The New York Herald Newspaper, March 10, 1875, Page 5

| THE STOCKYIS INQUIRY. The Case Opened Before the Coroner. He Entered a Car Sick After the Doctor Had Been Sent For. Testimony of the Officers at the Station House. SHARP TACTICS DEFINED. The inquest in the case of Jacob V. Stockvis, who dicd, ag 1s alleged, from ill treatment while $n the custoay of one or more of our city officials, was begun at the Coroner’s ofice yesterday, at one o'clock. The examination room was crowded Dy a large number of witnesses, including six | lagy relatives of the deceased gentleman, a few children, the wile of Mr. Stockyis and Dr, Hirach, brother-in-law of the victim, From the appear- ance of the relatives it was apparent that they are wel) to do people. General Franz Sigel was Unanimously chosen foreman by the jury, and among tbose present as witnesses was Judge Flammer. Coroner Kessler then ad‘ressea the jury as fol- Jows:—* You have been lawfaily summoned to assist me in the investigation of a highly impor- tant case. Troe, it is only the death of an humble, unassuming citizen, and nota great catastrophe by Which many human lives were sacrificed; but the cause and manner of that death, together with all | the surrounding circumstances, appeal so power- | fully to our human nature and to our sense of right and justice, and are so closely interwoven With the very essence and stability of our pubiic wstitutions as to invest this apparently simple case with extraordinary significance. The most sacred rights of the individual as guaranteed by the constitution and laws are involved in it, The fundamental maxim that no man should ve deprived of his Mberty without justification and due process o¢ Jaw, and thoroughly shielded while under its cus- tody, Is involved in the inquiry. When law and Justice, the only safeguards of free institutions, ease to protect the rights and LIGERTIRS OF THE CITIZEN, no matter how low or humble, and are, on the contrary, made an instrument for inflicting brutal and unjustifiable violence, it becomes nigh time to strike at tne root of the evil and reader a recur- rence of such practices utterly impossibie for all fusure time. The entire system of crimjpal jua- | tice and procedure in its lower stages, embracing Police, police courts and prison authorities, are | upon trial in this case. Heaven grant Vhat they pass the ordeal unscathed! Law, justice, humanity and the tair Dame of our metropolitan city demand a rigid in- | Vestigation into this case, whicn appears on the suriace to be nothing less than a judicial outrage of the worst kind.” He concluded by asking the Jury to make @ thorough examination according | to law, and let the punishment {ali where it prop- erly belongs. The first witness calied was MES. HENRIETLA STOCKVIS, of No. 1,909 Third avenue, wife of deceased, who testified that she had never known him to be in trouble with the police or arrested; his condition on the morning of his disappearanee was very ‘weak; she went for a doctor, but before he came ber husband had left; he generally came home at six o'clock P. M. unless out of the city; be did not return; did not feel uneasy at his non-return until in the evening; Dr. Hirsch, who Bad been called in the morning, imatituted a search; the following morning (Sunday) I went to Police Headquarters, between nine and ten o'clock, and saw some official there, who staied that no such arrest had been made or sick man found; he took witness’ name and description of her husband; the same alternoon witness called, and got no imformation; my son went to quire from Mr. Moss; I went to tne conductor ol car No, 72, which | saw him enter; efforts were made by ali the iamily to secure intelligence of him; one of her husbund’s relatives at last got a Paper saying he haa been FOUND ON BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? this was Friday, the 26th, or six Gays after his disappearance; Ms nephews went to the isiand to Gnd him; he was returned on Saturday about five P. M.; he folded up his hands and three times said “Thank God!” as soon as he eutered; Sunday night he said to witness, @runk;” that 18 ali he said at that time; he spoke with great effort, and complainet of insult; the same night he asked “Who is that man ?”’ re- ferring to an attendant’ at his bedside; ne diea easy, but le evinced much pain when his arm was woucbed, and would cry ont; witness went five times to Police Headquarters, to Jersey City, Bellevue Hospital, Fifvy-nioth street ‘station house, to the Fitty-sevenih atreet prison, to the Tombs, to Mr. Kellock, to Ward's Island, and was | On the eve o! going to Black well’s Island when Dr. Hirseh told her her nephews had gone; on Wednesday wituess SHOWED HIS PHOTOGRAPH to the Fifty-ninth street police and at the Fifty- eeventh street prison, and they all said they nad no such person; could not tell the name of tne officer at the desk whom she saw. Sergeant Roberts here arose, and witness could not posi- uvely identily him. This, she stated, covered her efforts to ind him, The officers examined the Dhotogiaph, and ail answerea they had not seen any such man. Tne blotrer of the station house ‘was here produced by Captain Mount. [t snowed tnat ® géveral alarm had been received there Jrom the Central Office a jew minutes alter the are rest ol the man. ‘To Dr. Hadden witness stated that her hus- Dand could speak English; his memory was at times fauity; he was lately sicepy, but never oe- came insensible; he had weakness in his limbs, but bis mind seemed good. M. PATTEN, of East 119th street, recognized the picture as that of 8 man who rode duwn in a car between eighth and nine A, M. on Saturday; Mrs, stockvis spoke to me on the car Mr. Stockvis eniered; he seemed indisposed to aliow her to get on the ¢, witness called the conductor’s attention to the case; Mrs. Stockvis wisued to get him off the car, saying he was sick; we put him off, and he stood with hus wiie, but pursued tne car, When witness or- dered vim back; he Waa quiet enough, except that he did not want to go with uls wile: ne seemed to Walk Well, and a8 soon as luis wile appeared on the platform he went out to her; his eyes were Kind of shiny, as if excited; oinerwise he acted rationally; this was between 100t0 and 110th streets, To Dr. Hadden. uence of tique: s to take Sim home; they had no attercation, Mrs. Stockvis vm being recalied stated that ex- pecting te doctor (uirseh), she jollowed him to the car ENTREATING H1M TO STAY; it was done im the most pleasant manner, and he anotuer car passed and Ye siid he would e back soon; he finally got on @ third car at 107th street, near her house. DAVID HALL, of No. 1,120 Third avenue, conductor on the Third aveude Line, Baw Stock vis on 20tn of Feoruary,near Dive A. M., ‘at 106th street, Where he entered the car; 1 gave him nis change, when he dropped a+ penny in the straw; he searened all the Way down for it and would occasionally zo to sleep; he made Mstious With his head, but otwerwise Le did not act like an intoxicated man, he got of ur be- Jow Chambers street; he did not Linda but see- ‘ng him coming | rang the bell and he got out. CHARLES A. MOSS, Of No. 167 Reade sireet, & Manuiacturer Of Diack- ing, testified that deceased was kauown to him un- der the name of Le Grand; he had been on their | books jor about nine years; had seen him jor three years nearly every day, aud vever saw hin under the imfuence of liquor; he was always honorabie in nis business; on Saturday. the 200: he passed the store between ten aud cieven A. M., saluted witness, put did not enter; ne was wolDg oact toward Greenwich street. To Dr. Hadaen—The firm manufactured black. ing and putit up with Le Grand’s label; bever kuew why he went UNDER THE NAME OF LE GRAND; during the past six montis he was not as reguiar as ioriuerly, but was uever given to drinking; ue Seemed to be depressed on account of business. ‘The Coroner stated that this evidence traced the man’s movements until eleven o'clock in the morning, but he regretted that he could pot Oil the gap up to evening, He, however, stated that he bad reason to believe that he had ENTERED A DRUG STORK, SICK, at the corner of Second avenue and Thirtieth street, @ud Was sent tha y to put nimona fhird ‘enue car; this Was at the store of Mra. Masat; idenuifted the picvure at first as the man, aud this was about nine P, Mrs. Masst subse- quentiy deniea it, probably iearing an examina- thon belore tae Coroner. FANNIN HIRSCH, NIEOR OF DECKASED, of No. tu) Bast Filty-iourth street, danghter of Dr. Birsch, te d—She had called npon Mra. Masst, Who Ntated She ibougit the phowgraph Wan (Kal “Phey have said i was | He cid not appear under the in- wauted to get him om | NEW YORK HERA WHO IS TO BLAME? | of the man she had seen; afterward she said she Said the man was brought sore by some ONe ; he was very weak; that he made gestures to her, and she gave him some medicine recommended by a student who lived in the house, and sent @ boy to the cars with bun. SAMUBL J, MACK, of No, 128 East Filty-second street, testified that after secing the photograph he cannot recognize it; he met @man m charge of an officer, corner Third avenue and Fifty jourth street, alter P. M. on Saturday; the oilicer asked witness’ brother to speak to the man; he aid so; got no answer; witness then asked him questions in | German; could not getan answer; he mumoled something; witness addressed him in French as to where he lived and what was the matter, but got | no answer; witness told the officer he must be asleep; he oo ee mpeen to be drank ; he ap ared to be ney; he pointed up the venues witness ‘tna bis brother then left; the blood was running irom what seemed to be a cut on the nose; the officer tried all in his power to get him co speak; by the man’s actions and doings I think he was not Intoxicatea ; seemed anno ie 8 Cm prs some sounds; witness sald to the officer that It | Would Ne an act of charity to logk him up: | Wit- ness here identified the oficer as Fallon who made the arrest. OFFICER TIMOTHY FALLON who made the arrest, testified ne had been a | policeman fourteen months; never saw Stock- | | Vis until ne arrested him near Fity-third street, | on Third avenue, about tea P.M; a lady coming | up the avenue, said there was a mau acting in a | disorderly manner; she said he knocked up against her and two ladies wno were with her; | Witness found a crowd about im; witness saw | him surrounded by BOYS TANTALIZING HIM; | saw him try to strike oue of the men in the crow4, | | about a dozen in number; when witness caine | up the crowd dispersed; “arrested him,” said | witness, “because | thought him drank, and he | | raised his foot to kick & man, and he tried to | strike him; I arrested him more for intoxication | than disorderly conduct; witness described pis efforts to ascertain hig name, how he had to hold | the man up, and said that he went peaceably | until he came to Fifty-ninth street; he vomited on | the Way going up, either whiskey or beer; this was between Fitty-fourta and Filty-flth streets; at Fifty-ninth street he made gestures that he | ; Wanted to get away; took him to tne desk, | | arraigned him belore Sergeant Hamilton, stated | | the iacts before the desk, witness support. | ing nim, although he held on to the ratl; | | don’t thiak he could stand unsupported; he was not grossly intoxicated, but unable to take care of humself; he kicked at me two or three times be- | tween the corner of Fifty-ninth street and Third i | aveuue and the station house; he seemed to un- | derstand witn at first, because, when asked wiere he wanted to go, HE POINTED UP THE AVENUE} | never was so cCareiul with any person he had taken in; never took iis club out of his belt; the | Sergeant putit down as intoxication; frequently |; Make a charge Of ‘disorderly’ as well; witness | thinks he made both charges in this case; met an | ollicer on the way to the station house, dut, as tt was his night of, witness thought he could take | him in, | | _ To General Sigel—When I found him he was | braced up against something. | Yo the Coroner-—I searched him; found $1 04, two boxes of biacking, but | NO HANDKERCHIEF; | turned his pockets mside out; our practice is to | allow them to retain a handkerchiet; I could not find @ handkerchief; the sergeant gave lim paper and pen and he could not write. To Dr. Hadden—He had a scratch on the left | Side of the nose, but it did not appear severe. To the Coroner—Next morning, aoout a quarter | to eignt, took him to court; be walked right | straignt and stood like any man after being on a | spree; I related now 1 found him and what he bad | done to the Judge; I made the charge of intoxica- tion and, I think, disorderly conduct; I stated all the facts to the Judge as I tell you; I thought the sentence o1 SIX MONTHS A VERY SEVERE ONE; the sergeant of the court said the man had been | there before; the usual punishment for cases like | this is ten days; witness put the money in bis vest pocket and the blacking tn his Inside overcoat | pocket; tried to get him to speak in the morning, but he would not; he looked like a man who had been on a three or four days? spree, pur he did not | benave ugly; 1 was struck with the impression that ne was obstinate; he walked up the steps of | the court quite briskly. JOHN KUHN, of No. 896 Third avenue, butcher, saw the officer pass h testified that he | is door with @ man well | dressed, who seemed to be sleepy. | ‘this “Witness knew nothing, and all the queries | | of the Coroner failed to get anything iurther out , of him, except that his feet were shaky and nis head was not. | | SPRGBANT HAMILTON, late of the Nineteenth precinct, but now of the weuty-ninth precinct, identified the puotograonh | as that of the man arraigned be.ore him by Fallon | at fiiteen minutes to eieven on the night of the | 20th; tried to get his name; guessed his age and nationality, but witness did not enter the charge of totoxication on the blotter; that was done by | Sergeant Roberts; witness déscribed the means | | taken to ascertain his name as descrived by lass | Witness; bis breath smelled sour; we searched | | him, took money and blacking from tim and put | | Dim in the back room; he remaimed there uniti a | | tte beiore twelve; reported the case to Ser- | | geant Ruberts and asked him to fill up tue charge; | | the Charge of disorderly conduct was not made—as | | least, I paid no attention to tne fact that he had | | been guilty of disorderly conduct in “kicking | out;” Iwas | | SATISFIED THE MAN WAS DRUNK} | Nave beon nine years in the Nineteenth precinct; | I thought that he was a drunken man, and so drunk | that he ought to be locked up; saw nothing toin- dicate that it was other than intoxication; at | midnight 1 went to bed; saw him again inthe | morning, | Coroner—Did yon not, erght or nine times, strike , the deceased ? “A. NO, str. Coroner—Did you not, eight or nine times, | reach your hands into the cell, strike bim, aad say, “Lay down, you son ola b—i! I GUESS YOU WILL SPEAK before morning ?”’ A. No, sir, 1 did not, Witness con- tinued—sergeant Fanning, I swear, was notin the station house taat night; I saw the prisoner once down stairs before going to bed: the man was 10% vechiess, but he used janguage I could not ua- derstand;'I believed HE UITERED SPOKEN WORDS; in the morning he appeared all rignt and was sent to court merely on the charge of intoxication; the injuries received were not ootained in the station house; never heard Of @ man being sent up for six | months for hg intoxication; Dr, Hirsch calied the station house; I introduced the Captain to the Doctor at bail-past eight on the nighs of his arrese; the Doctor asked fora relative aud lolt; he had a young man with him; he wrote out a descrip. | tion and sent it down to the Central OMce; the picture Was not shown me; at thirty-eight minutes past eleven P. M. | THE FOLLOWING ALARM | came in from the Central Oilice:— | | 1:83—Look for Jacob Stockvi fou, gray hair; deranged. SPKIGHT. | I aid not recognize the man as Stockvis; there was no reason to beat him, as he was not disorderly. OVHER TESTIMONY OF OFFICERS, OMcer Hartman, of the Fifty-ninth street sta- tion, testified that he looked as if he was getting over a good spreé; Wiiness, by order of tne ser- geant, tried to converse with him and was unabie to get a word from him; he took him to be an Italia man; he appeared just like other drunken men; Was not noisy; he was leaning against the | wall in the corridor. | Ommcer Gump confirmed the testimony of the last witness as to eiforts made to converse with | the man in German, and he failed to get a word out; he stood by the railing like a drunken man— | like a wild man. This closed the testiinony of the day. The Coroner announced tuat he would like to get the name of the lady who calied Fallon’s | attention to the man, He ulso announced that the | reason he had asked Sergeant Hamilton if he had beaten the accused was that he had received a letter making that char; WALL STREET NOTES. \ forty, light complex. | | | The operations of Secretary Bristow in regard to the sinking fund bonds were the subject of some comment, and in reply to telegrams from this civy the Secretary was said to have replied that he could not loan coin even on 1862 bonus, The Governor of Wisconsin signed the bill in regard tothe railroads as passed by the Legislature jast | week, and this ts understood to guarantee an ad- | | Vance of freights and passenger rates to at least | the amount of ten per cent, | ‘The Hudson River Freighters’ Association ap- pointed a committee to appear before the Commit- tee on Commerce and Navigation of the Legisias vure, asking Jor & favorable report on a bill set- ting apart Certain docks in New York city for the exciusive use of river interests, Aaa measure of pudlic utility this does not seem to be very weil understood, and uncil itis itmay be weil for the committee to iook 1ato lis meriis to see if a job be not nidden in tts apparently pubiic-spiriied juggestion. the exports for the week, exclusive of specie, are noted at $5,242,000, The recent combination of the Union Pacific Ratiroad aud the Pacific Mail Seeamenip Company ig stil the subject Of specuiatioa in Wall siree:; the latter company coniemplates commencing sutt against the goverument for creaking tueir cou- | tract with them and aiso ciaim damages, An of- fiver of the company, iu conversation with @ MERALD Tepresentacive yesterday, said that che wovernuient might as we.l repudiate their bonds as take aWay Coupensation on the mere report of a Senate Judiciary GCommitiee, Late in the after. boon well authenticated reports came to Wall street that it actually had been determined at a meeting of Union Pacific directors in Boston to pay @ quarterly dividend on the common stock of | the road Of one aud one-halt per cent, payabie on | July 1, aid shat there was not one dollar of float- | ing debt against the company. It was asserted by some parties that No meeting had veen held, Dut the press reports seem to contradict this. It May b@ u matter of interest to note how some | of the States lu the South are meeting their obil- | gations and providing for their depts, Florida | especially has set an example Of public virtue and good faith which may profitably be imitated by all | vue other Southern States, and it is @ cheering | gn of ver sell-respecs wud revurning credit that 4 one 18 dang 8 | the necessary beams, | to | direction of M peice t act. FR ssn H End of the Inquest Into the St. An- drew’s Church Catastrophe. OVERDICT i ie ae How and for What Shaw’s Build- ing was “Shored Up.” iia TO SAVE THE CROCKERY. ‘The inquiry to discover the cause of the death of the five persons who were killed in St, An- dre w’s church, on the night of Thursday, Febru- ary 25, was resumed yesterday morning before Coroner Fickhoff, and after continuing from ten o'clock until twelve it was ended so far as the taking of testimony 18 concerned, | The first witnes? put upon the stand was NICHOLAS MURPHY, the Inspector of Buildings, whose examination discontinued on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Murphy desired earnestly to overthrow the idea which, he said, the newspapers have dissemi- nated, that he was specially detailed to look after Mr. Shaw’s building and that he neglected bis duty. In response to a remark made by Mr. Eugene Kelly, he said that bis im- | Pression was that most of the beams which had been put into the building were meant | to be temporary, aud that he nad no opinion as to whether it was; or was not, intended to putin all and then complete the building without taking down parts of the walls, WALTER W. ADAMS, SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIO | [oiii.4t. and our lawecstablighing ite duties and powers BUILDINGS, being recalled, presented to the jury the reports made to the Department of Buildings by the In- spectors of the Second District. He then explained tne meaning of the ‘cant words used by the in- spectors in making their reports, and also under what circumstances each word was made use of, Mr. Lynch, a member of the Jury, then said to Mr. Adams, ‘Ig there any law on the statute book having reference to the manner in which the doors of public buildings shall be hung—that is, com- Dianding that the doors shall swing outward, aod not inward ?”” Witness—No, sir. Mr. Lynch—Is there any corporation ordinance with reference to the matter? Witness—No, sir. Mr. Lyncn—l!s there any regulation or rule In the Department of Buildings—something enforced by the calamity in the Greenwich avenue school some years ago—with reference to it? Witness—Yes, sir; a rule that has particular ref- erence to schoolhouses; the imepectors are in- structed to see that the doors opening out of the vestibules of churches and other public places shall, if possible, open toward the street, Mr. Lynch said that he had asked these qnes- tions with the intention of referring the answers he received to the Coroner, 80 that that official, if the information had from the answers was un- satisfactory, should bring the matter of the neces- | sity tor @ law to regulate the action of doors of public places to the attention of the Legisla- ture, . Mr. Meade—Mr. Adams, on the 15th of January you were notified that the Shaw building was in @ dangerous condition; that the west wall was badly sprung and bulged, Did you not teei tt to be your duty to notify the people of the adjacent houses that they were In danger from the walls of that — 2 Witness—l did not receive the report you speak of; @ clerk in the office received it, and referred it Inspection. } can Mr. Meade—Would you, if you had received tuat | Teport personally, have considered 1t your auty | to nouly those people of their danger ? Witness—I do not think I would, on account of my knowledge of the meaning of the terms used | in the reports of inspectors. Juror Meade—The language used in the report was very strong. Juror Lynch—You should modify the English | which is used in the Departmeut of Buudings, It would seem that you nave got so used to the cry of “wol!,”? tuay you cannot tell when the **woll’? | has really come into the jold. Soroner—Could not a scaffolding, built on | horses,’? have been made for the workmen to stand 3pon in taking down the wall of the Shaw building ¢ | Witness—l suppose you mean what we calla “pole scaffold;’? that is the most diMcult kind of scaffolding to erect; it was the intention io se- cure the building by the same means that would aid in the construction of @ scafoid; what was | believed to be the safest method of working in the building was adopted; of course there are | other ways, one of which might bave been adopted ff there nad been no confidence in tue method chosen. 4 | Juror Corneii—It has been said here, Coroner, | hat the west wall of the Sbaw building could not have been braced irom the root of the church, On | Saturday afternoon, however, I noticed that six beams Nad been rus up from the rooi of the church to tue Upper part ot the wall, I sbouid like to know why suca es could not lave been put up beiore the calamity ? Witness—Part of the wall has been taken down; 1% would have been difficult to find beams long enough fo reach irom the rooi of the churen to the upper part of the wall; if snort ones had been used, be!ore the wall was “tied? to tue east wail by beams, they would have exerted a pressure whica would probabiy have pusied the lower part of the wail in, and have thrown the upper part outward upon the rooi of the church THOMAS W. ADAMS TESTIFIED :— | Tlive at No. 202 Adelphi street, Brooklyn; ama | member of the firm of Brown & Adams; I ex- , amined that part of the Shaw buliding which I was caijled to Work upon (Mr. Adains here asked to be permitted to give a story in detail, without being , questioned, until he had inisned). He said:—It is | proper ior me to make an explanation, inasmuch ag the firm ol Brown & Adams has been reierred to numerous times during this investigation; I ! wish to show What connection our firm had with | the Shaw building, and under whose direction we | did our work in it; on the morning alter the fire Mr. Snook’s son came to the Mechanics’ Ex- change and met me; he told me that | nis fatner wanted me to” come to tne Shaw building to “shore up” 3 walls; I. went with him to the rear end of Mr. Shaw’s Chatham street store, where { met Mr. Snook; Mir, Shaw was with that gentieman; I asked Mr, | Snook if he wanted to see me; ne |, * Yes, [ want you lo bring your men and beams and shore up the bufiding, 80 tuat the insurance people can ney are afraid to work now.!? followed tions in regard to the work; I put in beams where he told me to put them in, and | was at work from the 14th to the 19th of January; after | tue walis fell | was again put at work in the butid- ing, and was given unimited autnority as to “snoring” it properiy. ' Juror—You say that you were not told the first time you were brought vo the buliding to “ shore’? it wherever you thought supports were needed to | make it secure? Witness—The first time I worked under thi 100k and did just what he told me to do; it seemed that the main object of shoring the building was to assure the insuraace people that they could go on taking out the caina | and britannia Ware irom the ruins in saiety; tho | wails could have been pulled down without aam- aging adjacent buildings; the best evidence of this act is found iM the fact that Lae wail which fell did not strike Sweeny’s Hotel; a wail wili not fail out, Like @ beam; it will crumble, Mr. Adams seemed to be under the {mpression that Mr. Snook had tried to throw tne responsi bility for the jailing of the walls from his own shoulders to those of the “shorers,” and conse- queniiy gave lus tesiimoay as it he were making a direct onsiauglt upon toe architect. MR. TITUS, THE BUILDER, whose testimony taxen last week, now took the witness seat, and asked to be permitted to change bis testimony, He made some answers without @ Clear understanding of the questions addressed (o aim, He said he had discovered his errors rom tue DEWSpaper reports. eYet when he Was asked What changes he wished to have made iu his restimony ne seemed werely to confirm what ve had said belore and What was pubiished in the | newspapers. CHARLES DEVER TESTIFIED. | Irestae at No. 7 Attorney street; myself and my Partner had a contract ior the carpenter work in | the Shaw building; (he first work we did was to secure the Walls with beams; we began this work on the 17th of sanoary, I think; we worked under the direction of Mr. Savok; We put in twenty-ono | beams; Mr. Snook tola me to put in eighteen or twenty beams, but I put in twenty-one; I did not put in any others, except one or two ou she first Goor for Mr. Shaw belore the contract Was signed. | ANTHONY CREGIER TESTIFIED. 1 live at No. 4 Mortou street; was an Asst Engineer 01 the Volunteer Fire Department not give an opinion as to Low the wails Shaw building ought to have been treated, as L | | | have now examined the bu ding, Corouer Kickhom anuvanced io the jury that he Dad determined to vring the Inquest to an ena, | ant ia giving the matior of making @ verdict upon te | need during the iuvestixation into their \ made (he lollowing remarks ;— | THN CORONER'S CHARGE | The jury siiall | F to ihe Gol © their inquisition | 1 sy MEiang, Ve signed by them in whied they sal) | tous that any irregularity or diserimivation in tari | unison. } dergor | benefits, Human nature will remain unchanged, and | ' c | Bubscribers making the first payment shall be con- | will net about $24,500 per im | one after another. are brought to bankruptey. | at. | the | city to the West, | social positions, and because he , them not to talk about the aWful disuster, whose the Supertmtendent of the Department of | forroborared LD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. find and certify how and im what manner the dead came wo their deaths and all the circumstance ang such deaths and who were guilty thereot Principal or accessory and in what manne! oner's Jury 18 not limited in their inquiry like a cou mon jury. Their dutv is io asceriain aad determ.ne whether a crime hag been committed and by whou ail the circumstances attending the make any extended comment upon timony We have elicited, Of that you are tully as competent to judge ast am, The Chief of the rire De- partment and other witnesses have told you that afier the tire Was extinguished they apprehended bo tmine- diate danger, and the chiet consequently did uot con- sider it his’ duty to have those wails pulled down, Former chiets of the sane department, however, give tt 4s sheir opinion that the watls should not have been al: | lowed to stand after the fire. ihe architect employ by the owner of the building and experts produced by the Department of Buildings say that they did not consider the wails dangerous at the time, but the ealam ity of the 25th of February has proven that their opinion WAS erroneous, and that their judgment as experis ix consequently not very trustworthy. ‘The testimony of other experts aud of the master masou, Mr. Titus, is | thatin their opinion the walls were datigerous ail'the | time and should have been taken down as soon a3 pos- sible after the fire. Most of the witnesses are of the opimiop that fhogs rains, at, th have been allowéd to stand rty-five days. We have heard of difficulties in the way of taxing down the walls or aking them — sae but it Js not denied that they could have be pulled down at once, and oye of the inspectors admitted that it was possible fo take them down in one day. Sey- eral of the Witnesses are nnable to find any other cause tor this terrible calamity than the severity o: the wind on the evening of the 2th of February. Severe as that storm may have been, Lam still of the’ opinion which I feason ouglit not 0 | 01 4) THE THREE-TIER CHARTER REVIVED | A Proposed Road from Bowling Green to | RAPID ‘TRANSIT. : The Metropolitan Rapid Transit Com- | pany to the Front. saben teh Se a Oe the Grand Central Depot. Action of Tammany Hall and the Cheap Transportation Commitiee, expressed at the cominencement of this invesbgation— tat it Was Hot AN unusual one for this latitude, We have not heard tat the wind of Wat evening has done any other great damage in this city. We have not heard of damage to rickety houses, of which there are wany here, or to the shipping in the harvor, soften been | the Case previous to this calamity. 'Consequenuy he wind cannot have been so terrible that evening and the ominous rattling of | the — winds noticed and described by worshippers in Andrew's chureh as having immediate.y preceded the catastrophe, was undoubtedly occasioned by the strong essure of ihe air, caused by the tumbling down of the | i, It appears to me that the Chief of the Fire De partinent ought to have given orders to pull down those | Walls during or immediately after the fire. That ducy having becn negiected, the ioral, if not ihe le responsibility tell upon the proprietor of the building aud opon the Department of Buildings. ihat depart ment gave Notice to Mr, Shaw of the unsafe condition of | the ruins and the latter answered through his arebitect Line matter would be attended to, Tt was attended to, but in a doer Jar niente way. Mr. Shaw cannot trans: fer his responsibility in the matter to lis architect, the | architect Cannot transter his responsiblity to the inas- ter masov, nor can Mr, Adams trauster his responsi- billty to his inspectors, Adams has explained to you that nis autis re of such & compli- cated nature that he cannot personally atiend to the safety of buildings or parts of buildings—that he tthe courts to act promptly in. those matters. Ir such be the case then his department would seem | really w be ofaamental as one of the witnesses de- are sadly deficient. Tam confident that you will ren- der uo “whitewashing” verdict. You will not try to make Divine Pravidence responsible for the culpable Hegiutence, carelessuess and incapacity ot men. You will place the onsibilty where ic pel You owe this not so much to the dead who lost their lives while | Making their peace with their Goa, but to the living, The lives of your Kindred, ot your fellow citizens, your owa hives, lay depend ubon your verdict. Coroner Eickhof concluded his ¢ jury at five minutes before tweive A, jury Was immediately conducted to a private room to determine upon what should be the mate ter of their verdict. The jurymen remained in consultation until three o’¢lock P. M., when tney | adjourned their meeting until nine o'clock this morming, It was generally understvod that they had agreed upon a verdict, wnich tuey would ren- der to the Coroner this morning. tion could not ve verifled, however, as the jury- men were oniv permitted by the Coroner to go abroad before they had him @ verdict, because they are ali meno! high had cautioned causes they were seeking to Mind, until alter they were discuarged from duty. CHEAP TRANSPORTATION. DISCRIMINATION IN FAVOR OF BALTIMORE AND BOSTON, AND HOW TO REMEDY IT, The Board of Directors of the Cheap Transporta- tion Association hela a regular meeting yesterday afternoon, at 110 Pearl street, at which business of great importance to the Commercial interests of New York w.stransacted, After getting through with some little routine business, the Committee on Claims and Grievances submitted the foliowing report :— At the last meeting of this board there were reported by members of the association several instances in Which merchandise of diferent classes was slippea } from Boston to Wesiern poinis at rates averaging about twenty-five per ceut lower than the same classes of merchandise could, upon the same dates, be shipped from this city to the same Western points, ination was declared unjust, and the Committee on Claims and Grievances was directed to investigate the Miatier, and report at this meeting. After carefully availing ourselves of ample meas for ob.aining relia- ble information, your committee beg to report that the aleged — discrimimations, adverse to | the commercial interests of — thls city, are by nuinerous instances which our invesugautons have brought to light AS a fair tilustra: tion we will specily one instauce, where a merchant doing business in the state of Michigan, ata point cou- mon to all our trank lines, ordered several car loads of second class goods from Boston and stupped at twenty- five conta less per 100 pounds than any rate he could ob- {in out of this city, ‘Ihe goods ordered irom Bos- ton in consequence of the differen ireights Docu: Tents ure on ile in this office witch tully ish ino | genuineness of this statement. In fact the rates on West !ound freight out of the Keveral seaboard cities, ting New York, are extremely irreguiar and more javorable to shippers than the rates ouc o! New Yor With she Vermont Central road and its connections on the orth of us, ano the Baltimore and Olio road on the south turnsiing cheap routes Irom Boston and Balti- lore respecuvely wo the West, while our trunk Hnes are operated With the sole V.ew oY earning interest and di fenas upon enormousiy excessive valuations, it securs fuust necessarily be adverse to | NEW YORK INTERESTS, | so long as we are dependent upon our present lines of communication with the luterior, operatea upon their present basis, Transportation to ‘be cheap needs to be equitaple and uniiorm. A line of reasoning of which we | have all heard and read mach of late 1a connection with the strife prevailing between two of the great trunk lines, must be pronounced superticial by every practical | thinger who will consider the subject in Its deep and broad bearings upon the present and tuture claims of cap.tal and the permanent commercial interests of this city wnd of the whole country. Cheap transportation, as the resuitofa “railroad wi while it may give a kind of “hectic flash’ to commerce, can only be ac- cepied by a good merchant with apprelicnsion lest the frnit consuines the tree that bore it, and from the roots spring a deformity more’ incurable than the detects of the original growth. The commercial interests of the country and the railway inierests to attain a healthtul and permanent prosperity must be more identical and prosper in he advancement of either toward @ condition commensurate with the prese: and prospective needs and possibiiies of this ution, should be sounded upon periect equity and not upon teads, Une ot our city daily papersin areount article, reciung the troubles which have come upon inany of the railroads referring to the OLEDO AND WABAS!t, Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central, nd others un- ¢ And likely to undergo practical legislation, urew the inerence that the reorzanizadon of many ot tha roads forttung in part the great network between the Last and West upon a lower valuation opened the wa: for cheap transportation, and intact, “solved the tran portation probiem.” So'far as opening the way iscon- | Cerned the Laiiuence may be correct, but we member that like causes produce like effe; ot which is bowhere more amply veriiied than inthe | repetitions of history. The inconsiderate haste wit witch tranchiises have been grpnted to batld railroads proposed in most instances forthe sole benefit of the projectors, is undoubtedly the prime CAUSE OF THR UNVORTUNATE COMPLICATIONS Which have come upon the great financial inwrest, and unless there 1+ constituted a regulating power that shall zealously guard this interest in conjunction with the | just demands of commerce. we do not see how a change of ownership and reorganization will bring permanent whoever buys may have A.qheap inc, bat wilt De likely to devise every means within the iaw to get as inany doliars as possible tor carrying a ton of freight, rather | than carry as Many tons ag possible for a given sum and pays prode To tilustrate what we pay for in railway | ariffs We present here an extract fro a letter received Ssince by @ member of this association (aupe | i Hames for obvious reasons). It isaremarkably | aud comprehensive Wescription ot the | mapper in which most of the railroads of | tis country — have — been constructed. The writer Is a direetor in several rauroad companies now in ation and js well knowa to the couniry. | He says would be glad to have you bec ested with me in building the A. and B. railroi —t0 bout 20 miles in length. shis line can be built cheap. and we have about $1,000,00) local sup- sidy on the line, I can control the contract if Lean get good parties with me. This line can be built for $15.00 or Mile, singié track, and Ican get trom the company | 25,0NW per mile on rst mortgage bonds, seven per cent interest, gold. and $3,00) local subsidy per mile. this in cash. This is'a nice I can get threoquarwers hick Amounts to about marain; out besides the above of the capital stock as a bona $19,000 per mile, Tdon't thin to make $2,000,000, such reckless ext with profligate m there isa better opeuing besides the capital stock.” With Waganee in construction. toget: nagement, it 19 Dot surprising Uw RAILWAY COMPANU! Mr. John Roach, 1m & communication addressed to the Convention of the American Cheap Transportation Association at Richtond, said:—"t is my profound betief that the sure logic of events and the operation of natural laws will, in due time, ali the sooner, if good men do their duty, leave the pegple in practical possession aud Gnunverrupted use of the Linprovemenis winch they ihemseives have paid jor.” Your committee velieve that the next ten yours isfikely to be marked by unusual events in the history of railroads 1 this country, and itis in the power of the merchants of Sew York to shape important ends and secure to themselves what in our opinion will afford the only sure and permanent renef trom the constantly recurring AdVerge discruninations in tariifs-namely, & railway to the West that shail at least be operated im- parsally, ‘This report drew forth a lengthy discussion, which Was participatea in by nearly the enure board, {bat discrimination in the matier of freight in favor of Baltimore and Boston t4 carried on there Was no question aimoug the members, but how to remedy this evil was not sociear, A resoluttOn was tinaliy adopted empowering the | committee to wait upon Messrs. Vanderviit, Scout and Jewett in relation to the matier if they saw An impression seemed to prevail to the effect that seeing these magnates would do no good wha one member Claiming that, us the stock | ol the Erie, the Peunsylvania Ventral and the New York Central road’ are so ueavuy watered, | and the roads managed in such a dishonest manuer, they cannot compete with Baltimore and Obio road, run aa it on ® true business basis. Nearly ali weve agreed that the ouly Way to overcome (he dificuity was to construct @ double wack [rewht road irom this One member suggested the pro- priety o: building @ direct line to Baitimore for the purpose of cunnecting with the Baiuimore and Ono road at that point, but the senument of the | meeting Was strongly against him. It was held | that sooner or iater Mr. Garrett will have made up all his differences with the other trunk lines and | Will then again enter into the vid combination iv put up freignts. The report was accepted and the committee requested to continue their line of mvestigaion Abd seporl Beal at jhe LEX) moetion, | puoiie This supposi- formed and delivered to | ‘This diseriine | | tion herebd: | power may be used for propelling cars and operating | to be cot | ubove indica’ , imitations ) Toute will A new and what 1s claimed to be a practical attempt at bringing about a solution of tne vexed | problem of rapid transit now comes before the | public in the corporate body known as the Metro- | politan Transit Company, which, in a cireutar under date of March §, and in @ smail pamphiet entitled “Oficial Statement,’ gives publicity to its alms and puxp According to the latter, the statute under Which this company is organized vests it with the right to construct an elevated railroad, with two tracks, ‘rom Bowling Groen to | the Grand Central Depot, 1m the city of New york, | under chapter §33 of Laws of 1872, This is known as the Swain three-tier Charter, watch was granted, in the Winter of the year meationed, by the Legt: jature. No immediate action was taken under it, and the impression upon the mind waa that, like some other char- ters, it had been obtained for the purpose of m some way advancing the private interests of those engaged in procuring it, and without any intention of buliding the road. Subsequently a | number of capitalists and business men, velieving it could be made practically available, obtained control of it, and in Juiy last appointed a Board of Directors under the statute referred to, which ts entitled “An act to authorize the Metnepolitan Transit Company to construct aud operate certain Tallroads in the city of New York, aud to construct | and use for railroad purposes two bridges across the Harlem River.” The charter of the company | provides for four distinct styles of rat!roads First—A depressed or underground railroad sy3sem, which is contined to the section of the city north of Canal str € pta branch to the Hudson River Raie road freight’ depoi, int. John’s Park, aud 1s to be built mainly throug private property cond—A suspen d railroad suspended from elevated horse power. Tai'd—An elevated railroad system, to be connected | | with the two first mentioned, making a combination three tier” pian—and jointly to occupy ated tor the underground system. ‘ourth—Aui slevated railroad svsiemn. to be located in. | | the streets, disconnected from the other styles. The law | prescriber this street, as a portion of the main line. Iv also dele a Bourd of Engineers the power to locate three lines of this styie of elevated railroad in the att they “shall deem most practicavie and best calc! to promote the public interest,” Section 4 of the act reads as follow. ‘The Corporation hereby created is authorized to con- struct, maintain and operate an elevated raiiroad with « double rack, above and along the following route or routes:—Conimencing at Broadway. at & point opposite Bowling green; thence through ‘private property to Morris street, opposite Church street; thence through | Church sircet to Canal street; * * also, from @ point south of Forty-second street, on and to connect with the line neretotore described, easterly and northerly to the Graad Central depot at Forty-second street and Fourth avenue; also a branch froma point north of Fortieth sireet, on and to counect with the line heretofore de- | scribed, westerly and northerly to and across the Eleventh avenue to and’ to connect with ‘the track or tracks of the Hudson River Railroad Company. Also @ branch from a point south of 174th street _on and io connect with the line | heretofore described, westerly and northerly vo tne Har- | lem River at Kingsbriige. The exact location of the lines ot the. three branches heretotore authorized si be such as ts deemed most practicabl lated to promote the composed of the State E: | second street slia system, on which cars | trucks could be moved by | the only style to be allowed on Church ates to and best caicn- | lic interests by a board, to de inoer and Surveyor, the Chief | Engineer of the Croton Aqueduct, and an éngineer to be appoimted by the corporation hereby created. cessary surveys And maps for determining the lines of wil Drauches shail be made under the direction ot the | said Board ef Engineers, at the expense of the corpora- | created. steam or other equivalent motive | ele @ ratiroads and branches herein authorized ueted and operated. | THE PRESENT PURPOSB of the company, however, as intimated, Is to con- ° struct a road ‘rom Bowling Green, the route nxed by the statute and the State Board of Engineers created thereby being through Church street to Canal way or Fourth avenue to the Forty-second street de_ pot. The present organizavon of the company is provisional, its purpose being to test the public sentiment in this regard, by offering its stock and bonds for public subscription at par on THE FOLLOWING Basis, All such snbscriptions will be specially devoted to the construction and equipment ot the road along the route dy which will equalin length ten niles of singic or tive miles of douvle track, The capital there- for will be limited vo $2,000,000 of stock and $1,100.00) of bonds, with hberty to substitute stock for the ponds within amount specitied, whica is fitteen per cent less than the minimum limit of cost made by the experts o: the American society of Civ | bngineers in their report. But the construction and equipment of the above tine 13 actually secured at nearly thirty per cent below thas estimate, After covering Rll expenses and clains prior to January L. 1575, a suroins of $40,000 is assured out of the auove limit of stock and bonds, applicable 10 con- tingent and legal expenses and to cost of rea! state and termunal faciitties whieh are not imeluded in preceding estimates. No turther issues of capital stock or bonds Can be made, except in pro rata proportion per mile, tor other extensions of the railroad lines authorized in the charter. AS @ gUaranive of the elfective of such issues, all the stock and bouds of the company will be registered at Duncan, Sherman & Co.'s, and will be certitied by them as within the above imits. On this busts subscribers on. bet guaranteed that such aid will secare the vast benefis of | Unis rail nder special safeguards, are to sh a moiety or more of the capital repre id siock and bouds as follows Sui paid in five instalments, cripuio to the order of Dancan, sherman & Co., for deposit in trust. No woney to be drawn from such fund except upon certificate of the Board of Kngi: hat one continuous mile of said road has been completed, when the company wit! be en- ato the junds applicable to the imile specified im certificate, Subscribers may pay in but one instal nt of twenty per cent and await completion of that | quile of the road fo which that instalment i allotted, PAXUIE olher instalments in the same way until the last matalment 13 due. DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS. lt 18 proposed whenever suficient stock or bonds have been allotted to pay for the first sec- | tion of the elevated road that a meeting of the vened to choose 4 full board of thirteen directors | from their own number. The board thus constt- tuted will control the appointment of all the ofmicers and the agents of the company. The con- trol of the funds wil! be in their hands and subse- quent instalments called for as they find advis- able BENEFITS TO BE DERIVED. It is claimed that the time of transit over this be reduced to filteen minutes from Bowling Green to the Grand Centfal depot, add- ing possibly five minutes for stops, with trains, at Intervals of not more than five minutes. On com- pletion of the section south of Fourteenth street, counection can ve made vy horse cara or om: busses to the Grand Centrai depot and time be reduced over tne combined route to thirty min- utes, making @ saving over the present time of twenty-five minutes, METHUD OF CONSTRUCTION In the construction of the road it 18 proposed to Support by means of columns, located on the curd. | stoue line, a systeni of elevated girded work, and ko far it Will be similar to the Greenwich Blevated Koad, the plans and patenis (or which are in the control of this compauy. The system adopted by the corporation 18 recommended by the Special Committee of the Americun Society of Civili kn- gineers in their veport, made in February jast, as the best mode o! rapid transit for we city of New York. Surveys and esttaces of the section south of Fourteenth street have beeu made suiicient to enable tue execution of @ contract for tts con- struction at a specific rate per mile, with expe- rienced parties, which can be extended on tie same basis When the necessary capital is secured. | Tals section 18 tu be built Within siX montis trom date of piedge of capital, the section to the Grand Central depot is 40 be completed Within six additional movths. PERSONNEL OF THE COMPANY. The following stockholders have been appointed & committee to receive all subscriptions :—Georze L, Ti ask, No, 630 Broadway; J. Wyman Joues, No. 152 Broadway; &. Vibbard, No. 40 Broadway; 3. M. Petiengill, No. 87 Park row; 8 0. Jentimngs, Nu. 162 Broadway; fl. N. Camp, No. 106 Broau- wi Benson Ferris, Jr., Tarrytown, N. Y. ‘The State Board of Engineers, as originaliy constituted, wer ‘S. H. Sweet, State bngi- neer; E. H. Tracy, City Engineer, ana 0, T. Har vey, Company Engineer. The iatter gentleman, however, sudsequeatiy resigned, with a view of waking Charge of the business oi constructing the Toad a8 4 coubractor, and Mr. A. P. Boller was ap- pointed In bis stead, Mr. A. W. Craven, formeriy Ohicf Engineer o: the Croton Aqueduct, is we Consuiung Engineer, THE VLANS OF THE COMPANY. In A conversation With a HBGALD reporter yess terduy, Mr. Freverick PF. Fiske, Secretary of the company, stared that the prescut purpose is to | Talse money to got to the Grand Central cepow The entire capital of the company ts $5,000,000, $5,000,000 of Which 18 set aside for this project, aud no more can be lasued, A track will be cou. | seructed ap each pide O1 the street, makin“ Al | | Subseriptions are ali prom: | thence, via Wooster street aud University | Place, to Fourteenth street; thence following Broad 5 —_. $$$. ageregate length of ten miles, which, it is esti- mated, will cost $290,000 per mile to bulla and equip. This will leave a valance for otuer ex- penses, such the acquirement of real estate, construction of depot, &c., of $500,000, All sub- riptions are ON 4 Stock basis, aud i! the direc- tors, to be hereafter appointed ‘from among the stockholders, Choose to issue bonds, (bey can do 80. Alter @ careiul estimate it 1s considercd that the road will earn ten per cent. on its cost, Suve serivers peed pay in out twenty per cent of their Subscription At atime, as the sections are ace tually built and accepved, and ai. payments can be made to Duncan, Sherman & Co., baukers and registrars Oi the company, WhO Will see that all | agreements are carried out before passing over the money. 4 “THE PROPERTY OWNERS on Chureh aud Wooster streets,” eaid Mr. Fiske, re almost unanimously im javor of the road. The company have made very elaborate surveys of those streets i are completely satisied with the results. As to the question whetuer broadway or Fourch avenue will be selected for the contind- ance of the road irom Fourte nth street it 1s 48 yet undecided, Toe jatter 13 perhaps the natural route, a$ it is the nearest, and 1 may re- marx, by the way, that Commodore Vauderbdilt has given assurance that he will Not Oppose 118 10- Catton there, The tunnel is, however, a good deal in the way. Doubtiess the Broadway peuple will be very Much opposed to locating 1 on that thor- ougiiare, but it 1s unticipaced When 16 13 once completed to Fourteenth sireet tie beauty of the structure Will be 1ound to be suet that theic Oppo- sition to iv will be witudrawn. As Will be seen, (he estimated expense ior the construction of the road 18 much less thin the people have been lea to auticipate, and les4 Luan any other character ©: rapid transit road mast necessarily be. (his is Voe first trial made tn calling tor popular subserip. tious, and If tae people really desire such @ road, We think they Low have an opportunly to ov vain it, \EPORTER-—Are there any prominent railroad sunectéd With wwe Company? ud the corporation is ens cliques or aaverse Inter. ue so, CO. pitasts have esis und propose: on onfered to subseribe largely 11 they could be shown hoW Lo Make somg Money ont but no paca knowledge could be atl and notmng can be realized irom it by Save asa legit- unate investment. Tae co ee lor receiving iness men abd are lu Lo Way connected Witt raluuad schemes. ¢ folowing are tne CONDITIONS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS, Firt—The stock of this company will be transferable, atic No. 152 Broidway, but mo certificate will be’ | Yahd uuless countersignet Oy the regisirar, Messrs. n& Co, No. i Nassau sree. e issue of calital sock tor the construction of a double ® elevated ravir ‘rom Bowling Green to ue A Central depot at Forwy- be limited to 200M shares of the par value of $10) eaci, and to au average of 4,000 shares per mile tor a completed sin rack elevated railroad aloug any route or routes authorized by te cnurter, kird—~udseriptions hereto susik be pavabie as tol- lows:—Iwenty per cent wien one condnuous mile of the proposed raitroad track has been erecved, Uwenty per cent for each additional mule there constructed, unul tive miles of single track or an equi alent of double trac 5 in excess of the Diicuble im order ot dave er mule ind to turther ¢ Pay, rot Dui rtifcates 0: rman & construc- been fied Kogineers creaced by 4uws of 18/2). Sub- ir subscriptions in, rat the rate of Co., Of notice VY Mani thar to tio oF ome or Wore tiles of suid railroad have with thea by the state Board of the charter Gee chapter =35 of th scribers may at their option pay th Ilana be allowed interest teres A percent pet aunum ULul the completion of the a the points named, tess dividends paid, riv—Stock certilicates, uly registered, will De de- livered to subscribers when full paid, apon presentation of the instalment receipts, THE FIRST FOUNDATION PIER, The provisivnal board of directors of the com- | pany, acting under advice of their counsel, in complance Witu the requirements of the charter, proceeded to cause work to vommenced Within Six MODths alter their eection, by coustiucting the first foundation pier at the corner of Morris and Church streets, The curbsione line being over a Vault, & Masonry pler was buut trom tne bottom to the top of the vault, An invitation to Mr. Peter Cooper to lay tne corner stone of the rige Was accepted by that eminent citizen, The ceremony took place vm tue 24th day of Di cember, 1874, at noon, SPEECH OF PETEK COOPER. Mr, Cooper in periorming the duty assigned him sal This casting 1s now !aid in the fervent hope that it is the Leguining of an honest rapid transit, intended to promote all the substaacial interests of this great and growing city. [tis intended to do this by giving rapid transit from hoies to business and from business to homes, with the greatest possi! ty and expedition. The company subsequentiy requested Mr. Cooper to Write Out nis adaress that tt might be preserved 1) asa memento ol the occasion. He did so, and it isto be seen at their oiice, tn his handwriting, done in the elghty-lourth year of bis active and usetui life. a ACTION OF THB CHEAP TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIA- TION. At the meeting of Cheap Transportation association yesterday, the Jolowing resolution was adopted :— Whereas, under article | of the constitutic objects of th association is to advocate tion of new avenues foretransportation and the 1 ment of those now existing and to adyoeate suc principles projects in connection With the subi transportativa as Will tead to advance the commercial prosperity of our city and country, Kesolve |, That the rapid transit of freight and gers from ‘the lower paris oi the city to River is a watter of vital interest to this association. Resolved, Ibat the -cheme of procuring a capitat stock sinking fund, which iy at present being azitated by certain cluzens and real estate owners ip ths city, 18 Worthy of serious consideration. Resolved, That the movement for rapid transit be Fe- terred to tle Comunttee on Terminal Facilities, to report at our next meeting on its fea@siburty id the advisavil- ity of this association lending its aid and the weignt of its influence to the presemt ihovement to raise # rapid transit eapital stock rund. The following resolution, offered by Mr. Thur- ber, upon the same occasion, Was also adopted :— Resolved, That we favor the adoption of a weneral law which’ will admit of the construction of city rail- roads under suc regulations as the local authorities shaii preseribe. one of the paseen- TAMMANY HALL ON THE QUESTION. Ata meeting of the Tammany Hall Committee of Organization, held yesterday to consider the Important subject of rapid transit, 16 Was iully de- termined, afier much debate, to indorse the ma- jority report of the commuttee of the Board of Aldermen and urge the Common Council to put the franchise for the carrying through of rapid transit up at auction, When It was thought thas private capitalists would at ounce bid it ta and pro- ceed Wich the Work; but, sbould such not be the cage, the commitiee Will recommend that the city take the matter in land and at once begin the work. Should the former ve the case, it 1s argued that the work will Le completed soouer than 1 Lae city should have to build tue road. 1tis more than probable that private citizens will unaertake tie task. A HUMAN MANGLING MACHINE, TWO MEN GROUND TO DEATH ON THE PENNSYLs VANIA RAILROAD, In spite of public demand the Pennsy!vanta Rail- road Company reiuses in Newark to provide the commonest salety guards against terrible slaugn- ter of human beings. Scarcely a day passes that one or more Victims to {ts shameiess carelessness in this regard are not recorded. On Monday a well known citizen of Newark, Mr. John J. Camp, dr., Of No. 1,040 Broad street, was mangied into a shape.ess mass, and yesterday a poor German resident of Orange’ was ground to death also. In the case of Mr. Camp It seems he was waiking on the track near the Commerce street crossi:.g and got confused between two trains ap- proaching irom opposite directions. His foot got entangled in a frog and vefore he could extricate himseif the train was upon him; he was Siruck by the engine and doubled up on the pilot; he roiled off in tront o! the engine and the entire train passed over him. The unfortunate man was terribly mangled, his skull being crashed and the brains scattered aicug the track; the right arm Was mashed and the hand badiy cut; the right Side Of the Chess Was also shockingly Lorn; it ape pears the Wheels of the iocomotive passed over the right side o/ the head aud eniirely tore out the brains, Which Were scattered in every direc- tion; the flagman cailed out to Mr. Camj not to cross, bat probably the noise of both trains drowned the cautionary words. Mr, Oa lly Were Waiting supper woen the news o! ribie death reached them. Christian Hazel, an orange dealer, was struck by @ train at or near the south Broad strees cross- jug, and Was instanuy Kiued, His skull was ished, bis arms broker and face distgured, bee sides M8 neck being broken. Some eizht or ten persons have deen killed during the year at this crossing. Hazel was poor, and perhaps will have to be interred tu toe Potters’ Field. vr. bodd or- dered ho inquest in his case, is tere THE BROOKLYN MALPRACTICE CASE. The Brooklyn detectives were actively enmaged Yesterday in endeavoring to unravel the inystery surrounding the death of Antoinette Fenner, who died on Sunday irom the effects of medical mal+ practice, at the residence of her father, No. 68 Presigent street, South Brookiyn, A Mrs. Gaie, who was very intimate with Fenner, was arrested by Detective Gorwin on w charge of dDeiag accessory to the crime which resulted ao fatally. When tie deceased was first taken tll Mrs. Gaié, it 18 sald, called on Dr. Olinstead, of Union street, and asked him 4 he wis attending the deceasod, ‘Toe physician informed wer that he had had nothing to do in her case, Dre. Skene and Ford, who attended Miss Fens ner during her jase learned trom her pareuts the iact of Mrs. Gwe's visit to Dr. Olinsteaa and tmmediately imormed Coroner sinus, The woman was at once taken touy. Ske res.ded on smith a 0! a Oourt sireet ‘radesman. any knoWledgeé 0! the trazsaction and says she never visited Dr. Gimstead lor such @ purpose. The womad is heid (or eX uninaton, The police are IM, possession Of @ Clew that they believe Wii! lead to the arrest of tue perpes irator of the erime, itis & letter received by tne deceased a day or two previous to her death, Th autnorines decline wo disclose the conte iis of the letter or the naiwe of the Writer until. afves tad COLEMEL'» INGUEE: into cus sot and ts the Wile utterly deuied