The New York Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1874, Page 5

LOSS OF THE JAPAN. A Pacific Mail Steamer Bound for Hong Kong Destroyed by Fire. Four Hundred Coolies on Board, THE FEELING IN THE CITY. List of the Officers and Descrip- tion of the Vessel. HONG Kono, Dec '9, 1874 The Pacific Mall Company’s steamship Japan, from San Francigeo and Yokohama ‘or this port, was destroyed by fre on Thursday last when #bxty miles out from Yokonama. MANY LIVES SUPPOSED TO HAVE BREN LOST. + A lew ol her crew and passengers have arrived | bere. itis feared that many lives bave been iost, i THE LOSS AS FELT IN THE CITY. The loss by fre at sea of the Pacific Mati Steam | ship Company’s steamer Japan, on her voyage from Yokohama to Hong Kong, will, there is every rea- | son to believe, add another chapter to the fright ful record of marine disasters for which this un- | fortmmate association, to which the vessel ve- | Jonged, bas of recent years become somewhat | notorious. Startied as the community must have veen by the dread announcement that | another steamer of tbe line had gone under, and ‘this time with a severe loss of life, there was, nev- { American ships, but the public spirit and eDter- ; ACOLDENT TO ANOTHER PACIFIC MAIL STEAMER IN | received sach injuries that it instantly sank, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1874.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. THE DISASTERS. ira tt, aepende only of ay te SHR BAD POUR DBOKS, feiyding sa oriop deck fore and extending to the 1 b ‘a8 divided into Sve wat ertignt compartment “si oy of & three-masted bark. The stei with @ vertical seam engine, having the enormous diameter of 105 inches an: 01 piston of twelve fect. The Novelty tron Wor constructed her machinery, and were pngaged upon it and ber Sppsree ces about eighteen | months, Ali the various parts nad beer made ‘under apeciai instructions. Sceam was generated and supplied. to she engine by four horizontal tubular boilers, each having four furnaces, with @ grate surface Of 660 square feet and a combined eating suriace Of 16,200 square feet. Her accom. modations were On a scale of magnificence and Steganos never before attempted. She was, in- eed, A YIOATING SEA PALACE, With numberiess staterooms, spacious berths, bathrooms and saloons, she was equal to a luxurt- ous hotel, tpeluding all the comiorts of pariors, @ piano, soit divans, &c. Her officers when she leit. this port were eMcient and well tried, and the steamer reflected not only the beauty of prise of the company that jaunched ber, THE COLON DISABLED. NEW YORE. Yesterday afternoon, as the Pacific Mail steam- ship Colom was preparing vo leave her dock, ve- tween piers Nos, 40and 41 North River, the suo- tion consequent upon the working of ber screw caused a barge, owned in Philadelphia and loaded with about a hundred tons of coal, to get adrift, The barge then became foul of the Colon’s screw, which was broken by the contact, and the barge The only person on board of the barge was an old man, and he managed to eave nimeell a bath by clam- bering upon the dock just as the barge was going down. The Colon proceeded out into vhe midde of the stream, where she now lies in a disabled condition, Divers will examine she sorew this morning, and If it be found sate lor her to proceed to sea she will start on her voyage, ii, however, the officials of the company should ertheiese, manifested considerable doubt as to the genuineness df the report, despite the apparenny authentic sources whence the sad pews was de- | rived. Indeed, Many a shrug of the shoulder and | Many @ toss of the head piainly indicated that the Intelligence was received as being simply charac- | teristic o/ the mountebank performances for which the company has won the prize, but the confrma- Hon of the wolul story, ready and concise as it was, tended in some degree to diasipate the idea that stockjobbers were advertising a new panto- mime, with new clowns and appropriate scenery, tm view of the coming holidays. Whatever of con- tempt or indifierence (amiliarity may breed, there fan be little doubt that the reported loss of a Pacific Mail steamer, tant quarter where the means of communication | may be somewhat limited, fails to invest the | mind, upmaniy a8 it may seem, with those sym- pathetic feclings, which a casual wreck, even in | remote parts, at all times elicits, Thns, woen the | rumor of the terrible disaster that befel the Japan | was spread broadcast throngh the city yesterday, the gnestion as to the sacrifice of human beings | ‘was only secondary to the proDiem as to how the | mews wonld aifect the stock. While every one must deplore the terrible fate that befel the un- | lucky passengers the sensation cunsed yesterday cannot jail to bring to mind the oft-repeated story of the tricky arm boy, who calied assist- mace wien the wolf was far away from the fold, Ws would be an exaggeration to say there was much excitement on receipt of the news yester- @ay, yet, when the official intelligence reached this city, setting forth briefy the fate of the , vesse), the fact that sie was burned at sea and } that, incident to her destrnction there was @ loss | of lie, the popular sentiment was quickly changed and sorrow took the place of specuiation. Inthe | afternoon the loss of the steamer Japan formed the sole topic of conversation. From other sources than that springing irom the generons fountain of the mines of Pacific Mail operators, whose honest penny 1s generally turned in pro- portion to the extent of any real calamity or im- aginary disaster occurring to vessels of the line, | 3t waa definitely known in the evening that tne | sidewhec! steamer Japan, which left San Fran- | cisco bound for Yokohama aud Hong Kong, had , | | | } ! | been devtroyed. ‘The office of the company , ¢Xtinguishing this free@nother alarm was given w 7 8 b n- | that a fire had-Deen started in the tailor shop. A sad chia vd ra ie 4 a | rush was made for that by some of the firemen, | quirers, since, as already intimated, 10W | when it was found that @ fire had been kindled in credited the reports so freely circulated. In view, | the centre of the building and was making some therefore, of the numerous demands for iniorma- ; Readway. | This was quickly fe el CO thon, the oficiais apparently determined on hold- | ing what might be not inappropriately termed ‘‘a clam. convention,’’ so tbat breathless inquisitors ‘went away avout as wise and orobably more con- faced than when they entered. The fact was the | oMcials knew nothing and the assumed air | of mystery generally manifested was simpiy , characteristic of the entire concern. The story 1s comparatively brief. Yesterday morning the Sec- Fetary of State received @ despatch dated from Yokohama announcing the disaster. During the | day Mr. Talcott, one of the directors of the com- | pany, telegraphed to the State department re- | questing intelligence as to whether the news had been confirmed, and, in response, a despatch | was received to the effect that a den: | patch had been received trom the American Consul at Hong Kong that the Japan had been , burned at sea with a Irightful loss of life aud vhat te malls Were lost. This telegram was signed by | the Secretary of State. The Japan left San Fran- ; cisco On the 14th of November last. She was | destined tor Yokobama and Hong Kong. As it | appears from official statements she had $376,000 | im treasure. Her cabin ‘Bessongers tor Hong Kong Tindell ana Mary Stott, ‘The Chinese In the stcerage numbered 424, The | ba oem ts a list of her officers:— Captain—E. R. Warsaw. First Oficer—F. W. Hart. —H. H. Andrew, Thira ‘—J. P, Gallagher. \ Purser—John Rooney. —V. B. Gales, M. D, nt Clerk—O, ae keeper—W. orn. Stewards—First, 0. N. Clark; Second, WiHam ineers—Chief, John Cosgrove; First Assist- ant, Bennett; Second Assistant, David Fulton; | ‘Taird Assistant, James Henry. The loss of the Japan cannot be pictured by !magl- mation. Lucktly, as it appears, some of those on board escaped, and the minute details of the fright- Jol scene will, doubtless, furnish a little history in Ateell of the appalling sceves incident toa fire at sea. The Pacific Mail Steamsbip Company have lost about seven or eight vessels within the past five years, including the Relief, the Ariel, the Awerica, the City of Guatemala and the Bienville. Ht is thought that the Alaska will be got off the beach where she now lies pine and dry near ihe 3 Kong. The Japan is insured for #150,000 in Eugiis and French companies, DESCRIPTION OP HE STEAMER. | The steamer Japan was Jaunched at the ship- | yard of Henry Steers, Greenpoint, Long Island, September 17, 1867. A first glance at ber sym- | metrical proportions gave but a faint idea of her | smamense size, a8 her graceful lines had been so skijiully Wrought that she was saved from the ap- pearance of vast bulk, which so olten strikes the eye #6 inbarmonious in such architecturay sea structures, Every known improvement in naval architecture had been exhausted to make the | the” Management most varied in its char- acter, The Punch and Judy show, the shoot- Jepan & marvel of beauty as well as of |.ing’“galtery, ‘te. billiard table’ the music strength, It was believed she could resist to back Goldsmith whe severest burricanes and typhoons of the tropical seas, and ride out all tne storms of the treacherous Arcbipelagos tn which she wi Aman who walked the Jength of her deck took @ stretch Of a fourteenth of @ mile, but the thousands who viewed the sea beauty that September day of the launch did not | take so much note of her proportions in feet and imches as of the general harmony and compiete- ness of the modei and the grace and beauty of Yet the Japan was of each line and curve, perpendicuiars. , moulded. beam, exurem nage measurement; 5,000 tons, common measurement. Her frame timbers were of live oa cedar and backmatack, selected by o1 tion and timber inspectors. in America. Her jrames wi if au earnest appeal that the ladies might be square, fastened in the most workmanlike man- | supported and encouraged im tneir good work. ner, with copper and galvanized iron, strapped | The fair will Close on ‘tuesday, and donations of with tron straps, crossing each other mally | mot i every four feet. Over this came a yellow pine planking strapped in turn, with plates of a like size as the inner ones, which planking was care- faliy calked and payed witu pitch in the most | open, aiternoon and ¢' ngs, Until Unristmas thorough manner. Over ail this on the bottom | Day, and will affora all purchasers of holiday was a planking of oak jour and one-hall inches in | presents an excellent opportunity to select from thickness, and on the top a planking rigbicn ig mag @ large aud chojce stodk, and st the same time to five inches in thickness. The whole was thor- | aasiat mM the turmishing of the Sunday school oughly bolted, braced and istened Wit.. treenalis of | room of the chyréh. | City of Tokio, which is already loaded with cargo, especially in some dis- | | lor this point and iound that every preparation | tinguished belore much damage had been done. | underwriters in this city have already discussed | in the prison, Au immense supply of water, the | the ladies of the Church of the Holy Innocents, tnink the contrary she will have to be unloaded and piaced tm the dry duck and new blades made ior ber. Should the latter course be adopted tue passengers, of whom there are a large number, will proceed vy vhe new vessel, the and er | at anchor in midstream in the North { River, The City of Tokio was to proceed to san Francisco, Via Magelian’s Straits, but on account of the Colon being crippled will probably carry that | Versel’s mails and passengers to Aspinwall. One of ) the officers of-the Pacific Mail Steamship Company ' remarked to ® HERALD reporter last Dight that, ‘unless there be al earthquake, one of the vessela | wil sail on Monday. ‘The coal barge, it may be re- marked, was not loaded with coal for the com- pany, and they bad nothing to do with her, | GOVERNOR TILDEN’S STAFF. ALBANY, N. Y., Dec, 19, 1874, Tne Fvening Journal gives the following as Gov- ernor Tilden’s staf:— Adjutant General, Franklin Townsend, of Al- Dany; Inspector General, J, “B. Woodward, of Brooklyn; Surgeon General, Austin Fint, Jr., of New York; Judge Advocate General, Charles. Hughes, of Sandy Rill; Commissary General of Ordnance, Joseph J. Bartlett, of New York. Multary Secretary, Francis Lynde Stetson, of New York. Aldes-de-Camp—Charies Tracey, of Albany; Wil- ham Douglass, 0! New York; Herman Uhl, of New York; Latham 0, ogy of Troy; Francis Lynde | Stetson, of New York; tus Corning, of Albany. ~~ FIRES. ¥TRKE IN AUBURN PRISON. AUBURN, N. Y., Dec. 19, 1874, About twelve o'clock to-day an’alarm of fire was “given, caused dy the discovery that the collar shop inside the walis of the Auburn Prison had been set on fire. The fire was started just as the convicts were about to be marched todinner. The | alarm soon became general and the Fire Depart- | ment of the city was quickly on hand to render | assistance. The shop was filled with the most combustible material and the flames made rapid headway. Our efficient Gremen were enabied, however, to get control after an hour and a half of | hard jabor, apd prevented the fire (rom spread- ing to other buildings, The onilding in which it origimated = =.was very much damaged and there was considerable loss on material. During the excitment | 14 4 the slate shop bad been fired. The fremen rushed had been made to burn that butiding, the fre hav- ing been already kindled. This fre Was also ex- Organized attempts are evidently being made by the convicts to barn the brison and make, tneir escape in a.boady, Only a few days ago fires were set im two or three places, and to-day several attempts were made. ‘the fact is 80 apparent that the propriety of cancelling all polices on the shops greatefficiency of the Fire Department and the cool management of Major Carpenter, the agent of | the prison, prevented the destruction of a large | amount of property to-day, to say nothing o1 the direiul results if @ general conflagration nad oc- Sore and a general prison delivery nad taken | Place, (aTER,—The fire at the prison is extinguished, and no further attempts to burn it bave been | argcovered. SAWMILL DESTROYED. OGDENSBURG, N. Y., Dec. 29, 187: ‘The saw and shingle mills of L. Hasbrouck, Jr., & Co., in this city, were consumed by fire this morn- | ing. The toss is $10,000; uninsured. Thirty-dve men are thrown out of employment by the Ore. HOTEL AND GRIST MILL BURNED. Port JERVIS, N. Y., Dec. 19, 1874. ‘rhe old hotel bunding known as the Ayres House, three mules from Port Jervis, was destroyed by fire last night. It was insured for $1,000 in the Ger- man American Insurance on iki ‘rhe grist mul belonging to W. Middangh, at Col- ee |. 3, Was destroyed, with tue contents, last ‘he wild meadows on the Wallkill, near Unton- vile, N. Y., were burned over Friday night, de- atroying a large quantity of hay in stacks, DESTRUCTION OF WOOLLEN MIDLS. NaSAVILE, Tenn., Dec. 19, 1874, The Kagle Woollen Mills at Gallatin, Tenn., were burned yesterday. ‘Ihe loss is $30,000; insurance, | $17,000, divided between the Hartford, tna and Pucenix vompanties, LADIES’ FAIRS, The fair now being beld under the auspices of corner of Thirty-seventh street and Broadway, progresses finely, and the throngs which nightly flock tothe bali js an evidence of its popularity. It 1s not strange that this should be éo, as the fair comprises all the elements requisite for enjoyment, ‘The tables, gayly decorated, laden with pretty Vhings and presided over by pretty ladies, form, of course, the chief attraction; but, as if that were not enough, the entertainment has been made by and the peportants Maid, Lucy, Kadi or Fadiadeen, surely these are sources enough from which to extract amuse- Ment. The display of silverware, toys, articles of virtu, jewelry, and, indeed, holiday goods of every description, 18 eee and a8 they have for the best part been donate the prices are marked lower than in the stores, Purchasers can, there- fore, combine personal interests with charity. A brie: piano is to be dis Ol at chances of a | jollar each, The admission fee is only twenty- | five cents, so that @ visit to the latr is not only the cheapest, but the more profitable way in which to spend an evening. The lair will be kept open un- tu the end of the week, and the entire proceeds Will be devoted to the relief of the poor of tn isthe pare fair of the Ladies’ Union Relief Association, “for the care of sick and disabled goldiers and the widows ana orphans of those who fell in the late has been in progress during the last week lasonic Temple,“corner of Twenty-third street Last evening Colonel Benja- he ges eget t, delivered anad- ug the objects association at and Sixth avenue, min A. bed i or fancy goods are solicited. The ladies of the Madison avenue Reformed church opened @ fair yesterday a way, near Twenty-first stre THE SCENE OF MILL RIVER. AE ANOTHER DAM DISASTER. The Pathway of the Last Flood Covered. NO LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dec. 19, 1874. ¥ A special despatch to the Union from Hayden- ville atates that the dam of Messrs. Hayden, Gere & Co, broke away near the centre, two-thirds of the structure being swept away. Tho large | body of water imprisoned, covered with tce ten inches thick, rushed down the stream with a cracking noise similar to that made by the food of May last down the same pathway. There were seventy-fve or more children skating on the pond, all of whom, it is thought, were saved, but it is feared that the children on the ponds below Haydenville may not have had warning in time to escape. The new dam Was built to replace the one swept away last May, and but recently completed. Is was built by Jonn De- laney & Sons, of Holyoke, and was 140 feet long, thirteen feet wide at the base, six (eet at the top, and cost about $6,500. it was built of granite, bedded in the solid rock, and furnished with 4 COPING OF CUT GRANITE each atone of which was five feet long and thir- teen inches thick. The water side of the dam was faced with cement, while each end was flanked with heavy parapet walls eighteen feet hign. The bulkhead was of granite and was twelve Jeet high and ten feet wide in the clear. The dam afforded twenty feet head of water, seven feet more than was given by the old dam, and the structure had been supposed to be ® very superior piece of workmanship. The rebuilding the works of Hayden, Gere & Co. had progressed only so far a8 the completion of a new foundry building, 102 by 40 fees and two stories high, while the work on the coalhouse and pattern shop 1s well advanced. The main building of the works, which 1s to be 335 feet long and three stories high, was to have been erectea in the spring, but it 1s feared by the inhabitants of the village that the firm will be discouraged by this second disas- ter and give up the building project there. NO LOSS OF LIEP, A later despatch from Haydenville says there Was no loss of life above or below the broken dam, The cotton mill dam, about half a mile below Hayden, Gere & Co.’s dam, held the water and ice from the pond of the latter and prevented any fur- ther destruction of life or property below. The cotton mill dam is one of the strongest on the river. A portion of it was carried away by the May flood and has since been thoroughly repaired, THE PERIL OF THE ACCIDENT. HAYDENSVILLE, Mass., Dec. 19, 1874 The large new dam just completed for Hayden, Gere & Co.'s brass works, at this place, burst about eleven o’clock this morning, and the Jarge body of water, covered with ice about ten Inches thick, swept down the channel, through the village, with a crash similar to the flood of May last. The cotton mill dam just below this village held the water and ice, which probably saved a number of lives at Leeds, at which Place there is no telegraphic communi cation, There were seventy-flve or one hun- dred children skating on the pond at the time, bat it is thought all escaped, No hives are lost as far as heard from. There was great excitement for several moments, a8 it was reported the two large Goshen reservoirs had broken and the in- habitants were making for high ground as fast as Possible. The loss is from $3,000 to $5,000. THEORIES OF THE ACCIDENT. SPRINGFIELD, Dec. 19, 187 It is now thought that not more than one-half of the stone work of the Haydensville dam went away, and it is estimated that the total loss of the break will not exceed $4,000, There are two theories as to the canse of the disaster, one that the base of the dam was not wide enough for the height, 80 that it was pushed over by the great weight of the water and ice behind; the ofher, that the cement was poor or not properly laid, allowing the stone on the top of the dam to be pushea off, Only a thorough ins- pection of the ruins will tel: which itis, LOCATION OF THK DISASTER, ‘The reservoir which broke in May last wasin the gorge above the village of Williamsburg. On another branch of the stream which forms the Mi} River is the Goshen reservoir, which it was first reported was broken in each of the calamities which visited that unhappy valley. The new dam which broke away yesterday was in Haydensville, below the village of Williamsburg, and was a tem- porary structure erected by Hayden, Gere & Co., since the disaster, for their brass works. In the May flood the destruction at the point where the new dam—now also swept away—was built, was more complete than at any other in the whole region destroyed by the waters, Scarcely a stone was le{t of any of the immense structures in the vicinity, and of Hayden, Grie & Co.’s factory all that was left was part of one of the walls, Their immense boilers were floated far down the stream, and one of them was stranded on the hill near Governor Hayden’s house, THE PREVIOUS DISASTER IN MAY. On tne 16th of May last the appalling news was Teveived in Springfield that upward of 200 lives bad been lost and an immense amount of property had been swept away by the break tog of an insecure dam im Williamsburg, The news was at first discredited, but speedily confirmed, and no doubt existed as to the fact that the unchained waters had over- spread the valley, barying in their impetuous path several of the oeautifal villages of Hamp- shire county. The details of that awful scene were subsequently gathered from some of the sur- vivors, who, by @ miraculous chance, had been spared to tell of their providential escape. The) houses which were not swept away trom their foundations rocked to and fro like vessels in a tempest; others, which at first withstood the Shock, soon toppled over before the giant force of the merciless waters, The scene recalls to memory THE FEARFUL CATASTROPEE of asimilar character in England, in 1864, when the Bradfeia Water Reservoir vurpt and sent ite Wwatere to carry death and destruction In the neigyn- borhood. The paraile) between that disaster and that of the Mill River was exact except in the | Amount of property and lives destroyed. As day- | light was dawning and people were sunk in the profonndest siumbers, the confined waters burst their barriers and rushed down upon their victims before their ominous roar had awakened the vil- Jagers, who little recked of the few moments of lise left them before they would be engulphed 1m the waste of waters, * HISTORY OF THE LOCALITY, In earlier days the Valley of the Connecticut and | the numerous smaller valleys which debouch in10 | 1ton each side were accustomed to other irrap- | Mons, but of @ different nature. The names of Hatfield, Deerfela and Northfeld are remarkabie tm connection with the bloody strife of King Philip’s war in the seventeenth century. Hadley 18 another name made remarkable in the time of savage Warfare. Here it was that on & quiet Sab- bath morning, in the year of our Lord 1675, the Puritans were attacked by the Indians wile im church, The worshippers were paralyzed with fear as they saw the yelling savages apply torches to their houses, and lacked for a few moments courage to leave their wives and children and attack the invaders, An old gray-headed man, tottering with years, led the way from the church door, and under his leadership the Indians were beaten, After the affray was over the old man | was not to pe found, and {t was not till some years afterward that it became known that their Valiant ieader was GOFFB, THE RRGICIDE,, who had been for years a fugitive from the emis saries of Onaries II., and had found a sheltering | place near Hadley, the town he had saved from de- struction, Another historical spot in this neigh- borhood is Bloody Brook, where, in 1676, the In- dians massacred ninety of the young soldiers of the sparsely settled valleys. The story of the in- cldents connected with this massacre has been embalmed in history by Edward Everett. Deer- field was, in the wars preceding the Revo- lution, @ Motable point of attack for both the savages and the French. It was a very easy ronte for the latter down Lake Champlain and the valleys through which | run Otter Creek (a tributary of the lake) and | Deerfield Lake tothe Connecticut River. During | the Revolution the region was not invaded by the presence of war; but among the men who re. echoed the sonorous shout of Ethan Allen for the | surrender of Fort Ticonderoga, in the name of the “GREa? JEHOVAH AND THE CONTINENTAL ON- GRESS,”” | | | i many were from before the period of simple agriculture, and when the tiller of the soll, as he worked, kept nis rife by his side, expecting to be attacked at any mo- Ment. The stretch of country about Northamp- tox—which was originally called Nonotuck— fiom South Hadley Fails to Hatfleld, and ten miles west of the Connecticut River, in all ninety square | miles, Was bought from the aborigines for ten | cents and # hundred fathoms of wampum. Subse- quently this spot became one of the choicest agricultural districts in the whole of New England, and its farms were enriched by the overflow of the Connecticut River, and so matters remained, } Manuiacturers made their appearance in the neighborhood, and the waters were utilized by making @ servant of them, and consequently a | lurking enemy. Foundries were first established at Williamsburg and manufactories of woollen goods at points along the Mill River to Northampton. About 1830 atlk raising and spinning were itro- ducea in the neighborhood and the demand for water power increased, As numbers and capital increased the owners at the different manufac. | turing villages joinea togeiher and dammed the upper part of the stream. | In this country, at Denver, Col., Cherry Creek, | stream whose channel runs alongside Denver, was swollen by the accession of a mountain tor- | rent and overflowed the channel of the creek. It swept away, with resistless (ury, about filty dwell- | ings and destroyed tbe lives of about thirty per- son, besides demolishing several bridges tnat spanned the channel, THE MURDEROUS COAL REGIONS, A CORONER KILLED—EXCITEMENT AMONG THE | PEOPLE, | Pprrevitie, Pa., Dec. 19, 1874. | Frederick Hesser, a prominent citizen and Cor- oner of Northumberland county, was murdered at the Coa] Run mines, near Shamokin, jast night, | No clew has yet been obtained to the guilty party, There is great excitement and the citizens have organized a committee to Investigate, earch! was made of the premises and a hatchet and hickory club were fouod in the engine room, and as blood was found on these weapons there 1s no doubt the assault was made with them. Hesser was a very popular and amiable man, and | it 1s beneved thas he had no enemies, He was re- | cently elected to the office of Coroner. He was | forty-seven years of age and leaves a large family. | ( | There Is not the slightest suspicion as to who the guilty parties are, THE 'LONGSHOREMEN. ‘The strike of the ‘longshoremen, heretofore con- | sidered ended, still maintains a troublesome aspect, There are now two divisions of the union, those who are willing to work at reduced rates and those who are not. Several of the unemployed hands received work during the week, and all belonging to Union No. 2, who work at the fixed rate of forty cents per hour, day and might, find no difficulty im making arrangements for work with stevedores and merchants on the East River. Meetings were held last night and the night pe- fore, at which the action of the recent Convention | was emphatically condemned, and the union con- structed on @ basis altogether different from that on which the yielding members surrendered. Mr. Jonn Hu; seemed to be the leader. Outsiders from seve! jamsnip lines found an entrance into the society’s meetings and created a great deal of disturbance, so that daring the last two even- ings it was necessary to have policemen present yn each meeting ball. The action of the Convention was condemned | Jast Bight, and the Mixed rate of wages at rorty cents, “right through,’ was adopted. The Ex- ecutive Committee, when informed, shall, ac- cording to the amendment, deal with aeiin- bias members justly, aud especially with those lelegates who have not acted in harmony with the spirit of the union. A RUNAWAY ACCIDENT. A team of horses belonging to Acker & Merrall, Of Broadway and Forty-second street, ran away Gn Fistn avenve tast evening. When the horses feached the corner of Thirty-ninth street and Filth avenue the wagon behind them struck an obstruction, and Danie! Bates was thrown out upon the pavement, He was slightly ee on Hampshire and Franklin | counties, Massachusetts. But these were long | PIGEONS. HOW BEAGH THE BENIGN SAVED BLOODSHED IN THR CITI—SOW BIRDS WERE GHOT FOR 4’ THAN The contest for the Bennett Cup, which was looked forward to with so much interest by sports men, did not come offat Jerome Park yesterday as waa anticipated. { was not the feuit of the birds, for they were On the ground onder the thoughtiul care of Paine, willing to take their chances, Neither were the sportsmen to viame; for an undaunted few, defying tne chilly air and the anathema of Bergh, were on the ground filled with deadly intentions, Their resoiution seemed to rise as the barometer tell, and though there were rumors foating in the air of dire calamity ané@ fearfal onstaught by Clan Berga, yet the chosen few stood their ground maniully, wondering why their fellows Nad nos come to time, but repeating with many & Tound and well turned phrase their unalterable apd unfinching determination to shoot at some- ‘ning, if it should be the great hamanttart friena of the equine species himself. Tne hour appointed for opening the match was twelve O'clock sharp, and, with their usual prompt nese the members began to assemble toward one P. M, Up to that hour it appeared as if the ; sportamen bad been bagged on their way out, and | the few youthful and ardent souls who tn their | Juvenile simplicity took twelve o'clock to mean Doon and not two P. M., iretted and fumed at the delay and the prospect that there would be no sport after all the trouble and botner, ‘The aspect of Jerome Park at this season 1s cer- tainly not inspiriting. In the distance the grand stand looms up like # huge blockhouse, and tne winding track, deserted by prancing steeds and gayly dreasea jockeys, exercises rather a de- pressing infuence on the spirita, Trae, the Club House remains, with its neat tables and fauitiessly White linen, suggestive of the many pleasant ¢ée- a-tées over & glass of foamy champagne while dis- cussing the wing of @ chicken, These memories come back with reminiscences of the angeis that since those pleasant racing days we may have discovered to be, alter all, mere women, with @ curiosity to know how much one’s yearly income smounted to and an especially inconvenient mterest in our banker’s account; but vogue la galere, next season we promise ourselves to forget these inci- dents, or, a8 Our merry French friends would say, these désittusions, and swear faith and eternal at- tachment to some new angel. But, in spite of that imseparable companion of youth, hope, we cannot quite get rid of the tdea of loneliness and desertion which will not be dismissed. Below there, under the shed, two or three wagons are tied op, and down under the nil, ip @ delightful spot for shooting, the figures of a jew buys and men setting things in ore der rathor increase the impression that something | very serious has happened and that there will be no sport. The jew Spartan youths, who have done their duty and come up to time, wander about, wrapped up in Ulster great coats, Now and then they dive into the door of the Cinb House, and | when they come out again they seem retresned and in better humor ; but discontent is contagtons, and as the hour rolls on and one o'clock bas struck there are signs of mutiny. There are on the ground some dozen sportsmen and little appearance of any others coming. this juncture @ consultation was held and tt was unanimously resolved to shoot the match whether the other came or not, This resolution put the twelve in good bumor. Gun cases were seized. One hard gentleman resolved on business, laid aside bis overcoat and, defying the wind, prepared to move down to the firing point, where the traps were already repared and everything in working order. Haif The loriorn hope had descended into ihe nollow, when, ‘“mtrabtle otgu/” the spirit of Bergh was seen advancing across the space, accouipanied by three stalworth policemen, OS ie their locusts with that playral alr which’ tells that tie guardian of the peace is ready for ything, | As the spirit of Bergh advanced, pointing silently toward the tiring point, the resolution of the | sportsmen fizzled out, and with one accord they. shouted out, “Take any other shape than that,” | the rest of the quotation getting considerably mixed, This, we BUppose, was Caused by the un- | natural appearance of Bergh, “Iv’s not Bergh, I tell ye,” satd a Hiber- || to do with the nian who had something traps. “Its bis tetch man,” and he crossed hilmsell murmoring, ‘The Lord betune us and all harm.”, As che group on the bill watched the curious fight passing | berow the spirit of Bergh dissolved into thin air, | but maintained ita threatening aspect to the last. Of tne vision only the police remained. They were hard facts, and accounted for their presence by a gram they had received from Inspecior Wat. devoutly, teley } lig ordering them to prevent the shooting on | the ground that it is @ violation of the city ordinance against using firearms within the city limits.: With many sincere prayers lor the temporal and spiritual welfare of Mr. Bergh the shootists took up their gans and slowly wended their way back to the Uinb House. While this little comedy was enacting tn the hollow, sev- | erai wagons came tearing out with tardy sports- | men, and Mr. Jay’s magnificent four-in-nand | dashed up, heralded by sounding horn. its freight of gentlemen and ladies arrived onlyto meet with | disappointment. In order that the day snould not | be wholly lost It was resolved to make a flank march to Mr. Lorijlurd’s and shoot off some pri- vate sweepstakes in spite of Bergh and his minions, ‘fhe word was passed, and in a few minutes the company, which nad’ swelled consia- erably in the meantime, moved off, and, after a brisk drive, found retuge in Mr, Lorillard’s grounds, Altnough Mr. Bergh succeeded in giving a good deal of annoyance, he tailed to save the pigeons, NOT TO BE BALKED, The gentlemen were determined to have sport, and they accordingly repaired to the Lorillard es- tate, Which was about two miles away, on the | northeast side of the Bronx River, out of the city limits, {Chere they shot off the sollowing handi- | cap sweepstakes. The shooting was regulated ac- cording to the English rules, trom fy traps, with twelve gauge double-barrelied breech-loading guns, ¥% ounce shof, 30 yards and under, from traps, | tne boundary being marked by trees’ about sixty ards away. ‘he birds were us fine a tot as could e desired, and the shooting was kept up until | nigntiall, ‘The following are THE SCORES. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES @t $5 each, at three | birds, 1/4 oun es of shot, about 50 yards boundary {n tront and 80 benind, gon Clad rules :— J. G. Beresford . 6 1,1,0 0, HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES, $5 each, at one bird, Lg ounces Of shot; sume bouudary and rule as trast sweep. Q. Fellows. pie Fae Fa | . Clason 1, 1, 0. I. Townsend. » 1, j » Post. 1, 0 A. Grime! 1, 0 L, Edwards, 1, 0. | A. Rice... 128 3, 4 B, Robinson, Jr., 27 yards; M. Van Buren, 28 yards; B. Purdy, 29 yards; Belmont, 26 yards; E. Leavitt, 26 yard; 7, Buren, 28 yards; P, Belmont, 28 yards; J. G. Beres- ford, 27 yaraa; £, Stevenson, 26 yards; J. Lowery, 27 yards; C, Balmer, 28 yards; 8. Howlana, 27 yards; G@, Barnwell, 20 yards; ©. Livingston, 30 ards; G, Potts, 28 yards; J. Schuyler Crosby, 28 yards. Each mised their first pird. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES, $5 each; same roles and conditions a8 second sweep. E. Leavitt.. 41,1,1,1 T. Van Buren. 2 Mik A. Rice... 8 Evo d, Schuyler Crosby. 29 A, Belmont... 26 B, Robinson, Jr if 30 28 i 2 30 Pil 3 G. Barnw: 20 8, Howland. aT 1, 0 C, Lamson, ; M. Van Buren, 28 yards; B. Purdy, 20 Grimes, 28 yard: » Bel- mont, 29 ya B. Stevenson, Sgt Bid 28 iy! . Fellows, 30 yards; 0. Steward, 2 Td 5 £e 1, townsena, 27 yards; M, Wight, 26 yards; |. Snyder, 26 yards, Each missed their first vird. COLLING, THE CUTTER, * a murderously inclined fellow named Benjamin Hi. Coiling attacked a young woman named Kate Fox last night, at the corner of James slip and 5 ‘ TON WINS. He Accomplishes the Great Five Hun- dred Mile Feat. NEWARK Get Up in Time for Church To-Day. EXCITED. He Will Yesterday morning, at precisely three minates 8nd four seconds past five o'clock, Edward Payson Weston struck the track of the Newark Rink and Started on bis last day of the six in which he set Out to walk 500 miles in six days. Ae had rewred at twelve minutes past two o'clock, having then complete? his seventy-fitn mile for the day and the 425th on the race, leaving seventy-five to be accomplished yesterday. He began nis self-im- posed task a+ five minutes past twelve on Mon- day morning, end that day aceomplisned ots primal task—the feat of walking 115 miies tn one Gay. Tuesday he walk seventy-five miles, Wednes- day, eighty; Thursday, eighty, and Friday, as ve- fore stated, seventy-five. @ THE TWO QUICKEST MILES made were the 325th and the 830th. These were each made in the amazing space of 10m. 188., and drew from the audience loud appianse, The quickest mile made yesterday was the 470th. The first half was made in 5m, 68%8., and the whole mile in 11m. 1é8, When announced by Dr. Peters, the timekeeper, the Rink rang with repeated rounds of applause. The mile previous was made in 14m, 658., and (he mile after it in 16m. 588, HIS RESTS AND CONDITION. ‘Weston’s rests each day (€ 4, the entire time he took for sleep, meals, rests, 4c.) 10oted up as fol- lows :—Firat 4m. Second day, 4h, 51m. 188. ‘Third day, bu. Ym. 9s. Fourth day, 4h. 8mm Fifth day, Th. 24m. @s, Sixth day, 27m, 508. The latter was op to the 490th mile, Tms makes @ round total of twenty-three hours, less about thirty minutes, which Weston nas rested during the six days, Allowing {or this bis race was gotten over in @ littie over five days, an average of nearly 100 mi! per walking day. From first to last the pedestrian has shown Bo signs of weakening. He hag dispiayed great nervousness and iudisposition to brook the most trifling mistake of bia heipers, judges or servants, Frequently he gave vent to fits of pettishness of @ most chtldish character, This 1s attributed to Dis high pressure mental and physical condition. Indeed, 80 fitful was he that some spectators de- clared their belief that he was semi-demented. Throughout the entire walk his physical condition has maintained ‘state all that he and bis medical Attendant could desire. A pioratng. before going on the track, Dr, Robert Taylor made ne careful eXamination of Weston and found him to IN FIRST CLASS CONDITION, ‘There was not even the smallest blister on hin feet, as there has not been from the first. Indeed. the doctor declares him to have been in better condition yesterday than he was when he started on Monday. Weston says the track in Newark is infinitely superior to that at tne Hippodrome, in that it is perfectly even, without hills and without the Hippodrome’s couple of inches of shoe cutting YESTERDAY'S WALK, AS above stated, Weston struck the track yester- day morning 4 few minutes after tive o’clock. At balf-past nine he restea for 27m. 608., took break- fast and was shaved. Throughout the day the at- tendance was unusually good, In the alternoon, about three o'clock, there was present a lar; crowd, but the walker made no extra effort, new comers he appeared fagged out; but they Were deceived by bis pecoliar Tee were per- sons who thougtit as they thought the first day of the walk, About @ quarter past five WESTON'S WIYE AND CHILDREN os in an appearance. The moment Weston saw hem he sprang from the track, embraced them affectionately, and then bounded back to bis task. ‘The Incident took immensely with the pretty fall audience, and they made the rink raftera shake and.the windows rattle with their applause, The aucendance included a large number of leading Newarkers anu many ladies. Whenever the music struck up, Wesion struck out and provoked burst alver burst of applause. About seven o’ciock the citizens began to pour 1m in large numbers, and by figne o'clock the vast building was tilled far beyond its seating capacity. Hundreds and hundreds of persons were quite satisfied to obtain standing room so long ag they were enabled to catch even an occasional giimpse of the great Rink rounder. The crowd xt ten o'clock numbered nearly 4,000 persons, one-third of whom were ladies, The as- -semblage imcinded a large number of leading Newarkers, their wives and daaghters, There was also quite a delegation from New York, including Warden Owen Brennan. of Believue Hospital; Ruts FP. Andrews, Major Francis, Dr. Jonn B. Wood, Dr. James P. Taylor and others. About eight o'clock MAYOR PERRY WALKED WITH WESTON several times round the track. Throughout the night the building iairly shook with thunders of applause. The enthusiasm of the vast assembi: was unbounded. Fspecially dia the rafters quake when eacn mile of the last ten Was calied out oy the judge. The effect was most visible on Weston. His face was continually wreathed in smiles, and his agtions clearly spoke his unbounded joy. mn sixteén rounds of the track makes twenty-iour feet over the mite, so that when on the board Weston bad walked ‘his 497th and @ hbaif mile he really finished bis 500th and won the race. When this fact was announced there was a perfect storm of applanse, huzzas and bravos, The scene was wildly exciting. lt was with difficuity that the crowd could be held back from crusning the victor to death, ‘The last mile was completed and the race won at exactly 394m. past eleven o'clock, and within 25%u). of the six days. Aster the race Weston received guite an ovation. He is to be presented with an elegant gold watch and chain by the citizens. itn # he attends church. He sent a request that ‘Nearer My God to Thee” ve sung by tue choir. It was 80 agreed. THE SIXTH DAY’S WORK. The following table gives the miles waiked yea- terday, beginning at 5b. 03m. 048., A. M., with the tme taken to accomplish each mile :—. Time. ++ 18:00 AMERICAN JOCKEY CLUB. The following ts the latest state of the odds im the betting books on the Withers and Selmont stakes to be run next June:— WITHBRS STARES. Bayminster. Roadamaothu: THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes In the temperature during the past twenty-iour hours in comparison with the corresponding date of last year, as recorded at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, HewaLd Bonds New York:— Eseses® Esssse ere cherry street. He used a Knife in his assault and stabbed the woman three times in the face and four times in the arm. He either did not strike forcibly enough or his weapon was not keen, for none of the Wounds be inflicted on his victim are the head and abont the body, He was taken to the ‘Twenty-ninth precinct station house, where his injaries were dressed, ana he was thence sent to big Dome Qt No, 174 Weat Bleventa ie | dangerous. The wounded woman was sent to the | Park Hospital and Colling was confinea in the _ Fourth precinct stavon house. Se corresponding duis Average temperature average temperature a Eines |