The New York Herald Newspaper, March 7, 1875, Page 7

SOMEBODY'S BLUNDER, Astounding Revelations Promised by | the Coroner. | 4 Few Parallel Cases of Br lect by Policemen, Do + and Neg- | s and Nurses. | se aa a, “ONLY HIS INSIDES WERE WORKING.” — ‘ A Horrible Story of the Charity Hospital on ! Blackwell's Is | tive’s bullet, Jy the case Of Jacob B, Stockvis, tne victim of the ' police or charities authorities, Coroner Kessler 18 making pr gress, for two days ve has hadtwomen | collecting ali the information attainable as to the | toan’s movements irom the time he leit his home | on the morning of the 20th of February until his | arrest by Offiver Fallon, At the inquest on Tues- | ay the Coroner wili take testimony in the order | in which the events occurred, and It ts most likely | that the case will not be closed until the end ofthe | week. The Coroner yesterday assured the writer | tuathe has . { DISCOVERED VALUABLE WITNESSE One is ason of George A. Mess, of 167 Reade street, | who saw Mr. Stockvis on the morning in question i Reade street, ‘Then he has found two respecta- ; ble merchants who were present when Fallen made the arrest, They wilt flatly contradict him and prove that S'oekvis was neither drunk por , disorderly when he fel! into Fallou’s custody. Mr. Kessler further stated that the police bad not shown the sligntest tnelinat.on to assist aim in the Investigation; that the imiortance given the case by the HERALD was wuily justified by facts what have recently come into his possession, which, if he was at liberty to give in advance of the Jega) inquiry, would astound | whe community, So fir as can be jearned about Police Headquarters the Commis- sioners do not give the case more than a passing thought, and have not even asked Captain Mount for a report to vindicate or criminate ieir om. cers, The Comiuissicners of Charines decline to Xpress an Opin.on on the case uniil the inquest ipheid. Warden brennan, however, Insists that the man Was not beaten on tue island. Tue stare ; ment o/ Fullon, puvtisbed in yesterday’s Herarp, ts not dev med 01 mach tmportance as nis vindica- tion, If the man was disorderly, as alleged, he is | guiity of a breach Of the rules for not aking that oharge, a8 well as intoxication, at the desk. He certainly does not better hie connection with the cage by hie statement. The Coroner states that deceased is a brother of Professor Stockvis, of Amsterdam, a distinguished authority amovg German physicians. Abuses of this character are by no means rare in the institctions on the islands of the East River and the polive courts and prisons, and yet they are likely to continue so long as political influence controls appointments in the police and charities departments. it should not ve a test oi a man’s | fismess for a respousibie place, requiring judgment, patience and humanity, that he ‘s clever at ma- Hipalating primaries or stuffing ballot boxes; yet in the past appuiatmenis have been mace where one or more of these was the only thing that , recommended the candidate. THE CASE OF GRAND MASTER FRENOT. The readers of the HERALD will nut have for- gotten this case, which was of a most ontrageons character, Mr, Nathamiei French arrived in this city trom the Bahama Istands in July, aod dropped into dissolute habits owing to the allnrements the city afforded, One nigut he was arvested by a voliceman, committed to prison und subsequenuy to tue Charity Hosp.ta:;, ou Biluckweil’s Is.and, where ue died August 2, 1873. It was clearly establighed that negiect vn ihe part of tie pe Ming A BUrgeun hastened the oMoals tb not man’s death. A Worse feature of tne case, however, is to come. Althouyt payers and valuables on his personscomia have euabvled the pouce to identiy im, he Was entered as an unknown Vagrant, conveyed to Potiers Fieid and buried, unmarked, wu @ trench, With mivety-nine others, The Masonic Araterpity, Im which he hed ligh rank, instituiea inquiries, and finaly the dody was 1 entified and returned to his tneids, The Alaoermen raised a committee, Ol which Alderman Gilon wag chair- Man, vo svestigate the case; ut notning came of it other than the passave of an ordinance re- quiring the Commissioners to udveruse in the City kecord Wwe day succeedmg the death or discovery Of A body, a full aescripuion of the sam and regulating the intermeuts on Hart's Island. Novody was punisiied, THE CASE OF SAMUEL WARD. | In September oi toe same year another case equally a8 glaring as to the negiect of the Charity livspital officials came to light eariy in the mont samuel Wara, emplo;ed in tne com™n manutactory oj alt, Paylor, at No. 163 Bowery, was arrested by | the police on the steps of his residence, on com- | Piunt Of O18 Wale, Wo hud arranged to have fm | placed in the inebriate Asyium. As the arrest | Was made late in the day he was tem commited to the Blackwell's Isiand Workhouse. | ‘Tuere he Was tagen tl and transe to the Charity Hespiral, where he died two or three days alter, He was comunited under bis full nauic, | and had it) marked on bis pocketbook, | yet le was boxed up im oa Mo, | name marked upon It, and the cofin and con- tents seni tu thedead house at bellevue Hospital. | The amily, WhO supposed he was in the Inevrate Asylum, Knew nothing oF his death until after his | remains bad veen imlerrea in @ pauper’s grave. One oO: them Viriied tue Inepriate Asylum to see Mr. Ward, und, learning that he had never veen aulitied there, imstitated the search that re- | thieve: , called to the prison pen at Jetferson Market, | for the First | back | out the very original bill witness had vrepare referred to by the HERALD, is 80 frvah in the recoi- | lection of New Yorkers that it nged not ne detailed atiengtn. I occurred last ial! in the Smallpox Pavilion, Eliza Was sen there by a medical | biunder aa & smallpox patient while she was suffering only from the bives, and while there she was forcioly traged by A pet of Commissioner Laimbeer iiamed August Mayer or Major. Dr. Day, Pro‘e-sor Chandler and other physicians were satisfied that ‘he crime had been committed, | yet by some means Mayer secured an acquittal, | ‘ant, it 18 said, is still @ nurse or orderly on the | isiaod, althougo President Baey reports that be is | | a Workhouse prisoner, OFHER OUTRAGES iM | by policemen, prison keepers, burses and even judyes, are so humerous that it 18 Use.ess LO recull ail their disetsting and aggravating particulars, The deelaration of Commissioner Gardner and Captain Wiiiams that the men ahould ireely use | the club is well remembered, The readers of the HeeaLp Will Dot soon forget the unjustifiable invasion of a man’s nou e in the ‘twentieth pre- einct by Deteetive Leahy and some of his assoc a their attempt to force an entrance in the | dend ol the night to the bedroom of their victim, an honest jaborer, Low he supposed them to ve resisted, and while holdi.g tne door against them was sent mto eternity by a detec. | ‘They will remember, too, the many cases o! brutality committed by the polee which have been recorded in the HERALD, and the scores: of times within five years that attention has been where prisoners, it 1s believed, have been 2bso- lutery frozen to death. With all these cases fresh | in the recollection of citizens no wonder there 1s | indignation abroad when this Stockvia case is acded to the tong catalogue of outrages by the public's servants, INVESTIGATING GREEN. ' H mu PEN t DAMAGING TESTIMONY AGAIN THE COMP- | | TROLEER BEYORE THE ALDERMANIC COM } | | MITTEE. | The Aldermanic committee appointed to ex- amine into the official conduct of Andrew I. Green held its third session yesterday, Mr. Farnsworth submitted fourteen questions In writing for the jadgment of the Board as to | wiether they should be put, The questions were submitted by previous arrangement, as arising ont of the examination of Commissioner Wales, and the committee decided that they snould first read | the questions before allowing them to be put to witnesses, “ommissioner Wales, who was present, Was therenpon relieved irom attendance, | Herbert B. Tarner, attorney and counsellor, was then examined:—His firm did business for the Mutual Lite lisurance Company, with others; there was a foreclosure of a mortgage in regard to schools in the Westcnester district in which they were engage, and alter some time they got pata ineir bill, | Gilbert H. Badeau, attorney and counsellor, was nex} examined:—He had been engaged in a few cases against the city, which were so plain that the Comptroiler had veen advised by the Corpora- tion Counse! to pay, and the money was finally recovered. William C, Cauldwell, State Senator, was the next witness:—Was now & member of Assembly dy t in Westchester county; had taken @ material part in drawing up the first annexation 310 was sent toMr. Herring—mem- ber of Assembly at the time—and he attended toit; Mr, Herring had tn ormed him that when it came from tie Governor the clause giving the power to control the public work to the Commissiouer of Public Works was changed so | that it should be given to the Department of | Public Parks; next session of the Legislature witness was a member of Assembly ior the dis- trict, but being unwell, it was a little late in the session when he went to Albam®; Herring had spent a good deal of time tn perfect- Ing the original act auuing Many amendments, | to ask him to prevent the police irom iiterfermg | so that the ovigmal drait was increased irom sixteen to thirty-four pages; about this, time a Mr. Simon Stern’ came to witness at Albany and said he represented the Comptrolier, und pulled Mr. Stern was surprised Lo gee the original oul swollen out by the samendments; Mr. Herring and Mr. Stern got together and the committees subsequentiy agreed to the bill, with Ss .me changes saygested by Mr. Stern, wmiech | nave since prevented the people to whom money Was due from gettiny 1¢ and added to the expenses | of tue clty government; the opinion of toe wit- ness was, that lnstexd of paying him $250 fur his services he wouid have given bim $250 in the in- terest o! the city to have stayed away; wi'ness said that he could not say that Stern was entitied to the $1,600 he had received irom the Comptroiier | because witness could not tell what vaiue Stern put upon bjs legal services; ie was positive tuat | toe bil Whicn passed Was bis (Witness’) bill, and Was put throagh tue Senate by Mr. Rovinson aud through tue Assembiy by himeeli; 1t would have passed if Mr, Stern had pot been present, as that person haa nothing to do with it, except xo | Jar as having pressed, as the representative of the | Comptroiler, for the changes; the bill was changed, 80 as to prevent the payment since of { devts, and enjoined tne empioyment of addi- tional clerks; there are bonds Of tie savings bank at Morrisanta which tbe Oompiroller reiused to pay aud wiicn action would now be had concerning; expense was also lucurred in connection with the Third avenue improvement, and witness traced the various paris Oi progress in relation to the Aunexanon act, and asserted repeatedly that, were it not for the mock action o1 the Comptroller, the city would have peen saved expense; Lut ne would not fix the amount of ene due to Stern, if any, furtner than to say he would have person- sobally puid him, in ‘ue mterest of the taxvayers, not to have thwarted Mr. Herring ana himself, Richard S. Rosenthal, general interpreter of the criminai courts, was next examined :—My salary is DOW due tor eight Months; toe case was decided in my favor, on the Jaw snd ou the facts, in the Court of Common Pleas in Septemper iast; the Comptroier tien resisted nayment uutil the Cor- poration Cocnsel should have given nis decision ; the Corporation Counsel published ts opinion in the Cuy Record Octover 30, 1874, that there was no deiei.ce and that my lawiul salary was $3,500 per annum; | haa an interview with the Comptrolier November 5, the day atier election; at that inter- view ne said he was the supreme jaw and ‘did | not care a damn” tor the Court or Corporation Counsel's opinion; then I commenced a suit against the city; im oraer to go to court Mr. Lurie signe’ an aMdavit taat the Comptrolier had been paying me only $2,000 a year, wnd that the Corporatiou Counsel nad advised him I had no | sulreu in learning © facts. Had the autbor- | Case, thus faisitying the Corporation Counsel’s | ives looked in the City Directory wey would | published opinion in the City Record; 1 was | have found Mr, Ward's name and place of busi- | absent from court irom thirty to forty days, ness there, Up to iho present tine the remains | in consequence of Mr. Green’s retnsal to pay ; had hve bever been Kecovered, and they to-day lie among tie UNKNOWD panpers in Potter's Fed. It has not beeu savounced that anyvody has been punished ior this gross piece of criminal neglect, SIUBL ANOTHER CASE. During the investigation by te Aldermanic comunittes of the Frenen case, Dennis 8. suliva gave apother instance oj official stupidity. It | appears that on January 3, 1574, lus acher was | J und sick in the sweet and conveyed 10 the Park | Hospitai, ‘There ne died tue following day, was removed to Potei’s Field, mis remaing bastied | lato the dead trench aud covered trom the word. he, (00, Nu papers Upon his person that would easly have enabled the attendants to identify him; yet tne vody bas never been recovered apd nobedy has been punished, AND STILL ANOTHER, During that investigation Mrs. Mary Rodican, ot No. Second aveuue, sent a communication to e committee, making tue iolowing cuarges:—That on Angust 2, 1873, her husoand, Pau.ck Roaican, was crowned in the East River. She went to the dead house, gave keeper Wuite a minute description of the man and asked to be noutied. A lew days after the body was recov- eved, The sorrow-stricken wile kept visiting the | Morgue every day for jour weeks, and ut last was shown her husband's clothes wnd told that he had | been interred in Potter’s Field. She applied to Wardeo Duuphey, o1 Hart's island, for the re- | mains, but ue reused to surrenaer taecin, although she alleges she was willing to pay $500 tor them, It has never transpired that the Keeper o. tue dead nouse received any punishment, aud oe 1s probadiy to-day somewhere in the department. Mrs. Roarean lived only three olocks Irom the Morgue, and she Claims that she | visited it daily, President Lambeer characterized | it at the time as an oucrage. | ALLEGED MURDER BY A NURSE. Cases like the above are but too pumerous, ‘There are otfers iu which aeeper guilt is charged, On May 1, 1867, Patrick O'Rorke and James Mc- Greary appeared before Judge Dodge, at Jefferson Murket, ana made comvlanl against one Mathew Henderson, an uncer WardeD In the Charity tos. | pital, charging him wish gouging the eyes ana kung @ iellow patient of (heirs named Joon ‘Thompson, They claimed that they made the complaint, because they believed it to be their duty. In the ailidavit (uey charged that they and inompson were in ward No, 9 of the pospitai; that Thompson was paralyzed in both legs; was ina Very Weak aud reduced sfate; that McGreary Was selected ad assistant to the Ward, and that Jienderson had charge of 1b as orderly; tharoa , the aiternoon of April 28 Henderson trust fis | thumbs into Thompson's eyes; wWiit Thompson, | who was very weak, succeeded in getting bis nead away and opened bis ev wnat Meaderson | Tepeated jis vrutality, when ie complain ants and Thomas irwid and John Cousins tmonstrated witt HMendersoa, telliug him that Thompson was hot dead; Henderson replied that | his soul aad left the body and “it Was ouly mg in | sides Were Working ;” that Thompson Was not toca | dead, but opened bis eyes, that Henderson puied the pillows irom under Thompson's head when the | man gave a convulsive heave of tue chest, and, while he was sill breatning, Henderson put a | Vandage about tis neck and choked im antl be «ied, LaF og (now Captain) Borden, wo mace the arrest ol Henderson, stated that tie facts as he learned tem, corroborated the aftidavit, ana {he bratal orderly was iocked up for examination. | What disposition was made of the complaint does Hotappear, Possibiy poutical mfuence saved tue | dak Jrom prosecution, CHE BLIZA COLLINS Cast. Juss most OuWagevys case, Way bas been | | three interviews with him; w not paid my sal- | ary unc from tne LOth to the 20th of the montn; | the other cierks were not paid until the same | time; suilered very mucn on account oi these he and Mr. | then | Board of Aldermen supposed nothing of the kind; but the Comptroller hereioiore has seemed quite capable of geting mlormation from the Finance Department when he wanted to in oener matters that have come before this Board [ naturally thought be could furnish the informa. tion at once that I have asked. By sending a cierk over to his office ior the Uigures, as he hag often | been ovliging enough to do veretolore, | sup- pozed he could give this intormation to-day. A communicstion was received from General Porter, the Commissioner of Puvlic Works, 10 rela ton to the $15,000 which was appropriated on Sep- | tember 10, 1874, tor the paving of West Washington rket, the worm not yet having been done. Tne General wanted to know in his communication just where he stood before undertaking tne work. ‘The matter was referred to the Comptroiler tor bis opinion, ‘The Comptroller stated that there were a series tioned two of them—one being for §166,0C0, In favor of the New York Gaslight Company, for 1871, and anorber lor what he suid he belleved to ve a “deficiency, abstraction or defale tion” by a city oficial to the amount of $30,000 (wnien official was not named). He also stated that some of the judgments were lor the salaries of the Supervisors, and as there were no amounts to meet their salaries lor 1875 that matter should ve taken into consideration, SUPERVISORS? SALARIPS. Mr. Lewis wanted to know if the Comptrolier meant to infer that any ot the Aldermen nad already brougut suis for their salaries as Super. visors fur 187). The Comptroller said that he did not mean to #o injer, but he remarked that he had only reierred to the matter so as to give the Board | to understand that if they did sne and win be wonld have uo money to meet the demands unease the Board put tt in the till. The resolution was then adopted. lows:— Resolyed, That the Comptroller be and he is hereby orized’ and directed to issue honds of the city » as provided in chapter .56 of the Laws for the purpose of providing ‘moneys for the payinent of claims and judgments, which have been or may be obtained against the said city, the amount of il bonds not to exceed the sum of $201,0%), said bonds be designated * York city bonds tor liquidation of aims and mdym nd bear Interest not exceeding seven per cent per annum, and payable at such time within three years trou the date thereot as the Comp- troller may determine, A letter Was read from the Department of Parks It 19 as fole | asking for $100,000, to be issued in bonds payable ‘an | required twenty years, the principal work which the expenditure 0: a portion of sum being & bridge over the Marlem River, at the upper end o: Madison ave- nue, No action was taken on this request, The Comptroiler called the attention of the Board to the act that the nine civil district courts cost the city $199,000 a year, and suggested that the salaries o1 the justices—$s,v00—and the other oMcers of the couris snouid be decreased by the Board. It was im the power of the Board to do | this, and he offered a resolution requesting the ; Mayor to report to the Board woat steps ought to be taken tn the matter. The Mayor offered an amendment, which was adopted, referring tue question to the Comptroller jor ms report. ¢ board then adjourned, MUNICIPAL NOT this ‘The Mayor was calied upon yesterday by a large delegation of liquor dealers, headed by Mr. Herz- | berg, who suomisted charges, in writing, against | the Excise Commissioners. In the charges it 1s contended that the Excise Commissioners mali- | clously arrest liquor deaiers at nignt time, when | | they cannot get bail, and that the Police Commis. | sloners say that they have not intended the police | to make the arrests at night. The liquor dealers in their complaint stace that the Excise Commis- siobers are thereiore the parties to be held re- | sponsible for the arrests. The | Would give the subject serious consideratuon and at an early a: ine counsel of Sergeant Miller, of the police missea irom the force some charge of Inspector McDermott that he found | them piaying cards im a liquor saloon when tney should have veen on patrol, wiso preferred charges to the Mayor against the Police Commis- | sioners, claiming that they were dismissed with- out being allowed a trial. Severai parties called upon the Mayor yesterday | With the masquerade bali of the Standard Club, Which was weld last Digut. The Mayor :aughingly remarked that he had not instructed tne pviice to interiere With Masquerades, In this connection it may be said that the ruamour that Presiaent Lewis, of tne Bourd of Aldermen, had used nis influence to prevent the masquerades | 18 totally uniounded, The police, it Is now an- } Dounced, cannot imteriere witn masquerades, even under the law of 1829, unless, tickets are sold for the ent aments Thereiore the Purim festival observers need have no apprehension of | an interierence in thetr lestivities by tne police, | Mr. Henry A. Gumoleton will assume the duties | OF Deputy Commissioner of Pubic Works to-mor- | row (Monday). | _ The Aidermen and the pontic: | their minds quite freely yesteraay about the “cheek,” a3 they called it, 0; Comptrolier Green pudisuing in the Ciy Record, under the head of “suits against the Cit the suit for libel against jans generally spoke him which Mr. Palmer, late Chamberlain, has in- | stituted against Green himself, and in wich damages are laid at $50,000, THE SPRING TRADE. PROSPECTS OF BUSINESS—OPENING OF TEE CANALS*-RAILWAY FIGHTS AND COMBINATIONS OF CORPORATIONS. The weather has peen decidedly a Polar bear on business, and “winter, lingering in the lap of spring,” 18 not at all conductive to a H¥ely business in light faorics suitable fcr spring wear; yet, in spite of Boreas and the raliway war, Dasiness per- si8te in putting on a more cheerful aspect and gives 4 fair promise of a more vounteous tifte. Tnere are many sotid reasons for this improvement, In the frst piace, we are entering inc‘o a new life in the new year 1875, alter two seasons of unusual de- pression, when liquidation bas been constantiy | going ou and the bealiny reaction hardly yet | felt; we have awaiting legitimate enterprises a plethora of capital whicn has never been exceedea im our history; disbursements of perhaps $50,000,000, in the shape oi interest and dividends, im the bear juture which will look Jor protitanie employment, and, Jastl,, the meiting away of the ICB BARKIERS TO COMMERCE, which have su scriousiy atlected business both on the jand and on the water. Our canals will ve open lu @ jew Weeks and those great internal arteries oi Commerc? utilized to their fullest ex- tent. [1 in aad.tion to these natural mcentives to @ better business is added low stocks of goods all | over the country, a feeling of returning confi- gence, the ease 01 money and a juvilation (which of judgments that had to ve met, «pa he men- | Mayor said he | force, and of the three policemen who were dis- | time ago on the | NEW YOKK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. nience was felt in the traMc. Wagons got en- tangled with each other In the attempt to avoid the heaped snow banks as on previous dave, and uable time was jost in frautic efforts to extri- cate the wheels from the slushy depths in whch they nad been caught and out of which the over- deayors, could not iree them until after long efforts and too tréquent protanity and anger. In the uptown aistricts, where the SHOW ail Was less disturbed by the demands cf business or peasure, alairs were not 80 vad as ti 1s, and peopie gene- | Tally congratulated themseives that no irost hag set In vO add to the discomforts by making the for whicn in the city there was too little snow, thougn beyond the rivers, on the higher and more open grounds of Brooklyn, Jersey, Staten Islaua aua Westchester, there were iair inducements lor Abe induigence of rapid transit on runners b: horse power and with the musical accompani- | Ment Of the silver-sounding, tintinnabulating beils, THE HUDSON RIVER TUNNEL, OPPOSITION OF NEW YORKERS TO THE SCHEME MR. JOHNSON’S BILL. ‘The subject of the Hudson River Tuonel Com- pany, wiich has been organized with a capital of | $10,000,000, 18 daily exciting a larger share of the | public interest. The company have asked of the tunneton the New York side, and the bill is now before the Railroad Commitvee. A committee | of citizens, however, have petitionea that no action shall be taken upon she Dill anrl they can bave an opportunity of being heard, The cause of their objection is alleged to be that U_ the tunnel is compieteu the effect will be to in- jure uptown property, Homes tn New Jersey wil then be muco easier of access, and, as a resuit, the metropolis will suffer in proportion as cur sister State is benefited. Tne company say, however, That soch ab argument is anything bus poe | unprovement, as the greatest good of the greacest ; umber ought to be considered, The following is a copy or tue dill, which wilt be found inieresting, as it bas only been briefly al- juded to heretofore tn the press :— Ax Act to amend an act entitled, “An the formation of Railroad Corporation the same.” passed April z, .890, he People of the State of New York, represeated In Senate and Assembly, do enact as foliows:— SKCTION L.—AY Company or corporation formed or organized jn the manner preseribed by or pur-uant to the provisions of an act enuted “An act to auctorize the form uon ot reslroad corporations andto reyulace the sume,” passed April 2, 1860, and the several acts | amendatory thereof and stippiemensary thereto, for We Purpose of constiucting, Maintaiming and operating a bu to reyulare | ima tunnel under ground or under water, to any olher piace, tor public use, in the conveyance ot persons and property, shall be deemed and held to be a rail- | road corporation wituin the meaning of such acis, | and shai’ have and possess all the powers and pr | and be subject to all the conditions and resin one of railroad, corporations. formed, organized oF 4 | corporated under or by virtue of the provis.ons } ot the said act, entitled as atoreswid, und the | said several amendatory and supplementary acis, and } shall have all the powers of any other railroad corpora: , tion to merge, amaiganvate or consolidate with any othor | connecting railroad corporauon, whether organized | under the lews of this or any other State. } Kc. 2.—Seetion 13 of the's horize the formation of railroad corporations aud to j regulate the sume,” passed Apri: 2, Itb). is nercby amended by adding thereto, as tollows:—But when tbe | real estate so required Is for the construction ava | tion of @ rauroad chrough a innnel more than tifiee: heneath the surtace of the groun., such company ma in the same manner, acquire utie to hola tue land ne essary for such tunnel) only, and exclusive of the title to the land above suco tunue Kc. 3.—Any railroad corporation, whose railroad 14 to be consiructed, maintained and ‘operated irom any other state, through any tunnel more than fifteen feet | beneath the surtace of the gronna, tne termination of | which tunnel is within any city ot this state, may have its ingress to and egress from ‘such ¢ nel, with proper Approacnes and station houses at suth place or pla | in any such city as may be designated by three missioners, to be appoiited upon the petition | railroad corporation within thirty days thereatte | by the Governor of this State and one by the Mayor of such city—each of which commisstoners shail be a prac- heal civil engineer, and continue in office during the pleasure of the offleer by whom he was appointed, wito Js h reby authorized to fll vacancies occurring in éither of said commissioners by him appointed ih the sama manner, Each of said commissioners shall receive » | compensanon of $10 per day, to be paid by sueh railroad | corporauon, tor every day employed. by request of said Governor, Mayor or railroad corporation, Sec. 4.—Said commissioners, or a majority of them shall have power, and it shall be thei ducy to locat | designate and establish the route or line of any s rairoad within any such city, and the strets and docks which may be occupied by said company, exiher ; In constructing or operating as | which it may pass, and to det 4 ribe the mine and. pi ever, 0 ong thereto shail corporation 1m | and the extent of such excavations, subject, ho’ the approval of such Mayor; and all such dir by the san commissioners relative be folowed by sucn raiirond construction of any such tunnel or railroad; and any such. railroad corporation shall have (he | right, and is hereby authorizea to acquire the ttle to | and to hold such’ real estate or interest therein as may be #0 designated or established as such route by said commissiouers, or a8 May be Pecessury oO enable It } to construct, operate and maintain any’such railroad as herembefore provided, and to construct and main. tain the proper stations and buildings of sail raiiroad | corporation, at such points along the route of snid raik | road a3 may be convenient and suttable :or the mgress and egress of passengers and tor the receipt and dis- | nage of freight and packages and necessary tor the | successtul operations of said railroad, and for the pro- er connections between raid ratircad «tations and uildings. And ali real ostate, lands or interests $0 \¢- quired, whether for the rou'e’ or line of any such rail | toad, or for stations, depots or terminal purposes, or lor | any other purj érein mentioned shail be designated | lopated and established by said c joners, and sbail | bé approved by the Mayor of such ¢ | Ske. 5.—Betore any such railroad “corporation shall commence work upon. or tinder any of the streets of | such city, it shall execute and deliver to su bond or obligation, witn sum sureties. by which it and such aureties shall be bound to pay to such city, and to all persons and corporations owning lands along the line of its railroad, any and all direct damages or Injury that the property ot such eity, persons, or corporations, | shall sustain by reason of the Construction ot said road ; | aud that such railroad corporation wii restore :!l streets | and avenues therein to as saie aud foou condition a | same were betore the commencemen: ot work the! | Said bond shall be in. the penai sum of $100,000 ar in such form as such commissioners may prescrit or approve, the sureties of which shall ve approved | by such Mayor, who shall hold the said bond in | the use and benefit of ail concerned, or benencially | mterested therein, It shall not be lawful for any sucl: railroad corporution to charge exceed ng tive cents per mile for each passenger passing through its tunnel. | see. 6,.—tvery railroad corporation whose ra | connect with “any ratiroad construcied thr. such tunnel, «hall have tt seugers and frewht conveyed throug such tunnel, to- | gether with the same right of terminal faciliues which fenjoyed: by any other connecting railroad combuny, upon paying compensauon in the same rateable pro- | portion, | sec. 7—The Lecislatare may aitor, amena or repeal | this ac it any time. |. Sxc. 8.—All laws inconsistent with this act,so far as inconsistent therewith, are héreby repealed. ‘Ske. 9.—This act shail take effect immedi; THE “CONSPIRACY LAW.” MEETING LAST EVENING TO PROTEST AGAINST IT, A meeting of the Democratic Workingmen’s Party was held last evening at Germania Hall for “Conspiracy Act”? now before the Levrislature, | tasked horses, though urged to therr best en- | sidewalks slippery. It was a vad day tor sieighing, | spirited and onght not to affect any great pubic | t to authorize | Talirend, trom any place upon tie suriace of the iand, | id act, eniitled “An act to | | Manner in which excavations thereunder shall be mais. | h Mayor a | 8 rotesting against the proposed | bicirbenk kstelhyse ie agen Nil od | In suvstance, ‘Do you think It was proper for you will become national) Ou account of the Centen- nial, there are valid and sudicient reasons to | believe that @ general revival ol trade | After the election of officers, which resuited in the choice of Mr. A, Strasser, President; Mr. H. A. Sa- | particularly polite to Mr. Green, Knowing that Mr. and confidence throughout the tand will take | place. Already the signs are visible in the West— | that Mowe recuperative section of our country—of | @ more bopetul jeeling. and this will be readily re- | sponded to by the South, and once the lately clogged wheels of trade are set in motion the machinery will move on without the jars and | stoppages Which have had to be chronicied in the | past. dclays; at another interview with me tae Comp- troller ordered we out of the office; | was always Green was generally otherwise. Mr. Haskin hauded in ‘he names of witnesses to be examined, The Chairman of the committee, Mr. Lurroy, then stated that the next witnesses , wouid be Mr. Barker, lace Depu'y Clerk to Com- missioner of Puvlic Works, and Mr. EK, D. Smith. On men, Vice President, and Messrs. Joseph McCul- jocn and Kaufmann as Secretaries, speeches were made by Mr. P. J. McGuire, Mr. George Winters and Mr. G, syser, all denouncing the proposed measure. The following preamble and resolutions were read and adopted, alter which tue meeting ad- journed:— Wheroas it is the undemable right of all men to im- | secreta motion of Alderman Shandley, attachments were ordered to be issued for their attendance, and the | comuittee then adjourned to Wednesday next at hail;past one o'ch BOARD OF APPORTIONMENT. HE TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ror JUDG- MENTS AGAINST THE CITY—ANOTHER BRIDGE OVER THE HARLEM RIVER. » Board of Apportionment held a meeting yesterday. Mayor Wickham, Comptroller Green, Tax Commissioner Wheeler and President Lewis, of the ‘Board of Aldermen, were present. The Mayor presided. General Porter, Commissioner of Pnbiic Works, was present by invitation of the Mayor, who introduced him to the Compvrolier, who bad not betore met him. Mr. Wheeler, the 'Y, read the minutes of the previous meet- | ing, The Mayor moved their approval in the usual way, wren, to Mr. Wheele utter amaze- ment, tue Comptroler remarked, tn a gruif voice. “Mr. Chairman, | wish to be recorded as not ap- proving the minutes as read.” It wasiu vain that Mr. Wheeler attempted to get the Comptroller to | give his reasons jor his vote, He was obdurate. He threw himself back in bis chair with a peculiar grin on bis face, and vegan a minute inspection of the frescoes on the ceiling, probably cogitating in bis own mind Whether it Wouldu’t be a particu. larly good thing for Andrew H. Green if the ceil- ing should fail some day when he was not present. and the Mayer and his otuer colieagues tn the | Board we the Mayor finally cut short Mr. Wheeler's uests (hat the Comptroller should | give bis reasons for voting aa be did by deciding | that it was the Comprtroiler’s Privilege, as a mem- ber of the Hourd, to vote as he pleased, without aty eXplapation of bis vote. A resviuiion was offered that $1,700 be pransierred tr i the unex- — pended oalance of 187s, of account of the Bureau of Kiecwons to salary account of Boura o| Aldermen, the Mayor suguested that the resolution should be referred to fie Comptroller to ascertian U there were any wnexpended balances of the account nentioned, THE COMPTROLLER'S BOOKS. | Mr. Lewis said thar he supposed the Comptroller could then and there furnish we desired uorma- ton. ‘The Comptroller (brnsquely) —Does the President | of tie Board of Aidermen suppose. that the Comp- | troller carries the books of the Finance Depart- ment im his coat pockets ¢ My, Lewis (snecrlugly)—The President of the | turned. | streets that uo longer does even the dainty littl A reporter of the HERALD, in order to ascertain whether these hopeiul signs to the merchant could be trutuiully put forth in these columns, ye: aay Waited ON Many prominent firms to ascertain THE TRUE SITUATION. In the majority ot instances tue members of firms were disposed to consider that the piack days-Nad passed, and that with the return ot govt weather the spring trade would open in an unusually lively manner, Indecd, so confident were they of tuis that they bad increased their usual line of Importations, The war between the raliroags would aiso help the merchants, inasmuch as ireizhts were low, and would tempt buyers. Many of the Steamship companies were vistied— the White Star, nmin and French Trans-Atianuc, | The infurmation there derived tended to the belief that importers were anticipating a heavy spring trade on account of the increase of cargoes mant- lested to New York merchants, The bitter wartare between the Pacife Mail Steamsiip Com- pany and the Union Pacific Ratiroad ending ag it has Gone, looks to a vetter Jeelng in Wall street, and as THE AMERICAN RIALTO 1s the financtal pulse oi tue country, and it has been beating high of late, it is sae to assume that its taroos wii give additional lue ana vigor to the country. + \NOTHER MARCH DAY. THE SPASON OF SLUSH IN THE CITY STREETS. Yesterday was another of those miserable days of sins and vexaiion, which have made New Yorsers this wiuter familiar with weatner thas hitherto had beea merely @ recollection of some of the oldest inhabitants, The thermometer did not fall particularly jow, nor was there a keen breeze | piercing the ears and noses of travellers, but th streets were in a horrible condition, covered with half meited snow ana muddy water. prom- ising sunshine of a rewdays since had not re- A heavy atmosphere dampened the spirits of everybody and inade the people repeat the query, “Wil it ever ceasey’ ‘The invariable answer co this now famillur question was that it | jvoked as if it was going to snow again or Lo sleet or to rath, rybody is Weatnerwise, In every part of Streets, especially the city the sidewalks and te crossings, were m a wretched condition, Heaps of the softened snow were gatuered beside the gutiers, and atthe sings pools of snow water had to be waded through at tue almost certainty of wet feet and consequent colds and coughs. People have now grown so accustomed to plunging across the foot of yuuthiut feminine beauty hesitate, but bold plnuges to the gaiter top into lakes of dark siush or brawling streams of the snow water rnshing toward tie sewer gratings. In the bast hess thoroughiarcs down town grea jucouve- prove and elevate their condition in any manuer that | will not, contict with the permanent Interests of the community; and whereas, owing to the rapid increase of wealth in the hands of a few and @ curresponding growth of poverty among the masses, it has become necessary for workingmen to organize trades’ unions in order to preserve themselves from starvauon, ignorance and crime; and whereas these organizations have no intent to injure any individual nor the State, but, on the contrary, to advance the material imteresis’ ot the working’ classes and thereby benefit the whole people; and whereas at ‘the instigation of, the Police Commissioners of this city a blll has been In- troduced in the State Legislature which makes it a con- | spiracy and punishable as a crime tor workingmen 10 | protect themselves from the grasplng rapacity of the Capitalists; therefore be It Resolved, That the Social Democratic Workingmen’s Party earnestly protests against the passage of this in- famous and retrograde measure, and characterize it as legisiation in the Interest of the monyed classes and | virtually dangerous to the republican character of American institutions, Kesoived, That we recommend all workingmen to at- tend the mass meeting at Cooper Institute, to be held next Thursday the 11th inst ANTLRENT TR ENEWE:! RESISTANCE TO. AN OFFICER ' COUNTY. [from the Albany Journal, March 5.] The usual tranquillity of the farming community adjoining the village of Seward Valiey, Schunarie | county, was considerably aroused on Tuesday last, | the occasion of the disturoance being an effort on | IN SCHOHARIE the part of Deputy Sheriff Engle, of Cobleskill, to eject from @ farm one Chauncey Livingston, an | oid resident Of that locality. It appeared that | Livingston purchased the farm in question trom William Dielendort, o: Root, Montgomery county, avd ior the purpose pouring Iteendor! gave | him @ mortgage on the farm, The mortgage not having been paid as it matured, @ joreciosure of the Sime Was ordered some time !ast au- tumn, Mr. Livingston not desiriug to leave tne farm \at that time, an arrangement was effected by means of which Livingston was to con- | nue to occupy the arm until Marca 1, On Mon. | day, the 1st o! March, the old incumbent continued | fo hold possession, and, consequently, on the fol- lowing day the faortwagee proceeded, with such aid as the law provides, to dispossess tue offender. ‘Tne Deputy Sherif and his posse were not ed cordially received, the introduction being tne fell- log to the ground o1 the mortgagee, a hand-to- hand encounter between Constable Dwelley and a son Of Livingston, and the old lady, the matron ot the premises, showering Sherif? Bogle witu scaid- ing Water, a botier full of Which was in reserve (or the occasion, During the skirmish which ensued various Weapons were used, inflicting wounds Upon both parties, the most seriously injured being Mr, Dierendorf, who was struck on the head witaa club, Perseverance and pluck, however, overcame tue rebellious element, and Livingston v placed under arrest jor assault and battery With ment to Arik Legislature permiasion to locate one end of the | FING THE RESDONOIILITY, The Inquest Into the Calamity in ‘St Angirew's Church aS BUILDING TESTIMONY OF OFFICTALS. How the Wall was Tied Up in Red Tap The inquest to determine who 1s or are respon- sible for the falling Of the west wali of tue Shaw building upon the roof of St. Andrew's church, and hence guilty to a certain degree of causing the death of five poor beings, has already filled jar more time than was expected, and itis likely to continue several days beyond next Tuesday. to which date it was adjourned yesterday afternoon. The examinations of the officials of the Depart- tof Buildings are scarcely more than begun, and when they are ended there will be a number | of experts in the construction of houses quea- | ch railroad, of uuder | tioned, but what 18 expected to ve developed by | their testimony only Coroner Eickhoff now knows. The session of yesterday was marked by some prilliancy in the particular of questioning on the part of jurora, Several of these gentlemen, even though they do not subscribe to the doctrine of evolution, certainly are experts at involution. They irame sentences half a yard long, having & wonderiul variety of clauses, and succeed tn puzzling witnesses as well as if they had been bred tothe law, were opposed to the testimony of the witnesses and were determined to confound them. WILLIAM F, CROFT was the first witness called to the stand. He tes- Uded:—I live at No. 1,046 Third avenue; Tam an inspector of buildings; I inspectea the Suaw building immediately after the fire the 12th of January; 1 saw that the walis were cracked and badly sprung; I reported to the Department of Buildings thas they were 80; 1 did not consider that the west wall was tn imminent danger of | falling; thooght merely that it was unsaie, and that measures'should be taken to make it secure | until it could be taken down; [ think the wind had considerabie to do with overthrowing tue Wall, To the Coroner, direct—I vo not know that any other palidings were damaged by the storm ou the night of the 26rh utr. Witness continued—My iast report, as inspector of buildings for the Second district, in reference | to the Shaw building, ! made on Febraary 1; at that time I was removed to an uptown district; in that report I stated that men were at work in the Shaw building bracing its walls, and that I thought they were making them saie; | saw some loose bricks on tue top of the west wall which I thought were dangerous; on the morning of the | fire thought that the walls were unsafe, but as they did not fall then I shat they would stand until the precautions taken against their fall were completed; I do not think the wails ought to bave been thrown dowa; case they were they would have damaged sur- rounding buildings; the easterly wall I judged to be more likely to fall at the time of the fre than the westerly, but afterward ! considered it only as unsafe; I recommended that portions of tt should be taken down and then rebuilt according to the regulations of the Building Department; to throw down the walls would have been dangerous, but they could have been taken down plecemeul Yn | almost periect saiety tothe men employed; I never the: thought that the lives of people residing in heuses adjoming the Shaw buuding were in danger aiter the fire; I velieved, however, that the taking down of the walis might have been at- tended with some risk; my duty was simply to make an examination of the condition of the wall and then to Make @ report to the superintendent of Buildings; at the same time, as an inspector, L was to recommend what should be done to secure the walls of the building; atterward I had to see that the orders ol the Department of baildings in reference io the oulidtng were obeyed; I nad no consultation with Mr. snook nor with any one else in reference to the building; | never saw the Superintendent of Builuings at tue Shaw building; think | have heard irom an officer of the department that he bad been there, however. Juror—Is ib Dot the duty O: un inspector to know these things ? Jations of the Department o Buildiugs in respect tots employés? Do you know that inspectors have to be at the departments offices every morn- ing to present their reporis, receive “shps,’’ and each to consult with the general inspector over hin ? Witness—Yes, sir, I Know those things. Superintendent Adaiws—Do you not know that the general inspectors and mysell hoid a daily | conference? Witneas—No, sir, I do not know it, but I sup- pose 80, Superintendent Adams—How many unpate build- ings were there in your distrigt at the i1me of tue fire tn the Snaw builaing? Withess—About ten or fifteen, as well asI can remember. superimiendent Adams—How many cases of vio- lation of the buiiding laws were there? Witness—About 8+ venty-tive. A diagram 01 Snaw’s buliding was Dow produced, it the places whereat the walls were braced aud those where there were no braces, The witness having done this task, lis examination was again continued. Mr. Eugene Kelty asked him a won- derfully long and complicaved question, which was to let suci Walls ag those o the Shaw building stand, even though attempts were made to brace and secure them +” Witness repiied:—It was not within my power | to throw the wall down; my duties are only to | inspect the building and to report the result oi my examination of it to the department; if I should | discover the walls of a building to be very unsafe | 1 shold call the immediate attention of the Bulid- | ing Department to them; I do. not think that the | duties of an inspector have force with relerence | toa burning building; 1n my judgment my con- | nection with the walls of the Shaw building did | ot begin anil aiter tuat of the Fire Department has ceased; 1 do not think that it was my duty to teil the Chief Engineer to throw the walls down during the fire; 11 anybody had arignt to throw the walls down at that time he nad. In response to a juror:—I have never read the code Of building laws through; when a case oc curred which my experience did not teach me how to deal with I looked into the code jor im- jJormation, WALTER W. ADAMS testified:—I live at No, 168 Soring strect; am Superiutendent of Buiidings; never heard person- ally irom inspectors that the walls oi Nu. 25 Duane fire; beard about them only through the reports ¢! the inspectors, The above Biatements were ade in response to the Coroner’s questions. Mr, Adains now asked to be permitted to tell his story consecutively, aud the VCorouer having grantea his request, he said:—I was tn the office on the 12th of January, When an oficer of the devartment came in and sald there was @ large fire in Duane street; the official thougut it was Shaw's burding; | told him to send some one to watch tne progress of the fire and to note tf any- thing should happen that would demand the ac- von of my department; it was my custom to do This in the cases oi large fires; 1 heard nothing more about the building until @ clerk iniormed me that the walls were condemned; the next in- sormation I received was irom Mr. Snook’s letter, to the eflect that the Shaw buliding woud be put into astate of security, Mr. Adams went on to describe the legal method of proceeding that con- trois the action of his department in reference to tne walls of dangerous buildings. He recited the substance of articles 36 and 57 of the puilding laws, and showed that they hampered him in bis action as Superintenvent of Buildings, He then butiding and to throw down its walis or a chim- ney than I have to také his pocketbook from him. Mr. bugene Kelly took exception to this remark of the witness, and said he wouid justily and ex- plain his exception at another time, standing, some of them in Thirty-fourth street, which I desire to have taken down, but the law stands in my way; the cases in which the matter of demolisning or of allowing those outidings to stand 18 concerned are going on before the courts or reierees; I have informed the police of the dangerous condition of those butidings and have also Informed the Police Department of my action in reference to those houses; if 1 took possession of those buildings and threw them down | would personally be haole to suits for damages; in seve: cases I have, on humane grounds, expelled people frou unsaie tenements, and suis are now pending in regard to my action, Mr. Kelly here undertook to expiain his excep- tion to & previous remark of the witness. He Said that Mr. Adams was tn error in saying thie “he had no more right to throw down an unsale building than to take Juror Lynch's pocketbook.” In the latier event witness would be sent to State Prison, buiin the former he woald ve vrotected concluded | in | puperintendent Adams—Do you know the regu- | and the witness was asked to point out upon | street were dangerous and likely to fall after the | said:—I have no more right to enter any man’s | Witness continued—There are buildings now | | from the legal infietion of damages if be should prove that his action was dictaied by humane MO tives. | The witness took exception to this deduction of Mr. Keliv’s. He considered that the law is pot | Sentimental, He believed that he wouid be as- | sessed for Gamages if he should throw down a | building which he considered unsafe, aud thus op- | posed the legal definition of his duties, Mr. Adams, returuimg to direct statements, said:—1 Lever visited the Shaw vatiding ons the morning alter its Wall feli; my duties are al) per- jormed within my omice: I] must Stay there eon- | stantly to see the architects and budders, who | flock in all day long; I have ao time to make per- | sonal imspections of buiiding=; 1 knew of wis | buiiding, however, because Mr. Titus ooiit it, and | at one time | worked tor tim; | passed i olsen, of | course, and one day, alter the fire, as 1 was going | UD town on a Fourth avenue car, |saw that beams | were being taken into the building; this remindet | Ine of the fact that tne walls of the outld- | ing bad been pronounced unsafe; when [ arrived at the office I asked for the papers ip. | reference 10 the condition of the building; when f | saw the building alter the calamity I did not ex~ amine it thoroughly; 1 looked at it from the root of Sweeny's Hotel; I did nor 100k at the west wali from the steeple or St. Andrew's chureb; because 1am compelled to remain in my office I have to rely upon the reports o: inspectors ior in orma- | Hon in reference to building»; the city is a/vided into three districts, each tn charge of @ gcaeral mspeetor; the first extends trom the Battery to ‘Thirty-fourth street, the second irom the latter lumit to the Harlem River, the third district ex tends from the Harlem River to Yonkers, Congressman Meade, & juror—Does the law sanction the division of labor which you make in your department? Witness—It does not specifically; we have to make tne division in order to have the duties of the department properly atteuded to; I have to pass npon plans and specifications for tbe repair Of buildings or for the erection of new buildings; | Iam compeiled to rely upon my inspectors; if | their reports to me are incorrect [ am legally re+ | sponsible; they are responsible only to me. Congressman Meade now moved that the jnry | should take a recess for aa hour, and afterward sit until late at night if the inquest could not be brought to an end soone There was a lively dis- cussion opon this Motion among the jurors, some of whom had bDustness engagements in the atter- noon, The ¢xamination was continued without the questions of adjournment or recess having been settied, Mr. Adams continued— There are two Inspectors in the Second district, in waich the Soaw building +78 Sitnated; one of them bas not been subpmnaed; he can be subpoenaed in time for the next session ort ury; I have received report® {rom botb iu- spectors, ‘Congressman Meade said that it wonld be neces~ sary for ali the documents in the possession of the Department of Bulldings re‘erring to the Soaw building to be produced, and the examina- tion Was adjourned unill the witness could bring the papers with him, NICHOLAS MURPHY testifle T live at No. 60 Marion street; Lem an inspector of buildings; was appointed one and began duty as sucn on the &tn of January; had lnstructions im regard to the Shaw building. (Here withess presented a “slip to the Coroner, which coutatned tie instrudions given to him, The “sup contained the recommendations of Inspectors Malloy and Fitzpatrick in respect tothe | Shaw building, He ex) lamed that be was in- structed to see that these recommendations were beimg followed by the persous in charge of the building.) Continuing, he satd:—My duties were, in such a | case as that of the Shaw building, Mf the prepa- rations to take down the walls in accordance with the reéommendations were going on, to report “progress; Uf che walls were oeing taken down I would report that tact, amd if they had been down and were being rebuilt 1 would report the | same; 1 did not exauine the walls; I simply fol- ; lowed my mstructions by seeing that the recom- mendations contained in the reports of Inspectors Malloy and Fitzpatrick were foliowed; 1 con- sidered the wese wall about the safest in building; — the wale were defined as ‘nusale,”’ but not as “dangerous;? an nsate’’ wall I cons.der to be one that shoulda not be built upon, nor be ailowed to stand long; a “dangerous” Wall 18 one that no person should go hear; | thought it was dangerous to work upon the walis of the Snaw building, but I did not think they were in imminent danger of talling; 1 did not take Into conside: auion the effect of a heavy wind upon the walis; 1 did not know what was intended to be dune with the butldiug until the day of the | calainity, when I received a “specification” of alterations to be made in it Irom the Department | of Butidings; I do not consider that my duty went qurther than to see that the buliding laws were not violated in reconstructing it; the work of “shoring up” and of otherwise securing the walls seemed to me to be done sat.sfectoriy; there were, 1 think, eignt men at work putting beams into the buildings; 1 think @ force of men sufficient to take the walls dowD rapidly might have been sec at work; do not think that as many as filty men could have worked well on the building. ‘The inquest was at tms poimt adjourned, after some discussion, until two o'aock on Dext Tue: day morning. AID FOR THE SUFFERERS. The following donations have been paid for the Telief of the sufferers of St, Andrew’s church:— Vernon Bros. & Co., Duane street. . $209 | the Owen Keenan & Son, Duane sireet, 200 W. H. Parsons & bro., Burne street Bo mesh. Hayes & Co., buane strest. Ww rigan & Smith, Duane street, 50 09 Grifin & son, ne strect.. - 50 Superintendent adams—Who was that oMicigt ? (atts « tocdwin, Duane str om Witness—Mr, Dugiey, I veieve, | Mr. Ramel, Duane street 10 Superintendent Adams—Do yon know how odman, Duane stree bos legai actions aye taken by the Depariment of Mr. Sullivan, Duane street. 1 Buildings? Do youn t know that suits:jor viola) | Frank Lesite Wir ae ~ tions of the building Jaws are based upon the re- Jawes Clinord. Pearl street. aed ports of inspectors ? Willian Kirk, Staten Istana. Witness—I do not certainly know. Mr OM Centre street. Wilkinson Bros. abd Co, Duaue street, Total DANGEROUS BUILDINGS. The police of the Fourtu precinct reportea to the Superintendent of Buildings that the three story brick tenement houses, Nos, 8 and 20 North Port- lana avenue, Brooklyn, are tn a dangerous condi- tion, and liable to fall. Tne wails bad bulged out Shu had to be propped up. | a THE AVENUE FIRE. VTH CLOSE OF CORONER WOLTMAN’S INVESTTG | THE VERDICT | ENowN. | Coroner Woltman yesterday concluded the in- | vestigation previously commenced in the cases of Minnie and Angusta Levy, the lite girls who | Were suffocated during the fre which broke ont in the apartments of their father on the first floor | ef the tenement house No. 763 Tenth avenne, early on the morning o/ thg 9th ult. Mr. Louis Levy, fainer of the deceased children, 4 Who nearly lost bis voice by inhaling fire and smoke during his efforts to rescue bis family, was the first witness cated, and testified regarding the fire. He said he haa iarge fires im both the front and rear room the weatner was very coid; knew nothing about the origin of the fire; was insured for $1,300 and valued nig stock at Nearly $2,590; had been partiaily burned out in that store on @ former occasion; had two fires in other stores years ago and has recovered some insurance money. Mr. Quarles F, Hill, Assistant Fire Marshal, was | called and said his department had investigated | the matter, but Was unaole to learn the origin of | the fire, put he was satistied the fire broke out on | the premises of Mr. Levy; the facts learned by tue inom nearly corrovoratea the testumouy of Mr. “vy. Deputy Coroner Cnshman, who examined the bodies of the cnidren, was o1 the opinion that they died from suilocation, The case was then given the jury, who found that the children came to their deaths by suffoca- tion, at the fire in premtses No, 763 fenth avenue, | On the morning of February ¥, 1875, but as to the origin of the fire they were unable to determine. ATTON) ORIGIN OF THE FRE Ai OUR PENSIONERS. Since the 4th inst. Pension Agent Snas be Duteher, with a corps of eighteen assistants, male and female, has been actively engaged aumig twelve and filteen hours each day in payirg the government pensions, of which there are t)on his roils some 8,500. Since the last payment the quarters of the agency have been changed, being now on the sontuwest corner of Hanover street and Exchange piace (in the basement), and ai- Tectly opposite where they were belure. The change 13 a great Improvement in every respect, the former omMce being cramped and dingy, affording tne | most limited accommodations to the thousands or disabled peopie and others, the widows of dead soldiers, compelied to congregate ther ‘the Present rooms are spactous and airy, with plenty of light, and contain seats for 400 people, while More than Goudie that umber can be crowded | in, ‘The attendance during yesterday was large. | being mostly composea of those whose disabillty is sught and the widows, Now and tuen might be | Seen some veteran of the late War, still young in years, and with a ragged and healthy look, waile The abseuce of an arm or leg expiained his pres- | ence there, In order to avoid contusion a system ts adopted by Wuich the papers pass rapidiy irom one clets to auotuer. The requisite entries are made in an incredibly short time, and on the average no more than a minute is devoted toeach | one. By Uma me@aus as many a8 900 pensioners | are paid duuy. Of the pensioners of 1812 there | are 500 Names upon the rous of tie agency here, of which the more promunent are those of ex- Governor John A. Dix and Thuriow Weed. They all receive $3 per month. The highest pension paid ts $50 per month, given to those who totally disaoled, and so requiring the attendance of another, such as caused oy the Lone eee legs | or both arms, the total destraction of the eye- | sot, &c, The paymenta are made quarteriy: tne first on tne 4tn of March; but the three months’ pension being due, itis paid whenever applied jor, the oMce oemg open tor that purpose on every Lusineds day la tue year,