Engelhardt, | Meigs, Newton ana Sands are expected (0 partici pate, Six steamers left New York for Europe yester- day, all fully fretghted with grain, cotton, pro- { visions, &c. Most of them also carried from 200 to 400 steerage passeiigers, induced to make the Voyage by tne extraordinarily low rates ot fare. | Cabin passengers were but jew, including Mr. Hugh Gardner, ¢x-Police Commissioner, and the The Thirty-first annua! report of the Soolety for Improving the Condition of the Poor, just issued, 15 of $94,430, ‘the number of tamiltes relieved during the year Was 24,091, including 89,845 per- sons, The humber of Visits made reached 35,111, The total sum of disbursementa since the society Was 1ounded in 1824 18 $1,463,071, ‘The police force numbered September 30, 2,494 men, all told; the number of arrests made in the quarter épding with that date, 24,817, being 1,849 more than for the preceding quarter; humber of Jost children restored, 1,577; numver of lodgers, 23,016. Of the arrests for feionies, 146 were for burglary, 406 for grand Jarceny, 45 for highway robbery, 48 tor receiving stolen goods, 22 for homi- cide and 6 for arson. Of the total 156 were coa- victed and sentenced to the Prison, Penitentiary, &c. The numoer of charges againat memveérs ot | the force in preserving discipline were 1,145, of which 210 are still on file, 38 more were dismissed and there wero 736 dues inflicted, Payments for the quarter amount to $1,014,839, " BROORLY: ‘There were 482 arrests Ly the police in Brookiyn Coliector Burrows reports the receipts for taxes last week as being $24,898 05. Six small boys were arrested at an early hour yesterday evening on Reed avenue for stealing window (rames valued at $60. They were sent out by their parents, who were destitute and were | suffering trom thé cold, to procure wood. A sacred concert (f aid of the Fathers of Mercy, who are engaged in erecting & new church on Broadway, willbe given at Sr. Patrick’s church, Kent avenue, on Sunday evening, the 22d inst. Verdi's grand requiem imass will be sung for the first time iu Brooklyn, Margaret Bollsa died (rom the effects of burns at the Bome for Destitute Children, of which Mrs. McCord 1s matron, yesterday. The child, who was | was engaged in toasting bread at a grate fire on Friday evening, when her clothing caught fre. Coroner Jones was notified. A ‘longshoreman, Diedrich Mart, twenty-three years of age, residing in Hamilton avenue, tell from aloft yesterday while at work on the bark Martha St. Berry, lying at the foot of Richard street, South erogeype and fractured his skull, e Onllege Hospital. James McCauley, thirty-four years Of age, a juuk- man, Was arrested at his residénce in Bond street esterday. on charge of assaulting John Smith, of 10. 455 Baltic sireet, by striking him on the head with & bar of iron about three weeks ago, Smith ms reportcd to be dying from the effects of the low. Coroner Whitehill was notified yesterday to take the ante-mortem statement of the negress, Elizabeth Jackson, forty-five years of age, who is | dying at her place of habitation on Ralph avenue, pear Marvin street, jrom the efects of a beating which she received at the hands of two men, both of whom are now in jail. LONG ISLAND. cc a ee The Presbytery of Nassau will meét in Hemp- stead ou Monday, the 234 inst., to take action | on the resignation of the Rev. Mr. French, pastor of the Presbyterian church of that place. H Burglars appear to have commenced their winter's work in the vicinity of Whitestone. On Friday nignt the house of Mr. Germain, at Great Neck, was entered aud a quantity of silver was taken. Lately several unoccupied houses have been entered and lead pipe and otber articles stolen, and sneak robberies have been quite com- mon, The gunning season appears to be more than usually prolife of accidents this year on Long Isiand. One man was killed by the discharge of his own piece near Jamaica only a short time ago, and severai others have received caatges in vari- ous parts of thoir bodies and limbs, in some cases rendering amputation necessary. An accident-- or something worse—whicn caine near being very serous, Occurred on the Southern Katiroad, be- tween Merritt aud Freeport, on Friday afternoon. As the train which leaves Babylon at lall-past lace the passengers tn One of the cars were startled by the smashing of fn and the ajmoss simultaneous teport of firearms, and it was immediately discovered that some one had either maliciously or carelessly fired into the train. A lady, whose name in thé coniusion was uot aécertained, received w serious Wound across the torehead, the frignt, but soon recovered her senses under the care of a poysician, Who happened to be on boafa the train, although she will po doubt be scarred for lite. | Several other passengers were sligntiy injured by | Daving their faces Cut with pieces of broken glass. The train Was not stopped, but persons who looked in the direction from which the shot came, saw three men skulking in the underorush, and thé act was probably committed by one o: them. A similar occurrence took place about a week ago, on the Long Island Railroad, between New- town and Hunter's Point, though fortunately to One was injured, WLSTCHESTER. The Board of County Supervisors will commence its official proceedings at White Pidins to-morrow. A “Pio Nono cadet corps” has been organized by Brother Simplician, the director of St. Mary's Catholic schoo! at Yonkers, Contrary to general expectation, the “prohibi- tion” ticket in the county, as cast at the late elec tion, did dot amount to more that 390 votes. Evening free schools have been recefitiy opened by the town authorities at Tarrytown, and algo in the village of Westchester. They will be continued during the winter month: Diphtheria has been making sad ravages among the little one in various portions of tne county. | A family living at Fordham lost four children vy the disease, and at Yonkers a day or two since, two infants were buried together from one home circle, A lecture will be delivered this evening at St. Jerome's church (Rev. Father Hughes, pastor), in North New York, by Rev. Father Young, of tne Pauitst Fathers, for the benefit of the poor of that aris, under the auspices of the Society of st. Vincent de Paul. The subject of the discourse will be ‘A Protestant's Reasons Why and How he Became a Catholic.” Professor U, F. Chandler, of Columbia College, who Was solicited by the Board of Water Com. missioners of Yonkers to anaiyza the water of Grassy Sprain brook, whicn it is proposed to utilize for @ storage reservoir, has sent in huis report showing that tho water 1s “practically as pure as the Croton.” The report wiil probably havea tendency to allay the animated contro. versy ou the subject, which for some weeks past has almost ehgrossed public attention in tne city hamed, ‘She beros, Outhouses and dwelling of Denier Qacpentcr, at Scarsdale, wore fred by an imcea- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOV: ) Asylum, 108 prisoners in the Penitentiary and 530 | He bro! fi ai end totally destroyed on Friday night. While a Mr. Popham, living in the vicinity, was proceeding to the fre Passed @ sifangé man, who was driving @ yoke of oxen in the prone direction; but thought little of the circumstance until arriving on the premises ol Mr. Carpenter, where he found, upon inquiry, that the cattle, which belonged to the gentleman Damed, were missing. The tulef and supposed in- cendiary was at once pursued, and overtaken pear Fast Cnester, when he abandoned the property and fled, making good bis escape in the darkness of the night, ERS Ee STATEN ISLAND. The funeral of Justice Charles C. Midd:ebrook, Just elected td the position of Justice of Sessions, ana who died at fils residence in Port Richmond, on Wednesday night, will take place this after- noon at we o'clock, from the Rejormed church in that Village, the Rev. Dr. Brownlee oMciating. Deceased was a member of Beacon Light Lodge, F. and A, M., and the burial will be witn Masonic ovremo: tes. The suit against Mr, Abraham Winant, formerly County Treasurer of Richmond county, and his sureties, for $15,060, the amount claimed by the Supervisors to be due the county irom him, has at Jast been decided, Five ol his sureties are re- | leased Irom lability, but Mr. Winant and three of Dis sureties are held as hable to pay $3,728 25, with interest and costs, Mr, Winant is shown to have been gutisy of no intentional fraud, A two story Irame building, on St. Pani’s avente, near Richmond road, Stapleton, owned by Mr. Jono Giafe and occupied by a German tamily as & dwelling, took fire from a defective fine on Fritla; evening aid was totiliy consumed, and a butid- ing pcieuning. aiso owned by Mr. Glaie, was con- siderably damaged, und only saved by great exer- tiotis on the part of the firemen, The building de- etroved Was Valued at $10,000, and insured for $2,500 In the Evba Insurance Company. The fur- Biture, on which there was an insuralice of $2,000 in the Liverpool! Insurance Compiny, was saved iD agamaged condition, While Niagara Fie En- “ine Company No, 5, of Stapleton, was returning trom the fife, and going down the mil) at Beach sitet, being ignt banded, their bine got uway froim them and dashed down the hill, running into @ lence and throwing Owen Williams utider the wheels, breaking one of bis legs and badly injur- ing his back. He was seit to the Smith Infirmary, at Tompkiusville. Another member, named Charles Zoon, had his leg seriousiy crashed, and was taken to his home in Sarah Atn street, fomp- Kinaville, NEW JERSEY. A new iron bridge will goon be built over the Muscometcong River, at Hackettstown, Warren county, The wages of trackmen on the Delaware and Lackawanna Ratiroad have just been reduced to $1 per day. Last year Egg Harbor produced 3,500,000 pounds of grapes, which has been increased this year to 6,000,000 pounds. Thee are 133 lunatics in the Hudson County paupers in the Almshouse, Hamilton, the véfaulting Treasurer of J y City, has been admitted to ball in $15,000, his father becoming his bondsman, The report of the secretary of the Elizabeth Board of Education, just furnished, sets forth that | the pay roils for teachers and janitors for the last | month amounted to $2,867, Application witl be made to the next Legislature for a supplement to the charter of the Children’s Seashore Home at Atlantic City, authorizing it to bold $100,000 worth of property. The Burlington County Almshouse contains forty-nine patients, and in consequence of tne quota of that county in the State Asylum at Tren- ton being Inil these unfortunates will have to re- main in their present above, The State Sunday School Association, wnich bas just closed its annual session at Melville, reported the total receipts for the past year to be $1,002, and expenditures $628, The tocal number of sab- batn schools in the State ts 1,604; schuiars, 171, 7985 library ovoks, 425,000; and total vaiue, $205,000. pL of conversions during the year was 642 y Urders have just been Issued to the superintend- ents of the several divisions of the Pennsylvania Railroad to discharge the entire force of men at work upon the new construction and five men from every section gang. This latter edict will throw 200 men out of work. ‘The old rule was ten hours per day and jourteen cenis per hour, which hus now been reduced to nine Nours at ‘twelve cents per hour. The section gaogs heretotore numbered twelve men each, now the number. is but seven. A reduction in che force and time in all the other departments is anticipated very soon. Yesterday morning, betweon midnight and day- light, burgiars entered the store of E. McNaugh- tou, clothier, on Broad street, Newark, and relieved it of @ valuable lot of new clothing. The unieves, it is believed, were frightened oif betore they bad secured all their intended plunder by beariog @ man walkiog in the room over the store. He was, however, entirely unconscious of tie thieving work going on down stairs. This maker | the ftth time in six months that Mr. McNaughton | has been robbed. The same thieves aiso plundered the barroom of the Central Hotel, near by, paying their devoirs to the brandy and cigars. BURGLARS BAFFLED. Eatly yesterday morning, while Omficer Meyer, Of the Second precinct, was passing through Maiden lane, ue noticed the evidences of the pres- ence of burglars In No. 71. His attempts to fol- low them into the building staftied the thieve: and they left it by arearexit. They had prepare for trapsportation about $5,000 wortn of cigars, the property of Garcia & Co., cigar manufacturers, W40 aré occupants of the butiding. CORONERS’ CASES. Mary Kelly, an Irishwoman, forty-five yeara ot age, who lived at No, 1,545 Second avenue, was yesterday morning found dead im bed by her daughter. Three hoars previgusly sbe was appar- ently in her usual bealtn, Coroner Croker was notified. An inquest was yesterday beld by Coroner Eick- hoff on the body of Rose McVeany. a woman seventy-four years of age and born to Ireland, whose death resulted from injuries received n the 30th ult, by betng run over by a team of horses attached toa Wagon driven by Louis Miller, THE KILLING OF OFFIOER BVEBS, Coroner Eickhoff yesterday afternoon held an inquest tn the case of Thomas J. Evers, late an officer of the Eighth precifict, Who was killed on the afternoon of the 8th inst., by velngrun over if Sullivan street, near Spring, by a car of the Broauway and Seventh Avenue tine, driven oy Michael J, Burke. The testimony showed that the deceased was pursuing a colored man, who had escaped trom his custody, but the fugitive being the most feet of loot, be (deceased) re- quested the driver of the car then coming | up, to drive on rapidly im order that i might catch his. man, and at the same time attempted to jump on the front plat- form of tue car, One of his bands suipping the omicer fell beiore the front wheel, which passed over his hea., thas {tacturing his skull und caus- ing almost instant death. The jury saw nothing | whatever in the testithony to show that the occur. | Teuce was anything vut purely accidental and ac- cordingly rendered a verdict 'y tat effect. ‘Ihe Coronet thereupon discharged Burke, the driver, irom custody. it 18 understood that the President of the Broaaway and Seventh avenue Ratiroad Company sent to Captain Williams, Jate of tue kighth precinct, a check for @ hanasome sum to we for the venetit of the family of the Unfortunate officer, ‘A STRANGE DEATH. Yesterday afternoon, at halfpast three o'clock, OMicer Buckley, of the Twentietu precinct, was called upon by some of the fesidents of No. 331 | West Thirty-seventh street, to investigate the dis- appearance during the day of an unknown woman, Who has only lived in that house since Mond open her apartment and {ound her di in bed, She was last seen on Friday bight. None | of ber heignbors knew her of tad learned her | name. Her body Was sent to the Morgue and the Voronet was notified o1 her death. DROWNED FROM A SMALL BOAT. Shortly after five o'clock last evening three un- | known meu were in a small boat on the East | River, near Cathatine ferry, when a tugboat | Steaming up the river ran Into their craft and threw them into the water. The tug was stopped, | aud her crew rescued two of tuem, but the turd was seen to go under the water, The met who were gavea were not landed immediately, but were taken up theriver on the tugooat. Their nates of who they are was, therefore, not learned, HOW TO CURE A SORE THROAT, To THE EpiITOR OF THE HERALD:— Let each one of your half million readers buy at any drug store one ounce ot camphorated oll, and | five cents’ worth of chlorate of potash, Whenever any Soreness appears ih the throat put the potash in halla tumbler of water, ana with tt gargie the ‘Aroat thoroughly, thea rub the oeck thoroughly with the camphorated oi ot hight delore going to bed, and also. pin aroup the throat @ smail strip of woollen daunel. is Is & simple, cuéap end pure sewedy, = ONE WHO HAS THIBD IT. EMBER 15, 187 | we gay has alw | Must have spent so many years | the Normal School. THE STATE VOTE. The following te the aggregate vote, according to the official canvess, in the following counties :— —Governor, 1874.—— Tilden, one. ‘204 m7 Caltsraugua Chemung. Chautauqua Chenango Clinton 259 85 $29 42 8: uy 133 276 3 3.0 a7 323 37 7 70 CMSACINCE ...+6 Richmond 25 209 85 83 241 458 264 18 123 67 18 123, 86 Bu4 9,472 +38, 956 Total majorities, . 39a, 723 961, 079 Tilden's majority in Afty-three countie The Constitutional Amendments, The foilowing is the oMctal vore in the following Mentioned thirty-five cpunties on tne amend- ments, the vote given being in great part on the first Amendment :— Against. 1,310 1017 0} 00 maj, = — 133 1,985 1,963 193 654 2 3,924 4275 8,166 babests 1,600 luo 191 931 1,268 ‘257 1,106 3,431 Watren.. Wasnington 110,993 seeeceeee 111,728 BOARD OF OOUNTY CANVASSERS, The actual counting of all the votes cast at last election will ve concluded by the Board of Can- vassers to-motrow morning. Little interest bas beén Manifested in the canvass, as no issues nor close contests were at staxe. The only protest received was that of exJudge Hogan, who claims Total........ Majority ior.. thé deat of Edwin R. Meade in the Fifth Con- | All business tn cases of cor- | gressional district. rected returns and other miscellaneous matters will be taken up to-morrow. PUBLIC EDUCATION. The Threat of the Board to Cut Down Teachers’ Salaries—Indignant Protest of an Old School Officer—A Plea for the Hard-Wotked Instructors. It is probaoty not necessary to enter into any elaborate argument to prove that the perpetuity of this Republic is dependent upon the education of the masses. That as the youug idea is taught to shoot it will bang sway, and {f the butts are awry or in a bad light the shooting will be bad. When we stop to consider that our own ease and comfort in old age, should we live to reach the patriarchal period, depend largely upon the proper formation of the present growing mind, we are forced tO thé conviction that education in its relation to young America isa live subject. Such tulera, but it bas remained for that eminent boay 4.-QUADRUPLE S 35 | 588 | 101 | 971 | 3,034 | 693 | 1,099 | been the conviction of our | HEET. ° men who, with talents and attainments that would adorn @nv sphere, had, by a sort ol call or direc. Mon beyond their ambitious yearnings, devoted ? a ed FLEETWOOD PARK. ——_—_—-————_ themselves to the cause of education. Itshould | Four Trotting Contests=—Ella Madden, be borne in mind, and few Americans question it, that the teacher ig ip many respects greater tuan the minister. The two words represent their differ. ent functions, and how. areas we citerpaty, The | teacher ts the priest of the housenold. fe it is | who, taking the vieiding, matieabdie mina, imprints | upon it lessons Of morality, the stamp of truthful | pess, the resolution vf righteous dealing. To haggle over these men’s salaries ts | NOT CERTAINLY THE INSTINCT OF THE AMERICAN | PARENT, 11 to remember that no charge bas been inst (he eMciency of the schools, An aiso apparent, Mr. Perkins says, to this new dispensation, arising from the — fact that in some vo! the smaller schools there ‘4s no vice-prineipal and that the principal | does the work appertaining to his own oMice and made error is ja | that o1 @ subordinate in case be hud one, wuich not having, results in a saving of the salary of the latter, Our public school system, which may be (4 | Said to be—as Mr, Perkins has suggested—the | Joundation stone upon which the structure of | civil aud religious livercy that we have reared in | this Wescern Continent to coniound the tyrants | of the Old World rests, should not be permitted | to drtit into hands that would stab it to serve per- sonalends. Mr. Perkins, whom we have quoted above, is of opinion that | OUR SCHOOL TEACHERS ARE NOT TOO WELL PAID. | Cothparing their work, mental and poysical, with that of other men and women outride in other industrial occupations, it does not appear | that they are. 16 is, thereiore, the duty of the | Board of Education to so revise their schedule of expenditure of this year's educational fund that | there snail be no interference wita the salaries of | the reguiar officers of the schools, however it may | be found necessary to intermit the extras, | A DISASTROUS FIRE. Two Lives Lost and Two Persons Severely Injured—Several Dwellings in Thirty-eighth Street Damaged. | AWweek, during which the local occurrences of tis city have lacked the element of horror, was | closed last might, but its latest event was one that embodied all the pitiful details that were pre- | Viously absent. A fire began about five o'clovk in the evening at No. 318 East Thirty-eighth street, between First and Second avenues, and, although | ttdld not achieve much damage to property, it | Was (eariully destructive to human life, At the | Place aboved named is a cluster of shanties. Some re un the street proper; others are built back of them and have inlets through dark and noisome alleys, whose plank pavements have | rotced and offer to the feet of persons unused to | treading them numberiess stumbling blocks and pitfalls. The tenements fronting on the street | are Worse of aspect than those which they keep trom vhe view of the casual | passer-by, They appear to have the rickets, | @nd to bé im continusl danger of falling apart under the weight of their occupants. The latter, though doubtless honest as they aré pov- erty-stricken, do hot cominénd themselves to | esteem by @ clean aud orderly disposivion of the ; effects in their residences, The houses in the rear | Of these infirm dwellings are larger and better | looking. {t was in one of these that the calamity happened last nignt—a two-storled frame edifice. It was occuplea by three iamilies and owned by | Mrs. Mary Reilly. On the top floor lived James | Riley and wife, their son James, a child about tour | years, and am old woman named Mary Whelan. | These were the victims of the calamity. As they were getting roady for supper avout dusk, | flames suddenly burst out on the story below | them, and, spreading rapidly, cut them off trom | escape down the stairways. ‘The tire speedily | communicated to thg front of the house and ran up to the roof, so thas there was no possibility for | them to let themtseives down tato tne court be- | tween the burning building and a wndery wooden stable which abuts on the back of the shanty on | the street. ‘The fear-sticken victims were, there- } Jore, driven to their rear rooms. Meanwhile the ; fire had caught a high tence between the court yard and an empty lot, and hadiaso lalien on the roof of the old stable. In this lot aud in the court yard were gatuered & crowd ot spectators, to whose criminal imactivity, and waiting ior the firemen to arrive, the loss of the lives of two human | beings, and, 1t may be. o! four, ifiast be attributed. | These careless, of panic-stricken, spectators had | only to take some ladders from the adjacent lot | and to uprear them, agaist the back of the burn- | img nouse in order to rescue ull the persons who were in it. The poor people had been driven by the advance of the Hames to vhe back room on the third Noor of their house. They could | go holurther. It was their last temporary refuge. | They cried ior heip, out the people on the ground | seemed incapable of using the simple and effectual | mea i rescue that Were at their hands. The finer! oi the mames had been so tapid that | the Gremen Were not yet arrived on | the ground. Rely and his wife see* jing no otner chance to escape trom a horrible death leaped irom the wiudows to the grovbd, ana each iracttired their legs. They were Picked up and borne to Beilevue Hospital. The other two occnpants of the house were Margaret Whelan, over sixty yeats of age, and the child | James Reilly. Both Were too teenie to follow Mr. | and Mrs. Reilly out of the window, so | overcome by the acrid smoke and died of suffucation, Just alter the two fran- | tic people had leapea from the window | the Mremen arrived. The flamek vow sheeted the | front ot the house and bad caught an adjommng | dwelling; they were ruuning quickly along the | high jence at its side and were eating through the roof of the rotten old stable, As soon as they | reacted the fire the members o1 Hook and Lad- | der Company No. 7, fought their way into the | bousé of the Retilys with the hope of rescuing the old wonan and the lad, They were successiu! only in finding their bodies, The ire now seemed very likely to destroy the entire cluster of frame structures, but as the fire- | men worked with skill they soon subdued the flames. The home of the Reillya was destroyed, of the present, whom we look upon as the | the frame of the building was left standing, Board of Education to-day, to destroy | but its entire front was burned away that satisfactory illusion. The Board | apd its insides were completely eaten out. of Apportionment having upon a careful examina- tion of the estimates submitted to them seen fit to cut down the appropriation asked for vy the Educational Board, the latter propose to make up the difference by CUTTING DOWN THE TEACHERS’ SALARIES, Now it 18 quite certain the Boatd of Apportion- ment never contemplated anything of the kind, and its revision of the estimates never scaled the salaries. itis very clear that there were other objects of expenditure than the teachers’ salaries in the mind of the Boatd of Apportionment when ft cut down ths appropriation, and it may be safely assumed that the Board of Education in at- tempting this reduction ave nor only misinterpreted the purpose of the Board above them, but perverted its intention. That euch proposed action on the part of the Board of Bilucation has aot met the approval of school ofvers generally there is abundant evi dencé, In proof of which we cite the expression of ab old Svhoo! Inspector in one of the upper dis- | tricts, an associate ot James W. Gerard and Mr, Kelly, recently deceased, Hosea B. Perkins, Mr. Perkins, we may Bay, ts . AN BMINENTLY USEFUL CITIZEN in his devotion to the cause of public instruction, and with thé sel{-devotion of one estranged from the world in his efforts to forward this great cause he feels Himself, aivhough of a fetiring dis: position, urged @t times to battle for the rights of the growing youth of the country in the Depattmentot Education. Mr. Perkins has been ah inspectot of schools for over tweive years, and, wherefore knows Whereof he speaks. He main. tains that our public school system is the best tn the world, citing in support of that assertion that tt has been Bo admitted to be vy the most distin- guished Visitofs of our country and Europe who have taken the troubie to examine ft. Mr. Per- kins, ad ordinarily quiet gentieman of the Knick- eroocker type, even bursts into eloquent periods here and Oalis it - THE ROCK 4 upon which tne noble structuré of our Repibiic ts tounded. Mr, Perkins is very happs in this igure, intelligencé being thé basis of human liberty, He has, however, fauit to find with the deiatis of school management. He thinks that THE FEMALE TEACHERS ARK NOT PAID, and he puta their grievauce on that head in this way. A young lady before entering upon the du- ties of teacher, that is pas @ certificate, n cafeul and close study tn order to pass tue examination at These are years that have brought uo terurh to her in the Way of tncome, consequently supposing her to ve dependent upon her own exertions (or a living, as most of our teachers, mule afd (emale are, the paltry sum of $500 per annum, Waich she at frst receives, less than $10 pef week, and has little hope of increas. log for some time, i8 but a poor reward, Aud to that the fact that her scholars some- times come from the vilest nests of disease, carrying with them at times the most fatal pestilential odors, that in the grand equaiily of the public school room sne cannot dis- anguish obe pupil irom another th ner teaching, and we have w daily act of self-sacrifice, such as few women outside of this service are called upon to render, except tm the case of those who have consecrated themselves to God and charity alone, Kins Alsu thought that it was 4 GROSS OUTRAGE to attempt a Feduction of the salaries of the prin- cpala, opiy at atbs SUFFICIENTLY rs 93,000 per your; compris - {The other butidines were only slightly damaged, | and the entire monetary loss occasioned by the fire was fae beds not more than $3,000, The | buried dweliing, which was owned by Mrs, Reiliy, Was pot insured. The cause of the fre is tinknown, and the flames must have been pto- gressing some time before they were noticed by anybody. 4 DISASTROUS FIRB Horses, Oxen and Cows Barned. New Lonpos, Conn, Nov. 14. 1874 At about twelve o’ciock last olght a Gre broke out in buildings owned by the heirs of Captain Lyman Allen, situated on the road leading from | this city to Norwich. At the time alight wind was | vlowing from the norti, and the buildings, | being of wool, soon (él a prey to the de- vouring element. The dre veing in the | Sixth city district, ana somewhat remote | from headquartérs, the Names got headway before | | the Fire Department, which respouded promptly | fo the alarm, coud get there, Ten tons of hay, a | large quantity of gfain, cul feed and tools were | totally destroyed. But the saddest thing con- ected with the conflagration fas the burnin | alive of a vainab:e horse, four blooded cows and | | three yoke of oxen, ai) belonging to W. & J. 8. | Bacon. of this city, The cries of these animals as | the fire fend reached them were terrible. Every | effort to remove the animals Was ifuitiess on account of the heat and vast quantities of smoke. | a dwelling house owned and occupied by Christo- | pher Dougiass, was also burned, the occupants escaping irom it in their night clothes, wos the coldest o/ the season thus iar, and Water froze almost instantly as i¢ touched the pave- ments, The insurance on the durned buildings is very light, and cannot at this time be stated, ‘The | fire tas provably the work of an incendiary, THE MKENNA MURDER, Coroner Croker, the Hickeys and Sheri- dan To Be Indicted. Cotisiderable excitement was manifestea yes verday in the vicinity of the City Halland in | political circles from the fact that tt was rumored that the witnesses in the McKenna muraer case | had been vefore the Grand Jury, and that upon the testimony given warrants were issued for the | arrest of Coroner Croker, the two Hickeys and | Sheridan. It was also reporved that the warrants | had been served, but this could not be traced to | any reiiable source. District Attorney Phelps, when applied oO for Imormation on the subject, was exceedingly non-comumittal, He stated that, | ander any circumstances, whether the parties liad | been or were to be summoned, it was clearly bis duty hot to reveal . anything. Mr. Clarke, the Chief Clerk in ‘tne — District | Attorney's office, said that the case had not veen, | to bis knowledge, in any way beiore the Grand Jury. | From other and reliable sources of intormation, however, tt was ascertained tuat the parties men- tioned Were to have appeared (or ¢Xamination be. tore the Grana Jury on Friday, and that. they did so appear. If suctits the case che Grand Jury will | i all probability bring in an indictmepp on Mon. day or Tuesday next. Whether they will be in- dicted separately or jointly it 18 impossible yet to say. WILLING TO WORK. Youxa MgN’s CHRISTIAN ee tstON } New YORK, Nov, 14, 1874, To THe Eprror oF THE HERALD:— We nave a registered list of decent men, Who ate willing to Work through the winter (or very small wages, and also a large number of men who wil work lor the winter jor their living only, Address JOUN LOOLY, No lad Bawarr, hey Were | The night | | bay gerding Which May Bird ana Fred, Music and Cop- perbottom the Winners. The unfinisbed trots of Friday were called promptly at the time announced yesterday after: noon, the Orst to appear being the horses for the 2:24 purse. Three of the eight starters only were left in the race, viz.:—J. H. Phillips’ bay mare Ells Madden, W, H. Moses’ chestnut gelding Moun taineer, and John Murphy’s bay gelding Mati Tanner. The two latter had each two beats scored to their credit, while Elle Madden had but one. Still sue was the favorite at two 1o one over the field, She won the race, making the two last heats tn much faster time than the judges gave out. The undecided team race was then called og Four teams of the seven that began the race were all that came to the post. Thi were Jobn L, Doty's black mare May Bird and sorrel gelding Fred, D, Mace’s bay mare Clara G. and chestnut mare New Berlin Girl, Austin Moore’s roam mare Rose and biack gelding William B., and D. P. Gott: brown mare Lady Woods and bay mare Carrie N. Mace’s team had two heats to their credit on Frt day, May Bird and Mate had one heat, and Rose and Willlam hod made a dead heat with May Bird and mate. Clara G.and New Berlin Girl were the favorites over the fleld at 6 vo 3 before the start for the fifth heat. May Bird and Fred won the Afth and sixth beats and the race in grand style and in most excellent time. Then followed & match race between the roaw gelding Copperbottom (pacer) under the saddle, and the bay mare American Girl (trotter) in har. ness, The pacer was ridden by Charley Green, and the mare was driven by Chariey Dickerman. American Girl was the Javorite at 100 to 65 before the start; but alter the first heat the pacer pe- came the favorite at 100 to 80, and after the second heat 100 to 20, Copperbottom won the race very easily in three straight heats, in 2:223, 2:264, 2:2534, which is most extraordigary time for American Girl to be beaten in. The fourth event of the day was @ trotting match between Mr. Trimble’s chestnuts mare Music and Wm Lovell's brown gelding Barney Kelly, for $500; mile heats, best three in five, to wagons. The mare was the favorite before the start, and afterwards at very long odds, She won the race in three straight heats. The following are the details, with full sam maries of all the events that were decided: — TUB 2:34 PURSE RaCB. FLEETWOOD PARK—TROTTING—Nov, 13 and 14— Purse $500, for horses that never beat 2:34; ¢: tothe first, $150 to the second and $100 to the third horse; mile heats, best three im five, ia hare ness. STARTERS. J. H. Phillips’ b.m. Ella Madden @ 2212141 W. H. Moses’ ch. g. Mountain- eer... ee eee 1s ee J. Marphy’s | is pene. 1 ; H : 13 H. Peterson's g. ora F...... ir. Ben Mace’s b. M, Lady Angie.. 3 4 3 4 & P, B. Norton’s b, g. Jimmy Nor- TOD. ...- se seene see seeee 6 76 5 GH @. D. Harris’ b. m. Lena Vase... 7 6 7 T OD A. V. Sargeant’s g. m. Mountain * Maid..... decccsseccscereee 8 8 GE f tte, First heat.. 1:12 2:86 Second heat. 1:16 223654 Third heat. 1:153g 2:34 Foarth heat. 1nd 233% Fitth teat. Pity 4 2:34 ixth heat.. 363¢ 1:13 2s venth neat. . 853% 113% 2:30 HE TEAM TROT. SAME Days.—Purse $400, for teams; $200 to the first, $125 to the second and $75 to the third horse; mile beats, best three in five. STARTERS. G. Walker's bik. m. May Bird and 8. @. Fred...... Dan Mace’s b. m, Clara G, m. New Berlin Giri.. ae ceee Austin Moore's r. m. Rose aod bik. g. William B..... ee | D. P. Gofl’s br. m. Lady Woods and b. m. Carrie N. passeskedeues William Moore’s b. g. Oaks and b, gy bencnion’ CALEL.. . sone. eee vee J. Murpby’s >. m. Lady Dahiman and bv. g. Charley Green.... se T. O'Connor's gr. in. ae | Worth: ington and b. g. Uncle Dave..... dis, TIME. Quarter. 43 sit 122 243 5 3r0 ar oo HB maowono First heat....... Second heat...... 347 7 3 256 2:39 21346 ews ee 2D Bo, AMERICAN GIRL AND COPPERBOTTOM. First Heat.—american Girl the favorite at 100 to 65. Copperbottom took the lead and led three lengths to the quarter pole tn 34 seconds. The pacer kept the gap open to the haif-mile pole, pass- ing that point in 1:08. American Girl then began closing, but broke up twice on the hill and fel) back, and Copperbottom led two lengths at the three-quarter pole. He kept infront to the end, winning tha heat tn 2:223,. Second Heat.—This heat was a counterpart of the previous one, except in time, which was much slower. Copperbottom took the lead and hela to the end, winning as he liked. He passed t! quarter pole in 34 seconas, the hall-mile pole in Pile ee Pere home a wiuner by a length and @ aifin 23264. Third Heat.--Copperbottom again had the best of the send-off, and, keeping the lead, passed the quarter pole in 3444 seconds, two lengths ahead of American Girl, He was ubout tne same distance in front of her at the hali-mile pole, im 1:09%, and came home easily six lengths ahead of the mare in 2:264g. The following isa FLEETWOOD PARK, SNOW, 1a Maten lov. —Mate! m heats, best three in fiv $1,000; mile J, Crawiofd named under saddle Copperbottom, Li 44 MUSIC AND BARNEY RELLY. first Heat.—Musi¢ the lavorite at 100 to 65. She had the best of the send off, and led to the quarter acs two lengths, in 3642 seconds. Music was three le ngths in front at the half-mile pole, and came home an easy witiner dy six lengths, tn 2:30%. Second Heat.—Music the iavorite at 100 to 2 She took the lead and was two lengths abead of elly at the quarter pole, in 364 seconds, about length and a hals at the naif-mile pole, tn 1:13: cane home a Winner by a iength and a halt 22284. thira Heat.—One hundred to twenty was then wagered on Music winning the race. She took the lead, and, Barney Kelly breaking up badly on the | turn, Music went to the quarter pole in 373g sec onds. The race was now viftuully over. Musia was fiity yards in front at the hall-mile poleth 1:13, and came home the winner of tne race by thirty yaras if 2:20%. The following isa SUMMARY. 3 Same Day.—Trotting mated for $500; mile heats, ert three tn five, to wagon, . Trimble Damed ch. m. Music.... W. Lovell gamed of, First heat. Second he: Third heat.. NEW DORP OLUB GROUNDS, ‘The race announced to take place yesterday at the New Dorp Club Grounds’ three-quarter mile track aid not come of, owing to circumstances worthy of explanation. It was advertised aaa purse of $100, having filled with eight entries, but when the few gentlemen who had gathered to Witness the contest began to inquire regarding | the starters it Was found there were but three | Rorses on the rounds—D. B. Gots bay geldti | New Dorp, J, Ward's ca gelding by) Wi and “P, Smith's bay gelding Jim.” In dae sea gon the (pacer, Messrs. Van Cleave, Tyson and | Rogers—the latter the propriétor—went into the Stand and the horses Were called on the ‘The three named put in an appearance, when it | was found that Nathan Ward Was unfit to trot, owing toa queria otpeky and he Was allowed ta be witharawn. Then Mr. James Seguine, who had been asked to five “Jim,” relused to remain longer vehind him, when the race was deciared off. The reason for this action Was that it became apparent to at feast two of the Judges that the race. from its inception, was a “job,” and they ae sired to ve “counted out.’ The truth i ina nutshell. There was no purse hung Op, dud the hotses intended to trot for gate money only. ‘There were but two horses whose owners agreed to que in an appearance, and the ft. Seguine had been coaxed to drive, im the Words of a spectator, “was not the Simon pare Jim that all Staten Islanders know, but some old plug vrougit on be to make a show, and couldn't in four minute: In trying to “warm him up” this Mr. Seguine soon ascertained, and he justly ielt aggrieved that he had veen selected to be tooled o~ weve an an ital ert to ee inclegant par: ance OL the uri, to a Ms ce. ‘The soouer such proceedings ‘ant such races are Stopped the better it will Ve Jor all concerned; ut should they contnae to be gotten up, as un- tedly they will, tt 1s to be voped that in alt cases they may a8 effectually expioded as was this @nsportsmanlike attempt to deceive aud de- fraud,